Oh God...

I can't believe this thread has reached "Last Page" status

That sounds like a gimmick a poster might use on this site.

... eh ... not that I'd know anything about that... :shifty:

:shifty:

If I want to watch an episode of "Mid South Wrestling," what's a really good episode to watch to check it out? Never seen it I don't think

I love the May.31 1986 episode with Eddie Gilbert, The Russians and Bill Watts.

The June 29 1985 episode is great but I'm not sure if it's on the Network.

Gertner had me start at the beginning of 82 I think. JYD looks so healthy and buff, it's unreal.

Yeah I'm not the best with dates, but you really can't go wrong with 82 Mid South. Hell, Mid South was even good when it became the UWF in 86.

Wait am I confusing it with Mid Atlantic Wrestling... which one is the one that's supposed to be really good

Mid Atlantic seems to be more prominently featured on WWE Network

Mid Atlantic is Jim Crockett, Mid South is Bill Watts

Depends if you're in the mood for Flair or JYD

Gertner you say things now

Mid Atlantic depends on the year. 85 and 86 is great. 83-84 were transition years and very hit and miss.

The first Starrcade in 83 was pretty bad besides the last few matches.

The T.V was pretty bad as well.

I was watching an old MSG show from 1981 and came across this match. I've had this show for a while but had never watched it. What a fun match.

The Moondogs were lunatics based on the Smokey Mountain shit I've seen. I just thought they were fat simpletons in the old WWE stuff. Nope, pure maniacs.

You gotta check out their Memphis stuff. Fucking ridiculous wild brawls.

Does every match in Japanese wrestling begin with ribbons and streamers covering the canvas?

my balls hurt

Gertner, what should he do?

Rest them on a block of ice

thanks

Jeff Jarrett looked so young and skinny in 1986...
They sold him as a nice young man who referee'd the matches then got his dick smashed by Bill Dundee and Buddy Landel.

Feel like I love Double J even more now.

Now Bill's doing his own commentary with Buddy and Dutch as he watches a clip of him wrestling Big Red Reese.
Guy's called Big Red and he wears green...

Everything should be like this. Last match Bill body slams a guy on the concrete floor and the guy is fucked for the rest of the match.
It's the simple things.

Fucking amazing angle with JJ, Jerry Jarrett, Buddy and Bill. The interview that Jerry Jarrett gives is unbelievable

Memphis Wrestling is so good

It's as violent and as absorbing as it gets. The ring work is so clearly defined too, if it's in the ring sell it a lot but outside act like you're dead.
The whole Dundee, Landel and Dutch gimmick is amazing. Two brawlers and a rassler, but even Landel and Dutch ain't rasslin much. As for Dundee... He just beats the fuck out of 'em.

I also mark out for Tony Falk, the greatest jobber gimmick I have ever seen. I mean it. He comes in acting like a lanky Nature Boy, has back and forth fights then gets beaten by his own stupidity and arrogance every time.

The reverse Goldberg.

I tried to watch USWA but it is significantly worse quality despite it being newer. I suppose they were on VHS recording cameras by then and presumably a lower tape quality... it's bad and the camera angles look like shit too as if held by wankers.

Bret Hart did do an absolutely insane Deep South accent mocking Lawler in one of them though. I mean it was mental, he quotes Cool Hand Luke in a completely bonkers mock accent. I should have recorded it.

I remember watching the final episode of USWA in my garage. It used to come on after Smokey Mountain Wresting

Tracy Smothers

You know who I like now? Jos LeDuc.
Did a sweet baseball slide into the corner after a whip, turned and got up immediately and plants the guy with a beast of a clothesline.

Been trying to find the footage of him getting sledgehammer by Mongolian Stomper through a cinder lock but can't find it. The one Stomper ate looked pretty sore though.

Tracy Smothers was amazing. Does not get nearly enough love.

I liked his matches but didn't realise he was the reason they were good if you know what I mean? Like he just happened to be in good matches but I couldn't figure out why :lol:

Ahhhh.... I'm still a mark. I don't want to be smart to everything.

Tracy Smothers man, in the ECW roster they talk about him like a legendary badass. I can believe it.

He was amazing in ECW. Those F.B.I skits still crack me up.

Check out the December 11th, 1982 episode of Mid South

Watch this match. Second greatest in ring feud of the 80's in the WWF behind Tito vs Valentine. Awesome match.

I will when I get off this bus

It's so great

I also recommend this match from January 1984 on WWF T.v Tiger Mask vs Mr. Saito.

Starts at the 1 hour 8 minute mark. I actually prefer this match over the famous Dynamite Kid vs Tiger Mask from Madison Square Garden 1982 match.

12 pages it took to get to Tiger Mask.

OK, so let's go Japanese style for a page or two. What matches should I watch to get into Japanese wrestling?

An example of strong style would be fun along with the more traditional wrestling.

That would be a question for Destor or Fignuts. Never got into Japanese or Lucha mainly because I don't speak either language and thus can't understand the commentary.

I can do a different thread for that.
I respect your input so I will continue on the righteous path.

I would like to know what jobbers you found particularly entertaining. Stevie Richards is my all time favourite jobber, especially when he created Right To Censor and got into winning.

I LOVED Iron Mike Sharpe. His whole shtick was hilarious.

Rusty Brooks who was a big fat jobber in the mid 80s that Vince called "a walrus" was fucking tremendous.

Have you ever watched the episode of Tuesday Night Titans where all the guests were jobbers? It was awesome and Rusty Brooks steals the show.

The Duke of Dorchester Pete Doherty was really entertaining


For whatever reason I was a big Mideon fan. Probably because i used to watch Shotgun Saturday Night/WWF Metal every Saturday and he was always on it.

