Classic Wrestling Discussion: Part III & Wrestler Poll

[CDJ]

Nidia was great

 

[Unholy Diver]

Couple of good clips here

 

[Unholy Diver]

Fired up Halloween Havoc 91 today to have on the background while working since it is Halloween after all


Opening match was the infamous Chamber of Horrors match pitting El Gigante, Sting, and the Steiners, vs Cactus, Abdullah, Vader, and The Diamond Studd which ended with Abby getting "Electrocuted" the only way this match could have been more "WCW" would have been if Robocop showed up

Midway thru the card and we have Dustin Rhodes vs Stunning Steve Austin w/ Lady Blossom, I must not have been watching WCW at this point as I didn't recall Lady Blossom, but seeing her makes it a lot more understandable how Austin and Debra got together, everyone like to bash Hogan for "having a type" but clearly the same could be said about Austin

 

[Brodeur]

Never heard this Kerry von Erich anecdote before, it made me laugh out loud.

TL;DR version: Kerry was to make a surprise appearance at an NWA/ECW joint show in 1993. They wanted him to come out in a mask and then reveal himself midway through the match to get a pop. Tod Gordon had to explain it several times as Kerry wasn't understanding why he was wearing a mask.

Then he proceeds to walk to the ring with the mask but while wearing a ring robe with KERRY written on the back.

 

[BostonBob]

Then he proceeds to walk to the ring with the mask but while wearing a ring robe with KERRY written on the back.

Hey - it could have been Kerry Brown.

 

[Petey But Really Jim]

Carry on my wayward son

Two and a half years later maybe.

 

[JianYang]

I just went down a gene snitsky rabbit hole on YouTube.

I forgot how much snitsky 1.0 used to make me laugh.

 

[CDJ]

I’m in early 2004 smackdown right now and neither of them can talk but the Bashams were very very good

Really good tag teams on smackdown in that time- Los Guerreros, WGGT, Bashams

This is peak Eddie and it’s simply phenomenal. We really got robbed of one of the all-time greats so soon

 

[Megahab]

I’m in early 2004 smackdown right now and neither of them can talk but the Bashams were very very good

Really good tag teams on smackdown in that time- Los Guerreros, WGGT, Bashams

This is peak Eddie and it’s simply phenomenal. We really got robbed of one of the all-time greats so soon

Apparently Doug Basham was really good on the mic but never got the chance.

The Bashams always had solid matches. Lack of any kind of character killed them.

 

[Petey But Really Jim]

I’m in early 2004 smackdown right now and neither of them can talk but the Bashams were very very good

Really good tag teams on smackdown in that time- Los Guerreros, WGGT, Bashams

This is peak Eddie and it’s simply phenomenal. We really got robbed of one of the all-time greats so soon

WGGT? I mean I am assuming it begins "World's Greatest", but I'm tapping out after that.

 

[CDJ]

WGGT? I mean I am assuming it begins "World's Greatest", but I'm tapping out after that.

Lmao that’s my bad, WGTT (worlds greatest tag team, Shelton Benjamin + Charlie Haas)

 

[Petey But Really Jim]

@CDJ

OHHHHHH. I just googled that after you clarified. I remember them. Maybe not with that name though. Were they part of a "Team Angle"? Maybe came in under that story?

 

[CDJ]

@CDJ

OHHHHHH. I just googled that after you clarified. I remember them. Maybe not with that name though. Were they part of a "Team Angle"? Maybe came in under that story?

They sure did! They came in as Heyman’s handpicked tag team for Angle and were known as Team Angle until Kurt was going face and they split. They then became WGTT.

 

[Petey But Really Jim]

They sure did! They came in as Heyman’s handpicked tag team for Angle and were known as Team Angle until Kurt was going face and they split. They then became WGTT.

We may have accidentally stumbled onto the near exact date I stopped watching wrestling. I remember Hass and Benjamin as Team Angle, but not the WGTT. Awesome.

 

[CDJ]

We may have accidentally stumbled onto the near exact date I stopped watching wrestling. I remember Hass and Benjamin as Team Angle, but not the WGTT. Awesome.

I stopped for awhile around the time Eddie died, so maybe a year after you

Early/Mid 2000’s Smackdown was my jam

 

[Petey But Really Jim]

I stopped for awhile around the time Eddie died, so maybe a year after you

Early/Mid 2000’s Smackdown was my jam

I got into WWE in 2018 after that 15 plus year absense to have something to talk with a coworker about. Then AEW. Then I stopped WWE. Then AEW lost me. Yet I still enjoy seeing what people are saying about the stuff. Go figure.

 

[AtlantaWhaler]

We may have accidentally stumbled onto the near exact date I stopped watching wrestling. I remember Hass and Benjamin as Team Angle, but not the WGTT. Awesome.

I stopped for awhile around the time Eddie died, so maybe a year after you

Early/Mid 2000’s Smackdown was my jam

Yeah...I'm somewhere in this timeline as well. I watched wrestling religously from about '84 until about 2003-ish. For me, the WWE buying all the competitors killed wrestling. As of about a year ago, I've become a casual fan. I watch a RAW/Smackdown/PPV about once a month. I do enjoy AEW, but it's mostly over my head.

 

[boredmale]

Yeah...I'm somewhere in this timeline as well. I watched wrestling religously from about '84 until about 2003-ish. For me, the WWE buying all the competitors killed wrestling.

This is roughly the same with me. Started in 84(with AWA but switched to WWF in 85 after Wrestlemania)and slowly moved away from it starting around 2003. For me it was 5 hours a week was just getting to be way to much, plus it started to feel like we were just getting non stop recycled main events.

 

[Bondurant]

It's been a long time since I've watched WCCW. Thought it was worth a revisit after watching The Iron Claw. Peacock has a nice WCCW archive.

Jose Lothario is a contender for worst worked punch. Kerry and Kevin stink on the mic which they poke fun at in The Iron Claw.

 

[Megahab]

Two random questions:

At what point did solo in-ring promos start? It seems from the early 90s and prior, all in-ring promos involved a person interviewing the wrestler. I'm trying to pinpoint when wrestlers started just coming out to the ring on their own and cutting promos with no interviewer. I can't think of any instance of this prior to maybe 1995.

Also, in WWE, when did referees switch from wearing the baby blue dress shirts to black and white stripes?

 

[Bondurant]

WCCW took a huge leap forward in production and match quality in '84.

 

[CDJ]

I’m coming up on Bradshaw’s transformation into JBL and his subsequent reign and quite frankly I am looking forward to it

 

[spitsfan24]

I’m coming up on Bradshaw’s transformation into JBL and his subsequent reign and quite frankly I am looking forward to it

It really is an underrated title run imo

 

[boredmale]

Two random questions:

At what point did solo in-ring promos start? It seems from the early 90s and prior, all in-ring promos involved a person interviewing the wrestler. I'm trying to pinpoint when wrestlers started just coming out to the ring on their own and cutting promos with no interviewer. I can't think of any instance of this prior to maybe 1995.

I didn't watch WCW but in the WWF it seemed to start in the Austin ERA(97-98)

Also, in WWE, when did referees switch from wearing the baby blue dress shirts to black and white stripes?

In the mid-1980s until 1995, a World Wrestling Federation referee's attire consisted of a blue collared shirt with black trousers, boots, and bow tie, similar to that of a boxing official. In 1995, the uniform was changed back to the black and white striped shirt.

 

[CDJ]

Watching Angle explain his turn on Eddie on Smackdown is hilarious, he’s calling him a drug addict- which is funny because at this point behind the scenes he was taking 65 Vicodin a day

2 of my top 5 ever easily