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Post by mft on Jul 17, 2007 11:30:47 GMT -5
I saw this post by cakejedi: From the WWF: The Killer Bees: The only time I wrote in to PWI was to say that they deserved a title shot. They worked very well together. ...and remembered I wrote to PWI back in 85 complaining about Mike Von Erich winning the PWI Rookie of the Year, for 1984, over Nikita Koloff. Granted I was a mark, but thought no way this skinny runt is better than, what I though at the time, a "potential Olympic wrestler/powerlifter (kayfabe (whatever they billed him as before the 84 boycott). Did anyone else ever write to the publication mags? (for the record, my letter didn't get published)  |
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Post by cakejedi on Jul 17, 2007 12:01:10 GMT -5
My letter was not published either  |
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Post by hofclemens on Jul 20, 2007 19:41:39 GMT -5
i never wrote the publication a letter but I always remember filling out the ballot and submitting my unoffical awards and them never being printed.
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Post by daytondave on Jul 28, 2007 11:01:21 GMT -5
I wrote to Sports Review Wrestling (I believe) or PWI in 84, telling Bob Backlund to quit whining, get back in the ring, and wrestle the title away from Hulk Hogan. It got published! I still have the mag stashed away in the basement someplace...
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Post by mft on Jul 28, 2007 14:19:05 GMT -5
I wrote to Sports Review Wrestling (I believe) or PWI in 84, telling Bob Backlund to quit whining, get back in the ring, and wrestle the title away from Hulk Hogan. It got published! I still have the mag stashed away in the basement someplace... Sweet. You should find it and post it here! |
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Post by Cory Olson on Jul 28, 2007 14:33:06 GMT -5
I voted for the PWI year-in-review awards for a few years, until I found out they were rigged.
I know that some of the letters they printed were real, but I often wondered if some were made up. You'd see some of the same names over and over again in the Apter mags.
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Post by daytondave on Sept 15, 2007 18:51:37 GMT -5
FOUND IT!
From the March, 1985 issue of Sports Review Wrestling:
ADVICE FOR BACKLUND:
Come on, Bob, get with it! You were WWF champ for a long time and you were a great champion. You have more wrestling skill than three Hulk Hogans combined. The only trouble is that you aren't using it! You're a wrestler, Bob, not a diplomat. No amount of rhetoric is going to help you regain the WWF belt regardless of the way in which you lost it. You need to get back in the ring and do what you do best. You also need someone to help you get a shot at Hogan- after all you've got far too much class to resort to rulebreaking like Wahoo McDaniel. And you know that in the WWF it will take a lot of convincing to get the promoters to give you the title shot you deserve.
Only one man has enough of a sense of fair play and enough influence in the WWF to even attempt to help you arrange a match for the championship: Bruno Sammartino. With Bruno on your side you could get the match with Hogan and win. It would be your rightful reward and maybe it would restore to the WWF a sense of fairness and respectability.
DAVID LITTLE
Youngstown, Ohio
Below the letter is a picture of Backlund with his hand raised in victory, with the caption:
"Bob Backlund, raising his hand in victory after wrestling Ron Bass in Florida, should seek Bruno Sammartino's help in securing a WWF title match, writes David Little."
Quite the thrill for a 20-year-old medical student to get published for the first time!
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Post by hofclemens on Sept 16, 2007 11:54:56 GMT -5
awesome thanks for sharing.
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Post by Big Bri on Sept 16, 2007 13:58:40 GMT -5
I voted for the PWI year-in-review awards for a few years Same here. If they were rigged, what was the criteria for who won. Was it simply who Apter hought was the best? |
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Post by toasterboy on Sept 16, 2007 20:15:55 GMT -5
I wrote several letters to WWF magazine. They published one whole letter in one issue and then a brief excerpt of another letter in a different issue. Both were singing the praises of Jimmy Hart and one includes tha classic line:
"With your permission, I want to be just like you when I grow up."
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Post by daytondave on Sept 16, 2007 20:51:32 GMT -5
I wrote several letters to WWF magazine. They published one whole letter in one issue and then a brief excerpt of another letter in a different issue. Both were singing the praises of Jimmy Hart and one includes tha classic line: "With your permission, I want to be just like you when I grow up." And the resemblance is uncanny. All you need is a beard, sunglasses and a tacky jacket, and wrestling will have its newest beady-eyed, musically inclined, hyperactive and highly entertaining ringside personality! |
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Post by toasterboy on Sept 16, 2007 20:53:09 GMT -5
LOL I wish! Actually, I did buy a Jimmy Hart outfit from his son awhile back....hmmmmmmmm
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Post by daytondave on Sept 16, 2007 22:54:29 GMT -5
Waiting for the photos....
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