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We're going all right, we'll here
at Wrestling Khan with the grappler Lynn Dent.

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Lynn, thanks so much for the
time. User. Yes, so

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we saw you on Tales from the
Territories Portland edition and you talk about Bruce

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Anderson, your best buddy. What
I read your book. Do you think

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that Vince put Bruce Anderson up to
it? Well, okay, I'll tell

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you what. I'll answer that with
a question. Okay. So the man

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comes to us. He is a
lobbyist, okay, right and Salem okay,

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and he goes and all of a
sudden, we never had a wrestle

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commissioner. Now we get the lobbyist, goes, passes on rule. How

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do they do that? And then
gets the wrestling commissioners and then appoints himself

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as the wrestling commissioner. The other
thing he just passed. Okay, so

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now he's the commissioner. And then
he comes in. He goes, Hey,

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tells Donos, you can't use chairs, you can't use tables, you

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can't any vrate bleeds, and you
don't stop the match immediately our heres on

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TV. I'll yank your license.
Okay. So the next month Vince flies

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in and he has a show at
the coliseum and four people got Juice,

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one guy, all kinds of Vinci
show on his show. Nobody said nothing.

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They bragged about it coming back and
three or four months but nobody said

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anything about that. And then every
time we've done something and we had to

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know, he was on our on
our butt. So I don't know,

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I'm I'm asking you, what do
you think that's a conclusion? Conclusion?

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So he did. Roddy have a
deal where he was non exclusive to Vince

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in eighty five when he came in
because you know, he would do Don

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show, he would still go to
Portland even when he was with There's Joy

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And Piper told me itself, Roddy, of course, you know we head

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on contract for WWA. But now, Vince Senior was a good friend of

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donoscause they were around for Ben Senior, Benn Senior and Bob Guy. Okay,

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so thinking about the last two territories
that Vince put out a business,

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was Bob get going down Owens?
Yes, okay, So Piper, he

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knew Piper was from here. He
knew Piper got to start kind of with

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Don. And so Roddy made a
deal with Vince. Ain't it's not gonna

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hurt your houses. And they just
kind of gentleman's agreement. Okay, he

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come in and to help Don make
as much money as he could before he

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knew it was over. He knew
it was over. Yeah, that's how

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do you do you think they wanted
Piper to job at Mania one to Hogan?

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And why didn't that happen? Well, of course they did it because

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they wanted to push Hogan was a
meal ticket, of course, I mean,

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anybody, you gotta be an idiot
to not know these guys your meal

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ticket. But they wanted him to
do the job because of course promoters go

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on with the next car and the
next heel. But Piper, you know,

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he stood up like he got lucky, got away with that. Yeah,

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because most guys wouldn't have. But
he drew so well and with such

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a unique gimm you know that eventually, I guess I wasn't there, No,

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I know, but I know you
knew him in so as a as

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a book or promoter. If I
was vincing man, I'd go, Okay,

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we'll work something out. But you're
probably the only guy that he don't

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mean, do you think they ever
came close to talking Roddy into losing clean

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to Hogan. I do I think
they came close to it. What was

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this problem with it at the end
of the day, in your opinion,

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Piper always that was his thing.
I don't get. He wanted to be

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the guy that nobody ever beat.
Literally, I on TV. You know

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it had a tape on it because
everybody else did you know, It's like

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that's your meal ticket. I mean, you know who was I thinking that

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the other day? The dude want
to do a job for Andre the Giant.

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I'm going, are you crazy?
Not only because he would kill your

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ass, but here's Hogan. Um, I heard this story the other day.

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Yeah. Actually you might have heard
it on TikTok too when he told

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Hogan told the story Hardy came down
to Kansas City and he set the ring

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on fire. Okay, well Hardy
when when he got his big they were

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really on fire at w w what
w w AF at the time, Hardy,

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you know, was a king in
Kansas City. I booked Kansas City

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for a year for him and Gago, but they ran straight up. They

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came to Kansas City. Well,
when they come to the town, Hogan

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came to the dress room to get
a dressed and all that, said,

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one of the guys coming some men, you Betty, get Tress out of

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here. Hardy was here earlier during
the day and he was ship faced drinking

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and he set the ring on fire
and said, hell yeah, we had

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to get it put out. He's
looking at you, said I'll kill I

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will kill Hogan. He said,
I'm the king of pro wrestling. Because

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he was so pissed because I remember
interviews. Hardy would make me stuck because

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I wrote all the interview time,
Donna. He would change it when you

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say just it's not just about Hogan, and I see, I say,

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quit saying shit about Hogan, because
then you're giving him all that. If

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you don't see anything, that's better, right, You know how that goes,

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right? Excuse me anyway, So
what happened was Hogan said himself,

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He's like, I came here.
He's I was in the restroom taking a

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dump and they got knocked doors.
He said, Hardy's in the hall looking

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for you. He said, I
didn't even wipe my butt. I joked

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with me as I was trying to
get away, and he's not round him

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the head on, face to face
to Hardy. Hardy had a three fifty

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seven magnum in his hand and he
said, you know what, you nothing

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champion, You you plastic champion.
I hard to blow your knee caps out.

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And he said, but you know
what, Hardy looking, I said,

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but I need a job. And
he said and shook Hogan's and halson,

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let me talk to this for you. And that's how he came on

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w W wow. So we had
to He almost shot on Hogan. Literally,

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yeah, ship could have bet a
shoot. Yeah yeah, but that's

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the way Hardy had. What's Holgan
so paranoid because of shit like that?

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He but cause you know, back
in the day they say this arrest was

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a shooting. We didn't have steeroids. You had to be a real tough

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guy and you held the world belt. Okay, it was it was.

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It was cafeine, so I held
belts all over you can see. But

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Bill Watts would tell me, if
you go to a bar and you get

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your ass kicked, your fire,
that's for real. He would say,

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it was back together. Well would
They'll say if you refuse to do a

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job, I'll fire your ass.
And then he would put a sair stretcher

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like Orton junior like Rton junior.
Yeah, he go gonna put him asleep,

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will you? That's out? Yeah? Brother, No, I never

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claim be a tough guy. I
was a good worker, thank god,

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and I I made the belt look
like a great thing to have. But

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you know, I can protect myself
against the faint fans. But yeah,

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that's way. That's the way we
all went down the pike. And that's

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the way Hardy Race had protected the
belt all the time. And now you

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got Hogan. They could not whoop
my ass. Okay, he's big and

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he glifts all these weights. That's
the Plasta champion. That's what he called

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him. Please, I mean,
I respect Hogan. He is to look

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at when you got to train your
ass off, and he who paid his

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dues. But it was a total
you know, it was a total old

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school and that's why Hardy had so
much hate for it. He couldn't let

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it go. Wonderful stories. Thank
you, Lenn, Thank you guys.

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I'm appreciate very much.