Dylan Waco Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 My dad marking out for Pez Whatley appearances when I was a kid. Hell my dad marking out in general, especially screaming "kick him in the balls!" at Cena when he thought Brock legit KO'ed him at Extreme Rules a few years back, and shouting "Run, Charles, Run!" waking up from a dead sleep when his favorite referee had to sprint down the aisle in the Taker/Edge main event at Mania 24. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted April 9, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 The brother at all the Philly Civic Center shows who dressed up like Flair and walked around shouting "Wooo!" all night. Vince's "GULP" reaction shot that makes Jerry Lewis look subtle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
van_Fair Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Midnight Express trying out new offense on some jobbers. Also Brock Lesnar in general then, now and forever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 My dad marking out for Arn Anderson after seeing him for the first time on TV on Pro Wrestling Plus. "That Arn, man, he's a great wrestler. Tully, not so much." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowboy hats Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Mark Henry's music hitting. 'somebody gonna get their ass kicked...somebody gonna get their wig split...' Knowing that my dad took his ten year old to a wrestling event that featured a wedding as the main event The Taco Shop in the west village shows luchadore movies on a tv with no sound. Last night they had on El Castillo de las momias de Guanajuato and it was...awesome. Luchadors doing research in a library. Roping up monsters. And actually wrestling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.L.L. Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Bizarre, possibly drug-fueled promos Gary Young and Billy Joe Travis The time my dad declared Kamala to be his favorite wrestler ever after he beat Kim Chee at a WWF house show when I was eight The time my dad declared Bruiser Brody vs. Abdullah the Butcher to be the best wrestling match ever while I was working the 80's Texas Set Minis Super Porky Jimmy and Lacey The Bill and Buddy Show Wrestling With Death Pirata Morgan Negro Casas El Dandy Yoshiaki Fujiwara Jaguar Yokota Hikari Fukuoka's Moonsault Footstomp World Class-era Jimmy Garvin Rusev's Tank The Regal/Finlay feud of '96 The Liger/Kikuchi feud of '02 The Perros/Capos feud of '04/'05 The ROH/CZW feud of '06 El Hijo del Santo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Crackers Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 I love everybody talking about their dads marking out. When I talk wrestling with my dad all he wants to talk about were his favorites from when he was a kid in the 50s but he has occasionally enjoyed the wrestling I've shown him. He was really into a Tenryu vs Anjoh match I was watching and flipped out when Tenryu was finally able to land a punch. Now he asks me about Tenryu all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilTLL Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Things I wish I had grown up with (10+ years too young) but didn't see until years later: The "New Orleans Police BARRICADE" signs in the Municipal Auditorium. The orange mat at the Tulsa Convention Center. The KATT mascot from 100.5 FM (which still exists!) hyping up faces on their way to the ring at the Myriad. Boyd Pierce's wild jackets and sleepy voice. The state flags hanging in the Irish McNeil. Announcers correctly pronouncing "Rapides Parish Coliseum." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RocketCrypt Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 That rare feeling when you realise that you are witnessing history take place. I often feel as though I missed out on a huge chunk of historically significant moments in wrestling, and have to settle for watching them retrospectively. Regardless of how you go about viewing this footage, there is something to be said for watching it in the moment. A certain magic, if you will. But occasionally, something will happen in the present where time appears to stand still. I look back on it now and laugh, but the moment where the referee slammed his hand to the mat for a third time, signalling the end of The Undertaker’s streak, is still an indescribable feeling. I was sitting in a room with a part time fan and a lapsed fan of the attitude era, and all three of our reactions were the same. Complete silence for a good minute. Special moments like this one which do not come about very often, and reaffirm the notion that wrestling, when executed correctly, Is the best medium of storytelling. Often against my better judgement, this is one reason why I continue to persevere with the current product. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlittlekitten Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Rocket from the Crypt's avatar reminded me . . SMW Ron Wright and heels on wheels/crutches in general. The wild eyed southern boy's fired up, cliche ridden, stumbling babyface promos also in SMW. 1980s AJW themes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goc Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Seconding Ron Wright as a manager. Whether from USA Championship in 88 or SMW he's ALWAYS a fun promo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badlittlekitten Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 The Bill and Buddy Show Curiosity got the better of me and I just spent the last 15 mins watching this. "What a scientific move!" 😁 Fuck, I love Bill Dundee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goc Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 The current WWE folder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerryvonKramer Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Yes! Yes! Yes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapplin' apple Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 I'll gladly third Ron Wright as a manager. My newest utter love is Eric Embry in USWA in the early '90s. The perfect example of the deluded, crazed southern heel. I've been watching this again and again this week. So great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoo Enthusiast Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 I'll gladly third Ron Wright as a manager. My newest utter love is Eric Embry in USWA in the early '90s. The perfect example of the deluded, crazed southern heel. I've been watching this again and again this week. So great. Early '90s USWA in general would be on my list. Bless the Yearbooks for turning me on to the amazing talents of guys like Billy Joe Travis and Gary Young, among others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grapplin' apple Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 One other aspect that I utterly love: --I loved when I bought or traded