Speaker 1: And we're back Laps Fan Wrestling podcast WCW World War
Speaker 1: three nineteen ninety six. Boss, you're ready for three ring
Speaker 1: sixty men?
Speaker 2: I fuck it? You know, I said, uh, you know, Jared,
Speaker 2: what the fuck's going on?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: Kev's ready? I don't get it, you know, I just
Speaker 2: I don't see the problem. I'm gonna get this straight.
Speaker 1: I don't have to do anything until fifty guys have
Speaker 1: been eliminated.
Speaker 2: Listen, I'll tell you what it says in my contract,
Speaker 2: but I don't have to fucking do anything till I'm
Speaker 2: the final two.
Speaker 1: And it says in the turnstiles that this drew a
Speaker 1: turnaway crowd of ten three and fourteen fans to the
Speaker 1: Scope in Norfolk, one of those buildings with the roof
Speaker 1: that we need.
Speaker 2: I love it. I love the Scope. The building did
Speaker 2: ww ever work? There was that a second building? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I can't recall ever seeing that building.
Speaker 1: It was like one of the quintessential crocket buildings.
Speaker 2: I mean, we've seen a lot of shows take place
Speaker 2: at that building and I I always love it and
Speaker 2: I was it. Someone said that that that it was
Speaker 2: all like that, Like, you know, it's funny to hear
Speaker 2: us I mean there's years ago. It's funny to hear
Speaker 2: us talk so like, like fondly of it, because most
Speaker 2: people in the area think it was garbage. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I love that ceiling. I think it's such a unique.
Speaker 1: Yeah building distinct architecture that you can tell what building
Speaker 1: it is. That's all we ask for Baltimore Arena. You
Speaker 1: know how goes the gardens.
Speaker 2: It's so hard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently it is. But yeah, they packed him in
Speaker 1: ten thy three fourteen in attendance of which, according to
Speaker 1: The Observer, sevenenty eighteen were paid. That that equal to
Speaker 1: gate about one hundred eighteen thousand dollars. They had announced
Speaker 1: a sellout but managed to open up thirteen hundred more
Speaker 1: tickets on that Sunday and those quickly went and they
Speaker 1: still ended up turning away several hundred at the door.
Speaker 1: People want to see this nWo thing. They do absolutely
Speaker 1: also part of the whatever they did a local promotion
Speaker 1: in Norfolk. Every person who ordered Halloween Havoc was supposed
Speaker 1: to be able to get two free tickets to World
Speaker 1: War Three, and according to the Observer, more than three
Speaker 1: thousand people, way more than estimated, try to cash in
Speaker 1: on that. So you're looking at six thousand free free
Speaker 1: tickets and a building that holds ten ah so thankfully
Speaker 1: not that many were serviced. But uh, no, good deed
Speaker 1: goes unpunished, that's for sure. There was a dark match
Speaker 1: Laparca beat Viano four. I do, yes, the uh that's
Speaker 1: the one I know everyone's been waiting for. Absolutely, they
Speaker 1: an't event anywhere in the country. What happened to Vieno three?
Speaker 1: He's around all right. He had one of the more
Speaker 1: legendary mass matches I remember in two thousand against was
Speaker 1: it lis Martino Atlantis. Yeah, he's a legend of Mexican
Speaker 1: wrestling as well. This is the time when you know,
Speaker 1: through Conan's connection, they're bringing in a ton of loose
Speaker 1: writers triple A promost Teca. Everyone wanted to taste of
Speaker 1: that WCW money.
Speaker 2: Was there a Vienna five? Yes, there was, Yes, there was.
Speaker 1: Wow, what a number we at now, that's a great question.
Speaker 1: I actually don't know if it's still going. That's a
Speaker 1: great question. I just remember at the time and Vienno
Speaker 1: four had just come in and he also wrestled on
Speaker 1: Nitro as Tony Paanya a couple of times, included the
Speaker 1: next night on Nitro against Steve Regal. So it's like
Speaker 1: it's Viano four and all the costume with the four
Speaker 1: on his trunks even but he just doesn't have a
Speaker 1: mask on. Welcome to w CW.
Speaker 2: Wasn't he a baseball catcher baseball player for yan Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 2: well that's to say nothing of Viano three.
Speaker 1: Real named Mike Piazza, I played for the Royals.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I'm thinking Piazza. I'm thinking Piatt a Yankee, right,
Speaker 2: he was a Yankee? Or the Met he was a Dodger,
Speaker 2: O man, he was a Met. He was a Met.
Speaker 2: He was a Met. I knew someone's a fucking New
Speaker 2: York baseball player. There's one of them out there. There's someone
Speaker 2: out there played baseball in New York. Well that's for sure.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 1: But we start with the black and white map of
Speaker 1: the globe and we have the stylized Tonight, w CW
Speaker 1: presents World War Three the top w W stars, including
Speaker 1: members of the nWo.
Speaker 2: I got to say that got to set that aside.
Speaker 2: Is distinct. It is it's like, you know, that's the thing,
Speaker 2: like there's there is a there's there's a difference, you know,
Speaker 2: That's that's what That's what made it so interesting was
Speaker 2: that they really really tried hard to make it different.
Speaker 2: I will say for a while that makes it very interesting.
Speaker 2: But like we've always said, they got to lose, they
Speaker 2: got to lose, and yeah they do.
Speaker 1: And we get some nice graphics of fighter jets flying
Speaker 1: across the ring because this is World War three, after absolutely,
Speaker 1: it is war. Tony lets us know there's not a
Speaker 1: seat to be found as the Native Virgini and Tony
Speaker 1: Shivanni welcomes us in as found.
Speaker 2: Now there's not there was about half hour.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, there's actually not a seat to be
Speaker 1: found when people cashed in their Halloween havoc or sipts.
Speaker 1: Either heads Funny, Tony says, fans of w CW, fans
Speaker 1: of the nWo, and fans of the greatest sport in
Speaker 1: the world gather here tonight we get the sparkler.
Speaker 2: Fans of neither. What if there's like, what about w
Speaker 2: D fans that are in the building, you know, are them.
Speaker 1: Are you with WW or are you the w O
Speaker 1: if one boost twice and says.
Speaker 2: W W I'm with WWE. Thanks, hey, let.
Speaker 1: Who let you back here? So there's you know, some
Speaker 1: with globals. Sparkler's going up on the posts of all
Speaker 1: three rings to kick us off. And this is Dusty
Speaker 1: Roads and his red leather era.
Speaker 2: Oh can we not?
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a lot.
Speaker 2: Can we not with this? With this fucking disaster? What's
Speaker 2: he doing wearing that ship? I mean also not to mention,
Speaker 2: not to mention. It's like, you know, how many cows
Speaker 2: died to make that leather jacket. How many cows died
Speaker 2: to feed them lunch that afternoon? Consider all that? All right,
Speaker 2: we're talking what are we doing, like like two dozen cows?
Speaker 2: That's one thing to notice. Service to service Dusty Roads
Speaker 2: for a day, that's one thing. You know.
Speaker 1: Notice they roll credits at the NWW pay per views,
Speaker 1: but nothing ever said about no animals were harmed in
Speaker 1: the making of you.
Speaker 2: Damn right now. That's also because they considered the talent
Speaker 2: to be animals.
Speaker 1: Right yeah, And plus Joe Lorinidis was there for several
Speaker 1: years and he was harmed in the making of the show. Definitely,
Speaker 1: aren't Heenan? Of course too, they're all rings side sixty men,
Speaker 1: three rings. Careers could be made and ended tonight, we're told,
Speaker 1: And Heenan wants to know what will Piper do when
Speaker 1: he looks into Hulk Cogan's eyes?
Speaker 2: To me, he does, and I have that one for
Speaker 2: you here, But.
Speaker 5: I'm more concerned to see what rowdy Roddy Piper's gonna
Speaker 5: do when he looks right into the eye of Hulk Hogan.
Speaker 6: Well, we have a feeling we know what rowdy Roddy
Speaker 6: Piper's gonna do dream because he says he will.
Speaker 2: Be here tonight and let's you know, we're gonna hear
Speaker 2: Dusty here, and Dusty's really gonna Dusty's gonna really tie
Speaker 2: this one up with a neat bow.
Speaker 7: To finally sign the match.
Speaker 6: Why has Eric Bischoff continually attempted to stall these contract
Speaker 6: when being signed. That's my question, and my other question
Speaker 6: to you is will Hulk Hogan finally sign.
Speaker 7: This or will he back out of it?
Speaker 8: Well, Papa picked this opportunity to pick a fight. Now
Speaker 8: he's gonna bring his contract himself into flesh.
Speaker 7: Yes, right out here w cw W A big boy's.
Speaker 8: Plate and Hawk Hogen, The question is will you step
Speaker 8: up to the plate and accept this challenge from Ruddy Papa,
Speaker 8: Because any where there's a fight, we're gonna have a
Speaker 8: lot of fighting going on here tonight, I guarantee that much.
Speaker 9: What I mean, he just is anyone that's gonna be
Speaker 9: a fight, and we're gonna have a lot of fighting.
Speaker 2: Daddy running on my f hole.
Speaker 1: Only time, if only time, that there was ever a
Speaker 1: salad coming out of Dusty's mouth A word salad. I mean,
Speaker 1: just he just does that for like three straight years
Speaker 1: on Commentary W step through the whole NW angle, he
Speaker 1: just starts making sounds and.
Speaker 2: Like there's just so much nonsense, so much, so much
Speaker 2: nonsense that he spews out on this show. And it
Speaker 2: is I mean, it's it's a it's amazing that he's
Speaker 2: able to do that. And like I wouldn't say it
Speaker 2: makes a point because he certainly doesn't, but he makes
Speaker 2: it sound like he said something.
Speaker 1: Oh he does.
Speaker 2: That's that's I guess what the impressive thing is that
Speaker 2: he made it sound like he said something even though
Speaker 2: he said nothing at all.
Speaker 1: Because what's key to Dusty and Commentary is after he
Speaker 1: does that obliviation, he never smiles at himself or laughs
Speaker 1: at himself at the end. He always has that that
Speaker 1: kind of stoic look on his face, like he knows
Speaker 1: he just delivered something profound. It's up to you to
Speaker 1: figure it out. Ye And speaking of profound, speaking of impactful?
Speaker 1: Is not the first theme song we hear on World
Speaker 1: War three ninety six?
Speaker 2: Som Soon Chodham and do I still have that song
Speaker 2: to this day? Of course when mystereo comes on the
Speaker 2: team hum hum huan fun fun hunum. Yeah, it's classic
Speaker 2: Fung fung Harlem. What is that Terry and Dorry versus.
Speaker 1: Stevie Rayam Booker. That's right, that's it, this one. This
Speaker 1: one's for the eight Crown Cruiserweight Championship ever seen Ultimore
Speaker 1: Dragon Dressed and all those belts before.
Speaker 2: Yeah, rather not.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if that that was just the
Speaker 1: generic song they used for everybody from New Japan and
Speaker 1: ninety five. Here he comes.
Speaker 2: It's better than the It's better than recycling the fucking
Speaker 2: Orient Express.
Speaker 1: Yes, here comes Ray Junior. Man is he junior? How
Speaker 1: small was.
Speaker 2: He back then? Yeah? You know, like he's such a
Speaker 2: little twerp.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, he was five six months in the company coming
Speaker 1: in Great American Mass ninety six. Everyone talks about that
Speaker 1: night everyone.
Speaker 2: You hit the weights, man, you know, ship you think
Speaker 2: about taking the mask off Hermano. Yeah. The thing about it,
Speaker 2: you know, we're telling stories with the images. Man, one
Speaker 2: can see your fucking eye. I just got Viano to
Speaker 2: take his off. Man, Tony Perez, good looking guy. Let's uh,
Speaker 2: you know, I say, fucking let's see what's going on.
Speaker 2: Tell you what.
Speaker 1: After I end Goldbrook streak, I'll take your mask and
Speaker 1: they'll be doing Goldberg is like barely in the government.
Speaker 1: So the jet flies across the screen and drops some
Speaker 1: letters into place for our graphics and our lower thirds.
Speaker 2: Because it's war, right, it's war, so we're dropping bombs.
Speaker 1: Well then, actually the dice, the WW crosshair is target
Speaker 1: logo on the apron on the mat is very appropriate
Speaker 1: for World War that's true.
Speaker 2: That is true.
Speaker 1: Black ropes, yellow pads on the buckling, plenty of planted
Speaker 1: blondies in the front row here on the Virginia waterfront.
Speaker 1: That was a Bishop specialty. Tony calls this one of
Speaker 1: the greatest wrestling cities in the world and says they
Speaker 1: hung a World War You can see they hung a
Speaker 1: World War three banner way the fuck at the top
Speaker 1: of the scope. I don't know how they got up there,
Speaker 1: but guys, there's gonna be someone there's gonna be some
Speaker 1: access like you know walk or or I'm thinking like
Speaker 1: there's gotta be a way to get you know, kind
Speaker 1: of like the you know, the the MSG ceiling, you
Speaker 1: can you can.
Speaker 2: Walk up above that. You know, there's there's there's stuff
Speaker 2: up there that that you're allowed to walk. You're not
Speaker 2: allowed to you know. It's cause, yeah, it's caused for
Speaker 2: immediate termination for anybody who said yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: Like people supervisors always told me that it was like
Speaker 2: if you even step up there, if you even walk
Speaker 2: through the door, you are immediately terminating. Unreal, Like there's
Speaker 2: very very strict in regards to which unions or union
Speaker 2: can go up there. Yeah, I bet, and they'll they'll
Speaker 2: fucking cany in a heartbeat.
Speaker 1: All those years, I remember watching Ultimo Dragon, but they're
Speaker 1: telling me here it's Ultimate Dragon. They always change it,
Speaker 1: the ult change it, Yeah, the Ultimate Ultimo. They change
Speaker 1: it all the time. That's like a thing that they
Speaker 1: would do, they would, you know, on purpose.
Speaker 2: But actually I think this, oh yeah, this is as
Speaker 2: Dragon is coming down to the ring. This is Heenan
Speaker 2: has some ideas as to what maybe underneath his robe.
Speaker 5: Well, I bet if you check him out real caref
Speaker 5: that you'll probably find a couple of upcames from a
Speaker 5: Toyota on him.
Speaker 2: Oh, I love it so much. Such a fuck.
Speaker 1: This is the J Crown with all those belts, including
Speaker 1: the WWF Junior Heavyweight belt, which after they split off
Speaker 1: from New Japan in eighty four, ended up finding a
Speaker 1: permanent home in New Japan and not in the WWF,
Speaker 1: but that one he tended to leave in the locker
Speaker 1: room in WCW. Did Ultimo Dragon right? But take a
Speaker 1: look at the display. Soniono accompanying him as Tony Shivanni
Speaker 1: talks about how these titles are from Mexico, Great Britain, Japan,
Speaker 1: all over the world, and how Ultimo Dragon had just
Speaker 1: participated in the J Crown tournament of junior heavyweight wrestlers
Speaker 1: that passed August went to the finals. And you can
Speaker 1: even see the old NWA license plate style junior title
Speaker 1: in there as well. So we have the the opening
Speaker 1: contest here and the J Crown is the iw GP
Speaker 1: Junior Heavyweight, the NWA Junior Heavyweight and worlterweight titles, the
Speaker 1: UWA from Mexico light heavyweight title, the war which was
Speaker 1: a Japanese Promotion International Junior Heavyweight Title War is where
Speaker 1: Benoit and Jericho came from the WWF Flight Heavyweight title,
Speaker 1: the Great Britain Junior Heavyweight title, and the w w
Speaker 1: A Junior light Heavyweight title, and you know they kind
Speaker 1: of that was a very impactful visual when Ultimore Dragon
Speaker 1: would come out with all those belts, that was fucking
Speaker 1: awesome that they let him come out with those, even
Speaker 1: though they weren't company straps. It made him look incredible.
Speaker 1: So Heenan says, you'll find a couple hub caps.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Dusty points out the w CW Cruise Ofweight Belt is
Speaker 1: not among them, so Ultimore Dragons still had some work
Speaker 1: to do in the ranks of the cruiserweight division. Dean
Speaker 1: Malko our champ will be defending later and they're in
Speaker 1: ring number one. We're told, I guess these guys just
Speaker 1: have to pick a ring to wrestle in.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess. It's so, you know, this is
Speaker 2: this is the issue here, you know, with having a
Speaker 2: multi ring situation, especially three rings, it's such a I
Speaker 2: don't know again, Yeah, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's it's I kind of get it. You know, let
Speaker 2: people see from different vantage points and whatnot.
Speaker 1: I understand, and they make a big deal about the
Speaker 1: tension in the air. Bischoff, having just turned on WCW, I.
Speaker 2: Got this one for you. Here we go. This is
Speaker 2: uh and Dusty. Dusty spouts gibberish for us too as well.
Speaker 8: Well, it was Titson in the arena's tension back in
Speaker 8: the dressing room.
Speaker 7: It's Titchon in.
Speaker 8: In the era where they nWo have their own special plate.
Speaker 8: And we know why they got their special plates now
Speaker 8: because all the way upto top something was rotten and
Speaker 8: we found on a pass nitrol. But bottom line, the
Speaker 8: night things the ship could be could be uh put back,
Speaker 8: sending down the right path.
Speaker 7: I guarantee you, Bob what I agree. I agree, Bob.
Speaker 7: He's busy over here in this match, is what I'm doing.
Speaker 2: I just had no idea what Dusty said exactly. It
Speaker 2: was ships and what so.
Speaker 1: The opening contest here World War three ninety six Rabisterio
Speaker 1: Junior and Ultimo Dragon Rabye the Headlock Takeover Dragon Kicks Free.
Speaker 1: Tony says these two met three times, once before Hogwild
Speaker 1: and on an episode of Saturday Night and on Nitro,
Speaker 1: so we already, you know. I remember that so well.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing Ultimo Dragon for the first time on
Speaker 1: Nitro when I was in my early days of flipping
Speaker 1: the channels in ninety six. Yeah, because the NBA was
Speaker 1: drawing me in and I saw these guys. What the fuck.
Speaker 1: I still remember how being so impacted by the fact
Speaker 1: that they were springboarding off the middle of the ropes.
Speaker 2: You know when I was Yeah, you know I didn't care. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know I didn't. If I'm being completely honest, I
Speaker 2: didn't really appreciate what guys like Dragon and Raymisteria were
Speaker 2: doing back then. Like for some reason, and maybe this
Speaker 2: is just me always being behind the times, which is
Speaker 2: very very possible. I I just was like, I don't
Speaker 2: I don't care. Yeah, like it probably goes to show
Speaker 2: why I don't like the flip floppy shit these days. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I do appreciate Ray Mysterio much more now and certainly
Speaker 2: watching his stuff then and nolsmore Dragon the same. But
Speaker 2: back then, I just I couldn't get behind, maybe because
Speaker 2: I didn't know who they were, and you know, my
Speaker 2: closed mindedness about it was like, you know, you can't
Speaker 2: come into this company unless even ww nless I fucking
Speaker 2: know who you are. I see. Yeah, well that's yeah,
Speaker 2: that's hard for them to overcome. But of course, yeah
Speaker 2: you can't. It's impossible because the way you're not building
Speaker 2: up new stars.
Speaker 1: There's always something about wrestling where I was drawn into
Speaker 1: the moves, Like I was always interested, even like Karate
Speaker 1: Kid movies, like what are moves that would work.
Speaker 2: That we haven't seen?
Speaker 1: Yeah, and the Cruiser Weights brought like thirty new moves
Speaker 1: per match that you really hadn't seen it on national
Speaker 1: television in the United.
Speaker 2: Totally, totally. I do wonder what it was that I just,
Speaker 2: you know, I was like, oh, okay, here we go.
Speaker 2: And the masks bothered me too. I didn't to me,
Speaker 2: and this is just you know, to me, the masks
Speaker 2: meant you weren't to be taken seriously. Sure.
Speaker 1: I mean so many Jibronis and w W have had
Speaker 1: masks and hardly any of them ever won anything.
Speaker 2: That's probably you're probably right. I probably was groomed to
Speaker 2: think that the mask thing was not it was was not.
Speaker 2: Was was kind of like, okay, you're a loser if
Speaker 2: you wear a mask.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yep, doctors, the tradition so well, Ultimo Dragon takes
Speaker 1: it down to the mat food you are Armbard, Dusty
Speaker 1: guarantees Ultimore knows all the high risk maneuvers. That's That's
Speaker 1: something that's cool about w s evictru'swaight matches back then,
Speaker 1: is to watch Dusty kind of mark out for moves
Speaker 1: that he'd never as wild as Dreams would have attempted
Speaker 1: or even hurt.
Speaker 2: Oh right, or even thought he would ever see in
Speaker 2: his lifetime.
Speaker 1: But he's still kind of rejoicing in what they're doing
Speaker 1: in there, which I think is cool as opposed to
Speaker 1: being threatened by it, you know, or or seeing it
Speaker 1: is the wrong way to do pro wrestling. Right back up,
Speaker 1: Bultimore Dragon with a slam and an elbow drop a
Speaker 1: tight press, gets to referee Mark Curtis Bright hild A
Speaker 1: brand down at eye level. Sure Dragon cranks a sleepers race,
Speaker 1: sneaks out h's a hammer lock, and they say if
Speaker 1: Remisterio Junior gets loose Onnya, he can hit moves from
Speaker 1: the ceiling. This is Dusty, of course talking of course
Speaker 1: he says he can drop kick from a chair. Well
Speaker 1: that's not wrong, it's not the ceiling, but I get it. Man,
Speaker 1: Ulti Dragon rolls through in a wristlock and a chop
Speaker 1: whip over the top the chop.
Speaker 2: I don't know if this one or not, but I do.
Speaker 2: At some point Shavanni actually calls out the first chop
Speaker 2: of the match and says like that was the first chop.
Speaker 1: Of the ceremonial first chop, What does that even mean?
Speaker 1: First chop of Christmas, the first chop of dinner. So
Speaker 1: he goes over the top. Ulto Dragon tumbles underneath the
Speaker 1: leap frog sidestep right as a springboard backflip, lands on
Speaker 1: his feet. Then there's a backdrop attempt on Dragon, but
Speaker 1: he does that deal where he would counter a backdrop
Speaker 1: by rotating and kind of cart wheeling off to the side,
Speaker 1: landing on his feet. Then both nip up and go
Speaker 1: face off, and the crowd pops at that athletic display.
Speaker 1: Dusty says they were flip flopping in a flying This
Speaker 1: might be this. I don't know what the whole what
Speaker 1: the whole quote is here? So here here we go,
Speaker 1: both of them.
Speaker 8: Spring back up and nip club and both common for
Speaker 8: high risk believa. Then they will flip clopping and then
Speaker 8: a flying and nobody connect him.
Speaker 7: Not even the chop did any damage.
Speaker 8: And I'll tell you what, if it's a real I'll
Speaker 8: figure out process. Right here, they're trying to boom kick
Speaker 8: him there, keep in the billy Willie, keep in a
Speaker 8: bit of Wallie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I thought when I saw this match
Speaker 1: of figuring out process. Yes, and I also thought, yes,
Speaker 1: of course, kick him in the billy Willie. That's the
Speaker 1: way to go. So Dragon me and I said, you
Speaker 1: know what, do it twice? Yeah, kick him in the
Speaker 1: billy will They kick him in the billy Now we
Speaker 1: fumble the.
Speaker 2: Billy Willie sounds like a fucking robot, like who's who's
Speaker 2: you know? A microchip is fucking broken. Kick him in
Speaker 2: a billy Whelly, kick him in the billy will the
Speaker 2: kick him the billy with They kick him with the
Speaker 2: billy Willie.
Speaker 1: Spin kick Beltimore Dragon. He goes off with some light
Speaker 1: kicks and another spin kick drops some stereo. Dusty says,
Speaker 1: kick him in the belly willing ye. Eden says, uh,
Speaker 1: this is great. This is a theme throughout the show.
Speaker 1: He ninjas declares his pick to win the World War
Speaker 1: three Battle Royal is Dean Malenko, and he sticks.
Speaker 2: To this the whole time. I love it, and I
Speaker 2: wish that happened.
Speaker 1: He's saying, you know, who knows what the nWo has
Speaker 1: in mind. Maybe they didn't want to win this thing necessarily,
Speaker 1: Maybe they just want to do damage. He just keeps saying,
Speaker 1: the Cruiseway Champion Milinco. And I remember p w I
Speaker 1: had Dean Milinko number one and their five hundred for
Speaker 1: ninety seven, even though all they did was wrestling.
Speaker 2: I remember that. I remember that.
Speaker 1: At first, I was like, maybe he did that because
Speaker 1: pw I just declared Dean, But now that was the
Speaker 1: year before. It's such a curious choice for Heenan to
Speaker 1: just like beat that drum the whole broadcast.
Speaker 2: But he did. If you ordered money, it's probably a rib.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Irish whips verse, Ultimate Dragon backdrops. Ray goes to
Speaker 1: the apron and hits ay Jericho like springboard dropkick, very
Speaker 1: nice to the floor, goes Ultimate Dragon, Sonyono goes out
Speaker 1: Ray Mysterio. Sonyono comes over and gets a kick in
Speaker 1: on the stereo and Dustin calls him a sneaky man.
Speaker 1: At least he didn't Charlie chopsticks or anything.
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's you know, They also at some point
Speaker 2: Tony and Dusty wereminding Din that he into money. Don't
Speaker 2: have a money deal. Yeah, they get a money deal.
Speaker 1: They did not let that one die he had from
Speaker 1: the previous star Kane, right, yes, that's right, Yeah, in
Speaker 1: the ws W New Japan kind of thing. And he said,
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't sell someone down the river. He
Speaker 1: Dion denies the whole thing. Tony says, I don't even
Speaker 1: want to talk about that, and he says, good, let's
Speaker 1: drop it.
Speaker 2: To the apron. They go.
Speaker 1: Ultimo Dragon tries to suplex, but no, Ray mysterio goes
Speaker 1: to the waistlock reversed and yes, uh, I believe we
Speaker 1: have Germanic soup play here on display and Norfolk.
Speaker 2: It's about it's about.
Speaker 1: Bridging when you're at this weight class. And also Dragon
Speaker 1: certainly bridges off the German supplex for two Irish whip in.
Speaker 1: Ultimo Dragon lifts Ray and flops him to a big
Speaker 1: ooh from the crowd. While you're up there, can you
Speaker 1: check the lights? Heenen says, alto.
Speaker 2: Dragon kicks Ray in you can get a new ball
Speaker 2: bin please? Yeah, in violation of the aforementioned union rules.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, he was not on the ceiling, so he
Speaker 2: can just if he flies up. It's a whole different story.
Speaker 2: No one said you could. No one said you couldn't
Speaker 2: fly up to put a to put a bulb, and
Speaker 2: you just can't walk on the ceiling, right.
Speaker 1: I probably remarked upon this before, but one of heen
Speaker 1: and signatures in WW was when someone hit a real
Speaker 1: hard blow, he'd go, mmm, remember that, like like he
Speaker 1: can feel it his own spine.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: And he does that here yep. As Ultimate Dragon lends
Speaker 1: a stiff kick to a down mysterio whipping a tilted
Speaker 1: whirld to the shoulder goes right in stereo, and from
Speaker 1: that position, Ultimate Dragon spins around and around like an
Speaker 1: airplane spin and drops with almost an abyss shock treatment
Speaker 1: across the shoulders. And the crowd pops for that display.
Speaker 1: They're kind of in awe at how much rotations are
Speaker 1: going on in that ring.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's it's a pretty it's pretty fucking
Speaker 2: wild actually to see these guys do pretty seamless shit,
Speaker 2: and it's it is wild again watching it now, I
Speaker 2: have a whole different appreciation for it. That's cool then
Speaker 2: I did when I was when I was you know fifteen,
Speaker 2: Well Dragon with a front back breaker and a half crab.
Speaker 2: I can't say myself. Why don't they kicking and punching?
Speaker 1: Well, Dragon did a fair amount of kicking, but I
Speaker 1: get your point. They never punch really, and these cruiserweight matches.
Speaker 2: Hit the ropes before they punched.
Speaker 1: They sure would green teeth from Dragon's mist here, but
Speaker 1: we didn't really see him blow the mist. But it's
Speaker 1: all green in his face and that was confusing, I'm
Speaker 1: sure to some crowd stomping their feet in the scope
Speaker 1: for Ray. He gets free, there's a power bomb, and
Speaker 1: does Ultimo Dragons stack Ray as a cruiserweight should be
Speaker 1: stacked here?
Speaker 2: Listen, listen, that's you've said it before, and I agree
Speaker 2: with you. Cruiserweight power bombs are fucking money.
Speaker 1: Why I show up to a wrestling show. I show
Speaker 1: up for some like undersized guy to get snatched out
Speaker 1: of mid air and just dumped and folded and pinned.
Speaker 1: And that's what Dragon does here. Then he lifts him
Speaker 1: up and then instead of power bombing him again, he
Speaker 1: kind of falls backwards and hot shots Ray throte first
Speaker 1: to the top rope, cover gets two. Dragon comes up
Speaker 1: with the whip and a lift and drops him with
Speaker 1: a spinebuster. Tony calls it a power bomb.
Speaker 2: That's okay.
Speaker 1: Ultimo Dragon with a giant swing and rotates Ray over
Speaker 1: and over and over again drops him and then Dragon
Speaker 1: falls on his ass and they laugh and Norfolk they
Speaker 1: like that because he's dizzy Dusty things dragging. Got a
Speaker 1: little tipsy topsy there as we see Sonny you no
Speaker 1: fanning himself at ringside and then he creeps up to Ray,
Speaker 1: but Race.
Speaker 2: Lies in the ring.
Speaker 1: I mean Dusty might be a little tipsy topsy, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: It takes one to no one back. Then Ultimate Dragon
Speaker 1: with a Fisherman buster suplex gets too on Ray and
Speaker 1: Heenan says he missed Sonniono's interference earlier because his monitor
Speaker 1: had vertical issues, and Tony says, why don't you watch mine?
Speaker 1: Mine never seems to have any problems.
Speaker 2: I think I think Tony missed the joke on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tony's always instantly ready to show heen as a hypocrite.
Speaker 1: Instant yes, like humorlessly, you know, yes, Ultimate Dragon with
Speaker 1: a great brainbuster center of the ring gets big ouzinahs
Speaker 1: from the crowd, and that gets too and then he
Speaker 1: tries again, but Ray counters with an inside credle for
Speaker 1: close too. Dragon stays on him though, drops down with
Speaker 1: a heel hook and the leg gets scissored. Dusty says, Hollywood,
Speaker 1: Hogan is the man. If this thing is going to
Speaker 1: cease to exist, the nWo, that is, someone has to
Speaker 1: beat him on the way to the top. Gotta beat Hogan.
Speaker 1: And uh, it can't be Eric Bischoff. He's not a
Speaker 1: wrestler that that can. I don't know that that can
Speaker 1: You out stand in front of one you want to
Speaker 1: you want to secret there, guys, doesn't happen, never happened,
Speaker 1: never really happens, does it.
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: They they even have to create a new nWo because
Speaker 1: they were so afraid to make it happen. And here
Speaker 1: that's why we won't. That's what kept us hooked yep
Speaker 1: in these early healthy on days of the nWo. And
Speaker 1: just another example here of how which is the bane
Speaker 1: of a lot of lower cart wrestlers existence and not
Speaker 1: be stebioid. They would just completely cut into other matches
Speaker 1: commentary to just you know, wax paranoia paranoia about the nWo.
Speaker 2: I mean it's it's you know, it works it works
Speaker 2: for sure, it definitely works. And and but again it
Speaker 2: only works if at the end they get beat yep,
Speaker 2: you know, because at some point you've got to move on.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's gonna listen. People have been hearing
Speaker 2: to say that for ten years and you're never gonna stop.
Speaker 2: It's as long as there are shows in in uh
Speaker 2: uh uh you know in the chamber for the feature
Speaker 2: of the nWo, which there are many. Uh, it's never
Speaker 2: going to not be said. Yep, because it's it's smatch
Speaker 2: you in the face every time you watch one of
Speaker 2: these shows. It really does.
Speaker 1: Now, I ask you a question. Here does Dragon elevate
Speaker 1: catch rain an upside down position and leap into a
Speaker 1: spike tombstone for the industry, I.
Speaker 2: Mean, look dragons here for one reason. Yeah, and it's
Speaker 2: to prove that he can hang and he can honestly
Speaker 2: hang where the Big Boys plays yeah as little boys. Yeah,
Speaker 2: he's he's not a little boy. What tombs?
Speaker 1: That's another one. Man, you want to talk New Japan
Speaker 1: J Cup, Best of Super Junior J Cup, war Race,
Speaker 1: cruiserweight tombstones or where it's at man to set up
Speaker 1: that top rope diving Headbut or something. Let's fucking get it.
Speaker 1: This one's only good for two though. For Dragon, although
Speaker 1: he absolutely spikes raying mysterio, whipping a dropkick, land sends
Speaker 1: way to the floor ultimate Dragon and basically does a
Speaker 1: six y one nine through the ropes. It's kind of
Speaker 1: like a fake me out, and then drop kicks Ray
Speaker 1: down skins the cat as Ray reaches for him, and
Speaker 1: then clears the ropes and lands on the floor. Whip
Speaker 1: is reversed and Ray goes into the guardrail. Ray has
Speaker 1: a Spider Man red mask on, by the way, with
Speaker 1: the whole webbing and everything. So much for that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I do, Yeah, I like the Spider Man
Speaker 2: got up. You know, I've always appreciated Ray's comic book
Speaker 2: themed costumes. I think they're really cool.
