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OLE ANDERSON PROMO ON DUSTY RHODES (Georgia - July 1980)

For those that don't know the whole background, I have not seen the video, but this what I've been able to gather... After years of being a heel in Georgia and feuding Dusty Rhodes, Ole turned face in October 1979. He teamed a lot with his brother Lars in that time. In June, he teamed up with Dusty Rhodes to go against the masked Russian Assassins in the Omni. That match ended in a no contest and a big cage rematch was made. Each team was allowed to pick a special referee. The Russians picked Ivan Koloff; Ole brought back his brother Gene, who had been out of the territory. When the cage is locked and the match starts in the Omni, the Russians and both Koloff and Gene start beating him down. As soon as Dusty makes the first tag to Ole, Ole turns on him and it's a 5-on-1 beat down.

This is audio only that was posted on Wrestling Classics many moons ago and just about the most valuable thing ever downloaded in the history of the internet. Gordon Solie voices over as they look at footage of Ole's heel turn at the Omni. Ole then starts going off on everyone.

This has been called the greatest heel promo ever. To the modern wrestling fan, who saw people yell, scream and turn heel every week of the Monday night wars, this probably won't come off as anything more than a very good promo. But it is the interview and Ole's explanation that is as important as the turn itself. The idea that Ole Anderson "nobody knew" and how he "plotted and planned" for a whole year as a babyface until he finally got Dusty to agree to be his tag partner is tremendous at showing the deviousness of the Ole character and the extent to which he would go just for the opportunity to kick Dusty Rhodes' face in.

Ole gets himself over as the most heartless motherfucker ever when he tells Gordon about who he had to "pretend" to be his friend.

"But now I don't have to pretend to be your friend, because I never was and I never will be."

And he tells Gordon that if he gets in his way, "I'll do the same to you. And you can count on it."

It's also important that Ole turned heel inside the cage, with the imagery that Dusty is locked in, with three of his enemies and a Gene Anderson that starts beating his ass. It looks as though the only man he can trust is Ole.

OLE ANDERSON PROMO ON LARS ANDERSON (Georgia - September 1980)

Lars Anderson is the one that makes the save for Dusty, so we also have this promo. To the modern wrestling fan, this promo appears better than the previous one because Ole has even more intensity. Ole's words and delivery is so intimidating and really unlike anyone I can think of today. This is really a promo for Ole's match with Tony Atlas coming up at the Omni, but Ole also goes off on Lars, promising to kill him if he shows his face in the building. This set up an angle and impromptu match that would happen between Lars and Ole after the match with Atlas.

It's amazing how intertwined feuds were at this time, or at least were in this situation. There's really a line of opponents for Ole Anderson. Ole turned heel on Dusty and was chased away by Lars. He talked about Lars in the promo in July, feuds with Dusty for a while, faces Tony Atlas at the Omni in September, and wouldn't end up wrestling Lars in a scheduled match at the Omni until at least a month after this promo. The way matches are promoted today is much more singular and things move so fast that it's doubtful that fans would remember who made the save for Dusty three months ago if they were not regularly reminded (this is not to saw that Ole did not bring up Lars consistently). Today it seems that there is an unwritten rule that wrestlers talk only about their current opponent and everyone else is forgotten. This is probably for fear of making the current match look secondary.

I think you can also see this in a lot of Flair's old promos were he would mention as many as four or five opponents. Granted, a couple of them might be guys in other territories.

NIKITA KOLOFF VS. MAGNUM TA (Jim Crockett Promotions - August 2, 1986)

This is match number-four of their best of seven series. Nikita won the first three, so Magnum is facing elimination and will have to win four straight matches to become US champion.

There are many things about old wrestling and Jim Crockett Promotions that scream old school wrestling. Ring announcer Tom Miller is one of them. David Crockett and his soft-spoken-with-occasional-screaming style of commentary is one of those also.

Magnum TA is ridiculously over. Magnum was the fucking man. That mustache and that permed mullet, aura cooler than Big Fucking Dave Batista. Magnum, in all his southern coolness, is fighting with an AMERICAN DREAM in mind: the United States heavyweight title. Nikita on the other hand is a Russian fucking monster. A communist fighting for his own RUSSIAN NIGHTMARE.

Nikita is too strong and full of steroids that the CCCP has supplied him. The "VASTLY POPULAR!" Magnum can only beat him by out wrestling him. Because of this Nikita beats him to no fucking end from the start. The odds are greatly against the babyface and there is nothing but hope that Magnum can stop the Russian Bear from becoming the United States champion.

