Opener WWF SNME #7 Saturday Night's Main Event

[johnsmith2046]

OMG, I was at this taping!!!! ... the only thing is, it was delayed by 3 weeks! I was there on September 13, 1986, but it was telecast ( in the Saturday night Live timeslot ) on October 4.

[valetudo1974]

oooh man....That brings back alot of beautiful memories...SNME was the best...:-)

[calixa]

good intro, but the intros on my channel, i prefer the music, just gets me more pumped!

[ThePhenomm]

Hulk Hogan vs Mr> Wonderful Should've been at WrestleMania

[UCKABAH]

@ThePhenomm You ain't kidding. Hogan drew more money opposite Orndorff than any of his opponents, except Macho Man.

[cbaldwinjr]

@UCKABAH Umm...no. Hogan/Orndorff wouldn't have sold like Hogan/Andre

[UCKABAH]

@cbaldwinjr Hogan and Andre didn't have that many matches, though. They matches they DID have were absolutely gigantic, but as far as actual money drawn over a long period, Orndorff is #2 behind Macho for Hogan opponents.

[cbaldwinjr]

@UCKABAH Much of that is on the back of an outdoor card in Toronto...you know, The Big Event? Almost 70000 ppl were there for that event. So that kinda impacts those figures.

[MrRafa1104]

best wrestling time,now its a joke

[Graehaus]

I can't believe nobody's said this about this clip - the quality is AWESOME for a VHS-to-DVD transfer, ESPECIALLY a VHS from 1986.

[LTDANMAN44]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh the memories I was there for this!!!!!!!!!! 

[elijahthug09]

i got this on my VHS tape iwas 11 years old such good memories i love 80 wrestling wwf,nwa,awa it was all good

[VisionofOrion]

What a freakin line up! Orndorff with Heenan in his corner! right on!

[22centman36]

@VisionofOrion man this was an wsome time everyone was coked up, lookin healthy, on thejuice, no limits, strippers in the hotel rooms, it was great. i love the 80's.

[Wilhelm1617]

why are we watching a grown man play with his snake in the shower?

[ParticleSon]

It's stuff like this that MADE you excited to watch an upcoming match unlike these days. it can give chills........

[josephD32]

Around 0:44, I was expecting to hear "TASKMASTAH~!"

[bodyslamlive]

You're right, of course. I corrected it.

[spicnspanish]

Your description is incorrect. This show is from 1986, not 1988.

[RAV52]

Hogan headlining a Saturday Night's Main Event card GAURAN-DAMN-TEED the whole country would be up watching and the ratings would be through the ROOF!

[Lbolting005]

Classic

[sryoro]

uuup

[Swededude74]

Good Old Times! Wrestling will never be that good again! Hulkamania Forever! ...Brother!!!

[juggalokevin420]

kamala wrestles for juggalo campionship wrestling and he is cool

[ramonjrp1]

fuck you

[BIGACE310]

Willwo go back to your mothers basement and continue masturbating you her dead corpse! How the fuck can you even think Hogan is anything? He's shit and always has been. And its Orndorff not Orndoff! Hogans a fuckin tool

[radicalman33]

@BIGACE310

how is hogan shit? if it werent for him wrestling would still be in high school gymnasiums and small areanas. how can you think that hogan ISNT anything?

[dsriggs]

@radicalman33 Lol, no.

[radicalman33]

@dsriggs

how do you figure? before hogan headlined wrestling events they were small scale compared to what it became. there was no national promotion only regional. hogan brougth wrestling into the mainstream and became a national star, unlike to various stars other promotions had in various spots in the country

[BIGACE310]

Willwo go back to your mothers basement and continue masturbating you her dead corpse! How the fuck can you even think Hogan is anything? He's shit and always has been.

[BIGACE310]

Heenan is God. Hogan sucks ass, always has!

[williwo]

@BIGACE310 YOU suck ass.....always will

[hulkamaniabrother85]

Hogan is God.

[familyguybro78]

Kamala!!! One of the most sophisticated wrestlers I ever met....Dude's real name is James and he is hella cool to talk to!

[mitjakaramatsov]

There's just no way in hell wrestling can ever be this cool again. It's a damn shame...

[scott36able]

Hey! What can you say, professional wrestling is the best! And to all of you that don't like it- that's to damn bad, because it will always be here forever, Diggit!

[jayslay1000]

U had it all u sold out. HOGAN is da shit as a kid that shit would give you goosebumps.

[romans52345]

WEBB IS THE MAN!!!!!!

[xtncord]

Paul Orndorff fears training legs.

Holy shit I miss the 80s and 90s WWF. I, for one, NEVER got 'tired of seeing the red and yellow' and would happily have had more Hogan, Warrior, Savage, Old Taker etc through the mid 90s.

[WecanWinJesse]

Bobby and orndorff promo was dope yo!!!

[billyvcd]

the good old days 

[aalton]

I wonder if Kamala scrubbed Jakes back for him.

