CH SOZINA'S CIGANKA (BIBIKA) (4XW)

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Sirmium Knls called me to come to pick up a female puppy I wanted out of BAMBELA ROM which I had given to him as a gift 10 years ago. My friend from Budva, Simo Markovic, the big hunter, went with me to buy one hunting dog and to see if he would like some. When we came to Neven, I stayed with him talking, while Simo went with Nikola (Sirmium Jr.) to find a hunting dog. Looking around they met some gypsy people and there was one little female which amazed my friend in the way he wanted me to buy her, so after few days of listening to him, I sent the money to Nikola, 300 euros, to give it to gypsy people and to put the Bitch in a bus. Later I got to know she had one win in 52 minutes and about 1000 rolls, because her breeder, Neven, didn’t go well along her owner, so he wanted to stop her with much bigger and dangerous females, but he couldn’t do it. Her name was Bibi and it was me to give her name Ciganka (Gypsy woman). First it took me half a year to get her fully recovered, she didn’t know what dry food was and had never drank fresh water before, her only food were dead fishes from the dumps. Then I hooked her against the best in her weight, Alen’s CH Zuta 4xW. Komany and I travelled to Croatia where we were considered complete outsiders, but Ciganka surprised all, she won with no injuries while CH Zuta was picked up (before this CH Zuta killed all her opponents). For her Champion title I hooked her against Floyd’s CH Tajga 2xBIS. Again, we were considered outsiders, and again Ciganka was brilliant. Tajga was picked up and she gave a Dead Game Scratch rolling 3x over her head to complete it. Time 1:24. Then I decided to retire her and finish her sporting career, because she had very difficult life before coming to me, especially in the period of staying with the gypsy people where she was rolled three times a day. But constant trash talking by Rebus Kennels convinced me to bring her out again this time against Rebus Knl’s Jelena 1xW. Our opponents said their Bitch would kill her in 17 minutes. 

Again, CH Ciganka proved she is the best at her weight; she stopped Jelena easily in 39 minutes. Her first show was at 15 kg (33 pounds). I showed her at 13.4kg (29.5 pounds) against Alen’s CH Zuta. Later I couldn’t find the opponent in her weight, so I hooked her with Floyd’s CH Tajga in 14.060kg (31 pounds) and for her 4th against Rebus’ Jelena in 13.800 kg. (30.3 pounds) Her style is very difficult for her opponents; she is extremely healthy and strong for her weight. It seemed to all our opponents their bitches would have an easy job, but by the end Ciganka was just a bit better then her opponents, as much as she needed to win, as American guys say, she is the one of destroyer dogs. Now she is retired, I am 99% sure I won’t let her go for her GR CH title, she deserves to enjoy the rest of her life whelping pups. Since she came to me, she has always been in Keep. I don’t have any pups off of her, so I prefer to see her enjoy now. She proved her quality in short order also without GR CH title, in a period of 5, 6 months, winning over highly regarded champions, Alen’s CH Zuta 4xW and Floyd’s CH Tajga 2xIS.

By Banjo Sozina Kennels.

GR CH ROADBLOCK'S JOEY(6XW)

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Roadblock's Ch. Joey was purchased from his breeder in Texas. There was seven in the litter that was sired by Flowers' Ch. Sparky out of Blanchard's (Flowers') Lucille. David Flowers, the breeder, kept five out of the litter while Bobby Hall got two females where abouts unknown. Down to three survivors, two males and a female shown to be combat minded at an early age. Flowers had taken Joey and his sister Marcel to roll with some of Gary A.'s (Shankbone's) dogs and Marcel would stop when she really got hot and nothing they had up there stayed with Joey. The littermate brother was said to have a harder mouth than Joey and was thought to be the better of the two. One day, to the surprise of Flowers, when he came home the brother was loose and laying by the chain all busted up. He could see Joey on the end of his chain all fired up. 

There was no question what needed to be done, so David Flowers took the brother back to the scene to see if he wanted anymore of his brother (Joey) and he did not. He was truly curred out. Joey's game test came with him giving up six pounds and going 45 minutes into a rough customer, not ever making a bad move and scratching hard every trip. There were some people who thought that Joey was an average dog since he always made the other dog look bad. Shankbone was one of those people and since he owned some of that Seger stuff from Pete Green (Seger beat Flowers' Ch. Dragon) I thought that we might see how good ole Joey really was. Well, 15 minutes into the contest Shankbone picked upPopcorn. Score evened. Well there had been this guy calling me about some of the dogs that Ch. Sparky was throwing as he had some of the same blood in his yard. In fact, he had a female right off of Laub's Jesse, also, just like Joey's dam. This guy was McNasty (Roadblock). We became friends over the years and Joey was always the first and last thing we talked about. After Joey's second contest I had some personal problems and McNasty / Roadblock purchased Joey.