Lastly, in 97-98 Jim Cornette was booking the jobbers ao you'd get awesome indie guys like Ace Darling, Christopher Daniels and Devon Storm and old Southern rasslers like Tommy Rogers and Davey Rich. The Hardy Boyz were awesome jobbers as well

I'm a jobber lover and could talk about them for ages

what are your thoughts on the homoerotic jobber fetish that has taken YouTube comment sections by storm?

Lol it's the greatest thing on youtube. The comments sections will make you cry.....for various reasons.

What's that about a homoerotic jobber fetish?

Read the comment section of this match and it'll explain everything.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dU2lxevUg40&t=1s

I feel unclean now

Hahaha

13:35 for the most bafflingly poignant musical choice in wrestling history.
The video accompanying the tune should be a tampon advert.

Continental Wrestling was an amazing Territory that was pretty much not talked about until about 10 years ago. They didn't get a lot of magazine coverage, but with pretty much every territory being at your finger tips with how advanced technology is, people are seeing how great it was.

Also, I love my avatar

Iron Mike Sharpe had the physique of a Roman gladiator.
Was he the one that used to run up and down the bleachers before and after an event?

it was weird. Sharpe in his younger days had a really good body. As he got older he was still in good shape -- in really good shape, actually -- but his body was not exactly an aesthetic pleasure to behold.

Haha yup, Sharpe was in crazy shape. When you watch his House Show matches he's constantly moving. He doesn't just sit in a nerve hold like most wrestlers his size.

Worst Women's match I've ever seen. Magnificent Mimi vs Candi Devine for the AWA Women's title. It's soooo bad.

I felt the same way about Dino Bravo using the strongman gimmick when I was a kid. Because I was stupid and thought strongmen should have a physique like the Ultimate Warrior or British Bulldog. I’m sitting on my couch thinking to myself, “that guy’s not strong, he’s just fat!”

At 1:10 of that women's match you can see the world's most dangerous suplex.
That's right after a phantom clothesline and a rope run where one girl just falls down for no reason.

Could not finish.

They do that thing where they shake their shoulders around then start bouncing towards each other like kids play fighting on a couch.

Fucking dreadful.

:lol: that missed clothesline

That thing is a gif goldmine.

I can't stop watching the first 70 seconds

Lol if I knew how to do that, the missed clothesline will take a highly valued spot in my sig

Yeah, though as I got older and understood physiques and body makeup, Bravo started looking much more impressive to me. His fucking shoulders, back, and chest were enormous. He just had that belly. It honestly made him look like a really solid front row rugby player -- and in wrestling I prefer that aesthetic.

Though I think how guys look on TV under the lights versus real life is always interesting.

On TV Steve Austin looked... almost like an everyman? Not that he looked in bad shape, but compared to the body guys he was just kind of "there," specifically when you're a kid. Then you see him next to regular people or even his role in the Expendables, and realize he's actually a fucking behemoth and jacked as fuck.

Lol, the finish is amazing.

I love the commentary over this thing. The talk about her execution of the monkey flip is great.

When he was in The Expendables he nearly killed Sylvester Stallone for real. Broke his neck.

Fucking piledrivers man.

Also LOL @ this from Rocky 4

Hahahahahaha

That's one of the funniest things I have ever read.

Greatest job of selling ever

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I think it was a tackle.

Yeah, that was the joke m8

This is actually a great match but the little white guy in the gi cracks me up. He calls himself "Kung Fu" and he taps out to a vertical suplex before it can be completed for one of the falls...

Great technical skills though.

King Fu Eddie Hamill!

I gotta watch more World of Sport.

The mat wrestling is usually pretty good in World of Sport.

Just for reference, this is what other televised British sport looked like at the time:

Lol what the hell was that

Shove ha'penny and pub/table skittles

It was literally a sports show about pub games.
Britain just wasn't ready for the outdoors yet.

Watching Mankind/Taker HIAC for the 100th time.

Best commentary ever recorded.

Also in real time Foley's feats there are absurdly short spaced

"Terry Funk's been chokeslammed out of his shoes"

"what is that sticking out of his nose?"

:lol:

Ugh, if it wasn't on film you'd never believe it.

I think I've watched that match more than any other match besides Hogan vs Rock Wrestlemania 18.

Yeah me too. I think the only match that comes close is an old Shawn Michaels/Ric Flair match from like 1991 that I used to watch on VHS every morning for weeks/months.

I can't actually remember anything about that match besides Michaels missing a dive and it being absolutely devastating.

Remember that?

When just flying into the railing meant a good minute on the floor.

Beauty and the Beast vignette from Continental Wrestling. So 80's, so great. Such a great gimmick.

Pink sweats though

WWE apparently tried to hire Aleksandr Karelin every time he won the Olympics.
His record was 887 - 2.

My mind is completely blown by that number.
He looks like he's throwing children around but they're all 120kilos.

Danno O'Mahoney's Irish Whip into a snapmare takedown.
36 seconds in.
Still can't find the actual Irish Whip though.

Ultimate Warrior kicking fuck out of some snakes.
Real snakes.
Kicked.

I remember that. Japan really wanted him as well.

Literally raised by the state to wrestle and dominate.
The real life Ivan Drago.

Actually, I'm pretty sure he had a fake shoot fight in RINGS with Akira Maeda. I heard about it in a podcast a couple months ago.

This may usurp California Championship Wrestling as the worst promotion I've ever seen. George Gulas's UWA.

Daddy said sell

Hahaha

http://kentuckyfriedwrestling.com/th...ds/jet-set.jpg

It's goddamn delightful

Greg Gagne looks buff compared to the boy Gulas.

Plus Greg was actually good lol