Well, that Bunkhouse Stampede wasn't there last time I looked but it is now!

Those old Funk tapes are prolly buried in one of the old Amarillo TV guys grandkid's basement, if they exist at all or ever did.

Windham right underneath him. Windham was always one of my favorite wrestlers as a kid and I always wanted him to be superpushed but it never happened because WCW was so stacked in the late 80s/early 90s. He still got lots of titles in WCW but really deserved a lot more than he got.

Since we're on the subject of bloody matches and the Great Muta, someone has to mention the Muta Scale. It's a rating that Dave Meltzer (I think) made to rate how bloody a match is. A 1.0 means that it is equivalent to Muta's blade job.

Here's an excerpt of the match that was the origin of the Muta Scale:



I won't in-line it, but if you want to see the whole match:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2yxfSRz-cw

and skip to the blading because before that is Muta just walking around the ring and doing nothing in general for the first 10 minutes.

I thought Scott Keith invented the Muta Scale.

Here's another great 80s mic worker: Michael Hayes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Vl4_vseMeo#t=00m50s

He is probably the man most responsible for spreading the use of entrance music in wrestling. At at time when entrance music wasn't usually used, he started coming out regularly to 'Freebird' in 1981 in Georgia, and the Von Erichs saw this and thought that Rock and Roll music and wrestling were a perfect match, so in WCCW in the early 80s more and more wrestlers started using entrance themes, and eventually the other promotions followed suit.

Even Gordon Solie can't keep a straight face during this pop:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRSrGLq7wqI#t=04m18s

Freebirds return to NWA in 1987 and feud with the Horsemen:

It may have been. I assumed it was Meltzer because I didn't think Keith was around in 1992 when the Muta Scale match took place.

Which was the face side in that?

It seemed like the Freebirds were the faces or tweeners, based on the promos. I don't think the feud ever reached it's intended completion, with the Freebirds leaving the NWA shortly after it started.

For some reason, I just remembered another 80s match, this time from GLOW (Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling). It was a tag team match and the one of the girls from the face team broke her arm. It was hilarious because the heel team immediately stopped once they realized what happened and were looking outside to see if medical help was coming. But the announcers were going ballistic over how evil the heel team was in purposely breaking the arm of the face.

Unfortunately, can't find the match on Youtube.

Also remembered another broken arm match. Bob Roop had a feud . . . with a ref. Not just any ref, Nick Patrick. So for some reason, they had a match. And Roop just breaks Patrick's arm against the apron. It was one of the first matches I saw on Georgia Championship Wrestling.

Looking back, I have no idea what the purpose of the angle was. Patrick reffed for a few months with a cast. But Bob Roop left GCW shortly thereafter and I never heard of him again.

Ivory was the only good thing to come out of GLOW but damn was she great.

Somebody posted over 20 hours of Four Horsemen footage on Youtube in 10 parts; promos, matches, angles.

Here's part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwDkWP6m_00

In the middle of watching Wrestlemania 4, this was held at the peak of my wrestling fandom, and I loved the whole tourney atmosphere, just an amazing event

I dig the tourney as well, but WM 4 drew disappointing profits/buyrates, although that may have had more to do with NWA airing Clash of Champions 1 (which was an amazing event in it's own right) for free head to head with it then anything.

Have to add that I played with wrestling figures nearly every day of my life from age 7 to 12 or so. I was very into it, I would have weekly shows, and pay per views, and keep the record of the wrestlers, lol. I can still remember my longest reigning champion ever, and to this day I have no idea why, but I think it was the underdog aspect...Virgil. I gave him the finisher move that Bryan does where he dropkicks the opponent when they are in the corner. The first time I saw Bryan do this move I screamed at the tv "I INVENTED THAT!"

My friend and I also built a casket for the undertaker to bring to the ring, when he told me it broke during a match because Undertaker powerbombed somebody onto it I was legit pissed because of how much time we had put into that stupid thing.

I still have 50 or so of my wrestling figures in a duffelbag, I occasionally check ebay to see what they are selling for, but not sure I could ever part with them.

@tragic I'd be interested in buying them depending on condition, and if they are the LJN ones.

I did the same from ages 11-14. Had a pretty sizeable spiral notebook with all the results, times, title histories, etc.

On a semi-related note, I didn't lose my virginity until 20 ...

Watched Lucha Libre growing up on channel 47, and looked forward to Sat nights at midnight on channel 9 in New York. First live event I went to, my dad took me and I was turned away at the gate at MSG because at the time there was a 14 year old age requirement. I was so depressed.

Favorite match I ever attended was at the Spectrum in Philly where I saw Jesse the Body Ventura vs Tony Atlas in a steel cage match. Jesse had Tony dead on the floor and was atop the cage, and paused for a minute to pose....Tony got up immediately and sprung over the cage for the victory.

My dad eventually handled the international distribution rights for wwe and one day I got to go backstage and meet:

Mil Mascaras
Jimmy Snuka
Andre
and Pedro Morales.

Was insane.


No wrestling figures remain, only the memories of watching SD Jones beat up on the Unpredictable Jonny Rodz.