The fans in that day believed it, and that's what is wrong with today's wrestling (WWE, NXT, AEW) it's simply not believable and the wrestlers, promos, and matches in the ring suck Vince's wrinkled a*s in this era, I always thought that the WWE was going to be around forever but now I wonder, I saw a story when Vince dies the WWE will lose half it's value on Wall Street overnight, who knows Shane, Triple H and Ms. Triple H( Stephanie) may have to sell WWE one day, it's possible.
the video of the crowd doesnt seem to match he constant screams. I dont see any level of animation from the crowd. nobody appears to be shouting. my sense is the sound track is just added over top.
Both were still n their 20's. Similar Athletic Backgrounds, same Trainers I called them different sides of the same coin. They were a perfect match-up. We should have had more of these matches, but not only in Mid-Atlantic bur around the world.
I was there every other Friday night at the Richmond coliseum from 1977 to 1981 until I started playing High School football. My friends and I ( 9 to 12 year old kids) all thought the matches were real and what was almost as entertaining as the matches were the one to two real fights that would occur every week in the crowd. Flair, Piper, Steamboat, Wahoo, and Blackjack were real life super hero's to us kids !
Met these two in a Waffle House in Greenville SC when I was 12. Great guys both of them....my dad and I sat at their table. I was AWESTRUCK. Then ran into Flair again in 2019 at Pinky's bar and grill in Charlotte. He actually remembered our first meeting.
I was living in Richmond, Virginia around 79 or 80, and was in a restaurant where I saw Flair and Steamboat sitting in the same booth together!! They had a match that night at the old Richmond Arena.
Yeah I'm still living in Richmond now and I remember the same thing u could c them at a waffle house or maybe catch them going to a hotel they use to try and b careful because of the kayfabe thing
GoldenEra 4ever They do they same stuff here as they do today,they still call moves and the matches already have a winner unless something ends up happening such as one is throwing stiff blows or back stage disagrees with the bookers for example-Montreal screwjob,it originally happened since Bret and Shawn actually hated each other and Bret didn't want to drop the title to Shawn and planned to take the title with him to WCW which Vince wasnt having so he called off the match mid way and pretended Bret tapped when he clearly didn't. Stuff had always been booked before hand,its still a show of talent but now charisma plays a huge role in it.
Bryn Brynhilly Yeah, it always has been for entertainment purposes really. I was being silly in my comment because to a kid it is absolutely real, LOL! These guys are great actors/stunt men. Although the winner is dictated the physicality is very real and they do have to have that charisma to make it big time.
Just passed by the old Holiday Inn where all the wrestlers would stay when they were in town. Now it’s some seedy no tell motel. Time marches on, I guess. Still thanks for sharing this memory.
Steamboat was getting into Bodybuilding back then It was 4 years later that he won Mr.North Carolina in bodybuilding. He was not on Juice or roids.Look at pictures when he first started Steamboat had a physique.
I got to see several big name wrestlers during the mid 1960s. the tell books claim wrestling paid decent but no family time. wcw,few & Small venue/promotions. we're around ga all the time
@@TheKestevon Not really. I was 12 years old when this match took place. I knew it wasn't real but the difference between then and now was the performance. The show they put on was believable and the heat between wrestlers was believable. They were just a lot better at their craft than today.
Plus, the audience was told they were actually fighting. Some people always said "It is fake," but the fact that it was not acknowledged as "entertainment" left just enough doubt to make it FUN. ... Now, with "entertainment" it simply isn't fun.
David Childers omg you're exactly right, look at this FINE ART, is truly what it is. Two of THE greatest ever to do it. It's just like you say, it looks like Ric Flair is about to really murder this man in the ring, I mean you actually have to question it for a second. Both these men are working and selling their God damn asses off putting this show on. Its fucking incredible, oh definitely the level of mastery you see here is somewhat if not moreso lost in today's generation.
If this is the golden era, then why are there far less live wrestling events and far less wrestling on TV? I don't compare the present era of wrestling to the earlier era of the old territory system because both are different from one another. They are not the same by any stretch. If today's version of wrestling is what you like, then you just like a different version better than the old. That's cool too. One poster sez the audience was told they were fighting but actually they were never really told anything. The audience accepted the illusions being sold. Wrestlers back in the day were household names. I can remember in the 1980's when the Omni in Atlanta was filled weekly for the wrestling show. Even the B & C shows were packed. Nobody does that anymore, not even close and never will. Jim Cornette is right, wrestling is dead and has been for nearly 4 decades.
