Pre-MNW shots between companies

[James Fabiano]

Someone will have to find the original thread as I can't seem to turn it up.

But I got another...

In Mania 5, when Hogan is cut open, Gorilla remarks that world title matches will not stop due to a cut. Remember what happened at Bash '88!

[wildojinx]

According to Death of the Territories, there was a federation (may have even been JCP, I need to reread that book again) that had a jobber named Vince MacMann.

[James Fabiano]

Feb 4, 2022 12:01:51 GMT -5 wildojinx said:

According to Death of the Territories, there was a federation (may have even been JCP, I need to reread that book again) that had a jobber named Vince MacMann.

Which reminds me...RANDY HOGAN. (who does signings regularly on the Northeast)

We so need the original thread..

[Mozenrath]

Less a shot and more a tease, but Cornette had one. The Midnight Express had won one of the pairs of tag belts, I forget which, and he was said, "We could go West, we could go East, why, we could even go North!" Paraphrasing, but anyone who followed the industry at more than a surface level would have got that he was teasing the Midnight Express going to WWF, albeit in a facetious way.

Most obvious example, though, is that Ric Flair's early '90s WWF run was predicated on taking a shot at WCW, though one could argue it's more one directed by Flair than by WWF itself.

[wildojinx]

According to an old Herb Kunze report, during the WWF ringboy scandal, there was a Scotty Flamingo squash where he kept yelling for the ringboy to take his entrance attire back to the locker room. Jim Ross pointed out that they dont have ringboys in WCW.

[fortknox]

On a WCW PPV in '92 when Sting was coming to the ring, JR talked about how he beat Ric Flair, Sid Vicious, and Lex Luger aka people currently in the WWF.

[James Fabiano]

Feb 4, 2022 14:17:13 GMT -5 fortknox said:

On a WCW PPV in '92 when Sting was coming to the ring, JR talked about how he beat Ric Flair, Sid Vicious, and Lex Luger aka people currently in the WWF.

Then the bizarro version of this from Super Clash III: "Jerry Lawler AND Kerry Von Erich both beat Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, and Ric Flair!" (Unless they meant COMBINED...KVE had never faced Hogan or Savage AFAIK before 1988)

[DSR]

Michael Jones being called "Virgil" was supposed to be a dig at Virgil Runnels, aka Dusty Rhodes.

[eJm]

Feb 4, 2022 15:32:57 GMT -5 DSR said:

Michael Jones being called "Virgil" was supposed to be a dig at Virgil Runnels, aka Dusty Rhodes.

Oh, we’ll be here all day if we wrote all the Vince shots at Dusty.

Akeem the African Dream is the one I remember off the top of my head.

[petef3]

The whole Hogan knee injury at WrestleMania VI was supposedly a shot at Sting. Gorilla even speculates that Hogan dislocated his patella, which was Sting's exact injury at the Clash.

[CeilingFan]

Ric Flair's "Golden Spoon" promo, where he talks about wrestling NWA World Champion Ronnie Garvin on Thanksgiving. He said "There is nothing else going on!", which obviously ignores the Survivor Series.

[salz4life]

Feb 4, 2022 15:36:53 GMT -5 petef3 said:

The whole Hogan knee injury at WrestleMania VI was supposedly a shot at Sting. Gorilla even speculates that Hogan dislocated his patella, which was Sting's exact injury at the Clash.

Never knew that. This seems dumb, IMO.

[johnnyk9]

Flair bringing the big gold belt with him

[MiLB Fan]

Jim Ross loved pointing out the more realistic style of the NWA: “You don’t see our wrestlers coming out here with snakes and rock & roll music!”

During a Vinnie Vegas match, Jesse Ventura said “why is it that every guy I know named Vinnie always has lousy suits and bad hair?”

[fg]

A day or so after Vince was indicted in 1993, Jesse says that he is going to have a great Thanksgiving. He said something along the lines of: “It can be worse. You can be indicted or something.”

[Garyspivey]

That sounds like something Herb Abrams would have done in his UWF

Feb 4, 2022 12:01:51 GMT -5 wildojinx said:

According to Death of the Territories, there was a federation (may have even been JCP, I need to reread that book again) that had a jobber named Vince MacMann.

[Gravedigger's Biscuits]

Feb 4, 2022 15:36:37 GMT -5 eJm said:

Feb 4, 2022 15:32:57 GMT -5 DSR said:

Michael Jones being called "Virgil" was supposed to be a dig at Virgil Runnels, aka Dusty Rhodes.

Oh, we’ll be here all day if we wrote all the Vince shots at Dusty.

Akeem the African Dream is the one I remember off the top of my head.

There was also Reo Rodgers, a short-lived character played by Bruce Prichard doing his Dusty impression.

[Tiger Millionaire]

Michael Hayes going off about how the NWA was approved by the state athletic commissions and how they really are hitting each other at one of the early Clashes.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Survivor Series 1998 had a JR/Lawler exchange during the finals of the Deadly Games tournament where JR promised they would stay with the Mankind vs. Rock finals until there is a winner. Lawler then said that you'll get to see all of this show. JR then retorts that King should not make fun of the less fortunate.

Did I mention this was the first WWF PPV after Halloween Havoc 1998 where a sizeable portion of people who bought that PPV didn't get to see all of Goldberg vs. DDP?

[James Fabiano]

Feb 4, 2022 15:32:57 GMT -5 DSR said:

Dusty Rhodes really being named "Virgil" was supposed to be a dig at Michael Jones, aka Virgil.

I just ran this factoid through the Virgil History Filter and came up with this.