Signed Trading Cards: Colin Delaney, The Patriot, Bruce Tharpe

The post celebrates a few through the mail successes I've had as of late.

Colin Delaney

This card is a 2008 Lamicard released in Germany I believe.  I mailed this card to Delaney's new business Pop Roc in New York.  He also sent me a nice note back answering my questions and thanking me as I sent him a card to keep. 

The Patriot

The card on the left is from 1996 and was released by BBM in Japan when The Patriot was with All Japan Pro Wrestling.  The card on the right is a 1995 Cardz WCW Main Event card of Stars and Stripes the Patriot and Marcus Alexander Bagwell team.  The Patriot signed this card on the back as Bagwell has taken up all of the front when he signed it. 

Bruce Tharpe
This card is a 2015 King of Pro Wrestling game card released in Japan.  I believe this is card is actually a Rob Conway card as Tharpe was his manager in New Japan, as well as being the NWA Owner at that time.

Jerry Sags of The Nasty Boys

These two cards I mailed to Sags and he signed them Nasty Boy Jerry Sags leaving little to no room for Brian Knobs to sign them later.  The card on the left was released in 1991 by Merlin for the WWF and the card on the right was released in 2010 by TriStar for TNA  now IMPACT wrestling during the failed Hulk Hogan experiment.  The card below was released in 1995 Cardz WCW Main Event card and this one I got signed back in 2012 at Legends of the Ring in Monroe, New Jersey.

In the future I need to make sure that I ask them to leave room on the card for their partner to sign it.

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Shared Theme Songs

Theme songs have become a very important part of wrestling.  A simple guitar riff, the sound of glass breaking, or spoken words can pop a crowd into a frenzy of boos or cheers.  Everyone has their favorites, for me it's too hard to pick just one.

The WWE is well known for creating some of the best original music for their wrestlers, where as other promotions used radio songs, and WCW was known for using instrumental covers in a different key.  On a few occasions though the WWE would re-use theme songs and sometimes they would become so well known for that superstar that people would forget that someone else had it first.

WWE's first music release was The Wrestling Album in November 1985 commentary was provided between the tracks by Vince McMahon, Jesse "The Body" Ventura, and "Mean" Gene Okerlund.

This commentary revealed that Rick Derringer's "Real American" was written for the tag team duo of Mike Rotundo and Barry Windham the U.S. Express.  However we all known that it was Hulk Hogan is who ended up using the tune.
 
Kurt Angles iconic theme music "Medal" by Jim Johnston could not fit the Olympic gold medalist better.  Fans even took to chanting "You Suck" to the melody of the tune.  However in 1997 The Patriot Del Wilkes used it first during his short run in 1997.

The Rockers debuted in the WWE in 1988 breaking up in the infamous Barber Shop incident in December 1991 (aired January 1992).  During that time they used a happening tune called "Rockin' Rockers".  Jannetty would use it during his solo run and as The New Rockers with Al Snow's Leif Cassidy.

In 1998 The Rock N Roll Express returned to the WWE as part of the NWA Invasion angle during that time frame they would use "Rockin' Rockers" as their entrance music.

Fatu was repacked as The Sultan debuting in 1996 with and The Iron Sheik & Bob Backlund as his managers.  He had what I think is one of the best themes, "Desert Heat" I don't know why I just really dig it.  The Sultan left in January 1998 and shortly after Fatu emerged as one of the Headshrinkers.

Tiger Ali Singh debuted in 1997 as a blue chipper similar to that of the Rock.  After a handful of matches in 1997 he left television.  When he returned in mid 1998 he was repackaged as an arrogant aristocrat and he began using "Desert Heat"as his entrance music.  Later after Singh left the WWE in 2002 whenever The Iron Sheik would make an appearance they used Desert Heat for him.

Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart needed a partner after Bret won the Intercontinental Championship.  Turning to another brother-in-law Owen Hart they formed The New Foundation debuting in December 1991 teaming until February 1992.  The theme music they used penned by Jim Johnston was called "Wrecking Crew".

The Heavenly Bodies: "Gigolo" Jimmy del Ray & "Doctor of Desire" Tim Prichard teamed in the WWE from 1993 - 1995 and also used this as their theme.  They are the ones that I most associate the theme with.

WCW did this a lot too except is was mostly generic canned music that they had in the turner library.  For instance at Slamboree 1994 when Tully Blanchard wrestled Terry Funk, Blanchard's ring music that night is the same that Chris Jericho used when he debuted in WCW in 1996.

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