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No Point Stance

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I feel like watching a lengthy run of continuous territorial TV and I'm thinking mostly about starting on Watts' Mid-South. Can anyone recommend a good  point to start, IE a hot or historically significant period with more or less the entire TV run available online? 
That reminds me, the last thing of this type I did was a chronological watch of the complete Smoky Mountain TV and IIRC it was missing an episode or two here and there, like episode 20. Did the absent episodes shown up online yet?

SirSmUgly

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12 hours ago, No Point Stance said:

I feel like watching a lengthy run of continuous territorial TV and I'm thinking mostly about starting on Watts' Mid-South. Can anyone recommend a good  point to start, IE a hot or historically significant period with more or less the entire TV run available online? 
That reminds me, the last thing of this type I did was a chronological watch of the complete Smoky Mountain TV and IIRC it was missing an episode or two here and there, like episode 20. Did the absent episodes shown up online yet?

The WWE section of Peacock has the territory starting in January of 1982 until they move out of Irish McNeil's/become the UWF in 1986.

You can fill in the off-TV stuff a bit from this time with some searching on YouTube. I can't @ people, but clintthecrippler did a recent watch through and could probably give you some tips on watching UWF if you want to get to the end. There are a couple of good Power Pro collections and most of the UWF run on YT.

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clintthecrippler

clintthecrippler

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17 hours ago, No Point Stance said:

I feel like watching a lengthy run of continuous territorial TV and I'm thinking mostly about starting on Watts' Mid-South. Can anyone recommend a good  point to start, IE a hot or historically significant period with more or less the entire TV run available online? 
That reminds me, the last thing of this type I did was a chronological watch of the complete Smoky Mountain TV and IIRC it was missing an episode or two here and there, like episode 20. Did the absent episodes shown up online yet?

What SirSmUgly said earlier, if you are doing the Mid-South dive and didn't want to start from the very beginning of what's on Peacock and instead go to maybe the best launch point for "when the territory becomes its hottest", October 1983 is maybe the best place to jump forward to, as Junkyard Dog is still the hottest face in the company, Butch Reed is still a helluva hoss heel, Magnum TA's star is starting to shine, Dusty Rhodes pops in for a few weeks around this time, the seeds of Crusher Darsow turning Russian are planted in what may be my favorite "American turns foreign menace heel angle ever" and some of the "week-to-week" episodic television structure is very much in place by that point.

And by the end of the year, the Midnight Express comes into the territory and Mr. Wrestling II starts to get upset with Magnum TA's increasing shining star, and it's off to the races for 1984 and 1985, where the Peacock run fills out almost the entirety of the year. 

There's still plenty I enjoyed running through 1982 and the rest of 1983 up to that point, but if you are looking more to start at a "things are getting REALLY hot" point, October 1983 is good to jump forward too and see out the run from there.

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odessasteps

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If you start with 84 mid south, if you are so inclined, JC has been doing segments on YT reviewing his schedule week by week  once he got to Louisiana. 

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Cobra Commander

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WWF Wrestling Challenge (7/23/1989): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAHzJWu7uHM

The Honky Tonk Man's neckbreaker looks good. Gorilla Monsoon makes a joke about the Rougeaus and flag burning. Dusty Rhodes changes some oil. Women will be happy because the Widowmaker takes what he wants. Gotta imagine it sucks to take the Superplex in an old WWF ring. Local promos for Nashville! Elizabeth looks hilariously uncomfortable next to a deranged Hulkster. Bobby Heenan is free from having to do Wrestling Challenge (it's Gorilla and Schiavone until March 1990). Hogan and Brutus are deranged. "When we drink our own sweat, brother, when we replenish ourself with our own bodily fluids daily, that's what's gonna put us over the edge, we're just as crazy as they are". The Warrior squashes Barry Hardy. The team of Andre, Bossman and Akeem is a very large team. Tito Santana is feuding with Rick Martel. Boris Zhukov has a large head. Mach and Sherri are bringing it. Arnold Skaaland's son gets squashed by the Powers of Pain. Gorilla thinks the Genius might be into leather and chains. More promos for the Nashville show from the Powers of Pain and Hacksaw Jim Duggan. For some reason, a Duggan/Rude match is for Duggan's crown but not Rude's IC title. Also this upload includes the intro for next week's Wrestling Challenge.

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SirSmUgly

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I'd suggest going ahead and starting Mid-South in 1982 because if you skip that year, you miss the tail end of Paul Orndorff's run, which I wish we could see all of after seeing the tail end. You also miss a big heel turn for a running character, and that heel turn is extremely well done. 

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AxB

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THE 1980s Joshi set PART ONE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgVawbsPtbw

Spoiler
  • 1. Intro 
  • 2. Chino Sato vs. Rimi Yokota (AJW Junior Title) 1/4/80
  • 3. Jackie Sato vs. Tomi Aoyama 1/4/80
  • 4. Interviews 2/21/80
  • 5. Lucy Kayama vs. Yumi Ikeshita (All Pacific Title) 2/21/80
  • 6. Interviews 4/80
  • 7. Rimi Yokota vs. Tenjin Masami (AJW Junior Title) 4/80
  • 8. Lucy Kayama & Tomi Aoyama vs. Mami Kumano & Yumi Ikeshita 4/80
  • 9. Lucy Kayama vs. Mami Kumano 5/80
  • 10. Chabela Romero, Monster Ripper & Tenjin Masami vs. Jackie Sato, Nancy Kumi & Rimi Yokota 5/80
  • 11. Mimi Hagiwara vs. Rimi Yokota 8/80
  • 12. Fun in Guam 
  • 13. Ayumi Hori & Rimi Yokota vs. Wendy Richter & Yumi Ikeshita 9/30/80
  • 14. Nancy Kumi vs. Yumi Ikeshita (WWWA Singles Title Tournament) 11/5/80
  • 15. Devil Masami vs. Jackie Sato 11/27/80

 

Match list in Spoiler Box (video is almost 4 hours long)

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Matt D

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5 minutes ago, AxB said:

THE 1980s Joshi set PART ONE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgVawbsPtbw

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  • 1. Intro 
  • 2. Chino Sato vs. Rimi Yokota (AJW Junior Title) 1/4/80
  • 3. Jackie Sato vs. Tomi Aoyama 1/4/80
  • 4. Interviews 2/21/80
  • 5. Lucy Kayama vs. Yumi Ikeshita (All Pacific Title) 2/21/80
  • 6. Interviews 4/80
  • 7. Rimi Yokota vs. Tenjin Masami (AJW Junior Title) 4/80
  • 8. Lucy Kayama & Tomi Aoyama vs. Mami Kumano & Yumi Ikeshita 4/80
  • 9. Lucy Kayama vs. Mami Kumano 5/80
  • 10. Chabela Romero, Monster Ripper & Tenjin Masami vs. Jackie Sato, Nancy Kumi & Rimi Yokota 5/80
  • 11. Mimi Hagiwara vs. Rimi Yokota 8/80
  • 12. Fun in Guam 
  • 13. Ayumi Hori & Rimi Yokota vs. Wendy Richter & Yumi Ikeshita 9/30/80
  • 14. Nancy Kumi vs. Yumi Ikeshita (WWWA Singles Title Tournament) 11/5/80
  • 15. Devil Masami vs. Jackie Sato 11/27/80

 

Match list in Spoiler Box (video is almost 4 hours long)

I'm getting together the master list for the work we've done on 70s joshi so far too. Once I get a better sense of how this is rolling out, I'll roll that out too. Of the 80 or so matches we have, we're about a fifth of the way through. It might be helpful.

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