It's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling podcast with Jack and Carnasco and JP Sorrow. We
were so very much back and we're still greedy. Oh yes, we're still
greedy. Then a motherfucker in this bitch. It is WCW greed. I
need some burritos. Who's got brits? I mean, it's all here.
March eighteenth, two thousand and one, The Absurdities Issue fourth from World Championship
Wrestling One final time on pay per view. It's that WCW logo that spelled
doom one last time on pay per view. Doom they weren't they They weren't
there now at this point they were well gone. The way that pre roll
WCW goes, What do you mean this? I absolutely fucking mean that.
I don't know what the funk that's supposed to be like, I don't know
what is that that like it? I mean it sounds like something out of
like a you know, uh, like a sci fi movie. It's like
I'm walking down the hallways of a haunted prison with the lights on, which
is kind of what it was. Yes, I guess that would be WW
A fair assessment of the company. So it's DDP with short hair. That's
the first thing you see in the broadcast here. I got it for you.
I'm still standing, and the fact that I'm still standing calls under some
diner skin every day. I mean, he may be a genetic free but
he's no mental giant. Game plan I have could be summed up in a
two words. I can't hit that cutter from anywhere because I hit him with
that. I'm not hunted. I'm the hunter. A leave well Sneyder.
He's getting he's getting banged, getting banged. That's as in the Diamond Cutter.
It sounds like he's gonna get fucked. I'm not the hunted, I'm
the hunter Hurst Helmsley. Soon enough, soon enough, he would be to
be employee stunner with Big Gold and h Yeah, we open up Tony Shiavanni.
If it's professional wrestling, then it must be greed. Let's say that
again. Not wrong, He's not wrong about that. That's for Sjair.
Tony says, well, the first w W Greed pay per view with Pyro
firing off here from Jacksonville, Florida at the Jacksonville Memorial Coliseum, a long
time stomping grounds of dusty roads. When he was, you know, mister
Florida through the seventies. Oh sure, that makes sense. A bad choice
of venue to feature him in his son and Tag action. I mean,
yeah, sure, I'll take budget cut Arrow where they had the same exact
set for every nitro, every thunder, every pay per view, just one
big screen. It's so depressing, it's so depressing. That's point of no
return. I talk about the logo. Point of no return is when they
went to that set that never changed. Yeah, that's when you knee as
fucked. Yep, yep, yeah, when when they when they're not willing
to to cater to their shows, it's you know, it's it's it's not
far it's not the the the the end game is not far right right,
there's no there's no willingness to try to breathe life into it anyway. That's
like, you know, we're going to keep you comfortable, but that's about
all we can do. As as you flatline in the nursing home, yeah
yeah, yeah, exactly, it's like they know they're just easing in like
a extra dose of morphine. And as I look out on the roughly five
thousand and attendants and Jacksonville Boss on this pay per view. I can't help
wondering do they know? Do they know this is the last w CW pay
per view, in the last w c W show. I'll over're mean too.
I'll ask you this question. Are they ready? Are they ready for
it to be the last one? Do they want it to be the last
one? Are they saying? Then the word question? Fuck this ship?
You know right? Take him out back and it's suffering old yell? Are
these motherfuckers interesting? How they made the ww greed logo sparkle like it was
some kind of like gaudy grilled diamond from the two thousands hip hop era.
It's greedy, apparently greedy you get the nitro party music. Tony Schavani and
Scott Hudson at ringside say what you will about the very dying days of w
CW, but not a bad announced team these two. I can't I I
can't say on the voice of Scott Hudson, Scott work. Scott Hudson's voice
is so phony to me, Like everything he says sounds like it was written
down for him and he needs to recite it word for word. Yeah,
there's just no he doesn't have that. He has that sort of infomercial.
Yes, like that's the thing, Like, even if even if you wrote
they wrote, if they did write down everything for Tony Shavani, he sounds
like he's fucking selling it and it's coming out of his mouth for the first
time. So I'll give you a choice, the voice of Scott Hudson or
the hair of Kuiwi Scott Hudson, No question thoughts on Quewe's hair. It's
repulsive, it's it's it's it's in, it's inconsiderate, it's unacceptable, and
it's to start this show off like that with not only two fucking bozos I've
never heard of before, but to have this clown trying to be what like
a poor version the poor man's version of Scotty too Hotty fuck off. Yeah,
it's a good one. I haven't thought of that parallel. You know,
man, what I wouldn't have given to be in the room The first
time you laid eyes on Kuewi. Oh, it was like I might just
stared at my computer screen like with my mouth open, and I'm just like,
what is a Kuiwi? Are you positive? We've never seen him before?
Him warming he was on Star K two thousand. I don't think.
I don't. I don't recall this idiot ever ever, you know, coming
in front of my eyes before real name Alan Funk, product of the power
Plant, Georgia boy, hard worker, just wore his hair like that,
as he tells the story in a shoot interview with Hannibal, Vince Russo and
Terry Taylor. Once we're sitting at the airport and he was with Mike Sanders
walking through, and Vince noticed that he had his hair sticking straight up.
That's how he used to wear it before. It was his gimmick. Can
you believe it? Bush, that's a there's nothing more pro wrestler than like
dressing up like your gimmick before any booker gives it to you to get noticed.
And they were kind of laughing and they were like, you really wear
your hair like that? And I said yeah. So Vin said, you
know what, I might have something for you. Then there's I love that
shit. Oh, I mean the hair is entertaining, bro. And look
I know I I No, he didn't say no, he says, I,
but he isn't. I know, bro, exactly. Okay, that's
better. And so they said come see me at Nitro and he talked to
him and they talked about what a Quiwe character might look like, what it
might be and what did Russ Hotel Alan funk to go home and study boss
A videotape of the SNL character Mango played by Chris Catan. Do you remember
Mango at all? I remember Mango quite a bit. And that's what que
We are supposed to be. It. Mango's hilarious, but Quewi is not.
Quewe is a desire saying there's a disconnect here. There is a massive
disconnect and in fact, I question any connectivity whatsoever. Making his first appearances
in wc W. Quewee was actually managed by Paisley. Paisley litterly known.
You got that right, great Booker T's wife Charmel before they were wed,
and she was just a nitro girl transitioning into a vale. So they were
linked up in their lead there. That's nice, I guess absolutely. They
said it's kind of eccentric, is what they called it. Kind of kind
of kind of eccentric. They're they're really winning me over with this fucking idiot.
The gimmick was supposed to be where everybody, he says, was kind
of mesmerized by the qui wi. If you walked in a room and the
kuiwi was there, you know, even if you were a guy, you
weren't gay, but you kind of there was something about the kui wi you
just gravitated towards. No, no, not at all. Actually, in
fact, you know what, I thought you'd be the prime audience for this.
No gra I gravitated elsewhere. I gravitated to the fridge instead of the
television. I gravitated to the furthest possible place I could go where QUIWI wasn't
say it. You all about the look hard working son of a bitch.
I don't care like yourself to take WCW seriously at a time when there was
no reason to. You know. The thing about him, though, he
just feels like one of these these old muscleheads who just you just you know,
there's just no chance in hell he's gonna make it. Yeah, you
know, you'll have this moment as a as a as a loser, and
then he's done. He went on to uh get some work for Jeff Jard
and TNA for several years, but that was about the end of the I
don't know, I forgot what they called him in TNA honestly, so he
wasn't part of He wasn't in during the Hogan era. No, he wasn't
there during no that that was post. He went to HWA. They sent
a lot of guys they absorbed with the ww purchase. WWF that is to
the Heartland Wrestling Association, that's the territory they used to have in Ohio.
Was just like O BW and a lot of them just went there and ended
up treading water under this guise of you know, getting ready to come on
to WWF television. But many of them were just sent there and cut.
He being one of them. He went to TNA and he was in the
West Hollywood Blondes with Lenny Lane, who he also teamed within WCW. They
were creative Control for a minute, I believe or that was Lenny and Lodi.
I'm confusing LOADI and Kuiewe similar gimmicks. Sorry, but yeah, he
teamed Lenny Lane and TNA for a little while, and he also won the
Miss TNA Championships of Vice Russo and booking. TNA picked right up we left
off as it regards to the gender bending aspect of Kuwe Gods sakes, so
not originally scheduled for Greed were told was this opening contest as Queiwee takes on
Jason Jet but due to what happened, the Quei found himself on the card,
they tell us on comment Arry, he just found himself on the card.
Yeah, and he's the only guy in the building apparently that knows vincepot
WCW and not a very bright young man apparently smartened up despite being looking like
a fucking idiot. Just a wee bit eccentric, Scott Hudson says. Tony
also says WWS about opportunity. Just a quewee bit eccentric, is it?
Yeah? Pretty much the w Poters, Tony says, or giving quewee this
young man, Jason Jett an opportunity. Jason Jett was a veteran of VCW,
where he wrestled as easy Money in the dying days of that promotion as
well Nice Area List, and apparently he was in line for a push.
He had just won a match over Alex right on Thunder, which they made
a big deal out of and they profiled him on an episode of Worldwide Now.
Even after WCW Saturday Night was canceled on TBS in the fall of two
thousand to no fanfare, as the Saturday Night six five tradition of wrestling on
the Turner Networks ends without any celebration, without any commemoration, with all attempts
to make the show mean anything. In the WCW cannon out the door eighteen
months ago, they still had their syndicated slots that they populated with the Worldwide
Show, which is basically Mike Tonay and Scott Hudson at a desk pitching to
two week old clips of Nitro because by the time in air oxydication, they're
already been another week of WCW that had aired. What a fucking what a
lame disaster? That the fact that I made myself find and tape Worldwide,
that was it. I say, I have a real problem here. Yeah,
yeah, real bad. I really it wasn't. There was no live
matches. It was just recapsicli excuse you. I can't excuse you for that
one. I don't blame you. But it is a time capsule because it
lasted longer than Saturday Night, It lasted longer than any shoulder programming WCW ever
produced, and it actually was on the air kind of like even longer than
Nitro was, because there were some international television slots that aired Worldwide that that
continue even after the final episode of Nitro. Yeah wow, Yeah. The
actual technical I don't know the exact date, but I believe it was in
May ever airing of a ww television program anywhere, unless you count the wwbf's
version was in fact an episode of Worldwide that aired in the UK, I
believe in May, showing clips obviously from months ago, but here just as
little time capsule, just a little taste of what could have been. I'm
pretty obsessed with what WCW thought they You know what, the people who weren't
smartened up to how inevitable the sale was were allowing themselves to think about,
oh yeah, building new guys, and they're actually being a future Here.
Here's how they talked about Jason Jett on one of the final episodes of Worldwide.
My the most competitive division in World Championship Press, like, no question
about it is the Cruiser Whites, and that bar has been raised very high
by the likes of Chavo Guerrero, Junior, Shane Helm, Shannon Moore,
Evan courageous Raymus Terio Junior, Billy Kimmen, the list goes on. When
you come into World Chipchampionship Wrestling as a cruiserweight, that's not the easy way
in. Jason Jett has made his debut in WCW and he can hang with
the best of them, no question about that, and hats off to the
talent acquisition department of World Championship Wrestling. In the past couple of weeks,
we've seen the debut of people like Kid Romeo, the tag team of Air
Paris and aj Styles, and most recently, the debut of a young man
twenty seven years old from Tennessee by the name of Jason Jett Scott. You
referred to him as a cruiserweight, but I think he's right at that cruiserweight
weight limit. I wouldn't necessarily stereotype him as just a cruiserweight. I think
Jason Jett is a young man that can also hang with the heavyweights. Very
close to his hometown is where he made his incredible debut on WCW. Thunder
Alex Wright was the first man in line to take on Jason Jett. What
a match that was. Jason Jett and Alex Right now, Jet had made
a name for himself on the independent circuit, Mike, but this is the
major leagues of pro wrestling and Alex that's right, went down to the feet.
What a debut for Jason Jet. Scott. I can tell you that
the ultimate compliment for any wrestler, let alone a young man like Jason Jett
making his World Championship Wrestling debut, is recognition by the other superstars in the
locker room area. And my sources tell me that during that match, many
of the WCW wrestlers were circled around a monitor backstage and when they saw the
creative, innovative, offensive moves of Jason Jet, their jaws dropped. They
were amazed at what they saw. I think this young man has a very
bright future in World Championship Wrestling. They have a boss at curtain sellout for
Jason Jett. You know he's sitting there wondering about the talking about the talent
acquisitions. What about the mergers and acquisitions that were all going on at the
time. Yeah, fuck TNA and we like m and A. Just amazing
to hear them like talk like there's a future, you know, I know
that's so wacky. So it's Jason Jet versus Quewie. Opening proceedings here at
greed que Wee blindsides and sends Jason jet to the floor early and they slug
it out on the outside. Fake crowd noise. Okay, it's there.
It's strong. Put your earbuds in if you're watching on Peacock as a reliable
it's rough. And we know for absolute certain it was a thing because Guy
Evans and Publishing built the Nitro book and Dave Penzer's biography has circulated several copies
of Nitro formats in Thunder Formats from two thousand. Wow. And you can
see right there in the notations make sure a crowd noise here, make sure
a crowd noise. Oh my god. That's so well. It actually explains
a lot because there's such there. There are moments in here where I'm like,
wow, like the crowd is really dead. Yeah. It was surprising
in other areas where you'd hear crowd noise, but it's you know, right,
it's fake crowd noise. I mean I always I kind of think that
most of the time, but I'm always like, nah, they wouldn't do
that. Yeah. It's just so it's so depressing because it's like the least.
I mean, it's so hard to come up with any objective measure of
some what makes something in wrestling good? Yeah, you know, because it's
not real. The outcomes aren't real. Who looks strong and who looks weak
is very readily in the control of the wrestlers, and they're out there trying
to execute a direction that you can't always appreciate in the moment. And so
it's like, can I at least can I at least have authentic crowd reactions
to gauge if someone's being successful or not? Can I at least have that?
No? Of course not, And we never had it. I mean
even in the golden days and the Hasbro era. Of course they laid those
fucking tracks down like you wouldn't believe you heard them on Colisey and videos.
I mean with the years of today, you know, high definition audio,
earbuds in and remember we never watched wrestling as kids with earbuds in. Of
course, of course, what a difference that makes in terront of it?
Does you hear every little fucking thing? You could just tell real from fake?
Is what you can tell? Ye? And so well could we always
with professional wrestling speak for yourself. So there's a kick, it's caught in
a backflip, and then Jason Jet superkicks down quee wee. Scott Hudson says,
WW built our name on veteran wrestling. Yes, I couldn't believe this
shit. We built our name on better than rests. Then who the fuck
are these clowns? I don't know what? Why? Why? He said
that like veterans particular moment, right, like save that for for a moment
when you have you know, veteran wrestlers, not these fucking goons chasing Jet
to the top rope and the launcher takes out quee wee. I can't He's
just a fucking absolute loser. Well, there goes any chance of getting Scott
on the show. That's okay, we accept that as part of what we
do. Uh. I just can't with these you know, I don't know,
it's just it's it just rubs me the wrong way, these these fucking
bozos. Future of w CW is being served. We're told here like I
don't know, like a TV dinner. I guess, like a you know,
like an appetizer. I guess maybe there were like like the hot dogs
going around. Uh, you know, concessions there JJ, we should say
Jason Jett slams Quewe under the corner a middle rope down into a leg drop
gets to Nick Patrick presiding by the way, in case you were triggered by
this, I know, you know troubles, you know, trouble is a
foot. Jason Jett with rather upsetting pants. They almost look like lingerie.
Well, you know, he kind of supposed to be a stripper. I
guess as easy money. He was supposed to be like a Chippendale's guy because
he just like, he reminds me very much of like a rundown version of
Eric Watts at times. Oh very nice, I can see that, you
know, like a trashy version of Eric Watts. Well, and Eric Wats
who can work. I'll give him that, Uh sure, I mean,
but the thing is like, yeah, you can work, but nothing about
these guys and I and listen, I know I'm always I'm the first to
to you know, completely get on somebody's case. But I want them to
be good. I want these guys to excite me. And maybe they were
good, but they didn't excite me one bit in this entire match. That's
fair. Yeah I did notice the quality of the action on the show,
well, well, there's heavy effort. It is kind of like there's a
sameness to the kind of you know, exertion that these guys are putting into
the matches. There's no variety. Nothing stands out as, oh, that
was the work rate match, which I think is kind of important. Honestly,
you can have work right up and down the card. I'm not going
to complain, but don't don't be surprised when it all sort of blends together
and your match doesn't mean much more than the one that came before and after
it. Here. I mean, frankly, they were going through a situation
where they were so constrained from a talent budget perspective that they were just throwing
guys from the power Plant onto television who really, you know, didn't have
any seasoning. They didn't really have a house show circuit to speak of to
get these guys seasoning in the first place. They didn't really have an affiliation.
They kind of had one, a loose one with the NWA wild Side,
which was the Georgia promotion that aj Styles and air Paris, who you
saw or heard rather referenced in that worldwide clip they came from that promotion where
they had feuded and caught the eye of Terry Taylor, and he brought him
in the Dying Days at wcw AJ styles with a one match on funder both
before the ship closed out. God, that's all you need, that the
one match on thunder. It's fine. He was also an ambulance driver in
an nWo two thousand segment in January two thousand on Nitro where Jeff Jarrett his
future TNA boss and brethren. So he just shi out of him, just
winning all around. So here we have Jason Jett stomping the crotch and looks
to the crowd, turns and does the rocking chair rocking horse admission thing,
you know where you do like the pendulum swing underneath your legs. There.
Yeah, he dropped the elbow after releasing it for too Scott Hudson says,
Queeby's hair is falling like a Sioux flet. Dusty Rose, attention, I
did hear that? It was like anything again? Fucking putting in his gullet
at this point, kind of a stumble on a reverse Irish whip, and
Que's dropped with a forearm backdrop and to the apron goes. Queewee fires off
some some shots. Grabs though, tell me where did this name come from?
QUEWI, I don't that. I don't know that. He didn't explained
to the interviews I watched, because we talked about the genesis of it,
but not the actual name. Like it's bad enough that it must be mango
Kiwi and they just played off of it. That's unacceptable. Yeah, yeah,
they should they I mean, they should have called him passion fruit is
what they should have done. I don't off standard and practice, but have
won for that stuff, Passion of the Christ. There we go, so
uh, Quey grabs Jason Jet by the ponytail and beals him over the top
rope like he was throwing him like he was a baseball. Yeah yeah,
that's a unique look. And then Quee with a fucking suicide dive. Jason
Jet way the hell out of the way already, and que Wee goes splat
on the floor. Splat he goes, just misses and fucking eats so much
shit. Jason Jet charges and he's backdropped. He does a handspring on the
ropes and springs back with a DDT on the floor, which is done when
I spawned, and then he he does the buckshot Larry and Ladies and Gentlemen.
Two thousand and one. I called Jason Jett innovating Adam Page's future finisher.
And there we go. I I called Quiwie Scottie two Saboo on the
floor with Saboos taking standing Moon's out by Jason Jett off the buckshot LARRYA.
It gets too whipped. At the corner, Quibi kIPS up reverse whip.
Queibe hits and he's he launches Jason Jet with a backdrop, clearing the ropes
and the post all the way to the floor. And now it's Quebe choking
Jason Jet with a camera cable just like WCW Man. He's he's He's choked
by cable, choked to death by cable. Now so is woman right?
Jason jets whipped and takes an awesome flip bump into the rail and he's splayed
out on all the chairs at ringside. Quee starts wigging out and ring announcer
Dave Penzer's face and rolled back in. Quebee gets too. Quibie then lifts
for the slam, but actually drops Jason Jett in his face instead of his
back. Interesting, you don't see that room body slam position too often.
You're lifting you dump. Yeah, that's true, that is true. Actually
I saw a couple of people do that inadvertently, a renaissance rumble, trying
to learn the body slam, you know. You know. Also I heard
Dusty Rose was also taking dumps on this show. Yeah, he got dumped
to the floor. All right. I remember a lot of offense experimentation in
WCW. Then, you know, these were like green guys are just going
out there being like, look at what we can do. And that was
about all you could hope for because it's not like you had to pass a
charisma test for them to take your power plant tuition. Yeah, and when
all of a sudden, the power plant was the only vein they could tap
tap to freshen up the television show with all the big salaries on the sidelines,
this is what you got a lot of, like you know, complex
maneuvers going on. Yes, I always remember kind of being intrigued like this
was sort of a vision of what WCW would have meant had Bishoff executed on
the vision because he was going to dial down. Apparently the salaries, but
he's going to try to bring back the big guys. But he was it
seems like he was trying to source like a different kind of talent Rob Me
and Dan be an example. He really like Sean O'Hare and wanted to lean
into what he could do, and the Cruiserways were supposed to get their own
booker and everything. I don't know, I kind of feel like this is
a glimpse at what the inn ring of the FUSI in WCW might have looked
like. I think Bischoff had just enough of an influence over what the product
looked like at this time that we can reasonably infer that. Yeah, I
remember feeling that was sort of like a that that was a hope that was
dashed. Not that I loved it, but I felt like I was grasping
something like a different flavor of WCW. Yeah, than wasn't been a total
shit show for so many years. Yeah, and then it was gone,
and it was like WWF kind of picked up the fumes of it. With
those wrestlers in the audience it wrestleding me seventeen. A lot of them characterized
the style I'm talking about, And then they of course, you know,
got on a main roster and got fucking slaughtered. Right, Anse'll fucking beat
up and as fast as possible. Jason Jetts and punches, hits the ropes,
but it gets thees pressed by Kuewe. With some punches cover gets one.
Quewee sucks chant breaks out. I think I know somebody who'd agree with
that. They said that, you know, that might be a fest prea,
but it's not like Luthas's hair. They're on Kuiewi, and Hudson says,
I think you didn't see him in Charlotte. Charlotte, You've died blonde.
He's good. They call him Angry Alan, also Alan Funk. Oh
my god, I think we mentioned him during laps Funk. We're talking about
wrestlers who have had the Funk name but aren't part of the tribe. So
I think this is the first time we've ever mentioned him. Antiella that's the
maybe, maybe it's possible. I I'm I can I can understand why I
wouldn't remember or choose to forget choose too, that's this complete garbage. Quebe
lucks on a sleeper, Jason Jets stands up in it and then quebe yanks
him down in a pinning combination for two, and then with the nice vertical
suplex Is Kuebee he gets two off that Jason Jets purchased in the ropes.
Quie climbs JJ though with a crotch shot and it's pretty insane. He goes
for a top row power bomb this Jason Jet and Kiwi somehow tucks in a
Hurrican Rana while they're in flight. Yeah, I mean, honestly, you
know, that was the most exciting thing of the match, and that should
have been it correct, that should have don't do that. There's a transition
move, and people haven't seen you do one tenth of that to date.
It's like you've always said, like, you know, while while if you
if you do a move that is clearly more you know, like out of
this world even you know, like even more spectacter, then you're finished.
You should end with that. That's right, you know, because that otherwise
it really it just hurts that move, right well, it deflates the move
altogether, Like even the move that you just did, you know, I
think I remember you was talking about that at WrestleMania and we did wrest Maine
seventeen because you were like, this is one of those times where the most
impactful move end of the match with Vincent Shane, what was it the coast
coast to coast drop kick, which you've never seen before. Excellent from Shane,
right, yeah from Shane. So yeah, pretty pretty wild spot here.
These guys are trying hard to impress the crowd that it's almost a three
for Quebe, very close cover. Then they're back up a whipon to drop
down over the top goest Jason Jet into way tilto world headsissor attempt, but
Kueewee while Jason Jet is twirling around his body sits out. There's a counter
to the tilto world head scissor. Thank you very much, sit out on
that, bitch, sure, sure, all of a sudden, you got
yourself a facebuster for two. Yeah, and then Kuebe goes for the pile
driver, but Jason Jett with another low blow. What's up with that?
He keeps fucking sheeting Kuewei by the way, looking like looking like fucking Ace
Venturi here. Yeah, that fucking hair and uh, this is a good
point. This is a good point to listen to if you ever want to
hear a wrestler scream springboard elbow as Jason Jet calls it and then nails it
and then kIPS up with some great fire. I think they call that one
the shockwave, about the four hundredth move in pro wrestling called a shockwave.
Now the crash landing where he lifts him up in a suplex, but Kuebe's
on his feet, mitaw rope sunset flip gets two for Kuwe, who then
hads a pile driver, but no, it's blocked backdrop out, pull down.
Jason Jet rolls through to the waistlock back elbows by Jason Jett. One
misses, and that's opening up the opportunity for a northern light suplex bridge combination
by Kueewee Boss. It's about bridging. If you're gonna mean ship, if
you're gonna If you're not gonna bridge, get the fuck out of here.
You're not gonna bridge. It's gonna be a long road to four stars.
Now, Tony says something very interesting here. Okay. He says that it
doesn't matter who wins. Okay, and he tells us why I wanna tell
you an we're enjoying this. Oh, he knows, he knows we are
not having fun, Tony, we are not having fun. Quart to quarter
whip kip up under goes Quebee. He stumbles back into Jason Jett and they
butt heads and Quebee spills to the floor. Jason Jenson puts his finger to
his mouth, almost as if to shush the crowd, and then he lays
down in the ring as Quebe collects himself on the outside. That's to play
possumas Quebee climbs, walks the ropes a bit and misses a elbow drop,
and then Jason Jet gets up, hopes him for what he called the crash
landing and flips and falls and breaks the balls. Yeah, what is it?
What is the crash landing out? I forgot? Is it a sup
plex? Spin around? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's it's
he left him like a vertical suplex, but you turn them so he landed
in his back right, which if you did a vertical suplex anyway, he
would Yeah, though from what I understood. So so I sit there and
I question why you know there's not listen that's always it, Like, what
about this move is more impactful than the other move. It's a mystery will
never solve as this is the final w W pay per view and I believe
the final WW match of one Jason Jets He gets to win at twelve seventeen
over Kiwi. In the opening contest of Greed two thousand and one, some
pretty awful dubbed over music onto the Peacock Feed just effortless the music they pick
for this ship. I mean, it doesn't matter, doesn't really matter.
It doesn't. No, it doesn't. It's literally it doesn't because because this
is just it's it's deplorable. Sign Dusty for president. There's also I'd vote
for him even now. There's also a sign. I don't know if you
saw this one. There's some kid is holding up a sign for Goldberg,
but okay, holds it upside down, so okay, like kid, you
couldn't fucking you're on the hard camera. You couldn't fucking figure out how to
hold it to sign the right way. This is the point where everything is
emblematic of w CW of course, right it would happen in w C Yeah,
right, yep. We get a package of Kidman and Ray who are
chasing the Cruiserweight Tag Team Championships belts that were just being introduced to WCW at
the time, fucking dubbing the let's bring in these fucking new belts that aren't
gonna matter, and we complete answer new belts. You know what, the
answer is, less belts in every case, at every promotion there has ever
been. So we have Young Dragons as the opposition, incredibly depressing red ropes
on Thunder back then. I don't know what the we're thinking. I had
ropes on Thunder. I know. It's just disgusting. They just stopped trying.
From a look perspective, Kid Romeo and Elix Skipper were breaking through as
a team, making a statement in the tournament. They beat three count Shannon
Moore and Evan Courageous. They show brackets, they show that Air Paris and
aj styles that a forementioned tag team was a part of this tournament in fact,
and the finals are Kidman and Raymisterio, formerly of the Filthy Animals.
They were still coming out to the music and kind of referencing themselves as part
of the stable against the new comer Kid Romeo and Elix Skipper. Elix Skipper
another product of the w CW power plant out of the Bronx. So he's
the guy, is he the guy who who walked the cage in TNA.
