Danny Burton and Gr. Ch. Hank. Don't let anything you read on this web make you want to fight dogs or you may have to leave your family and go to prison.   Don Mayfield on the left, Dwight Hathoway on the right  and Danny Burton in the center some of the greatest pitdog men in the early days. Danny and I matched each other twice. I beat him with Alvin. He beat me with Alligator. The next one would have been for the rubber match but it never happened and never will due to the fact we both no longer fight dogs. We both have lots of memories that can't ever be taken away but society has nosed into peoples business and stopped dogfighting as it was. Once upon a time years ago Danny match a dog called Little man into a man that moved to Oklahoma from California named Tom waggoner. Tom had a good little red dog. They got in a little fuss during the match. I called Danny over to me. Danny was a tough young man back then and wanted to whip Tom. I explained to him, Tom had several friends with guns with them and would shoot Danny if a fight broke out. Danny settled down. Tom was fresh out of the Ohio state penitentiary and had picked up some hard ways. There was a young man that was aggravating Tom at the fights once. Tom told him If I'd had you in the penitentiary with me I'd had you plucking your eyebrows and wearing lipstick. Tom was at a bar in the town I lived in. He called me and said come on down and lets have a few beers and talk bulldogs. There was a girl in the bar playing pool. She had on a skirt made from levi material. It was split up both sides. Tom said I wonder if she is wearing leather underwear. He walked over to her while she was bent over shooting a shot. He picked up the back of her skirt and looked at her butt. He yelled at me, no she wearing pink panties. She went to the pay phone all red faced and mad. She called someone. In about 30 minutes a big biker guy with chains hanging all over him came in and walked over to her. She started telling him what happened to her. Tom walked toward him pulled out his gun stuck it in his face and said I'm the one that did it. Now it is your move. The biker did nothing just got the girl and left and never did come back. Tom was rolling some dogs at Dick Strattons place. Everyone there got arrested. Everyone got out of it but Tom. Tom was on probation and had to go back and serve some more time due to fighting dogs. This is all history. Don't fight dogs unless you like jail. Cates and Nigerino Lloyd's Ch. Gator from the old days.

	This is an Historical picture Tudor's Ch. fighting Peter one of the all time greats out of the past.    In the early 60's when I started fighting dogs it was unlawful to do so. It was not a felony yet. Law enforcement agencys did nothing to stop it. Matter of fact the local county sheriff was at one of my matches betting on my dog. Today law enforcement agencies and peoples attitudes have changed. They feel that taking a man to jail leaving his children fatherless crying for daddy. Plus taking a man to jail leaving a his wife with no financial support is not cruel. Yet they feel fighting a dog is cruel. Crimes against the family go unpunished but crimes against animals go severaly punished. There are more horses killed racing than dogs that die from fighting. A horse is put down almost everyday from broke legs at the track. You will attend lots of dogfights before you see one that is killed. Deer hunting is accepted, because hunters claim they need the meat. That is hogwash you can buy meat. I'm not going to lie about the hunt. I like to hunt because I get a rush when I pull the trigger. That is much more exciting then eating them. It is much crueler than fighting a dog. The deer screams in pain when he is shot and drags his dieing body through the woods where we track blood spots till we find the body. I would much rather be a fighting dog with a 50-50  chance to win, than any other animal in any other sport. I know longer fight dogs and don't you fight dogs unless you like jail. A man gave a rebuttal to this statement saying you don't pet deer but you do pet dogs. When I had my wildlife farm. You could pet half the deer I had and everone looked forward to it. They hugged them ,petted them and brushed them. So that rebuttal is hogwash also. Weldon Stockton and Don Mayfield. This was back in the day.

	Click on the colored picture of Strider and see more. Strider has Cassius Clay down in this photo as one of the handlers Don Divine is looking down encougaging their dog. This picture is not to encourage dogfighing but just the opposite. You can see the punishment that took place. Above is the Divine's famous Cassius Clay dog. This is the famous Maurice carver and Don Divine  Above is one of the best dogmen that ever lived Mr. Ralph Green and Strider in another Battle. The above colored photo is the famous Strider dog. He won lots of fights and when Maloney got him he lost with him to the famous Cassius Clay dog. Don Maloney told me it was Strider's turn to go at about the two hour mark and he took the count.. He told me Cassius wouldn't go either but won because he didn't have to scratch. I took Maloney's statement with some doubt. I'd like to here comments from Divine on this match. I had a friend varify this the other day and had the magazine report at a friends house . Anyway Cassius won and Strider quit but Strider was one of them good dogs that was just fought to much and his fight face left him. You have to give both dogs credit they hurt each other and went a long ways down the road. Dogs do funny things when they go that long sometimes. A dog only has so much fight in him. Just like a battery in you car only has so many cranks. It varys from dog to dog. Just like one car battery will last 2 years and another 6 years. Don made a match with Strider and couldn't go so Charlie Adkisson and Myself took Strider to Arkansas and won with him not to long after this loss. He fought a fairly long fight scratched good for us. We handed Jerry Beene the money to hold and the opposition handed Beene the money to hold. When we were handed the winnings it was 100 dollars short. I'm not sure what happened or who got the 100 dollars. When Charlie sees trouble he gets a little crazy. He wanted to whip Beene and Lightning. Lightning Billy who was the opposition also gets a little crazy. I talked Charlie into leaving rather than have Lightning Billy shoot us. I explained to him, he and I couldn't win we didn't have a gun.