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And we are so very much back. I'm pleased to say. It's the

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lapsed fan wrestling podcast, and it's
a traditional deep dive into your peacock archive.

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Enjoy it while it lasts. It's
the nineteen eighty eight WWF Royal Rumble,

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the first one to be televised.
The Revolution was televised. Your co

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chairman stand in pole position. Indeed, deal. Huh how'd this show make

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you feel? Oh? Great?
Oh my god? Like this was just

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I again, like I said during
part one, this was there was I

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got enjoyment out of every aspect of
this show. Yes, there was never

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a part where I was like,
Okay, let's move it along, let's

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keep on going. This was just
glorious from head to toe. And uh.

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And it's not even like it's a
great show. It's not a great

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show. That's what's key about the
it used to be better. Yeah philosophy

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is that it doesn't mean that side
by side the matches and the shows were

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better. It means the general on
wi of being a wrestling fan was better,

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right right, I mean it's just
the idea that And again I wasn't

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watching at this time. This stuff
isn't isn't aren't storylines that I think back

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on fondly. This is stuff that
you don't have been aware of, right,

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I wasn't. I wasn't aware of
at all. It's just that that's

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that's how I noticed to be better
because shows I never watched as a kid

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are still, you know, on
a different level in terms of how engaged

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you can get, how lost you
can get, how few times you're taken

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out of it. Yeah, because
like to me, this this had the

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same vibe, the same feeling that
I got. Remember remember when we did

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when we did World Class, Yes, And the first thing I said was

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I felt like I was nostalgic for
this and I've never seen it before.

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Absolutely, And it's that kind of
feeling that I have. Well, look

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at these kids walking around. We're
in late nineties clothes. They weren't.

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They weren't a lot even the late
nineties. Their children of the two thousands,

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I know, I know. So
it's it's it's always asked backwards to

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me, like most people are nostalgic
for times they did not live in Yes,

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when they will I get down to
it, not not for their childhood,

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but for times they wish they would
have been children in writ in a

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lot of ways right, and here
were rumble nineteen eighty eight perhaps exhibit a

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minor correction. I had mentioned in
part one that there was a royal rumble

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in the cow Palace in San Francisco
that Ted DIBIASI won according to history of

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WWF, that was advertised as a
bunkhouse battle royal and didn't have the staggered

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rumble entry. And those were the
ones that were sort of um, you

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know, everywhere ubiquitous in early nineteen
eighty eight up to Russelmania four, most

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of them listed as bunkhouse battle royals. There was one we mentioned that check

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the Snake Roberts one that was expressly
a royal rumble, and there was also

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one one by Rick Rude that according
to results was a royal rumble per se

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whatever one in nineteen eighty seven.
That's so crazy still, uh, I

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mean, still more than more than
I do. You got to put gang

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ye dB at the Gang Roberts and
Ruden there, yep. I'm sure here

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waiting for you to acknowledge it.
I acknowledge it. No, not you,

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I mean the general you out there, and and and Owen too for

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that matter. You know what you're
right. I didn't look past eighty eight

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just for purposes of this episode.
But if you're telling me there were the

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rumbles, and I do faintly remember
what you're talking about, we've got to

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grapple with that. Yes, I've
seen it. I've seen the tape.

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I've seen the the you know,
the handycam footage, ye of it.

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I didn't watch the whole thing,
but I've watched you know enough of it,

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and I watched owen Win mentioned Peacock. What's a nice treat here,

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bosses, we're watching season one,
episode one of the Royal Rumble that I

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mean what I can't wait for a
season one episode two and the first thing

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you hear were such lively festivity.
Invin's voice, they just open live on

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the building they do. There's there's
no there's no pomp, no circumstance.

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But here here's here's the opening Olcome
mind the world put literaction, but ynolity

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of the hamlet that I'm tea lest
that does day Royal Rumball scutuled here tonight

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live we'll see the officials signing of
one is unfused me the most wrongful way

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in the rematching the history of the
World Trustling Literaction Pub and I'm going the

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time affect me putting the jid handcut
Port Patner for the rematch to take place

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February five, and then from there
a time team hunt of Night Jump Yes,

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the Jumping bomb Angels from Japan.
The Challengers has put off against the

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Raiding Champions Jimmy Hawks, Lamber Girl
and a two out of three ball there

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and there Dan Sino promo to Praction
World Pitch tust Bark of over seven hundred

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and five times right here one night. And then Bobby the rain Eden's Islanders

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and you have another time team atch
the Young Stallion and of course we're long

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the Brother twenty man o the same
It's not twenty from the same time,

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Pal, It's not twenty men at
the same time, Pal, it's it's

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twenty men. It's it's staggered.
Entry. That'll tell you how not dialed

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in Vince really was. I'll say, I mean, it's like twenty men

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at the same time. That's a
battle Royal. You've fucking dumbass. Yeah,

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he can't wrap his head around that. It's not what it's gonna understand

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what we mean? I staggered,
What does that mean, like as if

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I staggered in home drunk. Is
that what you mean? Stagger staggered?

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What now I listen, I just
need to know what what? What we're

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watching here? What am I?
What am I? What am I doing?

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You know, it's so tempting to
call a micro manager, but what

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the micro machines? But then you
hear stuff like this, it's like he

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he definitely wasn't micro managing. In
nineteen eighty eight, he went on the

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air alive not even knowing what the
fucking rumble was. Still, I think

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I think he micromanaging. I think
it's selective micromanaging, got it. I

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think when it's something that he cares
about, kill micromanage it to death.

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I think it when it's something that
he doesn't really give a shit about.

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There's nothing, no point in micromanaging
because he doesn't care something whereof he wins,

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he can picture it actually aggrieving somebody
that he doesn't like, then he's

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motivated. Then he's dialed in.
But if no one suffers that he dislikes

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in the process, then not of
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his nickname was Caesar backstage, right, I have heard that, where did

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I hear that first, Well,
I don't. Pritcher talks about it all

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the time, but it was kind
of well known even before he had a

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podcast, But there was nothing.
I remember seeing that the first time.

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Somewhere I think, you know what, I think I know. I think

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it was I heard. I think
it was Paul Roma. I heard Paul

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Roma say that Paul Roman was talking
about mister Fuji, saying Matt Yes,

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calling him Caesar. That's where I
heard it the first time. Unbelievable.

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So there it is great open.
Yeah, I'm dialed in. I mean,

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I don't need more than yep,
that's it. Although sure, but

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I would prefer to have the rundown
of who's in the royal rumble. Yeah,

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thats not to take nothing away from
the brilliance of that. My point

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is that's enough. What we just
heard. Yea a trusted voice, you

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know, in his sports style,
telling us what's up tonight and who knows

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where we're going. But this is
the guy that's going to help take us

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on that ride, and he's orienting
us to things. It's not Yes,

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he's not outsourcing that work to a
production truck that has you know, four

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thousand pells and whistles at its disposal. Now I'll take it jazzy show tunes

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music. That of course, Rick
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the open podcast. He wasn't the
ring. Yeah, so let's see Vince

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and Jesse Um welcome us to Ontario, Canada. Inventor is fired up,

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he is, he's ready. Well, he has his rumbling clothes on.

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I do. I always have my
rumbling clothes on, you know, I

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you know sometimes when I'm going to
bed and carries in the ray and the

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ring. Brother what brother, dude? I told you, Terry, I'm

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not talking about you. It is
pretty outrageous that his wife's name is Terry.

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I know. I think he had
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yeah, for sure, just to
piss off Hogan. I'm here,

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Jess says. The Royal rumbles here
and I'm pumped up. And this is

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a pretty vincent on the no holds
barred set. He does Howard Finkel on

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the call. Light blue banners hanging
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that we need, and it's a
beautifully listen listen banners in the corner.

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I don't want CGI. I want
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to hanging from the rafters right.
I want to know where I'm at,

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what I'm watching, set a scene, dress the set, but do it

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an understated way, you fucking guls. No one cares about your stupid ass,

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fucking little toys. I hated when
I I was so bummed when they

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stopped doing that. I loved,
I always love the flags. The flag

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were great, so necessary. I
can we just find a way to make

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them cgi but look exactly the same. So can I feel like it's worth

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it because it's COMPUTERI and you know
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breeze, so it can go in
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Yes. So from Robins Sale,
Minnesota in the ring with no entrance is

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rick Rude and uh over into the
next entrance music. It's obviously dubbed over

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on Peacock because at this point Ricky
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Parson the Allen Parsons project, because
it didn't used to be better by the

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way, slapping hands on the way
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To kick us off here tied aisleway, tie aisleway. Yes, very

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fans are talking wrestlers. The security's
got to really fight to keep their hands

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off the guys. Hey, did
you know something that ravishing Rick Rude is

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the winner, was the winner of
the Jesse the body Award. That's what

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he said. That's what I said. That was at the slammis. I

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think doesn't matter where he's the winner
with a plain blue apron chicken dinner.

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I want them what what are you
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chicken boozer, so stupid? Any
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and blue ropes, blue buckling.
Yes, but yeah, I think the

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I like the purple. The purple
rumble is the only is it? That's

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it? Just come on, it's
an absolute must. You don't prefer the

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new generation one? Excuse me,
the new generation royal rumble logo, the

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ninety six one. Yeah, no, no, of course not. I

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didn't dislike it as much as a
subsequently, I hate I hated them all

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that. None of them have been
good. They all suck. Yeah since

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uh since since since ninety five?
How did they land on the perfect esthetic?

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Like fifteen years before they had all
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and had like big departments designing things. Well, I know, and that's

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the thing, like, you know, you look at the way that the

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that the letters you know, floated
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it was. It's just brilliant stuff
and they really were. It was kind

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of it was cutting edge, you
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witness to a plain blue apron Royal
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breathing fire here tonight. Brother,
he's gonna have to get fired and come

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back before that happens. Yeah,
that's true. Good point, Jesse says,

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Vince, you'd love to win the
Jesse the Body Award. Looking at

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your body, we could tell why
you wouldn't he the uh oh no,

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no, no, no, that's
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this been the two of them,
Rick Rude winning the Jesse the Body Award

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or a victory over the Dragon.
Well, I think they're both in their

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own way, just as big for
ravishing Rick Rude. I mean, being

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the first winner of the Jesse the
Body Award is phenomenal. Is you'd love

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to win? Then again, looking
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lot of you wouldn't. But then
again, wrestling is the bottom line,

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Wrestling and being a wrestler, which
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foremost. So I'd have to say
beating the Dragon will definitely be a feather

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and roots cap if you can do
it. Wrestling is the bottom line.

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Can we fax this guy his release
papers? Please? Wrestling is the bottom

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line, God McMahon, he's needling
Vince. Vince is getting so hot into

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the collar that he's resolving to take
steroids to get hell Cogan to teach him

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how to do it. You see, you can't do it, so you

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can't win the Jesse the Body Award. Huh McMahon, fucking shut up,

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Jesse, shut up. I want
you watch you know what. I don't

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have to shut up. You know
why, because I have the First Amendment's

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freedom of speech. Yes, Scott, you don't. You don't have a

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freewis speech on my fucking TV show? Oh yeah, well, why don't

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you talk to my lawyer, Barry
Bloom Oh Trump card crowds so excitable as

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the bell sounds. Earl Hebner presiding, Vince says, Ricky Steamboat as a

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wrestler who alies on tremendous agility and
great speed, notwithstanding his extraordinary stamina as

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long ass. Notwithstanding his stamina,
always a master of the tail of the

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tape was Vince McMahon. What what
does withstand his stamina as a question,

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I think we want to see that. Yeah. Bonnie Richard said under the

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pod that they were looking for a
good match to set the pace for the

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night here in matching Ruden Steamboat.
But relations were already quite strained between Ricky

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Steamboat and the w WF. He
was not happy in the company. There

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was tension um basically the notion that
he wanted time off with when his son

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was born, you know. And
that's kind of the lore of it.

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And he said that. But when
we dug into it on the Rickie the

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Dragon Steamboat Colosseum home video, there's
also it was basically money. It was

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it was about merchandise. Run always
money, it's always money. We should

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have we should have we should have
paid for another cameo and asked him that

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no ship, we would have gotten
a four percent of it about that a

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second a second tour through his fucking
dungeon. Imagine that, just like spam

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him with ten cameos with ten different
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video ten times in a row.
Yep, yep, yep. But like

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Bonnie, Steamboats talked about it,
like you know, they started to agitate

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about like how they were calculating the
merchandise numbers, because this is where they

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those huge first checks went out for
LJN and in coliseum and then they adjusted

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the formulas and all of a sudden
checks went down, and you know,

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you can't really get that much money, exactly, exactly clearlymer that goes on

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my pocket. Look, we we
we we saw it, and we um

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you know, we understand, and
I'm not I'm not I'm not trying taking

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anything away from you and what you
deserve. I'm simply saying that that was

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a calculation error on our end,
right that you know, quite frankly,

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and that notwithstanding, you don't deserve
that much money. And look, you

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know we understand it's our mistakes.
So we're not going to look to claw

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back any of your ill gotten gains. We're just going forward, going to

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ourselves, right and listen, you
keep what you already you know deposited.

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You go ahead, Ricky, don't, don't you worry. You go ahead,

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you go ahead, and that's totally
you know, listen, this that

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was our mistake. But in the
future, I can guarantee you this that

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that that money that you received there
that will be going into my pocket.

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That's correct, And then you know
what I might do, Ricky, I

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was talking to the CFO about this. I think what we'll do is we'll

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send you a check under the old
formula and then we'll make your wife write

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me a check for what I shouldn't
have given. That's that's kind of what

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we're gonna do, and you'll see
you'll see the percentage differential from that.

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I think that's exactly fucking correct.
And of course George Scott's gone, so

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Rickie Steamboat doesn't wanted him to do
with the promotion of George Scott. His

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daddy isn't there. You imagine like
all of a sudden, and all of

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a sudden he just like withers the
way he's like he's a robot or you

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know, and it's like you take
him away from his Paris power sources.

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Pretty much, Yeah, it's pretty
much. Ye all known as well that

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Crockett was making overtures, and of
course the Steamboat will return to the NWA

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to have that legendary nineteen eighty nine
run in short order. Um Pritcher described

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this as basically like a house show
match, where they were working it like

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it was a live event as opposed
to a television event. And this is

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before they really had a notion to
drill in a wrestler's heads of how to

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work differently for live television, because
it was such a rare thing that they

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produced it, and watching this back, it struck Pritchard that this was basically

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the match they would done, you
know, would have done in the garden,

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as opposed to a match that was
mindful of the fact that we're trying

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to hold a television audience's attention without
the benefit of post production and tightening things

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up, which I guess they were
more accustomed to doing when matches played out

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like this on a television taping,
slower pace, a lot of time put

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in selling on the mat. I
think it was a good match, but

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it does it does seem like kind
of like a you know, a single

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cam shot style match. It's not
like a big production right, No,

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no, no, it's not.
It definitely feels like it feels like the

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opener of a house show. Yeah, yeah, it does not feel like

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the opener of a of a of
a special, or a pay per view,

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or a even a premium live event
for that matter. At the lock

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up, Roots slugs away and Vince
calls out the clenched fist, and Ricky

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Steamboat starts firing off chops and overhead
tomahawks and Rude with the rank of the

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eye to stop that rally Vince,
as I thought we were going to see

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a scientific wrestling match. Jess with
a great skin of the backdrops Root out

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of the ring, Recruits, Bat
catches the apron on the way down,

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and Jesse Ventura is quick to call
that out. You can see a lot

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of yellow in the crowd, and
that is a proliferation of Hogan foam fingers.

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Thank you very much. The merchandise
section of WW magazine, the catalog

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is already quite robust by this point. Oh for sure, for sure.

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What was the Hogan shirt at the
time. I should look at the question.

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I don't have it at my dispose. I'll find it. I'll find

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it. I got I got a
bunch of the magazines excellent, and Rude

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takes a powder after being backdropped,
it gets back in. I think he

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stored in some powder too. For
that matter, well, I didn't feel

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like that was support pointing out rud
complains a bit of those tights being pulled

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and steamboats like I did not,
and Jesse says, how do you know

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he didn't do that? You didn't
see it. Instant replay is the very

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logical wiki steaboat may have had tights
in there, ors. I think we

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should have instant replay within the wrestling
ranks exactly. You know, ranks is

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the word to use there. Look
at that build on rude. Vin says,

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not bad, not bad at all. No, no, I say

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not bad. Is indeed when I
introduce you to somebody that I must find,

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I must find this woman. Yes, because I guess it didn't occurred

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to w WF that when you let
somebody into a live television with a Jimmy

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Hart microphone and they're sitting in the
front row hard camera side, they might

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be a bit of a distraction.
This was amazing because at first you start

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to hear this noise and you're liquid
a bit it. Jimmy Hart isn't ring

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side, but you can tell it's
coming through a megaphone. Yeah, they're

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saying things like shut up and just
typical wrestling cat calls back when people showed

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up and actually expressed passion instead of
appreciation. And oh my god, this

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woman was a fucking scourge the show
over with her fucking little gimmick in the

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front row she did. I mean, I wonder what happened when, because

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obviously she stopped after a while.
It must have taken it from a stop.

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You know, the truck hit.
You can't ignore it. It's like

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she has full control over the narrative. Whatever she decides to blurt out,

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everyone can hear. The wrestlers can't
pretend they don't hear it, although they

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try. It's amazing, it really
was. It was so it was so

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special. It's been a while since
I've looked at the fine print of a

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w w E ticket. But I
don't remember no lasers, right and all

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that. But I don't remember seeing
no megaphones. No, no, I

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don't know if megaphones yeah, um, but this woman. Um, if

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there is a prohibition on it,
it's thanks to this woman in Hamilton,

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Ontario who just must have a memory
of this and still must be alive.

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And I just would love to get
the story, but they've got the catalog.

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But you know what, it's very
very It's not it's not big yet.

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Oh really it's thin. It's very
very seeing it, seeing it,

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flipping through and figuring it was robust
enough. What what makes two pages?

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I'm looking at it right now,
it's only two pages. Two pages.

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That can't be right? Then?
What was the month that you had just

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shirts? Really? And in a
hulk Hogan, We'll get the American made

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T shirts. There's a superstar Billy
Graham shirt for Fox's sake. Yeah,

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I had that come back in eighty
seven, real American. There are Hulka

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sized shirts. Brother, they had
a WrestleMania three uh T shirt cap and

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headband. There was a real fan
in your lives right there was a Hulka

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sized painters cap and headbands. I
remember the painter's caps for sure. The

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key tags um a license plate holder, Ricky Steamboat has a shirt and it's

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a killer. Bees had a fucking
shirt. J Y D had a shirt,

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Tito had a shirt. Billy,
Jack, Haynes and Morocco all had

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shirts. Hogan had a license plate
holder. He also had a marijuana holder.

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Yes he did mix holder, and
a fanny pack holder, a rig

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holder, a juice holder. Most
people call it a cup holder, but

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it was a juice holder for shirt, juice holder for shirt. Absolutely,

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So they go to the knuckle lock
Steamboat trying to get Rude to play his

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game, his style, they say, and take it to his advantage test

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a strength in the center of the
ring. Steamboat. Um not really cut

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anymore at this point. He's kind
of soft, right he got Yeah,

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actually compared to how he came in
at eighty five fraternity leave, is that

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what it is? Yeah? Absolutely, is eating ice stream and stuff,

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you know, eat whatever he can
while while little while a little boat smoke

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is doing the thing there to his
knees go steamboat venturistists. That shows rudes

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muscles aren't cosmetic, that's for sure. And I'm like, uh, what

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do you mean, like you can't
you can't look like that classic surgery on

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right on your ribs. Maybe.
Oh man, all they did back there

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in commentary was comment on physiques.
Of course, That's what I'm going to

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go back and watch shows from this
era. It's always so stark to me.

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It makes a much more sense why
they would prosecute vince in retrospect,

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because it's like, you can't watch
these shows as a kid and come away

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with any other message than you are
a punk bitch unless you look like this

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right, with no conception of what
you know illegal substances you need to ingest

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and what kind of abuse you have
to put your body through to achieve those

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supernatural proportions. But oh my god, it's just all that. It's like

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they equate the physiques with toughness to
a degree that I didn't even recall,

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And every time I hear it,
it's so stunning because we know, we

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know how easily you can beat the
shit out of someone who's that gast up,

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sure, sure, out of breath
in fifteen seconds. It's just amazing.

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Um so a steamboat with a knee
to the risk during the during the

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test of strength. I love the
fans standing up and they're pointing at rude

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and yelling at them. Oh yeah, well, this is not a crowd

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that's at all cognizant of the fact
that they could make a television moment doesn't

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cross their mind for a second nowadays. Nope, that's table steaks. That's

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the reason you buy a ticket.
I'm gonna see if I can. Hey,

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I'm not fee if I can take
over the show and it shows I've

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got I've got a plan. I've
got a plan for some things, and

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I'm telling you right now I can. I can do this. I've got

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I've got from some ideas, I
got ring I've been faving for two years

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to get ring fide feet. I
have them, and I have I have,

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I have a plan. I'm going
to take over raw In say this

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this is the night. I might
even hop the barrier and tackle something.

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Might I might, you know,
I might just do that because I know

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I can take from Remember when you
attack heels because they were heels supposed to

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try to make something right right and
trying to get more followers the wrestling equivalent

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of a streaker. I really want
to get more followers to my Instagram and

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my and and my tich talk.
And I think that if I do this,

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and I have what I'm gonna do, if I'm gonna hop a barrier

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and I'm gonna have my phone taped
with duct taped to my head so I

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can film the whole thing and do
it like oh, I at least I

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don't think you're a psychopath running out
and looking like that a live thream,

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and what I'm gonna do with I'm
gonna hop a barrier. I'm gonna get

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right in the fifth wrong faith.
I'm gonna go well, yeah, that'll

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go viral. The hooga booga guy, I'll call him. Yeah, let

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me ask you get this big plan. What are you gonna see him?

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In your face to face with the
wrestler? Go ahead, what are you

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gonna say now when you see him? What are you gonna say? I'm

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gonna jump out there. Yeah,
no, But when you're face to face

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with him, that's the moment.
Okay, that's a way to get security

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to take you away gingerly, right, But the palm of the hand on

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the small of your back, not
tackling you. This child, this child

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clearly has escaped, you know.
Also the way to be you know,

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to get taken in a in a
sleeveless jacket for sure, Yeah, straight

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jacket, kind of fan jf with
her a drink in his face. It's

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a steamboat with a need of the
wrist of rude to break the double knuckle

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lock. Dropped down and comes up
with a wrist lock take down into an

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armbar. Because that's a pretty clever
fucking strategy. I'll give him that.

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Yes, you're not going to find
someone that gets into and out of holds

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any better than Ricky Steamboat, Ladies
and jes sure, for sure, Rod

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loves the baby faced technical ability on
display. That's all you needed to do,

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was was wind clean right? Was
Trump the bad guy cleanly? And

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the fans loved you. Um,
And there she is with a megaphone.

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She's front row next to a kid
with one of those WWF painter's hats,

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and she has spectacular she's springing into
action. She's a hero. She's a

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hero. Yeah, she absolutely is. I mean just I never even considered

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what would happen if you brought a
megaphone to a wrestling show, and how

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you could just like run shit until
they take it away. Um, steamboat,

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wrench in the arm, Jesse and
Toresa is wrestling a smart match?

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Here a steamboat as he cranks does
he does give credit to uh to steamboat

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here right now, I'll give your
credit the dragon. Steamboat is winning the

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match. But this is a profession, it's not on any You don't get

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two points for a takedown. You
don't get one point for an estake,

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that's who wins at the end.
Rudy, Rudy, Rudy. Oh yeah,

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here are some of the band or
about ringside. Looks like a fan

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out there's got one of them custom
Jimmy Hart megaphones out shout the mouth of

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us out. Okay fans. Yeah
he's a huh guy. Yeah for sure.

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You know they're practicing their freedom of
speech out there. Those breath at

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the end. Yeah, well,
I will say, enjoy the expressions,

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the freedom of expression and freedom of
speech that the fans have. Well,

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what about my freedom of speech?
Huh, Jesse, Um, I your

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your your freedom of speech has been
redacted under under copyright law. It's funny

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you say that, jes because but
while I'm talking here, I got something

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that I want to bring up.
What is this Jack Tunny thing coming out

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with a referendum or memorandum or whatever
you want to talk it? Call it

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saying that I can't talk about the
offense that happened. He's not singling you.

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I don't think we all want to
talk about what happened last fight.

401
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But if Jack Punny, I think
we have to respect his wishes. Wait

402
00:27:55.559 --> 00:27:57.559
a minute, one, we live
in a democracy. We live in a

403
00:27:57.640 --> 00:28:02.240
place that has something that's called the
First Amendment. That's correct, it's called

404
00:28:02.279 --> 00:28:06.319
freedom of speech. What gives this
guy the right to take away my freedom

405
00:28:06.359 --> 00:28:08.839
of speech? Listen, Jesse,
I'm saying, I don't care what he

406
00:28:08.880 --> 00:28:12.359
says. I'm gonna talk about Friday
night now. I'm gonna talk about it

407
00:28:12.519 --> 00:28:27.640
right now. You know what what
is this? Hey? I put it's

408
00:28:27.680 --> 00:28:33.440
going on here. Listen, the
world Rolston Federation Centers are right there.

409
00:28:33.519 --> 00:28:36.640
What do you want for Mack?
This is censorship, man, I don't

410
00:28:36.680 --> 00:28:41.079
have to put up with this.
There's unions, there's everything, and I'm

411
00:28:41.160 --> 00:28:44.400
going to everybody. Tuney has no
right to try to stop Jesse Ventura.

412
00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:48.680
So I'm telling the people like it
iss not trime to single your on Jesse

413
00:28:48.839 --> 00:28:51.480
again. I don't love to be
able to talk about it. And you

414
00:28:51.599 --> 00:28:53.519
know we were speaking of it earlier. It's just that we can't speak of

415
00:28:53.599 --> 00:29:00.839
it in a public forum. We're
gonna wrote guy, So do you know

416
00:29:00.880 --> 00:29:03.920
what that was? No? What
is that besides exactly what you were just

417
00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:07.680
saying? In somebody right. At
one point he screams, there's unions.

418
00:29:07.759 --> 00:29:12.480
He says that, yes, they
had to lay down commentary. What about

419
00:29:12.640 --> 00:29:18.200
freedom of unions? Right? I
think they're just fine, Jess in terms

420
00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:22.799
of freedom at least, but they
had to lay commentary tracks down for I

421
00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:27.839
think it was Canadian syndication before the
main event had finished on NBC, but

422
00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:33.160
it was going to air after the
main event, so not knowing exactly what

423
00:29:33.240 --> 00:29:37.079
would end up happening in NBC,
but having to lay down a track for

424
00:29:37.119 --> 00:29:40.519
a show that would air after that, they came up with this idea where

425
00:29:40.839 --> 00:29:44.359
you know, the reason we're not
talking about it fans is because Jack Tunney

426
00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:48.480
has told us not to, and
so that's their way around it. Wow,

427
00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:52.839
yes, kind of and Vince makes
reference to elsewhere in the show.

428
00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:56.160
We were able to talk about it
because that's post production, after the main

429
00:29:56.200 --> 00:30:00.599
event was over and after the commentary
track was laid down, they could insert

430
00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:03.559
it afterwards. But I guess they
couldn't corral these two into a studio after

431
00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:10.720
indianapolish to talk about Hogan and Andre
on the the match commentary track, but

432
00:30:10.839 --> 00:30:15.440
that was just a Jesse and first
amendment over, I don't understand this happened

433
00:30:15.480 --> 00:30:18.119
before the main event. No,
that's not from this show. Oh,

434
00:30:18.200 --> 00:30:21.920
Oh, I don't know. You
would have you would have grabbed that bite

435
00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:23.559
in a heartbeat. I know,
well right, well, I wasn't sure

436
00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:29.240
that, Okay, I think it's
the weekend. It's a Superstars the weekend

437
00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:33.839
after um the main event or the
day after Saturday. I see. And

438
00:30:33.119 --> 00:30:37.359
for some reason, I'm associating it
with just the Canadian Um syndication show,

439
00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:41.920
like the Maple Leaf Wrestling show.
I see. Yeah, there you have

440
00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:45.519
it. So wow, that's funny. Definitely on his first Amendment ship back

441
00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:49.000
then, was was Jesse crowd still
lit a little too darkly for my taste.

442
00:30:49.079 --> 00:30:52.000
That's one thing I don't think they
had down yet, was lighting the

443
00:30:52.039 --> 00:30:55.519
crowd. Matt to me that that
doesn't really happened till nineteen ninety. Would

444
00:30:55.519 --> 00:30:59.400
they light them? To my favor? That ye gotta do it, guys,

445
00:30:59.519 --> 00:31:00.640
gotta do it. I don't care. I know a lot of people

446
00:31:00.640 --> 00:31:03.880
have experimented with dark houses. It's
always a bad idea. I hate it.

447
00:31:04.000 --> 00:31:07.680
I can't stand it. To me, it just feels so like,

448
00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:12.119
what are you doing? So there's
a shot Ricky steamboat ducking baseball slide.

449
00:31:12.119 --> 00:31:15.799
Of course you got a clap before
you arm drag when you're Rickie to dragon

450
00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:19.160
and he does yes. Front row
cra clapping rather like crazy at the execution,

451
00:31:19.799 --> 00:31:22.720
bouncing in their seats and excitement that
Ricky steambove to titt an arm drag

452
00:31:22.880 --> 00:31:26.559
okay, woman says hit him in
the head with it over her megaphone,

453
00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:33.279
like it is, I don't know
he is cock? What again the ruddy

454
00:31:33.319 --> 00:31:36.799
ruddy chance you heard? I guess
that's supposed to tease rick Rude and I

455
00:31:36.880 --> 00:31:38.480
get ventured us. The whole thing
about this is professional wrestling. There's no

456
00:31:38.599 --> 00:31:42.200
points. You don't get three points
for a takedown like you keep channing Rudy

457
00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:45.960
and you know, all of a
sudden, sean Asston's going to come down

458
00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:49.160
or Rudy poop candy ass. That's
true too, then says again, we

459
00:31:49.279 --> 00:31:53.079
hear some of the banter about ringside. Yes, she has an awful hat

460
00:31:53.200 --> 00:31:57.839
on for what it's worth, a
woman with the megaphone, um and yeah,

461
00:31:57.960 --> 00:32:02.039
so how like ballsy she was?
Look, we we we've heard,

462
00:32:02.119 --> 00:32:06.559
we've gotten shit from people that have
sat around us at wrestling shows. You

463
00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:08.079
and I, I mean, we
even put it on Patreon one time at

464
00:32:08.119 --> 00:32:13.400
the New Japan show at UM But
I don't ever want to hear anyone complain

465
00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:16.079
again. We never considered taking a
fucking megaphone to a show. So no,

466
00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:20.960
no, never, hardly the world. Now I will, now,

467
00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:24.079
what is her story? I would
love to know? Ontario Mama four.

468
00:32:24.559 --> 00:32:30.759
You know, yes, she makes
good flapjacks maple syrup, like absolutely.

469
00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:37.079
She loves going to uh the fucking
sugar shack, sugar sat just outside of

470
00:32:37.480 --> 00:32:42.680
just you know, outside of outside
of uh uh you know they make when

471
00:32:42.680 --> 00:32:45.440
they make trips to Montreal, they
always go to the sugar Shack and eat

472
00:32:45.519 --> 00:32:49.400
the uh eat a deep fried lard. Tim Horton's just about every day,

473
00:32:49.839 --> 00:32:52.160
yep, you know, to get
her day started. Nice hot kappa,

474
00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:57.559
always steaming um. And her brothers. The thing is, when she grew

475
00:32:57.680 --> 00:33:00.079
up, it's like she basically lated
the ice ring because all of her brothers

476
00:33:00.119 --> 00:33:04.519
played hockey. She had six brothers. She was the only girl. I

477
00:33:04.640 --> 00:33:12.319
said fifteen. Sure. So rick
Rud slugs free and Steamboat starts nailing them

478
00:33:12.359 --> 00:33:15.279
with some chops. Irish whip is
reversed. They do a dosy dough and

479
00:33:15.400 --> 00:33:17.759
then Steamboat drops him with a double
chop at an arm drag. Then tourss

480
00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:22.200
those chops are excellent, but very
very close to the throat McMahon. He's

481
00:33:22.240 --> 00:33:27.240
always trying to find fault. Yes, he says, Heavener needs to keep

482
00:33:27.240 --> 00:33:29.799
a close look at where those chops
are landing. As Steamboat is working the

483
00:33:29.880 --> 00:33:31.559
reverse food you are armbar in the
canvas. He gets a near fall and

484
00:33:31.640 --> 00:33:36.079
then Steamboat's mouth is wide open like
WHOA, I almost got him there.

485
00:33:36.200 --> 00:33:39.240
WHOA? Brother Rude then grabs a
Steamboat haror and the megaphone lady calls it

486
00:33:39.279 --> 00:33:43.839
out. That's another problem with having
someone with a megaphone. They're gonna referee

487
00:33:43.839 --> 00:33:47.319
can't pretend to nod hear when they're
calling out injustice. You know, I

488
00:33:47.400 --> 00:33:52.519
don't believe in her freedom of speech, McMahon. You know you would think

489
00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:55.680
that we would abuse the privilege if
we were allowed into a wrestling show with

490
00:33:55.720 --> 00:33:59.000
a megaphone like that. But I'm
gonna let you know that I would be

491
00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:00.119
clever about it. You don't.
The only time I would use it would

492
00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:04.119
be boss, when as soon as
the wrestlers hit the floor, I would

493
00:34:04.119 --> 00:34:07.000
begin loudly counting yes, yes,
yes, yes, yeah. I mean,

494
00:34:07.079 --> 00:34:09.119
if the referee is not going to
keep the cadence of the count.

495
00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:13.320
Then fine. You know, if
I have to take matters into my own

496
00:34:13.360 --> 00:34:15.719
hands, I will or or you
know what I would do too, If

497
00:34:16.079 --> 00:34:21.599
if the referee was distracted and there
was and there was a visual pinfall happening,

498
00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:25.880
I would I would use it then
to yell the referee how annoyed the

499
00:34:25.960 --> 00:34:29.960
wrestlers would be that they get rushed
into the ring. Legit ten count,

500
00:34:30.400 --> 00:34:34.639
it'd be amazing. Back up,
Rude kicks the gut and throw some right

501
00:34:34.679 --> 00:34:37.760
hands and takes over whip at back
elbow, puts down Ricky the Dragon steamboat,

502
00:34:37.840 --> 00:34:38.800
Vince says with a no, Vince
comes when they come on, ref

503
00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:45.079
get in there, Yes, and
vinceys all Rude knows is punching, or

504
00:34:45.079 --> 00:34:47.239
at least that's all he's showing.
In Ventorus is maybe that's his game plan.

505
00:34:47.559 --> 00:34:57.079
Rough House smatch, rough house stampede, a run house McMahon. Vince

506
00:34:57.119 --> 00:35:01.280
called his version, Oh Dust Dust
a runk house. So how about a

507
00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:05.639
runk house. Your fucking fat pitch
means about as much as bunk house.

508
00:35:05.719 --> 00:35:08.760
Bal Yeah, fucked your bunk house. I got a runk house, that's

509
00:35:08.840 --> 00:35:16.360
right, or a rump house.
Some of that ass house. Dut Dusty,

510
00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:20.320
I want to thank you for coming
in for the meeting. We're very

511
00:35:20.360 --> 00:35:24.440
excited to have you in the WWF
and and to really really take the legend

512
00:35:24.440 --> 00:35:28.840
of Dusty Roads to the next level. Before we talk business and talk about

513
00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:30.480
the final points of this contract.
Here though, Dusty, I would just

514
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:32.559
like you to take a look at
the monitor here in my own my desk.

515
00:35:32.679 --> 00:35:37.239
Let me turn this thing around for
you. This is a live remote

516
00:35:37.320 --> 00:35:40.480
feed M, a static camera trained
on your childhood home. I know you.

517
00:35:43.159 --> 00:35:45.360
I know you look upon it very
fondly and warmly, and I know

518
00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:47.840
it means awful lot to you in
your family, despite it having been you

519
00:35:47.880 --> 00:35:52.000
know, vacant for the past twenty
thirty years. I believe I want you

520
00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:57.679
to watch now, Dusty, as
the wrecking ball enters the frame. Dust

521
00:35:57.960 --> 00:36:00.639
just thanks for thanks for I appreciate
you coming here, all right, baby

522
00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:05.199
Daddy, I'm happy to be here, baby great. Um, you know

523
00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:09.159
we are, we are pleased.
Uh listen, um we are. Please

524
00:36:10.280 --> 00:36:16.719
put that an event silhouette. Um. Yeah, So I wanted to talk

525
00:36:16.760 --> 00:36:22.280
about character and uh sure kind of
what you know where you're you know what

526
00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:24.519
we want to do with you,
uh in the w W e here Baby

527
00:36:24.880 --> 00:36:29.840
maybe coming in the American Dream duff
her Road, Daddy, Well, listen,

528
00:36:30.320 --> 00:36:32.840
I know this what you've been doing, and that's been great, all

529
00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:37.159
right, very very entertaining. But
we kind of haven't, you know,

530
00:36:37.199 --> 00:36:40.519
we want to kind of tweak it
a little bit to kind of you know,

531
00:36:40.599 --> 00:36:46.079
maybe uh adhere more to the the
the the WWE fan base we have,

532
00:36:46.320 --> 00:36:50.559
you know, what they expect from
from from our our w W superstars,

533
00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:52.800
because now you know you're not You're
not just a Southern wrestler anymore.

534
00:36:52.800 --> 00:36:58.440
You are a WWE superstar. It's
a big difference. There's a big difference

535
00:36:58.440 --> 00:37:01.800
because we're not wrestling here, we're
entertaining, all right. So what I

536
00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:05.679
want to do I have this is
tell me what you think about this name?

537
00:37:06.519 --> 00:37:10.119
All right? So instead of the
American Dream, Dusty Rhodes, what

538
00:37:10.280 --> 00:37:19.320
I want to call you is Rump
House Roads. What the fucking talk?

539
00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:24.400
What do we mean? The rump
half road with baby and maybe no goddamn

540
00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:29.440
fifth Daddy White mean rump half Roads. Well, I'm just thinking, you

541
00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:31.679
know you, because you know,
I want to keep some some of the

542
00:37:31.920 --> 00:37:37.239
uh the you know, some continuity
from what you were doing. Uh down

543
00:37:37.440 --> 00:37:42.320
down South. You know when you
did the the the rump house stampedeler or

544
00:37:42.400 --> 00:37:47.199
something. Right, what the fuck
you talking about? Baby? What I

545
00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:52.719
mean? I'm talking about your your
your your rumpass rumpass roads? Right,

546
00:37:54.559 --> 00:37:59.400
don't know what the fuck you doing? Daddy? All right? Fine?

547
00:37:59.599 --> 00:38:02.039
Right? What fang mcfrost like,
it's not too far away? How about

548
00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:06.760
how about this? How about this? How about how about how about um

549
00:38:07.639 --> 00:38:16.440
asshole roads? How about win roads? How about about how about Dusty?

550
00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:22.199
I own your ass roads? Right? How about Dusty? You're gonna go

551
00:38:22.360 --> 00:38:24.719
from decrying my product as the end
of rustling because we know it one year

552
00:38:24.760 --> 00:38:29.599
to working for me the next.
How about how about this? Bear with

553
00:38:29.760 --> 00:38:37.320
me? He rump House, Dusty
McMahon, Dusty? How how attached are

554
00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:42.280
you the last name Rhodes? Anyway? Okay, all right, wait,

555
00:38:42.360 --> 00:38:45.199
hold on, stuff, I gonna
stop. You want you to picture WWF

556
00:38:45.840 --> 00:38:50.320
taping in nineteen eighty nine, you
know, with the stage the gene stands

557
00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:54.599
on ye and it's it's Dusty's first
night in Titan and Gene gets up there.

558
00:38:54.639 --> 00:38:58.519
Now, ladies and gentlemen, if
I may expose your leg momentarily,

559
00:38:59.239 --> 00:39:00.960
I want to welcome now to the
stage for the first time in the Royal

560
00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:12.360
Wrestling Federation. The American Dream Dusty
McMahon. Picture Dusty's face and picture him

561
00:39:12.400 --> 00:39:16.280
being named Dusty McMahon. Fad bad
daddy, am can dream deaf hit Mcmahonny

562
00:39:16.400 --> 00:39:21.440
a baby, we're doing the thing, daddy. I'm hitting fake things up

563
00:39:21.840 --> 00:39:24.039
the way that only a McMahon cane, if you know what I'm saying,

564
00:39:24.119 --> 00:39:35.400
Daddy. I didn't know Vince Senior
was a plumber. My brother vfacmah don't

565
00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:39.320
commentary over, hi, baby,
I thought your brother was Rod and my

566
00:39:39.400 --> 00:39:44.519
other brother Rod down down and take
fift anywhere where we all belong. Baby.

567
00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:50.199
Wow, wow, Look I expected
a lot of things out of the

568
00:39:50.360 --> 00:39:58.079
nineteen eighty eight Royal Rumble Show.
But Dusty McMahon and he looks exactly the

569
00:39:58.159 --> 00:40:00.920
same. There's no you know what
I mean, He looks exactly stupid.

570
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:06.079
Top hat, the whole thing,
the whole thing, nothing changes. Hey,

571
00:40:06.159 --> 00:40:09.199
we're top hat ones. Oh I
thought you try to say cowboy hat,

572
00:40:09.599 --> 00:40:12.920
no top hat you we're a top
hat one time? Oh my god.

573
00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:16.159
And then I think the woman with
the megaphone says, drop kick him

574
00:40:16.239 --> 00:40:22.400
right in the chops, and someone
and then she looks to the person next

575
00:40:22.440 --> 00:40:25.159
door like they're gonna laugh, and
they don't. Eventually it's like, all

576
00:40:25.239 --> 00:40:29.840
right, lady, all right,
sect it was funny the first two ties.

577
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:31.840
Yeah, all right this. I
think she's got a problem. I

578
00:40:31.880 --> 00:40:35.239
think she's got a real problem.
Like she's just small. Stop. We

579
00:40:35.280 --> 00:40:37.159
gotta we gotta get her out of
here. Can we give her a free

580
00:40:37.199 --> 00:40:38.719
T shirt or something? Can we
call security? Please? Can we fucking

581
00:40:38.760 --> 00:40:45.239
tie her up and get her the
fun the shift like like Carwin Sylphies grabs

582
00:40:45.239 --> 00:40:47.119
her by the collar and throws her
out the back door. The cops call

583
00:40:47.199 --> 00:40:51.960
us, mom, Mom, that
lady, Hey, lady touched me funny

584
00:40:52.480 --> 00:40:57.159
with her with her megaphone? Brother, do you know that if you went

585
00:40:57.239 --> 00:41:00.519
to a Celtics game this in this
era, it was basically the Boston Cops

586
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:10.760
Coliseum. Um so I did go
to a game around this time period,

587
00:41:10.800 --> 00:41:15.920
so I remember that that old godden
smelling like old gods. That's right,

588
00:41:15.280 --> 00:41:29.880
an ass and Jimmy O'Connell, Jimmy
O'Connell and Billy Sullivan, which one Bobby's

589
00:41:29.960 --> 00:41:37.800
brother, Steve's father, Henry's cousin, Which one are you talking about?

