Nostalgia Time Part 3: I used to love WWF

Anderson Searl said:
Booka T Suckaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Man the old wrestling was so good, back when you had Sunday Night Heat, Monday Night Raw and Thursday Night SmackDown !!!

The video games were always top drawer as well.
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Yeah, I remember Smackdown on Playstation 2, played that so much it almost got me back into WWF (Watched a couple of shows but it was all a bit rubbish)

I remember I had an N64 game called WCW vs ECW or something. It was awesome, and I'd never seen heard of WCW or ECW before then so it was like a whole new world. I never actually watched any WCW or ECW afterwards, mind.
 
cornelius said:
we used to impersonate them as kids. my friend and me were the hardy brothers. my fat friend was the big show though, so nobody messed with us. choke slamarama bish

shortly after that we started trading pokemon cards.

it was all really gay


oh and:
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lol, I happened to flick onto the WWE a few months back and Golddust was back in it again. Hasn't changed his act at all by the look of it.

I was a fan a decade or so ago. My favourite period was 99-01 at the beginning of the McMahon-Helmsley era. Always been a fan of Triple H so the rivalries between himself, Stone Cold and The Rock (and Mankind and Untertaker to a lesser extent) were great viewing. Unfortunately he's never been the same since his injury, a quad tear if I remember correctly, and I rapidly lost interest once they bought out the WCW and bought back all the old guys like Flair and Hogan.
 
Pound for Pound the best wrestler to have ever lived, regarded so by the majority of the wrestling fraternity was Tommy Billington. A shortarse from Wigan. Also known as the Dynamite Kid. In the ring he was simply put on another level. You should check out his Japanese matches where he is considered a legend. Shame that in real life he is a total Cnut.
Heres something for you. Did you know that proffesional wrestling was created in Wigan. As in the fake style that is now used world wide.
 
oh yes - was well into WWF as a kid - I remember going to Gmex back in the day to watch it all live as well

Anyway ITV Wrestling used to shit all over the US stuff - Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks and Kendo Nagasaki !
 
roodboy said:
oh yes - was well into WWF as a kid - I remember going to Gmex back in the day to watch it all live as well

Anyway ITV Wrestling used to shit all over the US stuff - Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks and Kendo Nagasaki !
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Really, it didn't. Big Daddy had to be the worst wrestler to have ever lived.
 
Karl Gotch broke his arm after him and his brother tried conning him out of his pay. The Crabtre brothers used to make thousands with every event but paid the wrestlers £5 - £20 on average. Gotch was a european draw but was also considered the best real fighter in the world at the time. They'd promised him £500 for the night then tried ripping him off by only paying a tenner. Gotch chased them into the toilets were he broke big daddies arm to get his brother out of the cubicle, he then threatened to put shirley in the hospital. Shirleys brother (the ref) who was the boss as well gave in. He couldn't afford to have his star out for the summer season.
 
roodboy said:
oh yes - was well into WWF as a kid - I remember going to Gmex back in the day to watch it all live as well

Anyway ITV Wrestling used to shit all over the US stuff - Big Daddy, Giant Haystacks and Kendo Nagasaki !
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I remember as a Kid watching Giant Haystacks and co at the Tooting Leisure centre in about 1988 (I was 10). My main memory of it was that the crowd was made up of kids and old ladies, and that Haystacks spat a load of water over the crowd after a load of booing!

And I still have an autographed poster of Big Daddy at my parents house!
 
I was never into WWF wrestling, my friends were, but I never got the appeal. I used to enjoy the British stuff when I was really young Like Big Daddy etc.
 
gambit28 said:
Karl Gotch broke his arm after him and his brother tried conning him out of his pay. The Crabtre brothers used to make thousands with every event but paid the wrestlers £5 - £20 on average. Gotch was a european draw but was also considered the best real fighter in the world at the time. They'd promised him £500 for the night then tried ripping him off by only paying a tenner. Gotch chased them into the toilets were he broke big daddies arm to get his brother out of the cubicle, he then threatened to put shirley in the hospital. Shirleys brother (the ref) who was the boss as well gave in. He couldn't afford to have his star out for the summer season.
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You seem to be an expert!
to be honest i only have very vague memories of it all and havent got a clue who was any good and who wasnt

good to see that there are some other fans of the old Brit wrestling!
why did UK Wrestling stop being shown on ITV anyway? From what i remember it was very popular and then just ended almost overnight
 
Anyone remember Scotty 2 Hotty... always was on opening cards, has the Worm... Too Cool was the shit, Grand Master Sexay was fecking hilarious.

