For me it was Saturday night at midnight, WOR-tv from New York city. Compared to todays product they had zero production value, but for some reason it was a lot more entertaining.
It's amazing how much both Hacksaw and Hulk would change up their look in the next few years from this and become crazy popular wrestling names of the day!
I was gonna swear that wasn't Hacksaw Jim Duggan until Hogan put him in the headlock, then I got a good look and YUP that's definitely him! Wow he looked soo different just a couple years later!
I love how Fred reacted to the introduction with a big smile, and then it turned upside down. It's just something about how he did it that made it very funny.
I grew up during the Height of HulkaMania being born in May Of 1985 , Hulk was my first SuperStar I got behind then The Undertaker Rose in 1990 and quickly became my all-time favorite. RIP DAD I miss you . Thank you Dad for starting my love for The WWF.
sorry for your loss. some of my greatest memories as a kid was watching wrestling with my dad. march 29th 1987 one of greatest days of my childhood my dad took me to nassau coliseum to watch WM 3 on closed circuit i could tell you everything about that day down to what the weather was like. kids today will never experience things like we did now they can ust go in their rooms and watch on their i pads its easier yes but it doesnt create great memories of watching with it with others
It was probably quicker . Once rocky 3 came out he blew up then he would come out to Eye of the tiger. Shiek took the belt from Backlund and then Hogan got it... What a set up. Most of it happened on Friday or Saturday night around midnight we had to figure out how to stay up late without our parents sending us to bed.
What's odd to me is it wasn't always considered entertainment. What's the point of a scripted sport that isn't entertainment? I guess some people just hate fun and expect everything they love to be viewed as scientific or artistic and entertainment can't enter into it.
@@axebomber2108Having “regular” matches and local shows made the big championship matches all that more special. There weren’t high spots every match and belts actually meant something.
Back in the 80's you kinda had to. It's not like it is today. Just look at Ted Dibiase, Mark Calaway, Kurt Henning, and Mike Rotunda just to make a few.
@@Batony I would never consider "Hogan" as a jobber, pretty much always featured as a star. Even though he wasn't booked as a main eventer until the AWA. But yeah, he's a special case. Most people did start from the bottom in the territory days unless you just stood out.
Did not know about WWWF or WWF until I moved to Maryland on October 1983, West Indies and South Miami had different Rasslin promotions. Got hooked by Hulkamania. Crazy seeing Hogan as a young heel and Dugan as a jobber. Thanks for the uploads.
And yet he drew big, broke a lot of records in terms of ticket sales and overall drawing back then. Thankfully people back then weren't as moronic as you are today. Now go and watch your Absolutely Embarassing Wrestling, kiddo.
@@sanecrazy12 Hulk Hogan was trained by Hiro Matsuda, he knows technical moves but he correctly believed that a 300 lb technical wrestler wouldn't go over in the United States, but in Japan he worked a totally different style, using holds, and no leg drop.
Oh wow how young they all looked back then hulk Hogan just turned seventy years old in August wow it just looks so different back then I was watching wrestling back then and still are today wow😊❤
This was wrestling on valium, such a contrast from the product we watched in the last 30 years. Still a cool upload. It was weird to see Thunder Lips win a match without that legdrop.
The crowd was just hostile in the worse way possible: for a long moment there was NO reaction and complete awkward ice cold silence (to the point where you can cleanly hear everything in the ring) only for some chump in the third row at the 5:29 mark to break the ice cold awkward silence by screaming out "I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!! ... I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!!... I WANNA GO HOME!!!". That's a really freaking terrible crowd response. LOL. Most wrestlers (hell, most entertainers in general) would crumble after that. Big props to Hogan and Duggan continuing as best as they could after that. LOL.
Jim Duggan always had that, "Idgaf who, when, where", aspect to his character. Like even if he knows he'll lose, he'd still show up for the fight. I respect that.
I just like the hand on his hip during interview with then Vince juniors attention stand in Bob Backlund, like wt... . are we doing background prop modeling?
Damn wrestling was so different back then. Who doesn't interview at the beginning of a match? Jim duggan looks so different. And to have five Legends in one screen is just unbelievable
@Google Wack LOL, You don't know shit, kid. There's a huge difference in how pro wrestling used to be, when it passed itself as legit competition that made people think it was real and the phony cartoon circus Vince McMahon Jr turned it into that all the simps and incels are now eating up and believe that's what pro wrestling is all about. And the sad thing is, everyone else has copied Vince's circus act and it can never be the way it was. That's why so many people have given up on it and quit watching.
A young Jim Jobber Dugan! Getting his butt kicked then alot worst 🤣 by Hulk Hogan! And Hogan didn't drop the leg for the three count! It was the Hogan Hammer clothesline for the win.
