1 00:00:05,085 --> 00:00:08,588 You know you people right now are looking at the greatest 2 00:00:08,588 --> 00:00:11,049 talent in the wrestling business today! 3 00:00:11,049 --> 00:00:14,928 Christopher Colt, very shrewd individual. 4 00:00:14,928 --> 00:00:16,722 I've often said that Chris Colt was the 5 00:00:16,722 --> 00:00:19,474 best wrestler that nobody ever saw. 6 00:00:19,474 --> 00:00:22,352 I love pain. I'm a psychopath, I'm sadist, 7 00:00:22,352 --> 00:00:24,396 I'm a masochist. I do everything. 8 00:00:24,396 --> 00:00:26,440 He was a maniac. [Laughing] 9 00:00:30,235 --> 00:00:31,737 [Laughing] 10 00:00:31,737 --> 00:00:34,448 A Hells Angel, a Comanchero, 11 00:00:34,448 --> 00:00:36,199 a space oddity, 12 00:00:36,199 --> 00:00:38,785 and the original rock and roll wrestler, 13 00:00:38,785 --> 00:00:40,954 Chris Colt tore up the territories in 14 00:00:40,954 --> 00:00:43,123 the 60s, 70s, and 80s, 15 00:00:43,123 --> 00:00:46,126 thrilling audiences with unhinged performances 16 00:00:46,126 --> 00:00:48,295 and outlandish characters. 17 00:00:48,295 --> 00:00:50,756 [Commentary] On the seat of his trunks, "Space Odyssey". 18 00:00:50,756 --> 00:00:54,217 For all we know, Colt might well be from outer space. 19 00:00:54,217 --> 00:00:56,261 I'm surprised there were times that 20 00:00:56,261 --> 00:00:58,305 Chris didn't get stabbed or shot. 21 00:00:58,305 --> 00:01:00,098 That's how good he was as a heel. 22 00:01:00,098 --> 00:01:01,850 [Audience booing] 23 00:01:01,850 --> 00:01:04,811 A talented performer, Chris Colt's in-ring antics 24 00:01:04,811 --> 00:01:08,899 mirrored his volatility outside of the squared circle. 25 00:01:08,899 --> 00:01:11,276 When you looked in his eyes, I thought, 26 00:01:11,276 --> 00:01:12,903 my God, this is a madman. 27 00:01:12,903 --> 00:01:14,363 Chris was an outlaw. 28 00:01:14,363 --> 00:01:16,698 He did just what you didn't want him to do, 29 00:01:16,698 --> 00:01:19,034 and he was happier doing it his way. 30 00:01:19,034 --> 00:01:21,620 But beneath his psychedelic appearance, 31 00:01:21,620 --> 00:01:23,163 a darkness lurked... 32 00:01:23,163 --> 00:01:26,666 and Chris' obsession with death was no act. 33 00:01:26,666 --> 00:01:29,670 Chris had his own Vietnam war 34 00:01:29,670 --> 00:01:31,213 going on in his head. 35 00:01:31,213 --> 00:01:33,882 I don't think that it was necessarily white 36 00:01:33,882 --> 00:01:36,718 picket fence, two kids and a dog or whatever. 37 00:01:36,718 --> 00:01:39,596 That's definitely not the life that he lived as a child. 38 00:01:39,596 --> 00:01:42,306 "They threw rocks at me. Called me Queer. 39 00:01:42,306 --> 00:01:46,435 Small towns can be so weird and cruel." 40 00:01:46,435 --> 00:01:49,271 Driven by demons and obsessed with death, 41 00:01:49,271 --> 00:01:52,608 he became a cult icon and a legend. 42 00:01:52,608 --> 00:01:55,152 But who was Chris Colt? 43 00:01:55,152 --> 00:01:59,115 Chris' favorite saying is, "Hey, man, I'm a homosexual, 44 00:01:59,115 --> 00:02:01,784 I'm a drug addict, and I'm an alcoholic. 45 00:02:01,784 --> 00:02:03,536 And I'll match you scar-for-scar, 46 00:02:03,536 --> 00:02:05,830 and you'll look like a ----ing virgin." 47 00:02:05,830 --> 00:02:08,874 I mean, Ozzy Osbourne was Mother Teresa... 48 00:02:08,874 --> 00:02:11,252 next to Chris Colt. 49 00:02:11,252 --> 00:02:16,340 ♪ 50 00:02:16,340 --> 00:02:20,219 ♪ 51 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:25,057 Chris Colt stood out from the average wrestler because 52 00:02:25,057 --> 00:02:28,894 he wasn't just a rock star, he was the most wild, 53 00:02:28,894 --> 00:02:31,272 over-the-top, strung out rock star 54 00:02:31,272 --> 00:02:34,191 that he could possibly be. 55 00:02:34,191 --> 00:02:35,443 I'm Jim Cornette. 56 00:02:35,443 --> 00:02:38,279 Before I started my 40-plus year career in professional 57 00:02:38,279 --> 00:02:42,074 wrestling, as a kid, I was a fan of Chris Colt. 58 00:02:42,074 --> 00:02:45,745 Chris was overboard in every facet of life. 59 00:02:45,745 --> 00:02:47,204 He wanted to have the most sex, 60 00:02:47,204 --> 00:02:50,374 take the most drugs, do the whatever. 61 00:02:50,374 --> 00:02:53,544 One time, he gets booked in a cage match. 62 00:02:53,544 --> 00:02:55,337 ♪ 63 00:02:55,337 --> 00:02:56,881 What's a cage match for? 64 00:02:56,881 --> 00:02:58,591 It's to keep the wrestlers in, right? 65 00:02:58,591 --> 00:03:00,551 They tell the fans, "No way in, no way out. 66 00:03:00,551 --> 00:03:02,553 We're gonna settle this." 67 00:03:02,553 --> 00:03:04,346 But they didn't count on Chris Colt 68 00:03:04,346 --> 00:03:07,850 taking LSD before he got in the cage. 69 00:03:07,850 --> 00:03:10,561 So now the match is going on, there's people watching it. 70 00:03:10,561 --> 00:03:14,815 Everything's normal and suddenly, Chris Colt... 71 00:03:14,815 --> 00:03:19,945 he starts imagining that there are giant spiders... 72 00:03:19,945 --> 00:03:22,781 coming over the cage to get him. 73 00:03:22,781 --> 00:03:23,991 And you've got to think, 74 00:03:23,991 --> 00:03:26,202 what in the world would that be like? 75 00:03:26,202 --> 00:03:29,788 You're almost naked, in spandex, in a ring 76 00:03:29,788 --> 00:03:32,249 surrounded by a cage with thousands of people 77 00:03:32,249 --> 00:03:33,876 looking at you. 78 00:03:33,876 --> 00:03:37,546 And suddenly, the giant spiders arrive! 79 00:03:37,546 --> 00:03:42,801 ♪ 80 00:03:42,801 --> 00:03:45,054 And he's just freaking out. 81 00:03:45,054 --> 00:03:48,182 And finally, he climbs over the cage... 82 00:03:48,182 --> 00:03:51,810 And he starts punching people, fans. 83 00:03:51,810 --> 00:03:53,896 Every fan was like something that 84 00:03:53,896 --> 00:03:56,899 needed to be destroyed, in his mind. 85 00:03:56,899 --> 00:04:00,319 The people, they can't see the spiders. 86 00:04:00,319 --> 00:04:03,322 They don't know the spiders are there. 87 00:04:03,322 --> 00:04:06,450 I'm watching the match from upstairs in the balcony. 88 00:04:06,450 --> 00:04:08,577 Fans are just on top of him, 89 00:04:08,577 --> 00:04:10,287 and they're just pummelling him. 90 00:04:10,287 --> 00:04:12,081 But he was invincible. 91 00:04:12,081 --> 00:04:13,332 Chris didn't feel nothing. 92 00:04:13,332 --> 00:04:15,960 He was having bottles broke over his head. 93 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:18,921 He's like, "Agh!" He's like a monster. 94 00:04:18,921 --> 00:04:21,090 I came downstairs. 95 00:04:21,090 --> 00:04:23,884 I picked up a, a metal folding chair and 96 00:04:23,884 --> 00:04:27,388 I started swinging at, at the fans. 97 00:04:27,388 --> 00:04:30,182 It just became a riot. 98 00:04:30,182 --> 00:04:32,059 My name is Bill Anderson, 99 00:04:32,059 --> 00:04:34,061 30-year veteran of pro wrestling. 100 00:04:34,061 --> 00:04:36,772 Billy Anderson! 101 00:04:36,772 --> 00:04:39,775 In the summer of 1975, my rookie year, 102 00:04:39,775 --> 00:04:42,945 I became a tag team partner for crazy Chris Colt, 103 00:04:42,945 --> 00:04:46,240 as Bill Colt. 104 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:49,618 Cops started arriving, handcuffs going on people. 105 00:04:49,618 --> 00:04:51,620 All I smelled was mace. 106 00:04:51,620 --> 00:04:54,248 It was in my eyes and it- everybody's just burning. 107 00:04:54,248 --> 00:04:58,168 The world is coming to an end in this arena. 108 00:04:58,168 --> 00:05:01,087 And, here I am, 18, I had drank maybe 109 00:05:01,087 --> 00:05:03,423 two beers in my entire life... 110 00:05:03,423 --> 00:05:05,967 wanting to be a pro wrestler, that's all I cared about, 111 00:05:05,967 --> 00:05:09,512 and there's my partner- a bloody mess, 112 00:05:09,512 --> 00:05:13,308 drugged out of his mind, beaten up out of his mind- 113 00:05:13,308 --> 00:05:16,894 and that's my new partner to start my career. 114 00:05:16,894 --> 00:05:20,523 And I'm like, wow, what in the hell am I getting into? 115 00:05:20,523 --> 00:05:26,362 ♪ 116 00:05:26,362 --> 00:05:29,240 Chris Colt was one of the early guys in the business 117 00:05:29,240 --> 00:05:32,452 who was wrapped up in the rock and roll lifestyle, 118 00:05:32,452 --> 00:05:34,871 and part of rock and roll, especially in those days, 119 00:05:34,871 --> 00:05:37,624 was drugs, chemicals, substances. 