I remember when he won the LHW title and lost it a week later to that cnut Dean Malenko
 
Anderson Searl said:
Anyone remember Scotty 2 Hotty... always was on opening cards, has the Worm... Too Cool was the shit, Grand Master Sexay was fecking hilarious.

I remember when he won the LHW title and lost it a week later to that cnut Dean Malenko
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Too Cool were awesome, with Rikishi doing his dance in those "magic" shades. Big up to the Godfather as well, "Get on the hooooooooooo train!"

I remember when Malenko, Guerrero, Benoit and Saturn arrived in the WWF as the Radicalz (everything had a z on the end back then). Shame they weren't together for long (i never watched WCW) as Malenko retired not long after and they sacked Eddie and Saturn. Isn't it bad that half of that team are dead, it's only about 10 years ago and they were in their prime.


Also i used to remember sneaking downstairs every year on one Sunday night at 2 in the morning to watch the Royal Rumble on channel 4. Always fell asleep at school the next day!
 
Wasnt in WWF, was actually in WCW. But this was the worst wrestler ever.


The guy did go on to be "Typhoon", Earthquakes' tag team partner. But he royally screwed up his first appearance in WCW. And then WWE/F took the piss out of it recently.

 
roodboy said:
You seem to be an expert!
to be honest i only have very vague memories of it all and havent got a clue who was any good and who wasnt

good to see that there are some other fans of the old Brit wrestling!
why did UK Wrestling stop being shown on ITV anyway? From what i remember it was very popular and then just ended almost overnight
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Greg Dyke pulled the plug because he simply didn't like it. It was pulled the week after the FA cup final, were it pulled in 11 million viewers to the fa cups 5 million.

It was a dated concept though that hadn't evolved for over 30 years. The domination of the Crabtrees and Dale Martin meant they kept the money whilst the talent was underpaid. They never bothered to improve the rings, wrestling in a ring a third the size of what was being used around the rest of the world. They never bothered to think about ways to improve the show for the television. The talent was also going. Why be underpaid and unable to achieve main card status when the Crabtrees were always going to be hogging all the money and the limelight. The main card wrestling as well hadn't evolved from the 50's. Young talents like the Dynamite Kid fled to foreign shores.

We lost something that we were world leaders in. What you watch in the States and from Japan were all originated here in the UK. Right down to the gimmicks and storylines and manouvers. Even though these things didn't seem to stop the ratings it was in it's death knells creatively.
 
im not ashamed to say i still dont mind watching it from time to time....................:nervous:
best wrestler ever in my opinion: Shawn Michaels


they put out a really good tribute video for eddie guerrero
 
I first started watching WWF when I was 6-7 years old, those guys were my heros. My first real favourite was the Big Bossman, I loved him (RIP).

I sort of lost interest in it in the mid 90's but got interested in it again a few years later (1998 I think). I fell in love with The Rock, he was just amazing. He was just making his name, being in The Nation but you knew the crowd was starting to see the potential and starting to seriously like him.

It certainly isn't the same anymore, I hardly watch WWE anymore. Sometimes I might watch 10-15 mins of Raw or Smackdown but sometimes I don't even know who is champion of what on either show. My niece is well into it now so I take her to the shows but once she loses interest, I think I might give up going to the live shows. Don't get wrong, they still pull off a cracking live show but actually sitting to watch it on TV bores me a little at the moment, it's simply not good enough anymore and I fear it never will be again. My all time favourite is The Undertaker, he's an absolute hero of mine and is the main reason I'm going to the show in November as the tour is centred around him.
 
lol @ the Papa Shango pic...didn't he used to have smoke coming out of one of the skulls?

Bret Hart was the best ever, I remember when he lost to Bob Backland (or whatever he was called)...he had that killer move, chicken face cross wing.

Doink the Clown was cool, I remember one Survivor Series it was him and a team of mini clowns against the others.

Kane coming into the WWF was brilliant, during the Hell in a Cell match..

Who can forget Mankind and the boiler room fights?

The return of the nWo to WWE was the last time I watched it tbh...they were meant to be the bad guys, but the crowd were cheering for Razor Ramon, Diesel and Hulk Hogan - classic moment.

The commentating team of JR and King was awesome...get them doing football matches!
 
What about the birds fellas?

Trish Stratus ran shit, a) because she was Canadian, and b) that rack :drool:
 
used to love it when i was a kid

one of the matches that sticks in my mind. Shane McMahon v Kurt Angle




watch from about 8 mins on in part 2, then go to part 3
 
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