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I'd really like to know how much was paid for that original WWWF title they recently found.
I'd really like to know how much was paid for that original WWWF title they recently found.
I wouldn't even begin to know who to ask about that. If Buddy Rogers was still alive, maybe he would know. Whatever was paid for it, it wasn't paid for by WWWF.
Edit: I was thinking you meant how much was paid for it originally when i posted that above, but thinking about it more, you may have meant how much Dave Millican just paid to "Handsome" Johnny Barend's wife for it after she had found it in their attic following his passing, which im sure is much more easily answered.
Yeah that's what I was getting at, you'd think they would have put that info in the original news stories on the find, but I didn't see it anywhere.
Has anyone ever found out what had happened to the WWWF belt that was stolen from Bruno's car while he was champion?
The Repo man finally gave it back to McMahon in the 90s:icon_chee
On a side note, just a few months ago, they discovered the old WWWF belt that Bruno originally won from Rogers but Bruno never really wore that belt as a new one was made. It was found in the attic of another former wrestler...
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2012/08/11/20093046.html
That's strange that it's a world title yet the main plate is an outline of the US.
That's because it wasn't created to be a World title or at that, the WWWF title, that belt was actually Buddy Rogers's old US title that they just put a "World's Champion" plate on at the bottom and used as the very first WWWF title.
Yeah, from what I gather it was always meant to be temporary which is probably why no one really cared where it ended up.
Anyway, I love Antiques Roadshow so this is like a really cool story/find but with no payoff on how valuable the thing is. Like if someone finds a Rembrandt in their garage or whatever it's cool to hear the story and the history, but at the end of the day you're waiting for that number. But I can understand both parties not wanting to divulge that info.
And yes, I'm really old/lame.
Danny, I had no idea you were only 26. With your knowledge of wrestling, I figured you for way older than me (31). You must really read up on wrestling. I thought I had a pretty vast knowledge, albeit from 80s on though...
I've been reading the book "Shooters: The Toughest Men in Professional Wrestling" by Jonathan Snowden.
I have read several books on the old-timers/old days of PW, as well as many web sites.
This book is excellent. It basically follows catch-as-catch-can from pre-Muldoon to today. The author believes, as I do, that as soon as wrestling went professional, it was pre-determined as much as possible. There are some who think the first worked match was Stecher/Caddock in 1917, and some that point to the 1920s as when worked matches took over. He takes a realistic look at the game and goes into depth at many of the famous shoots.
I just finished the chapter on Masahiko Kimura, which had his exploits against Helio Gracie, Rikidozan shooting on him in a match that was supposed to be a draw, and his matches with Valdemar Santana.
I have learned some stuff, and had some nice enlightenment dropped on me as well.
I got it on my Kindle app for my iPhone. Highly recommended!