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    2025 Wrestling RIP thread

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    On 5/29/2025 at 11:19 PM, odessasteps said:

    You had the keeper from Norwich try his hand at it, right? 

    But not someone i'd call a star. 

    Now, if they could hire known wrestling enthusiast Jose Mourinho as a manager ....

     

    Grant Holt. An hour later, it popped into my head.

    Paul Diamond was a former soccer player. Famously the only person to have teamed with both Shawn Michaels and Big Sam Allardyce.

    March 2025 Wrestling Discussion

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    16 hours ago, odessasteps said:

    Al Getz did something about that a few years ago, but I don’t remember if he included Japan and Mexico. I think many of the obvious choices were discusssed  (Bobo v sheik, lawler v Dundee, …). 

    We did this on Wrestling Classics a couple of years ago. These are the most common pairings that were found:

    Haruku Eigen vs Rusher Kimura - 1473

    Mitsuo Momota vs Haruku Eigen - 1338

    Masa Fuchi vs Mitsuo Momota – 933

    Masa Fuchi vs Risher Kimura - 901

    Giant Baba vs Haruku Eigen – 806

    Giant Baba vs Masa Fuchi – 654

    Johnny Weaver vs Swede Hanson - 569

    Akira Taue vs Mitsuharu Misawa – 554

    Ultimo Guerrero vs Atlantis - 525

    Ultimo Guerrero vs Mistico - 474

    Giant Baba vs Abdullah the Butcher - 457

    Bobby Eaton vs Ricky Morton – 481

    Bobby Eaton vs Robert Gibson - 463

    Johnny Weaver vs. Gene Anderson - 442

    Akira Taue vs Kenta Kobashi – 429

    Ultimo Guerrero vs Volador Jr. - 429

    Ric Flair vs Wahoo McDaniel - 414

    Jumbo Tsuruta vs Stan Hansen - 351

    Mitsuharu Misawa vs Toshiaki Kawada – 342

    Ric Flair vs Dusty Rhodes - 344

    Tony Garea vs Mr. Fuji - 336

    Dr Wagner Jr. vs Atlantis - 302

    Baron Mikel Scicluna vs Dominic DeNucci - 296

    Kenta Kobashi vs Toshiaki Kawada – 294

    Andre the Giant vs Big John Studd - 292

    Ricky Steamboat vs Greg Valentine - 291

    Wahoo McDaniel vs Greg Valentine - 290

    Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat - 288

    Bret Hart vs Dynamite Kid – 286

    Ric Flair vs Sting - 281

    Jerry Lawler vs Bill Dundee - 279

    Tojo Yamamoto vs Al Greene – 278

    Ric Flair vs Paul Jones - 277

    John Cena vs Randy Orton - 267

    Dick Togo vs Super Delfin - 261

    Chief Jay Strongbow vs Mr. Fuji - 260

    Bobby Eaton vs Bobby Fulton - 259

    Wahoo McDaniel vs Johnny Valentine - 255

    Nick Bockwinkel vs Billy Robinson 248

    Tito Santana vs Greg Valentine - 247

    Ric Flair vs Lex Luger - 240

    Bret Hart vs Jacques Rougeau - 239

    Triple H vs Randy Orton - 236

    Nick Bockwinkel vs Greg Gagne 234

    Nick Bockwinkel vs The Crusher 230

    Barry Windham vs Lex Luger 227

    Dick Togo vs Great Sasuke - 223

    Bobby Eaton vs Tommy Rogers - 220

    Ric Flair vs Roddy Piper - 218

    Mitsuharu Misawa vs Kenta Kobashi – 218

    Bret Hart vs Davey Boy Smith - 211

    Edge vs Jeff Hardy - 209

    Bruno Sammartino vs Gorilla Monsoon - 207

    Harley Race vs Rufus R. Jones - 207

    Baron Mikel Scicluna vs Tony Parisi - 206

    Kofi Kingston vs the Miz - 206

    Randy Savage vs Ron Garvin - 204

    Ric Flair vs Greg Valentine - 202

    Akira Taue vs Toshiaki Kawada - 172

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    Your wrestling HOT TAKES

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    I don't know how over you can say Luger was in the WWF. He was never as over as much as he was pushed, either as the Narcissist or as Mr Made in the USA.

    If he'd just been the Total Package (and he had appeared on WWF TV under that gimmick, at WM8) as a heel at first, and then turned face on the USS Intrepid and stood up for America, but not gone overboard with the patriotic gimmick, he'd have done a lot better.

    He was the first in a long line of Vince showing he had no idea how to push a top babyface in between Hogan leaving and Austin catching fire. (see also, Diesel and Shawn Michaels). 

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    January 2025 Wrestling Discussion

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    5 hours ago, bobholly138 said:

    Why are southern venues for indies always places with no a/c no heat?


    Tonight is the TGCW show in Bay St Louis,and yes it is near the Heroes of Wrestling PPV venue, Great venue love the place. But it is COLD in the winter and HOT AS FUCK in the summer.

     

    Might pack extra water.

    I only realised recently that that same venue is where the "Just Bleed" guy appeared in the UFC crowd.

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    YOUR ALL-NEW WRESTLING BOOK THREAD

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    I'm halfway through Steve Keirn's second book after reading the first one. They're very good.

    Some takeaways so far:

    Steve has a low opinion of Eddie and Mike Graham, after growing up thinking of Eddie as a kind of father figure (while his own father was a POW in Vietnam) and Mike as a brother. Eddie tried to get Steve to invest in CWF and kept giving him bags of money before Keirn backed out of the deal and got his investment back. Mike got Steve to invest money in a bar that a few weeks later he said had closed down and the money was gone.

    Steve didn't admit any philandering while he was in the Fabulous Ones. I think he's been married to the same woman for about 50 years so that would probably explain why.

    Keirn is forthright about his failings as a promoter in the late 80s with FCW/PWF. Even after Dusty came in they were only drawing about 200 people and sometimes much fewer. Dusty also wasted their money by flying in a Lear jet.

    He also admits he wasn't much good as a realtor and that's why he had to come back to wrestling.

    The Skinner gimmick was Keirn's idea. He was a legitimate Alligator hunter until the US allowed imports of Caiman hides from South America which caused the price of Alligator hides to plummet. He liked doing the gimmick but after a while realised it wasn't going anywhere.

    He suggested being the second Doink and the attack on Crush at WM9. He was under the ring for the entire show, both before and after that match.

    After a while he was sick of having to put on the Doink makeup every night which took about two hours. The WWF had makeup artists for TV but he had to do it himself for house shows. He figured he could get a contract from WCW so he asked for his release.

    In WCW the original idea for the "Bad Attitude" tag team with Keirn and Bobby Eaton is that they were both pissed off that Stan Lane wasn't teaming with them anymore. However Stan Lane wasn't in the promotion at the time so it didn't really make sense. Ric Flair's intended name for the team was "Men of Distinction" but they didn't like it.

     

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    June 2024 Wrestling Talk

    in The PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

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    I remember going to the first 1PW show here in the UK which started at 6pm and the main event (AJ Styles vs Abyss) went into the ring at 10 to midnight. A family sat near to us left at one point on the insistence of the dad despite the kids crying because they were desperate to see AJ Styles.

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