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Post by chronocross on Apr 12, 2019 7:34:35 GMT -5
Their WM 8 dark match never aired but a different match they had later in the year was shown on TV. WWF @ Huntsville, AL - Von Braun Civic Center - August 10, 1992 WWF Superstars taping: All American Wrestling - 9/13/92: The Beverly Brothers (w/ the Genius) defeated the Bushwhackers at 6:07 when Blake pinned Butch with an elbow drop as Beau held Butch's legs down from the outside after tripping him; after the bout, another referee came out and reversed the decision (the version of the match aired on the 9/28/92 Prime Time Wrestling did not show the part where the decision was reversed) (WWF Wrestling World Tour) Huh, weird. I thought for sure I recalled the entrances to their match taking place in that roofless Hoosier Dome. Ah well, thanks for the correction. Maybe you were thinking about the Summerslam 92 dark match where it was the Bushwackers/Duggan vs. Nasty Boys/Mountie? That aired on Prime Time in late 92. After checking the listings for the 1992 Prime Time episodes on thehistoryofwwe website, I don't think the WM8 dark match match ever aired on TV.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 12, 2019 7:41:42 GMT -5
Huh, weird. I thought for sure I recalled the entrances to their match taking place in that roofless Hoosier Dome. Ah well, thanks for the correction. Maybe you were thinking about the Summerslam 92 dark match where it was the Bushwackers/Duggan vs. Nasty Boys/Mountie? That aired on Prime Time in late 92. After checking the listings for the 1992 Prime Time episodes on thehistoryofwwe website, I don't think the WM8 dark match match ever aired on TV. I knew of the SSlam 92 matches being on Prime Time (you jogged my memory of this one; could only recently remember Shango/Tito I and Berserker/Tatatatatatatanka from that show), and....yeah that was probably the outdoors entrance I was thinking of.
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Post by auph10imitated on Apr 18, 2019 9:07:40 GMT -5
I am pretty damn sure I have seen clips of Buschwackers vs Heavenly Bodies dark match from Wrestlemania X, it was recently and I think it was in a YouTube clip and I think it may have been from some kind of international broadcast.. I cant remember. Or maybe it was during the pre show in thye back ground while someone was doing an interview? Something like that!
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Post by chronocross on Apr 18, 2019 9:33:58 GMT -5
I am pretty damn sure I have seen clips of Buschwackers vs Heavenly Bodies dark match from Wrestlemania X, it was recently and I think it was in a YouTube clip and I think it may have been from some kind of international broadcast.. I cant remember. Or maybe it was during the pre show in thye back ground while someone was doing an interview? Something like that! It was on the WM10 preshow, they showed clips of it as Todd Pettengill was interviewing the celebrities in the aisle way.
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Post by auph10imitated on Apr 18, 2019 10:22:47 GMT -5
Ahhh, I knew it!
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Post by cjh on Apr 18, 2019 13:18:27 GMT -5
This week's Gem is an episode of Tri-State Wrestling's TV show "Championship Wrestling" from August 1978. Bill Watts basically took over the territory in the fall of 1979 to form Mid-South Wrestling. It is billed as "one of the surviving episodes."
WWE likely got the episode via the Mid-South/UWF library, as they did the 1975 Watts vs. Terry Funk match in Hidden Gems.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Apr 18, 2019 17:56:56 GMT -5
So this is a Leroy McGuirk era episode? Interesting.
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Post by burdette25159 on Apr 24, 2019 17:44:07 GMT -5
Following up on one of the only surviving episodes (for now) of Leroy McGuirk's Tri State territory (which became MidSouth) from 1978, WWE is set to add Mid South Wrestling's WrestleFest 85 tomorrow to the Hidden Gems section
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Post by cjh on May 9, 2019 10:29:55 GMT -5
This week's Gems:
To Tame a Madman Texas Death Match Fritz Von Erich vs. The Sheik Feb. 28, 1977
Becoming World Class Full episode of Texas Championship Wrestling (secondary TV show for Dallas/Ft. Worth territory at the time) Oct. 27, 1980
The Battle with Brody Steel Cage Match Bruiser Brody vs. Great Kabuki Wrestling Star Wars; Jun. 7, 1981
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Post by theironyuppie on May 23, 2019 0:09:41 GMT -5
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Post by burdette25159 on May 30, 2019 22:15:18 GMT -5
This week's hidden gems include a Wild Bull Curry match from the 1950s
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Post by BlackoutCreature on May 31, 2019 23:21:31 GMT -5
This week's hidden gems include a Wild Bull Curry match from the 1950s To expand on this, this weeks matches are three matches from the Sportatorium in Dallas in the 1950's. A 1954 match between The Sheik and Juan Humberto, a 1955 match between Wild Bull Curry and Danny Savich, and a 1957 match between Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon (billed as "Mad" Maurice Vachon) and The Amazing Zuma. Here's a note on The Amazing Zuma (also called The Mighty Zuma and Argentine Zuma). He's a pretty obscure, mostly forgotten wrestler from that era that was a lower-card player almost everywhere he went and pretty much disappeared after 1960. However there is one huge exception to this - the pro wrestling attendance record for the third Madison Square Garden (21,950) is held by a January 1960 show headlined by Zuma vs. Antonino Rocca. This is like finding out the modern MSG attendance record is held by a show headlined by John Cena vs. Bob Holly. In a further bit of zeitgeist, that 1960 show also featured a match between Bruno Sammartino and Wild Bull Curry.
