Mastermind
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Post by Mastermind on Jan 14, 2008 20:34:57 GMT -5
yeah it does suck..good wrestlers facing jobbers..i was really wanting to see it too and after the first night...blah..ill still watch it anyways..what was up with that bogus chief jay strongbow on there? lol..did anyone see that.
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Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai
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Post by Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai on Jan 15, 2008 8:30:38 GMT -5
yeah it does suck..good wrestlers facing jobbers..i was really wanting to see it too and after the first night...blah..ill still watch it anyways..what was up with that bogus chief jay strongbow on there? lol..did anyone see that. Yeah, that was totally a fake Chief Jay Strongbow. It's one thing for an indy wrestler to use the gimmick of a guy with a mask or facepaint like the hundreds of Doink the Clowns out there. It takes a lot of nerve to steal the gimmick of a longtime main-eventer who never wore a mask. Most people who would buy a ticket to see Chief Jay Strongbow would probably be able to notice an imposter playing the role, so it's pointless to do that. I think they used a fake Col. DeBeers also. Either that or I am just getting too old to remember DeBeer's face. Either is possible.
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Post by lugerfan1 on Jan 16, 2008 23:23:52 GMT -5
The announcing on this show is the worst. Bruno was a great worker but a pitiful announcer, but he's better than the owner.
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Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai
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Post by Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai on Jan 21, 2008 19:16:48 GMT -5
Just watched one of the episodes from Thursday/early Friday (1/18) on TiVo, and that was definitely a young Johnny Grunge (soon to be one half of The Public Enemy with Ted "Rocco Rock" Petty) wrestling Steve "Dr. Death" Williams in the first match.
When the introduced him as Mike Durham, I was like "why does that ring a bell?" I forgot, the PE gimmick was actually born in the Herb Abrams UWF, although I personally never saw them until ECW.
Interesting to see these guys before they were famous.
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Billy the Kid
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Post by Billy the Kid on Jan 30, 2008 1:10:09 GMT -5
That might have possibly been Chief Jay's son because it does indeed look a lot like Chief did when he was young. I don't recall him ever being called "Chief Jay Strongbow" on those episodes, just Jay Strongbow. So who knows...
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Post by Heresy on Jan 31, 2008 11:46:27 GMT -5
Just caught UWF for the first time last night while channel surfing... was gonna start a thread about it until I saw this one. It's interesting to watch from a historical perspective, but the wrestling matches are short and just bad in general. According to wikipedia they had one faliure of a PPV event which scored a .10 rating... no surprise there, the average match was five minutes.
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Post by htmlegend on Jan 31, 2008 14:40:23 GMT -5
^ would that failure of a ppv be UWF Beach Brawl?
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Post by Heresy on Jan 31, 2008 17:18:47 GMT -5
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Post by Chicago on Jan 31, 2008 22:50:37 GMT -5
Gah, I've been watching it for weeks now ever since I first caught the show on after the new year. I told myself I wouldn't waste my time with such horrible talent/matches/shows/you name it, yet I'm still watching. I enjoy watching B. Brian, Bob Orton, Orndorff, Dr. Death and Spicolli, among a few others, but 99.9% of the shows are just straight-up garbage. Aside from my ears nearly bleeding at the horrendous commentating team of Abrams and Sammartino, nothing is worse than Captain Lou Albano's promos. Now, he's a great manager in my eyes and if his promos are cut short, but give him the spotlight while trying to carry some bland wrestler is what I like to call a "trainwreck." As soon as I see Albano's face appear, I know I'm in for quite possibly the most incoherent ramble fest of a lifetime. But, I love the old early 90's feel of the show and it's talent, plus there is occasionally a decent match on the show when effort is actually given.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2008 9:47:34 GMT -5
Haha who wrestles in Manatee Civic Center.
Question I noticed on the only live televised event they had a match
The Killer Bees (Brian Blair and Jim Brunzell) defeated The New Powers Of Pain (Warlord and Power Warrior) to win the first UWF World Tag Team Championship (11:49) Blair pinned Warrior.
Anyone know who was the Warlords partner the Power Warrior
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Post by kingofgoreobo on Feb 1, 2008 16:35:10 GMT -5
according to that, Power Warrior.. who around the same time was in the Roadwarriors in Japan with Hawk when Animal was out or something. Played by Kensuke Sasuke, I'm pretty sure, if it is in fact, the same Power Warrior.
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Post by timi on Feb 1, 2008 19:13:04 GMT -5
THE Dr. Death are straight up bad ass
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Greensborohill
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Post by Greensborohill on Feb 2, 2008 7:58:25 GMT -5
what tie does it come on?
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Post by fallenhero on Feb 2, 2008 9:37:06 GMT -5
according to that, Power Warrior.. who around the same time was in the Roadwarriors in Japan with Hawk when Animal was out or something. Played by Kensuke Sasuke, I'm pretty sure, if it is in fact, the same Power Warrior. No, it wasn't. And Hawk/Sasaki's team name was 'The Hellraisers'. -The Killer Bees beat Warlord & Power Warrior (Larry Power) (11:30) to win the first UWF Tag Title when Blair pinned Power
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Post by Chicago on Feb 2, 2008 13:59:22 GMT -5
what tie does it come on? 1 and 1:30 a.m. (East coast) on ESPN Classic channel during the week.
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Post by Happy Pizza on Feb 2, 2008 14:02:06 GMT -5
Wow, this is like a WrestleCrap reunion. It was nice to see Cactus Jack though.
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Post by Heresy on Feb 3, 2008 23:16:08 GMT -5
I didn't think I'd ever see Captain Lou Albano interviewing Cactus Jack...
I noticed their outdoor shows are extremely bush league... moreso than the indoor ones.
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