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Post by Joe Neglia on Dec 14, 2007 13:18:11 GMT -5
too bad about the cocaine, and chris adams staying a low life... I knew Chris. He was a good man, with a lot of demons. They weren't as widely circulated as, say, Jake Roberts' were, but they were there and they were major. He needed help, but there just wasn't anyone there to help him.
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Post by Cheeba on Dec 14, 2007 13:38:20 GMT -5
Man, these guys were THE heels of WCCW. Even moreso than the Freebirds. Every time you heard 'Bad to the Bone' playing, you know the boos were gonna start soon. Remember the angle where Adams was blinded? I still think of Adams & Hernadez when I hear Bad to the Bone. They were one of my favorite tag teams when I first started watching wrestling. I was so disappointed when they broke up, I pretty much stopped watching WCCW and moved on to WWE.
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Post by Dynamic Dude Johnny on Dec 16, 2007 8:19:55 GMT -5
Actually, the Gino/Tully feud was in Southwest Championship Wrestling, one of WCCW's main rivals. They were the Dynamic Duo, but Tully turned on Gino after a match. The feud went nowhere because, if memory serves, Gino bolted for World Class at that time.
If you get the "Wrestling Gold 5 disc set(Beat me if you can, the Maim Event, Busted Open,We Like To Hurt People and No More Mr Nice Guy) you get quite a few Gino Hernandez matches. you get a single match, two matches with Gino and Tully Blanchard as a tag team(including the one where they win the southwest tag title and get in to a fight after the match while arguing over who is beter after the match thus seting up thier fued) and a single match with Tully vs Gino as well. I dont know if all the Gino Hernandez stuff is on a single disc though. I highly recomend this set of dvds. they are inexpensive and have a ton of cool stuf(10 hours of footage on 5 disc). another highlight of the set is a match in Canada where Terry Funk loses the NWA world title to Harley Race. they aslo have some footage of a very very young Sean Michales from southwest championship wrestling.
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Post by Spankymac is sick of the swiss on Dec 16, 2007 13:15:12 GMT -5
Actually, the Gino/Tully feud was in Southwest Championship Wrestling, one of WCCW's main rivals. They were the Dynamic Duo, but Tully turned on Gino after a match. The feud went nowhere because, if memory serves, Gino bolted for World Class at that time. If you get the "Wrestling Gold 5 disc set(Beat me if you can, the Maim Event, Busted Open,We Like To Hurt People and No More Mr Nice Guy) you get quite a few Gino Hernandez matches. you get a single match, two matches with Gino and Tully Blanchard as a tag team(including the one where they win the southwest tag title and get in to a fight after the match while arguing over who is beter after the match thus seting up thier fued) and a single match with Tully vs Gino as well. I dont know if all the Gino Hernandez stuff is on a single disc though. I highly recomend this set of dvds. they are inexpensive and have a ton of cool stuf(10 hours of footage on 5 disc). another highlight of the set is a match in Canada where Terry Funk loses the NWA world title to Harley Race. they aslo have some footage of a very very young Sean Michales from southwest championship wrestling. Damn, now I feel like an idiot. I wasn't sure if it was in World Class, or one of their sister promotions.
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