is greatly energizing the fact that, on the Day of Fighting, Juan Figueroa us get to Marisa and me in the gym. See White Mummy true is not an everyday thing. We share the note: G: John: are you currently training fighters?.
J: not generally friendly people ... This (pointing to the ring) is to catch, I was the Olympic wrestler and wrestling, I'm talking about when I weighed 15 kilos less.
G: a kid wanted to be a fighter?
J : No. Ojo, me boy liked to play "fight", I saw the Titans, but no ... I started playing sports, athletics, swimming. In swimming I was bored rigid discipline had, how strict it was, imagine if you had to swim two thousand meters, were at least an hour swimming, and you're correct, I speak ... I participated in events, was well, and good news is that you realize that for that you have a natural condition. From an early age that I am in Vélez. Then I would do weights, to gaucho, "as it comes" ... that up to 18 years, until a friend who had weight with me in the club telling me to fight. The gym fight was "passing" to the weights. Then one day, finish doing weights and I meet other guys, known club, and I stay and practice. And with friendship, cordiality, there was, I liked it and I became a fan of wrestling. Greco-Roman championships won, one does not realize when young physical condition he had. I pulled something and tried to make it better.
So once we went to Mar del Plata to see a comrade in arms, had hired him for next season Karadagián Titans. Among the boys were the Executive, and the first Pastor David. Then we're going to see this guy in a tent and we get to practice a little of catch.
In it, John begins to change and wear the costume of The Mummy.
M: "the suit you had him do you?
J: I did my mother. Not the fighter's time, before it was more difficult to put it, was more primitive. Suddenly now I walk into a dressing room, I wear a pants, a jacket and I take the white borcegos around asking, "and The Mummy?". "No, no, it happened, came out .... Or bathing ... " answer.
Juan was changed and entered the ring with all the typical ritual The Mummy
M: What hurts is to see The Mummy singing television.
J: Some boys climbed a video to youtube. And I could download the fight.
M: Can not do anything?
J: It is not my name. The title is the daughter of Martin. I found it and told me I have no time TV viewing. He was a second. I called, we discuss five minutes of insults wrong, I was standing in Reconquista and the people passing by me ... and then changed the phone number.
G: Never even made a character ...
J: not even a somersault.
M: Has anyone in your family is in the catch?
J: No. The other day I brought him the greatest, who is thirty. I showed him the ring, I said "what good is." He jumped and I was amazed. I said I had to do fight, I could learn. But he said "Dad, it's so much time you lose when you have to do a show, change, travel, are 7 or 8 hours outside the home, not fuck."
M: Can we live today it?
J: Those in Hundred Percent Fighting, at least the first figures, yes, I think so.
G: How did you meet Martin?
J: Ah, yes, was telling. When we visited this guy, we practiced, we did take, scissors ... the catch is an exaggerated wrestling. While strong, be exaggerated to be sold. Then we were laughing, joking about the Titans, I was 23, and that Martin had been walking down a lane. Sure, see, imagine, you're invading a place to type that is the homeowner. Someone says "Martin, here these guys are fighting." And he says "Yes, I was watching that right." The we had seen from afar and we, in fact we were carrying him and the Titans when we laughed, we glue a straw, we thought we had seen.
G: What time was it John?
J: Year 1974. Then we were introduced, and we saw him fight and liked to watch guys who did not have the cunning of those who were inside. We said if we could go on Monday and told him "No, Martin on Monday we are going to Buenos Aires." We asked if we could stay and we said we had to return because we had no money for lodging, you arranged for us attended in the same place they lived and ate the Titans. He invited us to stay a week there. Then we went every day in the morning, we struggled, and when he passed a week and came salute. We returned to the club, we were training to fight, and passed in February, passed in March, and as they had moved here, we were invited to the gym. So we said "let's to meet at least a thousand times because we said we would and we were not." One day we came to the purse, the fighters were listening to what Martin would say, then we in fear, because it was like we were interrupting something, and Martin sees us and tells the other: "come that I will present the new fighters Titans the Ring. " The new fighters "!. We think you would not remember, we were frozen. We went to change us. Finished talking and we started to fight. Is not conceited but we were not hard to do, on the contrary, was a "pope." Started the season, presented as my partner David the Shepherd who was a boom, and I like the Olympics. After years passed and I was always Mummy, Cutral-Co, Dink-C and the Android. The Titans last was in 2001 when I made of Mano Negra.
Juan Manuel gave us 3 photos each. In this case, up in the role of Mano Negra Vilonia fighting in the role of Mr. Moto. In the middle, next to the Red Knight and below, the Android.
G: So in 1982 you did in The Mummy and the android. How did they do in the semifinal at the Luna Park?
