The most obscure, random stuff you've found on comps

[HumanChessgame]

Someone mentioning a bunch of old tapes he found lately made me think of this.  I'm sure we all picked up a comp or package deal that included something that was un-labeled or vague in its contents and found some really random or obscure stuff on it.  

 

I used to get a lot of my tapes from some tiny video store located in a basement a few blocks from my dorm.  They carried all kinds of cult, foreign, and obscure movies and carried a decent section of indy and Japanese wrestling (though I think they made most of their profit on porn and bootleg movies as this was in the days before bittorrent).  I picked up a tape promising the best of Japanese tv.  There was no match listing, just a list of wrestlers featured on it.  I don't recall much of what was on there, just some random puro stuff, but then there was some match from Mexico featuring Psicosis, Halloween (I think) and some other random guys in some sort of barbed wire match featuring a flaming bat, something far more violent than I was used to seeing in lucha.  There was also some match featuring Sabu against a Russian guy in a full gi in what practically degenerated into a shoot fight.

[clintthecrippler]

Best unlabeled/unadvertised obscurity at the end of a tape: NWA World Champion Terry Funk vs. jobber Sonny Rogers from Florida. The match itself isn't anything special, but there's not much footage from Funk's NWA Title Reign floating around, so that was a nice bonus.

 

Worst unlabeled/unadvertised obscurity at the end of a tape: an entire NWA New Jersey show from 1999 headlined by Gillberg vs "Nature Boy" Rik Ratchet. And sadly, that was the BEST match on the show.

[RandomAct]

This is kind of along the same lines.  A friend's mom gave him a box full of tapes a while back.  These tapes originally had old episodes of Wrestling Challenge and Superstars, but sadly had long since been taped over with daytime soaps.  Aside from awesomely reliving 1989 Days of Our Lives(Hope's hair!!!!!), there were a couple of moments where the original recording came through.  One such time was just long enough to see Piper on the set with Vince.  For reasons I don't know, Piper, with arms outstretched, yells "YEEEAAAAHHH HAAAAA"!!

[mco543]

I found a Konnan vs Jushin Liger match in the middle of an Ayako Hamada comp. So far tonight the strangest shit I've found are Buff Bagwell vs Jack Victory in some dingy indy and the 1999 Australian Open finals with Hingis vs Mauresmo, Hingis won btw.

 

The weirdest or most obscure thing I've found on the back end of a VHS tape was a KYDA Pro "Birthday Bash" show. From what I gather KYDA was a Virgina indy, Dean would probably know stuff about it, and IIRC it featured Mickie James back when she was Alexis Laree.

 

All my comp tape watching in the past has done is reinforce how fucking spoiled indy wrestling fans have been the last decade.  I've found so many shit house indy shows on the back end of VHS tapes that you're praying for a match with Ace Darling, Devon Storm, or fucking Surfer Ray Odyssey. Like with that Green Mountain Wrestling show the only name I knew on the entire event was Brutal Bob Evans from ROH, indy fans in the 2000's are so spoiled and they probably don't even realize it.

 

I think at some point every wrestling fan runs into a comp tape with that flaming bat-barbed wire Lucha match.

[Sky Blue Sam]

All the random comp stuff I've picked up over the years ended up being quite good...some unlabelled Reslo here, some fun best ofs there.

To my shame, I did recently find a tape I'd made my friends for Christmas in 2003. In amongst the good stuff (Liger/Ultimo, La Parka/Shocker) I found two different Backseat Boys matches and Shark Boy vs Mike Sanders from TNA. No idea why I included those.

[MADCAP]

I had a Japan Comp tape,  and I'm not even sure what promotion it was, but the match match was Lioness Asuka vs. some naked guy whose only garb was a Tiger Mask...mask.  And when I say he was naked, I mean he was butt-ass naked.  It was mainly comedy(topped off with the guy breakdancing, doing the windmill, er...sorry, a Spinaroonie to you youngsters).  I lost that tape and I still don't have any info on the match, but that was definitely weird and out of place.

[offspring515]

I know this isn't really on topic but I recently started watching some of my old VHS copies of PPVs and during Survivor Series 1992 the Bret/Shawn match cuts out and a Cinemax softcore porn movie comes on.  Though I had forgotten about said tape for years, as a 12 year old our family was getting a free preview weekend of Cinemax and when I came upon (no pun intended) some softcore while channel surfing I apparently grabbed the nearest tape and hit record.

