Famous old dogman and his dog   Earl Tudor and Johnny from the early days. Look how Earl cheated on his scratch. He lifts him up and as he set him down it gave him forward movement which is equal to a push. As A young boy we drove by Earl Tudors house every Sunday morning on our way to church. I'm not trying to say I'm any better than anyone else in this old world in these stories I tell. I Randy Fox have done my share of bad in my life but am going to tell these stories as I remember them. Earl wasn't a dogfighter to me back then. He was the local bootlegger. As I got older and listened to local gossip, I learned he was also a known dogfighter. I got acquainted with him in my late teens. My uncle Skeet Mccasland Hauled Whiskey for him when he was young. My dad who my mother ran off when I was two years old hauled booze for Tudor a time or two also. Earl kept a bad dog just for protecting his stash. Under that bad dog's house was a container full of prize liquor. Just lift it up and get what you need. Revenuers would search his place but when walking by that mean dog they jumped back out of the way and they didn't have any idea what was hid under his doghouse. They came in Earls house once and tore the boards all around the windows on the west wall looking for liquor that might be hid in the walls. Earl said he had to buy the material to fix it hisself. I went to the dogfights on one occasion and Earl was crying, saying I don't know how to die. He was recovering after a stroke. I told my mother about that. She said she was going to go by and invite him to church. I'm sure she did. A few years earlier Don Maloney a follower of Tudor's was fighting a dog with Jimmy Jobe. Jobe made some smart remark about Maloneys dog. Maloney hit him in the face and made him bleed. Earl Tudor was drinking. He jumped up thinking it was a big fight. He was screaming where are they at Don. Red martin approached poor old drunk Earl trying to settle him down. Earl was around 80 then. Earls eyes were big as saucers and he couldn't see a foot in front of his face. He had lost lots of his vision. He jabbed and hit Red Martin a couple of times in the face. Red said Earl it is me and Earl recognized his voice and settled A little. Earl would rather fight than eat. Jobe told maloney lets fight dogs and not each other. Like the curr dog Jobe was in my opinion. I didn't care for that pothead Jobe. I'm sorry if you liked him, I didn't. I had a friend that went with me to the dogfights one day and brought his pretty little blond wife. They set down at Pitside and she ended up setting by Earl Tudor. Earl was drunk. Earl kept looking down between her legs. All of a sudden he put his hands between her legs and rubbed her there. She jumped sideways getting away from him and traded places with her husband. I saw this happen. It was a little funny and a little weird all at the same time. We talked about it on the way home. My friend wasn't really mad but was a little weirded out about it. I didn't know what to say to him to undue what had happened and I never did mentioned it again to him, nor did he to me. He never went to another dogfight as far as I know. I compare Bootlegging to drug dealing today. When they made it legal to have liquor here in Oklahoma it ruined Earls finances. People didn't have to buy from a bootlegger so not much money was generated anymore. Earls old house went unpainted and all the improvements stopped. I feel if they would legalize drugs the same thing would happen to drug dealers but who knows. There are lots of stories about Earl Tudor down where he lived. People say he was shot several times. They say his brother in law even shot him once. Maurice told the story he took two whores down there for Earl to play with and by doing this he got to breed Black Widow to Dibo. Mayfield has convinced his following that Tudor dogs were the Core of all the best. Earl had no standard inbred bloodline. His dogs came from everywhere. So the core comes from everywhere. Earl stole dogs. He was involved in the theft of Dibo's sister. He ended up with a dog that was never paid for that was taken from a man near Wilson, Oklahoma. Armitage speaks about this in his book. Through the years many a stolen dog ended up at his place. He changed papers. He did all the unethical things that dogmen do. Earl told me once when you get a good dog put your papers on him and you will become famous. Well no matter how dishonest he got them, even if he changed the papers on them. He still acquired some of the best and bred them to the best. Plus he checked them hard. Earl was a little mean and crazy when he wanted to be. He was still one of the best at the dog breeding and dogfight game. He didn't think he had the perfect dogs. The way I know this is as follows. He was always acquiring dogs from peopled to cross with his Stuff. He acquired dogs from anyone that had good dogs and would let him get one of them. He ask me several times to let him breed to Alvin and I refused. If I had let him. The pups would have been good and every outlaw known to the doggame would have been crawling on their belly stealing my dogs. Alvin produced some real good dogs but I kept it low key. I still liked Earl because he treated me right. There will be lots of dogmen that do not like me telling this truth about him. There is only one God. Mayfield or Earl Tudor are not to be worshiped. They were simply humans that stood out in the pit game. Please don't fight any dogs unless you like jail. This is all history. Who said pitbull men were normal.

