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I mean ones that you actually saw on television or in person, not the common Top Ten that everyone talks about but never witnessed.
For me :
Masked Superstar refusing to release his dreaded Cobra Clutch hold on Mr. Wrestling II until foam started coming out of his mouth and he could speak afterwards for weeks.
Japanese terror Pak Song shattering Tony Atlas's ribs with a illegal karate chop while Atlas was in the ring demostrating a 500lb overhead barbell press. (yeah, we believed anything then)
Ted Dibiase receiving 5 piledrivers from the Freebirds and spending almost forever in the hospital with his neck and skull fused back in place.
Flair being delivered to deaths door when Funk piledrived him through a table.
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When Bundy attacked Hogan on SNME back in early 1986 in Pheonix, Arizona. 3 avalanches and 3 splashes later, Hogan carried out....half the crowd was in tears....including full gorwn adults.....
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Hogan getting splashed by Earthquake on the Brother Love show.
Jake the Snake putting the cobra on Savage was a major WTF moment.
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Roddy Piper having Abdullah carve up Wahoo on TV. They did the technicolor change on the blood, but it was traumatizing for a complete mark, I asked my mom if Wahoo was dead....
Seeing a clip from Florida when Jake Roberts turned heel and gave Windham a knee-lift that sent him thru a wood structure around the ring and broke his nose.
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the mortier bros vs the graham bros for the belt on tv 2 out of 3 falls. arnold skoland beating the kentucian first time i ever saw a jobber win.
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I remember watching Terry Funk "suffocate" Flair with a plastic shopping bag on TV.
I was a young (semi-smart) kid at the time, but this angle had a touch of realism to it; particularly compared to some of the stuff WWF was starting to do by then.
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How about Steamboat getting DDT'd on the concrete and then coiled by Damian on SNME with his wife looking on at ringside....
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How about Steamboat getting DDT'd on the concrete and then coiled by Damian on SNME with his wife looking on at ringside....
I also remember the bits with Steamboat/Savage where they'd show Steamboat in speech therapy after Savage dropped the bell on his throat- as a kid, that was pretty freaky.
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Jake the Snake putting the cobra on Savage was a major WTF moment.
Yep.
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Flair coming out in Blackjack's hat. Later in the show, Mulligan came out in Flair's robe. I just knew he had killed the Nature Boy.
Flair's first retirement angle. I cried for days.
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Snuka getting piledrived twice on the concrete floor by The Crippler.
Snuka again getting the face first piledriver on the concrete floor by Col Debeers.
Barbarian and Paul Jones whipping Boogey Woogey man into the ropes and delivering a clothesline with an axe handle. Boogey Woogey carried a chalk board around for months doing all his interviews on it by writing words and erasing them.
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OK, I know this is useless without a link, but I remember a match with the Steiners in the early 90's in Japan, where they legit KO'd one of the guys on the other team, who was out on his feet, and totally disoriented. You could see Scotty and Rick looking at each other like, "What now?" So they just kept picking the guy up and destroying him. I don't know why his partner didn't sub in, but it was one of the wildest things I ever saw. Does anyone know which match I'm talking about?
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The WWF always had angles that were too gimmicky or too borderline overkill for my taste. Cobra biting UW, Bulldogs Mattilda being stolen, etc.. Jake the Snake stripping Rude's tights off was another such. Good but somewhat silly.
NWA/WCW had angles that were a tad more believable and drew the viewers in a lot better.
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Oh, the title should read :
Successful wrestling ANGLES you remember from growing up.
Have no idea why it came out that way.
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Flair coming out in Blackjack's hat. Later in the show, Mulligan came out in Flair's robe. I just knew he had killed the Nature Boy.
Flair's first retirement angle. I cried for days.
I remember this like it was yesterday. Blackjack was wrestling jobber Tony Russo...never even noticed Flair. When he found out and walked to the mic in Flair's robe, Flair was wrestling "jobber to the stars" Ted Oates...kept trying to come after Blackjack but Oates kept dragging him back into the ring. It was Blackjack's Mid-Atlantic "face turn" (I heard he was always a face in Florida but usually a heel or a 'tweener elsewhere)
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Jake the Snake putting the cobra on Savage was a major WTF moment.
