Anyone who calls himself a wrestling fan has his or her own unique memories of watching wrestling for the first time. For me those memories are of growing up in Northern Ontario and being glued to the TV on Saturday afternoons waiting for wrestling to come on. The TV channel, CKCO out of Kitchener Ontario, carried All Star Wrestling from British Columbia for several years and I was fortunate my rabbit ears could bring  in this station. I still remember after all these years the famous promo of Roddy Piper breaking a beer bottle over his head to prove how tough he was and then bleeding all over the microphone telling the fans what he was going do to his opponents. Rowdy Roddy was definitely tops on my list of all time favorites right from day one. I can also recall mighty Al Tomko proving how mighty he really was ripping license plates and telephone books in half with his bare hands in front of the studio audience. Another memory was the awesome sight of Don Leo Jonathon and his six man tag team of Piper and Andre the Giant. Their opponents the Sheepherders and Buddy Rose vowed they would slam the two big men together and Piper would shoot out like a pip out of an orange. I remember the animated interviews with the territories great heels like Playboy Buddy Rose, Bruiser Costa, Diamond Timothy Flowers and Moose Morrowski. As a kid growing up in the country with only two channels on the TV wrestling quickly became an important part of my Saturday afternoon. I looked forward to watching each week as my favorite wrestlers like Roddy Piper, Rick Martel, Don Leo Jonathon and others battled the Playboy Buddy Rose, Ed Wiskowski, Chris Colt and Seigfried Steinke’s of the wrestling world.