Eoae Posted October 29, 2020 Posted October 29, 2020 23 hours ago, Curt McGirt said: ...and Death Yama-san Am I crazy or does she look like Lois Griffin (the Family Guy character) in Kiss makeup? 4 2
The Natural Posted October 29, 2020 Author Posted October 29, 2020 Hilarious moment in WWE Untold: The Phenom and The Legend Killer. 4 3
Curt McGirt Posted October 29, 2020 Posted October 29, 2020 55 minutes ago, Eoae said: Am I crazy or does she look like Lois Griffin (the Family Guy character) in Kiss makeup? Yeah I can see that 5
The Natural Posted October 29, 2020 Author Posted October 29, 2020 Scandalous we haven't had Evolution II. 2
Curt McGirt Posted October 30, 2020 Posted October 30, 2020 Oh WCW. You put the two worst options next to the one that actually happened on the poster. Bless your little hearts.
cwoy2j Posted October 30, 2020 Posted October 30, 2020 I actually just watched the Sting/Jake match with my buddy on our weekly Zoom watch along. It's funny but the match itself wasn't completely awful up until the finish. It was chugging along ok and then I think they must've been running out of time or something b/c Sting sold Jake's ddt for about 3 seconds before popping up to climb the pole for the glove while Cactus ran into give Jake the cobra. We all know what happened from there.
Matt D Posted October 30, 2020 Posted October 30, 2020 There have been more great Coal Miner’s Glove matches than terrible ones in the history of wrestling. 2
Niners Fan in CT Posted October 31, 2020 Posted October 31, 2020 was the old school 'Coal Miner's Glove' matches the first "____ on a Pole" match? Sting/Roberts was the first I had seen of it but then I would later learn there were others such Duggan vs. DiBiase in '85
thee Reverend Axl Future Posted October 31, 2020 Posted October 31, 2020 The inventor of the match, Dutch Savage, did not foresee the use of the pole - the ref just woulda tossed it up, basketball-stylee. He was representing the coal mines of his home town, bragging that the miners were tougher than the lumberjacks of the Pacific Northwest, who had their own specialty matches. I think Don Owen came up with the use of the pole for the first one (early '70s). In a box in my basement on a VHS tape there is a copy a great doc called Savage about DS, Portland wrestling and the CMG match, spotlighting the feud between Dutch Savage and the Iron Sheik and really breaking down the psychology of the Coal Miner's Glove gimmick. I think there were other "on a pole" matches before that, but more of a battle royal, grab a check/bag of cash thing. I dig those IWA-Japan kendo stick matches where the rasslers start out at the top of opposite aisles and after a countdown gotta race into the ring where there is a lone kendo stick laying on the mat to use as a weapon. A couple years later that would be extraordinarily sparse compared to the over gimmicked coffin/glass/barbed wire net/scorpion/thumbtack/piranha/whatnot matches that were also fun in a nothing succeeds like excess manner. Scranton PA, RAF p.s. - no need to cratedive in my cellar thanks to thee miracle of thee YouTubes (highly recommended): 4
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