Moderators PowerButchi Posted June 8, 2017 Author Moderators Posted June 8, 2017 It's better to let contracts run out than to outright release people in the eyes of shareholders or something apparently. Releasing people en masse looks like they need to cut costs.
Paid Members bAzTNM#1 Posted June 8, 2017 Paid Members Posted June 8, 2017 On 5/10/2017 at 10:09 AM, BomberPat said: Ha, I remember seeing the VHS of Slant-Eyed Slaughter on eBay years back. Madness. Didn't it come out the same time as PWI's video of one of the early Starrcades? Sure it was available over here.
Paid Members BomberPat Posted June 8, 2017 Paid Members Posted June 8, 2017 I'm not sure, but it would have been one hell of a Sgt. Slaughter knockoff for someone to have tried on the tribute circuit.
Paid Members GlennCullen Posted June 9, 2017 Paid Members Posted June 9, 2017 On 2017-6-8 at 2:49 PM, PowerButchi said: It's better to let contracts run out than to outright release people in the eyes of shareholders or something apparently. Releasing people en masse looks like they need to cut costs. That makes sense when they're listed, especially when most of the guys are on low downsides anyway.
Tim R-T-C Posted June 9, 2017 Posted June 9, 2017 Kayfabe: How many wrestlers have spent long hours stood at the Gorilla Position just waiting and hoping their arch rival makes a "there is no-one in the back who can stop me" promo so they can run-in?
Sphinx Posted June 9, 2017 Posted June 9, 2017 That would be a good sketch actually. A wrestling company should follow a wrestler backstage fucking up things that are usually taken for granted, mockumentary style. I can see it now.
The Reverend Posted June 9, 2017 Posted June 9, 2017 On 5/9/2017 at 6:35 PM, Porkchopcash said: Just reading through and old Apter mag from 1990. Theres a video on sale in there with matches from Japan called "Slant eyed Slaughter" Those tapes were crazily priced if I remember - like $59.99 for a two hour tape. Back then that would've easily been £30. I remember an ad for the PWI 'Lords of the Ring' tape which was about an hour long, at around $50 I dunno why US video tapes cost so much.
Really Big Shoe Posted June 11, 2017 Posted June 11, 2017 Lords of the Ring came out originally in like 1985/86 IIRC and videos were highly priced back then. Plus something like wrestling would be premium priced too. Even Mania IV was listed as 59.99 to buy and that would have been 1988, 89 time frame. Found this which has an overview about how VHS were priced back in the day. http://forum.dvdtalk.com/archive/t-407404.html
WyattSheepMask Posted June 11, 2017 Posted June 11, 2017 Weren't US tapes a different format to European tapes too? I want to say that US tapes were larger
benbobjr Posted June 11, 2017 Posted June 11, 2017 40 minutes ago, WyattSheepMask said: Weren't US tapes a different format to European tapes too? I want to say that US tapes were larger yes they were, i remember buying some early 90's WCW tapes when i was over in American, only to be disappointed when i got home and i couldn't actually watch them
Merzbow Posted June 11, 2017 Posted June 11, 2017 They were NTSC format, recorded at a different framerate so wouldn't work unless you had a later VHS that was made to play both, I had some yank XPW videos that I (maybe luckily) couldn't play. I also vividly remmeber trying to play NTSC videogames on our TV and it would be black and white until we got a newer one that could show 60hz properly.
Really Big Shoe Posted June 11, 2017 Posted June 11, 2017 Lords of the Ring came out originally in like 1985/86 IIRC and videos were highly priced back then. Plus something like wrestling would be premium priced too. Even Mania IV was listed as 59.99 to buy and that would have been 1988, 89 time frame. Found this which has an overview about how VHS were priced back in the day. http://forum.dvdtalk.com/archive/t-407404.html
Paid Members JNLister Posted June 14, 2017 Paid Members Posted June 14, 2017 Going back through some old ITV matches and Kent Walton says the following during a Johnny Kwango match Quote Johnny told me he enjoys going to the movies and he said he always wears white gloves to the movies. I said "Why's that, Johnny?" and he replied "So I know when I've got to the end of my choc ice." The 1970s.
mikehoncho Posted June 15, 2017 Posted June 15, 2017 14 hours ago, JNLister said: Going back through some old ITV matches and Kent Walton says the following during a Johnny Kwango match Johnny told me he enjoys going to the movies and he said he always wears white gloves to the movies. I said "Why's that, Johnny?" and he replied "So I know when I've got to the end of my choc ice." The 1970s. Immense! The wonderfully revered Kent Walton ... and I will bet that Kwango actually said that in the dressing room.
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