ButchReedMark

The Saturday afternoon slot went from being just Joint Promotions to being shared between Joint/All Star and WWF in (I'm guessing here, I'm sure Lister can correct me) maybe 1987. The link above has an example of a card.

ITV. On Saturday afternoons networked, and also early hours of the morning on several regions for quite a while until they started showing WCW tapes instead but still called it Superstars of Wrestling in TV listings for some reason. I don't think it was ever superstars they shown over here anyway though in the late night slots, but Wrestling Challenge. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-n83iG6F1Q

(What I assume to be) WWF was on Sky as early as 1984.

Not nearly true. The Daily Star gives it a full page once a week. I think on a Friday. The bloke who compiles it is also a pundit on the fucking shocking WrestleTalk TV.

I'd agree with that. He always seemed far more over with WCW crowds to me. Certainly as regards getting a reaction as a babyface.

I think that's some unfair speculation, to be honest. We're not in a position here to guess whether people tried to help or not or anything, and personally I'd rather people didn't speculate.

It was a trollface at the time. I've just turned off all avatars.

For some reason JvK's avatar makes my screen freeze whenever I scroll to it/past it. Can this be rectified please?

It was just talked about on TalkSport's radio commentary for the Celtic vs Juventus football match here in the UK.

Not if it was continued to be booked like it was at the start!

I go on message boards for something to do in order to kill time. Just throwing that out there for reason 5.

It was Juvi. He went over too.

Great idea, but is there a way the Ted DiBiase stuff can be kept to the Ted DiBiase thread? I'm sick to death of reading about fucking Ted DiBiase in every thread (I'm looking at you, Jerry).

Cruise/Dusty and Lance/Freebirds for me. There's an episode or two of Prime where Bisch replaces Cruise and so it's not half as fun for Dusty so he's not as brilliant as he normally is. And Lance and the Birds on The Pro are just the funniest team ever, with the greatest chemistry. I never thought Jim Garvin would be so fun until I heard that team.

I agree with Jimmy Del Ray. He surely wins this at a canter?

No, he turned heel and was teaming with Lance Storm as part of Team Canada from about December of 2000.

Gallows is, Masters is to CMLL I think.

Dunno John, I thought Daniel Bryan did a decent job of it in All Star.

Yeah, '95 Prime is superfun. Plenty of the Lightening Express and Slater/Buck.

Yeah, Steve Keirn wearing a golden sequined tux while resembling my grandfather wasn't great, but I suppose it gave Bobby Eaton something to do for a month or two. I don't remember much of them quality wise, how much cop were they as a team?

Really? I absolutely loved Bunkhouse Buck. I thought his matches with Dustin were good value.

If it was Eddie Waring, at least a dog didn't jump in the ring and he spent the entire match going on about the dog. Reg Gutteridge was someone who I thought may well have done it, to be honest. I don't know if that's because I've read it somewhere, or it just made sense in my mind. I wonder if there's any of the 1965 recordings anywhere? Do we know what BBC region produced them?

Any clue on who did the announcing for it? Was it someone from the Kenneth Wolstenholme school of BBC sports commentary or was it someone from a wrestling background?

Have any of the BBC matches survived, or did they fall foul of the wiping policy?

From what I remember as I watched WCW 1998 some time ago, it was really all about "swerve", and no good reason was ever given, and really nothing came out of it. One of the most illogical and worthless nWo turn of the bunch, but they thought they that had to keep the angle "fresh" with new people at this point. Yeah that was the real reason obviously. On screen Dusty briefly said he was sick of the "Yes men in the back." And he was back out of the nWo by the end of the year anyway after IIRC screwing Barry Windham (was he in the nWo or not? Or was it a weird Bret Hart associate member thing?) in a match against Dean Malenko that he refereed because "DUSTY RHODES STANDS FOR TRADITION!" as Schiavone reminded us all.