Speaker 1: At high octane Cruiserweight, power Bomb and the ring didn't
Speaker 1: do it for you? How about Dragon hitting one on
Speaker 1: the floor on Ray mysterial that's what's next? Yes, and
Speaker 1: he gets what happened and against in the ring there's
Speaker 1: a piscado splash hits Ray on the floor to a
Speaker 1: big thud. There's a shot of Dusty Heenon and Tony
Speaker 1: with their backs to the actual fighting on the floor
Speaker 1: because of where they're announced.
Speaker 2: Table is positioned. Iculous.
Speaker 1: They're looking like at the monitors, there's an empty ring
Speaker 1: in front of them, behind them the match they're calling
Speaker 1: I I you know, I understand that that's what you
Speaker 1: have to do for the sake of the you know,
Speaker 1: the fans.
Speaker 2: Much of the monitor we're watching on TV. You gotta
Speaker 2: watch monitor and call what you what they what we're
Speaker 2: seeing at home. But man, if you if they get
Speaker 2: shots of you doing it, it really looks awful. So
Speaker 2: because nobody in their right mind would ever fucking do that,
Speaker 2: That's why we see it at Yoda because this unique angle. Also,
Speaker 2: it makes me wonder, why are they going to be ringside? Right?
Speaker 1: It is a great question.
Speaker 2: This is the one show if they're gonna be for
Speaker 2: any show. Honestly, if all they're doing is watching the monitor,
Speaker 2: why are they ring side? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't know, never quite got that, but you know,
Speaker 1: they could have a vantage point like that, they could
Speaker 1: see all three rings. You know, made the perish the thought.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's like Mystery Science three thousand the way
Speaker 1: they're sitting, but the matches behind them, not in front
Speaker 1: of them, but they're there in the corner of the screen.
Speaker 2: You know, that's just that is one of the weird conundrums.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know, you know nowadays you got to
Speaker 2: put through people through tables, and so it's convenient to
Speaker 2: have them there. But I just don't understand because it's
Speaker 2: just distracting to see to see people watching them for
Speaker 2: me anyway, for watching the monitors and not the action
Speaker 2: in the ring.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, that's right there, like you'res watching the
Speaker 1: TV anyway. Back in Undertaker Purchase Ring, in the top rope,
Speaker 1: climbs and hits a spinning superhero Karana Thank god Christ. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's all about spinning Ranas and that gets two. Dragon
Speaker 1: hooks up a power bomb and then does a running
Speaker 1: fucking liger bomb, folding Raymisterio in half, fucking kills him
Speaker 1: and that gets two. That's the thing. All these guys
Speaker 1: are small, but if Ray is that much smaller than
Speaker 1: everybody else, it makes the other cruise of weights look
Speaker 1: like serious fucking monsters. Yeah, exactly, like a Dean Malinko,
Speaker 1: like an Ultimore drag.
Speaker 2: YEP.
Speaker 1: Crowd can't believe just how many high impact moves they're seeing.
Speaker 1: They really can't believe what these guys are doing to
Speaker 1: each other and kicking out, and Heenan says, it's got
Speaker 1: to be Clark Ken in that mask, because surely he
Speaker 1: means Peter Parker.
Speaker 2: But I get the point. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Whipped to the corner, Ray gets the boot up, spinning
Speaker 1: heel kick out of the corner, drops Ultimo Dragon, Ray
Speaker 1: Lunch and the comeback. Now he gets to the apron,
Speaker 1: springboard into an Arabian press that's split legged, moon Salt
Speaker 1: from the adjacent corner that gets two on the pin cover.
Speaker 1: Tony says he hit more Matt than Man on that
Speaker 1: moon Salt, and Dusty says, Mike Today would be mad
Speaker 1: at him for saying that. It's like Dusty's very self
Speaker 1: conscious about how Mike Today knows these actual wrestlers and
Speaker 1: how to pronounce their names and the names of the moves.
Speaker 1: Ye raise whiped out the ropes, front flips to the apron,
Speaker 1: hits the springboard drop kick that sends Dragon all the
Speaker 1: way to the floor right, then hits the ropes, middle rope, springboard,
Speaker 1: front flip, levels ultimate Dragon on the outside and they
Speaker 1: love it in Norfolk.
Speaker 2: It takes light, you know, it's very simple. Listen, it's
Speaker 2: it's a military town, that's right, all right. We saw
Speaker 2: the jet fly over early. We saw the jet fly over.
Speaker 2: It's not uncommon to see men airborne. Oh man.
Speaker 1: It was like, you know, back then, you hadn't even
Speaker 1: seen the setups to the moves they're doing, let alone
Speaker 1: the actual moves exactly.
Speaker 2: That is what made it great that you had no
Speaker 2: fucking idea what they were doing. They were going until
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, this guy's like like folded in
Speaker 2: about a sudden. It's like, wait a minute, I thought
Speaker 2: I was looking over here, But how's he over there? Exactly?
Speaker 2: I mean, he's over here. Fuck, where is he going?
Speaker 10: Now?
Speaker 2: He keeps going higher and higher and higher? And I
Speaker 2: don't know how at flip diver floor park, doing some
Speaker 2: park horse shit all over the yeah, befo all of
Speaker 2: the ceiling of the of the scope of the scope.
Speaker 1: Dragons rolled back in. Ray hits a springboard sunset flip
Speaker 1: for two. Dragon gets up and does a jackknife cradle
Speaker 1: for a tight two count. Dragon then hits the ropes.
Speaker 1: Ray cartwheels as Dragon is hitting the ropes. Yes, he
Speaker 1: launches into motion with a cartwheel, lifts up, leaps and
Speaker 1: lands on the shoulders of Ultimore Dragon and spins around
Speaker 1: from that shoulder position off the cartwheel into a hr
Speaker 1: kanana that gets to yes, yes, yes h Ray cartwheels
Speaker 1: and leaps to moon Salt leaps to hurr kanana. The
Speaker 1: guy coming off the ropes, I'm in a very very
Speaker 1: good place. Yes, Dragon ducks Nelson. How about a Dragon suplex?
Speaker 1: Have these guys not landed on their head? It's enough
Speaker 1: with the two stones and the power bombs at this point,
Speaker 1: you might as well fuck this. How about a fucking
Speaker 1: Dragon soupplex bridge combination leg hooked one two not enough
Speaker 1: from Ultimo Dragon. Heenan says, get.
Speaker 2: A board and just beat him.
Speaker 1: That's the only way you can. Dragon tries another power bomb,
Speaker 1: this time Ray rolls through and stacks him up for two.
Speaker 1: They run the ropes. Ray holds on, though hits a
Speaker 1: back elbow, goes to the aprons signals for the springboard
Speaker 1: hurrican rana. He goes for it, but no Dragon catches
Speaker 1: him in mid air. The West Coast Pop, as he
Speaker 1: would call it in WW, catches him on his shoulders,
Speaker 1: bounces Rays back off the top rope in the power
Speaker 1: bomb formation, spins sits out power bomb one two three.
Speaker 1: It's over thirteen minutes forty eight seconds. Ultimate Dragon defeats
Speaker 1: Ray Misterio Junior in a red hot opener.
Speaker 2: Here at Dragon gave a just an insane amount of
Speaker 2: offense in this match, and insane.
Speaker 1: That's where Ray Shine taking an human amount of punishment
Speaker 1: for his size disadvantage. And even if he lost in
Speaker 1: the end, you got to see this guy again. Yep,
Speaker 1: of course, tremendous stuff. We come to the corner cam
Speaker 1: and Sonny was cackling away and Ono says Malenko, get ready,
Speaker 1: you're next. There's replays of those. Replays of those w
Speaker 1: CW Cruiser eight matches were always great because as wild
Speaker 1: as the move was when you saw it the first time,
Speaker 1: when they could show it in slow motion super cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I agree. I mean because you can
Speaker 2: actually see what's going on. You're like, oh, that's what
Speaker 2: you did, That's what I got from here to there.
Speaker 2: It's like it's like a blur engeans in the locker room.
Speaker 2: Oh yes he is. He's ready to fucking hawk that hotline.
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Speaker 1: were pushing the limits.
Speaker 2: And there it is.
Speaker 1: By virtue of his presence, gene Oakland is back in WCW.
Speaker 1: He's not going to disappear after his contract lapses and
Speaker 1: factors what it said in The Observer, Geneoakerland is back
Speaker 1: on the nine hundred line. Since with the sleeves Master gone,
Speaker 1: hotline business dropped a ton, they had to bring him back.
Speaker 1: After all, Jeff Katz, who made the remark about robbing
Speaker 1: moved to midnight if the ratings don't improve, which resulted
Speaker 1: in more of those threatening letters to WW was dumped
Speaker 1: to bring Oakland back. So when we see Jeff Katz
Speaker 1: in the WCW position ww wrestling dot Com position, do no.
Speaker 1: Apparently there was an attempt made to have him replace
Speaker 1: Gene on the nine hundred line, and kids did not
Speaker 1: get their parents' permission, needless to say, at all.
Speaker 2: Not at all. Well, I'm I'm sure I have a
Speaker 2: funny feeling that that, you know, when you did get caught,
Speaker 2: you know, for for calling the hotline and spending about
Speaker 2: forty dollars, that you know, your parents might have been
Speaker 2: a little more forgiving if they saw that it was that, oh,
Speaker 2: that kind of charming old bald guy. Yeah, you think
Speaker 2: that made a difference. Yeah, I do think that made
Speaker 2: a difference. I think I think I think people might
Speaker 2: have been a little more forgiving of gene Oakerland. He
Speaker 2: had a history with, you know, and also I imagine
Speaker 2: parents at this point probably were familiar of him, familiar
Speaker 2: with him when he was you know, when they were
Speaker 2: when they were kids watching him with Hogan and stuff.
Speaker 2: Help help me.
Speaker 1: Remember WWF had a hot line at the time, but
Speaker 1: they weren't as notorious as w CW's Oakland was never
Speaker 1: the nine hundred line. Pitchman for WWF. I think, well, no,
Speaker 1: because you know he was.
Speaker 2: But before by the time he left, the ww Superstar
Speaker 2: line was not a regular thing, if I'm not mistaken.
Speaker 2: Back in the day, specifically, I remember the the you know,
Speaker 2: early nineties, they would have a special pay per view
Speaker 2: hot line, so you would call the WrestleMania hot Line,
Speaker 2: or you would call the Summer Slam hot like. They
Speaker 2: didn't have a regular hot line going through all the year.
Speaker 2: It was only it was only set up for each
Speaker 2: pay per view, and that I do remember. But I
Speaker 2: remember they they did eventually set up a superstar line,
Speaker 2: the Superstar line, but it was well after Jean had
Speaker 2: moved on to ww was and was you know, just
Speaker 2: you know, just plugging that like like his wife, I
Speaker 2: see fascinating. So at the time they were playing I say,
Speaker 2: his mistress, I should say, right to be more respectful.
Speaker 2: At the time they were playing up big.
Speaker 1: The DDP had get to declare his allegiance was he WCW,
Speaker 1: was he nWo, And they were beginning the pressure campaign
Speaker 1: to try to get him to make a decision. And
Speaker 1: then of course he has that legendary moment on Nitro
Speaker 1: where he diamond cuts Scott Hall and denies theo's overtores
Speaker 1: and he was on his way as a star. But
Speaker 1: that's still in the air. They're also doing the same
Speaker 1: thing with the Nasty Boys at the time.
Speaker 2: They're got a neutral. They're not WCW, they're not nWo.
Speaker 1: And although they would end up behind you know, they
Speaker 1: would always end up in the nWo locker room at times,
Speaker 1: but not curiously enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they would never, you know, actually join the
Speaker 2: I wonder what would.
Speaker 1: Have happened if SAgs didn't, you know, exit stage left
Speaker 1: with that neck injury. If eventually the Nasties would have
Speaker 1: ended up in the nWo. I thought they were a
Speaker 1: good fit with the WW heritage and stuff. Sure, and
Speaker 1: you could be convinced theyd follow Hogan in there, but uh,
Speaker 1: never never to be here. In one of the Nitros
Speaker 1: before World War Three, Kevin Nash kind of puts us
Speaker 1: into the place they were at, teasing that diamond Dallas.
Speaker 2: He just got a big decision to make.
Speaker 1: And the outsiders, of course ddp's former buddies in WCW
Speaker 1: are really putting the pressure on. And you won't believe
Speaker 1: the reference Kevin Nash decides to make in explaining the situation.
Speaker 1: DDP finds himself.
Speaker 12: In you wait a minute, the nWo whatever, And they've
Speaker 12: been wreaking havoc everywhere. You'll notice, Gene, Whenever anything went down,
Speaker 12: DDP was nowhere to be found.
Speaker 7: And there's a reason for that. I let them do
Speaker 7: their thing and I do mine. And now the county
Speaker 7: of my time.
Speaker 6: Again, gentlemen, I think he has made it perfectly clear,
Speaker 6: and I don't want.
Speaker 7: To be bounced around here by the New World Order.
Speaker 7: He has made it.
Speaker 11: Perfectly clear he's not gonna go your direction.
Speaker 7: Yes, tell us, am, I am, I right on that.
Speaker 7: I didn't even hear what you said. Hey, you can't
Speaker 7: wake up call yet you're figuring it out? Huh, you
Speaker 7: get it? What you don't get it? You ain't one
Speaker 7: thing I got. I didn't appreciate that comment. Throwing in
Speaker 7: my space about bitch off last night last week. That's
Speaker 7: one thing i'd get.
Speaker 2: Here, comes.
Speaker 7: Don't you don't get it. He really doesn't get it.
Speaker 7: He don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't know what's the problem. I don't understand why
Speaker 2: we just don't take him out quick fast, in a
Speaker 2: hurry like we do all against friends. Poke, that's what
Speaker 2: we need to do.
Speaker 7: We need to take it easy. Kick guys, guys, wait
Speaker 7: a minute. Now, there's gonna be all know you know.
Speaker 4: You know, you know you know this.
Speaker 7: Psess, hey, you don't do no good for you.
Speaker 13: You don't know good for you from you. Stanley Kobrack
Speaker 13: two thousand space size. It's gonna be something very beautiful
Speaker 13: happened tonight.
Speaker 7: Very beautiful.
Speaker 14: All right, gentlemen, you know, I don't even know what
Speaker 14: the fuck the thing I got a quote from you?
Speaker 2: He says he just couldn't deliver these lines on nitro
Speaker 2: could he check? He was so pre occupied Stanley Kubrick,
Speaker 2: Like it's like ooh, like like I mean, listen, I'm
Speaker 2: not like like I guarantee you that number one. The
Speaker 2: majority of the fans never they don't know the fuck
Speaker 2: Stanley Kubrick. And that's why he's saying it, and that's
Speaker 2: why its thunds down and number two, those who do
Speaker 2: know Stanley Kubrick, I doubt know a specific line, or
Speaker 2: I would say that there are not many who would
Speaker 2: know a specific line from two thousand and one. They're
Speaker 2: more likely to say, you know, I could be wrong,
Speaker 2: but I would I would guess that they would be
Speaker 2: more familiar with the show in full metal jacket right
Speaker 2: then two thousand and one, and of course the ulto
Speaker 2: and irony would be two thousand and one would be
Speaker 2: a terrible year for wcw HI.
Speaker 1: Indeed, in fact, the end, so DDP steps in with
Speaker 1: Gino okralin that's actually very funny, and they said, there,
Speaker 1: that's very fucking yeah, it's not a it's not a
Speaker 1: it's not a date to be bringing up on a
Speaker 1: WW television show.
Speaker 2: In retrospect.
Speaker 1: DDP steps in with Gene. They were kind of recruiting
Speaker 1: the nWo. And last time I remember this much recruiting interest,
Speaker 1: Gene Okerland says, was at the University of Nebraska. Apparently
Speaker 1: ripped from the headlines, Gene Oakland read to the USA
Speaker 1: today in the hotel before the show, and we all
Speaker 1: have to sit here and listen to make references to it.
Speaker 2: Smoking, smoking a cigarette, having a bourbon so.
Speaker 1: At eleven am. DDP. First of all, everybody wants to
Speaker 1: get a hold of the best, the diamond Cutters, the
Speaker 1: hottest finish on the planet. Yeah, we don't call finishing
Speaker 1: moose finishes on TV.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, in nineteen ninety six. It's not cool. I
Speaker 2: mean it's not cool anyway. But I'm not here to
Speaker 2: talk about that. Oh well apparently you are, though, because
Speaker 2: you did well.
Speaker 1: Gene cuts in. He says, well, all the respect, you
Speaker 1: cannot skirt the nWo issue much longer. And DDP, he says,
Speaker 1: you're talking to Bischoff brother.
Speaker 2: You got it? Wait?
Speaker 4: What what?
Speaker 15: What?
Speaker 2: Who's who's talking about? Dallas? You're talking to Bishop Brother?
Speaker 1: Well, he is my next door neighbor, Terry.
Speaker 2: What do you my next door neighbor, dude?
Speaker 1: I mean he lives next door to me? What else?
Speaker 2: What I mean? What you tell me? What else? Would
Speaker 2: you mean? You'll bring it up now, dude, right, you're
Speaker 2: whatever it is?
Speaker 1: And you thought I could also say.
Speaker 2: What do you think what's going on? Dallas? Push? Mhmm.
Speaker 2: There you telling me, dude? What is this? The sixties?
Speaker 1: And Dallas is the Hottes Show?
Speaker 2: On TV again.
Speaker 1: I mean, and there he is.
Speaker 2: Brother, you move in a bishop's neighborhood. Brother, what do
Speaker 2: you mean you court Inchoff? Dude? You're courting that easy?
Speaker 2: What's going on you? Uh?
Speaker 1: He says to DDP, You courton that easy.
Speaker 2: Because they were.
Speaker 1: Playing that up on TV. They were like dp's gonna
Speaker 1: join the nWo. He's neighbors with Bischoff. They didn't hesitate
Speaker 1: to bring it up.
Speaker 2: And it's true. Well you tell me, brother that d
Speaker 2: D pizzles working the easy easy? What's all dd pizzle
Speaker 2: easy shizzle is easy bizzle and d D Pizzle gonna
Speaker 2: take a jizsel on my fit? What you better stop
Speaker 2: that one short? When does Heather Clem come in? So
Speaker 2: DDP doesn't care. Actually, it'd be their way around. It
Speaker 2: would be Hull Cogan who came in. Oh my God
Speaker 2: help us, Heather Clem.
Speaker 1: DDP doesn't care what's happening in the world Eric Bischoff
Speaker 1: right now. Ddp's in a world of his own. You
Speaker 1: can say that again. It doesn't affect me. What's affecting
Speaker 1: Eric Bischoff right now? What does affect me, he says,
Speaker 1: is the sixty man Battle Royal. You know gene. It's
Speaker 1: not that long ago the DDP shocked the world by
Speaker 1: winning the Battle Bowl.
Speaker 7: Good God?
Speaker 1: Is there a problem when he says, good God? Am
Speaker 1: I the only one that basically wants to go to
Speaker 1: bed for the night when he.
Speaker 2: Says, listen, there's a lot of problems with DVP, all right,
Speaker 2: Like he's just you know, he's he's one of those
Speaker 2: guys that he he he thinks he's cooler than he
Speaker 2: actually is. It's not that he's not cool, but he's
Speaker 2: not as cool as he thinks he is. I appreciate DDP.
Speaker 2: I think I think he has There was a lot
Speaker 2: going for him, Yes, and he was interesting and I
Speaker 2: and I I appreciate completely and I respect his hustle.
Speaker 2: He fucking went from you know, the whole this whole career.
Speaker 2: I find him to be a fascinating individual because he
Speaker 2: really made a name for himself and made himself stand out.
Speaker 2: That being said, he's not nearly as cool as he
Speaker 2: thinks he is. But he says good God, it's like exactly, yeah, No,
Speaker 2: I say it with my head in my hands, you know. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He says it with like a cocky look on his face.
Speaker 1: But he talked about how its Slambrino one thought I
Speaker 1: could do it, but me and I did it, and
Speaker 1: tonight in the sixty men Battle Royal, when all is
Speaker 1: said and done, there can only be one bang.
Speaker 2: So kind of a rough the battle battle Bowl like that,
Speaker 2: I mean, the battle Bowl rosters diminished greatly every year
Speaker 2: they did it, Like it went from a twenty man
Speaker 2: Battle Royal to like what it was like a like
Speaker 2: a like an eight man battle something like that went
Speaker 2: that in ninety six it was something pathetic.
Speaker 1: It's like winn King of the Ring in twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: You know, it's like, well, right, when you fucking wrestle
Speaker 2: two matches, like everyone wrestles too matches. My mom wrestles
Speaker 2: too matches.
Speaker 1: Jean says, did he answer my question? I don't think so.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 1: Tony brands ddp evasive after that interview and we get
Speaker 1: the uh one arm tied behind his back graphic. You
Speaker 1: got that right, gentlemen, It's time for Nick Patrick, the referee,
Speaker 1: the evil referee who's engaged in all kinds of shady
Speaker 1: counts that appear to favor the nWo. Before they went
Speaker 1: full end with Nick Patrick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there were there were eight guys in the fucking
Speaker 2: battle Bawl at Slambury ninety six. Yes, eight guys, an
Speaker 2: elite squad, no question. Yeah, oh yeah, so Nick Patrick
Speaker 2: and he's got his earl Robert Eaton and Dick Slater
Speaker 2: and Scott Norton and Johnny Grunge and Ice Train and
Speaker 2: the Barbarian and Diamond Dallas Page.
Speaker 1: See, I'm not sure no one thought he could do it.
Speaker 1: I actually would, I'd pause it everyone thought he could
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 2: I mean, if if i'm if I'm looking at that
Speaker 2: fucking roster, He's the only one who can do that.
Speaker 2: Right if he didn't, fucking clowns, that would be a problem. Right,
Speaker 2: If he didn't do it, he should quit any problem
Speaker 2: with Nick Patrick out with a neck brace and a robe,
Speaker 2: with his fist tape and shades. Well, what I want
Speaker 2: to know first of all, is is he friends with
Speaker 2: Kenna Koboshi. Why would you say that he's wearing his robe,
Speaker 2: fucking black robe with the white trim there? Why is
Speaker 2: he worring wing Kobosha?
Speaker 1: At least a look on Nick Patrick's face isn't triggering
Speaker 1: to you that that's yeah.
Speaker 2: No, I'll tell you. I will say, you know, if
Speaker 2: there's anything that can salvage Nick Patrick. It's his face, such.
Speaker 1: A fucking scowling in the camera, trying to be menacing,
Speaker 1: and I just can't.
Speaker 2: Stand him at all. He's one of the most Like
Speaker 2: again another one. I don't know. I don't know what
Speaker 2: is what is actual? Uh you know, personalities, Like I
Speaker 2: really don't care. All I know is that he It's like,
Speaker 2: is like what are you doing? Man?
Speaker 7: Like why why?
Speaker 2: Like you're supposed to answer that question one of them,
Speaker 2: Like you're asking why he exists? Yeah, that's pretty much it,
Speaker 2: Like why you know he's he's on he's on par
Speaker 2: with Bagwell absolutely at this period, you know, like like
Speaker 2: it's just so fucking annoying, but not in a way.
Speaker 2: It's in a way like I just don't want to
Speaker 2: look at you, like, get off my fucking television, like
Speaker 2: you you're you're such a loser.
Speaker 1: Well, at least he's built like a wrestler.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah right, but like he ate a wrestler.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'll tell you what. At least he's not
Speaker 2: wearing a mask like his dad and having his fucking
Speaker 2: skin ooze out of it.
Speaker 1: Looks like he's doing storage locker auctions. Yeah, bront of
Speaker 1: those guys. But here he is as the evil ref
Speaker 1: uh kind of colluding with w with lawyers and stuff
Speaker 1: to box in Chris Jericho into a one arm tied
Speaker 1: behind his back match. This apparently is the beginning of
Speaker 1: a Chris Jericho push, though you could could have fooled me,
Speaker 1: and Shavani makes reference to the fact that Nick Patrick
Speaker 1: actually did have a fleeting and ring career. Of course,
Speaker 1: being the son of the assassin Jody Hamilton, who was
Speaker 1: front office at WW at the time. Nick Patrick has
Speaker 1: a nice solid spot. Jericho comes out, and one redeeming
Speaker 1: quality is the theme music thing, King King King y Yeah,
Speaker 1: very nice.
Speaker 16: I do like that.
Speaker 2: It's very optimistic nineties babyfait yeah yeah he uh. And
Speaker 2: also you know if you looked out, you know I
Speaker 2: I took a look back at it, and they do
Speaker 2: do the U. As Jericho comes in, he starts with
Speaker 2: the jib arm and and dissolves into the the steady
Speaker 2: cam shot. That's it.
Speaker 1: We're watching, Craig, Are you listening, is the question.
Speaker 2: We're watching. We're watching your artistry.
Speaker 1: All at your boy. We're not hard to find with
Speaker 1: Teddy Long, apparently he is though, Man, I don't know
Speaker 1: what Teddy's on back then, but that is a massive head.
Speaker 1: His head is a quarter of the size these days.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Oh yeah, he got his hands on some
Speaker 1: good stuff. I mean, like, I mean not only his head,
Speaker 1: but like like we're talking, he's got no neck, no
Speaker 1: neck at all, and it's just it's it's it's head
Speaker 1: and chin. That's what he's got, yep, and a face
Speaker 1: in between. I'll tell you. When I look at Chris
Speaker 1: Jericho and Net ninety sixth, the first thing I think
Speaker 1: of is, why isn't Teddy Long managing this guy?
Speaker 2: That's what I thought. I was, like, you know that,
Speaker 2: that's that's the missing ingredient. Yes, is Teddy Long? Heenan
Speaker 2: says he can't convict a man until how much was
Speaker 2: he How much did he want to charge us to
Speaker 2: do an interview?
Speaker 1: I don't think he named a price. I think he
Speaker 1: just said to it cost you or something like that.
Speaker 1: It's like, okay, now I don't want to talk to
Speaker 1: you like like that much, Teddy respectfully. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: before we had the cash for Carney's idea. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: So I'm actually interested in how much it would it
Speaker 1: took but no, Heenen says he can't convict a man
Speaker 1: until he see some evidence, and Tony asks, thatever you
Speaker 1: ever listen to the replay? Listen to what you're saying?
Speaker 1: Heenan says, we don't have any proof of who's taking
Speaker 1: NWL money.
Speaker 2: Yeah, here, I got that one for you, because he's
Speaker 2: pretty funny.
Speaker 7: We we're not sure that Nick.
Speaker 5: Patrick is a memory in wo he's wearing my Oh,
Speaker 5: I haven't seen a paycheck.
Speaker 7: I haven't seen any real proof.
Speaker 17: Well I can't.
Speaker 7: I can't convict the man until.
Speaker 2: I see some evidence.
Speaker 6: You ever, you ever listened to any of the replays
Speaker 6: of these telecats, the uncore presentations? Yes, listening to this
Speaker 6: one when it when it comes your way, I know
Speaker 6: sometimes what you're saying, sometimes it looks that way.
Speaker 7: I will admit that. But we don't have any proof.
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Speaker 2: I do appreciate is, like, you know, there there are
Speaker 2: some people he he doesn't want to believe our nw A.
Speaker 2: You know, it is funny that they're like, he's very
Speaker 2: defensive of certain people, even though like Teddy Law, I mean,
Speaker 2: Nick Patrick is like the worst when it comes to that,
Speaker 2: ohst blatant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was one thing about Heenen in the
Speaker 1: NBO era as money as it was as him, you know,
Speaker 1: casting his lot with WCW and despite the nWo being
Speaker 1: heels and him being a heel, just saying fuck this,
Speaker 1: this is too over the top. I'm with WCW. He
Speaker 1: did always kind of say things along the way that
Speaker 1: might lead you to believe that maybe he was on
Speaker 1: the take, like maybe maybe the WO could get to him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if he named his price, you know, maybe it already
Speaker 1: had happened and he's trying to overcompensate and deflect from
Speaker 1: that fact. I thought that was always an interesting thing too,
Speaker 1: That was that.
Speaker 2: Was pretty cool. I always appreciated that too.
Speaker 1: I hear a little bit of that and what he's saying,
Speaker 1: he about Nick Patrick. Referee Scott Dickinson is presiding trying
Speaker 1: to get Jericho tied behind his back one arm. At
Speaker 1: least they say Teddy Long's mouth got Jericho into this situation. Well,
Speaker 1: something got Jericho into the situation. Something Teddy put in
Speaker 1: his mouth.
Speaker 2: Well, usually it's the booker actually that gets the guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, to be more accurate about it, I think Patrick says,
Speaker 1: somebody needs to take ask tending long where his towel is,
Speaker 1: because he's gonna need to throw in that towel. Nick
Speaker 1: is in a cutoff referee shirt.
Speaker 2: I don't even know what the fuck that means. What
Speaker 2: throw the towel when someone's getting beat up so bad?
Speaker 1: I get it, but like what an idiot? Well he's
Speaker 1: in a rough shirt with cut off sleeves. That's a
Speaker 1: good start.
Speaker 2: Yes, listen, listen what I'm what I'm seeing here is
Speaker 2: a perfectly acceptable individual when it comes to being in
Speaker 2: a wrestling ring, ready to work a match.
Speaker 1: Black pants and white boots, looking like Ron DeSantis in there,
Speaker 1: and they come to center talking trash. Nick Patrick shoves Jericho,
Speaker 1: Jericho shoves him down and responds. Nick Patrick steps forward
Speaker 1: and Jericho yangs out the leg and Nick Patrick takes
Speaker 1: a huge cartoonish bump. A lot of those here from
Speaker 1: Nick Patrick, and you know, well, that's what the that's
Speaker 1: what the match calls for. But he says, you hang on, mister,
Speaker 1: and then charges into a hip toss from Jericho, takes
Speaker 1: the bump and then powders does Nick Patrick. Tony notes
Speaker 1: how Nick Patrick's neck seems to be okay despite all
Speaker 1: of what's happening here. In his proclamations that he needs
Speaker 1: a neck brace, he would use the neck brace to
Speaker 1: sell why he couldn't slap three against the nWo. He'd
Speaker 1: hit one, two and they go, ah, that's funny.
Speaker 2: Fun I mean, like the he's as a referee, I
Speaker 2: didn't really haven't like. I enjoyed that. I mean, listen,
Speaker 2: he's obviously the most scandalous referee and he has very,
Speaker 2: very flimsy wrists, but I I didn't mind him. The
Speaker 2: the idea of an nWo referee I thought was very
Speaker 2: very cool. I liked that. I thought that was interesting,
Speaker 2: It was funny and it worked. It's just like, he's
Speaker 2: no business wrestling and in an nWo show, what's he
Speaker 2: gonna do? Go there and cheat on behalf of the nWo,
Speaker 2: even in the show where they can What if he's
Speaker 2: the fucking huh, you know, if if they did yeah, nWo, Nitro,
Speaker 2: what happens if he's the uh?
Speaker 1: If he's the referee, who's he going to count out
Speaker 1: right exactly? So it's uh, there's another dead end. But
Speaker 1: it works if he's in a WCW ring slightly favoring
Speaker 1: the nWo, which it appeared he did in Stark ninety
Speaker 1: seven as well.
Speaker 2: In the mean of it, that was.
Speaker 1: Neither here nor there.
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't tell anybody to do that, dude. I
Speaker 2: didn't say you did. Why would you. I didn't say
Speaker 2: you did what I didn't, Brother, I didn't do it.
Speaker 2: I didn't say Nick Patry. I didn't like, hey, brother, No, dude,
Speaker 2: you know I'm thinking what if? What if we can
Speaker 2: fuck around with sting?
Speaker 18: Dude?
Speaker 2: He just too a fast cout. I didn't say that.
Speaker 1: Were you worried about a sting push? What at the
Speaker 1: time were you worried about a sting push?
Speaker 16: Brother?
Speaker 2: You know, well, not listen.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a yes or no question, mister Hogan,
Speaker 1: and all due respect, Well, brother, I just want to so,
Speaker 1: were you afraid of a sting push?
Speaker 2: Seah? Well, I want to trying to get at the
Speaker 2: bottom of dude. You know we're talking about you know,
Speaker 2: yes or no question? Brother, that's kind of the subjective thing.
Speaker 1: Can I rephrase my question? Then why instead of you
Speaker 1: were you worried about a sting push? I would ask
Speaker 1: you this, mister Hogan, are you worried about a stinging push?
Speaker 2: Hm? Should it be? Oh?
Speaker 1: I'm asking you if you are?
Speaker 2: I mean I brother, Oh, I'm asking you you know well,
Speaker 2: let me ask you that. What'm I ask you this?
Speaker 1: Brother?
Speaker 2: You'll wear a sting like right now? Worries?
Speaker 19: Oh?
Speaker 2: The only thing that's for sure about sting is nothing's
Speaker 2: for sure. What I'll see you later, mister Hogan. What
Speaker 2: do you mean nothing for sure? Dude? Interviews I'm for sure, dude. No,
Speaker 2: I'm over brother, I'm for sure. The chipion no, I'm
Speaker 2: over brother, Like I'm thinking of t. N. H.
