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?