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More MSG footage, but that wasn't part of Vince Sr's territory until 1956, and then he went through periods where he had to share the rights to the Garden with other promoters or was shut out completely. He didn't gain full control until 1961 I think. So it's hard to say what 50s MSG footage is actually from when Vince Sr was promoting.

 

In general there is much more 50s wrestling footage than the 60s, as in the 60s it just wasn't preserved because wrestling wasn't popular on a national level and the local stations mostly taped over stuff to save money

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Is there any available footage of WWWF in the 60's?

 

Id be interested to see what WWE has in their vault from the 1960s.

 

I think I only even encountered one trader years ago who have very few stuff from that period. I know there's a Bobby Davis Tape from the 50s/60s but 4 random shows from WWWF TV exist which are

 

May 9, 1965

December 2, 1965

January 6, 1966

January 13, 1966

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The first two years of WWE ECW have dropped this morning.

 

2008 dropped and they're flying through 2009 too so there's every chance the entire run will be up in the next few days

 

 

Even now we are in 2017 and I dont get what the point was in giving Ezkiel Jackson the title on the last night of ECW.

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The WWE 24 on Kurt Angle was great, as that series tends to be, but man did it leave you not wanting to ever see him wrestle again. The whole theme was when he wrestles he won't stop until he breaks his neck, and even then he will rush to come back as soon as possible. He seems to be in a great place in life and I hope his rumored comeback won't mess up his sobriety.

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It was definitely post TNA, as there were times he was certainly in the HBK style "no condition to perform" state on Impact. It made Dixie's comments come off as either her being the dumbest person ever or the most naive since she's the one that would have okayed him going out there like that.

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The 2/8/86 show should be the one where Savage wins the IC title from Santana. I always thought it was funny how they tried to shoehorn this match into the Danny Davis: Heel Ref angle (which I don't think happened yet) because Randy won via heel shenanigans.

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The 2/8/86 show should be the one where Savage wins the IC title from Santana. I always thought it was funny how they tried to shoehorn this match into the Danny Davis: Heel Ref angle (which I don't think happened yet) because Randy won via heel shenanigans.

 

You're right. At the time of the Savage IC title win, Danny Davis was just a masked jobber ("Mr. X") a referee and a member of the ring crew. They came up with the heel ref angle after the title change. Savage used an international object to knock Tito out and score the pin, and at the time they played it off as if Danny Davis didn't see it. After his heel ref angle started, they retconned it, to justify adding Tito Santana to the Bulldogs vs. Hart Foundation and Danny Davis match at Wrestlemania III. As I recall, they had originally wanted the match to be the Hart Foundation vs. The British Bulldogs for the titles, but Dynamite's back was still way too fucked up for him to wrestle a normal 2 on 2 tag match.

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In any case, besides Dynamite working the majority of the match, the other reason I don't really buy that the 6-man was a late audible is because by that point, seeing Davis have to get in the ring was a greater selling point than a title match would have been. As for the thing with the IC title change...I wonder if that was a happy coincidence or it was a case of "rainy day booking." We know how far in advance things were planned and it'd be odd for one ref to do double-duty for no particular reason when the Mr. X role could have been filled by anybody. I don't know if it's too much of a stretch to make sure the road agent assigns Davis to that particular match.

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