for videotapes and/or dvds that they would have crazy extras. For example, I had a SMW bloodiest matches tape that at the end had a bunch of Memphis footage including Cornette's run with the Galaxians. I just finished watching a DVD from VHS rip of Southeastern from January 1985. At the very end of the episode, a disembodied voice appears to tell someone named Norman about what was happening in the territory during that time period. He was testing a new feature apparently on his VHS where he could narrate into a microphone onto the videotape. He proceeds to tell Norman that the Christmas 1984 show in Birmingham drew only 4500 people and it wasn't that great because the wrestlers were all obviously drunk. Or, as he kindly puts it, they had "too much Christmas cheer." Then, he talks about Idol popping in and out of the territory and laments that he can't receive Norman's sheet anymore. Add this with the numerous commercials for mobile homes, McDonalds from 1984, and religious programming, and you have a grand mix. I also used to have a videotape of Continental when Eddie Gilbert was booking that featured nothing but commercials from some seafood buffet. It was apparently the only place that would advertise on Continental on that station during that time period. Watching these Southeastern DVDs shows me why I love southern territorial wrestling. The late night underground weirdness picked up on an obscure fuzzy UHF station,The bloodletting, the honor, the sense of eternal unreconstructed justice played in a never ending passion play between heels and babyfaces, the absurdness...this is why I love wrestling, especially from the South. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvd356 Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 Hulk Hogan: Original WWF run made me a wrestling fan(along with Savage and Warrior to be fair). Mania 3, 5, 6 I must've rented 100 times along with early Summerslams and Series'. Loved Hollywood Hogan, badass transformation and awesome look and story arch. And his 2002 return I marked the whole time, from the classic Rock Mania match to the putting over Brock match it was special to me as a teen. All his subsequent WWE runs with Rock, McMahon, HBK and Orton were special too. Keiji Mutoh 2001/2002 run: Not Great Muta. I don't know what the consensus is on this run nowadays is but Mutoh in this run was my favorite Japanese wrestler. I loved the look and I loved everything about this time. He got aloft of press around this time which helped me check out Puro for the first time and he was my favorite immediately. Shining wizard I loved but mostly I just loved how he performed j. The ring and how Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvd356 Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 ***** didn't mean to post that yet. Mutoh: I just loved the run and put Mutoh/Tenryu from 08.06.01 against any Japanese match ever. Coming in I just knew Tenryu as the guy from Mania 7 that power bombed Smash and Fujis henchman that helped put Undertaket in the coffin at Rumble 94'. Was blown away that two old guys could kill each other like that and became big fans of both guys. Also loved the Kawada and Nagata matche's around this time. Don't get me wrong I love the AJPW guys and that stuff is 1a to Mutioh as I watch it every other day to be honest , I just saw Mutoh-Tenryu first so they hold a special place in my fandom. The Shield: Everything they did was awesome. Wasn't sure about them on their entrance cuz I only knew Rollins as Black and knew he was good. The. They go and have that tlc match with Bryan Kane and Ryback and are just different and amazing. Then you got the tag title match with Goldust and Cody which has gotta run away with best Tag Title may h of the decade. Vs Sheamus, Cena, Ryback, vs. Evolution and of course vs. wyatts. All classics. And look at them now. Ambrose was a beast in the ladder match, Rollins had Ortons best match since Bryan along with spot of the year and then has the biggest moment of the year winning the belt and Roman has the maylyxh of the year with Brock Lesnar. Sometimes Vince gets it right. Old heel Andre the Giant: Guy moved like a giant. Giants don't throw spears and get beat every week(Big Show, and I like him actually). Did so much with so little and always was the center of attention. Totally deserves his own Mania tribute may h. Just watched Rumble 89' last night and he was the star of the match. Destroying everyone and the forst half of the match was his. And then plays his patt and runs from the snake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ButchReedMark Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 All Star shows in Rhyl Town Hall, and being aghast at the Russian Roulette which is the ring music for people on the undercard. Big fat wrestlers trying to slam each other and doing that thing where they windmill their arms teasing a back bump. Dusty Rhodes and Chris Cruise on WCW Prime. Lance Russell and the Freebirds on Pro. Lance Russell and Dave Brown. Lance Russell. Jim Powers decent winning record on WCW C/D shows. The sea shanty theme off Reslo and Bryn Fon's snazzy knitwear. John Nord's shoot interview Eric Bischoff dressed like Grandpa Munster on Halloween Havoc. Vader's pornography obsessed twitter. The Blue Bloods "My Fair Lady" vignette. Disco Inferno. Ernest Miller. Barry Windham's superplex. Big Boss Man's run as the wonderfully camp and kitsch diabolical heel in 1999. The Armstrong's entrance music. Wrestling in general, it's mostly pretty fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
...TG Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 Masa Fuchi cornering for Jumbo in the early '90s, marking out along with the rest of the crowd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seej Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 WrestleMania weekend is still one of my favorite things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dawho5 Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 Damn you TG for picking one that I whiffed on. I forget the match, but when Fuchi starts counting along with the ref on a Jumbo cover and whoever it is kicks out Fuchi is more amazed than Jumbo, that moment made me so very very very happy. Masa Fuchi is some kind of wrestling genius that can make a match better even when he's not in it. In a country at the time where they didn't use managers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concrete1992 Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 Hulk Hogan's Twitter game. LITERALLY never disappoints. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilTLL Posted April 10, 2015 Report Share Posted April 10, 2015 The (mildly essentialist) way WCW announcers in the early '90s talk about Japanese fans like they're Zen monks. Learned, patient, focused, quiet, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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