WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.919 --> 00:00:05.559 It's the lapsed fan wrestling podcast with Jack and carn 2 00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:07.639 s e O and JP Sorrow. 3 00:00:09.519 --> 00:00:13.679 He's a lapsed fan and all my years and wrestling. 4 00:00:13.480 --> 00:00:21.480 I never seen anything. 5 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:23.039 And it's the laps fan man like the one in 6 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:23.480 the ring. 7 00:00:23.839 --> 00:00:24.960 Forget about Sado. 8 00:00:25.000 --> 00:00:26.160 He the real king of swing. 9 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:26.960 When the bell. 10 00:00:26.879 --> 00:00:30.000 Goes in the kick like me throwing in the corner, 11 00:00:30.079 --> 00:00:31.519 but gets rash like stick. 12 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:34.719 Even Jerry King gets take off. The crowd nodded in. 13 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:37.000 His head like its Steve low Brown. Would you get 14 00:00:37.079 --> 00:00:38.000 low down? 15 00:00:37.679 --> 00:00:39.079 We go even high up? 16 00:00:39.240 --> 00:00:41.439 Flipp you on your head, But you know cool driver, 17 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:44.960 you speak more and Dragon spits fire give you more 18 00:00:45.039 --> 00:00:47.840 shock than when he treats higher drop a more truth 19 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:50.719 than the con of sniper unless you with a coconut, 20 00:00:50.880 --> 00:00:54.039 Roddy Pipper Jack a JP. He like j h D 21 00:00:54.280 --> 00:00:57.119 drop the cupcakes and gold the brain Bob means the 22 00:00:57.200 --> 00:00:59.920 best podcast Frost start the close cloud if you are 23 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:01.439 It's a classic. 24 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:02.560 And polls took. 25 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:03.679 Us long enough to get to the show that we 26 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:06.280 were supposed to deep die for the Sid tribute, didn't it, Boss? 27 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:08.359 No? 28 00:01:08.560 --> 00:01:10.799 You know what it took us exactly the right amount 29 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:11.079 of time. 30 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:13.200 Oh man, I love to hear that, and I'm sure 31 00:01:13.239 --> 00:01:15.560 the solar system would agree as we arrive on the 32 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:19.239 February seventeenth, nineteen ninety seven edition of Monday Night Raw. 33 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:20.719 Of course, the last time we were with you here 34 00:01:20.760 --> 00:01:23.439 in the Lapsed Fan Were Wrestling podcast breaking down a 35 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:25.879 life in times of Sid. We were talking about how 36 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:29.000 this night, the second time he captured the Wwfavueight title, 37 00:01:29.439 --> 00:01:31.840 was one of rejoicing for you because you had had 38 00:01:31.959 --> 00:01:33.560 enough of the man he defeats with a strap on 39 00:01:33.680 --> 00:01:35.680 this live edition of Raw, the ship Man. 40 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:39.680 Yes, absolutely, I was done with the Shipman. It was time. 41 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:41.959 It was enough, was enough, it was time for a 42 00:01:42.079 --> 00:01:43.599 change to a borrow phrase. 43 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:45.920 And so when we sat down to think about how 44 00:01:45.959 --> 00:01:49.040 we'd pay tribute to Sid when he passed away earlier 45 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:51.439 this year, it was sort of a it was sort 46 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:54.000 of a tough decision because there was no low hanging fruit. 47 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:56.519 There was no show that was really you know, that 48 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:00.280 really bespeaked his entire career. Sid, of course, passed way 49 00:02:00.280 --> 00:02:03.040 in August twenty sixth, at the age of sixty three. 50 00:02:03.519 --> 00:02:05.760 But hey, if his two world title wins in the 51 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:08.800 WWF are representative of his high points, if it's what 52 00:02:08.919 --> 00:02:11.960 caused him to headline his second WrestleMania against the Undertaker 53 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:13.919 of the only WrestleMania he defended the title, and then 54 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:16.360 this is this is definitely not only going to have 55 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:18.120 to do, but it turns out to be I don't 56 00:02:18.159 --> 00:02:19.759 know how you felt looking back at it, kind of 57 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:21.960 a lovely show to go back and watch as they 58 00:02:22.039 --> 00:02:23.639 try to find a way to compete with Nitro. 59 00:02:24.439 --> 00:02:28.960 I absolutely loved this show. I thought it was so great. 60 00:02:30.319 --> 00:02:34.000 It was I will say I had I had watched 61 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:36.680 it more recently, you know, back a couple of years 62 00:02:36.719 --> 00:02:41.319 ago on the network. But that time and this time 63 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:47.800 it really it it It might my my memory wasn't tampered. 64 00:02:48.560 --> 00:02:50.879 My memory didn't feel tainted. My memory didn't I didn't 65 00:02:50.879 --> 00:02:55.039 say to myself, Man, I really remember that better, like 66 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:57.840 it feels the same. It felt the same. I think 67 00:02:57.919 --> 00:03:02.159 this is one of the great e like it's in 68 00:03:02.319 --> 00:03:04.840 this period that I that I wasn't expecting to really 69 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:07.280 love when I did go back and watch it, This 70 00:03:07.439 --> 00:03:09.840 ninety six to early ninety seven stuff that is just 71 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:15.520 it's just outstanding. It's so easy to watch television and 72 00:03:15.719 --> 00:03:18.520 you get you want to see what happens next, even now. 73 00:03:18.719 --> 00:03:20.919 They don't do too much, they don't do too little. 74 00:03:21.280 --> 00:03:23.039 It's kind of like they go into a TV show 75 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:24.919 with a mission and a game plan and it's not 76 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:29.120 a meandering mess and it's not a formulaic it's like, well, 77 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:30.919 we're going to see if this works this week. We're 78 00:03:30.919 --> 00:03:32.960 going to see if this works this week. And they 79 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:34.800 were still taping in bulk at the time, so it's 80 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:36.199 sort of like, we're going to try in the live 81 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:38.439 show to get something really hot launched so that when 82 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:40.520 we tape the next two weeks of raw or the 83 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:42.800 next week of Raw and follow up on it, we 84 00:03:42.919 --> 00:03:45.039 hope it caught, because if it did, we're going in 85 00:03:45.080 --> 00:03:47.879 that direction anyway, which, of course, as we've learned over 86 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:50.080 ten years of doing the show, that instills great discipline 87 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:52.240 and a wrestling booker is knowing that you've got to 88 00:03:52.240 --> 00:03:55.120 put the shows in the can. So you better book 89 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:57.960 hot angles. You better not get lazy and assume that 90 00:03:58.039 --> 00:03:59.360 just next week we have a chance to fix it 91 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:00.280 because we're live again. 92 00:04:00.719 --> 00:04:04.680 Yep, yep, that's I mean, that's it. I mean, you know, 93 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:06.680 and in many ways too, it's I mean, it's also 94 00:04:07.560 --> 00:04:11.280 you know, you're also forced to do what you have 95 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:13.479 to do. You know, it's like, okay, you know, yes 96 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:17.839 we did book this, but it's like having having shows 97 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:20.839 in the can in many ways is better because it 98 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:24.360 forces you to stay on a track at least for 99 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:28.519 a month. Yeah, you know, as opposed to the booking 100 00:04:28.600 --> 00:04:31.319 on the fly mentality of changing up whatever happens week 101 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:34.000 to week because you are live and nothing really matters. 102 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:39.680 Go ahead, please, I don't think because like you know, 103 00:04:39.920 --> 00:04:44.319 they you know, as we've seen in the past, like 104 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:47.120 this week to week booking and like changing things on 105 00:04:47.560 --> 00:04:49.680 the fly, and it's it was one of the most 106 00:04:49.720 --> 00:04:51.959 depressing parts. 107 00:04:51.720 --> 00:04:55.720 Of that of that post w CW purchase Adult rooms. Yeah, 108 00:04:55.759 --> 00:04:59.000 it really was, because you had all this correction going 109 00:04:59.079 --> 00:05:02.360 on based on nothing. But you know, Vince's last minute 110 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:08.120 sort of whatever attitude, fucking little hissy fits he used 111 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:11.160 to throw and that's not in service to the fan, 112 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:12.920 and we all caught on pretty quickly that that's what 113 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:16.040 was happening. Of course, a lot more discipline now in 114 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:18.319 that category in WW. Ironically not so much in a 115 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:22.600 W would appear in sometimes. But all that's to say 116 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:25.800 that going back and watching this stuff really is really 117 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:30.360 is wild because you're seeing them having to figure out 118 00:05:30.560 --> 00:05:32.759 what with the compliment of wrestlers that they have. I mean, 119 00:05:32.800 --> 00:05:35.160 this is before Steve Austin became somebody that you could 120 00:05:35.199 --> 00:05:37.639 bank on to sill out an arena. Before he was 121 00:05:37.680 --> 00:05:39.319 someone you could bank on to win you a Monday 122 00:05:39.360 --> 00:05:41.879 Night rating or even come close. But they didn't have 123 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:44.279 anybody that was bankable in that way. In a lot 124 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:46.759 of ways, I think that's why Sid ends up having 125 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:48.759 a moment in the spotlight here is because he was 126 00:05:49.600 --> 00:05:51.360 just as well. There there was nobody that. 127 00:05:52.040 --> 00:05:54.800 I know as well as no one else, and who 128 00:05:54.879 --> 00:06:01.439 gives a shit? He was? He was, you know, he 129 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:05.560 was Sid Hogan, Hulk Hogan two. Maybe he can be 130 00:06:05.639 --> 00:06:06.319 Hulk Hogan three. 131 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:09.639 Maybe he can be Hollywood Hogan two. Because at this 132 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:13.800 point over on TNT, Hollywood Hogan the nWo are reigning supreme, 133 00:06:14.439 --> 00:06:17.839 but Sid the second title win for him. Where do 134 00:06:17.920 --> 00:06:20.639 you remember this fitting in terms of your sense of Sid. 135 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:23.560 We've talked a lot, including in this tribute, about that 136 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:27.279 night in Madison Square Garden at Survivor's Series nineteen ninety 137 00:06:27.319 --> 00:06:29.240 six when he first won the strap off Shawn Michaels 138 00:06:29.279 --> 00:06:31.879 and all the all how that was all wrapped up 139 00:06:31.920 --> 00:06:34.040 and how the fans felt about Shawn's nineteen ninety six 140 00:06:34.160 --> 00:06:35.079 campaign at that point. 141 00:06:35.120 --> 00:06:36.879 Does this title win feel to you. 142 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:40.680 Like definitely less important by a mile or is it 143 00:06:40.839 --> 00:06:43.519 kind of commensurate with the magnitude of that win when 144 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:44.560 you think about Sid's career. 145 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:47.759 No, I definitely think. I mean, I can tell you 146 00:06:47.879 --> 00:06:50.600 it felt as important at the time. I do think 147 00:06:50.639 --> 00:06:56.920 it's as important now. I've always I've always in kind 148 00:06:56.959 --> 00:07:05.240 of the like since late late late nineties until now. 149 00:07:06.560 --> 00:07:08.639 I mean not so much now when we started having 150 00:07:08.720 --> 00:07:11.839 long title title reigns again. But you know, one of 151 00:07:11.920 --> 00:07:17.839 the things that for me really solidified a guy who 152 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:21.839 was thought of as being a champion in again late 153 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:26.120 nineties through I don't know, maybe the last five years 154 00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:30.759 or something like that, is two title reigns. To me, 155 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:34.759 you meant business if you won the title twice. If 156 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:36.879 you won the title once, eh, you did it, Okay, 157 00:07:36.959 --> 00:07:39.120 it could have been a fluke, you know, you weren't 158 00:07:39.160 --> 00:07:41.360 relied upon to do it again. But when you won 159 00:07:41.439 --> 00:07:43.360 it twice, it means they said, you know what, let's 160 00:07:43.399 --> 00:07:46.279 go back to this guy. No matter what the reasons were, 161 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:50.199 they went back to him. You know that to me, 162 00:07:50.480 --> 00:07:53.120 was always a sign of like, Okay, this guy, this 163 00:07:53.199 --> 00:07:57.000 guy's legit, this guy's a real main eventor yeah, yeah, 164 00:07:57.000 --> 00:07:58.839 that's really and I stand by that. I stand by 165 00:07:58.920 --> 00:07:59.439 that with him. 166 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:02.079 So often when they go back to somebody the second time, 167 00:08:02.120 --> 00:08:04.879 it is because something else just just ended up paling 168 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:07.800 by comparison the next phase they thought they were moving 169 00:08:07.839 --> 00:08:09.600 into when they took the strap off, the guy just 170 00:08:09.759 --> 00:08:14.160 wasn't there. And the fact that, you know, considering all options, 171 00:08:14.480 --> 00:08:16.879 it's not some other direction that they take entirely knew, 172 00:08:16.920 --> 00:08:18.199 but in fact that they end up going back to 173 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:21.040 somebody is a vote of confidence in a strange way. 174 00:08:21.079 --> 00:08:23.560 It's like a it's an endorsement of your staying power 175 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:26.560 as in terms of being over, because you're still there 176 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:29.199 and still a candidate even though you've lost it. And 177 00:08:30.120 --> 00:08:32.480 that's that's a great point and I think one that's 178 00:08:32.519 --> 00:08:35.399 always worth talking about when you think about that huge 179 00:08:35.440 --> 00:08:37.399 litmus test when a guy first wins the world title 180 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:39.559 is when he comes out for the first time with 181 00:08:39.679 --> 00:08:42.000 the belt and when he walks through that curtain with 182 00:08:42.039 --> 00:08:44.039 a strap around his waist, does he feel like Ronnie 183 00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:46.720 Garvin or does he feel like Steve Austin, then I'd 184 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:47.799 have to wrestle May fourteen. 185 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:50.200 Exactly. Those are the twos a huge difference. 186 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:54.120 And when you went it the second time, that's not 187 00:08:55.159 --> 00:09:00.799 the overwhelming energy of the title reign. That's not something 188 00:09:01.000 --> 00:09:03.279 that's on an albatross around your neck. You know, it's 189 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:05.840 like you're walking out and you already can carry yourself 190 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:08.840 as someone that's proven themselves as championship level because you've 191 00:09:08.840 --> 00:09:11.480 already wont it. So it's not like you're watching this 192 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:13.240 person walk out with the belt for the first time. 193 00:09:13.320 --> 00:09:16.120 Like remember when Diesel came out on RAW nineteen ninety four, 194 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:17.519 how hard it was to deal with. I mean, I 195 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:18.600 know you're excited at home. 196 00:09:18.840 --> 00:09:20.159 I was. I was totally that with it. 197 00:09:20.799 --> 00:09:22.480 You watch it back now and those people are like, 198 00:09:22.639 --> 00:09:27.759 yeah really, yeah, wow, okay, and uh I think that 199 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:30.519 the nineteen ninety five returns on Kevin Nash's WWF title 200 00:09:30.559 --> 00:09:33.440 reign bespeak that. But here second time, no, you know, 201 00:09:33.480 --> 00:09:36.080 I have to worry about that. That's not the messaging. 202 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:37.879 And yeah, I guess the title win that puts him 203 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:40.960 in the position to to main event WrestleMania instead of 204 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:42.799 just you know, be the guy that Sean beating his 205 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:46.159 hometown in a similarly sized stadium much bigger actually, but 206 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:49.360 I mean similarly sized to wrestleming E eight. I guess 207 00:09:49.399 --> 00:09:52.039 it is just as big because of the position that 208 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:53.639 puts sit in. And we were able to say when 209 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:57.440 he passed away that he actually, you know, wrestled for 210 00:09:57.480 --> 00:09:59.200 the world title in a Mania main event against the 211 00:09:59.240 --> 00:10:03.000 Undertaker's part of Hundertaker's streak, you know, right, We wouldn't 212 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:04.440 be able to say that if things didn't play out 213 00:10:04.440 --> 00:10:04.720 this way. 214 00:10:04.879 --> 00:10:05.679 As we've talked about. 215 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:08.000 You know, it's pretty clear that the Michael's Heart Wrestling 216 00:10:08.039 --> 00:10:10.000 thirteen match was still on the table until he lost 217 00:10:10.039 --> 00:10:12.080 his smile a week before this show, and that is 218 00:10:12.120 --> 00:10:14.320 Shaun Michaels and gave up the title. And so suddenly 219 00:10:14.360 --> 00:10:16.480 the sid Undertaker match, which was clearly on the docket 220 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:18.440 for the show just non title, ends up being the 221 00:10:18.480 --> 00:10:20.960 world title match, and Steve Austin gets plugged in. Instead 222 00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:23.799 of wrestling British Bulldog, he wrestles Brett Hart and pretty 223 00:10:23.840 --> 00:10:26.600 much the most transformative match WWF has ever done in 224 00:10:26.720 --> 00:10:29.279 terms of, like overnight, we're in business with Steve Austin 225 00:10:29.360 --> 00:10:32.039 and we're in business with Brett as a heel right 226 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:34.480 to say nothing of how brilliant the matches sort of 227 00:10:34.600 --> 00:10:37.559 artistically move from move. So yeah, exactly, we're on the 228 00:10:37.600 --> 00:10:39.840 cusp of a lot of really important things that take 229 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:42.320 a while to pay off. You know, we talked about this, 230 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:44.120 of course when we did the ninety seven journey. As 231 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:46.120 good as this TV might go back might be to 232 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:48.639 go back and watch, you can't forget that it all 233 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:51.960 landed with a dud in terms of competing with WCW 234 00:10:52.080 --> 00:10:54.559 at the time, right and Nitro had almost nothing going on. 235 00:10:54.639 --> 00:10:56.639 We'll talk about what happened on the February seventeenth Nitro 236 00:10:56.720 --> 00:10:58.440 as well. You want to talk to TLFX boss. How 237 00:10:58.440 --> 00:11:01.519 about a return of at this time in WCW for you, Hey, 238 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:04.159 I'm down with that. That used to be a fun one, 239 00:11:04.559 --> 00:11:06.039 and it makes sense when you're looking at an addition 240 00:11:06.120 --> 00:11:07.840 of raw, which we rarely get the chance to do 241 00:11:08.000 --> 00:11:11.399 because you know, usually just one isolated raw is it's 242 00:11:11.440 --> 00:11:14.240 usually not momentous enough to justify a deep dive. There 243 00:11:14.279 --> 00:11:17.440 are some, and we've done several, but this is one 244 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:19.919 that really is only I think on the docket like 245 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:22.440 this for this close examination, because it makes sense for 246 00:11:22.519 --> 00:11:25.159 the sid tribute because we've already done Survivors Series ninety 247 00:11:25.200 --> 00:11:27.720 six in the archives, right and it ended up just 248 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:29.240 taking on a life of its own, of course. But 249 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:32.000 I think we'll start with a passage from The Observer 250 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:35.080 where Meltzer I think, really puts into clear focus how 251 00:11:35.200 --> 00:11:37.320 crazy of a time period this was for the WWF. 252 00:11:37.360 --> 00:11:39.440 I mean, we're a week, we're a month out rather 253 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:41.919 from WrestleMania, and no one has any fucking idea what's 254 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:42.200 going on. 255 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:46.039 Like the fan has crazy. I mean that must have. 256 00:11:46.159 --> 00:11:47.799 That must have been about it, like, yeah, you didn't 257 00:11:47.799 --> 00:11:50.080 really know. Like it's again, what what you saw at 258 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:53.720 the rumble? None of that is none of that is here, right, 259 00:11:53.799 --> 00:11:57.639 you know, none of that's come to pass, And that's 260 00:11:57.639 --> 00:11:59.279 what's so wild about it. Yep. 261 00:11:59.440 --> 00:12:01.919 Yeah, it was the most up in the air thing 262 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:04.279 they've ever done. We talked about it last week. They 263 00:12:04.320 --> 00:12:05.519 go all the way up to that you know famous 264 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:07.600 Raw where Brett shoves down Vince and said, this is bullshit. 265 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:11.000 That's the week before Wrestling thirteen. That show, you know, 266 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:14.000 a completely new look for Raw is basically the go 267 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:16.200 home show for WrestleMania, and all the stuff is being 268 00:12:16.240 --> 00:12:19.879 decided on the night just so different than every other 269 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:22.240 WrestleMania in terms of how they've built it up just 270 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:25.639 about everyone. I'm sure there might be some exceptions to that, 271 00:12:25.799 --> 00:12:29.200 but here's how Meltzer put it. Despite performing in good 272 00:12:29.240 --> 00:12:31.279 matches most nights and great matches on the big shows, 273 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:33.720 and more importantly from the top man position, howse show 274 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:36.240 business with him is the key draw and headliner being 275 00:12:36.320 --> 00:12:39.200 the best in years. So the point being there, how 276 00:12:39.279 --> 00:12:41.639 show business was great under Shawn's champion compared to what 277 00:12:41.799 --> 00:12:44.840 he adherited, and he had good matches and great matches 278 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:48.759 on big shows in the top man position. Everything he 279 00:12:48.840 --> 00:12:52.440 dreamed about being important on paper was going exactly according 280 00:12:52.519 --> 00:12:55.879 to plan, Meltzer writes about Shawn Michaels. But suddenly everyone 281 00:12:55.960 --> 00:12:58.799 focused on TV ratings. That must have been a kick 282 00:12:58.840 --> 00:13:03.039 in Shawn's ass, right, yep, Yeah, that's that's there's the 283 00:13:03.080 --> 00:13:06.399 big difference right there, TV ratings. I mean, Diesels out 284 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:09.399 there floundering his champ, but nobody's talking about why isn't 285 00:13:09.399 --> 00:13:11.879 he beaten Nitro? No One that hadn't set in yet 286 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:13.919 as a debate, and of course he had been the 287 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:16.879 champion for what nine months before Nitro even launched, but 288 00:13:17.919 --> 00:13:20.279 it just wasn't. The TV rating of Monday Night wasn't 289 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:22.679 a referendum on the title holder, and Sean I bet 290 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:25.000 was plugged in to get the championship at a time 291 00:13:25.039 --> 00:13:28.360 that that still wasn't the prevailing mentality because Nitro hadn't 292 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:30.879 edged so far ahead of WWF. That created kind of 293 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:34.679 like an existential crisis for WWF. And all of a sudden, 294 00:13:34.679 --> 00:13:36.919 Sean gets the belt and now nobody cares that the 295 00:13:37.000 --> 00:13:39.000 houses are better under him than they were for the 296 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:42.720 past what eighteen months. No one cares that the match 297 00:13:42.840 --> 00:13:45.200 quality and the title matches, the WWF title matches had 298 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:48.320 just grown exponentially. It's not that nobody cares, it's just like, 299 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:51.519 that's not that's not the thing that's determining the mood 300 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:53.879 and the sense of how the company is doing, and 301 00:13:54.240 --> 00:13:56.600 that sense is what determines how well the champion is doing. 302 00:13:56.759 --> 00:13:57.480 It makes sense. 303 00:13:58.399 --> 00:14:01.320 So he's going to kick the balls, and what's even 304 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:03.559 worse is it's two of his best friends kicking his 305 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:04.240 ass on Nitro. 306 00:14:07.720 --> 00:14:09.960 I know, I you know, I think I don't think 307 00:14:10.120 --> 00:14:12.759 enough attention is put on that, you know, the idea 308 00:14:12.840 --> 00:14:16.279 that that that when he's doing his thing over in WWE, 309 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:19.600 you know, and he's champion and he's not doing the 310 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:25.200 you know, he's not hanging really with his own buddies 311 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:28.559 over in Nitro, and ironically it's the guy that fucking 312 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:32.080 tanked the company essentially. Yeah, you know, like that's what's 313 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.559 always so funny. And I don't know, does he ever. 314 00:14:34.799 --> 00:14:37.360 I mean, I'm sure he's been asked that and he yeah, 315 00:14:38.519 --> 00:14:41.080 you know, he blows it off as nah no for 316 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:41.600 all of us. 317 00:14:42.080 --> 00:14:46.360 Well, Sean, it was always pretty uh open about like 318 00:14:46.519 --> 00:14:48.720 I'll leave tomorrow. Remember that thing where he was going 319 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:51.000 to go to Nitro because he was in Hartford. He's 320 00:14:51.039 --> 00:14:52.759 like so pissed off night. I think it was the 321 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:54.559 night he had the backstage fight with Brett where Brett 322 00:14:54.600 --> 00:14:56.919 pore out some of his hair and he like stormed 323 00:14:56.919 --> 00:14:58.600 out of the building. And people actually thought that by 324 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:00.320 the time Nitro went off the air, he make it 325 00:15:00.360 --> 00:15:01.720 to the building and show up on their TV, and 326 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:03.200 that he was pissed off enough to do it. And 327 00:15:03.279 --> 00:15:06.000 I feel like he actually literally threatened that at certain 328 00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:08.600 points during nineteen ninety seven. And this is the Sean 329 00:15:08.679 --> 00:15:11.960 we're observing here at play beginning to crest here in 330 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:13.559 his second title reign and then the you know, the 331 00:15:15.240 --> 00:15:18.320 forfeiting the championship. But I mean, yeah, it was always 332 00:15:18.399 --> 00:15:20.200 it was a constant thing. There was that famous picture 333 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:21.879 where he had an outsider's T shirt on while he 334 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:24.240 was the top guy at w W. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 335 00:15:24.519 --> 00:15:27.039 And it was this constant fear honestly that like it 336 00:15:27.200 --> 00:15:29.120 just made too much sense for him to join Kevin Ashann, 337 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:31.639 Scott holland WCW, and to say nothing of Sean Waltman. 338 00:15:32.759 --> 00:15:36.000 That Yeah, I think a prevailing thing around Sewn in 339 00:15:36.080 --> 00:15:38.919 ninety seven was he could leave, and we can't afford 340 00:15:39.000 --> 00:15:41.519 to have him leave, just like Vince told himself he 341 00:15:41.519 --> 00:15:45.320 couldn't afford to have Brett leave him either. So yeah, 342 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:49.559 he was very open about the fact that, you know, WCW, 343 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:52.000 with his buddy's kicking his ass, really put him in 344 00:15:52.039 --> 00:15:54.159 a place of wanting to go with them, you know, 345 00:15:55.440 --> 00:15:57.919 but he just you know, when those moments of truth came, 346 00:15:58.000 --> 00:15:59.519 Vince was able to talk him into staying. 347 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.879 Plus he had all these issues. You know, if you 348 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:07.080 got to come there's actually you know, you know, listen, 349 00:16:07.240 --> 00:16:09.679 I'll tell you, pal, I would be if you really 350 00:16:09.720 --> 00:16:13.200 wanted to go, I'd let you go, no problem. The 351 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:15.720 problem is he should have done it a couple of 352 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:19.480 weeks ago because because you know, I know this for 353 00:16:19.559 --> 00:16:22.360 a fact, because I you know, I've had conversations with 354 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:25.600 with Turner about this, and he he doesn't like hiring 355 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:30.200 talent who's lost their smile. Right, it's just a thing. 356 00:16:30.559 --> 00:16:34.960 I Listen, if you hadn't done that, I'm saying you'd 357 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:38.519 have my blessing. But you can't now because you lost 358 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:39.279 your damn smile. 359 00:16:39.840 --> 00:16:41.919 Ted, this is Vince McMahon. I'm leaving this message to 360 00:16:42.039 --> 00:16:44.440 let you know that my champion has a pill problem. 361 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:47.039 So if you hire him, you're inheriting the pill problem. 362 00:16:47.120 --> 00:16:48.879 Pal and Ione has to tate to let shareholders know 363 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:49.200 about it. 364 00:16:49.919 --> 00:16:52.679 Tell you Ted, Ted musick man, I just want to 365 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:56.120 give your heads up and listen. You know you got 366 00:16:56.200 --> 00:16:58.519 to do what you got to do in the situation. 367 00:16:58.720 --> 00:17:04.799 But you know, free enterprise, Sean, Sean, what free enterprise is, 368 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:06.880 what it is? Free enterprise? You know this is it's 369 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:09.200 all about free enterprise and all about you know, listen, 370 00:17:09.440 --> 00:17:11.480 you know we're not in a you know, we're not 371 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:13.680 in a battle to the death. We're here to to 372 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:17.759 you know, have friendly competition, right, And I just want 373 00:17:17.799 --> 00:17:22.720 to say, you know, in good faith that if that 374 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:27.319 my champion, Shawn Michaels, he's interested in in in maybe 375 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:30.880 jumping to w c W and I've said it's totally fine, 376 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:33.799 but I wanted to give you a heads up that 377 00:17:33.960 --> 00:17:36.519 if he comes out, he's got a major pill problem. 378 00:17:37.640 --> 00:17:40.319 Like we're talking, we're talking, he just takes a bottle 379 00:17:40.319 --> 00:17:42.519 of pills and he just chugs it down like like 380 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:45.880 a like a glass of water. And and also I 381 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:48.839 and I just want you to beware of this for 382 00:17:48.920 --> 00:17:54.079 your own personal You know, he he likes older men 383 00:17:55.559 --> 00:17:58.160 as well, and he's mentioned your name a number of times, 384 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:01.920 and I don't know, you know, maybe that's your Listen, 385 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:04.400 if you're into that, that's totally fine, but I know 386 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:08.200 that you are married, and so he may. And when 387 00:18:08.240 --> 00:18:10.240 he sets a sight on a man that he wants, right, 388 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:12.759 he's trying to get it. Take it for me, Pale. 389 00:18:13.319 --> 00:18:17.519 I mean, listen, we've all input in precarious situations. I'm 390 00:18:17.680 --> 00:18:21.000 just looking out for you, Pale. Don't get yourself. That 391 00:18:21.160 --> 00:18:22.400 was Shawn Michael's situation. 392 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:24.279 We've had our difference as Pale. But I think in 393 00:18:24.319 --> 00:18:26.319 a lot of ways we're more alike than we are different, 394 00:18:26.559 --> 00:18:28.599 and it's a fellow titan of American industry. I just 395 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:31.880 want you to know, Pale, that there are also unattended 396 00:18:31.920 --> 00:18:33.920 deaths and yet to be explained. 397 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:37.119 Let me ask you this also, Do you like you know? 398 00:18:37.200 --> 00:18:39.400 If if, if, that all is fine? I just you know, 399 00:18:39.480 --> 00:18:41.000 one more thing I just wanted to throw out there, 400 00:18:41.000 --> 00:18:43.920 because this is actually a fun thing. Do you like 401 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:49.960 do you like hunting humans for sport? Right? Is that 402 00:18:50.079 --> 00:18:51.279 something you have to do? You like to do? You 403 00:18:51.359 --> 00:18:56.279 have to hunt men in the forest, because that's something 404 00:18:56.319 --> 00:18:59.519 that Shawn Michael's demands that he does on a weekly basis. 405 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:03.640 He I am forced to. It's it's in his contract 406 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:05.240 now and that I have to go out with him 407 00:19:05.240 --> 00:19:11.160 and hunt man in the woods. And it's just let 408 00:19:11.240 --> 00:19:15.000 me tell you, we're talking murder, and he'll right and 409 00:19:15.039 --> 00:19:19.640 he'll talk you into dark thinking, plane plane, cold blooded murder. 410 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:22.319 So let me ask you, Pal, are you interested in 411 00:19:22.440 --> 00:19:23.640 luring away a murderer? 412 00:19:24.039 --> 00:19:27.599 Are you a murderer? Dead turner? That's correct? Can you 413 00:19:27.759 --> 00:19:28.480 be a murderer? 414 00:19:29.160 --> 00:19:31.680 I can't imagine why Shawn never went to WW, but 415 00:19:33.119 --> 00:19:35.559 everything he dreamed about being on paper was going exactly 416 00:19:35.599 --> 00:19:38.279 according to plan, but suddenly everyone focused on TV ratings, 417 00:19:38.319 --> 00:19:40.720 and suddenly he was a failures champion. He was the 418 00:19:40.759 --> 00:19:43.119 standard bearer, the quarterback of sorts on a team that 419 00:19:43.160 --> 00:19:45.759 people wrote was on a thirty three game losing streak, 420 00:19:46.079 --> 00:19:49.160 going downhill fast despite it really being the most successful 421 00:19:49.200 --> 00:19:51.519 it had been in years, and being a perfectionist to 422 00:19:51.559 --> 00:19:54.799 his craft in an imperfect world where others make mistakes often. 423 00:19:54.880 --> 00:19:58.039 His immaturity showed tricularly when his big buddies left him 424 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:00.880 m one day before the match. The rules of the 425 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:04.599 Final Four were amended to being Battle Royal Rules one 426 00:20:04.680 --> 00:20:07.720 day before Final Four the pay per view the night 427 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:08.519 after this edition. 428 00:20:08.559 --> 00:20:10.559 Oh no, it was always Battle Royal rules. That was 429 00:20:10.559 --> 00:20:13.680 always the way. Are you sure that I'm I'm I mean, listen, 430 00:20:13.799 --> 00:20:16.599 I I because I remember them building it up as such. 431 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:20.200 I remember that, I remember, and I didn't get the show. 432 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:23.079 That I know. I did not get the show, but 433 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:25.400 I remember them saying, you know, that was the kind 434 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:27.000 of the uniqueness of the match, And to me, the 435 00:20:27.079 --> 00:20:28.839 selling point of the pay per view was that it 436 00:20:28.960 --> 00:20:32.400 was over the top rope. Plus it was yes pinfall 437 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:35.039 or submission controversy. 438 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:38.400 It is almost like a mini rumble, right, yep, Well 439 00:20:38.440 --> 00:20:40.279 that's what mals reading here. I'm not sure after a 440 00:20:40.319 --> 00:20:41.839 celebration that didn't really come off as. 441 00:20:41.720 --> 00:20:43.240 A very celebration the day before that it was for 442 00:20:43.359 --> 00:20:46.200 the title? Was that what it was for the title? 443 00:20:46.279 --> 00:20:46.440 Yeah? 444 00:20:46.519 --> 00:20:50.680 True, Yeah, yeah, he had the impression. I guess that, 445 00:20:51.839 --> 00:20:54.039 you know, everyone expected to be pinneror submission. 