McNasty / Roadblock: I had been on David and I was just dying to try him out just to get a look at what Flowers had been telling me. I could not find a dog in the area in his weight class to roll him with except a very hard biting dog named Scar-back who I really wanted to put Joey on for the money after we had looked at him. We contacted V & S Kennels and they said they didn't want to roll him, they were going to match him next time out and he was weighing 43 lbs.. We told them ours weighed 41 lbs. and we would give them fifty dollars for 20 minutes to see if we could stay with the Scar-back dog. They showed up later that night and for some reason the Scar-back looked huge, but being geeked up, we released the dogs to go 20 minutes and that's all they gave us. I weighed Joey and he was 40 1/2 lbs. and they weighed Scar-back and he was 47 lbs., they carried him out never to be seen again. Joey was then healed up. His weight was put out there and he then was hooked into Buns & Co.. This contest took 22 minutes making Joey a Champion (he killed him in the pit). After seeing what type of dog he was in shape we decided to go after a Champion, so we started calling those in our weight class and we hooked into some guy that owned two of those Champions listed in the Journal. You can tell the story about that match from your eyes, I would appreciate that more and the readers would also. Bill: I had heard a lot of good things about Joey and they all seemed to be true. A while ago in the swamps of the southeast two Champions showed up to do battle. Irish Jerry was there with Wayne's Champion Redman, the judge to be Durant. Both dogs make weight and after the wash they are quickly released. Both dogs in the first few minutes appear to be in excellent shape. Redman going in and taking shots at Joey and doing his best, but when Joey went in it counted. Within the first five minutes I could see the damage that Joey was doing as he took large holds to the body and loved the kidneys. At ten minutes into the battle both dogs seemed to turn up the heat as they started swapping holds and going to each others stifles. This type of wide open barnstorming went on for at least the next six minutes, but Champion Joey loved the kidneys and Champion Redman did not have any defense for it, except to turn at 16 minutes. The turn called and acknowledged ready to handle, it was a handle at 19 Redman to go, he does straight for the wall. ROADBLOCK'S CHAMPION JOEY, a four time winner. McNasty / Roadblock: Champion Joey is bred to our Ch. Tater 4x winner. Ch. Joey was first bred to Two Hawk's (Simard's) (Dawnrest's) Black Missy, Thurmond's Crackerjack sired. Ch. Joey was bred to Roadblock's Medusa, Ch. Beau's grand daughter.

Future plans: We are presently seeking Gr. Ch. Texas or any other Grand Champion or Champion in our weight class before we retire him to stud. We are willing to meet half way. Yours In Sport, Roadblock.

GR CH KILLER COMBINE'S VENGEANCE (6XW) (ROM) (DOY 2009 & 2011)

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We started by going into an ace in the making in Magic Mike’s Champion Stretcher at 47 lbs. He was only a 2 w at the time but he went on to win to more , one of them against a champion , after his loss to Vengeance. This was in our opinion his toughest match. By the five minutes mark both cars had a blown front tire. It was an all out war until the hour and five minutes mark when Vengeance blew Stretcher’s rear tire. Vengeance ran six scratches with a blow front tire and Champion Stretcher ran five.He could not make his sixth at the hour  an twelve minute mark because he couldn’t go on two tires. Our thanks go to Magic Mike, for giving us the opportunity and for being a gentleman.

After talking to RCC , he hooked us into  the legend H. Hargrove with his 4w Black Jack  at 47 lbs. Vengeance blew through him in twenty-eigth minutes, finishing in the rear. Champion Black Jack could not stand to run his first. It was then when we realized we had a unique one because it is not an easy thing to do to travel and defeat one of your idol. Thanks to RCC and to H. Hargrove for the hospitality and opportunity. May god bless you fellows always. Steve , this one was for you Dirty. RIP.

After a good rest, we set our sights on the highest bidder, which ended up being Lone Rangers Bojangles 2w at 47 lbs. He gave us hell for about fifteen minutes but this is where the will to win came in and the truth came out. Vengeance went to the back door and destroyed the rear systematically and by the forty-three minute mark, Bojangle’s owner picked him up and he could not run the courtesy. Good dog, good serious people. Thanks to Long Ranger an Clarence for the opportunity to make Vengeance a Champion.

By now Vengeance’s name had begun to grow and southern kennels caught wind of it and called us out with Their Champion Poe Sam, which according to then was the best forty-seven, they even enlisted the help of Super Kennel Jason to help  them in the conditioning. We really didn’t want want to do it because we had considered them friend up to that point , but you live and you learn in these dogs. Champion Vengeance destroyed Champion Poe Sam in forty-one minutes, making he curr out hollering and proved to everyone he was the best. After that they went on to talk trash, but who gives a damn, some people do not take well to loosing. The truth shined brighter than ever that night. Thanks to Don King and Clarence for making this one happen.

We collected five forfeits after that, two of them from Champions. Finally IMK got a hold of us and told us about State Penn Kennel’s Wack 1w and that they thought the world of him. They were willing to back it up heavy, but the catch was that he was a 52. I told him no way because it was too big of a difference in weight. After a couple of days of thinking it through and since we had been open for awhile without luck, we accepted with one condition, that they gave us compensation for going up in weight. They agreed and it was on. Wack was supposed to be a fancy dancer but his much larger frame worked against him. Old smar Vengeance went right under him, straight to the rear and never came out. State Penn asked for a scratch to continue at the ten minute mark. We gave it to him and Wack could not go at eleven minutes. This was David and Goliath all over again. Thanks to State Penn Kennels and IMK for the opportunity to make GRAN CHAMPION VENGEANCE.

We would like to thank all who helped in the making of Grand Champion Vengeance.It will forever be our honor to be a part of his life. Thanks you my son, you will always remain incomparable in our hearts and minds..

CH LEE'S RENO (8XW-2XL) ROM

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"Reno" was born at Ronald Boyles' on July 9, 1984. His father was Holland's GR. CH. "Cherokee Chief" ROM. His mother was Boyles' "Dirty Mary" ROM. This was Ronald's second litter off "Dirty Mary". When she was first acquired from Pat Patrick she was bred to Patrick's "Four Bits". This was a small litter that included "Chainsaw Red", the mother of "Limited Edition" ROM. The litter off "Cherokee Chief" and "Dirty Mary" was a large one, I believe "Dirty Mary" raised 12 pups. Ronald told me that, because it was so large, he ended up losing track of several of the pups that he had from it. Even so, it included CH. "Bolt Action" ROM, CH. "Mr. Rogers", CH. "Reno" ROM, "Lugnut" and "Crankshaft". "Reno" spent his youth with Santos Fred. Fred was a serious dogman who was located in the same general vicinity as Ronald. "Reno" looked good in his early rolls and soon established himself as a top prospect. His basic style was to bury himself in the other dog's chest and stay there as much as possible. 

