"I CAN’T MAKE you believe wrestling is real. But I can make you believe real.” So went the famous and oft-repeated quote from the great Johnny Valentine, a man who carved out his legacy with brute force and strength of will from the moment he first stepped in the ring in Buenos Aires in 1947 until the infamous 1975 Cessna crash that did what no opponent ever could. Though Johnny Valentine never again walked unassisted after that disaster—one that almost did the same thing to a rookie Ric Flair—the 28 years in which he built his unparalleled legend in the ring ensured that he would be
