This is an example of what is missing in todays wrestling - real, authentic, personalities who could carry on interview and get in the grill of opposing wrestlers. Never knew we had it so good until it was gone. Two of the best at the game of all time Slick Ric Flair and the American Dream Dusty Rhodes!
The "original" Eagle belt and the AE title were the best of them all...right up there with the Big Gold Belt. TNA had their version of a Bird Belt , but it got trashed....typical Hogan / Bischoff dick move.
Back in my day on a Saturday in California I would watch World Class Championship Wrestling mid Atlantic wrestling WCW WWF and I would sit in front of my TV and watch every one of them. It was so much better back then when I was innocent and naive to Wrestling and thought it was real unlike now when the "secrets" of wrestling are common knowledge.
@@funtimeswithtom4108i don't care so much about knowing the secrets, what sucks today is they just simply can't pull off a good story like they did in the territory days. the production is way too much shiny stuff and not enough substance.
Had the pleasure of meeting The Plumber's Son yesterday. Grew up watching him with my dad. Good times. Being a Tampa native Dusty ALWAYS took time for kids and his fans. A true gentleman in the community.
i always loved Ric Flair love him or hate him he was the greatest of all time he had class and charisma his promos were the best ive seen .Dusty Rhodes was another G.O.A.T. his promos were off the charts .i loved watching Jim Crockett promotions Saturday afternoons .
The best part is how nuts the crowd goes when Dusty comes out. Plus notice they don't make it a point to position themselves so the main camera gets all of them in picture? Back then they didn't care about all that, it was about getting the story across. To this day, the WWE still doesn't get it.
Kaneseb...Preach On...Preach On...Preach On my Friend...Preach On!!! I don't even watch this trash that's on WWE now...I probably could not even tell you who the wrestlers are... BUT I KNOW 1 THING FOR SURE...VINCE McMahon & TRIPLE H HAS RUN THE WWE IN THE GROUND SO BAD NOW...THEY'RE HAVING TO BRING RETIRED WRESTLERS BACK TO HELP SELL TICKETS & GET RATINGS BACK TO PAR!!!
@@kenmcgrady1749 yes I started watching wrestling in the 3 grade I miss that wrestling when you would catch a whole attitude if someone interrupted you while watching it now days you don't care but these days wrestling is for the younger generation just like when we started wrestling the older people said the same thing we say now
:53 Flair: "awwwwwww.... what have we got here?" his mock surprise makes the promo. genius.!! Even David Crockett is smiling at it! nice to see "The Boogie Woogie Man" Jimmy Valliant and "The Raging Bull" Manny Fernandez in with the Rock n Roll Express , Baby Doll and Magnum TA. That's risky business, jack!
Tully was the ultimate heel. Had the smirk, had the attitude...I hated him back in those days. He's a lot different man now, and I respect what he does with his prison ministry. His shoot interviews are excellent. I saw a video of him getting ready for a legends show, and what he might not have anymore in wrestling ability, he made up for it with the same smug heel attitude. I had the same reaction watching him as I did back in the 80s. He plays the heel brilliantly. He got the reaction out of me in my 40s that he did when I was a kid. I don't think he could turn babyface in the ring. He's too entrenched as a bad guy.
Thank God for youtube and all of you nice fellas for posting these memories. Wrestling will never be the same again. As Y2J say, "NEVER E-E-E-E-E-VER!"
Ric always had a great answer for everything. With all the charismatic, great wrestlers there are today all of them are "light years away" from a guy that performed in the 80's. There will never be anyone that even comes close to this guy.
LMAO no gimmicks? Dude, the Horsemen was a gimmick. Sure these guys were living the life, but everything they said they were doing was exaggerated to a degree, so yes it was a gimmick. Same thing with Dusty acting like a man of the people when he was earning x100 more money than the average American. Gimmicks.