Flair has been quoted NUMEROUS times that if JCP had stayed south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and east of the Mississippi River, they would still be in business today, and I tend to agree. Having spent my teenage years in the '80's in Crockett territory, I can say beyond ANY shadow of a doubt that while Vince Jr may have had the superior technology, Jim Jr BY FAR had the best wrestling talent in North America, maybe even in the entire world.
I agree to a point. JCP's issues included Jim not separating his business from his friendships. By his own admission, he partied too much with the wrestlers, spent money like water among other things. Had he been a better businessman, or had someone who could reign him in somewhat, he still would be in business.
Dude, the follow up promotion WCW had the superior wrestling talent in may 1994. And then fucking Hogan came and WCW started to suck. Wrestling talent or match quality didn't sell.
Would you imagine it, without any annoying commentators, I can let the wrestlers actually tell the tale, and all I can hear otherwise is the COMPLETELY GOD DAMN LIT CROWD in the background, suspension of disbelief in complete, full commanding effect.
The best and most exciting wrestling ever! It was believable back then, these two played the crowds like nobody else, you had to experience it to understand it today, listen and watch the people. Flair and Steamboat were like gladiators!
Flair also stated that he wrestled Steamboat hundreds of times. No wonder, they understood each others reaction and did their matches on the fly without pre-planning them. Unreal abilities from them.
Look at these guys sell, I always thought Flair's hair was an aesthetic thing, but without it you couldn't see him blading, or selling! The perfect heel, and the perfect baby face!!
Wow, I love Steamboat’s martial arts style strikes and chops. He made them look so powerful and vicious. I like Steamboat the jacked up, fired up babyface better than the graceful family man character he became in the 80s and 90s.
Steamboat was a body builder prior to Wrestling. Flair looked up to Billy Graham back then. Isn't it ironic how the 2 top Wrestlers in the 80's (Hogan & Flair) were admirers of Graham?!
I was 9 years old and I was there at that match. We went so often that I made friends with a kid who’s mom worked at the Colosseum and we never watched the wrestling . We were always playing in places of the Colosseum we weren’t supposed to be lol. I remember we would bring bags of those little rubber Super Balls like you got in bubble gum machines and throw them from the Nose-Bleed seats into the ring in the middle of the big matches to try and hit the “bad guy” lol I have so many memories of those times .
both men look fabulous in this bout both were a little bigger here steamboat looks like hes about 245 here while flair was about 250 255 maybe.as everyone knows steamboat was a succesful bodybuilder he won a number of bodybuilding titles...and at one time flair wanted to be a strongman like ken patera.
it was the best from 77-82,steamboat had been doin alot of bodybuilding before he came on scene & was jacked here, notice the torture rack! he was like a bulkier Bruce Lee incorporating martial arts and wrasslin, flair was bigger too and admitted to juicing on occasion,nwa dropped ball with steamboat in 83,holding him away from flair,and when Dusty took over territory that put him and flair as priority opponents, big mistake letting all the to wwf in 83 and 84, jake roberts, roddy piper, valentine,orton, orndoff were all nwa
These two were the mirror images back in day the but one had to be the heel and the other the good guy.They were Magic in the ring.No wonder Ric was the one to induct Ricky into the hall Of Fame.
Do ever think these 2 thought back when training at verns AWA Minnesota barn that they would not be wrestling each other in front of crowds but be 2 of the greatest wrestlers ever.
Remember when you would walk into a bar and it was totally black and except for the lights over the pool tables? And they shown down onto a thick fog of smoke.
I was 3 years old. West Columbus High School. Cerro Gordo North Carolina. Waiting by the door of the locker room. When Flair came out. I wrapped my feet around his ankles, and my arms around his thigh. My mom and aunts and a crowd of females were stuck to him like white on rice. I actually remember being 3 years old, being lugged to the ring by Ric Flair attached to his leg as a 3 year old boy… Flair is a God. Don’t question it.
This was when wrestling was good made u say it could b real 1 thing 4 sure the work they put in was both of them in great shape 1975 to 1985 best year of wrestling
This version of their feud was better than the 1989 version eventhough those matches were technically better. Here they hated each other so was more emotional. Plus the feud worked better when Steamboat was the challenger.
2 of the all-time best. Each 1 could have a good match with anybody. Which made it even better when they got to wrestle each other bc you KNEW it was gonna be great.
