jbravos
Steel Johnson
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Post by jbravos on Apr 22, 2022 12:02:55 GMT
Stampede was a very underrated territory. I got interested a few years back when i helped a friend clean out his Dads attic and found hundreds of old programs from Stampede shows ranging from 1969-1983 Pretty fun stuff. Although its hard to find the video library since WWE sold it back to Bret.
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Post by BakFu on Apr 22, 2022 12:44:55 GMT
Stampede was a very underrated territory. I got interested a few years back when i helped a friend clean out his Dads attic and found hundreds of old programs from Stampede shows ranging from 1969-1983 Pretty fun stuff. Although its hard to find the video library since WWE sold it back to Bret. Those programs would be amazing to see! Did he keep them? I keep hearing that there’s a pretty amazing collection of stampede wrestling pictures and memorabilia at the Glenbow museum in Calgary, but I’ve not been able to check it out yet. Getting the Stampede archive out there is important, I don’t get what the use of sitting on this stuff is. |
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Post by jbravos on Apr 23, 2022 16:54:52 GMT
Stampede was a very underrated territory. I got interested a few years back when i helped a friend clean out his Dads attic and found hundreds of old programs from Stampede shows ranging from 1969-1983 Pretty fun stuff. Although its hard to find the video library since WWE sold it back to Bret. Those programs would be amazing to see! Did he keep them? I keep hearing that there’s a pretty amazing collection of stampede wrestling pictures and memorabilia at the Glenbow museum in Calgary, but I’ve not been able to check it out yet. Getting the Stampede archive out there is important, I don’t get what the use of sitting on this stuff is. If you go to my YouTube page and watch the stampede title history videos a lot of the photos I used were from the programs cropped but still very good quality for being black and white |
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Post by BakFu on May 8, 2022 2:12:54 GMT
I heard this match mentioned in a podcast I was listening to recently and thought wow, I need to check it out! So cool to see Regal earlier on in his career, and man, I really miss Hashimoto. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Interesting blend of styles.
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Post by BakFu on Jun 16, 2022 14:47:02 GMT
I’ve gotten back to plowing through Smokey Mountain Wrestling after a bit of a pause, a few impressions,
Paul Orndorf was great here, even at 42/43 years old, he’s in great shape, has heeling down to a science, and just looks 100% legit in the ring. His interactions with Bullet Bob are great, with Bob slinging fines and threats of suspensions at him for his misuse of the deadly piledriver hold are great, and the fans genuinely don’t seem to want to f$&k with him! His short series with Ronnie hands of stone Garvin was great as well, another crusty old tough as nails vet. Orndorf was a gem here!
Dirty White Boy, the name alone is crazy (could that even be done these days?), he was a great heel talent in the SMW mix as well. His manager, legend Ron White added extra heelishness to the group, it’s fun to see his mix of brawler and power moves, it was done differently then, and seemed to have meaning to it, I can’t put my finger on what makes that significantly different than now, but it’s refreshing somehow. Then there’s his entrance music that somehow, after all these years, I’ve finally heard for the first time, Foreigner’s Dirty White Boy (can you imagine Foreigner’s lead singer being a pop star these days looking like Corky from the Mask movie?!?).
Anyway, still enjoying this stuff, it’s all but gone now with only small glimpses of it in todays version of pro wrestling. I’m not living in the past, but I think there’s room for MORE of this (more FTR, Walter, Danielson before being buried in that lame faction, love Regal, but the faction seems slapped together, etc) in the current mix of boring sports entertainment and the acrobatic floor show.
