The Old Country Corner returns

No, not the blog it never left. The Old Country Corner was my segment on the Ric and Steve...er...Karl Show that took a look at some historical "facts" that were for some reason not reported or lost in history. Well, due to the fact that there has been a lot of talk lately with the release of Eric Bischoff's book, a subsequent series in the Observer correcting the book, as well as documentary productions on the AWA, ECW and WCCW I thought we would take a look at another promotion long forgotten in the anals of history.

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I did a lot of "research" for this post that involved heavy drinking and lots of medicine, either that or thinking of funny jokes for 5 minutes and then righting them down, its up to you.

Not much is known about how THIS SUCKS got its name but it was believed that owner of the company Vineric Gagnusso wanted letters that would make a statement. A few trips through the thesaurous later and the company had its name.

The company ran in the Easter-Southern part of the country of Mexinada during the 1950's B.S.

A lot of top stars passed through the promotion during its peak years. Ron the Crippled Swenson, Calm Clammy Bugler, the Content Soviet Uri anAhole, the famous midget wrestler Shelves So High and of course Iranian Superstar Plutonium Deak. None of these men actually ever wrestled for the company, they just passed through the territory as they traveled from 1 territory that paid in real money to another.

THIS SUCKS did several unique things that other companies would try later but not screw up nearly as badly. For example at 1 memorably forgetable TV taping, the company would change the Softcore Outterselestial championship from Strong Thomas Dan to the famous Japanese Wrestler Hitman Hart, Bounced Check. The only trouble was that all the fans were confused by the switching of a belt that wouldn't be created for another 3 months.

Other features of the promotion were 1 on 1 tag team matches and the ultimate battle of wills the survived her series, where well lets just say it was like a last man standing match that featured wrestlers against Ugly women and that if they tried this in a company today the TV ratings people would have to come up with a new ratings category.

But, the day that the company would do its best business would also be the day that it went out of Business. THIS SUCKS crammed 100,000 people in to the 1,000 seat El Hijo Del Arena and those people were all paid to see the final match in the feud between Larry Scam Scam Jordy and The Drunken Scotsman Deuan MacTaylor.

Unfortunately, this would be the 1 time that a wrestling promotion would live up to a stipulation and the consequences would be tragic. For at the 15 minute mark of the match as advertised for the Exploding Arena match, the building did explode killing all in attendance and everyone that had anything to do with the promotion. Come to think of it the promotion may have gotten its name from the man sent by the local Shariff to investigate the tragety. Headlock Folms was first on the scene and said: Hey, This sucks.

So now you know a little bit about the history of the little promotion that couldn't.

The Old Country Corner will be back when more historical "facts" have been unearthed.