Speaker 1: Hogan with the red on his face, like freaking out
Speaker 1: that there's been a plot hatched to get Hogan rolled
Speaker 1: up without his permission, sitting in the back like, oh God,
Speaker 1: so yeah, Dusty says, ain't nothing wrong with his neck.
Speaker 1: He's putting that whole thing down. As Nick Patrick goes
Speaker 1: to the other ring apron to byde his time, Jericho
Speaker 1: forces a Patrick sucks chan. He basically like screams at
Speaker 1: the crowd to say it please yes, please make it
Speaker 1: seem like this is a good idea. Tony says, it's
Speaker 1: a parent that Nick Patrick has been part of the
Speaker 1: nWo for a while, he's been on the take. Wonder
Speaker 1: would Jericho be safe tonight against Nick Patrick?
Speaker 15: For that?
Speaker 18: True?
Speaker 2: That's true. You had to wonder is Jericho safe when
Speaker 2: it comes to guys on the take.
Speaker 1: It's pretty funny. Jericho just uses one hand to lock
Speaker 1: on a hammer lock, and even with just one hand,
Speaker 1: Nick Patrick is wailing in agony.
Speaker 2: Is that the real sound? Do it again? Let's do
Speaker 2: it again. That's how you get things over in wrestling.
Speaker 2: It's a hammer lock. Okay, he's not stabbing him fucking house,
Speaker 2: fucking sound. Ever, he's screaming like it like.
Speaker 1: His assholes getting ripped out of one of those like
Speaker 1: suction things in the pool.
Speaker 2: You know, yes, crosh.
Speaker 7: Start just dumb fell a dream.
Speaker 2: In there, thanks Nick fucking hell screaming. He says he'd
Speaker 2: start pounding on that one good hand if he were
Speaker 2: wrestling Jericho. U.
Speaker 1: Jericho gets some kicks away and hits a spin kick
Speaker 1: with his hands tied, and Nick Patrick hits the mat
Speaker 1: and convulses. Convulses from the impact Jericho the hiptos. Patrick
Speaker 1: wolds out of the ring, Teddy Long talks him trash.
Speaker 1: Nick Patrick shoves him and Teddy returns to a pop.
Speaker 1: But it's kind of a weak shove, let's be honest.
Speaker 1: Bobby Heenan says, that's outside of interference, which is a
Speaker 1: good point. Heenan with his hand on his monitor, just
Speaker 1: in case things.
Speaker 2: Got out of hand. He's always ready. He is horrified
Speaker 2: that he could get injured.
Speaker 1: K Patrick, back in the ring, tries a right hand,
Speaker 1: but it's blocked and Jericho kicks away, even with one
Speaker 1: hand tied behind his back. Nick Patrick, though, lands a
Speaker 1: slap and Jericho answers and Nick Patrick Pratt falls once
Speaker 1: again and rolls out of the ring. Tony is suspicious
Speaker 1: on who exactly Bobby Heenon is cheering for in this
Speaker 1: match again, that suspicion that he could be on the
Speaker 1: take as well. Back then, Jericho, stomping the foot, drops
Speaker 1: Nick Patrick with a clothes line. He goes out after
Speaker 1: him on the floor and plants an elbow. Nick Patrick
Speaker 1: shoves him into a double post. Though, yeah, double post
Speaker 1: because it's where.
Speaker 2: Two rings meet. So you got more twos double post,
Speaker 2: You've been talking to you talking about now, dude, who's tappened?
Speaker 2: What has there been a booking meeting with that I
Speaker 2: wasn't involved in? I thought Sullivan was on my side. Brother,
Speaker 2: he knows like he's oak shows up to the building.
Speaker 1: It's like the twelve o'clock production meeting is just letting out,
Speaker 1: and he was told he is it one and he
Speaker 1: gets there for it fifteen minutes early, and everyone's like
Speaker 1: hustling out and they see him and they all like
Speaker 1: kind of look down, like, hey, hey, Terry, how you doing?
Speaker 1: And they all kind of like looked down away from
Speaker 1: him and like scurry into their respective corners of the
Speaker 1: arena and helps standing there like you gotta be shipping me?
Speaker 2: Brother?
Speaker 1: Who's going on in there?
Speaker 2: Who screwed me?
Speaker 18: Brother?
Speaker 2: Exactly what happened? Right?
Speaker 19: Yo?
Speaker 2: You said the meeting was at one o'clock. Brother, we're
Speaker 2: talking double cross. I just listen, brother, I'm not trying
Speaker 2: to look. I'm not trying to step on my mod
Speaker 2: toes all right, Dude? What I want I just want
Speaker 2: to get and get things back in line, Dude, I
Speaker 2: just want to understand what happened?
Speaker 3: Brother.
Speaker 2: You know, was there a time change or something like
Speaker 2: are you talking about you know, like you know day
Speaker 2: life saving time?
Speaker 15: Brother?
Speaker 2: Something happened my bad, dude? Like what's up? Dude?
Speaker 11: Why?
Speaker 19: Why?
Speaker 2: Brother?
Speaker 3: Are we you know?
Speaker 2: Why was meeting changed? How come Hulk Cogan wasn't notified
Speaker 2: about him?
Speaker 19: Brother?
Speaker 1: What would happen if I didn't happen to show up
Speaker 1: fifty minutes early? Because I'm always all the time, you know, brother,
Speaker 1: if I hadn't been here, Dude, I got here. Do
Speaker 1: you have another meeting and pretend that I'm that was
Speaker 1: the real one and not mentioned? Tell me like, are
Speaker 1: you taking the belt? We would never, Darry, We would never.
Speaker 1: Uh So, Yes, Patrick's able to shove Jericho into the
Speaker 1: pair of posts because two rings are meeting there. And
Speaker 1: then Jericho throws a punch. Nick Patrick ducks and swap.
Speaker 1: Jericho's good hand goes right into the post. And now
Speaker 1: it's time for Nick Patrick to throw some left handed
Speaker 1: jabs for our entertainment. Tony asks, Bobby are you on
Speaker 1: the take? Have you had a meeting with Eric Bischoff
Speaker 1: this week? Bobby says, yeah, I think this might be
Speaker 1: it and I might have this one.
Speaker 7: Maybe so much him know what happened to that man's
Speaker 7: right hand. Why don't you get out a talk to him?
Speaker 2: Brain?
Speaker 7: Are you on the take? I'm not on the take,
Speaker 7: are you?
Speaker 6: Are you leaning towards the nWo or you had a
Speaker 6: meeting with Eric Bischoff this week.
Speaker 2: I haven't had no meaning for anybody this week. Pry pride, Tony,
Speaker 2: You pride in front of a bitch? You want that
Speaker 2: in fun?
Speaker 9: Get that information out that candy motherfucker. He ain't telling
Speaker 9: the truth. He's talking taken daddy, He's taken.
Speaker 2: It all, baby from baby, he's on the take. He's
Speaker 2: on my take, like fucking monk, callaway, baby, unbelievable. And
Speaker 2: he says, by the way, or any week, by the way,
Speaker 2: and even if I did have a meeting, it's none
Speaker 2: of your business.
Speaker 7: It's it's right.
Speaker 1: So Nick Patrick with a snapmar and does the Kurt
Speaker 1: heading rolling. Next snap, I shit you not. He does
Speaker 1: the mister perfect front front flip. Next snap, Nick Patrick
Speaker 1: does this to the corner. Patrick lit him up with
Speaker 1: some punches, raises his arm to a chorus of boos,
Speaker 1: of course, and then goes into the camera and says
Speaker 1: he's a punk. Then he fights out of the corner
Speaker 1: with some right hands this Jericho one armed Irish whip
Speaker 1: is reversed. Jericho hits the buckle, gets his foot up
Speaker 1: and Nick Patrick collapses again upon impact. This guy bumps
Speaker 1: on every contact, every time he's touched.
Speaker 2: He's sore. Listen because he needs to take a breather
Speaker 2: every fucking moment. You know, he's gotta fucking lay on
Speaker 2: the ground and and and just fucking suck that wind.
Speaker 2: In that opening, Jericho drives Patrick under the corner over
Speaker 2: and over again. Dusty says, that will sure make your
Speaker 2: drowse eh whip with one arm and a backdrop. He
Speaker 2: manages to backdrop Nick Patrick with an arm tied behind
Speaker 2: his back. So does eating a bucket of fried chicken.
Speaker 1: Absolutely hits a shoulder block. Another arm guides him up
Speaker 1: and over with a hip toss or a backdrop. Nick
Speaker 1: Patrick's in and out kicks Jericho on the way back in,
Speaker 1: and Patrick hits the ropes kind of does a forearm,
Speaker 1: kind of low just kind of lunges at him, and yeah,
Speaker 1: Jericho's on his knees. Dusty sys nick Patrick has seen
Speaker 1: every dirty trick.
Speaker 2: Some of it had to rub off.
Speaker 1: Nick Patrick goes up top Chris Jericho cuts him off,
Speaker 1: grabs him by the shirt, climbs to the bottom rope,
Speaker 1: and then it uses his one arm to pull Nick
Speaker 1: Patrick off the top for a front flip bump like
Speaker 1: a Rick Flair gorilla press deal, and then Jericho's able
Speaker 1: to land a super kick after Nick Patrick hits the
Speaker 1: canvas and stands up. Yeah, one, two and the three.
Speaker 1: Eight minutes, two seconds, Chris Jericho defeats Nick Patrick, yes,
Speaker 1: with one hand tied behind his back at World War
Speaker 1: three ninety six.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I guess are you not entertained? I mean, listen,
Speaker 2: there's uh I'm happy that that Nick Patrick lost. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll take that.
Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, we can take solace. And that one thing
Speaker 1: that's great about a Jericho match on any pay per
Speaker 1: view in particularly these early days, is he's got that
Speaker 1: book where he writes about everything, and he does have
Speaker 1: a couple of passages here about how uh, let's just
Speaker 1: say the Nick Patrick program that was put in front
Speaker 1: of him shortly upon his arrival in WCW in nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety six was not exactly what he would hoping for.
Speaker 18: It.
Speaker 2: Take it away, oh boy. After floating around with no
Speaker 2: direction for the first few months of my tenure. Sullivan
Speaker 2: told me that I was finally going to be put
Speaker 2: into a storyline that's tremendous, I said, with excitement, Who's
Speaker 2: going to be with Eddie Gurero, Rick Flair, Randy Savage,
Speaker 2: Nick Patrick? Nick Patrick? He replied, Nick Patrick was a referee.
Speaker 2: I'd worked all over the world to make it to
Speaker 2: the big time, and my first angle was going to
Speaker 2: be against a referee. How low can you go? It
Speaker 2: got worse when Sullivan told me that I was going
Speaker 2: to be managed in the feud by Teddy Long. Personally,
Speaker 2: Teddy was a great guy and a great performer, but
Speaker 2: the problem was at the time, Teddy's protegeates lost most
Speaker 2: of their matches. As soon as Sullivan aligned him with me,
Speaker 2: I knew I was screwed. I was battling a referee
Speaker 2: in a one arm tied behind my back match with
Speaker 2: Typhoid Teddy as my mentor. Sean Michaels never had it
Speaker 2: so good. Things fell apart during the match when the
Speaker 2: rope tying my arm behind my back came loose and
Speaker 2: I had to pretend it was still securely fast. That's
Speaker 2: a lot I didn't see that. That's really funny. It
Speaker 2: didn't matter anyway, as the announcers hardly commented on the
Speaker 2: bout they were too busy plugging the nWo. The social
Speaker 2: aspects of WCW were equally as disheartening. The locker room
Speaker 2: was infested with politics and clicks great title for a
Speaker 2: rap song, and the office gave special treatment to the
Speaker 2: powerful ones. Hogan and Savage had their own dressing rooms
Speaker 2: and didn't really talk to anybody else. Hal and Nash
Speaker 2: were in their own little unit and acted above everyone.
Speaker 2: Other guys like Scott Steiner, DDP, Paul White, and Booker
Speaker 2: T later became my friends, but within the WW environment
Speaker 2: they seemed uptight and defensive. Booker even balked at working
Speaker 2: with Dean Eddie and Me, complaining I ain't no cruiser weight,
Speaker 2: as if he would get leprosy from touching us. There
Speaker 2: wasn't a lot of cross pollination among the clicks. It
Speaker 2: was almost like regressing to high school, where you had
Speaker 2: to be careful about who you talked to and where
Speaker 2: you sat in the lunch room. Once I sat down
Speaker 2: in catering at Hogan's table and he looked at me
Speaker 2: like I just whipped him in the face with my
Speaker 2: jack Johnson. Maybe I should have. It would have been
Speaker 2: given him no choice but to talk to me. The
Speaker 2: booking of the matches worked the same way. The guys
Speaker 2: who made a certain amount of money worked almost exclusively
Speaker 2: with each other. There was a level that you were
Speaker 2: placed at or and it was rare to ever move
Speaker 2: to another level. It was like an Indian caste system.
Speaker 2: Whatever level you came in at was the level that
Speaker 2: you were destined to stay at. I came in at
Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty five thousand dollars, and that's where
Speaker 2: I would stay. I hardly ever worked with anyone who
Speaker 2: made let's say, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, because
Speaker 2: they were worth more than me, and worked with the
Speaker 2: guys in their tax bracket. On the odd occasion that
Speaker 2: I did work with one of the big money guys,
Speaker 2: it was usually in a quick squash. In WCWA, seven
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty thousand dollars salary had to be justified
Speaker 2: with a seven hundred and fifty dollars push.
Speaker 1: Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars push.
Speaker 2: In sorry seven that's indeed.
Speaker 1: Life in WCW. According to Chris Jericho, great vantage point
Speaker 1: there and as much as he kind of boxed at
Speaker 1: the Nickpatrick program, Nick Patrick liked it, you better believe
Speaker 1: he did. Here he is recently talking with Chris van Vliet.
Speaker 15: The match with Chris Jericho where he had one hand
Speaker 15: tied behind his back. Oh, man, that was a blast.
Speaker 15: They came in and asked me if I wanted to
Speaker 15: do the match, and I said yeah.
Speaker 16: And I got to know Chris and I went to
Speaker 16: a concert with him and we talked, and he constructed
Speaker 16: the whole thing.
Speaker 15: Man. I knew from very early.
Speaker 16: On that he was going to be a big star
Speaker 16: as a matter of being in the right place at
Speaker 16: the right time and giving him a chance. But he
Speaker 16: come up with all of that, man, And the only
Speaker 16: thing I come up with was him slamming me off
Speaker 16: the top at the end to set up a kick,
Speaker 16: and and the rest was him And.
Speaker 7: It was so fun.
Speaker 16: I would I wasn't in shape either, man. I tried
Speaker 16: to start working out a little bit. They hit me
Speaker 16: with I said, okay, And back then I smoked cigarettes
Speaker 16: and stuff. I'm an idiot, right, but I smoked cigarettes
Speaker 16: and stuff back then, man, and I had man, I
Speaker 16: had to go out there. I got going thirteen minutes
Speaker 16: live with a kid like Jericho with a hand one
Speaker 16: hand tie behind his back. He got to go a
Speaker 16: little bit and I was taking hip tosses and stuff,
Speaker 16: you know, but I'd always bail out of the ring
Speaker 16: and regroup, catch my wind, you know.
Speaker 15: And then he and he was gracious man.
Speaker 16: He let me get some heat on him, and it
Speaker 16: let me do a couple of things to him to
Speaker 16: set up him beat me up in the.
Speaker 15: End, and it got a great reaction, man. And it's funny.
Speaker 16: We did a German tour at uh right after that happened,
Speaker 16: and for some reason, I guess they had trouble getting buses, so.
Speaker 15: They rented a bunch of cars and we had drivers
Speaker 15: for every car man, And it was so cool.
Speaker 16: Me and Booker T got in one car and they
Speaker 16: let us just have our own car and we let
Speaker 16: people pile their extra bags in there.
Speaker 2: It was me and Booker T and our driver man.
Speaker 16: And we went to all these different towns and it
Speaker 16: was fun. It was, hey, we're going to stop here,
Speaker 16: I said, where can we eat? Where was a good bar?
Speaker 2: It was?
Speaker 15: It was a lot of fun. So anyway, it was
Speaker 15: the last day of the tour. And we all kind
Speaker 15: of got to.
Speaker 16: Know our drivers a little bit, and everybody got to
Speaker 16: let their hair down and drink because they didn't we
Speaker 16: didn't have to go anywhere the last last night, you know,
Speaker 16: that show was over and we're in the bar, and
Speaker 16: all of a sudden, on the damn Sports Network on
Speaker 16: the bar, that match come on and we're.
Speaker 15: All in their hammer and getting drinking.
Speaker 16: Now, all these drivers of the cars, they're like, ah,
Speaker 16: they hadn't seen it yet, right.
Speaker 2: And man, those that whole bar went wild.
Speaker 16: Man, they were laughing at their butts off at me
Speaker 16: every time I'd make it one of my faces or
Speaker 16: I'd do something.
Speaker 15: I made a lot of my mean faces in that
Speaker 15: match that they popped for me, man.
Speaker 16: And at the end of it, they all gave me
Speaker 16: the round of applause at the end, and we all
Speaker 16: drank a beer to it.
Speaker 15: And it was really a cool experience, man. But the
Speaker 15: match itself was so much fun.
Speaker 16: And Chris is so good and so smooth, and like
Speaker 16: I said, I knew back then he was going to
Speaker 16: be a big star.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's easy to forget that. While it's cringe
Speaker 1: in the career of christ Jericho and his trajectory. It's
Speaker 1: like the greatest night in Nickpatrick's life, right.
Speaker 2: I mean details. He wanted to wrestle, right, he wanted
Speaker 2: to be in the ring, but he was just a
Speaker 2: he sucked, right.
Speaker 1: I guess I think he actually got hurt and it
Speaker 1: cut his innring career short and he transitioned into a
Speaker 1: refereeing if I remember correctly. Yeah, but yeah, he here
Speaker 1: remembers it very fondly. Jericho and his fourth book looked
Speaker 1: back on this one and called it a dead end
Speaker 1: push and a dead end angle. But Teddy and Nick
Speaker 1: were great guys and we did our best. So kind
Speaker 1: of softening his view several years later on this particular
Speaker 1: piece of business probably have to he realized how fondly
Speaker 1: Nick Patrick remembers it, as Tony says, you know about
Speaker 1: Jericho after this victory titles or down the road for
Speaker 1: this young man. Yes, And the problem is they would
Speaker 1: be in the WWE for the most part. So Tony
Speaker 1: and company now standing at ringside and they recall on
Speaker 1: Nitro that there was a police that were trying to
Speaker 1: restrain Roddy Piper and he was beating on them, and
Speaker 1: that Piper clearly means business and Dusty says, this is
Speaker 1: more than an WO or WCW have followed Roddy Piper
Speaker 1: since the first pair of kilts, since there were the
Speaker 1: first pair of kilts on Piper, which is not true.
Speaker 1: He did not follow him that long.
Speaker 2: I mean, I also, you know, I don't think you
Speaker 2: wore a pair of kilts and it takes a long
Speaker 2: you wore a kilt. He then says a lot of
Speaker 2: words and then finishes where the big boys play, Yep,
Speaker 2: nothing wrong with that.
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Speaker 9: What we're talking about We're talking about Watermelon Baby, We're
Speaker 9: talking about World War three.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying Here we are once again
Speaker 2: nor Folk Arena. Baby.
Speaker 9: We're talking about out big time Daddy with a big
Speaker 9: Boys play and where we're talking about Hug Hogan ride
Speaker 9: at pipa Daddy.
Speaker 7: He's wearing a kilt. He's doing what he has to
Speaker 7: do to get in there.
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. He has to get in there.
Speaker 9: You have to get that contract signed, and thenby's gonna
Speaker 9: go and we all gonna watch it all.
Speaker 7: Baby, We're gonna watch it live as.
Speaker 9: We go, bounding bouncing around the arena, Daddy taking the
Speaker 9: scope with us as we go, and we going all
Speaker 9: around the globe, saying that's the way it's done, because
Speaker 9: wfi W is where we get things. We get what
Speaker 9: we need, Daddy, we get where we gonna go. Baby,
Speaker 9: we take it, we take it up, we take it down,
Speaker 9: we take it every which way, because that is what happens.
Speaker 9: That's what happening right now. Baby, we're talking nWo W
Speaker 9: fi W, and it's all gonna.
Speaker 2: Happen right before our very eyes almost dream.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Well, you know I gotta I gotta reflect back on
Speaker 8: something even deeper that and you know I talked about
Speaker 8: it being more than the INWO or more than w
Speaker 8: CW brain.
Speaker 7: Let me tell you something.
Speaker 8: I have followed the career from the time the first
Speaker 8: pair of kilts or put on right a pipe up.
Speaker 7: You know he took. I believe he took a long
Speaker 7: road and a.
Speaker 8: Long way to come all the way back home, you
Speaker 8: know what I'm talking about. And I believe he is
Speaker 8: coming back home with this picking up fights with Hulkogan
Speaker 8: because this.
Speaker 7: Is worth all that. Make no mistake about it. This
Speaker 7: is really where the big boys play.
Speaker 2: I'll make a lot of mistakes about it.
Speaker 9: Make don't make no stick about it. And I said, no,
Speaker 9: made daddy with with a big boys play with himself.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, no shit, because that did sound a little mastabatory.
Speaker 2: But I said it before.
Speaker 1: I'll say it again. It's just a relief to see
Speaker 1: salad spilling out of Dusty's mouth for once, instead of
Speaker 1: page to bed.
Speaker 2: It's not going into his mouth, you know, like that's
Speaker 2: a problem he keeps coming out. Well, i'll take that.
Speaker 1: Over page three of the Long Horned Steakhouse menu. Susually
Speaker 1: what's in his mouth? Heenan says, Piper is the only
Speaker 1: man Hulk Cogn's never defeated, So they're building that up.
Speaker 2: Tony says, let's take you back to the website. As
Speaker 2: he goes website, he doesn't even know what the word means.
Speaker 2: And they give me a web thod daddy who's waking
Speaker 2: wetness And.
Speaker 1: There he is American mail buff Bagwell Marcus Alexander Bagwell
Speaker 1: is talking on a chat. You know, he's like dictating
Speaker 1: what he wants to.
Speaker 2: Say, dictating this rookie of the Year, Marcus Bagwell.
Speaker 1: You can see Jeff Katz with Disco Inferno and Mark
Speaker 1: Madden in the background talking it up. Disco always drawn
Speaker 1: to those webcasts. He always loved to put the headsets
Speaker 1: on back there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1: Jean's now in the aisle and he says, I knew
Speaker 1: sooner or later you get to me, tony, gentlemen, he's
Speaker 1: on the shelf. He's not competing in the three ring
Speaker 1: battleroil tonight. However, he has sold this joint out on
Speaker 1: many occasions. He is the thirteen time world heavyweight champion
Speaker 1: nature Boy Rick Flair. And you better believe they had
Speaker 1: like that. I don't know what you'd call it, like
Speaker 1: the Vietnam War curtain fatigue things there. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: couldn't even see it until they showed Flair come out
Speaker 1: in a sling. He just had shoulder surgery the past
Speaker 1: week for real under doctor James Andrews, which he had
Speaker 1: postponed quite a bit. And and yes, Flair was not
Speaker 1: in Jeff Jarrett's corner for the match against Paul White
Speaker 1: on the show. The Giant hasn't been advertised so it's
Speaker 1: already getting a little weird, this whole flare Jeff jarted
Speaker 1: angle where Jarrett was kind of like an honorary horseman
Speaker 1: for a cup of coffee.
Speaker 2: And that was it right.
Speaker 1: It said he was going to corner Jeff Jarrett, acting
Speaker 1: like Jared's going to join the horseman with Flair endorsing.
Speaker 1: And here's a little taste from Nitro as to where
Speaker 1: the expectation came that Flair would actually corner Jeff Jarrett
Speaker 1: and actually, you know, join forces with him as opposed
Speaker 1: to show up World War three and have absolutely nothing
Speaker 1: to do with Jeff Jarrett.
Speaker 20: What on Monday night, it is here on Nitro tnt
Speaker 20: Rick Clair making a grand appearance at your side, Jeff Jarrett,
Speaker 20: as you prepare for this Sunday night in World War three,
Speaker 20: you know you've got the big one coming up with
Speaker 20: the Big Bang. You never got the chokeslamp from although
Speaker 20: at Halloween have it.
Speaker 21: That's exactly right, gee, and it's good to see you back.
Speaker 7: And this is exactly what.
Speaker 21: I'm doing talking about everybody putting their personal differences aside.
Speaker 7: And what I said for the last three weeks is
Speaker 7: we've got to unite.
Speaker 21: You've got the thirteen time world heavyweight champion. I'm talking
Speaker 21: about the man Rick Flair stating right here, and you've
Speaker 21: got the man who says what he's gonna do and
Speaker 21: he goes out and does it.
Speaker 7: Let's refresh some memories. If I can interrupt here, Jeff,
Speaker 7: and take a look.
Speaker 11: I want you to explain to me last week on
Speaker 11: this television program.
Speaker 7: Take a look at this. This was the biggest shock
Speaker 7: I've ever seen in my life. The four horsemen had
Speaker 7: their difference. Just put a sign and the.
Speaker 21: Clowns gotta walk down the ringside.
Speaker 7: Be first CDT. I could not believe that. Is there
Speaker 7: a dissension in WCW? Is there an ascension amongst the horsemen?
Speaker 21: Gene o' glynn, me and Gene. I'm not here out
Speaker 21: here to talk about discinsion. I'm tired here to talking
Speaker 21: about two guys uniting. I'm tired here to talk about
Speaker 21: w c You're pulling it together.
Speaker 7: I'm talking about WCW going to war.
Speaker 3: John.
Speaker 7: I'm chopping at.
Speaker 21: The size before when I did it at Havoc, and
Speaker 21: if I gotta do it next Sunday, That's exactly what
Speaker 21: I'm gonna do.
Speaker 7: Right nature.
Speaker 11: Me Jo, Welcome back, nature Boy.
Speaker 22: At this particular point in time, the nature boy is
Speaker 22: telling the world that Jeff Jack.
Speaker 7: Is good Tago okay, wow, as how are they hanging?
Speaker 22: Brother, Doctor Jim fixed me up. I'm coming back down
Speaker 22: that road soon. But you mean time, double j Can
Speaker 22: you style a profile?
Speaker 7: Yes, you know I can. Rick, Like, now do you
Speaker 7: walk that out? Walk it and talk it? Call you death?
Speaker 7: So night, that's my longer. Just give me a shot, Rick,
Speaker 7: Just give me a shote.
Speaker 3: They gonna stay all night, stay a little long, shiny.
Speaker 7: Me out for Secon. Stay very bye.
Speaker 22: Go hey, Chris Benoir, listen to the lead horseman, Jeff
Speaker 22: Jaredson because the Nick Jima says, so, whoa what of
Speaker 22: my house?
Speaker 7: Sweeties? Jean, thank you very much?
Speaker 3: Showing a dock. Yes, just a minute, Doc, one more
Speaker 3: time for Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable.
Speaker 2: And that was like Jared's and the horsemen, and then
Speaker 2: they just dropped it. Well, how can he be? How
Speaker 2: can there be five horsemen right? Such a fuck.
Speaker 1: He's all the way in, okay, brother, So back to
Speaker 1: World War three, Gene says to Ric Flair, I remember
Speaker 1: when you broke in and vern Ganya's training camp. It
Speaker 1: has been a great career and right now there's a
Speaker 1: lot of questioning being asked of you mean Woo bye God,
Speaker 1: here here we go? Isn't say by God?
Speaker 7: Mean Jean? Who we are in no Folk, Virginia and
Speaker 7: we are The theme.
Speaker 3: Of the event tonight is World War three, but in
Speaker 3: reality it's.
Speaker 7: W C W Hot Tour. Woo Now being caught up
Speaker 7: in the emotion of the.
Speaker 22: Moment, let me make it very clear that Hollywood.
Speaker 7: HAULK, Hogan and nWo are entitled to walk their own
Speaker 7: way in life. But when it comes down to wrestlers like.
Speaker 23: Rick Flair, Woo, arn Anderson, the Stinger, Wolkesluger, the Stagers,
Speaker 23: Begua MacMichael, the list is that list we represent w
Speaker 23: by God.
Speaker 7: Ce W thank you. It's about time somebody stepped up
Speaker 7: to the plane.
Speaker 22: Even though the Nature Boy is temporarily he compacitated, I
Speaker 22: promise you, the wrestling public, that before it's all said
Speaker 22: it done, the Nation Boy hold on, hold on, wait.
Speaker 2: A minute, Jacket's coming out and.
Speaker 7: Harry comes, can I said? I who who? That's all right?
Speaker 7: Death no longer stay all right?
Speaker 19: Has a little longer at thew will belong to wsc W.
Speaker 7: Thank you the response on me tonight. Thanks your part,
Speaker 7: m claire, one of my cod Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: I mean that's how you rally the troops.
Speaker 2: But well, but Flare's no good as a babyface even
Speaker 2: against the nWo, not at all. He's awful. I'm being sarcastic. Oh,
Speaker 2: I see what you're saying, because he always talks about
Speaker 2: how he no good. He always says he's no good
Speaker 2: at babyface.
Speaker 1: I mean, listen to this.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean they can't help, but fucking roar
Speaker 2: for it. That's what needed to happen in response to
Speaker 2: the nWo. He knows what to do.
Speaker 1: He knows what to say in that promo. It's not like,
Speaker 1: you know, it's not like there weren't people in that
Speaker 1: company didn't know how to do. It's the thing, right,
Speaker 1: that's the thing right there. See, he is the proof
Speaker 1: in the puddings that the fans wanted, that they that
Speaker 1: although they would cheer and they would enjoy the nWo,
Speaker 1: they knew what they actually needed in the long And
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear that it was Norfolk. You know,
Speaker 1: that's an old No, it doesn't matter you can make
Speaker 1: every city want it, even though they love the nWo
Speaker 1: on the East coast and all in Chicago, I mean.
Speaker 2: Namely a city where Rick Flair is going to get booed.
Speaker 2: In nineteen ninety seven, opposing.
Speaker 1: Right, show me, show me a town Flair exactly because
Speaker 1: what they needed was someone who epitomized WCW to exactly
Speaker 1: see a WO, not just anybody exactly a WWD, someone
Speaker 1: who epitomized like a lose.
Speaker 2: You got to remember, you got to remember. What made
Speaker 2: it interesting was that if you're you're imagining, that is
Speaker 2: the WWE, right, And anyone who's a fan of WCW
Speaker 2: over the WWE doesn't want to see ww WI. It's
Speaker 2: just plain and fucking simple. But Flare's not a draw.
Speaker 2: Flair wasn't you know, a big star, etcetera.
Speaker 1: Gene says, the first one's on me to night, and
Speaker 1: Tony says, when with Flair in Oakland, it's not the
Speaker 1: first one you worry about, it's the last time, right,
Speaker 1: You're damn right. Tony saying, not a seat to be found.
Speaker 1: I think he means an empty seat, but I get
Speaker 1: what he means. There's plenty of seats to be found.
Speaker 1: I see, that's how all these people are sitting. We
Speaker 1: hear the nWo music now for the first time in
Speaker 1: the evening because here comes the giant, who, of course
Speaker 1: just joined the stable through the crowd because we're rebels.
Speaker 2: They would enter.
Speaker 1: They put a spotlight on the ring then and shaded
Speaker 1: the shaded the others on one ring. Oh pardon me, yeah,
Speaker 1: in the three ring scenario, and they would have singles matches,
Speaker 1: they'd put a spotlight on one ring and the others
Speaker 1: kind of obscure. Here comes Jeff Jarrett's music and.
Speaker 7: Plan on an.
Speaker 2: This w W music sticks in my head. I get
Speaker 2: asked the question, what about what appealed to Jeff Jared
Speaker 2: when it came to his fucking attires.
Speaker 1: Dude, the Venetian, the Venetian blinds as Conrad.
Speaker 2: Like, what did what about that? He said, you know what, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I want that's what I want. I want to bring
Speaker 2: in my I want to bring in my outfit. Bischoff.
Speaker 2: It's so awful. It never looked good. It looks like
Speaker 2: such a fucking goofy piece of ship. I would take
Speaker 2: an Aztec over that ship. Yeah, yeah, he ever brought that.
Speaker 1: Cost that'd be money, although or or why could he
Speaker 1: just not wear that top where the choker? That doesn't yeah,
Speaker 1: the choker.
Speaker 2: No, it's everything. It's also the fucking jailhouse. Look like,
Speaker 2: I don't get it. Is it offensive? It's a very
Speaker 2: offensive and it's inappropriate and it's not suited for children.
Speaker 2: You're not going to stand for it. Absolutely not. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna write some letters to Turner.
Speaker 1: Tony said, if Flaire had to relinquish the US.
Speaker 2: Title, what if someone wrote a letter to to Turner
Speaker 2: complaining about today? Sure today today? Like like fucking did
Speaker 2: it today? Because they watched they watched a World War
Speaker 2: three on the network. You know, we're where the fucking
Speaker 2: the company hasn't been owned by Turner in over twenty
Speaker 2: years again, well twenty five years, and I just want
Speaker 2: to say I saw this World War III show and
Speaker 2: I was deeply offended.
Speaker 1: Do you understand what videotape is him? It's how sad
Speaker 1: is it that? Like whatever dress you would have written
Speaker 1: to it's like, God, there's nothing there now, there's no
Speaker 1: one working there at the time I was coming with activity.
