Successful wrestling angles you remember from growing up

[LurkerNoMore]

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.

[Playboy]

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.....

[leaky_frog]

Hogan getting splashed by Earthquake on the Brother Love show. 

Jake the Snake putting the cobra on Savage was a major WTF moment.

[The Showstoppa]

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.

[funk51]

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.

[Montague]

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.

[Playboy]

How about Steamboat getting DDT'd on the concrete and then coiled by Damian on SNME with his wife looking on at ringside....

[leaky_frog]

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.

[leonp1981]

Jake the Snake putting the cobra on Savage was a major WTF moment.

Yep.

[OLE BIG]

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.

[LurkerNoMore]

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.

[leaky_frog]

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?

[LurkerNoMore]

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.

[LurkerNoMore]

Oh, the title should read :

Successful wrestling ANGLES you remember from growing up.

Have no idea why it came out that way.

[Andy Griffin]

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)

[Montague]

Jake the Snake putting the cobra on Savage was a major WTF moment.

[Playboy]

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.

[The Showstoppa]

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.

[G.O.A.T.]

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.

[mass 04]

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.

[OLE BIG]

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.

[Fallsview]

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. 

[Playboy]

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!"

[njflex]

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.

[Montague]

I think Sullivan would make a good addition to the Fed's HOF.