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It's official, the Wrestling Card King reels in a true MONSTER!!!

Pretty pumped to find this and to have it slabbed. I may try to work with PSA and getting it done with them as I like for my cards to be PSA graded but really excited to have this with the King!

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BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec
Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable

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  • .......drool. Nice score Rob!
  • wrestlingcardkingwrestlingcardking Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭✭
    I've kept this quiet for months...I was able to find another as well! BOOM!!!! image

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    BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec
    Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
  • A real wrestling magician you are! Much better than this guy!
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  • Dpeck100Dpeck100 Posts: 10,912 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice to see these in a slab!


    Very cool to see something with the name Monster Roussimoff on it.



    Awesome work!




  • eagles33eagles33 Posts: 2,683 ✭✭✭
    Great find! You are unearthing some very cool cards. Looking forward to any other suprizes you might have
    Scans of most of my Misc rookies can be found <a target=new class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://forums.collectors.com/m...y&keyword1=Non%20major">here
  • KNAPPKNAPP Posts: 654 ✭✭✭
    Cool card.
    the KNAPP collection - specializing in boxing and wrestling
    Always looking to buy or trade for Andre the Giant autographs
    psacard.com/psasetregistry/non-sports/famous-personage/andre-giant-master-set/alltimeset/180400


  • wrestlingcardkingwrestlingcardking Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭✭
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    BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec
    Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
  • wrestlingcardkingwrestlingcardking Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭✭
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    BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec
    Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
  • dytch2220dytch2220 Posts: 1,681 ✭✭✭
    Rob,

    These cards are great! Congratulations.
    The N8 Collection: PSA Registry Sets & Showcases
  • wrestlingcardkingwrestlingcardking Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭✭
    I get a real kick out of these and really happy to have them and they don't have to be gem mint to enjoy...don't think you will see many above a 7 to be honest.

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    BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec
    Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
  • BenG76BenG76 Posts: 1,055 ✭✭✭
    Abdullah was a bit smaller on that card. Nice find on these. Congrats
  • thenavarrothenavarro Posts: 7,497 ✭✭✭
    Great image on Crusher
    Buying US Presidential autographs
  • The Crusher and Baron are amazing!
  • wrestlingcardkingwrestlingcardking Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The Crusher and Baron are amazing! >>



    This one is a riot too in my opinion.............

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    BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec
    Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
  • wrestlingcardkingwrestlingcardking Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Great find! You are unearthing some very cool cards. Looking forward to any other suprizes you might have >>



    It has been a banner year with the 1981 Popy Hulk Hogan and then this Monster Roussimoff card as well as the four Hulk Hogans in the 1982 BBM set. I really enjoy the cards from Japan, but I do not anticipate being able to uncover too many more cards. Sumo will more likely be the one to find some more material. Hopefully we will know enough about the new discoveries for the grading companies to get the cards in slabs so they can get into wrestling card collections.

    Thanks again to all for the positive feedback on these.
    BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec
    Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
  • wrestlingcardkingwrestlingcardking Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭✭
    A Japanese seller (who I have no affiliation with) has the raw Monster on ebay now for $799 OBO if anyone is interested in it. This is the only one I have seen marketed outside of my two finds......
    BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec
    Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
  • slum22slum22 Posts: 2,594 ✭✭✭✭
    I watched a little wrestling in the 80's (in the Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, Macho Man era). I have noticed in a number of the wrestling card threads it seems like a lot of cards being talked about seem to be foreign issues, specifically Japanese. Is there a reason wrestling and wrestling cards are so popular in Japan?
    Steve
  • wrestlingcardkingwrestlingcardking Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I watched a little wrestling in the 80's (in the Hulk Hogan, Ultimate Warrior, Macho Man era). I have noticed in a number of the wrestling card threads it seems like a lot of cards being talked about seem to be foreign issues, specifically Japanese. Is there a reason wrestling and wrestling cards are so popular in Japan? >>



    I think that part of the beauty of collecting wrestling cards is the limited supply of them on the market period. If you look at wrestling cards over decades you will find the 1948 Topps Magic Photos (25 cards), 1954 Parkhurst set (75 cards), 1955 Parkhurst (121 cards) and then there is a fairly large gap of time before you find another set. Some of the contenders of sets after that include the 1973 Annual (handcut set of 36 cards with an Andre), 1974 Yamakatsu (first pack issued cards of Andre), the 1976 Yamakatsu set (40 cards with many big name US wrestlers that are extremely rare) and then the 1982-83 All Star sets. The All Stars are essentially the 1986 Fleer basketball cards of wrestling. By the time it reached 1985 then you get some rather common cards and some rather undesireable cards which include many action shots that lack overall appeal to many collectors. I think that the Japanese sets clearly help fill a void of material for the whole era of wrestling cards. For example, my Dynamite Kid PSA 9 rookie from the 40 card BBM set is great because he did not have an individual card of him near that time and the 1981 Popy set includes a rookie of Stan Hansen that was not readily available either. There was not a Dynamite Kid or a Hansen in the wrestling all stars. In all honesty, I lack interest in many of the wrestling cards over the last thirty years. I do enjoy the cards from most of the sets from 1983 and earlier.
    BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec
    Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
  • wrestlingcardkingwrestlingcardking Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>A Japanese seller (who I have no affiliation with) has the raw Monster on ebay now for $799 OBO if anyone is interested in it. This is the only one I have seen marketed outside of my two finds...... >>



    The seller accepted an offer of $450 for the magazine with the Monster Roussimoff card raw inside.
    BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec
    Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
  • wrestlingcardkingwrestlingcardking Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>A Japanese seller (who I have no affiliation with) has the raw Monster on ebay now for $799 OBO if anyone is interested in it. This is the only one I have seen marketed outside of my two finds...... >>



    The seller accepted an offer of $450 for the magazine with the Monster Roussimoff card raw inside. >>



    Harley Race Gong sold for $150 raw and many other cards had some pretty nice strong raw prices. I think I did well to be really stocked in these Gong bromides.
    BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec
    Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
  • wrestlingcardkingwrestlingcardking Posts: 4,555 ✭✭✭✭
    I am making a trade with another collector and I will have all four cards from each month of Gong magazines from December 1969 to May of 1972. It is awesome to know that I will have the first 116 cards from this set. I am unsure of when they stopped making the bromides.....I know I am missing a few months at minimum.
    BUYING Frank Gotch T229 Kopec
    Looking to BUY n332 1889 SF Hess cards and high grade cards from 19th century especially. "Once you have wrestled everything else in life is easy" Dan Gable
  • SumoMenkoManSumoMenkoMan Posts: 1,269 ✭✭✭
    The magazines go to at least November 1972. That's quite a collection. I updated the checklist over at Blowout.
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