120 00:05:37,624 --> 00:05:41,377 And when the other wrestlers were- back in the 60s were, 121 00:05:41,377 --> 00:05:43,254 you know, still more old fashioned, 122 00:05:43,254 --> 00:05:44,714 Chris was on the edge of it. 123 00:05:44,714 --> 00:05:47,216 And he spent time around Janis Joplin. 124 00:05:47,216 --> 00:05:50,219 He worked as a roadie for Joe Cocker. 125 00:05:55,933 --> 00:05:59,354 So, this is the notebook in which 126 00:05:59,354 --> 00:06:01,731 Chris Colt started to write 127 00:06:01,731 --> 00:06:04,359 what he wanted to become a book. 128 00:06:04,359 --> 00:06:07,362 There's about, oh, I think 100 pages or so here 129 00:06:07,362 --> 00:06:09,572 of handwritten notes. 130 00:06:09,572 --> 00:06:12,075 Chris Colt telling his own story. 131 00:06:12,075 --> 00:06:13,993 ♪ 132 00:06:13,993 --> 00:06:15,203 My name is Ty Haggard, 133 00:06:15,203 --> 00:06:17,455 and Chris Colt was my great uncle. 134 00:06:17,455 --> 00:06:19,749 As I read through this stuff, especially as a teenager, 135 00:06:19,749 --> 00:06:23,127 it was like, holy cow, like some of this stuff is wild, 136 00:06:23,127 --> 00:06:24,545 like, I don't know if this is appropriate for 137 00:06:24,545 --> 00:06:26,673 a 13-year-old to be reading. 138 00:06:26,673 --> 00:06:28,883 But, ah, as I read that stuff, 139 00:06:28,883 --> 00:06:31,052 I realized that it was his intention for 140 00:06:31,052 --> 00:06:34,055 his story to get out. 141 00:06:34,055 --> 00:06:36,224 "I was bored in Phoenix one weekend and decided 142 00:06:36,224 --> 00:06:38,976 I wanted to go to San Francisco for the first time 143 00:06:38,976 --> 00:06:40,645 'cause it was always a dream of mine, 144 00:06:40,645 --> 00:06:42,897 all the freedom of the 60s- 145 00:06:42,897 --> 00:06:45,900 people getting high, having open sex on bars, 146 00:06:45,900 --> 00:06:49,445 streets, it was all open. 147 00:06:49,445 --> 00:06:51,698 One night I was walking to Market Street. 148 00:06:51,698 --> 00:06:54,492 I noticed a girl sitting on some steps looking lonely, 149 00:06:54,492 --> 00:06:56,619 chugging a gallon of wine. 150 00:06:56,619 --> 00:06:58,913 I gave her a quick look, said, 'Hi,' 151 00:06:58,913 --> 00:07:00,832 and kept walking. 152 00:07:00,832 --> 00:07:04,127 She responded with, 'Hey, wanna have a drink?' 153 00:07:04,127 --> 00:07:08,172 I turned and I said, 'Sure.' She just smiled. 154 00:07:08,172 --> 00:07:11,551 Beyond her smile I saw sincere, deep eyes. 155 00:07:11,551 --> 00:07:16,389 But I also saw tragedy, and hurt, and pain." 156 00:07:16,389 --> 00:07:18,766 Then, as he's on his way to leave there, 157 00:07:18,766 --> 00:07:22,603 he stops at a head shop and sees a poster on the wall and 158 00:07:22,603 --> 00:07:25,148 then realizes that that's the person that he was 159 00:07:25,148 --> 00:07:27,567 talking to, and it was Janis Joplin. 160 00:07:27,567 --> 00:07:29,944 And, so he went back and asked her, 161 00:07:29,944 --> 00:07:31,821 "Why didn't you tell me who you were?" 162 00:07:31,821 --> 00:07:34,782 And she just wanted a friend that wasn't there 163 00:07:34,782 --> 00:07:36,659 as a beggar or hanger on, 164 00:07:36,659 --> 00:07:38,202 or somebody who only liked her because 165 00:07:38,202 --> 00:07:39,954 she was talented or something. 166 00:07:39,954 --> 00:07:42,290 And he told her- gave her a hug and told her, 167 00:07:42,290 --> 00:07:44,667 "Janis, I will always be your friend." 168 00:07:57,138 --> 00:08:00,933 "I styled myself as a male Janis Joplin in the ring- 169 00:08:00,933 --> 00:08:05,021 jewelry, chains, clothes, attitude." 170 00:08:05,021 --> 00:08:06,564 She left everything on the stage 171 00:08:06,564 --> 00:08:08,399 like he left everything in the ring. 172 00:08:08,399 --> 00:08:10,234 She was living in the moment, 173 00:08:10,234 --> 00:08:11,778 she didn't care about the future. 174 00:08:11,778 --> 00:08:14,197 Living fast and dying young. 175 00:08:14,197 --> 00:08:17,533 That's the path that he figured he'd take. 176 00:08:17,533 --> 00:08:18,993 ♪ 177 00:08:18,993 --> 00:08:21,828 Chris told me, if not once 178 00:08:21,828 --> 00:08:24,706 he told me 500 times... 179 00:08:24,706 --> 00:08:28,710 "I plan on being dead by 27, 180 00:08:28,710 --> 00:08:30,921 just like Janis Joplin." 181 00:08:30,921 --> 00:08:33,924 And he did everything he could to be there. 182 00:08:33,924 --> 00:08:38,512 Born Charles Fay Harris in Idaho in 1946, 183 00:08:38,512 --> 00:08:41,431 and raised in the small town of Drain, Oregon, 184 00:08:41,431 --> 00:08:43,767 Chris' chaotic upbringing set the tone for 185 00:08:43,767 --> 00:08:45,769 the rest of his life. 186 00:08:45,769 --> 00:08:50,607 Monday through Friday, it was a very loving home. 187 00:08:50,607 --> 00:08:52,567 They had everything they wanted and needed. 188 00:08:52,567 --> 00:08:55,612 They had clothes, they had money, they had food. 189 00:08:55,612 --> 00:08:57,489 It's when they started drinking on 190 00:08:57,489 --> 00:09:01,284 the weekends that everything... 191 00:09:01,284 --> 00:09:03,537 Blew up. 192 00:09:03,537 --> 00:09:05,956 My grandparents drank a lot and, 193 00:09:05,956 --> 00:09:08,041 I've heard stories that on weekends they would 194 00:09:08,041 --> 00:09:11,086 stop and get a case of half gallons of whiskey. 195 00:09:11,086 --> 00:09:15,215 They would get drunk and have brawls and... 196 00:09:15,215 --> 00:09:20,846 the kids were all involved and it got really brutal. 197 00:09:20,846 --> 00:09:25,392 My name's Rhonda Rondeau, and I am Chris Colt's niece. 198 00:09:25,392 --> 00:09:27,686 My mother was his sister. 199 00:09:32,607 --> 00:09:35,485 Uncle Chuck, he'll always be Uncle Chuck. 200 00:09:35,485 --> 00:09:38,196 ♪ 201 00:09:38,196 --> 00:09:41,116 When he was, ah, like 10... 202 00:09:41,116 --> 00:09:44,035 he came home from a friend's house- it was a Saturday. 203 00:09:44,035 --> 00:09:46,121 Everything was destroyed in the house, 204 00:09:46,121 --> 00:09:48,540 all the dishes were broke and, 205 00:09:48,540 --> 00:09:51,376 his mom was sitting around the couch with a bloody face 206 00:09:51,376 --> 00:09:55,547 and there was a gun sitting next to her that Grandpa 207 00:09:55,547 --> 00:09:58,258 had hit her in the face with and split the... 208 00:09:58,258 --> 00:10:00,760 handle of the gun. 209 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:02,679 It was a wooden handle. 210 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:06,057 "I thought she was dead. She was flowing with blood. 211 00:10:06,057 --> 00:10:09,186 Blood out of her nose, mouth, ears. 212 00:10:09,186 --> 00:10:11,021 We put her in the back seat of the car, 213 00:10:11,021 --> 00:10:13,815 a '56 Chevy, trying to hide her. 214 00:10:13,815 --> 00:10:16,735 He hadn't had enough of her yet. 215 00:10:16,735 --> 00:10:20,238 He was a raving maniac. I screamed, 216 00:10:20,238 --> 00:10:22,574 'I wish you were dead, you bastard,' 217 00:10:22,574 --> 00:10:23,825 and he hit me. 218 00:10:23,825 --> 00:10:26,620 Broke my ear drum. 219 00:10:26,620 --> 00:10:28,246 He grabbed another gun 220 00:10:28,246 --> 00:10:31,750 and started firing it at us." 221 00:10:31,750 --> 00:10:36,963 [Gunshots] 222 00:10:36,963 --> 00:10:38,798 "Sis was now behind the wheel, 223 00:10:38,798 --> 00:10:42,260 successfully driving down an old dirt road... 224 00:10:42,260 --> 00:10:45,430 making our escape to the highway." 225 00:10:45,430 --> 00:10:47,974 I think by that time, my Uncle Chuck was like, 226 00:10:47,974 --> 00:10:50,518 "Oh, my god, I gotta get out of here." 227 00:10:50,518 --> 00:10:54,022 ♪ 228 00:10:54,022 --> 00:10:57,108 Some weekends there was professional wrestling in, 229 00:10:57,108 --> 00:10:58,360 in the area. 230 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:00,904 My mother and my Uncle Chuck... 231 00:11:00,904 --> 00:11:04,240 They would drive to Roseburg, which was the closest 232 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:06,618 big town for him to watch wrestling matches. 