Dirty Mary

He was very strong with a lot of mouth and was able to overpower many considerably larger dogs.After winning a couple off chain matches Fred matched "Reno", winning with him against a dog out of Southern Florida called "Popeye" at forty one lbs. As expected, "Reno" buried himself in "Popeye's" chest and ended it in about forty five minutes. Fred was so impressed with "Reno" that he decided to match him into CH. "Flint". The only problem was that the match was to be at thirty eight lbs. Now Fred knew that this was likely to be a struggle since "Reno" had always been kept butterball fat at Fred's house. Fred being a butcher, "Reno" was kept on a diet of mainly meat and ate quite well, probably generally weighing in the mid to high forty's. For the match, "Reno" came in at this lighter weight looking very drawn down. Even so, he was able to do quite a bit of damage to "Flint" during the course of the match which went about 1:50. As often happens with such significant weight loss, "Reno" ran out of gas after most of his damage early. At the end of the contest "Reno" went into a seizure and collapsed in his corner. "Flint" scratched to win with "Reno" unable to stand. After the match, "Reno" recovered while "Flint's" owner was unable to save him. When we talked about this match, Fred was very emphatic that this match should not have been a loss for "Reno" He said that "Flint's" final scratch was most certainly a foul. "Flint" was in very bad shape, barely able to keep his feet. When released he staggered along the wall and had to be guided by his handler's knee several times in order to find his way to "Reno's" corner. Fred asked for a foul since "Flint"s" handler had both touched his dog and left his corner in the process.

This foul was disallowed by the referee who was a friend of "Flint's" owner. Fred said that this criticism was not meant to take away from "Flint's" gameness but that he didn't feel that "Flint" could have completed his scratch on his own and the match should have been a draw. After a rest, Santo's Fred took "Reno" back up to forty one pounds and matched him into a group from the Tampa area. Once again, "Reno" dominated, winning in his usual style in about forty minutes. The next match was into Murphy's "Pacman", again at forty pounds. "Pacman" was an "Eli" bred dog. "Reno" totally overpowered "Pacman" staying in his chest for most of the thirty minutes the match lasted until "Pacman" gave it up. "Reno's" next contest was against Rebel's "Chocolate Soldier", a one time winner off Diamond Jim's "Luther" and Patrick's Angel Face", a sister to "Dirty Mary" ROM. Here again, "Reno" was taken below forty pounds, coming in at about 38. This match went much like the one with CH. "Flint". "Reno" got ahead early, ran out of gas and went into a seizure at around the 1:30 mark "Reno" recovered from the seizure in about 15-20 minutes and was OK afterwards. "Chocolate Soldier", however never did recover from what he took from "Reno".At this point it seems worth mentioning that while no will ever know why "Reno" went into these seizures I have seen this happen to human athletes that are drawn very fine when participating in endurance activities. I believe it has to do with burning muscle tissue for energy and toxic by products that result. 

The only time "Reno" had these seizures was when he was taken below forty pounds. In all the times he competed at above forty pounds, he never had a problem. After this match Fred had a few personal problems and turned "Reno" over to a friend of his, Space Cowboy. Space Cowboy was known as one of the best conditioners and handlers in that part of the country. He took "Reno" back up in weight and immediately challenged Ricky Jones at forty three pounds. Jones was very confident, feeling that "Reno" was a cur because of his failure to scratch in his two earlier matches against "Flint" and "Chocolate Soldier". He made numerous statements to this effect to his friends. Ricky's "Bandito" was outclassed and was in serious trouble from about fifteen minutes on. Ricky, noted for being less than the consummate sportsman in the square, tried tricks such as dribbling spit into "Reno's" nose to make him release his hold. Finally, in desperation, Ricky started pounding on the rug in front of "Reno's" face, raising considerable dust in the process. 

After a bit of this, and not getting much resistance out of "Bandito", "Reno" released him and bit Ricky on the wrist, breaking an expensive watch in the process. Infuriated, Ricky pulled out a knife and threatened to cut "Reno's" throat. Santos Fred, at pitside, commented that Ricky wasn't the only one with a knife and Ricky apparently decided that it might not be the thing to do after all. Ricky finally picked up at about forty two minutes. He demanded that Space Cowboy courtesy scratch "Reno" saying that if he didn't he was going to report that he was a cur. Space Cowboy didn't normally believe in courtesy scratching when the other dog was picked up to be saved from a certain killing but finally tossed "Reno" back into the pit from the outside. "Reno" fell on his face then started towards "Bandito" who promptly headed in the other direction. After this match "Reno" was sold and retired to stud. To date, he has produced six champions and numerous other good dogs. At this time he still has a lot of young dogs on the ground and is likely he will end up with a couple more. He's still alive and in good health but has not produced any pups in over a year.

LEE'S & WCC'S CH RENO ROM X HACKMAN'S MISS CAMP 

GR CH SNAKEMAN'S PEDRO (9XW) ROM

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Recently while in a conversation with the editor and long time friend, Fat Bill we got on the subject of Grand Champion Pedro, which is also recognized as a Register of Merit in the Sporting Dog Journal. We decided it was time to set the record straight and clean up anything and everything that revolved around the old Pedro dog. As Bill says “ from the womb to the tomb” so here it is.

