How can I tame a mean rooster?

We have a bantam roo who is only mean towards my wife. He never approaches me.
She has picked him up, forcing love is what she calls it. We've even tried carrying him by his feet in front of the girls.
If she sees him coming, she will kick at him. One time even sending him flying down the hill. Yet he still persists.
If I'm in the lot taking care of water and feed, he goes to the other end. But she's even been attacked while feeding and watering. The last time this happened, she snatched him up by his tail feathers and slung him up against the fence.
Like I said, he never approaches me.
Any ideas? We're both approaching 60 years of age, so catching him can be a challenge. But if she does, his neck will be rung...

Oh yeah. We have a game hen that he has been brutal with. Tearing out part of her comb, and not just plucking feathers from the back of her neck, but even tearing flesh and leaving nasty looking wounds.
 
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Ive heard to show them you are the lead rooster by either pinning them down or taking their feet turning them upside down until they calm down. Ive not tried these things myself but its worth a go if your trying to tame him.
 
I can say my rooster was awesome til he became a man. Then he started going after my grandbaby. Never while I was watching. I thinking he was fixing to get ready for one of the hens and she may have come up too soon. Anyway she won't go back in the pen now sadly. He jumped at me but never has touched me. I carry a stick with me now and just raise it and he goes the other way. If he attacks me he will be set free and I have a dog that chases anything that runs ready to play. Hopefully it never comes to that. He was a great baby and I guess becoming a man is typically keeping him in trouble which is his name anyway.
 
I tamed my boys by cradling them like infants. I wait till bedtime when they are in the coop. I have two six month old Roosters. One silky bantam and one SL Wyandotte. It takes time and work, but you need to be sure they understand you are the flock leaders, he is just there for the ladies. Otherwise, I'd recommend re-homing. I am never aggressive to my chickens or Roos.
 

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