Mystery Titans Theatre

[Karl]

I cannot stress enough how much I love these - I hope there are many many more to come.

[thebrainfollower]

You guys are more than welcome.

 

As to why this card was taped, I really have no idea. It's pretty random. The only thing I'm guessing is that they needed some footage for Prime Time Wrestling and were running low on lousy undercard matches nobody wanted to see. IIRC they re-aired quite a few matches around this time so it might have been a question of needing something.

There were a few other cards from this arena filmed over the years. December of 1990 but that's a much better card for a 4k arena, with Dusty-Dibiase, Jake-Martel, Earthquake and the Hart Foundation. I've actually been looking for that card for years as it has the first competitive Undertaker singles match (with Koko) and I'm curious to see how it worked.

[thebrainfollower]

I share a birthday with Jack Brisco,

 

Quick catch up Johnny. While Jimmy Hart did manage Greg Valentine and Dino Bravo, and at the same time, the New Dream Team was broken up by then. They did team together once against the Rockers in 89 during the Ron Garvin referee storyline but they never actually reunited as a team, Just a one off thing,

[thebrainfollower]

Also Johnny did you ever attend any terrible cards like this live? My first card was Muraco-Valentine, Ware-Bad News and Rockers-Conquistadors along with a bunch of jobber matches but that was a small city like Fitchburg MA and even that I feel was a better roster than this card.

[dgrblue]

Lots of cock and balls talk on this one. Have to say, starting to avree with Johnny here, just enjoy the show, lets pump the breaks as it were on the over analysing everything.

[thebrainfollower]

Funny that Johnny and I are in complete agreement about the bizarre ignorant love of all things Japanese.

 

And PWO's bizarre niche of the niche status.

 

Yeah Bret as a good guy in Canada only started in 87. I am not sure what the crowd reaction would have been in old Stampede cities, but none of those cards were televised.

[Ricky Jackson]

He was brought back to Stampede in 87 to work a mini program with Davey Boy and was treated like a heel by the crowd from what I remember. Like I said on the show, I knew he was from Calgary and I loved Owen, but had no patriotic attachment to Bret at that time. He was just another bad guy as far as I was concerned, and one I disliked more than most because he played a part in my beloved Bulldogs losing the belts

[RCS1988]

Best comment was during the Magee Gibbs match mentioning the Magee Arn Anderson match. You don't have to review it. Just mentioning that match during a Magee match was good enough for me. I'm satisfied. The only match that was not shown was Sika vs. Frankie Lane. Sika won.

[PeteF3]

You guys are more than welcome.

 

As to why this card was taped, I really have no idea. It's pretty random. The only thing I'm guessing is that they needed some footage for Prime Time Wrestling and were running low on lousy undercard matches nobody wanted to see. IIRC they re-aired quite a few matches around this time so it might have been a question of needing something.

 

I also wonder if CanCon had anything to do with it. The syndicated shows in Canada had Maple Leaf Garden or sometimes Copps Coliseum content added in, as well as Canada-centric local promos and Event Centers, to conform to Canadian content regulations. It may have been taped for that reason.

 

I'll take this card from 5/22/94 in Columbus against this London card or any other (and ignore thehistoryofwwe for this--the results are wrong):

 

- Duke Droese, who had just debuted, vs. some guy (Graham says Dave Heath and it may well have been)

- Koko B. Ware (?) vs. John Paul (?!), who was subbing for the Genius (??!!). Paul even got the "Girls in Cars" entrance despite being the ostensible heel.

- The Smoking Gunns vs. The Bushwhackers (yeah, make sense of that one)

- 1-2-3 Kid vs. Bastion Booger (who hadn't been on TV in 6 months)

- Maybe another match or two I can't remember. Tatanka vs. Crush was advertised but may or may not have taken place.

- Main event: Yokozuna vs. Typhoon, who was a surprise sub for the departed Earthquake.

 

Just dire, and possibly the WWF at its lowest point ever.

[Ricky Jackson]

I dunno, I would put the first card we looked at, April 83 at Cap Centre, against any shitty WWF card ever. It was soooo bad

[JerryvonKramer]

That Cap Centre card is currently the worst card I've ever seen. Worse than Bunkhouse Stampede 88, Heroes of Wrestling or any WWE show of the past 15 years.

 

If there's a worse card, if the WWF ever ran a C-crew card circa 94-95, I imagine it would be in there. The one Pete has pointed at does look putrid.

[thebrainfollower]

There's a card headlined by George Steele vs. Danny Davis from 87 in a major market but I forget which one

[PeteF3]

We got that one in Columbus too, though the ostensible selling point was Mr. T as the guest referee. We also had Honky Tonk Man defending the IC title against Steamboat with Jimmy Hart suspended above the ring in a cage, which was an acceptable B-show main event.

[garretta]

I'm making my way through the 5/19/84 Cap Center card, and I'm surprised you guys missed something: What is Tiger Chung Lee, who's supposed to be Korean, doing wearing tights with the Japanese flag on them? I know he was teaming with Fuji, but Korean flag patches couldn't have been that hard to find, could they?

 

Also, most of the rundown on the YouTube description comes from the 6/9/84 card. I think the only match you list from this card is Blair/Goulet.

[RCS1988]

This would be an interesting match for the Titans crew to watch.

 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9xlob_ruska-vs-sakaguchi-march-20-1978_s%20port

[Ricky Jackson]

That's a cool find because it's a friggen worked judo match in 1978 MSG, and also because it is from a card that was untelevised in the States. The only matches to make tape were filmed for Japanese TV, with a 6-man between Andre/Mascaras/Dusty vs Patera/Fuji/Tanaka being the other one I've seen

[RCS1988]

I watched the match, and it looked like a standard wrestling match, except they are wearing judo outfits. What are the rules of a Judo match? Also, Ruska was able to get a win over him on Championship Wrestling 4/1/78.

[thebrainfollower]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcq8Gna_ppw

 

 

This card is pretty lousy though the main even is bizarre and interesting at least. It does have a good Rick Martel-Tama match as well

[Ricky Jackson]

Yeah, there is that one and an even worse Spectrum card from 88 on youtube that will make for prime Mystery Titans shows

[thebrainfollower]

I am watching the 88 one now. Seems an okay B show to me to be honest.

[landy1987]

I am watching the 88 one now. Seems an okay B show to me to be honest.

I dunno, the purpose of me uploading both shows was for the guys to review at some point. Sure the 88 one has more "names" but the matches stink - Bravo-Patera, Bass-JYD, Andre-Duggan to name a few 😣

[thebrainfollower]

I fell asleep at the Stallions-Bolsheviks match, then AGAIN at Beefcake-Honky so maybe I was being too nice.

[Ricky Jackson]

Kelly and Johnny are back to guide you through yet another WWF spectacular, this time the 10/13/1985 "Hulkamania" card from Maple Leaf Gardens! In honor of the GWE, 7% of Kelly's top 100 are present, including no less than 3 men from his top ten and his overall number 1! And in honor of bad taste, plenty of talk about Ron Garvin's nipples!

 

[Matt D]

I'm not reviewing any of these matches.

[Ricky Jackson]

You'll be missing out on a damn good tag title match and an awesome main event