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Former long time WWE employee Bruce Prichard appeared on Ric Flair’s Wooooo! Nation podcast this week and shared some interesting stories about The Undertaker’s debut in the company, some 25 years ago.
Prichard revealed that WWE Chairman Vince McMahon wasn’t very interested in Mark Calway at first because he looked too much like a basketball player.
The story goes that Paul Heyman told Prichard that Calway was available and was set to meet with McMahon the night after WCW’s Great American Bash PPV in 1990 when Calway wrestled Lex Luger. Heyman was actually the manager for “Mean” Mark Callous (The Undertaker’s name in WCW) that night.
According to Prichard, Undertaker had a dislocated hip and still worked the match because he knew he had to meet with WWE the next day. The match was bad, so apparently Vince didn’t want to meet with him.
Former long time WWE employee Bruce Prichard appeared on Ric Flair’s Wooooo! Nation podcast this week and shared some interesting stories about The Undertaker’s debut in the company, some 25 years ago.
Prichard revealed that WWE Chairman Vince McMahon wasn’t very interested in Mark Calway at first because he looked too much like a basketball player.
The story goes that Paul Heyman told Prichard that Calway was available and was set to meet with McMahon the night after WCW’s Great American Bash PPV in 1990 when Calway wrestled Lex Luger. Heyman was actually the manager for “Mean” Mark Callous (The Undertaker’s name in WCW) that night.
According to Prichard, Undertaker had a dislocated hip and still worked the match because he knew he had to meet with WWE the next day. The match was bad, so apparently Vince didn’t want to meet with him.
- 8/21/2015
- by John Canton
- Obsessed with Film
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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.
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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.
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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
It’s been quite a while since I’ve personally reviewed a WWE Home Video release – we have some great guys here on Nerdly that are more knowledgeable and are certainly bigger fans of wrestling than I. But when said home video release involves one of my all-time favourite wrestlers, Sting, there was no way I wasn’t checking this out for myself.
WWE: The Best of Sting encompasses the entirety of Sting’s career from his body-building beginnings to his debut as one half of The Freedom Fighters (later renamed Blade Runners), alongside my other all-time favourite wrestler, Jim Hellwig aka Ultimate Warrior, to his early WCW days, to the enigmatic, Crow-inspired, black and white face-painted, icon of wrestling he is today. This retrospective encompasses it all. From his Blade-Runners debut to his last WCW match vs. Ric Flair on the very last episode of WCW Monday Nitro...
WWE: The Best of Sting encompasses the entirety of Sting’s career from his body-building beginnings to his debut as one half of The Freedom Fighters (later renamed Blade Runners), alongside my other all-time favourite wrestler, Jim Hellwig aka Ultimate Warrior, to his early WCW days, to the enigmatic, Crow-inspired, black and white face-painted, icon of wrestling he is today. This retrospective encompasses it all. From his Blade-Runners debut to his last WCW match vs. Ric Flair on the very last episode of WCW Monday Nitro...
- 10/6/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
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The Great American Bash was a show concept created by WWE Hall of Famer Dusty Rhodes. He was a key figure in the Nwa in the 1980s as a top babyface as well as a booker. He came up with a lot of concepts in those days in addition to Gab, including WarGames and Starrcade. In the beginning, Gab was something the Nwa did as a live event before they were doing PPVs. Then they taped it. Then in 1988 it became a regular PPV. When the Nwa became WCW in 1991, the Gab name came along with it.
For the list, we’re looking at Great American Bash PPV matches. The Gab name actually started before the 1988 PPV since they did live events and released matches on tapes people could get, but technically they weren’t PPV releases.
Thanks to the always handy WWE Network, that means the shows...
The Great American Bash was a show concept created by WWE Hall of Famer Dusty Rhodes. He was a key figure in the Nwa in the 1980s as a top babyface as well as a booker. He came up with a lot of concepts in those days in addition to Gab, including WarGames and Starrcade. In the beginning, Gab was something the Nwa did as a live event before they were doing PPVs. Then they taped it. Then in 1988 it became a regular PPV. When the Nwa became WCW in 1991, the Gab name came along with it.
