This week, it's part two of our conversation with Dr. Mike Lano, a guy who has just about seen it all in his 40-plus years as a ringside photographer. If you missed the first part of our chat, read it right here. If you want to see a photo gallery of Dr. Mike's work, click right here. You won't be disappointed!

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Dr. Mike Lano is a bit torn by World Wrestling Entertainment. While he loves its glorious past, he's not always fond of today's product.

Lano, 50, grew up photographing wrestlers ringside and backstage. Over the years, he says he has great memories of the big shows in New York City.

"I definitely loved shooting WWWF (back when Vince McMahon's father ran the show)," Lano said. "There was nothing better than a Bruno Sammartino title defense at Madison Square Garden. Vince Sr.'s cards were usually fantastic."

Fast-forward a few decades and Lano is still on board with the DVDs the WWE puts out -- especially the ones featuring Mick Foley, Dusty Rhodes and Ric Flair. He also finds himself enjoying WWE's "24/7" cable offering. Where he parts ways is with the sex Vince Jr. has injected into the product since the "Attitude" era began in the 1990s.

"We all love beautiful babes, but can we lose all the bikini contests simply to add 0.1 ratings point?" Lano asked. "Non-athlete 'divas' have nothing to do with wrestling. Let's see more kick-ass matches. If I had kids, I wouldn't let them watch Edge and Lita pretend to have sex. The non-wrestling junk is inappropriate for a lot of ages."

You'd think Lano would then launch into what a bad guy Mr. McMahon is -- how he's ruining the industry. But Lano doesn't. In fact, just the opposite. He says McMahon once invited him and other wrestling journalists to the WWE home base in Stamford, Conn., for a close-up look at the operation. And he says Vince couldn't have been a nicer guy.

"Some of his product is bad, but in person he's nice," Lano explained. "He's got at least two sides. A lot of us don't care for some of the things he does, but he can be personable. I just wish there was more wrestling and less filler."

Yep, Dr. Mike is definitely connected. But maybe the connection he's proudest of is The Cauliflower Alley Club, which is dedicated in part to helping wrestlers past their prime.

"A lot of the money goes to helping indigent wrestlers, wrestlers that need some hospital care," he said. "Being Cauliflower Alley's photographer since the early '80s, I've seen some of them living in poverty, which is sad after they made a lot of money for promoters and others. Few transitioned well into retirement. Some had major health problems that sapped whatever money they had. Few saved any money other than a handful of my friends, like Fred Blassie, Lou Thesz and Buddy Rogers."

Another wrestling icon Lano has spent time with is the great Ric Flair ("he always picks up the tab"). But he worries about Flair's future.

"I'm always interested in what Flair is doing," Lano said. "He can overcome anything, but it's sad to see how he's aged in the past four years. He can still do all the Flair things, but he's sort of like Sugar Ray Leonard and Muhammad Ali. He can't seem to stop being The Nature Boy. We know he loves taking those bumps, but physically he'll pay for it later. At least he's far more athletic than Hulk Hogan at this age.

"The guy was just so magical pre-1990. I just don't know how he's going to go silently into that long dark night."

Lano's photograph of Flair and Sting is featured on Naich's 2004 autobiography, "To Be The Man." It was one of those moments where he was in the right spot at the right time -- a witness to mat history.

Lano, who started shooting when he was just 10 years old in 1966, says he still gets great stuff with his digital camera.

"I kind of know the succession of moves," he said. "A lot of times you know what they're going to do in advance and you have to be that way with a digital camera. You have to hit and press the shutter two seconds before the dropkick happens or you're not going to capture it.

"In the old days, the guy might put a headlock on a guy for three, four minutes, and you could get an outstanding action photo. But now, you just have to be boom, boom, boom."

So how many photos has he taken over the years? No one may ever know that number, even Dr. Mike. Let's just say it's a lot.

"We have a two-and-a-half story home that is crammed with my negative slides, hard images, and two offsite storage areas that are crammed with the same," he said. "Plus, I have about 10,000 video tapes."

He also has a pal who owns a comic book store in Berkely, Calif. The second floor is a museum dedicated to Lano's photos and memorabilia.

"We don't charge a thing," Lano said. "It gets the stuff out of my house and out of my wife's hair. My collection dates back to the late 1880s, which includes three Gorgeous George original bobby pins … plus a bit of his hair when he had it shaved in 1962 after losing to my friend Dick "The Destroyer" Beyer in a famous hair vs. mask match."

As for Dr. Mike's favorite photo -- he couldn't pin it down. Too many shots taken, too many years gone by. But he did mention one wild night at the Chicago Amphitheatre.

"Every time I went (there) I got to see a riot," he said. "That was the place where a fan didn't like (AWA Champion) Verne Gagne, who was a babyface defending against Nick Bockwinkle. He (the fan) actually took out a gun and tried to shoot Verne Gagne. He ended up not hitting Verne, but some fans at ringside."

Wild night, indeed. And a wild career, still going strong. So after all these years, what is it about pro wrestling that keeps Dr. Mike interested as ever? It comes down to a five-letter word.

"Wrestling is like magic," he said. "Unfortunately Vince let the secret out, but there's still some of the old misdirection and mystique dating back more than 100 years."

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