BloodyChamp

I still love Jim Cornette but that will have to wait. I bet it’s great like all of his tributes are but I’ll have to be at home on a quiet evening for it. So…what exactly was happening when that stuff on the cage caught on fire in 1989? I always thought it was a work. This is the same company that everybody says caught heck because of the plastic bag incident. Then they’re supposedly allowed to put 4 men in a cage that’s electrified? And it causes a fire? And nobody really freaks out??? Lol! So that’s why I thought it was just something they added, like a cool way to give the mist a cameo because everybody liked it even though it was Muta’s way of cheating.

That was a cool show. Secondary cable network TV shows are like wrestling. They were simple but so dang great back then. I think that other guy was also a wrestler. Does anybody have a link to the “original” promo that I referenced earlier? I found the one from 2006 but not the one from ECW.

Yep he signed the autograph and said stay out of jail kid. Then the next time he said you staying out of jail kid?

That’s so not crazy. It’s typical lol! If only girls were spotted in our favorite wrestler’s shirts more often it’d be obvious. It’s hard enough to find 1 in our favorite football player’s shirt. Is the guy who used to talk about the time Terry Funk remembered him at the convention still around?

The first wrestling show I ever went to was a houseshow in Tallahassee, that I’ve actually seen pictures of through the years online. Ric Flair vs Terry Funk was the main event. It was right slam in the middle of all that. Man what a show. The whole show was great. Sting/Muta, Luger/Tommy, Southern Boys/Freebirds, and Pillman and The Z Man each wrestled twice. Hot dang it was great.

Has the exchange between him and Dreamer on Raw before ONS been posted? I haven’t seen that since but I remember thinking it was pretty dang great. I know it was kind of a copycat of another old promo but it was done for a reason and it worked. Foley* not Dreamer wtf

I’ve made the comment that I could watch fat hairy men punch each other in cadence with them stomping their right foot all day long. There’s just something charming about it. It’s this stuff they called pro rasslin. Terry Funk, as good of a worker as he was, did that as time went on so he was 1 of those guys like he was 1 of everything else. On top of that though, I could watch him call people egg sucking dogs and chicken plucking suckers all day long. There was just something about his G rating envelope pushing insults and that was just his normal promos. When he actually got fired up and did his rage crying thing, like at Wrestlewar or in the promo leading up to the Lawler match, there was a whole other level. Another quality that he had was something that very few wrestlers have, but it’s 1 that makes them the greatest. No matter where he went, he was Terry Funk. This territory? That territory? This country? This national promotion? And I don’t just mean what they called him. I mean how he walked in and out of wherever he was like he walked in and out of Texas, calling them egg sucking dogs and oinking at them. The time they tried to make him not be Terry Funk, which wasn’t all that unheard of of and idea with a guy like him looking to change with the times atleast a little bit, it just made him more like Terry Funk. I’m talking about Chainsaw Charlie of course. Other guys who had this quality were Jerry Lawler, Ric Flair, Sabu, and Randy Savage.

10/10 and it’s something that we all understand because we all have somebody like that in our real lives, like maybe and Uncle. And that right there explains Mick Foley calling him Uncle Terry all those years. He was that kind of a person in real life.

I laugh, cringe, admire and tonight almost cried when he said OINK! OINK! OINK! Hot dang that’s as great to watch now as it was infuriating as a fan to watch back then. I’ve never seen that tournament in full but I have watched more Puerto Rico wrestling over the years than the average fan of our mold has. I know many people acknowledge its greatness but leave it alone since Brody. One thing that always comes up and manages not to get wrapped up in Brody is this tournament and it’s because of Terry Funk. The guy just made everything great. I loved him. I almost feel bad booing him. I mean I hated that mfer lol!!!!!! And I loved him just as much when I learned about what was really going on.

That was actually a brand name song from a popular western movie IIRC. Expanding on his WCW run besides O he rassled Flair and they broke a table and did piledrivers like everybody always says is on my list of things to do in this thread as soon as I catch up a little. That theme, to which he walked a teeeeny bit slower to the ring with the branding iron, heel western jacket, hat, etc was just great. Terry Funk was the GOAT heel cowboy among many other GOAT things. He was the top heel in WCW which is saying alot since by extension it made Flair the top face. That’s right…argue it however but it’s the truth. Ric Flair was the top face in WCW in 1989 after Funk attacked him. It wasn’t Sting, Luger, or any of the immediate future top guys and the overall product was so much better than the WWF at the time. The only problem was the business end crap that we’ve discussed 1000 times.

I wasn’t saying that anything Savage lacked in WCW was his fault. It rarely is the wrestler’s fault when talking about a WCW eff up . I agree there was really no plan other than to sign him and have that be his unofficial new gimmick…guy we signed after Hogan. Piper was over for those months before he lost to Hogan at Superbrawl. What followed was what has been discussed. Some really freaking sad stuff lol! I remember him getting real mad and calling Hogan a PIECE OF SNAKE! Haw man I never heard such FILTH!

