{"id":676,"date":"2002-03-30T20:40:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-31T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=676"},"modified":"2019-06-22T05:01:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T09:01:15","slug":"blackjack-mulligan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"Blackjack Mulligan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I received word from an old buddy that I hadn’t heard from in nearly 30 years<\/span>… back when I was 8th grade<\/span> in Terre Haute, Indiana<\/span>. [He found me through classmates.com.] At any rate, as we fondly remembered the “good old days,”<\/span> we began to talk about tv wrestling<\/span>.<\/p>\n

My favorite wrestler<\/span> was a huge Texan<\/span> named Blackjack Mulligan<\/b>. Yeah, that’s him pictured above. He was usually teamed with Blackjack Lanza<\/b> [they held the “world title”<\/span> on a couple of occasions and were managed by Bobby Heenan<\/b>]. I used to watch pro wrestling<\/span> on tv several times a week, and would go to see it live when it came to town or when my dad would take us to Indianapolis<\/span> to see the “big” matches<\/span>. I was a die hard wrestling fan<\/span> until 9th grade<\/span>. As I grew older I would occasionally catch it on the tube… later, as my sons got into it I found myself watching it more often as they enjoyed it. Still, the Rock<\/b>, Stone Cold Steve Austin<\/b> and the rest of today’s “Superstars” <\/span>would have had their hands full facing Mulligan<\/b> and Lanza<\/b> managed by “Pretty Boy” Bobby Heenan<\/b><\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I received word from an old buddy that I hadn’t heard from in nearly 30 years… back when I was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28899,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/28899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}