Re: Pro Wrestling
By: SYS64738 to Rixter on Mon Aug 05 2024 05:51 am

Ric flair nature boy woooooo

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I remember Nature Boy Ric Flair. Wooooo.

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Re: Pro Wrestling
By: SYS64738 to Rixter on Mon Aug 05 2024 05:51 am

Ric flair nature boy woooooo

I remember Nature Boy Ric Flair. Wooooo.

Stone Cold Steve Austin for the win.

A little later it was maybe Triple-H, Mick Foley/Mankind, the
Undertaker, and of course The Rock.

To this day I still don't fully understand why I actually liked that
stuff... LOL



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Re: Re: Pro Wrestling
By: Gamgee to Rixter on Tue May 05 2026 07:48 pm

Rixter wrote to SYS64738 <=-

Re: Pro Wrestling
By: SYS64738 to Rixter on Mon Aug 05 2024 05:51 am

Ric flair nature boy woooooo

I remember Nature Boy Ric Flair. Wooooo.

Stone Cold Steve Austin for the win.

A little later it was maybe Triple-H, Mick Foley/Mankind, the
Undertaker, and of course The Rock.

To this day I still don't fully understand why I actually liked that stuff... LOL

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Because we were younger, easily impressionable, and we only had 8 channels to watch. How are you Gamgee?
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Rixter wrote to SYS64738 <=-

Re: Pro Wrestling
By: SYS64738 to Rixter on Mon Aug 05 2024 05:51 am

Ric flair nature boy woooooo

I remember Nature Boy Ric Flair. Wooooo.

Stone Cold Steve Austin for the win.

A little later it was maybe Triple-H, Mick Foley/Mankind, the
Undertaker, and of course The Rock.

To this day I still don't fully understand why I actually liked that stuff... LOL

Because we were younger, easily impressionable, and we only had 8
channels to watch. How are you Gamgee?

Ha, that's likely a big part of it!

I'm well, hope you are too.



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I remember Nature Boy Ric Flair. Wooooo.

Stone Cold Steve Austin for the win.

A little later it was maybe Triple-H, Mick Foley/Mankind, the
Undertaker, and of course The Rock.

King Jerry Lawler, Austin Idol, Bill Dundee, Dutch Mantell and, of course, Jimmy Hart! :D

To this day I still don't fully understand why I actually liked that
stuff... LOL

I was a pre-teen, and it came on every Saturday right after cartoons ended.
Guessing those factors had something to do with it. :D


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Dumas Walker wrote to GAMGEE <=-

I remember Nature Boy Ric Flair. Wooooo.

Stone Cold Steve Austin for the win.

A little later it was maybe Triple-H, Mick Foley/Mankind, the
Undertaker, and of course The Rock.

King Jerry Lawler, Austin Idol, Bill Dundee, Dutch Mantell and, of
course, Jimmy Hart! :D

I think those guys may have been a bit earlier/older than those
previously mentioned. I only know of King Jerry Lawler as a ringside announcer, not as a wrestler.

To this day I still don't fully understand why I actually liked that stuff... LOL

I was a pre-teen, and it came on every Saturday right after cartoons ended.
Guessing those factors had something to do with it. :D

Hah! Likely yes!



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Re: Re: Pro Wrestling
By: Gamgee to Rixter on Wed May 06 2026 08:25 am

I also remember some guy called the sheik and Wahoo McDaniels. Are those names right? I remember watching matches on Saturday evenings with my grandparents some times in the 70s.
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I remember Nature Boy Ric Flair. Wooooo.

Jesse Ventura used to have a podcast - he spoke about politics most of
the time, but he had Roddy Piper on once - they spent 90 minutes
reminiscing about spending their time on buses wrestling an ungodly
number of times a year, life on the road, performing in high-school
gynmasiums and cheesy venues, and pro wrestling just as it started
getting big. Very interesting.

Roddy Piper was in "They Live", and he and Jesse had a pilot about a
couple of detectives in Hawaii, but it didn't get picked up. Piper
lamented his life would have turned out different if that had been
successful - if not for what turned out to be mostly contract
difficulties between the studio and Sony, if memory serves.

It's definitely worth a listen if you could find it.

Piper passed away not long after they recorded it.





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Gamgee wrote to Rixter <=-

Stone Cold Steve Austin for the win.

I was more of a Rowdy Roddy Piper and Jesse "The Body" Ventura era fan.
see my earlier post.



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Rixter wrote to Gamgee <=-

I also remember some guy called the sheik and Wahoo McDaniels. Are
those names right? I remember watching matches on Saturday evenings
with my grandparents some times in the 70s.

I grew up on UHF TV - I'd love a campy cable channel comparable to the
cheezy b-movies, "pro" wrestling and live roller derby broadcasts.

UHF, by budget and transmission constraints, had a local quality you
don't get any more.

For a while in the '90s,cable providers needed to provide local
access, and you could sign up to essentially rent one of their studios.
A friend of mine had a talk show on cable - they already had a set with
a desk and couch. He had friends fill in as the band and interviewed
guests. We went to one of the filmings, it was a lot of fun.

More low-budget was "Larry, the Security guy". He did private security
for an apartment complex, and mounted a vidcam on the hood of his
go-cart. He'd do monologues while driving around the complex and
interview people at night in the poolhouse.

Lots of campy fun back then.




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Re: Re: Pro Wrestling
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Rixter on Thu May 07 2026 07:52 am

I grew up on UHF TV - I'd love a campy cable channel comparable to the cheezy b-movies, "pro" wrestling and live roller derby broadcasts.

UHF, by budget and transmission constraints, had a local quality you don't get any more.

I remember watching some UHF content long ago. Also, I'm reminded of the movie "UHF" with Weird Al Yankovic - A good movie about UHF TV content.

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A little later it was maybe Triple-H, Mick Foley/Mankind, the
Undertaker, and of course The Rock.

King Jerry Lawler, Austin Idol, Bill Dundee, Dutch Mantell and, of course, Jimmy Hart! :D

I think those guys may have been a bit earlier/older than those
previously mentioned. I only know of King Jerry Lawler as a ringside announcer, not as a wrestler.

This would have been c1982. :D The last think I heard Lawler doing was calling an XFL game... the 2001 version. :O :D

Jimmy Hart was a loud-mouthed ringside wrestling manager. Jimmy Cornett was also active in the same role during that time.


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Re: Re: Pro Wrestling
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Gamgee on Thu May 07 2026 07:52 a

Gamgee wrote to Rixter <=-

Stone Cold Steve Austin for the win.

I was more of a Rowdy Roddy Piper and Jesse "The Body" Ventura era
fan. see my earlier post.

i know i repeat myself but i'll say again i met rowdy roddy piper once.
he was just like you'd imagine. 75% cocaine.

https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/rowdyroddypiper

that was AFTER he hit all the bars in my town and then drove up to milwaukee and did a bunch of other stuff. all in one night


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Re: Re: Pro Wrestling
By: Dumas Walker to GAMGEE on Thu May 07 2026 10:40 am

Jimmy Hart was a loud-mouthed ringside wrestling manager. Jimmy

keep on dancin'


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Re: Re: Pro Wrestling
By: Gamgee to Rixter on Wed May 06 2026 08:25 am

I also remember some guy called the sheik and Wahoo McDaniels. Are
those names right? I remember watching matches on Saturday evenings
with my grandparents some times in the 70s.

I don't recognize those names, but wasn't watching in the 70's. ;-)



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