was the top local "babyface" and a major star in the New England area throughout the 1960s. Scarpa's bloody feud with Bull Curry caused several riots at the Boston Arena. Tony Santos also established a wrestling camp to train young athletes for a career in pro wrestling. The Santos wrestling school existed at a time when it was very difficult for an outsider to break into the industry. As one of the few training facilities operating in the country, it was featured in Wrestling Revue and advertised in other popular magazines of the era. The school's instructors included Big Time Wrestling mainstays Bull Montana (Fred Pantano), Gypsy Joe (Tony DeMore) and Gene Dundee (Gene Santos) among others. Longtime BTW Women's Champion Alma Mills, the cousin of Al and Tiny Mills, was the head female instructor. The Tony Santos Wrestling School, located at 269 Massachusetts Avenue, produced Les Thatcher and Rufus R. Jones among others. Other future National Wrestling Alliance and World Wide Wrestling Federation stars also got their start with Tony Santos such as Pat Patterson, Luke Graham, Duke Savage, Frank Shields and Carlos Colon. Robbie Ellis, then a member of the Amherst College wrestling team, also attended the Santos wrestling school. He drove down to Boston on Sunday mornings and underwent half a dozen training sessions under Bill Graham in exchange for $200. A number of wrestlers passed through Big Time Wrestling early in their careers, including Chris Colt (then known as The Magnificent Maurice Chevalier), Dominic DeNucci, Don Carson, Ron Dupree, Ron and Terry Garvin, Ronnie Hill, Mighty Ursus, Harley Race (who worked as The Great Gilroy), Cowboy Ron Reed, and Ricky Sexton. In 1967, Dusty Rhodes made his pro debut for Big Time Wrestling. Rhodes drove to Boston after seeing a newspaper advertisement for the Santos promotion, and despite not having any wrestling experience, bluffed his way into working for the company by using his real life friendships with Bobby Duncum and the Funk brothers. Billed as Dusty Runnels, one of his first matches was for the BTW World Heavyweight title against champion Frank Scarpa in the Boston Arena. Having little money, Rhodes slept in his car and spent Thanksgiving with Rufus R. Jones in a Boston soup kitchen. Big Time Wrestling also had a semi-regular women's division which included at various times Alma Mills, Bambi Ball, Rita Cortez, Lucille Dupree, Margaret Garcia, Mary Jane Mull and