S.L.L. Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 During Sean Stasiak's 2002 run with the deranged poet from "Planet Stasiak" gimmick, he had one match where his introductory chyron read "Sean Stasiak 'Planet Stasiak'", suggesting that "Planet Stasiak" was not only his place of origin, but also his nickname, and that it was meant to be placed after his proper name for some reason. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLIK Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Remember Shamrock was a wrestler first (working SAPW as Mr. Wrestling Vince Torelli) and a UFCer second. That part I knew, just not that he went back that far. Everything i'd heard up until seeing that match said he started in pro wrestling in the early 90's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 WWE experimenting with changing Val Venis's ring name to "The Big Valbowski" for no apparent reason. Â WWE having to change Ric Flair's name to Rick Flair for a few weeks several years ago due to a lawsuit filed by Jim Corckett. Â '80s All Japan bringing in a random foreigner (whose name I've forgotten) in what may have been an alien gimmick as "The V.". He never made it to TV. Â WWE re-gimmicking the Mexican minis they had been using with various generic masked characters even though the previous mix of their Mexican gimmicks and a few minis of WWE guys was starting to get over. Â WCW announcing their NBC deal before it was signed and then it never happening. Â Shane Douglas living in a bubble and doing his "DICK FLAIR SUCKS BISCHOFFS'S AAASSSSSSSSSSS!" promo at Wrestlepalooza '98 in a former regular WCW TV taping venue while Flair and Bischoff were in the middle of their war. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregor Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Buddy Landell in WWF late 95-early 96, especially the title match vs. BretLandel had a WWF match as late as 1999, and, yeah, it was kind of weird to see. HHH beat him on Shotgun around February of that year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khawk20 Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Mad Dog Vachon doing a segment on WWF TV in Canada in or around 1984-85 called "Brunch with Mad Dog". The segment aired for several weeks and basically consisted of Vachon asking different WWF stars what they liked to each for Brunch. Really, really odd. Â Buddy Landell's 1 or 2 squash matches in the AWA in 1987-88-ish. He seemed very out of place to me there, even in squash situations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Mad Dog Vachon doing a segment on WWF TV in Canada in or around 1984-85 called "Brunch with Mad Dog". The segment aired for several weeks and basically consisted of Vachon asking different WWF stars what they liked to each for Brunch. Really, really odd.Was this only for the French language TV? The segment on YouTube is blingual: Â Pat Patterson also did the same brunch segment after him. Some of those are also on YouTube. Years later, Frenchy Martin had a similar role with "Frency Martin's Studio" on the French & Spanish language shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Buddy Landell's 1 or 2 squash matches in the AWA in 1987-88-ish. He seemed very out of place to me there, even in squash situations. Out of interest, was he the one getting squashed or was he squashing? (considering he was main eventing the the Mid-South Coliseum in 86) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Awesome, I've finally found a video of Frenchy's Studio: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisZ Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Jake Roberts working as the Masked Texan for one TV taping at the Sportatorium in early 1983 is the first one I can think of. This was after he left Florida and before he went to JCP. Â I'm going to think of more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dylan Waco Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Lots of crazy shit in WCW syndication, but PG-13 showing up and being awesome and Hack Myers actually working one taping are among my favorites. Â Corporal Punishment randomly appearing in ECW a few times shouldn't have seemed that weird to me but it really did. Â Dick Slater showing up in 89 WWF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 ha I forgot PG-13's late 99/early 2000 WCW run! I think they mostly worked Saturday Night when Jimmy Hart was booking but I think they worked some Thunders (one I know against Varsity Club). Well it was a little longer than their fall 95 WWF run Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 WWE experimenting with changing Val Venis's ring name to "The Big Valbowski" for no apparent reason. This isn't that peculiar... just trying to name associate with a cool movie, The Big Lebowski. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodTrongard'sHair Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Buddy Landell's 1 or 2 squash matches in the AWA in 1987-88-ish. He seemed very out of place to me there, even in squash situations. Out of interest, was he the one getting squashed or was he squashing? (considering he was main eventing the the Mid-South Coliseum in 86) Â He was squashing. I think he was only in for one taping and lord only know what happened after that. This was a real problem the AWA had at the time, I don't think they always exactly knew who was going to be there from taping-to-taping themselves, but it made for some interesting TV at times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 WWE experimenting with changing Val Venis's ring name to "The Big Valbowski" for no apparent reason.This isn't that peculiar... just trying to name associate with a cool movie, The Big Lebowski. Yeah, but this was at least a year or two after the movie came out. (Which isn't unusual for the WWE, with their well-established history of jumping onto pop culture bandwagons long after their primes.) And absolutely nothing in Val's character, look, or gimmick even vaguely resembled anyone or anything in The Big Lebowski. