Wrestling Chat (WWF, WWE, WCW, etc.)

[Bucklion]

Nothing beats the 80's era.

Saturday morning WWF Superstars where scrubs got beat up

Saturday evening WCW/NWA. I personally loved the Free birds, Midnight express, and other great tag teams. Also loved the Sting ? Great Muta feuds

The occasional Saturday Night's main event felt like a huge sporting event to pre-teen me. It was the only time you got to see Hulk fight anyone of significance.

I think the last wresting angle I really watched was the NWO invasion stuff when it was in the early stages.

SNME was the greatest thing ever. I would set my VCR every time it was on, hoping for a "Madness meets the Mania" event every time. They weren't always that good, but that one where Hogan and Savage joined forces might still be the single segment I have ever seen on a wrestling show.

 

[Thump]

*pfffft* That stuff was just theatrics. Old school is Georgia Championship Wrestling with the late Gordon Solie.

NWA- Wrestling Wrap-Up with Gordon Solie - YouTube

You might recognize Ric Flair and Teddy Long, and Jim Ross on the play by play. Hell, Sting was still going at it in TNA last I saw.

If you don't know who the Blue Blazer, Ivan Koloff, or Magnum T.A. are, you have no room to speak on wrestling.

 

[Hubbard]

Undertaker throws Mankind off the top of the cell through a table - YouTube

"Good God Almighty! They killed him!"

This was in Pittsburgh and I was at this event....It was amazing live!

 

[darbypitcher22]

If you want to see sad stories regarding wrestlers, watch Jake "the snake" Roberts story in Beyond the Mat.

Saw it as well. Both absolutely terrible

 

[CleveBucks]

The E:60 on him was absolutely saddening...

Yep, you gotta watch this if you haven't seen it.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL4IbTRRtSc"]E60: The Scott Hall Story - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Jake]

If you don't know who the Blue Blazer, Ivan Koloff, or Magnum T.A. are, you have no room to speak on wrestling.

The Russian Bear was bad ass, the Blue Blazer was lame and by all accounts Magnum TA was a flaming homo who couldn't carry his share of the work so guys like Flair had to drag him around the ring.

I remember all of them and more, so don't make me go Bobo Brazil, Baron von Raschke and Gorilla Monsoon on your ass.

 

[darbypitcher22]

The Russian Bear was bad ass, the Blue Blazer was lame and by all accounts Magnum TA was a flaming homo who couldn't carry his share of the work so guys like Flair had to drag him around the ring.

I remember all of them and more, so don't make me go Bobo Brazil, Baron von Raschke and Gorilla Monsoon on your ass.

The Blue Blazer was pretty sweet when he wasn't the Blue Blazer.

Owen Hart was a good performer.

 

[Jake]

Nothing beats the 80's era.

If you're referring to the WWF I strongly and respectfully disagree. It sucked compared to the early WCW era with Flair, Rhodes, Buzz Sawyer, Piper, the Four Horsemen, etc., where the same guys didn't always win.

The occasional Saturday Night's main event felt like a huge sporting event to pre-teen me. It was the only time you got to see Hulk fight anyone of significance.

And every match was the same:

Enter ring
Rip off shirt
Get beat up by a guy half his size for a few minutes
Be on the verge on unconsciousness before magically catching a second wind
Wave finger in opponent's face
Land two punches to opponent's head
Throw opponent into ropes, lift foot and wait for opponent to run into it and collapse to the mat
Bounce off ropes and drop leg across opponent
Opponent jobs for a 3 count
Wave to crowd and hold hand to ear
Walk out of ring with belt and talk about prayers and vitamins


For about a decade every WWF title match followed that format. For everyone else a leg drop was just a move they did early in the match. For Hogan, it was his big finish because he lacked the agility or wrestling skills to execute anything else.

Hulk Hogan sucked.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Anybody else remember "Lex's Live Wrestling" a TV show hosted by local Chevrolet dealer Lex Mayer back in the 1960s?

