RIP KILLER KAHN!! Had I known before filming the vid, I would’ve paid tribute!! He was the only wrestler who ever scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. The way he would screamed and jump on people, my God he was so believable. Very intimidating. I know he owned a club or bar in Tokyo, my friends go there! There he has a photo when he was young carrying Andre the Giants bags before breaking into the business. It was Andre who helped get him booked in the WWF. He had a fantastic look. Standing 6-5” with a huge head, fit him perfect for playing the Mongolian. They loved him in New Japan. He had such a great heel look. He will be missed!
Love it! The Snuka face turn was so great. The fans went crazy for him in Philly against Backlund. Albano was boo’ed, but the house came down when they announced Snuka and Albano was pissed lol. They really were great times. Blackjack vs Andre, Snuka vs Muraco, the team of Jesse and Adonis etc! Thank you for sharing this, it opened a floodgate of memories!
when stevens piledrived snuka on the floor, a fan threw a beer (or piss) all over the general area, hit both guys. i was 7, & didn't see the guy throwing it at the time. when i saw the liquid on the floor, i thought snuka's head split & was spilling clear "brain juice". around the same time, a little after i think, the masked superstar/eddie gilbert double neckbreaker... on the concrete, after eddie recovered from a broken neck suffered in a car crash. great times!
Thanks again for another great video. You mentioned how big Brody was in person (very cool that you got a pic with him btw). I never saw Brody live, but it's amazing how big some of those guys were. Seeing Andre and Studd was jaw dropping for me. Ernie Ladd in the flesh was another guy who shocked me. Great memories.
Thanks again for returning to watch! Much appreciated. I was lucky to have seen so many greats live. Brody was very intimidating looking. There was a very intimidating “feel” about him that I just can’t explain. There was just something about his presences. He let off an energy totally different than any other wrestler. When he came out, everyone felt it. Ppl just looked at him and knew he was the real deal. The three most memorable wrestlers that I seen were Brody, Andre and the sheik. All three had that aura about them when they came out, at least for me anyway.
Snuka was too unreliable to have a title, he was over big time for about 2 years but he was a one trick pony...they wouldn't even give him the IC title...
Another nice video. I thought it was interesting to see that Official Wrestling May '83 issue give space to Marcial Bovee. He was working for an unaffiliated promotion in the Southwest somewhere, I think it was Arizona, and WWF brought him in for some job matches on Championship Wrestling. If I remember correctly, one of them was against Ivan Koloff. Bovee's real name was Dale Pierce and he passed away a few years ago.
Wow thanks for sharing that! You know it’s funny that you mention him.! I’ve never heard of him. Before the video I flipping thought the mag and saw Superstar Graham, he was managed by Bovee! That was the first time I ever noticed him!
This is the era where I jumped in. Living in Buffalo, NY we got to see a lot of the matches they did at MSG either a month before or a month after they did it in NYC. Some of what we got to see that was here - Backlund vs Studd, Muraco, and Slaughter, Snuka/Muraco, a few months before their big fued and then again twice after (including a version of the cage match), Rocky Johnson/Ivan Koloff in a Russian Chain Match, Andre with partners against the Samoans and Big John Studd, and even Ivan Putski as guest referee for a Backlund match to set up a feud for him (this time it was the night after Backlund had dropped the belt to Sheik).
Yes, this era is what stands out the most to me. I watched with my dad in the 70s, but when you’re 7-8 years old your attention span is kind of short, I really wasn’t old enough for it to soak in and appreciate it. Hitting my teen years in 82, 83, 84 is when my mind really grasped what I was looking at. Those are the years that stayed with me and I remember the most.
Thanks for showing this great stuff I appreciate everything that you do great channel look forward to seeing a lot more great things in the new The new year do you have any photo stuff from midsouth nwa even old school nwa Hollywood wrestling
Damn that’s cool. He’s the only photographer from back in the day that I’ve never spoken to yet, and would really love to. Over the years I became friendly with several photographers. A few from the Detroit territory, Cobo Hall and Florida territory. John Arezzi from NY and I still talked to Bill Apter and pick his brain for info every few months. I really should go to a wrestling convention one of these times. I’ve never been. Believe it or not all of my autographs that I received from wrestlers personally are from horror movie conventions. There would always be a half a dozen wrestlers at horror conns here in the Northeast. I also have two very good friends who are dealers and I would send them my items to get signed when they hosted certain wrestlers at their stores. No one is getting any younger, so I really should get to at least one of these wrestling shows.
