Friday, November 14, 2014

The TV Wrestling Listings project

Greetings. If you've found this you're probably searching through my wrestling listings project. Quick explanation of how this came about. I'm a big fan of 80's pro wrestling, it's an illness I know. Within the last few years I've been smitten by Southeastern Championship Wrestling out of Pensacola/Birmingham. One thing I found when trying to track down footage is that things were terribly mislabeled among tape/DVD traders. Literally got six copies of the same tape with six different listings. That led me to catalog what was on the these tapes and discs to figure out what actually aired when. I've cleaned up a bunch of the Alabama listings from 1980 up but it's a work in progress.

Complicating things is that while cataloging Southeastern I decided to also watch my favorite promotion of all time, Memphis. While there are numerous listings of Memphis TV most only mention what matches aired in the studio on a given week. Angles, interviews and VTR footage from Mid South Coliseum are all excluded. That's a problem because really Memphis was less about studio matches and more about all those other things. Want to know when Jimmy Valiant attacked Tommy Rich's mother? You won't find it on any of the existing lists.

So that's my long hullabaloo on how this got started. I'm enjoying the ride of putting this together and will post new listings as they become available. Please excuse any typos and be aware that times I'll make a random observation (feel free to ignore those).

Enjoy

1 comment:

Unknown said...

this is very awesome
can u post more please
Gulf Coast / Florida / Georgia / Memphis / Mid South
thanks