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naptu2:
The top ten most memorable events in professional wrestling.

Number 8.

This match led to the creation of the Mega Powers (the Mania and the Madness) and it was held in 1987.

The Macho Man, Randy Savage was fighting against the Honky Tonk Man and he was about to defeat him. The Honky Tonk Man was managed by Jimmy Hart and therefore, the members of the Hart Foundation intervened in the match in his favour.


Bret Hart, Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, the Honky Tonk Man and Jimmy "The Mouth of the South" Hart were beating up Savage and the Honky Tonk Man was about to smash his guitar on Savage's head. Savage' manager, Miss Elizabeth, jumped into the ring to beg Honky Tonk Man not to do it, but she was shoved out of the way and the guitar was smashed on Savage's head.

Miss Elizabeth ran into the dressing room and came back with. . .Hulk Hogan! And the rest is history.

This scenario was repeated at Wrestlemania 4 in 1988. The Macho Man fought against The Million Dollar Man, Ted DiBiase and DiBiase had Andre The Giant in his corner. That felt very nice for me because Andre and DiBiase were tag team partners in 1970s WWF and it felt good to see them together again.

Anyway, Andre was interfering in the match and so Elizabeth ran to the dressing room to get Hogan to be in Savage's corner.

Hogan kept Andre at bay as Savage beat DiBiase to win his first world title.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viJhkcywIBY

naptu2:
I remember this very well because it was also a very special day for me.


It was 34 years ago and I had a very special event to attend. It was a special day in my life. I had left home by 7am and that was the first time in my life that I had ever entered the venue by the back entrance. It looked very different from there.

Anyway, it was still early in the morning when I got back home and this was on the TV (OGTV).


I remember this very well because, not only were the events in the ring insane, but the interview was actually more insane. Gino Britto actually ran away.


1986 Canadian wrestling. Abdullah The Butcher becomes a face. He fought with his former partner Kamala The Ugandan Giant.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1NuuHUUlzY

naptu2:
The top ten most memorable events in professional wrestling.

Number 5

It seems like the Internet does not believe that this happened, but I watched it with my two eyes and I know it did.


Mil Mascaras was the other very popular face in the IWA. He is an absolute legend and although at that time we mainly saw him in the IWA, he has worked for virtually all the major promotions including the WWF and the NWA/WCW.


It was Mil Mascaras that made the Lucha Libre style of wrestling popular in the US. In America he is known for his high flying moves, incredible technical ability, numerous holds and clean wrestling style. Rey Mysterio Junior said that Mascaras was his inspiration.


Anybody that wore a mask in Nigeria in the early 1980s was usually nicknamed Mil Mascaras and that was the name that was also given to nightsoil men, because they also wore masks (there were a few areas of Lagos that still used nightsoil men before the practice was banned in 1984). However, calling nightsoil men Mil Mascaras was a very dangerous thing because they could empty their load in your premises.


Mascaras was known as the "Man of a Thousand Masks" and it was this match that burned that name into my mind.

The Internet says that Mascaras was never unmasked and that's kind of true and not true.

I watched a match in which Mascaras' mask was removed. . .but he had another mask underneath.

Now Mascaras usually wears 2 masks when he's walking to the ring, a decorative mask which he takes off before the match begins and a second mask that's underneath the decorative mask. He leaves the second mask on while fighting.

Therefore, it means that Mascaras wore at least 3 masks when he was walking to the ring before that match. This made me wonder, "How many masks does this guy actually wear"? He really is the Man of a Thousand Mask.

Unfortunately I can't remember who his opponent was (this was at least 40 years ago) and the Internet doesn't believe that it happened, so I don't have any videos to show you.

naptu2:
The top ten most memorable events in professional wrestling.

Number 4




This is from the WWF and it happened in March 1983.


Big John Studd considered himself to be a true giant and he believed that nobody could slam him, so he issued a bodyslam challenge. Anybody that could slam him would win a certain amount of money and the sum was increased every week.

Of course Andre The Giant was bigger than John Studd and so you would naturally expect Andre to try to slam him, especially as Andre was the biggest or second biggest face in the WWF at that time (this was before Hulkamania and Andre and Bob Backlund ran things in the WWF).