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The WWF always had angles that were too gimmicky or too borderline overkill for my taste. Cobra biting UW, Bulldogs Mattilda being stolen, etc.. Jake the Snake stripping Rude's tights off was another such. Good but somewhat silly.
NWA/WCW had angles that were a tad more believable and drew the viewers in a lot better.
Like the mafia hit on Dusty Rhodes in a parking lot. The horsemen followed Rhodes around in a rented car and dummied him up "breaking his arm" with a ball bat. Apparently viewers were so disgusted and upset with this that they actually called the police to try and have the horsemen arrested.
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Like the mafia hit on Dusty Rhodes in a parking lot. The horsemen followed Rhodes around in a rented car and dummied him up "breaking his arm" with a ball bat. Apparently viewers were so disgusted and upset with this that they actually called the police to try and have the horsemen arrested.
What was so great about the footage of that is that they used a handheld cam and were threatening the camera guy to keep rolling. Gave it a much more realistic feel than a camera man just "happening to be there".....always hated how that comes off.....
nWo revisited it when they wrecked the Steiners car.....video had the exact same feel to it.
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When Bundy attacked Hogan on SNME back in early 1986 in Pheonix, Arizona. 3 avalanches and 3 splashes later, Hogan carried out....half the crowd was in tears....including full gorwn adults.....
I remember that! Another one is when Jake the Snake put Damian on Andre the Giant when he had Bobby Heenan as a manager. Andre was holding his heart screaming ,Bobbie, Bobbie. I was a little kid and really thought he was having a heart attack.
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Funk piledriving Flair on on a table, Shawn collapsing on RAW vs Owen, Savage trying to crush Steamboat's throat with the ring bell and all the shenanigans after.
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I remember this like it was yesterday. Blackjack was wrestling jobber Tony Russo...never even noticed Flair. When he found out and walked to the mic in Flair's robe, Flair was wrestling "jobber to the stars" Ted Oates...kept trying to come after Blackjack but Oates kept dragging him back into the ring. It was Blackjack's Mid-Atlantic "face turn" (I heard he was always a face in Florida but usually a heel or a 'tweener elsewhere)
What a memory. I don't remember all that. All I remember is crying like crazy thinking Mulligan had killed my hero and my grandmother trying to console me telling me he was probably okay. Which was funny because she was just as big a mark as I was.
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I know the worst: Baby Doll with incriminating photos of Dusty Rhodes on World Wide Wrestling. They kept teasing the photos thing then it just went away, it's like they forgot about it.
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Funk piledriving Flair on on a table, Shawn collapsing on RAW vs Owen, Savage trying to crush Steamboat's throat with the ring bell and all the shenanigans after.
That was a phenomenal angle. I still remember McMahon commenting, "Steamboat can't breath!"
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the kevin sullivan era in florida with 'satan'angle with jake the snake,mark lewin aka purple haze,i forgot the rest of the entourage all out to destroy dusty.kevin sullivan back before those times was in good shape.
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I think Sullivan would make a good addition to the Fed's HOF.
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I think Sullivan would make a good addition to the Fed's HOF.
Absolutely. I wonder if they'll ever induct Shane Douglas?
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Absolutely. I wonder if they'll ever induct Shane Douglas?
I think Shane might just be one or two spaces above Bruno & Hellwig on the invite list.
Douglas deserves recognition for his work in ECW.
It'd be nice if the Fed did a DVD on him.
Maybe after 11 more HBK anthologies we'll see one.
I should add some more footage to his thread on this board.
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I think Shane might just be one or two spaces above Bruno & Hellwig on the invite list.
Douglas deserves recognition for his work in ECW.
It'd be nice if the Fed did a DVD on him.
Maybe after 11 more HBK anthologies we'll see one.
I should add some more footage to his thread on this board.
Ha ha ha ha ha! :D
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Road Warrior Hawk falling off the Titan Tron. Hogan losing the belt to Andre on FNME, when the Hebner twins played the refs. The LWO (Latino World Order)- still laugh thinking about that one!