He will go down in history for that more than anything else. Marie again,
I think I mentioned that in TENNA. Meant you showing that to me,
like you all those things really, like you saved it on your DV
on your TVO or DVR just so I could watch it. Sometimes I came,
I'm sure I save that puppy on VHS. But that was Yeah,
that was back when T and A had the most bitch and paper reviews in
the business. Yeah, there's two thousand and five. Man, they weren't
fucking around. I don't know what. I don't know why it was all,
what the alchemy was that made it all work all of a sudden,
but those are some incredible shows. It's like it's also you know, there's
probably something about being new and like needing to needing to succeed in some fashion,
you know, like you need to succeed and that and that kind of
helps it out that you know, makes you, I don't know, like
like try to try harder or something. They were just they were leaning into
the stuff that they did so much better than wwe even wanted to, let
alone, hope to and they weren't trying to force things that weren't to their
strength out there, you know, to keep up appearances with their friends in
the business, or to tell themselves they're a bigger lead promotion than they are.
Like, they didn't want to be the EX Division promotion, but that's
what they always were, ye, I mean, that's basic shit. And
so when an AJ Styles one of their top stars is on top of the
EX Division, then the X Division can be framed appropriately and can animate a
pay per view such that it's an incredible show. And you know, some
of the tag team they were freaturing, like the Team Canada guys, and
some of these high work rate tag teams America's most wanted, you know.
They formation Nelik Skipper and Christopher Daniels along with low Ki as Triple X.
It was just great because their top act were also X Division work rate guys.
Yeah, yeah, you can go with them. They weren't like,
oh, here's a heavyweight from fucking WWE that we have to force you to
care about, right, he gets a big pop night one, and then
after that it's like, Okay, why why do you want this to be
TNA? Exactly when there's plenty of stuff here. We really want to see
anyway, so awful belts, the worst belts in the history of professional wrestling.
I mean, did they even try? Do they even try? They
to me, it's so it's something to like what like like sheets of metal
and just said here this is it. Let'ld say to melt it down like
a you know, baking shrine. Right, it's worse than that Timbrey WCW
world title they put on Luga after fla. It is worse than that.
It's it's it's it's awful. These are just awful, awful belts. Hudson
says they're gorgeous, and he's wrong. Of course, of course he does.
It's more awful. Dubbed over music, here comes he looks Skipper for
no reason in a white dew ragon pleth Here this is a great Here you
want to hear one of the great, the great flubs of all time.
Listen to what did he look? Skipper's wearing a fucking glad trash bag to
the ring. Well there's that too, But here's here's a complete blunder.
If this is w CW. Right, here, this is WW two thousand
and one. Uh with Tony Shiavanni, we have just seen a phenomenal oldbody.
Tag Mount is a crucialweight division, and now we're gonna crown our very
first crusier weight tags eat Chim. What's wrong with that? The opening match
was not a tag match, was not a cruisery tag match. Oh he
said tag, He said with a tag. We have just seen a phenomenal
obody tag Mount is a crucialweight division. Sorry, Tony, you deserve that
one. He knows. Any bite you play from Tony for this whole broadcast,
that's gonna be arspong like his he's elsewhere. He's like, how am
I going to not leave my rental car tomorrow at Nitri? Yeah? Yeah,
how can I best use googling how to fog windows without having a broad
in there? Oh? He he is, yeah, he is just like
I mean, I was like, that is there are the there are bad
times, but that's really you know, things are are not going well.
So Elix skipper walks the ropes and back flips in with a chain on.
This is still the ear where guys thought it made them have charisma to wear
jewelry in the ring. Of course, the Latin sensation from South Beach,
Kid Romeo with the heart shaped sunglasses, shiny plethor everywhere. You mean the
Kid Romeo? You mean the love child of the rock and John Leguizamo.
That's a good one. That's a good one, hilarious, Filthy Animal's music
just starts at midstream. There's no built it's just like just writing the lyrics.
Ray with the half mask, interesting, I don't remember that era.
Half mask for like two seconds before he goes to no mask. W you
can't even leave him, let him keep a half mask on for more than
a minute. Kid been dressed like a bum, as always dressed like a
guy who wakes up at eleven thirty on his day off for under this outfit?
Like why why do you have to dress like a complete fool? So
here's the promo they cut on the pre show to give you a little more
flavor of what Kidman and Ray were bringing as a package back in two thousand
and one. No party last night, too much, Man, too much,
be ready a little sick. But you know I'm let that stop us
from being the first ever tag team cruiseweight champion. I'll tell you what,
these two fools ain't gonna come in here and take what we've earned, right,
I mean, we've been here too long with these two green ones.
Come in. You know kid Romeo in Primetime all they're just cocky, that's
all they are. You know, they just get things handed to them.
And then we're not gonna hand them another state. Got nothing on them.
It's time for us to shine. It's right, you ready to be here?
You ready? Rocket? Get that Bronco in there. Mans giddy to
him. I will put the party party appterwards. Find him. Will some
last there? Yeah, Captonville, Florida. This is mock house and I
built this house. And I'm glad w c W had the Cruise Away Tag
Team tournament because now they gave us a chance to showcase our killed as pause
that Ray and that kidman, Kidman, Kidman. He's not the guy who's
allergic going to the gym. That's the ones I'm talking. He's crazy.
He's gonna beat us, I don't think so. Once we get them in
the middle of a ring, we're gonna beat them down. And when they
try to get up, we're gonna beat them down some more. Killed.
I asked prime Time babies who house noise struck usagh. Yeah, he sip
the times it disadvantaged showed. I think he's said stuff and then I can
see a lot of upsides. Absolutely. So the idea is that Kidman and
Ray party after the show and fuck rats basically because they're young, like like,
what are you guys doing? It really is like Kidman and his Tommy
Hill figure Jeorts hitting fucking fucking uh you mean the love child of Brett Hart
and Ray Romano. Oh shit, Uh didn't serve Ray so well to have
the mask off. He didn't sound cringe or anything, just like you know.
Yeah, there's so much I gotta so the the the whole mask thing
is just it's just a fucking it's a disaster. Okay, the mask thing
is a disaster. He should he should he should never. I mean,
look, it's fine if maybe fucking uh you know nash One that he took
it off. Now he should just say, you know what, fuck it,
I'm gonna wear a mask now, okay, because he looks like a
like a like a like a like a fucking five year old. You know.
I can't Yeah, I can't believe that he was. He was twenty
six at the time, and I think of the mysterio WW made selling masks,
I know right exactly. They were like, Nope, boring, take
the mask off, not fucking with the wrestl on the mask you mark for
Mexican culture. No, listen, Hermano, We're not in fucking Mexico.
Shit. You know, if I wanted to go to Mexico, I'll tell
you how to get there. I have a great fucking route. I know
plenty about NAFTA, and I hope I know plenty about Nashta too, about
what Nashta. So it's Kidman and Mysterio versus Romeo and Skipper in the finals
of the tournament to crown the first WCW Cruiser Wait Tag Team Champions. Here
at Greed, Tony recalls Ray arriving five years ago to WCW and revolutionizing the
cruiserweight division. Those were the days. Yeah here, yeah, this is
yeah. I think this might have been this. I have part of that
that copy, and I think part of it might have been written by Kevin
nash believe it or not. Five years ago, revolutionized the cursonweight division.
Of course, he came over with the mask. The mask was taken away.
Many people of help since the mask was taken away that Raymisterio Junior has
gotten even better, which could be really funn to get better than the mass.
Raymisterio we first saw about five years ago, so we foresaw him five
five years ago, he said, first saw, sure that soundly foresaw to
me. All of a sudden, he's getting very formal, sounds like a
Lincoln speech. All you can't foresee something five years ago, you can forsake
it, though, But he says that fucking Ray Maisterio. People consider Raymistery
to be better now sans mask. Okay, that's a nash, that's a
nash. Fucking uh copy right there? Can I Can I send a problem
check up the up the flagpole to you? Boss? Sure? Is it
a problem? The following raise chain, ear rings, cross and eyebrow ring
and matted down hair. It's normal, it's what it's what it's what's it
was Maden down here, looks everything, everything about him is just it's it's
it's just not okay, you know, and I love I love Ray Masterio,
I respect ray Masterio, but this, this incarnation of ray Masterio,
is something that should be forgotten. It should be just you know, stricken
from the history books. Okay, there's so much like oil on his side.
God, you know what I mean, there's so much like I mean
listening, he he just resurposes. He reeks of the nineteen nineties right now,
and in the worst possible way. Yeah, like not a in the
good way, Like it's it's it's it's it's the bad stuff that he's got
going on. So Kidman and Kid Romeo gets started color elbow to the corner.
Kidman ducks and goes off with some hands whip to the corner, backdrop
to the apron goes Kid Romeo. Kidman goes outside in with the ankle scissors
like he used to do, taking over Romeo corner of the corner. Whip
is reversed foot up on Kid Romeo's charge and then Animal of all people they
remind us had attacked Kidman. I fucking can't. I can't with this ship
Animal versus kidn Ah, that's the super fight we never got. That's the
fucking dream match, Thanks of London. Seriously, Romeo with a falling power
bomb, drops Kidman too the canvas to take over for him and his parkiner
Reelix Skipper, who comes in and puts the boots to Kidman, Romeo backflips
into Skipper's wheelbarrow pickup for a nice splash that gets to Tony says, this
match is indicative of what w CW's about right now, the youth of pro
wrestling. I mean, I guess, I guess. I mean I guess
that you know, Ray's still young and how old was Kidman? Kidman?
I mean, like I said, these party animals, these youngsters. Yeah.
There, let's see, Peter Gruner was born in nineteen seventy four,
so in two thousand and one he is he is, uh twenty seven.
Okay, that's uh, I mean, that's all kind of creepy for the
club at that point. Yeah, you're still kind of getting a little yeah,
you know, you're kind of at that border, all right, like
you know, you're like the uncle of the kid at the club. You
know. Okay, you can I guess you can stay, but please don't
come back, right, you can stay. Don't try to wear like the
clothes we wear, yeah, and and right, and stop hitting on the
on the underage girls. Right, they're both born in seventy four, so
wow, that's what was going on at the time. Skipper then lifts Kidman
off the whip into a hurrican Rana mid ring drop kick by Billy Kidman.
Ray gets tagged in his sores in with a springboard leg drop as Elix Skippers
hanging across the ropes. That gets too for mysterio. Whip is reverse Ray
with a springboard off the middle and then he does a reverse leap frog by
Elix Skipper and that drills him a whip a duck. Ray front flips almost
into a Herkin rana kind of walking up Elix's body and then a backdrop of
the apron. Ray leaps in his feet or under the armpits of Skipper and
he drags him over the ropes to the floor as he used to do,
and then Billy kidmans whipped him with a baseball slide into Elix Skipper's face by
his own partner, and they fight on the ramp as kid Romeo blindsides Billy
Kidman, Ray blindsides Elix Skipper and whips Elix into Billy Kidman's bill and with
that he flips off the ramp and lands on kid Romeo. So they go
up to the top of the ramp and Elix Skipper takes flight, landing on
kid Romeo off the ramp. That was all pretty wild shit. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, they browl pretty well outside. Now, Ray and Kidman
are coiled at the top of the ramp and both get a running start and
soar off the ramp. Planche by Kidman and Ray with the bombs away plancha
by Kidman, Ray with the bombs away sentans seated thing he used to do,
Yeah, taking out their opponent there next to the rampway back end,
Ray and Skipper in control attacked to Kidman r free. Scott James has identified
that, of course, being Scott Armstrong of the Armstrong Family Bryan Brother double
whiped, double boot, double sit out choke slam by uh. Kidman and
Ray get too whip his reversed and kid Romeo grabs Kidman from the apron and
then a knee by Skipper to the back sends Kidman to the floors. The
heels take over kid Romeo and Billy Kidman on the outside whips him hard into
the guardrail and then back into the ring as a tag is made and to
kid Romeo who's stomping on Kidman. It's a short arm clothes line and then
lays in a choke. They go to the corner. There's some chops by
kid Ryan Romeo opens a Giuletta picarcassa on Kidman that is as the chop house.
Thank you for that. Well, he's the one who can be translating
ship for no reason. He gave us the idea. Kidman then snatches and
loads of you just looked that up. That's that is That is verbatim right
there. I'm sure it is shotous. Corner to corner whip Sternham. First
end of the buckling goes, uh, Kid Romeo, and what kid beIN
liked to do when he whipped you stern him first In has hit the adjacent
ropes and larry at you. And that's precisely what he does here. He
used to love that spot. We're here, fors Yeah, we're here for
clothes lines off of whips, clothes lines that are set up two moves ahead,
back up on a whip in the wheelbarrow pick up. But Kid Romeo
finds a bulldog in transition and drills Billy Kidman's head into the canvas and then
nails Ray off the apron, commencing a double teaming by the heels, and
then Kid Romeo cranks a chinlock into a sleeper Kid in back elbows out,
hits the ropes, and Kid Romeo cuts him off with a sit out gordbuster
and that gets a two. Is ry Mysterio makes the save here. Skipper
comes in with no tag and Hudson calls that out. Skipper's jaw jacking with
a guy in the front row and Scott Hudson calls him fred Durst because the
guy has a hat on backward. So it's two thousand and one. Come
on, dude, like, seriously, what anybody identifies them as Fred Durst
today? Because not at all, not at all. I don't think many
of them. I don't think many people would identify anyone as Fred Dirt.
Don't think people can identify Fred Durst as Fred Durst. People fucking can't identify
Justin Timberlake apparently. Right, Well, let's not forget this. March two
thousand and one. This is the month of the Fred Durst Olympiscuit. Uh
oh, Steve Austin Rock go home video for Wrestlmingia seventeen. Brother Okay,
Kimvin's ribs have got to be about ready to give, Hudson says, Meanwhile,
big shows has to be about ready to give some ribs. Those ribs
are ready to give and in the back people catering is giving ribs to dusty
rucks. Are we are we pulling ribs? Or are we giving ribs or
serving ribs? Or are we smoking ribs? I mean, are we kate
fabbing the ribs? Whether that's another thing? This is a good one.
They start mocking you see it is this very t and h the show.
So they mock at Elix Kippers CFL Canadian Football League background. This is a
good one. They used to talk about how because he joined Team Canada Landstorm's
heels Stable Uner Russo's w c W played in the CFL for the Rough Riders,
and he didn't he never played football at all. But they pulled it
off to where like what he does a shoot interview years later with Rob Feinstein.
He asks him what his career the CFL was, Like, wow,
oh brother, we worked him on that one and it obviously worked. That's
crazy, yep, pretty good stuff. So he's perched up top. Now
he's a kidman. Elix climbs up, but kidman with a short power bomb.
The thing he used to do basically like the sky high almost but just
a little less of a lift. So he does it off the ropes and
that that connects with great impact. And then Kid Romeo, Ray Mysterio mix
it up right, comes into the springboard cross body that nails Romeo, goes
back up whip boot. Ray hits a swinging DDT, spiking Kid Romeo,
and now Ray, working with a Elix skipper whip his reverse into the corner.
Ray lifts the boot on the charge and then uh, let's see Ray
goes into the corner. Skipper sores shoulder first into the post hard as he
sidestepped. And then let's see Kidman with a backsup plex into a sidewalk slam
kind of thing he's doing. He lifts him like a back suplex. He
has to like a boss man slam right right, and then Ray comes off
the top of the flip sent on and then a suicide dive through the corner,
you know, not just through the ropes but passed the post. Of
course, of course Elix skipper on the outside. So action's picking up hot
and heavy. Now Kid Romeo is climbing and he does a plancha that catches
Ray as Kid Romeo tries to establish that he can fly too. Not terribly
convincing, but he's not. He's like, he's such a fucking for being
a Cruisery. He's so bulky. Yeah, you know, Yeah, it's
definitely a look thing with him. Yeah, and here it goes, billy
kidman, ladies and gentlemen shooting star press off the ropes to the floor.
Come to World Championship Wrestling. Yes, and a move that they're going to
do as much as they can to not Mattter. Let's do it on the
floor where it doesn't count for anything. The kidman Kazi back in. Ray
gets up top Skipper lunges and crotches him on the top. Skipper climbs,
but Ray fights him back. Ray does a flip power bomb that stacks Skipper
up for the one and two until Ki Romeo reaches in to make the save
Elix and grabs a Phil Nelson on Ray to the sleeperhole, pulls him across
the back, almost like Randy Orton does that neck breaker. Yeah, yeah,
across is on back, but it's supposed to be like a slam,
so he like flips Ray over on his face instead of just dropping him and
try to break him in half. That gets to kid comes in with reverse
souplex on Kid Romeo. That gets too. As Skipper makes the save,
Elix Skipper tosses Billy Kidman into the floor and then there's a tiger hey plex.
We gotta go for it, come on on Ray stereo garage combination by
Skipper, but the ref doesn't count off the tiger. They're waiting for kid
Romeo to climb up. The script calls for him to drop a leg while
Ray is trapped in the tiger soup lex, so they wait all day.
Finally a lands one too. Billy Kidman makes the save, and now kid
Romeo low bridges, no, pardon me, Billy Kidman low bridges Elix Skipper
to the floor and then grabs a You got kid Romeo and kid Man so
he and Mankind for that matter, and man Tour too mentor yeah, we
can go all day. Kidman grabs a springboard bulldog and Kid Romeo plans him
and then Ray power bombs Kid Romeo is Billy Kidman comes down with a splash,
so Ray Power bombs like they used to let you do in the Nitro
video game, where a cruiserweight could power bomb Big Show. Oh, by
the way, Big Show said on Steve Boston's podcast, this was isolated by
the ww Deep Cuts account, which is great. I think the guy's name
is Tom Green. At that Tom Green, and he isolated the clip where
Big Show says that he got the whole check for that video game that all
of w CW was supposed to get for all the wrestlers in the game all
came to him along to him, yes, and he says he put it
in several different savings accounts and they were never able to recover it. That
is hilarious. That's too much. That's absolutely hilarious. So after the power
bomb from Ray, Billy Kidman comes down with a splash, but he looks
makes the save. Ray. I'm sorry, Ray, mystereo power bombing someone
just does not work. Now he has to get power bombed. I'm sorry,
Dean Malenko, Eddie Garrero over and over and over again. It's correct.
So Ray whips Elix Skipper to the corner and goes for kind of like
a whisper in the wind, like a forearm instead of a sidekick. Ray
then whipped Billy Kidman into a baseball slide kick to Elix Skipper who spread eagle
and then uh Ki and then a billy Kidman with a bronco buster. No,
Ray, mystereo pardon. With the broncobuster, they do almost like the
Dudley's wuss up position. Yeah. Yeah, but Ray leaps over into kid
Romeo. Then Kidman lifts Elix Skipper with a wheelbarrow and both tumble out of
the ring wheelbarrow pick up. It's just fucking like this whole thing is like
turned into massive chaos. Yeah, it's a little too many moves in this
one. Yeah, if you ask me, they're working hard, but there's
too many moves right now. With kid Romeo whips reversed. Ray does the
six one nine, but doesn't He doesn't use it to kick the guy.
He uses it just to like land on his feet almost and stop the whip
yeap that are ope springboard moon salt onto the shoulder of kid Romeo. Kid
Romeo snatches raymisterio it bit motion out of the air and then drives him head
first into the canvas. He calls it the last Kiss. It's pretty much
like the Emerald Frozen that Miss Allen Rothers used to do. Right, you
lift and you dump off to the side of the on the head. I
mean, look, that's phenomenal. That's that's a Johnny Ace finish if I've
ever seen one. And that's good for the one, two, and the
three. Thirteen minutes, forty six seconds, Elix Skipper and Kid Romeo defeat
Billy Kidman and Raymisterio to become the first WCW Cruiserweight tag team champions. Here
it greed and the last? Or would they be the last? Actually,
you know, there's no I think they on the final Nitro Kidman and Ray
beat them. Oh dude, they already you know, I don't even remember.
Yep, they off into the Sunset is Chest show. Wow, those
titles didn't make the didn't make the transition to the WW absolutely not. They
barely even wanted the Cruiserweight belt itself, the singles belt. They had the
existing light heavyweight. Remember it was like, right, it's like a x
pot versus Chava left. What they did such an awful fucking belt. I
caidn't remember. I prefer the Cruiserweight over. I'm glad that they actually they
adopted the cruiser Weight. Yeah, that was kind of a nice thing.
That was kind of an encouraging sign. Yeah, so the belts are handed
to a new champion. There was some scuttle butt back then that, like,
you know, Kidden and Ray were not too happy being handed to finish
where they were losing to these guys, but went ahead and did it and
worked hard anyway, but kind of a kind of something that it was made
known they weren't too happy about anyway. Kid Romeo and new Yik skip to
do their stupid dance and Kid Romeo showed some hip pulling down the trunks a
bit. Yeah, I'm good, and that's that. Backstage, we have
a candy cam view. We do, we do, indeed, and and
this is hilarious. So I guess what is the story? I mean guess
So what I gathered is buff is making a documentary. A documentary why because
they think it makes it look visually distinct to have the RIC letters on the
top of the screen. I mean, it's awful, you know what this
is? This is like the first germs of Bischoff's like TNA, Like there's
no interviewer holding a microphone. It's just the guy's talking off off center to
someone slowly off camera. Yeah, this definitely feels very Jason Hervey inspired.
Yeah, what wrestling is missing our promos without someone holding a microphone? The
uh like it was just so confusing, But they go into I guess so
Rick Flair has a has an office or a dressing room now that he's the
CEO of w CW. This is just But what's great is that I'm going
to play a clip here. So Bagwell's asking where Scott Steiner is and Animal
like, why, well, I guess, I guess you could get you
get Johnny Ace there. So that's why Animal's gonna job. That's hard to
figure out. But why is Animal wearing face paint? Like, dude,
just stop it. You're gonna be something else. If you're not with Hawk,
you can't wear the face paint. I'm sorry, it's not okay.
And did you know that this insurance settlement dictated that he could only wrestle in
tag matches on this run. That's the fucking dumbest thing you believe an insurance
company differentiating between the risk of having a tag match and having a singles match.
Give oh my god, the actuarial tables on. That must have been
a riot. I mean, I can't imagine. I mean that's gonna be
the fucking most ludicrous thing that I'm sorry, I only wrestle in the tag
matches. Oh my god. Okay, we'll find then we'll ensure you.
Yeah, no or not. But here this is just the fucking this is
just great. This is uh billy kidman. I'd belie him in buff Bagwell
asking where Scott Steiner is, and I'm telling you right now, Animal,
I think Animal thinks he's talking about somebody else where, Scotty at Hey,
I talked to Scott earlier. He is ultra paranoid right now until he finds
out who took out Medesa and who jumped me from behind? Brother, Oh
my god, this is where they would have pluged him in. If he
answered Diana Meyer's letter, he would have been in the Scott Steiner position.
Who's ultra paranoid? People getting jumped from behind? Oh my god, that's
money. Oh god. Yeah. So the big mysteries, where's Scott and
who's going to attack Rick later? Whoever gets attacked? I forget what this
is Rick. Someone gets attacked and then Rick gets blamed for it later.
Dissension in the ranks before anyone can even care about this stable sounds like WW
to me. It's so lame. They ask Annimal, how's your head?
Apparently got hit in the had recently, and he says, man, someone
ringing my bell. Of course jumped me from behind. There you go.
So who do we ever find out who was supposed to be? Oh,
this is the fucking NWSW like it just never happened over the course of television,
Like for that, there were a ton of things on that nitro the
night after the second to last Nitro that they start promoting for the next week
that never even happened. You get to the show and no one mentions it.
Where it's going to be like a Sean Stasyac haircut thing where he would
cut his hair if something happened. I think we'll get to it. Someone
challenges him. I think, remember that, Yeah, all kinds of stuff
that they promoted that that never ended up happening. As far as why animals
in the company, at this point, this is the best we can do.
From his book, he says, about a week after returning home,
Mike gave me a call to let me know that his hawk what was going
on. He had been diagnosed with cardio myopathy, a condition in which one
of the valves leading into the heart becomes stretched out and can't pump blood as
it should due to his limited diet and the uppers and downers he's been taking.
His body crashed. Thankfully once home in the States able to get the
right kind of medication that would keep him alive. Bottom line though, was
that Hawk was going to be sidelined with rest and recovery for the next solid
year, so I decided to get back in touch a WCW. So that's
why he went solo here because Hawk is on the shelf with severe health issues
which had now burnt out, he writes in The Monday Night Wars, and
was a distant second to the WWF. Once again. I asked Eric Bischoff
if they had a place for me until Hawk was ready to come back and
reform the Road Warriors, and he said, in fact, there was replace
Eric Bischoff with Johnny Lori and iis. And you haven't actually happened exactly,
he writes. I think they were also in the midst of pairing me up
with Rick Steiner for a while until Hawk could return. But boy, did
all of that get permanently interrupted. Yeah, Hawk would die soon after this
that's something that they to bring Hawk into And was it when was it?
Yea and two I want to say three. Take a look. That's crazy,
Yeah, it is. It's crazy to think of there being plans for
Mike Hegstrand after you know, he'd pretty much been written off in terms of
yeah, I have it, you know two thousand and three. Yeah,
October two thousand and three. Wow, age forty six. Awful. So
Jeff Jarrett with the yellow shades, which I always personally loved, Yeah,
definitely. You know, that was another thing too, that was like a
that was a nineties little phenomenon. These these oh yeah, these colored you
know, like not just these sunglasses with move you know, varying colors.
He's a lapsed fan wrestling podcast with Jack and and j Pizarro. He's a
lapsed fan wrestling podcast. Jared says everyone wants a piece of the Magnificent seven,
and Rick says they think Dustin and his old man are going to beat
us. Then the tag belts to Buff and Rick winning the US title.
They're talking about collect all the belts and flourishes. Scott plenty of that.
Scott. He's in a bad mood after tonight. DDP will not be standing
now the World World Championship Wrestling, but they don't mention that. He says,
the roads are gonna kiss our ass. So a lot of you know,
kiss our ass, You're gonna I'm gonna make you kiss my ass kind
of stuff going on, which is fortunately not at all derivative from the Vince
mcmah kiss my Ass club stuff. Not at all so good thing that you
would be. You would be a complete idiot if you thought otherwise. Buff
says we're the Magnificent seven. I'm gonna get him. I'm gonna get a
Scott Steiner, and then uh Rick Flair as it tells Buff to keep the
camera going and then thrust his hips night Troil. Last Monday, Sean Stacyac
and Stacy Keebler were an item and they had a baby carriage in the ring
and Bambang attack them. I don't know what the fuck the baby carriage was
about, but uh Shawn Stacyac at the time boss the Mecca of manhood.
Yeah, well, I guess it's better than meat. I suppose ladies and
gentlemen. Stacy Keebler back then, I mean they landed on gold with her.
They did they did. Uh, miss miss h Handcock, They say
in commentary, Bam bam stood up for the fat, toothless, bald guys.
Uh not wrong, not wrong with that assessment. You know, to
do me a favor. What Shawn Stacy act w CW theme, Oh my
god, I don't even okay. There comes Stacy to the Nitro Girl's music
with a briefcase on the hard camera side, litterally licking his lips as she
makes his way to the ring Sean Stacy act. He says, next time
I come on here like a bigger ovation from your people than they give to
her. But now with my pleasure, she says, to introduce you to
the first time the Sean and Stacy Show. The star of the show,
the one who rocks my world, Stacy says, the Meca manhood sewn the
Star Stacy Act. And then they play his music. Here we go.
It sounds like something like this, dam give ink can gang cannon can give
it cank. Oh that's not it. Oh do it now, let's go
do it? Do it? Do it? Do it now? A little
little little little little little little little little little little little little little little little
lily, lily, lily, little little little little little little little little little
little little little little ha ha ha ha w W won't go quietly and like
hask ha ha ha ha ha ha ha whoa, it's awful? Do it
that atrocious? Do it now? Can you play that party game? Yeah?
