Back In My Day, We Didn't Have "Bangers", We Just Had Damn Good Wrestling

[Atsym Sknyfs]

Didn't Savage use a ring bell during his elbow drop to Steamboat's throat during their feud? I think that lead to the WM3 match if I am not mistaken.

I think you're right.

i remember as kid being scared. Then when they showed Steamboat in speech therapy trying to talk again and get got frustrated..

 

[Rell84shots]

i remember as kid being scared. Then when they showed Steamboat in speech therapy trying to talk again and get got frustrated..

Storytelling is what makes wrestling great.

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

Storytelling is what makes wrestling great.

they still try it today but its different. Everything now is mostly told in the ring via "interviews." . The backstage antics you can see sometimes, it looks like the director says "action" as soon as they cut to it. Nothing seems spontaneous anymore.

 

[Rollie Forbes]

I was a HUGE fan of Doom! I honestly believed that Ron Simmons, Butch Reed, & Bad News Brown were the coldest brothas ever to step foot in a rasslin' ring!

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Random Saturday morning wrestling.

 

[Handsome B. Wonderful]

....

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

when did "banger" become a part of wrestling slang I feel like I didn't start hearing that till recent years on twitter and now wrestlers themselves are saying it on tv

Just like everything else, it came from Hip-Hop.

When a rapper would make a record for the club, they'd call it a "club banger", which got shorted to "banger", then any song that slapped got called a "banger", then anything that's good in life becomes a "banger".

You know how it goes, then White people get ahold to it

 

[Rollie Forbes]

 

[Raw Sauce]

Common sense actions and reactions
Less sometimes really is more


There's a ton of things that are better now but damn we've lost too many recipes

 

[Rollie Forbes]

 

[Rollie Forbes]

Saturday morning rasslin>>>>>>>>>>>

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

How old are most of the posters here

 

[Rollie Forbes]

 

[Cattle Mutilation]

How old are most of the posters here

Message boards don’t exactly attract young people these days.

 

[Rollie Forbes]

I only remember seeing this match when it originally aired, but it was really good. Hennig & Valentine kept it simple, they were just two guys trying to physically dominate their opponent and win the IC title. Neither man was just doing moves for crowd approval; both guys were actively trying to win, and the match was a lot more believable because of that.
Even though there was a little bit of Jimmy Hart silliness, this was a prize fight and both men sold it like they had been in a scrap. Good stuff from 4 legends!