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

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1595502089333280769

Lirl at Larry Zbyszko being included in a profile about the independent wrestling scene in 2008!

Gino Sammartino looks like he was @Dandy ’s neighbor who got into a dispute with over lawn care.


Dandy: yeah...looks like...

 

[JN News]

How about that Shane "Swerve" Strickland in PCW Ultra? Is he still the Light Heavyweight Champion in PCW Ultra? I've been watching some of his old matches from 2017 - 2018. He's a great Heel. How is he doing right now?

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

He's a rising star in AEW right now.

 

[JN News]

How about Hammerstone? Where's "The Business" right now?

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

He's still with MLW, where he's the World Champion.

 

[JN News]

What about WAR BEAST? Are they still in business or have they disbanded?

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1597759630679060480

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1599174828837113856

Death match promotion owners: They’re just like us (me)

 

[HarleyQuinn]

I do not remember this at all but apparently, it aired on the TLC Channel back in 2001. I feel like @Holiday Spice Kamala would get a kick out of this (Big John Heidenrich being a notable featured player! Some of the random cameos are kinda humorous too, including Test!)

 

[Valeyard]

Is that the UPW one with Cena?

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1602131977469136896

Careful that Mike Rapada doesn't try and go into business for himself.

 

[Hawk 34]

Thesz in ‘94 still would have stretched the fuck outta Candido, pretty bold of Candido to give him the grandpa treatment like that.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Norman The Lunatic Vs Kamala in an explosion match is a me and @BruiserBrody dream match if I ever saw one.

Nikita Koloff Vs Paul Orndorf is legit about as huge of a main event you can realistically do on an 1991 indie.

There's something really funny about solo Robert Gibson, "You remember the Rock N Roll Express? Well, we got one of 'em!"

 

[alkeiper]

TNT = Savio Vega as well.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

I've posted this at least twice but story of the 1991 AWF is fascinating. Owned by a teenage British expat, who later showed up on @BruiserBrody 's favorite forum WrestlingClassics to chew out its posters and that piece of scum Meltzer.

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This is marginally better looking than I expected. It's really not any worse than late era AWA.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Just got through the intro and I know it's gonna be worth a watch. Armstrong Alley said he's got 26 episodes of this. Nothing said hip in 2005 more than goofy, middle aged white man rapping and the stars of Continental Wrestling a mere 20 years past their prime.

 

[Valeyard]

To be fair there were less options in 2005 on a broadcasting level if nothing else. People would've watched it.

 

[BruiserBrody]

Beau James on this week's Between the Sheets explains that in 1989/90 guys like Wahoo, Tommy Rich etc were getting 250-350 per indy shot. Meanwhile, Tully Blanchard was trying to get 1500 a shot. This is basically what Slaughter did in 87/88 (IIRC Sarge's number was even higher) and priced himself into semi retirement.
250 isn't bad at all if you consider Terry Taylor was supposedly making 30 bucks a shot for WCCW in early 88.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1606720166875774977

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1606720166875774977

I find it fascinating that Funk sat out most of the 80s boom period (1 year in WWF, 6 months in NWA and scattered shots otherwise) due to his bad back and whatever, but then spent most of the 90s doing big bumps in high school gyms.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1609247527500398593

Happy New Year’s @Laz !!!

 

[BruiserBrody]

I want to find the board where somebody romanticizes the IWA like I do late era AWA garbage.

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Jules Strongbow appears again! I was surprised when his wife told me last night that she didn't know who "Sodbuster" Kenny Jay was. She is from the southern east coast though, not a mid westerner. I told her of his death last week, and she tried to remember the name when she got home to Jules. She said she only muddered "Sod..." and Jules jumped in "Sodbuster" Kenny Jay! And told her what a great guy he was.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1626215798669983744

 

[One Epic Winter (OEW)]

Mad Man Pondo, this was the dude who has the John Wayne Gacy gimmick, right?

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

That was Pogo the Clown from XPW

 

[Valeyard]

Hogan making a potential turn on the deathmatch senior circuit is what I need in my life.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Does Hogan still throw good punches? That’d be half the battle.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

@BruiserBrody puts on sideways Packers hat

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Cheerleader Melissa To Be Inducted Into Indie Hall Of Fame Class Of 2023 | Fightful News

The Indie Wrestling Hall of Fame continues to grow.

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[BruiserBrody]

Bang Bros or Dallas indies in 1994?