Rick Link made his pro wrestling debut while still a teenager on March 1st, 1975 wrestling for Johnny Hunter's IWA. A life long wrestling fan (and former president of the Ron Garvin Fan Club!) Link began carving out a name for himself that included winning the EWA's Rookie of the Year award for 1975 and wrestling on television for the first time at age 16. Competing under different aliases including "Sir" Rickton Link from Great Britain and M.E.B -- the Man Eating Beast, the next 30 plus years would take him on an odyssey all over the world, squaring off against many of wrestling's toughest men including Bruiser Brody, the "Ragin' Bull" Manny Fernandez, the Barbarian, Ivan Koloff and others. He competed on a tour the Caribbean in Antigua and Mostserratt, West Indies promoted by wrestling icon Stu Hart in 1982. He went undefeated on the NWA's 1983 New Zealand tour, which included World Champion Ric Flair. He saw action in Samoa, Tonga and Hawaii wrestling for Lia Maivia, wife of High Chief Peter Maivia and The Rock's grandmother. His professional resume spans many of the industry's most celebrated territories. Link wrestled in Kansas City for Bob Geigel, in the Carolinas for Jim Crockett, in Georgia for Jim Barnette, in Memphis for Jerry Jarrett as well as more small regional than one could count.

As M.E.B. Link captured the NWA Central States Tag-Team Title with "Triple 6" Jim Star defeating Buzz Sawyer & Bulldog Bob Brown and also held the Central States TV Championship, defeating Art Crews. Perhaps his greatest career success came in Memphis, where as Man Mountain Link managed by Jimmy Hart and Andy Kaufman, he defeated Jerry the King Lawler to win the Southern Heavyweight Championship. Rick also holds the distinction of being one of the first men to pin Lawler two consecutive weeks in a row at the Mid South Coliseum.