NWA On Demand

[NickH]

 

With the sale now gone through I hope we can now get a good flow of matches being uploaded instead of the drip feed we've been getting.

Where was it announced the sale went through?

 

 

Shit, I jumped the gun. It seems the trademark issues have now been resolved for the sale to go through. Sorry for that.

[NickH]

The midget match today, is the first match from the 6/1/79 card, which could also mean another NWA title match between Harley Race and Wahoo!!!

 

Sorry to disappoint. but the midget match is from the Nov 2 1979 card.

 

Same card as these 2 matches.

- Tor Kamata & Little Tokyo vs Tiger Conway Jr & Coconut Willie

- Ernie Holmes vs Killer Brooks

 

If you look on youtube and search 'Houston Wrestling circa 1979' there is a Mark Lewin/The Spoiler vs. Jose Lothario/El Halcon match. That is from the 6/1/79 card.

[Matt D]

 

The midget match today, is the first match from the 6/1/79 card, which could also mean another NWA title match between Harley Race and Wahoo!!!

 

Sorry to disappoint. but the midget match is from the Nov 2 1979 card.

 

Same card as these 2 matches.

- Tor Kamata & Little Tokyo vs Tiger Conway Jr & Coconut Willie

- Ernie Holmes vs Killer Brooks

 

If you look on youtube and search 'Houston Wrestling circa 1979' there is a Mark Lewin/The Spoiler vs. Jose Lothario/El Halcon match. That is from the 6/1/79 card.

 

Do we have any idea what the main event of that card was? It looks like it was sandwiched between a Harley vs Brody feud, with the big "Mexican" six man the week before.

[NickH]

^ I have no idea what the main event is. It's one of those hidden cards which I kinda like. My guess would be a Brody match, he is in a lot of main events around this time.

[Matt D]

^ I have no idea what the main event is. It's one of those hidden cards which I kinda like. My guess would be a Brody match, he is in a lot of main events around this time.

Looks like he's in St. Louis that night:

 

11/02 St. Louis, MO Dick the Bruiser & Kerry Von Erich(sub for David Von Erich) beat King Kong Brody & Gama Singh(sub for Ox Baker)

[Matt D]

Notice from a local paper from 1970 on Boesch giving a seminar to a women's club:

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth566901/m1/1/?q=%22Paul%20boesch%22

 

A sum up of the same topic (at more length) from a talk he gave at Rice University in 65:

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth244949/m1/8/?q=%22Paul%20boesch%22

 

Here's one from 52 about Boesch's dogs performing for kids (no lie), also a Laff of the Week for Johnny:

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth577320/m1/2/?q=%22Paul%20boesch%22

 

Looking through those local papers it's crazy how often Boesch shows up, either talking to kids at the American Legion or donating half the money for local wrestling mats at a high school or dedicating a new school gym or being the MC at some ceremony or competing against a bunch of housewives in a trivia contest. It's also hugely apparent how thoroughly he was able to promote the womenly art of self defense thing.

[shoe]

This is tremendous Matt.

[shoe]

 

 

 

With the sale now gone through I hope we can now get a good flow of matches being uploaded instead of the drip feed we've been getting.

Where was it announced the sale went through?

Shit, I jumped the gun. It seems the trademark issues have now been resolved for the sale to go through. Sorry for that.

It was announced in the most recent Observer.

[shoe]

Serrano vs Pritchard

 

A cool note is Hulk Hogan's 1st match was against Don Serrano This is more Gold Cup tournament. . Tom working the neck early on. Serrano reverses it into a sitting backbreaker. We get some seperation and they work the mat. Serrano getting some heat. Love Serrano's European Forearms. I'm enjoying Serrano working the heat. Pritchard showing fire in his comeback. Crowd is pretty damn hot for this match. I'm really enjoying Pritchard's leg work. Serrano is a really unique worker. Pritchard works hard and has always had good psychology. They really did have a super fun match. 2 1/2*

[Matt D]

Life is super busy but I did catch these on tuesday and enjoyed them a lot. This was one main event away from being a sort of ideal drop. Solid undercard match with a rare wrestler. Total oddity trainwreck. Midget match. Serrano's heat was so enjoyable. He made more out of a choke than almost anyone I can remember. Just the guy's look and how brazen he was and how he worked the ref and the crowd was a lot of fun. It's strange Pritchard didn't become a bigger deal in Houston. They could have built him more. He definitely had the talent and the crowd behind him. The Slater match was insane. It was like.. bad accidental shoot style. I've never seen a guy blow spots like that and still have his opponent try to work with him. It was obvious he didn't know how to do a single thing. He couldn't hit moves. He couldn't take bumps. He couldn't do spots. Just insane. I kept expecting Slater to start killing him (though maybe the guy was legit good enough that he didn't dare). Weirdest match on the whole service maybe. The midget match was solid but a lot more of what you'd normally expect than the usual fare in Houston. Little Tokyo was awesome in his precision shots, laying in the kicks in the chops and Boesch was as entertaining as ever on commentary but it lacked some of the novelty we've seen elsewhere.

