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 Hello this is the thread where we can talk about old people territory wrestling. the biggest stars of the 70's and 80's (and i guess before that too, and possibly a bit after)  when tag teams were good and could draw good  Your favorite Territory  post matches and shows and anything else you can think of this is not a complete guide
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Dec 22, 2018 21:14
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I wish more of Detroit existed. Their studio shows were Central States levels of not giving a poo poo and everything remotely interesting happened in the arena Such is the pain of territory wrestling
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Dec 22, 2018 21:25
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As someone growing up in the dying days of the territories, my feds were Smoky Mountain Wrestling and USWA. USWA had really bad production values and I remember it being filmed in this weird blue and pink void like it was loving Magicant or something. There were weird dudes like SPELLBINDER and people would throw fireballs at each other a lot. SMW was a show where like two things happened per episode and they were often dumb. Maybe Tracy Smothers would fight Brian Lee w/ Hilary Clinton-impersonator Tammy Sytch for the thirtieth time in the "BEAT THE CHAMP TV CHALLENGE." Or "Dirty White Boy" Tony Anthony would get beat down by the Heavenly Bodies. Or aged skeleton man "Bullet" Bob Armstrong would show up to fight Jim Cornette under a mask as the man called "The Bullet." COULD IT BE BULLET BOB (it could)?!?! All this was on a local TV block hosted by a weird couple, Joe Pedicino and Bonnie Blackstone, and they'd also show ECW and eventually some WWF. I won a signed WWF replica belt from their show (it was signed by Pedicino and Blackstone, tho).
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Dec 22, 2018 21:35
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When I was younger, the FOX affiliate would show Mid-South/UWF (then NWA after the sale) at 11:00am followed by WWF Superstars of Wrestling at noon. Still a better programing block than RAW or Smackdown today. Flipping through some of the other UHF stations, I was able to find World Class, ICW, Wild West Wrestling, the sitcom "Learning the Ropes", and NWA Main Event. Good times.
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Dec 22, 2018 21:39
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBjOlK6CtUI
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Dec 22, 2018 21:51
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georgia championship wrestling owned and gently caress vince mcmahon
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Dec 22, 2018 21:51
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Made myself a playlist of every SMW show on YT I could find: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwdgPVenNuv7t2WIwIQHu1Q52RbLNaauP, enjoy. There's a wealth of territory era stuff on YouTube - I would love to have the time to do a deep dive on some of that.
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Dec 22, 2018 22:12
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Here's an hour and a half of build for the match that shut Greensboro down, Steamboat and Youngblood vs Slaughter and Kernodle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R14Efzp0oqA and the Big Turn of 1980 from Georgia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byRdTgPp_Nc
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Dec 22, 2018 22:14
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I've been beaten to the Ole turn on Dusty, so here's another of my favorite territory things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypy9vNLALjE This is quite a bit after the territories all died out, but since it's still Memphis I'll post this here as well. Part 2 is the infamous Doug Gilbert shoot, but the bit in part 1 is so loving great it also deserves to be seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGi31X9qN-M hunnert car pileup fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Dec 22, 2018 |
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Dec 22, 2018 22:17
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Amazon Prime has a bunch of random Memphis (CWA) eps.
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Dec 22, 2018 22:43
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Dec 22, 2018 22:53
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When I'm researching stuff in newspapers, I always jot down any cards I come across. There are rarely any big names on these, but I did recently uncover a couple of new Moolah matches from 1949, when she was still working as Lillian Ellison. Here's Dick Murdoch and Dusty Rhodes against Ben Justice and the Stomper from 1970 Detroit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa0dJB07j_g Dark-haired Buddy Rogers from the 1940s. High spots are a pair of dropkicks. The selling on forearm shots is different, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-Yx3bY6jqs
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Dec 23, 2018 01:51
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I...I'd like to talk to Tom. An insane angle, one that would cause quite an uproar today. Continental Wrestling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9XZ-eEW8Fo Also, while Michael Hayes is a pungent turd, he was a hell of a promo. Here he is turning face in Georgia after Terry Gordy turned on him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTIIKk4wBVc Here's Roddy Piper turning face because Don Muraco can't stop messing with Gordon Solie. And also because Ole Anderson tells him how it's gonna be, which is as common of a reason for a heel to turn face as any. Also Georgia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5EkRCVftTI And you can't talk territories without a Memphis angle. Ric Flair comes into Memphis, being nice, almost babyface-ish at first. Then Lawler comes out and asks that he be allowed 10 minutes TV time to face Flair, because Ric McCord might be a nice guy but he hasn't earned a shot at Flair. Flair agrees. They use basically the whole hour to build it up, and it's TV magic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryGKFpg7MFA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62JbUmiu7iU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjEWaWqylt4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YNk-XEySBw The Funks are coming to Florida. Duck, you sucker! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DXslrmzqq8 Piper cuts a promo on Chavo Guerrero, Sr. in anticipation of a Loser Leaves Town NO DQ match. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu7SaZcnxRM Another Memphis angle, with the friendly participation of Nick Bockwinkel and the AWA. $500 a punch, daddy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WL3LJMQmKpA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmsHSzMIcLU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUoVjxavJS0 And finally, Roddy Piper and Buddy Rose start their feud. Great for the image of Piper's crew literally using a wheelbarrow to cart around all the gold they have at the start. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiKQq_511LE El Gallinero Gros fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Dec 23, 2018 |
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Dec 23, 2018 02:17
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some studio brawls for your enjoyment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfpFtZzDdLY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnirpmLp42E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wij4KdBMtng https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX09BYDHlBM Lawler tars and feathers Jimmy Hart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqxFSdZHC2U And the famous Tupelo Concession Stand Brawl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTndTO1tqVk I loving love Memphis hunnert car pileup fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Dec 23, 2018 |
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Dec 23, 2018 02:23
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RC and Moon Pie posted:When I'm researching stuff in newspapers, I always jot down any cards I come across. There are rarely any big names on these, but I did recently uncover a couple of new Moolah matches from 1949, when she was still working as Lillian Ellison. Someone should start doing forearm strikes like this again, those looked great.
