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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 18, 2020 23:00:27 GMT -5
In which he has to be led through those two matches. Man got the farthest with the least amount of work for any top money earner. WCW botched his run (as they did everything); but, he didn't exactly work his tail off, either. Steven/William Regal's account of their infamous match relates how the WCW agent sold him down the river, after Regal improvised to get Goldberg back into the match, after he got lost (as he was prone to do, since he wasn't properly trained and was yet another Power Plant musclehead). The actual match....
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 18, 2020 23:32:59 GMT -5
ps Dean Malenko taught him the jackhammer. He developed it by accident, when trying to practice a brain buster. Malenko used to use it in All-Japan, though he did it from the top rope! Seriously, if Regal was trying to embarrass Goldberg, he'd just take him down to the mat and stretch him. Regal was a pro and he is working the whole time. Bischoff was an idiot. One thing you do notice, egal is as big as Goldberg, which people tend to forget, which is why Regal was one of the few British wrestlers, let alone heavyweights, to make it big in the US. Regal had the size and adapted well to other styles, after having wrestled in places like India and Japan, before coming to the US. That's why I loved it when Fit Finlay came in and they worked togetehr in WCW, after bouts in the UK and Europe. Plus, Regal on another British wrestling icon, Big Daddy... The young Big Daddy... And here, Big Daddy teaming with Richie Brooks and some kid named Roy Regal, who looks vaguely familiar...
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 18, 2020 23:38:10 GMT -5
Regal vs Marty Jones...
against Tony St Clair...
vs Dave Taylor (for Orig Williams Welsh wrestling promotion, which is why you can't understand the announcer)
with Robbie Brookside against Kendo Nagasaki and Blondie Barrett...
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 18, 2020 23:52:22 GMT -5
Regal in his carnival days, in Blackpool....
Despite what the title card says, the match is a work and "Billy" was wrestler Drew MacDonald. Regal wouldn't be bumping for someone in the crowd and no street fighter is going to toss someone into the ropes.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 10:40:04 GMT -5
Another Coliseum Video release from the 80s: Hogan’s WWF matches followed a formula, but on this tape, there’s a bout against Greg Valentine which seems to be very different from the usual Hogan fare. It had an intensity to it - and a credibility that made me suspend disbelief. Other bouts on the tape included Hogan’s win over Iron Sheik. So, Hogan was the first person to get a WWF videotape release to himself, eh? Hardly surprising, I guess. By my reckoning, he got six tapes in all. But I could be wrong about that number, but the ones I had number six.
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 19, 2020 11:15:01 GMT -5
Another Coliseum Video release from the 80s: Hogan’s WWF matches followed a formula, but on this tape, there’s a bout against Greg Valentine which seems to be very different from the usual Hogan fare. It had an intensity to it - and a credibility that made me suspend disbelief. Other bouts on the tape included Hogan’s win over Iron Sheik. So, Hogan was the first person to get a WWF videotape release to himself, eh? Hardly surprising, I guess. By my reckoning, he got six tapes in all. But I could be wrong about that number, but the ones I had number six. Had home video been more affordable, Snuka would have beat him to it, in 1982. He was WAY over and having great matches. Hogan was as much benefited by timing as talent. He became the focus as cable tv was in it ascendancy, was there for the debut of home video, and he was in a Top 10 grossing film, in a small but memorable role (in which he was horrible delivering his lines, if you ever watch Rocky 3). Valentine always worked stiff; but, he also took about 20 minutes to get warmed up. I'd rather watch his matches with Tito Santana, though. Tito doesn't get enough credit for how good he was, since he wasn't one of the top promo guys, which meant more in the WWF than your work. I just wished he had continued using his Reverse Indian Deathlok finisher, instead of the flying forearm. He used the former, in Georgia, and it looked like there was no escape from it, as he backbridged into the pinfall.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2020 11:38:06 GMT -5
Well, the flying forearm almost defeated The Warlord at SUMMERSLAM ‘90. I haven’t checked, but months ago, a friend told me Tito Santana got a pinfall victory over the Undertaker during a 1991 foreign tour. My first wrestling figure was Tito Santana (plastic figure, bigger than usual figures).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2020 9:12:15 GMT -5
Vincent McMahon is 75 years old today. Happy Birthday to him!
