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If you were going to rank the top three tag team finishers of all time, what would they be? Would you agree that Total Elimination should be in the top three?
For me, the tag team finishers I've always liked are the Doomsday Device by the Road Warriors, the Veg-A-Matic by the Midnight Express, Total Elimination by the Eliminators, and 3D by Team 3D. Any of those could be in my top three, but my all time favorite was the British Bulldogs finisher where Davey Boy Smith would place one opponent over his shoulders in a fireman's carry after having slammed the other opponent. Smith would tag Dynamite Kid, who would jump off the top rope, springboard off the back of the person Smith was carrying, and come down with the flying headbutt.
1905 - Tom Jenkins defeats Frank Gotch in a two out of three falls match at Madison Square Garden in New York City to win the American Heavyweight Title for the third time. My Question is, Was wrestling a "work" in those days??? If so, would there have been a legal scandal a that time if the matches were found to be "fixed"? Or was the business still looked at as a "fake sport" by the traditional sports world even back then?
Wrestling was indeed a "worked" sport in those days, but it was seen as a sport, and it would have been far more shocking if it had been revealed that the matches were "fixed" then.
Who portrayed the tag team Magnum Force in WCW?
I believe Magnum Force, which was essentially a one-shot team put together to be destroyed by the Steiner Brothers on a Clash of Champions was Tim Hunt and Jeff Warner (later known as "Big Juice").
I don't need an exact date on this one, but when did wrestling go from being a carnival sideshow to an arena sporting event a la Madison Square Garden?
I would say the turning point was at the turn of the century, in the early 1900's, with the emergence of Frank Gotch as a national star and the formation of the original NWA.
I managed to get my hands on a comp tape that had Rick Rude wrestling in Japan. When was this? He has short hair, so it was after his haircut. I assume it would be late 90/early 91, post WWF and pre WCW?
I'm just going on a guess here, because I would need more information, but you are probably seeing a match from around 1994, when Rick Rude was working for New Japan Pro Wrestling, which had a working agreement with WCW. Rude worked for both groups then, until his neck injury against Sting in Japan forced his retirement.
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