JHawk

WrestleMania IX: Savage: "Is Luna from Oklahoma?" JR: "Absolutely not." Heenan: "Of course not. She's pretty." WrestleMania III, just before Koko B. Ware vs. Butch Reed: Ventura: "Of course, you know the B stands for Buckwheat." Monsoon: "It does not." Ventura: "Oh yes it does. I understand he has a brother, too, named Stimey." Monsoon: "Will you stop?" Ventura: "Wears a derby."

Lord Alfred Hayes on The Conquistadors: "Well, the Conquistador in the ring is about 6'1", and his partner's about 6'4", so his partner's a little a little taller."

The Harris Brothers. They never made it to TV under the gimmick.

Who says wrestlin is just technical wrestlin? Wrestlin has all those styles under one name. Karate isnt wrestling. karate is martial arts. ive seen plenty of times where martial arts and wrestlin DONT mix. The attempt at mixed martial arts works good when they fight each other but MMA vs. pro usually ends up with conflicting styles. You do realize that Ricky Steamboat and Bad News Brown had a fair share of success incorporating martial arts into his moveset, right? Of course, Ernest Miller had exactly one singles match at a SmackDown taping, and it was edited out of the show because it sucked ass. But martial arts workers can get over in WWE.

Jesse trying to explain Dino Bravo's botched bench press at the 1988 Royal Rumble was classic! "I put two pounds of added pressure on the bar with my pinkies, but I did not grab the bar!"

Also not old school, but during the lingerie match at No Mercy 2001, Heyman said something about Torrie and Stacy wrestling with him or something along those lines. JR: "In your dreams." Heyman: "You know, that's a very accurate statement, JR."

If the title reign isn't official, does it still count (ie Marty Jannetty)?

And if anything you'd actually posted was readily available for those of us who want to see it, I might give a shit about WWE's legal department caving in on it. Hey, if WWE 24/7 lives up to its potential, then no problem, but as of right now you're not losing money off something that isn't for sale.

Those may have aired, actually, as Duggan was basically a TV jobber when he worked the Northeast at that time.

I'd say it is 80% BoSox fans. And you can blame the Indians for building those damn casinos, GoD I hate them. The Cleveland Indians built casinos?

And a month later Taylor has assumed the Wallstreet role and is doing the exact same gimmick, which made no sense to this 12 year old mark. I remember one time where Wallstreet won with four seconds left but only had 1:49 to work with, but other than that I don't remember him ever coming close to not making it before jumping to the WWF.

I'm not sure I'd call Lewin a no-name wrestler, as he drew a ton of money in his day (particularly in Buffalo and Detroit), but if I'd ever heard the song i probably would have marked out for it.

Aaah, the ever-so-subtle Gorilla. Wasn't this when the "graduate" just got kicked in the BUTT? I seem to remember similar references to Pat Patterson before he became a stooge too. This was around 1988 or so, so the wrestler in question was likely Steve Lombardi. I can't remember for the life of me if anything in particular happened in the match to bring out the line, or if it was just because it was a Steve Lombardi match.

Mine's just the short version of my real name, and was essentially my high school nickname, so there ya go.

Because the answer is always based on "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"?

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I remember one episode of Prime Time Wrestling where the announce team was Gorilla Monsoon, Lord Alfred Hayes, and Vince McMahon. I can't remember the particular match in question, but I distinctly remember Monsoon making a mention of one of the wrestlers graduating from the "Terry Garvin School of Self-Defense", and Vince says "Terry Garvin?" like he's disgusted they're actually talking about him on the air.

Raw from JHawk's Beak (5/10/2004) Do I really have to do SmackDown in June?

Can't remember the name of the song or the full lyric, but Redman and Eminem did a song together where Redman mentions Tony Atlas.

The seeds had been planted by WrestleMania I (with them coming to the ring to "Born in the USA"), but the official name came sometime between WrestleMania and Windham/Rotundo regaining the titles in June. I don't know if anybody here can narrow it down further than that.

Does anyone know where this thread is? Actually, I noticed that thread on the Kayfabe Memories board, so I got myself confused there. So feel free to discuss the WWF ones too.

ACTUALLY, not 100% correct. The Sheepherders were supposed to meet the Fantastics for the U.S Tag Titles at the CLASH --- not Starrcade. They left and WCW (I don't even remember the reasoning they gave) stuck the team they beat in the semis (Simmons & Gilbert) in the finals to job to the Fantastics. True. But also remember the Starrcade match between the two had been announced in between both teams getting their spots in the finals and the insertion of Gilbert and Simmons in that spot. So it's probably safe to assume that this would have been a title match as well.

During an Outback Jack match: Heenan: "Old Outhouse Jack himself." Monsoon: "Outback Jack." Heenan: "What's Jack short for?" Monsoon: "What do you mean, 'What's Jack short for'?" Heenan: "Jack's short for John, right?" Monsoon: "Yes." Heenan: "I rest my case."

Was watching a tape I got off John McAdam a couple of years ago featuring some assorted 1988 NWA and noticed some interesting things about Starrcade 88. The original card and what we wound up seeing were nothing alike. Here's how the final card ended up looking: But some of the matches that had been announced at some point: The bunkhouse stampede was originally supposed to be on the actual PPV and wound up being a post-PPV dark match. The Fantastics were originally supposed to meet The Sheepherders. Had the Sheepherders won, the Fantastics would have had to denounce the United States, but had The Fantastics won, Rip Morgan would have become their flagbearer and forced to carry an American flag. Presumably this would have been for the US Tag Team Title as well, but The Sheepherders left for the WWF to become the Bushwhackers before the finals of the US Tag Team Title tournament. JYD was a substitute for Nikita Koloff, who had left the business to be with his sick wife. Any thoughts on this? Or can anybody else remember a non-WWF PPV that was turned upside down like this (as I think we discussed WWF substitutions in another thread someplace).

I was going to start a separate thread for discussion, but since it's already started in here, we might as well save the bandwidth. The winner of the final round by a final tally of 22-10 is Eddy Guerrero. Discuss.