WWA All-Star Championship Wrestling (Jul 17, 1982)
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- WWA ALL-STAR CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING
This episode originally aired Saturday July 17, 1982 in Indianapolis, Indiana and was hosted by Sam Menacker.
THIS EPISODE FEATURES
The Strangler vs Spike Huber
The Hooded Hangman (with Reverand Hampton) vs Steve Cooper
Dr Jerry Graham Jr vs Yukon Moose Cholak
WWA tag team champions Sheik Ali Hassan & Abdullah the Great vs Rufus R Jones & Wilbur Snyder
The best hour on local Indiana television when you were growing up.
I remember it well. Channel 4 on Saturday night ❤
Thank you so much for posting this. My daddy is Abdullah the great and this my first time seeing this. Thank you so much
Can you email me? dave@davedynasty.com
These shows are great! I grew up near Minneapolis so lots of these wrestlers came to the AWA for a few weeks and feuded with some our top guys.
Anybody remember Sailor Art thomas, cowboy Bob Ellis, Wilbur Snyder, and of course Handsome Jimmy Valiant
10:44 Very rare moment when a territory would (kind of) peel the curtain back. Thank you DD.
My first time watching this very good stuff wwa
I like how Spike put the effort into selling his figure four. He really made it look like he was cranking it and trying to force the submission. Good stuff.
Yukon Moose is the original Mantaur!
Spike Huber reminds me of Bob Backlund in his interview.
Wondering if there's crowd noise piped into this clip because I seem to recall DTB's WWA was a mere shadow of its former self by the time 1982 rolled around BUT based on the cheers/boos it seems like there's a BIG crowd on hand. Was this a fluke or the norm, especially since Bruiser wasn't making an appearance.
Surprised YT didn't mute the opening music. They've done that with the same song on Wrestling at the Chase episodes.
Not only did they have the same wrestlers year in and year out, it appears they had the same officials and other people at ringside, even Connie Marker.
Wht didnt PWI give the WWA decent coverage in their magazine
Just going through old wrestling clips on youtube, I must say the quality of wrestlers in the WWA between the 70s and 1982 seemed to get much worse. While one may want to blame McMahon for the downfall of small regional promotions in 84/85, it seems like WWA was well on it's way to that point by 1982 without any help from Vince
Definitely. The WWA was a place you started your career or ended it. It was not a bog money territory, like Dallas or Mid-Atlantic, even in the early 70s. Around this time, the top young talent were Spike Huber and Steve Regal, both sons-in-law of the promoters, Dick the Bruiser and Wilbur Snyder. Greg Wojokowski was also wrestling; but was pretty bland on the mic. It got much worse as the 80s progressed, with David McLane on commentary, after Sam Menacker left. They taped in some small hall or something and the action was pretty low. Scott Steiner was probably the last "name" that came out of there. Spike and Steve Regal did middling outside the territory. Spike worked Memphis and Dallas and promoted in Southern Illinois. Regal spent some time in the AWA, before working with Windy city Wrestling, in Chicago.
@@jeffnettleton3858 Dallas per se was not traditionally a big money territory. Prior to the early 1980s, the Dallas crew appeared for Paul Boesch in Houston on Fridays, which was their only good or decent payday. In Dallas itself, paydays got a little better when they started running the new Reunion Arena in 1981. Still, things were kind of blah for quite a while until Michael Hayes and Terry Gordy turned on the Von Erichs and the territory blew wide open.
As for this territory, there is or was a website which went into considerable detail on the promotion's history. From what I remember, Bruiser always kept Indianapolis strong but wasn't as concerned with the rest of the territory. Even during their heyday, spot shows with only 100 people in attendance were pretty common. If you believe the accounts of numerous wrestlers, Bruiser was quite stingy with payoffs to the point of permanently running guys off. Many of them could easily go work for the AWA and make more money, even in spite of Verne Gagne and Wally Caribou being pretty stingy themselves at times.
@WhatAboutThemApples 1982 was the point where attendance started seriously falling off. Bruiser using his St. Louis connections and bringing in top talent (Bruiser Brody, Harley Race) didn't seem to make a difference. I've always wondered if it was due to the fanbase getting cable, being able to watch guys like the Freebirds and Tommy Rich and realizing how small-time this promotion was all along.
A off spring of the awa
Is Steve Cooper the same as Randy Savage's manager in ICW?
Does any one know who the hooded hangman was?
Rob “Big Whiz” Whisman
@@thedavedynasty thank you sir!
@@thedavedynasty thank s bro!
This was the browsers territory right
The Sheik ?? Abdullah The Great?? Huh??
Imatators
No audio?
Audio is there
@@thedavedynasty Odd, must be my browser. Cheers.
Who was the masked Strangler?
Guy Mitchell or "Jerry Valiant"
The "Masked Strangler" on this episode was Bobby Vann.
Bugs Bunny was the "Masked Carrot"
Missed spot @ 4:49, LOL
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