masterblaster72 0 #1 May 11, 2007 For a few years when I was a kid I used to watch WWF, NWA, UWF professional wrestling, both on TV and live. Who are some of your favorites from back in the day? Some of mine Jake the Snake Roberts Ronnie Garvin Rowdy Roddy Piper Road Warriors British Bulldogs Ricky the Dragon Steamboat Randy Macho Man Savage One Man Gang The Hart Foundation Junkyard Dog Hillbilly Jim George The Animal Steele And favorite matches? Mine was Road Warriors vs. Midnight Express, steel cage match in Civic Center, Philly. Be humble, ask questions, listen, learn, follow the golden rule, talk when necessary, and know when to shut the fuck up. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bozo 0 #2 May 11, 2007 QuoteFor a few years when I was a kid I used to watch WWF, NWA, UWF professional wrestling, both on TV and live. Who are some of your favorites from back in the day? ] Sgt Slaughter. bozo Pain is fleeting. Glory lasts forever. Chicks dig scars. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Thanatos340 1 #3 May 11, 2007 Mr. Wrestling #2 Dusty Rodes Supa Fly Jimmy Snukka Andre the Giant Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites 2fat2fly 0 #4 May 11, 2007 Johnny Weaver BlackJack Mulligan Baron Von Raschke Johnny Valentine Wahoo McDaniels Austin Idol Tim Woods The Freebirds The list goes onI am not the man. But the man knows my name...and he's worried Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites GARYC24 3 #5 May 11, 2007 Tojo Yamamoto Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites raftman 12 #6 May 11, 2007 Ya'll forgot the Von Erichs: Fritz Kevin David Kerry Chris Mike Etc........ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites SpecialKaye 0 #7 May 11, 2007 what about the Bushwhackers and the Nasty Boyz? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites bozo 0 #8 May 11, 2007 Quotewhat about the Bushwhackers and the Nasty Boyz? And the greatest of them all GORGEOUS GEORGE ! bozo Pain is fleeting. Glory lasts forever. Chicks dig scars. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites arlo 0 #9 May 11, 2007 god i can't believe i'm doing this. i can remember watching mid-atlantic championship wrestling. i actually went to a wrestling match as a kid and remember crying because my favorite - ricky steamboat - was "bleeding from his head" because ric flair kicked his ass. hell, i was in the 5th grade. i had no idea that shit was fake...and i had a crush on rikki steamboat. might've been those almond eyes. dude i was seriously upset about that. remember barron von roski (sp?) he was such a mean mean man. wahoo mcdaniel was cool. amazing how real it all seems when you're a kid... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites f1freak 0 #10 May 11, 2007 HAHAHAHAHA.... No i guess i must be WAY old school.... I had the AWA and that was it... We had Vern and Greg Gagne Mad Dog Vachone The Claw Rock n Roll Buck Zumhoff The Sheik Bobby the brain Henin (Wesil) Oh the day......HAVE FUN... ...JUST DONT DIE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Lindercles 0 #11 May 11, 2007 Remember when all it took to be a professional wrestler was a complete lack of modesty? When you could be a fat, bald guy but as long as you didn't mind wearing nothing but a speedo and walking around with a giant bone, or a 2X4, or wearing a turban on your head, you could be a star? Ah, the good old days. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites PLFKING 3 #12 May 11, 2007 Why is one crease proportionately shorter than the others ? Are assholes left- or right-handed ? Don"When in doubt I whip it out, I got me a rock-and-roll band. It's a free-for-all." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Lindercles 0 #13 May 11, 2007 I wondered the same thing. Unfortunately the one person who knows the answer ain't talkin'. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites popsjumper 2 #14 May 11, 2007 Funny you should mention Ronnie Garvin . I went to high school with him. Also out of, or passing through, that school was: Mike Gossett (Mike Graham) Terry Bollea (Hulk Hogan) Richard Slater (Dirty Dick Slater)My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites towerrat 0 #15 May 11, 2007 Holy crap!!!! We used to go watch wrestling in the armory on saturday nights. what about Kevin Sullivan or Sweet Brown Sugar, Did any of you guys have Gordon Solly (SP?) as the announcer? OHH YEAH DUST RHODES THE AMERICAN DREAM BABY!!!! He was my freakin' HERO! Play stupid games, win stupid prizes! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites denete 2 #16 May 12, 2007 I think you are thinking of Pak Song (not the claw). He did use "the claw" to submit his opponents. I grew up with WTCG Channel 17 and Gordon Solie calling the matches on Georgia Championship Wrestling. My favorites: Bob Armstrong Tony Atlas Mr. Wrestling II Ole, Gene, and Lars Anderson Dusty Rhodes Abdulah the Butcher Pak Song Andre the Giant ...and more... "Don't miss it, beeeee there!"SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites The_Don 0 #17 May 12, 2007 Quote HAHAHAHAHA.... No i guess i must be WAY old school.... I had the AWA and that was it... We had Vern and Greg Gagne Mad Dog Vachone The Claw Rock n Roll Buck Zumhoff The Sheik Bobby the brain Henin (Wesil) Oh the day...... You must be as old as I am..How about Pomparo Furpo & Haystacks Calhoun ?I am NOT being loud. I'm being enthusiastic! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites denete 2 #18 May 12, 2007 QuoteThe Sheik I remember the Sheik. He used to have a snake or something, and then would pull out stuff that looked like walnut shellers and stick them in wrestler's noses. Crazy guy.SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites SansSuit 1 #19 May 12, 2007 Red Bastien Hercules Cortez and of course, who can forget the favorite TV opponent, George "Scrap Iron" Gadaski. Did he ever win a match?Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites aprilcat 0 #20 May 12, 2007 Quote Quote HAHAHAHAHA.... No i guess i must be WAY old school.... I had the AWA and that was it... We had Vern and Greg Gagne Mad Dog Vachone The Claw Rock n Roll Buck Zumhoff The Sheik Bobby the brain Henin (Wesil) Oh the day...... You must be as old as I am..How about Pomparo Furpo & Haystacks Calhoun ? Okay..I won't say I was THERE but I remember this babysitter who was older than my mom showing me some film on the Sheik...and Chief Strongbow..Ivan the (???)t and some REAL weirdo named the ___ Butcher. Lou 'who you callin' a crackhead' Abino, Andre the Giant..eww...all those guys wore ONE-SIES...not speedos..it was gross AND fun...~~April Camelot II, the Electric Boogaloo! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites BillyVance 34 #21 May 12, 2007 Quote I grew up with WTCG Channel 17 and Gordon Solie calling the matches on Georgia Championship Wrestling. My favorites: Bob Armstrong Tony Atlas Mr. Wrestling II Ole, Gene, and Lars Anderson Dusty Rhodes Abdulah the Butcher Pak Song Andre the Giant ...and more... "Don't miss it, beeeee there!" I grew up watching Georgia Championship Wrestling with Gordon Solie too! That later became WCW out of Atlanta. I also watched some of WWF in the old days when Hulk Hogan won his first title against The Iron Shiek (who I recently ran into on my plane last year, man is his body all beat up after all those years! ) Ric Flair (can you believe he's STILL wrestling???) Gene and Arn Anderson Tully Blanchard Dusty Rhodes Bob Armstrong and his 3 sons Austin Idol (man his arms were HUGE) Sid Vicious (he was a crazy sonofabitch!) Larry Zbyszko (sp?) The Rock n Roll Express Road Warriors (Legion of Doom) Jeff Jarrett Harley Race Sting Jerry Lawler Jesse Ventura (former Minn Gov) Anybody remember that asshole Jimmy Cornette? He now runs TNA Impact. I once shared a plane with George "The Animal" Steele, Brad Rheingans and Tony Roma. That George was a real character. Nobody was sitting in the seat in front of him so he pushed the seatback down to a horizontal position and stretched his leg out on it. It wasn't long before the flight attendant asked him to not do that. Ah... the good old days. Pro Wrestling today is a totally different animal now. Now it is more spectacular and the wrestlers are doing more crazy things than they used to, but there's also too much fluff and stupid crap, but hell, WWE sells out every damn arena they show up in, and Monday Night Raw has ruled the cable ratings for 20+ years. I did watch the first three Wrestlemanias on PPV at the local arena. This was before PPV became available at home. Anybody remember Hulk Hogan becoming the only wrestler to ever body slam Andre the Giant? Also Mr T's boxing match vs Rowdy Roddy Piper?"