I use to love watching this and really believed it was real. These guys were the best. Now I don't watch it at all. there is simply no fun in watching SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT. Macmahon killed the great sport of wrestling!!
I wonder if there is full match footage during this time? In an interview Flair said as good as his 1989 trilogy of matches against Steamboat was they had many more that were better nobody but those who attended the house shows witnessed. I assume those matches were around this time period
Our Mom used to take us to the Savannah Civic Center a bit earlier than this, more like 76... She was always honest to us, that it was an act, but it didn't change the excitement of it...and we'd wait out back afterwards and meet the wrestlers...they were regular guy's... I remember Mr wrestler #2, Mr Fugi, Tora Tanaka, Dickie Slater, of course Ric Fair, Black Jack Mulligan, Abdullah the Butcher...the list goes on...but yeah, it was a different time... everybody in the country was Patriotic..and no matter who was in the Whitehouse, he was shown the proper respect... everyone stood for the pledge and the national anthem 🇺🇸...we were all banned together against Russia...and everyone was proud to be American.... miss all that so much...I don't want to move to Canada but I'd leave here and go back in time in a second!!
History will show Vince McMahon destroyed the sport of professional wrestling. His perversity has led us directly to what we now have - an absolute joke. For those watching this 100 years from now, this is from the heart of the prime years of pro wrestling. 1974 - 1983 was like catching lightning in a bottle. 10 short years. 3,650 days. All territorial wrestlers were in their prime. I was 6 to 15 years of age during this time. My eyes saw it while it happened. I believed it. I loved it. I miss it. What wonderful memories. Gone forever. Never forgotten.
You are right. By buying up all the territories WWE ruined wrestling. If he had any sense when he bought each promotion he should have kept it quiet and let it continue as it was in secret. Wrestling overall would have been much better off. Breaking up the territories and calling it Sports Entertainment killed wrestling as we once knew it.
@@chrisoakley5830 Vince McMahon and the WWF/E killed off the territories, which in effect destroyed his farm system because the WWF/E never created new stars, they stole them. And by doing that Vince cut his own throat. It took a few years but once they churned through the stars that other's created the WWF/E were on their own and they simply had no idea what they were doing. What a sad, pathetic legacy to leave behind. Vince McMahon made his billions but he's nothing more than fraud. Today's pro wrestling is proof of that.
Wrestlers were like superheroes back then. Listen to the crowd.
DidYaServe Crowds today can't compare.
The fans in that day believed it, and that's what is wrong with today's wrestling (WWE, NXT, AEW) it's simply not believable and the wrestlers, promos, and matches in the ring suck Vince's wrinkled a*s in this era, I always thought that the WWE was going to be around forever but now I wonder, I saw a story when Vince dies the WWE will lose half it's value on Wall Street overnight, who knows Shane, Triple H and Ms. Triple H( Stephanie) may have to sell WWE one day, it's possible.
@@jasonhowell7601 9 months after you wrote this,the sell is bound to happen.
@@gammasmash1924 the crowds today could compare but they don't have anything of quality to react to.
the video of the crowd doesnt seem to match he constant screams. I dont see any level of animation from the crowd. nobody appears to be shouting. my sense is the sound track is just added over top.
Look at Steamboat. He's like those Action Figures we had before.
He-man
Flair Also
The crowd was so into it! When kayfabe was alive, this was the reaction.
both these guys in their younger years where sure jacked~
...and they didnt take steroids back then.
@@marcdangerfield8956 I wouldn’t go that far. Steroids were pretty big in the 1970s.
@@TheFailedmessiah especially back then when they weren't as regulated or carried as many penalties as they do now.
Both were still n their 20's. Similar Athletic Backgrounds, same Trainers I called them different sides of the same coin. They were a perfect match-up. We should have had more of these matches, but not only in Mid-Atlantic bur around the world.
I was there every other Friday night at the Richmond coliseum from 1977 to 1981 until I started playing High School football. My friends and I ( 9 to 12 year old kids) all thought the matches were real and what was almost as entertaining as the matches were the one to two real fights that would occur every week in the crowd. Flair, Piper, Steamboat, Wahoo, and Blackjack were real life super hero's to us kids !
Back in the day when a match actually told a story
Met these two in a Waffle House in Greenville SC when I was 12. Great guys both of them....my dad and I sat at their table. I was AWESTRUCK. Then ran into Flair again in 2019 at Pinky's bar and grill in Charlotte. He actually remembered our first meeting.
