Born almost 6 years before me. Mine is 11/20/58
Great Moments in Pro Wrestling
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Hang On Sloopy was one of the very first songs I remember hearing on the old WRKO-AM 68 as a single-digit midget during the mid-late '60s; at first I thought the song was titled Hang On Snoopy, because A Charlie Brown Christmas had premiered on CBS just a year or two earlier...
Yep, I remember thinking it was Hang on Snoopy too.
captain stone
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11/17/59, same day (not year obliviously) as Tom Seaver; so I was naturally extra stoked that the Sox had acquired him from the White Sox in 1986... We would've won the WS that year too if he had started Game 3 instead of that psycho negroe beanpole.
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Always cool to see images of Sammartino outside of the WWWF during the 3 years between championships...
Two Bundy's are better than one
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Booty time, booty time, across the USA...
Booty time, booty time, hey hey hey...
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What a debut by Terry Funk! Certainly made an impression on WWF fans
“He’s a tough man, he’s a vicious man, but he’s been a winner everywhere he goes”, admits Bruno Sammartino
As the ring attendant finds out! Don't mess about with The Funkster cowboy hat!
In his brilliant autobiography, Terry Funk revealed the reaction from “some of those NWA promoters [who] were very good friends of mine”, when he decided to head north to work for the WWF:
“Some of them viewed me as a traitor
“They said, ‘You’re leaving us! You’re supposed to be an NWA member and loyal to the NWA!’
“Hell, there was no NWA at this time! By 1985 it was gone. Vince had already won
“As soon as I saw the angle he had in 1984 with Hulk Hogan and Cyndi Lauper, I knew he had won, because he had found a wider appeal than any company had before”
He also analyses why McMahon won the wrestling war:
"Vince went about it the right way, but the main thing he had going for him that Eddie Einhorn didn’t, was that Vince was willing to risk all the money he had on it
"Vince backed his plan up with big bucks, paying the wrestlers more than they could make in their territories
"And once he started to roll, it was over, and no one could catch him, although it took some of the other promoters years to figure that out
"Vince's traveling show made the regional guys less of a big deal. If you’re a regional promoter running a town every week, and there’s now a traveling show coming through only periodically, your show is now ordinary. That traveling show becomes the big thing"
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Sad words, but true words also, though Funk was wrong about one thing: What Vince Jr had going for him more than his willingness to risk a lot of money into the first Wrestlemania was that he had the Boston - Washington corridor at his disposal. No other promotion in no other part of the country could match that.
