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Professional Wrestling 1985ish - 1992ish

AreBee1969 said:
I have you buy 10 years so these may pre-date you, but WWF was fantastic in the '80s.

Great personalities like the Macho Man, Jimmy "Super Fly" Snooka Jake the Snake, Paul Orndorf.

Great villains like Jesse "The Body" Ventura, Ric Flair, Adrian Adonis, The Iron Sheik, Greg "The Hammer" Valentine.

Even better were the managers. Jimmy Hart, The Grand Wizard, Lou Albano and my favorite was Classy Freddy Blassie.

It was also the golden era of Tag Teams too. Saito and Fuji, Tony Garrea and Rick Martell, the Moon Dogs, British Bulldogs, Strongbow Brothers.

And don't forget the referee Danny Davis, banned for 99 years! LOL!
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I learned just last week that Saito and Fuji were only a tag team for like 18 months. I think of them as a mainstay of 80’s wrestling.
 
Gonna drop this here rather than the movie trailer thread, might be of interest to some. No chance any of the actors got roided up for this, right?

 
Hoophound said:
I learned just last week that Saito and Fuji were only a tag team for like 18 months. I think of them as a mainstay of 80’s wrestling.
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That's a sign of their greatness, I believe. I was lucky to see them close up at Stamford High. Great match that ended (by mistake I'm sure) when Rick Martell went through the ropes instead of off them. He was still on the ground when the crowd was leaving.
 
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Deepster said:
Every time Chief Jay Strongbow would come on, my old man would say "He's no Indian, you know. He's a ginny garbage man from New Jersey."

There was no internet back then. I just assumed somehow he knew something. A few years ago, I was telling that story and checked it out. Sure enough, he's italian and from New Jersey! No idea if he was a garbage man or not, but at this point, I have to believe my old man there! LOL
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Dads know things.

(FWIW I read that as "ginny" as in "a drinker of gin."
 
nwhoopfan said:
Gonna drop this here rather than the movie trailer thread, might be of interest to some. No chance any of the actors got roided up for this, right?

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This actually surprisingly looks very good
 
hardcorehusky said:
My early recollections of wrestling were WWWF on Saturday mornings. Andre the Giant, Baron Miguel Secluna from the Isle of Malta, Haystack Calhoun, Bruno Sammartino. I remember they put a big red X on the TV when Killer Kowalski applied the abdominal claw. Stan the Man Stasiak and the Heart Punch. Tony Garea and either Dean Ho or someone else against Mr Fuji and Professor Toru Tanaka and throwing salt in their opponents eyes. Great stuff.
80's great stuff. In the 90's I was losing interest until I saw this crazy wrestling at 1am. ECW was amazing. Story lines, etc. So many OMG moments. They incorporated tables, lucha style, etc with crazy characters.
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You left out Ivan Putski and (billed as his cousin, no idea if they were related) the Mighty Igor.
 
If you like older wrestling, I recommend trying out the podcasts of Jim Cornette - "Jim Cornette's Drive-Thru" and the "Jim Cornette Experience." His shows are a mixture of talk about modern wrestling / current events and historic wrestling (see the descriptions of individual episodes to get an idea of what's being covered in them). Other than his 90s WWF stint, most of his direct personal experience is in southern territories and then WCW, but he and his cohost have historian-level knowledge of the history of the sport elsewhere, as well.

He's a very witty fellow as he always was, with a distinctly amusing "Get off my lawn" grouchy old fart take on things.
 
My buddy Jim ran into Backlund at a fundraiser a few years back and got chicken winged
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I just watched 2 hours of Prime Time Wrestling from 1988, magical.
 
I haven't been to see a movie in the theater post-COVID, but thinking about catching "The Iron Claw" on Monday before I eat Chinese food.
 
billythekid said:
Very fun thread. When I was a kid in the late '70's, my best friend and I would try so hard to stay up until midnight on Saturday night to watch Championship Wrestling (WWWF) on WOR-TV, Channel 9. Don't think we ever made it through an entire show before falling asleep. My favorite was Ivan Putski, the Polish Hammer. A few years ago, my friend had the opportunity to travel through Malta. He kept asking folks if they knew Baron Miguel Sicluna. Nobody got the joke.

I remember attending wrestling matches at Stamford Catholic and Stamford High School. We got to see Don Muracco, Baron Von Raschke, Chief Jay Strongbow and even the Fabulous Moolah win a seven-woman over-the-top match. In later years, we moved on to Hulk Hogan and Macho Man and continued watching through the Attitude Era. I used to get a kick out of Stone Cold and the Rock. By that point, I enjoyed their work on the mic as much, if not more, than their skills in the ring.
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I found this shirt online and bought it for my friend's birthday. He can wear it the next time he's in Malta.

 
dvegas said:
I haven't been to see a movie in the theater post-COVID, but thinking about catching "The Iron Claw" on Monday before I eat Chinese food.
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Let us know. I just read that it excludes one Von Erich brother entirely because it would have made the story even sadder.
 
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traitor71 said:
I have found some of this guy's videos to be a nice trip down memory lane.
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For the longest time I wondered why the headliner of the first WWWF card in the new Hartford Civic Center was Bruno Sammartino versus Stan Hansen. Bruno hardly wrestled by then and the champ lived in Glastonbury at the time. I finally figured it out the match was for all those Hartford fans who had to drive to New Haven or Springfield to see Bruno when he had the belt. I remember you could get tickets at the newstand across from the train station. Anyway, the promo to that match contained my favorite Vince question, "Bruno, what are you going to do if he breaks your neck again?"
 
Nick Lowe & Los Straightjackets were the musical guests today on CBS Saturday Morning, playing holiday songs. If you're thinking, "what does this have to do with Pro Wresting," you really aren't in the know ;)

 
Waquoit said:
Let us know. I just read that it excludes one Von Erich brother entirely because it would have made the story even sadder.
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Unfortunately, Baileys & Coffee/3 Mimosa breakfast scored a decision by pinfall over my intentions to see the 12:50 pm screening of The Iron Claw. But I definitely will see it in the theater soon!
 
When I was in middle school it was on around midnight on Sundays. This was before it really took off. Fake as hell but we all believed it was real.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
Andy Kaufmann storyline
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'And the female Springfield College student who kicked his ass. Supposedly was not staged, but I have a hard time believing it wasn't.
 
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