I stopped by the old Tampa Sportatorium on Albany Street last year (2022). It's just an office building now but the back where the ring stood and the fans sat is still an empty space. Someone from inside saw me looking in windows, etc. and invited me inside and explained where everything used to be set up. Where the ring had been, where Gordon Solie used to announce from, where the locker rooms used to be. It was great. But then she said she had something special to show me. She opened a storage closet and there was the four original ring posts still sitting there 35 years after the end of Florida Championship Wrestling. I felt honored to touch a piece of metal that had stood as an eyewitness to so much wrestling history. I encourage others if your in Tampa to stop by and take a look at the place where Florida wrestling television took place for twenty years. I swear I could hear the voices of Gordon Solie, Dusty Rhodes, Terry Funk and hundreds of others still bouncing off the walls.
I love “Superstar” Billy Graham
I stopped by the old Tampa Sportatorium on Albany Street last year (2022). It's just an office building now but the back where the ring stood and the fans sat is still an empty space. Someone from inside saw me looking in windows, etc. and invited me inside and explained where everything used to be set up. Where the ring had been, where Gordon Solie used to announce from, where the locker rooms used to be. It was great. But then she said she had something special to show me. She opened a storage closet and there was the four original ring posts still sitting there 35 years after the end of Florida Championship Wrestling. I felt honored to touch a piece of metal that had stood as an eyewitness to so much wrestling history. I encourage others if your in Tampa to stop by and take a look at the place where Florida wrestling television took place for twenty years. I swear I could hear the voices of Gordon Solie, Dusty Rhodes, Terry Funk and hundreds of others still bouncing off the walls.
Rest in heaven both Gordon Solie and "Superstar" Billy Graham.
The Classic Gordon Solie!!!
I like the Superstar's shirt
I guess this was just as he came to the end of his Karate gimmick and started to find the old Superstar again?
Another year an half away from bringing back the color. Fall of 1985 was the end of the karate.
Thank you Golden Solie Buddy Colt😊
superstar Billy was awesome.
Superstar was better as a tie dye fast talking heel.
Superstar had a great look and could work the mic, but he was terrible in the ring. He couldn't work a lick.