I do miss the mild-mannered commentator. I loved the work he and Jesse Ventura did on SATURDAY NIGHT’S MAIN EVENT.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2020 9:00:36 GMT -5
SummerSlam 1990 aired thirty years ago today: Such an eventful PPV. The Hart Foundation regained the WWF Tag Team Championship from Demolition; the Texas Tornado won the I-C Championship from Mr. Perfect; and Tito Santana gave The Warlord quite a challenge, almost defeating him. Lots else occurred, too. Hulk Hogan and Earthquake ‘settled the score’ in a heated match. Despite the above poster, Big Boss Man replaced Tugboat as Hogan’s corner man. You could feel the intensity as Hogan and ‘Quake had the ultimate grudge match. This was the true main event of the card, in my view. The actual main event, though, saw Ultimate Warrior defend the WWF Championship against Rick Rude in a steel cage. Warrior won. I feel their feud peaked in 1989. This match lacked the intensity of their bout at the previous SummerSlam. And it just didn’t leave a lasting impression on me in the way I’d have hoped.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 27, 2020 9:05:30 GMT -5
SummerSlam 1995 aired 25 years ago today: People seem to focus on the poor Diesel/King Mabel main event. But this card is underrated, if you ask me. True, the Diesel/King Mabel bout was bad. And how far had Lex Luger fallen, eh? At the 1993 event, he challenged for the WWF Title; at the 1994 event, he battled Tatanka for bragging rights in a match I didn’t care about; and at this event, he didn’t even have a match on the card, instead performing a run in during the main event. However, Razor Ramon and Shawn Michaels had a ladder match that I, personally, think surpassed their WrestleMania X bout. The Undertaker battled Kama in a heated casket match, which appeared to draw the line under their feud. And what of Hakushi vs. The 1-2-3 Kid in an incredible match? For me, it’s a card which has three very good bouts as mentioned above. That was enough to elevate it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 28, 2020 10:31:17 GMT -5
Man, I forgot about Tanaka. Checking his Wiki led me to the Wiki for The Slammy Awards, which said of the 1987 Slammy for Best Song, "No winner (envelope eaten by Sika)".
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 28, 2020 21:28:50 GMT -5
Southern wrestling legend and patriarch of the Armstrong wrestling family, Bullet Bob Armstrong, has died, at age 80. Armstrong was one of the stars of Georgia Championship Wrestling, when Ted Turner broadcast it nationally on Superstation WTBS, in the late 70s. He was a top draw in Georgia, as a hometown boy, as well as in both the Knoxville and Pensacola, FL ends of Southeastern Championship wrestling. His sons Brad, Scott, Steve and Brian (aka Road Dogg aka Road Dogg Jesse James) all followed him into the business, with various levels of success. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, in 2011. He was born Joseph Melton James and grew up on a farm, near Marietta, GA, which he always claimed for his hometown. His father took him to the wrestling matches and he saw Gorgeous George and fell in love with wrestling. After a stint in the Marines (where he was a boxer) he became a firefighter in Marietta. Another fireman there went into wrestling and James soon followed. Promoter Darryl Cochran gave him the name Bob Armstrong, because of his large, muscular biceps, the result of his weightlifting. He also wrestled under a mask as the Georgia Jawjacker, as well as his more famous masked persona, The Bullet. He filled arenas throughout the South, earning the Florida version of the Southern Hwt title, the Georgia version, the Macon Hwt title and tag titles, the Georgia tv title, the Georgia tag-team titles, the Mephis version of the Southern title, the Mid-America title, the Southeastern title, Continental Hwt title, Southeastern tag titles, the Mid-South North American title, the SCW Southern title and the USA Knoxville USA Hwt title. He teamed with oldest son Brad, on WTBS, when he was a rookie and would periodically return to WTBS to help Brad out in a feud, while the family also worked together in Southeastern. In later years, Armstrong acted as the commissioner in Smoky Mountain Wrestling, in opposition to Jim Cornette, leading to a memorable feud, including an excellent series of angles leading to a cage match. He would perform a similar role in TNA. Bob made spectacular entrances, shucking and jiving with anyone, showing a few dance steps along the way... As Jim Cornette says, the sons inherited part of the package...Brad was the worker, Scott had the head for business, Steve had the size and Brian had the mouth; but, none of them was the full package, like Bob.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2020 16:02:59 GMT -5
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Post by Batflunkie on Aug 31, 2020 19:16:05 GMT -5
Huh, thought he was a free agent what with him being in MMA and all
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Post by codystarbuck on Aug 31, 2020 22:08:17 GMT -5
RIP to Southern California wrestler Ric Drasin... Drasin was from Bakersfield and attended matches there, but got into the bodybuilding scene. However, he never lost the desire to wrestle and went to see the LA promoters, at the Olymic Auditorium. He was directed to another room where old school womens wrestler Johnnie Mae Young (aka Mae Young) had a training room and she agreed to train him for $25 an hour, revolving around her schedule. Eventually, she stopped charging him and they settled on 10% of his wrestling earnings and he went on to debut for the LA office, in the late 60s. He wrestled and competed in bodybuilding, as well as working as an actor and stuntman (often in bodybuilder scenes) and was featured in a Hulk episode as Prometheus, an in-between stage from David Banner to the Hulk. His tv apeparances included episodes of The FBI, Charlie's Angels, The Fall Guy, More Wild Wild West, Riptide and The Shield. When business was declining in LA, he tried promoting on his own, as West Coast Wrestling Promotions, but, the LA office kept him out of major arenas. He tried it again, in the mid-80s, after LA closed down (selling off tv contracts to Vince McMahon) he ran the American Wrestling Federation, in Southern California and Arizona, featuring himself and several California mainstays, like Wildman Jack Armstrong and Chief Jay Strongbow Jr., who had also wrestled for the brief (and horrible) California Championship Wrestling. He was an artist and designed the Gold's Gym logo, which has been used at all of their franchises, nationally and internationally, ever since. He did an episode of Stone Cold Steve Austin's podcast that was very entertaining, with stories of training with Mae Young and Buddy Austin and wrestling and promoting in California, as well as the legendary bodybuilding scene.
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