GCW October 20-November 10, 1979 (Featuring STERLING GOLDEN aka Hulk Hogan & BRET HART)
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- Yes we get some really great action here featuring the future Hulk Hogan and Bret Hart vs. Buzz Sawyer in a damn fun babyface match not to mention Stan Hansen vs. Killer Karl Kox and lots more from Georgia Championship Wrestling!!!!
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There aren't two wrestlers in the business today that can put on a match like the Sawyer\Hart match, and there is no announcer in the business today who can call the match like Solie did. This was a time when wrestlers tried to make their matches look 'real'. Now they're only concerned with making them look 'cool'. This is so much better than anything that's aired on a wrestling program in many, many years.
It also helps when you have 2 Competitors who have learned some of the basics from Free Style Wrestling and Greco-Roman Wrestling. As you say a lot of today's Wrestlers have set the basics aside for Showmanship and Entertainment.
@47:10 for anyone looking for brett hart vs buzz sawyer
Shows what Buzz was capable of before the demons got him. Buzz is actually a year or two younger than Bret.
You’re, right!!!!
@@seangoodwin3046
He was great when the demons got him!
He was the best wrestling commentator ever bar none!!!!
That look Gordon gave when Austin Idol gave that great promo bragging on himself was classic.
I was born and raised in Jacksonville Fl. A lifetime Gator fan since I was 7 back in 1978. Family fans since 1935. We are gonna kill it on the field this year. Gooooo Gators. All the way up here in Pa and to Colorado soon lol
Love it. Gotta say though, I instinctively grabbed my remote to adjust the tracking a few times...haha
You mean you didn't have the channel changing box with the cable attached.
Georgia championship wrestling was the best in the business 70s 80s and '90s man I miss the good old days of Georgia championship wrestling what great wrestlers was here then
The look on Brets face when the announced him from Montana ..priceless
Well one of the Hart brothers were actually born in Montana which the province of Alberta lies above it.
I think it was Bruce Hart that was born in Montana
He was actually American . His mother was American and Bret was born in New York . Because his father listed his home as Canada at the time of Brets birth Bret was born with dual citizenship .
@@anthonymartin9923 No it was Smith I think
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I was about to move to Florida about this time from NYC, Sterling, Hulk was from Clearwater Florida
Hulk Hogan as Sterling Golden, very young here, he was also in CWF
gordon solie was the best. he made a hip toss sound important.
Because if the wrestling was real it would be .
@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 what you said. I've used wrestling moves in real fights. The motherfuckers twitch after they hit the concrete.
He made what you were watching sound 100% credible, absolutely the best! A huge reason why GCW was successful, no doubt. 👍🏻
One could not question the tremendous torso of this man". I loved me some damn Gordon Solie.
Holy shit did I just hear a Hulk Hogan promo without any "Brother" in it.
He said daddy
wasnt a hh promo, it was a sterling golden promo
I was just thinking the same thing
Quit saying holy sh*t its blasphemy
SOB Ripped off Superstar Billy Graham.
Nice to see Bobby The Brain Heenan managing Ernie The Cat Ladd n The Masked Superstar
That Sterling Golden guy at the beginning of the show looked like with a little more experience he'd be the biggest thing ever in wrestling. Never seen Buzz Sawyer with hair before
He became popular when he started going by Hulk Hogan.
That bum ain't going anywhere
Oooh, the sarcasm just drips from this one. I gotta get a towel and some rain gear ...
THAT WAS HULK HOGAN
Hogan is a farce
Incredible footage!!! Thanks for the upload!!!
xoxo The Clarences
Shakespeare himself would feel a pang of envy upon hearing Gordon Solie’s masterful command of the English language.
Thanks for sharing this! I started watching wrestling in 1983 at 10 years old. I really enjoy watching some of the wrestling from a little before I discovered it.
Man do you have problems.
Idol - What a love child of Ric Flair and Superstar Graham would look like .
Blacques Jacques Idol was the Man...lol
@John O Yeah , no one gives a shit .