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Road Warrior Hawk falling off the Titan Tron. Hogan losing the belt to Andre on FNME, when the Hebner twins played the refs. The LWO (Latino World Order)- still laugh thinking about that one!
The Hebner twins screwing over Hogan was one amazing angle that no one ever expected. I enjoyed that! Good call!
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WrestleMania VII - Career-ending match: Ultimate Warrior vs. "Macho King" Randy Savage.
Savage hits FIVE elbows drops from the top; Warrior kicks out. Warrior hits gorilla press and splash; Savage kicks out.
In the end, Savage almost decapitates himself on the security barrier, after jumping off the top turnbuckle.
Warrior hits three shoulder blocks and pins Savage. "Sensational Queen" Sherri screams at Savage after the match and starts kicking him and slamming his head into the mat. And who comes to the rescue...MISS ELISABETH.
Savage, who had no idea Liz was there (storyline), almost hits her, thinking it's Queen Sherri. He's SHOCKED to see Elisabeth. The ref explains that it was Sherri that was whacking him.
Liz starts tearing up and eventually runs to Savage, who hugs her. People start crying....mushiness at its best.
;D
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WrestleMania VII - Career-ending match: Ultimate Warrior vs. "Macho King" Randy Savage.
Savage hits FIVE elbows drops from the top; Warrior kicks out. Warrior hits gorilla press and splash; Savage kicks out.
In the end, Savage almost decapitates himself on the security barrier, after jumping off the top turnbuckle.
Warrior hits three shoulder blocks and pins Savage. "Sensational Queen" Sherri screams at Savage after the match and starts kicking him and slamming his head into the mat. And who comes to the rescue...MISS ELISABETH.
Savage, who had no idea Liz was there (storyline), almost hits her, thinking it's Queen Sherri. He's SHOCKED to see Elisabeth. The ref explains that it was Sherri that was whacking him.
Liz starts tearing up and eventually runs to Savage, who hugs her. People start crying....mushiness at its best.
;D
This pissed me off bigtime.
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The Black Scorpion attacking Sting.
In the long run it was the 4 Horsemen (and actually Ric Flair), but that was one that got me.
Hogan slamming Andre was also big time.
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This pissed me off bigtime.
I still can't recall any other match where someone hits his finisher FIVE times, only to have his opponent kick out.
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I still can't recall any other match where someone hits his finisher FIVE times, only to have his opponent kick out.
It used to bother me when Hogan would kick out of his opponents finishers too. But 5 flying elbows? Man did that get on my nerves. Otherwise it was a good match. Savage made Warrior look like GOLD.
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I still can't recall any other match where someone hits his finisher FIVE times, only to have his opponent kick out.
That's because most "stars" don't need that much push to get over.
Most of the ones who deserve it accomplish a great deal more (often most) on their own.
And, where did it go?
After putting over Hellwig, Savage went on to work a program with Flair, capturing the big belt at WM IX.
Warrior did a run-in during the Hogan/Sid match, and I believe that was the last Mania he would ever appear at again.
Savage's job was for nothing; he put UW over for NOTHING!!
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That's because most "stars" don't need that much push to get over.
Most of the ones who deserve it accomplish a great deal more (often most) on their own.
And, where did it go?
After putting over Hellwig, Savage went on to work a program with Flair, capturing the big belt at WM IX.
Warrior did a run-in during the Hogan/Sid match, and I believe that was the last Mania he would ever appear at again.
Savage's job was for nothing; he put UW over for NOTHING!!
He had a match, if you want to call it that, vs HHH at Wrestlemania 12.
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That's because most "stars" don't need that much push to get over.
Most of the ones who deserve it accomplish a great deal more (often most) on their own.
And, where did it go?
After putting over Hellwig, Savage went on to work a program with Flair, capturing the big belt at WM IX.
Warrior did a run-in during the Hogan/Sid match, and I believe that was the last Mania he would ever appear at again.
Savage's job was for nothing; he put UW over for NOTHING!!
Actually, Savage beat Flair at WM VIII. But, your point is well-made.
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It used to bother me when Hogan would kick out of his opponents finishers too. But 5 flying elbows? Man did that get on my nerves. Otherwise it was a good match. Savage made Warrior look like GOLD.
