This first show covers Roy’s beginnings in Oklahoma with his father, Big Ed Welch, his native american bloodline, getting started as a professional under the guidance of Dutch Mantell in West Texas, working for Al Haft in Ohio and his relationship with Chris Jordan in Alabama.
We cover the start of the “gasoline circuit” in Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee and the formation of the office in Dyersburg, plus the addition of Herb Welch in 1938 and the amazing run in Nashville, Knoxville and Tennessee Territory for The Green Shadow, Pat Malone, as well as Ginger The Wrestling Bear, his pioneering in Florida, meeting and partnering with Nick Gulas and much, much more. This first show is packed with wrestling history about one of the titans of the business, Roy Welch!