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Posted on Sep 01, 2008 - 1:29am by John P. in Sports, Videos
When I was a kid, my brother and I used to rush home from church on Sundays to watch wrestling on TV. That was back when Kerry Von Erich was the coolest wrestler on the planet, and Gary Hart, Ric Flare and Bruiser Brody were the competition!
Anyway, here is a clip from back in the day when wrestling programs had audiences taking a bit more of an “active” approach to participation! In this Eastern Championship Wrestling bout Cactus Jack asks an audience member to toss him a chair to finish an opponent. But he gets a little more than he bargained for.
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This makes me chuckle, wrestling at it’s literal best. “Was that a cheer?… oh I thought you meant CHAIR.”
Ha Ha. There were more folding chairs at ringside than an Italian wedding reception. Now why would there be so many of those chairs conveniently located at an arena with standard bolted down seating?
Kudos to the guy who scripted that one!
WWE/WWF is the most fake sport ever!!!That’s probably the most real thing that’s ever happened to it lol.
well…. it might be fake but its intertaning…. and that shits crazy!
Hahaha! Now that was funny. Poor guys got buried under steel chairs and Cactus Jack got knocked out by a flying one. The guys who orchestrated this scene are brilliant.
Ah… the classics. Back when wrestling was done in front of a 500 seated crowd at the local hall where the wrestlers were more than dots in the ring.
Had it been scripted, the writer would have been brilliant. It was a Foley nightly gimmick taken to the extreme by zealous fans… of which I probably would have been one had I been there.
OMG, that was hysterical! Orchestrated or not!! I think I would’ve been SO SCARED if I had been there!
Now, John, you weren’t in Dallas at that time, right? So you never went to the Sportatorium right on the edge of downtown? When I was in junior high, we were OBSESSED with WWF (and that is putting it mildly, for real) and we would watch them at the Sportatorium. And once at Texas Stadium and once a few of them even had matches at Richardson High School!
I was just talking to someone else that I met through Problogger’s writing project last week about Andre the Giant.
I think it’s about time I got out my ‘wrestling binder’ with all my goodies in it!! Pictures, autographs, fliers, newspaper articles, the whole shebang! Now just where is that sucker? Hmm….
Hulk is my all-time favourite but the early Undertaker could almost reach him on my popularity scale
Rhoody
For the record, it’s an ECW show, not WWF.