cm funk Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 dp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisZ Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 WCW & ECW were very friendly with each other in 1994 up until Hogan came to town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 IMPORTANT Would you back this? From the desk of Dave Prazak: I think I'm going to launch a Kickstarter campaign to do the following 16 man tournament. I promise it will be released before Wrestling Retribution Project. ACH Colt Cabana Brian Christopher Steve Corino Jamie Dundee Eddie Kingston Doug Gilbert Jimmy Jacobs Ricky Morton Kyle O'Reilly Adam Pearce Reckless Youth Tracy Smothers Kevin Steen Devon Storm Sean Waltman https://www.facebook.com/dprazak/posts/10151839872498838 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 Only if Morton or Smothers win? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm funk Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 Only if I get to see Waltman v Ricky Morton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sidebottom Posted September 1, 2013 Report Share Posted September 1, 2013 Just no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisZ Posted September 1, 2013 Report Share Posted September 1, 2013 This just happened on Twitter Riddick Bowe @riddickbowe 15m @KassiusOhno Lets take a picture and the caption will say I'm about to whoop that ass. Lol. Partner lets make it happen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eduardo Posted September 1, 2013 Report Share Posted September 1, 2013 This just happened on Twitter Riddick Bowe @riddickbowe 15m @KassiusOhno Lets take a picture and the caption will say I'm about to whoop that ass. Lol. Partner lets make it happen That's so great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boondocks Kernoodle Posted September 1, 2013 Report Share Posted September 1, 2013 Re: Arn and Eaton in ECW: Finally Arn Anderson came in and cleaned house, to set up a 5/14 show with Sabu & Eaton vs. Funk & Anderson. The story behind this is WCW wanted to work with ECW in the Northeast to aid in promoting Slamboree in Philadelphia, plus as a revenge against the WWF for aiding SMW for cards in Marietta, GA. Gary Juster, who has become Bischoff's right-hand man in many aspects, offered Gordon any wrestler and in return proposed a deal which included WCW getting four weeks of one ad per show for Slamboree on the ECW show, and an interview with Funk plugging his match with Tully Blanchard at Slamboree on the show. WCW offered to put some ECW wrestlers on its TBS shows for a few weeks to build up an ECW feud, but that proposal was turned down. Dangerously, who still has a lot of bad blood with the WCW hierarchy, in particular Bill Shaw and Bob Dhue because of how his dismissal and post-dismissal legal action was handled, initially didn't want to make the deal, but asked for Steve Austin and Brian Pillman first, with Pillman to be Sabu's mystery opponent on the show. WCW turned down the request not wanting either to be injured for Spring Stampede the next day, but did send Anderson and Eaton to the show to do an angle and several weeks worth of interviews leading to the 5/14 show. Gordon is also interested in booking Ric Flair and/or Cactus Jack for future dates, although apparently nobody else has even been asked about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 Is anyone else watching TCW on Pursuit Channel? Its pretty good. It's got a nice Southern feel, and the production values are pretty great. Vordell Walker is there, and I just saw a backstage bit with Matt Hardy and Trevor Murdoch. http://tcwwrestling.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rovert Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 Lawler/Memphis show: A few weeks ago, PWInsider.com noted that there was a big Memphis Wrestling reunion style show being presented on at the Resorts Casino in Tunica, MS, the same Casino that now houses the Jerry Lawler Museum. Originally, the main event was to be Lawler vs. Austin Idol in Idol's first match in many, many years. Idol is off the show, for reasons not yet exactly clear, as over the weekend, it was announced that Lawler would instead face Jeff Jarrett, who would be managed by Karen Jarrett, in the main event. I can't remember the last time these two would have had a singles match, but we are talking at least 13-15 years. Brian Christopher is putting the show together, which also features Jimmy Valiant, Rikishi, Doug Gilbert, Koko B. Ware, The Spellbinder, Bill Dundee, The Rock N' Roll Express, Reggie B. Fine and more. It's quite the Memphis reunion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cox Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 My first reaction to that is that there's no way it's been that long since the last Lawler/Jarrett match, but then when I thought about it, realized it's been about 14 years since Jarrett was in WWE (and even then, it's not like Lawler was wrestling very frequently there) and Jarrett's relative lack of involvement with all of the modern-day Memphis promotions, I realized it's probably been more like 16-17 years since they wrestled. Hope this winds up making the internet somehow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm funk Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 I would really like to see that match.....and I'm amazed that WWE would give Lawler the ok for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 LOU ALBANO DEBATES JEFF BLATNICK: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyonthewall2983 Posted September 2, 2013 Report Share Posted September 2, 2013 Re: Arn and Eaton in ECW: Finally Arn Anderson came in and cleaned house, to set up a 5/14 show with Sabu & Eaton vs. Funk & Anderson. The story behind this is WCW wanted to work with ECW in the Northeast to aid in promoting Slamboree in Philadelphia, plus as a revenge against the WWF for aiding SMW