There is just two episodes here….it’s all Memphis right? I think that’s sick because it was pretty much impossible seeing the territories back in the day unless you lived there….so many names I never really saw wrestle. Reminds me of 80’s pros you knew the board but never saw skate. It’ll take awhile but I hope they do Stampede….
Yeah only two eps thus far and they've only done one general Memphis and one focused on Kaufman. I'm really looking forward to Houston and Florida, both of those territories had some real characters and were white hot at certain points. I would not be surprised if they do stampede, especially since they're tight with Jericho.
As far as seeing it, I posted this last week too but there's actually a twitch channel that is basically a 24/7 territory wrestling marathon. They show all kinds of stuff that I didn't know existed or hasn't gotten around to watching. Its basically my default channel now, I have it on as background noise all the time.
https://m.twitch.tv/territorywrestling?desktop-redirect=trueOne of the coolest parts has been seeing young dudes before they were stars... I watched a UWF Blade Runners match on there earlier and holy fucking shit if you thought Ultimate Warrior was jacked in the WWF you should have seen him back then. He looked like one of those mutant bulls that has double muscle genes. It was also interesting to see Sting cheating and working as a true heel.
Finally im gonna plug these guys again.
https://twitch.tv/jarviswashingmachineEvery other Saturday night at 10pm est they do "Mystery Titans Theater" which is essentially a couple middle aged dudes watching and riffing on old wrestling for a few hours. They change it up every week but there's usually a good bit of early 80s WWF mixed in with the territories and they're Canadian so they do Stampede from time to time too. Really good guys, if any of you are bored tonight they should be streaming so stop in for a match or two. There's a bunch of old eps on YouTube if you wanna check it out too.
Very cool return on Rampage tonight
The Stu one? Kinda felt like a cheap pop but Tony loves that shit and I'll take it if they film some matches with him while they're in town. Stu is another one of those guys who's never going to get that over but is really good in the ring. I don't really want him on Dynamite, but I'm happy to watch him on the YouTube shows where it's more about the actual wrestling.
Or were you referring to the national TV return of Dalton Castle? Because that was what I got excited about. I hate that he's going to lose to Jericho. Hopefully they at least do a fuck finish and don't just put him over clean. If Tony had any balls he would put Castle over and make a new star on the spot but he's still holding y2j's pocket so that won't happen. I firmly believe Dalton & the Boys could be the next acclaimed or FTR type breakout stars if they actually give them a push, so hopefully the crowd reaction next week will be too much for even Tony to ignore. He's not the best promo guy (definitely competent though, it's not a weakness or anything) but where he really excels is physical storytelling so hopefully he'll have good chemistry with Jericho and be able to show that to the world. I'll be watching for sure.