He is widely known as forever being “The Greatest Wrestler of God’s Green Earth” and today the legendary WWE, NWA, Professional Wrestling and Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame Inductee “Handsome” Harley Race joins The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling. In what can only be described as a distinct honor, Poz and Chad get the opportunity to discuss Harley Race’s upcoming Wrestling Seminar as well as his legendary career and all the monumental moments and matches that helped solidify Race as one of the toughest men to ever step into the squared circle.
Full Episode Download Link: http://tmptow.podomatic.com/entry/2015-07-17T21_00_00-07_00
Harley Race on tension with Hulk Hogan and fighting the WWF: https://youtu.be/0NiPHC60Jm4
Harley Race on Starrcade 83 and Ric Flair as NWA Champion: https://youtu.be/l2J_AxkcUGE
What do students take away from a Harley Race Wrestling Camp:
They are going to learn how to take care of themselves and then how to perform inside that squared circle. After that we start sticking them into the ring and see how they would look for the public. When you’ve got the physical side and that’s pretty much all the way down then the other parts will come along to you fairly easy.
Heat with Ric Flair and not wanting to drop the NWA Title:
Overall, Flair and I have had a hellishly active part of wrestling. He knows and I know that we are too old to want to get involved with this stuff now. In 1983, Flair was just starting to really get involved and I was at that point in time thinking that that he wasn’t ready but once he got really involved in the championship part of it (the business) he came along to be one of the best ever. Flair proved to me that he was a good hand in the ring and he was in there with the absolute very best so it was all pretty easy from there.
Memories of Dusty Rhodes:
Dusty was probably one of the best interview people ever in wrestling. He could talk about anything on the face of God’s green earth and make it sound like it was extremely important. Overall, Dusty could perform in that ring as well as just about anybody. I never really had a bad performance with Dusty in any of the matches that we ever had. There are very few people that I can say that about.
Working the Funk Family and having a preference of wrestling Dory or Terry:
Dory was very very good in the ring. He and Terry both were great in there but I can’t mention one without mentioning the other. Between the two of them it was just the flip of a coin, with Dory you could have a little bit better of a wrestling match. Terry was good for wrestling but he was very very good at scrambling.
Body-slamming Andre the Giant:
The only reservation I ever had was to have everything in the right spot at the right time and to be able to come up with him. Because you were lifting the world’s biggest athlete. It was a hell of a lot better to be on the same side as him.
The WWF’s National expansion and invading “his territory”:
By the time they had done the expansion you knew that they were going around the whole entire country. I didn’t want to get involved in fights with them or against them. I just wanted to stay Harley Race in the wrestling world, worldwide and that is what I did for a long time.
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Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
