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A Night for Sandy Scott

"Click on Sandy's Boots"

Thanks to Mid-Atlantic Gateway -  April 10, 2010

 Sandy Scott was involved with ACW Wrestling in Rocky Mount VA, helping out behind the scenes creatively and also acting as their "trouble shooter", a role in which he also served in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling decades earlier. ACW invites everyone to join them to honor the memory of their friend Sandy Scott. All Proceeds from this show are going to the family of Sandy Scott. The Scott family has approved and is participating in this show. Special guests include Don Kernodle, "The Boogie Man" Jimmy Valiant, Sgt. Jim Nelson, Keith Larson (aka, Wally Kernodle), Ric McCord, the voice of World Wide Wrestling Rich Landrum and others. Wrestling on this show will be Eclipso and all the stars of ACW and NICW wrestling. "We Care of Franklin County" (the charity organization chosen by the Scott family for memorials in Sandy's honor) is sponsoring this show and is donating all proceeds from concessions sales to the Scott family.

But here's the most amazing part of it all -- Bob Caudle, the voice of Mid-Atlantic wrestling, who worked with Scott on TV, said he didn't even recall the transplanted Canadian uttering a cuss word. "He was such a clean-cut guy and a down-to-earth honest guy," said Caudle, who inducted Scott into the Mid-Atlantic Wrestling Hall of Heroes in 2008. "He had a great sense of humor and he's a terrific storyteller. I used to hook up with him in Charlotte when we were riding to Spartanburg or some other place, and Sandy would be telling stories about what happened up in Canada in the winter, traveling from city to city in the ice and the snow."

Angus Mackay Scott was born in May 27, 1934 in Hamilton, Ontario, where he wrestled at a local YMCA, played a little football, and worked out -- with more of an eye toward bodybuilding -- with wrestler Mike Sharpe. The giant Sharpe lived nearby. "I'd go up there and work out with weights with him a little bit," Scott recalled in 2002. "I didn't think any more about pro wrestling at that time, I just did the weights."

At Al Spittles' notorious Hamilton gym, he honed his skills with future pros such as Chuck Molnar, Johnny Harmon, and Jack Lloyd.

He got his start in the pro ranks in 1954, when older brother George brought him into the Calgary territory for promoter Stu Hart. The pair won the Canadian tag title titles within months of their debut as a tag team.

George coined the named Sandy. "I'd get out in the sun in the summertime, and hair gets light and mine got light," explained Sandy Scott. "He said, 'Geez, it looks like sand. Why don't you use Sandy?' I said 'Okay.'"

"They were a little different, but they were right sharp. I thought they were both good wrestlers," said Canadian legend Yvon "The Beast" Cormier.

Based out of Calgary for about six years, the Scotts appeared briefly in the Carolinas in 1957 and by the early '60s were fixtures on the Southern circuit. In 1959, the Petersburg, Va., Progress-Index took a stab at describing a young Sandy's in-ring style, calling him "a brilliant offensive wrestler. His aerial attacks are devastating, with solid flying tackles, vice-like head scissors and fast dropkicks."

Scott described the team's skills this way: "We did a lot of flying head-scissors, drop kicks and moves in the ring, which they called the Scott aerial attack. But we were known for the speed and for the knowledge and for the aerial attacks. It was fast-moving matches. They weren't where you laid down on your rear-end on the mat there for five minutes."

Scott said he enjoyed the tag team work more than singles competition. "We knew each other pretty well, George and I. We could do things just automatically. We knew what each other was going to do."

His travelogue also includes places like Japan, Australia, Europe, but Crockett territory remained Scott's home base. "Jim Crockett had a very, very good name," he explained. "If he told you something, that was it. In our business, you don't find guys like that too often."

Scott transitioned into a front office role for the office and frequently appeared on TV as a representative of the National Wrestling Alliance. He hooked up with WCW when Ted Turner's company took over Jim Crockett Promotions, and knew things were going downhill when Jim Herd, who lacked a wrestling background, assumed control of the operation.

"I don't know how he ever got in there but he did, and you see what happened," Scott laughed.

After the WCW fiasco, Scott was one of the driving forces behind Smoky Mountain Wrestling, the last of the old-school promotions.

He settled in Roanoke, Virginia, where he and his wife, Sandra, raised a daughter, Tracy. He had two sons, Drew and Sandy, from a previous relationship.

In 2002, Scott said he had "no regrets at all" about the path life had taken him on.

"When we were wrestling, we'd take our father with us to the matches. He enjoyed them," he said. "Life goes on, and you make the best of it with what you got, and with the people you've got around you. Both George and I have always been positive thinkers ... something goes wrong, we just look at it, try it, and see if we couldn't get it right."

  American Championship Wrestling started back Aug. 1, 2006 under it's own banner and will be promoting their own shows again. We started in 1988 and have promoted our own shows til we tried to run under someone else the last couple of years, but now it was time to go back to the good old days of old school wrestling like it should be.   
  However we have reached an agreement to also co-run some shows with Mid-Eastern Championship Wrestling and National Independent Championship Wrestling,  MCW is an old-school wrestling group that was promoting in the 80's and has started back up and is run by Chief Navajo and we're looking forward to working with them, they will run under the ACW banner, NICW is a group out of Floyd ,Va and has been running for a couple of years now and we also are looking forward to working with them.
  The matches from our first show back under our own banner on Sept. 30, 2006 in Roanoke, VA went very well!! We only had music in several, selective Matches. ACW is pleased to say ,no static from anyone and the crowd did not seem to care or notice much.We started at 8:15 sharp and only 6 matches,1 -15 min intermission and it was all over by 10:20pm. A solid two hour show just like old school was, Good Old Family Entertainment, We also started implementing the old great NWA,Mid Atlantic rules that night.
  We want to hear your comments and  ideas, use the ACW forum button below to go to the ACW message board and let us know what you think. Also we have a mini-poll to the left if you want to answer "The Question on Everyone's Mind".
 

Check out Boris Zhukov in the WWF's Saturday Nite's Main Event, when the video ends check the last frame at the bottom for the 1987 10 man Battle Royal.

OLD SCHOOL RULES ARE BACK!

No Intentional Throwing Opponent Over The Top Rope

Failing To Break An Illegal Hold Before The Referee's Five Count

The "One Save Rule" in Tag Team Matches

Some of the rules we all grew up with that actually made a little sense when enforced are back when you attend an ACW wrestling show.

***One rule that will be added to this list - The Universal TV Title must be won in a TV time limit of 15 minutes, unless stated otherwise...
example would be if the TV Champion is in a 20 or 30 minute match, he can only lose the TV Title in the first 15 minutes of the match, so if he were to be pinned in say....18 minutes he would lose the match but not the Title. 

    It's back - Take a look into the past as we check though our old pictures of ACW SuperStars Past and Present, checkout FLASHBACK! 

IN MEMORY OF ROY "JOE POWERS" BRADBURY
SEPT. 15, 1961 - SEPT. 3, 2003

 

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