Rip Rogers wrestling career (part #2) No information:6/26/86- 9/21/86 CCW (Alabama) 9/22/86-2/ 2/87 CSW 4/12/87- 11/27/87 Stampede (Canada) 1/8/88- 4/30/88 AJPW 5/14/88- 6/10/88 AGPW(Canada) 7/13/88- 9/8/88 Stampede (Canada)10/14/88- 12/10/88 WCW 3/25/89 & 3/26/89 WWC (PR) 5/14/89- 8/5/89 no information 8/6/89-1/4/90 AJPW (Japan)1/5/90- 1/28/90 1/28/90(AJPW) Giant Baba vs RIp Rogers No information 1/29/90-5/15/90 WCW 5/16/90 No information 5/17/90-8/10/90 AGPW 8/11/90- 9/2/90 WCW 10/27/90 6/8/91 GWF (Dallas, TX)6/28/91-9/6/91 WCW 9/23/91-9/24/91 SMW 10/30/91-11/27/91
Left out WWA Indianapolis circa 1977 and Nashville (Gulas) 77-78, the Maritimes in 1978 (with the Poffos), the Culkins, in Mississippi, circa 1979 (where he became Rip Rogers) and St Louis, circa 1977-78
Stiff competion Randy had to go up against in Baseball. Eddie Murray was amazing. Murray was LA Dodger I believe. Great hitter.Murray had those huge chops(sideburns).
I go back to the ICW days, for Rip's career; loved his matches, enjoyed the Convertible Blonds; but, yeah, his team with Pez was the superior version. Watched him in Georgia, saw Continental later, saw him in WCW. Rip could do anything and should have been used better. But, what the hell? Same with Pez, especially Pez. He was way over in Continental Wrestling federation, as a babyface, as Willy B Hurt; but, everyone knew he was Pistol Pez/Shaska Whatley. Didn't matter, because they loved the gimmick. he trained guys at the Power Plant, for WCW. He was better than 99.9% of the guys who came out of there. George Weingeroff....you never saw a smoother mat technician. Terrible talker and the vision thing gave him an odd look. He did a Sheik rip off, in Texas, worked some for Baba, with The Cuban Assassin. Second generation (son of Gentleman Saul Weingeroff). Inspirational guy. Used underneath, mostly...even ICW, when he wasn't Lanny's tag partner. Always wondered about Ricky Starr. Gary Royal worked underneath/midcard, for Crockett, including holding the Junior Heavyweight title, losing it to Denny Brown. Some exposure. Starr I never saw again, anywhere. Rip explained why, because he just didn't get it. Some others there, too. Doug Vines and Jeff Sword....decent tag team, not impressive looking, but could work and had Izzy Slapowitz as a manager. Izzy jobbed on tv, in Georgia, worked for Fuller, in Knoxville, at the time of the split, worked All-Star/ICW for a bit, left. Could get heat, but wasn't in a Cornette or Percy Pringle level....might have been a second tier manager in Memphis, in the slower times, if he had the chance. In the pre-cable days, though, if you could work, you could make a living. Once cable exposed people to better product, the weaker territories went under and then the strong ones grabbed the talent and they used them until they were stale and that was it. It was diminishing returns, after a while (about 10 years, really).
I was a kid when RIp was doing jobs for WCW. I always thought it was kind of strange bc he was one of the best bodies, if not the very best, in the promotion at the time. He was athletic and pretty skilled as well, yet he could never win. I didn't understand the business back then obviously, but in retrospect, a guy that looked like that should have had a higher standing.
