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Ted DiBiase On His History With Harley Race, Buzz Sawyer Not Being Liked

November 7, 2023 | Posted by Andrew Ravens
Harley Race NWA Image Credit: NWA

On the latest episode of Everybody’s Got a Pod, WWE Hall of Famer Ted DiBiase talked about working with Harley Race, their relationship, and more. You can check out some highlights below:

On working with Harley Race: “It was awesome. The relationship I had with Harley went way back. Harley is a man who tried to save my father’s life the night he died. And then I remember when I first started wrestling. It was a summer of 75, but that’s when I was working for Bill Watts. Well, then after a year, I went back to Amarillo, and now I am working in the Amarillo territory. And I think this is while Harley was champion. And I remember in a conversation we had, and he just told me, he says, ‘Kid, if I have anything to do with it one day, this belt will be around your waist.’”

On Race’s in-ring skills: “He could do it. And the thing is, everybody’s got their own style. And it was — I wrestled Harley more than once as when he was champion. And one of the places that I wrestled, like I said and wrestled him to a one-hour draw and an hour wrestling match. And so, anyway, he was the boss. I just got in there and listened to everything he said, but that was like pretty mellow over. I mean, I was making a name for myself, but for a young guy like me to be given an opportunity, and I think that, I know what it was. We had a match, we had a tag team match. That was me and. I can’t remember who my partner was now. I think it was a guy named ‘Bulldog’ Bob Brown.”

On Buzz Sawyer not being liked due to his outside-the-ring antics: “I would probably agree. With him getting a lot of flak about how he was out of the ring, you know. But in the ring, he was all business.”

If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit Everybody’s Got a Pod with an h/t to 411mania.com for the transcription.