SirSmUgly Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 Is there anywhere online that has a full, non-clipped, non-fancammed version of the Midnight Express vs. Tully and Arn NWA Tag Title match in Philadelphia where Tully and Arn dropped the belts before going to WWF in the late '80s? For that matter, I've never seen the Road Warriors/Midnights match shortly after where the Roadies killed the Midnights almost dead for the titles, so I should go look for that. I'm guessing that it made full tape.
odessasteps Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 17 minutes ago, Smelly McUgly said: Is there anywhere online that has a full, non-clipped, non-fancammed version of the Midnight Express vs. Tully and Arn NWA Tag Title match in Philadelphia where Tully and Arn dropped the belts before going to WWF in the late '80s? For that matter, I've never seen the Road Warriors/Midnights match shortly after where the Roadies killed the Midnights almost dead for the titles, so I should go look for that. I'm guessing that it made full tape. Cornette showed a copy at his live show in Philly, but it would likely fall into fancam quality. It wasn’t shot by JCP. 1
SirSmUgly Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 Just now, odessasteps said: Cornette showed a copy at his live show in Philly, but it would likely fall into fancam quality. It wasn’t shot by JCP. I didn't know that Cornette was shooting live shows. There was (is?) a fancam of it up on YouTube a few years back, but it wasn't great. Corny's fancam would be interesting to watch, though. Thanks!
Infinit Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 1 hour ago, Smelly McUgly said: For that matter, I've never seen the Road Warriors/Midnights match shortly after where the Roadies killed the Midnights almost dead for the titles, so I should go look for that. I'm guessing that it made full tape. That match was on the WWE Road Warriors DVD.
Happ Hazzard Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 Are Dr. Tom and Bruce Prichard the wrestling brothers that are least associated with each other? I've hardly heard either of them talk about the other, never seen them pictured together and they hardly ever worked in the same promotion at the same time.
MORELOCK Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 4 hours ago, Happ Hazzard said: Are Dr. Tom and Bruce Prichard the wrestling brothers that are least associated with each other? I've hardly heard either of them talk about the other, never seen them pictured together and they hardly ever worked in the same promotion at the same time. Bruce talks about Tom on his podcast relatively often. Also he was working backstage for Tom's whole WWF run including when Tom ran developmental.
AxB Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 Did you hear the story of how the angle with Jimmy Del Ray replacing Stan Lane in the Heavenly Bodies inadvertently led to Jim Cornette's WWE run? They were pretending Del Ray was a cousin to the Pritchards, so they brought their dad in to endorse him in a promo. But before that, they phoned Bruce and asked him if he wanted a tape of the promo. He said yes, so when they filmed it, they kept going after the TV portion was done, as a rib. They asked Daddy Pritchard if he had any other family members in the Wrestling business, besides Tom and Del Ray. And he said his other son Bruce had an office job in New York and was a miserable pissant bastard. Then they sent the tape to Bruce, and he unknowlingly watched it while Vince was in the room. And that's why Vince hired Cornette. 3 1 8
SirSmUgly Posted January 14, 2019 Posted January 14, 2019 14 hours ago, Infinit said: That match was on the WWE Road Warriors DVD. It's also online and was a nice little five-minute sprint where Bobby Eaton sold a beating and then fired up like an all-star, white-meat babyface before eating a clothesline and getting pinned. In other words, it was perfectly enjoyable!
Tromatagon Posted January 16, 2019 Posted January 16, 2019 On 1/14/2019 at 5:08 AM, MORELOCK said: Bruce talks about Tom on his podcast relatively often. Also he was working backstage for Tom's whole WWF run including when Tom ran developmental. He also sells Tom's shirts in his Pro Wrestling Tees store.
Brian Fowler Posted January 16, 2019 Posted January 16, 2019 And is now shilling for Tom and Kane's wrestling school.
Contentious C Posted January 20, 2019 Posted January 20, 2019 EDIT: Never mind. Dumb question answered by finishing the match. Enjoy, I guess?
colonial Posted January 20, 2019 Posted January 20, 2019 On 1/4/2019 at 2:06 AM, Nice Guy Eddie said: I'm pretty sure Jack Tunney put the kibosh on it because of Savage's interference. If Savage were smart, he would have had Sherri offering herself up to Tunney for the title shot. Elizabeth was definitely the brains between her and Savage. Savage and Sherri were too much of a Sid & Nancy type couple. Bumping this up for another 91 Rumble question. Savage was scheduled to be in the Rumble, but when his number was called, he didn't appear, and the Rumble went ahead with 29 entrants. Was this always the plan? Maybe it's me, but it would have been a lot more interesting to have Savage walk out the curtain, only to have Warrior attack him for costing him the belt.
sydneybrown Posted January 21, 2019 Posted January 21, 2019 You gotta frame-by-frame it but for a split second you DO see Savage come out then he suddenly vanishes. And the announcers completely miss it. I THINK what you suggested was the plan (Warrior attacking Savage before he got to the ring) but the timing was so awful, it looks like they might have just given up on it.
Vgmastr Posted January 22, 2019 Posted January 22, 2019 20 hours ago, sydneybrown said: You gotta frame-by-frame it but for a split second you DO see Savage come out then he suddenly vanishes. And the announcers completely miss it. I THINK what you suggested was the plan (Warrior attacking Savage before he got to the ring) but the timing was so awful, it looks like they might have just given up on it. That's actually Animal, who was #19 and almost entered one entry too early until I'm assuming whoever was running Gorilla freaked out and stopped him.
sydneybrown Posted January 23, 2019 Posted January 23, 2019 On 1/21/2019 at 7:18 PM, Vgmastr said: That's actually Animal, who was #19 and almost entered one entry too early until I'm assuming whoever was running Gorilla freaked out and stopped him. Oh my God, you are right. That is some Mandela effect shit of the highest level. I remember watching that show as a kid live and thinking that was Savage getting yanked back by Warrior the whole time. And I was thinking how smart little kid me was for picking up on something the announcers missed.
