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Post by buckethead on Dec 22, 2023 20:58:33 GMT -5
My original username here was UWF circa 1986 Yeah that was great.. briefly. In my area of California we only got their TV program for a short period of time. Went off out of the blue and then they went under. They had the potential to give the big 3 a run for their money. Too bad it couldn't turn out differently. |
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Post by jason1980s on Dec 22, 2023 22:40:30 GMT -5
Some notable highlights from two March 1984 episodes: - Duggan beats Masao Ito with a flying tackle that Jim Ross calls a “spear”. The Russians run back out to murder Duggan and Ito helps, as Jim Ross repeatedly calls him “The Japanese” and Boyd constantly pronounces his name “Doogan” before Magnum TA and Rock and Roll Express make the save. I'm not sure if it was a PPV or a Clash but one of the funniest things in JCP/NWA was hearing JR say "The Japanese have attacked Flair!" And in typical JR fashion he said it two or three times. I'm always surprised the people who say Duggan as "Doogan," didn't Watts call him that? Were they going for that to be the way his name was said? Like how would they not know the correct way unless their pronunciation was intentional. |
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Post by booty on Dec 22, 2023 23:07:15 GMT -5
- Watts goes to Junkyard Dog’s ranch to ask JYD for help, and Dog instead suggests his buddy- the masked Stagger Lee. The reveal of the masked stagger Lee was one of those early moments that hooked me into the insanity of 84-86 mid-south/mid-antlantic. The entire babydoll/tully/dusty rhodes feud is peak bollacks pro wrestling. |
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Dec 24, 2023 16:35:37 GMT -5
- There’s a new color guy with Boyd Pierce and Boyd talks about how wonderful and amazing he is, and I played it back and I don’t believe he *ever* said what his name was. This guy named Mark Ragin comes out with cowboy gear to kill a jobber and dances to Thriller, which the new guy thinks is Billie Jean. Then the sound team actually plays Billie Jean and he takes off his jacket and he’s nicknamed “The Thriller”. Ooooookay then.
- Do NOT mess with the Rock and Roll Express’s entrance gear. The Mr Wrestlings ripped up their vests and they had to run for their lives. They have a match where Magnum TA tries to give Mr. Wrestling II a hurricanrana and he nearly breaks the dude’s neck, so then II just legit snugs and beats Magnum’s ass before Rock and Roll run back out.
- Volkoff and Steve Williams decided to put on a Dynamite match. Like damn, they packed a lot into three minutes. This would get MEAT chats from 2023 crowds.
- I don’t think they explained yet if Butch Reed had been reading Lenin or something, but he’s really close to the Russians now and they apparently want to cut Duggan’s hair off. Williams and Taylor make the save and the bad guys mostly just smear a buttload of shaving cream on him. Hacksaw stomps around triumphantly and the crowd is going nuts, I figure because now he looks like a big goofy snowman.
- Oh my god, this Superdome show ad. The Rock and Roll Express magically teleport onto a yellow car and they point at you. Who, me? No, only females 18 or older are eligible to go on a date with the Express. JR says to say into 25 words or less why I should go
to dinner and win a t-shirt from Ricky and Robert and send them my pictures to their offices in Bixby, OK. Ooh, I get hotel accommodations? Wait, what are these effects? Why is the ring turning pink? That doesn’t look “romantic”, Mid-South, it looks like the ring is radioactive!
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Dec 24, 2023 16:54:46 GMT -5
This Sonny King and Butch Reed angle where Sonny is racially offended by how Butch and Landell tarred and feathered JYD is cringey as hell but I’m mostly distracted by two things: Butch’s creepy Giant Gonzales looking shirt with muscles on the front and back, and how they awkwardly cut to commercial- because I’m pretty sure Butch said something that might have resulted in some angry phone calls from parents. “LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING SOMETHING SONNY! AND I’LL TELL YOU ONE THING, YOU- “
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