233 00:11:06,618 --> 00:11:08,286 He just fell in love with it, 234 00:11:08,286 --> 00:11:11,248 and that's all he ever wanted to do. 235 00:11:11,248 --> 00:11:13,375 "One day in high school, Drain High, 236 00:11:13,375 --> 00:11:15,460 we were having an orientation class, 237 00:11:15,460 --> 00:11:17,045 and the question came up, 238 00:11:17,045 --> 00:11:19,547 what are we going to do with our lives? 239 00:11:19,547 --> 00:11:22,968 My turn came, and I said, 'Professional Wrestler'. 240 00:11:22,968 --> 00:11:26,221 The class laughed. It hurt me." 241 00:11:26,221 --> 00:11:28,848 So, my uncle went out for the wrestling team in high school 242 00:11:28,848 --> 00:11:32,686 and, he made the team, he was really excited about it. 243 00:11:32,686 --> 00:11:35,605 And, then decided that he needed to stand out 244 00:11:35,605 --> 00:11:38,441 a little bit and, bleached his hair blond. 245 00:11:47,324 --> 00:11:48,909 They kicked him off the wrestling team, 246 00:11:48,909 --> 00:11:51,996 kicked him out of school. 247 00:11:51,996 --> 00:11:55,666 Then he got rocks thrown at him. 248 00:11:55,666 --> 00:11:57,918 And so, I think that... 249 00:11:57,918 --> 00:12:01,088 in his mind, he was like, "I'm gonna show them. 250 00:12:01,088 --> 00:12:04,133 I'm gonna make it." 251 00:12:04,133 --> 00:12:08,470 So, he jumped on a, a bus, went out to Chicago, 252 00:12:08,470 --> 00:12:10,597 walked into wrestling school and said, 253 00:12:10,597 --> 00:12:11,765 "Hey, I want to do this." 254 00:12:11,765 --> 00:12:13,851 Well, that wasn't exactly how it worked. 255 00:12:13,851 --> 00:12:16,770 It wasn't just an open invitation. 256 00:12:16,770 --> 00:12:18,689 He found himself in a situation where 257 00:12:18,689 --> 00:12:20,983 he had to make some money. 258 00:12:20,983 --> 00:12:25,029 Met a kid on the street that was prostituting himself. 259 00:12:25,029 --> 00:12:26,905 He found that to be intriguing. 260 00:12:26,905 --> 00:12:30,659 And, saw that as a solution for how 261 00:12:30,659 --> 00:12:33,162 he could become a professional wrestler. 262 00:12:33,162 --> 00:12:37,416 "Now remember, I never had a sex relationship with anyone, 263 00:12:37,416 --> 00:12:40,044 but I had heavy bisexual feelings. 264 00:12:40,044 --> 00:12:43,380 I was more attracted to men than women. 265 00:12:43,380 --> 00:12:46,550 I wanted one thing, to be a professional wrestler, 266 00:12:46,550 --> 00:12:48,927 so with nothing to lose, I hit the streets 267 00:12:48,927 --> 00:12:51,180 for the first time in my life. 268 00:12:51,180 --> 00:12:54,600 I was scared, but it was survival." 269 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,351 He had a chip on his shoulder and I think that that 270 00:12:56,351 --> 00:12:58,937 contributed to the "by any means necessary" 271 00:12:58,937 --> 00:13:00,981 type attitude that he took towards it. 272 00:13:00,981 --> 00:13:02,775 He was not going to fail. 273 00:13:02,775 --> 00:13:05,277 He wanted to come back to his tiny little town 274 00:13:05,277 --> 00:13:06,945 of Drain, Oregon... 275 00:13:06,945 --> 00:13:08,655 as a star. 276 00:13:15,704 --> 00:13:17,539 Finding his way in Chicago, 277 00:13:17,539 --> 00:13:19,917 training by day and hustling by night, 278 00:13:19,917 --> 00:13:22,169 Charles Harris begins his wrestling career 279 00:13:22,169 --> 00:13:24,546 with a variety of ring names. 280 00:13:24,546 --> 00:13:27,091 Maurice Chevier, 281 00:13:27,091 --> 00:13:29,593 The Magnificent Chevier... 282 00:13:29,593 --> 00:13:33,055 And finally, Chris Colt. 283 00:13:33,055 --> 00:13:36,100 Colt Magazine was a, at the time one of 284 00:13:36,100 --> 00:13:38,685 the early underground gay publications, 285 00:13:38,685 --> 00:13:42,481 and that's where he got the name Chris Colt from. 286 00:13:42,481 --> 00:13:47,069 I was to go into the army in 1966 and, I said, 287 00:13:47,069 --> 00:13:50,155 "Chris, gee, you're gonna be drafted pretty soon, too." 288 00:13:50,155 --> 00:13:53,826 And he said, "No, I'm disqualified." 289 00:13:53,826 --> 00:13:56,829 And, I said, "Disqualified?" 290 00:13:56,829 --> 00:13:59,623 "Yeah, I just checked off I like boys." 291 00:13:59,623 --> 00:14:03,127 So, c'est la vie. 292 00:14:03,127 --> 00:14:04,795 My name is Tom Burke. 293 00:14:04,795 --> 00:14:06,755 I'm a wrestling collector and historian. 294 00:14:06,755 --> 00:14:12,261 I've been friends with Chris Colt since were teenagers. 295 00:14:12,261 --> 00:14:14,304 It was a different world. 296 00:14:14,304 --> 00:14:16,223 It was a different world, and that was my first contact 297 00:14:16,223 --> 00:14:20,352 with a person coming out, in that sense. 298 00:14:20,352 --> 00:14:22,062 I don't know that it was... 299 00:14:22,062 --> 00:14:25,858 that it was a big coming out party. 300 00:14:25,858 --> 00:14:28,360 The challenges that that must have presented him in 301 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:31,947 the wrestling world at the time that he was doing it. 302 00:14:31,947 --> 00:14:35,951 There were a lot of gay wrestlers that 303 00:14:35,951 --> 00:14:37,953 people didn't know were gay... 304 00:14:37,953 --> 00:14:40,539 but the promoters did, or the boys did, 305 00:14:40,539 --> 00:14:43,500 but the fans didn't know. 306 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:45,085 I'm Princess Victoria. 307 00:14:45,085 --> 00:14:47,880 I was half of the women's world tag champions 308 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:49,465 for the WWF. 309 00:14:49,465 --> 00:14:52,217 Princess Victoria on the war path! 310 00:14:52,217 --> 00:14:54,386 Another double Tomahawk chop! 311 00:14:54,386 --> 00:14:56,847 There was one night, and one of the guys came over to me 312 00:14:56,847 --> 00:14:58,931 and said, "We want you to go over and 313 00:14:58,931 --> 00:15:01,475 spend some time with Chris Colt." 314 00:15:01,475 --> 00:15:03,728 I said, "Why?" 315 00:15:03,728 --> 00:15:07,315 And, not punching my own ticket, but he said, 316 00:15:07,315 --> 00:15:10,193 "If anybody can turn him straight, you can." 317 00:15:10,193 --> 00:15:13,946 I guess they thought he was missing something... 318 00:15:13,946 --> 00:15:16,741 by not being with women. 319 00:15:16,741 --> 00:15:19,744 But, that wasn't the case for Chris. 320 00:15:19,744 --> 00:15:22,330 One thing I noticed when we were traveling together and 321 00:15:22,330 --> 00:15:25,750 he would talk about the other boys in the circuit, 322 00:15:25,750 --> 00:15:30,838 it always had this image in his mind that 323 00:15:30,838 --> 00:15:33,216 they were backstabbing him... 324 00:15:33,216 --> 00:15:35,718 and, out to get him. 325 00:15:35,718 --> 00:15:38,137 Any territory, he was in and out. 326 00:15:38,137 --> 00:15:40,348 He'd either have a personal issue or just something 327 00:15:40,348 --> 00:15:42,725 would happen and he'd be gone. 328 00:15:42,725 --> 00:15:46,604 The only place that he stayed for any significant portion 329 00:15:46,604 --> 00:15:50,358 of his career was the small territory in Arizona. 330 00:15:50,358 --> 00:15:52,401 ♪ 331 00:15:52,401 --> 00:15:55,821 In Arizona, Chris teams with wrestler Ron Dupree and 332 00:15:55,821 --> 00:15:58,324 takes the ring name Paul Dupree, 333 00:15:58,324 --> 00:16:01,077 tag teaming as the Dupree Brothers. 334 00:16:01,077 --> 00:16:03,496 It's a formative relationship in Chris' life, 335 00:16:03,496 --> 00:16:06,082 professionally and personally. 336 00:16:06,082 --> 00:16:10,378 Ron Dupree was my Uncle Chuck's very best friend. 337 00:16:10,378 --> 00:16:13,422 They were, like, very close. 338 00:16:13,422 --> 00:16:17,301 I only got to be with him a couple times in life, 339 00:16:17,301 --> 00:16:21,555 but he was a very, very nice, kind guy. 340 00:16:21,555 --> 00:16:24,767 They were a couple, you know, Ron was older. 341 00:16:24,767 --> 00:16:28,563 Probably by about maybe 8 years, maybe 10. 342 00:16:28,563 --> 00:16:32,483 Their love for the business kind of gelled them together. 343 00:16:32,483 --> 00:16:35,027 Chris and Ronnie became lovers. 344 00:16:35,027 --> 00:16:37,196 You know, I just never asked a lot of questions 345 00:16:37,196 --> 00:16:38,990 along the way, but it was something 346 00:16:38,990 --> 00:16:41,492 I understood to be the way it was. 347 00:16:41,492 --> 00:16:44,453 I can't imagine it would have been easy to be gay, 348 00:16:44,453 --> 00:16:47,290 period, in wrestling in the 50s or 60s, 349 00:16:47,290 --> 00:16:49,292 much less to be a gay couple. 