 

I'm really glad I wasn't watching that tape with people around.

[AlfredoE]

I got black & white porn at the end of one of Lynch's lucha tapes years ago. I kind of understood that people taped over stuff and you'd see something like music videos, soccer, infomercials or other wrestling at the end of a tape back then, but when I got like 30 minutes of porn, it was pretty funny.  Film wasn't very good though.

[FLIK]

I had a Japan Comp tape,  and I'm not even sure what promotion it was, but the match match was Lioness Asuka vs. some naked guy whose only garb was a Tiger Mask...mask.  And when I say he was naked, I mean he was butt-ass naked.  It was mainly comedy(topped off with the guy breakdancing, doing the windmill, er...sorry, a Spinaroonie to you youngsters).  I lost that tape and I still don't have any info on the match, but that was definitely weird and out of place.

 

That was a skit from some late night comedy talk show, they had a few other wrestlers on too though I forget which ones. Clip used to be all over youtube....

[rzombie1988]

I got black & white porn at the end of one of Lynch's lucha tapes years ago. I kind of understood that people taped over stuff and you'd see something like music videos, soccer, infomercials or other wrestling at the end of a tape back then, but when I got like 30 minutes of porn, it was pretty funny.  Film wasn't very good though.

Speaking of that, I had a tape with maybe Great American Bash 1999 on it. Whoever taped it for me off the scrambler back in the day, clearly used an old tape as I got some type of nude modeling on a beach video instead. And for those that ask, yes, it was better than the PPV.

[Swift]

This is kind of along the same lines.  A friend's mom gave him a box full of tapes a while back.  These tapes originally had old episodes of Wrestling Challenge and Superstars, but sadly had long since been taped over with daytime soaps.  Aside from awesomely reliving 1989 Days of Our Lives(Hope's hair!!!!!), there were a couple of moments where the original recording came through.  One such time was just long enough to see Piper on the set with Vince.  For reasons I don't know, Piper, with arms outstretched, yells "YEEEAAAAHHH HAAAAA"!!

 

On a similar note, I found the end of a WCW TV show at the back end of an all-purpose household tape years back. If my memory serves me right, it was Brian Pillman being beat down by Flair and Arn and probably the others, with the save coming from El Gigante, and I think, Z-Man.

 

I miss video tapes.

[DylanWaco]

Kevin Quinn v. Christopher Daniels once showed up on a random tape I had of Shawn Michaels TWA promotion

[Cole Miner]

I was going through my own tapes recently. Was watching an episode of Thunder and thought it isn't a surprise they wanted this off their channels eventually. No way they are airing anything else close to this bad. Was quickly corrected though when the show ended and Chimp Channel started.

[SovietShooter]

The weirdest or most obscure thing I've found on the back end of a VHS tape was a KYDA Pro "Birthday Bash" show. From what I gather KYDA was a Virgina indy, Dean would probably know stuff about it, and IIRC it featured Mickie James back when she was Alexis Laree.

 

KYDA = Keep Your Dream Alive.  I think they are still running. 

 

They were an independent that ran very irregularly back in the late '90s, early '00s.  They ran mostly in Virginia and Maryland, which have very tough athletic commissions. I was always under the impression they did a lot of stuff "off the radar" (military bases, prisons, fundraisers, etc) where there was a slim chance of getting caught running afoul of commissions. Pretty sure Corino worked for them quite often, and I know guys like Brock Singleton, Zubov, Mason Hunter, Sasha, etc worked for them - and were all military professionals. 

[Death From Above]

I once took a comp of, essentially, "random things from New Japan Classics" as part of a round-out on a deal back in the tape days. It had a Hulk Hogan vs. Akira Maeda match on it of all things that was... halfway interesting, as Maeda was young and could still work and Hogan was always half decent in Japan. Bizarre style clash of course. But there was a commercial break in it after I want to say 8-10 minutes, and I never got to see the finish because the rest of it wasn't there! Aw, bullshit. I wanted to see how they got to the obvious double count out. ;-)

 

There was a comp I bought once which was basically a collection of weird things that happened in wrestling, that features among other things a tag team midget electrified barbed wire deathmatch which featured no blood and a lot of comedy, and I think it was in one of the Joshi companies for some reason. I'm 99% sure it also had the Psychosis match mentioned above with the flaming bat, and the early ECW match where Mike Awesome almost killed JT Smith on a suicide dive by almost snapping him in half on the guardrail. That was one sleazy comp. Man, the things I bought with money when I was 16.