I thought thought that the fucking YouTube pages thing was a fucking thing.
Do it do it now? Huh do it? Do it? No?
WCW was obsessed with techno in this era late two thousand, early two thousand
and one. There everything is techno all of a sudden. It was very
strange, so ridiculous. I mean, Shaan Staysyak a headliner in the making.
Look at him? What was that start? He's got him back to
the camera and they faded. He turns around and makes the walk like it's
God's gift. Well, someone needs to be Shaun Stacy a cant take Stacy
by the hand and walks around the ring and plants a rather non kiss on
her. Shawan Staysac's hair. Okay, uh no, is it floating a
bit too much? There? You know, there is something extremely wrong about
about just everything. Sean staysy Hac just you know, and also he's just
so stupid he's such a fucking moron. What do you mean he just he's
just standing there, he's ripped an he's just the way he talks and everything,
he just sounds like a dufus, just a fucking idiot. I know
he's what he's he's like a chiropractor now or something. Probably I forget he's
got it. It is, Yeah, he's got something. I'm pretty sure
he is a he's a chiropractor or some kind of idiotic job like that.
Nothing against chiropractors. They should have got a Swartzenegger to sing his theme song,
do it Now? Do It? Do It? Do it now?
Fuck you? Is his hair floating a bit too much? Is it frosted
a bit too? I mean he is just like so so he to me
Sean Stasyac. When you look at all the different elements of him, like
trying to be something, he's like he's like an he's like AI created him.
It's like it's like it's like w c W said, like, hey
make him. You know, he's gonna be Mustley, He's gonna have,
you know, kind of some trendy hair. He said. All the different
iterations of him trying to be something. Good luck recovering from that one Jesus
Christ trucking, Darry you where you stand? Yeah, he's like you a
chiropractor. Oh, this is fucking around it. I know I've read this
before. So he currently works for the Advanced Comprehensive Medical Team out of Texas
as a chiropractor. In two thousand and seven, he received a certificate authenticity
manipulation. Excuse me, he came into the profession, was one of those
manipulation hunter anesthesia. Brother, what's going on here? Oh? God shows
up? You know he's looking good looking tan and I trust him? Are
He's saying? Brother, I under, dude, we can go under.
Brother goes over. I'm over, dude. What are you trying to say?
Brother? You have to pin you have to pin hulk down in shackles
to administer anesthesia to this guy. No fucking ways, he going quietly.
He created what is this? Hold on? What the fuck is this?
He created some Hey, I don't know if this there was okay, So
so in addition, okay, it's starting to add up because he has a
trustworthy face. In addition to his work as a chiropractice is Wikipedia based.
Says I love that his name real name is stippach Y. Stippitch also works
as a motivational speaker please and uses the phobia character f O b i A
he created while in college. The what he created a phobia character. Sure
it's not spelled f A U x I ah whatever. Phobia he created while
in college. During his talks with children, I I I sincerely request you
stop reading. I don't like where this is going. I do feel like
there's there's some problems here. Afoot do it? No? No? No?
Do what do what? Do? What? Do? What? No?
Wow? He says, shut up, listen and learn. It's like
a normal guy. You know, you see guys walking on his facial structure
all the time. You know. And remember remember too that he fucking and
then when when he came back, he was one of the fucking guys up
in the warussel MANI seventeen. Oh my god. The word was that he
lived, that they were going to be there ahead of time. Here it
is, here, it is. Okay, I found the Holy Grail.
Oh my god, Oh my fucking Christ. It's greed phobia. Yeah,
okay, so apparent. So it's a character that he created that's called So
he's a superhero Okay, that's what he is. He's a superhero and and
it's he goes to schools to talk about kids facing their fears and ending bullying,
which I'm a fan of. That's great, you know, work on
that. But he comes dressed up. Okay, this is what he does.
I'm gonna I'm going to send you something and please don't do this.
Yes, yes, yes, you need to see what this man does,
how he how he comes into moti, how he motivates. Okay, and
let me ask you if you if you will be motivated and for that matter,
do what fright exactly what will you be motivated to do if this man
came to your house? What the fuck is he wearing? Why is he
dressed like a sting Halloween costume? I know, like, dude, do
it later? Do it? Do it? Do it tomorrow? Do it
where I'm gone? What sped to be? Look at this? So he's
a superhero. He's wearing like also like it's a mix of of of sting
face, ain't and like animal? Yeah yeah, oh I guess he does
it in phobia pink as well. If you're interested in that, which you
shouldn't be. So like he goes into into schools like this about Phobia seeks
to inspire others with a positive and impactful message like he once did and continues
to do so. In order to achieve your greatest visions and fulfill your life
potential, you must first face your fears in life, acknowledge them, admit
to them, then strategically take the necessary steps required to overcome them. I
take frantically take control of your life, set goals, and then take the
necessary actions your greatest visit visions. Your greatest visions can become reality. The
life he always wanted to live can be yours to have, so says Phobia.
The origins of Phobia can be traced back many years to a college dormitory
room in Boise, Idaho. Oh my God, Phobia, then known as
Sean, discovered that the bumps on his face and the nauseated feeling he felt
for two consecutive weeks was not what he had originally thought. No, he
was not suffering the side effects of stress from school. Rather, he had
been bitten repeatedly by spiders. There light a spider nests directly beneath his dorm
room bed. Yes, he gotta turn into spider Man. That was about
to happen. Yes, these little creatures were living with him and made their
home not just in his dorm room, but literally directly under where his bed.
This caused Doctor Sean doctor He's a doctor, to develop a severe him
a lot of good fear of spiders. Oh my god. A few months
had passed since the spider attacks had taken place, and right around another Halloween.
Trying to decide what character he wanted to portray, Doctor Sean began painting
various designs on his face with face paint, like a normal person does.
In the thanks of doing this, his biggest fear of all appeared in his
mind, the fear of spiders. So he decided, so he painted a
spider design that covered his entire face. Once Doctor Sean had finished finished his
facial artwork that night, it's a direct quote from his Fucking Phobia website.
Here he stayed where did his reflection in the mirror? One word came to
his mind and he muttered it over and over again with deep emotion. That
word was phobia. Yes, phobia, yes, phobia. Phobia. At
that moment, Doctor Sean considered the spider emblem painted on his face to be
a reflection of not just his own personal fear of spiders, but all the
fears that he had grown up with and developed through the course of his childhood,
teenage, and now young adult life. Thus Phobia was born. Phobia
first made his presence known in Boise, Idaho, appearing on local television news
talking about safety awareness for kids when trick or treating. Doctor Sean used this
footage to send to the WWE, and this character is essentially what got him
his initial try out with the company. This guy, huh, yes,
fabia fabia. Is that like a he's ripping off the fabia fabi? All
right, fabia full full full fabia? What I don't know. This guy
looks a face paint. I don't know. Good gimmick fabia Fabian said Phobia
into the mirror one time, two times, three times, four times,
and after the fourth time the second plane hit the towers. Oh my god,
I can't this is really bothering me. I got to minimize this window.
He later became the wrestling characters Meet Perfect Sean, Planet Staysiac Sean Staysyac.
My first name's Planet doctor Sean. I love that he Fucking Doctor Sean
never portrayed Phobia on TV for either major wrestling company that he worked for,
W or WW. It has become clear now as to why Phobia never came
to fruition as a wrestling character. Phobia had a greater mission to go beyond
the context of just another wrestling character. It is Phobia's destiny to be brought
to be a fire from both places. It is Phobia's destiny to be brought
to the attention of millions of people on international level. As an inspirational speaker.
He is a comic book character come to life superhero that has a profound
and positive message, Face your fear and embrace whatever. Listen, I'm I'm
the message, great, big fan of the message. This is psycho bullshit.
Totally like if I went to a fucking like if this colon came to
my school, I mean horrified, m I mean I'll also be like,
you're a fucking idiot. It would be like you don when like someone shows
up dressed up like a monster at like a kid's birthday party and the kids
are too young and they actually think it's the monster and they scream and run.
Exactly Okay, I get it. The grint shows up and they run
screaming like he's gonna kill him. This is video footage on his on his
fucking wait. Yeah, I'm not ready. Well it's time for another one
of those days. I'm feeling. It's in the streets, it's in the
air, it's everywhere. It's fobamania. Oh no, it's phobamania. Yeah,
come in, each and every one of you. A fear is just
a thought in your mind that you made up about something that you could be
changing in an instant. It's up to you and you. Fear is just
something you believe in yourself and pursue your dreams with your with passion and coming
from your heart. Place yourself around positive people, people that love you,
that care about you. Listen. Message is great, message is great,
It's all it's it's inappropriate, deeply disturbing. What's this? This is one
more? And then ripping off the thriller song. Okay, sure you got
permission. What is he doing? Shun? What is he doing? Okay,
gets your message. Ten years ago, I was at the top of
the mountain. It's gonna be the champion. My father always knew that I
could be the man. Okay, he's cutting a promo Okay, he's cutting
a promo on television, unlike this is and I was destined to become.
At the beak of my career, I could feel the eight legs crippling,
crawling all through my head and my body, the eight legs of fear that
played me for seven long years stout, what the fuck? Frustration, anxiety,
sadness, disgust. You were just sun horrible negative energies that kept me
buried in the haunting realm for so long. No, that's not why you
get buried, pals. I mean, oh my my god, where do
I sign him? Who's his agent? I am? I am, Let's
see, you can contact him, let's see. No, I don't.
I think it's gonna end horribly. I think it's gonna end. I mean,
I think, I think. I think. Listen, No, I
don't want to say anything bad about him. And he's doing it. He's
doing you know, he's doing it good. I'm not sure he's going alone.
I just don't. I just don't. I just I don't. I
don't think this story is going to end on a positive note. That's all,
got it? Well, The crowd in Jacksonville isn't responding in a positive
note you suck, They chant at him. I'm surprised for responding at all,
as you sure are we sure that's not canned audio? It's canned something
canned, canned beef maybe can can, can't chili con car But enough about
what's in Dusty's burritos. Later, Daisy grabs some mic say shut up and
listen and learn. It was like a normal guy. So it's not easy
being the mecha of manhood and you've got agents knocking on your door star of
the Sean and Stacy Show. But I always have time for you. Oh
yeah, my little bald headed, fat, disgusting, toothless uh bam bam
bigelow want to be losers? What? And just to motivate you further,
I bought some pit This is funny. He brought some eight by tens of
himself. He hands them out to people in that audience. That's pretty funny.
I'll take that's in every one of you hogs. So a little bit
of recruited there. Now do we know? If? Are we? Do
we know? Is this is this actor Adrian Grenier on uh on steroids?
Do we know? My god? Yeah? And standing next to him is
Jordan romel. Oh my god, that's funny. So yes, he says,
the pleasure was all yours, and that concludes you're a brush with greatness
for this evening, do it now. And then Tony compares them to Donnie
Osmond and Marie. Oh good, that's great. And then he tosses a
bunch of eight x ten sloppily into the crowd. Bam bam. Bigelow comes
out with a vest you'd wear if you worked in a garage. I swear
to god, whatever you know, whatever they whatever happened to Bammer's like post
like nineteen ninety five. Wwe, it's like it. It really just made
him into an inappropriate yeah you know person. Here he is grabs one of
the pictures of Sean Stasiak and crumples it to the bitter end, goes Bam
bam. As they face off here Sean Staysiac and Bam Bam Bigelow wud greed
contrast and men in styles and purpose to he says, yeah, one of
these two doesn't have one. So there's that Stasiac ducks and jabs Early trying
to stick and move, Bigelow corners, and Billy Silverman gets in between.
Them push off headlock tackle. Stasiac bumps and kIPS right back up, showing
some of that athleticism, that second generation athleticism. Think and then he ducks,
but he's dropped with the right hand by Bigelow. Stasiac takes a powder.
Bigelow takes a powdered donut. By the way, you know what I
just wrote what he says he has agents knocking on his door. I wrote,
federal agents. I can't believe I let that one slide. Well,
I didn't have all that material that you just presented, either federally chance mad
because I'm flagrant Federal agents worked like one of those big, like battering rams.
He's in there with like you know, it's like photographs of his crimes
hanging off the walls. He's not only that, but he's got the fucking
phobia costume dressed like that. It's like this completely just awful. It's awful
fucking apartment, all right, one one bedroom apartment. There's no furniture in.
It's got like, you know, a cigar, a cigarette smelling carpet.
Okay, walter wall. They they find fucking Stacy act in. He's
got a small fucking you know, like turndial TV. Okay, on like
a on like a like a like a like a like a TV dinner tray.
Okay, you know one of those little things. Yeah, they fold
out things, all right, and he's watching TV. There. He's all
he's wearing is is tidy whities, and he's like he's like right next to
the fucking screen. He's like a foot away from the television and he's eating
a can of barbecue like baked beans. Okay. That's when they fucking break
down the door. Who maybe he got it. No, they take the
rest of No, No, he knows. He knows that what evidence they
have. It's rid. I had another thought too, Like they bust down
the door, there's nobody in like the fourier, there's no there's no one
in the living room. The TV's on, but there's no one in there.
Yes, and they finally break they break down the bathroom door, and
he's he's in that outfit, the phobia outfit, sitting in the tub.
The water is blue ink blue, and the camera cuts to him looking straight
ahead and then he whips his head around like Zoolander at the cops and then
goes dude, not just guys like what he goes do it now? They
go, okay, they shoot him? Oh god, I mean, look,
these are all slices of lives. These are all representative vignettes. This
is what happens. This is what happens. Is what happens. Oh my
christ, Hudson says san Stacyac is gonna neither need another nose job if Bigelo
keeps this up. As he seeks refuge in Stacy's bosom. Back in,
stacy Ac ducks under the ropes once a time out Tony no time out and
wrestling thanks Tone walk up to the corner, stays Yac slugs out of the
corner and works over Bigelow and big corners and throws punched. He goes for
he goes at one point, I don't know when this actually happens, but
stay, Zach throws the right hand and it's like, I'm pretty sure it
doesn't connect. Okay, I'm pretty sure it doesn't connect, but bam bam
sells it anyway it happens. I hate that so much. Yeah, at
least you can do is not sell it. Yeah. Corner to corner,
backdrop by Bigelo. Since Stasiac up into the lights, to barge in the
corner and then Larry At drops stays Yac Bigelow with a drop, kicks and
Stasiac to the floor. Some kid copping a feel on Stacy. See it
for yourself? Are you serious? Pretty much? Wow? Stay Yak with
a jawbreaker and shoves Bigelow into the steps back in. Staysak climbs the ropes
and hits a cross body and gloats after landing the move Bigelan and fires off
a head butt, but gets low blowed. Stay Jac pulls Bigelow off the
ropes and he bumps that fan says, yeah, that's my Sean Biggelow hits
nail. There's this fan in the front row hard camera side. He's just
he's a show on to himself throughout the entirety of this bread guest. He
later identifies himself, I believes the biggest booker t fan or something big liw
Low blows him now a snapman and head butt, falling head butt, climbs
stop rope, drops a great head butt one two, shoulder up, shoulder
up for Sean Stasyac. Stacy then gets up in the apron, sensing desperation.
Distracted the referee Bigelow hits his greetings from Asbury Park, that sit out
slam pile driver thing, yeah, and then she taps him from behind.
She lets her hair down, distracting Bigelow and tosses something into the ring to
Sean behind Bigelow's back. By the way, so I do want to comment
on one thing that happened a little bit earlier. So when you get you
get the Bam Bam does the in siguri on staysiac okay, right, and
Hudson says that he is surprised that Bam Bam got air and which what is
he doing? A sleep app But this is a legitimate beef I have and
don't get excited testing when I say beef that that literally that pisses me the
fuck off about as a wrestling fan about wrestling commentators when they when they have
seen the right the ability of Bam Bam bigel Like I've heard them comment on
the ability of Bam Bam Bigelo doing his moon salt, doing all these different
aerial tactics. Yet they're shocked every fucking time in credulous like they've never seen
that, They've never seen it. It's like, you know, it's like
It's like, you know, one of the other times that I think of
is like the Rumble two ninety one, my favorite rumble, right, But
it pisses me off that Guerrilla Monsoon is shocked to see hul Kogan slam earthquake
when we've seen him slam thousands of fat guys, right, thousands of fat
guys including earthquake. Mind you, I know that that that that that Gorilla
didn't do commentary of Summer Slam nineteen ninety but Piper did. And Piper saw
Hogan slam earthquake at SummerSlam, and he stands there and doesn't love the finger
right as it just a little A Monsoon perpetrates a miscarriage of justice essentially.
I think even Roddy Piper he does. I think Rody Piper even says,
like, you know he can't do you want for you know you can't do
he can't slam him. How's he gonna slam? Is he gonna pick him
up like you've seen him do it? That's awesome? It has since nineteen
ninety one. That has pissed me off. When these guys are amazed at
shit that they've seen before, and I just just wait for the rest of
this paper here, you know, I mean, and part of me gets
it, okay, part of me kind of understands that the idea is,
you know, they're probably trying to maximize the drama in the moment. Not
even that, but people, they're taking consideration new fans. But fuck that,
all right, Like let the let the new fans figure it out on
their own, yep, all right, let them figure out a way to
like where did this happen the first time? Yeah, let me appreciate why
this isn't a big deal. But I'm with you. God, it pissed
me. I mean, how many time have we seen Bam Bam do aerial
tactics. It's like old fucking news, right, fucking Scott Hudson. There
he is, idiot, back on the task, back on the back on
the job. And yeah, whatever it was that Stacy tossed to him,
Stacy Act is able to spray Bigelow in the eyes with it. I think
it's like it's like hairspray or something that must be so. Then Bigelow swings
and Missus opening up the hangman's noose neck breaker for Staysy Act. That was
his finish One two, three, five minutes fifty five second, Shohn staysy
act defeats Bam Bam Bigelow. So he's like literally ripping off Rick rud At
every fucking time he can. He can, Yeah with the neck breaker as
well. Absolutely he is. Yeah that When he came back in the Russo
Bischoff Nitro in April two thousand, it was like a direct rip off.
Even feuded with Kurt Hennig and Wow, like the perfect whatever. He was,
the perfect, perfect Sewan. He was perfect Sean, perfect stupid.
Another do it now? As Stacy has or eight by tens from the briefcase,
trainer Danny Young comes out wiping the eyes down of Bam Bam Bigelow,
and sta Yac offers an eight by ten to the trainer who's tending to Biggelow.
That's really awesome to go up and offer to someone who's like clearly doing
something else is very funny. Another liplock and she takes him that time.
This one looks a little more like a shoot. I think she may have
even liked it a bit. Yep, she slaps his ass and there you
go. Bigelo want to rematch the next night of Nitro using Stacy's hairspray on
stacyac and then said he would bring his tattoo. That's what it was.
His tattoo artists next Monday to Nitro to tattoo Sean Staciac. Of course that
never happened. The only ink he got was WW contract Hey, I mean
that's probably better off anyway. And now we have survey Aalen's camera because God
forbid a regular camera be backstage as the cat is talking to Miss Jones's valet
at the time, says, I let you take care of him, but
after what he did to me, he wants her to stay back here.
Okay, so Kat trying to tell his Jones not to get involved. Later,
Skipper with the tag title belt cruiswait tag belt, saying I built this
belt, and then Romeo comes in it's our belt. Skippers draps on kid
Romeo's belt, says the girls are going to love us tonight. I don't
know if kid Romeo has must much interest Elix, but okay, come on,
baby, get in here, as straps it on, and then Skipper
then presents get mine on, so they belt each other. Alix proclaims in
the first EVA Cruillweight Tag team champs. Okay, that's that's a great story.
They showed Nitro from March fifth, where Humorris moonsalted against Team Canada and
Landstorm got involved with Hu Morris had now broken free from the Misfits in action
and it is back to just being moonsalting Hu Morris again. And Mike Austoin
is no longer the fat chick thriller. He's now the Canadian Mike Austin with
short hair. And here comes Storm Lance Storm to the ring and his wall.
He's not He's not Canadian either, is he? Mike costume is not
Canadian, but they put him much like the skipper in the Canadian stable.
I see because it's comedy that he's not Canadian. I see. I guess.
So here comes Team Canada Storm Warning, Storm grabs the mic usa chant
if I can be serious for a minute. Hugh Morris's face too long.
He's got the worst, He's got no charisma. That's the idea. That's
the gimmick. I mean, but it's not good. Like that's not a
good gimmick. I agree. It was good in ww in that he was
like a drill sergeant. In WWF he was literally boring that was his gimmick.
I am boring, so I'm gonna dance. I am boring, so
I'm just going to emote. You know. Yeah, it's not okay,
not okay at all. It's just humorch You've been in our face for too
long to night. We've been into it, and we're down with them.
We're moving out of the World Tag Team Championships and we're done with them.
Show Team Canada the respect we deserve. Rise for the playing of the national
anthem. Dead serious, buzz cut and scowl on land Storm is He says,
I said rise and play the Canadian national anthem, And then Hudson says,
I don't hear the anthem. Obviously some no talent American in the back.
Landstorm says, can't figure out what the play button is. I've been
doing this for eight months. Play the anthem, and instead it's Hugh Morris's
laughing entrance music. Okay, right, well that's something at least, and
Storm gets a scared look in his eye. Hutton says it must be some
puff Daddy remix. Okay, Hugh Morris's partner Conan and White Sneakers. Are
you ready for Landstorm? And Mike Austin versus Hugh Morris and Conan. I
agreed, really, I really can't. This was tough to get through.
This is just awful. Conan suddenly appears and his music plays for five seconds
in his flannel jacket. Tony says he didn't even wait for his music to
establish. As Mike Austin whips you Moore and drops him with hard Larry Attou
straight out of Japan to get the match started, Lanstorm comes into some chops
and humorous, no cells and nails, and Landstorm goes to the eyes.
However, corner to corner, Whip is reversed into Storm's big boot, goes
humoris, and then Storm charges into a power slam for the one too.
As Mike Austin makes the save. Storm tags awesome. As Mike Ausain comes
in, Whip puts the boot up and drops Hugh Morris and then kind of
does a weird ass leg drop. So yes, a boot and a leg
drop by what dude? What another son of Tampa Mike Awesome. I remember
some vaguely that he's like a cousin of Hogan, or like a second cousin
or something. Really, yeah, there's some god Damn. I knew,
I knew I was gonna forget to look this up for the episode, and
I did. It sits in my mind somehow. Let's see, Mike Alfonso,
that's also inappropriate. Horace Hogan is his cousin. That's what it was.
Is Mike Austin's cousin. So I guess that. And and of course,
uh, Horace is nephew m so that would make I don't even know
what the cousin of your nephew is to you. I don't know if there's
even a familial term for that. And THEO it is so Austin gets too
off the leg, drop corner to corner, splash in the corner by awesome
double whip and they drop humorus the clothes line. Mickey j presiding on this
contest, storm swings on Conyan. Conan hits him and they collide. Him
and Hugh do as they mix it up. Tag to Mike Austoin, tacked
to Conan, rolling Larryot from Conan onto Mike Austome Tony sis Conyan has been
established an established leader. He's become an established leader in the locker roomait Not
Coney says about Hugh Morris, I think I have conyin here. Well here,
let's this is what I have. You may have been a leader of
the misstitch of one time, but he is still the leader of the locker
room. Are asked the hand they look into. Okay, that's it.
That's enough for the podcast. I'll see you guys next time. Tony says,
I'm okay with locker room leaders in this uh, in this uh dynamic?
What's the problem? Buildamot's face, Huh brother, build the build them
what build Amott's face. Locker room leader, build a'mott's face, locker room
leader, build Mott's face, locker room loser. Uh. Conan leap frogs
goes for his X factor move, but Mike Austome nails him. The way
up of the lottery yet slams Conan and it's a big splash for two double
team in the corner on Conan. Qun on corner fires out with the back
elbow, drops Conan cover one two on Conan. Conan black jeans, white
sneakers and boxers hanging out. Everything about him is wrong. The Canadian Killer
one of the quickest big men you'll ever find in any sport. Mike awesome
announce the Canadian Killer. Yes he doesn't kill Canadians. He is Canadian and
he kills It doesn't matter. It's still just bullshit. Sad to hear Tony
talk about the future implications of this matchup on the title picture. There will
be no title picture to be Storm gives give some of the fans hell at
rings side with his hands raised and Conanan's fed back in for the two.
Conan does an insight cradle for two backup clothesline drops Conan as Team Canada stays
on his ass and then Lan Storm comes in and Conan fires back, but
Storm drops him as well. Tag to Mike Austin, who comes off the
top rope and levels Conan with a cross body and gets two or a close
line, whatever it was. Hugh Morris then reaches in from the apron and
slaps the back to break I didn't know that broke up a cover and wrestling.
Did you know that, boss, if you just reach between the ropes
and slap the back of the guy who's making the cover. Yeah, yeah,
it's weird shittath That always pisses me off, Like when you when you're
two, it's like, you know, maybe you should have the guy kick
out instead, because right, because you're really fucking it up when you do
that. Uh Storm then whips in Conan hits a big drop kick, and
then Hugh Morris breaks it up and shouts at Mickey Jay about I guess some
double teaming is land Storm. Uh does a snapmare at a leg drop for
two. Then he puts a sleeper on in a front face lock, and
Mike Awesome comes in and distracts the referee so that he misses the chat the
tag and who more or is pissed about that Mike Awesome with a pile driver
where he lands across your legs and uh and head, I don't remember what
I mean by that. It's the pile driver. It's a pile driver.
Yeah. Humors breaks it up at the count of two. Landstorm with a
body slam, climbs the top rope, jumps off and lands with a boot
into his own face. There's a collision and a double clothesline and a double
down. Humorris gets the tag to no pop whatsoeverybody's running wild. He whips
Mike assume In hits a spinning heel kick for two, corner to corner,
whipping then a barge and then again another in the corner, and then he
turns into Landstorm's super kick as Mike Awesome climbs and hits a big splash on
Humors for the one two. Conan makes the save. A pere four brawl
breaks out. Conan throws Landstorm out of the ring as Mike Awesom lifts ducks
Humorris and then it sends him flying with the German just yeah, this is
where Johnny A sprinkles in all japan offense of course, as you should.
Then Humorous climbs for a moon salt, which you call the no Laughing Matter,
but Storm clips him before he can take flight, and Humorus jumps and
drops Storm on the apron reclimbs to go forward again. This time it's my
Awsome who cuts him off, gets Humorris up onto his shoulder and does a
running Awesome bomb out of the corner, dropping Hu Morris. Tough. Storm
grabs Conan to prevent him from breaking up the cover and it's one two and
three Team Canada. Lance Stroman Mike Astom defeed Hugh Morrison Conan eleven minutes and
twenty eight seconds at Greed. Oh my god, that was just I can't
believe it was that short. That was a greedy allotment of time, is
what it was. Yeah, Team Canada, position for future greatness? What
four in a company that will not exist? But hey, Lance Storm is
the first invader in WW. I don't ever take that away from him.
I remember, I remember it was. It was actually the backstage. It
was kind of all kind of exciting. Yep. So Dustin Roads is in
the dressing room, as is Dusty, and we have the surveillance camera angle
once again in the cowboy outfit, and Dustin's reading the newspaper. And here
here, here, here, here, you gotta ready to get ready.
You got to listen to this shit. We got Jackson to get it.
What's wrong? What do you mean? What throw? I ain't not the
wrong beat? You shouldn't be getting ready. I'm getting ready to get rid
of You want one of them boys to kiss her. We'll let me tell
you what you can believe one of them boss gonna kiss my kidding tonight,
I'll say, you know, but you know what, I'm gonna get ready
for my all. There's some special workhouse stuff I've been waiting. List what
you don't like what it is? Wait it? Yeah, hey, that
might get town in yet all smell that, smell it, all smell it,
put it down right here? All right? Yeah? Rito? What
is is Plancho? Think you Pancho? I'll give you a tip. Don't
on the hearts. Brothers, look at here, who are you tonight?
