Spritenaut 32 Posted September 6, 2016 Posted September 6, 2016 11 minutes ago, Wyld Samurai said: Didn't Rotunda rock the amateur singlet in the varsity club? Yes, and in Japan afterwards. A fair handful of guys wore singlets/short legs before the Steiners. King Kong Bundy, the Russians (Nikita, Uncle Ivan, etc.), a couple guys in Japan. I'd have to rack my brain, but there were territory guys with that look well before the Steiners. I think Dutch Mantell wrestled in a short-legged singlet and furry boots at one point. 1
Technico Support Posted September 7, 2016 Posted September 7, 2016 15 hours ago, Vader does my taxes! said: Yes, and in Japan afterwards. A fair handful of guys wore singlets/short legs before the Steiners. King Kong Bundy, the Russians (Nikita, Uncle Ivan, etc.), a couple guys in Japan. I'd have to rack my brain, but there were territory guys with that look well before the Steiners. I think Dutch Mantell wrestled in a short-legged singlet and furry boots at one point. Right, but the question was specifically about the singlet with shorts, not the nut hugger. I remember Mantell, the Russians and Bundy all wearing the latter, not the former.
Spritenaut 32 Posted September 7, 2016 Posted September 7, 2016 Sorry. My mistake. Yeah, most of the guys I can think of wore the "nut huggers"/. It seems unlikely that the Steiners were the first to wear shorts with a singlet, but I can't fhink of anyone who did that before them.
The Great ML Posted September 8, 2016 Posted September 8, 2016 The Russian Army in NJPW '89? Salmon Hashimikov and Victor Zangiev...
Happ Hazzard Posted September 10, 2016 Posted September 10, 2016 Anyone know anything about this group? From the late 80s I think. If you've seen the notorious promo with the "The Prince" and Boogaloo Brown, it's from this group. I just watched a mixed tag match involving the same two guys and was very surprised to see Billy Robinson!?! do a run-in at the end.
FluffSnackwell Posted September 10, 2016 Posted September 10, 2016 The Prince looks like Mr. Perfect if he got his head squashed in a vise grip. Also either those truly are some amazons or Prince is like 12 because he looks like a kid in his jammies next to everyone else. This promotion and IWF should've worked some kind of invasion angle. I guess IWF would be the invaders since this promotion seems to have at least 40 or 50 people in attendance as opposed to paid attendance of 12 with piped in crowd noise.
Jerome Miller Posted September 23, 2016 Posted September 23, 2016 Anybody know who the dipshit in the Nazi gimmick is? Oh, and fuck Ron Fuller for booking this idiocy.
colonial Posted September 23, 2016 Posted September 23, 2016 According to WrestlingClassics.com, the Stormtrooper was portrayed by Tim Frye, who later worked as a jobber under his own name during the early days of SMW.
Dewar Posted September 24, 2016 Posted September 24, 2016 9 hours ago, Jerome Miller said: Anybody know who the dipshit in the Nazi gimmick is? Oh, and fuck Ron Fuller for booking this idiocy. The Stormtrooper is dumb as fuck, but everyone needs to jump ahead to the 26 minute mark, to watch the epic Jerry Lawler video set to Scandal's "The Warrior". 1
RandomAct Posted September 28, 2016 Posted September 28, 2016 Anyone have any memory of what the plans were for HBK and the IC title had Syracuse not happened? Was he supposed to enter into a program with Douglas(that obviously got squashed by the Kliq)?
sydneybrown Posted September 29, 2016 Posted September 29, 2016 7 hours ago, RandomAct said: Anyone have any memory of what the plans were for HBK and the IC title had Syracuse not happened? Was he supposed to enter into a program with Douglas(that obviously got squashed by the Kliq)? The plan was always Michaels/Hart for WMXII, so I'd assume HBK would have lost the title at some point to somebody, but I doubt it would have been to Douglas. The irony is that Ramon actually injured Douglas so badly in that match (a botched clothesline had him coughing up blood) that Michaels actually returned to action before Douglas did.
