Thrasher Magazine December 1995 — Page 36
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present name by the way he destroyed his vic-
tims. First, he would take the poor guy's head
and crack it against a wall. Sadistically guffawing
at the nice thud it made, he would then put the
victim in a headlock and proceed to crush him.
Not until the victim grew blue in the face was he
finally released. Then the Crusher would jaunt
merrily off in search of new prey. You can imag-
ine my horror when I saw this huge beast looking
down at me with a contemptuous sneer.
"I don't like your face," he grunted.
"Yes," I said. He had all the cultured manner-
isms of a gorilla. This was fitting since he also
Moses Itkonen (sequence) enjoys a switch flip 5-0 at the now
defunct new spot. Harold Hunter (right) shows how they
do switch tailslides in New York. For
Vinny Ponte (left), it's a
small world
after all.