BloodyChamp Posted February 11, 2019 Posted February 11, 2019 This is the most recently bumped up general questions thread so I figured I would dump this here. Where might I find those old 5MYNTSB threads from the green board? 5 Matches You Need To See By [insert good wrestler short on good matches or good footage]. Tracey Smothers, Brad Armstrong, Terry Funk were cool choices I remember.
BloodyChamp Posted February 21, 2019 Posted February 21, 2019 Is this the match that Jim Crockett showed up to watch, thinking of signing the Rock n Roll Express. Also is this a thread that survived the old board? It had the symbol that I’d posted in it before but I didn’t look on every page.
RazorbladeKiss87 Posted March 8, 2019 Posted March 8, 2019 Who would be the announcer for this? I read Hornbaker's website section about Chicago but it doesn't say who was doing commentary. It also wasn't real clear if this was part of the DuMont Network airings or not.
Word Hoard Posted March 19, 2019 Posted March 19, 2019 On 3/8/2019 at 2:13 PM, RazorbladeKiss87 said: Who would be the announcer for this? I read Hornbaker's website section about Chicago but it doesn't say who was doing commentary. It also wasn't real clear if this was part of the DuMont Network airings or not. The announcer is Russ Davis. I became a fan after hearing his work on the Chicago footage that came out a few years back. "Russell W. Davis was born in Kansas City, Missouri on September 15, 1909. After graduating high school in 1927 he worked at Kansas City radio stations until he left the city in 1931. From 1931 to 1940 he worked at a number of radio stations around the country including KOA in Denver and KWTO in Springfield, Missouri. Starting in 1941 he began working at the CBS radio affiliate in Chicago. In 1946 he made the switch to television at WBKB, which was Chicago’s first commercial television station. He worked on a variety of shows including two different wrestling shows from the Rainbo and Midway arenas, boxing matches, and Christmas and New Year’s Eve specials. He provided commentary for a women’s baseball league, hosted a short-lived but popular amateur show The Knickerbocker Hours, was the emcee for a man-on-the-street show Off the Cuff, and was the announcer for The Jane Foster Show in which Foster and Davis advised housewives on their domestic problems. No copies of these shows are known to exist. He left the station in 1949 to co-found IWF, Inc. with his wife Sylvia, who he married in 1946. IWF stood for both Imperial World Films and International Wrestling Films. The company primarily released syndicated wrestling shows that Russ announced. The show was leased to over 160 stations nationwide. Due to its success Russ Davis was considered a television pioneer amongst wrestling fans in the 1950s. The company also made sponsored films and a few other TV series including Raymond Massey Reads the Bible (1951). From the summer of 1951 to May 1952 Russ and Sylvia hosted a daily talk show on WGN called alternately The Davises or The Russ Davis Show. In the show the Davises attempted to enlighten and entertain the viewers (mostly housewives) by interviewing guests from the world of high culture – opera singers, art critics, ballet dancers, musicians – in a welcoming, yet slightly irreverent tone. He worked on the IWF wrestling TV shows until his death on March 14, 1969. He died of a heart attack, but had been battling alcohol addiction for decades." 3
BloodyChamp Posted April 21, 2019 Posted April 21, 2019 Any NWF historians around? I have a few questions.
BurningBeard Posted April 24, 2019 Posted April 24, 2019 (edited) On 4/21/2019 at 3:38 AM, BloodyChamp said: Any NWF historians around? I have a few questions. Not really, all I know is they were a small time New York independent, Inoki ended up with their title and elevated into something it should never have been before retiring the belt, and it was bizarrely revived by a stable of quasi-MMA fighters in NJPW the early 2000s and was held by Takayama. Edited April 24, 2019 by CreativeControl
Doragon Posted April 24, 2019 Posted April 24, 2019 On 4/21/2019 at 12:08 AM, BloodyChamp said: Any NWF historians around? I have a few questions. What questions
clintthecrippler Posted April 24, 2019 Posted April 24, 2019 4 hours ago, CreativeControl said: Not really, all I know is they were a small time New York independent, Inoki ended up with their title and elevated into something it should never have been before retiring the belt, and it was bizarrely revived by a stable of quasi-MMA fighters in NJPW the early 2000s and was held by Takayama. I think you have your NWF promotions crossed up. There was a smaller indy in the 80s called the NWF using mostly ex-WWF guys and Philly folks that would end up in Goodhart's Tri State. The NWF that got tied in with Inoki and NJPW was a non-NWA territory promotion in the 60s and 70s that covered Pittsburgh/Cleveland/Buffalo. It was home of the infamous Ernie Ladd/Ox Baker riot in Cleveland, as well as the promoter of one of the most ridiculous stadium shows of the era, the "Super Bowl of Wrestling", a show with multiple tournaments and matches in three rings at the same time. When the American promotion closed shop, I believe Johnny Powers was its champion and working with NJPW at the time, so he lost the NWF Title to Inoki and NJ kept it going as one of their main titles into the 1980s. Theres an NWF Title match from Cleveland between Inoki and Ernie Ladd that aired on NJ Classics some years ago.
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