The syndicated shows we are never the same when they got rid of the interview area. This clip right here shows how much it played a major part in storylines developing
I'm in California. The National Wrestling Alliance was on one of those UHF channels only once a week. I Loved it. Today's wresting is missing a lot they had back then.
Tully ain't dead. Arn ain't dead. Flair ain't dead. Dillon ain't dead. Big Dust passed away, but I think everyone else on the screen is still alive in 2020. Even Morton and Gibson, Valiant, Fernandez, Magnum, Baby Doll..they're still alive and kicking.
I don't know,that's a good question.But I can tell ya from someone who has gone to live wrestling events,we would sit in the front row at the old civic center,& during tag team matches,the wrestlers that were not tagged in would jaw with the crowd,& some of the shit that came out of there mouths would make even truck drivers & drunks blush.No offense to truck drivers or to drunks,but those wrestlers could talk some shit.It was a great education for me.lol
@Paladin1441 You guessed right. Read Flair's book, these guys really did live the life. Party all night, bag a couple of hours of sleep, wrestle. then party all over again. Woooooooooo!
Ranking Cornette #4 puts him higher than Michaels and AA. Can't do that. Michaels is extremely underrated on the mic and he's extremely versatile. Flair didn't pass the torch to him by accident. AA in the promo that named The Horsemen is an all-time classic. Great talker. Didn't forget Macho Man. Spewing gibberish does not make you a great talker. Maybe a great gimmick but not great on the mic. Ole just missed out but he's extremely underrated too. Come on Big Dust Top 3 any list.
This is an example of what is missing in todays wrestling - real, authentic, personalities who could carry on interview and get in the grill of opposing wrestlers. Never knew we had it so good until it was gone. Two of the best at the game of all time Slick Ric Flair and the American Dream Dusty Rhodes!
The 2 best
Absolutely the 2 best
Exactly
i miss those days. absolutely right. these promos gone.
Wrestling will never be like this again sadly. The internet and with the territory days gone, it's over. Thank goodness for TH-cam!
That is so true
I LOVED Saturday nights on the Superstation, 6:05p!😎👍
The internet is gone?
I don't know Judgment Day got the fans wanting to kill DomDom lol
@@bryanpeloquin3890 but do you know what 6:05 means.
That “Big Goldie” belt is STILL unmatched. The greatest trophy in all of pro wrestling
NWA belt was better.
Flair had that belt made personally it is the nicest bill I’ve ever seen
The true World title
The "original" Eagle belt and the AE title were the best of them all...right up there with the Big Gold Belt. TNA had their version of a Bird Belt , but it got trashed....typical Hogan / Bischoff dick move.
Everyone agrees
The Dream and The Nature Boy were the "Bird & Magic" of wrestling. On a different level than everybody else
Before them, you and Buzz were lol.
This was when wrestling was worth watching! I miss those times.
INDEED!
So do I.
Wasnt so polished..... But had far more heart
Amen!!!!
Yep. Believable. Not this circus act nowadays
There was only one man who could render Ric Flair speechless. Hail and farewell, Dusty.
On fucking point you're so right
the 4 horseman greatest heel team ever
William B yes
William B. NWO
nWo is the best ever.
William B Rick Flair on The Broken Skull sessions talking about how this was the most electric time of his life...as he was crying was a great moment.
@@hollywood21639 Horsemen were anyone could be NWO . But only a few select could be a Horsemen
"It cost a lot of money to get one of us on television"....classic Flair.
"If you've got anything in that gut of yours besides butterflies".......brilliant.
All Dusty ever had in his gut was chips and pizza.
That rec center crowd pops louder than anything WWE does today
Lol they didn’t have the internet and all the dirt sheets
If I could relieve these moments in time....
Back in the days when Wrestling came on 4 to 5 times on a Saturday
Big Time Wrestling
WCW
NWA
WWF (now WWE)
G.L.O.W.
Why not repeat them this new year.
And I watched them all. I couldn't wait for Saturday back them. Starting with Pacific Northwest Wrestling at 9am.