Technico Support Posted September 29, 2016 Posted September 29, 2016 9 hours ago, sydneybrown said: The plan was always Michaels/Hart for WMXII, so I'd assume HBK would have lost the title at some point to somebody 12
sydneybrown Posted September 29, 2016 Posted September 29, 2016 24 minutes ago, Technico Support said: Touche. The point I meant was I don't think WMXII would have been a I-C/World, title for title match. HBK would have had the I-C title removed from the equation somewhere prior. 1
BurningBeard Posted September 29, 2016 Posted September 29, 2016 Talking of Dean Douglas, was he his own worst enemy? If he'd just kept his trap shut and got on with it in WCW in 93 he'd have been in a pretty good position surely
Tromatagon Posted September 29, 2016 Posted September 29, 2016 LAMONT YOU BIG DUMMY he'd have lost it to one of his friends probably 2
Wyld Samurai Posted September 29, 2016 Posted September 29, 2016 3 hours ago, CreativeControl said: Talking of Dean Douglas, was he his own worst enemy? If he'd just kept his trap shut and got on with it in WCW in 93 he'd have been in a pretty good position surely Not with Hogan and crew coming in.
RandomAct Posted September 29, 2016 Posted September 29, 2016 Actually, I got to thinking. Do they just do the Ramon/Goldust storyline with Micheals? I am certain that they were planning to put the IC on Goldust either way, and they could have possibly done the switch in December so Shawn is still good for the Rumble.
muhammedboehm Posted September 30, 2016 Posted September 30, 2016 Not sure if this is ok here or the what if thread, but does anyone know what the plans would have been for the members of the Radicals (Chris, Eddie, Dean, Perry) if they had stated in WCW?
GuerrillaMonsoon Posted September 30, 2016 Posted September 30, 2016 32 minutes ago, muhammedboehm said: Not sure if this is ok here or the what if thread, but does anyone know what the plans would have been for the members of the Radicals (Chris, Eddie, Dean, Perry) if they had stated in WCW? Given the management changed 3 times in the 3 months surrounding their departure, doubt there was any?
Jerome Miller Posted September 30, 2016 Posted September 30, 2016 Anybody have any background info on this promotion? Rusty Brooks has got to be one of the worst lead heels in any promotion, and Jesus, Bob Roop is horrible on color commentary.
colonial Posted September 30, 2016 Posted September 30, 2016 14 hours ago, Jerome Miller said: Anybody have any background info on this promotion? Rusty Brooks has got to be one of the worst lead heels in any promotion, and Jesus, Bob Roop is horrible on color commentary. IIRC, the Apter magazines (or a lesser publication like Wrestling Eye) made mention of this company trying to raise funds by selling stock to the public at 10 cents a share. The only other angle I remember from the GWA also came from the Apter mags. The heel announcer in the first clip, Dr. Red Roberts (who, outside the ring, was a licensed therapist), supposedly had a match with Bugsy McGraw and lost, with the stipulation being he had to eat a cockroach for losing. No clue how it come to that, but there you go.
ben. Posted October 2, 2016 Posted October 2, 2016 Here is a question that has probably been done to death but I cannot recall the answer: Was Rock joining the Nation something that was planned or a knee-jerk reaction to Ahmed getting hurt for the umpteenth time? If Ahmed didn't go down, would Rock still have joined as they wouldn't have needed the fourth?
J.H. Posted October 3, 2016 Posted October 3, 2016 I remember GWA also having a convict tag team but damn if I could remember the namre of it. It ws such on odd little fed. James
Niners Fan in CT Posted October 3, 2016 Posted October 3, 2016 Was watching an old SNME. Who was Super Ninja? I don't remember him. Mr. Fuji talent. He faced Warrior for the I.C. strap
Infinit Posted October 3, 2016 Posted October 3, 2016 Pretty sure the story was that the Super Ninja was Rip Oliver doing a one off. I remember Vince calling him "Super Ninja One", I thought back then that it might be one half of a new tag team. 1
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