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Boydy

Boydy

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9 hours ago, Casey said:

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.

Could you post the links for the 1990, 1991 and 1992 ones please. I did have a look but I couldn't find them. 

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hammerva

hammerva

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Newest WWE Vault is behind the scenes stuff from Wrestlemania 2000

Supposedly there is going to be a documentary on Peacock about the first WM show in Vegas.  we know that they have shot tons of footage from previous videos but I guess they decided to not do a full documentary because of how incredibly panned it is.

 

Casey

Casey

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10 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

https://archive.org/details/@maxmarvelous

You're just gonna have to scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll. The rest of them are by individual disc. It looks like a lot of interviews and promos and segments along with the matches which is pretty cool. 

AYearinWrestling, too. But he only has 1992 (by individual disc). Max Marvelous has 90-95, I can’t remember.

EDIT: just looked, 93-95 are one big file. 90-92 are individual discs.

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Boydy

Boydy

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14 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

https://archive.org/details/@maxmarvelous

You're just gonna have to scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll. The rest of them are by individual disc. It looks like a lot of interviews and promos and segments along with the matches which is pretty cool. 

Awesome thank you.

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Cobra Commander

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On 3/28/2025 at 11:04 AM, Curt McGirt said:

https://archive.org/details/@maxmarvelous

You're just gonna have to scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll. The rest of them are by individual disc. It looks like a lot of interviews and promos and segments along with the matches which is pretty cool. 

you can also sort by Views and find some of those videos

Elsalvajeloco

Elsalvajeloco

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I am watching USWA from March 1996 right now.

Why did no one tell me about pure babyface color commentator PSYCHO SID?

He is simply amazing, and the week I am watching is his second week on commentary. He's basically a giant David Crockett, and he's having so much fun. 

Reggie B. Fine comes out in a coat as Beautiful put it about Silky Johnson's mink, "made out of 100% rat ass". Sid asks Corey Maclin, "COREY, WHERE HE GET DAT COAT FROM?! HAHAHA".

Amazing.

 

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Curt McGirt

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https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2k1ul6

Here's something fun to start off your Sunday. DEAN reviewed it in #176 which I read while watching Collision last night... or really not watching it I guess. This is Tenryu/Takano vs. KING HAKU and RANDY SAVAGE. Let that sink into your brain a minute. Everything is going fine until Tenryu gets mad and picks up a chair. Guess who he goes buckwild on to let everything disintegrate? It could be either man! Your guess works either way! It sure as hell isn't George Takano in his neon bicycle shorts! Blood and arguments ensue.

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Curt McGirt

Curt McGirt

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJLFExWlUaE&ab_channel=ClassicsPuro83

Tenryu/Hansen vs. Baba/Kimura

Giant Baba's Last Stand. Man, this one is fuckin' great. I found it looking at the All Japan '80s set rankings to see if this Race/Slater vs. Brody/Hansen match I watched was on it (it didn't make it, but is a fun little piece of chaos anyway, look it up), noticed it all the way in the top ten and said to myself "what's a 1990 match with Giant Baba and Rusher Kimura doing up there?" You find out in the first moments when Tenryu sees Baba and Rusher coming to the ring, says 'fuck it' and hits Baba with an enormous tope right through the ropes and right into his liver. Baba pins on the floor unmoving. He literally plays dead. Meanwhile Rusher harvests all his force of will and memories of his battles in IWE to push all the blood he can out of his forehead while he gets pummeled. You know there's gonna be a comeback/resurrection from the gigantic corpse lying there on the concrete and finally, there is. A total corker of a match that you would look at on paper and have a solid laugh at the possibility of being anything other than comedy.

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Cobra Commander

Cobra Commander

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the WCW account jumped ahead to post a November 1995 Nitro today

and i'm wondering if they ever had Bull Nakano get a rope break due to her hairstyle

also, lots of people-watching potential looking at the crowd during a Japanese women's tag team match held in SW Virginia (Salem, VA)

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Mister TV

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Here's a radio clip of the legendary Myron Cope, who besides being the Steelers radio color commentator and inventor of the Terrible Towel, hosted a radio show. Here he's talking about his interactions with Pro Wrestling during his time as a writer in the 50's & 60's, hear what happens to Bill Watts after a couple of toddy's and what went down at a 1952 wrestling show in Erie, PA headlined by Luck Simunovich "The Hawaiian Flash".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rzTOiJKqcY

Curt McGirt

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https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7ct9b3

Osamu Nishimura vs. Yoshihiro Takayama (8/10/02)

From the amazing G1 coming-out party for Takayama after years of toil elsewhere without much regard. It may be Takayama's party but this is our late friend Nishimura-san's match. Both guys roll through a bevy of holds that would make Dory Funk Jr. proud, Osamu showing his ridiculous flexibility with bridging and headstands all over that Takayama somehow matches despite his height and weight. This is about pressure, tendon strength, size imbalance and the ways that helps or hinders, all the subtleties. It's so good that Chono (who ended up having an incredible match with Takayama later in the Climax) and Team 2000 come down to watch, while Nagata and Fujita are already at ringside. When the boys want to get a bird's eye view you know you're standing in tall cotton. 