Two hundred and forty burrito. When I finish he needs I'm gonna be ready.
We got a match. Pop now, I gotta I gotta match flat
face in my ass. That's the match and he's gonna smell it up when
we get out there. Brother, you know what I talk about. Let's
get on me. Let me get ready for Oh I can smell it now.
Let's get on these, he says. Of the burritos, he says
two hundred and forty eight burridos. He says, he's got two hundred and
forty burritos. And we're the ones that make it all about food. I
mean, also, come on, it's not like fucking Dusty Rhodes is not
hungry himself to do. Look at the size of him at this point,
and like the idea, like even the idea of him eating like having one
beans inside one burrito alone is is just it's vulgar and and I guess the
idea is he's eating all these burritos so that he has to ship, and
when he ships out of his ass, it smells. I get the idea
of it. It's just like, like, here's my idea. Like,
Okay, if I were to eat that many burritos before a wrestling match,
there's gonna be a problem before I even like win, if I get,
if I get body slammed, I'm gonna be shitting burrito. It's not like
he's gonna it's like his ass is gonna stink so that when Flaire has to
kiss it, it's like that he's just gonna all over the place. That
might be what it is. He might just want to like ship his pants
and then have to have I see Dusty shove I mean Flaire shove his face
up his ass. Maybe there's some hints from the promo Dusty cut on the
Greed pre show. Let's take a listen. Now, I'm stowing it.
I got food coming fast. What do you mean? What I mean?
You know what I mean? Huh, I'm hungry. I got some come
that's gonna give my stomach gets a rumble. You know what I'm talking about,
because the Native bo reck flats gonna kiss my tonight. We done made
that set, you know what I mean. And I'm gonna eat somewhere before
I go in, and I'm gonna get it all worked up. So it's
just kind of like my saddle back here, my own saddle back gonna be
blazed by the time, by the time right now. He later Nagivo Ric
Flash Jeff Jarrett Tonight's to Night minute, I believe, he said, by
the time he's done eating, his saddleback is going to be blazing, blazing,
blazing. I I don't know what that means per se, but it's
inappropriate. It's it's making me feel feelings inside that I don't want to feel.
Maybe Tony Sheilani can help. On his podcast, he talked about Dusty
and his ass. Yeah, Dusty always Dusty. Dusty's farts a live or
dead he would like this story. Dusty's farts always sounded like there was something
coming with it besides the gas. Something it was. It was a wet
sounding, long, drawn out, high pitch type. And I would always
say, boy, motherfucker, check your shorts. And he used to do
it and we would drive down the road and it would be I mean,
you know, there was no sbds with Dusty. They were like they were
part of his persona. You know, he was bigger than life, and
those things were bigger than life with some substance to it. So I had
I had seen those and felt those and unfortunately smelt those careers. So this
was nothing new to me. And one of the things that really surprised me
about this was and it did surprise me back then. And don't ask me
how I know this, because I really don't know. But I do know
this. Dusty never wore underwear, oh never. And how do you know
that? I just knew that he never wore underwear, And so when the
pants went down, I was surprised to see underwear on. I think it
may be a Texas thing. No underwear and jeans. You look, you
man put that in your Google machine. But Dusty never wore underwear, and
I knew that. I'm I feel like, there's the story you're not telling
us about how you know this, But we'll get there one day. All
right, Here's here's how I know this. Oh boy, do you remember
when way back when I did an interview with Dusty Rhodes and Willie Nelson.
Yes, this was old school stuff. Yes, we got to Tucson,
Arizona and did that because Willie was shooting a Willie was shooting a movie back
then with Chris Christofferson and David allen Coe and old Tucson. I think it
was the remake of Stagecoach, I'm not sure. And we were going to
shoot this thing at the pool at the hotel and we were out sitting up
Wayne Daniel and I were sitting up to the cameras and the lights and everything,
and Willie walks out to the pool and so I said, well,
we better get Dusty. Wayne said, go back and get Dusty. So
I had knocked on the door boom boom, boom, boom boom, and
I remember Dusty saying, come on in, I've got it a jar.
I said, okay, And he's laying in bed and I said, Willie's
out there already. He said, good good. I'm glad he's out there
because I want him to go out first. He said, see, the
star always comes out second. And he did that to make me laugh that
he was a bigger star than Willie Nelson, which in their own right they
were two gigantic stars. So I said, well, we better go.
So he he has his shirt on and he pulls off the covers and he's
butt naked with just the shirt on. He said, all right, I'm
coming. So I'm standing. I don't know why I'm still standing like an
idiot. And he pulls the jeens on over without any underwear on, and
I said, are you going to do this bareback? He said, that's
what I always I never had underwear. Okay, So that's how I know
he never wore underwear. So you can imagine that some of those real wet
sounding farts stained a lot of those genes. And you know you wouldn't necessarily
clean your jeans every day? Boss? What the state of dusties jeans?
The roomy wranglers, huge skid marks for days? His ass touching denim,
I mean, because the thing is, you know, you know he can't
get around to wiping it that good, right, because he's just he could
be so conscientious about it, it just wouldn't matter. It just doesn't matter,
Like you know, he could wipe, he just can't reach it.
He just not built that way, not anymore. Do you remember what the
muffler was no when he said I have a muffler in. What that means
is I think we talked about this in an r of war games. That
means he stuffs a bunch of toilet paper in the crack of his ass so
that he doesn't if he shits himself, it doesn't come through the pants and
his ass cracks sweat doesn't stain his pants either. He's got a muffler in.
And sometimes the muffler would come out in the middle of the match with
with yellowish stains on it. Got a muffler in normal business, normal people,
normal vocabulary. Yeah, it is normal. I mean I muffle all
the time. Agree, I'm glad we have consensus what this country's going nowhere.
If we can't agree in a common set of facts, I mean,
what the absolute fuck? What is wrong with him fucking put some fucking underwear
on, you fucking freak? Oh? I mean so much residue, so
much, you know, like the little turds, like the ones that like
because here's the thing, thinking size like a jellybean. Think about this,
This is the thing that really so so imagine obviously you know he's gonna eat
after he eats, Okay, sure, and then he's gonna go sit and
do a fucking three hour pay per view where he doesn't get up, he
doesn't move, and his and and like the sweat, it's mixing in with
the residue of ship. His ass crack is slippery. Oh ah, it's
about it's about the stink from the crack. It's not even you know what
I mean, it'sern't about the whole right, right exactly exactly. The bacteria
migrates up the crack, right exactly. There's so much more to it than
just the you know, like there there are a million hygiene issues going on
here. You got yeah, no, that's great, all right, So
that's established. Good glad we got over that. That was in. That
was a big hurdle to jump here in our greed deep dive. So it's
back to uh, documentary footage of buff Bagwell. Let's look, how about
this thing? It's good? Huh how about that? Let's see if I
have this one saying that making a documentary the entire century And he says,
I got a question for a scene. Ss I hired you. Sit down,
Bagwell says to the camp documentarian with his sunglasses on. His sunglasses are
over his backwards cap. They're over his cap. I'm I I have yet
to see an issue at all with this fucking We just keep agreeing this is
great. Yeah, yeah, it's all. It's all normal ship. It's
what Buff in two thousand and one. His faces, shoot me, shoot
me, his like sensibility, his like just unseeriousness. Throw me off a
fucking cliff. There we go, right, like just the the the absolute
bottom feeding worst of humanity. Just the fucking it's great, heel, That's
that's what you're trying to say. Yeah, exactly exactly. That's my reaction
is to how great a performer he is, not to how despicable a human
being he is. Kill me. Honestly, I just agreed, agreed,
you got it what. I'm not greedy for this ship? Yeah, he
says to Rick, what are you gonna do to Alex Lugar? I'm gonna
thump his butt eating a he's eating a grape or something, as Rick Snyder
very curious. I'm gonna thump his butt, That's what he says. I
think they getta they do a fist pump. It's not that hard, and
Buff asks what is up with Scotti? The Medesia thing got to his head
and you know it, that's like a disease, and it definitely does.
Rick says, I think soon I'm gonna find out who is messing with everything,
and we're gonna get everything back to normal. They do a fist pump
and Rix says, next time get us. Uh damn woman, camera man,
what's gonna fuck her? And then we go to Chuck Palombo and a
shell necklace choker speaking of greatness? Is this tonight? The games are over?
You find out who the toughest team is. Sometimes people say only the
strong survive. I believe you're looking at two survivors right here. Sean,
Chuck and I would die defending those tag belts. Lex and Buff will have
to kill us, he says, to get those belts. If they can
do it, more power to them. But if we're still breathing, we're
still champs, and they flex their packs. What a charismatic team you'll hear
in Palombo are. Of course they're wonderful. If you didn't get enough,
here's them on the pre show showing I don't know how you feel. For
a week after week after week after week, we played games with Lex and
Bunk. I don't want to do it anymore. I want to end all
this crap tonight, Chuck. Lex and Buch are starting to irritate me so
bad. I'll tell you what. We're not gonna have a match from tonight.
We're gonna hurt them. You down with that, I'm down with that.
I mean Lex and Bum They've already made it for the top of their
career. They're not going to make any further. We're on our way up.
We're hungry, man, They're not hungry. We're hungry if people want
to see us quick quick? How dare you say they're not hungry? Destined
for stardom? Nerhode Islands, Chuck Palumbo, there sounds like Paul d on
Jersey Shore. And then I want you to hear the authenticity and the wonderful
delivery of Shan O'Hair when he says they irritate me so bad, showing I
don't know how you feel. For a week after week after week after week
we played games with Lexi Bunk. I don't want to do it anymore.
I want to end all this crap. Tonight we go. Lex and Buff
are starting to irritate me so bad. Emphasis on. That's the shadow here.
I know, that's the shato hair that throw me into the Charles Rivers.
Yes, yes, yes, Tony says, we talk about Dusty Rhodes
and his burrito buffet de Yeah. Do we need to do that because I
prefer not. They called back to super Brawl where Shane Helms, the cruiserweight
champion of w W at the time, replaced Kidman injured and won a six
man to get the championship or to qualify for it, whatever the funk it
was, and they put the they put the rocket on Shane Helms. They
saw some money in this kid. They yeah, I mean somebody did.
I don't. I don't get it, but great. Yeah, he's got
his entrance with all the dancers called the Sugar Babies, and he even mixed
his own song. It's dubbed out of Peacock, but we have it for
you on w t LF. It's a verte breaker shot. Okay, yach
he started in the Sugar Babies, aren't They could be at place actually,
and you look for Shane Helms. He got a breaker, is a breaker.
It's in a pony sat only hated the move that has made those move
right there and here plot Dusty Road married back today about one about a Dot.
It's all in there, the two thousand and one w CW right there.
Oh my god, I can't but the shimmy shimmy ya there. What
the fuck? Here's what Shane helm said in the pages of w W magazine
about what we just heard. From coming up with clever names for his signature
moves to designing his website Sugar, Shane Helms likes to take an active role
in every aspect of his career, so when he needed new entrance music after
breaking away from Three Count, Helms decided to write the song himself. It
took Helms all of ten minutes to you Don't Say to write the lyrics to
vertebreaker of the song named after his finishing move. Helms then told Jimmy Hard
what he wanted the song to sound like, and the legendary wrestling manager and
music uru called a rap group boys with the bass to record it. I
wonder where those guys are today, Those fucking groups that probably like Jimmy Hart,
like you know, found that a fucking basement or something. I wanted
it to sound like Shimmy Shimi Ya by Old Dirty bastard. Well, yeah,
you just ripped the fucking thing directly, says Helms, who wanted to
sing the song but was unable to because of time constraints. The main thing
I want is that as soon as the song hits people know I'm coming to
add some sizzle to the entrance, the Nitro girls, the company, Helms
and a dance routine on the stage. And that was his idea too.
For those wishing to sing along with Vertebreaker, here are the words. Now,
I'm the original kid started back in ninety one in the state of NC,
came up hard with dues I paid. Now Helms invades with a funny
tirade. Funky tirade some may say funny, try to best take notice.
Sugar Shane has arrived to plex all opponents right up their back side. A
aim high like the sky, with the skills to imply, Helms will survive
while them other fools die. Vert a Breaker will break your spine. Vert
a Breaker does the trick every time. So don't go to sleep because Sugar
Shane creeps to hit you with the Nightmare on Helm Street Solo. At last,
the hip that won't miss planning the Sugar smack right on your lips,
all out pops NonStop, to you drop, make you say Pretty Please with
sugar on top. Vert A Breaker sounds good to me. It's tough.
Huh Yeah, I'm a big, big fan of vert A Breaker. Did
you like that entrance? Boss for digging it? No? Why, I
just don't get it. I mean, Shane helms his face creeps me out
here we go. I mean that's just kind of it. Like his eyes
are just way too small, like he just it's it's really weird that his
that as the Hurricane. The mask really helped his appearance because he just looks
like, I don't know what, but it's not okay. I never noticed
the thing about his eyes tiny and they make you feel very uncomfortable. Like
I look at him and I'm like, where did you come from? Like
did someone did you like when you were born? Did you call it your
mom's ass or something? Right? Like, it's just he's a lapsed fan
wrestling podcast with Jack and JP Sorrow. He's a La Fan wrestling podcast.
His opponent, Chavo Guerrero, comes out to a pretty sweet remix of Eddie's
w CW song Boom Yeah Sun Time t Sun for this championship, the Cruiserweight
title. I'm pretty sure that Chavo was the only person who was imported entirely
to w CW with his tron and music and everything in the w w F
transition. I remember he came out with the exact tron video. I was
like, Wow, this is an actual WCW guy here, and that was
it. I remember seeing some of the w W trons on w w F
screens and this was one of the few that that made the transition. Booker
T's music survived. Other than that, pretty much nothing nothing from the w
W presentation lived on. So it's Chavover's Helms here for the Cruise ofw Weight
Strap Greed. They lock up to the ropes and are jostling for position,
and there's a break and Charles Robinson is presiding another lock up side headlock by
Chavo. Guerrero push off. Chavo holds on though to the headlock, refuses
to relinquish, even grabbing the hair to maintain control. Finally, Shane Helms
gets free, ducks the uh duck something and dom what's that duck? Two?
Yestx two thank you? And at Shane Helms with the headlock takedown.
Chavo Guerrero answers with the head scissor back up. Bridges up, Yeah,
listen, if you're if you're, if you're in this, in this realm
here, you have to bridge. Bridges are the utmost importance and desires and
you must bridge. And a snap near by Chavo Shane Helms with the head
scissor and they face off to some polite applause. After those exchanges, Chavo
to the hammer lock now and he does kind of a drop step to the
waistlog and the side headlock by Shane Helms whips Chavo under the leap frog and
hooks him up, shoots them off again, and this time Chavo explodes with
a lariat, dropping Shane Helms and bringing an in to the bullshit. So
the corner puts the boots to him and Shane starts firing back reversed whip.
Helms goes sternham first into the corner as Chavo tries a back supplex, but
Shane Helms lands on his feet and hits a gut wrench suplex and uh fist
drop off the middle rope for two. Shane Helms and signals for his nightmare
on ELM Street kind of like The Big Show's Final cut deal if I remember
correctly the kind of reverse DDT position that that's a great fucking move. Yeah,
Chado gets free Tho when he ducks the lariat and a t bone suplex
by Chavo gets too. As he takes back over, you can see the
green lantern tattoo on helms his arm which was going on. Yeah, do
you ever say something about about you ever know that pretty much every other wrestling
promotion has the same turnbuckle pads except w B. Yeah, they have these
like circular almost things like they've got they've got these like usually the like regular
promotion have these these uh like I don't know if it's if it's like what
the material is, but it's definitely like shiny and pass. It's more rubbery
and it like it. It It just folds over flat, whereas w W
has these fucking pillows that I don't know where did that come to it?
Yeah, it's so odd. You don't see those pillows in any boxing rings
or anything. I don't know. Only w W has that at any ring
sport. It is. It is really strange. I'd love to know the
story behind that. But yes, the green lantern tattoo. Of course,
we'd go on to inspire the Hurricane character in WWE, which gave Shane Helms
an actual run in the business travel with the stat mayor puts a regal sty
line. I remember when he almost beat Triple H. I do remember that.
That's in Triple H was doing the carry people like it's you know,
TBS and eighty seven and Flavor's got the strap working, fucking George South and
making people think George South had a chance. Yep with Taka Michinoko. He
kind of did it with Chris Jericho. Do yeah, what an era for
the game. Chavo bridges to a chinlock and stays on the leg, wrenching
it back on helms, kind of like a calf crushed admission on the canvas.
Helms and grabs a sleeper to counter that. They get back up and
Chavo lifts and dump Shane Helms hard with the backsup lex for two. Chavo
gets a hard chop and brings Shane up to his knees. Hudson points out
that these men are wrestling, not doing the typical high flying off your cruiser
waights here, Shane Helston sets him off dropkick, but no Chavo Guerrero catches
him, does kind of a jackknife cover. Shane Helms fails to bridge up,
trying to come up from underneath. Nothing sadder in pro wrestling, And
when someone fails with that bridge from underha, it's really it's not okay,
it's always so depressing. Yeah, it's such a it's such a low percentage
move, such a high percentage chance that you're going to suck it up.
Yep. So they roll over and then Shanehelm's power bombs but no. Trava
lands on his feet and spikes him with the Big DDT and gets a cover
for two. Shane Helms goes into the corner, ties him up the middle
ope and drop kicks his face Chavo with a pump handle fallaway slam for two.
Tony says Scott Hudson is being like Gordon solely here with Florida references and
talking about the game being half physical and half mental. Chavo monkey flip,
Shane Helms over the top, does a fake out Pescado dive, and then
Shane Helms yanks him down off the apron throws Chovo back into the ring,
rolls through a baseball slide and kicks Shane Helms down. Chavo Guerrero then climbs,
does a plancha and levels Shane Helms on the outside of the ring,
to absolutely no reaction whatsoever. Yep. Then nobody gives a shit, nobody
cares. These guys are trying, and it's like no one gives a fuck
about these two. Yep. Back in, Chavo covers for two and then
he confidently pulls Sheen up by the hair, but can't get a sup plex
off. He lifts him. Shan does the go behind, goes up to
the shoulders and across the knee, and then he tries for a neck breaker,
but that's counted with a backslide, and then Shane Helms fires off a
hangman's neck breaker. When he gets free from that, he draped his arm
over for two. Backup, Shane Helms whips Chavo and has to call out
Shane Helms to charge. I don't know what that's supposed to read it.
Anyway, there's a backdrop. Chavo lands on the apron and then Helms runs
him into the buckling superkick knocks Chavo right off the apron the sugar smack he
used to call the superkick the sugar smack. Okay. Helms rolls him back
in for two corner to corner whip and he hits Sternham first rolls under the
superkick that want a tilted world to where Curtain calls sit out kind of move
by Chavo gets too. He goes to the middle rope, goes for Tornado
DDT, but that's blocked. He then tucks a pump handle slam attempt but
no. Shane hits the Nightmare on helm Street this time covers him for the
one too, but Chavo gets his foot on the rope. Shane Helms then
whips Chavo into the corner. Chavo gets his boot up, reversed whip.
Chavo goes into the corner again and flies over almost like a Harley race bump.
There. Yeah, right over the top of the floor by Chavo.
Boring chant After all this work, boring, someone's saying yeah obviously, Helms
with the leap frog plant with a frog splash. Plancha does a full split
in the air, tries to counterrac those boring chants real quick by taking it
up as high to the sky as he possibly can. Hudson calls it a
frog crossbody excuse me back in Helms climbs the ropes and sowres hits across body
for two Helms and slams. Chavo climbs the ropes, but Chavo takes out
his footing and Helms does the crotch bump where you know you land on your
dick and you flip forward into the ring. That always looks very effective,
and then Chavel with the foot of the rope gets too. He purchased Helms
climbs up for a back sup plex, but no Helms punches him away,
travel stays on him, yanks him into the vertebraaker position. Shane lands on
his feet, though Chavo, failing to hit Shane Helms with his own finishing
moves in Helms reverses it himself. It's kind of like how you can,
you know, go tombstone to tombstone right that lands on his feet. They
kind of do that just with the vertebraker, which would go on to be
called homicides one eight seven, a move that Vince McMann absolutely would not allow.
Shane Helms to do in WWF after they purchased WCW and brought him in.
Yeah, because you just land on the back of your head without people
would do it though, to people like it, I mean, I feel
like I've seen it in ww at some point about that or not in the
E I don't think so really right, No, not with the pick up
like that, or you'd elevate. But there it is. Boom drops Chavo
on his head. The verte Breaker succeeds. It's one, it's two,
it's three, And at thirteen minutes and fifty seven seconds, Shane Helms defeats
Chavo Guerrero Junior to become a WCW Cruiserweight Champion here at Greed and then in
the final Nitro, I think they wrestled again, man, I can't remember.
I don't remember either, honestly, I see it's all a blur now.
No Helms. Helms takes it from Greed into WWF and loses to Kidnan
on July third, two thousand and one to Coma Tacoma, the infamous night
where Bagwell wrestled Booker and the WCW project was flushed down the toilet by WWF
he's handed the title. It's got the old WCW logo on that championship belt.
Oh yeah, I mean that makes sense. I mean, I'm sure
they didn't take the time unless they were making a new belt. I don't
think they took the time to fucking change the logo, right, So the
nightro girls hit the ring to celebrate with him, and the sugar Babes are
in there, just dancing in baggy pants for no reason. And Tony says,
what kind of celebrations are the sugar babies going to have with Sheen tonight?
And Hudson says, we can't talk about it. So he's gonna fuck
all of them. Obviously that Scott Standard taught us they're all tramps, right,
Such a fucking asshole. Tony says, a couple of us could even
that up. Charmel says not even Charmel is not even in the ring.
I don't think she's out there. But he's standing on the affront, smiling,
not quite participating. Backstage, we're back on the documentary. In cams,
we get fucking Jarrett going into Flair's office. You ready we got something
to say for posterio? Nay, we got to reply, I just saw
him. I just saw a disgusting dislate. I'm not going to kiss anybody
that I can tell you that we ain kissing. No anger. What I
meant to say. It's doubleg's in age five times the world heavy eight champion,
the child. Look at the look at the conditions, and look at
this George, look at me, look at the shape onman. I'll feel
the wait is right now. I'm a CEO, I'll run this company.
I made big decisions. I don't kiss anybody that wish. You're right,
kids, normal that as a matter of fact, and nobody to ask will
be kissed. They're going to be kissing our ass chosen one nature boy.
Once in the lifetime, Dusty road, you're going down and kissing some ass
ended book it put it, it's done, and the boocket it's done.
What w w reckon like that? That? There's something about Rick Flair saying
ass that just doesn't sit right with me. Yeah. Yeah, it kind
of hangs out in the air, doesn't it. Yep A separate and distinct
from the rest of the sentence. Over the booker t says Rick Steiner.
All the talk is over, Save the drama for your Mama. Tonight,
w W greed for the United States title. It's eluded me for eight years.
Oh geez, the US title. Don't hate player, hate the game.
Funny how they're write off WCW like, well, at least a booker
finally got the world title. And it's like they undid it. You know.
They talk about blow Dash of the Beaches like, oh, this crowning
moment and he fucking he lost it in like two months. Yeah, right
exactly, package Lugri and Buff talking about, uh, how they snub their
noses at Plumbo and O'Hare and how it shows them like roaring nubbing, snubbing
their nose. That's great, totally Buff, We're going to take our title,
take the titles. And the music just stops so they can growl somewhere.
They shut this like b roll of Palumbo and O'Hair just growling as young
lions and they're facing totally buffed. So whack, what a stupid team totally
buffed all of it. Like this whole fucking everything is just like it just
feels like rehashed bullshit. It really does. It's it's warmed over. It's
like Pete's out of the microwave right right, and they come out to the
Total Package music that like sort of like gram music he started using when he
came back as just not like Luger, but the total package. WW.
I do remember that. That's I mean, he just also looks like a
fucking mess too, Luger. Yeah, and he's got the paralyzed haircut but
the old body yep, yep. That's kind of a difficult like cross section
to deal with and process. Yep. God, his music is me.
Tony calls this the first ever greed pay per view from WCW, and I
would have to disagree. There's been a lot of greed with WW. Tony
makes something out of both men needing their own entrances Luger and Bag. Well
that is Buff still has his Buff Daddy song even in two thousand and one,
and he's got a silver chain choker on in earrings, so he's ready
for battle. Like what the fuck why? Scott Hudson says, like people
like I don't understand how people like cheered for him. Oh my, I
saw potential. Yeah, if they turned a babyface after he came back from
the nick injury, he could have had a little run there. I don't
know how high he could have climbed, but I don't think he was mister
potential his whole life, you know those types of Yeah. I mean,
listen, he was like fucking rookie of the Year for like eighteen years in
a row. Yeah, Hudson says, Lex Luger taught Buff how to play
political games in WCW. That's what he said. Yeah, so he's the
stuff Lex and Buff looking at themselves on the big screen and flexing in the
ring. Buff grags the mic from Lex to shit the hell hop and Hudson
goes, yeah, I Tony shut up. Lex says, when you look
as good as we do, when you're built like us, when you're as
long as we do, multi time World Heavyweight Champ, multi time US and
Buff, how many tag titles you possess? I don't know, five or
six. I know it's a record because no one else ever done it with
four different partners. But disagrees with that, Well, there are plenty in
the back who have done it with way more than four or five partner.
Luca says, that's why we're the ones who did the impossible. We ended
the career of Monster Bill Goldberg. That's how they were playing it up.
Yeah, they laid him on the back some Yeah. He was like,
they're under a heap of debris from what I remember, never to be seen
in a w CV building again. And Hudson goes, he's right about that.
That's pretty funny because he was. Tony says, oh god, let's
bring him back. Goldberg. That is Buffs's last year. Let's hear you
please together. In sequence, he's begging them to chant Goldberg He's begging these
people to chant Goldberg in two thousand and one. It's awful. The response
is so depressing it indicates no enthusiasm for Goldberg's return, which they're banking about
being big money. Right. No, not at this point, Luca says,
when you possess his what we possess, and we, as wealthy as
we are, sometimes even we with all we possessed, can become a little
overconfident. He says, possess a lot. Session is, of course nine
tenths of the loss of raps. I can't understand, he says, shat
oh here Chuck Palumbo. No, he says, Sean Palombo or Chuck O'Hare,
or is it the other way? Around. It's funny because he doesn't
get their name straight. Apparently it's hard to remember the names of rookies,
he says. But maybe you guys snuck up on us just a little bit.
Maybe you possess some talent, he said, possess again, maybe one
day charges us. Who's sticking up? Dude, what exactly who's possessing?
Who's possessive? Brother? Right, he's possessive? Well, you tell me.
But tonight you're gonna find out why I'm a total package and I'm buff
bag Well, and that's why we're called totally buffed. They say, don't
grab a beer or blink your eyes because it's going to be over quickly.
They're going to school tonight and this won't take us long. So that's them
bracing the audience or the fact that in fact, Luger and Bagwell are going
to take the fall in an instant and they don't want people to to miss
it. I mean, more techno music for o'haram palumbo. Because they are
men of a certain age I suppose, course, of course, and we're
living in a certain age right preach Tony talks about how they graduate, how
they are graduates, from the power plant Goldberg, of course, being the
top of the list of powerplant graduates in Plumbo and O'Hara made their name for
themselves getting better each and every week here in WCW. They come to the
ring with straps in hand and they stand on the top of the ramp for
like ever before they get their cue, apparently to dap up and march to
the ring. Behold o'haram Palumbo is champs at this young formative stage of their
careers. Boss thoughts, well, listen, you know no joke when when
when they came to I mean, first of all, I had no fucking
idea who they were. But when they came to WWE in the in the
purchase, I I was like, okay, okay, and I made them
in the game. I made them in in no mercy. That's huge.
