Anyone else here into professional wrestling? I mainly watch AEW myself.

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Man, I used to be into wrestling from the late 70's to the late 80's. I grew up in the St. Louis area and always watched Wrestling at The Chase on Sunday mornings that was host at Chase Plaza. I went a few times with my family to the Kiel Auditorium and watched the greats, such as Rick Flair and Harley Race beat the hell out of each other. lol

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Re: Pro Wrestling
By: Charon to halian on Fri Jul 19 2024 09:03 am

Man, I used to be into wrestling from the late 70's to the late 80's. I grew up in the St. Louis area and always watched Wrestling at The Chase on Sunday mornings that was host at Chase Plaza. I went a few times with my family to the Kiel Auditorium and watched the greats, such as Rick Flair and Harley Race beat the hell out of each other. lol

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Man, I used to be into wrestling from the late 70's to the late 80's. grew up in the St. Louis area and always watched Wrestling at The Chase Sunday mornings that was host at Chase Plaza. I went a few times with family to the Kiel Auditorium and watched the greats, such as Rick Flai Harley Race beat the hell out of each other. lol

hey you sysops that are new to bbsing should quote your msg replies.

I can forgive not quoting an entire one line.

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Man, I used to be into wrestling from the late 70's to the late 80's. I grew up in the St. Louis area and always watched Wrestling at The Chase on Sunday mornings that was host at Chase Plaza. I went a few times with my family to the Kiel Auditorium and watched the greats, such as Rick Flair and Harley Race
beat the hell out of each other. lol

I have not watched it in years but, when I was a kid, "Championship
Wrestling" came on for an hour, at Noon, just as cartoons were ending. I didn't watch it until I met some other kids who did, c1982.

I don't remember the name of the "federation" that was represented, but I
think it was "Southeast" or something. Jimmy Hart, Jerry "the King"
Lawler, Dutch Mantell, the Fabulous Ones, Kenya Kondori, Bill Dundee, Sweet Brown Sugar, Sabu, are some I remember. There was also a team of "Swamp"
guys, but I don't remember their nicknames, and a team from "down under" (that didn't include Bill Dundee) that I think were supposedly from New Zealand.
One of them was bald and, IIRC, missing some teeth. The other one mostly grunted and didn't talk (in complete sentences) much.

I watched that every Saturday I was home for a couple of years. One of the girls I was in class with actually went to some of their events at the Louisville Gardens. She was pretty cool. I look back and wish she'd lived closer by.


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Re: Pro Wrestling
By: halian to MRO on Sat Jul 20 2024 05:58 am

Man, I used to be into wrestling from the late 70's to the late 80's. grew up in the St. Louis area and always watched Wrestling at The Chase Sunday mornings that was host at Chase Plaza. I went a few times with family to the Kiel Auditorium and watched the greats, such as Rick Flai Harley Race beat the hell out of each other. lol

hey you sysops that are new to bbsing should quote your msg replies.

I can forgive not quoting an entire one line.

that's nice.
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Man, I used to be into wrestling from the late 70's to the late 80's. I grew up in the St. Louis area and always watched Wrestling at The Chase on Sunday mornings that was host at Chase Plaza. I went a few times with my family to the Kiel Auditorium and watched the greats, such as Rick Flair and Harley Race beat the hell out of each other. lol

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

Ric flair nature boy woooooo

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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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