If only Adol showed up to his matches, He Would’ve had great status like Graham and Flair. He had to make his living in Memphis and the southeast for years after he was blacklisted.
@@VolumedMusicMan He wasn't near as good as he thought he was .
Yes!
I live in Columbus Georgia in the early 80s my dad took me and my two sisters to the wrestling events on Saturdays
Who remembers Ernie Ladd in "That 70's show"? In the episode where they go to the wrestling matches, we see The Rock, Hardy Boyz, Ken Shamrock, and in the locker room afterward, The Big Cat Ernie Ladd with Rocky Johnson telling Red and Eric no autographs.
Little kidding screaming “break it”. when Sawyer armbar was hilarious.
Loaded territory in this time frame.
Including Heenan and Hansen + Young Bret, Hogan, & even Buzz Sawyer with hair and great sportsmanship lol
Before cable there was the rabbitt ears antennae, here's proof
Except the Superstation was one of the only cable channels at the time
I was the tv antenna when I as young.
Hulk stern with a southern accent. THANKS FOR THE POST!!!!WWE Network will NEVER touch this one... holy shit its Buzz...
19:44 Ah yes Sterling Golden. I was a "Goldenmaniac" back in the 80s. He used to always say "Watcha goin' do when Goldenmania runs wild on you!"
I still remember when he bodyslammed Monster Roussimoff at Starrcade 3.
First Discovered GCW in 1977 at age 8
My left ear loves this video lol.
Saturday morning...might as well watch some GCW
Who else wonders if Bret Hart wishes that woman would shut up?
WOW! Awesome stuff. I've never seen video from this era. Atlanta City Auditorium. Incredible.
The GOLDEN SQUEEZE LOLLOL. Sure beats legdrops
Wow Buzz Sawyer is unecognizable
Ernie Ladd was amazing on the mic
I have met Ernie Ladd , he lived one town over . He was enormous but a really cool guy too .
Ernie Ladd was way ahead of his time. He understood the business and knew how to work the crowd. The Big Cat was one of my favorites.
Back when Wrestling was cool!
20:14 "One cannot question the tremendous torso of this man...."
Buzz sawyer with hair! Jacque, don’t call me Rene, Goulet. Wow, I thought I saw it all.
Buzz Sawyer was the best technical wrestler of his era ..
Am I the only one who remembers when Tony Atlas wore a mask....they billed him as Black Atlas and every week everybody went after the mask...ahhh...those were the days.
I was not aware of that. Where and when was this?
It was NWA Georgia Championship Wrestling...same time period...just a couple of years before this video. I've tried to find pics of him with a mask but, so far, to no avail He did publish a book a while back where he talked about wearing a mask though...here's an excerpt:
Excerpt from Chapter 8: Black Atlas
Copyright © Tony White and Scott Teal
Wearing the mask and protecting my identity took some getting used to. Wearing a mask was second nature to wrestlers like Mil Mascaras and Mr. Wrestling #2, who wore their masks all the time, even in the dressing rooms when they were only around the boys. I had a harder time remembering the things a masked man needed to remember.
For instance, Tommy Rich tells a story about stopping to pick me up at my motel. When he pulled up in front of my room, a girl walked out wearing a red mask. Right behind her was a girl wearing a blue mask, followed by another girl wearing a black mask. I walked out next … but I wasn’t wearing a mask. The boys spread that story around for a long time.
Before I went to Atlanta, I had a "Tony Atlas" t-shirt made with my barefaced photograph emblazoned on the front. I remembered to wear my mask into the arena … but I also wore the t-shirt. Paul Jones will never let me live down that one.
Interestingly enough I DO Vaguely remember that "Black Atlas" ...I believe in my mind he was the first Black masked wrestler...sure there were more before and after (can't think of any )... but I do remember Masked Tony Atlas
I remember watching The Black Atlas.
Wow that is a cool story and I wonder if he was the first and I would love to see footage.
"He tink he gon run ova top evrybody in ths era" smh, tony never could talk for SHIT!
The Stan Hansen vs Killer Karl Kox match was a pretty good TV match.
