This month I want to continue our timeline journey through Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling by taking a look at 1972. Cowboy Bob Kelly’s battles with Donnie Fargo escalate and develop with some drastic results. Gorgeous George Jr. arrives in the Gulf Coast and makes an immediate impact. The California Hippies tag team is formed and challenges Rip Tyler and Eddie Sullivan for tag team supremacy. 

JANUARY: 

Cowboy Bob Kelly and Bobby Fields continued their battle with Donnie & Johnny Fargo. Johnny Fargo left the territory the second week of January, leaving Donnie to go it alone. Donnie lost the Gulf Coast title to Cowboy Bob Kelly, but this was just the beginning of what would turn out to be a long and bloody war. Fargo introduced the Brass Knuckles Championship trophy to the area. In this special type of match the combatants are allowed to fight with their fists heavily taped. Unfortunately for Fargo, he lost that title to Kelly also. These two couldn’t get within eyesight of one another without it breaking into a brawl. During one television program, Fargo and Kelly fought all over the studio before they were separated. Both men looked as though they had been in a car accident. At one point the whole right side of Kelly’s face looked like raw hamburger meat from the pounding he had taken in the brass knuckles matches with Fargo. 

Kelly and Mike “Hippie” Boyette lost the United States tag team championship to the team of Rip Tyler and Eddie Sullivan. This was Tyler and Sullivan’s second reign as champions. Just prior to winning the belts, S&T had dropped a couple of matches. One to the team of Frank Dalton and The Wrestling Pro, and another to Dalton and Boyette. They redeemed themselves, however, by winning when the belts were at stake.