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Post by Todd Pettengill on Jun 10, 2012 1:57:30 GMT -5
GLOW WOW
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Toxik916
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Post by Toxik916 on Jun 10, 2012 4:43:18 GMT -5
I've never seen any footage from Roy Shire's Northern California promotion.
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Post by eJm on Jun 10, 2012 11:52:34 GMT -5
1PW in the UK.
Just find the latest 21 year old unaware school kid who owns the darn thing and give him a tonne of beer for it.
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SAJ Forth
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Post by SAJ Forth on Jun 10, 2012 13:09:15 GMT -5
The GWF stuff, one would assume, is owned by ESPN, since ESPN was their television outlet at the time. Portland stuff is virtually non-existent because they didn't save the tapes. Memphis has no true owner of the footage. All that is really left is all of the international promotions, and the Savoldi footage from the Northeast as far as the U.S. is concerned. The Savoldis own the GWF footage. Now that WWE has bought Mid-South/UWF, the Salvoldis own the next biggest library that WWE would want. They have... World Class Championship Wrestling footage from the point the Von Erichs sold the company to Jerry Jarrett (1988-1989). WWE's World Class footage goes up to late-1988. USWA Texas (1989-1991) Global Wrestling Federation (1991-1994) This sounds about right.
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Phil Parent
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Post by Phil Parent on Jun 12, 2012 1:45:36 GMT -5
Montreal Wrestling's.
Similar case to Memphis, but a little different. Whereas in Memphis, lots of people claim to varying degrees of credibility to own the whole thing; in Montreal lots of people have legitimate claims to owning pieces here and there.
WWE themselves own three years of it, between 1986 and 1989. Because International Wrestling more or less went along with the invading empire and handed over the keys to the office to Vince. Who of course took everything of worth, including the TV deal and the Montreal Forum, leaving International Wrestling, under the rule of WWE employee Lord Alfred Hayes, to run bad shows with a bad roster on a bad timeslot while WWF Superstars ran in the old IW primetime slot.
Other people & groups who own pieces of it are the estates of Eddie Quinn, Yvon Robert, Andre The Giant, Frank Valois, Dino Bravo & Edouard Carpentier, Jacques Rougeau Jr. & Sr. & Quebecor Media (A billion dollar corporation). Everybody here promoted the show, got rights, or aired it on TV.
The Quebec government would also probably attempt to block the sale to an American entity, on the basis of cultural significance, and would probably buy it itself to keep it in Quebec.
In other words, you'll probably never see a comprehensive DVD of Andre's career. Pretty much everything he did before his illness took over is owned by the estate of Frank Valois and the Rougeau family. Same deal with a good project on Rick Martel. Never.
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