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I recieved this book as a gift for Christmas '98, and read it in early February of '99 within two nights - that's how drawn in I was. Marty Lunde, aka Arn Anderson, writes in a 70 % pseudo, and 30 % shoot manner. The stories are priceless. This is definitely a MUST-HAVE for Horsemen fans, or fans of The Enforcer.
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Dibiase was probally THE top star of Bill Watts' Mid-South Wrestling in Shreveport and New Orleans, and UWF promotion based in Tulsa, which is perhaps one of the most important regions for pro wrestling as far as influencing the late 90s style, as the wrestling was filled with blood, crazy brawls, chairs, and believable/emotional grappling; well, the final reference might not refer to American wrestling in the late 90s. Dibiase hit the big-times when he signed with Vince McMahon's WWF, and took on the "Million Dollar Man" gimmick, and within a few years of signing, that monicker might've not been that far off-base. Ted go's from being one of the most hated, and greatest heels of all-time from the early 80s - 1993, to giving his life to Jesus Christ, trading in the fast life for good. An excellent read for fans of all kind.
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These are compilations and "Best of" tapes that I have put together,
among others, dating back to the late 70's to the present.
The Yester-years Of Wrestling
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Florida Championship Wrestling :
The promotion alot of us kids grew up on - including myself.
Georgia Championship Wrestling :
My very 1st. memory of pro wrestling took place on a Saturday night sometime in 1982, or 1983 - on WTBS.
Keiichi Yamada - Hiroshi Hase - Chris Benoit - David Smith - Dynamite Kid -
Brian Pillman - Bret Hart, & Owen Hart ...
Bill Watt's Mid South Wrestling / UWF :
I don't think anyone will ever touch what Eddie Gilbert & Bill Watts put together from the early 1980's until 1987.
Memphis / Angelo Poffo's ICW :
Championship Wrestling - Memphis will always be remembered as the most original, true to roots wrestling that ever existed. Even Poffo's company - built around son Randy Savage - would fall to the high threshold of Memphis.
Continental / Southeastern Championship Wrestling (Knoxville and Alabama) :
Two seperate groups, based in Alabama/Pensacola and Knoxville, from Southeastern came the likes of Terry Taylor, Bobby Eaton, Sterling Golden (Hulk Hogan), Arn Anderson and Bad News Harris (Kamala); and a young man by the name of Doug Furnas made his start in the Eddie Gilbert booked Continental Wrestling Federation. Guys like Sid Vicious, Cactus Jack, Shane Douglas and The Southern Boys worked this circuit in '88.
Portland, ran by Don Owens, produced some of the best pure wrestling, yet still remains unknown and forgotten over it's long history.
World Class Championship Wrestling :
All good things are entitled to an end. Sadly, the Von Erich dynasty ended in tragedy.Christmas night '82 will remain the most memorable & important , as the Freedbird -Von Erich feud was set to take off in heights unthinkable at the time.
Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling :
Not only was World Championship Wrestling born out of this Jim Crockett run company, but maybe the greatest wrestler from this era came "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, and not to mention Ricky Steamboat.
1979 To The Current
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From the last of the territorial days, to the short lived rebirth of the NWA in 1989, to the AWA and World Class on ESPN, and the alternative promotions like CWA Memphis, PWF Florida, ICW, and Bill Watts' UWF from Tulsa, Oklahoma ... find it here, folks !!!
N From the plummit of the NWA when Sting tore his knee up at the Texas Shootout, to the infamous scandal time frame at its height, when the wrestling business had a dark shadow cast over it, it's all covered here.
From 1993, when the talk of wrestling was AAA, and the powerbomb sustained to Cactus Jack by Vader from Center Stage (in which Foley was legitimately endangered), up until the early endeavors of Monday Nitro on TNT, debuting on September 4, 1995. And from Hulk Hogan in the '80s, the WWF had once again created a "God" of sorts in "Stonecold" Steve Austin (who became the top draw & most popular wrestler since Hogan, along with Duane Johnson, aka the Rock) - but here you see Steve Austin when he was simply dubbed as being ... "stunning."
Both companies had been doing record houses, gates, money, ratings, buyrates, etc. since 1996, when the NWO was born and "Stonecold" Steve Austin's career began taking off in another turn of events unimaginable at the time. The WWF by 1999 was bigger than ever, while WCW was looking worst than any memorable time before - and that's saying alot.