350 00:16:49,292 --> 00:16:52,420 It was not something that was easily accepted, 351 00:16:52,420 --> 00:16:55,131 and it wasn't information that was offered freely. 352 00:16:55,131 --> 00:16:59,135 So, in a lot of cases, a promoter, or a booker, 353 00:16:59,135 --> 00:17:01,846 or the wrestlers in a particular territory 354 00:17:01,846 --> 00:17:04,390 might not even know and, 355 00:17:04,390 --> 00:17:06,267 through a number of different gimmicks 356 00:17:06,267 --> 00:17:08,185 they kind of changed their looks and changed their 357 00:17:08,185 --> 00:17:11,480 presentation, but they were always together. 358 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:13,941 Weighing in at a combined weight of 450 pounds, 359 00:17:13,941 --> 00:17:17,069 the world tag team champions, the California Hells Angels! 360 00:17:17,069 --> 00:17:20,489 The California Hells Angels were a chance for them to 361 00:17:20,489 --> 00:17:23,117 have a gimmick as a team and 362 00:17:23,117 --> 00:17:26,495 sort of bring real life into the thing. 363 00:17:26,495 --> 00:17:29,165 The metal, the studs, the iron cross, 364 00:17:29,165 --> 00:17:31,959 the leather- well, they sell all that stuff 365 00:17:31,959 --> 00:17:34,462 in the Village in New York City. 366 00:17:34,462 --> 00:17:36,672 They were so far ahead of their time nobody 367 00:17:36,672 --> 00:17:40,051 even knew what the ---- it was. 368 00:17:40,051 --> 00:17:42,011 They used to say, "Okay, they're bikers." 369 00:17:42,011 --> 00:17:44,972 No, they're gay! 370 00:17:44,972 --> 00:17:48,392 Same tailer. 371 00:17:48,392 --> 00:17:51,187 Pushing the limits of what's acceptable to audiences 372 00:17:51,187 --> 00:17:54,231 of the era, Chris is determined to become 373 00:17:54,231 --> 00:17:56,108 the ultimate villain. 374 00:17:56,108 --> 00:17:58,569 Chris was so excited on TV once, 375 00:17:58,569 --> 00:18:01,238 and he knew- Chris knew how to generate heat. 376 00:18:01,238 --> 00:18:05,076 In those days in wrestling, trying to push the envelope 377 00:18:05,076 --> 00:18:07,411 either meant you could draw money because people 378 00:18:07,411 --> 00:18:10,498 would be shocked and, and surprised. 379 00:18:10,498 --> 00:18:15,002 Or, you could go too far and get heat, 380 00:18:15,002 --> 00:18:16,962 and the whole company could go under in the 381 00:18:16,962 --> 00:18:18,880 twinkling of an eye because you... 382 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:21,257 you thought it would fly but it wouldn't. 383 00:18:21,257 --> 00:18:23,885 ♪ 384 00:18:23,885 --> 00:18:26,262 Chris was not an anti -American by any means, 385 00:18:26,262 --> 00:18:29,099 but he took an American flag and, with a lighter, 386 00:18:29,099 --> 00:18:33,311 and lit it on fire and burned it up. 387 00:18:33,311 --> 00:18:35,105 They went too far, 388 00:18:35,105 --> 00:18:37,524 and they got kicked off the television for it. 389 00:18:37,524 --> 00:18:39,818 Not the wrestlers- the actual wrestling program 390 00:18:39,818 --> 00:18:41,361 got taken off the air. 391 00:18:41,361 --> 00:18:43,446 Even in a small territory in Arizona, 392 00:18:43,446 --> 00:18:45,323 even 50 years ago, 393 00:18:45,323 --> 00:18:47,992 even back in those days on a local television show, 394 00:18:47,992 --> 00:18:49,744 even if you were heel wrestlers, 395 00:18:49,744 --> 00:18:51,830 it was going a little too far to burn the 396 00:18:51,830 --> 00:18:53,790 American flag on television. 397 00:18:53,790 --> 00:18:55,291 Didn't fly. 398 00:18:57,710 --> 00:19:01,172 Chris' time in Arizona comes to an abrupt end when 399 00:19:01,172 --> 00:19:04,384 his lover, Ron Dupree, suffers a heart attack. 400 00:19:04,384 --> 00:19:06,344 Though Ron can no longer wrestle, 401 00:19:06,344 --> 00:19:08,012 the two continue their relationship 402 00:19:08,012 --> 00:19:09,681 outside of the ring. 403 00:19:09,681 --> 00:19:12,100 As Chris searches for a new tag team partner, 404 00:19:12,100 --> 00:19:14,561 he ends up in a trio with Bill Anderson 405 00:19:14,561 --> 00:19:17,230 and Mike Boyette. 406 00:19:17,230 --> 00:19:18,815 Chris had approached me, and he said, 407 00:19:18,815 --> 00:19:20,775 "I got a proposition for you. 408 00:19:20,775 --> 00:19:23,945 And not that proposition, a different proposition." 409 00:19:23,945 --> 00:19:26,281 He says, "I'd like to have you be Bill Colt, 410 00:19:26,281 --> 00:19:27,949 my younger brother." 411 00:19:27,949 --> 00:19:29,993 When they came to Tennessee, 412 00:19:29,993 --> 00:19:31,911 the team was supposed to be 413 00:19:31,911 --> 00:19:35,081 Chris Colt and Mike Boyette with valet Bill Colt. 414 00:19:35,081 --> 00:19:37,167 [Commentary] William Colt, the valet... 415 00:19:37,167 --> 00:19:40,754 preceding his brother, and he almost got run over! 416 00:19:40,754 --> 00:19:43,298 Colt changed outfits, he changed gimmicks, 417 00:19:43,298 --> 00:19:46,217 because he was so wrapped up in the rock and roll 418 00:19:46,217 --> 00:19:49,596 lifestyle- the makeup, the hair he already had, 419 00:19:49,596 --> 00:19:52,474 the personal habits he already had. 420 00:19:52,474 --> 00:19:54,434 He wanted to create his gimmick, 421 00:19:54,434 --> 00:19:57,520 being that he is a rock star. 422 00:19:57,520 --> 00:20:00,064 Bill at the time, he has no body weight whatsoever, 423 00:20:00,064 --> 00:20:01,566 he just started. 424 00:20:01,566 --> 00:20:03,651 So, he's a lost ball in high weeds. 425 00:20:03,651 --> 00:20:05,612 And, if you were gonna say, okay, 426 00:20:05,612 --> 00:20:08,072 who is the professional wrestler that is using the 427 00:20:08,072 --> 00:20:11,034 most mind-altering substances, 428 00:20:11,034 --> 00:20:12,702 if you weren't pointing at Chris Colt, 429 00:20:12,702 --> 00:20:14,787 you'd be pointing at Mike Boyette. 430 00:20:14,787 --> 00:20:16,831 So, this team... 431 00:20:16,831 --> 00:20:19,250 was destined for disaster to begin with. 432 00:20:19,250 --> 00:20:20,710 ♪ 433 00:20:20,710 --> 00:20:22,462 [Bill] One night we left Johnson City. 434 00:20:22,462 --> 00:20:25,298 I'm driving, Mike Boyette's in the passenger seat, 435 00:20:25,298 --> 00:20:27,217 Chris is in the back seat. 436 00:20:27,217 --> 00:20:29,219 He's getting high just like he wants, 437 00:20:29,219 --> 00:20:32,472 living the Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker life, 438 00:20:32,472 --> 00:20:35,266 and all of a sudden, I feel 439 00:20:35,266 --> 00:20:38,311 a punch to the side of my head. 440 00:20:38,311 --> 00:20:39,938 And I look- I was like looking in the mirror like, 441 00:20:39,938 --> 00:20:43,942 "What are you doing?" He says, "---- you." 442 00:20:43,942 --> 00:20:46,444 And then he reached up with his right hand 443 00:20:46,444 --> 00:20:49,072 and grabbed Mike's hair... 444 00:20:49,072 --> 00:20:51,741 and yanked it and pulled him back. 445 00:20:51,741 --> 00:20:53,326 Then Chris reached up with his other hand and 446 00:20:53,326 --> 00:20:55,328 grabbed my hair, and he's pulling me. 447 00:20:55,328 --> 00:20:57,330 And Mike just said, "Stop the car. 448 00:20:57,330 --> 00:21:00,166 Stop the car!" 449 00:21:00,166 --> 00:21:03,753 What I learned, Mike is nobody to 'F' with. 450 00:21:03,753 --> 00:21:05,213 He was a Vietnam veteran, 451 00:21:05,213 --> 00:21:08,716 he was a world Judo champion. 452 00:21:08,716 --> 00:21:11,553 He was a very tough, legitimate guy. 453 00:21:11,553 --> 00:21:13,179 So, we pull over. 454 00:21:13,179 --> 00:21:16,516 Chris gets out of the car, walks around to my side... 455 00:21:16,516 --> 00:21:19,185 Boom! As hard as he could, punches me in the face. 456 00:21:19,185 --> 00:21:21,354 Then, he walked back over to Boyette, 457 00:21:21,354 --> 00:21:23,565 did the same thing. And Mike says, 458 00:21:23,565 --> 00:21:24,857 "This is your warning. 