Wrestling - WWE/TNA/ROH/NJPW

[Radj4ck]

Yap, couldn't remember the name and I'm far too lazy to look it up!

Those guys destroyed each other in 20 minutes (after already having 2 matches).

[zuckuss2003]

I saw a live WCW event in the late 90's where Cactus Jack fell off the ring apron, broke his left arm, and still finished the match being pinned about 5 minutes later. His arm flopped around this way and that but he kept the match going, insane.

[TheWatcher]

I'm showing my age when I say this but I remember seeing Buddy Roberts and Iceman Parsons in a "hair" match that resulted in Roberts subsequently wearing a wig held to his head by a boxing helmet.

 

Texas wrestling was the schizz back in the day, but then I grew up to the wise old age of 12 and realized watching guys rolls around on each other wearing speedos was not something I wanted to see.

 

WCCW was awesome in the early/mid 80's (thumbs u

[nickwire]

i loved going to ecw in its hayday. to say it was insane is an understatement. craziest ive seen on tape were the king of the death matches tourny and the best ever..sabu vs funk "born to be wired" where they had to stop the match because they were completely tangled in barbed wire and had to be cut apart

[TheWatcher]

ECW was what got me back into watching pro wrestling. I had stopped watching in the early 90's when WCW & WWF were the only games in town. I stumbled across ECW some time in '96 or '97 and became a fan instantly. So exciting, brutal and different from all the stale krap seen everywhere else

[Radj4ck]

Anyway I just now saw last night's raw, what do you think of the ending?

 

HERE COMES THE PAIN!

[Mephisto]

TNA TNA TNA

 

...

 

Let the hate mail come in...

 

I actually liked TNA a few years ago, especially much more than WWE. I have tried to watch it the past 2 weeks, but the guys they have on TV are awful. Scott Steiner needs to come out and cut one of his shoot promos and talk about what a bunch of fat red necks everyone there is. I should not be more muscular than 90% of their talent. They desperately need to get some roids flowing through that company. Some of the guys who put on a decent matches suck on the mic which makes the over all product a snooze fest. I was wondering why Kurt Angle now looks like a new born baby. Then I saw he had Olympic aspirations which would account for him getting off gear.

[Mephisto]

I loved it until the early 2000's. Even then, it was getting lame. Maybe it was my age or the product. Either way, it just wasn't cutting it anymore.

 

Dead on. It was the product. I trailed off probably prior to the WWF and WCW merger. I stopped watching completely not long after the merger. It was a complete failure when they bought WCW. When they got it most of WCW's big names didn't even come along, so those dream matches that everyone wanted to see a few years earlier either didn't happen or were just lame. Stone Cold was rocking 2 knee braces by the time they brought in a lot of the big name WCW people. Plus the Raw Smackdown brand thing was lame with the constant drafts. I can't believe I am seeing they still do this. They also should've dropped more of the belts. I don't understand why they would keep the WCW heavy weight belt and call it the the World Heavy Weight title. By calling it that you are making it sound like it is more important than the WWE belt which is in reality the big belt to hold. It's been 10 years of . Marky Mark and his jean shorts would have been cool in 1991. I can't believe they have made him the face of the company the past 8 years.

 

After what Russo did in WCW I can't believe they have been letting him do stuff since. I don't care what he did in WWF in the early attitude era he has spewed out mostly mess and is annoying.

[Not*Sure*]

A lot of the reason wwe sucks so badly is that management is so out of touch with what people actually want to watch..

 

they had some good newer wrasslers a few years back with their own character development packages..they wrestled a few black out matches and then a few TV matches and then all the sudden had a new character with sucky costume lame personas and bad -script writing.

 

One was interviewed after being seperated as to why he dropped his uber cool personna for the suckfest..and he said Vince himself said "I don't get it" he had never seen a pirates of the carribean movie at the time and at first was all for the pirate dude..then was like "I don't get it are you drunk? you stagger? hmm I don't like it here you are now a lame guy"

 

and take Mike Awesome..he was pretty good outright..wwe development somewhere in the twilight zone of not getting it..turns him into "that 70's guy" trying to pick up on the success of the "that 70's show" TV series.

 

It did not work at all..and some of the story lines..

 

I knew..KNEW when they had the Vince is dead storyline it was going to go over like a lead balloon..they had to completely act like the storyline never happened because in the middle of it was the Chris Benoit debacle..

