Accoring to CBS Sports, the WWE has announced that The Rock 'n' Roll Express will be the newest inductees into the WWE Hall of Fame. Ricky Morton and Robert Gibson were one of the most popular tag teams in the 1980's, making a name for themselves in the Nwa and Jim Crockett Promotions.
While The Rock 'n' Roll Express doesn't have much of a history in the WWE apart from a short stint in the late 90's, this is a fine addition to the Hall. As a fan growing up watching wrestling in the 80's, when you turned on wrestling Saturday Nights at 6:05 pm for some Nwa World Championship Wrestling, watching The Rock 'n' Roll Express in action gave you some of the best in ring action you were going to see. Their brilliance as a team revolved around the fact that they were pretty much always the underdog in all their matches.
While The Rock 'n' Roll Express doesn't have much of a history in the WWE apart from a short stint in the late 90's, this is a fine addition to the Hall. As a fan growing up watching wrestling in the 80's, when you turned on wrestling Saturday Nights at 6:05 pm for some Nwa World Championship Wrestling, watching The Rock 'n' Roll Express in action gave you some of the best in ring action you were going to see. Their brilliance as a team revolved around the fact that they were pretty much always the underdog in all their matches.
- 2/6/2017
- by Tim Jousma
- LRMonline.com
WWE.com
It’s with great sadness to report of the untimely death of wrestling legend the “American Dream” Dusty Rhodes, aged 69.
According to TMZ, emergency personnel responded to Dusty’s home in Orlando, Fl at 5:56 Am Wednesday morning after getting a call reporting he had taken a fall. According to F4WOnline, his kidneys were shutting down and he started to get dehydrated.
WWE.com
Rhodes (whose real name was Virgil Runnels) was arguably the biggest wrestler that really made a name for himself in the 1970s. He worked mostly in the Florida territory as well as the southern United States, while also working as the booker of Jim Crockett Promotions throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s as well. He was one of the biggest babyfaces in the southern Us during the majority of his in-ring career.
As a booker he was known for doing a lot...
It’s with great sadness to report of the untimely death of wrestling legend the “American Dream” Dusty Rhodes, aged 69.
According to TMZ, emergency personnel responded to Dusty’s home in Orlando, Fl at 5:56 Am Wednesday morning after getting a call reporting he had taken a fall. According to F4WOnline, his kidneys were shutting down and he started to get dehydrated.
WWE.com
Rhodes (whose real name was Virgil Runnels) was arguably the biggest wrestler that really made a name for himself in the 1970s. He worked mostly in the Florida territory as well as the southern United States, while also working as the booker of Jim Crockett Promotions throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s as well. He was one of the biggest babyfaces in the southern Us during the majority of his in-ring career.
As a booker he was known for doing a lot...
- 6/11/2015
- by John Canton
- Obsessed with Film
WWE.com
The Survivor Series is a pay-per-view concept created in 1987 as Vince McMahon attempted to take advantage of the overwhelming popularity of his promotion while simultaneously cutting into the success of the National Wrestling Alliance and Jim Crockett Promotions’ Starrcade event. The event, carrying the tagline “teams of five strive to survive,” would feature four 10-Man Tag Team Elimination matches pitting the top Superstars in the world against one another. Some of the top feuds of the time, most notably Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant, would write their latest chapters at the event while a recently-turned-babyface Randy Savage attempted to avenge a guitar shot to the head by leading his team against the Honky Tonk Man and his gallery of rogues. The show was an overwhelming success but fans could not help but be disappointed by some of the eliminations they witnessed. In fact, over the course of its 27 years,...
The Survivor Series is a pay-per-view concept created in 1987 as Vince McMahon attempted to take advantage of the overwhelming popularity of his promotion while simultaneously cutting into the success of the National Wrestling Alliance and Jim Crockett Promotions’ Starrcade event. The event, carrying the tagline “teams of five strive to survive,” would feature four 10-Man Tag Team Elimination matches pitting the top Superstars in the world against one another. Some of the top feuds of the time, most notably Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant, would write their latest chapters at the event while a recently-turned-babyface Randy Savage attempted to avenge a guitar shot to the head by leading his team against the Honky Tonk Man and his gallery of rogues. The show was an overwhelming success but fans could not help but be disappointed by some of the eliminations they witnessed. In fact, over the course of its 27 years,...
- 11/10/2014
- by Erik Beaston
- Obsessed with Film
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