Wrestling have list (ongoing thread)

[mets82]

I remember the Paris show. Gorilla and Bobby said they were in "Paris" even though they werent. I believe that Rockin Robin beat Sherri for the Womens title.

[wiseguy182]

Originally Posted by mets82

I remember the Paris show. Gorilla and Bobby said they were in "Paris" even though they werent. I believe that Rockin Robin beat Sherri for the Womens title.

Yeah, it sounded like their commentary was dubbed in. They did an EXCELLENT job of faking though, with Bobby constantly saying he was going to leave the broadcast area and Gorilla threatening him that he had 5 people watching him. And yes, Robin did beat Sherri for the title to basically tank the division. I would have went with Velvet McIntyre instead, she was infinitely much more talented.

[wiseguy182]

today kicks off Saturday Night's Main Event entries

Saturday Night's Main Event #1, 5/11/85
This must be an original broadcast and check out THIS music! Theme song for the show is "Obsession" by Animotion. Mother's Day episode. This would occasionally replace Saturday Night Live during its off-weeks, and continue that way for years.
-Barry Windham, Mike Rotundo and Ricky Steamboat (entrance music: "Born In The USA" by Bruce Springsteen) vs. The Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkoff and George "The Animal" Steele
-Piper's Pit with "Cowboy" Bob Orton and "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff
-Hulk Hogan (entrance music: "Eye Of The Tiger" by Survivor) vs. "Cowboy" Bob Orton (world title match)
-world premiere of Cyndi Lauper's music video for "The Goonies R Good Enough", which would go on to hit the top 10. Video features many wrestling superstars and cast members of the Goonies.
-Wendi Richter (entrance music: "She Bop" by Cyndi Lauper) vs. The Fabulous Moolah (ladies world title match, Moolah gets Lauper banned from ringside)
-Junkyard Dog (entrance music: "Another One Bites The Dust" by Queen) vs. Pete "Duke of Dochester" Doherty. (JYD accompanies his mother down to ringside)
-and we head backstage where we see JYD, Hogan and Lauper with their moms. (You may recognize Lauper's mom from several of her music videos)

[wiseguy182]

Saturday Night's Main Event #2, 10/5/85
-Hulk Hogan vs. Nikolai Volkoff (world title match, Nikolai gets PELTED with trash)
-Uncle Elmer vs. Johnny Valiant (allegedly a new world record is set)
-clips of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Brandon Tartikoff in the audience
-Rowdy Roddy Piper vs. "Mr Wonderful" Paul Orndorff
-Uncle Elmer's wedding (hilarious segment)
-Andre The Giant and Tony Atlas vs. King Kong Bundy and Big John Studd
-George "The Animal" Steele and Mean Gene Okerlund at the Detroit Zoo.
-The Dream Team vs. Leaping Lanny Poffo and Tony Garea (world tag title match)

Saturday Night's Main Event #3, 11/2/85
-Halloween episode
-Junkyard Dog vs. Terry Funk
-pie eating contest: Captain Lou Albano vs. King Kong Bundy
-pumpking dunking contest: Bobby "The Brain" Heenan vs. Cousin Junior
-Andre The Giant and Hulk Hogan vs. King Kong Bundy and Big John Studd
-WWF music video
-Tito Santana vs. "Macho Man" Randy Savage (I-C title match)
-Halloween with Rowdy Roddy Piper
-Kung Fu Challenge: Ricky Steamboat vs. Mr. Fuji
-pumpking passing contest: faces vs. heels

Saturday Night's Main Event #4, 1/4/86
-from a water park in Florida
-Jesse "The Body" Ventura, Rowdy Roddy Piper and "Cowboy" Bob Orton vs. Uncle Elmer, Hillbilly Jim and Cousin Junior
-waterslide challenge: Junkyard Dog vs. Jimmy Hart
-Hulk Hogan vs. Terry Funk (world title match)
-George "The Animal" Steele vs. "Macho Man" Randy Savage
-1985 retrospective music video
-Peace Match: Nikolai Volkoff vs. Corporal Kirchner
-Junkyard Dog and Ricky Steamboat vs. Mr Fuji and "The Rock" Don Muraco (CRAZY pre-match interview with a drunk Muraco and Fuji laughing about how they eat dogs in Japan)

[wiseguy182]

Saturday Night's Main Event 3/1/86
Boxing match: Mr. T vs. "Cowboy" Bob Orton
-King Kong Bundy vs. Steve Gatorwolf
-Hulk Hogan vs. "The Rock" Don Muraco (world title match, Heenan subs for Mr. Fuji)
-British Bulldogs vs. The Dream Team (world tag titles match, Dream Team enters to "We Are The Champions" by Queen)
-Real American music video
-Junkyard Dog vs. "Adorable" Adrian Adonis

Saturday Night's Main Event 5/3/86
-hosts for this episode are Vince McMahon (who's pretty cynical this outing) and Bobby "The Brain" Heenan. Theme song for this ep is "When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going" by Billy Ocean
-Hulk Hogan and The Junkyard Dog vs. Terry and Hoss Funk
-Uncle Elmer vs. King Kong Bundy
-"Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff vs. "Adorable" Adrian Adonis
-Ricky Steamboat vs. Jake "The Snake" Roberts (somewhat infamous outing as Steamboat gets DDT'd right on the concrete floor!)
-British Bulldogs vs. Nikolai Volkoff & The Iron Sheik (world tag title match, 2/3 falls, Dynamite Kid is legit injured here, so Davey Boy practically wrestles all 3 falls by himself!)

