All Star Wrestling on the Network

[Ricky Jackson]

Speaking of bad hair/toupee, what the fuck is going on with Rocca?

[Ricky Jackson]

Mr. Fuji's Kamikaze clothesline was badass

[Cornette's racket]

The episode I'm watching today is for January 27th 1979 episode which is 47 minutes long and nearly twenty minutes in and we've had a time limit draw and an Ivan koloff vs Steve king match where koloff didn't make king look like shit and gave him some offence. And also praised him as a good wrestler.

 

Also Vince has just asked a logical question about why Ivan pulled his opponent up at the count of two. Maybe I've been listening to cornette and his less than positive comments about the New York product but I'm really liking it so far.

[Sean Liska]

Watching a fun Tito-Rodz match. Rodz and Estrada were really the key to whether you're going to get a good show in what I've seen of 79, whether you'll get a fun competitive match. You learn something every day.

[Ricky Jackson]

BOB BACKLUND VS BARON SCICLUNA!!! (1/28/78) Ok, Titans is coming back. Auditions to replace Parv start tomorrow at 5pm sharp

[Ricky Jackson]

More gold on this show: Frank Williams signing an autograph for a fan before his match

[Cornette's racket]

During the Ivan koloff interview the good captain himself does a tale of the tape on koloff. Vince calls Albano a lunatic and says thank you very much to end the interview.

[thebrainfollower]

Anyone know who Cowboy Bob was on the 2-27-76 show? The Baron is all over these early episodes and this is way more entertaining than I was expecting

[PeteF3]

I'm not going to spring for the Baron as a lost worker or anything, but I'm pleasantly surprised that he's actually working some holds and doing some wrestling in these matches, instead of going straight for either the foreign object or the hold-the-ear sell.

[thebrainfollower]

his reaction to Cerdan and Parisi going heel against his partner was laugh out loud funny

[Ricky Jackson]

Dear God, I'm the same age as Stan Stasiak in early 1978

[Ricky Jackson]

And Stasiak vs Maivia from 2/11/78 is nice little short brawl

[Ricky Jackson]

Man, I wonder if Iron Sheik had to go by Great Hussein Arab in WWF because Arion was the billed as the Iron Greek. I've always wondered why he used a different name there and was Sheik everywhere else

[Ricky Jackson]

Warms my heart that Frankie Williams was a crowd favorite to the Hamburg faithful, always getting a small roar when he's introduced

[hammerva]

Albano might have bumped more in that 1975 match that he did from the entire 1980-1983.

 

I was confused about the Frank Monte match because twice he deliberately threw his opponent over the top rope (hell of a bump on that first one). I always thought that over the top rope was a DQ throughout the 70's and most of the 80's.

[Ricky Jackson]

Never in in WWWF/WWF though

[Sean Liska]

For those of you involved in the Yearbook project, I recommend supplementing your All-Star watching with that, fills in gaps with some Championship Wrestling footage and MSG shows. Like, I'm in June 79 on All-Star, and it looks like Championship Wrestling got a Dibiase-Patterson match that weekend. Being able to see the weekly TV and then see the big house shows is a New York only thing that we have now for 79-80.

[cowboy hats]

In the ‘Ernie Ladd promo’ episode, Bobo Brazil is introduced as the U.S. Heavyweight Champion, but doesn’t have a belt. Was that a thing then, guys not wearing belts, or Bobo happened to just not have it with him that day?

[Ricky Jackson]

It's confusing, but as far as I know there wasn't a physical WWWF US title, and Bobo never defended it. He was just billed as US champ for years, and he was the Detroit US champ off and on for years at the same time

[sek69]

There apparently was an actual WWWF US title belt, but I don't ever recall watching a match where anyone wore it.

[Ricky Jackson]

I think the belt on the right was worn by Pedro Morales in 70/71 when he returned to the WWWF and just before he defeated Koloff for the WWWF belt (Pedro came to the ring with the US title against Koloff I believe). The other was Rogers US belt that became the first WWWF title in 1963 after he lost the NWA belt to Thesz

[Dylan Waco]

Can anyone give me a list of standout matches from All Star viewing so far?

[Johnny Sorrow]

Can anyone give me a list of standout matches from All Star viewing so far?

Dude, its about the whole TV package . I know you mean well, but you cant imagine how fucking stupid I find it when the reaction to old TV I love is Whats da best matches ?

[Dylan Waco]

 

Can anyone give me a list of standout matches from All Star viewing so far?

Dude, its about the whole TV package . I know you mean well, but you cant imagine how fucking stupid I find it when the reaction to old TV I love is Whats da best matches ?

 

 

Is there a reason you replied here? If the sole function was to let me know you find my question "fucking stupid" I'll happily delete your post as an explicit troll, but I want to give you the benefit of the doubt.

[Sean Liska]

Can anyone give me a list of standout matches from All Star viewing so far?

Standout is a bit of a relative term for this stuff but something like Travis/Putski-Scicluna/Coage from 4/14/79 is an example of some matches being much more fun than we expected.