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Topic Started: Oct 25 2011, 05:12 PM (68,294 Views)
Mad Dog
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Dennis Stamp passed away. You might remember him from Beyond the Mat. He was the ref for the Terry Funk "retirement" match.
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Mad Dog
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You might remember Dennis Stamp from an early episode of Wrestling Challenge where he took a fall while teaming with Iron Mike Sharpe against the Rougeaus.
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Mad Dog
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torturedsoulv1
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RIP Dennis Stamp

I remember him mostly for not being booked
And jobbing in the AWA
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Scrooge McSuck
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I'm watching WrestleMania XI (got a copy of the Coliseum Video version for the old VHS collection) and wow, it feels even less like a WrestleMania than I last remembered. People may hate 9, but it looked special outdoors with the pillars surrounding the ring. XI feels like just another show, except with a football player in the Main Event. XII and 13 are both "low-profile" WrestleMania, but both have one match that is much more memorable and iconic to Mania history. Shawn/Diesel is good, but it's just good, and that's literally the only GOOD match of the night without being generous.

Edit: I guess I never noticed the decent pop Owen and Yoko get for winning the titles. Must be Bizarro World.
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Scrooge McSuck
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The Coliseum Video pads the run time (thanks to the removal of any musical performances from Salt n Peppa) with video game tips hosted by Todd Pettingill for some Justice League fighting game and WWF Raw. #WrestleManiaMoment
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Erick Von Erich
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Was it "Justice League Task Force"? I remember wanting that game, until I found it was basically a Street Fighter clone. I've never been a fan of those type of games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBS2qnJrOZQ

Getting off target, but I think the Justice League, at the time was:
-Wonder Woman (in her "Not Wonder Woman" stint)
-Guy Gardner/Warrior
-Obsidian
-Nuklon
-Fire
-Ice
-Flash
-Blue Devil
-Metamorpho
-Some alien comic relief named "The Yazz"

There was also a separate team from 1993 to 1994 called "Justice League Task Force", which was basically Martian Manhunter, Bronze Tiger, Gypsy and a rotating cast.

Not exactly top-level names. The video game had Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc.
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Scrooge McSuck
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Yup, that's the one. Never played it myself. Outside of the SF/MK series, only fighter I played was the TMNT Tournament Fighters for SNES, and that was only a rental. Wasn't a huge fan of the genre, other than spending a lot of quarters of SF II. Kombat was OK in small doses, but I liked the colorful characters from SF.
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Erick Von Erich
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Think those games are better if you have, y'know, friends. I was basically a solo hermit from 1993 until 1996, doing nothing but working 2 jobs and college. So I was always on the lookout for the long "campaign" single-player types of games; where I could spend a few weeks working through the various levels at my own pace. Don't think I ever finished "Ecco the Dolphin", though.

Oh, and SEGA football. Played those games a LOT in that time. Said it before, but they were great therapy for a suffering Broncos fan.


To swing it back to wrestling, I watched the first chunk of WrestleMania III on my birthday (Monday). The bewilderment on Vince McMahon's face, as the show opens, seems genuine. Like: "holy shit... this is really happening". Also, was it ever confirmed that Billy Jack Haynes barfed, at ringside? He looks super-nervous as the match starts and I don't feel like re-watching to identify the barf spot.
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Scrooge McSuck
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After watching an entire year's worth of notable moments from 1990, I cannot believe how long the Brother Love character stayed around. I've probably complained about it very recently, but for the life of me, I can't imagine being old enough at the time and not finding him the most irritating character of all time. No, I don't mean "wow, he's a good bad guy" heat, I mean "there's got to be an episode of American Gladiators on", changing the channel levels of annoying.

I never got why Vince insisted on having these gimmicky talk shows (OK, I do know, but you know what I mean), but most of them never really over-stayed their welcome. Besides Piper's Pit, how long did some of them last? The Body Shop. The Snake Pit. The Funeral Parlor. The Barber Shop. Heartbreak Hotel... they didn't last nearly as long as the Brother Love Show, which was a weekly segment from June '88 through March '91, almost three full years of Bruce Prichard's over-the-top, televangelist interpretation. EVERY. WEEK. FOR THREE. YEARS.
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torturedsoulv1
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I actually liked Brother love.

Yeah he was corny and over the top

But I love youuuuuu
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Erick Von Erich
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What kept his "show" going was that they seemed to assign all the big angles to it. Hogan/Bossman, Andre/Warrior, Roberts/Martel, just to name a few. Plus the fact that somebody on the staff apparently thought Bruce Prichard's act was SO humorous.

It seemed, very rarely, that an angle happened (or advanced) on the "old" platform interviews, during the "Brother Love Era".

He was funny once--- making fun of the Jimmy Swaggart characters of the 80's and named after a Neil Diamond song. But, yeah, THREE YEARS?! As Andre said: "twee years is a wong time to wait".

When Roddy Piper came back in (basically) the fall of 1989, I thought he would end the Brother Love show. There's one where Piper hi-jacks the show and has Brother Love tied up in his undies (ummm....wait, that sounds VERY weird). "Got me a dope on a rope". I thought that was the end of Brother Love, but they kept on with him.
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Infinite Devil Machine
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To be fair, Brother Love lasted as long as it did because Bruce Prichard was also a behind the scenes producer at the time, too. It was probably easier to work out what was going to happen and time it to a TV format when you were the one performing it too.

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HeenanandMonsoon
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With Prichard being one of McMahon's ''guys'' I can see why it went for a solid 3 years. For the most part the show did it's job for the major angles like Erick pointed out.

They gave it a good ending with Warrior destroying the set and Love taking the stretcher job. Overall the segment was annoying at times but in the end really helped garner angles the heat it needed.
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Scrooge McSuck
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There's no doubt almost every major angle was developed via the Brother Love platform, but binge watching these shows is not ideal. More often than not the interview is filler to chug along an existing program, and every now and then, someone roughs him up.
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