#WCW NWA

[zombiedisco5150]

[ponchaka]

Terry Funk vs Cactus Jack, IWA-Japan Kawasaki Dream 1995

[joearlikelikeswrestling]

[indeedgoodman]

[adamcasey]

Off the top rope, Day 19

[rasslegram]

KEVIN SULLIVAN tells Gordon Solie that he and The Purple Haze have been feasting on the Cosmic Cookie and wandering the Sahara Desert of the mind!

Kevin Sullivan, The Boston Battler, Leader of the Army Darkness, The Gamesmaster and The Taskmaster, 1949-2024

[rpfd]

Just felt like knocking out a new Dusty Rhodes. No specific reason, but why would I need one?

[84reedsy]

Ok Last One

Ok WrestleFuckers - Last One I Swear - Who's gonna fuck these old men? (Old Man qualifications turning 55 this year or older) SPIN ME

[ladyfallon]

I have been asked so many times about why I am not a big follower of AEW. I have also been told I'm not a true wrestling fan as I am a female (as a 47 year old, I have had this thrown at me since I was 12). As for AEW I don't hate or resent it. I don't hate wrestlers who go there. I have tried so many times to get into it but I just can't. It's one of those things. I don't believe fans should feel obligated to watch one brand but they shouldn't be accused of not being real wrestling fans if they only watch one brand.

This is my experience as a fan. As a kid I grew up going to gyms and bingo halls with my dad watching British wrestling (including the British Bulldog's debut). I then had the joy of WWE (then WWF), WCW, USWA and GLOW on TV. My weekends were awesome. Because WCW was on so late at night we'd sneak snacks into my brother's room in the day then at night my sister and I would quietly creep into my brother's room and the 3 of us would watch it crowded around his mini TV until our dad caught us because my brother laughed so loudly at Paul Heyman's frustration with Bagwell. We found out dad was watching it too so he let us watch it with him on Saturday nights.

As the teen years came on, cousins would watch with us and wrestle with us (some fun times). We started going to events including Summerslam 92. That was crazy for me because I was 3 when my dad took me to my first event and the Bulldog debuted. Now I was watching him main event.

ECW came out and there was more for me as a wrestling fan to get excited about.

As I went to university I made more wrestling based friends and saw more indy stuff which was great after the demise of territorial wrestling in America where the likes of the Von Erichs came through.

That's when I saw the debut of someone my age and the crush hit lol. AJ Styles. He was exciting to watch. I followed his career completely. My attention was then split between WWE and TNA when I left uni and began teacher training. My neighbour was my wrestling viewing buddy and he used to get tired of hearing about TNA as he only liked WWE but then he hated me talking wrestling crushes but that's another story.

I kept up with bits of ROH and NJPW. When AJ left TNA to go independent I was back to watching just WWE while following his career. His last independent match before his WWE Royal Rumble debut was at a spot up the road from where I live (where my dad took me when I was 3). I remember feeling like that little kid again.

Skip forward to a nervous breakdown, I was in a psych ward voluntary to avoid legal committing for 3 months. I was diagnosed with bipolar and bpd. My sister brought me my tablet. They would charge it in the office and then let me have it. It was Wrestlemania weekend and I remember watching it and beginning to feel like I used to and it sparked the road to recovery from a dark spot.

That's when I realised that the WWE had been my biggest source of comfort since childhood.

As I've said before, I can't get into AEW and I've tried. TNA lost its spark (for me personally) when AJ Styles left.

But I am a true fan. I remember moments that I shared with family. When it was the four big events in the wrestling calendar only - the family would watch together eating a buffet and treating it like a party.

As my niece grew up, she found love for the Undertaker not realising his debut as Taker went back to when I was 13.

And now my little person (I'm her guardian), she began to walk because of Big E. She saw him dancing with Kofi and Xavier and began to crawl to the TV, pulled herself up to dance with him. I then kept telling she’d have to walk over to him to dance. Low and behold, she started walking.

Not every memory is happy. Kerry Von Erich's suicide, Sherri, Miss Elizabeth, Owen Hart, Eddie Guerrero, the Benoit Tragedy (some hate me for saying there's more to it than what was shared and if you knew Kevin Sullivan you'd understand why it never made sense) and more recently Bray Wyatt which I had to experience twice because early last year I was admitted to hospital with a DKA was in a coma for a few days with brain swelling and have forgotten so many things since it happened. I'd forgotten he'd died. I told one of my nurses I had 3 weeks to learn to walk again and be home for Wrestlemania and see Bray knock it out of the park. She told me he'd died and I had to go through grief a second time for him. But still wrestling was a catalyst in my recovery.

So no, I don't watch AEW (my brother and nephew always keep me updated on that front) and I only really watch WWE now but it does not mean I am not a true fan. Wrestling still brings me the same joy it did as a kid and I still tell people the same thing then as I do today. Whether you watch one or several organisations, you ARE a fan. Don't feel devalued by someone else's opinion. Wrestling is wrestling, people shouldn't be made to feel inferior by other fans if they don't choose to watch a particular brand. Wrestling fans get looked down upon all the time because people go on about it being fake. We don't need to belittle each other too.

[dalekofchaos]

PS not calling the people who voted for Vigilante Sting fucking idiots, I'm calling WWE fucking idiots for botching a sure thing the moment that vapid idiot Stephanie insinuated that Sting came back to avenge WCW and turned the whole thing into one final gotcha at WCW and burying Sting's entire career because Vince is a petty prick who won't let things go. Fuck WWE, fuck Vince, fuck HHH and fuck Stephanie.

[zombiedisco5150]

[ponchaka]

It's Sting!

[joearlikelikeswrestling]

[indeedgoodman]

[blueonwrestling]

Everything about Terry Funk just makes me wonder why more old figureheads from bygone eras aren't as down to earth and understanding as much as him.

Like everything about him, he never shat on the current product, he never called for all this flashy shit to be stopped, he started doing a moonsault in his 50's for god sake!

Back in the day of the 1980's joshi's movement he always gave credit to it calling it the future, so much so that other wrestlers made fun of him for watching it.

He accepted and cherished hardcore ECW wrestling, he's always ahead of the time, not to make this a pro aew thing, but even just in recent years, stuff like "AEW is going to do something special" even then he knew what the fuck he was talking about.

He's just one of the best of all time, straight up, up there with your Ric Flairs and Bret Hart's, he's amazing and will be sorely missed.

FOREVER, FOREVER, FOREVER.

[rasslegram]

SITE UPDATE

I'm always complaining about the lack of wrestling news (or any news sites here on tumblr) so I'm going to post wrestling news on this site and links to the story. Sort of a wrestling news aggregator if you will.

If anyone knows of a good news site like an AP or Reuters et al, please let me know.

And here is the WCW Thunder set.