J: thing is it was easier to hide in a thick suit as the Mummy in the Android's why (noting the legs). So did Attila the mummy, which is the same as Romulus and Remus. He put on Mummy and I dress to suit went all the fighting android. There's a picture where we are with Martin bandaging the son of The Mummy was the son of a couple of Peucelle.
G: So the same day they recorded everything.
J: course, first we recorded the Android from The Mummy, we tied and later was recorded and the final tiebreaker. And I did against Martin of The Mummy. The moon is something special ... ... have to be there comes a time when you go out, there is an energy, and the public ... and you feel that you are The Mummy, it is difficult to explain. You guys you look and see the terror on their faces or not.
G: In '83 also did Android?
J: I made the Silver and Gold, were more baggy clothes.
M: What was the character do you like best?
J: The Mummy. I was transmitting more energy.
G: Martin I had a very special affection for it?
J: The guys told me that when I fought him came to see me. Was placed next to the Director and saw me fight. Moreover, I realized something was up because all the wrestlers came to see my struggles. And that The Mummy was not a conventional fighter.
G. Dink-C "was the brainchild of Martin?
J: No, Dink-C originally brought him a copy of the Red Knight. Quaker era. Martin first gave it to Jorge Di Cicco, and then not know what have happened, that one day he says, in the ring before the show, "Di Cicco, clothing brings Dink-C!". And then says, "Figueroa, come on, the character you're going to do." And that kind of thing a lot I did not like, put me in a hurry because we knew George was a fighter, fought in tournaments ... And in the first fight I felt weird, but one day Martin tells me "baby, the character is you, you're Dink-C, forget who it was, what happened, forget."
M: How did the movie The Mummy, too?
J: that appears in the fight at the Luna Park, yes. In the other, which appears July Grazia, no, because I had no time. Where is show up in a house of San Telmo, we recorded when the Mafia kidnaps Android, and I had to change to make Mummy, Android ...
M: I imagine you'll have all the merchandising of the Titans ...
J: No, the season was over and I say "already" and the ball followed went on and on ...
G: 1983 cycle ended abruptly for something special?. I remember that many expected the challenge between Karadagián and Dink-C, beard versus the mask, or the battle between Martin and The Golden Android was not ...
J: Martin out there demanded too much of the canal and the canal could not. Had to arrange a contract and speculated Karadagián passed from the date the contract is ready to drop everything that he had no channel to follow, whether to end next Sunday, he was arming all to finish two dates after and not be sloppy. But the channel minga, those things did not interest him. Producing channels and above all ... not interested in that. I have come to go to claim payments and people with very bad vibes ... once were with me Vilonia and Balut, which at the time of the Titans were Mr. Moto and Cain ... and also a guy who did a very good called Voodoo, which was masked, similar to what was then the mass. Those who are now copied a lot of Titans in 2001.
M: But nothing to do ...
J: What happens is that there was another substance before you go ... learning things, then teaching, not because you want to teach, but because one has a form of being which makes those who will fight with you take something and turn brings something that is key to what is wave our ... Now they have a very large physical rhythm, which is unnecessary because the kids do not remember the deeds you do to the body. And to top it hurt. Is the first, who is the brother of Vilonia, came a day I taught her started from scratch .... When I called to thank me I tell you is he who has the condition, because if it was wood ... It could not hurt recently is now recovering in kinesiology ... have to take care of this kid ...
A special combat and a memory that will remain with me forever ...
M: Are the characters happened to Martin?
J: not always, Mummy brought a boy, capanga. Originally there was a zombie type Mummy was not hit. After the Gypsy grabbed and lifted.
G: How many mummies were there?
J: The first did not work, Ivan Kowalski, then the Gypsy and then me.
G: With Martin stayed well?
J: I remember when was the leg, I telephoned him and said, "how happy you called me. Remember: the doors of the Titans are always open for you. " And that I was in another troupe. At another I had not even attended the phone in that condition ...
G: Did you participate Fight Hundred Percent?
J: I came for, at that time knew they were one hundred percent Fight, but I said no. Sometimes I say "come and see you" but I know what the pace of the recordings, the time they could not meet people in the club.
M: As a child I was scared to death to The Mummy ...
J: I spent some time at an event in the club, I'm introduced to someone and say "it's The Mummy." And this man tells me that me as a boy was so frightened that he could never again see a horror movie and up to 15 years slept with the lights on and the TV on. I found two months after we met and I know you said made a "click" on the head.
Same here ... that made us a memorable evening ...
What you read is nothing, I continued to enjoy more pictures and videos of this titanic encounter:
http://elayervuelveami.blogspot.com/2010/12/es-justicieray-no-canta-en-la.html
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