459 00:21:24,857 --> 00:21:26,693 One more time and I'll kill you." 460 00:21:26,693 --> 00:21:29,529 Chris went to swing, Mike blocked him, 461 00:21:29,529 --> 00:21:31,447 hooked him in a front face lock 462 00:21:31,447 --> 00:21:33,241 and just cinched on it. 463 00:21:33,241 --> 00:21:37,787 And, Chris just went limp. 464 00:21:37,787 --> 00:21:41,873 Mike just dropped him. 465 00:21:41,873 --> 00:21:44,543 Chris was laying right beside the car. 466 00:21:44,543 --> 00:21:46,753 Mike gets in the passenger seat. 467 00:21:46,753 --> 00:21:49,715 He says, "Back up." I said, "What do you mean, 468 00:21:49,715 --> 00:21:52,134 back up?" He says, "Just back up." 469 00:21:52,134 --> 00:21:54,928 So, I start slowly backing. 470 00:21:54,928 --> 00:21:57,222 I get about an eighth of a mile down the road, 471 00:21:57,222 --> 00:22:00,642 and Mike grabs the wheel, puts his foot on top of 472 00:22:00,642 --> 00:22:03,395 my foot on the accelerator, on the gas... 473 00:22:03,395 --> 00:22:06,982 And he says, "We're killing this mother----er right now." 474 00:22:15,032 --> 00:22:17,659 Chris Colt's erratic and violent behaviour comes to a 475 00:22:17,659 --> 00:22:21,163 head as he's tossed onto a highway and stares down 476 00:22:21,163 --> 00:22:24,916 a car speeding in his direction. 477 00:22:24,916 --> 00:22:28,337 And Mike says, "We're putting an end to this shit. 478 00:22:28,337 --> 00:22:30,547 It's never gonna happen again, ever." 479 00:22:30,547 --> 00:22:33,008 It's the headlights getting brighter, 480 00:22:33,008 --> 00:22:36,678 and brighter, and brighter, and brighter on Chris' body, 481 00:22:36,678 --> 00:22:40,223 and at the last second, I hit Mike's arm 482 00:22:40,223 --> 00:22:43,894 just to the side, and I turned the wheel. 483 00:22:43,894 --> 00:22:45,979 I says, "Mike, we can't kill this guy. 484 00:22:45,979 --> 00:22:48,523 We can't kill him, we can't do this." 485 00:22:48,523 --> 00:22:51,943 And Mike says, "That mother----er deserved to die." 486 00:22:51,943 --> 00:22:55,906 He says, "---- him, leave him, leave him." 487 00:22:55,906 --> 00:22:58,492 I honestly did not really overanalyze the 488 00:22:58,492 --> 00:23:02,537 story in my mind until many years later that, 489 00:23:02,537 --> 00:23:04,289 I could've, I could've been in prison 490 00:23:04,289 --> 00:23:06,083 the rest of my life for murder. 491 00:23:06,083 --> 00:23:07,834 The cops could have easily arrested me and said 492 00:23:07,834 --> 00:23:11,213 you... purposely ran this guy over, 493 00:23:11,213 --> 00:23:12,506 first degree murder! 494 00:23:12,506 --> 00:23:16,218 Could've been death, easily. 495 00:23:16,218 --> 00:23:18,387 Bill Anderson and Mike Boyette leave Chris 496 00:23:18,387 --> 00:23:20,931 for dead on the side of a southern road. 497 00:23:20,931 --> 00:23:22,391 But the next day, when Bill makes 498 00:23:22,391 --> 00:23:24,518 his way home to his Nashville apartment, 499 00:23:24,518 --> 00:23:27,354 a surprise is waiting for him. 500 00:23:27,354 --> 00:23:30,107 Open the apartment door, look in, 501 00:23:30,107 --> 00:23:33,318 and Chris is sitting at our dining room table and 502 00:23:33,318 --> 00:23:36,655 he has this big smile comes on his face. 503 00:23:36,655 --> 00:23:38,407 "Come on in, sit down, sit down, sit down, 504 00:23:38,407 --> 00:23:41,493 sit down." And I'm like looking at Chris, 505 00:23:41,493 --> 00:23:45,789 never saying a word like, oh, I'm back to being a brother... 506 00:23:45,789 --> 00:23:47,958 maybe a friend again, ah... 507 00:23:47,958 --> 00:23:50,210 I don't know what's going on. 508 00:23:50,210 --> 00:23:52,754 He says, "We're getting rid of Boyette," 509 00:23:52,754 --> 00:23:55,966 and that was the end of Boyette. 510 00:23:55,966 --> 00:23:58,468 We were leaving Tennessee as a tag team, 511 00:23:58,468 --> 00:24:01,263 going to wrestle in Seattle. 512 00:24:01,263 --> 00:24:04,850 Before I could even get off the plane, 513 00:24:04,850 --> 00:24:08,687 Chris was already off the plane and sitting in a bar. 514 00:24:08,687 --> 00:24:11,022 Remember it just like yesterday. 515 00:24:11,022 --> 00:24:14,234 Remember him sitting there with a drink in front of him. 516 00:24:14,234 --> 00:24:17,654 And that's my last visual of Chris. 517 00:24:17,654 --> 00:24:18,739 And I hadn't made up my mind 518 00:24:18,739 --> 00:24:20,699 exactly what to do until right then. 519 00:24:20,699 --> 00:24:24,411 And I said, "This is it, I can't do this anymore." 520 00:24:24,411 --> 00:24:26,705 And I just walked away. 521 00:24:26,705 --> 00:24:31,001 ♪ 522 00:24:31,001 --> 00:24:33,128 Not long after his partnership with 523 00:24:33,128 --> 00:24:34,671 Bill Anderson ends, 524 00:24:34,671 --> 00:24:37,257 Chris' attempt to get his career restarted is 525 00:24:37,257 --> 00:24:41,845 stopped when he suffers an unimaginable tragedy. 526 00:24:41,845 --> 00:24:46,308 It was in Washington state at a small show that Ron Dupree 527 00:24:46,308 --> 00:24:48,810 had ring announced at, and he had a heart attack 528 00:24:48,810 --> 00:24:52,564 at ringside in front of all the people. 529 00:24:52,564 --> 00:24:56,026 They called an ambulance, Chris rode with Ron in the 530 00:24:56,026 --> 00:24:59,320 ambulance to the hospital and Ron died on the way, 531 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:00,613 right in front of Chris, 532 00:25:00,613 --> 00:25:04,283 he witnessed the whole thing. 533 00:25:04,283 --> 00:25:06,619 He had loved Ronnie all his life. 534 00:25:06,619 --> 00:25:09,955 That was the only time that I ever heard him 535 00:25:09,955 --> 00:25:15,628 come out and say anything of emotion of that way. 536 00:25:15,628 --> 00:25:19,673 Chris was holding his hand. 537 00:25:19,673 --> 00:25:22,468 Chris told me that he just weeped and weeped. 538 00:25:22,468 --> 00:25:27,515 I don't think Chris ever overcame 539 00:25:27,515 --> 00:25:30,267 the death of Ron Dupree. 540 00:25:30,267 --> 00:25:33,604 ♪ 541 00:25:33,604 --> 00:25:35,481 He was devastated. 542 00:25:35,481 --> 00:25:37,358 Ah, 'cause they were so close, you know, 543 00:25:37,358 --> 00:25:40,444 and he didn't know how to go on without him. 544 00:25:40,444 --> 00:25:43,447 My uncle was like, "I don't know what I'm gonna do." 545 00:25:43,447 --> 00:25:45,950 Well, they'd been together at that point for over 10 years, 546 00:25:45,950 --> 00:25:48,327 not only professionally but personally. 547 00:25:48,327 --> 00:25:51,789 That was a big turning point for Chris 'cause he kind of 548 00:25:51,789 --> 00:25:54,291 lost an anchor that he had had that- 549 00:25:54,291 --> 00:25:57,002 somebody to keep him tethered to 550 00:25:57,002 --> 00:26:01,090 some element of reality. 551 00:26:01,090 --> 00:26:03,676 "After losing my lover of 6 years, 552 00:26:03,676 --> 00:26:06,595 I hit bottom, I thought. 553 00:26:06,595 --> 00:26:09,098 The bottom under the bottom came later. 554 00:26:09,098 --> 00:26:12,768 More dope was yet to come, more fixes were to be made, 555 00:26:12,768 --> 00:26:14,979 more hearts were to be broken. 556 00:26:14,979 --> 00:26:16,313 Mainly mine." 557 00:26:16,313 --> 00:26:18,816 And he just metamorphosized himself 558 00:26:18,816 --> 00:26:21,443 to fit whatever mood he was in at the time. 559 00:26:21,443 --> 00:26:22,903 This is where he decides 560 00:26:22,903 --> 00:26:24,864 he's not just gonna be called Chris Colt. 561 00:26:24,864 --> 00:26:27,658 Now he's The Chris Colt Experience. 562 00:26:27,658 --> 00:26:30,870 [Announcer] The Chris Colt Experience! 563 00:26:30,870 --> 00:26:32,830 And Referee Joe... 564 00:26:32,830 --> 00:26:35,666 ♪ WELCOME TO MY BREAKDOWN ♪ 565 00:26:35,666 --> 00:26:39,753 And he uses Alice Cooper's "Welcome to my Nightmare" 566 00:26:39,753 --> 00:26:41,922 as his entrance music. 567 00:26:41,922 --> 00:26:44,800 What he did in that period of time... 568 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:49,930 was invent modern entrance music in wrestling. 569 00:26:49,930 --> 00:26:52,808 He saw the tie in that it could have with the fans 570 00:26:52,808 --> 00:26:54,894 to set a tone. 571 00:26:54,894 --> 00:26:56,729 ♪ 572 00:26:56,729 --> 00:27:02,026 Definitely a pitch black dark psychedelic edge to it 573 00:27:02,026 --> 00:27:07,198 because that's where he was in his mind space. 574 00:27:07,198 --> 00:27:10,576 I will not be responsible for hurting, crippling, 575 00:27:10,576 --> 00:27:12,870 or putting anybody in the hospital that I 576 00:27:12,870 --> 00:27:14,663 wrestle up against right now, man. 577 00:27:14,663 --> 00:27:17,082 He'd make you hate him. 578 00:27:17,082 --> 00:27:18,959 My name's Edward Giovanetti. 