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Pictured
above are Les and tag team partner, Dennis Hall who won the NWA World Tag
Team Championship together in 1968. 35 years later this tandem is still
winning things together as they were presented "The Legend
Award" at The Gulf Coast Wrestler's Reunion in March of 2004.
Here they are pictured left to right Dennis, Referee's Award winners
Bobby Simmons, R.E. Mac MacMurray, and Les |
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| Les throws a punch at
Nikita Mulkovich in a match at the Charlotte Coliseum 1967(building now
called Independence Arena) |
Les posed photo 1972 |
Les posed photo 1961 |
Four pictures of Les and
Dennis Hall taken in 1967 by Les' mother Dorothy |
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| 3 snapshots of Les in
his rookie year in the Boston area (1960) and one each as a young fan with
Nature Boy Buddy Rogers, and Ralph "Ruffy" Silverstein |
Les
about to hit the canvas after a flying head scissors on one of "The
Infernos"
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Les takes a big forearm
across the back from Bull Ramos |
Les wants to get a piece
of bull Ramos |
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| Les goes after one of
"The Infernos" with a chair in a Charlotte match. The late
Walter Buckner was the official. |
Les holds an Inferno
mask high as referee Lucky Roberts holds his hand up. In the background
are Thatcher's partners George Becker & Johnny Weaver ( these two six
man teams waged war for over six months in the Carolinas) |
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photo is of Les after having fire thrown in his face by Inferno manager JC
Dykes, and was what brought this fued to a head on the Charlotte Coliseum
Christmas show December 25, 1967. Notice Thatcher is missing his left
eyebrow.
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Les posed photo 1967 |
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| Les posed photo 1967 |
Les rides the Bull ! Out
of this ride Les took Bull forward and down into a "Victory
Roll". |
Les and "Number
One", Paul Jones ham it up with an actor at the dinner theatre near
Charlotte owned by wrestling great Mike Gallagher in 1967 |
Les holds up the hands
of Becker & Weaver as winner over the team of "The Infernos"
managed by JC Dykes. Thatcher was called on to finish refing this bout
when the regular referee was knocked out. Just moments after this was
shot, The masked men grabbed Les and Dykes threw the fire in his face,
thus the start of their long running battles. |
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| Les and Rudy Kay posed
photo 1968 |
Les with "NWA
Rookie of the Year" trophy posed 1967 |
Top to bottom: Dennis
Hall, Roger Kirby, & Les Thatcher "The Wrestling Cousins"
publicity photo(notice Les missing eyebrow in this picture) |
Here
is a young Les Thatcher about 12 years of age with his childhood idol
Buddy Rogers taken during the matches at Cincinnati's Music Hall around
1952
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| Les posed photo 1961 |
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The
following photos are from a personal Scrapbook of Les' that he kept from
October 1961 through October 1971 |
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