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Re: Professional Wrestling in the 1980's
I will start with I may be wrong on the dates. I started watching early 70 s , my favorites were the assassin s and Buddy Colt. Colt's best tactic was to throw his leg on rope and ref would break wrasslers apart. If Colt could not reach ropes, he would tap oppenent on shoulder to to get out of hold, naturally opponent… -
Re: Professional Wrestling in the 1980's
The late 70’s set the standard with Regional Stars before the 80’s national broadcasts. It was Gordon Solie announcing on the local Atlanta station, Small auditoriums and small TV studios made the action more personal. 1.Mr. Wrestling #2 who was better 2.than Mr. Wrestling #1 somehow. 3.Abdullah the Butcher 4.Dusty Rhodes.… -
Re: Professional Wrestling in the 1980's
Back in the 80's when I taught at West Georgia, I would help a friend out by sitting at the door of a bar called the Library. One night Jake the Snake came in - chatted with him for a minute - very nice, personable guy. Pretty large too. Can't even guess how many students would tell their folks, I was at the Library last… -
Re: Professional Wrestling in the 1980's
I've had several pro wrestlers as patients, names you would almost certainly recognize (but obviously can't reveal). I had fun chatting with them about some of the old time wrestlers from the 1970's. One told me about Blackjack Mulligan slapping Andre on the back of the head at a beach, whereupon Andre dragged him into the… -
Professional Wrestling in the 1980's
Since it is off-season, let's get some professional wrestling memories going. From 1981ish to 1987ish, EVERY DANG SATURDAY NIGHT I was glued to my TV, Channel 36, I believe. From 6 pm until midnight, There was varying area wrestling on. My favorite was Mid-South Championship wrestling. Magnum TA, The Road Warriors, The… -
Re: Professional Wrestling in the 1980's
I’ll try and keep this short (always a challenge for me) Worked on the floor of in the CNN newsroom in the mid-eighties when Ted still owned WCW. Matches were taped in the studio above CNN’s on Sunday afternoon and since CNN’s shows were pre-recorded, we’d go up and watch. Two things I remember most… 1. Walking around a…
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