Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka

[Guest Your Olympic Hero]

I am only 17 years old, and although I have been watching wrestling ever since I could watch television, I still didn't see Snuka in his prime. Did he have some great matches? Did he have anything besides headbutts and the Superfly Splash?

[Guest Daredevil21]

He didn't really have great matches; he was just a lot more wild and extreme for the time, thus he was one of the wrestlers that stood out. He was never a great technical wrestler, but he could have some solid matches, and the heat for many of them was quite intense.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

Try to think of him as the RVD of the 80s. He wasn't a good wrestler, but he got people talking and popped the crowd.

[Guest dreamer420]

lol. rvd of the 80's!

 

anyway i never thought snuka was much of a worker. i have seen a few of his matches and with the odd exception it is just standard boring offence. his cage matches with muraco were great though so if you want to see his best match try and find wwf inside the steel cage. it is a pretty old tape and pretty rare but it's got some decent action.

[Guest MillenniumMan831]

It's also on The Most Unusual Matches tape (1985) which is probably just as rare. It would have been a great extra on The Mick Foley: Hard Knocks / Cheap Pops DVD; but it is grand anyways.

[Guest HartFan86]

It's also on The Most Unusual Matches tape (1985) which is probably just as rare. It would have been a great extra on The Mick Foley: Hard Knocks / Cheap Pops DVD; but it is grand anyways.

What a fucking GOOD idea that is. That would have been awesome if that had that match on a DVD, considering it's what motivated Foley becoming a wrestler.

[Guest Dmann2000]

True, though I guess we can consider Mankind vs Michaels a nice runner up.

[Guest Slingshot Suplex]

I never really got into Snuka.Sure the Superfly Leap was cool but other than that I thought he was kinda bland and basic.It sounded like he did some intersting things in his days in Georgia and the Mid-Atlantic and even his heel WWF days but I haven't seen them

[Guest dreamer420]

the wwf has exploited that foley was at that event enough. i'm sure i've seen it on wwf tv probably 3 or 4 times since foley had been with them.

 

plus there is also footage of it on mick foley: madman unmasked

[Guest TheHulkster]

Snuka was a great worker in his prime. He had some classic matches in Japan teaming with Bruiser Brody (check out their match against the Funks in the finals of the 1981 Real World Tag League for All Japan, great freaking match). He would always break out the innovative offense when he was wrestling in the far east like his patented springboard splash and his freaking awesome looking reverse leap frogs. His work in mid atlantic was pretty good too. He seemed to be one of those guys who worked better as a heel even though he was insanely over as a face. He didn't have a whole lot of GREAT matches during his run as one of the top faces in the WWF, but who did? He always busted his ass in the ring and tried to send to fans home happy. Some matches to check out from his WWF run are his strap match against Piper and his tag matches from his brief run as a tag team with Steamboat (the South Pacific Connection ruled!).

[Guest dreamer420]

i have only seen his matches from the wwf and most of them were boring as hell. any idea what tapes these good matches can be found on?