Strongest Man Alive?

I was asked earlier today what I thought of the alleged drowning in the pool story that Taylor has been spreading around. Once again I am usually the last to know what Taylor says but thanks to my friends on Twitter I am usually kept abreast of her rhetoric. I responded that I never watched what Taylor has to say so I didn't know anything about a pool or a supposed drowning incident. I was sent some links to explain the story. One of the links I received was from the chirping_twit: http://thechirpingtwit.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/reunion-ninja-pool-fight-scene/. Without getting into too much detail Taylor claimed that Russ could lift much bigger men, throw Pitbulls in the pool and drown her all while being beat in the head with a log being swung like a baseball bat. I believe Taylor made the claim that Russ beat much bigger men and claimed he was 250-0. I grew up with Russ and was his best friend. I also was always much bigger than him so I honestly say that her claims are just utterly ridiculous. While growing up Russ used to think it was funny to jump on me and start wrestling. We wrestled and wrestled and wrestled. We would knock things off the wall, wrestle in to his bathroom and knock down shower curtains. We were both very competitive and had teenage energy running through our bodies so we wrestled hard. One of our best friends witnessed many of our famous wrestling matches. I can remember him jumping on the bed nervously laughing saying "ya'll are going to get in a fight". Russ and I never got in a fight. We never threw a punch at each other and he certainly didn't have superhuman strength. That was quite a tale Taylor told of being in a couple's backyard whichever version you read. What might be the hardest part of the whole story to believe is her friends were scared a coyote might get their bulldog. Since Taylor is from Oklahoma I am surprised she doesn't know a coyote wants no part of a pitbull. If she had said a cat that would be more believable. Where are the ambulance records, hospital records and did her friend not bust Russ' head open hitting him with a log like a baseball bat? Take it from someone who wrestled with Russell Armstrong a number of times when he was much stronger, Russ didn't have superhuman strength and he was most definitely not 250-0.

There is a funny story that's been on my mind ever since I posted the picture of Russ and me in South Padre' Island on Twitter. I have mentioned he loved to play practical jokes. On that trip there was a condo full of guys next door to our condo full of guys. The guys next door decided to set off fireworks and of course that brought the law out. I had met a young lady earlier that evening and we had retired to one of the bedrooms and were doing what 18 year old boys and girls do on their high school graduation trip. When the police arrived Russ told them I was in the bedroom going nuts tearing the room up. He got one of the policemen to unlock the bedroom door with a key from the manager that had met the police. Well needless to say the young lady and I were surprised to get a flash light pointed at us. When I came out of the room a few minutes later Russ was laughing so hard he could hardly tell me what he had done. The picture of Russ and me in Padre is one of my most cherished photos.