Post by Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai on Nov 22, 2008 20:13:34 GMT -5
Out of boredom today, I was reading old issues of Dave Meltzer's Wrestling Observer newsletter from 1987. The fun part of the old issues is that from time to time, in his classifieds/reader mailbag, you'll see the name of a random Observer subscriber pop up that wasn't famous at the time, but became famous later.
For instance, I've seen a classified listing by "Rob Szatkowski" (Van Dam) who had just started wrestling, looking for someone to trade him VHS tapes of his rookie matches.
Today, in the September 28, 1987 issue, I noticed Meltzer published a letter he got from a Scott Hudson of Athens, Georgia, who was happy to see that Gordon Solie had been pushed out of Florida Championship Wrestling broadcasts due to the company trying to cut his salary in half.
Hudson wrote:
Funny to think that a future WCW commentator would have such distaste for Solie.
For instance, I've seen a classified listing by "Rob Szatkowski" (Van Dam) who had just started wrestling, looking for someone to trade him VHS tapes of his rookie matches.
Today, in the September 28, 1987 issue, I noticed Meltzer published a letter he got from a Scott Hudson of Athens, Georgia, who was happy to see that Gordon Solie had been pushed out of Florida Championship Wrestling broadcasts due to the company trying to cut his salary in half.
Hudson wrote:
"I won't shed one, not one, tear for Gordon Solie leaving Florida wrestling. I suppose technically he is a good announcer, but I can only take so much of his pompous, self-righteous attitude."
Funny to think that a future WCW commentator would have such distaste for Solie.