Wow! What a treat to see this--the future "Hacksaw" as a clean cut jobber, and "The Incredible/Immaculate/Fabulous/whatever will make Marvel not sue this week" Hulk Hogan, with most of his hair still and his Japanese "Ichiban" trunks, accompanied by the legendary Classy Freddie Blassie. I was only a year old when this first aired so it's one that's new to me!
I remember as a little kid in the L.A. area watching Freddie Blassie's bloody wars with John Tolos from the Olympic Auditorium. Those were some tough-ass dudes back in the day.
My brother was an usher at the Olympic, he told me great stories one was Blassie was up against Tolos, Blassie won the match, my brother said this rather obese women was so irate she lifted up her skirt and pissed on the ring, I still laugh
@johnny-r my brother told me one that Dick Lane was terrified of Blassie, Lane in an interview was always nervous so during Christmas blassie comes on with this beautiful wrapped Christmas package, Blassie tells Lane this is for you Merry Christmas and go ahead and open it, Lane is scared but slowly opens up this robe like smoking jacket and starts to feel a little more comfortable with Blassie, Blassie tells Lane "go ahead try it on" so Lane try it on, Blassie starts picking off the lint and brushing out the wrinkles, then ask Lane how he likes it, now Lane is at total ease, Blassie tells Lane "turn around and let's see it" Blassie then violently tears the robe of Lane, he goes flying into the table, Blassie yells at Lane " now you can say that you gave me the shirt off your back" and laughs hysterical as a petrified Lane still holding the microphone
No doubt about it, do you feel Vince missed a major opportunity with Duggan upon bringing him back to the WWF? Do you think he should have been a heel to challenge Hogan at that time?
Thank You for sharing these time capsule trips from way back when! Here we see our beloved WWE at it's infant stage (All Star Wrestling) then WWWF/WWF! The promos were handled mostly by the legendary former wrestling greats Freddie Blasi or managers like Lou Albano or The Grand Wizard! What a paradigm shift the world was about to experience coming from a young Vincent K McMahon!
First of all, thank you for posting. Second of all, these two guys are green as grass. Both fellows must have really accelerated their development in the next two or three years. Gotta go find some Hacksaw Midsouth. That Hogan Hammer was pretty darned bad.
I was 4 when this match happened. I started watching wrestling when I was 9. Ricky The Dragon Steamboat was my favorite wrestler when I was a kid and when he quit was Ultimate Warrior
Videos like this make me realise what a genius mcmahon was... he took this and turned it into wwf 80s and 90s wrestling were amazing for me at 10 years old
The crowd was hostile in the worse way possible: for a long moment there was NO reaction and complete awkward ice cold silence (to the point where you can cleanly hear everything in the ring) only for some chump in the third row at the 5:29 mark to break the ice cold awkward silence by screaming out "I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!! ... I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!!... I WANNA GO HOME!!!". That's a really freaking terrible crowd response. LOL. Most wrestlers (hell, most entertainers in general) would crumble after that. Big props to Hogan and Duggan continuing as best as they could after that. LOL.
This is great stuff. Particularly the after match stuff. Hogan is working on his mic skills. He’s still very raw in need of development but what a talent. Patterson and Blassie are very good here. Thanks for the clip.
What a time to be alive. I love how Patterson almost cracks up when Blassy said "he paid you a compliment". Then the crowd, some 35 year old guy who looks 60 with a lung dart... I can't believe I went through the first 25 years of life smelling like smoke.
As Gorilla Monsoon would say, "highly unlikely". By this point, he was wrestling for over a year and was a full-time prelim guy on the WWF roster. Maybe this was his fourth match on TV.
And weeks later after this match, Duggan and The Iron Sheik would both get pinched on the Highway driving while drinking between gigs. They also caught a narcotics charge as the iron sheik had a teener or so of cocaine on him he never told duggan about & duggan had a few joints I think but was sharing with the sheik
I love how "The Hollywood Fashion Plate" pointed out Hulks 24 inch pythons with his cane, then proceeded to point out how awesome Hulks nuts are, with his cane also. All these guys are the absolute BEST!! Thanks for posting ;)
It's just great to see early footage of Jim Duggan (my namesake) without the Hacksaw gimmick. This was early days for both of them, with Duggan going through his apprenticeship and Hogan still having some hair to speak of. Both bulked up after this, so Hogans billed weight in this contest of 320 odd pounds can be taken with a pinch of salt at that time. He was around 270-280 max at this point, and eventually reached 303 lbs at his prime wrestling weight following a burgeoning interest in steroid use. Hacksaw Jim completed his probationary period, was on a similar regime, and was then given the gimmick/moniker or All USA Hero, with his hollering of "HOOOOO" and became a two by four swinging lunatic. I loved it though, and he became more hard hitting and fun to watch as he matured into the business, although he was always mid-card, and never given a push. Much like Jake Roberts (my favourite wrestler growing up) he undoubtedly had the best promo's, the best gimmick and the best cool finisher. Yet he was never pushed much beyond the mid card. Never got a title shot?? Much as Rowdy Roddy Piper did around the same time; he entertained the fans despite not being the biggest of guys, nor won the most contests. No, he was loved because he was nuts, or played that very well! He could make you laugh as well as cheer in his matches, something that is a promoters dream.