 

WWE could do much much better ..it is like they sent their development folks and -script writers to the "days of our live peyton place school of dramatic writing"

 

so they continually crank out anyone over the age of 12 can hardly watch.

 

WWE is like a factory that churns out wrasslers..uses them up until they can no longer effectively compete and still uses them until they are washed out/up.

 

I remember the good old days "You may win Gordon Solie but you..can not..possess ME"

 

I spent many a weekend on the floor in front of the TV watching wrassling with my papa..

 

 

[Not*Sure*]

i loved going to ecw in its hayday. to say it was insane is an understatement. craziest ive seen on tape were the king of the death matches tourny and the best ever..sabu vs funk "born to be wired" where they had to stop the match because they were completely tangled in barbed wire and had to be cut apart

back when Sabu was cool..it was sad WWE made him sooooooo lame

[Not*Sure*]

Is Funk still alive..because man last time I saw him..he looked dead already ..

 

poor guy..

 

RIP to all the ones who have gone thanks for the entertainment folks

 

1.Frank Gotch 40 December 16, 1917 Uremic Poisoning

2.The Terrible Turk ?? July 4, 1898 Drowning

3.Wayne Munn 35 January 9, 1931 Kidney Problems

4.William Muldoon 88 June 3, 1933 Dies At Home

5.Farmer Burns 75 February 9, 1937 Unknown

6.Gus Sonnenberg 46 September 12, 1944 Tuberculosis

7.Bull Montana ?? January 24, 1950 Dies at Home

8.Danno O’Mahoney 37 November 4, 1950 Auto Accident

9.Maurice Tillet 51 August 4, 1954 Heart Disease

10.Jess McMahon 72 November 22, 1954 Unknown

11.Rikidozan 38 December 15, 1963 Stabbed

12.Gorgeous George 48 December 26, 1963 Heart Attack

13.Ed “Strangler” Lewis 76 August 7, 1966 Dies at Home

14.Sandor Szabo 60 October 16, 1966 Heart Attack

15.Primo Carnera 51 June 29, 1967 Cirrhosis of Liver

16.Stanislaus Zbyszko 88 September 22, 1967 Dies at Home

17.George Hackenschmidt 90 February 19, 1968 Dies at Home

18.Wladek Zbyszko ?? June 10, 1968 Unknown

19.Mike DiBiase 45 July 2, 1969 Dies in Ring

20.Skull Murphy 39 March 23, 1970 Heart Attack

21.Hercules Cortez 39 July 23, 1971 Auto Accident

22.Dory Funk Sr. 54 June 3, 1973 Dies at Home

23.Freddie (Sweetan) Prosser, 36, July 26, 1974. Accidental fire

24.Bobby Shane 29 February 20, 1975 Auto Accident

25.Jim Lindos 78 August 19, 1975 Heart Attack

26.Pepe Lopez 39 July 27, 1976 Auto Accident

27.Antonio Rocca 49 March 15, 1977 Unknown

28.Chris Taylor 29 June 30, 1979 Prolonged Illness

29.Billy McGuire ?? July 14, 1979 Heart Attack

30.Peter Maivia 47 June 13, 1982 Cancer

31.Frank Tunney ?? May 20, 1983 Heart Attack

32.The Grand Wizard 54 October 12, 1983 Heart Attack

33.El Santo 67 February 5, 1984 Heart Attack

34.David Von Erich 25 February 10, 1984 Acute Enteritis

35.Vince McMahon Sr. 69 May 17, 1984 Cancer

36.George Zaharias 76 May 22, 1984 Dies at Home

37.Argentina Apollo 46 August 2, 1984 Heart Attack

38.Eddie Graham 55 January 21, 1985 Suicide

39.Jay Youngblood 30 September 1, 1985 Heart Attack

40.Rick McGraw 30 November 1, 1985 Heart Attack

41.Tarzan Tyler ?? December 20, 1985 Auto Accident

42.Gino Hernandez 29 February 4, 1986 Cocaine Overdose

43.Warren Bockwinkle 74 March 24, 1986 Alzheimer’s Disease

44.El Solitario 40 April 6, 1986 Heart Attack

45.Mike Von Erich 23 April 12, 1987 Suicide

