I'm enjoying Kliq This podcast. Sean Oliver's one of my favorite interviewers so nice having content every week.
I'm kinda digging these old World Organization Wrestling shows: A young Yokozuna gets into an altercation with a young Tugboat. You'll recognize others, old & young.
so next years A&E legends bio season. here is my 8 i'm hoping for 1 terry funk 2 RVD 3 dusty rhodes 4 ted dibiase 5 sgt slaughter 6 superstar billy graham 7 scott hall 8 trish stratus (i'm sure they want a female wrestler) 2024 season 1 john cena (we know its coming lets get it out of the way) 2 jake the snake 3 kevin nash 4 road warriors 5 mr perfect 6 bruno 7 ricky steamboat 8 brock lesnar i'm guess for now we aren't getting flair or hogan
I was never a huge Rotunda fan. I didn't dislike him or anything, but except for his Varsity Club run he was good in the ring but bland. So most of my favorite matches of his would be from the 88-89 era or his team with Windham Windham & Rotunda vs The Guerrero brothers had several TV matches from Florida in 1984 that were quite good Windham & Rotunda vs Tenryu & Baba from All Japan 1986 vs Steiner at Starrcade 88 vs Sting from March 89 when Sting wins the TV title vs Iron Shiek from MSG around April or May 85 There is a match from NWA TV before Windham's heel turn where the two former partners wrestle each other and the ring ropes break that was pretty good before the DQ finish. vs Flair from WCW TV November 89
I think it was shot in Pensacola & had shows throughout the Gulf Coast. Like the previous Continental & Gulf Coast territories.
Tommy Rich ends up a bloody mess, extreme even for his standards: As mentioned in the comments, good wholesome Saturday morning entertainment.
Southeastern had two separate territories the Gulf Coast version which eventually became more Alabama than Pensacola and the Knoxville version. They both kind of merged when Continental started into one much bigger territory. I loved Southeastern/Continental growing up from 84-87.
Up thread I posted a UWF episode. I realized someone bought a set from Mrs. Watts as they are ALL there. This is the way to watch UWF, in order. Currently watching Hot Stuff and Missy Hyatt, and watching all the World Class people showing up. Chris Adams, Ice Man Parsons, and SUNSHINE just showed up(no Stella Mae though unfortunately).
84-87 Mid South/UWF is great. It really set the standard for what wrestling TV became a decade later. It was the rare show of its era where they would give main events on TV on a semi regular basis especially on their Power Pro show.
I discovered UWF by accident one day as a kid, messing around on our TVs UHF stations rather than cable. I think it was a station out of Utica NY or something. Anyway, what a jackpot that was. All those exciting wrestlers to meet.... Hacksaw, Gang, Gilbert, Sting, Dr. Death, DiBiase.... really great stuff. When I look back I can't believe how much rasslin' I watched each week. Those were glorious days.
Eddie Gilbert is so underrated. He never got the big national run he probably deserved due to backstage drama that always followed him but he was gold in the territory days.
thanks. a bit shocked you don't really enjoy mikes work that much. to me he already seemed a bit underrated
To me he always needed a good opponent to make him interesting. He wasn't a good promo. He was good in the ring, just bland. Having Windham, Williams, DiBiase and Steiner as partners helped. As IRS he was even worse as he would just grab a chinlock and sweat through his suit. Another good match is the cage match of Money Inc vs the Steiners from WWF TV around August 93.
Omega using the suspension to go back to Japan for a little while. https://twitter.com/TrevorDame/status/1570110742141239296
It's not court, it's just their internal investigation. Pat Buck and Brandon Cutler are already back.
I was there. The lead up was that Fritz wanted a second referee after Flair escaped last time so it was the cage. David Manning would referee and the fans were to choose from three officials. I think Alfred Neely, Wild Bull Curry, and Babyface Freebird Micheal Hayes. Who enlisted Terry Gordy to guard the door. Now remember that the Freebirds were skedded to wrestle for the new 6 man title against Sharp, Sharp, and Steele(one of the Sharps was Iron Mike). but Buddy Roberts(he had not been seen yet) missed the plane or something and David Von Erich took his place, won the title, then handed the belt to Hayes. Gordy and Hayes seemed overwhelmed by the gesture. And that's where we pick up the match that night at Reunion.
