Quality of Stud by Iron Mike

Quality of a stud is a matter of opinion, as we all know.
But an important factor is the bitch he is bred to.
No matter how game the stud is, if the bitch isn't up to the quality he is,
the odds are going to be that the percentage of good pups, in the litter, are going to be low.
I believe the most important part is the bitch.
So on to the reason why I finally decided to write this article.
The dog in question is Wise's Maximillian.
About 15 years ago or so we decided to try some Creed/Corvino blood.
We first seen some dogs over at an old friends of ours named Clarence Yates.
We heard a guy had a litter of pups for sale,
with some of the Creed blood in them, the pup we got ended up to be pretty game.
My grand-father did and my father still does own pit bulls.
So being around pit bulls all of my life, it didn't surprise me to see a game dog..
We met Pat Bodzianowski who spoke a lot about Ross' Red Devil a.k.a. Creeds Iron Dusty.
Red Devil was a controversial dog.
Some say Red Devil was never matched.
Some say he was as much as as 28 times.
I find that hard to believe, maybe chain weight, contacted and rolled. Anyway there is one thing, Tony, Pat and everyone involved in the breeding to Red Devil can agree on,
he did produced some hard biting game dogs.
That gets us to Wise's Maximillian.
I never bought a pup from Bob Wise, but I do own a lot of dogs with Max blood in them.
Max like Red Devil, was very controversial.
Some like Pat, because of dislike for Wise would say, Maximillian wasn't a son of Red Devil.
But a heavily inbred grandson.
Max was match, I know of by Barton of Anderson IN.
Max was game tested by Bob "according to Bob".
Bob was not liked by many people that owned Red Devil dogs for sport.
A lot of people felt he was a peddler because he studded Max for 150.00 to anything.
As we all know when you breed for quantity instead of quality like this, you are going to produced a lot of curs.
Vera Frasure had an excellent bitch named Bentley's Suzy-Q (De Cordova/Williams Blood).
Suzie Q was bred to Max twice and both times produced a high percentage of gamedogs.
This is where we got our dog Iron Taffy.
Another good bitch that was bred twice to Max was Wilder's Mitzie.
Mitzie was out of the old Hemphill's Geronimo dog himself!
We got a dog by way of Clyde Mason.
Out of this breeding, was Iron Spike.
For the past few years we have been doing some breeding and from time to time we let out just a few dogs,
just to prove that they are not hand made.
Well, recently we sent a dog down to Florida.
Two of my friends Jimmy and Roy got a male and raised it.
They got a match into a Devine dog, out of Bruce and Fancy.
Jimmy's dog was only 20 months old.
The Devine dog was 3 years old, owned by Larry.
Larry's people were saying Max dogs weren't no good and we were going to prove it.
Well after 1:30 Jimmy won.
The only thing I can figure is that they didn't like Bob Wise, so people judge Max that way.
Remember you judge a dog by himself NOT by his owner.
Oh, by the way, there were two other breeding to Maximillian.
The two bitches were litter mates sisters.
Their names were Polly and Brenda.
The owner and breeder was none other then Frank Creed.
So put this letter in a nut shell, what is good enough for Frank Creed is good enough for me.
This is not to discredit Bob Wise, who I personally like and respect.

YIS,
D.M. Norrod .

(SDJ-1985.)
In the original context and unedited by SDJ or anyone else.
"Iron Mike"