Weekend of wrestling when you're a kid

[Kash Flagg]

Just a thread to find out what wrestling was on during the weekend when you were a kid. I started really watching wrestling around 1989 and got this:

WWF Superstars
NWA Power Hour (sat. mornings)
WCW Saturday Night (when it was the main show, not jobberville)
World Class/USWA Texas
CWA/USWA
AWA

And every once in a while I'd get some little indy with some terrible gimmicks (One had a wrestling clown before Doink).

What was yours?

["Hollywood" Cactus Matt]

Usually in this order:

WCW Power Hour (Saturday morning)
WWF Superstars of Wrestling (usually Saturday afternoon)
WCW Saturday Night (I don't remember when this usually aired; can someone help?)
WWF All-American Wrestling (Sundays at noon)
WCW Worldwide (sporadically on Sunday afternoons, but usually pre-empted)
WCW Main Event (Sunday nights)

Lots of WCW on TV back then, yet somehow I was a die-hard WWF fan. Oh, I liked WCW enough to follow it, but if I had to choose, it was the WWF all the way.

[Kash Flagg]

WCW Saturday night was usually either 5:05 or 6:05 eastern.

[ICBM]

Friday 4-5 WCCW on ESPN (the five year old tapes)
Friday night 8-10 AWA ESPN
Late Friday night on UHF freq NWA world wide
Sat morning NWA
Sat morn Wild West championship and WCCW
Sat afternoon WWF Houston superstars of wrestling
Sat 5:05 pm (Central for me)NWA/WCW much later renamed WCW saturday night
Sat night main event or if no SME than WWF superstars
Sunday after church wccw
and finally Sunday afternoon was "The Main event" brought to you by the NWA and WTBS superstation 25

[Kash Flagg]

I forgot about the ESPN WCCW (and later Global). I watched that and had to get the rabbit ears out a few years later for Smokey Mountain Wrestling.

[bigsplash]

Let's see

I watched

WWF Superstars (Fox 5 in the Metro area) on Saturdays at 12. That was the highlight of my weekends as a kid. My father would also goto the Deli and get lunch meat and I would eat my sandwich and watch Superstars.

Then Sundays I would watch WWF Wrestling Challenge and All American Wrestling.

I started watching WCW Saturday Night, and sometimes the Main Event on Sundays when I got a bit older. Also watched WWF Mania when it hit the air.

Those were great days. The shows were so fantastic and they build their angles so awesome. Even crap like the WCW shows were presented better than they are today.

Too bad pro-wrestling can never go back to a format like that.

[boomhauer20055]

Georgia Championship Wrestling

["Hollywood" Cactus Matt]

Apr 15, 2010 16:54:42 GMT -5 Kash Flagg said:

WCW Saturday night was usually either 5:05 or 6:05 eastern.

I knew that, and I was super-excited when they went to two hours.

I was actually joking that I didn't know what day of the week WCW Saturday Night came on.



I thought it was funny, anyway..........

[Kash Flagg]

Oh. WCW Saturday Night was always on Wednesdays.

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

I honestly couldn't tell you specifics. I was about 4 when I started watching (I can't remember a time when I didn't watch). My uncle had the illegal descrambler and the big satellite dish, so he got channels from all over the country. We would sit down on Saturday night (6:05, TBS) and watch wrestling until 2 or 3 in the morning without seeing the same show twice. But this was the tail end of the territories, so there was still several groups running in the States that soon wouldn't be. And we even watched GLOW and Mexican midget wrestling. If it was wrestling, we watched it.

I miss the hell out of those days, and my uncle.

[ICBM]

War GLOW!!!

[SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts]

In the late 90s, Telemundo would show an hour shortened Nitro on Saturday, The main eventers and the cruiserweights. Univision would show a similar Raw, X-Pac was very popular. On Sunday, there was WCW World Wide on my UPN affiliate, it would recap the weeks Nitro and Thunder and have two matches, mostly Powerplant guys.

[wildojinx]

I didnt get cable until 1993 so mostly my weekends consisted of watching ICW/IWCCW and Wrestling Challenge. If i was staying over at someone who had cable though, you could add wcw power hour, saturday night, and main event to that list.

[BitterAF]

In 1995 (I was 8)

Saturdays
7am (on some days) ECW on MSG
12pm Superstars
1pm WCW Pro (or something like that)
6:05 WCW Saturday Night
?:?? I picked up USWA on the satellite dish. I think it was around 5/6pm
11:30pm: WWF Canada (The Canadian version of Wrestling Challenge I beieve)
1am/2am: ECW on the WB (was usually a repeat of what I saw in the morning)

Looking back, that was a large amount of wrestling I watched.