Speaker 2: And they also don't want people to know where the
Speaker 2: address is either. That's that's also the way in the
Speaker 2: in the Internet age. They don't want you to be
Speaker 2: able to contact them in person. They don't even want
Speaker 2: you to be able to content them on the phone.
Speaker 2: You must send an emails, you must.
Speaker 1: Tony explains that flairt had to relinquish the US title
Speaker 1: here that the Giant has due to the thirty day clause.
Speaker 1: He's no longer champion. So Jeff Jerreed comes out in
Speaker 1: the white suspenders like anyone cares some sparklers for him.
Speaker 1: He's saying, lay him uptight, Giant as he makes his
Speaker 1: way into the ring with his arms upraised. Jeff Jarrett
Speaker 1: versus the Giant here at World War and and Giant's
Speaker 1: got the w the US title. Yeah, but he doesn't
Speaker 1: really he never like took aossession of it. Well, I
Speaker 1: guess because Flair, I guess you didn't defend it in
Speaker 1: thirty days or something, right, Yep, because of the injury.
Speaker 1: So he's stripped of the title and they just just
Speaker 1: Giant took it.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: That was another belt, the nWo claimed. So Jarrett attacks
Speaker 1: and throws early Randy Anderson trying to stop him from
Speaker 1: getting this thing going. Before the bell sounds, the Giant
Speaker 1: shoves him off to a big pop. This crowd is like, no,
Speaker 1: we are not with Jeff Jarrett. We don't care what
Speaker 1: flag he's flying, we don't care if he's horseman.
Speaker 2: WCW.
Speaker 1: It's time for the nWo to kick this guy's ass
Speaker 1: because he's got a coffee shirt on.
Speaker 2: There's no like.
Speaker 7: Was there.
Speaker 2: Has there ever been any revelation as to what the
Speaker 2: the goal was with the Jarrett horseman thing, like where
Speaker 2: they were going to go with it.
Speaker 1: He's talked a lot about it. It's like a running
Speaker 1: joke on his podcast, but not really. No, I don't
Speaker 1: think they had I think it was open ended from
Speaker 1: the beginning. I'm sure at some point he was going
Speaker 1: to turn on them, and he kind of did. But
Speaker 1: joining the nWo, I don't think was ever the actual move.
Speaker 1: He's been a DECENTWO addition.
Speaker 2: H Well, he was, actually he was. But nWo two thousand,
Speaker 2: come on, don't forget what fuck it's true. Let's not forget.
Speaker 2: Never forget NW two thousand. The Silver and Black don't
Speaker 2: piss me alf, don't piss me off. So a wlf
Speaker 2: A go nuts.
Speaker 1: When he shoves Jared on his ass, Irish Wifts drops
Speaker 1: and Jared hit him with a uppercut.
Speaker 2: It's a weird thing too, Like what like Jared during
Speaker 2: this period, It's like he was he was a hot
Speaker 2: little thing in his early years and like up through
Speaker 2: the USWA and then his ninety three through ninety eight period,
Speaker 2: he's just a fucking joke. Like nobody likes him at all,
Speaker 2: and he's not awful, but he just sucks like he does,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like he does. He has
Speaker 2: good matches, like he's got that great one with Sean
Speaker 2: and in ninety five in your house, he's you know,
Speaker 2: he puts on some good some good stuff, but he
Speaker 2: just fucking sucks and he's just not interesting and he
Speaker 2: he's so boring.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's it's actually amazing that he stayed
Speaker 1: paid as long as he has in the business for
Speaker 1: that exactly. I mean in TNA, he was such a
Speaker 1: bore and TNA kind of grew with him as champion,
Speaker 1: it really did, even though people were kind of decrying
Speaker 1: that he had this iron grip on the belt and
Speaker 1: on the company and he's like, no one wants to
Speaker 1: see Jeff Yard as a world champion. I don't care
Speaker 1: what no, But now he's like, you know it, kind
Speaker 1: of whacks and winges even in aew he number now
Speaker 1: and then he'll cut a fiery promo where people just decide, Okay,
Speaker 1: this guy's an emblem of a bygone era. It's like, no,
Speaker 1: go back to whatever era you think he's emblematic of.
Speaker 1: And right, he was the fucking bottom of the barrel
Speaker 1: in the business in terms of white guys who could
Speaker 1: draw an audience.
Speaker 3: Like he was.
Speaker 1: He became interesting again ninety eight, and I mean because
Speaker 1: he hit the women over the head with guitars, right exactly,
Speaker 1: Let's see who is next, you know, in that in
Speaker 1: that litany, and that's where he's formed that bond with
Speaker 1: Vince Russo. And that's kind of a huge part of it,
Speaker 1: you know, really, is that he he made such a
Speaker 1: good bond with Russo that he was got a huge push,
Speaker 1: way outside push in WCW when Russo made the jump,
Speaker 1: and then further when he started TNA and brought Russo
Speaker 1: into book. I mean, Jared was the made man at
Speaker 1: that point as well, because he had the booker. And
Speaker 1: while there was a falling out in that relationship, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of miraculous, honestly, how long Jeff Jyard has
Speaker 1: stayed paid in the wrestling business despite never really doing
Speaker 1: things past a certain sort of ic US title level
Speaker 1: that felt.
Speaker 2: Appropriate, right.
Speaker 1: You know that world title reigns in WCW were all
Speaker 1: Russeau horrific and ken I remember half of it?
Speaker 2: You can, I mean, honestly, you can. You can. He
Speaker 2: didn't despite having four world title reigns in WCW, he
Speaker 2: held it like for like a month.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally, I know, because he had the David rcqette stuff.
Speaker 1: Everything was a mess. But here he is trying to
Speaker 1: make his first impact in the World Championship Wrestling after
Speaker 1: jumping from WWF, and they were on the other channel.
Speaker 1: They're they they're revealing that Jesse James saying with my
Speaker 1: baby tonight and trying to make road Dog draw. What
Speaker 1: an awful thing. That was their version of trying to
Speaker 1: pretend they didn't lose Jarrett the Nation Hall try to
Speaker 1: pretend we didn't lose him as come with the fake
Speaker 1: The real Double Jay was all the same time, and.
Speaker 2: That's what he was. The real Double Jerry.
Speaker 1: Cool Jared comes to the number cuts ducks a big
Speaker 1: swiping right hand by the Giant and now it's stick
Speaker 1: and move offense from double Jay. He dodges him in
Speaker 1: the corner, lands and rights, but Giant keeps walking him down.
Speaker 1: Jeff Jared been endorsed by Flair, Heenan says, and the
Speaker 1: man Flair says, can strut and walk that aisle and
Speaker 1: keep from getting choke slam. That's why he's been anointed
Speaker 1: the representative in this match up. Jeff Jarrett dodges him
Speaker 1: in the corner, hits some mounted pushes, punches on a
Speaker 1: Giant's head, but he's pushed backwards. Tony puts over Jeff Jared,
Speaker 1: who appreciates, He says, the roots and the tradition of
Speaker 1: what this sport has been. Giant shoves him off a
Speaker 1: couple more times and levels him with the clothesline and
Speaker 1: when he puts Jeff Jarrett fat flat on his back.
Speaker 1: When he puts Jeff Jarrett horizontal, the gods, the guys
Speaker 1: are popping in Norfolk.
Speaker 2: Yes, they need it, they want it. They want to
Speaker 2: see him fucking get ripped upon too, especially by nWo. Tough.
Speaker 1: You know, yep, I don't remember the guy's being quite
Speaker 1: so pro nWo this early in the angle, but here
Speaker 1: it is ladies and gentlemen, if they were tearing into
Speaker 1: the right.
Speaker 2: Guy right exactly. It all depends on the guy that
Speaker 2: they were fucking ripping apart.
Speaker 1: Giant on the corner, charge misses and Jeff Jarret hits
Speaker 1: a flying clothesline from the corner and a dropkick gets
Speaker 1: ahead of steam and Giant lifts his foot and shoves
Speaker 1: him back mid air. Jarret takes off like he's gonna
Speaker 1: splash him, and Big Sure gets the foot up and
Speaker 1: he's so tall that he knocks Jarrett out of the.
Speaker 2: Sky with it. Good spot, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1: Giants stomping away high scoop and slam.
Speaker 2: And Tony gives us an explanation as to the reason
Speaker 2: that Giant join nWo, which you know gets Dusty going.
Speaker 6: You know, many people wonder why the Giant made the
Speaker 6: turn that he made with the nWo. Look at him
Speaker 6: stopping Jeff Jarrett. If you will, Hollywood Haul Coogan promised
Speaker 6: a giant if he made that turn, he made that movie,
Speaker 6: he would get parts and movies.
Speaker 8: Very simplic root, Yeah boy, what a pal slam that is, Tonik,
Speaker 8: can you hit it right on the head. Speculation and
Speaker 8: and not taking a situation. Honeywood, Hulk Ogan has so
Speaker 8: much power. He is the biggest star in any in
Speaker 8: the street. He is not only a last love. He
Speaker 8: is He's been on all the big things. He's a
Speaker 8: movie star. And he's off of these guys moving parts.
Speaker 8: He's off of these guys pass to drive his car.
Speaker 7: He's off these.
Speaker 8: Guys instead of work, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 8: he's gathered a bunch of them like a covey quail.
Speaker 8: And if you want, he won't gather brought it Papa
Speaker 8: into his covet is cubby.
Speaker 1: I do like that that he's putting everyone on payroll,
Speaker 1: you know. That's that's something I mean. Yeah, I'm okay
Speaker 1: with that huge elbow drop with great height.
Speaker 2: By the way, For those wondering, Jeff Jarrett, his combined
Speaker 2: four title rings, four w CW world title reigns totaled
Speaker 2: fifty eight days. Wow, fifty eight.
Speaker 1: It's a legacy right there. Yeah, huge elbow drop up
Speaker 1: with a big height by the giant. He used to
Speaker 1: get up quite a bit back in those days. They're
Speaker 1: talking about the movies and steady work. Tony actually mentions
Speaker 1: Arnold and Jingle all the way, says he has a
Speaker 1: part of that, yep, And he and says DEBIASI has
Speaker 1: a lot to do with that, his money making all
Speaker 1: these opportunities possible. So they're keeping that alive.
Speaker 2: Debia is the one paying off Schwarzenegger.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, that'd be a funny skit if they'd get Arnold
Speaker 1: to agree to it. A palm's greased by a hidden camera.
Speaker 2: You can I see one of those, right, the hidden camera, right,
Speaker 2: and it's like, you know, ah, I'll come back to
Speaker 2: Hanov and sure, right, fantastic it's great. Oh yes, fantastic
Speaker 2: is great. Yeah, I'll put the big show in the movie.
Speaker 7: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: Speaking of speaking of which, the giant slapping Jeff Jared
Speaker 1: around corner whip Jeff Jared takes the buckling hard ust.
Speaker 1: He's talking about how they had Eric Bischoff with the
Speaker 1: power at the top all this time and we didn't know.
Speaker 1: So it's a very unsettling feeling in the booth as
Speaker 1: the crowd now rising to their feet and pointing up.
Speaker 1: What are they pointing at? It's got to be sting,
Speaker 1: They're all pointing, And there he is, traversing the catwalks
Speaker 1: high above the Norfolk Scope and violation of Union rules
Speaker 1: and he looks off.
Speaker 2: Oh totally listen. He is in a lot of trouble.
Speaker 1: A Sting look awesome up there or what? Yes, he
Speaker 1: does activating a space of the arena that wrestling companies
Speaker 1: never did so cool. You can see the roof of
Speaker 1: the scope. Giant whips Jeff Jyard in and drops him
Speaker 1: with a big boot. Tony says, is he leaving?
Speaker 2: Is leaving?
Speaker 1: We understand?
Speaker 2: Okay, not sure.
Speaker 1: Giant drops the leg after hitting the big boot. I
Speaker 1: swear to god he does the fucking Hogan finish. We
Speaker 1: see the spotlight now is on Staying and he's descending
Speaker 1: behind some kind of wall like he kind of he
Speaker 1: doesn't fall from the ceiling on a repel line. He
Speaker 1: kind of just like disappears behind this little wall on
Speaker 1: one side of the scope with apparently a staircase on it.
Speaker 1: And there's another pop as we see Sting making his
Speaker 1: way down through the people and they're keeping a wide
Speaker 1: shot here. Giant with a backbreaker he and says we
Speaker 1: will know the answer very shortly. Is Sting nWo or WCW.
Speaker 1: Giant misses a Vader bomb off the middle ropes, but
Speaker 1: of course no one's watching the ring, Sting's coming in.
Speaker 1: Jeff Jarrett climbs and hits a cross body block for
Speaker 1: two on the Giant, and there he is Stinger with
Speaker 1: a single black line running down each eye, and Giant
Speaker 1: lunges and misses and goes over the top to the floor.
Speaker 1: Sting gets in the ring with the trench coat to
Speaker 1: a pop. He grabs Jeff Jarrett by the hair and
Speaker 1: reverse DDT's them and they explode. They explode because it's
Speaker 1: fucking They think it's the moment. Yes, they think Sting
Speaker 1: has decleared his allegiance to the nWo.
Speaker 2: YEP, but no. Dusty even explodes and says Sting is
Speaker 2: with the nWo.
Speaker 7: You bet he is.
Speaker 1: That man has bad intentions, and Heenan says they have
Speaker 1: brought the devil out of Sting. He's making no move
Speaker 1: though towards the Giant, so they're you know, reading into that,
Speaker 1: of course. But Sting then bounces. He doesn't celebrate with
Speaker 1: the Giant, he doesn't hug him, he doesn't put an
Speaker 1: WO shirt on. He just leaves yep, as they call
Speaker 1: him a tormented soul. Giant then gets in, snatches Jeff
Speaker 1: Jarrett by the throat and they explode as he lifts
Speaker 1: Jarrett with the delay and dumps them with a devastating
Speaker 1: choke slam one, two and three. The Giant defeats Jeff
Speaker 1: Jarrett six minutes and five seconds here at World War three.
Speaker 1: This was the second time that sting hat attacked Jeff
Speaker 1: Jarrett and picked him as his target. Tony Schiavanni notes
Speaker 1: and also mentioned that we have Sting sightings every time
Speaker 1: Jeff Jarrett is wrestled, So apparently there's something about Jeff
Speaker 1: Jarrett that's triggering to Sting Giants looks into the camera
Speaker 1: says one down, two to go. I did like when
Speaker 1: they talked to the corner cameras after their matches like
Speaker 1: that in WCW. You know, they like sauntered over to
Speaker 1: the corner and had a few words. I thought that
Speaker 1: was always pretty effective.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: And then Heenen calls Giant the biggest man in pro sports.
Speaker 1: So that's pretty it's pretty hot, you know, hot angle.
Speaker 1: It's like, where's Sting going. It's it's still kind of open.
Speaker 1: I don't think we ever got an explanation of what
Speaker 1: problem he had with Jeff Jarrett. I don't know if
Speaker 1: that was supposed to go somewhere, but I don't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I always gathered that it was never It didn't
Speaker 2: matter who it was, like, he just was. He was
Speaker 2: just angry with people who didn't trust him right and
Speaker 2: everyone as he honestly, Yeah, everyone was guilty of not
Speaker 2: putting their faith in him and believing that he could
Speaker 2: be swayed by the end. Next thing we hear, it's
Speaker 2: the music of rowdy Roddy Piper. There we go, as
Speaker 2: they say, under the big top dust. He says, it's showtime,
Speaker 2: Enen says, or let's get out of here. Here comes Piper.
Speaker 1: He steps out in the classic look with the black
Speaker 1: leather coat, a shirt that says no fear in the
Speaker 1: hot rod lettering, and a piece of paper in his
Speaker 1: hand with a serious look. There's a table set up
Speaker 1: in the ring like a ceremonial table, and there's photographers
Speaker 1: in there shooting away. Dave Penzer is at the table.
Speaker 1: He didn't calls him a pelican in a suit, and
Speaker 1: Heenan says Piper may just be a bigger movie star
Speaker 1: than Hogan, and they they leaned into that a little
Speaker 1: bit their respective Hollywood careers. Like Piper was the one
Speaker 1: guy who could challenge Hogan on that front.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: True, so he says, obviously, there's no sense in waiting.
Speaker 1: I got the contract. Get out here, Hogan. The w
Speaker 1: music hits. I don't know if it was Voodoo Child
Speaker 1: on the original broadcast, but it's the nWo music on Peacock.
Speaker 1: I don't think he had brought in Voodoo Child yet.
Speaker 2: I don't know when it started, but I thought that
Speaker 2: that wasn't wasn't it after? Was it later? But he
Speaker 2: did that now?
Speaker 1: He was still in ANWO when he did it, for sure? Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh really Yeah. Bischeff comes out with the jeans and
Speaker 1: leather jacket, Debiastian Virgil or with him and the giant
Speaker 1: as well, and Tony puts it well, he says, this
Speaker 1: is our boss.
Speaker 2: Look at this guy. Yep, this was like that.
Speaker 1: One of the first times they really laid eyes on
Speaker 1: NW Eric Bischoff here at World War three, and they
Speaker 1: talk about Ted being the money and Virgil being the bodyguard,
Speaker 1: and Tony says, I never thought I'd see Eric Bischoff
Speaker 1: and Vince walk down the same aisle together. You know
Speaker 1: why he did that, That's why they named him Vincent.
Speaker 1: And Tony enjoyed that pun classic Bischoff with his Kendall
Speaker 1: face back then camera ready, was that son of a bitch?
Speaker 2: Camera ready? Yes? Oh yes, come on. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Dusty keeps saying we're under the big Top, and it's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we know, it's a circus. Why do you keep emphasizing it.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, Eric gets in the ring with
Speaker 1: a mic in his back pocket, and Tony says, everyone's
Speaker 1: got a mic tonight. Eric grabs the mic and says,
Speaker 1: you believe this, mister Piper. I thought i'd let you
Speaker 1: know that Hollywood's a little busy.
Speaker 2: Yeah here, I got this. I think I've got this.
Speaker 2: I got the I don't know where it starts, but
Speaker 2: I got the whole fucking thing. Get it all right.
Speaker 7: I thought i'd let you know that, uh, Hollow is
Speaker 7: a little busy. Got a couple of scripts just arrived.
Speaker 7: He's back taking a look at him.
Speaker 4: He did, however, earlier today give me his power of attorney.
Speaker 7: It's a business thing, you know, Oh my goodness, it's
Speaker 7: an nw O thing, brother, So.
Speaker 4: I'm happy to take a look at whatever contract you have,
Speaker 4: and by the power invested in me, I'd be happy
Speaker 4: to sign for mister Hogan to it meets out requirements.
Speaker 3: First of all, I taught you how to fight, so
Speaker 3: get out of my way.
Speaker 2: Talking to Virgil there, I love so good. I love
Speaker 2: that touch fucking money and he singles out verr like
Speaker 2: I know, like I didn't.
Speaker 1: Don't don't act like I didn't notice how fucking pathetic
Speaker 1: you are. After all I did for you to liberate
Speaker 1: you from this piece of ship that you went right,
Speaker 1: so good you mother fry Piper fucking ad libbing you know.
Speaker 1: Oh we never went anywhere. It's not like they feuded
Speaker 1: or anything or leaned into that story.
Speaker 2: So awesome, ezy.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 3: Second of all, you any monster look alike, you know,
Speaker 3: come be on, wanna bey never could be you know
Speaker 3: what you are.
Speaker 7: You're one of the new kids on the plot, and
Speaker 7: you're lost from the blot brother because you're right, you
Speaker 7: all and absolute.
Speaker 3: Power corrupts absolutely. You're gonna try to say to me
Speaker 3: that you have power for Holgan. That's great, that's wonderful.
Speaker 7: I taught you on a fight. Yes, Piper's up and
Speaker 7: I'm here now.
Speaker 3: I ain't finished, and I do know you're there, Gibi
Speaker 3: AUSSI twenty eight years I've been doing this and not
Speaker 3: once have I had my hair primped, and not once
Speaker 3: have I had my nails done. You want to take
Speaker 3: over the wc W, the nw AL, I could care less.
Speaker 3: But do you think that I'm gonna trust the lion
Speaker 3: little flake day, wonderful human being like yourself. Tell me
Speaker 3: something else to get that crack on that lip? Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know something. You know why I can wear this
Speaker 3: because I'm down tough enough to That's why.
Speaker 4: That's right, that's right, easy, piper, Okay, I can fine
Speaker 4: you for that.
Speaker 2: Tell me tell me something.
Speaker 3: How much would it cost me by fine for me
Speaker 3: just to knock your ass out?
Speaker 7: I can't. I got the money.
Speaker 3: Just give me an approximate ten thousand.
Speaker 7: More than you've got.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you what this is going nowhere. I'll tell
Speaker 3: you something. Votes I'm tired of the bologneas this is
Speaker 3: the way it's gonna be. You're gonna pay for view
Speaker 3: Nashville the twenty nine. I fight, Oh, thank you very much.
Speaker 3: It took me above to memorize that.
Speaker 7: I will fight.
Speaker 3: Holgan.
Speaker 2: Get your hands off that right, so good, you're so ready,
Speaker 2: you're so ready to fight, you know.
Speaker 3: Yea fight, Holgan. But I'm gonna tell you this.
Speaker 7: I could care less whether the.
Speaker 3: Nw AL is down there, which means, now, if you mess.
Speaker 7: With me, no way out.
Speaker 3: I don't care If I get knocked out and the
Speaker 3: referee catches these gigs, what you're gonna do. You're gonna
Speaker 3: revive me and the fight is gonna go on. I'm
Speaker 3: not going for no tityus. I'm not going for no
Speaker 3: sneaking out. I ain't going for runnings away. I'm going
Speaker 3: for the fight of the century and who the icon is.
Speaker 3: So if I take this fight and you got the
Speaker 3: balls to get holding down here, then this fight will
Speaker 3: end the twenty nine, regardless.
Speaker 7: Of the nWo.
Speaker 3: Now you your little puke, get out of here.
Speaker 7: Halgan, you coward, come on down. I don't think so. Piper,
Speaker 7: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: His cottage number so, Bischoff says, I don't think so.
Speaker 2: I don't think so, and then Hogan aggressively comes out
Speaker 2: like what the f there's some across signals here, But
Speaker 2: isn't Piper phenomenal here? Oh? He is on fight. He
Speaker 2: is absolutely point yep yep, he gets it. He's just
Speaker 2: you know, it's funny seeing you know, it's it's really
Speaker 2: amazing seeing Piper here versus heel Piper in eighty five,
Speaker 2: who just like makes no sense.
Speaker 1: I know you tell yeah, there's less cocaine, but no,
Speaker 1: he knows exactly the direction he came in, knowing exactly
Speaker 1: what the story is to get the Hogan match.
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, yeah, it it's something. It's really crazy here
Speaker 2: we go.
Speaker 7: It's like, I don't think. I don't think you want that?
Speaker 7: Are we gonna have the sunny? You don't think I
Speaker 7: could see your knees hackings. You asked for it, you
Speaker 7: got it. Now he comes to us to move. You
Speaker 7: just tug your own dream.
Speaker 6: Roddie Ronnie Piper at number three to one now Hogan ron.
Speaker 7: Giant, Miss Elizabeth.
Speaker 5: Wait, notice that Piper is still standing in the ring
Speaker 5: and he hasn't moved.
Speaker 7: He's watching everything that's gone. Oh God, and for Piper
Speaker 7: nothing me right now. It's very dangerous.
Speaker 5: He should think and use his head. He can't beat
Speaker 5: them all now. He didn't all come out here a lot.
Speaker 5: Somebody signed their name.
Speaker 8: Uh, Pipe ain't going nowhere, He ain't running from nobody.
Speaker 8: This is as big as a gift. Baz button it down.
Speaker 7: And everyone here at the Piper, you got a problem.
Speaker 3: Now, I've always had problems, but that's never stopping cat
Speaker 3: your butt in the ring.
Speaker 7: Sign the contract and quit talking.
Speaker 2: I also love how Hogan's mic was always blown out. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, for some reason, his mic was never ever
Speaker 2: like the ceties are always so he's really blatty and
Speaker 2: just something so awes it's such a no, that's such
Speaker 2: a Hollywood Hogan thing. Yeah, it only happened with him.
Speaker 2: Nobody else had that issue.
Speaker 7: That's the best way to put it. Now, apparently he
Speaker 7: is going to get in the ring here now.
Speaker 6: Piper talked about the event in Nashville on the twenty nine.
Speaker 24: That would be starcade. Piper, to me, what's outnumbered very
Speaker 24: very badly?
Speaker 19: You know something, Piper, Oh yeah, big man, I'm gonna
Speaker 19: sign it right. Like I said, you got a real
Speaker 19: big problem, my friend. You know, I'm used to dealing
Speaker 19: with individuals that are my equal. I'm used to dealing
Speaker 19: with people in the ring that are number one contenders.
Speaker 19: I'm used to dealing with people that are up to
Speaker 19: my speed. And oh, yes, man, I'm gonna sign that contract.
Speaker 19: But I just want everybody in here to realize that
Speaker 19: when you were my equal ten years ago.
Speaker 7: You couldn't get it done.
Speaker 19: And now my friend sends your mister self righteous, mister
Speaker 19: up it up, mister big man, who's gonna straighten out
Speaker 19: the whole world?
Speaker 7: Show him the hip?
Speaker 2: What's the big deal of he had hip surgery? Like
Speaker 2: I don't understand.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he had had hip surgery before the Hollywood backlock brawl,
Speaker 1: and you know, pretty much kept its secret and they
Speaker 1: never mentioned it. So it's always like the nWo had
Speaker 1: this like trump card on him. They knew about the surgery,
Speaker 1: and they knew he had the weakness that he was
Speaker 1: trying to hide, and that's what this whole angles about.
Speaker 1: They show the scar from the hip surgery, and it's
Speaker 1: like this Achilles feels weird. It's just a weird It's
Speaker 1: a weird thing. I mean, also making Piper look like
Speaker 1: a like an eighty year o old man. It does,
Speaker 1: But I think I agree it does. But I think
Speaker 1: it kind of works here because it kind of you know,
Speaker 1: he's not going to be able to move like he
Speaker 1: used to anyway, you know, so to try to portray
Speaker 1: him is as good as he ever was, I think
Speaker 1: might might lead to a letdown. But I'll let him
Speaker 1: come into starcade with kind of like a like a
Speaker 1: justified reason to not look that that spry, you know,
Speaker 1: and that fleet of foot and there's a hot angle. No,
Speaker 1: they had the scar there. Yeah, it's still good. I
Speaker 1: mean it's good. It's just like it just it always
Speaker 1: seems kind of weird to me. I don't know why
Speaker 1: it feels weird, but it feels. It is funny. They
Speaker 1: pretend it just happened, like the surgery. It could just
Speaker 1: get out from surgery.
Speaker 7: All right, here we go, Yeah, show him the hip, Piper,
Speaker 7: what does he mean here? Get that camera over here.
Speaker 7: Wait a minute. I want the whole world to see this.
Speaker 2: This gets a little clumps off that hip. Yep.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 7: Boy. You're a straight up dude, aren't you. You're really
Speaker 7: on the money, aren't you?
Speaker 2: A honey? What is he talking about?
Speaker 19: Let me show the whole world what I've been talking about, Piper.
Speaker 7: Showing the hip? Wow?
Speaker 18: Huh?
Speaker 7: That scar? How about that red? Hey?
Speaker 19: You know something, I don't usually pick on tripples. I
Speaker 19: don't usually pick on people that are like pig like
Speaker 19: fat world seems to like you, my friend, And since
Speaker 19: the whole world wants to see the war that didn't
Speaker 19: end the score. Oh yes, my man, it's gonna be
Speaker 19: my pleasure to sign this contract.
Speaker 7: There it is. Let me tell you, Piper now that
Speaker 7: I'll sign that contract.
Speaker 19: You, my friend, are not good have I don't like
Speaker 19: to stand on because I can't wait to be up
Speaker 19: a gimp.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go. Get after him.
Speaker 7: He's going after holdan get after him.
Speaker 19: He is.
Speaker 7: Sorely out number here.
Speaker 8: Well, he picked it, like I said, he's in there
Speaker 8: with him now. Hogan gets a whopping on him.
Speaker 3: And he knew what they spect getting in that ring.
Speaker 7: NWL wasn't gonna leave them alone. They don't want him healthy.
Speaker 7: After he signed his name in that contract. They can't
Speaker 7: hurt him now, they.
Speaker 10: Won't hold him.
Speaker 2: He breaks free and he's biting and lungeing. Yep, yep.
Speaker 8: He needs to get on him right down, got you
Speaker 8: you know, like you said, he's out.
Speaker 2: Numbered and he gets restrained again, and then Scott Hall
Speaker 2: puts him in an abdominal stretch, revealing the hip injury.
Speaker 1: The hip scar.
Speaker 7: Showing that scar there, you can see it. Hogan is
Speaker 7: going to get a chair. Oh man, he can't be
Speaker 7: doing this. Man, fop him. He can't do this.
Speaker 21: He's a hip surgery and Hogan's gonna clipple the man.
Speaker 7: That's what he's doing. What a bad scar that is?
Speaker 7: Right down? Good? No, no, my goodness.
Speaker 6: The question is now it's been signed, But could Piper compete?
Speaker 19: Why?
Speaker 7: I'll tell you what. That's a lot of pain right down. Unbelievable.
Speaker 7: Look at the size of that scar, that operation. What
Speaker 7: they're going on to lead again?
Speaker 19: What is he?
Speaker 7: Holgen's got a can of Oh, it appears.
Speaker 4: That our children.
Speaker 7: Infamous can of black spray paint.
Speaker 3: Hogan's got it NWL letters on the legs.
Speaker 7: What this is a sick inside right here?
Speaker 2: I gain to you. I just say he eats piper?
Speaker 1: Was that you just say he eats melts?
Speaker 2: Yes, of course, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna break you in half. You peace a crowd
Speaker 7: an absolute disgusting scene.
Speaker 2: That's all I can say.
Speaker 5: Eric Bischoff grinning from here to the air hood tb
Speaker 5: Hosie grinning, Nash grinning and look at rowdy roddy Piper
Speaker 5: spray painted at NWR.
Speaker 7: Look he's still trying to pull himself up, holding said
Speaker 7: somebody left and get up, Roddy. You got to get him,
Speaker 7: get up to he's gonna get up. You gotta get
Speaker 7: up right here.
Speaker 14: Let's go.
Speaker 7: Pull yourself up, pull your step up, get in the
Speaker 7: middle of it.
Speaker 8: He can't stand, he can't stand with that leg. I
Speaker 8: take this the other way around. I guarantee you right in,
Speaker 8: Piper will be fit for this thing. He's taking his
Speaker 8: jacket off. He wants to fight right now. He don't
Speaker 8: care about a leg. He don't care if there's twenty
Speaker 8: five man. Yep, Piper cannot stand on that leg.
Speaker 5: Hogan took that steel chair and just waffled him, waffled.
Speaker 7: Him in that hip.
Speaker 6: Our contract has been signed, Yes, it's been signed for
Speaker 6: apparently for December twenty ninth at Starcade. But the question
Speaker 6: remains the condition of Piper. He's got a little bit
Speaker 6: over a month to get ready for that match.
Speaker 15: Wait a minute, he th.
Speaker 7: Natshville, Tennessee. If that's the press, you can do your
Speaker 7: trouble that.
Speaker 6: There's no rate tray, no sir, And yes, yes, the
Speaker 6: eyes on that man right there, rowdy, Roddy, Piper certainly
Speaker 6: has an uphill battle.
Speaker 5: And I'll guarantee you he'll crawl over broken glass and
Speaker 5: nails all the way.
Speaker 7: From here to Nashville. If it takes him a month
Speaker 7: with a bad hip or too bad, he take getting
Speaker 7: his hands on that man right there. Yeah, I'll tell
Speaker 7: you how. Yeah. When you lay it out to it,
Speaker 7: it is very simple.
Speaker 8: When you look at this scene unfold in front of us,
Speaker 8: the bottom line walls right at.
Speaker 7: Papa picked this fight. He went into the den of
Speaker 7: the nWo.
Speaker 8: He stood there, he made the climb up, the sign
Speaker 8: in his un that to the citreat, the decade, the empathy.
Speaker 7: On whatever you call it.
Speaker 24: The fight of all fights, The fight of all fights.
Speaker 7: Has been signed.
Speaker 5: Piper says he's been in this sport over twenty eight years.
Speaker 5: He's ot over six thousand fights. He started out at fifteen,
Speaker 5: fighting in the garage. Look at the intensity of that
Speaker 5: man's eyes right there. He's not thinking about anything from
Speaker 5: the past. All he's thinking about right now is to
Speaker 5: get his hands on a.
Speaker 7: High ho Hogan. Look at the eyes on Rowdy.
Speaker 15: Rowdy.
Speaker 7: Piper yellows they clean the ring here, and Piper makes
Speaker 7: his way back.
Speaker 1: He limbs up the aisle holding his jacket.
Speaker 2: Respect that we've voice had for Roddy and then he
Speaker 2: drops down to his knee even more so now yeah
Speaker 2: in the aisle, because you.
Speaker 8: Know what I mean, you have a pick a fight
Speaker 8: when you were a kid and go in a big
Speaker 8: gang and you want to hit it.
Speaker 7: And that's what was going on right here, and we've
Speaker 7: seen it. It's his five, it's his thing.
