Really appreciate that you let this play "as-is" in its entirety, all those crowd pops and the mini crowd serge's gave me such a grin. At the 41 minute mark you can hear two children talking to their dad who just maybe the one tapping this vhs treasure?? They'd of never known that this lost video would be playing on a thing called TH-cam 33½yrs later.
I have to say, for being shot on a camcorder, and being over 30 years old, the footage is actually like high def quality. A pretty cool video. Thank you for uploading it.
I miss those days of wrestling. My grandpa would bring me to the old Albany County Armory to watch the likes of the Valiant Brothers, Bob Backlund, Andre The Giant, Chief Jay Strongbow and others wrestle in the 70's. That was when the product was still great!
Unbelievable, It’s RARE to have full house shows from 1989/1990. I went to every WWF Wrestling House Show from 1989-2000. Tix were between $11-$30. Programs were $3 (In Canadian Currency). The only thing that kinda sucked was Western Canada anyways was No WWF ice cream bars lol and e didn’t get the awesome Merchandise that USA House Show’s got. It was Hit n Miss-but I still miss the magical era of Pro Wrestling (Especially 1986-1992)
I remember this activity back in 1983-85 , they all came to my High School gym. Got to see stars like Backlund, Muraco, Snuka, JYD, Rocky Johnson, Tony Atlas, Sgt. Slaughter, the Iron Shiek, and Andre the Giant.
This takes me back to the year that I watched the WWF at my local fairgrounds from the front row. Would be so cool if that show ever surfaced from a Fan Cam recording of it.
Growing up in Jersey in the 70's & 80's, it was not all uncommon to have fairly-big WWF superstars,...at local H.S. gymnasiums, a handful of times throughout the year(s). In my neck 'o the woods; Toms River East, Freehold Regional, & Brick Town....were places for regular house shows. Names such as: Don Murraco, Ivan Putski, George Steele, Jimmy Snuka, The Samoans, Tito Santana, The Invaders [trivia: Invader #1 is the guy who murked, Bruiser Brody], Greg Valentine, were are...."regulars". I recall _one time_ when we had a "special treat" (although I can't remember if it was Freehold or Toms River) *ANDRE THE GIANT* took part in a (if I remember correctly) 3-man, handicapped match, with a paying audience of probably _LESS THAN_ 1,200!!! I believe that many of the events were priced as follows: $4.50 was General Admission (bleachers) $6 was the floor, and $7.50 was Ringside. Ahhhhh,...the good 'ole days of the Kayfabe, wrestling years. *EDIT* - the setup @ this show is (for all intents & pursposes) virtually _the same layout_ as I recall it being @ my local H.S. shows.
That's some cool history thanks for sharing! These wrestlers were absolute workhorses I can't imagine how much strain these near daily tours around the world took on them year-after-year...
As someone who grew up in Toms River in the late 1980’s and 1990’s, that note about André The Giant was wild to read. Would love to have experienced those shows.
Wow I never knew there was footage of any WWF house shows from the time frame of June 1988 to May 1991. This is a big surprise. Do you have anymore rare fan cam footage from that time period?
This may well be the only surviving one from amateur footage that captures pretty much the entire event. I'm sure in many stops they were more strict on anyone filming, but more-so it also wasn't easy or accessible to have camcorders at the time let alone care to lug them to events like this. I do not have any other wrestling-related footage from the time beyond some TV recordings that are already archived around the web.
As a young kid Earthquake was very intimidating to watch. There's a great Dark Side of the Ring special about him (first episode of latest season) and it's impressive that he was both one of the most effective heals of the time but also one of the nicest people anyone had ever met outside of the ring.
Its weird to think of guys like Mr Perfect ,Texas Tornado ,Duggan and Earthquake and others would be appearing at shows like this ,in a building this size and look ,when on tv ,theyre in big arenas ,thousands and thousands of people in attendance , a proper entrance aisle with the wwf signs!
This is awesome the wrestling was pretty good for its time. And man the price of tickets compared to now. I used to go to every match I could . But now I can't afford to go to one a year. Such a shame.
I never knew that Black Bart was in the WWF in 1990. A few months earlier, I read that Shane Douglas replaced Shawn Michaels as one half of the Rockers when Shawn was injured.
i knew WWF did smaller house shows but NOT this small!!!!!! my mind is blown that they ran shows like this in such small arenas with maybe 2000 fans?!?!? it looks like an Indie show
@@MattPilz Yeah...when tickets are only available at the local pharmacy or sporting good store instead of Ticketmaster you know its gonna be a small venue.
Hard to believe that was all it took to have a show compared to now with all the pyros camera angles replays commentary and all the entrances of wrestlers and the outfits they have will it be around in 30 more years probably
BLK? Don't be a woke racist, just use the colour name. Thinking the word black is offensive demonstrates you think black people are so inferior that even using the word black is bad.
