The Cutting Edge Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 Sorry only saw his WWF stuff and as a kid he'd bored me, although I did enjoy his slashing Beefcake before Slam 88, seeing the big censored X on the screen was scary as a kid very effective stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkchopcash Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 I'm nearly 40 so got into wrestling when we first got cable in 87. At the time Sky was showing current SOW and old ones, so i basically was watching the Jesse/Bruno/Vince SOW from the start. For me nothing tops 1987 for a year in Wrestling, the storylines, the charachters, the new debuts, the commentary. Everything was great. I also lovd 97-99 almost as much, as i discovered watching wrestling while having a few cans. I love watching Memphis and old arena cards from the WWF, memphis from any era i can get to see and WWF from early 80s. I just love the feel to it. Match quality isnt always great, but for some strange reason i find Ivan Putski holding someone in a headlock for 5 minutes more watchable than Sami Zayn v KO. I watch a the old NWA tv shows from the late 80s but not as much. And only dabble in AWA every now and then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted August 3, 2016 Moderators Share Posted August 3, 2016 Regardless of age and the like, how could anyone not love something like this, for example? Â Â There's loads of stuff out there which is still great, and in this era of youtube and the network is available to find and get into. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Tommy! Posted August 3, 2016 Paid Members Share Posted August 3, 2016 I started watching in 2000 and I adore JCP / WCW 88 to the end of 90 and WWF of the late 80's as much as 98 or 2002. Â The age, style and presentation have never stopped me enjoying it as long as there is some hook there, be it a great story in the ring, a zany soap opera, a clusterfuck spotfest, great characters or whatever else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkchopcash Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 Yeh theres some cracking memphis angles on yt. Alot involving Jimmy H. That's quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael_3165 Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016  Moving to the NWA we got mostly squash matches on TV and the big shows consisted of fairly decent action but with no personalities that made me want to watch it. Flair et al were probably the main reason to watch around that time but even Dusty Rhodes etc have aged terribly. NWA had no personalities? Other than Flair and Dusty, you had the other horsemen, you had Cornette and the Midnights, the Rock 'n Roll Express. Magnum TA, Baby Doll, Jimmy Garvin & Precious. The NWA had personalities coming out of its ears, genuine characters. I honestly don't know how anyone could watch the TV from back then and not be enthralled.   What were the personalities? They were all wrestlers but I didn't 'get' them as gimmicks. I just didn't get it. Flair, Dusty and the Horsemen were all well and good as were the Road Warriors but I didn't get it at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted August 3, 2016 Moderators Share Posted August 3, 2016 Because they weren't gimmicks, per se. They were personalities, more rounded and three dimensional than just "This is x, he has a job as a y, and he's a wrestler" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamaras-Tash Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 Regardless of age and the like, how could anyone not love something like this, for example? Â Â There's loads of stuff out there which is still great, and in this era of youtube and the network is available to find and get into. Â That is hilariously shit, I'm sure you back the worst stuff on here. Jimmy is golden though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted August 3, 2016 Moderators Share Posted August 3, 2016  *The best  Regardless of age and the like, how could anyone not love something like this, for example?   There's loads of stuff out there which is still great, and in this era of youtube and the network is available to find and get into.  That is hilariously shit, I'm sure you back the worst stuff on here. Jimmy is golden though   *The best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UK Kat Von D Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 I think one thing I find holds me back when getting into wrestling before my time is how much stuff gets built up. I'll read about how Flair/Steamboat was amazing so when I give it a shot it falls short of the expectations that are set by reading about it before I have had a chance to watch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porkchopcash Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 I could never get into the Flair/Steamboat matches. Flair/Funk was a different matter though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gaffer Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 Total opposite for me. I watched that Flair/Funk match from Clash Of The Champions the other night and thought it was plodding garbage. I had no expectations, I appreciated when it happened in history. Plodding garbage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pier Six Brawler Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 Flair vs Funk at GAB'89 was better than the I quit match IMO. But both matches are great. If you don't like them, I have to question what it is about wrestling that appeals to you. Because those matches are just about the pinacle of American wrestling as an artform IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NEWM Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 I've said it before on here but I'm so self-absorbed that it still blows my mind that somebody on here didn't get into wrestling between 89-93 and was born any other time that 83-87ish. (1990 and 1985, respectively, for me by the way). Â I'll watch any old shite and developed quite a fondness for certain WoS stuff that aired on TWC, but I still remember when Sky promoted doing old WWF stuff (which NEVER got screened when the Attitude era wanted you to forget anything pre-97) in the early-00s and it was that fucking rotten very early 80s WWF with Judo Billy Graham and the like. I've sat through some rough stuff as a wrestling fan in my time, but I had no patience for those stuffy old pre-Wrestlemania era WWF squash shows unless one of the stars turned up. Â I have to disagree with those that can't get into old Flair matches though. I was flabbergasted watching his DVD set for the first time, and thought his matches with Steamboat, Dusty etc aged wonderfully. I suppose it'll be at least ten years since I gave that DVD a spin though, so maybe another decade of wrestling has rendered them duller? Â I find most non-WWF old wrestling ages better, because it all looked like fucking shit apart from Vince's show anyway. Some WCW in 1991 might as well be the 50s the way it's lit and how rough around the edges it is, production-wise. WWF after about 1987 started to get really polished and only ever got better, so I can see why somebody only conditioned to modern-day WWE would really struggle with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gaffer Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 I have to question what it is about wrestling that appeals to you. Most of the same stuff that appeals to everybody else, I just don't fancy that match. Call it an anomaly in my interest in wrestling. Most people have a few with films too. It's quite pedestrian, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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