Noriyo Tateno Puns

Hello everyone. I’ve decided to post a few bookings that will answer some questions from my rebooking every WWE PPV Series, starting with the Survivor Series Elimination matches.

1987

The Flying Patriot Attackers (Randy Savage, Strike Force, Jake Roberts & Jim Duggan def the Hart Record Label (Honky Tonk Man, Hart Foundation, Danny Davis & Ron Bass)

Eliminations: Santana pins Davis after a flying elbow; Jake pins Bass after a DDT; Honky pins Duggan with the help of Jimmy Hart; Martel rolls up Neidhart into a small package after a missed hart attack; Tito & Jake throw a still selling Bret back into the ring, Martel tags Savage who hits a flying elbow on Bret and pins him; honky takes a countout loss after taking a 4-on-1 beating

Sole survivors: Savage, Strike Force & Jake Roberts

The Ultimate Bam (Ultimate Warrior, Bam Bam Bigelow, Junkyard Dog, Ken Patera & Don Muraco) def the Hammer Gang (Greg Valentine, One Man Gang, The Bolsheviks & Butch Reed)

Eliminations: Gang pins JYD after a 450 splash; Valentine submits Patera in the figure 4 leglock, Warrior pins Reed after a flying clothesline; Bam Bam pins Zhukov after the greetings from Asbury Park; Gang pins Muraco following a 450 splash; Gang is disqualified for choking Bam Bam; Warrior pins Volkoff after a running clothesline; Bam Bam pins Valentine after a top rope splash

Sole survivors: Warrior & Bam Bam

Glamorously Sensational (Sherri Martel, the Glamour Girls (Judy Martin & Leilani Kai), Dawn Marie & Donna Christianello) def rockin athleticism (Rockin Robin, Fabulous Moolah, Jumping Bomb Angels (noriyo Tateno & Itsuki Yamasaki) & Velvet McIntyre)

Eliminations: Martin pins Moolah after a dropkick; Sherri pins McIntyre following a neckbreaker; tateno pins Christianello after a flying crossbody, Yamasaki pins Marie after a flying head scissors; Kai pins robin after an arm drag; Sherri is disqualified for choking Yamasaki with the tag rope; Kai pins Yamasaki shortly after the choking incident; Marie pins Tateno after she succumbs to the numbers game

Sole survivors: Glamour Girls

The Destroyers (Demolition, Dino Bravo & The Islanders) def the animal kingdom (British Bullldogs, Killer Bees & Koko B Ware)

Eliminations: Bravo pins Koko following a gut wrench suplex; Davey pins Tama following a running power slam; Ax pins Dynamite following Demolitions backbreaker/elbow drop combination; Blair pins Bravo following a sunset flip; Haku pins Brun

ᴡʀᴇsᴛʟᴇᴍᴀɴɪᴀ ɪɪɪ: ʙɪɢɢᴇʀ! ʙᴇᴛᴛᴇʀ! ʙᴀᴅᴅᴇʀ

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Date: March 29, 1987

Venue: Pontiac Silverdome

Attendance: 93,173

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• WWF World Tag Team Championship - The Hart Foundation (c) w/Jimmy Hart vs The British Bulldogs w/Lou Albano

• Jake Roberts w/Alice Cooper vs The Honky Tonk Man

• WWF Women's Championship - Velvet McIntyre (c) vs Sherri Martel

• Tito Santana vs Rick Martel

• Roddy Piper vs Paul Orndorff (Hair vs Hair Match) / Bob Orton as special guest referee

• Intercontinental Championship - Randy Savage (c) w/Miss Elizabeth vs Ricky Steamboat w/Bruno Sammartino

• Harley Race vs Don Muraco

• Demolition vs The Dream Team w/Johnny Valiant

• WWF World Heavyweight Championship - Hulk Hogan (c) vs André The Giant w/Bobby Heenan

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Note:

• Randy Savage defeated Ricky Steamboat for the Intercontinental Championship on July 15, 1987 during Superstars.