590
00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:43.800
So many Sullivans show little too,
which which one is the Boston cop Sullivan,

591
00:41:44.239 --> 00:41:49.320
Sullivan, Donovan, Donovan. They're
all so, they're all Sullies too

592
00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:52.159
for them. You know, if
your name is if your last name is

593
00:41:52.199 --> 00:41:55.719
Sullivan, your nickname is Sully.
There's not a single high school graduation around

594
00:41:55.800 --> 00:42:00.599
here where at one point someone doesn't
say I'm the audience to the stage as

595
00:42:00.639 --> 00:42:14.360
the diploma is passed, solely just
letting you know. Okay, Oh god,

596
00:42:15.119 --> 00:42:17.000
So steamboat with a baseball slide underneath
ric Rude's legs in an arm drag

597
00:42:17.079 --> 00:42:20.920
and it dives, It drives a
knee into the shoulder, working the shoulder

598
00:42:20.960 --> 00:42:22.440
on the canvas. I would I
would respect the woman, by the way,

599
00:42:22.440 --> 00:42:27.000
if she said in her megaphone instead
of like drop kick his face,

600
00:42:27.039 --> 00:42:31.239
if she just said fuck me,
fuck my pussy, Ricky steamboat, fuck

601
00:42:31.320 --> 00:42:35.679
my pussy, that would be great. Hi, Ricky, Hi, Hricky,

602
00:42:36.920 --> 00:42:42.320
Hricky. Look at my trot.
It sounds exactly like that. Hurkay,

603
00:42:43.039 --> 00:42:52.239
my pussies worn't for you, Ricky. Look at my debt. I'm

604
00:42:52.280 --> 00:42:59.760
putting my deal on my white pussy
du so hot, Oh my god,

605
00:43:00.679 --> 00:43:10.000
just for you or you can or
you can hand it next to the imagining

606
00:43:10.079 --> 00:43:21.719
it's your dragon going my pussy,
Ricky. And nine seconds delay wouldn't be

607
00:43:21.840 --> 00:43:29.199
enough. Oh my god, did
you see I get a dildo with my

608
00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:31.760
pussy? Did you say? It's
like it's not even it's nothing, it's

609
00:43:31.800 --> 00:43:37.400
not even creative. It's just like
I think, she said, I have

610
00:43:37.480 --> 00:43:45.159
a dildo in my wet pussy.
She said, wet do we cleansy?

611
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:49.360
Why are you mad at us for
doing this? It's not our fault at

612
00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:57.320
this is funny. Oh god,
she's got the case. Think about think

613
00:43:57.320 --> 00:44:01.639
about the physics. Here. Why
my hand has got a hole megaphone,

614
00:44:02.159 --> 00:44:10.000
the other has got like has to
pull her pants down. Someone turned the

615
00:44:10.039 --> 00:44:19.679
ac on and here it's January.
What's that worrying? Oh, Ricky?

616
00:44:20.679 --> 00:44:27.400
Oh yeah, rookie's working at working
an armbar. All of a sudden,

617
00:44:28.119 --> 00:44:37.559
Rookie, I think of you what
I said on the dryer, Oh,

618
00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:44.400
Ricky, you dragons inside me right
now? Ocky. And she doesn't what's

619
00:44:44.480 --> 00:44:49.639
key, And she doesn't change her
face. Her face is contorted none at

620
00:44:49.639 --> 00:44:55.320
all. She's just like straight laced
saying these things. You're gonna have a

621
00:44:55.360 --> 00:45:00.639
little thing, a little inconglud like
this, do you I feeling, Ricky?

622
00:45:01.440 --> 00:45:07.639
Oh god, good luck in the
drive through with that one solar system.

623
00:45:08.159 --> 00:45:13.280
Do not operate heavy machinery or listening
to our call of Ricky steamboat boss

624
00:45:13.360 --> 00:45:19.079
Rick Rude from Royal Rumble nineteen eighty
eight, all right, thank you?

625
00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:25.239
Oh so steamboat whispers something to Rude
as a reversal, Ricky goes right now,

626
00:45:25.320 --> 00:45:30.239
and sure enough, right now back
elbow lands and drops him. Um,

627
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:34.880
she can shoot into that. She
can shout that microphone all she wants,

628
00:45:34.920 --> 00:45:38.119
but she can't be louder than some
of these spot calls those come through.

629
00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:42.400
The problem is that because she's so
loud, they had to call him

630
00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:45.800
a little bit louder. Yeah,
exactly. Rick Root has to sell his

631
00:45:45.920 --> 00:45:49.519
arm as too hurt to pose.
Oh my god. Back when people subtly

632
00:45:49.519 --> 00:45:53.159
appreciated that, they they subtly appreciated
it. They thought it was, you

633
00:45:53.239 --> 00:45:57.599
know, campy that he was selling. They didn't reward the guy in their

634
00:45:57.679 --> 00:46:02.639
mind for selling and checking the box
Rickie throwing. No one said good psychology

635
00:46:02.679 --> 00:46:08.480
there, rick right with some chops
whipped reverse drop down. They did two

636
00:46:08.559 --> 00:46:12.519
drop downs and then dragon hits the
ropes stern him first. I'm not sure

637
00:46:12.559 --> 00:46:14.800
what he was going for there.
There was kind of a miscue. Rude

638
00:46:14.840 --> 00:46:17.599
barely taps him and transit with the
need of the kidney, and Ventura says

639
00:46:17.599 --> 00:46:21.599
he saw a break and the action, saw a break in his pace and

640
00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:24.239
saw steamboat going into the ropes a
bit out of control. Jesse fucking saves

641
00:46:24.280 --> 00:46:27.719
it every time. Yep, he
does. Does it makes sense if these

642
00:46:27.719 --> 00:46:30.440
guys are in there trying to execute, sometimes it's not gonna work and it's

643
00:46:30.480 --> 00:46:34.599
gonna look sloppy. Steamboat pardon me, m yeah, steamboat is ailing on

644
00:46:34.639 --> 00:46:37.000
the floor now is. Rude drives
him into the corner and slams him out

645
00:46:37.039 --> 00:46:39.079
of the blue mats on the outside
of the ring. Yes, keep that

646
00:46:39.159 --> 00:46:43.000
in mind for a future reference on
this deep dive. There are blue mats

647
00:46:43.119 --> 00:46:45.239
surrounding the ring. Just remember that. Yep. Back in, Rude swivels

648
00:46:45.280 --> 00:46:49.960
his hips a bit, that elbow
lands, and then you get the red

649
00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:53.960
live and the top left of the
screen up to the apron. Rude comes

650
00:46:53.960 --> 00:46:57.559
into bring the hard way off a
vertical suplex that gets to the crowd.

651
00:46:57.599 --> 00:47:00.360
Pops that he kicked out Steamboat.
That is, Rud applies a camel clutch,

652
00:47:00.440 --> 00:47:06.079
and this was before tapouts. So
Steamboat slaps them that furiously, very

653
00:47:06.079 --> 00:47:08.159
clearly, tapping out over and over
again, with no call from the red

654
00:47:08.760 --> 00:47:12.920
hands covering the face, and Ventura
says that Ricky Steamboat might be trying to

655
00:47:13.000 --> 00:47:16.599
quit, but we can't hear him
because Steamboat ruts hands are across his face.

656
00:47:16.719 --> 00:47:21.519
Rude then sits down on the back
of Steamboat and recranks Vince McMahon talking

657
00:47:21.519 --> 00:47:24.440
about cutting off the air being illegal
in this match, and he says,

658
00:47:25.039 --> 00:47:28.960
you can see that all the way
back here. Jesse says to Vince,

659
00:47:29.000 --> 00:47:30.519
you can see he's cutting off his
air all the way back here, McMahon.

660
00:47:31.400 --> 00:47:36.519
The hand drops twice and then a
third time. Oh then Hebner does

661
00:47:36.519 --> 00:47:40.320
it again. I miss that.
Steamers holds his hand up at this point,

662
00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:44.880
and Ventor says, why doesn't the
match and da Ventura pounces. Of

663
00:47:44.960 --> 00:47:47.519
course, Vince has to be silent
because sometimes Jesse makes a totally valid point.

664
00:47:47.599 --> 00:47:54.159
Well, mud By, see what
McMahon, not even you would stick

665
00:47:54.239 --> 00:47:59.119
your finger up somebody's nostrils, he
says at one point, don't ask me

666
00:47:59.159 --> 00:48:02.760
why. He says that Rude counters. Let's see Steamboat counter stands up an

667
00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:07.280
electric chair drop on Rick Rude to
counter the camel clutch, and Steamboat goes

668
00:48:07.320 --> 00:48:10.039
up and goes for a splash,
but lands across the knees of Rick Rude.

669
00:48:10.239 --> 00:48:15.679
Ventura says, Steamboat was using aerial
tactics when his opponent isn't hurt enough

670
00:48:15.719 --> 00:48:20.320
to catch it, to catch him, Yeah, and Rude with an atomic

671
00:48:20.400 --> 00:48:24.199
drop. Thence calls it another sensational
maneuver that gets to back to the camel

672
00:48:24.280 --> 00:48:28.679
clutch, and Steamboat slaps one hand
after the other to try to get to

673
00:48:28.719 --> 00:48:32.400
the ropes, and Ventura says,
Ricky Steamboat has a horrible rhythm on that

674
00:48:34.519 --> 00:48:37.320
the way he's trying to get the
crowd behind him. And then he cuffs

675
00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:39.440
the ankles of Rick Rude and kind
of bucks forward and this sends Root into

676
00:48:39.440 --> 00:48:43.199
the corner to break the camel clutch. Kind of counter. I like it.

677
00:48:43.320 --> 00:48:45.280
I like it a lot. Now
he sends his head into the buckling

678
00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:50.400
ten consecutive times to Steamboat and tour
a protesting that he's holding him by the

679
00:48:50.440 --> 00:48:53.159
hair. And if Rick Rude held
Steamboat by the hair, McMahon, you've

680
00:48:53.199 --> 00:48:59.519
been complaining all night long. No
response from Vince as a steamboat hits a

681
00:48:59.519 --> 00:49:01.199
snap mare a chop to the face
for two. Rude cuts him off though

682
00:49:01.199 --> 00:49:07.760
headlock takedown head sister to the top
rope. Um Rick Rude goes to Rick

683
00:49:07.880 --> 00:49:10.119
Rude, Well that cuts two.
I don't know, sorry he missed that

684
00:49:10.199 --> 00:49:13.760
up. Oh this is that Sorry? He doesn't go to the top rope.

685
00:49:13.800 --> 00:49:15.440
He spins to the top. This
is where they you know, exchange

686
00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:20.440
one two one two one two yes, including a schoolboy roll up brother?

687
00:49:20.639 --> 00:49:23.000
What that's right? Because a steamboat
does the bridge backslide one two back up

688
00:49:23.400 --> 00:49:32.079
boyd quiet brother, Terry, I
just called it a steam boy roll up

689
00:49:36.840 --> 00:49:45.679
brother. I felt it, dude. That's that's just megaphone, Lady,

690
00:49:45.760 --> 00:49:52.039
Terry, don't wrote somebody's trying to
roll about their brother. Somebody tried to

691
00:49:52.159 --> 00:49:55.639
roll up. Shut listen, Terry, listen, listen. What what what

692
00:49:59.639 --> 00:50:09.159
brother? Schoolboy plever steamboy with the
school boy roll up for two steamboy.

693
00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:14.960
I'm gonna keep saying that I should
have been that should be his son's a

694
00:50:15.599 --> 00:50:19.960
gimmick, wasn't he? In teen
Titans? Steam boy steep single lake jack

695
00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:22.119
knef cradle by steamboat gets to back
up inside cradle. No, Rude ends

696
00:50:22.199 --> 00:50:24.880
up on top as they reverse it
one two, No steamboat on top.

697
00:50:24.960 --> 00:50:28.320
One two backup. Rude brakes the
eyes, whip left arm. Larry at

698
00:50:28.440 --> 00:50:31.119
nails. Steamboat hits them hard.
We're talking Larry at city one two not

699
00:50:31.360 --> 00:50:35.920
enough love. How intentional those covers
were, too, man, They really

700
00:50:35.960 --> 00:50:39.159
thought they were gonna win. Yep. Rude tries a soup play. It's

701
00:50:39.199 --> 00:50:45.000
blocked, and steamboat elevates and dumps
route to the canvas to Jubilasian. Both

702
00:50:45.119 --> 00:50:50.079
spent on the canvas. Steamboat points
skyward, climbs the ropes. Hebner gets

703
00:50:50.159 --> 00:50:52.079
himself in position to take the bump. Steamboat goes soaring into Hebner, who

704
00:50:52.119 --> 00:50:55.559
takes the flatback bump. So a
referee is down and now steamboat, of

705
00:50:55.599 --> 00:51:00.519
course, trying to pin rick Rude. Ventura says that Ricky steamboat um has

706
00:51:00.519 --> 00:51:05.519
to check on Hebner. Rude comes
up from behind, grabs him, hits

707
00:51:05.559 --> 00:51:08.159
the shoulder over the shoulder, backbreaker
on Ricky Steamboat, hanging him out to

708
00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:13.400
dry earl. Hebner comes up clutching
his gut and signals for the bell.

709
00:51:14.280 --> 00:51:17.280
Yeah, that's this week. It
was the backbreaker he didn't not the shoulder

710
00:51:17.320 --> 00:51:20.760
breaker, so he's like the Bruno
thing he was, Yeah, right,

711
00:51:21.239 --> 00:51:27.079
the Canadian backbreaker exactly. And uh, it wasn't clear if Hebner signaled for

712
00:51:27.119 --> 00:51:30.119
the bell because he got a signal
that Ricky Steamboat submitted in the hold,

713
00:51:30.199 --> 00:51:35.760
or if rick Rud's being disqualified um, or if someone's being disqualified for uh

714
00:51:36.480 --> 00:51:37.760
Hebner hitting the deck. I think
it is what it was, right,

715
00:51:37.800 --> 00:51:42.440
didn't Rude pull Hebner in front?
Yeah? Weak, it's weak. Whatever

716
00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:45.400
it is, it's weak. Yeah, it's it's hardly a clearly intentional um.

717
00:51:46.599 --> 00:51:52.119
So yeah, um, they speculated
maybe he's calling for the bell for

718
00:51:52.199 --> 00:51:54.920
a submission, even though Hebner didn't
even look at Ricky Steamboat before signaling for

719
00:51:54.960 --> 00:51:59.440
the belt. Right. Uh.
So Rud's music hits. I think it's

720
00:51:59.480 --> 00:52:01.679
a dubbed over version the version they
used to use. Yeah, it's a

721
00:52:01.719 --> 00:52:07.840
little bit different. It is different. It's actually very close to um a

722
00:52:07.920 --> 00:52:10.960
copyrighted song called the Stripper by David
Rose. Right, that's the one that's

723
00:52:10.960 --> 00:52:16.920
the one he used to use kind
of a riff on their on the the

724
00:52:17.039 --> 00:52:22.280
Stripper, yep. And so Rude
bounces up the aisle with his hand raised

725
00:52:22.320 --> 00:52:24.239
like he won the match. Fink
takes over and says the winner as a

726
00:52:24.280 --> 00:52:29.159
result of a disqualification Ricky the Dragon's
steamboat, and Rude turns up the aisle

727
00:52:29.199 --> 00:52:32.039
like what And this seems to take
a long time. Patterson comes out,

728
00:52:32.079 --> 00:52:35.800
you see him for a brief second
to catch him and I did not.

729
00:52:36.360 --> 00:52:38.760
Yeah, he comes up out the
curtain to sort of block Rick Rude from

730
00:52:38.800 --> 00:52:43.320
going any further to the bag.
And I just thought it was, you

731
00:52:43.400 --> 00:52:46.639
know, just the angle. But
Pritchard kind of made it seem like Patterson

732
00:52:46.679 --> 00:52:50.960
went out there because things had to
be moved along, like it was taking

733
00:52:51.000 --> 00:52:54.000
too long for Rude to get the
signal and to turn around and for Finkle

734
00:52:54.039 --> 00:53:00.280
to make the announcement. Um,
so I don't really interesting to that dark

735
00:53:00.320 --> 00:53:04.760
grad wwfs suit. Yeah, Pritchard
sing on this podcast, you can see

736
00:53:04.840 --> 00:53:07.239
pat tell Rude to go to the
back to go back to the ring.

737
00:53:07.360 --> 00:53:09.280
Rather it should have happened a lot
faster with the referee getting up and everything,

738
00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:15.719
and Howard assuming that Rick Rude was
actually the winner. He says,

739
00:53:15.280 --> 00:53:19.400
you know afterwards, it was weird. It was very weird. It was,

740
00:53:19.559 --> 00:53:21.599
yeah, it was. It was
actually what it seemed to be was

741
00:53:21.679 --> 00:53:23.679
a big delay in getting word to
Finkel as to who actually was supposed to

742
00:53:23.719 --> 00:53:27.920
be declared the victor. To hear
Bruce Prichard tell it, this was an

743
00:53:27.920 --> 00:53:30.679
important show for the production side of
WWF in that they sat down and discussed

744
00:53:30.679 --> 00:53:34.559
this one at length about what they
could do better. And one of the

745
00:53:34.679 --> 00:53:37.960
things they determined after this show and
because of this match, according to Pritchard,

746
00:53:37.400 --> 00:53:40.119
is that Finkel needs to know the
finish before the match. We can't

747
00:53:40.760 --> 00:53:45.920
just wait for Finkel to see the
finish wow, which I guess was protocol

748
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:50.400
before that bitch to get it through
a quicker on television, And so Rude

749
00:53:50.440 --> 00:53:52.360
marches to the ring to protest his
disqualification. We take a break, and

750
00:53:52.440 --> 00:53:57.320
that's the end of that. Well
a little bitch. Indeed, on Peacock

751
00:53:57.360 --> 00:54:00.119
they cut this out, but on
the live version as it aired back then,

752
00:54:00.159 --> 00:54:05.039
they show a WrestleMania four graphic and
oh yeah, it just comes into

753
00:54:05.039 --> 00:54:08.360
the screens, goes there's no matches
or anything, no wrestler pictures. It's

754
00:54:08.360 --> 00:54:13.960
just a logo and I think it
says Trump Plaza whatever it says, or

755
00:54:14.079 --> 00:54:16.880
maybe just as Atlantic City. Um
coming March twenty seventh. When we come

756
00:54:16.920 --> 00:54:20.440
back, Gene Okerland is on the
screen and he says, tonight, ladies

757
00:54:20.440 --> 00:54:22.199
and gentlemen, with Jesse Ventura on
stage with a bunch of dumbells and a

758
00:54:22.239 --> 00:54:27.360
weightlifting bench. There, Jean says, one of Canada's own will endeavor to

759
00:54:27.440 --> 00:54:30.039
establish a new world record in the
bench press, and assisting me with the

760
00:54:30.079 --> 00:54:34.760
description of the action tonight is Jesse
the body of Ventura and Jesse, of

761
00:54:34.800 --> 00:54:37.679
course your name is synonymous with power
itself, and Ventura says, it's obvious

762
00:54:37.760 --> 00:54:45.559
why Dino didn't ask you to be
the spot or out here and explained who

763
00:54:45.840 --> 00:54:50.280
what the spotter is, and as
Zoobaz pants I know says I'm gonna lift

764
00:54:50.320 --> 00:54:55.320
the bar from my friend Bravo.
I'm there exactly for my friend Dino' Bravo.

765
00:54:55.639 --> 00:55:00.880
Ronically, this segment hardly raised the
bar in any way. Ah well,

766
00:55:00.960 --> 00:55:04.159
record seven hundred and five pounds is
attempted to be broken here by Dino

767
00:55:04.280 --> 00:55:12.199
Bravo, and you know I can't. So I understand you can't go right

768
00:55:12.320 --> 00:55:15.440
for it. You have to do
kind of warm up weight. But I

769
00:55:15.599 --> 00:55:19.679
felt like one of two things just
I mean again, listen. I'm not

770
00:55:19.760 --> 00:55:22.840
a powerlifter, I don't I don't
know shit, but I feel like he

771
00:55:22.960 --> 00:55:28.000
did too many, too many weights. Yeah, I feel like he should

772
00:55:28.000 --> 00:55:30.679
have jumped up a little higher at
the times, like well, or I

773
00:55:30.800 --> 00:55:34.559
started too low or something. I
don't know. I don't think it would

774
00:55:34.559 --> 00:55:37.000
have made a difference. You know
why because Richard says that it was kfeve

775
00:55:37.079 --> 00:55:38.920
weights, like you can, oh, all right, there were real weights

776
00:55:39.000 --> 00:55:42.400
on there, but it wasn't as
much weight as they were saying. I

777
00:55:42.480 --> 00:55:45.280
could basically take what they said it
was and cut it in half because the

778
00:55:45.760 --> 00:55:49.440
fake weights on there too. But
even then, that's what the funny thing

779
00:55:49.480 --> 00:55:52.920
about this is is even with the
fake weights, Bravo couldn't make it.

780
00:55:52.239 --> 00:55:55.000
Fucking sucks, right. He couldn't
lift half the weight they said he did,

781
00:55:55.320 --> 00:55:59.119
right, But you know, he
was the strongest guy in the locker

782
00:55:59.199 --> 00:56:01.480
room, and if there was someone
in WWF roster that could be credibly presented

783
00:56:01.480 --> 00:56:04.559
as achieving this, it would be
him. And he was able to,

784
00:56:04.599 --> 00:56:07.000
according to Pritchard, do this in
the locker room, or at least at

785
00:56:07.079 --> 00:56:09.719
some point prior to the rumble,
so they had confidence that they couldn't put

786
00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:13.199
him out there in live television and
he could do the lift, but when

787
00:56:13.280 --> 00:56:15.679
push came to shove, he couldn't
do it. Must have been all those

788
00:56:15.719 --> 00:56:17.639
fans he was telling to be quiet, I guess, getting in his head.

789
00:56:20.039 --> 00:56:22.199
So yeah, Zoobaz and snakeskin boots
for Jesse Ventura just in case you

790
00:56:22.280 --> 00:56:28.039
forgot what decade. The show took
place in York Dumbbells for You, accompanied

791
00:56:28.079 --> 00:56:31.719
by Frenchie Martin from Montreal. So
they don't love him in Hamilton, Ontario,

792
00:56:31.800 --> 00:56:37.199
that's for sure. He dapts up
Jesse and Majestic. On that mini

793
00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:43.719
stage were wrestlers man that little stage. So the ring in the background so

794
00:56:43.880 --> 00:56:46.679
simple, yea, yep. And
it made you feel like the arena was

795
00:56:46.719 --> 00:56:51.840
like a million miles long. Yeah
right, there's like these hidden compartments of

796
00:56:51.880 --> 00:56:53.679
the arena that you couldn't even discern
when you were watching the matches. And

797
00:56:53.760 --> 00:56:57.159
still it looked like there were people
everywhere, and then all of a sudden,

798
00:56:57.159 --> 00:56:59.159
there's this other whole area. I
mean, you know, of course,

799
00:56:59.639 --> 00:57:01.239
if you see it in person,
it doesn't look as impressive, but

800
00:57:01.559 --> 00:57:05.519
they knew how to shoot man to
make it look like they had miles of

801
00:57:05.639 --> 00:57:09.400
people totally. No one was coming
to the show. So Jean says,

802
00:57:09.639 --> 00:57:14.079
big stakes ahead, here your thoughts, and Bravo says, it's a big

803
00:57:14.199 --> 00:57:15.480
challenge, but I feel I can
do it, and that's why I'm here

804
00:57:15.519 --> 00:57:20.320
tonight. Great stuff. Do you
know? Thank you? They asked Frenchie

805
00:57:20.360 --> 00:57:23.840
for comments and he says a bunch
of things in a French Canadian or whatever,

806
00:57:24.480 --> 00:57:30.400
kebaqua and there's booze speckled in and
Jean gives him a mercy boku it

807
00:57:30.440 --> 00:57:34.079
says, I thank you, and
Vince laughs. The fact that Jean got

808
00:57:34.079 --> 00:57:37.880
absolutely nothing out of Frenchie, who
could speak good English, and that was

809
00:57:38.079 --> 00:57:43.159
kind of the point of putting him
with Dino, who wasn't. But I

810
00:57:43.199 --> 00:57:46.000
guess Frenchie decided the way to go
here is just pretend he was above speaking

811
00:57:46.079 --> 00:57:50.280
English, and they could have used
him, because this thing dies a slow

812
00:57:50.360 --> 00:57:52.400
death. This whole segment. Oh, it's so awful. In a lot

813
00:57:52.440 --> 00:57:59.320
of way, it's so awful.
It's just brutal. Ventura puts the powder

814
00:57:59.400 --> 00:58:01.239
on his hand, slip. It's
important to hold that bar and have a

815
00:58:01.280 --> 00:58:07.880
good grip. He says, yeah, fifteen pounds to get started, some

816
00:58:07.039 --> 00:58:12.039
warm up weight. They call it. I have a grip. Yep.

817
00:58:12.679 --> 00:58:15.159
Dono gloves up and says, this
requires total concentration, So I demand that

818
00:58:15.199 --> 00:58:17.239
you don't make a sound while I
do this. You know what that means?

819
00:58:17.559 --> 00:58:21.920
The cloud and the crowd kind of
doesn't even they're still authargic. They

820
00:58:21.960 --> 00:58:24.400
don't even bother to like really scream
at him. They don't. I mean,

821
00:58:24.599 --> 00:58:29.920
it's so it's this is absolute death
this segment, Gene has to help

822
00:58:30.039 --> 00:58:31.880
him out, throw him a lifeline. He reiterates, he is asking for

823
00:58:32.000 --> 00:58:36.400
your total silence, so please,
and then they kind of erupt. So

824
00:58:36.519 --> 00:58:38.639
Dina lays down to the bench and
Ventor is hovering over, and Dino pumps

825
00:58:38.679 --> 00:58:43.960
hard off his chest rapid fire style
to really show that he can throw around

826
00:58:43.960 --> 00:58:45.639
four hundred pounds no problem, Gene
Oka lynds and pressed. They ask for

827
00:58:45.679 --> 00:58:49.599
an additional ninety pounds. It takes
forever for them to load these weights on.

828
00:58:49.800 --> 00:58:53.599
I mean, it's like again,
it's such death. It's such death.

829
00:58:54.760 --> 00:58:59.519
To five or five they go.
Gene asks how much are you adding

830
00:58:59.559 --> 00:59:01.559
to the ball are and thinking,
Geane, they should be asking you that

831
00:59:05.119 --> 00:59:13.039
not even there Yeah, he he
at the airport bar, Gene reminds them

832
00:59:13.039 --> 00:59:15.039
that he's asked for total silence,
trying to get that reaction again and uh,

833
00:59:15.159 --> 00:59:17.519
diner with the weights and pumps it
fast again with a little problem,

834
00:59:17.800 --> 00:59:23.440
so he keeps climbing. Um,
Folcus is boring TV. Also working with

835
00:59:23.559 --> 00:59:35.480
a spotter earlier, Rick Rude five
fifty five pounds now Jane boo boo boo.

836
00:59:35.679 --> 00:59:38.360
Actually you know what? And coming
up in the next match, a

837
00:59:38.480 --> 00:59:45.280
couple of spotters working with the glamour
girls. Oh you better, Yeah,

838
00:59:45.280 --> 00:59:50.800
I'm Mizaki. I mean you know
you talk about top rope um missile drop

839
00:59:50.920 --> 00:59:54.760
kicks indeed. Um, so yeah. They do a crowd cutaway as Jean

840
00:59:54.840 --> 00:59:58.199
tries to get him worked up again
at the idea of total silence. As

841
00:59:58.239 --> 01:00:01.760
Brown lays down um and gets up
and waves his arms because the booze are

842
01:00:01.760 --> 01:00:05.320
too much for him. He can't
he can't concentrate. Jesse grabs the mic.

843
01:00:05.360 --> 01:00:07.559
Whether you like the guy or not, at least give him a chance.

844
01:00:07.119 --> 01:00:10.239
Whether you like the guy or not, at least give him the chance.

845
01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:17.840
Fair request. Absolutely, and it's
it's you know kind of um,

846
01:00:19.400 --> 01:00:22.360
Civilly stated as well. From you
to the body, Yeah, yeah,

847
01:00:22.000 --> 01:00:27.280
um, you can see Vincent lamplight
right at Dino's feet, that the announcing

848
01:00:27.320 --> 01:00:30.559
table, the announced position, which
was not ringside but where it belongs up

849
01:00:30.599 --> 01:00:36.239
near the aisleway, was right next
to where this was taking place on the

850
01:00:36.280 --> 01:00:39.159
interview stage. And it seems like
Dino is kind of, if you watch

851
01:00:39.239 --> 01:00:44.519
his facial expressions, kind of preoccupied
with the fact that the post yes staring

852
01:00:44.519 --> 01:00:46.639
at him the whole time and judging
the fact that this isn't going so well.

853
01:00:47.039 --> 01:00:51.639
So Dino does the fast pumps and
can you graduate who is more weight?

854
01:00:52.199 --> 01:00:55.079
This thing sucks? God damn it. Of course this is not.

855
01:00:55.840 --> 01:01:04.079
This is not the only weight Dino
Bravo would graduate to holding Bravo asks for

856
01:01:04.159 --> 01:01:09.079
less noise. Again, this takes
forever stop, but in a way that

857
01:01:09.320 --> 01:01:14.360
feels like it is really what these
guys would do if they really couldn't care

858
01:01:14.440 --> 01:01:19.840
less if people were watching them.
Sure, and I guess there's some appreciation

859
01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:22.360
to that. I just I just
don't care about this whole fucking thing.

860
01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:25.880
I guess on paper, like the
guy setting the world bench press record and

861
01:01:25.960 --> 01:01:29.880
building to it slowly, it's kind
of the same principle as the Rebel countdown.

862
01:01:29.960 --> 01:01:32.960
It seems like good television. It
was not ninety five now, because

863
01:01:34.000 --> 01:01:36.719
you know, wrestling fans don't really
care if you can lift heavy weights.

864
01:01:36.760 --> 01:01:37.760
I know you think they do,
but they don't give a phone and they're

865
01:01:37.760 --> 01:01:43.239
they're really do lifting fans. No, they're not any they're not bodybuilding fans,

866
01:01:43.360 --> 01:01:45.840
not even close. Just look at
him, for Christ's sakes, like

867
01:01:45.039 --> 01:01:47.960
it's just awful. So he sits
down, pops up to booze. He's

868
01:01:47.960 --> 01:01:50.800
not going to do it again.
He's stomping his feet. They're not really

869
01:01:50.840 --> 01:01:53.400
making that much noise though. Dino's
overreacting, and Frenchie with more French,

870
01:01:53.719 --> 01:01:57.679
Jean says, these people speak English. Dino goes back, and Jane says,

871
01:01:57.679 --> 01:02:00.079
the crowd continues to be quite vocipherous. Yeah, if you say so.

872
01:02:00.280 --> 01:02:02.519
You know, Gene, he's always
sarcastic as fuck. If he's out

873
01:02:02.519 --> 01:02:07.320
there saying something's happening, he's probably
actually remarking on the fact that it isn't

874
01:02:07.320 --> 01:02:10.320
happening and trying to pop the truck. So three pumps from Dino at five

875
01:02:10.599 --> 01:02:14.159
ninety five, and then Jean says, Frenchie, your man seems to be

876
01:02:14.239 --> 01:02:17.800
holding up quite well, and Jean
says, please, I'm sorry, Frenchie

877
01:02:17.840 --> 01:02:22.119
Martin, I know, well you
can speak English. Enough is enough in

878
01:02:22.199 --> 01:02:24.039
other words, like I'm kind of
putting the mic in your face to save

879
01:02:24.159 --> 01:02:28.199
this segment here, right, and
if you're not gonna say anything, you're

880
01:02:28.199 --> 01:02:31.760
you're definitely not health care. He
does not care, right, He's like

881
01:02:31.840 --> 01:02:35.280
Abdulah the butcher. He doesn't know
how to read unless it's a menu.

882
01:02:35.719 --> 01:02:39.039
Yes, six fifty five now.
He used to love how Jesse was always

883
01:02:39.079 --> 01:02:43.000
ready to assist the heels, even
if he didn't have a formal alliance with

884
01:02:43.119 --> 01:02:45.079
the heel. You know, It's
like he had an every heel and the

885
01:02:45.159 --> 01:02:49.559
roster had an ally in the booth, like yep, yep, someone who

886
01:02:49.599 --> 01:02:52.800
saw things their way. It was
like a tribe, almost an unspoken kind

887
01:02:52.800 --> 01:02:55.480
of alliance. Jesse barks, can't
you do something about that? This guy's

888
01:02:55.519 --> 01:02:59.840
going for the world record and you're
over here holding up your hands in the

889
01:03:00.079 --> 01:03:01.480
air. Vince, you can see
why are you letting them be a bitch?

890
01:03:01.760 --> 01:03:06.119
You're letting the fans be a bitch
again. Vince tries to do something

891
01:03:06.199 --> 01:03:13.679
off camera, gesture off camera,
I'm what I listen, I'm I well,

892
01:03:14.000 --> 01:03:19.239
I mean, there are elements of
of of s in which I you

893
01:03:19.400 --> 01:03:23.519
may assume that I am involved,
but I am simply a spectator enjoying the

894
01:03:23.599 --> 01:03:30.719
experience of of of watching the attempts
of one Dino Bravo, unquestionably one of

895
01:03:30.719 --> 01:03:36.440
the strongest men in the w W
E attempt to to take on the challenge

896
01:03:36.440 --> 01:03:39.360
of the world. Right, what
the hell does that mean? McMahon,

897
01:03:40.880 --> 01:03:45.719
your fucking asshole. I think with
this worse than guerrilla Monsoon waving his arms

898
01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:49.159
trying to get the crowd animated.
I think that's a god damn it.

899
01:03:49.880 --> 01:03:55.519
Come on, fucking piece of shit. Ah, yes, Jean says.

900
01:03:55.639 --> 01:04:00.599
Jesse has pointed an accusing finger towards
Vince McMahon, saying he trying to get

901
01:04:00.639 --> 01:04:03.119
this crowd riled up, which,
of course he probably was. Gene announcing

902
01:04:03.159 --> 01:04:06.639
it quietly now like a golf announcer. As Dino goes up and manages just

903
01:04:06.760 --> 01:04:10.480
one pump, Jeane says, Jesse, you have lifted a lot of weight.

904
01:04:10.880 --> 01:04:13.480
This is phenomenal. Jesse says,
I had never been depressed what I

905
01:04:13.559 --> 01:04:16.239
saw done right there. And Jean
says, Dino Bravo, what weight lift

906
01:04:16.440 --> 01:04:21.400
is? Are we at now?
Um? And Dino speaks in French,

907
01:04:21.480 --> 01:04:26.960
and Jean says, I need English
translation. Jane asking how much is being

908
01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:33.559
added, and um, it's it's
like shrouded his mystery, and on and

909
01:04:33.880 --> 01:04:39.159
on and on. That's unofficial because
the bar will have to be weighed later.

910
01:04:39.320 --> 01:04:41.960
They make it clear. But right
now, right you got you gotta

911
01:04:42.000 --> 01:04:45.599
taking consideration the bar. Yes,
the bar counter is part of the weight

912
01:04:47.400 --> 01:04:54.880
record. You got you gotta taking
consideration the bar and the tab. Jesse

913
01:04:55.000 --> 01:05:00.800
meanwhile passed the bar um as the
locker room lawyer. Right now, we're

914
01:05:00.320 --> 01:05:03.400
told seven fifteen is next. We're
looking at a new bench press record.

915
01:05:03.440 --> 01:05:08.639
If Dino Bravo can pull this off. Jean reemphasizes the Dino Bravo and Frenchie

916
01:05:08.679 --> 01:05:12.920
Martin and Jesse. Ventura wants silence
from you good people, and then Jesse

917
01:05:13.119 --> 01:05:18.079
says, pardon me. Jean says, for no reason, live going for

918
01:05:18.119 --> 01:05:23.599
the record, Frenchie calling him Gino. Gino says in private workouts, he's

919
01:05:23.639 --> 01:05:27.000
heard Dino doing you know about this
weight, so it's going to happen.

920
01:05:27.039 --> 01:05:30.079
It's possible. Bravo gets up and
storms off, pissed off that the fans

921
01:05:30.119 --> 01:05:32.360
are booing. He leaves the stage
like he's not even going to attempt.

922
01:05:32.800 --> 01:05:36.360
Yeah, Jesse says, it's just, you know, what's the matter with

923
01:05:36.440 --> 01:05:39.719
you? You people don't want to
see a new world record. Give the

924
01:05:39.760 --> 01:05:41.960
guy a chance to make the attempt, whether you like it or not.

925
01:05:42.679 --> 01:05:45.519
Jean says, Dino Bravo could be
a little more patient with the thousands and

926
01:05:45.559 --> 01:05:54.880
thousands here and and he's the millions
watching on USA here tonight. Dino finally

927
01:05:55.000 --> 01:05:57.880
comes back to the stage, gets
down a position, and he can't do

928
01:05:58.039 --> 01:06:00.920
it. He cannot lift the weight
bar with off his chest. And I

929
01:06:01.000 --> 01:06:05.639
think he was supposed to. I
don't think this was a heel thing.

930
01:06:05.719 --> 01:06:10.000
I don't. It doesn't right.
I think he fucked up. I think

931
01:06:10.159 --> 01:06:13.639
I think he's too tired again.
I feel like it was a wasted thing.

932
01:06:13.760 --> 01:06:17.559
They fucking did too many. They
didn't do it fast enough. Jesse

933
01:06:17.880 --> 01:06:21.039
is forced to basically from his spotting
position, pull the weight bar all the

934
01:06:21.119 --> 01:06:27.079
way up from like an inch above
Dino's chest to the rack. And they

935
01:06:27.159 --> 01:06:30.000
say he did it, and it's
like I didn't. I didn't touch the

936
01:06:30.079 --> 01:06:32.920
bar. I can tell you right
now, I didn't touch the bar.

937
01:06:34.320 --> 01:06:40.119
He didn't raise it either. I
didn't raise the bar. I didn't touch

938
01:06:40.199 --> 01:06:44.320
the bar. I shouldn't plea eat
a candy bar. So French. He

939
01:06:44.440 --> 01:06:45.880
hugs Dino, they celebrate like he
did it, and Vinceo's, ah,

940
01:06:45.920 --> 01:06:48.639
like you did it. I think
Jesse helped him out. I'll be right

941
01:06:48.679 --> 01:06:54.119
back, and the bullshit what happened? How long this took? With Ventura

942
01:06:54.199 --> 01:06:56.960
barking in the background, I didn't
have the bar locked out. Seven hundred

943
01:06:56.960 --> 01:07:00.280
and fifteen pounds is more than I
can do. And Vince's if it's just

944
01:07:00.360 --> 01:07:02.679
talking over the whole thing. They're
still doing more stick as they have to

945
01:07:02.760 --> 01:07:08.440
rush to a commercial break. It
is just nasty stuff. It's just so

946
01:07:08.719 --> 01:07:11.320
it's still I mean, honestly,
that was like a waste of fifteen minutes.

947
01:07:11.679 --> 01:07:16.360
There's Pritchard on the whole deal.
Ah huh. During this time,

948
01:07:16.679 --> 01:07:24.920
Dino Bravo was probably the strongest guy
in the boys. Being boys, they

949
01:07:25.000 --> 01:07:28.559
go to the gym every day and
they're always working out, so they're always

950
01:07:28.639 --> 01:07:31.840
comparing. It's a competition. Hey
yo, bro, how much you press?

951
01:07:32.039 --> 01:07:35.159
You know, what do you betch? Oh my god. Dino Bravo

952
01:07:35.679 --> 01:07:42.639
aunllegedly was pressing over six hundred pounds
during this time and a lot of the

953
01:07:42.719 --> 01:07:47.880
guys. Everybody pretty much knew that
Dino Bravo was the strongest guy there.

954
01:07:48.079 --> 01:07:55.679
Six hundred pound bench press is a
tremendous feat. He got up and I

955
01:07:55.840 --> 01:08:00.800
think he did close to seven hundred
pounds one time. I don't think he

956
01:08:00.880 --> 01:08:03.519
ever did over seven hundred, but
he did, like in the in the

957
01:08:03.679 --> 01:08:10.199
six sixty or six seventy. Extremely
impressive and one of the strongest human beings

958
01:08:10.239 --> 01:08:14.559
in the world. And that's great
to do that in the gym when you're

959
01:08:14.599 --> 01:08:18.720
in there working out and everything.
But Vince's well, hell, you know,

960
01:08:18.800 --> 01:08:23.079
he's a strong guy. What if
we set a new, you know,

961
01:08:23.600 --> 01:08:32.920
quote bench press record and it was
let's do seven seven hundred pounds.

962
01:08:33.279 --> 01:08:36.359
What's the record? I think it
was something like seven hundred and five pounds.

963
01:08:36.399 --> 01:08:45.159
Well, then we'll do seven fifteen
the problem and I've done I've done

964
01:08:45.199 --> 01:08:48.239
these a few different ways, and
we learned a lesson when I did it

965
01:08:48.319 --> 01:08:56.079
with Superstar Billy Graham or a bigger
pardon, Tony Atlas and Gino Hernandez in

966
01:08:56.319 --> 01:09:00.520
Houston, Texas. We put a
bench press in the ring and we had

967
01:09:00.560 --> 01:09:04.720
the weights. Well, the ring
gives it's a wooden base and it gives.

968
01:09:05.239 --> 01:09:09.760
So when you're lifting weights, it's
not a good idea to be on

969
01:09:09.960 --> 01:09:14.399
any kind of base that is not
solid concrete. Have a solid foundation underneath

970
01:09:14.439 --> 01:09:16.840
it. You don't want any gift, you don't want any wiggle room.

971
01:09:17.039 --> 01:09:21.800
And when you do that, it
adds weight. So if you're bench pressing

972
01:09:21.840 --> 01:09:25.760
two hundred pounds, it's going to
feel like you're doing about two fifty.

973
01:09:28.640 --> 01:09:34.399
This was paying full to watch because
Dino's not a good promo. His manager

974
01:09:34.479 --> 01:09:39.199
Frenchie Martin, who is actually a
pretty good promo. For some reason,

975
01:09:40.399 --> 01:09:44.000
I was just doing the French gimmick
and maybe that kind of case can say.

976
01:09:45.039 --> 01:09:51.119
And Dina wasn't over, Frenchie was
over, and the weightlifting was a

977
01:09:51.239 --> 01:09:57.720
fart in church. So there you
go. That's how you feel, Okay,

978
01:09:58.039 --> 01:10:00.319
all right, well, I guess. He says that Kevin Dunn was

979
01:10:00.359 --> 01:10:03.279
on the floor, queueing between Vince
and Gene of who to speak when,

980
01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:06.520
and Jeans trying to keep the whole
thing moving, and Bruce says, thank

981
01:10:06.520 --> 01:10:09.960
God for Jesse because he was able
to at least get the crowd going as

982
01:10:10.079 --> 01:10:13.800
Vince was riling people up where he
was sitting as best he could so there's

983
01:10:13.840 --> 01:10:15.920
confirmation of that. And Pritchard goes
on to say that did you know was

984
01:10:15.920 --> 01:10:18.800
supposed to lift He was supposed to
set the record, but when he got

985
01:10:18.840 --> 01:10:21.479
there, he couldn't do it set
the record in KFE because as he said,

986
01:10:23.000 --> 01:10:26.199
uh, you basically can subtract about
one hundred eighty to two hundred pounds

987
01:10:26.239 --> 01:10:28.640
from whatever weight they said on the
ear as to how much that actually was.

988
01:10:28.720 --> 01:10:32.119
There were big dummy weights that they
spray painted, right, And Vince

989
01:10:32.199 --> 01:10:36.399
is actually quite picky about the spray
paint because he fancied himself an actual weightlifter

990
01:10:36.520 --> 01:10:40.279
and feels like if he notices something
that looks fake, everybody else, well,

991
01:10:41.520 --> 01:10:44.279
the fans are all gonna know that
that. Okay, those are fake

992
01:10:44.319 --> 01:10:46.079
weights. I mean, listen,
we're all they're all bodybuilders, they're all

993
01:10:46.119 --> 01:10:50.840
they're all gym rats. All right, you gotta you gotta please, for

994
01:10:50.960 --> 01:10:56.199
the love of Christ, you gotta
you gotta fucking you gotta cover that up.

995
01:10:56.760 --> 01:11:00.920
This platform had give to what McMahon
who put this show together? What

996
01:11:00.560 --> 01:11:06.079
what you didn't use union rigging?
You should have went down that Which union?

997
01:11:06.399 --> 01:11:11.119
Hey McMahon, which union did you
call in to put this put this

998
01:11:11.239 --> 01:11:15.079
ship together, right, but less
less I yatsy and more yatsy. As

999
01:11:15.119 --> 01:11:21.840
far as I can tell, You're
a dumbash and short. Um. Pritchard

1000
01:11:21.880 --> 01:11:26.039
also says in his podcast that,
for whatever reason, on Peacock they cut

1001
01:11:26.079 --> 01:11:30.720
out Vince laughing maniacally when Dino Bravo
failed to actually set the record. I

1002
01:11:30.760 --> 01:11:33.720
don't know what he's thinking, but
he's wrong about that. Thanks to you,

1003
01:11:33.840 --> 01:11:38.359
we have a copy tape director of
television, and Vince McMahon does not

1004
01:11:38.479 --> 01:11:41.399
laugh at that moment at all,
so I don't know what he's talking about.

