1 00:00:00,840 --> 00:00:03,399 We're going all right, we'll here at Wrestling Khan with the grappler Lynn Dent. 2 00:00:03,640 --> 00:00:07,040 Lynn, thanks so much for the time. User. Yes, so 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:11,400 we saw you on Tales from the Territories Portland edition and you talk about Bruce 4 00:00:11,439 --> 00:00:15,800 Anderson, your best buddy. What I read your book. Do you think 5 00:00:15,919 --> 00:00:19,280 that Vince put Bruce Anderson up to it? Well, okay, I'll tell 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:23,879 you what. I'll answer that with a question. Okay. So the man 7 00:00:24,039 --> 00:00:29,399 comes to us. He is a lobbyist, okay, right and Salem okay, 8 00:00:29,399 --> 00:00:32,200 and he goes and all of a sudden, we never had a wrestle 9 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:37,200 commissioner. Now we get the lobbyist, goes, passes on rule. How 10 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:43,039 do they do that? And then gets the wrestling commissioners and then appoints himself 11 00:00:43,079 --> 00:00:47,159 as the wrestling commissioner. The other thing he just passed. Okay, so 12 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,359 now he's the commissioner. And then he comes in. He goes, Hey, 13 00:00:50,679 --> 00:00:54,640 tells Donos, you can't use chairs, you can't use tables, you 14 00:00:54,719 --> 00:00:59,399 can't any vrate bleeds, and you don't stop the match immediately our heres on 15 00:00:59,479 --> 00:01:03,840 TV. I'll yank your license. Okay. So the next month Vince flies 16 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:10,319 in and he has a show at the coliseum and four people got Juice, 17 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:14,760 one guy, all kinds of Vinci show on his show. Nobody said nothing. 18 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:19,879 They bragged about it coming back and three or four months but nobody said 19 00:01:19,959 --> 00:01:23,879 anything about that. And then every time we've done something and we had to 20 00:01:23,239 --> 00:01:26,120 know, he was on our on our butt. So I don't know, 21 00:01:26,439 --> 00:01:33,200 I'm I'm asking you, what do you think that's a conclusion? Conclusion? 22 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:38,000 So he did. Roddy have a deal where he was non exclusive to Vince 23 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,000 in eighty five when he came in because you know, he would do Don 24 00:01:41,079 --> 00:01:44,560 show, he would still go to Portland even when he was with There's Joy 25 00:01:45,200 --> 00:01:49,120 And Piper told me itself, Roddy, of course, you know we head 26 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:53,879 on contract for WWA. But now, Vince Senior was a good friend of 27 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:00,560 donoscause they were around for Ben Senior, Benn Senior and Bob Guy. Okay, 28 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:04,560 so thinking about the last two territories that Vince put out a business, 29 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:07,520 was Bob get going down Owens? Yes, okay, So Piper, he 30 00:02:07,599 --> 00:02:12,280 knew Piper was from here. He knew Piper got to start kind of with 31 00:02:12,439 --> 00:02:15,759 Don. And so Roddy made a deal with Vince. Ain't it's not gonna 32 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:20,919 hurt your houses. And they just kind of gentleman's agreement. Okay, he 33 00:02:21,039 --> 00:02:23,360 come in and to help Don make as much money as he could before he 34 00:02:23,439 --> 00:02:27,159 knew it was over. He knew it was over. Yeah, that's how 35 00:02:27,199 --> 00:02:30,280 do you do you think they wanted Piper to job at Mania one to Hogan? 36 00:02:30,360 --> 00:02:32,560 And why didn't that happen? Well, of course they did it because 37 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:36,680 they wanted to push Hogan was a meal ticket, of course, I mean, 38 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:40,560 anybody, you gotta be an idiot to not know these guys your meal 39 00:02:40,599 --> 00:02:46,520 ticket. But they wanted him to do the job because of course promoters go 40 00:02:46,599 --> 00:02:50,960 on with the next car and the next heel. But Piper, you know, 41 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:53,319 he stood up like he got lucky, got away with that. Yeah, 42 00:02:53,360 --> 00:02:59,080 because most guys wouldn't have. But he drew so well and with such 43 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,960 a unique gimm you know that eventually, I guess I wasn't there, No, 44 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:07,319 I know, but I know you knew him in so as a as 45 00:03:07,400 --> 00:03:12,879 a book or promoter. If I was vincing man, I'd go, Okay, 46 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:16,400 we'll work something out. But you're probably the only guy that he don't 47 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:21,520 mean, do you think they ever came close to talking Roddy into losing clean 48 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:23,360 to Hogan. I do I think they came close to it. What was 49 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,280 this problem with it at the end of the day, in your opinion, 50 00:03:25,439 --> 00:03:30,120 Piper always that was his thing. I don't get. He wanted to be 51 00:03:30,159 --> 00:03:36,000 the guy that nobody ever beat. Literally, I on TV. You know 52 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,759 it had a tape on it because everybody else did you know, It's like 53 00:03:39,840 --> 00:03:44,960 that's your meal ticket. I mean, you know who was I thinking that 54 00:03:45,159 --> 00:03:49,639 the other day? The dude want to do a job for Andre the Giant. 