446 00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:56.720 See, I don't think, well, I don't know. I mean 447 00:20:56.759 --> 00:20:58.559 I truly didn't, because they were talking about how it 448 00:20:58.680 --> 00:21:02.759 was going to be like, because all this should happen 449 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:05.039 in the Royal Rumble, it was going to be a 450 00:21:05.079 --> 00:21:06.240 mini Royal Rumble. Yeah. 451 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:10.799 Yeah, and that, you know, that was definitely the That 452 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:12.720 was definitely the thrust of what they were presenting. I 453 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:15.039 think probably in our final four show when we did 454 00:21:15.079 --> 00:21:16.559 it as part of our ninety seven journey, we got 455 00:21:16.599 --> 00:21:19.079 a little more granular on this question. But hopefully remember 456 00:21:19.119 --> 00:21:21.519 the Solar System will be able to pin down precisely 457 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:24.480 what episode of TV they announced this, because you know, 458 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:26.839 usually the contemporaneous stuff from Meltzer is pretty good. It's 459 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:29.200 not like he's it's not like he's talking about some 460 00:21:29.279 --> 00:21:31.200 backstage thing he heard. It's like what he's observing just 461 00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:35.160 watching the TV. So so after a celebration that didn't 462 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:37.119 really come off as very celebratory. He's talking about Brett 463 00:21:37.160 --> 00:21:38.759 winning the title at final four of the night before 464 00:21:38.799 --> 00:21:40.599 this Raw, Sid hit them ring and he and Heart 465 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:42.400 did a stare down to build up the Raw match 466 00:21:42.720 --> 00:21:45.400 the next night as the show went off the air. Now, 467 00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:48.839 the Thursday Raw Thursday episode where Sean relinquishes the championship 468 00:21:48.880 --> 00:21:52.359 tearfully and steps away, that was to be Sid wrestling 469 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:55.720 Sean in the main event of that show ended up 470 00:21:55.720 --> 00:21:58.200 being Sid and Steve Austin, as we talked about, did 471 00:21:58.279 --> 00:22:00.839 a two point three rating in a three point six 472 00:22:01.039 --> 00:22:04.720 share at the time. Now, that rating was higher than 473 00:22:05.400 --> 00:22:09.039 what the USA network usually did on Thursdays against strong 474 00:22:09.160 --> 00:22:13.000 NBC competition, I mean Thursday nights in nineteen ninety seven, friends, Seinfeld, 475 00:22:13.039 --> 00:22:16.000 I fuck you don't Yeah, you understand the chance must 476 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:18.880 see TV. But it's basically a typical Raw for all 477 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:22.319 this buzz or on Shawn's announcement, typical Raw, you know. 478 00:22:22.480 --> 00:22:26.039 But the nuance there is that even as recently as 479 00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:29.720 the Superstars before, the most devout watchers of WWFTV would 480 00:22:29.720 --> 00:22:32.519 have had no idea that Thursday Night Raw Thursday was 481 00:22:32.519 --> 00:22:35.079 going to open with Sean giving up the belt, so 482 00:22:35.160 --> 00:22:36.519 it wasn't like you could tune in knowing this is 483 00:22:36.559 --> 00:22:38.720 going to be a Newsy show. But him defending the 484 00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:40.880 title against Sid should have been enough of a draw 485 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:44.400 that they didn't do this kind of relatively meandering rating 486 00:22:44.440 --> 00:22:47.079 for Thursday Raw Thursday. So that's kind of the plight 487 00:22:47.079 --> 00:22:50.480 of WWF that we keep talking about. In nineteen ninety seven, 488 00:22:51.440 --> 00:22:53.240 Meltzer writes, in fact, this was hyped more than most 489 00:22:53.279 --> 00:22:55.200 clashed the champions in recent years, and was hyped on 490 00:22:55.240 --> 00:22:56.559 par with the pay per view show in the same 491 00:22:56.599 --> 00:22:59.279 week had advertised Sean v. Sid rematch on top. Yet 492 00:22:59.319 --> 00:23:00.920 the show did a rat that would be considered an 493 00:23:00.920 --> 00:23:04.440 absolute disaster had WCW pulled that number for a clash. 494 00:23:05.279 --> 00:23:08.359 It's amazing how quickly that those fortunes turn around. Me yep, yeap, 495 00:23:08.400 --> 00:23:10.119 it takes a year. It takes less than it ticks 496 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:11.079 like eight months. 497 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:11.920 Yep. 498 00:23:13.960 --> 00:23:15.759 Elsa does point out that they're channing for Sid and 499 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:20.640 Lowell the whole time Sean is tearfully talking about stepping away. 500 00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:23.720 And what I found interesting is China and her book 501 00:23:24.519 --> 00:23:28.240 talked about how Rocky my Via beating Triple H for 502 00:23:28.279 --> 00:23:30.359 the title the Intercontinental title in the opening match of 503 00:23:30.400 --> 00:23:33.000 the show was basically like an audible that was called 504 00:23:33.079 --> 00:23:35.640 because of the concern that Sean dropping the belt and 505 00:23:35.680 --> 00:23:37.440 not wrestling for the title would leave a sour taste 506 00:23:37.440 --> 00:23:39.720 in fans' mouths and leave them kind of bluebald. So 507 00:23:39.880 --> 00:23:41.960 Vince was like, we need something big, we need something big, 508 00:23:42.599 --> 00:23:44.880 and so he had Triple H to lose the championship 509 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:49.000 to Wow to rock For that reason, it was kind 510 00:23:49.039 --> 00:23:52.119 of abrupt Rockies title win. I do remember that it 511 00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:53.599 was a big part of the reason the Die Rocky 512 00:23:53.680 --> 00:23:56.599 Dye stuff started, because like he just I mean, he 513 00:23:57.039 --> 00:23:58.799 was doing well on television and winning matches, but it 514 00:23:58.839 --> 00:24:01.960 wasn't like anyone really was like getting behind him and 515 00:24:02.559 --> 00:24:04.440 you win the icy Strap after you get over, not 516 00:24:04.839 --> 00:24:09.119 before you get over, right, So that was that was 517 00:24:09.240 --> 00:24:11.000 rather abrupt, and and the way she frames it was, 518 00:24:11.079 --> 00:24:14.000 you know, she was she had met Triple H and 519 00:24:14.079 --> 00:24:15.559 they were working out, and she had met some of 520 00:24:15.559 --> 00:24:18.640 the WWF personnel when they had come through, like Blackjack 521 00:24:18.759 --> 00:24:20.319 Lands I think was the first kind of person she 522 00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:22.640 talked up in a hotel one time about maybe coming in, 523 00:24:23.519 --> 00:24:26.920 and Lanza kind of pawned her off on Sean and 524 00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:28.599 Triple H who happened to walk by at the time, 525 00:24:28.640 --> 00:24:30.960 and so they got to talking, and eventually, of course 526 00:24:31.279 --> 00:24:35.400 Triple Ah in China became workout partners and an item, 527 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:38.359 and there was sort of like a bug in their 528 00:24:38.359 --> 00:24:41.119 ear at WWF that you know, there's this big bodybuilding 529 00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:43.799 woman out of Massachusetts trained by Killer Kowalski that wants 530 00:24:43.839 --> 00:24:46.119 to get in once again, In wants to get in 531 00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:48.880 and to hear China sort of frame it up in 532 00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:51.559 in Triple H two in his book, Vince didn't really 533 00:24:51.599 --> 00:24:53.519 see it. He didn't get the whole beat up guys 534 00:24:53.519 --> 00:24:56.400 at ringside, while Triple H's wrestling thing didn't really think 535 00:24:56.440 --> 00:24:59.680 there was much of a future, and having someone come 536 00:24:59.720 --> 00:25:01.599 in as Jack as she was beating up some of 537 00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:03.000 the guys on roster, I thought it would kind be 538 00:25:03.039 --> 00:25:04.680 a nightmare of convincing the guys to do it, which 539 00:25:04.680 --> 00:25:06.720 in the early days it seemed to kind of be. 540 00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:10.519 But what ends up happening according to China is that 541 00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:13.160 you know, Vince needs this not a favor from Triple Ah. 542 00:25:13.160 --> 00:25:14.599 I mean, he could have forced them to lose the belt. 543 00:25:14.960 --> 00:25:17.240 But the way he kind of sweetened that bitter pill 544 00:25:17.359 --> 00:25:19.119 is that you're going to lose the icy strap to Rocky, 545 00:25:19.200 --> 00:25:22.000 but we can also bring in that girl you keep 546 00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:26.519 talking about. Ah, and that's Vince, you know. Vince's when 547 00:25:26.599 --> 00:25:27.799 Vince is like, I don't think so, I don't think 548 00:25:27.799 --> 00:25:29.599 it'll work. In the back of his mind, he's like, Okay, 549 00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:31.799 I'll do that when I need something from this son 550 00:25:31.880 --> 00:25:34.200 of a bitch, you know, this piece of shit in 551 00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:37.640 front of me. I make them want it so bad. 552 00:25:37.799 --> 00:25:39.720 I want them. I want them to build it up 553 00:25:39.720 --> 00:25:41.279 in their head as something they can never have, that 554 00:25:41.319 --> 00:25:44.559 I'll never go for. But it's just it's just something 555 00:25:44.640 --> 00:25:47.000 he puts in the bank when he when he needs 556 00:25:47.039 --> 00:25:49.319 you to do some kind of bidding and and wants 557 00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:52.279 the pill to go down smoothly. So that's uh, that's 558 00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:53.680 a big part of the lead up to this show. 559 00:25:54.799 --> 00:25:59.000 Mark Merrow tore his acl I believe on this episode 560 00:25:59.039 --> 00:26:01.839 of the show. You know, Uh, during his match, he 561 00:26:01.960 --> 00:26:02.839 comes up limp. 562 00:26:03.480 --> 00:26:06.200 Well, is this is that? Yeah? I guess so yeah, 563 00:26:06.759 --> 00:26:08.599 is this so? This is when this thing happened. 564 00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:10.880 He had been hurt before. It wasn't like this was 565 00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:13.359 he was fine one day and he got hurt this day, 566 00:26:13.720 --> 00:26:15.359 but this was kind of like the one. This is 567 00:26:15.400 --> 00:26:18.079 the tweak that did it. And he was never as 568 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:20.680 far as wild Man Mark Merrill. And what does that 569 00:26:20.759 --> 00:26:23.160 open the door for? That opens the door for Sable too. 570 00:26:23.720 --> 00:26:28.079 That's right step and you know, potential and honestly divorce 571 00:26:28.200 --> 00:26:32.200 and yeah, you know, and her being much more important 572 00:26:32.319 --> 00:26:33.240 than he ever will be. 573 00:26:33.640 --> 00:26:35.559 And this is also the Steve Austin knee brace Sarah, 574 00:26:35.640 --> 00:26:39.119 because his h his knee injury was concurrent with Marks 575 00:26:39.160 --> 00:26:42.000 in some ways. He had a partial tear of his 576 00:26:42.359 --> 00:26:45.119 PCL and was said to at the time of this 577 00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:48.119 episode of Rough Every seventeenth be out of action until WrestleMania, 578 00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:50.759 And it wasn't even sure as of a month out 579 00:26:50.920 --> 00:26:53.759 if Steve Austin could even work WrestleMania. Do you imagine 580 00:26:53.799 --> 00:26:57.079 if he didn't make the show? Ah, a fucking different 581 00:26:57.079 --> 00:26:58.079 world we'd be in right now. 582 00:26:58.640 --> 00:27:01.119 I mean it would come to be shit. Yep. 583 00:27:01.240 --> 00:27:03.119 I knew he came in work. I mean he came 584 00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:05.480 in limping. And that's part of why there's such heat 585 00:27:05.519 --> 00:27:07.160 when Brett attacks him with the chair and the knee 586 00:27:07.160 --> 00:27:09.640 after the match, and why the Sharpshooter was so much 587 00:27:09.640 --> 00:27:12.400 more devastating because he had knee injury, and they worked 588 00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:14.799 around that, and they worked too towards that, and I'm 589 00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:16.599 sure part of the reason it was a submission match, honestly, 590 00:27:16.680 --> 00:27:18.799 part of the reason they incorporated so much brawling. You know, 591 00:27:18.880 --> 00:27:21.039 Steve and how crazy he gets about right now being 592 00:27:21.039 --> 00:27:23.200 able to put on a great match, I'm sure he 593 00:27:23.279 --> 00:27:25.119 was all about switching it up so that they could 594 00:27:25.119 --> 00:27:27.119 do more brawling and chair shots and things that didn't 595 00:27:27.160 --> 00:27:30.400 require him to push up off that knee in a 596 00:27:30.480 --> 00:27:34.440 highly athletic event. So that's that's all in the sauce 597 00:27:34.480 --> 00:27:35.720 around this at this point in time. 598 00:27:35.960 --> 00:27:37.839 I mean, because you know, honestly, I'm sure he favored 599 00:27:37.839 --> 00:27:39.759 I'm sure he favors any match he had with fucking 600 00:27:40.440 --> 00:27:44.480 Savio Vego over his Brett Hart. Yeah, we've talked about that. 601 00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:47.799 So, according to Meltzer, both Steve Boston and Mark Merow 602 00:27:47.839 --> 00:27:51.200 went to the doctor after this episode of Raw, just 603 00:27:51.279 --> 00:27:53.400 before they were scheduled to leave for Germany. Remember that 604 00:27:53.559 --> 00:27:56.680 Germany Raw taping from Berlin is still to air, where 605 00:27:56.920 --> 00:27:59.480 Davy Boy wins the first European title in the tournament 606 00:27:59.519 --> 00:28:02.400 over Owen and we talked about that last time when 607 00:28:02.440 --> 00:28:04.079 we were kind of bridging the gap to get to 608 00:28:04.119 --> 00:28:07.599 Wrestlming in thirteen. In Sid's title reign, that episode of 609 00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:09.839 Raw happens from Berlin and the next one they come 610 00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:12.559 back is live and it's uh the first Raw is War. 611 00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:14.599 All of a sudden, with that new entrance in that 612 00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:18.440 new uh new video package at the beginning, I'm at 613 00:28:18.519 --> 00:28:20.680 Johnson was also all. 614 00:28:20.599 --> 00:28:24.279 This stuff, just like, you know, I missed a bunch 615 00:28:24.359 --> 00:28:26.400 of these raws. I don't know why I missed them, 616 00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:30.400 but I just I didn't see after this one. I like, 617 00:28:30.440 --> 00:28:33.039 I didn't see the one in Germany. Yep, I didn't 618 00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:35.200 see the one up you know that happened before Wrestling 619 00:28:35.279 --> 00:28:38.200 at thirteen, the go home show, so much of it 620 00:28:38.279 --> 00:28:39.680 I missed. And then all of a sudden, I started 621 00:28:39.720 --> 00:28:44.119 washing again after WrestleMania, and it's like Raw is War? 622 00:28:45.160 --> 00:28:50.240 What I know still say fine? Well these years later, 623 00:28:50.359 --> 00:28:52.880 let alone at the time, I mean, it's just like 624 00:28:52.960 --> 00:28:55.680 but but even just that, not even the confusing of that, 625 00:28:55.799 --> 00:28:59.079 but more like the show changing, the whole format changing. 626 00:28:59.079 --> 00:29:00.519 I was like, what what the fuck is going on here? 627 00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:04.640 What right? What happened? What is this big giant screen. Yeah. 628 00:29:05.079 --> 00:29:06.920 Yeah, that's one thing about this raw and Sid winning 629 00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:09.359 the title, it's it's still like, you know, the bright 630 00:29:09.480 --> 00:29:11.759 blue apron. They kept the blue apron in the first 631 00:29:11.799 --> 00:29:14.519 few raws Wars, but the entrance way is still just that, 632 00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:17.680 you know, dressed down kind of modest thing. And the 633 00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:20.920 next week they do the fucking crazy ass ECW Invasion 634 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:22.119 RAW at the Manhattan Center. 635 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:24.119 Oh my god, yeah, I see that. Although that one 636 00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:26.200 I think I did. I did see, Yeah, I did. 637 00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:28.440 I think is that did Is that the one where 638 00:29:28.440 --> 00:29:30.240 the ld comes back? Yes, that's like the first thing 639 00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:32.920 on the show, yep, I've seen that. Yeah, I definitely 640 00:29:32.960 --> 00:29:35.279 saw that one, and it was I think. I don't 641 00:29:35.279 --> 00:29:38.400 think I knew what the fucking ECW Invasion was though 642 00:29:38.839 --> 00:29:40.640 at the time. I don't think. I like, I remember that. 643 00:29:40.799 --> 00:29:43.680 The only I remember is the lod coming back. Yeah. Huge. 644 00:29:44.920 --> 00:30:00.519 The last fan wrestling podcast, the Wrestling Pot podcast that 645 00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:04.119 knows the boys need their candy. It's the Lapsed Fan. 646 00:30:18.799 --> 00:30:23.319 He's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling podcast with Jack and Carno. 647 00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:27.160 MJP soro in undertaking Farruk I think was the main event, 648 00:30:27.240 --> 00:30:29.839 and Ken Shamrock was there for the first time, uh 649 00:30:29.960 --> 00:30:31.480 doing an interview in the crowd and then he got 650 00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:34.640 involved in something physical. Uh Taz wrestled on the show. 651 00:30:34.680 --> 00:30:37.200 I remember they had I think the eliminators where the 652 00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:39.720 Raven showed up, Saboo jumped off the r on the 653 00:30:39.839 --> 00:30:42.480 Raw ri a W set. It was all kinds of 654 00:30:42.519 --> 00:30:44.759 crazy shiites, like what the fuck is going on? Like 655 00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:48.119 because it's not that it happened, it's that all the 656 00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:50.559 this is the next week, like this this Raw isn't 657 00:30:50.599 --> 00:30:56.000 crazy enough. The next one is fucking DC and we're 658 00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:57.799 three weeks out from wrestle Mania, Like this is the 659 00:30:57.880 --> 00:31:00.279 kind of thing you do after Mania to get interest 660 00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:01.279 in the off season. 661 00:31:01.559 --> 00:31:03.720 And there's no right and there's no you know. That's 662 00:31:03.759 --> 00:31:08.799 what there was. So the focus was completely schizophrenic. Yeah, 663 00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:09.799 it was nuts. 664 00:31:09.839 --> 00:31:12.759 It was like because they were just trying anything. Anything 665 00:31:12.839 --> 00:31:14.480 was fair game to see if it worked. At this point, 666 00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:16.799 and we see a fair amount of hype during this 667 00:31:16.880 --> 00:31:19.400 episode of Raw. For that one Paul Hayman phones in 668 00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:21.480 and has an argument over the telephone with Jerry Lawler, 669 00:31:21.559 --> 00:31:25.319 setting that whole heat up. And let's not forget what's 670 00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:28.720 coming up right around the time of WrestleMania is ECW's 671 00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:31.880 first pay per view barely legal, So that's part of 672 00:31:31.920 --> 00:31:34.400 why there was so much co promotion thing because ECW 673 00:31:34.640 --> 00:31:37.960 is really keen to get on WWAFTV to tell people 674 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:39.359 that they had the first pay per view coming up, 675 00:31:39.400 --> 00:31:41.440 and there was no shortage of a promotion for that. 676 00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:45.599 When ECW got wwa fair time, but just the weirdest time. 677 00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:50.960 You can never imagine being a WW fan how controlled listen. 678 00:31:51.119 --> 00:31:53.079 It was weird, But I did love it. Oh yeah, 679 00:31:53.079 --> 00:31:54.720 don't get me wrong, I loved it. It was like 680 00:31:54.799 --> 00:31:58.319 because it was different for the first time, everything felt different. 681 00:31:58.400 --> 00:32:03.359 It wasn't just the stait I was used to, you know, 682 00:32:03.640 --> 00:32:05.799 everything was changing and I love that. 683 00:32:06.680 --> 00:32:09.319 So Feby seventeenth, the first live had to head two 684 00:32:09.400 --> 00:32:12.079 hour week. This is also this episode where Sid wins 685 00:32:12.119 --> 00:32:15.319 the belt the first two hour raw, and that's significant 686 00:32:15.359 --> 00:32:18.759 because they play it out as we as we telegraph 687 00:32:18.880 --> 00:32:21.240 last week. They formatted out to where you know you're 688 00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:22.759 gonna get Sid and Brett for the title, but you 689 00:32:22.799 --> 00:32:24.759 don't know when, and they pretend it's going to open 690 00:32:24.839 --> 00:32:27.720 the show and it comes out and then Steve Austin 691 00:32:27.759 --> 00:32:28.680 fucking attacks everybody. 692 00:32:28.720 --> 00:32:31.079 So they can't do it, then, Jenny, I think this 693 00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:33.880 is a brilliant it's a brilliant ratings ploy. 694 00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:36.720 Yes, yes, we'll see, we'll see if it worked. I'll 695 00:32:36.759 --> 00:32:39.880 give you one guess. No, top of the hour, they 696 00:32:39.920 --> 00:32:42.240 tried again and something else happens. Well, well, of course, 697 00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:43.759 deep dive it all and then at the end it 698 00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:45.839 finally does happen. But that's you know, that's how you 699 00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:48.200 write a TV show, your first two hour Raw, that's 700 00:32:48.240 --> 00:32:50.839 how you write it right when you're worried that will 701 00:32:50.880 --> 00:32:52.880 people stick with us for the one hour? It's always 702 00:32:52.960 --> 00:32:56.359 been what do we need to do to keep people 703 00:32:56.440 --> 00:32:58.559 on the hook based on the biggest attraction we think 704 00:32:58.599 --> 00:33:00.240 we have on the show, which is this this title 705 00:33:00.279 --> 00:33:03.720 match and of course indeed the first ever WWF title 706 00:33:03.799 --> 00:33:05.759 change on Monday Night Raw and one of the few 707 00:33:05.799 --> 00:33:10.200 that's ever happened. So yeah, they're going ahadhead against Nitro. 708 00:33:10.519 --> 00:33:12.559 There's no more of this, Like one one show is 709 00:33:12.640 --> 00:33:14.599 on an hour, the other show isn't you know, there's 710 00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:16.359 no eight to nine and then nine to eleven. 711 00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:19.839 No, pardon me, what was it? 712 00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:21.400 It was nine to ten and then Nitro was on 713 00:33:21.480 --> 00:33:23.200 nine to eleven or something like that. Because they had 714 00:33:23.240 --> 00:33:25.359 already changed something something. 715 00:33:25.200 --> 00:33:27.319 With Nitro already. I found eight Nitro was eight to 716 00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:30.200 ten to ten, thank yeah. Then Raw was nine to ten, 717 00:33:30.400 --> 00:33:32.759 nine to ten. I'd always watched Nitro. I watched the 718 00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:37.359 first hour of Nitro and then I'd switch over. Yeah, yep. 719 00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:40.720 And then they moved Nitro to nine, right, yeah, yeah, 720 00:33:40.920 --> 00:33:42.720 and then they did eight fifty seven for a while. 721 00:33:43.400 --> 00:33:46.440 Yeh, fighting for two minutes. We'll talk about that in 722 00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:46.839 a second. 723 00:33:47.759 --> 00:33:49.680 But no, this februs seventeenth, nine ninety seven head to 724 00:33:49.680 --> 00:33:52.519 head show Nitro two point ninety six, Raw two point 725 00:33:52.599 --> 00:33:53.039 zero eight. 726 00:33:54.519 --> 00:33:54.839 Wow. 727 00:33:55.319 --> 00:33:58.079 That's that's that's not as far of a gap as 728 00:33:58.119 --> 00:33:59.960 you were a custom is seeing. You know, there's clearly 729 00:34:00.599 --> 00:34:03.599 a difference there in in WWF trying extra hard, but 730 00:34:03.720 --> 00:34:05.319 I mean if you do a show like this, and 731 00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:07.200 if when I read off what happened on Nitro, it's 732 00:34:07.240 --> 00:34:10.960 like God, I would be so dispirited. You know that 733 00:34:11.079 --> 00:34:12.000 we can't even close. 734 00:34:12.320 --> 00:34:12.639 We can't. 735 00:34:12.679 --> 00:34:14.559 They're almost at a three and we're just at a two, 736 00:34:15.599 --> 00:34:17.679 and we fucking brought all the big guns out. You know, 737 00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:21.199 we did as much as we can do. Yep, Meltzer 738 00:34:21.199 --> 00:34:23.760 wrote Feby seventeenth was really strange from a ratings perspective. 739 00:34:23.840 --> 00:34:25.519 W CW held a two point five to two point 740 00:34:25.559 --> 00:34:28.719 two lead off the blocks, with Ray Mysterio Junior versus 741 00:34:28.760 --> 00:34:31.599 Super Colow opposing the first tease of the Bart Harbert 742 00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:34.800 SID title match. So w CW beat the first Brett 743 00:34:34.840 --> 00:34:36.599 Sid T's with Ray Misterios. 744 00:34:39.119 --> 00:34:44.760 Just wow, that's pathetic. Yeah, it's not against Ray, but 745 00:34:45.360 --> 00:34:49.400 super super Clown whatever. Super Clown. 746 00:34:49.480 --> 00:34:52.360 Yeah, that's another guy that's actually a wrestler, you know, 747 00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:56.559 Triple A. That's pretty funny. Actually, Psycho Clown is another one. 748 00:34:56.599 --> 00:34:59.559 Speaking of SID, Oh my god, and speaking of Halloween, 749 00:34:59.599 --> 00:35:02.239 it's scary movie season. Can we stop with the serendipity here? 750 00:35:02.559 --> 00:35:02.800 Yeah? 751 00:35:03.159 --> 00:35:05.440 Yeah, But I mean that was it because that's how 752 00:35:05.440 --> 00:35:08.159 hot WW was, man, because we've talked about this endlessly. 753 00:35:08.199 --> 00:35:10.360 It's not just what's in the ring, it's in all 754 00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:13.559 going to show up, right, because they'd show up it, 755 00:35:14.320 --> 00:35:16.400 you know, matches. You wouldn't think they'd have any business 756 00:35:16.400 --> 00:35:18.480 showing up in. Or something would happen that had to 757 00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:21.360 do with the nWo in a segment that they weren't 758 00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:23.760 even booked on. But you had to listen to hear 759 00:35:23.800 --> 00:35:27.880 what like Shavani was talking about or whatever. WW maintained 760 00:35:27.920 --> 00:35:30.519 the lead. Meltter wrote throughout with the Weaker Show, w 761 00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:32.760 w's number steadily increased as the show went on. 762 00:35:33.239 --> 00:35:34.159 Well, WW has. 763 00:35:34.079 --> 00:35:37.119 Declined most of the Wow. Not only did it not 764 00:35:37.880 --> 00:35:41.079 beat Nitro that the string them along. It led to 765 00:35:41.239 --> 00:35:45.360 declining ratings as they set more hooks to see Sid 766 00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:48.679 and Bread. So yeah, put this in the SID was 767 00:35:48.679 --> 00:35:50.159 actually you show what you will about the guy, but 768 00:35:50.239 --> 00:35:53.320 he drew put it put this one in there. Fucking 769 00:35:53.400 --> 00:35:55.760 declining ratings to see him wrestle Brett for the title 770 00:35:55.800 --> 00:35:59.559 on a live Rauh, give me a break and not 771 00:35:59.679 --> 00:36:01.360 the op is it of a draw? I mean, I'm 772 00:36:01.400 --> 00:36:02.639 just right, I'm no mathematician. 773 00:36:02.679 --> 00:36:04.840 Isn't that a failure? Isn't that you know? 774 00:36:05.280 --> 00:36:07.119 It's like the biggest night he could possibly have on 775 00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:11.159 television and no one gave a fuck wow relatively speaking. 776 00:36:12.840 --> 00:36:14.679 At the start of the second hour, Meltzer rights when 777 00:36:14.760 --> 00:36:18.559 WCW had Nick Patrick versus Randy Anderson and Chris ben 778 00:36:18.639 --> 00:36:25.000 Wah versus Roadblock opposing the second tease of Hart versus Sid. Yeah, 779 00:36:25.320 --> 00:36:28.639 WCW had a three point two to one point nine lead. 780 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:34.519 No Chris ben Wah versus roadblock referees wrestling each other 781 00:36:37.760 --> 00:36:41.519 AH or a WWF World title match between Sid and 782 00:36:41.599 --> 00:36:45.039 Brett Hart. They lost ratings for all that, for that 783 00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:48.599 fucking garbage. Clearly the idea Meltzer rights of teasing the 784 00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:51.079 match throughout the show was a ratings negative once they 785 00:36:51.119 --> 00:36:53.039 did it the second time, because ratings sputtered for the 786 00:36:53.119 --> 00:36:55.400 remainder of the second hour until Hart and Said finally 787 00:36:55.440 --> 00:36:57.480 get into the ring and started their match. The Brett 788 00:36:57.480 --> 00:36:59.599 Hart vers Sid match itself did pick the rating up 789 00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:03.480 to a two point four, still trailing WCW's three point zero. 790 00:37:03.960 --> 00:37:07.840 For a giant handicap match. Okay, the Giant in a 791 00:37:07.920 --> 00:37:12.760 handicap match, and it's not. It's against Top Gun and 792 00:37:12.840 --> 00:37:13.599 Johnny Swinger. 793 00:37:13.960 --> 00:37:15.800 I don't even know who the fuck they are. Exactly 794 00:37:16.360 --> 00:37:18.599 who the fuck are those? Who's Top Gun? 795 00:37:18.760 --> 00:37:21.760 Top Gun was, Oh god, let me look. I can 796 00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:24.039 picture him, but I don't remember his name. Fidelsierra. He 797 00:37:24.159 --> 00:37:29.719 was the Cuban Assassin. Sorry what, I don't know what 798 00:37:29.800 --> 00:37:35.679 he was doing on roster at the time. And Jericho 799 00:37:35.760 --> 00:37:38.679 versus Jeff Jarrett in nineteen ninety seven over a nitroh 800 00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:41.599 Man too much. I mean, just so weird. And there 801 00:37:41.639 --> 00:37:45.400 was an WO angle too with the Lex Lugar Nurk 802 00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:49.320 Bischoff on the show. It was they had let me 803 00:37:49.440 --> 00:37:52.519 let me get this right. This is the Nitro rundown 804 00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:55.119 from the observer Nitro. Well'll have you read it if 805 00:37:55.159 --> 00:37:58.800 you don't mind. Actually, yeah, nice little call back to 806 00:37:58.880 --> 00:38:01.079 the at this time in WC w in Away. Sure, 807 00:38:02.079 --> 00:38:04.440 this is the report and the observer from that Nitro 808 00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:06.119 just to break down the show. So this is what 809 00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:10.559 this is what banked the pants off of Sid's Big 810 00:38:10.719 --> 00:38:11.599 Night in Nashville. 811 00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:17.079 Nitrol on February seventeenth, was held before a sellout three 812 00:38:17.159 --> 00:38:21.400 thousand fans at Steinbrenner Hall at the Tampa State Fairgrounds. 813 00:38:21.400 --> 00:38:24.800 About fifteen hundred fans paid ten dollars ahead to get 814 00:38:24.840 --> 00:38:29.800 premium seat. Ten dollars ahead. What the fuck? Ten dollars 815 00:38:29.840 --> 00:38:32.159 ahead to get premium seats, and the rest of the 816 00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:35.199 seats are filled by fair goers who I pay fair 817 00:38:38.719 --> 00:38:43.800 more like unfair goers. What's going on? Oring we get hey, 818 00:38:43.880 --> 00:38:45.679 you know we got the fair. I'll tell you what. 819 00:38:46.559 --> 00:38:51.599 Go to the We'll do the tilted whirl. Wait, well, 820 00:38:51.639 --> 00:38:53.159 wait a minute, that guy did a tilt the World 821 00:38:53.199 --> 00:39:02.679 Basket place ten dollars ahead. Well, well what I never 822 00:39:02.760 --> 00:39:04.519 understood fucking WCW at all? 823 00:39:05.199 --> 00:39:07.000 Yeah, you know, and a lot of things they did 824 00:39:07.039 --> 00:39:10.000 what was for atmosphere because they made all lot of 825 00:39:10.039 --> 00:39:11.320 money on pay per view and stuff and. 826 00:39:11.360 --> 00:39:17.079 Mar Yeah, but man oh man, where was I there? 827 00:39:17.239 --> 00:39:17.360 Uh? 828 00:39:18.719 --> 00:39:21.760 Had to pay fair admission? There were a lot of 829 00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:26.639 problems live, yeah, because a lot more people had paid 830 00:39:26.679 --> 00:39:29.119 to get into the fair, largely to attend Nitro, and 831 00:39:29.199 --> 00:39:31.960 then couldn't get in because the place was packed. They 832 00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:34.119 opened with an angle of nWo coming to the ring 833 00:39:34.199 --> 00:39:38.599 and suddenly, off camera someone laid Big Bubba out. The 834 00:39:38.639 --> 00:39:40.760 implication was that it was Diamond Dallas Page, who did 835 00:39:40.760 --> 00:39:42.599 an interview later in the show pretending not to know 836 00:39:42.679 --> 00:39:45.599 what was going on Page versus Bubba. Well, we replaced 837 00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:49.400 at the Cow Palace show by Steve Regal versus Ultimo Dragon. 838 00:39:49.800 --> 00:39:52.800 Where do we sign up? Huh? Where do I sign 839 00:39:52.880 --> 00:39:58.159 up to see that one? Seriously? Oh my god? Who 840 00:39:58.280 --> 00:40:02.119 gives a fuck? Ay Maysteria with a noticeably tender knee 841 00:40:03.440 --> 00:40:07.400 toned down, but super super Clown did an incredible series 842 00:40:07.440 --> 00:40:10.039 of moves before Mysterio Junior got the pin with the 843 00:40:10.079 --> 00:40:15.440 springboard Harkin Rana and five minutes fifty seven seconds. Steve 844 00:40:15.519 --> 00:40:20.000 McMichael looked surprisingly decent in beating Hugh Morris. When Morris 845 00:40:20.079 --> 00:40:22.519 moon salted the briefcase Deborah had thrown in the ring, 846 00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:30.719 McMichael injured his knee to the mite. Ray's injured. McMichael's injured. 847 00:40:30.760 --> 00:40:32.960 Now, well you got you got marill In Austin with 848 00:40:33.039 --> 00:40:33.760 knee injuries on this. 849 00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:34.159 Yeah. 850 00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:37.960 The other side with Jesus Christ Dean Malenko beat Robbie 851 00:40:38.000 --> 00:40:40.039 Brookside in a match where the matt wrestling was good, 852 00:40:40.079 --> 00:40:43.599 but it had no build nor any crowd reaction. Brookside 853 00:40:43.639 --> 00:40:46.519 and Doc Dean are too what the fuck is this shit? 854 00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:48.440 Are we sure, by the way, that both sides weren't 855 00:40:48.440 --> 00:40:51.000 just hiring Tanya Harding's heavy to go smash people on 856 00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:51.360 the knee? 857 00:40:52.400 --> 00:40:53.800 I mean, hey, you know what that might have been? 858 00:40:53.840 --> 00:40:53.880 It? 859 00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:57.079 I would Can you imagine if fucking Jeff Galuley was 860 00:40:57.119 --> 00:41:01.079 doing that shit, just fucking whacking? Is that who? I think? 861 00:41:01.079 --> 00:41:02.119 You're right? Yeah, Jeff Coilully. 862 00:41:02.159 --> 00:41:03.840 If you read that name on this nitro result, I 863 00:41:03.840 --> 00:41:05.480 wouldn't blink an eye like thinking that was just a 864 00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:07.239 wrestler they used to use that I forgot. 865 00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:13.679 About Jeff Goaloser and uh with Brookside and Doc Dean 866 00:41:13.840 --> 00:41:16.320 or two British wrestlers brought in by Regal. Six came 867 00:41:16.360 --> 00:41:19.159 out and had a verbal confrontation with Malenko, building the 868 00:41:19.239 --> 00:41:22.199 feud around the fact that it was Dean's father who 869 00:41:22.239 --> 00:41:25.559 originally trained six. Holland Nash came out and had a 870 00:41:25.920 --> 00:41:29.280 confrontation with Larry's Abisco that got great heat. Public Enemy 871 00:41:29.360 --> 00:41:32.079 beat French Canadians in a bad match with a good finish. 872 00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:36.599 Pe got a good reaction to their oh public Enemy 873 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:40.800 to their crowd mannerisms. Prince Ayakia, a Malenko student, won 874 00:41:40.880 --> 00:41:43.360 the TV. Okay, what does that matter? 875 00:41:43.880 --> 00:41:45.440 I think they're trying to explain why the fuck this 876 00:41:45.519 --> 00:41:46.639 guy would get a title. 877 00:41:48.679 --> 00:41:51.880 But he didn't. Oh okay when the TV off Okay 878 00:41:52.159 --> 00:41:55.159 okay from Regal in three into thirty seconds when Regal 879 00:41:55.280 --> 00:41:59.719 was distracted by Mysterio Junior and Iakeia got him from behind, 880 00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:02.159 brother right, wonder he wasn't there? What do you do 881 00:42:02.599 --> 00:42:06.639 doing finishes like that? Dude? For the pin Ia Ka 882 00:42:06.840 --> 00:42:09.840 is expected to drop the strap to Mysterio Junior at 883 00:42:09.880 --> 00:42:13.639 the Cow Palace. The idea is that the undercard belts 884 00:42:13.639 --> 00:42:16.880 would be held by Malenko or six Eddie Guerrero and 885 00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:21.000 Mysterio Junior, which pretty much guarantees three hot title matches 886 00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:23.519 at the house show and pay per view cards. Randy 887 00:42:23.599 --> 00:42:27.679 Anderson beat Nick Patrick in twenty one seconds. When referee 888 00:42:27.800 --> 00:42:33.039 Jimmy Jett gave Anderson brass knucks. Eric Bischoff came out 889 00:42:33.079 --> 00:42:35.440 and said, because of what happened, that not only has 890 00:42:35.480 --> 00:42:40.239 Anderson fired, but so is Jet Chris ben Wah destroyed 891 00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:44.480 Roadblock in two minutes thirty one seconds. Boy, that would 892 00:42:44.519 --> 00:42:47.119 have never happened in the eighties. For all the people 893 00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:50.159 who always vote Mankind or Tommy Dreamer or sand Man 894 00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:52.800 as the best brawler in wrestling, ben Wah is in 895 00:42:52.880 --> 00:42:55.000 a league way above any of them when it comes 896 00:42:55.039 --> 00:42:58.199 to brawling. That's funny. I never you don't consider ben 897 00:42:58.280 --> 00:43:00.679 Wata be a brawler. Don't he can do it? 898 00:43:00.719 --> 00:43:05.239 I mean remember those Kevin Sullivan matches from sure, but like, yeah, 899 00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:06.360 that's just crazy. 900 00:43:06.760 --> 00:43:08.760 Uh. They aired a video of Holland Nash running the 901 00:43:08.800 --> 00:43:11.280 Steiners off the road and rolling their what do you 902 00:43:11.360 --> 00:43:12.480 mean rolling? 903 00:43:12.599 --> 00:43:12.840 Dude? 904 00:43:13.159 --> 00:43:19.440 Is definitely dude. Dave Brother, you're writing about this ship. 905 00:43:19.519 --> 00:43:22.239 You make me very nervous. I just want to say, dude, 906 00:43:22.679 --> 00:43:24.360 you know when you when you put this stuff and 907 00:43:24.480 --> 00:43:28.320 you write down the night for reports. Brother, I would appreciate, 908 00:43:28.480 --> 00:43:31.400 dude if you would not use the term roll up 909 00:43:31.480 --> 00:43:32.360 or go from behind? 910 00:43:32.480 --> 00:43:35.000 Did somebody put you up to using roll in that sentence? 911 00:43:35.079 --> 00:43:36.719 Dude? I mean that's just kind of too convenient for me. 912 00:43:36.800 --> 00:43:38.679 I mean, like, where are you coming from with this? Dude? Right? 913 00:43:38.719 --> 00:43:40.679 Did someone talk to you about like what verb to use? 914 00:43:41.280 --> 00:43:44.559 Did to me? I would say the car flipped over. 915 00:43:44.760 --> 00:43:47.280 I wouldn't say roll over like that. I mean, you bishoff, 916 00:43:47.360 --> 00:43:48.079 come and talk to you about this. 917 00:43:48.159 --> 00:43:49.559 I mean did he say anything to you? I mean 918 00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:50.639 I know you talk sometimes. 919 00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:53.000 Brother. I want to ask question. Dude. Just be honest 920 00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:55.719 with me. Brother, I don't have to swear, you know, 921 00:43:56.039 --> 00:43:58.119 cross my heart, man, I will keep this, you know 922 00:43:58.239 --> 00:44:03.559 between you and me. Brother, you're talking to Linda dude. 923 00:44:03.639 --> 00:44:08.400 Right, because he's been a little pissed off at me 924 00:44:08.519 --> 00:44:10.320 lately and she's made threat. 925 00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:15.480 She's you know, she's been a little on edge with Hogan. 926 00:44:15.880 --> 00:44:20.679 The next thing, not Terry Terry Bland, Brother, Terry, you 927 00:44:20.719 --> 00:44:22.519 know she can't tarry your cool dude. 928 00:44:22.599 --> 00:44:24.000 Next thing, I know I pick up the Observer and 929 00:44:24.039 --> 00:44:26.119 you're talking about, you know, sneaking up from behind. You're 930 00:44:26.119 --> 00:44:30.559 talking about Big Bubba disappearing. Brother, I'll tell you, sponge, dude, 931 00:44:30.599 --> 00:44:31.840 I mean what Bubba is disappearing? 932 00:44:33.039 --> 00:44:36.039 Where's Bubba coming from? Where's he going? What's you know? 933 00:44:36.599 --> 00:44:41.320 I'll tell you. Linda has been threatening brother to tell 934 00:44:41.639 --> 00:44:44.360 to tell people that well the pull Cogan from behind. 935 00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:46.119 She said she was gonna talk to Meltzer. I mean 936 00:44:46.199 --> 00:44:47.039 her saying she. 937 00:44:47.039 --> 00:44:48.760 Said, I'm gonna tell Meltzer to roll you up from behind? 938 00:44:48.760 --> 00:44:52.480 He said, Brother, what so I'm on the phone right now, Dissave, 939 00:44:53.440 --> 00:44:54.559 I'm looking for an answer. 940 00:44:54.400 --> 00:44:58.000 Dude, dude, Dave, miss Brother, I'm talking about the miss 941 00:45:03.559 --> 00:45:10.760 look miss Elks tune of mis ELTs Brother, Tuna Meltzer? 942 00:45:14.199 --> 00:45:14.760 What's going on? 943 00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:15.440 Right? 944 00:45:16.719 --> 00:45:19.679 Fucking tell me, dude, do you wanted to go? Do 945 00:45:19.719 --> 00:45:20.800 you wanted to pin? Linda? Brother? 946 00:45:21.159 --> 00:45:22.920 She's coming from a belt, Jerry, I really suggest you 947 00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:25.800 stop reading the Observer using a Ouiji board. 948 00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:31.119 Exactly. 949 00:45:32.599 --> 00:45:34.840 He had no idea that anybody knew he did that. 950 00:45:35.239 --> 00:45:37.079 That one stopped him dead in his tracks. 951 00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:40.480 Now what do you think it says someone's gonna roll 952 00:45:40.519 --> 00:45:42.559 you up because you you roll the circle over an 953 00:45:42.599 --> 00:45:47.480 ass and then over a Oh, I don't know, there's 954 00:45:47.480 --> 00:45:48.320 something just guide. 955 00:45:48.079 --> 00:45:52.960 In my hand, dude. I'm I mean, who's got my hand? Brother? 956 00:45:53.239 --> 00:45:54.239 Who's a guiding hand? Dude? 957 00:45:54.239 --> 00:46:03.639 It's not done, callous brother, because then he thinks for 958 00:46:03.760 --> 00:46:05.719 a second, wait, maybe it just don callous. 