goodhelmet Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 It was really only 60 seconds but the shit you were smoking made it feel like 20 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khawk20 Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 Ditto. ...tritto? Anyway, yeah, where is that clip from? I grabbed it from the "New Board Image" thread on Crush Kill Crush. No idea of it's origin. I try to check into that thread every few weeks because some of those guys are really adept and grabbing interesting and odd images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 This is such a weird blurb. From the 37/95 Wrestling Observer: Reason Dick Murdoch did those house show as Bob Backlund's second with no television build-up is that Razor Ramon complained that it was impossible to do a match with Backlund and needed help and Murdoch was provided as that help. Murdoch has been at the recent tapings but hasn't been used. This is kind of interesting. Known Backlund-Hall matches in 1995 from Graham's site: WWF @ Baltimore, MD - Arena - January 26, 1995 (2,500) Razor Ramon defeated Bob Backlund WWF @ Philadelphia, PA - Spectrum - February 12, 1995 (5,500) Razor Ramon defeated Bob Backlund via disqualification WWF @ Bethleham, PA - Stabler Arena - February 13, 1995 Razor Ramon defeated Bob Backlund WWF @ Robinsville, MS - February 17, 1995 Razor Ramon defeated Bob Backlund via disqualification Kind of interesting because the first one happened right after the taping of these two matches the night before: WWF @ Ft. Myers, FL - Lee Civic Center - January 25, 1995 Action Zone - 2/19/95: Bob Backlund (w/ Owen Hart) defeated Davey Boy Smith (w/ Bret Hart) via disqualification at around the 12:30 mark when Bret attacked Backlund as Smith was caught in the Crossface Chicken Wing, moments after Owen assaulted Bret outside the ring; after the match, Bret attempted to get at Backlund before Owen pulled Backlund from the ring and the two left ringside Action Zone - 2/26/95: Bret Hart & Davey Boy Smith defeated Owen Hart & Bob Backlund at around the 18-minute mark when Smith pinned Owen with the running powerslam as Bret applied the Sharpshooter on Backlund outside the ring; after the bout, both Smith and officials had to convince Bret to release the hold I seem to recall Loss liking the second one a hell of a lot. It appears that some people could work with Bob, and others couldn't. Bob does work a certain way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted February 25, 2013 Report Share Posted February 25, 2013 Classics thread on it, with a run in from Dave: http://wrestlingclassics.com/cgi-bin/.ubbc...ic;f=9;t=057596 This part is a little off: They did a match at a house show in SF or Oakland that I was at during that run, and it was all Hall & Murdoch having fun. Nobody in the building cared about Backlund, and Hall worked almost an entire match avoiding locking up or doing anything with Backlund. The match still was awful, by the way. Someone else was at ringside: WWF @ San Francisco, CA - Cow Palace - December 30, 1994 (3,000; 1,600 paid) The Smoking Gunns defeated the Heavenly Bodies at 10:12 when Billy pinned Del Ray with a backslide Wink & Pink the Clown defeated Queezy & Sleezy at 7:49 Bam Bam Bigelow pinned Adam Bomb at 7:50 with his feet on the ropes for leverage Lex Luger fought Tatanka to a double count-out at 8:54; after the bout, Luger put Tatanka in the Torture Rack Aldo Montoya pinned the Brooklyn Brawler at 4:43 with a bulldog off the top WWF IC Champion Razor Ramon (sub. for WWF World Champion Diesel, whose mother died) pinned Bob Backlund (w/ Shawn Michaels) at 6:27 with a sunset flip; Freddie Blassie was the guest ring announcer for the match Davey Boy Smith pinned Jim Neidhart at 8:23 with a roll up The Undertaker pinned IRS at 7:39 with the tombstone Shawn was actually ringside at a fair number of the Diesel-Backlund rematches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 Ugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisZ Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 It's the celebrity wing it doesn't matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpchicago23 Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 Yea Trump is a very good candidate celebrity wise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sek69 Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 I don't get why people get upset when they put someone in the celebrity wing, at least Trump actually played a role in a huge buyrate. That puts him ahead of a lot of the non celebrity wing entrants actually. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 Fair enough. I rethought the "ugh" as soon as I posted, because I figured this would actually be quite interesting given the Beck situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cross Face Chicken Wing Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 Using the word "ugh" any time you're talking about Donald Trump, regardless of context, is perfectly acceptable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted February 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 It's interesting that they are making fun of right-wingers at the same time they are inducting the most high profile birther into their HOF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 Question: is the NWO counted as kickstarting the "Attitude Era" or is the "Attitude Era" a WWF-only thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted February 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 It's a WWF-only thing, similar to Rock & Wrestling. WCW never used the phrase to describe their presentation. The "wrestling boom" obviously includes WCW in the late 90s, if you're looking for a catch-all term. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
