Monday, April 11, 2011

King Milo

King Milo emerged in Tucson in the 1990s and it was never fully established what he was king of. Whether past kings of wrestling such as Ernie Ladd, Bobby Shane, Jerry Lawler or Harley Race had anything to fear from him in the competition deportment, was likewise never established. In any case though, he did get a lot of heat from he fans, graduating from a manager role to that of a wrestler. And King Milo probably sounded better when announced than using his real name of plain old Louie Feinman.

"He can wrestle decently," commented one of his Phoenix counterparts. "The thing is, he's one of these guys who would rather wrap himself in barbed wire and running into you. He loves the hardcore style and if that isn't what you want to book, he is pretty much not the wrestler for you."

Thus, King Milo found a home in Rage In The Cage wrestling, both as a wrestler and as a manager for others. RCW promoter Ron Sutherland wanted profanity, violence and brutal matches, which Milo was happy to be involved with. Brawling was his calling. Granted, he did know holds and moves, but if he had his choice he would as the other guy put it, "rather wrap himself in barbed wire and run into you."

Milo had an exceptionally brutal match in Tucson with Shooting Star from California. He also had some wild matches with the rest of the RCW crew.

Though Milo is out of it as a participant (though still young enough to make a return if desired), he still follows the game. He has a Face Book page for himself and keeps in touch with a load of past participants from the RCW days.

In fairness to this particular "King" in retrospect, he was more than just the routine hard core wrestler. He had a better than average understanding of ring psychology and was also quite capable on the mike.

"He had this kind of high pitched voice that really didn't fit his body or appearance," commented another of the managers from RCW. "It was really grating to listen o him on the microphone and that got him over big with the people. They were booing whenever he went to the announcer's table, because they did not want to listen to whatever he had to say. he could have gotten on the mike and read a weather report and the people would have booed him. Milo might not have been the greatest, but he had his moment.'

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