zendragon Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 AWA - The Midnight Rockers vs. Adrian Adonis & Cowboy Bob Orton 2/20/1988 - YouTube Hulk Hogan vs Adrian Adonis - YouTube Interesting to think what could of happened to Adrian had he not gotten in the car wreck and had gotten his weight and drug problem under control. Could he have been brought back as an expansion era guy who gets repackaged similar to Mike Rotundo becoming IRS? Would he have ended up in Jim Herd's more cartoony WCW? Would Hogan have lobbied to bring him in under Bishoff with all the other Ex-WWF guys? Could have ended up working Saturday Night and Worldwide during the MNW. He crossed paths with Heyman in dying days AWA so maybe he finishes up with a Tracy Smother's like run in the FBI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godfrey Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 8 minutes ago, zendragon said: Interesting to think what could of happened to Adrian had he not gotten in the car wreck and had gotten his weight and drug problem under control. I'd like to think he'd have a career revival in ECW. When AI is good enough, this is the kind of scenario I'm going to plug in 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 Roddy Piper vs Rick McGraw, November 1985. The match that aired the day after McGraw's death from a heart attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYRUKfuYaxI Yeah, I can see how Roddy Piper's DDT would raise the ire of a certain Oklahoma-based promoter who had Jake Roberts doing much better DDTs. If not for the whole unrelated death of McGraw, the match played out on TV like the phrase "Fuck around and find out" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 @Matt D 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infinit Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 42 minutes ago, zendragon said: AWA - The Midnight Rockers vs. Adrian Adonis & Cowboy Bob Orton 2/20/1988 - YouTube Hulk Hogan vs Adrian Adonis - YouTube Interesting to think what could of happened to Adrian had he not gotten in the car wreck and had gotten his weight and drug problem under control. Could he have been brought back as an expansion era guy who gets repackaged similar to Mike Rotundo becoming IRS? Would he have ended up in Jim Herd's more cartoony WCW? Would Hogan have lobbied to bring him in under Bishoff with all the other Ex-WWF guys? Could have ended up working Saturday Night and Worldwide during the MNW. He crossed paths with Heyman in dying days AWA so maybe he finishes up with a Tracy Smother's like run in the FBI I think I either read somewhere or heard on a podcast that Adonis was supposedly scheduled to get a shot in JCP when the accident happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 I wonder how Turner's purchase of the company would have played into that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 Another book based Youtube dive, this one Dick "The Destroyer, Dr. X" Beyer. Also curious to check out some old japan and AWA footage 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 The Sheik vs Bobo Brazil - YouTube The Sheik vs Mark Lewin - YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porksweats Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 This match between B. Brian Blair and Dr. D David Schultz wouldn't be out of place twenty years later I felt, real scientific. Also the fans get insane over the ending of this, wouldn't expect this from 1984 WWF. Wish we got another 4-6 minutes of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colonial Posted October 1, 2023 Share Posted October 1, 2023 Latin Fury (Konnan) vs. Art Barr (Love Machine) | 01.08.1992 Dark Match - YouTube 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyChamp Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 Adonis definitely would have got on in ECW or WCW. I recently watched the SWCW title win and it was great. I also remember that Adrian Adonis was the winner of an old poll on the old board…best fat guy worker lol! Then I read about some bloody match from SWCW TV being a bigger reason than remembered for the show being canceled on USA, leading to that whole thing. I’ll have to watch that one day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 ADRIAN STREET VS. AUSTIN IDOL - YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 "back in the day wrestling was serious business! none of this goofy horseshit!" meanwhile back in the day... The Destroyer vs The Wolfman (1983) - YouTube 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 Buzz Sawyer from his month in the WWF, looking like his diet consists entirely of cocaine, taking on Salvatore Bellomo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnnw9bJv0po Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clintthecrippler Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 In which during the first four minutes of this USWA Dallas segment, Boogie Woogie Man Jimmy Valiant kisses a ring girl, a referee, a woman in the front row that is being taunted by his opponent Billy Joe Travis for being homely, and a fourth person that I will absolutely NOT spoil for those clicking on this. https://youtu.be/6cXo8XvfzL0?si=ghFRODGk0IL2AO-F 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 The Destroyer vs. Hiro Matsuda - AJPW 12/15/1975 - YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 Stan Hansen vs. The Destroyer - AJPW 10/30/1975 - YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 Don Leo Jonathan vs. The Destroyer - AJPW 12/13/1975 - YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
worldcupfever Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 I love the string of Dick Beyer matches broken up by Billy Joe Travis USWA horseshit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 Hardcore Homecoming- November Reign - Full Card - ECW - Sabu, Funk, Douglas, Lynn, Impact Players - YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 I wonder if the people living around the Sportatorium were able to join the BoogiemanNation of street people 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zendragon Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 HARDCORE WEEK EP.06:TERRY FUNK & SABU vs THE DUDLEY BOYS-PHILADELPHIA STREET FIGHT - YouTube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonzombie Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 AJP 2010 Sumo's beat each other up https://youtu.be/0P4Y3TNBGdg?si=uMsigMAl4AGs2kkz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APb8eN2Fijk Josh Barnett vs Tim Thatcher (GCW BLOODSPORT; Not the one from a shopping mall in Belgium or something) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 Steven Regal vs Chris Adams from November 1997, featuring stiff sounding work, a brutal-looking snapmare by Regal, and announcers eventually paying attention to the match https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mwOKWi4kGU 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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