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ᴋɪɴɢ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ ʀɪɴɢ

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Date: September 4, 1987

Venue: Providence Civic Center

Attendance: 12,000

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• Quarter Final Match - Harley Race vs Jim Duggan

• Quarter Final Match - Rick Martel w/Tito Santana vs Greg Valentine w/Brutus Beefcake

• Quarter Final Match - Randy Savage vs King Kong Bundy

• Quarter Final Match - Ken Patera vs Paul Orndorff

• WWF World Tag Team Championship (Submission Match - The Hart Foundation (c) vs The Fabulous Rougeaus

• Semifinal Match - Harley Race vs Rick Martel w/Tito Santana

• Semifinal Match - Randy Savage w/Miss Elizabeth vs Paul Orndorff

• Ricky Steamboat vs The Honky Tonk Man w/Jimmy Hart

• King of The Ring (Two Out of Three Falls Match) - Harley Race vs Randy Savage w/Miss Elizabeth

• WWF World Heavyweight Championship (Steel Cage Match) - Hulk Hogan (c) vs André The Giant

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Notes:

• Jake Roberts defeated Randy Savage for the Intercontinental Championship on September 23, 1987 during Saturday Night's Main Event.

• Strike Force defeated The Hart Foundation for the WWF World Tag Team Championship on October 27, 1987 during Superstars.

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sᴜʀᴠɪᴠᴏʀ sᴇʀɪᴇs: ᴛʜᴇ ʙɪɢɢᴇsᴛ ᴇᴠᴇɴᴛ sɪɴᴄᴇ ᴡʀᴇsᴛʟᴇᴍᴀɴɪᴀ ɪɪɪ!

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Date: November 26, 1987

Venue: Richfield Coliseum

Attendance: 21,300

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• The British Bulldogs, The Fab

Main Roster Only

(May 1984) First Women's Champion Under WWF/E Banner - The Fabulous Moolah

(July 1984) First Women's Title Match on Live TV in WWF/E (The Brawl to End it All) - Wendi Richter and the Fabulous Moolah

(July 1984) First Woman to Win a Title on Live TV (The Brawl to End it All) - Wendi Richter

(April 1985) First Women's WrestleMania Match - Wendi Richter and Leilani Kai

(April 1985) First Women's Title Match at WrestleMania - Wendi Richter and Leilani Kai

(April 1985) First Woman to win a WrestleMania Match - Wendi Richter

(April 1985) First Woman to win a Title at WrestleMania - Wendi Richter

(April 1986) First Woman to Successfully Defend a Title at WrestleMania - The Fabulous Moolah

(July 1986) First Non-American Women's Champion - Velvet McIntyre

(November 1987) First Women to Survive a Survivor Series Match - Itsuki Yamazaki and Noriyo Tateno (The Jumping Bomb Angels)

(August 1994) First Women's Match on Monday Night Raw - Alundra Blayze and Bull Nakano

(October 1994) First Woman to Win a Match on Monday Night Raw - Alundra Blayze and Heidi Lee Morgan (tag match)

(April 1995) First Women's Title Match on Monday Night Raw - Alundra Blayze and Bull Nakano

(April 1995) First Woman to Win a Title on Monday Night Raw - Alundra Blayze

(November 1995) First Woman to be a Sole Survivor of Survivor Series - Aja Kong

(September 1998) First Black Women's Champion - Jacqueline

(January 1999) First Woman to Enter a Royal Rumble - Chyna

(January 1999) First Woman to be in the Main Event of a PPV - Chyna

(June 1999) First Woman to Qualify for King of the Ring - Chyna

(August 1999) First Women's Match on Smackdown - Ivory and Tori (Evening Gown Match)

(August 1999) First Woman to Win a Match on Smackdown - Tori

(August 1999) First Woman to Main Event Monday Night Raw - Chyna

(August 1999) First Woman to Win in the Main Event of Monday Night Raw - Chyna

(August 1999) First Woman to Become Number 1 Contender for a Men's World Title - Chyna

(September 1999) First Women's Hardcore Match - Ivory and Tori

(September 1999) First Woman to Win a Hardcore Match - Ivory

(October 1999) First Woman to Win the Intercontinental Championship - Chyna

(February 2000) First Women's Title Match on Smackdown - Jacqueline and Hervina (Harvey)

(February 2000) First Woman to Win a Title on Smackdown - Jac

Going through old issues of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter and posting highlights in my own words, continuing in the footsteps of /u/daprice82. For anyone interested, I highly recommend signing up for the actual site at f4wonline and checking out the full archives.

