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Post by onefangang on Mar 9, 2005 3:37:47 GMT -5
January 84 (not sure of the exact date) on a Sunday afternoon card at the Cumberland County Arena. I started watching in August of 82 but finally went to a show while visiting relatives in Fayetteville. The main event was Dick Slater vs. Greg Valentine (as a face!) for the U.S. Title. Other than that I really don't remember too much about it (and I have an excellent memory!).
In June of 84 I made the first of several trips over the next few years to the Dorton Arena. It was a show called "Battlestar 84" with a Flair/Race cage match as the main event. The bad thing about it was that it was a TV taping which mean't a loooong night. Dorton "No AC" Arena in June is not somewhere you want to be for a long period of time. Still it was a memorable night. The Freebirds wrestled the Road Warriors and Paul Ellering in a six man match (none of them wrestled in JCP at the time). King Kong Bundy was there. Kamala attacked Dusty after he ran in to save Rufus R. Jones from Paul Jones and The Assasin. Nikita Koloff made his debut, and Flair was attacked by Blanchard while Wahoo stood by and watched (setting up his heel turn).
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Post by bobbyryates on Mar 9, 2005 17:32:27 GMT -5
that was my only time to see wrestlng in the dorton arena. it was on 6/6/84. others on hand were: carlos colon the invader  stan hansen vs wahoo dale veasey all those plus the ones you mentioned as it was just days after the "night of champions" at the meadowlands in east rutherford,nj. special moment for me: before the show started, i got to wrestle jesse barr and brad anderson. jesse was showing brad some amatuer moves and i helped them. thanks to klondike bill for asking gene anderson if i could get in the ring with them. |
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Post by gwlee7 on Mar 9, 2005 17:51:06 GMT -5
bobby,
you are lucky that Gene didn't try to stretch you for a few $$$ ;D
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Post by bobbyryates on Mar 9, 2005 19:05:39 GMT -5
if he had, that woulda been just more bang for the buck on that day. to wake up the next day after being beaten up by.....an anderson. what could be better?
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gwlee7
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Post by gwlee7 on Mar 9, 2005 20:12:59 GMT -5
true. For Anderson marks like us, having an arm broken and pulled out of its socket by Gene would be even better than having been at the Omni for the "turn" Ole made on "the Dream".  |
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Post by bobbyryates on Mar 9, 2005 20:51:31 GMT -5
AMEN!  ;D |
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Post by bambamgordyfan on Mar 11, 2005 14:24:51 GMT -5
I wish i could remember the matches but i can't seem to remember them.......My first live event was at The Dorton Arena in Raleigh, NC...in 1984......The only thing i remember was it was a tv taping........It's a shame wrestling is long gone from this venue.......
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Post by bobbyryates on Mar 11, 2005 16:41:20 GMT -5
hey gordy, could it have been the one me nad onefangang were talking about here? that was a tv taping.
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Post by bambamgordyfan on Mar 12, 2005 17:26:57 GMT -5
It's a possibility.........I seem to remember the Flair/Wahoo/ Tully angle very well.........If this was the angle then yes we are talking about the same show.............
Wahoo comes out to say Flair is avoiding him as far as giving him a title shot....Then Flair comes and then Tully comes out and starts talking about Flair having cheap suits or something like that.......Then Tully attacks Flair as Wahoo watches........................................................................................I may be talking a totally different interview segment/angle.........
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Post by bobbyryates on Mar 12, 2005 23:06:58 GMT -5
that was it.
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Post by rmballpark on Mar 13, 2005 0:25:58 GMT -5
Well, the name ought to suggest somewhere, BUT .... My first live card was at (where else?) the Rocky Mount Ballpark in July 1975. Main event was a six-man tag between PJones, Wahoo (RIP) and Andre (DITTO) against Doug Gilbert, Big John Valentine (DITTO) and some dude with blonde hair and a big mouth. Never amounted to much (big grin). The faces came from the first base dugout and Andre kept gettin bigger and bigger and BIGGER! Never in my 40-plus years of following rasslin have I seen anybody bigger than the Giant.
Basically, they did all of their typical moves and PJones got Gilbert in the Indian Deathlock and that was it. I was already hooked, having watched MidAtlantic for a number of years, but there's nothing like a live show to get the blood pumping.
Those were the days. Wish we could relive em.
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Post by gwlee7 on Mar 13, 2005 18:38:38 GMT -5
Hey rmballpark welcome to the forum.
Do you still live in the "City on the Rise"? If you do, maybe we could hook up sometime.
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Post by LarrySC on Mar 13, 2005 23:02:00 GMT -5
Although I had been watching wrestling on TV since sometime in 1968 (Mid Atlantic until we moved to Omaha in the summer of 1970), my first live card didn't take place until August 29, 1970.
My dad got tickets for the weekly show at the Omaha Civic Auditorium for my 12th birthday (actually a few days early, since my birthday is September 2nd). Here is the card we saw that night:
8/29/70 @ Omaha Civic Auditorium:
Billy Red Cloud (sub Pedro Sanchez) def. John Gadaski
Beautiful Brutus (Bugsy McGraw) by DQ over Plowboy Stan Frazier
Reggie Parks DDQ Harley Race
Midwest Heavyweight Title
Tarzan Tyler (c) def. Red Bastien
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Post by stephanie on Mar 14, 2005 18:39:15 GMT -5
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Post by simm on Mar 15, 2005 13:53:19 GMT -5
1979 @ a sold out Richmond Coliseum to see Steamboat and Flair go after the tag belts held by Jones and Von Raschke. Undercard had Studd vs Mulligan and Weaver vs Snuka.
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