1005
01:11:41.439 --> 01:11:45.680
He does cackle when Frenchie Martin gives
Gene nothing, and that that that

1006
01:11:45.840 --> 01:11:48.279
survives on the version we watched.
We just made a note of it,

1007
01:11:48.960 --> 01:11:54.239
but I'm not sure. So,
because I know you haven't quite had enough

1008
01:11:54.279 --> 01:11:58.640
of this segment, Boss, I've
sent to you coverage in WWF Magazine of

1009
01:11:58.680 --> 01:12:01.000
this is story, Oh my god
attempt by Dino Bravo. How can the

1010
01:12:01.159 --> 01:12:08.359
wordsmiths at WWF Magazine find a way
to spend this complete fart in church into

1011
01:12:08.600 --> 01:12:12.279
readable interesting copy for the WWF fans. Let's really see how good they are.

1012
01:12:12.720 --> 01:12:16.640
I'm guessing they can't. That's what
I'm guessing. All right, I'm

1013
01:12:16.680 --> 01:12:24.319
bringing it up. Now here we
go. Oh my god. Dino Bravo's

1014
01:12:24.439 --> 01:12:29.920
new strategy, Strength Rules by Luji
and Friedo Dino Bravo has shocked the sports

1015
01:12:29.960 --> 01:12:33.439
world. Bodybuilders are envious, powerlifters
amazed, and a lot of his potential

1016
01:12:33.520 --> 01:12:40.079
opponents in the world rustling entertainment are
worried. Bravo, during January's WWE televised

1017
01:12:40.119 --> 01:12:45.880
special, originating from the Hamilton,
Ontario Cops Coliseum and aired over the USA

1018
01:12:45.119 --> 01:12:51.079
Network, defied the odds by breaking
the world bench press records of seven hundred

1019
01:12:51.079 --> 01:12:56.239
and five pounds. The Burley Canadian
heaved a total of seven hundred and fifteen

1020
01:12:56.319 --> 01:13:00.760
pounds off his muscular chests. Bravo's
achievement, which was not without controversy,

1021
01:13:01.159 --> 01:13:06.039
has made him more arrogant and dangerous
than ever. His tactics, always rough

1022
01:13:06.159 --> 01:13:15.000
house and seldom clean, now rely
totally on overpowering opponents by share strength and

1023
01:13:15.319 --> 01:13:23.720
brutality. I will roll thewa with
my strength, says Bravo through a translator

1024
01:13:24.600 --> 01:13:29.159
he refuses to speak English, only
French. That he is immensely strong.

1025
01:13:29.279 --> 01:13:32.680
There is no doubt but how strong
as he prepared for his record breaking lift.

1026
01:13:33.000 --> 01:13:38.399
Bravo began warming up with four hundred
and fifty five pounds, which only

1027
01:13:38.399 --> 01:13:42.640
a few decades ago was in the
world record class. After banging out a

1028
01:13:42.720 --> 01:13:47.159
few repetitions, he worked up in
weight. WWE commentator Jesse the Body Ventura,

1029
01:13:47.520 --> 01:13:53.560
no stranger to pumping iron, spotted
Bravo as a safety measure and also

1030
01:13:53.880 --> 01:13:59.960
to give him encouragement moving forward moving
toward his unprecedented target. Bravo seemed totally

1031
01:14:00.279 --> 01:14:03.760
intent on his goal. Ventura added
more forty five pound plates to the bar,

1032
01:14:04.319 --> 01:14:09.359
coaching Bravo and psycing him up for
each of a set of repetitions.

1033
01:14:09.840 --> 01:14:14.439
Finally, after pumping six hundred and
thirty pounds to the bar rest, Bravo

1034
01:14:14.720 --> 01:14:18.479
faced his moment of truth. Seven
hundred and fifteen pounds rested on the bar.

1035
01:14:19.079 --> 01:14:23.800
The arena crowd, few of them
fans of Bravo, cooted and booed.

1036
01:14:24.840 --> 01:14:29.520
Bravo and manager Frenchie Martin roared in
French for them to be silent.

1037
01:14:30.079 --> 01:14:33.159
Jesse added his voice to theirs,
quiet, just pipe down, and if

1038
01:14:33.199 --> 01:14:38.039
you morons want to see a world
record, give the guy a break.

1039
01:14:38.119 --> 01:14:43.000
At least he's trying blocking out the
booze. Bravo braced for the lift.

1040
01:14:43.600 --> 01:14:47.560
Intense intensity showed in his face.
Hands chucked, He lay on the bench

1041
01:14:47.640 --> 01:14:51.560
on his back and grasped the bar. He eased the weight off the bar

1042
01:14:51.720 --> 01:14:57.279
rest and slowly dropped it, holding
it just inches above his chest. As

1043
01:14:57.319 --> 01:15:01.000
he pressed up, his huge arms
and chest umbled from the strain. Bravo

1044
01:15:01.119 --> 01:15:04.640
put every ounce of energy and strength
he had to offer into the effort,

1045
01:15:05.000 --> 01:15:11.119
Reaching for inner reserves, he struggled
his way higher than began to falter.

1046
01:15:11.640 --> 01:15:15.399
Jesse, standing in the spot position, hands just oh under the bar,

1047
01:15:15.560 --> 01:15:18.640
gripped it and appeared to help Bravo
attain the last few inches of the lift.

1048
01:15:19.119 --> 01:15:24.479
Was it a legitimate spot or unfair
assistance? Those questions, while they

1049
01:15:24.680 --> 01:15:29.880
were asked, are immaterial. Bravo
has the record. After the grueling lift,

1050
01:15:29.920 --> 01:15:34.840
Bravo was confirmed. Now I mean
if he did assist that, no,

1051
01:15:35.039 --> 01:15:38.039
he doesn't have the record, you
could always turn to the pages of

1052
01:15:38.199 --> 01:15:43.079
WWF magazine for a verifiable fact.
After the grueling lift, Bravo was smug.

1053
01:15:43.319 --> 01:15:45.520
I know how long I could do
it. I proved to everybody that

1054
01:15:45.640 --> 01:15:49.000
I had the strength to or coming
the upon it. Emmy, because when

1055
01:15:49.039 --> 01:15:53.800
You're as strong as me. You're
the best russer. No one can beat

1056
01:15:53.840 --> 01:15:57.600
you. Bravo has always been noted
for his power. Now, however,

1057
01:15:58.079 --> 01:16:01.119
with Martin's guidance, he is making
the best of it. Always brutal,

1058
01:16:01.199 --> 01:16:05.800
he is concentrating on dirty tactics that
take advantage of his strength. His style

1059
01:16:05.920 --> 01:16:12.479
is suited to it. It's all
contact. Bravo's ring technique depends heavily on

1060
01:16:12.680 --> 01:16:16.479
choking, punching, and kicking an
opponent until he is groggy. Then Bravo

1061
01:16:16.600 --> 01:16:20.359
mixes it up scientifically, only to
go back to the dirty stuff. Bravo

1062
01:16:20.439 --> 01:16:25.479
makes no secret that he likes to
batter people. I'll do anything to get

1063
01:16:25.520 --> 01:16:29.960
to the top. I'll lay a
trial of bitten bobbies from Florida the Montreal.

1064
01:16:30.319 --> 01:16:35.159
I'm gonna do what they do best, kick butts. As for Ego,

1065
01:16:35.279 --> 01:16:42.079
Bravo Bravos is as puffed up as
his muscles, Proclaiming himself Canada's strongest

1066
01:16:42.119 --> 01:16:45.520
man. He feels he is superior
to all Canadian athletes and far above anything

1067
01:16:45.840 --> 01:16:50.880
the United States can produce. His
arrogant attitude has earned him even more detractors,

1068
01:16:51.159 --> 01:16:59.439
including fellow French Canadians. The Rougeo
brothers Jacques and Raimon sure has got

1069
01:16:59.479 --> 01:17:05.000
half of him. Very powerful.
He's anxious to lay up against every but

1070
01:17:05.119 --> 01:17:09.279
there are plenty of other great athletes
in Canada and the US. The way

1071
01:17:09.319 --> 01:17:12.960
he acts so arrogant, he discrapes
his quebec. Isn't that right? Ray?

1072
01:17:14.159 --> 01:17:17.920
Yes? Is Raymond emphatically. He
is a good wrestler, as my

1073
01:17:18.039 --> 01:17:21.520
brother said, but he's not as
good, not a good person. He

1074
01:17:21.640 --> 01:17:26.319
treats people as if they are below
him. We speak both French and English,

1075
01:17:26.359 --> 01:17:29.800
depending on who we're talking to.
If you can talk to a person's

1076
01:17:29.880 --> 01:17:34.359
language, why not use it?
Thanks? Ray Bravo and Frenchie were asked

1077
01:17:34.399 --> 01:17:41.880
about the Rougeo's comments. Punks snorts
Frenchie. I should deal on middow ourselves

1078
01:17:41.920 --> 01:17:45.119
to speaking English. If you commos
down what we say, we learn French

1079
01:17:45.399 --> 01:17:49.840
if you're smart enough, says Bravo. At least one fellow Canadian in the

1080
01:17:50.039 --> 01:17:55.399
w w E, however, admires
Bravo. He is Bret Hart of the

1081
01:17:55.520 --> 01:17:59.000
Bread of the Heart, of the
Bret Hart Foundation. Can I talk to

1082
01:17:59.000 --> 01:18:05.039
you about Dino Bravo real quick?
Oh? Yeah? Gino Bravo is a

1083
01:18:05.159 --> 01:18:09.640
credit to sports look at the record. I'm honored to know the man.

1084
01:18:10.479 --> 01:18:13.800
He's my kind of wrestler, not
afraid to do what he has to do

1085
01:18:14.359 --> 01:18:17.880
when he needs it. What I
need is a wweight title. When you're

1086
01:18:17.920 --> 01:18:21.119
strong, you take what you want, and I want a title. Anyone

1087
01:18:21.199 --> 01:18:25.680
who stands in my way, he's
gonna find out what it is like to

1088
01:18:25.960 --> 01:18:32.560
mess with a man who set the
bunch press record ah, one of Luji

1089
01:18:32.640 --> 01:18:38.399
and Frieda's finest pieces. If you
ask me, definitely, you know,

1090
01:18:38.520 --> 01:18:43.359
definitely under the ghost tutelage of Vince
McMahon, didn't we see a big John

1091
01:18:43.399 --> 01:18:46.720
stud world weightlifting record angle on one
of the Colisseum tapes we might have,

1092
01:18:46.880 --> 01:18:51.239
I don't remember. Um. The
observer said that part of the idea here

1093
01:18:51.439 --> 01:18:55.239
was that, you know, obviously
word was out that they were gonna do

1094
01:18:55.239 --> 01:18:58.079
the road Warrior's weightlifting angle to bench
press angle, and they were going to

1095
01:18:58.159 --> 01:19:00.960
use legit weights. So the thought
was, if we beat him with the

1096
01:19:00.960 --> 01:19:04.439
punch here on Rumble and use fake
weights there, uh, no matter how

1097
01:19:04.560 --> 01:19:09.199
much they lift, it'll be a
complete disaster. It looked like punks by

1098
01:19:09.279 --> 01:19:12.439
comparison, which is again pretty much
ninety percent of the reason Vince did anything

1099
01:19:12.479 --> 01:19:14.960
in this time period? Did they
did? They did the Road Warriors do

1100
01:19:15.039 --> 01:19:16.560
the bench press thing? They kind
of did, but it turned into an

1101
01:19:16.560 --> 01:19:19.800
angle and so there was no focus
on how much they managed to lift or

1102
01:19:19.840 --> 01:19:24.920
not, because we'll talk about it
when we get to the bunk House Stampede.

1103
01:19:25.199 --> 01:19:27.800
All right, break, we come
back. Women's tag titles on the

1104
01:19:27.880 --> 01:19:34.039
line. It's the Jump Bob Angels, Lanikai. Now we're talking. I

1105
01:19:34.359 --> 01:19:38.079
this is, this is. I
remember watching this with you. Do you

1106
01:19:38.119 --> 01:19:41.039
remember watching this? I do when
we when we when we watched it,

1107
01:19:41.119 --> 01:19:44.800
and we just went fucking bonkers.
Well, there were such a novelty the

1108
01:19:44.880 --> 01:19:48.720
bomb Angels yep, yep. And
and you know what, I think it's

1109
01:19:48.760 --> 01:19:51.239
as good as it was when I
when I watched it back then. I

1110
01:19:51.319 --> 01:19:56.199
think they're still an excellent match.
Um when everything of jumping bomb Angels,

1111
01:19:56.239 --> 01:19:58.399
I think of like I think it's
Mario two where you can pick up a

1112
01:19:58.479 --> 01:20:01.439
bomb and it goes point and you
throw and close. But um yeah,

1113
01:20:01.479 --> 01:20:03.880
best two are the three Falls Jimmy
Hard of course, managing Judy Martin and

1114
01:20:04.000 --> 01:20:08.640
Lanikai, the Glimmer Girls and the
Golden Sequin Tucks and man, they look

1115
01:20:08.720 --> 01:20:12.319
like a couple of eighties teenagers who
smoked two packs a day, don't they

1116
01:20:13.720 --> 01:20:16.439
They are people that are like in
their twenties. Okay, fucking I mean

1117
01:20:16.560 --> 01:20:21.840
that's this. I mean they look
like they look like cousins of my family

1118
01:20:21.920 --> 01:20:27.199
and Drake. It's all right,
that fucking just sit at the bar drinking,

1119
01:20:27.920 --> 01:20:32.079
drinking fucking light beer and smoking cigarettes, ladies, red leather strap tag

1120
01:20:32.159 --> 01:20:36.319
belts, chugging them chugging. Yes, down, they looked like Marge's sisters

1121
01:20:36.399 --> 01:20:40.760
from Simpsons. Yes, yes,
by the way, somebody call under Blaze

1122
01:20:40.800 --> 01:20:43.319
please, Yes, that's an old
one, right, all right, let's

1123
01:20:43.359 --> 01:20:47.039
talk. Let's talk about that reintroduced
the bounds tag titles and act like they've

1124
01:20:47.079 --> 01:20:50.319
never existed before, about you know, six years ago now. And she

1125
01:20:50.560 --> 01:20:58.479
argued with me on Twitter on Twitter
about well they weren't the WWE tag,

1126
01:20:58.560 --> 01:21:01.439
ju Chip, It's like, how
fucking christ so when they're the same goddamn

1127
01:21:01.479 --> 01:21:05.720
belt okay please? Right? Yeah, So I guess hul Cogan was never

1128
01:21:05.800 --> 01:21:10.600
a w W w W champion,
right, well he was actually, I'll

1129
01:21:10.640 --> 01:21:15.119
shut the fuck up. I guess
uh okay, let's think here. I

1130
01:21:15.199 --> 01:21:18.840
guess was never w W you know, you know what, Orte was never

1131
01:21:18.960 --> 01:21:24.359
w champion that one. You can
say because he doesn't win the belt that

1132
01:21:24.600 --> 01:21:28.239
he never wins it. He does
not rock does Yeah, I can't say

1133
01:21:28.359 --> 01:21:31.760
him, that's right. Um.
So they totally dubbed over the jumping bomb

1134
01:21:31.800 --> 01:21:36.800
angle bomb as that's a whole different
thing. Yeah, that was part of

1135
01:21:36.880 --> 01:21:45.159
tnh um jumping bombed angle, I
think it was. But they dubbed the

1136
01:21:45.239 --> 01:21:47.520
music over, which was do not
stand in the shadows by Billy Billy idol

1137
01:21:47.640 --> 01:21:54.600
as they can okay um out in
kimonos. And I don't know. Something

1138
01:21:54.680 --> 01:21:58.840
tells me when I see Joshi put
her sue in the eighties that a top

1139
01:21:58.920 --> 01:22:01.319
rope seated missiled drop kick is in
order. I don't believable or less.

1140
01:22:01.920 --> 01:22:05.159
There's no such thing as a great
women's match without a top rope seated missile

1141
01:22:05.199 --> 01:22:09.880
drop kick at some point, for
sure, And that's on order. Here

1142
01:22:09.920 --> 01:22:13.520
as the Jumping Bomb Angels challenged the
champions the Glamour Girls here at the nineteen

1143
01:22:13.520 --> 01:22:15.479
eighty eight Royal Rubble, they had
had some matches already. They were working

1144
01:22:15.520 --> 01:22:17.560
the circuit a lot of house shows. They weren't wrestled each other in the

1145
01:22:17.600 --> 01:22:23.079
Garden in a match that was televised
on Primetime wrestling in other forums, So

1146
01:22:23.880 --> 01:22:28.600
you know, the these two testing
each other was kind of a running theme

1147
01:22:28.640 --> 01:22:30.319
at the time. But here we
see, of course, the bomb Angels

1148
01:22:30.399 --> 01:22:35.640
taking the championship. There's a lot
to say about this because this is basically

1149
01:22:36.840 --> 01:22:42.720
the jumping bomb Angels working this program
with with Lonnie Kai and Judy Martin is

1150
01:22:42.800 --> 01:22:46.239
kind of symbolic as we learn of
the breaking of the iron grip that fabulous

1151
01:22:46.319 --> 01:22:50.760
Mulla had on the WWF Women's division. Oh yep, in terms of basically

1152
01:22:50.880 --> 01:22:54.920
dictating who got pushed, who got
paid, who was in favor, who

1153
01:22:55.039 --> 01:22:58.680
was out, basically being like the
intermediary through which Vince and his father of

1154
01:22:58.760 --> 01:23:02.079
course booked women wrestlers, and the
Lonni Kai of course had a bitter falling

1155
01:23:02.079 --> 01:23:05.720
out with Mula and put that whole
arrangement to the test, took it to

1156
01:23:05.760 --> 01:23:12.199
the mat like Wendy Richter kind of
tried to do and succeeded by sort of

1157
01:23:12.319 --> 01:23:15.960
lighting a different path that didn't have
to involve Mullah Monny Kai. Of course,

1158
01:23:15.760 --> 01:23:19.239
as we've talked about before on the
Colisseum collection where they show the Wendy

1159
01:23:19.319 --> 01:23:24.119
Richter match with the Lonny Kai from
WrestleMania One. Long fretted about the fact

1160
01:23:24.159 --> 01:23:28.000
that she didn't actually really know what
the payoffs she was getting from WWF in

1161
01:23:28.039 --> 01:23:30.159
those early years of her Yeah,
because the money would go to Mula and

1162
01:23:30.159 --> 01:23:33.319
then it would pass on to her
and Mula would take her fee and whatever

1163
01:23:33.359 --> 01:23:39.720
other expenses she should conjure up as
being owed. But here this jumping bomb

1164
01:23:39.760 --> 01:23:44.640
Angels is entirely Lonni Kai's idea.
She's sourcing the talent and recommending the talent.

1165
01:23:44.720 --> 01:23:47.560
She's going to Japan. She wants
to get a working relationship going where

1166
01:23:47.560 --> 01:23:51.119
a WWF women can go to Japan
and wow and learn, you know,

1167
01:23:51.239 --> 01:23:57.039
that sort of revolutionary working style that
women like the Crush Gals and Matsumoto and

1168
01:23:57.119 --> 01:24:00.760
others were innovating over there and really
creating a culture sensation where women's wrestling was,

1169
01:24:01.000 --> 01:24:04.399
you know, packed with screaming teenage
girls and a demographic that pro wrestling

1170
01:24:04.560 --> 01:24:09.840
is really never managed to draw anywhere
else in the world quite like the eighties

1171
01:24:09.880 --> 01:24:14.880
women Japanese boom. And here's a
Lunyki in a shooting interview with RF video

1172
01:24:15.079 --> 01:24:16.800
kind of talking about how this all
came together and how this match at the

1173
01:24:16.880 --> 01:24:20.640
nineteen eighty eight World Rumble is kind
of symbolic of something more broadly that she

1174
01:24:20.760 --> 01:24:24.479
was trying to do. And I'll
give you a guess if she ends up

1175
01:24:24.520 --> 01:24:29.159
winning over Mullah or not. He
quit, He left the room and come

1176
01:24:29.199 --> 01:24:32.000
back. It was a Hershey TV
and he said, girls, Vince loved

1177
01:24:32.039 --> 01:24:36.640
the idea, and we're gonna do
it. And he's gonna give you a

1178
01:24:36.800 --> 01:24:42.720
thousand dollars a piece, no cottage
to Mullah. Mullah's out, We're not

1179
01:24:42.800 --> 01:24:45.159
gonna use a mula for a while. We're gonna do this. It's gonna

1180
01:24:45.199 --> 01:24:48.840
work. And I was like in
shock. And he gave us like a

1181
01:24:48.960 --> 01:24:54.079
check each for a thousand dollars for
our outfits and what we needed. And

1182
01:24:54.319 --> 01:24:59.039
then we hit pat with the Japanese
girls. I told myself, I've been

1183
01:24:59.079 --> 01:25:01.960
in Japan so many times, and
I just think there's a tag team over

1184
01:25:02.039 --> 01:25:04.840
there that we can use to come
over here and be a different culture.

1185
01:25:04.840 --> 01:25:10.840
It'd be different. It would be
a fresh look, breath of fresh air,

1186
01:25:11.000 --> 01:25:16.159
you know, for the viewers and
for the audience. And and he

1187
01:25:16.279 --> 01:25:20.359
said, okay, let's let's hear
it. So we told him about it,

1188
01:25:20.520 --> 01:25:23.600
and the next thing I knew,
he'd come back in the room again.

1189
01:25:23.640 --> 01:25:25.760
He said, Okay, we're gonna
do it. So how could we

1190
01:25:25.880 --> 01:25:30.720
get this started? So Judy was
more or lest the leader of our teams

1191
01:25:30.800 --> 01:25:34.520
most of the time, and she
told him about the bomb Angels and that

1192
01:25:35.319 --> 01:25:40.079
we'd like to bring them over.
And I said, she said, we

1193
01:25:40.720 --> 01:25:45.199
you'd probably see a different, different
style, and it would just be something

1194
01:25:45.279 --> 01:25:48.039
different because everything to stay the same
all the time. Be at More's school

1195
01:25:48.079 --> 01:25:53.119
and training there, the work was
always the same, and I wanted something

1196
01:25:53.159 --> 01:26:00.479
different because I'd already learned the Mexican
Japanese always a very highly technical wrestler,

1197
01:26:00.039 --> 01:26:05.399
and Judy was vicious, so we
made a good tag team. She was

1198
01:26:05.479 --> 01:26:10.880
strong and strong minded, and so
pat passed said okay, we're going to

1199
01:26:10.960 --> 01:26:14.960
do this. That's a good idea. And the next thing I know is

1200
01:26:15.039 --> 01:26:17.279
he said, okay, we're going
to sing you both to Japan and you

1201
01:26:17.319 --> 01:26:23.319
can go there and figure out how
what girls we can use and what ideas

1202
01:26:23.359 --> 01:26:27.279
you have and contact them and let
them contact us and we'll think of what

1203
01:26:27.359 --> 01:26:30.000
we can do. So we go
over there, and we thought that the

1204
01:26:30.319 --> 01:26:35.079
bomb Angels were finimon enough to come
over, and they were easy enough to

1205
01:26:35.159 --> 01:26:39.359
work, and they were singers,
and they were really good athletes, and

1206
01:26:39.840 --> 01:26:43.680
I could have worked really good,
good matches either one of them. I

1207
01:26:43.760 --> 01:26:46.880
knew they'd be real easy, so
Vince brought him over. I know.

1208
01:26:47.039 --> 01:26:51.319
Vince took care of their transportation.
If we had to get a car,

1209
01:26:51.439 --> 01:26:57.439
he took care of that. I
took care of their motel. And they

1210
01:26:57.520 --> 01:27:00.119
believe he paid him like a thousand
dollars a week, so it was good

1211
01:27:00.159 --> 01:27:04.159
for them because he didn't really make
that much. I made five hundred dollars

1212
01:27:04.199 --> 01:27:06.600
a week when I went over there. That's according to Mullah. When I

1213
01:27:06.680 --> 01:27:11.319
finally broke away from Mula, I
made a thousand dollars a week. I

1214
01:27:11.439 --> 01:27:14.279
don't know how that come about,
but I was given her. We were

1215
01:27:14.319 --> 01:27:16.720
all given her like twenty five percent
out of five hundred dollars every week,

1216
01:27:16.800 --> 01:27:21.119
and we worked every night. And
I busted my ass. I had busted

1217
01:27:21.199 --> 01:27:24.800
my ass for two months of a
time. I went over there like forty

1218
01:27:24.880 --> 01:27:28.720
six times. In Japan, I
trained as hard as I could, and

1219
01:27:29.960 --> 01:27:36.079
but we got the bomb Angels to
come over and then we did our debut.

1220
01:27:36.439 --> 01:27:39.680
I think I don't remember what TV
it was, but we did our

1221
01:27:40.039 --> 01:27:44.640
debut on TV. We went and
had everything done that one day, and

1222
01:27:45.039 --> 01:27:47.720
then Vince said, it give us
a day to get everything done, our

1223
01:27:47.800 --> 01:27:51.880
hair done, our outfits. We're
done, and we come out of the

1224
01:27:53.119 --> 01:27:57.880
room and we both looked totally different. Our makeup was done. Someone had

1225
01:27:58.159 --> 01:28:00.960
done our makeup. We just looked
totally different then what we had looked before,

1226
01:28:01.079 --> 01:28:05.079
and he was real impressed with it. Then I remember that Jimmy and

1227
01:28:05.640 --> 01:28:12.640
both of us did a short interview
and we had our first match. It

1228
01:28:12.760 --> 01:28:15.960
seems like it might have been in
New Jersey and New work I don't know

1229
01:28:15.079 --> 01:28:21.279
the name of the building, but
we had our first match there and the

1230
01:28:21.880 --> 01:28:26.640
fans were standing on the top of
the chairs. It was really one of

1231
01:28:26.680 --> 01:28:30.880
the best matches we'd ever had.
And the girls didn't speak English, but

1232
01:28:30.079 --> 01:28:38.680
we could always understand one another with
just just nods or scratches or touch We

1233
01:28:38.840 --> 01:28:43.239
just we just fell into place.
And Judy was using the power bomb at

1234
01:28:43.279 --> 01:28:45.960
the time. We had just learned
it over there. It was just something

1235
01:28:45.039 --> 01:28:48.399
new to come out and she used
a power bomb for a little while and

1236
01:28:48.479 --> 01:28:50.920
then I think the office told her
not to use it no more. They

1237
01:28:51.000 --> 01:28:57.119
wanted to give it to Sid Vicious. I believe I doubt that, but

1238
01:28:57.760 --> 01:29:00.760
what pow. That's years later.
But anyway, Junie Martin does fucking rip

1239
01:29:00.800 --> 01:29:04.119
a power mom off and this one
doesn't she she does, and she falls

1240
01:29:04.199 --> 01:29:10.159
back with it yep, yep,
fucking yep the Alley power bomb. So

1241
01:29:10.279 --> 01:29:13.680
that's the whole story about how because
it's so curious, like why did the

1242
01:29:13.760 --> 01:29:16.520
jumping bond angels come in? Like? What the fuck? It was random

1243
01:29:16.600 --> 01:29:20.920
women taking a random good. It's
great, So TAC titles on the line.

1244
01:29:20.920 --> 01:29:25.560
Here at the rumble, Joey Morella
hoisting both championships. Fince calls the

1245
01:29:25.680 --> 01:29:29.600
Dino thing. We just saw,
Travis, I got that here. You

1246
01:29:29.720 --> 01:29:31.680
can speak up championship for that,
Travis thy we just saw. What are

1247
01:29:31.720 --> 01:29:35.159
you talking about? Or you're not
saying Dino Bravos a champion. You're not

1248
01:29:35.199 --> 01:29:39.600
saying he actually lifted that lake.
He gets seven hundred and fifteen. That's

1249
01:29:39.640 --> 01:29:42.920
an official They got away the bar
later, but that's seven hundred and fifteen

1250
01:29:43.000 --> 01:29:45.760
pounds. Whoa, whoa, whoa? Did you not reach down and help

1251
01:29:45.920 --> 01:29:49.119
him with that weight? Right?
Did you not know? I was just

1252
01:29:49.279 --> 01:29:55.600
spotting him close. I did not
close my hands around that bar. They're

1253
01:29:55.680 --> 01:29:59.560
space in between the Bravo pushed it
up on his own. Are you questioning,

1254
01:29:59.680 --> 01:30:02.520
Maya Tanguity McMahon Listen, I'm only
telling you the way it looked.

1255
01:30:02.600 --> 01:30:06.600
It looked as though you helped him
a bit. First of all, a

1256
01:30:06.800 --> 01:30:13.520
person of your stature knows nothing about
weightlifting nothing, so therefore you do not

1257
01:30:13.720 --> 01:30:16.560
know what constitutes a legal lift in
the first place. Well, I know

1258
01:30:16.640 --> 01:30:19.239
that when you put your hands around
the bar. I did not touch the

1259
01:30:19.319 --> 01:30:24.000
bar. You what. I did
not touch the bar until it was extended,

1260
01:30:24.359 --> 01:30:28.560
then I grabbed it put it back
at it right. He's pretty.

1261
01:30:28.720 --> 01:30:31.199
He's good man, he is so
good. Like I actually sat there and

1262
01:30:31.239 --> 01:30:33.920
I'm like, wait, is there
something I don't understand about spotting where he's

1263
01:30:33.920 --> 01:30:39.960
actually making a valid point here?
Yep, amazing. So I didn't touch

1264
01:30:40.039 --> 01:30:45.399
the bar, McMahon. My hand
would never touch the bar. Bar,

1265
01:30:46.119 --> 01:30:50.600
you got it. So it's Norio
Titano. I am a proud Minnesotan.

1266
01:30:51.079 --> 01:30:58.680
We don't touch the bar depends who
you are. And it's Suki Yamazaki.

1267
01:30:59.199 --> 01:31:01.640
Yamazaki's in the red potatoes in the
pink and yes, yes. Eventually,

1268
01:31:01.680 --> 01:31:05.079
at one point in the match,
Vince calls one the Pink Bomb Angel and

1269
01:31:05.199 --> 01:31:11.680
the Ready Angel. Yes, it's
pretty it's pretty bad. It's pretty bad.

1270
01:31:12.079 --> 01:31:14.680
Here's a match. The bombs rush
him out of the gate and Little

1271
01:31:14.760 --> 01:31:15.960
and Kind with the bell out of
the corner, tosses her around, whips

1272
01:31:15.960 --> 01:31:20.399
her into Judy Martin with a knee
from the apron. She's tagged in a

1273
01:31:20.479 --> 01:31:24.960
deep body slam and a matrix bridge. They're doing the Trish Radis matrix bridge

1274
01:31:24.960 --> 01:31:30.159
in eighty eight. Ye fucking Christ
absolutely Vince trying to keep pace here,

1275
01:31:30.239 --> 01:31:34.199
school will roll up one two.
Yamasaki comes into an Irish whip and pooh

1276
01:31:34.640 --> 01:31:40.239
yesh does a front flip into a
clothesline like Conan used to do. U.

1277
01:31:40.880 --> 01:31:45.239
This bomb Angel, she's referred to
asses. Oh my god. Yeah,

1278
01:31:45.920 --> 01:31:49.880
so bad. Zukisaki with a pile
driver. This is all right,

1279
01:31:49.880 --> 01:31:53.119
We'll wait a little bit, so
you got a little a little more before

1280
01:31:53.279 --> 01:31:56.279
Okay, they actually have that discussion. It's had a weird pile driver from

1281
01:31:56.359 --> 01:31:58.720
Yamazaki. She just like dumps her
off to the side instead of spikes her

1282
01:31:58.760 --> 01:32:00.319
on her head. Well, right, because okay, so she she picks

1283
01:32:00.359 --> 01:32:05.720
her up in a pile driver clutch
and then she stalls and then kind of

1284
01:32:06.920 --> 01:32:12.600
then then gives her a gut wrench
suplex. Yeah, I think that way

1285
01:32:12.640 --> 01:32:15.239
what happened. It might have been. Yeah, I mean it was still

1286
01:32:15.439 --> 01:32:17.279
you know, that's what it was. That only gets one. Ventura says,

1287
01:32:17.439 --> 01:32:19.800
what's the name of the two bomb
Angels? Yeah, here we go,

1288
01:32:20.199 --> 01:32:25.479
listen to this mc man, I've
gone a question for you. What's

1289
01:32:26.159 --> 01:32:32.960
what's the names of the two bomb
Angels? Unfortunately I can't stick Japanese all

1290
01:32:32.960 --> 01:32:35.399
that well, I say, I
mean, I might want to take later

1291
01:32:35.520 --> 01:32:39.159
tonight and I might want to approach
one of these girls. What do I

1292
01:32:39.279 --> 01:32:41.960
call him a bomb Angel? Oh, let's call the one in the ring

1293
01:32:42.079 --> 01:32:44.680
pink, and the one out on
the apron, let's call her a red.

1294
01:32:44.720 --> 01:32:46.359
I guess, Oh that's real clever. Well, what else you're gonna

1295
01:32:46.399 --> 01:32:51.119
know? Oh? I don't know. I know their names. Learn their

1296
01:32:51.199 --> 01:32:55.119
names, like fucking write them down, your dumb ass. Letso know how

1297
01:32:55.199 --> 01:32:57.720
Gorilla, if he did the show
as planned, would have handled it.

1298
01:32:58.359 --> 01:33:01.239
He had done jumping bomb Angel's matches
all ready. So hey, Gorilla,

1299
01:33:01.279 --> 01:33:04.960
you know the names of these are
These are women the bomb angels. Oh,

1300
01:33:05.239 --> 01:33:09.239
jess, it's a not a big
deal. Norino Tetano and it's Uki

1301
01:33:09.279 --> 01:33:15.560
Yamasaki height all right, I'm gonna
ask Yamazaki on a date. It's fine.

1302
01:33:15.840 --> 01:33:20.680
So if you you can ask her
on a date, because that's still

1303
01:33:20.680 --> 01:33:28.239
a lot of Japanese words you don't
know. I'll say, Yamazaki, can

1304
01:33:28.319 --> 01:33:32.920
I take you out for dinner?
And she'll say yes, and then eventually

1305
01:33:33.039 --> 01:33:36.760
we'll uh, we'll go back to
the hotel and I'll lead her pushy,

1306
01:33:39.880 --> 01:33:45.239
She'll take me out for dinner.
All right, Look, Jesse Ventura and

1307
01:33:45.520 --> 01:33:51.279
it's Suki Yamasaki, all right.
In cooitus, deal with the thought.

1308
01:33:53.239 --> 01:33:55.840
Tanno hits the ropes and tries a
cross body, but Judy Martin dumps her

1309
01:33:55.840 --> 01:33:59.000
and missus an elbow drop. These
ladies are out there by my technique.

1310
01:33:59.279 --> 01:34:02.399
I've got very good technique with the
pushy limps exactly right, been working that.

1311
01:34:03.680 --> 01:34:06.319
Lanikai is tagged in, Daniel pounces
on her with the high knee,

1312
01:34:06.359 --> 01:34:10.520
drops her. Yamasaki comes in with
a flying forearm and a running seat a

1313
01:34:10.560 --> 01:34:14.079
drop kick. She gets ping ponged
around in the corner. Does Lanikai Ventura

1314
01:34:14.119 --> 01:34:16.760
says he's never seen anyone better in
women's wrestling than the bomb Angels, so

1315
01:34:16.800 --> 01:34:19.119
he is putting him over. He
knows talent when he sees it. Yes,

1316
01:34:19.960 --> 01:34:25.319
this is and I'll tell you this
is comparable to the standard set by

1317
01:34:25.359 --> 01:34:29.000
today's women. Yeah, for sure. That was one thing that came through

1318
01:34:29.079 --> 01:34:30.520
loud and clear to me. It's
like, wow, this whole like myth

1319
01:34:30.640 --> 01:34:35.159
that never in a WWE ring where
women allowed to get over on the merits

1320
01:34:35.159 --> 01:34:39.000
of their inn ring or given a
you know, a requisite amount of time

1321
01:34:39.079 --> 01:34:43.560
on television. That's such bullshit.
That's so like forgetting these women who busted

1322
01:34:43.600 --> 01:34:45.319
their ass, it felt like there's
a low profile. This is a fucking

1323
01:34:45.399 --> 01:34:48.159
royal rumble. This is the most
watched show ever in cable, fucking you

1324
01:34:48.279 --> 01:34:53.319
know, Wendy Richter on the most
watched cable specials and MTV and WrestleMania one

1325
01:34:53.439 --> 01:34:57.760
fuck out of here. Ye.
I mean, what what's amazing too is

1326
01:34:57.800 --> 01:35:02.119
that it does not feel like what
a women's match would feel like normally.

1327
01:35:02.359 --> 01:35:08.520
That I you know that I remember
like this was this was like this was

1328
01:35:08.640 --> 01:35:13.039
real wrestling. This was like real
full contact. They were they were working

1329
01:35:13.119 --> 01:35:15.840
as hard as the men easily.
So the reason it's the best match on

1330
01:35:15.880 --> 01:35:19.319
the fucking card. It's so wild
because you get like Becky and others and

1331
01:35:19.439 --> 01:35:23.640
her generation saying, you know that
tradition and Leada and Victoria and others like

1332
01:35:23.760 --> 01:35:27.960
inspired them. But where the where's
the generation of women who were inspired by

1333
01:35:28.279 --> 01:35:30.960
Lalani Kaig and Wind Victor and the
bomb Angels. You don't. You don't

1334
01:35:30.000 --> 01:35:34.159
see any idwhere. I'm sure they
existed. I'm sure Medusa was sort of

1335
01:35:34.239 --> 01:35:38.439
hiped to them and stuff. But
it's it's pretty it's pretty amazing how there

1336
01:35:38.520 --> 01:35:42.239
wasn't a generation inspired by these women
because they were on shows that were watched

1337
01:35:42.319 --> 01:35:46.119
by like ten times more eyeballs,
way more, way more. Um,

1338
01:35:46.239 --> 01:35:48.680
I don't know, maybe the audience
just skewed that much more heavily mail at

1339
01:35:48.680 --> 01:35:53.399
the time, but whatever the case, um, there they are tender with

1340
01:35:53.399 --> 01:35:56.640
an ox. Maybe they weren't,
maybe they weren't even alive yet. Maybe

1341
01:35:56.680 --> 01:36:01.520
that's why that's might pa who wasn't
alive like Becky Lynch. May well,

1342
01:36:01.560 --> 01:36:03.359
no, I mean clearly, but
I mean, like, where's the Becky

1343
01:36:03.439 --> 01:36:05.960
Lynch that was inspired by women of
this generation? I know, I know,

1344
01:36:06.840 --> 01:36:10.039
you know what because you know what, they probably never fucking rented these

1345
01:36:10.079 --> 01:36:13.439
tapes and tapes. You know,
that's just that they you know, they

1346
01:36:13.439 --> 01:36:15.199
didn't want to go that far back. They weren't. They weren't that curious

1347
01:36:15.239 --> 01:36:19.600
about wrestling. Did they ever put
out any women lj ns? That's a

1348
01:36:19.640 --> 01:36:21.960
good question. I don't know.
I feel like there wasn't Mula one,

1349
01:36:23.000 --> 01:36:26.000
but that might have been more of
a manager figure. There definitely wasn't a

1350
01:36:26.039 --> 01:36:31.760
Rector one because she was gone before
they started running those off. Like this,

1351
01:36:32.159 --> 01:36:35.720
this idea of like a male champion
and a women champion being at the

1352
01:36:35.760 --> 01:36:39.840
top of WrestleMania and being sort of
like the public face of the w WF

1353
01:36:39.880 --> 01:36:43.159
for publicity and stuff. That's an
old idea that goes back to Hogan and

1354
01:36:43.199 --> 01:36:46.039
Wendy Richter. That's not sure,
you know something that just like this current

1355
01:36:46.119 --> 01:36:55.359
modern crop of women forced to happen
and no women. No, I don't

1356
01:36:55.399 --> 01:37:01.399
think serious serious three is the big
one. Uh No, Terry's four also

1357
01:37:01.479 --> 01:37:04.279
a big one. I definitely feel
like if they existed, I'd be able

1358
01:37:04.279 --> 01:37:08.600
to picture them. Elizabeth but not. Yep, that's one a wrestler,

1359
01:37:08.720 --> 01:37:12.640
but that's not She wasn't like in
a wrestler. She was manager. Um

1360
01:37:15.479 --> 01:37:21.880
like Tyson Monison count either not know
you're right my Tyson Doson count Warlord um

1361
01:37:24.720 --> 01:37:33.680
Man No, No, just Liz, just Liz. Interesting. They're very

1362
01:37:33.760 --> 01:37:39.800
interesting. So, uh, the
ladies right here, Bumping Kai gets tagged

1363
01:37:39.800 --> 01:37:42.640
into Tanna, pounces with a high
knee, drops her like I said,

1364
01:37:42.920 --> 01:37:46.159
flying forearm and seed a drop kick
by Yamasaki. Kai gets ping ponged around

1365
01:37:46.439 --> 01:37:49.359
to Tina with an octopus stretch,
and then Judy Martin comes in but accidentally

1366
01:37:49.439 --> 01:37:53.920
kicks her partner. Yamasaki comes in. There's stereo figure fours by the Bomb

1367
01:37:53.960 --> 01:37:57.880
Angels to a pot. Jimmy Hart
is an ringside breaking out. Jimmy Hart

1368
01:37:57.920 --> 01:38:00.479
tried so hard to getting this over
like he good. Yeah, yeah,

1369
01:38:00.720 --> 01:38:04.119
he put as much into being ringside
for the Glamor Girls as he did any

1370
01:38:04.119 --> 01:38:06.800
of his male wrestlers, including like
custom outfits and everything. So I give

1371
01:38:06.840 --> 01:38:11.119
him a lot of props for that. They release the hold, but Yamazaki

1372
01:38:11.159 --> 01:38:14.319
still holds her for a minute.
Then they release and um, they kind

1373
01:38:14.359 --> 01:38:16.800
of get They kind of dropped the
heels on their crotch like like Kofi Kingston

1374
01:38:16.880 --> 01:38:24.079
style, and then Jimmy Hart with
a megaphone. It Ringside reminds me that

1375
01:38:24.199 --> 01:38:26.960
they have, yes, since taken
it away from that woman in the front

1376
01:38:27.039 --> 01:38:29.840
row. We yes. I kind
of didn't realize we haven't heard from her

1377
01:38:29.880 --> 01:38:34.000
until this juncture when Jimmy Hart has
one Yamazaki steamboats. Keep that in mind,

1378
01:38:34.319 --> 01:38:38.720
Right, Yamazaki tries to that kofe
thing, but I realized what she's

1379
01:38:38.720 --> 01:38:41.640
trying to do his wishbone the legs
not drop her heels onto the crotch of

1380
01:38:41.680 --> 01:38:45.079
her opponent. Right, D'tano comes
in. Jesse says he's never seen that

1381
01:38:45.199 --> 01:38:48.720
before. And I know, if
I haven't you ainked and Vince's haven't Jess

1382
01:38:49.840 --> 01:38:55.920
Jesse says, this is cable.
I can speech. That's that freedom of

1383
01:38:56.000 --> 01:38:59.800
speech mcmah. Essentially I can say
ain't on cable and Vince's that's the second

1384
01:38:59.800 --> 01:39:04.039
time, and you've offended the youth
of America. Okay, Vince Christ Vince

1385
01:39:04.079 --> 01:39:08.199
such a fucking cornball that then he
really is, I mean, honest to

1386
01:39:08.279 --> 01:39:13.760
god, but this fucking like like
goody two shoes in oh like trying to

1387
01:39:13.800 --> 01:39:15.279
be like this back when he was
still trying to tell people he had like

1388
01:39:15.319 --> 01:39:21.079
a Harvard NBA. You know right, and would say, keister oh Dtano

1389
01:39:21.119 --> 01:39:25.119
has the legs grape bind up for
a surfboard. Kind of goes nowhere though

1390
01:39:25.199 --> 01:39:28.920
Yamasaki jumps in doing that kind of
like no mercy, push into a leg

1391
01:39:28.960 --> 01:39:30.479
grape vine with the shoulder where you
drop down and just like oh yeah,

1392
01:39:31.399 --> 01:39:35.359
yeah, I don't understand what the
fuck that is grinding your shoulder into a

1393
01:39:35.399 --> 01:39:39.960
shin bone. I guess um.
And then Judy Martin comes in and tries

1394
01:39:40.000 --> 01:39:44.640
to grab, and someone tries to
come and to grab Judy Martin and they

1395
01:39:44.760 --> 01:39:47.520
yankor and break free, and then
uh, Kai, I don't keep on

1396
01:39:47.640 --> 01:39:53.840
of color. Dakota Kai Lani Kai
goes flying forward like she was holding a

1397
01:39:53.880 --> 01:39:57.920
bungee cord or something. Yeah,
u Kai is so close with their arm

1398
01:39:57.960 --> 01:40:01.359
extended, but it's not illegal tag. Vince shouts, you gotta have your

1399
01:40:01.439 --> 01:40:04.680
feet on the mat. They explain, right, because she's standing on the

1400
01:40:04.800 --> 01:40:10.680
ropes. Is this new No,
it's always been the case. You can't

1401
01:40:10.760 --> 01:40:13.560
leave. You can't fucking stand on
the ropes and lean over and take get

1402
01:40:13.600 --> 01:40:15.600
a tag. You have to your
feet have to be on the apron.