These 2 wouldn't b n a waffle house together...that's so funny
how would two mortal enemies be eating together at the waffle house
look how big ricky steamboat was my GOD he look like the warrior
NWA Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling in the late 70s and early 80s was the best Wrestling I've ever seen.
This is the best shape both of them have ever been in. This was when wrestling was fun to watch.
I was living in Richmond, Virginia around 79 or 80, and was in a restaurant where I saw Flair and Steamboat sitting in the same booth together!! They had a match that night at the old Richmond Arena.
That had to have been one of the last shows there. They were strictly running the coliseum by 80 or so.
Yeah I'm still living in Richmond now and I remember the same thing u could c them at a waffle house or maybe catch them going to a hotel they use to try and b careful because of the kayfabe thing
Liars
They should be both ashamed of them selves. The reverse posting was 1st done by Marc rollerball rocco v marty Jones in the UK in 1975.
This was n Greensboro
....Not richmond...they never went to waffle house
I was 6 in '78 and by golly, this was when it really WAS "real" dammit! :-)
GoldenEra 4ever They do they same stuff here as they do today,they still call moves and the matches already have a winner unless something ends up happening such as one is throwing stiff blows or back stage disagrees with the bookers for example-Montreal screwjob,it originally happened since Bret and Shawn actually hated each other and Bret didn't want to drop the title to Shawn and planned to take the title with him to WCW which Vince wasnt having so he called off the match mid way and pretended Bret tapped when he clearly didn't. Stuff had always been booked before hand,its still a show of talent but now charisma plays a huge role in it.
Bryn Brynhilly Yeah, it always has been for entertainment purposes really. I was being silly in my comment because to a kid it is absolutely real, LOL! These guys are great actors/stunt men. Although the winner is dictated the physicality is very real and they do have to have that charisma to make it big time.
GoldenEra 4ever I was born in 1976 and when I watched flair vs steamboat in wcw .(The chicken wing finisher)This my first time seeing this.
Steamboat and Flair were jacked back then. Back when wrestling was good before Vince McMahon got a hold of it.
It was real entertainment 70's wrestling was the shit i miss that era
It's so insane just thinking about how this was *40 YEARS* ago.
Listen to the crowd. Electric.
Just passed by the old Holiday Inn where all the wrestlers would stay when they were in town. Now it’s some seedy no tell motel. Time marches on, I guess. Still thanks for sharing this memory.
Why?
@@mikeseaquest9246 Reasons.
43 years ago
Where it alllllll began........probably one of if not THE greatest rivalry in all of wrestling.
Bill dundee and Jerry lawler
No crowd sweetening here. Just a crowd of maniacs watching two of the best try to kill each other. Better than anything you'll see from the WWE.
Steamboat was getting into Bodybuilding back then It was 4 years later that he won Mr.North Carolina in bodybuilding. He was not on Juice or roids.Look at pictures when he first started Steamboat had a physique.
It’s amazing how the crowd was so involved . They believed :-)
I got to see several big
name wrestlers during
the mid 1960s. the tell
books claim wrestling
paid decent but no
family time. wcw,few &
Small venue/promotions.
we're around ga all
the time
Because everyone believed wrestling was real in 70s
@@TheKestevon Not really. I was 12 years old when this match took place. I knew it wasn't real but the difference between then and now was the performance. The show they put on was believable and the heat between wrestlers was believable. They were just a lot better at their craft than today.
What separates these two legends from wrestling stars of today, was mainly the way they could sell. You really thought they were killing each other.
Plus, the audience was told they were actually fighting. Some people always said "It is fake," but the fact that it was not acknowledged as "entertainment" left just enough doubt to make it FUN. ... Now, with "entertainment" it simply isn't fun.
David Childers omg you're exactly right, look at this FINE ART, is truly what it is. Two of THE greatest ever to do it. It's just like you say, it looks like Ric Flair is about to really murder this man in the ring, I mean you actually have to question it for a second. Both these men are working and selling their God damn asses off putting this show on. Its fucking incredible, oh definitely the level of mastery you see here is somewhat if not moreso lost in today's generation.
If this is the golden era, then why are there far less live wrestling events and far less wrestling on TV? I don't compare the present era of wrestling to the earlier era of the old territory system because both are different from one another. They are not the same by any stretch. If today's version of wrestling is what you like, then you just like a different version better than the old. That's cool too.