I was okay with them, like I actually I get a kick out of
them. I thought they were pretty cool, nice. I did not hate
them. Yeah, that's that's saying a lot. Yeah. This team was
put together because Luger and Bagwell were kind of butt buddies on the road and
they would work out together and Lucer would go on to say that the best
workouts of my life were with Buff Bagwell. He really liked the you know,
because Luger was very persnickety about his workout routine, very you know,
had to be the biggest alpha male, and any Jimmie walked into, you
know, put people down, didn't lift as much as him or whatever.
Fucking asshole. That's why they made him Narcissus and WWF. His reputation preceded
him, and there was a while there where he was making enough money and
it was tough on enough that he could carry himself like that, and Buff
Bagwell is one of the few people to win his trust. Lucer tells the
story about how Sting one time just said, you know, I know he's
annoying, but there's something about Buffy just makes me laugh. And so they
were on the ends as the Atlanta group ever since. Then. Of course,
Luger and Sting owning a gym together in the Atlanta area during their WCW
run, so I'm sure Bagwell came through there as well. And when it
came time to figure out what to do with them in WCW in two thousand
and two thousand and one, they pair them together as totally buffed and that's
great. Yeah, it's wonderful. I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to
see Lex Luger and Buff Bagwell team up together. Quite a bit of background
here, as in the weeks leading up, Chuck Palumbo had picked up an
upset win over Lex Lugar on Thunders. They tried to really position Palumbo O'Hare
as not just coming for veterans like Luguran Bagwell, but trumping them, beating
them, like trying to make the statement that they were excelling past them,
not unlike how Goldberg beat Hogan almost you know, it's like, right,
I'm not saying it was as big of a deal, but in their mind
it was supposed to be as definitive of an outcome over the veteran where it's
like, Okay, these guys are on their way, and pretty clear that
Luger and Bagwell were deeply unserrious about handling it, as you'll hear in a
moment. Of course, they vehemently deny it. There was a point in
time where Arn't Inderson, according to a report, and the Observer was suspended
from his role as an agent because of just how against the vision a match
between Luger and Palumbo went on television designed to get Palumbo over. I watched
the match, if it's the one they're talking about. Luger basically just like
you know, drops Palumbo, prances around forever and then steps clumsily and kind
of like in a very obvious way into an inside cradle, and then as
soon as the one two three hits, he's back up beaten chunk Plumbo's ask
again. So the whole playbook of get take the one two three, but
beat the guy up worse than you would if you won. And that must
be you know, it's the the egos, the the the insecurity, the
like what a fucking nut? Pretty much. Yeah, I mean they're just
trying to find ways to have you know, hissy fits about it. Basically.
Of course they deny it up and down. Here's like Lugur a couple
of years after this to RF video on the whole thing. So funny how
things get twisted completely around them. I've never refused to do a job.
I've done exactly the way that they asked me to do it. I've never
gone in a ring and pulled something on a promoter or a booker and said
okay, if when we put this guy over all, I'm going to do
it in two seconds and we look fake. They actually warned Marcus in that
match to get beat by by himself with me fighting outside the ring, let's
talk about forty five seconds or thirty seconds. And I said, and I
volunteered being the professional aand but if you weren't want to get these guys,
that's strong, I go beat me, dude. I didn't care whether it's
twenty minutes, ten minutes, five minutes, forty five seconds or ten seconds.
I mean I would have done whatever they asked me to do, but
that they want to market Marcus get beat. But as for mine, I
was told in about thirty seconds. So I and my philosophy was and being
a profession was like beat me to that. I have another guy. Email
doesn't count. You know, when he beat the legal guy in the ring,
I go bab tail. You know, wasn't a sarcastic. It wasn't
mocking me the company I was. I thought I was being a professional and
giving something back to young guys if they want to push it. Because you
want to push these guys, let's push them. So there was no sarcasm
or or mockery from from our vidit from the Marcus got a bad rap and
I've heard members but that I mean, but there was no bad intentions,
no sarcasm, no nothing. It was it was being professional. But yeah,
we got like we got hammered for it. You're like, how can
you beat a nicer, more cooperative and you get criticized for weird health It's
got on the internet, get like, like so twisted from reality of what
actually happened, from the what happened in the back room to what comes out
on an internet site or something people tell you. You're like, where did
they get that from? That? That's not even in the realm of what
happened, you know what I mean was even discussed when it comes out as
the truth, you know, because he said, she said today catches all
like a life from his own. You know. Luker are definitely not high,
not at all. Definitely, I was gonna say, he's definitely well,
slurring his words at all. His eyes aren't bugging on his heads.
That's good. He's extremely not wearing fu boo. Listen, listen. He's
well, okay, that's what matters. He's extremely well. No sarcasm.
He said that about forty times without anybody even saying the word sarcasm. He's
the only ones saying no one accused of anybody of sarcasm. Les Okay,
they said, you know, they wanted buff to lose. I said,
beat me too. Somehow by doing that, it made it even more of
a joke that they pinned both of them in a second. You know,
it's like, well, yeah, I mean it's it's it's if you watch
this magic greed, do you come away thinking o'heron Palombo or made men?
Now? No, what do you see? I mean I look at first
of all, I mean, I'm I don't know what I see. Garbage
is what I see. Like it's just the whole thing is a shit show.
And because I'm like they what they did, the fucking promo that Luger
cuts is longer than the match itself, and it's just an embarrassment, Like
it's it's so stupid, there's no need for for this kind of horseshit,
Like it just comes off petulant. I don't know I intended that or not,
but that's how it came off. I mean, I don't think I
just don't think it looked good for anybody. Like nothing, nothing about this
did anything for anybody. It didn't make Luger and and you know, it
didn't make Palombo and ohe look good. It didn't make fucking so weird because
they ran him over and pinned them clean. Yep, what more do you
want? It's it's it's it's it's odd, it's it's there's something there like
with the promo or whatever. Its just it really, Yeah, it's Yeah,
that's rough. I just think Luger and bag Well are not good enough
pro wrestlers to put somebody over like this. I agree towards sticks, they're
not that good at that and make more, or if they are, they're
withholding that ability and and and bringing to the forefront this this like deeply unseerious
kind of way of presenting the match up and taking the fall. I don't
know. I just don't know if they really know how to get somebody over,
do you know what I mean. I've never seen Buff get anybody over
in his whole career. Yeah, so I don't. Yeah, I don't
think he's He's not that guy. Others have gotten him over and he rises
to that occasion, but he's Yeah, he's not gonna. He doesn't know
how to make somebody. That's never that's not how he grew up in the
business. You know, that's not something he's ever rewarded for or compensated for
making somebody else. So this is what it looks like when guys who've never
ever had to make anybody else in their whole careers try to do it.
So try to do it so that you can't accuse them of, you know,
negligence or insubordination. Here's a here's a snippet from w SW magazine Buff.
Bagwell, of course, at the time, had the reputation of being
somebody that would complain long and loud about the way he was being presented,
the way he was being framed. Infamously, when Russo came in, he
even booked Bagwell to look into the camera after as Piro failed to fire and
go they love to bury me here, unbelievable. And then he goes out
there and loses to La Parka and then says, did I do a good
enough job for you? Russo? God? But that that all stemmed from
him, you know, taking a front, being affronted by any little thing
they would do, like if his head wasn't big enough on a promotional poster
or something like that. He would he would bark in the office about it
and shit like that in an Atlanta boy, So it doesn't seem like he
was beyond he was above swinging by the offices if he had a complaint to
her grievance. And here's a snippet from Nobody Cares about You. I think
that's what he's trying to talk around, you know, snippet from WSW magazine
at the time, which, as I've mentioned several times, it transitioned into
a pretty much shoot publication as it regards like the q and as and the
interviews that were in there, and they're asking Bagwell about his attitude and reputation.
He said, quote, I can't answer that. For a long time,
the answer was he's young, he'll be here. We're not going to
lose un let's just keep him dangling. Well, that kind of ran out,
and then I finally started asking questions, and that's when I got all
the heat. They want to know why Buff was being so mean, but
they don't know what Buff went through. They didn't know Buff back in nineteen
ninety one, at Center Stage in Atlanta, so I did WWTV tapings at
the time. Now, these kids come intoing niters and thunders thinking their stars,
not knowing what Buff and the rest of the people did to keep this
boat afloat. Even when I was off TV, they still ran my commercial.
You didn't sitn't do anything. I mean, honestly nothing, over,
over, moderately, over pretty good, didn't do a thing as far as
like keeping anything afloat or making anything vibrant or nothing like that. There was
a chance when you came back from your neck injury, but they screwed the
pooch on that one. Even when I was off TV, they still ran
my commercial. As far as the push that I needed or deserved, I'm
just not real sure. I want to say words like jealousy. I want
to say words like my attitude, words like me and Russo didn't get along
their own magazine. Me and Russo didn't get along, boss So lame.
But then again, even when Eric was here was kind of the same deal.
Timing is everything. I don't blame anybody. I don't blame Russo.
I don't blame Eric. Of course, Eric and I are great friends.
It's just and he trails off on the magazine they're on the cover of at
this point in time, this has Totally Buffed face a different kind of adversity.
Last year, both Luger and Bagwell endured creative differences with management, resulting
in a year filled with dead end angles and extended absences from television. It
was like an out of body experience. Bagwell says. New ownership and a
new power structure in WCW this is the second to last magazine of two thousand
and one, or the second I should say the second magazine two thousand and
one. New ownership and a new power structure in WCW has resulted in a
return to prominence for Luger and Bagwell in the formation of Totally Buffed, arguably
the top tag team in the company for almost a year, I said on
the sidelines, Luger says, while there was a proliferation of unknown scabs,
unknown scab as getting an opportunity they did not deserve. But now with the
new WCW, things are beginning to turn around and all is right with the
world. The stars are stars again and the wannabes boss are gone. He's
such a fucking he makes me so angry. Both these guys make me so
angry. Here's buffing a shoot interview, just calling you a mark for basically
thinking they weren't trying to put o'her and Palombo over here. Do you think
that the natural born and thrillers were pushed too soon? Absolutely? Absolutely,
And like I said, it just the common sense things. I mean,
they put him in, you know, And once again it's not their fault.
I mean, they did what they were told, right. But when
you get up a corp at the opening of a show of Balomo and the
crowd's watching and I'm listening, and the crowd does absolutely nothing on a boo,
on a cheer, nothing. I mean, let's switch gears here,
you know. I mean a line of TV's very funny. You throw it
out there, if it works, you roll with it. I me and
Scotty did you know years ago, and me and Scotty would do something if
it worked, and next week would do something else, you know, And
that's that's what you do. But if it don't work, then you stop
it doing another direction. But those guys where they can work not work,
whether they look good not look good. The bottom line is they just were
not ready to be pushed to the fans like that. What happened at the
last WCW pay per view when you win, Lex apparently went against the script.
There's a big thing about that. That's a total, total, absolute
lie rumor. We exactly what was laid out was I was supposed to go
in the ring and get and men le likes to interview, and then after
the interview, Chuck and Sean sliding the ring, knocked back to the floor
and they're gonna shoot me off kicking children are gonna kick me. Swanton won
two three. That was what was laid out to us, right, But
Lex felt like being on the floor. He looked stupid. So we say,
hey, if you're going to build these guys this building, you know,
so we threw in, let's beat both of us, you know,
and they said sure. So a fifty two second match is the reason I
know that because it was on the internet. It should have been twenty six
seconds. I mean, theoretically it should have been half that time for what
they had laid out, you know. And we got the heat because I
think somebody in the back saw eight minutes on the board. It felt like,
you know, we didn't want to be team players or something. That
was absolutely not that. You know, we went to them and said beat
us both. You know, we got beat by both of them and finishes.
You know, so why do you think they beat you like that?
They kind of squashed you guys that I asked them, and they said that
they felt like it was that Eric said this was throwing. Eric was in
control. That it was the last show, like the next day was Panama
City, and he said, there's no reason it says belts right now,
so let's keep way. It is taking a break. And that's how I
mean, Lex took it, you know, and we were upset about it
because we were such business for the three weeks prior to that. I mean,
they would do things like say, buff even Lex man, you know,
after they beat you, I'll make sure they slide out. We'd say,
no, no, we'll slide out. Let them go in the corners
and raise the bet else. You know. That was our ideas, We're
build these guys, you know, because I mean, you got to build
them to beat somebody or you're not beating anybody, you know, and so
that that that's what upset us. But they didn't know that. You know.
We went in and said yes, sir, No, sir, you
got it. We'll go We'll do it, you know. But we were
just amazed that we put that much energy and trying to do the right thing
and still, you know, came out the bad guys. All right,
I'm convinced they didn't do anything wrong. Obviously, No, obviously they weren't
selfish. And it's all that's understanding, and we can all go home and
just not yes, isn't that? Isn't that what life is all about?
Good faith? Shout out here and Chuck Palumbo versus totally buffed for the tag
titles here with greed? Was that a fucking joke? Storm the ring,
double tackle on Luger, fake crowd noise cranked up to the max. Here
Luger misses and hits Buff Chuck Plumbo's super kicks or the jungle kick lands on
Luger. O'Hair goes up top. Luger just slides himself in a position,
because that's what you do when you're about to take a move. You make
it obvious that you're sliding in a position. And Shanton bamb As used to
call it off the top rope and then another on Buff Bagwell and then Palumbo
covers one, oh Hair covers the other, and in fifty four seconds,
the natural born thriller Shanoher and Chuck Palombo pin les Luger and Buff Bagwell totally
buffed to become ww ROLD Tag Team champions or pertained the ww rold Tag Team
Championship. Here agreed, that's it. I sat there just you know,
when I watched this, I sat there more confused than anything else. That's
it. Yeah, it doesn't register really is as a big authoritative win.
It registers? Is am I missing something here? Is this like a bash
at the beach two thousand deal? Yeah? Yeah, that's in screams that
was a squash, a Georgia Championship Wrestling squash Thanksgiving dinner. Big Show tucks
his head and someone say squash. Tony says that only when the tenth is
long is that lame promo from Lex Luger. Plumbo brags Luger out of the
way, and then the replay before O here it comes across the the thoor
ax of Buff Bagwell. Hudson says with his own swanton bomb shantan bomb.
So the champs mean mug into the camera here in Palombo do and that's that,
that's that piece of business. Never we'll forget it. I'll never forget
the night that Buff Bagwell and Lex Luger were business. Agreed, I forgot
it already. They show Steiner lifting on a post backstage. How about how
about the in fact they weren't business because of greed? Right, scut Center's
lifting weights on a post backstage and the days just counting along, and he
screamed and put up or shut up. You have to get your hands dirty.
I'm gonna follow you and ping you amongst your own white trash. You're
going down page the days just standing in the shit hour full close by the
way. Daisia from great films like Don't Panic, Bubble Boy and Date Movie,
all coming soon under the cinement because of her. Because of her,
of course, got into the business a fitness model, yes, sir.
And when it came time for Standard to cast his freaks there there were like
three of them at first, and Medaja was the one who who stuck around
his standards. Second, towards the end of WCW here let's go to Canyon
versus the cat, what do you say, Well, just keep on going
to the hits, keep coming yep, yep. So they showed clips from
Nitro where Canyon and the Cat were brawling everywhere and there was a limousine turned
over because that's a smart use of funds. Well, you know, I
mean, you got to spend money to make money, and you see smooth
whatever they renamed Ice Train when he was the Cat's sidekick back then, wearing
baggy slacks when it was alive. Just an onslaught of clips with no explanation.
Here a Canyon, by the way, it is a psychopath and associo
path according to Scott Hudson. So both boxes checked, all right, Well,
you know, better than no boxes checked. I suppose, especially especially
cool character for someone who legitimately had mental issues in his life and everybody knew
it, right, so makes him crazy, And I mean, I suppose
it's better than being mortisse. I guess you're right on that. So Buff
and Luger are still laying in the ring, by the way, after this
package. Buff is not moving. He's trying to recall the emotion of when
he legitimately broke his neck on thunder and ninety eight and we cared about him
for fifteen minutes. And you know what, nobody cares. Now, God
forbid, we were allowed to leave that well enough alone. As Scott Hudson
literally on the broadcast recalls the injured neck and talks about you need to be
careful moving him, and the refs literally roll over Buff's carcass because that's what
you do when someone has suffered a paralyzing neck injury. Yep, and Totont
even speaks to says, come on, guys, don't move him around like
that. I just I'm like, who cares? Fake crowd noise? It's
just bad, and Shawanni says, somehow, I don't feel bad for them.
The amount of fake crowd noise here is the most overwhelming it is on
the entire broadcast and perhaps ever in history of WCW, because it's just there's
there's no there's not a chance in hell anyone's reacting to this. Well,
my, you know, after they do eventually get out of the ring,
Tony does share my exact exact sentiment at that time. He says, he
goes, Okay, where are we going next? That's a WCW Tony having
to like ask the truck where he's going, and you like picture Tony's face
like doing it on purpose to bust the guy's balls, like he's actually frustrated.
That's what he's saying exactly. Oh and by the way, all of
that about O'Hara Palumbo and all that rigamarole about putting them over and all that.
And then the next night on Nitro they lose a non title match to
Mike Assam and land Storm. Well, you gotta build new contenders. So
who's better than Canyon? I don't want the answer. We get some god
awful music and can actually smoke? Who better than Canon? Everybody? Any
Kanyon with a rest and peace? By the way, we kidd Chris Cluci
terrists, I know I and I do I do feel for him and his
struggle. Canyon with a smoke machine in spotlights and he comes up through the
ground like a produced entrance with a flood light under him. Kind of cool
looking with a leather coat. But that was pretty much that. Sure,
they have just the worst of all the remixed songs to double over copyrighted music
on Peacock. The Kat's wcw entrances are the worst. And Missus Jones is
here, formerly Nitro Girl Chameleon and also a former assistant principal who was accused
of plagiarizing her master's project. Would how do you plagiarize? Brother? Carmel
Macklin, who had a stint as a dancer and grappler as a Nitro girl
with World Championship Wrestling, targeted teacher Brenda Marie Brenda Marie Alexander fifty four because
of her age, according to a colleague. Okay, so, a former
professional wrestler turned city assistant principal plagiarize quote unquote a teacher's master's degree project while
trying to close line her career, according to a Manhattan federal lawsuit. In
addition to her ring career, Maclin has appeared as an actress and sale for
several films, including twenty Tens, Bronx, Paradise in two thousand and threes,
Love and Orgasms. Coming soon depends I still coming. I suppose Alexander
the teacher in question here? So, yes, Miss Jones of WCW fame
went on to be an assistant principal in the New York City Public school system.
I don't see any problem Alexander, who began with the DOE in twenty
oh one, since she wrote a student and teacher a guidebook for her school
Legal Academy for Young Men and Queen's Preps that isn't a public school as part
of her master's project, and later presented it to maclenn Macklin, of course
being miss Jones, but instead of crediting Alexander, macln redistributed the handbook and
resented it as their own, making no changes except to rearrange some sections.
Alexander said Macklin blew her off when she complained. Plaintiff contacted Maclin to discuss
the situation. The suit states defendant Maclin did not respond at all. Alexander
says she was targeted for termination by school administrators to make way for younger teachers.
They did everything they could to make her life miserable, set her attorney,
Joshua Park First sounds fine, yeah, And I support anybody who does
everything in their part to make someone else's life miserable. Where does she learn
how to manage an organization in a way that makes everybody's life miserable? I
wonder, I mean I can't imagine. I mean, she was only in
WCW. How would that problem? How would that? Yeah? I don't
see why that would ever coincide with anything else considering her former profession. I
mean, I don't think there's any way you can say this is the first
time she plagiarized. I mean she was she was trained to lie, just
trained to mimic, right, trying to to pass off of work as a
shoot. And so this is what you get. I have to say,
I'm pretty fucking obsessed with the careers of like nominal bit players in the dying
days of w c W and what they went on to because like never really
had a run so they're not really going to get booked again. Just amazing,
That's that's what ended up doing. So the cat says, let me
tell you something, baby, I'm gonna rip that ugly mask off I got,
I got, I got that one for you, please bring because this
is what we need. His uh it's some uh Ernest Miller two uh to
r n the uh the whose top says, somebody called my mama. That's
nice, Chris call you. Let me tell you something, baby. I'm
all get in that ring and I'm all rip the lass mask and I'll feel
paid. Oh wait a minute, I'm sorry. That's not a mask,
that's a face. Hear that real crowd noise. Nobody gave his ship amazing.
You know what I love is that is that nobody gave a ship,
yet they spent money good buy tickets. Well, I mean yeah that and
they show up and they respond if they're entertained, and they don't if they're
not. I mean, I guess it's I almost find it more exhausting to
force myself to react just so I feel like I got my money's worth.
That's like, you got to pay me to act like that, Like this
isn't a fucking, you know, sitcom shoot where I'm privileged to be in
the audience, so I have a role to participate. I paid to be
in here, you know. Yeah, yeah, I suppose. And you
mentioned Mortis, interestingly enough, Kenyan's former gimmick, of course, more Blood
runs Cold campaign, the ill fated Blood runs Cold campaign for Mortis played Nitro,
where he teamed with a wrath As whatever his name was against Glaciers,
so they called him on the French w W shows we Grasier also known as
ray Lloyd, and that's how they pronounced it in French too. Here he
Goessier or ray Lloyd Glass. It sounds like Dan Peterson coming through there.
Glossier sounds like a cologne. It does Glossier. In terms of Ernest Miller,
there's a lot that Kenyon has to say in his book about working with
him, all the way back to the Blood Runs Cold feud, because remember,
Ernest Miller was a martial arts exponent himself. It was kind of aligned
with the Glacier. He says the following or writes the following as the marketing
and training for Blood Runs Cold war on. I knew the other guys were
making more money than me. For Brian Clark, who played Rath, it
made sense. He was a veteran of WrestleMania, and I didn't mind making
him making a high salary. I'd heard he was making about two hundred seventy
five thousand a year. No big deal, I thought, But for Glacier,
a guy who'd never before been on TV, to come in and make
two hundred and ten thousand a year, that seemed a little much compared to
the thirty grand I was making. I'd been in multiple wrestling leagues now,
and I'd been in the WSW for more than a year. The worst of
all was probably Ernest Miller. Yes, yes, it was Eric Bischoff's kids
karate instructor. Yes, Ernest the Cat Miller had never done anything in wrestling,
yet he was making two hundred and fifty grand annually. I thought that
was absurd. Of course, I didn't have an agent. The only ones
who did were the hul Cogans of the world, those who were established.
It didn't make sense to have one because you didn't have much bargaining power.
If I threaten to back out, Eric could just find someone else to do
the job. But Eric was a fan of martial arts, so Ernest could
get his money, and Ernest had some experience in martial arts tournaments. In
March nineteen ninety seven, I told Paige DDP I wanted a meeting with Bischoff.
Practices with the Blood Runs Cold Gang were strained, in part because I
could not believe the other wrestlers were making more money than me. My anger
focused on all on one person, Ernest Miller. Yes, you've got a
lock up tight like this, I said. During one of our first practices
in the ring. I showed him the proper way to do it. He
didn't care. He almost didn't even pay attention. All mocking up, he
said, smiling you know when karate, we don't have to lock up,
we just kick ass. I love too that. I mean, I don't
know is that his natural voice, Miller, Ernest Miller, because because he's
got this this you know, almost Muhammad Ali kind of trying his voice.
Is he trying for that? I figured he was trying a little. Yeah,
but he's kind of like he's like doing a sarcastic voice all the time,
right right, like he half means everything he says, which is probably
a shoot. Yeah. At that point, I was twenty six years old.
Canyon Rights and the business of wrestling was an absolute obsession. If you're
in the business, you need to respect it and love it. I thought
Ernest didn't do that. He didn't take it seriously, and he didn't respect
those of us who did. We worked every day at the power Plant and
we trained him from scratch, taking eight months to do it. We got
up every morning, got down to the power Plant. We're in the ring
from ten am to two pm, and then we got to karate class until
five. From there we'd head back to the gym for cardio and leave round
eight or nine. Ernest making more money was a travesty, being that he
was so disrespectful. On top of that, he was overweight, brother,
and we well, we took our training very seriously. He had the biggest
job he had to learn how to wrestle, then incorporated into the martial arts.
He also did quite a few big jobs too, didn't he Uh no,
that's kind of we did. Oh he didn't. I thought he did.
He was made from the beginning, so he's Bishop's Yeah. I always
had a push without any I mean he was. He was charismatic. They
had the James Brown thing. That was pretty cool. He was over at
certain points. He was a good commissioner. He had interesting Mike skills kind
of but no, I mean never. I think Kingdon's point is he didn't
get better and didn't want to get better, right, you know, And
there's guys who grow into the undeserved push, and there's guys who don't.
And he's I think the one who didn't, or an example of one who
didn't. Then try to figure out how to make a character. Miller strolled
in and whenever he wanted, And what hurt the most was he wasn't good.
Actually, he was one of the worst wrestlers I'd ever seen. Wow.
Old Jim Mitchell said it best. And this is why Eric has I'd
imagine saucy feelings towards Jim Mitchell, very dismissive of him when he's come up
on the podcast like curiously so like why so mad Jim Mitchell like, yeah,
he's such a bit player. When you punch him in the face,
he does the swarm of bees, Mitchell said of Miller. And now when
you hear that, you can unsee it. He does the swarm of bees.
That meant Miller would wave his arms around and try to swap bees from
I could totally see that he's such a goof. He's a goof. I
think that's an accurate statement. And what are you gonna do, like crescent
kick my head off? I saw someone on the Iron Ring Show on the
ET for all your MMA heads like these these like these guys from like Brooklyn
who thought they knew like like like kung fu and it was and no one
like had the heart to tell him, like they were just like clowns,
you know. So they get to walk around act and like they had like
these killer techniques their whole lives, but no one ever, you know,
tested them. They never had to find out the hard way that they just
be taken down and strangled in fourteen seconds by someone who actually knew martial arts.
Dude, I would say, good now that meant Miller, Okay,
Yes, it didn't matter what move you put on him, he'd do the
bees in the face. You could kick him in the stomach and he would
do it. It's pretty funny, dude. I would say, they want
to try something different, A different reaction could be good. I'm a world
champion in karate. You guys are world champions and wrestling. He said,
didn't we do didn't we look up? Was it him or was it somebody
else? He's not a world champion? Well he had You know, I
don't know it's a world champion means nothing in karate because there's so many tournaments
where the winner is called a world champion. There's no I remember that.
We we we we like. I think we looked him up, probably during
the wrestler when I probably did a film. That makes sense, Yeah,
because uh yeah, he's he's Yes, he's such a fucking goof Right there.
He showed how clueless he was. We don't need to learn karate from
you. I said, you need to learn wrestling from us, because that's
the name of the game. Several times we got heated and had to be
held back. But it was guys like Miller that made me wonder if we
could pull it all off. And I think he was getting paid so much
while we were showing him how to do everything. Something about it just wasn't
right. Eric wanted to see a different kind of fighting style, but I
also knew people didn't want to see karate, they wanted to see wrestling,
so we created a new style. Obviously, we wanted to incorporate a lot
of the martial arts style kicking extensions in our movements. We came up with
an idea where I would be thrown into the ropes and Ray would follow me
there, Ray being glacier Ray Lloyd rolling then jumping to elbow me in the
chest as I came off the ropes. Another move involved Ray outside the ring,
leaning against the ring post as someone held a chair above his head.
I used a superkick to send the chair into his head. I was a
fan of ultimate fighting, so I was imitating Ken Shamrock, who had a
stance with his hands out in front of him, palms forward. It was
something that I just looked different. We also knew our entrances would be unique.
