12 days of Wrestle Me-mas #3 - Rollerball Rocco vs Marty Jones
Wrestle Me - A Wrestling Podcast
Stak Production
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🗓️ 16 December 2020
⏱️ 26 minutes
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The most important year in Rollerball Rocco's career was sadly his last. Marc and Pete take a look at this match from 1978. Merry Christmas everybody!
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| 0:00.0 | Wrestle me mamark! |
| 0:10.0 | Wrestle me mamck, that's... |
| 0:10.0 | wrestle me pea. |
| 0:12.0 | Wrestle me pea. Wrestle me's mark. Wrestle Mejma Smark. |
| 0:14.0 | Sorry, I started that. |
| 0:16.0 | Oh, well, look, I mean it's a terrible star. |
| 0:19.0 | It's been an awful show so far. |
| 0:22.0 | Let's make it more exciting by mentioning the names of the two men |
| 0:26.4 | that we're going to be talking about today. They are Rollable Mark Rocco and |
| 0:30.2 | Marty Jones. Is it fair to say 2020 has been the year of rollerball rock or for well not for rollerball rock or something. |
| 0:38.0 | It's been awful for roball rocker. |
| 0:40.0 | It's been an iconic year for him. |
| 0:41.0 | It's been I would say one of the most important years in |
| 0:44.3 | his career because what we've seen this year sadly he passed away in July but what |
| 0:48.4 | we've seen with Rollable Rocco is a re-evaluation of his career and a real re-appreciation of a man who was absolutely the top of his game for so many years. |
| 0:59.2 | A pioneer in this industry and one of the very few British wrestlers of the 80s and 90s who could |
| 1:06.8 | have been a star anywhere just didn't get the chance. |
| 1:10.6 | The Wrestling Observer have their annual Hall of Fame edition where people, journalists, |
| 1:16.4 | retired wrestlers, active wrestlers, historians of wrestling, they all cast votes on who goes into the Hall of Fame. |
| 1:23.7 | And Rocco missed going in by 10 votes. |
| 1:27.8 | He was the closest contender to get in who didn't get in. |
| 1:31.4 | So he was very much the runner up in this year's Hall of Fame. |
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