clintthecrippler Posted March 23 Posted March 23 So...what do we know about this alternate Big Van Vader WCW entrance theme (with LYRICS!) that also got uncovered with today's WWE Vault posting? Perhaps a deleted track from the WCW Slam Jam sessions? https://x.com/IANdrewDiceClay/status/1903473549316165748?t=VUoBpRR-7frNXCM-qjOesA&s=19
Cobra Commander Posted March 23 Posted March 23 really the only music with lyrics that I could imagine fitting 1993 Vader is if they gave him a theme song that was death metal or something that got across the point that he could kill our heroes from what I could deduce from the theme I heard.. I'm not surprised that they decided not to release that theme
matwarz Posted March 23 Posted March 23 6 hours ago, clintthecrippler said: So...what do we know about this alternate Big Van Vader WCW entrance theme (with LYRICS!) that also got uncovered with today's WWE Vault posting? Perhaps a deleted track from the WCW Slam Jam sessions? https://x.com/IANdrewDiceClay/status/1903473549316165748?t=VUoBpRR-7frNXCM-qjOesA&s=19 100%; like a more aggressive cousin of ‘Man Called Sting’. Vader v Jack was mental. Harley was bumping like a 20 year old. They had to be under the impression that was getting TV time. Sting v Orndorff was perfectly great. Rick Rude really was the best. Lovely spending my Sunday being an British teenager again 1
Curt McGirt Posted March 23 Posted March 23 (edited) 10 hours ago, Cobra Commander said: really the only music with lyrics that I could imagine fitting 1993 Vader is if they gave him a theme song that was death metal or something that got across the point that he could kill our heroes Do a metal version of Aja's "Jungle Emperor"? (I mean it is basically metal but heavy it up some, downtune it) Come on, it would totally work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrsFnzgOylk&ab_channel=RoyLucierJapaneseLadiesPromotions Just change the lyrics. Spoiler God got up one morning, He was in an ugly mood He was sick of floods and plagues, He wanted something really rude He made a big piranha out of broken glass and glue Then He gave him two legs and a nasty attitude Well the Sahara was a jungle till he ripped out all the trees Then he looked up at the mountaintops, they all began to freeze The sun gave him a cold until he set it on fire Check and see it for yourself if you think that I'm a liar God made the Devil just for fun But when He wanted the real thing He made Big Van Vader He's a head splitting, fire spitting human earthquake He makes the young ones wonder and the wise ones shake He's got the hands of a gorilla, got the head of a snake He keeps looking but hasn't found a thing he can't break! God made the Devil just for fun But when He wanted the real thing He made BIG VAN VADAH Edited March 23 by Curt McGirt 2
Cobra Commander Posted March 23 Posted March 23 (edited) HBK vs Diesel from WM11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9NdOtdg_AA so, was the HBK/Tommy Lee conflict thing actually true or one of those BS internet wrestling rumors? (Pam Anderson met and married Tommy Lee in-between the Rumble and WM11) EDIT: so far i've shown restraint by not replying to "why would Lawler favor Jenny McCarthy over Pam Anderson" with "Jenny's younger" oh... excuse me.. JENNIFER McCarthy... she's using her government name tonight pal Edited March 23 by Cobra Commander
Cobra Commander Posted March 23 Posted March 23 watching Mid-Atlantic (3/23/85): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P5fXYEylKU Spoiler you think Florida or Georgia noticed that Mid-Atlantic claimed them in the M-A intro? (although we're about to have JCP take over the TBS spot) the brother team of two guys working under different last names (Don Kernodle and Keith Larsen) Kernodle looks like he could have been passed off as a fake Ole relative if they had thought of that before he established himself The Kernodle Brother version of the double-team cannon looked cool Buddy Landel is here to deal with the imitator Ric Flair Denny Brown is actually 2 years older than Arn despite Arn looking old and Denny looking young Oh we're in a weird world where Magnum TA and Ric Flair are teaming up Sam Houston has multiple black smudges and he eats the Kick of Fear from the Barbarian HOW MANY MOTORCYCLES DOES MAGNUM T.A. OWN? (Six) Commander Riker (Buzz Tyler) is teaming up with the British Steve Casey. Okay, Buzz Tyler might also look like Al from Home