I understand that a few years ago a couple of know it alls got together and told the story of Pedro in some extinct magazine, by the way it was a rag that I did not subscribe to! The problem with this is that they in reality had nothing or very little at most to do with Pedro! I found it quite humorous that these people belittled his efforts, condemned him as a pit dog and stud. Soon as his fame started to surface these same leaches had to jump on the bandwagon and tell the gossip according to them, steal the thunder so to speak. This same bunch ended up in the cur pile as Pedro has long since made fools of them. Pedro has gone down in history as a great pit dog and one of the few great stud dogs. And for the characters that wrote their slime, they all have just gone down! One left the country, the others let their bad habits destroy them and the rest of them had so little impact on the game that I can't recall what happened to them. I will give credit where credit is due and only to those that deserve it, as far as Pedro was concerned.

Grand Champion Pedro was bred by James Crenshaw whom owned Champion Rascal at the time he was bred to Mr. Dow's Sandy. Of course we are all familiar with the producing capabilities of Crenshaw's Champion Rascal, Crenshaw's Sandy was a very good producer and appears in the pedigrees of many good ones, Holcomb's Zeus, Meade's Grand Champion Crazy Turfman are a couple that come to mind. Pedro was game tested at an early age for about 45 minutes. He showed signs that he was most likely to be a dead game dog, but he did not show the bite and flash that Crenshaw said he was looking for. He then went on to Emmet A. and he is the gentleman that I bought him from for the meager sum of 600.00. I had called James Crenshaw to verify it was the dog that I wanted, he assured me it was. Pedro went under the name of Wee Willie at the time. Bob Cox had offered him at stud in the Sporting Dog Journal so when I called and inquired about the dog I soon found out that his owner was Emmet A. At any rate Wee Willie had won several matches and also won under the name of Lil Joe. I was told that James Crenshaw tried to buy the little dog back for 1000.00 after I told him where he was and the price I was going to pay for him. Luckily Emmet A. is an honest dogman and held up to our deal and did not give into the higher offer. After receiving Pedro I was told he may have heartworms, after a trip to the veterinarian he was diagnosed as negative and then it was to the pit for a look see at my newly acquired dog. I saw plenty of raw talent, but schooling, proper feeding and conditioning were all in order. The truth is he was in pretty bad shape when I first got him, but I soon corrected this and he responded very well.

Pedro's first match of record toward his Grand championship was into the Alabama Boys at 35lbs the time only took 37 minutes. Pedro showed me that he could bite and he had learned his lessons well as he totaled their dog.

Number two, was Texas' Cupid at 35 1/2 lbs. and was one of Pedro's toughest contest. It went two hours and forty-seven minutes and both dogs actually scratched until Cupid expired as he attempted to scratch. Pedro showed me this time that a dog would have to kill him to stop him. So the decision was made to go for that coveted championship.

His third match came only two months later, some thought I was crazy after coming off such a hard battle. But he had healed well, not taking away from his next opponent, who I had seen go before, I knew Pedro could whip him; they made the challenge, so on we went! Tarheel's Buck a Carolina bred dog was no threat as Pedro put him away in forty-seven minutes. For all practical purposes it was over by ten minutes.

After this match I was so proud that Pedro had won his Championship. My long time friend Artie Nance came over to me and tried to rain on my parade. He said 'Snakeman, I would not be happy with that Pedro dog, I think he is a piece of shit and I believe that my Ben dog would beat him in twenty minutes!' I was so pissed off I found myself making a contract for the next month. Champion Pedro was being called to do the impossible, as I had more dogs at that time than I did brains, but I knew that Pedro would take it to the limit.

About six weeks later Artie Nance showed up with his prized Ben, he was a two-time winner that had blown away his competitive weight of 35 lbs. To start off the first 10 minutes looked as if Ben would whip Pedro for sure, but after that it was all down hill. Champion Pedro took a skin hold on the lip and just lay there and hung on until about the thirty-minute mark. Pedro comes to the top and kicks ass, after the fifty-minute mark Ben is trying to find an exit, but Champion Pedro blocks the door. Ben starts to holler and Nance picks up at 52 minutes. This fight was better for the checkbook than all the others combined.

I had come to the decision of retiring Champion Pedro after this contest, as I finally realized what I had. One of those dogs that only come around once. I would only show him again if the purse was right and preferably a champion.

I collected forfeits with Pedro from Super Gnat (CH Chino), Turlington's (Dipstick), R. Sorrells, and W. Spencer as none of them wanted any part of a dog they would have to kill to beat. So I had Champion Pedro retired until Artie Nance came to me wanting a chance to get his money back, I decided that the stakes were worth It. It was one year to the month that we went into Artie Nance's Sarge dog, a six-year-old dog that had won eight matches, bred from Ed Crenshaw. I was told later that Mr. Nance had bought this dog specifically to beat Pedro and to win his money back. In the same stroke he wanted to shut the ole Snakeman up about this dog. They almost did it, but I had Champion Pedro in the best shape of his life. Sarge was a real smooth fighter he paced himself and was effective with his mouth. The first hour was a wrestling match; the second hour was a war. Around one hour and forty-five minute mark Pedro got his second wind and blew Sarge away by burying himself in his opponent’s chest. This win was a great one and made Champion Pedro a bona fide Grand Champion. All together Grand Champion Pedro won 9 contract contests and 11 over all. He was a great pit dog in all respects and truly a living dead game dog.