This is a great seven or eight minute match. Nikita has his way with Magnum throws him through the ropes over and over again to Ivan Koloff on the outside. Magnum finally catches Nikita with a sunset flip over the ropes for the finish. Nikita does the late kickout and Tommy Young's out-of-picture, but looks to have been really fast. Regardless, Nikita's Russian nightmare is postponed!

NIKITA KOLOFF VS. MAGNUM TA (Jim Crockett Promotions - August 17, 1986)

Magnum TA SOMEHOW won three straight to prolong the series to MATCH NUMBER SEVEN.

David Crockett is the fucking man in this match. At the opening, he whispers words of encouragement in your ear like you are a young child learning how to ride a bike. Fans would probably be alienated, compared to what they're used to today, but I love his style of commentary.

The crowd is fucking electric for the seventh and final match of the series. They're going nuts as you can hear the awesome sound of the ring ropes rattling as Magnum sprints back and forth early. MAGNUM TWISTS HIM WITH THOSE MIGHTY ARMS! This is such a wrestling match. Magnum gets down to kicking some ass early and won't be dominated like he was in match #4. The trouble starts for Magnum when Nikita gets out of the way of a crossbody that sends Magnum out of the ring. And the Russian beating begins as Nikita dismantles Magnum's back. The crowd is so fucking nuclear to see Magnum comeback as Nikita bearhugs him to death. Magnum hiptosses out of a second bearhug and punches the fuck out of the CCCP's favorite wrestler. Ivan tries to get involved and gets a PILEDRIVER OF DOOM ON THE CONCRETE FLOOR so he can get back to punching Nikita. Oh my god. Wrestling is real. This brings Crusher Khrushchev down to complain to Tommy Young just as Magnum hits a BELLY TO BELLY SUPLEX THAT WOULD BE CALLED SLOPPY TODAY, BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER! PEOPLE ARE RIOTOUS! That fucking bastard Nikita hits Magnum with the chain! TOMMY, HE GOT HIM WITH THE CHAIN! Schiavoni is solemn. Crockett is livid. Nikita Koloff is the US champion. Magnum is flat on his back. THE NIGHTMARE HAS COME TRUE. God damn. Wrestling used to be so much simpler. There was no perfectly executed moonsault. No modified DDT. No cool counters. No fast-paced mat work. No stiff chops or massive kicks to the face. No false finishes. Nothing innovative. The announcers didn't even put the match over as a match of the year candidate. There were people in an arena who were compelled to see a star win and his opponent lose.

But times have changed and wrestling has changed. The days of a crowd so fucking nuclear, hanging on every movement and every event that takes place in the ring, are gone. At least to that level. The fans' senses have been fucked over like Scott Hall's tolerance to alcohol. They have been fucked over at the understandable, but shitty willingness of the workers to up the ante because of the shitty, but natural willingness of the fans to pop for the move bigger than the biggest one they saw before that. Fuck you, wrestling. I fucking loved this. This was fucking awesome. Jim Crockett Promotions was fucking awesome. Wrestling was fucking awesome. Wrestling in the 80s was fucking awesome -- a time when the men were men and they fought and they bled and paid the price. Wrestling in the 90s was awesome too, because, propelled by the Monday night wars, we saw all these great things, new styles, new moves and bigger moves and even bigger moves and new angles and more angles and more angles, people swearing and doing controversial things that had never been done before in wrestling. And some stars got really over and wrestling got really popular because of it. Because of that, wrestlers got to be in the media and on TV shows and it was like it was a prerequisite of every late 90s mainstream interview to admit that wrestling is predetermined, just incase you didn't know. And now we're in the 2000s and there's nothing left to do. Nitro is dead and Vince won the Monday night war, but still has to put on a super show every week because that's what fans have come to expect. Fuck you, wrestling.

Wrestling can still be awesome sometimes, but it's so much more fucking difficult.

MAGNUM TA VS. NIKITA KOLOFF (Jim Crockett Promotions - September 20, 1986)

One of the greatest tragedies for the hardcore wrestling fan was Jim Crockett losing the first chapter of the nationwide wrestling war in 1988. Ted Turner's purchase of the company gratefully saved it and kept it on TV, but began the stream of rotating World Championship Wrestling presidents that were less than competent more often than not.

