Post by truthsower on May 12, 2010 23:13:28 GMT -5
Rich said something in old fans talking thread (whatever it's called) about breaking new topics into new threads....so I'm trying to do that here but I usually don't get a lot of responses usually.
I'm 53 and was really into wrestling from about 68 to 76. After that life got in the way. My favorites were The Assassins. I tended to like bad guys more than good guys for the most part. (I'm smart enough now to know the proper words are "heels" and "faces/babyfaces.") Wrestling 2, Wahoo, and Tommy Rich are about the only good guys I generally always liked. I never liked Dusty.
One of the things that began to turn me off to wrestling was the way they treated the NWA Championship. I remember seeing films of Dory Funk winning the title and he held the title for over four years straight. Then as I recall he started losing to Brisco in Florida in non-title matches or being pinned in tag matches. Then he lost to Race in a match that IMO should have been turned around because, if my aging memory serves me right, Funk pinned Race while the ref was "knocked out" and then Race came back to pin Dory. Amazingly, the ref woke up just in the nick of time to do the count!
Anyhow, Race lost about a month later to Brisco then Brisco wound up losing to Terry Funk. I can't remember if Race held it between Brisco and Funk or not. The next thing I knew Race was losing it and winning it back all the time. I thought that was stupid. Just plain stupid. If I'm not mistaken, Baba, Rhodes, and Rich all had the title for about a week. A week! The world champ was exchanged twice in about 10 days! How believable was that? I know it happened with Sammartino and Koloff and I think Morales and Stasiak and Bruno but this was the NWA where wrestling was real and had class (as far as I was concerned).
After a while, to me, the title didn't mean anything. It was just another gimmick which maybe it always was really but as a mark it used to mean something to me. What's yall's thoughts on this?
I'm 53 and was really into wrestling from about 68 to 76. After that life got in the way. My favorites were The Assassins. I tended to like bad guys more than good guys for the most part. (I'm smart enough now to know the proper words are "heels" and "faces/babyfaces.") Wrestling 2, Wahoo, and Tommy Rich are about the only good guys I generally always liked. I never liked Dusty.
One of the things that began to turn me off to wrestling was the way they treated the NWA Championship. I remember seeing films of Dory Funk winning the title and he held the title for over four years straight. Then as I recall he started losing to Brisco in Florida in non-title matches or being pinned in tag matches. Then he lost to Race in a match that IMO should have been turned around because, if my aging memory serves me right, Funk pinned Race while the ref was "knocked out" and then Race came back to pin Dory. Amazingly, the ref woke up just in the nick of time to do the count!
Anyhow, Race lost about a month later to Brisco then Brisco wound up losing to Terry Funk. I can't remember if Race held it between Brisco and Funk or not. The next thing I knew Race was losing it and winning it back all the time. I thought that was stupid. Just plain stupid. If I'm not mistaken, Baba, Rhodes, and Rich all had the title for about a week. A week! The world champ was exchanged twice in about 10 days! How believable was that? I know it happened with Sammartino and Koloff and I think Morales and Stasiak and Bruno but this was the NWA where wrestling was real and had class (as far as I was concerned).
After a while, to me, the title didn't mean anything. It was just another gimmick which maybe it always was really but as a mark it used to mean something to me. What's yall's thoughts on this?
