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The Professional 3 4.21.13 Top 3 Mustaches
Welcome everyone to another edition of the Professional 3 EXCLUSIVELY on 411wrestling.com! I’m Jon Harder and what a week it has been within America. I hate to see this great country go through a lot of carnage with the situations in Boston and Waco. Regardless of which, God bless everyone who got through it and for the injuries and fatalities and the people who are traumatized by what transpired, you are in my prayers to overcome. I hope that this week’s column can be an escape, because trust me when I say that it is my goal this week to get people talking in fun conversations in the comments thread. Hopefully, this will be a few minutes where you can escape from reality.
Before we go any further, check out this week’s Hardway Podcast exclusively on TheJonHarder.com. We have former BWO original from ECW, Thomas “the Inchworm” Rodman and CZW’s Joe Gacy on the show. Two different time periods, yet one fantastic listen. Also, we at the Hardway are running a contest for our fans. If the Hardway Podcast Facebook page gets to 100 likes by May 1, we will select a winner at random to win a free Hardway t-shirt. Lastly, the Hardway has uploaded two links to streaming audio of 3-5 minute interviews with Jim “the Anvil” Neidhart and Nikolai Volkoff. Busy week for the Hardway, but our objective is to keep the ball rolling in a positive direction.
Speaking of the Hardway Podcast, I don’t know if I’ve ever introduced Good News Hughes into the world of the Professional 3. He is not only my sidekick on the Hardway, but a young wrestler as well. Working his way through the independent circuit since 2010, Good News is a complete throwback with his wrestling style. He is old school to say the least. However, there is one thing that ultimately makes Good News stand out above ALL the rest in independent wrestling: his mustache.
That mustache is borderline legendary. Personally, it might actually reach Tom Selleck “Magnum PI” status in a few years. Regardless, Good News’ ‘stache makes him stand out. When I ask him on his reasoning behind having one, his answer is simple: “It’s the personification of being a man.” Unbelievably, I have to agree.
Ever since I was a little boy, I always thought wrestlers with mustaches were cool. Starting with Hulk Hogan’s handlebar and even before that, Scott Hall’s AWA porn flavor-savor, wrestlers with ‘staches have put within a different class of their own. Big Bully Busick’s soup-strainer, Triple H’s Lemmy mouth-brow, and Sabu’s face furniture are prime examples of sweet mustaches.
However, this is the Professional 3, and this week, I will discuss my personal favorite 3 mustaches in wrestling’s past, present, and future. Whether creepy, sleazy, dangerous, or outright outrageous, these mustaches will definitely provoke agreement, criticism, and most of all, discussion.
THE PROFESSIONAL 3: Top 3 Mustaches 1) DAN “THE BEAST” SEVERN
2) DUTCH MANTELL (WWE’S ZEB COLTER)
How can we not mention Dirty Dutch? The international legend, who’s been involved with wrestling for over 40 years, has been known for having the most outlandish mustache in the history of the business. Completely symmetrical on each side when it came to length, Dutch’s mustache has lasted the tests of time. Whether as a monster heel in Puerto Rico, Memphis, managing the Blus in WWF, booking in PR and TNA, and back to WWE as Zeb Colter, the lip spinach stayed in its entire outrageous nature. You can’t mention mustaches without mentioning this vile Tennessean. 
