Kuwait 1986 (mostly ageing WWF Talent)

[David Mantell]

 

 

What it says on the tin.  Pedro Morales, the Moondogs,  Mr Fuji in tights, Putski and Tito as a tag team. All this and more. Booked by someone who was obviously a big fan of fthe WWF scene five years earlier .

[David Mantell]

On a related Kuwaiti note 

 

 

 

 

[JRH]

I remember that one of the Best of the WWF tapes had a match from Kuwait involving Mr. Fuji vs some blonde guy (since the commentary was in Arabic, there was no way to tell who the blonde wrestler was). I wonder if that match was from this tour.

EDIT: The tape in question is Best of the WWF volume 16.

[David Mantell]

52 minutes ago, JRH said:

I remember that one of the Best of the WWF tapes had a match from Kuwait involving Mr. Fuji vs some blonde guy (since the commentary was in Arabic, there was no way to tell who the blonde wrestler was). I wonder if that match was from this tour.

I wonder who the Arabic commentator was on these.  In the 1990s, former top Egyptian babyface and "European Champion" Mamdough Farag embarked on a TV career that included him recording bootleg Arabic commentary.  As Cairo is a BIG media hub for the Arab world, Farag and his cackling Cairo accent became ubitiquous throughout Middle Eastern wrestling fandom.   

Of course this was happening without Vince's permission and he and the execs were all spittin' FURIOUS about it - so much so that when WWE finally came to Cairo in 2012, Farag - the native citizen most closely associated with the sport in Egypt - was banned from the building!  He died a few years later.

This of course the raises the question of who was actually commenting on Farag's own matches as "Egypt's National Hero"/"Egypt's Own Rocky Story" Etc Etc back in the 80s and into the 90s: