AWESOMELY BAD wrestling figure! OSFTM WCW Vibrating STING - Episode

[@johnpublic7796]

I've been to several wrestling events, both big and small, several WCW and WWF/WWE, and one AEW, and several small indie events. Saw Stone Cold at Raw in the height of his popularity. But my favorite event I ever went to really was the Nitro in Charlotte where Bret Hart debuted, then Hollywood Hogan and the nWo were there and Sting made his big return, walking around in thr rafters and he pointed his bat for Hogan and the pop was deafening, but as loud as it was, that was the second biggest pop I ever personally witnessed. The biggest pop I remember, and maybe it was just the acoustics of the building, was at a WCW house show at the Greenville Memorial Auditorium in 1995-96, when Sting came out to wrestle Meng (aka Haku), which was not the main event. Idk why that pop was so loud, but it literally rattled the hell out of the Memorial Auditorium, just a 5,000 seat arena. Oh the main event was Ric Flair vs. Macho Man. I had no idea how f'n lucky I was to get to experience that. Wrestling definitely peaked during the late 90s and early 2000s with the Monday Night Wars.

[@BlackTerror]

That sounds like it was a sick show. Full of legends in the height of WCW! WCW sadly didn't come to NY back in the day. I think they did some Nitros out in Long Island which was about as close as Mars though. Got to see ECW about 4-5 times and I did go to a WWF MSG house show and got to see everybody in the attitude era (including Vince) except The Rock. My friend wanted to leave just as the main event ended to beat the crowd and I said "Fuck No!" I wasn't missing Stone Cold drink his beers! That's what I came to see!

[@johnpublic7796]

@@BlackTerror That's what's up. The first WWF show I went to was a house show when The Rock was still a rising heel and Austin was The Man, April 1998. Austin was advertised to appear and the main event was advertised as The Rock vs. Ken Shamrock, so I was pumped. Austin cancelled. I'm wanting to say the main event ended up being The Rock vs. Farooq. Seems like Vader was on the card. Damn hazy memory. I know Shamrock wasn't there because I never got to see him live and was disappointed. Owen definitely wasn't there either because I never got to see him live, and he was one of my all-time favorites growing up. Razor Ramon was my first favorite, briefly, when I first got into wrestling, then Bret Hart was my favorite pretty quickly. Even though Owen and Bret feuded, I liked Owen and his wrestling style, and his comedy. I picked up on his purposeful overacting that I think some people missed or took to be bona fide overacting. Anyhow, one of the funnier things about that WWF show was the crowd. Ball busters. Remember that tag team of biker guys that didn't really get over? They were called DOA, Skull and Eight Ball. Seems like that guy Chainz was with them too. Anyhow, there was a tag match between them and someone. Crowd gave them hell. Someone said "I came to watch wrestling, not gay porn!" and someone else said something like they looked like Village People rejects. I think they were supposed to be the good guys in the match. At some point between matches, someone yelled "There's Stone Cold!" and everyone turned and saw this bald guy in a goatee with an Austin 3:16 shirt on and several people popped, then everyone realized it was just some dude probably coming back from the bathroom or something. And the dude froze when everyone turned to look at him, like a deer in headlights, and I think he realized "oh damn, some of these people actually think I'm Stone Cold, and oh damn now they know it's just me and they're disappointed." It was just f'n funny.

[@BlackTerror]

@@johnpublic7796 My story is similar because The Rock cancelled at the MSG show vs Farooq. They subbed the Godfather. I did strangely see Rock in person later though, he was hanging out at Disneyland the time I went and he has being walked around by security. Razor R.I.P. When a wrestling crowd is hot it makes the show. Especially when they turn on the good guys. DOA stunk but were necessary, they were bathroom break characters. A show I went to a few years ago I went and bought a shirt during an Ascension match.

[@johnpublic7796]

I had a Scott Hall "Vibrator" as my friends and I would call those 😂. I hear Vince McMahon had the whole line.

[@BlackTerror]

From what I hear the "Bobby Lashley" and "Omos" in his collection weren't action figures. Yuck!

[@johnpublic7796]

@@BlackTerror 😂🤣

[@BlackArroToons]

That sounds like a painful injury, good to see you're recovering! How do you like your new home? Sting is definitely like seeing The Crow as a Wrestler, especially with his trenchcoat entrance back when he was on WWE for a short time it seemed. I never saw him on that other league but he had a good career I heard.

[@BlackTerror]

I'm healing quick! It's only been a few days and I'm down to wearing just a bandaid on my finger. Got to say the new home is a step down in space but I've finally started to trim the fat, something all collectors should probably do from time to time. Can't appreciate stuff that just sits in boxes so get rid of it. Sting is going out on one of his best runs in wrestling. He's a total brawler now. If you haven't seen any of his AEW stuff treat yourself on youtube and look it up. Audiences cheer "you still got it" during every one of his matches.

[@BlackArroToons]

@@BlackTerror Cool, glad to hear it about your recovery from working on the new Indy figure, and Sting still going strong in his final years of wrestling after all that time! Detachment from stuff we don't need to keep is important otherwise there is just too much stuff to store! Thanks.

[@johnpublic7796]

For me, nothing really measured up to the Jakks Bone Crusher figures. Mattel has iffy quality imo outside of those Defining Moments and similar special figures. There's been companies to put our higher end wrestling figures, but a kid couldn't play with those unless he had a rich parent who didn't care. The Bone Crushers were the best for actually having wrestling matches with imo. You could actually get a proper Sharpshooter/Scorpion 🦂 Deathlock on with those figures, something not really doable with too many figures. The more expensive Mattel figures you could, but they're harder plastic, not as plyable, and they just don't feel as good in the hands imo. When I was a tween and into a teenager, I had my own little federations going and would keep notebooks with the PPV cards/events I'd hold, the champs, storylines, etc. I was a little wrestling figure booker. I'd even do number drawings for the Royal Rumbles and I liked doing two blanks where the two wrestlers who drew blanks would wrestle a singles match to open the Royal Rumble where the loser got #1 in the Rumble and the winner would get #30. The Royal Rumble was always the main event for my shows, as it should be. I've always been torn on if the champ should bother defending the title at the Royal Rumble or not. The champ going into Rumble is almost always the champ going into WrestleMania, so the title defense is usually sort of a throw away defense. Anyhow, enough of my rambling for now. I hope you're well, hope you're able to recover quickly, and I'm looking forward to your next videos. Oh, if you're up for it, you should maybe do some more music-related videos. Do a Top 100 favorite artists/songs or something. If that's too much for one video, maybe do a series, and I know lists can be hard ranking, so maybe a bunch of "10 bands I like" videos and name some of your favorite songs from them, briefly why you like them, etc.

[@BlackTerror]

I wasn't quite as organized but that sounds cool as hell keeping detailed records. Reminds me of the ads in the back of Pro Wrestling Illustrated where they had mail away fantasy leagues although I could never finish creating my own character. I was endlessly indecisive. Had a few bone crunchers but they got ebayed a long time ago when I thought I was over wrestling. I later learned - YOU NEVER GET OVER WRESTLING! I did have a nice full roster of WWF LJN bendies back in the day and would always have a tournament. I had the VHS tape of the WWF Wrestling Classic tournament and watched it a million times and tried to reenact it with all my figs. I want to do more music videos but the album rankings sort of ran their course. There aren't many bands left I can listen to from beginning to end without it starting to feel like torture. I tried underrated albums but all those videos bombed. I'll think of something though. Spring is coming up and its walking weather and that's when I do all my listening.