August 10, 201213 yr comment_5512374 1990 CMLL is fucking outstanding, yeah. I haven't watched any of it in about 4 years, but I've been waiting for this yearbook to drop so I can go back and watch it all again. All of the USWA stuff sounds tremendous as well, and I've more or less seen none of it. Zero. I might try and get through at least a fraction of the unwatched stuff I already have here before buying this, so I don't know if it'll be a first day purchase (although I'll wait until I see the final list first), but it'll be in my hands eventually.
August 11, 201213 yr comment_5512410 Is there any of the Arn Anderson vs Terry Taylor TV title series from Pro on it? The more Pro the better, I could listen to the announce team of Lance Russell with Michael Hayes and Jim Garvin all day.
August 11, 201213 yr comment_5512413 Is there any of the Arn Anderson vs Terry Taylor TV title series from Pro on it? The more Pro the better, I could listen to the announce team of Lance Russell with Michael Hayes and Jim Garvin all day. Unfortunately we only have the last 8 weeks of the year of that version of Pro (plus the first 2 weeks of 1991). The set that's floating around is made up of the WPIX NY and WGN Chicago localized versions with different commentary. For whatever reason, the Lance & Freebirds stuff is VERY hard to find.
August 11, 201213 yr comment_5512425 Man, if that Rip Rogers maritimes match makes it on that's awesome
August 11, 201213 yr Author comment_5512434 Is there any of the Arn Anderson vs Terry Taylor TV title series from Pro on it? Yes.
August 12, 201213 yr comment_5512504 Unfortunately we only have the last 8 weeks of the year of that version of Pro (plus the first 2 weeks of 1991). The set that's floating around is made up of the WPIX NY and WGN Chicago localized versions with different commentary. For whatever reason, the Lance & Freebirds stuff is VERY hard to find. Now I hear that I regret my father taping over Pro every week with the new one when they were shown on network TV in the UK at 2am or so back then. Fantastic commentary team.
August 12, 201213 yr comment_5512505 Pretty sure we got Worldwide or World Championship Wrestling rather than Pro. I used to tape them on the same tape every week too, in a double header on LP with Prisoner Cell Block H!! Distinctly remember Jim Ross and Jesse Ventura being the hosts, so it wouldn't have been Pro. UNLESS they showed Pro in 91, and switched to one of the others in 92. Wouldn't put it past ITV, they were always cocking around with that slot - it would be 2am one week, 4am the next week. Then around late 93/ early 94 it switched to something like Sunday afternoon without warning.
August 12, 201213 yr comment_5512506 Worldwide was on Saturday Afternoons from about 1992 until late 1995 for the majority of the ITV network with heavy editing unless you were in the Granada region and another couple of regions which received Worldwide in the early hours on a Wednesday or Thursday before American Gladiators under the name of Superstars of Wrestling in advertising. And prior to that a lot of the network shown Pro (which annoyingly wasn't at the same pace as Power Hour on satellite). Central also showed Dusty Rhodes' Florida project with DDP murdering commentary, Jackie Pallo's WAW, and some old Crockett tapes. Other regions showed the Australian WWF Wrestling Challenge. Until 1991 or so there was wrestling everywhere, especially if you had a satellite dish. The ladies channel Lifestyle was showing 1982 WCCW tapes for one.
August 12, 201213 yr comment_5512508 I was in South Wales and yeah, American Gladiators was on after it and Prisoner Cell Block H before it. Thursday in the wee hours. Then, like I said, it switched to Saturday or Sunday afternoon around early 94. I don't think I ever saw any pro but I started watching around late 91 because Rude had just debuted. Remember it very well, the Dangerous Alliance just seemed like the coolest guys on earth to me at that age, especially remember when they all came in their tuxedos. My folks never had a satellite dish so no old WCCW for me. One of the things I'm looking forward to with these Yearbook sets is seeing how much WCW TV changes over the Herd era into 91 and then into Frey, Watts, and early Bischoff. I'm also really looking forward to seeing a lot of the big-time Japanese stuff I've never seen. My exposure to date is literally just the 80s All Japan DVDR set.
August 12, 201213 yr comment_5512510 Being in North Wales by Wrexham we got Midlands TV (Central), which was wrestling gold in 1990 onwards, you'd have got HTV I imagine, and they used the Granada night time feed which would probably explain it.
August 12, 201213 yr comment_5512559 Fuck the WCW talk... I want to hear you Euro dudes talk about watching World of Sport or discovering some Reslo or French wrestling on some random channel.
