The Viceland Wrestling Documentaries

[Kuetsar]

I could watch them talk for hours. . . As for Jimmy, I bet if he took off the shades we'd see the age. Still I wonder where his aging portrait hangs?

[Cobra Commander]

Jimmy has a jacket with Dorian Gray's portrait on it. But yeah, the sunglasses help him out a lot.

Also someone on Wikipedia edited Jimmy Hart's entry to say that "The Strapmaster" is one of his nicknames.

[Curt McGirt]

We are totally sleeping on how awesome the Orchestra Pit Match concept and execution was. 

 

[SirSmUgly]

I will say that I was surprised that they showed the story of Lawler pretending to be a cop and pulling over a black man in the South. Uh...that's not funny at all. 

But most of these stories hit. And as Curt McGirt notes, the Orchestra Pit Match was cool as hell. I'd seen it before and wondered why no one had ever tried something like that again. 

[Elsalvajeloco]

2 hours ago, odessasteps said:

I believe they buried the hatchet a few years ago

Yeah, on his podcast, Jeff says he has lunch with his dad every week. Now who picks up the check is anyone's guess.

With Jerry (Jarrett) getting up there in age, I dunno if this would be best time to still be holding a grudge anyway.

[Gorman]

On 9/17/2021 at 9:46 PM, AxB said:

I didn't know Tim Sylvia posted here.

Fun fact: Hours after the Moosin PPV ended, Sylvia bellowed at me: "Don't you know anything about this sport?"

[odessasteps]

I guess our cable syst3m doesn't carry Vice since i tried to watch on the website and when I out in my login Info, it was still locked.

[Cobra Commander]

does the Lawler cop impersonation story age better or worse than his story about Kamala asking him why Jerry's painting bananas on Kamala's stomach..

[Kuetsar]

To be fair, most "ribs" weren't very funny, at the time or in the retelling. . . 

[odessasteps]

Comedy is tragedy that happens to someone else.

[madl]

8 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said:

Yeah, on his podcast, Jeff says he has lunch with his dad every week. Now who picks up the check is anyone's guess.

You’re assuming the Jarretts get together for lunch and someone picks up the check?  I picture Jeff and Jerry as serial dine-and-dash types.

[Elsalvajeloco]

5 minutes ago, madl said:

You’re assuming the Jarretts get together for lunch and someone picks up the check?  I picture Jeff and Jerry as serial dine-and-dash types.

They would have been caught already. Jeff himself has a natural heat getting disposition to the point where he would stick out like a sore thumb.

[Kuetsar]

Do the waitress say, "stare at it all you like, it ain't getting smaller". . . Lol

[Elsalvajeloco]

2 minutes ago, Kuetsar said:

Do the waitress say, "stare at it all you like, it ain't getting smaller". . . Lol

Winner winner.

[Ultimo Necro]

I could listen to Jimmy Hart tell stories forever. Excellent episode of TV

[driver]

LeDuc also did the axe across the arm gimmick in Knoxville in '78 when he came in as a face and swore revenge on Bob Orton, Jr and Mr. Knoxville(Ron Garvin) for putting his "brother" out of wrestling in Kansas City. Does anybody know how many times he did this in different territories?

[odessasteps]

https://youtu.be/zQqWMYuwQ2s

Whole Memphis episode.

[dokdoyle]

If anyone in Canada is looking; they are on the Crave streaming service

[Elsalvajeloco]

On 10/4/2022 at 10:02 PM, Curt McGirt said:

Total coincidence: I went to put something on at random during the commercial break for this first episode and it was Sodom's Better Off Dead album. First track? 

"An Eye for an Eye". 

That was a blast, and maybe even more fucked up and crazy than Dark Side of the Ring. 

Just watched the show...now all I can do is go back to when I heard Jericho's Smoky Mountain story about the one fan dipping his finger in Chris' puddle of blood, licking his finger, and saying "...that ain't real blood."

At what point does someone get their eyeball popped out or loose at the very least and the fans aren't immediately repulsed? At worst, they would think it wasn't part of the show and not show up the next week.

Also, based on the stories from this episode, I expect a bulk of the content to be about the OTHER towns in the territory rather than principal city. They spent more time on what went on in Louisville, Evansville, and Jonesboro than what went on in Memphis. Hell, Batesville, Mississippi (which actually isn't that far what I'm from) got about 2-3 minutes.

[Cobra Commander]

anyways, Cornette sorta went "I'd never heard that version of the eyeball story" in regards to Jarrett/Galento, before noting that he wouldn't have tried correcting the record if he was at that table.

So a table of friends/contemporaries telling stories is what it is.. some of it might have a detail or two wrong or misremembered.

[Elsalvajeloco]

18 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:

anyways, Cornette sorta went "I'd never heard that version of the eyeball story" in regards to Jarrett/Galento, before noting that he wouldn't have tried correcting the record if he was at that table.

So a table of friends/contemporaries telling stories is what it is.. some of it might have a detail or two wrong or misremembered.

Unless I just live in a totally different society than the rest, I would totally remember if an eyeball came out. That's not a detail you would normally misremember.

That said, with how long winded Jerry (Jarrett) is, I'm pretty sure they had to edit the shit out of what he went into. 

@odessasteps brought up the anniversary of Whitey Caldwell's death in the monthly discussion thread and that reminds me: how are they going to break down Tennessee? Does Nashville and Knoxville/east Tennessee get their own individual episodes?

[Cobra Commander]

the rest of Tennessee isn't on the episode list i'm seeing.

That list is:

• Kaufman vs Lawler next week
• AWA
• Stampede
• Florida
• JCP
• Polynesian Pro
• World Class
• Mid South

[Happ Hazzard]

Polynesian Pro is only getting an episode because of who the producer is, and it's inexplicable that Georgia, the most viewed territory of the late 70s/early 80s that these shows are mainly focused on, doesn't have an episode.

If they are going a 5 man roundtable of notable stars from that territory for each show, they are really going to struggle with Portland, Stampede and World Class.

[odessasteps]

While Hawaii is probably getting an episode because of Dwayne, it does have enough salacious stories to fit the bill for what Vice has done with Dark Side. The producers said Lars Anderson is on the roundtable, so it's not like they are going to sugar coat it. 

 

They said they didn't plan on Lawler vs Kaufman being a whole episode until they were doing the show and saw how much.material they had. 

[Elsalvajeloco]

48 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said:

the rest of Tennessee isn't on the episode list i'm seeing.

That list is:

• Kaufman vs Lawler next week
• AWA
• Stampede
• Florida
• JCP
• Polynesian Pro
• World Class
• Mid South

That sucks because Tennessee could be 4 or 5 different episodes.

Man, I can't wait until Mike Graham shows up on the Florida episode....oh wait....nevermind. Man, if you think the World Class episode might be depressing....the Graham (Gossett) family story says hold my beer.

43 minutes ago, Happ Hazzard said:

Polynesian Pro is only getting an episode because of who the producer is, and it's inexplicable that Georgia, the most viewed territory of the late 70s/early 80s that these shows are mainly focused on, doesn't have an episode.

If they are going a 5 man roundtable of notable stars from that territory for each show, they are really going to struggle with Portland, Stampede and World Class.

Stampede is just going to be Bret by himself burying people for 45 minutes. I will watch intently.