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I have a pretty morbid fascination with "can you believe this poo poo used to be acceptable" media so stuff like racist newspaper articles and Youtubes of Tracy Smothers calling Boy Tony the f-word always gets my attention. Also thanks for the writeup on outlaws because I'd heard the term before but really had no clue what they were about besides the basic context clues.
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Interesting thread, just wanted to say thanks for posting it. Finding out Abraham Lincoln was a wrestler blew my mind. It's also crazy how far back matches were worked and how people died during them regardless. When I imagine wrestling from back then I imagine it being extremely low impact - what kinds of things were they doing that actually killed their opponents? Also an 8 hour draw, goddamn.
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Mr. Carlisle posted:Finding out Abraham Lincoln was a wrestler blew my mind. I had to look this up and the history behind it is absolutely fascinating Source link: http://rogerjnorton.com/Lincoln48.html  Not only did he stamp out racism and secession but also managed to be a decent wrestler! That's pretty awesome. Thanks for posting the thread, OP! 
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Ed "Strangler" Lewis giving a headlock to some geek:
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Pathé News was a British newsreel producer once upon a time. They've recently uploaded an absurd amount of historical footage to youtube, including a fair amount of wrestling. I just clicked on a few that looked interesting and it turned out that, yup, they were interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM0-Ov2VKp0 Wrestling Issue Title - OHMS (1938) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtycO-1_OCM Eat 'em Alive Wrestlers (1946) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzBEAAGfKOw Wrestling In The Mud In San Francisco (1937) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6GtYNEdYfQ Mysterious Wrestlers (0) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5hu31Ts7XM Africa Loves Grunt & Groan (1959) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7Pd5I4RUZ0 Women Wrestling (1950) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePArbB-codE Japanese Women Wrestling Match (1956) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXZpgfQvSM4 All In Wrestling Los Angeles (1934) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvLz8LnkwMo They Wrestle For Laughs (1947) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9jXVwn_R4k Unidentified Out Takes / Cuts - Cp Uni 2 - Female And Male Wrestlers (1962)
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Too much to copy and paste, but Dave has a nice writeup on Black Saturday for the 30th anniversary in the new Observer.
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I'm so glad Mike mentioned this on the new Observer Radio. The Chicago Film Archives put up a Wrestling From Chicago youtube channel and it is incredible. The matches are mostly from the Dumont Network golden age when wrestling was at its absolute peak in terms of popularity but there's some stuff in from the 60s too. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWXxP_rvXryBPpjIw7Dl9Tg
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I know it's considered "conventional wisdom" that Vince owes Paul Heyman a great creatively, but considering how much Paul lifted from Memphis (especially the brawling/blood aspect), people really need to acknowledge how much Vince owes Lawler and Co. for his success. How come Memphis never tried to go National? Was it because of their relationship with the AWA and NWA? Also, I wanna see how people do on this quiz. I got 84%. No cheatin'! http://www.sporcle.com/games/Chui/nwaworldchampions
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El Gallinero Gros posted:How come Memphis never tried to go National? Was it because of their relationship with the AWA and NWA? They did - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Wrestling_Association
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I know it's considered "conventional wisdom" that Vince owes Paul Heyman a great creatively, but considering how much Paul lifted from Memphis (especially the brawling/blood aspect), people really need to acknowledge how much Vince owes Lawler and Co. for his success. Got 69/90 for 76% Missed Brown, Watson, Hutton, O'connor, Kiniski, Rich, Garvin, Fujinami, Windham, Candido, Ogawa, Steele, Rapada, Sabu, Corino, Raven, Rhino, Albright, and Shiekh II I'm also surprised Lex Luger was never actually NWA champ.
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El Gallinero Gros posted:I know it's considered "conventional wisdom" that Vince owes Paul Heyman a great creatively, but considering how much Paul lifted from Memphis (especially the brawling/blood aspect), people really need to acknowledge how much Vince owes Lawler and Co. for his success. Paul Heyman learned booking from Eddie Gilbert(who learned from Bill Watts), so that's where you get the Memphis/Southern style influence from.
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Thauros posted:I'm also surprised Lex Luger was never actually NWA champ. He might have been if Ric hadn't taken the big gold belt with him when he left for WWF.
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ayn rand hand job posted:He might have been if Ric hadn't taken the big gold belt with him when he left for WWF. Flair also refused to lose the belt to Luger twice.
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On the other hand, would you rather be remembered as the guy who beat Flair for the title once, or the first WCW Heavyweight Champion?
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Halloween Jack posted:On the other hand, would you rather be remembered as the guy who beat Flair for the title once, or the first WCW Heavyweight Champion? Technically that was Flair, Luger was just the first sole WCW Heavyweight Champion.
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Thauros posted:Got 69/90 for 76% I got 64. I literally knew nothing about NWA between Shane Douglas and the advent of TNA, 2/3 of their TNA partnership, and about a third of their post-TNA partnership.
