Robert Allyn

@robertallyn

About

Robert Allyn became Gordon Solie's son-in-law in 1971 whenhe wed Pamela Sjoblom. For the next thirty years, he was active in outsidesales and sales management.

 Along the way, heserved for ten years on community athletic boards and coached youth soccer for18 years.

 In 2005, Robert andPamela Allyn wrote the Florida Best Seller, “Gordon Solie: Something LeftBehind,” a scrapbook format featuring writings by Gordon Solie accompanied byover 150 photographs related to Gordon Solie.

This rekindledRobert's interest in writing which started when he was sports editor for hishigh school paper. It also generated TV appearances in Tampa along withnumerous radio interviews, an appearance at the St. Petersburg Times ReadingFestival and the Tampa WrestleReunion (72 pro wrestling stars on hand. Sincethen, Robert has attended events such as the National Wrestling Alliance 60thAnniversary (Atlanta), Wrestlemania XXIV (Orlando), Legendsmania (Atlanta) andLucha Libre USA (Charlotte).

 After the release of “TheSolie Chronicles” in 2009, Robert has been interviewed over 40 times in printand radio including ESPN Radio, the Captain's America Show, the Miami Heraldand a syndicated book review on Scripps Howard News Service.

In 2011, Robert released “Writings by Gordon Solie,”personal memoirs from Gordon Solie in an eBook for Amazon Kindle Readers.

Robert currently writes a weekly feature for 1wrestling.com,one of America’s top internet pro-wrestling websites.