1403
01:40:15.359 --> 01:40:19.079
Wow. I feel like every hot
tag I've ever seen they're standing on the

1404
01:40:19.119 --> 01:40:23.800
bottom rope. No, they're they're
leaning over for sure, but they're not

1405
01:40:23.880 --> 01:40:26.079
standing. I'm not. They can't
stand on the bottom rope. Amazing.

1406
01:40:26.119 --> 01:40:28.720
I never realized that was a rule. Never. You're kind of blowing my

1407
01:40:28.800 --> 01:40:31.640
mind right now. Wow, you
know these things happen, Yeah, I

1408
01:40:31.680 --> 01:40:38.520
know. Seriously, Jimmy hard is
saying, get the circulation back in your

1409
01:40:38.560 --> 01:40:44.319
hands. Fucking funny. And of
the corner they going, Wow, Judy

1410
01:40:44.399 --> 01:40:47.039
Markin yanks Yamasaki out of the corner
like a power bomb, hard to the

1411
01:40:47.079 --> 01:40:49.800
canvas. Judy Markin looking like she
just smoked the cart and the cigarettes in

1412
01:40:49.840 --> 01:40:56.119
a place in the jukebox. Fucking
great, Like seriously, like just imagine

1413
01:40:56.119 --> 01:41:00.840
her, like she's she's a you
know, like wearing fucking geane and like

1414
01:41:00.960 --> 01:41:04.119
a denim cut off button down shirt. Yep, you know, and just

1415
01:41:04.279 --> 01:41:09.520
like you know, sitting on the
bar, sitting on the bar, just

1416
01:41:09.880 --> 01:41:15.319
fucking chugging down cigarettes. Just she
had two as as a wild one in

1417
01:41:15.359 --> 01:41:19.079
the sack. I bet, I
bet I've talked about going on the Judy

1418
01:41:19.159 --> 01:41:21.960
Martin Experience. Okay, I bet
that. I bet. I bet.

1419
01:41:23.119 --> 01:41:26.479
Like you know, after a show, they're at the bar. She'll just

1420
01:41:26.640 --> 01:41:30.479
walk up to some some guy and
she'll just fucking grab him by the collar

1421
01:41:30.479 --> 01:41:33.640
exactly and drag him out of the
fucking place and say, sit down,

1422
01:41:34.439 --> 01:41:38.920
shut up, and let me go
to work. It's exactly right, right

1423
01:41:39.199 --> 01:41:47.680
exactly. Her favorite word in bet
is harder, come on exactly. So,

1424
01:41:48.000 --> 01:41:54.600
um, what what are you gonna
say? Ahead? Oh? Then

1425
01:41:54.640 --> 01:42:01.960
then Vince calls Judy Martin large,
which triggers Jesse, like nobody's business,

1426
01:42:02.399 --> 01:42:11.319
Judy Martin the largest. I'll the
women in this patch up. I don't

1427
01:42:11.359 --> 01:42:15.800
know. It's not a compliment calling
one of them the largest. Well,

1428
01:42:15.800 --> 01:42:18.039
I would picket on this particular occasion, would they? And if I were

1429
01:42:18.079 --> 01:42:21.119
you, I'd be careful mcmah because
Judy Martin I put money on her,

1430
01:42:21.199 --> 01:42:27.800
she could rip you. The question
is whether or not the Glammer Girls can

1431
01:42:27.920 --> 01:42:35.720
retain the title and defeating the JUMPI
Bob Angels. I love There's nothing there's

1432
01:42:35.760 --> 01:42:42.479
nothing better than than when Vince does
not know how to respond, the pause

1433
01:42:42.960 --> 01:42:45.520
and then the move on exactly,
the complete burial of what just happened.

1434
01:42:45.640 --> 01:42:49.479
Yes exactly, I fucking love that
so much. In other news, while

1435
01:42:49.520 --> 01:42:56.199
something burns behind him right right,
so they whip the Amazakis and Kai throws

1436
01:42:56.199 --> 01:42:59.439
a knee from the apron blindside to
hit the Yamazaki and the kidneys, and

1437
01:42:59.479 --> 01:43:01.880
then a fall all away power bomb
by Judy Martin. This fucking, this

1438
01:43:02.159 --> 01:43:05.880
fucking alley you power bomb. We're
not ready for this in nineteen eighty eight,

1439
01:43:06.000 --> 01:43:10.279
especially in Wrestler, not at all, not one two three. That's

1440
01:43:10.319 --> 01:43:14.720
the first fall to the Golden Yeah, no shit, girls, unbelievable,

1441
01:43:14.880 --> 01:43:17.199
fucking christ Jimmy Hart jumps in,
celebrating obnoxiously. They go to a break,

1442
01:43:17.199 --> 01:43:19.880
They come back for the bell for
the second fall. The participants in

1443
01:43:19.880 --> 01:43:24.079
the last fall must begin the second
fall, we're told Judy Martin starts with

1444
01:43:24.199 --> 01:43:28.079
their boot on Yamasaki's throat whip.
Martin hits a flying forearm part part of

1445
01:43:28.119 --> 01:43:30.560
me. It was a Lulani Kai
that gets to matrix bridge out by one

1446
01:43:30.560 --> 01:43:35.960
of the mom angels. What a
bridge, Vince says, Wow, what

1447
01:43:36.079 --> 01:43:43.039
would Japanese wrestling be without neck bridges? Right? Um? So then kay

1448
01:43:43.119 --> 01:43:45.760
missus a splash Tatano gets tagged in
those a dropkicks, seated running clothes line,

1449
01:43:45.800 --> 01:43:49.319
and now Vince somehow got his hands
on her last name at least someone's

1450
01:43:49.319 --> 01:43:57.000
passing a note and and well,
you know, Vince fucks up, fucks

1451
01:43:57.039 --> 01:44:00.520
up to Tino's name and Jesse,
Jesse, well this happens. What's her

1452
01:44:00.600 --> 01:44:08.920
name? If I'm correctly, it's
Loreno Lorenookie in their office, Norino.

1453
01:44:09.079 --> 01:44:14.680
That sounds Italian. Well, Jesse, I don't go, don't look Italian.

1454
01:44:15.000 --> 01:44:20.840
Wait a minute, what a fucking
asshole this guy knows Vince can't do

1455
01:44:21.039 --> 01:44:26.359
ship and stay in his character.
I know it's you don't look Italian.

1456
01:44:26.920 --> 01:44:31.359
Vince is saying her first name or
what we would call her first Arno or

1457
01:44:32.000 --> 01:44:38.119
yo no Nario, Narino. That
sounds Italians. It was almost better when

1458
01:44:38.159 --> 01:44:41.399
he just didn't even try. I
know, right, call them red and

1459
01:44:41.479 --> 01:44:44.479
pink, you fucking racist. Fuck
you gonna call him one of them Pepperoni

1460
01:44:44.560 --> 01:44:50.560
and the other one fucking presute.
Well, Jesse, we have we have

1461
01:44:51.279 --> 01:44:58.640
we have roni, roni and cheese, and we have tell me more,

1462
01:44:58.760 --> 01:45:01.640
Vince, I haven't had lone.
On the other side, we have supersetta

1463
01:45:03.800 --> 01:45:10.680
superta like a new age like top
rope move do you know? Tell me,

1464
01:45:10.800 --> 01:45:12.760
wow, tell me what kind of
bread do you have that on?

1465
01:45:14.399 --> 01:45:19.039
Have you got the good old fashioned
Italian bread. Uh well, uh,

1466
01:45:20.319 --> 01:45:28.199
can I get oil, vinegar and
mayonnaise on that hot uh? Manna's jesse?

1467
01:45:28.319 --> 01:45:32.279
Sure about that? Pal? Did
you know that? Um that will

1468
01:45:32.279 --> 01:45:36.680
whole Cogan used the big boot,
Bruno Sam Martino used the big pursuit.

1469
01:45:39.880 --> 01:45:43.039
Shout out to whoever on Twitter pointed
that out fucking awesome, so funny.

1470
01:45:43.720 --> 01:45:51.439
I never thought about that, did
Uh? Did Bruno whoever do an RF

1471
01:45:51.600 --> 01:46:03.000
purshute video? You better believe that
that was a precondition to get him to

1472
01:46:03.000 --> 01:46:06.880
do the shoot interview. First,
you gotta get him a fucking big spread,

1473
01:46:08.600 --> 01:46:14.000
fucking leg, a fucking preshoot leg. All right, So yeah,

1474
01:46:14.920 --> 01:46:23.199
Narino, the pink angel with chats
that clothesline gets to crossbody off the ropes

1475
01:46:23.239 --> 01:46:26.600
gets too and to ressess what's her
name? Yeah? Okay, uh yeah,

1476
01:46:27.159 --> 01:46:31.199
and then um yeah, the whole
Italian thing, and Vince throws up

1477
01:46:31.239 --> 01:46:34.960
his hands as you just heard,
corner to corner and the whip it's reversed

1478
01:46:34.960 --> 01:46:39.199
in. The bombs crash into each
other, sidestep on the charge and now

1479
01:46:39.239 --> 01:46:43.079
the glamour girls run into each other
to a big pop Irish whip and somehow

1480
01:46:43.359 --> 01:46:46.359
Lalani Kai just kind of runs over. Yamasaki goes from a power bomb,

1481
01:46:46.399 --> 01:46:48.840
but no, she drops down,
loses her just a bit, but reaches

1482
01:46:48.880 --> 01:46:53.079
and pulls her down into a sunset
flip. She kind of overshoots. Yeah,

1483
01:46:53.199 --> 01:46:55.199
that's the bomb Angel like gets one, two, three, So now

1484
01:46:55.199 --> 01:46:57.359
it's one fall apiece. We take
a break. We come back with the

1485
01:46:57.399 --> 01:47:01.199
big ass WAF logo or the Royal
rumble logo for you. There's a square

1486
01:47:01.239 --> 01:47:03.800
in the corner of the screen with
Hogan and Andre to promote the signing still

1487
01:47:03.840 --> 01:47:06.279
to Come. That was the extent
of their graphics, just a still image

1488
01:47:06.319 --> 01:47:13.159
in the corner. Double bombs the
bomb Angels with a double knee lift on

1489
01:47:13.319 --> 01:47:16.359
Lelani Hine in a double clothesline covered
by Yamasaki. No count though, back

1490
01:47:16.439 --> 01:47:19.680
up whip and it's stopped by Judy
Martin who comes into the ring and a

1491
01:47:19.680 --> 01:47:23.800
whip from Jamasaki. Her foot gets
caught. She does the insaguri and Jesse

1492
01:47:23.920 --> 01:47:28.039
Ventour remarks at times that these women
are more vicious than some of the male

1493
01:47:28.079 --> 01:47:30.680
wrestlers. That's right here, Yeah, that's what he says right here.

1494
01:47:30.119 --> 01:47:33.720
You know, I'll tell you in
a lot of instances with the lady wrestlers.

1495
01:47:33.760 --> 01:47:38.159
At times, McMahon can seem even
more vicious than some of the man

1496
01:47:38.239 --> 01:47:43.960
wrest thanks. Jessa d'tano tries a
suplex, but she's dead weighted by Judy

1497
01:47:44.000 --> 01:47:45.199
Martin, who comes in on the
attack to the corner. They go into

1498
01:47:45.199 --> 01:47:48.039
Tanno with a backslide, but no, Martin rolls her and picks the ankle

1499
01:47:48.279 --> 01:47:53.680
and basically puts her in the guard
and Tatando lifts her shoulder. Then there's

1500
01:47:53.720 --> 01:47:56.600
a catapult and Datando eats the canvas. She goes flying, not into the

1501
01:47:56.640 --> 01:47:59.520
buckling like you usually do on a
catapult, but just lands on her face.

1502
01:48:00.079 --> 01:48:01.359
Yes, and the Glamour girls corner. Kai comes in with the next

1503
01:48:01.399 --> 01:48:04.640
snap like Kurt Heading almost and puts
the boots to her. Judy Martin holding

1504
01:48:04.640 --> 01:48:11.000
the tag rope m judiciously or I
should say studiously. Vince mcmansays, come

1505
01:48:11.039 --> 01:48:14.199
on, reff out a yank of
the hair. Loni Kai with a double

1506
01:48:14.279 --> 01:48:17.399
arm underhook Fisherman suplex driver for two. Thank you very much. Just keep

1507
01:48:17.439 --> 01:48:20.960
on doing this shit, Jesus Christ. No, this shit is imported from

1508
01:48:21.319 --> 01:48:28.520
Tokyo Okay. Kai is biting um
something. I don't know what I was

1509
01:48:28.560 --> 01:48:32.119
supposed to write here what I think
was whatever she's biting. Marilla does nothing

1510
01:48:32.119 --> 01:48:35.600
about it, and Ventura says,
I couldn't tell. As Vince points it

1511
01:48:35.680 --> 01:48:39.199
out. Your eyes have gotten really
good, Vince McMahon, in the last

1512
01:48:39.239 --> 01:48:45.880
few weeks, you're seeing stuff.
I'm not down there where Tamasaki, she's

1513
01:48:45.880 --> 01:48:47.880
fueled by Judy Martin right away Lonni
Kai with a choke from the apron.

1514
01:48:47.920 --> 01:48:51.840
As the heels takeover, Kay says, back into the turnbuckle, here we

1515
01:48:51.920 --> 01:48:56.000
go. You can hear her say
that wow, but she says that they

1516
01:48:56.039 --> 01:48:58.960
in fact pull her back, and
then Ventura says that the fortunate thing is

1517
01:48:59.239 --> 01:49:02.039
we have a situation where it only
takes a three count to win, because

1518
01:49:02.039 --> 01:49:06.439
I don't think Joey Morella could make
it to four that once for you Gino

1519
01:49:06.920 --> 01:49:11.840
bo stat Mari to cover one by
Kai and again no whip and an amazing

1520
01:49:12.319 --> 01:49:15.159
double axe handle from the jumping bomb
Angels, and then we get um.

1521
01:49:15.600 --> 01:49:18.399
She blocks the Yamazaki blocks the double
axe handle. I should say, she's

1522
01:49:18.479 --> 01:49:21.520
ducking wild rights and then lifts her
up and puts the Lonnie Ki down on

1523
01:49:21.600 --> 01:49:26.279
her seat. She basically does like
an atomic drop without the knee right.

1524
01:49:26.439 --> 01:49:28.680
I don't know how I like it, but she doesn't. Yeah, it's

1525
01:49:28.760 --> 01:49:31.520
kind of weird. Um and again
she's gonna need laser spine. By the

1526
01:49:31.600 --> 01:49:35.560
time this one's over, Yamazaki yanks
and Judy Martin and tags Tetano, who

1527
01:49:35.560 --> 01:49:38.279
comes in with a slam and a
need of the gut. One two on

1528
01:49:38.279 --> 01:49:40.399
the cover. No to Tanne with
a slam and another cover. Again,

1529
01:49:40.479 --> 01:49:43.239
she's going for it. She's dogged
in the pursuit. How about double underhooks?

1530
01:49:43.279 --> 01:49:45.239
And then she drops a bridge?
All right, she drops her in

1531
01:49:45.319 --> 01:49:48.600
a bridge. The arms are down. Morrella has no idea that this is

1532
01:49:48.600 --> 01:49:50.840
a pin cover, and then he
goes for it. One two, um,

1533
01:49:51.000 --> 01:49:57.000
Yamazaki, it's a flying four.
Marella is so lost at this night's

1534
01:49:57.039 --> 01:49:59.079
not a quip. I don't know. I don't understand. Why what are

1535
01:49:59.079 --> 01:50:01.159
they doing? Are they wrestling?
Are they what's going on? This is

1536
01:50:01.279 --> 01:50:05.000
ballet slammed by Amazaki. She climbs
to the second rope and misses that flying

1537
01:50:05.159 --> 01:50:11.319
seated the back senton splash, sent
on backsplash A man that must have been

1538
01:50:11.319 --> 01:50:15.720
a tough landing on that old WWF
would imagine must have been brutal. She

1539
01:50:15.880 --> 01:50:17.760
lands hard covered by Martin. It
only gets too Yamazaki comes up, picks

1540
01:50:17.760 --> 01:50:19.880
the ankle, tags Entatano, who
does a close line off the mint of

1541
01:50:19.920 --> 01:50:25.079
rope that gets too is Lonikie breaks
at that pin attempt up and it breaks

1542
01:50:25.119 --> 01:50:29.279
down. The Jumping Bomb Angels climb
adjacent corners at the same time. And

1543
01:50:29.479 --> 01:50:31.279
isn't this a thing of beauty?
Man, this double drop kick, the

1544
01:50:31.399 --> 01:50:36.039
way it lands, Ah, it
is like unbelievably beautiful because what they do

1545
01:50:36.279 --> 01:50:41.680
is they catch Martin on both shoulders
at the same time with two dropkicks,

1546
01:50:41.720 --> 01:50:44.840
and she goes ding ding back and
forth like a pinball. Yes, between

1547
01:50:44.880 --> 01:50:48.520
the like it is a brilliant,
brilliant they achieve here and you better believe,

1548
01:50:48.720 --> 01:50:53.680
like I said, it's about top
rope seated missile dropkicks because it's Joshi

1549
01:50:54.479 --> 01:50:56.359
and that means it's good for the
one, the two, and of the

1550
01:50:56.479 --> 01:51:00.640
three winning two out of three falls. WWF Ladies Tag Team Champions here at

1551
01:51:00.640 --> 01:51:03.319
the nineteen eighty eight Royal Rumble.
Are the Jumping bomb Angels you're talking about

1552
01:51:03.680 --> 01:51:06.720
Josie, I'm talking about on Josie
and the Pussycats. Baby, there we

1553
01:51:06.800 --> 01:51:12.399
go about this boss. This was
spectacular, great finished, people on their

1554
01:51:12.439 --> 01:51:15.000
feet, okay it like. That's
the thing too, is that everyone was

1555
01:51:15.079 --> 01:51:21.960
excited. They like, this should
have ushered in a brand new era for

1556
01:51:23.119 --> 01:51:27.239
women's wrestlings. Correct, and it
did not. It didn't. These woman

1557
01:51:27.239 --> 01:51:30.600
couldn't speak a word of English.
Their promos were nothing. There was absolutely

1558
01:51:30.640 --> 01:51:33.079
nothing that would make people connect with
them in the typical WWF you know,

1559
01:51:33.199 --> 01:51:36.880
get a person over playbook, and
yet here they are one of the biggest

1560
01:51:36.920 --> 01:51:43.199
pops of the entire first Rumble on
television. Jesse loves it. People are

1561
01:51:43.239 --> 01:51:46.159
so happy, clapping like crazy because
you know, Japanese can't get over in

1562
01:51:46.319 --> 01:51:49.720
North America, especially back in my
day. Of course, not so.

1563
01:51:49.800 --> 01:51:54.520
The titles are hoisted as they take
the ropes in celebration New World Ladies Champs.

1564
01:51:54.640 --> 01:51:56.960
They show ladies in the graphic that's
south. They refer to the titles.

1565
01:51:57.359 --> 01:52:00.520
Ventura says, when you see a
replay, you'll see she hooked,

1566
01:52:00.640 --> 01:52:03.600
she hooked. No, she hooked
the arm. Oh the arm. Okay,

1567
01:52:03.680 --> 01:52:09.359
she hooked the arm YEP, that's
what happened. She hooked the arm

1568
01:52:09.399 --> 01:52:11.319
In new shows, yeah, she
did, ye. Jesse mails at as

1569
01:52:11.319 --> 01:52:13.960
they showed the replace she did hook
the arm in properly and actually got the

1570
01:52:13.960 --> 01:52:17.600
shoulder off the mat Vin says it
was down. He's just not gonna Oh,

1571
01:52:17.800 --> 01:52:21.520
it's all erate this just I'm telling
you what I saw was it was

1572
01:52:21.600 --> 01:52:30.560
down. That's the way it crumbles. Oh, your eyesight all of a

1573
01:52:30.600 --> 01:52:32.039
sudden got a lot better, didn't
it. Maybe? Yeah? Right,

1574
01:52:33.159 --> 01:52:35.880
So this is a novelty to say
the least. And it's like a moment

1575
01:52:35.960 --> 01:52:39.560
in time, and it's like it's
a trip to go back and watch it

1576
01:52:39.600 --> 01:52:42.560
because of how small a window these
women actually had to make an impression.

1577
01:52:42.640 --> 01:52:45.680
But the magazine was on the case
you better believe it. And uh well,

1578
01:52:45.840 --> 01:52:48.039
if we're going to be paying tribute
to the bomb Angels and what Kay

1579
01:52:48.119 --> 01:52:51.560
and Martin did, we might as
well let let the listeners, right boss

1580
01:52:51.640 --> 01:52:54.760
know? Uh oh they didn't.
They didn't. They'd had the thing in

1581
01:52:54.800 --> 01:52:56.800
there. Oh yeah, check it
out in your mail. Wow, here

1582
01:52:56.840 --> 01:53:00.720
we go, here we go,
all right, Yeah, maybe let's see

1583
01:53:00.720 --> 01:53:13.960
what we got here, Wow the
Angels. When women's tag title Glamour Girls

1584
01:53:14.159 --> 01:53:18.800
Vow Revenge. The scene was Cops
Colosseum in Hamilton, Ontario, January twenty

1585
01:53:18.880 --> 01:53:24.800
fourth, before a jammed house the
Jumping Bomb Angels from Japan faced off against

1586
01:53:24.840 --> 01:53:30.000
the Glamor Girls, reigning World Wrestling
Entertainment Tag Team champions. The match was

1587
01:53:30.039 --> 01:53:32.840
slated for two out of three falls. When it was over, the Angels

1588
01:53:33.000 --> 01:53:39.399
celebrated a victory vow celebrated a victory
that gave them the title, and the

1589
01:53:39.439 --> 01:53:42.359
Glamour Girls, with their manager,
Mouth of the South, Jimmy Hart,

1590
01:53:42.600 --> 01:53:48.319
were defeated and deflated, but still
vowing revenge. The Angels are Ittsuki Yamasaki

1591
01:53:48.439 --> 01:53:55.399
and Norio Tatano, a falcon fast
tandem with moves so quick and dazzling they

1592
01:53:55.439 --> 01:53:59.800
are often hard for the eye to
follow. Obviously outclassed and the size of

1593
01:54:00.000 --> 01:54:03.239
apartment by the Glamor Girls alone Kai
and Judy Martin, the Angels left no

1594
01:54:03.399 --> 01:54:10.520
doubt they far surpassed their second After
the bell they s far surpassed their second

1595
01:54:11.479 --> 01:54:18.039
brother. After the bell rang,
the Angels raced across the ring and dropped

1596
01:54:18.079 --> 01:54:21.920
kicked both of their opponents, shocking
them and putting fear into their hearts.

1597
01:54:23.359 --> 01:54:28.439
The Glamor Girls, however, are
tough veteran competitors, so they quickly recovered.

1598
01:54:28.760 --> 01:54:32.439
Moments later, Martin was slucking it
out with Noreo using weight and power

1599
01:54:32.600 --> 01:54:38.760
to overwhelm the smaller woman Martin than
Irish whipped Noreo it to the ropes,

1600
01:54:38.840 --> 01:54:44.279
but the Japanese recovered and leap frogged
with fury. Their lightning moves frazzled their

1601
01:54:44.319 --> 01:54:47.479
opponents. Frustration showed on the faces
of the Glamor Girls, who had hoped

1602
01:54:47.560 --> 01:54:53.199
for a quick second pin. Then
it was at Suki and Kai tearing into

1603
01:54:53.279 --> 01:54:57.359
one another. Kai shoulder blocked at
Suki to the mat, then lifted her

1604
01:54:57.439 --> 01:55:01.800
for a backbreaker. It looked as
if the glas girls superior strength would pay

1605
01:55:01.880 --> 01:55:08.319
off, but suddenly Itsuki counted with
quickness, rolling down Kai's back, bringing

1606
01:55:08.359 --> 01:55:12.920
her to the mat and cradling her
for the pin. So exciting, Oh,

1607
01:55:13.039 --> 01:55:16.279
I see I made a mistake here
this it went down here, I

1608
01:55:16.359 --> 01:55:20.920
missed some stuff. But whatever,
the match was tied up, but the

1609
01:55:21.079 --> 01:55:28.479
momentum was obviously in the Angel's favor. The Glamour Girls fought with desperation,

1610
01:55:28.720 --> 01:55:31.760
using every dirty trick they knew,
but the Angels kept coming at them.

1611
01:55:32.279 --> 01:55:40.239
The end came after Itsuki executed a
flying clothesline on Martin while Norio held her

1612
01:55:40.319 --> 01:55:44.159
by the hair. Martin collapsed to
the mat. Kai entered the ring to

1613
01:55:44.279 --> 01:55:49.039
protest and began arguing with the referee
it was a mistake. While the referee

1614
01:55:49.159 --> 01:55:55.039
was occupied with Kai, the Angels
each mounted a turnbuckle in opposite corners.

1615
01:55:55.479 --> 01:55:58.920
Martin, struggling to her feet,
was smashed with a drop kick from each

1616
01:55:59.000 --> 01:56:03.279
side. She crumpled. Nio quickly
covered her. Kai, realizing what had

1617
01:56:03.319 --> 01:56:09.800
happened, tried to interfere, but
Atsuki went airborne again and rocked the Lonnie

1618
01:56:09.880 --> 01:56:13.359
with a drop kick. The referee, by now was back in on the

1619
01:56:13.439 --> 01:56:17.600
action. Seeing Maria with the cover
counted to three. Elated, the Angels

1620
01:56:17.800 --> 01:56:23.520
brandished their new belts while the crowd
roared approvingly. They had taken the title.

1621
01:56:24.039 --> 01:56:28.319
After the match, Manager Hard and
his Glamour Girls cried foul and demanded

1622
01:56:28.359 --> 01:56:32.079
a rematch, which they will get
well all arrested it them, said Hart,

1623
01:56:33.600 --> 01:56:38.800
referring to the Angels. Gonna take
that Hard baby and wipe them.

1624
01:56:38.920 --> 01:56:41.800
The CD will be fash with the
phone and just well send about in Japan.

1625
01:56:41.960 --> 01:56:45.279
I've been a rose. Hart's threat
cannot be taken lightly by the Angels.

1626
01:56:45.319 --> 01:56:50.000
Although they were devastating against the Glamour
Girls and the victory, Kai and

1627
01:56:50.159 --> 01:56:55.319
Martin came close at times to turning
the tide. If they get off to

1628
01:56:55.439 --> 01:56:59.800
a fast head start in a rematch, their greater size and strength could tire

1629
01:56:59.840 --> 01:57:04.439
the Angels, slowing them down and
curbing their aerial tactics. Heart's obvious strategy

1630
01:57:04.479 --> 01:57:09.600
in a rematch would be to use
that size and strength, probably double teaming

1631
01:57:09.680 --> 01:57:15.359
one Angel or another as much as
possible. Significantly smaller than their opponents,

1632
01:57:15.600 --> 01:57:19.000
the Angels may not be able to
withstand the pounding. Very likely, Hert

1633
01:57:19.119 --> 01:57:23.680
is hoping his larger team will be
able to hurt an Angel, so she

1634
01:57:23.960 --> 01:57:28.720
would not be able to function as
efficiently as usual. One factor in Heart's

1635
01:57:28.760 --> 01:57:32.640
favor is that Kai and Martin now
know lots more about the Angel's explosive style

1636
01:57:32.720 --> 01:57:38.039
than before. As seasoned veterans.
They can use this knowledge to counter many

1637
01:57:38.119 --> 01:57:41.359
of the Angel's tactics. The Angels, on the other hand, are so

1638
01:57:41.600 --> 01:57:45.359
quick that Kai and Martin may not
be able to cover to corner them sufficiently

1639
01:57:45.680 --> 01:57:49.680
to bring their power and bulk to
bear. Obviously, the Angels are in

1640
01:57:49.800 --> 01:57:55.399
magnificent shape in their match march to
victory. They never stop moving and never

1641
01:57:55.520 --> 01:57:59.359
seemed tired at any point, even
at the end of the match, and

1642
01:57:59.520 --> 01:58:03.680
although smaller, they have proved they
can use their speed to strike with damaging

1643
01:58:03.800 --> 01:58:09.680
impact, so they are capable of
putting an opponent out of commission at any

1644
01:58:09.800 --> 01:58:15.720
time. It all boils down to
what could be a tremendous rematch, with

1645
01:58:15.920 --> 01:58:19.800
the winners hard to predict. One
thing is sure, despite their great abilities,

1646
01:58:20.079 --> 01:58:26.079
the Angels must take the Glamour girls
vow of vengeance with deadly seriousness.

1647
01:58:27.399 --> 01:58:30.520
Sounds like they're all in on the
woman's tag division to me, yeah,

1648
01:58:30.840 --> 01:58:33.359
well nope, not to be sorry, Palms went well, you know what,

1649
01:58:33.840 --> 01:58:36.359
I just you know, the thing
is, the fans just weren't into

1650
01:58:36.399 --> 01:58:42.560
it right. Well, you're forgetting
one important thing though, us Mula is

1651
01:58:42.600 --> 01:58:45.800
not taking this one lying down.
Oh boy. In the RF shoot interview,

1652
01:58:45.960 --> 01:58:48.199
Lanika would go on to say that, you know, they pretty much

1653
01:58:48.239 --> 01:58:50.399
never skipped a beat with the bomb
Angels, never had to talk about what

1654
01:58:50.439 --> 01:58:54.319
they were going to do before they
went out there. They traveled sometimes together,

1655
01:58:54.359 --> 01:58:57.920
but actually the bomb Angels will travel
with the Bulldogs, mostly in their

1656
01:58:58.000 --> 01:59:00.600
car and get food for free.
I choose to believe that dynamite smashed both

1657
01:59:00.640 --> 01:59:06.520
of them. Mula was mad,
though she's not happy, Patterson said to

1658
01:59:06.840 --> 01:59:11.239
Lulanikai. According to Kai, you
know, I respect Lillian, but but

1659
01:59:11.680 --> 01:59:15.279
Kai wanted to get her own check
and still didn't know what she made for

1660
01:59:15.279 --> 01:59:17.399
Wrestlemani one. She wanted the check
directly. Didn't want to use Mula,

1661
01:59:17.840 --> 01:59:21.640
she said of the WWF. When
they were doing the Glamour Girls, they

1662
01:59:21.680 --> 01:59:25.199
said they would still pay her a
good check still to use them, but

1663
01:59:25.279 --> 01:59:27.560
when it came to actually paying them
for the night's performance, they wanted to

1664
01:59:27.600 --> 01:59:31.760
hand their money directly to the talent
or the Survivor Series major TVs. And

1665
01:59:31.840 --> 01:59:35.119
then Patterson comes up and says,
we're gonna send you to Japan. Okay,

1666
01:59:35.560 --> 01:59:40.880
we want you. According to Lani
Kai, she's told to go to

1667
01:59:40.960 --> 01:59:43.520
Japan and come up with a special
match against the bomb Angels, a good

1668
01:59:43.600 --> 01:59:46.800
match that you've worked on and perfected. And they had the belts at the

1669
01:59:46.840 --> 01:59:49.760
time, so this must have been
subsequent to the Royal Rumble in nineteen eighty

1670
01:59:49.800 --> 01:59:54.479
eight, and almost certainly was.
And pat said, you know, we'll

1671
01:59:54.520 --> 01:59:57.840
pay you when you're over there,
but want you to practice hard in the

1672
01:59:57.920 --> 02:00:01.159
match, and when you come back, we're gonna put you over a bit

1673
02:00:01.279 --> 02:00:05.199
and make the best match we can
for WrestleMania. So they were supposed to

1674
02:00:05.199 --> 02:00:10.640
basically go over there and do a
dry run of a Killer Women's title match

1675
02:00:10.640 --> 02:00:15.479
at WrestleMania four and consider that and
they want to have them on Mayni to

1676
02:00:15.520 --> 02:00:19.159
switch the belts back to the Glamor
Girls. That was the plan. So

1677
02:00:19.239 --> 02:00:28.520
the rumble happens, the title switch, and it just doesn't. There snakes

1678
02:00:28.560 --> 02:00:31.960
are in the grass. Okay,
big thing here is you got you women,

1679
02:00:32.000 --> 02:00:35.199
go over there, you do a
series of matches, but no one's

1680
02:00:35.199 --> 02:00:39.000
going to switch the belts over there. The belts are going to stay as

1681
02:00:39.000 --> 02:00:41.119
they are in the Bomb Angel so
that you can win them back when we

1682
02:00:41.199 --> 02:00:44.920
get back to of course States,
that's the big, the big idea.

1683
02:00:45.680 --> 02:00:53.279
But fabulous Mullah senses an opportunity,
according to Lalani Kai to come up the

1684
02:00:53.359 --> 02:00:59.279
works a bit. Here's Kai in
the same our a video shoot interview commenting

1685
02:00:59.319 --> 02:01:02.600
on the movie mad Boy Fulous one. Um. But we had our match

1686
02:01:02.680 --> 02:01:08.279
together about four days, so um, we didn't work each other that much

1687
02:01:08.359 --> 02:01:13.920
over there. But about three days
before we were leaving, Mulla calls the

1688
02:01:14.359 --> 02:01:19.319
hotel and Judy answers the phone and
melissaid, uh, the office told me

1689
02:01:20.239 --> 02:01:26.199
to tell you that you need to
drop the belts. Um, on the

1690
02:01:27.079 --> 02:01:31.119
last night you're here, you need
to drop the belts. And Judy,

1691
02:01:31.439 --> 02:01:34.479
Um, Judy said, it doesn't
make any sense. You know, why

1692
02:01:34.520 --> 02:01:39.279
would we drop the belts when we're
coming back, you know, to drop

1693
02:01:39.359 --> 02:01:43.000
them. They're gonna drop them in
the in the United States, you know,

1694
02:01:43.199 --> 02:01:45.039
back home. And she says,
well, they called me and told

1695
02:01:45.079 --> 02:01:48.079
me to tell you to drop the
belts. You need to drop the belts

1696
02:01:48.159 --> 02:01:55.239
there. You need to bring the
belts back to me. And so it

1697
02:01:55.399 --> 02:01:58.399
was, Um, it was really
hard. We went back and told them

1698
02:01:59.039 --> 02:02:01.000
we're going to drop the belt.
They won't drop the belts, and we

1699
02:02:01.119 --> 02:02:09.920
were all confused. The Japanese people
take pride and they're wrestling over there.

1700
02:02:10.000 --> 02:02:14.000
They're very serious. They had everything
planned out. This is gonna be a

1701
02:02:14.159 --> 02:02:18.720
big deal for them. The bosses
were coming, their crew was coming.

1702
02:02:18.800 --> 02:02:23.479
There was probably gonna be sixty people
coming from over there for this big event.

1703
02:02:23.640 --> 02:02:26.079
It was gonna be a big deal. It's gonna really push the Japanese

1704
02:02:26.159 --> 02:02:30.079
girls to come over here so we
could switch out to make women's wrestling the

1705
02:02:30.159 --> 02:02:33.199
biggest it can be. It might
have been different, but they were going

1706
02:02:33.239 --> 02:02:36.960
to make it as best they can
make it, and it was. It

1707
02:02:38.159 --> 02:02:42.199
was the biggest thing for the Japanese
people to come over here, the Japanese

1708
02:02:42.279 --> 02:02:45.239
girls to be able to work over
here with us and try to switch out.

1709
02:02:45.319 --> 02:02:48.039
There would have been a lot better
for the American women to go there

1710
02:02:48.079 --> 02:02:53.199
and work there. We had lots
to work and I call that paving the

1711
02:02:53.239 --> 02:02:56.720
way. It was paving the way
for something different, and we had everything

1712
02:02:56.800 --> 02:02:59.479
together and then we had to try
to switch it out and the match wasn't

1713
02:02:59.479 --> 02:03:02.560
really not that good. We were
all confused. I was not happy with

1714
02:03:02.680 --> 02:03:10.920
it because I just it was just
hard. And probably after the TV the

1715
02:03:11.000 --> 02:03:14.479
next day, I believe it might
have been Pat Patterson had called. Somebody

1716
02:03:14.479 --> 02:03:18.880
called from the office and said,
you girls just screwed up. And JT

1717
02:03:19.000 --> 02:03:24.000
said why and they said, because
you know, how can you just go

1718
02:03:24.159 --> 02:03:29.319
over our heads and switched the belts
like that and you just messed everything up

1719
02:03:29.399 --> 02:03:32.920
for your WrestleMania and there's nothing we
could do about it now. And we

1720
02:03:33.079 --> 02:03:36.079
try to tell them about Mula and
it was just like they didn't hear it,

1721
02:03:36.199 --> 02:03:43.079
didn't care. They were just mad
because we switched the Belts in Japan

1722
02:03:43.239 --> 02:03:45.880
and it just messed up everything for
Ustlemania, so the Bomb Angels didn't get

1723
02:03:45.920 --> 02:03:49.479
to come back. So she cost
you a big payday, she cost me

1724
02:03:49.560 --> 02:03:53.000
a big pay day, and she
costs it for a lot of girls.

1725
02:03:55.920 --> 02:04:00.399
Wow. So never try to have
Fox a Fox in there, and we

1726
02:04:00.600 --> 02:04:04.079
know better than that. Ultimately,
on June eight, nineteen eighty eight,

1727
02:04:04.119 --> 02:04:08.119
the Glammer Girls beat the Angels to
recapture the women's tag titles and then the

1728
02:04:08.159 --> 02:04:11.640
Belts pretty much disappear after that,
but they're supposed to be on wrestle Media.

1729
02:04:12.079 --> 02:04:15.800
Back to the show, Vince and
Jesse on at the booth and headsets.

1730
02:04:15.880 --> 02:04:19.000
Vince says, I would like take
us back to WRESTLEMANI at three and

1731
02:04:19.000 --> 02:04:21.880
any three thousand fans on hand,
largest indoor crowd for any event of any

1732
02:04:21.960 --> 02:04:26.399
kind in the world. He says. There was some controversy. Jesse says

1733
02:04:26.439 --> 02:04:30.600
more than some as they replay the
match with Hogan and Andre and how he

1734
02:04:30.680 --> 02:04:32.159
tried to slam Andre Andre Phill on
top of him one two three, They

1735
02:04:32.199 --> 02:04:38.239
played that up to the hilt and
touristy. You did not see Morella's arm

1736
02:04:38.319 --> 02:04:42.000
hit three times there, and Vince
says, did he simply place his hand

1737
02:04:42.039 --> 02:04:45.920
on the mat to a position himself
or was that in fact the first slap

1738
02:04:45.039 --> 02:04:48.319
of the of the count. That's
what Vince is trying to deduce, and

1739
02:04:48.399 --> 02:04:50.560
that does happen. Sometimes the rev
hits the mat and it sounds like the

1740
02:04:50.640 --> 02:04:54.640
one, but it's not sure one. Yeah, Jesse says, that must

1741
02:04:54.680 --> 02:04:57.359
have taken a year for you.
I think of a bad one there.

1742
02:04:57.920 --> 02:05:00.560
The only question in my mind as
whether or not ak him down for a

1743
02:05:00.680 --> 02:05:03.359
three count to simply place his hands
on the mat to left himself off and

1744
02:05:03.479 --> 02:05:06.680
say only two, or whether or
not that was indeed a third count.

1745
02:05:06.720 --> 02:05:11.279
How must have taken you a year
to think that one up? Noel,

1746
02:05:11.399 --> 02:05:15.680
tremendous. Yes. Indeed, they
do a replay with DBAs saying he's gonna

1747
02:05:15.680 --> 02:05:18.199
buy the WWF title on television.
Yeah, yeah, I got it.

1748
02:05:18.359 --> 02:05:26.039
I got that for you. I'm
going to buy the World Wrestling Federation Heavyweight

1749
02:05:26.239 --> 02:05:30.079
Championship. That's right, baby,
that's gonna be born. But I'm stuck

1750
02:05:30.199 --> 02:05:34.319
in barrel. That's something I told
you. I told everybody i'd make an

1751
02:05:34.319 --> 02:05:39.439
announcement next week. I'm making a
public announcement next week. Man in the

1752
02:05:39.520 --> 02:05:42.960
decision I make the figures. He
quoted the decision I make, whatever it

1753
02:05:43.119 --> 02:05:47.359
is, it'll be one that I
won't regret on. Behalf of all the

1754
02:05:47.439 --> 02:05:54.119
little holsters and myself. I'm gonna
have to tell a million dollar man,

1755
02:05:56.840 --> 02:06:05.479
hell no, how is it the
big hell? No? Big hell?

1756
02:06:05.880 --> 02:06:11.039
First? Hell no on w television, that's right, and uh that's the

1757
02:06:11.079 --> 02:06:14.199
big angle. Sending into WrestleMania four, Ted says, you've got a price.

1758
02:06:14.279 --> 02:06:15.560
I get what I want, and
I want the w f Heavyweight title.

1759
02:06:15.600 --> 02:06:19.479
I will buy the World Wrestling Federation
Heavyweight title. Vinces Hulk Cogan does

1760
02:06:19.479 --> 02:06:23.199
not have a price for the million
dollar man. Some have had a price,

1761
02:06:23.199 --> 02:06:27.880
such as Andre the Giant. Jesse
says, have you he stated,

1762
02:06:27.960 --> 02:06:31.960
you would have what anyway? Jesse
says, Hulk Coogan is very wealthy and

1763
02:06:32.039 --> 02:06:34.680
he could have gone on to retirement
if he took Dbasse's money. He would

1764
02:06:34.680 --> 02:06:38.199
have gotten so much money from Teddbasse
that he wouldn't have to worry about his

1765
02:06:38.279 --> 02:06:43.039
mother. Even I don't know,
I was gonna say exactly taken the money,

1766
02:06:43.520 --> 02:06:48.079
Although Vince thinks the payoff to do
this um on Saturday Nights made event.

1767
02:06:48.279 --> 02:06:50.880
Um was shameful of. Vince looks
all pissed, and he says,

1768
02:06:50.880 --> 02:06:55.760
this is Andre grabbing Hope by the
heron that they show Andre grabbing Hope by

1769
02:06:55.760 --> 02:06:58.520
the hair after he wrestled a King
hung Bundy on that Saturday night's main event.

1770
02:06:58.800 --> 02:07:01.199
It's like curiosity. They do a
lot of recaps during this whole they

1771
02:07:01.239 --> 02:07:04.119
do what were the what were the
fans doing? I don't just fuckingting on

1772
02:07:04.159 --> 02:07:08.560
their asses? I guess because they're
not watching this. They couldn't see this.

1773
02:07:08.640 --> 02:07:11.560
They didn't have a monitor for them
to see. It's a big time

1774
02:07:11.600 --> 02:07:15.399
reminder that in Vince's mind this chiefly
served as an advertisement for the February fifth

1775
02:07:15.439 --> 02:07:17.880
main event show. It's really what
he saw as the upside of this live

1776
02:07:17.960 --> 02:07:20.840
special. And they show Andre,
you know, grabbing Hulk from behind and

1777
02:07:20.880 --> 02:07:26.720
headbutting his head in pretty a famous
image of the time, and Jesse says

1778
02:07:26.720 --> 02:07:30.119
Hogan, Um could have been a
millionaire many times over. Instead, he

1779
02:07:30.239 --> 02:07:32.199
chose that to be choked. He
might not even show up tonight. I

1780
02:07:32.319 --> 02:07:35.560
know I'd have second thoughts. And
Hogan's an idiot then says he does not

1781
02:07:35.680 --> 02:07:40.920
have a price. That's the point
and Jessevenentore cackles and his head starts shaking

1782
02:07:41.000 --> 02:07:44.680
at the suggestion. Now, Teddy
Biassi's asking Andre, will you deliver me

1783
02:07:44.760 --> 02:07:50.119
the title? Andre mircil de BIASI
I will one thing. I will deliver

1784
02:07:50.600 --> 02:08:00.880
bat there wall wall blot, and
I will choke hold hold. Here comes

1785
02:08:00.920 --> 02:08:03.000
DBAs, Andre and Virgil through the
aisle. The table is in the ring.

