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tweets about the RGV, Pharr, history, music, pro wrestling, films, chisme, MMA, y Los Spurs. He/him/his. Pro #Chucky

Pharr, TX
Joined December 2010
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Eduardo Martinez
4 years
I've been publishing a wide mix of content on my Patreon lately. Lots of new posts that include regional history & lots of research. Today I uploaded the unedited raw footage of Esteban Jordan's ACL performance in 1977. If interested consider subscribing:
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I was on Peacock and stumbled upon this On Death Row documentary series that Werner Herzog did. This prosecutor made some snarky comment in passing about Herzog humanizing a person on death row, and Herzog made sure to get the last word.
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Tom Lawlor paying tribute to The Shockmaster in the UFC.
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Some wrestlers when their opponent kicks out at 2 from a move they've never won a match with.
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Bret Hart on the passing on Scott Hall: "I won’t blame any one thing, but I do believe that if the days of wrestling 300 days a year had been kinder and more considerate, if we could’ve been home with our loved ones more, many of my old friends and brothers would still be here."
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Guy in front of me so mad he can't see this silly match with this dumb light gimmick, that he tuned in to Peacock to try to watch it there
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Sabu wearing a mask reminds me of his cool tweet a few months ago lol
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Cracking up at Jeff Hardy doing his little dance before going to the ring to save his brother.
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My brother is doing some shopping at Best Buy, I just tagged along to see what was here. Came over to the vinyl section and the first thing I see is this.
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Bret Hart and Psycho Clown
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One of the greatest entrances in history, Antonio Inoki arrives to PRIDE Shockwave 2002 via parachute.
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I love this ICP story from Terry Funk.
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Andre The Giant in the UWA in Mexico in 1992, with the team of Los Tortuguillos Karatekas. 🐢
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Funny WOR moment, Bryan starts reading an email, a guy says that the majority of his friends decided not to watch AEW after Cody's departure. Dave interrupts, "I don't believe that, do you believe this?" And Bryan says, "you forwarded me this email and I didn't want to read it."
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Funniest Iron Claw review I saw was on a A24 FB group. It's now been deleted but a guy was genuinely upset that there wasn't any scenes with a young Stone Cold and young Undertaker.
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Today is the 10th year anniversary of this great moment with Peter Weber, and I always remember @ChrisHero doing this bit a few years ago.
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Atlantis Jr. with one of the wildest bumps of the year.
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My brother got me this at the thrift store.
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Herzog on the day Ebert passed away, 10 years ago today.
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Mark Coleman with his daughters for Fedor's retirement fight.
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El Dandy and The Undertaker in Japan.
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I am "pro-sometimes a championship match goes 3 minutes to educate fans that not every championship match is 25 minutes with a bunch of nearfalls", so I dug this.
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Julio, a Brownsville, Texas lucha superfan, and his lucha themed Christmas tree.
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Jun Akiyama and Tracy Smothers
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Cassandro
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Really classy and thoughtful dedication by @ChrisHero at the #IndieHOF tonight
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Ultra rare photo of Selena at La Villa Real in McAllen, TX, in 1993. I was once time helping the promoter of the La Villa Real with going over the history of the venue, so was going over lots of photos and documents. This photo of Selena backstage is my favorite.
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I only saw Sting wrestle live a few times but glad that I got to see him give Lex Luger a piledriver into the beach at South Padre Island.
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My favorite poet is Wendy Trevino. She wrote this last night.
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Roger Ebert and his fellow Chicago film critics discussing the use of CGI to avoid the NC-17 rating for "Eyes Wide Shut". I miss the old syndication TV days.
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Steve Austin and Bret Hart talking about getting over in matches they have lost (Austin twice to Hart; Hart to Davey at SummerSlam 1992), and Hart comparing the WrestleMania 13 finish to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
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6 years
Gay Catholic lucha libre art is the best.