We spent two hundred and fifty grand for a snow system with glacid.
The whole arena would be dark, filled with powerful martial arts music. We
were doing everything Eric wanted and doing it well. So I was confident coming
into our meeting. I didn't have a set figure in mind. He's going
to approach Eric here. This is later in the book about his contract.
I knew what the other guys were making, but I didn't know how high
I should go. I was thinking eighty five grand, a little more than
double, but not triple what I was making. I made the trip up
to the Nice office again, and I was nervous to the initial exchange of
niceties. Then Bischoff casually dropped the question I'd been dreading. How's Arnest coming
along? Mm ad think for? I responded, he needs patience, I
said, he does what he does real well, Well, you make him
look good. I heard, you don't get along real well, shit,
Well, I get along with a lot of people, but not with everyone.
I just think we have different perspectives on wrestling. I know what you
mean, he said. I felt better. He had heard about Miller's bad
attitude. So you're here for what I swallowed hard. Well, I've been
working here for over a year, and I think I'm doing well. I
told him my life story about how I love wrestling, which i'd written down
on a sheet of paper I got all the way up to college, describing
how I found wrestling schools, how I was making seventy grand a year but
quit to make forty a night wrestling. I told him how my parents were
angry, but Eric, I was happier making forty dollars a night than seventy
thousand dollars per year, I said, Chris, put the paper down.
Eric said, yes, stop separating the paper. Yes, tell me what's
in your heart. I stopped. What I thought, Bet, what do
you want right, Chris Turner Broadcasting? Come on Turner Broadcasting, I stopped.
You're on national television. Let's be honest with each other here, I
stopped. I thought back to a conversation i'd had with Page. Tell you
the truth, Eric DDP told me that you thought I was sitting on my
ass, and that's sitting on your ass and making thirty grand a year wasn't
bad, I said, if you think I've been sitting on my ass.
You're out of your fucking mind. I want this gimmick to work. I
need this gimmick to work. And to hear that really hurts they hearing him
say gimmick really hurts me. So huh. There was silence in the large
room. I think both of us were shocked. I was that honest.
Let me explain. Eric said, When I came here from Minnesota, I
had a wife and kids, and I had to collect cans and cash them
to put food on my table. We had to struggle to make against meat.
When I hear thirty thousand dollars a year, it means a lot more
to me. When I say you were doing nothing, it doesn't mean you
were doing nothing. It just means you're not collecting cans. That's hard work.
He drummed his fingers on the desk. I sat back, feeling very
small. I was grateful he opened up to me, But at the same
time, how could I ask for more money after hearing that? How much
were you thinking? He asked me. Fuck, how could I ask for
eighty five thousand dollars? Now? I started thinking two times dirty was sixty
and I could back off that. How about fifty five thousand pig yeah,
I asked, Oh my god, I can't do that. He said,
oh, yes, what I thought? Why I was thinking one hundred.
I thought he meant a hundred a week. It took me a minute.
Did he mean one hundred thousand dollars a year? Do you mean one hundred
thousand dollars a year? I asked, yes, Wow, I didn't hesitate.
I'll take it, I said, shaking his hand, Thank you so
much. I went down to the lobby and again called my parents. This
time there were three people crying on the phone, so he said, so
he was fucking with him. So I can't do that. Oh, I'm
watching Square. I'm a little disappointed. And Eric Bischoff honestly, well,
I mean, look, I mean good on him, because Kanyon deserved it.
But there's a lot of people I think he offered more than they were
willing to settle for that didn't deserve it. Oh yeah, that might have
been part of the problem. And what would become the first line of injuries.
I broke my wrist in a match against Ernest Miller. You notice he
has a cast on here at Greed, and we have a cast on too.
Yes, before the fight, Terry Taylor had a message for it.
We're on a cast. Actually, that's right, that's a little different,
a little bit different. What did Terry Taylor say before that match to what
Kenyon we wanted especially real tonight? He said, Does that mean then don't
then don't be involved in professional wrestling? Please, you're the wrong. Yeah.
If you want something especially real, you absolutely need to leave the business.
Yes, that made no difference to me because everything I did looked extremely
real. But the story of the match was that Miller would get the crap
beat out of him, but he would keep coming back to me at me,
rather like he was out of some horror movies. So I had to
sell it more than ever. In that match, Miller and I agreed we
would throw it different kind of wrestling punch. We knew that if we hit
with our knuckles like a real punch, then we could hurt each other in
our knuckles. We didn't want that. Instead, at the last moment,
we would bend our wrists, hitting with the heel of our hand. It
looked different kind of wrestling punch. Yeah, like anyone's gonna notice the difference,
right, No, what he gives a shit. It looked real,
and it minimized the chances of us getting hurt or so I thought. Doing
that over and over, our metacarpals were connecting to our foreheads bone on bone.
I hit Miller one time too many and ended up breaking my wrist.
I even needed a cast, and I had to be off television. It
couldn't have come at a worse time. So that's how Kenyon remembers working with
his greed opponent Ernest Miller in his book That's tremendous and went out. We
march into the matchup. Do we have kanan verse? Eric? I think
so. I think we do have to go oh, so fucking gross.
You don't like this match? No, I do. Just you know,
I don't want to go over it again so that you know now that I've
seen it. I just have these high expectations and stuff, and I don't
want to I don't want to be ruined. But the fucking versus a guy
in fucking lounge, But Jaminias he's such an idiot, dressed like he's gonna
slip into a bed you'd see in Austin Powers. I know, I know,
I mean, yeah, he looks like a he looks like a like
a I guess, like a pimp of sorts. Yeah, that's what he's
going for. I think. So playing in duct Hilaria and marches up right
after missus Jones, Hudson goes off. What kind of a fruitcake is he?
He calls him a fruitcake one time? Yes, twenty points out the
cast on the right hand and we point out the cast in your ass right
now? You know, can consider this? Okay, consider this? I
actually so. Think of the history of WCW Jim Crockett promotions. Sure,
nwa. I mean you look at star K the original start of the first
Starkade. You got Flair, Harley Race, Piper, Valentine, Rocky,
Steamboat, Abdul the Butcher, Wahoo does it? I don't know, surprise
is the right word or bother you that the final supercard in that legacy and
that timeline would be these two fucking morons, Like I mean, not to
mention the other fucking morons from earlier Kueewe, Like what happened? I mean
we do have Flair and Dusty, so there's something there. What happened?
I think you just said it all? Yep, he's lapsed fan wrestling podcast
with Jack and JP Soro. He's a lapsed fan wrestling podcast. I'll tell
you what happened? Am I smooth? No? Have you seen larger circumferences
on a pair of pants in your life? I mean this guy guys walking
around with like, you know, h VAC exhaust systems on his on his
waist. Well you know why, he's got to cool down. You know
that. That's funny, that's really funny. He's liquid cooling as data center.
Oh my god, Ernest Miller shaved his whole head and left a touch
of sideburns just for you. By the way, Yeah, so fucking stupid.
How does this guy not look in the mirror, not bust out laughing,
not looking in the mirror, and not shoot himself? So back in?
Push it, well anyway, forget it, back in, push off,
headlocked tags, shoot anyway? Canyon uh, Kenyon tosses him and Ernest
Miller, Well, he doesn't skin the cat, more like shaves it.
I'm more like sleeps like it. Yeah, more like a number number three
on the buzz cutter. Kenyon in the middle rope to gloat a bit,
and then Miller sneaks up behind him and sends him down with an electric chair,
drop seated, drop kicked by Ernest Miller, the sociopath, the deranged
one, Chris Kenyon, they say, un commentary Burtis Miller tosses him out
of the wing ranged one. I mean not to not you know, he
doesn't even seem deranged. No, he doesn't play the carrier up at all.
I mean, he's just fucking He's Canyon, that's it. Yeah,
He's always Canyon, no matter what different coats of paint he put it himself.
He's just Canyon. That's a good point, you know. That's that
is part of the problems is that with him is that he never he never
you know, you can't not see Canyon, Yeah, I mean because he
just always is. You know, he just has an essence that you can't
hide I mean or like redirect. It's it's it's his towny ish way about
him, you know, right right, you just see this kid from New
York just trying to wear New Jersey jersey. He gets whipped into the rail
and because wrestling is about work rate, he front flips into the rail instead
of takes it on his back. So that's pretty cool. Yeah, I
mean, look there's no taking away that there's you know, stuff there,
but man, yeah, what the fuck? Biler tries to get back in
the ring, and Canyon hot shots on the way back in and climbs and
scores with the flying clothesline gets two on a cover. Can you know?
The suplex comes outside in from the apron with an elbow drop. That gets
another two for Canyon, the innovator of offense they call him Scott Hudson here
apologizes call and show the helms that earlier. That's my gimmick. What do
you do with Scott? You can imagine he's a pissed totally pissed. Is
the innovator offense or innovator of offensiveness? That's you know what, the innovator
of offense. That's that's that's accurate. Verse whip and Kenyon hits basically a
famous or off the middle rope for two. Then the cat stands up in
a sleeper, throws some back elbows, ducks a sleeper again, and Ernest
Miller goes into a back suplex in Canyon does the the great cell where he
takes it on his shoulders and then springs up unimpact. Yes, it's time
to bump and feed so that the fed can hire him, and then a
whip and the hip toss is blocked and it's converted into a swinging neck breaker
by canyan knows how to bump and feed it right the point the match of
the heel flat back six times in a row, because the other guy is
building momentum. The bigger question is can he bump and feed the big show,
right? That is a much bigger question. Canyon to the top rope
now, but the cat kicks out his leg, crotching him on the top
rope. Cat climbs up after him, hits a middle rope superplex and floats
over for a two count. They exchange right hands, whipping a backdrop,
but no kingon turns into a sunset flip. Miller is tilting like he's gonna
fall. Then he does a crotch chop. Okay, he does a cross
chop. Does the cat right, like, what the fuck? What are
you doing? Man? So stupid? What are you doing? Anyone whoever
crotch chopped in W C W instant pathetically. The only people who could do
it and get away with it are hauling ash well yeah, I mean post
d X. They could do a post X two. Yes, they're the
only ones who could anytime get away. We russo pathetically pointing to his dick,
like when he thought he was over, remember that, just like it
is like incessantly you know, like, ah, this is so you look
like such a moron. You literally look like a fourteen year old kid in
the playground. Yeah that you're going for all the power to you, but
yeah, leave me out of this. Yeah, surprise he didn't like just
like you know, put his hand down his pants and stick his finger out,
you know, and like, I know it is tantamount to that behavior,
it really is. You want to get an inside addition for a story
about how you know, kids these days are like degenerates? Is that right?
Do you want to I mean, do you want to be the poster
boy for for like a dateline piece about about the degenerate kids in America on
the playground like offending their teachers, you know, right, you know,
cross shopping their teachers and yeah that's it. That's it, man, you
know, get get going going. This young man with an eyebrow ring and
necklaces made out of metal beads says it's cool to say suck it on the
playground. He said he got all of his inspiration from you guessed it professional
wrestling. And here's Brent Bosel from the Parent's Television Council to to tell it.
To count how many times you see tits on raw? Now, I'm
I'm being honest when I say I I watched the Yes, I watched the
World Wrestling's Live program on Monday, and I'm telling you I saw the naked
breast of about fifteen women. I mean, it was so offensive to me.
I had to pause it and I hadn't want it's pass and then I
hit play. I had to walk away. I had to walk away,
all right. Yeah, so a crotch shop and then Miller punches him and
then does the James Brown shuffle walk he used to do for the James Brown
elbow. I'm sure that entertained you, boss. No, I fucking love
it. Just all I was saying was, you know, can there be
more? Do you think there was a pop for the James Brown elbow?
If there was, it was, it was as fake as pro wrestling.
Then a James Brown split as well, and then as the round kick to
the chest that drops Canyon for two Canyon, by the way, an architect
of near Falls. I hope you realize that, Yes, indeed, I
sits down and it comes up with ways we can get Candy's a guy who
wants to sit in the ring at three o'clock on showtime, in the corner
and come up with like an idea. He's got like a you know,
he's got a U. I don't know what the hell you call it,
but like, uh, you know, like an architect would have that giant
thing in the Blood Prince drawing. Well, he's got that table, that
giant table, and he's, oh yeah, the draft blueprints of of of
of near falls and bumps. You think you think d DPS matched by match
legal pad is a lot. This guy rolls out of Kevin McAllister battle plan.
We're like, you know, a little statement U're in the corner?
Oh fuck? Yeah, like Walter Hobbs's signage on a blank page. Oh,
I mean, you can't get much more wrestling than a blank page.
Oh fuck. So he tries to do it again and he totally misses,
and then there's a low blow, and uh, after that low blow,
Canyon stacks up Ernest Miller and gets the one two three, or at least
we think Ruffy Billy Silverman suddenly sees the ropes moving and just deduces that.
You know that means Canyon was cheating, so good match, Yeah, resumes.
Miller rolls him up for two, tries a pile driver, but Kendy
lifts him into that Alabama slamb in or a Boston crab he used to do.
Miller grabs the ropes to break. They go to corner to corner,
it's reversed. Stern him first. Then in the corner goes Canyon and then
the fee liner that spin kick Martial arts spin kick that Ernest Miller used to
do off the ropes taekwondo style Gilbert two is Kenyon gets really the fee liner,
sure, because he's a cat, you know, fuck that. Kenyon
pulls Miller to the floor. Miss Jones comes over to put her hands on
him and back in. Miller tries a back supplexi, but Kenyon jabs him
with that cast and turns into a cross body, but it only gets two.
Miss Jones gets up on the apron toil the referee he used to be
cast as Kenyon lugs refee Billy Silverman from behind. Slugs him rather to no
reaction whatsoever. Kenyon waves her into the ring, drops to his knees.
She gets in, Miller comes behind him and holds him open. It takes
forever, and finally she kicks Miller in the head by mistake does Miss Jones,
so she gets she gets her working shoes on. Here boss, Well,
you know I'm glad somebody does just an awful kick that stops me around
fucking She's ready to throw down. She tries to slap him, He catches
it. He's twisting her arm. He ducks another one of her head kicks,
and he pushes her off the ropes, and then she hits another Feeliner,
this time to the face of Canyon, just in time for the referee
to get up and notice that Ernest Miller is covering Canyon. And it's over.
In ten minutes and thirty one seconds. Ernest Miller beats Canyon here at
Greed two thousand and one, and I'm sure uh Kenyon was happy to do
it. Jones comes in and drapes the James Brown Cape over his shoulders,
and Canyon then blindsides the cat after the bell and hits the flatliner and Tony
says, I love celebration, but with Kenyon around, you gotta you can't
do that. You gotta go. I only we only could hope, Tony,
We only could hope. You gotta go. Thanks grabs a hold of
this challenges the fake music plays and outcomes. Am I smooth and his and
its slack and his slacks and tie with a chairs in the same chair that
he was hit with or something? And smooth not just a limo driver anymore?
They let us know if if Jim Stewart was a w W W c
W character. Boss, yes, speaking of limo drivers, and Tony says,
let's go backstage because Boss, the documentary is continuing. Yeah it is.
I got it. I got this little whatever the fuck with lex and
buff Le? Yeah, yeah, it's Lex and buff Yeah, it's a
big problem. What the hell are you hitting me the ball like I did
it on purpose? You gotta be kiddy, I don't know what you did
on purpose or not? Back up dst to me before something's said. I
don't need to be said. I'm getting my stuff addressed in stars time with
me. What the hell are you doing type of this before we pay every
good get of hair? Okay, that's different. It's that's who is this
if? Who's this fucking idiot on on? You know, on like what
a fucking piece of work? I mean, I've been watching this whole show.
They've been filming the wrong things. The whole night's exactly avoiding crap.
Is this guy's job and a lot of people dropping the ball here, I
mean, what what what are they going for? I really don't know this.
I really don't know. It's really it's really not tell you. It's
what comes out of the wash when you fucking turn the cycle on. How
can we do interviews without someone holding a microphone, because God forbid we put
Gene Oakral into work. That would be ridiculous. I know what happened?
He still on on contract? Oh yeah, to the Bitter end O ship.
Of course. He was clear that he was he would make sure to
get paid list and I'm gonna get paid one way or another. Income into
those accounts, no person. They're like trying out different announcers. Remember de
Lenia Ericksson did a thunder one time and it was like Pam Paul Shock.
They used her. It's like, stop trying to replace Ginoklan. Where the
fuck is wrong? I know, I know you've got Jesus Christ, you
got the best right there. Oh my god, so obnoxious. This is
what we get. We had these contrived scenarios where it's we somehow have to
create like a pretense for why there would be a camera backstage, because you
know there's not a camera. Man just following a microphone holding an interviewer.
Do you have this dusty and dustin thing that's that's up next? Want to
believe you do? I don't even need to talk about it. I mean,
this is the this is it, this is this is prous of concept.
pH in my eyes of water and I can't get the stretch. I
think I got it. I'll all work down down in my cell bad.
Yeah, I think I can. I can hold it. Don't let it
blow. No, don't you hat that leg over here. Now, it's
gonna get smelly vision out there that night. Let's thing we should listen to
it again. I can't believe what I just said. Little fog into my
eyes of water and pop, I thins get to stretched. I think I
got it all work down down to myself bags. Yeah, I think I
can. I can hold it. Don't let it blow no, don't you
hack that leg over here. Now, it's gonna get smelly vision out there
to night. So it's number one, number two. Totally fine. Oh,
I'm so glad you reached the same conclusion I did. I thought we're
gonna have to have a long involved discussion about it. Okay, good,
that's great. I think this is I think what we what we just witnessed
there was some of the the best you know, I've ever seen in rest.
Absolutely absolutely no question. Now is Dusty basically saying that he's now eating
all the burritos and he's about to start shipping and apparently within let me see
here when it was their first backstage thing when we got the fucking burritos.
So okay, So apparently in an hour an hour, Dusty Rhodes has eaten
two hundred and forty burritos. Okay, So again, totally fine, totally
fine. I just want to make sure my numbers are correct. That's all
two hundred and forty. I mean, if that's not tlf X, I'm
so if you dig deep enough in the archives, we probably said Dusty has
eaten two hundred burritos in an hour. Just coming off the top of our
head. I would imagine that probably did happen. Oh, man calls his
as cheeks, his saddle bags, some saddle bags, and he says,
it's going to be smell of vision out there, Like I guess what I
would what's alarming? Well, it's all alarming, But what is significantly alarming
is the fact that Dusty Rhodes, a legend, is saying this is okay,
this is my creative for the evening. Yeah, this is what I
need. Is where we're going. It's gonna get over unfucking believable, just
miserable, miserable like that leg over here. Now think about Dustin Rhodes.
Oh, the state of the man at this point, talk about a lost
soul? What's he thinking? Is he doing? Like? What has come
to Dustin? I mean, is it? What are you exactly with your
red leather like vest on fucking idiots? Cowboy again? Like what do you
what do you know? Man? Are you seven or are you not seven?
Remember the chemic I forget if they called him. I remember the outfit
they gave him a d n A, that black and white xtrosity, that
hair h A. I mean, this is you know, uh, this
is what we signed up for you want to be a wrestling fan? This
is it black rain mhmm uh oh fuck me? What are you doing?
Oh fucking Christ looks he looks like what he kind of looks like google Black
rain Ladies and Gentleman TNA. While he's doing this, he kind of looks
like the albino in uh in uh uh princess bride like, but like a
negative, you know, version of it, like because the albino in there
has a white hair and he's got this black fucking bob of sorts. That's
again, what is that in his hand? Is that a scepter? That's
some kind of like punishment device? Yet, I mean, what the fuck?
Look at him? What an idiot? Hope you're proud of yourself.
Back to ringside Tony and Scott, he says, well, it's all down
in his saddle bags now, as he said, thanks Tony. So they
calculate Dusty eight forty burritos in twenty minutes, so not his personal best.
Scott suggests the collapse of the Magnificent Seven is underway because I guess they're freaking
out about this documentary backstage. I don't know why it's collapsing, but it
is no, he just can't go there after the burrito stuff. It's just
you can't shake it. Yeah, seriously, I don't blame him. I
don't blame him. You really can't. And that's you know, that's what
you got, that's what we have. That's what we're dealing with, and
that's all we can do. Back at Cheer for our next match, Rick
Steiner and a Booker T book are talking about how you were nothing guy,
never beat me. You can take me out at greed. All these color
changes on these videos are like very disorienting. It's so fucking like nineties.
There was a there was a like, oh we can do. So we
found something we can do. It's different and we can. Let's just fucking
exploit it. Let's just make it look like a painting. For some reason,
they had wrestled on Nitro these two, I guess, and Booker was
lured into joining the Magnificent Seven. Then they beat him down and Booker says
he forgot about all the player haters in the back, and Rick drops him
on his head in one of the clips because that was his that was definitely
Rick Steinder's bag. Towards the Nine Days of w's dow do you just go
and the ring and fuck people up? And instead of being punished for it,
he just made his gimmick. Obviously, that totally makes sense. Don't
hate the player, hate the game. Oh don't know what, don't hate
the player. I hate the game. That would think about that? In
two thousand and three, what with Teddy Long hating the game? Oh yeah,
yeah, wrestling maybe nineteen baby, don't hate the Playah, it's just
the final nitro. So the fire blows for Book and they turned the set
red for his entrance, and they find some fans raising the roof and support
Book had pinned Scott Steiner, I guess, but realized DDP had the next
shot. So they explained that you want some, can and get some.
You don't like me, bite me. That was indeed Rick Steiner's catchphrase back
then in WCW. I guess I have to bite him. Then they tell
you they just they really, they really make it so fucking hard. How
do you mean? Just these stupid idiotic things that they're you know, like
that they think are like gonna work, right, these catchphrases like what are
we doing here? Guys? He comes out with the US title that mattered,
so at least they didn't fuck with that belt. They didn't get around
to doing that. And he's in his T shirt era, Rick Steiner in
his T shirt era. He has a glasses case and he puts the Oakley's
away, which is very cool. Tony says, Rick, will this robe
on the floor, and Hudson says, let's hope not. Tony says,
you know what I mean, and then ironically Rick drops his pants and lets
his dick hank. That's a Steiner line for you. Yeah, Rick parading
with the US title around the ring, fucking idiot. Hudson says, look
at the bys and tries on that guy. Brother, Yeah, I look
at the bys for this show. That's now boss, Rick Steiner. Do
you think he has any problematic views about why Booker T is in one of
the top baby face positions in w CW at this point. Yes. Do
you think he conflates the hard body Harrison or whoever it was racial discrimination lawsuit
with Booker T becoming champion? Yes? Do you think when Rick Steinder looks
at Booker T succeeding, he can't help but see someone playing the race card?
Yes? I think I think you know, you know, that was
the whole thing with you know, the whole thing with Bookers. He went
to the n w A na A c P and bister Monson wasn't a black
champion, you know, so they he'll Turner up. You know, Turner
is one of those guys that doesn't want any pressure from anyone anywhere in Atlanta.
So you got you know, step Booker T. I mean, everybody
think the book the Booker t was there because it's politics, you know,
the black thing. He pulled a black cards again, the ace of spades,
the way he is, and then they had to go with it,
you know, turn one with it. Booker's a good worker. You know,
he does a lot of good things. You know, I like to
work with him. You know, he's a little confident of himself, but
he still says he's one of the three best workers in the business. And
he does he that good. Obviously, you can see where he's at now.
But I've never heard that. He probably said that like tongue in cheek
once and fourth hand, it gets pe to Ricky, what a pleasure the
Steiners who are to have in the locker of back then? Huh oh,
black guys champ because he's black. Nitro girls are in a position they're in
because they're tramps. Co Coorse. Fuck everybody. I'm gonna I'm gonna hurt
people. I'm gonna cut promos some people I'm not feuding with. I'm gonna
attack people. I'm gonna scream, I'm gonna try to tap people's eyes out.
Really cool stuff. I mean just just just legends all around. If
you ask me, I don't know why WWF didn't pick up their contracts right
away. That's really my what blows my mind. Rick Steiner, Ladies and
gentlemen, keep that in mind. As he faces Booker T here at agreed,
Rick tells Mickey j to inspect the the gloves of Booker T and then
when he does, he slugs him in the face to the floor. They
go over the rail of the front row of fans. Rick points at him
and show him, He tells the camera show him he's directing. Now someone's
got to do it right. I guess this is just what a what a
dick by the way, that that whole thing is really rubbed me the wrong
way here. Yeah, yeah, he's got he's got those tendencies. He's
got those tendencies for sure, doesn't take much to get Rick to put his
foot in his mouth. Yeah, and I'm sure he's not a fan when
you know, never mind, no one good. He ain't talk, he
says, He barks at him. You ain't talking shit now. Oh yeah,
if you ain't take you ain't taking ship. And like really, why
is he wearing a diaper? Then Irish oping lariat with a little bit of
a leap from Rick, Stander drops Booker T. That's good for two.
That hard camera guy I mentioned is going crazy. He's got a sign even
that says he's got a do ragon. He said. Booker T's biggest fan,
it says on a sign. So he's been waiting for this all night.
That's amazing. Rick rakes the eyes. This book tries to rally Rick
with a double underhook tiger driver. He sat with it. That got to
thank you very much. We're going back to Japan there. Hey, you
know what we sometimes we got to make a trip back. Signers are nothing
if not under hook specialists. Yes, book tries firing up, but Rick
kicks him in the nuts a bit of a bow and arrow stretch applied by
Steiner. They referenced the cracked sternham that Booker had suffered wrestling Rick's brother a
few months earlier. Book stands and Rick HiT's the lower back Booker with an
angle slam. Somehow I forgot he put the angle slam into his repertoire.
Go to the unbelievable Yeah spin kick duck. Rick rocks him with a belly
to belly for two, corner to corner book with a kip up in a
sunset, pulled down for two, back up in the Rick with a lariat
and a smirk. He gets a lot of offense in on this guy,
yep a lot. Rick grabs the sleeper and lays on him, uses the
rope mind Mickey Jay's back. Booker's hand drops twice but not three times.
He stands out back elbows Rick pops him Irish whip. Book ducks and nails
him with that flying forearm he used to do pretty much an awful spinebuster barely
got Rick off the ground for some reason. Booker then doubles him over and
he's renamed the the the axe Kick. He calls it the ghetto Blaster.
Kind of taken, isn't it. The Ghetto Blaster is a spinning heel kicks
a gurry to the back of the head, isn't it. Well, maybe
a something like that, the spinning heelcakes what Owen used to do. But
bad News used to jump and kick in the back of the head like you
know, no one, yeah, yeah, right, all right, all
right. I thought sometimes you did it from the front, like a spinning
heelkike. And they called it the oh maybe I remember it that way weapon,
a flapjack, spinner rooney before they had a name for it. I'll
tell you what. They definitely had some flapjacks. Yeah, for sure,
I can guarantee that. Yeah, Dusty's moved on from the burrito I didn't.
I didn't have breakfast, daddy. I gotta have of it. I
got the burrita. Oh shit, oh oh god, wait oh, I
got a hold. I can't. Oh man, I got a whole day,
and I gotta always always cause for consternation when Dusty says, wait,
oh, I'll tell you that. I can feel it, creftfin baby,
it's coming out, it's coming up. But I gotta keep it in.
