Greetings From Allentown

This week sees a return to Ag Hall in Allentown for a look at some WWF Championship Wrestling from August 14, 1982!

- Playboy Buddy Rose's hype video: wrestling, sitting with babes on the beach, and playing hockey(!)

- Trying to explain what Mighty Joe Thunder was and why he might have been there

- Gorilla Monsoon's 1981 column on Billy Graham's "death"

- Vince McMahon promotes the upcoming Spectrum show with a hilarious special referee reveal

- The Great Pete Sanchez Push of 1982 that everyone forgot about

- Mr. Saito and Japanese wrestling at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics

- Johnny Rodz's approach to a 1 on 1 match with Andre the Giant

- Pedro vs the Baron: More 1982 WWF or 1972 WWWF?

- Dr. George Zahorian is not in the office on this day

- Saved by the Bell characters vs 1995 WWF Kliq

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On this edition of GFA Live, Peter and Keithie talk about Best of the WWF, Volume 4 from Coliseum Video! (and some other stuff, of course!)

Topics of discussion include:

- Hecklers at golf events and baseball games

- Is there a worse WM opener than Orndorff vs Muraco at WM2?

- Fiji water and SmartWater

- Plan B for the WWF if Hulk Hogan was unavailable in 1984

- A battle royal at the Philly Spectrum with an odd finish

- Foreign objects in school yard fights

- The WWF's escape the cage rules

- Trying to improve the WM4 tournament

- If only John Lennon were a big wrestling fan...

- Upcoming Coliseum Video releases

Lineup:

Roddy Piper vs Paul Orndorff - 7-13-1985 MSG

Hulk Hogan/Jimmy Snuka vs Bob Orton/Magnificent Muraco - 5-18-1985 Boston

20 Man battle royal - 6-26-1982 Philadelphia

Andre the Giant vs Killer Khan (Mongolian Stretcher Match) - 11-14-1981 Philadelphia

Andre the Giant vs Big John Studd - 9-24-1983 Philadelphia

Andre the Giant vs King Kong Bundy - 9-23-1985 MSG

Tito Santana/Ricky Steamboat vs Greg Valentine/Brutus Beefcake 4-21-1985 Toronto

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Rowdy Roddy Piper takes center stage with a hair match against Sheepherder Luke Williams and a tag match with Rick Martel against the Sheepherders in this double dip edition of Portland Wrestling from March 1 and 15, 1980!

- The differences in Roddy Piper's character prior to his big runs in JCP and WWF

- Figuring out the appeal of the hair vs hair match

- How everybody won from Luke Williams losing a hair match

- Playboy Buddy Rose multi-tasks by cutting an effective promo while plugging all the house shows

- What Butch Miller does better than most wrestlers

- Rick Martel as king of the injury angle

- How carrying scissors is like carrying a gun

- A weird iron law of NBA basketball

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On this edition of GFA Live, Peter and Keithie talk about Best of the WWF, Volume 17 from Coliseum Video! (and some other stuff, of course!)

Topics of discussion include:

- Ken Patera through the decade of the 1980s

- King Haku's coronation, and which heels no-showed

- The masterful selling of Rick Martel in the Demolition injury angle

- What would happen to Matilda with a British Bulldogs heel turn?

- Imagining a world where the entire wrestling business revolves around Montreal

- A way to freshen up ladder matches at the WWE Performance Center

- The big problem with the Brutus Beefcake-Honky Tonk Man feud

- Discussion of The People's Court and other courtroom shows

- The heel win/loss record on this tape

Lineup:

Dino Bravo vs Ken Patera - MSG 5-27-1988

Big Bossman vs Sam Houston - Philadelphia 7-23-1988

King Haku's coronation - Glens Falls, NY 06-21-1988

The Bolsheviks vs The British Bulldogs - Philadelphia 7-23-1988

The Fabulous Rougeaus vs The Rockers - MSG 7-25-1988

The Honky Tonk Man vs Brutus Beefcake - Boston 5-7-1988

Demolition vs Strike Force - Oakland 6-1-1988

Andre the Giant vs Hacksaw Jim Duggan - Boston 8-6-1988

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Ric Flair makes a rare appearance at the Irish McNeil Boys Club to face the challenge of a battered Ted DiBiase on the November 14, 1985 edition of Mid-South Wrestling!