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Chris Hero vs Timothy Thatcher on November 17th!!!!!!!!!!!!! #WestCoast5
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It being The Rock's birthday reminds me of the time WWE let his contract expire without contacting him, and him going on the record about it with Dave Meltzer in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
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On WOR, Meltzer had a funny story that when Candido was NWA champion in 94-95, he met Lou Thesz and when Thesz found out he was NWA champion, Thesz was like, "You gotta watch your back," that someone was going to shoot on him, and Candido was like, "it's not that way anymore" lol
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3 years
"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? I AM!" This legendary moment was born nine years ago today 🎳
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Manu Ginobili just hit such a bizzare three pointer that the referees missed it, and didn't count it, causing Gregg Popovich to start laughing hard.
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Terry Funk and Bret Hart hanging out in the 1980s. Photo from Taka Koreto on Instagram.
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David from Roseanne and Sandman wearing a Sandman (Neil Gaiman) shirt.
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Shoot giant swing into a submission by Genki Sudo.
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1 year
Show me some “no way that shit actually happened” moments in MMA
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5 years
Never forget that Harlingen has a violent and racist history of KKK, confederate organizations, and white supremacy. They still have active Confederate organizations - the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
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NEW: The Harlingen Police Department has released new information regarding a suspect that was arrested for making a social media threat. According to police, that threat was directed towards religious organizations, specifically mosques and synagogues. >>
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Selena performing at La Villa Real in McAllen during the early 1990s. Photo from The Monitor newspaper. #RGV
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10 months
License plate I saw in Pharr today
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6 years
Fan telling LA Park he misses 1980s and 1990s lucha, and Park calls him a fucking old man and laughs.
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Pharr Police shot someone earlier this morning a few blocks away. From the KRGV report:
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I like when he starts of WOR with "you know what day it is today?" And Bryan is like "what?" And Dave is like "it is the anniversary of when Dory Funk Jr. had a tractor accident and couldn't drop the title to Jack Brisco" or insert any random but interesting story from ages ago.
What's your honest opinion on Dave Meltzer?
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Listening to last week's F4D with Lance Storm, he has a story about how Genichiro Tenryu would ask him every day if Storm's wife had given birth yet. When the baby was finally born, Tenryu gave Storm a handshake and handed him $1000, and said "babies very expensive."
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All this news is so funny to me. Reminds me of 2 years ago when The Rock started explaining to a totally uninterested Emily Blunt how Bret was super nice to him in 1997, and how some "other wrestlers" were not, lol.
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PWInsider: Dwayne likely coming after Hunter's creative/political power as well. LMFAO, it's over for HHH. The Rock is his boss now.
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Cool guy with a bird at Whataburger in Pharr
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6 years
End of an era.
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Bret Hart on Terry Funk
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El Dandy wrote a nice tribute to Terry Funk last week, which I just saw tonight. I love one of the stories he told, both as a Funk and Dandy fan and also cause I met Funk and Dandy this same day he's talking about here. I translated it into English.
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Every year I go to the conjunto festival, this dude has the best look.
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2 years
The VHS tape of the El Hijo del Santo vs Blue Panther bloodbath in Monterrey never being found always bums me out. Santo's mask is literally 100% covered in blood and glowing in red.
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what's your pop culture white whale? i mean unreleased/unrealized stuff like "the day the clown cried" - mine is the rumored jay-z blueprint 3 track "crispy benjamins" which supposedly sampled regina spektor's "chemo limo"
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I always liked how there is a Bret Hart poster in the French film "La Haine", so Bret is technically in the Criterion Collection, and has appeared at the Cannes Film Festival.
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23 years ago today, Kazushi Sakuraba beat Royce Gracie after 90 minutes, in the PRIDE Grand Prix at the Tokyo Dome. Check out the crowd erupt when Gracie's corner finally throws in the towel.
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Always thought this part of Danielson's book was interesting, when he was fired, he told Vince not to worry, that he would make more money on the indies. Then he explained how he was making less than he was on the indies, downside guarantee, paying for hotel/rentals, etc.
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SciTech student from the Cimarron, UTRGV professor from Edinburg, an attorney at a non-profit organization in Harlingen, and a art gallery owner from Brownsville.
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Probably a long shot but keeping my fingers crossed one of the tapes has the Hijo del Santo vs Blue Panther Monterrey bloodbath.