959 00:46:09.119 --> 00:46:15.199 I didn't, but I think we'll be in total with 960 00:46:15.280 --> 00:46:16.119 callous dude. 961 00:46:20.679 --> 00:46:22.000 Don Kallos and callous. 962 00:46:22.599 --> 00:46:24.800 What I got a Calus on my foot? Dude? 963 00:46:25.599 --> 00:46:27.039 Do you know what the French Canadians were that you 964 00:46:27.119 --> 00:46:28.880 read off there in the results? Yeah, it's the It's 965 00:46:28.960 --> 00:46:32.440 the the Quebecer's unbelievable, all right? 966 00:46:32.519 --> 00:46:35.199 So where do we go from here? Fucking jokes? W 967 00:46:35.559 --> 00:46:42.440 w uh okay is here in the car? 968 00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:43.000 Uh? 969 00:46:43.079 --> 00:46:46.079 They used some jump cuts, a ramp then erased from video, 970 00:46:47.360 --> 00:46:50.599 what a ramp then erased from video? And a stunt 971 00:46:50.679 --> 00:46:53.519 driver friend of Hogan's to put together the video, which 972 00:46:53.599 --> 00:46:55.519 was a creative idea, but it could have been used 973 00:46:55.559 --> 00:46:58.840 a lot more effectively. It was announced Steiner's were off 974 00:46:58.920 --> 00:47:01.639 the pay per view in the four corners match would 975 00:47:01.679 --> 00:47:06.119 become a triangle with the faces of Fear, Public Enemy 976 00:47:06.239 --> 00:47:08.800 and Harlem heat boy. That's a keeper. 977 00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:12.400 Pretty pretty pretty weird that Hall and Nash weren't charged with, oh, 978 00:47:12.480 --> 00:47:14.280 I don't know, attempted homiciding. 979 00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:20.000 Yeah, yeah, I'll tell you what. I got an idea, 980 00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:24.639 you know. I mean it's safe to say, yeah that 981 00:47:24.760 --> 00:47:27.159 I know the roads better than anybody else in this company, 982 00:47:28.039 --> 00:47:29.800 so I'd be able to run them off the road 983 00:47:29.960 --> 00:47:33.159 because I know them better. Look, if you're a mark, 984 00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:37.880 look if you're going to be a fucking mark about it, 985 00:47:38.760 --> 00:47:40.280 you know, but I'm telling you this is the way 986 00:47:40.360 --> 00:47:44.119 it is. Yeah, just fucking have me run them off 987 00:47:44.159 --> 00:47:55.880 the road. Be totally legit, fuck it, fuck it. Then 988 00:47:55.880 --> 00:47:59.880 I'm say Sunday Feace is a fear. Kevin Sullivan b 989 00:48:01.559 --> 00:48:06.079 Doc Dean in a match highlighted by Jacqueline beating up Dean, 990 00:48:06.199 --> 00:48:10.159 including body slimmon and suplexing him. Eddie Guerrero beat Conan 991 00:48:10.360 --> 00:48:13.079 via DQ in a US title match when Guerrero hit 992 00:48:13.159 --> 00:48:17.960 the Big Hit the frog splash and Meng and Barbarian interfered. 993 00:48:18.440 --> 00:48:21.039 Match was solid, but Chris Jericho's run in left something 994 00:48:21.119 --> 00:48:24.480 to be desired, as his timing of his kicks didn't 995 00:48:24.599 --> 00:48:28.480 look good, made worse because Meng and Barbarian didn't sell 996 00:48:28.800 --> 00:48:33.880 worth crap for the Little Guy. Giant destroyed Top Gun, 997 00:48:34.400 --> 00:48:38.519 Dave Cannel aka Dave Sierra, and Johnny Swinger. After the match, 998 00:48:38.599 --> 00:48:41.159 Lex Luger came out with a doctor's release, but Bischoff 999 00:48:41.199 --> 00:48:44.199 said he needed it by last week, so Lucer said 1000 00:48:44.480 --> 00:48:47.760 he was buying a ticket and going to San Francisco anyway. 1001 00:48:48.639 --> 00:48:51.000 They did a creative Roddy Piper promo said to be 1002 00:48:51.079 --> 00:48:54.000 live from Alcatraz, except it was sunny at a time 1003 00:48:54.039 --> 00:48:56.800 when Alcatraz was cloudy and the sun going down, and 1004 00:48:57.199 --> 00:48:59.719 it was sunny again when it was dark in San Francisco. 1005 00:49:00.320 --> 00:49:04.760 Piper talked into the toilet bowl at Hogan. Typical Piper 1006 00:49:04.800 --> 00:49:07.840 intensity and lack of sense, but overall a great hype piece. 1007 00:49:08.320 --> 00:49:10.800 It was funny because Piper said that this isn't a 1008 00:49:10.840 --> 00:49:15.559 wrestling promo. Jercho beat Jeff Jarrett when McMichael ran in 1009 00:49:15.679 --> 00:49:18.320 and clocked Jarrett with a briefcase, causing his wife to 1010 00:49:18.360 --> 00:49:21.119 get mad at him. Hogan did an interview Stinging in 1011 00:49:21.199 --> 00:49:28.039 Savage came out, but nothing much materialized phenomenal so yep, you. 1012 00:49:28.079 --> 00:49:29.880 Can see just the match results didn't really tell the 1013 00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:32.079 story as to what people would have been tuning in for. 1014 00:49:32.519 --> 00:49:35.039 But yeah, Jacqueline, I'm glad you mentioned her because she 1015 00:49:35.119 --> 00:49:39.159 had debuted in January and she was doing the China 1016 00:49:39.239 --> 00:49:41.440 thing already and they don't talk about it. 1017 00:49:41.599 --> 00:49:41.800 Ah. 1018 00:49:42.199 --> 00:49:44.639 Yeah, no, it's so revolutionary blah blah blah. 1019 00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:48.079 Meanwhile, Jacqueline's getting huge pops body slamming like Disco Inferno 1020 00:49:48.199 --> 00:49:50.639 and stuff, and they copy it in the net like 1021 00:49:51.280 --> 00:49:55.639 they revolutionized. But yeah, so that was pretty much the 1022 00:49:55.719 --> 00:49:59.119 rundown of what Nitro had to offer. Again, the maneuvering 1023 00:49:59.199 --> 00:50:01.360 around what time the shows were on and such was 1024 00:50:02.039 --> 00:50:04.679 key in being covered in the press electronic media. On 1025 00:50:04.719 --> 00:50:06.880 March twenty fourth of nineteen ninety seven, ran this piece 1026 00:50:07.280 --> 00:50:10.360 a cable wrestling Brawl. The match between USA Networks ww 1027 00:50:10.480 --> 00:50:13.880 FRAW and Turner Network Television's WCW Monday Nitro wrestling shows 1028 00:50:14.039 --> 00:50:16.760 has been anything but civil. The latest half Nelson comes 1029 00:50:16.800 --> 00:50:20.280 from You, Oh My God, Come On comes from USA, 1030 00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:22.559 which has quietly pushed up the start time of ww 1031 00:50:22.679 --> 00:50:25.719 FRAW to seven fifty seven pm to get a three 1032 00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:29.239 minute jump on TNAZPM start time for Monday nightro. Ww 1033 00:50:29.360 --> 00:50:31.360 fraw also has begun to end four minutes late. 1034 00:50:31.440 --> 00:50:31.800 As well. 1035 00:50:31.960 --> 00:50:34.480 That's that Brett one we talked about. Yeah, that was 1036 00:50:34.519 --> 00:50:37.159 the big overrun at ten oh four pm. Although it 1037 00:50:37.280 --> 00:50:39.360 cuts into the ad time for shows before and after 1038 00:50:39.599 --> 00:50:42.719 w w FRAW, USA hopes its strategy of seamless program 1039 00:50:42.840 --> 00:50:45.960 transitions will keep audiences tuned into the wrestling program and 1040 00:50:46.000 --> 00:50:49.000 the drama that follows it. What show boss in this 1041 00:50:49.119 --> 00:50:51.880 time period in nineteen ninety seven followed Monday Night Raw? 1042 00:50:54.119 --> 00:50:59.840 U Is it the blue? Nope? I was a little 1043 00:51:00.239 --> 00:51:09.719 that was a ninety eight? Was it still silk stocking? Close? Nikita? Correctikita? 1044 00:51:10.679 --> 00:51:11.480 And it actually did. 1045 00:51:13.119 --> 00:51:15.199 The overrun did benefit them quite a bit because you 1046 00:51:15.280 --> 00:51:18.519 know that's that's like over a million, you know, two 1047 00:51:18.599 --> 00:51:21.800 million viewers that are sticking around for the first five 1048 00:51:22.280 --> 00:51:24.320 minutes of what of a block. 1049 00:51:24.119 --> 00:51:26.480 You get credit for? You know that exactly. 1050 00:51:27.320 --> 00:51:32.039 Nikita would get credit for those overruns. So the piece concludes, Now, 1051 00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:34.039 in response to USA's move, T and T has began 1052 00:51:34.079 --> 00:51:36.679 airing WCW Nitro at seven fifty five pm. 1053 00:51:37.159 --> 00:51:39.360 Oh my god, I don't remember that at all. That's 1054 00:51:39.400 --> 00:51:40.000 funny two. 1055 00:51:39.960 --> 00:51:42.280 Minutes before w BIFF Raw. Could a seven to fifty 1056 00:51:42.320 --> 00:51:46.159 three start for w biff Rob be close behind? Bonnie 1057 00:51:46.920 --> 00:51:49.519 Bonnie Hammer's office. A Bonnie, listen, I have an idea. 1058 00:51:50.119 --> 00:51:53.760 Let's start raw at four thirty pm Eastern time. 1059 00:51:54.519 --> 00:51:59.280 Ment Bonnie, and I get an idea. All right, all right, 1060 00:51:59.400 --> 00:52:04.480 it's it's Tuesday, all right, I got an idea. Let's 1061 00:52:04.519 --> 00:52:12.760 start next Monday's raw now and just keep going because 1062 00:52:13.400 --> 00:52:14.880 until eleven pm Monday. 1063 00:52:14.679 --> 00:52:16.320 Night, they can't beat us out by a couple of minutes, 1064 00:52:16.360 --> 00:52:17.320 and then can they full week? 1065 00:52:18.039 --> 00:52:23.679 Full week? All right, we're starting next, we're starting if 1066 00:52:24.039 --> 00:52:27.599 you know, today's the seventeenth, if we're let's start the 1067 00:52:27.719 --> 00:52:32.679 twenty fourths raw right now on the fifteenth or the eighteenth, 1068 00:52:32.800 --> 00:52:36.320 rather the eighteenth, and we just keep going. And so no, 1069 00:52:36.440 --> 00:52:36.920 I can't do that. 1070 00:52:36.960 --> 00:52:38.840 I mean, I'm willing to give you two more minutes maybe, 1071 00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:39.119 why not? 1072 00:52:39.760 --> 00:52:42.280 Why not? I have all these we're the highest rated 1073 00:52:42.320 --> 00:52:43.800 program on this television network. 1074 00:52:43.880 --> 00:52:45.719 But that's not what people bought. I mean, that's not 1075 00:52:45.800 --> 00:52:48.599 what people that's not what I'm you buy. 1076 00:52:48.679 --> 00:52:50.400 What I fucking tell you? How I know what this 1077 00:52:50.480 --> 00:52:55.000 didn't end? Well, I'm I'm USA. 1078 00:52:56.360 --> 00:52:57.840 And the best I can do is give you maybe 1079 00:52:57.920 --> 00:52:59.639 seven fifty three, get a two minute jump, and you 1080 00:52:59.639 --> 00:53:02.000 can put where you want in those two minutes. No, no, 1081 00:53:03.119 --> 00:53:07.920 I want seven days, not seven fifty three. I want 1082 00:53:08.079 --> 00:53:11.039 seven days. So let me get the straight Vince. You 1083 00:53:11.119 --> 00:53:15.760 want Raw to air all day every day so they 1084 00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:16.800 can't beat you by two. 1085 00:53:16.719 --> 00:53:19.159 More four hours, and you'll see a fucking rating on 1086 00:53:19.280 --> 00:53:19.760 Monday night. 1087 00:53:19.880 --> 00:53:26.000 And thus the ww networking notion was born. It's like 1088 00:53:26.079 --> 00:53:27.920 the whole reason memory. They just have that live channel. 1089 00:53:27.960 --> 00:53:29.559 And let me tell you this is the thing too. 1090 00:53:29.880 --> 00:53:34.880 We are live, yes, for seven days, twenty four hours, 1091 00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:41.159 seven days live in front of the sound crowd. 1092 00:53:42.199 --> 00:53:44.880 That's far to twenty fourteen, Vince. So glad I could 1093 00:53:44.880 --> 00:53:46.599 reach you. This is BONDI yet. Look, I just wanted 1094 00:53:46.599 --> 00:53:48.639 to congratulate. You want to launch in the network. And 1095 00:53:49.159 --> 00:53:51.480 you know how you know how long we're on now, Bonnie, 1096 00:53:52.000 --> 00:53:52.800 you have any idea? 1097 00:53:53.800 --> 00:53:57.239 You know how long our entertainment is valued. 1098 00:53:57.320 --> 00:53:59.559 Now you recall poo pooing a twenty four to seven 1099 00:53:59.639 --> 00:54:00.320 coverage Raw? 1100 00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:02.920 Do you recall that? Remember when I said doing Raw 1101 00:54:03.079 --> 00:54:05.800 for twenty four to seven? Now the fans get w 1102 00:54:06.039 --> 00:54:07.440 w ee anytime he want. 1103 00:54:07.480 --> 00:54:10.880 That's right, Fuck you, Bunny, it's over the top. Monnie, 1104 00:54:11.760 --> 00:54:14.800 you're an asshole. Yeah, she goes, I can only give 1105 00:54:14.840 --> 00:54:16.440 you two more minutes, seven fifty three. It's best I 1106 00:54:16.480 --> 00:54:17.960 can do. And you can put whatever you want on there. 1107 00:54:18.039 --> 00:54:20.719 Flash forward to that Monday. Two minutes of fucking porn. 1108 00:54:23.039 --> 00:54:26.559 It puts on there, all right, and you want I'll 1109 00:54:26.599 --> 00:54:28.280 tell you what, all right, and you give me two minutes. 1110 00:54:28.639 --> 00:54:30.599 I'm gonna give you two minutes. You'll never forget, right, 1111 00:54:33.000 --> 00:54:42.840 that's him. Yeah, It's just it's not there's no there's 1112 00:54:42.880 --> 00:54:44.880 no build up. It's like a personal sex tape of 1113 00:54:44.960 --> 00:54:46.599 Vince McMahon too. It's not even like real porn. 1114 00:54:46.719 --> 00:54:50.400 There's no build up, there's no like fake acting. It's 1115 00:54:50.480 --> 00:54:53.239 just immediate balls slamming an ass. It's anonymous. 1116 00:54:53.360 --> 00:54:59.559 You just see it. Well, I'm just screaming. 1117 00:55:00.559 --> 00:55:03.159 That won his identity very well. 1118 00:55:05.840 --> 00:55:11.320 Is big shaved ass, the pasty white ass of his 1119 00:55:11.880 --> 00:55:15.760 Oh my god? So yeah, that that's uh, that's that's 1120 00:55:15.800 --> 00:55:20.920 all over. What if? That's tremendous. So let's let's get started, 1121 00:55:20.960 --> 00:55:21.239 shall we. 1122 00:55:21.400 --> 00:55:24.480 This is he's a huge edition of raw and it's 1123 00:55:24.559 --> 00:55:26.519 it's a key part of our of our sid tribute 1124 00:55:26.559 --> 00:55:30.960 and making sure we observe the key milestones in his career. 1125 00:55:31.800 --> 00:55:33.960 A key milestone for us in every episode, of course, 1126 00:55:34.119 --> 00:55:36.679 is reminding you that this isn't free, and if your 1127 00:55:36.719 --> 00:55:38.599 bitch ass things for a second it is, then you're 1128 00:55:38.639 --> 00:55:40.599 as good as under the river as far as we're concerned. 1129 00:55:41.320 --> 00:55:44.000 UH and patreon dot com slash the lapsed fan is 1130 00:55:44.000 --> 00:55:45.639 the way to put money where your mouth is, to 1131 00:55:45.719 --> 00:55:48.000 support the enterprise, to make this show continue to be 1132 00:55:48.079 --> 00:55:51.400 what it's been for ten years. And UH constantly humbled 1133 00:55:51.400 --> 00:55:54.079 by the amount of folks who buy into that proposition 1134 00:55:54.480 --> 00:55:56.960 and who join us each and every month on Patreon. 1135 00:55:57.039 --> 00:55:59.920 Coming soon, of course, one of our seasonal quarterly mail bags, 1136 00:56:00.280 --> 00:56:02.400 we're going to give proper shout outs to everybody who's 1137 00:56:02.480 --> 00:56:04.719 new in the inner circle of the Solar System since 1138 00:56:04.719 --> 00:56:06.639 we last join you. When were the holidays approaching? I 1139 00:56:06.679 --> 00:56:09.440 think that might be an extra fat Santa's sack, Boss. 1140 00:56:09.760 --> 00:56:12.320 I think you are correct. You talk about the holidays approaching, 1141 00:56:12.360 --> 00:56:14.360 you talk about another thing that's bursting at the seams, 1142 00:56:14.440 --> 00:56:15.679 our fucking po box. 1143 00:56:15.760 --> 00:56:17.760 Talk to him about Oh God, I'm got me tell 1144 00:56:17.760 --> 00:56:22.440 you something. I have a tower of packages that's been 1145 00:56:22.480 --> 00:56:25.400 building up since April, by the way, well actually technically 1146 00:56:25.400 --> 00:56:26.840 has been building up since last year because there were 1147 00:56:26.840 --> 00:56:30.000 some that we didn't get to last year. But yeah, 1148 00:56:30.119 --> 00:56:36.400 like I've got one, two, three, four or five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, 1149 00:56:38.199 --> 00:56:41.840 I don't know, fifteen fifteen packages, unbelievable something like that. 1150 00:56:41.960 --> 00:56:43.079 It's insane all around the water. 1151 00:56:43.920 --> 00:56:45.639 And this is you know, with a little bit of 1152 00:56:45.719 --> 00:56:47.400 time left, I will say that by the time you 1153 00:56:47.480 --> 00:56:49.320 hear this, you got to go to the post office 1154 00:56:49.360 --> 00:56:52.000 the next day with a shot at getting in under 1155 00:56:52.079 --> 00:56:54.679 the under the wire. We're pretty much locked in on 1156 00:56:54.800 --> 00:56:56.400 what date we're going to record the thing. We don't 1157 00:56:57.000 --> 00:56:58.719 like to tell you exactly what it's going to be, 1158 00:56:59.039 --> 00:57:01.280 but you'll be you'll know. And if you want your 1159 00:57:01.360 --> 00:57:02.920 gift to be part of what we open for the 1160 00:57:03.000 --> 00:57:06.559 TLF Annual Christmas Show, the Unwrappening, as we gather around 1161 00:57:06.559 --> 00:57:11.360 the hearth and exchange your gifts and react in real 1162 00:57:11.440 --> 00:57:12.960 time on the pod, you want to be part of 1163 00:57:13.000 --> 00:57:16.000 that very special gathering of the co chairman. You do 1164 00:57:16.079 --> 00:57:17.920 want to get your gift in the mail post haste 1165 00:57:18.159 --> 00:57:20.079 and huge thanks to everybody who was really on the 1166 00:57:20.119 --> 00:57:22.440 ball this year to make sure that I don't know, 1167 00:57:22.760 --> 00:57:25.159 you didn't get together and then all the stuff comes afterwards. 1168 00:57:25.199 --> 00:57:27.599 That would be a bad situation and that you'll miss 1169 00:57:27.719 --> 00:57:30.719 that warmth. That's what's special about the Christmas Show, so 1170 00:57:30.800 --> 00:57:34.519 is that in person casting. So agreed very much look 1171 00:57:34.559 --> 00:57:36.480 forward to being able to do that and bring you 1172 00:57:36.960 --> 00:57:40.079 what's become an absolute holiday staple around these parts, the 1173 00:57:40.159 --> 00:57:44.239 tlf unwrappening as part of TLFX, so that's coming fast 1174 00:57:44.280 --> 00:57:46.599 and furious. If you don't know the po box by now, 1175 00:57:47.280 --> 00:57:50.280 you should. We've posted it several times on x so 1176 00:57:50.440 --> 00:57:53.079 if you need to be able to look at it 1177 00:57:53.199 --> 00:57:57.000 and see precisely what it is. But for your edification 1178 00:57:57.159 --> 00:57:59.320 one last time, I would say, this year we're going 1179 00:57:59.360 --> 00:58:03.480 to list it out for you. It's seven ten Main Street, 1180 00:58:03.559 --> 00:58:07.639 South Peobox one one nine, Southbury, Connecticut zero six four 1181 00:58:07.719 --> 00:58:10.559 eight eight. It's the Lapsed Fan. Seven ten Main Street, 1182 00:58:10.719 --> 00:58:14.719 South Pobox one one nine, Southbury, Connecticut zero six four 1183 00:58:15.199 --> 00:58:19.000 eight eight, and we very much thank you for making 1184 00:58:19.039 --> 00:58:21.719 another special holiday around here. I think it's a TLFX mess. 1185 00:58:22.679 --> 00:58:25.480 I think you're absolutely right, a talf triple X mess. 1186 00:58:25.719 --> 00:58:28.199 Folks who are already treating themselves over at cameo dot 1187 00:58:28.239 --> 00:58:31.079 com slash the Lapsed Fan. Oh man, that's always a 1188 00:58:31.119 --> 00:58:33.039 great way to give to the lapsed fan in your life. 1189 00:58:33.119 --> 00:58:35.880 Put any of these lapsed characters, any of these guys 1190 00:58:36.000 --> 00:58:38.960 and gals inside the TLFX games brackets, which we'll talk 1191 00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:41.719 about in just a second, to work, you know, where 1192 00:58:41.800 --> 00:58:44.599 the puppets, you're the puppeteers, and that continues to be 1193 00:58:44.639 --> 00:58:48.280 a great way to tap the brilliance of the solar 1194 00:58:48.360 --> 00:58:50.480 system and bring it on home to somebody that might 1195 00:58:50.519 --> 00:58:52.800 appreciate it, or even just get a treat yourself to 1196 00:58:52.880 --> 00:58:55.039 a little what if scenario around some of the characters 1197 00:58:55.280 --> 00:58:58.039 and boss you were put to work recently in a 1198 00:58:58.239 --> 00:59:01.840 very tremendous way by Zach and Uh He is definitely 1199 00:59:01.880 --> 00:59:02.920 the beneficiary for it. 1200 00:59:03.440 --> 00:59:08.760 It was, it was absolutely it was maybe the most 1201 00:59:10.320 --> 00:59:12.000 I don't know, there was something about it that really 1202 00:59:12.039 --> 00:59:13.960 I want to say it was the most clever, but 1203 00:59:14.719 --> 00:59:17.119 I think there have been some that have been extremely 1204 00:59:17.480 --> 00:59:22.320 clever and bizarre, but this one was just so like 1205 00:59:22.679 --> 00:59:27.119 it really struck me and I needed to just record 1206 00:59:27.199 --> 00:59:31.960 it right away. And it was basically, you know that 1207 00:59:32.119 --> 00:59:35.760 that that he was the hul Cogan's lawyer and in 1208 00:59:35.880 --> 00:59:37.960 this in this part in this universe, that he was 1209 00:59:38.199 --> 00:59:43.000 that that he created. It was that the giant actually 1210 00:59:43.119 --> 00:59:46.199 died when he fell off the roof and he was 1211 00:59:46.559 --> 00:59:50.119 he was, you know, talking about like he was talking 1212 00:59:50.159 --> 00:59:54.760 with him about what a scenario. It was just absolutely 1213 00:59:54.840 --> 00:59:58.679 bonkers and was so funny. It was great, absolutely great. 1214 00:59:58.800 --> 01:00:00.800 That crowdsource element is such a key part of why 1215 01:00:00.880 --> 01:00:03.920 we are what we are is like as much as 1216 01:00:04.039 --> 01:00:07.320 the bounds of our creativity just it's almost limitless, Like 1217 01:00:07.360 --> 01:00:08.880 we could just keep coming up with shit all day. 1218 01:00:10.039 --> 01:00:12.599 What will we include the solar system suggestions, Yeah, little 1219 01:00:12.920 --> 01:00:14.880 ideas along the way that you might suggest on a 1220 01:00:15.159 --> 01:00:18.199 comment on a Patreon post, or on a post on 1221 01:00:18.320 --> 01:00:20.639 acts or or if we you know, happen to interact 1222 01:00:20.679 --> 01:00:23.719 with you in person or on a you know, a 1223 01:00:23.800 --> 01:00:25.960 Hopper show or whatever the case may be. These little 1224 01:00:26.000 --> 01:00:28.840 seeds that get planned, these cameo suggestions, they just add 1225 01:00:28.880 --> 01:00:31.199 so much richness because we're like, we're turning to the 1226 01:00:31.239 --> 01:00:34.599 big brain and the TLF solar system for guidance, for 1227 01:00:35.360 --> 01:00:38.119 new rocks to turn over, for new chances for these 1228 01:00:38.199 --> 01:00:41.320 characters unfold, and man, just help them leave one hell 1229 01:00:41.400 --> 01:00:46.360 of a voicemail. Dark times here, dark times and well 1230 01:00:46.400 --> 01:00:48.920 we're talking about Patreon and we're thinking about ways to 1231 01:00:50.360 --> 01:00:53.639 you know serenade the many different tiers over there. I 1232 01:00:53.719 --> 01:00:55.599 will tell the fine folks in the moat tier, which 1233 01:00:55.639 --> 01:00:58.039 of course is the tier of our highest supporters. Our 1234 01:00:58.159 --> 01:01:01.960 rider dies, those who by hook or by crook find 1235 01:01:02.000 --> 01:01:03.840 the way to support us in a denomination that is 1236 01:01:03.880 --> 01:01:07.639 truly humbling and amazing. And therefore those closest to our heart, 1237 01:01:07.719 --> 01:01:10.760 closest to family, that we do have a we have 1238 01:01:10.880 --> 01:01:13.000 quite an idea on the cameo front that you might 1239 01:01:13.079 --> 01:01:15.880 want to This is the time necessarily to think about 1240 01:01:15.960 --> 01:01:18.199 dropping down a tear. Let's put it down, yeah, yeah, 1241 01:01:18.320 --> 01:01:21.480 or shedding shedding a tear that's right as it were. 1242 01:01:21.679 --> 01:01:24.639 But right below them and they get this short show 1243 01:01:24.679 --> 01:01:26.559 of course too, but right below them and this executive 1244 01:01:26.599 --> 01:01:28.960 producer tier, and that is the teer, ladies and gentlemen 1245 01:01:29.000 --> 01:01:31.920 that titles you to the series that has had an 1246 01:01:31.920 --> 01:01:38.360 absolutely unbelievable twenty twenty four truly in TLFX fashion under 1247 01:01:38.400 --> 01:01:40.480 the cinemat, coming off Scury Movie season. 1248 01:01:40.840 --> 01:01:41.119 Boss. 1249 01:01:41.159 --> 01:01:42.719 By the time they hear this, they would have heard 1250 01:01:42.920 --> 01:01:47.119 the Halloween surprise and tell them all about that and 1251 01:01:47.199 --> 01:01:49.519 where we're headed for the rest of TLFX season. 1252 01:01:49.960 --> 01:01:52.760 Well, you would have heard just the main event for 1253 01:01:52.840 --> 01:01:54.719 Scary Movie Season. I'm not going to spoil it, but 1254 01:01:54.800 --> 01:01:57.000 it was an absolute treat. 1255 01:01:57.920 --> 01:01:59.920 One of the best ones. I mean, just so great 1256 01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:02.039 to get into a movie without much meat on the bone. 1257 01:02:02.559 --> 01:02:06.039 Yeah, it was. It was so good. Again in case 1258 01:02:06.079 --> 01:02:07.559 for those who haven't heard, I don't want to spoil 1259 01:02:07.599 --> 01:02:12.639 it just yet, but it was. It was, absolutely it was. 1260 01:02:12.800 --> 01:02:14.760 It was a wild ride. I'll just say that it 1261 01:02:14.840 --> 01:02:20.679 was a wild ride. And the the the ultimate wrestling 1262 01:02:20.719 --> 01:02:25.280 connection is is honestly, it's worth the price of admission 1263 01:02:25.360 --> 01:02:29.280 right there, because it's something so bizarre. It's something so 1264 01:02:29.840 --> 01:02:33.800 out of left field that you wouldn't even you know. 1265 01:02:34.280 --> 01:02:38.880 I I'm I'm curious if anybody, if anybody, I'll tell 1266 01:02:38.880 --> 01:02:41.199 you this part, if anybody in the UK has heard 1267 01:02:41.239 --> 01:02:43.920 of this guy, all right, if anybody in the UK 1268 01:02:44.119 --> 01:02:46.599 has memories of this, I need to know, because it's 1269 01:02:46.760 --> 01:02:51.519 such a fucking random, random thing. So but it was, 1270 01:02:51.679 --> 01:02:54.440 it was wild and UH and we will be coming 1271 01:02:54.519 --> 01:02:58.239 back now, back to the UH, back to the journey. 1272 01:02:58.880 --> 01:03:01.119 Carneies are forever. The time is right, The time is 1273 01:03:01.239 --> 01:03:07.000 now for us to close the final, the final chapter 1274 01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:10.840 of this journey. As we move into the Daniel Craig Era, 1275 01:03:11.480 --> 01:03:15.960 the most recent bond Era and and that's where we're 1276 01:03:15.960 --> 01:03:16.400 gonna leave it. 1277 01:03:17.199 --> 01:03:19.199 And then heading into Christmas movie season. 1278 01:03:19.440 --> 01:03:21.239 Of course, Christmas movie season for sure. 1279 01:03:21.440 --> 01:03:24.880 Unbelievable, so many ornaments on the TLFX Christmas Tree. Yeah 1280 01:03:25.079 --> 01:03:28.440 this year and yeah, under the Cinemat just an absolute must, 1281 01:03:29.159 --> 01:03:31.760 even if you're not a cinephile like myself. Like I mean, 1282 01:03:31.800 --> 01:03:34.679 I love movies, but I'm not like an encyclopedia of movies, 1283 01:03:34.679 --> 01:03:37.440 and I never claimed to be. And this series has 1284 01:03:37.480 --> 01:03:41.119 allowed me to get acquainted with so many canonical classics, 1285 01:03:41.239 --> 01:03:42.960 so many movies that are just like the ones when 1286 01:03:43.280 --> 01:03:45.000 I've had to say in my lifetime. And I'm sure 1287 01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:46.760 there are a lot of people listening to this who 1288 01:03:46.800 --> 01:03:49.119 are hardest of hardcore wrestling fans who can associate with this. 1289 01:03:49.679 --> 01:03:52.280 Na I never saw it what? No, never saw what? 1290 01:03:53.000 --> 01:03:55.159 And yeah, how many? How many weeks have you gotten? 1291 01:03:55.159 --> 01:03:55.559 Matt for me? 1292 01:03:55.800 --> 01:03:58.039 As the years go, Man, I'm just not only am 1293 01:03:58.039 --> 01:04:00.800 I checking those off, but I'm coming with such a 1294 01:04:01.639 --> 01:04:04.199 due to the research you do, such a depth of 1295 01:04:04.440 --> 01:04:07.639 knowledge on these films that I hadn't even seen, and 1296 01:04:07.760 --> 01:04:09.519 now I don't. I not only see, but I see 1297 01:04:09.559 --> 01:04:12.079 so much more in than just what the naked eye 1298 01:04:12.119 --> 01:04:14.360 would observe watching these these classics and. 1299 01:04:14.880 --> 01:04:17.519 Classics, yeah right, and not so classics. And part of 1300 01:04:17.559 --> 01:04:19.119 the fun too for me is the fact that even 1301 01:04:19.159 --> 01:04:21.920 with movies that I know, I know inside and out, 1302 01:04:22.079 --> 01:04:24.519 you know, learning more about them as we as I 1303 01:04:24.639 --> 01:04:28.159 as I dive into them, and it's it's crazy. It's crazy. 1304 01:04:28.159 --> 01:04:31.519 The stories that that that you know, we uh that 1305 01:04:31.639 --> 01:04:34.760 we find crazy, the stories that happened, stuff that maybe 1306 01:04:34.800 --> 01:04:36.679 people don't know about it. I mean, honestly, to me, 1307 01:04:37.440 --> 01:04:40.639 the biggest treat finding wrestlers that nobody knows about for sure, 1308 01:04:41.079 --> 01:04:42.119 Finding wrestlers that that. 1309 01:04:42.280 --> 01:04:45.039 You know have that's something you know, you're adding uniquely 1310 01:04:45.119 --> 01:04:46.840 to the story of the film. You know, no one's 1311 01:04:47.039 --> 01:04:49.039 ever looked at that and as much depth as you will, 1312 01:04:49.360 --> 01:04:50.639 and and and and. 1313 01:04:51.159 --> 01:04:54.559 And also you know, it's it's rediscovering people that that 1314 01:04:54.920 --> 01:04:57.840 that just sadly are you know, just because of the 1315 01:04:57.880 --> 01:05:01.039 way the world was in you know, at the beginning 1316 01:05:01.079 --> 01:05:04.920 of the last century. You know, we didn't we you know, 1317 01:05:05.159 --> 01:05:08.559 people get lost to time because some of their stuff 1318 01:05:08.639 --> 01:05:10.960 is only in news stories. And if those new stories 1319 01:05:10.960 --> 01:05:14.880 aren't recovered, it's you know they get that no one, 1320 01:05:15.000 --> 01:05:17.840 no one hears about them. Yeah, and uh, these are 1321 01:05:18.599 --> 01:05:22.360 it's it's it's absolutely incredible. 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Oh my God, settled, 1391 01:09:00.520 --> 01:09:03.000 Meltzer wrote, said was back with the WWF title, about 1392 01:09:03.039 --> 01:09:05.000 that Seohn Michaels never lost, and that Brett Hark never 1393 01:09:05.079 --> 01:09:07.399 beat anyone for in becoming a one day wonder, and 1394 01:09:07.520 --> 01:09:10.319 probably wondering himself if he made the worst career move 1395 01:09:10.399 --> 01:09:12.560 of his career, as second guessers and many in the 1396 01:09:12.560 --> 01:09:14.079 industry were seeing by the end of the week, that 1397 01:09:14.199 --> 01:09:16.880 is to say, turning down WCW and going. 1398 01:09:16.720 --> 01:09:18.479 With him a few more months, give a few more 1399 01:09:18.479 --> 01:09:19.079 months exactly. 1400 01:09:19.720 --> 01:09:21.399 But Hey, at this time, if you were like begging 1401 01:09:21.439 --> 01:09:24.199 for him to go away, that's not the reaction you 1402 01:09:24.319 --> 01:09:27.039 want a fan position like you were in nineteen ninety 1403 01:09:27.039 --> 01:09:28.920 seven to have to a guy that you just signed 1404 01:09:28.960 --> 01:09:29.800 to this astron high. 1405 01:09:29.840 --> 01:09:32.000 I wasn't begging him to go away. I just didn't 1406 01:09:32.000 --> 01:09:34.479 want him to be the guy, or at least I 1407 01:09:34.479 --> 01:09:37.840 didn't want him to be a babyface guy. Yeah, I 1408 01:09:38.039 --> 01:09:40.319 was if he you know, him being a heel, I 1409 01:09:40.880 --> 01:09:42.600 was all about it. I was like, give me that, 1410 01:09:42.880 --> 01:09:44.039 that's fucking money. 1411 01:09:45.439 --> 01:09:45.920 It was the. 1412 01:09:47.760 --> 01:09:51.720 It was the the the unbeatable babyface that really bugged me. Yeah. 1413 01:09:51.960 --> 01:09:53.880 Yeah, and that those hands, that hand will be forced. 1414 01:09:54.319 --> 01:09:55.680 I mean, for Vince, he's looking at this kind of 1415 01:09:55.680 --> 01:09:58.560 outlay on that contract and he's gonna he's going to 1416 01:09:58.600 --> 01:10:00.279 do what it takes to tell himself that Brett is 1417 01:10:00.359 --> 01:10:03.399 drawing him money. And if baby Face squeaky clean Brett, 1418 01:10:03.439 --> 01:10:06.000 the one that he spent so much to retain, isn't 1419 01:10:06.000 --> 01:10:08.760 the ticket, then he'll switch it up because he's not 1420 01:10:08.840 --> 01:10:11.159 going to pay this guy to do something that's not 1421 01:10:11.239 --> 01:10:14.479 working or not at least producing revenue to his to 1422 01:10:14.600 --> 01:10:18.079 his mind. So it's definitely a poetic moment and time 1423 01:10:18.159 --> 01:10:19.520 in the career of Brett Hart as well as it 1424 01:10:19.600 --> 01:10:22.920 is Sid. It's kind of wonderful how their paths intersect 1425 01:10:22.960 --> 01:10:27.000 in a way because Brett kind of ends up needing 1426 01:10:27.079 --> 01:10:31.079 Sid to get this positioning right and to get the 1427 01:10:31.119 --> 01:10:34.119 belt kind of transitions smoothly out of the picture. So 1428 01:10:34.199 --> 01:10:36.000 he can really go head to head with Steve Austin 1429 01:10:36.039 --> 01:10:38.000 and it's not all about the belt the whole time. 1430 01:10:38.079 --> 01:10:40.359 An Undertaker can have his rain and have his opponents 1431 01:10:40.399 --> 01:10:41.880 without it being like, all right, when's Brett going to 1432 01:10:41.920 --> 01:10:44.600 get it, culminating in the Brett Undertaker SummerSlam classic that 1433 01:10:45.720 --> 01:10:48.479 is just so memorable in so many ways. So we 1434 01:10:48.600 --> 01:10:50.760 open this edition of Rob with Sid's music immediately. So 1435 01:10:50.840 --> 01:10:52.680 this already I was feeling good about choosing this for 1436 01:10:52.760 --> 01:10:54.800 the tribute show the break first thing you hear is 1437 01:10:54.880 --> 01:10:55.319 his music. 1438 01:10:56.640 --> 01:10:58.800 If you hear the music, I was kind of disappointed 1439 01:10:58.840 --> 01:11:00.880 that there was no in I would like to assume 1440 01:11:00.880 --> 01:11:03.000 whatever the intro was at the time. Yeah, they did 1441 01:11:03.079 --> 01:11:03.640 the cold open. 1442 01:11:03.720 --> 01:11:05.079 There was no intro in this one because they were 1443 01:11:05.119 --> 01:11:07.199 trying to get right into the action to keep people 1444 01:11:07.199 --> 01:11:10.199 hooked because they had that one minute advantage or two 1445 01:11:10.279 --> 01:11:11.119 three minute advantage. 1446 01:11:11.479 --> 01:11:11.840 Crazy. 1447 01:11:13.199 --> 01:11:15.439 So they jump right in media res as they say, 1448 01:11:15.560 --> 01:11:17.600 we start this one, and Jim Ross welcomes us on. 1449 01:11:17.680 --> 01:11:21.439 We're live from the Nashville Arena and they have the uh, 1450 01:11:22.159 --> 01:11:25.640 the bubbles projected on the carpet. That's the shower bubbles right. 1451 01:11:27.640 --> 01:11:31.239 Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, I mean that's I can't believe 1452 01:11:31.279 --> 01:11:33.079 that that that is a real thing, that that that 1453 01:11:33.680 --> 01:11:38.119 the idea is that it's the shower, the shower water that. 1454 01:11:38.760 --> 01:11:41.560 Is so fucking from Psycho. Yeah, it never sunk in 1455 01:11:41.680 --> 01:11:43.399 with me watching back then. I mean I knew that 1456 01:11:43.479 --> 01:11:46.239 that song was from the movie Psycho, but that the 1457 01:11:46.359 --> 01:11:49.640 touch of actually, you know, designing the lighting to to 1458 01:11:49.800 --> 01:11:52.520 evoke the shower scene in Psycho was was detail I 1459 01:11:52.760 --> 01:11:55.359 didn't appreciate till I was watching this one back and 1460 01:11:55.439 --> 01:11:58.720 it's sit on the walk, black leather vest, water flying everywhere, 1461 01:11:58.760 --> 01:12:01.319 because you know, that's a key part to the presentation. Yep, 1462 01:12:01.840 --> 01:12:05.439 screaming I'm the man, extra enthusiastic, fist bumps, feels big 1463 01:12:05.560 --> 01:12:08.439 league for sure. Definitely an entrance where I'm like, okay, 1464 01:12:08.560 --> 01:12:11.079 he's He's definitely one of the biggest stars on the show. 1465 01:12:11.520 --> 01:12:15.079 Oh, no question. And I never you know, again, I 1466 01:12:15.319 --> 01:12:19.119 never thought otherwise. I mean, he was, he was important 1467 01:12:19.159 --> 01:12:23.239 to me at that time. Yep. For sure. I definitely 1468 01:12:23.359 --> 01:12:26.800 wasn't necessarily a fan of him being champion the first time, 1469 01:12:26.920 --> 01:12:30.600 but you know I was. I was all about it, 1470 01:12:30.760 --> 01:12:35.079 you know, and I I never hated him as a 1471 01:12:35.119 --> 01:12:36.840 wrestler and. 1472 01:12:36.920 --> 01:12:39.720 Of course, as the show gets kind of a grittier approach, 1473 01:12:39.760 --> 01:12:41.520 and to get even grittier and the look changes. That 1474 01:12:41.600 --> 01:12:44.159 old WWF yellow and blue logo on the bottom left 1475 01:12:44.159 --> 01:12:44.880 stayed a long time. 1476 01:12:45.319 --> 01:12:48.319 It overstayed. It's welcome in some ways. Yeah, I would 1477 01:12:48.359 --> 01:12:51.920 say it definitely did. It's it's certainly you know it's 1478 01:12:52.039 --> 01:12:55.119 missed now, but at the time it was like it 1479 01:12:55.239 --> 01:13:01.520 was time to go yep, go ahead. 1480 01:13:02.439 --> 01:13:04.279 Lawler has to share that, you know, the worst news 1481 01:13:04.319 --> 01:13:07.399 you possibly could share. Brett Hart ladyes Generals once again 1482 01:13:07.439 --> 01:13:10.520 World Wrestling Federation champion, having won the final four main 1483 01:13:10.560 --> 01:13:12.000 event the night before in pay per view, So they 1484 01:13:12.000 --> 01:13:13.960 get the fans up to speed on that right away. Yeah, 1485 01:13:14.199 --> 01:13:15.600 and they talk about how that could come to a 1486 01:13:15.600 --> 01:13:18.119 screeching halt before it even gets started. This latest reign 1487 01:13:18.159 --> 01:13:19.880 of the Hitman. The fourth title rain for Brett Hart 1488 01:13:20.600 --> 01:13:22.359 sid takes the apron red, white and blue row. 1489 01:13:22.439 --> 01:13:25.920 I remember like it just like you know again, I 1490 01:13:26.640 --> 01:13:30.039 I ask you to imagine someone who missed Thursday Raw Thursday, 1491 01:13:30.159 --> 01:13:33.079 right what a fucking trip, didn't get the fucking pay 1492 01:13:33.159 --> 01:13:37.399 per view either, And here I am and like I'm 1493 01:13:37.439 --> 01:13:41.119 like what the fuck? Like oh, like I'm thinking, I'm 1494 01:13:41.159 --> 01:13:44.279 I'm preparing myself to like, here we go again, another 1495 01:13:44.560 --> 01:13:48.479 fucking Bredheart title reign. Just miserable. 1496 01:13:48.640 --> 01:13:50.279 Did you hold out any hope though watching this that 1497 01:13:50.479 --> 01:13:52.239 Sid would win the belt on this episode? 1498 01:13:52.800 --> 01:13:58.279 None? None, It never happened. You know, I knew. I 1499 01:13:58.520 --> 01:14:01.479 was soaked. I was conditioned. Oh, after over four years 1500 01:14:02.159 --> 01:14:05.600 of watching Raw that a title change is not going 1501 01:14:05.680 --> 01:14:06.000 to happen. 1502 01:14:08.600 --> 01:14:11.880 Sence, just not the way it works. Sensible, absolutely sensible. 1503 01:14:12.479 --> 01:14:15.239 You know they didn't do it. They won't do it. 1504 01:14:15.520 --> 01:14:17.279 I mean because every time, I mean, listen, let's not 1505 01:14:17.359 --> 01:14:19.399 just say I didn't get excited when I saw that 1506 01:14:19.520 --> 01:14:22.000 it might happen, but I also was like, yeah, that 1507 01:14:22.119 --> 01:14:24.319 only it's going to happen, right, you know, I went 1508 01:14:24.359 --> 01:14:27.079 into every title match that happened on Raw as it's 1509 01:14:27.159 --> 01:14:31.439 not going to happen, But when it came close, I 1510 01:14:31.520 --> 01:14:34.880 got excited. I didn't think this was going to happen 1511 01:14:35.800 --> 01:14:37.119 at all. Yep. 1512 01:14:37.199 --> 01:14:41.520 Absolutely, And that incredible Sid Pyro hanging over the ring 1513 01:14:41.840 --> 01:14:43.840 sets off as well as Sid makes the big entrance, 1514 01:14:43.880 --> 01:14:46.239 So you're you think this is it, They're going for it. 1515 01:14:46.319 --> 01:14:48.960 You know they're not. I really did. I really thought 1516 01:14:49.000 --> 01:14:52.319 that they were going for a title, like like they 1517 01:14:52.359 --> 01:14:54.520 were going to open up with the show me all right, yep, 1518 01:14:55.079 --> 01:14:56.920 I guess this is the thing. I mean, even watching 1519 01:14:56.960 --> 01:14:59.920 it back, I didn't remember that they did the tea. 1520 01:15:00.600 --> 01:15:02.720 I'm like watching thing. Oh wow, I guess we're getting 1521 01:15:02.720 --> 01:15:04.840 the Sid tribute done pretty early. 1522 01:15:05.039 --> 01:15:07.760 I was actually had a moment of panic because if 1523 01:15:08.079 --> 01:15:11.279 the match I remember Sid beating Brett was the first 1524 01:15:11.319 --> 01:15:13.560 match on the whole show, then it's got a stupid 1525 01:15:13.600 --> 01:15:16.319 to do the rest of that edition of RAW. I agree, 1526 01:15:16.399 --> 01:15:18.159 And then it's about, wow, do I remember this being 1527 01:15:18.239 --> 01:15:18.800 the last thing? 1528 01:15:18.800 --> 01:15:18.920 Thing? 1529 01:15:19.119 --> 01:15:21.239 Like I was like, oh god, if we had the like, 1530 01:15:21.319 --> 01:15:23.159 what's the point of watching the whole other thing if 1531 01:15:23.199 --> 01:15:25.600 we if it's right here in the beginning, like I don't. 1532 01:15:25.920 --> 01:15:28.199 I mean, I honestly like sat there. I don't remember 1533 01:15:28.279 --> 01:15:31.159 it being at the beginning, But you know, I don't know. 1534 01:15:31.319 --> 01:15:33.680 Maybe maybe it is, Maybe that part of my memory 1535 01:15:33.840 --> 01:15:35.920 is a little, uh is a little fuzzy. 1536 01:15:36.199 --> 01:15:38.000 One thing we've learned over ten years as the lapsed 1537 01:15:38.039 --> 01:15:40.119 gods look much more favorably upon us than to do 1538 01:15:40.199 --> 01:15:40.680 that to us. 1539 01:15:40.840 --> 01:15:43.000 So of course I agreed all works out. 1540 01:15:44.359 --> 01:15:46.640 Jim Ross's Bad News and good news is doctor James 1541 01:15:46.680 --> 01:15:49.760 Andrews update on Seawn Michaels is to come and there's 1542 01:15:49.800 --> 01:15:52.000 both sides of the coin. Is it regard Sean Michael's health? 1543 01:15:52.079 --> 01:15:56.119 More on that later on the show, Sid absolutely screaming 1544 01:15:56.399 --> 01:15:59.680 with who's the man and fist pumps. Yes, he's six's nine, 1545 01:15:59.720 --> 01:16:01.720 three thirteen. He is the challenger. 1546 01:16:02.039 --> 01:16:02.319 Jr. 1547 01:16:02.399 --> 01:16:05.920 Says he is hungry and what condition is Brett hard? 1548 01:16:06.000 --> 01:16:09.199 And that is the question Jr. Ex after hit Man 1549 01:16:09.239 --> 01:16:12.239 had to go the distance in a brutal foreway. You know, 1550 01:16:12.399 --> 01:16:14.680 there's all that blood on Vader's head and yep. 1551 01:16:15.560 --> 01:16:18.159 Well it's even funny too because because Lawler does talk 1552 01:16:18.199 --> 01:16:22.640 about that, uh and he he talks about the state 1553 01:16:22.720 --> 01:16:23.760 of Vader's face. 1554 01:16:25.319 --> 01:16:27.279 We got some highlights. Let's go a little bit later 1555 01:16:27.359 --> 01:16:27.720 on tonight. 1556 01:16:29.239 --> 01:16:36.680 What well, I mean he was eating hamburger His face 1557 01:16:36.760 --> 01:16:39.439 looked like hamburger meat because it was covered in hamburger meat. 1558 01:16:40.319 --> 01:16:40.760 That's right. 