Speaker 8: It's between him and Ogan goes beyond the n W
Speaker 8: and w CW and de'skri weber Seine Boys.
Speaker 5: He's picking up speed, he's getting a little something in
Speaker 5: his step.
Speaker 6: And as much as respect as we have for Piper
Speaker 6: and the contract has now been signed, certainly we lose
Speaker 6: respect minute by minute, day by day for not only
Speaker 6: Hogan in the nWo, but.
Speaker 7: Now Eric Bischoff and the scene that they pulled.
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Speaker 1: Tremendous piece of business.
Speaker 2: Oh it really was.
Speaker 1: It really was the Piper's best work.
Speaker 2: In some ways. It probably should have closed the show.
Speaker 2: Yeah you think so, you know, because it's such a
Speaker 2: hot angle that you probably could have done it after
Speaker 2: the stupid Battle Royal.
Speaker 1: Interesting choice to do it on pay per view and
Speaker 1: not on Nitro, and so many more people are watching.
Speaker 1: They replayed it in its entirety as mentioned the next night,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't like no one saw it, but I
Speaker 1: thought it was kind of cool.
Speaker 2: We're probably trying to get people to buy it. Probably
Speaker 2: was the key reason to buy the show. It's probably
Speaker 2: to get paid too, of course.
Speaker 1: Because he has the minimum pay per view dates and
Speaker 1: this is a way to get him on the show
Speaker 1: without having to convince him to work. So there he
Speaker 1: has Piper doing the classic limp up the aisleway and
Speaker 1: collapsing every so many steps and just keeps fighting through.
Speaker 1: It's just great stuff, it really is. So as we
Speaker 1: transition from that, we get a bit about Canada, meaning
Speaker 1: with the classic I can't wait to see what's gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow on Nitro and what's going to happen tomorrow on Nitro. Yep,
Speaker 2: there comes our Jacques from the Quebecer's with the Quebec
Speaker 2: flag pco of course, with the maple leafs. It is
Speaker 2: the Quebecers.
Speaker 1: It is the Quebecers known as the French Canadians at
Speaker 1: the time, WSW making a push to get more clearance
Speaker 1: in Canadian television markets and arenas. They even put Jacqurajau
Speaker 1: over Hulkogan in Montreal Ones with an Inside Cradle and
Speaker 1: a Faus match Insane ninety seven. The Colonel Robert Parker
Speaker 1: dressed like I don't know what he's dressed like. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's I mean, it's like a Legionaire
Speaker 1: or something. He's saying, Viva la Quebec, Viva la Canada.
Speaker 2: It's it's it's very bizarre.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, Bobby says. Colonel told me he's going to
Speaker 1: find a place to live in Quebec. I said where
Speaker 1: he's at the South. So there's heat. Sherry comes out
Speaker 1: leading the charge for the Harlem Heat. Booker t Fitton
Speaker 1: hurt somebody, as he says into the cameras, the flames
Speaker 1: go off. OG's fitt and hurt somebody. He says, Colonel,
Speaker 1: we're fitting to hit hurt you sucka Colonel, you don't
Speaker 1: know what you got into. Of course, Colonel Parker, being
Speaker 1: a Harlem Heat's original managers, now original manager. Now on
Speaker 1: the other side, that's true. Of course, there's tape on
Speaker 1: the bridge of the nose of Booker t in case
Speaker 1: you forgot what era of this is. Right, Tony says,
Speaker 1: who knows what's going to clear that nasal pass?
Speaker 19: Right?
Speaker 1: Tony says, who knows? What's the head for WCW at
Speaker 1: the end of this year and focused into ninetennety seven?
Speaker 2: What do you here?
Speaker 1: Ninety seven would be? Man, just think of all the
Speaker 1: things they're setting up, sting, what's happening on the other channel. God,
Speaker 1: what time to be alive and watching wrestling every week.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's it's a.
Speaker 15: You just.
Speaker 2: You know, people don't really understand, you know. You look
Speaker 2: at kind of today's stuff and you see like the
Speaker 2: the Triple H regime taking over, and it's exciting for
Speaker 2: those you know, because like, but it still is not.
Speaker 2: The business hasn't changed. It's the same thing, ye Like,
Speaker 2: at least to me, it feels the same as it
Speaker 2: did in like twenty ten, and.
Speaker 1: In ninety six and ninety seven it felt different, but
Speaker 1: it felt it was so different, like there was such
Speaker 1: a drastic change. Palpable, Yeah, yeah, I mean it was
Speaker 1: and it wasn't overnight, but it was.
Speaker 2: It was such a change in tone, a change in
Speaker 2: the delivery of the shows. And if you didn't watch
Speaker 2: prior to that, and you know, I'm not saying I watched, obviously,
Speaker 2: I didn't watch in eighty five. I wasn't there for
Speaker 2: the rock and wrestling connection, but I was there early
Speaker 2: enough to understand that what was that it needed to
Speaker 2: change yep. And you kind of sat there thinking it's
Speaker 2: never going to change, but then when it did, it was.
Speaker 2: It was addicting. It really was addicting television. That's it.
Speaker 2: That is the word.
Speaker 1: And Heenan says he's got a scoop the pipers in
Speaker 1: the back, refusing medical attention as a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: as Jock grabs the mind and Dusty's talking over him
Speaker 1: and pay some respect for the greatest country in the world,
Speaker 1: and Tony says, well, it's time to butcher the Canadian
Speaker 1: national anthem, and they do it.
Speaker 2: They do.
Speaker 1: Booker ex on the booing crowd.
Speaker 2: And Heenan, you know, Heenan, it's awful, but he didn't
Speaker 2: defend them as he would do.
Speaker 7: They're proud of their country, yes they are. Dougan sings
Speaker 7: it doesn't says something to him. Yeah, but if they're
Speaker 7: proud of their country, they need to learn the words. Well,
Speaker 7: they're singing it in.
Speaker 2: In Quebec.
Speaker 7: Is that now a language? No? I meant everyone in
Speaker 7: Quebec is singing when they sing fin Lauren as well.
Speaker 7: Couldn't get himself out of that, one could intoe? No,
Speaker 7: he backed into a common that turned the wrong way
Speaker 7: and run into it and no.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what a thing to behold the French Canadians in
Speaker 1: the ring and those three guys issuing barbs. Sherry's voice
Speaker 1: is incredibly raspy. I mean, my god, know what.
Speaker 2: That could be. I mean we're talking, you know, God
Speaker 2: knows years of screaming and yelling at the top of
Speaker 2: her lungs. You know it's gonna it's gonna affect you.
Speaker 1: I don't heat versus French Canadians. Here at World War three,
Speaker 1: Shock and Booker get started. Dusty uh says, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of talking tonight, a lot of filibuster in Tony
Speaker 1: says what drives the NBA is eager and power plays.
Speaker 1: And he then says, there's so many guys in the
Speaker 1: end to be able with the same kind of ego.
Speaker 1: I don't see how they can coexist, and he would
Speaker 1: be right about that, and long math he would be right, yep, yep,
Speaker 1: Jock and Booker to lock up. Dusty said, you beat Hogan,
Speaker 1: you you start you If you beat Hogan, you can
Speaker 1: start to cease to exist nWo. So that's that's the
Speaker 1: big thing they're acting like. If Piper can beat Hogan
Speaker 1: then to be able to fall apart from there, Heenan
Speaker 1: says he's had the hog at the trough and broke
Speaker 1: it down. So Dusty understands, okay, oh, he says, yeah,
Speaker 1: Hogan is the hog at the trough headlog push off,
Speaker 1: tackle down goes Jacques u Jau, who keeps up and
Speaker 1: does a drop kick that levels Booker t who keeps
Speaker 1: up as well. Dusty said, everyone can relate to the
Speaker 1: trough line. Bobby doesn't object to that. This is this
Speaker 1: is a great example of like talking about the nWo
Speaker 1: over the match in its entirety, which you know, they said,
Speaker 1: a really hot angle. So I actually sometimes miss that.
Speaker 1: I actually sometimes miss announcers that can't get off what
Speaker 1: we just saw, even if there's something else in the ring.
Speaker 2: I hate when they think that it's important. That's important,
Speaker 2: I think, you know, I'm sorry, I hate to to to.
Speaker 18: You know.
Speaker 2: You know, obviously it's it's these people's time to shine
Speaker 2: and get in the ring. But at the same time,
Speaker 2: not many people care about Harlem heat versus the French Canadian.
Speaker 1: Something's got to be going on on TV while they
Speaker 1: get over how substantial well I was, it might have
Speaker 1: to be your match.
Speaker 2: I agree, and I think I think that that. I
Speaker 2: think it's important. I think it it Also it was
Speaker 2: a huge.
Speaker 1: Part of the nWo be as successful as it was
Speaker 1: that they were always talking about it on commentary.
Speaker 2: But even wwe did it and the time, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean it was it was there were always there
Speaker 2: was always a through line. There wasn't It wasn't a
Speaker 2: segmented show as it is now where it's like you
Speaker 2: have your moment and then it's gone, like you you
Speaker 2: really don't talk about the important things. And I'm and
Speaker 2: you know what, the main event program for the next
Speaker 2: pay per view should always be talked about over matches,
Speaker 2: you know, it should always be talking to.
Speaker 1: These guys and they need to follow the story right
Speaker 1: then you have to you have to prioritize, not everybody
Speaker 1: on the card is equal. That's the name of the game,
Speaker 1: especially when you know there's this existential threat in the air.
Speaker 1: It's not like they're talking about a main event program
Speaker 1: without the component of a takeover. Like it's a takeover, right,
Speaker 1: it's all anyone's thinking about.
Speaker 2: Right, So, great stuff. And even but even then, I
Speaker 2: think that I think it's important to talk about the
Speaker 2: main event of the upcoming pay per view at any.
Speaker 1: Moment, even when the the principles aren't on the screen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it makes it subconsciously makes the audience feel
Speaker 2: like what they're watching is important or what the main
Speaker 2: program is is importantness, you know, And and that's that's
Speaker 2: a huge thing on a pedestal thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Double Whip Double areat Down, goes Chakrajeu Stevie with
Speaker 1: the one arm slam on show whipping a duck and
Speaker 1: Jock ra Joe hits a flying back elbow and Stevie
Speaker 1: Ray stumbles and PCO cuts him down with a closed line.
Speaker 1: Dusty says the traditional route the Piper took to come
Speaker 1: home that you know, he keeps trying to basically say, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's in WWFL those years, but he was in Crockett
Speaker 1: before that, and he's actually coming home here right right,
Speaker 1: heeps trying to make that point.
Speaker 2: He just kind of fails to do it.
Speaker 1: Stevie Ray comes in with the high backsuplex that dumbst
Speaker 1: PCO on his melon bicycle kick gets too for Stevie Ray.
Speaker 1: Dusty says, Holk cocin. Once upon a time came for
Speaker 1: that tradition. He just forgot who brought him to the dance.
Speaker 1: Whatever the fuck that means. Booker, he gets in. It's
Speaker 1: a snapmarre and a knee drop on Pco. We're told
Speaker 1: that Colonel Parker's on that. Then our recent edition at
Speaker 1: WCW Saturday Night had told us about being suited up
Speaker 1: for war, and that explains the thing.
Speaker 7: I never been for war.
Speaker 2: It's the get up.
Speaker 7: I'm not a warrior. I'm I just sit here and
Speaker 7: make it just what I do is I come out
Speaker 7: support things that maybe I support.
Speaker 1: Always a good prelude to a lapsed character.
Speaker 2: I just sit hereever you hear Booker t hotshots PCO.
Speaker 2: That is true, it is true, or I'm just sitting.
Speaker 2: I'm just sitting. Here's another one.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh my god, you know you know heat is
Speaker 1: in coming at that point. Well, speaking of wedge show,
Speaker 1: comes Stevie Ray with a big elbow drop.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that mayor.
Speaker 1: Dusty's trying to remember his Abisco saying that Colonel Parker
Speaker 1: had legionaires, but he couldn't remember the name of the disease.
Speaker 1: He said he had the legion disease. Yes, Booker do
Speaker 1: The next kick levels PCO actually in the back of
Speaker 1: the neck that time. Tony says, we get a little
Speaker 1: bit of that time from Shravanni.
Speaker 2: Looks like a warm tag this TV Ray to keep.
Speaker 2: Definitely not a hot tag, definitely not so. PCO pokes
Speaker 2: the eyes.
Speaker 1: HiT's a slam. It's his an elbow drop. Book missus
Speaker 1: an elbow But does the spinner Rooney to a vertical
Speaker 1: base before that had a name and Harlem sidekick takes
Speaker 1: out PCO. So yeah, that was weird. It was like,
Speaker 1: it's not the move he did to just like, you know,
Speaker 1: celebrate having control of the match. It's something he did
Speaker 1: to recover from missing an elbow drop.
Speaker 2: Yeah here, yeah, that's fine.
Speaker 1: Dusty calls it the Harlem shuffle. So before it was
Speaker 1: the Spinner Rooney, it was the hot shuffle.
Speaker 2: Let's just start calling it that from now on, Jars,
Speaker 2: anytime we see that happen, it's the Harlem shuffle, yes,
Speaker 2: because he's definitely shuffling when he rolls around on the
Speaker 2: fucking take a shuffle to me round, yeap Chaquajou is
Speaker 2: supposed to low bridge, but Booker doesn't go over too well.
Speaker 2: But they hit the floor anyway, and Colonel Parker, with
Speaker 2: his long black boots, gets some big kicks in and
Speaker 2: he says, I don't like it here as it gets heated.
Speaker 2: At ringside, he's nervous again and helping caught in crossfire,
Speaker 2: Dusty says, Sherry's a beaten on that thing, which I
Speaker 2: guess means on Jacques Roujeau combo clothesline, and maybe he's
Speaker 2: maybe she's beaten Jacques Graujau off.
Speaker 1: Well, I was gonna say, Colonel Parker's probably beatn that thing,
Speaker 1: is what's happened.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 1: Combo clothesline and backfoot sweep by the Canadians, very nicely done.
Speaker 1: Then Joqua Joe, with a whipping of a double boot,
Speaker 1: yangs down Booker t and slams Pco onto Booker, slamming
Speaker 1: his own partners.
Speaker 2: They used to do. Yeah, yeah, that's good. I always
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 1: It'd gets too double wit double hot shot by the
Speaker 1: Canadians PCO.
Speaker 2: With Coilette, Well, Carl Coilette, that's.
Speaker 1: Right, well pronounced PCO. An Irish whip. Book leaps into
Speaker 1: a schoolboy right over pco's leg. For one backup. PCO
Speaker 1: turns book absolutely inside out with a closed line. Booger
Speaker 1: T always ready to show up and do that inside
Speaker 1: out three sixty cellm lariat. Oh yeah if his specialties.
Speaker 1: Dusty says, Serenes have been heard in the back. Not sirens.
Speaker 1: He says, Serene Serenes. Yeah, they you'd say, Eileen, right.
Speaker 1: PCO goes to the middle rope and drops the leg
Speaker 1: while Booker T is trapped in a Boston crab. How
Speaker 1: about that combination offense by the Quebecers. Stevie then comes
Speaker 1: in and drops a leg to break up.
Speaker 2: The cover attempt. Well they are the Mounties after allac.
Speaker 1: To Stevie comes in, firing on Jacques Jeau Irish whip
Speaker 1: in a backdrop by Stevie Ray and another whip, and
Speaker 1: he gorilla presses and tosses Jacque Rejeau into PCO. Very
Speaker 1: nice one not one of the worst Tartlem meat matches.
Speaker 1: I'll say that even Stevie Ray looks kind of good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fine. It's you know, is nothing bad, nothing bad,
Speaker 2: nothing great, you know, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: Docy dough and Pco is thrown into referee Scott Dickinson.
Speaker 1: So we have a rough bump. Booker tries the Harlem
Speaker 1: sidekick but lands crotch first on the top ropes like
Speaker 1: he used to do. Double team now on Stevie Ray
Speaker 1: by the Canadians, and Heenen says, where's Nick Patrick when
Speaker 1: you need him? Double stuff file driver by the Canadians
Speaker 1: on Stevie Ray and they load a table of all
Speaker 1: things under the ring. Dusty says, they came up with
Speaker 1: some plunder on their own. Yere and pcos grabbing the
Speaker 1: steps as well, the ring steps, loading those into the ring.
Speaker 1: What are they concocting? Trying to make a stage almost
Speaker 1: of sorts, as Dusty points out, they're making a he says,
Speaker 1: they're making a clubhouse.
Speaker 2: But they're doing.
Speaker 1: Is they put a table sandwich It's off on the corner.
Speaker 1: He can smell one. He says, where's coming from? So
Speaker 1: what they did is they put it.
Speaker 2: You know, I would, I I do. I would wish,
Speaker 2: I really wish. We like, you know, every now and again,
Speaker 2: you'd get you'd go to the commentary table and they'd
Speaker 2: be eating greatle me. So damn funny to see Dusty
Speaker 2: with the fucking sandwich and fries on his on the desk. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and fries and fries.
Speaker 1: They must have sent for people, you know, to bring
Speaker 1: them some stuff during the broadcast.
Speaker 2: I would think maybe not. I don't know, And I
Speaker 2: imagine you could. You can probably get a quick snack in,
Speaker 2: you know, like you can probably eat a slice of
Speaker 2: pizza during one of those backstage Jeane seconds. You go, yep, yeah.
Speaker 1: So what they do is they put the table on
Speaker 1: the top rope in the corner, and then they put
Speaker 1: the steps on the table and the climb on the
Speaker 1: PCO climbs on the steps that's on the table. I
Speaker 1: could have believe my eyes that someone was doing this
Speaker 1: in World A Championship Wrestling in nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's such a like what the fuck PCO.
Speaker 1: Stock in trade. Man, he's been doing it for like
Speaker 1: thirty years, coming up with wacky shit to jump off of,
Speaker 1: and here it is and he does the front flip
Speaker 1: off the stairs that are on the table, but he
Speaker 1: misses the big splash and crashes to the canvas. Stevie
Speaker 1: gets up and kicks shot out of the ring. Dusty's
Speaker 1: loving this action. He loved that big, high risk flip.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And then up to the top rope, Booker t hits
Speaker 1: the front flip leg drop the Harlem hangover.
Speaker 2: I think he loved, you know, I imagine Dusty loved
Speaker 2: you know, you know, big guys like you know, doing shit.
Speaker 2: They shouldn't be.
Speaker 1: The spectacle of just that. It was definitely a sally
Speaker 1: for sure. So Booker goes up hits the Harlem hangover
Speaker 1: flip leg drop, and that's good for the one to
Speaker 1: end the three Harlem Heat defeat the amazing French Canadians
Speaker 1: and nine minutes and fourteen seconds here at World War three.
Speaker 1: Forgot to mention the stip stated that if Harlem Heat
Speaker 1: was victorious, Sherry gets five minutes alone with Colonel Robert Parker.
Speaker 1: And does Sherry make the most out of this camera time?
Speaker 19: Or what?
Speaker 2: Can I listen to this? Okay, you gotta listen. First
Speaker 2: of all, Sherry's phenomenal, phenomenal, all right, you gotta again.
Speaker 2: Those who didn't live throughout the Sherry you know regime,
Speaker 2: you don't get it all right. You needed to see
Speaker 2: it when it was happening to really get it. Because
Speaker 2: she was a mix of the the the valet you
Speaker 2: love to hate, but also the valet you fucking loved,
Speaker 2: because she was.
Speaker 1: Also set an entertaining part of the show. She was
Speaker 1: a fucking she was hell on wheels. When you let
Speaker 1: her go off on a mail manager like this, she
Speaker 1: turns Parker around and slugs him, and.
Speaker 2: And but again, like the way she got involved the
Speaker 2: ship that she took. She was remarkable, absolutely remarkable. She
Speaker 2: soars that cross body and she sores. Listen to these people,
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, listen, listen to Dusty go fucking nuts over
Speaker 2: the ship.
Speaker 25: Rip his draws off, baby, yes, and knocked him out
Speaker 25: of his boots.
Speaker 17: Almost my goodness, that lady again again. Oh she's girded
Speaker 17: up too much. She's going all right out of here.
Speaker 17: I go get him down and I'm anna hide.
Speaker 7: I'm looking up at.
Speaker 2: The foot because he can see up her dress. She's
Speaker 2: climbing the rocks. Oh, come in, what a flying dude.
Speaker 3: This is crazy.
Speaker 7: And the total him off. She ain't do it, and
Speaker 7: she got five minutes. She's gonna go fine. Believe me,
Speaker 7: Colonel did nothing.
Speaker 25: She bade him from the start of the match, and
Speaker 25: she's after him right now said, oh what a big
Speaker 25: bars and girls playing.
Speaker 2: Oh my gods. He always comes back to station, doesn't
Speaker 2: he at.
Speaker 7: The end of the like he does.
Speaker 2: He's listening. He's always fucking you know, he's plugging the taglines,
Speaker 2: recharging like a rumba. I I I love when when.
Speaker 7: I mean, it's just funny, I don't.
Speaker 2: His reaction is so genuine, so joyous, and but it's
Speaker 2: it's funny to me that he's almost surprised that Cherry
Speaker 2: can do these things. He's reacting like it's the damnedest
Speaker 2: thing he's ever seen Sherry do. Right right, It's like she,
Speaker 2: I mean, are you're not familiar with her work over
Speaker 2: the last decade.
Speaker 1: She takes her shoes off and does it crossbody in
Speaker 1: that evening gown. From the top she covers half the ring.
Speaker 1: It's like the most awesome thing. You can't help it
Speaker 1: crack up. She's she's like, it's it's unbelievable. She is
Speaker 1: so fucking amazing.
Speaker 2: It's not like it's not like you know, you're you're
Speaker 2: you're you know attitude era, you know, uh, a cat
Speaker 2: fight that they would pull off like this was she
Speaker 2: fucking landed clothes lines, like fucking took him.
Speaker 1: Down, kind of played the seed there. I mean, what
Speaker 1: if you know, after Sable runs through Luna, Sable comes
Speaker 1: out on Raw Monday and hits the ring. Stop it
Speaker 1: goes off on her.
Speaker 2: Stop it you if they, I mean, that's you would
Speaker 2: have really got over. Can you imagine how fucking huge
Speaker 2: that would have been if Sherry came back.
Speaker 1: All pissed off that she's getting attention Sable Yep, yep, Barbie,
Speaker 1: Oh like it would have the crowd would have gone,
Speaker 1: fucking we see right here in this match, which she
Speaker 1: was still capable of doing in the ring.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how old was she at this point?
Speaker 1: Great question?
Speaker 2: Her forty? Maybe let me take a look.
Speaker 1: So awesome you got to watch this, man, It's like
Speaker 1: for such a nothing match, it's like totally forgotten great
Speaker 1: WCW moment here she is the best.
Speaker 2: I mean, you never fucking you didn't even think about it,
Speaker 2: You'd never even it was so just she's just.
Speaker 1: Awesome, Tony said this podcast is announcing gold, he said
Speaker 1: he had during the course of the segment. He said
Speaker 1: he had to put on pause on his hem when
Speaker 1: he was watching it back because he was laughing so
Speaker 1: hard at Dusty's commentary and loved it so much rewatching it,
Speaker 1: and I thought they did a great job and that
Speaker 1: Bobby and Dusty were spectacular in this, and I would
Speaker 1: have to agree with that.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 1: Just tremendous stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it.
Speaker 1: Really, really really is mussie here Sherry would have been.
Speaker 1: I'm she wasn't even forty yet, that's insane. She looks
Speaker 1: well north of forty.
Speaker 2: She was thirty eight. Unreal, she was wait a minute, yeah,
Speaker 2: she was thirty eight years old.
Speaker 1: She's taking flight.
Speaker 2: He was born in ninth born in nineteen fifty eight.
Speaker 2: She died before she was fifty. Great dark set on her.
Speaker 1: I'm so yeah, that was such a loss, man, because
Speaker 1: she just she just went back to the trailer park
Speaker 1: and got hooked on drugs and just died. It was
Speaker 1: like the saddest It's like she was the last person
Speaker 1: in the business that deserved that ending, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, unbelievable, and she was so fucking amazing.
Speaker 1: Tony also said that you know you were talking about
Speaker 1: he didn't being afraid of his neck when Sherry was
Speaker 1: out there. That's when he got really concerned, because she
Speaker 1: would do something so fucking nuts that he was worried
Speaker 1: she would end up hitting the announced team, jumping on
Speaker 1: the table, picking up a chair, dropping something crazy, hurting them.
Speaker 1: He said, Bobby was scared to death of her, which
Speaker 1: is even more tremendous.
Speaker 2: I'm glad she got in the Hall of Fame before
Speaker 2: she died. Yeah, me too. That's kind of crucial Sherry.
Speaker 2: But just I mean, imagine her coming back if she
Speaker 2: had just if she had been able to come back.
Speaker 2: I see the raw after wrestling he fourteen. You know,
Speaker 2: she comes out of the crowd and tackles tackles her
Speaker 2: because she wasn't doing anything anyway after that, Like she
Speaker 2: come on, Yeah, between something, I don't know where she
Speaker 2: was between ninety seven and uh, I guess she went
Speaker 2: to itw Mid South.
Speaker 1: I invite you to consider something else. Sherry returns and
Speaker 1: attacks Sable, and later on that show, Savage returns. Oh
Speaker 1: do we have a long term story possibility with those
Speaker 1: two linking back up for a reign of terror?
Speaker 2: I think we do.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think a Steve, Austin and Sable versus Randy
Speaker 1: Savage and Sherry mixtag could about a fucking sensation.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm telling you, Savage. If Savage ended up being, oh,
Speaker 2: you know, the first the first opponent for Austin, that
Speaker 2: would have been monumental, Absolutely monumental.
Speaker 1: I've never even thought of that match. I know that
Speaker 1: that's the most for that's the most tantalizing part of
Speaker 1: it is I'm sitting here picturing things I've never pictured before.
Speaker 1: I've never once thought about that.
Speaker 2: You know, I always think of Flair Hogan, I mean
Speaker 2: Flair Hogan, Austin Hogan, but I never thought of Austin Savage.
Speaker 2: And that's a fucking money match, and.
Speaker 1: His money is Austin Hogan would be When you consider
Speaker 1: the personality match and the style match, the Savage stuff
Speaker 1: would have been thirty times better. I mean, he'd have
Speaker 1: worked his ass In terms of match quality, Yes, in
Speaker 1: terms of money, it obviously is Hogan because they're the
Speaker 1: they're the two.
Speaker 2: Even the promos promos would have been better with Savage,
Speaker 2: oh totally totally, and Savage coming out with like Vince
Speaker 2: behind him, like a hired gun like he brings him
Speaker 2: back to try to stop Steve Austin, right, you know,
Speaker 2: and and and they can play up the whole the
Speaker 2: whole thing, like you know, the fact that that that
Speaker 2: savage left him in ninety four and oh my god,
Speaker 2: now I gotta think about this now, I have to
Speaker 2: picture it.
Speaker 1: I have to consider it. I have to accept it, right,
Speaker 1: you have.
Speaker 2: To accept the fact that it never never happened and
Speaker 2: never would happen.
Speaker 1: Well, the Sherry Colonel Parker match ends be a count
Speaker 1: out in a minute thirty. It is kind of funny
Speaker 1: that as much of a tail kicking as Colonel Parker
Speaker 1: is taking, he still bothers to kick out of the crossbody.
Speaker 1: That is hilarious.
Speaker 2: I do understand why Dusty laughs at that, because why
Speaker 2: does he care about taking the one two three?
Speaker 18: Like?
Speaker 1: That's hilarious?
Speaker 2: I know, Like, what what is it? What is it
Speaker 2: going to do? This fight prolonged right right? Like, all
Speaker 2: you gotta do is lose and out there exactly. Instead,
Speaker 2: you're gonna let her fucking beat on you some morning.
Speaker 2: He's running away from her, but he's kicking out when
Speaker 2: she pins him. Oh man, that's idiotic pride right there. Exactly.
Speaker 2: Maybe his pants actually ship my pants watching this. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so great.
Speaker 1: It was absolutely amazing, such a hidden gem. No one
Speaker 1: even thinks about this moment, but it's up there. So anyway,
Speaker 1: he and and they reset, and he says, if Piper's
Speaker 1: having hip surgery, that's gonna take a long time. But
Speaker 1: if the fight was tonight, he's convinced that Piper would
Speaker 1: be ready. He'd screw the leg on. He's nuts. So
Speaker 1: they're kind of like walking this fine line between like
Speaker 1: giving us reason to think the match might still not happen,
Speaker 1: but screaming at us, trust this, it'll still happen. Even
Speaker 1: though that was a heavy duty angle, So that's always
Speaker 1: kind of awkward. But Tony comments how Piper seemed surprised
Speaker 1: that Hogan and the NBO knew about his hip injury,
Speaker 1: and Dusty says, the on the most powerful men in
Speaker 1: the indutry, you're gonna find stuff up like that out
Speaker 1: and no matter what shape Piper's in, tradition will drag
Speaker 1: him out.
Speaker 2: To the ring that night.
Speaker 1: In the nWo, it's got a whooping coming. You see
Speaker 1: people moving the steps around behind Bobby the brain heenan
Speaker 1: as they're talking. Yeah, they even nudge.
Speaker 2: His chair and he actually whips his head around all pissed. Oh,
Speaker 2: he's fucking god horrified.
Speaker 1: They're setting up the what are they setting up the.
Speaker 2: Something?
Speaker 1: They're setting up something for the next match or for
Speaker 1: the for the kit for the World War three Battle Royal.
Speaker 1: They do a star Ka ninety six ad with an
Speaker 1: l F in it and no hint of who's in
Speaker 1: the wrestling matches.
Speaker 3: I know, and this ain't your typical forman funny holiday session.
Speaker 7: A tree is dumb, the turkey is.
Speaker 3: Crash, and the fruitcake.
Speaker 7: Get this on the biggest stars the World Championship Wrestling.
Speaker 7: What's coming up for one?
Speaker 11: He's w c W Star Cave Sunday, December twenty ninth,
Speaker 11: live and only on pay per view.
Speaker 7: Call your cab older satellite company to order.
Speaker 1: Now put me back there with that voice. Oh, star
Speaker 1: Kate in a Christmas ornament, the logo, Yes, yep. They
Speaker 1: just don't they don't get it. They don't get it.
Speaker 1: They don't get what it was that was magic about it.
Speaker 1: So Jeane's backstage, all right.
Speaker 2: They don't realize that it wasn't about the it wasn't
Speaker 2: about the high tech, It wasn't about the slick editing
Speaker 2: and the and the the graphics and whatever.
Speaker 1: It was the tone, it was the right.
Speaker 2: It was the tone. It was the simplicity. It was
Speaker 2: the idea that they were you know they they were
Speaker 2: they we're blending the holidays with restless beautiful, you know,
Speaker 2: like they were. There was a marriage there, and it
Speaker 2: made it feel because because you know, if they're if
Speaker 2: they're promoting whatever I mean not not everything comes in
Speaker 2: December anymore. No, they don't always have shows in December,
Speaker 2: but you know, if they're doing a show, there's never
Speaker 2: that kind of synergy. You know, they want to keep
Speaker 2: it away from being holiday themed, and it's like you
Speaker 2: shouldn't do that. The holidays make these shows because because
Speaker 2: when the time comes around, you look forward to that.
Speaker 2: It's why a Halloween Havoc is important, or any show
Speaker 2: that that happens in October should be should have some
Speaker 2: connection to Halloweens. Absolutely. The Thanksgiving Eve or Thanksgiving Night
Speaker 2: tradition of of Survivor series is huge, huge, and and
Speaker 2: and you know, yeah, it's just it makes you look
Speaker 2: forward to both things. It reminds you. It's like you
Speaker 2: can look forward to these events, not only because they're
Speaker 2: coming up, but also because they are happening around this
Speaker 2: magical time of years.
Speaker 1: It reminds you that it's coming.
Speaker 2: And that's the same thing, like you have a great
Speaker 2: American Bash in July. Like that works. It makes sense,
Speaker 2: you know, because it's it's about fourth of July. I
Speaker 2: have it.
Speaker 1: It was the same way I see a Halloween have
Speaker 1: it ad in September. I'm like, fuck, yeah, Halloween's yeah.
Speaker 1: It's the least they can do is seasonally appropriate marketing,
Speaker 1: you know, It's the least.
Speaker 2: I never I didn't never understood why they thought it
Speaker 2: just they need to stop doing that. I know why
Speaker 2: they didn't. Why why they decided, you know what, we
Speaker 2: don't want to be associated with that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: It's weird. Is they still ran you know, It's not
Speaker 1: like they gave the guys the day off so they
Speaker 1: could write. Right, I'm back on the hotline, Jean says.
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Speaker 11: ladies and gentlemen, apparently it's rumored allegedly that another superstar,
Speaker 11: yet another superstar, will be coming to World Championship Wrestling
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Speaker 11: at one nine hundred nine to nine ninety nine hundred.
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Speaker 2: Indeed it was who was it supposed to be? Perfect?
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that's who they're talking about. Okay, Lex Luger.
Speaker 1: Steps in, Sting hands you a bat. It's hard to
Speaker 1: make anything of it. It's frustrating for me and for
Speaker 1: the wrestlers to try to interpret what Sting is doing.