I gotta keep it in, oh man. But yeah, give me them,
give me them pancakes. I didn't have no before. Fucking can you
imagine? I mean it sounds like you know, the rainstorm and Forrest Coump
when they're in Vietnam. Yeah, yeah, the size of those rain drops,
that that's what hits the bowl. And it's a firestorm of unbelievable all
sorts of of of of brown. I mean, do you think that you
would think the ship goes down right north to south, but his goes east
to west. He goes everywhere. He goes north, south, east and
west. It's just a fucking it's it's a so much to the ferris wheel
of shit, a fairris wheel of ship Dustin, tell us more about your
dad's ships. Okay, clearly it was a thing anywhere underwear. We heard
that story. He's eating burritos forty and twenty minutes. Tell us about what
the what the outcome of that was? Do you think of ship you're ever
took? I just don't know. I mean, it's good television if nothing
else, right, right, right, I don't know. This PINERUITI leaves
a bit to be desired. He doesn't quite pull it off cleanly, but
he does fire off the Harlem sidekick that barely taps referee Mickey J. I
really hate that. You know, if it doesn't hit you don't fucking sell
it as the ref I know, all right, like took a walk down
one hundred and tenth Street, don't he said, We're still pretending he's from
Harlem, New York. Really Harlem heat after all, lots of heat.
Ray hits him with the Germans souplexes. Mickey J. Tries to clear his
eyes, so he's selling it like his eyes are scratched. He scratched his
corny a boss, he didn't knock him out emphasis on corny, yeah,
I'll say. And then Shane Douglas hops the rail with a cast on his
arm coiled and in a sling, and apparently Rickett stole the title from him,
so Shane positively taps Rick on the middle rope with his cast. Rick
lands on the canvas, swings at him, turns around, gets hooked into
the book end and pinned with the one two, three, seven minutes,
thirty one seconds. Booker t defeats Rick Steiner to become the United States heavyweight
champion here at Greed, and of course goes on to the final nitro to
take the world title off of Rick's brother Scott to close out WCW with two
belts hoisted high and a WWF contract in the mail, thank you very much.
Yep. And then for sure sorry, I said, that's for sure
absolutely. On the next thunder, he says his goal is to get back
to Rick Flair. This is Shane Douglas eventually, because you know they started
the Douglas Flair program in two thousand and then he handed a tape to ring
announcer David Penzer in which he challenged Rick for Nitro and Pandama City. So
he had another uh wow plan on the drawing board for the final Nitro between
Shane Douglas and Ric Flair that went absolutely nowhere. That's correct, Tony says.
Now Booker t has a claim to go after the highest prize, but
who will it be holding the Chamceampionship. That still remains to be seen.
But before we get there, let's go to Rick Center's locker room our documentary,
and here at Greed is still hard at work. I didn't get this.
One animal is hovering over Buff's body. Okay, you are right,
Buff, Buff Luger comes to what happened here? My gosh, what happened
Oh my god, exactly are you kidding me? They're kidding me. They're
kidding me. He's so annoying, so like half assed, so yeah,
but he's just so fucking annoying at this point, like just just go home.
You're not entertaining me right Like ever they're talking about, how isn't it
convenient the door was cracked open and an animal goes I got jumped last week.
I want to find the guy more than anybody else. You're gonna accuse
me of doing this to him. Yes, Lucas stands there with his arms
folded in silence, and that's entertainment, Hussin says, and I quote,
something's going on there. That's not all I can say about it. I
mean, he's not wrong package for our tag match with dust Dustin against Flair
and Jarrett, and Dustin had said, apparently take that contract and shove it
because you suck, he says to Rick Flair, because Flair wanted to recruit
him into the Magnificent Seven. It's gonna kick him out of the company.
And then Dusty lumbers down and elbows Rick Flair, which I guess keeps Dustin
in the company. Dusty and all Danham Baby his finest wranglers. Gotta keep
those saddle bags in. They even have Dusty saying Jeff Jarrett was making fun
of the fruit of my loins and Jared had come out of Nitro dressed up
like Dusty. They show a brief clip of that, which is hilarious,
right, good stuff. Dustin hits the ring pissed off Dusty clips on the
heels. I'm sure Dustin is pissed off. Fucking do this shit now,
don't piss Jarrett off? Right, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna
make you kiss my white ass. Dustiest quoted to say it on Nitro and
I don't have anything anything for the recap chose in one. This is Jeff
Jarrett to a kid Rocks cowboy, but of course Peacock is having done of
it. Of course, of course can't do that. Jeff walks out with
his guitar like anyone gives a shit. There's like two pages full of Jeff
Jarrett merchandise in the magazine in the Dying Days, slapnuts, hoodies and plush
guitars. I'm like, who is buying that? Like, no one's buying
that. I want to meet one person. I do one person who ordered
a piece of Jeff Jarrett merchandise from the w City catalog one and the slapnut
shirts did pretty well. So besides, let me say, besides the slapnut
shirts, okay, and that wasn't because people have Jarrett. It's because it
was funny to have a shirts and slapnuts on it. Of course, yeah,
all the credit to him, you pulled it off. But besides that,
did anybody buy anything. There's a Jeff Jarrett baseball Jersey who bought it?
One person one one and you know what, and two they'll tell you
what they bought it, and you know what the receipts, said Hulk Hogan
baseball Jersey. Hogan says a boat full of burritos Dusty went through a backstage
and there are refried beans going through the system of Dusty right now. I
mean, but folks, this isn't We're not making this up. I know
this sounds like a bit we do, but that's the whole idea of the
bits. Before you start bitching and complaining about the bits, it's it's the
reality. Nine times out of ten, it's the reality. It just takes
up a little bit of time for us to stumble upon the evidence. I've
said, but we know instinctually they're watching these characters for too many years,
observing their foibles and idiosyncrasies. This is where the truth is at. And
sometimes you can't get at the truth without a little fiction, right Boss.
Sometimes fiction is the only way to get truth across, not nonfiction. Tony
says, if it hits him hard enough, he could get rid of those.
I got that whole thing, because then they start talking about the different
ends of the burrito spectrum. Oh fuck it, he hits you could get
rid of some of those. I'm not so stored, and I'm not I'm
not to s those were the high rend burrito. You don't have to say
those, because there's such a thing as a high rent burrito. Yeah,
you look for convenience store one in the microwave, and that would be your
low rent burrito. So like you go to seven eleven, those are low
low rent burrito. I guess you go to like Lackabanya in l A and
that's a high rent burrito. I'm I'm glad he cleared that up because I'm
very curious as to what rent burrito Dusty consumed. It is interesting, though,
he is speaking in the era before there was such a thing as a
high end burrito. Right now Chipotle wants you to think it's like the healthiest
thing you could eat, and it's worth thirty dollars. You know, it's
pretty hilarious. There actually is such a thing. I'll take you a bowl,
Tony. Are you forgetting that? Guawk is green? And if you
pile it out, if you pile it on in just the right proportion,
it makes Mexican food look helpful? Are you missing that? So Flair comes
out with a Hawaiian shirt and Scott Hudson says, field, this Rodney dieerfield
look oh and oh my goodness, Yes, what kind of an image of
a CEO is that? He decries Hudson with a great question. You know,
his best question is the night what why is World Warrior animal here?
I've been wondering that since what sin? But he has a cool legion of
doom leather coat on. No he doesn't, but the image of the of
the guys stitched into it. But see that's the that's again that that therein
lies My problem is that he's still just hanging on to that gimmick, even
with the fact that nowhere to be found. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
he's just sitting there waiting for Hawk to come in so they can actually have
a run. Not okay, Joe, what are you doing? Joe?
What are you doing on ww TV? But where's it? What are you
doing here? Hey? You know I wanted to give him a chance,
clearly, you know what, my brother, yea, Joe, he's a
legend. I want to give me a chance off what he keeps He keeps
telling me he's a legend, and I guess I buy it. Gonna give
him a job? Yeah, w CW chance would have been a good pay
per view name too. Hudson says. The first time Dusty and Rick opposite
sides and then ring on a pay per view is right here tonight because those
you know, starcades were all close circuit things. They want pay per views,
true technically, and I guess that one. I guess not till eighty
seven. So you can hear the wheels turning in Shavan. He's head like,
wait a minute, really, I know. Yeah, he's like he's
going back to think like you and your fucking star kid was before pay per
view for w steck, you and your finn are you in your fucking details.
You know, I don't know, I think if I'm remembering history right
post WrestleMania one, star K eighty five, I'm pretty sure you could get
that on pay per view. It wasn't easy, and it required some rigamarole
from your cable company, but I'm pretty sure you could buy that. I
could be wrong, but I'm now, I'm now I'm curious. It's so
hard to pete, you know, dissect that because even WrestleMania one was primarily
a close circuit attraction, right his pay per view was so nascent and such
a niche thing that like you just you had to go to your cable company
and like get a device. From what I understand, like a is anyone
out there in the pay per view and in the laps fan solar system that
did this. I'd love to get the deats because of course, in our
whole lives, you just put it, you know, you just called and
it showed up in one of your channels, or from what I understand before,
that was kind of made like standard in I mean, according according to
Wikipedia, Starkad's eighty three through eighty six were all close circuit television. That's
it exclusively. Yes, I do kind of remember for the memorial tour thinking
of eighty seven. Eighty seven is the first pay per view. I do
believe that because I feel like that that was because yeah, that's why they
did Survivor series, because they were going into pay per view. Yeah,
that was the first foray, right, right, So they're like, I'm
gonna pay perview. Their ass so bizarre you I'm Dusty for president? You
know what else is bizarre? This? He's the he's the heart on there,
He's he stands a whole common names. He's a man. Fuck you.
I thought that he was too proud to lean into anything Vince did with
him in a clear mockery of his whole That that song is basically polka dots
on it is exactly what that is. I mean, it's and he goes
back to it. How pathetic is that it's it's I mean, I don't
know if there are like even Hogan had a unique theme. I mean,
but Dusty's literally doing his w theme with like a couple of time different somehow.
Exactly had you heard this before to watching this? I had not.
Oh I couldn't. Oh my god, but I wouldn't give to be in
the room. I mean, when you realized they were actually doing when when
he when that, when that first thing came on, I just I was
like, I mean, my my, my mouth just opened and I was
like, you gotta be fucking kidding me? Like, who who decided this?
Who said, hey, this is what he needs? Unacceptable? Have
they stopped trying much? I mean, seriously, what they're saying right there
is well, let's just none. I just let the w have it.
I guess boss, listen up, play it again. H m hm.
He's me an, here's the heartbeat up America. He's working hard for all
of us. He stands a whore, a common man. He's trying to
do the best he can here. He's a man, the man count it's
a man, a man, Auntie my woman. Body's here to stay.
No honey gets in this way. Now listen to what he says. He's
stands as fun and Texas player. He's a man short touch spread count a
man. It's a mere come country. It's a mare come country. It's
all come. It's my recountry. There's a wellcome the country. I mean,
he's Texas born, in Texas bred. He didn't have Texas Toast Breakfast.
Would that be Texas Toast to any chance? Yes, It's just oh
my god. This few just to me was like we we we know there
is no future here, so let's throw something in the ring that like would
work in any generation with no plan and no hint of like a future direct
let's just you know. It turned out to be one of the most engaging
things on the show, of course, because these two know how to actually
be pro wrestling right, and they can and they can bicker back and forth
and actually make things seem you know, important. Here comes Dustin in his
red vest looking over the Native enter. He's so like, he's he I
can't even imagine. I can't even imagine. What the fuck ah? And
how a broorious is it? In the final Nitro backstage footage that the Who
Killed ws W guys found, we talked to Evan Hausny about it. It's
like you got Dustin looking around, you know anything, you know what?
He knows it's over, right, he knows it's over and that he's not
going to be told at a time, But you know anything, know nothing?
Who knows know anything? He looks at the camera, you know,
you know anything? Do you know anything, I don't even know where I'm
going now. And then they show, uh, someone I think is Charles
Robinson hands dust in the format for that night, the format sheet which Guy
Evans is circulated as well, and it says like Vince McMahon vignette on the
format and he goes, that's big time brother, because he knows it's fucking
over and now it's time to win Vince back. Yeah, you know,
ye him a while to him get Goldust back on that fucking TV. And
yeah he pulled it off. Yeah. Yeah. As a matter of fact,
how interesting is that? It was fucking hilarious too, he was,
He was amazing. Actually, that was some of the funniest shiit of that
of that awful era, really was you know, yeah, he found a
second life there. What I was wrong? I forget about that even was
like they're talking about like something perverted. Yeah, like O has anyone ever
done anything? Raises his hand, uh, and he used to stutter,
what are you gonna like? Comcuted? So he started stunnering. Remember that
it's not even a stutter, it's I don't know it convulsion. Something sounds
like a kid doing a laser sound. Effect playing with toys. Did you
know that the gimmick went to gold dust after they asked Scotty to try to
do it? Scott standard and he's like, and it didn't work. You
know what. I don't know if people will actually notice because he kind of
does that anyway, Oh, Scott, we have a couple of other ideas
for what. Oh you know you heard, You're gonna You're gonna stutter and
make a noise of the veins in his neck. Can't the veins everywhere?
Papers flying up in the air, you know what I mean? So he
is constantly on edge? All right? Is Scott Steiner like he is just
ready to attack? Well, like I get why. I mean, they
probably would have had pretty good matches, but just always prepped to just hurt.
So on the tron they're showing old Crockett clips of dusties. He makes
his way, comes out with a hat in hand and does a little shimmy
and then makes the walk lumbering about. Here is the American dream. The
lyrics are just too much on his song. Nobody gets in his way.
Now listen up to what he says, and he stands up for the common
man. He does doing the best he can tell me more about this incredibly
inspiring individual. Well, a stinky Dusty can right is the best he can
do. Eat three hundred burritos backstage? That makes him the common man?
What a piece of shit? Can you imagine the woman going to the booths
recording that like, having to like passionately do it, holding the cans on
her ears while she lets the chorus loose. I mean, have some self
respect. You know who's recording that thing? How did that come together?
That sounds like a Jimmy Hart joint Rick Sciams cut the music you don't get
it? Oh yeah, I got that for you. This is fucking funny.
Uh there, I cut the dam you don't get it. I'm not
dressed the Russell and I'm not rustling chose the one. Gon't beat the hell
about the A bomb self chose one so much for Dusty and Rick for the
first time on Baby Right, Yeah exactly, like nope, let's just fucking
not do that. The roads hit the ring and the l scrammed, and
Rick says, now I'm gonna go. If they want it, they're gonna
get it. Hudson says, it's good a front of Tony says, you're
just noticing that about Rick Flair. That's funny. Charles Robinson's an animal to
the back where Lloyd's of London adjuster is no doubt awaiting him. Yes,
mister, mister animal, mister, mister, mister mister animal, Ginger Viters,
We've got a he just wants to kind of clear up on a number
of things. Your policy states. The policy states that a false masure,
false masure false uh sports? If you will, did you say false or
false false sporting events? Do not you know if you were to to compete,
do you call it competing? I don't want to offend, but not
offending? Is it? Is it actually? Would you consume refer to it
as real? How is that going to fan me? If you well,
I just want to know if it is really a competition or if everything is
rigged, even the insurance. A gester gets hung up on the fact that
it's not real because I don't know exactly how to differentiate the activity because you
you say you were hurt, You said you were hurt in the ring,
and and you did label yourself as an athlete, but I don't are more
properly classed as an entertainer, wouldn't you I mean correct if I'm wrong.
I don't again, don't mean to offend. But aren't you more of just
a stuntman rather a circus animal? I mean, don't you more or less
represent the monkeys in the in the zoo? Being more accurate that you are
a monkey man? Throw throw peanuts at you, don't they? And I'm
kind of like this right in the face. It bounces pathetically and almost silently
off his face. He doesn't do about it, mister animal. Yes,
Lloyd London. By the way, let me tell you, tell me how
many times do I have to I'll tell you what if you allow me to
throw two hundred peanuts at your face and you don't move one for every dusty
burrio, your policy will stay intact as is. He doesn't throw them hard.
He does not throw them hard. It's like he just wants him to
suffer the indignity. Yeah, exactly, Animore, Joe. Enough. Let
me tell you here's another thing too. If you would like me to again
keep your policy intact as is, I would appreciate if you answer every question
that I have in the affirmative. What would be the first question, Lloyd
lloyd Christmas. Oh are you a failure? Look? You want to get
insurance? Or not answer the question? Listen, I said, do you
answer from the affirmative or I will I will dismember, I will terminate your
policy at Lloyd's of London. So are you a failure? Yes? Of
a failure, Peter. He waits like fourteen seconds. He throws the next
one. He says, okay, ready, are you a failure? And
he goes, yes, I'm a failure. M Are you disappointed in your
life? Yes, I'm disappointed in my life. Is this your wife?
Yes, that's my wife when I do this to her? He didn't ask,
he didn't ask. He just pipes up. I'm his brother, like
can I help? Can I help you? You know, like I'm here
to help. Right, It's so sad that we lost that Johnny Ace,
you know we lost it. We have to always he said, some perverse
I know. He can't just be a sickle fan that he really is.
There's always a there's now a darkness, no matter what you know, anytime
you think of him, there's a darkness there. So Rick falls with Charles
the floor and he's got something to tell him. He's got something to tell
Charles Rominson. Then he shoves him. Robinson shoves him back. That's pretty
funny. A wrestler calls a ref over here like he's got something to say
to him, where the RAF steps to him with like a year out,
he shoves him. I'm okay with that. I'm okay with that. That's
pretty fucking great. And he stays in his face. And Dusty and Dustin
and a w W ring in two thousand and one, clearly boss the viewed
and never changes. Mmmm. Rick Flair and Jeff Charett versus Dustin Roads and
Dusty Roads here greed two thousand and one, Dusty doing the jig getting funky
like a monkey, so so Gate. So when did Flair decide he was
gonna still wrestle the match? Midway through? Someone pissed him off enough,
I guess us. I feel like I feel like, if if Al Pacino
forever to you know, either wrestle, or or do or or or do
a movie on wrestling, I think or you had to get in the ring.
I think he like this Flair would be his inspiration. I think you're
right. I think you would look at this Rick Flair and just model himself
after that. Ye, the only one more caffeinated would be Pacino's brother cap
Or you watched that? So did you ever see the movie? That is
an awful, awful Adam Sandler movie where he he plays him, he plays
the lead and the lead's sister. Uh yeah, trag yeah. Yeah.
At the end of the movie there's there's a because I guess the Adam Sandler
character is a it's like an ad director or something. At the end of
the movie there is he's doing an ad with al Pacino for Dunkin Donuts.
Oh yeah, I remember that. He has changed his name to Dunkino.
You dunk you can call me dunk. Yes, I remember this. Yes,
he's like a music video most of the Dunkin Actually actually was I auditioned
for that that commercial I did brought a large regular with you for he could
knows in l A. I wasn't there yet, and I like, I
really really, I was like, this is it if I'm gonna fucking this
is the way to get to be in a movie right here, and like
to do this with al Pacino, Like knowing it was a al Pacino,
I was like, that's hilarious, dairy lay, but then I got the
I got the the the age old response. They're going in a different direction
our breaking Guess who else is going in a different direction, my middle fingered
watch it go in the direction of up. Oh man, it's tough business
man, tough business, that's right. So yep, A flare steps out
Dustin and Dusty commanding the ring. Jeff Yard autumn though with punches, whip
is reversed, baseball slide underneath, and then jeff Yard eats a right hand
and a uh and gets dropped by Dustin Rhodes. Whipped to the corner,
and then Jared keeps up but there's no one underneath, and he turns around
and eats another downtown on right hand from Dustin Rhodes. Whip is reversed and
Dustin h dropped down and hits that uppercut that he does. Yeah, some
punches from the corner mount but before tan he grabs his dick like you do,
sets Jarrett into the corner, and as he charges, Jared gets two
boots up at Dustin Rhodes, baseball slides underneath, takes out the legs and
pulls Jarrett's nuts into the post. There you go, and Tony says for
no reason, the Yellow Rows of Texas. Did he say that? He
said, he said that. I don't know why he said it. Wow,
Dustin Road is up top now rains down a fist, but Jeff Berk
gets the boot up and Dustin eats it. Dusty eats something else. However,
I did see him pull out another burrito from his pocket flare tagged in,
dressed like he's going to the comedy show on the cruise boat. Seriously,
he seriously is like it is like he looks like a fucking moron.
He does, Like I mean, was that was that on purpose? For
this? Yeah? Well he was. You know, he's out of shape.
He he would show up trying to you know, expecting to play the
commit and then they want him to work and he didn't have his gear and
he had tits and everything. I mean, I knew. I know in
the final nightro he's a T shirt on it, right, but I knew
that. But like, why is he wearing this kind of an outfit?
Like why is he wearing a suit or something? Yeah, it's a good
question. I don't know. He's in his leisure era, He's in his
fucking Tommy mohamma era. He's like, I mean, he's got caffeine,
cocaine, oh so much shit fucking running through his body, and he's always
making those eyes. What what He's always that's his only what what that's the
only gear he had in the last few months of ws W. Yeah,
he knows he's just gonna mail it in. I mean, he's twenty times
better mailing it in. Then most guy's trying, so you know. So
there comes from chopping, uh, and then and then some right hands laying
in a dust and pokes his eye huge right lands in the corner for Flair
and then a little dance and then that brings Dusty in for a second,
but Charles Robinson stands in the way of Dusty intervening quite yet Flair drops uh
dustin road with a knife ittch chop, and then whips him in, but
Dustin holds on, and then Flair with his fist cocked Dustin Rhodes flips him
off and tags the dream who comes in like he's feeling like something's coming out
of his asshole. Frankly puts his finger up like hold on with a big
smile until the gas is gone. Tony says no, no, no,
Tony basically says Dusty farted that that's the intimation. Wait wait wait, I
got a little more in their Daddy's gonna come out right when I needed to.
Baby, Mmmm say it to a little coofy and extraneous and stupid.
This is the red hot for this in Jacksonville. Sure, they're hot forehead
Okay, no, no, listen, I get it, like this is
you gotta look at I mean, yeah, it makes sense like they're they're
you know, this is it. I mean you can't you can't go wrong
with them in a weird way. Yeah, you know, absolutely So.
Flair hits the ropes, they lock up Dusty with the head, push off
Dusty, tackle, Down goes Flair. They're looking pretty good. Even Dusty's
moving around way better than expected in twenty oh one. Yeah he is,
you know, I mean when when when were the later matches that we saw
him in uh in with with the funk? Oh good question three? Yeah,
So, I mean it's it's significant that he's working as well as he
is here. Yep, yep, down goes Flair. Flair to his knees,
all wide eyed. Dusty turns his hinding to him and shakes it a
bit. Tony says, get out of the firing line there. Rick Hudson
says, right in the crosshairs, if you will, right in the ass
hair is actually, oh my god, imagine think about it, think about
the ass hairs on. Dusty Rhoads. Oh, no, like like they
just they have collected so much, right, collected so much. It's an
uneven surface, folks. Oh yes, it's a rocky surface. It's a
problem. It's a problem, and says they've headlined every great venue for this
company. So not on pay per view though apparently. Dusty blocks the right
hands, whitches it up, chops Flair a bit, shakes his hips and
does an elbow drop onto Flair, and JJ bounces road here slouches away from
the action. Dusty loads him up then with some jabs a flip flop and
fly and an awesome elbow down goes red Flare, Yeah, tacked at Dustin,
whips reverse JJ, Jeff Jarrett that has hits his kidneys from the apron
and that drops Dustin and then Jarrett gets in flare at some chops whipping a
drop down. Dustin hooks him with a soup lex but Jarrett charges into an
inverted atomic drop Dustin puts him in the corner for the shattered dreams. The
dustbuster he called it in WCW. You called it what now the dust buster?
The dust buster? Wow. So Charles Robinson's grabbing Dusty to stop him
from intervening as the illegal man. Flair then hits a low blow on Dustin
and the Jeff Jarrett drops an elbow on the dick of the natural. Not
true, so they call him the nut true nat true. Jeff Jarrett put
in the boots to him, does the crotch grab because that's cool. What
you gotta do? Yep, Dusty Champ breaks out Flair stomping Dustin and loafers.
By the way, let the record show. Yeah, he's not even
I mean, he's not even trying in regards to is you know. As
a tire, Jarrett comes in, whip Dustin, ducks it, grabs a
sleeper. Dustin pushes off snatches of sleepers of his own. Jarrett breaks it
with a shin breaker and drapes the leg in the bottom rope and sits down
on it. Jared going to work on the leg set up the figure four
tag to Rick Flair who walks in, gets an inside, gets inside cradled
for two whipping a hip toss. It's blocked dustin roads with a backslide to
Flair and of course you know Flares on pay per view, he will backslide
for two. Absolutely, I mean, honestly, I'm surprised he didn't cut
himself one two Flair socks by the way, in full view as the trousers
are hiked up in the backslide, I'm actually surprised he's wearing He's wearing uh
socks too. I would imagine he doesn't wear socks and with an ankle show
off guy these days. Yeah, yeah, with like those slippers that look
like almost loafers, you know what I mean? Those ye a T shirt
under a blazer, sixteen gold chains, so pathetic and like a Rolex hanging
loose, and he does like the gun sign with his index and middle finger
and his thumb. Come on, Rick, what come on, dude,
it's fine, No, it's not got one more matching him. Claire.
Yeah, always always remember his last match, he said he had a heart
attack and then night you know that he was like I've heard that, yeah,
but he actually that he was laying they're dead. It's fine. I
mean, I don't know anyone's a problem. I mean, listen, listen
that that's right. There is it if you ask me, Yep, that's
it. He wants another so we can die in the ring on TV.
He honestly would prefer that to dying in you know, animinity. Yep.
I mean, I just I can't with him, like I I it's so
sad that he I mean, this is common throughout all of wrestling really,
or at least of a certain generation of wrestlers, that they're they're just there's
they have no they're not satisfied with anything else right in their life. Their
their life is Yep, it just it hurts. It hurts to see guys
like that, you know, like these these great these great wrestlers, these
guys who were you know, heroes to so many that when you know,
basically push comes to shove, they just they that they're in a like a
bar with sixteen people in it, trying to get people to react to them
rather that than anything else. Ric Flair, Rick Flair. If Rick Flair
doesn't right off into the sunset the greatest ever, what chance of these jabrons
have? I mean do we like, I can't, I mean, can
you imagine like if we're let's say, let's say let's say he does he
does get in the ring one more time. Oh boss, come on,
like and and and this happens, and like you know, obviously we're gonna
have to watch it. Oh yeah, you know, but like you know,
the the idea there is that is this gonna is he gonna die in
the ring? Remember in that match he was gonna get superplexed and he called
it off. You imagine that would have killed him. I'm surprised he called
it off. I am too. It's just like with the purple sleeveless shirt.
Oh like, his chops were just miserable, could barely punch. This
is what we deserve because this is what we well, we've been saying for
a long time, because this is what we do to our heroes. We
do this yeah to them. We basically tell them this is how to prove
worthy. We tell them that you're not anything unless you're killing yourself for me,
that's right. And of course the chief irony is that it's fake.
But right the unlike other sports, the fans demand you basically keep going to
die. Do all these fake stunts, do more of them with the hopes
of maybe dying. Please and thank you, let's buy Rick Flair's last match,
because he might die, die, he might cease to exist in the
ring on television. Nothing wrong with that. Actually, it's totally normal.
I'm glad you came around to my way of seeing it. Thank you.
Anyway, that all came from the fact that we caught a glimpse of Rick
socks. I hope you realized that. Jeff comes in and break up the
cover. Rick Flair with grabs an anklettack. Jeff Jarrett cuts off a rallying
Dustin Rhodes Jr. Jeff Jarrett steps over, hooks out in the figure four
and what's that'd be funny? Dust lays flat for a second one two,
but gets his shoulders off the canvas. In the figure four, Dusty making
the perturbed face. He's unsettled on the apron, but he can't get in.
Dusty getting the crowd rallied behind Dustin and the Dustin turns over the figure
four, Jeff Jarret grabs the ropes they break. Jeff jarted back to it.