Did Nikolai had heat with the office? At Survivor Series he was a captain and was the first man eliminated from his team and here Slaughter completely squashes him
It's actually from my hometown and many years ago I had picked up a box of free stuff from a garage sale nearby. This was in that box. Initially I presumed it was just some local high school wrestling tape so imagine my surprise to find out it was the one time WWF came through! I was about 5 years old at the time and even remember it being hyped around the town, but I didn't attend in person.
Shane Douglas and Black Bart were given very little to do during their WWF tenures (Shane's 1st tenure before the Dean nonsense in 1995) other than wrestle each other on house shows across the U.S.
WWE still does shows in smaller cities and towns. Any time they’re at a major city, they do one or two shows in smaller venues before and after the big show.
@@TrevorStevenconsidering that they're the goofs who book basketball arenas that they can't even halfway fill, nah his comment is not lame at all. They're embarrassing.
@justint8635 You do realize not more than 2 years later WWF was running RAW in gymnasiums and drawing less than 1000 paid? Was that also embarrassing?
@@robbiebihari3411 i take back most of my original comment. It appears they taped like 2-3 shows in gyms. They didn't have the kind of financial backing like they (or AEW for that matter) have now and the wrestling business was in a worse state than it is currently. Once again, *context is important.*
Lol this footage totslly debunks all claoms about oold wreslting. Empty seats, crowd so quiet you can hear a pin drop. Bad moves. No selling etc. Despite delusional fans rants wreslting has never been better than in 2024
Terrible that they had the top heel in the company getting pinned by midcarder Jim Duggan. I know that it was only a house show, but still, they could have gone with a DQ or count out finish.
Really appreciate that you let this play "as-is" in its entirety, all those crowd pops and the mini crowd serge's gave me such a grin. At the 41 minute mark you can hear two children talking to their dad who just maybe the one tapping this vhs treasure?? They'd of never known that this lost video would be playing on a thing called TH-cam 33½yrs later.
I have to say, for being shot on a camcorder, and being over 30 years old, the footage is actually like high def quality.
A pretty cool video. Thank you for uploading it.
for real, bigfoot hunters sure could learn a thing or two from the quality of this footage.
I agree 👍
I never knew wwf stopped in small towns like this back then. Thank you for the upload. Brings back memories of simpler times in the sport.
This show isn't even documented by History of WWE or Cagematch. A very rare show. Thank you.
Saw lots of matches like this in the late 80s early 90s in NC, Arkansas, TN and MO. This video is an absolute treasure. Thanks!!!
Man, I can't believe I got the same opening match a little more than two months later at my first show ever at the Cap Center in Landover, MD.
I miss those days of wrestling. My grandpa would bring me to the old Albany County Armory to watch the likes of the Valiant Brothers, Bob Backlund, Andre The Giant, Chief Jay Strongbow and others wrestle in the 70's. That was when the product was still great!
Wow. This is an incredible upload. Thank you so much for this!
Amazing priceless footage, thanks for sharing
Unbelievable, It’s RARE to have full house shows from 1989/1990. I went to every WWF Wrestling House Show from 1989-2000. Tix were between $11-$30. Programs were $3 (In Canadian Currency). The only thing that kinda sucked was Western Canada anyways was No WWF ice cream bars lol and e didn’t get the awesome Merchandise that USA House Show’s got. It was Hit n Miss-but I still miss the magical era of Pro Wrestling (Especially 1986-1992)
"This high school townhouse dont work for me, brother!"
I remember this activity back in 1983-85 , they all came to my High School gym. Got to see stars like Backlund, Muraco, Snuka, JYD, Rocky Johnson, Tony Atlas, Sgt. Slaughter, the Iron Shiek, and Andre the Giant.
in early to mid 80s the wwf would run a lot of shows at high schools here on long island
This takes me back to the year that I watched the WWF at my local fairgrounds from the front row. Would be so cool if that show ever surfaced from a Fan Cam recording of it.
This is my High School - Marshfield Senior High in Marshfield, WI.
How many years did it take you to graduate?
Thank You for saving/sharing such a rare piece of Pro Wrestling History that almost ended up as #LostMedia that was previously unconfirmed media.
Awesome, thanks so much for sharing this show with us! Really cool match between Perfect and Tornado! 😀👍🏻
Wow, une rareté!
Pas une très bonne carte... Mais Duggan vs Tenta et Tornado vs Perfect, deux très bons matchs.
What else did you expect Turbide? Something less than perfect?
58:27.. Mr perfect with an awesome bump.. he was one of the best bump takers ever
Amazing find.