His breeding career since has outshined any of his show endeavors. He has produced many champions and many dogs that have produced top pit dogs for generations on down the line. Grand Champion Pedro R.O.M. produced Champion Rush, Champion Mert, Champion Pedro Jr., Champion Beak, Grand Champion Madge and produced three aces for Jesse Rods. Many good dogs have Grand Champion Pedro up close in their breeding, such as, Yogi's Pedgie, Hoffman's Champion Bronco, Callender's Krokus, Dolf's Black Powder, Dolf's Cherry, Dixie Line Connection's Runt, Dixie Line Connection's Champion Bolero, Hammond's Ralph, Jessie’s Bashful, Rushin Bill's Tar Baby, Reverend Dack's Sissu, Arellano's Midge, Garner and K. Hall's Jammin' Jenny and Crenshaw's Bad Mamma along with many more that are just to many to list.

I honestly believe that the people that let Grand Champion Pedro pass by them were honored to have known this little dog for a short time. I personally bred Grand Champion Pedro to a lot of good gyps and the rewards were great. I had breeding rights on Grand Champion Pedro until his death. I sold Pedro to M.R. Harris of Hillsborough, NC after a short stay there he was sold to Thomas Garner. Mr. Garner made several breedings that produced some damn good bulldogs. During the time Tom had Grand Champion Pedro I was living the life of an outlaw up in Tennessee, Tom sold the little fellow to a fellow up in Canada where he died. I stayed in close contact until this fellow got out of the game.

Like I said Crenshaw and Dow deserve to be recognized as Grand Champion Pedro's breeders. The rest was just Pedro and me. I took care of him, conditioned him, and helped to heal him, with little or no help. Pedro did the rest on heart and talent; between us we made a dynasty, the Pedro dogs. Now his followers are doing like wise! Building on a true bulldog. So now when you see his name on a pedigree you will know that a real bulldog is there!

Snakeman's Grand Champion Pedro R.O.M. will be longed remembered when the folks that talked negative about him are dead and gone.

Long after those that talked negative about this great dog are dead and gone, fanciers will still recognize the merits of Snakeman’s Grand Champion Pedro R.O.M.

                                       

By SNAKEMAN

GR CH REBEL'S SHADY LADY (5XW) POR

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Before we begin our review on Grand Champion “Shady Lady”, lets talk just a little about the one they called The Rebel. Lets talk about The Rebel long before the troubles came about that tarnish the fraternity and tainted his own legacy. To those who actually knew him, you could say he was a true Dogman at the height of his game! It has been said, and rightfully so, that Ricky Jones, “The Rebel” owned some of the best dogs in the world. In his time, if The Rebel was not competing one of the best dogs in the world, he was standing sixteen feet across from one. He was a man dedicated to his dogs and a firm believer in the “Eli” stain of dogs. You could not convince him that any other bloodline was better, but you were always more than welcome to try...in the box! 
During the development of his reputation and his own legacy, Ricky Jones owned such great dogs as Grand Champion “Spookie”, Grand Champion “Sampson”, Grand Champion “Sandman”, Grand Champion “Outlaw”, Champion “Stephano”, Champion “Cleopatra”, Champion “Penny”, Champion “Bubba”, Champion “Turtle” and even bought Mountain Man’s Champion “Homer” to further enhance his yard. For those who do not know, he also own half interest and campaigned the great Double Grand Champion “Tornado”. He owned and campaigned many other great dogs, far to numerous to mention them all. 
In the year of 1988 alone The Rebel campaigned twenty-four dogs. He lost five of those twenty-four and won nineteen. Who can forget the classic battle between the two Grand Champions of Rebel Kennels Grand Champion “Sandman” and S.T. P.’s Grand Champion “Buck”. I wonder how many fanciers of today would even take a chance on bringing out their own Champions or Grand Champions for a ’Defending Title Match’. 

Any modern day fancier would be well served to compare the record of The Rebel to anyone during the same time period. In fact, compare it to anyone, from any time period, and see how it stacks up.
Ricky Jones was noted for having, for lack of a better description, a ‘split personality’. On one side he was a great, fiercely loyal friend. However, once he stepped inside that box with his dog, well, he became a fierce and formable opponent. There were many that described his actions as “unsportsmanlike conduct”. The Rebel did not see it that way at all. He stated that a man and his dog were a team and had to work as one. While his dog did what they could do to discourage their own opponent, Ricky Jones felt that it was his responsibility to do all he could do within the rules to discourage the other handler. He stated that, in his experience, a dog will quit the very second his handler does. Never the less, The Rebel became known in history as one of the greatest competitors of his era. It is a fact that, it was The Rebel that added to the history books great dogs such as Grand Champion “Sandman” and Double Grand Champion “Tornado”. Many stories have been told and written about these two great dogs, but none to my knowledge has ever been told or written about the great female that holds her own records in history. That female is none other than Rebel Kennels Grand Champion “Shady Lady”.
Some fanciers have wondered what it was The Mountain Man and The Rebel must have been thinking or planning, when The Mountain Man backed his famed “Spider Bite’em” female up to Rebel’s “Sundance”. They stated, whatever it was, it was history in the making.
Well, here is exactly the way it came about. A fancier by the name of Young had purchased “Sundance” directly from Mamie Loposay, the wife of the deceased J. R. Loposay. “Sundance” was an outstanding dog and The Mountain Man had already seen him in action a couple of different times. The Mountain Man stated that, without exception, “Sundance” was one of the most devastating stifle dogs he had ever witness. He liked the dog so much that he planned to buy him for himself. He told Ricky Jones about this great dog and worked out a deal with The Rebel to go a buy the dog for him and either bring it to him or arrange to have it brought to him. Well, half of that happened. Ricky Jones did in fact go buy “Sundance”, but then he kept him for himself. The only option The Mountain Man had at that time, he took. He shipped “Spider Bite’em” to Florida and had her bred to the 2 time winner, at that time, “Sundance”. Now, the rest is history. The litter produced such great dogs as Harriger's "Lil Dumpling" & "Sheena", Mountain Man's (Harriger's) famed stud dog "Elwood" and of course "Shady Lady".

