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I recently subscribed to Peacock+ and see they have a ton of wrestling shows. I know next to nothing about wrestling, but have looked around the net and know about some of what WCW/NWA put out. Is there a good list of what to watch from 70s to 00s? Should I just watch all of the PPVs then jump into the "Monday Night Wars"? I know Ric Flair, Dusty Baker, Sting, Hulk Hogan, and the NWO are essential to WCW/NWA, but is there anyone else I should keep an eye out for? I've already watched Starrcade '83. Flair, Rickey Steamboat, Charlie Brown, Roddy Piper, Bugsy McGraw and Rufus R. Jones were all enjoyable personalities. I am interested in the late 80s/early 90s era, but everything I read says the weekly shows are bad. I browsed some parts of this thread and it seems like the catch-all WCW/NWA/Crockett thread so I hope my questions are in the right place. Mr Hootington fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Oct 25, 2022 |
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I found this reddit watch list and would all of you say it is good or too much?
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Oct 25, 2022 18:33
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MassRafTer posted:I don't think Fall 93 is good at all, Winter 99 is very bad and April 2000 is awful. Ok so take those out and add the PPVs and I should be good?
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Oct 25, 2022 18:39
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MassRafTer posted:The only PPVs I'd bother watching from Halloween Havoc 98 through the end of the company are Spring Stampede 99 and Greed. The rest are really genuinely bad. Also I missed the guy saying September of 99 through November is good, that's some of the worst poo poo the company ever did. Although there is one really funny Nitro in there. Ok. Thank you for all the help. 
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Oct 25, 2022 18:49
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MrBling posted:The TV was where everything happened because Bischoff was obsessed with TV ratings rather than PPV buy rates. They are. I watched a couple of episodes of the mid-atlantic and it was really dry.
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Oct 25, 2022 19:14
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Rusty Shackelford posted:Dusty Baker wasn't in NWA/JCP/WCW. That was Scott Hall - you must have seen the toothpick and got confused. I meant Dusty rhodes
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Oct 25, 2022 22:24
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Starrcadde 84 rules. Some great matches and modern wrestling started taking shape.
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Oct 28, 2022 05:08
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MAGNUM T.A.
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Oct 31, 2022 22:23
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I'm very confused by when and where lex lugar appears in NWA wrestling. He just shows you at the Bunkhouse stampede. I've never seen him before this. Same with the roadwarriors. Edit: necermind. I watched the 3rd one.
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Nov 5, 2022 02:47
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I tried some of the other regions of the NWA before their absorption and the others beyond the mid-atlantic just aren't as good
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Nov 6, 2022 19:14
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ0YkQHqczw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVj9PXeJI8o  A storyline that did not age well. Everything around "The perfect 10" Babydoll has been awful. Edit: Ok the 2nd nature boy showing up and all the weird Paul Jones amassing an army to take out everyone is pretty good. It also sucks that Sliver Star '85 doesn't seem to be uploaded anywhere. Edit2: I just discovered the show nwa worldwide wrestling and the nwa wcw show in 1985. I wish the wwe network had these up. Apparently this is what I actually wanted to watch. Mr Hootington fucked around with this message at 14:12 on Nov 11, 2022 |
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Nov 8, 2022 22:11
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The World Championship Wrestling show that premiers in 1985 is head and shoulders above the wide world of wrestling and mid-atlantic show. David Crockett is a terrible announcer. Edit: the 2nd iteration of the Minnesota Wrecking Crew is also insanely racist. The amount of racist poo poo the Anderson say to the Raging Bull and Thunderbolt is insane. Mr Hootington fucked around with this message at 21:56 on Nov 21, 2022 |
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Nov 21, 2022 21:51
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I hit the point in 1985 when Ric Flair completed his Heel turn. The match against Sam Houston was great. Magnum T.A. rules too. It is too bad about what happens to him. Man would have been an all time great and remembered like Ric and Dusty.
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Nov 26, 2022 21:54
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Suplex Liberace posted:it sucks watching old jcp or Memphis and all of a sudden its time for the most obscure southern slurs block. Yeah it was nuts hearing Arn Anderson call Manny Fernandez a "Half-Breed" and Ole Anderson say he was tired of Thunderbolt thinking he needed equal opportunities.
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Nov 27, 2022 04:40
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MrBling posted:yeah .. about Ole: https://streamable.com/s8p9do https://twitter.com/ShareHoot/status/1597000763326492672?t=00R-Z7ocycivoF_-AOwp4A&s=19 These are the only 2 wrestlers I've heard say poo poo like this even accounting for the time.
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Nov 27, 2022 23:54
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El Gallinero Gros posted:Memphis had its share Which regional wrestling company was that?
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Nov 28, 2022 04:43
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MassRafTer posted:Continental and later USWA. Ah I haven't watched any of that. I'm just still with mid-atlantic. That seems to have most of the future wcw stars.
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Nov 28, 2022 05:04
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Foes anyone have video of Nikita Koloff attacking announcer David Crockett?
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Nov 28, 2022 18:06
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So the 1985 Great American Bash is lost beyond a episode of wrestling today that has some clips of the matches?