Dustin kicks off Jeff Jarrett into the corner, and Dustin gets up and
hits it back, supplex limping. However, oh yes, Hudson says he's
full of he's full of burritos, and he wants somebody to up that being
Dusty roads. Oh my god. So it's so vile, so vile,
all this burrito talk and hyproloric foods. No one, Dusty didn't like Dustin.
He's the fruit of his loins. He doesn't like fruit. He'd rather
be the fried chicken of his loins. Dustin rolls and tags Dusty right there.
That's the thing too. Dusty would rather dustn't be rolls the rolls of
his loins. Correct. I mean, any thoughts about Dusty's Thanksgiving dinners?
I mean, oh my god, you talk about courses like like I I
mean, yeah, I imagine that there are that there are just there's there
are thousands of courses and hundreds of thousands of calories exactly. I mean that
that's just it, like you know, when when when you're eating and I
guess, keep in mind that Dusty's wearing no pants, I mean no underwear
Thanksgiving, you know, so it's yes, so gross, but it just
I mean you think about like how much butter is in the stuffing? You
know, like how much butter is here? Do you think about that?
Because you got to imagine like he goes to the grocery store, right,
you know, and he just he fucking like half of the Thanksgiving dinner.
He's gonna do like one run of just butter, you know, butter and
oil. I want to hear beat what you said. Okay, you think
about how much butter is in the stuffing. He just sits at the head
of that table. I mean we're talking from like oh yeah, twelve thir
in the afternoon until like seven thirty. Ye taking a course of course.
He actually, you know, it got to the point where, you know,
the family was like, you know, we want to have some food
too, So he had to get his own turkey, you know, all
my roads. Bring the bird out. Yep, my god, such a
riot, like mama with my with my bird, with my own bird.
Let's go, let's go. I'm fitting here. Wait for the way my
goddamn been given to it in front of my faith. Stop figuring it out.
My got it? Frid onion straws, Yes, yes, absolutely definitely
fried onions absolutely like re fried onion straws. Yeah. He takes him out
of the French's packet and throws yep, oh my god, creamed everything.
Oh yes, oh god, mac and cheese as well. Yeah, you
know, every kind of potato you can imagine, brisk it, yeah,
sweet potato pie. Oh god, they have like four cobblers. They've got
five different pis. You know, just I mean the the caloric intake is
criminal. Hes a online one one by the time it's over. Yeah.
In fact, they should just have you just haven't wait there to chokes.
Great Simpsons episode where where uh Millhouse and his family are living are staying with
his grandmother. It's the one uh Bart sells his soul is and and and
and Bart's like trying to get to Millhouse and and and they're worried about like
an intruder and and uh the grandmother goes, now you dial nine to one.
And when I say, go dial one again, that's that's kind of
it. They've got like they've got one phone in the roadshouse. That is
good. They just they haven't prepared. It's the emergency phone, and they
always have it. Nine to one. There's nine one is like locked in
so that you know, if anything happens, there's fucking push one. Okay,
this is the spoonful that does him in, right in case you know
this is this is the Thanksgiving dinner that ends it all. The desserts are
plentiful, oh god, plentiful, even bigger than the dinner. Yes,
yes, And then he has a he has a cup of coffee at the
dinner table and pretends like he's done, and then he gets a hankering again,
like ten minutes, and he gets pissed when anyone leaves the table.
Where you go, well, you get up half down. Football is on
pop. But I don't give a damn. We're eating dinner, a Thanksgiving
dinner, but fucking family. And look who put this on the table.
The idea that he eats a lot, not us, did himself. Don't
come at us like fucking two hundred burritos. Fuck your leave me alone.
They made fun of him eating a lot before we did, way before we
did. In fact, probably it's probably somewhere deep in our of course,
our memories that they did this, and that's why we went there, all
right. So Dustin rolls and tags Dusty and Flair gets it as well.
Dusty starts cooking on Flair, I mean and Jarrett. He's throwing elbows at
both. It's tremendous. Well do you think you're cooking that? What's going
on? That's what's going smell it mm all the way on the boom.
They're bumping. Dusty loads both of them up at the same time. That's
cool. He's throwing jabs with both hands. Got two opponents in front of
them, just like their heads going back like pets Dispenser's, you know,
totally, it's great. Double elbow. They fall to the canvas. Dusty
whips flare back elbow. Rick shreams no, and he lands an elbow to
the heart. Doesn't American Dream for two is Jeff Jarrett comes in swinging to
break it up. At the last second. Dustin on the apron watching his
dad get double teamed, double whiped, Dusty Ducks tags Dustin, Dusty cabarely
can hit the ropes. Dustin comes in with the double clothes line and both
Flair and Jarrett Pier four brawl breaks out. Jared hits Dustin and the nuts
right in front of the barrite, actually Dusty right in front the burrito shot
Tony calls it the burrito shot. Gotta be careful, Gonna be careful,
Flair Snapmar's Dustin puts on the double figure four. Both him and Jared apply
the figure four simultaneously on Dusty and Dustin, but they both get kicked off
or they can lock it out. They collide head first in the middle,
head to head in the middle of the ring. Jarrett spills to the floor
and Dustin Roads with the worst inside createle ever on Flair. No, it's
so bad, legs are way loose. One two and three, nine minutes,
fifty eight seconds, Dusty and Dustin Roads defeat Rick Flair and Jeff Jarrett
at greed a. You know what that means. Rick Flair has to puck
her up and plant one on Dusty's posterior. Yep, well, you know
he doesn't want to do that. But here this is uh, here's Dusty
saying that on the mic. Okay, knocking them up. Stop come in
here and kiss my big wires. They play a song. They play Dustin
song. Hudson says, Rick has to move that bananas out of the way
and plant one on Dusty's hide side. Flair looking like nineteen seventy three Flair
with the short hair, looking like the guy Vern broke in Yep. Jeff
Garrett tries to blindside Dustin Roads gets sucked up for it. Flair on the
floor screaming no, having none of it. He's not gonna do this.
Yeah, No, one's forcing him to do it. Why would he do
it? He's the CEO. No, no, okay. Finally we see
the red underwear of a Dusty in view. He's got underwear on on this
thing. The jeans are around his knees. Hutton says Flair was selling the
underwear. Tony says, wouldn't you? And Hudson goes, I'm doing it
now. Where where's he selling it? Yeah? Walmart, Tony says,
some of the brito has escaped already. Oh, that means it's come out
of his asshole. Right. That means that means that means in the form
of shit. Right, that means there is is soft yep, go ahead,
he's lapsed fan wrestling podcast with Jack and and j Piso. He's a
lapsed fan wrestling podcast. That means there is soft stool correct in his in
his pants right now, in his underwear, all right, And he's basically
because you know, He's fine with it. He's fine. He can't seem
at all to perturb you know, he's fine with it. There is there
is, there is soft stool like you know, that has now implanted itself
in his underwear and therefore also onto his his pants. And it's fine.
The saddle bags, the saddle bags, okay, the saddle bags are being
rubbed in soft tool greed. Is he eating bird seed? Hudson says,
does he gets a little uh acid Jarret's face for a second and takes awe
and then he takes off. He's the heartbeat of America. We're told,
Oh God, what that fucking The song says, he's the heartbeat of America
while he's standing there with his pants down around his ankles. That's rather poetic.
Happy July fourth. I mean, here's the guy who fucking who compared
himself to fucking John Wayne. Yep, all right, and he is standing
in the middle of the ring at his age in two thousand and one and
a company that's about to die of death and his underwear, ye making jokes
about eating two hundred burritos and then shipping them out right. Saint John Wayne
would have never done that. The Price was right. I suppose that's true
Price right. For sure. He stands up for the common man. He's
trying to do the best he can. I highly doubt it somehow. Yeah,
I don't think. I don't think. I think he's trying to take
the best he can. He's trying to take the best ship he can.
Dusty's definitely somebody who remembers his best ships. Yes, you know what,
here's the thing too, and see he also he also is one who you
know they said, right, didn't someone say that that his farts were atrocious?
So that's the thing, and he does, he likes to push them
out. But sometimes it's not a fart. Sometimes there's always something coming with
it, something comes with it, and all of a suddenly again it's like
he's just, oh, ship bad, I got it. I linked Alan
with that one, baby, I linked a little. And the thing is
he knows that, you know, every twenty times he farts, ship could
come out. But does that stop him? No, because any he just
and the thing is just it's right back down, yep, right, So
it's right back down his own fucking ship. And did he wash the jeans
before wearing him again? No doubt it. They're on the road, went
on that I can't do a londer Dad, I got one pad, Jean.
That fIF my half the fuck you thing I gotta do. I'm trying
to do the thing baby, that's clear begging off and takes off with Jeff
Jarrett. Dusty turns his ass to the eye away and shakes his heinie.
He's Texas born in Texas, bread Flaire hilariously Dove, we say on the
replay, into the cradle to get plent. Do you know he's He's like,
please head first into the swimming pool. End it so he doesn't kiss
his ass here. But what happens, of course, is the next night
on Nitro, Dusty brings out an actual donkey, a white donkey, positions
it near the rampway. They get a hold of Flair, they pull him
up the aisle and yes, Dusty makes Flair kiss his white ass. That
is to say, the donkey and Jarrett pucker's up to it's greed and event
time we get a package big popa pump takes pride and striking fear, destroying
opponents and remaining champ, we're told because we need more after that, and
here's page Hey, stein Er, I'm still standing that is the problem.
M said, dp's gonna take the same path Booker took, and Kevin Ash
and Goldberg fall to the hands of Scott Steiner. DDP says he may be
a genetic freak, but he's showing not a mental giant, which I was
getting kick out of that one. God. Yeah, he's he's gonna go
after me. All he does is run from me. He's got nothing on
me. Steiner shown as saying DDP simply says, you think I'm running from
you. I don't think so. DDP back then wearing a T shirt that
says whatever, which might as well have been w w's slogan at this point
in time, and he says, you're going to bang town. Tony recaps
the new champions we've had tonight and other results from Greed. Hudson says it
hasn't been a very good night for the Magnificent seven. We'll see if that
continues. Some guy has a Yankees manager's jacket behind them for some reason on
proud display in Jacksonville. Maybe since Russo taking it in covertly. Michael Buffer
is still getting paid. They don't got a pot to piss in. Michael
Buffer is still getting his his viig his slug area is this match we'll have
who stipulation must have a winner of view, penfall counting, count out of
the ring or DQ whatever he says, no penfall in or out of the
ring. They count in and out of the ring. There are no DQ's.
It's basically a no DQ match. False cut anywhere. It seems like
so DDP with new music. Lots of record scratches in there. I don't
know what that's about. Run through the crowd of the ring. He's the
son of this son of the Jersey Shore is known the world over as one
of the greatest superstars of pro wrestling. He's come to the ring as the
last man standing and prepares to capture the belt one more time. He's a
master of the Diamond Cutter, the former three time w c W Heavyweight World
Champion DDP Diamondspage Steiner. I remember that entrance, just sirens and the Tiger
on the tron and before hemming. Is that far? Ladies and gentlemen coming
to the ring at this time in the company of his favorite freak, the
Lovely Midas Yea, the lovely and sexy Medesia. He's two hundred pounds of
solid muscle. He hails from the Motor City, Detroit, Michigan. This
man known as the Genetic Freak. During his reign as champion, he has
destroyed the careers of such superstars as Sting Goldberg, Sid Vicious at Big Sixy,
Kevin Nash. Proving without it, he says all this, I don't
think that God proving without a doubt. He's the most dangerous man in the
sport. Ladies and gentlemen presenting the Master of the Steiner Recliner. Wasn't that
Papa Steiner? The Master of the Steiner Recliner was Rick and Scott's dawn exactly
on a Wolverine football day. Don't you fucking shut up? You like trash.
I'm in my Cyler Recline. You fuck us as they called it,
the neighborhood, the Steiner Recliner, shut up. Fuck I love his accent
as ann arbor as it gets. Show off. I'm watching my fucking you
keep running a fucking rough. I can't hit a game. Oh shit,
the kids just don't stop making noise. He takes out a gun and shoots
him from the Steiner recliner. Will he say he didn't even get out of
his recliner Sunday as whatever. Stuart rich Steiner took it to a whole new
level. Jim Police say, Stuart rech Steiner just had enough. I just
shot him in the ass. He sat on his lawn and a wife either
And you know what, I do it again. I'll shoot you too,
by the way, Yeah, yeah, I'll shoot you too, exactly.
That's how to give an interview, that's how to explain yourself to the local
news. I'll shoot you too. You want me to prove that, you
want to prove it of the cameras, I'll do it. Oh, just
shoot you too. Right to the net, Right for Borders faces fucking corrupt
media. Right, he comes up with a reason they deserve to be shot.
It has nothing to do with him wanting to shoot people. It has
everything to do with them deserving to be shot. I'm shot. I know,
I was. I I I watched, I watched the news. But
I'm telling you that you guys you cover shut up right, all right.
You don't report the facts. You don't report the facts. Honest heart working
Americans like myself with a loaded glock in the living room. So justg you
just shot man, I'll fucking do it. I'm television, eyewitness news got
a lot more than they bargained for me, a fucking American. H I
know you're an American, sir. You say that like it's in some dispute.
Yeah, I mean you you can't get arrested. Is that what you're
implying. Yeah, that's what I'm unplaying. Reserve to be arrested until unlike
you. I'm like, oh, you fucking shy taxes support whatever you do,
I'd pay you. I'm your boss. H oh, ship, it
is good. You see there, Rick, that black man right there,
he's there because of affirmative That got it, Dad. Oh God, that's
all folks, O. God, fucking wretch Steiner. Indeed, right,
Oh, I buried the lead. I forgot the most important part. After
saying that to Rick around the family television, General Andrew Jackson, the seventh
President of the United States, storms the rech Steiner home with a full cavalry
of militiamen and and proceeds to plant the American flag and take them all hostage.
That's the end of my story, God blessing, exactly. That's the
punchline and gentlemen presenting the master, and that one, remember the Rick Flair
socks one before This one's because Michael Buffer's a Steiner recliner. If you forgot
how we ended up there with the fucking Bugle Corps playing Andrew Jackson's marching fucking
the eighteen twenties Militia down the Steiner's modern driveway and it's like a total like
cul de sac here they comp I said this toennight boys, I can tell
the Independence day here in the States is upon us, all right, seriously,
the writing and defending undisputed w c W Heavyweight champion of the World,
Big popa pump Scott Steiner out with the mesh headwear and his championship. That
was quite a look he pulled off. I gotta say, with that head
piece and the belt, he looks like a fucking yeah, it looks like
you know, someone from the no sure for sure, the ancient rome and
fucking coliseum Medesia carrying the lead pipe for him. The siren music is funny.
Here's here's one of those things where should I say it? Should I
admit it? Like a big boss man fish stick thing? Yes, I
for no reason when I would do Scott Sander's song in my head or out
loud, it would be to wait for it. There's no whoa, there's
no wha in the song. I added it. Oh my god, I
just I don't know. I don't know where it came from, but it
was made him at time greed. Scott Steiner versus DDP for the world title.
Steiner pounces right away, gets his right hand blocked and DDP and loads
atomic drops swinging neckbreaker gets to DDP with some heavy artillery out of the gate.
I'm not sure about this crowd noise here. I think they were sweetened
into quite a bit. DDP collides with with with with Scott center ends up
in the apron. Steiner goes, come on, bitch, oh my go.
DDP climbs as Scott turns to the crowd and comes off the top up
with the flying clothesline clipping down Steiner for the two count. Steiner rolls to
the floor. Ddp's out after him and here we go. DDP throws him
into the rail several times on the rampway whippers reversed. He hits the rail
and cuffs him with the clothes line. Scott Steiner saying there's your d DP,
there's your white trash. Here we go. Then he calls them girl
a bitch and a fat ass, such asshole, and shut up to everybody.
He locks eyes with it inside and then Steiner clubs DDP across the chest,
kind of like those beats of the battery that Seamus does, and he
screams, come on, fat ass like chant, challenging people to fight him.
Dusty then kind of stun Steiner on the top rope. Ddp's knocked off
though the apron barely misses. Medaesia flying off the apron and crashes into the
guardrail satter than throws DDP in the front row goes out after him. They're
brawling in the crowd. Reversed whips into the wall here in Jacksonville. Tony
says this is legal fans, in case you were wondering, all right,
Sat grabs a trash can and rains it down on DDP. Hutton says they
might head out to the Intercoastal Waterway. At this point it's a little jr.
There no no references to the local airport, however, but there you
have a there, you have a public works called public infrastructure reference. Some
guy in crutches is just standing there, not identified at all, just some
guy, some extra and you can see Page Morales sitting there as you mentioned
in their death toll in the Spanish announced prasition, which is there some reason
buried deep in the crowd instead of next to touch on each like he just
like, who gives a shit about him? Yeah? What is he doing
in there? So Scott takes the crutch away from the kid and then breaks
it on ddp's back. The kid lands on like a rail and like falls
over. I don't know, I don't know what that was, what that
was about? And then let's see Standard sets up a table. DDP calls
for a crutch, another crutch and gets it and smacks this one across Scott
Steiner's back. So they're hitting to other with the crutches here. Agreed Again,
what does DDP know about crutches in a match? I don't know.
DP then climbs the rail and drops an elbow, putting Scott Steinder through the
table, covers him out in the wreckage and that gets too. This is
Nick Patrick getting the assignment to chase them around the building by the way and
slap the cement. Oh my god, on the cover, whip Scott Stander
under the rail and crowns him with the trash can cover and that gets another
two for Page. To the ramp they go and Standerd shoots DDP in and
says another one, and Scott is grabbing a fan and says, uh,
kiss my ass. And this is where Paul London makes a cameo appearance as
a fan holding a sign and attach. The sign appears to be I don't
know, a forty five vinyl record. I don't know what those things are,
some kind of like maybe serving tray, whatever it is. It is
cracked over the head of is cracked over the head of DDP. And then
DDP gets one and hits Scott Steiner with it. It gets a two.
There's so there's two of those from two different fans. Back in the ring.
Scott's center cuts them off with medja kind of a distracting DDP holding him
in place, and then Steiner pulls the middle rope up into ddp's crotch,
giving him a nutshot. Ye as he courses the ring, sure whipping a
lariat down, goes Page drops the elbow, gets one to two. But
you know when Steiner drops the elbow one two, he's going to do push
ups. He's not going to go for the three count. Oh of course,
I'm just warning up details. The referee is. He is all cut
up on the forehead somehow from that crowd brawling. Steiner has color here at
greed. At least somebody has color on the card, I'll say. Steiner
shoves DDP in of the ropes and hits a forearm sugar to his lower back,
starting to exploit that back, which is gonna finish off later with the
Snyder recliner. He tries it again, but DDP springs off and slugs him
whip. Scott stops and slugs him and hits an exploder supplex on page for
two. Scott gets up in his face says, you son of a bitch.
Yeah, he might even say cunt. I'm not sure that. Stuner
out with a bear hug, breaking breaking that back a bit more. But
DDP claps free. He snatched off the ropes though, and tossed It's time
for a belly to belly overhead suplex. Because when you work the Steiner's boss,
they will clutch, they will grip, and they will launch you need
to understand that you are going to go for the ride. That's correct,
and that's exactly what happens here page It's the canvas. Steiner covers one,
two to the corner. They go, Stander hits them some boots and chops.
DDP backs up out of the corner, fights up out of the corner
and starts throwing corner to corner whip. But he charges into the boot and
Scott Steiner with that turning belly to belly suplex he used to do. He
doesn't lift and drop you like Ken Shamrocky like, spins around right right,
goes the other way. That gets two. Hussin says, DP is the
last one, the last hope against the tyrannical reign of Rick Flair and the
Mangis and seven. Meanwhile, Dusty and Dustin just did pretty damn well against
them, so I don't know what that's about. They were left running like
with tails between their legs. I don't know how dominant they really are.
Snyder now with a bow and arrow submission with his foot between the shoulder blades,
cranking back on DDP. DDP fights up, tries to reverse it,
but Steiner ducks in a knee and clubs the back again, whipped to the
corner, is reversed into ddp's negos Steiner and then a DDT by Page plants
Steiner to the canvas. There's a double down now Scott Steiner comes up,
swings he Page ducks comes back from the other side and drops Scott Steiner with
the other arm. DDP then loads him up with rights and lefts yes,
and a big right sends Steiner into the buckle. He rams his head into
the corner. Steiner goes head over, heels on the cell big time,
flipping over on the canvas, whip to the corner. Steiner steps out of
the steps out with the back elbow, tries to get his feet on the
ropes for like a cheating pin cover a stack up, but he can't even
really lift he p's legs, who just lays on him. Syner's having a
lot of foot is shoes and leg isshoes. Back then he had basically like
a dropped foot. And when he tries to do certain things it comes out
real real bad. Oh yeah, and there's a lot uff. It turns
out real bad. Irish whip and hiptoss but no DDP shifts in mid air
and drives him down with the DDT. That's that's always a I support countering
a hiptoss with the DDT. I really do. Yeah, I do too.
That's that's a pretty bad ass move. One question. Yeah, you
snatch him in the other arm and let's drive him down. Pay tigles with
diamond cutter. Scott Center turns into what backslide positioning, kicks DDP in the
dick and then DDT's him. Steiner up puts him up the shoulder. DDP
drives down, shoves him in to the ropes and hits a diamond cutter.
He turns him over. One two, No, wait, Nick Patrick has
dragged out of the ring by Rick Steiner. DDP kicks him out on the
floor and does a piscado dive to the outside, taking out Rick Steiner.
What's that? Come on? I said, come on, yeah, no
ref bump time. I thought Johnny As was here to book clean finishes.
By the way, Yeah, that's clean. DDP grabs Nick Patrick throws him
back into the ring. Goldberg chant breaks out, by the way, sorry,
you know during that, during that that that that epically long bear hug
that happened, did you hear Tony Shavani basically fucking coming uh discussing talking about
Scott Steiner's muscles like you can't say I did. He's like, it's like
Bobby Heenan with with la. Look at the massive bear of the arms of
Scott Steiner. Put the four off. You talk so much about the biceps
and the try steps looking up pick the fore arms. Sorry, they're cruss
they're swool the back, pulling up, squeezing the crust. But spent a
time in Dallas page damn Tony Jesus Christ like did in the byes and tries
huh brother, Hey you know sho whoa but whoa buddy? No I talked
about who killed w c W. Yeah. So DP grabs Nick Patrick,
throws him into the ring, whip is reversed. Steiner crashes into a into
Rick Steiner and DDP rolls him up for the one too. No, didn't
get him. DDP allegedly lands on the head of Nick Patrick off the kickoff.
So now Nick Patrick is out Scott Steiner with a jawbreaker on page Medasia
hands him the world title belt and snatter nails DDP with it. DDP now
busted open comes up with Color, talking up a storm about the next spot.
Center covers him for two. Stander turns DDP over in a Boston crab
and they're basically trying to do the pool of blood rustling a thirteen Steve Austin
thing. I mean, except nobody fucking cares right, nobody could possibly and
it is it is pouring hot. I will say that DDP pushing up,
screaming just like Austin did. Por hot does that? That's what it is?
Pored hot yep, Okay, always forget if it's running hot or poor
hot, poored hot. It's pretty good. Ddp's pushing up, screaming in
the hold, clawing, trying to get free reaching and finally gets the ropes,
and then Scott Center just hooks the Steiner recliner. DDP hangs limply there.
Referee lifts the arm once, lists the arm twice, not a third
time. Read DDB scrabbles to the ropes and Tony has a conniption at someone
fighting out of the Steiner recliner. DDP though in the canvas and heaps Scott
Steerd gets in Nick Patrick's face as Rick gets some cheap shots in on page,
but Daja gets up on the apron and Steiner with a lead pipe,
lays into the ribs of Page over and over behind the referee's back, because
you know we got to go to the extra mile of Page is gonna fall
so cleanly to Steiner. He's gonna really seat the fuck out of it.
Right, of course, use weapons. Tony calls out the lower back problems
that Page has had a year ago, that at this point the world champlocks
in the Steiner recliner DDP, bent strongly at the hips. He's he's a
very in a very curved position as Nick Patrick this time lifts the arm once
twice, three times. Fourteen minutes, fourteen seconds. Scott Steiner defeats Diamond
Dallas Page by technical submission. He just lets go of the Steiner recliner and
Page rather effectively, I should say, just falls flat in his face like
you're dead. It's awesome. It's an awesome say job a job of that,
no question. Scott Center still the world heavyweight champion. He tells Midasia
to get the belt, takes them in a rope in flexes, breathing heavily.
He's handed the strap, the black leather one, not the I don't
think it was the one, the original one. There was the Shenanigans around
two belts at Bash at the Beach and the Hogan Jarrett thing. I remember
Rick still dropping elbows on DDP. After the bell, Scott handed a University
of Michigan flag Go Blue. He drapes that on ddp's corpse and again raising
raining down lead pipe shots as Medeja hoists the strap up high. They show
a replay of everything throughout the course of the night, with Tony narrating,
and Tony says in the end, Diamond Dallas Page gave us everything, but
it was Big Papa Pump still heavyweight Champion of the World, and Scott Hudson
calls it a memorable night a world championship wrestling. If he only knew,
he says, see you tomorrow night, oh brother. On Nitro. In
the last episode of Worldwide, which as we said, was kind of in
some ways the final WB broadcasts, they recapped Greed and they did it in
a tone like nothing was wrong. Mike, what's causing all this? It
was wc W Greed and Scott going into WCW's Greed pay per view event,
we were looking for the answers to many questions. Could Diamond Dallas Page remain
standing against the physical onslaught of the World's Heavyweight Champion Big Papa Pump Scott Steiner.
Could the Rhodes Family gain a little revenge and in turn embarrassed Rick Flair
and Jeff Jarrett the way that the Boss and the Chosen One had done to
the Rhodes Family in recent weeks. And could the team of Chuck Palumbo and
Sean O'Hare maintain the winning streak that they had over the Total Package Lex Luger
in singles competition in a World's Tag team title defense against totally buffed. We
got our answers in Jacksonville, Florida. Hang on, this is wc W
greed, and they carry on showing highlights from the show and showing, oh
my god, any number of moments in a WCW that was indeed circling the
dream. Even go back in a feature. They would do an occasion in
the archives on this episode of Worldwide and show the Wargames match from nineteen ninety
four where Dusty Rhodes cut the famous promo about what we said earlier, the
view never changes when you lead from behind when you walk from behind and getting
dustined on his side for that Wargames match, and then here at Greed teaming
with them one more time. The view indeed never changed for WCW, and
despite the business's usual tone of Scott Udson and Mike today there and pitching to
the Greed recap on this final episode of Worldwide, they do conclude with a
rather jarring tip of the cap to what was wcwody. That was a great
match, though, a great match like all the WCW war Games have been
through the years. And this wraps up WCW Worldwide, not just for this
week, but forever. End of day, WCW Gone, Worldwide Gone.
We want to thank you for joining us each and every week here on WSW
Worldwide. What a great crew we've had. It's been a lot of fun
taping these shows, and you can see we have a really good time.
For Mike today, I'm Scott Hudson. We'll see you down the road somewhere
else. Thanks for watching Worldwide. We've said it before and it's appropriate we
say it again here after the final w W pay per views and the books
here at TLF Who killed WW series and our companion pot is in the books
as well. Here lies World Championship Wrestling. Yes, that's what's next.
Well here we go. Okay, oh fuck me? What all right?
Well this is for all you extremists out there ECW Living Dangerously two thousand.
What that's that's what it says, Living Dangerously two thousand just came out of
that thing. I thought you CW wasn't even in there. No, I
put it in. I put it in, I add it in, and
that's what my fingers grabbed. And then look what happens. Right, A
lot of the same players there were WCW this time, including who who Dusty
Roads? See you next time. Bitch plays a production of the Lapsed Entertainment
Group. Its content is intended for private use. Holy all work down down
to myself, Bagh. We won