BigBadZ
Grimlock
The Rumors Are All True
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Post by BigBadZ on Feb 1, 2007 21:53:20 GMT -5
featuring a very oiled up Ahmed Johnson Thats the truth, I remember after an arm wrestling match between Ahmed and British Bulldog, they started fighting and Bulldog set up a table in the corner and threw Ahmed into it. There was a huge oil print from where Ahmed hit the table. I remember it being one of sickest things ever. I also remember this... Ahmed was a very very very shiney individual
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Post by dvy on Feb 1, 2007 22:09:08 GMT -5
march 1990: Ultimate Warrior saving Hogan from Earthqauke/Bravo leading up to WM6.
first full match a week or two later,Demolition annihilating some poor jobbers
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Daveman
Don Corleone
And if this were my career, I'd have to throw myself in front of a train.
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Post by Daveman on Feb 1, 2007 22:10:49 GMT -5
The Ultimate Warrior, the Blue Blazer, Jim Brunzell, Sam Houston, and Brutus Beefcake vs. the Honkytonk Man, Greg Valentine, Ron Bass, Bad News Brown, and Danny Davis from Survivor Series 1988.
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Post by Funkyjumbo on Feb 1, 2007 22:32:47 GMT -5
Saturday afternoon in Th U.K used to do World of Sport. They used to Showcase Big daddy, Giant Haystacks, Pat Roach and Kendo Nagasaki to name a few. (this is quite a few years back, not saying how many though ) They did however do imports from across the pond and the first "WWF" I saw was The British Bulldogs vs The Bolsheviks for the first time blew us away with the size, physiques and the moves done really got the WOW factor. After that it was hook up a satellite and been a fan ever since.
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Post by mothman on Feb 1, 2007 22:35:03 GMT -5
Late 80's, Road Warriors vs. Sky Scrapers.
Don't remember much( I was 2 or 3), exept that it ended with Hawk and Animal taking quite a few NASTY unprotected chairshots.
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Post by joeman on Feb 1, 2007 22:36:52 GMT -5
Piper's pit in 1989, though for some reason I always remember the Von Erich vs Mr Perfect fued.
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Hiroshi Hase
Patti Mayonnaise
The Good Ol' Days
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Post by Hiroshi Hase on Feb 1, 2007 22:39:11 GMT -5
I think it might've been the Savage/Steamboat match from Superstars in November 1986 where Steamboat gets the throat injury and later on in the program Savage provokes Sanmartino, who did play-by-play (horribly might I add) and got taken down, I was 6 but I can remember it somewhat.
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Post by Ravishing Rob Rude on Feb 1, 2007 22:39:50 GMT -5
Hulk Hogan Vs The Iron Sheak for the WWF title
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Post by shockthaworld2 on Feb 1, 2007 22:42:57 GMT -5
Wildcat Wendell Cooley -vs- Lord Humongous, Continental Wrestling Federation, about 1987
as for first match seeing live....i think it was Rey Mysterio Jr. -vs- Prince Iukea from the very first WCW Uncensord
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Post by atomocomix on Feb 1, 2007 22:43:19 GMT -5
..I'm going to hit the way-back-button here and say that it was a match between JYD and some jobber on Wrestling Superstars. I just remember my dad yelling at JYD (at the television screen) "he's attacking him like a dog, just look at 'im, haw, haw, haw". Then I remember eating a WWF ice cream bar with JYD on it. Times were good back then, and I swear I had a million heart attacks watching SNME back in the day (namely the Bundy/Hogan steel cage match).
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Albino Heat
Don Corleone
You're a nasty bastard, and your momma said so!!
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Post by Albino Heat on Feb 1, 2007 22:49:49 GMT -5
It was Terry Gordy vs Bam Bam Bigelow in the battle of the Bam Bams. I think it was in the GWF, but I was like 7, so I don't remember for sure.
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Rick Mad
Grimlock
Rick Mad Champion
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Post by Rick Mad on Feb 1, 2007 23:23:30 GMT -5
Kevin Nash vs Rey Mysterio on Nitro where Mysterio won.
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crup
Bubba Ho-Tep
The Loose Cannon
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Post by crup on Feb 1, 2007 23:25:17 GMT -5
Mr. Wonderful vs. Ron Simmons for the WCW television title......Ron used the brass knucks that were thrown into the ring and they used the classic "Dusty" finish......I was crushed when they reversed the decision.
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Post by Hemmeorrhage on Feb 1, 2007 23:39:21 GMT -5
The Great Kabuki vs. Ted Dibiase or Mike George from Mid South Wrestling. Mid-South was an instantaneous addiction for a kid especially when Kabuki used the mysterious green mist to get a victory. I remember being so appalled that a man would have the audacity to cheat on Television in front of millions(more like thousands) of viewers. That match was followed by a six man tag match where the heals would cheat blantly behind the referees back. I was into all kind of sports as a kid and they constantly preached good sportsmanship. I was going nuts yelling at my dad, "look at them cheating. I can't believe it!!" My dad 's response was "Son, all that stuff is fake". I remember that being the first time I thought my dad was not really a smart man. Fake? He just dropped a knee across that man's forehead. How could that be fake. Dad is stupid.
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sebulba
Team Rocket
Glass ceiling?!! What glass ceiling?
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Post by sebulba on Feb 2, 2007 6:14:20 GMT -5
For me it was a match between Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage in 1980 - something. I was in a pub one Saturday afternoon and the owner had satellite TV on. Hogan entered the match with his ribs taped Hogan suddenly 'hulked up', did the big boot, legdrop of doom and got the one, two, three. Having been force-fed World of Sport Wrestling all my life, I had never seen anything like this before and I was hooked thereafter. Unfortunately, Hogan then went on repeating the same hugging match for the next twenty years!
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Post by undertakerfan4life on Feb 2, 2007 6:24:08 GMT -5
bret vs Lawler somewhere in 94
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Post by Nickie James on Feb 2, 2007 7:31:50 GMT -5
First match I remember seeing from bell to bell is the Rhyno vs. John Cena match on SmackDown! where the loser would eat soap. Paul Heyman was still in charge back then. *sigh* But since I was a mark back then, I loved it when Benoit put Heyman in the Sharpshooter and Cena was saying all these lines to Paul and feeding him some Ivory.
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Post by SparkyPlugg on Feb 2, 2007 7:34:16 GMT -5
Jake Roberts vs some jobber on Superstars in 1991
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Post by Loki on Feb 2, 2007 9:15:20 GMT -5
I can't pinpoint ONE match, but my earliest memories of wrestling are of Inoki, Fujinami, Kimura, Saito (and other Japanese guys I can't remember by name atm). And The Fabulous (?) Hulk Hogan: heel with cape and REAL HAIR!
Really long matches between those Japs ;D
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Post by Hassan bin Sober on Feb 2, 2007 9:28:10 GMT -5
Some WCW match that had either Arachniman or Rey Mysterio in it. When I actually got into wrestling I figured it must have been Mysterio but later learned of Arachniman so it may of been him. I just remembered it was a guy that looked like Spider-man.
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