One poster sez the audience was told they were fighting but actually they were never really told anything. The audience accepted the illusions being sold. Wrestlers back in the day were household names. I can remember in the 1980's when the Omni in Atlanta was filled weekly for the wrestling show. Even the B & C shows were packed. Nobody does that anymore, not even close and never will. Jim Cornette is right, wrestling is dead and has been for nearly 4 decades.
wkmac2 well it was definitely not dead in 98 lol
Sports entertainment was and still is alive. Well is open for debate.
The crowd is insane !!
It's amazing, the longevity of a good number of these guys from the old videos, particularly Flair here.
Steamboat looked like he could’ve be an action movie star doing martial arts films. He had the look for it.
I was born in December of that year. Was still 10-11 years away from their legendary NWA matches in the late 80's...... WHAT A SLOBBERKNOCKER!!!!
I haven't seen Ricky wrestler too many times being a WWF fan back in the day.
He is the best at selling a match for sure!
Flair has been quoted NUMEROUS times that if JCP had stayed south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and east of the Mississippi River, they would still be in business today, and I tend to agree. Having spent my teenage years in the '80's in Crockett territory, I can say beyond ANY shadow of a doubt that while Vince Jr may have had the superior technology, Jim Jr BY FAR had the best wrestling talent in North America, maybe even in the entire world.
A step above in JCP
I agree to a point. JCP's issues included Jim not separating his business from his friendships. By his own admission, he partied too much with the wrestlers, spent money like water among other things. Had he been a better businessman, or had someone who could reign him in somewhat, he still would be in business.
Dude, the follow up promotion WCW had the superior wrestling talent in may 1994. And then fucking Hogan came and WCW started to suck. Wrestling talent or match quality didn't sell.
Mid Atlantic wrestling was the best in my humble opinion.
@@FantadiRienzo They also had ATM Eric at the helm. Spending SOMEONE ELSE'S MONEY to get those non-producing big names.
If wrestling didn’t work out these guys look like they could’ve won Mr. Olympia!!
Would you imagine it, without any annoying commentators, I can let the wrestlers actually tell the tale, and all I can hear otherwise is the COMPLETELY GOD DAMN LIT CROWD in the background, suspension of disbelief in complete, full commanding effect.
The best and most exciting wrestling ever! It was believable back then, these two played the crowds like nobody else, you had to experience it to understand it today, listen and watch the people. Flair and Steamboat were like gladiators!
Steamboat's best years were definitely in the NWA.
steamboat is really pumped up.
I didn't know they went back that far.
Me either until now. I mean i knew they both came up in the 70's, but didn't know if they fought each other. Awesome.
The nostalgic feeling I get from watching this... best days of my life. #Thanks4TheMemories
#FatherTimeIsUndefended
Flair stated that his 70s encounters with Steamboat were better than the legendary 1989 Trilogy, but they can only be seen at their house shows.
Flair also stated that he wrestled Steamboat hundreds of times. No wonder, they understood each others reaction and did their matches on the fly without pre-planning them. Unreal abilities from them.
So crazy to think this was 11 years b4 the trilogy!
The 78 matches were better. The 89 matches were very good but not as good as the ones a decade earlier.
Damn, Steamboat is HUGE! I've seen a few old photos and matches with a buffed Flair, but Steamboat almost looks like Cena with long hair back then....
The place would always be rocking when those two got together.
Someone needs to remaster this video...this is epic
My first Wrestling match was Flair And Steamboat 1978 In Lenoir N.C. Awesome. My two favorite wrestlers.
Look at these guys sell, I always thought Flair's hair was an aesthetic thing, but without it you couldn't see him blading, or selling! The perfect heel, and the perfect baby face!!
All of the bleached blondes bladed. Think about it. Color
Their matches are the best ever. Flair & Steamboat. They could go all night. Great shape.
Holy shit, for 1978, flair and steamboat had that place fuckin LIT. What some legends.
Wow, I love Steamboat’s martial arts style strikes and chops. He made them look so powerful and vicious. I like Steamboat the jacked up, fired up babyface better than the graceful family man character he became in the 80s and 90s.
I don't steamboat fought
nearly as often as flair.
he was more family
oreinted
Match is clipped all to hell but another 5 star affair as both were in their absolute physical primes.