Backlund was my first wrestling hero. I was redhead. nerdy. not the toughest teenager. anyway, my only income was paper route money. we had a newsstand in walking distance and the owner was real nice. he knew my dad from him hanging out there a teen. he let me look through all the the wrestling mags for as long as I wanted as long as I was careful. there wasn't a lot of wrestling on TV where I was so the magazines let me follow so many great wrestlers and matches I'd otherwise never have known about. thank you Mr. Savas for letting spend more time than money at your stand. RIP.
Thanks for sharing that!! And thanks for watching. If you haven’t already you may like this vid I made for Bob! ruclips.net/video/24IVAiYQqNQ/видео.htmlsi=PfdLRR69Dwt-t8LZ
Another great video, Bill! I am sadly one of the ones who loved the Hogan era from 1984 - 1993 because I was 3 years old when Hogan won the belt, so my childhood is that era. So for me, it was great! But if I was a teenager in that era, I could see myself not enjoying it too. Also, Randy Orton is a wrestler's wrestler. He is amazing! He's like a 14 time WWE World Champion, and his freaking roided out now huge! He had to get back surgery and have his discs fused, so in turn he gets to be on steroids now and just looks like a wrestler from the 80s now. It's great!
Oh yea? Thats good. They should be larger than life sized. That’s what made it so great getting to see giant men, and big mean looking women you don’t see every day. Kinda like that circus carnival freak attractions. I’ve seen pictures of Randy before, he always looked pretty good, physique wise. If he wrestled somewhere else, I would’ve certainly watched one of his matches. But my hatred for the WWF is so deep I got so disgusted and turned off by them to the point where I could never watch anyone wrestle for them. I pay for the Peacock ch and never watch anything past mania 3. I really wish I could. But it puts me in a really bad mood. I watch wrestling as an escape, so I don’t wanna get angry when I’m escaping lol.
@@prowrestlingmags LOL I remember how Pro Wrestling Illustrated Magazines in early Hulkamania era from around 1985 to 1989 they were so negative about WWF talking how it was a Kids show. By around 1990 Pro Wrestling Illustrated threw the towel in and accepted WWF and WCW basically copied everything WWF did. Sting was there Hulkamania LOL
This was a great time in the WWF Bill. I thought for sure as a kid that Snuka was going to win the WWF Title after his face turn. He was the most popular wrestler in the territory at the time. Speaking of Snuka, when Stevens and Albano attacked him on TV, if you pay attention, you can see Snuka going to town on his own forehead to sell the attack. I was so excited to see Superstar Graham return to the WWF and was hoping he would win back the title. But, I was also disappointed in his gimmick. This was not the Superstar I read about in the magazines in the 1970s and briefly saw in Florida in 1979. I do believe Graham returned to Florida first in 1984 before going to the Mid - Atlantic area. He actually turned face in Florida but when he went to the Mid - Atlantic he was a heel aligned with Paul Jones army. He then turned face there later and returned to his classic tie-dye attire. Good grief, Ivan Putski was jacked back then. He looked like he could step on a bodybuilding stage during this time. Iron Mike Sharpe got a nice baby face push in the Mid South around 1982 thanks to Bill Watts and the fans liked him. I am still dumbfounded on the lack of good magazine coverage of the Flair - Backlund unification match at the Omni. I don't get it. You would think a match of that magnitude would garner major magazine coverage and there would be some video of it. Nope! Happy New Year to you Bill. Your channel will only continue to grow in 2024.
Yea man Ivan was really jacked up and cut!! I watched him vs Snuka in 82. They both were built incredible. Those muscled up guys are so inspiring to me as a kid as you know. There was nothing like seeing them live, especially in the little “smokers” back then. I miss those little arenas where you had to wave the cigarette smoke out of the way so you could see these massive dudes wrestle or fight. They were best times ever. Every weekend you could go to five different places to watch boxing like that too. Little places in the Bronx that had young upcoming kids fighting for the gloves, as well as pro bouts. I remember walking up to the Spanish dude at ringside taking the bets my father hand me money to give the guy to place a bet, I remember running up to the cigarette machine putting 35 cents in and pulling that handle really hard to dispense the cigarettes for my dad. Ahh I don’t know it was just some great times that will never see again.
