The General Wrestling Thread

[Bigpapa42]

No one has made more money with less talent, for that i have a strange respect for him

That, plus he managed to avoid getting too much blame for the whole WCW debacle. It seemed like he did almost as much damage as Hogan, yet its Hogan and Bischoff and Russo who take more "credit", typically.

[EmpireWF]

Nash is a champion of politics. Can't hate the guy for getting paid but holy crap was he a horrible booker and holy crap does he not belong working a match in 2011.

[BigBiss]

Nash is a champion of politics. Can't hate the guy for getting paid but holy crap was he a horrible booker and holy crap does he not belong working a match in 2011.

I have a strange thoery that Nashes Booking would have worked if every one had stayed heathy, It hold about as much water as that he has been brought back because he is a guy that can go toe to toe with Punk edgy promo wise and not because he is Hunters buddy

[Bigpapa42]

Nash is a champion of politics. Can't hate the guy for getting paid but holy crap was he a horrible booker and holy crap does he not belong working a match in 2011.

He is. Yet he doesn't seem to get as much negativity for that as Hogan, Trips, or even HBK does. Not just going by the Death of WCW book, but even just his recent appearance on the WWE Legends panel show where they talked about WCW.... Nash manages to spin things so well and he's charismatic about it. Hogan doesn't come across that way in those type of interviews I've seen with him...

[BigBiss]

The guys that are best at politics are the ones you dont even know are playing them ...

[LiquidLarry2GhostWF]

The guys that are best at politics are the ones you dont even know are playing them ...

That's quite true.

[Warner2BruceTD]

--CMLL in Puebla tonight is headlined by IWGP champion Hiroshi Tanahashi teaming with Ultimo Guerrero & Averno vs. Atlantis & Hector Garza & La Sombra.


I'd pay decent money for a hand held of this match.

[SHOGUN]

CM Punk was off on the mic tonight.

[IamMedellin]

so wait....is all of this building to a Triple H/Nash match?

Really?.....REALLY?!!?

[BigBiss]

I have been pulling for them, (not much falling off the big table these days) but god this is getting old

[Warner2BruceTD]

so wait....is all of this building to a Triple H/Nash match?

Really?.....REALLY?!!?

Nash has some sort of medical issue. They plan to do Punk/Nash later in the fall.

[SHOGUN]

I've slowly become a fan of the Bravado Brothers after all their ROH Wire promos and HDNet skits. They are hilariously hokey.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHTWO0rxv5Q[/ame]

[Warner2BruceTD]

It was an honor, and a privilege, to wrestle the worlds greatest tag team...from eight years ago.

[EmpireWF]

[Warner2BruceTD]

A great Terry Funk story...

Mando Lopez, a 70s regular in the LeBell Southern California promotion recently passed away. We don’t have a lot of details, but he was said to be in his early 60s. He mainly worked underneath for most of the 70s, in and out. He did some television for Roy Shire but I don’t know that he ever won a match. In Los Angeles, he usually was a prelim guy but did get some pushes here and there. Once he and John Tolos had a main event feud over the tag team titles against Black Gordman & Great Goliath. He also worked independent Lucha Libre shows under a mask as Super Star, and trained Luchadores at the famed Gil’s Gym in East Los Angeles. He was almost always a small, underdog babyface, but he was a good worker. He was a stickler for teaching responding to the crowd and apparently was often frustrated with students who were all into high spots but were clueless how to connect with the audience. His favorite wrestling story was going to Texas in the mid-70s, where he did a television shoot against Terry Funk, who was at the time the world champion. The booker, who had no idea who he was or if he could work, told him that since he was working with the world champion, that he was to do nothing on offense and just get squashed. When Funk arrived at the building, he went to Lopez and asked if he had any ideas for the match or any moves he wanted to do. Lopez said, “No, I’m just laying down for you, whatever you like.” Funk shot back, “What’s with your attitude, are you lazy or did somebody tell you that you weren’t getting paid tonight?” Lopez said, “No, the promoter told me I wasn’t to lay a hand on you.” Funk, who knew him from Los Angeles and knew he could go, said, “You’re a wrestler, you wrestle me, you understand?” Early in the match, Funk told him to shoot a single leg. Lopez took him down and Funk screamed like Lopez had taken out his leg with the takedown. After the match, the booker started swearing up and down at Lopez for not following orders, and threw in some ethnic slurs as well. Funk then walked up and said, “He did those moves because I told him to do those moves. Don’t ever tell anybody how to work a match with me!” Lopez was even more amazed that later in the night, Funk handed him some cash, saying, “That’s my payoff, it’s yours, sorry for the hassle.” The only major title Lopez ever won in Southern California was a one-week run as Americas’ tag team champion, where he teamed with Irish Mickey Doyle to win the titles from Gordman & Goliath on December 9, 1975, and lost them a week later to Tolos & Rock Riddle.