Posted April 19, 201510 yr comment_5665268 http://placetobenation.com/titans-of-wrestling-46-wwf-june-to-september-1981/ Parv, Pete, Johnny and Kelly celebrate their return to WWF in 1981 by looking at a bunch of stuff from June to September before providing one whole HOUR of bonus content on the difficult-to-find Sgt. Slaughter vs. Pat Patterson matches from the Philly Spectrum. On the docket tonight: 06-20 SGT SLAUGHTER vs RICK MCGRAW WWF TV 07-11 DON MURACO vs STEVE KING WWF TV 07-20 DON MURACO vs PEDRO MORALES IC TITLE MADISON SQUARE GARDEN 07-25 MOONDOGS vs GAREA/MARTEL TAG TITLE WWF TV 08-01 ANDRE THE GIANT vs MOONDOG REX PHILADELPHIA SPECTRUM 08-01 BOB BACKLUND vs MOONDOG REX WWF TV 08-81 DON MURACO PROMO WWF TV 08-15 GREG VALENTINE vs MUHAMMED SAAD WWF TV 08-15 MURACO SQUASH, RICK MCGRAW INTERVIEW WWF TV 08-22 FUJI/SAITO vs HENNIG/SD JONES WWF TV 09-19 ANGELO MOSCA SQUASH, HITS PAT WITH PITCHER WWF TV Bonus: 04-18 SGT SLAUGHTER vs PAT PATTERSON PHILADELPHIA SPECTRUM 06-27 SGT SLAUGHTER vs MIL MASCARAS WWF TV CAPITAL CENTER 08-01 SGT SLAUGHTER vs PAT PATTERSON (alley fight) PHILADELPHIA SPECTRUM Highlights include: - "... and my name is, Joooooeee McHugh!" - Kayfabe most successful manager - Mini-bios for super-obscure jobbers Mohammad Saad and Tom Lynch - Random discussion of Lord Alfred Hayes and Vince Jr's odd love for him - Discussion of Masa Saito's career - And in the BONUS hour ... round up on the Slaughter vs. Patterson series, including comparisons of the Philly and MSG matches
April 19, 201510 yr comment_5665300 Count along with me on the amount of times Parv creates his own background for his amusement. I've counted 5 in the 1st 30 minutes.
April 19, 201510 yr comment_5665317 In regards to your discussion of cage matches and escape rules, I understand keeping it out of a blood feud for sure. The one time I see that being a viable stip is when you have the most chickenshit of heels who keeps eluding the babyface until the point they have to lock the guy in a cage to get any kind of match out of him. I would also like to point out how it is that Marty (a known Titans associate) and Kelly are the only champions of Brainbuster so far. Anyone else think that there is some sort of Titans conspiracy going on here?
April 19, 201510 yr comment_5665320 No conspiracies. Just talent. In fact, I'm issuing an open challenge for anyone around here to meet me on Brainbuster. I'll take on all comers.
April 19, 201510 yr comment_5665327 When Kelly said Mohammad Saad only wrestled 3 matches I decided to see if cagematch.net knew he existed and if there was any information on anything else he did and according to them he teamed with Dean Ambrose in some random indie in Ohio in 2007. http://www.cagematch.net/?id=2&nr=5763&page=4
April 19, 201510 yr comment_5665328 Mohammad Saad was a Detroit guy who worked all the shows in that area for a lot of the 80's and longer
April 20, 201510 yr comment_5665356 Listening now and my all time fav Andre the Giant "ladies man" story is when Sheik Adnan Al-Kaissey describes seeing Andre screwing a young lady and said it was "like a lion raping a rabbit". Would have loved to hear Lord Al say this (after saying he loves children).
April 20, 201510 yr Author comment_5665363 Mohammad Saad was a Detroit guy who worked all the shows in that area for a lot of the 80's and longer Any idea what he was doing working those three dates for Vince Sr? His facial expression is hilarious when the crowd barely murmur a cheer for him. He's like "oh okay, alright then, whatever".
April 20, 201510 yr comment_5665396 To add on how Super 8 got the same seat each week: we went to the Louisville Gardens weekly, so we'd pay this money a buck to get us our same seat. She'd make an extra $25 a week from a group in our area.
April 20, 201510 yr Author comment_5665416 I was really tickled by Saad's reaction to the crowd, so I thought I'd share that match:
April 21, 201510 yr comment_5665463 Johnny Sorow is obsessed with Saad's hair. Johnny must have one of those '70s comb-overs. Wearing that Yamicka all those years probably didn't help. Anyway Saad was totally inline with the style of the time. The man perm was in the mustache was in & Johnny is jealous. Parv you really got to play Poker. You got so much info from Saad's split-second reaction. Great show besides Johnny's racist rant assuming every person with an Arabic name must be connected to Binladen.
April 21, 201510 yr comment_5665495 I counted 12 moments where Parv created his own backstory or theory without any true data. I gave him the benefit of the doubt with Saad.
April 21, 201510 yr comment_5665496 I also had to put my head down in shame in being the only person on the panel getting Johnny's Willie Aames reference.
April 21, 201510 yr comment_5665523 In your defense Pete, we all got it when he said Charles in Charge.
April 21, 201510 yr comment_5665543 Zinkoff, who died in 1985, is one of a handful of either broadcasters or arena PA announcers to be honored by a franchise with a "retired number.". This is by a Philadelphia 76er banner at Wells Fargo arena with his name and a microphone. Quick research, this was done as he was their PA guy from their inception (former Syracuse Nats) in 1963 through his death, as well as same roll for the Warriors (now the Golden State Warriors) from 1946-1962.
April 21, 201510 yr comment_5665551 I think I may have been worse when I answered the Plan Nine From Outer Space question right while listening to Brainbuster. I only know of it because of a MST3K spinoff, but it's still kind of embarrassing that it was one of the very few answers I knew that show.
April 21, 201510 yr comment_5665568 Thanks Parv for the shoutout, brutha. I will definitely have to check out Martel/Garea especially against the Moondogs.
May 1, 201510 yr comment_5666939 A "STREET CLOTHES" Match, holy shit that was the funniest fucking thing ever. Parv anytime you need to tap out just send up the Sleeze Signal, I am here for you brutha. Put me in coach, I am ready to play, my man!
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