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Post by chazraps on Jun 1, 2019 0:23:06 GMT -5
This week's hidden gems include a Wild Bull Curry match from the 1950s To expand on this, this weeks matches are three matches from the Sportatorium in Dallas in the 1950's. A 1954 match between The Sheik and Juan Humberto, a 1955 match between Wild Bull Curry and Danny Savich, and a 1957 match between Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon (billed as "Mad" Maurice Vachon) and The Amazing Zuma. Here's a note on The Amazing Zuma (also called The Mighty Zuma and Argentine Zuma). He's a pretty obscure, mostly forgotten wrestler from that era that was a lower-card player almost everywhere he went and pretty much disappeared after 1960. However there is one huge exception to this - the pro wrestling attendance record for the third Madison Square Garden (21,950) is held by a January 1960 show headlined by Zuma vs. Antonino Rocca. This is like finding out the modern MSG attendance record is held by a show headlined by John Cena vs. Bob Holly. In a further bit of zeitgeist, that 1960 show also featured a match between Bruno Sammartino and Wild Bull Curry. Wow! Thanks for this. Does any footage of that MSG show exist?
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jun 1, 2019 8:51:47 GMT -5
To expand on this, this weeks matches are three matches from the Sportatorium in Dallas in the 1950's. A 1954 match between The Sheik and Juan Humberto, a 1955 match between Wild Bull Curry and Danny Savich, and a 1957 match between Maurice "Mad Dog" Vachon (billed as "Mad" Maurice Vachon) and The Amazing Zuma. Here's a note on The Amazing Zuma (also called The Mighty Zuma and Argentine Zuma). He's a pretty obscure, mostly forgotten wrestler from that era that was a lower-card player almost everywhere he went and pretty much disappeared after 1960. However there is one huge exception to this - the pro wrestling attendance record for the third Madison Square Garden (21,950) is held by a January 1960 show headlined by Zuma vs. Antonino Rocca. This is like finding out the modern MSG attendance record is held by a show headlined by John Cena vs. Bob Holly. In a further bit of zeitgeist, that 1960 show also featured a match between Bruno Sammartino and Wild Bull Curry. Wow! Thanks for this. Does any footage of that MSG show exist? I would guess no. Footage from the third MSG is few and far between (although there are some gems out there). Plus this wasn't a McMahon/Toots Mondt show as was typical for MSG at the time, but was run by Jack Pfefer during a weird, less-then-two-year period where he had control of wrestling at MSG. So who knows who would actually own the rights for that footage or where it would've been stored.
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Post by cjh on Jun 12, 2019 20:12:02 GMT -5
This week's Gem....
Stampede Reboot Pilot An attempt at reviving Stampede Wrestling with Tatanka, Jim Neidhart, and others; commentary by Mauro Ranallo Calgary, AB, Canada; Apr. 2, 1999
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 12, 2019 20:21:12 GMT -5
This week's Gem.... Stampede Reboot PilotAn attempt at reviving Stampede Wrestling with Tatanka, Jim Neidhart, and others; commentary by Mauro Ranallo Calgary, AB, Canada; Apr. 2, 1999 You sure it's Jim on the card? Wrestlingdata has this listed as the results for that show, and Jim's not on there (his cousin Jason Neidhart is, though) Achim Albrecht is Brakkus Dick Butkus Jr? As in the football player's son? Principal Dick Pound. Yay. How is this a hidden gem show? There's nobody on it, save Tatanka and to a lesser extent, Johnny Devine.
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Post by cjh on Jun 12, 2019 20:25:36 GMT -5
The official description from WWE that will be attached to the video lists Jim Neidhart.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jun 12, 2019 20:28:12 GMT -5
The official description from WWE that will be attached to the video lists Jim Neidhart. Weird. Maybe he's on the show, just not in an actual match. Commentary or promos or something. Still, weird card to spotlight as a hidden gem simply because it was the first of a failed revival.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jun 12, 2019 20:51:16 GMT -5
Is it possible Neidhart was the color man? He had some (not particularly fondly remembered) experience with this in the WWF.
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Post by theironyuppie on Jun 13, 2019 3:34:19 GMT -5
The official description from WWE that will be attached to the video lists Jim Neidhart. Weird. Maybe he's on the show, just not in an actual match. Commentary or promos or something. Still, weird card to spotlight as a hidden gem simply because it was the first of a failed revival. Failed pilots are a fun section of Hidden Gems though, like those AWA pilots.
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