1786
02:08:03.560 --> 02:08:05.680
It's time for the contract signing.
We'd take a break. We come

1787
02:08:05.720 --> 02:08:11.359
back and I don't know, some
guy has his kid in an upside down

1788
02:08:11.399 --> 02:08:13.439
Bruno back blaker in the crowd.
I know, like, dude, I

1789
02:08:13.479 --> 02:08:16.479
don't know if you should be doing
you know, doing that with a camera

1790
02:08:16.600 --> 02:08:20.000
on it careful. Although I have
to say one of my most visceral memories

1791
02:08:20.039 --> 02:08:24.640
of Monday, Nitro was some show
at the red Hot period where some guy

1792
02:08:24.680 --> 02:08:26.920
in the front row put his his
friend. There's like two teenage guys or

1793
02:08:26.960 --> 02:08:30.239
like two twenties something. He put
his front in the torture rack in the

1794
02:08:30.319 --> 02:08:33.000
front row, in the hard camera
side and he was just runching him.

1795
02:08:33.039 --> 02:08:41.319
It's hilarious that they ring the bell
for this contract signing and Gene Okerland is

1796
02:08:41.359 --> 02:08:43.880
there. He says the moment.
Millions have been waiting for the official signing

1797
02:08:43.000 --> 02:08:48.000
for the bout February fifth and Friday, Indianapolis for the World Wrestling Federation Championship.

1798
02:08:48.039 --> 02:08:50.880
You have WWF President Jack Toney on
hand in the corner of the ring,

1799
02:08:50.479 --> 02:09:24.600
produces Hult Cogan to music and Hogan
fucking PTSD. When I hear that

1800
02:09:24.640 --> 02:09:30.479
shit, this capacitic crowd on their
feet, Vince says. And he's out

1801
02:09:30.520 --> 02:09:35.720
there in nineteen eighty eight, Tastic
blue Cloud pants his rip styled attire exactly

1802
02:09:35.760 --> 02:09:37.800
from the New Holes Bart. It
would be the year the movie was filmed,

1803
02:09:37.800 --> 02:09:43.000
and the title on his shoulder.
Of course, the winged Eagle belt

1804
02:09:43.039 --> 02:09:46.880
had yet to debut at debuts on
it does a debuts on the main event.

1805
02:09:48.439 --> 02:09:50.920
Got the white Weather weight lifting belt
on as well does Hulk Cogan and

1806
02:09:50.000 --> 02:09:54.560
his cowboy boots. And on his
way down the aisle, he gets pissed

1807
02:09:54.600 --> 02:09:56.920
because someone grabs him and he yanks
him to the side and he gives him,

1808
02:09:58.319 --> 02:10:03.680
what are you doing? Brother?
Very concerning uh? Got the chain

1809
02:10:03.880 --> 02:10:07.000
with a cross on the shirt whist
tape this man taped his wrists for a

1810
02:10:07.079 --> 02:10:11.439
contract signing. I would and Vince
puts over the side of his arms,

1811
02:10:11.479 --> 02:10:13.600
of course, de biasi, gesturing
that the belt is coming to him by

1812
02:10:13.960 --> 02:10:16.720
you know, pointing to his waist. Hogan comes the years and they go

1813
02:10:16.760 --> 02:10:20.720
absolutely nuts here in Hamilton, Vince
screaming less a Jesse lesson to him.

1814
02:10:22.680 --> 02:10:26.239
Jesse says that that's the song real
American and wearing Canada. These people aren't

1815
02:10:26.239 --> 02:10:28.680
Americans. What are they yelling about? Why are they cheering for Hulk Hogan?

1816
02:10:28.760 --> 02:10:33.960
A real American should come down to
a new theme song, real Canadian

1817
02:10:33.159 --> 02:10:39.439
Canadian? Yeah, they never I
am all real Conadian works for me,

1818
02:10:41.279 --> 02:10:43.119
man. I wish I could come
up with the fall of a fight for

1819
02:10:43.159 --> 02:10:48.760
the rights. I don't know how. I'd probably something offensive. So h

1820
02:10:50.239 --> 02:10:52.159
Vince comes back with Hulk Cogan's a
real American and a real champion the whole

1821
02:10:52.199 --> 02:10:56.479
world over. I know, you
know, well, you know Jesse is

1822
02:10:56.560 --> 02:11:00.840
a real North American as well.
That would be the is to just add

1823
02:11:00.960 --> 02:11:09.239
North to the song. Go ahead
singing, I am a real North America

1824
02:11:11.560 --> 02:11:15.960
like you use it in Mexico too. It's fucking great. Uh. Jesse

1825
02:11:16.039 --> 02:11:18.680
says He's the champion until February fifth, then we'll find out and the way

1826
02:11:18.680 --> 02:11:22.439
he said that, I'm just sold. I'm watching this match. Jimmy in

1827
02:11:22.479 --> 02:11:24.560
produces Andre. Andre's in there in
his green blaze or rocking back and forth

1828
02:11:24.600 --> 02:11:30.560
against the Blake care less. He's
got a great He's got a great like

1829
02:11:30.960 --> 02:11:35.359
bitch resting face totally. Just like
so like I've seen this whole Hogan thing.

1830
02:11:35.560 --> 02:11:39.560
I'm just like so bored at him
doing his whole thing. Mentor says

1831
02:11:39.600 --> 02:11:46.760
he's never looked better. Um,
Andre, I'm thinking, are so Hogan

1832
02:11:46.880 --> 02:11:52.199
is going to do a a hurricane
runner to you on the table? Are

1833
02:11:52.279 --> 02:12:01.920
you prepared? H Well, it's
a maneuver in which you are gonna be

1834
02:12:03.079 --> 02:12:07.680
on the h Well, it's gonna
be a super hurricane rana, of course

1835
02:12:07.760 --> 02:12:15.399
it is, or what you're gonna
be on the top rope and Hogan is

1836
02:12:15.439 --> 02:12:18.199
going to do it basically, jump
in the air, wrap his legs around

1837
02:12:18.279 --> 02:12:22.920
your head, and he's gonna pull
you over into the ring and you're gonna

1838
02:12:24.119 --> 02:12:28.119
you're gonna land in it on a
table head first and break it. What

1839
02:12:30.560 --> 02:12:33.079
well, all the stuff? Why
do I have to do that? But

1840
02:12:35.199 --> 02:12:43.119
well, I mean unquestionably because I
said you had to, That's why.

1841
02:12:43.560 --> 02:12:48.199
And so the table's positioned, Andrea
takes a minute and a half, but

1842
02:12:48.239 --> 02:12:56.920
he's perched on the top. Keep
in mind that's gonna Andre in his suit

1843
02:12:56.239 --> 02:13:01.399
everything, you know, like dressed
like and keeps getting no business. I'm

1844
02:13:01.479 --> 02:13:07.960
born to. And then Hogan goes
up snaps off a perfect scott Steiner like

1845
02:13:09.079 --> 02:13:11.960
Perrikan RNA because right, of course
he does. Yeah, but here's the

1846
02:13:13.039 --> 02:13:18.479
thing. Yes, Hogan snaps it
off, but Andre doesn't move. You

1847
02:13:18.560 --> 02:13:22.239
know. Basically, Hogan hits the
mat like you would if someone held the

1848
02:13:22.279 --> 02:13:28.560
top rope and block the super Frankensteiner, but Andre didn't block it. Hogan

1849
02:13:28.640 --> 02:13:35.560
hits the mat and then begins the
fourteen second process of Andre leaning himself just

1850
02:13:35.960 --> 02:13:43.199
enough over the ropes that it just
falls out of the table on whoa hold

1851
02:13:43.319 --> 02:13:50.039
on? Hold on? I mean, I know the guy's talking there,

1852
02:13:50.000 --> 02:13:56.680
but I've never heard someone prepared a
front flips sell the RNA four seconds after

1853
02:13:56.760 --> 02:14:05.600
it hit by going hold on,
I'm coming, and he just collapses like

1854
02:14:05.680 --> 02:14:18.680
a sack of shit. What what? Oh? Oh? Get his face

1855
02:14:18.800 --> 02:14:28.680
scirrowing, get his face or tricle
I think her bared by triacle? Oh

1856
02:14:30.119 --> 02:14:37.319
no oh oh, carry get a
pincrole right now, get pet right,

1857
02:14:37.319 --> 02:14:41.880
now do it? Do it?
Do it? Brother? Don't have to

1858
02:14:41.880 --> 02:14:54.520
ask him twice or once? Brother? Why? Wow? Why? Look?

1859
02:14:54.600 --> 02:14:58.600
I know that if I was Andrea
and I had challenges with English,

1860
02:14:58.640 --> 02:15:01.680
and I was trying to send an
SS for my injury, I would say

1861
02:15:03.000 --> 02:15:20.359
my clavicle car your fifth? Oh
why on the on the USA network he's

1862
02:15:20.479 --> 02:15:24.880
writhing in the ring. Why Andrea's
mystique goes right down the dram before eight

1863
02:15:24.960 --> 02:15:35.920
point two million people or whatever?
Why he said? Ok? What did?

1864
02:15:37.880 --> 02:15:45.319
Why did Hogan get a super run
that is almost funnier like pictured his

1865
02:15:45.560 --> 02:15:50.000
big legs like wrapping him around.
Why is he getting up there anyway?

1866
02:15:50.720 --> 02:16:03.560
How's he jumping up there? For
fuck's sake? He leaps, he snaps

1867
02:16:03.600 --> 02:16:07.319
it off, he hits the mat
with the thud, and then Andrea comes

1868
02:16:07.960 --> 02:16:15.079
timbering over like a tree in the
forth. All shit, It's like the

1869
02:16:15.199 --> 02:16:20.239
move is over, Like what what? What gravitational force is exerting itself on

1870
02:16:20.359 --> 02:16:28.840
Andre? Now? Like why didn't
he just stay there? And he's just

1871
02:16:28.920 --> 02:16:33.040
like it's this slow tip and then
he like flips when he like wait because

1872
02:16:33.079 --> 02:16:37.000
like waiting until his weight takes over
on the pole. You know, thet

1873
02:16:37.159 --> 02:16:41.600
takes over like slowly. It's like
Okin is like on the fucking ground,

1874
02:16:43.000 --> 02:16:48.840
and like Andre's like slowly leaning over
until okay, hold on in a blazer

1875
02:16:50.079 --> 02:16:54.959
hold on name the is a jeopardy
question, name the first pro wrestler the

1876
02:16:54.000 --> 02:17:03.680
screen hold on before executing a cell
job. Oh fuck, like Hovian's already

1877
02:17:03.719 --> 02:17:09.680
in the cab and Andrea still hasn't
taken off selling fucking royal rumble's happening around.

1878
02:17:11.399 --> 02:17:13.360
Guys, we need you to work
around the table. It's waiting for

1879
02:17:13.440 --> 02:17:20.040
Andrea to following. You're still going
I'm sorry, but it'll happen. Tremendous,

1880
02:17:20.799 --> 02:17:24.079
tremendous stuff I mean, in other
words, you know, Andre looks

1881
02:17:24.399 --> 02:17:31.399
normal. Virgil is introduced as well
as DBAs Is has his hands gripping his

1882
02:17:31.520 --> 02:17:33.479
lapels, and Jess says Andre has
the look of a champion. Hogan has

1883
02:17:33.520 --> 02:17:37.040
the look of a challenger. Despite
Oh, it's being reversed, Jane introduces

1884
02:17:37.079 --> 02:17:39.879
these team president that distinguished Jack Tonning. It's a big mixed reaction. Even

1885
02:17:39.920 --> 02:17:43.719
though the family is Ontario through and
through, no one, no one fucking

1886
02:17:43.840 --> 02:17:46.399
likes Jack Tonny. Oh, I
know if he can't get a cheer in

1887
02:17:46.440 --> 02:18:01.159
Ontario. Forget about it. Here
he goes und studying early contractual material.

1888
02:18:01.920 --> 02:18:09.760
Let's get with it and sit down. Jack Tunney a fine orator. Let's

1889
02:18:09.840 --> 02:18:18.239
get with it, okay, gentlemen, I who he is? Such an

1890
02:18:18.280 --> 02:18:22.040
old man. He's such a stereotypical
old man way like, thank you even

1891
02:18:22.120 --> 02:18:33.760
back then, gentlemen, I m
h. Henry Holmes, look at this

1892
02:18:33.840 --> 02:18:43.360
contract, dude, do you have
the um? What's gene? Thank you

1893
02:18:43.600 --> 02:18:52.200
much? Going on very much,
Thank you very much, Howard, Thank

1894
02:18:52.280 --> 02:18:54.760
you, Howard, Thank you Howard. Somebody next, I know it really

1895
02:18:54.879 --> 02:19:01.440
is. The next match is for
the World Wrestling and Entertainment Championship. May

1896
02:19:01.520 --> 02:19:09.319
the best man win. Thank you, Howard. Ah Ventura is not sure

1897
02:19:09.319 --> 02:19:11.920
if the table is big enough for
both men. Vin says he's not sure

1898
02:19:11.920 --> 02:19:16.440
a twenty twenty square foot table would
be big enough. Vince, h Well,

1899
02:19:16.479 --> 02:19:18.120
you didn't know. They're right there. The ring is twenty by twenty,

1900
02:19:18.120 --> 02:19:22.520
so Vince blurts out. Look at
Hulk is he put together three hundred

1901
02:19:22.559 --> 02:19:28.079
and thirty pounds? You know it's
funny looking at Andre sitting in this chair,

1902
02:19:28.719 --> 02:19:33.360
like he looks like a fucking dufus
ye sitting him at smile. It's

1903
02:19:33.399 --> 02:19:37.920
like Will Farrell and elf Right,
you know, just fucking sitting there,

1904
02:19:37.959 --> 02:19:43.319
sitting on sitting on a Bob Newhart's
lap, his hands in his pockets.

1905
02:19:43.360 --> 02:19:46.520
Hogan seated on a tiny folding chair
while Andrea rocks back and forth on the

1906
02:19:46.600 --> 02:19:50.840
ropes, back and forth. He
can't sit in that chair. Who are

1907
02:19:50.840 --> 02:19:52.200
we kidding? And says this is
ridiculous. Who does the Giant think he

1908
02:19:52.319 --> 02:19:56.399
is? And he's conferring with Dibias
over who owns the rights to Andre,

1909
02:19:56.559 --> 02:20:01.079
we're told, and he's talking to
Marvel about who owns the right stone.

1910
02:20:01.680 --> 02:20:07.000
Well, Ventura asks, what do
you think the price was that Bobby Heenan

1911
02:20:07.079 --> 02:20:11.200
got for Andre? The Giant selling
to a million dollar man. Andre steps

1912
02:20:11.239 --> 02:20:13.319
to the table, rubs his hands
together. Vince says he's going doing the

1913
02:20:13.440 --> 02:20:18.360
squeezing routine as they changed Hogan,
Hogan and Hogan, of course, looking

1914
02:20:18.399 --> 02:20:20.000
from left to right. Vince mcmansays, I don't think I've ever seen a

1915
02:20:20.040 --> 02:20:24.799
look of concern on the Holtzer's face
quite like we've seen tonight. Well,

1916
02:20:24.000 --> 02:20:28.760
there you go, look of concern. Yes, you don't say. Andrea

1917
02:20:28.840 --> 02:20:33.000
sits down like a teacher sitting in
an animal elementary school kids chair, just

1918
02:20:33.079 --> 02:20:37.360
like you said on Parents' night.
You know he should have said it backwards.

1919
02:20:37.760 --> 02:20:41.440
Oh that'd have been perfect, Yeah, amazing. He would have never

1920
02:20:41.520 --> 02:20:46.200
gotten up from the fucking chair if
that was the case. Deber scrabs the

1921
02:20:46.239 --> 02:20:48.639
mic. Sign it. What are
you waiting for? Thinking? Maybe you

1922
02:20:48.639 --> 02:20:52.600
should have signed that generous offer I
made? Hulk hung Oh, Hogan has

1923
02:20:52.680 --> 02:20:54.479
the papers and you know me all
I care about and wrestling is one thing.

1924
02:20:54.760 --> 02:20:58.200
When they have kfape contracts on screen, what is actually printed on the

1925
02:20:58.239 --> 02:21:01.319
page? I know? I need
that. It just grabs something that had

1926
02:21:01.360 --> 02:21:03.719
writing on it. Did they print
it themselves? Did they have fun with

1927
02:21:03.799 --> 02:21:07.680
it? I need to know.
Dibiassi says, you're trying to prove halk

1928
02:21:07.680 --> 02:21:11.799
Comania's pride and integrity means more than
money. So why are you hesitating to

1929
02:21:11.840 --> 02:21:13.719
sign? You're getting cold feet?
Are you thinking that's a career ending contract?

1930
02:21:15.159 --> 02:21:18.239
Looks like Hogan is holding a stapled
wrestling observer for what it's worth.

1931
02:21:18.920 --> 02:21:20.639
Maybe it is, Dibiassi says,
a year ago WrestleMania three, he beat

1932
02:21:20.680 --> 02:21:26.120
you, and Hogan does a huff
and shakes his head, and Biassi says,

1933
02:21:26.159 --> 02:21:28.520
so you just signed your career away
as Hulk signs and a huff and

1934
02:21:30.120 --> 02:21:31.600
February fifth, this man has all
the money in the bank, and that

1935
02:21:31.680 --> 02:21:35.600
title will be bought, and it'll
be around my waist and you will be

1936
02:21:35.719 --> 02:21:39.600
history. And Andre looking like he
just sat down at a bistro in Montreal.

1937
02:21:39.079 --> 02:21:43.959
Oh yes, wait, And I
also I love that he's literally saying

1938
02:21:43.120 --> 02:21:48.079
that he's going to buy the belt
from under the giant Jack Tunny not doing

1939
02:21:48.120 --> 02:21:50.680
a damn thing about it, exactly. I have something to say about that.

1940
02:21:50.719 --> 02:21:54.639
And a Paralti's powerless to see that
consummated. Yeah, Andre, leafing

1941
02:21:54.719 --> 02:21:58.719
through the contract there to make sure
Johnny did and pulling no small print in

1942
02:21:58.799 --> 02:22:03.000
Shenanigans. And yeah, Jesse,
Jesse comments on that. Look at Andre,

1943
02:22:03.120 --> 02:22:05.319
he's taking no chances either. He's
leafing through there to make sure Jack

1944
02:22:05.360 --> 02:22:11.879
Tunney didn't pull noball print, pull
no small print there, McMahon. Well,

1945
02:22:11.079 --> 02:22:15.120
Jesse know about leafing through a contract
looking for it. I'm all about

1946
02:22:15.200 --> 02:22:16.799
that. You know what. People
have tried to pull one over on me

1947
02:22:16.920 --> 02:22:22.799
all the time. I'm always finding
the small print. It ever worked at

1948
02:22:22.840 --> 02:22:28.120
the bottom, never happened. No
people have pulled that. But they know

1949
02:22:28.239 --> 02:22:33.280
what they tried, but they never
succeeded. Exactly right. I always gets

1950
02:22:33.600 --> 02:22:37.760
government, by the way, including
the United States government, including the Navy

1951
02:22:37.879 --> 02:22:45.000
seals. I always get the upper
Handbas says, just a little why you

1952
02:22:45.079 --> 02:22:52.040
know why? Because I think a
third party mentality clearly not an arm's length

1953
02:22:52.120 --> 02:22:56.159
mentality, absolutely not. Says,
that's just a little extra incent of money.

1954
02:22:56.200 --> 02:22:58.520
Andre, you know me. So
Ted's payment terms to Andre is in

1955
02:22:58.600 --> 02:23:03.600
the belt agreement with Hulk. Why
would you why would Ted to beasse disclose

1956
02:23:03.639 --> 02:23:07.079
how much he's paying to Andrea in
about agreement between Hulk, Hogan and under

1957
02:23:07.120 --> 02:23:11.319
the Giant anyway? Right? I
mean, also, wouldn't that have been

1958
02:23:11.360 --> 02:23:15.079
in concern like with Hogan? And
obviously he didn't read the script. I'm

1959
02:23:15.319 --> 02:23:18.520
read the reading contract read the script
either, Yeah, then says Hulk has

1960
02:23:18.559 --> 02:23:22.000
more of a look of concern.
He has a look of downright worry brother

1961
02:23:22.440 --> 02:23:26.559
Hogan snarlingly and no holds barred when
his brother gets killed, or or Andrea

1962
02:23:26.600 --> 02:23:31.680
flipping through over the shoulder shot of
Andrea's blazer and Hogan boiling watching him do

1963
02:23:31.760 --> 02:23:35.319
this. Andre's really effective, taking
his sweet ass time going through this contract.

1964
02:23:35.360 --> 02:23:37.120
He really Yeah, he's great at
that. Yeah, Ted screams,

1965
02:23:37.159 --> 02:23:39.479
he can take all the time he
wants. He waited almost a year for

1966
02:23:39.520 --> 02:23:43.079
this opportunity, and he is savoring
the moment. He knows how to savor

1967
02:23:43.360 --> 02:23:48.399
under the giants. He's all about
savory and Tera says, if you were

1968
02:23:48.440 --> 02:23:52.000
to sit down and buy some rat
trap house, you'd read that mortgage real

1969
02:23:52.040 --> 02:23:54.239
close, wouldn't give Vince That's all
Andre's doing here, Vin says. Toney

1970
02:23:54.520 --> 02:23:58.520
said they already had they already read
the contract before this, so this is

1971
02:23:58.559 --> 02:24:05.399
clearly unnecessary inventors. That's like getting
a guarantee from Alie North. Okay,

1972
02:24:09.280 --> 02:24:15.079
right right, Oliver North from the
Iran contra fare Jesse and his fucking CIA

1973
02:24:15.200 --> 02:24:20.360
operations in the Baja or the fuck
Jesse. We're working, you know,

1974
02:24:20.399 --> 02:24:24.799
we're working. Uh, we're working
some some black ops in Baja California.

1975
02:24:26.600 --> 02:24:41.959
Jesse coffee shop called Black Ops,
Black Ops, No Cream. If every

1976
02:24:41.000 --> 02:24:46.159
other military adjacent YouTuber can start a
coffee brand, why can't Jesse. That's

1977
02:24:46.239 --> 02:24:52.719
right, Nicaragua Contra Rebels. I'll
tell you one thing about my coffee.

1978
02:24:52.520 --> 02:25:01.719
It has a full body flavor.
I haven't met him. My coffee hostages

1979
02:25:01.719 --> 02:25:07.559
and lemon On how many the Boland
Agreement limited immunity, working with real Mexican

1980
02:25:07.680 --> 02:25:11.760
beams, got it right. The
best in our government lie to us about

1981
02:25:11.760 --> 02:25:18.840
the Iran Kantra affair. Just absolutely
absolutely. I have the real one where

1982
02:25:18.000 --> 02:25:22.959
our government was involved in illegal weapons
sales to a hostile the Nation Party.

1983
02:25:24.559 --> 02:25:28.040
I have the paperwork to prove it. I've got any but you know what,

1984
02:25:28.159 --> 02:25:31.719
I'm not going to give it to
Congress because you know what, they're

1985
02:25:31.760 --> 02:25:35.319
going to burn the papers. I'll
keep them in my filing cabinet. That's

1986
02:25:35.360 --> 02:25:37.879
like taking a guarantee from Ali North. I'm gonna use that one in twenty

1987
02:25:39.079 --> 02:25:48.760
twenty three. So what kind of
looks again in the street, Jesse see

1988
02:25:48.879 --> 02:25:58.000
like walking down the street saying,
man, somebody. Of course he was

1989
02:25:58.079 --> 02:26:01.840
convicted of nothing, Ali North,
but that was before that was a nineteen

1990
02:26:01.920 --> 02:26:03.239
ninety one, so Jesse wouldn't know
that yet. Hogan shook and quiet and

1991
02:26:03.360 --> 02:26:07.280
motionless, and Jean says, there's
nothing here that will stop it. Tony

1992
02:26:07.319 --> 02:26:09.879
says, I certainly helpe not.
There's no idea what's in the contract.

1993
02:26:09.280 --> 02:26:13.559
I certainly hope not. Howard and
Vince says, let's progress with the matches.

1994
02:26:15.360 --> 02:26:18.440
Oh god, Andre signing now,
Jean says, for the big one.

1995
02:26:18.079 --> 02:26:24.959
So good. When he says that
for the Big One, DBAs tells

1996
02:26:24.040 --> 02:26:26.840
him to put his official stamp of
approval in the contract. Rises from his

1997
02:26:26.920 --> 02:26:30.239
chair does under the giant, and
Hogan does too. When they face off,

1998
02:26:30.479 --> 02:26:33.120
Hogan lunges for Dbac. Andre grabs
him and smashes Hogan's head down on

1999
02:26:33.280 --> 02:26:37.280
the table and turns it over on
top of the hulkster. It's a big,

2000
02:26:37.399 --> 02:26:41.760
heavy table as a solid solid oak
that would Vince says, solid oak.

2001
02:26:41.920 --> 02:26:43.559
He says, it's a solid oak
table, and Torrot puts over how

2002
02:26:43.600 --> 02:26:48.760
easily Andre turned over this table?
Man, did they know how to put

2003
02:26:48.959 --> 02:26:52.559
the immobile Giant over as a deadly
I mean, this guy can't do anything.

2004
02:26:52.639 --> 02:26:54.280
And by the time the segments over, you think he can kill Hogan

2005
02:26:54.319 --> 02:26:58.079
with his bare hands. Yep,
you didn't even move. It's simple shit,

2006
02:26:58.239 --> 02:27:01.520
man, It's amazing. Andre pounces
up the aisle as Hogan sells woozily

2007
02:27:01.559 --> 02:27:05.000
in the canvas and yet solid oak
table. Like he said, Hogan,

2008
02:27:05.120 --> 02:27:11.280
such a scared, sad pup.
Yeah, this whole angle and they go

2009
02:27:11.360 --> 02:27:13.639
to the break. They come back
and we're ready to begin the rumble,

2010
02:27:13.920 --> 02:27:18.280
and here we go. Here is
a I got think here laying out the

2011
02:27:18.360 --> 02:27:22.559
rules for the first time. That's
huge laity for gentlemen. It is now

2012
02:27:22.719 --> 02:27:31.520
time for the Royal room Ball.
Earlier the same thing. Each of the

2013
02:27:31.639 --> 02:27:39.280
twenty participants show the number from one
to twenty in a random drawing. Participants

2014
02:27:39.399 --> 02:27:43.520
number one and two are currently in
the ring, and when the bell sounds,

2015
02:27:43.879 --> 02:27:48.879
they will come in the Royal Rumball. Every two minutes thereafter, another

2016
02:27:48.959 --> 02:27:54.639
wrestler will enter the battle according to
the number he pulled. This process continues

2017
02:27:56.120 --> 02:28:01.799
until all twenty wrestlers have made their
entrance. This Royal Rumble elimination the curse

2018
02:28:03.200 --> 02:28:09.000
what a wrestler is thrown over the
top rope at any time, and the

2019
02:28:09.200 --> 02:28:13.559
one rustler up in the room at
the rubble's conclusion will be the glare of

2020
02:28:13.639 --> 02:28:18.639
the litter. There. It is
big stakes here. Vince and Jess and

2021
02:28:18.719 --> 02:28:22.520
the call they talk about the participants
in Condino and Jake and Hillbilly and Bretton

2022
02:28:22.600 --> 02:28:28.639
Andel. It's so weird to me, the idea that nobody knew the rules.

2023
02:28:28.000 --> 02:28:33.239
I know because I remember I remember, like the build up to the

2024
02:28:33.360 --> 02:28:39.200
ninety two rumble and kind of just
it's just feeling like I already like I

2025
02:28:39.280 --> 02:28:41.600
knew them already, Yes you know, Oh yeah, I mean they've done

2026
02:28:41.680 --> 02:28:46.280
enough dry runs that they knew what
points to hit without raising further questions.

2027
02:28:46.319 --> 02:28:50.920
But you heard Gorilla and Bobby struggle
on Prime Time to explain it. Yep,

2028
02:28:50.239 --> 02:28:54.600
it's so so verbose. The the
explanation of it takes like ten minutes.

2029
02:28:54.319 --> 02:28:56.959
They explained, the process of elimination
is over the topic. You feel

2030
02:28:56.959 --> 02:29:00.479
like, I feel like think might
be smarter than both of them. I

2031
02:29:00.559 --> 02:29:03.159
think so. Yeah, he was
definitely a brainiac. Jesse says, it

2032
02:29:03.200 --> 02:29:05.319
doesn't matter where your feet hit.
If you go over the top, you're

2033
02:29:05.360 --> 02:29:09.040
gone. So they don't emphasize two
feet in the floor as much. No,

2034
02:29:09.200 --> 02:29:16.319
because it only happened in ninety five. That's where it fucking happened before.

2035
02:29:16.920 --> 02:29:18.799
Before then, it was about going
over the top rope and just hitting

2036
02:29:18.840 --> 02:29:24.360
the floor. Don't tell two feet
bullshit. I hate it, I hate

2037
02:29:24.360 --> 02:29:26.239
it, I hate it. I
know what Ricochet is going to do this

2038
02:29:26.360 --> 02:29:33.600
year, probably can the fuck out
of me do some stupid shit that nobody

2039
02:29:33.680 --> 02:29:37.440
cares about. Guess what the Royal
Rumble is not a place to do high

2040
02:29:37.440 --> 02:29:39.920
flying moves and be a fucking acrobat. So one night of the year,

2041
02:29:39.959 --> 02:29:46.079
you can just keep that shit off
my television. So um, they get

2042
02:29:46.079 --> 02:29:48.879
the hidden right away. The lot
of this is luck at the draw.

2043
02:29:48.959 --> 02:29:50.559
They start to emphasize that big time. They talk about the drab being held

2044
02:29:50.600 --> 02:29:52.760
earlier. If you number twenty,
you don't have to go to the ring

2045
02:29:52.840 --> 02:29:56.760
until last. They hit that really
hard, and they talk about how you

2046
02:29:56.799 --> 02:29:58.399
can bet a lot of people will
be eliminated before number twenty comes out,

2047
02:29:58.440 --> 02:30:01.159
So they're planning some good seeds.
They say two minute intervals, as we

2048
02:30:01.200 --> 02:30:05.239
discussed earlier, that doesn't ultimately end
up consummating. So there was never a

2049
02:30:05.360 --> 02:30:07.879
period of time really where they were
faithful to it, except what nineteen ninety

2050
02:30:07.920 --> 02:30:13.040
or whatever it was, I guess. So um, so it's amazing that,

2051
02:30:13.159 --> 02:30:16.000
you know, I remember the rumbles
of my childhood having great fidelity to

2052
02:30:16.079 --> 02:30:18.559
the two minute interval on pay per
view, but felt the first one wasn't

2053
02:30:18.559 --> 02:30:22.559
at all right. That's how it
felt to me. So they said the

2054
02:30:22.600 --> 02:30:26.680
lottery was held earlier in person,
Number twenty is going to be really lucky

2055
02:30:26.719 --> 02:30:28.680
in there and could end up with
all twenty in the same ring at some

2056
02:30:28.719 --> 02:30:31.239
point perhaps as well. They have
yet to do that. All the rumbles,

2057
02:30:31.280 --> 02:30:33.200
they have yet to do that.
They have never done that. They

2058
02:30:33.280 --> 02:30:35.399
have never had all of the men
in the ring. I don't think it

2059
02:30:35.440 --> 02:30:37.879
would be a good idea either.
I think you got to do it just

2060
02:30:39.040 --> 02:30:43.319
to do it, Yeah, I
think so. I just feel like it's

2061
02:30:43.559 --> 02:30:46.440
that's that's rough. I mean,
that's that's like a whole snow room for

2062
02:30:46.479 --> 02:30:50.760
anybody. That's true. When no
eliminations, that's true, When no eliminations,

2063
02:30:50.799 --> 02:30:54.079
to me, that seems like that's
a lot that's gonna that's a that's

2064
02:30:54.120 --> 02:30:56.799
a ballsy move. Yep, for
sure. Send it to the fink and

2065
02:30:56.879 --> 02:31:01.760
like he just played, he explains
everything, and uh and that's that.

2066
02:31:03.559 --> 02:31:05.520
They show a kid in the Hulkster
banner concentrated on the instructions very closely.

2067
02:31:05.559 --> 02:31:09.079
This crowd was like enthralled by Howard
explaining how this thing's gonna work. Don't

2068
02:31:09.120 --> 02:31:11.719
know because no one knows what it
is exactly. Oh, it could a

2069
02:31:11.760 --> 02:31:16.680
hell of a pop though when they
when they announced it, ye think controduces

2070
02:31:16.680 --> 02:31:18.559
to my right brought Hart to a
mild pop mostly thumbs down, but of

2071
02:31:18.600 --> 02:31:22.200
course they are in king, Come
on, he should get Yeah, he's

2072
02:31:22.920 --> 02:31:26.239
he's your he's your brethren and from
to Cool Mexico Tag team champion at the

2073
02:31:26.280 --> 02:31:31.159
time, Strike Force member Tito Santana
a rebound and says, uh the sprief

2074
02:31:31.200 --> 02:31:33.760
word before this match, the hulkster
Um is under care and uh, we're

2075
02:31:33.799 --> 02:31:37.920
gonna get an update from him later. There's a sign or Royal Rumble um

2076
02:31:37.479 --> 02:31:41.799
cut out with cutout letters from the
w B magazine. Yes Um, then

2077
02:31:41.879 --> 02:31:46.520
says Um during a commercial, I
don't think I've seen anyone as angry as

2078
02:31:46.639 --> 02:31:50.920
Hulk was, and Ventura says that
anger didn't come out until he was sure

2079
02:31:50.000 --> 02:31:54.360
Andre was gone. Isn't that convenient? It's time moss for the first for

2080
02:31:54.440 --> 02:32:00.760
all intents and purposes, Royal Rumble, first televised Royal Rumble rings. Brett

2081
02:32:00.799 --> 02:32:03.840
and Tito circle and lock up.
Bret backs him to the ropes and hammers

2082
02:32:03.879 --> 02:32:07.399
away so tight the way they lean
in on the Hogan call during the downtime

2083
02:32:07.440 --> 02:32:11.479
in the matchmen, they are just
selling their ass off for the main event.

2084
02:32:11.600 --> 02:32:16.319
Tito blocks the corner and sends Brett
in fires away. Ventura says that

2085
02:32:18.399 --> 02:32:24.840
Brett and Chico starting the rumble um
is appropriate and ironic in a way because

2086
02:32:24.920 --> 02:32:28.040
there's no love loss between these two. They had history anyway, on opposite

2087
02:32:28.079 --> 02:32:33.120
sides of a tag feud. Leap
frogs true. What's that that's true?

2088
02:32:33.239 --> 02:32:41.040
Is what WrestleMania three right when they
did the because three yeah three with the

2089
02:32:41.079 --> 02:32:46.159
six man tag where the Hearts and
Danny Davis took on the Bulldogs and and

2090
02:32:46.719 --> 02:32:52.559
Tito excellent leap leap frog and Brett
with Tito knocks him down with the right

2091
02:32:52.600 --> 02:32:58.360
hand and mounted punches. Now Tito
gestures to try to hit Brett with an

2092
02:32:58.399 --> 02:33:03.040
inverted time I drop, but Brett
comes off the middle rope and rings down

2093
02:33:03.040 --> 02:33:05.120
an elbow and vinces. Both guys
have to hope that the next entrant is

2094
02:33:05.200 --> 02:33:09.760
a friend. Such a novelty,
this idea that like I know who's coming

2095
02:33:09.799 --> 02:33:13.200
through is gonna shape the direction of
the match. And then we see it

2096
02:33:13.280 --> 02:33:16.319
for the first time the yellow numbered
clock in the left corner of the screen.

2097
02:33:18.079 --> 02:33:20.079
Yes, must not have shown to
the crowd at this point because there's

2098
02:33:20.120 --> 02:33:24.440
no crowd countdown. You don't hear
the people count along. Right, Brett

2099
02:33:24.559 --> 02:33:26.840
is trying to dump Tito, and
it's the natural Butch read and trim.

2100
02:33:26.920 --> 02:33:31.959
There we go. We're in some
like Harley Race looking gear. Indeed,

2101
02:33:33.319 --> 02:33:35.760
they say this is bad for Chico
because he's a heel, and we'll team

2102
02:33:35.879 --> 02:33:39.319
up on on Tito Santana. Tito
hits a a flying forearm and Butch stomps

2103
02:33:39.319 --> 02:33:46.000
Tito. Butch tries to dump Santana. Vince says, Santana's going to go

2104
02:33:46.120 --> 02:33:50.120
over. He says, no,
hey, I don't think so. It

2105
02:33:50.200 --> 02:33:54.200
means to be seen double naga knocker
on Butch and Brett is Tito throw some

2106
02:33:54.280 --> 02:33:56.600
offense out there, and Toura says, you know, I like this.

2107
02:33:56.159 --> 02:34:03.440
It allows double teaming that you can
complain about as Butch hits a double axe

2108
02:34:03.440 --> 02:34:05.440
handle and a held open Tito Santana
and a double whipon a double back elbow

2109
02:34:05.479 --> 02:34:09.920
from the heels. Another one which
three just wants a double double, a

2110
02:34:09.959 --> 02:34:13.959
double double, and another one's out
no clock this time they didn't show the

2111
02:34:15.000 --> 02:34:18.559
countdown clock. Frenser four. Its
must be total chaos. Back theres.

2112
02:34:18.600 --> 02:34:20.799
They feel their way through this thing. Who's nick? Who's next? I

2113
02:34:20.799 --> 02:34:24.920
don't understand? Freaking out? Somebody
please I need an undertaker, please,

2114
02:34:24.959 --> 02:34:30.760
I is somebody? God, damn
it. Who the fuck is next?

2115
02:34:31.000 --> 02:34:35.879
It's the anvil And in fact it
seems like the fans see him before the

2116
02:34:35.959 --> 02:34:41.760
clock. Ye, so picture and
picture. Butch misses a knee and hits

2117
02:34:41.799 --> 02:34:46.040
Brett Hart by mistake and uh Brett
hangs on the top rope. Big reaction

2118
02:34:46.200 --> 02:34:50.079
to the first like tease him an
elimination of a heel? Yes, yes,

2119
02:34:50.360 --> 02:34:52.479
just so wild to see these firsts, after these firsts, after these

2120
02:34:52.520 --> 02:34:56.600
firsts, nightmare first antennas, Brett
grabs a front face lock and they all

2121
02:34:56.680 --> 02:35:00.719
lay into him, three on one, beat down on homes crazy and play

2122
02:35:00.760 --> 02:35:03.639
here. Yep, she really is. Uh Ventura says Chico never did have

2123
02:35:03.799 --> 02:35:07.399
much luck. I remember him back
when he lived in Tijuana. Okay,

2124
02:35:09.920 --> 02:35:13.239
Brett comes off the middle rope with
a sledgehammer like the demolition finisher almost across

2125
02:35:13.280 --> 02:35:16.600
it. And what about that?
Yeah, it's like a it's weird.

2126
02:35:16.639 --> 02:35:22.120
It's it's a it's a it's like
a really sloppy three way decapitator. Yes,

2127
02:35:22.879 --> 02:35:26.680
and and Red just fucking just sucks. Mass A question. Does Jesse

2128
02:35:26.040 --> 02:35:39.920
talk about food Mexican food? Yeah, I certainly do. I talked to

2129
02:35:39.479 --> 02:35:46.159
Enchilados. I mean, it's all
there I guess enchilados are very good.

2130
02:35:46.879 --> 02:35:54.040
I mean, come on, man, I can't eat chocolate anymore. Holy

2131
02:35:54.319 --> 02:36:01.440
shit, I guess enchilados are very
good. When something's very good, I

2132
02:36:01.520 --> 02:36:05.239
don't think you say I guess they're
very good. It happens over and over

2133
02:36:05.280 --> 02:36:09.760
again on lapsed like I feel like
we create this stuff out of thin air

2134
02:36:09.079 --> 02:36:13.239
and run with it. And sure
enough, like you go and listen back

2135
02:36:13.280 --> 02:36:16.120
and it actually comes from a place
of He was talking about enchiladas all the

2136
02:36:16.200 --> 02:36:20.079
time. Yes, I guess enchiladas
are very good. I can't eat chocolate

2137
02:36:20.200 --> 02:36:24.799
anymore. Is that your only detriment
to Mexico? Yes, I can't eat

2138
02:36:24.920 --> 02:36:33.280
chocolate anymore. That's the way it
is, health reasons, my only detriment

2139
02:36:33.879 --> 02:36:41.600
to Mexico. And I guess enchiladas
are very good. He said on the

2140
02:36:41.680 --> 02:36:46.319
call here. He bought some rotten
enchiladas from Tito when he was down there

2141
02:36:46.360 --> 02:36:50.799
in the navy. Yes, it's
like a Jesse Ventura mad libs, he

2142
02:36:50.959 --> 02:36:54.280
says it all. It's so fucking
funny. They hold Tito open an attack

2143
02:36:54.319 --> 02:36:56.040
him. Vincent, you know,
when I was in the navy, I

2144
02:36:56.200 --> 02:37:00.879
bought rotten enchiladas from Tito Santana rotten, and a lot of anyone don't know

2145
02:37:00.920 --> 02:37:03.959
what a rotten go. Stale but
rotten. I guess bad, bad meat.

2146
02:37:05.159 --> 02:37:05.719
Yeah, I guess that's what he
means here. I guess if you

2147
02:37:05.760 --> 02:37:11.079
get sucking old chicken or old beef. It was on. You know,

2148
02:37:11.120 --> 02:37:18.479
the enchilados were on the trees too
long. Those are the plaintains, Jess.

2149
02:37:18.479 --> 02:37:22.399
Huh, so they hold Tito opened
an attack him in Vince's Wait a

2150
02:37:22.440 --> 02:37:26.479
minute, Wait a minute, wait
a minute. Was it chocolate? No?

2151
02:37:26.920 --> 02:37:30.600
Oh, because you know I can't
eat chocolate anymore. About that,

2152
02:37:31.040 --> 02:37:35.479
I can't eat chocolate anymore. How
about enciladas, Jess, I guess enchilados

2153
02:37:35.520 --> 02:37:41.120
are very good? What about chocolate
for dessert? I can't eat chocolate anymore.

2154
02:37:41.479 --> 02:37:48.879
Well, I was in Mexico,
off the grid anymore, not even

2155
02:37:50.000 --> 02:37:56.159
necessarily a Jess. I went back. Those balls are as smooth as sucks.

2156
02:37:56.399 --> 02:38:05.000
Wrestling fans have been tricked again.
Go down one two, Trinoli.

2157
02:38:05.239 --> 02:38:11.319
I guess enchilados are very good.
I can't eat chocolate anymore. I went

2158
02:38:11.440 --> 02:38:16.399
back. I was in Mexico,
off the good. It's fake, it's

2159
02:38:16.520 --> 02:38:26.120
fake. Fuck you fucking smooth.
It's over Jenny, it's over. Fuck

2160
02:38:26.239 --> 02:38:41.280
you fucking thing sucks. That's sling
fans and Trigged doing live, no doubt.

2161
02:38:41.280 --> 02:38:48.840
One two Trignoli fomolate at the rock. You cloom at the rock.