46.Malcolm “King Kong” Kirk ?? August 24, 1987 Heart Attack

47.Adrian Adonis 34 July 4, 1988 Auto Accident

48.Pat Kelly ?? July 4, 1988 Auto Accident

49.The Canadian Wildman ?? July 4, 1988 Auto Accident

50.Bruiser Brody 42 July 17, 1988 Stabbed

51.Leroy Brown 38 September 6, 1988 Heart Attack

52.Leroy McGuirk 78 September 9, 1988 Dies at Home

53.Mildred Burke 73 February 18, 1989 Stroke

54.Paul Boesch 76 March 7, 1989 Dies at Home

55.Happy Humphery ?? March 14, 1989 Heart Attack

56.Eduardo Perez 61 September 7, 1989 Dies at Home

57.Haystacks Calhoun 55 December 7, 1989 Diabetes

58.Bronko Nagurski 81 January 7, 1990

59.Whipper Billy Watson 74 February 4, 1990 Dies at Home

60.Gory Guerrero 69 April 18, 1990 Unknown

61.Pat O’Connor 65 August 16, 1990 Cancer

62.Ed “The Bull” Gatner 31 December 31, 1990 Suicide

63.Duke Keomuka 70 June 30, 1991 Heart Failure

64.Vivian Vachon 40 August 25, 1991 Auto Accident

65.Chris Von Erich 21 September 12, 1991 Suicide

66.Gene Anderson 58 October 31, 1991 Heart Attack

67. the Bruiser 62 November 10, 1991 Internal Bleeding

68.Wilbur Snyder 62 December 25, 1991 Heart Failure

69.Buzz Sawyer 32 February 7, 1992 Dies At Apartment

70.Tojo Yamamoto 65 February 19, 1992 Suicide

71.Jimmy Lennon Sr. 79 April 20, 1992 Heart Failure

72.Buddy Rogers 71 June 26, 1992 Stroke

73.Uncle Elmer 54 June 30, 1992 Diabetes

74.Danny McShain ?? July 14, 1992 Unknown

75.Roy Heffernan 67 September 24, 1992 Heart Attack

76.Andre The Giant 46 January 27, 1993 Heart Attack

77.Kerry Von Erich 33 February 18, 1993 Suicide

78.Dino Bravo 44 March 11, 1993 Drive-By Shooting

79.Wally Karbo 77 March 25, 1993 Heart Attack

80.D.J. Peterson 33 May 25, 1993 Unknown

81.Don Kent 61 June 14, 1993 Leukemia

82.Brazo de Oro ?? October 26, 1993 Brain Aneurysm

83.Rufus R. Jones 60 November 13, 1993 Heart Attack

84.Larry Cameron 41 December 13, 1993 Heart Attack

85.Eddie Creatchman 66 March 9, 1994 Heart Attack

86.Ray Candy 43 May 23, 1994 Heart Attack

87.George “Crybaby” Cannon 62 July 1, 1994 Cancer

88.Joey Marella 30 July 4, 1994 Auto Accident

89.Boris Malenko 61 September 1, 1994 Cancer

90.Art Barr 28 November 23, 1994 Drug-Related Cause

91.Jerry Blackwell 45 January 22, 1995 Pneumonia

92.Eddie Gilbert 33 February 18, 1995 Heart Attack

93.Big John Studd 46 March 20, 1995 Hodgkin’s Disease

94.Ilio DiPaolo Auto 68 May 10, 1995 Auto Accident

95.Killer Karl Krupp 62 October 24, 1995 Heart Attack

96.Little Beaver 61 December 4, 1995 Emphysema

97.Ray Stevens 60 May 3, 1996 Heart Attack

98. Murdoch 49 June 15, 1996 Heart Attack

99.The Missouri Mauler 45 July 19, 1996 Heart Attack

100.Herb Abrams 41 July 23, 1996 Drug Overdose

101.Neil Superior 33 August 23, 1996 Heart Attack

102.Sapphire 61 September 10, 1996 Heart Attack

103.Dr. Jerry Graham 58 January 24, 1997 Stroke

104.Bulldog Bob Brown 58 February 6, 1997 Heart Attack

105.Dr. Bill Miller 69 March 24, 1997 Heart Attack

106.Stan Stasiak 60 June 12, 1997 Heart Failure

107.Larry O’Day 53 June 30, 1997 Liver Cancer

108.Plum Mariko 29 August 16, 1997 Brain Aneurysm

109.Jeep Swenson 40 August 19, 1997 Heart Attack

110.Dale Lewis 62 August 30, 1997 Leukemia

111.Fritz Von Erich 68 September 10, 1997 Cancer

112. “Bulldog” Brower 63 September 16, 1997 Diabetes

113.Brian Pillman 35 October 5, 1997 Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease

114.Big E Sleaze 22 October 26, 1997 Suicide

115.Stanley Blackburn 80 November 20, 1997 Unknown

116.Bobo Brazil 74 January 20, 1998 Heart Problems

117.Louie Spiccoli 27 February 15, 1998 Carisopridol Overdose

118.Junkyard Dog 45 June 1, 1998 Auto Accident

119.The Spoiler 56 June 20, 1998 Heart Failure

120.Shane Shamrock 23 August 17, 1998 Shot by Police

121.Terry Garvin 60 August 17, 1998 Cancer

122.Giant Haystacks 55 November 30, 1998 Stomach Cancer

123.Brady Boone 40 December 15, 1998 Auto Accident

124.Sam Mushnick 93 December 31, 1998 Internal Bleeding

125.Shohei “Baba” Giant 61 January 31, 1999 Bowel Cancer

126.The Renegade 23 February 23, 1999 Suicide

127.Kurt Von Hess 65 March 13, 1999 Heart Attack

128.Rick Rude 41 April 20, 1999 Heart Attack

129.Owen Hart 33 May 23, 1999 Accidental Fall

130.The Sarge Donnie York Sr. 50 May 25, 1999 Complications of Diabetes

131.Jackie Sato 41 August 9, 1999 Stomach Cancer

132.Mark Curtis 38 September 8, 1999 Stomach Cancer

133.Gorilla Monsoon 62 October 6, 1999 Heart Illness

134.Tony Rumble 43 November 13, 1999 Heart Attack

135.Hiro Matsuda 62 November 27, 1999 Cancer

136.Gary Albright 34 January 7, 2000 Heart Attack

137.Al Costello 80 January 22, 2000 Pneumonia

138.Bobby Duncum Jr. 34 January 24, 2000 Drug Overdose

139.Liz Chase 45 February 29, 2000 Died During Surgery

140.Masakazu Fukada 27 April 19, 2000 Internal Bleeding on Brain

141.Tom Renesto (Assassin #1) 72 April 25, 2000 Heart Failure

142.Tomomi “Jumbo” Tsuruta 49 May 16, 2000 Internal Bleeding

143.Gordon Solie 71 July 27, 2000 Cancer

144.Tony Parisi 58 August 18, 2000 Heart Attack

145.Chris Duffy 36 August 25, 2000 Seizure

146.Toru Tanaka 70 August 22, 2000 Natural Causes

147.“Klondike” Bill Soloweyko 68 October 3, 2000 Bulbar Palsy

148.Leo Nomellini 76 October 17, 2000 Stroke

149.“Yokozuna” Rodney Anoia 34 October 22, 2000 Heart Attack

150.The Blue Demon 78 December 16, 2000 Heart Attack

151.Benny McGuire 54 March 26, 2001 Heart Attack

152.“Red Shoes” Dugan ?? March 26, 2001 Parkinson’s Disease

153.Johnny Valentine 73 April 24, 2001 Natural Causes

154.Terry Gordy 40 July 16, 2001 Heart Attack

155.Rhonda Singh (Bertha Faye) 40 July 27, 2001 Unknown

156.Dennis Coraluzzo 48 July 29, 2001 Stroke

157.Chris Adams 46 October 7, 2001 Shot to Death

158.Chief Dave Foxx 44 October 28, 2001 Heart Attack

159.Helen Hart 77 November 4, 2001 Organ Failure

160.Russ Haas 27 December 15, 2001 Heart Failure

161.“Maniac” Mike Davis 46 December 25, 2001 Heart Attack

162.Mighty Igor 60’s January 7, 2002 Heart Failure

163.Nelson Royal 70 February 2, 2002 Heart Attack

164.Swede Hanson 68 February 20, 2002 Alzheimer’s Disease

165.Wahoo McDaniel 63 April 18, 2002 Stroke

166.Lou Thesz 86 April 28, 2002 Natural Causes

167.Randy “Pee Wee” Anderson 41 May 7, 2002 Natural Causes

168.Erich Kulas (Mass Transit) 22 May 14, 2002 Unknown

169.Alex “Big Dudley” Rizzo 34 May 16, 2002 Unknown

170.Shoichi Arai (FMW President) 36 May 16, 2002 Suicide

171.“British Bulldog” Davey Boy Smith 39 May 17, 2002 Heart Attack

