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Brian Damage
This is the 507th installment of the ‘Wrestling with Sin‘ series. A group of stories that delves into the darker, underbelly of pro wrestling. Many of the stories involve such subjects as sex, drugs, greed and in some cases even murder! As with every single story in the Sin series, I do not condone or condemn the alleged participants. We simply retell their stories by researching interviews, newspapers, magazines and various other sources of media.
Smashville
A few wrestlers including Scott Hall, Konnan and Booker T insinuated that former TNA Wrestling owner Dixie Carter was “Hot to Trot” with several wrestlers on the TNA roster. The late Scott Hall went as far as to say his good friend Kevin Nash had a relationship with Carter outside of wrestling and Booker T said that Dixie was “living out her MILF dreams” in TNA.
Konnan added to the talk by saying that Dixie had the hots for a wrestler named Hernandez. He said that Dixie paid for a lot of his clothes and even paid for a photo session for Hernandez in various states of undress in what she said would be for an upcoming TNA calendar. The calendar was never released…so speculation was that Dixie just took those photos for her own use. Disco Inferno also claimed that Dixie did shots with Pac Man Jones and let Jones drink a shot from her belly button. Konnan continued to say that while Dixie was fooling around, her husband Serg was no better with his behavior.
Everything Is Not Ohki
Kintaro Ohki was a Korean born pro wrestler who competed from 1959 until 1981. He along with Antonio Inoki and Shohei Baba were students of Rikidozan and were groomed to become big stars in Japan. When Rikidozan was murdered in 1963, all three of his students began a power struggle to become the top wrestler. In 1964, Ohki had a meeting with members of the Yakuza and other members of management for the Japanese Wrestling Association (JWA) to become the Japan’s number one wrestler. He was sent to Houston, Texas to challenge Lou Thesz for the NWA world heavyweight title.
The match with Thesz was scheduled for 2 out of three falls and the plan was for Kintaro Ohki to legitimately shoot on Thesz and take the NWA world title back to Japan. After the bell rang for the first fall, Ohki attempted to injure Thesz by hitting him with a headbutt. Thesz was able to recover and took Ohki down and stretched him to the point that Ohki could no longer continue the match and had to be stretchered out of the ring. Ohki’s attempt to shot on Lou Thesz and steal the world title had failed.
The two wrestlers would later become friends with Thesz pushing Ohki in a wheelchair for his retirement ceremony in Japan many years later in 1996.
Mextortion
In 2013, a luchador who wrestled under the moniker of ‘Maravilla Orizabeña’…real name Oscar Moreno Lopez was arrested in a small town in Mexico after allegedly trying to extort money from a store owner. Lopez allegedly demanded the store owner pay him the sum of 50 thousand pesos roughly 3 thousand dollars in U.S. currency. If he was not paid, Lopez threatened to kidnap the store owner’s wife and children and kill them.
The store owner sent the threatening letter to local police, who traced it to the residence of Lopez. When the police confronted the independent luchador, he attempted to flee, but was caught and arrested. Just a few days later, Lopez was released from custody due to “lack of evidence.”
Greene Pastures
Al Greene wrestled from the late 1950’s until the late 1970’s. He spent many years competing in the Mid America territory run by Nick Gulas. Wrestler/promoter Jerry Jarrett credited Greene with helping him establish himself as a promoter in Tennessee and considered Greene to be one of his best friends in the wrestling business.
Unfortunately for Al Greene, he battled alcoholism for many years and that cost him a lot of bookings later in his career. Jarrett recalled how Greene became somewhat unreliable and promoters refused to use him on shows. Feeling a sense of loyalty to Greene, Jarrett helped Greene find work in some territories and convinced Greene to purchase a 200 acre cattle ranch. Greene said that by buying the ranch, he concentrated on working and less on his drinking and was able to get sober.