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Its amazing watching wrestling shows in the 80s and watching crowd reactions

Especially shows in the south

It was so real to them

Im watching Clash of the Champions 6 and The Midnight Express is working face against the Samoan Swat Team and the ring rats are screaming for Bobby Eaton to fight back and when he made the hot tag that pop was :wow:

The ring rats went banana
 

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Lulz this whole time I thought I've been watching 1981 Florida, but it's actually 1984. :mjlol:I thought some of the timelines seemed off. Anywhere, here are some of those vintage commercials. fukking Carvel ads were weird as hell :picard:













 
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I always associated hackey sacks with early-mid 90s neo hippy kids and grunge a$$holes. I wasn't aware it was big enough for parks in Miami to be having hackey sack festivals in 1984.
We would be in the hallways at school in between classes playing

Hackey sacks, POGs, Giga Pets and slap bracelets :banderas:

80s babies:wow:
 

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Some things going on in 1984 Florida right now:

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has used his demonic mind control to convince some jobber that he's actually Dusty Rhodes and the guy then begins wrestling and cutting promos like Dusty :mjlol:

Sullivan is also in a bitter feud with Blackjack Mulligan, who is on a desperate quest to save the mind of a girl that grew up with Barry and Kendall Windham from Sullivan's mind control. It's also implied Sullivan beat the shyt out of her. I'm not sure if it is supposed to be Woman or not. I have seen her with him, but the girl Blackjack is trying to save seems to be a different girl. This feud also involved Blackjack getting pelted in the face with a big ass snake :scust:and Blackjack dressing up as a woman to attack Sullivan in a match, leading to Gordon's call of "Well, she's lost her bonnet" and it was probably the inspiration for Sister Abigail now that I think about it.

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There are weekly missing children spots with Billy Jack Haynes and a little girl, most of the time he's shirtless and she's on his lap, but one time they were alone in the ring in an empty arena with him shirtless while she did gymnastics and made her hug him after telling her how beautiful she was:gucci:

Billy Jerk went from feuding with Karate Fighters Superstar Billy Graham over weight lifting and full nelsons to suddenly being whipped by Dory Funk Jr., who has taken young Jesse Barr under his wing and made him quite a c*nt. Dory then goes on to duck Billy at every chance on TV.
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One Man Gang was kicked out of Humperdink's stable for no apparent reason, and then was let into the Mulligan family as long as he promised to change his ways. He then revealed his new partner he was bringing in: BUGSY MCGRAW:damn:


dikk Slater put Barry Windham out of action after Barry broke dikk's arm in an I Quit match. With Barry out, Mike Rotundo is teaming with random people every other show and is TRASH.
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Also TRASH: the team of Sullivan and Superstar. Christ are they so bad. Superstar's hips must have already been completely fukked by 1984, because he has no mobility at all, never bumps (he was a HUGE bumper in the WWWF), and seems to have lost every ounce of charisma he ever had. It's bizarre.

There's also a bootleg El Santo creatively named THE SAINT, Pez Whatley and Jim Neidhart have just debuted, there have been videos for Jimmy Valiant but thankfully he only seems to be wrestling live events, Dusty pops in every few weeks just to say hi, The Rock N Roll Express are on their way in to feud with the Guerreros, and I'm pretty sure Fonzie is the only ref the company had.

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It's fukking stupid man. He literally just yells some, usually the same, nonsense out every week. Nothing he does goes ANYWHERE. He's just some fukk head who can't work babbling with his shytbird Boston accent about vaguely devil shyt.
 

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The Goldust/Blue Meanie fued from early 99 might very well be the low point of the attitude era. Also, the Terri Runnells fake pregnancy angle is up there too. So much garbage happening around this period. It's made all the worse by Cole's bytch ass standing in for JR.
 