Improvement. the overdubbed Jimmy Valiant music might actually make Valiant segments more demented than the original footage Jimmy Valiant is feuding with Paul Jones and he has a bat-esque object Tyler and Casey beating some masked job guys Khrusher Khrushchev passing on the news about the death of Konstantin Chernenko Bob Caudle wants Baby Doll to stay in the TV shot Buddy Landel has a technacolor dreamcoat robe Buddy flying around for Gene Ligon before hitting his awesome elbow and the figure four Arn Anderson in a Yankees hat We're in the weird world where Arn Anderson is friends with the real Nature Boy Buddy Landel the Rock N Roll RPMs have initials, not names the RPMs also doing a switch behind the ref's back then they both run in and Manny Fernandez sunset flips them both at once these two guys have different hairstyles, how are they doing twin magic spots eventually Arn Anderson runs in to get revenge on Manny Fernandez for last week it's no wonder that Arn became a good promo because he got multiple chances to talk this week Paul Jones is here to tell us about how sexy Arn Anderson is Buddy Landel gets three promos in an hour! Pretty sure this Buddy Landel/Arn Anderson pairing is the dream team for the guy who did the DDT Digest site 1
Curt McGirt Posted March 23 Posted March 23 They were really banking on Buddy vs. Ric... and then Buddy got drunk and no-showed, and killed the angle and his career getting any higher than that. He had some pretty deep regrets over that which he admitted after finding Jesus later in life.
Cobra Commander Posted March 23 Posted March 23 they ran Flair/Buddy in the Carolinas during the summer of 1985 and it drew... Buddy blowing his shot happened around the end of 1985 1
Curt McGirt Posted March 23 Posted March 23 (edited) Did they try and do it a second time, then, and that's when he blew it? I can't recall where I read/saw that. EDIT: Ah, I remember now. It was on an online mini-doc about the Mid-Atlantic that's floating around somewhere; someone posted it here. Can't recall the title. Edited March 23 by Curt McGirt
Cobra Commander Posted March 23 Posted March 23 5 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said: It was on an online mini-doc about the Mid-Atlantic that's floating around somewhere; someone posted it here. Can't recall the title the PBS documentary about Dorton Arena mentioned a Flair/Buddy match from that summer 1
odessasteps Posted March 24 Posted March 24 Buddy no showed either last 85 or first 86 TV. Bart tried to get Buddy out of bed but he blew him and the taping off.
Curt McGirt Posted March 24 Posted March 24 (edited) 22 hours ago, Cobra Commander said: EDIT: so far i've shown restraint by not replying to "why would Lawler favor Jenny McCarthy over Pam Anderson" with "Jenny's younger" As a kid who "grew up" right then, Jenny was the preference. Singled Out was a thing and getting pushed around by Jenny would've been... fun. (And let's face it, she just looked better. Lawler wasn't wrong.) Now let us not speak of this crazy person ever again EDIT: It's crazy to think that after Singled Out, Chris fucking Hardwick showed up what, a decade later with @Midnight and the Sons of Anarchy post-show and parlayed that into the Walking Dead post-show and now probably has a career, like, forever? EDIT II: Jesus he was behind Nerdist so he's probably rich. Okay, not "probably". And he also almost got Speaking Out'd his (public) career in 2018. Edited March 24 by Curt McGirt
Cobra Commander Posted March 24 Posted March 24 At the risk of speaking of Jenny McCarthy again, Gary from the Weird Science TV show ended up being married to her for 6 years (and he's the father of the son whose autism got Jenny into antivax stuff)... so there's a hell of a domino effect from "USA Network original programming" to "making the world actively worse" between that and Ed Ferrera being a Duckman writer before becoming Vince Russo's underling
clintthecrippler Posted March 24 Posted March 24 Quote the overdubbed Jimmy Valiant music might actually make Valiant segments more demented than the original footage I genuinely love the overdub theme they do for Jimmy on these old Crockett shows, that upbeat piano blues track really does fit almost perfectly. If you can't license "Boy From New York City", that really is a "second best" song you can have for the Boogie Woogie Man. The overdub they use for JYD in Mid South is also damn great too.