FUTURE YEARS ARCHIVE:

The Complete Observer Rewind Archive by /u/daprice82

• With Crockett expanding its schedule to compete with most of the remaining old NWA territories, there are talks of a “new” NWA forming. Several promoters are talking about the possibility. At the forefront is Florida’s Duke Keomuka, who is trying to get the Pacific Northwest, Central States (Bob Geigel is bringing it back as an independent entity on March 1, y’all), Continental, and WCCW offices to join up with him. If history teaches us anything, cooperation is not something wrestling promoters are good at, so Dave doesn’t see anything substantial happening. Sure, they could trade talent and recognize a single world champion and assist each other against threatening WWF/JCP/UWF cards, but looking at what Florida/PNW/WCCW/Continental/Central States have, it’s not much. If Florida needs help running a show against Crockett, what in the world can PNW/Central States even offer? And no way will Fritz Von Erich get involved if they don’t recognize Kevin as the world champ, but would he really be willing to send Kevin to Kansas City for a show with only 200 people? Dave’s skeptical about anything real coming out of this, but he does figure we’re likely to see some talent trades between Florida and Alabama and maybe Brody and Kevin Von Erich will work the Florida territory now and again.

• Wrestlemania hype is in full gear now that Andre vs. Hogan has officially been announced. Dave should have a complete card

Going through old issues of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter and posting highlights in my own words, continuing in the footsteps of /u/daprice82. For anyone interested, I highly recommend signing up for the actual site at f4wonline and checking out the full archives.

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FUTURE YEARS ARCHIVE:

The Complete Observer Rewind Archive by /u/daprice82

• The wrestling war is, for all intents and purposes, over. The war between the territories, the ongoing collapse of the territory system, and Vince McMahon’s rise is certainly the biggest story in decades, and at this point the war is over and Vince McMahon has won. Sure, the fighting is still ongoing, but even if JCP can recover from their troubles, the gap between them and WWF is there and it’s just going to keep widening.

• The biggest story of the week is that WWF has announced its ppv schedule for the next year. March 27 (Wrestlemania IV), August 29, November 24 (Survivor Series), and January 15 (Royal Rumble). Four ppvs doesn’t look like a big deal, just capitalization on the market trend. But it’s going to have a major effect on Crockett. Crockett had been planning ppv shows in early April (Crockett Cup), July (Great American Bash), and November 24 (Starrcade). With WWF’s new calendar and the exclusivity clause in their ppv deals requiring no competing wrestling ppv events 60 days before and 21 days after their shows and the success of Survivor Series and Wrestlemania IV (presumed for that one - Dave expects Wrestlemania IV to be the biggest grossing ppv ever to this point), WWF is putting the squeeze to Crockett. And in doing so, they

I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

I am using games like WWE2k19, 2k20, and Fire Pro Wrestling World to simulate and play through the WWF's PPV's and other events. The outcomes will be different thus forcing me to change story lines. Let me know what you think. This issue covers Wrestlemania III (I know the title is messed up on the last post) to Wrestlemania IV. The Hogan versus Andre feud.

#WWF Wrestlemania III - March 29, 1987 - Detroit, Michigan - Pontiac Silverdome

Do your worst!

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

So below I have a table giving every women's match in WWE history to ever rate 3+ stars in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter. For the purposes of this count, a women's match is defined as any match with a woman as a legal participant, including mixed and intergender matches, as well as those Royal Rumbles where women entered. The ratings are Meltzer's, and as always are his subjective opinion.

Last time I did this list, I did not have the Oakland JBA vs. Glamour Girls match. That came up in the course of direct archive research (it wasn't on any of the sites that compile ratings), and due to the direct language (he usually cites reported ratings with phrases like "said to be X stars" or "we've heard X stars") and the close proximity to where Dave was living, I believe this is a rating from Dave and not a reported rating from a correspondent. Neat.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?

A play on words.

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

I won't be doing that today!

Hindus, on the other hand, never had any beef.

Hey wrestling fans, it’s that time of the week again where I give Wreddit a retrospective list of matches for a certain wrestler.. however this time we look at the 30th anniversary of the Royal Rumble. Over the last couple of weeks I made several lists of Essential Career Matches. You can either access them all through this link or here:

[Stone Cold Steve Austin](https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/57r0g6/the_essential_sto

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

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There hasn't been a post all year!

I am using games like WWE2k19, 2k20, and Fire Pro Wrestling World to simulate and play through the WWF's PPV's and other events. The outcomes will be different thus forcing me to change story lines. Let me know what you think. This issue covers SummerSlam '89 to Wrestlemania VI.

#WWF SummerSlam 1989 - August 28th, 1989 - East Rutherford, New Jersey, USA - Meadowlands

When I got home, they were still there.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I am using games like WWE2k19, 2k20, and Fire Pro Wrestling World to simulate and play through the WWF's PPV's and other events. The outcomes will be different thus forcing me to change story lines. Let me know what you think. This issue covers SummerSlam '88 to Wrestlemania V. When the Mega Powers EXPLODE!!!

#WWF SummerSlam - August 29th, 1988 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