The name was catchy enough, but there was not much else to brag on concerning this grappler who appeared mainly in the Indian reservations on small time cards in the 1980s. A trainee of Chief Crazy Horse, who barely knew how to wrestle himself, The Choker was handicapped before he ever entered the ring.
Claiming to be from Hungary, Charlie entered the ring dancing and twisting to some lame music that in modern times woudl have made a good soundtrack for Borat. he claimed to speak only broken English and woudl shout out warnings to the audience in a voice that sounded like Dracula.
:Hey, Charlie gonna win tonight!"
"Charlie choke! Charlie choke!"
:Charlie gonna kill him tonight!"
"Why you no cheer for Charlie!"
"People all hate Charlie! Charlie hate you!"
The routine was for this masked wrestler to use nothing but choke holds and variations of the same. He choked with illegal objects hidden in his trunks like neckties and shoe strings. He choked on the ropes. He vised a blatant stranglehold. He even managed to sneak in a choke when applying a sleeper.
Had this whole spiel been given to someone who knew what he was doing out there, the Charlie thing might have gotten over.
Charlie seldom got pinned or pinned anyone. He was always disqualified for choking or on occasion given a win when his opponent did the same stranglehold to him.
Charlie was a regular on shows held on Pima and Papago land.
None of the bigger promotions, including the Phoenix indies, would use him.
Charlie eventually annoucned he was fed up with being discriminated against by promoters and not being given the main evnts he felt he deserved. He claimed he was going back to Hungary.
In truth, he took off his mask and went back to his day job at a mall in Mesa.
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