February 2006

             

Tom is a founding member of the team of lunatics that started the IWF-TN in 1997. He bought the Old Flynns Lick School just out side of Gainesboro Tennessee, tossed up a ring and started schooling men on how to wrestle for blood and beer.

I met Tom’s partner Paul while building the Fright Factory featured in the Legend of Crazy George. Paul walked up to me with an arm load of rats, spiders and rope in one hand and a loaded nail gun in the other. He convinced me that his wrestlers were what the film needed. No arguing with Paul and his nail gun so a meeting was set and in the end the deal went well for all of us – considering Tom’s an Apache pro wrestling instructor who uses the phase “Negotiate” and “rip your face off” in the same sentence. In the end it wasn’t his big psychotic eyes or the palming my face like a basket ball that won me over it was his laughing through that bushy mustache that made us friends.

In the film you’ll note Tom playing the referee in the wrestling match. He’s a fair judge when actually watching the match and not the leggy model we hired as a wrestling manager. I suggest attending one of Tom’s wrestling shows and show up on time. IWF-TN isn’t like those other Pro Wrestling shows holding the best to the end. People are matched according to rank and talent so you’ll never know whom the charts will match against whom. I recommend backing Night Wolf, the guy is air born half and in everyone’s face all the time.

http://www.iwf-tn.com/

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