Wow, Backlund’s old wet cloth personality on display. He was so different here to how I remember him from the early 90s, where he was so animated, crazy, here he’s falling asleep in the middle of each sentence, along with everybody else.
He was a great champion. This was the world at this time. Jimmy Carter was president and Mr. Olympia weighed 170 lbs. And disco and polyester were in style.
Ohhh man … I was 8 years old in 1980. I had a great time as a kid! But if I knew just how s**tty society would become 40 years in the future, I would have enjoyed my past even MORE. God, I know that I have to live out my life. But I can’t help but look back more and more these days.
You and me both. I had the added luxury of growing up in a pseudochristian cult so stuff like wrestling was a guilty pleasure. There are no more dichotomies worth pursuing anymore.
WOW... I remember this version of Hulk Hogan with Fred Blassie. This takes me back to watching WWF with my grandmother... and her favorite wrestler used to be Gerry Brisco
"Whatchya gonna do...when rainbow dreamsycle...cape!!!" You know how many 1980's stand up comics suspenders had to die to make that cape? Care activism bears probably threw all the Hawaii punch at him those years.
Although early in Hogan's career I always get a kick out of how different he worked in America versus in Japan, where the fans wouldn't put up with this pace, even back then. Blassie's autobiography spent some time on his managing Hogan in Japan and how to handle the fans over there. The Blassie book is one of the best for a wrestler's career. The story of how he and Andy Kaufman became long-time friends is quite the read.
To think Jim Duggan and Hulk Hogan were in my Wrestlemania Challenge Game on the NES… Very different looking 10 years later in 1990… this was them in 1980.
@@ModernDayRenaissanceMan fuck!!! When have people lost the ability not to take everything bat shit seriously???? In wwf he almost never lost CLEAN on tv during his hacksaw run. So calm down and relax dude!!!!
Lame comments. No one is pointing out Hogan wearing his Japanese trunks. He had just come back from the tag tournament, where he and Stan Hansen lost to Backlund and Antonio Inoki in the finals.
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Wish I could go back to being 12 years old, sitting with my dad and pop pop on Saturday mornings watching this. Great memories.
Did you used to rent Colliseum Home Videos? Those were THE greatest! I have the fondest memories of them!
For me it was Saturday night at midnight, WOR-tv from New York city. Compared to todays product they had zero production value, but for some reason it was a lot more entertaining.
Sounds cool
@@thedragonsfoot4565 Yeah, Saturday Night Main Event at midnight. Good old days.
Same. I remember I started watching AWA as a kid. Jerry Blackwell, Etc. Back when the Road Warriors were new. My favorite Tag Team.
“I want my money back!” “I want to go home!” “Come on let’s see some good wrestlers!” Fans are hilarious
My god, Jim Duggan drastically changed over the next 8 years. Everything. His look, posture, physical demeaner. Hacksaw took over his body.
Drugs will do that to you
Was that the same guy? Didn't look anything like the one I knew on GCW in 80/81
His eye changed big time because, someone in Mid South Wrestling threw acid to his eye
@@MikmaqWarrior you misspelled water
in 6 or 7 years the entire wrestling thing was totally different
It's amazing how much both Hacksaw and Hulk would change up their look in the next few years from this and become crazy popular wrestling names of the day!
And wasn't pat Patterson a peter puffer?
Lol Hogan looks the same his whole life, even when he was born
Heck, even Bob Backlund...I think we credit VM for developing the larger than life characters
I was gonna swear that wasn't Hacksaw Jim Duggan until Hogan put him in the headlock, then I got a good look and YUP that's definitely him!
Wow he looked soo different just a couple years later!
@@jonburrows2684 yep!
Absolutely LOVE watching all the old clips
“I want my money back”. That was hilarious
🤣🤣🤣 Then he said, "I wanna go home!" 😂😂😂😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣
Or the one that only cheer the heel
And that same guy probably started a few years later saying "I SAW HULK HOGAN LIVE"
I mean, it IS Duggan and Hogan, so I can kinda see where he's coming from....
For anyone who missed it it's at the 5:30 mark
Wow. Jim looks like the night manager for a Denny’s out of Wisconsin and hogan isn’t orange….
I disagree even more Dugan looks like the lady running the Kentucky Democratic Party years ago
And Hogan has (almost) a full head of hair!
It really is Thunderlips. In the flesh, baby!
Formerly known as Terry 'the hulk' Boulder
And Sterling Golden too!
The Mountain of Molten Lust
The Ultimate Male.
Hacksaw Dugan a jobber?
