Titans of Wrestling #46: WWF June to September 1981

[JerryvonKramer]

http://placetobenation.com/titans-of-wrestling-46-wwf-june-to-september-1981/

 

 

Parv, Pete, Johnny and Kelly celebrate their return to WWF in 1981 by looking at a bunch of stuff from June to September before providing one whole HOUR of bonus content on the difficult-to-find Sgt. Slaughter vs. Pat Patterson matches from the Philly Spectrum.

 

On the docket tonight:

 

06-20 SGT SLAUGHTER vs RICK MCGRAW WWF TV

07-11 DON MURACO vs STEVE KING WWF TV

07-20 DON MURACO vs PEDRO MORALES IC TITLE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN

07-25 MOONDOGS vs GAREA/MARTEL TAG TITLE WWF TV

08-01 ANDRE THE GIANT vs MOONDOG REX PHILADELPHIA SPECTRUM

08-01 BOB BACKLUND vs MOONDOG REX WWF TV

08-81 DON MURACO PROMO WWF TV

08-15 GREG VALENTINE vs MUHAMMED SAAD WWF TV

08-15 MURACO SQUASH, RICK MCGRAW INTERVIEW WWF TV

08-22 FUJI/SAITO vs HENNIG/SD JONES WWF TV

09-19 ANGELO MOSCA SQUASH, HITS PAT WITH PITCHER WWF TV

 

Bonus:

 

04-18 SGT SLAUGHTER vs PAT PATTERSON PHILADELPHIA SPECTRUM

06-27 SGT SLAUGHTER vs MIL MASCARAS WWF TV CAPITAL CENTER

08-01 SGT SLAUGHTER vs PAT PATTERSON (alley fight) PHILADELPHIA SPECTRUM

 

Highlights include:

 

- "... and my name is, Joooooeee McHugh!"

- Kayfabe most successful manager

- Mini-bios for super-obscure jobbers Mohammad Saad and Tom Lynch

- Random discussion of Lord Alfred Hayes and Vince Jr's odd love for him

- Discussion of Masa Saito's career

- And in the BONUS hour ... round up on the Slaughter vs. Patterson series, including comparisons of the Philly and MSG matches

[shoe]

Count along with me on the amount of times Parv creates his own background for his amusement. I've counted 5 in the 1st 30 minutes.

[dawho5]

In regards to your discussion of cage matches and escape rules, I understand keeping it out of a blood feud for sure. The one time I see that being a viable stip is when you have the most chickenshit of heels who keeps eluding the babyface until the point they have to lock the guy in a cage to get any kind of match out of him.

 

I would also like to point out how it is that Marty (a known Titans associate) and Kelly are the only champions of Brainbuster so far. Anyone else think that there is some sort of Titans conspiracy going on here?

[Ricky Jackson]

No conspiracies. Just talent. In fact, I'm issuing an open challenge for anyone around here to meet me on Brainbuster. I'll take on all comers.

[UKWildcat]

Holy shit!!! Epstein is making an appearance?!?

[El McKell]

When Kelly said Mohammad Saad only wrestled 3 matches I decided to see if cagematch.net knew he existed and if there was any information on anything else he did and according to them he teamed with Dean Ambrose in some random indie in Ohio in 2007.

 

http://www.cagematch.net/?id=2&nr=5763&page=4

[KrisZ]

Mohammad Saad was a Detroit guy who worked all the shows in that area for a lot of the 80's and longer

[UKWildcat]

Listening now and my all time fav Andre the Giant "ladies man" story is when Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissey describes seeing Andre screwing a young lady and said it was "like a lion raping a rabbit". Would have loved to hear Lord Al say this (after saying he loves children).

[JerryvonKramer]

Mohammad Saad was a Detroit guy who worked all the shows in that area for a lot of the 80's and longer

Any idea what he was doing working those three dates for Vince Sr?

 

His facial expression is hilarious when the crowd barely murmur a cheer for him. He's like "oh okay, alright then, whatever".

[KrisZ]

No idea....

[UKWildcat]

To add on how Super 8 got the same seat each week: we went to the Louisville Gardens weekly, so we'd pay this money a buck to get us our same seat. She'd make an extra $25 a week from a group in our area.

[JerryvonKramer]

I was really tickled by Saad's reaction to the crowd, so I thought I'd share that match:

 

[Outsider]

Johnny Sorow is obsessed with Saad's hair. Johnny must have one of those '70s comb-overs. Wearing that Yamicka all those years probably didn't help. Anyway Saad was totally inline with the style of the time. The man perm was in the mustache was in & Johnny is jealous. Parv you really got to play Poker. You got so much info from Saad's split-second reaction. Great show besides Johnny's racist rant assuming every person with an Arabic name must be connected to Binladen.

[Johnny Sorrow]

It's " yarmulke" you fucking zero.

[shoe]

I counted 12 moments where Parv created his own backstory or theory without any true data. I gave him the benefit of the doubt with Saad.

[shoe]

I also had to put my head down in shame in being the only person on the panel getting Johnny's Willie Aames reference.

[bradhindsight]

In your defense Pete, we all got it when he said Charles in Charge.

[SteveJRogers]

Zinkoff, who died in 1985, is one of a handful of either broadcasters or arena PA announcers to be honored by a franchise with a "retired number.". This is by a Philadelphia 76er banner at Wells Fargo arena with his name and a microphone.

 

Quick research, this was done as he was their PA guy from their inception (former Syracuse Nats) in 1963 through his death, as well as same roll for the Warriors (now the Golden State Warriors) from 1946-1962.

[dawho5]

I think I may have been worse when I answered the Plan Nine From Outer Space question right while listening to Brainbuster. I only know of it because of a MST3K spinoff, but it's still kind of embarrassing that it was one of the very few answers I knew that show.

[Superstar Sleeze]

Thanks Parv for the shoutout, brutha. I will definitely have to check out Martel/Garea especially against the Moondogs.

[Superstar Sleeze]

A "STREET CLOTHES" Match, holy shit that was the funniest fucking thing ever. Parv anytime you need to tap out just send up the Sleeze Signal, I am here for you brutha. Put me in coach, I am ready to play, my man!