Loss, check the latest post on WVK under the bravesfan topic. Did WVK say he was selling you masters? If so, you may have been had on those as well since VW claims that he will say the word master while giving you a 1st or even 2nd/3rd gen copy.

Loss, check the latest post on WVK under the bravesfan topic. Did WVK say he was selling you masters? If so, you may have been had on those as well since VW claims that he will say the word master while giving you a 1st or even 2nd/3rd gen copy.

He's selling me masters. He's sold about five different lots of tapes. He PMd me confirmation numbers for several packages yesterday. We'll see what happens.

Add all the discs from the Barnett bulk buy. Sorted! We shall have the greatest collection of Mid South of all time!!

UPDATE:

 

The house shows have still not arrived. The minute they are on my doorstep, I will let you guys know. If they are not here early this week, I will call Watts and find out what the deal is.

UPDATE: On my porch today was a big box of tapes. I am going to try and have all of them converted by the end of the weekend. After I convert, copies will still need to be made so give me 2-3 weeks for everything to arrive at your doorstep.

 

What pisses me off is that they charged me $40 for ground shipping and sent media.

I was kinda looking forward to Goodhelmet vs Watts.

 

But then Will probably would have been jumped by some big bald guy and end up with a Soviet flag draped over his lifeless body.

Like that would be a bad thing?

 

Anyway, I am still waiting on EJ's money order and sek when he gets a job. Hopefully, by the time this is all said and done, that will be taken care of.

Do we now have all the footage Barnett used for his comps?

Not yet. Most noticably, we are missing the Duggan-Dibiase cage match. DG has the Monsters of the Mat master that contains the first Dibiase-Duggan street fight. As for Power Pros and misc. TV matches, we should have most of them.

 

We are still missing about 20-25 volumes of the Mid South TV. Dan and I have been looking for traders to pick those up.

After we exhaust the website, are there other sources as well?

No, but we won't be turning away from the website anytime soon. I talked to Ms. Watts a few weeks ago. She told me that what is on the site is only about 1/4 of the footage she plans on releasing. If you look at the house shows, about 20-30 are missing. Those will be on the site soon. She said she had footage extending abck to the 60s (McGuirk era) all the way to 1989. Why 89 I have no idea. So, the quest is not anywhere near being over.

1989? Weird.

 

That's exciting, exciting news. We can eventually have Mid South chronicled and researched with pimping posts and available footage just like 90s AJPW. That's my hope anyway.

And the house shows are the exciting stuff- probably a bad thing to call them, as their TV (especially the early 80s stuff I've been watching) is just pimping blow-off matches at the arenas.

 

Is the set of Power Pro I got from Barnett any use to anybody?

I would want it.

 

Mortimer, I will be in touch with you in a couple of days. The burner appears to be working, but I don't want to set up a large trade with you until I know it isn't going to crash again.

And the house shows are the exciting stuff- probably a bad thing to call them, as their TV (especially the early 80s stuff I've been watching) is just pimping blow-off matches at the arenas.

The TV was def. there to hype up the arena shows but the angles and interviews were classic. And to me, it was shocking to watch Dibiase and JYD go a whopping 3 minutes before Ted nails JYD with the foreign object and get the North American title. Then there are the Bob Roop matches that I have a new appreciation for after watching his shoot interview. Plus, as you get into 1983 and 84, the TV matches go a little longer and get a little better. Then, I think 1984 (maybe 83) was the debut of Power Pro wrestling where they show the arena matches (sometimes clipped) and it was the best wrestling on TV at the time... unless you lived in NEw York and got the MSG shows. Even then, the Watts matches were tearing shit up.

I eventually want to compare peak Mid South to peak World Class to peak Florida to peak Georgia to peak Mid Atlantic, etc and see which was best.

Do you want to compare the television product, individual matches, the angles or what else?

 

I think alot of it comes down to several factors.... personal memories, favorite wrestlers, entertainment vs. wrestling. I do know this... it is much easier for me to sit through an hour of Mid South TV than it is to sit through an hour of World Championship Wrestling.

Eventually, we're going to have the biggest collective product outside of the Watts family. I seriously think we should set up a massive forum with lists of TV and arena shows and loads of discussion about it- it'd take valuable traffic away from my forum, but I could have a linking thread there and suchlike.

Do you want to compare the television product, individual matches, the angles or what else?

 

I think alot of it comes down to several factors.... personal memories, favorite wrestlers, entertainment vs. wrestling. I do know this... it is much easier for me to sit through an hour of Mid South TV than it is to sit through an hour of World Championship Wrestling.

All of it taken together as one product. I think Mid South will end up #1 as well, but I'd still like to compare it to the NWA peak or Memphis.

Well, lets see...

 

Memphis had great entertaining television thanks to the interviews of Lawler, Dundee, Jimmy Hart, etc. They def. had the best announcer in Lance Russell. The real weakness was a lack of quakity matches in the studio. For the most part, you had to be lucky to see clips of the arena matches.

 

Mid South def. had marquee names matched up against each other. The angles were some of the best I had ever seen or believed. Jim Ross was def. a good announcer but Joel Watts was horrible. The Power Pro shows may put Mid South over the top.

 

NWA had the most star power by far. It would probably be the one show out of the list would bring the most memories back for everyone involved. Of course it had classics angles. However, it was so far between marquee matches that whenever a decent matchup appeared, sometimes you thought the match was better than it really was because it was so rare to see top guys going against each other on TV.

 

WCCW would usually pit star names against each other. It had some of the best angles of the early 80s as well. The big drawback here is that the same names appear over and over again. There wasn't alot of variety. Horrible horrible announcers. Out of all of them, this TV probably featured the most memorable and best matches though.

 

I have only seen a little bit of Georgia.