August 12, 201213 yr comment_5512562 Fuck the WCW talk... I want to hear you Euro dudes talk about watching World of Sport or discovering some Reslo or French wrestling on some random channel. I can't remember what's year it was, but if you do a Euro set, the Kendo Nagasaki unmasking is a complete must, one of my favourite bits of British wrestling. We have been spoilt here in the UK with having WOS returned for so long, imagine of in the if Crocketts TV was re-aired in the Mid Atlantic area for 3 hours a day. It's great getting home from work and finding another Royals brothers tag match on TV.
August 12, 201213 yr comment_5512563 Fuck the WCW talk... I want to hear you Euro dudes talk about watching World of Sport or discovering some Reslo or French wrestling on some random channel. I can't remember what's year it was, but if you do a Euro set, the Kendo Nagasaki unmasking is a complete must, one of my favourite bits of British wrestling. We have been spoilt here in the UK with having WOS returned for so long, imagine of in the if Crocketts TV was re-aired in the Mid Atlantic area for 3 hours a day. It's great getting home from work and finding another Royals brothers tag match on TV. For those that haven't seen it, here you go....
August 13, 201213 yr comment_5512586 Fuck the WCW talk... I want to hear you Euro dudes talk about watching World of Sport or discovering some Reslo or French wrestling on some random channel. Being Welsh I got more than my fill of Reslo (watching Kung Fu spend ten minutes massaging Mick [Or "Mic" in Welsh] McManus' balls with his feet for 10 minutes under the auspices of "comedy"), but in 1990 or so some promotion from France or somewhere started up on Satellite with Tony St. Clair, Danny Boy Collins and the like emanating from France. The champion was Flesh Gorden, and even as a 6 year old I knew he was booking the fucker.
August 13, 201213 yr comment_5512593 Fuck the WCW talk... I want to hear you Euro dudes talk about watching World of Sport or discovering some Reslo or French wrestling on some random channel. Being Welsh I got more than my fill of Reslo (watching Kung Fu spend ten minutes massaging Mick [Or "Mic" in Welsh] McManus' balls with his feet for 10 minutes under the auspices of "comedy"), but in 1990 or so some promotion from France or somewhere started up on Satellite with Tony St. Clair, Danny Boy Collins and the like emanating from France. The champion was Flesh Gorden, and even as a 6 year old I knew he was booking the fucker. Did you mean fucking the booker?
August 19, 201213 yr comment_5513057 Couldn't help myself and had to look up the phil collins/Ultimate warrior collection. That was awesome and I got to show some restraint from trying to find other stuff until this is released.
August 20, 201213 yr comment_5513062 Couldn't help myself and had to look up the phil collins/Ultimate warrior collection. That was awesome and I got to show some restraint from trying to find other stuff until this is released. Don't tempt me! I had to go look this up after your post. Pretty damn funny.
August 21, 201213 yr comment_5513185 WILD THING! Hey homeboy! Gather around! Some serious stuff Is gonna go down Wrestle War '90 The kings of the ring All come together And do the wild thing Lex Luger, the Steiners, Nature Boy, Sting They all be doing that Wild thing (WHOO!) Yeah, they'll all be there With something to prove Brimming with intentions To bust a move! It's pay-per-view excitement From T.H.E. For more information Call your cable company (WHILE-WHILE-WHILE-WHILE-WILD THING!) Hey homeboy! Gather around Wrestle War '90 Is about to go down Ric Flair The Champ! Testiment to biology Meets Sting The Dream Of entymology Lex Luger The belt! His holy grail quest Is scheduled for an operation On Dr. Death Road Warriors Survivors! From a place time forgot Plan to reduce Skyscrapers To parking lots The Steiners They're brothers! They wrestle as one But they do not scare The brothers Anderson Wrestle War '90 A "Wild Thing" you see Available through Your cable company Pay-per-view Excitement From T.H.E. Going down the 25th Of February WILD THING WILD THING WILD THING WUH-WUH-WUH-WUH-WILD THING
August 21, 201213 yr comment_5513186 You know what would have been cool extras for the 1992 set? Scans of the Marvel WCW comic. This is the only equivalent I can think of for 90, but they were actually a big deal. May have been part of what got me into wrestling.
August 21, 201213 yr Author comment_5513189 I hope to eventually do a PDF that's a definitive guide to 1990s pro wrestling (or something else ridiculously grandiose) and will keep that in mind. It would ostensibly also be a guide to watching all of the yearbooks. Anyway, I think that is likely a better platform for multi-media ideas than a DVD, but either way, it will make a nice companion.
August 21, 201213 yr Author comment_5513191 So before you make your next move ... ... ... ... THINK IT OVER, CREEP.
August 21, 201213 yr comment_5513194 So, obviously whoever wrote that rap wasn't aware of what "doing the wild thing" meant... ....or were they?
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