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[PBR...]

chief jay strongbow ruled all!!!  check him out in the early '70s the man with his tomahawk chop crushed all comers!!!                                                 http://www.wrestlingmuseum.com/pages/bios/jaystrongbow.html

[dewcrew88]

Anyone old enough to remember Killer Kowolski and the "claw hold"?

No, but budcrew08 knows that Kowalski trained Triple H and many of today's WWE talent. I am old enough that I was a "Hulkamanic" who always knew to take his vitamins and drink his milk, brother!

[Reno Hightower]

Don't forget to say your prayers either Budcrew.....

['gro]

remember "pro wrestling" for original nintendo? Star Man off the top rope!

[labart96]

The NWA (not the Eazy E version, but the predecessor of the WCW) on TBS was classic.  It always cracked me up when they did those matches in studio with about 20 people in the bleachers right outside the ring.

The best match ups were the ones were the match would spill outside the ring and into the cheesy announcer booth set up just beyond the ring.

Hysterical!

Who else remembers Saturday Night Main Event?

TGP once attended the taping of said SNME in the Hartford Civic Center.  The featured match was Hogan vs. the now late, great Paul Orndorff (Mr. Wonderful) in a steel cage. 

One of the interviews that didn't get broadcast was when some fan threw his entire beer all over the HonkeyTonk Man.

Great stuff.

[labart96]

Another informal poll -

Does your workplace encourage/allow for employees to dress up for Halloween?

If so, are you planning on wearing a costume to work tomorrow?

If so, as what?

After all this wrestling talk, TGP may have to show up to the office as Nachoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Libre tomorrow.

[union89]

The NWA (not the Eazy E version, but the predecessor of the WCW) on TBS was classic.  It always cracked me up when they did those matches in studio with about 20 people in the bleachers right outside the ring.

The best match ups were the ones were the match would spill outside the ring and into the cheesy announcer booth set up just beyond the ring.

Hysterical!

Who else remembers Saturday Night Main Event?

TGP once attended the taping of said SNME in the Hartford Civic Center.  The featured match was Hogan vs. the now late, great Paul Orndorff (Mr. Wonderful) in a steel cage. 

One of the interviews that didn't get broadcast was when some fan threw his entire beer all over the HonkeyTonk Man.

Great stuff.

Paul Orndorff is dead??  His character was such an a-hole....U89 loved him...any idea how he passed??

Speaking of passing on.....Farewell to the legendary Arnold "Red" Auerbach....he was a Boston classic.

Then on the other side of the ledger....later to Trevor Berbick.

[Frank Rossi]

The NWA (not the Eazy E version, but the predecessor of the WCW) on TBS was classic.  It always cracked me up when they did those matches in studio with about 20 people in the bleachers right outside the ring.

The best match ups were the ones were the match would spill outside the ring and into the cheesy announcer booth set up just beyond the ring.

Hysterical!

Who else remembers Saturday Night Main Event?

TGP once attended the taping of said SNME in the Hartford Civic Center.  The featured match was Hogan vs. the now late, great Paul Orndorff (Mr. Wonderful) in a steel cage. 

One of the interviews that didn't get broadcast was when some fan threw his entire beer all over the HonkeyTonk Man.

Great stuff.

Saturday Night Main Event is supposed to be back I believe this season on NBC.

[dea]

When I was a kid in the mid 50s growing up in NYC I used to watch wrestling on the tube from Capitol Arena in Washington,DC. That's where I saw Killer Kowolski and another giant of the past (no pun intended) Haystack Calhoun. I believe he was purported to weigh in at 700 lbs.

[dea]

Oy vay, I almost forgot Abe Jacobs "The Jewish Champ".

[labart96]

was that also the era of gorgeous george?  or did he pre-date those guys?

[Tlm]

When I was a kid in the mid 50s growing up in NYC I used to watch wrestling on the tube from Capitol Arena in Washington,DC. That's where I saw Killer Kowolski and another giant of the past (no pun intended) Haystack Calhoun. I believe he was purported to weigh in at 700 lbs.

Back in the 50's and 60's wrestling was more of a regional show with local stars.  I remember sitting in the living room every Friday night with my Italian grandparents watching the World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF) to see their beloved Bruno Leopoldo Francesco Sammartino (Bruno Sammartino), a.k.a. "The Italian Strongman", "The Living Legend" & "The Original Italian Stallion".

Bruno was a contemporary of Killer Kowalski.  He was famous throughout the Northeast, but particularly in NYC.  It may have all been fake, but you couldn't tell my grandmother.  If Bruno was getting the short end of a mauling by someone like Killer Kowalski, she was practically in tears.

[Tonyfromtroy]

Can't let any discussion of "old time wrestling" pass without a plug the first man of color to play the heel way back when, Sweet Dady Siki (now a singer in a band). We also should never forget the Nazi from Quebec, Hans Schmidt (real name Guy LaRose). At interview time the "manager" (believe it was Wild Red Berry) did all the talking so that Guy's heavy French accent would not give the whole act away. Then there was the man from Moosehead, Maine (no such town in Maine) Moose Cholak (real name Ed-now deceased), who was actually an engineer for the City of Milwaukee in his post wrestling life. Also among my all time favorites were the tag team of Magnificent Maurice and Handsome Johnny Barend, a younger, trimmer Lou Albano as one half of the tag team of The Sicilians and, of course, the greatest heel of all time, the original "Nature Boy" Buddy Rogers (real name Herman Rhode) who passed away some years ago.
   From the broadcast position the all time best were the team of Gorilla Monsoon (actually an Ithaca College football and wrestling Hall of Famer under the name of Gino Morella) and Jesse "The Body" Ventura and we all know what he did later.

[Regulator]

Man you guys are old.....

Did they even have TV back in the 50's??  Was NYC even discovered before 1950....how did they have wrestling there??

Reg was such a hulkamaniac that PapaReg had Reg convinced that he knew the hulkster and he was sending me one of his championshop belts...that unfortunately never showed up.  Rumor has it that USPS actually delivered it to the wrong house.

[Regulator]

PS- It just so happens that PapaReg was actually the same guy who started the whole Mobile, Alabama Leprachuan sighting

"Give me the gold....I WANT THE GOLD!!!!"