Another one of the greatest tragedies in wrestling happened on October 14, 1986 when Magnum TA's career was ended in a car accident that he was lucky to survive with the ability to eventually walk again. Imagine how the course of pro wrestling would have been different had Magnum's Porsche not hydroplaned out of control on a Charlotte, North Carolina street. He certainly would have been NWA world heavyweight champion, perhaps by Starrcade '87, instead of Ron Garvin. Imagine the classic Flair vs. Magnum battles we missed out on. Could Magnum have made the difference in the wrestling war? Could the only Tom Selleck look-alike cooler than PI himself have kept Jim Crockett out of bankruptcy in 1988? We can only fluff our blonde perms and wonder.

This, a 2/3 falls rematch with Nikita Koloff, is what was Magnum TA's last big match on television.

The crowd is on for sure here, but not boiling over like they were for match #7. Nikita bumps and runs like a heel for Magnum at the open. Magnum gets the first pin and the fall that he never got in the last match after a few minutes after the belly-to-belly. I like the idea of the face getting the first fall in a 2/3 falls match, especially one where he is the challenger for a title. So all he needs is to get that one pin for the rest of the match. The other with the heel getting the first fall is good for the right situation, with the idea that after the heel has won the first fall, now the odds are against the face because he needs two straight falls to win. That may work especially well with a face against a weaker heel.

Nikita gets the second fall after cutting Magnum off outside the ring, working the throat and later hitting THE RUSSIAN SICKLE! The love wrestling matches where a clothesline gets a pin. 1986 was a great year.

Magnum tries to comeback early in the third fall, get some nearfalls, but gets cut down and Nikita settles it down with a good long headlock that Magnum keeps trying to work out of. Magnum continuously almost gets going, but Nikita just knocks him the fuck back down every time. Magnum sells and sells until he finally gets his big comeback. David Crockett declares this THE RAGE OF MAGNUM TA! The people really get going then. They want to see him win so badly. Believable nearfall off a vertical suplex! Magnum gets a three count on a backslide, but Tommy Young immediately discounts it when he sees Nikita's feet on the middle rope. Magnum thinks he's won and grabs the belt, which is the kind of the Dusty booking that confuses the fuck out of the fans which I always think makes people less willing to do the big pop for a finish the next time. Ivan Koloff jumps in and gets a belt shot, which ends the match on DQ. Helluva match, especially the third fall and not a bad one to end a career on, if all too soon.

This is what a real man looks like~!

