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In advance of Dark Side of the Ring episode on Vice TV looking at the controversial life beyond his chosen field as a professional wrestler, Johnny K-9: My life with the Pro Wrestler Turned Serious Gangster was officially published on 9/26 by Tracy Kayser, the wife of Ion William Croitoru aka Johnny K-9 (in the WWF), Bruiser Bedlam (in SMW) and Taras Bulba in Texas.
Promotional material for the 413 page book, which is now available on Amazon, notes:
This book is the story of a once young and very troubled Vancouver stripper's marriage and life, that spanned over a twenty-four turbulent year relationship with the wrestler turned biker; Johnny K-9. With her coming from a troubled childhood, drinking and stripping at the tender age of 16 years old, she was then on the serious hunt for a tough guy boyfriend to protect her from the world. She was completely intoxicated most of the time, being a stripper in the company of many bad boys living in Vancouver, British Columbia.
She had no kids at 25, being free like a bird flying across the country to disrobe in Hamilton Ontario in 1993, where she met the big guy, in a dark, shady strip bar in Burlington Ontario. She fell harder in love than the booze she poured. It was love at first laugh, with the one-in-a-million man of her dreams and she called him Johnny Bouns. He called her Flame. He stood six feet tall with muscles on top of muscles, weighing in at a whopping 300 lbs. They had 2 kids. They were in mad love.
However, she got much more than she bargained for. She only wanted a guy with huge muscles. But he was so much more than that. Her gym-owner wrestler guy began hanging out with some vicious murderous drug-dealing characters, in hopes of getting rich fast. In his mind, If he couldn't be a wrestling star he was going to be the 'baddest of the bad,' and be a ruthless gangster making big money instead just like his oldest brother. Then she was not only high on cocaine and intoxicated with whisky and wine, but was now drunk in love with her man Johnny. She couldn't leave her action-packed marriage with her motion picture of a husband and father to her children and she thought she had nowhere to run.
Yet, once the murder charges came in, her hair caught fire!. It was very clear they were both on a rollercoaster of a ride that took her so far down into the darkest depths, of addiction, and him in and out of the prison system. The death threats were mounting, everyone tried to warn them and the overdose almost took her out, completely. But she was barely scathed by somehow coming out of it and miraculously popped back up for air, surviving all of it!
Finally, after his untimely death, she became the best version of her sober self raising her two kids alone. It is a raw and very real account of what happened, no pretense as she unapologetically drags her past out into the light so the world knows what happened to Johnny." Tracy," he said to her on the last legs of his journey, "I am dying, you gotta write my book. Please Flame, tell the world the truth." After his funeral and her tears dried up she sat down and opened up her laptop to fulfill his dying wish. She kept her word. Mission accomplished.
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