579 00:27:18,959 --> 00:27:22,838 I wrestled for 35 years as 'Moondog' Ed Moretti. 580 00:27:22,838 --> 00:27:26,383 From Idaho, Moondog Moretti! 581 00:27:26,383 --> 00:27:29,053 Back then, you didn't have people like that. 582 00:27:29,053 --> 00:27:31,847 He would shock people, he would scare people. 583 00:27:31,847 --> 00:27:35,684 He's bizarre-ity at its best. He was so bizarre 584 00:27:35,684 --> 00:27:40,064 he got banned in England, from wrestling on TV. 585 00:27:40,064 --> 00:27:42,066 They called him the vampire. 586 00:27:42,066 --> 00:27:44,860 They couldn't take how he was. 587 00:27:44,860 --> 00:27:47,696 He was just too bizarre, he scared people. 588 00:27:47,696 --> 00:27:50,282 And he was just being Chris. 589 00:27:50,282 --> 00:27:52,618 When you look at the picture of Chris in his 590 00:27:52,618 --> 00:27:55,704 younger years, he's a good looking guy. 591 00:27:55,704 --> 00:27:59,124 As years progressed, and he got into 592 00:27:59,124 --> 00:28:03,462 his demonic possession image where... 593 00:28:03,462 --> 00:28:07,341 he would put needles and stuff in his face... 594 00:28:07,341 --> 00:28:09,385 just totally strange. 595 00:28:09,385 --> 00:28:11,971 It was like out of a horror movie. 596 00:28:11,971 --> 00:28:14,515 You know, the whole vibe of "Welcome to my Nightmare". 597 00:28:14,515 --> 00:28:15,975 He was living it! 598 00:28:15,975 --> 00:28:18,559 Chris' life from that point didn't get better. 599 00:28:18,559 --> 00:28:20,770 It definitely got more out of control. 600 00:28:27,944 --> 00:28:29,862 Throughout the mid 1980s, 601 00:28:29,862 --> 00:28:32,699 Chris' erratic behaviour and appetite for drugs 602 00:28:32,699 --> 00:28:35,326 are both wildly out of control. 603 00:28:35,326 --> 00:28:38,204 ...And another disappointing loss for Chris Colt. 604 00:28:38,204 --> 00:28:40,915 Into the 80s, if he popped up here... 605 00:28:40,915 --> 00:28:42,500 It's gonna be a fight! 606 00:28:42,500 --> 00:28:44,127 My god, he might look like he hasn't 607 00:28:44,127 --> 00:28:46,045 seen the sun in 10 years. 608 00:28:46,045 --> 00:28:49,841 Or if he pops up over here, now he's got more hair and 609 00:28:49,841 --> 00:28:51,342 he's got a moustache and a beard 610 00:28:51,342 --> 00:28:52,969 and he's gained some weight and he looks like 611 00:28:52,969 --> 00:28:55,722 he might have once been out in the sun. 612 00:28:55,722 --> 00:29:00,935 And over here, he's barely able to stand up straight. 613 00:29:00,935 --> 00:29:03,479 And promoters kind of got tired of, you know, 614 00:29:03,479 --> 00:29:05,898 is Chris gonna show up or, you know, how- 615 00:29:05,898 --> 00:29:08,568 and if he does, what shape's he gonna be in? 616 00:29:08,568 --> 00:29:10,278 From Germany...! 617 00:29:10,278 --> 00:29:12,530 Several years later he's in Alabama as 618 00:29:12,530 --> 00:29:15,533 Chris Von Colt and he's a Nazi! 619 00:29:15,533 --> 00:29:17,827 And he just said, "Well, what is the most offensive 620 00:29:17,827 --> 00:29:20,663 thing that I can do to the general public? Ah! 621 00:29:20,663 --> 00:29:24,834 [Claps] I'll become Chris Von Colt and I'll be a Nazi." 622 00:29:24,834 --> 00:29:27,795 Nazis were big in wrestling in the 50s and 60s 623 00:29:27,795 --> 00:29:30,006 to get all the heat 'cause they were heels. 624 00:29:30,006 --> 00:29:31,966 'Cause it was after World War Two. 625 00:29:31,966 --> 00:29:34,761 When you get to 1987, he just wanted to 626 00:29:34,761 --> 00:29:37,680 be a Nazi just to piss people off. 627 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:40,141 I think it was desperation maybe. 628 00:29:40,141 --> 00:29:44,479 Trying to find heat, you know. 629 00:29:44,479 --> 00:29:48,483 His reputation was getting tarnished left and right, 630 00:29:48,483 --> 00:29:50,401 probably because, you know, at that time, 631 00:29:50,401 --> 00:29:54,363 I think he was getting too absorbed into drugs. 632 00:29:54,363 --> 00:29:56,908 Chris Colt started doing cocaine. 633 00:29:56,908 --> 00:29:58,743 And, I think that that was a... 634 00:29:58,743 --> 00:30:00,787 that was the beginning of the turning point. 635 00:30:00,787 --> 00:30:04,290 Then from there, it switched to crystal meth. 636 00:30:04,290 --> 00:30:06,834 I think that that's where it got really dark and 637 00:30:06,834 --> 00:30:09,587 that's where the desperation came in. 638 00:30:09,587 --> 00:30:11,214 By the late 1980s, 639 00:30:11,214 --> 00:30:13,257 Chris Colt's wrestling career dries up 640 00:30:13,257 --> 00:30:14,717 due in part to his mounting 641 00:30:14,717 --> 00:30:16,594 substance abuse issues. 642 00:30:16,594 --> 00:30:19,180 After alienating most of his friends and allies, 643 00:30:19,180 --> 00:30:21,516 he fades into obscurity. 644 00:30:21,516 --> 00:30:22,767 He was done wrestling. 645 00:30:22,767 --> 00:30:28,439 He has no income, and so he gets this idea that... 646 00:30:28,439 --> 00:30:32,026 he'll start busting drug houses. 647 00:30:32,026 --> 00:30:34,487 "I would go on 6 and 7 days up. 648 00:30:34,487 --> 00:30:38,950 By the way, now I'm addicted to crystal meth, speed. 649 00:30:38,950 --> 00:30:41,494 Not like the cocaine a few years ago. 650 00:30:41,494 --> 00:30:43,121 I'm clean from coke. 651 00:30:43,121 --> 00:30:45,706 I just switched drugs to a more dangerous one. 652 00:30:45,706 --> 00:30:48,709 One where you require no sleep, no food. 653 00:30:48,709 --> 00:30:50,461 I'm in a dope house in Hollywood 654 00:30:50,461 --> 00:30:51,921 in the Silver Lake area. 655 00:30:51,921 --> 00:30:54,257 One of the biggest dope houses around. 656 00:30:54,257 --> 00:30:56,676 It took me 4 buys just to get in. 657 00:30:56,676 --> 00:30:58,845 I walk in, confident, 658 00:30:58,845 --> 00:31:00,555 and place my order for an 8 ball. 659 00:31:00,555 --> 00:31:02,223 As soon as the dealer shows me, 660 00:31:02,223 --> 00:31:04,725 I flash my badge so fast they don't check it, 661 00:31:04,725 --> 00:31:06,561 and say, "You're all under arrest! 662 00:31:06,561 --> 00:31:09,522 I work for LAPD undercover!" 663 00:31:09,522 --> 00:31:12,859 I tell them the house is surrounded by police cars. 664 00:31:12,859 --> 00:31:16,571 I catch them off guard. Take the dope and run." 665 00:31:16,571 --> 00:31:19,448 ♪ 666 00:31:19,448 --> 00:31:23,369 ♪ 667 00:31:23,369 --> 00:31:24,745 You'd always hear a different story, 668 00:31:24,745 --> 00:31:26,080 if you asked somebody, "Hey, have you 669 00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:27,456 heard anything about Chris Colt?" 670 00:31:27,456 --> 00:31:30,877 And they're like, "Ah, yeah, he's in Portland," or, 671 00:31:30,877 --> 00:31:32,461 "He's in Seattle," and- 672 00:31:32,461 --> 00:31:35,590 but they never knew anything definitive. 673 00:31:35,590 --> 00:31:38,466 That's kind of what set about this mystique about 674 00:31:38,466 --> 00:31:41,636 Chris Colt today with the modern generation because... 675 00:31:41,636 --> 00:31:45,682 he has a 20-year career with the most amazing ups and 676 00:31:45,682 --> 00:31:50,145 downs, and all kinds of outlandish behaviour, 677 00:31:50,145 --> 00:31:53,148 and then disappears off the face of the earth. 678 00:31:53,148 --> 00:31:55,734 But if- I mean, you could've said, oh, 679 00:31:55,734 --> 00:31:58,278 he's become an international double naught spy or 680 00:31:58,278 --> 00:31:59,529 an astronaut, it would've been 681 00:31:59,529 --> 00:32:02,115 equally as believable because... 682 00:32:02,115 --> 00:32:06,620 it was, his whole life was insane. 683 00:32:06,620 --> 00:32:11,499 And nobody in wrestling knew where Chris Colt had gone. 684 00:32:11,499 --> 00:32:16,046 Until somebody saw an adult movie. 685 00:32:16,046 --> 00:32:17,923 ♪ 686 00:32:17,923 --> 00:32:21,009 With him as a, as a gay man who... 687 00:32:21,009 --> 00:32:25,513 at least in his work always had to kind of keep that 688 00:32:25,513 --> 00:32:27,766 under wraps, he was attempting to 689 00:32:27,766 --> 00:32:29,851 show the world that side of himself. 690 00:32:29,851 --> 00:32:32,938 "This is not something that I see as shameful. 