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WWE: Things Are About To Get Rowdy

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WWE does an empty arena at their training facility.

CM Punk says what we’re all thinking:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Well that’s one way to make sure Roman finally gets not booed and nobody chants for meeeeeeee.</p>— player/coach (@CMPunk) <a href="https://twitter.com/CMPunk/status/1239692962734452739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 16, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
 
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Saw a few old posts mentioning Antonino Rocca, Buddy Rogers, Killer Kowalski, Sailor Art Thomas, June Byers, Haystacks Calhoun, Bruno Sammartino, Sweet Daddy Siki, Edouard Carpentier, Zebra Kid and Sky Low Low. Anybody remember Karl Von Hess, Handsome Johnny Barend, Magnificent Maurice and Happy Humphrey?
 
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LAKingsFan26 said:
Saw a few old posts mentioning Antonino Rocca, Buddy Rogers, Killer Kowalski, Sailor Art Thomas, June Byers, Haystacks Calhoun, Bruno Sammartino, Sweet Daddy Siki, Edouard Carpentier, Zebra Kid and Sky Low Low. Anybody remember Karl Von Hess, Handsome Johnny Barend, Magnificent Maurice and Happy Humphrey?
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I came along a little late for those people.

Other than WWE, I have a friend in a small promotion in the UP, so I keep up with him and his career.
 
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LAKingsFan26 said:
Saw a few old posts mentioning Antonino Rocca, Buddy Rogers, Killer Kowalski, Sailor Art Thomas, June Byers, Haystacks Calhoun, Bruno Sammartino, Sweet Daddy Siki, Edouard Carpentier, Zebra Kid and Sky Low Low. Anybody remember Karl Von Hess, Handsome Johnny Barend, Magnificent Maurice and Happy Humphrey?
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I remember Happy Humphrey in the ring against Haystacks Calhoun (there was barely enough room for a referee!) i sure do remember June Byers but i was more the Fabulous Moolah type myself. And Edoard Carpentier? He was even more acrobatic with far better moves than Rocca. Do you recall the Anayas - both Hurricane and Cyclone?
 
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Mookie recalls going to the civic arena in Pittsburgh and yelling “Bruno sucks!” While he was a guest in piper’s pit. People threatened mookie with bodily harm :) :p :(
 
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I've watched several episodes of Dark Side of the Ring. A few things that struck me:

*1. I knew I hadn't paid attention besides unintentional exposure for quite some time, but I bet it's been since the early 90's at the latest I hand't given a crap about pro wrestling
2. I didn't realize how often they wrestled beyond what you see on TV
3. They appear to have a higher degree of effed up athletes than most sports
4. Vince McMahon should be in prison if not for any specific broken laws but for being one of the scummiest people alive

Not a slam or judgement toward anyone that remains a fan.

*The only reason I learned about the death of Chad Gaspard was my younger son mentioned it a few minutes ago.
 
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DrDemento said:
I remember Happy Humphrey in the ring against Haystacks Calhoun (there was barely enough room for a referee!) i sure do remember June Byers but i was more the Fabulous Moolah type myself. And Edoard Carpentier? He was even more acrobatic with far better moves than Rocca. Do you recall the Anayas - both Hurricane and Cyclone?
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Just learned of the Anayas courtesy of your posts. They were before my time like the other names but I was familiar w/ the others due to my research about '50s and '60s wrestling in recent yrs. Read that Vince McMahon Sr. often promoted matches between Humphrey and Calhoun at Madison Square Garden in the late '50s as they were quite the attractions due to their size. If you're interested you can find a clip of Karl Von Hess against Ricki Starr (not sure if that name rings a bell) on YouTube. Also there's a six-man tag match w/ Buddy Rogers, Handsome Johnny Barend and Magnificent Maurice vs. Sailor Art Thomas, Bobo Brazil and Dory Dixon. I figured if you remember Rogers you might recall Barend as the two teamed in the early '60s? How about Cowboy Bob Ellis?

mookie1995 said:
Mookie recalls going to the civic arena in Pittsburgh and yelling “Bruno sucks!” While he was a guest in piper’s pit. People threatened mookie with bodily harm :) :p :(
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*Chuckles* That's gold. You were brave for that b/c Sammartino is royalty in Pittsburgh.

Slap Shot said:
I've watched several episodes of Dark Side of the Ring. A few things that struck me:

*1. I knew I hadn't paid attention besides unintentional exposure for quite some time, but I bet it's been since the early 90's at the latest I hand't given a crap about pro wrestling
2. I didn't realize how often they wrestled beyond what you see on TV
3. They appear to have a higher degree of effed up athletes than most sports
4. Vince McMahon should be in prison if not for any specific broken laws but for being one of the scummiest people alive

Not a slam or judgement toward anyone that remains a fan.

*The only reason I learned about the death of Chad Gaspard was my younger son mentioned it a few minutes ago.
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That was very sad. Not news I expected to hear. But Dark Side of the Ring is a good watch.
 
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mookie1995 said:
Mookie recalls going to the civic arena in Pittsburgh and yelling “Bruno sucks!” While he was a guest in piper’s pit. People threatened mookie with bodily harm :) :p :(
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As long as you were down with Ivan Putski I will let it go.

Note: acc. to Wikipedia, Comrade Putski is still with us at 79.
 
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Guess I'm not talking about AEW and Orange Cassidy with you guys...

#old
 
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Jimjamesak said:
Guess I'm not talking about AEW and Orange Cassidy with you guys...

#old
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You will never know the joy of a Bruno Christmas.

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Jimjamesak said:
Guess I'm not talking about AEW and Orange Cassidy with you guys...

