#Duke Keomuka

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[Image ID: a watercolor and acrylic sketch of Ricki Starr and Duke Keomuka wrestling. Keomuka holds Starr in a side headlock. Keomuka faces left, his gaze turned down, while Starr's back is turned towards the viewer. both are dressed in black trunks, and Starr is wearing wrestling boots rather than his signature ballet slippers. the sketch is simplistic, and only has three colours: mid-tones and background in blue, shadows blocked in red, highlights blocked in white. brush strokes are visible in the white areas, particularly on Starr's back. /End ID]

there’s something about a horse race that makes your heart beat, even if you have only a two-dollar bet on it. the entire universe is focused down to a horse's hooves, a jockey's goggles, the color of his cap. and i had a lot more than two dollars on this race. everything we had was on it.

[ringthedamnbell]

Wrestling With Sin: 457

Wrestling With Sin: 457 featuring Curt Hennig, The New Age Outlaws, JBL and much more...

Brian Damage This is the 457th installment of the ‘Wrestling with Sin‘ series. A group of stories that delves into the darker, underbelly of pro wrestling. Many of the stories involve such subjects as sex, drugs, greed and in some cases even murder! As with every single story in the Sin series, I do not condone or condemn the alleged participants. We simply retell their stories by researching…

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

years ago i had learned Pat Tanaka was Duke Keomuka’s son but I had forgotten that knowledge until reading ProWrestling Hall of Fame: The Tag teams where Duke Keomuka and Hiro Matsuda made the ranking. Mr Fuji and Toru Tanaka and Kinji Shibuya and Mitsu Arakawa did as well.

There’s a rich history of Japanese-American wrestlers, Duke Keomuka (Hisao Tanaka) being apart of that group and Hiro Matsuda becoming a part of that group. Dean Ho (Dean Higuchi) was a huge name for a long time and Ricky Steamboat considers him a mentor. 

But it is not current so... who needs wrestling history right? 

[shitloadsofwrestling]

NWA World Heavyweight Championship: Ric Flair (Champion) Vs. Dusty Rhodes NWA Starrcade [November 22nd, 1984]

Only 5 months prior to the first WrestleMania, the NWA held the second annual Starrcade live from the champion Ric Flair’s home state of North Carolina. Flair was defending the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, a title he’d won a year earlier at the first Starrcade where he had defeated Harley Race in a steel cage match. Flair had spent the previous year defending the championship and losing it twice, once back to Race (which the NWA does not recognize as it happened overseas in New Zealand and was regained by Flair in Singapore) and a second time to Kerry Von Erich, who Flair had defeated for the gold the previous July. Ric Flair got addicted to the feeling of being the NWA World Heavyweight Champion, and loved the glory that came along with it. As someone who personified class, Ric worked hard and heavy to ensure that his name would become synonymous with the NWA World Heavyweight Championship.

Unfortunately for Flair, Dusty Rhodes was a man of the people, and the people wanted nothing more than to see Flair get derailed as champion. The NWA seemed to want to stack the odds against “The Dirtiest Player In The Game”, and did so by adding an interesting panel of extra eyes. Boxer “Smokin’ Joe” Frazier would serve as the special guest referee, and the match was judged by legendary wrestler Duke Keomuka (father of Pat Tanaka) and NASCAR driver Kyle Petty. In the event of a time limit draw, the bout would be scored by Frazier, Keomuka, and Petty, and the winner would be determined by a majority vote. Thankfully, the bout didn't come to that.

What it did come to, however, was a wrestling match for the ages. A timeless encounter between two of the most charismatic and beloved superstars of all-time. Ric Flair, dastardly as they came despite his reputation for being a person of grandeur, takes on the highly adored Dusty Rhodes. “The Son Of A Plumber” versus “The Dirtiest Player In The Game”. Both men knew their places in society, and neither were against the acknowledgement. In front of 16,000 screaming fans, Rhodes fights through blood, sweat, and tears as Flair proves to Rhodes why he’s been the NWA World Heavyweight Champion 3 (4) times by this point, and would go on to be a 16 time world champion. When Dusty’s head starts to pour blood, Flair goes into a frenzy mode, which only fires Dusty up more. Neither man wanted to quit this match; both standing tall and fighting to the bitter end. It literally had to come down to a stoppage, as both were too stubborn to quit.