October 2024 Wrestling Discussion

[The Natural]

59 minutes ago, Hail Sabin said:

When I get my Haircut, I have to take my glasses off, so everything is out of focus but truthfully, I have asked myself in the last few hours why it took me so long as well. 

Fellow glasses wearer, I can relate.

[tbarrie]

8 hours ago, The Natural said:

Fellow glasses wearer, I can relate.

I like how this followed AxB's post. I read your comment before I read the quote box, so I initially thought you were saying you related to Superman in terms of people not suspecting your secret identity. 

[S.K.o.S.]

New wrestling crossword:

https://bsky.app/profile/avalanchestyle.bsky.social/post/3l6dg3h227c2i

Edited October 13, 2024 by S.K.o.S.

[Curt McGirt]

[hammerva]

Real treat from WWE Vault today it is supposedly Dusty Rhodes last match as it is the Rhodes Family vs the Dude Busters and Curt Hawkins in I believe a FCW house show

The match itself was fine but the treat was that whoever taped this didn't know how to turn off the cam recorder displays as they are everywhere 

[stuntmanc]

So this is a bit of a random question, but with all of the comparisons with the "Stop The Moxley" thing going in AEW, does anyone have the link to the writeup of the Stop the Matsunaga angle in Zero-1?  The only link i have seems to be broken and im wondering if it was posted anywhere else or if someone has it saved.  I have a friend of mine asking about it and i know any description will not do it the same justice the write up would

[Hamhock]

11 minutes ago, StuntmanCrowley said:

does anyone have the link to the writeup of the Stop the Matsunaga angle in Zero-1?

There’s a discussion of it in DVDVR #163; not sure if that’s specifically what you’re referring to?

[nate]

On 10/8/2024 at 1:35 PM, bobholly138 said:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4cpYrS0Sac6cNsH-2E8I01rU9-x9-Y3Z&si=s3xhAesOmb72rlAt

Not every Vordell match I have filmed and got online but 11 of them. Going  back to 2013ish. Newest is from last year.

 

Small favor if anyone can. Channel is at 543 subs. Trying to hit 550 before end of the year. Never monetized the channel. Pretty much film and upload so there is an archive of the area.

Saw how 14 years ago there was either no one filming. Or the fed filmed and never released footage. So asked and got permission to film and upload. Now right at 15 years later been to 4 states,MS/AL/LA/TX,like 50+ towns and 50+ feds.

This month is the first one in a long time that I haven't spent most Saturdays in a car traveling 3 to 4 hours to a show. Then heading back home after it.

So ya if you aint subbed to DIY Mississippi filmworks please do.

And yea the name is a mouthful. IT's a tribute to a buddy that died right before I started filming. Had had DIY M F !!! across his knuckles. So I wanted to use that in a way that most wouldn't catch it.

 

Now you only need one more.

[bobholly138]

59 minutes ago, nate said:

Now you only need one more.

I'm sure before he finally retires I will get at least a few more Vordell matches.

For close to 6 years he was the number 1 or 2 face in  my local indie. So would see him a few times a year. Now he just wrestles when he wants too.

[Happ Hazzard]

Was there ever a Beastmaster gimmick in wrestling? You'd think it'd be an obvious choice for WCW to put on TBS in the 80s or early 90s.

[J.H.]

They probably could've gotten Marc Singer to do it. I mean Beast Master 2 was out in 91 so cross promotion was there!

James

[odessasteps]

1 hour ago, Happ Hazzard said:

Was there ever a Beastmaster gimmick in wrestling? You'd think it'd be an obvious choice for WCW to put on TBS in the 80s or early 90s.

Jim Herd was more concerned with Oz and The Wizard. 

[Cobra Commander]

Just thought of Abdullah's WWF gimmick..

the Gladman from the Sudan.. a Happy Abdullah the Butcher

[twiztor]

13 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:

Just thought of Abdullah's WWF gimmick..

the Gladman from the Sudan.. a Happy Abdullah the Butcher

"He'll carve a smile on your head!"

[Cobra Commander]

"He'll carve a smile on you" feels like a Bray Wyatt concept that would get scrapped after a few weeks after running into questions about how to do it

[The Natural]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y0z1yn40po

Cody Rhodes wants a WrestleMania in the UK.

[J.H.]

13 hours ago, twiztor said:

"He'll carve a smile on your head!"

So basically doing to Abby what Vince did to the Sheepherders?

James

[RazorbladeKiss87]

1 hour ago, J.H. said:

So basically doing to Abby what Vince did to the Sheepherders?

James

I can hear the glee in Vince's voice as Abdullah does the cabbage patch. 

[J.H.]

Oh make no mistake,Luke and Butch made more money for working sometimes easier matches (the matches against Tully and Arn are surprisingly good and those were like a month before the latter won the straps).

Of Vince could turn Abby into a beloved comedy act, Abby would still be beloved and cashing royalty checks. Hell, Vince would've taught Abby to read and that could've been a real game changer!

James

[Cliff Hanger]

2 hours ago, J.H. said:

Oh make no mistake,Luke and Butch made more money for working sometimes easier matches (the matches against Tully and Arn are surprisingly good and those were like a month before the latter won the straps).

 

My memory is that the Bushwackers made a ton of money in their WWF years by being the guys who did a ton of meet and greets at Toys R Us and shopping malls, but that was something I was told here and would have happened before I was a fan, so it could easily be wrong

[Elsalvajeloco]

They were also in WWF long past their expiration date. You will watch a random Challenge episode from 1994 when the WWF is starting to lose syndication and the goddamn Bushwhackers pop up. It seems like they were kept around to do benefit events along with DiBiase, who despite being a heel was sort of the last vestige of a bygone era.

[SirSmUgly]

19 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:

They were also in WWF long past their expiration date. You will watch a random Challenge episode from 1994 when the WWF is starting to lose syndication and the goddamn Bushwhackers pop up. It seems like they were kept around to do benefit events along with DiBiase, who despite being a heel was sort of the last vestige of a bygone era.

Shoot, the Bushwhackers were on that episode of Family Matters in 1994. They always struck me sort of like Hacksaw Jim Duggan in '99 - '01 WCW in that they were absolutely out of place, but they had a weird sort of popularity via recognizance for lapsed or spot fans that made them valuable. It was almost like they were nostalgia acts even though they'd never really left for long enough to then come back and be a viable nostalgia act. Even Hulk Hogan had to disappear from television for a couple of years to make his nostalgia act work on his 2002 return to the WWF, but the Bushwhackers just sort of transitioned into a nostalgia act while still on television. 

[Stefanie Sparkleface]

42 minutes ago, Elsalvajeloco said:

They were also in WWF long past their expiration date. You will watch a random Challenge episode from 1994 when the WWF is starting to lose syndication and the goddamn Bushwhackers pop up. It seems like they were kept around to do benefit events along with DiBiase, who despite being a heel was sort of the last vestige of a bygone era.

Seeing them in 1996 is even weirder (though I think they only wrestled the Bodydonnas almost exclusively), especially when they started doing the hongi.

[J.H.]

I think working for WWF is what allowed them to keep going. Not doing blood soaked brawls and becoming a comedy act, probably extended them past their expiration date. I mean, kids loved Luke & Butch

James

[Johnny Sorrow]

I'd bet the farm the old pervert could have gotten Abby over as a face. WCW tried, but, ya know, WCW at that time. 
If that leaf loving rapist had seen that pic of Abby in the Saturday Night Fever suit? We'd have had Disco Abby after an initial run with Hogan.