[Jiji]

That Awesome/Smith sui dive is one of the best spots I've ever seen. It looked like Awesome broke his back over the guardrail but Smith stated on his shoot (yeah, he did one) that it didn't hurt him at all.

[Death From Above]

Okay JT Smith rules then.

[Lazlo Woodbine]

I once took a comp of, essentially, "random things from New Japan Classics" as part of a round-out on a deal back in the tape days. It had a Hulk Hogan vs. Akira Maeda match on it of all things that was... halfway interesting, as Maeda was young and could still work and Hogan was always half decent in Japan. Bizarre style clash of course. But there was a commercial break in it after I want to say 8-10 minutes, and I never got to see the finish because the rest of it wasn't there! Aw, bullshit. I wanted to see how they got to the obvious double count out. ;-)

 

I watched an early 80s Hogan vs Maeda match on youtube a few weeks ago, might be the one you mean. Weird match but worth my time, Hogan in Japan is something I still find surreal.

[SovietShooter]

Okay JT Smith rules then.

 

That is an understatement. 

 

I had someone give me a copy of a show that I was on once.  After watching it I got distracted and let the tape play. After about ten minutes the blue screen went away and it was video of Peter North just destroying some chick's anus. 

 

I had fans give me their yarder tapes all the time back in the day... which I promptly used to tape other stuff on without ever viewing. 

[Stuttsy]

Not exactly a comp tape but I think it fits the theme of the thread: at a Greensboro, NC used CD store in the late 1990's I purchased a VHS tape in a basic black clamshell case that just said something like "Championship Wrestling" on it. It looked like something off a storage shelf at a TV station and when I got home sure enough it was a master recording of an independent promotion from Kansas. How it got to North Carolina I have no idea. Bert Prentice was the lead announcer and I would assume had at least a hand in running the operation even if he wasnt the promoter on record. Dr. Tom Prichard is there with Ric McCord, Adrian Street, Ted Heath and a bunch of local guys wrestling in a studio. I want to say Chick Donovan may be on it too. Junkyard Dog is referenced as being in the territory but never shows up on the tape I have. It's from late in 1990 and they plug a bunch of spot shows in different small Kansas towns. They also plug a big upcoming appearance at a local pizza place that will have wrestlers AND the Ninja Turtles (!) there meeting the fans. The whole tape is kind of surreal as you can imagine.

[JRV]

The highlight of my entire wrestling collection is that Antichristo promo on a Schneider comp. I'm just saying.

 

Also I have weird shit in my video cabinet like an entire SAT comp. That is way too much Maximo for a single tape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brian XL.

[Victator]

Years and years ago I bought this NWA TV tape from Feinstein . It was from 1990 and had this super match between Shane Douglas and Arn Anderson. Plus Flair and Arn vs the Rock and Roll Express. Which I later learned was one of the highest rated wrestling matches on TBS since 1985. 

[mco543]

The highlight of my entire wrestling collection is that Antichristo promo on a Schneider comp. I'm just saying.

 

Also I have weird shit in my video cabinet like an entire SAT comp. That is way too much Maximo for a single tape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brian XL.

 

I have a Maximo comp too, the Best of The Amazing Red and the SAT which may be worse depending on how you feel about Red.

 

I actually have a few different Red comps.

[Playa Shunna Ver 3.0]

I bought a Cactus Jack WCW comp years ago.  It was like 2 hours long.  At the end was the entire "I Like to Hurt People" movie.  The quality sucked, but i was pretty amped.  i also bought this crazy Shawn Michaels comp of every televised WWF match he had up until Mania 14.  The guy threw in a bonus tape of all dark matches from Nitro and Raw tapings.  All the WWE stuff have the commentators live commentary (it was from those old satellite feeds).  It was awesome listening to JR and Cornette talk shit on commentary before all the dits.  

[cool arrow]

Oh, man, I loved those satellite feed tapes.  I had one that had a Shotgun Saturday Night battle royal on it, and someone (Taka, maybe?) took a nasty bump and Cornette said no-no words.  IIRC Christopher Daniels was on the show.