I used to watch every Saturday..it was on ch 13 whbq in the afternoon and it was also later on ch 5 wmc....and would go to the Ellis auditorium and then later the mid-south coliseum...every Monday night
I've lived in Memphis for all 56 years of my life and the happiest memories I have are sitting with my grandmother (Big Mama) every Saturday morning from 11am to 12:30 watching every second of this. Thank you for posting this
This was shot in the old WHBQ (channel 13, ABC affiliate) studio, which hosted wrestling from about 1962 to 197. When Jerry Jarrett split off from Nick Gulas, he went to WMC (channel 5, NBC affiliate) The WMC studio looked much better on TV than the WHBQ studio.
For those of us raised in the northeast. We missed out on so much when it came to wrestling. Where I live it was only Sammartino's Pittsburgh Territory and the WWWF with McMahon Sr. It was so boring and stale especially with Sammartino being shoved down our throats. It's such a joy to watch these old Memphis clips, the Florida territories and Texas territories. It has such an exciting feel to it. It's so much for entertaining. The people down south and west really had some good wrestling to watch.
Being from Memphis....it was always the unexpected..got the audience involved...and believe it or not the announcers Lance Russell and Dave Brown were such an integral part making it all so believable
@@carlton4129 A lot of us that came up on Memphis wrestling are not from Memphis. Eastern Arkansas, Northwest Mississippi, Southeast Missouri, Southwestern Kentucky folks all watched Memphis Wrestling.
@@RealArtfulDodger thanks man! Yeah, I’m doing fine. I’m hoping to get and post more Memphis soon. Probably start with 1990, since the dvds I had from that year were difficult to work with. I also have to convert vhs to dvd of a couple of Nashville matches from 2007.
The polyester leisure suit commercial is what cracked me up the most. I was probably the only guy in the country who never wore one. I loved the 70's but the polyester leisure suit was a mistake on par with disco and gold chains around your neck big enough to choke a camel.
if im not mistaken.. ...there was someone else before Dave Brown on Ch 13...maybe George Klein..but I know the George Klein hosted an American Bandstand like Show on Saturday afternoon. so maybe it wasn't him..at ..one time wrestling was originally on Saturday afternoon at 330
"Its weird to see Lance Russell with his hair that long,not real long but longer than in later years........ Jerry Lawler has shifted back and forth between fan fave to rule breaker so many times I've lost count........ The others wrestlers who competed in Memphis at that time and appeared on the TV broadcasts at that time were great........ Seeing Eddie Marlin still as an active wrestler is great,I liked the more bigger studio here the smaller one in the later years was just to close to everyone,the fans screaming hard to hear the interviews........ But,great action from the archives of Wrestling when it was still wrestling,before Vince McMahon Messed it up........ Thanks for the Wrestling Memories."-🤗.🌐🌏🌐.
Some of the tapes stop and start at different moments...then silence...then pick back up again. Still a work in progress. Just happy to have some of these Lawler/Bass promos I've never heard. I just found the big angle where Sam Bass, Al Greene and Hickerson turn on Lawler, leaving him a bloody mess in the studio....great stuff.
I see. That makes sense. I would love to hear them. I really enjoyed hearing those audio tapes so far. Really looking forward to more posts. You do a great job Scott. BTW, you were immensely entertaining during your tenures in the USWA. If only you would have come along 10 years earlier after Jimmy Hart left. Would have been perfect timing.
Thanks for setting me straight on the dates. I have Mark James's record books, so it should fairly be easy to figure it out. The tricky part is finding footage that sort of matches the audio; not even sure if that's necessary, but I think once I get the hang of it, the results will be better. There's just not much footage of Sam out there unfortunately. Actually, I think what happened in this case, I was looking for a complete show intro with Lance and Dave talking about that day's action; once I recorded that, I flipped the tape over and found the fantastic Lawler, Bass, Fuller stuff, so I assumed it was around the same time period. But yeah, the Dundee thing should have been a dead giveaway. Most of the tapes aren't labeled with dates, just stuff like "Lawler/Bass," "Dundee vs. Lawler," "Bobo Brazil Interview," etc.
I used to watch every Saturday..it was on ch 13 whbq in the afternoon and it was also later on ch 5 wmc....and would go to the Ellis auditorium and then later the mid-south coliseum...every Monday night
This is when wrestling was the best WWE today it sucks I wish wrestling like this was still on
I've lived in Memphis for all 56 years of my life and the happiest memories I have are sitting with my grandmother (Big Mama) every Saturday morning from 11am to 12:30 watching every second of this. Thank you for posting this
This was shot in the old WHBQ (channel 13, ABC affiliate) studio, which hosted wrestling from about 1962 to 197. When Jerry Jarrett split off from Nick Gulas, he went to WMC (channel 5, NBC affiliate) The WMC studio looked much better on TV than the WHBQ studio.
Wow look at Lance Russell God I’ve never seen him that young before
Lol
Elvis was still running around Memphis then wow.
Definitely.
For those of us raised in the northeast. We missed out on so much when it came to wrestling. Where I live it was only Sammartino's Pittsburgh Territory and the WWWF with McMahon Sr. It was so boring and stale especially with Sammartino being shoved down our throats. It's such a joy to watch these old Memphis clips, the Florida territories and Texas territories. It has such an exciting feel to it. It's so much for entertaining. The people down south and west really had some good wrestling to watch.
