{"id":710,"date":"2002-10-30T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2002-10-30T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=710"},"modified":"2024-09-03T16:41:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T20:41:38","slug":"dick-the-bruiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=710","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Dick the Bruiser"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

For some reason, the picture of an enraged <\/span>Dick the Bruiser<\/em> dressed in a suit and bow tie, sporting stitches in his head seems such an odd combination, that every time I see it I smile.<\/span><\/div>\n

Dick the Bruiser<\/em>, whose real name was Richard Afflis<\/span>, was a real-life tough guy. He played professional football and developed a reputation as a bar room brawler. Bruiser<\/em> was listed as 6′ 1″ and 260 pounds of muscle. When his football career ended, it was only natural that he turn to professional wrestling.<\/p>\n

Bruiser <\/span>started his wrestling career in the 50’s and wrestled into the 80’s! Even after he retired, he worked as a talent scout for the WCW. Bruiser died in 1991. He was just 62. Richard Afflis aka Dick the Bruiser left a legacy as one of the most popular wrestlers to ever step into the ring.<\/p>\n

I was fortunate to see the Bruiser<\/span> wrestle live many times when I was growing up. Those memories bring an even bigger smile to my face than the picture.<\/p>\n

    \n
  • Updated 5\/11\/23<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    For some reason, the picture of an enraged Dick the Bruiser dressed in a suit and bow tie, sporting stitches<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-sports","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","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=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32825,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/32825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}