1559 01:16:40.920 --> 01:16:42.640 It's like three hours after the match. 1560 01:16:42.600 --> 01:16:46.800 Was over, after the event was over. These pictures of. 1561 01:16:46.960 --> 01:16:50.159 Vader taken at a at a restaurant in Nashville after 1562 01:16:50.199 --> 01:16:56.279 the match exactly, so you get the. 1563 01:17:00.079 --> 01:17:00.800 Eat my face. 1564 01:17:06.840 --> 01:17:10.159 The face looks like hamburger. Vader, Oh, it's the cheeseburger. Actually, 1565 01:17:11.079 --> 01:17:11.640 if you can see the. 1566 01:17:11.680 --> 01:17:17.960 Cheese, I'm so good, dude. Why are you yelling? Vader? 1567 01:17:18.000 --> 01:17:19.640 What is your face look like chopped cheese? 1568 01:17:23.159 --> 01:17:23.600 I'm talking. 1569 01:17:25.359 --> 01:17:26.239 I said here it is. 1570 01:17:29.600 --> 01:17:34.079 It's exactly how it sound with a dew rag on. 1571 01:17:36.600 --> 01:17:38.720 Vader a big fan of places that have like this 1572 01:17:38.880 --> 01:17:42.159 flat spatula and scoop the meat into the HOGI. 1573 01:17:52.479 --> 01:17:58.479 I want to hear that on the grill. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, 1574 01:17:58.520 --> 01:18:02.399 the chinking, it's crucial. Speaking of the ting, ting ting, 1575 01:18:02.479 --> 01:18:04.279 it's wrestling time. It's true. 1576 01:18:04.520 --> 01:18:06.920 So the s I isn't sparking and elevating towards the ceiling. 1577 01:18:06.920 --> 01:18:10.039 It Sid hits the ring awesome row Ray and Psycho 1578 01:18:10.119 --> 01:18:11.600 sid in the lower third. The way he used to 1579 01:18:11.600 --> 01:18:14.479 write ra A W and those bevil silver letters. 1580 01:18:14.479 --> 01:18:16.840 I used to like that. Yeah, yep, I liked him too, 1581 01:18:17.319 --> 01:18:18.279 so j R. 1582 01:18:18.319 --> 01:18:23.039 And Lawler Ringside and commentary. No Vince on commentary here. Interestingly, 1583 01:18:23.840 --> 01:18:25.119 as we see the crown. 1584 01:18:25.279 --> 01:18:27.439 He wasn't that was he was. He was still doing 1585 01:18:27.520 --> 01:18:29.039 it too. That's I didn't even think of that. 1586 01:18:29.159 --> 01:18:30.960 Yeah, that was the whole thing of him getting so 1587 01:18:31.119 --> 01:18:33.199 worked up over Brett Hart punching Pat Patterson on that 1588 01:18:33.319 --> 01:18:35.680 raw we keep talking about is he was on commentary 1589 01:18:36.199 --> 01:18:37.760 and that's how he's able to scream that dirt. He 1590 01:18:37.800 --> 01:18:40.239 Wrott in the Son of a and eventually gets up. 1591 01:18:40.600 --> 01:18:43.039 So you heard a little bit of it and that 1592 01:18:43.119 --> 01:18:45.880 Lawler sound bite. But the Brett screech music kicks off 1593 01:18:45.960 --> 01:18:46.960 that guitar riff and here. 1594 01:18:46.880 --> 01:18:54.000 Comes the hitman weird. It's beautiful. Oh, such a great 1595 01:18:54.119 --> 01:18:58.279 entrance song. It's like it's it's it's it really is 1596 01:18:58.520 --> 01:19:02.359 just absolutely spectacular, always works and not everybody was. 1597 01:19:03.920 --> 01:19:05.920 Sourpuss about his title win at the time, and I 1598 01:19:06.000 --> 01:19:07.680 signed this sys congratulations Brett Hart. 1599 01:19:08.359 --> 01:19:09.199 He makes his way to the ring. 1600 01:19:10.439 --> 01:19:12.279 Jer said, we're as live as you could be, and 1601 01:19:12.359 --> 01:19:14.159 he says that with all the voice of somebody who 1602 01:19:14.279 --> 01:19:17.119 is you know, very much aware that being live is 1603 01:19:17.159 --> 01:19:19.840 a huge part of this night, you know, and getting 1604 01:19:19.840 --> 01:19:21.920 that across the fans is important. Like this is not 1605 01:19:22.119 --> 01:19:25.159 something that Bischoff can reveal the results of on the 1606 01:19:25.239 --> 01:19:28.800 air like he had done already on Nitro Raw letters 1607 01:19:28.840 --> 01:19:31.479 on the entrance R A W and read not much 1608 01:19:31.560 --> 01:19:33.399 longer for that. I mean, there's like a week left. 1609 01:19:33.439 --> 01:19:35.439 This is probably like the last one. They go to Germany, 1610 01:19:35.479 --> 01:19:36.920 and I don't think they bring that set with them 1611 01:19:37.399 --> 01:19:40.199 that they use it for the Manhattan Center Raw for ECW, 1612 01:19:40.399 --> 01:19:43.399 they do do that. That's part of it too. One 1613 01:19:43.600 --> 01:19:45.199 part of the reason that that show was just so 1614 01:19:45.439 --> 01:19:47.560 like crammed in there and all so random is because 1615 01:19:47.560 --> 01:19:49.800 a lot of the guys were already preparing to travel 1616 01:19:49.920 --> 01:19:50.920 for the European tour. 1617 01:19:51.239 --> 01:19:52.479 Oh maybe, yeah, that's true. 1618 01:19:52.520 --> 01:19:54.239 It's like, let's just film out with the ACW wrestlers. 1619 01:19:54.279 --> 01:19:56.920 Who gives a fucking put Stevie Richards on raw? Yeah, right, 1620 01:19:58.199 --> 01:20:00.840 but there they are pop gun fire work over the entrance. 1621 01:20:01.000 --> 01:20:01.199 It does. 1622 01:20:01.399 --> 01:20:02.880 Yeah, it does kind of feel like this is like 1623 01:20:02.960 --> 01:20:05.279 a last raw of its type. It feels like Ra's 1624 01:20:05.319 --> 01:20:07.079 about to change in a way that the old set 1625 01:20:07.199 --> 01:20:10.239 can't somehow the old look can't accommodate, you know what 1626 01:20:10.279 --> 01:20:10.520 I mean? 1627 01:20:11.119 --> 01:20:13.399 Yeah, that is very true. I wonder if that if 1628 01:20:13.439 --> 01:20:15.640 that really was, Like if I wonder if there was 1629 01:20:15.760 --> 01:20:17.600 an element of like. 1630 01:20:18.039 --> 01:20:20.720 We're about the change things here swan song. 1631 01:20:20.640 --> 01:20:24.720 Of the of the old, of the old the old show. 1632 01:20:24.640 --> 01:20:26.960 Like can you picture Steve Austin doing everything he did 1633 01:20:27.920 --> 01:20:31.119 to Vince and to everybody else he feuded with in 1634 01:20:31.279 --> 01:20:33.960 ninety eight ninety nine with the Monday Night Ross set 1635 01:20:34.119 --> 01:20:34.600 behind him. 1636 01:20:35.399 --> 01:20:38.920 No, you can't, no, not at all. It doesn't work. 1637 01:20:38.920 --> 01:20:40.920 It doesn't work at all. You need you need the 1638 01:20:41.000 --> 01:20:43.800 Titan Tron, you need all that stuff that was that 1639 01:20:44.039 --> 01:20:46.359 was there. But it's crucial, pretty wild. 1640 01:20:46.840 --> 01:20:49.239 So yeah, Brett gets that pop gun firework entrance overhead 1641 01:20:49.239 --> 01:20:51.359 as he makes the walk in shades and the title 1642 01:20:51.399 --> 01:20:53.920 strapped around his waist, hits the ring, the lights fade out. 1643 01:20:54.000 --> 01:20:56.079 He makes the walk to all four sides of the 1644 01:20:56.159 --> 01:20:58.520 ring with his arms extended, as Brett was prone to do. 1645 01:20:58.760 --> 01:21:01.039 Four time champion he was as a result of that 1646 01:21:01.119 --> 01:21:01.920 victory at Final four. 1647 01:21:02.039 --> 01:21:02.239 Jr. 1648 01:21:02.279 --> 01:21:04.479 Says the big news, however, is the Undertaker will meet 1649 01:21:04.479 --> 01:21:07.840 the WWF Champion, whoever he may be, at Wrestlmania thirteen. 1650 01:21:07.880 --> 01:21:09.720 So this match not only for the title, but for 1651 01:21:09.840 --> 01:21:12.000 the main event slot against the Undertaker. 1652 01:21:12.039 --> 01:21:14.800 As he lies in wait, so so okay, so he 1653 01:21:15.079 --> 01:21:17.359 so because he lost because he was the last one 1654 01:21:17.399 --> 01:21:19.920 with Brett that nix and then a more contender for WrestleManias. 1655 01:21:19.920 --> 01:21:21.720 It's so stupid. It's like, why does the Undertaker have 1656 01:21:21.800 --> 01:21:24.239 this title? Shot exactly. He lost to Vader at Royal Rumble. 1657 01:21:25.399 --> 01:21:28.279 It's like he lost Vader, he lost the Royal Rumble 1658 01:21:28.319 --> 01:21:31.000 and he lost the other that he's having the worst 1659 01:21:31.159 --> 01:21:34.399 format year of his career. Huh, he's having the worst 1660 01:21:34.479 --> 01:21:37.479 year of his career and it's ironically the best year 1661 01:21:37.520 --> 01:21:37.960 of his career. 1662 01:21:38.800 --> 01:21:41.000 Yeah, they didn't do a whole lot of planning why 1663 01:21:41.119 --> 01:21:44.680 Undertaker got the title shot. You're right about that, just 1664 01:21:44.720 --> 01:21:46.279 because he's screamed up to Sid one time. 1665 01:21:46.319 --> 01:21:50.720 I guess, well, I think because it makes somewhat sense, 1666 01:21:50.800 --> 01:21:54.720 because I guess he's you know. It's also like, you know, 1667 01:21:54.760 --> 01:21:56.359 when you when you look at all the way it was, 1668 01:21:56.479 --> 01:21:59.840 it was like because because Sid lost the world title, 1669 01:22:00.600 --> 01:22:04.079 he was given this, you know, and because of Shawn Michaels, 1670 01:22:04.119 --> 01:22:08.720 he was given, you know, a title shot. Yeah, I guess, 1671 01:22:09.800 --> 01:22:13.039 and I guess the same thing could be said for 1672 01:22:13.079 --> 01:22:16.560 the Undertaker that he's you know, because he because he 1673 01:22:16.680 --> 01:22:21.439 was the runner up of the big the Big Final 1674 01:22:21.520 --> 01:22:26.520 four match, that he is worthy of WrestleMania main advantage, which. 1675 01:22:26.359 --> 01:22:28.000 Is pretty wild because, as we talked about on that 1676 01:22:28.119 --> 01:22:29.640 Rob with the cage match would sit in breath. They 1677 01:22:29.640 --> 01:22:32.079 switch it all up again the week before WrestleMania, and 1678 01:22:32.159 --> 01:22:33.000 it's up in the air again. 1679 01:22:33.039 --> 01:22:33.720 Who's going to get what? 1680 01:22:33.920 --> 01:22:36.720 Because if Brett beats Sit in that cage, it's Brett 1681 01:22:36.720 --> 01:22:39.000 Austin for the title. An undertaker's shit out of luck 1682 01:22:39.119 --> 01:22:41.800 as far as the title shot goes right, right, So 1683 01:22:41.960 --> 01:22:45.760 they change even that from the representations made here the 1684 01:22:45.880 --> 01:22:48.399 night after Final Four, Earl Heavner presiding he hoisted the 1685 01:22:48.439 --> 01:22:51.800 title that matters, the winged Eagle belt. Yes, and Brett 1686 01:22:51.840 --> 01:22:53.520 handsome shades over to a young girl on the front 1687 01:22:53.600 --> 01:22:55.960 row here in Nashville with a Hitman shirt and her 1688 01:22:56.000 --> 01:22:58.239 teeth all over the place. Wonder if she got one 1689 01:22:58.279 --> 01:23:03.520 for the road, said Jef Psycho said versus Brett Hart. 1690 01:23:03.760 --> 01:23:05.960 Apparently he's gonna kick us off here on Monday Night Raw. 1691 01:23:06.319 --> 01:23:08.359 They go face to face while Brett's music is still 1692 01:23:08.359 --> 01:23:11.000 playing in the center of the ring. Sid towers over 1693 01:23:11.039 --> 01:23:12.199 the hit Man there. 1694 01:23:12.199 --> 01:23:12.800 It really does. 1695 01:23:13.039 --> 01:23:14.960 They're trash talking. It looks like it's gonna go off, 1696 01:23:14.960 --> 01:23:15.239 and then. 1697 01:23:15.279 --> 01:23:17.399 Austin hits the ring. 1698 01:23:19.439 --> 01:23:22.439 Is he showing Is he showing behaviors that that excite 1699 01:23:22.479 --> 01:23:23.319 your loins back? 1700 01:23:23.359 --> 01:23:23.479 Then? 1701 01:23:23.600 --> 01:23:25.920 Yes, yes, he is showing exactly what he needs to 1702 01:23:25.960 --> 01:23:27.960 get me excited to be a wrestling fan, such as, 1703 01:23:28.199 --> 01:23:31.159 all right, I mean he's just come the way, his attitude, Yes, 1704 01:23:31.399 --> 01:23:33.359 just walking down there, it's like you know he was 1705 01:23:34.239 --> 01:23:38.960 he was excitement because when he was there, all bets 1706 01:23:39.000 --> 01:23:42.640 were off exactly. That's what made him fucking money is 1707 01:23:42.720 --> 01:23:46.079 that they booked him in such a way that anytime 1708 01:23:46.119 --> 01:23:50.640 he came to the ring, you knew, like you knew 1709 01:23:50.720 --> 01:23:55.359 to expect anything. You knew to expect the unexpected. You 1710 01:23:55.439 --> 01:23:57.720 knew that wait a minute, this is not like here 1711 01:23:57.800 --> 01:24:00.359 I am thinking that it's gonna be a regular time match. 1712 01:24:00.560 --> 01:24:03.640 Steve Austin comes down. Oh shit, what's he gonna do now? 1713 01:24:03.800 --> 01:24:06.840 Yeah, there's like, no, there's no formality that would keep 1714 01:24:06.960 --> 01:24:10.000 him in the back, just like you know, grinding his 1715 01:24:10.079 --> 01:24:11.279 teeth but not attacking. 1716 01:24:11.600 --> 01:24:14.039 You know, there's no there's a title match. I better 1717 01:24:14.159 --> 01:24:16.279 just sit my ass down and watch it. No fuck, 1718 01:24:16.399 --> 01:24:17.119 no fuck. 1719 01:24:17.239 --> 01:24:19.840 If he sees fucking Brett Heart's face, he's going it 1720 01:24:19.880 --> 01:24:20.319 doesn't matter. 1721 01:24:20.479 --> 01:24:22.640 He's gonna He's there to eat it. It's great. 1722 01:24:23.399 --> 01:24:24.920 So he hits the ring and they're going at it, 1723 01:24:25.359 --> 01:24:27.680 exchanging as only they can. Bretton Austin, what a tre 1724 01:24:27.840 --> 01:24:29.079 see those two throw right hands. 1725 01:24:29.199 --> 01:24:31.319 Ah, there's nothing better than the two of them fighting 1726 01:24:31.439 --> 01:24:35.319 like it just it's like the and now, like knowing 1727 01:24:35.640 --> 01:24:37.800 knowing kind of more. At the time, it's like you 1728 01:24:38.039 --> 01:24:40.840 you you love watching them fight because it was so intense. 1729 01:24:41.399 --> 01:24:44.159 Now you watch it because you know how much they 1730 01:24:44.279 --> 01:24:47.319 respect each other. Yes, and you see them like that. 1731 01:24:47.439 --> 01:24:51.000 There is a there's a passion there that is missing 1732 01:24:51.079 --> 01:24:53.760 from most of their other opponents because they respect each 1733 01:24:53.760 --> 01:24:55.960 other so much, so true, and they enjoy working together 1734 01:24:56.079 --> 01:24:56.399 so much. 1735 01:24:56.640 --> 01:24:58.159 Yeah, this is one of the rare ones where it's 1736 01:24:58.199 --> 01:25:02.840 like learning about the the backstage happenings. It only enhances it, 1737 01:25:03.159 --> 01:25:06.399 you know, doesn't detract from it at all. So they're 1738 01:25:06.439 --> 01:25:07.479 exchanging is only they can. 1739 01:25:07.640 --> 01:25:07.880 J R. 1740 01:25:07.880 --> 01:25:10.279 Says Austin has become obsessed with bart Hard. I remember 1741 01:25:10.359 --> 01:25:12.640 that they played that sound bite a lot. Steve Austin 1742 01:25:12.720 --> 01:25:15.840 has become obsessed with Brett and he's a rabbit animal. 1743 01:25:16.000 --> 01:25:16.239 Jr. 1744 01:25:16.359 --> 01:25:18.000 Is fucking off the leash too, by the way. Ye 1745 01:25:18.239 --> 01:25:20.439 oh yeah, no, Vince. Here he's allowed to really show 1746 01:25:20.800 --> 01:25:23.680 what he can bring to a broadcast and a presentation 1747 01:25:24.199 --> 01:25:26.039 and in the intensity of an angle, especially when his 1748 01:25:26.119 --> 01:25:29.479 buddy Steve Austin's getting over and then suddenly Sid, while 1749 01:25:29.479 --> 01:25:31.800 these two brawling, comes over the top with a clubbing 1750 01:25:31.880 --> 01:25:32.680 shot on Austin. 1751 01:25:32.840 --> 01:25:35.600 So Sid doesn't want to be left out of the fun. No, 1752 01:25:35.840 --> 01:25:38.920 not at all. He comes over like a fucking madman. 1753 01:25:39.319 --> 01:25:41.439 He's so fucking nuts. 1754 01:25:45.039 --> 01:25:48.199 And he get that from those windmill shots. Those why no, 1755 01:25:48.520 --> 01:25:52.039 yep yep. And in the Franks, Steve Austin chopped blocks 1756 01:25:52.039 --> 01:25:54.359 Sid's knee and takes that out, and that'll play. 1757 01:25:55.840 --> 01:25:56.359 That's the clip. 1758 01:25:56.399 --> 01:25:58.680 That's the clip we talk about. That was a clip 1759 01:25:58.760 --> 01:26:02.159 clip of the clip, and Bredhart mount Steve Boston and 1760 01:26:02.199 --> 01:26:06.000 starts peppering away with shots Renne let My Kyota, Pat Patterson, 1761 01:26:06.079 --> 01:26:07.760 Joel Brisco, I'll hit the ring trying to break. The 1762 01:26:07.960 --> 01:26:13.039 whole crew comes down and Sid is screaming, Oh my god, 1763 01:26:13.199 --> 01:26:16.119 listen to him, listen to him. Okay, this this is, 1764 01:26:16.880 --> 01:26:19.239 this is this is let's just listen to him. 1765 01:26:22.720 --> 01:26:26.359 Off here, look at that, Sid. It's hard. 1766 01:26:34.720 --> 01:26:37.359 Oh, Sid, Sid, we'd like to get we'd like you 1767 01:26:37.399 --> 01:26:39.640 to get across the idea that you're really frustrated that 1768 01:26:40.319 --> 01:26:40.800 he just goes. 1769 01:26:41.079 --> 01:26:50.319 I can do that. I can do that alone. This 1770 01:26:50.520 --> 01:26:54.680 is a fucking maniac, and he's such a goofball. 1771 01:26:54.760 --> 01:26:56.720 He's the only guy that can scream and still somehow 1772 01:26:56.760 --> 01:26:58.199 be monotone, right. 1773 01:27:01.560 --> 01:27:03.119 I know, he's the only man who can yell at 1774 01:27:03.119 --> 01:27:05.640 the top of his lungs and not emote right and 1775 01:27:05.720 --> 01:27:07.840 not makes me feel like he's reaching a different level. 1776 01:27:08.720 --> 01:27:12.039 He's like, it's no different than him cutting a promo. 1777 01:27:12.560 --> 01:27:17.960 It's the exact same, you know, kind of volume and intensity. 1778 01:27:18.079 --> 01:27:20.039 There's no added emotion to it at all. 1779 01:27:20.159 --> 01:27:22.399 And I guess what hyper ironic is. When he actually 1780 01:27:22.439 --> 01:27:24.479 snaps his leg and half in WCW in two thousand 1781 01:27:24.479 --> 01:27:25.279 and one, he doesn't. 1782 01:27:25.000 --> 01:27:27.720 Scream at all that there you go. That's the sign 1783 01:27:27.840 --> 01:27:28.119 right there. 1784 01:27:28.199 --> 01:27:29.920 Herer He is clutching his knee as they get over 1785 01:27:30.000 --> 01:27:32.279 the idea that Sid's chances of becoming champ tonight are 1786 01:27:32.319 --> 01:27:35.039 going to be a casualty to the fucking warpath of 1787 01:27:35.079 --> 01:27:37.479 stone cold Steve Austin, who's just striking anything that moves, 1788 01:27:38.000 --> 01:27:43.159 and Austin starts peeling off the officials. They're all over him, 1789 01:27:44.359 --> 01:27:47.119 and they go I think they go to the rails. 1790 01:27:48.680 --> 01:27:50.960 You see that red white stencil WWF logo on the 1791 01:27:51.000 --> 01:27:54.840 apron on that kid friendly look is this fucking bloodthirst 1792 01:27:54.960 --> 01:27:55.399 plays out. 1793 01:27:55.800 --> 01:27:57.760 No, he's just fucking yelling and screaming at the top 1794 01:27:57.800 --> 01:27:59.640 of his lungs here and it's like, here's kid friendly 1795 01:27:59.680 --> 01:28:00.279 telling vision. 1796 01:28:00.479 --> 01:28:02.520 Sid selling the knee huge as he rises in the 1797 01:28:02.560 --> 01:28:05.479 corner and he's waving Brett on. He can't even stand up, 1798 01:28:05.479 --> 01:28:06.640 but he wants to still do the match. 1799 01:28:07.159 --> 01:28:07.560 Mm hmm. 1800 01:28:08.279 --> 01:28:10.720 Jr ss Brett Heart is not a cheap shot artist, 1801 01:28:10.840 --> 01:28:13.600 so he's very unlikely to take advantage of this situation. 1802 01:28:14.800 --> 01:28:15.000 J R. 1803 01:28:15.039 --> 01:28:17.199 Says it was stone cold Steve Austin, that rabbit animal 1804 01:28:17.239 --> 01:28:19.640 that put everybody in this position. And I love the 1805 01:28:19.680 --> 01:28:22.960 idea that anytime Brett lifts his head up, it's like 1806 01:28:23.039 --> 01:28:25.640 a groundhog showing it. You know, It's like Austin pounces 1807 01:28:26.039 --> 01:28:26.920 or like you know the wa. 1808 01:28:27.960 --> 01:28:31.000 Yep, just like it. It's like I'm getting ready. 1809 01:28:34.720 --> 01:28:39.560 Said that motherfucker hit in my leg. He screams that motherfucker. Yeah, 1810 01:28:39.560 --> 01:28:41.079 he says, a motherfucker in yours. 1811 01:28:41.399 --> 01:28:42.600 God, that's hilarious. 1812 01:28:42.880 --> 01:28:45.520 Its just like when he says, uh, i'n't here ship, 1813 01:28:46.600 --> 01:28:47.159 you know what is it? 1814 01:28:47.239 --> 01:28:52.319 I don't I don't know ship. He said. It's like, Okay, Sid, 1815 01:28:52.359 --> 01:28:54.600 that's that's kind of what I thought. You know, Damn, 1816 01:28:55.079 --> 01:28:55.520 I don't know. 1817 01:28:55.760 --> 01:28:58.479 Shit, I gotta get it. If you don't have it, 1818 01:28:58.520 --> 01:29:02.079 I absolutely have to get this. Let me, let me 1819 01:29:02.159 --> 01:29:03.840 pull this up, entertain the people somehow. 1820 01:29:03.880 --> 01:29:04.199 I don't know. 1821 01:29:05.880 --> 01:29:09.319 So now let me how about this when when you're 1822 01:29:09.359 --> 01:29:11.000 watching this, do you think you're not getting the match? 1823 01:29:12.239 --> 01:29:12.279 No? 1824 01:29:12.560 --> 01:29:15.520 No, no, I knew. I mean, wait, you mean originally yeah, 1825 01:29:15.560 --> 01:29:19.359 originally that ninety Um, I don't remember. I don't remember. 1826 01:29:19.399 --> 01:29:25.560 I feel like I feel like they you know, if anything, 1827 01:29:25.640 --> 01:29:27.800 I would imagine that I felt like, and this is 1828 01:29:27.880 --> 01:29:31.560 just speculation, but I would imagine that I felt like, oh, okay, 1829 01:29:31.960 --> 01:29:33.439 they did it here, and they're going to tease it 1830 01:29:33.479 --> 01:29:35.840 out and we're gonna get into the at the end 1831 01:29:35.840 --> 01:29:36.199 of the show. 1832 01:29:36.680 --> 01:29:38.239 You thought end of the show, not like a pay 1833 01:29:38.239 --> 01:29:39.000 per view or something. 1834 01:29:39.720 --> 01:29:41.680 No, I thought like an end of the show. They 1835 01:29:41.720 --> 01:29:46.720 would do it? Would this be season three Boss? Season 1836 01:29:46.800 --> 01:29:50.119 three of what of Monday Night Raw? According to Peaking 1837 01:29:50.239 --> 01:29:55.399 Oh I know two? Season four? Do you know? 1838 01:29:55.439 --> 01:29:58.560 On Peacock they have a picture of Sean Sean's crying 1839 01:29:58.640 --> 01:29:59.560 face for this raw? 1840 01:30:00.479 --> 01:30:02.319 Of course they do well. They do show a clip 1841 01:30:02.399 --> 01:30:04.000 in a moment give it. 1842 01:30:05.119 --> 01:30:07.199 That is that that is not the defining thing that 1843 01:30:07.279 --> 01:30:08.039 happens on this show. 1844 01:30:09.680 --> 01:30:11.920 I mean, did they ever really show the defining thing? 1845 01:30:14.399 --> 01:30:17.960 I don't think they do, But yeah, I I I 1846 01:30:19.279 --> 01:30:20.800 didn't think they would wait for pay per view. I 1847 01:30:20.880 --> 01:30:22.600 thought for I knew. I was pretty commid they were 1848 01:30:22.600 --> 01:30:24.800 going to show it tonight. But it was like, you know, 1849 01:30:24.880 --> 01:30:27.039 I was. You get excited when it when a when 1850 01:30:27.119 --> 01:30:30.159 a when a title match opens the show, and then 1851 01:30:30.199 --> 01:30:33.520 it's like, oh, no, they're just fucking you know. I 1852 01:30:33.680 --> 01:30:35.720 don't think I realized that they were, you know, trying 1853 01:30:35.800 --> 01:30:38.359 to get a rating, but it just was like, oh, 1854 01:30:38.680 --> 01:30:40.199 like I guess, I'm oh, they're trying to get me 1855 01:30:40.239 --> 01:30:43.760 to watch the show. Duped again, Yeah. 1856 01:30:43.600 --> 01:30:45.239 It feels like a kind of a ploy. It feels 1857 01:30:45.239 --> 01:30:46.760 like a ploy a little bit. So let's see what 1858 01:30:46.800 --> 01:30:47.520 we can hear here. 1859 01:30:53.159 --> 01:31:02.279 The top awesome, we're getting it on here in Music City. 1860 01:31:02.680 --> 01:31:05.039 This feels good just hearing it. Yeah, it does. 1861 01:31:07.720 --> 01:31:12.359 It sounds layoffs here. Look at that cent it's. 1862 01:31:12.239 --> 01:31:20.760 Hard set tellus rain of the camera, tic. 1863 01:31:20.920 --> 01:31:27.079 Wo be Matchest yet officially Austin being us going out 1864 01:31:27.119 --> 01:31:32.279 with a bevy of security and officials. But the big 1865 01:31:32.359 --> 01:31:37.960 story here is bobly injured. Here's the Challenger w w 1866 01:31:38.239 --> 01:31:38.680 F title. 1867 01:31:38.800 --> 01:31:40.399 Say it, it's Lincoln, say it. 1868 01:31:42.880 --> 01:31:45.479 This is this is not right now, Wait a minute. 1869 01:31:45.479 --> 01:31:48.199 Sent you not have to wrestle in that condition? Well 1870 01:31:48.199 --> 01:31:51.479 you're right about that, but say it. I'm not sure 1871 01:31:51.479 --> 01:31:52.319 what's gonna happen here. 1872 01:31:52.359 --> 01:31:54.000 It's gonna wave them on now in the corner. 1873 01:31:54.560 --> 01:31:59.600 The matches yet to be up before. Yeahficially, artist, Prett Heart, you'd. 1874 01:31:59.439 --> 01:32:00.760 Love to get your hands on him now when you 1875 01:32:00.800 --> 01:32:02.760 you love to have him already nice and set up 1876 01:32:02.800 --> 01:32:03.600 for your sharp shooter. 1877 01:32:04.000 --> 01:32:06.479 That's not right. Well, Brett Hart is not a cheap 1878 01:32:06.520 --> 01:32:08.680 sharp artist? Can you said? Know that as well as anybody? 1879 01:32:08.920 --> 01:32:12.479 It was Stone Coll Steve Austin got rabbit animal Austin 1880 01:32:12.600 --> 01:32:20.760 so obsessed. Doctor hit me. It doesn't see this is 1881 01:32:20.760 --> 01:32:23.359 not to take place at this at this moment. 1882 01:32:24.560 --> 01:32:29.079 I heard that again, Doctor hit me. 1883 01:32:29.399 --> 01:32:30.439 It doesn't seem. 1884 01:32:31.359 --> 01:32:34.239 Money night raw. I mean it's like you know, I 1885 01:32:34.279 --> 01:32:36.760 always wonder too, like when they swear like that, like 1886 01:32:37.600 --> 01:32:41.439 like you're not really hurt. Yeah, you don't actually hurt 1887 01:32:41.479 --> 01:32:43.199 your leg, dude, Like I know it's forgivable if you 1888 01:32:43.239 --> 01:32:45.800 actually hurt your leg. Yeah, I can understand that if 1889 01:32:45.800 --> 01:32:47.760 you actually, like if there was a shoot injury. But 1890 01:32:47.840 --> 01:32:50.920 he's is a total worked injury and he's so fucking 1891 01:32:51.000 --> 01:32:53.920 screwed the top like he's swearing on television like he 1892 01:32:54.039 --> 01:32:56.920 was method. I guess that's what he was. 1893 01:32:57.680 --> 01:32:59.439 There's a method to the madness. So the official is 1894 01:32:59.439 --> 01:33:01.800 still in there to keep them apart. Sid Chant breaks 1895 01:33:01.840 --> 01:33:04.600 out a bit. Jail reflects on what had happened on Thursday, 1896 01:33:04.600 --> 01:33:07.119 broth Thursday, bringing us to this moment, and Sean Michaels 1897 01:33:07.159 --> 01:33:09.399 forfeiting the title due to a severe knee injury. As 1898 01:33:09.399 --> 01:33:11.199 Sid leaves the ring with a knee injury of his own, 1899 01:33:11.479 --> 01:33:14.319 they replay Sean's remarks from Thursday Raw Thursday. 1900 01:33:14.760 --> 01:33:17.359 I have that because absolutely, you know, you know we 1901 01:33:17.439 --> 01:33:19.680 haven't done that show, so absolutely hear it. 1902 01:33:20.199 --> 01:33:23.319 But this is this is all I've ever wanted to do, 1903 01:33:24.239 --> 01:33:28.000 and over the last year I got to do it. 1904 01:33:28.319 --> 01:33:31.039 And whether you like me or not, I just want 1905 01:33:31.119 --> 01:33:34.279 to tell you that last year was the most wonderful 1906 01:33:34.359 --> 01:33:37.520 year of my life. And if I never do get 1907 01:33:37.560 --> 01:33:41.359 to do it again, it'll be okay because I got 1908 01:33:41.439 --> 01:33:44.520 to live one full year. Has been the number one 1909 01:33:44.640 --> 01:33:50.199 guy in this business and it was a single most 1910 01:33:50.279 --> 01:33:51.359 greatest year. 1911 01:33:51.279 --> 01:33:51.800 Of my life. 1912 01:33:51.840 --> 01:33:55.319 That I have you to thank, and I have everybody 1913 01:33:55.399 --> 01:33:58.520 here to thank and it means a lot to me. 1914 01:33:58.960 --> 01:34:01.920 And I want to go home now. 1915 01:34:02.479 --> 01:34:08.119 Okay, yeah, I'm gonna go home now. Well, can someone 1916 01:34:08.199 --> 01:34:10.560 let's sit and and Brett go home without interference? 1917 01:34:10.600 --> 01:34:13.439 That would be nice. Nope, Nope, not this night. So Jr. 1918 01:34:13.439 --> 01:34:15.560 Says, HBK A class act all the way, and they 1919 01:34:15.680 --> 01:34:17.479 show us the final four finish. 1920 01:34:17.560 --> 01:34:19.239 For the US titles the. 1921 01:34:19.319 --> 01:34:35.199 Lapsed Fawn Wrestling Podcast, the wrestling podcast that knows the 1922 01:34:35.279 --> 01:34:53.319 boys need their candy, It's the Lapsed Fan. He's the 1923 01:34:53.439 --> 01:34:58.319 Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast with Jack and Carnacio and JP Sooro. 1924 01:34:59.520 --> 01:35:02.560 For the the Worldviews title, I said, show us, so 1925 01:35:03.079 --> 01:35:06.359 US is in my mind? Sure So it's a Brett 1926 01:35:06.439 --> 01:35:09.399 taker Steve Austin invader of course in that match. And 1927 01:35:09.560 --> 01:35:11.680 it's the freeze frames. Remember they would only do the 1928 01:35:11.720 --> 01:35:12.800 freeze frames at the time. 1929 01:35:12.720 --> 01:35:15.479 Well for the first until the until they replay aired, right. 1930 01:35:16.479 --> 01:35:18.560 I always used to love how the freeze frames were 1931 01:35:18.640 --> 01:35:22.399 brought to you by WWF magazine. Like WWF magazine is 1932 01:35:22.439 --> 01:35:25.279 publishing freeze frames of the video, Like is. 1933 01:35:25.239 --> 01:35:28.880 There a photographer there or not? Right, What does the 1934 01:35:28.920 --> 01:35:31.520 magazine have to do? I mean, also, you wouldn't see 1935 01:35:31.560 --> 01:35:34.399 those fucking photos in the magazine either, those kind of 1936 01:35:34.479 --> 01:35:37.079 freeze frames. Of course, the actual photographs. 1937 01:35:36.640 --> 01:35:38.560 It's so weird as they was courtesy of w F Maga. 1938 01:35:38.800 --> 01:35:41.439 Use the If you're gonna use freeze frames, just use 1939 01:35:41.479 --> 01:35:43.680 some of the picture as you're in house photographers too, right, 1940 01:35:44.439 --> 01:35:46.439 I guess they didn't have the turnaround time they needed 1941 01:35:46.479 --> 01:35:46.680 for that. 1942 01:35:47.079 --> 01:35:47.800 They show Vader with. 1943 01:35:47.800 --> 01:35:49.800 That bloody eye, which was famous. They also put that 1944 01:35:49.880 --> 01:35:51.640 on the cover of one of the early Raw magazines. 1945 01:35:51.640 --> 01:35:53.479 I'm sure you remember that one. Yes, I do remember 1946 01:35:53.520 --> 01:35:54.840 that one. That was a big only I got it, 1947 01:35:54.880 --> 01:35:55.560 but I do remember it. 1948 01:35:55.760 --> 01:35:56.279 I had that one. 1949 01:35:56.359 --> 01:35:59.640 I jumped off the page, big bloody face of Vaders. 1950 01:36:00.079 --> 01:36:01.960 Now that Raw magazine is hugually but Russo of course 1951 01:36:02.000 --> 01:36:03.520 in charge of it, and he talks about that as 1952 01:36:03.560 --> 01:36:06.199 being a real point of diversion in getting Vince McMahon 1953 01:36:06.239 --> 01:36:09.039 to embrace a more attitudinal and riskue kind of a 1954 01:36:09.119 --> 01:36:11.119 product direction. Is that Raw magazine and the way it 1955 01:36:11.239 --> 01:36:14.000 hit And I remember they had an interview with with 1956 01:36:14.159 --> 01:36:17.800 Vince about Kevin Nash leaving yep, yep, when you weren't 1957 01:36:17.800 --> 01:36:21.359 supposed to even talk about that on television. Jar and 1958 01:36:21.439 --> 01:36:24.680 Lawler narrating over the stills from Final four, a match 1959 01:36:24.720 --> 01:36:27.119 that Jim Ross calls thirty minutes of hell. They show 1960 01:36:27.119 --> 01:36:29.439 how Austin had been eliminated by Brett Hart and getting 1961 01:36:29.439 --> 01:36:31.439 his knee hyper extended as he hit the floor, which 1962 01:36:31.479 --> 01:36:34.279 indeed turned out to be a legitimate injury that Steve 1963 01:36:34.439 --> 01:36:37.399 was wrestling with at the time. They show Brett's suplexing 1964 01:36:37.479 --> 01:36:41.279 Vader in his freeze frame. That's something to see. Taker 1965 01:36:41.359 --> 01:36:44.399 lowlowed Vader to eliminate him, and they emphasize that to 1966 01:36:44.560 --> 01:36:46.840 sort of, I don't know, I guess protect Vader a bit, 1967 01:36:47.439 --> 01:36:48.359 and that leaves Brett and. 1968 01:36:48.359 --> 01:36:51.960 Taker one on one. As mentioned, I mean, after the 1969 01:36:52.319 --> 01:36:55.000 whole fucking you know, dealing with Sean Michaels, there was 1970 01:36:55.039 --> 01:36:57.399 no protecting Vader anymore. Right, it's over. 1971 01:36:57.920 --> 01:37:00.680 We should mention too like Taker is now full transitioned 1972 01:37:00.680 --> 01:37:02.640 out of the look. I mean, he does bring it 1973 01:37:02.720 --> 01:37:05.039 back for one night at Wrestling thirteen with the gray Yeah, 1974 01:37:05.239 --> 01:37:08.760 so weird, but yeah, this is post Buried Alive where 1975 01:37:08.760 --> 01:37:11.880 we left you before we started the CID campaign. Yep, 1976 01:37:12.039 --> 01:37:13.600 but now he's in all black that he debuted at 1977 01:37:13.600 --> 01:37:16.359 Survivors Series ninety six. Austin comes up back out later 1978 01:37:16.439 --> 01:37:19.359 and that final four matches Undertakers lifted, has lifted Brett 1979 01:37:19.359 --> 01:37:22.039 Hart up for a tombstone, but Austin peels Bret off 1980 01:37:22.079 --> 01:37:24.159 of the hole. Taker turns his attention to Austin and 1981 01:37:24.159 --> 01:37:26.840 then Brett clothes lines him out. So you know, Taker 1982 01:37:26.880 --> 01:37:28.319 has a claim. It's not like he just lost in 1983 01:37:28.359 --> 01:37:30.359 the match clean, he lost the match because a bullshit. 1984 01:37:30.840 --> 01:37:33.119 All right, So they're they're there, that's that's your claim 1985 01:37:33.199 --> 01:37:35.079 right there for the yes for your title shot. That 1986 01:37:35.199 --> 01:37:35.600 makes sense. 1987 01:37:35.880 --> 01:37:38.119 And the whole time they're playing this club music that 1988 01:37:38.279 --> 01:37:40.359 just screams late nineties. They really knew how to pick 1989 01:37:40.399 --> 01:37:41.560 that stock music back then. 1990 01:37:41.640 --> 01:37:43.479 Oh, I know, they really did. 1991 01:37:44.560 --> 01:37:46.279 They make it sound like the best match ever, just 1992 01:37:46.359 --> 01:37:47.920 the way they use the stills and the way it 1993 01:37:48.039 --> 01:37:50.560 was a great match. But Jesus, like you really felt 1994 01:37:50.600 --> 01:37:52.479 like you missed something watching the way they presented this 1995 01:37:52.560 --> 01:37:53.239 thing the night after. 1996 01:37:53.359 --> 01:37:54.600 Yeah, I mean they did a good job with that. 1997 01:37:54.680 --> 01:37:56.000 I mean it was you know, it's good, I mean, 1998 01:37:56.279 --> 01:37:58.239 and you know, in a weird way, was really it 1999 01:37:58.359 --> 01:38:01.560 was important for the time it was, you know, it 2000 01:38:01.680 --> 01:38:05.079 really dictated the next few months. 2001 01:38:05.479 --> 01:38:07.880 What's important for our time here is anything and everything 2002 01:38:07.920 --> 01:38:10.199 that Sid does on this show. We go backstage to 2003 01:38:10.279 --> 01:38:12.800 Kevin Kelly, who's holding a microphone, but that's about all 2004 01:38:12.840 --> 01:38:14.399 he's doing because Sid has a lot to say. 2005 01:38:14.720 --> 01:38:16.800 Oh yes, he does. Shut up. 2006 01:38:17.199 --> 01:38:22.359 I want to tell you, absolutely perfect, what a show 2007 01:38:22.840 --> 01:38:26.920 to serenade this guy, and that's all his greatest hits. 2008 01:38:27.520 --> 01:38:31.479 He can fuck this is Sid. Shut up. 2009 01:38:32.560 --> 01:38:33.840 He can't fucking. 2010 01:38:36.520 --> 01:38:40.199 He's already said, motherfucker. He's already said damn it, damn it, 2011 01:38:40.520 --> 01:38:44.319 damn it. Oh man, Sid, shut up. 2012 01:38:44.720 --> 01:38:47.000 I want to tell you something right now. I'm gonna 2013 01:38:47.039 --> 01:38:50.119 make you simple, not even if my leg was broken. 2014 01:38:50.640 --> 01:38:53.880 Not sleep. So right on, hell, water or. 2015 01:38:54.000 --> 01:38:57.000 Stove, ghost, forget. 2016 01:38:59.319 --> 01:38:59.720 The wall. 2017 01:39:00.079 --> 01:39:01.359 They federate your champions. 2018 01:39:01.720 --> 01:39:06.239 And that statement says that I am the man, the man, 2019 01:39:06.239 --> 01:39:09.159 I'm the ruler of the world. All right. 2020 01:39:10.119 --> 01:39:13.039 That's like the post office slogan, neither sleet nor rain 2021 01:39:13.079 --> 01:39:16.279 will stop, but I'm delivering the mail. Must have saw 2022 01:39:16.319 --> 01:39:16.960 that commercially. 2023 01:39:17.720 --> 01:39:20.560 I just had to send the guy a picture a 2024 01:39:20.680 --> 01:39:24.399 picture post Office. He sent my church in Vienna's I'm 2025 01:39:24.439 --> 01:39:28.119 gonna give him an homage. I loved. 2026 01:39:28.159 --> 01:39:30.159 I loved on the last episode when people were like 2027 01:39:30.239 --> 01:39:33.920 sending us little little bits of their favorites and someone 2028 01:39:34.079 --> 01:39:36.560 some some guy said he spit out his water whatever one, 2029 01:39:36.720 --> 01:39:38.880 Sid says, let me ask you something. 2030 01:39:40.920 --> 01:39:47.560 Do you grow viennas the farmer? But what kind of 2031 01:39:47.600 --> 01:39:49.199 condition to Sid's mee in? That is the question? 2032 01:39:49.319 --> 01:39:51.600 Is we continue on this episode of Monday Night Raw, 2033 01:39:51.640 --> 01:39:53.119 the classic raw music still playing? 2034 01:39:54.239 --> 01:40:01.039 Yes, and J and Jr. 2035 01:40:01.119 --> 01:40:03.119 Says one way or another that match will happen tonight. 2036 01:40:03.199 --> 01:40:05.399 So they're not throwing your scent off the trail. They're 2037 01:40:05.439 --> 01:40:08.039 not making me think that that match is off. They 2038 01:40:08.119 --> 01:40:10.479 go to break to come back, some guy strumming a 2039 01:40:10.520 --> 01:40:13.840 guitar at his Nashville after all, and Whiler asks, the question, 2040 01:40:13.920 --> 01:40:14.880 is that the honky tonk man? 2041 01:40:15.680 --> 01:40:21.960 Ohion, Wow, this whole fucking thing sh don't wow. 2042 01:40:22.399 --> 01:40:24.800 It's time for Sable and Mark Merrow of course and 2043 01:40:24.960 --> 01:40:27.560 Mark Merrow, Yes, I'm surprised to see him still walking 2044 01:40:27.560 --> 01:40:29.479 as wild man this far in in ninety seven. 2045 01:40:29.920 --> 01:40:31.840 Ten minutes in when we have our first match. Yeah, 2046 01:40:31.840 --> 01:40:33.960 I know he was, you know, he only was a 2047 01:40:34.000 --> 01:40:36.439 wild man after he he only stopped The wild Man 2048 01:40:36.479 --> 01:40:39.680 after he got injured and left right and then when 2049 01:40:39.680 --> 01:40:43.239 we came back in the fall, he was marvelous coming 2050 01:40:43.279 --> 01:40:44.199 off a tough victory. Jr. 2051 01:40:44.239 --> 01:40:47.479 Says last night off the extra capable Leaf Cassidy, I. 2052 01:40:47.520 --> 01:40:51.199 Mean, what the fuck Marrow and Cassidy were on pay 2053 01:40:51.279 --> 01:40:53.640 per view even though it was it in your house, Like, 2054 01:40:53.760 --> 01:40:57.520 come the fuck on, that's not a fucking pay per view. 2055 01:40:58.199 --> 01:41:00.279 Spinning Sparkler is a company, The wild Man, the ring 2056 01:41:00.560 --> 01:41:03.000 Jarr says, there's a darker side we're finding to Sable 2057 01:41:03.039 --> 01:41:05.800 as well, and Oler says, she's got those shades and 2058 01:41:05.800 --> 01:41:08.880 all of a sudden, she's she's swinging at people. She 2059 01:41:09.000 --> 01:41:11.439 hit leaf Cassidy last night at Ringside, allowing Mark Merrow 2060 01:41:11.800 --> 01:41:14.600 to suicide dive onto leave Cassidy, which I believe also 2061 01:41:14.640 --> 01:41:18.880 tweaked hissnee. And yeah, they say, what's up with Sable 2062 01:41:19.039 --> 01:41:21.479 is the real question? So it's starting to become more 2063 01:41:21.479 --> 01:41:22.720 and more about saving Yeah. 2064 01:41:23.279 --> 01:41:28.720 Yeah, Now, did I mean was that did Merrow know that? 2065 01:41:28.880 --> 01:41:30.680 Was he okay with that? Was he fine with that? 2066 01:41:30.960 --> 01:41:31.840 He was fine with that? Yeah? 2067 01:41:31.880 --> 01:41:33.960 Yeah, he thought it was. So there's a win for 2068 01:41:34.039 --> 01:41:36.000 the family, right, It was a win for the joint 2069 01:41:36.039 --> 01:41:41.520 bank account. Whatever wasn't till it wasn't until she thirsted 2070 01:41:41.560 --> 01:41:41.920 for more. 2071 01:41:42.640 --> 01:41:47.439 That's right, till first for Mark, that's the question, where 2072 01:41:47.560 --> 01:41:48.159 is she thirsty? 2073 01:41:49.920 --> 01:41:54.000 And we haven't seen her in fucking twelve years. She's 2074 01:41:54.079 --> 01:41:57.159 up there in the snow somewhere. Brock's got her locked away. 2075 01:41:57.920 --> 01:42:00.880 And I think I feel like he keeps under a 2076 01:42:01.039 --> 01:42:03.479 tighter lock and key than Randy Savage keptualizething. 2077 01:42:03.600 --> 01:42:06.399 So yeah, yeah, I remember they did a countdown UFC 2078 01:42:06.479 --> 01:42:07.840 when he was in UFC and they showed her a 2079 01:42:07.880 --> 01:42:10.840 little bit and she had like this like really fancy 2080 01:42:10.960 --> 01:42:13.720 white puffer coat, like you'd wear it like a chalet 2081 01:42:13.880 --> 01:42:16.479 in Switzerland or something. Of course, walking around in the 2082 01:42:16.560 --> 01:42:20.720 snow up there and wherever he lives, Saskatchewan, God, can't 2083 01:42:20.720 --> 01:42:26.159 you imagine what happens but Saskatchewan, what happens by like 2084 01:42:26.279 --> 01:42:29.199 campfire up there on the bearskin rug? 2085 01:42:30.000 --> 01:42:33.439 Like can you imagine? Like just okay, just think yourself, Okay, 2086 01:42:33.880 --> 01:42:36.640 she just she doesn't like it, She just gives it. 2087 01:42:37.159 --> 01:42:37.680 I think. 2088 01:42:39.319 --> 01:42:42.319 We're learning a lot about Brock through the lawsuit and everything, 2089 01:42:42.359 --> 01:42:44.640 and it's pretty fascinating, Like and they kind of tell 2090 01:42:44.680 --> 01:42:47.439 the story on the Netflix stock as well. It's like Vince, 2091 01:42:48.239 --> 01:42:50.920 you know, why did Vince give Brock the keys to 2092 01:42:51.000 --> 01:42:53.399 the castle. It wasn't just that UFC leverage that he had. 2093 01:42:53.960 --> 01:42:56.359 It was respect for the fact that Vince thought he 2094 01:42:56.399 --> 01:42:58.479 could have Sable And oh three, he's trying to make 2095 01:42:58.520 --> 01:43:00.720 out whether her on TV yep, makes her his general 2096 01:43:00.800 --> 01:43:03.199 managers for all that. So all the pretense he needs 2097 01:43:03.279 --> 01:43:06.319 to get his rocks off and uh and Brock ends 2098 01:43:06.399 --> 01:43:08.560 up with her. Brock ends up and they they. 2099 01:43:08.600 --> 01:43:13.439 Share and they also they share you know, similar sexual appetite. 2100 01:43:13.479 --> 01:43:13.680 Yep. 2101 01:43:15.680 --> 01:43:17.800 I mean Vince is like, you know, offering to just 2102 01:43:17.960 --> 01:43:22.239 send send him nudes if he resigns. I mean, yep, 2103 01:43:23.000 --> 01:43:25.960 not out of himself, but of his Uh. I suppose 2104 01:43:26.039 --> 01:43:30.439 we could call his girlfriend at the time unbelievable. Yep, unbelievable. 2105 01:43:30.520 --> 01:43:32.199 So here comes up, speaking of unbelievable. 2106 01:43:32.239 --> 01:43:32.439 Pg. 2107 01:43:32.560 --> 01:43:34.960 Thirteen A K A. J. C. Isen wolfy D of 2108 01:43:35.000 --> 01:43:37.359 the Nation of Domination. We're still rapping for to the 2109 01:43:37.439 --> 01:43:38.279 ring at this point in time. 2110 01:43:38.439 --> 01:43:42.239 I was here, I got I got this whole fucking yeah. Yeah, 2111 01:43:42.560 --> 01:43:44.640 they were just still doing the fucking rap thing. I mean, 2112 01:43:45.560 --> 01:43:48.199 you know, actually, in retrospect, it kind of worked more 2113 01:43:48.279 --> 01:43:51.199 than I think I gave it credit for it. Back 2114 01:43:51.279 --> 01:43:56.800 then we all day color differently. 2115 01:43:58.680 --> 01:43:58.960 Simple. 2116 01:43:59.119 --> 01:44:05.159 I'm saying real scul got the power. 2117 01:44:06.000 --> 01:44:13.079 Quick love two together fe face on the bat podcasting. 2118 01:44:14.119 --> 01:44:17.359 There's for reping dot Clarens Mason. What are they doing up? 2119 01:44:17.399 --> 01:44:20.199 There's like he's a king looking over his kingdom. No offense. 