It is example of a match that could have convinced a new watcher that it was legitimate.
This is quite the fascinating show. Early Bret, early Hogan, and what on earth is with Hansen and Ole Anderson being seemingly the top faces in the company alongside Tommy Rich? It's almost like a situation where "Dirty White Boy" Tony Anthony was a top face in SMW. It might not be the heroes you want in an ideal world, but when going against the nefarious likes of the Heenan Family it's the heroes you need!
Brian Paige Ole and Stan went back and forth heel and face in Georgia. Actually I think this is prior to Ole"s big heel turn on Dusty Rhodes that is to this day recognized as one of the greatest stories in wrestling history. I mean it is above the Hogan NWO turn and the Horsemen formation Flair's turn
Also a very early Mad Dog Buzz Sawyer. He became pretty popular in the 80s. Kevin Sullivan went on to be pretty popular.
Absolutely 100 percent fascinating
@@franksullivan7747 Yep. Ole's Heel Turn came in Early August 1980. The Wrestling Fans International Association (WFIA) Convention was held the weekend of the Big Turn. Jim Cornette (then a key WFIA member who was in charge of the programs and promo photos for Jerry Jarrett in Memphis) had a press pass to take pictures of the "Other" Main Event (Harley Race vs. Tommy Rich for the NWA title) but had color film, which was hard to use for a cage match, so he was in the stands when it all went down.
Wow... the Brett Hart Buzz Sawyer match had to be one of the best ever. Too bad Buzz Sawyer had to turn to drugs and all.. he was great!! And Brett was just as fantastic.
Was the Ole Anderson face turn here the beginning of the big turn against Dusty?That was probably one of the if not the greatest build up of any story ever developed in wrestling. To bad today's stuff doesn't come anywhere near the quality of how wrestling was. Oh, and during Hulks 1st match he got his leg broken.
Shots out to Gordon Solie...good match between Hart and Sawyer with hair...gcw and cwf...70s and 80s 4ever...
High quality material!
Killer Karl Kox looks like he was born WWI circa!
I just thinking he looked kinda old and then I saw your comment 😆
Damn...Jacque Goulet (aka Rene Goulet RIP) was pretty well built back in the day. I always remembered him as THE jobber in the WWF back in the early to mid 80's.
Buzz with HAIR. Hogan has HAIR. SOLIE with HAIR. If i had a time machine you would see me in this audience. Must have been great
Hulk found the magic move to keep from getting pinned-creative control
The only time in 1979 will you ever see Hulk Hogan with a head full of hair until he met HotRod.Piper said he's the reason Hogan has no hair.
Ole Anderson , the greatest Swede born to Polish parents in Illinois
GD Wahoo has a bandage on his head during every interview I see him in.
Brandon Bennett that is one hell of a combover
Ole just never seemed right as a Baby face to me also interesting hearing hulk Hogan using his real voice.
I think this is the earliest episode of GCW on TH-cam 🤔
Tony Atlas opponent attacks the knee with the bandage on! go figure....great selling by Bony Tony who looks helpless writhing on the canvas!
Nice video 👍👍
Sanders/Sawyer vs. Markov/Goulet. GREAT MATCH, GREAT selling, beautiful stints of chain wrestling.
My bad....FIELDS/Sawyer
Great Falls , Montana......BRRREEEETTTT.....HAAARRRT LOL LOL WTF! Nice mustache. I can't believe my eyes...and ears. Great Falls
LOL even waaay back then Owen gets trumped by Brother Bret like he was Jan Brady...no respect I'm tellin ya lol
I love the STUNNING REALISM (lol) that the wrestlers display what with their burns, scrapes, bandages and bruises. This is the ONLY program that I have EVER seen where all of the stars look worse for the wear. Jobbers, interestingly enough, look fresh for the most part though lol
This is the beginning of Ole being a face, leading up to the HUGE turn on Dusty Rhodes.
