"There's a higher percentage of rowdies in a group of bear wrestlers than in a group of Baptist," said one of the promoters of the camping show after the brawl. While the crowd whistled and cheered at the unexpected show, Victor calmly sat back on his hind legs and ignored the pandemonium. When he came back for a third ahot at Victor, Truesdell intercepted him and two men wrestled each other to the mat. The challenger immediately began wrestling again, and again was pinned. He stopped the attack before Truesdell could, with a leisurely pin. Victor gurgled a small growl, but kept the bear within him. The six-foot, 248-pound man began slapping at Victor's muzzled snout and trying to grab his face. Truesdell's good humor was soured Saturday by a body builder and professional bouncer from College Park. But he tried to fight dirty, says Truesdell, and that was years ago. True, there was the fella in North ydakota who got seven of his bones broken by Victor. Truesdell claims Victor is no meaner than an old lapdog.
"He's a bad boy," said 19-year-old Greg Kerns after being bent, folded and flipped during a one-minute match with Victor, who looks only gigantic until he rises on his hind legs to his full 7-foot-2 height. But then he only needed to be half awake to pin more than two dozen challengers who went up against Victor's declawed paws for a shot at $1,000. Victor, who has upstaged Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas and a bevy of county-fair queens during his five-year professional career, did seem a bit groggy at the sportsmans' trade show where he was the main attraction. "Bears lost two years of their lives when they sleep," explained Larry Truesdell, owner, promoter and ringmaster for the 650-pound Victor, who has wrestled 10,000 mighty men and, says Truesdell, has never been beaten. Headliners don't take time off for hibernation. Armory, the offspring of that partnership, Larry Truesdell and Victor's son, Victor, took on all comers, and as usual Victor remained the Victor - subjecting his public to monkey flips, arm drags and leg dives. "Finding Victor was the greatest thing that ever happened to me," he once proclaimed. He took up with Victor, a four-week-old black bear from Canada, instead, and the two have since become legend. Almost two decades go Tuffy Truesdell, alligator wrestler extraordinaire, decided that the alligator business just wasn't going to pay off.
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