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Samurai Rocker
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Catch Wrestling Association Appreciation Thread
When I started following pro wrestling in 1988, I was living in Frankfurt, Germany. And the very first promotion I followed was my home promotion at the time, Catch Wrestling Association. They ran shows in Germany and in Austria. They used European Wrestling rules, dividing the match into rounds and possibly winning a match by knockout.
Here's a couple of music videos... |
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It's a blood match!
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AMAZING, you gotta post more!
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Black guy in the first video can sing, whoo! What a song
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Okay this is my favorite thing ever.
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It's a blood match!
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Seriously though, this is really entertaining. I'd love for somebody to parody this ala Stranglemania/Mystery Science Theatre.
This is like the origin of Chikara, do they have awesome music videos? |
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Over Like Rover
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they have awesome videos that sometimes have music in them from an entrance, a dance off or a giant dragon attacking the ring, dunno about music videos per se
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This is the shit. |
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Samurai Rocker
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Here's much of the December 1992 Euro Catch Festival in Bremen, Germany. The World Tag Team title match is missing...
Dave Taylor vs. Giant Haystacks Body Slam Challenge: Cannonball Grizzly vs. Bruiser Mastino CWA World Middleweight Championship Tournament Qualifying Match: Fit Finlay vs. Eddie Gilbert CWA Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship Match: Heavy Metal Buffalo vs. The Warlord Jushin Thunder Liger vs. Franz Schumann CWA World Heavyweight Championship Match: Road Warrior Hawk vs. Rambo Last edited by DLVH84; 06-06-2011 at 04:18 PM. |
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It's a blood match!
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Vader is throwing legit punches to the nose in that one, check out a fucking stiff affair in that vid.
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Who is Rambo? Also, thanks! This is WRESTLING, in ever sense of the word. So do you have anymore awesome 80's music videos?
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Samurai Rocker
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It's a blood match!
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I wanna know what Seth 82 thinks of CWA.
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Samurai Rocker
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Wendi Richter vs. Madusa Miceli
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Samurai Rocker
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Here's another version of "Young, Strong, and Healthy," featuring highlights of one of the best technical wrestlers in the world...Tony St. Clair. St Clair, unfortunately, retired in 2006, after 40 years in the ring.
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That simply looks like the funnest locker room in the history of wrestling. I so badly wish there was an in depth documentary on this company.
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Samurai Rocker
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So would I. I was saddened when CWA shut down at the tail-end of 1999, and I would like to know why it shut down. I know near the end, Franz Schumann developed an NWA territory there called NWA Germany, which lasted until his retirement in 2002.
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Samurai Rocker
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Here's a clearer version of Hawk vs. Rambo, with additional video camera footage in the beginning.
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Awesome! Man, this is kinda hard to define but it's like a wrestling company from an 80's movie or something. It's really damn cool and I wish there was something with this kind of energy today.
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Samurai Rocker
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Thank you, Fragile X. I'll post some more CWA matches soon, so stay tuned!!!
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The Champ
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Tony St. Clair vs. Masaharu (Masakatsu) Funkaki, 1988
Tony St. Clair vs. Hart The Barbarian (Dave Sullivan/Equalizer), 1991 Rambo vs. Bull Power, 1991 Franz Schumann vs. Takayuki (Takashi) Iizuka, 1991 More to come... |
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Is this the same company Jericho/Storm/Foley etc did tours for?
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Samurai Rocker
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Here is the July 1994 Euro Catch Festival in Graz, Austria.
Ulf Hermann and August Smisl vs. Primo Carnera III and Giant Haystacks Hiro Yamamoto (Hiroyoshi Tenzan) vs. Ice Train CWA World Tag Team Championship Match: Texas Hawk (JBL) and Fit Finlay vs. Tony St. Clair and Steve Casey CWA World Middleweight Championship Match: Barry Horowitz vs. Franz Schumann Hacksaw Jim Duggan vs. Cannonball Grizzly CWA World Heavyweight Championship Match: Rambo vs. Papa Shango |
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So whats up with Franz ripping off The Hitman's gimmick?
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Samurai Rocker
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This was one of those coincidences that Franz Schumann and Bret Hart have in common. They're alike in look, they're both nicknamed "The Hitman," but the difference is that Franz doesn't have a set color pattern, his signature move is the German Suplex, and is three years younger.
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