The wrestling industry is a place of assumed identity, but even for such a theatrical business, Barry Darsow has had a lot of names. He's competed in WCW and WWE as Krusher Khrushchev, Smash, The Repo Man, Stewart Pain, and The Blacktop Bully. It was as the Bully -- a horn-blowing, truck-obsessed derelict -- that he engaged in one of the weirdest matches in wrestling history. Embroiled in a feud with Dustin Rhodes, it was determined that the score could only be settled in a "King of the Road" Match -- an encounter that took place in the caged-off, hay-filled flatbed of a moving 18-wheel truck, with the winner being the first man to honk a horn at the end of the cage. The odd rules weren't all that gave the match notoriety. Fighting on a speeding truck isn't easy, meaning that the action was stilted and clumsy. To made matters worse, the pre-taped encounter was heavily edited, often in nonsensical ways -- at different points in the match, it's clearly different times of day. In the end, Bully honked the horn and won, but the lasting legacy of the match was doom -- both men bladed in the bout, a no-no in WCW at the time, and were fired afterward.
Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried.
*Best Crowd of the Year, 2013
