HELL
TO PAY
I KNOW THAT ALL ARMWRESTLERS KNOW WHAT I
HAVE DONE.
THE QUESTION IS WHAT WILL I DO NEXT? I WON IN PETALUMA 8 WORLD TITLES 78, 79,
80, NO SHOW IN 81 OR 82. THEN IN 83 I RETURNED AND WON AGAIN AND IN 84 AND 85 I
WON RIGHT AND LEFT HANDED. I WON IN PETALUMA EVERY TIME I APPEARED AT THE
WORLD’S WRISTWRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP.
THE WPAA SAID THAT NO WRISTWRESTLER
COULD WIN THESE TOURNAMENTS AND I WON EVERY ONE OF THOSE TOURNAMENTS I APPEARED
IN EXCEPT FOR THE LAST ONE WHERE I WAS FOULED OUT. SEVEN FOULS IN ONE MATCH! WHO
EVER HEARD OF SUCH A THING? FOR THOSE WHO REMEMBER ASK THE SECONDARY REFEREE
WHAT HAPPENED! HE WILL TELL YOU THAT HE WAS TOLD THAT IF HE DID NOT FOUL ME OUT
THAT HE WOULD HAVE HIS FLIGHT TICKET CANCELED AS WELL AS BEING HELD RESPONSIBLE
FOR PAYING FOR HIS ROOM.
ASK HARLEY MANA RD, AND THEN ASK HIM WHO HE CREDITS MOST THAT DAY THAT HE BECAME
WORLD CHAMPION. ASK HIM WHO WAS STANDING THERE SHOUTING WHAT FOR HIM TO DO AND
ASK HIM IF THAT PERSON WAS RIGHT. ASK DAN MASON OR CARABETTA OR JO BAKER. ASK
ANY PROMOTER WHAT ARMWRESTLER UNITED ALL ARMWRESTLING SANCTIONS BY BEING THE
FIRST ARMWRESTLER TO TRAVEL TO WHERE THE ACTION WAS RATHER THAN JUST SIT BACK
AND RULE OVER ONE LITTLE AREA. WHAT ARMWRESTLER TOOK A SEVEN-YEAR LAYOFF ONLY TO
RETURN IN 1994 AND WIN THE YUKON JACK WORLDS? THEN ANOTHER LONG LAYOFF TO RETURN
IN 2001 AND IN ITALY TOOK FIRST PLACE RIGHT AND LEFT IN THE OVER 40 AND SECOND
LEFT IN THE OVERALL AND THIRD RIGHT IN THE OVERALL AND ALSO GOT A STANDING
OVATION FROM 26 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES WHICH IS PROBABLY MY GREATEST AND PROUDEST
YET HUMBLING MOMENT IN MY ARMWRESTLING CAREER THUS FAR.
THERE WAS A FEELING THAT WENT THROUGH ME THAT EVENING THAT I FELT EVERY
PERSON SHARED WITH ME AND I WILL NEVER FORGET IT. I HAVE ENJOYED ARMWRESTLING
AND THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT EVERYTHING I HAVE GIVEN TO IT, ARMWRESTLING HAS
CERTAINLY GIVEN BACK MORE. THE PEOPLE OF ARMWRESTLING FROM THE WORLD OVER, NO
MATTER WHERE THEIR INVOLVEMENT LIES, I CONSIDER THEM MY EXTENDED FAMILY. I GIVE
THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO KEEP IT CARRYING ON. AS FOR TAKING PLEASURE IN YOU SUFFERING RICK
ZUMWALT, I TAKE PLEASURE IN NO PERSONS SUFFERING AND MY PRAYERS GO OUT TO ALL
WHO ARE IN NEED. ALL WHO KNOW ME
ARE AWARE THAT EVERYTHING I HAVE DONE HAS BEEN WITH TWO CRUSHED VERTEBRAE IN MY
BACK.
ENOUGH OF ALL THAT AND TO THE TITLE OF THIS MESSAGE. FOLKS WHAT MOST OF YOU DID
NOT KNOW IS THAT I NEVER INTENDED TO RETURN TO ARMWRESTLING TILL I REACHED FIFTY
YEARS OF AGE. WELL GUESS WHAT, THAT YEAR IS UPON ME AS THIS YEAR CLOSES IN
DECEMBER ON THE FIFTEENTH DAY I WILL BE FIFTY. I KNOW MY ROAD IS LONG AND EVEN
HARDER THAN I COULD EVER HAVE IMAGINED, BUT LIKE I SAID AT THE BEGINNING THERE
WILL BE HELL TO PAY FOR ALL THOSE WHO HAVE FORGOTTEN AND FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT
KNOW BETTER "BEWARE". I AM BACK!!!!
CLEVE
DEAN