As Hogan put it,
"Randy Savage is a detail freak. And Randy Savage made sure....or at least, the old Randy Savage that I knew during the heyday....that everything was impeccable. He stragetically mapped out every situation in the ring. So, the Warrior was in really good hands with Randy. That may have been one of his best storylines and feuds with Randy, because Randy made it easy on everybody." - from the "Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior" DVD.
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Actually, Savage beat Flair at WM VIII. But, your point is well-made.
Ha!
You're right; I skipped a year.
I knew it was the following Mania, which coincided with the point I was making.
Don't know why I typed 9.
Fukking Romans...using letters instead of numbers.
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He had a match, if you want to call it that, vs HHH at Wrestlemania 12.
Wow...I forgot all about that.
What's that tell you?
I remember - now - Hunter talking about that match on one of his DVD's.
I think that was the interview in which HHH said, "Warrior couldn't even lace up a pair of boots."
Funny enough, Hellwig often wore those cowboy-style slip-ons that had the pointed toes and...NO LACES!
Maybe there's some truth to the above statement.
(http://www.americanmemorabilia.com/pics/38043_01_lg.jpg)
;D
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The whole Bret-Owen feud was very well done. Owen turning on Bret, tired of living in his shadow. One of my favorite moments of that feud was when Bret won the title at WM X, and all the faces came out to celebrate. Owen came out, stopped, and mouthed, "what about me?"
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The whole Bret-Owen feud was very well done. Owen turning on Bret, tired of living in his shadow. One of my favorite moments of that feud was when Bret won the title at WM X, and all the faces came out to celebrate. Owen came out, stopped, and mouthed, "what about me?"
I enjoyed that fued and thought it was really well done also. It really helped Owen's career take off. Their SS cage match was just epic.
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I still can't recall any other match where someone hits his finisher FIVE times, only to have his opponent kick out.
Because it was a complete wack job from Vince. Two elbows should have been enough, but having Savage deliver five of them and Warrior kick out was an insult.
Warrior has always had a "superhero" vision of himself where he didn't like to sell for his oppenent. Back when he first entered the UWF as Rock when he teamed up with Sting as the Bladerunners he was known as someone that would never sell for his opponents. Until they had a match against Ted Dibiase and Steve Williams and Dibiase decided that if he wouldn't sell for them willingly he would make him sell any way. And started walloping him with punches for real until he got the idea he better play along before Dibiase landed one that knocked him out cold.
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Because it was a complete wack job from Vince. Two elbows should have been enough, but having Savage deliver five of them and Warrior kick out was an insult.
Warrior has always had a "superhero" vision of himself where he didn't like to sell for his oppenent. Back when he first entered the UWF as Rock when he teamed up with Sting as the Bladerunners he was known as someone that would never sell for his opponents. Until they had a match against Ted Dibiase and Steve Williams and Dibiase decided that if he wouldn't sell for them willingly he would make him sell any way. And started walloping him with punches for real until he got the idea he better play along before Dibiase landed one that knocked him out cold.
haha, great story....and if UW wanted to start anything, I'm sure Williams and Dibiase would have been glad to finish it.
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UW was a big pushover from everything I have heard. Suffered from massive insecurities and entitlement issues. (Bad combination)
Eddie Gilbert once called him the biggest headache he ever had to work with.
There was another story going around (not sure if true) of all the guys in WCCW sitting around in a bar drinking one night after a house show and Warrior comes in and start running down the Freebirds about their drinking and how the alcohol was slowly killing them on the inside. Buddy Roberts stood up with the bottle in his hand and said this bottle might be killing us slowly but it will kill you a lot faster if I hit you over the head with it. Warrior scooted out of the room and went to complain about threats being made to him.
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Wow...I forgot all about that.
What's that tell you?
I remember - now - Hunter talking about that match on one of his DVD's.
I think that was the interview in which HHH said, "Warrior couldn't even lace up a pair of boots."
Funny enough, Hellwig often wore those cowboy-style slip-ons that had the pointed toes and...NO LACES!
Maybe there's some truth to the above statement.