2120 01:44:20.239 --> 01:44:23.760 They're a key. Well, he's just ahead of a nation. 2121 01:44:24.800 --> 01:44:28.039 It's like a nicktat, that's what he is. Jasey I said, 2122 01:44:28.079 --> 01:44:33.039 we be fat Sisa. 2123 01:44:31.239 --> 01:44:33.520 Dot cat because up. 2124 01:44:35.840 --> 01:44:51.560 Give me the wraps fan wrestling podcast, the wrestling podcast 2125 01:44:51.640 --> 01:44:55.279 that knows the boys need their candy. It's the Lapsed Fan. 2126 01:45:10.000 --> 01:45:13.399 He's an lapsed fan wrestling podcast with Jack and car 2127 01:45:14.399 --> 01:45:15.319 MJP Soo. 2128 01:45:15.960 --> 01:45:18.800 Clarence Mason is the man crossing t's and dot ns. 2129 01:45:21.560 --> 01:45:26.600 What's the He's such an odd individual, Clarence, Yes, very odd. 2130 01:45:26.720 --> 01:45:29.960 Yes, yeah, his story was never a big fan of his. 2131 01:45:30.920 --> 01:45:32.720 Now it's just a Tony Cochran thing. They thought it 2132 01:45:32.720 --> 01:45:35.920 would be funny, yeah, to have their own version of that. 2133 01:45:36.119 --> 01:45:39.680 So was it though? No, it absolutely was not. 2134 01:45:40.000 --> 01:45:42.279 And I remember we did one brief thing on where 2135 01:45:42.279 --> 01:45:44.479 he came from before, like he's an actual lawyer. 2136 01:45:44.600 --> 01:45:46.640 A lawyer. Yeah, I knew that he was an actual lawyer. 2137 01:45:47.359 --> 01:45:50.399 How he got in I don't remember, but for him, 2138 01:45:50.399 --> 01:45:52.760 the bow ties everywhere as they're going for that aesthetic. 2139 01:45:52.800 --> 01:45:55.720 You can imagine crushing di lo or in the nation 2140 01:45:55.800 --> 01:45:57.560 at this time, fat ass d lo. This is a 2141 01:45:58.239 --> 01:46:02.279 three hundred and thirty pounds d low. Fuka gets the 2142 01:46:02.319 --> 01:46:06.640 fist up in the air and they respond in kind. 2143 01:46:07.279 --> 01:46:09.479 The rest of the crew. Savia Vega, by the way, 2144 01:46:09.479 --> 01:46:11.600 he joined them as well. By this point in time, Yes, 2145 01:46:11.920 --> 01:46:15.399 this was that three. This was the three man nation. 2146 01:46:15.760 --> 01:46:20.880 Right before they would, you know, then break up and 2147 01:46:21.199 --> 01:46:25.680 have their their little you know, their little factions, their 2148 01:46:25.720 --> 01:46:26.760 little gangs. 2149 01:46:27.039 --> 01:46:29.359 It's pretty wild that they led a Puerto Rican into 2150 01:46:29.399 --> 01:46:32.159 the fray. That is not in keeping with some of 2151 01:46:32.239 --> 01:46:35.800 Malcolm Ex's philosophies. The organization of Afro American Unity in fact, 2152 01:46:36.680 --> 01:46:39.880 differentiated Puerto Ricans as people who weren't enslaved, so therefore 2153 01:46:40.279 --> 01:46:43.520 weren't necessarily positioned as the rest of the members of 2154 01:46:43.560 --> 01:46:45.840 the Nation of Islam. So I'm sure that definitely went 2155 01:46:45.840 --> 01:46:47.760 through their minds, and including Savia. 2156 01:46:48.039 --> 01:46:50.000 I'm sure, I'm sure they were definitely you know, I 2157 01:46:50.079 --> 01:46:53.239 can imagine that they were. That kind of detail was 2158 01:46:53.319 --> 01:46:53.800 very important. 2159 01:46:53.960 --> 01:46:56.199 Definitely wasn't as simple as his his skin isn't white. 2160 01:46:56.239 --> 01:46:58.279 So we'll put them in the nation because you know, 2161 01:46:58.359 --> 01:46:59.760 they put Owen in the nation. They put Crush in 2162 01:46:59.760 --> 01:47:00.000 the name. 2163 01:47:00.560 --> 01:47:03.039 That's true, that is true. Well you know crushes Awaiian 2164 01:47:03.560 --> 01:47:06.560 with a face tattoo. Yeah, so he's you know, it 2165 01:47:06.640 --> 01:47:07.159 was in jail. 2166 01:47:08.079 --> 01:47:12.840 So he's JA calls this an elaborate street gang. It's 2167 01:47:12.840 --> 01:47:15.640 just such a put down. It's like there's supposed to 2168 01:47:15.640 --> 01:47:19.960 be these revolutionaries, you know, I know, and he likes 2169 01:47:20.479 --> 01:47:21.800 but their heels though, so you get a you know, 2170 01:47:21.880 --> 01:47:22.760 you get a bad mouth them. 2171 01:47:22.800 --> 01:47:25.439 Absolutely, they can't celebrate them. If they were, if they 2172 01:47:25.479 --> 01:47:28.439 were a babyface group, then then you know for sure 2173 01:47:28.520 --> 01:47:31.600 they would, Yeah, they'd celebrate them as being revolutionaries. 2174 01:47:31.680 --> 01:47:33.560 So it's mac Merrow versus Savia Vega. And you better 2175 01:47:33.600 --> 01:47:35.399 believe this is the one thing. Steve Austin stops his 2176 01:47:35.479 --> 01:47:37.560 pillaging to watch Savio is in the ring man best 2177 01:47:37.600 --> 01:47:38.119 of all time. 2178 01:47:39.119 --> 01:47:42.279 Also, can I tell you what the I Savio Vega 2179 01:47:42.359 --> 01:47:44.439 is wearing the same fucking ring gear that he wore 2180 01:47:44.520 --> 01:47:47.239 a baby face. It's not okay, like he should have 2181 01:47:47.359 --> 01:47:48.840 changed it up, Like why is he wearing that fucking 2182 01:47:48.920 --> 01:47:49.359 red shirt? 2183 01:47:49.439 --> 01:47:51.560 Still gotta ask him that if we ever see him, idiot, 2184 01:47:51.840 --> 01:47:53.279 we saw him at starcast. I had no idea what 2185 01:47:53.359 --> 01:47:55.359 to ask. That'd be a good one. When you join 2186 01:47:55.399 --> 01:47:57.199 the Nation, did you still wear the baby face? 2187 01:47:57.199 --> 01:47:59.039 Why don't you wear your lame mass fucking clothes? 2188 01:48:00.960 --> 01:48:03.239 Savio takes over with clubbing shots and takes Marrow into 2189 01:48:03.239 --> 01:48:05.159 the corner. Savia, by the way, at the time, was 2190 01:48:05.199 --> 01:48:07.439 the newest member of the Nation of Domination. We're told 2191 01:48:07.479 --> 01:48:10.000 that Mark Maro with some arm drags and drop Kicksaveo 2192 01:48:10.039 --> 01:48:11.439 out of the ring. And here's that flip dive that 2193 01:48:11.479 --> 01:48:13.199 takes out a bunch of national members and hurts them. 2194 01:48:14.399 --> 01:48:17.039 This gets us our PlayStation one double feature featuring Crash 2195 01:48:17.159 --> 01:48:22.159 Bandicoot Boss. Oh, I can't all blocky and low res 2196 01:48:22.199 --> 01:48:25.800 on the image, Like what a weird I mean. 2197 01:48:25.840 --> 01:48:28.439 It's kind of funny like that, it's you know, it's 2198 01:48:28.439 --> 01:48:30.680 still it's like the newest thing is like those graphics 2199 01:48:30.720 --> 01:48:32.680 weren't even bad. I mean, obviously they are bad now 2200 01:48:32.800 --> 01:48:36.760 for compared to you know, other you more modern consoles, 2201 01:48:36.800 --> 01:48:39.279 but like it's so wacky to think that that that 2202 01:48:39.399 --> 01:48:40.319 was best in class. 2203 01:48:41.039 --> 01:48:45.560 Yeah, yep, and it really was revolutionary, really for an 2204 01:48:45.560 --> 01:48:47.479 eight bit Nintendo kid, Are you kidding me? 2205 01:48:47.800 --> 01:48:52.159 Yeah? Absolutely. Station one was like fucking delivered from another planet. 2206 01:48:52.960 --> 01:48:53.920 And it was so small. 2207 01:48:54.039 --> 01:48:55.920 We think about the size of consoles now, think how 2208 01:48:56.000 --> 01:48:58.640 small and you could hold the PS one controllers and 2209 01:48:58.640 --> 01:49:01.680 you can still you know, like the almost like you 2210 01:49:01.680 --> 01:49:03.159 can hold it like a steering wheel, you know. 2211 01:49:03.680 --> 01:49:05.600 Yeah, I mean no, now you get you need to. 2212 01:49:06.159 --> 01:49:09.399 It's like it's almost It's just kind of funny in 2213 01:49:09.640 --> 01:49:12.079 terms of video games. It's like the uh it works 2214 01:49:12.199 --> 01:49:15.279 backwards from you know, regular computers. It's like they grow 2215 01:49:15.359 --> 01:49:17.840 bigger as you get older. Like, assume we're gonna have 2216 01:49:17.840 --> 01:49:20.279 a fucking PlayStation. It's the size of a fucking room. 2217 01:49:20.840 --> 01:49:23.319 Well, they just packed some much more compute because they 2218 01:49:23.359 --> 01:49:25.279 find so many things to do with them that require 2219 01:49:25.319 --> 01:49:27.880 intense computing, like all this AI like chip sets, it's 2220 01:49:27.880 --> 01:49:30.720 all from gaming. Yeah, you know, gaming was the one. 2221 01:49:30.760 --> 01:49:34.439 It's like, okay, like, what's the most ridiculous fucking compute 2222 01:49:34.439 --> 01:49:37.199 demand you can imagine in one form factor one device? 2223 01:49:37.399 --> 01:49:40.840 It's scaming, you know, crypto minding, I guess, but yeah, 2224 01:49:40.880 --> 01:49:42.760 they push the limits, and the more they stuck in there, 2225 01:49:42.920 --> 01:49:44.800 the bigger processors they stuck in there, and the more 2226 01:49:44.880 --> 01:49:47.880 chips you had to make it bigger. On like cell phones, 2227 01:49:47.880 --> 01:49:49.279 where it's like, you know, you don't need it to 2228 01:49:49.479 --> 01:49:51.239 at a certain point, a cell phone only needs to 2229 01:49:51.319 --> 01:49:54.079 be so powerful because it's never gonna do you know, 2230 01:49:54.319 --> 01:49:58.039 like really high intense computing, you know, right, it's not 2231 01:49:58.119 --> 01:50:00.680 going to need to display as big and all that. Anyway. 2232 01:50:00.960 --> 01:50:03.680 High Risk Personified is Mark Merrill j R. Sa'samed is 2233 01:50:03.720 --> 01:50:06.600 released from Saint Memorial and Lowell, mass where he had 2234 01:50:06.640 --> 01:50:09.159 been since last Thursday. So yeah, I'm ed hurt by 2235 01:50:09.199 --> 01:50:11.640 the way too. Boss just doesn't stop. 2236 01:50:12.119 --> 01:50:13.960 Yeah, but you know what I love is that he's 2237 01:50:14.039 --> 01:50:16.199 been released, like he's talking about it. He got released 2238 01:50:16.800 --> 01:50:19.319 as if he got released today, right, Yeah, he shows 2239 01:50:19.359 --> 01:50:21.479 up with this fucking show. How fast can you get 2240 01:50:21.520 --> 01:50:29.239 from Lowell to Nashville? I mean, I I just don't know. 2241 01:50:29.640 --> 01:50:31.600 He took the just don't know, took the. 2242 01:50:31.600 --> 01:50:35.720 Dustoy Express apparently, right, So yeah, Merrill comes up moving 2243 01:50:35.800 --> 01:50:37.199 gingerly on the knee and come to find out he 2244 01:50:37.359 --> 01:50:39.840 was hurt. And it's actually a fateful injury when you 2245 01:50:39.840 --> 01:50:42.520 consider the career trajectory of Sable. She comes in and 2246 01:50:42.600 --> 01:50:44.600 kicks jc Ice as he tries to pounce on Merrow. 2247 01:50:44.760 --> 01:50:46.479 It was kind of funny, you know, here they are 2248 01:50:46.840 --> 01:50:49.560 saying that there a triple as in China, talking in 2249 01:50:49.600 --> 01:50:51.520 retrospect about how Vince was kind of looking at the 2250 01:50:51.920 --> 01:50:53.760 with the side eye at this gimmick idea for China 2251 01:50:53.760 --> 01:50:55.840 beating up on guys and Sables kicking everyone's ass. 2252 01:50:56.760 --> 01:50:58.800 I mean that might have been it, like, well, we 2253 01:50:58.880 --> 01:51:01.119 already got one, Yeah, why would I want two women? 2254 01:51:01.279 --> 01:51:03.479 And I'm sure that was them seeing what Jackie was 2255 01:51:03.520 --> 01:51:05.520 doing on Nitro and copying it too, because when Jackie 2256 01:51:05.520 --> 01:51:06.560 comes in, who does she feud with? 2257 01:51:07.439 --> 01:51:07.560 Right? 2258 01:51:08.199 --> 01:51:11.119 Yeap, So they're I think they they definitely saw her 2259 01:51:11.159 --> 01:51:14.199 as they definitely saw what Jackie was doing and had 2260 01:51:14.239 --> 01:51:15.880 Sable do the same thing. And then when they came in, 2261 01:51:15.960 --> 01:51:18.880 they made natural allies or natural opponents. So a Sable 2262 01:51:19.000 --> 01:51:20.720 kicks jc Ice as he tries to pounce on Mark 2263 01:51:20.760 --> 01:51:22.920 Merrow's Sable in full leather body suits by this point, 2264 01:51:22.960 --> 01:51:25.000 by the way, instead of just like the demure dresses 2265 01:51:25.000 --> 01:51:27.000 she used to wear, Sable now is in the ring 2266 01:51:27.039 --> 01:51:29.000 and she's being closed in on and then Mark Merrill 2267 01:51:29.079 --> 01:51:30.720 covers her and the referee calls for the bell before 2268 01:51:30.760 --> 01:51:33.479 anything even happens to her or Mark Merrow or anybody. 2269 01:51:33.760 --> 01:51:36.199 And that's I'm at Johnson's cue as you mentioned, to 2270 01:51:36.279 --> 01:51:40.600 hit the ring and the loosest pink painter's outfit you've 2271 01:51:40.640 --> 01:51:40.960 ever seen. 2272 01:51:41.039 --> 01:51:43.680 Oh I know, I know, I know what are these? 2273 01:51:43.760 --> 01:51:50.399 By the way, wrote out To, wrote wrote, then I'm 2274 01:51:50.439 --> 01:51:54.760 at Johnson wearing a salmon sweatsuit. Salmon runs to the ring, 2275 01:51:55.399 --> 01:51:57.359 having just run all the way from Lowell. 2276 01:51:59.119 --> 01:51:59.359 Ha ha. 2277 01:52:01.039 --> 01:52:01.079 Like. 2278 01:52:01.239 --> 01:52:04.079 Also, by the way, the the the it's actually the 2279 01:52:04.199 --> 01:52:08.199 Saint's Medical Center, not sat Memorial Hospital. Oh very good, 2280 01:52:08.239 --> 01:52:08.600 all right? 2281 01:52:10.039 --> 01:52:15.359 In Lowell wo also wearing also wearing a salmon sweatsuit, Vader, 2282 01:52:17.800 --> 01:52:19.600 but in the sense that Lady Gaga. 2283 01:52:19.760 --> 01:52:28.119 Flavor and then flavored sweatsuits for those who like to 2284 01:52:28.399 --> 01:52:32.920 sweat it out and then eat it out. I like that. 2285 01:52:33.119 --> 01:52:33.600 I do that. 2286 01:52:34.680 --> 01:52:37.079 I like eating out pussy. 2287 01:52:37.439 --> 01:52:40.840 There's definitely no problem with fish smells as a regard 2288 01:52:40.960 --> 01:52:42.960 to the Chairman, So I celebrate. 2289 01:52:43.239 --> 01:52:48.399 I celebrate the scent of fish pussy. I definitely think 2290 01:52:48.399 --> 01:52:51.399 he prefers it like to have a certain tang to it. 2291 01:52:52.079 --> 01:52:54.479 Oh I believe. I definitely, yes, I definitely. I don't 2292 01:52:54.520 --> 01:53:00.520 believe he is a he likes it too clean, right, 2293 01:53:01.119 --> 01:53:03.760 he likes a little a little rough around the edges. 2294 01:53:03.520 --> 01:53:07.439 There, unless it smells like sanitation. Biggie once said, yeah, 2295 01:53:07.880 --> 01:53:11.319 definitely not, definitely not what Vin subscribes to. So two 2296 01:53:11.359 --> 01:53:14.119 by four like a madman amed swinging, and Jay are 2297 01:53:15.039 --> 01:53:18.079 is saying they're like yellow dogs talking about the nation. 2298 01:53:18.199 --> 01:53:22.439 They're like yellow dogs. I love how the yellow dogs 2299 01:53:22.479 --> 01:53:25.079 when the odds are just like even a little bit even, 2300 01:53:25.359 --> 01:53:27.560 and no other yellow dogs were running away when it's like, 2301 01:53:27.840 --> 01:53:29.359 well they could be unmatched here. 2302 01:53:29.319 --> 01:53:31.439 Like yeah, I mean, also, he's got a he's got 2303 01:53:31.520 --> 01:53:35.279 a fucking weapon, you know, could have splinters. 2304 01:53:35.000 --> 01:53:38.840 Are so many thirteen heat heat, that's what they decided on. 2305 01:53:38.960 --> 01:53:40.159 Don't ask me what that was about. 2306 01:53:40.520 --> 01:53:42.279 I have no idea. I mean I do remember that. 2307 01:53:42.359 --> 01:53:45.239 I have the magazine where they kind of you know, 2308 01:53:45.479 --> 01:53:48.600 that was the it was the it's a great cover. 2309 01:53:48.720 --> 01:53:51.520 Actually it was it had like huh, it was I 2310 01:53:51.600 --> 01:53:54.520 remember it. All four faces, all four faces it was 2311 01:53:55.319 --> 01:53:57.840 you know, black, and their faces were kind of faded 2312 01:53:57.920 --> 01:54:01.600 in and the you know heat and that's actually that's 2313 01:54:01.680 --> 01:54:05.119 the magazine where they where they coin attitude at the end. Wow, 2314 01:54:06.159 --> 01:54:11.720 they talk about attitude if that one's yeah right? 2315 01:54:13.399 --> 01:54:16.640 So yeah, they're talking about heat as WrestleMania's theme Shytown Heat, 2316 01:54:16.680 --> 01:54:19.560 I guess, presented by PlayStation with the Flaming Ar thirteen. 2317 01:54:19.560 --> 01:54:24.279 Here comes Leave Cassidy SummerSlam, Feel the Heat go backstage. 2318 01:54:24.319 --> 01:54:24.920 Brett is there? 2319 01:54:25.279 --> 01:54:26.960 Well, it just seems every time I turn my back 2320 01:54:27.039 --> 01:54:30.119 stone Hold turns sticks his nose in my business. 2321 01:54:30.399 --> 01:54:32.000 Here I got, I got this one here for you. 2322 01:54:32.560 --> 01:54:34.880 Why Brett incoming? Yep? 2323 01:54:35.319 --> 01:54:37.119 Well, just seems that every time I turned my back 2324 01:54:37.520 --> 01:54:39.279 stone Cold stick his nose with my business. 2325 01:54:39.359 --> 01:54:41.600 And uh, I better get used to it, you know. 2326 01:54:41.720 --> 01:54:44.199 But all I can do is focus on now, you know, 2327 01:54:44.600 --> 01:54:47.640 every battle and try not to worry about it. You know, 2328 01:54:47.760 --> 01:54:51.840 Psycho Sid's got a title shot. I'm assuming it's going 2329 01:54:51.920 --> 01:54:53.159 to be a tough fight and he's going to be 2330 01:54:53.359 --> 01:54:55.359 There'd be no excuses when he loses. And after I 2331 01:54:55.439 --> 01:54:57.479 get done with Psycho Sid, I'll just look to the. 2332 01:54:57.479 --> 01:54:58.600 Next match and the next match. 2333 01:54:58.680 --> 01:55:01.560 In the next match, you're brushing off. 2334 01:55:01.399 --> 01:55:04.840 Psychos, enough, brushing off anybody. As far as I'm concerned, 2335 01:55:05.000 --> 01:55:08.079 They're all great contenders, but that's all they are. 2336 01:55:08.399 --> 01:55:11.159 You know, you can only look out for number one. 2337 01:55:11.720 --> 01:55:13.640 If you don't stop looking out for number one, you 2338 01:55:13.760 --> 01:55:15.800 start stepping on number two. And I'm not gonna let 2339 01:55:15.840 --> 01:55:17.920 any of that happen. I am the best there is, 2340 01:55:18.119 --> 01:55:20.079 the best there was, and the best there ever will be. 2341 01:55:20.279 --> 01:55:24.079 And this proves it for the fourth time very quickly. 2342 01:55:24.119 --> 01:55:25.680 Here, what about wrestle many at thirteen? 2343 01:55:25.720 --> 01:55:28.560 You could be facing the Undertaker if you're successful here. 2344 01:55:28.439 --> 01:55:31.279 Tonight, bring them on, Bring on the Undertaker. I'm not 2345 01:55:31.319 --> 01:55:32.319 afraid of the Undertaker. 2346 01:55:32.520 --> 01:55:34.760 I wasn't afraid of them yesterday, and I'm not afraid 2347 01:55:34.800 --> 01:55:37.000 of them tomorrow, and I'm not afraid of them today. 2348 01:55:37.159 --> 01:55:39.079 I'm not afraid of anybody. 2349 01:55:39.359 --> 01:55:41.520 Yeah, I bet you're real glad that stone Cole, Steve 2350 01:55:41.560 --> 01:55:44.319 Austin injured, Psycho sids leg Aren't you hot up? 2351 01:55:44.399 --> 01:55:44.720 Lawler? 2352 01:55:46.279 --> 01:55:46.319 Ha? 2353 01:55:46.520 --> 01:55:46.560 Ha? 2354 01:55:47.319 --> 01:55:50.119 I do love I love that the that the Lawler 2355 01:55:50.520 --> 01:55:52.560 Brett hartfeud is still going on. 2356 01:55:52.840 --> 01:56:09.840 Good Get the Laptrong Wrestling Podcast, the wrestling podcast that 2357 01:56:10.000 --> 01:56:13.439 knows the boys need their candy. It's the Lapsed Fan. 2358 01:56:28.119 --> 01:56:32.039 He's The Lapsed Fan Wrestling Podcast with Jack and Carnacio 2359 01:56:32.439 --> 01:56:33.880 and JP sorrow. 2360 01:56:34.720 --> 01:56:35.600 Four years later. 2361 01:56:35.880 --> 01:56:38.840 They can't stand the sound of each other going on. Huh, 2362 01:56:39.000 --> 01:56:40.760 they can't stand the sound of each other's voice. 2363 01:56:40.880 --> 01:56:45.279 Yeah, like like the fact that you know, even even 2364 01:56:45.760 --> 01:56:48.520 he I don't think even Brett would be that rude 2365 01:56:48.520 --> 01:56:53.279 to any other heel commentator. But shut up, Lawler. So awesome. 2366 01:56:53.960 --> 01:56:56.039 Yeah, that's that was a good promo from Brett because 2367 01:56:56.079 --> 01:56:59.600 he you know, he wasn't fully whiny yet he was whining, 2368 01:56:59.800 --> 01:57:01.840 but that was like, yes, that's kind of what you 2369 01:57:01.880 --> 01:57:04.640 would expect a respectable babyface to say about the predicament 2370 01:57:04.680 --> 01:57:08.640 he was in. Yeah, I agree, he's not He's not 2371 01:57:08.880 --> 01:57:11.600 you know, crying foul quite yet. He's not talking about 2372 01:57:11.680 --> 01:57:14.760 how everything's corrupted. He's just trying to He's trying to 2373 01:57:14.880 --> 01:57:18.159 countenance it as somebody that has, you know, dignity even 2374 01:57:18.159 --> 01:57:20.720 when under fire, and of course that would crack as 2375 01:57:20.800 --> 01:57:22.279 nineteen ninety seven continue. 2376 01:57:22.319 --> 01:57:24.640 Did he say he get after the Royalm thing? Did 2377 01:57:24.680 --> 01:57:27.520 he say gets screwed? Is that when he did he 2378 01:57:27.640 --> 01:57:28.760 coim that? Yeah? 2379 01:57:29.199 --> 01:57:31.199 Yeah, yeah, he talked about it a lot. I remember 2380 01:57:31.199 --> 01:57:32.640 if he used the word screwed or not. I think 2381 01:57:32.680 --> 01:57:34.000 he did actually because. 2382 01:57:33.800 --> 01:57:36.079 I remember I remember him. I remember him starting to 2383 01:57:36.199 --> 01:57:41.359 use the word screwed in early ninety seven. Yeah, I 2384 01:57:41.520 --> 01:57:43.439 remember when exactly, but I do remember him saying he 2385 01:57:43.479 --> 01:57:44.399 gets screwed a lot. 2386 01:57:45.079 --> 01:57:48.520 I guess there's new law the World Wrestling Federation. Scratch 2387 01:57:48.640 --> 01:57:50.239 my back and I'll stab yours. 2388 01:57:54.680 --> 01:57:59.000 Welcome the fucking real world, Brett. It comes Rocky from 2389 01:57:59.039 --> 01:58:03.760 the South Pacific to reaction the Rocky the South Pacific 2390 01:58:03.840 --> 01:58:08.920 wonder glad they didn't use that one, The South Pacific 2391 01:58:09.039 --> 01:58:12.119 wonder Rocky might via I'm surprised they didn't use that. 2392 01:58:12.159 --> 01:58:14.840 One, the South Pacific wonder why he's on the roster. 2393 01:58:15.399 --> 01:58:16.600 Yeah, exactly, there it is. 2394 01:58:16.840 --> 01:58:18.800 He's out there with a strap, glad handing ja Or 2395 01:58:18.840 --> 01:58:20.800 says he's a fine young man. A blue chipper, no 2396 01:58:20.920 --> 01:58:21.439 doubt about it. 2397 01:58:21.680 --> 01:58:24.279 Oh my god, the blue chipper comment. Shut the fuck up. 2398 01:58:24.399 --> 01:58:26.239 Yeah, when I'm on the plane, I always prefer the 2399 01:58:26.600 --> 01:58:30.760 regular chips. Yeah, blue tortillas or so had just become 2400 01:58:30.800 --> 01:58:34.239 the champion. Back when they actually looked back to this 2401 01:58:34.399 --> 01:58:36.800 bad as I noted, this is back when rock actually 2402 01:58:36.840 --> 01:58:40.239 looked Polynesian, before all the work made it look like 2403 01:58:40.319 --> 01:58:42.520 some some Germanic. 2404 01:58:42.359 --> 01:58:44.800 Like you know, it looked like a fucking you know, 2405 01:58:45.039 --> 01:58:50.159 just a piece of rock. Yeah, like a fucking like 2406 01:58:50.279 --> 01:58:54.199 something fucking chisel out of stone on the marble as 2407 01:58:54.239 --> 01:58:56.279 he is now, like he's not he's not human at all. 2408 01:58:56.399 --> 01:59:00.520 It's not his skin, it's just covering. It's it's like 2409 01:59:00.920 --> 01:59:03.680 it's like for a sausages casing speaking of a German 2410 01:59:03.840 --> 01:59:06.680 chasing around his giant fucking physique. I mean, if he. 2411 01:59:06.680 --> 01:59:08.880 Didn't have those tribal tattoos, like if he still was 2412 01:59:08.920 --> 01:59:11.000 like tattoo free, the guy would not even look some 2413 01:59:11.159 --> 01:59:11.640 owen to me. 2414 01:59:12.279 --> 01:59:14.119 He was, oh, not at all, No, not at all, No, 2415 01:59:14.319 --> 01:59:16.039 he looked. No, he does not look simone at all. 2416 01:59:16.079 --> 01:59:19.039 He looks I mean he's got because you think about 2417 01:59:19.079 --> 01:59:21.039 like you look at him here, he's had that fucking baby. 2418 01:59:20.840 --> 01:59:23.359 Fat face and he hadn't had the bitch yet, so 2419 01:59:23.399 --> 01:59:24.159 he still yeah. 2420 01:59:25.039 --> 01:59:27.279 Yeah, and then he waves his hands like a goof 2421 01:59:27.760 --> 01:59:29.680 when he fucking does a baby face move. 2422 01:59:30.119 --> 01:59:33.760 And the hair, oh god, that hair man, what was 2423 01:59:33.880 --> 01:59:34.399 he thinking? 2424 01:59:35.159 --> 01:59:36.920 I would love, you know what, I would love for 2425 01:59:37.119 --> 01:59:39.359 Rock to grow his hair out. I probably can at 2426 01:59:39.399 --> 01:59:42.279 this point, but I would love Rock now to grow 2427 01:59:42.359 --> 01:59:47.920 his hair out like it was. Can you imagine, like 2428 01:59:48.199 --> 01:59:50.319 you know, you go see a movie and there he 2429 01:59:50.479 --> 01:59:52.520 is with that fucking hair like that. I would kill 2430 01:59:52.520 --> 01:59:56.479 looking for it, if I mean, it would ruin his career. 2431 01:59:56.560 --> 01:59:58.479 I think Duwaye Johnson needs to go as Rocky my 2432 01:59:58.560 --> 02:00:00.640 Va for Halloween. I think so too. 2433 02:00:03.079 --> 02:00:05.720 So Okay, I don't know what I wrote. I know 2434 02:00:05.840 --> 02:00:07.439 you want me, Oh say Sonny, Okay. 2435 02:00:07.319 --> 02:00:10.239 Oh, here comes Sonny, Here comes Sonny. Yep. Sonny is 2436 02:00:10.319 --> 02:00:14.079 the guest timekeeper. And guess what if Sonny's coming down? 2437 02:00:14.560 --> 02:00:17.720 Even in ninety even in early ninety seven, King is 2438 02:00:17.800 --> 02:00:19.159 going after her tits. 2439 02:00:19.560 --> 02:00:21.600 Hot center before. I don't know what the seven wonders 2440 02:00:21.640 --> 02:00:23.239 of the world are, but Sonny's got too. 2441 02:00:23.319 --> 02:00:30.439 I'm a beautiful such a fucking king. Why don't should 2442 02:00:30.479 --> 02:00:34.439 talk about her tits? Talk about her? Say there, say 2443 02:00:34.479 --> 02:00:39.399 their natural cair shot King, Say they're natural wonders of 2444 02:00:39.439 --> 02:00:42.119 the world, and say how much you want to put 2445 02:00:42.159 --> 02:00:45.479 your face in them? Call them luscious, call them luscious, 2446 02:00:46.000 --> 02:00:52.880 call them luscious. Uh uh sensuous memory, Oh my god, 2447 02:00:55.960 --> 02:01:05.159 compliment on her luscious sensuous memory. Glands glandular activity like 2448 02:01:05.199 --> 02:01:10.720 worry my glandular base glands. 2449 02:01:12.960 --> 02:01:16.319 I thought it was about brands. Okay, the gland extension. 2450 02:01:20.760 --> 02:01:23.279 That was the first personal amusement that wasn't for the roster. 2451 02:01:23.680 --> 02:01:25.800 We've got the Raw Land and the smack tone Gland. 2452 02:01:25.880 --> 02:01:27.199 This is them trying to figure out what to do 2453 02:01:27.279 --> 02:01:29.520 with Sonny after the Faruk headgear thing didn't work out, 2454 02:01:29.560 --> 02:01:30.960 by the way, which is nothing. 2455 02:01:31.479 --> 02:01:34.560 There's no idea I think about what Sonny was like, 2456 02:01:34.640 --> 02:01:38.920 Sonny was nothing. She didn't wrestle. She was just an 2457 02:01:38.920 --> 02:01:39.760 attraction if. 2458 02:01:39.760 --> 02:01:42.680 Somebody kept around for photo shoots, honestly, like because yeah, 2459 02:01:42.920 --> 02:01:44.039 a magazine photo spread. 2460 02:01:44.079 --> 02:01:47.119 Sure she'd make weekly appearances on Raw, but like she 2461 02:01:47.159 --> 02:01:49.840 wouldn't she like go out like do commentary or do 2462 02:01:50.000 --> 02:01:53.039 like this ring announcing like she would. She did nothing. 2463 02:01:53.079 --> 02:01:55.239 She didn't manage anybody again until the Legion of Doom. 2464 02:01:55.399 --> 02:01:57.640 But it is kind of a map. That was great. Yeah, 2465 02:01:57.680 --> 02:01:58.439 well that was a ninety eight. 2466 02:01:58.520 --> 02:02:00.319 Yeah, but that was a peak of this peak of 2467 02:02:00.319 --> 02:02:03.000 the attitude era in that like they're just like, Okay, 2468 02:02:03.079 --> 02:02:04.920 she's hot, put her on TV, whereas before, yeah, she 2469 02:02:05.000 --> 02:02:06.760 was always hot, but it was like she's got to 2470 02:02:06.760 --> 02:02:08.000 be a manager, she's got to be involved in a 2471 02:02:08.039 --> 02:02:09.840 tag team program, she's got to have a wrestler that 2472 02:02:09.920 --> 02:02:12.439 she's involved with. Or something or a program. But here 2473 02:02:12.479 --> 02:02:15.399 they're just putting her out there, you know, yeah, Willie Nilly. 2474 02:02:15.600 --> 02:02:16.680 They're just like, show her. 2475 02:02:17.199 --> 02:02:19.439 That was the Yeah, yeah, exactly, that's kind of what 2476 02:02:19.560 --> 02:02:21.359 it was. So what yeah think? 2477 02:02:21.399 --> 02:02:23.359 Introduces her the One and Only Sonny. She comes out 2478 02:02:23.399 --> 02:02:25.399 in a pink dress with a white boa lallor perving. 2479 02:02:25.439 --> 02:02:27.640 As you mentioned. She throws the boa around. 2480 02:02:27.560 --> 02:02:29.439 Rocky's neck and he just looks at her like she 2481 02:02:29.600 --> 02:02:31.600 disgusts him really kind of a kind of a heel 2482 02:02:31.640 --> 02:02:32.640 reaction to her a bit. 2483 02:02:32.640 --> 02:02:35.319 But I know it's kind of a dick move too, 2484 02:02:35.520 --> 02:02:37.399 like what was he doing that for? 2485 02:02:38.239 --> 02:02:40.279 And then suddenly they show her backstage shooting a feature 2486 02:02:40.359 --> 02:02:44.279 for Entertainment Tonight, actually on being the Queen of Cyberspace, 2487 02:02:44.319 --> 02:02:46.319 the most downloaded celebrity, nail or his history. 2488 02:02:46.159 --> 02:02:49.560 The most downloaded celebrity. That's that's the term they use. 2489 02:02:50.880 --> 02:02:52.960 That's wild. Did you ever look at like, so what 2490 02:02:53.039 --> 02:02:55.119 does that mean? Actually? I don't notice him what that meant, 2491 02:02:56.199 --> 02:02:57.520 like downloaded celebrity? 2492 02:02:57.600 --> 02:02:59.680 I think what they what they mean by that? And 2493 02:02:59.720 --> 02:03:02.279 if I'm remembering how the AOL interface used to work, 2494 02:03:03.079 --> 02:03:05.560 you know, if you downloaded a picture, you had to 2495 02:03:05.680 --> 02:03:08.920 go into like you didn't look at a website. You 2496 02:03:09.039 --> 02:03:11.600 had to go into like a like a server room almost, 2497 02:03:12.520 --> 02:03:15.319 and like it was like a master list. There wasn't 2498 02:03:15.319 --> 02:03:17.359 even thumbnails, Like you just had to kind of guess 2499 02:03:17.399 --> 02:03:19.039 what the picture was going to be by reading the 2500 02:03:19.079 --> 02:03:20.039 text description of it. 2501 02:03:20.319 --> 02:03:22.319 Wow, and then you would. 2502 02:03:23.600 --> 02:03:26.239 I think, what's key is that it it wasn't like 2503 02:03:27.560 --> 02:03:29.359 it wasn't like the WWF pictures were in like a 2504 02:03:29.439 --> 02:03:32.119 discrete kind of room. I thought they were all congealed together. 2505 02:03:32.159 --> 02:03:34.079 But the interface looked the same if you were downloading 2506 02:03:34.079 --> 02:03:37.399 a WWF picture or a NBA picture or anything like that. 2507 02:03:37.520 --> 02:03:40.239 So I think they actually used to just keep track 2508 02:03:40.439 --> 02:03:43.239 of like how many downloads each picture got on AOL, 2509 02:03:43.479 --> 02:03:45.560 and it was it was easy for them to do 2510 02:03:45.680 --> 02:03:48.920 that because you couldn't I think what I'm trying to 2511 02:03:48.920 --> 02:03:51.079 say is you couldn't view a picture without downloading it. 2512 02:03:51.119 --> 02:03:51.840 Does that make sense? 2513 02:03:52.000 --> 02:03:52.800 Yeah? Yeah sure. 2514 02:03:52.880 --> 02:03:54.800 And so when you hear most downloaded, you're like, well, 2515 02:03:54.840 --> 02:03:57.479 what about like, are you really like view it measuring 2516 02:03:57.520 --> 02:04:00.800 how many times someone laid their eyes on this picture. 2517 02:04:00.560 --> 02:04:03.960 Of son right? Right? I mean, well, you know, I mean, 2518 02:04:04.000 --> 02:04:08.039 I yeah, it was such a weird. I didn't really 2519 02:04:08.119 --> 02:04:11.039 know what that meant at the time, even I mean 2520 02:04:11.039 --> 02:04:12.319 I still don't know what it means. Like it just 2521 02:04:13.239 --> 02:04:15.560 it doesn't make any sense. It's a weird I mean, 2522 02:04:15.920 --> 02:04:17.920 I'm sure the terminologies is different than what it was, 2523 02:04:19.039 --> 02:04:22.560 but it's like, like, again, what do people do take 2524 02:04:22.760 --> 02:04:23.960 like take the pictures? Do they? 2525 02:04:25.039 --> 02:04:25.159 Did? 2526 02:04:25.159 --> 02:04:27.359 They keep them for themselves? 2527 02:04:27.520 --> 02:04:29.239 Yeah, you would just download it to your hard drive 2528 02:04:30.079 --> 02:04:31.600 and if they were revealing enough, it would be a 2529 02:04:31.600 --> 02:04:35.000 really hard drive. But yeh, that's how you did it, man. 2530 02:04:35.079 --> 02:04:38.239 Like I said, you couldn't really view there were images 2531 02:04:38.279 --> 02:04:40.319 that would kind of be embedded in like the keyword, 2532 02:04:40.520 --> 02:04:45.760 a keyword WWF landing page. Yeah, but before most people 2533 02:04:45.960 --> 02:04:48.600 thought of the Internet is the World Wide Web and 2534 02:04:48.680 --> 02:04:53.279 thought more of it as the AOL design environment. Like 2535 02:04:53.399 --> 02:04:55.720 you just if you wanted to view pictures, you had 2536 02:04:55.760 --> 02:04:57.800 to go into a room and download it. You couldn't 2537 02:04:59.039 --> 02:05:00.720 just look at them otherwise. I just went on your 2538 02:05:00.720 --> 02:05:03.279 computer and then you could open it right and it 2539 02:05:03.359 --> 02:05:06.800 took minutes download a single image. It wasn't like instantaneous. 2540 02:05:07.199 --> 02:05:09.319 I think that that's kind of what it was. Even 2541 02:05:09.319 --> 02:05:11.520 if you designed a website to just display one hundred 2542 02:05:11.520 --> 02:05:14.199 images like we have today, it would take an hour 2543 02:05:14.319 --> 02:05:16.239 to load it, so it didn't even make sense to 2544 02:05:16.319 --> 02:05:18.760 design your website that way. But if people wanted to 2545 02:05:18.800 --> 02:05:21.760 see pictures as they wanted to do, when they would 2546 02:05:21.800 --> 02:05:24.560 type in a company's keyword, you would send them to 2547 02:05:24.600 --> 02:05:27.920 the picture room. Then they would download the pictures. It's 2548 02:05:27.960 --> 02:05:30.479 so weird to think about now, man, it's so fucking weird. 2549 02:05:30.560 --> 02:05:30.680 Souse. 2550 02:05:30.680 --> 02:05:32.560 I can remember it. And the thing is not only 2551 02:05:32.560 --> 02:05:34.279 that I remember. I remember thinking it was the coolest 2552 02:05:34.359 --> 02:05:37.279 fucking thing in the world. I remember, being, of course 2553 02:05:37.359 --> 02:05:39.640 so enticed, like, oh my god, I get pictures of 2554 02:05:40.199 --> 02:05:43.439 these wrestlers, and I had a collection of wrestlers holding 2555 02:05:43.520 --> 02:05:45.800 title belts. I remember like, if anyone ever had a belt, 2556 02:05:45.840 --> 02:05:48.680 I wanted a picture them with the belt. I was 2557 02:05:48.720 --> 02:05:51.760 like obsessed with that, using like different software to capture 2558 02:05:51.760 --> 02:05:55.359 images and things that that would have come across. And yeah, 2559 02:05:55.399 --> 02:05:59.199 the etpiece they're talking about, uh, and they show her 2560 02:05:59.279 --> 02:06:00.640 looking over some of the picture she took in the 2561 02:06:00.680 --> 02:06:04.319 photo shoot actually aired on Entertainment Tonight. And if you 2562 02:06:04.359 --> 02:06:05.960 want to get an idea how Sunny was presented at 2563 02:06:06.000 --> 02:06:07.439 the time, here you go. This is the piece as 2564 02:06:07.479 --> 02:06:08.600 it aired on ET back then. 2565 02:06:08.840 --> 02:06:11.760 Okay, okay, gang, forget the pins. The fans of pro 2566 02:06:11.880 --> 02:06:14.560 wrestling want to pin up. They call her Sonny, and 2567 02:06:14.640 --> 02:06:16.720 she is quickly rising through the ranks of the ring. 2568 02:06:20.159 --> 02:06:20.359 Oh. 2569 02:06:21.600 --> 02:06:23.640 One word crazy. 2570 02:06:26.079 --> 02:06:27.279 You've got to be crazy to do. 2571 02:06:27.359 --> 02:06:27.920 What I'm doing. 2572 02:06:28.039 --> 02:06:30.800 When you think of the backbreaking, bone crushing world of 2573 02:06:30.880 --> 02:06:35.199 professional wrestling, these guys usually leap to mind. But wrestling's 2574 02:06:35.199 --> 02:06:37.720 brightest star is only five to six and weighs one 2575 02:06:37.800 --> 02:06:38.800 hundred and twenty pounds. 2576 02:06:39.319 --> 02:06:39.600 Ryan. 2577 02:06:39.760 --> 02:06:43.119 People who can't get over restless, look at me, here's 2578 02:06:43.159 --> 02:06:43.880 a better you. 2579 02:06:46.039 --> 02:06:48.760 She's known as Sonny, and she's winning over fans as 2580 02:06:48.800 --> 02:06:51.399 the World Wrestling Federation sexy color commentator. 2581 02:06:52.680 --> 02:06:54.560 Unbelievable man on a mission. 2582 02:06:54.680 --> 02:06:57.119 Absolutely, some people tell me they love me, some people 2583 02:06:57.199 --> 02:06:57.960 tell me they hate me. 2584 02:06:58.079 --> 02:07:00.319 They want to want me to have their told her 2585 02:07:00.359 --> 02:07:00.800 and everything. 2586 02:07:01.079 --> 02:07:03.319 When New York's Penn Station was taken over for a 2587 02:07:03.399 --> 02:07:06.359 live wrestling match, Sonny was there to get pulses racing. 2588 02:07:06.600 --> 02:07:11.279 Take to get out there and do your thing and 2589 02:07:11.359 --> 02:07:12.359 have them tant your name. 2590 02:07:12.520 --> 02:07:13.680 It's a pretty wild rush. 2591 02:07:17.760 --> 02:07:20.359 You can even find Sonny on the internet. These sexy 2592 02:07:20.399 --> 02:07:22.880 shots have made her the most downloaded, thin up girl 2593 02:07:22.920 --> 02:07:23.399 in history. 2594 02:07:23.600 --> 02:07:24.039 Hey, tee. 2595 02:07:24.159 --> 02:07:26.600 Here we are with an exclusive photo suit just for 2596 02:07:26.720 --> 02:07:28.880 you who are at one point five million downloads. 2597 02:07:28.880 --> 02:07:34.520 And hopefully this sheep will make it too mean. Hey 2598 02:07:34.640 --> 02:07:35.880 watch that angle, buddy. 2599 02:07:36.560 --> 02:07:39.640 And as this blonde bombshell continues to dazzle her fans, 2600 02:07:39.720 --> 02:07:41.800 you can bet there will be more sunny days ahead. 2601 02:07:42.000 --> 02:07:43.119 I'm having a good tire, you. 2602 02:07:45.359 --> 02:07:47.560 Well believe it or not. Working in the wrestling ring 2603 02:07:47.760 --> 02:07:50.479 was not Sonny's original dream when she was just a 2604 02:07:50.600 --> 02:07:51.840 budding little sunbeam. 2605 02:07:52.159 --> 02:07:58.800 She wanted to be a doctor, a budding little sunbeam. Yes, nineties, 2606 02:07:58.960 --> 02:08:04.279 that presentation, it ends the music, the whole fucking thing. 2607 02:08:04.600 --> 02:08:08.880 They called her the biggest star in wrestling. I hope 2608 02:08:08.920 --> 02:08:10.239 Sean didn't hear that a little late. 2609 02:08:10.319 --> 02:08:12.239 You know, it's like in ninety six, you know, she 2610 02:08:12.359 --> 02:08:14.319 was a phenomenon, but by now it's kind of like, 2611 02:08:15.680 --> 02:08:16.399 what's she doing here? 2612 02:08:18.359 --> 02:08:21.680 Yeah, it wasn't as good. I agree. 2613 02:08:22.039 --> 02:08:23.760 She's kind of like running on the fumes of all 2614 02:08:23.800 --> 02:08:25.800 that ninety six buzz that she had. You know, one 2615 02:08:25.880 --> 02:08:28.239 point two one point four million pictures downloaded. I wonder 2616 02:08:28.319 --> 02:08:30.920 what was I wonder what use those pictures were put to? 2617 02:08:31.239 --> 02:08:33.560 You know, that's what That's something I always wanted, of course. 2618 02:08:33.600 --> 02:08:35.199 I mean, well I know exactly what they were put too, 2619 02:08:36.680 --> 02:08:37.560 just the sound. 2620 02:08:37.359 --> 02:08:44.720 Of oh my god, many packard bells stained. Oh as 2621 02:08:44.760 --> 02:08:48.760 a result, you know it. I mean, that's what they're saying. 2622 02:08:48.960 --> 02:08:51.079 They're saying. What they're saying is one point four million 2623 02:08:51.119 --> 02:08:52.680 people masturbated. 2624 02:08:52.520 --> 02:08:56.479 To Susy exactly what it was, which is crazy dial 2625 02:08:56.600 --> 02:09:00.479 up speeds. You know, man, it was a time. It 2626 02:09:00.600 --> 02:09:01.039 was a time. 2627 02:09:01.279 --> 02:09:02.920 And to think where she ended up, you know, all 2628 02:09:02.960 --> 02:09:06.000 this titillation. Oh my god, I know she ends up, 2629 02:09:06.279 --> 02:09:12.319 you know, getting absolutely blitzed on camera in the throes 2630 02:09:12.399 --> 02:09:15.359 of you know, a tough spot, I mean the gravelly voice, 2631 02:09:15.960 --> 02:09:16.680 tough spot. 2632 02:09:17.319 --> 02:09:19.239 And now she's in prison. I mean, what the fuck 2633 02:09:19.359 --> 02:09:19.800 is going on? 2634 02:09:20.479 --> 02:09:24.119 What is such as Lawler says he'll see her in 2635 02:09:24.159 --> 02:09:26.399 his dreams, and she'll probably see you Jr. 2636 02:09:26.479 --> 02:09:28.439 In her dreams if she eats too much. 2637 02:09:28.720 --> 02:09:31.119 Okay, she rings the bell, I swear to god, she 2638 02:09:31.239 --> 02:09:31.560 rings it. 2639 02:09:31.640 --> 02:09:37.199 Ding ding ding, ring the fucking bell. 2640 02:09:37.399 --> 02:09:38.720 Rocky versus Leaf Cassidy. 2641 02:09:38.760 --> 02:09:39.359 Here As j R. 2642 02:09:39.479 --> 02:09:42.840 Gives the third generation history lesson, which is of course obligatory. 2643 02:09:42.920 --> 02:09:48.479 Back then for rock what's that a main event? Nowhere? 2644 02:09:48.720 --> 02:09:52.520 Yeah, that one calls Rocky the luckiest kid on Earth. 2645 02:09:53.840 --> 02:09:57.319 Rock with the rock right hands you know those go oh, 2646 02:09:57.359 --> 02:10:00.920 I know, I fucking you you want you you? The 2647 02:10:01.039 --> 02:10:05.000 right hand goes way back, yep, the front arm goes 2648 02:10:05.119 --> 02:10:10.560 way forward so much. Yeah, and then like he's also 2649 02:10:10.640 --> 02:10:13.319 gonna have his legs like yep, his feet have gotta 2650 02:10:13.359 --> 02:10:16.479 be further than his shoulders apart. And then just fucking 2651 02:10:16.720 --> 02:10:19.640 throw its soe like he's thrown in football. Really is 2652 02:10:19.680 --> 02:10:20.000 what it is? 2653 02:10:20.279 --> 02:10:22.399 Yeah, Yeah, it's take a football stance and he doesn't 2654 02:10:22.399 --> 02:10:24.680 spit on his hand yet to finish the thing off. 2655 02:10:24.840 --> 02:10:27.760 No, no, I mean also it's not nearly as clean 2656 02:10:27.800 --> 02:10:31.359 as that would be to become too. It's just this weird, sloppy, 2657 02:10:31.680 --> 02:10:32.760 stupid thing that he does. 2658 02:10:32.920 --> 02:10:33.039 Right. 2659 02:10:33.680 --> 02:10:35.560 It's actually punctuated with the clothes line out of the 2660 02:10:35.640 --> 02:10:37.880 ring leaf. Cassidy hits the floor leaf then flips it 2661 02:10:37.920 --> 02:10:40.520 over a rock drop down, but Rocky with a crossbody 2662 02:10:40.560 --> 02:10:42.760 in an arm draggedcounter cut a Triple H watching in 2663 02:10:42.840 --> 02:10:44.960 the split screen on the back. He's asked his thoughts 2664 02:10:45.000 --> 02:10:47.319 on the new Winter Continental Champion, and Triple H says 2665 02:10:47.359 --> 02:10:49.279 he's nothing but the luckiest punk in the world. You 2666 02:10:49.600 --> 02:10:52.520 couldn't beat me again in a million years. Fascinating considering 2667 02:10:52.560 --> 02:10:55.119 where these two would go. I know right he said 2668 02:10:55.279 --> 02:10:57.199 gold dust got the better of him last night. Because 2669 02:10:57.239 --> 02:10:59.760 of gold dust, he tripped over towards there. I think 2670 02:10:59.760 --> 02:11:01.439 a bit lightest. 