I would love to share with you, my friends, my precious memories of Dave Cameron of New Zealand and how we actually met. I met Dave online in 2012. I was still living in Kharkiv, Ukraine at that time, and unfortunately I cannot remember how exactly that happened that we met, it was I either saw his own article, or it was some other people’s article on pro wrestling in which they highly spoke of him, maybe it was on that Canadian Slam Wrestling website, but whatever it was…most importantly they even had his email address provided there. So I decided to write him an email. Obviously the questions I had were about the historical pro wrestling champion belts, and I even remember which one I was researching around that time, it was the very famous Dean Detton Belt, one of the most iconic American wrestling championship belts of the twentieth century.
Dave responded to me. I was so happy about it. And he kindly shared with me info and photos he had of Dean and his belt. And since then Dave and I became distant, virtual friends. Also, Dave admired the Mighty Ukrainians, the Klitschko brothers who dominated world’s professional boxing around that time. I sometimes emailed Dave asking my questions on history of pro wrestling game. He was always very kind to me, and always responded to me providing the answers to my questions with all the details imaginable, always accompanied by a plenty of photos of champion wrestlers from the past. He would even make photocopies of some of the wrestlers with belts pictures from his enormous collection and mail them to me when I still lived in Delaware, Ohio. That was just few years ago, before the Covid. Oh yeah, our friendship continued for all these years.
Very, very, sad news. RIP Dave.
Sic transit gloria mundi...as they say.
Thank you for reading this, my friends.
Lovely memories Ruslan. Thanks for sharing