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  • 4/10/12
  • firebird65
<Hell, I remember the rise of the Ultimate Warrior. >

Do you remember when he was called the Dingo Warrior?
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  • 4/10/12
  • The_Phantom
I'm old enough to, but I didn't follow anything but WWF as a kid.
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  • 4/10/12
  • firebird65
I never could stand the Ultimate Warrior. Seemed like he had a brain the size of a pea. Totally incoherant when he talked.

One of my favorite moments in wrestling is when Rick Rude nailed him from behind in the Ultimate Posedown.

I also liked it when Earthquake debuted in the WWE and squashed Warrior when Warrior was trying to do a push up with Earthquake on his back.
Edited 4/10/12   by  firebird65
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  • 4/10/12
  • The_Phantom
I loved him as a kid. Looking back on it, yeah he made little to no sense. But I was such a Warrior fan that when my brother and I rented the VHS of Wrestlemania 6 (ah, the days before you could just look up the results on the internet) I didn't even want to watch the main event because I *knew* that Hogan would beat him and I was already tired of Hogan. I was about 8 or 9? My brother watched it without me and then told me I really should watch it because it was a "really close match". lol probably coolest thing my brother's ever done :-p
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  • 4/10/12
  • firebird65
Here's where Jimmy Hart and Dino Bravo pull a guy (supposedly named "John") out of the crowd to have Bravo do a push up with him on his back. In comes the Warrior to interfere and he gets more than he bargained for. They don't do it like this anymore:

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jwRu3XwTM0
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  • 4/10/12
  • The_Phantom
LOL John Tenta! AKA Earthquake

That's a good find, I've never seen that. And here I thought I'd seen everything televised from that era... lol
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  • 4/10/12
  • firebird65
Yeah, that was hilarious. I was watching it with my wife (then girlfriend) and she thought I has going to have a heart attack I was laughing so hard.
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  • 4/10/12
  • The_Phantom
Not to put a damper on the conversation, but I actually find it a little depressing going back and watching all those old WWF tapes. Half my childhood "icons" are dead. Both Bravo and Earthquake are... You go back and watch an early wrestlemania and 25-30 percent of the on screen talent is gone. I still enjoy them for the memories though
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  • 4/10/12
  • firebird65
Indeed. It's shocking how many are dead.
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  • 4/10/12
  • nomar06mvp

"Do you remember when he was called the Dingo Warrior? "

The Dingo Warrior goes back to the final days of the great Von Erichs and World Class wrestling. How I miss watching World Class every Saturday and seeing some really, really great wrestling.

FYI, World Class introduced wrestling videos and entrance music into wrestling.

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  • 4/10/12
  • firebird65
Yeah, it was World Class Wrestling. Gawd I hated those Von Ehrich's. My favorite World Class moment was when the promotion gave the youngest Von Erich (David?) a framed "painting" of the family. He was visibly "moved". Well, suddenly a sheikh looking dude jumps out from under the ring and nails Von Erich with the painting. It was great.

My wife used to love the Von Erichs. I made her mad by calling Kerry Von Erich the "Texas Tomato" during his time in the WWF.
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  • 4/10/12
  • nomar06mvp
Lol... my favorite were always the Freebirds. man... there has never been anything like them since.
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  • 4/10/12
  • firebird65
The Freebirds were great! I convinced my wife they were the ones who did the song Freebird. Told her it was Michael P.S. Hayes on lead vocals and guitar, Jimmy "Jam" Garvin on bass, and Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy on drums. She believed it. LOL!
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  • 4/10/12
  • astatecard
"found a lot of them to be WWE Marks."
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I came around to WWE once WCW went out. I grew up with Memphis wrestling with Jerry Lawler, Bill Dundee, Jimmy Valiant, Jackie Fargo, and those guys. When Vince was going around putting the small guys out, Memphis hung around after everyone else was gone. I hated when they finally went down. I remember them selling out the Mid South Coliseum every Monday for about 10 years in a row. A lot of the guys that were big names in the WWE in the 90s came from Memphis. I remember them putting a dentist's smok on a guy and calling him Dr Issac Yankem. It was Kane. Steve Austin came through Memphis.
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  • 4/10/12
  • nomar06mvp
Lol....
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  • 4/10/12
  • nomar06mvp
Ah... good Memphis memories. Steve Austin was part of the USWA... Sid Vicious was part of the CWA there... the lawler-Jarrett vs Moondogs war was awesome... Austin idol-Lawler wars were also good.... love Memphis wrestling.
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  • 4/10/12
  • The_Phantom
Ah yes, the "former persona"... the biggest downside to giving gimmicky characters.

I think it's really silly that they just brought Prince Albert back as Lord Tensai, even though there's nothing asian about him.

Speaking of people in WCW first, I remember renting a WCW video tape in the late 80s(?) featuring a match between Lex Luger and "Mean Mark Callous". It may be on Youtube, but the only three things I remember about it are that Luger was wearing some offensively pink shorts, he won, and the future Undertaker did the rope-walking thing even back then...
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  • 4/10/12
  • astatecard

"I think it's really silly that they just brought Prince Albert back as Lord Tensai, even though there's nothing asian about him."
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I know, and not even a good disguise.

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  • 4/10/12
  • The_Phantom
Well I think they KNEW it was obvious, because Jerry(?) even said he was a former WWE star who had reinvented himself lol. He was supposed to come across as this monster, and he looked as sloppy as I remember Albert always looking
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  • 4/11/12
  • astatecard
Met Sid Vicious one time. Probably the biggest human being I have ever been face to face with. He grew up in Marion, and I met him one time in the Walgreens in West Memphis. They made half of the drug store into one monster liquor store, and he was coming out as my buddies and I were going in one New Year's Eve on the way to Memphis.
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In all that, don't forget the "Dirty Dutchman," Dutch Mantel.
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