2671 02:11:01.520 --> 02:11:02.960 Did I get this? I did? I did? I did 2672 02:11:03.039 --> 02:11:05.399 take this one here. Listen to game talk. 2673 02:11:05.720 --> 02:11:08.319 My thoughts on Rocky Maya Beer. He's nothing but the 2674 02:11:08.439 --> 02:11:11.159 monkeyest punk in the world. Monkey is Rocky Maya be 2675 02:11:11.359 --> 02:11:13.600 you beating me, You couldn't beat me again in. 2676 02:11:13.640 --> 02:11:17.159 A million years. And now my focus is set on 2677 02:11:17.279 --> 02:11:20.640 you and what I want. I get Rocky Maya Beer. 2678 02:11:20.720 --> 02:11:24.279 You have my intercontinental title and I'm coming after you. 2679 02:11:24.720 --> 02:11:28.680 And Hunter Hers Townsman always get he wants. 2680 02:11:29.359 --> 02:11:30.000 Say that again. 2681 02:11:30.359 --> 02:11:33.880 It's yeah, I'll say, Lightest, go Rocky go chant you've 2682 02:11:33.880 --> 02:11:35.680 ever heard here in the building, And Leif has came 2683 02:11:35.760 --> 02:11:38.000 no shit out of Rocky For a minute, Lawler compares 2684 02:11:38.079 --> 02:11:40.199 Rocky to Tiger Woods, who apparently had just lost some 2685 02:11:40.279 --> 02:11:43.680 big golf match that past weekend. Signed behind Jay and 2686 02:11:43.720 --> 02:11:48.680 Lawler reads e c W rules and oh yeah, and 2687 02:11:48.760 --> 02:11:49.520 this is Nashville. 2688 02:11:49.520 --> 02:11:51.319 I don't think that's it, and King takes that for 2689 02:11:51.439 --> 02:11:55.880 a yeah, uh uh, you know it takes that sign 2690 02:11:55.960 --> 02:11:57.920 and sees it and does this shit on it. 2691 02:11:58.000 --> 02:12:00.000 It's nineteen ninety seven for sure. And this being Nashville 2692 02:12:00.039 --> 02:12:01.880 as opposed to Philly. Something tells me that sign is 2693 02:12:02.319 --> 02:12:06.840 exactly organically placed. There probably some strategic sign making there 2694 02:12:06.880 --> 02:12:09.680 from the company. And yeah, they're talking about rogging back 2695 02:12:09.680 --> 02:12:11.159 to the Manhattan Center, which of course is where it 2696 02:12:11.159 --> 02:12:13.920 all started. And then they plug the Berlin show. There's 2697 02:12:13.920 --> 02:12:16.920 some serendipity as we were rolling into the Berlin pay 2698 02:12:16.920 --> 02:12:19.520 per view as we started this thing, Go Rocky Go 2699 02:12:20.800 --> 02:12:23.119 Chance from two rather suss fans in the front row 2700 02:12:23.159 --> 02:12:26.159 in Sean Michael's T shirts. I don't I'm not entirely. 2701 02:12:26.880 --> 02:12:30.119 I know you got to leave open the possibility. Leaf 2702 02:12:30.159 --> 02:12:32.680 works the arm for days on Rocky. What are they 2703 02:12:33.000 --> 02:12:34.039 noting this on television? 2704 02:12:34.960 --> 02:12:37.079 I mean right like. 2705 02:12:39.159 --> 02:12:40.760 They still hadn't worked this part of it out of 2706 02:12:40.760 --> 02:12:43.760 their system where it's like, Okay, we can do crazy stuff, 2707 02:12:43.800 --> 02:12:44.479 but we gotta. 2708 02:12:44.279 --> 02:12:45.079 Slow it down. 2709 02:12:45.159 --> 02:12:47.520 After that, we got to get people right back down 2710 02:12:47.600 --> 02:12:49.720 to like, you know, some hammer locks and it's like why, 2711 02:12:50.880 --> 02:12:52.159 like why do you have to do that? And they 2712 02:12:52.199 --> 02:12:54.720 were still doing it here. That's the kind of the 2713 02:12:54.720 --> 02:12:57.119 things Vince Russo would be most frustrated about. I mean 2714 02:12:57.159 --> 02:12:59.039 when he took it, when he got full reins, matches 2715 02:12:59.039 --> 02:12:59.880 were fucking two and a half. 2716 02:13:00.840 --> 02:13:01.880 I know, they were so short. 2717 02:13:02.039 --> 02:13:04.119 Guys hit the ropes like six times in a minute. 2718 02:13:04.359 --> 02:13:06.319 You know, they just hit the ropes over and over again. 2719 02:13:06.359 --> 02:13:09.039 It's all they had time for. Jared says, it's all 2720 02:13:09.039 --> 02:13:11.279 about the tension on the elbow joint, so that makes. 2721 02:13:11.159 --> 02:13:13.359 It more interesting. I suppose, Well, thanks Jr. 2722 02:13:13.439 --> 02:13:15.439 They literally split screen the whole time because the match 2723 02:13:15.520 --> 02:13:18.439 is so boring to show Sonny's cleavage to keep people interested, 2724 02:13:18.760 --> 02:13:20.279 and that's kind of what they would do. They were like, Okay, 2725 02:13:20.359 --> 02:13:22.159 now we got to have a match, because this has 2726 02:13:22.199 --> 02:13:24.039 to be a wrestling show. It's going to get us 2727 02:13:24.039 --> 02:13:25.800 through a couple of segs. But what we'll do is 2728 02:13:25.840 --> 02:13:27.600 we'll split screen and cut away all kinds of other 2729 02:13:27.680 --> 02:13:30.079 titillation during the course of it, be at backstage interviews, 2730 02:13:30.159 --> 02:13:30.600 be it women. 2731 02:13:31.239 --> 02:13:32.199 That's that's how they would do it. 2732 02:13:32.239 --> 02:13:34.800 And you see that really you see that strategy really 2733 02:13:34.840 --> 02:13:37.000 start to come into relief on this show. I feel 2734 02:13:37.039 --> 02:13:39.359 like it's like every time the action slows down, they've 2735 02:13:39.399 --> 02:13:40.479 got something to show you. 2736 02:13:42.000 --> 02:13:42.720 Commensurate with it. 2737 02:13:43.000 --> 02:13:45.479 So a leaf clamp's top rope, Rocky cuts them off 2738 02:13:45.520 --> 02:13:47.119 and kind of gives them the work flair toss off 2739 02:13:47.159 --> 02:13:50.560 the top rope. They cut to Lawler jaw jacking another example, right, 2740 02:13:50.600 --> 02:13:54.479 you got Lawler yep engaged with the ECW fanholder sign 2741 02:13:54.520 --> 02:13:56.880 holders during the course of this match. They cut away 2742 02:13:56.920 --> 02:14:00.800 to that the rock they called on the rock doesn't 2743 02:14:00.800 --> 02:14:02.640 he on commentary, he does. 2744 02:14:02.600 --> 02:14:04.039 I don't even I didn't even hear that, he says, 2745 02:14:04.039 --> 02:14:04.920 I don't hear that one at all. 2746 02:14:06.560 --> 02:14:09.199 And then he goes up top. The rock goes upstairs 2747 02:14:09.279 --> 02:14:12.199 and uh, he hits a huge cross body and he 2748 02:14:12.279 --> 02:14:13.319 bounces up before one. 2749 02:14:13.600 --> 02:14:17.239 I know, the fucking the fucking crossbody. That's that's his. 2750 02:14:17.520 --> 02:14:21.119 Uh you know, that's his, that's his that's like his 2751 02:14:21.279 --> 02:14:22.359 go to move at this time. 2752 02:14:22.439 --> 02:14:23.960 Well, that's what kind of weird about it, because he 2753 02:14:24.039 --> 02:14:25.760 hits it perfectly and he doesn't cover him. He just 2754 02:14:25.800 --> 02:14:28.119 gets up Like that move is like devastating as opposed 2755 02:14:28.119 --> 02:14:29.800 to like a Penning predicament move. 2756 02:14:30.000 --> 02:14:31.720 I mean, especially given a guy he said, well, he 2757 02:14:31.840 --> 02:14:33.520 was like what two sixty at this point, Yeah, and 2758 02:14:33.640 --> 02:14:36.159 he took flight. Yeah, you know, he was huge. I 2759 02:14:36.239 --> 02:14:37.600 mean it was part of the whole. 2760 02:14:37.720 --> 02:14:39.359 It was fucking great when he did it wrestle, meaning 2761 02:14:39.359 --> 02:14:41.479 against John Cena. When he came back. I yeah, it's huge. 2762 02:14:42.159 --> 02:14:43.920 That was such a good idea to bring that one back. 2763 02:14:44.640 --> 02:14:44.760 Uh. 2764 02:14:45.199 --> 02:14:47.039 And then after that he has to do his actual finisher, 2765 02:14:47.079 --> 02:14:49.079 which is that whack ass shoulder breaker he used to do. 2766 02:14:49.479 --> 02:14:50.800 I mean, come on, what do you do? What a 2767 02:14:50.920 --> 02:14:52.600 dumb ass move? What you don't you know? 2768 02:14:52.680 --> 02:14:52.840 Paw? 2769 02:14:53.039 --> 02:14:56.119 You know what I think is really the movie you 2770 02:14:56.159 --> 02:14:57.800 should do. I mean, I know you can do this 2771 02:14:57.920 --> 02:14:59.960 high flying stuff, and that's great for a guy your size. 2772 02:15:00.680 --> 02:15:02.800 I think that's great. It's a nice you know. What 2773 02:15:03.000 --> 02:15:05.760 that is is kind of the special attraction about you. 2774 02:15:06.520 --> 02:15:08.279 But when you come down to it, you've got to 2775 02:15:08.319 --> 02:15:12.520 have a real grounded move base. And what I think 2776 02:15:12.560 --> 02:15:15.760 you should do as as a as a finishing maneuver 2777 02:15:16.720 --> 02:15:24.800 is I think the nerve hold. You got some nerve hold. 2778 02:15:25.760 --> 02:15:26.920 You know, you can call it. We can call it 2779 02:15:27.000 --> 02:15:32.760 the the Samoan squeeze or something, the uh, the the 2780 02:15:33.000 --> 02:15:37.279 the Samoan power sucker or something. 2781 02:15:37.479 --> 02:15:40.479 The Rocky my Via just realized his family's lifelong dream. 2782 02:15:40.479 --> 02:15:42.600 He's become wif champion to wrestle me, and you're using 2783 02:15:42.920 --> 02:15:49.399 the Samoan power sucker. That's a wrestling maybe a moment. 2784 02:15:51.399 --> 02:15:55.479 He just puts the nerve hold on somebody and the 2785 02:15:55.560 --> 02:16:03.199 guy Samoan it's a stronger hold, right, so you know 2786 02:16:03.399 --> 02:16:08.079 you can order. There's see these Samoan submission maneuvers. 2787 02:16:09.720 --> 02:16:11.199 So yeah, the shoulder breaker is good for the one 2788 02:16:11.239 --> 02:16:13.399 two three. Rocky might via pens leave Cassidy here. On 2789 02:16:13.520 --> 02:16:16.439 the February seventeenth, nineteen ninety seven edition of Monday Night 2790 02:16:16.520 --> 02:16:18.399 Raw Sunny rings the ball and holds up a Sonny 2791 02:16:18.439 --> 02:16:22.079 for President's sign. YEP, good for her, I vote for 2792 02:16:22.279 --> 02:16:24.479 Dwayne Johnson would hold up a Rocky for President signed 2793 02:16:24.520 --> 02:16:27.560 some years later, cut T Lawlor on the sign. 2794 02:16:27.880 --> 02:16:31.600 Boy, here we go. Listen to this, listen and go. 2795 02:16:32.360 --> 02:16:34.040 I want to take just a second here because that 2796 02:16:34.159 --> 02:16:35.799 you saw Sonny there, you get. 2797 02:16:36.239 --> 02:16:37.760 You got some kids, you got some people in the 2798 02:16:38.200 --> 02:16:40.719 stands with all of these signs and everything, and I. 2799 02:16:40.799 --> 02:16:43.920 Get I get every Let me tell. 2800 02:16:43.760 --> 02:16:55.200 You, oh yeah, you think for one. 2801 02:16:55.200 --> 02:16:59.520 Minute anybody knows anything about these w Do you ever 2802 02:16:59.600 --> 02:17:00.680 know what he CW is. 2803 02:17:00.719 --> 02:17:04.959 Ross I guarantee ninety nine percent of the people in 2804 02:17:05.040 --> 02:17:08.440 the world have never heard of dc W WE do. 2805 02:17:08.559 --> 02:17:10.239 Let me tell you no, I'm just hang on a second. 2806 02:17:10.639 --> 02:17:13.200 Did you ever see that movie Escape from New York HU, 2807 02:17:13.280 --> 02:17:16.559 where Manhattan Islands was turned into a like a prison, 2808 02:17:16.959 --> 02:17:18.840 a place where a bunch of thugs and misfits. 2809 02:17:19.200 --> 02:17:22.079 Well, that's what ECW is. It's just a place where 2810 02:17:22.120 --> 02:17:23.360 a bunch of misfits and. 2811 02:17:23.440 --> 02:17:25.479 A bunch of hatspins who couldn't think. 2812 02:17:25.360 --> 02:17:28.000 It in the WW had migrated you and it's up. 2813 02:17:28.040 --> 02:17:31.000 It's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. And every week I'm sick and tired 2814 02:17:31.040 --> 02:17:33.719 of idiots like this coming and waving signs in my 2815 02:17:33.879 --> 02:17:35.760 face and waving them on this TV show. 2816 02:17:36.040 --> 02:17:38.239 I'm sick coming. Well you know what, Well, I'm not 2817 02:17:38.319 --> 02:17:38.879 taking out on you. 2818 02:17:38.920 --> 02:17:41.319 I'm telling everybody, Hey, I in a friend of mine 2819 02:17:41.559 --> 02:17:43.319 go to a w c W match down in my 2820 02:17:43.399 --> 02:17:44.239 hometown of Memphis. 2821 02:17:44.479 --> 02:17:46.879 He trying to take in a sign that said Jerry. 2822 02:17:46.680 --> 02:17:47.120 Lower on it. 2823 02:17:47.200 --> 02:17:48.200 Thank took it away from me. 2824 02:17:48.280 --> 02:17:48.879 Well, we don't leave. 2825 02:17:48.879 --> 02:17:49.680 A freedom means you. 2826 02:17:49.680 --> 02:17:51.360 Believe in freedom of speech, but I don't. 2827 02:17:51.559 --> 02:17:54.559 I think this duff in the front of crap awesome. 2828 02:17:55.840 --> 02:17:58.120 He was good at that. He was He was very 2829 02:17:58.159 --> 02:17:59.520 good at that he's. 2830 02:17:59.399 --> 02:18:15.440 A rapt wrestling podcast, the wrestling podcast that knows the 2831 02:18:15.520 --> 02:18:33.600 boys need their candy. It's the Lapsed Fan. He's the 2832 02:18:33.680 --> 02:18:38.840 Lapsed Fan Wrestling podcast with Jack and Carnacio, m JP Soro. 2833 02:18:39.680 --> 02:18:41.920 And then he he challenges him and he says, yeah, 2834 02:18:42.040 --> 02:18:43.520 come on down, let's see if you got anything. I 2835 02:18:43.520 --> 02:18:46.639 think you're a bunch of goofs. And next week show 2836 02:18:46.680 --> 02:18:49.319 us what you got. So that's the plug for the show. 2837 02:18:49.360 --> 02:18:52.159 We mentioned that famous ECW invasion Raw We take a Break, 2838 02:18:52.200 --> 02:18:54.159 We come back. Goldust music is playing and they inform 2839 02:18:54.239 --> 02:18:55.559 us that last night at Final four in the pay 2840 02:18:55.559 --> 02:18:59.520 per view, Marlena was attacked by a fan who is 2841 02:18:59.600 --> 02:19:00.479 that fan boy. 2842 02:19:01.920 --> 02:19:03.399 China Yes Yea. 2843 02:19:04.000 --> 02:19:05.399 During the course of the match with Triple Ah and 2844 02:19:05.440 --> 02:19:08.040 gold Dust, Marlena kind of wandered over to the edge 2845 02:19:08.040 --> 02:19:10.120 of the guardrail and that's when China rises up from 2846 02:19:10.120 --> 02:19:12.399 the front row and a muscle shirt and just starts 2847 02:19:12.479 --> 02:19:14.479 choking the life out of her. And that was in 2848 02:19:14.559 --> 02:19:18.840 fact the WWF fans int introduction to China, and they 2849 02:19:18.920 --> 02:19:23.120 show gold Dust getting distract. There was actually Goldlest versus Rocky. 2850 02:19:23.280 --> 02:19:25.200 I think it was Goldiest versus Rocky that this happened 2851 02:19:25.280 --> 02:19:28.799 during and Rocky German suplex is triple H. Maybe it's 2852 02:19:29.799 --> 02:19:32.079 maybe it's Rocky versus Triple H. I don't fucking know. 2853 02:19:32.559 --> 02:19:35.000 But Rocky does a German suplex and it's hilarious. 2854 02:19:35.079 --> 02:19:35.920 That's all I mark it. 2855 02:19:36.079 --> 02:19:36.239 I know. 2856 02:19:38.600 --> 02:19:40.639 Kevin Kelly's in the ring with Goldust and Marlena Goldust 2857 02:19:40.719 --> 02:19:43.239 drops to drops to a knee and calls her mom. 2858 02:19:43.360 --> 02:19:45.840 And Goldust as everyone knows, I'm from the hills of Hollywood. 2859 02:19:45.840 --> 02:19:47.200 But this is not the hills of Hollywood, is it? 2860 02:19:47.239 --> 02:19:48.239 This is reality here? 2861 02:19:48.680 --> 02:19:50.600 I got this one too for you. This, this is 2862 02:19:50.680 --> 02:19:57.040 a this is a yeah, this is interesting. 2863 02:19:57.040 --> 02:19:59.120 This is reality, hung Goldust, who wants to tell him? 2864 02:20:02.639 --> 02:20:03.079 Here we go. 2865 02:20:03.920 --> 02:20:05.959 I think there's a lot I need to clear up tonight. 2866 02:20:07.799 --> 02:20:11.280 From the beginning, from the very first premiere of gold 2867 02:20:11.360 --> 02:20:15.120 Dust to Nina, there's been speculation. 2868 02:20:14.920 --> 02:20:17.479 Such passionate your voice too by the great promo. 2869 02:20:17.799 --> 02:20:22.920 And a whole lot of question about gold dust masculinity, yeah, 2870 02:20:23.079 --> 02:20:28.239 and about his manhood for lack of Granted, we play a. 2871 02:20:28.280 --> 02:20:33.440 Lot of games, but tell me more, please right what 2872 02:20:33.559 --> 02:20:34.399 coming games you play? 2873 02:20:35.600 --> 02:20:35.639 What? 2874 02:20:37.159 --> 02:20:37.200 What? 2875 02:20:38.920 --> 02:20:41.040 Let me go on record right now and say that 2876 02:20:41.239 --> 02:20:45.520 from his precious golden head to his golden feet. 2877 02:20:46.760 --> 02:20:54.280 He is all man because of course if he was gay, 2878 02:20:54.399 --> 02:20:55.120 he'd be a heel. 2879 02:20:56.120 --> 02:20:58.159 Well, and what makes him all man is he fucks 2880 02:20:58.159 --> 02:20:59.799 the shit out of her. That's what we're supposed to. 2881 02:21:00.079 --> 02:21:02.680 Yeah, she sounds like she. 2882 02:21:02.760 --> 02:21:09.280 Knows from experience, and Hunter Hurst Helmsley, he is more 2883 02:21:09.319 --> 02:21:11.399 of a man than you will ever. 2884 02:21:11.799 --> 02:21:13.520 Ever be me. 2885 02:21:16.159 --> 02:21:17.680 And you take that out of context, it sounds like 2886 02:21:17.760 --> 02:21:19.399 she's saying Hunter Hers Helmsley is more of a man 2887 02:21:19.440 --> 02:21:20.479 than gold Dust ever will be. 2888 02:21:20.680 --> 02:21:21.559 It's very true. 2889 02:21:21.639 --> 02:21:24.120 Actually, if you just cut that one little bart out, 2890 02:21:24.239 --> 02:21:30.520 you know. And she blows cigar smoke and she blows 2891 02:21:30.879 --> 02:21:33.200 dustin as well around him. And here's Triple H. He's 2892 02:21:33.200 --> 02:21:36.520 pointing at gold Dust. If I want her, I'll take her. God, 2893 02:21:36.600 --> 02:21:38.360 all this takes off the way Triple H throws water 2894 02:21:38.399 --> 02:21:39.760 at his face and Triple H gets on him and 2895 02:21:39.799 --> 02:21:42.479 beats his ass, and pedigrees who are already starting to 2896 02:21:42.559 --> 02:21:44.239 learn how things work around you. 2897 02:21:45.159 --> 02:21:49.040 He's already paid on listen listen right you know? Uh, 2898 02:21:50.680 --> 02:21:53.239 this is this is the this is the future right here. Okay, 2899 02:21:53.840 --> 02:21:54.600 this is what we have. 2900 02:21:55.200 --> 02:21:57.760 Yeah, I kind of the soft launch of the triple 2901 02:21:57.920 --> 02:21:59.719 H dominates fucking motif. 2902 02:22:00.079 --> 02:22:04.399 You ever did he do that to uh gold Dust 2903 02:22:04.520 --> 02:22:06.360 like in two thousand and two? Did he do that too? 2904 02:22:06.440 --> 02:22:07.920 I think he had his Yeah, I think he got 2905 02:22:07.920 --> 02:22:10.399 his hands on him during that Reign of Terror. Yeah 2906 02:22:10.520 --> 02:22:15.399 maybe three remember yep. And so he lays him out 2907 02:22:15.399 --> 02:22:18.200 with the pedigree and Marlena slaps him to a pop 2908 02:22:18.319 --> 02:22:20.879 and then you know a time it is China and 2909 02:22:21.000 --> 02:22:23.319 slips into the ring and there's that woman again, that 2910 02:22:23.399 --> 02:22:26.040 Amazon and this is the famous thing where she grabs 2911 02:22:26.040 --> 02:22:27.440 her by in the waist like in a wastelock and 2912 02:22:27.520 --> 02:22:28.159 rag dolls her. 2913 02:22:28.440 --> 02:22:29.760 Yeah. Here I got this one too. 2914 02:22:29.840 --> 02:22:38.319 Here there's a moment again, huge moment, Helena secular. 2915 02:22:44.639 --> 02:22:48.040 And squeeze a whole light a little more Lena. 2916 02:22:51.000 --> 02:22:51.159 There. 2917 02:22:54.680 --> 02:22:57.040 That's the same moment that was a tip the last night, 2918 02:22:57.360 --> 02:22:58.760 protacking more Lena. 2919 02:23:02.559 --> 02:23:03.079 Her over. 2920 02:23:03.680 --> 02:23:07.399 She may have just busted up Marlena's rips. Just squeezing 2921 02:23:07.479 --> 02:23:09.399 the life Lena's a huge moment. 2922 02:23:09.680 --> 02:23:13.040 And amos on the woman attacking mar Lena for the 2923 02:23:13.120 --> 02:23:15.399 second time in twenty four hours. 2924 02:23:15.680 --> 02:23:16.200 Who is this? 2925 02:23:17.040 --> 02:23:18.120 Who is this person? 2926 02:23:20.040 --> 02:23:20.639 That's the question? 2927 02:23:21.159 --> 02:23:23.760 Yeah, that she did a great job, Marlena did taking 2928 02:23:23.840 --> 02:23:24.559 that rag doll thing. 2929 02:23:24.639 --> 02:23:27.920 Oh oh yeah, oh god, how how look I don't 2930 02:23:27.920 --> 02:23:29.399 even know how the fuck she did what she did. 2931 02:23:30.559 --> 02:23:33.879 It's so crazy how she how she just like flails 2932 02:23:33.959 --> 02:23:37.399 around like and makes it look like she's getting murdered. 2933 02:23:38.520 --> 02:23:41.440 Yeah, she just thrashes about in the way she uses 2934 02:23:41.479 --> 02:23:43.719 her long hair. She's like floating almost to her feet 2935 02:23:43.760 --> 02:23:46.639 are not touching the ground, and she's being like manipulated 2936 02:23:46.639 --> 02:23:49.120 at the waist, tilting left to right and just thrashing 2937 02:23:49.239 --> 02:23:52.239 left to her She's like a yep, Elizabeth whatever in 2938 02:23:52.399 --> 02:23:54.680 us in a Showgirls in the pool? 2939 02:23:55.440 --> 02:23:59.680 Oh my god, Elizabeth by Berkeley. Yes, yeah, it's getting 2940 02:23:59.719 --> 02:24:04.280 fucking dominated by was it? I mean, not even dominated, 2941 02:24:04.280 --> 02:24:05.520 she's dominated. Oh yeah. 2942 02:24:06.120 --> 02:24:08.760 Uh Kyle McLaughlin, she gets him in the pool and 2943 02:24:08.840 --> 02:24:13.000 she gets exactly what she came for, basically exactly what 2944 02:24:13.120 --> 02:24:14.920 we all what she needed, what we all need. 2945 02:24:15.319 --> 02:24:15.840 Great scene. 2946 02:24:16.520 --> 02:24:19.479 Yeah, and uh here Martolena going for a different kind 2947 02:24:19.520 --> 02:24:22.079 of ride and gets laid out. And she was, you know, 2948 02:24:22.600 --> 02:24:25.559 obviously so petite and so like, Oh my god, the 2949 02:24:25.639 --> 02:24:28.440 size differential was such a great visual, such a great idea. 2950 02:24:28.520 --> 02:24:32.639 Oh you do this. She's so tiny, especially you know, 2951 02:24:32.760 --> 02:24:34.280 compared to to China. 2952 02:24:34.680 --> 02:24:38.440 Absolutely, And you know, I don't know surprisingly little set 2953 02:24:38.440 --> 02:24:40.000 about this, like it's not called out in the book 2954 02:24:40.040 --> 02:24:40.360 or anything. 2955 02:24:40.479 --> 02:24:40.879 China did. 2956 02:24:41.399 --> 02:24:41.520 Uh. 2957 02:24:41.959 --> 02:24:43.680 Marlena did once to do a sit down and interview 2958 02:24:43.719 --> 02:24:45.680 I think it was for a video with Tommy Dreamer, 2959 02:24:46.159 --> 02:24:47.840 and she did say that she couldn't move the next 2960 02:24:47.920 --> 02:24:50.200 day after doing this thing, but asked for that she 2961 02:24:50.360 --> 02:24:52.920 wanted that she she would. She talked about how like 2962 02:24:52.959 --> 02:24:55.120 when China came in, I'm like, please make it look good, 2963 02:24:55.280 --> 02:24:58.120 like she wanted to do things on television that looked real, 2964 02:24:58.559 --> 02:25:00.319 and even if that came, it a a bit of 2965 02:25:00.360 --> 02:25:01.559 personal expense to herself. 2966 02:25:01.639 --> 02:25:04.120 So she definitely was sore the next day from this one. 2967 02:25:04.159 --> 02:25:07.000 But yeah, I'm sure they keep calling her that Amazon, 2968 02:25:07.360 --> 02:25:09.479 which is the same thing I said when electric delivery 2969 02:25:09.520 --> 02:25:12.920 truck whirs down my street for the sixth time in 2970 02:25:12.959 --> 02:25:15.520 the afternoon. So then the head Bangers now on their 2971 02:25:15.559 --> 02:25:18.319 way to the ring. And who are they facing, unbelievable 2972 02:25:18.399 --> 02:25:22.479 the Hardys. Yes, as a team as the Hardy Boys. 2973 02:25:23.200 --> 02:25:26.159 As as if I didn't need to suffer enough here. 2974 02:25:26.319 --> 02:25:29.079 SIS air traffic controller is needed to monitor this matchup 2975 02:25:30.040 --> 02:25:32.079 as the head head Banger is about to embark on 2976 02:25:32.120 --> 02:25:33.840 pretty much the biggest push they would get. They'd win 2977 02:25:33.920 --> 02:25:36.280 the Belts at rust May thirteen, right in that fatal 2978 02:25:36.319 --> 02:25:36.680 four way. 2979 02:25:38.079 --> 02:25:40.440 No, they win a shot at the belts. Shot at 2980 02:25:40.440 --> 02:25:42.959 the Belts. Yeah, they wouldn't win the Belts. They win 2981 02:25:43.040 --> 02:25:43.760 the Belts later. 2982 02:25:44.360 --> 02:25:47.000 They're facing off against the Heart when they win, they 2983 02:25:47.159 --> 02:25:48.319 know they wanted a later. 2984 02:25:49.280 --> 02:25:52.559 I don't remember when they wanted because it was Bulldog 2985 02:25:52.680 --> 02:25:58.680 and Owen until Austin and Michaels beat them. Then they 2986 02:25:58.719 --> 02:26:01.840 were up for grabs. Never won them. They did win them. 2987 02:26:01.840 --> 02:26:03.040 I know they did win them. I think it was 2988 02:26:03.079 --> 02:26:06.399 in the fall, uncomfortable because I feel like they get 2989 02:26:06.639 --> 02:26:09.719 round zero. Maybe they did a ground they had a 2990 02:26:09.840 --> 02:26:13.120 very short rain. But I do remember that the that 2991 02:26:13.239 --> 02:26:16.600 them winning it actually got me into them for a moment. Sure, 2992 02:26:17.200 --> 02:26:18.799 like it actually sparked interests. 2993 02:26:18.879 --> 02:26:22.239 Yeah, they were over. They weren't the ships at all. 2994 02:26:24.239 --> 02:26:28.799 They kind of were. But you know, I do remember, Yeah, 2995 02:26:28.840 --> 02:26:31.040 I remember that being a thing. 2996 02:26:33.840 --> 02:26:35.959 I remember their finisher, the power bomb leg Drop Combo 2997 02:26:36.040 --> 02:26:38.879 thought that was pretty cool. Chazz power bombs. 2998 02:26:39.360 --> 02:26:39.760 Yeah, I like that. 2999 02:26:39.879 --> 02:26:42.040 I like that too, so Jeff, it's a great flying 3000 02:26:42.079 --> 02:26:43.799 clothesline to get the match started. I remember them as 3001 02:26:43.840 --> 02:26:46.040 individual jobbers on Raw the Hardy's, but as a tag 3002 02:26:46.120 --> 02:26:49.760 team not so much before the It's pretty wild. The 3003 02:26:49.799 --> 02:26:52.239 push with Michael Hayes split screen for Roop backstage watching 3004 02:26:52.280 --> 02:26:54.239 on interesting. When they did the split screen must have 3005 02:26:54.280 --> 02:27:00.200 been when matches were happening exclusively, because they they do 3006 02:27:00.239 --> 02:27:02.680 the split screen much longer after this, says, I finish 3007 02:27:02.760 --> 02:27:05.000 everything I start and with. 3008 02:27:05.120 --> 02:27:05.479 I'm mad. 3009 02:27:05.559 --> 02:27:08.040 He comes out here saying that he's gonna do this 3010 02:27:08.200 --> 02:27:10.559 and this for his people. He's he's a big front. 3011 02:27:10.600 --> 02:27:12.639 He says, if I met Johnson living in the high 3012 02:27:12.760 --> 02:27:16.959 rise penthouse over Houston, driving two cars, three bedrooms, I'll 3013 02:27:17.000 --> 02:27:19.479 tell you what the streets is like. Two roomhouse, seven 3014 02:27:19.600 --> 02:27:21.479 kids having a rewash underwear each day. 3015 02:27:22.000 --> 02:27:25.520 Sir, they got this one, O you, that's weird. I 3016 02:27:25.639 --> 02:27:28.639 got this one too. This is just so fucking ridiculous, 3017 02:27:29.239 --> 02:27:31.280 especially when there's a match going on. Eight you know, 3018 02:27:31.440 --> 02:27:32.200 just don't do the match. 3019 02:27:32.600 --> 02:27:34.799 He's timing. He knows what the streets is like. I'll 3020 02:27:34.840 --> 02:27:36.799 tell you what the streets is like. The streets is 3021 02:27:36.879 --> 02:27:38.840 like being raised up in a two room house with 3022 02:27:39.040 --> 02:27:41.600 seven kids, having to rewash on there each day, just 3023 02:27:41.639 --> 02:27:43.520 to have something to wear to school. They're having two 3024 02:27:43.600 --> 02:27:45.920 miles to walk to test the buffs. All right, let 3025 02:27:46.000 --> 02:27:49.639 me tell you something you've got an advantage over. But 3026 02:27:49.760 --> 02:27:52.280 everyone on earth, see, you don't have to die and 3027 02:27:52.360 --> 02:27:52.879 go to Hell. 3028 02:27:53.399 --> 02:27:56.319 You're in it, naw. And I'm the temple and here. 3029 02:27:56.440 --> 02:27:59.239 Oh my demon's right here. And when I get you 3030 02:27:59.399 --> 02:28:02.319 in that room, it's Chicago. I'll tell you what we do. 3031 02:28:02.639 --> 02:28:05.719 Let's just make this a Chicago street fight. Why so, 3032 02:28:05.959 --> 02:28:08.479 everyone in the world, what the streets that's really like? 3033 02:28:08.639 --> 02:28:13.280 Because you're looking at that table right by any means, nes. 3034 02:28:13.159 --> 02:28:17.559 A sery there it is that would happen, of course 3035 02:28:17.840 --> 02:28:20.840 against l O D and Ahmed at WrestleMania. The Chicago 3036 02:28:20.920 --> 02:28:23.760 street fight where they actually used the kitchen sink? 3037 02:28:24.440 --> 02:28:24.799 Do they do? 3038 02:28:25.159 --> 02:28:27.159 That was the key thing right there, They used the 3039 02:28:27.280 --> 02:28:29.559 kitchen sink by any means. 3040 02:28:30.000 --> 02:28:33.079 Jared's's Chicago street fights are so well talk about violent. 3041 02:28:33.440 --> 02:28:35.159 And then back in the ring, Marsh with a springboard 3042 02:28:35.159 --> 02:28:37.200 clothesline over the ropes, takes out Matt on the apron. 3043 02:28:37.600 --> 02:28:39.680 They say, the w FA Championships up next, like it's 3044 02:28:39.680 --> 02:28:44.360 an announcement, like it's uh uh, like it wasn't expected 3045 02:28:44.399 --> 02:28:46.559 to happen inter news, it's news, yep. 3046 02:28:46.840 --> 02:28:47.159 I guess. 3047 02:28:47.520 --> 02:28:49.760 I wonder if they were monitoring Nitro to decide one 3048 02:28:49.840 --> 02:28:53.520 exactly to put well ahead had to put sid and 3049 02:28:53.559 --> 02:28:54.840 Bread back out there. I mean they did the top 3050 02:28:54.840 --> 02:28:56.120 of the hours are probably not but. 3051 02:28:56.479 --> 02:28:57.879 I think yeah, I was gonna say, I don't think so. 3052 02:28:58.159 --> 02:28:59.520 They definite did it at the top of the hour, 3053 02:28:59.559 --> 02:29:01.520 and that was that was key. 3054 02:29:01.760 --> 02:29:03.719 They wait a while before saying when you can see it. 3055 02:29:04.280 --> 02:29:06.639 They don't say like right away, which makes sense. They 3056 02:29:06.639 --> 02:29:08.120 don't say it right away, like at the top of 3057 02:29:08.159 --> 02:29:10.120 the hour, We're going to do this, because then the 3058 02:29:10.159 --> 02:29:11.920 next forty five minutes would be kind of lame duck. 3059 02:29:12.479 --> 02:29:14.239 So they just like leave it unset as to when 3060 02:29:14.280 --> 02:29:15.879 the match might happen. And then they springing on you 3061 02:29:16.000 --> 02:29:19.040 right here, and Jay says, I guess they are disciples 3062 02:29:19.079 --> 02:29:22.079 of that lady Marilyn Manson, that is to say, the Headbangers, 3063 02:29:22.120 --> 02:29:24.360 So of course we're supposed to be a play on 3064 02:29:24.440 --> 02:29:25.600 Marilyn Manson's. 3065 02:29:25.200 --> 02:29:27.879 Popularity at the time. Sure, sure, I guess. 3066 02:29:27.959 --> 02:29:30.799 Jeff Hardy gets a hot tag dropkick kills. He gets 3067 02:29:30.920 --> 02:29:33.040 killed with a clothes line dropped directly on his head 3068 02:29:33.040 --> 02:29:36.360 as he tries to backflip to sell. Jeff Hardy arrives 3069 02:29:36.399 --> 02:29:37.959 in the building and decides, you know, if I'm going 3070 02:29:38.000 --> 02:29:39.440 to be worth a shit, I need to almost die 3071 02:29:39.520 --> 02:29:41.559 out there, and thus begins a long and fruitful career. 3072 02:29:42.120 --> 02:29:43.760 No I I. 3073 02:29:45.799 --> 02:29:47.120 I wish they edited it right there. 3074 02:29:47.399 --> 02:29:50.200 Our bomb and leg drop combination, as aforementioned by the Headbangers, 3075 02:29:50.200 --> 02:29:52.559 gets the one two three over the Hardy's here on 3076 02:29:52.600 --> 02:29:55.159 the February seventeenth, nineteen ninety seven edition of Raw, JR. 3077 02:29:55.200 --> 02:29:56.799 Says they're only going to find that kind of impact 3078 02:29:56.879 --> 02:29:58.479 right here in the WWF. So a little shot there 3079 02:29:58.639 --> 02:30:00.239 ww which had plenty of impact. 3080 02:30:00.200 --> 02:30:03.280 By the way, well impact wasn't even around then. 3081 02:30:04.879 --> 02:30:06.920 Yeah, Jeff would thrive an impact as a matter of fact, 3082 02:30:06.959 --> 02:30:09.479 true exactly, he listened, he was modest to the top. 3083 02:30:10.200 --> 02:30:12.239 Mash spits and catches it in his mouth. So there's that. 3084 02:30:14.000 --> 02:30:18.799 But what's more important sit his backstage, warming up, swinging 3085 02:30:18.840 --> 02:30:21.719 at God knows what come on? He is, Yes, he is, 3086 02:30:21.799 --> 02:30:24.319 he's ready, shadow boxing is only he can hit? 3087 02:30:27.479 --> 02:30:28.520 What is wrong with him? 3088 02:30:28.719 --> 02:30:32.200 Looking for the chance? New Nashville Arena here brought to 3089 02:30:32.200 --> 02:30:35.079 you by TwixT cookie bars. Two for me, none for 3090 02:30:35.239 --> 02:30:39.399 you you remember that slogan, Yes, I do so good, 3091 02:30:39.479 --> 02:30:41.280 I do remember that one look for it. Look for 3092 02:30:41.399 --> 02:30:45.280 the US Army hyper link on the w w F 3093 02:30:45.360 --> 02:30:46.000 A O L site. 3094 02:30:46.079 --> 02:30:53.200 They say tremendous. I mean, it's it's, it's it's. It 3095 02:30:53.600 --> 02:31:00.280 is funny seeing them speak about the Internet and they 3096 02:31:00.319 --> 02:31:02.879 have no fucking idea what the Internet is really exactly. 3097 02:31:03.719 --> 02:31:05.799 You know, if the Army's willing to pay us, it's 3098 02:31:05.879 --> 02:31:09.159 fucking great. But wrestling is always you know, that is 3099 02:31:09.200 --> 02:31:11.040 such a shoot, that wrestling is always a year or 3100 02:31:11.079 --> 02:31:13.719 two ahead of where technology is going. Yeah, like they're 3101 02:31:13.760 --> 02:31:16.280 the first to try technology because they're just trying anything 3102 02:31:16.319 --> 02:31:19.680 they can to get, you know, something going. 3103 02:31:19.680 --> 02:31:20.680 That feels innovative. 3104 02:31:21.520 --> 02:31:25.639 Pay per view over the top streaming network. Of course 3105 02:31:26.760 --> 02:31:30.280 this DVDs. They're way out in front of DVDs. Yeah, 3106 02:31:31.120 --> 02:31:32.200 so Sid's music hits and. 3107 02:31:32.200 --> 02:31:38.159 Here he comes, here he comes. H Is it going 3108 02:31:38.239 --> 02:31:39.159 to happen? I don't know. 3109 02:31:39.319 --> 02:31:42.680 Water's flying again. Fist bumps are happening, Jr. Says bread 3110 02:31:42.680 --> 02:31:44.680 hard as a man's man, not intimidated by the six 3111 02:31:44.799 --> 02:31:48.360 nine and thirteen pounds monster, Jerr reminds us for the 3112 02:31:48.399 --> 02:31:51.200 second time tonight that it reminds us that this is 3113 02:31:51.280 --> 02:31:52.760 the second time tonight that we've tried to get this 3114 02:31:52.799 --> 02:31:56.200 spout underway. Sid with his baby face shirt, says, rule 3115 02:31:56.319 --> 02:31:59.520 the World. I'm sure that would sell with thirty bucks today. 3116 02:31:59.680 --> 02:32:01.559 Use actually three hundred, I should say. 3117 02:32:01.559 --> 02:32:03.399 I'm sure, say myself are way more. 3118 02:32:03.520 --> 02:32:05.600 Yeah, they come back to earlier the night and show 3119 02:32:05.600 --> 02:32:08.760 you what happened to Sid and uh Brett's music. 3120 02:32:08.840 --> 02:32:09.000 Kids. 3121 02:32:09.000 --> 02:32:11.440 He steps out of the locker room, or at least 3122 02:32:11.440 --> 02:32:13.319 they cut to the back. You expect to see him 3123 02:32:13.319 --> 02:32:14.440 come to the curtain, but they cut to the back. 3124 02:32:14.440 --> 02:32:17.360 They're doing the Goldberg Walk, yep, and for good reason, 3125 02:32:17.399 --> 02:32:20.440 good reason. What's that here? We got for good reason 3126 02:32:20.639 --> 02:32:21.200 or good reason? 3127 02:32:21.280 --> 02:32:23.559 But great minds thinking like on that phrase backstage with 3128 02:32:23.680 --> 02:32:25.840 the tile that there's tile everywhere is just like a 3129 02:32:26.000 --> 02:32:30.879 totally underdone backstage area. Brett looking burdened and stressed as 3130 02:32:30.879 --> 02:32:32.680 he makes the walk, and as he turns the corner 3131 02:32:32.799 --> 02:32:35.159 back backstage near where they had Gorilla set up to 3132 02:32:35.280 --> 02:32:39.079 go to the ring. Steve Austin real. 3133 02:32:38.959 --> 02:32:41.600 Hardest ruddy for war, no doubt about it. And that's 3134 02:32:41.639 --> 02:32:42.680 exactly what it's gonna be. 3135 02:32:42.840 --> 02:32:43.040 Fight. 3136 02:32:43.319 --> 02:32:52.520 Oh god, oh my god, Hard tacking the tap of talking, 3137 02:32:52.600 --> 02:32:55.840 the taping right here, knocking. 3138 02:32:58.000 --> 02:33:04.440 It's sit back, it's gonna said, they're trying to separate 3139 02:33:04.520 --> 02:33:05.000 these guys. 3140 02:33:05.239 --> 02:33:06.440 Put the hands in there too. 3141 02:33:14.719 --> 02:33:20.360 Nord said, what's this tunnel man? 3142 02:33:20.440 --> 02:33:20.559 Who? 3143 02:33:22.680 --> 02:33:28.319 It is absolutely knotic. Here, my gosh, how back there? 3144 02:33:28.319 --> 02:33:28.559 Wrong? 3145 02:33:28.959 --> 02:33:30.000 You stay here? What alway? 3146 02:33:30.040 --> 02:33:31.479 Starting all the way? We'll be like that. 3147 02:33:32.120 --> 02:33:38.079 Wow chaos. Oh, I love it. I love it. It's 3148 02:33:38.239 --> 02:33:44.360 so great. It's so exciting, like there just was so 3149 02:33:44.719 --> 02:33:50.520 much happening you couldn't you know. It's it's the it's 3150 02:33:50.639 --> 02:33:54.120 very ironic that that nobody was watching and that they 3151 02:33:54.159 --> 02:33:57.159 were all watching w CW, because what is happening here 3152 02:33:57.319 --> 02:34:03.520 is so goddamn exciting and off the chain that it's like, 3153 02:34:03.719 --> 02:34:08.879 it's really they they're they're just it's it's the classic 3154 02:34:09.000 --> 02:34:14.079 thing where what's cool becomes what you want to watch 3155 02:34:15.040 --> 02:34:17.760 versus you know, what actually is. 3156 02:34:17.760 --> 02:34:20.600 Good, and if there's something demonstrably more entertaining, like yeah, 3157 02:34:20.879 --> 02:34:24.120 you would rather be you rather not miss what everybody's watching, 3158 02:34:24.280 --> 02:34:28.280 then watch something more well made at the time, So 3159 02:34:28.840 --> 02:34:31.680 and for what it's worth, And I don't remember that 3160 02:34:31.840 --> 02:34:34.360 next week, but apparently Nitro bounces back in a big 3161 02:34:34.399 --> 02:34:36.680 way and has a phenomenal show the next week. So 3162 02:34:36.760 --> 02:34:38.120 maybe they're feeling a bit of the sting of what 3163 02:34:38.159 --> 02:34:38.719 you're talking about. 3164 02:34:38.799 --> 02:34:41.440 Maybe maybe they aren't, because like it's it's really. 3165 02:34:41.520 --> 02:34:43.120 I mean ww it puts a show on like this, 3166 02:34:43.280 --> 02:34:45.040 it's like, okay, like they're really going to try to 3167 02:34:45.079 --> 02:34:46.840 win the ratings here, like we have to actually have 3168 02:34:46.879 --> 02:34:47.319 a good show. 3169 02:34:47.399 --> 02:34:50.000 We can't just coast. I mean, it is, it is 3170 02:34:50.200 --> 02:34:53.840 kind of you know. The the one from it did 3171 02:34:54.000 --> 02:34:56.840 kind of hit me was that there is some desperation 3172 02:34:57.000 --> 02:35:02.479 here because they're really focusing on, you know, the same 3173 02:35:02.879 --> 02:35:06.799 two people, the same three people the whole show versus 3174 02:35:07.040 --> 02:35:11.559 w CW, which has such a massive roster that you know, 3175 02:35:12.479 --> 02:35:16.719 there's no there's no challenge in them anyway, you know. 3176 02:35:17.319 --> 02:35:23.239 But at the same time, a more focused show is better. Yes, yeah, 3177 02:35:23.239 --> 02:35:25.479 they could take it every way. They could use less 3178 02:35:25.479 --> 02:35:28.959 people on roster. A w's hurt good, Yes, so I 3179 02:35:29.000 --> 02:35:29.520 get your point. 3180 02:35:29.559 --> 02:35:31.559 So Austin, they're blindsiding him, And yes that is Vince 3181 02:35:31.559 --> 02:35:33.440 you heard in there at some point, stop at stop it, 3182 02:35:34.120 --> 02:35:36.760 god dammit. So Vince is getting physically involved in angles here, 3183 02:35:37.559 --> 02:35:39.239 as well as a lot of the other agents and Gorilla. 3184 02:35:39.319 --> 02:35:40.799 Man, it was so dressed down. Then it's just like 3185 02:35:40.840 --> 02:35:42.520 a table face on the wall. It's yep. 3186 02:35:43.079 --> 02:35:46.040 There's no big, you know, elaborate lit room with the 3187 02:35:46.239 --> 02:35:49.000 monitors and everything like they have now and they show 3188 02:35:49.000 --> 02:35:51.479 all the time on TV. So uh yeah, Sid gets 3189 02:35:51.520 --> 02:35:53.159 back there and tries to break it up to preserve 3190 02:35:53.200 --> 02:35:55.879 as title match, and they're all swinging there. Sid is 3191 02:35:55.920 --> 02:35:59.159 actually swinging over Vince's back. Vince actually comes close to 3192 02:35:59.479 --> 02:36:02.680 a few story bullets here. Yes, they go and they 3193 02:36:02.719 --> 02:36:05.879 go and they go, and you know, you can you 3194 02:36:05.959 --> 02:36:07.559 get this sense that well they're yeah, they're trying to 3195 02:36:07.559 --> 02:36:09.120 break up the fight, but they're also trying to preserve 3196 02:36:09.159 --> 02:36:11.920 the main event. Like all these WB officials, yes, are 3197 02:36:11.959 --> 02:36:13.680 doing this because there's money on the line, not just 3198 02:36:13.719 --> 02:36:15.079 because they don't want to see a fight happen. 3199 02:36:15.600 --> 02:36:18.360 Yeah, there's still there's a lot. You know, you don't 3200 02:36:18.399 --> 02:36:21.920 want to, you don't want to, uh, you know, just 3201 02:36:22.040 --> 02:36:25.879 let it. You gotta be careful, you gotta be very 3202 02:36:25.920 --> 02:36:28.360 careful with this fucking thing, because this is the main event, 3203 02:36:28.760 --> 02:36:30.879 this is the champion, this is the number one contender. 3204 02:36:31.239 --> 02:36:34.040 You can't, you know, you can't just like take them 3205 02:36:34.079 --> 02:36:37.639 down and knock them unconscious, you know. 3206 02:36:37.760 --> 02:36:40.639 Right exactly, these are cash cows here, and Sid is 3207 02:36:40.680 --> 02:36:43.719 reaching like a total psycho, clawing over the referees backs. 3208 02:36:43.719 --> 02:36:45.120 So we're trying to break this thing up. He's got 3209 02:36:45.159 --> 02:36:47.399 a real tapped look in his face. I'm sure he 3210 02:36:47.440 --> 02:36:50.600 went I'm sure he went back. Is it regards nineteen 3211 02:36:50.680 --> 02:36:54.399 ninety three and side. 3212 02:36:54.360 --> 02:36:56.520 Ah, So it's it's wild. 3213 02:36:56.799 --> 02:36:59.200 All this is happening. Austin and Bred are still entangled. 3214 02:36:59.239 --> 02:37:02.840 So yeah, don't don't under sell Sid's role in the 3215 02:37:03.000 --> 02:37:05.319 legendary Brett Austin early days. 3216 02:37:05.959 --> 02:37:07.239 Yeah, he's crucial here. 3217 02:37:07.479 --> 02:37:11.920 He's yeah, he's like somebody that gets over indirectly, how 3218 02:37:12.040 --> 02:37:14.799 intensely these two hate each other because he's out there 3219 02:37:14.920 --> 02:37:17.959 trying to chase money and glory and fame, and he's 3220 02:37:18.639 --> 02:37:21.239 he's like the bystander while these two can't stay out 3221 02:37:21.239 --> 02:37:24.239 of each other's way, and he's in there in the way. 3222 02:37:24.319 --> 02:37:27.719 He's like intensely having to engage with their intensity kind 3223 02:37:27.760 --> 02:37:29.520 of ratches it up. You know, he's not just standing 3224 02:37:29.520 --> 02:37:32.000 there almost laughing at them or pat It's like, you know, 3225 02:37:32.079 --> 02:37:35.360 he's in the mix and they're not stopping, they're not afraid, 3226 02:37:35.399 --> 02:37:37.799 they're not backing down, and Sid brings a credibility to 3227 02:37:37.840 --> 02:37:38.440 a street fight. 3228 02:37:38.719 --> 02:37:42.040 You know he does. I mean just his size and 3229 02:37:43.120 --> 02:37:46.719 the way he throws shit. You know, it is very true. 3230 02:37:47.600 --> 02:37:52.840 He does make a fight, you know, seem more intense, 3231 02:37:52.879 --> 02:37:54.920 even though you know what he does in a fight 3232 02:37:55.120 --> 02:37:56.319 is complete garbage. 3233 02:37:56.479 --> 02:37:59.200 And you realize going back at it, like we're doing, like, yeah, 3234 02:38:00.000 --> 02:38:02.680 Austin was attacking Brett first and foremost, but Austin attacks Sid. 3235 02:38:03.159 --> 02:38:05.639 You know, Brett attacks Sid. It's not it's not like 3236 02:38:05.719 --> 02:38:06.200 Sid is a. 3237 02:38:06.520 --> 02:38:09.440 It's not a cut and dry, black and white situation. 