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goodhelmet Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 But it was a cute way to get over Val as "Big" and give him a nickname. Still don't see anything peculiar about it and you already answered the question about WWE being out of date with their references. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Bill Alfonso as the ref in the Bret vs. Doink/Lawler Summerslam match. Didn't he also ref the Flair/Windham Battle of the Belts match? Â WWE experimenting with changing Val Venis's ring name to "The Big Valbowski" for no apparent reason. That reminds me, is there any particular reason they changed Kane's nickname from The Big Red Machine to The Big Red Monster? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strummer Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Speaking of Fonzie in WWE, Raven and Gorilla making fun of him in the Jannetty/Shawn cage match is great. Â Raven calls him Bill Al- FONZ Â how about Lee Marshall at Wrestlemania 2 and Bockwinkel briefly doing commentary on televised House Shows in late 1987 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregor Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Bill Alfonso as the ref in the Bret vs. Doink/Lawler Summerslam match.How long was he with the WWF? I think he also reffed Marty Jannetty's IC Title win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bix Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 It had been his nickname from the beginning and this was 4 years after his debut and the movie's release that it suddenly became his only ring name. "Val Venis" was no longer mentioned until they dropped it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cox Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 It had been his nickname from the beginning and this was 4 years after his debut and the movie's release that it suddenly became his only ring name. "Val Venis" was no longer mentioned until they dropped it.Weren't they doing this because he had been traded to Smackdown, and UPN wanted the porn star gimmick toned down, and wanted the name rhyming with "penis" to go away? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RodTrongard'sHair Posted March 3, 2012 Report Share Posted March 3, 2012 Bill Alfonso as the ref in the Bret vs. Doink/Lawler Summerslam match.How long was he with the WWF? I think he also reffed Marty Jannetty's IC Title win. I don't remember when he left, but I remember on a shoot interview he said he came in with Giant Gonzalez because he had been his handler in WCW and Vince hired him to do the same in the WWF. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisZ Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Dennis Condrey & Doug Gilbert (The Lethal Weapons) being the lead heel team for IWCCW in 1990 with Tony Rumble as their manager Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLIK Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Bill Alfonso as the ref in the Bret vs. Doink/Lawler Summerslam match.How long was he with the WWF? I think he also reffed Marty Jannetty's IC Title win. I don't remember when he left, but I remember on a shoot interview he said he came in with Giant Gonzalez because he had been his handler in WCW and Vince hired him to do the same in the WWF.  I was always amused at Heyman on comentary bringing up that he used to be a WWF ref and mentioning that ECW adopted Fonzie from the Betty Ford clinic on the 97 RAW whear ECW invaded and McMahn just dead pan responding that it's a fine institue and Alfonso should be proud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khawk20 Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 Buddy Landell's 1 or 2 squash matches in the AWA in 1987-88-ish. He seemed very out of place to me there, even in squash situations. Out of interest, was he the one getting squashed or was he squashing? (considering he was main eventing the the Mid-South Coliseum in 86) Â He was squashing. I think he was only in for one taping and lord only know what happened after that. This was a real problem the AWA had at the time, I don't think they always exactly knew who was going to be there from taping-to-taping themselves, but it made for some interesting TV at times. Â True on all counts. Â The AWA often stretched a single taping someone made in Vegas into a month or two worth of TV, makign it seem like the guy was there for a longer period. Nikita Koloff's AWA appearance in 1989 was only one or two tapings worth, but it seemed like he was a regular the way the presented it on TV, for example. Â Landell was presented like he was going to be a player in the AWA, but never came back after that one taping. Â ....off-topic: "RodTrongard'sHair" = great username. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrisZ Posted March 4, 2012 Report Share Posted March 4, 2012 How bout Skandor Akbar managing the Canadian Kodiacs in JCP up to a month or two after UWF died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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