OT: Weekly Wrestler From 80's Dies Thread

[Fairfield_1st]

Nothing beats this - Kevin was so under rated.

Kendall sounded very young and was terrible in that clip. I don't recall ever really seeing him wrestle. Great slap by Sullivan. Superstar looking for some extra cash and going bloody early in the beatdown (red means green).

 

[August_West]

90 minutes is incredible.

I know the sting flair 45 minute draw in the late 80s is the stuff of legend, double that is just nuts

I saw Flair and Steamboat go 60 in New Haven Coliseum in the Spring of 89.,

 

[August_West]

Kendall sounded very young and was terrible in that clip. I don't recall ever really seeing him wrestle. Great slap by Sullivan. Superstar looking for some extra cash and going bloody early in the beatdown (red means green).

Barry was so good that he had a license to Print money.

Unfortunately Kendall and Blackjack took that phrase literally (they got arrested for counterfeiting)

 

[Chin Diesel]

Kevin in the early 80's in the Florida territory had as much heat as anyone ever with his Satan gimmick. People were truly frightened.

That was a face turn for Superstar Billy Graham.

And the dude in the Striped shirt was Kendall Windham. Barry Windhams brother. BlackJack Mulligans son.

That is a great clip.


Love Gordon Solie.

Blackjack Mulligan had a pretty run with his claw hold and bloodying up his opponent.

Really liked Barry. Typical coaches kid. Knows all the ins and outs.

Kendall was a turd.

Taking it another direction similar to the Von Erich's. Fritz ran the franchise and out of the kids there was a huge gap in talent between David, Kerry, Kevin and whichever other kids there were but all of them got top billing because of the name.

 

[August_West]

This is worth 20 minutes of any wrestling fans time. Windhams heel turn in 88, when he turned on Luger in a tag match against Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson and then joined the 4 horseman. Then the interviews after and Dusty coming out as Midnight Rider is pure gold.

Doesnt get much better than this.

The pure heat in southern wrestling back then was unrivaled. "Sports entertainment" ruined it. When dopes thought it was real it was SO much more entertaining.

Im a huge Kayfabe guy.

 

[the Q]

This is worth 20 minutes of any wrestling fans time. Windhams heel turn in 88, when he turned on Luger in a tag match against Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson and then joined the 4 horseman. Then the interviews after and Dusty coming out as Midnight Rider is pure gold.

Doesnt get much better than this.

The pure heat in southern wrestling back then was unrivaled. "Sports entertainment" ruined it. When dopes thought it was real it was SO much more entertaining.

Im a huge Kayfabe guy.

Which is what made the nwo story the best ever. By far

 

[August_West]

Which is what made the nwo story the best ever. By far

The first year of NWO was incredible, Then they botched it.

 

[Dove]

Dove, you can take your satin pants, shine them up real nice, turn them sideways........



.....and stick them straight up your roody poo candy ass.

How does it feel going through life as "The People's Chump"?

 

[August_West]

How does it feel going through life as "The People's Chump"?

 

[the Q]

The first year of NWO was incredible, Then they botched it.

Everything through starrcade 97 was incredible.

But it seems like they had zero plan for that match or really after that.

Botching the ending probably cost them 2 more PPV main events

 

[August_West]

Everything through starrcade 97 was incredible.

But it seems like they had zero plan for that match or really after that.

Botching the ending probably cost them 2 more PPV main events

It cost them their company

 

[the Q]

It cost them their company

Yup. Funny how that plus the clique breaking character at msg in spring 96 basically saved the wwf.

Wcw wins the war if either of those things don’t happen.

 

[wolfman61]

I grew up in Hamden. Nany of the old WWWF wrestlers lived in town and it was strange running into them. You would see them in the old Sears store I worked at or you might see them in the grocery store. You would see the Wild Samoans, Mr Fuji, Mr Saito, Tony Garea, Playboy Buddy Rose. The Magnificent Muraco, Boris Zokoff, Greg Valentine, and a 15 year old Yokozuna. And others besides them lived in the area as well including a grade school aged The Rock!

 

[August_West]

I grew up in Hamden. Nany of the old WWWF wrestlers lived in town and it was strange running into them. You would see them in the old Sears store I worked at or you might see them in the grocery store. You would see the Wild Samoans, Mr Fuji, Mr Saito, Tony Garea, Playboy Buddy Rose. The Magnificent Muraco, Boris Zokoff, Greg Valentine, and a 15 year old Yokozuna. And others besides them lived in the area as well including a grade school aged The Rock!

Tony Gareas daughter is my keyboard players girlfriend

 

[hardcorehusky]

After WCW started to sink - and before WWE got its act together - ECW filled the void for me. I used to wait up until 1am to watch. Ground breaking moves, cult like fandom, story lines over the top.

 

[the Q]

After WCW started to sink - and before WWE got its act together - ECW filled the void for me. I used to wait up until 1am to watch. Ground breaking moves, cult like fandom, story lines over the top.

What timeline was this?

And there will never be another ecw.

 

[hardcorehusky]

What timeline was this?

And there will never be another ecw.

I started watching in 1994 right after Shane Douglas threw the NWA belt in the trash and announced Eastern Championship Wrestling was now Extreme Championship Wrestling. Went 2x to the ECW arena and multiple house shows in CT and Mass.

 

[the Q]

I started watching in 1994 right after Shane Douglas threw the NWA belt in the trash and announced Eastern Championship Wrestling was now Extreme Championship Wrestling. Went 2x to the ECW arena and multiple house shows in CT and Mass.

Ah. Ok. I asked because most say wcw started to stink in 98 because before the nwo it was brutally struggling anyway.

The downside of adding hogan and macho was that they buried their best, most loyal star: Sting.

They at least made it up to him with the nwo/crow sting storyline

 

[Dove]

Tony Gareas daughter is my keyboard players girlfriend

That's too bad. Ric Martel's daughter is way hotter.

 

[UC313]

https://nypost.com/2019/01/09/wrestlings-newest-promotion-makes-their-loud-arrival/

Keep an eye out for the AEW. My brother’s unrivaled in wrestling knowledge and was touting this new promotion pretty highly.

 

[Fairfield_1st]

Windham's heel turn in 88, when he turned on Luger in a tag match against Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson and then joined the 4 horseman. Then the interviews after and Dusty coming out as Midnight Rider is pure gold.

And there's the dirtiest player in the game jumping Dusty The Midnight Rider from behind in the dressing room. The quality is poor, but that looked like Dr Death Steve Williams' giants arse pulling the Rider out of there.

 

[August_West]

And there's the dirtiest player in the game jumping Dusty The Midnight Rider from behind in the dressing room. The quality is poor, but that looked like Dr Death Steve Williams' giants arse pulling the Rider out of there.

It was. And Sting.

 

[Fairfield_1st]

It was. And Sting.

Sting was easy to pick out with that bleach blonde mullet of sorts. I never actually saw Dr Death's face, just that back side.

 

[August_West]

Sting was easy to pick out with that bleach blonde mullet of sorts. I never actually saw Dr Death's face, just that back side.

That’s all you need to see of that tank

 

[the Q]

Random bump because I was watching a video of wrestlemanias ranked, and while he Hartford one was (overrated) as only being the third worst of all time (a truly awful card), WM2 was one of the two that we’re deemed even worse...although they did give plenty of props to the main event.