Back in my day on a Saturday in California I would watch
World Class Championship Wrestling
mid Atlantic wrestling
WCW
WWF
and I would sit in front of my TV and watch every one of them. It was so much better back then when I was innocent and naive to Wrestling and thought it was real unlike now when the "secrets" of wrestling are common knowledge.
@@funtimeswithtom4108i don't care so much about knowing the secrets, what sucks today is they just simply can't pull off a good story like they did in the territory days. the production is way too much shiny stuff and not enough substance.
Don't forget WWC, in Puerto Rico! Ch 47 Telemundo!
This is timeless stuff. RIP, Dusty!
WE LOVE YOU DUSTY Enjoy heaven, brother!!!
Two of my favorite belts: The National title and the TV title.
Yep
I like how they are cookie cutter belts.
Yep yep
This is when wrestling was at it's greatest...Wooooooooooooooo !
Oveida Sinclair So tru baby
So trhe wooooooooo
This was wrestling at it's best
Had the pleasure of meeting The Plumber's Son yesterday. Grew up watching him with my dad. Good times. Being a Tampa native Dusty ALWAYS took time for kids and his fans. A true gentleman in the community.
i always loved Ric Flair love him or hate him he was the greatest of all time he had class and charisma his promos were the best ive seen .Dusty Rhodes was another G.O.A.T. his promos were off the charts .i loved watching Jim Crockett promotions Saturday afternoons .
LEMME TELL YA SOMETHING STUD HAWSE 😂😂😂
Lol
The best part is how nuts the crowd goes when Dusty comes out. Plus notice they don't make it a point to position themselves so the main camera gets all of them in picture? Back then they didn't care about all that, it was about getting the story across. To this day, the WWE still doesn't get it.
Kaneseb...Preach On...Preach On...Preach On my Friend...Preach On!!!
I don't even watch this trash that's on WWE now...I probably could not even tell you who the wrestlers are...
BUT I KNOW 1 THING FOR SURE...VINCE McMahon & TRIPLE H HAS RUN THE WWE IN THE GROUND SO BAD NOW...THEY'RE HAVING TO BRING RETIRED WRESTLERS BACK TO HELP SELL TICKETS & GET RATINGS BACK TO PAR!!!
You can't produce quality show's anymore. So many cry babies and twinkle toed wimps to deal with !
@@kenmcgrady1749 yes I started watching wrestling in the 3 grade I miss that wrestling when you would catch a whole attitude if someone interrupted you while watching it now days you don't care but these days wrestling is for the younger generation just like when we started wrestling the older people said the same thing we say now
"Everybody wants to know what's causing all of this" -Ric Flair
It just didn't get any better than this. The Golden Age.
Always loved how the Horsemen carried their belts, like professionals.
Ric while listening to Dusty: Sell it Dream! Same taping that Ole came back
:53 Flair: "awwwwwww.... what have we got here?" his mock surprise makes the promo. genius.!! Even David Crockett is smiling at it! nice to see "The Boogie Woogie Man" Jimmy Valliant and "The Raging Bull" Manny Fernandez in with the Rock n Roll Express , Baby Doll and Magnum TA. That's risky business, jack!
smkelly1970...yep the booker has to have security nearby.
Dusty Rhodes and the risky business crew
I thought those were the Guerrero Brothers alongside Valiant
@@johnhawk1969 that was the Rock and Roll Express!
Did anyone notice it appeared as though Arn broke character and had a few laughs about what Dusty said that was bleeped out?
I still have no idea what Dusty said. must have been x-rated.
😂😂😂
Tully was the ultimate heel. Had the smirk, had the attitude...I hated him back in those days. He's a lot different man now, and I respect what he does with his prison ministry. His shoot interviews are excellent.