3238 02:38:09.600 --> 02:38:11.959 It's like, you know, there's there, you know, there are 3239 02:38:12.040 --> 02:38:14.399 shades of gray, and then I see Pritchard in there. 3240 02:38:14.440 --> 02:38:17.399 It's it's it's it's all kinds of of characters. They're 3241 02:38:17.520 --> 02:38:19.120 breaking this thing up. They take a break, they come back, 3242 02:38:19.120 --> 02:38:23.040 they replay the attack Steve Austin had perpetrated. And Kevin 3243 02:38:23.120 --> 02:38:25.239 Kelly is now with Grilla Monsoon, who was still WW 3244 02:38:25.440 --> 02:38:28.120 president at the time. Yes he was, he's not, he's 3245 02:38:28.200 --> 02:38:30.799 he's actually full president, right, he's not in interim president. 3246 02:38:32.479 --> 02:38:35.120 I don't remember when that happened where they finally declared him. 3247 02:38:35.159 --> 02:38:37.840 I don't know either to be the full the full 3248 02:38:37.920 --> 02:38:40.000 champiost Jack Toney, did you have this or should I 3249 02:38:40.040 --> 02:38:41.200 read it off? I don't have this one. 3250 02:38:41.280 --> 02:38:41.440 Yeah. 3251 02:38:41.479 --> 02:38:43.559 He just talks about however since the Brumble, Steve Austin's 3252 02:38:43.559 --> 02:38:46.680 really had a vendetta and he's this close after tonight 3253 02:38:47.360 --> 02:38:49.399 going over the edge. We're not like other people, he 3254 02:38:49.520 --> 02:38:51.360 and of course referring to w c W, he says, 3255 02:38:51.399 --> 02:38:53.639 we don't tease you with stuff and not deliver. 3256 02:38:54.200 --> 02:38:56.559 So therefore, what are they referring to that time? Just 3257 02:38:56.639 --> 02:38:58.079 how you know, Nitro would. 3258 02:38:58.280 --> 02:39:00.239 Say in the main event, we'll have a big match 3259 02:39:00.280 --> 02:39:02.559 and then it would go thirty seconds and someone wouldrun 3260 02:39:02.639 --> 02:39:05.239 in and you wouldn't get the match. Oh okay, So 3261 02:39:05.280 --> 02:39:06.959 they're like saying, you know, we're not like them. Even 3262 02:39:07.000 --> 02:39:09.159 though there's a million reasons to cancel the Sid Brett match, 3263 02:39:09.200 --> 02:39:11.280 We're still going to do it. So it's kind of 3264 02:39:11.319 --> 02:39:13.600 to baby Face, not only Gorilla, but the company. And 3265 02:39:14.360 --> 02:39:16.479 Gorilla says, we promised you a defense and that's exactly 3266 02:39:16.520 --> 02:39:18.680 what we're going to have. I guarantee it, and so 3267 02:39:18.799 --> 02:39:22.239 much urgency, so live the way they did it, Like, yeah, 3268 02:39:22.680 --> 02:39:25.159 you have to immediately seek an opinion from Gorilla he 3269 02:39:25.200 --> 02:39:27.120 doesn't come to the ring two segments later to his 3270 02:39:27.280 --> 02:39:29.600 entrance music. You know, they chase him down backstage. That's 3271 02:39:29.600 --> 02:39:32.360 how it right to be done. That's I agree. I mean, 3272 02:39:32.559 --> 02:39:34.440 you know, not everyone needs to have an entrance like 3273 02:39:34.600 --> 02:39:39.360 you can. You can just let things happen, let things be. Yes, 3274 02:39:40.920 --> 02:39:45.360 that's you know, it's it's it's realer that way so. 3275 02:39:45.479 --> 02:39:45.920 Much, you know. 3276 02:39:46.120 --> 02:39:47.600 Yeah, and when you see you now, they put a 3277 02:39:47.639 --> 02:39:49.920 little graphic on during raw that shows the announced team 3278 02:39:49.920 --> 02:39:54.719 and their pictures. It's like a commentator, commentator, reporter, and 3279 02:39:55.000 --> 02:39:57.879 ring announcer. So they consider the person backstage holding the 3280 02:39:57.879 --> 02:40:00.120 stick a reporter, not just somebody that interviews people, but 3281 02:40:00.200 --> 02:40:03.600 someone that's like chasing down who to interview, and and 3282 02:40:03.760 --> 02:40:05.799 so in that in that sense, these people should be 3283 02:40:05.840 --> 02:40:07.559 getting comment from the top executives. 3284 02:40:07.639 --> 02:40:10.799 You know, that should be their job, right they shouldn't. Yeah, exactly, 3285 02:40:11.280 --> 02:40:12.079 So Flash. 3286 02:40:11.879 --> 02:40:14.000 Funk hits the ring. In case you were getting too 3287 02:40:14.040 --> 02:40:19.440 excited there, JR. Calls out the explosive new generation here 3288 02:40:19.479 --> 02:40:21.000 in the w w F. There's the Funk Cats. I 3289 02:40:21.079 --> 02:40:22.559 dared define those two ladies today. 3290 02:40:23.680 --> 02:40:25.319 I know, I was actually wondering who they were. Were 3291 02:40:25.360 --> 02:40:26.840 they up to yep. 3292 02:40:27.040 --> 02:40:30.079 I'd love to love to know what a song they 3293 02:40:30.120 --> 02:40:32.280 came up with for this fucking flash funk gimmick. Oh 3294 02:40:32.360 --> 02:40:37.120 my god, flash, he's so funk flash of bad funk, 3295 02:40:40.159 --> 02:40:42.360 some bad. So we all sit around and while he 3296 02:40:42.479 --> 02:40:45.680 dances under these lights, and of course it's always music. 3297 02:40:46.879 --> 02:40:48.360 Yeah, and uh. 3298 02:40:52.879 --> 02:40:57.239 Ded Dean d. 3299 02:40:59.239 --> 02:41:09.959 De Beanie meanie deep bean be deep be sounds good 3300 02:41:10.000 --> 02:41:10.440 to me. Man. 3301 02:41:10.799 --> 02:41:13.600 Yeah, I know, I'm fine, I'm comfortable here. I loved 3302 02:41:13.760 --> 02:41:18.280 his high energy theme. Oh yeah, you know, that was 3303 02:41:18.360 --> 02:41:20.239 so great. I like that he had it. 3304 02:41:20.319 --> 02:41:22.040 I really hated it when he changed it to the 3305 02:41:23.040 --> 02:41:25.120 you know when it was the first the the the 3306 02:41:26.440 --> 02:41:33.920 police siren, the international police siren. Right, no, no, no, no, 3307 02:41:34.360 --> 02:41:38.159 no out working No, this one was great. It should 3308 02:41:38.239 --> 02:41:39.760 not have ever changed em. 3309 02:41:39.799 --> 02:41:41.959 And bulldogs still have the tax straps from Buried Alive 3310 02:41:42.360 --> 02:41:43.840 when they want it from the smoking guns as we 3311 02:41:43.920 --> 02:41:44.399 talked about. 3312 02:41:44.600 --> 02:41:44.959 That's right. 3313 02:41:45.399 --> 02:41:48.120 Yes, Clarence Mason, which is odd since Clarence was also 3314 02:41:48.159 --> 02:41:49.600 in the Nation of Domination earlier. 3315 02:41:51.000 --> 02:41:54.360 Yes, he's got quite a I mean that is interesting 3316 02:41:54.520 --> 02:41:56.760 because like they don't actually, you know, he's got this 3317 02:41:56.840 --> 02:42:04.000 whole extended stable but nothing really, but they don't like 3318 02:42:05.879 --> 02:42:11.399 the Bulldog and Owen don't commune with the Nation at all. 3319 02:42:11.479 --> 02:42:13.559 No, I mean Clarence Mason came in as the lawyer 3320 02:42:13.639 --> 02:42:16.159 for Camp Cornett, which was Vader, Owen and Bulldog, and 3321 02:42:16.239 --> 02:42:18.280 so that's kind of why I'm still there. But then 3322 02:42:18.319 --> 02:42:20.040 the Nation comes along and they think Clarence will make 3323 02:42:20.079 --> 02:42:21.680 a nice fit for that group, and they don't bother 3324 02:42:21.799 --> 02:42:24.120 to kind of reconcile the two. He just comes out separately. 3325 02:42:24.159 --> 02:42:26.280 I mean, Owen of course eventually would join the Nation, 3326 02:42:26.520 --> 02:42:27.760 But I don't think they really had anything to do 3327 02:42:27.799 --> 02:42:29.120 with Clarence Mason necessarily. 3328 02:42:30.079 --> 02:42:31.920 No, I mean he was long gone by that point. 3329 02:42:31.920 --> 02:42:34.239 Anyway, I don't think the idea came from a while. 3330 02:42:34.280 --> 02:42:36.200 We have Clarence, of both of these guys, we got 3331 02:42:36.280 --> 02:42:39.840 to figure this out. So Jair informs us that Marlena 3332 02:42:39.920 --> 02:42:41.840 was coughing up blood backstage as a result of the 3333 02:42:41.840 --> 02:42:44.680 attack from China, and she'll be going to a Nashville hospital. 3334 02:42:44.760 --> 02:42:44.920 Later. 3335 02:42:45.200 --> 02:42:48.840 Jerris says that the lady who attacked Marlena, and then 3336 02:42:48.879 --> 02:42:50.799 Lawler cuts him off immediately and says, give me a break, 3337 02:42:50.799 --> 02:42:53.440 that's not a lady. Jared says, I'm not going to 3338 02:42:53.479 --> 02:42:55.319 go there, they talk a little bit more about it. 3339 02:42:55.319 --> 02:42:57.760 They talk about rumbl a month ago and how Owen 3340 02:42:57.840 --> 02:43:00.600 had purposely eliminated his tag team championship Parkner the British 3341 02:43:00.600 --> 02:43:04.120 Bulldog from the Rumble match, and then tried to wave 3342 02:43:04.159 --> 02:43:08.159 it on stone Cold. And last night they show Lafun 3343 02:43:08.200 --> 02:43:12.120 in Furnace wrestling Owen and Bulldog and Owen accidentally quote 3344 02:43:12.159 --> 02:43:14.200 unquote kicked Bulldogs. So they're starting to build tension in 3345 02:43:14.239 --> 02:43:16.600 the ranks. They didn't consummate that breakup, but they are. 3346 02:43:16.840 --> 02:43:19.159 They are kind of looking ahead to you know that 3347 02:43:19.239 --> 02:43:22.399 the European Title tournament final will be between the two, 3348 02:43:23.239 --> 02:43:25.479 right funk first Owen and they were and weren't they 3349 02:43:25.559 --> 02:43:29.559 going in that direction until the brett Heel turn. 3350 02:43:30.239 --> 02:43:31.239 Yeah, yeah, it was. Yeah. 3351 02:43:31.239 --> 02:43:35.879 I think eventually Austin feuding with Bulldog would have had 3352 02:43:35.920 --> 02:43:39.159 something to do with Owen uh costing Bulldog to match 3353 02:43:39.239 --> 02:43:40.760 or turning on them or something, and then they would 3354 02:43:40.760 --> 02:43:43.479 have gone Bulldog Owen, I think, and they ended up changing. 3355 02:43:43.639 --> 02:43:45.159 Hu Man, I mean, Jesus, I would have been so 3356 02:43:45.239 --> 02:43:46.159 great for Steve Austin. 3357 02:43:46.680 --> 02:43:49.280 Yeah, I know, I know that would have been different, 3358 02:43:49.799 --> 02:43:52.280 I know, And instead we get Bulldog and Owen versus 3359 02:43:52.360 --> 02:43:53.959 Vader and Mankind at WrestleMania. 3360 02:43:54.000 --> 02:43:55.120 What a weird match that was? 3361 02:43:55.559 --> 02:43:55.840 That was? 3362 02:43:56.000 --> 02:43:58.479 That was so fucking weird too. I don't think i'd 3363 02:43:58.520 --> 02:44:01.319 ever see I mean, I guess we saw it buried alive, 3364 02:44:01.399 --> 02:44:03.399 but like two heel tag teams, and but I mean 3365 02:44:03.479 --> 02:44:07.200 especially because the Mankind and Vader one was such a 3366 02:44:07.440 --> 02:44:11.559 fucking like, what a weird pairing. 3367 02:44:11.680 --> 02:44:13.280 Yeah, they had nothing to do with each other and 3368 02:44:13.319 --> 02:44:16.280 their hired WWA fronts and then all of a sudden they're. 3369 02:44:16.280 --> 02:44:18.200 Well, they were both managed by Paul Barr at the time. 3370 02:44:18.520 --> 02:44:21.719 I don't know how the fuck Vader became got involved 3371 02:44:21.760 --> 02:44:24.559 with Paul BarreR instead of Cornette. I don't know where 3372 02:44:24.639 --> 02:44:25.520 that fucking happened. 3373 02:44:25.559 --> 02:44:30.040 But didn't didn't Paul Barr come out en route to 3374 02:44:30.159 --> 02:44:32.159 Undertaker losing to Vader at Royal Rumble. Didn't he come 3375 02:44:32.200 --> 02:44:34.399 out and hit Vader and hit Undertaker? And that's where 3376 02:44:34.399 --> 02:44:37.440 I realized he was aligning with Vader. Maybe there was 3377 02:44:37.479 --> 02:44:39.639 something like that because Vader had you know, he'd never 3378 02:44:39.719 --> 02:44:42.360 really formally left Camp Cornet, but Camp Cornett kind of 3379 02:44:42.360 --> 02:44:46.840 fell at heart. Cornett became just a TV announcer then I. 3380 02:44:46.879 --> 02:44:49.600 Mean, and then he really wasn't even on TV for 3381 02:44:49.680 --> 02:44:49.959 a while. 3382 02:44:51.319 --> 02:44:54.319 Absolutely, let's slash Funk for someone heart. Lots of kip 3383 02:44:54.399 --> 02:44:55.879 ups early, as you can imagine with these two in 3384 02:44:55.920 --> 02:44:58.399 the ring. They got a slammy on the ring steps 3385 02:44:58.479 --> 02:45:00.840 who already won his Slammy Award. They get an over 3386 02:45:00.920 --> 02:45:03.440 the shoulder shot of the trophy Funk proving too quick 3387 02:45:03.479 --> 02:45:05.000 for Owen in the early going. And no one still 3388 02:45:05.000 --> 02:45:07.799 goes woo during a stalemate like he somehow triumphed even 3389 02:45:07.840 --> 02:45:09.600 though flash Funk totally got the better of it. 3390 02:45:09.719 --> 02:45:12.479 There is nothing fucking better than that. That is that 3391 02:45:12.760 --> 02:45:17.639 is key. That is fucking prime Owen Hart right, that's 3392 02:45:17.680 --> 02:45:18.319 actually correct. 3393 02:45:19.360 --> 02:45:21.920 No one, no one picked a better moment to celebrate 3394 02:45:22.159 --> 02:45:23.079 undeservedly than he. 3395 02:45:23.280 --> 02:45:25.959 Oh, he was so fucking brilliant at that. 3396 02:45:26.120 --> 02:45:27.600 It just looks so I'm gonna say it, you know, 3397 02:45:27.639 --> 02:45:30.680 I'm gonna say it. Owen's face at this stage. I 3398 02:45:30.799 --> 02:45:32.959 want you to picture it, breathing heavy, with his hair 3399 02:45:33.000 --> 02:45:38.760 all stringy. Yep, yeah, looking so uh distastefully in other 3400 02:45:38.840 --> 02:45:44.280 people the scowl. Ah, it was so funny. His face 3401 02:45:44.399 --> 02:45:45.280 is hilarious. 3402 02:45:46.000 --> 02:45:48.840 I really, you know, I just I didn't appreciate O 3403 02:45:48.920 --> 02:45:50.840 one heart nearly as much as I should have. I 3404 02:45:50.920 --> 02:45:52.879 know me too, I mean because you know why. I mean, 3405 02:45:52.879 --> 02:45:56.200 I was so annoyed with him. I was so pissed 3406 02:45:56.200 --> 02:45:59.799 off at him all the time because he was so annoying. 3407 02:46:00.079 --> 02:46:01.399 But he's so brilliant. 3408 02:46:01.399 --> 02:46:03.239 Turns out he's really good at that and keeping your 3409 02:46:03.280 --> 02:46:05.760 guest off exactly exactly he was doing his job. 3410 02:46:06.520 --> 02:46:07.000 Jr. Says. 3411 02:46:07.000 --> 02:46:09.559 A rep of VCW is on the phone, So I 3412 02:46:09.639 --> 02:46:11.319 guess you can just call Monday night raw and what 3413 02:46:11.399 --> 02:46:12.120 are what the number is? 3414 02:46:12.399 --> 02:46:15.280 I mean, yeah, here I got I got the representative 3415 02:46:15.319 --> 02:46:15.959 phone called one. 3416 02:46:18.239 --> 02:46:20.959 Well, ladies and gentlemen, we've just been informed Ken, you've 3417 02:46:20.959 --> 02:46:23.719 got a phone call. I'm talking about Oh Appairly, there's 3418 02:46:23.879 --> 02:46:26.920 a representative of the of E c W on the 3419 02:46:27.000 --> 02:46:27.840 phone that would like to. 3420 02:46:27.799 --> 02:46:28.239 Speak to you. 3421 02:46:29.559 --> 02:46:32.000 You gotta be kidding me, not kidding, tell me the truth, 3422 02:46:32.040 --> 02:46:34.479 that's what for what I'll talk to him. 3423 02:46:34.719 --> 02:46:34.920 Hello. 3424 02:46:35.639 --> 02:46:39.840 Unlike Vince McMahon, I don't need to hide behind representatives. 3425 02:46:40.200 --> 02:46:45.959 This is the owner operator, an executive producer. I'm Extreme Championship, 3426 02:46:46.040 --> 02:46:51.879 Pressley King, Pauline, Paul Haymon, dangerously call me what you like, 3427 02:46:52.239 --> 02:46:57.600 but seeming. Next Monday, Manhattan sent up with all the 3428 02:46:57.760 --> 02:47:02.760 athletes Extreme Chimpionship Wrestling who has educated as you may be, 3429 02:47:03.200 --> 02:47:04.920 you'll claim never to have heard of. 3430 02:47:05.760 --> 02:47:09.840 A paul E. Are you telling me that you're gonna 3431 02:47:09.840 --> 02:47:10.920 accept my little challenge? 3432 02:47:11.000 --> 02:47:11.159 Huh? 3433 02:47:11.200 --> 02:47:13.959 You're gonna bring some of your big name stars down 3434 02:47:14.040 --> 02:47:16.120 and visit us superstars next week at. 3435 02:47:16.040 --> 02:47:17.399 The Manhattan Centers. That what you're telling you? 3436 02:47:17.520 --> 02:47:19.879 He Wait a minute, Wait a minute, quitted, Paulie. You're 3437 02:47:19.879 --> 02:47:22.280 gonna bring some of the big boys, like the Blue 3438 02:47:22.440 --> 02:47:25.120 Meat or maybe the sand Man. 3439 02:47:25.239 --> 02:47:25.799 You ever heard of that? 3440 02:47:26.000 --> 02:47:26.200 Huh? 3441 02:47:26.440 --> 02:47:29.399 Sandman or Samboo signed. 3442 02:47:29.159 --> 02:47:32.920 You sideways, maybe Chess. Maybe you'll have a whole different 3443 02:47:33.000 --> 02:47:35.680 respect for Extreme Championship Pressley. 3444 02:47:35.799 --> 02:47:39.360 They have absolutely zero respect for you e c W 3445 02:47:39.680 --> 02:47:42.280 and all of the misfits and has bins. 3446 02:47:42.200 --> 02:47:44.920 And no talent bombs that are in ECW. Do you 3447 02:47:45.040 --> 02:47:47.399 understand that if you would let. 3448 02:47:47.360 --> 02:47:50.040 The police and the security let us sit next week 3449 02:47:50.239 --> 02:47:52.719 and as long as the Neighborhood Watch doesn't have to 3450 02:47:52.799 --> 02:47:55.520 be informed that you're in the neighborhood, I'll see you 3451 02:47:56.079 --> 02:47:59.920 face che face with the e c W stars alongside 3452 02:48:00.079 --> 02:48:05.239 of me next week, Live Manhattan. Come on down, Come 3453 02:48:05.280 --> 02:48:05.680 on down. 3454 02:48:05.760 --> 02:48:08.440 You probably won't recognize the place because of Manhattan Centers 3455 02:48:08.440 --> 02:48:08.920 and arena. 3456 02:48:09.120 --> 02:48:12.440 Not a bingo hall were you used to performing? You'll 3457 02:48:12.639 --> 02:48:15.200 stand out hour, Let's not lookout. Ask him if you 3458 02:48:15.280 --> 02:48:18.840 ring out down anymore. I'm thinking I want to talking 3459 02:48:18.840 --> 02:48:20.479 about I'm trying to watch this man. 3460 02:48:21.879 --> 02:48:26.280 Jesus, Oh the Neighborhood Watch. Did you get that reference? 3461 02:48:26.479 --> 02:48:26.680 Yeah? 3462 02:48:27.159 --> 02:48:29.440 No, basically like he's a sex offender and can't be 3463 02:48:30.360 --> 02:48:33.639 Oh okay, And that, apparently, according to the Observer, was 3464 02:48:33.639 --> 02:48:35.280 a low blow that Lawler was not expecting. 3465 02:48:36.040 --> 02:48:37.280 Oh that'ls of reports. 3466 02:48:37.319 --> 02:48:39.719 There was real heat on the February seventeenth Raw between 3467 02:48:39.719 --> 02:48:41.639 Paul Hayman and Jerry Lawler when Hayman brought up the 3468 02:48:41.639 --> 02:48:44.799 Neighborhood Watch program, alluding to Lawler's legal problems a few 3469 02:48:44.879 --> 02:48:47.719 years back, and Lawler shot back about cracking his jaw, 3470 02:48:47.799 --> 02:48:50.200 which he did with a punch in Haiti, Missouri, in 3471 02:48:50.280 --> 02:48:53.600 nineteen eighty seven, when Hayman was a rookie. Although both 3472 02:48:53.639 --> 02:48:55.520 sounded like they hated each other on the Feby twenty 3473 02:48:55.559 --> 02:48:58.479 fourth Raw, and both probably meant the majority of what 3474 02:48:58.559 --> 02:49:01.200 they said, everything on that show was worked out beforehand. 3475 02:49:01.280 --> 02:49:04.079 Is WWF talked with Hayman on February twentieth about why 3476 02:49:04.680 --> 02:49:07.360 what he couldn't say about Waller on the air, and 3477 02:49:07.479 --> 02:49:08.280 that the two were to. 3478 02:49:08.280 --> 02:49:09.559 Act professional with each other. 3479 02:49:10.280 --> 02:49:12.319 Wow, it's aiming for you give him a live situation 3480 02:49:12.440 --> 02:49:13.479 and he's gonna do something like that. 3481 02:49:14.120 --> 02:49:15.600 Yeah, or sure that makes sense. 3482 02:49:15.799 --> 02:49:17.559 So Flash Funk gets a plancha to the floor with 3483 02:49:17.639 --> 02:49:20.760 a bit of hangtime Happy birthday. Michael Jordan Jr. Says, 3484 02:49:21.000 --> 02:49:21.520 So there's that. 3485 02:49:22.200 --> 02:49:22.520 Okay. 3486 02:49:22.680 --> 02:49:24.719 Bulldog comes out and gets in Clarence Mason's face, and 3487 02:49:24.760 --> 02:49:27.000 Bulldog is saying Clarence is going to costo in the match. 3488 02:49:27.200 --> 02:49:28.959 They take a break, they come back and Owen bridges 3489 02:49:29.040 --> 02:49:31.200 up from the bottom and Funk hooks at backslide for two. 3490 02:49:31.440 --> 02:49:34.360 Owen with the Germans souplex that absolutely fold scorpio and 3491 02:49:34.440 --> 02:49:38.239 half for two. Owen could Germans, Yes he could. Yes, 3492 02:49:38.280 --> 02:49:40.200 he learned a lot working for Otto Vaughan, so I'll 3493 02:49:40.200 --> 02:49:42.559 tell you that, yes he did. It's fun how they're 3494 02:49:42.559 --> 02:49:45.479 going nuts about bootleg EACW talent while Flash Funk is 3495 02:49:45.479 --> 02:49:48.239 in there, who just came fresh off ECW, to say 3496 02:49:48.280 --> 02:49:50.520 nothing of Steve Austin, Brian Pillman and a lot of 3497 02:49:50.600 --> 02:49:53.079 other guys they had under contract at the time. Ron 3498 02:49:53.120 --> 02:49:56.200 Simmons had come through. There they do a split screen again. 3499 02:49:56.319 --> 02:49:58.600 Austin is backstage. Man, they just do not let you 3500 02:49:58.680 --> 02:49:59.959 watch more than two minutes of this match. 3501 02:50:00.879 --> 02:50:03.440 It's well, I mean, that's the thing like there, there's 3502 02:50:03.600 --> 02:50:06.559 so much I mean, think about what you know in 3503 02:50:06.680 --> 02:50:09.159 every in all these matches in the past see here, 3504 02:50:09.319 --> 02:50:13.959 Oh yeah, the past three matches. The only one that's 3505 02:50:14.040 --> 02:50:18.920 been clean was the curiously the first fucking match with 3506 02:50:19.040 --> 02:50:24.040 Marilyn Vega in terms of interruptions with other people commenting 3507 02:50:24.079 --> 02:50:24.600 on ship. 3508 02:50:24.479 --> 02:50:26.280 That's because they had Sable out there, which they thought 3509 02:50:26.360 --> 02:50:28.840 checked the box of you know, Sideshow to focus on. 3510 02:50:29.600 --> 02:50:33.600 I guess, yeah, but you know, here's here's uh, here's Steve. Austin, Steve, 3511 02:50:34.319 --> 02:50:36.159 are you have you lost it? 3512 02:50:36.280 --> 02:50:36.799 What's going on? 3513 02:50:38.440 --> 02:50:38.879 What do you want? 3514 02:50:39.000 --> 02:50:40.479 Time? You were you gonna ask me a question? 3515 02:50:40.600 --> 02:50:40.840 Or why? 3516 02:50:40.920 --> 02:50:41.079 Why? 3517 02:50:42.360 --> 02:50:43.600 What is what's wrong with you? 3518 02:50:43.840 --> 02:50:46.239 If you what's wrong with me? Guerrilla Montsus is on 3519 02:50:46.360 --> 02:50:48.760 this far from going over the edge. I done went 3520 02:50:48.799 --> 02:50:51.440 over the edge. I'm about this far from women his ass. 3521 02:50:51.959 --> 02:50:54.319 He makes up the final four match of which I'm 3522 02:50:54.360 --> 02:50:56.879 a participant and I was not never supposed to have. 3523 02:50:57.559 --> 02:50:59.360 I won to roll rumble Ferris. 3524 02:50:59.159 --> 02:51:02.879 Square throwing twenty nine piece of trash over the top row. 3525 02:51:03.399 --> 02:51:06.319 There ain't no such thing as a mister replay rule 3526 02:51:06.520 --> 02:51:07.639 in the WWF. 3527 02:51:08.280 --> 02:51:11.440 Sean, Michael's getting a little hurt knee, so he quits. 3528 02:51:12.120 --> 02:51:16.120 By all right, that should make me the WWF champion. 3529 02:51:16.399 --> 02:51:17.639 And that's the bottom line. 3530 02:51:18.479 --> 02:51:19.600 You hold me back. 3531 02:51:19.879 --> 02:51:22.920 This whole organization holds me back because I ain't full 3532 02:51:23.000 --> 02:51:27.040 of glitzen blammer and big smiles for all the publicity shots. 3533 02:51:27.760 --> 02:51:29.799 The bottom line is open. 3534 02:51:29.879 --> 02:51:32.479 I'm opening up a whole keg of whoop ass and 3535 02:51:32.559 --> 02:51:35.879 I'm serving it to everybody in the WWF. 3536 02:51:36.200 --> 02:51:41.120 And that's the bottom line. Costole Cole sets all right, well, 3537 02:51:41.280 --> 02:51:41.600 thank you. 3538 02:51:41.959 --> 02:51:58.799 I guess the web wrestling podcast, the wrestling podcast that 3539 02:51:58.959 --> 02:52:02.399 knows the boys need their candy. It's the Lapsed Fan. 3540 02:52:17.079 --> 02:52:21.000 He's the Lapsed Fan Wrestling podcast with Jack and Carno 3541 02:52:21.399 --> 02:52:22.479 and JP Sorrow. 3542 02:52:23.319 --> 02:52:25.440 I mean, that's a breakthrough problem right there. That is 3543 02:52:25.600 --> 02:52:29.200 absolutely I mean, first of all, I mean I never 3544 02:52:29.360 --> 02:52:33.319 even thought of the logic of the fact that he's 3545 02:52:33.360 --> 02:52:41.479 the number one contender and Michael's you know, forfeits the belt. 3546 02:52:42.719 --> 02:52:44.639 You know, I would imagine that Austin does have a 3547 02:52:44.719 --> 02:52:46.840 legitimate class. I want the royal rubbo what the fuck? 3548 02:52:47.000 --> 02:52:47.120 Right? 3549 02:52:47.879 --> 02:52:48.079 Yeah? 3550 02:52:48.959 --> 02:52:51.200 And then I love that he also plays the uh 3551 02:52:52.319 --> 02:52:55.639 he plays the Sid card. If we're fucking paying tribute 3552 02:52:55.639 --> 02:52:59.719 to Sid him talking about you know that he's being 3553 02:52:59.760 --> 02:53:03.239 held down because he's not out there being all mister publicity. 3554 02:53:03.280 --> 02:53:05.520 And it's the same thing, is it because I'm not 3555 02:53:05.600 --> 02:53:07.479 a big movie star like Hulcos? 3556 02:53:07.600 --> 02:53:07.879 Wow? 3557 02:53:08.959 --> 02:53:09.479 Same thing? 3558 02:53:09.879 --> 02:53:14.239 Huge point there, huge point. This is a fucking important raw. 3559 02:53:15.000 --> 02:53:17.200 It really is. I mean it's a game changer. I 3560 02:53:17.239 --> 02:53:22.040 mean I think it also, you know, it just it 3561 02:53:22.200 --> 02:53:27.840 really establishes what they were going to do moving forward. 3562 02:53:27.639 --> 02:53:31.799 Right, how they were going to try to hold your 3563 02:53:31.840 --> 02:53:34.520 attention every single segment. 3564 02:53:35.440 --> 02:53:37.120 Because they really had to. I mean they were, they 3565 02:53:37.159 --> 02:53:41.440 were completely they were outgunned by w CW in terms 3566 02:53:41.479 --> 02:53:43.600 of the unpredictability factor for so long. 3567 02:53:43.799 --> 02:53:45.559 And he says so much of that promo that's like 3568 02:53:45.719 --> 02:53:48.680 foundational to his character. It's not just about the circumstance 3569 02:53:48.719 --> 02:53:50.159 he finds himself in at that point in time and 3570 02:53:50.200 --> 02:53:52.399 the opponent. Right, he says things about opening cans of 3571 02:53:52.440 --> 02:53:55.719 what bass he talks about attacking Gorilla Monsoon. He's saying 3572 02:53:55.719 --> 02:53:59.840 a lot of things that like what would be characteristic 3573 02:54:00.120 --> 02:54:02.760 everything he would do going forward, not just to these wrestlers. 3574 02:54:03.639 --> 02:54:04.479 Yeah, exactly. 3575 02:54:04.639 --> 02:54:07.639 His neck veins are bulging and he's oh, he's so, 3576 02:54:07.959 --> 02:54:11.319 he's so pissed off all the time, all the time, 3577 02:54:11.440 --> 02:54:13.280 Like you're gonna ask me a question, you idiot? 3578 02:54:13.479 --> 02:54:17.479 Like yeah, instant fucking piece of shit, redneck awesome. 3579 02:54:19.639 --> 02:54:22.079 They you know how it started? How think about this, 3580 02:54:22.319 --> 02:54:24.559 how it started when he got heel heel against Triple 3581 02:54:24.600 --> 02:54:27.360 Ah to the Buried Alive show. Remember we talked about that, yep, 3582 02:54:27.440 --> 02:54:28.959 And how the people are like, holy shit, like if 3583 02:54:29.000 --> 02:54:31.639 he's wrestling a heel, we're now allowed to chant for 3584 02:54:31.719 --> 02:54:34.360 this guy who's just who just doesn't give a fuck 3585 02:54:34.399 --> 02:54:36.920 and is just starting to show that he didn't give 3586 02:54:36.920 --> 02:54:39.040 a fuck because they were building the Brett Survivisories match. 3587 02:54:39.559 --> 02:54:42.280 Yep. Oh my god. Now we're here just several months later, 3588 02:54:42.319 --> 02:54:42.680 and it's. 3589 02:54:42.600 --> 02:54:43.200 Like, this is the guy. 3590 02:54:44.040 --> 02:54:46.600 This is the fucking guy. He goes from wrestling Triple 3591 02:54:46.639 --> 02:54:48.760 Ah in a replacement match on the opening match Buried 3592 02:54:48.799 --> 02:54:51.799 Alive in October to when they're getting together to shoot 3593 02:54:51.840 --> 02:54:54.280 the uh, the the the opening for the new Raw 3594 02:54:54.440 --> 02:54:57.159 is War title sequence. He's the one walking through the 3595 02:54:57.239 --> 02:54:58.360 sparking doors. 3596 02:54:58.559 --> 02:54:59.799 Right in the exact warehouse. 3597 02:55:01.360 --> 02:55:04.360 Absolutely perfect timing for him to just go off like 3598 02:55:04.440 --> 02:55:07.559 this because the company was ready to build around what 3599 02:55:07.680 --> 02:55:10.200 he was doing, instead of putting it in a corner, 3600 02:55:10.360 --> 02:55:12.159 you know, or making it just like one little piece 3601 02:55:12.200 --> 02:55:14.440 of the presentation. It's like, no, what Steve Austin is 3602 02:55:14.479 --> 02:55:16.440 doing is not just gonna be his thing. It's gonna 3603 02:55:16.440 --> 02:55:18.879 be the whole fucking identity of the whole company now. 3604 02:55:18.920 --> 02:55:22.639 Right exactly, it's gonna again, it's going to change the 3605 02:55:22.760 --> 02:55:24.559 whole fucking face of the business. 3606 02:55:24.760 --> 02:55:26.559 And a lot of it is right there the raw material. 3607 02:55:26.879 --> 02:55:29.319 So Owen back of the ring, misses a corner charge 3608 02:55:29.360 --> 02:55:30.879 and gets crotched on the top rope like he was 3609 02:55:30.920 --> 02:55:33.120 going almost for a bronco buster and a standing opponent, 3610 02:55:33.120 --> 02:55:35.120 which is a strange idea because if he hit it, 3611 02:55:35.159 --> 02:55:37.000 I don't know what he would have accomplished. Anyway, Now 3612 02:55:37.040 --> 02:55:38.680 what's he done? Then he kind of hurts himself more 3613 02:55:38.719 --> 02:55:40.520 than he hurts his opponent with the body slam, goes 3614 02:55:40.600 --> 02:55:42.319 up top and swords with a cross body for two 3615 02:55:42.399 --> 02:55:45.280 and then another slam climbs again and he moon salts, 3616 02:55:45.319 --> 02:55:46.280 this time to slash Funk. 3617 02:55:46.360 --> 02:55:46.799 That gets to. 3618 02:55:48.520 --> 02:55:50.079 You know, flash makes they can't believe it eyes that 3619 02:55:50.120 --> 02:55:51.920 Owen kicked out of that one. The whip is reversed. 3620 02:55:51.920 --> 02:55:54.799 Tavy Boy Smith with a with a Slammy Award trophy 3621 02:55:54.879 --> 02:55:56.719 hits the back of the head of a flash Funk 3622 02:55:56.760 --> 02:55:59.000 from the ring apron behind the referees back, and then 3623 02:55:59.040 --> 02:56:00.840 Owen hits a spinning heel kick and then Davy Boy 3624 02:56:00.920 --> 02:56:03.280 holds down flash Funk's leg from outside the ring. 3625 02:56:03.760 --> 02:56:06.399 One. Jesus, is flash Funk that much of a threat? Now? 3626 02:56:07.079 --> 02:56:09.360 I mean Jesus Christ, weapons and three guys to beat 3627 02:56:09.399 --> 02:56:09.719 this guy. 3628 02:56:10.639 --> 02:56:12.639 One, two, three, It's over Owen hart Plint's flash Funk 3629 02:56:12.680 --> 02:56:15.959 here and raw Every seventeenth, nineteen ninety seven. Jerry Lawler 3630 02:56:16.000 --> 02:56:18.000 plays it up like they're on the same page. Owen 3631 02:56:18.040 --> 02:56:20.920 and Davy Boy and Davy Boys all smiles and hoists 3632 02:56:21.239 --> 02:56:23.799 the tax Tam Championship, but Owen is clearly visibly pissed 3633 02:56:24.319 --> 02:56:27.719 that a bulldog interfered in his behalf. Russell MANI promo 3634 02:56:27.920 --> 02:56:31.639 every great athlete aspires to perform on the ultimate stage. 3635 02:56:31.760 --> 02:56:35.399 They're still in that stage, the big I mean of stage. 3636 02:56:35.440 --> 02:56:36.440 It sounds like you're gonna die. 3637 02:56:36.639 --> 02:56:40.680 Oh my god, the big soaring emotion. Emotions pour from 3638 02:56:40.879 --> 02:56:46.399 unrestrained places where memories are indelibly etched in the annals 3639 02:56:46.639 --> 02:56:50.600 of time, Jesus Christ. And when you si calm down 3640 02:56:50.719 --> 02:56:53.799 at this calm down, they don't just call you great, 3641 02:56:53.920 --> 02:56:58.200 They call you a legend. And then they go back 3642 02:56:58.200 --> 02:57:01.120 to triple h. She's coming to the ring, to his 3643 02:57:01.799 --> 02:57:03.040 classical music, and they. 3644 02:57:02.959 --> 02:57:06.680 Reach it's a fucking Beethoven. Finally, Yah, the Beethoven music. 3645 02:57:07.760 --> 02:57:10.719 They replay China grabbing Marlena, and it's kind of money 3646 02:57:10.760 --> 02:57:12.079 to watch the fans who are right next to it 3647 02:57:12.159 --> 02:57:16.559 making faces like whoa Like they want to smile about this, sunny. 3648 02:57:16.000 --> 02:57:16.600 Games, but it's not. 3649 02:57:17.440 --> 02:57:19.840 They take a break together that a little bit, isn't it, folks. 3650 02:57:20.120 --> 02:57:22.319 They show the ninteen ninety seven Slamy Awards presented by 3651 02:57:22.360 --> 02:57:25.920 Full Metal. The album This is the Entrance Music album 3652 02:57:25.959 --> 02:57:28.680 They did that I got in the mail as a 3653 02:57:28.840 --> 02:57:30.959 as a as a send away present for sending a 3654 02:57:31.000 --> 02:57:32.440 copy of my cable bill to them. 3655 02:57:33.440 --> 02:57:36.559 Oh my god, did you really Yeah, that's tremendous. 3656 02:57:38.079 --> 02:57:40.159 They talk about how on March twenty. First, the Slammy 3657 02:57:40.159 --> 02:57:42.680 Awards are actually going to be live on the USA Network, 3658 02:57:44.040 --> 02:57:46.239 And that was an interesting slammyes. That's the one where 3659 02:57:47.120 --> 02:57:51.760 Triple H calls Sonny the slut basically and uh, really, 3660 02:57:52.200 --> 02:57:53.959 I don't know that, Yeah, he says. He says a 3661 02:57:54.040 --> 02:57:57.319 few things like ribbing her, but like a little too harshly. 3662 02:57:57.879 --> 02:58:01.280 And I think that's the one where under Taker like 3663 02:58:01.399 --> 02:58:04.680 calls out his ex wife as like, oh my god, 3664 02:58:04.799 --> 02:58:07.200 really speaking, it calls out the wrong It mentions her 3665 02:58:07.559 --> 02:58:11.760 like she's there and he's like he's talking as the 3666 02:58:11.840 --> 02:58:15.000 Undertaker and these like cryptic biblical terms, but it's like, 3667 02:58:15.079 --> 02:58:17.600 you are the one that I would go to the 3668 02:58:18.520 --> 02:58:20.000 Fiery depths for or something. 3669 02:58:20.920 --> 02:58:21.680 It's so weird. 3670 02:58:22.440 --> 02:58:24.440 And then they have that's one where Steve Austin's up 3671 02:58:24.440 --> 02:58:26.559 there and says all he talks is shit big time 3672 02:58:27.239 --> 02:58:29.879 on that Slammy Awards. Maybe we'd do that show one day. 3673 02:58:29.959 --> 02:58:31.680 It's a good one. Should Yeah, maybe a. 3674 02:58:31.680 --> 02:58:34.920 Christmas present for everybody. So Hockey Talk Man's with Jerry 3675 02:58:35.000 --> 02:58:36.760 Lawler guarantees he'll take home a Slammy. 3676 02:58:36.920 --> 02:58:37.200 Jr. 3677 02:58:37.680 --> 02:58:41.520 Was with Triple H at the announced position and says 3678 02:58:41.520 --> 02:58:44.000 Are you associated with this woman? This, of course didn't 3679 02:58:44.000 --> 02:58:45.559 have a name for it. Yet they're talking, Oh here 3680 02:58:45.680 --> 02:58:47.520 I got I have yeah, I have this here for you. 3681 02:58:47.680 --> 02:58:48.639 It's kind of funny. 3682 02:58:49.520 --> 02:58:52.079 Are you involved with this woman? It's attacked Marlene or twice? 3683 02:58:52.280 --> 02:58:52.479 Did you? 3684 02:58:52.680 --> 02:58:53.879 Are you associated with her? 3685 02:58:54.079 --> 02:58:54.239 Yes? 3686 02:58:54.360 --> 02:58:54.520 Or no? 3687 02:58:54.840 --> 02:58:56.879 Jim Ross, I don't know who she is. You know, 3688 02:58:57.000 --> 02:58:58.159 women all over. 3689 02:58:58.040 --> 02:59:00.600 The world go crazy for me of all shit, sizes 3690 02:59:00.639 --> 02:59:01.120 and colors. 3691 02:59:01.559 --> 02:59:05.520 It's not my fault. I don't know who this woman is. Women, Frankly, 3692 02:59:05.680 --> 02:59:06.280 I don't care. 3693 02:59:06.680 --> 02:59:08.399 I don't know who this woman is. 3694 02:59:09.440 --> 02:59:11.239 You got to strike when the horses mount. I'm just wonder. 3695 02:59:12.680 --> 02:59:13.920 I hope he's telling the truth. 3696 02:59:13.799 --> 02:59:16.760 But be that as it may. I don't know who 3697 02:59:16.879 --> 02:59:19.760 this woman is. Okay, trips and I don't care. 3698 02:59:20.319 --> 02:59:22.760 Yep, Yeah, he says they go crazy for me in 3699 02:59:22.760 --> 02:59:25.600 all shape, sizes and colors. And then the honey talk 3700 02:59:25.639 --> 02:59:28.600 man says China might fit into the honey talk man's category. 3701 02:59:29.319 --> 02:59:33.840 And I'm thinking, what a long ragining intercontinental champion? Well 3702 02:59:33.959 --> 02:59:35.680 she did women the title, but she sure did. 3703 02:59:36.079 --> 02:59:37.200 She didn't really have a long rain. 3704 02:59:37.280 --> 02:59:39.559 So ton Ofhurse Helmsverus Bart gun here if you want 3705 02:59:39.559 --> 02:59:42.000 to make sure people keep their TVs on USA Network. 3706 02:59:42.360 --> 02:59:45.760 It's pretty god like, you know. I mean, look, I'd 3707 02:59:45.840 --> 02:59:49.200 rather go see Randy Anderson and Nick Patrick go at 3708 02:59:49.239 --> 02:59:50.520 it all right, then this shit. 3709 02:59:50.399 --> 02:59:52.760 Honkey talk men still on that disastrous campaign to find 3710 02:59:52.799 --> 02:59:56.239 a protege which resulted in Rockabilly, of course, which went 3711 02:59:56.360 --> 02:59:59.520 nowhere fast. He's talking on the mic about uncommentary about 3712 02:59:59.520 --> 03:00:01.159 having narrowed down his candidate's a list. 3713 03:00:01.079 --> 03:00:01.639 Of two or three. 3714 03:00:02.280 --> 03:00:04.040 Nobody cares he got a couple he was eying not 3715 03:00:04.120 --> 03:00:06.120 around anymore his recruits, and the lawer says, so the 3716 03:00:06.159 --> 03:00:08.440 top one on the list was Triple H and pleads 3717 03:00:08.440 --> 03:00:10.479 his case, and Bart in the ring quickens the pace 3718 03:00:10.479 --> 03:00:13.040 and hip tosses and dropkicks Triple Ah. Jurly Jr. Says 3719 03:00:13.040 --> 03:00:15.760 we're keeping updated on the superstar line about a unique 3720 03:00:15.760 --> 03:00:18.319 negotiation that has been discussed from some top superstars here 3721 03:00:18.360 --> 03:00:20.200 in the WWF. I don't know what he's referring to, 3722 03:00:20.319 --> 03:00:24.760 but I'm sure there was no fraud involved, Jr. 3723 03:00:24.799 --> 03:00:25.000 Says. 3724 03:00:25.200 --> 03:00:28.799 Jim Andrews the surgeon who's who's looking at Steve Austin 3725 03:00:28.840 --> 03:00:31.920 and other people's knees. That's well so, of course, Michael Michael, 3726 03:00:33.959 --> 03:00:36.840 remember Bo Jackson, He says. Hockey tonk Man says, whatever 3727 03:00:36.840 --> 03:00:39.399 happened to him, he got operated on by this doc. 3728 03:00:39.840 --> 03:00:43.600 So uh, Instead of the line being James andrews helped 3729 03:00:43.600 --> 03:00:45.959 Bo Jackson, it sets up a line of hockey tonk 3730 03:00:46.000 --> 03:00:49.200 saying he's gonna end his careers looking into Bo Jackson's let's. 3731 03:00:49.079 --> 03:00:54.719 Let's talk about let's you know, let's let's let's take Jim. 3732 03:00:57.520 --> 03:00:59.920 Hockey talk Man also says, by the way, set Michael 3733 03:01:00.159 --> 03:01:01.680 was one of the wrestlers on his list to become 3734 03:01:01.680 --> 03:01:04.840 his procours, was pretty fine that he actually presumes that 3735 03:01:04.920 --> 03:01:05.479 he could get him. 3736 03:01:05.799 --> 03:01:08.000 Yeah, that he could freaking like like as if. I mean, 3737 03:01:08.680 --> 03:01:11.840 it's like who gives a ship to be on the hunt? 3738 03:01:11.920 --> 03:01:13.680 I mean I was happy to see the honky tonk 3739 03:01:13.799 --> 03:01:15.760 Man there. Don't get me wrong, I've said it before. 3740 03:01:15.799 --> 03:01:18.120 I was happy to see the honky Tonk Man there 3741 03:01:18.200 --> 03:01:21.479 because to me, okay, anybody from the past is good. 3742 03:01:22.360 --> 03:01:26.079 But really, like, who the fuck wanted to work with him? 3743 03:01:26.239 --> 03:01:28.600 It's so true, who want to be associated with him? 3744 03:01:28.719 --> 03:01:29.959 He just he was one of the first to take 3745 03:01:30.000 --> 03:01:32.920 a big body slam from China. So there's that that 3746 03:01:33.000 --> 03:01:34.600 was like the only impactful thing he did on this run. 3747 03:01:34.680 --> 03:01:37.000 Actually was kind of launched that whole idea that when 3748 03:01:37.040 --> 03:01:38.879 she attacked someone it would be it would be great 3749 03:01:38.920 --> 03:01:40.399 and be over and no one would shit on it. 3750 03:01:41.360 --> 03:01:43.319 I remember if people thinking Disco Inferno was going to 3751 03:01:43.360 --> 03:01:44.440 come to WWF to be the. 3752 03:01:46.159 --> 03:01:47.760 To be the protege. I don't know why why I 3753 03:01:47.840 --> 03:01:50.479 remember that, but yeah, I feel like, because you know what, 3754 03:01:50.920 --> 03:01:51.920 I think we talked about it. 3755 03:01:52.000 --> 03:01:53.159 They were playing it up like it was going to 3756 03:01:53.200 --> 03:01:55.399 be a real thing, Like the person he picked was 3757 03:01:55.440 --> 03:01:58.479 going to be a new star, not an existing guy 3758 03:01:58.559 --> 03:02:00.959 with a new name. And I'm pretty sure, yeah, I'm 3759 03:02:00.959 --> 03:02:03.879 pretty sure it's settled that they picked. They picked repackaging 3760 03:02:03.920 --> 03:02:07.719 Billy Gunn. It's like a option B. That's somehow that 3761 03:02:07.799 --> 03:02:08.799 wasn't the design the whole time. 3762 03:02:08.799 --> 03:02:09.159 Anyway. 3763 03:02:09.360 --> 03:02:11.079 That was one of the intrigues going on at the time. 3764 03:02:11.479 --> 03:02:14.000 Bart with an arm dragon screeches like a cowboy, banshee 3765 03:02:14.040 --> 03:02:16.319 bitch when he hits it. Triple H ducks and hits 3766 03:02:16.319 --> 03:02:18.360 a high knee. Talk about Triple H as a ladies 3767 03:02:18.440 --> 03:02:22.079 man and getting letters from Wilt Chamberlain. Honky Talkman says 3768 03:02:22.120 --> 03:02:23.680 he can't help even in that category. 3769 03:02:23.799 --> 03:02:27.440 A ladies man. I know he's getting letters from Wilt Chamberlain. 3770 03:02:27.440 --> 03:02:28.719 It's not really making a ladies. 3771 03:02:28.559 --> 03:02:32.200 Man getting letters in as Wilt Chamberlain did. I think 3772 03:02:32.239 --> 03:02:34.479 they're trying to say, I see Goldas hits the ring 3773 03:02:34.559 --> 03:02:37.440 and gives chase at ringside because he's now looking for 3774 03:02:37.479 --> 03:02:39.559 revenge for what happened to mar Lne. He goes over 3775 03:02:39.559 --> 03:02:41.280 the rail after Triple H and almost wipes out. 3776 03:02:41.600 --> 03:02:44.040 By the way, it was option six for that negotiation. 3777 03:02:45.760 --> 03:02:48.000 For those of you wondering, maybe I'll save you ninety 3778 03:02:48.040 --> 03:02:52.959 nine cents. So he chases Hunterhurst into the aisles, up 3779 03:02:53.000 --> 03:02:55.639 into the people, and Lawler says, these people are interfering again, 3780 03:02:55.719 --> 03:02:57.719 arrest them all. As Triple Ah tries to make way, 3781 03:02:58.000 --> 03:03:00.159 the bell sounds and Howard Finkle announces that bart Gun 3782 03:03:00.280 --> 03:03:03.200 is the winner over Hunters Helmsley by count out great 3783 03:03:03.280 --> 03:03:05.760 stuff title matches next Ladies and Gentlemen, And they got 3784 03:03:05.799 --> 03:03:07.120 the graphic and the music going. 