Speaker 1: Where Steiner? Where's he coming from? As close as I've
Speaker 1: been to the Stinger, I don't know what to make
Speaker 1: of all this. He says, what he's been doing, it
Speaker 1: just reeks of the nWo. Yeah, or says I hope
Speaker 1: I'm not right about that. And black and white he's
Speaker 1: wearing all that coming out of the crowd. I don't
Speaker 1: want to believe it, but I waited for months to
Speaker 1: get any word from him, and he's a man of
Speaker 1: no words right now, so he does not know what
Speaker 1: to make of it. Geene, good promo here from Lex,
Speaker 1: kind of establishing that.
Speaker 2: And Gene gives us a real nice little button to
Speaker 2: tie this whole thing up.
Speaker 11: This man is either with the nWo or he's wrestling's
Speaker 11: Marcel Marceaul.
Speaker 1: Okay, well it is a pantomime. He's in the right business.
Speaker 1: Maybe references Gane, like was Medusa pulling a Marcel Marceau too?
Speaker 2: Back then?
Speaker 1: Jean says, Luger's been putting guys left and right, three
Speaker 1: hundred pounders in the torture rack. That was the big
Speaker 1: thing back then. With Luger, he's just racking fat guys,
Speaker 1: and so they think therefore he's the favorite to win
Speaker 1: it all on the Battle Royal and Nucas. I don't
Speaker 1: know about that. I mean, anything can happened sixty men,
Speaker 1: he says. I do have a good feeling, very very
Speaker 1: strong right now. Chance to bestow him honor take some
Speaker 1: tarnish off what's happening at WCW. I want that shot
Speaker 1: at Hogan really bad, and I'm ready, he says. But
Speaker 1: he did promo from Lex, all things considered. Usually he
Speaker 1: veers off into the you know you can't believe it. Boy,
Speaker 1: he says, cringeness, but he kind of keeps it straight
Speaker 1: and narrow here. He was good foiled in the nWo.
Speaker 2: He just was. They and I've said it for years.
Speaker 2: I've said it for years now. They they built up
Speaker 2: Luger amazingly, Yeah, amazingly. They just had him win. He
Speaker 2: just kept winning on Nitro. It's a simple thing, so simple.
Speaker 2: It's like, you have a guy, you bring him out,
Speaker 2: he fucking wins. Is the guy with the wind at
Speaker 2: his back that got to get behind They didn't necessarily
Speaker 2: like I don't recall him being in a lot of
Speaker 2: a storylines up until around now in the end of
Speaker 2: the year. But you know, after i'd say, you know,
Speaker 2: I guess say once the nWo started, he didn't really
Speaker 2: I don't. I can't think of any major like what
Speaker 2: was he doing.
Speaker 1: He wasn't doing much in ninety six, So that, in
Speaker 1: a weird way, that's the best thing could have happened
Speaker 1: to him. I don't know if that was by design
Speaker 1: or if it was just the way that that it
Speaker 1: ended up, but it worked great in that he was
Speaker 1: able to just just fucking beat jobbers or or or
Speaker 1: you know, lower lower tier wrestlers and.
Speaker 2: Just get over because he's he's winning. It's so simple, Yes,
Speaker 2: it absolutely is, and he's you don't, Yeah, you don't
Speaker 2: need to have a guy do a bunch of different
Speaker 2: like just have him win, have him win every week,
Speaker 2: watch him get over.
Speaker 1: Uh well, not to be and not not tonight at least,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, have mercy. The Psychosis music.
Speaker 2: Man kind of sounds like the kinds sounds like the
Speaker 2: theme for the Larryus Andrews show. Really in a way. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's got a little bit of that vibe.
Speaker 1: And uh, here comes Malinko puns pun Ton.
Speaker 2: Tom Pun definitely definitely pun.
Speaker 1: Malanko over Psychosis. Now for the Cruiserway title. Dean of
Speaker 1: course with a thousand on his trunks and goes to
Speaker 1: the waistlock. Early Dusty says, it's the first time these
Speaker 1: two have competed in the ring, andfully it was the
Speaker 1: last time because this one did not hit. This one
Speaker 1: did not know I did not advised formatting of this matchup.
Speaker 2: Dusty. Uh he talks about both Psychosis and Malanka, which
Speaker 2: you know that. I mean, he ain'ts gonna chime.
Speaker 8: In the bottom line with this young man right here, Psychosis,
Speaker 8: he has opportunity to knock it on his dough.
Speaker 7: Dean Malinko knows more holes.
Speaker 8: Than anybody in the industry ever, period brain Ever, then
Speaker 8: he says he's a man of a thousand holes.
Speaker 7: I did not say it. I don't believe that he,
Speaker 7: I mean knows five thousand holes. That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 6: Oh, I don't think there are five thousand holes in
Speaker 6: the wrestling.
Speaker 7: Actually, well he can come up with four thousand more,
Speaker 7: I'll guarantee you.
Speaker 1: And then he says Psychosis has hair like Peg Bundy.
Speaker 2: It does tremendous, which he does as dimly didn't know,
Speaker 2: especially then with the horn mask. I really it's like
Speaker 2: its psychotic? Is really what? He's a lot? Really?
Speaker 10: Is?
Speaker 2: I mean you're looking at a lot here? Is this
Speaker 2: a parade float? Or is this a wrestler? Yeah? Like
Speaker 2: I mean, is this a is this like a like
Speaker 2: a like an eighties glam rocker or is it a
Speaker 2: fucking you know, clown wearing a mask?
Speaker 18: Like?
Speaker 2: What the fuck's going on here?
Speaker 1: Malinko works a like grape Vine. In this cruiserweight match
Speaker 1: lock up to the waistlock, Regal had gone the time
Speaker 1: limit with Psychosis. They mentioned on w'sw Saturday Night, and
Speaker 1: they predicted that eventually Dean Malinko would capture the WSW
Speaker 1: television title or they say Psychosis will something like that.
Speaker 1: Regal had defeated Dean Malinko over the TV belt, so
Speaker 1: Dean actually went up to TV title contention and then
Speaker 1: came down in wait to rewin the cruise ofweight belt.
Speaker 1: There's a drop toe hold here by Malenko, who's posting
Speaker 1: the ankle with a bit of a grapevine. Then switches
Speaker 1: to the bow and arrow and rolls Psychosis over with
Speaker 1: his arms track in a pinning combination for two, gets
Speaker 1: these high flyers and he grounds them. Tony points out,
Speaker 1: which certainly Dean's role, but it just it wasn't working here.
Speaker 2: I wrote that this match is boring as hell.
Speaker 1: It really is. And you know, I'm not a huge
Speaker 1: it never was a huge Psychosis fan, but I generally speaking,
Speaker 1: given the way that Dean would work with the other Cruiser.
Speaker 2: Weights, I figured this would have been way better for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not everybody is ready to be that foil to
Speaker 1: the style Deane has. You know what it works like
Speaker 1: with Ray, it works, but not every every high flyer
Speaker 1: is capable of getting in and out of their flying
Speaker 1: moves the way you have to when you're wrestling a
Speaker 1: guy like Malenko. So they exchange arm drags and then
Speaker 1: to the wrist lock. Scosis rolls through, grabs his own
Speaker 1: and trips Malenko, who keeps right back up, goes right
Speaker 1: back to work on the arm Ringer and scos kicks off.
Speaker 1: Both go to the canvas and try to keep up
Speaker 1: simultaneously absolute silence. As Dusty guarantees, there have been some
Speaker 1: tape sessions going on with Dean Malinko ahead of this one.
Speaker 1: Dem Milenko has to come back later, along with many others.
Speaker 1: So that was always an underplayed part of World War Three.
Speaker 1: These guys all had matches ahead of time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, it's they don't play up how that
Speaker 2: affects you in about in the least, some of these
Speaker 2: guys should be.
Speaker 1: Protesting the fact that they got to work, so you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. It should be talked about endlessly.
Speaker 1: No one should be picked to win the World War
Speaker 1: three Battle Royal if they had a match earlier in
Speaker 1: the night. Just defies logic. But here we have Heenan
Speaker 1: beating the drum for Malenko. Maybe that's why. But they
Speaker 1: don't have a big enough roster. They don't offer sixty guys. No,
Speaker 1: they got it all hands on deck, especially if Hogan's.
Speaker 2: Not kind of going there. He's not gonna liey fucking
Speaker 2: Mikeino's in there. Fuck absolutely maybe I mean not only
Speaker 2: not only just Hogan, but like you have like you
Speaker 2: don't get half the nWo guys in there.
Speaker 1: No, you don't. And as mentioned in some of the
Speaker 1: reporting it, there's a point in time where plans were
Speaker 1: drawn up to not even have any front buddy in
Speaker 1: the nWo in this Battle Royal, let alone have the
Speaker 1: Giant win it. So clearly things in flux. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: why Dean Malenko had kept such a methodical pace earlier
Speaker 1: in the show against cec Chosis, because he was trying
Speaker 1: to preserve his energy for the Battle Royal. Maybe maybe
Speaker 1: Mico drops to a leg lace, going to work on
Speaker 1: those holes and crowd finding ways to entertain themselves as
Speaker 1: both lay there, literally lay on the man leg lock
Speaker 1: for several minutes. To the knucklelock they go and Malinko
Speaker 1: backflips and picks the leg, comes up with a half
Speaker 1: grab while also grabbing the arm of Sycosis, then sticks
Speaker 1: the knee into the back while pulling, torturing Cecosis back up.
Speaker 1: Psychosis grabs a side headlog push off tackle cover for
Speaker 1: one back up sidestep and Dean Malenko drops down and
Speaker 1: he kicks the back of the leg of Psychosis as
Speaker 1: he's hitting the ropes, and when he does that, you
Speaker 1: take the feeding out. Sircosis flies through the ropes to
Speaker 1: the floor, but he comes up with the spinning heelkick
Speaker 1: and drop to kick that sends Dean Malinko to the outside.
Speaker 1: Socosis then kind of weird, kind of weird whole thing there,
Speaker 1: like it just no sells the move. Yeah, yeah, he
Speaker 1: pretty much.
Speaker 2: Does leco dead and it's like, this is weird covers
Speaker 2: from it. What are you doing? Yeah? What are you doing?
Speaker 19: Man?
Speaker 1: He's trying to get to the spot, reclimbs the ropes
Speaker 1: and tries to dive, and he's in such a rush
Speaker 1: that Sycosis almost slips off the top and ends his life.
Speaker 1: And he comes crashing down uncontrollably, having not launched his
Speaker 1: as designed, and hits the railing. He's in such a rush,
Speaker 1: I wrote to get people to care.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna work. Yeah, yeah, not. Now you know
Speaker 2: what you can't rush to get people to care. They're
Speaker 2: either gonna at this point, they're either gonna care or
Speaker 2: they don't. And guess what psychosis they don't.
Speaker 1: Back in a snap mare and an elbow dropping leg scissors,
Speaker 1: Tony notes Sting is not there during the Hogan contract signing,
Speaker 1: so still not sure what to read into that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Malenko springs off the middle rope and drops a leg
Speaker 1: on tocosis for two. Dean Malinko incidentally definitely a wrestler
Speaker 1: who adjusts his knee pad. Oh absolutely, not all of
Speaker 1: them do it, but man, no one does it more
Speaker 1: than Dean Malenko.
Speaker 2: You got it. Listen, all right, he knows exactly where
Speaker 2: he needs every piece of clothing for support on his body. Yep, exactly,
Speaker 2: So he is not he's not gonna He's not gonna
Speaker 2: fuck around, all right, if if the if the knee
Speaker 2: pad is even a centimeter below where it should be,
Speaker 2: he is going to adjust.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you agree, because I noticed that I thought that, Yes,
Speaker 1: this is quintessential body slamming a half crab by Malanko
Speaker 1: stacks him high with his knee in the back of
Speaker 1: the coasts.
Speaker 2: His head and and uh, Dusty lets us know where
Speaker 2: the pain lies in they modified half crab.
Speaker 7: Yeah, all your ribs exposed?
Speaker 2: Excuse me tell me something I don't the ri are
Speaker 2: you talking about?
Speaker 7: Uh uh uh?
Speaker 2: A psychosisis rib You're talking about the ribs on your
Speaker 2: plate that are all exposed and.
Speaker 8: You pull it on all your hamhocks and that a thing.
Speaker 8: I guarantee you this is a hurting situation.
Speaker 2: Ribs and hamhowks. What's a ham hog? I don't think
Speaker 2: you and I have one?
Speaker 7: Well, it's it's like a gizzard. No, it's like a thigh.
Speaker 7: Why not.
Speaker 2: Wonder to well we know where why not?
Speaker 1: You know where Dusty's mind is at?
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, listen, he's uh, he's gonna he's got a reservation.
Speaker 2: The barbecue plays down the street from from the scope.
Speaker 1: And I'm pretty sure that Bobby he didn't called psychosis psoriasis.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's another luta door. Yeah, platosis viano damien helotope.
Speaker 4: Ye.
Speaker 2: Back up on the web. Dem Lincoln with double under hooks.
Speaker 2: He lifts and power bombs, Yes he does.
Speaker 1: That's very nice. Power bombs up under hooks and that's
Speaker 1: a perfect set of for the clover if he locks
Speaker 1: it up crowd waking up just a bit. As dem
Speaker 1: Milinko steps over and Sikosa scrambles for the ropes, Michael
Speaker 1: works him over in the corner. Randy Ederson actually gets
Speaker 1: Dean to back off Ramona, and then Dean drop kicks
Speaker 1: the knee or on his hawk brain corrects him and says, no,
Speaker 1: it's his ham Tony. Tony says, it's the ham that's
Speaker 1: the thigh. The hawk connects. Forget about it, so deem
Speaker 1: Michael drops an needle leg Heenan says, people boo Dean Milco.
Speaker 1: He does nothing illegal in that ring. He doesn't break
Speaker 1: any rules, so I don't know why they're booing the guy.
Speaker 1: Tony says, he isn't a friendly person, just comes in
Speaker 1: and tries to win matches, and that's it.
Speaker 2: God forbid it.
Speaker 1: He's so funny to watch the steam Malanco and then
Speaker 1: to hear people observe that Dean Milanko is actually one
Speaker 1: of the most deeply unseerious wrestlers to ever occupy a
Speaker 1: locker room. A constant, clown dry sense of humor you've
Speaker 1: ever heard just can't picture it to the floor in Demonlanco.
Speaker 2: No, I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't picture him smile, Lef. I know he just
Speaker 1: seems so good at coming off. Is like drawl and uninspired,
Speaker 1: you know, in a way that you can't picture him.
Speaker 2: That be just a gimmis.
Speaker 1: It's just so focused, so focused, absolutely is. But in
Speaker 1: the back, I'm sure he's always got his cock out
Speaker 1: and like trying to tap people in the head with it.
Speaker 1: So the floor and Malnka rains down an elbow in
Speaker 1: the bad wheel, Dusty says, Dean milnco has got knowledge
Speaker 1: of when to put a guy away. It's a scosis
Speaker 1: is limping like crazy on the floor back up in
Speaker 1: Dean milnkols.
Speaker 2: He still with the company. Malnko is.
Speaker 1: Parkinson's I really do.
Speaker 2: That's really bad. Wow, that's awful. I when did you?
Speaker 2: When did the WV question?
Speaker 1: I think as soon as a w started, I think
Speaker 1: he was on the market.
Speaker 2: I only mentioned because it's kind of interesting to me
Speaker 2: that he hasn't been in a w W game in decades.
Speaker 2: It seems that's a good point.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I can't even excited when he came in in two thousand.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, I thought I thought he was going to
Speaker 1: be a fucking world title You're serious.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, I thought he I loved him so much. I
Speaker 2: thought he was such a fucking beast. I wanted him
Speaker 2: like I always wanted him to get up to that
Speaker 2: level I thought. I thought a program with him and
Speaker 2: Steve Austin would have been absolutely amazing. Really, I never
Speaker 2: saw him as being so small. I never realized how
Speaker 2: small he was because he always was because you can
Speaker 2: just fucking go and he.
Speaker 1: Could hang with you know, heavyweights in WW. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: just mentioned how he wrestled for the TV title before this.
Speaker 2: I really thought he was I was so bummed when
Speaker 2: they made him such a clown because I'm like, this
Speaker 2: is Dean Malenko. This guy was a just He's just
Speaker 2: a fucking machine out there, and I just it was.
Speaker 2: It was a bummer. I was really bummed the beast.
Speaker 1: He said that, Like I can picture it. Austin boots
Speaker 1: him in the gun and goes for the stunner, and
Speaker 1: Malinko counters it with like a flying arm bar, Like
Speaker 1: he's got right some counter to the stunner.
Speaker 2: He would know how to do it, and he'd make
Speaker 2: it look fantastic. But they just fucking I'm even close
Speaker 2: to trying to do that. No, Scottie too haughty. Instead,
Speaker 2: it's like they only had faith, right, they only had
Speaker 2: faith in Ben Wah and Eddie Gerrera. Yeah, and how
Speaker 2: and look at that, and who's the one who's alive to.
Speaker 1: The extent they even did, it took a while on
Speaker 1: those two as well, right, Yeah, they get Ben wat
Speaker 1: strong push in two thousand wrestling Rock and stuff that
Speaker 1: this summer. Eddie busted his elbow right away, so it's
Speaker 1: hard to tell where they would have brought him. But
Speaker 1: you know, they didn't get around to actually making Eddie
Speaker 1: a thing until like three oh four, you know, so
Speaker 1: a thing a single star. So uh, Secosa is limping
Speaker 1: like crazy on the floor is mentioned. Minko drives his
Speaker 1: shoulders into the knee whip out of the corner, up
Speaker 1: for the monkey flip, but Secosas puts some on the
Speaker 1: ropes and Dean Milinko pulls up over with the feet
Speaker 1: under the arms. You know whatever that is the Japanese
Speaker 1: rolling crotch hole thing. Uh, rolling first cradle not a
Speaker 1: crotch hole. I don't where I get that from baseball
Speaker 1: slide missed Secosas with a pump pedal backbreaker on the outside.
Speaker 1: He goes up top and Sores does secosas with a corkscrew.
Speaker 1: Planchia almost lands on the apron as a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: as he's on his way down back. Then Secosis comes
Speaker 1: off the rope with the biguillotine lake drop for two.
Speaker 2: So the last time, the last time deem Malanca was
Speaker 2: in a fucking video game was SmackDown. Just bring it insane,
Speaker 2: it's insane. He's not going to be in the game
Speaker 2: anytime soon, as long as he's an agent.
Speaker 16: No.
Speaker 7: Bike.
Speaker 2: Like, I don't understand why he was not in all
Speaker 2: the games while he was a fucking agent, Like, they
Speaker 2: have so many people who are backstage people in the
Speaker 2: games as long as they're there, Like, what's the deal?
Speaker 2: Great question, He should have been in every fucking game. Agreed,
Speaker 2: there's some wall there for what it is.
Speaker 10: I know.
Speaker 1: So ss gets two with the leg drop.
Speaker 2: Unless he didn't want to give his likeness away, maybe
Speaker 2: that's the case. I doubt that. I doubt it too.
Speaker 1: Drop kicks like cone to the corner and then Milca
Speaker 1: leaps over the buckles and Secosis runs into them. Milaca
Speaker 1: tries to climb the rope, but he gets crotched and
Speaker 1: Dussy says he's drough.
Speaker 2: Is at daddy, you fucking Drowsychosis climbs and snaps off
Speaker 2: a lovely superherokinna for two on Malinko.
Speaker 1: Sycosis's hair is really something else over those bullhorns on
Speaker 1: the mask. I noticed that at this particular point he's
Speaker 1: coming up frizzy from some of this high risk offense.
Speaker 1: And then he lifts Michael for suplex, but Malinko counters
Speaker 1: with an inside cradle for two and Dusty says he
Speaker 1: could have been a cruiser weight two and Tony doubts that.
Speaker 1: He then says, yeah, but your parents were to let
Speaker 1: you wrestle it six months qualified as a cruiserweighted six months.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right.
Speaker 1: Sachosis charges with a Liger Coppo kick and scores with that.
Speaker 1: He then tries a tombstone, but no Malinko reverses, but
Speaker 1: no Sycosis reverses as well. Malenko reverses again. They're going
Speaker 1: back and forth with tombstone threats. Finally Malenko gets the
Speaker 1: upper hand plants him and of course, as we mentioned,
Speaker 1: a cruiserweight tombstone is this nineteen ninety five, ninety six
Speaker 1: as it gets and oh yeah that, oh yeah, it
Speaker 1: gets two Whipped to the corner, Milancho charges into the
Speaker 1: Buddha Ciccosas leaps over Dean Lilnko's back to secosas for
Speaker 1: a school boy ATMP, but that allows Dean Malnco to
Speaker 1: go up into the forementioned Japanese rolling overs cradle. You
Speaker 1: get the one, two, and the three in fourteen minutes
Speaker 1: and thirty three seconds, way too long. Dean Malenko defeats
Speaker 1: for sure, what a I mean awful to retain that
Speaker 1: cruise slides out efficiently, titles handed to him, and Linko's
Speaker 1: job is done. He got the fuck out of there,
Speaker 1: and we hear thenwo music. It's triangle match time for
Speaker 1: the tag team titles, and.
Speaker 2: Here's here we go.
Speaker 1: Scott Hall steps out, tosses the toothpick. He's in all
Speaker 1: red and they got the titles, the right WCW World
Speaker 1: Tag belts, by the way, the ones we need. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a little cutout square on the top, perfect belts, So great,
Speaker 1: so great. Match has his in his hand on around
Speaker 1: his waist and Tony apologizes that they were for walking
Speaker 1: out during Monday nightro as he did when the Outsiders
Speaker 1: were running rampant. But he's not going to stand by,
Speaker 1: Tony says, and let these two guys push him around.
Speaker 1: So the announcers are taking no chances at all. Peep
Speaker 1: the classic outsider shirt, that one with the big photo
Speaker 1: portrait logo on the front. Yep, I mean that one
Speaker 1: will say nineties forever, oh yes, oh yes, and a
Speaker 1: big come back. And because it looks like because it
Speaker 1: looks like a shirt that someone made in their fucking garage.
Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't look like a real shirt. It
Speaker 1: looks so kind of because it's got that it's got
Speaker 1: font that someone who thought they were being cool would
Speaker 1: put on. Yes, you know, it's not like professional looking
Speaker 1: font in. The ad campaign for this shirt had plenty
Speaker 1: of cool as well.
Speaker 15: The following announcement has been paid for by the New
Speaker 15: World Order.
Speaker 7: Son is awareless their outside of it. The t shirts
Speaker 7: wear the shirt backwards.
Speaker 2: Twenty bucks seats or two for forty if you buy
Speaker 2: a million of them, it's only twenty million dollars, sir.
Speaker 15: The preceding announcement has been paid for by the New
Speaker 15: World Order.
Speaker 1: Buy the shirt, remember that, buy a shirt, but I
Speaker 1: do like one for twenty two for forty that's great. Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: so there they come h Nasty Boys out has tape
Speaker 1: on his head. They charged the ring and r underway
Speaker 1: for the tag belts at the Outsiders versus the Nasty
Speaker 1: Boys versus the Faces of Fear of Mainging the Barbarian
Speaker 1: here in a triangle tag which means what three wrestlers, No,
Speaker 1: two wrestlers in the ring at once, one whole team
Speaker 1: on the apron and you just tag whoever you want
Speaker 1: and it's pretty stupid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the rules. I thought it was actually three
Speaker 2: in the ring, though, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: No, I don't know, no, because there's that moment where
Speaker 1: they tag National Hall at the same time and they
Speaker 1: both have to come in and fight each other because
Speaker 1: they're both on the ape whatever. So SAgs it's right
Speaker 1: and Nash goes up and over over the right hand
Speaker 1: knobs is all over Scott Hall again. It's just real
Speaker 1: chaos seeming to rain in this matchup. Fists are absolutely
Speaker 1: flying in discriminately.
Speaker 19: Well.
Speaker 1: The music is still playing snubbed by the nWo where
Speaker 1: the Nasty Boys were told on commentary and again I
Speaker 1: remember thinking they would actually join up and then said
Speaker 1: the patch on the side of Brian Nobb's head.
Speaker 2: His brain donor. That's what it means.
Speaker 1: Make a Barbarian step out with Jimmy Hart who is
Speaker 1: the manager, and they meet the outsiders in the Isleway
Speaker 1: and have a big brawl. Everybody's on Holland Nash. The
Speaker 1: Nasty say they wanted to be with both w CW
Speaker 1: and the nWo, but got thrown out of consideration really
Speaker 1: from both.
Speaker 2: Nobody nobody right, nobody wants them to hit part of it.
Speaker 2: So really, what are they fucking free agents?
Speaker 1: Is that what they said?
Speaker 2: Backing around? I got no no contract with either fucking organization.
Speaker 2: Gratis non gratta whatever. How do you feel? You know,
Speaker 2: Barbarian is always thought of being in the powers of pain, right,
Speaker 2: that's what everyone kind of equates. But he and Mang
Speaker 2: were teamed together about the same amount of time. Absolute, Yeah,
Speaker 2: I think that's but they all it's always fucking you know,
Speaker 2: the feces of fear is uh, you know, never like
Speaker 2: you think of Barbarian as being powers of pain more.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't. I don't think of as much.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Yeah, I actually think this is like
Speaker 1: kind of him reduced down to his essence in this
Speaker 1: phases of fear, right, right, the Powers of Pain had
Speaker 1: it was all wrapped up in like the phony Road
Speaker 1: Warriors road you know, paint. It was just like their
Speaker 1: effective team. But it was kind of like just a
Speaker 1: ripoff thing.
Speaker 2: It was just derivative, right, I mean literally more so
Speaker 2: than Demolition. More so I always think, and I when
Speaker 2: when when you had Demolition, you know, in at the
Speaker 2: same time as Powers of Pain, It's like, well, wait
Speaker 2: a minute, right, Like Powers of Pain have the exact
Speaker 2: same fucking haircuts, right.
Speaker 1: That that's what really did it is they had the mohawks.
Speaker 2: Right, and and you know obviously Demolition had the face
Speaker 2: paint and spikes, but that's it. It's only how face
Speaker 2: paint and spikes. Other than that, the Powers of Pain
Speaker 2: much more Road Warriors than Demolish Greed there for sure.
Speaker 1: So the tonguans and knobs are just throwing like crazy
Speaker 1: and the Barbarian barges knobs to the canvas on the
Speaker 1: charge hull a nash out of the fray at Ringside.
Speaker 1: Early on, they're not stepping in the middle of this,
Speaker 1: Dusty points out. A skeleton on Jimmy Hart's arm is glowing.
Speaker 1: That's innovation, Dusty says. He likes the outfit nasties, uh
Speaker 1: do his shoulder tackle down goes Barbarian for it two
Speaker 1: called Barbarian ball bearing. I don't know who called him
Speaker 1: ball bearing, somebody did. I wrote it down. Knobs, missus
Speaker 1: nelbow dropping, the faces of fear just both go nuts
Speaker 1: on the guys. Kind of awesome. Actually, how they would
Speaker 1: just start winging these windmill punches.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean they gotta do something to make themselves
Speaker 2: stand out, honestly. And there's meng throwing, if there's if
Speaker 2: there's this heat going on between the nasties and and
Speaker 2: the outsiders, you know, like, well, where are we fucking
Speaker 2: fix exactly? The guys on us mang throwing knees and
Speaker 2: Brian Knobbs is fighting for his life in there. It
Speaker 2: looks like Nash laughing his ass off. He pantomimes like
Speaker 2: he's taking a drag off a cigarette and enjoying this
Speaker 2: whole thing playing out.
Speaker 1: Megan Knobs mixing it up. Men kills Knobs with hilariot
Speaker 1: and Knobs makes a hilarious face like he did not
Speaker 1: see that coming.
Speaker 2: U probably didn't, Probably didn't.
Speaker 1: Nash then blind tags in off Meng and goes to
Speaker 1: work on Knobs with knees in the corner and comes
Speaker 1: Scott Hall, throwing punches as only he can. I mean,
Speaker 1: we got to pay tribute to the Scott Hall punches.
Speaker 2: Nothing, the the the wide swing snap punches are fent yep,
Speaker 2: it's fantastic.
Speaker 1: Fantastic and he definitely brought it to w CW. He
Speaker 1: messes a bit with Ming two to Scott Hall. Ming
Speaker 1: comes in and chops him and knocks him down and
Speaker 1: Knobs is calling out Nash and Nash tags Meng. Nash
Speaker 1: then sends Nobs into the corner with the back elbow
Speaker 1: on the charge. Nash then tags Mang stumbling backwards. It's
Speaker 1: kind of weird, It's kind of disjointed. It's like it's
Speaker 1: I I say, it's very sloppy.
Speaker 2: And I think you're right that these personal issues kind
Speaker 2: of took precedence over the rest of the of the
Speaker 2: thing and and it affected the match negatively.
Speaker 1: Cohesais guys just you know, right, because because you got two,
Speaker 1: you get four guys who are more preoccupied with their
Speaker 1: own shit then, you know, and then you got two
Speaker 1: guys that are just trying to have a fucking match,
Speaker 1: and they're trying to swallow up camera time the fear with.
Speaker 2: A double team. Yeah we get.
Speaker 1: Tony brings up the the personal issue is between the
Speaker 1: nasties and he says, I worked down the faces of
Speaker 1: fear in the Outso so there you go. I don't understand,
Speaker 1: but anyway, and there's something.
Speaker 7: Personal going on here. You kidding me with Kevin Nash
Speaker 7: and Jerry Sacks.
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 6: The personal stems back from the chair that SAgs got
Speaker 6: in the head. It is last Monday at night, Troup,
Speaker 6: we went to the hospital short.
Speaker 1: It, I mean that was a shoot though. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: blind tag by Holly comes in slugging on Barbarian. You
Speaker 1: want some Hall shouting. Barb grabs the throat and muscles
Speaker 1: Haul in the corner and an Irish whipon Hall hits
Speaker 1: in the barge lands and Hall is shoved down to
Speaker 1: the bat. Barbarian then slams Scott Hall, and Tag's mang
Speaker 1: who comes in and drops him with a chop stomps
Speaker 1: the crotch as well. Dusty calls at an early Christmas
Speaker 1: present for Scott Hall. There he goes Scott, although it
Speaker 1: comes back by poking the eyes and tags Knobs, who
Speaker 1: comes in lunging SAgs is in and goes soaring over
Speaker 1: to the corner, just jumping at his target and hanging
Speaker 1: out a bit with the ref and they're throwing at
Speaker 1: each other, getting serious in there, six way clubbing right here,
Speaker 1: Dusty declares at.
Speaker 2: World War One. I believe he also follows up.
Speaker 8: With that's the greatest clubber in the game right there.
Speaker 7: The masters of the clubbers.
Speaker 2: Are the club masters of the take an ecstasy. I forget.
Speaker 1: Jerry SAgs is Dusty's brother in law, so he's uh
Speaker 1: lit extra animated to put him over. Yeah, And then Tony.
Speaker 2: Says, imagine, I mean, what can you imagine? Like like,
Speaker 2: now your brother in law is a nasty boy, that
Speaker 2: fucking haircut and no teeth and.
Speaker 1: Faber's sister, oh and his.
Speaker 2: Mom, and how happy that guy was right uh um
Speaker 2: Ringer's roost, Like he was so excited to introduce us
Speaker 2: to them. We would mark out for Jerry Sagg's sister
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I just want to eat. Hey, hey,
Speaker 2: I just want to eat. What's up? Look?
Speaker 1: I found Look who's here? Okay, yeah I got this.
Speaker 1: I got this this BLT wrap here I'm working on.
Speaker 2: I know, Yeah, I'm looking at my food right now.
Speaker 2: But who you got over here? Oh? It's the SAgs,
Speaker 2: the SAgs fan SAgs. SAgs is great, George Washington Motor
Speaker 2: Lodge in mind if I like, ignore you and eat
Speaker 2: real so I can go leave as fast as possible
Speaker 2: as these group in one of those never ending things
Speaker 2: like it just Oh, I honestly, I almost felt like
Speaker 2: we're gonna be kiddeaed for sure. You started looking for
Speaker 2: the exits, start casing the joint immediately, Gary harding the place.
Speaker 1: So as these group brawls are breaking out, Tony says,
Speaker 1: it's almost like a school, almost like a scrum, and
Speaker 1: Dusty says, what name did you call me? SAgs comes
Speaker 1: in and pile drives Barbarian because fuck it. As Dusty
Speaker 1: clarifies the rules and Tony mocks him for not know
Speaker 1: going fifteen minutes in that he doesn't actually know how
Speaker 1: you win a triangle match in Wcwright. SAgs then tags
Speaker 1: Nash and Nash goes after him. When he turns his
Speaker 1: back on him, Barbarian comes in. Tony references again the
Speaker 1: chair shot like you just played from Nitro. Barbarian sends
Speaker 1: Nash to the corner. It's a boot up and he
Speaker 1: cuts him down with that falling lariat does Kevin Nash.
Speaker 1: He covers the for two as Men breaks up the
Speaker 1: cover nasties and sting in Piper. Those were the ones
Speaker 1: that were on their own, not nWo or wwfiliated forgot
Speaker 1: to tuck DDP in there as well. Nash lifts and
Speaker 1: dumps Barbarian with a sidewalk slam, leading to another save
Speaker 1: by Meng on the cover at tack to Scott Hall,
Speaker 1: who comes right in and held open to the hits
Speaker 1: a right hand to the held open gut to the corner.
Speaker 1: Hall hits a close line and hard rights to the corner.
