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Post by Slingshot Suplay on Sept 12, 2009 15:07:32 GMT -5
The majestic mountain of knowledge that I sit atop is so lofty, I get nosebleeds when I stand up.
Seriously though, I had alot of knowledge of wrestling even before the internet days. I used to read old magazines and watch alot of tapes and shows when I was young. I remember alot about the territories like WCCW, AWA, GWF, USWA, Stampede, the NWA, E(astern)CW, the WWF and the UWF. Even FCW back in the day, when Barry and Kendall Windham were wrestling there. The internet has opened me up to the organizations outside of the U.S. like AAA, CMLL, WWC, NJPW, AJPW, etc. I even remembered previous gimmicks, title histories... I was a sponge.
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Post by STMP on Sept 12, 2009 20:23:31 GMT -5
I know a little bit about everything, enough to make me look smark.
But I'm not an expert, I'm terrible at dates, forget about a lot of wrestlers, have only seen one Ricky Steamboat match and two Dusty Rhodes matches (one against Flair in a Cage, the other at a Royal Rumble with a young Dustin).
On the other hand I have an eye for talent, I've seen enough wrestlers come by who failed miserably or were able to succeed, when nobody thought they could make it, that I can recognize that 'it-factor'.
And I often remember obscure wrestlers, who somehow made me notice them. Guys like Miguel Perez jr. (I still believe he could have been an unique mid-card wrestler, he looked like Tommy Dreamer, with the bodyhair of George Steele and the moves of a cruiserweight) or the Japanese wildman Omori (saw him in a royal rumble and just can't forget about him), same with The Latin Lover, I'll always remember the Latin Lover getting punched and Lawler saying 'I bet he ain't loving that'.
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Post by rapidfire187 on Sept 12, 2009 20:51:14 GMT -5
or the Japanese wildman Omori (saw him in a royal rumble and just can't forget about him), You're talking about Takao Omori who had a pretty decent career in Japan. Apparently he still wrestles too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takao_OmoriTrust me, I didn't just know that. Just did a little bit of googling and then found him on wikipedia. Shouldn't be too hard to find some of his recent stuff on youtube so you can see how he turned out.
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Post by Andrew is Good on Sept 12, 2009 20:55:53 GMT -5
My mom told me that if I focused myself on school like I have on wrestling, I would have gotten even higher grades. I did end up being an honours student my very last year of school, but I didn't really try that much. Wrestling is more important.
I don't have all the facts and figures, but I like to keep up with wrestling history. I also don't know all that much about Mexico or Japan, but I'd like to learn.
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Sept 12, 2009 21:17:14 GMT -5
I've got a very high amount of wrestling knowledge from roughly 1985 to present. It's 98% WWF/E. The only parts I'm fuzzy on is Smackdown from 2004-2006 because I worked the nights that it was on at the time.
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Post by Crazy Diamond on Sept 12, 2009 22:15:32 GMT -5
Not much. I would say I'm in-between a mark and a smart mark, but I hate those labels to begin with. What I can say is that I got to see more than two promotions growing up because having a 56K modem and cable pays. I've been watching stuff that I missed the first time around such as Stampede Wrestling, 80s NJPW, ECW before 1999, and rarer stuff just for the hell of it.
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Post by STMP on Sept 13, 2009 12:26:14 GMT -5
or the Japanese wildman Omori (saw him in a royal rumble and just can't forget about him), You're talking about Takao Omori who had a pretty decent career in Japan. Apparently he still wrestles too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takao_OmoriTrust me, I didn't just know that. Just did a little bit of googling and then found him on wikipedia. Shouldn't be too hard to find some of his recent stuff on youtube so you can see how he turned out. It was more how random it was. This was the Royal Rumble and the winner would get a title shot and out of nowhere comes a Japanese wrestler, who wasn't even in the WWE and his nickname was 'The Japanese Wildman' Omori. But there was nothing wild about him, he just looked very plain. I do miss that in the Rumble. In 97, they brought in a lot of Mexican wrestlers, even Mil Mascaras, it was cool to see so many new and unique wrestlers.
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Post by Asics Johnson on Sept 13, 2009 14:11:14 GMT -5
WWF, from 1985 to 2002 is probably my strongest suit. I have a pretty good deal of knowledge of WCW from 1991-2001, and ECW from 1998-2000. I haven't watched WWE nearly as religiously as I did it's Federation counterpart, but I would still fare pretty well in a trivia competition.
I have watched some Japanese wrestling, and a little bit of TNA here and there... but that's about it, outside of the major stateside promotions.
Still, I learn something new every time I visit the forums. That's why I stick around.
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Post by TuneinTokyo on Sept 13, 2009 16:44:54 GMT -5
I have full knowledge of the AWA and Hogan era WWF. I also watched the early TBS NWA/WCW stuff.
I am only really interested in the early stuff up to Hogan winning the WWF title. I'll watch the rest but don't really care what happens.
my favorite era was AWA mid70's through '82.
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Post by neal on Sept 13, 2009 18:08:00 GMT -5
my favorite era was AWA mid70's through '82. Good time to be a fan. I was one of those fortunate few who lived just close enough to Indianapolis, Louisville and Dayton to get the Dick the Bruiser show (WWA), Jerry Lawler show (CWA) and the Sheik's "Big Time Wrestling" show, and my dad was one of the first to get cable, so the WTBS wrestling show was also watched every saturday night. I was only able to catch up on the AWA when visiting my cousins in Chicago, wish they had a vcr then. I would have bugged them to tape it for me.
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Post by Madman Szalinski on Sept 14, 2009 15:38:11 GMT -5
Too much.
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Post by JerryvonKramer on Sept 14, 2009 16:08:25 GMT -5
I know a lot about niche areas and not much about others.
WWF/E
early 80s - patchy
1985-93 - almost encyclopedic
1994-6 - patchy
Attitude era - passable
2002-4 - patchy
2004+ - not a lot more than a bunch of names and a rough idea of what they are like
NWA/ WCW
early 80s - patchy but always keen to learn more
mid-late 80s - passable, but super keen to learn more
early 90s - better than most (probably)
Nitro/ NWO era - passable
late 2000-2001 - patchy
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ECW - almost non-existent -- and I don't really care!
Japanese - almost non-existent
Indies - non-existent
TNA - enough to have a great deal of contempt for it
Territories - learning all the time, but know more from shoots and docs than from matches/ footage. Know more about AWA and the Bill Watts's Mid-South than the others.
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Post by Stone Coke Miami Watson 🥃 on Sept 14, 2009 16:29:33 GMT -5
My father has a pretty good knowledge of many Lucha Libre wrestlers from the 1950s till today, even busting out a few names that I've never heard of.
For me, I'm pretty knowledgeable about certain wrestlers...but not a fountain of knowledge that some in here can be.
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