[wiseguy182]

I gotta say, it's neat watching these with wrestlers coming down to the ring to some of the big hits of the day.

Saturday Night's Main Event 10/14/86
-Hulk Hogan vs. "Mr Wonderful" Paul Orndorff (world title match)
-Snake pit match: Jake "The Snake" Roberts vs Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat (Steamboat brings a dragon to the ring, which looks a lot like an alligator)
-Rowdy Roddy Piper vs. The Iron Sheik (Piper is injured beforehand, but wrestles anyway)
-British Bulldogs vs. The Dream Team (world tag title match, 2/3 falls)
-Kamala vs. Leaping Lanny Poffo

Saturday Night's Main Event, 11/29/86
-"Macho Man" Randy Savage vs. Jake "The Snake" Roberts (rare heel vs. heel match for the time period)
-Hulk Hogan vs Hercules (world title match)
-Killer Bees vs. Hart Foundation
-Koko B. Ware (entrance music: "The Bird" by Morris Day & The Time) vs. Nikolai Volkoff
-"The Rebel" Dick Slater vs. "The Rock" Don Muraco

Saturday Night's Main Event, 1/3/87
-Hulk Hogan vs. "Mr Wonderful" Paul Orndorff (world title match, steel cage, infamous match where Hulk and Orndorff leave cage at the same time)
-"Macho Man" Randy Savage vs. George "The Animal" Steele (I-C title match)
-Junkyard Dog vs. "The King" Harley Race
-Rowdy Roddy Piper vs. Adorable Adrian Adonis
-Jimmy Jack Funk vs. BlackJack Mulligan (hey, there's a female referee!, battle for Texas match)

[wiseguy182]

continuing on with the Saturday Night's Main Events. Vince's commentary is hysterical, as we're to the point where he gets really cynical and hyper and fawning over Elizabeth.

Saturday Night's Main Event 3/14/87
-"Macho Man" Randy Savage vs. George "The Animal" Steele (I-C title is on the line and so is Liz.)
-20 man battle royal. I won't repeat all the participants, just so say it contains Hulk and Andre and Leaping Lanny Poffo, who does a positively HORRIFIC and gory blade job that results in him being carried out of the ring area on a stretcher. I mean, his face was just COVERED in blood and there were pools of it on the mats and stuff. Wild.
-Jake "The Snake" Roberts vs. King Kong Bundy
-Hart Foundation vs. Danny Spiver & Tito Santana (world tag title match)
-Iron Sheik vs. Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat (Macho joins in on commentary)
-a tribute to Rowdy Roddy Piper as he retires for the first time (he would retire about 250 times after this)

Saturday Night's Main Event 5/2/87
-Kamala vs. Jake "The Snake" Roberts
-"Macho Man" Randy Savage vs. George "The Animal" Steele (I almost typed I-C title match out of habit, lumberjack match, final match in this LONG feud.)
-Hart Foundation vs. British Bulldogs (world tag title match, 2/3 falls)
-Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat vs. Hercules (I-C title match)
-Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff vs. Can-Am Connection

[wiseguy182]

Saturday Night's Main Event 10/3/87
-Honky Tonk Man vs. "Macho Man" Randy Savage (I-C) title match, Mega-Powers formed
-Hulk Hogan vs. Sika (world title match)
-King Kong Bundy vs. "Mr. Wonderful" Paul Orndorff
-Hart Foundation vs. Young Stallions (world tag title match)
-music video for Koko B. Ware's "Piledriver"
-outro music: "Stand By Your Man" by Tammy Wynette

Saturday Night's Main Event 11/26/87
this is 2 days after the first ever Survivor Series
-George "The Animal" Steele vs. Dangerous Danny Davis (George actually executes a technical wrestling maneuver: a double leg trip. Way to go George!"
-"Macho Man" Randy Savage vs. Bret "Hit Man" Hart (**** match)
-Hulk Hogan vs. King Kong Bundy (world title match)
-Bam Bam Bigelow vs. Hercules

[mets82]

Wiseguy, love your avatar. Jameson, from the Bobby Heenan Show. Bobby had a great line at the Royal Rumble 1992 when Jameson came out with The Bushwhackers. Bobby goes "here comes Larry, Darryl and Darryl."

Btw, if you have in your collection, watch SNME when Uncle Elmer got married. Jessie Ventura is hilarious during the ceremony itself and I think he was legit laughing and to a certain extent so was Vince.