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Johnsburg Newb Status: Offline Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 1 vBookie Cash: 500 Rep Power: 0	Love Fest~! :miakal: OLE ANDERSON PROMO ON DUSTY RHODES (Georgia - July 1980) For those that don't know the whole background, I have not seen the video, but this what I've been able to gather... After years of being a heel in Georgia and feuding Dusty Rhodes, Ole turned face in October 1979. He teamed a lot with his brother Lars in that time. In June, he teamed up with Dusty Rhodes to go against the masked Russian Assassins in the Omni. That match ended in a no contest and a big cage rematch was made. Each team was allowed to pick a special referee. The Russians picked Ivan Koloff; Ole brought back his brother Gene, who had been out of the territory. When the cage is locked and the match starts in the Omni, the Russians and both Koloff and Gene start beating him down. As soon as Dusty makes the first tag to Ole, Ole turns on him and it's a 5-on-1 beat down. This is audio only that was posted on Wrestling Classics many moons ago and just about the most valuable thing ever downloaded in the history of the internet. Gordon Solie voices over as they look at footage of Ole's heel turn at the Omni. Ole then starts going off on everyone. This has been called the greatest heel promo ever. To the modern wrestling fan, who saw people yell, scream and turn heel every week of the Monday night wars, this probably won't come off as anything more than a very good promo. But it is the interview and Ole's explanation that is as important as the turn itself. The idea that Ole Anderson "nobody knew" and how he "plotted and planned" for a whole year as a babyface until he finally got Dusty to agree to be his tag partner is tremendous at showing the deviousness of the Ole character and the extent to which he would go just for the opportunity to kick Dusty Rhodes' face in. Ole gets himself over as the most heartless motherfucker ever when he tells Gordon about who he had to "pretend" to be his friend. "But now I don't have to pretend to be your friend, because I never was and I never will be." And he tells Gordon that if he gets in his way, "I'll do the same to you. And you can count on it." It's also important that Ole turned heel inside the cage, with the imagery that Dusty is locked in, with three of his enemies and a Gene Anderson that starts beating his ass. It looks as though the only man he can trust is Ole. OLE ANDERSON PROMO ON LARS ANDERSON (Georgia - September 1980) Lars Anderson is the one that makes the save for Dusty, so we also have this promo. To the modern wrestling fan, this promo appears better than the previous one because Ole has even more intensity. Ole's words and delivery is so intimidating and really unlike anyone I can think of today. This is really a promo for Ole's match with Tony Atlas coming up at the Omni, but Ole also goes off on Lars, promising to kill him if he shows his face in the building. This set up an angle and impromptu match that would happen between Lars and Ole after the match with Atlas. It's amazing how intertwined feuds were at this time, or at least were in this situation. There's really a line of opponents for Ole Anderson. Ole turned heel on Dusty and was chased away by Lars. He talked about Lars in the promo in July, feuds with Dusty for a while, faces Tony Atlas at the Omni in September, and wouldn't end up wrestling Lars in a scheduled match at the Omni until at least a month after this promo. The way matches are promoted today is much more singular and things move so fast that it's doubtful that fans would remember who made the save for Dusty three months ago if they were not regularly reminded (this is not to saw that Ole did not bring up Lars consistently). Today it seems that there is an unwritten rule that wrestlers talk only about their current opponent and everyone else is forgotten. This is probably for fear of making the current match look secondary. I think you can also see this in a lot of Flair's old promos were he would mention as many as four or five opponents. Granted, a couple of them might be guys in other territories. NIKITA KOLOFF VS. MAGNUM TA (Jim Crockett Promotions - August 2, 1986) This is match number-four of their best of seven series. Nikita won the first three, so Magnum is facing elimination and will have to win four straight matches to become US champion. There are many things about old wrestling and Jim Crockett Promotions that scream old school wrestling. Ring announcer Tom Miller is one of them. David Crockett and his soft-spoken-with-occasional-screaming style of commentary is one of those also. Magnum TA is ridiculously over. Magnum was the fucking man. That mustache and that permed mullet, aura cooler than Big Fucking Dave Batista. Magnum, in all his southern coolness, is fighting with an AMERICAN DREAM in mind: the United States heavyweight title. Nikita on the other hand is a Russian fucking monster. A communist fighting for his own RUSSIAN NIGHTMARE. Nikita is too strong and full of steroids that the CCCP has supplied him. The "VASTLY POPULAR!" Magnum can only beat him by out wrestling him. Because of this Nikita beats him to no fucking end from the start. The odds are greatly against the babyface and there is nothing but hope that Magnum can stop the Russian Bear from becoming the United States champion. This is a great seven or eight minute match. Nikita has his way with Magnum throws him through the ropes over and over again to Ivan Koloff on the outside. Magnum finally catches Nikita with a sunset flip over the ropes for the finish. Nikita does the late kickout and Tommy Young's out-of-picture, but looks to have been really fast. Regardless, Nikita's Russian nightmare is postponed! NIKITA KOLOFF VS. MAGNUM TA (Jim Crockett Promotions - August 17, 1986) Magnum TA SOMEHOW won three straight to prolong the series to MATCH NUMBER SEVEN. David Crockett is the fucking man in this match. At the opening, he whispers words of encouragement in your ear like you are a young child learning how to ride a bike. Fans would probably be alienated, compared to what they're used to today, but I love his style of commentary. The crowd is fucking electric for the seventh and final match of the series. They're going nuts as you can hear the awesome sound of the ring ropes rattling as Magnum sprints back and forth early. MAGNUM TWISTS HIM WITH