On the right is me, at an Atlantic Wrestling Federation show, owned and ran by the late Sylvano Sousa, in Manchester, New Hampshire. This was back on July 12, 1997 and i was working behind the scenes, helping to set up the ring, chairs, helped set up and take down a cage for a cage match, etc etc. I was a newsletter writer and tape dealer back then so I was able to film the matches and after giving Sousa a the master copy, could trade and sell them as i wanted.
Students of Kowalski's shows would work these shows, and two of them that went on to bigger things were Matt Bloom (who now trains people at the WWE Performance Center) and the late Steve Bradley, who had a WWF developmental deal and wrestled in Memphis (against the likes of Kurt Angle and William Regal), OVW and Puerto Rico.
Someone was nice enough to remind me of this earlier today by sending me this picture. I love it when people try to say I never worked in wrestling, never sought the knowledge of the legends, etc. Because this pic shows me literally, sitting under the learning tree of Walter 'Killer' Kowalski. I always sought out knowledge as i wanted to learn more about all aspects of the wrestling business and Sousa, Kowalski, and later on when I went to work for WWA New England (who had an agreement with the WWF and their training dojos headlined WWA shows), I got to pick the brains of Bruce and Tom Prichard, Dory Funk jr., Cornette and others.
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, so I figured I'd share this.
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