What was it like to wrestle “Superstar” Bill Dundee in the first scaffold match in Memphis?
(Brian Westcott) Koko: It was a very, very dangerous type of match. I wouldn’t want to do it again. I don’t think it had ever been done after us. It’s a really scary feeling to fall off that thing like I did and broke my wrists. I do not want to do it again. What was your initial reaction when the match was proposed? (SLAM! Wrestling) Koko: At first, I didn’t want to do it. I was kind of saying, “Wow.” But someone told me, “Yeah, but Koko, can you imagine all the coverage that you’re going to get off of that? It’ll be like something in history. It never happened before. First time ever; you and Bill Dundee.” I was kind of like the guinea pig I guess, but I went out there and I did it and it did get a lot of coverage, but it scared the hell out of me though. fctAdTag(“bigbox”,MyGenericTagVar,1); Can you talk about your first title run with the Mid-American Television Championship and the feud with Jimmy Valiant and Tojo Yamamoto? (James Hudgens) Koko: Back in those days, it was great. I
