Wahoo McDaniel VS Sam Houston Mid Atlantic NWA 07-18-1984
I know I'm not actually old, but some days I certainly feel it.
I'm about to turn 34 years old, which means I haven't even hit a mid-life crisis level yet, but I just feel ancient some days. I joined TikTok and I feel like I should be on a watch list now. I feel out of the loop on everything pop culture related. What is Bridgerton? I refer to things that are too old and expect people to know what I'm talking about, as if I'm not the jerk for referencing Brad Neely videos I watched freshman year of college. A lot of days I can get past it and sort of embrace my self-inflicted old man ness. I tell myself I've always been a curmudgeon and that I'm aging into my personality.
But Sports depresses me
Any man who has ever watched sports, has had that moment where they thought they could do it. Like I don't think I could have ever scored on Shaq, but I mean what if he tweaked his knee and then maybe I'd have a shot. I could hit a home run with just the right pitch. Everyone, even those terrible at sports, have had that feeling at least once in their lives " could have gone pro". I think sometimes that feeling lingers for years. Like, hey maybe The San Diego Padres will see me playing wiffleball and decide " I know just what our team needs, an overweight 28 year old". Moneyball gone amuk . The problem with getting older is at a certain point you watch sports and realize, I can't do this anymore. I mean you never could before, but now you know for sure. Once athletes start playing professionally who are born in years you actively remember, you're fucked. Jaylen Brown is my favorite NBA player. I'm going to be excited to vote for him for president one day. He was born in October 1996. I tore my leg on a tree limb in August of 1996. I HAVE SCARS ON MY BODY OLDER THAN HIM. It's a real bummer rooting for the young.
Which is why I've found myself gradually rooting for the older guys. I still root for my teams ( Celtics and Patriots and Tom Brady), but when my interests are conflicted, I'm looking for the guys my age. I hate Lebron James, but its gotten to a point where even I'm rooting for him because of his age. It gets to a point where I'm rooting for anyone to fend off the inevitable march of time. They say Father Time is undefeated
Father Time never met Wahoo McDaniel
I've mentioned before my aversion to older wrestling and Wahoo McDaniel has fallen into that category. However, I've seen enough shoot interviews over the years to learn Wahoo McDaniel was a bad man who loved to work stiff in the ring. I figured that would translate well to the squash match arena. This is an older Wahoo, and this Wahoo wrestles like an angry old man. I love it. When I was younger I loved technical wrestling and high flyers, and now ....now I just like a dude hitting another dude really hard.
His opponent for this evening is Sam Houston, known as a guy great for making his opponents let good. Tonight he doesn't need to do much as I'm pretty sure Sam had little say in the matter. Right away Wahoo backs Sam into the ropes and chops him twice. Finally the third time, Sam backs Wahoo into the ropes and then chops Wahoo who gets PISSED. What a great shithead heel thing to do, to be incredulous to get any sort of payback. Tully Blanchard is on commentary for this match and his picture in picture makes him look like he's in a Charles Nelson Reily biopic. Wahoo tosses Sam out of the ring, who does that thing where his feet hits the ropes and he almost lands on his head. Wahoo is relentless with chops and then a submission hold that can only be described as, squeeze your head so hard your mouth stays open and you yell.
Wahoo's chops are bruutttalll and never ending. This is just an asskicking. All of the submissions look incredibly painful too, there aren't some lazy chinlocks in this one. Finally Wahoo uses the slingshot suplex for the win. This is pretty fun if you like to see an angry old man work out some rage. Goddamnit kids today and their Dan Fogelberg records. This isn't hall of fame, but I had a blast watching it. Wahoo McDaniel is 46 years old in this match
I still got time
TLDR Review
Wahoo knows how to chop. Sam Houston knows how to sell. I think if they sign me I could turn the Sacramento Kings franchise around
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