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Has the Hart-Funk match seen the light of day before?

 

I think it's from the Terry Funk's Wrestlefest show.?

 

 

Yep, it's on Terry Funk's Wrestlefest 1997. I had this on VHS, as it was released by a company I think called Deltavision (?) in the UK. Just before the ECW rites were officially purchased by WWE they put out lots of the non PPV ECW shows which you could get in places like HMV.

 

The Funk/Hart match is really good from my hazy memory. With Bret being in the middle of his heel anti US run, he works a really old school match, which is a lot different from a much of what Funk was doing in ECW at time. There were some other pretty interesting matches on the show as well including a Sabu/Foley match, but with Mick in his Mankind persona. The Dory Funk/RVD match is something of a styles clash if I recall...

 

 

 

The date shown for the match is a few days after Montreal so Bret would have been babyfaced by that point.

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Timbo thought Paul Ellering had it and used it as leverage to get a deal.

Who is Timbo, and is this a serious post or a joke? I can't tell with people here sometimes. :D

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I guess that's a good a reason as any for Ellering's random reappearance in 2016. Then again, this is the same company that brought Zeb Coulter back out of mothballs.

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Timbo Slice is a poster. It's just conjecture on his part. It makes sense for Ellering to have a copy, just like Jim Nelson having a copy of Final Conflict.

Thank god Nelson isn't as skilled a negotiator.
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The reasoning (well one of them at least) that always seems to be given for not adding more classic content is that they don't want to upload all of it at once. Maybe WWE's testing the waters with this and it will lead to other gems being unearthed.

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Scott Keith: "There was no master copy ever found and the only known surviving tape was said to be in the hands of one guy who was there that night in the audience and taped it with a video camera."

 

Is this accurate? Certainly seems so per the Network description and would explain the irregularity in terms of Omni footage existing.

 

Pretty sure I've never heard a version of the story where a handheld copy existed. This is incredibly cool.

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Georgia seemed to be an area that kept the masters of their tapes, and it would be odd they wouldn't have kept a master of something that was the blowoff to a big feud at the time.

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