Post by saintpat on Oct 28, 2010 23:44:15 GMT -5
I grew up and grew attached to wrestling back in the days when territories still ruled.
One of the things I miss most:
The heels (or a main heel, with a couple of henchmen usually) would be running roughshod over a particular territory. The babyfaces over a period of weeks and months would get the worst of it and eventually the situation would seem hopeless.
Someone, somehow, gets the overconfident head heel to sign the classic blank contract, expecting there's no one around to worry about.
And then would appear some monster like Andre the Giant or maybe Bruiser Brodie to sign the other half of the contract. The monster would promptly crush the king heel in such devastating fashion that the balance of power would return to the faces in the aftermath.
The opposite side of this, which would often be as good or better, would be when a devious heel manager would manipulate the babyface to sign the contract, and then sub in his own invading outsider to do the dirty work -- in which case Abdullah the Butcher or maybe Brodie or Stan Hansen or someone of that ilk would show up to destroy the face, allowing the local heel to take advantage and gain the upper hand.
Bringing in the unstoppable force from the outside in a big surprise was always one of the best things about the territories.
What do you miss?
One of the things I miss most:
The heels (or a main heel, with a couple of henchmen usually) would be running roughshod over a particular territory. The babyfaces over a period of weeks and months would get the worst of it and eventually the situation would seem hopeless.
Someone, somehow, gets the overconfident head heel to sign the classic blank contract, expecting there's no one around to worry about.
And then would appear some monster like Andre the Giant or maybe Bruiser Brodie to sign the other half of the contract. The monster would promptly crush the king heel in such devastating fashion that the balance of power would return to the faces in the aftermath.
The opposite side of this, which would often be as good or better, would be when a devious heel manager would manipulate the babyface to sign the contract, and then sub in his own invading outsider to do the dirty work -- in which case Abdullah the Butcher or maybe Brodie or Stan Hansen or someone of that ilk would show up to destroy the face, allowing the local heel to take advantage and gain the upper hand.
Bringing in the unstoppable force from the outside in a big surprise was always one of the best things about the territories.
What do you miss?