172.Ted Petty (Rocco Rock) 49 September 21, 2002 Heart Attack

173.Edward “Moose” Cholak 72 October 31, 2002 Natural Causes

174.Billy Joe Travis ?? November 22, 2002 Heart Attack

175.Jeff Peterson 22 November 29, 2002 Cancer

176.“Mr. Wrestling” Tim Woods ?? November 30, 2002 Heart Attack

177.“The Original Sheik” Ed Farahat ?? January 18, 2003 Natural Causes

178.Curt Hennig 44 February 10, 2003 Drug Overdose

179.Tony Altomare 74 February 20, 2003 Heart Attack

180.Hiromichi “Kodo” Fuyuki 42 March 19, 2003 Cancer

181.Sailor Art Thomas 79 March 20, 2003 Cancer

182.Ray Mendoza 73 April 17, 2003 Natural Causes

183.Miss Elizabeth (Elizabeth Heulette) 42 May 1, 2003 Drug Overdose

184.“Classie” Freddie Blassie 85 June 2, 2003 Natural Causes

185.Giant Ochiai 30 July 8, 2003 Brain Damage

186.Anthony “Pitbull #2″ Durante 36 September 26, 2003 Drug Overdose

187.Stu Hart 88 October 16, 2003 Pneumonia

188.Road Warrior Hawk (Mike Hegstrand) 46 October 19, 2003 Heart Attack

189.Mike “Crash Holly” Lockwood 32 November 6, 2003 Asphyxiation

190.Richard “” Hutton 80 November 24, 2003 Natural Causes

191.Moondog Spot (Larry Lathman) 51 November 29, 2003 Heart Attack

192.Jerry “The Wall/Malice” Tuite 36 December 5, 2003 Heart Attack

193.Jack Tunney (Former WWE President) 68 January 24, 2004 Natural Causes

194.Don (Hard Boiled) Haggerty 78 January 28, 2004 Natural Causes

195.Hercules Hernandez 45 March 6. 2004 Heart Attack

196.Pepper Gomez 77 May 6, 2004 Kidney Failure

197.Billy Redwood 28 July 3, 2004 Auto Accident

198.Pat “Bomber” Roach 67 July 17, 2004 Cancer

199.Ken Timbs 53 August 1, 2004 Heart Failure

200.Dr. Wagner Sr. 68 September 12, 2004 Heart Attack

201.Jim Barnett (Promoter) 80 September 17, 2004 Cancer and Pneumonia

202.Ray “Big Boss Man” Traylor 42 September 22, 2004 Heart Attack

203.Marianna Komlos 35 October 4, 2004 Breast Cancer

204.Dandy Jack Donovan 76 November 27, 2004 Construction Site Accident

205.“Pistol” Pez Whatley 54 January 18, 2005 Heart Failure

206.Chris Candido 33 April 28, 2005 Blood Clot after Surgery

207.Ron Trongaurd (AWA Announcer) 72 June 17, 2005 Liver Cancer

208.Shinya Hashimoto 40 July 11, 2005 Brain Anresum

209.Lord Alfred Hayes 77 July 21, 2005 Stroke

210.Chris Tolos 75 August 13, 2005 Natural Causes

211.Chri$ Ca$h (Christopher Bauman Jr.) 23 August 18, 2005 Motorcycle Accident

212.Ed “Sailor” White (Moondog King) 56 August 25, 2005 Unknown

213.The Crusher (Reggie Lisowski) 79 October 22, 2005 Natural Causes

214.Eddie Guerrero 38 November 13, 2005 Heart Failure

215.Chad Floyd (Chazz Rocco) 37 December 10, 2005 Heart Failure

216.El Texano (Juan Aguilar) 47 January 15, 2006 Respiratory Failure

217.Ricky Romero 74 January 16, 2006 Complications of Diabetes

218.Victor Mar (Black Cat) 51 January 28, 2006 Heart Attack

219.Emory Hale ?? January 29, 2006 Complications of Kidney Failure

220.Mike “Johnny Grunge” Durham 39 February 16, 2006

221.Victor Quinones (Owner of IWA Puerto Rico) 46 April 2, 2006 Natural Causes

222.Sammy “Steamboat” Mokuahi 71 May 4, 2006 Complications from both Alzheimer’s and Diabetes