(http://www.americanmemorabilia.com/pics/38043_01_lg.jpg)
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Lol...his exact words were "Warrior was the biggest dickwad I ever worked with." Funny how no one has anything positive to say about Hellwig. Shows you what a dickhead he really is.
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UW was a big pushover from everything I have heard. Suffered from massive insecurities and entitlement issues. (Bad combination)
Eddie Gilbert once called him the biggest headache he ever had to work with.
There was another story going around (not sure if true) of all the guys in WCCW sitting around in a bar drinking one night after a house show and Warrior comes in and start running down the Freebirds about their drinking and how the alcohol was slowly killing them on the inside. Buddy Roberts stood up with the bottle in his hand and said this bottle might be killing us slowly but it will kill you a lot faster if I hit you over the head with it. Warrior scooted out of the room and went to complain about threats being made to him.
haha, The Freebirds were certainly not a group that somebody should lecture about alcohol.....not to mention, I'm sure they could hold their own in barfight....you don't wrestler the level of heel in Texas for that long and not get into some scuffles with local....guaranteed.
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haha, The Freebirds were certainly not a group that somebody should lecture about alcohol.....not to mention, I'm sure they could hold their own in barfight....you don't wrestler the level of heel in Texas for that long and not get into some scuffles with local....guaranteed.
The Freebirds always travelled in three's and were known to be ass kickers.
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The Freebirds always travelled in three's and were known to be ass kickers.
I'm sure they had to during that era. Can you imagine strutting into a honkytonk in Dallas after just going over The Von Erich's in a six-man by cracking Kerry with a chair? you know there were plenty of good ole boys wanting to settle the score.
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I'm sure they had to during that era. Can you imagine strutting into a honkytonk in Dallas after just going over The Von Erich's in a six-man by cracking Kerry with a chair? you know there were plenty of good ole boys wanting to settle the score.
That actually used to happen to Piper & Bob Orton Jr alot. Piper was that hated in the mid eighties.
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That actually used to happen to Piper & Bob Orton Jr alot. Piper was that hated in the mid eighties.
No doubt.....here in the mid-atlantic territory the hatred for him was off the charts. He was a great heel.
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Lol...his exact words were "Warrior was the biggest dickwad I ever worked with." Funny how no one has anything positive to say about Hellwig. Shows you what a dickhead he really is.
Anyone seen the shoot interview the Warrior did a few years ago? It's a great interview, but what came through most was that it was just a job; no passion for the business at all. I get the feeling it was all about the paycheck, and a belt was just an extra zero on the end of said paycheck. Sad, really.
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Anyone seen the shoot interview the Warrior did a few years ago? It's a great interview, but what came through most was that it was just a job; no passion for the business at all. I get the feeling it was all about the paycheck, and a belt was just an extra zero on the end of said paycheck. Sad, really.
Exactly. That's just it. He didn't care about the business at all or anyone in it. On the flip side, Warrior is very well spoken and very intelligent and shoot interviews are extremely interesting. Too bad he's an assclown.
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Lol...his exact words were "Warrior was the biggest dickwad I ever worked with." Funny how no one has anything positive to say about Hellwig. Shows you what a dickhead he really is.
but none of those people making the negative comments could connect with a crowd or sell merchandise the way Warrior could.
lots of jealousy there.
100 years from now, people will still be talking about Hogan-Warrior at WM6.
no one will be talking about most of the people bad mouthing him.
just saying.
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I still can't recall any other match where someone hits his finisher FIVE times, only to have his opponent kick out
I agree that it was a bit over the top, but in all honestly, by that point in his career, savage's elbow drops were not like they used to be.
his feet used to hit the ground first by then.
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UW was a big pushover from everything I have heard. Suffered from massive insecurities and entitlement issues. (Bad combination)
Eddie Gilbert once called him the biggest headache he ever had to work with.
There was another story going around (not sure if true) of all the guys in WCCW sitting around in a bar drinking one night after a house show and Warrior comes in and start running down the Freebirds about their drinking and how the alcohol was slowly killing them on the inside. Buddy Roberts stood up with the bottle in his hand and said this bottle might be killing us slowly but it will kill you a lot faster if I hit you over the head with it. Warrior scooted out of the room and went to complain about threats being made to him.