	Tudor's Blackjack.   Earl Tudor's Blackjack one of the all time greats from the early days. This is History from the past. Neither of these men are connected with fighting dogs today. On the left is Ronnie Anderson, in the middle is Red Baron on the right is Tommy Sherwood sometimes called Oklahoma Shortie. I'm sure you remember Ronnie Anderson and his famous Tonka dog. Both these men have had many  great dogs. I like both of them and think they are great dogmen. This is all history Gene Matson is not involved in dogfighting this day and time. Gene Matson and the famous Fred-T dog. He is a good dogman from the past. This man helped Bill Carr out when he was down and about to die. That tells me he was not only a good dogman but also a good man. This is history and Bill Carr is no longer involved in dogfighting. This is the famous Bill Carr from the past. Bill has bred some great pitdogs. Bill along with his Carr's Maud off Uselton's Solomon and Uselton's Texas Star. Once upon a time in the 70's there were some fights taking place at Stroud, Oklahoma. A man with the name Logue was putting on the fights. Tommy Williams , Charlie Adkisson and myself went to the fights. Tommy was in the pit fighting his dog when a Sheriff's car pulled up and out popped two lawmen. I'm not sure if they were Stroud or county lawmen. They arrested Tommy and put him in their car. The referee and the other man with the dog in the pit ran. Mr. Logue approached the lawmen and told them to get off his place and he had a gun. The lawmen tried to get him to settle down. He said you don't drive on my place and start loading people and not show me any warrant. Mr. Logue Got Tommy by the arm and said get out of their car. Tommy did this. He told the lawmen to get in the car and head north and if he sees any head lights coming back he will shoot them out. They did what he said. The show was set up for three matches if I remember correctly and tommy's was the first one. They went ahead and finished that match and fought the rest of the fights with no trouble. I wanted to leave but had ridden with Charlie there and couldn't leave. I was as nervous as a cat on a hot tin roof. An Oklahoma state bureau of investigator by the name of Ledbetter came by my home a couple of weeks after this incident. Someone had talked to them about this and had given them names of who was there. They picked some of the people at random that were there and questioned them. I got on the list. They wanted to know why the sheriff's didn't come back. They were not interested in the dogfight at that time. I could not help them as I said. I do not know how he got away with it. I do not know if it was all show or real. I told him it looked real to me and he seemed mad. I know if I'd did something like that there would have been lawmen coming from everywhere like red ants. They would have swarmed me and everyone else and carried us away. The rumor was he was one tough man and no one to mess with. I'm convinced that is true. Dont let this encourage you to fightdogs. You may not know this but a dog will fight good when you test him at home. Yet when you take him somewhere to fight. He may or may not spook. Strange areas strange noises and strange things happen sometimes to a dog mentally in new surroundings. This sometime affect some dogs. I will not tell anyone how I worked a dog in the early days but will tell you a little about what I did while working a dog on the treadmill to stop spooking. Years ago when my dogs were being prepared to fight and they were working the treadmill. I would play music on a radio right beside the treadmill. It would be loud hardrock music. I would take two pans and jump around the dogs making quick movement beating the pans together. This was done the entire time they worked the treadmill. I will not tell you how long they spent on the treadmill. This noise and quick movement made the dog get use to any sounds and quick movement around the pit by the handler or people jumping around along the pitwall. This was real important to me. I have seen many a fighting dog distracted by handlers and by spectators that spooked their dog because of the loud nose and quick movement around the pit. This distraction usually happens in the first minute of the fight or when a dog starts getting tired. Danny Burton had a dog that spooked in the first minute of a match and it cost him a fight in the old days. I think he would have won that fight if his dog hadn't spooked. Just a little trivia from the past. Dont fight dogs unless you like jail.

	Swig This is the famous fighting dog Swig , That Mayfield wins with. Donald Eugene Mayfield was born in October 27,1937 and died July 15, 2006.  Once upon a time I went to Bobby Smith's Place. He took me out to where Marty Reed and Rick Haliburton had been killed at the chicken fights right outside Dallas. They had the tape bordering the investigation sight. They had paint around where the bodies had laid with blood all over the ground. The lawmen said one had run from the killers and one had run at the killers and both had died quckly at close range. Rick and Marty were top dogfighters of the the 70's. They had some fantastic dogs and a future ahead of them that got altered. I got A real funny feeling deep in my stomach looking at that mess. No one ever found who did this thing. I went to the dog fights shortly after this incident and set down by a fellow I knew. He said if he were me he'd move. I said why. He said because some people were accusing him of doing this crime and were there with guns to kill him. He didn't have to tell me that twice. I said, I'm out of here. I got up and moved. Nothing happened at that fight. I guess it was all talk and no one intended to do anything like they said. Sometimes people accuse people of things without proof and say they are going to do something about it but never do. There were stories going around of various crimes Marty and Rick committed that could have gotten them killed but the stories were never proven. I'll always remember these two guys and feel for their families.

The famous oldtimer 'Walter Komosinski '

Walter had many good dogs in the old days.