paintedbynumbers Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 12 hours ago, AxB said: This is the shit right here: He likes to beat people up, and he likes to have fun. are you talkin about Barry Windham? I'm pissed to this day. My aunt claims she ordered me this for my bday from WCW Magazine. 20+ yrs later no tape and no magazine. Same Aunt's father in law used to make clocks (i think it was a mob front) He'd say he can make me a clock of anything. I gave him a Pillman poster to do a Flyin Brian clock. Never got the clock or poster, just a herkimer diamond. I'l be seeing my aunt this weekend and she's got some explaining to do. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Campbell Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 13 hours ago, Happ Hazzard said: Sting's late 80's/early 90s theme bizarrely can be heard in "Rita, Sue and Bob Too", a British film from 1987. Gary Capetta did the best announcement for Sting. “This…is … STING!!!!!!” 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinit Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 I always thought Tony Gilliam was a pretty good ring announcer too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorman Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 2 hours ago, Mike Campbell said: Gary Capetta did the best announcement for Sting. “This…is … STING!!!!!!” I like how Bayley used to get that treatment too ... (It's BAYLEY!) and then they stopped doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyChamp Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 I liked how JR introduced/acknowledged Gary Capetta, just as serious and legit as he did a wrestler he believed in - The World’s Most DAAYNGEROUS Announcer Gary MICHAEL Capetta! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Campbell Posted February 19, 2020 Share Posted February 19, 2020 I think it was JR, but it might’ve been Tony. Jake Roberts squash on WCW Saturday Night, Roberts does the DDT and JR says something like “Jake the Snake with the D…D…T” with the DDT being in exact rhythm with the referee’s count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinit Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 Gary Michael Capetta also announced Sting with "AMERICA.....THIS IS STING!!!!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 On 2/18/2020 at 8:50 PM, Happ Hazzard said: Sting's late 80's/early 90s theme bizarrely can be heard in "Rita, Sue and Bob Too", a British film from 1987. I'm assuming WCW just used a shit ton of generic music library stuff. You can hear Lex Luger's late 80s/early 90s theme on the Creepshow 2 segment, "The Raft." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clintthecrippler Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 My favorite WCW stock music moment was when La Parka's WCW theme (which had also been Sabu's theme during his short WCW run) got used as background music on WWF television in an ad for their call-in hotline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BurningBeard Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 1 hour ago, Technico Support said: I'm assuming WCW just used a shit ton of generic music library stuff Any of my UK brethren over a certain age probably remember Television X and the 10 minute preview... so hearing the Hardy Boyz music used for a porno advert one time definitely messed with my head 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyChamp Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 I recently learned about the Clash of Champions opening riff being used for some video game in the 2000s. YouTube was still burning up with comments from angry fans who want it on a Clash DVD set. The Clashes used the main melody as the theme and it was perfect. Gave me goosebumps when I heard it years later. Perfect music for a rasslin show. So anyway in the meantime people were obsessed with all these themes for years and it turns out they were somewhere in perfect quality for pennies while we were ripping them from VHSs lol! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 (edited) I was stunned the first time I learned the classic Starrcade theme was a Frank Stallone song, and the theme for Staying Alive. Edited February 21, 2020 by odessasteps 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PetrolCB Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 2 hours ago, odessasteps said: I was stunned the first time I learned the classic Starrcade theme was a Frank Stallone song, and the theme for Staying Alive. You guessed it! Congrats. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 (edited) Also, per Wiki: Quote The song's instrumental bridge was the original opening theme song of The Jerry Lawler Show, which debuted in 1983 on WMC-TV in Memphis, Tennessee. Also, WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina (which was the taping home for Jim Crockett's Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling at one time and was the broadcaster for Crockett wrestling) used it for their Action Sports Saturday broadcasts during the mid-1980s.[3] Edited February 21, 2020 by Curt McGirt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thee Reverend Axl Future Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 yeah, but where can I get my WCCW music fix? Is this "real" song or just some unnamed stock secret genius composition? I gots to know... (And viddy this sad example I had to use.) - RAF 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colonial Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 During and shortly after college, a few of my friends were fans of Ricki Lake's talk show (the original, not the short-lived revival from a few years back). Zero interest in the show, but I did get a kick that the series would use Dean Malenko's WCW entrance music to occasionally welcome villains to the audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 1 minute ago, colonial said: During and shortly after college, a few of my friends were fans of Ricki Lake's talk show (the original, not the short-lived revival from a few years back). Zero interest in the show, but I did get a kick that the series would use Dean Malenko's WCW entrance music to occasionally welcome villains to the audience. Villains? How could you use music that someone used in their wedding match for heels? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Random thing I remember no one else does: This. This ruled. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyChamp Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 2 hours ago, Death From Above said: Random thing I remember no one else does: This. This ruled. That. Was. Awesome. That was some of the last good Saturday night wrestling we ever saw. Good main event, good for TV but nothing wasted that should have been on ppv or whatever. Had a TV sized storyline to it and everything. Then they found a way to use the match to promote the ppv without sacrificing the match (something they were bad about doing later on). That was WW3 Sting came back right? I’d say that show delivered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyChamp Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 I don’t claim to remember this but I think I remember this music from somewhere. Any info on it would be appreciated. Literally any...name, production company, where else you heard it etc as I think this might be from another weekly wrestling show that I used to watch but can’t figure out the name of. It’s been 1 of the things I’ve been trying to figure out the most since growing up and trying to piece together these good memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyChamp Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Next question how were so many Post Disco, P-Funk etc songs perfect for southern rasslin lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyChamp Posted May 7, 2020 Share Posted May 7, 2020 I didn’t remember this but I just discovered it. What history! Because it’s Scott vs Muta in WCW right...yeah but going deeper than that. When did you ever see the Steiners as faces get their tails totally beat clean on free TV lol! This had to be the only time this ever happened! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyChamp Posted June 18, 2020 Share Posted June 18, 2020 I just read that when the One Man Gang came back to WCW, Kevin Sullivan did a ritual to kill Akeem the African Dream and awaken the real One Man Gang. Does anybody remember this or have a link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dewar Posted June 20, 2020 Share Posted June 20, 2020 That seems like total bullshit. WWF would have sued them as soon as they brought up Akeem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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