Pro-Wrestling, Video Games, Horror Movies & Metal. Wrestling archaeology and reconstructing the long-lost “Gilbert ’92” GWF Television Championship belt.
Once the #GWF Television "Gilbert 92" Belt is finished, I will be uploading a full documentary going over the history of the title, as wells the full process, working with Bholo Shah Belts to capture every possible detail.
#OnThisDayInWWE 35 years ago on World Championship Wrestling:
Paul E Dangerously with his "Indiana Jones look" (and werewolf mask) as he and Missy Hyatt try to find the Chamber of Horrors
From 1924 to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market adoption empire that took thousands of children from vulnerable families and sold them to wealthy couples.
One of the babies adopted through her agency grew up to become wrestling legend Ric Flair.
Tann ran the Memphis branch of the Tennessee Children’s Home Society.
She targeted poor and unmarried mothers, sometimes taking children without permission, telling parents their babies had died, or using courts to falsely declare them abandoned.
Birth certificates and adoption records were then altered or fabricated, making it incredibly difficult for families to ever find each other again.
More than 5,000 children were placed through Tann’s operation.
Adoptive families were charged huge fees, while Tann secretly accumulated a fortune.
Conditions inside facilities connected to her operation were also horrific.
Historians estimate hundreds of children may have died while in her care, and 19 children were later discovered to have been buried without individual headstones in a single Memphis cemetery plot.
Among the children processed through Tann’s agency was a baby originally known as Fred Phillips.
He was adopted by Richard and Kathleen Fliehr.
The world would eventually know him as Ric Flair.
Flair opened his 2004 autobiography with a chapter titled: “Black Market Baby.”
Tann died in 1950, just as authorities were closing in on her operation.
She was never prosecuted.
Dennis Condrey would then make his only in-ring appearance in Portland against Art Barr where he showed off how good he was
Don Owen was a highlight here too looking your average grandpa in the Summer with his unbuttoned shirt and glasses in his pocket
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