When you come back through El Paso, stop by and see me.’ We did … and he trained us.”Įddie Guerrero, Gory’s son, was one of the youngsters watching the twins learn the mat game in Juarez, Mexico. We sure love rasslin’, and we’ve done a lot of rasslin’ between each other, but we’d be interested in gettin’ into it.’ He said, ‘Go ahead and finish your engagement for Honda. “Gory Guerrero came up to me and Billy and thought we were gonna wrestle. Gory Guerrero approached them about wrestling. I also had a deal worked out with Holiday Inn where we’d stay at night, and we’d ride into town and give autographs at a dealership for a couple hours.”ĭuring the cross-country trip, they stopped in El Paso, Texas and went to the wrestling matches. We rode a hundred miles a day and it took us thirty days. “We worked out a deal with Honda Motorcycle Company and rode mini-bikes from New York to L.A. In an interview with Scott Teal’s Whatever Happened to …? publication a while back Benny McGuire talked about the cross-country promotion. They appeared several times on The Tonight Show. They called themselves the McGuire twins because announcers in foreign countries had difficulty pronouncing McCrary. In the 1970s, the twins traveled around the world as tag team partners. It was taken as they rode across country for a Honda promotion. at 54.īenny and Billy, whose real last name was McCrary, at 814 pounds and 784 pounds in the Guinness Book of World Records, are most widely recognized in a famous photograph of them on motorcycles. Benny McGuire, half of the famous giant McGuire twins, died Monday of heart failure in Hendersonville, N.C.
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