This was the first trainwreck. It’s been overshadowed by worse ones since but this was the first one and it’s still one of the worst ones yes. Just a total slow burning trainwreck of burning kilts.

Those are 2 freaking great matches. The hindsighted cynics who say otherwise for reasons that have nothing to do with wrestling can kiss my jackass.

So many posts that I’ll want to quote and comment on I’m sure but this is the first one. The Anywhere on the Card list of wrestlers that we’ve discussed before is short, but it has Terry Funk on it. The top guys that are on that list are usually left off of it because people just remember them as top guys but Terry Funk was all of the guys. He was that good here, there, and everywhere.

I heard about it a couple hours ago and just wanted to say so, and that I’m sad but also glad that he’s in heaven and ok. I said a little prayer and thought about him over a dinner that I sorta made Texas style just for him. I’ll get in on the discussion of how freaking great he was soon like we all do in these threads.

I love Randy Savage but him in WCW was kinda meh. It to was similar to Hogan. His whole arrival, promotion, and so on was the same as Hogan’s, minus the former champion part. Yes I know he was the champion but that’s not how people remembered him. They remembered Hogan as the champion so he was the guy who was champion. Then Savage was the second guy. Then everybody else who arrived basically did so down to the order they rassled on WWF shows ugh. I thought the DDP feud was so overrated and I love DDP to. What did really hit right was when Savage joined the NWO. That WWF order was broken when The Giant joined which was a reason people wanted to see who joined next, then Savage joined exactly when it pissed us off the most, when somebody really and truly had Hogan beat in our minds. Now changing gears a bit on DDP. DDP got so over because he was such a good heel for such a long time. You don’t realize it but long time heels make such a good face when the turn is timed right, and his turn was 1 of the best turns ever made IMO. Just a total mark out moment. And even though he wasn’t this larger than life heel, it didn’t matter. He was like Jim Cornette or Bill Dundee. He was just such a little shit all over the TV, all the time. He was a manager here, an announcer there, and a rassler over here. That all built towards his face turn. And just like those guys he’s still remembered today.

That pic Bret Hart just put on FB is 1 of my new favorites

I always thought that was going to be an epic storyline tbh. That was back when they could still make those happen when they wanted to.

I got ROFLED at for merely asking if ECW ON TNN would suffer from that channel’s fan’s highschool football back in the day. I know the channel was changing but it was still like I remember until after ECW was gone.

I almost wish Bischoff would have been able to buy WCW just to see how long his crush on Hogan would have lasted. He was so obsessed with the guy. Say Hogan just left 1 day for the WWF. I really think Eric Bischoff would have had a mental health issue over it.

I thought I read somewhere that they both said their earlier matches were better actual wrestling matches minus the heat and entertainment that came with the 1989 matches. I also need to rewatch the matches. And I need to watch 1 the early matches for the first time ever! Does anybody remember a match where Ric Flair’s entrance was done live with a whole brass instruments band? One of these matches?

I responded after reading and catching up but I first came to add something about the Kevin and Buzz squash. That might be the best squash match of its kind but there probably should be a thread for them. I don’t mean a “fun squash” thread or a “dur hur I read something happened in this squash so now I like it even though it was boring before” thread. The Kevin and Buzz squash was a squash that got everybody watching’s full attention and they didn’t know how it was going to end even if they knew who the winner would be, which they were technically wrong about in this case. Sure people watched the other squashes but they almost booed and cheered on command. This one wasn’t like that.

Vs The Rock n Roll Express when they use the table? I hate it but WM5 is up there. I’ve never sat down and watched WM3. Here’s a gem - vs Prince Iaukea from Nitro. That wasn’t much of a match but the heat that night was up there with Summerslam 93 I swear. So the announcement of the match and all the stipulations around it, the match, and the postmatch was a real trip.

Naw not vs Sting and Luger. That’s actually my alltime favorite match for personal reasons but it doesn’t belong on any serious GOAT matches list. I figured it’d get mentioned as the thread went on like it always does though. It really is a heck of a match. It was as WCW as WCW could get. It was the Steiners vs Sting and Luger baby. It was the best tag team vs the best guys, WCW guys, not NWA guys. And they delivered, which was something they could do every time when it was up to them. There was 1 part that didn’t deliver which was the finish, which was the 1 part that wasn’t up to them SMH. That was a part of what made the match as WCW as it could get. It was the good and the bad. I was referring to The Steiners vs Hase and Sasaki. The line Gorilla said I think went like this. When the security hit the ring, Pat Patterson was with them. Gorilla goes “Is that Pat Patterson? O he’s let himself go.” Then as the other announcer kept talking about the chaos Gorilla couldn’t quit talking about Pat and kept adding 1 liners about how Pat was fat, old etc. One of the underrated dead pan routines of all time tbh lol!

The Harts vs The Steiners is so great. There’s another Steiners match just like it that people put at 5 stars so… And it doesn’t have Gorilla Monsoon’s GOAT comedy relief line at the end.