NWA World Wide Wrestling 1979 - Ric Flair, Ernie Ladd, Big John Studd promo
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- From a 1979 episode of NWA World Wide Wrestling from WRAL-TV Studios in Raleigh, NC. Rich Landrum is the host:
The show closes with a promo by "Big Cat" Ernie Ladd, Big John Studd, and "Nature Boy" Ric Flair.
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The Big Cat was one of the best talkers and wrestlers EVER. I could listen to Ladd's interviews all day
I agree
No, he was ok
When it comes to promos, Flair, Piper, Rock, etc are given tons of credit for being among the best ever, but to me no one was as entertaining on the mic as Ernie Ladd.
Same to me, Ladd was the man
No one like the Big Cat. Cannot be duplicated.
Rock is not on the level of Ric or Piper on the Mic.
It's ironic in the NWA how the good guys were the serious ones and the bad guys always said the funny things.
Don't forget the Macho Man!
Great promo! RIP Ernie Ladd and Big John Studd.
It's not often that Ric Flair isn't the best promo guy on camera. But Ernie Ladd could be incredible when he got going. His promos on Chief Jay Strongbow were god-tier.
The drunken Indian needs to go back to the reservation, he needs to get in a teepee!
@@troylowe814 Nobody could do it like the Big Cat!! I don't think I've ever laughed that hard!
Even before his first World title, you could see that great charisma from the Nature Boy.
This was when pro wrestling was at it's best.Now it sucks.Old school wrestling is the best.
Isotec1 it's the only reason why the WWE Network exists.
attitude era the best
Agreed!!!👏👏👏👏👍😎👊
Personalities makes a difference.
NWA Power is trying to bring this style back. The couple of episodes they've had so far has been amazing!
ERNIE LADD DA BIG CAT BIG JOHN STUD RIC FLAIR NATURE BOY TRUE LEGENDS IN DA GAME THANKYOU FOR YA SERVICE
"Mister TV announcer" lol. Ernie ladd always said that. Even with vince McMahon. Never bothered to use their names. Great vid. Classic stuff here.
That what I was thinking
i was raised watching big cat ernie ladd, always the perfect heel inside the ring and a real class act outside the ring...loved his work..can watch and listen to him all day, every day..R.I.P. ERNIE & BIG JOHN.
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brian centi ERNIE "THE CAT " LADD AND BIG JOHN STUDD !
BRIAN CENTI
THANK YOU FOR THAT # 1 !
ERNIE " THE CAT " LADD AND
BIG JOHN STUDD
JAVIER THE LEGEND you're welcome javier..as far as big john and the big cat, well if you're there opponents and the big cat is the ''smaller'' of the two you're facing..you're screwed :)
brian centi who is bigger? Looks like stud is actually an inch or two shorter but might be 10-15lbs more
3 Hall of famers
Ernie always complimented his fellow heels!
That's quite a heel stable.
That music that closed the show gives me chills!!!!
These were the great days of Wrestling! Love this stuff!! Old School Rules!!
The Big Cat was probably my favorite wrestler ever. I grew up in Houston and while Ernie Ladd was a heavy everywhere else, he was a fan favorite in Houston b/c he used to play for the Oilers.
Stop being overly reperative and dei, he was decent
Absolute golden footage...
The old school guys knew how to talk smack baby ! Wooooooooo.
They were killers and outlaws back then. What the fuck WE HAVE NOW. A bunch of Matt Damon clones. WTF just happen to wrestling...other than that non-wrestling Disney company called WWE
Finrod Númenessë I agree!
No body is was or even will be better than Slick Rick the man
I saw Ric Flair in 76' I was 12 at the time all the Mid-Alantic stars was at my local high school gym here in North Carolina ... he was the tv champ at the time Wahoo was the Mid -Alantic champ that was a great show I will never forget it !! My first show I ever saw live .
I miss the days of old school pro wrestling talent and the territory system. Nothing today comes close.
i miss the territories also, the talent was spread out
Vince Jr fuck things up.
I agree Vince McMahon Jr. killed the territories by poaching talent for his own personal gain and greed.
Agree 100% Myles....was a great time in wrestling. Will never come close again to being that good.
Especially Jim Crockett's. NWA was HUGE back then before WWF began to swallow up everything
i miss this era.
"Mr. TV announcer man"! LOl!
The big cat was one mean man RIP
Ladd & Studd look like they would've made a great tag-team! Maybe call them
"The Big Studds"!
Flair is just being Flair! THE ICON!
Bigger than the twin towers of Spivey/Sid.
LOL..What a trio to interview at the same time.Love it.Classic.
