Vintage Independent Wrestling Thread: Discuss the Stars of Today Yesterday When They Were Stars of Tomorrow

[BruiserBrody]

If Saved By the Bell had a wrestling episode it would look exactly like this.

Zack and Slater's fight was less business exposing.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

It is low key amazing that there was never a wrestling episode of SBTB. Closest we got was the episode of City Guys guest starring RVD.

 

[Valeyard]

A sleazy promoter trying to get Slater to quit school and join the big leagues. Episode ends with the evil champion trying to intimidate him but he gets stepped on by Screech or something and bursts into tears and runs away.

 

[Hawk 34]

He spends half the show trying to get Jessie to sleep with him as well. The big reveal is that Mr. Belding moonlights as a luchador on the weekends and they have a loser leaves school blowoff in the bayside gym for some reason.

 

[BruiserBrody]

 

[BruiserBrody]

From Louisville Gardens (3,000), final show at the venue

- included a recognition of Jackie Fargo, Bill Dundee, Rocky Johnson, Jimmy Valiant and others

Derrick King, Jason Lee, & Brian Keck beat Chris Alexander, Chris Michaels, & Sean Casey (6:39) when Keck pinned Casey

Damaja & Rob Conway beat Mike Hard & Sly Scraper (6:34) when Damaja pinned Hard

Donna Derring (OVW referee) pinned Tony Vanetti (local DJ) (3:44)

OVW Southern Tag Champs Brock Lesnar & Brian Keck (subbing for Shelton Benjamin) beat Perry Saturn & Dean Malenko (9:01) when Lesnar pinned Saturn

Randy Orton pinned Rico Constantino (10:09)

The Big Show & Mark Henry beat Mr. Black & Prototype (13:09) when Henry pinned Black

Nick Dinsmore pinned The Machine (17:02) in a retirement vs. mask match

Ron Waterman & Bobby Eaton beat The Disciples of Synn (Payne & Damien) (11:17) when Eaton pinned Payne

OVW Champ Flash Flanagan pinned Chris Jericho (17:13)

The Undertaker & Kane beat Leviathan & Diamond Dallas Page (13:41) via disqualification--

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Intrigued by Keck, apparently a NCAA and MMA grappler who gave WWE a try.

Did Eaton ever appear in TNA? I can't recall. Would have been fun to get a washed Eaton to do some SD! stuff, ala Finley's career resurgence.

 

[BruiserBrody]

back in the late 90s on the Wisconsin indie scene, there was this fun Undertaker knockoff gimmick called the "Mannibal". he was made up to look like a dead body, brought to the ring in a casket and took instructions from his father's severed head. And then the bell rang...

Sadly before my time at the indies. We had a Taker/Kane KO gimmick of Sam Hayne, who was a HOSS who wore a bull/devil mask and breathed fire. He was around near the top for years. He and Jack Berzerker are 2 guys I'm most surprised never got at least a TNA run when Mr Kennedy, Diavari, Swoggle and others came from our league
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[BruiserBrody]

Kind of fun to see them go from calm to coked up promo and back again

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1818061198719381915

Kevin Nash vs Double J was a top 100 match in 2005?!?!

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

How the hell is Kevin Steen vs. Super Dragon from Astonishing X-Mas not the highest ranked PWG match? It's better than the Super Dragon/Excalibur match that's rated near the top in every possible way.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Rock and Roll Express were supposed to turn heel in SMW at the end of Summer in 95 to attempt to reverse the sinking crowds. It was supposed to lead to a feud with Tracy and DWB. Morton and Tracy had a real life incident over women backstage and Morton was fired.

 

[Valeyard]

I wish a big heel run had happened for them. It could've been a lot of fun.

 

[BruiserBrody]

I believe it was also mentioned that ECW tried to sign Morton around this point, but he would lose money on the deal because he wouldn't be able to sell the gimmicks in Philly like he could in the hillbilly towns.

 

[Valeyard]

I really don't know where Morton would fit in 1995 ECW. Like I want to believe Raven lackey Ricky is a possibility but I doubt that was the intention.

 

[strummer]

Yeah maybe he would have basically done what Prichard and Del Ray did in late 95 ECW but don't think Heyman goes in that direction.

 

[BruiserBrody]

I really don't know where Morton would fit in 1995 ECW. Like I want to believe Raven lackey Ricky is a possibility but I doubt that was the intention.

When is Morton's run? 97ish in between WCW and WWF gigs?? He def did ECW for a bit

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Too bad @Cackling Co Pilot Kamala is still gone, because I finally found a Vertabreaker match on YouTube, and it's against Jose Perez of all people!

 

[BruiserBrody]

Too bad @Cackling Co Pilot Kamala is still gone, because I finally found a Vertabreaker match on YouTube, and it's against Jose Perez of all people!

I sent him it

 

[BruiserBrody]

9/3/93: The NWA convention was held in Las Vegas, NV, consisting of Jim Crockett, Dennis Coraluzzo, Steve Rickard, Bob Trobich, and Paul Heyman. During the convention, Tod Gordon (of ECW), was accepted as a member while Jim Cornette’s application was tabled since they wanted to make sure Smoky Mountain Wrestling would recognize the NWA World Champion, rather than the WWF World Champion Yokozuna, who Cornette managed. Discussion also surrounded the future of the NWA World Championship, with members approving of the planned title change to Rick Rude at Fall Brawl, under the stipulation Rude would later drop the title at a NWA house show to a person of their choosing.

Hilarious they tried to pretend they had any clout with the big boys.

I would suspect at least Heyman and maybe Coraluzzo were hoping WCW would give them a cash settlement to go away.

Crockett still had family ties within WCW, but was too dumb to quit trying to mettle instead of getting a gig as the local promoter in some JCP hotbed.