Peck Posted December 21, 2020 Share Posted December 21, 2020 Just now, odessasteps said: Wrestling adjacent, but Dave's mom passed away at age 91. He wrote a nice remembrance of her. https://www.f4wonline.com/other-wrestling/marilyn-meltzer-passes-away-91-years-old-328196 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 It's really beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted December 22, 2020 Share Posted December 22, 2020 Watching the Slamboree '97 main event of Greene, Piper, and a returning Flair vs. Syxx, Hall, and Nash in North Carolina. The crowd is JACKED for the hometown boys. You've got two masters of psychology, ultra charismatic Hall, silky smooth Waltman, a willing Nash, and hyped up Kevin Greene. They milk the crowd for just about everything, as they should, with great timing. But once Greene gets going he's not slowing down at all, lol. Just watching this gets me all psyched up. Piper was only 43 here but I remember thinking he was ancient. Fuckin' hell. Got a li'l sloppy near the end but they kept the momentum well enough and had a rare feel good finish with the WCW crew definitively beating the nWo. There should've been more of these nights if WCW couldn't get its head out from its ass. Greene could've been a huge wrestling star had he not been so in love with football. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 23, 2020 Share Posted December 23, 2020 Mongo was terrible as always and they WCW up the ending as usual (Jarrett? Yuck) but Greene had a lot of fire. Maybe it's the look but he comes across like a missing Von Erich kid. He also lariats the living shit out of Mongo. RIP RIP to Dave's mom as well, it looks like she had a full and wonderful life. We should all be so lucky. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyChamp Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 RIP Mama Dave I just heard about Bob. I’m surprised there isn’t more about this. There might be in the sleaze thread for all I know but in any event we lost a trailblazer in a way. I just checked the filmography and couldn’t believe how many movies Zeus was actually in that I’ve seen and never noticed, and in period. I loved the guy. I don’t gaf about critics. They only like about 2% of the movies ever made. I marked out like crazy when he appeared in WCW. I wasn’t a fan of that entire turn of events but not because it wasn’t good to see him. I also loved Slamboree 97 (who remembers that VHS cover lol). Lots of solid wrestling on the undercard and some lighter but still fun stuff like a fresh heel Konnan getting stiffed by the Steiners IIRC. The main event was better than anybody would have guessed. The crowd really was as hot as somebody said. It was Mid-Atlantic in 1986 hot. This all went on even though the whole ppv was just to tide us over until Starrcade, which every ppv was going back even that far to Slamboree. That’s just how big Starrcade was going to be, and it was going to match the hype had WCW not been what somebody also said! Mongo vs Reggie was pretty good I thought. I think if Mongo didn’t almost kill Regal he would be cut some slack. Nobody complains that Jarrett almost beheaded him that time with the aluminum case, including Mongo IIRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 26, 2020 Share Posted December 26, 2020 (edited) RIP Danny Hodge. Someone guard all the apples and pliers in the afterlife. Edited December 26, 2020 by odessasteps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 Jon Huber's (Brodie/Harper) passing has moved to its own thread: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted December 31, 2020 Share Posted December 31, 2020 We remember. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Matt D Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 (edited) Oh no! My avatar weeps! I always kind of hoped that Bobby Davis was a good guy because it was hard to find too much about him and I loved the avatar being him. Edited January 7, 2021 by Matt D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 I just started the Buddy Rogers book and I guess Davis was a big help to Hornbaker writing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 This is the match I screencapped the thing from, btw: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted January 17, 2021 Share Posted January 17, 2021 Early UFC fighter and one-time ECW wrestler "The Polar Bear" Paul Varelans reportedly passed away from COVID last night at the age of 51 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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