Buzz was a real good technical wrestler when he first got in the business
This is what pro wrestling should be.Straight up Wrestling action.Not that bullshit that the WWE puts on tv & pay-per view events. Thumbs up hat's off to NWA ,Mexico &AllJapan Pro Wrestling.Giving us grade A wrestling matches.
All wrestling is now are bad actors who do their own stunts. This classic here was a television program...the crap on TV now is a television SHOW. Man I miss this type of wrestling. We'll never see anything like it again unfortunately.
If wrestling what YOU want them there would be no more to watch. All the companies including the ones you named do the same thing.
look how small the "ring " was, and how high the ropes are.
Back when wrestling was wrestling and every promoter respected each others territory refusing to air shows in an opposing promoters area without written permission first. Real promoters like Vince McMahon SR, Jim Crockett, Jim Barnett, Bill Watts, Eddie Graham, Fritz Von Erich, Roy Shire, Don Owens, Sam Muschnick, Jerry Jarrett among many promoters of the past respected each other to go as far as share talent. You don't see that anymore cause Vince McMahon JR killed that
He did but Gagne was planning on it too
Vince McMahon Jr is diarrhea
Wow a gravy version of Stan Hansen.
Man, Superstar was huge here!
@ 04:05 all the years growing up with GCW I must admit I never remember seeing Buzz Sawyer with hair 😅
Nor without a beard! Lol
I forgot he had hair lol
Sometime around this time they had a short feud between Tony Atlas and Hulk Hogan. They were going to wrestle on TV the following week which I didn't get to see. I still wonder how that turned out roughly 40 years later. Hogan's match was nearly identical to the match they used in Rocky III.
There's a match from later in the WWF during Hogan's initial heel run between them on TH-cam somewhere. I doubt anything from Georgia was ever filmed since it would have all been at house shows.
That ring is so small, you can almost make a tag from the middle. lol
John Theiss A slight exaggeration, but I see you’re point lol.
Pretty sure I got this tape from John McAdam in the late 90s.
Strange seeing Buzz Sawyer with hair
TheGamecock366 yeah really but that's how I remember first seeing him wrestle was with hair b4 the madd dogg days,✌
Amen to that. RIP to the Mad Dog.
And no beard. Lol
I like how Gordon Solie doing his homework referring to where Ernie Ladd went to college and mentoring Doug Williams
I guess a couple years after the residing hairline really got to buzz
Ernie Ladd was huge !
Stan Hansen: "Tonight in Carollton, Me and Ole are coming after Kox...."
Me: "What?"
Stan Hansen: "...and Idol."
Mr Grumpy himself Ole Anderson and Stan Hansen are upset at what happened to Wildfire Tommy Rich at the hands of Heenan's family, Ole can give some fired up interviews
So Hulk Hogan was in NWA in 1979 when did Piper join NWA?
1978
Buzz Sawyer looks like Richard Simmons with muscles..lmao
Killer Cox must be 60 at least omg he should be at Dennys eating breakfast at 5 am instead of wrasslin
He was 48, but looked older.
48
Kox was a tough old dude.
@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906cox was in Louisiana too
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Only timeive ever heard words “resortingto the basics” used. The majic of Solie
Egg sucking dog was a popular insult in Georgia lol
And in Florida and in Texas lol
Great wrestling back then no doubt
The outfits was so kool then...always will appreciate...the times and moments...now is all we have...
Can you imagine Gordon Solie's schedule.. Florida Wrestling, Georgia wrestling, Continental Wrestling (Bham, Al)
What about Mid-Atlantic Wrestling? Didn't Gordon cover that NWA division?
Gordon didn’t do them all at the same time.
He did Georgia and Florida for years. By the time he started doing Continental though, he was no longer doing Georgia.
@@willnchicago696 Yep. He was doing Florida and Georgia at this time. Gordon didn't start in Continental until 1985 when Ron Fuller tried to make it more of a national company by dropping the "Southeastern" moniker.
He worked sparingly in Mid-Atlantic. He went up when the Crocketts started the Starrcades because they wanted him and Bob Caudle to call the matches. That's why Kevin Sullivan, Mike Davis, Mark Lewin and Mike Graham worked in the first couple Starrcades.