@@prowrestlingmags I also meant to comment on Ivan Koloff's short WWF run in 1983. If I remember correctly, his last match was against Pat Patterson at a house show. Koloff bled buckets in the match. I am pretty sure you can still find that match here on RUclips.
@erikk.5202 ahhhh ok I gotta look for that, like right now! When he left do you know where he went? Was it back to the Georgia/Carolina area again? I just pinned a comment about Killer Khan passing away. Very sad. I wish I had known about it before I made the video, I certainly would’ve paid tribute. I guess I will save it for the 1980 1981 WWF timeline video 😉
@prowrestlingmags Oh wow, Killer Khan passed? RIP to him. I first saw Khan in Florida around 1979. Very intimidating looking wrestler. I believe Koloff went to the Mid-Atlantic territory where he was a fixture for the rest of his career. Though, he may have gone back to Georgia first. By 1984, Ivan was a fixture in the Mid-Atlantic.
The Snuka/Backlund cage match was great, but the June 5 match is terrible, really bad. I never actually saw the first match, April 26. Apparently, it doesn't exist, was not recorded and that MSG card was not televised....
Idk. I’m sure it was recorded. Just about all the garden and Philly spectrum shows were recorded every month as far as I remember. I liked the spectrum matches they did. I watch those often.
@@prowrestlingmags I have discussed this on other threads over the years, and people said it was not recorded, but I never verified...Did Snuka actually hit Backlund with the splash off the top rope, after the DQ and "knock him out"? I think that's how it ended...
@pulsarlights2825 that’s weird for it not to be recorded. Especially in the 80s. I know a few 70s cards weren’t taped. But yea I may not be. I don’t recall seeing Jimmy come of the top on Bob, I’m gonna watch the old MSG and Spectrum matches that I have and see
@@pulsarlights2825 I’m still going through my dvd sets from Wwf 1982. So far I found all the spectrum matches with Snuka x Backlund. MSG I have the cage match, and I believe the 2nd match June 2., I don’t have dates written on the discs so it’s a slow process. I have a lotta rare stuff from ppl over the years so I’m hoping I have the first match. The spectrum matches were good! I have a few more sets to look through, but I may not have the first match. I know ya said it didn’t air on tv. But I’d have to believe they recorded it especially being Snukas debut at the Garden. I’ll let ya know what I come up with.
@@prowrestlingmags I appreciate it, how many Spectrum matches were there? There was also a Nassau Coliseum match were Backlund beat Snuka in a Texas Death Match, late summer 82. As far as the first MSG match goes, I ran into a guy that is the once that said it was not recorded for for TV, he seemed to know what he was talking about, but who knows....I also heard Snuka wasn't planned to be so over that year, it was actually an organic thing. WWF expected Bob Orton jr to be the big heel against Backlund in 82, but Snuka just had an IT factor with the North East fans, so maybe his first match wasn't a big deal...
do you ever get up in the morning & say to yourself, "i rock!" ? if not, you should. (stop posting, i'm hopping on a bus. gonna find you. piledriver on the concrete floor.)
The months of the magazine were way off, I think they were printed and sold months before the dates on the cover. It was confusing to follow anything in real time back then. So it was old news with a future date, and kids were like wtf!?
Lol I know the pain! Today’s date could be September 1980, the magazine date would be January 1981. The wrestler on the cover could be in the AWA, but wrestling in the WWF. I’d be like wait?! Wtf is this!!
@@prowrestlingmags The New York Daily news used to print the MSG results the next day after the card, and they screwed it up a lot. They used to put Magnificent Maurice instead of Magnificent Muraco, and we had no idea who that was. Apparently, Maurice was a wrestler from 20 years earlier...not sure wtf the editor of the newspaper was doing....lol
Yes damn now that I think of it I have a bunch of old clipping from the News. I gotta dig them out. My x brother in law gave me his collection of 70s clippings from Bruno’s matches. I gotta find them
@@theshovel881 March 1984, Backlund vs Greg Valentine was the main event at MSG, two months after Hogan winning the title, Backlund's last match for the WWF was 8/4/1984...He came back 8 years later with his 90s gimmick..