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites popsjumper 2 #22 May 12, 2007 Quote ...We used to go watch wrestling in the armory on saturday nights. Obviously Tampa...Gordon Solly was a hoot. Eddie Graham promoted most of those matches nad participated in most of them. Back in the day, way before your time, we had The Badinoff Brothers Kurt and Karl Von Braun who's "manager" always got into the act by distracting the ref or tripping somebody with his cane or some sort of thing. God I can't even remember most of them. Saturday afternoon they all wrestled at Tampa's old Sportatotium ($1 at the door) and the Boys Club would take a bus load of us kids over to watch every week. One time this guy threw Eddie Graham (my hero) out of the ring and jumped down to hit him while he was down...I jumped out of my seat, ran up and punched the guy in the nuts...then ran like a banshee. I was banned by the Boys Club for 2 weeks. My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites drae 0 #23 May 12, 2007 Quote Obviously Tampa...Gordon Solly was a hoot. Yes he was!! I remember the look on his face when one of the wrestlers "choked" him. And you must remember The Great Molenko, The Brisco Brothers (Jack and Jerry) and the Funks ( one was Terry and the other was Bob...I think) And there were masks everywhere! Those were the days. My brother beat me up many times in the name of Jack Brisco...he always told me what hold he had me in! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites popsjumper 2 #24 May 12, 2007 Yes, I remember all those guys...Solly was one bug-eyed sucker, eh? Other names tha came to mind: Fort Homer Hesterly Armory "Cowboy" Luttrall Duke Keomuka (sp?) The Von Stoheims (sp?) (Something) Steamboat...Sam, I think.My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites yjumpinoz 0 #25 May 12, 2007 Bull dog Bob Brown...He really looked like a bull dog. Who was the Iranian that swung the clubs before the match? 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Thanatos340 1 #3 May 11, 2007 Mr. Wrestling #2 Dusty Rodes Supa Fly Jimmy Snukka Andre the Giant Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
2fat2fly 0 #4 May 11, 2007 Johnny Weaver BlackJack Mulligan Baron Von Raschke Johnny Valentine Wahoo McDaniels Austin Idol Tim Woods The Freebirds The list goes onI am not the man. But the man knows my name...and he's worried Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
raftman 12 #6 May 11, 2007 Ya'll forgot the Von Erichs: Fritz Kevin David Kerry Chris Mike Etc........ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SpecialKaye 0 #7 May 11, 2007 what about the Bushwhackers and the Nasty Boyz? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bozo 0 #8 May 11, 2007 Quotewhat about the Bushwhackers and the Nasty Boyz? And the greatest of them all GORGEOUS GEORGE ! bozo Pain is fleeting. Glory lasts forever. Chicks dig scars. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arlo 0 #9 May 11, 2007 god i can't believe i'm doing this. i can remember watching mid-atlantic championship wrestling. i actually went to a wrestling match as a kid and remember crying because my favorite - ricky steamboat - was "bleeding from his head" because ric flair kicked his ass. hell, i was in the 5th grade. i had no idea that shit was fake...and i had a crush on rikki steamboat. might've been those almond eyes. dude i was seriously upset about that. remember barron von roski (sp?) he was such a mean mean man. wahoo mcdaniel was cool. amazing how real it all seems when you're a kid... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