Cobra Commander Posted March 24 Posted March 24 the Valiant overdub music makes it sound like a Chuck E. Cheese houseband is just overwhelming the mics as Valiant comes out to yell 1 1
Cobra Commander Posted March 25 Posted March 25 The Savoldi YouTube posted this interview of Bill Mercer with Heel Fritz Von Erich from Dallas in 1966: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cczY7gfkgvM Heel Fritz really giving off some Crusher Lisowski energy as a mic-worker here 2
Curt McGirt Posted March 25 Posted March 25 Mercer has this face like an aging housecat. How does Fritz seem nicer working heel in an interview than being on TV as just regular Fritz? 1
No Point Stance Posted March 26 Posted March 26 On 3/22/2025 at 11:24 PM, Cobra Commander said: Sting lost the title to Vader in Ireland on St. Patrick's Day around the time that Vader was aligned with the evil midget Cheatum and yet they did not connect the two (which was probably a good idea) A buddy and I were at the previous night's show on this tour (Belfast). Rick Rude vs. Davey Boy Smith was very much the highlight, wrestling wise. The announced Barry Windham vs. Dustin Rhodes match was ruled a no-contest due to brawling during the entrances (thanks to Windham having picked up a shoulder injury earlier on the tour, supposedly) and we were pissed, both of us being major fans of heel BW. At some point in the show we cornered a WCW producer/agent/whatever (probably to tell him we were glad that Bill Watts was gone and we wanted Kip Frey back and what the fuck was this no-contest bullshit?) who gave me his card. I've long wondered if that K.C O'Connor was the same guy that Jim Cornette worked with - and later fell out with spectacularly - in Smoky Mountain.
zendragon Posted March 27 Posted March 27 71. 94-04-17 Ric Flair vs. Ricky Steamboat (Spring Stampede) - video Dailymotion Final PPV match between the two
Casey Posted March 27 Posted March 27 apparently archive.org has quite a few wrestling fans amongst its users, and some kind soul has either ripped or made comp videos of (I guess) the best of 1990, 1991, 1992 and 1993. I'm watching January 1990 right now and that by itself is almost 4 hours long. But anyway, I just started and the first match is El Hijo del Santo, Yoshinari Asai & Gran Hamada vs. Negro Casas, Blue Panther & Fuerza Guerrera from WWA. GOOD LUCHA THINGS. 2
Curt McGirt Posted March 27 Posted March 27 (edited) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrLU4SPmagQ&ab_channel=rnrwrasslin Nevermind: long black trunks, black boots, black bowl cut EDIT: Kind of a small match for a tournament final. The first fall is good mat stuff. Asai looks really hot here -- not just 'hot' in the sense of how Stephanie felt about him -- but a kid who had a big future. There is one cool part where Ultimo impales himself on the ringside camera but that's about it for anything that really stands out. It would still fit perfectly fine on a best of 1990 lucha or just best of 1990 comp. Edited March 27 by Curt McGirt
Casey Posted March 27 Posted March 27 Yeah I’m not really sure what these comps are, they only give a match/segment listing and that’s it. Best of? Important moments and matches? I don’t know. But there’s a fuckton of stuff.
Zimbra Posted March 27 Posted March 27 Those are the 90s wrestling yearbooks that somebody (Lynch maybe?) put together years ago. Like 20+ discs for each year of the best stuff.
Curt McGirt Posted March 28 Posted March 28 I just found 1993 and holy shit. Just go down the lineup. You've got Bret making Lawler stick his dirty foot in his mouth alongside the Headhunters in ECW alongside a shitload of WCW and Joshi and all the big puro organizations who were running at the top of their games. It's pretty wild. https://archive.org/details/01.02-jun-akiyama-vs.-steve-williams-ajpw-new-year-giant-series-1993-tag-1/
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