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Which TV Wresting Association Did You Favour?
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Mark said:
It was an ugly broadcast, but John Cazana's Knoxville promotion was my fave. Big Jim Hess and his classic "Whop Your Head Off Hold" calling the matches from the old channel 26.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hAW5Vpp8Gag#at=337
Whatever happened to the Mongolian Stomper?
I started out watching Knoxville based Southeastern Championship Wrestling and the Memphis promotion with Jimmy valiant & Bill Dundee back in 1980. Saw lots of Jim Crockett Promotions, WWF and World Class. 1980-89 was my favorite time period for wrestling. Much preferred the old territory days to "sports entertainment" of today.
I think my family started out with Memphis Wrestling with Lance Russell and Dave Brown covering the action, if I remember correctly, then later on my brother and I was a big fan of WCW, World Championship Wrestling. We stuck with the company up to the WWE brought it. WCW had a lot high points and lot of low points, just sad to see what happened to that company.
My family and I have seen Bill Dundee a couple of times at the local Wal Mart lately, he is from this area.
My family and I have seen Bill Dundee a couple of times at the local Wal Mart lately, he is from this area.
I grew up on WWF/E, from about the time they started their national expansion outside of the Northeast (thus killing off most of other regional territories elsewhere) to the end of the Attitude Era of the late 90s/early 2000s. I also watched on WCW on TBS and local syndication on occassion, as well as the original Extreme Championship Wrestling (mostly around from the mid-90s to 2001).
My hometown was part of the regional territory of the old American Wrestling Association, which was where many superstars (such Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels and several others) got their starts. I remember seeing on local TV in Rockford (I believe on WREX), plus some of those daytime showings on ESPN for several years.
My hometown was part of the regional territory of the old American Wrestling Association, which was where many superstars (such Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels and several others) got their starts. I remember seeing on local TV in Rockford (I believe on WREX), plus some of those daytime showings on ESPN for several years.
It's all where you grew up...In the Midwest, we had the WWA with Dick The Bruiser, Wilbur Snyder, the Valiant Brothers (Handsome Jimmy and Luscious John), Baron Von Raschke, Ivan Koloff, Bobo Brazil, Pretty Boy Bobby (later, of course, Bobby "The Brain" Heenan) and all the rest. Until the WWF went national in the early-mid 80's pro wrestling was very much a regional thing.
Mid '80s NWA on TBS.
It had a grittier "realer" feel than the more cartoony WWF.
NWA did their TBS shows at the Center Stage Theatre in Atlanta.
We had Ric Flair (with eventually the 4 Horsemen) Magnum TA, Dusty Rhodes, the Road Warriors, Nikita Koloff, and on and on.
What eventually became WCW grew out of the NWA.
It had a grittier "realer" feel than the more cartoony WWF.
NWA did their TBS shows at the Center Stage Theatre in Atlanta.
We had Ric Flair (with eventually the 4 Horsemen) Magnum TA, Dusty Rhodes, the Road Warriors, Nikita Koloff, and on and on.
What eventually became WCW grew out of the NWA.
I was a WWE/F fan in the day when they had more cartoon character type wrestlers (hog farmers, clowns, Moolah and Mae, models, friars, Russians singing the national anthem, the Rosati Triplets and their crush on Hennan) all wrapped up in Bobby Heenan's hilarious quips with Gorilla Monsoon.
Monsoon: "you're not gonna beat a guy like Brady Boone with a simple headlock."
Hennan: "No, you gotta slip him a couple of hundred."
It was great fun.
I do have a soft spot for WCW, however. One of the first shows I saw when we got cable was WCW wrestling. One of the first images was Freddie (don't remember his last name) one of the hosts. He looked and sounded like some hick from the sticks. Yep, glad we can see stuff like this with cable. Then there was Gordon Solie who tried to pay tribute to a major plan crash (I want to say the Lockerbie bombing with a couple hundred people). Gordon said, "We all want to remember that uh, you know, that plane thing that happened." So, this is what we have been missing on cable. WCW was good however, with the managers like Jim Cornette ("If his brain produced gasoline, you couldn't get enough to fill a moped for a flea to ride around a raindrop".), Paul Jones, Paul Ellering, and the others blustery ones.
