"Abdullah " Whimper

Would have loved to have seen how good Magnum could have been if he had not gotten hurt in the car wreck. The Monday Night Wars were great and the dissolution of WCW forever ruined pro wrestling.

 

I wonder if the coaching staff tries guys like Whimper with the starters ever in practice???? I think it is hard to judge an Olinemans play when the entire line is scrubs - you need to rotate them in with the starters one at a time and evaluate their play with the better guys next to them. Guys could look terrible in a preseason game when the entire line is backups and ther is no real gameplan, but that same guy could really excell with better linemates.

 

Dusty Rhodes, wahoo McDaniel and ricky steamboat, the Anderson brothers ( arn ) and who can forget The rock-n-roll express!!

Lex Luger- The Total Package has a great book out, Wrestling with the Devil!

Back to the Orig thread post.... Whymper had Adams playing TE on his side. it took two of them to protect Ben

Cajun-

 

wow, somehow i don't think this is the direction the OP intended for this thread.....

 

Tony Atlas and Rocky Johnson....you're right but I couldn't resist,good times for sure.

 

LOL! Freddy Blassie was even farther back but he was like the original pretty boy villain and he would insult the audience and call them "pencil necked geeks". Andy Kaufman loved him and modeled his wrestling act after him and actually did a movie with him called "My Breakfast with Blassie". I've watched it and let's just say it's not for everybody but I love it.

 

ahh, yes. that saying jarred some old memories. lol

 

You are reeeeeally showing your age. LOL!

 

Whatever it takes... Stack em and use the buddy system I says.

 

with beach and gilbert hurting, we may have to stack TE's.

 

Yeah WCW was AWESOME during that era. Don't forget the Steiner Bros., Flyin' Brian Pillman, Van Vader, Doom, The Midnight Express, Sid Vicious, Barry Windham, Cactus Jack, and Jim Ross announcing it all. Man it was great.

 

We got plenty of em to choose from and to throw at either side... In basketball talk, they would be our hack a Shaq strategy. Hahaha

the damn O line bug strikes again

 

Go back and look at some of the original Road Warriors stuff. (WCW)

But back to the OP...Yes if you got to put an extra lineman out there to protect and it works? Screw it and just do it!

 

Okay, just for grunts and giggles since the wrestling thing is quite a hit here...

which wrestling group coined this phrase?

"And we'll kick your stinking teeth in!"

 

There you go! Growing up in Richmond , VA in the 70's I saw "The Freight Train" a lot on Mid Atlantic Wrestling.

 

Without cheating I'll guess The Road Warriors.

 

I'm gonna guess the Nasty Boys???

 

I can't believe Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka hasn't been mentioned...wasn't he the original "Fly'n Hawaiin"?

 

The Fashion Plate !! He and Captain Lou Albano. Great Managers!!!!

 

Don't forget the great Tully Blanchard!!

Seriously there was a time when I traveled a lot. Maybe 20 to 25 years ago. You could always get a conversation going in the hotel bar or airport lounge about wrestling. Everyone knew a little something about wrestling. Met some real interesting people talking about wrestling.

 

Ah yeah! He got a coconut cracked on his head by Roddy Piper and apparently that caused a real fight. Rowdy Roddy was the man. Of course Jake the Snake was probably the best "stick" man but Roddy was awesome on it too. I also loved Randy Savage and Hacksaw Jim Duggan. I still have on tape somewhere the first ever appearance of the Undertaker which was at a Survivor Series in 1990 where he was the Million Dollar Man's mystery partner. I remember him when he was in WCW before that and he was called Mean Mark Callous and his finisher was the Heart Punch.

 

BFT...funny story about the Undertaker. I was working a WWF event one time and had to watch the area where the wrestlers were leaving. This is when the Undertaker and Pall Bearer were enemies. Had a bunch of kids that were waiting in the area and after the event Undertaker and Pall Bearer come out, jump in the same car together and take off. Poor kids were pretty upset. This is the same event that I was escorting Triple H to the ring when someone threw their cup of beer at him. He was pissed and started to go up into the crowd after the guy...we had to hold him back and no, that was not scripted! lol

 

That's hilarious. I'll tell you something funny about kids and wrestling. I thought it was 1,00,000% real and there was a Halloween Havoc after Sting had won the title at Great American Bash in 1990 where he defended the title against Sid Vicious. Well Sting was about to win and Sid runs to the back so then Sting chases him and they come back to the ring and Sting just lays down and lets Sid pin him. Well I started literally crying and my dad said "WAIT! JUST WAIT!" because he knew what was going on. They had dressed Barry Windham up like Sting and after Sid pinned the look alike Sting came out and you could tell that he had been tied up because he had some rope fragments around his wrist. Then Sting came out and pinned Sid and I was so happy! LOL! Also there was a time when Hogan got jumped on by Earthquake and I talked to someone that said they sent Hogan a get well card!!! LOL!!! Do you remember when Jake The Snake let his cobra bite Mach Man? That was awesome!

 

thats funny ,.. we promote sports shows in cincinnati and we are having cactus jack... mankind.... mick foley as an autograph guest at our next show ... hahah.. HINES

 

Dude if you can get me something for free I would kill for it! He is one of my all time heroes! We are members of the Disney Vacation Club and we go a couple of time a year and apparently he lives in Central Florida. We were getting on our Disney bus to take us back to our resort from Animal Kingdom and JUST as our bus started pulling out I saw him walking down the sidewalk to catch the bus going to his resort and I almost cried knowing how close I was to getting to actually meet him. Even in Florida in September he was wearing his sweat pants and cut off flannel shirt AND his trusty fanny pack! LOL! At least tell him he has a HUGE fan in the backwoods of East TN!