Middle Years
Ric Drasin married Ilene Walit in 1975. Walit was employed as a production secretary at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) motion picture studio when they met at Venice Beach in 1970. In 1978, the Drasins moved to Van Nuys, California, where they had purchased a home. They had two sons, Adam (born 1978) and Shane (born 1981).
When the marriage ended in divorce in 1983, the children remained with Drasin. He took his boys with him when he went to the gym, and they were at his side when he printed shirts in the garage for his T-shirt business, Expressions. During this timeframe Drasin also continued to work as an actor, stuntman, professional wrestler, and freelance writer. He chose to close his T-shirt business in 1984 after his name was stolen and used on goods of inferior quality.
In 1985, Drasin reorganized his old West Coast Wrestling Promotions into the American Wrestling Federation (AWF) and promoted wrestling shows in the Los Angeles and Bakersfield areas. He taught his son Shane how to wrestle, and he wrestled as “Shane '54” for the AWF from 1996 until 2001. Although Drasin's son Adam did not wrestle professionally, he occasionally worked as a referee for the AWF.
During 1987 at Gold's Gym in Northridge, California, Drasin met Randi Susan Weber (born 1964). They married in 1989 and had a daughter, Samantha Paige, nicknamed Sami (born 1991).
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