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Sullivan is defending his title against Pez Whatley. His promo talks about Pez's uncle (Revolver :russ:) being hanged in Selma, then says he's going to lynch Pistol because the belt belongs to the devil :picard:


Terry Funk shows up to help out Dory and Barr, repeatedly saying Billy Jerk was on steroids :mjlol: "Look at that man, he probably blow dries his hair." :deadmanny:
 

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The last couple of months of Florida 1984 get kind of hard to follow as a lot of storylines are dropped and a lot of talent leaves the area with no write off.

Starting with the main shyt: Kevin Sullivan fukkery

Blackjack Mulligan was indeed able to save the mind of the young girl under Sullivan's control, but Sullivan would hospitalize Mulligan in response and outside of a promo from his bed with Kendall and the girl at his side, Blackjack was not seen or mentioned again on TV the rest of the year. The main reason being he bailed to WWE (with a few shots in JCP first). So, with Sullivan now out of a feud, he slaps the fukk out of his slave girl on TV, which causes Superstar Billy Graham to intervene and turn face. However, Sullivan nearly blinded him with the golden spike, and this led to about 2 months of utter nonsense promos like Superstar tying himself to a river bed in the desert as penance for his actions with Sullivan, comparing himself to Jesus and quoting MLK. Meanwhile, Sullivan would bring back the Purple Haze as back up, and while they tried to literally murder Superstar on more than one occasion, the angle was dropped entirely and Sullivan was off TV the last 2 months of the year. He still wrestled on live events, but would take about 4 months off and by the time he returned, Blackjack was back in the area and they resumed their feud.

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Jesse Barr and Dory Funk Jr. continued to be c*nts to Scott McGhee, tarring and feathering him in the studio, leading to Jesse winning the Florida Heavyweight Championship. Shortly after, Dutch Mantell arrived in the area with a personal vendetta against Dory that he wouldn't reveal to Gordon Solie, but bullwhips were involved and Dutch got the better of Dory. Due to this (and Dory leaving for the RWTL in AJPW), Jesse would denounce Dory and then got a HEAVY endorsement from Ric Flair himself, who said that Barr was the closest thing to a peer Ric had in the entire industry. During this period, Jesse and Dory would feud with Billy Jack Haynes, ending with Barr putting Haynes out of action for a bit, as well as Mike Graham, who ended up getting Harley Race as a surprise partner against them. Jesse would spend the last month and a half of the year feuding with a returning Brian Blair, bringing in Killer Khan for back up.

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Krusher Khrushchev arrived in Florida, and quickly formed a championship winning partnership with Jim Neidhart (and The Saint as a third). They would spend most of the Fall/Winter feuding with Pez Whatley and various partners, including the One Man Gang, who, after having his haircut by the commie sympathizers...also immediately was gone from TV to do the RWTL. They would then turn their sights to Dutch Mantell, over Dutch's time as a veteran in Vietnam. In a bizarre twist, Michael Hayes would pop in unannounced to give Gordon Solie a briefcase from the Freebirds for Christmas. Krusher and Jim interrupted the promo, still pissed at Dutch, destroyed the briefcase, and Hayes/Dutch ended up teaming up against them.

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Those were most of the main angles, but there was an influx of talent towards then end of the year with the Youngbloods, RNR Express, PYT Express, Jerry Lawler, Jimmy Valiant, Bugsy McGraw, and The Fantastics all coming in for at least one or two big shows, but most didn't send in any promos, show up in studio, or even have footage shown on TV later. Bob Backlund also popped in for a few shows. Neither dikk Slater nor Barry Windham returned to television, as dikk went to JCP and Barry (along with Mike Rotundo) went to WWE.

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Granted, I did only get the second half of the year, but Florida definitely doesn't have the fukkery factor of Memphis, or the ring work of Mid South/Stampede. What it does have going for it is it seemed like stars from every territory would come in to work a show just to have a nice weekend in Florida, so those fans got to see a lot of talent more frequently than most areas in the country. They got Dusty/Flair regularly, Dory and Terry, King, Harley, Backlund, Graham, RNR, and more all in a few month period.
 
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