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Well well well, what do we got here? All Lucha out of Monterrey. Can’t wait to go through them
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I was curious about those Ringer podcasts, and clicked on the one that covered All Out. First few minutes are a weird metaphor about the dangers of cheating on your wife, with WWE being "the wife" in this metaphor and AEW being the "chick at the bar". It was so bad and cringey.
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I was reading in @davemeltzerWON 's obit the legendary story of Antonio Inoki freeing Japanese hostages in Iraq, and found the photo of the hostages pumping their fist in the air with Inoki after they were freed, at the Mansour Melia Hotel in Baghdad on Dec. 6, 1990.
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Sweet 'n' Sour Inc.
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When El Hijo del Santo and Cassandro wrestled at the Louvre in Paris, in 2009.
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RVD's bump for Jericho signature springboard dropkick.
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@TrevorDame Was so funny hearing him say, "it sucked, it sucked, it sucked."
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El Hijo del Santo with Eddy Guerrero and Art Barr's hair from When Worlds Collide.
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DEAN's old drawing of Eddy Guerrero, during the Summer of 2005 when he would recap Smackdown this way. RIP DEAN.
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Little known history, but there was a KKK presence in the Rio Grande Valley. They were a part of the McAllen Police Department, during the late 1970s. The McAllen PD was notorious for police brutality at the time. Also the KKK had a presence in Sharyland and Brownsville.
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Hijo del Vikingo finding out that U.S. promotions can now live stream his matches.
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I love the execution and timing of this spot by Buddy Rogers, in this match with Lou Thesz.
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What this scene would sound like if it took place in the mid-1990s in Pharr.
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Thank God I’m a Country Boy. #TheIronClaw is now playing everywhere!
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All that convo a few weeks ago about thigh slaps, but we should really be talking about the shocked face after a 2-count. Done way, way, way, way too much at this point, and silly to see on a throwaway TV midcard match and make a face like you just saw a ghost in a horror movie.
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One of my favorite wrestling photos of 2019.
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Hero has a AMA on his reddit this week, and I really liked this answer about homogenization in modern wrestling.
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Chris Hero (Is Back)
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Hey y’all, AMA - @WredditOfficial
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3 years
44 years ago today was start of The March For Human Rights by the Texas Farmworkers Union, where they marched 2000+ miles from San Juan, TX to Austin, TX to Washington, D.C.
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Saw this on Facebook going around to explain the "Misticoverse".
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The Chicago Tribune's correction section, having to issue a correction about Taz.
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For tonight's AEW Collision in Edinburg, TX, I am wearing the cap I got at the last live wrestling TV event we had down here in the Rio Grande Valley, in 2000.
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Hero and Mysterio, WrestleCon SuperShow 2016.
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@mattzollerseitz Just found the DVD on my shelf, and it still has the insert with that note.
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Found the new WCW Hulk Hogan Mattel action figure at Target, and I can finally recreate the time at WCW World War 3 1995 when Hogan got mad at Dave Meltzer, set a Wrestling Observer Newsletter on fire, and said, "Observe this brother!"
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Watching the Selena show, this scene of Selena performing at La Villa Real in McAllen seems a bit exaggerated. I don't remember La Villa Real being this big.
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People in the RGV: We need more murals. Mural makers of the RGV: Here is a random ass Joe Rogan mural in the middle of Donna, TX. So confused at why this was created, so bad.
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Harlingen, TX was one of the places that was among the highest grossing markets for that weird QAnon propaganda movie Sound of Freedom. Not surprised knowing Harlingen, TX's history. From THR:
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Terry Funk talking about how Bret Hart suffered another concussion in their match (Bret's final WCW match), but that Bret didn't want to make Terry feel bad so he never said anything. Also funny part, "I got a lot of respect for that whole [Hart] family, even the crazy ones."
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@mattzollerseitz I also love the story of David Lynch refusing chapter points on the DVD release, with his note that: "It is my opinion that a film is not a book - it should not be broken up. It is a continuum and should be seen as such."
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Paul Heyman speech at ECW Barely Legal, thanking Terry Funk for everything he did for the promotion.
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Some fans in my section started chanting "Go Spurs Go" as a fun distraction, as the match came to an end.
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