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Between the Sheets #56 (August 10-16, 1989) (Featuring Jim Valley)


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Kris & David are joined by Jim Valley (Pro Wrestling Torch) to discuss the week that was August 10-16, 1989. We talk about Ric Flair’s trials as the head booker of the NWA with some incoming talent coming to help. We talk about Big Van Vader winning the IWGP Title and the USA/Russians/Team Japan competition. We also talk about the debut of Texas Dirt in Memphis as well as the epic Buddy Landel vs. Nightmare Freddy match. We also talk about the first ever USWA show in Dallas and just why didn’t the WWF make a bigger deal about jobbing out Andre the Giant on house shows to the Ultimate Warrior. This is a really fun show so check it out!!!

 

0:00:00 WCW
1:12:07 Int’l: AJPW, NJPW, UWF, FMW, Stampede, & WWC
1:57:43 The Amazon Game & in-house notes
2:36:42 USA East-ish: CWF, CWA, & USWA
2:59:49 USA West (AWA & Portland) & Potpourri
3:46:01 WWF

 

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Bix's initial thoughts were correct--that was Victor Zangiev in UWFI and the "Carousel" armbar was his big specialty.

 

I've found very little info on that last member of Team USA. His name as NJPW called him was either Mike Huff, Mike Haff, or Mike Hough (he was definitely listed by NJPW as Mike and not Mark--and it wasn't Mark Fleming, either). He wasn't quite 300 pounds but was otherwise a dead ringer for Gary Albright, right down to the red singlet. He had matches with Kengo Kimura and Saito that made NJPW TV or Classics.

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I always enjoy these 80s episodes. First because it's a period without much online backup on the big sites, and second because it's often a very interesting time in the business as we get the transition toward the big 2 as more and more places die off but still have interesting stuff and talent lurking around. It might have been a feature of this week but kind of strange WWF seems to get so little attention. I know it's often largely a function of how much of a mess WCW is, especially after JCP goes belly up, but still kind of strange considering how WWF was still red hot at this point.

 

I'm going to go back in to listen to usa east and west stuff, especially since Kris' amazing episode on CWF got me jazzed up to seek out that footage. Props to both Kris and Bix for consistently churning out content and it being high level. I'm running out of space on my phone, and it's always a bitch to decide which podcast I should delete and just save for future streaming because so many of them are just so good.

 

x2 on Made in Georgia.

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