the legend of bullyson

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"Bullyson" About The Legend

“Bullyson” was whelped sometime in the 1960’s, I belive by the old “Eli” dog. He was justone of many well thought of dogs in that litter. I was living in Oklahoma at the time. Awhile later “Bullyson’s” littermate was doing well in our sport, but we in the game hadn’theard much of “Bullyson”.

Then one weekend we travelled to a north Texas town for a big show. There were lots ofdog folks present. In our crowd there were the likes of Earl Tudor, Don Maloney, WaymonDavis, Jerry Beene, myself and many more.It was Bert Clouse vs Bobby Hall with Maurice Carver the referee. When Bobby cameover the pit with “Bullyson”, you new something different was going on. The dog acted likea crazy dog, or a maniac, or the devil in disguise.When they turned them loose all hell broke loose. Everybody there, was at attention. Thisblack son-of-a-gun just simply ate Bert’s “Red” alive. At the final scratch, Bobby couldn’thardly contain the dog in his corner and he was scared that the crazy son-of-a-gun wasgoing to bite him. This was the worst kind of man eater when conditions were normal, andthey sure weren’t normal then.

When turned loose “Bullyson” zipped across and the match was over. Number one forBobby Hall and “Bullyson”.Sometime later, for reasons unknown to me, Bobby sold “Bullyson” to Red Walling and MrWalling decided that Maurice Carver was his man with this dog.

Again, this dog was known on several occasions, when someone was moving him a carand he was loose, to sorta go off his rocker Despite these problems, they often hauledhim loose, I think because it was so hard to put him in a carrying case. On the move fromHall’s in Houston to Carver’s place in San Antonio, Mr Raymond Holt was elected to carrythe dog. As usual, “Bullyson” was carried loose in the car. Raymond told me, that the onlyway he could keep “Bullyson” from jumping on him during the trip was by playing with histesticles. That’s a helluva deal, No?

Anyway, Maurice got the dog and he was scared to death of him all the time he had him. Istopped by Maurice’s often and I could park my big rig right by his house. I have seen“Bullyson” jump two or three times right up into the sky above his cable, opening hismouth and biting the air, making terrible sounds.

At the time, Maurice said to me “You know me, and you know how I am when I have a

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dog in a keep. I like to move my wife into another room and bring the dog into the housewith me, watch TV with him and such and just become the best of friends” Maurice hadthe feeling that if he was going to the pit with a dog he wanted to be his friend. He oftensaid, “If I’m going to get down on my knees and ask a dog to take a killing for me, I wanthim to be a friend of mine” Both he and I had our doubts that “Bullyson” had anypermanent friends.

Eventually, “Bullyson” was matched into Ed Weaver’s “Sir”. Several of us from Oklahomacame down for this one, including my oldest son Bobby Lee. Again it was the same oldstory, “Bullyson” just wrecked Ed’s “Sir” dog. Maurice said to me shortly after the matchthat he thought Ed would have brought something. Number two for “Bullyson”

Don Mayfield made a comment right after this match that I readily agreed with. Don said,he thought Ed Weaver should be commended for even going into “Bullyson”, as mostpeople were already spooked by him. This wascertainly the case after the second match.

Later, I heard that “Bullyson” was matched again. This time it was into Rick Halliburton.The dog Rick was said to be using was reported to be a son of “Bullyson”, which turnedout to be true.

It was a big match. My wife and my son Bobby Lee travelled some 200 miles for thisshow, staying at a real fancy hotel. On the morning of the match, Maurice and I almostoverslept.and it was Don Mayfield who woke us up and led us some 50 miles to theplace. Maurice, Pat, “Bullyson”, Doris, Bobby Lee and I were the last ones to leavefollowing Mayfield. There were people present from all over the US, Canada and Mexico.I was kidding Maurice later, about him wishing that Mayfield would not have found himthat morning.

I, along with many others, had the belief that “Bullyson” could whip Russia and China too.We thought that this was the dog of all pit dogs It was the last time I gave 2:1 odds andlost (not a good bet if you win and hell if you lose)Anyway, speaking about how sharp a dog man I was, I didn’t even go and check withHalliburton to see what he had. He was a good friend of mine and would have told me.But I just thought “Hell Rick, you’re crazy! This is Bullyson and you don’t have a chance”

At match time, Maurice made a deal that he would enter the pit last. He didn’t want to stayin the corner with “Bullyson” for an extended time. When he entered, Rick was ready andso was the referee, Floyd Boudreaux.Maurice didn’t even set “Bullyson” completely down. He dropped him two or three inchesand turned him loose. The match was on.

As Don Mayfield said in his report, it was obvious pretty quick that if “Bullyson” was goingto get there today, it was not going to be a blowout. After a while “Bullyson” turned. Hescratched good and then “Benny Bob” scratched good. After this “Benny Bob” started toget faster and “Bullyson” got slower.

I want to note here, that “Bullyson” was a smaller dog and about three years older thanhis opponent. Everything that “Bullyson” did, “Benny Bob” came back and did it better. Atthe end their stifles looked like you had shot them full of buckshot.

Finally, it was “Bullyson’s” turn to go. Maurice faces him...When released, “Bullyson”turned his head a little to the right. His tongue is out. He don’t move! At the count of 6,

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Maurice stepped over the dog and threw in the towel. He then asked Mr Boudreaux tosee if he could get him to go, since Floyd had had a small part in raising him. Floyd tookhim, straightened his head and released him. The result was the same. He tilted his heada little to the right and stood there.

After this, Floyd picked “Bullyson” up, handed him over the pit to Maurice, who turned andwalked off with the dog.I talked to a man a few days ago who lives in Huntsville, Texas, some four miles fromJerry Clemmons. Clemmons who oened “Bullyson’s” dam, is a Lab Technician. He toldthis man, that he had taken blood from “Bullyson” the day before the match. He’d saidthat the blood count was about half what it should have been, maybe because Mauricehad been breeding him.

But again, both Maurice and I thought that there was no dog that could whip “Bullyson”.Don Mayfield, who had a fine magazine at the time, put a picture of the pit on the cover ofhis next issue. The picture, taken just before the match, showed Rick holding “BennyBob” in his corner with Norman Hooten and Robert Conn looking on. Mr Mayfield wrote anice story about the match for that issue.

Years later, he wrote another account of the same match. That latter account was quitedifferent from the first. To me, it was a shame to see a story written later that downgradeda man who was dead and not able to defend himself. I understand from reliable sourcesthat when Jerry Clemmons took his bitch to Floyd Boudreaux to breed her, he intended tobreed her to one of Boudreaux’s well known brindles, “Boze”. However, when he ranacross a solid black dog, he thought that he’d found just what he needed. So he backedher up to this black dog and made dog history with the litter of pups.

The black dog was the old “Eli” dog.

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