Talk:Paul Ellering

Ellering's life
Haven't as yet found much verifiable information about Ellering's life and career. Anyone able to contribute? Suriel1981 20:22, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Here's 3 things. Have fun researching, unless you mean that "verifiable information" = acknowledgement by cherry-picked websites, which means that the following is ultimately pointless:

RadioKAOS (talk) 06:44, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
 * In 1980, Ellering was wrestling in Memphis, pretty high on the card, and played a pivotal role in Jerry Lawler's babyface turn. I'm sure clips abound on YouTube and therefore you can see for yourself, but Ellering was standing beside Jimmy Hart wearing a crown when Hart cut his legendary "They shoot horses, don't they?" promo.  That one promo more or less carried Jarrett's promotion for the better part of the next five years.  As people are a little too stuck on celebrity worship and therefore gratuitously puffing up Andy Kaufman, in spite of the reality that the first Lawler-Kaufman match drew about 2–3,000 fewer people to MSC than Lawler's just-concluded run with Dutch Mantel had been drawing, this likely will never be properly reflected.
 * In 1982, Ellering appeared briefly in Pacific Northwest Wrestling. Perhaps the most notable occurrence during this period was his debut.  He was standing in the ring waiting to be introduced while Don Owen announced the death of Frank Bonnema, the host of Portland Wrestling, to the crowd at the Portland Sports Arena.  Owen introduced Ellering as "the man who claimed to have ran Jesse Ventura out of the Midwest" to establish him as a heel in the territory.  There was the usual incongruity there, in that their feud had taken place three years prior and in that feud, Ellering was the face and Ventura the heel.  Anyway, he wrestled Stan Stasiak in that match and won with a standing full nelson (when was the last time you ever saw that?).
 * As for the Iditarod, I have a bone to pick with the way the entry is written. You don't just show up in Alaska and decide to run the Iditarod.  In order to enter the Iditarod, you must complete one or more mid-distance races (i.e. several hundred miles) first.  I was out and about during our recent free museum day and stopped by the dog mushing museum downtown.  I spent more time chatting with the proprietor than I did browsing the exhibits.  If I remember correctly, she told me that she's been mushing for ten years and still hasn't qualified for the Iditarod.  Anyway, if I recall, Ellering won the John Beargrease race in northern Minnesota, and he had been mushing dogs for at least a few years before he first entered the Iditarod.

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More on the Iditarod
Go back to 1990 and the Teddy Long match. Jim Ross mentions then during his commentary that Ellering had aspirations of competing in the Iditarod.RadioKAOS (talk) 01:23, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

hello
Hello paul, I live in Lincoln Nebraska moved here from Omaha after a 14 yr marriage of course i left him behind i'm now attending Evereast University for Criminal Investigations, i sure do miss the AWA. Paula

Paul was not trained by Eddie Sharkey
The page lists that he was trained by Eddie Sharkey, but this interview here is Paul Ellering saying that he wasn't at time 6:28

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbBrB5nf5ns

173.18.208.35 (talk) 03:13, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I seem to recall that Sharkey assisted Verne Gagne with running the camp at one point, a position which Sheiky Baby held when Verne established the camp and Brad Rheingans later held. This would have been around the same time that Bob Backlund, who I believe it's also been claimed was trained by Sharkey, went through the camp.  This may be an attempt on Ellering's part to revisit history, in that Sharkey's role with Verne would have been much different than in later years, when he was training bouncers from the bar he worked at (e.g. Darsow, the Road Glorias, etc.) on his own in the basement of a church. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions  22:34, 10 June 2016 (UTC)

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