2162
02:38:50.280 --> 02:38:56.920
I can't eat chocolate anymore. I
guess enchilados are very good. No,

2163
02:39:00.559 --> 02:39:18.559
no, really, music there it
goes. I guess enchiladas are pretty good

2164
02:39:18.639 --> 02:39:35.639
over the song and you fucking hell
due, No dude, no, no,

2165
02:39:37.760 --> 02:39:41.280
you never. That's the thing about
that whole thing is you never know

2166
02:39:41.399 --> 02:39:46.600
which one is going to be perfect
right right, right, God, that's

2167
02:39:46.639 --> 02:39:54.120
a brilliant thing. It's our version
of a royal rumble. It is Hello

2168
02:39:54.360 --> 02:39:56.319
God, Vince's butchered. Will double
cross the others in a second if you

2169
02:39:56.360 --> 02:39:58.760
thinks it'll get him an advantage.
And Jesse says it better to have two

2170
02:39:58.760 --> 02:40:01.840
al lies in there than just one. And they clock him now is Tito

2171
02:40:01.920 --> 02:40:05.479
is seriously hanging by a thread over
the top rope, then says those idiots,

2172
02:40:05.559 --> 02:40:09.799
if they just back off and let
one guy throw a guy over,

2173
02:40:09.879 --> 02:40:13.399
it would work. So they're they're
becoming acquainted with the psychology of the thing.

2174
02:40:13.520 --> 02:40:16.760
Number four is Jake the Snake Roberts. Number five number five, Thank

2175
02:40:16.760 --> 02:40:20.079
you was Jake the Snake Roberts.
Yeah, he's on the hop to a

2176
02:40:20.120 --> 02:40:22.559
big pop. This is like the
first like Save the Day rumble entrance.

2177
02:40:24.079 --> 02:40:26.760
It is, it is. I
mean actually I was actually surprised they went

2178
02:40:26.840 --> 02:40:30.159
as far as they did with having
three heels against one baby face. I

2179
02:40:30.239 --> 02:40:33.760
was like, whoa, that's crazy, Like I was expecting a baby face

2180
02:40:33.840 --> 02:40:37.399
to come in a nighthearts position.
Yeah, that sounds work in psychology right

2181
02:40:37.440 --> 02:40:39.520
here exactly. It's yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Jake picks the

2182
02:40:39.559 --> 02:40:43.360
ankle and tosses read out of the
ring ladies and gentlemen. The first televised

2183
02:40:43.440 --> 02:40:50.639
rumble Ye eliminated talents but read butch
read absolutely wild. What a lame What

2184
02:40:50.760 --> 02:40:54.559
a lame one. It was a
lame one. But I mean the crowd

2185
02:40:54.680 --> 02:40:56.719
is like, this is so cool, Like that's what it looks like when

2186
02:40:56.719 --> 02:40:58.159
they get eliminated. I want him
to get thrown out now him. Yep.

2187
02:40:58.440 --> 02:41:01.920
You can kind of here the gears
turning almost in the way they're reacting.

2188
02:41:01.680 --> 02:41:05.360
So Jake cooking with right hands on
the hearts. Crowd so happy as

2189
02:41:05.440 --> 02:41:07.920
Jake slam's Brett. They're channing DDT
Hearts whipped into each other in the center

2190
02:41:07.959 --> 02:41:11.719
of the ring. Jake signals for
the DDT, but Jim Night Heart to

2191
02:41:11.760 --> 02:41:16.440
get the fucking kills him. Heart's
about the business number. Um wait,

2192
02:41:16.520 --> 02:41:22.120
the ten count starts on our screen. Next out Harley Race, Harley Race.

2193
02:41:22.559 --> 02:41:24.639
He comes out before the before it
reaches zero anyway, and he doesn't

2194
02:41:26.479 --> 02:41:31.079
race from Yes, got on King
Harley with a big elbow drop on Jake.

2195
02:41:31.120 --> 02:41:33.040
The snake roberts right into the camera, which is position of the ring

2196
02:41:33.079 --> 02:41:37.200
apron, and Jesse asks if there's, uh, if he thinks they're any

2197
02:41:37.280 --> 02:41:43.959
cheating going on in the back,
any possibility in the back of someone cheating

2198
02:41:43.040 --> 02:41:48.920
and getting out of the suit.
I had the times class, I've got

2199
02:41:48.920 --> 02:41:52.280
it much. Well, if it's
Jack Tommy, he can be bought.

2200
02:41:54.079 --> 02:42:01.040
Stop it so awesome, Jack Tunney, what a bitch? I wonder.

2201
02:42:01.280 --> 02:42:05.440
Jesse loves this match so much.
It's just like a canvas he can paint

2202
02:42:05.520 --> 02:42:09.040
on his mind, can go in
a million ways of scheming. Absolutely,

2203
02:42:09.239 --> 02:42:13.479
yep, you know what I mean. Disingenuity Uh. Jake and Brett teetering

2204
02:42:13.559 --> 02:42:16.760
on the brink of elimination, and
Toura says, you know what a concept

2205
02:42:16.000 --> 02:42:20.079
this match. Is this is really
interesting? He's he's he's falling in love

2206
02:42:20.079 --> 02:42:24.799
with the match. Yeah, on
live as we're watching it. Right up

2207
02:42:24.879 --> 02:42:28.319
Jesse's alley here because it has so
many justified heel activities, Like even the

2208
02:42:28.399 --> 02:42:33.120
baby Faces can't be blamed for heels. Yep, yep, they're gonna cheat.

2209
02:42:33.840 --> 02:42:37.319
He loves that and turn on each
other too. Yeah. Next dout

2210
02:42:37.399 --> 02:42:41.280
is Jim Brunzel from The Killer Bees. He comes flying out. Do you

2211
02:42:41.319 --> 02:42:46.159
think how much it Vince revel in
the fact that he did eventually get Harley

2212
02:42:46.280 --> 02:42:48.239
race Oh that's a sweet what is
it? Yeah? And he got to

2213
02:42:48.319 --> 02:42:54.280
dress him up in a fucking purple
robe, dye his hair that oh I

2214
02:42:54.319 --> 02:42:56.559
guess his hair was already, but
what plays his natural hair color the brown

2215
02:42:56.680 --> 02:43:01.000
or the brown or the blonde,
and then like shave off his fucking facial

2216
02:43:01.079 --> 02:43:05.959
hair looking like an absolute idiot,
looks like a total fucking fool in ww

2217
02:43:05.319 --> 02:43:13.000
yep, yep, a complete cartoon
bozo moron. Yeah, the King Harley

2218
02:43:13.079 --> 02:43:16.600
Racey, Harley, you know,
I just want you to know we have

2219
02:43:16.600 --> 02:43:18.200
a lot of respect for what you've
done in the business now and uh,

2220
02:43:18.920 --> 02:43:22.280
you know you you you've been the
king. You know you legitimately have been

2221
02:43:22.319 --> 02:43:26.840
the king. I mean, you're
you're, you're, you're world champion seven

2222
02:43:26.959 --> 02:43:28.920
times over. You know you or
you are the king? And so they

2223
02:43:28.959 --> 02:43:31.879
got me thinking professional attainment. I
was like, maybe we could use that.

2224
02:43:33.520 --> 02:43:35.440
You know, what if we actually
made you the king? What if

2225
02:43:35.479 --> 02:43:41.360
you were the king, Harley Race? What if? And there's really not

2226
02:43:41.079 --> 02:43:45.079
any way of getting around us.
This is what's going to happen. We

2227
02:43:45.319 --> 02:43:48.360
dress you up like a fucking king, dress you up like Grimace, like

2228
02:43:48.479 --> 02:43:52.840
a fucking idiot. All right?
What if we make you the king of

2229
02:43:54.319 --> 02:43:58.399
professional wrestling? A fucking idiot?
What if we make you the king of

2230
02:43:58.520 --> 02:44:03.360
taking I dick down your throat after
you pretended that you could stop my fucking

2231
02:44:03.639 --> 02:44:07.399
conquest? What if this? What
if we make you the king of sticking

2232
02:44:07.520 --> 02:44:13.239
your face in between my butt cheeks? Exactly? Huh. Gonna shoot on

2233
02:44:13.440 --> 02:44:16.600
in the bathroom, now, pal, you can shoot on me, Pal

2234
02:44:16.000 --> 02:44:20.200
in the bathroom, and I'm gonna
shoot on you, all right. I

2235
02:44:20.319 --> 02:44:26.280
have no problem dropping feces on your
face. Harley. You're a proud man,

2236
02:44:26.879 --> 02:44:30.840
family man. Are going to call
your wife and tell her that you

2237
02:44:30.920 --> 02:44:33.079
did whatever it took to get my
New York money when you actually you know

2238
02:44:33.120 --> 02:44:35.959
what I want to do right now. I want you to grab the phone

2239
02:44:35.040 --> 02:44:37.600
right now, Grab the phone right
now. I want you to call your

2240
02:44:37.639 --> 02:44:43.000
wife, call home, call your
wife, have your kids on the fucking

2241
02:44:43.079 --> 02:44:48.360
phone, and I want you to
say to them, say Hi, Hi,

2242
02:44:48.559 --> 02:44:52.719
kids, Hi honey. I just
want you to know that I'm a

2243
02:44:52.799 --> 02:44:58.040
worthless bitch. Ye say it.
Say it to your fucking family money,

2244
02:44:58.159 --> 02:45:00.319
say it. You want it,
you want it, You want to earn

2245
02:45:00.399 --> 02:45:03.479
a real living instead of being a
dumb ass like you've been in the last

2246
02:45:03.600 --> 02:45:07.319
fucking twenty years of your life.
You fucking worth for such shit. I

2247
02:45:07.440 --> 02:45:09.799
want you to call your wife up
and say, honey, Vince is gonna

2248
02:45:09.840 --> 02:45:13.200
dress me up like a burger king. I want you to say, Vince

2249
02:45:13.319 --> 02:45:20.600
McMahon is my god, and I
will do whatever he asks. I'm not

2250
02:45:20.680 --> 02:45:24.920
going to do this. I'm not
going to follow through, but I am

2251
02:45:24.040 --> 02:45:30.760
going to require that you call your
wife and tell her that you are demanding

2252
02:45:30.799 --> 02:45:33.440
that she sleep with me. And
then I want you to I want you

2253
02:45:33.440 --> 02:45:35.959
to do two things right now,
all right, this is a demand.

2254
02:45:37.280 --> 02:45:39.280
I want you to. When you're
on the phone with her, you say

2255
02:45:39.360 --> 02:45:43.280
you know what, honey, Vince
McMahon's gonna shoot on my face and I'm

2256
02:45:43.319 --> 02:45:48.719
proud of that. And I need
you to sleep with him because that's what

2257
02:45:48.879 --> 02:45:50.760
I want as your husband. I
want you to tell her that I need

2258
02:45:50.840 --> 02:45:54.280
you to bring this home for our
family. I would like you, honey,

2259
02:45:54.879 --> 02:45:58.799
please blow Vince McMahon say, I
want some of that Kansas City barb

2260
02:46:00.079 --> 02:46:03.920
you ready for me at the house, and then I want some exclusive alone

2261
02:46:03.959 --> 02:46:07.799
time with your wife in your bed. Say say say to missus race,

2262
02:46:09.600 --> 02:46:15.920
but I want Vince McMahon's come on
your face. You got that. Look

2263
02:46:15.959 --> 02:46:24.319
all we're doing this lay history here, all right, Fine, don't have

2264
02:46:24.399 --> 02:46:28.120
to twist his arm. Geez,
honey, how much we're talking about here.

2265
02:46:28.239 --> 02:46:33.719
It's the whole fucking ballgame, Honney. I want you to get comed

2266
02:46:33.760 --> 02:46:43.000
on by Benda man. Okay,
it's so awful. Well, hey,

2267
02:46:43.120 --> 02:46:45.280
do you want me to say,
there it is? Here we go.

2268
02:46:46.360 --> 02:46:48.959
Well, I want to thank you, thank you. I cannot wait to

2269
02:46:50.079 --> 02:46:58.639
get lay normal guy thing to say
at that juncture. So bread Zel comes

2270
02:46:58.680 --> 02:47:01.479
out, live Brett and they go
insane at the prospect of Brett being eliminated.

2271
02:47:01.639 --> 02:47:05.959
It's already a big deal that Brett's
bet in there that long. Brett,

2272
02:47:05.040 --> 02:47:07.280
ever the contortion, is trying to
stay in the ring and Jake is

2273
02:47:07.319 --> 02:47:09.879
cranking on his leg. Brett lands
on the apron and we realized, Wow,

2274
02:47:11.000 --> 02:47:13.680
guys can go over the top but
still not get eliminated. Yes,

2275
02:47:13.840 --> 02:47:16.479
they stress, he did not go
over. They feel really compelled to point

2276
02:47:16.520 --> 02:47:18.479
that out over and over. That's
very true. He would not go over

2277
02:47:18.559 --> 02:47:22.600
for a long time. Jake pulls
down an animal's goateee. Jesse notes that

2278
02:47:22.680 --> 02:47:26.920
Breton Chico have been in there since
the start, and Vince says they'll be

2279
02:47:26.000 --> 02:47:30.200
ironed men if they could make it
through. So the first observation of that

2280
02:47:30.239 --> 02:47:33.719
type getting a rumble match. Brunzel
has a hardy race on his shoulders and

2281
02:47:33.760 --> 02:47:35.760
a fireman's carried trying to dump him
out of the ring. Brett with the

2282
02:47:35.760 --> 02:47:39.280
side backbreaker on Tito Santana still sprying
there as the hitman as out. Next

2283
02:47:39.319 --> 02:47:45.000
comes Sam Houston with the bandana on
his neck. Brother of Jake the Snake,

2284
02:47:45.079 --> 02:47:50.200
roberts, Yeah, and I believe
married to baby Doll, who is

2285
02:47:50.200 --> 02:47:52.079
still in Crockett at the time,
about to do the angle is since the

2286
02:47:52.120 --> 02:47:58.520
mystery photograph from Dusty Rhodes's past that
never gets revealed. Houston comes in throwing

2287
02:47:58.600 --> 02:48:01.719
on all the heels, kind of
saves Zel from Race for a moment there,

2288
02:48:01.360 --> 02:48:05.440
and the Hearts the Heart Foundation both
tossed Tito Santana, so he's out.

2289
02:48:07.079 --> 02:48:09.879
Not really any friend versus friend action. They didn't really do that,

2290
02:48:09.440 --> 02:48:13.879
not yet. Next year demolition.
What a great start, ye, what

2291
02:48:15.040 --> 02:48:18.399
a great idea that was. Mhm
um, so I still remember that?

2292
02:48:20.079 --> 02:48:24.719
So good. Ventura points out the
fortitude of Brett Hart and Vince says,

2293
02:48:24.920 --> 02:48:26.840
just like Tito Santana. But Jesse
says, yeah, but uh he's back

2294
02:48:26.879 --> 02:48:33.799
selling rotten tacos. Oh my god, he says it again. Very good.

2295
02:48:33.079 --> 02:48:37.079
Danny Davis is out next in the
zebra stripe pants. Where do I

2296
02:48:37.120 --> 02:48:41.799
sign up? Dover New Hampshire's own. I heard Daniel Davis bases outfit on

2297
02:48:41.920 --> 02:48:46.479
beetlejuice and Vince goes, oh no, not this guy. Yeah, me

2298
02:48:46.600 --> 02:48:50.319
too. Yeah. He mixes it
up with Sam Houston a bit Harley Race

2299
02:48:50.399 --> 02:48:52.600
doing his terry funk Teeter totter spot
in the ropes is Jake Lan's right hands

2300
02:48:52.680 --> 02:48:56.520
funk trying to hand a like insert
work rate into this thing, you know,

2301
02:48:58.159 --> 02:49:03.600
Harley Race just for some reason,
he just seems so trashy he is,

2302
02:49:03.440 --> 02:49:05.719
you know, I mean, I
know he probably, I know he

2303
02:49:05.959 --> 02:49:11.159
is, but like for some reason
with the blonde hair and no facial hair

2304
02:49:11.120 --> 02:49:16.479
and and this stupid purple tights,
he just seems so fucking trashy. Kind

2305
02:49:16.520 --> 02:49:22.479
of looks like a yeah, like
a white trash grandma. M h you

2306
02:49:22.600 --> 02:49:26.000
take the facial hair away and die
in blonde. He kind of looks like

2307
02:49:26.159 --> 02:49:28.559
he really a little bit, he
does. He looks like a grandma.

2308
02:49:28.559 --> 02:49:31.760
Yeah, that's right. Jake Lanning
right hands on him, Jake with a

2309
02:49:31.799 --> 02:49:35.639
back suplex and Danny Davis and they
start channing DDT again. He hooks it,

2310
02:49:35.680 --> 02:49:37.920
but Davis drops to his knees to
counter. Next out Boris Zukoff hits

2311
02:49:37.959 --> 02:49:41.840
the ring. Yeah. Man,
we're just so exciting here. Uh.

2312
02:49:43.159 --> 02:49:48.479
Jesse celebrates Bret's longevity in the in
the Royal Rumble. You know what's amazing.

2313
02:49:50.719 --> 02:49:56.680
Still, that's amazing that started the
Royal Rumblers. Still in there,

2314
02:49:56.879 --> 02:50:07.920
you don't find out amazing? Yes
that he is. Um, he's so

2315
02:50:09.120 --> 02:50:11.319
not wanting to go there. I
know he does not want to celebrate Brett

2316
02:50:11.360 --> 02:50:15.600
hard that's his plan. And if
you know, Bruce Pritchard says is true

2317
02:50:15.680 --> 02:50:18.479
that it was actually a lark that
Brett hadn't been eliminated, they didn't plan

2318
02:50:18.559 --> 02:50:22.120
on making that a thing, then
you can see why Vince perhaps isn't leaning

2319
02:50:22.159 --> 02:50:26.479
into it. Pretty impressive that they
managed to completely avoid commercial breaks on the

2320
02:50:26.520 --> 02:50:30.680
Live USA network. I know during
the rumble that because it didn't seem like

2321
02:50:30.840 --> 02:50:33.399
they were forcing like a lot of
breaks before this to where you're like,

2322
02:50:33.440 --> 02:50:37.200
oh, okay, this is that's
the reason there's three times more commercials.

2323
02:50:39.280 --> 02:50:41.159
So Vince shouts out Sam Houston for
hooking his foot on the top rope to

2324
02:50:41.200 --> 02:50:45.799
prevent elimination. A little bit of
craft there. Ventura notices the King working

2325
02:50:45.840 --> 02:50:48.000
over Boris Zukov, and that's in
every Man for Himself moment, because that's

2326
02:50:48.000 --> 02:50:50.159
two heels. I guess that is
true. That is true, And Toura

2327
02:50:50.239 --> 02:50:54.799
puts over Brett is amazing, like
you just said, and then he and

2328
02:50:54.799 --> 02:50:56.319
then he teases he might be number
twenty. Yeah, union never know,

2329
02:50:56.479 --> 02:51:00.479
Vince, I might, that's so
Jesse eighty eight eighty nine, Yes it

2330
02:51:00.600 --> 02:51:09.239
is. I might be number twenty. I might run down nobody's that's a

2331
02:51:09.360 --> 02:51:11.239
that's a Jerry Lawler spot there isn't
it? Yes, it is, absolutely

2332
02:51:11.319 --> 02:51:16.399
so he's laying that groundwork as well. Next up, um, Don Morocco

2333
02:51:16.239 --> 02:51:24.959
right the rock and Nikolai Volclough too. What's going on here? Weird Morocco

2334
02:51:24.079 --> 02:51:28.319
Morocco hits him the floor. I
don't know, and I think I don't

2335
02:51:28.360 --> 02:51:33.120
know what this if this was a
mistake or what. Yeah, but but

2336
02:51:33.319 --> 02:51:39.920
Nikolai, yeah, I don't know. They started battling and but it then

2337
02:51:39.159 --> 02:51:43.920
then Morocco gets shoved into the ring. So I guess he is the technical

2338
02:51:45.239 --> 02:51:50.600
legal next participant and uh, this
whole time, I want you to uh

2339
02:51:50.399 --> 02:52:05.000
here Vincetickman called Morocco the rock three
times. You're if you smell Don Morocco

2340
02:52:05.120 --> 02:52:07.399
the first coming of Dwayne Johns.
Oh my god, isn't that the truth?

2341
02:52:07.680 --> 02:52:09.680
Well, Nikolay is being held back
on the floor by officials. I

2342
02:52:09.760 --> 02:52:13.639
know, Jake Robertson Brunzell trying to
force Zukoff over the top, and then

2343
02:52:13.719 --> 02:52:16.360
Nikola has to wait. Apparently he
jumped the gun, Vince says, and

2344
02:52:16.479 --> 02:52:20.959
Jesse says he doesn't totally understand English. Brenzel gets his big drop kicking on

2345
02:52:20.040 --> 02:52:26.360
Brett or the match. He doesn't
totally understand English McMahon, and he says

2346
02:52:26.520 --> 02:52:31.280
he can't blame him. I'm tired
of your barbs tonight. Oh yep here

2347
02:52:31.360 --> 02:52:37.159
and that leads into the least is
the Barry Bloom reference. Here we go.

2348
02:52:37.760 --> 02:52:41.399
You know, McMahon, tired of
your barbs tonight and I'm tired of

2349
02:52:41.520 --> 02:52:43.600
you down on me. And if
you don't knock it off, you're getting

2350
02:52:43.639 --> 02:52:52.319
here from Barry Blue. Oh you
know who has heard it? I don't.

2351
02:52:52.399 --> 02:53:00.360
He has stand here that's trying to
play it out. Yea, oh

2352
02:53:00.600 --> 02:53:07.280
god. Especially imagine how annoyed he
must be had Jesse for bringing this ship

2353
02:53:07.360 --> 02:53:09.280
up to strangle this motherfucker, because
think about it, all this is,

2354
02:53:09.399 --> 02:53:18.639
this is, this is all after
Predator and Running Man, the showdowns we've

2355
02:53:18.680 --> 02:53:22.680
talked about. Yep, all that
shit happened before this. So Barry Bloom

2356
02:53:22.879 --> 02:53:28.639
is a real thorn in Vince nick
Mann's side. Yeah, He's like the

2357
02:53:28.879 --> 02:53:31.399
coming of the new way of doing
business that Vince does not want to be

2358
02:53:31.479 --> 02:53:35.120
a part of, where he doesn't
have complete say so over where the cattle

2359
02:53:35.200 --> 02:53:39.840
go next? And for Edna,
what price shut up, by the way

2360
02:53:39.840 --> 02:53:43.079
to Stephen Dame, who pointed out, Um that Jesse Ventura first Amendment rant

2361
02:53:43.120 --> 02:53:48.040
that we played a bit earlier.
Um that got me. Um, you

2362
02:53:48.159 --> 02:53:50.399
know, just the Barry Bloom talk
of me thinking about that. Um.

2363
02:53:52.200 --> 02:53:54.000
Next up, Nikolai. Now he's
unleashed. What a more? What more?

2364
02:53:54.559 --> 02:53:58.319
I don't really what a duke?
What a goofball? Runs really tossed

2365
02:53:58.319 --> 02:54:01.600
out of the ring. Don Morocco
with a big right hand, and Race

2366
02:54:01.680 --> 02:54:05.000
goes head over heels and he's gone. Harley. Race takes the ass over

2367
02:54:05.040 --> 02:54:07.799
tea kettle. Bump for the business, because Harley didn't just come here to

2368
02:54:07.920 --> 02:54:09.239
just be in the rum. Hit
her to take the bond. Gone,

2369
02:54:09.319 --> 02:54:13.799
give me the fucking bumping the Morocco
bought me. You stupid send me,

2370
02:54:15.079 --> 02:54:18.879
send me, don send me out, you stupid Hawaiian fu butt me.

2371
02:54:22.360 --> 02:54:26.319
Do it. You're fucking me.
He's a shit. Why must you bump,

2372
02:54:26.399 --> 02:54:31.840
Harley? I'm bumped to make the
business. I bumped the cell tickets.

2373
02:54:31.840 --> 02:54:35.280
I bumped to draw the crowd.
I bump because that's the only thing

2374
02:54:35.399 --> 02:54:41.719
I know how to do. We
landed on truth. It took a while,

2375
02:54:41.799 --> 02:54:46.239
but we got there. There he
goes he's out eliminated as King Harley

2376
02:54:46.319 --> 02:54:48.760
Race inventor us is obviously the King
ain't happy whether Vince says, stop with

2377
02:54:48.840 --> 02:54:56.000
the double negatives, Well, he's
not happy. You understood what I meant,

2378
02:54:56.040 --> 02:55:00.600
didn't you. I've got a degree
in things, and right, Frank

2379
02:55:00.680 --> 02:55:05.959
Lean, unquestionably, I cannot.
I cannot abide by your lack of English

2380
02:55:07.079 --> 02:55:15.360
appreciation. And from there, if
I could expostulate momentarily, I'm gonna say

2381
02:55:15.399 --> 02:55:18.399
that a lot, I think going
forward on a lot, and let me

2382
02:55:18.479 --> 02:55:20.520
tell you, I'm gonna let me
tell you, I'm gonna expostulate all over

2383
02:55:20.639 --> 02:55:28.000
fucking Harley Race's wife. Awesome.
Jack robertson peril, they're trying to eliminate

2384
02:55:28.120 --> 02:55:30.840
him, and his brother makes to
save Race and shoving refs and wants back

2385
02:55:30.879 --> 02:55:33.719
in the match. Hilarious, And
here we go. The next entrance is

2386
02:55:33.760 --> 02:55:39.879
the winner, Jim Duggan. Jim
Duggan number thirteen, which would be around

2387
02:55:39.040 --> 02:55:43.879
I would say, number like twenty
two ish, something like that if it

2388
02:55:43.959 --> 02:55:46.680
were a thirty So, if it
were a thirty man, yep, about

2389
02:55:46.760 --> 02:55:50.600
to clean halfway through. Yeah,
with the board on the march, there's

2390
02:55:50.639 --> 02:55:52.719
kind of a red carpet right at
the entrance, but he walks through the

2391
02:55:52.760 --> 02:55:54.959
people for some reason. He comes
to Harley Race and they get into a

2392
02:55:54.000 --> 02:55:56.639
shoving match. Of course, Harley
Race and Jim Dugget had had a big

2393
02:55:58.079 --> 02:56:01.200
brawl all over the place deal at
the Slammy Awards where they fought like in

2394
02:56:01.280 --> 02:56:05.399
the kitchen and all over Caesar's Palace, Convention Center wherever they did that show,

2395
02:56:07.239 --> 02:56:09.600
So that's continuing here. Hobolly slaps
him. Duggan picks up a board

2396
02:56:09.639 --> 02:56:13.440
and pursues him, then stops and
does the hoe and Vince does the ha

2397
02:56:15.040 --> 02:56:18.840
at. Jim Duggan gets on the
apron and salutes and jumps in, throwing

2398
02:56:18.879 --> 02:56:22.159
big hands on the anvil, then
tours back to putting over Brett Hart for

2399
02:56:22.239 --> 02:56:26.639
still being in there, and in
what is definitely less than two minutes,

2400
02:56:26.719 --> 02:56:31.280
Ron Bass makes his way out.
Next yep, Jake tries another ddity on

2401
02:56:31.360 --> 02:56:33.879
Danny Davis and again Danny squirms out. So they're building that. I believe

2402
02:56:35.079 --> 02:56:39.399
Vince calls Ron Bass a brawler,
yes, and kirrect me if I'm wrong.

2403
02:56:39.479 --> 02:56:43.040
I believe he also calls him a
stumper stomper. I missed that,

2404
02:56:43.479 --> 02:56:48.639
like Archie Gouldy, a brawler and
a stomper. Vinceys Davis is not quite

2405
02:56:48.680 --> 02:56:52.000
over yep, and that'll never be
the same. After this match, Nikolai

2406
02:56:52.079 --> 02:56:56.879
lifts and dumbs bruns Ol. He's
out, Thank god. Barrocco decides,

2407
02:56:56.959 --> 02:56:58.280
you know what we need, we
need to half star here. He does

2408
02:56:58.319 --> 02:57:03.840
the Seawan Michaels inside out bump in
the corner. He does fucking working his

2409
02:57:03.000 --> 02:57:07.719
ass off, and he's like,
he's like fucking killing it. It's a

2410
02:57:07.840 --> 02:57:11.799
tree of woe over here, and
it's the nineteen eighty eight Royal Rumble.

2411
02:57:11.959 --> 02:57:16.639
It's like, you know, I, I don't. I don't know what

2412
02:57:16.920 --> 02:57:22.799
the story was where where Morocco turned
face, but he is an exceptional baby

2413
02:57:22.879 --> 02:57:28.559
face. Ye, it's crazy,
it is. Brian Blair is out.

2414
02:57:28.600 --> 02:57:31.959
Next. He nails Brett with a
body shot, throwing hands and Brett collapses.

2415
02:57:31.000 --> 02:57:33.920
You can tell he hit him either
of the balls or the liver.

2416
02:57:33.079 --> 02:57:35.440
Oh. Of course, she goes
after the guy who's been in there the

2417
02:57:35.559 --> 02:57:39.000
longest, of course. Real real
profile encourages b Bran. Come on,

2418
02:57:39.959 --> 02:57:46.120
Hillsburgo, Hillsboro County, stat give
me a break. He couldn't be elected.

2419
02:57:46.799 --> 02:57:52.159
Break, Come on, I'm I'll
be the mayor of Brooklyn Park before

2420
02:57:52.200 --> 02:58:03.399
he does anything. Oh sick burns. So I was hoping a god that

2421
02:58:03.479 --> 02:58:05.040
Brett or Blair said something about in
their book, but they don't. It's

2422
02:58:05.159 --> 02:58:09.040
very clear that Blair knocks the wind
clean out of Brett when he gets in

2423
02:58:09.079 --> 02:58:11.520
their throwing like a madman with you
know, the surprise Bret remembers everything.

2424
02:58:11.600 --> 02:58:18.600
Yeah, I know, so everyone
starts avoiding Blair. Sorry you say Blair

2425
02:58:18.680 --> 02:58:20.040
has a book. Yeah, he
just came out with him. It's pretty

2426
02:58:20.040 --> 02:58:24.799
good, is it. Yeah?
Does anyone care than he has a book?

2427
02:58:24.959 --> 02:58:28.319
Um? I do, but I
can't speak for any of about anybody

2428
02:58:28.360 --> 02:58:31.360
else. Yeah, he's actually lived
a very colorful life in wrestling. He

2429
02:58:31.479 --> 02:58:35.719
has been around a lot. You
know, you think about being a key

2430
02:58:35.760 --> 02:58:41.399
witness in this orient trial too.
Hule Cogan's a really good friend for years

2431
02:58:41.440 --> 02:58:43.680
and years, and he's open about
it. And he's a politician, so

2432
02:58:43.760 --> 02:58:48.520
he kind of he's he he's comfortable
leaning into controversial subjects and kind of like

2433
02:58:50.479 --> 02:58:54.000
he'd rather his name be in the
news than risk, you know, than

2434
02:58:54.159 --> 02:58:58.479
worry about scandal or saying something scandalous. I think it's great. Uh,

2435
02:58:58.719 --> 02:59:01.000
he began the Cauliflower Alley President,
so we became mister you know, protect

2436
02:59:01.040 --> 02:59:05.280
the boys and mister h so um
yeah, I would recommend the book.

2437
02:59:05.760 --> 02:59:09.600
So he's the rowing like crazy and
Brett takes a shot. If someone can

2438
02:59:09.639 --> 02:59:13.000
ask Brian Blair, I'd love a
recollection to this because it's it's a very

2439
02:59:13.600 --> 02:59:18.719
uh um, conspicuous moment in the
rumble. Brett then gets recovered a bit

2440
02:59:18.760 --> 02:59:22.959
and digs in his blairs, trying
toss anvil dug and throwing heavy shots.

2441
02:59:22.479 --> 02:59:24.680
They call him one of the biggest, baddest brawlers in the w B.

2442
02:59:24.719 --> 02:59:30.479
If that's what Vince says. Out
next is Hillbilly Jim and boy is he

2443
02:59:30.639 --> 02:59:33.639
tan? Oh yeah? And he's
getting some eliminations backdrops any out there,

2444
02:59:35.920 --> 02:59:37.120
if you're gonna be if you're gonna
be a friend of mine, dude on

2445
02:59:37.239 --> 02:59:41.719
TV, you gotta be Tan,
brother, got that money? Should be

2446
02:59:41.760 --> 02:59:43.479
Tan, dude. All right,
we're not fucking around here, brother.

2447
02:59:43.600 --> 02:59:48.680
Oh yeah, all right, Hillbilly, you gotta be fucking tan. Fuck

2448
02:59:50.520 --> 02:59:52.879
who's ever sold a ticket without a
son Tan? Give me a break,

2449
02:59:54.559 --> 02:59:56.879
brother, I'm telling you, dude, none of these guys out there.

2450
02:59:56.760 --> 03:00:00.680
You can't You can't get in the
ring, brother, expect sell a ticket,

2451
03:00:00.799 --> 03:00:03.159
draw a house, dude, If
you're not Tan, right, I

2452
03:00:03.319 --> 03:00:09.120
trust people who are Tam brother andres
dude, Andre is not Tan. I

2453
03:00:09.200 --> 03:00:13.600
can't trust him, brother, right, and so I don't and so I

2454
03:00:13.639 --> 03:00:16.680
don't. Dude. So hill Billy
gets in backdrops anvil out of the ring.

2455
03:00:16.840 --> 03:00:18.559
Mom, Dude, my mom's not
Tan, brother, good question.

2456
03:00:18.600 --> 03:00:22.520
I don't trust my mom. I
know she'd try to roll me up from

2457
03:00:22.520 --> 03:00:30.360
behind. She's that fucking sniveling weasel. I've been talking to Ruth brother.

2458
03:00:31.920 --> 03:00:37.280
Wait, did you, Jim?
Are you too? Are you talking?

2459
03:00:39.239 --> 03:00:41.799
Are you saying that Peter saying that
my mom? Brother? Are you saying

2460
03:00:41.840 --> 03:00:45.799
that Ruth Balia has a steakhouse?
Dude? That I don't know about,

2461
03:00:45.840 --> 03:00:48.719
brother, that I'm going to inherit
when she dies. It's what you're saying.

2462
03:00:48.840 --> 03:00:50.280
Are you coming at me wide open
right now? Brother? Why are

2463
03:00:50.319 --> 03:00:56.120
you saying these things about my mom? Right? That's the question, right,

2464
03:00:58.440 --> 03:01:00.879
And I'm saying thing about your mom? Brother, you just did right

2465
03:01:00.920 --> 03:01:03.479
now. Dude, it's really weird
that you're denying it. You're denying things

2466
03:01:03.559 --> 03:01:16.200
that didn't happen. Exactly. Good
one. I think he threw his bag

2467
03:01:16.239 --> 03:01:22.399
out during a hoof saw that interviewer
did with the THEO van right where he's

2468
03:01:22.399 --> 03:01:24.600
like, I watch. I watched
part of it and I was like,

2469
03:01:26.200 --> 03:01:28.520
that guy just keeps delivering. It's
so awesome. I mean, we don't

2470
03:01:28.559 --> 03:01:31.440
you have to do anything. Sit
back and let the real hulk take it

2471
03:01:31.479 --> 03:01:35.879
away. So yeah, Hill Billy
Jim's going nuts. They're going nuts.

2472
03:01:35.920 --> 03:01:39.319
He googles Davis to the top rope
Cox's fist. He milts it and then

2473
03:01:39.399 --> 03:01:43.639
hits him and then lets him down
to his feet instead of eliminating Danny Davis.

2474
03:01:43.799 --> 03:01:46.840
Yes, that's what he does,
stupid toss him. After he does

2475
03:01:46.920 --> 03:01:50.239
that, Ventura says, uh,
Hill Billy Jim is the sixteenth entrant and

2476
03:01:50.239 --> 03:01:54.280
Bret the Hitman is number one.
He's still in that ring, so much

2477
03:01:54.399 --> 03:01:58.520
noise as everyone's throwing punches and stomping
him. It's rather glorious. It is,

2478
03:01:58.600 --> 03:02:01.399
it really is. That's the key. The bomb's going off one after

2479
03:02:01.479 --> 03:02:03.879
the other in a cacaphony unfamiliar in
the standard match. That's what's setting apart

2480
03:02:03.879 --> 03:02:07.319
of the Royal Rumble. I think
at this point the sounds of the thing,

2481
03:02:07.840 --> 03:02:09.159
I mean, when you play the
soundclips of Jesse and Vince talking you

2482
03:02:09.200 --> 03:02:13.799
can't even hear anything that people going
nuts in the ring and rattling like crazy

2483
03:02:13.840 --> 03:02:16.520
with all this ye beef in there. Do you know Bravo comes out next

2484
03:02:16.600 --> 03:02:20.440
him too, are claiming he's the
strongest man in the world. Sam Houston,

2485
03:02:20.520 --> 03:02:22.159
with the bandana still in his neck, is piggybacking on the shoulders of

2486
03:02:22.239 --> 03:02:26.520
Ron Bass, and Bass peels him
off and Houston goes splat over the top

2487
03:02:26.760 --> 03:02:30.040
to the floor. Thence puts them
over, says I hope Houston's gonna be

2488
03:02:30.040 --> 03:02:33.600
all right, And the announcers couldn't
even tell whose shoulders Houston was on when

2489
03:02:33.639 --> 03:02:37.959
he hit the floor. So now, remember when I said earlier, keep

2490
03:02:37.000 --> 03:02:41.959
in mind that they're indeed mats on
the floor. Yes, lest someone try

2491
03:02:43.000 --> 03:02:46.040
to take credit for taking a bump
in the rumble without mats back in my

2492
03:02:46.200 --> 03:02:50.280
day, here's Sam Houston speaking to
a podcast called Pancakes and Power Slams Work.

2493
03:02:52.000 --> 03:02:56.799
How was it working with Vincent's man
or WWF for the time, Yeah,

2494
03:02:56.600 --> 03:03:01.479
wow, how was it? Well, you don't really realize how big

2495
03:03:01.559 --> 03:03:05.479
you get badly you're getting screwed until
you get away from there. For a

2496
03:03:05.559 --> 03:03:09.639
long time, you know. He
never well, yeah, I mean you

2497
03:03:09.760 --> 03:03:13.920
get faced with the lies and everything
in this business is part of it.

2498
03:03:16.239 --> 03:03:18.399
Would ever worked for me again,
I don't think so. I mean I

2499
03:03:18.559 --> 03:03:22.159
might do a Royal Rumble return.
I would like to do that because since

2500
03:03:22.200 --> 03:03:28.239
I was in the very first one, you know, and and oh gosh,

2501
03:03:28.680 --> 03:03:31.079
and when they inducted dug In into
the Hall of Fame, which I

2502
03:03:31.159 --> 03:03:35.600
thought that was the greatest second the
world, they played a clip of him

2503
03:03:35.680 --> 03:03:37.760
going to the ring and it was
good because in that clip, I was

2504
03:03:37.840 --> 03:03:41.680
in the ring doing really good for
about two and a half seconds, and

2505
03:03:41.799 --> 03:03:46.280
then I was flying through, yeah, for about a second, and then

2506
03:03:46.360 --> 03:03:52.840
that loud splat as my body hit
the concrete. Because that was before they

2507
03:03:52.920 --> 03:03:56.879
started putting padding down. I mean, we used to land on concrete,

2508
03:03:56.000 --> 03:04:03.879
not you know, not a pillow
comfort that is he high Sam. There

2509
03:04:03.920 --> 03:04:05.879
were mats on the floor, buddy, Yeah, there are mats on the

2510
03:04:05.959 --> 03:04:09.120
floor. Maybe it's one of me. Maybe he's thinking of one of the

2511
03:04:09.120 --> 03:04:13.639
other Royal Rumbles. I don't think
so. Maybe maybe maybe thinking of a

2512
03:04:13.520 --> 03:04:18.600
of any other battle royal that possibly
happened anywhere in the country, and any

2513
03:04:18.680 --> 03:04:22.520
promotion it is very distressing to me
that the wrestlers did so many battle royals

2514
03:04:22.600 --> 03:04:26.200
back then that they really didn't care
to differentiate between the ones that were royal

2515
03:04:26.280 --> 03:04:31.200
rumbles. And it really bothers me
that I that that I remember so much

2516
03:04:31.239 --> 03:04:35.159
shit that happens in wrestling and they
don't. Yeah, man, that is

2517
03:04:35.239 --> 03:04:41.120
one of like the hardest truths,
because you're talking about the generation we're in

2518
03:04:41.200 --> 03:04:43.440
love with is a generation of guys
who, for the most part, did

2519
03:04:43.520 --> 03:04:50.159
not grow up marks. They did
not grow up like with encyclopedic knowledge of

2520
03:04:50.200 --> 03:04:54.840
wrestling like today, like most of
today's people do. And this in the

2521
03:04:54.920 --> 03:05:00.319
newer crop can can cite chapter in
verse. They know history. They they

2522
03:05:00.559 --> 03:05:03.399
geeked out watching videotape, they read
the Observer or whatever, the Internet,

2523
03:05:03.440 --> 03:05:07.479
whatever the case might be. They
have like this working knowledge of what came

2524
03:05:07.520 --> 03:05:11.959
before them, and they have a
mind towards like kind of documenting what's happening

2525
03:05:11.040 --> 03:05:16.719
and identifying the big moments and the
identifying what would be you know, having

2526
03:05:16.760 --> 03:05:20.799
the ability to identify what's going to
be the key beats in their career as

2527
03:05:20.879 --> 03:05:24.840
it's happening. These guys no clue
it was just about stringing together pay days,

2528
03:05:24.920 --> 03:05:28.399
and when you worked for New York, the pay days were that much

2529
03:05:28.399 --> 03:05:31.360
bigger and the only thing you cared
about was how big is the house tonight.

2530
03:05:31.600 --> 03:05:33.319
You didn't care about whether this is
going to go down as a big

2531
03:05:33.360 --> 03:05:37.079
moment in your particular career, because
that just wasn't. That wasn't how the

2532
03:05:37.120 --> 03:05:41.200
business was structured to reward you for, you know, leaning in on one

2533
03:05:41.319 --> 03:05:45.280
night over the other. Right,
it was longevity, was it was staying

2534
03:05:45.360 --> 03:05:48.639
not her, It was staying over. It was selling merch when that became

2535
03:05:48.680 --> 03:05:50.760
a thing, and you know,
it was having a good match. It

2536
03:05:50.840 --> 03:05:54.559
was that was important, but it
wasn't important in a way of like I'm

2537
03:05:54.600 --> 03:05:58.159
having a good match so that I'm
remembered as a guy who can have good

2538
03:05:58.200 --> 03:06:00.600
matches. It's no, I'm having
a good match that they have a reason

2539
03:06:00.600 --> 03:06:03.319
to book me on the next show. And I can put that exactly exactly,

2540
03:06:03.440 --> 03:06:07.920
and it's six huge cities and six
nights. It's like if there's a

2541
03:06:07.000 --> 03:06:11.159
rumble in there, fucking how how
can you blame me for not remembering it,

2542
03:06:11.959 --> 03:06:13.680
especially when you get pilled up to
fall asleep on the plane anywhere.

2543
03:06:13.760 --> 03:06:18.840
Of course, Sam Houston, it's
about being pilled up, Jimmy Hart saying

2544
03:06:20.079 --> 03:06:26.239
help help Brett, and he does. Someone helps Brett um out next Ultimate

2545
03:06:26.280 --> 03:06:31.440
Warrior, You got that right,
rumble Yellow and Red, no less brother

2546
03:06:33.120 --> 03:06:35.120
and does an awful barrage of chops
on ron Bass. This is still very

2547
03:06:35.200 --> 03:06:41.520
much the Dingo Warrior. Oh yeah, like the dumbass Warrior. Rocco grabs

2548
03:06:41.600 --> 03:06:46.360
Brett and sends him out of nowhere. Brett Hart is tossed by the rock,

2549
03:06:46.440 --> 03:06:52.920
Brett Hart eliminated, and Jesse goes
in Joshi the did you have the

2550
03:06:52.959 --> 03:06:58.360
twenty six minute mark? Um?
The twenty six minute mark? What do

2551
03:06:58.440 --> 03:07:01.200
you mean? Yeah? That's that's
it was twenty six minutes in there,

2552
03:07:01.840 --> 03:07:05.440
I believe so as wild. Jesse
says, well, I'll tell you what.

