We started working with him in the ring, finally we got him down and we bloodied him up and all that, and then all of a sudden, an ambulance pulled into the back of the arena, and out of the passenger seat Carlos got out with a f**king axe handle and hit the ring. The f**king people went mad. We took one or two shots just to shock, and kind of dodge so we kept our heat. That was our first time in Puerto Rico.”
Butch:
“As you know, very, very violent place, most of our matches, big matches that they had, were in ballparks, and they don’t have no ringside. Up in front of the whole of the stands are these huge, big nets. So what they do, they get the cups which they have their beer or their drinks in, they fill them with either stones or ice, pack them down, and throw the cups in the ring. That’s how crazy they were. So they had to put this huge big net up in front of the grandstands, huge grandstands, and they still throw them over the top and would get us now and again.
But because they had no ringside, it was the only thing that’s saving your a$$, because many times when we were there, we had to fight our way to the ring. The match was blood and guts. And then we’d have to fight our way back out through the ring because the crowd would get in somehow.
They’d have all these security guys around the ring with shields, badges, big face guards on them and everything. As soon as those Puerto Ricans got hot, they would say, ‘Get out of the way or we will kill you.’ And the guards would take a step back, and so we were theirs. The only thing that saved Luke and I many times, as well as ourselves, was the boys would come out of the dressing room and help us to fight our way back. Time after time after time.”
Luke:
“The worst part was going from the park, under the dugout, because they’d lean over and pound ya, just before you come to the dugout, they’d pound ya.
Bruiser Brody got killed in ’88, God bless him. 33 years ago. And a good friend, Bruiser Brody was a good friend of ours. We lived in San Antonio, I was a booker there, and we used Frank a lot. Because he lived about 25 miles out, he had a little spread there. When he died, the business went down.
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