A lot of those are "character" names. Avatar, Mankind, Goldust, Doink, Yokozuna, etc..... those aren't First Name/No Last Name situations like Virgil or Albert.

Take out the character names and you should be left First Name/No last Name people like Virgil or Albert.

 

 

I hate it when men don't have first names and women don't have last names.

 

Doesn't bother me for the guys, as it worked wonders for guys like Goldberg or even Batista.

 

I agree about the women though. Pretty misogynic infact.

 

 

The misandry against Fernando, Diego, Christian and Kane is abhorrent as well.

 

 

You know what I mean. In cases of male, it's just awkward to me unless it's a very strong character like Kane (which refers to Cain).

 

Christian sounds particulary ridiculous to me for a big time wrestler because it's a very common French first name. I'd guess it's the same with Fernando and Diego for Spanish speaking people. It's like John Cena was just named "John". Think about that. Christian ? Really ? Can I call you Cri-cri ?

I remember reading an item I think in PWI where the Renegade had been stripped of his face paint and just named "Rick." That seemed like the most ridiculous name possible for a wrestler.

There isn't a card as almost all the lucha shows in the US don't advertise matchups just names.

 

This is the poster.

 

I remember reading an item I think in PWI where the Renegade had been stripped of his face paint and just named "Rick." That seemed like the most ridiculous name possible for a wrestler.

 

"All the belts I've won, they mean nothing to AI. Why do I bother!?"

 

Dave:

Somebody thought Antonio sounded like the name of a guy who wasn't tough. Seriously. And he's in the main event in two weeks and somebody woke up and thought he had a pussy name so we have to change that.

 

You would think this would have came up when they originally gave him the name...

I don't know if there's any way to explain it besides "Vince is just in one of his moods."

There isn't a card as almost all the lucha shows in the US don't advertise matchups just names.

Meanwhile, there's a Masked Republic show in Philly in on 4/27. "Talent set for the show are LA Park (the original La Parka as seen in WCW, ECW and MLW), Dr. Wagner Jr., Sabu, Damien 666, Bestia, El Exotico Cassandro, Negro Navarro, Pequeno Pierroth and Solar."

 

Getting to see Navarro vs Solar live would be pretty fantastic.

Kleinrock announced that Doc vs. Par-K will happen on that show

Kleinrock announced that Doc vs. Par-K will happen on that show

That's tempting me to make the trip from Ohio to Philly. It's at the ECW Arena, right? I've never been that far east so it'd be a cool roadtrip and if the match is anything like the one from last year it would be worth it.

I am coming home from my honeymoon that afternoon. I am not sure I can pull off heading straight to Philly, but man fuck there hasn't been a live card I wanted to go to in years. LA PARK v. Wagner, Cassandro, Navarro and Solar.

There is a reasonable possibility I can con my best friend into a road trip to Philly, but not sure a road trip to a lucha show will be an easy sell.

Question: when did the yelling your opponent's name while you rush at them or right before you land a suplex or slam or whatever start? I've noticed in a lot of US wrestling though I think ROH is the biggest example.

Oh my god this is good. Robert Fuller interviews Nick Gulas in 1989 about Jerry Jarrett stealing his promotion and how Robert should be the one running the territory. Fuller looks like a kid in a candy store, knowing that he's working an angle while getting Gulas riled up to shoot on Jarrett.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGKzgh1K_fw#t=234

Going through tagging locations on the topics in the Match Discussion Archive portion of the board, and it's amazing just how much famous and/or great stuff has taken place at Korakuen Hall, and that's just between 1990 and 1993. It feels like if you were a wrestling fan and wanted to see a little bit of everything during this time, your best plan of attack would just be to go to Korakuen, where it seemed like a different wrestling promotion was putting on a show with at least one good-great match almost every night of the week.

Oh, and see for yourself. Here's everything I've tagged at Korakuen so far:

 

http://prowrestlingonly.com/index.php?/tags/forums/Korakuen%2BHall/

Wow. That is quite the ridiculous list. How many other buildings could even approach a comparable list of great or memorable matches? Budokan? MSG?

Korakuen Hall is my all-time favourite pro-wrestling arena.

About a year or so ago, I believe Tommy Dreamer found a tape of a show from the ECW arena (?), late 2000. I think a trailer of it went up but the WWE took it down. Is this accurate? I thought RF (who put the trailer up) had rights to the ECW library due to a deal he made with Heyman years ago.

RF have rights to the fan cam stuff as far as I am aware but not the commercial releases or TV.

He's mentioned many times he has the rights to sell the whole ECW library, that's why he can still sell all of the DVDs on his website and has created new comps. I just question what was it about this lost tape which I 'think' was from late 2000.

Saw the live Cornette show tonight in Manchester. The Terry Landell stories were fun.

Going through tagging locations on the topics in the Match Discussion Archive portion of the board, and it's amazing just how much famous and/or great stuff has taken place at Korakuen Hall, and that's just between 1990 and 1993. It feels like if you were a wrestling fan and wanted to see a little bit of everything during this time, your best plan of attack would just be to go to Korakuen, where it seemed like a different wrestling promotion was putting on a show with at least one good-great match almost every night of the week.

 

As there got to be more promotions, which was very much a 1990-and-beyond thing, there were loads of shows in the Tokyo area especially if you include Yokohama Bunka Gym and Yokohama Arena in addition to the Usual Tokyo Suspect Arenas/Gyms.

 

I'd have to go back and look at all the shows that I saw in the 1996 trip. Pretty ridiculous amount in roughly two weeks... and not even including an AJPW card in that. 1995 trip was similar, but we went out of Tokyo for two of the shows that year.

 

John

Tommy Dreamer just tweeted out that Nelson Frazier (Mabel, Viscera, Big Daddy V) has died tonight at the age of 43

RIP