2553
03:07:05.520 --> 03:07:07.879
You gotta give Brett Hart credit.
He was number one and he stayed

2554
03:07:07.879 --> 03:07:15.680
in there till the eighteenth Man got
in first record and his book, Brett

2555
03:07:15.760 --> 03:07:18.159
Right Survivors series had been an overwhelming
success, so Linz decided to go for

2556
03:07:18.239 --> 03:07:20.879
a third pay per view a year, dreaming up The Royal Rumble to take

2557
03:07:20.920 --> 03:07:24.440
place either January. It would be
like a Battle Royal, except that it

2558
03:07:24.440 --> 03:07:26.200
would start with two wrestlers in the
ring, and then someone else would come

2559
03:07:26.200 --> 03:07:28.239
out to join them. Every two
minutes. The wind would be the last

2560
03:07:28.280 --> 03:07:31.360
man's standing. The first one was
time to air the Sunday before the Super

2561
03:07:31.440 --> 03:07:33.600
Bowl, when the NFL was off. I was chosen to be the first

2562
03:07:33.639 --> 03:07:37.200
guy into the ring, and I
wrestled for thirty six minutes. He says

2563
03:07:37.280 --> 03:07:41.799
thirty six here. But you know
how his book goes with numbers, right,

2564
03:07:41.879 --> 03:07:43.959
and an all out effort to get
Vince's attention with the hope of landing

2565
03:07:43.959 --> 03:07:48.239
a decent spot for WrestleMania four.
It didn't work. All I was offered

2566
03:07:48.319 --> 03:07:52.319
was a spot in the thirty man
Battle Royal. So to hear Brett Telltt

2567
03:07:52.319 --> 03:07:56.600
he had hopes and dreams. This
kind of conflicts with Bruce's story that Brett

2568
03:07:56.680 --> 03:08:00.719
was never really intended to be going
that long and to be a story of

2569
03:08:00.760 --> 03:08:03.719
the match like this. But right, that's still out there trying to make

2570
03:08:03.760 --> 03:08:11.440
an impression. Always yes, indeed, um, you know what I didn't

2571
03:08:11.520 --> 03:08:13.239
count Actually I meant to count this
and I forgot to do that. What

2572
03:08:13.440 --> 03:08:18.959
the what the most people? What
the how many people were in the ring?

2573
03:08:18.079 --> 03:08:20.079
Like the most the most amount of
people in the ring at the same

2574
03:08:20.159 --> 03:08:22.559
time same time. Yeah, that's
a good stat I meant to do that,

2575
03:08:22.639 --> 03:08:26.360
and I forgot. They have gone
so and overdrive in recent years with

2576
03:08:26.559 --> 03:08:30.959
like statistician videos. They must have
said that at some point, but I

2577
03:08:31.000 --> 03:08:37.479
always liked that, like, you
know, because the record, the record

2578
03:08:37.600 --> 03:08:43.440
to me was always for a long
time was ninety one record they had there

2579
03:08:43.520 --> 03:08:46.799
was eleven eleven guys, so a
third of the of the the roster was

2580
03:08:46.879 --> 03:08:52.159
in the ring over the third and
then in ninety four it broke. That

2581
03:08:52.440 --> 03:08:56.000
was I think the I think at
one point there was thirteen guys in the

2582
03:08:56.120 --> 03:09:05.799
ring um and then normally it's like
eighty eight is kind of the average of

2583
03:09:05.920 --> 03:09:09.159
having guys in the ring. Wow, very interesting. I love that stuff

2584
03:09:09.159 --> 03:09:13.920
about the rumble the facts of figures, don't. I don't bok or roll

2585
03:09:13.000 --> 03:09:16.040
my eyes at it at all.
It's it's fun when they do that.

2586
03:09:16.159 --> 03:09:20.639
Ye. So again, Pritchard was
telling the story about apparently Brett Hart thinking

2587
03:09:20.680 --> 03:09:24.000
it was Rick Martell all these years, and so I guess if I was

2588
03:09:24.040 --> 03:09:28.479
to read some quotes from his podcast
about this, we should just insert Brett's

2589
03:09:28.520 --> 03:09:31.959
name from Martell if if I'm hearing
this correctly. But he says, first

2590
03:09:31.000 --> 03:09:35.040
rumble we did. We forgot to
get Rick out. We sent someone in

2591
03:09:35.079 --> 03:09:37.600
to get him out because he thought
he was going to win it. Sometimes

2592
03:09:37.639 --> 03:09:39.799
it's not a perfect world, that
ain't ballet, and things are going to

2593
03:09:39.840 --> 03:09:41.920
happen, so you make the best
of it and you adapt. The very

2594
03:09:41.959 --> 03:09:45.959
first Royal rumble we ever did,
Pat Patterson laid it out and we forgot

2595
03:09:46.000 --> 03:09:48.520
to get Rick Martell out. He
knew he wasn't winning, but he just

2596
03:09:48.600 --> 03:09:50.159
stayed in because he didn't have anybody
to eliminate him. He was still in

2597
03:09:50.200 --> 03:09:52.120
the ring for a long time,
and we're looking at it and going,

2598
03:09:52.280 --> 03:09:54.760
who's getting Martell out? We gotta
get Martel out of there. So the

2599
03:09:54.840 --> 03:09:56.959
next guy we sent down, we
said, go in and tell Martell,

2600
03:09:58.040 --> 03:10:00.600
just eliminate Martell, get him out
of there. So I can see that

2601
03:10:00.680 --> 03:10:05.360
being Don Morocco kind of yeah,
does he shoot? He throws Brett out

2602
03:10:05.360 --> 03:10:09.200
shortly after entering, and perhaps was
sent down with the explicit instructions to get

2603
03:10:09.239 --> 03:10:11.600
Brett out of there because he's still
not supposed to be hanging tough. Although

2604
03:10:11.799 --> 03:10:16.639
not wait a minute, not really, he's there for a while. Doncco

2605
03:10:16.200 --> 03:10:22.079
Morocco is in it. Number eleven, and then Brett isn't tossed till number

2606
03:10:22.159 --> 03:10:24.200
eighteen. Oh wow, who tossed
Brett? He tossed Brett, right,

2607
03:10:24.239 --> 03:10:28.360
Morocco, Morocco. I just felt
like it was abrupt. Yes, maybe

2608
03:10:28.440 --> 03:10:31.760
he didn't toss Brett like you know, when they eliminate a guy who's been

2609
03:10:31.799 --> 03:10:35.040
in since number one, they make
it a deal. Yeah, yeah,

2610
03:10:35.239 --> 03:10:39.479
it's true. I mean, although
they do, um you know, I

2611
03:10:39.559 --> 03:10:41.360
mean, it's not uncommon for a
guy to get eliminated as soon as a

2612
03:10:41.719 --> 03:10:46.399
new guy comes in. True,
but does happen? And they were,

2613
03:10:46.680 --> 03:10:48.319
you know, it was still new, they didn't necessarily have the timing down.

2614
03:10:48.479 --> 03:10:52.959
Perhaps what's being suggested there is Don
Morocco was to be the guy to

2615
03:10:52.040 --> 03:10:56.440
throw out Brett. But whoever comes
in right when Brett was eliminated as the

2616
03:10:56.479 --> 03:10:58.520
person that gave the instruction to Don, I would I would understand. I

2617
03:10:58.559 --> 03:11:05.000
would believe a warrior fucking Gaves gives
the gives the instruction, fascinating Brett protesting,

2618
03:11:05.239 --> 03:11:07.520
of course, but that that conflicts
with the Brett says in his book

2619
03:11:07.559 --> 03:11:11.879
that he was out there with the
explicit attempt to make an impression. If

2620
03:11:11.920 --> 03:11:15.719
he really didn't think he was going
to have his long duration in the match,

2621
03:11:15.799 --> 03:11:18.360
then how would that have been a
reasonable expectation of his Well, I'll

2622
03:11:18.360 --> 03:11:24.280
tell you what, maybe Bruce Pritchard
just wasn't in on it. It's it's

2623
03:11:24.319 --> 03:11:28.319
it's really tricky, really tricky to
piece this together all these years later.

2624
03:11:28.840 --> 03:11:31.440
Um. But when he goes out
there and says like Vince was laughing and

2625
03:11:31.520 --> 03:11:33.200
he just wasn't laughing on the dena
Bravo thing, It's like, where does

2626
03:11:33.280 --> 03:11:37.159
this? He's just making shit up? It's possible, but what much more

2627
03:11:37.239 --> 03:11:41.920
likely is he remembers something that didn't
happen at the rumble but kind of remembers

2628
03:11:41.959 --> 03:11:45.920
it happening at the room. What
if I mean maybe maybe maybe, uh

2629
03:11:46.879 --> 03:11:58.719
what if what if he's what if
he's confusing the eighty eight rumble with the

2630
03:11:58.840 --> 03:12:03.280
night one rumble. I think he
clearly is in that. He's that's why

2631
03:12:03.319 --> 03:12:07.520
he thinks of Rick Martell in long
duration. But maybe what if what if

2632
03:12:07.600 --> 03:12:13.840
that's the case? What if Martell
in the ninety one rumble? Because I'll

2633
03:12:13.879 --> 03:12:18.159
tell you what, Martell going that
long is weird to go long. I

2634
03:12:18.239 --> 03:12:24.319
mean, like the fact that he
gets the longevity record for that year is

2635
03:12:24.440 --> 03:12:26.360
so weird to me because it's not
like they did anything with him. It's

2636
03:12:26.440 --> 03:12:30.440
really weird, you know. I
think for some reason, Bruce remembers this

2637
03:12:30.600 --> 03:12:33.760
story, and it's possible both are
true. By the way, it's possible

2638
03:12:33.799 --> 03:12:35.280
they forgot to tell Brett to get
out, and they told forgot to tell

2639
03:12:35.360 --> 03:12:39.799
Brick to get out, and he's
conflating the two. It's both could have

2640
03:12:39.840 --> 03:12:43.639
happened. They could have made that
mistake twice. But it seems like he's

2641
03:12:43.639 --> 03:12:46.440
so said on the idea that it
was part of the lessons learned of the

2642
03:12:46.520 --> 03:12:50.879
first rumble, that it had to
be that match where they failed to get

2643
03:12:50.920 --> 03:12:52.559
word out. And I'm telling you, like he tells the story when they

2644
03:12:52.600 --> 03:12:56.040
do like a show on Rick Martell, and then you know, a month

2645
03:12:56.200 --> 03:12:58.879
later they do the eighty eight Rumble
him and Conrad, and he like has

2646
03:13:00.040 --> 03:13:01.159
this like epiphany in the middle of
the thing where he goes, oh,

2647
03:13:01.280 --> 03:13:05.360
actually, I've been saying Martella and
told the story hundred times, and now

2648
03:13:05.399 --> 03:13:07.719
I realized it was Brett hard I
was talking about Brett was the guy.

2649
03:13:07.079 --> 03:13:11.760
And is he just saying that because
he realizes he was wrong saying it was

2650
03:13:11.879 --> 03:13:16.239
the first Rumble and just decides it
must have been Brett I was thinking about

2651
03:13:16.280 --> 03:13:20.239
because I see here he's the only
guy that lasted really long. Idiot,

2652
03:13:22.000 --> 03:13:24.200
that's also very possible. I'm going
with a idiot. I just wish,

2653
03:13:24.920 --> 03:13:28.719
oh man, I just wish,
you know, the foggy details or whatever.

2654
03:13:28.799 --> 03:13:31.959
I just wish now that we have
the footage, you know, we

2655
03:13:31.079 --> 03:13:35.479
have everything. We have every word
printed in the newsletters, we have every

2656
03:13:35.520 --> 03:13:39.680
minute of footage preserved and on demand. Just these little details like I just

2657
03:13:39.719 --> 03:13:43.360
wish they were right. But we
got to play decoder all the time in

2658
03:13:43.399 --> 03:13:46.719
wrestling, because what matters more is
the story, not the details. You

2659
03:13:46.799 --> 03:13:50.879
know, the thrust of the story
is what surved, not the details of

2660
03:13:50.920 --> 03:13:52.719
the story. And to me,
I'm like, I wish he was the

2661
03:13:52.760 --> 03:13:56.280
opposite. I wish the details were
the things everyone remembered instead of the takeaway.

2662
03:13:58.120 --> 03:14:03.399
So Brett is protesting, Ventura says
Danny Davis could be a surprise winner.

2663
03:14:03.479 --> 03:14:07.360
There's a mischievous suggestion. They've been
working like hell to get him out

2664
03:14:07.360 --> 03:14:09.479
of the ring. One man Gang
is out. Next, the winner of

2665
03:14:09.559 --> 03:14:13.639
the technical first ever Royal Rumble is
here. Yeah, number nineteen here Lumbering

2666
03:14:13.719 --> 03:14:16.079
down the aisle. He's the first
guy. I think that asks us to

2667
03:14:16.120 --> 03:14:20.280
consider the ramifications of being really fat
in the Royal rumble that it's true,

2668
03:14:20.360 --> 03:14:24.520
you know, and that is true? Then says why they picking on Jake

2669
03:14:24.840 --> 03:14:28.760
because he's a snake? Ventori answers. Warrior tries to jump on One Man

2670
03:14:28.879 --> 03:14:33.559
Gang's back and somehow fall fails to
do so. One Man Gang, yeah,

2671
03:14:33.639 --> 03:14:37.799
somehow tosses Brian Blair like it's nothing. Does the one Man Gang they

2672
03:14:37.879 --> 03:14:41.120
missed who threw him out? They
just saw Blair sailing out of the ring.

2673
03:14:41.719 --> 03:14:45.040
Jack robertson peril now and one Man
Gang knees him out of the ring.

2674
03:14:45.159 --> 03:14:48.040
Gang is in control. He's throwing
big stars out. Yes he is

2675
03:14:48.200 --> 03:14:54.760
ultimate Warrior gooseles Davis, but Nikolai
Volkov stops him from eliminating Davis. And

2676
03:14:54.840 --> 03:14:56.799
now we're down to the last man. And Ventura goes, it ain't you,

2677
03:14:58.159 --> 03:15:01.440
is it? McMahon, No,
it's not. It's the junkyard dog,

2678
03:15:01.920 --> 03:15:05.719
the jyd like he grabbed a few
cakes on the way to the ring.

2679
03:15:07.239 --> 03:15:11.040
Ten men in there. Now we
got ten men to close the year?

2680
03:15:11.079 --> 03:15:13.280
Are you good? Ten? Okay? All right, that's pretty good.

2681
03:15:13.360 --> 03:15:16.719
I don't know if that's the max
at any given point in this match,

2682
03:15:16.840 --> 03:15:20.239
but probably I would imagine so half
the half the crowd. I forgot

2683
03:15:20.280 --> 03:15:24.040
that I did a little half the
group, so um, Jesse says,

2684
03:15:24.079 --> 03:15:26.680
pick your winner. McMahon. Vince
goes with the Junkyard Dog or the One

2685
03:15:26.719 --> 03:15:30.440
Man Gang as Doug and backdrops Nicolai
Volclough out of the ring. Jesse agrees

2686
03:15:31.079 --> 03:15:33.360
that the One Man Gang is gonna
be tough to get out. As the

2687
03:15:33.440 --> 03:15:35.200
gang backdrops hill Billy Jim out of
the ring. Ventura says, you gotta

2688
03:15:35.200 --> 03:15:39.399
figure this is gang style of match. He comes from the streets of Chicago.

2689
03:15:39.479 --> 03:15:43.600
He's probably born and raised rumbling and
street fighting just like this. You

2690
03:15:43.719 --> 03:15:50.000
know, I just was I'm surprised
they didn't go with Jyd to be the

2691
03:15:50.239 --> 03:15:56.840
first winner. I could see it, you know, he just like I

2692
03:15:56.879 --> 03:15:58.879
don't know, I mean, especially
when we were talking about with Doug,

2693
03:16:00.159 --> 03:16:05.879
I just don't understand Duggan being the
winner, Like what does that? It's

2694
03:16:05.920 --> 03:16:09.760
like, I don't know. I
mean, I guess Duggan was popkin.

2695
03:16:09.000 --> 03:16:13.719
I just can't see to meet Duggan's
way more important and is way less important

2696
03:16:13.760 --> 03:16:16.799
than like Jyd or even Hillbilly Jim
for Fox, say, well, he's

2697
03:16:16.840 --> 03:16:20.520
less important than Jyd and eighty five
and Jim in eighty six. But you

2698
03:16:20.559 --> 03:16:24.440
gotta remember Jim, you know,
tore both of his knees out and was

2699
03:16:24.520 --> 03:16:28.000
basically lost all of his momentum by
the time he came back. He was

2700
03:16:28.280 --> 03:16:31.959
never anywhere near the top of the
card. Dog was just a complete liability

2701
03:16:31.000 --> 03:16:35.239
by this point, just a total
drug addict, just a ticking time pomp

2702
03:16:35.440 --> 03:16:41.000
and certainly not somebody that showed up
with the kind of force of charisma.

2703
03:16:41.680 --> 03:16:43.639
Yeah, they thought they were hiring
when they basically put him next to Hogan

2704
03:16:43.680 --> 03:16:48.559
as the one B baby face.
And again they hired Duggan away from Mid

2705
03:16:48.639 --> 03:16:50.639
South with a full plan of making
him the number two baby face in the

2706
03:16:50.680 --> 03:16:54.440
company. Bigelow kind of as well. I think Bigelow wasn't hurt. He

2707
03:16:54.479 --> 03:16:56.239
probably would have been slotted to win
this one. It almost seemed like they

2708
03:16:56.280 --> 03:17:00.520
got to the rumble and they were
like, Okay, it's not like we

2709
03:17:00.639 --> 03:17:03.399
created this match with the idea of
making somebody, but since we have the

2710
03:17:03.440 --> 03:17:07.159
match, let's look at who on
the baby face side could use the oomph

2711
03:17:07.280 --> 03:17:09.280
And actually, you know, not
just be a dut not just be a

2712
03:17:09.319 --> 03:17:11.879
guy who will get nothing out of
it. And Doug and if you look

2713
03:17:11.879 --> 03:17:16.600
at the field in terms of who
they actually could have used to headline shows

2714
03:17:16.639 --> 03:17:18.959
with, he's pretty much the only
baby face in there, then it makes

2715
03:17:18.959 --> 03:17:22.159
sense to put over when you consider, you know, just how how far

2716
03:17:22.479 --> 03:17:26.479
Dog had fallen from Grace, and
we know it's only a matter of months

2717
03:17:26.479 --> 03:17:30.639
before he's out of the company.
So it's uh, yeah, I guess

2718
03:17:30.680 --> 03:17:33.639
it's pretty much that. I think
if Bammers was around, he probably would

2719
03:17:33.639 --> 03:17:37.719
have gotten it, you know,
over the objections of Andre. But there

2720
03:17:37.719 --> 03:17:41.639
it is. President put Savage in
it. Yeah, I know, I

2721
03:17:41.760 --> 03:17:46.600
think they. I think they were, you know, as prosaic as it

2722
03:17:46.680 --> 03:17:48.360
sounds, also worried about drawing in
that Nova Scotia town as well, and

2723
03:17:50.079 --> 03:17:54.200
they cared as much about filling buildings
as they did about making this one television

2724
03:17:54.200 --> 03:17:56.760
special a bigger than everything else going
on that weekend and that loop, And

2725
03:17:56.840 --> 03:17:58.959
they had plans for Savage. I
mean, it's pretty clear that the plans

2726
03:18:00.000 --> 03:18:05.319
we're already in place to put Savage
over a Wrestlania. Yeah. So yeah,

2727
03:18:05.319 --> 03:18:07.879
you would think Rumble would be a
nice little but you know, this

2728
03:18:07.040 --> 03:18:11.840
is still like a self contained trophy. It's not right. Something they're telling

2729
03:18:11.920 --> 03:18:13.879
themselves is going to have a booking
ramifications down the road. It's just like

2730
03:18:13.959 --> 03:18:18.920
a one night bragging, right kind
of thing, so kind of like being

2731
03:18:18.920 --> 03:18:22.959
the sole survivor. You don't get
anything for it. Let's see gang Stella

2732
03:18:24.000 --> 03:18:26.280
match. Yes, Vin says,
you really can't call this. It's too

2733
03:18:26.360 --> 03:18:28.440
much action all over and he's making
mental notes on how to adjust for that

2734
03:18:28.559 --> 03:18:33.680
in the future. Duggan with a
great three point stance and knocking Danny Davis

2735
03:18:33.760 --> 03:18:35.799
out of the ring, and that
is a big pop because just the sight

2736
03:18:35.840 --> 03:18:41.159
of Danny Davis being in there is
aggravating. Yes it is. And Ventour

2737
03:18:41.239 --> 03:18:43.600
says, you've got to give him
credit as well. No I don't,

2738
03:18:45.159 --> 03:18:48.120
No, we don't, but we
do have to turn to Danny Davis's book

2739
03:18:48.159 --> 03:18:50.479
written in concert Kenny Casanova, because
it's probably the only time it makes any

2740
03:18:50.520 --> 03:18:54.719
sense. A little sketch on where
Danny Davis found himself in his career and

2741
03:18:54.840 --> 03:18:58.159
getting a bit of spotlight here in
the Rumble. I wrestled in the first

2742
03:18:58.159 --> 03:19:01.399
match of the first ever Survivor series, teaming with Honky Tong hercules, Ron

2743
03:19:01.440 --> 03:19:03.440
Bass, and Harley Race. We
took on Randy Savage, now a fan

2744
03:19:03.559 --> 03:19:07.440
favorite, Jake Robert Steamboat beefcake dugging
because the chorus of booze that I was

2745
03:19:07.479 --> 03:19:11.200
still receiving from fans, they had
to be the third man eliminated after a

2746
03:19:11.280 --> 03:19:13.799
DDT from Jake's there it is there. That's the psychology, the DDT that

2747
03:19:13.840 --> 03:19:18.440
spills into the rumble match. I
had thought staying in that long was a

2748
03:19:18.440 --> 03:19:20.319
good sign from the office. Yeah, he's a mark for staying long.

2749
03:19:20.680 --> 03:19:24.440
Yeah, I figured they probably thought
good things about my future. Following up

2750
03:19:24.479 --> 03:19:28.280
her Survivors series match, I met
up with Jake again in singles competition in

2751
03:19:28.319 --> 03:19:31.120
prime time. This, however,
was a means to an end for our

2752
03:19:31.159 --> 03:19:33.600
feud. Jake beat me quickly,
then finally gave the people what they wanted.

2753
03:19:33.879 --> 03:19:37.040
He threw Damien on me and left
the ring. Soon after that,

2754
03:19:37.159 --> 03:19:39.479
the writing was on the wall.
My days in the ring is a good

2755
03:19:39.479 --> 03:19:41.360
competitive wrest that we're winding down.
I began to drop down the lower portion

2756
03:19:41.399 --> 03:19:45.440
of the card, losing more and
more. It's pretty much mister X again,

2757
03:19:45.520 --> 03:19:46.920
this time just without the mask,
losing to everyone, starting to look

2758
03:19:46.959 --> 03:19:50.840
like I no longer really was even
a threat into a feud with Sam Houston.

2759
03:19:54.399 --> 03:19:56.200
Now, I think there was a
little period of eighty seven where he

2760
03:19:56.239 --> 03:19:58.280
thought he was going to get a
push. All right, Houston defeated me

2761
03:19:58.399 --> 03:20:01.879
right off the bat. Did my
best to stay relevant. I worked into

2762
03:20:01.920 --> 03:20:05.000
my storyline my own agenda, arguing
my foot was in the ropes referee should

2763
03:20:05.000 --> 03:20:07.239
not have counted. This argument caught
on a little and led to the content

2764
03:20:07.360 --> 03:20:11.600
needed for a series of angry promotional
interviews with Craig to George that kept me

2765
03:20:11.639 --> 03:20:13.399
going a little longer to some degree, But I knew the idea was to

2766
03:20:13.520 --> 03:20:16.280
end my wrestling ref gimmick at some
point. I don't want it to happen.

2767
03:20:16.399 --> 03:20:18.879
I amped up my promos even more
and made some good noise in an

2768
03:20:18.920 --> 03:20:22.239
effort to save my spot. Incidentally, Houston and I had a series of

2769
03:20:22.319 --> 03:20:26.200
very good matches in my opinion program
lasted longer than anyone had expected. We

2770
03:20:26.239 --> 03:20:30.200
both took turns winning to look good. Note about Sam, it must have

2771
03:20:30.239 --> 03:20:33.920
been tough being the brother of huge
name like Jake Blah Blah Blah Leslie Smith.

2772
03:20:33.040 --> 03:20:37.079
Yep, Sam was a good work
or the fans were still behind hating

2773
03:20:37.120 --> 03:20:39.760
me. The loud years I heard
when entering the ring proved that I still

2774
03:20:39.799 --> 03:20:41.680
had tons of heat sometimes as a
wrestler. However, that didn't equate to

2775
03:20:41.719 --> 03:20:45.920
what you'd be able to hope for
from the writers. Early in nineteen eighty

2776
03:20:45.959 --> 03:20:50.959
eight, they came up early out
in nineteen eighty eight, they came up

2777
03:20:50.000 --> 03:20:54.120
with the Royal Rumble concept, a
different wrestler entering the ring every two minutes

2778
03:20:54.120 --> 03:20:56.040
and battle royal contest. After my
appearance in this match, I felt like

2779
03:20:56.079 --> 03:20:58.559
it could have been a mistake to
end my run to early with money still

2780
03:20:58.600 --> 03:21:01.479
on the table. No, there's
no money, Dan, there's no money.

2781
03:21:03.040 --> 03:21:05.719
The fans seemed to still be a
very against me. Right after the

2782
03:21:05.799 --> 03:21:07.559
Rumble, I felt confident that I
needed to continue on in this role.

2783
03:21:07.600 --> 03:21:11.360
I asked some of the agents if
they thought i'd be written off TV soon,

2784
03:21:11.399 --> 03:21:13.920
but they all said they didn't think
so. One agent actually went so

2785
03:21:13.000 --> 03:21:16.000
far as to say that I received
the loudest response of all the heels in

2786
03:21:16.040 --> 03:21:20.159
that match. I felt great.
He also said, in the end,

2787
03:21:20.159 --> 03:21:22.920
you received one of the loudest pops
of the whole show when you were finally

2788
03:21:22.959 --> 03:21:24.799
thrown out of the ring and eliminated
from the match. The same thing could

2789
03:21:24.799 --> 03:21:28.440
have also been said for my appearance
in the twenty Men Battle Royal that took

2790
03:21:28.479 --> 03:21:31.680
place at WrestleMania four, where I
was eventually tossed over the top rope by

2791
03:21:31.719 --> 03:21:33.559
Paul Roma. After that, it
was dribs and drabs, but I couldn't

2792
03:21:33.559 --> 03:21:37.040
complain. I knew it was coming
to an end, but I had gone

2793
03:21:37.079 --> 03:21:39.120
so far. My moment in the
spotlight was just about over. But I

2794
03:21:39.200 --> 03:21:41.799
had made a major impact and was
proud of my work. That was something

2795
03:21:41.879 --> 03:21:45.920
that nobody could take away from me. So yeah, as we see Danny

2796
03:21:46.000 --> 03:21:50.079
Davis tossed from the rumble, we
see his career prospects being tossed as well.

2797
03:21:50.280 --> 03:21:54.000
It turns out that's what I expect. So little a note on that,

2798
03:21:54.639 --> 03:22:01.159
and then Vince says, wait a
minute, the warriors over. Vince

2799
03:22:01.200 --> 03:22:03.319
says, they kept Davis in there
just to beat on him. That's why

2800
03:22:03.319 --> 03:22:07.959
he lasted so long. There's nice
of passing on there we go. Ventura

2801
03:22:07.000 --> 03:22:11.440
said that Bruno Sammartino wasn't in there. Yess. He brings this up.

2802
03:22:11.600 --> 03:22:16.520
This is this is funny, um
and I hear I got this one.

2803
03:22:16.959 --> 03:22:22.079
I'm talking about Bruno. You know
what I feel bad about gold Bruno ain't

2804
03:22:22.920 --> 03:22:26.399
come off. I'd love to see
that old man take a few months.

2805
03:22:28.120 --> 03:22:33.000
Bruno and I have a great opportunity. Okay, we would have a great

2806
03:22:33.000 --> 03:22:37.719
opportunity. Makes Vince Ron Ron bastosses
the junkyard dog. Suddenly there's like a

2807
03:22:37.799 --> 03:22:43.079
hush silence from the crowd. Yeah, that one. Then Morocco taps Don

2808
03:22:43.120 --> 03:22:45.920
Morocco taps ron Bass, and Bass
makes a beat line and just jumps over

2809
03:22:46.000 --> 03:22:48.040
the ropes. Yep. Jesse says, you can tell the guys are tiring

2810
03:22:48.079 --> 03:22:52.280
out right now because they're getting elmitated
pretty quickly. Plus one hundred for that

2811
03:22:52.399 --> 03:22:54.319
logic. I love the idea that
the longer the match goes, the easier

2812
03:22:54.319 --> 03:22:58.680
it is to eliminate people because they
just don't have a totally totally yep,

2813
03:23:00.079 --> 03:23:01.680
they don't and they don't um,
you know, they don't really play that

2814
03:23:01.840 --> 03:23:05.680
up now. They don't. When
there's a ton of like quick eliminations.

2815
03:23:05.719 --> 03:23:07.399
The longer battle Royal goes, you
start thinking, oh, they've got to

2816
03:23:07.440 --> 03:23:11.559
get they're trying to hit their time
keyes as opposed to like it makes psychological

2817
03:23:11.639 --> 03:23:16.399
sense that guys are more easily eliminated
right now, dugging his whip to the

2818
03:23:16.440 --> 03:23:18.959
corner and does a bar it takes
a barge from the One Man Gang.

2819
03:23:18.159 --> 03:23:22.280
Morocco then tumbles to get away,
flipping around the ring. Don Morocco,

2820
03:23:22.360 --> 03:23:24.520
he's doing front flips and shit,
I don't know what this is. He's

2821
03:23:24.680 --> 03:23:28.280
nuts, he's nuts. He's throwing
in on Dino and One Man Gang.

2822
03:23:28.360 --> 03:23:33.079
A dropkick on One Man Gang from
Don Morocco and Frenchie Martin's on the apron

2823
03:23:33.120 --> 03:23:37.520
and Morocco nails him to Dino starts
stomping on him. Do you know Bravo

2824
03:23:37.559 --> 03:23:41.360
holds Morocco open, gang charges and
clips him and Morocco up and over.

2825
03:23:41.399 --> 03:23:48.000
That spot can actually backfire for once, it actually worked, Jesus, Everyone

2826
03:23:48.040 --> 03:23:50.079
realizes now it's just dugging. He's
the only baby face hope as Morocco is

2827
03:23:50.079 --> 03:23:54.479
eliminated and they start channing ho as
he stands up to Dono, Bravo and

2828
03:23:54.559 --> 03:23:56.239
One Man Gang, and he ludges
at the gang and starts throwing on both

2829
03:23:56.280 --> 03:24:01.280
in succession, spinning around and firing
whip. Dug and dropped with a double

2830
03:24:01.360 --> 03:24:05.559
lariat Duggan and One Man Gang and
had a hell of a series of brawls

2831
03:24:05.600 --> 03:24:07.920
in mid South u WF coming into
this. There's a lot of kids.

2832
03:24:09.280 --> 03:24:11.159
Yeah, I forget that. I
forget that Gang was from down there too.

2833
03:24:11.200 --> 03:24:15.000
Oh yeah, yeah, he came
through Texas as well. World class

2834
03:24:15.079 --> 03:24:16.840
he was, he was in there
and some of the limental tragedy stuff we

2835
03:24:16.920 --> 03:24:20.239
looked at. That's right, that's
right, totally forget that. Ye Jesse

2836
03:24:20.360 --> 03:24:24.159
notes that all three came late in
the match, so it shows just how

2837
03:24:24.360 --> 03:24:26.760
very important the luck of the draw
is a Dino Bravo, Hoos, doug

2838
03:24:26.840 --> 03:24:33.280
and open and this time the backfires. Duggan didn't really dugging, didn't really

2839
03:24:33.280 --> 03:24:35.399
come in late. He came in
like more of it closer to the halfway

2840
03:24:35.440 --> 03:24:39.440
mark. He's probably still just trained
on the the notion of Brett lasting.

2841
03:24:41.840 --> 03:24:45.200
So this time it backfires. Gang
smashes into Dino and Dinos out of the

2842
03:24:45.319 --> 03:24:48.000
ring. French he dives on Dino
Bravo, but it's too late to do

2843
03:24:48.079 --> 03:24:52.280
anything about it. Hacksod and one
man Gang or your last two Duggin' fires

2844
03:24:52.319 --> 03:24:54.840
with big jag jabs and hooks on
the big Man Irish whip and gang clubs

2845
03:24:54.920 --> 03:24:58.760
him and Touris says Howard does he
get the gang over the top, He's

2846
03:24:58.799 --> 03:25:01.200
four hundred and fifty to five bounce. Jesse just tremendous in this match.

2847
03:25:01.280 --> 03:25:05.319
I mean he yes, he lays
the boiler plate down for rumble calls.

2848
03:25:05.000 --> 03:25:09.159
Yeah, he establishes all the things
you can say and for every rumble going

2849
03:25:09.239 --> 03:25:13.079
forward. And he's doing it off
the top of his head because you know,

2850
03:25:13.760 --> 03:25:16.280
no plan on this. I mean
the thing, you know, it's

2851
03:25:16.319 --> 03:25:22.399
all brand new. He's just noticing
things, defining all these tropes one after

2852
03:25:22.479 --> 03:25:24.799
the other. So Jesse says,
if he can find the two buy fourge

2853
03:25:24.120 --> 03:25:26.600
Duggan, he can do it.
That would be the only equalizer he can

2854
03:25:26.639 --> 03:25:31.559
see. But Duggan, despite being
worn down and slouched against the ropes,

2855
03:25:31.719 --> 03:25:35.000
has the wherewithal as one man Gang
hits the ropes to charge at him to

2856
03:25:35.159 --> 03:25:39.440
drop down to lowbridge, pull down
the top rope. Gang sails over the

2857
03:25:39.559 --> 03:25:43.280
top of where Duggan was standing,
dumps himself and hits the floor, and

2858
03:25:43.399 --> 03:25:48.000
Duggan wins to a huge pop,
the winner of the nineteen eighty eight Royal

2859
03:25:48.079 --> 03:25:50.399
Rumble, the inaugural on television.
His hack saw Jim Duggan all smiles.

2860
03:25:50.520 --> 03:25:56.399
Earl Hebner raises his hands and Ventura
says, with the brainpowered Duggan's got I

2861
03:25:56.440 --> 03:26:00.520
bet he tripped and fell and Gang
just toppled over. I would wouldn't doubt

2862
03:26:00.559 --> 03:26:03.719
it. We did it, boss. That's the rumble. It is there,

2863
03:26:03.719 --> 03:26:05.159
It is in the books. There's
a bit more to say about the

2864
03:26:05.200 --> 03:26:09.159
show, but that is the thrust
of things. Yep, right there.

2865
03:26:09.319 --> 03:26:11.959
Up next, the Holster is on
the screen with a wide shot of the

2866
03:26:11.040 --> 03:26:13.440
ring. They take a break to
come back and it's Vincent Jesse at the

2867
03:26:13.479 --> 03:26:18.639
announced position discussing how Andrea dropped the
table on Hogan and Jesse says it wasn't

2868
03:26:18.680 --> 03:26:22.879
despicable, it was the giant,
sending a message to Hogan that he made

2869
03:26:22.920 --> 03:26:26.440
the mistake of his life. They
replay the angle. Uh interviewer Craig to

2870
03:26:26.520 --> 03:26:30.760
George Craig Minervini is there with a
Hogan on the stage. Now Hogan with

2871
03:26:30.840 --> 03:26:33.360
a yellow shirt with the title on
his waist. That's right, what are

2872
03:26:33.360 --> 03:26:37.920
you think getting one? And here
it is Last Wicks Final Agent Heavyweight Chip

2873
03:26:37.319 --> 03:26:46.879
Hogan. All right, Hogston,
we all know the official date is coming

2874
03:26:46.040 --> 03:26:50.799
one week from this Friday night,
February fifth, That the official date with

2875
03:26:50.959 --> 03:26:56.639
Aubrey the Giant will challenge you for
your heavyweight championship belt for the first time

2876
03:26:56.680 --> 03:27:00.639
to dress from Adi at three and
I think can I appeared to many me

2877
03:27:01.280 --> 03:27:03.399
and he was trying to send a
message tonight, mister Dasi the Giant.

2878
03:27:03.479 --> 03:27:07.040
Good thoughts from that. Yeah,
he was sending to me a message,

2879
03:27:07.040 --> 03:27:09.159
all right. You know, but
these guys are getting their wires cross man.

2880
03:27:09.680 --> 03:27:13.399
Every time they pull a cheap shot
or trying to pull a stunt on

2881
03:27:13.520 --> 03:27:16.159
me, it's like a dagger in
my ribs, man, and it's just

2882
03:27:16.280 --> 03:27:18.360
adding more fuel to the fire man. You know, when I think about

2883
03:27:18.399 --> 03:27:22.440
you, Hondred the Giant, when
I think about WrestleMania three, Brother,

2884
03:27:22.680 --> 03:27:26.760
when I think about pressing his fifteen
hundred pound carcass over my head and beating

2885
03:27:26.879 --> 03:27:31.079
him for the one two for Anolie, Dude, I've been waiting just as

2886
03:27:31.120 --> 03:27:35.159
long as you have Andre for this
encounter again, Brother, and the fact

2887
03:27:35.280 --> 03:27:39.680
that he's aligned himself with Ted DBIASI
man, to these hulkamaniacs. They don't

2888
03:27:39.719 --> 03:27:43.360
have a price for him, man, None of these Hulkamaniacs will sell out.

2889
03:27:43.479 --> 03:27:48.479
And I own either, Brother and
Honored the Giant. On February fifth.

2890
03:27:48.760 --> 03:27:52.120
Just like you couldn't break me with
that table, dude, you break

2891
03:27:52.200 --> 03:27:56.280
any of my hulkamaniacs because they believe
in me. Brother, And at the

2892
03:27:56.440 --> 03:27:58.719
end of the day, to beat
me, to beat me, honor the

2893
03:28:00.360 --> 03:28:03.959
You're gonna beat every one of these
Hulkamaniacs in here, and you can't do

2894
03:28:03.120 --> 03:28:09.680
it. Dude. Suddenly you've learned
the past few weeks that you cannot trust

2895
03:28:09.719 --> 03:28:11.879
the Giant. He choked you a
few weeks ago. Isn't happening tonight.

2896
03:28:13.040 --> 03:28:15.639
Yeah, he choked me. Brother, had a cheap shot out here,

2897
03:28:15.760 --> 03:28:18.799
dude. And when it's fuel to
the fire, like I said, I'm

2898
03:28:18.879 --> 03:28:22.879
ready, I'm psyched, I'm physically
ready to destroy him. And all they're

2899
03:28:22.920 --> 03:28:26.559
doing is building my confidence. Brother. And like I said, hundred the

2900
03:28:26.639 --> 03:28:31.799
giant to beat me and to beat
hulkamania you gotta beat every Hulkamaniac in here,

2901
03:28:31.959 --> 03:28:37.440
and you can't do it. I
was inspired. I like that quite

2902
03:28:37.440 --> 03:28:41.680
a bit. Your interview with Craig
to George. There it is. He's

2903
03:28:41.680 --> 03:28:45.159
in full Billy Graham mode with those
cloud pants. Oh totally, Oh my

2904
03:28:45.280 --> 03:28:48.520
god, I mean it's all there, it's all there. So that's Hulk

2905
03:28:48.760 --> 03:28:50.520
and he's seeking vengeance and I'm gonna
watch the main event. I don't know

2906
03:28:50.559 --> 03:28:54.319
about you. They play real American
as he poses for the people on stage

2907
03:28:54.319 --> 03:28:58.360
with those beautiful starburst lights. Mhmm, I love it, tam event if

2908
03:28:58.399 --> 03:29:03.840
you will show closer two or three
falls the Young Stallions versus the Islanders,

2909
03:29:05.280 --> 03:29:11.920
um Hawku and Tama, like this
should have happened after the fucking attack,

2910
03:29:11.200 --> 03:29:16.719
then the rumble, then the Hogan
interviewers totally and it's twenty six minutes left

2911
03:29:16.760 --> 03:29:18.879
on this fucking show. Yep.
Yeah, it's like they want to get

2912
03:29:18.879 --> 03:29:22.319
the rumble in and have something to
go after it in case it rapped quick.

2913
03:29:22.520 --> 03:29:24.399
But this match could have easily been
asked if the rumble went longer.

2914
03:29:24.520 --> 03:29:30.799
But fucking Jim Powers it wasn't Heenan, says Bobby Vince says Bobby Heenan is

2915
03:29:30.799 --> 03:29:33.760
missing the manager of the Islanders,
but he had been responsible for the ill

2916
03:29:33.840 --> 03:29:37.760
health recently of Matilda. Let's not
forget the Islanders cat kidnapped the Bridge Bulldogs

2917
03:29:39.120 --> 03:29:43.280
dog. It's good stuff. It's
great stuff, isn't it. Hawku?

2918
03:29:43.360 --> 03:29:48.879
We know where he is. Meng
Tama is Samuel Larry and Owahaifa too formerly

2919
03:29:48.120 --> 03:29:54.799
known as the Tonga Kid and h
and Omagua's brother. As a matter of

2920
03:29:54.879 --> 03:29:58.280
fact, Oh really that I didn't
know he was a brother. She's a

2921
03:29:58.360 --> 03:30:05.079
twin brother. Yaminga eat uh so
Vince, you know he pushes the contract

2922
03:30:05.120 --> 03:30:09.399
signing in the excitement of the evening
except for one one thing here and then

2923
03:30:09.479 --> 03:30:13.440
the signing of what, unquestionably is
the most important rematch I think of maybe

2924
03:30:15.280 --> 03:30:18.719
a decade ANDREI a giant and hope
Jogan I would go farther than that.

2925
03:30:18.879 --> 03:30:24.200
I would say it's the most important
rematch signing in the history of professional wrestling,

2926
03:30:24.520 --> 03:30:28.120
the only thing tonight I think,
thus Bart, it's been absolutely dull

2927
03:30:28.479 --> 03:30:33.120
and almost went to sleep during the
attempted bitch press record of Tino problem.

2928
03:30:33.319 --> 03:30:37.000
I thought you guys were boring where
all that I would yeah, I would

2929
03:30:37.079 --> 03:30:39.840
expect that from you, big man, a little twinkie like Oo who's never

2930
03:30:39.920 --> 03:30:43.920
done anything athletic in his life.
If we'd have been up there reading prose

2931
03:30:45.319 --> 03:30:48.879
or poetry, you would have been
ecstatic about that. But being its physical

2932
03:30:50.000 --> 03:30:54.040
competition and strength, you know nothing
about that. They're going right at it.

2933
03:30:54.760 --> 03:31:00.639
They know nothing about that. His
pist It was boring yep, and

2934
03:31:00.799 --> 03:31:03.159
Jesse feels it his duty to defend
it, and yeah, you know,

2935
03:31:03.239 --> 03:31:05.959
this is kind of a drag that
this match comes on after the rumble that

2936
03:31:07.000 --> 03:31:09.399
fell at the point, but we
do have Paul Roma to save us.

2937
03:31:11.319 --> 03:31:15.120
This does give us a chance to
talk about the Young Stallions. That's not

2938
03:31:15.360 --> 03:31:18.920
nothing. That's not nothing. As
Roma powers out in their sequence with the

2939
03:31:18.959 --> 03:31:24.840
red jackets and hilarious music looking for
some reaction. Have rock and roll play

2940
03:31:24.879 --> 03:31:28.280
and I'm a radio station. I
don't know what else there. Song says,

2941
03:31:28.319 --> 03:31:31.920
it sounds like Jimmy Hart sang it. Actually, I'm gonna give you

2942
03:31:31.959 --> 03:31:37.239
three guesses. Who is supposed to
manage the Young Stallions? Originally I have

2943
03:31:37.440 --> 03:31:41.719
no clue. Let's take three guesses. Take three guesses, Okay, um,

2944
03:31:43.399 --> 03:31:50.920
Tom Zank, who else? Mike
Tyson? Who else? Seth Row?