"Hogan's lost weight but he's not any quicker" - LOL... Way to put the talent over, Pat!
Lol that was a nice way of saying he was off the juice then. Obviously his muscles flattened out and gained a gut so he had to address it
I remember watching WWF when I was a lil kid every Saturday morning at 11 am I miss my childhood
Hulk Hogan has looked 50 his whole life
He must be 50 here?
Vince said he was only 24
@@kvinche8120 Hogan was born in August of 1953 so he was like 27 here
And the men nowadays look like women
So did Baron Vonraske!!! When he was 22 he looked 50 and now he is 80 and still looks 50!!!!!
Jim Duggan looked so raw and his punches nowhere near the impact he would show later on as Hacksaw.
Duggan looking a lot like cliff clavin from cheers.😃
Would you date him?
@@feelingsogood6073 naaaah! 😃
"Reapportioned his weight" is a funny way of saying Hogan is cycling off the juice
I’m not denying his steroid use, but he was drinking heavily prior to this, according to wrestling memoirs, and he looked it.
@@ScyllaxHogan has a book? Is it under fiction or non fiction.
@@Rob78169 😆
I love how Fred reacted to the introduction with a big smile, and then it turned upside down. It's just something about how he did it that made it very funny.
I grew up during the Height of HulkaMania being born in May Of 1985 , Hulk was my first SuperStar I got behind then The Undertaker Rose in 1990 and quickly became my all-time favorite. RIP DAD I miss you . Thank you Dad for starting my love for The WWF.
sorry for your loss. some of my greatest memories as a kid was watching wrestling with my dad. march 29th 1987 one of greatest days of my childhood my dad took me to nassau coliseum to watch WM 3 on closed circuit i could tell you everything about that day down to what the weather was like. kids today will never experience things like we did now they can ust go in their rooms and watch on their i pads its easier yes but it doesnt create great memories of watching with it with others
"He's a young man. He's got a long way to go". Very prophetic
28 isn't that yiun.
@@Ozzy_2014 28 is not old
He wasn't 28, he was 27 here. Hogan was born in 1953.
@@fuzzluvver69 27 is not old
Hogan looked like man in his 40s even as a teenager probably lol
Well this sure beats the "Summer of Cena" crap!
Dont talk shit about Cena he is the best in wrestling today ..
It's crazy to know that a little under five years from this match Hogan would be the biggest Mega star in wrestling in that era
And with that came and astronomical increase in pay
It was probably quicker . Once rocky 3 came out he blew up then he would come out to Eye of the tiger. Shiek took the belt from Backlund and then Hogan got it... What a set up. Most of it happened on Friday or Saturday night around midnight we had to figure out how to stay up late without our parents sending us to bed.
@@joeldiaz5857 An astronomical increase, not and.
What I loved about wrestling back then is it was presented as more of a sport show than sports "entertainment"
What's odd to me is it wasn't always considered entertainment. What's the point of a scripted sport that isn't entertainment? I guess some people just hate fun and expect everything they love to be viewed as scientific or artistic and entertainment can't enter into it.
@@axebomber2108Having “regular” matches and local shows made the big championship matches all that more special. There weren’t high spots every match and belts actually meant something.
@@axebomber2108 Because the audience weren't in on it being anything other than entertainment. The secret was very well and aggressively protected.
It looks far more realistic in these days then the last 20 years. No wonder heat could get you killed back then.
Then vinny mac came along and ruined everything 😢
“The Hogan Hammer”😂😂
I thought it was called the Axe Bomber.
I've told people for years that Hacksaw Jim Duggan started out as a jobber in the WWF but no one believed me.
Back in the 80's you kinda had to. It's not like it is today. Just look at Ted Dibiase, Mark Calaway, Kurt Henning, and Mike Rotunda just to make a few.
You had to pay your dues, unless you had a father in the business. (Von Erichs, Barry Windham, Greg Gagne, etc).
@@Batony I would never consider "Hogan" as a jobber, pretty much always featured as a star. Even though he wasn't booked as a main eventer until the AWA.
But yeah, he's a special case. Most people did start from the bottom in the territory days unless you just stood out.
Shut up
They all started somewhere; Duggan got pretty big in Mid-South, I believe.
Did not know about WWWF or WWF until I moved to Maryland on October 1983, West Indies and South Miami had different Rasslin promotions. Got hooked by Hulkamania. Crazy seeing Hogan as a young heel and Dugan as a jobber. Thanks for the uploads.
WOW, what a change in wrestling over these many years
I agree, I think this was 1980
This is almost unwatchable if you were around for the 90s/2000s.
@@thelastdragon5551This was the best Hogan ever wrestled.
@@kryzs_kornhell Must be in his prime. Had to be considering that’s how old he looks here. 😂
@@thelastdragon5551It's really about the presence of these guys and how they carry themselves. I like it quite a lot.
