Hi, I'm alive and well. 👋😊 This 2025, I've felt the best in my life in ages, especially after retiring & living with Nini every day. She and I have been going on the Internet Archive looking at Dr. Death's old website and I found the posts where he started putting over Bart Gunn (Mike Barton) after their "revenge feud". I remember these statements Doc made well as a kid, but I forgot that Doc actually got injured a second time in a Bart match? 😮 This time, his ribs. I fixed the grammar through ChatGPT as Doc wasn't the best typer (he admitted that in interviews) when he got a laptop around 1996 and started his website before social media:
I did the Dome show back on January 28th with Bart Gunn. I was fired up for this one. I had six weeks off, so I believed the ribs were A-OK. We were ready to have a barn burner. So there goes the match—back and forth. Then I went behind him for a takedown. He chopped me, I chopped him. He ducked my clothesline, then I kicked him and threw him into the turnbuckle. I went for a splash in the corner... and then it happened.
Crunch. My ribs hit Bart’s shoulder. Oh boy—it hurt bad. I was trying to breathe, and if you’ve ever had broken ribs before, you know what I’m talking about. But the match went on. Bart hit me with everything he had. It was a hard-hitting match. I tried to do the best job I could with three broken ribs. Hats off to Bart—he worked hard. But when it was all over, the Doc gave him one of my side suplexes. I pulled him out to the middle one more time for the 1-2-3 count.
Then, further down the card: Kawada and Nagai vs. Chono and Mike Barton. After about five minutes, Jim Steele and Mike Rotunda went down to the ring and stood by Chono’s corner. Then I came out and stood at the end of the runway. The match ended with Mike B. and Chono beating Nagai. The people thought there was going to be a fight afterward, but we had already been talking to The Man, Chono—and in the future, there could be a great team starting.
Believe me, there’s some power in that group. We’ll let you know what happens with the team and how Budokan goes. I’ll pray that all of you and your families are well. Keep the FAITH — GOD WILL REVEAL.
Al Balog
Hi, I'm alive and well. 👋😊 This 2025, I've felt the best in my life in ages, especially after retiring & living with Nini every day. She and I have been going on the Internet Archive looking at Dr. Death's old website and I found the posts where he started putting over Bart Gunn (Mike Barton) after their "revenge feud". I remember these statements Doc made well as a kid, but I forgot that Doc actually got injured a second time in a Bart match? 😮 This time, his ribs. I fixed the grammar through ChatGPT as Doc wasn't the best typer (he admitted that in interviews) when he got a laptop around 1996 and started his website before social media:
April 2001 post:
https://web.archive.org/web/20010405000034/http://www.oklastamped.com:80/index2.htm
I did the Dome show back on January 28th with Bart Gunn. I was fired up for this one. I had six weeks off, so I believed the ribs were A-OK. We were ready to have a barn burner. So there goes the match—back and forth. Then I went behind him for a takedown. He chopped me, I chopped him. He ducked my clothesline, then I kicked him and threw him into the turnbuckle. I went for a splash in the corner... and then it happened.
Crunch. My ribs hit Bart’s shoulder. Oh boy—it hurt bad. I was trying to breathe, and if you’ve ever had broken ribs before, you know what I’m talking about. But the match went on. Bart hit me with everything he had. It was a hard-hitting match. I tried to do the best job I could with three broken ribs. Hats off to Bart—he worked hard. But when it was all over, the Doc gave him one of my side suplexes. I pulled him out to the middle one more time for the 1-2-3 count.
December 2001 post:
https://web.archive.org/web/20011228183330/http://www.oklastamped.com:80/index2.htm
Then, further down the card: Kawada and Nagai vs. Chono and Mike Barton. After about five minutes, Jim Steele and Mike Rotunda went down to the ring and stood by Chono’s corner. Then I came out and stood at the end of the runway. The match ended with Mike B. and Chono beating Nagai. The people thought there was going to be a fight afterward, but we had already been talking to The Man, Chono—and in the future, there could be a great team starting.
Believe me, there’s some power in that group. We’ll let you know what happens with the team and how Budokan goes. I’ll pray that all of you and your families are well. Keep the FAITH — GOD WILL REVEAL.
DOC
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