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| Posted: Thu May 21st, 2015 06:15 am |
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Blazer
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS02p60bSlI Aug 27, 1976. I was four years old. Tag match starts around the 7:50 mark. Really cool to see Old Comiskey Park in the footage.
____________________ "Well, maybe I like the nightlife just a little bit more than I like the damn gym, jack! And when you're makin' $500,000 a year, there ain't no reason to change what you're doing." - Dusty Rhodes, 1/4/1986 |
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| Posted: Thu May 21st, 2015 07:00 am |
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Chitown Rich
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Blazer wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS02p60bSlI Thanks for the link Blazer. It was great watching the old footage again. Two other things i remember about this. 1. There was a 6 man tag match with The High Flyers & Wilbur Snyder beating Ox Baker, Mad Dog Vachon and Baron Von Rashcke. In TV interviews leading up to the match Ox Baker kept saying that his team was without question the best looking team of all time. The end of the match saw Vachon and Von Rashcke each hit Baker by mistake...right after one another. Ox got mad and left the ring. The High Flyers double drop kicked Vachon for the pin while Baron and Snyder were going at it. 2. We found out there was a card at Rockford Boylan HS Field the next night so we decided to go. Had no idea who was on the card but we went anyway. About 10 miles before Rockford there's a stalled car on the side of the road and we see it's Ox with 3 of his groupies. I knew them from before because they were always driving Ox everywhere and they were always at the matches. Huge girls. They were nicknamed the Ox-ettes. Well we helped get them started and we followed them to the field. We pull in and we met Crusher and told him he and Bruiser were robbed the night before. He grumbled something and went in the locker room. Then Larry Hennig came out of his car and I asked him why wasn't he on the Comiskey park card the night before. He got really kind of angry and said, "What Comiskey card?" and we told him all about it and he was steamed. His final words before he went in were, "Wait til I find out why I wasn't on that fuckin' card!" He was probably mad because he missed a good payoff. Last edited on Thu May 21st, 2015 07:15 pm by Chitown Rich |
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| Posted: Thu May 21st, 2015 06:23 pm |
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khawk Hall Of Famer 
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Chitown Rich wrote: 1. There was a 6 man tag match with The High Flyers & Wilbur Snyder beating Ox Baker, Mad Dog Vachon and Baron Von Rashcke. In TV interviews leading up to the match Ox Baker kept saying that his team was without question the best looking team of all time. The end of the match saw Vachon and Von Rashcke each hit Baker by mistake...right after one another. Ox got mad and left the ring. The High Flyers double drop kicked Vachon for the pin while Baron and Snyder were going at it. There is film of this match, albeit distant and dark, but it exists.
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| Posted: Thu May 21st, 2015 06:38 pm |
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One Fan Gang
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I think the real coveted footage would be of Chitown Rich twisting the knife and stirring the pot with the boys... Without really trying.
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| Posted: Thu May 21st, 2015 07:01 pm |
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tamalie Hall Of Famer
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Chitown Rich wrote: 3. SuperClash 1985... throw this one in too. Many stars and too good of a card not to go. I may have been the only one in attendance that was glad to see Crusher, Bruiser & Rashcke instead of Rhodes & The Rock & Roll Express. What was the background to Dick The Bruiser, The Crusher, and Baron Von Raschke being in the six man tag team match against Ivan and Nikita Koloff and Krusher Khrushchev instead of Dusty Rhodes and the Rock & Roll Express? I have a good idea why, but could you elaborate on what made Soldier Field such a bad venue?
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| Posted: Thu May 21st, 2015 07:45 pm |
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Chitown Rich
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tamalie wrote: Chitown Rich wrote:3. SuperClash 1985... throw this one in too. Many stars and too good of a card not to go. I may have been the only one in attendance that was glad to see Crusher, Bruiser & Rashcke instead of Rhodes & The Rock & Roll Express.
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| Posted: Fri May 22nd, 2015 08:18 pm |
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BigJ
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I'll echo KHawk's order of the original list. I remember hearing about SC2 about a week or so after it happened here in CA. Really wasn't a huge super card on any more of a level than Battle by the Bay or War in the Windy City. Verne tried several more big shows over the years that don't measure up. Rage in Rochester, Superclash 4, Twin Wars 90...
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| Posted: Fri May 22nd, 2015 08:20 pm |
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BigJ
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beejmi wrote:
There's no such thing.
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| Posted: Fri May 22nd, 2015 08:24 pm |
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BigJ
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beejmi wrote: Has anybody ever tried piecing together the Comiskey Park shows [video] to make a complete card or close as possible? That's a fantastic idea. KHawk, please do this...you have more of the necessary footage than I do.
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| Posted: Sat May 23rd, 2015 10:20 pm |
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Blazer
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Battle by the Bay was the June '86 show that was shown on ESPN, correct? I've seen bits and pieces of it, including what I recall a pretty good match between Hansen and Blackwell. Was "Blood on the Sand" an actual event or does it just refer to the Rockers v. Rose/Somers bloodbath match from Vegas?
____________________ "Well, maybe I like the nightlife just a little bit more than I like the damn gym, jack! And when you're makin' $500,000 a year, there ain't no reason to change what you're doing." - Dusty Rhodes, 1/4/1986 |
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| Posted: Mon May 25th, 2015 01:27 am |
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khawk Hall Of Famer
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I think it was a just named to put out on DVD well after the fact. The card itself wasn't advertised as a special event outside of Vegas that I know of.
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| Posted: Mon May 25th, 2015 05:35 am |
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BigJ
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Yeah, that's what Blood on the Sand was. That show actually had a real AWA release on VHS overseas.
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| Posted: Tue May 26th, 2015 07:58 pm |
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tamalie Hall Of Famer
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Blood on the Sand became a supercard of sorts after the fact. I don't recall it getting any hype prior to occurring by that or any other title. Last edited on Tue May 26th, 2015 08:03 pm by tamalie |
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