223.Apache Bull Ramos 71 May 27, 2006 Complications of Shoulder Infection and Diabetes

224.John “Earthquake” Tenta 42 June 7, 2006 Bladder Cancer

225.“Crazy” Luke Graham 70 June 24, 2006 Heart Failure

226.Marlon Kalkai (Tiger Khan) Mid-30’s June 28, 2006 Unknown

227.Bob Orton Sr. 76 July 14, 2006 Heart Attack

228.Karl Von Stroheim 78 August 8, 2006 Heart Attack

229.Antonio Peña (Mexican Promoter) 57 October 6, 2006 Heart Attack

230.Jumping Joey Maggs 37 October 15, 2006 Unknown

231.Kintaro Oki (Kim Ill) 77 October 26, 2006 Natural Causes

232.Daniel Garcia (Huracan Ramirez) 80 November 1, 2006 Natural Causes

233.Sputnik Monroe 77 November 2, 2006 Natural Causes

234.Dennis “Tiger” Conway, Sr. 74 November 13, 2006 Massive Stroke

235.Don Jardine (The Original Spoiler) 66 December 16, 2006 Complications of Heart Attack and Leukemia

236.Scott “Bam Bam” Bigelow 45 January 19, 2007 Drug Overdose

237.Mike Awesome 42 February 17, 2007 Suicide

238.Bad News (Brown) Allen Coage 63 March 6, 2007 Heart Attack

239.Alejandro Cruz (Black Shadow) 82 March 8, 2007 Pneumonia

240.Ernie “The Cat” Ladd 68 March 10, 2007 Cancer

241.Arnold Skaaland 82 March 13, 2007 Natural Causes

242.Angel Azteca 43 March 18, 2007 Unknown

243.Abe Coleman 101 March 28, 2007 Natural Causes

244.Mephisto Lephanto 31 May 4, 2007 Sudden Heart Attack in the Ring

245.Sonny Myers 83 May 5, 2007 Natural Causes

246.Sandy Barr 69 June 2, 2007 Heart Attack

247.Sensational Sherri Martel 49 June 15, 2007 Unknown

248.Shane “Biff Wellington” Bower 42 June 23, 2007 Heart Attack

249.Nancy Daus (Woman from WCW) 42 June 23, 2007 Strangulation

250.Chris Benoit 40 June 25, 2007 Suicide

251.Brian “Crush” Adams (43)–August 13, 2007–Natural Causes

252.The Missing Link (Dewey Robertson) (68)–August 16, 2007–Died from cancer

253.Fabulous Moolah (Lillian Ellison) (84)–November 3, 2007–Natural Causes

254.Jean Louis Cormier (Rudy Kay), 65, May 25, 2008. Septicemia.

255.Andrew Martin (Test) - 1975 - 2009 - Overdose of drugs

 

256.Captain Lou Albano - 1933 - 2009 - Prolonged Illness

257.Yvon “the Beast” Cormier, 70, Mar. 4, 2009. Heart attack during lymphoma treatments.

258.Umaga - 4 December, 2009 - Heart Attack

259.Lance Cade - 2010 - Heart Failure

260.Bastion Booger - 2010 - heart attack

261.Giant Gonzalez - 2010 - Diabetes

262.Chris Kanyon - 2010 - Suicide

263.Jack Brisco - 2010 - Heart Attack

264.Ludvig Borga - 2010 - Heart Attack

265.Sailor White - 2011 - Car Accident

266.Macho Man Randy Savaage, 2011 - Accident

267.Doctor X - October 2011, 11 (aged -1959)- Was shot in the head and killed

268.Larry Sweeney - 2011 - Suicide

269.Shawn Osborne - 2011 - Suicide

270.Well Dunn - 2012 - Unknown

 

 

Really sorry to see a few others I had not known had passed Lance Cade,Test..etc..

[Designer Toast]

I thought wrestling was cool when I was a kid. I appreciate and respect the athleticism involved, and the "combat" is complete BS. Sure, guys get hurt wrestling (and, sadly, occasionally die) and if you want the real deal as far as combat sports go, then you need to tune in to MMA. Wrestling is f-a-k-e, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy it.