The guy in the crowd smoking a cigarette at the end of the video is a nice touch.
It’s a beautiful sight.
Sometimes I forget that was once a very regular, normal sight just about everywhere you went.
so weird listing to Hulk's voice after all the years of hearing him in late 80s-90s WWF
Backlund had the charisma of a houseplant.
Watch him during his run as champion in 94 and say that.
In this video though, you have a point. Lol
He done all his talking in the ring. Best actual wrestler that ever held the belt.
He worked out 19...20 times a day
don't disrespect houseplants like that.
And yet he drew big, broke a lot of records in terms of ticket sales and overall drawing back then. Thankfully people back then weren't as moronic as you are today. Now go and watch your Absolutely Embarassing Wrestling, kiddo.
The amount of talent, in and around that ring, at one time, is off the charts. Amazing what these guys would go on to accomplish for the business
Hogan was one of the least talented wrestlers EVER 😆
@@sanecrazy12 Hulk Hogan was trained by Hiro Matsuda, he knows technical moves but he correctly believed that a 300 lb technical wrestler wouldn't go over in the United States, but in Japan he worked a totally different style, using holds, and no leg drop.
@@sanecrazy12 he drew a ton of money for someone who wasn't talented.
@@sanecrazy12
@@sanecrazy12no way he had LOT of charisma and could really sell, great at promos and so on. People are just jealous
Oh wow how young they all looked back then hulk Hogan just turned seventy years old in August wow it just looks so different back then I was watching wrestling back then and still are today wow😊❤
Wow! Those shots of the crowd at 13:46 are classic! True wrestling fans. 😝
That's pretty hardcore LOL I want to go back to a time when you could smoke in a building and no one said anything.
he looks like that looney toons gangster what was his name.. Mugsy? XD
@@megasegafan3947 I was going to say, they look like a couple of collectors for the town Bookie🤔
Hey Moose! Rocco! Help the Judge find his checkbook!😆
was a different time, wasn't it? a simpler time.
@@spectac1💯 sure was
This was wrestling on valium, such a contrast from the product we watched in the last 30 years. Still a cool upload. It was weird to see Thunder Lips win a match without that legdrop.
Hogan won with a minimum impact clothesline-- that would blow the mind of every indy wrestler on the planet in 2021
It was his finisher in the movie Rip Em!!
Usually used the bear hug.
@@ModernDayRenaissanceMan No Holds Barred
Man Backlund could really work the mike 🤣😂😂😂
It’s just to bad he didn’t have the look Vince wanted. He was a great champion. But his look was stuck in the 1950’s. Lol.
@@DeMan59that's a leisure suit. Fashion of the 70s/early 80s.
Two of the most popular wrestlers in the history of the sport and the crowd couldn't care less.
Not like Hogan lost a match those days
The crowd was just hostile in the worse way possible: for a long moment there was NO reaction and complete awkward ice cold silence (to the point where you can cleanly hear everything in the ring) only for some chump in the third row at the 5:29 mark to break the ice cold awkward silence by screaming out "I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!! ... I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!!... I WANNA GO HOME!!!". That's a really freaking terrible crowd response. LOL. Most wrestlers (hell, most entertainers in general) would crumble after that. Big props to Hogan and Duggan continuing as best as they could after that. LOL.
because it was boring has hell to watch hulk and backland. like watching grass grow.
@@mikekinsela7210 yeah, this is REALLY bad all around. The interview, the match, the commentary. Total shit show.
Well, they were newer wrestlers back then. Before they got really big and famous.
Jim Duggan always had that, "Idgaf who, when, where", aspect to his character. Like even if he knows he'll lose, he'd still show up for the fight. I respect that.
Pro wrestling is scripted bro.
@@christiaanherzogenrath8471you think ?🤔
I just like the hand on his hip during interview with then Vince juniors attention stand in Bob Backlund, like wt... . are we doing background prop modeling?
Thanks for this. I never knew Jim Duggan was a jobber in 1980. Cool upload.
this is before duggan discovered the 2x4
tough guy!!!! hoooooo!!!!
@@MrBeyondbelief 🇺🇸 USA!!!
Before he discovered a good steroid cycle too lol.
Hoooooo!!!
Kid yells, “Come on, let’s see some good wrestlers!” 🤣🤣
I’m a huge fan of both of these guys. Two of the best to ever do it
I remember watching this when it happened as a kid. Thanks for sharing.
Man, I know I haven’t watched wrestling in a while but this new Raw is something else
Vince is enamored with Hulk’s hammer…
Yeah, the one in his pants
...and Hulk had to suck Vince's to get to the top!