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Pete

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On 3/29/2025 at 8:27 PM, Elsalvajeloco said:

I am watching USWA from March 1996 right now.

Why did no one tell me about pure babyface color commentator PSYCHO SID?

He is simply amazing, and the week I am watching is his second week on commentary. He's basically a giant David Crockett, and he's having so much fun. 

Reggie B. Fine comes out in a coat as Beautiful put it about Silky Johnson's mink, "made out of 100% rat ass". Sid asks Corey Maclin, "COREY, WHERE HE GET DAT COAT FROM?! HAHAHA".

Amazing.

Sid's heel run the year before in Memphis was pretty great. It was like the lightbulb suddenly went on over his head and he realized he needed to shape up or he was never going to be a viable star again. So he absolutely cleaned out the heavyweight division and did it on his best behavior to boot... no disappearing acts, no softball, just putting in the work and looking like a Grecian god.

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hammerva

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Today on WWE Vault:  Behind the Scenes footage of Wrestlemania the Album featuring some of the worst lip synching/singing you will ever hear,  Lex Luger doing terrible lounge act for a private party with RCA and WWE fans, and one of those fans being Francine from ECW.    If you are into campy shit this will be much watch

Elsalvajeloco

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51 minutes ago, hammerva said:

Today on WWE Vault:  Behind the Scenes footage of Wrestlemania the Album featuring some of the worst lip synching/singing you will ever hear,  Lex Luger doing terrible lounge act for a private party with RCA and WWE fans, and one of those fans being Francine from ECW.    If you are into campy shit this will be much watch

Speaking of it was a different time in wrestling: I haven't looked into how she got into wrestling, but Francine was also in the crowd, front row facing the hard cam fawning over Shawn Michaels in one of the earlier Raw shows. Then, a couple years later she magically shows up in the crowd as a fan who adores Stevie Richards before becoming the manager for the Pitbulls. Right off the bat within a few months, she's legitimized as someone in the business. Now juxtapose that with sort of the horrendous treatment Angel (not Angel Orsini who would be the Prodigette in the dying days of ECW) who predated Francine in ECW where she basically got slut shamed in a bunch of stuff that definitely couldn't happen today and basically seems like it has traumatized to her to this very day. It makes me wonder when sort of that negative connotation of women hanging around wrestling shows or wrestlers started to evaporate, and it became "these are just regular people who really want to break into the wrestling business like everyone else".

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Cobra Commander

Cobra Commander

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Take your pick today between

March to Wrestlemania 9 (Yoko/Savage, Undertaker/Bam Bam): https://youtu.be/YdZOJHjEsx0?si=yvTWInctU1zj4Clu

or Vader vs Cactus (April 17th, the first one, not the second one): https://youtu.be/9Xy5L3wXlgc?si=UySuM0UR_KV6FELq

that Vader/Cactus match is a rematch from The Main Event: https://youtu.be/aZ3F-TCW2AI?si=ErpFeOWP_68RpStg

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hammerva

hammerva

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Seeing Colin Cowherd talk in a WWE documentary is always going to feel strange to me.  

This story in the Wrestlemania 9 documentary about Hulk Hogan's black eye is just wild as hell.  According to Hulk, the reason for the black eye is because he got into a jet ski accident two days before the show.  so let me get this straight.   Hulk Hogan AND BRUTUS BEEFCAKE gets into an accident two days before Wrestlemania.  Now Hulk I can get.   Beefcake was in a jet ski accident months before that could have killed him and he is getting involved in jet skis before Wrestlemania?    Either they are the dumbest fucks in the world or this story is complete bullshit.  And of course being Hogan both can be very possible.  and then to avoid the doctors, he tells them that Savage suckered punched him (which is what most people believe actually happened) in a story line.  

You can usually expect a lot of ass kissing when it comes to Sam Roberts and the WWE but him trying to justify the greatness of the Crush vs Doink feud and match is so much dick riding that I am surprised Sam didn't pull a hammy doing it.  

It is a very good documentary although the idea of doing a 1 hour 45 minute documentary on a show that you can probably watch in 90 minutes and get what you need is something.   Luger comes off great in this.  Taker is pretty funny as the guy trying to protect his gimmick and wants none of this shit with the vulture and the cameras.

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Elsalvajeloco

Elsalvajeloco

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The parasailing accident was actually a few years before which why Beefcake wasn't a character for awhile and was gone for a minute. They tried to do the Mariner thing, but that bombed so badly it lasted for like three weeks and was never mentioned again. Then, he did the Barbershop segment and that lasted for awhile before Sid Justice IIRC destroyed the set. He disappeared again and then showed back up on like the 3rd or 4th Raw episode after the show debuted and cut perhaps one of the most baffling promos of all time. Then, that segued into the Money Inc vs. Hogan/Brutus match w/ the newly turned Jimmy Hart after the former tried to break his face again.

That said, given Ed Leslie's propensity to do wild shit, I don't rule out him doing anything.

Re: The sucker punch

Given that Savage spent the remaining back half of his life feuding with Hogan, he would have owned up to punching Hogan and being the person who whooped Hogan's ass. However, I don't ever remember Savage taking credit for that. The late 80s and early 90s was like a haven for weird rumors and conspiracies.

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