Arizona has produced a number of decent wrestlers, as some of the blogs show. While the state never seemed to get the press it deserved, there were some decent writers from the area as well.
Tommy Kaye lived in Scottsdale and produced a number of wrestling magazines in the early 1970s from his Jalert House publishing Company, which covered the Arizona area at length.
There was a guy I dimly remember named Lance Parker who wrote for programs, fan sheets and an occasional newspaper article.
Modestly, there was me! And still is!
We had Billy Graham interestingly enough, enter the writing field with his biography, Tangled Ropes, which was pretty damned good and his stage play, The Empty Ring, which to me was pretty damned sappy in retrospect.
Enter Benjamin Leatherman .
The name sounds like something Barry Bernsten oudl have saddled someone with in 1981 or so.
From his Phoenix base, Leatherman has cranked out considerable newspaper work for the New Times and other publishing venues.
Some months ago, he did a big New Times feature on the lucha libre promotions presently running in Phoenix and the history of Hispanic wrestlers in the area, going back to the days of Gory Guerrero.
I hope he can keep it going.
Since I now live in Ohio and write about Arizona wrestling from afar, someone closer to the current action needs to keep the trend going.
Carry on, Leatherman.
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