Bob went to the AWA and appeared on several Pro Wrestling USA tv tapings in 84. I was at 4 AWA tv tapings in 85 and Backlund was on all the cards. But for some reason 3 of the 4 matches he wrestled were dark!! Only appeared on tv once. He had a short feud with Larry Zybysco for the Americas title, and then went on to Japan.
Nothing personal against the guy, but I'll never understand how any promoter in any era could look at Bob Backlund and think, "Yeah, that's my world champion for the next several years". When he took over, the first smart thing Vince Jr did was get their main title off of him ASAP.
@@georgehenry1258Younger people remember Bob's 90's heel run that actually worked well.... But by then Vince had some kind of bias against almost all the older wrestlers and Bob's last run was fairly short.
Backlund was actually legit, he could have beaten all his opponents in a shoot. This was back when the double cross still existed....That also explains Harley Race, he could back up his championship if he needed to...Guys like Flair and Hogan could not, I actually spoke to Backlund personally on this topic....
@@georgehenry1258 I always thought Bob Backlund deserved a DVD. He played College Football as a Linebacker (I think) and Division 2 Amateur Wrestling Champion. I'd like to see some of that. So many documentary videos of Pro wrestlers out the last 20 years or so but Backlund has none
Yea, I agree with you about that! I’d like to see a documentary of some sort as well. I’m surprised they never made one especially how good his book has sold and the great reviews it has. I have a set of 30 dvds, it’s a mix of Bobs matches from all over the world. There’s rare matches when he was Missouri champion in 76 up til his last run in the mid 90s with indies. He had a tremendous career with some fantastic matches.
RIP KILLER KAHN!!
Had I known before filming the vid, I would’ve paid tribute!! He was the only wrestler who ever scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. The way he would screamed and jump on people, my God he was so believable. Very intimidating. I know he owned a club or bar in Tokyo, my friends go there! There he has a photo when he was young carrying Andre the Giants bags before breaking into the business. It was Andre who helped get him booked in the WWF. He had a fantastic look. Standing 6-5” with a huge head, fit him perfect for playing the Mongolian. They loved him in New Japan. He had such a great heel look. He will be missed!
Love it! The Snuka face turn was so great. The fans went crazy for him in Philly against Backlund. Albano was boo’ed, but the house came down when they announced Snuka and Albano was pissed lol. They really were great times. Blackjack vs Andre, Snuka vs Muraco, the team of Jesse and Adonis etc! Thank you for sharing this, it opened a floodgate of memories!
when stevens piledrived snuka on the floor, a fan threw a beer (or piss) all over the general area, hit both guys. i was 7, & didn't see the guy throwing it at the time. when i saw the liquid on the floor, i thought snuka's head split & was spilling clear "brain juice". around the same time, a little after i think, the masked superstar/eddie gilbert double neckbreaker... on the concrete, after eddie recovered from a broken neck suffered in a car crash. great times!
Yea I agree. Great times. Thank you for the continued support
RIP Killer Khan
Thanks again for another great video. You mentioned how big Brody was in person (very cool that you got a pic with him btw). I never saw Brody live, but it's amazing how big some of those guys were. Seeing Andre and Studd was jaw dropping for me. Ernie Ladd in the flesh was another guy who shocked me. Great memories.
Thanks again for returning to watch! Much appreciated. I was lucky to have seen so many greats live. Brody was very intimidating looking. There was a very intimidating “feel” about him that I just can’t explain. There was just something about his presences. He let off an energy totally different than any other wrestler. When he came out, everyone felt it. Ppl just looked at him and knew he was the real deal. The three most memorable wrestlers that I seen were Brody, Andre and the sheik. All three had that aura about them when they came out, at least for me anyway.
Great video I think jimmy should have gotten the belt I was told that Bob wanted to drop it to him and for some reason jimmy did not want it
Snuka was too unreliable to have a title, he was over big time for about 2 years but he was a one trick pony...they wouldn't even give him the IC title...
Yea I wish he did also. At least the Intercon belt!!
Happy holidays love this posting
Thank you. Much appreciated
Another nice video. I thought it was interesting to see that Official Wrestling May '83 issue give space to Marcial Bovee. He was working for an unaffiliated promotion in the Southwest somewhere, I think it was Arizona, and WWF brought him in for some job matches on Championship Wrestling. If I remember correctly, one of them was against Ivan Koloff. Bovee's real name was Dale Pierce and he passed away a few years ago.
