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Rep Power: 0  | Miakal's "Romantic Moments of Pro Wrestling" Tape! ROMANTIC MOMENTS IN PRO WRESTLING Here you will meet professional wrestling, under many names and banners. But no matter what it’s calling itself, it is still of the same soul. The styles, shapes and sizes may appear different, but they are all the same brand. This is the great genre as it was before you knew it, when you knew it, after you knew it, when you didn’t know it anymore and as it will soon become. These are pro wrestling’s stories; tragic, triumphant and incomplete. These moments are more than just pro wrestling. They are “pro wrestling’s stories,” but still, they are just stories. While their appearance is not, their meaning is timeless. Some stories are told on TV shows or movies by actors, in theaters by Shakespeare, or in the back seat of the school bus by the future dead-beat dad. These are stories told in the greatest story-telling format, by the greatest story-tellers of all. But the difference between wrestling and Shakespeare is, the blood is real. Now with the ultra-cool introduction out of the way… The Freebirds Post-Break-Up Saga (Georgia Championship Wrestling – Summer 1981) Location: Atlanta, Georgia Video Quality: Fair To begin, we appropriately take you to the very roots of timely greatness. Studio wrestling at its finest on WTBS Atlanta: the SuperStation. Cable TV in its infancy, before Black Saturday, before cable became the beast that would destroy the territorial system, our television tapings in front of a small crowd with Gordon Solie calling the action infront of a podium and weekly nights at the Omni, the Coliseum, the Showboat, the Chase, the Garden or the Palace. Here, you meet Gordon Solie, the voice of all that is romance in professional wrestling and of a time period others may call “old school.” He interviews Terry Gordy and a man Dok Hendrix never told us about: Michael Hayes. Dusty Rhodes, "The Gathering" (Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling/Jim Crockett Promotions – Late 1985) Location: Greensboro, North Carolina Video Quality: Excellent Engulfed in Starrcade ’85, Dusty Rhodes is the American Dream. He is a man looking out for his fellow brethren, barraged by the Russians. But middle-aged Dusty does not realize that by doing this, he has insulted the pride of this also middle-aged man. For that, he and his Horsemen collect their receipt. Ricky Steamboat vs. Randy Savage (World Wrestling Federation – Wrestlemania III; March 29, 1987) Location: Detroit, Michigan Video Quality: Good (Low Audio) The evil Vince McMahon steals one of Mid-Atlantic’s finest and one of Memphis’ finest. A crushed larynx later, two matches before the main event, they are set to meet in El Super Dream Match Classico on the biggest wrestling show ever. With Hulk Hogan and an immobile Andre the Giant headlining, Savage and Steamboat devise a plan to steal the show from two men with the athleticism of your 9-year-old sister’s field hockey team. They go from town to town in untelevised matches, preparing. Then, before 93 gajillion people and another 50,000 watching on closed circuit in the Budokan, they execute their scheme. Shawn Michaels & Marty Jannety vs. Doug Summers & Buddy Rose (American Wrestling Association – September 2, 1986) Location: Las Vegas, Nevada Video Quality: Excellent Lord James Blears on color and the archetypical Ron Trongard call the action from the Las Vegas Showboat, airing on ESPN on the first day of school 1986. Two young kids wearing really cool sunglasses called the Midnight Rockers, Marty Jannety and Shawn Michaels look to finally achieve their quest of being tag team champions in Verne Gagne’s Minnesota-based AWA. But the bleached-blonde team of Doug Summers and the pale and round “Playboy” Buddy Rose stands in their way. The Rockers on “The Barber Shop” (World Wrestling Federation – January 11, 1992) Doug Basham vs. Damaja (Ohio Valley Wrestling - August 2, 2003) Location: Louisville, Kentucky Video Quality: Excellent Before there was Batista, there was a Leviathan. Before there was John Cena, there was a Prototype. Before there was Rico, there was a Role Model. Before there was Doug Basham, there was a Machine. And before there was Danny Basham, there was the Damaja. This is Ohio Valley Wrestling. Studio wrestling lives. The feeder league to everything that is new school provides a weekly glimpse of what wrestling was yesterday, using tomorrow’s stars. Witness both booker Jim Cornette and announcer Jim Cornette in all his romantic glory. This is Oh-Vee-Dubya Rasslin’ with all the marbles on the line. Doug Basham defends the OVW Heavyweight Title and the loser must leave Ohio Valley Wrestling! Barry Windham vs. Ric Flair (Jim Crockett Promotions – January 20, 1987) Location: Greensboro, North Carolina Video Quality: Excellent You can see the wrestling greatness floating in the air of the Greensboro Coliseum. Barry Windham lives on the end of a lightning bolt. This was live on television with Tony Schiavoni and Dusty Rhodes commentating. There was no such thing as Clash of the Champions yet (the first one wouldn’t be until Sting vs. Flair went head-to-head with Wrestlemania IV the next year), but if there was at the time, this would have been a Clash. Low Ki vs. American Dragon (Ring of Honor – March 30, 2002) Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Video Quality: Excellent More than a decade since the 80s, an inwardly gay man named Rob Feinstein decides to start a new promotion. The basis of the promotion is to produce a product that will appeal to hardcore internet fans, who will buy the video tapes of the