THOSE MIGHTY ARMS! This is such a wrestling match. Magnum gets down to kicking some ass early and won't be dominated like he was in match #4. The trouble starts for Magnum when Nikita gets out of the way of a crossbody that sends Magnum out of the ring. And the Russian beating begins as Nikita dismantles Magnum's back. The crowd is so fucking nuclear to see Magnum comeback as Nikita bearhugs him to death. Magnum hiptosses out of a second bearhug and punches the fuck out of the CCCP's favorite wrestler. Ivan tries to get involved and gets a PILEDRIVER OF DOOM ON THE CONCRETE FLOOR so he can get back to punching Nikita. Oh my god. Wrestling is real. This brings Crusher Khrushchev down to complain to Tommy Young just as Magnum hits a BELLY TO BELLY SUPLEX THAT WOULD BE CALLED SLOPPY TODAY, BUT IT DOESN'T MATTER! PEOPLE ARE RIOTOUS! That fucking bastard Nikita hits Magnum with the chain! TOMMY, HE GOT HIM WITH THE CHAIN! Schiavoni is solemn. Crockett is livid. Nikita Koloff is the US champion. Magnum is flat on his back. THE NIGHTMARE HAS COME TRUE. God damn. Wrestling used to be so much simpler. There was no perfectly executed moonsault. No modified DDT. No cool counters. No fast-paced mat work. No stiff chops or massive kicks to the face. No false finishes. Nothing innovative. The announcers didn't even put the match over as a match of the year candidate. There were people in an arena who were compelled to see a star win and his opponent lose. But times have changed and wrestling has changed. The days of a crowd so fucking nuclear, hanging on every movement and every event that takes place in the ring, are gone. At least to that level. The fans' senses have been fucked over like Scott Hall's tolerance to alcohol. They have been fucked over at the understandable, but shitty willingness of the workers to up the ante because of the shitty, but natural willingness of the fans to pop for the move bigger than the biggest one they saw before that. Fuck you, wrestling. I fucking loved this. This was fucking awesome. Jim Crockett Promotions was fucking awesome. Wrestling was fucking awesome. Wrestling in the 80s was fucking awesome -- a time when the men were men and they fought and they bled and paid the price. Wrestling in the 90s was awesome too, because, propelled by the Monday night wars, we saw all these great things, new styles, new moves and bigger moves and even bigger moves and new angles and more angles and more angles, people swearing and doing controversial things that had never been done before in wrestling. And some stars got really over and wrestling got really popular because of it. Because of that, wrestlers got to be in the media and on TV shows and it was like it was a prerequisite of every late 90s mainstream interview to admit that wrestling is predetermined, just incase you didn't know. And now we're in the 2000s and there's nothing left to do. Nitro is dead and Vince won the Monday night war, but still has to put on a super show every week because that's what fans have come to expect. Fuck you, wrestling. Wrestling can still be awesome sometimes, but it's so much more fucking difficult. MAGNUM TA VS. NIKITA KOLOFF (Jim Crockett Promotions - September 20, 1986) One of the greatest tragedies for the hardcore wrestling fan was Jim Crockett losing the first chapter of the nationwide wrestling war in 1988. Ted Turner's purchase of the company gratefully saved it and kept it on TV, but began the stream of rotating World Championship Wrestling presidents that were less than competent more often than not. Another one of the greatest tragedies in wrestling happened on October 14, 1986 when Magnum TA's career was ended in a car accident that he was lucky to survive with the ability to eventually walk again. Imagine how the course of pro wrestling would have been different had Magnum's Porsche not hydroplaned out of control on a Charlotte, North Carolina street. He certainly would have been NWA world heavyweight champion, perhaps by Starrcade '87, instead of Ron Garvin. Imagine the classic Flair vs. Magnum battles we missed out on. Could Magnum have made the difference in the wrestling war? Could the only Tom Selleck look-alike cooler than PI himself have kept Jim Crockett out of bankruptcy in 1988? We can only fluff our blonde perms and wonder. This, a 2/3 falls rematch with Nikita Koloff, is what was Magnum TA's last big match on television. The crowd is on for sure here, but not boiling over like they were for match #7. Nikita bumps and runs like a heel for Magnum at the open. Magnum gets the first pin and the fall that he never got in the last match after a few minutes after the belly-to-belly. I like the idea of the face getting the first fall in a 2/3 falls match, especially one where he is the challenger for a title. So all he needs is to get that one pin for the rest of the match. The other with the heel getting the first fall is good for the right situation, with the idea that after the heel has won the first fall, now the odds are against the face because he needs two straight falls to win. That may work especially well with a face against a weaker heel. Nikita gets the second fall after cutting Magnum off outside the ring, working the throat and later hitting THE RUSSIAN SICKLE! The love wrestling matches where a clothesline gets a pin. 1986 was a great year. Magnum tries to comeback early in the third fall, get some nearfalls, but gets cut down and Nikita settles it down with a good long headlock that Magnum keeps trying to work out of. Magnum continuously almost gets going, but Nikita just knocks him the fuck back down every time. Magnum sells and sells until he finally gets his big comeback. David Crockett declares this THE RAGE OF MAGNUM TA! The people really get going then. They want to see him win so badly. Believable nearfall off a vertical suplex! Magnum gets a three count on a backslide, but Tommy Young immediately discounts it when he sees Nikita's feet on the middle rope. Magnum thinks he's won and grabs the belt, which is the kind of the Dusty booking that confuses the fuck out of the fans which I always think makes people less willing to do the big pop for a finish the next time. Ivan Koloff jumps in and gets a belt shot, which ends the match on DQ. Helluva match, especially the third fall and not a bad one to end a career on, if all too soon. This is what a real man looks like~!

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