Ricky Jones was known to be extremely hard on his dogs. Too hard, and unnecessarily hard, most fanciers would say. But, he was who he was, and even though Ricky Jones was not a small man, his own ego was bigger than he was! Even at an early age “Shady Lady” wasted no time it showing that she was more than ready to face most challengers. In the year of 1988 she won her first two professional competitions. 

It was at the early spring show in Florida in 1988 that “Shady Lady” made her debut. It was a three card show that also included Rebel Kennels and Ken Allen’s Grand Champion “Tornado” winning her sixth straight contest. This one over Perry & Devine’s two time winner “Emi”.
However, that day Rebel Kennels’ “Shady Lady” would be going for her 1st contest. She would face off to Mossell’s “Carmen”. These females weighed in at 37 pounds with Havana Chico selected as the Referee. “Shady Lady” was sired by Rebel Kennels Champion “Sundance” and whelped by The Mountain Man’s “Spider Bite’em”, the sister to Rebel Kennels’ own Champion “Spookie”.
One of the later reports listed “Carmen” as being campaigned by Red Kennels & Mossell’s “Carmen” not just Mossell. However, in either case, Mossell’s “Carmen” was a red female that stems from some of Anderson’s Champion “Tonka” breeding that came by way of Laminack. Upon release “Shady Lady” jumps off to a very fast start and “Carmen” was never even in this fight! Fast handles are made and “Carmen” will not run her first scratch at the four (4) Minute Mark and “Shady Lady” is declared the winner.
It was at a five card show later that fall in 1988 that the ticket would read Red Kennels’ “Nantucket” verses Rebel Kennels’ “Shady Lady”. The females weighed in at 37½ pounds and The Tennessean was selected to Referee this contest. “Nantucket” was a nice looking buckskin, said to be sired by “Little Jeep” (Jeep x Kate) whelped by a “Kingfish” bred female. Evidently Red Kennels did not take their four (4) minute loss with Mossell’s “Carmen” very well. As recorded, this one did last longer.Once again, upon release “Shady Lady” comes out hard and fast. “Nantucket” leave the pit at the Eleven (11) Minute Mark and “Shady Lady” is declared the winner of her second professional contest.
(This was the same show that Rebel Kennels’ “Samson” and his littermate sister “Dolly” both won Best of Show Awards. “Samson” Best of Show, “Dolly” Best Female.)
By the end of 1988 word had spread far and wide about this hard mouthed female by the name of “Shady Lady”. Most fanciers thought that was all she was, a hard mouth female. By this time, there were a lot of fanciers determined to stop her.
It was at the Palmetto Show in the spring of 1989 that the ticket would now read Rebel Kennels and B.& B.’s “Shady Lady” facing off to Gilbert & Bert “Bolita”. Havana Danny was selected to be the Referee for this contest, as the females weighed in at 37 pounds. Bert is handling “Bolita”. “Bolita” is sired by “Kong” and nothing has ever stayed with her more than 18 minutes. Upon release “Bolita” comes out hard and shows that she can bite! She almost immediately hits a bleeder on “Shady Lady”. In spite of a very bad bleeder, “Shady Lady” stays all over “Bolita” and proves that she has a bite of her own! Bert concedes the contest and picks up on “Bolita” at the Nine (9) Minute Mark, leaving Shady Lady” to be declared the winner and now Champion. Out of a three card show, Rebel Kennels “Shady Lady” was voted Best in Show. 

Rebels Ch Sundance ROM

Mountain Man's Spider Bitem POR

At The Mountain Show in 1989 “Shady Lady” would come out again. The word was out that she had won three matches, but all of them in very short order. This time she would face Reynolds’ “Red”. “Shady Lady” came in at a lower than usual weight, as these females now weighted in at 36½ pounds. Any seasoned dogman can tell you what a difference a half a pound can make, even in a good dog. The Tennessean was once again the Referee. Reynolds’ “Red” was sired by Pat Patrick’s “Copperhead”. Upon the command to “pit”, “Shady Lady” came out so fast and hard herself, that she never even gave “Red” a chance to close her mouth! Bulldozing over “Red”, “Red” turns and is on her way out at the Seven (7) Minute Mark and “Shady Lady” is declared the winner of her forth contest. Rebel Kennels “Shady Lady” was voted Best Female of Show.

It was at the seven (7) card Southern Fall Show of 1989 that “Shady Lady”, now a four time winner, looking for her Grand Champion, would have to face Mooney’s “Ginger II”. Mooney’s “Ginger II” is a black & white female sired by Holland’s “Pee Wee” and whelped by Holland’s “Ginger”. These females weighed in at 37½ pounds and D. Miller was selected as the Referee for this contest. Upon release “Shady Lady”, came out in her usual hard fast fashion and went straight to work. “Shady Lady” shot into the stifle and “Ginger II” never even had a chance to get started. She had no chance at all in this contest. “Ginger II” is picked up at the Eight ( Minute Mark and D. Miller declares “Shady Lady” the winner and now Grand Champion. Once again, out of a seven (7) card show, “Shady Lady” was voted Best Female of Show.
That night “Shady Lady” was awarded her Grand Championship Title. She had won all five professional contracted fight in a combined time of only Thirty-Nine (39) Minutes! Her longest contest went only Eleven Minute and out of all five contests, she was voted “Best of Show” three different times! Surely that was a record and truly history was made that night. Not so many fanciers were so anxious to rush out and try and stop her after that! 

