NRL Rd 21 2025 - General Non-Warriors Thread

[Big Marn]

We are the same age, remember the treat of being allowed to stay up late on a Saturday night for the hours wrestling, then American Gladiators straight afterwards. Survivor Series was my favourite and still remember the debut of the undertaker as the million dollar man’s mystery team member. Had so many videos I’d hammer relentlessly over and over


School holidays would be down to the video shop to get 7 videos for 7 days

Andre stories, the 119 beers in 6-7 hours is a beauty

The Ultimate Warrior was my favourite when i was in high school. The guy was just a crazy guy in the ring.
WWF really perfected the good guy vs the heel. I used to loath guys like Mr Perfect, Ravishing Rick Rude, Honkeytonk man and Ted Dibiase. Some of managers did their bit well too. Jimmy Hart and Bobby Heenan were great as asshole managers.

 

[Big Marn]

Yep that was before my time but heard the parents talk about it a fair bit and read some stuff about it

They were good days back then, some WWF moves at lunchtime followed by a game of Bullrush, all subsequently got banned

Bullrush. Fives and 4 Square. 3 classic lunchtime games at my high school. So Bullrush is no more?

 

[Beavers Headgear]

The Ultimate Warrior was my favourite when i was in high school. The guy was just a crazy guy in the ring.
WWF really perfected the good guy vs the heel. I used to loath guys like Mr Perfect, Ravishing Rick Rude, Honkeytonk man and Ted Dibiase. Some of managers did their bit well too. Jimmy Hart and Bobby Heenan are great as asshole managers.

Hogan v Warrior Wrestlemania 6 will be the biggest wrestling memory for a lot of people

Yeah they had it absolutely perfect, those heels you mentioned were all sensational. “All you fat, out of shape sweat hogs, keep the noise down while I take my robe off and show the ladies what a real man looks like”. They used to give Million Dollar Man huge wads of money to carry around with him so he was always in character everywhere he went. Heenan was a genius comments man too alongside Gorilla

 

[Beavers Headgear]

Bullrush. Fives and 4 Square. 3 classic lunchtime games at my high school. So Bullrush is no more?

Bullrush had done it’s dash by the year 2000 from memory

 

[Blair]

McMann's banter with Ventura always made a night of WWF Superstars of Wrestling even better.

In NZ, as you'll all know, we had On The Mat in the Seventies. As a kid I remember it was huge. King Curtis, Samoan Joe, the Zulu (who was actually a Fijian, but, you know) and Rick Martel.

Ernie Leonard and Steve Rickard did the commentary.

Then wrestling disappeared for about eight years on NZ TV, until that mind-blowing night I mentioned in late-'88, which brought wrestling to another generation, along with those that loved On The Mat.

Another bit of NZ wrestling history is that we were mainly introduced to Hogan when he was in Rocky III. So, when Wrestlemania was first shown to us we knew who he was.

 

[Blair]

The Cowboys squeek past St George, 38-32. Now the Eels have an upset on in Brisbane, 22-20, fifteen minutes left.

...and they win! 22-20, with Walsh ruled offside in a last gap 'try'.