Monday, November 16, 2015

Mooneyham Writes About Jay Youngblood

What a wonderful article by Mike Mooneyham on the Charleston Post & Courier website about the late Jay Youngblood. It is both a look at a daughter who never got to know her Dad, a father who died way to young. It is also a great trip back through time looking at the wonderful career of Youngblood, his memorable team with Ricky Steamboat, and their feuds with Don Kernodle and Sgt. Slaughter as well as the Brisco brothers.

Jay Youngblood: A Daughter Remembers
by Mike Mooneyham, Charleston Post & Courier

"There's not a day goes by that Ricca Jonas doesn't think about her dad.

She was only three years old when her father, the late Steven Nicky Romero — better known as pro wrestling star Jay Youngblood — died on Sept. 2, 1985, in Parkville, Victoria, Australia, a suburb of Melbourne, during a tour of the South Pacific...."

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