LOL, Saturday Night Wrestling!!! 10:00-11:30 every Saturday night on channel 11! So many memories...
Flying Red Bastien
Mad Dog Vachon
"...and here come the midgets!" I told my daughter they used to have midget wrestling, and she didn't believe me, at first, haha.
Jose Lothario
The Spoiler, a masked wrestler managed by a guy (Bronco Lubitsch?) who later became a ref.
they said and did some things then that people who have a meltdown over today.
i had never actually watched that von erich - freebirds match i posted and watched it last night. spoiler alert, but after the von erichs win and are presented this giant trophy they of course get jumped (script never changes does it) by the free birds and a couple of other wrestlers.
one of the guys who "attacked" the von erichs was a big guy who looked asian. the tape is so crappy it could have been john wayne in his genghis khan outfit. the announce keeps yelling how he has never seen this oriental wrestler before and how it is the biggest oriental he has ever seen in his life.
geographically the world hasn't gotten smaller, but as todd d points out it was so different then that a wrestler working a few states over could have this completely different back story.
i.e. ivan putski, the polish power house who i believe grew up in austin and had the son play at tcu for wacker