Here's one of my favorites: Heenan's description of Warrior, getting knocked silly, by Andre the Giant (courtesy of "The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior")
I remember he had a match with Andre, and it almost ended his career. Andre used to like to take a clothesline. And he told him in the dressing room; he told him, "I'm going to swing with the clothesline; you duck. And, I'm going to hit the ropes and take two steps off. And then, hit me with the clothesline and I'm going to tie myself into the ropes!" And, Andre liked to do that spot.
So, Andre missed him with the clothesline. As soon as Andre turned around, he was there, 150 miles an hour......BANG!!!! (Heenan emulates Warrior hitting Andre with a hard clothesline, before Andre was ready) And, I heard Boss (Andre's nickname in the locker room) go "MMMMMMMMMM!!!!" Something's going to happen here. Next night, same thing happens, 200 miles per hour....BANG!!!!! (Warrior hits Andre too hard with a clothesline again, before Andre is ready)......"MMMMMMMMM!!!"
Third night, 338 miles per hour.....And just as he gets there, Andre goes..... (Heenan sticks out his arm with his fist clenched, emulating Andre's doing the same in the ring against Warrior) and hits the Warrior right between the eyes and cracked his paint. We're talking whole shide job, here. His knees buckled; he grabbed onto the ropes (Heenan imitates a dizzy Ultimate Warrior, fumbling to get to ropes)...didn't really know where he was.
Next night, here comes the Warrior: (Heenan uses his fingers to describe Warrior cautiously running toward Andre and hitting him with a somewhat soft clothesline) Dink-da-dink-da-dink......BINK!!!! Andre looks at me and says, "He'll learn!!!" Andre just put his hand up and stopped him. He would stand on his hair; he would do all sorts of things to him. Andre just didn't like the guy, either.
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Here's one of my favorites: Heenan's description of Warrior, getting knocked silly, by Andre the Giant (courtesy of "The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior")
I remember he had a match with Andre, and it almost ended his career. Andre used to like to take a clothesline. And he told him in the dressing room; he told him, "I'm going to swing with the clothesline; you duck. And, I'm going to hit the ropes and take two steps off. And then, hit me with the clothesline and I'm going to tie myself into the ropes!" And, Andre liked to do that spot.
So, Andre missed him with the clothesline. As soon as Andre turned around, he was there, 150 miles an hour......BANG!!!! (Heenan emulates Warrior hitting Andre with a hard clothesline, before Andre was ready) And, I heard Boss (Andre's nickname in the locker room) go "MMMMMMMMMM!!!!" Something's going to happen here. Next night, same thing happens, 200 miles per hour....BANG!!!!! (Warrior hits Andre too hard with a clothesline again, before Andre is ready)......"MMMMMMMMM!!!"
Third night, 338 miles per hour.....And just as he gets there, Andre goes..... (Heenan sticks out his arm with his fist clenched, emulating Andre's doing the same in the ring against Warrior) and hits the Warrior right between the eyes and cracked his paint. We're talking whole shide job, here. His knees buckled; he grabbed onto the ropes (Heenan imitates a dizzy Ultimate Warrior, fumbling to get to ropes)...didn't really know where he was.
Next night, here comes the Warrior: (Heenan uses his fingers to describe Warrior cautiously running toward Andre and hitting him with a somewhat soft clothesline) Dink-da-dink-da-dink......BINK!!!! Andre looks at me and says, "He'll learn!!!" Andre just put his hand up and stopped him. He would stand on his hair; he would do all sorts of things to him. Andre just didn't like the guy, either.
Lol....I remember that part on Warrior's dvd. Even he didn't mess with Andre. :)
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Lol....I remember that part on Warrior's dvd. Even he didn't mess with Andre. :)
A while back, I posted footage of a match from Japan in which Maeda tried to shoot with Andre.
Actually, to me, it looked like the idiot was just trying to knock Andre down to the mat by kicking out his legs (which were in bad shape at that time).
