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Post by stanleyhetz on May 6, 2021 10:14:49 GMT -8
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Post by Jay Cal on May 10, 2021 10:47:15 GMT -8
I was there live. Gibson was having an amazing year and that match was very special.
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Post by stanleyhetz on May 11, 2021 7:28:16 GMT -8
I was there live. Gibson was having an amazing year and that match was very special. It was an amazing match. What did the fans think when AJ came out with the NWA belt strapped on over his PWG belt, and what did the fans think when the ring announcer only said that AJ was the PWG champion? AJ took the microphone and told everyone that he was also the NWA World heavyweight champion and that the match was also for the NWA title. On the back of the DVD box, it only said that the match was for the PWG championship. I bet that they would have sold more copies if the box would have listed the bout as for the NWA title.
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Post by Jay Cal on May 14, 2021 6:25:13 GMT -8
At that point in time, the NWA didn't have a ton of value in Southern California. There wasn't a strong NWA membership in the NWA at this point. This predates Marquez's involvement in the NWA.
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Post by stanleyhetz on May 14, 2021 8:39:51 GMT -8
At that point in time, the NWA didn't have a ton of value in Southern California. There wasn't a strong NWA membership in the NWA at this point. This predates Marquez's involvement in the NWA. I suppose that I can understand that to a degree, but with all of the wrestling fans there in attendance, I would have guessed that some of them would have been familiar with the NWA... either because of the old JCP/WCW days, the WWF work in 1998, the TNA stuff which was happening at that very time. I just would have guessed that with all of those wrestling fans in attendance at that show that some of them would have been like "Hey, that's the NWA right there!"
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Post by Jay Cal on May 19, 2021 7:37:43 GMT -8
At that point in time, the NWA didn't have a ton of value in Southern California. There wasn't a strong NWA membership in the NWA at this point. This predates Marquez's involvement in the NWA. I suppose that I can understand that to a degree, but with all of the wrestling fans there in attendance, I would have guessed that some of them would have been familiar with the NWA... either because of the old JCP/WCW days, the WWF work in 1998, the TNA stuff which was happening at that very time. I just would have guessed that with all of those wrestling fans in attendance at that show that some of them would have been like "Hey, that's the NWA right there!" To a degree there was. I mean, I remember when AJ would bring the TNA X-Division Championship to AWS. It was a pretty big deal. TNA was still a fledgling promotion though. I don't even think it was on Fox Sports yet. So it had to come a long way. Sure there were some fans. But you have to understand that the NWA Territory died out sometime around 1983. Los Angeles was a WWF Area. Sadly, JCP didn't really run in Southern California on a regular basis and many homes didn't have access to TBS until well after the NWA/WCW split.
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Post by stanleyhetz on May 24, 2021 11:07:19 GMT -8
I suppose that I can understand that to a degree, but with all of the wrestling fans there in attendance, I would have guessed that some of them would have been familiar with the NWA... either because of the old JCP/WCW days, the WWF work in 1998, the TNA stuff which was happening at that very time. I just would have guessed that with all of those wrestling fans in attendance at that show that some of them would have been like "Hey, that's the NWA right there!" To a degree there was. I mean, I remember when AJ would bring the TNA X-Division Championship to AWS. It was a pretty big deal. TNA was still a fledgling promotion though. I don't even think it was on Fox Sports yet. So it had to come a long way. Sure there were some fans. But you have to understand that the NWA Territory died out sometime around 1983. Los Angeles was a WWF Area. Sadly, JCP didn't really run in Southern California on a regular basis and many homes didn't have access to TBS until well after the NWA/WCW split. I didn't know that a lot of people were without Superstation TBS until so late in the game. I live in Pennsylvania, and we used to have a small cable company that had it back in the 1980s when I started watching NWA/JCP wrestling. I had thought of traveling across state in 1994 to go see NWA Eastern Championship Wrestling (all because of my love for the NWA), but then Shane Douglas did what he did, and so I decided that ECW was not a promotion that I wanted to give my business to.
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Post by Jay Cal on May 26, 2021 7:05:40 GMT -8
I grew up in a middle-class suburb. Most of my neighbors didn't have cable into the mid-90s.
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Post by stanleyhetz on Jun 12, 2021 16:31:43 GMT -8
I grew up in a middle-class suburb. Most of my neighbors didn't have cable into the mid-90s. Wow. I'd have thought California would have at least been on par with the little area where I live. We had cable TV as far back as I can remember, back in the 70s.
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Post by Jay Cal on Jun 23, 2021 6:52:44 GMT -8
I mean, growing up we had ON TV. Once cable was available we jumped on it, that was probably like 1985-1986. But most people I grew up with, didn't get cable into their homes until nearly a decade later.
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Post by stanleyhetz on Jun 23, 2021 16:09:23 GMT -8
I mean, growing up we had ON TV. Once cable was available we jumped on it, that was probably like 1985-1986. But most people I grew up with, didn't get cable into their homes until nearly a decade later. I thought that I lived in a nowhere place.
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