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Wrestling at MLG
The Ramp
The famous ramp at Maple Leaf Gardens, was cool to lean on it when sitting at ringside. Pic at left is a video pic after the Valiant Caddy Tourney win, while the pic at right shows a closer look at the surface, before a Ventura/Adonis tag match. Many brawls and memorable moments occurred on the ramp and it is an instant visual connection to MLG.
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Norm Kimber
The ring announcer, would make the intro's and announce the winners, very old-style and serious. Pic on left is from Wes Maidments's pics with Kimber introducing Ric Flair and pic on the right is Norm guarding the AWA World belt and operating the ring bell - two more of his duties. He was also part of the office for many years.
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Wood St Entrance
The entrance at the back of MLG where the wrestlers would enter and walk through the crowd and sign in before heading to the dressing rooms. First pic has John Studd heading for the desk, while the other pic has all 7 feet plus of Andre The Giant about to walk into me right before I was able to snap another one where you could actually see him!...
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Saturday Wrestling
We always had lots of TV wrestling on Saturdays, depending when you watched, a couple of MLW shows, AWA, Superstars, the late night WWF show, All Star, Stampede, and others throughout the years. Pics on right show announcers Jason Roberts & Billy Red Lyons
Newspaper ads
Always liked the ads for MLW as printed in the newpapers with the results following the next day. There are lots of clippings posted throughout the site
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