Damn wrestling was so different back then. Who doesn't interview at the beginning of a match? Jim duggan looks so different. And to have five Legends in one screen is just unbelievable
back where the WWF actually tried to pretend it was a real wrestling show. Not a glorified circus
six legends
@Google Wack LOL, You don't know shit, kid. There's a huge difference in how pro wrestling used to be, when it passed itself as legit competition that made people think it was real and the phony cartoon circus Vince McMahon Jr turned it into that all the simps and incels are now eating up and believe that's what pro wrestling is all about. And the sad thing is, everyone else has copied Vince's circus act and it can never be the way it was. That's why so many people have given up on it and quit watching.
@@sjdrifter72 Preach brother
A young Jim Jobber Dugan! Getting his butt kicked then alot worst 🤣 by Hulk Hogan! And Hogan didn't drop the leg for the three count! It was the Hogan Hammer clothesline for the win.
Wow! What a treat to see this--the future "Hacksaw" as a clean cut jobber, and "The Incredible/Immaculate/Fabulous/whatever will make Marvel not sue this week" Hulk Hogan, with most of his hair still and his Japanese "Ichiban" trunks, accompanied by the legendary Classy Freddie Blassie. I was only a year old when this first aired so it's one that's new to me!
There is one on here from 78/79 with Ted Dibiase vs Hogan.
This is before Dugen became an alcoholic
I remember as a little kid in the L.A. area watching Freddie Blassie's bloody wars with John Tolos from the Olympic Auditorium. Those were some tough-ass dudes back in the day.
My brother was an usher at the Olympic, he told me great stories one was Blassie was up against Tolos, Blassie won the match, my brother said this rather obese women was so irate she lifted up her skirt and pissed on the ring, I still laugh
@@_1ben Fucking hilarious! From what I heard, the Olympic drew a . . . unique crowd. For roller derby too.
@johnny-r my brother told me one that Dick Lane was terrified of Blassie, Lane in an interview was always nervous so during Christmas blassie comes on with this beautiful wrapped Christmas package, Blassie tells Lane this is for you Merry Christmas and go ahead and open it, Lane is scared but slowly opens up this robe like smoking jacket and starts to feel a little more comfortable with Blassie, Blassie tells Lane "go ahead try it on" so Lane try it on, Blassie starts picking off the lint and brushing out the wrinkles, then ask Lane how he likes it, now Lane is at total ease, Blassie tells Lane "turn around and let's see it" Blassie then violently tears the robe of Lane, he goes flying into the table, Blassie yells at Lane " now you can say that you gave me the shirt off your back" and laughs hysterical as a petrified Lane still holding the microphone
@@_1ben Ha ha - that's the Blassie I know and love!
Would loved to have seen both in a match during their 1986 era runs. To me, Duggan was the Hulk Hogan of the Midsouth/UWF 🤘🤘🤘
No doubt about it, do you feel Vince missed a major opportunity with Duggan upon bringing him back to the WWF? Do you think he should have been a heel to challenge Hogan at that time?
@@stevejamieson8468Vince missed the mark all over the place - aside from gobbling up all the territories
This was an outstanding technical battle!!
OH MY GOODNESS , I JUST STARTED KINDERGARTEN TWO MONTHS BEFORE THIS MATCH AIRED😁 !
Thank You for sharing these time capsule trips from way back when! Here we see our beloved WWE at it's infant stage (All Star Wrestling) then WWWF/WWF!
The promos were handled mostly by the legendary former wrestling greats Freddie Blasi or managers like Lou Albano or The Grand Wizard!
What a paradigm shift the world was about to experience coming from a young Vincent K McMahon!
wow. Both legends were so young. Had never seen this match. thanks
First of all, thank you for posting. Second of all, these two guys are green as grass. Both fellows must have really accelerated their development in the next two or three years. Gotta go find some Hacksaw Midsouth. That Hogan Hammer was pretty darned bad.
I was 4 when this match happened. I started watching wrestling when I was 9. Ricky The Dragon Steamboat was my favorite wrestler when I was a kid and when he quit was Ultimate Warrior
Videos like this make me realise what a genius mcmahon was... he took this and turned it into wwf 80s and 90s wrestling were amazing for me at 10 years old
...made you stiffen right up, huh?...nothing like watching wrestling at 10 yrs old...with a major "throbber"
Back when you could smoke 💨 in the stands, lol
The good old days
u have no rights now lol, your under communism,..any variant ,...coscam19, they want to put out there lol
@@samright4661 when you could give kids cancer from 2nd hand smoke, i miss it dearly
Thank God that’s over.
@@whitetroutchannel u probally use mj and get them high with seconhand mj in the room lmao
“I want my money back!” Guy in the third row.
The crowd was hostile in the worse way possible: for a long moment there was NO reaction and complete awkward ice cold silence (to the point where you can cleanly hear everything in the ring) only for some chump in the third row at the 5:29 mark to break the ice cold awkward silence by screaming out "I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!! ... I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!!... I WANNA GO HOME!!!". That's a really freaking terrible crowd response. LOL. Most wrestlers (hell, most entertainers in general) would crumble after that. Big props to Hogan and Duggan continuing as best as they could after that. LOL.
