Ricky Jackson Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 http://placetobenation.com/titans-of-wrestling-29-part-1-georgia-championship-wrestling/ Join us as the Titans of Rasslin visit Earth II, where Pete doesn't exist (actually he is trapped under a pile of thousands of wrestling DVDs, updates throughout), and the team of Kelly, Parv, Johnny and Marty Sleeze explore the amazing world of Georgia Championship Wrestling on TBS! And for the first time ever, the material covered on the show is so vast that a second part is required (look for it in about two weeks). On the docket tonight: 1979 Ole Anderson promo / Bobby Heenan and Ernie Ladd promo 1979 Ernie Ladd attacks Chief Jay Strongbow1980 Tommy Rich vs. Dennis Condrey TV title match1980 Ole Anderson turns on Dusty Rhodes + Ole falls out with Lars and enlists the aid of Terry Funk1980 Mr. Wrestling II and The Assassin discuss why they wear a mask Also on tonight's show: -A look at the history of GCW, its important relationship with Ted Turner-owned television stations, and the role it played in the story of WCW -In-depth discussion of Mr.Wrestling II and Tommy Rich -Stongbow's humiliation makes Parv...uh, giddy -Fantasy Blaxploitation booking: Ernie Ladd is "The Big Cat of Harlem" -A show-ending comparison of early-80s GCW and WWF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Tune in to hear Parv start a crusade to denigrate Tommy Rich. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Enthusiast Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Can't wait to hear this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lust Hogan Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Great show!! I prefer the southern wrestling reviews to WWF since I'm from the south. I LOVE Ernie Ladd. He's a 6'9 Fred Sanford. I also loved the Mr. Wrestling II / Assasin interview. I liked them calling each other "sir" even though they hated each other. II had it coming though....he started the whole thing. The Assasin was DRAGGED in the ring and merely had to defend himself and in the process of trying to lift up Wrestling II the mask "accidentally" came off. That's what I saw..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingSavage Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 Awesomely entertaining show as per usual, gang. Really dug the love for Ladd as well. That whole segment about the Blaxpoitation project was freaking phenomenal. It's audio ecstasy, folks. The funky music interludes bridged it all together and MADE the damn thing a winner for me. Make no mistake - the "Big Cat of Harlem" is something that must be made a reality in some conceivable shape, form, or fashion. Parv gushing and giggling over heel beat-downs never gets old. He sure has turned up the hatred on Backlund and Strongbow. Sure sounds like Rich is the latest to land on that list. Great to hear you guys just kind of collectively mark out for the Assassin. He certainly was a tremendous talker. And, regarding Parv's question about whether there was more footage of him doing interviews & whatnot out there, I know for sure he's got at least a handful in the "1984 - A Year of Transition" series that's up on YouTube. I haven't seen the stuff in over a year, so I can't clearly recall whether it's a lot of substance or just short, condensed interview pieces to hype the next show. But the Assassin definitely does some talking - SUITED AND BOOTED there as well - for his tag team throughout the whole Paul Jones Army, Boogie Woogie Jam, Valiant beard shaving saga around that time. And Parv, have you seen much Bill Eadie? I only ask, 'cause the Masked Superstar's whole shtick and spiel is REAL similar to what ya get from Jody Hamilton. Those guys are cut from the same cloth. Never overly verbose, just for the sake of sounding wordy. Never reaching to seem intelligent. Never pandering for acknowledgement of his IQ. Just a couple of well-spoken, articulate, condescending pricks really. And there's always the angle that Eadie teased as Masked Superstar, hinting and teasing that he was actually someone of fame or notoriety under the hood. At one point they were talking like he was a legitimate pro athlete or medalist. It was a clever way of lending credibility and an explanation for WHY someone so smart would CHOOSE to walk around and work under a mask. Great stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 I've always loved the Assassin vs. Dusty stuff from Florida. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJRogers Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 -Parv, as a professor you should know the pratfalls of encyclopedic research from Britannica to Wikipedia! I've been using http://www.solie.org/titlehistories/ for title research for years. -Speaking of podcast and Place To Be Nation Turf Wars, you should reach out to Mr. Wrestling III for the show (actually be PERFECT for him to stay in the gimmick for an appearance on Titans of Wrestling now that I think of it), whom is officially endorsed by Mr. Wrestling II (who recently had a tribute show done in his honor, even though he is still living), and has a pretty good spin on the "why the mask" gimmick. A very well known heel donning a masked babyface persona to "atone" for his heelish ways throughout his career. -When Ole was turned into a defacto face after getting turfed from the Horsemen, was it actually in storylines that no one wanted to team with him because of his heelish ways (which I'd assume would go all the way back to the Dusty angle discussed on the show), or was that just joking comments made about the fact that Ole was a loner for that run as he was legit scaling back from his on screen/in ring persona? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 I love the fact that Mr. Wrestling 3 called out the boys for overlooking him on twitter. . Now I want to seek out his work and analyze it because I love Johnny Walker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigBadMick Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 Really liked the Georgia to Crockett transition stuff in the middle of this, Parv. It's stuff I thought I knew but hadn't had it explained so plainly. You should be a teacher Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomethingSavage Posted June 27, 2014 Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 Yes. Each episode of Titans will now be brought to you with a brief recess, to sit under the learning tree of Professor Parv. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoe Posted June 28, 2014 Report Share Posted June 28, 2014 -Parv, as a professor you should know the pratfalls of encyclopedic research from Britannica to Wikipedia! I've been using http://www.solie.org/titlehistories/ for title research for years. -Speaking of podcast and Place To Be Nation Turf Wars, you should reach out to Mr. Wrestling III for the show (actually be PERFECT for him to stay in the gimmick for an appearance on Titans of Wrestling now that I think of it), whom is officially endorsed by Mr. Wrestling II (who recently had a tribute show done in his honor, even though he is still living), and has a pretty good spin on the "why the mask" gimmick. A very well known heel donning a masked babyface persona to "atone" for his heelish ways throughout his career. -When Ole was turned into a defacto face after getting turfed from the Horsemen, was it actually in storylines that no one wanted to team with him because of his heelish ways (which I'd assume would go all the way back to the Dusty angle discussed on the show), or was that just joking comments made about the fact that Ole was a loner for that run as he was legit scaling back from his on screen/in ring persona? We have reached out to # 3 and he has agreed to come on as a guest. So we just need to hammer out time and date. So thanks for the idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJRogers Posted June 28, 2014 Report Share Posted June 28, 2014 While not a turn perse, but didn't like 80% of ECW storylines through 97 stem from Raven vs Dreamer? And I think that may have predated the nWo as a Takeover angle, or at least one that branched out into most of the stories the promotion was running at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveJRogers Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 Oh, and I'd thought there'd be a Cash fan or more on this show that would recall this ditty from the Folsom album: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 Damn, I love that album too. Didn't draw the connection. Reading about this more on Classics (http://wrestlingclassics.com/cgi-bin/.ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=129396;p=0), apparently Ernie Ladd said he got it from Terry Funk who said he took it from Johnny Cash. Ernie Ladd is so cool. The moment when the GCW crowd busts out the "egg-sucking dog" chant during the Funk and Ole run-in is one of my favourite ever chants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted July 3, 2014 Report Share Posted July 3, 2014 Part Two Coming up "Hey Ted! You stink!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Jackson Posted July 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2014 Part 2 drops Tuesday. Again, you can watch the footage discussed in the episode (unlike the WWF stuff, where you can only dream of someday seeing the greatness ) Start around the 54 minute mark with Mr. Saito vs Steve Keirn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soup23 Posted July 7, 2014 Report Share Posted July 7, 2014 This was a good listen and overall view of the Georgia territory. Parv's crusade to devalue Rich was a little perplexing to me. When he did fall from the main event scene, he fell pretty hard but a five year run on top is nothing to sneeze at and he is still recognized as a household name for a lot of people my dad's age down here. Also, an underrated Kelly line as Parv was trying to find a location where RIch wouldn't be well known and he throws out North Dakota. Without skipping a beat, Kelly says "he was big in North Dakota."" "one of the more sophisticated wrestling angles, ironically coming from Georgia" What the hell Kelly? I expect that nonsense from Parv but expect more from you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted July 7, 2014 Report Share Posted July 7, 2014 I completely don't understand where this idea that I was trying to devalue Rich on this show comes from and it's slightly pissing me off that people keep claiming this. The part where I'm going around different locations asking if people would know Rich there was to establish how big a star we were talking about. I think it's difficult to get a measure of how big Rich was in his prime (say 79-83). I was trying to ascertain the extent to which he was a national star as opposed to a territorial star. I don't know why that has been seen as a crusade to de-value him. Completely bizarre accusation. Then, later, all I was saying is that after 1984, when GCW no longer existed, Rich never again rose to national prominence in the same way. A claim so fucking uncontroversial that it is tantamount to a statement of bald fact. I don't know how anyone could say it was a knock. My point, that I was trying to get out before Johnny and co starting getting all defensive, was that Crockett was not prepared to push him as a top star and didn't seem to want to give him a job. He didn't return to JCP/ WCW until 1989, after Turner had already taken over, by which time he was firmly on the (lower) undercard as we've seen on WTBBP. The point was, that whatever he did in Memphis, he wasn't getting any national exposure, and didn't get the call from New York while he was basically shut out of Atlanta under Crockett, where he made his name. So he was only really a big star during his Georgia run. None of this stuff is a "crusade". I don't get where any of these charges are coming from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky Jackson Posted July 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2014 Heh, yeah my quip implying Georgians are unsophisticated was uncalled for. Sorry man. Feel free to make Canadian jokes on the next WTBBP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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