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Post by lildude8218 on Aug 7, 2013 1:22:25 GMT -5
Whare did you fine dis monsta?
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Aug 7, 2013 1:35:50 GMT -5
And now the heartthrob Chaz Taylor...and his morbidly obese brother. It actually reminds me of my brother and I
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Post by cabbageboy on Aug 7, 2013 13:37:34 GMT -5
Actually didn't they say that Tug Taylor is Chaz's dad instead of his brother?
Global was a fun cross section of wrestling in the early 90s. There are guys from WCCW or the UWF that are still hanging on, ultra indie bush league dudes, and future stars trying to get noticed by the WWF and WCW. I do find it odd that Jerry Lynn never got anywhere due to his GWF exposure while Lightning Kid did. It's almost amusing to watch Booker out there jobbing to Alex Porteau and Super Destroyer.
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Post by lovingway on Aug 7, 2013 14:03:45 GMT -5
Actually didn't they say that Tug Taylor is Chaz's dad instead of his brother? Global was a fun cross section of wrestling in the early 90s. There are guys from WCCW or the UWF that are still hanging on, ultra indie bush league dudes, and future stars trying to get noticed by the WWF and WCW. I do find it odd that Jerry Lynn never got anywhere due to his GWF exposure while Lightning Kid did. It's almost amusing to watch Booker out there jobbing to Alex Porteau and Super Destroyer. Yea Tugboat is his dad and Chaz actually still wrestles. I was amazed Lynn didn't get much of a push in GWF. He lost the torunament, vanished for a bit, came back to beat the kid, and then lost it to Barry Horowitz of all people
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Post by Young Game on Aug 7, 2013 14:20:12 GMT -5
I was amazed Lynn didn't get much of a push in GWF. He lost the torunament, vanished for a bit, came back to beat the kid, and then lost it to Barry Horowitz of all people That's Barry "The Winner" Horowitz.
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Post by cabbageboy on Aug 7, 2013 17:44:24 GMT -5
Yeah to be fair the whole "Winner" angle was awesome. I think that might be the angle I remembered most from Global.
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Aug 7, 2013 22:30:07 GMT -5
Actually didn't they say that Tug Taylor is Chaz's dad instead of his brother? Global was a fun cross section of wrestling in the early 90s. There are guys from WCCW or the UWF that are still hanging on, ultra indie bush league dudes, and future stars trying to get noticed by the WWF and WCW. I do find it odd that Jerry Lynn never got anywhere due to his GWF exposure while Lightning Kid did. It's almost amusing to watch Booker out there jobbing to Alex Porteau and Super Destroyer. Oh, that shows how much I've been paying attention to things. ESPN Classic is showing a bunch of eps again tonight in about half an hour. Probably a lot of the same as last night, I'm sure I'll watch them anyway.
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Post by andrew8798 on Aug 7, 2013 23:27:20 GMT -5
It looks like the "Legends" shows dip into some USWA Texas
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Post by lildude8218 on Aug 7, 2013 23:36:56 GMT -5
I just flipped over to this and have no idea what is going on
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2013 1:05:08 GMT -5
Ugh I want to see this bad...are these shows online anywhere?
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Post by mavsfan41 on Aug 9, 2013 16:33:21 GMT -5
man alot of the matches on these global shows are soooooo bad, i forgot how slow matches went in the early 90's in global lol
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Post by cabbageboy on Aug 9, 2013 17:31:12 GMT -5
Yeah the USWA popped up and that show was vastly superior to the Global dreck. I had Dundee and Embry brawling and beating the crap out of each other. Had some Jeff Jarrett and Eddie Gilbert action as well (and early Austin). That said, I NEVER liked the antiseptic TX USWA stuff as well as the grungy and gritty Memphis stuff. ESPN was so weak...anytime anyone did something remotely violent (chairs, chains, whatever) they cut to the crowd. It really ruins the flow. Regular USWA from Memphis could care less. Guys would get beaten with trash cans, bleed all over the place, and the TV stations didn't care.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2013 6:36:59 GMT -5
I just laughed and told my son (6-7 last night), "hey, wanna see Booker T from 1992?"
Then later, "Ah hahaha, JBL with a mullet!"
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Post by cabbageboy on Aug 11, 2013 22:13:29 GMT -5
Oh man. On one of these shows they actually aired the graphic "Jobber vs. Knapp." I couldn't believe it and then they came back from break and aired it AGAIN! By the time the actual match started (the jobber in question was Billy Steel or someone) I had tears flowing down my face from laughing so hard. It made my night. I'm never taking that episode off the DVR.
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Post by andrew8798 on Aug 11, 2013 23:56:21 GMT -5
It's back on at 10AM-8PM tommorow
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2013 9:49:22 GMT -5
The crowd shots are extremely annoying. They even show the same crowd shot during the replay of the finish! The native American guy grabbed a ladies purse to hit one of the Bad Breed and they cut to some random lady looking bored in the crowd! Thanks for sparing me that extreme display of violence!
Geez, Booker has jobbed in every show I have watched.
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Post by Slingshot Suplay on Aug 12, 2013 13:48:33 GMT -5
I remembered the north american title tournament which had guys like stan lane and Ax(is) of Demolition.
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Post by andrew8798 on Aug 13, 2013 0:32:01 GMT -5
The schedule for the rest of the week:
8/13 Tuesday is 7PM-2AM. 8/14 Wednesday is 5AM 8/15 Thursday is 3AM-6AM
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Post by andrew8798 on Aug 13, 2013 22:45:40 GMT -5
All repeats tonight
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Post by lildude8218 on Aug 13, 2013 22:51:44 GMT -5
Manny Fernandez's mom got him fired
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