Blue blood = poop: NWA Starrcade 1984 Part 1!
Added 2023-05-18 04:00:59 +0000 UTCA show that looks like an old cigarette from start to finish - lovely to roll back the years after what feels like an age watching those gym bunnies of 2023...
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You always hear about the efforts Vince went to to ruin this show but from the sound of the first 2 matches, it sounds like he needn't have bothered
Damien
2023-05-22 13:58:42 +0000 UTCI interviewed Kendo a few years back (sadly after my book) and he had a fascinating insight (which he sounded like he was just realising fully himself) into how the gimmick helped him deal with his sexuality: "Perhaps Thornley’s most fascinating conclusion reflecting on his life is that the secrecy of the Nagasaki character was vital to him understanding and accepting his own sexuality while working in a profession not always known for its open-mindedness. “I was happy to be a secretive person as I'm bisexual, gay, whatever you want to call it nowadays. In order to be that, I had to live a separate life; I couldn't drag that into the wrestling business early on. And so it was easier for me to be have a separate life and a separate existence from my wrestling world. “It's difficult when you go on a trip with all the lads you might say. When I went to Japan with the boys – ‘the boys!’ -- the wrestlers… It's more difficult to be in that group of people and maintain a separate life, isn't it? You become part of a group and it does get more and more awkward if you allow yourself to be exposed to that.” “To be secretive like I was behind the mask helped me to reconcile who I really was because I didn't have to mix with people in wrestling. I could keep myself away from that buzz that goes on around the rest of the business. I could be part of the wrestling business as Kendo, then I could step out of that character and step into my [real] life. “By the time I met George in 1967, of course, my life is exploding all over the place. I suddenly realized that I'd found a world that I hadn’t realized existed and I wanted to be part of that world, but I couldn't drag Kendo into it. Kendo was in this macho world of wrestlers wasn't he? And I suddenly discovered this camp world of queens! “I felt that I had one foot in both camps, to coin a phrase. I couldn't mix the two, so I had to be in one camp and then jump into the other. It wasn't until I brought George in the business in 1971 that I exposed the wrestling business to that side of my life and then I think it became a little bit more obvious to some wrestlers that perhaps I do have leanings, but nobody truly knew because I never ever, ever made any indications towards my sexuality with any wrestlers or anybody in the business. But George dragged that other side of my life into the wrestling business in a funny sort of way.”
John Lister
2023-05-21 22:21:56 +0000 UTC