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I started a website that has a bunch of scans of old wrestling programs and magazines if anyone's interested. https://www.wrestlingscans.com
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I Love My Axe posted:I started a website that has a bunch of scans of old wrestling programs and magazines if anyone's interested. you just made poopin a lot gooder. thank you
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I Love My Axe posted:I started a website that has a bunch of scans of old wrestling programs and magazines if anyone's interested. That sure beats going through Stern Sticks for those!
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Is there any way to see old Sheik matches from the 50s/60s?
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Awesome thread MRT! Here's my little bit of contribution: the trailer for Memphis Heat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-CDVYT-RWI Memphis, despite being notably marky these days, used to be one of THE places for wrestling. Legit riots and poo poo would happen at the Mid-South Coliseum over heels. Jerry Lawler was, of course, the King of Memphis wrestling, but there were plenty of great players like Eddie Gilbert, Bill Dundee, and Tojo Yamamoto. Hell, I'm pretty sure Macho Man and Hogan got their first bit of airtime on Memphis airwaves. Awesome poo poo. I have the movie and if someone could direct me to the best way to stream on a Macbook Pro, I'd love to show it in PSP.tv one night. It's a really awesome flick, and gives lots of good history. e. I'll try to put up a decent effortpost for Memphis wrestling one day soon. I'll also leave you with this, one of the most famous feuds of all time: Jerry Lawler and Andy Kaufman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVJPAe4-lBM Andy Kaufman couldn't come to Memphis because he would legitimately get his rear end kicked on the street by some average joes if he showed his face, that's how much he was hated here. NickRoweFillea fucked around with this message at 06:28 on Feb 11, 2015 |
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NickRoweFillea posted:Awesome thread MRT! Here's my little bit of contribution: the trailer for Memphis Heat. if you have the video file there are many video hosting services that psp-tv can stream from, google drive is probably your best bet
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Smoking Crow posted:Is there any way to see old Sheik matches from the 50s/60s? Here are a couple https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWXxP_rvXryBPpjIw7Dl9Tg/search?query=farhat
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Del Raminos posted:Here are a couple It sucks because you can find tons of stuff with him past his prime but can't really see anything from when he was the man.
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Unfortunately I don't think a lot of it still exists due to wiping
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mariooncrack posted:Unfortunately I don't think a lot of it still exists due to wiping From what I understand this is true of a lot of territorial stuff. drat shame. Like, I'd love to be able to run a weekly PSPTV show of Memphis TV every week from around when Lawler became their top guy until the end of the ECW vs USWA feud.
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Verne Gagne died according to Bill Apter:quote:Bill Apter @apter1wrestling 10m10 minutes ago Not too many major territory promoters still alive outside of the Memphis people. Shame his last few years were in such a bad state due to dementia. Dave's coverage this week should be interesting as I admit I'm not that knowledgeable about the AWA.
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We all know about Dusty, but there's been two other significant wrestling deaths in recent days. Buddy Landel was younger than I thought too, olny 53. Nature Boy Buddy Landel passes away William Ansor, who was on the verge of becoming one of the biggest stars in pro wrestling in the mid-80s as Nature Boy Buddy Landel, passed away earlier today at his home. Details are still sketchy, but the reports are that he was in a bad auto accident over the weekend, checked himself out of the hospital on Sunday, and said he was feeling bad when he went to sleep. When his wife went to check on him today, he was dead. Landel was 53. Landel, managed by J.J. Dillon, was set for a major push in Jim Crockett Promotions, including a potential NWA title run, or at least a major feud with Ric Flair. The two had set a record in Raleigh in a tryout match. But he was out of control, didn't get up for a television taping, and was fired. He was National heavyweight champion at the time, and on that morning at the TBS Studios, it was announced that Landel had lost the title to Dusty Rhodes in Albuquerque and he never appeared again. While he had a steady career for the next decade, including participating in USWA's last sellouts at the Mid South Coliseum (Lawler & Dutch Mantel vs. Landel & Bill Dundee), he never came close to that level of stardom again. Cora Combs passes away Cora Combs, the last surviving member of the Billy Wolfe troupe in the heyday of women's pro wrestling, passed away at 7 a.m. today at a hospital in Nashville. She was 92. She had been suffering from pneumonia in the last week. Combs, born Cora Svonsteckik was a former Country Music singer who, at the age of 26, attended a pro wrestling show headlined by Mildred Burke, then the biggest star in women's pro wrestling, back in 1949. Nick Gulas introduced her to Wolfe, and she moved to Wolfe's home base in Columbus, OH and wrestled for 36 years, including at the end of her career, often wrestling her daughter Debbie, while wearing a mask as Lady Satan. She headlined all over the world during the end of the Wolfe's stable heyday, and main evented with a significant push in Tennessee, where she was probably the most famous of the local women wrestlers. She worked with just about every name wrestler from several generations, well into the 80s. She was inducted into the Amsterdam, NY, based Pro Wrestling Hall of fame in 2007.
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American Treasure Karl Stern's July Marathon is all about bios in wrestling history. Has already gone through Gotch, Thesz, Ed "Strangler" Lewis, Gorgeous George, William Muldoon and others. Must listen for those interested in Pre-TV wrestling history.
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Anyone ever heard of this? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cenS5gpiHPo I wonder if it was a one-off gimmick or if there was a whole fed based on it.
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