The Wrestling Nostalgia Thread
 

Oh how I long for the good old days of wrestling.

Remember when...

* Slapping hands with the crowd was instant face heat?
* Certain matches would be billed as "worth the price of admission alone"?
* It was illegal to throw people over the top rope in WCW?
* Nick Patrick made the first ref heel turn?
* Or does that honor actually belong to Danny Davis?
* Vader had a helmet that smoked and was awesome?

Not much point to this thread, but feel free to add your own.

Yea, it was Davis and after that it was Dave Hebner. As far as the big companies go.

Remeber when you actually knew when PPV's were.

when tag team wrestling rules wrestling

Todd Petingill's banter
When a shot with a steel chair was serious
When the pyro displays were lame
Steroids

moves off the tope rope were really awesome.
there were actual wins by count-out
mid card wrestling was awesome

* They gave away a house at the first In Your House
* In Your House was only 2 hours and fifteen bucks
* Alex "The Pug" Porteau existed

I remember when almost every match had a time limit.

There were only five PPVs in a year
Ric Flair didn't have boobs
A ladder match wasn't a spot exhibition
I cared

there were more storylines.
the intercontinental champion was deemed as a top contender for the world title
the world title was credible
The IC title was credible

HHH promos didn't make you want to kill yourself

Remember when...

Paul Bearrer only had 1 chin....
Wrestlers woulden't bleed every other week

UT was ginger
Sunny was hot
Jarrett was a country singer
BJ James was another country singer
Triple H feuded with a trash collector (LOL!)

UT was ginger
Sunny was hot
Jarrett was a country singer
BG James was another country singer
Triple H feuded with a trash collector (LOL!)

The IYH ppv sets looked like complete shit (ppv was in your house so naturally the set resembled outside the house) :wtf:

Bob Hiolly was a racer - Bob "Spark Plug" Holly
HHH jobbed in under 2 minutes at a WrestleMania
HHH wrestled in a hog pin

Wasn't hollys name as the racer "sparky thurmann plugg" or something like that? I remember on wrestlecrap the names initials ended up being STP.

Yeah, then he changed it to Thurman "Sparky" Plugg...then he changed it to Bob "Spark Plugg" Holly...then he kicked Matt Cappotelli in the face because he was young.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

...a demise only paralleled by that of Perry 'don't mention the mop' Saturn

"You're welcome!"

being able to go to a show once a week not once a year
marking out for a hot tag
getting exicted on Mondays
being able to watch wrestling for 8 strait hours saturday nights and LOVE IT

Hey Supermark, what the fuck are you talking about?

I think he high

I grew up in Kansas in the middle of the old Central States Territory. I would go to one, sometimes two show a week. Now I'm lucky if the WWE comes once a year. There are some shitty indies, but its not the same.

I would always get into tag matches. When the faces would make a hot tag I would go crazy.

I used to be exicted on mondays because of RAW and NITRO. Now I'm just like meh.

Where I lived you could watch the NWA show on TBS. Then on a different channel you could watch 6 more hours Mid South/UWF, GLOW :D, WWF and Central States. Good Times

Ah. That's more like it.

And 8 hours is a LOT of fucking wrestling for one night.

I remember on Saturdays I would watch like 4 or 5 hours of wrestling like it was nothing. I mean it was all good. Now 2 hours is pushin it.

I don't even remember what TV looks like on Saturdays now, but it was the shit back in the day.

BTW, is there a rule is wrestling where you're only allowed to stand on the top rope for ten seconds or something? And if you're there longer than that, are you disqualified? Did it USED to be a rule, but it's not applicable anymore?

It wouldn't surpise me if there was, at one time somewhere. I never saw it.

Well, they do count them while they're on the rope sometimes, but I believe that it's been lowered to a five count, much like illegal choke holds and the like are counted for five.

Speaking of which, I remember when they actually DQed people for not breaking a hold and when they actually did break it before five. Just recently, I believe Triple H was choking the Hurricane and the ref got to five, stopped, and RECOUNTED. Usually they'll get to four like a 'threat' and recount, but he went to five. :nono:

Wasn't that a no DQ match, though?

No, it was only a handicapped match. Although I could be wrong and maybe it wasn't the handicapped match. But I know it happened recently and I'm pretty sure that it involved Triple H.

Shit, double post, sorry.

Seriously though, does ANYBODY remember Alex "The Pug" Porteau? He was around at the same time as guys like Aldo Montoya, Avatar, and Salvatore Sincere.

