LP Steve

I’m 67, and The Viper joke is older than I am.

Roop goes into a lot of detail in his January 31 podcast, but the very short version is nothing much happened. Confrontation in a Knoxville bar, words spoken, drinks thrown, broken up before it got serious. Funk wasn’t there, so his version obviously came from Slater.

The version Roop tells on his podcast is way more plausible.

Stevens was a singles star way before he teamed with Bock or Patterson.

I’ve been off this site for the better part of a year because of the whole inability to scroll threads thing. Just too frustrating. Then I buy a new iPad and whaddya know, it works on DVDR! Then the first fucking thing I see is that DEAN has passed. GOD DAMN IT! RIP, Dean. Somewhere in heaven, a terlit is groaning.

This may be sacriligeous, but I never thought all that much of Gene.

I was a 12 year old little mark in Jacksonville when Funk won the title. I was not very impressed because it was a one fall match, which was unheard of for an NWA title match at the time. I'd seen lots of guys (including Wahoo, Jose Lothario, Eddie Graham, Johnny Valentine, and Joe Scarpa) take a fall off Kiniski but nobody could get that second one. All of which primed me for the Brisco chase. And the spinning toe hold was pretty unconvincing even back then.

Though he later became a pure babyface, the Gladiator sort of pioneered the "tweener" when he first showed up in Florida in the late 60s. Took the Florida title off the very popular Nick Kozak but later feuded with the Great Malenko. Very, very good in the ring.

My memory (which could be wrong) is that the Funk-Rhodes feud started right after Dusty turned babyface. He went to war with his former boss, Gary Hart, who threw everything he had against Dusty. This included bringing in Terry Funk as a mercenary to do away with Rhodes. They had a series of matches that culminated with one very similar to the later and more famous Funk-Lawler empty arena match: Terry went after Dusty's eye with a broken chair leg and ended up getting his own eye damaged. From there, it was off to the races.

Nearly? Bock had to look away from the camera when Heenan made the crack about Gagne breaking a hip.

Haven't seen this in years, but your post reminds me: the original VHS box of this movie has a photo of the Sheik doing the pencil thing to a bloody Harley Race. Looks to be '78-ish Harley, with the big graying sideburns. But there's no Harley versus Sheik match in the movie, to the best of my recollection. Is that match out there on tape somewhere? P.S. If I'm totally misremembering all this, please ignore and move on. No need to stop and make fun of the old guy.?

At first I thought Mosca was saying something about VD. Best part of the whole clip, though, is Crockett promising that Starrcade '84 will top Starrcade '83. That didn't work out so well.

I could totally get behind a masked heel called "The Nose."

When I was a kid, my friends and I would wrestle each other as our favorite pros, using their moves and finishers. I was always Eddie Graham and my buddy was the Great Malenko. I could NEVER get the Figure Four on him unless he let me. He could slap on the Russian Sickle (i.e., Camel Clutch) any time he got me on my stomach. Based on my experience, trying to put the Sharpshooter on someone who is actively, legitimately resisting would be a real good way to prove that wrestling is fake.

This one popped up on Youtube a few months ago. Only footage I've seen of Graham and Malenko during their feud. Unfortunately there's not much of either of these guys in their real primes to be found.