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Dr Death and Hardcore Holly fighting in a frat house is oddly entertaining
Mean Street Posse debut is hilarious....ran up, held x-pac so shane can punch him in the nuts and drove off in corvettes 
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And JR asking where the hoes at
Lets get another watchparty going, i want to request something crazy violent from the 80s like this
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After yesterday? Yes
World Class July-December 1984
July: Chris Adams wins the feud with Jimmy Garvin and Precious in a loser leaves town cage match. Killer Khan injures Chip Donovan, friend of the Von Erichs, intensifying the angle between him and the family. The Von Erichs finally get in Gino Hernandez's ass because they want the Texas Championship back in the family. This mother fukker had only been calling them out for 2 months. Gino defeats Kerry on TV via cheating. The Freebirds are basically absent the whole month on TV for some reason, but I'm not complaining. They won back the vacated 6 man titles in a Bad Street match on the July 4th Star Wars, although footage wasn't shown until August and the Adams/Garvin cage match wasn't shown at all.
August: The Oriental Mercenary Killer Khan ends up attacking Michael Hayes, which then causes the Freebirds to hit the ring during a Von Erichs vs Khan/Missing Link match and a big brawl breaks out. Anyway, Skandor Akbar declares war on Michael Hayes. The Pretty Young Things arrive. Mike rolls up Gino to win the American Championship
. Mike's first defense is actually stopped mid match because Gordy and Khan got into a fight backstage and they needed to have the match immediately or it wouldn't happen at all. That, of course, ended in a whole roster pull apart brawl. Even weirder, the Mike/Irwin match did indeed resume after all this. The next week also has a whole roster pull apart brawl. Jake Roberts comes to town. Kevin debuts a great look of a polo tucked into his trunks.
September: Gino deepens his vendetta against the Von Erichs. Sunshine's' "truck driving aunt" randomly attacks Gino in a match. Gino brings Baby Doll, here going by Andrea The Lady Giant, as his back up. The Von Erichs also deepen their feud with Devastation Inc. The Freebirds lost a loser leaves town cage match to the Von Erichs at Labor Day Star Wars...that wasn't promoted on TV, wasn't shown on TV after the fact either, just like the Garvin/Adams cage match.
shyt is weird. At the same event, Jake Roberts becomes the WCCW TV Champion, and Gino Hernandez regains the American championship. Locker room promos start getting used more regularly. Gary Hart starts managing Chris Adams in his war against Akbar.
October: Gino Hernandez and Jake Roberts form an alliance. In a tag match against Kevin and Chris Adams, Stella Mae French (the truck driving aunt) tries to cost Gino the match, but ends up causing Adams to lose. He and Gary get hot about it, putting their hands on her, which causes Kevin to defend her and grab Gary. Adams then superkicks Kevin and leaves him to take a beat down.
This leads to some good sit down interviews with each man, and in general the TV shows start becoming more promo heavy, backstage and on location interviews making up the majority of them. Chris Adams goes full heel, making it clear he will no longer live in the shadow of the Von Erichs and it is the FANS that changed, not him. He even begins teaming with Jake Roberts and Gino Hernandez.
November: The Fantastics arrive and win the American Tag Team Championships. They actually did this in late October, but didn't debut on TV until November...and after they won the titles. Jake/Gino/Chris beat the Von Erichs for the 6 man titles at the Cotton Bowl. Chris/Kevin had a singles match before it that saw Kevin take a post match beating and stretcher job, which is probably in poor taste considering one of the brothers died a few months prior. This also happened in late October but didn't air on TV until November. Sunshine returns. The company has new title belts commissioned, likely by Reggie Parks, and a big improvement on the tiny beat up belts they'd been using since the 1960s of Big Time Wrestling. They also updated the logo, TV graphics, and ring mats. Terry Gordy returns solo because he was pissed people were saying Akbar and his men ran him out of Texas. Chis Adams get another shot at Ric Flair's NWA Championship and loses by DQ when Gary Hart hits Flair with something as Adams was in a Boston crab. It was a weird finish to me because it didn't look like Adams was even close to giving up, especially not to a move Ric Flair has never finished a match with in his career.
December: Matches from Thanksgiving Star Wars are shown during the month. Gordy/Khan have an insanely bloody death match that gets a MA rating and parental advisory warning from the Network.
