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Wrestlers, Manager DieThe Mushed Dominoes, disqualified in what turned out to be their final wrestling match, wore killed early Tuesday in a flaming thiee-vehicle pile-up along wiih wrestler-manager Fred Sam” Rass. a farmer Kingsport resident, and another man.The car carrying Llic three professional wrestlers, headed toward Nashville,plowed iniu the wreckage of a car driven by John Carey. 2D, of Madison, then was hit seconds later by a fast moving tractor trailer rig near DicksonReuben Rodriquez, 39, of Los Angeles, and Frank Hosier, 37, of Cleveland, Tenn.. who wrestled under the lag team name of the Masked Dominoes, and Bass, 41, died in the iwistcd, flaming wreckage of their late model car.Carey also was killed, but truck driver John IS, Davis of Cadsdun. ami a companion escaped serious injury.Bass was known to Kingsport residents at onetime as Fred Wright, and he lived in this area until three to four years ago.according to J.R Anderson, city court clcik.Uass married a local girl, the' former Jixlir Sutherland, before moving to Nashville.Anderson said Hass started in wrestling as a referee and became a wrestler and tmnager Inter. He managed matches in Johnson City almost every Tuesday night until Ids death.It'll he hard to replace llieiu.” said wrestling promoter N’ick Culas. Weil get somebody else but lliey won l be the same as Sam or the .Masked Dominoes, the lag-team name for ltndriquc?. ant! Hester. Rodriquez also used the ring name of * lVpe Lopez.Authorities said Carey's aulo slammed into a section of bridge over the Ihnoy River, knocking out a 3;Vfor»t chunk. The car carrying the wrestlers plowed in In I heal ready haltered Cary vehicle.Then came the truck owned by the National Cash Register Co. It crunched into the mangled cars selling the wrestlers’ vehicle and the Intck on fire.
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Kingsport Times
Kingsport, Tennessee, US
Wed, Jul 28, 1976
Page 31
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