Being from Memphis....it was always the unexpected..got the audience involved...and believe it or not the announcers Lance Russell and Dave Brown were such an integral part making it all so believable
@@carlton4129
A lot of us that came up on Memphis wrestling are not from Memphis. Eastern Arkansas, Northwest Mississippi, Southeast Missouri, Southwestern Kentucky folks all watched Memphis Wrestling.
I grew up in the Northeast...we had Mid Atlantic and WWWF..we had Georgia in 82' when we had cable ..we had wrestling
Lance Russell and Dave Brown: Who could portray these guys in the movie about Memphis wrestling
Our humble narrators have much more hair than I’m accustomed too. Sweet SWEET post
Very cool to hear Sam Bass! I wish Lawler would talk about his favorite memories of him in one of his podcasts.
he doesn't like to mention his father to much!
Sam Bass was from in between Walnut Mississippi and Corinth Mississippi I was friends with is brother Fred Bass
Miss your videos man, although I know you ran out of stuff (?). Hope you are well.
@@RealArtfulDodger thanks man! Yeah, I’m doing fine. I’m hoping to get and post more Memphis soon. Probably start with 1990, since the dvds I had from that year were difficult to work with. I also have to convert vhs to dvd of a couple of Nashville matches from 2007.
These were the times when you could go backstage after the shows with your parents and meet the wrestlers.
nice footage
Wow fantastic , thanks for posting brother!!
I was 2 weeks old when this came out😂
I love how memphis' production value never improved for over 20 years.
Rest in peace jack Brisco
The Coliseum results page shows this was in 1974
Seems odd seeing Lawler somewhat slim. I hope that fuller dude got something to eat. He was so skinny. I hope to get to see more of these.
I did. I’m a fat bastard now.
The belt said Southern Junior Heavyweight belt on it....was an interesting design
he never ruled anywhere but memphis and that was only because he owned and booked it
I had the same haircut Lawler had in this video when I was 10😂
The polyester leisure suit commercial is what cracked me up the most. I was probably the only guy in the country who never wore one. I loved the 70's but the polyester leisure suit was a mistake on par with disco and gold chains around your neck big enough to choke a camel.
I’m getting addicted to Memphis wrestling. HELP MEEE
Lawyers social commentary of Rufus....oh boy.
Tojo chopping the hell outta a mattress
A young looking Eddie Marlin...
RIP Scott
was Dave the weatherman in 74?
Yes on WHBQ Channel 13.
I'm pretty sure Dave has always been the weatherman. Noah probably watched him from the arc.
if im not mistaken.. ...there was someone else before Dave Brown on Ch 13...maybe George Klein..but I know the George Klein hosted an American Bandstand like Show on Saturday afternoon. so maybe it wasn't him..at ..one time wrestling was originally on Saturday afternoon at 330
*George Klein s Talent Show
"Its weird to see Lance Russell with his hair
that long,not real long but longer than in later years........
Jerry Lawler has shifted back and forth
between fan fave to rule breaker so many times
I've lost count........
The others wrestlers who competed in Memphis
at that time and appeared on the TV broadcasts
at that time were great........
Seeing Eddie Marlin still as an active wrestler is
great,I liked the more bigger studio here
the smaller one in the later years was
just to close to everyone,the fans screaming
hard to hear the interviews........
But,great action from the archives of
Wrestling when it was still wrestling,before Vince McMahon
Messed it up........
Thanks for the Wrestling Memories."-🤗.🌐🌏🌐.
How could it be 74? Barnes and Dundee didn't appear until 1975.
Some of the tapes stop and start at different moments...then silence...then pick back up again. Still a work in progress. Just happy to have some of these Lawler/Bass promos I've never heard. I just found the big angle where Sam Bass, Al Greene and Hickerson turn on Lawler, leaving him a bloody mess in the studio....great stuff.
I see. That makes sense. I would love to hear them. I really enjoyed hearing those audio tapes so far. Really looking forward to more posts. You do a great job Scott. BTW, you were immensely entertaining during your tenures in the USWA. If only you would have come along 10 years earlier after Jimmy Hart left. Would have been perfect timing.
Thanks for setting me straight on the dates. I have Mark James's record books, so it should fairly be easy to figure it out. The tricky part is finding footage that sort of matches the audio; not even sure if that's necessary, but I think once I get the hang of it, the results will be better.
There's just not much footage of Sam out there unfortunately. Actually, I think what happened in this case, I was looking for a complete show intro with Lance and Dave talking about that day's action; once I recorded that, I flipped the tape over and found the fantastic Lawler, Bass, Fuller stuff, so I assumed it was around the same time period. But yeah, the Dundee thing should have been a dead giveaway. Most of the tapes aren't labeled with dates, just stuff like "Lawler/Bass," "Dundee vs. Lawler," "Bobo Brazil Interview," etc.
It had to be earlier than that was in Memphis earlier than that
It's 1975 they show it in the intro at 1:22
Mid South Poison Control center? 😂
The times when leisure suits reigned
Who is Bates?
Bert Bates, promoter.
Did they pay for all these songs used in promos and to promote ? Wonder how that works
Tuesday night not Monday night.
The video doesn't match the actual commentary. Looks like videos from other interviews that I have seen several times but the words are different.
volstar8 Ah, so you were duped by "rare audio cut with surviving footage"? Want your money back? Read more. Comment less.
Lawler looks OLD in interview. Lines under eyes and such
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