Action Photos 20

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Terrible Ted, The Wrestling Bear really did wrestle! Here is a photo of Ted wrestling with Billy Graham. The referee is Jack Holloway, during a match in the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium.

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Terrible Ted always wrestles in a Handicap Match -- one bear wrestler against two human wrestlers. Nick Adams watches in wonder as Ted flips Billy Graham down to the mat for a pin. Do I even need to tell you that Ted was the winner of this match?

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Rocky "Soulman" Johnson, and Ray Stevens talk to Pepper Martin on Big Time Wrestling. Martin also had a career in television and had asked Roy if he could act as a cohost on Big Time Wrestling, which he did for a while.

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Jim Fitzpatrick sent this photo he took at the Cow Place of Antonio Rocca and Earl Maynard.

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Antonio Rocca and Moondog Mayne watch from outside the ring during a Lumberjack Match as Don Muraco is tied up in the ropes. That is Dean Ho who put him there. This is another photo by Jim Fitzpatrick.

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Allen Bolte watches the Lumberjack Match as Earl Maynard smiles for Jim Fitzpatrick's camera.

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Because I am a big Roller Derby fan, too, Jim Fitzpatrick sent me another picture of him when he was on the San Francisco Bay Bombers. Someone on the Pioneers is about to smash Jim's face in the rail.

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.Thanks to Nick Pata for helping me with identifying some of the wrestlers on this page!