for cards in Marietta, GA. Gary Juster, who has become Bischoff's right-hand man in many aspects, offered Gordon any wrestler and in return proposed a deal which included WCW getting four weeks of one ad per show for Slamboree on the ECW show, and an interview with Funk plugging his match with Tully Blanchard at Slamboree on the show. WCW offered to put some ECW wrestlers on its TBS shows for a few weeks to build up an ECW feud, but that proposal was turned down. Dangerously, who still has a lot of bad blood with the WCW hierarchy, in particular Bill Shaw and Bob Dhue because of how his dismissal and post-dismissal legal action was handled, initially didn't want to make the deal, but asked for Steve Austin and Brian Pillman first, with Pillman to be Sabu's mystery opponent on the show. WCW turned down the request not wanting either to be injured for Spring Stampede the next day, but did send Anderson and Eaton to the show to do an angle and several weeks worth of interviews leading to the 5/14 show. Gordon is also interested in booking Ric Flair and/or Cactus Jack for future dates, although apparently nobody else has even been asked about. What was Paul's big hard-on with WCW about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Waco Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 Is anyone else watching TCW on Pursuit Channel? Its pretty good. It's got a nice Southern feel, and the production values are pretty great. Vordell Walker is there, and I just saw a backstage bit with Matt Hardy and Trevor Murdoch. http://tcwwrestling.com/ I watch it every week online. Production is really great for an indie, but aside from Vordell they don't really use any guys I like anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeCampbell Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 What was Paul's big hard-on with WCW about? I don't know the full story, only that it involved him being fired in late 92 or early 93. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cm funk Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 Heyman was massively fucked over during the Watts era. He'd been signed to a pretty lucrative contract, more than a lot of the wrestlers were making, and when Watts came in he was basically looking for any angle possible to break what he thought were bad contracts. He tried to talk Heyman into signing for less money, and Heyman was like, "fuck you, this is a guaranteed contract" and then Watts started burying him. Broke up the Dangerous Alliance, took him off TV for a while, took him off of commentary. Eventually WCW claimed he had lied on his expense reports as a way to break their deal.....Heyman swears up and down he didn't ever do that and it was just WCW railroading him.....I think it's plausible that Heyman did that.....but they were totally just railroading him and looking for any excuse to make him go away. He sued them after that and IIRC got a decent settlement, probably whatever was left on his guaranteed contract Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeCampbell Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 In the Brian Christopher shoot, RF asks him about his brother cutting shoot promos in ECW, and Brian didn't know anything about it. Does anyone here have any idea what he's talking about. The only time I can ever recall seeing Kevin Christian, was during the whole Rich/Gilbert funeral angle on Power Pro, that led to the famous Doug Gilbert promo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Evans Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 He played Eddie Gilbert's "brother" Freddie in the early days of ECW. I don't think he lasted very long. He was also a ref for years in Memphis and jobber under a mask as the Yellowjacket in the later days of USWA/early days of Power Pro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted September 3, 2013 Report Share Posted September 3, 2013 Random question, but does anyone know why the Road Warriors didn't go to the WWF sooner? Vince obviously wanted them and it's not like they were booked superbly in Crockett or WCW, so what took them so long to jump? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boondocks Kernoodle Posted September 4, 2013 Report Share Posted September 4, 2013 By 1990, they were making $2000 apiece per match in WCW (with an added $1100 for Precious Paul). WWF wouldn't have paid close to that for a tag team. They only left when Jim Herd tried to renegotiate them to $156,000/year deals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisZ Posted September 4, 2013 Report Share Posted September 4, 2013 Random question, but does anyone know why the Road Warriors didn't go to the WWF sooner? Vince obviously wanted them and it's not like they were booked superbly in Crockett or WCW, so what took them so long to jump? Four words All-Japan Pro Wrestling Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted September 4, 2013 Report Share Posted September 4, 2013 I'm sitting here watching Brick's WWF 1979-83 set, and holy shit. If you want to see just how freaky strong Backlund was find him vs. Patterson from 07-30-79. His bodyslams on Pat are insane. He scoops him up, carries him around, and then fucking tosses Patterson like a sack of potatoes. It's wild. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goc Posted September 4, 2013 Report Share Posted September 4, 2013 I'm sitting here watching Brick's WWF 1979-83 set, and holy shit. If you want to see just how freaky strong Backlund was find him vs. Patterson from 07-30-79. His bodyslams on Pat are insane. He scoops him up, carries him around, and then fucking tosses Patterson like a sack of potatoes. It's wild.I remember somewhere reading about Backlund picking Hogan up over his head in a match they had with Hogan's dad in the crowd, who couldn't believe it. I wish that was on tape somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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