Ricky Jackson
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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! -
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)
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I think "the money is in the chase" was a successful 60s-80s NWA territory hero challenging the champ formula, but obviously not the be-all-and-end-all, because the WWWF and AWA had big business with a dominant face champ at the same time (although both had success with heel champs too). It really comes down to the wrestlers and how over they are. When a wrestler is hugely over, you can draw with either a chase or a dominant run formula
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Admittedly I'm an Eagles fan, but looking at most metrics, it's really him and 2 or 3 other guys in the top tier, with not a ton separating them
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It's almost like Vince was detrimental to the booking of the product for the last several years of his reign
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I may even try to watch some of this stuff
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Comments that don't warrant a thread - Part 4
Ricky Jackson replied to TravJ1979's topic in Pro Wrestling
Go back even further to the early 70s and almost all the major territories were drawing huge. Many were doing stadium shows. Places like LA, SF, Detroit and Montreal that dropped off considerably in the late 70s were on fire. No doubt this was a hotter period than peak Hogan WWF for ticket sales (on average) and probably TV ratings too, but then the amount of true drawing cards was much greater and ignorance was bliss in many territories as far as not being outclassed by a more major league presentation on TV, like with cable in the 80s -
Yeah, you probably need to find the whole 6/79 MSG card to get the DeNucci match Man, that Strongbow Philly match is so special. I remember showing it to some friends who otherwise never watched any wrestling so old, and after not paying close attention at first, they slowly became riveted and by the end couldn't take their eyes off the screen
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Ronda Rousey with a lot of no-fucks-given comments about WWE and Vince during her rounds promoting her book https://www.f4wonline.com/news/wwe/ronda-rousey-wwe-is-an-absolute-sh-tshow-i-dont-intend-on-going-back-to
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I need to see that match. As a fellow pre-expansion WWF/Valentine enthusiast, I'll put forth my own sneaky good Valentine match: vs Dom DeNucci at MSG from June of 1979
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Thought I may as well update this Obviously my grand plans for a farewell tour of pods never materialized. As it stands, I believe the feed will go dark at the end of August, when the latest subscription expires. Not sure what the future holds beyond that, but I do have a contingency plan in place. There may be some special shows near the end, but not sure
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The North-South Connection Podcast Feed w/ JT & Chad
Ricky Jackson replied to Bigelow34's topic in Publications and Podcasts
The website appears to have vanished but they are still pumping out podcasts daily -
Jim Ross with useless "let's move on" comments about Vince mixed in with a bunch of vague, cliched, carefully worded statements that don't say anything https://www.f4wonline.com/news/wwe/jim-ross-comments-on-vince-mcmahon-allegations