For the list, we’re looking at Great American Bash PPV matches. The Gab name actually started before the 1988 PPV since they did live events and released matches on tapes people could get, but technically they weren’t PPV releases.
Thanks to the always handy WWE Network, that means the shows...
- 7/4/2014
- by John Canton
- Obsessed with Film
Since WWE purchased WCW and the vast video library that came along with it, there have been numerous releases devoted to WCW related content, from the Goldberg set, to the Best of Nitro stuff, down to the Nwo release, but this is the first time WWE has taken a look at the best matches from the rich history of WCW’s Pay-Per-View’s. So here it is, volume one in the greatest matches from the PPV years of WCW.
WCW had some great PPV shows over the years of their existence. From Starrcade to Halloween Havoc, Superbrawl to Uncensored, Road Wild to Sin. Okay, ignore Sin, pretend I didn’t say that.
Here, in this 3 DVD/2 Bd set, you get over 20 matches ranging from 1987 until 2001 and the quality is, for the most-part, very high. From true wrestling greats, such as Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Sting, Vader, Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage,...
WCW had some great PPV shows over the years of their existence. From Starrcade to Halloween Havoc, Superbrawl to Uncensored, Road Wild to Sin. Okay, ignore Sin, pretend I didn’t say that.
Here, in this 3 DVD/2 Bd set, you get over 20 matches ranging from 1987 until 2001 and the quality is, for the most-part, very high. From true wrestling greats, such as Ric Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Sting, Vader, Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage,...
- 4/30/2014
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
Copyright: WWE Goldberg: The Ultimate Collection Blu-ray
When wrestling fans think of WCW, they think of the fact that the company went from some amazing heights in the late 1990s to dying in 2001 when WWE bought them out. It’s fair to think of WCW that way because it was true. That’s what happened. However, they did have a lot of great things happen in their history and it’s time to take a look back at those moments when the crowd reacted to WCW moments in a positive way.
For this list, I’m looking at 10 years of WCW from when WCW title was introduced in 1991 until the company was bought out by WWE in 2001. There are some matches where the WCW name was around the ring, yet it was a Nwa Title match like Great American Bash 1990 when Sting beat Ric Flair. That moment could be here,...
When wrestling fans think of WCW, they think of the fact that the company went from some amazing heights in the late 1990s to dying in 2001 when WWE bought them out. It’s fair to think of WCW that way because it was true. That’s what happened. However, they did have a lot of great things happen in their history and it’s time to take a look back at those moments when the crowd reacted to WCW moments in a positive way.
For this list, I’m looking at 10 years of WCW from when WCW title was introduced in 1991 until the company was bought out by WWE in 2001. There are some matches where the WCW name was around the ring, yet it was a Nwa Title match like Great American Bash 1990 when Sting beat Ric Flair. That moment could be here,...
- 3/6/2014
- by John Canton
- Obsessed with Film
As we begin the month of October, I fondly remember Halloween Havoc, WCW’s annual fall extravaganza. Halloween Havoc was the one pay-per-view I looked forward to every year since it seemed like the company was inventing some weird gimmick. Some of them worked very well (The Thunderdome or Thunder Cage before the threat of lawsuit), others had mixed results (Spin the Wheel, Make the Deal) and others made me cringe (Chamber of Horrors, Sumo Monster Truck Match). Today, I want to talk about the one Halloween Havoc that didn’t have some weird or insane gimmick match: Halloween Havoc 1990 with the tagline “Terror Rules the Ring”. The card emanated from The Uic Pavilion in Chicago, a location that had held two previous Nwa PPVs: Starrcade 1987 and The Chi-Town Rumble.
At The Great American Bash, Sting defeated Ric Flair to win the Nwa World Championship in a fantastic main event,...
At The Great American Bash, Sting defeated Ric Flair to win the Nwa World Championship in a fantastic main event,...
- 10/10/2013
- by Robert Goeman
- Obsessed with Film
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