clintthecrippler
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35 minutes ago, colonial said:
45 minutes of clips from a Dory Funk Jr.-promoted show from Belleview, FL, back on February 29th.
I thought about taking my eight-year-old to this. We're about 20 miles away from the location, she's asked about wrestling before, and it would have been cool to meet the Steiners (My daughter used to attend school in the district where Rick's a school board member, so we could bring that up to them, as well as Scott's restaurant). But then I saw the main event of the show ...
A six-man tag featuring the Steiners (who were 58 and 57 at the time of the show) teaming up with Dory Funk Jr., who is 79. Someone really needs to sit with Funk and beg him to stop getting in the ring. I feared the worst every time he moved.
And one week later Scott Steiner had his heart scare at the Impact Wrestling tapings.
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Twitter user Violent Miracle is posting scans from Japanese magazines he has collected over the years. This may be the most purely EVIL-looking photo of the Undertaker I have ever seen, and the fact that it's Haku of all people doing a gory blade job for him puts this over the top.
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9 minutes ago, sydneybrown said:
Hogan beating Sheik is THE moment. Any time Howard said it again was an attempt to recapture it. Hogan-Sheik is actually one of the few matches where I've probably seen the post more than the actual match.
I cross-posted this in the Finkel RIP thread also, but while I am sure at the time it had to do more with Hogan than Finkel, it's still a testament in some way that Howard's post-match announcement of Hogan as the NEW champion was used to start the intro for WWF's All-Star Wrestling program for the next two-and-a-half years, long after Hogan was the "new" anything.
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While I am sure at the time it had to do more with Hogan than Finkel, it's still a testament in some way that Howard's post-match announcement of Hogan as the NEW champion was used to start the intro for WWF's All-Star Wrestling program for the next two-and-a-half years, long after Hogan was the "new" anything.
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Did you try ANDREW THE GIANT?
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From the very small amount of All-South 1973 reels that the family of Tommy Seigler posted a few years back.
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Someone just shared this with me and it's absolutely gorgeous. The artist has prints available at ianklarer.bigcartel.com
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4 minutes ago, D.Z said:
Mean Gene: "Hey, you sound kind of familiar to me, you sound like the Masked Sup..."
Super Machine: "Now now Gene, I assure you, I am not who you think I am."
Fun little Easter egg I had completely forgotten about until a recent rewatch of '86 WWF.
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17 hours ago, Oyaji said:
How did WCW not win the war?
To be fair, the competition at the moment wasn't doing THAT much better.
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Cinematic Void is a film promoter in Los Angeles that does screenings of a lot of oddball 70s and 80s horror, sci-fi, and general WTF bonkers insanity, and once the quarantine kicked in here in Los Angeles, they started doing Friday night Youtube streams. The whole thing got off to a promising start with the 1985 teen horror romp TV movie MIDNIGHT HOUR, but the last two weeks were the mostly dull and insipid PLANET OF THE DINOSAURS (1977) and the mostly dull and sleazy Umberto Lenzi slasher pic HITCHER IN THE DARK (1989).
But tonight, holy shit they made up for the last two weeks tenfold. I knew literally nothing about NIGHT OF THE DEMON (1980), other than I guessed that it had something to do with the Bigfoot urban legend due to some clues Cinematic Void had teased on social media and during last week's presentation. This movie shows very quickly why it ended up on the infamous video nasty list, and shows it plenty of other times throughout the movie. It starts out as a Friday The 13th-esque "people get killed in the woods" slasher but instead of Jason it's Bigfoot, and then halfway through it gets really fucking weird but in a way where the kills end up becoming way more bonkers as well.
A friend in a group chat at the end of the movie summed it up as "The Aristocrats joke of Bigfoot movies" and I really couldn't argue with that.
Link to their "screening" of NIGHT OF THE DEMON is below. I also highly recommend the posting of MIDNIGHT HOUR on March 27th for something a bit more light-hearted and whimsical.
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22 hours ago, odessasteps said:
A large percentage of their audience would probably be jealous of his toy collection.
