No Holds Barred With Eddie Goldman
No Holds Barred: Eddie Goldman and Bob Carson on the Legacy of Manny Yarbrough
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On this edition of No Holds Barred, host Eddie Goldman once again spoke with Bob Carson, the host of Carson's Corner. Our topic was the life and legacy of the sumo wrestler and martial artist Manny Yarbrough, who passed away at age 51 a few days ago. A GoFundMe page has been set up to raise funds to transport his body from Virginia, where he lived, to New Jersey, where his mother lives, and to assist his family. The page is here. We spoke with Bob Carson by Skype Wednesday. Much of what has been written about Manny Yarbrough has come from people who didn't know him or, worse, care about him, and included numerous factual inaccuracies. The people who did know him know that he was not only a giant of a man in stature and size, standing six-foot, eight-inches tall and often weighing over 600 pounds, but he was also a giant of a person, multi-talented, caring, thoughtful. We discussed how he was a product of the historically Black college Morgan State in Baltimore, where he played football and wrestled, bec