691 00:32:32,938 --> 00:32:36,233 This is who I am." 692 00:32:36,233 --> 00:32:38,610 I have not seen any of his productions, 693 00:32:38,610 --> 00:32:41,071 but I understand that, again... 694 00:32:41,071 --> 00:32:43,740 he was over-the-top with everything, 695 00:32:43,740 --> 00:32:45,116 whether it was wrestling- I gotta take 696 00:32:45,116 --> 00:32:47,035 all the bumps and cause all the riots. 697 00:32:47,035 --> 00:32:48,995 Or with sex- I gotta have as much of it with 698 00:32:48,995 --> 00:32:50,789 as many people as possible and I don't care 699 00:32:50,789 --> 00:32:53,166 who and what and who's watching. 700 00:32:53,166 --> 00:32:55,460 ♪ 701 00:32:55,460 --> 00:33:00,590 I did not hear about him doing those videos until very... 702 00:33:00,590 --> 00:33:01,883 late in life. 703 00:33:01,883 --> 00:33:05,971 I Googled his name and what I saw was like, 704 00:33:05,971 --> 00:33:08,640 oh, my god. 705 00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:10,517 That is not my uncle. 706 00:33:10,517 --> 00:33:12,811 That was very secretive. 707 00:33:12,811 --> 00:33:16,439 I had no idea that he had done any of that. 708 00:33:16,439 --> 00:33:19,109 Now I'm back! I'm back and I'm in shape! 709 00:33:19,109 --> 00:33:20,735 And I'm ready to fight! 710 00:33:20,735 --> 00:33:22,404 And I'll run you right out of town. 711 00:33:22,404 --> 00:33:24,239 And then I'll ---- ya. 712 00:33:31,579 --> 00:33:33,498 After disappearing from the wrestling scene 713 00:33:33,498 --> 00:33:36,251 in the mid 80s, Chris Colt resurrects himself 714 00:33:36,251 --> 00:33:38,044 as an adult film star... 715 00:33:38,044 --> 00:33:40,338 Here with a professional wrestler! 716 00:33:40,338 --> 00:33:43,341 ...Shocking many from his past. 717 00:33:43,341 --> 00:33:45,260 Chris was a dream to work with. 718 00:33:45,260 --> 00:33:47,971 I sat him down in front of a camera... 719 00:33:47,971 --> 00:33:51,099 and, as soon as I turned the camera on and yelled, 720 00:33:51,099 --> 00:33:55,645 "Action!", Charles Harris turned into Chris Colt. 721 00:33:55,645 --> 00:33:57,230 Ah-ha-ha-ha! 722 00:33:57,230 --> 00:33:59,274 The same way that Norma Jean Baker 723 00:33:59,274 --> 00:34:02,444 turned into Marilyn Monroe. 724 00:34:02,444 --> 00:34:04,446 I'm Jack Fritscher. 725 00:34:04,446 --> 00:34:07,907 I've been a writer and a university professor, 726 00:34:07,907 --> 00:34:11,286 teaching film, and literature, and pop culture. 727 00:34:11,286 --> 00:34:13,747 The editor of Drummer Magazine, 728 00:34:13,747 --> 00:34:18,126 and I've written 20 books and I've shot 150 videos. 729 00:34:18,126 --> 00:34:20,253 Well, Chris had been reading my writing in Drummer for 730 00:34:20,253 --> 00:34:24,966 years and, he liked my Palm Drive Video movies 731 00:34:24,966 --> 00:34:27,761 because Palm Drive Video's tag line was, 732 00:34:27,761 --> 00:34:33,266 "Masculine Videos For Men Who Like Men Masculine." 733 00:34:33,266 --> 00:34:37,520 In 1987, Drummer had a cover 734 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,647 featuring the Barbarian Brothers. 735 00:34:39,647 --> 00:34:41,524 They were actors and body builders, 736 00:34:41,524 --> 00:34:45,069 but their gimmick was acting like pro wrestlers. 737 00:34:45,069 --> 00:34:47,989 And shortly thereafter that, Chris contacted me 738 00:34:47,989 --> 00:34:50,825 about shooting a video and... 739 00:34:50,825 --> 00:34:53,495 we set it all up that he came here and stayed for a week. 740 00:34:59,792 --> 00:35:01,919 [Jack laughing] 1921? 741 00:35:01,919 --> 00:35:03,587 During the San Francisco earthquake. 742 00:35:06,256 --> 00:35:08,842 Palm Drive Video was like the USO, 743 00:35:08,842 --> 00:35:11,804 entertaining the American troops during the war. 744 00:35:11,804 --> 00:35:16,517 Palm Drive entertained gay men during the 1980s. 745 00:35:16,517 --> 00:35:18,769 We specialized in solo videos, 746 00:35:18,769 --> 00:35:21,021 that is one actor talking to the viewer 747 00:35:21,021 --> 00:35:22,731 through the camera lens. 748 00:35:22,731 --> 00:35:26,610 Chris Colt's heat was in his person, in his face, 749 00:35:26,610 --> 00:35:29,530 and the way he related directly to the camera. 750 00:35:29,530 --> 00:35:30,989 Yeah, I'm a street fighter. 751 00:35:30,989 --> 00:35:32,533 I'm the original rock and roll wrestler. 752 00:35:32,533 --> 00:35:34,743 The original Hells Angel of wrestling. 753 00:35:34,743 --> 00:35:38,539 Chris knew also that I was not gonna give him a script. 754 00:35:38,539 --> 00:35:42,835 He could let it all hang out and be as crude, and honest, 755 00:35:42,835 --> 00:35:45,629 and open, and vulgar even as he wanted to be. 756 00:35:45,629 --> 00:35:48,257 You want a wrestler dick? A real man? 757 00:35:48,257 --> 00:35:49,883 A professional wrestler dick? 758 00:35:49,883 --> 00:35:52,386 I am the king of wrestling. 759 00:35:52,386 --> 00:35:54,721 He said one of the greatest powers he ever felt 760 00:35:54,721 --> 00:35:57,975 in his life was walking into a ring and 761 00:35:57,975 --> 00:36:01,937 making 10,000 fans scream. 762 00:36:01,937 --> 00:36:04,857 The way he made 10,000 fans scream, 763 00:36:04,857 --> 00:36:06,942 he put that energy into the camera 764 00:36:06,942 --> 00:36:09,361 to make the viewer cum. 765 00:36:09,361 --> 00:36:11,029 Most people don't bring this amount of energy 766 00:36:11,029 --> 00:36:12,489 to the screen right away. 767 00:36:12,489 --> 00:36:13,866 You have to build them up to it. 768 00:36:13,866 --> 00:36:17,369 But he hit the set running. 769 00:36:17,369 --> 00:36:19,496 I mean, this is not fake, this is real. 770 00:36:21,248 --> 00:36:23,917 That's me in the mask, yes. 771 00:36:23,917 --> 00:36:27,880 [Chuckling] I shall have these moments to remember. 772 00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:31,800 Chris was trying to create a statement about his 773 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:35,179 triumph in wrestling, in his wrestling career, 774 00:36:35,179 --> 00:36:37,347 as a homo masculine man. 775 00:36:37,347 --> 00:36:39,600 Another victory! 776 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:42,060 One more time somebody goes down, 777 00:36:42,060 --> 00:36:44,938 and they're gonna down on me. 778 00:36:44,938 --> 00:36:47,691 Pro wrestling has always been 779 00:36:47,691 --> 00:36:50,110 soft core porn for gay men, 780 00:36:50,110 --> 00:36:53,864 and Chris knew that as a wrestler, 781 00:36:53,864 --> 00:36:57,117 he himself was a fetish object. 782 00:36:57,117 --> 00:36:59,119 I ran Hulk Hogan out of New York City! 783 00:36:59,119 --> 00:37:00,996 He was scared to sign a match with me because 784 00:37:00,996 --> 00:37:05,000 I'd take his belt and slap his ass with it! 785 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:08,545 Hulk Hogan was a god to the gay community. 786 00:37:08,545 --> 00:37:11,381 When Hulk would play with the WWF at, 787 00:37:11,381 --> 00:37:13,091 at the Cow Palace, 788 00:37:13,091 --> 00:37:14,801 the Cow Palace would be, you know, 789 00:37:14,801 --> 00:37:18,305 filled with gay men there yelling the Hulkster on. 790 00:37:18,305 --> 00:37:21,683 ♪ 791 00:37:21,683 --> 00:37:26,146 Because to them he was a strong, powerful, 792 00:37:26,146 --> 00:37:28,941 well built, healthy-looking man. 793 00:37:28,941 --> 00:37:31,944 That is 24 inches. That is, that is incredible. 794 00:37:31,944 --> 00:37:33,779 That's awesome, I'll tell you. 795 00:37:33,779 --> 00:37:37,282 And they were strong, powerful men themselves, 796 00:37:37,282 --> 00:37:39,743 but they were afraid that they were going to 797 00:37:39,743 --> 00:37:42,454 shrink away because AIDS is 798 00:37:42,454 --> 00:37:44,873 known as the wasting disease. 799 00:37:47,834 --> 00:37:50,420 I don't know if he was infected. 800 00:37:50,420 --> 00:37:53,465 I presume that all my models in the 80s were infected 801 00:37:53,465 --> 00:37:56,343 because you didn't ask and they didn't tell. 802 00:37:56,343 --> 00:37:59,304 And, I made sure that everything on set 803 00:37:59,304 --> 00:38:02,474 was very sterile and sanitized. 