Baruni vs. Harley Lewis
Airdate: September 14-15, 2004
Location: The INTERNET!
Rebeaker: Sofa

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So, this started innocent enough. I check my mail on a warm Tuesday morn (Who Mourns For Morn?), and find this:

From: "Levyzinho Mendonca"
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 13:30:20 -0400
To: nick_togo@yahoo.com
Subject: Hello

This is Harley lewis,Im looking for Kevin Kelly,do you havehis email address?Thanks

So, ignoring the fact that he had two names, I forwarded him the email address of one Adam Baruni, former Weekly Visitor staff member and writer of the oft-missed Kevin Kelly's Did You Know. Which, at the time, I had thought was a sensible decision. I also asked him how long he's been a fan of Weekly Visitor.

And, I got this in reply:

From: "Levyzinho Mendonca"
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:03:46 -0400
To: "Nick Togo" -nick_togo@yahoo.com-
Subject: Re: Hello

>>Thanks this is Kevin Kelly`s email?Im not a fan.I have been wrestling for 11 years as Harley Lewis one of te Misfits,.

My initial reaction was disappointment, I had to admit, but that gradually changed into a sense of hilarity, as I realized Mr. Lewis thought that Weekly Visitor had at one point housed the REAL Kevin Kelly. I quickly informed Baruni that he would probably be receiving a very strange email shortly. The next day, Baruni responded by forwarding me this:

I guess your not Kevin Kelly,Somebody named Sofa gave me this address and said its his,Im Harley Lewis and if this is Kevin,stopp fucking with me dude..Peace out holmes

The wackiness climaxed with this number, forwarded to me by Baruni later that evening.

> Well lets see who`s not to sharpe,somebody pretending to be someone else,which is a MARK thing to do.Or myself who`s been all over the world holding NWA , Big Japan,IWA Japan WWC Puerto Rico, WWA Korea and numerous other titles as well as MMA Championships ,I know all writers want to be wrestlers but cant because they dont have the ability so they start writing dirt sheets and think there in the business which there not, the workers think your a joke because you guys think just because you know some of there real names and some news that you are important.But nobody cares about what you think,Have you ever been in the ring?Ofcourse not.Because you cant so you write about it instead. I just moved To Tampa and Kevin,who is a friend of mine called my voice mail to see if I was here yet but I lost his number and e-mail address,so I see your Mark site and see his picture and name and figured its him,big deal. Why do you have to pretend to be him?Cant you get over on your own?When I do get in touch with him Ill be sure to tell him that some Mark is using his name,Im sure he`ll like that. This is the end of this situation,your not allowed to e-mail this address again!

Wow, not only is he BIG TIME, but he's going to tell on us. AND Baruni isn't allowed to email him anymore. For impersonating Kevin Kelly and 'trying to get over.' Three years ago. And Weekly Visitor is apparently a 'dirt sheet' as well.

Now, normally, I generally have a certain amount of respect for the workers themselves, except for specific mooks like Tyson Tomko. However, I really think Mr. Lewis needs to have some common sense before throwing emails off into the void in his search for Kevin Kelly. Folks, I did some research, typing in "Kevin Kelly contact" and other such phrases into Google, and it is VERY difficult to find Weekly Visitor based upon these strings. Harley Lewis apparently did a lot of work to find us, and obviously checked none of the other information on the site other than contact information in his mad dash to locate Kevin Kelly.

The best of luck to you in your search, Harley Lewis, but for Christ's sake, look before you make a fool of yourself in front of Weekly Visitor's 5 whole readers.