Wrestling With The Past

Mad Dog Vachon: A filmmaker’s memories – PAGE 6

Posted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Nov 21, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Obituaries, Opinion

Once we started shooting, our travel schedule loosely followed the same path as the Dog’s...

Mad Dog Vachon: A filmmaker’s memories – PAGE 5

Posted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Nov 21, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Obituaries, Opinion

Pre-production seemed to go on forever. I needed archival footage of the Dog but it was in short...

Mad Dog Vachon: A filmmaker’s memories – PAGE 4

Posted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Nov 21, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Obituaries, Opinion

After six months of searching, I’d assembled a very colourful roster of wrestlers willing to...

Mad Dog Vachon: A filmmaker’s memories – PAGE 3

Posted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Nov 21, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Obituaries, Opinion

The next several months were hit and miss. Sweet Daddy Siki, then a local disc jockey who lived...

Mad Dog Vachon: A filmmaker’s memories – PAGE 2

Posted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Nov 21, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Obituaries, Opinion

Remembering a Where Are They Now? article published by the Toronto Star in 1983 which I’d...

Mad Dog Vachon: A filmmaker’s memories

Posted by JOHN DOLIN - For SLAM! Wrestling | Nov 21, 2014 | Canadian Hall of Fame, Hollywood Headlock Interviews, Obituaries, Opinion

It’s been a year since Mad Dog Vachon died, and SLAM! Wrestling asked Toronto filmmaker John...

Tex McKenzie dies

Posted by Greg Oliver | Jun 1, 2001 | Obituaries

The giant Tex McKenzie, a star wrestler from the ’50s to the ’70s, died today in a...

My dinner with Mad Dog and Butcher

Posted by Greg Oliver | Mar 9, 2001 | Interviews

Mad Dog Vachon has a belief that you shouldn’t drink anything while you are eating. No...