It probably did more for Gordy's status as a star than anything Freebirds related. Kerry was the ref and his hands were covered in blood from counting pin falls on the mat. It's the first time you really get to see AJPW Gordy in America. 12/1/84 episode for reference. It ends with Kerry and Terry fighting off Link/Khan and eventually shaking hands. PYTs and Fantastics bring their rivalry to Texas. Kevin flips his shyt and beats Adams and Gary Hart with a chair after a loss. A year end awards show sees Mike Von Erich win rookie of the year and Kevin Von Erich win man of the year. Sunshine brings Billy Jack Haynes to the area. Most of the month was either covering Thanksgiving Star Wars or doing recaps and encore matches.
It's weird, but the nature of the beast to have your TV and live events weeks-month apart. What's weirder is the lack of promotion for the Star Wars events on television in the second half of the year. I don't know if there was a second show for specific markets that got those promos, if they don't exist, or if they were edited off for the Network or masters. A lot went down in in the second half of the year, with the two biggest angles blown off, increased production values, increased focus on promos, the second biggest face turning heel, a new group to replace the Freebirds, the super push of Gino Hernandez as the top heel. By the end of the year, Gino has the Texas, American, and 6 man tag titles. I find the Gino/Jake/Adams group and angle with the Von Erichs a lot more interesting than the Birds vs Von Erichs, as the three are all about as opposite from each other as you can get and aren't even necessarily friends. They just all want to prove themselves against the Von Erichs and be stars instead of a Hatfield/McCoys deal. Also fukk anything with Michael Hayes.
I'm not really all that impressed with Gino tbh. In the ring he was average at best. As a promo guy, he was just mixing lines and gimmicks from other guys (notably being bootleg Ric Flair and doing FULL Superstar Graham/Dusty lines without any shame). He was great at garnering heat, though. I think a lot of guys over-inflate what he could have been because of how/when he died. The way the business was at the time, I don't think he had the in ring to be the NWA Champ, and he was too small/not in good enough shape to do anything in the WWF even at the IC level in the Hogan era. His ceiling was probably about where he hit, top heel in a big territory.
July: Chris Adams wins the feud with Jimmy Garvin and Precious in a loser leaves town cage match. Killer Khan injures Chip Donovan, friend of the Von Erichs, intensifying the angle between him and the family. The Von Erichs finally get in Gino Hernandez's ass because they want the Texas Championship back in the family. This mother fukker had only been calling them out for 2 months. Gino defeats Kerry on TV via cheating. The Freebirds are basically absent the whole month on TV for some reason, but I'm not complaining. They won back the vacated 6 man titles in a Bad Street match on the July 4th Star Wars, although footage wasn't shown until August and the Adams/Garvin cage match wasn't shown at all.
August: The Oriental Mercenary Killer Khan ends up attacking Michael Hayes, which then causes the Freebirds to hit the ring during a Von Erichs vs Khan/Missing Link match and a big brawl breaks out. Anyway, Skandor Akbar declares war on Michael Hayes. The Pretty Young Things arrive. Mike rolls up Gino to win the American Championship
. Mike's first defense is actually stopped mid match because Gordy and Khan got into a fight backstage and they needed to have the match immediately or it wouldn't happen at all. That, of course, ended in a whole roster pull apart brawl. Even weirder, the Mike/Irwin match did indeed resume after all this. The next week also has a whole roster pull apart brawl. Jake Roberts comes to town. Kevin debuts a great look of a polo tucked into his trunks.September: Gino deepens his vendetta against the Von Erichs. Sunshine's' "truck driving aunt" randomly attacks Gino in a match. Gino brings Baby Doll, here going by Andrea The Lady Giant, as his back up. The Von Erichs also deepen their feud with Devastation Inc. The Freebirds lost a loser leaves town cage match to the Von Erichs at Labor Day Star Wars...that wasn't promoted on TV, wasn't shown on TV after the fact either, just like the Garvin/Adams cage match.
shyt is weird. At the same event, Jake Roberts becomes the WCCW TV Champion, and Gino Hernandez regains the American championship. Locker room promos start getting used more regularly. Gary Hart starts managing Chris Adams in his war against Akbar.October: Gino Hernandez and Jake Roberts form an alliance. In a tag match against Kevin and Chris Adams, Stella Mae French (the truck driving aunt) tries to cost Gino the match, but ends up causing Adams to lose. He and Gary get hot about it, putting their hands on her, which causes Kevin to defend her and grab Gary. Adams then superkicks Kevin and leaves him to take a beat down.
