Vince bought GCW (I.e. the Solie show) years before Jim Crockett started promoting wrestling on TBS, so presumably they have the rights to the tapes.
These are the JCP era shows. They start about a month before Starcade 85: The Gathering. The hosts are Tony Schiavone and David Crockett. And man, if you think MAGGLE is a bad announcer, listen to David Crockett some time. You’ll have a new appreciation for Michael Cole.
We were on the floor during the Vaudevillians match before we were moved, so that’s the only one during the tapings we’ll be visible.
We didn’t see the show since A. We were there, and B. We are visiting my parents back in Indiana for the holiday (thank you sweet Jesus for a real job!). I’ll look to see if we can see us when I get a sec to watch the match
In any event, the next taping you go to, would you do me a solid, track down that guy who sits in the front row and looks suspiciously like Tensai/Jason Albert, and tell him I said he’s a total dick for making a big scene out of pretending to read a book during the Bayley/Eva match?
I don’t mind the chanting, but that’s just a bit too much on the nose.
God, me and my friends hated him, despite us being native Southerners. His hick accent was embarrassing and he acted like he was 5. The only reason he had that job was because his brother was the owner.
News to hold you over:
Dolph Ziggler and Dana Brooke are apparently dating in real life. I 1000% believe this. Discuss
“WWE says Stone Cold retired”
NO FUCKING SHIT???
I still bet $20 that there will be morons in the dirt sheets talking about how he might do one more match, and/or calling for him to come back and wrestle some other guy who either did or should have retired 15 years ago.
Lol Tommy Dreamer.
I’m beginning to suspect that somewhere in Titan Towers there’s a bulletin board with pictures of every current or former WWE wrestler, and then once every three months Vince throws a fast at it to decide who Bray Wyatt is feuding with.
Amy Schumer used to date him as well. Broke up with him because he rag-dolled her too much in bed. Maybe Dana can handle him better.
I realize this. I can even tell you the date of the first episode; April 6, 1985 - six days after the first WrestleMania. (One of my admitted mark-out moments was turning on WTBS that day at 3:05 Pacific that day, expecting to see the WWF show and possibly some mention of what happened at WrestleMania;I think WWF was using the old “Georgia Championship Wrestling” title for the show, as I seem to remember thinking that Vince had let WrestleMania get to his head when “World Championship Wrestling” appeared on the screen…and then I saw the NWA logo.)
Ted Turner did show WWF in place of GCW on TBS, but went back to the previous show after a few weeks, supposedly because Vince complained about his comp seats for Atlanta Braves games or something. They used the same studio as GCW, and it looked so weird to see Gorilla Monsoon doing the announcing instead of Gordon Solie.
The book “The Death of WCW” (which is a great read about the history of wrestling over the last 30 years in general) goes over that chapter in history in deeper detail, if you’re interested in learning more.
Oh man, the Network has started uploading episodes of Mid South from 1984 and Smoky Mountain from 1994. It’s like Christmas in December!
Hopefully they’ll start loading more episodes of WCCW. Regardless they’ve earned my money this month!
WWE’s website has just announced that Smackdown is coming to Portland in February, with tickets going on sale this Friday. They haven’t, however, announced the Raw taping for the night before, which should, if history is any indication, be emanating from somewhere in the greater Seattle area.
Hopefully I’ll be able to snag tickets to both - the last time I went to Raw, we hijacked the show and helped make Daniel Bryan world champion, so naturally the next time around can only be better, right?
I hesitate to believe this only because I don’t really believe a thing Amy Schumer says. Don’t get me wrong, she’s funny, but when your act is basically “lol I’m a trashy slut lol lol” I hesitate to believe something is true when it’s about sex
Would that be UWF? They had some great talent that got raided by both WWF and NWA before they folded, like Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Junkyard Dog, The Freebirds, One Man Gang, Kamala, Sting, and Terry Taylor before he committed career suicide as the Red Rooster. Jim Ross cut his announcing teeth there, and they had some nice ladies talent such as Sunshine, Dark Journey, and Missy Hyatt.
Excellent book. Revealed how WCW had pretty much been flying by the seat of their pants the entire time. They had no long-range goals and pretty much called it by ear every show. There was no real authority figure because Eric Bischoff had his head so far up Hulk Hogan’s ass and could just tap the Ted Turner cash reserve to spend his way out of trouble.
Well, giving Hogan complete creative control over his own booking was incredibly stupid.
And yeah, that’s why we got all those Kidman matches at the beginning of the show. Because they still hadn’t finished writing the damned show, so they were sent out, week after week, to buy time.
Didn’t he have that in WWE? Or is there another explanation as to why Hogan never wrestled Andre before WM 3 (at least in WWWhatever) - and even then, they had to turn Andre heel, because God forbid that Hogan doesn’t get far more cheers than his opponent? Yes, he did drop the belt a year later, but wasn’t that just before he needed time off to make No Holds Barred - er, before Earthquake literally squashed him and they spent the next few months showing shots of Hogan in a hospital bed and Gorilla Monsoon asking the fans to send Hogan get well cards?
I think the real problem was, Hogan had some control over other WCW matches as well. I seriously doubt that it was Eric Bischoff’s idea to have Stunning Steve Austin be handed the belt (by Ricky Steamboat, IIRC), only to lose it a minute later in a title match to Jim Duggan.