Wrestling with a Generation Gap 18 - Vancouver & Cena vs. Punk MITB 2011

[thebrainfollower]

Welcome to the 18^th episode of Wrestling with a Generation Gap! This time Dave, Nick and Rob take a look at one of the LEAST regard territories of all time, Al Tomko's Vancouver based All Star Wrestling. The gang eulogizes over Rob's favorite wrestling personality ever, Bobby Heenan (this was recorded months ago), Rob is somewhat on a downer over getting canned and the worst job interview ever (he since has a better job lol) but the boys power through this awful territory. They debate which war Al fought in, whether or not a territory based on aging legends works then or today, Dave loves Tomko, Dave argues Ricky Steamboat was a luchadore, PTB Networks GWWE contest, bios on some jabronis and Earthquake, we digress to a discussion of ALF hosting the Tonight Show and a whole lot more.

Then it's new school as John Cena defends the WWE Championship against CM Punk at MITB 2011!

 

On the docket is

 

Al Tomko promo (with extended clips of Al vs. John Tolos)

The Atomic Kid vs. Sonny Myers

John Tenta & Rick Davis vs. Terry Rivera & the Great Scott

Dean Ho vs. Rocky Dellasarra

Gene & Kelly Kiniski vs. Igor Volkoff & Moose Morowski

Kinisk promo

Al Tomko promos and angles galore

Battle Royal

John Cena vs. CM Punk – MITB 2011

 

https://youtu.be/SGucEkOWEWI

[Ricky Jackson]

Vancouver! Interesting choice. Uncharted waters as far as the old territories go.

[thebrainfollower]

I literally knew nothing about this when we started

[Ricky Jackson]

Vancouver is probably the most unknown of the old territories. By the time footage becomes available in the 80s, they had severed ties with Owen and Portland and limped through the decade with minimal talent and little in the way of memorable matches or feuds that I'm aware of. They were upstaged in their own city by Stampede, who ran several big shows in 83 and 84. Dead territory by 89. By all accounts Vancouver was a hotbed for wrestling in the 60s and 70s and at times was as hot as any city in North America, which makes the sad years under Tomko even harder to take

[Shrike02]

Despite being a big wrestling fan as a kid in Vancouver from 84 onwards, I never went to a local show from 84 through 89. By all accounts I did not miss much.