After The Rebel experienced his own problems, and all the trouble that followed after that, the fancier known as Bulldog P ended up with quite a few of the dogs that belonged to The Rebel. Grand Champion “Shady Lady” was one of them. The legacy of Grand Champion “Shady Lady” lives on, as she produced a lot of great dogs for the fraternity. Those off-spring also proved to be outstanding producers as well, especially when bred to James Crenshaw’s Champion “Gator”.

Bulldog P later sold Grand Champion “Shady Lady” at an old age to Roadblock Kennels, where she passed away and a legend passed into history. Anytime anyone is lucky enough to witness what they feel would be the highest levels of abilities, bite and stamina, Grand Champion “Shady Lady” should come to mind and with whom they should base their own comparison, for she should be considered the highest of standards!
Recalling history one more time, back in 1987 The Rebel lost his contest against the two time winner Abraham’s “Queen of Heart” with his Rebel’s “Lou”. This made “Queen of Heart” a Champion. “Queen of Hearts” went on to defeat five more opponents to earn her own title of Grand Champion. The longest fight “Queen of Hearts” ever saw was 34 minutes. She was campaigned between 37 to 39 pounds.
By 1989 Abraham’s “Queen of Hearts” and Rebel Kennels’ “Shady Lady” both held their respective titles of Grand Champion. Both had been campaigned 37 and 37½ pounds. Can anyone possible imagine the battle that would have incurred should these two great warrior females ever had met. There is no doubt that it would have been a classic for the history books. As great as the one between Rebel’s Grand Champion “Sandman” and S.T.P.’s Grand Champion “Buck”. One can only wonder and imagine what it might be like.
However, there is no doubt that these dogs, all of them mentioned here, and the men behind them, gave to the world a true legacy of proven gameness and ability to be passed forward and preserved by future generations.

GR CH SMITH & WILLIAMS' BADGER ROM

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This is a story about a dog that many people consider an ace! Yes a legend in his own time. Viewed by many as the best thirty-four pound male that ever lived. Many of us are still looking for that once in a lifetime ace. Bobby has been fortunate enough to'have had more than one in his lifetime! Bobby has owned the likes of Register of Merit Ruben, Champion Did Billy who is also a ROM along with Champion Tusk, Champion Tootsie Roll, Champion Fox, Champion Campesino and many other ace dogs. Out of all these the one closest to his heart is Grand Champion Badger.
Grand Champion Badger is out of the very famous Smith and Waltons Ruben and Williams
Mija litter, this was a tremendous litter of dogs. This breeding produced Champion Fox, Grand Champion Badger and the fabulous Taylor dog. Taylor was famous for his contest with Champion Bullshit, a contest that Taylor proved to be dead game. Ruben was a double grandson of Hyde's Satch and Bloody Sunday, the Mija bitch was a Hienzl/Carver cross, she was sired by the dead game Hienzl's Bummy. Well, enough said about these other dogs, I'll get on with the story of Badger
Badger's first contest was into the School Boys who were using a good one from a -Hammonds/Patrick cross-named Ronnie. This was a very good show as both dogs swapped it out with all :hey had in the stifle. Soon it was evident with all that were there, that Badger was pulling ahead with his hard mouth. The School Boys had to pick Ronnie up at fifty-three minutes as Badger was just to rough for him to handle and minutes later it proved to be fatal for Ronnie.
Diamond P's Waylon was Badger's victim for number two and this proved to be an extremely lopsided match. Badger dominated Waylon from start to finish, He worked the backend and the front end. In others worked he would-grab anything he could get to that looked good. Waylon's owner conceded at the thirty-five minute in an attempted to save him and Waylon proved to be the second dead game dog that Badger had faced.
Championship was the goal of Bobby on this outing and wanted nothing, but to go into another first class unbeatable dog his name was Cox and Peek's Bloody Billy. Billy was also a two-time winner and in the words of the dogmen in Mississippi, Badger did not have a chance. Billy was also bred down from Hyde's Satch and Bob Cox was never easy to beat. The night these two met was a show to be remembered, it took place at a very active spot as there was seven other contests taking place making this quite some convention. Badger worked Billy's backend with everything he had going right through him and winning his Championship in 52 minutes. Bob Cox later approached Bobby Smith that night and said he was embarrassed as the way the match turned out. Later that night the judges of the eight-match show came to the decision that Champion Badger won best in show. At this show there were many good ones going including Sorrell's Champion Uncle Bud, but let me stress that when the votes were being totaled There was no doubt in the judges mind who was to take the coveted trophy for best in show, Champion Badger.
Champion Badger's fourth match was against Benson's Dancing Fox from a Patrick/Benson bloodline. This was Badger's shortest outing lasting only three minutes. Champion Badger severed a femoral artery immediately and was going down last. Benson showed great sportsmanship by picking up Fox at three minutes, the judge for this event was the author, of three books on our dogs and said that Champion Badger was one of the best dogs he had ever seen. He told me this when I interviewed him recently for THE TIMES he also said that Badger was the roughest, most punishing and hard biting dog that he had the, pleasure of seeing. To me, that was an impressive statement to make!
Champion Badger's fifth fight for his Grand Championship was against Mr. Nice Gay and Mad Mike's Billy Balls. At this show there was a bitch in heat at the sight and the scent was rampant to the dogs. This is the reason for the way Champion Badger acted the first forty minutes, as he humped the air, but Badger got tired of being bit and started doing what he was famous for! Champion Badger got on Billy's stifle and just started eating away. Billy Balls was a Chris Wilkerson bred dog; sired by Wilkerson's Clainy out of Wilkerson's Tipsy. Well once Champion Badger got started there was no stopping him and Billy Balls was history. They picked him up at 1:22 to save him, Billy Balls made a good courtesy scratch! With this fifth win Badger became an official Grand Champion!!!
Grand Champion Badger has also proved to be quite a good stud as he has already produced one champion. This Champion is known as Champion Guantes. He also has one two time winner and numerous one-time winners. He was sold to some fanciers in Ireland who plan on breeding him quite extensively. Shortly before Bobby sent the dog to Dublin he took him to a sperm bank and has got enough sperm for twenty-five litters of
pups.
In summation without the proper dog man behind him Grand Champion Badger might not have become a famous dog. All the credit for Grand Champion Badger and his littermates should go to Bobby and his partner Willis, for without their foresight to make this breeding we would never have known a dog named Grand Champion Badger.
A article which appeared in the Game Dog magazine.

