9. 'It's More Shameful To Deny Fear Than Run From Danger'
https://youtu.be/vPU0rrp9nOs?list=PL2EJrVNscwYj_tRsTlBRd6z3BIlDI7rwb The location promo is so very underused in professional wrestling. Here, 'Mean' Gene Okerlund interviews Jake in a shower, something that Jake immediately explains as being because it is his time. This promo was to further Jake's feud with Ricky 'The Dragon' Steamboat, Jake's first real beef in the company and a clear sign of how highly he was rated. One thing that clearly stands out from the early promos is just how well protected and feared the DDT was. Granted, it was a uniquely devastating move at the time, but almost everyone goes to great lengths to treat it as an instant kill. In these days of multiple finisher kick-outs, such protection is much missed.
Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.