There had been a feud between Andre and John Studd over who was the true giant. My sibling who is a doctor said (at the time) that John Studd was the true giant because Andre had acromegaly which made him grow beyond what was normal, but, after recently finding out about all the drugs that John Studd took, I think Andre was the true giant because he didn't have to take any drugs to enhance his size.

Anyway, John Studd knew that Andre could slam him and so they had taken several measures to ensure that Andre did not take part in the contest

The challenge was on again and everybody thought that Chief Jay Strongbow was the challenger, but Jay wagged his finger at the announcer and said that he wasn't the challenger and then Andre stepped out from behind the curtain. Did he slam John Studd? Find out.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLlkeQV4lP8

naptu2:
The top ten most memorable events in professional wrestling.

Number 3.



This match took place on September 4th, 1979 and it involved two of my favourite wrestlers in the NWA, Sweet Brown Sugar and Dusty Rhodes.

However, like in the previous clip, the match was not as important as what happened after it ended.

Rhodes and Sugar were partners against Jos Leduc and someone else and Dusty Rhodes secured the win, but once again Terry Funk came into the ring and attacked Dusty Rhodes with a belt. Now, we can hear Funk describing the action along with Gordon Soli and Funk said that he went into the ring to examine Dusty Rhodes' POP cast. This brings me to one of the myths that was in my head at that time.


Because of Dusty Rhodes and Ox Baker, I actually believed that a plaster of paris cast was super strong and that you could do very significant damage to someone by hitting the person with it.

Anyway, Dusty Rhodes was able to bounce back and he hit Terry Funk with the cast and Funk was bleeding from the forehead.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnD1nMVdmJ4

naptu2:
The top ten most memorable events in professional wrestling.

Number 2.

There were three professional wrestling promotions (from the US) that were shown on Nigerian TV in the late 1970s and early 1980s and they were:

The IWA, which featured The Mighty Igor and co and which was mainly about entertainment and humour.

The WWF, which was just straight wrestling

And the NWA, which was incredibly violent and bloody.


The American Dream, Dusty Rhodes was the most popular "face" (good guy) in the NWA and this was meant to be a title match between him and Harley Race. However, I'm not posting this because of that match.

Terry Funk invaded the ring after the match and violently attacked Dusty Rhodes. He broke Dusty Rhodes arm (and I felt as if it was my arm that was broken). Dusty recovered and was able to retaliate and put some hurt on Harley Race.

The guy interviewing Dusty Rhodes is the legendary Gordon Soli.

This match occurred on August 26, 1979.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1FCek5X2mo

lastempero:
What you forgot to note here is that be it sharia law or customary law,it doesn't overide the constitution of the country and that is what sharia is good at.

seguno2:
How is Islamic sharia a custom in Nigeria

naptu2:
When the British came to Nigeria, they realised that they could not abolish our own native laws (customary law), so they accomodated it with some modifications.

Basically, customary law was reduced to governing issues such as marriage, inheritance, etc. Basically, personal law.

The customs and traditions in most Northern Nigeria at the time the British arrived was based on Sharia Law and so it became the customary law in the north.

There's also customary law in the south, based on things like marriage, inheritance, etc.

However, some northerners have been complaining since the 1960s that you can't separate Sharia Law into personal law and criminal law and that Sharia is one. Therefore, some northern governors introduced Islamic criminal law in the early 2000s. Some say that it is unconstitutional because Sharia was limited to personal law in the constitution.

Canon law was not part of Nigerian tradition and customs when the British arrived.

joseph1832:
I see. Thanks for explaining.

But please tell me, if Sharia law applies strictly to Muslims, what right have the Hisbah police have to destroy alcoholic drinks when we 'know' Muslims are forbidden from taking it.

joseph1832:
still buttresses my point. Customary law that is base on a particular religious belief.

Tell me, is Canon law in our Constitution?

joseph1832:
he raised some salient points in this particular video.

While I'm not a believer of religion I still believe we need to do away with it, because it is among the number one thing that causes untold trouble in the polity.

Those who wrote the 1999 constitution should be questioned and asked why they included Sharia Law in the Constitution in a constitution that is suppose to guide a country they say is 'secular'.

All in all, the sooner we do away with religion, the better it will be for us all.