Wow thanks for sharing that! You know it’s funny that you mention him.! I’ve never heard of him. Before the video I flipping thought the mag and saw Superstar Graham, he was managed by Bovee! That was the first time I ever noticed him!
This is the era where I jumped in. Living in Buffalo, NY we got to see a lot of the matches they did at MSG either a month before or a month after they did it in NYC. Some of what we got to see that was here - Backlund vs Studd, Muraco, and Slaughter, Snuka/Muraco, a few months before their big fued and then again twice after (including a version of the cage match), Rocky Johnson/Ivan Koloff in a Russian Chain Match, Andre with partners against the Samoans and Big John Studd, and even Ivan Putski as guest referee for a Backlund match to set up a feud for him (this time it was the night after Backlund had dropped the belt to Sheik).
Yes, this era is what stands out the most to me. I watched with my dad in the 70s, but when you’re 7-8 years old your attention span is kind of short, I really wasn’t old enough for it to soak in and appreciate it. Hitting my teen years in 82, 83, 84 is when my mind really grasped what I was looking at. Those are the years that stayed with me and I remember the most.
Just because you have 100% proof means nothing these days .....Great Channel just found you and im really enjoying.Thanx
Thanks for checking it out.
Thanks for showing this great stuff I appreciate everything that you do great channel look forward to seeing a lot more great things in the new The new year do you have any photo stuff from midsouth nwa even old school nwa Hollywood wrestling
Thanks man. I appreciate you watching. I don’t have much on mid south. A few programs from the 70s at their big shows. I’ll see what I can dig out.
George Napolitano was a math teacher in the junior high school I went to back in the days. I was never his
student but he's a super cool bro man.
Damn that’s cool. He’s the only photographer from back in the day that I’ve never spoken to yet, and would really love to. Over the years I became friendly with several photographers. A few from the Detroit territory, Cobo Hall and Florida territory. John Arezzi from NY and I still talked to Bill Apter and pick his brain for info every few months. I really should go to a wrestling convention one of these times. I’ve never been. Believe it or not all of my autographs that I received from wrestlers personally are from horror movie conventions. There would always be a half a dozen wrestlers at horror conns here in the Northeast. I also have two very good friends who are dealers and I would send them my items to get signed when they hosted certain wrestlers at their stores. No one is getting any younger, so I really should get to at least one of these wrestling shows.
Backlund was my first wrestling hero. I was redhead. nerdy. not the toughest teenager.
anyway, my only income was paper route money. we had a newsstand in walking distance
and the owner was real nice. he knew my dad from him hanging out there a teen. he let
me look through all the the wrestling mags for as long as I wanted as long as I was careful.
there wasn't a lot of wrestling on TV where I was so the magazines let me follow so many
great wrestlers and matches I'd otherwise never have known about. thank you Mr. Savas
for letting spend more time than money at your stand. RIP.
Thanks for sharing that!! And thanks for watching. If you haven’t already you may like this vid I made for Bob!
ruclips.net/video/24IVAiYQqNQ/видео.htmlsi=PfdLRR69Dwt-t8LZ
You mentioned a Mr. Savas in your comment. That wouldn't be Charlie Savas of Brockton MA, would it?
Another great video, Bill! I am sadly one of the ones who loved the Hogan era from 1984 - 1993 because I was 3 years old when Hogan won the belt, so my childhood is that era. So for me, it was great! But if I was a teenager in that era, I could see myself not enjoying it too. Also, Randy Orton is a wrestler's wrestler. He is amazing! He's like a 14 time WWE World Champion, and his freaking roided out now huge! He had to get back surgery and have his discs fused, so in turn he gets to be on steroids now and just looks like a wrestler from the 80s now. It's great!
Oh yea? Thats good. They should be larger than life sized. That’s what made it so great getting to see giant men, and big mean looking women you don’t see every day. Kinda like that circus carnival freak attractions. I’ve seen pictures of Randy before, he always looked pretty good, physique wise. If he wrestled somewhere else, I would’ve certainly watched one of his matches. But my hatred for the WWF is so deep I got so disgusted and turned off by them to the point where I could never watch anyone wrestle for them. I pay for the Peacock ch and never watch anything past mania 3. I really wish I could. But it puts me in a really bad mood. I watch wrestling as an escape, so I don’t wanna get angry when I’m escaping lol.