Speaker 1: Barbarian now chopping away as Nash nails Barbarian from the apron,
Speaker 1: Men comes in and backsup Lexis Scott Hall for a
Speaker 1: two count. Confusion reigns because Men and Barbarian had both
Speaker 1: been tagged and they thought they had to face off
Speaker 1: against each other, and instead of just doing that, instead
Speaker 1: of having to wrestle each other, Meng just tags knobs
Speaker 1: and avoids the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Later.
Speaker 1: However, what Hall and Nash find themselves in a similar
Speaker 1: predicament The rest of the field is smart. They drop
Speaker 1: down from the apron, so they can't yeah tag their
Speaker 1: way out of having to fight each other. But then,
Speaker 1: of course the outsiders outsmart the whole thing not to
Speaker 1: jump front run this and we'll explain why and how
Speaker 1: in a minute. So there's a lock up. They grunt
Speaker 1: and grown Knobs runs Barbarian into the corner. SAgs come
Speaker 1: in and they double team Barbarian, the greatest clubren in
Speaker 1: the game. Like you said, SAgs drops a leg to
Speaker 1: the crotch of Barbarian and Knobs splashes the leg.
Speaker 2: It's just so messy, it's sloppy, it's you know, it's
Speaker 2: it's like it's like almost in a way, halland Nash
Speaker 2: dead weight to the entire match.
Speaker 1: Interesting, you know, yeah, they kind of they kind of
Speaker 1: threw the vibes off, you know. It's like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: almost like everyone's more paranoid of being outshined by the
Speaker 1: outsiders than they are having a match, right, all blind sides,
Speaker 1: Knobs tag gets an works over the ankle of it.
Speaker 1: Dusty decides to go in this whole thing about how
Speaker 1: the task Master has a plan for the World War
Speaker 1: three Battle Royal. He all of a sudden starts emphasizing
Speaker 1: Kevin Sullivan, his old buddy from Florida, and he said
Speaker 1: he forgot to mention it earlier. He wanted to say it.
Speaker 2: He then says, well, good, now you can throw it
Speaker 2: out now you said it.
Speaker 1: So Hall gets dropped. He tags in. Nash tagged him
Speaker 1: Meng as well, who charges in headlong and they just
Speaker 1: are throwing in close quarters. You got to see this
Speaker 1: battle between Kevin Nash and Meng Man.
Speaker 2: No one's giving an inch.
Speaker 1: Whipped to the corner and Nash kills Meng with a
Speaker 1: charging clothes line, a body slam and an elbow drop,
Speaker 1: but that misses and Knobs gets blind tag Dan. Gotta
Speaker 1: love how long Knobs growls before doing anything in the
Speaker 1: wrestling ring. Yep, minutes of growling. Confusion, of course is
Speaker 1: now as you would expect on commentary, run who's actually
Speaker 1: legal in this thing? As Barbarian gets cornered and SAgs
Speaker 1: comes with the front back breaker gets a count of one.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't the outsiders run in to stop that? Cover
Speaker 1: that their titles are slipping through their fingers and they're
Speaker 1: just watching it. Knobs is backed into the faces of
Speaker 1: fear corner and with a huge pile driver on Brian Knobbs.
Speaker 1: SAgs breaks up the cover tag to SAgs, who has
Speaker 1: Meng on him, some corner chops and an Irish whipon.
Speaker 1: Jerry Saggs goes over to the Outsiders corner and gets
Speaker 1: barged big time, taged to Hall and here we go
Speaker 1: Haul clip in the face. It's Scott Hall versus Jerry SAgs.
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen watch closely. SAgs picks up Hal and
Speaker 1: atomic drops him and then a huge low bro low
Speaker 1: blow right in referee Mark Curtis's face, and he does
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing about it. Of course, it all collapses and
Speaker 1: tags Meng at the last second as he's going down
Speaker 1: in agony, Meng pops Knobs right in the gut stand
Speaker 1: off with Megan Knobs. All this activity suddenly calms write
Speaker 1: the fuck down as if someone had pulled the Jenga
Speaker 1: piece out of this matchup. And they both what they're
Speaker 1: doing is they're both deciding we have to stop fighting
Speaker 1: each other, the nasties and the faces of fear. We
Speaker 1: need to get the outsiders pitted against each other so
Speaker 1: they're gonna out smart the outsiders. They both lunge and
Speaker 1: tag Haul and Nash, and now they have to wrestle
Speaker 1: each other. The crowd pops in realization of what this means,
Speaker 1: and very quickly Tony picks this up and says, wait
Speaker 1: a second, they can rest each other, but if they
Speaker 1: just lay down and one pins the other, they keep
Speaker 1: the titles and win the match. Yeah, this wasn't the
Speaker 1: brilliant plan that the Nasties thought it was. Leave it
Speaker 1: up to the Nasties to come up with, I know,
Speaker 1: like the most obvious downside ever of a master plan.
Speaker 1: I mean, like you know, that's that's the thing, Like
Speaker 1: they don't think shit through close. So they do that
Speaker 1: that they drop down from the apron, do the faces
Speaker 1: of fear in the Nasty so they can't tag out
Speaker 1: Halla nash That gets a big pop when they do that,
Speaker 1: But then Nashli says, fuck this and it's the original
Speaker 1: fingerpoke of doom.
Speaker 2: He lays flat. I honestly think like this should have
Speaker 2: been We never would have stopped, We never would have
Speaker 2: forgotten it if they pulled it off. Yep.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it wouldn't have been good from a
Speaker 1: spectator perspective, but it would have been novel. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, it's memorable because absolutely they outsmarted
Speaker 1: everybody that's like, you should do that. They should have
Speaker 1: done it, but instead Hall covers him, and the Nasties
Speaker 1: run in and realize that they're fucking is holding up
Speaker 1: and stop the stop the cover. And he didn't likes it.
Speaker 1: He says, I've never seen anything like this, and you
Speaker 1: can tell he kind of genuinely means it, as knob said,
Speaker 1: digs his head into Nash's crotch. Jimmy Hart gets up
Speaker 1: up in the apron and gets nailed, and then Menga's
Speaker 1: backdropped out of the ring and here comes Scott Hall
Speaker 1: with the megaphone of Jimmy Hart nails Briannobbs in the
Speaker 1: head with it, and that sets up Kevin Nash hooking
Speaker 1: up the jackknife power bomb on Brian Knobbs. Way up
Speaker 1: into the lights, he hits the canvas hard one, two three.
Speaker 1: The Outsiders defeat the Faces of Fear in the Nasty
Speaker 1: Boys sixteen eleven in a triangle tag match here to
Speaker 1: retain the Belts at World War three nineteen ninety six.
Speaker 1: Dusty says he's going to join something, but then he says,
Speaker 1: not yet. I don't know who's talking about. There. I
Speaker 1: guess he means himself, and he would eventually join the nWo.
Speaker 1: So the outsiders suck and wind up the aisle. Welcome
Speaker 1: to WCW. They here fucking spent and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: hard out here for him for a little while. And
Speaker 1: then here we go, ready for the big three ring
Speaker 1: battle Royal Tony and Heenan and Dusty the ringside, deciding
Speaker 1: he'll get the title shot, and Heenan keeps putting over
Speaker 1: Dee Malenko as his favorite to win. Says he's got
Speaker 1: the size to not get tossed out of the ring.
Speaker 1: That's interesting, claiming that small stature is an advantage in
Speaker 1: a battle. Royal, I haven't heard that one before. Dusty says,
Speaker 1: home kind of makes sensely, they're more nimble, they can
Speaker 1: hide more, they can they can just lay on the
Speaker 1: mat and clutch the ropes, you know, get out of dodge.
Speaker 1: Dusty says, Hogan and Piper goes deeper than the nWo
Speaker 1: and Eric Bischoff and all that and bad hip or no,
Speaker 1: it is the fight of the century coming up between
Speaker 1: those two. Dusty then leaves Tony Shiovanni and Bobby Heenan
Speaker 1: because he's going to pair up with Mike Tiney in
Speaker 1: a different ring, Lee Marshall and Larry'sibisco in Ring number three.
Speaker 1: Lee Marshall fully turtlenecked as you would expect. Oh yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, just covering up as best he
Speaker 1: can because he's ready to fucking drop Trout at any moment.
Speaker 2: Absolutely. But he he talks about where vlarry about a match.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, listen to him go here.
Speaker 2: He talks about Benjan Sullivan and I mean it sounds
Speaker 2: like he's talking about the Great American Bash Match. I
Speaker 2: think he might be there talking about a house show
Speaker 2: they had the night performed ball in another one.
Speaker 18: Oh why dude, that match between the task Master Kevin
Speaker 18: Sullivan and the Canadian crippler Chris Banhi And as we knew,
Speaker 18: it was going to go all over the building and
Speaker 18: it did. It wound up in the bathroom where the
Speaker 18: Dungeon of June lad In ambush And I gotta tell
Speaker 18: you what they did to Chris Benoir you just wouldn't believe.
Speaker 18: And I think that tonight something more is going to
Speaker 18: happen between the Horsemen and the Dungeon.
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Speaker 1: For some reason, they decided to set up this whole
Speaker 1: thing where the Horseman Brawl don't even get in the ring.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it's weird, like I don't why.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I can only guess because they were trying to minimize
Speaker 1: crowding the ring so much, and that gives people, That
Speaker 1: gives the camera folks something you know, in the truck
Speaker 1: to focus on. Besides, you know, three rings completely filled
Speaker 1: and nothing happening. Yeah, they can just have this diversion
Speaker 1: of brawls in the outside. They even I don't know
Speaker 1: if Ben Wah got a black eye or what or
Speaker 1: they made them up to look like you got a
Speaker 1: black eye. But yeah, they' don'e a how show in
Speaker 1: Baltimore the night before where you know, it was a
Speaker 1: reprise of the Sullivan Ben Wah Bathroom Brawl American Bash.
Speaker 1: Then this program must continue, So to ring one, we
Speaker 1: go to Nay and Rhodes today says there is a
Speaker 1: tension backstage and Lee is clearing his throat on the
Speaker 1: hot mic is, Dusty says that Kanan looks good to
Speaker 1: him as a potential winner of World War three, and
Speaker 1: he also says, you got to go with Luga. The
Speaker 1: mindset is on sting though, so even though Luger has
Speaker 1: the on paper advantages, he believes the task Master has
Speaker 1: laid out a plan. Dusty believes this to really get
Speaker 1: this thing going ick and dream.
Speaker 7: I'll tell you what I Mike.
Speaker 8: You know the situation that the importance of this situation
Speaker 8: is the smaller guy, the cruise away. We know how
Speaker 8: great they are and what they've meant to WCW. I
Speaker 8: don't know what kind of chance they stand in with
Speaker 8: all these big guys except stand Away and everything. Koonad
Speaker 8: looks good to me. Luga looks good to me in
Speaker 8: this situation right here, because he's coming off a real
Speaker 8: power of thing. But if Luca's mind sent is on sting,
Speaker 8: I don't know if he could get it done. But
Speaker 8: bottom line two, Mike, is that I believe the task
Speaker 8: Master has laid out a plan maybe to get this
Speaker 8: thing going. Then it's going to throw that triangle to
Speaker 8: the most devastating thing that we have seen with a pipe,
Speaker 8: a fine in and everything in.
Speaker 1: A like what what Yeah, that's why I played it.
Speaker 1: I mean, oh my god. He just starts naming things
Speaker 1: that cross his mind. He says mind sent instead of mindset.
Speaker 1: He says Conat instead of Conan, which is actually kind
Speaker 1: of funny. Uh So Lee Marshall likes Kevin Nash in
Speaker 1: this thing, and does Abisco reluctantly picks lex Luger, duss
Speaker 1: he's going with Lexa Conan. Tonay picks Luger, and of
Speaker 1: course Bobby Heeneim with Dean Malenko. Tony Shavanni because he
Speaker 1: knows the fucking script picks the giant. So that's can't
Speaker 1: amount to Russo picking Brett Hart to win the ninety
Speaker 1: seven Rumble on Live Wire. Yeah right, So they're showing
Speaker 1: all the names on the screen scrolling and Lou Grenetti
Speaker 1: the first to step out, and there's Tony Rumble. There
Speaker 1: is Tony Rumble in a fucking Drew Bledsoe Patriots jersey
Speaker 1: in case you forgot it was nineteen ninety six pre
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, and he is he looks like a guy
Speaker 1: who's having a barbecue in Woolburn on a Saturday in October. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: he's got a fucking bandana on and blessed the man.
Speaker 1: He was a promoter in New England, an Indian promoter
Speaker 1: in New England who booked Kevin Sullivan on Indies all
Speaker 1: the time. A fellow Boston boy and real named Anthony Magliaro,
Speaker 1: he passed away untimely, aged forty three, just two years
Speaker 1: after a pardon three years after this World War three
Speaker 1: matchup on November sixteenth, nineteen ninety nine. Here's his obituary
Speaker 1: from the Boston Herald. Anthony D. Magliario, overvia professional wrestler,
Speaker 1: died of a heart attack Saturday at the Wooden Memorial
Speaker 1: Hospital in Everett.
Speaker 2: He was forty three.
Speaker 1: Born in Boston, mister mcgario, aka the Boston bad Boy
Speaker 1: Tony Rumble achieved his first national exposure as a wrestler
Speaker 1: with International Championship Wrestling. So he goes back to the
Speaker 1: savoldi ICW.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: He went on to become talent coordinator and producer of
Speaker 1: the company's nationally syndicated television show and later worked for ECW.
Speaker 1: He also appeared several times on WCW. He stated the
Speaker 1: Century he started rather the Century Wrestling Alliance in nineteen
Speaker 1: eighty nine, and again promoting events regularly in nineteen ninety three,
Speaker 1: when he met Cable Axis television producer Pat Doyle to
Speaker 1: get of course the guy named Pat Doyle is involved.
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on listen. Oh yeah, I know. We're very
Speaker 2: good with the that's the market. Yeah yeah, Look, we
Speaker 2: were very good with the greater Boston market. Yeah, especially
Speaker 2: the Turkey. I do like the Turkey.
Speaker 1: Conva Sama together, very good, very good there. I don't
Speaker 1: know why they named it after Cava, but I would
Speaker 1: name I would name it after Plumouth. I mean that's
Speaker 1: the thing. They have a cava in Cava.
Speaker 2: Now to get you really got a common cover? You
Speaker 2: have that, huh yeah yeah, Now listen, I'll tell you
Speaker 2: we get the We got great options here regarding the
Speaker 2: account of public access you know, television. I'll tell you
Speaker 2: we you know, we we are without a doubt. I
Speaker 2: can tell you, I can tell you this with a
Speaker 2: you know, without without without any kind of lie, that
Speaker 2: we are as big of a station as w CBB
Speaker 2: easily and on Channel five G you know, we got
Speaker 2: we got the same uh you know, I'll say even
Speaker 2: we have better uh you know, studio equipment. Then they
Speaker 2: got over Channel five. Absolutely, you know, I mean we
Speaker 2: have public access, so I think, you know, it's a
Speaker 2: good option for you. Together.
Speaker 1: They pretend used a long running cable access program that
Speaker 1: at nine ninety seven became the New England representative of
Speaker 1: the National Wrestling Alliance. Yeah, when the nw A was
Speaker 1: kind of revitalized. I guess you could say when Dan
Speaker 1: Severn was champed in the late nineties. Yeah, they were
Speaker 1: an affiliate, all right.
Speaker 2: I love that. He's you know, he was billed from
Speaker 2: the Combat Zone. Was he in Boston? Yes, that's fucking amazing.
Speaker 1: The same year the company became known as NBA New
Speaker 1: England Pro Wrestling I remember that, and ran close to
Speaker 1: thirty live events throughout New England. He survived by his wife,
Speaker 1: two daughters, and a grandson, several uncles and cousins, and
Speaker 1: and here's a piece from Sheldon Goldberg, who was a
Speaker 1: longtime promoter of New England Championship Wrestling. A lot of
Speaker 1: big stars like Yoursina's and Sasha Banks and others who
Speaker 1: came from the area, and he Edwards and others passed
Speaker 1: through his his circuit, and he was close with Tony
Speaker 1: Brumble and he wrote this on November thirteenth, two thousand
Speaker 1: and six. It was seven years ago today that the
Speaker 1: Boston Bad Boy died suddenly of a massive heart attack.
Speaker 1: Most wrestling fans would have been familiar with Rumble from
Speaker 1: his hosting of Marius of Oldie's Old ICW later ic
Speaker 1: CW Boss.
Speaker 2: Hey there we go. Give me that the international world class.
Speaker 2: That is the circuit of him, like being an international
Speaker 2: world That's always the best part.
Speaker 1: TV shows around these parts. Tony Rumble Sheldon Wrights was
Speaker 1: the owner and promoter of the Century Wrestling Alliance later
Speaker 1: become NWA New England. His exposure on the ICW slash
Speaker 1: ICCW shows made him something of a local celebrity. He
Speaker 1: was street smart as opposed to book smart, and a
Speaker 1: tremendously effective promoter the CWANWA New England that dominated the area.
Speaker 1: As far as local promotion goes, Rumble had a knack
Speaker 1: of being able to pick up sold shows, events where
Speaker 1: a school or organization would buy the event for a
Speaker 1: set price and then promote events off of the sold show.
Speaker 2: While he was never what.
Speaker 1: You'd call wealthy or even well off, he did make
Speaker 1: a living from wrestling during much of the last five
Speaker 1: years of his life. At its best, Cwanwa, New England
Speaker 1: was a collection of top national and even some occasional
Speaker 1: international stars and some interesting local talent. Rumble also had
Speaker 1: what he called his whack pack guys who were there
Speaker 1: just to be amusing or entertaining. They gave the promotion
Speaker 1: any character, much like Rumble himself. Rumblell's friendships with the
Speaker 1: likes of Jim Cornett and Kevin Sullivan put the promotion
Speaker 1: in a very unique place in the late nineties, before
Speaker 1: the beginning of developmental territories that ww uses now. Rumbell
Speaker 1: was one of those few who had the ear of
Speaker 1: decision makers in then WWF and WCW. Marumble was also
Speaker 1: still friendly with FORMERCW protegees like Taz and Tommy Dreamer,
Speaker 1: as well as Paul Haman. In New England, Rumble dominated
Speaker 1: the local scenes such as it was at the time.
Speaker 1: In fact, Onwa New England was really the first quote
Speaker 1: unquote serious independent promotion in the region. The company had
Speaker 1: a cable access TV show called Mass Madness. I remember
Speaker 1: that we're hearing about it, I didn't watch it. Produced
Speaker 1: by a bright, young cable access producer named Pat Doyle.
Speaker 1: The production was fairly high quality for its time, and
Speaker 1: the shows had everything from great wrestling with top talent
Speaker 1: to funny wrap around segments. The show eventually made its
Speaker 1: way onto broadcast TV on an independent UHF station out
Speaker 1: of Derry, New Hampshire.
Speaker 2: Hey There Were.
Speaker 1: Show used a different format in broadcast TV and lasted
Speaker 1: sixteen weeks before the station wanted to change the deal
Speaker 1: and get paid for the show. A local car dealership,
Speaker 1: Atlantic Toyota, had agreed to sponsor the show, but pulled
Speaker 1: out at the last minute. It was a hard blow
Speaker 1: to Rumble, who passed away a few weeks later. Those
Speaker 1: who knew him remember him fondly. They remember him as
Speaker 1: a mentor who gave people a chance to perform who
Speaker 1: had never otherwise had that chance. He helped a lot
Speaker 1: of guys get into the national spotlight. He was larger
Speaker 1: than life character, always fun to be around, and quick
Speaker 1: with a great story. But the real person behind Tony
Speaker 1: Rumble was a lot more complex. Anthony David Maglio street
Speaker 1: kid whose parents died young. They had a lot of
Speaker 1: difficult childhood and life began in life with few bright spots.
Speaker 2: Come on, let's get it.
Speaker 1: One of Tony's joys as a boy were the monthly
Speaker 1: wrestling shows of the old Boston Garden. At a Garden
Speaker 1: show in nineteen sixty six, Brunoso Martino and Guerrilla Mond
Speaker 1: soon had a match with a ring broke in the
Speaker 1: middle of the match. It was the moment that Tony
Speaker 1: decided he wanted to be a wrestler, and years later
Speaker 1: he fulfilled that dream. He eventually took on the persona
Speaker 1: of the Boston bad Boy Tony Rumble, and that was
Speaker 1: when Tony's life really began. We began close friends over
Speaker 1: the last six years of his life. He loved wrestling
Speaker 1: with all his heart, as did his wife Ellen, their children,
Speaker 1: and his first grandson Hunter. Tony's sudden death through the
Speaker 1: New England wrestling scene inst at Turmoil Rumble was an
Speaker 1: irreplaceable commodity. His widow tried to put the promotion in
Speaker 1: hands that would continue the business, but they were to
Speaker 1: the wrong people for the job. Sheldon Goildberg writes, the
Speaker 1: solid business that Tony had built over six years and
Speaker 1: a half years crumbled within six months. Eventually, Tony's widow
Speaker 1: turned the operation over to Jason Delgata, who had wrestled
Speaker 1: Friend of Being New England as Jason Rage at the
Speaker 1: urgin of Ellen Melgalo, Jason radge I became Jason Rumble,
Speaker 1: the son of Tony quote unquote son. While Jason was
Speaker 1: no relation to Tony in real life, that promotion did
Speaker 1: continue under his direction, but Jason did not have the
Speaker 1: experience as either a wrestler or a businessman to be
Speaker 1: effective in either role. With Tony gone, it was inevitable.
Speaker 1: Sheldon writes that other promotions would spring up and try
Speaker 1: to occupy the same place a hall, and it held
Speaker 1: on the New England scene. By the time of his death,
Speaker 1: the business was changing rapidly. The SOULD shows became more
Speaker 1: difficult to get, and the ability to book top names
Speaker 1: from WWF andwcw dride up. It became clear, at least
Speaker 1: to me, that the region called for a different model
Speaker 1: for doing business. To try and imitate what Tony did
Speaker 1: would be impossible because so much of it worked because
Speaker 1: of him and his personality. I think about Tony Rumble
Speaker 1: every single day. He was one of those characters that
Speaker 1: simply don't exist anymore and probably never will again. And
Speaker 1: while I am sad that he is not here to
Speaker 1: lend his streetwise wisdom, humor and love to this world.
Speaker 1: I pray that he is happy wherever he is now,
Speaker 1: Rest in peace, my friend, Tony Rumble. I mean, can't
Speaker 1: be that happy he's dead. Oh I know, it can
Speaker 1: only be so happy. But there he is in the
Speaker 1: World War three for fifteen seconds.
Speaker 2: So he uh. In nineteen ninety four, he was reigned
Speaker 2: two fifty seven in the PWY five hundred, like he broke.
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess he was in the lower of
Speaker 2: the the you know, the lower two fifty. But that's
Speaker 2: wild that he's even up there.
Speaker 1: He was one of those standout promoters, like you knew
Speaker 1: him and associated him with running this part of the country,
Speaker 1: and uh yeah, I remember him being around and a
Speaker 1: lot of difference towards him, I believe. I think it's
Speaker 1: the Secrets of Pro Wrestling revealed one of those Late Nights.
Speaker 1: I know Sheldon was on that one one of those
Speaker 1: late nineties ones kind of like try to stand hell
Speaker 1: to take you into like what it's like to book wrestling,
Speaker 1: And they show Sheldon in an office and they're sitting
Speaker 1: around talk about who's gonna win and lose, and Tony
Speaker 1: rumbles in that too. For those who might remember that
Speaker 1: what segment I'm talking about. All Right, all right, boys,
Speaker 1: watch the screw totally. I remember Sheldon Goldberg saying it's
Speaker 1: tantamount to like adults being able to play with their
Speaker 1: action figures, sitting around and deciding who's gonna win. Exactly
Speaker 1: what it is, exactly what it nailed it, He nailed it.
Speaker 1: Shout outs to Sheldon, Yeah, this is this gonna be
Speaker 1: a work or a shoot question? These are the questions
Speaker 1: we have here. We gotta figure out whether or not
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a work or a shoot. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't care which way we go either way.
Speaker 1: Count me out into many of Sheldon's shows and saw
Speaker 1: them all over the years. DDP Chaos, Robbie Rage, the
Speaker 1: other half of my voltage. This is the entrance order here.
Speaker 1: Michael wall Street, Marcus Bagwell, Scottie Briggs, Craig Pittman, Booker,
Speaker 1: t Stevie Ray Ray trailer humorous. You know what, while
Speaker 1: we did talk about how guys who have to wrestle
Speaker 1: twice should complain, it's also on the flip side, like.
Speaker 2: Mike Rotundo, like didn't even It's like Jesus gonna sit
Speaker 2: back there and just you know, fucking yeah, jerk off,
Speaker 2: like getting in.
Speaker 1: The ring ice cold, that's true, that's can't be ideal, and.
Speaker 2: Then getting in the ring with ice training.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's coming up going and Ron Reese, Regal
Speaker 1: Parka Pezo who just debuted, by the way, Lapark had
Speaker 1: just debuted in ww like a week before this, Wow
Speaker 1: Pez Wattley, Steve Manga, McMichael with Deborah Disco, Inferno, Renegade,
Speaker 1: Joe Gomez, the Faces of Fear, Bunkhouse, Buck arn Anderson,
Speaker 1: Johnny Grunge, Cieclope, and there was no rock O rock
Speaker 1: I think he was hurt. Galaxy, who later went on
Speaker 1: to be Damien say six taking his sweet time. I
Speaker 1: mean this guy, he's walking out like molasses, oh, because
Speaker 1: he's high at Fallen, Nash and Giant doing the Wolfpack
Speaker 1: hand sign. Nash has a cup of something in his hand.
Speaker 1: He's having a drink. Scott Nordonaldiwal Dragon, Jimmy Graffiti, that's right,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Delray in a neon colored hat. Jimmy Graffiti coming
Speaker 1: into the company the Meltzer reported Jimmy Graffiti. The WWF
Speaker 1: ceased booking him based on an investigation into acclaimed incident
Speaker 1: by Jerry McDevitt, but no lawsuit was ever filed. Del
Speaker 1: Ray was not a wrestling mainstream because of the incident.
Speaker 1: It had something to do with like an underaged girl old.
Speaker 1: There's a big, long story about it, but that's always
Speaker 1: in a hotel caught in a hotel with with with
Speaker 1: an underaged girl, not in like the room and the
Speaker 1: throes of passion. But like you know, it was a
Speaker 1: story some guys like Nash would tell I think and stuff.
Speaker 1: So he got fired from w w F and w
Speaker 1: W picked him up because what's the problem, Mike. You
Speaker 1: know Ray mysterio roadblock Ice trained Buddy Lee Parker aka.
Speaker 2: Jack Boot Brother? Uh, what do you mean? Jack?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: Jajack?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 2: Sorry?
Speaker 15: What?
Speaker 3: What?
Speaker 1: He says?
Speaker 15: What?
Speaker 19: What?
Speaker 2: What did your name? Buddy d? Parker Brother? I mean,
Speaker 2: this guy's just a J Brown?
Speaker 1: Your name him?
Speaker 2: Jack Boot Brother? What next? Are you are you talking about?
Speaker 19: You know?
Speaker 2: Maybe Jack Boot like drop championship?
Speaker 1: That's I mean, you can see why my gears are
Speaker 1: turning that direction.
Speaker 2: Dude. I mean, have you thought, have you?
Speaker 3: Brother?
Speaker 2: Jack Torch Yo?
Speaker 1: Kevin Sullivan brother, are you gonna push Buddy Sizzle?
Speaker 19: What up?
Speaker 2: My brother? Hey?
Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question. Are you gonna put
Speaker 1: the strap on Buddyy Parker?
Speaker 2: Brother? Brother, I'm just wondering, dude.
Speaker 13: You know.
Speaker 2: This guy comes back in, brother Parker, you know, and
Speaker 2: I just want dall listening back in. Brother.
Speaker 1: I just want to get on the same page, you know, dude.
Speaker 1: And I appreciate what you've been doing. Brother, I definitely
Speaker 1: you know, I owe you a lot all right cases.
Speaker 1: But what I want to know you're putting the strap
Speaker 1: on Parker?
Speaker 15: Right?
Speaker 2: I have the is that the gold? Dude? Is he
Speaker 2: gonna you know, hello, when Kevin right here? Brother?
Speaker 1: Why are you looking away?
Speaker 15: Brother?
Speaker 2: When's you know? When's it gonna happen?
Speaker 4: Dude?
Speaker 2: You know you're gonna tell me about this brother?
Speaker 13: Like?
Speaker 12: Is that?
Speaker 2: I mean it's happened tonight? Like you want me a job?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 2: Why do you want me a job? The butteraby Parker tonight?
Speaker 2: Love that logical leap? Is it tonight to? Why do
Speaker 2: you want me to? And it's all because he renamed
Speaker 2: a jack boot.
Speaker 1: That's my thing?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: I mean, brother, I'm the boot dude, you know big
Speaker 2: boot leg drop?
Speaker 19: Brother?
Speaker 2: Why is there a jack boot? Is he jack in
Speaker 2: my bags?
Speaker 1: Jack in my fucking title ring.
Speaker 2: Brother, what's you know what? I just want to get
Speaker 2: on the same page. Brother, Now, listen, I'm not I
Speaker 2: thought we had an open line of communication. Brother.
Speaker 1: You've always been great about finding spots for my brozos.
Speaker 2: I want to, brother, I want to just kind of
Speaker 2: come clean, dude, kind of get all our dogs to
Speaker 2: the table.
Speaker 18: Man.
Speaker 2: And you know what, like you and I, we go
Speaker 2: back a long way. So I just want to, you know,
Speaker 2: I just want to kind of you know this.
Speaker 1: Because they renamed by Barker jack Boot Jack Boot and
Speaker 1: he's having like a forty five minute conference about it backstage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you know mono we mono. Brother. You know,
Speaker 2: you and I just kind of thinking about, you know,
Speaker 2: you know where where you know, where's this whole coveing
Speaker 2: thing going that's want to be level dude, And and
Speaker 2: you know I get it, brother. You know I can't
Speaker 2: listen to you. You know, I can't hold the champions forever. Book.
Speaker 2: He's going to full mode. But I always kind of
Speaker 2: just thought, yo, you and I would kind of you
Speaker 2: agree upon him. The guy who's gonna you know who
Speaker 2: I might you know, I don't want to say pass
Speaker 2: the Torch, but you'll give the title to you know,
Speaker 2: brother kind of lay down for but you kind of
Speaker 2: do this behind my back, and you know, I think
Speaker 2: we're gonna worry about getting this thing back on track,
Speaker 2: you know. But yeah, I don't know, dude. I'm just
Speaker 2: I'm just kind of disappointed that you're putting all your cards,
Speaker 2: you know, butter the Parker, and that you want to basically,
Speaker 2: I mean, do you you're kind of one step away
Speaker 2: from calling him Jack Hogan. You know, I'm gonna call
Speaker 2: him Jack Hogan. I don't know why. I don't know
Speaker 2: why you want to call him Jack Hogan, dude. And
Speaker 2: like the fact that you didn't this buy me beforehand,
Speaker 2: you know, I mean, I just don't know. I'm not
Speaker 2: sure what I'm supposed to do this joy this guy
Speaker 2: has done to get himself out of a tizzy his
Speaker 2: guard Like, like, now you're bringing it. Now, you're changing
Speaker 2: to Jack Hogan. You're having him wear the red and yellow. Brother,
Speaker 2: I want you to picture Buddy the Parker right now,
Speaker 2: and then picture him with Dave Sullivan's outfit on Dave
Speaker 2: Sullivan's outfit, and they call him Jack Hogan. Fuck, the
Speaker 2: most generic name ever.
Speaker 1: It comes out thinking the crowd is going to be
Speaker 1: so fired up to see him, and they're like, what
Speaker 1: is this guy doing? They let him out of the home.
Speaker 2: What is he doing? Sure, says Jack, Look, Jack Hogan,
Speaker 2: I might be here for it. I might be okay,
Speaker 2: Jack Hogan. He's out pointing cup in his ear, like
Speaker 2: totally against type from Buddaly Parker and Hogan's backstage.
Speaker 1: Look, I'm not to judge, brother, but I just don't
Speaker 1: know what you're thinking of putting all the eggs in
Speaker 1: the Buddily Parker basketball. Anyone would ever push this man
Speaker 1: like he would ever have a prayer of winning a
Speaker 1: single belt, let alone the world title and getting repackaged?
Speaker 1: Is Jack Hogan freak wearing the fan? An assemblyman who
Speaker 1: got indicted Jack Hogan from fucking New Rochelle, the representative
Speaker 1: from New Rochelle, Jack Hogan, fucking born in the South Shore.
Speaker 1: He hears the Buddy the Parker had been renamed Jack
Speaker 1: Boot and he goes and has that exact conversation with
Speaker 1: Kevin self. Well the title on him, dude, I mean yeah,
Speaker 1: I just mm hmmm, I mean I know I feel
Speaker 1: the same way, Terry. Actually, I'm also at lost for
Speaker 1: words as to what to say to this. It's like
Speaker 1: Brad losing the title on the way out. I mean,
Speaker 1: you want to just walk into the dress room giving
Speaker 1: the title right now?
Speaker 2: Brother? So here you go. Do you know you're champion now?
Speaker 2: Brother Hulko.
Speaker 1: They're going to go in a different direction tonight. It's
Speaker 1: one two three, buddy, the paka over you for the
Speaker 1: for the title, for the strap.