Well now I'm sad that Lucha Underground still isn't a thing so he can use his real-life action figure collecting habit for a gimmick where he is obsessed with beating wrestlers so he can use some sort of Lucha Underground vignette magic to literally turn and trap the wrestlers he defeats into action figures.
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3 hours ago, PetrolCB said:
I'm surprised they never had a match on Worldwide.
One match on Worldwide was indeed what they had.
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2 hours ago, SorceressKnight said:
Pentagon gets a neck injury from a back body drop. La Parka doesn't realize it and makes the injury worse until the ref pulls La Parka off. Pentagon nearly dies, the medics revive him. Pentagon's career is ended in an instant- and because of how AAA treated it, all of Pentagon's relatives instantly jump to CMLL and refuse to ever work for AAA again.
Has it ever been clarified how or why exactly Pentagon suffered an injury on that bump? It's always looked like a fairly routine back bump he took that on the surface doesn't look like anything catastrophic. Was there an underlying issue or simply a case of he was probably already injured and it was just one bump too many?
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Jarrett being "guy who is obnoxiously going out of his way to be a good stepfather to another man's kids" is one of the greatest heel gimmicks of all time.
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10 minutes ago, odessasteps said:
Edit: as it turns out, Coleman and Steiner almost met in the consolation bracket.
Almost as mind blowing as the fact that Dan Severn vs Buzz Sawyer DID happen in the 1976 national high school semifinals.
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15 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:
Wasn't Kevin Nash an X-Division champ?
He was that night.
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While I am sure there are plenty of folks saying "What about WWE?" in regard to television partners putting pressure to not run shows, I wouldn't be surprised if Dana being so public about his complete disregard for the current climate was causing a perfect storm of commotion amongst athletic commissions, interested politicians, advertisers and Disney shareholders to say "cut it out".
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2 hours ago, odessasteps said:
The one for me is Ivan
Oh wow, that is one of the most elderly Canadian speaking voices I have ever heard, somehow more jarring that when I first heard Baron Von Raschke's normal speaking voice a couple of weeks ago while watching his Back to the Territories interview with Jim Cornette.
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Is Mickie James agenting for the women's division since she is injured? Was curious to see her in that pic with Austin, Edge, and Rhea.
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Whenever NWA Power resumes its normal taping schedule, I would be more than okay with them ditching the faux throwback commercials and just showing the real ones from the Houston Wrestling library.
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2 hours ago, LoneWolf&Subs said:
That Rude Vs. Jake match you’re going to get to is the most boring wrestling match in Wrestlemania history up to that point. I have no idea why you’d wrestle to a draw in the driest way possible. And they were in a blood feud.
Just to clarify, the feud proper didnt start on TV until a few weeks after Mania IV.
But yes, one of the most disappointing matches ever. I am guessing both guys got told the 15-minute draw finish and basically realized neither one of them were getting over that night so they dogged the shit out of it.
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2 hours ago, Goodear said:
Also the idea that Colt is going to goof around in a match with Archer is horrifying.
Until Archer destroys him which is what is going to happen.
I am hopeful for a Darby/Archer final like a few other people have said. Tease that Cody vs Archer will be the final, but have Darby play spoiler and finally get his victory over Cody, and then have Archer win the championship and put over that while Archer did win gold so quickly in AEW, he still has a chip on his shoulder because he hasnt gotten his match with Cody yet.
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On 3/29/2020 at 9:22 AM, John E. Dynamite said:
This is the Jarmusch of puroresu. The Tarkovsky. The Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. This makes Larry Zbyszko look like Will Ospreay. MY GOD.
Fuck Tiger King, I want Netflix to do a 7-part series on that Fujita/Shiozaki match.
If you asked me which promotions are going to try something that there is no way they could get away with in front of a live crowd, I would not have guessed Pro Wrestling NOAH, even factoring in new ownership.
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LOL at Vince trying to pull carny wrestling promoter tactics in non-wrestling environments where people that know how the real world works and aren't marks for the idea of working for Vince say "Haha....NO".