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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Aug 25, 2013 1:04:11 GMT -5
A lot of newer fans I've talked to or at least the ones who never bother to look into the history of wrestling are convinced that hardcore wrestling began with ECW. Any fan of Puerto Rico, old school southern wrestling or any number of hotbeds for wrestling in the past knows better.
I was just thinking of this after watching a match with Dick the Bruiser, The Crusher and Little Bruiser (a little person wrestler) against Bobby Heenan and the Blackjacks. Although the match is not hardcore Heenan does a SICK blade job in it. One of the Blackjacks bleed too (I think mulligan). Also, despite having the comedy aspect of a little person wrestler a lot of the shots were really stiff.
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Post by britishbulldog on Aug 25, 2013 1:34:03 GMT -5
Piper/Valentine dog collar match.
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Post by "I'm Batman..." on Aug 25, 2013 1:44:16 GMT -5
Tupelo Concession Stand Brawl
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Post by turkeysandwich on Aug 25, 2013 2:22:09 GMT -5
There was a lot of crazy hardcore stuff in Memphis back in the day, which was always odd since Lawler made such a big deal over ECW being "Extremely Crappy Wrestling." There is a match from Memphis (I think) on one of the Wrestling Gold dvds where Randy Savage piledrives someone through a table with tons of blood and chairs and stuff getting thrown around circa 1982-83.
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Post by Young Game on Aug 25, 2013 2:28:06 GMT -5
Crisis Big Born Death Match.
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Post by turkeysandwich on Aug 25, 2013 3:06:00 GMT -5
There's this angle from 1988 in Continental between Dirty White Boy and Tom Pritchard that involves both domestic abuse and Pritchard being handcuffed and hanged by a noose: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9XZ-eEW8Fo[/url} |
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Post by Medicinal Thunder Liger on Aug 25, 2013 7:40:06 GMT -5
Crisis Big Born Death Match. YES! good god I haven't heard that one in YEARS. enjoy kids, if you think american death match wrestling is even slightly good this is gonna change your life. |
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Post by Medicinal Thunder Liger on Aug 25, 2013 7:40:54 GMT -5
There's this angle from 1988 in Continental between Dirty White Boy and Tom Pritchard that involves both domestic abuse and Pritchard being handcuffed and hanged by a noose: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9XZ-eEW8Fo[/url}sorry to double post, but this is also awesome. the DWB angle with his wife coming out with a "black eye" only to set up Dr. Tom is phenomenal. |
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Post by Gummydavidson on Aug 25, 2013 9:30:44 GMT -5
Watched Doom vs Arn Anderson & Barry Windham in a Street Fight recently and was shocked at how brutal it was.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Aug 25, 2013 18:50:04 GMT -5
Watched Doom vs Arn Anderson & Barry Windham in a Street Fight recently and was shocked at how brutal it was. One of my top 5 favorite matches. Sheepherders/Fantastics barb-wire matches in UWF |
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Post by dav on Aug 25, 2013 19:09:38 GMT -5
Wasn't there an empty arena match with Jerry Lawler and Terry Funk that got pretty brutal?
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Post by happhazzard on Aug 27, 2013 0:32:47 GMT -5
Lawler took some crazy bumps in the 70s, he fell all the way down the concrete steps in the MSC in one match, against Robert Fuller IIRC. Obviously there was the 2 famous Tupelo Concession Stand brawls, the various Moondog brawls with Lawler Jarrett and others, Eddie Gilbert running over Lawler, etc.
WWF had 2 pretty hardcore streetfight type matches in the early 80s, Patterson vs Slaughter, and Slaughter vs Iron Sheik.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Aug 27, 2013 0:45:07 GMT -5
Wasn't there an empty arena match with Jerry Lawler and Terry Funk that got pretty brutal? |
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Post by thegame415 on Aug 27, 2013 1:37:45 GMT -5
Crisis Big Born Death Match. YES! good god I haven't heard that one in YEARS. enjoy kids, if you think american death match wrestling is even slightly good this is gonna change your life. I found that match to be really bad. Too much stalling. I don't get the attraction to some hardcore wrestling. Don't get me wrong, I think certain matches can use it to help sell the heat of a feud. However, this match just didn't do anything for me. |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Aug 27, 2013 2:16:07 GMT -5
You're all insane. Ric Flair invented hardcore wrestling.
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Post by wildojinx on Aug 27, 2013 7:59:31 GMT -5
Check out some of the matches involving the moondogs in 1992 USWA. Just total brutality.
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Post by cabbageboy on Aug 27, 2013 9:36:04 GMT -5
Yeah I think the whole Moondogs vs. Lawler/Jarrett feud in 1992 era USWA was truly the modern beginning of hardcore garbage wrestling. As in not just some random brawl that got out of hand, or underground stuff, but a series of actual matches that set the stage for a lot of the craziness ECW later did. In fact between the USWA and Foley's wild antics in WCW (not to mention Wargames), the early 90s was far from the cartoon hour it has been made out to be.
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Post by Jimichiro Likes Erick Rowan on Aug 28, 2013 23:52:27 GMT -5
WWF had 2 pretty hardcore streetfight type matches in the early 80s, Patterson vs Slaughter, and Slaughter vs Iron Sheik. Exactly the matches I came in to say. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2013 7:44:13 GMT -5
Guess I'm the first to recall Jim Crockett Promotions staging "Bunkhouse Stampede tours" in the mid-'80s?
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Post by Medicinal Thunder Liger on Aug 31, 2013 8:37:22 GMT -5
Guess I'm the first to recall Jim Crockett Promotions staging "Bunkhouse Stampede tours" in the mid-'80s? THAT is a concept I'd like to see tried today. |
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