[Not*Sure*]

that isn't even a complete list

[Not*Sure*]

I thought wrestling was cool when I was a kid. I appreciate and respect the athleticism involved, and the "combat" is complete BS. Sure, guys get hurt wrestling (and, sadly, occasionally die) and if you want the real deal as far as combat sports go, then you need to tune in to MMA. Wrestling is f-a-k-e, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy it.

 

Let me put it this way..after the house burned down..I went through the melted together stacks of DVDs compacted into wads of melted plastic..and painstakingly used screwdriver/chisel to chip them open to save about 85 of our UFC dvds..

 

the two towers of melted plastic cases containing the WWE stuff ECW TNA NWA..well it's been two years and I just haven't gotten around to trying..

 

I did save a miraculous number of old king of the ring MMA dvds and UFC..

 

I appreciate wrassling as a sport I truly do..I trained with a group and did 1 uno show with several "exhibition matches"..first match went okay..but then before the show was done...I got busted up..broken collar bone torn ligs..etc..but my friend Molly..she broke her leg (femur).

 

But I like more the no drama UFC..I hate the UFC ring entrances..and smack talk (unless it is just you know a chest pump and come and get it sort of thing)

I wanna see Rich Franklin beat the holy carp outta someone and break his hand on the dude's face..

 

favorite match of mine in UFC was Rich VS David Louseau he friggin destroyed him..the crow has not been the same since..

 

I hope brock lesner NEVER ever comes back to UFC..hate hate hate him and his smarmy smug biotch wife..them WWE style talking and mugging in the ring made me want to layeth the smackdown..

 

if you smell what I am cooking

[40sJohn]

For me, the golden age of wrestling was late '70s - mid 80's. Nothing like NWA wrestiling with Gordon Solie calling the matches.

 

Ric Flair

Dusty Rhodes

Ricky Steamboat

Ted Debiase

Mr. Wrestling II

Iron Sheik

Sting

Jimmy superfly Snuka

Wahoo McDaniel

Black Jack Mulligan

Rowdy Roddy Piper

Jake the Snake

Andre the Giant

 

I know there are some obvious ones that I am missing.

 

I will throw in one WWF favorite - The Ultimate Warrior. What a freak when he came on the scene!

 

Word!

[Designer Toast]

Way too many great UFC matches for me to list a single favorite. King of the Cage also had some great matches I'm fascinated with regulated violence and simply love MMA, especially the ground aspect of it.

 

BTW, the Hitman documentary is a must see. As a kid, I dug the Hart Foundation. My dad used to take me to old school Portland wrestling all the time (Dutch Savage, The Kangaroos, Billy Jack, et al).

[Grendel72]

 

Dont Forget the legion of Doom -The Road Warriors . The greatest tag team of al time IMHO. RIP Hawk

[Mephisto]

i loved going to ecw in its hayday. to say it was insane is an understatement. craziest ive seen on tape were the king of the death matches tourny and the best ever..sabu vs funk "born to be wired" where they had to stop the match because they were completely tangled in barbed wire and had to be cut apart

 

ECW was the best. I am so pissed I missed seeing Hall in ECW for the 2 or 3 shows he appeared with them since one of the few happened to be in Poughkeepsie and Ipreviously had gone to the last few shows with my brother but he moved across the country. I got to see Psycho Sid at Hardcore Heaven and he is a beast up close. It was great in those smaller venues as a lot of the guys would be sitting up on the stage on folding chairs watching the shows after their matches.

I remember one kid in high school stating that ECW sucked basically because you know he never watched it. Then a year later the Dudley's are in WWF and everyone is doing death drops and saying how awesome they are. Too bad they scaled way back on the stuff they pulled. They used to light the tables on fire in ECW before putting people through them.

Taz was the biggest shame. Go back and watch his ECW matches. He threw some guys through tables in the corner with crazy suplexes and I don't know how no one's neck never accidentally got broke. Forget the tables he barely even got to do half the suplexes he used to do once when he got to WWF. Plus he rocked the FTW belt for a while.

[40sJohn]

Dont Forget the legion of Doom -The Road Warriors . The greatest tag team of al time IMHO. RIP Hawk

 

Most definitely!

(thumbs u

[Mephisto]

Wrestling is f-a-k-e, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy it.