Ricky Jackson
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And a correction to my initial post, it was Leo's brother who worked as Bobby Kay in the Carolina's, not Leo
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Here's a Leo Burke playlist, including several videos from our own Matt D's channel. Lots of Puerto Rico https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2IINZIkUSU7LtHS0wSaOwI9akJaWh3WM&si=ZaP3U2LX3cDPsDPk
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Just saw this. Not a lot of footage to judge, at least as far as I know, but he was held in very high regard by a lot of folks, including Bret Hart. Worked extensively in his home area of the Maritimes, wrestling was the family business, and also Stampede of course. Looks like the Carolina's were his main US home (as Bobby Kay). Also helped train a lot of future wrestlers
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Is that tag really from 1/31/72 MSG or is it the Boston Garden match between the same teams from 1/22 that came out on Hidden Gems 5-6 years ago? Just wondering because I wasn't aware the 1/31 match was out there
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I just want Bruno to make the top 100
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Flair won't sniff #1 this time as well
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Wow, that's great
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The Wild Samoans had one of the great monster heel looks of all-time. Also perhaps the definitive "Albano team", with three separate runs as tag champs managed by him. Their best matches were as faces though, against the North South Connection in 1984 (oj recently raved about them in his WWF thread in the Microscope) RIP
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WWE TV - 6/17 - 6/21 - Owned By A Contraction. Again.
Ricky Jackson replied to Timbo Slice's topic in WWE
Hopefully not with something similar to when they did a death angle almost exactly 17 years ago -
Yeah, I've always been high on these matches, especially the first one. I've always found it hard to wrap my head around Hogan as a heel at this time. He basically looks the same as the superhero Hogan of the later 80s that I first encountered, so to my brain everything about him screams babyface. You can see why the fans would soon embrace him, because he's not really hateable in the way the top heels of the day were
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Sorry, I should've linked to the playlist tab to begin with https://m.youtube.com/@angou_toru_noritake/playlists
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Great work!
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Wow. Awesome. Thanks
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https://youtube.com/@angou_toru_noritake?si=ARziIMBYJAN5lsBs This is an amazing channel purely for the sheer amount of comprehensive playlists of old territories and old international wrestling that this person has put together. Practically a one stop shop for historical wrestling footage
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Was really impressed with Sonnenberg's performance in the Nagurski match. Definitely felt like I was warching someone who was very good at the pro wrestling
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Ok, shameless plug for my oldest friend Travis and acquaintance Max Mitchell, majority owner, for their Vancouver area indy promotion, Boom! Pro Wrestling, which was the subject of the latest Jericho pod. Max and top heel Brady Malibu were on the show and I highly recommend it for their insights on booking a small independent promotion in a non-traditional way (old school storytelling mixed with comedy). Our own Johnny Sorrow even came up North last year and guest ring announced a show. Longtime PWO/PTBN fans may remember Travis and Max from the Lucha Afterground podcast Check it out!
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Had to check out at least Bryan vs Ospreay (watched Okada vs Pac and skimmed a few other bits) and yeah, it was great. Holy crap was it great
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That's one of the great things about this era, New York and Philly each have their own flavor. Dick and Kal, plus the camera work, which employed more close ups and ringside filming, gave the Spectrum shows a different vibe. MSG just feels important, like a game at Yankee Stadium. Vince solo isn't always great here, especially in the 70s, when he would just not talk for several minutes at a time. I think his best work from this time is actually his selling of big angles on the weekly TV. Another plus is you often get slightly different matchups at each arena, like the great Larry Z vs Putski feud in Philly
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I need to watch that one again. I've only seen it once, about 10 years ago. I rewatched the April Philly match recently and really liked it. I've also often wondered why there was such a gap between the first match and the Alley Fight in Philly (3 1/2 months). The Backlund main events on the May and June shows were nothing major (Mosca, Steele) and drew poorly, so it's not like they had a hot title program that couldn't wait and were intentionally saving the Alley Fight for later
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Ha, I've always said Earth 1 Hogan starts when he goes exclusively to yellow trunks. The last non-yellow trunks Hogan on tape I'm aware of was vs Race @ MSG, June of 87. Maybe the first Survivor Series is the beginning of Earth 1 WWF? Then you could explain the nonsensical teammate issues (Steamer w. Savage and Roberts, Hogan w. Orndorff) as not mattering because they only feuded on Earth 2
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Comments that don't warrant a thread - Part 4
Ricky Jackson replied to TravJ1979's topic in Pro Wrestling
Scan of hard to find and expensive Gary Hart bio from Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/my-life-in-wrestling-by-gary-hart-2009/mode/1up -
Awesome. While I love the 80s, the 70s is probably my favorite wrestling decade as far as pure enjoyment goes, and has always been criminally under-discussed. Looking forward to your reviews
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Colt ep was good and very informative. Feels like they barely scratched the surface though. Someone needs to write a biography on him someday
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This is going to be the first ep I watch in a very long time. Colt's life story is as fascinating as any wrestler ever, but he's totally unknown because he mostly stuck to the fringes over the years
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Oh yes. I just meant that the chase formula worked for many territories, not as week-to-week booking of course, but for multiple big shows per year (the # varried from territory to territory)