Abdullah The Butcher Shoot Interview (Odd Shoot)

Abdullah the Butcher, is a Canadian retired https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestler. He has a reputation for being involved in some of the most violent and bloody https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcore_wrestling matches of all time. Over his time in wrestling he was given the moniker of "Madman from Sudan". Lawrence Robert Shreve trademarks is a series of divot-like scars on his head that he has due to excessive use of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blading_(professional_wrestling) during his career. The scars are so deep that, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Foley, Shreve is able to put gambling chips into them. An amateur martial artist, Shreve also has knowledge of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judo and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate, often including this knowledge in his wrestling matches through throws and chops. His mother was an African-American from Michigan, and his father was a member of the Native American https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfoot tribe. He learned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karate and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judo as a youth and, teaching fellow children in the backyard, claims to have eventually earned the title of seventh-degree grandmaster. Shreve caught the attention of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal promoter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Britton, and he soon made his professional wrestling debut at age 17 in 1958. He initially competed in numerous independent territories in Canada under various monikers such as Pussycat Pickens, Kuroi Jujutsushi (the Black Wizard) and Zelis Amara. Ultimately, he created his gimmick of an evil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadistic_personality_disorder, and in a match against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino_Brito (Jack Britton's real-life son), the Abdullah the Butcher character first distinguished himself as one of the world's most feared rule breakers when he broke a chair over Brito's head and then beat him senseless with a chair leg.Since his gimmick required him to speak no English (though it was his native tongue), he had a number of managers over the course of his long career, including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Hart_(wrestler), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jones_(wrestler), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Creatchman, Black Baron, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Roth, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Dillon, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Kane,