AshC
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#5 was scheduled to include, at various points...
SpoilerBig Bully Busick, Jim Neidhart and The Dragon
Some lovely questions, got most of them but struggling with the Ahmed opponents!
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They should pay up for the Wheel of Fortune music his dad used at Mania 6.
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I was maybe half a mile from Bret vs Owen for the WWF title in Cardiff, but not able to go as we'd been a few months earlier. Still not over it.
Hulk at Wembley for TNA as well. I was gutted.
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Imagine Borga had taken off huge and they did a massive show in Helsinki with him as the nation's hero. Get some of that sweet Finnish markka.
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Enjoyed the post @air_raid! 1997 is still such an interesting year.
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17 hours ago, air_raid said:
I was down a YouTube rabbit hole the other day, probably trying to find dark matches, when I came across a comment that left me dumbfounded. A guy claiming to be 35 put that he didnât get the appeal of âoldâ wrestling, that it just wasnât as âexciting,â and musing why he should watch Dusty Rhodes do an elbow when he could watch Mick Foley âfall offâ the Cell. Sent my train of thought to a bleak place where I wondered if even forums like this might end up populated by a generation that barely hold anything that predates Stone Cold or The Rock in regard, that never go back and watch any Ricky Steamboat, donât know who made up Strike Force, never experience the fun of watching Virgil get squashed by various monsters, and thereâs literally nobody left around that will care about the kind of thing Iâm going to post today.
I have a very good friend who falls into this category, started watching in 2000 or so and seems to have little to no interest in anything pre-1998!
Never seen WrestleMania 6, 7, 8, 9, 10... it baffles me, I must say. As someone who started in late 91/early 92 and then worked backwards after.
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1 hour ago, jazzygeofferz said:
Wasn't it supposed to be Lee Marshall & Brock Anderson Vs FTR this week? What happened there? Maybe that's why Archer's match ended up going long.Â
Lee was probably at the Dynamite Party in the next week's town, surprised he didn't call in.
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Just watched the highlights of a recent Raw on Paramount and it was a nice little show, where everything seemed to matter.
Big star segment with Brock and Lashley. Tag title change. New women's contender crowned. Chat show bit. And a heel turn!
No idea what they cut out, but it totally worked as an hour show.
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It's the 30th (!) anniversary of the 1992 Royal Rumble tonight.
What a cast of characters in this - and for all the marbles too!
I wonder how many here were hooked for life by this match...
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1 hour ago, Just Some Guy said:
If you had access to S4C, their Reslo strand showed some stuff from the territories.
I thought they only showed stuff from Orig Williams and Otto Wanz, might be wrong.
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10 hours ago, Kamaras-Tash said:
April 5th 96 it was, managed to find the WCW magazine cover with Hogan & Macho on the front saying WCW coming to the UK. Could only find tiny pictures of it online thoughÂ
This was on Ian's majestic Twitter recently.
I believe the same promo tour led to the wonder of the Mega Powers on the Big Breakfast...
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Bit puzzling that they didn't come to England for a couple of shows, having already come all this way.
No WCW here between autumn 1994 and spring 2000...
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Anyone know much about these paid shows they did in Dubai (?) in late 1996?
King of the Ring show, Royal Rumble show, tag matches show... quite different.
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Thoughts on the HOF inductions?
Daddy should be in really, I'm thinking.
Surprised neither Slaughter or JYD are in.
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So, I've found the great unloved WCW PPV of yesteryear.... Bash at the Beach 1997!
Watched it on a whim on the Network the other night for the first time and absolutely loved it!
The opener is Wrath and Mortis vs Glacier and the Cat and it's much fun, the crowd are into it too!
Second, Chris Jericho vs Ultimo Dragon in a match you could put on anyone's TV or PPV in 2022!
A cutting-edge battle! One of the best Jericho matches I've seen, to be honest. Terrific spots!
Third match... Steiners vs Chono and Muta, proper stiff, clubbing battle with a bonkers finish!
Fourth, a luchador six-man tag, with action aplenty! With Hector Garza! Yes, he does it! Ace!
Fifth... a wildly entertaining arena brawl between Chris Benoit and Kevin Sullivan!
And Jimmy Hart takes a wacky, possibly unplanned bump that you need to see!
A few angle-based matches with Jarrett vs Mongo and DDP/Hennig vs nWo.
THEN... 43-year old Rowdy Roddy Piper vs 48-year old Ric Flair!
AND IT'S BRILLIANT!!!
Piper hardly does any moves and hardly takes any bumps!
But the intangibles, oh the intangibles, are unreal!!!
Great match! One of the best Piper matches!
Finally, Hogan & Rodman vs Luger & Giant!
It's AT LEAST ten times better than you imagine!
Rodman... well, he's so good for a first-timer!
And Luger?! He'd be the top guy now!
Watch it. Love it!
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Waiting for Lister to come in and say he was there and it wasn't that good, hahaha!
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Is there too much AEW now? I know people will say "don't watch it, then", but it's only naturally going to dilute the Dynamite show.
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On 12/28/2020 at 1:54 PM, garynysmon said:
In the same way there's nothing wrong with the Lou Thesz press etc. Whenever I see someone perform a "cutter" I just think of DDP and a Diamond Cutter, for instance.
I don't know why it isn't just called the Diamond Cutter still, Diamond Cutter makes sense as a standalone term, for starters.
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What was the context of this? I'm presuming finish and multi-month injury lay-off?...
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I remember Striker used to call Regal "the Ringleader of the Tormentors", which was a Morrissey album around the time. Whether or not that was the inspiration... what a clip! đ¤Ł
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Anybody see...Â
SpoilerVince McMahon's ladder legdrop?
One for the long-timers there. đ
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I really enjoyed Killer Khan vs Terry Gordy from WCCW Thanksgiving Star Wars 1984 in a Texas Death Match, with Kerry Von Erich as the referee.
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'Ghosting' is horrendous. What's wrong with some people?
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Still boggles my mind slightly that World in Motion/Vindaloo man Keith Allen is actually Welsh!
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Good luck to the guy but I don't get it.Â
House Show/TV tapings random happenings
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Phwoar!!!
Thanks for these again, @air_raid, a good read!