[truwrestlingfan]

Those days were great! I remember scheduling my weekends around waking up for wcw saturday morning, pro, saturday night, wwf superstars etc

A few years ago was a great weekend for live events. I went to a local indy show friday night, ROH saturday night, then Raw monday night...That was awesome

[kidglov3s]

I started watching in 1993, at six years old.

Sat: WWF Mania (10am)
WCW Worldwide (10amish?) (maybe this didn't show up for a few years)
WCW Saturday Night (6:05)
Sun: WWF All American Wrestling (11amish?)
WWF Superstars (noonish?)

[Kris Kobain]

Superstars every saturday.
If I was going to miss it I would call my grandma and she would set her vcr to tape it.
Often times I would stay with her friday and/or saturday night and she would take me to the video store to rent 2 for a dollar wrestling movies. There was this place that had a giant wall of them. Anytime a new video store opened my grandma would call and tell me about it and take me to check out the collection of tapes. It was always the same routine. There would be some chores she needed help with (an excuse to spend time with her favorite grandchild) and we would do the chores in the afternoon. Then at dinner time she would cook a pizza and have me put in the first tape. It was usually ppvs' so they were 3 hours long. At some point she would make skillet popcorn. She would watch with me until she fell asleep in her chair. The next morning would be breakfast followed by another tape or superstars depending on the day. Run errands pick up a couple more tapes and repeat the cycle.

sidenote: My Grandma thought Razor Ramon was very good looking.

[darthxaos]

Superstars would come on after cartoons were over. then American Gladiators would come on after Superstars. started in summer of 89 during the Summerslam 89 buildup.

then Wrestling Challenge on sundays and Prime Time on mondays, but I never got to see the second hour of prime time the first coupole years cause I had a 10:00 EST bedtime.

latwer on I started watching NWA/WCW on saturday and sunday evenings, sometime around Halloween Havoc 90 with the Black Scorpion

[neal]

WWA (Indiana) followed by Memphis, then later in the day at 6:05, Georgia. Sometimes we were able to pick up a signal from Dayton and see the Sheik's Detroit show (with the criminally underated announcer, Lord Layton). Great time to be a fan. Plenty of different federations to watch with drastically different styles, and I only knew the WWF existed because of the Apter-mags. It was a WWF-free world for me, thank God.

[Deleted]

I'll say 1986. I was 11, going on 12. We had cable.

Saturdays 9am: WOR-NY would air Superstars, with the cool arena plugs from Nassau Coliseum.
10am: WFLD-Chicago, same show but different arena plugs, this time from the Rosemont Horizon.
12pm: WSNS-Chicago. Same Superstars, but in Espanol! Lot of interviews with Tito Santana. I'm serious.
4pm: The Financial News Network aired Polynesian Pro Wrestling. I only knew Jimmy Snuka and Sivi Afi. The show didn't last too long.
505pm: WTBS World Championship Wrestling for 2 hours! (Unless the stupid Braves had a home game or played an East Coast team.)
The rest of the night was revolved around wrestling in some shape or form.

Sunday 9am: Power Pro Wrestling, the Mid-South Wrestling show.
10am: UWF Wrestling (a different show that the previous one).
11am: USA Network's WWF All-American Wrestling. Or I could flip to another local station and watch the AWA. (The "Sunday Morning Wars" doesn't have that nice ring to it.)
12pm: "Bruiser Bedlam", promoter Bob Luce with Dick the Bruiser bringing you a classic match from the 1970s. (This is the show I always insisted showed Verne Gagne-Nick Bockwinkel in a cage from 1973 every single week. And Bobby Heenan ate the steel mesh. Every. Single. Week.)
But you didn't watch this for the wrestling, you watched the commercials. Bobo Brazil and Dick the Bruiser shop at One Stop. "For succulent rib tips and ice cold beer by the case. For all your shopping needs, make sure you shop at One Stop." These commercials were live, ad-libbed and were just so awful they were classic hilarity.
(If we were lucky enough to see the Packers during football season the two times they played the Bears - back when 6-10 was a "great" season in Green Bay, my dad would be constantly flipping back and forth between the wrestling and the game.)
5pm: WTBS would air those stupid Bill Apter Scouting Reports, usually with Ric Flair.
530pm: Local station aired World Class Wrestling for 1/2 hour. Usually had Iceman King Parsons in the main event against Jimmy Garvin or one of Skandar Akbar's men.