Very rare stuff! Thank you 🍻🍻
Do you have other wrestling videos?
Man this crowd was loud and into the matches.
Thank u 4 uploading this 👍
Thanks for curating this
Wow man this is a real great house matches were awesome please show more if you can?
I can't believe Kerry was able to kick-out of the Perfect-plex, No one kicks out of the Perfect-plex!
Growing up in Jersey in the 70's & 80's, it was not all uncommon to have fairly-big WWF superstars,...at local H.S. gymnasiums, a handful of times throughout the year(s). In my neck 'o the woods; Toms River East, Freehold Regional, & Brick Town....were places for regular house shows. Names such as: Don Murraco, Ivan Putski, George Steele, Jimmy Snuka, The Samoans, Tito Santana, The Invaders [trivia: Invader #1 is the guy who murked, Bruiser Brody], Greg Valentine, were are...."regulars". I recall _one time_ when we had a "special treat" (although I can't remember if it was Freehold or Toms River) *ANDRE THE GIANT* took part in a (if I remember correctly) 3-man, handicapped match, with a paying audience of probably _LESS THAN_ 1,200!!! I believe that many of the events were priced as follows: $4.50 was General Admission (bleachers) $6 was the floor, and $7.50 was Ringside. Ahhhhh,...the good 'ole days of the Kayfabe, wrestling years. *EDIT* - the setup @ this show is (for all intents & pursposes) virtually _the same layout_ as I recall it being @ my local H.S. shows.
That's some cool history thanks for sharing! These wrestlers were absolute workhorses I can't imagine how much strain these near daily tours around the world took on them year-after-year...
As someone who grew up in Toms River in the late 1980’s and 1990’s, that note about André The Giant was wild to read. Would love to have experienced those shows.
Anyway to buy a copy of this off you on vhs?
Great find! Don’t let it get destroyed ever! Wow, Kerry Von Erich, Tenta and Hennig are on it too! So cool
Appreciate the timestamps. So many show uploads don't do that
Never knew Hacksaw pinned Earthquake...
Was this like a B or C tier house show then, with differing lineups for the A, B, C shows?
Yes
Kerry vs Perfect is definitely the main event of this card
Wow I never knew there was footage of any WWF house shows from the time frame of June 1988 to May 1991. This is a big surprise. Do you have anymore rare fan cam footage from that time period?
This may well be the only surviving one from amateur footage that captures pretty much the entire event. I'm sure in many stops they were more strict on anyone filming, but more-so it also wasn't easy or accessible to have camcorders at the time let alone care to lug them to events like this. I do not have any other wrestling-related footage from the time beyond some TV recordings that are already archived around the web.
Been looking for the plane video forever
Attended many of those type shows at my local university in the 1980s.
You forget how huge earthquake was. Was worried ropes were gonna break!
As a young kid Earthquake was very intimidating to watch. There's a great Dark Side of the Ring special about him (first episode of latest season) and it's impressive that he was both one of the most effective heals of the time but also one of the nicest people anyone had ever met outside of the ring.
Amazing time capsule!
Man, Kurt was so fluid
One of Shane Douglas and Black Barts few 1990 appearances in the WWF.
Rockers vs P&G was getting some major heat.
Its weird to think of guys like Mr Perfect ,Texas Tornado ,Duggan and Earthquake and others would be appearing at shows like this ,in a building this size and look ,when on tv ,theyre in big arenas ,thousands and thousands of people in attendance , a proper entrance aisle with the wwf signs!
Sometimes you have to please the farmers of wisconsin.
I actually think The Warlord’s opponent is Tom Stone, not Spike Jones.
Good call. 100 percent.
Appreciate the correction!
Yeah, Tom "Rocky" Stone. I believe he was a Wisconsin guy; I saw him working Milwaukee house shows several times.
This is awesome the wrestling was pretty good for its time. And man the price of tickets compared to now. I used to go to every match I could . But now I can't afford to go to one a year. Such a shame.
this is really cool footage!
I went to a wwf at my high school in 1983 , snuka vs muraco .
boy has WWF/E grown a lot in the past 35 years. Great video thanks for sharing
I never knew that Black Bart was in the WWF in 1990. A few months earlier, I read that Shane Douglas replaced Shawn Michaels as one half of the Rockers when Shawn was injured.
Search: Black Bart vs. Jim Brunzell
Have any CT high school WWF? Some good matches happened there
Awesome, surprised they would bother with such a small spot show for wwf at the time
i knew WWF did smaller house shows but NOT this small!!!!!! my mind is blown that they ran shows like this in such small arenas with maybe 2000 fans?!?!? it looks like an Indie show
Yes, with two local radio stations acting as sponsors and limited seating capacity in a gym made to host small high school basketball games.
