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Post by Scott Joyce on May 25, 2006 17:13:06 GMT -5
I miss all the great NWA battles between Flair and Rhodes, Koloffs and RnR Express, Blanchard and Garvin, and all the other battles that shaped what made wrestling great. I also enjoyed the WWF although not like the NWA but back in the day wrestling was really fun to watch without all the BS that it is today.
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Alpha Clash
Wrestling Announcer
Nothing is impossible. Anything can happen with enough blood, sweat & tears.
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Post by Alpha Clash on May 25, 2006 20:53:18 GMT -5
Very true. I loved watch the War Games matches. the Road Warriors, Koloffs, R&R, Anderson & Blanchard, Flair, Rhodes.........too many to name. That was a fun time to be a fan.
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Post by Saber Hobby Center on May 27, 2006 23:51:43 GMT -5
I missed the good old tag teams, they are much tougher & better than tag teams now adays.
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Alpha Clash
Wrestling Announcer
Nothing is impossible. Anything can happen with enough blood, sweat & tears.
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Post by Alpha Clash on May 28, 2006 17:17:50 GMT -5
I missed the good old tag teams, they are much tougher & better than tag teams now adays. Very true. |
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Ian Dowland
Ring Crew
Time is a Great Healer, but it's a Lousy Beautician.
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Post by Ian Dowland on Jun 29, 2006 13:22:01 GMT -5
I am probably a bit older than most people on this forum but I remember Wrestling back in the late 50's and 60's in Southern England when everyone got dressed up in their best clothes to go to a live wrestling show, the Ladies always looked really nice and the men used to wear their lounge suits and wore a shirt with a tie, everyone looked so smart in those far off days and that is what I miss, nowadays we all wear our jeans with a t-shirt and baseball cap.
I could list a lot of wrestler's names that I miss but that will take a long time but I will say that most of the wrestlers today do not have the character that wrestlers did years ago, some of todays wrestler do not even look like wrestlers, when I say this I am mainly talking about British Wrestlers. I went to a live wrestling show last year and in one bout two English wrestlers fought in their bout and the winner won an electric toaster, I think that this is makeing a mockery of our sport why did the Promoter not buy a little trophy or belt so the winning Wrestler could show it off. I hope that I do not sound bitter but I enjoyed the old Classical style of Wrestling Show's because they were good Promoters in those days but today in The UK we have so many different promoters and most of them are not that professional about their business, some young people see Wrestling on TV and they decide that is what they are going to do when they leave school, they think that they know everything just by watching TV and they go and put shows on, which in most cases are terrible, there is one young man who is trying to start up his own promotion here in The UK and he is only 13 years old, I do not wish to be nasty to young people but I would just like to say that if you want to become a Wrestler, a Promoter, a Referee or Ring Announcer then go and get yourself trained up first, everyone has to start off at the bottom in what ever they learn so get trained properly and become what you want to be and try to look like a professional.
This is what I miss about Classic Wrestling, it is the quality of the wrestling, I liked the old days of the 50's-60's and 70's when it was all done in a proper and professional way, in those days if you were a Wrestler then you were looked up to just as though you were some big star people used to respect you and they treated a Wrestler similar to how they treated professional boxers.
Well I have talked for to long (yet again) now my dinner as got cold and I am getting told off from my partner for being so long writeing this item.
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Post by Scott Joyce on Jun 30, 2006 16:12:47 GMT -5
Ive been on youtube watching some of the older matches and I sure miss those days. But its nice to be able to go to a site and get to watch some matches from the day that wrestling was truly fun to watch.
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Post by Badstreet USA on Jul 19, 2006 21:27:58 GMT -5
Jobber Matches
Tag Teams
Managers
Wrestling On Saturdays
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Post by on Jul 20, 2006 11:33:02 GMT -5
i miss the fact that it was okay to be a fan and nowdays it is not a thing many people admit to
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Post by Scott Joyce on Jul 20, 2006 13:52:39 GMT -5
Things have changed alot since the days of NWA and the WWF. The wrestlers IMO cared more for the fan and their performances as well. They didnt get caught up in how much money they made and there was a sense of loyalty thats just not there anyomore.
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Iagan
Wrestling Camera Crew
I am the Brain so listen up cretins " I have a headache"
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Post by Iagan on May 26, 2007 17:29:53 GMT -5
decent story lines
managers who actually did something
proper factions and tag teams
70 percent wrestling and 30 percnet talking
less ppv adn the ones that we did have were decent
suvivor series with the teams of four
decent commentators.
proper wrestling with the showboating to a minimun
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Post by Scott Joyce on Jul 13, 2008 14:19:10 GMT -5
Definitely alot of fun memories there Iceman and those will not be matched ever.  I remember every Tuesday night in front of the TV watching WWF and all the greats and on Saturday mornings and the NWA wrestlers putting on some great shows. I miss seeing: 1. Flairs feuds with Rhodes, Nikita Koloff, Ron Garvin (laziest champ ever), Ricky Morton, and Harley Race. 2. Rock-n-Roll Xpress feuding with the Koloffs and Midnight Xpress. 3. Road Warriors running over everybody in the AWA and NWA. 4. The Freebirds vs Von Erich family in WCCW. 5. Chris Adams and Gino Hernandez. 6. ECWs original shows not this mess Vince has. 7. King Kong Bundy, John Studd, and the Heenan family. 8. Going and seeing the NWA live in Greensboro, NC. 9. Andre the giant, Owen Hart, Brusier Brody, Fabulous Moolah, and others. RIP! |
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