LP Steve

Describe the 1970s in a thousand words or less. Or one gif.

That dissertation is just sitting there waiting to be written.

When I was ten, I made a decent replica of that belt by turning an old license plate backward. Good times! RIP, Verne.

Why? Your dad is now as cool as Stan Hansen.

Is that a terribly young Bob Orton? Definitely Baby Orton. Dusty Rhodes used to do promos about how he was going to powder his little behind and slap a diaper on him.

It was so good, the Conquistadors stole it for the one match they won. I like the Harts' version better because the (apparently) legal man makes the pin. Gordon Solie would have noted that. Details!

Not only didn't your link work, it didn't work in French. I think this forfeits your American citizenship, or any chance at obtaining such, as the case may be.

Bugged me that the guy with Andre looked so familiar but I couldn't place him without resort to the Google. It's young Joe Theismann, just in case I'm not the only person on the board who didn't know.

Sherwin Stern fucking rules.

See, I never realized that Zubaz were actually a wrestling thing. I just thought they were so awful that no one but a wrestler would wear them.

Never played it. Wasn't a fan of WCW, and I might not have had a system to play it at the time. We are the sane age. Twenty-seven is not the sane age.

"Kayfab"? What's Adrian Street got to do with it?

Nothing from his prime, though...

Heyman hits him with that giant old cell phone. He's been keeping it all this time for just such an occasion.

If I was an employee or investor, I'd be hoping this is just a terrible picture. Vince looks fairly sickly in that pic. If he looks like that day-in, day out, I'm passing him in the hall thinking to myself ".....that guy still largely controls a massive, publicly-traded company." Then I'm probably feeling a little insecure about the future of the company and my investment/job. Wonder how heavily involved Vince really is day-to-day and what his health is like? You youngsters! I think most 69 year old guys wish they looked that good.

Lazlo, you really should have mentioned the title that the uploader put on that match: "very petty idol wrestler Madusa,s wrestling in Japan, notice! her suit"

Yup, that's the one I missed!

So I Googled her. Did anyone realize that her character on the AT&T commercials is named "Lily Adams"? Did I miss a commercial where someone called her by name? I thought she was just "Cute Girl on the AT&T Commercials".

I've watched exactly two joshi matches, both this week, and I think I could be convinced that the object of joshi is to prove that women have a higher pain threshold than men. The Bull Nakano leg drop from the top of the cage is probably the scariest intentional wrestling move I've ever seen. Seriously, if she landed an inch or two in the wrong direction she would have crushed poor Yumiko Hotta's skull and killed her in front of an audience. Not to mention the damage she actually did to herself. Imagine jumping off from what-- fifteen feet?-- and landing squarely on your ass. That could permanently fuck up your back. Hurt to watch that.

Was that the finish? Looks like Flair kicked out.

This suddenly made me think of the commercials I'm seeing for that horrible Peter Pan live thing, where when he starts flying the song they sing goes: "I'm FLYIIIIIING" "She's FLYING!" "I'm FLYIIIIIING!!" "You're FLYIIIIIINNGG!!!" GODDAMNITWEALLKNOWYOUREFUCKINGFLYINGPUTALITTLEMOREWORKINTOWRITINGYOURLYRICS!!!! Still the best live Peter Pan of all.

Bruno, DDP, Rock & Roll Express, and Christian. I can live with that.

This is just beautifully hypnotic and I've watched it roughly 3,000 times. Damn, I miss Eddie No kidding. The essence of pro wrestling: he looks like he's killing the guy while barely touching him.

The fans demanded the Latter Match after Sergeant Rogue cheated to win the Former Match.

Hey, it's Guillotine Gordon! This pic accompanied an article in Wrestling Revue circa 1966 that really made me want to see this guy. Then he turned up and was not very good at all. His finisher, the Guillotine (naturally) was just a chop to the back of the opponent's neck. Not sure what I expected, but that was pretty anticlimactic.