Old School Wrestling Thread
 

Have always wondered why we didn't have one of these. Thought it'd be a good spot to post old matches, thoughts and pictures from the the WWF, NWA and the rest of the territories.

Just finally watched Billy Graham's 20 Years Too Soon DVD. Been meaning to watch this for a while. Very good documentary. Happy they showed the Dusty rhodes vs Graham Texas Death Match. Such incredible mic work between those two. Still can't believe Billy adopted a martial arts gimmick.

Your my boy Blue!

this is a great idea!

Dusty's feud and matches with Superstar were great. It's too bad Dusty didn't have a long term run in the WWWF/WWF til late in his career.

in the mid to late 70s he would've been awesome there.

Dusty in his final MSG appearance til 1989.
Dusty Rhodes vs Wild Samoan #3 (Samu) from 5/23/1983
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Terry Funk vs jobber Bruce Walkup in an empty arena cage match from Florida tv
-Terry is just awesome here
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Ted Dibiase
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Ricky Steamboat and Nick Bockwinkel
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The Sheepherders/The Bushwhackers
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JJ Dillon
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Mid South Tag Team Champions Terry Gordy and Michael Hayes
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Stan Hansen and Bruiser Brody
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Nick Bockwinkel and Lou Thesz
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George Wagner before he became Gorgeous George
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Lol the seth82 photo thread mk II

stick around and you might be educated.

I suppose old school to you is 1998.

From "The Brawl To End It All", July 23rd, 1984, here's The Fabulous Moolah (Women's Champion) v. Wendi Richter, back when women's wrestling was somewhat watchable and actually mattered:

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sadly women's wrestling was nothing more than a touring attraction gimmick in the states.

most of these girls today can't fight their way out of a wet paper bag.

All Japan Women's Pro Wrestling had some amazing matches over the years.

normal ladies tag team partners Manami Toyota and Toshiyo Yamada fight it out in this classic hair match.
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Glamour Girls va Jumping Bomb Angels still holds up. Judy Martin was a hell of a worker.

How old is old school?

My favorite tag team match of all time is The Steiners vs Steve Williams and Terry Gordy from Beach Blast '92. Does that count? I need to know the rules here.

gotta ask elitist seth82 who is totally givin us a lesson by posting some pictures

Fucking love All Japan Women

Probably my favorite women's match of all time right here. Chigusa vs Masami.

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Honestly, everyone raves about the early 90's era of AJW, with Minami Toyota and Dreamslam and all that, but my favorite era has gotta be the 80's. Crush Gals vs Gokuaku Domei was fucking HEATED.

and you're not elitist?

this thread is to discuss old school wrestling by sharing pictures, videos and etc.

do us a favor and stay the fuck outta here.

whatever the era AJW always managed to have great ladies matches that were certainly miles ahead of what we saw in the states.

ladies wrestling here has usually been treated as a joke not counting Lita and etc.

I dunno, Shimmer is pretty good. And NXT has some pretty good Divas matches occasionally.

I agree.

Charlotte is gonna be a good one to watch.

how am i being elitist? you are the one trying to come off as better than people by claiming someone 'started watching in 1998'

you have no idea what you are saying, once again.

If you have a bone to pick delete your posts and take it private and while the phrasing could have been better the intent was there. So put your cock back in your pants and move on. Perhaps I'll do the same once your bullshit has been removed

Besides Seth, has anyone else seen Dick Murdoch wrestle before? By far my favourite of that era.

He seemed to amp up the Three Stooges stuff when he hit the WWF, especially in singles matches. I have a match from an old MSG show in 1984 where he faces Afa, and all Dick Murdoch does is bump hilariously with his amazing facial expressions and call Afa a Jungle Bunny. The most entertaining 20 draw I've ever seen. The crowd at one point gave Murdoch who was the heel a standing ovation after a hilarious drawn out bump.

Really into pre-expansion WWF. 1983 in particular. Very cool watching the transformation.

He seemed to be famous for doing the 3 Stooges act.

its almost alarming he was only 37 in 1984 in the WWF. He looks like a guy 10-20 years older.

Pre-Expansion WWF is actually pretty interesting and fun to watch.

Bob Backlund however held onto the belt for much too long for my liking.

a young Curt Hennig versus Crippler Ray Stevens in WWF '83
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The Wild Samoans versus Curt Hennig and Eddie Gilbert
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"Blue Angel" Owen Hart vs Barry Horowitz in a fantastic match from 8/13/88 in Los Angeles
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Couple matches in Japan. Can't remember if it was Aj or Nj. Murdoch was a great heel.

Wish wwe had done more with Trevor. He was a unique character.

Watched a Ivan Putski vs Billy Graham from 1977 with Graham as champ. The crowd HATED Graham and ent nuts for Putski.

Later watched Backlund vs Graham 1982 and the crowd was dead. Keep in mind, this was Graham's martial arts gimmick. Both matches at MSG. I never got Bob Backlund. His comebacks just came off so phony.

Question: of the 3 Wise Men, how would you rank them?

I'd go

1. Albano
2. Grand Wizard
3. Blassie

Adrian Adonis and Dick Murdoch versus Billy Gasper and Bobby Gasper.

the masked Gasper brothers were Bob Orton Jr and Barry Orton.

This was a month or so before Adonis died.

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1. Grand Wizard
2. Lou Albano
3. Freddie Blassie

I gotta put Wiz at number one for me. He was just awesome on the mic as a manager.

Him and Superstar Billy Graham were awesome.

Blassie always seemed to have the worst stable of wrestlers.

hey look, fastway crying about something. that is old school.

RIP.

always funny to see them as tag champions.

Tony and Rocky reportedly couldn't stand each other in real life.

I still need an answer to my question before I contribute here...

Wrestling began in 97 and ended in 2001. Nothing worth while before that point.

In my book pre 1993 ( when Hogan left the WWF)

do us a favor and stay the fuck outta here.

I'd agree with that.

sounds like a great cut off point.

Hadn't ever heard that before...I know it's not really old school, but Atlas' goofy laugh during The Abraham Washington Show on ECW was hilarious.

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