Man, I love watching these classic videos, thanks MSF! They're great, and bring back a lot of awesome memories.
"i'll slap yo face on television right in front of the general public." LOL . . . i LOVE it!
Ernie was a hoot!
I remember this from when I was a kid. Gosh, where have all the years gone?
In 1979, a new pro wrestling publication hit newsstands and magazine racks across the nation. It was Pro Wrestling Illustrated. When the first issue went to press, Ken Patera & John Studd were ranked at #4 in the Tag Team Division. Patera was also ranked at #4 in both the National Wrestling Alliance and the Most Hated Wrestlers category. Ric Flair was ranked at #3 in the NWA and at #1 in the Most Hated Wrestlers category.
Made my mom buy it for me all the time, was my favorite!
This was a golden age for pro wrestling. Nothing today even come close. Remember watching from Sparta NC and Manassas VA.
What an awesome unit! Even among these monsters Flair is a giant. Whooooooo!
yep 6-2 250
Look at these 3 studs. This was wrestling. RIP Big John Studd and the big cat Ernie Ladd.😊😊😊
Breath of fresh air not seeing Virgil Runnels in the credits!
I agree with all those comments, back then it got all different wrestling leagues (NWA, AWA, WCCW, SMOKY MONTAIN, GCW and so on) all those great wrestlers in their own territory and wrestling matches were great.
Think N.W.A. still exists(?)!
Love Ernie Ladd.
Wow these promos were 100% legitimately believable
God damn this is gold. Big John studs rip
We had NWA in GA in the late 70s, but still the best wrestling ever. Ernie Ladd was mean as fu#$ lol lol
You don't know Jack 💩!!! GCW was founded in 1944 by Paul Jones! Vince only buys real establishments with history for his library.
the announcer in this clip is my grandpa and I had no clue he fud that until a few years ago
That's really cool. The greatest stories ever told came from the Territory Days of pro wrestling. I'll be Rich has quite a few.
I found out my manager at work was a fan and set up a meet for the two of them he was thrilled
Rich Landrum was a good announcer..I remember watching him and Johny Weaver..Weaver would "He is in Rich Landrum's no man's land" referring to a guy being trapped in a corner during a tag much and both guys beating on him..good stuff
ERNIE LADD! 🙌🏾
Great Old School Promo.
This was old school hard core rasslin!!!
"LIES, LIES, LIES!"
Love that exchange between Rich Landrum and Ernie Ladd!
I remember staying up until 1 AM Sunday morning to watch this show!
This is when wrestling was wrestling fun to watch ever week because you want to know what was going to happen!!!!
Clicked on this because the announcer looked like Lamont Sanford on the thumbnail. Lmao
Yo Rick was leading the pack since the days of way back I remember this interview damn this is when wrestling was indeed entertaining and made you care who was champion.
The Studness🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣 The Cat👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾💥 and Slick Rick 🥇🏅. Ric would have been the perfect live action Shin if "Fist of the North Star" had been made in this time.
Before wrestling got so commercialized and when most people were watching on a home antenna. You might pick up 3 channels. Tuning in just to see Nature Boy.
Was a kid at this time, great stuff. Todays Wrestling not the same. What can we say The Great Rick Flair. Whooooooooooooooooooooo
Big John Minton! Butler, PA's finest!!!!! RIP.
Truly classic!
Jesus. I couldn't do one of Ric Flair's ad libs if I had 7 months to write it.
great stuff we never got in the NY-CT area until early eighties cable.
NO QUESTION MR TV ANNOUNCER LMFAO
I love how Ernie Ladd would always say. SHUT UP! to the crowd to get them pissed off!
"Mr. TV Announcer"--- oh the disrespect!
Ladd sounds like Morgan Freeman. Lol!
HOLY SHIT
I said the exact same thing once.
Sounds like Morgan Freeman, look like Bill Withers. What a coincidence, Bill Withers song is Lean On Me, and Morgan Freeman starred in the movie of the same name.
Hard to believe Flair was 30 here.
so was I, at the time. :)
apachette07 Flair always looked old.
what else is new? like nobody's said that before... whatever....
I wasn't even thought about then lol. But here he didn't look that bad. I saw him in person in '06 and he looked like wrestling had really taken a toll on him.
+apachette07 At the time Hulk Hogan had hair and Andre was thin too.
Love these old promos, just thinking it looks like a bath robe commercial.
Professional wrestling old school was so much fun.. the trash talk, the characters. The modern product can't really touch it. Once in a while the rock, or aj or some true talent breaks out.
this is the good ole days
Now THAT would’ve made a great building block for The 4 Horsemen!
I can see why Bobby Heenan was used to talk for Studd in WWF.