f1freak 0 #10 May 11, 2007 HAHAHAHAHA.... No i guess i must be WAY old school.... I had the AWA and that was it... We had Vern and Greg Gagne Mad Dog Vachone The Claw Rock n Roll Buck Zumhoff The Sheik Bobby the brain Henin (Wesil) Oh the day......HAVE FUN... ...JUST DONT DIE Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lindercles 0 #11 May 11, 2007 Remember when all it took to be a professional wrestler was a complete lack of modesty? When you could be a fat, bald guy but as long as you didn't mind wearing nothing but a speedo and walking around with a giant bone, or a 2X4, or wearing a turban on your head, you could be a star? Ah, the good old days. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PLFKING 3 #12 May 11, 2007 Why is one crease proportionately shorter than the others ? Are assholes left- or right-handed ? Don"When in doubt I whip it out, I got me a rock-and-roll band. It's a free-for-all." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lindercles 0 #13 May 11, 2007 I wondered the same thing. Unfortunately the one person who knows the answer ain't talkin'. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #14 May 11, 2007 Funny you should mention Ronnie Garvin . I went to high school with him. Also out of, or passing through, that school was: Mike Gossett (Mike Graham) Terry Bollea (Hulk Hogan) Richard Slater (Dirty Dick Slater)My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
towerrat 0 #15 May 11, 2007 Holy crap!!!! We used to go watch wrestling in the armory on saturday nights. what about Kevin Sullivan or Sweet Brown Sugar, Did any of you guys have Gordon Solly (SP?) as the announcer? OHH YEAH DUST RHODES THE AMERICAN DREAM BABY!!!! He was my freakin' HERO! Play stupid games, win stupid prizes! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
denete 2 #16 May 12, 2007 I think you are thinking of Pak Song (not the claw). He did use "the claw" to submit his opponents. I grew up with WTCG Channel 17 and Gordon Solie calling the matches on Georgia Championship Wrestling. My favorites: Bob Armstrong Tony Atlas Mr. Wrestling II Ole, Gene, and Lars Anderson Dusty Rhodes Abdulah the Butcher Pak Song Andre the Giant ...and more... "Don't miss it, beeeee there!"SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The_Don 0 #17 May 12, 2007 Quote HAHAHAHAHA.... No i guess i must be WAY old school.... I had the AWA and that was it... We had Vern and Greg Gagne Mad Dog Vachone The Claw Rock n Roll Buck Zumhoff The Sheik Bobby the brain Henin (Wesil) Oh the day...... You must be as old as I am..How about Pomparo Furpo & Haystacks Calhoun ?I am NOT being loud. I'm being enthusiastic! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
denete 2 #18 May 12, 2007 QuoteThe Sheik I remember the Sheik. He used to have a snake or something, and then would pull out stuff that looked like walnut shellers and stick them in wrestler's noses. Crazy guy.SCR #14809 "our attitude is the thing most capable of keeping us safe" (look, grab, look, grab, peel, punch, punch, arch) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SansSuit 1 #19 May 12, 2007 Red Bastien Hercules Cortez and of course, who can forget the favorite TV opponent, George "Scrap Iron" Gadaski. Did he ever win a match?Peace, -Dawson. http://www.SansSuit.com The Society for the Advancement of Naked Skydiving Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aprilcat 0 #20 May 12, 2007 Quote Quote HAHAHAHAHA.... No i guess i must be WAY old school.... I had the AWA and that was it... We had Vern and Greg Gagne Mad Dog Vachone The Claw Rock n Roll Buck Zumhoff The Sheik Bobby the brain Henin (Wesil) Oh the day...... You must be as old as I am..How about Pomparo Furpo & Haystacks Calhoun ? Okay..I won't say I was THERE but I remember this babysitter who was older than my mom showing me some film on the Sheik...and Chief Strongbow..Ivan the (???)t and some REAL weirdo named the ___ Butcher. Lou 'who you callin' a crackhead' Abino, Andre the Giant..eww...all those guys wore ONE-SIES...not speedos..it was gross AND fun...~~April Camelot II, the Electric Boogaloo! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 34 #21 May 12, 2007 Quote I grew up with WTCG Channel 17 and Gordon Solie calling the matches on Georgia Championship Wrestling. My favorites: Bob Armstrong Tony Atlas Mr. Wrestling II Ole, Gene, and Lars Anderson Dusty Rhodes Abdulah the Butcher Pak Song Andre the Giant ...and more... "Don't miss it, beeeee there!" I grew up watching Georgia Championship Wrestling with Gordon Solie too! That later became WCW out of Atlanta. I also watched some of WWF in the old days when Hulk Hogan won his first title against The Iron Shiek (who I recently ran into on my plane last year, man is his body all beat up after all those years! ) Ric Flair (can you believe he's STILL wrestling???) Gene and Arn Anderson Tully Blanchard Dusty Rhodes Bob Armstrong and his 3 sons Austin Idol (man his arms were HUGE) Sid Vicious (he was a crazy sonofabitch!) Larry Zbyszko (sp?) The Rock n Roll Express Road Warriors (Legion of Doom) Jeff Jarrett Harley Race Sting Jerry Lawler Jesse Ventura (former Minn Gov) Anybody remember that asshole Jimmy Cornette? He now runs TNA Impact. I once shared a plane with George "The Animal" Steele, Brad Rheingans and Tony Roma. That George was a real character. Nobody was sitting in the seat in front of him so he pushed the seatback down to a horizontal position and stretched his leg out on it. It wasn't long before the flight attendant asked him to not do that. Ah... the good old days. Pro Wrestling today is a totally different animal now. Now it is more spectacular and the wrestlers are doing more crazy things than they used to, but there's also too much fluff and stupid crap, but hell, WWE sells out every damn arena they show up in, and Monday Night Raw has ruled the cable ratings for 20+ years. I did watch the first three Wrestlemanias on PPV at the local arena. This was before PPV became available at home. Anybody remember Hulk Hogan becoming the only wrestler to ever body slam Andre the Giant? Also Mr T's boxing match vs Rowdy Roddy Piper?"Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #22 May 12, 2007 Quote ...We used to go watch wrestling in the armory on saturday nights. Obviously Tampa...Gordon Solly was a hoot. Eddie Graham promoted most of those matches nad participated in most of them. Back in the day, way before your time, we had The Badinoff Brothers Kurt and Karl Von Braun who's "manager" always got into the act by distracting the ref or tripping somebody with his cane or some sort of thing. God I can't even remember most of them. Saturday afternoon they all wrestled at Tampa's old Sportatotium ($1 at the door) and the Boys Club would take a bus load of us kids over to watch every week. One time this guy threw Eddie Graham (my hero) out of the ring and jumped down to hit him while he was down...I jumped out of my seat, ran up and punched the guy in the nuts...then ran like a banshee. I was banned by the Boys Club for 2 weeks. My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
drae 0 #23 May 12, 2007 Quote Obviously Tampa...Gordon Solly was a hoot. Yes he was!! I remember the look on his face when one of the wrestlers "choked" him. And you must remember The Great Molenko, The Brisco Brothers (Jack and Jerry) and the Funks ( one was Terry and the other was Bob...I think) And there were masks everywhere! Those were the days. My brother beat me up many times in the name of Jack Brisco...he always told me what hold he had me in! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
popsjumper 2 #24 May 12, 2007 Yes, I remember all those guys...Solly was one bug-eyed sucker, eh? Other names tha came to mind: Fort Homer Hesterly Armory "Cowboy" Luttrall Duke Keomuka (sp?) The Von Stoheims (sp?) (Something) Steamboat...Sam, I think.My reality and yours are quite different. I think we're all Bozos on this bus. Falcon5232, SCS8170, SCSA353, POPS9398, DS239 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yjumpinoz 0 #25 May 12, 2007 Bull dog Bob Brown...He really looked like a bull dog. Who was the Iranian that swung the clubs before the match? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
