Who is the "baddest dude" to ever wrestle in TN +

[Guest bqahs]

That Turner Guy from smyrna is pretty bad. Even though someone called him a cowboy

[LovinIt]

I agree Tike, only you need to move Matt Keller to the top of the list!

[panfan]

this thread is funny. Not to many people going further back than 3 or 4 years. Shazzon was a bad mamma jamma. You are forgetting about guys like David Vance (McC) or Carletello (sp) from Ryan. Even a Bubba Miller would have to be considered (guess I am showing my age). No one that I have seen has mentioned anyone from before the late '80s. Memphis schools have not even been mentioned. Of course, other than Germantown, do they wrestle in Memphis? Anyway, we need some old guys to come on here and give us some perspective on this one.

Remember, the above guys wreslted in the pre coward era where everyone wreslted together instead of the cowards pushing out the Ryans, McCs, and Baylors. Some of the "modern" guys would not have won more than one championship in the old days.

[Edited by panfan on 1-23-03 8:45A]

 

[reftn]

You can say what you want to, Tywan Armstrong of the Jeff Jordan Franklin state championship team, circa 1990, was as bad as they got.

 

reftn

[dblXface]

Michael Spencer from Kirby

Ronnie Stevenson from McGavock

[gumbi1031]

The meanest dude I ever wrestled was Erik Floyd from Centennial. He tried to kill everybody he wrestled and didn't care if his opponent ever got back on the mat.

[gumbi1031]

Another bad man was Jeff Lloyd from Northwest. I think he wrestled in the late 80's early 90's. A one-legged 103 pounder and a national placer. He would cradle anything that walked.

[Guest Javier]

Aight i agree with somethingCLEVER Matt Keller was the most painful match i have ever wrestled. I mean the guy is a freakin horse. When i went out there he could have cared less about what my body could handle.

[RMC]

I would think Matt Provenzano from Baylor should be included.

[Bluebelly]

RMC??? Mat, is that you?

[toughest6]

I saw Povezano cry (tears and boo hoo) after getting poked in the eye by a Ryan wrestler in the State Duals.

 

Tough guys don't cry.

 

 

Keller...A Bad Man

[CoachBlair]

panfan, I agree with your picks and about who we should be discussing here. I think if we want to talk about the "baddest dude", then we need to look at those old school guys. I guess for me Johnny Lennon is old school. I honestly believe that his goal when he head snapped somebody was to either make a hole in the mat with the guy's face or remove the head from the shoulders. Another old school tough guy was one of Johnny's teammates, Jeff Howard. These guys had one style, hard-nosed.

I am too young to have seen James Jabaley (sp?) from Notre Dame, but I always heard we was wild-man tough and a little unorthidox. Some of you "more age-established" wrestlers might be able to give details about him.