[wiseguy182]

Originally Posted by mets82

Wiseguy, love your avatar. Jameson, from the Bobby Heenan Show. Bobby had a great line at the Royal Rumble 1992 when Jameson came out with The Bushwhackers. Bobby goes "here comes Larry, Darryl and Darryl."

Btw, if you have in your collection, watch SNME when Uncle Elmer got married. Jessie Ventura is hilarious during the ceremony itself and I think he was legit laughing and to a certain extent so was Vince.

thanks.

Yeah, Bobby, Jameson and the 92 Rumble are all a barrel of laughs.

I just recently re-watched the Elmer wedding and that too was a barrel of laughs. And I do think Jesse was legit laughing. I think my favorite part was when Elmer flubbed his lines and they got pelted with trash.

[mets82]

Ironic that there was some good action there that took a backseat because of the wedding and I loved when Piper objected!!!

[wiseguy182]

Saturday Night's Main Event 1/2/88
-Strike Force vs. Bolsheviks (world tag title match, 2/3 falls)
-Jake "The Snake" Roberts vs. Sika
-Hulk Hogan vs. King Kong Bundy (world title match)
-Greg "The Hammer" Valentine vs. Koko B. Ware

The Main Event (2/5/88)
-this is a pretty famous episode that did HUGE ratings. That's all I'll say about it.
-"Macho Man" Randy Savage vs. Honky Tonk Man (I-C) title match
-Hulk Hogan vs. Andre The Giant (world title match)
-There was supposed to be a 2/3 falls tag title match between the Harts and Strike Force, which I'm sure must have been a **** match, so of course we only see like 5 seconds of it.

Saturday Night's Main Event 3/7/88
-Greg "The Hammer" Valentine vs. Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake
-Hulk Hogan vs. "The King" Harley Race (Race takes some innovative and career-ending bumps here)
-"Macho Man" Randy Savage vs. "Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase (this would end up being the Main Event and WrestleMania IV a few weeks later)
-Killer Bees vs. Islanders (rumor has it this was 2/3 falls, but only the last fall is shown)
-One Man Gang vs. Ken Patera

Saturday Night's Main Event 4/30/88
-Hacksaw Jim Duggan vs. Hercules
-Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake vs. Dangerous Danny Davis
-"Macho Man" Randy Savage vs. One Man Gang (world title match, much better than their WM IV encounter)
-British Bulldogs vs. Demolition
-"The Rock" Don Muraco vs. "Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase
-Koko B. Ware vs. Ravishing Rick Rude

Really wish there was some way to see the complete Harts/Strike Force and Islanders/Bees matches.

[wiseguy182]

Saturday Night's Main Event 10/26/88
-Jake "The Snake" Roberts vs. Ravishing Rick Rude (pretty racy outing all around for 80's family tv)
-Hart Foundation vs. Demolition (tag title match, Demos have no less than 4 people at ringside)
-Hulk Hogan vs. King Haku
-Ken Patera vs. Dino Bravo
-Jim Powers vs. Big Boss Man

Saturday Night's Main Event 11/26/88
-Ultimate Warrior vs. Super Ninja (I-C title match)
-Hercules vs. Virgil
-"Macho Man" Randy Savage vs. Andre The Giant (world title match)
-Brother Love Show with Hulk Hogan
-Fabulous Rougeau Brothers vs. Young Stallions

Saturday Night's Main Event 1/3/89
-Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake vs. "The Outlaw" Ron Bass (hair vs hair match)
-Hulk Hogan vs. Akeem
-Ultimate Warrior vs. Honky Tonk Man (I-C title match)
-Red Rooster vs. Tito Santana (Heenan is microphoned here)
-Mr. Perfect vs. Koko B. Ware

[wiseguy182]

The Main Event 2/4/89
-The Twin Towers vs. Mega-Powers (this is a REALLY long Hogan match, and a pretty famous one too.)
-Hercules vs. "Million Dollar" Man Ted Dibiase

Saturday Night's Main Event 3/11/89
-Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake vs. Ravishing Rick Rude
-Hulk Hogan vs. Bad News Brown
-Blue Blazer vs. "Million Dollar Man" Ted Dibiase (more Owen goodness)
-Brain Busters vs. Rockers
-Red Rooster vs. Brooklyn Brawler

Saturday Night's Main Event 5/27/89
-Hacksaw Jim Duggan vs. Ravishing Rick Rude (both the I-C title and the crown are on the line here)
-"Macho Man" Randy Savage vs. Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart
-Hulk Hogan vs. Big Boss Man (world title in a cage, legendary **** match)
-Demolition vs. Brain Busters (world tag title match)
-Superfly Jimmy Snuka vs. Boris Zhukov

[mets82]

The Main Event-2/3/89 was great. I loved the heel turn of the Macho Man. How about when he told Hogan "you got lustful eyes towards Elizabeth" and "I'm not number 3 in the Mega Powers, I'm number 1." Good stuff there.