Don’t think they’ll ever capture that feel again..that was a magical time
ric flair was buff back then I didn't know that
Steamboat was jacked tho
Roidheads
I don't know but even Jacked ric flair was kinda flabby. Must be genetics.
Steamboat was a body builder prior to Wrestling. Flair looked up to Billy Graham back then. Isn't it ironic how the 2 top Wrestlers in the 80's (Hogan & Flair) were admirers of Graham?!
I was 9 years old and I was there at that match. We went so often that I made friends with a kid who’s mom worked at the Colosseum and we never watched the wrestling . We were always playing in places of the Colosseum we weren’t supposed to be lol.
I remember we would bring bags of those little rubber Super Balls like you got in bubble gum machines and throw them from the Nose-Bleed seats into the ring in the middle of the big matches to try and hit the “bad guy” lol
I have so many memories of those times .
As a kid, this was my fav fued
Amazing the chemistry these two had in the ring. A thing of beauty
flair was such a pro. never loved him but he could sell it . 30 years + gotta love it.
This brings back so many memories. This is beyond awesome.
It seems like it was just yesterday, where did the time fly
both men look fabulous in this bout both were a little bigger here steamboat looks like hes about 245 here while flair was about 250 255 maybe.as everyone knows steamboat was a succesful bodybuilder he won a number of bodybuilding titles...and at one time flair wanted to be a strongman like ken patera.
My god, these guys were fucking maestros.
I was 5 at this time man these guys were jacked as hell in those days.
Best feud in history?
I seen these guys go at it at a Army base as a kid it was amazing 🤩
it was the best from 77-82,steamboat had been doin alot of bodybuilding before he came on scene & was jacked here, notice the torture rack! he was like a bulkier Bruce Lee incorporating martial arts and wrasslin, flair was bigger too and admitted to juicing on occasion,nwa dropped ball with steamboat in 83,holding him away from flair,and when Dusty took over territory that put him and flair as priority opponents, big mistake letting all the to wwf in 83 and 84, jake roberts, roddy piper, valentine,orton, orndoff were all nwa
2 great Legends before there Prime :)
CLASSIC FLAIR ILLEGAL MOVE TO RETAIN THE TITLE.Oldest trick in the book.Let me tell you something Tony Schavonne to be the man you gotta beat the Man.
These two were the mirror images back in day the but one had to be the heel and the other the good guy.They were Magic in the ring.No wonder Ric was the one to induct Ricky into the hall Of Fame.
THAT CROWD IS INSANE
These two have the same match for the next decade and make millions of $!
maaaaan Rick Flair by far had the best looking robs. :-)
Do ever think these 2 thought back when training at verns AWA Minnesota barn that they would not be wrestling each other in front of crowds but be 2 of the greatest wrestlers ever.
Flair vs. Steamboat matches are so much better without having to listen to Old JR or Gord Solie babbling into the vapors throughout the entire match.
Now this is wrestling.
A pleasure to watch!
Girl in front left of hard camera was losing her mind
Back then the lights would be out except for the ring, and there would be a fog of cigarette smoke filling the colleseum. Ahhh yes, freedom..
metermanx and 2nd hand smoke
Cigarettes kill
Weed instills
Remember when you would walk into a bar and it was totally black and except for the lights over the pool tables? And they shown down onto a thick fog of smoke.
Remember when these guys used to bleed hep c all over each other. Now i am watching a lame finish choreographed between a swede and a mick.
Those were the days
Steamboat in his competitive bodybuilding period
Probably Ric Flair’s toughest opponent ever! Always wrestled a great match every time!
To all the people on this page that man there Ricky Steamboat never touched steroids or juiced in his life!!!!
uhhh ummmmmm okkkkkkkkk
Legends in the ring🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Freddy Lewis was in this crowd. He kept chanting, “Roddy! Roddy! Roddy!” xoxo The Clarences
I believe it. One time, Freddy Lewis heckled me with that chant at an Open-mic Night at The Holy City Zoo.
@@rockinyouallnight Freddy was notorious for going around San Francisco chanting, “Roddy! Roddy! Roddy!” xoxo The Clarences
I was 3 years old. West Columbus High School. Cerro Gordo North Carolina. Waiting by the door of the locker room. When Flair came out. I wrapped my feet around his ankles, and my arms around his thigh. My mom and aunts and a crowd of females were stuck to him like white on rice. I actually remember being 3 years old, being lugged to the ring by Ric Flair attached to his leg as a 3 year old boy… Flair is a God. Don’t question it.
