I love when he ask Tully “are you a good guy or a bad guy?” ...Tully totally kayfabes it and says “I am what I am” and “idc if they boo or cheer,long as i go to the bank”...very clever.
He was perfect for it. That’s why they put he & Arn together, as The Enforcers, when they were in The Dangerous Alliance together. I always wondered why he never WAS a Horseman.
scottjulie27 Flair used to come to my dad's restaurant back in the early 80's in Charlotte. Dad told me how laid back he was. And he could put away some groceries
Very calm, and subdued. He must have had to really worked on toning things down here. We all know how he was-Going at it, a thousand miles an hour, and just being intense! Here, though, we see a quiet type of intensity.
The more I lament the loss of the past era of Pro Wrestling, the more I've come to grips with the reality that social media ,& wrestling as we knew it back then don't mix. It simply ran it's coarse.
Before The Formation of The Four Horsemen, Flair vs. Blanchard was a rivalry in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling and they had Singles Matches and Tag Team Matches against each other.
Great find, thanks for sharing. Tully is pretty likeable here, all smile and seeming genuinely happy to be there, I was expecting him to cut a heel promo any second lol. Great stuff. 👍
The one that got the closet to cutting a true Heel promo, was Larry Zybysko. I thought, for a little bit, that him and the Referee were gonna get into it-Right there in front of everybody!
I know people say Ric has always been Ric... but he was such an effective and calm speaker in his prime. Not the obnoxious senior citizen we know him as today!
During this time period, the AWA and NWA had an uneasy alliance and cooperative agreement, in an attempt to restrict the momentum of the WWF. They were promoting joint cards around this time in the NY metropolitan era. This arraignment fell apart not too long after this taping, over a disagreement on gate receipts for a joint Chicago show.
Na, Luger was a much better choice than Zbyszko. Larry was too similar to Tully, they both would have overshadowed one another. Luger brought muscles, brought esthetic, brought natural athleticism (as a former football player at 19) to the group and he looked like he could legit take care of a Nikita or the Road Warriors. Lex was a great fit.
tully and baby doll, the greatest wrestler-valet combination in history. other candidates, adria street & miss linda; savage and miss elizabeth. and gorgeous george and jeffries! LOLLL baby doll was the only one who could handle men tho, and that includes jeffries
I was fortunate enough to workout at a gym in Atlanta that many of the wrestlers used back in the late 70's. Worked out with a young Ric Flair a time or two. I enjoyed wrestling but had been privy to the carny aspect of the business before my teen years. Many are to young to remember the days when there were only 3 TV networks. With the explosion in the early 80's of telecommunications it was inevitable that some promoter would try and move from just having a territory to wanting the entire country. In order for that to happen wrestling had to appeal to a wider audience and for that to occur, kayfabe had to die. Not saying it was right, but it was inevitable.
This was AM Phila first time out with wally kennedy as host after dave Roberts and Claire carter left to do other things.The Reason Ric Mentions the Spectrum is because the Spectrum was the sole entity for Wrestling in Philly for decades,until the NWA came to the Civic center which is strange as the management of the Spectrum also managed the Civic Center.The WWF had a sole contract with the Spectrum .
Baby Doll, and Missy Hyatt. Two of the most beautiful Women to ever be in the NWA, later to be dubbed WCW. Both of them are my top picks for the most beautiful Women in Wrestling-PERIOD!
Flair says Philly is starved for the sight of the real champion. He said the same thing about Bret Hart running with the WWF strap and not drawing money. And now he's friends with him.
Yeah, since I posted that I've learned that there was a short-lived wrestling company called Pro Wrestling USA which combined NWA and AWA wrestlers, it ran for about 2 years in the mid 80's(1984/1985). The wrestlers on here must've been promoting that show I'm not surprised that PW-USA folded shortly after this taping. AWA and NWA were 2 of the 3 main wrestling organizations during this time, there is no way they could've co-existed for that long, there were just too many huge egos involved!!
lil funny how ric says that wrestling in philly was always a sell out at the spectrum, well anyone from philly back in the days knows that the spectrum only ran wwf shows, it was the civic center in philly where nwa did shows. actualyl on a few times nwa and wwf would do house shows in philly on the same night, and still do business, thats how over wrestling is in the home of ecw
How was the host able to get wrestlers from different companies(AWA and NWA) to appear on this show at the same time?? I know there was less hostility between rival companies/territories during this period of time as opposed to the Monday Night Wars era, but I would've thought that having wrestlers from competing companies appearing on the same show IN CHARACTER would be a no-no. Did Larry Zbysko defend the AWA title on that June/1985 show in Philadelphia??
When is baby doll gonna talk about her and Samantha wearing leather dog collers with a chain with each other when will that get to be really happening with both of you ladies
Will baby doll really hav Samantha in a leather dog coller with a chain and walk in to her hom with Samantha wearing that leather dog coller than her daugther gets to chain hand cuff Samantha
