Ricky Steamboat vs Paul Jones
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- NWA Mid Atlantic Wrestling house show footage from the Richmond Coliseum in Richmond, VA. "Number One" Paul Jones defends the NWA TV Title against the challenge of Ricky Steamboat. Like most house show footage, there is no commentary.
Ricky Steamboat was one of the greatest sellers in the business.
you can have your, Rock...Cena, etc....these were the BEST days of Wrastling.
As a kid in the 70s, these 2 were my favorite tag team....Crazy when they became bitter enemies; as wrestling goes that it is-lol
I remember those days, it was strange to me to see Paul Jones and Greg Valentine shake hands when they spent a couple of years feuding with each other
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With all due respect,added to the fact that I do now know you personally, Paul Jones turned on Ricky Steamboat. There was a two ring match(1978) involving Ric Flair (vs.Rick Steamboat) and Paul Jones. This double match concluded with Paul Jones vs. Ricky Steamboat(I saw footage on MACW back then). Paul Jones piledrived Rick Steamboat and won the match. Mr.Jones put Steamboat in the hospital, and became a heel from that point on. I admit that it was long ago (age 10);not forgot.
Thatwasgoodolddays
This is the first main event of a card held the day after Christmas in 1978 in Richmond, Virginia. The other main event saw Paul Orndorff and Jimmy Snuka win the World Tag belts from Greg Valentine and Baron Von Raschke. I'm in the front row facing the camera -- not that you can tell. : )
7:44 When the TV title was on the line in arena matches, it was only on the line for the first 15 minutes of the match. That's why Rich Landrum mentions two minutes left "in the championship part of the match".
People rightly talk about Steamboat's technical expertise, but his conditioning was incredible too.
@obaeng I thought the turn was at the end of a battle royal?
Paul Jones was selling it pretty good himself
Paul Jones was #1 for me!!
I remember Rich Landrum announcing countless house shows in Richmond . Wish I had that ring they used there . I think a guy named Johnny Ringo that worked for Crockett was in charged of that ring . Funny thing is the bell was mounted on the ring post and most of the house shows during that era , it was a security guard that rang the bell with a screw driver .
Yeah I went to plenty of cards at the Richmond coliseum I remember a fat guy reminded me of haystack Calhoun use to always set ringside
Paul Jones was an absolutely great wrestler in the 70's, as anybody who saw his matches against Brisco in Florida, the Funks in the Carolinas, or Blackjack Mulligan for that matter, ir his tag bouts with Wahoo against the Andersons.
To compare Jones to Hogan is an insult, Jones actually knew how to wrestle, as did Flair, allthough I'll give that Flair became old and lazy after 1986 or so.
One of the greats RIP Paul Jones
Jesus did Steamboat ever beat Jones?
Ahh yes - you are correct. I've attended countless Greensboro shows and I should've caught that beforehand! In fact, I think that was Rich Landrum making the post-match ring announcement, wasn't it? Thanks for watching, my man.
Dude this was at Richmond , not Greensboro !!!
Who was the referee for this match? I don’t recognize the guy
The funny thing is , this match wasn't taped at Greensboro , it was at Richmond .
That’s hilarious
RIP Paul Jones
sequoya williams wow this fued was really good
Paul Jones, like Hogan and flair, were only as good as the man they were in the ring with - The opponent had to sell the fact (or illusion0 that they had talent. Steamboat could clean his clock in a NY second . . . Watch close who carries who.
Hogan sold out arenas around the world - I said world - Something Flair, Jones or very few wrestlers could do. I never said Hogan could wrestle - I said he was only as good as the man he was in the ring with. But they didn't come to see his opponent. They came to see Hogan. Flair could bring in a crowd to a house show - But when it came to the omni - The backup (midcard_ matches were often better then what he brought to the table. BTW - Jones sucked in Memphis.
at this stage steamboat was one of hottest ever to step into the ring. here he's shredded to the max, and his upper back is just amazing. he always sold to the hilt.
I can still remember the battle royal where Steamboat turned on Number One Paul Jones and beat him up. Paul was too trusting and Steamboat took advantage of him. After that Paul was a lot meaner since he knew what could happen.
Laugh? I thought I'd cry. Lol
when wrestling was good, not like the WWE now days
Great match except the closing pin which was too easy and fake.
It's great how the crowd is so into this unlike the WWE bs today.
Hogan was a product of the McMahon media hype machine, Jones wrestled in the territory days where there was no national TV coverage or PPV.
Jones sold out Greensboro on several occasions, an arena that held 15,000 plus fans back when that was a huge arena, one of the biggest in the country, matches against Terry Funk and Blackjack Mulligan where Jones was definitely the man that people came to see>
Don't make the mistake of judging Jones by his late managerial career, he was very very good.
He developed back problems which ended his wrestling. You are right, in his day he was over as a face or a heel. He also boxed and was a
Golden Gloves champ, so was someone you didn't want to fight for real.