I saw a video of him getting ready for a legends show, and what he might not have anymore in wrestling ability, he made up for it with the same smug heel attitude. I had the same reaction watching him as I did back in the 80s. He plays the heel brilliantly. He got the reaction out of me in my 40s that he did when I was a kid. I don't think he could turn babyface in the ring. He's too entrenched as a bad guy.
wr70beh Tully Blanchard was and always will be my wrestling hero, He was the ultimate bad ass and he was damn good at playing the villian
There's more talent in this one promo than in the entire WWE today
2nd you that.
Dusty:
"Oh By Tha Way Tully"
"Babydoll Told me you had a Little Bitty Tiny Weeny daddy" 🤣😂🤣😂👍🏿👍🏿
So why they bleeped that one out?
It was the 80's on Public TV ...
Censorship kicked in.. 😂🤣
Those were best times in wrestling, and the NWA is back and they've kept that 80's look and feel. NWA Powerrr for life!!!
Thank God for youtube and all of you nice fellas for posting these memories. Wrestling will never be the same again. As Y2J say, "NEVER E-E-E-E-E-VER!"
Real men. Period.
Don't know what Dusty said but he ABSOLUTELY DETROYED Ric's promo!
Awesome. Those were the days! It was never the same for me once Tully left.
Man, do I want that Gold Belt!
Saturday's @ 2pm on Channel 17 in Philadelphia - World Wide Wrestling. Oh man what great memories.
thx for posting ....after watching this I'm exhausted
Priceless the look on their faces lol - loved to watch wrestling back then, couldn't wait to watch it, now i can't wait to shut it off.
Legends never die.
Boy I sure missed those days,I sure hope that wrestling becomes fun to watch again one of these days.
Ric always had a great answer for everything. With all the charismatic, great wrestlers there are today all of them are "light years away" from a guy that performed in the 80's. There will never be anyone that even comes close to this guy.
"To be the Man, you gotta beat the Man"! Ric Flair.... The GOAT
Love their sunglasses. Great stuff.
What did she tell the American Dream about Tully?
About how small his man junk is
AWESOME!!!! That's when WRASSTLING!!! Like my grandmom pronounced it LOL!!! Was everything to young boys back then thanks for the memory!
61 WTIC-TV in Hartford CT changed my wrestling life forever!!! Thank you to the powers that be
Look at how Fantastic those Championship Belts look!
The best professional wrestling bar none. No gimmicks
R.I.P. Jim Crockett Jr. (1944-2021).
LMAO no gimmicks? Dude, the Horsemen was a gimmick. Sure these guys were living the life, but everything they said they were doing was exaggerated to a degree, so yes it was a gimmick. Same thing with Dusty acting like a man of the people when he was earning x100 more money than the average American. Gimmicks.
One of, if not, the first stables of professional wrestling that can talk and talk and walk the walk. Legendary...
RIP American Dream (Dusty Rhodes)
Dusty Rhodes wasnt gold dust.... Dustin Reynolds was gold dust.../is
MalcolmRandall in
MalcolmRandall Virgil Reynolds was a great man.
The syndicated shows we are never the same when they got rid of the interview area. This clip right here shows how much it played a major part in storylines developing
New drinking game: Watch classic NWA clips. Everytime a wrestler says "You know, Tony Schiavone..." or "You know, David Crockett..." take a shot.
you would get alchohal poisoning
@@germainejohnson7296 or when they said Daddy
That's funny
How bout “ Let me tell ya somethin”
You have a very very valid point. I will revisit my list. We all agree that Heenan is the best manager ever, no?
Wrestling just isn't the same nowadays 😢
Ric Flair and Dusty Rhodes have some good promos
I'm in California. The National Wrestling Alliance was on one of those UHF channels only once a week. I Loved it. Today's wresting is missing a lot they had back then.
:36 "what's causin all this?" Great stuff!!!
I love watch rivalry between four horsemen vs dusty Rhodes and magnum ta
Dusty brought the whole posse... TA, Hoot, Punky, Boogie, Bull and Baby Doll.
R.I.P. Tully Blanchard. You were one of the great ones.