55 00:03:49,639 --> 00:03:53,639 I'm going, are you crazy? Not only because he would kill your 56 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:59,719 ass, but here's Hogan. Um, I heard this story the other day. 57 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,280 Yeah. Actually you might have heard it on TikTok too when he told 58 00:04:03,439 --> 00:04:09,000 Hogan told the story Hardy came down to Kansas City and he set the ring 59 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:15,240 on fire. Okay, well Hardy when when he got his big they were 60 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:19,199 really on fire at w w what w w AF at the time, Hardy, 61 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:23,079 you know, was a king in Kansas City. I booked Kansas City 62 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:27,519 for a year for him and Gago, but they ran straight up. They 63 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:32,480 came to Kansas City. Well, when they come to the town, Hogan 64 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:35,279 came to the dress room to get a dressed and all that, said, 65 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,519 one of the guys coming some men, you Betty, get Tress out of 66 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:43,639 here. Hardy was here earlier during the day and he was ship faced drinking 67 00:04:43,800 --> 00:04:46,800 and he set the ring on fire and said, hell yeah, we had 68 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,000 to get it put out. He's looking at you, said I'll kill I 69 00:04:49,079 --> 00:04:54,160 will kill Hogan. He said, I'm the king of pro wrestling. Because 70 00:04:54,199 --> 00:04:58,759 he was so pissed because I remember interviews. Hardy would make me stuck because 71 00:04:58,759 --> 00:05:01,240 I wrote all the interview time, Donna. He would change it when you 72 00:05:01,319 --> 00:05:05,040 say just it's not just about Hogan, and I see, I say, 73 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:09,759 quit saying shit about Hogan, because then you're giving him all that. If 74 00:05:09,759 --> 00:05:12,720 you don't see anything, that's better, right, You know how that goes, 75 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:16,839 right? Excuse me anyway, So what happened was Hogan said himself, 76 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,639 He's like, I came here. He's I was in the restroom taking a 77 00:05:19,759 --> 00:05:24,480 dump and they got knocked doors. He said, Hardy's in the hall looking 78 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:26,839 for you. He said, I didn't even wipe my butt. I joked 79 00:05:26,879 --> 00:05:29,160 with me as I was trying to get away, and he's not round him 80 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,279 the head on, face to face to Hardy. Hardy had a three fifty 81 00:05:31,279 --> 00:05:34,439 seven magnum in his hand and he said, you know what, you nothing 82 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:39,720 champion, You you plastic champion. I hard to blow your knee caps out. 83 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:42,920 And he said, but you know what, Hardy looking, I said, 84 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,879 but I need a job. And he said and shook Hogan's and halson, 85 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,560 let me talk to this for you. And that's how he came on 86 00:05:48,720 --> 00:05:53,319 w W wow. So we had to He almost shot on Hogan. Literally, 87 00:05:53,639 --> 00:05:55,879 yeah, ship could have bet a shoot. Yeah yeah, but that's 88 00:05:55,879 --> 00:05:59,120 the way Hardy had. What's Holgan so paranoid because of shit like that? 89 00:05:59,319 --> 00:06:01,480 He but cause you know, back in the day they say this arrest was 90 00:06:01,519 --> 00:06:04,720 a shooting. We didn't have steeroids. You had to be a real tough 91 00:06:04,759 --> 00:06:09,199 guy and you held the world belt. Okay, it was it was. 92 00:06:09,680 --> 00:06:13,879 It was cafeine, so I held belts all over you can see. But 93 00:06:14,040 --> 00:06:15,800 Bill Watts would tell me, if you go to a bar and you get 94 00:06:15,800 --> 00:06:18,160 your ass kicked, your fire, that's for real. He would say, 95 00:06:18,199 --> 00:06:20,920 it was back together. Well would They'll say if you refuse to do a 96 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:26,639 job, I'll fire your ass. And then he would put a sair stretcher 97 00:06:26,800 --> 00:06:30,879 like Orton junior like Rton junior. Yeah, he go gonna put him asleep, 98 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:33,560 will you? That's out? Yeah? Brother, No, I never 99 00:06:33,639 --> 00:06:36,199 claim be a tough guy. I was a good worker, thank god, 100 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:41,160 and I I made the belt look like a great thing to have. But 101 00:06:41,600 --> 00:06:46,680 you know, I can protect myself against the faint fans. But yeah, 102 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:48,360 that's way. That's the way we all went down the pike. And that's 103 00:06:48,399 --> 00:06:51,279 the way Hardy Race had protected the belt all the time. And now you 104 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:57,560 got Hogan. They could not whoop my ass. Okay, he's big and 105 00:06:57,639 --> 00:07:00,319 he glifts all these weights. That's the Plasta champion. That's what he called 106 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:03,160 him. Please, I mean, I respect Hogan. He is to look 107 00:07:03,199 --> 00:07:05,560 at when you got to train your ass off, and he who paid his 108 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:09,959 dues. But it was a total you know, it was a total old 109 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:14,240 school and that's why Hardy had so much hate for it. He couldn't let 110 00:07:14,319 --> 00:07:16,439 it go. Wonderful stories. Thank you, Lenn, Thank you guys. 111 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:17,839 I'm appreciate very much.