{"id":59339,"date":"2016-04-07T19:19:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T00:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=59339"},"modified":"2016-04-07T19:42:17","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T00:42:17","slug":"professional-wrestler-black-jack-mulligan-dead-at-73-wrestling-legend-remembers-his-brother-in-a-speedo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=59339","title":{"rendered":"Professional Wrestler Black Jack Mulligan DEAD at 73 \u2013 Wrestling Legend Remembers His \u201cBrother In a Speedo\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=59339 \" rel=\" http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=59339 \"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-59340 size-medium\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/BJM-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"BJM\" width=\"232\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>By Buddy \u201cBRJ\u201d Ruffin, JR.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Look my wrestling flock, if \u201cBRJ\u201d says it, it\u2019s so. To say \u201cBRJ\u201d is sad today is an understatement. My flip up cell phone went ring a ling a ling as I rode my Harley through Coffeyville Kansas this beautiful day. When I pulled over to answer, my close buddy told me the devastating news that Black Jack Mulligan had passed. It had been a few years now since we slanged and banged off the top rope, but we still chatted from time to time.<\/p>\n<p>As Mulligan, he put fear in most of his opponents with the exception of Andre The Giant. BJM wore all-black, including a cowboy hat and leather glove, and was part of the 1975 world champion tag team The Blackjacks with Blackjack Lanza.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I extend my deepest condolences to the family of Black Jack Mulligan in their time of grief.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cBRJ\u201d has sadly left the building \u2013 Ruff Ruff\u2026<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y1Vn_O5AK7Q\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>[si-contact-form form=&#8217;2&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Buddy \u201cBRJ\u201d Ruffin, JR. Look my wrestling flock, if \u201cBRJ\u201d says it, it\u2019s so. To say \u201cBRJ\u201d is sad today is an understatement. My flip up cell phone went ring a ling a ling as I rode my Harley through Coffeyville Kansas this beautiful day. When I pulled over to answer, my close buddy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[14964],"class_list":["post-59339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-professional-wrestler-black-jack-mulligan-dead-at-73-wrestling-legend-remembers-his-brother-in-a-speedo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59339"}],"version-history":[{"count":-2,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}