I remember when we were presented with guys like this...
http://img48.echo.cx/img48/5486/abek...tzstevelom.jpg
http://img48.echo.cx/img48/4994/dami...theis014gb.jpg
http://img48.echo.cx/img48/3100/manm...lpeterson0.jpg
http://img48.echo.cx/img48/5336/newbooger540xh.jpg
http://img48.echo.cx/img48/4324/muppets2ra.jpg
and didn't blink an eye (i.e. bitch on here)





















OK, Vince never hired the last ones but still...they're about as useful as the guys that preceeded them in the post!

Rep to whoever correctly guesses Damien Demento's "home town".

Salvatore Sincere :rofl:
That a loser. He quit because he didnt like his family and friends watching him do jobs.

I barly remember "the pug." Not very memorable. I can only remember him being on TV a few times. Not memorable like "The Thug." What was Tony Anthony's gimmick? I cant remember the name. He was a plummer, but that is all I can remember. Dam Vince and come up with some stupid shit.

Didnt think about it like that.

Tony Anthony = T.L. Hopper

Parts Unknown ????

Wasnt it something "in demincha" or something? My memory for that time is bad. Maybe thats a good thing.

Nope, not quite. I'll phrase it differently. Where was Damien Demento "from"?

Long Island, NY :lol:

<s>That is correct.</s>

NO

Remember when T.L. Hopper ate that turd at the Summerslam Free-For-All?

:( YES :rant: :mad:

Who played the "The Goon"

I forget that dude's name, but he had the dumbest finisher of all time.

Rep for anyone who can correctly guess what that finisher was.

GOONIE SLAM :nono:

I cant remember him ever getting a win though.

From the Outer Reaches of Your Mind.


I still remember...

*The "I Still Remember" angle that went no where... :shifty (sorry too easy)


When I would train for 3 or 4 hours a day, go work out for 2 hours, only to come home and watch wrestling all night. Good times.

Remember...

(if you were a kid back then), waking up early on Saturday mornings to watch the wrestling cartoon? Then trying to stay up late on Saturday nights to watch Saturday Night's Main Event?

when TNT was a WWF tv show?

the angle with the Hebner twins on The Main Event?

the Flair/Steamboat matches in the NWA in 1989?

Black Saturday?

waiting for Rusty Brooks, Steve Gatorwolf and Iron Mike Sharpe to get a push? :shifty:

-When a chairshot to the back on the outside ended Tatanka's undefeated streak.

-Johnny Polo

-Regardless of how bad your gimmick was, if you were a face you'd get cheered just for slapping hands

-You remember perennial jobber Jim Powers

-Storylines were based around wrestling

I will say this...I remember and miss the Horsemen...those without doubt where the best 3 years of wrestling I ever watched in my eyes. Even though I was young and by all rights one of the biggest marks (except for some reason I always hated Hogan...) still I LOVED the Horsemen, Ric Flair is and will always be God in my eyes. I mean they had all the money, all the gold, and all the women, who couldn't love them. Plus Tully is a fucking wrestling GOD...I mean that I am willing to bet that he is somehow related to the high overload of the universe.

remember ted dibiase before he was a millionare?
remember Don "the rock" Murracco?
I remember watching hulk hogan beat the iron sheik for the title at my uncles house. thats when I got hooked. I also remember Nakita Koloff god he was awesome. magnum t.a. yes I liked wrestling before stupid story line based shows. when the only time you saw the wrestlers was when they were cutting a promo or at the ppv. I miss the jobbers that wrestled every non ppv. barry horrowitz was the most famous jobber.lol vince tried to give an actual jobber a push. wow.

- when i could watch smokey mountain wrestling and USWA wrestling sunday afternoon

- When Bret Hart feuded with Jean Pierre Lafeete and Jean stole Bret's jacket

- Gang Warfare!

There it is.

And for the record, the Goon's finisher went as follows...

He'd get his opponent outside of the ring and leave him dazed against the ring apron. He himself would go down the aisle a bit and run full speed into his opponent, "body checking" him and rendering him unconscious while he crawled back into the ring to win via count out.

I'm sorry, but that's the dumbest fucking finisher in the history of dumb fucking finishers.


One more question...when people started talking about jobbers, I know that "Jumping" Jim Brunzell was one of the Killer Bees...who was the other one?

B. Brian Blair

the Goon's finisher sounds like an inring version of Monty's POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUNNNNNCCCCEEEEEEEE UH.

:lol:

Did he have some fantastic alliteration with his name such as "Jumping" Jim? Maybe "Bouncing" Brian?

And for the record, I don't know what The Pounce is, because TNA fucking blows. Care to elaborate on it?

No...he did not have "Bouncing"...

