On this week’s episode, Logan welcomes his longtime friend, mentor and wrestling dad Les Thatcher to Fast Friends. 

Join them as they talk about Les’s childhood in Cincinnati, playing baseball, basketball and football as a kid, driving a race car before he had a license, how he discovered wrestling while watching TV at a friend’s house, the adrenaline rush that drew him to drag racing, being forced to pick between drag racing and professional wrestling, how his initial efforts to get information about breaking into wrestling were fruitless, how he ended up in Boston training with Tony Santos, The Cousins faction with Roger Kirby and Dennis Hall, working wrestling territories NWA, Crockett’s Mid-Atlantic Championship, Southeastern Championship Wrestling, Georgia Championship Wrestling, and Smokey Mountain Wrestling, how a funeral led to his first chance at announcing, happenstance leading to milestones like a wrestling magazine, the first-ever wrestling t-shirt (available at the link below), the first independent wrestling show he ever attended, the origins of Heartland Wrestling Association in a side yard out in the country, entering a contract to be a WCW developmental territory, WCW hemorrhaging money and going under, WWE buying out WCW talent and sending the Cruiserweight roster to HWA & more!

Stay tuned for Part Two next Tuesday, March 8th!

Buy Les’s T-Shirts on Pro Wrestling Tees:

https://www.prowrestlingtees.com/wrestler-t-shirts/originaltees.html

Promoters and trainers, hire Les for a weekend seminar:

Email lesthatcher28@gmail.com

Follow Les on Twitter

https://twitter.com/LesThatcher

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