October 7,1987
Sports off
Campus
By Jerry Ulmer
Haynes travels long road of wrestling
by Christopher Curran
Design/Sports Editor_______ _________
As I walked into the gym I
saw a few people working out
on the weight sets, then I saw
the subject of my interview.
Standing six feet three inches
tall and weighing in at 255
pounds, he nearly blends in as
one of the four green and yellow
walls. Billy “Jack” Haynes has
been a professional wrestler for
nearly six years..
Determination, motivation,
and charisma are three , things
that Haynes reflects upon about
his career. “People can sense
charisma from all over the
stands...not many people have
it,” he said, “Hulk (Hogan) has
people eating out of his hand.”
Before wrestling, Haynes was
a professional bodybuilder. In
March 1982 Haynes par
ticipated
in
his
last
bodybuilding competition. He
took second place in the Mr.
Pacific Coast contest. That
qualified him for the Mr.
America contest.
Haynes passed up the chance
Ito contend for Mr. America to
go into professional wrestling.
He went to Alberta, Canada
and trained and wrestled with
about 40 other men. “I went
with one pair underwear, one
pair shoes, one pair jeans, one
shirt, and had only $100 when I
Staff writer
NFL Strike: waste of time
Photo by Julio Church
Oregon City native Billy “Jack” Haynes working out in his new
gym.
got to Alberta,” stated Haynes.
In early November of 1982
Haynes was brought to
Portland by promoter Don
Owen.
Haynes wrestled in Portland
until Janurary of 1984. He then
went to Florida because he felt
he had to get on to bigger
things. During his nine month
stay in Florida he won the
heavyweight championship.
Next up was Texas. It took
Haynes just one month to attain
the championship there while
staying six months. After that
he went undefeated in two mon
ths in Atlanta.
Haynes wrestled in Portland
until April of 1986. He then
received an offer from the
World Wrestling Federation
(WWF) to.wrestle in “the big
time.”
Haynes is now the number
five ranked wrestler in the
WWF. Hogan is number one,
followed by Randy Savage, the
Honkytonk man, and King
Kong Bundy.
NFL players say free agency
will give them the freedom of
movement that is enjoyed by
most occupations. However, in
this quest for freedom of cross
ing the picket line through in
timidation. Hats off to players
such as the Jets’ Mark
Gastineau, who was not in
timidated and crossed the line.
Free agency is not needed. In
the past, players unhappy with
their workplace have been ac
commodated with trades.
Under free agency, parity would
be endangered, an element vital
for a healthy league. The
players seem to have trouble
realizing that in the NFL,
distribution of players is part of
the game.
The strikers want free agency
for bargaining power more than
freedom. They argue that an
average career lasts four years,
and they need to gain security
during that span. But who’s go
ing to feel sorry for someone
who works for four years and
retires with a pension?
Strikers’ taunts at their
replacements are equally gutless.
These replacements deserve credit
for chasing their dreams even if it
means crossing a picket line that
blows more hot air than Colonel
Kaddaffi’s line of death. Any
NFL player would do the same if
the situation was reversed.
Some union members argue
.that if these replacements weren’t
good enough to make it in the
first place, they shouldn’t cross
the line. But if the strikers would
take time to review how they got
to the NFL, they would
remember taking every break
available and never believing they
weren’t good enough.
The strikers need to ask
themselves if union brotherhood
is worth $20,000 a week. Couple
that thought with a concern that
some replacements are impressing
coaches and strikers will start
coming back to work. They have
to come back, they simply can’t
make as much money elsewhere.
The owners are smart
businessmen and sometimes
businesses write off a year for
future prosperity. The owners are
sticking to their guns and the
players know it.
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