The Way It Was
Oct 14, 2020
4 minutes
BY BRIAN SOLOMON
BEFORE HIM THERE was Dick Lane, legendary voice of Los Angeles wrestling on KTLA, who coined much of wrestling’s common vernacular; after him, there was Jim Ross, the iconic man in the black Resistol hat, who embodied Mid-South Wrestling, WCW, and WWE for decades. But, for those lucky enough to grow up watching wrestling in the 1960s, 1970s, and early ‘80s, there was one unmistakable voice that stood above the rest, epitomizing all that true fans loved about the sport: the classic, gravelly, professorial wisdom of the dean of wrestling announcers, Gordon Solie.
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