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[Mrzfn]

Looks like the Legends Battle Royal is from a show that wasn't a taped live event so maybe this is the first time its been seen?

 

I've seen this one before, so it must have been out there in some form.

[Ricky Jackson]

"Meet The Lugar

Percy Pringle (Paul Bearer) introduces us to The Lugar (Lex Luger). (CWF TV - 10/16/1984)"

 

This is how Luger debuted in Florida?

[Migs]

Isn't this the first time the Vader-Simmons title change has been released?

[flyonthewall2983]

I think clips from the match are on the last episode of Saturday Night from the batch they put up last month.

 

I wonder how today's good financial news will affect the Network.

[C.S.]

Isn't this the first time the Vader-Simmons title change has been released?

Oh wow! That's on there? Holy grail material, for me at least. I've always wanted to see it.

 

Am I expecting a classic match? No. But I've had 20 years to build it up in my mind and imagine how it went.

 

Some really iconic stuff there - Jake the Snake debuting and ripping the crucifix off Sting, the lottery to give Simmons the title shot, and of course Simmons' shocking victory to become the first black World Heavyweight Champion.

 

I'm not expecting the Jake or lottery footage though.

[Ricky Jackson]

You won't get any of that because it's Vader winning the strap back not Simmons winning

[landy1987]

This is the match where Simmons lost the title back to Vader, which hasnt been shown in full before.

 

And I bet the Legends Battle Royal footage is just a video they ripped from YouTube

[sek69]

Watching 1983 Mid South, and DiBiase on commentary was talking about King Kong Bundy not wanting to join up with either the Rat Pack or with Skandor Akbar. I chuckled at him saying he respected Bundy, but also noting that most people have a price that can be met.

[flyonthewall2983]

Ted had to wait 11 years

[BBscout]

Liger vs Eddy from Main Event, I beat this board to death trying to get a copy that didn't cut off the finish. Saw it once on wwe.com and never again. Had never even popped up on YouTube for what's been like 10 years now.

[NickH]

I get that feeling now that the Race/David match is the one from St Louis in 79, hopefully its not but they have mislabeled some dates in the past.

 

The 77 match took place in Fort Worth and you would think all that footage was taped over or lost. Hope I'm wrong, hope its a new match but my expectations have lowered.

[C.S.]

Damn it on the Vader-Simmons match being the one where Vader regaining the title. Who cares? At the time, that felt deflating - like they were giving up on Simmons (which they were, because he instantly crashed back down the card right after, as if the title reign never happened).

 

I just realized that these don't drop until Thursday, which explains why I went looking for them last night and couldn't find anything.

[PeteF3]

Simmons winning the title aired either almost or entirely in full on the 8/8/92 WCWSN, at least according to the Match Discussion Archive.

[SPS]

Damn it on the Vader-Simmons match being the one where Vader regaining the title. Who cares? At the time, that felt deflating - like they were giving up on Simmons (which they were, because he instantly crashed back down the card right after, as if the title reign never happened).

 

From what I recall from Bill Watts talking about the Simmons deal said that Simmons had flunked some drug tests, take that as what you will. Simmons also had made the comment once that Watts was a racist just without a hood. So who knows?

[Beast]

More added -

 

A Starla in the Making

In the early days of her career, Molly Holly (as Starla Sexton) faces Malia Hosaka. – (WCW WorldWide - 12/21/98)

Prototypical Arrival

John Cena (aka The Prototype) makes his OVW Debut. – (OVW TV - 5/26/01)

Before Phenomenal

Before his phenomenal rise to the top of WWE, AJ Styles takes on The Hurricane back in 2002. – (WWE Jakked - 1/26/02)

Glorious Beginnings

Albert battles the up-and-comer Bobby Rood(e). – (WWE Velocity - 10/19/02)

Seeds of Lunacy

 

A young Dean Ambrose takes it to the veteran William Regal. – (FCW TV - 7/1/12)

[peachchaos]

Simmons winning the title aired either almost or entirely in full on the 8/8/92 WCWSN, at least according to the Match Discussion Archive.

 

It was also on the WWE History of the World Heavyweight Championship DVD.

[Loss]

That Luger date has to be wrong. He debuted in 85 and won the Southern title from Wahoo McDaniel three weeks later. Maybe they are just off a year.

[Beast]

There is a Luger CWF debut on YouTube from September 1985 on Youtube

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ5nGlje9gs

[Phil Schneider]

 

Simmons winning the title aired either almost or entirely in full on the 8/8/92 WCWSN, at least according to the Match Discussion Archive.

 

It was also on the WWE History of the World Heavyweight Championship DVD.

 

 

And on youtube

 

[C.S.]

From what I recall from Bill Watts talking about the Simmons deal said that Simmons had flunked some drug tests, take that as what you will. Simmons also had made the comment once that Watts was a racist just without a hood. So who knows?

Very odd since Watts is the one responsible for pushing Simmons, pushed JYD in the past, and had the "Big Cat" Ernie Ladd in a high ranking office position in the UWF (co-booker maybe?).

 

Then again, there's that weird Torch interview where a chaw-sucking Watts went on about how he shouldn't have to serve n-words in his hypothetical restaurant if he didn't want to.

 

When Turner exec and baseball legend Hank Aaron saw that, it was curtains for Watts. (The Torch interview supposedly sent to Aaron by Mark Madden, but I'm not sure I believe that carny.)

[PeteF3]

Between the Sheets has covered the Watts firing extensively--yes, it was absolutely Madden.

[C.S.]

Just noticed the post that said the Simmons title win aired almost in its entirety on WCW SN. I don't remember that at all - I only remember clips - so I wonder if that's the rare episode I missed for whatever reason?

[Loss]

They presented it as something after the fact on TV after having shown clips many times.

[Hawkeye12]

I think they aired Simmon's title win complete on the Power Hour as well. A couple years back that episode was on the Network in the Black History Month collection.

[Seabs]

I dont think they ever aired it on Saturday Night but they 100% aired it on a Main Event shortly after it happened it either full or close to full with I think the entrances skipped over. I think they aired it on Power Hour too but Power Hour was almost exclusively repeats of Main Event/Worldwide matches by that point in 92.