Bill, college Air Force ROTC 'summer camp' orientation flight in T-33, Big Springs Texas 1960? |
Cover of Wrestling News Thanksgiving Super Dome Spectacular, grossed $146,222 |
At Shea's Stadium Celebrity Home Run Derby: Bobo Brazil, Casey Stengel (Hall of Fame Manager), Bill, and Arnold Skaaland |
Bill wrestling Jack Brisco with Stu Swartz refereeing (Florida 1974-75) |
Program for Milwaukee, new indoor record, $29,600 (1969) |
Bio of match featuring Bill versus Lars Anderson |
Bill with standing double-double for suplex (opponent unknown) |
Bill versus Crazy Luke Graham, circa 1964-65 |
Bill versus Dennis Condry? |
Bill in Madison Square Garden versus Bruno Sammartino, 1965 - largest crowd in history at 'old' MSG |
Being fitted for first 'custom made suit' in Philidelphia 1964? |
Bill as Champion on the cover of Roy Shire's San Francisco Cow Palace event |
The Card at the Cow Palace on Dec. 31st 1966 |
Program cover for Little Rock, AR., Watts vs Lou Thesz, NWA World's Champion in 1963 |
The Card in Little Rock in 1963 - note only 3 matches advertised (cards then were very limited) |
Watts vs The Great Bolo, the winner to get the title bout with Lou Thesz (1963) |
Card in Oklahoma City in 1963 - note again the number of bouts on a card in that era. |
Tulsa Tribune Story about me and my upcoming bout, from my office in my home then. |
Watts in Japan, (first trip) Tarzan Tyler is the bleached blonde in the pic on the right, and their superstar the Giant Baba in the lower left pic. Circa 1965 |
Watts and 'somebody else?' dumping Bobby Shane over the top rope. |
Bill and my son Joel, and my Dad (Bill) from our office on Breckenridge St. in Bixby |
Bill in a dressing room contemplating his upcoming match |
Bill and Paul Boesch on Paul's wrestling radio show in Houston in the early '60's |
Bill versus Sting in a 'Bunk House Brawl' 1987? |
Bill focused in on his opponent like a 'big train coming' |
Bill and my beautiful daughter, Ene (had to be in the '70's with the hair and shirt :>) |
Dory Funk Jr., NWA World's Champion, Leroy McGuirk, and Bill |
Cowboy Bill and The Crusher, wearing my hat and fringed deerskin jacket (Minneapolis, 1968-69) |
Bill being carried out of the ring by Stu Swartz and Jimmy Tanaka, Florida, 1974 (Book cover picture) |
Publicity photo of Bill, North American Champion |
Watts versus Verne Gagne, 1968-69 |
Watts Stampeding The Spoiler, 1970's (The Spoiler, managed by Gary Hart, was an awesome opponent, and we drew a 'ton of money in the box office.') |
Gordon Solie, Watts, and Dusty Rhodes in Georgia |
Watts in Grand Cayman |
Watts on the beach in Hawaii with Pedro Morales - '60's |
Watts headlocking Lou Thesz, NWA World's Champion (one of the greatest) |
She 'stole my heart' - my daughter, Ene (named after her mother), in Destin, Florida |
My wife, Ene, Bill, Danny Hodge, Sam Steamboat and his wife, in Hawaii as guests of the Don Ho show in the 60's? |
Publicity photo Cowboy Bill Watts, check the hair…. |
Standing by an over 500 lb Bench Press in the '60's. (I did 585 lbs. on that lift in the '60's - the only one stronger then was Bruno Sammartino.) |
Publicity photo with Indianopolis Warrior team-mates in 1962, (NFL sponsored-concept pro-football farm team I played for while 'breaking into pro-wrestling there') |
Publicity photo, I believe shot at Channel 9 in Oklahoma City |
Publicity photo |
Program cover for 'big event' at the 'Met' promoted by Verne against me in Minneapolis |
The Card for that event |
Pepper Gomez (a superstar), Bill, and Joe Scarpa (an Italian from NJ) who later became Chief Strongbow for the WWWF, in California in 1965-66. |
Publicity photo for Indianapolis Warriors |
First wrestling publicity photos in 1962 in Indianapolis with me 'hip tossing' my friend and mentor, Dale Lewis - a former Olympian, and twice NCAA Heavyweight Wrestling Champion at OU. |
Dale and I, in a 'standing guillotine' |
Dale and I in a 'surf board' |
My brother Bob with me at Super's Gym in NJ in 1964-65 |
Reaching to scoop up Dirty Dick Murdock in a 'slam' |
Bill hitting Dick Murdock, with Jerry Usher in the background as referee (a loyal and extremely good referee) |
Muhammad Ali and Bill 'squared off' |
Bill versus Stan the Lariat Hanson |
Bill tag-teaming with Ray Candy |
North American Champion, Cowboy Bill Watts, signing autographs before the introductions to the match |
Shreveport TV, Bill Watts, Reisor Bowden our announcer, and Barry Darsow |
Suzanne and I being married in Dr. Bruce and Sherry Van Horn's home in Ada, OK, by Bob Bender, Pastor of the Ada Baptist Church, May 1st, 1998. |
Watts and Ali in New Orleans |
Bill and Dr. Death at OU to make a presentation to Doc at half-time of the Missouri game at the stadium - Barry Switzer was the OU coach then |
Shreveport TV with host of Mid-South Wrestling, Boyd Pearce, a fantastic person. |
Bill, Dusty Rhodes, and my dear friend, Hiro Matsuda, in Japan for WCW. |
Duayne Miller (who later became an NCAA Wrestling Champion at 123lbs at OU), our Putnam City High School coach, Lee Snyder, and Bill at Heavyweight at 235 lbs. in 1957 |
Cowboy Bill Watts with the seemingly ever-present bandage covering the most recent 'injury' - check the hair and the shirt |
Bill 'forearm smashing' Buddy Colt, another truly great wrestler, whose career was cut short by his plane crash injuries in Florida in '74, in which Bobby Shane was killed. |
Putnam City High School Football Program 1957 - Bill with 'my coach' Joe Garrison, who meant so much to me - he 'believed in me as an athlete and person' - and I believed in him as a true coach - with all that includes. |
Bill 'kicking' Mr. Wrestling II in Georgia. |
Mr. Wrestling II has just 'back-dropped' Bill - wow, he really elevated me on this one. |
Bill with 'scissors' on Mr. Wrestling II, with 'special referee,' Klondike Bill |
Bill dumping 640 lb. Haystacks Calhoun over the top rope in a 'Battle Royal.' |
Cowboy Bill Watts by the door of my Cheyenne III airplane |
Bill working out with my brother Bob, in NJ in the '64 |
Another angle of the 'scissors' on Mr. Wrestling II |
Bill holding Dale Lewis in my first publicity photos shot in Indianapolis in 1962 |
Another one of my 'creations' Ivan Putski (Joe Bednarski) who went on to be a superstar. |
Bob Armstrong with me in a headlock. Bob is one of the truly greats - in so many ways |
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