Real life brothers Russ and David Walters started tow years before me in 1977 at the Phoenix Madison Square Garden, after being trained by retried wrestler Boston Paul Vallen.
The Lumberjacks held the Western States Tag Team Title a number of times as they feuded with varied tag teams including Tito Montez & Cowboy Bob Yuma, David Rose & Pedro El Grande, Jody Arnold & Eddie Sullivan, Los Mexicanos, Mike Gordon & John Ringer, Special Forces, Mamba Inc., Danny Snyder and Indio Youngblood and several more.
The two wrestlers also appeared as singles with Lumberjack 1, the shorter and heavier of the two (Russ) having the best results. he held the singles version of the Western States title. He had a number of bloody matches with numerous opponents including David Rose, Jody Arnold, Masked Frankenstein, Bull Zambrano, Terry Zeller, Lance Farraro, The Black Mamba, Bonecrusher, .Ron Newstrome, Golden Henderson,. Tito Montez, JT Law, The Beast, Mike Contreras, Mr Murder, Ed Blair, Chuck Hondo and Nick Salinas.
Both of the Lumberjacks are retired, but make it tot he annual old timer reunions every year in Phoenix.
These crazy men are my cousins, and I miss Russ dearly as does the rest of our family ♥️
ReplyDeletesorry to hear this..i remember them from when i was young wrestled with my dad and came to parties at our house...didnt get to see them wrestle a whole lot but was awesome they were friends of the family my really like them
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