1980s Wrestling Party Podcast #9

[JerryvonKramer]

Boris / Martel

 

Martel stomps a hole in Zhukov to start.

 

He's almost wrestling himself here at times.

 

I like how there's quite a lot of give in this AWA cages. It's like the steel is made of elastic bands.

 

Martel's fire has got to be up there with the greatest.

 

Zhukov's head looks like it's going to explode like a melon being rammed into that cage.

 

What was that finish? We've seen some great cage matches on this set, this looked like it was headed to be another one. However, not only is that finish really bad, but also I'd have preferred it go on another 10 minutes or so.

 

B

[JerryvonKramer]

This is probably a logical place to stop, but I said I'd see 85 out and god dammit, I will see 85 out even if it means watching Steve Regal vs. Buck Zumhof.

 

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As for the "group think" talking point, absolutely don't think this promotes it. I've been watching matches tonight with the podcast as company and have raved about matches that the guys on the show didn't seem to go crazy for and, likewise, they've been higher on matches I didn't think much of.

 

I did think when I was actually on the show that I might have been being swayed or swept up in the group emotion when I felt myself going nuts for Wahoo vs. Bockwinkel (as we were recording), but then everyone else thought that match was great. Going back over comments, we seem to have diverged massively on that Kamala match too.

[JerryvonKramer]

It's 5am I'm down to my last half pint of ale and this is what it has come down to. Buck Zumhof vs. Steve fucking Regal. The birds are tweeting and I'm getting a headache.

 

I don't think I've ever gone into a match with lower expectations. This is dedication right here.

 

Regal / Zumhof

 

Zumhof is dancing. Lost me already. So I'm officially supporting Regal here.

 

What am I actually doing with my life? This match is giving me an existential crisis.

 

I don't understand why an attempted armdrag from Zumhof results in Regal face down on the mat. Regal didn't go over, he just dropped flat.

 

What was Zumhof meant to be? A comedy act? A guy people were legit meant to be cheering for? What is he?

 

Regal takes a proper armdrag now.

 

The way Zumhof is working this arm is mildly interesting, he's just holding it and it doesn't look at all painful but ever once in a while he throws him a bit by the arm.

 

That, I think, elevates this above being total total shit. It's shit but of an ever so slightly higher grade of shit. Connoisseur's choice shit. I'm minded of a disturbing film I watched a couple of years ago called Salo in which they actually do eat shit with teaspoons and then grade it.

 

Y'know I've recently finished reading Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy. A classic and excellent book that makes you think about the fundamental questions. I've got one: why does this match exist? Just think, the development of humanity from Plato to G.E. Moore culminated at that moment in THIS. Why does this exist?

 

That headlock went on for so long that I take back what I said: this is not Connoisseur's choice shit, it's total total shit.

 

1, 2 ... NO. God's sake.

 

Come on.

 

Seriously fuck this match. I'm going to bed.

 

F

[JerryvonKramer]

It's Saturday and the weather is fine. Some people will be out drinking in the pubs and bars. Later on, some will go out dancing in the discos and the clubs. But not JerryvonKramer, for he will spend the day in the company of AWA 1986 vintage.

 

And, of course, DVDR is down once again.

[JerryvonKramer]

KrisZ, forgot to mention before: I saw Travis as a jobber on some of the TNT footage from 84 I watched.

[JerryvonKramer]

Bock vs. Flair

 

"Dream match" is right. Great watching this with KirsZ on the podcast, he's like a human encyclopedia.

 

For whatever reason, perhaps the fact it was JIP, but I was not tremendously as into this as I thought I'd be. Some nice moments, but ultimately it didn't seem to add up to much. Disappointing.

 

B-

[JerryvonKramer]

Hansen vs. Hennig

 

So, hold on, Zumhof vs. Regal made the set but the Martel vs. Hansen title switch didn't? Even if it was JIP, surely it was more deserving of a spot than that travesty.

 

Hansen on offense, Hennig selling, what could possibly go wrong here? The answer is nothing.

 

I understand Will's criticism that this is a glorified extended squash. But this is just cool as hell.

 

B

[JerryvonKramer]

Hansen vs. Slaughter

 

Really been waiting for this one. Expecting some big beefy action here and some epic bumping from Slaughter.

 

Slaughter can dish it out too. Backbreaker, neckbreaker. Big cannon. Big bump to the outside.

 

Cobra clutch on the apron!

 

Submission? Hmmm, something fishy here.

 

This was very good, but not the absolute classic it might have been.

 

B+

[Dylan Waco]

And, of course, DVDR is down once again.

This is starting to become more than just an annoyance

[Smack2k]

Crockett used Willie Nelson for the video for Magnum at hte start of the Superstars on the Superstation show riding around ATL and hangin with the chicks at some bar , all 80'sd up.. as they had an interview with Willie on the show as well...

 

That may be the other one you were thinking of....