3785 03:03:07.000 --> 03:03:07.920 Into the break to prove it. 3786 03:03:08.360 --> 03:03:11.879 Sid and Brett Hart, I remember this music and and 3787 03:03:12.360 --> 03:03:15.479 and and look of the show, and yes, I just 3788 03:03:15.559 --> 03:03:17.399 remember not matching how big of a deal they were 3789 03:03:17.440 --> 03:03:20.520 making these matches out to be like, we didn't see 3790 03:03:20.600 --> 03:03:23.000 matches like Brett Sid for the title with this raw 3791 03:03:23.159 --> 03:03:26.159 set and this music. It's just it didn't it did 3792 03:03:26.239 --> 03:03:28.239 still didn't seem possible. It still seemed like a bait 3793 03:03:28.280 --> 03:03:29.639 and switch we did. 3794 03:03:29.840 --> 03:03:31.719 I know, I agree with that. I mean, it certainly 3795 03:03:31.719 --> 03:03:32.920 didn't seem like it was going to be an actual 3796 03:03:32.959 --> 03:03:33.319 title to. 3797 03:03:33.440 --> 03:03:35.399 Me an angle at the end ultimately just be an angle, right, 3798 03:03:35.399 --> 03:03:38.360 you know? Right they did that Sid Shawn match one 3799 03:03:38.399 --> 03:03:39.200 time on Raw, like. 3800 03:03:39.239 --> 03:03:41.280 You'd have like you'd have Atome come out again, given 3801 03:03:41.319 --> 03:03:46.079 that you've seen him, yes, there the whole time, and 3802 03:03:46.239 --> 03:03:53.319 that he would uh because of his qualifications and it'd be. 3803 03:03:53.319 --> 03:03:56.879 Over absolutely yes, and that was that was acceptable. You 3804 03:03:56.920 --> 03:03:59.040 know you're interested in that, but it's what you expect. 3805 03:03:59.079 --> 03:04:01.799 You didn't expect like a clean finish or a finished, 3806 03:04:01.879 --> 03:04:04.520 decisive finish, I should say, right, tight shot of some 3807 03:04:04.600 --> 03:04:07.479 woman who actually bought a shotgun Saturday Night T shirt. 3808 03:04:08.840 --> 03:04:11.200 He exists. Want I want one to? Of course? 3809 03:04:11.239 --> 03:04:11.399 I do. 3810 03:04:12.159 --> 03:04:15.319 To James Andrews, doctor James Andrews, the surgeon working on 3811 03:04:15.360 --> 03:04:16.000 Shawn's knee. 3812 03:04:16.319 --> 03:04:18.920 Of the interview. Here here you go. You want to 3813 03:04:18.959 --> 03:04:22.360 listen to James Andrews talk about Sean Michaels in his 3814 03:04:22.440 --> 03:04:23.399 wrastling career. 3815 03:04:24.399 --> 03:04:27.360 I examined Sean today, and Sean's injury to his. 3816 03:04:27.399 --> 03:04:29.680 Knee not what I thought doctor James Andrews would sound 3817 03:04:30.000 --> 03:04:32.399 in Alabama. I've never actually heard him. I've never heard 3818 03:04:32.440 --> 03:04:35.159 him before, and I never thought he'd I ain't. No, 3819 03:04:35.280 --> 03:04:39.760 that's wait, you know. And now I examined Sean Michael 3820 03:04:39.879 --> 03:04:43.360 Kay and he said that I cannot examine him anymore. 3821 03:04:44.559 --> 03:04:47.360 Dates back to about five years ago when he tore 3822 03:04:47.440 --> 03:04:49.719 the anti cruide ligament in his knee joint. Excuse me, 3823 03:04:49.840 --> 03:04:53.639 it's the athletic ligament that stabilizes your knee. So the 3824 03:04:53.920 --> 03:04:58.079 injury he had recently relates back to that chronic problem 3825 03:04:58.159 --> 03:05:01.360 that's been lingering with him for many years. Uh. 3826 03:05:01.639 --> 03:05:05.000 He has a degenerated area on the. 3827 03:05:06.799 --> 03:05:09.520 Sore and and the twist that he had a week 3828 03:05:09.639 --> 03:05:11.239 or so ago, UH. 3829 03:05:11.600 --> 03:05:12.600 Sort of set that off. 3830 03:05:13.639 --> 03:05:16.200 We recommended to him that he not have surgery at 3831 03:05:16.239 --> 03:05:16.680 this point. 3832 03:05:17.879 --> 03:05:18.000 Uh. 3833 03:05:18.079 --> 03:05:22.159 We're going to rehab him at his home in San Antonio, Texas, 3834 03:05:23.200 --> 03:05:26.319 and we're going to reassess him in about six weeks, 3835 03:05:26.879 --> 03:05:31.520 four to six weeks to see how he's progressing surgery 3836 03:05:31.639 --> 03:05:35.719 is not absolutely ruled out. We feel and we believe 3837 03:05:35.840 --> 03:05:38.639 that that he'll respond and then he'll be able to 3838 03:05:38.719 --> 03:05:40.120 resume his rastling career. 3839 03:05:41.040 --> 03:05:43.920 Wow, I think his rastling career. And I'm also going 3840 03:05:44.000 --> 03:05:45.680 to tell you what I want to do around here 3841 03:05:46.200 --> 03:05:49.079 with Seohn Michaels to get him rehab properly. What I 3842 03:05:49.200 --> 03:05:51.200 plan to do is throw him into the pen with 3843 03:05:51.280 --> 03:05:54.120 the pigs and I'm gonna then I'm gonna get down 3844 03:05:54.159 --> 03:05:55.559 on top of and I'm gonna roll myself in the 3845 03:05:55.639 --> 03:05:57.360 mutton and see how Sean Michaels reacts to that. 3846 03:06:00.120 --> 03:06:15.959 A Lapsed fan wrestling podcast, the wrestling podcast that knows 3847 03:06:16.040 --> 03:06:34.120 the boys need their candy. It's the lapsed fan. He's 3848 03:06:34.159 --> 03:06:38.280 the Lapsed Fan wrestling podcast with Jack and Carno and 3849 03:06:38.440 --> 03:06:39.239 JP Soro. 3850 03:06:40.000 --> 03:06:42.639 He's not It's not him, it's Heim h e y 3851 03:06:42.799 --> 03:06:47.079 u him. He's right, Homer him hung Hum. 3852 03:06:47.200 --> 03:06:50.280 Sounds like one of Truma Truma Campodi's relatives and h 3853 03:06:51.079 --> 03:06:51.879 Christmas memory. 3854 03:06:52.719 --> 03:06:53.799 So it's great stuff. 3855 03:06:54.280 --> 03:06:57.000 Sean, Like fucking four days after losing a smile and 3856 03:06:57.079 --> 03:06:59.079 never coming back. They got the dog on TV saying 3857 03:06:59.159 --> 03:07:01.079 he'll be back, He'll be back. 3858 03:07:01.120 --> 03:07:03.159 You resume his wrastling career. 3859 03:07:03.600 --> 03:07:06.639 Oh my god, soh jay I promises more on Shawn 3860 03:07:06.639 --> 03:07:09.079 and WW Television Network coming up this week and Saturday 3861 03:07:09.120 --> 03:07:11.360 Morning Live Wire, Sunday Morning Superstars and all the rest. 3862 03:07:12.440 --> 03:07:12.680 Sid. 3863 03:07:14.000 --> 03:07:17.360 Sid Now down to Championship business. There's that T shirt. 3864 03:07:17.920 --> 03:07:20.600 That T shirt again, that SID T shirt. He's wet again. 3865 03:07:22.159 --> 03:07:24.280 Imagine how many times he doused himself with water on 3866 03:07:24.360 --> 03:07:24.719 this tape. 3867 03:07:24.799 --> 03:07:28.559 I mean, yeah, well, I don't understand how much times 3868 03:07:28.600 --> 03:07:29.440 I have to water? 3869 03:07:29.479 --> 03:07:29.680 Am I? 3870 03:07:30.639 --> 03:07:32.120 Oh said this, I'm gonna go out there again. Here's 3871 03:07:32.200 --> 03:07:34.719 here's your spray gun. Said, you know, week we got 3872 03:07:34.760 --> 03:07:36.399 to you know we're gonna be out there three times. 3873 03:07:37.479 --> 03:07:40.879 What do you mean three times? Well said, I told 3874 03:07:40.920 --> 03:07:42.719 you you're gonna have to you know, we're gonna kind 3875 03:07:42.719 --> 03:07:44.680 of do a Payton switch? Do I have to take 3876 03:07:44.959 --> 03:07:49.479 three showers? Vince? Are you telling me I have to 3877 03:07:49.559 --> 03:07:50.600 wrestle three times? 3878 03:07:52.520 --> 03:07:52.559 No? 3879 03:07:52.760 --> 03:07:55.719 Sid, I said, you're just gonna go out there three times. 3880 03:07:55.760 --> 03:07:58.239 You're gonna wrestle one time, but you're gonna go out 3881 03:07:58.760 --> 03:08:00.000 you know, as if the matches happen. 3882 03:08:00.760 --> 03:08:04.319 I understand it's not real simple. 3883 03:08:06.200 --> 03:08:07.559 Will you're telling me right now? 3884 03:08:08.000 --> 03:08:09.319 Is not simple? 3885 03:08:13.680 --> 03:08:19.479 Polls said said it actually shyes. Does you look at me, 3886 03:08:19.680 --> 03:08:24.879 little man. I'm gonna tell you one thing, and I'm 3887 03:08:24.879 --> 03:08:28.000 gonna ask you a question, and you're gonna look me 3888 03:08:28.120 --> 03:08:32.760 straight in the eye and tell me the truth. If 3889 03:08:32.799 --> 03:08:37.360 I'm going out there three times, does that mean I 3890 03:08:37.479 --> 03:08:38.840 have to take three showers? 3891 03:08:42.799 --> 03:08:42.920 Uh? 3892 03:08:44.760 --> 03:08:46.639 Well, uh, I said, that's you know what, that's your 3893 03:08:46.760 --> 03:08:47.559 progative bell. 3894 03:08:49.520 --> 03:08:51.840 What do you mean my progres those college words with me. 3895 03:08:52.639 --> 03:08:55.920 Don't you sit there and use your fucking Connecticut words 3896 03:08:55.959 --> 03:08:59.600 with me. You think you're so hot and mighty because 3897 03:08:59.639 --> 03:09:01.959 you live in New England. You live in the northeast, 3898 03:09:02.879 --> 03:09:09.360 outside of New York. You don't know shit. I don't 3899 03:09:09.399 --> 03:09:10.639 know shit. Yeah, there it is. 3900 03:09:12.520 --> 03:09:14.399 So he asks the kid who's the man, and the 3901 03:09:14.479 --> 03:09:16.639 kid pointed like fuck yeah right back at him. 3902 03:09:16.680 --> 03:09:17.200 Pretty awesome. 3903 03:09:17.360 --> 03:09:21.920 Yeah, you gotta love that dripping down the back of 3904 03:09:21.959 --> 03:09:22.959 his black leather vest. 3905 03:09:23.639 --> 03:09:27.600 It's so it's like, where does this you know, who 3906 03:09:27.719 --> 03:09:30.680 produces so much water? It's so hydrated when he goes, 3907 03:09:31.799 --> 03:09:33.920 I mean, like, where does this water come from? It 3908 03:09:34.000 --> 03:09:34.879 seems like a waist. 3909 03:09:35.239 --> 03:09:40.399 They replay the first tussle with bretton Austin and they 3910 03:09:40.440 --> 03:09:42.440 went pretty nuts when Sid went after Steve. When you 3911 03:09:42.479 --> 03:09:44.600 see the replay, you know when he jumps into it. 3912 03:09:45.120 --> 03:09:47.440 They think it's awesome that Sid attacks Steve Austin, which 3913 03:09:47.440 --> 03:09:52.399 is pretty cool it is. They show backstage the backstage 3914 03:09:52.399 --> 03:09:55.600 attack again as well, and Brett comes out, this time 3915 03:09:55.760 --> 03:09:58.639 with the championship with no jacket, just the title over 3916 03:09:58.680 --> 03:10:01.000 his shoulder. Yep, he's sick of getting ready. 3917 03:10:02.159 --> 03:10:04.319 It's like, come on, what was there here? I've been 3918 03:10:04.319 --> 03:10:06.200 out there a million times, like come. 3919 03:10:06.079 --> 03:10:07.440 On, yeah, to tell he's going to lose the strap. 3920 03:10:07.479 --> 03:10:10.239 There's no pomping circumstance whatsoever to his walkout or any 3921 03:10:10.280 --> 03:10:12.920 of that, and he hoists the strap there for the 3922 03:10:13.040 --> 03:10:16.040 only time in this title reign. We take a quick 3923 03:10:16.079 --> 03:10:17.559 break and we come back so we can show you 3924 03:10:17.639 --> 03:10:20.159 the entirety of this WAF Championship match. They tell us 3925 03:10:21.079 --> 03:10:23.879 that's Brett Pyro. Brett's Pyro pops off above them ring. 3926 03:10:24.000 --> 03:10:26.639 We come back to Sid versus Brett Hard for the 3927 03:10:26.760 --> 03:10:29.079 WWF Championship in the main event of the February seventeenth, 3928 03:10:29.200 --> 03:10:31.879 nineteen ninety seven edition of Monday Night Raw. The bell 3929 03:10:32.000 --> 03:10:34.959 sounds upon return from break, and Jr. Thanks us for 3930 03:10:35.040 --> 03:10:38.639 inviting them into your home, lock up and breath. 3931 03:10:38.799 --> 03:10:40.559 Well, well you did that the night before. This is 3932 03:10:40.600 --> 03:10:41.200 not in your house. 3933 03:10:41.239 --> 03:10:43.799 It's just aw, it's a little late, Jim. I mean, yeah, 3934 03:10:44.079 --> 03:10:45.760 you know we invited you in our home like an 3935 03:10:45.799 --> 03:10:47.319 hour and fifty minutes ago. 3936 03:10:48.000 --> 03:10:50.360 I know, Like what you should say? 3937 03:10:50.360 --> 03:10:52.840 That first off only counts now, Yeah, that's far out. 3938 03:10:53.440 --> 03:10:58.040 Lock up and Brett goes for rights in the corner. 3939 03:10:58.120 --> 03:10:58.760 You know how that goes. 3940 03:10:58.799 --> 03:11:01.879 He goes off with those rights ah and then starts 3941 03:11:01.879 --> 03:11:04.040 stomping the gut of Sid. Sid grabs him and turns 3942 03:11:04.079 --> 03:11:05.959 him around and goes off with some body shots of 3943 03:11:06.040 --> 03:11:07.840 his own. Sid with those big bolo shots. 3944 03:11:08.040 --> 03:11:10.959 I'll tell you you know this is it like like 3945 03:11:11.239 --> 03:11:19.200 Sid Sid fucking like the way he it's just absolutely phenomenal. 3946 03:11:19.559 --> 03:11:21.879 Like watching him thunder. 3947 03:11:21.639 --> 03:11:23.719 Away, the way he used his wingspan to make his 3948 03:11:23.799 --> 03:11:25.920 punches look like crazy was pretty cool. 3949 03:11:26.600 --> 03:11:29.159 But he doesn't different in this particular match, Like it's 3950 03:11:29.600 --> 03:11:33.280 very different, Like he really upped his game in this match. 3951 03:11:33.399 --> 03:11:34.840 He had spots with Brett that he didn't have to 3952 03:11:34.840 --> 03:11:37.239 anybody else where. He would really show like different looks. 3953 03:11:37.360 --> 03:11:37.840 That's true. 3954 03:11:38.040 --> 03:11:38.239 Yep. 3955 03:11:38.639 --> 03:11:40.440 So there's rapid fire hooks to the gut by Sid 3956 03:11:40.559 --> 03:11:42.159 corner to corner whip and then Brett hits hard and 3957 03:11:42.239 --> 03:11:44.319 collapses said with the forearm with the small the back 3958 03:11:44.360 --> 03:11:46.120 of the Kidney's working on the back of bread, of course, 3959 03:11:46.159 --> 03:11:49.200 to soften him up for the power bomb. Double axe 3960 03:11:49.319 --> 03:11:51.520 sledge down on the back of the hitman, Sid raining 3961 03:11:51.559 --> 03:11:54.360 down the punishment on a felled hitman. Brett then fires 3962 03:11:54.399 --> 03:11:55.799 out of the corner with right hands and he hooks 3963 03:11:55.799 --> 03:11:57.840 a side Russian leg sweep. Kind of a weird struggle 3964 03:11:57.879 --> 03:11:59.639 at first, like he was thinking to do something else 3965 03:12:00.319 --> 03:12:02.079 and Sid wasn't in the correct position, but he does 3966 03:12:02.440 --> 03:12:05.239 hit it. Sid then awkwardly stands up and stays overhead, 3967 03:12:05.559 --> 03:12:07.559 clubbing the back and goes to the throat of the 3968 03:12:07.639 --> 03:12:07.959 hip man. 3969 03:12:08.280 --> 03:12:11.440 And King King wants Sid to win. Do you know 3970 03:12:11.520 --> 03:12:14.959 why I want so? That's doing Hell will be miserable. 3971 03:12:15.479 --> 03:12:16.920 I don't want to see a big smile on the 3972 03:12:16.959 --> 03:12:18.159 face of stewing Helen Hart. 3973 03:12:18.280 --> 03:12:21.520 But they had last night ten sometime every time they're 3974 03:12:21.600 --> 03:12:23.399 the matches, Prett Hart seemed. 3975 03:12:23.120 --> 03:12:25.159 The burks Victoria's. I saw him it. Later on they 3976 03:12:25.159 --> 03:12:26.959 were ordered chair Paula on the rocks at the bar. 3977 03:12:27.040 --> 03:12:30.360 They were so happy, Oh, my god, Lawler. You can 3978 03:12:30.440 --> 03:12:32.959 hear Sid fucking literally breathing during that clip. 3979 03:12:33.000 --> 03:12:35.680 By the way, he's so labored. 3980 03:12:38.200 --> 03:12:40.399 So he goes back to the overhead and clubbing, and 3981 03:12:40.440 --> 03:12:42.120 then he goes to the throat and Brett rolls into 3982 03:12:42.120 --> 03:12:44.079 the corner and kicks a pursuing Sid to keep him 3983 03:12:44.079 --> 03:12:45.959 at Bay fires out of the corner with some punches, 3984 03:12:46.000 --> 03:12:48.840 and then Sid grabs the wrist and hits Brett with 3985 03:12:48.840 --> 03:12:51.479 a short arm clothesline that drops bred heart cold as 3986 03:12:51.520 --> 03:12:54.159 he tries to rally. Brett's so good at like those 3987 03:12:54.200 --> 03:12:57.040 hope spots where he kind of gets opening and then 3988 03:12:57.079 --> 03:13:02.360 gets cut off. No one bettersolutely accurate, whifted on the 3989 03:13:02.399 --> 03:13:05.159 first outreach, but then he finally snatches him does Sid, 3990 03:13:05.639 --> 03:13:08.639 and somehow worked, somehow worked. When Sid missed a spot, 3991 03:13:08.719 --> 03:13:11.120 it was like, yeah, it wasn't like a big fuck 3992 03:13:11.200 --> 03:13:13.520 up because it was like, yeah, he's nuts, Like of 3993 03:13:13.600 --> 03:13:14.479 course he's gonna and. 3994 03:13:14.520 --> 03:13:17.200 He's huge and he's lumbering right, so it's like, you know, 3995 03:13:17.559 --> 03:13:19.879 you kind of expect that he's not going to be perfect, 3996 03:13:20.280 --> 03:13:22.440 he's not going to be completely clean exactly. It's rare. 3997 03:13:23.360 --> 03:13:25.639 It's not often that you have a guy who who 3998 03:13:26.760 --> 03:13:29.559 you know, you can kind of it works. That kind 3999 03:13:29.559 --> 03:13:30.559 of shit works, right. 4000 03:13:30.639 --> 03:13:33.319 Like if you give if you give Sid a spatula 4001 03:13:33.479 --> 03:13:35.520 and try to have him kill a fly, it's going 4002 03:13:35.559 --> 03:13:37.000 to kind of look like this, you know. 4003 03:13:37.440 --> 03:13:41.280 Yeah, right exactly. I mean if you if you imagine, 4004 03:13:41.319 --> 03:13:44.239 I mean, forget having an actual thing, what about thinking 4005 03:13:44.280 --> 03:13:48.239 about Sid like trying to kill us a fly with 4006 03:13:48.360 --> 03:13:48.920 his hands? 4007 03:13:49.280 --> 03:13:49.399 Right? 4008 03:13:49.479 --> 03:13:52.079 Even better? You know, like he's just going around like 4009 03:13:52.280 --> 03:13:55.479 swatting the walls with his bare hands, and. 4010 03:13:55.520 --> 03:13:56.959 It's gonna look like he doesn't know what he's doing, 4011 03:13:57.040 --> 03:13:58.879 but he's going to catch that fly by virtue of 4012 03:13:58.959 --> 03:13:59.360 his size. 4013 03:13:59.399 --> 03:13:59.600 Yeah. 4014 03:14:00.079 --> 03:14:02.200 Yeah, his hand is so much bigger than yours that 4015 03:14:02.239 --> 03:14:03.559 he doesn't have to be strategic about it. 4016 03:14:04.000 --> 03:14:07.200 Exactly. You can afford it like an idiot well while 4017 03:14:07.280 --> 03:14:08.760 doing it. So yeah. 4018 03:14:08.799 --> 03:14:10.559 Clubbing shots on a floor of Brett Hart, they recall 4019 03:14:10.600 --> 03:14:12.879 Sid beating Sean Michaels at Survivor series, and Jerr says 4020 03:14:12.920 --> 03:14:16.319 the speculation is Sid caused Sean michaels knee injury to 4021 03:14:16.399 --> 03:14:18.319 some extent. That's interesting way to throw it together. 4022 03:14:18.680 --> 03:14:19.760 Yeah, yeah, I'm with that. 4023 03:14:20.079 --> 03:14:22.840 Sid is now springing off the bottom and stomping on 4024 03:14:23.079 --> 03:14:26.280 Brett getting some airtime. Sid pops him in the corner 4025 03:14:26.280 --> 03:14:29.000 and Jair says he is not as refined a technical 4026 03:14:29.000 --> 03:14:29.920 wrestler as Brett Hart. 4027 03:14:29.959 --> 03:14:32.239 But here we go, here we go the fucking bullshit, 4028 03:14:33.200 --> 03:14:34.159 you know, like the. 4029 03:14:34.799 --> 03:14:36.239 He doesn't know how to do a hammer lock. 4030 03:14:36.360 --> 03:14:38.319 Yeah, yeah, exactly. You know it's not only going to 4031 03:14:38.360 --> 03:14:42.239 be you know, be high impact. Okay, thanks j R. 4032 03:14:43.280 --> 03:14:47.879 Brett grabs A, grabs the waistband of Sid and starts 4033 03:14:47.959 --> 03:14:51.319 throwing to the gut, right hands and then aside backbreaker 4034 03:14:51.360 --> 03:14:53.200 scores with the hit man as he gets the big 4035 03:14:53.239 --> 03:14:55.159 Sid off of his feet. Brett then tries to go 4036 03:14:55.239 --> 03:14:58.639 to the sharpshooter, but no, it looks like he's going to. Instead, 4037 03:14:58.639 --> 03:15:00.239 he does the head butt to the sternum up to 4038 03:15:00.360 --> 03:15:01.399 the gut that he used to do. 4039 03:15:03.120 --> 03:15:05.319 Yeah, it's kind of I always wonder why he did 4040 03:15:05.360 --> 03:15:08.959 that tea. I mean, I guess for the for the 4041 03:15:09.120 --> 03:15:10.879 the idea that it is a tease. Yeah, for the 4042 03:15:10.959 --> 03:15:12.120 hold and not you know. 4043 03:15:12.200 --> 03:15:14.319 But ye get people a little bit more excited when 4044 03:15:14.319 --> 03:15:16.600 he does put it on. I guess is the thought 4045 03:15:16.639 --> 03:15:18.520 middle rowe elbow drop at the head man. Lawler said 4046 03:15:18.520 --> 03:15:22.760 Brett's parents were doing jaredital on the Rocks. Yeah, you 4047 03:15:22.799 --> 03:15:25.399 talked about that. Brett now headbutting the back of Sid, 4048 03:15:25.440 --> 03:15:26.120 which is a cool thing. 4049 03:15:26.159 --> 03:15:26.479 He used to do. 4050 03:15:26.600 --> 03:15:29.440 Throw head butts to the body. Yep, I like that too, 4051 03:15:30.200 --> 03:15:32.040 writes an elbow to the head, Jr. Says the road 4052 03:15:32.079 --> 03:15:33.239 wrestling it starts tonight. 4053 03:15:33.360 --> 03:15:36.000 Wow, it's a little late. I know, I thought it 4054 03:15:36.040 --> 03:15:37.040 started out the Royal Rumble. 4055 03:15:38.520 --> 03:15:40.600 Jerr says, maybe the greatest of all time. The Undertaker 4056 03:15:40.639 --> 03:15:43.200 awaits this one is Sid is first back to the 4057 03:15:43.280 --> 03:15:45.559 gut and Kidney's hauling off. Now on the hit man. 4058 03:15:45.600 --> 03:15:47.440 Brett falls to his knees. There's a lot of talk 4059 03:15:47.479 --> 03:15:50.079 about Brett's lower back after last night. They mentioned being 4060 03:15:50.159 --> 03:15:53.040 particularly vulnerable as he had been choked slammed by the 4061 03:15:53.120 --> 03:15:56.399 Undertaker during the Final four. Sid then lifts Brett up 4062 03:15:56.520 --> 03:15:59.079 and drops him with a front back breaker that gets 4063 03:15:59.079 --> 03:15:59.879 a clean two count. 4064 03:16:01.200 --> 03:16:01.440 Sign. 4065 03:16:02.040 --> 03:16:04.239 If you can't run with the big dogs, then stay 4066 03:16:04.319 --> 03:16:07.360 off of the net. I must have something to do 4067 03:16:07.479 --> 03:16:11.280 to the Internet, the Internet, healthy online discourse. No doubt 4068 03:16:11.319 --> 03:16:14.360 behind that sign. Sid choking bread across the middle rope 4069 03:16:14.680 --> 03:16:17.440 Earl heavnerson Sid's face about it. Brett was so under 4070 03:16:17.559 --> 03:16:20.360 siege in these matches, you know, oh yes, everything he did, 4071 03:16:20.719 --> 03:16:22.559 for sure, everything he did. He seems like he walked 4072 03:16:22.600 --> 03:16:24.520 out like expecting a bomb to drop on his head. 4073 03:16:24.520 --> 03:16:25.520 Every ding, yeap, yep. 4074 03:16:25.959 --> 03:16:29.000 Always Sid lifting off the bottom and stomping down on 4075 03:16:29.079 --> 03:16:30.680 Brett quite a bit, drags him to the center of 4076 03:16:30.719 --> 03:16:33.079 the ring and covers him for two. Brett retreats to 4077 03:16:33.159 --> 03:16:34.840 the corner and starts kicking the knee of Sid and 4078 03:16:34.959 --> 03:16:37.079 drops him, and the crowd reacts to that as he 4079 03:16:37.120 --> 03:16:40.000 gets ahead, Girls in particular start chanting loudly for Brett 4080 03:16:40.000 --> 03:16:42.479 as he pulls ahead here attacking the weekend knee. He 4081 03:16:42.559 --> 03:16:44.680 then snaps down on the leg of Sid and drives 4082 03:16:44.719 --> 03:16:46.959 down an elbow to the knee. He drapes Sid's leg 4083 03:16:47.000 --> 03:16:48.239 in the bottom rope and sits. 4084 03:16:48.079 --> 03:16:48.520 Down on it. 4085 03:16:49.280 --> 03:16:52.319 Yep, stomps the leg. Classic, oh classic, Brett taking apart 4086 03:16:52.319 --> 03:16:54.680 a bigger opponent. Absolutely what he do with Sid or 4087 03:16:55.840 --> 03:17:00.600 Kevin Nash or Undertaker. And then he drags the leg 4088 03:17:00.680 --> 03:17:02.479 to the corner post and slam sids nee into the 4089 03:17:02.520 --> 03:17:03.200 post itself. 4090 03:17:03.879 --> 03:17:06.239 Jr. Says the world title is Brett Hart's life. You 4091 03:17:06.280 --> 03:17:08.319 know what a shoot that was. We didn't even know it. Yeah, 4092 03:17:08.559 --> 03:17:09.159 that's for sure. 4093 03:17:09.559 --> 03:17:11.559 He's going to do anything to get it back or 4094 03:17:11.639 --> 03:17:13.920 to retain it. Brett almost loses the leg as he 4095 03:17:13.959 --> 03:17:15.440 tries to figure four in the ring post. 4096 03:17:15.760 --> 03:17:16.040 Jr. 4097 03:17:16.159 --> 03:17:18.479 Goes off like he's never seen that before? Is this 4098 03:17:18.600 --> 03:17:20.520 the first time Brett did the figure front of the post? 4099 03:17:20.639 --> 03:17:24.520 I was wondering that myself, like, I I don't know. 4100 03:17:24.799 --> 03:17:25.319 I think it is. 4101 03:17:26.200 --> 03:17:28.040 I mean, I feel like we've seen it before, but 4102 03:17:28.280 --> 03:17:31.159 maybe not. I'm sure somebody will know, But there it is. 4103 03:17:31.319 --> 03:17:32.959 It's called out of the broadcast? Is the first time 4104 03:17:33.040 --> 03:17:35.360 Jim has seen it? They over break, they come back, 4105 03:17:35.399 --> 03:17:39.200 Brett is still cranking. They talk about foot action featuring 4106 03:17:39.200 --> 03:17:43.479 Airflight Turbulence from Nike Brings You foot Action rewind. Oh yeah, 4107 03:17:43.520 --> 03:17:45.680 it was last night Undertaker kicking the chair in Invader's 4108 03:17:45.719 --> 03:17:48.360 face that busted his face open, and they show Vader 4109 03:17:48.399 --> 03:17:49.799 tuning off Austin on the floor and. 4110 03:17:49.879 --> 03:17:52.840 The guess we're finally seeing that footage they were talking 4111 03:17:52.840 --> 03:17:54.799 about in at the beginning of the show, right you know, Yeah, 4112 03:17:54.840 --> 03:17:57.120 they finally deliver on it. Yeah we haven't seen this 4113 03:17:57.200 --> 03:17:58.559 shit at all, but okay, got to. 4114 03:17:58.559 --> 03:18:01.319 You by the airflight Turbulence for every action. There's foot 4115 03:18:01.360 --> 03:18:03.479 action so good. Yeah, its logan. 4116 03:18:03.719 --> 03:18:05.799 They show the mall. God help us. I love it. 4117 03:18:06.639 --> 03:18:10.440 You come back, get it at your local shopping up there, 4118 03:18:11.159 --> 03:18:12.799 sit on the canvas. Brett is in pursuit. 4119 03:18:12.920 --> 03:18:13.159 Jr. 4120 03:18:13.159 --> 03:18:15.280 Tells us Bread has been relentlessly focusing on the leg. 4121 03:18:15.360 --> 03:18:17.120 During the commercial break, they go to the corner and 4122 03:18:17.120 --> 03:18:18.760 Brett puts the leg over the middle rope and starts 4123 03:18:18.799 --> 03:18:20.200 cranking on it and pulling on the ankle. 4124 03:18:20.399 --> 03:18:21.799 Brett kicks away the leg as well. 4125 03:18:22.040 --> 03:18:23.840 He then cranks it and Sid lifts the fist up 4126 03:18:23.879 --> 03:18:29.200 and he delays, He delays, raining the shot down, and 4127 03:18:29.239 --> 03:18:31.639 then he finally goes down with it, raining down. Bowlos 4128 03:18:31.680 --> 03:18:35.719 on the chest goes off, Brett gets free and. 4129 03:18:37.959 --> 03:18:38.840 Not sure what that is. 4130 03:18:39.159 --> 03:18:42.239 There's a reversed Irish whip to the corner and Sid 4131 03:18:42.760 --> 03:18:45.879 hits a huge downtown clothesline that drops Brett and collapses 4132 03:18:45.920 --> 03:18:47.600 the crowd as they're just starting to rally for the 4133 03:18:47.680 --> 03:18:48.000 hit man. 4134 03:18:48.559 --> 03:18:50.840 I know of the way. Sid shuts that down. He 4135 03:18:50.959 --> 03:18:52.360 looks so good in this mass. 4136 03:18:53.280 --> 03:18:55.399 It's Brett man, that's Brett. He makes everyone look like 4137 03:18:55.399 --> 03:18:58.000 they know what they're doing. Yeah, it was his hidden talent. 4138 03:18:58.120 --> 03:19:01.959 He's like, okay, Like, I know, you do these five 4139 03:19:02.040 --> 03:19:03.440 things and they always look like ship. So let's not 4140 03:19:03.520 --> 03:19:05.399 do those, Let's do these instead. Just follow my lead. 4141 03:19:06.760 --> 03:19:08.520 Sid is limping now as a result of all the 4142 03:19:08.559 --> 03:19:10.719 work on his leg, but he still hits the ropes 4143 03:19:10.719 --> 03:19:12.319 and is able to drop a high leg drop. I 4144 03:19:12.399 --> 03:19:14.559 mean a fucking full on hull Cogan leg drop here 4145 03:19:14.639 --> 03:19:19.479 from Sid brother exactly. That only gets too Why well, 4146 03:19:19.520 --> 03:19:21.680 Sid got so much high is a bad wheel. I 4147 03:19:21.719 --> 03:19:23.399 don't know if that was the best psychology in the world, 4148 03:19:23.440 --> 03:19:24.079 but it looked cool. 4149 03:19:25.000 --> 03:19:26.239 What do you mean look cool? 4150 03:19:26.319 --> 03:19:26.479 Dude? 4151 03:19:26.479 --> 03:19:30.000 What do you mean look cool? Was great leg drops 4152 03:19:30.040 --> 03:19:35.200 like he used to be able to do for the week. 4153 03:19:38.200 --> 03:19:41.319 You're telling me, is Sid hulk Hogan? 4154 03:19:42.120 --> 03:19:44.200 I mean he's dropping the leg but people are kicking 4155 03:19:44.200 --> 03:19:46.600 out people are people are kicking out a leg drop. 4156 03:19:46.680 --> 03:19:49.639 So either he's not hule Cogan or what he used to. 4157 03:19:50.719 --> 03:20:02.079 Sid hulk Hogan. Yes, absolutely shocked, shocked at that answer. 4158 03:20:02.280 --> 03:20:04.479 He thought I was going to say no, because of 4159 03:20:04.559 --> 03:20:09.200 course he's not Hulcoke. That is the respectable answer to 4160 03:20:09.280 --> 03:20:12.799 give to that question, the intelligible one. So another cover 4161 03:20:12.879 --> 03:20:15.040 by Sid that gets to Jared losing it. Ah, I 4162 03:20:15.120 --> 03:20:17.239 want to match up, and you know he doesn't deploy 4163 03:20:17.360 --> 03:20:21.920 that without really feeling it. So Sid lifts the front 4164 03:20:21.959 --> 03:20:24.440 slam after a delay, bringing down the hitman. Then Sid 4165 03:20:24.520 --> 03:20:27.000 goes to the middle rope. Oh man, that's not a 4166 03:20:27.040 --> 03:20:30.120 good position for him to be in, historically almost losing 4167 03:20:30.120 --> 03:20:32.200 it trying to get up there at all. 4168 03:20:32.600 --> 03:20:35.120 Yeah, no, no, I got nervous. I'm like, oh my god. 4169 03:20:35.600 --> 03:20:37.680 You know, it's funny when when you see it, when 4170 03:20:37.719 --> 03:20:40.079 you see it happen one time, you're like, you feel 4171 03:20:40.079 --> 03:20:42.559 like it can happen anytime, even though this show happened way. 4172 03:20:42.399 --> 03:20:46.040 Before before and unlike it Sin he's actually going for 4173 03:20:46.159 --> 03:20:48.120 a guillotine leg drop where he's going to land in 4174 03:20:48.159 --> 03:20:49.559 his ass instead of a flying kick. 4175 03:20:50.200 --> 03:20:50.360 Right. 4176 03:20:50.559 --> 03:20:53.120 So he hits the leg drop off the middle, which 4177 03:20:53.159 --> 03:20:54.840 is just crazy to see. I mean I remember him 4178 03:20:54.879 --> 03:20:55.360 ever doing that. 4179 03:20:56.120 --> 03:20:58.399 Sid taking off of the middle rope leg drop not 4180 03:20:58.520 --> 03:21:02.479 an industry that made at all. No, Sid says, oh yeah, 4181 03:21:02.479 --> 03:21:03.079 I can't work. 4182 03:21:04.360 --> 03:21:07.879 Take a look at this. He said that to the camera. 4183 03:21:08.879 --> 03:21:12.920 You see it's better than damn it, damn it, damn it. 4184 03:21:14.159 --> 03:21:16.520 So he gets two on the cover, literally like a 4185 03:21:16.600 --> 03:21:18.920 broken record on you know, caught. 4186 03:21:18.920 --> 03:21:21.959 Pretty wild guys. Sid's size can only get two on 4187 03:21:21.959 --> 03:21:23.760 a guillotine leg drop off the middle rope, but we'll 4188 03:21:23.760 --> 03:21:25.760 take it back up. Sid goes to the gut and 4189 03:21:25.799 --> 03:21:28.000 gooseles the hit man. He signals to the crowd that 4190 03:21:28.079 --> 03:21:29.959 he's gonna go for the power bomb or the choke slam, 4191 03:21:30.120 --> 03:21:31.799 but Brett breaks the eyes to get free, and you 4192 03:21:31.840 --> 03:21:33.440 can hear the girls still want Brett. 4193 03:21:33.479 --> 03:21:36.040 The girls have not turned on him, of course they 4194 03:21:36.079 --> 03:21:36.520 still want it. 4195 03:21:36.680 --> 03:21:38.440 Brett fires off on the ropes, ties up Sid in 4196 03:21:38.520 --> 03:21:42.399 the ropes and hits the opposite side and then takes flight. 4197 03:21:42.440 --> 03:21:44.399 But Sid gets out of the entanglement and there's no 4198 03:21:44.440 --> 03:21:47.959 one there. And does anyone throw their self fucking recklessly 4199 03:21:48.040 --> 03:21:51.000 into the ropes with a crossbody better than Brett Hart, No, 4200 03:21:51.879 --> 03:21:53.799 he knows how to hit those ropes and get entangled 4201 03:21:53.840 --> 03:21:55.840 in them, and they take a hard landing and it 4202 03:21:55.920 --> 03:21:58.799 was awesome. Jerius's bread is not normally a risk taker, 4203 03:21:59.040 --> 03:22:01.680 so that's kind of cool. It gets over when I 4204 03:22:01.799 --> 03:22:03.360 know it. 4205 03:22:03.520 --> 03:22:06.120 It doesn't hold up the scrutiny. But he's a constant 4206 03:22:06.319 --> 03:22:07.920 fucking risk taker. He's always been a risk. 4207 03:22:07.920 --> 03:22:11.120 Especial aginst bigg opponents. Yeah, takes off and but I 4208 03:22:11.159 --> 03:22:13.239 thought it was goodde dives and all that shit. 4209 03:22:13.120 --> 03:22:14.399 Like, come on, He's always doing. 4210 03:22:14.440 --> 03:22:18.840 Risky stuff planches, yep, piscatos. But it kind of gets 4211 03:22:18.879 --> 03:22:20.559 over how hard it is to topple Sid. You know, 4212 03:22:20.760 --> 03:22:23.600 the idea that he did something uncharacteristic, because while he 4213 03:22:23.639 --> 03:22:25.360 does do dives to the floor, that that one where 4214 03:22:25.399 --> 03:22:27.360 he ties a guy up in the ropes and tries 4215 03:22:27.399 --> 03:22:29.280 to jump at him. I'm not saying he never does it, 4216 03:22:29.360 --> 03:22:31.399 but yeah, it's a little different than the usual high 4217 03:22:31.440 --> 03:22:33.399 risk we see from him. So now Sid is clubbing 4218 03:22:33.440 --> 03:22:35.760 Brett and pursues it, but he's back dropped out to 4219 03:22:35.799 --> 03:22:39.200 the floor, and then who materializes but stone cold Steve Austin. 4220 03:22:39.399 --> 03:22:41.520 Here we go and Sid drops him with the right 4221 03:22:41.600 --> 03:22:43.639 hand out on the blue mats, and Austin covers up 4222 03:22:43.680 --> 03:22:46.440 near the chairs and j R. Says Austin needs to 4223 03:22:46.520 --> 03:22:49.719 be shackled. Sid gets up on the apron and then 4224 03:22:53.360 --> 03:22:55.879 does Sid or does he not do a sunset flip 4225 03:22:56.040 --> 03:23:00.079 from the apron into the ring? What the fuck am 4226 03:23:00.079 --> 03:23:00.520 I watching? 4227 03:23:03.000 --> 03:23:03.520 Exactly? 4228 03:23:05.360 --> 03:23:08.479 I'm a baby face, right, So he does a slingshot 4229 03:23:08.719 --> 03:23:12.799 sunset flip on Brett Hart like, why, I guess, what 4230 03:23:12.879 --> 03:23:14.879 are you doing creative way to get to the sharp shooter. 4231 03:23:14.920 --> 03:23:16.399 I don't know, because Bren goets through and kicks the 4232 03:23:16.479 --> 03:23:19.399 legs and then he steps through, struggles to turn over 4233 03:23:19.399 --> 03:23:23.360 the sharp shuter, but he finally gets it. Hepner's at 4234 03:23:23.360 --> 03:23:26.319 eye level with Sid. Sid is pushing up trying to 4235 03:23:26.399 --> 03:23:28.159 break the thing and chairs doing the big dramatic No 4236 03:23:28.159 --> 03:23:29.959 one's ever broken the sharp shutter. He's gonna do what 4237 03:23:29.959 --> 03:23:30.360 he's gonna do. 4238 03:23:30.840 --> 03:23:33.280 Here, I got it. I got this whole last thing 4239 03:23:33.360 --> 03:23:35.399 because it's just so fucking money, so money. Here comes 4240 03:23:35.440 --> 03:23:37.120 Austin with a chair by the way, get ready. 4241 03:23:40.120 --> 03:23:49.760 Nobody gets out of the short shooter in the shorter 4242 03:24:02.200 --> 03:24:05.239 often him real hard on the face on steel tear. 4243 03:24:09.319 --> 03:24:09.840 He was done. 4244 03:24:10.360 --> 03:24:14.280 I don't con Sid him and realized that often does 4245 03:24:14.360 --> 03:24:15.360 get even this sense. 4246 03:24:17.159 --> 03:24:32.440 Oh no, oh, I said those. 4247 03:24:32.399 --> 03:24:33.959 Times I go sad. 4248 03:24:34.280 --> 03:24:35.399 This one's a day. 4249 03:24:38.120 --> 03:24:38.840 Unbelievable. 4250 03:24:39.600 --> 03:24:44.719 I mean, it's just fucking scenes, absolute scenes as Sid 4251 03:24:44.840 --> 03:24:48.719 is once again the champion. The wait, the way Austin 4252 03:24:48.799 --> 03:24:50.520 gets on that fucking apron. I want you to talk 4253 03:24:50.520 --> 03:24:51.040 to me about it? 4254 03:24:51.440 --> 03:24:52.760 Oh, I mean, he. 4255 03:24:55.440 --> 03:24:56.040 Just like. 4256 03:24:58.719 --> 03:24:59.079 You know. 4257 03:25:02.200 --> 03:25:02.639 That he. 4258 03:25:04.920 --> 03:25:13.360 Is going to commit harm by watching him the way 4259 03:25:13.479 --> 03:25:18.440 that he climbs up, Yes, just the force, the the 4260 03:25:19.879 --> 03:25:24.520 swagger he has, like he is just saying, oh, what 4261 03:25:24.680 --> 03:25:26.040 a fuck things up? 4262 03:25:26.440 --> 03:25:29.680 Exactly. He does it with like a cockiness. But he's 4263 03:25:29.680 --> 03:25:32.719 also like the guy he picks a fight. He starts 4264 03:25:32.760 --> 03:25:35.920 throwing first, he gets dropped, and then the guy turns 4265 03:25:36.000 --> 03:25:38.520 away like see that's what you get. And as the 4266 03:25:38.559 --> 03:25:40.559 guy's walking away, he still runs up behind him and 4267 03:25:40.680 --> 03:25:44.520 cheap shots him exactly exactly, just won't stop until he 4268 03:25:44.600 --> 03:25:46.760 gets the last word in the form of a fist 4269 03:25:46.879 --> 03:25:48.559 or chair or some act of violence. 4270 03:25:49.399 --> 03:25:50.399 Yep, and that's agreed. 4271 03:25:50.440 --> 03:25:51.959 That's what Brett was made the victim of. So here 4272 03:25:52.000 --> 03:25:54.040 a little extended version of what we just heard. Just 4273 03:25:54.120 --> 03:25:57.280 the the celebration, the jubilation in the way this banner 4274 03:25:57.360 --> 03:25:59.280 night in the career of sid went off the air 4275 03:25:59.440 --> 03:26:06.840 in Nashville. What a power bone too, huh It brow fell. 4276 03:26:06.799 --> 03:26:07.399 Up for those. 4277 03:26:12.840 --> 03:26:16.360 I say that's time it Si sap. This one's again. 4278 03:26:16.639 --> 03:26:18.200 I'm telling you to tell you about chap In. 4279 03:26:18.440 --> 03:26:20.079 A couple of kids in the front row with Shawn 4280 03:26:20.120 --> 03:26:22.360 Michael's T shirts like throwing their hands up a that 4281 03:26:22.680 --> 03:26:23.760 result it's kind of funny. 4282 03:26:25.040 --> 03:26:29.719 Sid, don't say it deadlocks again. 4283 03:26:30.040 --> 03:26:33.399 No man sight gonna said, I'm gonna make me undertaker. 4284 03:26:33.600 --> 03:26:46.440 That's not so many of thirteen. F Up said, looked up. 4285 03:26:46.479 --> 03:26:49.799 You you have Chapin rap art him light in the 4286 03:26:49.879 --> 03:26:53.840 face by stone coll Steve Austin with a steel chair 4287 03:26:54.479 --> 03:26:55.879 and the referee. 4288 03:26:55.520 --> 03:26:58.680 And Nicco said, we're neither one or lot of the feet. 4289 03:26:58.840 --> 03:27:08.040 Yeah, come right there he's riding as he's. 4290 03:27:05.680 --> 03:27:08.760 Just daunts him on the head. Yep. Yeah right here, 4291 03:27:08.879 --> 03:27:12.799 just like the most deliberate shine the verse. Yeah, we 4292 03:27:12.959 --> 03:27:14.000 got a car bomb. 4293 03:27:19.840 --> 03:27:24.840 I don't around the raised to sing bob oh comment 4294 03:27:25.000 --> 03:27:27.200 that doesn't starts is concerned. 4295 03:27:29.680 --> 03:27:34.239 The Undertaker is here, obviously trouble. 4296 03:27:38.200 --> 03:27:41.920 Yeah, we got trouble like exact sit as aw w 4297 03:27:42.239 --> 03:27:45.239 w M Champion and the Undertaker. 4298 03:27:45.559 --> 03:27:46.840 He is here the house. 4299 03:27:47.239 --> 03:27:52.959 Oh the right, Sid lays the belt having him on 4300 03:27:53.040 --> 03:27:55.399 the map between the two yep, and they come to 4301 03:27:55.479 --> 03:28:00.680 center pace to face thurteen brill. 4302 03:28:02.000 --> 03:28:06.879 That's the man turn. The Undertaker become a man once again. 4303 03:28:07.440 --> 03:28:14.040 Look at fawn ride. He's darn right into the want 4304 03:28:14.040 --> 03:28:19.239 to Wrestle Mania thirteen. It's gonna be tampion M. We'll 4305 03:28:19.280 --> 03:28:21.360 see you next week from New Guard City. 4306 03:28:23.680 --> 03:28:28.360 I want to finish. Oh it's tremendous. Finish, absolutely tremendous. 4307 03:28:28.719 --> 03:28:30.920 So you have Sid with with a with a short 4308 03:28:31.520 --> 03:28:37.360 but sweet celebration, with the championship providing the bridge, providing 4309 03:28:37.399 --> 03:28:41.040 the glue to getting to WrestleMania thirteen and his eventual 4310 03:28:41.399 --> 03:28:44.360 last reign there as w F champion, really his last 4311 03:28:44.440 --> 03:28:49.040 run in WWF of yeah, of any consequence well, lying 4312 03:28:49.079 --> 03:28:51.639 on the mat, collecting himself woozy as all hell, being 4313 03:28:51.760 --> 03:28:54.159 tended to by Earl Hebner's of course Brett Hart, who's 4314 03:28:54.200 --> 03:28:55.799 on his way to the heel turn of a lifetime 4315 03:28:56.360 --> 03:29:00.479 and uh, the heel turn that would spark the most 4316 03:29:00.520 --> 03:29:03.600 consequential babyface run for WWF of all time in the 4317 03:29:03.680 --> 03:29:05.600 form of Steve Austin and all he did and put 4318 03:29:05.639 --> 03:29:07.799 out there. But before it got there, it was working 4319 03:29:07.840 --> 03:29:09.600 with Sid, and it was making this thing go across 4320 03:29:09.639 --> 03:29:12.040 the finish line and making it look good. And Brett 4321 03:29:12.079 --> 03:29:13.559 certainly did as part as he always did in that 4322 03:29:13.680 --> 03:29:16.639 ring with Sid. And so as we pay tribute to 4323 03:29:16.760 --> 03:29:19.920 Sid and we build it in no small part around 4324 03:29:20.040 --> 03:29:22.559 this banner night for him winning the championship in Nashville. 4325 03:29:23.319 --> 03:29:26.319 We decided that maybe it would make some sense to 4326 03:29:26.399 --> 03:29:29.479 get some perspective on who and what we lost from 4327 03:29:29.520 --> 03:29:30.879 the man who went up for the power bomb that 4328 03:29:31.000 --> 03:29:33.319 night himself. And after this, we'll see you next time 4329 03:29:33.399 --> 03:29:35.719 for a continuation of our tribute to Sid. 4330 03:29:37.399 --> 03:29:39.079 Hey, this is Break the hite Man Heart, and I'm 4331 03:29:39.079 --> 03:29:41.000 going to do the best to answer your questions JP. 4332 03:29:43.000 --> 03:29:47.239 Sid was actually was a pretty nice guy. Everybody I 4333 03:29:47.280 --> 03:29:51.639 think kind of like him for just being a big, strong, 4334 03:29:51.799 --> 03:29:54.360 kind of funny guy. He said some funny things sometimes. 4335 03:29:54.440 --> 03:29:57.479 He was pretty much liked by everybody. And all I 4336 03:29:57.520 --> 03:30:01.000 can say is that night with the after the Final four, 4337 03:30:01.120 --> 03:30:04.239 when I had that short run with my title, I 4338 03:30:04.360 --> 03:30:07.000 had no problem with what the outcome was going to be, 4339 03:30:07.159 --> 03:30:09.200 and I I was all set up. I thought Sid 4340 03:30:09.440 --> 03:30:14.159 was an interesting guy to work with, and I thought 4341 03:30:14.239 --> 03:30:15.600 the match we had was really good. 4342 03:30:16.239 --> 03:30:18.280 And I always got on well with Sid. He was 4343 03:30:18.319 --> 03:30:21.000 one of those kind of guys that could. 4344 03:30:20.879 --> 03:30:25.040 Be taken advantage of sometimes because he sometimes didn't seem 4345 03:30:25.040 --> 03:30:27.840 to understand the business really well. When you know, he 4346 03:30:27.920 --> 03:30:30.120 was one of those kind of guys that would often 4347 03:30:30.159 --> 03:30:32.079 come to me for advice and stuff like that. And 4348 03:30:32.120 --> 03:30:33.559 I would always try to steer him in the right 4349 03:30:33.600 --> 03:30:37.760 direction and pointing towards being a big star. 4350 03:30:37.879 --> 03:30:39.399 And he always was a big star. 4351 03:30:39.520 --> 03:30:42.120 And I feel bad for him and his family, but 4352 03:30:42.280 --> 03:30:45.559 I do know that you know he had been sick 4353 03:30:45.639 --> 03:30:48.600 for some time, and I'm I'm glad he's finally in peace. 4354 03:30:48.959 --> 03:30:52.479 And I hope those answer your questions was Sid was 4355 03:30:52.559 --> 03:30:55.079 a good man and it's too bad that. 4356 03:30:55.120 --> 03:30:56.120 We lost him so early. 4357 03:30:57.120 --> 03:30:57.680 God bless. 4358 03:30:58.479 --> 03:31:00.840 I think it was at Pertain Nails when as a 4359 03:31:00.879 --> 03:31:01.120 Tea J. 4360 03:31:01.319 --> 03:31:05.079 DeSantis production, its contents is intended for private use only.