[wibassplayer]

I'd forgotten Roberts wore regular tights at one point.

[chrisz31974]

RIP King "Wizard" Curtis

[kimv020887]

@mariomania you watch 80's wrestling and the Attitude Era on WWE CLassics on Demand.

[mariomania]

vince wake the fuck up old man!!! this is what you need

[wtf66611]

@mariomania The problem is...the today's talent completely sucks. There's just no way around it.

[D2Kprime]

@wtf66611 : Agreed. WWE is a glorified reality-show nowadays and an epic failure at that. The roster is full of wrestlers that have no clue on ring psychology, their work-rate is atrocious, with a few exceptions the mic work is painful at BEST to listen to, and people overall are just going through the motions with no passion for their craft.

[kimv020887]

@D2Kprime WWE is a REALITY show WRESTLING is REAL.

[MegaRebel90]

@D2Kprime I wouldnt say its the wrestlers fault, its management and the way they believe the WWEs direction should be going. WWE has talented wrestlers but poor management really.

[D2Kprime]

@MegaRebel90 : I disagree. Even if the writing is bad the wrestlers can still put on a great match. WCW was notorious for shoddy booking and writing and yet the wrestlers still put on great matches. Likewise, you could have the best build-up and story line possible and still put on a stinker.

Exhibit A: Lesnar VS. Goldberg WMXX.

[flipgood89]

@D2Kprime ....sounds like what the old timers used to say about the WWF in 1985

[D2Kprime]

@flipgood89 : Only about the work-rate. For instance, on the documentary "The UnREAL story of Professional Wrestling" Lou Thesz was all over Hogan about his wrestling ability and so was Gorilla Monsoon, but they both agreed that Hogan was a great entertainer. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but for Lou Thesz being one of the pioneers of the sport I'll take that explanation and book it. Vince made pro wrestling into a show, but the quality of the wrestling remained for many years.

[flipgood89]

@D2Kprime ...not true. I was able to grab almost every wrestling observer from the 80s, and Meltzer, "smart fans", and old timers ridiculed the WWF product. They pretty much didnt have one good thing to say about it. They claimed it was all cartoon, kiddie bullshit that focused on skits, dolls, music, campy comedy, and featured nothing but shitty wrestling. They would compliment a Randy Savage or Dynamite kid, but thats it. Its just all about perspective. People always rip whats current.

[D2Kprime]

@flipgood89 It is true. You can see if for yourself. Type in "The Unreal Story of Professional Wrestling" in the search. It was a documentary done by Steve Allen on the A&E network.

You can hardly base an argument off of one columnist's viewpoint. Besides. Dave Meltzer has never been in the ring. The fact that ONLY Randy Savage and Dynamite Kid were mentioned as good wrestlers from that era in and of itself show bias.

[D2Kprime]

The bottom line is that wrestlers of this era think the product is terrible. Not old timers. People within WWE have voiced displeasure with the product. Even John Cena has voiced displeasure on certain things. We all know how CM Punk feels about the issue. People do always rip what's current, and usually they have a good reason. The Classic era was good, the Federation era was great, the Attitude era was unbelievable, the PG era is fair.

[D2Kprime]

Finish: What makes it so bad is that WWE has a lot of raw talent that if they were being trained the way the generation before were and allowed to wrestle the way the generation before were we would possibly see the greatest era of them all. But we won't see that because all WWE cares about is turning a profit by doing the least amount of work possible and if the quality of the product goes down, so be it. That's all I have to say on the matter

[flipgood89]

@D2Kprime ..I think its unrealistic to expect wrestling to stay the same, stylistically, as it was in the 80s. Look, times change --- you have to let the past go, and wrestling has to evolve to keep up with changing pace of the entertainment world. The 80s was a different time --- no internet, less cable penetration, no ipods, i phones, cell phones. Many cities revolved their week around wrestling shows, there was far less competition, and fans could sit through a 10 minute arm bar...

[flipgood89]

@D2Kprime (cont). Now wrestling has far more competition, and we are much faster pace nation. Sorry, the 80s aint comin back. The point I was trying to make earlier is that fans and critics alike were very much down on the 80s WWF product, now they call it classic wrestling because absence makes the heart grow fonder, but back in the day the WWF got ripped. People tend to not appreciate things until their in the past, and truth be told the WWE product of today is far superior to the 80s.

[wtf66611]

Correction : It was taped on Sept. 25th, 1986 @ Richfield Collesium....Aired on October 4th, 1986.

[Gniady85]

does anybody remember the classic dorritos commercial with jay leno in it that they played before saturday nights main events

[King2123]

who's Bootis Beefcake? I see Brutus Beefcake...

[theboombody]

I like when Jimmy Hart called the British Bulldogs the biggest crybabies he'd ever seen in his life.

[RAV52]

They don't make wrestling shows like this anymore! KAMALA!!

[Derby14]

This is great to see!! Classic WWF wrestling.