- The simple but beautiful angle that leads to the hated DiBiase become a beloved fan favorite again

- The ironic help that Ric Flair uses in the quest to take out challengers

- Wrestling angles repeating with the same guy invovled

- The strange rotation of Mid-South announcer teams

- Two things Bill Watts has in common with Howard Cosell

- A bandage somehow makes a cut on Jim Duggan's head look worse

- The fan who wrote a fawning letter to Eddie Gilbert and the power of internet info

- Wait, Oliver Humperdink is here???

- Jim Ross plugs an appealing match for the show that doesn't happen.

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On this edition of GFA Live, Peter and Keithie talk about WWF Monday Night RAW from July 25, 1994! (and some other stuff, of course!)

Topics of discussion include:

- Addressing the Ringo situation with Keithie

- Jim Cornette's throat clearing in shoot interviews

- Rebooking a Randy Savage Slim Jim ad

- Degrees of the 1988 Survivor Series

- Vince McMahon's weirdest burial ever

- Solving the conundrum of "how does the heel/face get his/her stuff from the heel/face locker room after a turn?"

- A perfect wrestling-related Zoom background

- Dwayne Gill's look

- More Tito Santana talk for some reason

- Floating an idea for a new GFA Live project

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Bob Backlund challenges Bret Hart for the WWF title in this one, the July 30, 1994 edition of WWF Superstars!

- The oddity of having the Backlund-Bret match in this spot

- What Backlund and Hart can do that someone like Shawn Michaels can't

- Excerpts from both Bret and Bob's books about this match and angle

- Shawn Michaels speaks in jibberish about the Samoans: bad idea

- Jerry Lawler rips on the middle school-aged special ring announcer

- Did anyone benefit more on a direct WCW to WWF jump in the mid-90s than Kevin Nash?

- The fake Undertaker takes on the unbroken Matt Hardy

- The sudden realization of who the voiceover man in the Live Event News is

- Thoughts on Summerslam '94

- A Burger King commercial brings to mind an infamous promo from TNA

- Why Fox getting the NFL was such a shock to the system of televised sports in the United States

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On this edition of GFA Live, Peter and Keithie talk about ECW Hardcore TV from August 1, 1995! (and some other stuff, of course!)

Topics of discussion include:

- Who is the face of ECW to you?

- Mikey Whipwreck's unusual gear

- Taz's "double Devil" outfit hanging out with the Steiners

- Not being in school plays

- Usage of the Singapore cane

- Keithie's issues with The Sandman are brought to light

- A new gimmick idea

- Buying "wrong team" merchandise

- The Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget

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Taking it to the extreme this week with a look at ECW Hardcore TV from October 17, 1995!

- Rey Mysterio and Psychosis return to the ECW Arena for a 2/3 falls match

- Everything to do with Beulah's Box

- Cactus Jack and his "spot" in the Pulp Fiction promo montage

- The debut of Bubba Ray Dudley and thoughts on the Dudleys role in 97-99 ECW

- Raven and Stevie Richards win the ECW tag titles...but not for long

- Heel ref Bill Alfonso and Tod Gordon are at each other's throats literally

- 911: The Jack Cust of professional wrestling

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Long overdue is a look at the only WCW Monday night show that mattered, with a breakdown of the July 3, 1995 edition of WCW Prime!

- Dusty Rhodes sings, talks about getting drunk with the Beach Boys, and screwing his wife

- How Sgt. Craig Pittman would be looked at by aliens from another planet who only watched WCW C and D shows

- The birth of the Taskmaster

- A 1990 Royal Rumble rematch in the Moo Match of the Week

- Babyface Jimmy Hart: not on my watch!

- One problem with WCW Prime is revealed before the Blue Bloods match

- Feeling bad again for the Renegade

- Vader talks about his upbringing in South Central LA

- Thoughts on MLB's return, beer gardens, and why Guy Fieri kicks the ass of wrestling in the ratings

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