The big paydays for wrestlers were in New York and Chicago. But they'd stop in central Ohio on their way between the big cities, to make a little extra money appearing on "Lex's Live Wrestling" a TV show hosted by local Chevrolet dealer Lex Mayer.
Most of the wrestlers wee saw in central Ohio where not marquee names -- we'd get guys like Frankie Talaber and Leon Graham and Fritz von Goering and Oyama Kato. And then Nature Boy himself would show up in town, and Old Memorial Hall in downtown Columbus -- site of "Lex's Live Wrestling," home of the 50-cent-ticket -- would feel like Madison Square Garden.

http://www.buddyrogers.net/coolest.htm

http://www.legacyofwrestling.com/OhioTerritory.html

[FONT=Times New Roman,Times,New York]Lex Mayers owned a big dealership on the east side of Columbus, near the suburb of Bexley. Closer to downtown was Old Memorial Hall at 280 East Broad Street. This 4,200-seat auditorium, with a floor big enough for 800 additional chairs, had once been second in size only to New York?s Madison Square Garden. Now more than 50 years old and rendered obsolete by the opening of the shiny new Veterans Memorial across the river less than a mile to the west, Old Memorial Hall had fallen on hard times. So each weekend, Lex brought in some used cars and parked them on the floor in front of the stage, where a wrestling ring was set up. A couple of black-and-white TV cameras were also positioned on the stage, where they could get shots of the ring and the cars and the audience.[/FONT]

http://t2buck.com/rasslin.htm

 

[buckeyegrad]

For everyone else a leg drop was just a move they did early in the match. For Hogan, it was his big finish because he lacked the agility or wrestling skills to execute anything else. Hulk Hogan sucked.

I remember hearing Gorilla Monsoon once comment that Hogan will probably be the best showman professional wrestling will ever see, but when it came to wrestling he didn't know the difference between a wristlock and a wristwatch.

 

[TheStoicPaisano]

obligatory:

Your Mustache Is Crooked [RIP Macho Man Randy Savage] - YouTube

Macho Man looking like someone Casey Blake would mock.

 

[Basebuck]

And every match was the same:

Enter ring
Rip off shirt
Get beat up by a guy half his size for a few minutes
Be on the verge on unconsciousness before magically catching a second wind
Wave finger in opponent's face
Land two punches to opponent's head
Throw opponent into ropes, lift foot and wait for opponent to run into it and collapse to the mat
Bounce off ropes and drop leg across opponent
Opponent jobs for a 3 count
Wave to crowd and hold hand to ear
Walk out of ring with belt and talk about prayers and vitamins


For about a decade every WWF title match followed that format. For everyone else a leg drop was just a move they did early in the match. For Hogan, it was his big finish because he lacked the agility or wrestling skills to execute anything else.

Hulk Hogan sucked.

7-8 year old me didn't care about his technique or "in ring ability." 7-8 year old me just wanted to see Hogan get his ass beat, jump up, shake his finger, and have punches bounce off his head.

I was probably a bigger fan of WCW during this time just because they were on TV more. Does anyone remember the Black Scorpion storyline?

 

[Mike80]

7-8 year old me didn't care about his technique or "in ring ability." 7-8 year old me just wanted to see Hogan get his ass beat, jump up, shake his finger, and have punches bounce off his head.

I was probably a bigger fan of WCW during this time just because they were on TV more. Does anyone remember the Black Scorpion storyline?

Just remember when Jake was 2 years old and already criticizing everything he saw....

 

[Bucklion]

Well, while we're throwing names around, I always liked the legit badasses...the guys that even the other wrestlers were afraid of. That would include my favorite, Stan the Lariat Hansen, as well as Bruiser Brody, Wahoo McDaniel, The Raging Bull Manny Fernandez, Bad News Brown, Dan Hodge, and Steve Dr. Death Williams. Terry Funk was a lunatic back in the day too.

Oh, and I always liked Larry Zybyszko (not even going to try with the spelling)..."The Living Legend".

 

[Crump's brother]

Visit wrestlecrap.com. It chronicles the very worst wrestling had to offer.

Count me in as a NWA/WCW fan from the 80s. I also used to watch WCCW and the CWA (Memphis). Growing up with a satellite dish had its advantages. I was a big Skandor Akbar fan.