10 years of age.

Daly's (Smith & Walton's)
GR. CH. BADGER R.O.M. E.P.

T.L. Williams of California bred "BADGER" in 1983. He won 5 matches at 34 to 35 lbs and had a name for being one of the best at his weight in the USA. He was three quarter Ronnie Hyde (Carver) bloodline and one quarter Howard Heinzl bloodline.
In his litter there were other well-known dogs, such as William's "TAYLOR", a brindle 1 x winner, 1 x loser. He lost in a great battle with Steve's CH. "BULLSHIT". Another brother was Smith & William's CH "FOX", a brindle 3 x winner at 39 lbs. A sister was William's "LUMPY", a 1 x winner at 34 lbs, a red and white bitch that looked like "BADGER". Also a 1 x looser was Padilla's "MOLLY", who proved to be very game. "BADGER" produced three Champions in the USA, Crazy Canuct's CH. "JUANTEZ", L.A. Dream Team's CH. "LITTLE HEN" and Power House Kennel's CH. "LARGE MARGE". Some others produced in the USA are Smith & Walton's "WHITTER", a 1 x winner. Smith & Walton's "JOSIE", a 1 x winner. Smith & Walton's "BLAKE", a 2 x winner. Buffalo's "OZZIE" a 2 x winner.
"BADGER" came to Ireland and got himself a new owner in the way of Bo Daly. He retired "BADGER" as a stud dog. Here are some dogs that won in Ireland and England; Nailer's CH. "BOB", a black 4 x winner, 2 x looser. K&K's "JESSE", a 1 x winner, red and white female at 311bs. Ricky B's "TIMBER", a 1 x winner, red 45 1/2 lbs. Codd & Quinn's "RADAR", a 1 x winner and 1 x looser, red 48 lbs. T. Jordan's "PARVO", a 1 x winner and 1 x looser, red 34 lbs. Others that lost that were sired by "BADGER" proved very game and some did not; G.O.B.'s "CHERRY" 1 x looser female. K&K's "FERRET", a 1 x looser, red female at 32lbs. Sloane's "TOKER", a 1 x looser male at 35 1/2 lbs. Nailers "BLOSSOM" a 1 x looser, black female lost to GR. CH. "JENNY". Byrne's "GREMLIN", a 2 x looser at 31 lbs lost and proved very game to CH. "CULCHIE".
Nailer's CH. "BOB" was bred to R.F.C.'s (K&K's) FERRET, and produced the dog known as "GIMP", a 32 lb. dog, who lost his first match, but returned to defeat the same dog at a later date. He won 2 matches in total. His brother R.F.C.'s "SOCKS" beat two dogs, one in Ireland and the other in England. Another brother R.F.C.'s "JOHN
JOE" won one match and lost one match. The "GIMP" dog was bred to Miley's "LOU", a sister to R.F.C.'s GR. CH. "JENNY", to produce a deep game dog called R-F-C.'s "TYSON", who defeated the well known dog, Jordan's "VINCENT", in 2 hours and 49 minutes. "TYSON" went on to produce R.F.C.'s "NORMAN", who defeated Ricky B & McCallum's "RINGO"
Codd's "ZULU" a brother to "NORMAN" is still alive and at stud. GR. CH. "BADGER" appears 5 times, up close on his pedigree.
Another son of GR. CH. "BADGER" called Elwood's "BARNEY" (a brother to Nailers "BOB") was bred into the Farmer Boy's strain, in one litter to Farmer Boy's "ONE EYED FLOSSY". They produced Farmer Boy's "BLACK SPIDER", a 1 x winner and 1 x looser black dog at 42 lbs, Farmer Boy's "BLACK TARA" a black 33 lb female, and Ricky B's CH. "CULCHIE" a black 30 - 31 lb female who won three matches and lost one at 32 1/2 lbs, which was too much weight to give away.
CH. "CULCHIE" was bred to Farmer Boy's CH. "SKATEBOARD" to produce three males, two of which won some matches. Farmer Boy's "SEANSEAN" was a 1 x winner at 33 lbs, and Bulldog Sanctuary & Belfast Boy's "HAGLER" who killed his opponent in less than 30 minutes. And in another great match he proved to be deep game against R.F.C.'s "JABBS" a son of CH. "CURSTOPPER".
In the GAME DOG, there was talk of the mating between GR. CH. "BADGER" and GR. CH. "SHELLY", I forgot how many pups were born, but there was doubt as to "BADGER" siring the litter as one of the pups was hairy like a Lurcher. None of the pups turned out good or were bred from. "BADGER" was bred ten times. He never sired many pups and didn't have a huge impact on the dogs of Ireland, but there are dogs like CH. "CULCHIE", Codd's "ZULU" and others that will keep his blood in the country.