Wrestling Observer Award Questions
By Scott Keith on 24 March 2013
Hey Scott quick question
I was reading up on the past Meltzer's Wrestling Observer awards. I've been watching wrestling since prolly 82 or so, so I know pretty much about everything that was awarded. In 81, he gave the most disgusting promotional tactic to "Monster Character" in Lebelle Promotions. What is this? I have tried looking it up and am unsuccessful. Also in 82, the most disgusting promotional tactic was 'Bob Backlund as WWF Champion'. What was so disgusting about this? I assume he was pretty stale at this point, but was it really *THAT* disgusting of a tactic? Just a couple questions for you
I was reading up on the past Meltzer's Wrestling Observer awards. I've been watching wrestling since prolly 82 or so, so I know pretty much about everything that was awarded. In 81, he gave the most disgusting promotional tactic to "Monster Character" in Lebelle Promotions. What is this? I have tried looking it up and am unsuccessful. Also in 82, the most disgusting promotional tactic was 'Bob Backlund as WWF Champion'. What was so disgusting about this? I assume he was pretty stale at this point, but was it really *THAT* disgusting of a tactic? Just a couple questions for you
Meltzer was asked about the Backlund one just recently, and even he doesn't remember what the deal was there. Early 80s Dave was a different beast than today, with the awards more based on his own whims of the time than any kind of scientific voting method. So basically he or some of his friends might have been really sick of Backlund at the time.
The "monster character", no clue there either. I barely even remember Lebelle's promotion, although again it would have been pretty specific to someone like Meltzer who was based in California in that area at the time.
So yeah, not really much help for you, sorry.