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Is it possible to get a name change on here?
Posted on 6/5/25 at 1:57 pm
Posted on 6/5/25 at 1:57 pm
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Posted on 6/5/25 at 1:59 pm to boogiewoogie1978
but you have one of the best names on here...
Posted on 6/5/25 at 2:48 pm to boogiewoogie1978
Hog fan with 78'
Were you thinking something Triplet related?
Were you thinking something Triplet related?
Posted on 6/9/25 at 9:23 am to Cheese Grits
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Hog fan with 78'
Were you thinking something Triplet related?
Nope. Grew up watching Memphis wrestling and always loved the "The Boogie Woogie Man" "Handsome Jimmy Valiant"
Posted on 6/11/25 at 11:23 am to boogiewoogie1978
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"Handsome Jimmy Valiant"
I see your HJV and raise with GG!
Honorable mention to this guy
Harold Watanabe aka P / Y Chong / Chung aka Tojo Yamamoto aka The Mongolian Stomper
He was supposed to be from Japan when he was actually an American from Hawaii. He was born between the Big Wars and I used to feed him after matches in my youth. YHe was the heel when we were anti Japan and the hero when that view softened.
As for Gorgeous George, he was the panty dropper of wrasslin the way Tom Jones was for singing.
Posted on 6/11/25 at 1:10 pm to Cheese Grits
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Tojo Yamamoto
Didn't he use to go around smashing people with a cane?
Posted on 6/11/25 at 2:15 pm to boogiewoogie1978
In the early days he used a steel chair
I think when he was a heel manager he used the cane
At the end he was the good guy
Bigger issue is back then it was 90% wrasslin and 10% male soap opera, now it is flipped. Big miss is back in there day you knew all those guys personally because it was small venues and if it was on TV it was on your local station.
Good times!
I think when he was a heel manager he used the cane
At the end he was the good guy
Bigger issue is back then it was 90% wrasslin and 10% male soap opera, now it is flipped. Big miss is back in there day you knew all those guys personally because it was small venues and if it was on TV it was on your local station.
Good times!
Posted on 6/11/25 at 2:52 pm to Cheese Grits
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Bigger issue is back then it was 90% wrasslin and 10% male soap opera, now it is flipped.
The character development just isn't the same as it once was. I mean the guys back then WERE their characters. They lived it.
Posted on 6/11/25 at 2:57 pm to boogiewoogie1978
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The character development just isn't the same as it once was. I mean the guys back then WERE their characters. They lived it.
You know how I know you are old school?
Posted on 6/12/25 at 8:34 am to Cheese Grits
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You know how I know you are old school?
It was great. I remember the first time I saw Dirty Dutch Mantell. I'd never seen a human with so much hair. When he cracked his bull whip it was just like this guy came straight out of the mountains to wrestle.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 10:16 am to boogiewoogie1978
Are you old enough to remember the guy that traveled from town to town in the South with the wrasslin bear?
Posted on 6/12/25 at 10:23 am to Cheese Grits
No. Man these people were out there.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 10:33 am to boogiewoogie1978
What I really miss about the old South was all the eccentric people and it was all normal. Now folks are bland and boring.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 3:47 pm to Cheese Grits
Just want to say you gentlemen have an excellent thread here.
Posted on 8/21/25 at 7:28 pm to SLCGumpFB25
Thank you kind interwebz person. If this is your wheelhouse, perhaps you are old enough to be collecting a social security check and were alive to experience the "Golden Age" of wrasslin?
Posted on 8/21/25 at 8:23 pm to Cheese Grits
I'm a generation or two younger, grew up during the 80's. I just remember growing up watching Nick at Night and old 60's TV shows from the golden age of Hollywood.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 6:10 am to SLCGumpFB25
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golden age of Hollywood.
As the old fart I tend to have a different view
Break "Hollywood" (film is what made the era, not TV) into 4 parts
Early - all about learning the craft and the basics (beginning to talkies)
Mid - all about there scripts, good writing / plots (sound to post WW II)
Late - all about the stars, appeal of "talent" (50's to 70's)
Current - all about nothing, like sounds and explosions (77 Star Wars - 25)
I think "A Star is Born" has been remade 5 or 6 times, tho not always that title. I like the B&W versions, but my favorite is Garland + Mason in the "Stars" Era. Streisand version was near the end of that Era. Lady Gaga was in the most recent remake.
"Chicago" had a good B&W version but that latest remake with Zellweger + Zeta Jones is the one now known.
The reason the Cohen brothers may be my favorite modern movie makers is their use of language / dialogue / script is so old school and makes their movies watchable over and over.
Sequels and franchises (think Avengers and most horror franchises) are predictable and I guess entertaining to some but boring to others in the same old same old mold.
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