Steamboat was really big in those days. He and Flair were both ripped as well.
This was awesome, looked like it could have taken place in the 1930s
This was when wrestling was good made u say it could b real 1 thing 4 sure the work they put in was both of them in great shape 1975 to 1985 best year of wrestling
This version of their feud was better than the 1989 version eventhough those matches were technically better. Here they hated each other so was more emotional. Plus the feud worked better when Steamboat was the challenger.
Think Steamboat was on the "gas"? He is huge at this time.
He was also a competitive bodybuilder around the same time, but yeah, Ricky looks godlike here...
Ricky Steamboat was my first favorite wrestler.
Damn! I wish there is a full version of this match.
Flair and Steamboat was the young moneymakers for Crockett str8 studs
My God the Screaming!!!
2 of the all-time best. Each 1 could have a good match with anybody. Which made it even better when they got to wrestle each other bc you KNEW it was gonna be great.
I use to love watching this and really believed it was real. These guys were the best. Now I don't watch it at all. there is simply no fun in watching SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT. Macmahon killed the great sport of wrestling!!
I remember, as a teenager in the early-mid 80s, my friends and I thought the WWF was(probably)fake, but the NWA, that was real.
Great show, not great sport. Sports are competition.
He sure killed it.
I wonder if there is full match footage during this time? In an interview Flair said as good as his 1989 trilogy of matches against Steamboat was they had many more that were better nobody but those who attended the house shows witnessed.
I assume those matches were around this time period
The youtube algorithm gave me a gem! Ricky steamboat is as big as Brian cage in 78!
The spot work behind this match is what made the business profitable to begin with.
I born on 1997 LOLwhere am I when this happened
41 years ago OMG
Our Mom used to take us to the Savannah Civic Center a bit earlier than this, more like 76... She was always honest to us, that it was an act, but it didn't change the excitement of it...and we'd wait out back afterwards and meet the wrestlers...they were regular guy's... I remember Mr wrestler #2, Mr Fugi, Tora Tanaka, Dickie Slater, of course Ric Fair, Black Jack Mulligan, Abdullah the Butcher...the list goes on...but yeah, it was a different time... everybody in the country was Patriotic..and no matter who was in the Whitehouse, he was shown the proper respect... everyone stood for the pledge and the national anthem 🇺🇸...we were all banned together against Russia...and everyone was proud to be American.... miss all that so much...I don't want to move to Canada but I'd leave here and go back in time in a second!!
Agreed!
As a kid in the 70s, ^ this was my fav fued
ricky steamboat best of all timec
More entertaining than a year's worth of Raw...AND Smackdown.
Ric Flair after that atomic, tho. There never should be any question as to why he was the world champion, and the greatest one ever.
History will show Vince McMahon destroyed the sport of professional wrestling. His perversity has led us directly to what we now have - an absolute joke. For those watching this 100 years from now, this is from the heart of the prime years of pro wrestling. 1974 - 1983 was like catching lightning in a bottle. 10 short years. 3,650 days. All territorial wrestlers were in their prime. I was 6 to 15 years of age during this time. My eyes saw it while it happened. I believed it. I loved it. I miss it. What wonderful memories. Gone forever. Never forgotten.
You are right. By buying up all the territories WWE ruined wrestling. If he had any sense when he bought each promotion he should have kept it quiet and let it continue as it was in secret. Wrestling overall would have been much better off. Breaking up the territories and calling it Sports Entertainment killed wrestling as we once knew it.
@@chrisoakley5830 Vince McMahon and the WWF/E killed off the territories, which in effect destroyed his farm system because the WWF/E never created new stars, they stole them. And by doing that Vince cut his own throat. It took a few years but once they churned through the stars that other's created the WWF/E were on their own and they simply had no idea what they were doing. What a sad, pathetic legacy to leave behind. Vince McMahon made his billions but he's nothing more than fraud. Today's pro wrestling is proof of that.
"The dirtiest player player in the game" Taking the 10 pounds of gold home, once again, as only he can.
I don’t get it back then a punch to the throat got you DQed?
He had torture rack way before lex
I saw Flair wrestle live in Toronto around this time. His back was huge.
Ric Flair was built like a Mack Truck in 78...Wow
I used to think there would never be matches that topped Steamboat and Flair! I'm still right! And they only cost 10 bucks back then!!