Speaker 2: What just April fools?
Speaker 1: He freaks out, He's like what he gets up off
Speaker 1: his book. You're telling me, no, wait a minute, that
Speaker 1: doesn't work for me. Brother, dude, I'm not taking this
Speaker 1: creative brother, and I have creative control. Ah huh, great
Speaker 1: retort from Sully. Wonderful counterpart. Ah, that's what happened. That's
Speaker 1: what happens when you stand between Kevin Sullivan and his
Speaker 1: master stroke of putting the belt on Jack Boot, Jack.
Speaker 2: Hogan, Hogan, Terry.
Speaker 3: Jack Boot.
Speaker 2: What to the locker room? Everyone else is sitting around
Speaker 2: Hogan's dressing with the boys. He's just Jack Boot. He
Speaker 2: says that. He doesn't say he's gonna win, Darry Jack Boot.
Speaker 2: It goes book.
Speaker 7: What's coming?
Speaker 2: Happy right now? I am not ready for this Boot me, brother,
Speaker 2: what he's looking left to right?
Speaker 7: What I'm doing?
Speaker 2: Yeah, where's the boot coming from? Give me a heads
Speaker 2: up there.
Speaker 1: The food coming from to hit him in the face.
Speaker 1: All right, that's enough, buddy, the Parker. We're never gonna
Speaker 1: get through this. Here comes him dug into a pop
Speaker 1: Ben one woman. Okay, as uncomfortable as that is to
Speaker 1: look at. His face is destroyed from the beforementioned Baltimore brawl,
Speaker 1: moving tude, the French Canadians, Prince sayaka who's in the
Speaker 1: company already? Which I forgot? Dean malinko oh yes, yeah
Speaker 1: he came in ninety six if Jarrett fresh as a daisy,
Speaker 1: completely no selling the fucking choke slam where he almost
Speaker 1: got put through the floor. He's coming out all smiles,
Speaker 1: prim and proper, Bobby eating, Jim Powers, Dave Taylor, Chris Jericho,
Speaker 1: Alex Right, Mark Starr, j L Viano, Rick Steiner, Kevin
Speaker 1: Solom with Jimmy Hart and yeah, that's that, and here
Speaker 1: we go. World War three is underway. Nine ninety six.
Speaker 1: Lee Marshall explodes, saying over in Ring three, Ben Wall
Speaker 1: and Sullivan are taking over a zarn Anderson runs up
Speaker 1: on the crew ring side.
Speaker 2: It was like I planned on taking over a couple
Speaker 2: of ladies after the event and I taking him over
Speaker 2: and flipping them over, Tony. Let me tell you, Tony,
Speaker 2: there ain't nothing better than that for w W pay
Speaker 2: per view, taking a fine woman and just betting her
Speaker 2: over a table and going to Lea.
Speaker 1: Marshall's signature move is definitely flipping from Missionary to Doggie
Speaker 1: in ten seconds, you know, like flip like she's airborne.
Speaker 2: Listen, like like she spins on his cock. Unbelievable, all right,
Speaker 2: Like it's like never he never leaves believable. Stay like
Speaker 2: just like he's a fucking day he has that dog
Speaker 2: in him. Oh yeah, so yes, the ben Wan Sullivan
Speaker 2: arn Anderson runs up on the crew ring side and
Speaker 2: it's on the horsemen are brawling with the I just
Speaker 2: want to say, Tony pay w W pay per View
Speaker 2: doesn't finish until I finish, the.
Speaker 1: Big finish, the hottest finish in the business.
Speaker 2: It's not DDP, it's my semen, he says on the air.
Speaker 1: It's when I'm finishing in Missionary and spin her around
Speaker 1: so her head is running under my balls. And Ray
Speaker 1: Trailer also getting involved in this ring side fight.
Speaker 2: I'd like that shaggerly tea bag.
Speaker 1: That's funny, Like Lee Marshall, like spends five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: on a high end prostitute just to tongue his balls
Speaker 1: while he jerks off. That's all he asked her to do.
Speaker 1: She didn't have to get naked or anything. And the
Speaker 1: thing is like, he's got no he you know, no
Speaker 1: pant obviously, no pants on, nothing like that. But he's
Speaker 1: still wearing the hurdle neck in a blazer.
Speaker 2: Keep it classy, San Diego, creams on it. Oh jesus,
Speaker 2: what is he? But's he driving one hundred twenty miles
Speaker 2: an hour? Is he weaving on the five?
Speaker 12: Like?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 19: Oh?
Speaker 7: That's the noisy bats?
Speaker 19: Oh?
Speaker 8: That was Goose?
Speaker 18: Is it?
Speaker 2: Or is it not? World War three ninety six? On
Speaker 2: that fucking cast bitch? What's good?
Speaker 19: Oh?
Speaker 3: Shit?
Speaker 2: Didn't I say he had a vodka Collins? Did he
Speaker 2: say that? I miss that. I wrote that down. I
Speaker 2: think he said he had a box.
Speaker 1: He said something when he was walking to the ring
Speaker 1: with a drink in his hand, but I couldn't.
Speaker 2: Make it out. He fucking walks in drinking Christ a.
Speaker 1: Giant didn't have a cigarette in his face, So Ben
Speaker 1: Wan Sullivan are locked in Mortal Kombat. Here is Sully
Speaker 1: steps over the rail like he's supposed to be thrown
Speaker 1: over the rail, but he steps over it like as
Speaker 1: carefully as a senior citizen, and they're thrown in the audience.
Speaker 1: So just go, says I'm out of here. They're right
Speaker 1: near him. But the three cameras now, for the first
Speaker 1: time we see the Hollywood squares. Yeah, he says, there's
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty hands going at one time. I'm
Speaker 1: scared to death out here. Yeah, he probably was.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Today with the first person saying anything about the actual battle,
Speaker 1: Royal in formulas that Scottie Riggs has just been saved
Speaker 1: from elimination thanks Professor Trailer is of.
Speaker 2: All the people like who cares about Scottie Riggs.
Speaker 1: Trailer and Sully and Ben ware Up and the people
Speaker 1: you know in the audience fighting On one camera, Ben
Speaker 1: was now tumbling down the stairs of the arena of
Speaker 1: the Norfolk Scope. When they do a takeover with this
Speaker 1: frame for a moment, ben WA's face all busted up
Speaker 1: and now mangoes to the floor. He's he's battling and
Speaker 1: you can hear Lee Marshall. Go ah, he's right in
Speaker 1: the middle of this, He says. The nWo is in
Speaker 1: one corner together and they're not moving to throw anybody out.
Speaker 1: They are just striking up position and chilling. Ben Wah
Speaker 1: on the table. Now that Lee Marshalls announced, table getting
Speaker 1: worked over. Lee can't hear a thing. His ship's unplugged.
Speaker 1: They suddenly point out that Ron Studd has all the
Speaker 1: attributes to win the Battle Royal. That's good to know, Lee,
Speaker 1: except Stardom. I know it's the only one missing. He
Speaker 1: lets out another Ah. He's on the floor getting stomped.
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, beaten, all of a sudden start
Speaker 1: attacking Lee Marshall, like commanding him to sell. It's almost like,
Speaker 1: Lee Marshall, this is a rib Like there's no way
Speaker 1: Lee Marshall was told because the way he's selling is
Speaker 1: so uncertain and so like, yeah, improvised. You know, he
Speaker 1: doesn't because he's supposed to be announcing. How can he
Speaker 1: sell the barbarian kicking his head inappropriately.
Speaker 3: Don't kick the cock.
Speaker 2: Don't kick the cock. I got to use later tonight.
Speaker 1: The other announcers aren't even watching what's happened. They don't
Speaker 1: even care that Lee Marshall is getting destroyed.
Speaker 2: Which I also kind of goes in like makes you
Speaker 2: think it might have been not planned because nobody, nobody responds.
Speaker 1: Absolutely like they're like, what do we do with this?
Speaker 1: I totally I agree. I don't know. This just crossed
Speaker 1: my mind. I was racking my brain trying to think,
Speaker 1: if there's any cameo candidates, it is Larry's Abisco and
Speaker 1: cameo yeah he is, so yeah, that's the challenge to
Speaker 1: the well meaning members of the Solar System asca Larry's Abisco.
Speaker 1: I forgot to do it if Lee Marshall expected to
Speaker 1: be attacked by WCW wrestlers at World War three nineteen
Speaker 1: ninety six, or if you found himself having to improvise.
Speaker 1: Tony makes the surprise announcement in fact, all the four
Speaker 1: Horsemen and all the Dungeon of Doom are actually out
Speaker 1: of the Battle Royal now as a result of this.
Speaker 1: So that's a quick way to get a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of motherfuckers out.
Speaker 2: Which I don't understand at all. Qualified from a battle
Speaker 2: that makes like they didn't enter, they never got in
Speaker 2: the ring. And there was a time period by which
Speaker 2: I had to get in there or you're out. I
Speaker 2: guess it makes heavy start by Arn Anderson, Ben Wa Sullivan,
Speaker 2: Dungeon of doom. Uh not the guys you want to
Speaker 2: have just qualified in in a in a in a
Speaker 2: in a match that features about half fucking jobs. Mango.
Speaker 1: It's like all these guys you never see them at all.
Speaker 1: So bringside. The brawling continues, and the and the barbarian
Speaker 1: has the French Canadian's flag and he's choked. He's being
Speaker 1: choked with it. Uh, Sibisco says, Tony Lee Marshall is
Speaker 1: on the floor, he's trying to hold his chest and selling.
Speaker 1: Not the first time barbarian keeps getting stomps off on him.
Speaker 2: And not the and not the last time. Tonight he'll
Speaker 2: be on the floor.
Speaker 1: Wall Street trying to eliminate Luger. Good luck with that.
Speaker 2: We need some you know.
Speaker 1: And then Zubisco just calls the s O s He says,
Speaker 1: we need some medical attention here for for Lee Marshall.
Speaker 7: Last night when we were alive in World War three.
Speaker 1: Oh, this is the next ant of Nitro. They make
Speaker 1: comment about the position Lee Marshall found himself in on
Speaker 1: this pay per view. All right, and then he delivers
Speaker 1: from the road. It didn't stop him from hitting the
Speaker 1: next college town, that's for sure. Listen, listen, he's got
Speaker 1: co Ed's to pound touchdown real fucking hard.
Speaker 6: Last morning, when we were lying World War three, there
Speaker 6: was a man caught in the line of fire. And
Speaker 6: here is in one of our broadcasters, and that is
Speaker 6: Lee Marshall. As a matter of fact, we're not so
Speaker 6: sure what's left Lee Marshall, But what's left of him
Speaker 6: it's with us this week and our won eight hundred
Speaker 6: collect road report. And Lee, we understand you're in Dayton, Ohio,
Speaker 6: and how in the world are you doing?
Speaker 18: Tony a little bit better than Bruise, but doing a
Speaker 18: whole lot better. Since the fans invited me to their
Speaker 18: Monday Night throw party here in Dayton. Everybody excited about
Speaker 18: the Ohio State Buckeyes, of course going to the Rose Bull,
Speaker 18: but really pumped up about next Monday. What Monday Night
Speaker 18: Trow comes to the Hara Arena in Dayton. Let me
Speaker 18: invite our fans back from all the southern Ohio jump
Speaker 18: by that good old Dixie Highway, join us a week
Speaker 18: from tonight in Dayton. We got tickets on sale of
Speaker 18: the haar will read a box office and all taken
Speaker 18: master Outlus gotta go. We gotta hitting the tailor on
Speaker 18: the weasel thing going on. That's your one eight hundred
Speaker 18: collect Road report Updaton, Ohio. Ive Lee Marshall for one
Speaker 18: eight hundred collect.
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Speaker 7: Well you noticed me Marshall with faith down last night
Speaker 7: at this party. You'll probably faith down again. Yeah, you
Speaker 7: never know. He went he went out for cigarettes. Three
Speaker 7: people step in his hands.
Speaker 2: Here we go. Oh shit, so good. You know what
Speaker 2: I don't understand. Lee Marshall was born in la He
Speaker 2: died in Santa Monica. Yet he sounds like he's from
Speaker 2: the South.
Speaker 1: Think so, I don't think he sounds like he's from
Speaker 1: the South at all.
Speaker 2: I heard him. I tell you he doesn't.
Speaker 1: Oh he does.
Speaker 2: Listen to him, Yeah, listen to him when he talks.
Speaker 1: So Eddie comes over the top and slides in Eddie Guerrero.
Speaker 1: That is Lee's and Ring three looking for the backup
Speaker 1: and Sibisco says he's not quite coherent yet.
Speaker 2: So we don't have him yet.
Speaker 21: Uh.
Speaker 2: They point out that the bous and bad boy is
Speaker 2: on the floor board that you see him on the floor.
Speaker 1: He's out somehow, I don't know.
Speaker 18: Yep.
Speaker 2: Here this is a dusty. Dusty mentions it. Here, here
Speaker 2: we go in ring number one, Tony Rumble has just
Speaker 2: been eliminated.
Speaker 7: Tony Rumble out of ring number one. Tony Rumble is out.
Speaker 2: Okay, dust breaking news. What the fuck can run out?
Speaker 9: Baby A fought a foot but I didn't fit beforehand.
Speaker 1: You talked about how disorienting the three camera look was.
Speaker 1: At one point he literally had the same camera angle
Speaker 1: in two of the three squares. I'm not even using
Speaker 1: the real estate. I mean, what are we doing here?
Speaker 1: Gets thrown out. Jeff Jarrett is riding the top rope
Speaker 1: like a horse, preventing elimination. Legos, how am I doing?
Speaker 1: How do you think I'm doing? You understand that while
Speaker 1: I'm getting my you're just standing there, he says to Zubisco.
Speaker 1: While I'm getting my brain's kicked in, Larry, I'll.
Speaker 2: Tell you you know what, Larry. Later on, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: be standing there getting my brains fucking out, and you
Speaker 2: know what, you're not gonna be there with me. You
Speaker 2: can watch me get nutted.
Speaker 1: Boss Larry has nothing to say, by the way, while
Speaker 1: he takes him to task, talking over everybody, no clue
Speaker 1: if he's on the air. Tremendous Viano's loading up, Jeff
Speaker 1: Jarrett with hands he thinks he's gonna win the thing. Mike,
Speaker 1: you know, gets tossed. Lex Luga apparently just toss Laparka.
Speaker 19: Well.
Speaker 1: Why why aren't they just doing one ring at a time.
Speaker 1: Why can't we just say, okay, here's.
Speaker 2: Ring number one, I know. Why can't we look at
Speaker 2: little clips here and there of the individual rings? Why
Speaker 2: do we have to see all of them at the
Speaker 2: same fucking time.
Speaker 1: Tell the announcers that the next guy who's going to
Speaker 1: go out you just look to the announced booth and
Speaker 1: look for the high sign. That's when you know the
Speaker 1: camera's on your ring, and now do yep, and if
Speaker 1: it's not, you don't get eliminated.
Speaker 2: It's very simple. Talking to Lee Marshall, Lee, you're right, Lee, No,
Speaker 2: I'm not all right, Graffiti, I don't even know anymore
Speaker 2: if I'm all right, you know, I just kept on
Speaker 2: going and reminded me of the last time I was
Speaker 2: at a nice roll party and I just had my
Speaker 2: cock and some ladies and it just kept going. Jim
Speaker 2: and Graffiti almost tossed Ray out of the things, by
Speaker 2: the way. It just kept going. What that is it?
Speaker 2: Whatever it is? Yes, it kept going.
Speaker 1: Yes, the NWL was only made moves as a gang
Speaker 1: so far, we're told, So I got to keep an
Speaker 1: eye on that's developing story. Pez Wallely is out via
Speaker 1: Rob Parker. Nobody cares interference. I can see Renegade on
Speaker 1: the floor selling, so apparently he's been eliminated. Galaxy is
Speaker 1: out of Ring two, we're told, though we can't see it.
Speaker 1: I see Rick Steiner laying on someone on the mat,
Speaker 1: literally laying down on top of them, so he's not
Speaker 1: going to get eliminated in that position. Hacksaw bounces until
Speaker 1: Mark Starr clears the top rope. He just like shakes
Speaker 1: the ropes over and over again. Rage from high voltage
Speaker 1: skins the cat. He wants to win this thing. Chris
Speaker 1: Jericho suplexes Hoovy back in and tries to pin him.
Speaker 1: I swear to God. He tries to pin Wove and
Speaker 1: Dude Guerrera in the World War three battle round.
Speaker 2: He just doesn't he doesn't understand the rules.
Speaker 1: He's abisco doesn't say it, but I'm sure he can
Speaker 1: smell a New World odor down near his position. Good
Speaker 1: looks right in the green trunks. Who was underneath Rick
Speaker 1: Steiner comes up and gets some air. Prince Ikia eat
Speaker 1: shit as chaos is tossed into the ropes of the
Speaker 1: Alex Luger Today is reporting these eliminations like its donations
Speaker 1: coming into the Jerry Lewis talith On, you know, we
Speaker 1: just got one hundred, two hundred and fifty. We were
Speaker 1: going to reach our goal. Tony says members of the
Speaker 1: New World Order have gone nowhere. Surely he just means Virgil.
Speaker 1: When he says that, Dusty calls Ron Stud John Studd.
Speaker 1: Joe Gomez falls.
Speaker 2: To the floor. That's not surprising.
Speaker 1: The herd starting to thin a bit now. Lee Marshall
Speaker 1: keeps calling him Hove and Tude Guerrero over and over again,
Speaker 1: Eddie's brother, Dude, Hoo and Tuty.
Speaker 2: These announcers they're just talking and then all of a
Speaker 2: sudden someone just goes, oh, look out, yeah they I mean,
Speaker 2: and the thing is you keep hearing like everyone in
Speaker 2: the back. It's so sloppy. It's really one of the
Speaker 2: worst fucking matches ever.
Speaker 1: Go around the horn and Tony does a roll call
Speaker 1: of each ring and Today lists who's in his ring,
Speaker 1: and Tony lists who's in his ring and all of that,
Speaker 1: and Lee does the same. That's where he says Scott
Speaker 1: Steiner's in there, though Scott Steiner isn't.
Speaker 2: In the match.
Speaker 1: I believe Giant and Roadblock engage with the nWo watching
Speaker 1: Giant just beat this fat guy's ass. The Giant clothes
Speaker 1: lines Roadblock out and his head comes to rest on
Speaker 1: the guardrail. God blessed Roadblock, bunk House Buckshow was on
Speaker 1: the ropes? Spread Eagle Duggan's working the squire Dave Taylor
Speaker 1: over raised throwing the insane punches on the back of
Speaker 1: Disco Inferno's head, and Tony tells us he went under
Speaker 1: the bottom rope, so he is safe. Pittman with a
Speaker 1: stinger splash DDP two on Ron Reese. Now Disco is
Speaker 1: in the nwo's ring and Kevin Nash power bombs his ass.
Speaker 1: What if in the middle of this one of the
Speaker 1: rings exploded like FMW let.
Speaker 2: Me tell you, dude, it would have made the match
Speaker 2: ten times better.
Speaker 1: You don't know whis one, but one of them is
Speaker 1: going to explode at a certain moment.
Speaker 2: That's kinda that's what makes it World War three. You
Speaker 2: don't know which ring is going to explode it man,
Speaker 2: And that's actually how they determine, you know which ring
Speaker 2: to go into, is that they blow up two of
Speaker 2: the rings finally, and like the guys just fly, They
Speaker 2: fucking soar as the ring just blows.
Speaker 1: Ron Reese, the big Man comes out of the corner
Speaker 1: and takes a bump, and then the whole gang pigpile
Speaker 1: in the sky. Why you would do that in a.
Speaker 2: Battle Royal even I don't understand all that.
Speaker 1: They really prevent him from standing up in all possible way.
Speaker 2: And they they have. They really don't know how to
Speaker 2: book these kind of matches in It's very difficult.
Speaker 1: Timon's planning to get Rees up is to lock his
Speaker 1: hands like a Boston crab around his ankles and just
Speaker 1: to yank up no effect whatsoever. You're not gonna move
Speaker 1: a guy like that. Dusty makes reference to Recas instead.
Speaker 2: Of well he's talking about his pick. Is he that
Speaker 2: his still favorite, still in the match, he.
Speaker 8: Has, I said, Luga still in there, in there here, Yeah.
Speaker 7: He is still in the You're exactly right.
Speaker 2: I don't know why he's calling over to Tony all
Speaker 2: of a sudden. He I think he's today.
Speaker 1: I think he knows it's funny that he said Recus.
Speaker 1: He knows it's Frecus. Fricus six is riding ultim a
Speaker 1: dragon's face. Dugan and joh Show are on the floor
Speaker 1: tussling when Pco makes the save. All this confusion about
Speaker 1: was that guy eliminated or is he just on the
Speaker 1: floor going under the ropes makes it so confusing. The
Speaker 1: least you can do in a scenario like this is
Speaker 1: not have anyone hit the floor who wasn't eliminated. Just
Speaker 1: give the announcers that confidence that if they see a
Speaker 1: guy on the floor, he's out of the match, so
Speaker 1: they can call it instead of be like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: we didn't see him go over, so maybe he just
Speaker 1: went under the bottom row. Who knows, who cares. Eddie
Speaker 1: Guerrero does a pascado to Regal plunging over the ropes.
Speaker 2: What a moron.
Speaker 1: He basically eliminates himself. The American males get eliminated at
Speaker 1: the same time, and there's big tension between the two.
Speaker 1: Of course, the next night Marcus Bagwell would turn on
Speaker 1: Scottie Riggs and they chantedt nwol when he did it,
Speaker 1: Bobby Eating tumbles out. So there goes my pick so
Speaker 1: much for that. Look's right with the clean drop kicks.
Speaker 2: You know we've all got we've all got you know,
Speaker 2: we've all got our pick right with a clean drop kick.
Speaker 2: Since Dave Taylor, I'm going, I'm going, I'm personally my
Speaker 2: my pick is Mike right, dumbs Dave Taylor in Mall Street.
Speaker 2: Here's where he says, here's Wheale Marshall sas Scott Steiner.
Speaker 2: Now Rick is on the Apron and Ray and Ultimore
Speaker 2: Dragon him doing Luca with the nWo watching like it's
Speaker 2: a fucking personal showing. They're getting. Rick came over to
Speaker 2: ring too.
Speaker 1: Larry Zabisco says, I don't think you could do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can't switch rings until the time is right. He's
Speaker 1: supposed to just dominate your ring and wait, yep, right exactly. Apparently,
Speaker 1: now the consolidation is happening, is Eddie, who apparently isn't
Speaker 1: eliminated throws TDP into the guardrail, and Tony questions, are
Speaker 1: they eliminated Eddie Guerow and Diamondall's page or so in
Speaker 1: this if you don't know, I don't know, Tony. Tony
Speaker 1: steps in and says, they're still They're still in. They
Speaker 1: were on their way to the ring number two when
Speaker 1: this brawl broke out. And I don't think that's true
Speaker 1: because I don't think we see him again. Despite the
Speaker 1: consolidation into one ring, we still have three squares on
Speaker 1: the screen. Okay, you tell me where the fuck's going.
Speaker 1: You can see Stevie Ray for multiple angles and multiple boxes.
Speaker 2: Okay, I mean, who cares stop it?
Speaker 1: But the crowds, the crowd staying active, so must have
Speaker 1: been more to see in person.
Speaker 2: I mean, you're I'm sure I actually believe that it
Speaker 2: is that it must have must be more interesting to
Speaker 2: see because you can see spectacle, yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all kinds of places you can train your focus.
Speaker 1: There's Jack Boot. He's still in there. He's dumped over
Speaker 1: the ropes and nudged out and fatigues like a moron.
Speaker 1: Johnny Grunge is back dropped out by DDP today, noting
Speaker 1: he just had knee surgeries. Johnny Grune has been eliminated.
Speaker 1: Grunge attacks Jack Boot on the outside. Is Luger is
Speaker 1: landing punches on the Giant, almost has him eliminated.
Speaker 2: He's loopy.
Speaker 1: Dean Malenko is now jumped dumped rather by Jeff Jard's
Speaker 1: BA and off slaps the ground like he actually cares
Speaker 1: that he lost the match and thought he was gonna win.
Speaker 1: So there goes Bobby Heenan's pick. Jim Powers is out
Speaker 1: as well. DDP gets out Craig Pittman, and Booker kind
Speaker 1: of pathetically is tossed in a low energy way out
Speaker 1: of the ring by Kevin Nash. Heenan screams, there I
Speaker 1: thought DDP dumb Pittman. DDP gets out Pittman yep, and
Speaker 1: then Booker is tossed by Nash. Heen In says, there
Speaker 1: goes my monitor. Someone must have kicked the table. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they continue to call out Ron Studd as the
Speaker 1: big man in there.
Speaker 2: Most importantly, bunk house Buck is still in this.
Speaker 1: Sadly, if you're wondering at home, ddp's going Ham on
Speaker 1: Jericho in the corner and the Giant going ham when
Speaker 1: asked what he wants in his omelet. Finally, it looks
Speaker 1: like Nash is tossed Disco and uh Buck sails out
Speaker 1: for the business. Stevie pretends Eddie back dropped him and
Speaker 1: basically sidesteps him and sends himself out of the ring.
Speaker 1: Just like now, guys are just literally just throwing themselves
Speaker 1: out of this mat. Yeah, it's like it's like they
Speaker 1: get they were told, okay, we got to go to
Speaker 1: the hole. You can definitely see that, and we just
Speaker 1: start tossing people. Giant hugs Rick Steiner and tosses him.
Speaker 1: Ron Studd is finally dumped. After all that they after
Speaker 1: all that talk about him being the big man in
Speaker 1: the match, they barely even comment on his elimination as
Speaker 1: Luger back dropped him out of the match. Draggon his
Speaker 1: out courtesy of Ray Mysterio. Ray hangs on, they're describing
Speaker 1: all this, but we can't see it unfortunately.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, it's just a fucking nightmare.
Speaker 1: And then calls out stand your own ring as Li says,
Speaker 1: what's the head count of that ring?
Speaker 2: Guys? And Heenhon goes sixty eight and Tinay cackles at
Speaker 2: that because it's like it's a silly question. Heene says,
Speaker 2: thank god they didn't ask Dusty, he'd have to take
Speaker 2: his boots off to count. What I don't understand is that,
Speaker 2: like for the majority of the of the final number
Speaker 2: of people, Okay, now that they've consolidated the rings, they've
Speaker 2: still got that three camera on.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Like they have it on for
Speaker 1: way too long, multiple angles from the same hunter. Anyway,
Speaker 1: they shouldn't have had it anyway, But like, why is
Speaker 1: it so bad? It's so actively bad. Regal with a
Speaker 1: big European uppercut, Jericho's out. They keep saying, it doesn't
Speaker 1: it doesn't change, Like, it doesn't go to actual regular
Speaker 1: camera until there's basically seven minutes left on the in
Speaker 1: the show, you can tell they have a particular moment
Speaker 1: they want to go to the single camera and that's
Speaker 1: when they have the West Side story face off with
Speaker 1: the nWo guys, and not a moment before that, so
Speaker 1: they stick with the three camera. Regal gets a European
Speaker 1: uppercut sending out Jericho. They keep saying Rick Steiner is
Speaker 1: in there and he's been eliminated. They clarify after that
Speaker 1: ice train gets dumped, we have our moment finally where
Speaker 1: we've really thinned the herd, and in one ring it's
Speaker 1: nWo guys versus WCW guys. And that's when they go
Speaker 1: full screen, which is a good moment. It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: now we can care. They kind of dissolve away from
Speaker 1: the three box shot to this one camera and it's
Speaker 1: a DDP lex Luger, Raymistereo, Jeff Jarrett, Eddie Guerrero versus
Speaker 1: Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, the Giant in six and they
Speaker 1: say DDP is still kind of riding that fence, and
Speaker 1: he goes ahead and attacks Eddie Guerrero. Six gets behind
Speaker 1: Kevin Nash and Eddie's back dropped out sky high by
Speaker 1: Steve Riegal. Ray steps to Kevin Nash went off on
Speaker 1: him like a child trying to beat up his dad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: today recalls the Disney trailer Lawn Dard incident with Kevin
Speaker 1: Nash and Raymisterio. Ray runs into the giant and with
Speaker 1: one hand, this is a memorable spot. With one hand,
Speaker 1: the giant picks up Raymisterio and a gorilla press and
Speaker 1: tosses him.
Speaker 2: Out of the Yeah, that's pretty wild. It looks great.
Speaker 1: That's pretty cool, Jeff Jarrett repeated shoulder bumps and DDP
Speaker 1: almost spills out of the brain. Hall with an atomic
Speaker 1: drop kicks Jeff Jarrett welled WWF callback. Here's Jeff Jarrett
Speaker 1: Scott Hall mix it up. He gets them up with
Speaker 1: the razor's edge, but Regal yanks Jeff Jarrett down to
Speaker 1: save him for god knows what reason, and the Jeff
Speaker 1: Yard's close lined out bysh Anyway, DDP charges and he's
Speaker 1: low bridged out of the match by Regal. Regles gained
Speaker 1: up on. Regels spend a lot more time in there
Speaker 1: with the nWo than you would think he's he's flying
Speaker 1: the WCV flag.
Speaker 2: It's kind of yeah, like who would have thought that shit?
Speaker 2: He's ganged up on.
Speaker 1: But the nWo, all of them forcing him slowly out
Speaker 1: of the ring and he hangs out intensely trying to
Speaker 1: stop it, but Haul rocks him with the right hand
Speaker 1: and Steve Regals out of the brumble or out of
Speaker 1: the battle royal and now Lex Luga rises and they
Speaker 1: come up and it's Lex Luger versus all four members
Speaker 1: of the nWo, and it's good stuff.
Speaker 2: Six yeah, and they all this is the I mean honestly,
Speaker 2: this is the way that this is again. You're making
Speaker 2: fucking Lugri a star. You so are because he goes off.
Speaker 2: You know, Six turns in and Luger ducks Hall. He
Speaker 2: starts fighting everyone at once. He ducks one guy, hits
Speaker 2: another guy, and then ducks one guy and hits another guy,
Speaker 2: and they get up for that as he's like picking
Speaker 2: his shots, taking one guy out after ducking the last
Speaker 2: guy's punch.
Speaker 1: Then Giant whips in. Luger charges and misses the corner
Speaker 1: and Luger gets him up on the top rope.
Speaker 2: The big man.
Speaker 1: He's hammicked up there, and Luger is kicking the shit
Speaker 1: out of Giant trying to get him out, and then
Speaker 1: he picks him up in the fucking torture rack. He's
Speaker 1: gonna rack him, so he's got him on the shoulders.
Speaker 1: When Six kicks Luger in the back, he drops the Giant,
Speaker 1: Scott Hall hooks up the razor's edge, but no lex
Speaker 1: Luger counters by backdropping Scott Hall up and out of
Speaker 1: the match. Dusty's screaming, come on, Luger, it's great. They're
Speaker 1: getting like WCW raw rob about it. Yep, and then
Speaker 1: Luger it's huge to drop backdropping haul out of the match,
Speaker 1: grabs six and tosses him down onto hall. Come on, Luger,
Speaker 1: he ducks the he ducks the big boot. I think
Speaker 1: of Kevin Nash and hits Kevin Nash in the head
Speaker 1: with a forearm and lifts Kevin Nash in the torture rack.
Speaker 1: He's got him up. He's gonna do this. He's gonna
Speaker 1: take out the whole nWo by himself. Luger is a superman,
Speaker 1: Tony Schiavanni declares. However, as he saunters over the ropes
Speaker 1: with Nash in the torture rack, Luger drops Nash and
Speaker 1: Jesse's is about to eliminate him. Giant sneaks up and
Speaker 1: tosses Luger at the same time Nash is falling out
Speaker 1: of the ring, and with that the Giant wins World
Speaker 1: War three nineteen ninety six the sixty man Battle Royal
Speaker 1: in twenty eight minutes and twenty one second to secure
Speaker 1: a world title shot. He then calls it the greatest
Speaker 1: Battle Royal in the history of this sport and the
Speaker 1: greatest pay per view we've ever seen. Pessner makes the
Speaker 1: announcement is they're screaming Pyro and you know they already
Speaker 1: start speculating what a shot at Hollywood Hogan would look
Speaker 1: like for the giant who's in the NWOL lukers on
Speaker 1: the floor making hand signals like it was four on one.
Speaker 1: You're damn lucky. There's luger chance. As the nWo raises
Speaker 1: the giants hands and do the outsider finger point, they
Speaker 1: pose for photos from ringside photographers took actually a legendary
Speaker 1: picture that I used to have and from WW magazine
Speaker 1: at this moment with everybody posted the wolfpack hands sign yep.
Speaker 2: Oh sure, yeah, I know you're talking about.
Speaker 1: We'll get the credit roll and you know what it is,
Speaker 1: EVP Eric Bischoff all the way on down Wrestling Operations,
Speaker 1: Jenny Angle, Terry Taylor and Jody Hamilton and JJ Dillon Boss.
Speaker 1: This has been a lapsed fan production of World War
Speaker 1: three ninety six.
Speaker 2: Indeed, and also you get Chef Kevin as your caterer,
Speaker 2: by the way, so so chew on that.
Speaker 1: Who knows what's next. Keep your eye peeled and your
Speaker 1: ears locked and we'll see you next time on that
Speaker 1: fucking cast.
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