Tales from the Territories - Crockett - Evil Heels of the Carolinas
Added 2024-09-13 03:00:03 +0000 UTCComments
Never saw this. Learned a lot. Very cool, thanks for sharing this.
Nate Cruz
2024-09-14 04:06:33 +0000 UTCAhhh ok! Yea I was just curious with how much they've been brought up lately. Good to know though, thanks! 😄
Tallywags
2024-09-14 03:13:47 +0000 UTCI cannot stand Jim Cornette as a person, but as an onscreen figure? He’s undeniable. The stuff they were doing back in the day, the sheer heat they’d get is incredible.
Will Humphries
2024-09-13 13:56:30 +0000 UTCMy opinion in kayfabe is that its best kept at a gray zone where we know it's fake, but we sometimes don't know EVERYTHING going on. For example, the Cody vs Roman match wouldn't have been as hot if many people didn't genuinely think that the Rock is politicking backstage to curtail Cody. Punk vs Drew and Seth is another situation. And Punk vs The Young bucks or Hangman page would have been a massive feud and Kenny Omega and Punk was pushing for it to happen. That's why the leaked picture of Drew and Punk chilling kinda deflated the angle for me, but it's also a relief knowing they are friends 😂.
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2024-09-13 12:13:20 +0000 UTCNice reactions as always. ❤️ Jim Cornette is the GOAT. When it comes to the wild Samoans, I'm abit surprised about anyone asking about them. Is that because of how over Roman Reigns got in the last years? The wild samoans were a team but tbh, there were not really any focus on them on that level. They were midcarders/low midcarders. Same with the Headshrinkers who I loved in WWFin 93-94. They were good teams but wasnever the top team. I think WWE might be putting a lot of focus on them now only because Dwayne Johnson are among the owners.
Jennifer Lindgren
2024-09-13 11:05:20 +0000 UTCIf you ever get to see a Ric Flair match you will see that he never takes a back bump he always lands on his side because of that plane crash
RW____96
2024-09-13 10:16:51 +0000 UTCThis was cool to watch. I grew up in early 90s with no access to wrestling on TV, watching VHS tapes of about 85 WWF onwards so I was always catching up to current day WWF and very little access to VHS tapes of NWA , wcw, any territories, I did have a couple in remember i got from a car boot sale(basically a yard sale) for a pound which had the moon dogs and some others from earlier wrestling with house shows with andre the giant. So for me Looking back on this stuff is kinda fascinating. I think with the road warriors in the scaffold match they could have caught Cornette, but in kayfabe why would they be there to do that and why would they catch him? Also Corvette saying he isn't an acrobat makes me think he wasn't confident to drop back first to the ring without over or under rotating. That ass bump looked gnarly
Diruroru
2024-09-13 07:00:26 +0000 UTCSomething about the territory days just captures my imagination. The stories from that time are just crazy. Like a secret mafia with betrayals and riots and stabbings and getting your tires slashed and the lengths they would go to present it as real. The Wild Samoans were presented as savage islanders that didn't speak english and just grunted mostly. They started in Stampede Wrestling which was Stu Harts promotion in Calgary. They spent time in the New York based territory WWF under Vince's father. then went to Mid South for a time before returning to the WWF now under Vince as a part of his national expansion in the early and mid 80s.
Nicholas Kramer
2024-09-13 05:22:21 +0000 UTCLoved y’alls thoughts on this. People back then knew wrestling wasn’t on the up and up 100% but with the absence of the internet and other resources they didn’t know exactly what made it not totally real. So that element of realness had to be protected 100% to obscure that line how you saw especially with the plane crash. With riots in wrestling there’s a million different stories you can chose from with wrestler who worked the territory days. People used to get stabbed I know Roddy Piper, Bob Orton and a few others got stabbed really bad. Some buildings did have cops in them but then there’s stories of fans fighting cops😂 Any situation you could really think of where a fan could attack a wrestler at a show, after a show, on the road, etc a wrestler has one. I forget which Samoan wrestlers it was but they broke into the business as fans who would beat up the heels after matches. The heels went to whoever was running the territory and said you gotta get these guys in here they’re too tough. The Wild Samoans I can’t tell you exactly where they started but before the WWF they went around the various territories. I’ve seen a lot of them in Mid South if you go on Peacock early 1982 The Wild Samoans are coming back from a suspension from Mid South and they’re on TV. They have a match with Ernie Ladd vs Andre The Giant, Dusty Rhodes and The Junkyard Dog Mid South Season 4 Episode 2 January 16, 1982.
John Coffey
2024-09-13 04:38:52 +0000 UTC