El-P Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 Well, WCW kickstarted the wrestling boom with the nWo era, then WWF catch up with Austin & Bret and exploded into the dreaded Attitude Era. I don't remember when they began to use the term. I do remember the atrociously obnoxious "Get it ?" campaign in early 1999, when the product had already been Russoed to death. I wonder if you can still call 2000/01 the Attitude era, as Russo was gone by then and I would guess the TV product got much better (the PPV product whicj I'm more familiar with surely was). Nash's booking of WCW in 99 shows a lot of Russo influence too : nonsensical turns nearly every week, a completely structureless company in term of clear heels and face as a result and backtage vignettes with the godawful "invisible camera" (and worst : vignettes that supposedly played like a TV series, as the characters aren't aware of what happens in those vingettes when they don't take part in it, resulting in total confusion. The entire David Flair fiasco is basically done entirely with these kind of vignettes, as is the awful nWo B-team leader feud). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 In other news and friend of mine just sent me a text containing a photo that he said reminded him of me: I am strongly considering going to this. If I get to speak to DiBiase I'm going to ask him if he considered himself a technical wrestler. EDIT: Just bought a ticket, no idea who anyone is on the card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 I like that Fully LIcensed Bar and Family Friendly are the two main headlines they chose for the top border. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 I'm guessing a ton of the guys listed on their roster don't really work for them. Dave Taylor? Finlay? Colt Cabana? I don't believe that. I'm going to go on my own and wear a hoodie or something as not to stick out too much. Will never forget the time I went to a Wu-Tang Clan gig straight from work in a shirt and trousers -- whitest man in the room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ditch Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 I'm guessing a ton of the guys listed on their roster don't really work for them. Dave Taylor? Finlay? Colt Cabana? I don't believe that.If they aren't on the poster, "roster" means "wrestled here once". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 EDIT: Just bought a ticket, no idea who anyone is on the card. Not even El Ligero? He has been knocking around for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 I am strongly considering going to this. If I get to speak to DiBiase I'm going to ask him if he considered himself a technical wrestler. I think he's going to say "Yes." That's when you kick out the print out of the note and hand it to him. I'm sure that's what he's always wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruiserBrody Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 Found a message board post from 5 or 6 years ago and it mentioned Loss telling a story about Ric Flair getting pulled over w/ a 14 year old girl who may have been drunk. Recall this Loss? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdw Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 It's been a while, but I seem to recall that was a girlfriend's daughter with the girlfriend driving another car. Or do I have a different drunken Flair story mixed up with this. Anyway... My recollection of Flair's rep is that he's not exactly one to worry about around a 14 year old like say Jerry Lawler. I seem to recall he very much didn't go for the underage stuff like a number of other wrestlers did/have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loss Posted February 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 Found a message board post from 5 or 6 years ago and it mentioned Loss telling a story about Ric Flair getting pulled over w/ a 14 year old girl who may have been drunk. Recall this Loss? This was in 1996. Flair was driven home by a girl from a party, apparently not aware she was underage. They were pulled over, and she was underage and drunk herself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 Thought this was worth noting: Highspots.com is starting work on a documentary about the rise and fall of Jim Crockett Promotions next month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisZ Posted February 26, 2013 Report Share Posted February 26, 2013 The documentary part could be very well done and they have old clips of Flair to splice in. They just won't get Dusty though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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