This leads to some good sit down interviews with each man, and in general the TV shows start becoming more promo heavy, backstage and on location interviews making up the majority of them. Chris Adams goes full heel, making it clear he will no longer live in the shadow of the Von Erichs and it is the FANS that changed, not him. He even begins teaming with Jake Roberts and Gino Hernandez.November: The Fantastics arrive and win the American Tag Team Championships. They actually did this in late October, but didn't debut on TV until November...and after they won the titles. Jake/Gino/Chris beat the Von Erichs for the 6 man titles at the Cotton Bowl. Chris/Kevin had a singles match before it that saw Kevin take a post match beating and stretcher job, which is probably in poor taste considering one of the brothers died a few months prior. This also happened in late October but didn't air on TV until November. Sunshine returns. The company has new title belts commissioned, likely by Reggie Parks, and a big improvement on the tiny beat up belts they'd been using since the 1960s of Big Time Wrestling. They also updated the logo, TV graphics, and ring mats. Terry Gordy returns solo because he was pissed people were saying Akbar and his men ran him out of Texas. Chis Adams get another shot at Ric Flair's NWA Championship and loses by DQ when Gary Hart hits Flair with something as Adams was in a Boston crab. It was a weird finish to me because it didn't look like Adams was even close to giving up, especially not to a move Ric Flair has never finished a match with in his career.
December: Matches from Thanksgiving Star Wars are shown during the month. Gordy/Khan have an insanely bloody death match that gets a MA rating and parental advisory warning from the Network.
It probably did more for Gordy's status as a star than anything Freebirds related. Kerry was the ref and his hands were covered in blood from counting pin falls on the mat. It's the first time you really get to see AJPW Gordy in America. 12/1/84 episode for reference. It ends with Kerry and Terry fighting off Link/Khan and eventually shaking hands. PYTs and Fantastics bring their rivalry to Texas. Kevin flips his shyt and beats Adams and Gary Hart with a chair after a loss. A year end awards show sees Mike Von Erich win rookie of the year and Kevin Von Erich win man of the year. Sunshine brings Billy Jack Haynes to the area. Most of the month was either covering Thanksgiving Star Wars or doing recaps and encore matches.It's weird, but the nature of the beast to have your TV and live events weeks-month apart. What's weirder is the lack of promotion for the Star Wars events on television in the second half of the year. I don't know if there was a second show for specific markets that got those promos, if they don't exist, or if they were edited off for the Network or masters. A lot went down in in the second half of the year, with the two biggest angles blown off, increased production values, increased focus on promos, the second biggest face turning heel, a new group to replace the Freebirds, the super push of Gino Hernandez as the top heel. By the end of the year, Gino has the Texas, American, and 6 man tag titles. I find the Gino/Jake/Adams group and angle with the Von Erichs a lot more interesting than the Birds vs Von Erichs, as the three are all about as opposite from each other as you can get and aren't even necessarily friends. They just all want to prove themselves against the Von Erichs and be stars instead of a Hatfield/McCoys deal. Also fukk anything with Michael Hayes.
I'm not really all that impressed with Gino tbh. In the ring he was average at best. As a promo guy, he was just mixing lines and gimmicks from other guys (notably being bootleg Ric Flair and doing FULL Superstar Graham/Dusty lines without any shame). He was great at garnering heat, though. I think a lot of guys over-inflate what he could have been because of how/when he died. The way the business was at the time, I don't think he had the in ring to be the NWA Champ, and he was too small/not in good enough shape to do anything in the WWF even at the IC level in the Hogan era. His ceiling was probably about where he hit, top heel in a big territory.
I miss Jim Ross unfiltered commentary. I was watching the Raw where Stone Cold walked out on team WWF during the Alliance and they showed Stone Cold playing pool.
JR said with disgust: "Now is not the time to work on your pool game"
JR said with disgust: "Now is not the time to work on your pool game"
Except Alexa lied to sound cool in the past when Sasha brought up she didn't grow up watching wrestling like her and Bayley...that's why they reacted.
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I also vote 2000 but not wcw 2000Can we still Post The Hoes?
And what Year do we Start at?Id say 2000 or 2001
Can we still Post The Hoes?
And what Year do we Start at?Id say 2000 or 2001
I agree with WWE 2000.
On a side note, I was thinking of doing a watch party for either Friday or Saturday.