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Nov 29, 2022 23:06
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Heading towards Starrcade '85 in a day or 2 so a update on what I'm enjoyinging. I like Jimmy Valiant. I like Paul Jones. I do not like their stupid feud. Jim Cornette is a great manager/hype man. He is also a son of a bitch. Midnight express are great in the ring. Rock'n'Roll Express is great in the ring, but outside the ring they are two very stupid men. Barbarian is good when they use him. Same for Abdullah. The Koloffs are good. I like Nikita as this unstoppable force. Ric Flair is a son of a bitch. Justice for Dusty. Dusty has grown on me. Magnum is still good, but seems to have been shuffled to the side. Ron Garvin, Terry Taylor, and black Bart exist. Ron Bass is great outside the ring, but his in ring stuff is starting to suffer. His face turn is meh. David Crockett needs to shut up. Sam Houston...lmao Tully Blanchard and Baby Doll are the couple you love to hate. The Andersons. Arn is a good hell. Ole just comes off as mean and cruel frequently. Pistol Pez Whately. What a shame he is never used beyond sorts jobber stuff. He isblike Jimmy Valiant. A clown who is fun to watch. Mad dog buzz swayer is a psycho. Edit: JJ Dillion is also a fun manager. Mr Hootington fucked around with this message at 17:13 on Dec 12, 2022 |
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RON GARVIN IS MISS ATLANTA LIVELY?! My opinion on him has changed. A good wrestler. Lmao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr89N8OnzkI LemonLimeSoda posted:The Magnum TA/Tully Blanchard match from Starrcade '85 is one of my favorite matches I've ever seen I haven't watched that match yet. Very excited for it. That is unfortunate you don't like Valiant. I think his Street People, over exaggerated in ring antics, and outside the ring personality is a nice change of pace. I didn't enjoy the Valiant's War angle they took for a few months. Mr Hootington fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Dec 14, 2022 |
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Dec 14, 2022 15:16
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I do not enjoy blading.LemonLimeSoda posted:I might be the problem and I'm just being a harsh critic The Rolling Stones guy? How so? Mr Hootington fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Dec 17, 2022 |
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Dec 17, 2022 22:25
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JESUS CHRIST THAT MAGNUM TA AND TULLY MATCH WTF
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OJ MIST 2 THE DICK posted:tbh that's just because what is mid-atlantics just becomes wcw after ownership changes hands to Turner and a split from the NWA The only show I have problems tracking down is wide world of wrestling. Nearly all of season 1 of championship wrestling is on YouTube and the nwa episodes Peacock doesn't have are on YouTube. I have not seen Jimmy hart or Jerry Lawler at all. I haven't seen any Memphis wrestling.
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I know who Jerry "The King" Lawler the announcer is, but not his wrestler side. I absolutely do not know who Jimmy Hart, but googling I recognize his picture. I might eventually get into WWF stuff, but right now I'm just watching WCW.Suplex Liberace posted:^thank you for posting my favorite song I feel this way about a lot of old media. Mr Hootington fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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MrBling posted:yeah, it's great right? I used this 1985 playlist Someone created using your videos and 4WrestlingFans. I'll be wrapping up 1985 this week and moving onto 1986. But yeah the match was brutal. On one hand still not a huge fan of the blading, but they really put on a show of kicking the poo poo out of each other. The chair at the end was unexpected. Edit: I also enjoyed the landel and Terry match Mr Hootington fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Dec 18, 2022 |
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Dec 18, 2022 16:25
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Ok so 1986 is starting off confusing. Ole has a hurt leg and Dusty is now holding buddy landel's title. Did I miss some poo poo or is this behind the scenes stuff?
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Lurks With Wolves posted:Buddy had a disagreement with management (iirc the kind of disagreement that can be summarized as "stop showing up late and high, rear end in a top hat"), so they made him drop the title immediately after he won it. Which is a shame, he was supposedly set for a Nature Boy vs Nature Boy feud with Ric Flair if he kept his head on straight. That does suck. I kinda liked the buddy/JJ weird relationship and landel was a good heel. Edit: not a lot of of the 1986 episodes of World Wide Wrestling available. I know at the end of this year a bunch of shows switch titles so I need to figure all that out too. Mr Hootington fucked around with this message at 00:33 on Dec 27, 2022 |
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Dec 26, 2022 23:27
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Lol The 80s rule
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Dec 27, 2022 04:58
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There is a period during the early part of 1986 where Ric Flair calls his dick "Space Mountain" and constantly invites Baby Doll or women in general to ride it if they are over 18.
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Dec 28, 2022 19:40
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NWA World Championship Wrestling Air date January 25, 1986 https://twitter.com/ShareHoot/status/1608188618572455936?t=utw7k64poMmUMg-mBwF4dA&s=19 https://twitter.com/ShareHoot/status/1608187875757117442?t=IZN20aB0o4qHEvdfZ2_Q1Q&s=19 A show or 2 ago he also talked about riding space mountain and how babydoll couldn't handle it.
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Dec 28, 2022 20:51
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Gorgeous Jimmy Garvin and Precious are great. Lmao at the disinfectant being sprayed everywhere. Them being an actual married couple is great too
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Dec 30, 2022 16:30
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Someone would have to set up a mirror with a spliced tape recording of Hogan talking
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Dec 30, 2022 17:49
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MassRafTer posted:It's sad that people are ignorant of such a famous feud. Lmao this is great
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Dec 31, 2022 03:50
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Ric Flair's one weakness being Ron Gavin's Fist of Stone is great. Every couple of weeks we get to see Ron deck Ric and knock Ric out.
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Jan 1, 2023 18:16
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The 1st annual tag team tournament Crockett Cup being immediately undermined by having flair and Rhodes back out to do a headliner event so dusty can lose again is very stupid.
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Jan 2, 2023 18:00
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Lmao at the pistol pez whately heel turn. Jesus wrestling The Paul jones army just being foreigners and minorities declaring war on white wrestling. 
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Jan 3, 2023 23:09
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Holy poo poo there was an angle where Jim Cornette hurt baby doll so dusty rhodes and magnum ta dressed up in cowboy gear with lynching masks and tried to hang jim? What the gently caress lol
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Halloween Jack posted:I thought that the culprit was The Midnight Rider. They are supposed to be the "James brothers"
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There isn't a lot of tv show "NWA/WCW Pro Wrestling" available from 1986 is there?
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