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Did you guys hate the curfew bell? The match is going strong and ding. The night is over. I remember watching a Ivan Putski vs Killer Khan match from Jan. 1982 in MSG I believe and it was a pretty good brawl for a few minutes and then the curfew hit. I sure would have liked to have seen that match continue to some sort of conclusion.
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Curfew was a great booking strategy. When neither star was going to go over , curfew allowed a draw. Most times wrestlers were slugging it out a few seconds before the bell which let the fans leave on a high note seeing great action.
It was annoying when the tag title match or a six man match was the curfew match , knowing there wouldn't be a clean finish.
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Ok, gotcha. I never attended matches that had a curfew, so watching the old WWF footage it is kind of unique to me. Spoiler, what was one of the tag title or six man matches that you wanted to see to a conclusion?
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Quoted from: glaz, September 10th, 2016 11:51 GMTQuoted from: Glaurung, September 10th, 2016 07:56 GMTCan it also be said that Northeastern fans had different tastes when it came to wrestling styles than fans from other areas?
We were never exposed to anything else until out-of-area promotions started appearing on our TVs. WWWF was punch and stomp and throw out of the ring, with faces who displayed very little technical wrestling outside of rudimentary rest holds like arm bars, rear chinlocks, hammerlocks and head scissors. The excitement came when the faces could take no more of the heels' rough stuff and gave them a taste of their own medicine.
As a teen going to Boston area shows in the late '60s and early '70s, I liked everything about live wrestling. What looked boring on TV -- and in the case of Scicluna-Jones, etc., what looks boring on YouTube decades later -- had the feel of a real sporting event from an arena seat, doubly so from ringside at a spot show in a gym or armory. Did we appreciate technicians, face and heel, like Karl Gotch or The Spoiler when they were brought in? Of course, but you've got to remember that our heroes were Bruno and Pedro and, since their matches were always booked to be the most exciting on the card, that's the kind of wrestling that we responded best to.
This ^^^ pretty much sums it up in imo. I started watching wwwf in the 60s. Scicluna, Denucci weren't enhancement talent early on but were either challenging Bruno for the title (Baron) or providing the next step to a title match (Dom) It's impossible to watch video of these matches today and understand the context they were originally seen in. People who see Jay Strongbow matches late in his career don't understand that he was #2 for Pedro for much of Morales' reign. You worked your way up the card first squashing enhancement guys and then mid-carders then Strongbow and only THEN did you get a title shot at Pedro. It was so different. There's something to be said for a slow build
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Quoted from: yellowdog, September 29th, 2016 22:14 GMTQuoted from: glaz, September 10th, 2016 11:51 GMTQuoted from: Glaurung, September 10th, 2016 07:56 GMTCan it also be said that Northeastern fans had different tastes when it came to wrestling styles than fans from other areas?
We were never exposed to anything else until out-of-area promotions started appearing on our TVs. WWWF was punch and stomp and throw out of the ring, with faces who displayed very little technical wrestling outside of rudimentary rest holds like arm bars, rear chinlocks, hammerlocks and head scissors. The excitement came when the faces could take no more of the heels' rough stuff and gave them a taste of their own medicine.
As a teen going to Boston area shows in the late '60s and early '70s, I liked everything about live wrestling. What looked boring on TV -- and in the case of Scicluna-Jones, etc., what looks boring on YouTube decades later -- had the feel of a real sporting event from an arena seat, doubly so from ringside at a spot show in a gym or armory. Did we appreciate technicians, face and heel, like Karl Gotch or The Spoiler when they were brought in? Of course, but you've got to remember that our heroes were Bruno and Pedro and, since their matches were always booked to be the most exciting on the card, that's the kind of wrestling that we responded best to.
This ^^^ pretty much sums it up in imo. I started watching wwwf in the 60s. Scicluna, Denucci weren't enhancement talent early on but were either challenging Bruno for the title (Baron) or providing the next step to a title match (Dom) It's impossible to watch video of these matches today and understand the context they were originally seen in. People who see Jay Strongbow matches late in his career don't understand that he was #2 for Pedro for much of Morales' reign. You worked your way up the card first squashing enhancement guys and then mid-carders then Strongbow and only THEN did you get a title shot at Pedro. It was so different. There's something to be said for a slow build
Thoughtful reflection.
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