2945
03:31:50.559 --> 03:31:54.200
Originally I heard that mister T was
supposed to energy guys. Yeah,

2946
03:31:54.399 --> 03:31:58.399
that's very true. Well he just
never showed, huh. I heard he

2947
03:31:58.559 --> 03:32:03.799
was notorious for not keeping appointments.
And I think we're in Chicago and we're

2948
03:32:03.799 --> 03:32:07.399
suppos adm walks out that the ring, you know, the jack off never

2949
03:32:07.520 --> 03:32:13.399
shows, which changed our career.
Career big time, right, you know,

2950
03:32:13.319 --> 03:32:20.440
and then I change it later on
down the road. Mister t Wow,

2951
03:32:20.639 --> 03:32:22.520
I mean, what the fuck?
I love the idea that he calls

2952
03:32:22.600 --> 03:32:26.120
him a jack off. Oh he's
he's so good about that. Man,

2953
03:32:26.239 --> 03:32:30.520
he calls everyone a dipshit. That's
something that I'll tell you that they actually

2954
03:32:30.559 --> 03:32:33.360
had plans for these times. So
Powers and Tamma start the match. Powers

2955
03:32:33.440 --> 03:32:39.040
leap frogs over and slams Tamma.
Ventura says Heenan is in Barbados watching this

2956
03:32:39.120 --> 03:32:41.040
via satellite courtesy of the Million Dollar
Man and vinceys. As far as he's

2957
03:32:41.079 --> 03:32:46.719
concerned, he can stay in Barbados. Take that very good with love,

2958
03:32:46.440 --> 03:32:50.920
Vince McMahon, Yeah, right,
tam offering a handshake on his knees.

2959
03:32:50.239 --> 03:32:56.799
Us daumal matches here. It's such
a it's such a fucking drag. Gives

2960
03:32:56.840 --> 03:33:01.159
them a chance to plug shamelessly the
significance of anything else that happened on the

2961
03:33:01.239 --> 03:33:03.959
night besides what's happening in the ring. I guess that's your rets. Where

2962
03:33:03.000 --> 03:33:05.559
I came in with the pushing of
the cont that the stuff that I just

2963
03:33:05.680 --> 03:33:09.719
played. Vince goes in on Ventura. I thought you guys were boring,

2964
03:33:09.840 --> 03:33:13.319
like you played that was great reversed
whip and Power takes takes the corner Sternham.

2965
03:33:13.360 --> 03:33:16.799
First, Hawku comes in, Roma
comes in. They're exchanging arm ringers

2966
03:33:16.799 --> 03:33:20.280
and Hawku and Roma are tackling and
dropping down and leap frog and it's fucking

2967
03:33:20.360 --> 03:33:24.760
weird because, like you know,
then then he Roma tries a hip toss.

2968
03:33:24.920 --> 03:33:28.319
Yeah. I don't know what happens
here, but like it looks like

2969
03:33:28.600 --> 03:33:31.959
maybe Hako was supposed to reverse it
or something, but they just fucking fall

2970
03:33:33.079 --> 03:33:35.000
on top of each other. It
comes like a Judo throw in motion idiots.

2971
03:33:35.159 --> 03:33:39.959
Yeah, just a complete joke.
Roma off on a cross body lands

2972
03:33:39.959 --> 03:33:41.479
but kind of crooked for the two. Jesse says, you being an IVY

2973
03:33:41.559 --> 03:33:46.360
League or Vince, I shouldn't be
surprised. How funny that Finnce pretended to

2974
03:33:46.360 --> 03:33:48.200
be IVY League for a little while. Of course, I think he got

2975
03:33:48.239 --> 03:33:50.760
called on at one time. I'm
sure Tim has one of the those devastating

2976
03:33:50.840 --> 03:33:54.360
leaps in the w WF we're told
as he misses a high elbow drop,

2977
03:33:54.520 --> 03:33:56.680
Jesse says, what's what's a devastating
leap? I couldn't tell you. I

2978
03:33:56.719 --> 03:34:01.000
guess he jumps high all right,
Jesse says, you need guys that contradict

2979
03:34:01.040 --> 03:34:03.840
each other and that leads to success
in a tag team. Yeah here,

2980
03:34:03.879 --> 03:34:05.479
I got I got that whole thing
right here for you. I think in

2981
03:34:05.600 --> 03:34:11.879
wrestling you need two guys but in
a way to contradict each other, and

2982
03:34:11.079 --> 03:34:16.479
that lives to success. Where you
look at the case of the young Stallions

2983
03:34:16.879 --> 03:34:20.000
roll my Empowers, I mean looked
at him. There's they think they're Sylvester

2984
03:34:20.159 --> 03:34:26.799
Stallone lookalikes or something. I don't
know about that. And there's a beautiful

2985
03:34:26.799 --> 03:34:28.559
over the shoulder shot of Vincent Jess
calling the match with the ring in the

2986
03:34:28.600 --> 03:34:31.879
background. Love that love those shots. Took him forever to pull that one

2987
03:34:31.879 --> 03:34:37.600
out in this broadcast, but it's
there Islanders double teaming headbuts. Jesse says

2988
03:34:37.639 --> 03:34:39.840
he doesn't think the Stallions are championship
caliber yet, but he thinks the Islanders

2989
03:34:39.879 --> 03:34:45.200
are colder. Corner Whip who runs
into a poorly time knee by Jim Powers

2990
03:34:45.239 --> 03:34:48.159
and intour puts over the Hakoo kick
that he can't wait to see later,

2991
03:34:48.399 --> 03:34:50.760
Jesse points out the two out of
three falls environment allows you to make a

2992
03:34:50.879 --> 03:34:54.719
mistake. It said, if you
see those toes that man can hang upside

2993
03:34:54.719 --> 03:34:58.399
down from the top row. Weird, fucking like, what the fuck is

2994
03:34:58.440 --> 03:35:01.680
he talking about here? This is
just so, this is weird. Did

2995
03:35:01.760 --> 03:35:05.000
you see those feet? Did you
see those toothes? What about him?

2996
03:35:05.399 --> 03:35:11.680
Top man could hang upside down from
the top road. Wait a minute,

2997
03:35:11.719 --> 03:35:16.040
quick, man, I find that
a bit of a racist remark. Definitely

2998
03:35:16.120 --> 03:35:20.239
not. I'm slapper Man's coach coming
in right now. Who should be fresh

2999
03:35:20.319 --> 03:35:28.799
air? Rum at Paul Roma going
nowhere? But I under comma, I'm

3000
03:35:28.840 --> 03:35:33.000
getting back to it. If Jimmy
that Greek can be replaced? So can

3001
03:35:33.079 --> 03:35:39.479
you you remember that? Right next
thing, you're gonna tell me it's because

3002
03:35:39.520 --> 03:35:46.000
of breathing. I mean, I
mean, I don't even know, Like,

3003
03:35:46.559 --> 03:35:50.479
I don't know what Vince was going
for with the toes. He's trying

3004
03:35:50.479 --> 03:35:54.760
to say that he can you know, he's more dangerous hanging upside down because

3005
03:35:54.159 --> 03:35:58.600
you know, basically the the influence
that Jesse is picking up on is that

3006
03:35:58.840 --> 03:36:01.000
he's calling him a monkey. These
people could hang by their feet. Yeah,

3007
03:36:01.120 --> 03:36:05.399
right, Like it's again, I
don't know what the fuck you're subscribing

3008
03:36:05.440 --> 03:36:09.760
the man's toes. Pal, No, he's not totally fucking jump on vance

3009
03:36:09.879 --> 03:36:15.399
Man. Oh my god, I
mean so great. That's a bit of

3010
03:36:15.440 --> 03:36:18.319
a racist remark, wouldn't you say, McMahon. Do you know what the

3011
03:36:18.399 --> 03:36:20.040
Jimmy the Greek reference was. No, I don't know that. The Greek

3012
03:36:20.120 --> 03:36:24.079
was like a TV commentator on sports, and he had made a comment around

3013
03:36:24.120 --> 03:36:26.559
this time. It was just like
a week before Rumble where he said that

3014
03:36:26.799 --> 03:36:31.680
African Americans were naturally superior athletes because
they had been bred to produce stronger offspring

3015
03:36:31.840 --> 03:36:37.680
during slavery. So that was WHOA
considered a distasteful to say the least in

3016
03:36:37.760 --> 03:36:41.680
Jimmy the Greek was of the conversation. But that's and so you can see

3017
03:36:41.760 --> 03:36:46.680
Jesse with his USA today reading him. Yes, I'm maybe I'm just reading

3018
03:36:46.760 --> 03:36:50.639
the newspaper right now during the broadcast, and I think we can get rid

3019
03:36:50.680 --> 03:36:52.879
of you. That's right. Oh
my god, he senses an option.

3020
03:36:54.120 --> 03:36:56.799
Jesse says, the next thing,
you know, you're gonna tell me it's

3021
03:36:56.840 --> 03:36:58.799
ue to breeding. Yes, Rumma
was a drop kick on Tamma Backdrop's lugs

3022
03:36:58.840 --> 03:37:03.639
Huck Who and another for Hako over
Haku. But it breaks it up pretty

3023
03:37:03.639 --> 03:37:05.719
sure. You can hear Roma saying
Jesus Christ at one point in the Crossfire

3024
03:37:05.799 --> 03:37:11.120
here is clearly pissed off that something
is not going as expected, perhaps related

3025
03:37:11.120 --> 03:37:16.440
to that hiptop spot you mentioned,
and it's probably more than anything reflective of

3026
03:37:16.479 --> 03:37:20.280
the general frustration that Paul Roma carried
with Jim Powers throughout the h the course

3027
03:37:20.360 --> 03:37:22.760
of his tag team Powers. According
to Roma had a reputation for showing up

3028
03:37:22.840 --> 03:37:26.440
drunk or showing up not really ready
to carry his world in a ring.

3029
03:37:26.799 --> 03:37:30.239
Remember him being a mess, right, isn't He's a kind of a mess,

3030
03:37:30.399 --> 03:37:33.440
kind of a mess. Yeah.
And Roma's in the position as someone

3031
03:37:33.479 --> 03:37:37.079
who doesn't drink, who played it
pretty straight of having carry matches and you

3032
03:37:37.159 --> 03:37:39.840
know, do do so much of
the work and just use Powers for the

3033
03:37:39.920 --> 03:37:41.959
hot tag. He said. One
point, Berry Horwitz came up to them

3034
03:37:41.959 --> 03:37:45.760
and said, you know what,
I I can't work with Jim like I

3035
03:37:45.879 --> 03:37:48.000
can't. I can't trust my body
to the guy. And so all that

3036
03:37:48.079 --> 03:37:52.719
hands Roma had to do all the
ring work. Wow. Yeah, he

3037
03:37:52.760 --> 03:37:56.159
almost exudes this frustration in this match
in the Rumble. So first time I've

3038
03:37:56.159 --> 03:37:58.120
seen a match with these two where
it's like, oh, this is what

3039
03:37:58.200 --> 03:38:01.000
he's talking about, you know,
where he feels like he's out there by

3040
03:38:01.079 --> 03:38:05.079
himself almost And here's Roman that same
RF video shoot interview highly recommended by the

3041
03:38:05.120 --> 03:38:09.879
way, where he talks about this
dynamic with Jim powers that may very well

3042
03:38:09.920 --> 03:38:13.159
be on display here. At the
eighty eight rumble, they put us together.

3043
03:38:13.600 --> 03:38:18.000
Can Am connection was out, so
they brought the young Stallions in.

3044
03:38:18.280 --> 03:38:20.639
We're gonna give you a push.
This was a big break for us,

3045
03:38:20.440 --> 03:38:28.520
and he was not punctual getting to
the arena. Our biggest, biggest blow

3046
03:38:28.520 --> 03:38:33.360
out. And I think what really
broke the camel's back was he changed.

3047
03:38:33.360 --> 03:38:37.760
He loved to change his flights,
and I was real stickler about not changing

3048
03:38:37.840 --> 03:38:39.680
my fight because we got to get
there. Once we get there, who

3049
03:38:39.760 --> 03:38:45.319
cares what you do. So we
flew into La and we always stay at

3050
03:38:45.360 --> 03:38:48.760
the same hotel. I checked in. I got there early, checked in.

3051
03:38:48.239 --> 03:38:52.559
He said he's taking a later fight, no problem. So I waited,

3052
03:38:52.680 --> 03:38:56.120
way to wait. It kept going
down the front desk every time I

3053
03:38:56.159 --> 03:39:00.559
saw a shuttle come in, you
know, it was at the desk.

3054
03:39:01.079 --> 03:39:03.600
No, he's not checked in,
No, he's not checked in. So

3055
03:39:03.079 --> 03:39:05.520
I end up believing the hotel and
I said, I gotta get the hell

3056
03:39:05.559 --> 03:39:09.799
out of here because you're you're in
LA so you know you have that window.

3057
03:39:11.600 --> 03:39:16.239
After that, you know you're gonna
be late. So I take off

3058
03:39:16.760 --> 03:39:18.000
and as I'm leaving the park,
a lot of shuttle bus comes in.

3059
03:39:18.079 --> 03:39:22.000
I turn around, come back.
He's not on it. So I head

3060
03:39:22.079 --> 03:39:28.559
down, you know, the the
boulevard, and I see another shuttle coming

3061
03:39:28.639 --> 03:39:31.600
down. So I'm like, damn
man, you know I'm gonna be Solly

3062
03:39:31.639 --> 03:39:33.639
and we get so screwed. But
fuck it, I can't leave him.

3063
03:39:33.680 --> 03:39:37.159
I gotta come back because he won't
have a car. So I go back

3064
03:39:37.239 --> 03:39:41.079
again. He's not on it.
I said, you know, fuck it,

3065
03:39:41.120 --> 03:39:43.040
I gotta go, so I take
off. It was an outdoor event,

3066
03:39:43.520 --> 03:39:48.520
Orange County wherever it was, and
I come in and I said,

3067
03:39:50.040 --> 03:39:52.799
you know, to Gorilla Monsoon.
I said, you know, girl,

3068
03:39:52.840 --> 03:39:54.600
I'm so sorry. I'm late.
You know, I said, I was

3069
03:39:54.639 --> 03:39:58.280
waiting for Jimmy and you know,
but he goes, what are you talking

3070
03:39:58.319 --> 03:40:01.959
about? Jimmy's been here for over
hour, and am Mike what? He

3071
03:40:03.079 --> 03:40:05.920
goes, and You're fined. I
think seven hundred he hit me with or

3072
03:40:05.959 --> 03:40:09.799
something like that, and now I've
lost my fucking mind. So he was

3073
03:40:09.840 --> 03:40:13.559
in the other trailer so I leave
mine, I go over there, and

3074
03:40:13.680 --> 03:40:15.079
so like, hey, hey,
man, what's going on? I said,

3075
03:40:15.079 --> 03:40:18.680
you fucking kidding me? What's going
on? Dude? I just got

3076
03:40:18.799 --> 03:40:20.440
fine number one? And then you
know, I go through the whole.

3077
03:40:20.719 --> 03:40:24.200
You know, shebang with them.
He goes, yeah, I changed my

3078
03:40:24.280 --> 03:40:28.559
fight. I just picked up a
car and came here. So I was

3079
03:40:28.600 --> 03:40:30.639
like, you know what, fuck
this, man, I don't need this

3080
03:40:30.760 --> 03:40:35.600
bullshit in my life. Coming to
the ring drunk all the time, and

3081
03:40:35.840 --> 03:40:39.159
I was pulling double duty because no
wanted to work with them. So I'm

3082
03:40:39.200 --> 03:40:41.879
in there. If it's a twenty
minute match, I'm in there, man,

3083
03:40:41.239 --> 03:40:46.040
you know. And then tag him
in so you know, and again

3084
03:40:46.239 --> 03:40:48.799
nobody they didn't want to work with
him. So I said, fuck this.

3085
03:40:50.479 --> 03:40:52.799
I got a wife, I got
a kid, maybe two at the

3086
03:40:52.920 --> 03:40:58.200
time, and you know, a
house. He lives in an apartment.

3087
03:40:58.040 --> 03:41:03.760
He's got a girlfriend. That's it. So I went to Pat Patterson and

3088
03:41:03.600 --> 03:41:07.920
told him I'm done. I can't
do this anymore. He asked me,

3089
03:41:07.159 --> 03:41:11.360
begged me, please give it more
time. I said no, Pat,

3090
03:41:11.479 --> 03:41:13.920
I said, I'm not doing it, and I know he was. He

3091
03:41:15.079 --> 03:41:18.760
dug Jimmy, I mean, you
know, Jimmy was his candy ass,

3092
03:41:18.120 --> 03:41:22.719
and I don't mean nothing against Jimmy, you know, and they knew I

3093
03:41:22.760 --> 03:41:26.000
don't let that guy suck my dick, so that wasn't happening, you know.

3094
03:41:26.760 --> 03:41:30.799
And I'm not saying they sucked Jimmy's
dick, but you know, they

3095
03:41:30.840 --> 03:41:35.680
had a better shot at it.
I mean, look, what do you

3096
03:41:35.719 --> 03:41:39.440
want to say? Wow, he
goes in there. I mean, look,

3097
03:41:39.760 --> 03:41:43.040
we talked about this when Pat passed
away. It's like I I was

3098
03:41:43.079 --> 03:41:46.120
looking to suck dicks, you know, like, yeah, why can't we

3099
03:41:46.159 --> 03:41:48.920
Why do we have to pretend that
that isn't something that al Perez says that

3100
03:41:50.040 --> 03:41:52.319
he says it. Barrio talked about
it, like, come on, guys,

3101
03:41:52.959 --> 03:41:58.159
he wanted he wanted that stuff.
Well, at least it seemed to

3102
03:41:58.239 --> 03:42:00.840
be that, you know, becaucause
they always say, well, you know,

3103
03:42:00.879 --> 03:42:03.680
people who couldn't make it or people
who didn't, you know, rise

3104
03:42:03.719 --> 03:42:05.680
to the top in WWF all end
up making this allegation. And it's like,

3105
03:42:07.440 --> 03:42:11.399
yeah, oh man, there's a
lot of smoke there to be no

3106
03:42:11.520 --> 03:42:16.639
fire. I mean, listen,
stranger things have happened, absolutely, Okay,

3107
03:42:16.440 --> 03:42:22.440
you know, he saw these fucking
strapping bucks and he wanted he wanted

3108
03:42:22.559 --> 03:42:28.159
them in his mouth. Yea,
no, I um, I think that

3109
03:42:28.280 --> 03:42:31.559
they wanted us to learn. They
put us in all the small shows,

3110
03:42:33.159 --> 03:42:35.760
you know, you guys learn how
to work together. I took a big

3111
03:42:35.840 --> 03:42:39.520
pay cut because where I was working
as a single, even though I wasn't

3112
03:42:39.559 --> 03:42:41.200
on top, I was making a
hell of a lot more than when they

3113
03:42:41.280 --> 03:42:46.440
put me with him and these little
shitty house shows. So and I had

3114
03:42:46.479 --> 03:42:48.319
said that to him too, you
know, because he came in complaining one

3115
03:42:48.399 --> 03:42:50.520
night and I said, you know, you need to shut the fuck up.

3116
03:42:52.440 --> 03:42:54.639
Yeah, because I'm taking a big
cut. Man, I'm making this

3117
03:42:56.159 --> 03:43:00.280
now, making this so you know, get your shit together, you know.

3118
03:43:00.399 --> 03:43:03.479
And again that's really what it comes
down to, is you know this

3119
03:43:03.639 --> 03:43:09.760
fucking crying. But we were getting
a push. Yeah. Rumor had it

3120
03:43:11.200 --> 03:43:16.920
that he was propositioned and he opened
his mouth complained about it, thinking he's

3121
03:43:16.959 --> 03:43:22.639
going to get further and he got
less. So I don't know how true

3122
03:43:22.639 --> 03:43:26.559
it is. He would have to
tell you better than me, but that's

3123
03:43:26.600 --> 03:43:30.440
it. Oh, I don't know. Wow, Sure, it's just better

3124
03:43:30.639 --> 03:43:33.799
sour grapes. Of course. That's
so this juncture, Roma's toss a violently

3125
03:43:33.799 --> 03:43:37.399
out of the ring and takes a
really bad fall, like totally unprotected,

3126
03:43:37.440 --> 03:43:39.239
flailing out of the ring. It
shortly after, he says, Jesus Christ,

3127
03:43:39.360 --> 03:43:43.520
you can tell he's in a bad
mood already. Yeah, he sells

3128
03:43:43.520 --> 03:43:43.959
the left knee, and it's like, what are they doing here? D

3129
03:43:45.079 --> 03:43:46.280
he really hurt his knee? Are
they trying to do an angle? They

3130
03:43:46.360 --> 03:43:48.879
just do this knee injury. I
don't know what it's about, I know,

3131
03:43:50.120 --> 03:43:56.159
and it gets so fucking weird,
so weird. If Marella was capable

3132
03:43:56.159 --> 03:44:00.200
of counting to ten, he's counting, but thirty seconds has gone by Mixing

3133
03:44:00.280 --> 03:44:03.600
mcman says, you've always got an
excuse when your favorites are involved. He

3134
03:44:03.680 --> 03:44:05.440
says, McMahon, you always have
an excuse when your favorites are involved.

3135
03:44:05.719 --> 03:44:09.719
So Marella finally does count him out
and Roma selling the left leg like crazy

3136
03:44:09.879 --> 03:44:11.479
like the quad. No one's coming
out to check on him, but Powers

3137
03:44:11.559 --> 03:44:16.920
is hovering over. After a brief
word from your local cable systems, um

3138
03:44:18.079 --> 03:44:22.520
and Vince says, hopefully Roma comes
back for the second fall, and will

3139
03:44:22.600 --> 03:44:26.399
he I don't know, because they're
showing the contract signing angle again, right

3140
03:44:26.799 --> 03:44:30.959
right, we come back when we
get more contract signing. Did he really

3141
03:44:31.000 --> 03:44:35.239
get hurt? Look at the fun? Does he say? Oh he did?

3142
03:44:35.319 --> 03:44:39.000
He wasn't really hurt. Okay,
what the fuck that? I have

3143
03:44:39.120 --> 03:44:43.040
no idea. I think they're just
a total mess trying to fit stuff in.

3144
03:44:43.159 --> 03:44:46.680
And it's like, so I don't
have this match right or make it

3145
03:44:46.760 --> 03:44:50.840
one fall and like because now and
then we get the fun. We get

3146
03:44:50.040 --> 03:44:54.719
Craig to George again with the with
the fucking megabox. Yeah, yeah,

3147
03:44:54.760 --> 03:44:58.440
they got all this other business to
attend to George in Virgil on the stage

3148
03:44:58.520 --> 03:45:03.799
des a Nick Morritt. I wasn't
going to make more than a statement.

3149
03:45:03.000 --> 03:45:07.079
We painted a picture, showed you
a look into the future, We showed

3150
03:45:07.079 --> 03:45:09.280
you whole coke, and as you
will see him on February fifth flat on

3151
03:45:09.360 --> 03:45:11.600
his back, but it won't be
a solid oak table covering him. There's

3152
03:45:11.639 --> 03:45:16.280
that solid by the way. By
the way, Andre's eyes completely bloodshot,

3153
03:45:16.360 --> 03:45:22.120
Oh my god, high as fuck, early, so drunk, so sleep

3154
03:45:22.200 --> 03:45:28.840
deprived. Can you imagine the thing? Just imagine Andre's needs, his carnal

3155
03:45:28.959 --> 03:45:35.079
desires. I mean, like,
what the fuck do you do to satisfy

3156
03:45:35.200 --> 03:45:43.840
this fucking behemoth? You don't oh, come on, come there with me,

3157
03:45:46.840 --> 03:45:50.000
or as you put it, and
I quote, what do you have

3158
03:45:50.200 --> 03:46:01.520
to do to satisfy this fucking behemoth? Let's go boss. Oh yeah,

3159
03:46:01.639 --> 03:46:16.719
that's the thing. Like, it's
not like Pat tried to get people to

3160
03:46:16.799 --> 03:46:20.639
suck his dick. We just wanted
to suit horse. I mean, you

3161
03:46:20.760 --> 03:46:26.040
wanted to blow people. Yeah,
close your eyes, just imagine something exactly

3162
03:46:26.600 --> 03:46:31.120
so you know. It's not a
lot to ask for a bush, you

3163
03:46:31.200 --> 03:46:37.280
know, right, apparently right,
um, but Dbasi says, it won't

3164
03:46:37.280 --> 03:46:39.040
be solid oak table covering Hogan,
It'll be this man right here and these

3165
03:46:39.120 --> 03:46:43.360
zooming on the Benjamin's in Virgil's hands, and the wrestlers, the tag wrestlers

3166
03:46:43.399 --> 03:46:46.719
are still in the ring. I
don't know what the fun here here is.

3167
03:46:46.760 --> 03:46:50.680
It is warped. It's so fucking
BIZARREBS says, I told you people

3168
03:46:50.680 --> 03:46:52.879
ever since I came here. You
all have a price, you Hogan.

3169
03:46:52.959 --> 03:46:56.879
You say you've got to beat all
the Hokomaniacs. Well that's what we're going

3170
03:46:58.079 --> 03:47:00.959
to do. And Andre standing there
motionless and brushing list the whole time,

3171
03:47:00.959 --> 03:47:03.559
as Dbasi says, Hogan, I
always get what I want, and I

3172
03:47:03.680 --> 03:47:07.079
want that title belt around my waist
and they do the menacing pans to Andrea's

3173
03:47:07.120 --> 03:47:11.639
hands and such, and Andre,
it just like I said before whole Coogan

3174
03:47:11.719 --> 03:47:16.120
many times, I'm undefeated, and
I'm still undefeated. I still undefeated,

3175
03:47:16.520 --> 03:47:28.840
never defeated me free. I can't
wait for you to counter three again.

3176
03:47:28.879 --> 03:47:33.799
Andrea sounds like great TV. On
Fabruary fifth, we will make her story

3177
03:47:35.040 --> 03:47:39.559
when I say, why as myself, my DBAs and Virgil and mister Hulcogan

3178
03:47:39.639 --> 03:47:43.120
the way, I gotta make history
because I'm going to destroy hulkamania ha ha

3179
03:47:43.239 --> 03:47:46.760
ha ha. And then Craig to
George, probably fling the pressure of live

3180
03:47:46.799 --> 03:47:50.600
TV, pulls the microphone back and
I swear to god, Andre slugs him

3181
03:47:50.680 --> 03:47:54.000
right in the gut. He gives
him a back elbow. I missed that.

3182
03:47:54.200 --> 03:47:56.959
Oh yeah, and this apparently was
something he did. Now, this

3183
03:47:56.120 --> 03:48:00.319
is an interview that Craig to George
did with the two Man Power Trip of

3184
03:48:00.360 --> 03:48:03.479
Wrestling podcast. And while he talks
about this taking place on a show at

3185
03:48:03.520 --> 03:48:07.600
the Philadelphia Spectrum, I'm pretty sure
he's actually referring to this interview on the

3186
03:48:07.639 --> 03:48:11.799
Royal Rumble, unless Andre did it
several times, which is very possible.

3187
03:48:11.200 --> 03:48:16.280
Did one with Andrea once just to
the left of the ring. And Andrea

3188
03:48:16.319 --> 03:48:20.559
had a way of pausing and I'm
holding the mic up and I'm waiting.

3189
03:48:20.639 --> 03:48:24.239
I thought he was done, and
he wasn't done. Actually in my right

3190
03:48:24.319 --> 03:48:26.799
arm, I remember, and he
because he put my right arm thing like

3191
03:48:26.920 --> 03:48:31.000
that, and then he said,
I'm not finished dogging. You grabbed the

3192
03:48:31.079 --> 03:48:37.280
mic back in boom, elbow right
to the gut. You ever gotten an

3193
03:48:37.399 --> 03:48:41.239
elbow from Andre in the Giant?
No? Yeah, I was like,

3194
03:48:43.879 --> 03:48:46.719
but yeah, it was one of
those. I actually lost my breath for

3195
03:48:46.799 --> 03:48:48.920
a second. But it made for
a good TV. But it wasn't planning,

3196
03:48:48.920 --> 03:48:52.639
I can tell you that was he
legitimate pis you're just messing with you.

3197
03:48:54.959 --> 03:48:58.479
You know, like we said earlier, John, everybody's on and if

3198
03:48:58.639 --> 03:49:03.559
if it TV, Hod shot here
wants to take the mic away from Andrea

3199
03:49:03.600 --> 03:49:09.479
the Giant, He's gonna pay the
price because that's what you know, that's

3200
03:49:09.520 --> 03:49:13.360
what Andrea the Giant would do.
So you know it was Look, it's

3201
03:49:13.399 --> 03:49:18.600
just it's it's there's acting, there's
storylines, there's characters, and I think

3202
03:49:18.639 --> 03:49:22.440
it was in the nature of who
Andrea the Giant was that he would not

3203
03:49:22.600 --> 03:49:26.040
just be politely say, mister Craig, did Georgia, I'm not you know

3204
03:49:26.200 --> 03:49:28.879
that was you know that's what he
would do. No, it was just

3205
03:49:28.959 --> 03:49:33.399
a reaction. There you have it, okay, and he does. He

3206
03:49:33.479 --> 03:49:37.000
pulls the mic back and Andre slugs
him and says, don't you ever stop

3207
03:49:37.040 --> 03:49:39.440
me? And you know what,
hul Cogan, we destroy Houkamania, giant

3208
03:49:39.479 --> 03:49:41.799
Mania will be born. Mumble mumble, we will have a new world champion.

3209
03:49:41.879 --> 03:49:45.920
I will deliver the world championship out
to mister d Bassi. Hogan.

3210
03:49:46.120 --> 03:49:50.000
Uh his eyes are wide and you
know that, says, can you see

3211
03:49:50.000 --> 03:49:52.520
it? Hogan? Here it is
did George says in fath Andre versus ull

3212
03:49:52.559 --> 03:49:58.600
Cogan. Wow, Islanders sold the
ring? I can't I cannot handle this

3213
03:49:58.760 --> 03:50:05.079
at this is this is such fucking
this is so goddamn annoying. This like

3214
03:50:05.399 --> 03:50:09.600
like what are you You're killing these
guys? Yeah, you're absolutely killing these

3215
03:50:09.680 --> 03:50:13.719
guys, all four of them.
Like, not only does this come after

3216
03:50:15.319 --> 03:50:24.440
three much hotter things, you know, the contract signing, rumble Hogan interview,

3217
03:50:24.680 --> 03:50:28.479
but then you stop midmatch to deliver
that fucking second and like this is

3218
03:50:28.600 --> 03:50:33.760
just you might It's almost like they
didn't trust Roma, not Roma. These

3219
03:50:33.840 --> 03:50:37.600
tag teams to go short enough to
make sure they could fit in the live

3220
03:50:37.680 --> 03:50:41.399
interview. I mean that's maybe,
maybe that's a case. So now we

3221
03:50:41.440 --> 03:50:46.319
see Roma being brought back out limping
with Jim Powers holding him up and another

3222
03:50:46.360 --> 03:50:48.120
brief word from your local cable system. And in the second fall, Roma's

3223
03:50:48.159 --> 03:50:52.440
legas tape the crowd's quiet. Roma
can barely get in the ring. Loser

3224
03:50:52.479 --> 03:50:54.440
in one of the falls must start
the next fall, of course, so

3225
03:50:54.520 --> 03:50:56.600
they point that out and you can
see an empty chair starting to appear on

3226
03:50:56.719 --> 03:51:01.559
the hard camera side, and of
course Tama goes totally nuts on to Paul

3227
03:51:01.639 --> 03:51:05.399
Roma's leg and tries to exploit the
injury. Jesse says, don't worry,

3228
03:51:05.600 --> 03:51:09.280
um did he The referee has the
discretion to stop it, which of course

3229
03:51:09.280 --> 03:51:15.559
he's indeed. Uh yeah, he
talks. Jesse goes, he talks about

3230
03:51:15.600 --> 03:51:22.760
Hogan being the moral majority and goes
on a wacky fucking tangent here Logan gimaniah

3231
03:51:22.959 --> 03:51:28.680
God is Giantlemania, Giantmania, Ginamania. Are all the real people out there

3232
03:51:30.280 --> 03:51:35.040
are caught up in this fantasy Haulkamania. It's the real list o there.

3233
03:51:35.159 --> 03:51:39.959
Powers with a cover too, and
I can't click anning or maybe a better

3234
03:51:39.000 --> 03:51:43.440
way to put it. You know, Hogan stands for the moral what's called

3235
03:51:43.479 --> 03:51:46.840
the moral majority? You think so, Giant Maaby, I would say,

3236
03:51:46.920 --> 03:51:52.559
with another gobb moral minority, that
sounds like moral your speed? Yeah,

3237
03:51:52.879 --> 03:51:58.680
all right, I'm from the am
moral minority, and I know our life

3238
03:51:58.719 --> 03:52:03.959
from her by Jim Powers, who
has really been asserting himself the popt a

3239
03:52:05.159 --> 03:52:09.879
pen here on the part of Jim
Powers. I guess the difference of me

3240
03:52:11.000 --> 03:52:15.639
this. If you look at Hulkomania, you're gonna find people like Jerry Folwell,

3241
03:52:16.000 --> 03:52:18.399
if you look at Giant Mabia,
you'll find people like Abby Hoffman.

3242
03:52:18.920 --> 03:52:26.079
Abby Hoffman, he's why he rose. Yeah, what the fuck are they

3243
03:52:26.159 --> 03:52:31.239
talking about? No fucking idea,
it's so weird. Can you get the

3244
03:52:31.319 --> 03:52:35.879
black and white Giant Tomania shirt ready
in the Hulkamania type face? Please?

3245
03:52:35.280 --> 03:52:39.879
Yeah? Yep? Maybe even put
a singlet strap on it or something,

3246
03:52:39.000 --> 03:52:43.760
yep, because that's fucking money.
Giant to Mania. Whoever said that?

3247
03:52:45.319 --> 03:52:48.520
I mean, seriously, there's all
kinds of one twos in here. We

3248
03:52:48.639 --> 03:52:52.079
have to go through it all.
Abby Hoffman was a big Flower Power activist

3249
03:52:52.280 --> 03:52:58.200
type that you know, you know
Jesse nineteen sixty eight, DNC Democratic National

3250
03:52:58.319 --> 03:53:05.159
Convention, con Space Rights Act,
Chicago sevens and aunt and he was a

3251
03:53:05.200 --> 03:53:07.799
big anti Vietnam War activists of Jesse
was obviously in love with the guy.

3252
03:53:09.920 --> 03:53:11.719
Um. And then de Vince comes
back and says, Jim and Tammy in

3253
03:53:11.760 --> 03:53:16.639
there do and he says, no, they be hulkamaniacs. That's a reference

3254
03:53:16.680 --> 03:53:18.879
to Jim and Tammy Baker, the
American televangelists. So I think you're still

3255
03:53:18.920 --> 03:53:24.000
in the air all these years later, Um, but they were. They

3256
03:53:24.040 --> 03:53:31.840
were kind of prominent names at the
time and controversial. Ventor says, they

3257
03:53:31.879 --> 03:53:35.120
be hulkamaniacs for the good of mankind. Vince says, just like you are

3258
03:53:35.600 --> 03:53:39.559
supplied for the good of mankinds.
I don't know what that was, sorry.

3259
03:53:39.719 --> 03:53:43.559
Jesse says, I never advocate for
that. Vince says, you you're

3260
03:53:45.040 --> 03:53:48.079
for one thing, and that's Jesse. They're really digging into each other,

3261
03:53:48.479 --> 03:53:52.719
they really are, um. And
then Jesse says, can you think of

3262
03:53:52.799 --> 03:53:56.000
anything else for me to before?
Yes, a lot, but that's a

3263
03:53:56.040 --> 03:53:58.760
different discussion, Vince says, So
we're basically hearing a little bit of the

3264
03:54:00.000 --> 03:54:05.159
negotiation back and forth. Powers in
peril here Jim Powers whipping inside cradle by

3265
03:54:05.200 --> 03:54:09.479
Powers gets two. Ventour says,
what's unique about February fifth, as I

3266
03:54:09.520 --> 03:54:13.360
believe this colossal rematch is going to
make some people in INDI forget about that

3267
03:54:13.479 --> 03:54:16.719
go card race. They got there
a coup with the side backbreaker for two.

3268
03:54:16.840 --> 03:54:20.799
Ven shouts over him cover shouting over
Jesse, that is, and then

3269
03:54:20.840 --> 03:54:24.520
he says they're hardly go cards.
Jesse, so he's defending the Indie five

3270
03:54:24.639 --> 03:54:30.079
hundred is Vince McMahan Tamba with a
whip and flying back elbow on Jim Powers.

3271
03:54:30.360 --> 03:54:33.920
Come on, Sucker, get up, he says, and Vince says,

3272
03:54:33.959 --> 03:54:37.120
come on, Sucker, Is that
what he said? He said,

3273
03:54:37.280 --> 03:54:41.360
Well, there, I guess so. Absolutely. Jesse talks about the psychout

3274
03:54:41.360 --> 03:54:45.360
advantage. It's it's there in boxing
and football and wrestling. If you can

3275
03:54:45.399 --> 03:54:48.159
get your opponent to think about what
you're saying to them, obviously they're not

3276
03:54:48.200 --> 03:54:52.680
going to react to what you're doing
in the heat of battle. Another perfect

3277
03:54:52.719 --> 03:54:54.680
response from Jesse. Vince just sits
there and like, fuck, can I

3278
03:54:54.799 --> 03:54:58.200
get something off here? Hawku comes
in with anix standing drop kick on Jim

3279
03:54:58.239 --> 03:55:01.399
Powers that gets too Howka, with
a gut rent Suplex gets to Vince says,

3280
03:55:01.840 --> 03:55:05.200
yes, can I please get off
here? Please? It is yeah,

3281
03:55:05.760 --> 03:55:07.319
there's an over till it's over,
and Jesse says that's an original quote

3282
03:55:07.399 --> 03:55:11.920
Vince, and Toura says it's close
to over right now. While I've been

3283
03:55:11.959 --> 03:55:15.760
waiting. Powers comes into an abdominal
stretch, struggling in it now he muscles

3284
03:55:15.799 --> 03:55:18.520
out with a hip toss and Howkou
stays on him though body slam. Howko

3285
03:55:18.680 --> 03:55:24.319
leaps forward with a splash, but
no one home. Tima, the Polynesian

3286
03:55:24.360 --> 03:55:26.799
fighting machine they call him, gets
in their whip and Powers kicks Hawkou and

3287
03:55:26.879 --> 03:55:31.639
takes a bump after he kicks him. Umpowers some kind of shape here he

3288
03:55:33.120 --> 03:55:39.520
is. He is a fucking man
flailing about big chops, and Toura calls

3289
03:55:39.600 --> 03:55:46.399
him Toma Wow. Vince is saying
things about unsavory and unspeakable. I'm not

3290
03:55:46.479 --> 03:55:52.920
sure what he's talking about. Um
Powers is whipped in and somehow manages to

3291
03:55:52.000 --> 03:55:56.760
duck a drop kick and get hit
by it at the same time. Water

3292
03:55:56.879 --> 03:56:01.280
mess Powers tags Roma to no response. Poor Roma throwing on the bad wheel.

3293
03:56:01.559 --> 03:56:03.959
How Ku kicks out the leg tack
to Tama. He comes off the

3294
03:56:03.040 --> 03:56:07.479
top of the splash across Roma's damaged
leg. Roma screams like a madman,

3295
03:56:07.559 --> 03:56:09.799
trying to make us care. Howko
puts a half crab on and that's it.

3296
03:56:11.399 --> 03:56:16.239
As Roma flails and powers watches him, the bell sounds and uh,

3297
03:56:16.920 --> 03:56:26.479
that's that. What an absolute disaster, I'll say, I mean, this

3298
03:56:26.639 --> 03:56:30.879
is embarrassing. I was so hoping
he would have a story about this match

3299
03:56:30.920 --> 03:56:33.360
because it seems so uniquely bad.
But to hear him talk about the whole

3300
03:56:33.440 --> 03:56:39.120
run, it's like this every other
night. Ah. So people start filing

3301
03:56:39.159 --> 03:56:43.559
out big time. They had the
flashing camera bulbs effect going, and they

3302
03:56:43.639 --> 03:56:46.680
replay Tima coming down with the knees
on the thighs of Roma, which is

3303
03:56:46.760 --> 03:56:50.840
kind of a really bad landing for
Roma. Breake come back, building's empty.

3304
03:56:50.879 --> 03:56:54.239
We got Jess and Vince reflecting on
things. Um. He says it

3305
03:56:54.280 --> 03:56:58.399
was an experience for me, Jesse
to see the rumble was very interesting.

3306
03:56:58.520 --> 03:57:01.319
Math is key to the umble.
It's the luck of the draw, no

3307
03:57:01.479 --> 03:57:07.079
question of that. And Vince's Douggan
is proving his superiority, notwithstanding already coming

3308
03:57:07.159 --> 03:57:09.399
in riding high in terms of the
Luck of the draw with Lady Luck on

3309
03:57:09.479 --> 03:57:13.559
his shoulders, and let's talk about
her claim of the world record. It

3310
03:57:13.600 --> 03:57:16.159
seems to be Dano Bravos having a
little difficulty, oh boy, as they

3311
03:57:16.200 --> 03:57:20.280
show a guy waving a Canadian flag
and says he just barely got that up,

3312
03:57:20.319 --> 03:57:22.959
and Jesse says, I did not
help on that lift, and Vince's

3313
03:57:22.000 --> 03:57:26.280
did you see the six hundred eighty
five eighty five pound lift on the right

3314
03:57:26.360 --> 03:57:28.719
shoulder bar. It was dipping down
on the right side there. Obviously Danah

3315
03:57:28.760 --> 03:57:33.040
had more power on the left and
almost head back to back on the rack,

3316
03:57:33.120 --> 03:57:35.559
and Jesse said, yeah, but
he did it at six eighty five,

3317
03:57:37.040 --> 03:57:39.200
and they go back and forth,
and I know this is just nons

3318
03:57:39.440 --> 03:57:43.000
why this is necessary. I don't
now, just let the match go until

3319
03:57:43.040 --> 03:57:46.879
you're fucking off the air, I
know exactly. Yeah, that's the thing

3320
03:57:46.920 --> 03:57:50.760
about the nineteen eighty eight Royal Rumble. As much Mormon fuzzies as might be

3321
03:57:50.879 --> 03:57:54.719
involved, you need to stop watching
it. After Duggan wins. Seriously,

3322
03:57:54.799 --> 03:57:58.719
well, the Hogan interviews, Fine, it's good it belonged earlier in the

3323
03:57:58.760 --> 03:58:01.200
show. Agreed, very skippable at
the end of the day, but it

3324
03:58:01.360 --> 03:58:07.040
is worth seeing. Yep. So
Vince is still hammering him about the legal

3325
03:58:07.079 --> 03:58:11.319
lift and whether he was locked out. They have a telephone on the desk

3326
03:58:11.440 --> 03:58:13.719
to communicate. Remember, the idea
of Gorilla is kind of a new idea

3327
03:58:13.760 --> 03:58:18.040
at this point. It's not something
ye they really have, and Vince certainly

3328
03:58:18.079 --> 03:58:22.280
didn't have a Gorilla position set up
yet at this point. Yeah, of

3329
03:58:22.319 --> 03:58:26.760
course he's announcing, but even when
he's not, then says it will remain

3330
03:58:26.840 --> 03:58:30.719
I'm sure an unoffen, an unofficial
bench press mark we heard from the Hogster.

3331
03:58:30.840 --> 03:58:35.159
Jesse says he thinks Hogan is scared. They show They just show a

3332
03:58:35.239 --> 03:58:37.920
tight shot of a w WF turnbuckle, which I thought was kind of nice

3333
03:58:39.040 --> 03:58:43.040
with the banner behind it. Yeah. Sure, Jesse says in front of

3334
03:58:43.040 --> 03:58:46.440
the world he was forced into signing
Hull. Cogan was and he's stuck now,

3335
03:58:46.920 --> 03:58:50.239
and they replay Andre slamming Hogan's head
into the table. It's jes a

3336
03:58:50.319 --> 03:58:52.159
Ventura says he can't wait until February
fifth at eight pm. The whole point

3337
03:58:52.200 --> 03:58:56.600
of this show to plug that I
now, right, Jesse Smirkin as we

3338
03:58:56.760 --> 03:59:01.319
look out on an empty Cops coliseum
in Hamilton, Ontario can so long from

3339
03:59:01.399 --> 03:59:07.399
ringside, and so long from the
very first televised royal rumble. There is

3340
03:59:07.399 --> 03:59:13.120
a succeeding Brasidi announcement as a t
J Descantis production, its contents is intended

3341
03:59:13.200 --> 03:59:13.319
for private use only.