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Post by edgedge on Dec 31, 2010 17:06:34 GMT -5
Best 2-out-of-3 falls on the Ric Flair Definitive Collection (HELL of a match, BTW), and something stood out to me. Flair did a piledriver, and the commentator called it a "reverse head atomic drop".
Um...what?
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Post by Kash Flagg on Dec 31, 2010 17:09:14 GMT -5
Who was announcing? Some commentators back then just made shit up or like Bill Mercer, call most moves a "bodyslam".
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Post by edgedge on Dec 31, 2010 18:37:08 GMT -5
The DVD didn't say who was announcing, but the match took place in World Class, in August of 1982, so maybe somebody else knows?
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Post by lennon on Jan 1, 2011 3:38:51 GMT -5
Yeah, it's Bill Mercer.
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Post by TOK Hehe'd Around & Found Out on Jan 1, 2011 10:06:38 GMT -5
When I start wrestling, I'm going to call my piledriver the "Reverse Head Atomic Drop". It'll be over like gangbusters.
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Post by Sajoa Moe on Jan 1, 2011 10:56:04 GMT -5
When I start wrestling, I'm going to call my piledriver the "Reverse Head Atomic Drop". It'll be over like gangbusters. Call it the Gangbuster. I've never heard of anyone using that name. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 2, 2011 4:57:21 GMT -5
When I start wrestling, I'm going to call my piledriver the "Reverse Head Atomic Drop". It'll be over like gangbusters. Call it the Gangbuster. I've never heard of anyone using that name. It'd be a good name. Beats mine, "The Give-A-Damn Buster". |
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Post by johnnyk9 on Jan 2, 2011 9:43:07 GMT -5
You ever see their WWF match from Spain 1991 that was pretty good
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Post by thesam07 on Jan 2, 2011 10:42:48 GMT -5
My Dad told me that in World Championship Wrestling Australia, Haystacks Calhoun gave the lead announcer a "branbuster" which was a piledriver.
Also, in Larry Matysik's book about Sam Muchnick and St Louis, he talks about Joe Garagiola doing commentary for "Wrestling at the Chase" despite not knowing much about wrestling and so he'd just make up the names of the moves as he went along. During a match Johnny Valentine won with an elbow smash to an opponents head and Joe called it a "an arm-and-hammer baking soda elbow". The announcer said that Valentine was the winner "with a series of branbusters". To which Joe replied "Boy, Valentine must be a tough guy. Did you ever try to bust someones brain?"
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