Did anyone see "Classics at the Garden"

Apparently MSG just started showing classic matches at the Garden. I watched for two straight hours last night and to be honest don't know if I can watch todays WWE anymore, its gone soft. The classics have better wrestlers, cooler and more specialty matches... and its just straight out more entertaining. Any one else agree, if not you need to see watch it Wednesday or at least look it up on youtube.

Is that the 24/7 stuff? There's no way to get it here in the UK but I'd kill to see it. I'm starting to collect stuff from the territories in the 70's and will gradually reach the 80'sand some of that stuff.

No MSG here in the big red country but I at the thought of 2 hours of MSG matches.

When I was a kid in the 80's, the only WWF programming we got in my town was stuff like "Superstars" and "Wrestling Challenge" ... i.e. 60 min. of glitzy looking squash matches. I say "glitzy" 'cause the lighting was just perfect and reflected off all the rhinestone encrusted ring entrance robes, etc.

The only good WWF matches we got was SNME and - later when cable TV finally made it to my town - All-Star Wrestling on USA.

I had an Uncle who was kind of rich, so he had one of those old-school satellite TV systems...you know, the GIANT dish that made your backyard look like a NASA substation? The kind that, when you changed to a new transponder, the entire dish physically moved. Well, if you spent enough time flipping through channels and moving the dish around, you could find all kinds of GREAT wrestling programming from around the country 24 hr. a day. He'd let my cousin and I come over every day during summer break and take over his TV system to watch wrestling all day.

Well, my favorite stuff was WWF MSG matches. It was sooooooo cool to see all the glitzy, cartoonish WWF guys in the MSG setting where the lighting wasn't just so and the sets weren't so elaborate. It was almost like seeing them in an NWA-type setting. And they would actually WRESTLE against other good WRESTLERS and not squash Barry Horowitz for the 500th time.

WWF also used to show some good stuff from the old Boston Garden, too.

I, too, would kill to have MSG network and/or WWE 24/7.

I'm not very well versed in the 70's stuff, so I'd probably kill for Kee's collection as well.

Oops, forgot something.

Later, around 85-86 or so, an independent tv station started in my state (Indiana) that showed wrestling for an hour a night (mornings Sat.) every day of the week. We got WWF, two different NWA shows, World Class, AWA, and I want to say UWF/Mid-South but if memory serves correct, they'd already been absorbed by Crockett. I know they were on Saturday mornings at some point. It's been over 20 years ago, so I can't completely remember.

I liked those days even better than the Attitude era 'cause there was so much to choose from. And the guys would jump around from place to place and it was exciting. Hell, I saw the Freebirds and Road Warriors in all most of the above mentioned places in a span of, like, 3 years.

It truly was the "Golden Era".

Get this I just purchased copies of original master tapes of the Carolinas that Jim Cornette found in the garbage!

Back in the day before home VCR's they used to just throw the tapes away or record over them, thinking they'd never bring them money


I have to admit being a child of the Attitude Era was great but I would love to have been around before Vince took over.

Holy SHIT! That is an AMAZING find. Unforunately, we don't have an "Envy" emoticon.

Don't get me wrong; I LOVED the Attitude Era. There were weeks when I absolutely COULDN'T WAIT for Monday nights. I was in college and actually quit a job because they wanted me to work Monday evenings, .

I guess I liked the Territories better because it was like having a hundred promotions that were just as exciting (sometimes moreso) as WWF. What they lacked in money they made up for in great characters and exciting angles and matches.

I watch MSG Classics every week that it's on. I got a bunch of the stuff they showed last year on tape.

Here's what they showed this week:

12/30/88
-Demolition vs. Powers of Pain
-Greg Valentine vs. Ronnie Garvin
-Randy Savage vs. Bad News Brown

9/26/77
-Bob Backlund vs. PRETTY BOY LARRY SHARPE
-Billy Graham vs. Dusty Rhodes
-Peter Maivia vs. George "The Animal" Steele

Love this show.

I've only seen the Superstar v. Dusty bullrope match and that's a great one. I'd LOVE to see more of their battles.