He was OK at promo
Big John Studd was a very nice humble man outside of the wresting ring
All of them are gone except flair,r.ip rich landrum,ernie ladd and big john studd
ERNIE THE CAT LADD !
Big John Studd was a legit 6/9 if not 6/10 so he was a true big man his chest for a man of his soze is amazing
I actually remember this episode...
No Question Mr TV announcer ....
Heads up. If you take your right palm & smack the right side of your television as hard as you possibly can the line in the screen will disappear.
Big John and the big cat would have been a great tag team.
"No question, Mr. TV Announcer" lol.
great footage...kids wrestling today really need to take a look at how to cut & sell a interview
You *know* WCW going under had to be the worst thing that could have ever happened to Vince McMahon, cause then everyone would see all these guys that were around for the first couple Wrestlemanias were in Mid-Atlantic, Florida, Georgia, World Class, AWA, UWF, Memphis, Portland, Calgary, and whoever else I'm forgetting before they "began their careers" in the WWF.
In a twist I'd have sold it to Bischoff (who'd have been more at home because all he knew to do was use old WWF guys), but he'd have been dead broke in two years anyway with no Turner to bail him out.
Flair could work the mike even back then. Promoters were drooling to make him NWA Champ.
iam just speechless
Three legends
Morgan Freeman sounds a bit like Ernie Ladd.
my mom put me on to this a great posting
"Clean up crew" Funny ass shit
THE BIG CAT ERNIE LADD!!!
Love This. The Real Deal best interview
Awesome miss those days!!! I’d rather watch these old films any day than to watch that junk they have now!!!
Mr Tv announcer ....When John Studd came to town he brought the Studd List ..
Loved it when Ernie Ladd would say.....
"Mr. TV announcer everyone's always running their mouth
yak yak yak yuk yuk yuk.
He had no idea how much we enjoyed his promos 40 yrs on.
Yes.
"mr. tv announcer" . you don't hear that name anymore lol
I saw Ric Flair and Big John Studd at a local venue here in Pa. in '83.I believe Paul Ordorff and Superfly Snuka were there also.They put on a great show!Big John Studd looked like a mountain to my 14 year-old eyes.Lol
They were wrestling for GCW! Paul O., Idol, Bill Eadie, Ernie, and Wildfire was the best GCW champs ever!
RIP ladd and studd
I mean DAMN! I GET BORED after hearing roman reigns for about a minute, this is purely wrestling gold material that 2020s era never going to be
Your era of anything is pretty much the drizzl'n 💩's!!! 😂😂😂😂😂🥃🥃🥃🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Studd in his 3" lifts lol
Doubt Studd was legit 6'10 Plus Ladd was 6'9
@@santosjerez1586 studd was 6-8
@@santosjerez1586 6'6.5" barefeet
He cut a promo about somone full of liquor...i was DYING!
Ernie great promos cross between Grady Wilson and Fred Sandord.
Yes they definitely knew how to talk. Check out Austin Idol in almost ANY interview.
Studd List when Big John came to town and top of the Studd List was Mulligan
Wow, gotta be true that big john was on steroids. Saw interview that stud was 6'7 before started steroids and grew to 6'11. Here ladd was 6'9 and is clearly taller than stud in video and it's 1979. 😮
LOVE THIS!!!
notice ghow they have Ernie Ladd the farthest back distance-wise from the camera. then the announcer, then Studd, then Flair....they do this so that Studd appears to be as tall as Ernie( 6'9"), even though he is actually two inches shorter(6'7" legitimately), and flair is way up front, so he appears to be over 6', even though flair is 5'11"
+aaronrus Wow...thanks for that history lesson and the size stats.
Ladd was definitely a legit 6'9. Studd was 6'7 at best
Yeah Studd was known to wear lifts in his boots especially if he was gonna be working with another big guy. The guy even took hgh to get bigger and some say he did get a bit taller from it. He was obsessed with being tall because he said that’s where the money was
@Matt Luongo according to pro-football reference, ernie ladd was listed at 6' 9, 290 lbs in the kansas city chiefs program guide in 1968. and he was definitely taller than teammate buck buchanan who was 6' 7....
@Matt Luongo it really doesn't matter what height you want to give him. pro football, unlike wrestling, doesn't inflate one's height. the man was 6' 9....
Go Big Cat !
Best wrestling EVER!!!!!
How come Ken Patera and Big John Studd (Mid-Atlantic Tag Team Champions) never held the NWA World Tag Team Titles?
Think because around that time the only title that held the actual official distinction of "World" was the NWA World Title. The titles that were 'world' in the tag scene were just regional titles at the time.
Thanks!