June 30, 1979 - Chris Taylor (8) - D. Heath

An Olympic Gold medalist, heavyweight wrestler Chris Taylor loved to eat, once stopping at a MacDonald's before continuing on to a Sports Illustrated interview at a steak house, where he ate two more dinners. He tipped the Toledos somewhere north of 300 pounds, and that, combined with the exertion inherent in his sport, was too much for D. Heath to pass up.


July 14, 1979 - Billy McCrary (7) - Ghostwriter, P. & E. Hepner

Discovered by a photographer from Life magazine, Billy and Benny McCrary were the world's heaviest twins, at 743 and 723 pounds with 84 inch waists. They went for show biz with their newly found notoriety and appeared in Vegas where they played trumpets and told jokes with 400-pound go-go dancers. Then they made a splash on the sporting scene as tag team wrestlers and mini-bike riders doing daredevil stunts in cowboy outfits. Sensing too much of a good thing, Ghostwriter and the Hepners each collected seven points when Billy died of injuries after a mini-bike stunt gone wrong in Niagara Falls. In mourning, Benny erected the world's largest granite gravestone (yet another superlative), 13 feet wide and weighing three tons, etched with their beloved mini-bikes, on view today in Hendersonville, North Carolina. Benny himself died of heart failure in March of 2001, at the age of 54.


July 22, 1979 - "Two Ton Tony" Galento (4)

Rounding out the Big Summer was a fun-loving band of fight fans scoring a K.O. on boxer "Two Ton Tony" Galento, famous for replying to an inquiry about his thoughts on William Shakespeare by saying, "I'll moider da bum." He knocked down Joe Louis in their 1939 title match, but lost the bout after Louis got back up. Uh oh. In bow ties and white shirts for the final 10-count were J. Basal, J. Corrigan, the great, great Morbo Chucks, D. Perriman Jr., and D. Perriman Sr.

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