Some of the most violent bloodbaths ever seen on this planet eminated from the isle of Puerto Rico. WWC was the predecessor of FMW, W*ings and ECW in a lot of ways.
American Wrestling Association :
Once the top promotion in the United States, but by the 80s, things had changed. Just when it looked like the promotion was on the rise again with Hogan as their top draw, he signed with Vince McMahon, and the recovery was never to be. Some of the best U.S. matches of the 80s, though, came from the AWA.
American Wrestling Federation :
From 1995-96, Paul Alperstein tried to recreate the AWA; at least that's the impression one would most likely gather. But the existance for this group proved to be short-term. The production values were top notch, though.
Sometimes I smurk to myself while watching old tapes of GWF from the Sportatorium. The corny ring entrance music would do that to most, but there is no denying the talent this federation had from '91 - '93, and the spotlight it put on such stars as : Scotty Levy, Del Wilkes, Marc Bagwell, Sean Waltman, Bad Breed, Jerry Lynn, Ahmed Johnson, The Harlem Heat, Bradshaw ...
North American / South Atlantic Pro Wrestling :
George Scott initially took over with SAPW, running the old JCP buildings and running on many of the same stations. Robert Fuller can hold the honor as being their first champion. Some guys who originially got started here include : Chris Chavis (Tatanka), Gary Wolfe (Pit Bull 1), Mable/Viscera, and Vince Torrelli (Ken Shamrock).
Central States / WWA Wrestling :
One man's name: Bob Geigel.
Hey, it was fun I suppose. This promotion, from '89 -'91, directed its product more torwards children, pushing such acts as Super Mario, Roadblock, the Undertakers, Curly Mo, etc. Also notable, Crash The Terminator/Hugh Morus/General Rection, Johnny Grunge, Tommy Dreamer, and Taz got their basic starts here -- and a future WWF world champion, Cactus Jack, worked here (early '91) until re-signing with WCW.
To give you a little history on the UCW in Kansas. Bert Prentice, then known as Christopher Love, started promoting the Kansas region and began a television show in the KAKE 10 studios in Wichita, Kansas. He appeared to be trying to duplicate the feel of Memphis with this studio style wrestling. His initial batch of stars were "Exotic" Adrian Street, Todd Becker (former AWA jobber), Boogaloo Jones (rookie), and his main star the Zebra Kid [the late Eric Fontaine, from GWF's PYT's]. Prentice then brought in various other stars familiar with the Central States region, including Ric McCord, Porkchop Cash, Rufus R. Jones and Randy Rhodes, in additon to Tom Prichard (Continental, Smoky Mountain, WWF fame), Mark Starr (Florida fame), and "Nightmare" Ken Wayne (aka Ted Allen).
Every episode was dedicated to pushing the tri-monthly shows at the Century 2 Expo Center. He was really beginning to seriously heat things up again in Kansas when, during mid-November of 1990, he had a falling out with several of his business partners and thus started promoting his shows in the renovated Crest Theatre in downtown Wichita every Friday night. He was going to start doing TV shows and did actually do a 4 hour TV taping, but it never made air. Later he joined the GWF (with Global apparently taking over UCW), and began having Saturday shows in Wichita at the Crest Theatre. This lasted until late 1991, and then [it] all ended in Wichita for GWF and UCW. -- Rusty Beames
Watching Eddie Mansfield's IWF every Saturday morning at 7:00 A.M. (this was when I was 12 years-old, in the sixth grade; and WKCF, in the Orlando - Melbourne - Daytona market, was in the process of switching from T.V. 68 to T.V. 18) was something I looked forward to during '91. I'll never forget when, at the Leesburg house show we attended, Mondo Kleen and Dick Slater tripped and about fell on us at ringside - it was crazy. A few guys who competed here and went on to become stars, of sorts, include Rob Van Dam, Mondo Kleen (Damian Demento in the WWF, 1992-93), Thunder & Lightning (Jeff Farmer later became Cobra and the imposter Sting for WCW, circa 1995-98; and Super J for the New Japan promotion), and the Longriders (Billy & Bart Gunn).
Jim Cornette produced one of the last truly good ol' kick ass wrestling promotions. Ya know: "The way you like it - the way it use to be". Also, note that Chris Jericho, Lance Storm, Chris Candido, Tammy Sytch, D - Lo Brown and The Gangstas all basically got their start , and 1st. chance to shine here in Smoky Mountain.