@@prowrestlingmags LOL I remember how Pro Wrestling Illustrated Magazines in early Hulkamania era from around 1985 to 1989 they were so negative about WWF talking how it was a Kids show. By around 1990 Pro Wrestling Illustrated threw the towel in and accepted WWF and WCW basically copied everything WWF did. Sting was there Hulkamania LOL
This was a great time in the WWF Bill. I thought for sure as a kid that Snuka was going to win the WWF Title after his face turn. He was the most popular wrestler in the territory at the time. Speaking of Snuka, when Stevens and Albano attacked him on TV, if you pay attention, you can see Snuka going to town on his own forehead to sell the attack.
I was so excited to see Superstar Graham return to the WWF and was hoping he would win back the title. But, I was also disappointed in his gimmick. This was not the Superstar I read about in the magazines in the 1970s and briefly saw in Florida in 1979. I do believe Graham returned to Florida first in 1984 before going to the Mid - Atlantic area. He actually turned face in Florida but when he went to the Mid - Atlantic he was a heel aligned with Paul Jones army. He then turned face there later and returned to his classic tie-dye attire.
Good grief, Ivan Putski was jacked back then. He looked like he could step on a bodybuilding stage during this time.
Iron Mike Sharpe got a nice baby face push in the Mid South around 1982 thanks to Bill Watts and the fans liked him.
I am still dumbfounded on the lack of good magazine coverage of the Flair - Backlund unification match at the Omni. I don't get it. You would think a match of that magnitude would garner major magazine coverage and there would be some video of it. Nope!
Happy New Year to you Bill. Your channel will only continue to grow in 2024.
Yea man Ivan was really jacked up and cut!! I watched him vs Snuka in 82. They both were built incredible. Those muscled up guys are so inspiring to me as a kid as you know. There was nothing like seeing them live, especially in the little “smokers” back then.
I miss those little arenas where you had to wave the cigarette smoke out of the way so you could see these massive dudes wrestle or fight. They were best times ever. Every weekend you could go to five different places to watch boxing like that too. Little places in the Bronx that had young upcoming kids fighting for the gloves, as well as pro bouts. I remember walking up to the Spanish dude at ringside taking the bets my father hand me money to give the guy to place a bet, I remember running up to the cigarette machine putting 35 cents in and pulling that handle really hard to dispense the cigarettes for my dad. Ahh I don’t know it was just some great times that will never see again.
@@prowrestlingmags I also meant to comment on Ivan Koloff's short WWF run in 1983. If I remember correctly, his last match was against Pat Patterson at a house show. Koloff bled buckets in the match. I am pretty sure you can still find that match here on RUclips.
@@prowrestlingmags Those are some great memories of you and your dad.
@erikk.5202 ahhhh ok I gotta look for that, like right now! When he left do you know where he went? Was it back to the Georgia/Carolina area again? I just pinned a comment about Killer Khan passing away. Very sad. I wish I had known about it before I made the video, I certainly would’ve paid tribute. I guess I will save it for the 1980 1981 WWF timeline video 😉
@prowrestlingmags Oh wow, Killer Khan passed? RIP to him. I first saw Khan in Florida around 1979. Very intimidating looking wrestler.
I believe Koloff went to the Mid-Atlantic territory where he was a fixture for the rest of his career. Though, he may have gone back to Georgia first. By 1984, Ivan was a fixture in the Mid-Atlantic.
The Snuka/Backlund cage match was great, but the June 5 match is terrible, really bad. I never actually saw the first match, April 26. Apparently, it doesn't exist, was not recorded and that MSG card was not televised....
Idk. I’m sure it was recorded. Just about all the garden and Philly spectrum shows were recorded every month as far as I remember. I liked the spectrum matches they did. I watch those often.
@@prowrestlingmags I have discussed this on other threads over the years, and people said it was not recorded, but I never verified...Did Snuka actually hit Backlund with the splash off the top rope, after the DQ and "knock him out"? I think that's how it ended...
