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  1. The Fantastics - A Career Retrospective

    THE FANTASTICS - A CAREER RETROSPECTIVE Mid South Wrestling (1984) While in the Mid-Southern territory, Terry Taylor was teamed with a promising young wrestler named Bobby Fulton, who at the time was a jobber on TV. To capitalize further on the success of The Fabulous Ones, they were named...
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  2. Tracy Smothers - A Career Retrospective

    TRACY SMOTHERS - A CAREER RETROSPECTIVE Early career (1984) After growing up a fan of Memphis wrestling, Tracy Smothers was trained by Steve Keirn and Stan Lane and made his debut in 1982. He later made an appearance at the combined promotional effort Pro Wrestling USA, making his debut at a...

  3. Wrestler duplicates, copycats, and ripoffs thread

    Glen Jacobs (Unabom in SMW) is a clone of early Sid Vicious "Superfly" Sivi Afi "Buzzkill" Brad Armstrong....in a gimmick that ripped off his brother Road Dog Jesse James Fake Diesel (Glenn Jacobs) and Razor Ramon (Rick Bogner)

  4. A WWE Timeline - 2020 to 2029

    2020: Ronda Rousey returns in the fall NXT takes firm command of Wednesday nights and forces a move by AEW to Saturday WWE counterprograms that Saturday move with NXT UK RAW finishes the year averaging 1.7M viewers. Smackdown is at 2M Undertaker retires 2021 In response to continue a...

  5. What If - Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat stays with the WWF post 1991?

    In January 1991 former Intercontinental Champion Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat was brought back to the WWF. Aside for a casual reference by Gorilla Monsoon to "Ricky Steamboat", for all intents and purposes he was essentially a new character. Dressed like a literal dragon and breathing fire...

  6. 2001 - The Fate of Eric Bischoff

    Preface: This is a sequel of sorts that I did in March 2001 to PW Torch's Chris Zavisa, who did a hilarious fictional piece called "Billionaire Ted's Indecent Proposal", published in early 1996 in the Pro Wrestling Torch Newsletter. Pictures are added for this posting. It was past 2:00 am in...

  7. A Look Back on the WWE careers of The Young Bucks, Cody Rhodes, and Kenny Omega as of 2020

    The Young Bucks - Matt and Nick Jackson were signed to $1.75M contacts each in January of 2019. Their characters were essentially unchanged from their NJPW personas and they were immediately placed on Smackdown. Programmed into a feud with The New Day, the Bucks were pinned at WrestleMania 35...
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  8. Owen Hart's WWF Run: 1999 and beyond

    Yes and no. From 1994 onward Owen probably made the same roughly as Davey. Owen (under his pre-1996 non guaranteed deal) would have been given main-event money in 1994, while as a tag-team champion in 1995 would have seen his earnings go down. Davey was a tag wrestler for much of 1995 (and not...

  9. A Better 1995 King of the Ring Tournament

    JUNE 25, 1995 CoreStates Spectrum Philadelphia, PA King of the Ring Qualifier "Made in the USA" Lex Luger (w Davey Boy Smith) vs Tatanka (w Ted Dibiase) In a final blowoff to their feud, Luger wins in 7 minutes to advance to the tournament during the Free For All segment. KING OF THE RING...
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  10. Owen Hart's WWF Run: 1999 and beyond

    Two reasons: 1) Vince allowed Davey Boy out of his contract in exchange for Smith paying the WWF a $150K fee. Owen was not given that option. 2) Vince felt Owen was more valuable than Davey Boy for a number of reasons. One - Owen was a better worker than Davey Boy. In some respects he had a...

  11. Owen Hart's WWF Run: 1999 and beyond

    Owen was briefly in WCW at the start of 1991, then rejoined the WWF on November 12th, 1991. If it was the standard two or three year deal he would have likely re-upped around Survivor Series 93 (the start of his big push) or Survivor Series 94. This would lead to another two or three year deal...

  12. Owen Hart's WWF Run: 1999 and beyond

    In 1996 everything changed following the defections of Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. The WWF did an about-face and began signing wrestlers to guarantees and in the case of Bulldog, longer deals. Marc Merro was the first to get a downside guarantee (ironically even with Nash and Hall still in the...

  13. Owen Hart's WWF Run: 1999 and beyond

    I doubt it. The only ten year WWF deal that I am aware of is the one that Hogan was under, which expired in 1994. In 1996 the WWF began to get a lot of their talent to commit to new deals that had guaranteed contracts. HHH got one, Davey Boy Smith did as well. Both however had deals that were...

  14. Is it true WWE exaggerate height and weight.

    Of course. Undertaker and Kevin Love (6' 10") Now granted, Undertaker is in his early 50s and would potentially be slightly shorter than he was in the 190s Andre the Giant and Kareem Abdul Jabbar (7'2") Hulk Hogan and Karl Malone (6' 9")

  15. Owen Hart's WWF Run: 1999 and beyond

    This scenario begins with the premise that Owen Hart's harness works and that he faces Charles Wright at Over the Edge as planned: Over the Edge 1999: Owen Hart wins the Intercontinential title RAW after Over the Edge: Owen abandons The Blue Blazer gimmick and says he only used it to get the...

  16. How TNA's collapse has benefited WWE (and ROH)

    TNA, circa 2010: Following a brief, failed attempt by TNA to go head to head with WWE in 2010, the company made the decision that in order to get to the next level, they needed to take Impact! out of Universal Studios and into larger, conventional arenas. At a macro level this made sense -...

  17. The Undertaker pictured entering New York hospital

    Perhaps he is visiting Roman after Braun sent him there.

  18. Examining WWE financial figures (2015 - 2017)

    In light of the WWE's Q1 release I feel it would be interesting to examine the trends over the last 2.5 years and see where they may or may not be pointing to. Revenue: Q3 2014: 120.2M (Network 22.4M, Television 42.2M) Q4 2014: 140.5M (Network 27.2M, Television 50.5M) Q1 2015: 176.2M (Network...

  19. A Most Unexpectedly Stacked Roster - WWE in June 1993

    I heard this mentioned on a PWO podcast last year - the June 15th WWF Superstars taping was a unique blend of Old and New Generation talent. I decided to go to Historyofwwe.com and had a look. Indeed, for a brief moment, much of the talent that would drive WCW's ascent and the WWF resurgence...

  20. Actual vs Revisionist History - What WWE knew of Luger's WCW negotiations

    Revisionist History: Lex Luger blindsided Vince McMahon when he turned up on the first Monday Nitro on September 4th. Luger violated a handshake agreement and left without notice Actual History: Pro Wrestling Torch #349, dated Aug 19th, 1995: "It's unsubstantiated at the moment, but it's worth...
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