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Post by OrochiGeese on Jun 27, 2022 7:07:36 GMT
I heard this match mentioned in a podcast I was listening to recently and thought wow, I need to check it out! So cool to see Regal earlier on in his career, and man, I really miss Hashimoto. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Interesting blend of styles. I've been waiting to watch this match since you posted it. I know it's going to be so awesome and I'm like not ready to absorb it all yet. I can't wait until I am. I may have to go on some kind of spirit journey to cleanse and ready myself. Maybe I just need to shower and think spirited thoughts? Maybe just shower? 👃 I’ve gotten back to plowing through Smokey Mountain Wrestling after a bit of a pause, a few impressions, Paul Orndorf was great here, even at 42/43 years old, he’s in great shape, has heeling down to a science, and just looks 100% legit in the ring. His interactions with Bullet Bob are great, with Bob slinging fines and threats of suspensions at him for his misuse of the deadly piledriver hold are great, and the fans genuinely don’t seem to want to f$&k with him! His short series with Ronnie hands of stone Garvin was great as well, another crusty old tough as nails vet. Orndorf was a gem here! I missed Orndoff's WWF run but I really loved him in WCW. He was great in the Dangerous Alliance and as TV Champion. That piledriver was something to fear and he cut a great, convincing promo. Anyway, still enjoying this stuff, it’s all but gone now with only small glimpses of it in todays version of pro wrestling. I’m not living in the past, but I think there’s room for MORE of this (more FTR, Walter, Danielson before being buried in that lame faction, love Regal, but the faction seems slapped together, etc) in the current mix of boring sports entertainment and the acrobatic floor show. I was really excited for Blackpool Combat Club at first but I think it screeched the momentum to a halt that both Danielson and Moxley had before the club started. Obviously it's been golden for Wheeler Yuta and I'm happy for that. I'm also so happy to have Regal as a character (and likely backstage presence) in AEW. But I don't think the whole is as good as the sum of its parts. Even before Danielson's injury (which clearly didn't help), his presence has just been minimized since being in the BCC. He doesn't seem as dangerous as he did before. Moxley, without Punk's injury, also was hurting from being in these no-name tag matches. The feud with JAW didn't help them at all either. I think BCC should be more of a loose "i'll have your back when you need it" kind of association rather than a traditional team or faction. |
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Post by Dawnbr3ak3r on Aug 8, 2022 14:11:31 GMT
I've been doing a deep dive on oldschool joshi puroresu on-and-off for the last few years. Names like Chapparita Asari, Hikari Fukuoka, and many others fly under the radar compared to names like Manami Toyota, Akira Hokuto, Bull Nakano and Aja Kong. I recently discovered that Tiger Dream was portrayed by Candy Okutsu, the same woman that I saw wrestle against Chapparita Asari in one of my favorite matches from the era.
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Post by Zealot on Aug 9, 2022 4:43:49 GMT
That bump Chapparita took off that twisting body press was rough holy shit.
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Post by BakFu on Aug 9, 2022 12:38:05 GMT
Chaparita’s outfit needs to make a comeback in modern times! 😂
Thanks for posting, that was cool to see. I miss old Japanese wrestling with the random Yakuza looking guys or sumo wrestlers sitting at ringside. Fun stuff!
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Post by tigermuppetcut on Aug 13, 2022 15:52:56 GMT
A great pair of matches. I wish more matches were like Regal / Hashimoto, rugged, believable, technical.
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Post by BakFu on Sept 10, 2022 23:08:47 GMT
This one was mentioned in one of William Regal’s podcasts, crazy to see Dynamite Kid so young (with JR Foley in his corner) against a strong, young, Tatsumi Fujinami! I love the yellow and black tights, a nod to Bruce Lee at that time perhaps? I’ve never seen him in those colours, I like it!
It looks like a Calgary match, crazy to think so many legendary names in pro wrestling plied their trade so close to home, albeit in a different era. Cool stuff!
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Post by BakFu on Sept 12, 2022 20:53:48 GMT
Another gem from William Regal’s podcast, Mark “Rollerball” Rocco vs a real TIGER of a young boy, Sammy Lee! 🐯
Rocco seemed to be the gatekeeper for these new Japanese upstarts, here he is against some up and comer named Fuji Yamada!
So cool to see these two honing that edge that would make them legends in one of their many international, developmental stops, this time World of Sport. 😁
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Post by BakFu on Sept 28, 2022 23:51:04 GMT
YEAAAH!
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Post by BakFu on Nov 21, 2022 0:39:54 GMT
Danny Hodge and The Iron Sheik, pre breaking backs and checking their oil to make his opponents humble. 😁  |
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Post by BakFu on Nov 24, 2022 19:56:23 GMT
I was watching the pre Full Gear Dynamite show last week, there was a trios match between death triangle and the Martin bros and some other guy. Not my style of match, didn’t look like a fight/contest, they were all very fancy and good at acrobatic stuff, but it didn’t look like a fight somehow.
I was going down the rabbit hole and found this old thing, Jay Youngblood/Ricky Steamboat versus Jack and Jerry Briscoe. Simplicity, and it looked like both sides were trying to win the contest. Very rudimentary, likely boring in the view of current fans, but there was something refreshing about this one to me. Not even the best I’ve seen from the era, but still a fun watch! 🙂
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