WWF: Hulkamania era (1984-`1992)

[Valeyard]

There's a Jumbo and Haku vs Perfect and Martel match, so was Yatsu replaced too? Haku, Yatsu, and Jumbo is a stable we needed.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Should have stuck Gordy with Bossman for some UWF hoss action instead.

Jake/Bossman is so random with everybody else getting Japan opponents.

I think I have this on DVD and likely watched it but I'm not sure. Those main matches popped up on other comps over the years so I can't recall.

 

[King Kamala]

I love you for that.

(I'm not gonna start a SummerSlam thread in January @BruiserBrody )

 

[alfdogg]

Technically predated Hulkamania but oh well

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1751618649306071359

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1751922665109987638

We have to assume Nord's flaky behavior from the mid 80s that he learned from Brody (No shows and refusing to job) held him back from getting built up as somebody for Hogan/Warrior/Bulldog/Bret etc could feud with.

Also odd that a jacked monster wore a shirt in the AWA '89 and WWF to work in.

 

[alfdogg]

These were consecutive images that came up in my Facebook feed

 

[King Kamala]

Rare theme unlocked!

 

[Valeyard]

One of the best themes of all time.

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1754801423676510424

The Hogan headline is kind of funny 4 months into his reign

 

[Sex Machine Gun]

Rare theme unlocked!

Never heard this before now. I keep wondering when someone's going to say "In this video we will go over some basic functions of your home computer, including word processing and doing your finances."

 

[Valeyard]

Compaq Connection

 

[BruiserBrody]

A little oddity: After WM 5 the Powers of Pain (much like the Hart Foundation) split up on the house shows. There doesn't seem to be any real purpose other than giving Neidhart something to do with Bret tangling with Mr. Perfect.
Barb worked Anvil around the horn for two months while Warlord grappled with.... The Birdman.

 

[King Kamala]

Chris Jericho has a funny story in his first book about hanging out with Koko when Jericho was just a teenage wrestling nerd before a house show in Winnipeg. Jericho told Koko he was a great wrestler AND a great singer (future inspiration?) then asked Koko how he was going to beat The Warlord. Koko said he was going to have to do a lot of dipping and diving.

After Koko got squashed, Jericho said to himself “Damn. I guess dipping and diving didn’t work for him.”

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(Brian Jewel is a local indie guy that was probably filling in)

 

[BruiserBrody]

Apparently Hogan/Andre's 33 million viewers wasn't even the biggest wrestling audience of the Hulkamania era of global wrestling as Inoki's promoting magic saw him vs Leon Spinks draw 39 million viewers a few months before the WWF's Main Event. When you consider the size of Japan to the US, that's bonkers.

Uh oh.... Big Dave Meltz in the WON at the time says NBC's rating was actually only 26 million and the 33 million number came from early guesstimates. Is nothing sacred!

Ebersol told the press at the time that they would not be doing WWF shows in prime time weekly after this because "It would hurt the live gates"
Meltz of course refutes this and says the ratings wouldn't hold up to network standards.
Dave has to then conflate the ratings into what it would have drawn had it been in the SNME time slot.

After the Main Event, NBC fans had Miami Vice and Unsolved Mysteries to look forward to. Powerful Friday night line up!

 

[strummer]

The Main Event did not finish in the top 10 that week of highest rated shows. Think it was in the high teens. It was a Friday night so that may be a bit unfair though

Incredible success by wrestling standards but NBC was disappointed with the number.

I was so shocked Hogan lost that night I think I went right to bed and didn't stay up to watch Unsolved Mysteries (which I loved)

 

[King Kamala]

Why didn’t they have Robert Stack do a cameo on the Main Event? @BruiserBrody start the “Celebrities Who Should Have Appeared at WrestleMania IV” thread !

 

[BruiserBrody]

Why didn’t they have Robert Stack do a cameo on the Main Event? @BruiserBrody start the “Celebrities Who Should Have Appeared at WrestleMania IV” thread !

valeyard will be upset IIRC he banned all Mania celeb threads other than 2

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1755454813679087663

Weird David didn't work for Afa's promotion on the East Coast.
Sammartino popped in on Herbo Turbo for some UWF work in 90 and doesn't have much else on his match list of note until he shows up on Nitro to job to Malenko.

By the time he got himself fired by the WWF it was probably too late to be of any use to JCP.

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John McAdam actually said on his pod last week that JCP should have signed Ivan Putski in 87 to work Flair in old WWF towns. I thought that was absurd for him to say, especially since McAdam watched the era live. If Ivan had anything to offer, Vince would have used him beyond JTTS level in 87

 

[Valeyard]

valeyard will be upset IIRC he banned all Mania celeb threads other than 2

I did?

2 just works the best.

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1755454323360677908

You get some real Regal/Goldberg vibes from this. "Teach him how to work Harley!" "GAHD DAMN IT, PAL!! HE'S A WARRIOR! Why are you making him wrestle?!"

 

[King Kamala]

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It’s good to be back.

 

[Valeyard]

That also applies to the RNR, the Midnights (specifically Condrey era), and Duane Gill.

 

[BruiserBrody]

That also applies to the RNR, the Midnights (specifically Condrey era), and Duane Gill.

I do have a side game at work where I picture our customers as jobbers.

 

[Valeyard]

Where I used to get my hair cut back home, they had a wall of pictures of people that had gotten cuts. So many jobbers, and three that looked like Jon "The Third Doctor" Pertwee.

 

[King Kamala]

My comic buddy Ken has a great story about being at his barber's shop, in the barber chair and seeing an autographed photo of Brutus Beefcake and saying to his barber "Wow. You've cut Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake's hair?" and the non Beefcake Barber says "Yeah, he's right over there." then swivels the barber chair around and reveals that the Booty Man is reading a magazine and waiting for a cut.

 

[Hawk 34]

My comic buddy Ken has a great story about being at his barber's shop, in the barber chair and seeing an autographed photo of Brutus Beefcake and saying to his barber "Wow. You've cut Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake's hair?" and the non Beefcake Barber says "Yeah, he's right over there." then swivels the barber chair around and reveals that the Booty Man is reading a magazine and waiting for a cut.

God I need to know what magazine captured the Beefers attention.

Field & Stream? MotorTrend? Us Weekly?

Most likely, Highlights.

 

[King Kamala]

I think it might have been Sports Illustrated.


“Yeah. My best buddy Terry was an offensive linemen for the Houston Gamblers for the USFL on the weekends. But that was just his second job. . He was more known as a pro wrestler. Hulk Hogan. He was my best friend.”

 

[Valeyard]

He was checking out the Home And Garden thots.

 

[King Kamala]

A men’s barber shop in the suburbs of Boston in the ‘00s was not gonna have fackin’ Home & Gahden, kehd.

I kind of doubt they would have it now unless it was an LGBT friendly shop.

Actually I haven’t seen any magazines at a barber shop in 5-10 years.

Beefer was so prominent in the mid-late ‘00s New England shindies that I am shocked me and @Laz didn’t have any encounters with him.

 

[Lazgistics Supervisor]

My only meeting in 00s NE shindies that had any lasting memory is when I ran into Eddie Edwards and DC Dillinger (RIP) before an NECW show at a convenience store. That and Cena's dad, who was super polite to everyone and enjoyed the chants our little NECW Heel Section came up with.