ironsofcanada 10:11 Thu Aug 6
Pro Wrestling
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Being bored and with the Hulk Hogan thing still in and out of the news, I got thinking about the "good old days" of my childhood watching something called Stampede Wrestling (which the WWF bought in 1986)
Some of my favourites there were British and I was wondering if people remember Davey Boy Smith (stupid parents explains that middle name) or the Dynamite Kid before they left England.
Barring that whatever wrestling memories people have.
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Eric Hitchmoe
10:12 Thu Aug 6
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Is that the same Davey Boy Smith that went under the guise of the British Bulldog? He's dead now. Another wrestler to die fairly young.
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Dave Lister
10:13 Thu Aug 6
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Jackie Pallo was awesome
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Marston Hammer
10:14 Thu Aug 6
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I remember the british bulldog, one of my old favourites. didn't realise he was dead.
warning to the kids not to pump yourself full of steroids.
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willswishwellingtons
10:14 Thu Aug 6
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Different generation but I remember kicking RIGHT OFF when Stone Cold got together with Vince McMahon and stabbed the Rock in the back, I'm pretty sure I knew it was fake by then as well.
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El Scorchio
10:15 Thu Aug 6
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Yeah I remember them. They might both be dead now? Bret Hart was my favourite as a kid. The guy was a phenomenal worker and showman. Technically brilliant at putting a top class match on even with carrying much lesser wrestlers.
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Coffee
10:15 Thu Aug 6
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Haven't watched wrestling for donkeys' years, but used to enjoy the performances of Giant Haystacks and Big Daddy.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DSro4l_0cE
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Trevor B
10:16 Thu Aug 6
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marston
did you also know that when he was a lot younger he was Big Daddy's tag team partner?
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IsaacHock
10:16 Thu Aug 6
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I will literally never recover from the Montreal screwjob.
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ironsofcanada
10:17 Thu Aug 6
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Eric and Marston
That's him.
Apparently he was wrestling on ITV at age 15 or something.
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Marston Hammer
10:19 Thu Aug 6
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Trevor B 10:16 Thu Aug 6
I did not. The Big Daddy & Giant Haystacks era was a little bit before my time.
Wonder how many of them are dead now, would be surprised if there's many left.
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Garth Algar
10:20 Thu Aug 6
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Remember the wrestling boom at school in about 1990.
Went to the states during the easter holidays and brought back my first action figures: Hulk Hogan, Macho Man and......Sting.
Proudly bowled back into school after the holidays with my Sting action figure but was shunned when trying to join in a 'royal rumble' as Sting was WCW and not WWF!!!
Didn't understand the difference.
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worm
10:22 Thu Aug 6
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Coffee 10:15 Thu Aug 6
World of Sport on a Saturday afternoon? Essential viewing round my Nans, she'd headbut anybody asking for something else on the tv.
Did Giant Haystacks ever win a bout with Big Daddy?
I don't remember it if he did.
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AVOR
10:25 Thu Aug 6
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Lost some legends lately, Rowdy Roddy Piper died last week, Dusty Rhodes the month before, ultimate warrior and Macho man in the last year or two....
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Trevor B
10:27 Thu Aug 6
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marston
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XuYJXF7rBo
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ironsofcanada
10:27 Thu Aug 6
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So I guess Davey Boy was still Young David in England even after competing in Canada for a number of years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XuYJXF7rBo
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Coffee
10:27 Thu Aug 6
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Worm
Spot on!
It's funny that everyone seemed to have watched it round their nan's.
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ironsofcanada
10:28 Thu Aug 6
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Trevor B 10:27 Thu Aug 6
Ha!
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Lee Trundle
10:28 Thu Aug 6
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Reaching 60 of age for some of these wrestlers is a real milestone.
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