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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
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.
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Hilarious. Completely un PC, but such was life back in the day.
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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.
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I am surprised you were able to single him out up at the T&C...his look is a fairly common one up there.
A junior high teacher we had at the time claimed to know him and a few other wrestlers. Not sure at the time if he was bs'ing us or not, because yeah, he said then, if you weren't in with the Hart's, the rest of the crew like Dynamite, the Cuban Assasain etc all hung out together. He said apparently "Champagne" Jerry Morrow's family/acquaintence had some interest in a Mohawk gas station on Mcleod, so those guys would hang out there. Hard to believe that, when we were that age. But probably true...with really nothing else to do but wait for the next show, or next roadtip to Flatass Saskatchewan where they pile 7 guys into a van.