And as for what the POOOOOOOOUNCE is...

First you know that TNA uses a six sided ring correct? Well if you didn't before you do now. Anyway he throws his oponite into the ropes, and then he himself runs into the ropes closest. He then does a shoulder block but not directly on, it's more that he hits them from the side, and they go flying. It is a peice of shit finisher, but it looks nasty if someone sells it as such. (I have seen people go flying over the top rope when selling it.) But no seriously it's a shitty ass finisher.

And he actually pins people after that? Is it kinda like a spear then, but a shoulder block?

I remember when the Repoman stole some kids bike claiming that the kids dad owed him money. :D

Also.

I remember when Savio Vega was near main event status.

I remember when the "Heart Punch" was a devistating finisher.

I remember when Paul Beaarer was attacked by a fan for mentioning Kane.

I remember the Blackjacks (Rep for anyone who can name both members)

I remember the Godwinns being one of the most dominating tag teams ever.

I remember Papa Shango making Warrior vomit.

I remember when Jerry 'The King' Lawlrer got his own midgets to take on Doink's midgets.


So much more I remember...

The Blackjacks or the New Blackjacks?

The New Blackjacks where Bradshaw and Windham.

The old Blackjacks were Mulligan and somebody or maybe not.

Remember when Papa Shango set that dude's feet on fire?

I was refferring to the Blackjack but I'll give you rep for The New Blackjacks. Forgot about them.

I have to spread my rep first. Remember that I owe you one.

The Original Blackjacks = Blackjack Lanza & Blackjack Mulligan

The New Blackjacks = Blackjack Windham & Blackjack Bradshaw

Other note worthy Blackjacks...
Blackjack Black, Blackjack Phoenix, Blackjack Luca, Blackjack Slade, Blackjack Marciano, and Blackjack Mulligan II (UK terratory wrestler).

Enough Blackjacks for ya?

Blackjack Doink was one, right?

yeh I know what the Pounce is. I was just referring to it in a more generic sense.

I mean you see some jobber guy riunnin at someone and ramming into them. then you also have this supposed "main eventer" ramming into somebody.

I mean I know the difference in not only where they hit but how they hit but looking at it from a general sense I see it real funny how that could be done.

and yeah I rank The Pounce as one of the top crapiest finishers. The only one I can think of that's worse is the standing F-U by Cena. If he doesn't go down with it then it really looks crappy. I'm sure there are other crappy finishers but I can't think of any right now.

BUt I do remember Papa Shango puttin some spell on the Warrior that caused him to puke all over the place back stage. That was freaky for me as akid.

He was explaining The Pounce to me, because I didn't know what it was.

And why do people say it like 'POOOOOOOOOUNCE'? Does he yell that or something?

Yeah...I don't think even the announces can simply say Pounce...

Normally it takes him a good 4 or 5 seconds to say Pounce. Cause it's time to hit...the....POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUNCE-uh! And he just sounds so god damn full of shit (literally) when he does it that it becomes commical.

wait wait here is how it's delivered. A Monty Brown Promo. He is now feuding with Abyss in this one.

ABYSS! Welcome to the Serengity. You a monster? I'm a monster in the Serengity. I rule tis jungle. I am the Alpha MALE! And when the time comes. And when the dust is all cleared. Abyss you WILL... FEEL.. THE...

POOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO UNCE-uh... PERIOD!

That's your typica Monty Brown Promo. there is usually more about osme nonsense or whatever.

Anyone remember his promo against Trytan...oh lord I thought I was going to pee myself I was laughing so hard. And he is so fucking serious when he does it. He thinks he is giving a good promo... :lol:

- The Corperate Ministry (The Corperation, headed by Shane McMahon, merged with the Undertaker's Ministry, and this was at the VERY first SmackDown, the special they ran on April 1999, I think the month was).
- The Casket Matches (there were a bunch of them back in the day)
- The Brian Pillman gun incident.
- Mick Foley as Mankind and Goldust is his "mommy"
- The Big Bossman vs. Nailz feud
- Jim Cornette's rants
- Livewire (when they actually took callers)
- The Slammy Awards
- WWF Superstars late night on Saturday on a local TV station (1:00 AM, actually, on WTRF).

A taste of the MANY I remember

Doink's heel turn :D

the dumbest finisher is a ko punch I first saw used by Ronnie Garvin and then by Tank Abbott. and "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan used a sholder block as a finisher for years. :rofl:

Didn't Ron Garvin have a finisher where he would walk around and simply stomp on live five parts of his opponent's body and then pin them? That was pretty fucking terrible. Actually, Ron Garvin was pretty fucking terrible.

