[CaptainCrunch]

He was an unbelievable heel in his Stamped Wrestling days, and he was doomed to be hated mostly because of his appearance. He was a fat sloppy looking guy who played the comediatic heel to perfection.

I was at a Stampede Wrestling Card when he underwent his conversion to Makhan Singh where he teamed up with JR Foley, Gamma Singh, Acum (sp?) Singh (The late Gerry Albright) and went to war with the Harts.

I also remember that they used to tape a interview segment at the Red Deer Inn with Mike Shaw and Duke Myers blasted out of their minds interviewing the Honkey Tonk Man.

Ed Whalen labeled him the Toilet Bowl, fans chanted Paki whenever he entered the ring, he was showered with beer, and at one show in Red Deer when Shaw and Singh were beating up Bruce Hart a huge farmer came storming down from his seat and literally kicked the crap out of Shaw before security could save him.

I met Shaw once at the Town and Country when he was at the height of his career. I was on my way to the can and I saw him sitting on a bar stool drinking a beer. I had that internal debate about going up to talk to him, because some part of you knows that he doesn't want to talk to anyone. But I screwed up my courage and walked up to him and he turned around and gave me the baleful look and I said the most brilliant thing every.

"Holy Crap your Makhan Singh" He chuckled and replied "Holy Crap I am?" I did buy him a beer, and told him to keep beating on those stinking no good Harts (which got a laugh out of him) then I left.

A lot of the Stampede Wrestling guys that I met, the Kerry Browns, the Gerry Morrow's, Mike "Michelle" Hammer, and pre steroid Davey Boy Smith were all nice guys. Bruce and Keith both substitute teachered me at one time (Bruce was a ridiculous little goof who lived his gimmick, dressed with his jeans tucked into his cowboy boots and wore a bandanna and a pair of ridiculous sun glasses.

Back then we thought the Stampede Wrestling guys made tons of money and lived the rich life. But their later years were probably pretty lonely and painful.

Bad News Allen was a security guard when he died. Gamma Singh who's probably well past retirement age was a security guard as well. I remember him walking around Sunridge Mall dressed fairly poorly. JR Foley basically drank himself to death. Davey boy Smith spiraled out of control long before he died as well.

Kerry Brown died at 51 as well and he was a great guy when I talked to him at one Stampede Party.