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Dec 23, 2018 07:49
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Thinking about beefy dudes doing very cool music videos rn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvzaWVy0lt0 Really missing them.
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Dec 24, 2018 01:29
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Suplex Liberace posted:Thinking about beefy dudes doing very cool music videos rn god the fabs videos owned so hard
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Dec 24, 2018 04:20
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My favorite territory, and yours too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipfT0QhzRSI Perhaps the only territory that had a goon as champion
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Dec 24, 2018 04:54
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Yeah continental was great I agree
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Dec 24, 2018 05:10
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Ad by Khad posted:My favorite territory, and yours too Fukkn hell yeah 
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Dec 24, 2018 19:27
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Was there any good angles or years that I can watch from Puerto Rico? WWC or IWA dont matter. Still thinkin bout beefy dudes doing very cool music videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDa9dJ_Vw-M
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Jan 17, 2019 18:37
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Suplex Liberace posted:Was there any good angles or years that I can watch from Puerto Rico? WWC or IWA dont matter. Any combination of Bruiser Brody, Carlos Colon and Abdullah the Butcher
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Jan 17, 2019 19:39
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Suplex Liberace posted:Was there any good angles or years that I can watch from Puerto Rico? WWC or IWA dont matter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwWfs7KZ1ng This is the only angle I know from Puerto Rico, and it owns.
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Jan 17, 2019 19:43
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Takuan posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwWfs7KZ1ng Here's Abdullah the Butcher attacking a nude Carlos Colon in the shower. Still trying to find the video of Abby throwing a net onto Colon before beating the dogshit out of him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNR05tbRrrg
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Jan 18, 2019 22:25
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i wish i could find that video of carlos colon walking into abdullah's office with a briefcase full of $100 bills to get him to team with him against bruiser brody and stan hansen the only time i've ever seen abdullah smile in kayfabe
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Jan 18, 2019 23:53
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Stumbled on a 1969 episode of Big Time Wrestling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iusBx_kuS8g It's not exactly an inspiring episode. Jess Ortega throws one of the worst shoulderblocks I've ever seen. Karl Kox obviously pulls nothing out of his trunks and everybody has to fake that he does. Also features a young and thin J.J. Dillon.
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Jan 19, 2019 05:41
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Stumbled on a 1969 episode of Big Time Wrestling. Holy crap, Arnold Skaaland is in the first match!
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Jan 19, 2019 06:41
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Suplex Liberace posted:Was there any good angles or years that I can watch from Puerto Rico? WWC or IWA dont matter. Have the Stan Hansen/Carlos Colon feud from '86/'87. Every single match rules, and the bullrope match is one of my favorite brawls of all time and my favorite strap match of any kind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgGxUo90kC0
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Jan 19, 2019 15:34
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Stumbled on a 1969 episode of Big Time Wrestling. The TV show was always bad, but the live shows were really bloody vicious stuff
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Jan 19, 2019 18:57
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWXGMj40eC4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT9OntJsREk Two very different Brody matches from Puerto Rico https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ILpoJzDg8c I usually only hear about the original concession stand brawl but I think this one is pretty good too.
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Jan 19, 2019 19:27
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I have a hugeass collection of Brody stuff I got from IVP videos a while back. Bruiser Brody is my fave old timey wrassler because he gave exactly zero fucks.
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Jan 19, 2019 19:39
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mariooncrack posted:
Jim Cornette links that particular brawl directly to the formation of FMW in Japan, and tangentially to ECW and other hardcore promotions. http://jimcornette.com/cornettes-commentary/slippery-slope-hardcore-wrestling
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Jan 20, 2019 20:39
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An underrated quirk about Jim Cornette is that he thinks Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson are extremely good looking men
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Jan 22, 2019 04:10
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Aesop Poprock posted:An underrated quirk about Jim Cornette is that he thinks Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson are extremely good looking men They DID operate in the south. How much footage is there of the period where Lawler usurps Fargo's spot as the King?
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Jan 22, 2019 05:06
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Fauxhawk Express posted:Have the Stan Hansen/Carlos Colon feud from '86/'87. Every single match rules, and the bullrope match is one of my favorite brawls of all time and my favorite strap match of any kind. Pumped to watch this, thanks everyone else too v. good stuff.
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Jan 22, 2019 07:04
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Aesop Poprock posted:An underrated quirk about Jim Cornette is that he thinks Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson are extremely good looking men JCP would run contests that were like "buy a ticket to win a date with the rock and roll express" and they went over well
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Jan 22, 2019 12:31
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Yall are posting some awesome matches and clips in here. Gonna kill a whole weekend watching this stuff.
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Jan 22, 2019 13:39
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DJExile posted:Yall are posting some awesome matches and clips in here. Gonna kill a whole weekend watching this stuff. Here's the build and aftermath to one of my favorite matches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6g_lecgQzb8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2peOLg5gqKY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSRyY4IM8y4
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Jan 22, 2019 14:16
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Karl Stern said that Terry Funk proves that you can have a wild, out there character without having a mask or crazy costume, and I agree. He's completely insane whenever Jerry Lawler is around How do you describe Terry Funk's gimmick anyway? Deranged cattle farmer?
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Jan 22, 2019 14:26
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Smoking Crow posted:How do you describe Terry Funk's gimmick anyway? Deranged cattle farmer? "Is Terry Funk"  But yeah basically he's just a nutty rancher type.
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Jan 22, 2019 17:37
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