wrestling. A little like Adrian Street, I suppose -- and it was a great way to get a reaction. -- I give credit to these guys who had the nerve to do that, which I never had.

"But that doesnít mean that there werenít great wrestlers around, too. Jim Breaks was fantastic, and we were just naturals for one another. He was fabulous amateur psychologist -- he could make people mad at him without doing anything! Mark Rocco was also a great wrestler. He was a big, heavy lad actually. I think he had watched some American wrestling, and really combined both styles into a good mix. He was all go, and had some flamboyance about him as well. And with The Dynamite Kid, it was obvious from thefirst moment that I saw him that he was going to go places. Not only was he a great wrestler, who worked very, very hard, but he had a ruthless ambition to get where he wanted to go.

"But even though things were clearly changing (by the early 1980s), my style was always my style, and I never thought that the business would change as much as it did. I think my style ended up being a little out-moded. The showmanship was all in, which you saw with Big Daddy. I think I ended up like a time machine for the business, to make up the timing for cards, and maybe to put wrestling work in."

Unfortunately, the times were a-changing not only in wrestling, but in television as well.