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I am racking my brain trying to remember if the brotherly affiliation between Superstar Berry O and Bob Orton Jr. was acknowledged on television. This should be an an easy answer for me to come up with, but my photographic memory took some blurry pictures back then! They may have tamed together and both were heels when I watched them in 1981, but I can't make that official connection "as seen on TV".
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Google "ICW Poffo Universe"...you might find something there.
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Yes ; they were acknowledged as brothers and had programs against Weingeroff and Lanny (us belts ) and vs Roop and Big Boy (Southern tag belts). Barry O left when the All Star group out of Knoxville dissolved and everbody moved to Lexington Ky,. Izzy could probably give some insight into the teams efforts also in early 1980 as he was their manager.
Early on Barry O teamed with Lanny on his arrival in Sept 1979 and looks like he turned on him as he was facing him shortly thereafter. Izzy arrived in December 79 and should be able to explain the dynamics of his stable of wrestlers.
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Post: #776466
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As e-man has said, they were acknowledged as brothers and worked as a team until Berry decided not to join us when we merged with the Poffo's and moved up to Lexington KY. Berry and Bob also worked often in singles, with Berry having a great heated feud with Terry Gibbs. Other members of the Slapawitz Syndicate at the time were Tony Peters and Boris Malenko ond Randy Savage and Rip Rogers (when working the Knoxville end of the territory). Vines and Sword weren't partnered yet.
Take care,
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Izzy, wasn't the famed "Hypodermic Neede" angle with Berry and Ronnie Garvin done during the time of the Poffos merger? In retrospect I discovered that the weekly syndicated TV we received in Wisconsin during 1981-82 was footage from more than a year earlier, and in those 8-9 months of TV we had the needle, Tony Peters and Bob Jr. as tag champions, the quest to discover the identity of The Best, Rip Rogers and George Weingeroff feuding over the monocle, Jeff Sword's turn on Pez Whatley, and the TV title tournament that ended with Bob Roop vs. Randy Savage in the final episode we received.
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The needle angle and the other stuff u mentioned occurred during the period prior to the merger when the two groups were sharing TV, At that point we were sharing talent at most of our house shows and it made a lot of sense.
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Post: #776578
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Bob Jr. just wrestled in Maroa, IL on Saturday in a tag team.
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I've called (play-by-play) dozens of Dirge's matches....he's old-school good.
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I heard Buddy Landel say in a interview his sister dated Berry o .
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