khawk20

Just remember there is no wrong way to vote. Your favourites are youre favourites, period.

I've talked with Dan about the frustrations he has had otrying to get a lot of the Japanese vintage footage collectors to trade with him...and there is some really neat older stuff in some of those collections. Part of the problem is likely related to the previous discussions about bootlegging... those guys would be an older crowd, and would be extremely wary of trading the stuff they do have, especially to people outside of whatever trading communities that had to have been built over the decades. If older folks are that adamant about how evil bootlegging things is, I can see why they would not want to take a chance on being revealed as a bootlegger. It's got to be part of the problem, I think.

Ditto! I've been waiting for that book for some time...really looking forward to it.

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Agreed. I watched this match originally when it aired on MSG network and it rocked. You didn't get a vibe like that out of most WWF tag matches in that time frame (at least I didn't), so when the odd one struck you like that one did, you remembered it.

There was also his Texas All-Star run, which preceded the AWA as I recall.

It was a helluva time to be a wrestling fan and own a big c-band satellite dish. I couldn't keep up no matter how hard I tried. Not everything listed above was accessible via the big dish, but there was so much on there you didn't feel like you were missing anything even if you were.

Not for nothing but the Rockers vs. Rose and Somers was a good 6 months of matches around the horn. By the time the wrapped it up, I would imagine they could have "cruise-controlled" their matches.

I need to see this based on the bits I've read and heard about it.

Regaining the title from Dusty Rhodes with the Figure four stands out as one. I think he submitted Funk with it in their Clash I quit match, too. ..if there are only those two that I can think of, your point is indeed a good one.

Personal example: I was playing with my one-year-old grand-daughter recently. She had picked up a plastic stir-spoon and was carrying it around, and hit me with it. Got me right on the corner of my right eyebrow. It wasn't a hard blow, but it hit at *just* the right angle to split the brow and start it bleeding. A one-year-old using a plastic spoon to do that sort of damage is proof enough to me that it just takes hitting the right spot to start the blood flowing, and it certainly doesn't have to be a hard hit.

Where the Christ did you get this from? Big-time player in the early 70's. After his WWWF run where he beat Bruno he came to the AWA for a few years and main-evented with Verne, followed by a run tagging with Superstar Graham. He was a credible challenger back in the WWWF all the way through the 70's when Backlund was the champ. "Worst ever WWF Champ"? lol....

Forgot about that one...good catch.

Interesting. Werner Wolf says it was shot by their own crew's mini-cam, so that footage was seemingly not provided by the WWF.

Link, please...I did not know there were even clips of this around. The assumption is that *all* the MSG cards were filmed, but I don't recall an "unseen" show post-1980 coming out on the monthly WWE Classics on Demand Channel in as long as they have been around. I wish Bob Orton and Adrian Adonis had teamed up in the WWF circa 1981-82. I think they would have been amazing in that time frame.

1/18/82 is good enough to make you wish that Vince's vault would release the rematch from MSG one day (it has never aired or shown up in the trading circles). Adonsi getting that title shot is one of the things I loved about the territory era. Adonis was working the AWA with Jesse up until December of 1981, and was getting a MSG WWF title shot 6 weeks later. Building someone in one area while they were finishing up in another area...very cool. I really wish they had reformed the East-West Connection in the WWF outside of the odd match or two, especially after the pair had exhausted their singles challenges to the IC and World titles.

As noted, the AWA set has some good Adonis on it. He's long been a personal favourite. The list of available Adonis discs that I know of is actually pretty long including his AWA, Japan, and WWF material. Adonis is also I think an under-rated talker, which, when your first exposure to him was in a tag team with Jesse where Jesse did most of the talking, probably is not uncommon.