LMFAO
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Knowing the way Vince is this must have really hit him right where it hurts.
Was that Tony Khan?
This is great stuff. Particularly the after match stuff. Hogan is working on his mic skills. He’s still very raw in need of development but what a talent. Patterson and Blassie are very good here. Thanks for the clip.
What a time to be alive. I love how Patterson almost cracks up when Blassy said "he paid you a compliment". Then the crowd, some 35 year old guy who looks 60 with a lung dart... I can't believe I went through the first 25 years of life smelling like smoke.
Wow! Duggan was a ham 'n egger early in his career.
Wasn't everyone?
What's a ham and egger?
@@orinanime journeyman, jobber, low on the card, enhancement talent
@@AbrasionUK low card. Jobber. Got it. Thanks for the clarification.
you mean his whole career
Backlund was a fine hand in the ring but man he was tough to listen to.
I need a tranlanstor cause I cant understand his jibberish lol
He was one dull wrestler.
Jim Dugan's 4th match as a professional, from what I hear. Great classic footage.
As Gorilla Monsoon would say, "highly unlikely". By this point, he was wrestling for over a year and was a full-time prelim guy on the WWF roster. Maybe this was his fourth match on TV.
This is what I would watch on channel 9 every Saturday at midnight. Fright Night would follow. I'm so glad Mom didn't make me go to bed back then.
It's amazing how much the production value increase so much over the course of the 80s
Its funny how just watching these guys talk and fight is more interesting than all the light shows, holograms, and half-exploding rings we have now.
Holograms??? LOL
Because it feels more real, because it's more realistic. And in WCCW/NWA/AWA, there was even more realistic wrestling going on at this time.
Damn…Hogan was raw as hell in this footage! You can tell he was new to the biz!
Years later Jim Duggan and Hulk Hogan became the great american heroes
Hooo!
And weeks later after this match, Duggan and The Iron Sheik would both get pinched on the Highway driving while drinking between gigs. They also caught a narcotics charge as the iron sheik had a teener or so of cocaine on him he never told duggan about & duggan had a few joints I think but was sharing with the sheik
HOOOOO! Only Duggan and Lion-O could make that battle cry work LOL
@@binko969 Yes, weeks later. Like 338 weeks later.
@Binko 969 That happened in 1988 genius
I love how "The Hollywood Fashion Plate" pointed out Hulks 24 inch pythons with his cane, then proceeded to point out how awesome Hulks nuts are, with his cane also.
All these guys are the absolute BEST!!
Thanks for posting ;)
It's just great to see early footage of Jim Duggan (my namesake) without the Hacksaw gimmick. This was early days for both of them, with Duggan going through his apprenticeship and Hogan still having some hair to speak of.
Both bulked up after this, so Hogans billed weight in this contest of 320 odd pounds can be taken with a pinch of salt at that time. He was around 270-280 max at this point, and eventually reached 303 lbs at his prime wrestling weight following a burgeoning interest in steroid use.
Hacksaw Jim completed his probationary period, was on a similar regime, and was then given the gimmick/moniker or All USA Hero, with his hollering of "HOOOOO" and became a two by four swinging lunatic.
I loved it though, and he became more hard hitting and fun to watch as he matured into the business, although he was always mid-card, and never given a push. Much like Jake Roberts (my favourite wrestler growing up) he undoubtedly had the best promo's, the best gimmick and the best cool finisher. Yet he was never pushed much beyond the mid card. Never got a title shot??
Much as Rowdy Roddy Piper did around the same time; he entertained the fans despite not being the biggest of guys, nor won the most contests. No, he was loved because he was nuts, or played that very well! He could make you laugh as well as cheer in his matches, something that is a promoters dream.
I wonder how many of these people in the audience are still with us
I’d say most of them. Prob 1/3 have passed away
nickybullvol82: The guy smoking at 13:45 of the video could be still alive today at the tender age of 104.
@@motorheadforlife9431 or 13:54 I hope they are all enjoying life naked
‘The upper arms measuring, I would suspect 22/23 inches.’
‘They’re 24 inch pythons, brother!’
He's a clown as always Brother !👍💪🤡
U think that waist is really 33 inches??
@@cutekanjii more like 43 inches , I'm 5 feet 5 inches & my waist has been as high as 38 inches.
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@@davidwesley2525 yeah i mean i've only got a 28 29 inch waist a little skinny boy like me so no way thats only 4 or 5 inches more.
Wow, Backlund’s old wet cloth personality on display. He was so different here to how I remember him from the early 90s, where he was so animated, crazy, here he’s falling asleep in the middle of each sentence, along with everybody else.
Lol 😂
Well you know, once he steps into the ring and the people get behind him he don’t get tired.
He was a great champion. This was the world at this time. Jimmy Carter was president and Mr. Olympia weighed 170 lbs. And disco and polyester were in style.
