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[Nature Boy]

Just wondered if anyone had any info on this!

Thanks

[4 Gold Scorpio]

My guess is real estate. That seems to be the #1 choice of those who worked in wrestling & retired/got fired/ect.

[Sean_Carleton1]

Hopefully staying far, far away from Pro Wrestling.

[Nature Boy]

Does anyone know for sure?

As far as I'm aware, he has never once commented on Wrestling since he was fire some 14, 15 years ago.

Even with people as talented as Rhodes, Sullivan, Gilbert and Cornette on the booking/creative team, he still managed to turn WCW into a joke.

As a DIE-HARD WCW fan, that takes a lot for me to say, but how can I state otherwise?

So, does anyone know for sure?

[4 Gold Scorpio]

Unless someone has personally seen him, nobody really knows because it wasn't like he was a big wrestling personality who tried to stay in the business. He was just an executive suit, nothing more or less. He has no history in the wrestling business before & afterwards. That's like trying to track down K. Allen Frye. Your gonna need the F.B.I. (and I don't mean Little Guido) or putting his picture on milk cartons to figure out this one.

[Phantom Lord]

Not sure where to put this hopefully its alright here.

Basically I'm very interested to know how The Wrestling Territories worked back in the 70's and 80's.

Were there really like 20 different wrestling television shows? How did Pay Per View work back then?

How were the TV Shows set up? One Hour? 2 Hours? Squash Matches? High calibre matches?


Please someone fill me in.

[GerardRkoGillen]

Good questions. I think it was closed circuit tevlevision and just toured and got a good turn outs, and back then I think all matches were high calinre matches. PPV's it don't even think WWF/E had any back then

[AVFC]

There were lots of territory's but not all had TV deals, I think most only had shows airing in the local area or the locals would go to the shows. I don't think there were PPV's back then either.

[4 Gold Scorpio]

Well, the territory system worked where a certain company would control certain areas of a region & there was an "unwritten rule" that one company would not cross into another promotions (which Vince McMahon broke to create the WWE we know today). World Class Championship Wrestling ran in the Texas area, Continental Wrestling ran around Memphis, the WWWF (Vince's dad's promotion) ran around the New York, Jim Crockett promotions (which would eventually become WCW) ran the Mid-Atlantic area like Georgia, Championship Wrestling From Flordia...well that one is kind of obivious.

The television was different for each area but for the most part, the territory controlled the TV through sydication or the public access channel for the real small local territories eventhough some territories would end up getting national television deals like Jim Crockett did through TBS, AWA through ESPN, and WWE through USA network. As for the shows themselves, again each one differs because some shows like "NWA World Championship Wrestling" had a 2 hour spot while some others like World Class would get an hour. As for match quality, it wasn't like the RAW's you see today where you see the big named superstars face each other in every match as they would save those for their big events like how WWE did for Saturday Night's Main Event. The normal TV show would have squash matches along with their occassional big name main event that you would see on wrestling shows today.

PPV didn't really come into play until around the mid-80's as they mostly used closed circuit television to broadcast events like how Jim Crockett used that format for his first couple of Starrcades & Vince used it for the first WrestleMania.

If you need a visual of how a territory worked then look at ECW because they were the last major territory in terms of only working in certain areas & having TV syndication for those markets.

[nabo rawk]

Who here knows when, where, and who wrestled in the first cage match ever?????

I do not know the answer, but figured someone here does!!!

I'm thinking its late 70's but It may have been earlier???


holla back if you know, I think its an interesting discussion.

If I posted this in the wrong area, please let me know

peace
nabs

[4 Gold Scorpio]

To be honest, this is a fact that's hard to track down but the earliest memories of a cage match came from Classy Freddie Blassie using I believe chicken wire or something like that back in the day...not sure if it's 60's or 70's but Blassie's cage was the first highly known cage match to happen.

[nabo rawk]

WOW thats incredible, I actually have blassies autograph, back in like 87 my uncle did security for him, a real stand up dude....
I donr know much of his wrestling, but more as a manager...WOW chicken wire, that must have have been so raw back then, bloody an brutal...

I was kinda right as far as the time period of the cage I guess??? very interesting.

I wonder if Jim Cornette knows the real deal??? he seems to be a wrestling historian????

thanks for replying soul brother!!!!

[gkdanko]

Here's a sight that would be most helpful for the enthusiasts...

http://www.steelcagematch.com/histor...lts/index.html


The first steel match I personally witnessed was Bruno Sammartino vs Sheik in 1969.

The BEST Steel Cage I've ever witnessed either on TV or in person was...July of 1970 between Fred Blassie and The Sheik. OUTSTANDING!

[nabo rawk]

whoa!!!! did I read that right????? they were doing stuff on the cage tip in late 30's????? I would have never known...

thanks for the post.

[Maxx]

That's all I remember... that the cage was constructed with Chickenwire... but that's a pretty cool little listing... Thanks