Also for the record, Monty Brown sounds like a retard, but he's too current to discuss any further in this thread.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Survivor Series '94. What a horrible excuse for a match. Reps avaiable for naming Doink's 3 midgets and Jerry's 3 midgets.

Dink, Pink & Wink. I can't remember Jerry's right now

EDIT. Cheesey, Sleazy & Queasy

Lol, and they each had different coloured hair in respects to their name. Pink had a pink top, Wink was Blue I think, and the other was Yellow.

I might get that video out and watch it later with a cup of mushroom tea and see how freaked out i get.

Remember that Survivor Series where Owen made his original heel turn? Bret Hart, Owen Hart, Bruce Hart, and Keith Hart versus Shawn Michaels and the knights? Funny thing is, Jerry Lawler was originally supposed to be in that match, but Shawn Michaels just filled in for no apparent reason. Does anybody know why Lawler didn't work that match?

I believe he had affairs in Memphis if I remember correctly because I wondered why he wasn't there either.

Here's one...

Remember when Eddie Guerrero used to make Chavo wear that t-shirt that said "EDDIE GUERRERO IS MY FAVORITE WRESTLER"? That was hilarious.

I do. That was awesome.

Much better.

Remember when feuds were given attention, and the Eddie-Rey feud would have been standard for the course?

Remember when Michaels could go 2 months without a crimson mask?

Remember when there was a reason to put on a good show?

Remember when wrestlers weren't as lazy?

Remember when stables were new, and we didn't have to hear people asking for a DX reunion every couple of weeks?

Remember GTV? That shit rocked. I wish it had been continued to its end.

I hated how we never figured out who was behind it.

Does anyone know who it was supposed to be? I thought it was Goldust but they continued it after Goldust wasn't with the company anymore. Anyone know?

Originally it was GDTV (GoldDust TV) and the man behind it was Goldust, then he was gone and they continued it for a little while though dropped it pretty soon there after, then ocne he came back to WWE again they started up with it once again and he left so there it went out the window along with I Still Remember...

Remember Jerry Flynn?

remember when goldust had matt morgans current character? goldust got shoked, morgan is just stupid

Or when the Dudleys stuttered in the WWF? What the fuck was that about. One day they stop wearing braces and Bubba stops stuttering. Tell Vince to look up a word called continuity.

When IRS pounded Beefcake in the face with the briefcase and everyone was :eek: :'(

the darkest reaches of your mind

The Outer Reaches of Your Mind, but we've already covered that.

Remember Glacier? Meng? When Mike Awesome was the "Fat chick thriller"?

Remember when Kane set JR's back on fire? Now that he's a face, I wonder if JR will feel sympathetic for him after Lita turned on him. If so, what the fuck?

Remember when we got to see some bad ass cruiserweight matches? It didn't matter - Nitro or Thunder or even Saturday Night, you were gauranteed at least one great cruiserweight lucha libre style match. Crazy mexicans in masks, flying around the ring, doing tilt a whirl backbreakers and 360 planchas. Wonderful stuff.

Remember the Booker T/Austin grocery store fight? Why don't they do cool shit like that anymore?

Super Calo

Remember when the WWF could make its fans cry. I'm thinking Macho Man/Liz reunion. There were a few other occasions as well when the cameras panned the audience you could see people crying. Unbelievable.

Remember when you watched Saturday Night Main Event and were primed just because it wasn't a maineventer vs. a jobber affair.

When you hated Bobby Heenan, but always knew in your heart that you would never want him to leave.

Rick Rude spray painted Jake the Snakes "sister"(?) on his tights.

Undertaker, Kamala & Abdullah the Butcher scared the living fuck out of you.

The Bezerker. No, not the Atari game, the wrestler.

You actually thought a title would change hands at the houseshow you went to.

I remember when Goldust was a fucked up freak. And I don't mean his last WWE run, either.

THE ANSWER!!!!!
 

I actually think they were going to have it be Shawn Stasiak.

Wasnt that Brad Armstrong? I cant remember what all the gimmicks he used.
Rep to anyone who can tell me what gimmick Armstrong used at starrcade 91.

Where is my rep? I knew the name of the Goon's finish, THE GOONIE SLAM. I just couldnt remember what it was exactly. U got to give me partical credit.

Abdullah really did scared me. I'll never forget being in the front row, and watching Abdullah vs. Bruiser Brody. Good Times

ok a bit late ...... but Bastion Booger was like gross/funny when i was way younger .... SAD !

ps . who is / was Damien Demento in real life ?