He was a horrible champion. I was 9-12 years old during his time and knew then he was slow, boring, yawn.
Yeah it's interesting how much he changed his character. He did well with his gimmick in the 90's.
Hulk Hogan and Jim used to wrestle in front of small crowd too,so kudos to them made it big after that.
Hearing the people yelling in the background and being able to clearly make out what most of them say really adds a lot to this video.
Ohhh man … I was 8 years old in 1980.
I had a great time as a kid! But if I knew just how s**tty society would become 40 years in the future, I would have enjoyed my past even MORE.
God, I know that I have to live out my life. But I can’t help but look back more and more these days.
You and me both. I had the added luxury of growing up in a pseudochristian cult so stuff like wrestling was a guilty pleasure. There are no more dichotomies worth pursuing anymore.
They announce the participants and there is an interview before the match starts? Never saw that before.
If that clothesline was devastating, I wonder what they would say about Bradshaw’s clothesline from hell move😂
Holy crap It’s Thunder Lipps!
No kidding, he needed a 2 by Plank to the head to have spoken to the great Mr Backlund like that.
WOW... I remember this version of Hulk Hogan with Fred Blassie. This takes me back to watching WWF with my grandmother... and her favorite wrestler used to be Gerry Brisco
Hogan: “I’m the only undefeated superhero of the 80s!”
The 80s was less than a year old then...
"Whatchya gonna do...when rainbow dreamsycle...cape!!!" You know how many 1980's stand up comics suspenders had to die to make that cape? Care activism bears probably threw all the Hawaii punch at him those years.
The crowds have changed drastically.
It was a much better world back in the late 1970's & early 80's.
Although early in Hogan's career I always get a kick out of how different he worked in America versus in Japan, where the fans wouldn't put up with this pace, even back then. Blassie's autobiography spent some time on his managing Hogan in Japan and how to handle the fans over there. The Blassie book is one of the best for a wrestler's career. The story of how he and Andy Kaufman became long-time friends is quite the read.
Thanks for putting this up
You can tell that WWF or WWWF as it may have been then has a real "territory feel" in this clip.
To think Jim Duggan and Hulk Hogan were in my Wrestlemania Challenge Game on the NES… Very different looking 10 years later in 1990… this was them in 1980.
Ring announcer was Gary Cappetta way smaller than I remembered.
Gary MIchael Cappetta LOL
That must be the only televisied clean loss of Jim Duggan ever
He lost clean 500 times on tv lol
Back when Jim Duggan had short hair😂 lol
Seriously? Did you sleep through the 80s?
@@ModernDayRenaissanceMan fuck!!! When have people lost the ability not to take everything bat shit seriously???? In wwf he almost never lost CLEAN on tv during his hacksaw run. So calm down and relax dude!!!!
@@timschneider8513 Right, usually he'd be disqualified, lol.
The guy in the crowd yelling, "I want my money back!" 😂😂😂
Loved seeing these 2 so young and before they were the icons they became 😎👌 cool match 👏
Young Jim Duggan vs. Young Hulk Hogan...a hidden gem
Lol
When wrestling was actually wrestling!! Miss these days.
I watch this when I have trouble falling asleep
AWA. Watched this every Sunday at 11AM. Loved that show
this is wwf
Quality of this footage is amazing
Lame comments. No one is pointing out Hogan wearing his Japanese trunks. He had just come back from the tag tournament, where he and Stan Hansen lost to Backlund and Antonio Inoki in the finals.
When wrestling was absolutely private. You never saw anything back stage and nobody ever talked about their personal lives
Wrestling should of stayed like that social media fucked everything
Dude, you can't fight progress. Don't be a bald old boomer
Lol its weird seeing Duggan as a jobber.
Never knew he was a jobber.
@@mackermaldrill2656 "Never knew" comments are getting very old by this point. If you don't know, shut up and learn, then come back and say something.
Before his trademark 2x4 and his holler, "HOOOOOOOO!!!".
Duggan sucks now & got NO BETTER
It is, lol. I don’t remember Jim Dugan from back then.
This is far before my time but I love watching this stuff. Actual heels and baby faces I love this stuff. And a Howdy Doody appearance!
Listening to Vince on play by play sure brings back childhood memories
Wow great upload! Xmas day & a nostalgic great Hogan match before anyone had heard of the future all time great. 👍 Thank you & let's all enjoy!
I didn’t know Xmas day was Dec 27th?
Absolutely amazing how Hulk Hogan has only one look his entire life…
Only three shitty moves to boot…. He needed everyone and their dog to get his tired ass over
Old?
Old?
That's not how I was expecting this match to end. Wow.
This is the single greatest Hulk Hogan match I’ve ever seen.
"His record will speak for itself". My god no one could have possibly known HOW TRUE this statement was going to be!
Vince McMahon jr probably had an idea ofnit