I saw them them at my local fairgrounds when they did that tour.
@@MattPilz Yeah...when tickets are only available at the local pharmacy or sporting good store instead of Ticketmaster you know its gonna be a small venue.
WWF-sometimes-ran-three-shows-a-night-so-this-would-probably-be-the-C-town...Those-shows-would-mostly-be-jobbers/low-midcard-with-a-team-like-the-Bushwhackers-in-the-main-event....This-card-was-a-bit-better
This maybe was am a show b show split, they did tape TV the next night.
That's a good card for a smaller venue.
Hard to believe that was all it took to have a show compared to now with all the pyros camera angles replays commentary and all the entrances of wrestlers and the outfits they have will it be around in 30 more years probably
Definitely simpler times! There's something refreshing about hearing only the raw crowd's reaction without any play-by-play commentary.
WWF used to come to Seattle sports arena, a tiny stadium next to climate pledge arena or key arena at time. Early 90s it just wasn't a draw at all!
Who wouldn’t pop hard when Birdman’s In Town hits?!
Wow Duggan pinning Earthquake , Hogan was hardly even doing that in 1990
Don't go messin' with a country boy, a country boy, a country boy, don't go messin' with a boy, don't mess with a country boy😅
Shane and Blk Bart really had good chemistry. I'm used to Shane in ecw. He really could work and fly around back then
BLK? Don't be a woke racist, just use the colour name.
Thinking the word black is offensive demonstrates you think black people are so inferior that even using the word black is bad.
The world needs to realise just how racist woke ideology is and I hope 2025 is the year.
Censorship is truly disgusting
Did Nikolai had heat with the office? At Survivor Series he was a captain and was the first man eliminated from his team and here Slaughter completely squashes him
your doing the Lord's work
I loved the rockers! Wish they didn't break up 😢😢
Great Find where did you get this tape?
It's actually from my hometown and many years ago I had picked up a box of free stuff from a garage sale nearby. This was in that box. Initially I presumed it was just some local high school wrestling tape so imagine my surprise to find out it was the one time WWF came through! I was about 5 years old at the time and even remember it being hyped around the town, but I didn't attend in person.
Do you mind if I share this on other wrestling archive sites as long as I give you credit here on your channel?
Should be fine, thanks.
Shane Douglas and Black Bart were given very little to do during their WWF tenures (Shane's 1st tenure before the Dean nonsense in 1995) other than wrestle each other on house shows across the U.S.
I would have liked to have been there that night.
Shane Douglas in the opener!
Was this considered a "C" town house show?
What happened to the sound for the Mr Perfect vs Texas Tornado match?
Something defective on the original recording. It cuts back in at 9 03 on the embedded timestamp.
That's a bigger crowd then nxt
Notice how lucky all the managers were. They didn’t have to go on the road with the wrestlers. They only worked at Tv tapings! What a great job!
Jimmy Hart was right there.
@@jfrizz ... and Adnan... and Frankie...
@@jfrizzI had the same thought. I was like did he even watch it?
Even at house shows duggan didn't job out lol
WWE still does shows in smaller cities and towns. Any time they’re at a major city, they do one or two shows in smaller venues before and after the big show.
This is pretty cool I was 19 at the time and this was my high school
This wasn't a C show this was a D show. Wonder who in this town is related to someone in WWF at the time to be able to get them to come here
What AEW has to look forward too.
This would be a major step forward for AEW
still more fans than a aew ppv 🤣
Such a lame thing to say, and no, it isn’t.
@@TrevorStevenconsidering that they're the goofs who book basketball arenas that they can't even halfway fill, nah his comment is not lame at all. They're embarrassing.
@justint8635 You do realize not more than 2 years later WWF was running RAW in gymnasiums and drawing less than 1000 paid? Was that also embarrassing?
@@robbiebihari3411 i take back most of my original comment. It appears they taped like 2-3 shows in gyms. They didn't have the kind of financial backing like they (or AEW for that matter) have now and the wrestling business was in a worse state than it is currently. Once again, *context is important.*
@@TrevorStevenAbsolutely is 😂
Oh.. REPOsitory.. phew 😅
vince was pissed this nights show was not a sell out
Lol this footage totslly debunks all claoms about oold wreslting. Empty seats, crowd so quiet you can hear a pin drop. Bad moves. No selling etc. Despite delusional fans rants wreslting has never been better than in 2024
That's a bigger crowd than AEW
AEW sucks
You know your career's hit rock bottom when you're jobbing clean to Koko B Ware
Yeah.and Koko would job to bigger stars on TV tapings back then.
Terrible that they had the top heel in the company getting pinned by midcarder Jim Duggan. I know that it was only a house show, but still, they could have gone with a DQ or count out finish.