It was a hot day and we started a 10-mile run. To my amazement, Midnight was the only one that stayed right behind the truck the whole way, not allowing any dog to pass him up. If they tried, he would grab them and knock them down then continue to follow the truck. After seeing this beautiful black pup with all that stamina, I tried everything I could to acquire him and,...

It all started back in 1979 when I had just become friends with a guy named Dennis R. He had a brother to Ch Tonka, Ch Crash, from the Tombstone x Red Baby litter. He also had some sons of the Four Bits dog which later turned out to be sons of the great Bolio dog instead. After seeing some of his dogs goI decided I wanted some of this blood. Soon after...

Born on June 9th 1984 on the yard of Jimmy Atkins was a pup named Buzzsaw’s Patches. She was from the breeding of Buzzsaw’s Stomper ( my dog, but I never have been much on putting my name on papers) to Snakeman’s Runt owned by Atkins). Stomper was sold to me after I saw him in a short roll with one of my early dogs, he looked great and I...

Roadblock’s Ch. Joey was purchased from his breeder in Texas. There was seven in the litterthat was sired by Flowers’ Ch. Sparky out of Blanchard’s (Flowers’) Lucille. David Flowers,the breeder, kept five out of the litter while Bobby Hall got two femaleswhere abouts unknown. Down to three survivors, two males and a femaleshown to be combat minded at an early age.Flowers had taken Joey and his sister Marcel to roll...

On December 28, 1998, one of the most famous litters in the history of the sport in this wayward country was whelped. When Jay S. of Southernmen bought the sister of Ch. Underdog’s Dante 8xw, 2xL from DT, DADA, she had already been mated to GRCH. Underdog’s POGI ROM. It was not long after pups that later came to known as Ch. PEK’s BAGYO POR, Ch. Rebel’s DAPO, Southermen’s YELLOW...

It was 1997 when I was invited by Hidden Hollow Kennels to attend their five dog show in North Carolina. I was interested in buying a good dog, so I felt this was the perfect opportunity to hopefully come across one. I decided to drive down and spend a few days in the Carolina Hills and thought this would be a perfect time to meet T. Garner and E. Faron,...

In April of ’92, PR Joe had a gyp named Gunny, off of Ch. Coco and a bitch named Sarah, who was a very promising prospect. He was looking to get a male to breed to her in the future and heard about a litter of pups out of Ch. Coco and a double daughter of Cates’ Nigerino, named Bathsheeba. Since PR Joe was pleased with Gunny and kept hearing...

“Assassinator” was born on June 12,1986. Her father was the 4x winner, Jacobs and Hicks’ “Assassin 1”. “Assassin 1” won his four matches in dominating fashion. He didn’t have an overly hard mouth, but he had the speed and ability to beat his opponent to almost every hold and to out wrestle them once he got there. He could make his opponents look so bad that their handlers would end...