Monster Nation

Long before the WWF had The Oddities, Arizona had a freak show of its own that was amazingly over  with the crowd, known as Monster Nation.

From their Tucson base, Ron "Section 9" Sutherland was the leader of the group,. For those who never saw him. he might best be described as lookign like a shorter Jim The Anvil, minus the beard and with several tattoos.

The Vindicator was thrown on to the team. A taller man with even more tattoos. In spite of his bizarre appearance that made him look like sometime from the cast of Beyond Thunderdome, I heard he was some type of computer tech in real life. Go figure. 

With the obligatory addition of a female, enter one Kathy Powers, better known as a Tucson radio personality, into the fray.

They might not have been the greatest of the great, but they certainly were the oddest of the oddest. And they looked menacing enough.

For a time, they remained a talking point among Tucson fans, but the tattooed rat pack eventually dissolved. The girl wanted to place more emphasis on her radio career, Vindicator on his other business and Section 8 eventually left Tucson for Washington.