Tully ain't dead. Arn ain't dead. Flair ain't dead. Dillon ain't dead. Big Dust passed away, but I think everyone else on the screen is still alive in 2020. Even Morton and Gibson, Valiant, Fernandez, Magnum, Baby Doll..they're still alive and kicking.
@@wr70beh jj is dead I think
dusty the only one that can talk slick like flair
I wanna know what Dusty said.....
I know me too baby doll walked away real quick after that
He saying he wants to fight the nature Boy Ric Flair
That's when they are being censored for every cuss word he said
This is clip is priceless.
What I always love about the old NWA was it had that high school tough guys are getting ready to fight feel about it.
I got the horsemen number one all time, nothing beats the original!
CLASSIC!
I just loved how the Horsemen always seem to float certain title amongst themselves--i.e. the TV title...and Ric always had that World title
It's awesome period
1986 was a great year for JCP!
Good shit right there! Classic!!
I don't know,that's a good question.But I can tell ya from someone who has gone to live wrestling events,we would sit in the front row at the old civic center,& during tag team matches,the wrestlers that were not tagged in would jaw with the crowd,& some of the shit that came out of there mouths would make even truck drivers & drunks blush.No offense to truck drivers or to drunks,but those wrestlers could talk some shit.It was a great education for me.lol
This is EVOLUTION in the 70's - 80's. SUPER DOPE!!!!!!!!!!
Show's you how SIMILAR TRIPLE H is to RIC FLAIR. Maybe is trying to portray him .
And tully baby doll told me to tell you bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep lol
Only the Horsemen could laugh off a challenge from Dusty and his tag-alongs!
I'm curious does anybody know what Babydoll told him about Tully? Lmao
Something about his manhood.
To quote Dusty, "Baby Doll said that your dick ain't shit, daddy!"
I would kill to know what Big Dust said that they beeped out! Lol
One of these promos is better than 1000 promos today
He left the toilet seat up
Oh my God Four Horsemen FOREVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
The first 3 lineups of the Four Horsemen were the best.
The NWA, it didn't get any better than this. Hold up th eFour Fingers for the Four Horsemen! whoooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
At least Dusty brought backup.
Not many babyfaces think that far ahead
Lol Tully stunned ❤❤❤
wooooo..u know david croooocckettt
@Paladin1441 You guessed right. Read Flair's book, these guys really did live the life. Party all night, bag a couple of hours of sleep, wrestle. then party all over again. Woooooooooo!
sweet belts..awesome
LONG LIVE THE 4 HORSEMEN!!!!
This is when Ole comes back
“Let me tell you something, Studhorse.......”🔥🔥🔥🔥
Stud hoss.. like hoss of banaza
Dusty Rhodes you just keep on dreamin
Tully Blanchard and The Horsemen, The greatest of all time bar none
WWE, two minutes to get a point across. You don't need a whole 20 minute segment
Yes true and boring everyone talking about nothing at that
Back then that angle was called..Story telling to build up a match. Unfortunately WWE fans only have a 2 min attention span these days.
A month of watching promos hee hee.
"And Tully, Baby Doll told me bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep" Classic American Dream!
Oops, my mistake. Thanks for looking that up for me.
Whats crazy is that I wonder if they knew how legendary they were going to become with these glory days
Finally the 4 horsemen are now in the hall of fame
This was the night Ole returned.
Ranking Cornette #4 puts him higher than Michaels and AA. Can't do that. Michaels is extremely underrated on the mic and he's extremely versatile. Flair didn't pass the torch to him by accident. AA in the promo that named The Horsemen is an all-time classic. Great talker. Didn't forget Macho Man. Spewing gibberish does not make you a great talker. Maybe a great gimmick but not great on the mic. Ole just missed out but he's extremely underrated too. Come on Big Dust Top 3 any list.
Anyone have the interview Ric Flair did on WWW after beating Dusty for a 4th championship? It is one of my all time favorites.
Four Horsemen FOREVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRR