"Mr Wonderful" Paul Orndorff vs The Mohawk Kid

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "Paul "Mr Wonderful" Orndorff Vs The Mohawk Kid"

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: Minutes of thought (at most) went into the creation of the Mohawk Kid. It took less time than that to destroy it.

British Bulldogs vs Les Thornton & Jack Foley

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "Poor Mick couldn't eat solid food for several days after this match. This could be his first televised match as well"

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: "Mick" being Mick Foley. And as we know from his home movies he was GCW from the get-go.

Ken Patera vs "Judo" Joe Black

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "This guy is so bad, it's funny!"

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: Judo Joe judiciously jogged on by juiced-up juggernaut. Also, note the fact that his sole expression of "I am in pain" is to briefly clasp his forehead, as though he's trying to solve a reasonably-difficult maths problem.

Ultimate Warrior vs Frenchy Martin

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "New York City, NY - Madison Square Garden - November 24, 1987 The Ultimate Warrior (Warrior's MSG debut) vs Frenchy Martin (sub. for Bob Orton Jr.)"

COMMENT FROM YOURS TURLY: Ultimate Warrior slams Frenchy Martin, wrestler, onto his shoulder, separating it and hence making us all have to endure Frenchy Martin, manager.

Nick Bockwinkel commentating on the Ultimate Warrior:

"Well, I would say he's a bit overdone, looks like Mr Hormel went a bit crazy stuffing his sausage - when he put this guy together - and didn't know when to stop."

Erik Watts' dropkick

At 3:58 you will see a vision from the almighty.

"Mr Wonderful" Paul Orndorff vs "Nasty" Ned Brady

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "Main Event 6/10/1990- Paul Orndorff vs Ned Brady"

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: Nasty Ned kindly stopped off at the wrestling arena, on his way to a usual night of collecting debts and making sexist remarks at the local pool hall, to be pildriven into next week by Paul Orndorff. Nasty Ned also does the "turkey sell" at 0:38.

Demolition vs Sandy Beach & "Iron" Mike Sharpe

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "Early Demolition Match. Sandy Beach and Mike Sharpe reduced to jobbers getting destroyed by Ax & Smash."

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: I think I saw this match every week during my younger days.

Bruiser Brody vs. Nacho Berrera

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "AWA All Star Wrestling, May 1984"

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: If you combined Elvis during his last days with Tattoo from Fantasy Island, you perhaps would come close to creating Nacho Berrera. Just look at the man. The jacket. The hair. The sideburns (it was 1984!). The physique. The winning attitude he displays. This man is ready to lose. At anything. Just as long as you pay him something for it.

Clearly, "Nacho Libre 2: Nacho Berrera" as a straight to DVD title is a missed opportunity.

Larry Cameron vs. Jake "the Milkman" Milliman

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "AWA Larry Cameron vs Jake 'Milkman' Milliman August11,1990"

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: What a treat these two served up for my eleventh birthday. The Milkman is one of the greatest job guys ever, he looks like an unusually energetic trucker, has a haircut beyond the bounds of all common sense, and has approximately no chance of winning whatsoever, but keeps trying. Just the best. I think he needed a milk cart or even a bottle of milk to drink before the match, so that he had milk all through his ginger beard.

And it seems the AWA gave Larry Cameron "the Butcher" nickname - because he used to be a butcher. Wow. What a key for certain success amongst children. Why didn't DC call Superman "Reporterman" instead?

Crusher Blackwell vs "Sodbuster" Kenny Jay

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "AWA All Star Wrestling April 4 1982"

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: You might think that Kenny was known as the "Sodbuster" due to some sort of football folklore, but it was actually because he dug up people's lawns. His other nickname was "The Very Capable Kenny Jay".

He once fought Muhammad Ali, and also gave the world this excellent quote after being honoured by the Cauliflower Alley Club:

" Being the first jabroni to be honored by the Cauliflower Alley Club is real exciting. It’s nice to be recognized by the boys. ”

— Kenny Jay

Crusher Blackwell also could throw a better dropkick than Hot Fist Hernahan.

Dennis Stamp vs Soldat Ustinov

As you can see Dennis is quite the character.




Here he is trying his utmost against Soldat Ustinov (one of Peter's more-aggresive relatives, perhaps), attempting to make the "Russian" look as devastating as possible. Dennis could wrestle, but he'll be remembered for his tramp-jumping for all eternity.

Tugboat Thomas vs Iron Mike Sharpe

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "Debut of Fred Ottman."

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: This was the debut~! of Tugboat. I remember being so excited, until the match began. At least Tuggy's dropkick is better than Iron Mike Sharpe's (1:30) which is only slightly higher off the ground than Hot Fist Hernahan's - although that one was off my mum's deck. Commentator Vince McMahon is certainly enjoying the "action" and you would be too if you had several thousand dollars to pay a grown man to dress up as a tugboat.

Giant Baba & Hiroshi Wajima vs. Rusher Kimuara & Colt Steele

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "1987"

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: If you can stand to watch more than a minute of this, you're a braver man than I. Or just crazy. The "clubbering" is quite amusing until you sense that nobody in the match even cares. I became aware of this sense at the 45 second mark.

Okay, skip ahead to about 2:40, that bit's quite funny too.

Bret(t) Hart vs. Van Van Horne

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "Bret Hart Vs Van Van Horne from 1988"

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: Mr Horne must have seen his name next to Bret's backstage and thought, "Man, that guy has a cool name, "The Hitman". But I think of one cooler! I'll add an extra Van on my name! Top that!" He then proceeded to get no offense in whatsoever.

Maybe he got confused with Van Van Car?




Ah, great game that.

Heroes Of Wrestling

BUSCHWACKERS vs IRON SHEIK & NIKOLAI VOLKOFF


DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "Part 11: Jake Roberts' antics may be the most memorable part of this show, but this match deserves just as much infamy, the legendary "-459 stars" match.

"Dave Meltzer, of Wrestling Observer Newsletter, gave this the number of absolute zero, which is like -459 or something. Bryan Alvarez, of Figure Four Weekly, gave it "minus more stars than there are stars in the universe, and the universe is infinite"."

PART 2


COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: There's a drinking game for this match. You don't have to drink when you see something that looks like it hurt.

JAKE ROBERTS INTERVIEW


DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "Part 22: Yeah, you may have heard of this bit.."

JIM 'THE ANVIL' NEIDHART vs JAKE 'THE SNAKE' ROBERTS then ends up being JIM 'THE ANVIL' NEIDHART & KING KONG BUNDY vs JAKE 'THE SNAKE' ROBERTS & YOKOZUNA





DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "The title should probably involve Yokozuna and King Kong Bundy too.

Witness the hilarity of substance abuse in all it's glory...

The PPV just ended (or more likely, the Director screamed "Fade to black! Fade to black!!" as Jake motioned to pull his tights down)."

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: Jake's had a few, but he's sweet.

Al Snow fights himself

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "No one has ever accused Al Snow of being completely sane (or insane for some of you). Take this "match" for example"

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: Still better than some GCW matches with 2, 3 or 4 people in them.

Bradshaw & Trish Stratus vs Chris Nowinski & Jackie Gayda

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "Raw tag match"

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: Amazing. This might be more GCW than GCW could ever be. Jackie didn't know a thing, got nervous, which compounded her inability, meaning she just kept making mistake after mistake.

If you can't bear to watch the whole thing, here are the highlights, grimly condensed into 35 seconds:

Hiroshi Wajima vs Tom Magee

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "Tom Magee is the guy mentioned in Bret Hart's book. Great look but horrible worker."

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: Bret Hart made Tom Magee look like a million bucks and thus the WWF thought they had the next big thing to follow Hulk Hogan. But they soon realised they didn't. Mr Magee had a great physique, and agility, but overall gave the impression of a camp Connan. This match makes him look even worse because he's wrestling an ex-Sumo old Japanese guy who has been taught not to sell anything that doesn't look believeable. So he doesn't sell a thing, then ends the match about 2 minutes in. This won "Worst match of the year" back in 1988. It is less entertaining than every Big Jobs match.

Magnificent Muraco vs Marshall Bovee

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "Don 'Magnificent' Muraco w/ Capt Lou Albano vs Marshall Bovee. Gotta love the 'Non Title' Bout mention, as if this made the match more pertinent. LOL

Another match is from what I call my 'Forgotten Jobber Collection". You always hear about Frankie Williams, Charlie Fulton, Mac Rivera, and others. But Marshall Bovee?!!!! His haircut alone deserved to be Tombstoned by Don Muraco off the top of a building.

Taped this myself back in '83 and is another of my favorite 'Jobber' matches. Some these days think they are being polite by using the term 'enhancement talent'. Marshall Bovee is a jobber. Don Muraco though, my favorite IC Champion of all time."

COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: Marcial Bovee worked in several smaller places as a manager and wrestler, I think he even won some sort of championship. Imagine paying money to see that.

Don Muraco was just the best though.

Bad News Brown vs Steve Reese

DESCRIPTION FROM YOUTUBE: "Superstars of Wrestling (January 28, 1989)

That jobber must be the worst ever in history of professional wrestling. He turn is back on Bad News Brown at the beginning. What an idiot! Someone was right in the comments at 1:35 he yells HELP ME!

If that wasn't enough for the poor guy, Vince McMahon & Jesse The Body makes fun of him during the whole match.

That was is first and last appearance on a WWF show."


COMMENT FROM YOURS TRULY: Mr Reese starts out with a thumbs up and a cheery wink. Seconds later he is wailing like a lonely cat. Despite not having to do anything, he becomes lost and disorientated. A truly entertaining video for the entire 2:12.