promotion’s shows from his wrestling tape site. The inspiration for this idea came when Rob Feinstein and accomplance (but future nemesis) Gabe Sapolsky saw a tape of the second annual (and it turned out to be the final) King of the Indies tournament (in October 2001 in southern California), in which the best independent wrestlers from around the country came together for a two-day event and some great matches. The centerpiece of the tournament was an epic final round between Low Ki and American Dragon (who six months ago, had met in the final of another, longer-standing indy tournament tradition, the Super 8). Five months later in the Murphy Rec Center, Low Ki and the American Dragon would meet for another match no one knew could still happen in this country. Ric Flair arm wrestles “Bad Bad” Leroy Brown (Georgia Championship Wrestling – Early 1982) The Freebirds Reunite (Georgia Championship Wrestling – Spring 1982) Roddy Piper saves Gordon Solie from Don Muraco (Georgia Championship Wrestling – Early 1982) Mastiff wins the ESW Heavyweight Title (Empire State Wrestling – October 4, 2003) Chris Cooper and Mastiff Brawl (Empire State Wrestling – March 20, 2004) “Hangin’ With Mr. Cooper” (Empire State Wrestling – April 17, 2004) Cody Steele issues a challenge (Empire State Wrestling – April 17, 2004) Mastiff vs. Chris Cooper (Empire State Wrestling – April 17, 2004) Location: North Tonawanda, New York Video Quality: Excellent This, from the romance-soaked confines of St. Johnsburg Fire Hall. A mystiqued spring evening hosted the culminating meeting of the two best in-ring performers ESW has produced. The night’s official program read, “To say this is a difficult match to call is an understatement. But the one thing that is for sure: at the end of the night, the ESW Heavyweight Title will be a greater prize than it has ever been before. The title, enduring such a high-level contest as we will see tonight – when it is over – will have never been worth more. And the phrase, ‘ESW Heavyweight Champion’ will have never meant more.” Mastiff responds to Cody Steele (Empire State Wrestling – May 15, 2004) Mastiff vs. Cody Steele (Empire State Wrestling – May 15, 2004) Location: Tonawanda, New York Video Quality: Excellent Cody Steele, a regular of promotions throughout Ontario has entered ESW and insulted the integrity of our beloved wrestling promotion. Now Mastiff is here to defend our honor. The stakes of this match go beyond personal rivalries, titles or individual wins and losses. Mastiff’s best friends in the ESW locker room as well as his greatest enemies root for him as you watch this match with a lump in your throat, a feeling in your heart and a tear in your eye. Jim Cornette, “They will believe” (Mid-South Wrestling – Early 1984) Cactus Jack, “Cane Dewey” (Extreme Championship Wrestling – Fall 1995) Cactus Jack, “I’ve got a moral obligation” (Extreme Championship Wrestling – Fall 1995) Terry Funk and Jim Ross interview the new six-time World Heavyweight Champion, Ric Flair (World Championship Wrestling – May 7, 1989) Terry Funk, “I’ll shake his hand” (World Championship Wrestling – November 1989) Ric Flair vs. Terry Funk (World Championship Wrestling – Clash of the Champions IX: New York Knockouts; November 15, 1989) Location: Troy, New York Video Quality: Excellent “Five letters – two words: I quit.” Probably the two greatest announcers of all-time, Gordon Solie and Jim Ross call the action live on TBS on a Wednesday night for a 4.9 rating. Funk plays classic old school heel. Notice how he expresses his issue with Ric Flair, but he doesn’t discredit him and put him down like every promo today. These are two great champions, not two guys who believe the other is a schmuck. Funk’s heelishness is also believable and not over the top. Pro wrestling, as much as everyone will call it entertainment and theater, it is in a sports context. On a much looser and subjective basis, there are heels in all sports – teams and athletes we dislike, who we like to see lose and get what’s coming to them. Pro wrestling just directly exploits that aspect of sports for the sake of business. Chris Benoit vs. Kurt Angle (World Wrestling Entertainment – Royal Rumble 2003; January 19, 2003) Location: Boston, Massachusetts Video Quality: Excellent Live from the Fleet Center, good matches even happen today. This is the be all end all of Angle vs. Benoit matches. A few weeks away from being told to have his vertebrae fused; Angle defends against Benoit in his undying quest for a heavyweight title. Jim Cornette, “Dressed in the dark again, I see” (Mid-South Wrestling – Early 1984) Hulk Hogan wishes he was the Supah-stah (World Wide Wrestling Federation – Early 1980s) Superstar Billy Graham “More moves than a bowl of jello!” (World Wide Wrestling Federation – Early 1980s) Grand Wizard for Superstar Billy Graham on Dusty Rhodes (World Wide Wrestling Federation – Early 1980s) Spiros Arion, “One more match you want? One more match I’m gonna give you!” (World Wide Wrestling Federation – Early 1980s) Superstar Billy Graham, “Stop flexing your arm, it does not compare with my arm.” (World Wide Wrestling Federation – Early 1980s) Superstar Billy Graham, “It was like ripping my heart outta my sixty-inch rib cage!” (World Wide Wrestling Federation – Early 1980s) Superstar Billy Graham, “There will be broken bones on this night!” (World Wide Wrestling Federation – Early 1980s) Superstar Billy Graham, “Among other fantastic feats of strength!” (World Wide Wrestling Federation – Early 1980s) Bobby Heenan, “That would be like comparing ice cream to horse manure” (World Wrestling Federation – July 1991) |
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