Wrestling Promo of the Day

[BrandonDaCollector]

The Master Blasters didn't last long. Nash would soon become Oz the great & powerful & Blade would become Al Greene. That was such a superbly crazy promo by Cactus Jack. IMO the best times of Mick Foley was in ECW. Remember when you posted Ron Simmons & Too Cold Scorpio and they were talking about Shane Douglas Well, here's this one in ECW with "The Franchise" Shane Douglas and his new girlfriend Sensational Sherri

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It's still weird thinking of a solo Road Warrior.

[BrandonDaCollector]

Yes, Hawk was on his own for a while there in ECW as well in WCW. Great promo by Claudio. I'm so glad to see he's found himself there because he was really lost in WWE.

Here's a bit more of " Big Poppa Pump" Scott Steiner & DDP.

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Big Bad Booty Daddy. You can see they're trying to be more edgy because of the Attitude Era stuff.

[BrandonDaCollector]

Yes, this was during the height of the Attitude Era. That was a terrific promo by Bobby Roode. It was something seeing Hogan in TNA during that era.

Okay, now here's Ahmed Johnson (Tony Norris of football fame). He was like Vinnie Mac's new main guy when he debuted in 95. He was really rough in the ring but he was extremely impressive. This promo comes from the WWF War Zone Video Game. I know he's hared to understand sometimes. People made fin of him with some videos. I may post them later.

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I actually got that game when I got back into wrestling but he was already gone from the WWF. He didn't seem like the best worker though he sure was built like a house.

[BrandonDaCollector]

That's cool. yes, after his time being heel with the NOD was up he went to WCW which was a brief time and then he disappeared. While he had a tremendous physique, he wasn't a great worker a she was injury prone, he hurt his opponents and injured himself too in the process.

That was a really good one by Tony Atlas. Gosh, Valentine's Day, 1979, 45 years ago this year

Okay, next up is a little history of Duke "The Dumpster" Droese First, here he is as "The Garbage Man" Rocco Gibraltar. Now this is a very special video. He and his brother (I was never that familiar with him) made this whole video you are about to see with the two VCR trick back in mid 93 I believe. He was already a good wrestler as he turned pro in 1990 wrestling on Independents and even having hardcore bouts He sent the video to the WWF and he got super lucky...(keep in mind there WAS no such thing like OVW, FCW, NXT, only places like USWA, SMW, ECW to get noticed if you weren't in the WWF & WCW), they excepted this and soon he became a WWF Superstar in early 1994, 30 years ago this year



I recall this vignette and the hype of "The Dumpster" Duke Droese. It was really cool



Here's this quick bout with long time WWF jobber Reno Riggins. His entrance was cool and I really liked hos theme. You can see Droese was quite good.



Unfortunately as good as he was in the ring he didn't have that many good moments. He wasn't a jobber but one of the guys that had a 50-50 record He's one of the only wrestlers that I recall that did this in a Royal Rumble which this was the 1995 edition

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I can honestly say that was the first match of his I've actually seen. I kind of like the name Rocco Gibraltar better, it's much more clever. He actually wasn't bad in the ring. Like I said over in the themes, if he had debuted more around the time of the Hardcore Title in 1998 I bet he would've had a decent run. Just too soon.

[BrandonDaCollector]

Yes, I agree with you there. Such a misopportunity that he could have returned for that time in the Attitude Era

Oh, the Artist formerly known as Prince Iaukea. That was was pretty cool time there. Iaukea is the son of King Iaukea aka The Wizard aka The Master of The Dungeon of Doom. The Artist's valet was Paisley, one of the Nitro Girls. She was really great looking there. That's Queen Sharmell who is Booker T's wife

Here is Yellow Dog in 1991 in WCW

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Yellow Dog, lol. So I assume that was Brian Pillman?