But, he must not have thought about what he would do after that, because Andre soon voluntarily laid down and “invited” Maeda to shoot on the mat, at which point the little prick stormed out of the ring and threw a tantrum.
Apparently, a lightbulb went off in his head.
But, how bright was that?
Most guys in the business knew that Andre was trained in catch-style wrestling by the Englishmen.
Why would you want to shoot with or piss off a guy who has comparable skills but much more size & strength than two of you?
Anyway, I posted the match on this board some time ago, but the youtube account it belonged to is no longer active.
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A while back, I posted footage of a match from Japan in which Maeda tried to shoot with Andre.
Actually, to me, it looked like the idiot was just trying to knock Andre down to the mat by kicking out his legs (which were in bad shape at that time).
But, he must not have thought about what he would do after that, because Andre soon voluntarily laid down and “invited” Maeda to shoot on the mat, at which point the little prick stormed out of the ring and threw a tantrum.
Apparently, a lightbulb went off in his head.
But, how bright was that?
Most guys in the business knew that Andre was trained in catch-style wrestling by the Englishmen.
Why would you want to shoot with or piss off a guy who has comparable skills but much more size & strength than two of you?
Anyway, I posted the match on this board some time ago, but the youtube account it belonged to is no longer active.
The story of Andre that is in my head was when he did a show in Montreal. After the show, he hit a bar with Frenchy Martin and Rene Goulet who were two of his closest friends. 4 guys tried to harrass him and kept pestering him. He jsut kept blowing them off and said he only wanted to have a drink and wasn't looking for trouble. Of course these frogs kept bothering him. According to Frenchy, he chased them all out, they ran in their car (a small Honda) and andre was so pissed he litterally flipped the car over with all four of them in it.
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A while back, I posted footage of a match from Japan in which Maeda tried to shoot with Andre.
Actually, to me, it looked like the idiot was just trying to knock Andre down to the mat by kicking out his legs (which were in bad shape at that time).
But, he must not have thought about what he would do after that, because Andre soon voluntarily laid down and “invited” Maeda to shoot on the mat, at which point the little prick stormed out of the ring and threw a tantrum.
Apparently, a lightbulb went off in his head.
But, how bright was that?
Most guys in the business knew that Andre was trained in catch-style wrestling by the Englishmen.
Why would you want to shoot with or piss off a guy who has comparable skills but much more size & strength than two of you?
Anyway, I posted the match on this board some time ago, but the youtube account it belonged to is no longer active.
I remember that vid. and like you said, what in the world was that little turd going to do with andre if he knocked him off his feet? What an idiot.
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I remember that vid. and like you said, what in the world was that little turd going to do with andre if he knocked him off his feet? What an idiot.
Yeah, I doubt that he thought things through.
Probably just wanted to make a name for himself as the guy who knocked Andre down.
Taking advantage of a heavy guy with bad knees and back problems sounds more like it.
He was a coward, though, only going after Andre's biggest weakness.
Once Andre offered to shoot on the mat, Maeda backed off.
That would be like Karl Gotch having a cast on his leg, me kicking out his good leg causing him to fall, and then dancing around as though I "beat" him.
Meantime, that Hungarian fukker would tie this Hungarian fukker (me) in knots with one hand.
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The story of Andre that is in my head was when he did a show in Montreal. After the show, he hit a bar with Frenchy Martin and Rene Goulet who were two of his closest friends. 4 guys tried to harrass him and kept pestering him. He jsut kept blowing them off and said he only wanted to have a drink and wasn't looking for trouble. Of course these frogs kept bothering him. According to Frenchy, he chased them all out, they ran in their car (a small Honda) and andre was so pissed he litterally flipped the car over with all four of them in it.
I believe as I heard it that he got so pissed that he basically slammed his closed fist down on the bar and it split the bar in 2.
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I dont know if anyone has listed this one but how about Jake Roberts being blinded by Rick Martel? I was hooked, sucked in by the promos they did with him screaming "my eyes are burning" and his road to recovery culminating in their memorable blindfold match .
I also remember Cactus going AWOL and i think it was Dustin Rhodes that traced him to a back alley somewhere? So long ago i cant recall it with precision but it was half decent for the time.