@pulsarlights2825 that’s weird for it not to be recorded. Especially in the 80s. I know a few 70s cards weren’t taped. But yea I may not be. I don’t recall seeing Jimmy come of the top on Bob, I’m gonna watch the old MSG and Spectrum matches that I have and see
@@pulsarlights2825 I’m still going through my dvd sets from Wwf 1982. So far I found all the spectrum matches with Snuka x Backlund. MSG I have the cage match, and I believe the 2nd match June 2., I don’t have dates written on the discs so it’s a slow process. I have a lotta rare stuff from ppl over the years so I’m hoping I have the first match. The spectrum matches were good! I have a few more sets to look through, but I may not have the first match. I know ya said it didn’t air on tv. But I’d have to believe they recorded it especially being Snukas debut at the Garden. I’ll let ya know what I come up with.
@@prowrestlingmags I appreciate it, how many Spectrum matches were there? There was also a Nassau Coliseum match were Backlund beat Snuka in a Texas Death Match, late summer 82. As far as the first MSG match goes, I ran into a guy that is the once that said it was not recorded for for TV, he seemed to know what he was talking about, but who knows....I also heard Snuka wasn't planned to be so over that year, it was actually an organic thing. WWF expected Bob Orton jr to be the big heel against Backlund in 82, but Snuka just had an IT factor with the North East fans, so maybe his first match wasn't a big deal...
do you ever get up in the morning & say to yourself, "i rock!" ? if not, you should. (stop posting, i'm hopping on a bus. gonna find you. piledriver on the concrete floor.)
Haha! thanks very much for watching!!
The months of the magazine were way off, I think they were printed and sold months before the dates on the cover. It was confusing to follow anything in real time back then. So it was old news with a future date, and kids were like wtf!?
Lol I know the pain! Today’s date could be September 1980, the magazine date would be January 1981. The wrestler on the cover could be in the AWA, but wrestling in the WWF. I’d be like wait?! Wtf is this!!
@@prowrestlingmags The New York Daily news used to print the MSG results the next day after the card, and they screwed it up a lot. They used to put Magnificent Maurice instead of Magnificent Muraco, and we had no idea who that was. Apparently, Maurice was a wrestler from 20 years earlier...not sure wtf the editor of the newspaper was doing....lol
Yes damn now that I think of it I have a bunch of old clipping from the News. I gotta dig them out. My x brother in law gave me his collection of 70s clippings from Bruno’s matches. I gotta find them
Does anyone know why Backlund wasn't in the first wrestlemania
I don't think Backlund wasn't even in the WWF in 1985, I think he left the year before
@@pulsarlights2825 that could be possible, he was champ many years then seems to leave by hulk hogan coming
@@theshovel881 March 1984, Backlund vs Greg Valentine was the main event at MSG, two months after Hogan winning the title, Backlund's last match for the WWF was 8/4/1984...He came back 8 years later with his 90s gimmick..
@@pulsarlights2825 thanks 4 the info bro. I remember the 90s backlund
Bob went to the AWA and appeared on several Pro Wrestling USA tv tapings in 84. I was at 4 AWA tv tapings in 85 and Backlund was on all the cards. But for some reason 3 of the 4 matches he wrestled were dark!! Only appeared on tv once. He had a short feud with Larry Zybysco for the Americas title, and then went on to Japan.
Nothing personal against the guy, but I'll never understand how any promoter in any era could look at Bob Backlund and think, "Yeah, that's my world champion for the next several years". When he took over, the first smart thing Vince Jr did was get their main title off of him ASAP.
@@georgehenry1258Younger people remember Bob's 90's heel run that actually worked well.... But by then Vince had some kind of bias against almost all the older wrestlers and Bob's last run was fairly short.
Backlund was actually legit, he could have beaten all his opponents in a shoot. This was back when the double cross still existed....That also explains Harley Race, he could back up his championship if he needed to...Guys like Flair and Hogan could not, I actually spoke to Backlund personally on this topic....
@@georgehenry1258 I always thought Bob Backlund deserved a DVD. He played College Football as a Linebacker (I think) and Division 2 Amateur Wrestling Champion. I'd like to see some of that. So many documentary videos of Pro wrestlers out the last 20 years or so but Backlund has none
Yea, I agree with you about that! I’d like to see a documentary of some sort as well. I’m surprised they never made one especially how good his book has sold and the great reviews it has. I have a set of 30 dvds, it’s a mix of Bobs matches from all over the world. There’s rare matches when he was Missouri champion in 76 up til his last run in the mid 90s with indies. He had a tremendous career with some fantastic matches.