So, apparently, I have some “very rare” pictures of a now somewhat famous wrestler. I put “very rare” in quotes because every site that I saw that had this guy dressed up as previous characters were marked as rare or very rare. So, why can’t I put it?

If you’ve ever watched the ECW, you may have seen Jonathan Rechner — better known as Balls Mahoney. I’ve seen this guy wrestle many, many times, but under a different name.

Way back when I was 18, my ex and I used to go to wrestling matches in an almost deserted strip mall in Berlin, NJ. (I knew about the place from an ex before that – we used to go and help set up the chairs before the matches and then take them down afterwards) The matches were fought by students of the Monster Factory Wrestling School, owned by Larry Sharpe (yes, “Pretty Boy” Larry Sharpe). I LOVED going to these things! It was like old time wrestling — not the “soap operas for men” we have today. There were always big name wrestlers coming through, too! I remember seeing The Bushwackers and King Kong Bundy. He is one big man. I went up to him to say hi and ended up holding his cup of water for him while he signed autographs. Wasn’t smart enough to get one myself (an autograph that is) though.

Anyway, when he started out, Jonathan Rechner wrestled as Abbudah Singh. He was my all time favorite out of all the guys there at the time. Here are some pics I took:

There was another time he showed up at the matches, but this time he was Xanta Klaus. We knew it was him, but he wouldn’t admit it. I believe that was his first character for the WWF. We did get our picture taken with him:

So, aside from meeting Bobby Darren when I was a little kid, this has been my only other brush with the famous. I’ll take whatever I can get.

By the way…if you’re interested, Monster Factory is still operating and has moved to Bellmawr, NJ. I think they have matches every Saturday at 2:00…check their website for actual info: http://www.monsterfactory.com. I’m thinking of checking it out one of these days.