He was first Tudor's Nigger then William's Nigger, Then Forsythe's Blackshine then Maloney's and Meriman's Blackshine for one day ,then J.E. Kings Nigger then Kennedy's Nigger then Gilman's Nigger then Mayfield's Nigger. He changed hands quiet often but no pups made it to fame till Mayfield got him with the exception of a couple from Tudor's yard. He wasn't the game dog everybody thinks he was but to his credit he produced 5 or 6 game hard fighting dog while Mayfield had him. Mayfield new this dog quit but wouldn't let himself believe it. Lots of the snot nosed kids get on the message boards and say he didn't quit. They weren't there, I was and for their sake I wish he hadn't quit. A wise man once said A Lie will die and the truth will live on. I look for this truth to live on. Maloney and Floyd Merriman bought him from A.B. Forsythe and brought him back the next day all cut up. They insisted he quit to Forsythe. They traded him back to A.B. for a little money and some junk. If he hadn't quit that time why did they bring him back all mad. I also witnessed his standing in the corner quiting before that incident. Everyone needs to ask Charlie Adkisson about him running from the Raccoon in the Oklahoma city flats when he got bit hard. I have patterdales terriers tougher than that. Forsythe told me never to reveal what had happened with Nigger he wanted to sell him. I kept it to myself about him quiting for a long time. I didn't even tell my closest friends. I finally let the cat out of the bag. I wish I'd had never told about those two deals and all the Nigger dog fans could be happy. I could have bought him for 15 dollars. Charley Adkisson can varify the 15 dollar sales pitch.I wished I had bought Nigger after seeing some of the dogs he produced for Mayfield but it is hard for me to buy a dog that stops for any amount of money. Some young doggers said I told this because I was trying to hurt Don Mayfield. That is bullshit. I liked the late Don Mayfield and considered him a friend even though he changed mentally through the years. I still think he was one of the greatest dog men and conditioners of all times. I do believe he could have traded the dogs he fought into his opponents dogs and still won on most occasions. Mayfield was that good with the dogs. If the young men that think Nigger was a game dog want to live in that dream world that is there privileged. I should have bought Nigger and tried to buy Bullyson who I put in the same category as Nigger. Two sorry curr dogs that were good bred top producers.

I will tell you a little something about Asbury Beaty Forsythe one of the owners of The dog that ended up with the name Mayfields Nigger. A.B. was born July 28 1910 and died May 15, 1988. He went by A.B. and everyone called him that. He was quiet a guy. When he was a young man. He stole a truck load of Bat Manure. It is referred to as Bat Guano in the fertilizer world. When the law got hot on his trail he burned the evidence. That ended him being charged with truck theft and arson. For his reward for doing this. He spent several years in the Granite penitentiary here in Oklahoma. A.B. had two sons and a daughter. One of his sons Bobby got put in McAlester Penitentiary in Oklahoma for armed robbery. His son Bobby had asthma and during a riot which he wasn't really involved in got sprayed with teargas and died. This broke A.B.'s heart. He wrote Senators, Congressmen and the Governor in protest. He seem to get hold of a good dog on occasion and would call me. I would come down and check him or her out. He cheated me a few times. He would always apologize and say, I don't have much money and sometime I have to stretch the truth to make a dollar. He said Randy you work and make good money and can afford to be honest. My wife didn't like me going over to A.B.'s home. She thought he was an evil old man. He was a pretty shady character but I liked him because as I've told people a hundred times. I like anyone that likes me. No matter what they have done. I will tell you a story about A.B. that is unbelievable. He had a pitbull that had a spot on in back where the skin was gone. It was about 4 inch by six inches. He had caught a stray dog and cut a peice of skin, hair and all off the stray and had attempted to patch the spot on the pitbulls back that was missing. When I saw it it was close to the same color of white but the hair was a different thickness and a little longer. He had sewed it on when I saw it. The thread had been removed. I'm not sure if it stayed on or rotted away later. It looked like it was going to stay on the pitbulls back forever and looked healed but who knows. I did not think to ask about it later and didn't see the pitbull again. A.B. like to play jokes on people. One day I took a guy over to A.B. forsythe's house. A.B. always had old tires for sale. This guy was looking for some tires. When we drove up A.B.'s house for a joke he came out of the house with a gun that looked like a machine gun. He screamed at us and said I'm fixing to kill you thieving S.O.B.'s. The man jumped out of my car and took off running. A.B. ran after him for a few seconds. Which scared him even more. He didn't stop running for several blocks. I drove after him to bring him back. When I caught up with him. He said take me home. He wouldn't go back to A.B.'s even though I explained how he was just teasing. He was so scared he was shaking. So I took him home. A.B. called me that evening and was tickled to death to have scared that poor guy half to death. His wife told me sometime later. A.B. took that gun and scared a young man real bad. He was coming to buy a dog. The boy lost control of his car as he drove away in fear and ran over the gas meter across the street and never came back.