Extreme Championship Wrestling :
From 1993 - 1996, ECW will always remain one of my favorite periods for any wrestling orginazation ever. I really miss doing everythig possible to stay up until the wee hours to catch the latest episode of Extreme Championship Wrestling on "Sunshine Network" in '94.
United States Wrestling Association - Memphis and Dallas :
Last eight years of Memphis/Dallas wrestling known as USWA (1989 - 1997), to Music City Wrestling, ran by Bert Prentice, which took over the territory, in a sense , up until Memphis Power Pro Wrestling in '98.
Thank GOODNESS Memphis wrestling is back!
(Click here for MPPW T.V. from 2000 and on)
Smoky Mountain Wrestling has been gone since November '95, but by July of '99, Jim Cornette was officially back in the mix, running his own wrestling group again - but this time with a new right-hand man, Danny Davis (formerly of the Nightmares with Ken Wayne; and I can't help but think the late, great Brian Hildebrand, who passed away on 9/8/99 at the age of 37 after a long battle with stomach cancer, Jimmy's sidekick in SMW, is looking down on Cornette and quite proud of his accomplishments thus far). OVW acts as a "minor league," or maybe better put, farm system, to the WWF, with lots of developmental guys coming in and out. If you loved Bill Watts' Mid-South Wrestling, yet you understand (and accept) that times do change, you'll probably find a special place in your heart for this group. If Memphis & Knoxville influenced Cornette's ideas and setting for Smoky Mountain, then Mid-South Wrestling is such to Ohio Valley Wrestling, undoubtedly.
Any indy promotion not listed above can be found here.
Japanese Pro Wrestling
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The landscape of Japanese wrestling is changing greatly as we pace through the year 2001. With the deaths of Shohei "Giant" Baba in February '99 & Jumbo Tsuruta in May of 2000 -- and Mitsuharu Misawa walking out on the widowed Mrs. Baba with 98 % of the wrestling talent (all but Toshiaki Kawada & Masa Fuchi) and forming Pro Wrestling Noah based out of the Differ Ariake building -- the AJPW promotion, long considered in addition to Paco Alonso's EMLL group in Mexico City the only traditional wrestling group left in the world, looks like its end is finally nearing. NJPW has become a bit more "Americanized," and has been working interpromotional bouts with Antonio Inoki's worked-shoot group (is it still UFO ??), Shinya Hashimoto's "Zero-One" promotion, and the dying AJPW.
And who could ever forget the female legends of today and yesterday - Jaguar Yokota, Chigusa Nagayo, Dump Matsumoto, Devil Masami, Bull Nakano, Manami Toyota, Akira Hokuto, Aja Kong, Kyoko Inoue, Toshiyo Yamada, Dynamite Kansai, Mima Shimoda and Etsuko Mita ... so many greats !
The early days of Frontier Martial - Arts Wrestling was a site to see, with matches that at the time were pretty much out of this world. Next to come was Victor Quinones' W*ings promotion, which brought a whole new drama & element to this "new" brand of wrestling. This promotion would become IWA Japan in 1994. A little over a year later came Big Japan, which headlined with Mitsuhiro Matsunaga and Shoji Nakamaki. The only notable aspect concerning BJPW is that it has taken "Death" matches to a new level, having featured Pirrahna tank, Box filled with scorpions, Circus trapees, Dry ice, Bug zapper and Cactus matches, etc. among countless others, truly fitting the term known as "Garbage Wrestling" in Japan.
Lucha Libre
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AAA - EMLL - Gran Hamada's Universal - Promo Azteca - Michinoku Pro - Toryumon - Osaka Pro Wrestling :
The good old days of lucha libre in Mexico are definitely behind us, but Ultimo Dragon's "Toryumon" group and Super Delfin's "Osaka Pro Wrestling," however Japanese-based, might offer something to feed our tastes for the time being.
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The Skeleton Key
| PQ | Perfect Quality : Doesn't get much better than this - clear picture; no tracking faults; no jumpiness. |
GrQ |
Great Quality : Picture is a tad below "Perfect", but no faults. |
| GoQ | Good Quality : A few faults here and there, but otherwise above average. |
VQ |
Very Good Quality : Better than "Good", but a tad below "Great". |
AQ |
Average Quality : Watchable, but faults in many areas of the video. |
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