[NickH]

Just watched the Slater/Johnson match. Ugh, this was shit. Slater would've had a better match with a broom. We really need a main event to pop up soon.

[Matt D]

I get that it's the holiday weekend and all, but since we haven't had an upload in a week+ now, it would have been nice to get something to celebrate the two year anniversary. This has absolutely been the best thing about wrestling over the last two years. Nothing else is even close.

[Childs]

I dropped the service for the time being. It just hasn't been worth a damn lately. I'll come back if it does.

[NickH]

This website is really ticking me off. It's some of the best wrestling footage I've seen but the handling of it has been terrible. We don't even know what is going on anymore. I kinda wish WWE made a better offer because they have the money, resources and platform to make the most of this great footage. Tharpe did a good job of getting this site started but I never fully trusted anything he said, I mean how many roku announcements were there? Is it even on roku? Not that I get it but I just wanted to see if he could follow through. I'm sure I wasn't the only one that was disappointed with all these 'big' announcements and nothing. I'm surprised it has lasted this long and they have done well but the last few months have been horrendous. An update or a straight answer would be nice. Even just say the uploads will be on the weekend or something just so we know.

[Matt D]

This website is really ticking me off. It's some of the best wrestling footage I've seen but the handling of it has been terrible. We don't even know what is going on anymore. I kinda wish WWE made a better offer because they have the money, resources and platform to make the most of this great footage. Tharpe did a good job of getting this site started but I never fully trusted anything he said, I mean how many roku announcements were there? Is it even on roku? Not that I get it but I just wanted to see if he could follow through. I'm sure I wasn't the only one that was disappointed with all these 'big' announcements and nothing. I'm surprised it has lasted this long and they have done well but the last few months have been horrendous. An update or a straight answer would be nice. Even just say the uploads will be on the weekend or something just so we know.

 

Transparency is a pretty basic necessity, and to be honest, it'd probably garner a lot of good will.People are generally forgiving if they're communicated with openly. That said,if WWE made a better offer, we probably would have seen

[Tabe]

I dropped the service for the time being. It just hasn't been worth a damn lately. I'll come back if it does.

Yep, I did the same.

[Tim Cooke]

I dropped a month ago when the uploads slowed and the matches that were being put up weren't interesting to me. A shame because there are still a lot of interesting matches, including some more MX from 1984, Santo Sr. matches, etc.

[BruceTharpe]

I have been unable to communicate due to non-disclosure requirements and apologize for that. As of today the library has formaly been acquired. I don't know what the future of the network is but I want to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU to each and every one who supported NWAOnDemand - wrote reviews - enjoyed the matches - and most of all subscribed. It truly was a labor of love for over two years and I kept it going as long as I could. To me - it truly was a preservation of wrestling history as we presented the matches in as unedited a form as we could. Hope you enjoyed them and thanks again very much.

[shoe]

Well it was great while it lasted.

[Matt D]

I have been unable to communicate due to non-disclosure requirements and apologize for that. As of today the library has formaly been acquired. I don't know what the future of the network is but I want to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU to each and every one who supported NWAOnDemand - wrote reviews - enjoyed the matches - and most of all subscribed. It truly was a labor of love for over two years and I kept it going as long as I could. To me - it truly was a preservation of wrestling history as we presented the matches in as unedited a form as we could. Hope you enjoyed them and thanks again very much.

At the end of the day and with all details aside, the service was the most I enjoyed wrestling in a long time. It was something to look forward to every week if not every day. I know not everything probably went how you thought it might, but there's never really been footage quite like this (I stand by that), and we've seen enough of it to recreate a clear and vivid image of Paul Boesch's Houston Wrestling, something that had been lost relative to other "territories." We're going to carry that forward, like we do with Portland or Memphis.

 

I hope we get more. But I'm glad that we were able to see what we did.

[Johnny Sorrow]

I'm now free for podcasts where I rave about your product and still pay for it.

 

 

Sorry, but there are a bunch of "Womenly Art of Self Defense " segments I am owed.

[Flyin' Brian]

I have been unable to communicate due to non-disclosure requirements and apologize for that. As of today the library has formaly been acquired. I don't know what the future of the network is but I want to take this opportunity to say THANK YOU to each and every one who supported NWAOnDemand - wrote reviews - enjoyed the matches - and most of all subscribed. It truly was a labor of love for over two years and I kept it going as long as I could. To me - it truly was a preservation of wrestling history as we presented the matches in as unedited a form as we could. Hope you enjoyed them and thanks again very much.

Thank you for acquiring the footage and going through the process of converting it into a format that could be shared with all of us. It is a piece of history we didn't have before and I'm thankful it's been preserved. I hope Billy Corgan will continue what you started.

[Brian Elliott]

It's really important that the footage is available in some manner.

[conker8]

Do we know why some matches disappear from the website ?

 

I understand that some matches (like the Ghetto Street Fight) are on WWE DVD but what about a match like Buddy Roberts vs Steve Williams or the Lewin/Hart series ?

[shoe]

Nope. Just happened when they switched websites.