804 00:38:02,474 --> 00:38:06,186 And, there was no discussion of that. 805 00:38:06,186 --> 00:38:09,064 He looked perfectly healthy, but somebody with AIDS 806 00:38:09,064 --> 00:38:10,857 can look perfectly healthy. 807 00:38:22,034 --> 00:38:24,954 Chris came to me because he knew he needed a different 808 00:38:24,954 --> 00:38:27,456 kind of publicity and coverage for this 809 00:38:27,456 --> 00:38:29,375 last part of his career. 810 00:38:29,375 --> 00:38:32,753 In a sense, movies are like a gladiator entering 811 00:38:32,753 --> 00:38:35,631 the coliseum for his last match. 812 00:38:35,631 --> 00:38:41,262 Hail and farewell, we who are about die salute you. 813 00:38:41,262 --> 00:38:42,972 [Laughing] 814 00:38:46,809 --> 00:38:48,769 He had hoped to have an extra act by 815 00:38:48,769 --> 00:38:52,106 being a trainer and a coach. 816 00:38:52,106 --> 00:38:54,275 But... 817 00:38:54,275 --> 00:38:55,818 that never happened. 818 00:39:03,993 --> 00:39:06,829 Almost 10 years after his wrestling career was over, 819 00:39:06,829 --> 00:39:09,582 Chris Colt's wild and chaotic life 820 00:39:09,582 --> 00:39:11,250 quietly comes to an end. 821 00:39:18,758 --> 00:39:21,218 He was found in a back alley in Seattle. 822 00:39:21,218 --> 00:39:23,137 I'm sure of that. 823 00:39:23,137 --> 00:39:25,806 Sure of that part. How and... 824 00:39:25,806 --> 00:39:28,809 what the circumstances were in regards to 825 00:39:28,809 --> 00:39:30,770 how he ended up there... 826 00:39:30,770 --> 00:39:32,146 I'm not sure. 827 00:39:32,146 --> 00:39:36,317 I had heard through the grape vine that he was found... 828 00:39:36,317 --> 00:39:40,821 in a chair, with a needle in his arm when he died, 829 00:39:40,821 --> 00:39:42,531 when they found him dead, and he had been dead 830 00:39:42,531 --> 00:39:44,659 for like about two or three days. 831 00:39:44,659 --> 00:39:46,160 Shortly after he died, 832 00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:47,912 I got a phone call from somebody 833 00:39:47,912 --> 00:39:50,915 asking me if I knew anything about his death and 834 00:39:50,915 --> 00:39:53,125 I said no, and they told me... 835 00:39:53,125 --> 00:39:57,046 that they thought that he had died, ah, 836 00:39:57,046 --> 00:39:59,173 of AIDS in some kind of 837 00:39:59,173 --> 00:40:01,217 flop house in Seattle. 838 00:40:01,217 --> 00:40:02,802 He died the way he wanted to die. 839 00:40:02,802 --> 00:40:04,470 That, that was Chris, and on- 840 00:40:04,470 --> 00:40:06,305 it was probably on the streets. 841 00:40:06,305 --> 00:40:09,975 He didn't want to live in this world any other way. 842 00:40:09,975 --> 00:40:11,435 I don't think it was peaceful, 843 00:40:11,435 --> 00:40:13,312 I can tell you that. 844 00:40:13,312 --> 00:40:15,231 He's not the type of guy who 845 00:40:15,231 --> 00:40:17,733 was ever not at full tilt. 846 00:40:17,733 --> 00:40:21,904 And, I would believe that he died... 847 00:40:21,904 --> 00:40:25,366 in that same vain. 848 00:40:25,366 --> 00:40:28,494 The official death certificate for Charles Fay Harris 849 00:40:28,494 --> 00:40:31,664 dated May 23rd, 1995, 850 00:40:31,664 --> 00:40:34,917 lists HIV as a factor in his death. 851 00:40:34,917 --> 00:40:37,503 No autopsy is performed. 852 00:40:37,503 --> 00:40:40,131 His listed occupation... 853 00:40:40,131 --> 00:40:42,466 Professional Wrestler. 854 00:40:42,466 --> 00:40:46,512 ♪ 855 00:40:46,512 --> 00:40:50,057 Been a lot of years to try to make it here. 856 00:40:50,057 --> 00:40:53,060 That's why this means so much. 857 00:40:53,060 --> 00:40:56,147 He lived his life the way he wanted to live it. 858 00:40:56,147 --> 00:40:58,899 He lived the rock star lifestyle. 859 00:40:58,899 --> 00:41:01,652 And that's the way he would've wanted it- 860 00:41:01,652 --> 00:41:03,237 I mean, if he would do it over again 861 00:41:03,237 --> 00:41:05,948 he would've done it the same way. 862 00:41:05,948 --> 00:41:08,200 He died too young, 863 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,870 although it's what he wanted. 864 00:41:10,870 --> 00:41:15,541 Honestly.... [Exhaling sharply] 865 00:41:15,541 --> 00:41:17,501 If he had it his way, it would've been 27, 866 00:41:17,501 --> 00:41:21,756 but at 49, his body succumbed and... 867 00:41:21,756 --> 00:41:24,300 I just, ah, I can only just say I'm really sorry that 868 00:41:24,300 --> 00:41:28,179 he's gone and I wish he was here. 869 00:41:28,179 --> 00:41:30,222 He was the first at so many things, 870 00:41:30,222 --> 00:41:32,892 and he was so good at what he did- the way that 871 00:41:32,892 --> 00:41:35,144 he could work, the way that he could bump, 872 00:41:35,144 --> 00:41:37,479 the way that he could get heat from the crowd, 873 00:41:37,479 --> 00:41:39,564 the way that he could talk on promos. 874 00:41:39,564 --> 00:41:42,525 He was decades ahead of his time, 875 00:41:42,525 --> 00:41:45,028 and his talents would be in the upper 876 00:41:45,028 --> 00:41:47,655 20% of anybody in the business today. 877 00:41:47,655 --> 00:41:52,994 ♪ 878 00:41:52,994 --> 00:41:54,954 Chris was just outstanding. 879 00:41:54,954 --> 00:41:56,998 He was ahead of his time. 880 00:41:56,998 --> 00:42:00,293 I think Chris was one of the true 881 00:42:00,293 --> 00:42:02,295 icons of wrestling. 882 00:42:02,295 --> 00:42:06,257 A, a person who changed the 883 00:42:06,257 --> 00:42:08,468 focus of wrestling, 884 00:42:08,468 --> 00:42:12,680 and brought rock and roll into wrestling far earlier 885 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:16,851 than Cindi Lauper, Hulk Hogan, etc. 886 00:42:16,851 --> 00:42:20,146 He was doing things like coming off of the top rope 887 00:42:20,146 --> 00:42:25,109 with an elbow before a lot of other people were. 888 00:42:25,109 --> 00:42:27,946 If Chris was not on drugs and alcohol, 889 00:42:27,946 --> 00:42:30,824 Chris would've been one of the greatest. 890 00:42:30,824 --> 00:42:33,076 If you reduce people to one word, 891 00:42:33,076 --> 00:42:35,745 you miss the entire world of 892 00:42:35,745 --> 00:42:38,331 what they are really about. 893 00:42:38,331 --> 00:42:41,501 And so, reducing Chris to a drug addict, 894 00:42:41,501 --> 00:42:44,671 an alcoholic, a faggot... 895 00:42:44,671 --> 00:42:48,091 does not come anywhere near to the inner truth of 896 00:42:48,091 --> 00:42:50,468 what that man was about. 897 00:42:50,468 --> 00:42:55,139 And I think a lot of his addictions to alcohol and 898 00:42:55,139 --> 00:42:58,852 drugs grew out of the homophobia that he 899 00:42:58,852 --> 00:43:02,313 experienced in the world and in wrestling. 900 00:43:02,313 --> 00:43:03,690 He was a complete human being. 901 00:43:03,690 --> 00:43:06,526 You can go to online forums that talk about 902 00:43:06,526 --> 00:43:08,987 pro wrestling, and they'll talk about the character 903 00:43:08,987 --> 00:43:10,655 that was Chris Colt. 904 00:43:10,655 --> 00:43:14,492 This is a real human being with his own demons and, 905 00:43:14,492 --> 00:43:17,412 and family, and people that he loved. 906 00:43:17,412 --> 00:43:19,622 He was a really, really good uncle. 907 00:43:19,622 --> 00:43:22,292 You know, he would always bring us something... 908 00:43:22,292 --> 00:43:24,127 when he would come to visit. 909 00:43:24,127 --> 00:43:25,545 Sometimes it might've just been 910 00:43:25,545 --> 00:43:27,797 a roll of toilet paper from a motel, 911 00:43:27,797 --> 00:43:30,341 but we were happy to get it from him because... 912 00:43:30,341 --> 00:43:31,718 he was our uncle. 913 00:43:31,718 --> 00:43:34,262 ♪ 914 00:43:34,262 --> 00:43:37,682 The last letter I got from him was 1991. 915 00:43:37,682 --> 00:43:39,559 "I stopped drinking and drugging. 916 00:43:39,559 --> 00:43:41,978 I'm clean and sober. 917 00:43:41,978 --> 00:43:45,940 The way I should've been. 918 00:43:45,940 --> 00:43:49,652 And from now on Chris Colt is buried. 919 00:43:49,652 --> 00:43:52,447 Chuck Harris lives. 920 00:43:52,447 --> 00:43:55,325 Want to talk to you soon." 921 00:43:55,325 --> 00:43:56,951 And he signs off, 922 00:43:56,951 --> 00:44:01,080 "Write well, keep well, your buddy... 923 00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:06,294 the legendary Chris Colt, aka Chuck Harris." 924 00:44:06,294 --> 00:44:07,879 Such is life.