clintthecrippler

The one time I shelled out cash for a photo op at a wrestling convention was a group "AWA Champions" photo with Nick Bockwinkel, Stan Hansen, and Larry Z. As we're about to take the photo, I stutter out "this is a big honor for me." Not missing a beat, Bockwinkel responds by simply asking me "Are you sure?" Even at a wrestling convention surrounded by loser wrestling nerds like me, Bockwinkel was still sharp and on point with wit. And I will always have fond memories of being an 8-year old wrestling in 1986 discovering a vast world beyond the WWF thanks to cable television, and being blown away by the one-hour match between Hennig and Bockwinkel. It was the first time I ever saw a full hour TV show taken up by one match. It was probably the second bloodiest match I had seen up to that point (Rockers vs Rose/Somers had aired earlier in the year), and while I had seen a couple Hogan title matches on Saturday Night Main Event, this was the first World Title match I had seen on TV that seemed like an epic struggle from start to finish. And I loved finding out and discovering on the AWA DVDVR set that after turning face, Bockwinkel was still a bit of a dick in the ring and on promos, and really was the epitome of an "I haven't changed, just the wrestlers I wrestle have" face turn, and kept his edge throughout the next year and a half before retiring.

Referee Neeley, still my pick for the breakout star of the Mid-South DVDVR set. Been a while since I've watched that set, but I believe there were a couple other king-sized ref bumps from him on that set.

I also wouldnt be surprised if a lot of the money was going to film acquisition. I remember at some point during the original run there was news floating around the movie distro houses were upping their usage fees as the series gained in popularity.

This just made think of the "Death or Bungie" joke for the first time in about twenty years. And if either one involves the Big Show, it's an especially unpleasant joke.

LU tapes afternoons/early evenings on Saturdays and Sundays, right? If so, then Friday night is definitely doable for LU wrestlers to do PWG, and a doubleshot on Saturday might be doable depending on show layout (aka factoring traffic time from Boyle Heights to Reseda).

Its not bullshit. When you start using terms like "actor" you have already lost.

Maybe Fat Fuck Barrel Boy worked the show? “He’s fat, he’s a fuck, he wears a barrel…what’s not to like?” The true death of kayfabe was when he took the barrel off so he could get into the ring.

Mike Awesome looking like he's ready to enter the 1990s in style. Unfortunately, no one told him he had already missed that decade and that it was the year 2000.

Seconding this. When I have kids and they get old enough to have the "dont do drugs" speech, I am locking them in a room and making them watch Requiem For A Dream. It will be a better "dont do drugs" message than anything the Dare program could come up with. Then I am going to another room in the house cuz I will be damned if I am going to watch that movie again.

I give Rey credit for even being up for trying a spot as innovative and/or risky on an indy show. He's definitely earned the right to just go through the motions on the indy circuit, work a basic match, 619, West Coast Pop, 1-2-3. Cool to know he's not doing that, or at least he wasn't on this night.

What does Hulk Hogan have to do with any of this?

Are you sure you werent watching Live Free or Die Hard?

Well shit, gonna take me about three fulls days and nights away from that image for me to sleep comfortably again. If you had asked me to predict horrifying images to be posted on this thread, I have to admit "PHOTOBOMBING COWBOY CHRIS BENOIT" would not have been one of them.

Oh man, I would love it if some shitty indy ripped off the "Undertaker/Kane comes up from underneath the ring to kidnap someone" gimmick and inverted it so someone kidnaps a flippy guy through the ceiling.

Well shit. Those last two posts just make me mad that The New Day didn't exist in the '90s and have a run in WAR going against all those wacky trios they would put together: The New Day vs. Bob Backlund, Scott Putski, and The Warlord Big E. and Kofi vs. Stan Lane and Earthquake Xavier Woods' trombone vs. Tenryu The New Day vs. Hector Garza and The Eliminators Xavier Woods vs. Yoji Anjoh Big E. and Kofi vs. El Gigante and Koji Kitao The New Day vs. Bob Backlund, Jimmy Snuka, and Mil Mascaras Xavier Woods vs. Damien 666 The New Day vs. Chris Jericho, The Warlord, and Vampiro All of these are matches that I am now upset that I will never get to see due to stupid space/time continuum limitations.

I really enjoyed the JBL shoot with Bischoff, and am really looking forward to Part 2. Was pretty awesome seeing a WWE employee on a WWE-endorsed broadcast basically saying "Vince raided the territories and put the AWA out of business" and bringing up the hypocrisy of Bischoff being accused of the same thing. Programs like this and Table For 3 are really the moments where I think "THIS is the potential that the WWE Network has." Sure, there could definitely be more archival footage added to on-demand, but programs like these will keep me coming back on a monthly basis in the absence of that way more than stuff like Countdown and Swerved.

Its wild. I was dreading this impending Kane-Rollins storyline, but the minute they launched into basically redoing Joseph Park/Abyss with Corporate Kane/DemonKane I was lured back in. Really looking forward to a few weeks of this.

Eh, to be fair, the phrase "fuck you money" has existed for a long ass time. Is it really that creative to just delete the word "you" from that already existing phrase? Because if it is, I am sure as shit gonna find someone more awesome than Virgil to credit with that evolution. Fuck it, moving forward, whenever that phrase comes up, I am gonna talk about how awesome it was on that episode of WCW Saturday Night and Dusty was on commentary talking about how "The Armstrong Brothers are on their way to da pay windah to get themselves that fuck money." Because seriously, FUCK VIRGIL.

Seriously, the idea that a 1976 GCW show headlined by that and Terry Funk defending the title against Mr. Wrestling II is just sitting in HBO's vault collecting dust is heartbreaking. Someone needs to get HBO GO cracking on posting that asap.

I've got Pro Wrestling History showing me the first Jerry Lawler vs. Bill Dundee match as being on December 1st, 1975, and Cagematch showing their last match against each other being January 29th, 2011. 35 years, 1 month, 28 days.

Growing up in Northern Michigan, there were a few family friends that had the big dishes since they lived just outside of town and cable didn't extend all the way out. Was kind of awesome seeing just the wide variety of stuff you could pick up. Though probably the most fucked up thing me and a friend ever picked up through the big dish was stumbling across some channel from Central America that was actually broadcasting cockfighting, complete with voiceover commentators.

I legitimately don't know whether I think a retcon that Riddick and Dominic are actually the same person would be the greatest thing ever or the worst thing ever.

DustyTaker?