RIPPA Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 I need to make this week another round of "People I Fucking Love" to keep me from just nuking everything so here we go. Fuck if we were just talking managers - I think Harley would still be one of my favorites. http://youtu.be/EWhdBR9Xwzg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jstout Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 One thing I actually like about being old is I got to see NWA Champion Harley Race live when I was a kid. Wrestled babyface youngster Robert Fuller in a "rec center" that might hold 1,000. It's still real to me, dammit! Great wrestler, great talker. I could imagine worse people to teach folks to wrestle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 I think you can make very valid criticism of Harley Race as a wrestler. I think he's also incredibly cool. If you watch the Rose vs Martel matches from 80 and put them next to the Race vs Martel one from the beginning of the year, it's night and day. Harley would bump big and hit his huge suplexes and hustle and generally make his opponent look good, but I really feel like a lot of his matches are ultimately empty. He's so cool in so many other ways though. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9h8ir_harley-race-vs-koko-b-ware-pt-1_sport http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9h8q7_harley-race-vs-koko-b-ware-pt-2_sport You know, for when you have an hour: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 This match is nothing special, but the finish is just amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmgiAY4rBk8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Young blonde harley always confusew my brain the same way eating crab cakes not made MD style does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 I miss Harley Race because I miss old school stuff like wrestlers not having signature finishers and champions just being tough bastards that oulasted their opponants in title matches. Harley Race also had the best afro ever worn by a white man. Here is Harley's best promo not named "Take The Damn Money!" 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 There are certain grails that I wish we had. One of them is footage of Race/Hennig as a tag team. They were the big AWA tag team before Bockwinkel/Stevens and I imagine they were awesome to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Ever more than bob ross? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Ross is a close second. Race could work a 30 minute match, bleed, and still maintain maximum poofage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Harley was, of course, freakishly strong. Here he throws OMG around, just because he can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEt4AuUtHdI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 I saw this match a year earlier in Little Rock. MURDOCK RETURNS, MOTHERFUCKERS! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Isn't Harley also on the list of guys that have slammed Andre? James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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LooseCannon Posted April 8, 2014 Share Posted April 8, 2014 Well, there is this classic story about Harley Race. I am sure someone can guess what it is without looking at the url. Also, this brawl featuring Bobby Heenan, a donkey, a llama, chickens, showgirls in their underwear, and someone getting hit with a fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsey Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Harey Race...let all know His good works. In all seriousness, Harley is easily in my top five wrestlers ever. Legit tough guy, according to some, the toughest guy this side of Samoa. HUGE offensive set. Big bumper. Great psychologist and over all ring general and travelled the entire world (GOD'S GREEN EARTH) to prove he was the best in the world. Whether it was Porkchop Cash or Jumbo Tsuruta, Harley could work 'em. I said this about Nick Bockwinkel and it applies to Harley too: he was better at being Ric Flair than Ric Flair was. Give me a Harley Race match from 1976 - 1988 over any five Flair-by-the-numbers matches. I'm an atheist but I believe in Harley Race. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimLivingston Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI0EtTdByaE Just in case you needed to see Race brawl like a motherfucker. Jumbo at this point is still pretty white meat in his babyfaceness, but Race brings out some of the nastiness that would make us love Jumbo in his later years. Of course there's blood. There's also some manly fucking headbutts in this. God, Race ruled. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thee Reverend Axl Future Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Harley was, of course, freakishly strong. Here he throws OMG around, just because he can. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEt4AuUtHdI My apologies for diverting our thoughts from St. Harley (hallowed be his 'fro), but I must state that I have never gotten the appeal of Tiger Jeet Singh. I have never seen a match of his in which he did anything that I was impressed with. He epitomizes for me the laziest type of worker, and I can't even say that he was cruising on past glories because I have never seen or heard of any. He comes off as an amalgam of gimmicks of several other more significant workers (MLewin, Abbie, Sheik, Elephant Boy, Pampero Firpo), with the self-protection of The Original Sheik turned up to 11. I have never met anyone who has expressed any interest in his matches - has anybody ever bothered to compile a "Best of TJS" tape? Is he just really over with the Japanese/Canadian/Sikh/Pakistani mafia(s)? This has irked me for many years now... -again, sorry for the diversion, 'RAF p.s. - and Tiger Jeet Singh is a redundant name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAl2SsFfEyM I am just going to leave this here, unwatched by myself, to erase the taste of Tiger Jeet Singh from the consciousness of anyone reading this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool arrow Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 For whatever it's worth, I share RAF's bemusement regarding Jeet Singh. I put him in the same category with tentacle porn and vending machines that sell used panties: things that appeal more or less solely to Japanese people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thee Reverend Axl Future Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Hey now, pally: I never said anything untoward agin tentacle porn or used pantie vending machines. Let's not set up any straw men here. However, I do again apologize for bring up The Blandest Sikh of Them All. By way of recompense I present this: Check out the 5:50 mark where HR just straight up blades Vader's back. Y'know, for the kids, RAF 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 That's fucking hardcore! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 For those who never heard the story, john hitchcock's story about Harley and Magnum: www.tvparty.com/80swrestling/5harley.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thee Reverend Axl Future Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 That story is so tremendous, thank you. And that match I posted is in my Top 10 Favoritest PPV Matches of the 90s. I bought the Superbrawl III VHS tape in Times Square at a newly renovated porn store for $6.95. Bless you for that singular thing, Giuliani: adult stores had to have at least 50% non-X rated material to abide by zoning laws, making it a crate digger's paradise for magazines and tapes. - screw him otherwise, RAF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurningBeard Posted April 14, 2014 Share Posted April 14, 2014 who, seriously, ever tells Harley Race that "we'll settle it in the ring"?! Jesus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted April 14, 2014 Author Share Posted April 14, 2014 who, seriously, ever tells Harley Race that "we'll settle it in the ring"?! Jesus When I first read this I thought you were implying that the only person who could say that was Jesus 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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