Monsoon: "you're not gonna beat a guy like Brady Boone with a simple headlock."
Hennan: "No, you gotta slip him a couple of hundred."
It was great fun.
I do have a soft spot for WCW, however. One of the first shows I saw when we got cable was WCW wrestling. One of the first images was Freddie (don't remember his last name) one of the hosts. He looked and sounded like some hick from the sticks. Yep, glad we can see stuff like this with cable. Then there was Gordon Solie who tried to pay tribute to a major plan crash (I want to say the Lockerbie bombing with a couple hundred people). Gordon said, "We all want to remember that uh, you know, that plane thing that happened." So, this is what we have been missing on cable. WCW was good however, with the managers like Jim Cornette ("If his brain produced gasoline, you couldn't get enough to fill a moped for a flea to ride around a raindrop".), Paul Jones, Paul Ellering, and the others blustery ones.
In the 70s-80s Detroit market we got Canadian wrestling. Don't remember the name of the organization but it featured Dr. Jerry Graham Jr., Bulldog Don Kent, the Great Wojo and George Cannon. I thought it was real.
My Uncles (who were 10 & 11 years older than me) told me about Bobo Brazil and used to scare me with stories of the Original Sheik who would set wrestlers shoes on fire.
My Uncles (who were 10 & 11 years older than me) told me about Bobo Brazil and used to scare me with stories of the Original Sheik who would set wrestlers shoes on fire.
Jimme said:
Freddie Miller. His famous line was "BE THERE!" when plugging upcoming cards.
In Louisville, we had the Gulas/Welch NWA promotion out of Memphis as the primary area presenter, with occasional forays here by the Chicago and WWWF (the earlier East Coast McMahan family) groups.
During the '60s through the early '80s, the NWA booked Louisville Gardens, the smaller (7,000) of the city's three arenas, for 46 Tuesday nights a year for their shows...and sold out about every week! The hilarious hype provided by the Saturday afternoon NWA TV matches (from, I believe, WMC-TV Memphis) helped.
In modern days, the WWE has sold out our new KFC YUM! Center arena (22,500) twice in its short history, as they routinely did venerable Freedom Hall (20,030).
During the '60s through the early '80s, the NWA booked Louisville Gardens, the smaller (7,000) of the city's three arenas, for 46 Tuesday nights a year for their shows...and sold out about every week! The hilarious hype provided by the Saturday afternoon NWA TV matches (from, I believe, WMC-TV Memphis) helped.
In modern days, the WWE has sold out our new KFC YUM! Center arena (22,500) twice in its short history, as they routinely did venerable Freedom Hall (20,030).
Wrestling from Ed Farhat's Detroit Promotion was shown on TV here beginning in the mid-1960's and held cards at the Cincinnati Gardens. Farhat wrestled as "The Sheik" so he was usually featured on the TV shows and at the live matches.
Mark said:
The AWA was the promotion out of Minneapolis.
I am a native of Connecticut. Naturally WWF/E has been with us forever, since they're based in Stamford, about 70 miles away. We used to get one of the NWA shows in syndication here as well. They had three arena (house) shows at the now-demolished New Haven Coliseum in 1989. I went to the third and final show in November of 1989. NWA never ran an arena show in Hartford, likely due to Hartford being in WWF/E's backyard, so to speak. Only by 1997 would WCW Monday Nitro get taped at the then-Hartford Civic Center (WWF/E ran Boston that same night). Lastly, we briefly received an AWA show in syndication via channel 26 of New London from 1988-90 or so.
I only watched WWF as a kid. I was in a phase where I liked watching wrestling. I haven't been into watching wrestling in over 20 years, that I never kept track of the different wrestling organizations. While this wasn't an actual wrestling organization that I'm aware of, but WPWR-TV showed GLOW (Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling) for 2 or 3 years, & I'd watch that show. I rarely saw lady wrestlers on WWF (now WWE). For the few times I did see lady wrestlers on WWF, it seemed to be a bit more serious (even if it might have been scripted) than GLOW was.
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