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Hello everybody and welcome back to Crime and Sports. Thanks for joining us. My name is James Petrogallo. I'm here as always with my co-host Jimmy Westman.

Thank you so much for joining us. Hope you guys have been enjoying the show so far. Jason Williams last week. I hope he was as big of a disaster as we promised.

This week we're moving on, removing outside of the world of what you'd call mainstream sports. We're going to head into wrestling this week. Professional wrestling. And dealing with Jimmy Superfly Snooka. I love him.

Now right off the bat, we're doing wrestling. So there's going to be there's a wrestling fans of their own little cult out there. So I'm going to stay as true to them as I can and try to have information and not sound like I just never heard of wrestling before because I do know some stuff.

And for you non wrestling fans, people that normally tune in to hear about football and basketball players. Trust us. There's no scum in this to even it out. It's funny and it's good. And if you don't think that their athletes then imagine Pablo Sandevolta.

I mean, off the top rope. They're athletes. Okay. So and especially Snooka as we're going to get into. He's an amazing physical specimen. A great athlete and much better form than any fat ass pitcher pitching today.

Exactly. Exactly. Any relief pitcher right now. It's he's doing better. So we get into Snooka. Let's see here. Snooka. Interesting guy. He was actually born. His name was James Wiley Smith, which sounds extremely white.

He is shit. Sounds like a blonde man. He was born in May 18th, 1943. His parents is an interesting situation with his parents. Apparently his father was already married to another woman when he impregnated Snooka's mother. And Snooka's mother was already engaged to another man also. So they swingers that episode.

Snooka's real father went married the one who stayed with his wife and Snooka's mom married this man. Wow. And was born art, Ryer is his name. And they raised Snooka and the Marshall Islands. So he didn't even know his dad?

No, they were in the Marshall and the Beegee and then the Marshall Islands and then ended up in Hawaii in his teen years. Fascinating. Yeah, he was a cliff diver in Hawaii, which is pretty cool. People tourists would throw change in the water. I guess coins.

Yeah, and he would dive down and catch them before they hit the bottom. That was his trick. Wow. And then he got to keep all the coins. The origin of the superflash is flat. Right there. So he would do that. Take the coins home to his mom and be like, you know, I made some dough today.

I made money. I became a pro body builder in the 60s. If you've ever seen Jimmy Superfly Snooka just a ripped cut. He really is pretty impressive. So yeah, no surprise that he was a body builder in his younger days in the 60s in the 1960s. And he was in his 20s. He won Mr. Hawaii, Mr.

Whitey Key, Mr. North Shore, Mr. Hawaii, Mr. Hawaii, Mr. All-around Beachbody tan skin. Yeah, ripped, ripped chest and Ripley belly and a crazy person. And no fear at all psychotic, right?

Psychotic. Right. So he starts wrestling in Hawaii in 1970. His name was Jimmy Kieloa, which is put a low hawk in there, which is pretty funny.

He wrestled in Hawaii for a little bit. And that's kind of it's not really a big wrestling scene then. So he had to come to the States. He came to the States, went to Portland, Pacific Northwest Territory with a promoter named Don Owen up there.

And he did well up there actually. He broke in, became the superman of Snooka, he became Jimmy Snooka. He's the sixth time heavyweight champ up there. So did well for himself. Tag team champs a couple times. Dutch Savage was his partner up there.

All right. And so some interesting stuff up in Portland. And he bounces all around as a wrestlers do back then. Wrestling isn't what it is now back then. Wrestling back then. And this is very important for how what comes out later in this story. His crime or alleged crime comes down basically.

If this wouldn't have happened in wrestling today. Today it's big business. These guys are on television, national television all the time. It's a huge thing. To McMan's wallet you're fucking with. Exactly. And if anybody had any kind of issue, it would be on TMZ immediately. It would be on Twitter. It would blow off.

Forget it. The sky'd be fine. The ultimate warrior died in a parking lot. And it was front page news. It was everywhere.

And he hasn't been quote unquote relevant for how many years. And even still when he died, it was still a big story. It was a big deal. Back then, this is the time. This is the year we're talking when when Chris Snooka's incident happened. We're talking 1983. It's where Vince McMahon first took over the WF that not even W. E. A.

Holkogen still wearing yellow. Holkogen was even in the WF. Holkogen was hanging out in Minneapolis with Verne. Yeah, freezing his ass off. Fighting a guy named Nick Backewinkle who looked like somebody's uncle. Flaganize Sickles on his handlebar must have literally. So that's what he was doing at that point. So I mean, it was a different era.

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