#old
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Just a modest 37 😄 but I've developed a strong interest in '50s and '60s wrestling over the last few yrs. Matter of fact I got a book on the history of WWE entitled Capitol Revolution by the wrestling historian Tim Hornbaker. Check it out if you got a chance. He's also got a book on the NWA as well as his latest on the dissolution of wrestling territories in the '80s, Death of the Territories

Kepler said:
You will never know the joy of a Bruno Christmas.

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I take it you watched WWWF in the '70s.
 
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LAKingsFan26 said:
I take it you watched WWWF in the '70s.
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1978, World Wide Wrestling. I may even have been around as early as Wide World Wrestling before they got sued by Jim McKay's Lawyer Army.

Saturdays on sh-tty UHF channels coming out of places like Moose Jaw, West Virginia and Pig's Knuckle, North Carolina. Incredibly low production value; sometimes the breakaway furniture would fail and actually f-ck a guy up. It was so funny even the Jewish kids watched.
 
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Mookie can vaguely remember when wwf came to his high school while mookie would have been 5th or 6th grade (1979-1980ish). First time up close and personal. Giants of men.
Crowd was so raucous that they halted the show and announced wwf would never return to mookie’s town :)
 
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The AWA was our local wrestling op before the WW whatever kicked in. Some stars (at least locally, some made it nationally later) that aired in their productions that I can remember:

Adrian Adonis
Nick Bockwinkle
The Crusher
Jim Brunzell
Jerry Blackwell
Ric Flair
Greg and Verne Gagne
Hulk Hogan
Superstar Billy Graham
Curt and Larry Hennig
Sheik Adnan El Kaissey
Jerry Lawler
Rick Martel
Wahoo McDaniel
Ken Patera
Dusty Rhodes
The Road Warriors
Sgt. Slaughter
Superfly Snuka
The Crippler
Mad Dog Vachon
Jesse The Body
Baron von Raschke

What I don't know is if any of them were ever exclusive to the AWA and/or if they got their start there.
 
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A lot of those guys made it. If that was just one of those rinky dink territories guys used to get shivved in alleys over before the McMahons muscled everybody out then it was one excellent operation.

My favorites were the great tag teams.

Professor Tanaka & Mr. Fuji
The Valiant Brothers
Superstar Billy Graham & Ivan Koloff
Chief Jay Strongbow & about ten different guys

And then there were a bunch of racist villains of the month like the Arabs during the hostage crisis. The Iron Sheik must have had a piece of that but I don't remember a tag team partner for him.
 
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Kepler said:
A lot of those guys made it. If that was just one of those rinky dink territories guys used to get shivved in alleys over before the McMahons muscled everybody out then it was one excellent operation.
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The AWA was one of the 2-3 promotions that could’ve kept Vince at bay if they hadn’t been so d-n dumb/stuck in their ways.

The AWA is probably the one promotion Vince raided the most.
 
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Kepler said:
A lot of those guys made it. If that was just one of those rinky dink territories guys used to get shivved in alleys over before the McMahons muscled everybody out then it was one excellent operation.

My favorites were the great tag teams.

Professor Tanaka & Mr. Fuji
The Valiant Brothers
Superstar Billy Graham & Ivan Koloff
Chief Jay Strongbow & about ten different guys

And then there were a bunch of racist villains of the month like the Arabs during the hostage crisis. The Iron Sheik must have had a piece of that but I don't remember a tag team partner for him.
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I was wondering if you remembered the tandem of Prof. Toru Tanaka and Mr. Fuji.

Jimjamesak said:
The AWA was one of the 2-3 promotions that could’ve kept Vince at bay if they hadn’t been so d-n dumb/stuck in their ways.

The AWA is probably the one promotion Vince raided the most.
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There were a good 3-4 talents off top I can think of though some of them were in WWE before AWA.
 
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Slap Shot said:
The AWA was our local wrestling op before the WW whatever kicked in. Some stars (at least locally, some made it nationally later) that aired in their productions that I can remember:

Adrian Adonis
Nick Bockwinkle
The Crusher
Jim Brunzell
Jerry Blackwell
Ric Flair
Greg and Verne Gagne
Hulk Hogan
Superstar Billy Graham
Curt and Larry Hennig
Sheik Adnan El Kaissey
Jerry Lawler
Rick Martel
Wahoo McDaniel
Ken Patera
Dusty Rhodes
The Road Warriors
Sgt. Slaughter
Superfly Snuka
The Crippler
Mad Dog Vachon
Jesse The Body
Baron von Raschke

What I don't know is if any of them were ever exclusive to the AWA and/or if they got their start there.
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What? No Dick the Bruiser???
 
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Slap Shot said:
The AWA was our local wrestling op before the WW whatever kicked in. Some stars (at least locally, some made it nationally later) that aired in their productions that I can remember:

Adrian Adonis
Nick Bockwinkle
The Crusher
Jim Brunzell
Jerry Blackwell
Ric Flair
Greg and Verne Gagne
Hulk Hogan
Superstar Billy Graham
Curt and Larry Hennig
Sheik Adnan El Kaissey
Jerry Lawler
Rick Martel
Wahoo McDaniel
Ken Patera
Dusty Rhodes
The Road Warriors
Sgt. Slaughter
Superfly Snuka
The Crippler
Mad Dog Vachon
Jesse The Body
Baron von Raschke

What I don't know is if any of them were ever exclusive to the AWA and/or if they got their start there.
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Before WWF/Vince went crazy and broke all the rules, I believe that regional wrestlers were exclusive to that organization. You didn't wrestle outside your region.
Even after WWF really kicked in, USUALLY the companies owned the names of the wrestlers, hence Road Warriors becoming Legion Of Doom. If you were truly big enough (Hulk Hogan, Macho Man), then you could own the name. I suppose it'd be like owning the rights to your music/master tapes, that sort of thing.

Obviously I could be wrong, but that's how I understood it.
 
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