Of interest, the early promotional material for Starrcade 83 had Hulk Hogan teaming with Wahoo McDaniel against Dick Slater and Bob Orton, but somehow dropped out (either because of Verne finally saying he'd put the belt on him or Vince Jr. making a deal to set up the Christmas Day departure)
Wow buzz sawyer hair , damn hulk hogan. I never seen before. Damn. We miss them
Hulk had all his hair here haha
I began watching wrestling in 1982 at the young age of just 4. I was hooked not just WWF which was I mostly watched but Georgia Championship Wrestling, Championship Wrestling from Florida, AWA, Mid Atlantic Championship Wrestling, Mid South Wrestling, St Louis Wrestling, Memphis Wrestling, World Class Championship Wrestling, WCW and ECW among everything else I could catch. I do feel Vince McMahon ruined traditional wrestling, he didn't have to declare war on every single promotion in the country to achieve stardom. He could have respected the old rules like recognizing the NWA championship, sharing talent and not stepping into other promoters territories without permission and still achieve what he wanted. No wonder my grandfather hated him and stopped watching wrestling. I remember my grandfather saying the NWA was a real man's wrestling promotion
VINCE'S DAD DID SHARE TALENT , AND WHEN HE DIED IN 1983 THEN VINCE STOPPED ALL THAT SHARING AND TRIED TO PUT EVERYONE ELSE OUT OF BUSINESS.
@@dannyhaywood9999VmJr is garbage.
Ernie Ladd wiping his boots with Stan Hansen's cowboy hat was priceless... great stuff... thanks for posting... this is why I can't watch that garbage of the W.W.E.
liveclassictunes ...I totally agree...this is rasslin .....I don't know what the shit is WWE puts out, but it ain't wrestling
If so many people "hate" was then how is it still a profitable company? Just saying
WWE IS DIARRHEA IN THE PRO WRESTLING COMMUNITY
Rickey Fields ? Wow , he was one of the Welch family ... like the Fullers . Carl Fergie was related to Honkytonk Man and Jerry Lawler both .
Platinum blonde wrestlers were two for a nickel in them days.
Maybe a dime a dozen
Was that Rene Goulet going by "Jacques"?
Yes he'd been Jacques the Ripper Goulet in Chicago
@John O hahaha
From Bret's book:
"Then Ole's budding star, Buzz, held up the office for more money and when when Ole said no, he walked out on him. Afterwards Ole told me what I already knew. 'We had to decide on the first night whether to push you or Buzz, and damned if I didn't miss your entire match. So I went with Buzz, and now look!'"
I actually liked Gerald Finley. Great worker
When Hogan still had an accent and buzz Sawyer had hair.
And you probably didn’t notice that Hogan had a full head of hair
Gordon Solie was my performance center
JR/Cole future endeavored me
Gordon Sole was very young here.
WOW. Grrreat PoST THANKS. Sterling fn Golden eh
Buzz Sawyer is looking like Rocky Dennis from The Mask.
Ricky Fields is/was a member of the Fuller/Welch family. His dad Lee Fields was a cousin to Buddy Fuller (Buddy's dad Roy Welch and Lee's mother were brother and sister) and owned the Gulf Coast territory before selling to Ron Fuller.
21:21
"Do you give"
"AH YEAH"
22:49 Ernie Ladd says “Egg sucking dog,” a quote I always attributed to Roddy Piper. But this preceded Piper saying it if I’m not mistaken?
There's an Ernie Ladd shoot interview on here iirc he said he picked that up from Terry Funk
I like how Oles 1 thing is 3
Gordon Solie the máster of wrestling of the narrative
a matchlist would be nice.
46:10 Tommy got the Harley Race sandpaper treatment. I guess Harley had a kit for just such an occasion. Rickies Morton and Steamboat (and anyone else who did the face rubbed in concrete angles) were also somewhat willing victims of Harley's little kit.
“Harley’s Little Kit” sounds like a potential horror movie franchise, lol.