Paid Members WWFChilli Posted March 19, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted March 19, 2015 Bobby Eaton is a constant joy to watch. The perfect southern tag wrestler, his work in every team he had with decent footage of (Condrey, Lane, Arn, Regal, Benoit) is always a good standard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted March 19, 2015 Moderators Share Posted March 19, 2015 Bobby Eaton also has a fucking sexy punch. One of the best. You can tell who came up through Mempho, as their punches are supreme. Not just the delivery of them, but the variety of them. Jabs, crosses, hooks, uppercuts, bolo punches.  Anyone who thinks punches in wrestling are shit things for shit wrestlers needs to watch some Lawler vs Dundee! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosler28 Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 I wouldn't say hes under rated. Everyone knows he was one the best technical wrestlers the WWE has ever had. The problem is now adays the WWE wrestlers don't get long enough to show case their actual wrestling as everythings for tv  His matches vs Mr Perfect from Summerslam 91, Bulldog 92, aswell as other matches like against Shawn Michaels at WM12, Piper WM8 are top quality and not to forget him the 123 Kid from Raw in the early 90s. That's a hidden gem. Iis on the best of Raw dvd. People need to see that match.   Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted March 19, 2015 Moderators Share Posted March 19, 2015 Wrestlers get far more time to wrestle in showcases now than when Bret did. Raw didn't exactly have regular 20 minute matches in his pomp, and Superstars and Wrestling Challenge were pretty much all sub 3 min squashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C-Rock Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Iv always felt that his behaviour/comments/bitterness etc since Montreal and his stroke have over shadowed his actual in ring career and he is known for now and remembered more for those above things which is a shame because in-ring he proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he could go with the best of them and was probably at one time the best ever as far as wrestling quality and performance is concerned. He could really make you believe, his selling was very effective and his general stiffness and believability was un-matched in my opinion. He could get a pretty excellent match out of just about anybody and was probably the most reliable hand around. Â I feel his bitterness stems from bad decision making i.e. how he handled the whole Montreal thing, the death of Owen which is understandable and the fact that he was forced to retire due to his stroke, I'm confident and im sure he is as well that if he had not had his accident he would have had a lot more to give in the ring and his career would have entered a second faze, along the lines of what happened with Shawn Michaels when he made his return, I don't doubt for a second that Bret could have done what Shawn did if he had not had the accident or Montreal had never occurred. With that said even despite Montreal if he had of been healthy enough, WWE could have cashed in big time on a Bret Hart return to the WWE. When Bret returned a few years back for the Shawn/Vince thing, it was dishearting and a shame to see something have to be watered down due to Brets condition, a lot more could have been done and his return could have delivered a lot more had Bret have been in a position to deliver a more Bret Hart like performance and actually work a more competitive match. Â If you take away the period after those incidents and focus solely on his in-ring career I think you will be hard pressed to find anyone else who was better than Bret Hart, his standard of matches and how over he was could make a pretty solid argument that he was the best there was, the best there is and the best there ever will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.PeterVenkman Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Tim Horner being brought up in a Bret Hart thread reminds me of the time Lawler shouted at JR 'who cares about Buddy Rogers? No one even remembers him'. If southern wrestling was any good we'd be paying Bill Watts a tenner a month to watch the UWF Network  Anyway, Bret obviously isn't underrated as he's(rightfully) acknowledged as one of the greatest of all time by pretty much everyone in the business, even by people who can't stand him  Plus there's a good chance he fucked Melina, even after Big Dave had been through her Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted March 19, 2015 Moderators Share Posted March 19, 2015 If southern wrestling was any good  Thousands paid EVERY WEEK to go to the same arena on the same day every single week, so it couldn't have been that bad, could it? WWWF/WWF ran MSG once a month, Jarrett ran the Mid South Coliseum once a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.PeterVenkman Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 Yeah but they don't now do they? Plus it's aged terribly, though in fairness, most wrestling has/does Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShowOff Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 I don't think most wrestling has aged badly at all. That's a pretty mental thing to say actually. Is there anything in particular you're thinking of? A certain time period / region out of interest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr.PeterVenkman Posted March 19, 2015 Share Posted March 19, 2015 '70's/early '80's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakeRobertsParoleOfficer Posted March 19, 2015 Author Share Posted March 19, 2015 whilst i dont think he is the greatest star in wrestling (i think Hulk, Sting, Rock, Austin) i think very few have ever looked as polished and professional in the ring. everything he did looked good and perfect. dont think he ever had a bad match! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members WWFChilli Posted March 19, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted March 19, 2015 Mempho in the very late 70's is fantastic if you just get lost in it all. Same goes for Georgia. I also loved what I could find of Mid-South from the early 80's too. Old wrestling is bloody lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted March 19, 2015 Moderators Share Posted March 19, 2015 The Southern stuffs aged inherently better than old WWF cartoony stuff to be honest. All because the south was based around personal issues. All the feuds were based on personal slights. Jarrett even had it written on his wall "Personal Issues Draw Money", and having problems with people that make you so fucking angry with someone you want to kill them is still relevant today. More cartoony stuff isn't and seems completely of it's time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted March 19, 2015 Paid Members Share Posted March 19, 2015 If southern wrestling was any good we'd be paying Bill Watts a tenner a month to watch the UWF Network Instead I'm paying Vince McMahon a tenner a month to get pissed off at the lack of use of the Mid-South library. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted March 19, 2015 Moderators Share Posted March 19, 2015 Â If southern wrestling was any good we'd be paying Bill Watts a tenner a month to watch the UWF Network Instead I'm paying Vince McMahon a tenner a month to get pissed off at the lack of use of the Mid-South library. Â Â They haven't even got the documentary up! I'd actually pay an extra fiver a month for a "classic" tier showing territorial weeklies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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