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190 | Summerslam 1990 - Part 2 · The ExtraCooler Show

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  Welcome to the Western show. You continue to talk like you're
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  talking right now. You'll be history on this
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  program. Cooler show.
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  Nobody eats beefaroni on a boatman.
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  That's. A problem Yokozuna blew my.
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  Mind. Welcome back to the Extra Cooler
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  show. My name is not Nick, not
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  otherwise known as Extra Cooler. But I am here and I promise you
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  this is not an extra credit episode.
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  I am not here solo for long. We will get into episode 190 for
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  SummerSlam 1990 Part 2. I assure you that.
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  But we had so much fun recording these episodes, all four of us
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  for SummerSlam here and we are excited for you to listen.
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  But since we recorded this episode, we got the news of the
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  passing of the professional wrestler and pop culture icon
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  Hulk Hogan. Hulk Hogan, Terry Bollea died on
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  July 24th, 2025 at the age of 71 years old.
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  Thinking about 71 for a 1980s wrestler that went up and down
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  those roads, did all those tough things to their body.
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  I'll let you take liberty with where and how you want to take
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  that. But yeah, it it's pretty cool to
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  see a wrestler from the 80s live to be 71.
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  I know that's really young in 2025, but it's still pretty cool
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  to see, you know, Hogan be in our lives for that long.
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  I'm sure by now you've heard many people try their best to
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  pay tribute or take potshots at Hulk Hogan or Terry Bollea, and
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  I'm going to try my best to do that before we get into the
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  episode. The phrase I've heard the most
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  when talking about the Hulkster has been it's complicated.
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  And I actually use that, too, when a neighbor of mine texted
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  her condolences to me about Hogan and she's not a wrestling
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  fan. But I said, you know, it's, it's
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  complicated with the Hulkster. And I kind of left it at that
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  because it truly is it, it's hard to put into words my
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  feelings about Hulk Hogan. You know, the relationship we
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  have with Hulk and with Terry are truly a definition of
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  dichotomy. You know, pretty wild that he
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  died 10 years to the day after the release of the Gawker tape,
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  July 24th, 2015, and really put a true spotlight on what created
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  that dichotomy with Hogan or Hulkster and Terry the man.
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  You know, there were definitely some awful things that came
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  about with Terry Bollea. And it's definitely important to
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  the conversation, but you tune into the Extra cooler show to
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  enjoy some, you know, fun pro wrestling nostalgia at its best.
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  And that's the path I kind of want to take when talking about
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  the Hulkster. So no more Terry for now.
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  But you know, as a wrestling fan, you, you know, something is
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  big when you get texts and calls from non wrestling people.
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  And this is exactly that. You know, my brother-in-law was
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  actually the first one to call me.
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  And it's not often that I get a call from from him.
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  It's usually just a text of him trying to sell me on some really
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  bogus fantasy football trade. So I was really thrown off when
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  the phone rang. I didn't know what I was going
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  to get when I picked up the other other side.
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  And all I get was his voice going the holster.
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  Is it true? And as soon as I as soon as I
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  saw the news, I thought, I got a guy for this and I called you
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  and you don't like at that point, it was still fresh.
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  It was still brand new. It was still just TMZ reports.
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  So that was just kind of how important Hogan is not only to
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  the wrestling world, but to just pop culture and to the the world
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  at large. You know, Hogan won the title
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  from the Iron Sheik at MSG in 1984 and Vince McMahon shot him
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  to the absolute moon. You know, Vincent Hogan really,
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  really changed the business from the regional, you know,
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  territory structure. And then with a little bit of
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  help from MTV on the way to WrestleMania in 1990, excuse me,
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  in 1985, you know, after that Mania.
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  And Hogan was really the first wrestler to transition into
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  stardom. Hell, he was even on kids bed
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  sheets thanks to Rock and wrestling.
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  I think some of us from this show may have even had those.
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  Actually, I'm fairly certain that that was the case.
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  So, you know, as we look, Hogan has even more moments.
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  You can look at WrestleMania 3 slamming Andre, of course, that
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  that feud being a massive for Hogan and his mega stardom, the
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  mega powers exploding or the mega powers, you know, storyline
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  and as a whole was something that is still talked about as
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  being one of the best storylines in wrestling.
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  WrestleMania 6 against The Ultimate Warrior are still
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  reasons why people are wrestling fans to this day.
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  And then, you know, Hogan did it again in 1996 6 when he turns
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  heel with WCW and Hollywood Hogan is born and change the
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  business for for the better. If you really think about it.
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  There's so many more things to talk about with Hogan's, you
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  know, lasting impression on the business and what he did.
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  But I do need to talk about WrestleMania 18 versus The Rock,
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  which may be one of our favorites here on the Extra
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  Cooler show. And you can go back and listen
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  more about it way back on episode 11, Nick and Jim were in
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  the house for it. So it's definitely fun to hear
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  their first hand experiences with, with WrestleMania 18
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  against The Rock. But yeah, without, without
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  Hogan, the business really wouldn't be what it is today.
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  And I, I can honestly say there wouldn't be an extra cooler show
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  without Hulk Hogan in our lives. Hogan has been a topic on in
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  some way, shape or form on 28 of our 190 episodes.
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  That's roughly 15% of the extra Cooler show has Hulk Hogan on it
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  and this episode is no different.
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  You know, I hope you all have been training and saying your
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  prayers and taking your vitamins for the Hulkster over the last
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  week, but sit back and enjoy some even more Hogan chaos from
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  SummerSlam 1990. And if you want more, I highly
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  recommend going back and re watching his Hall of Fame speech
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  from 2005 leading into WrestleMania 21.
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  It's on YouTube. But it's pretty cool to see
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  Hogan, the professional wrestler, the mega star, get his
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  flowers from fans and wrestlers alike on that video.
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  And I will leave you with how Hogan left us during that 2005
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  Hall of Fame speech. And then we'll get you right
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  into Summer Slam in 1990, brother.
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  And at the end of the day, the WWE has the greatest athlete
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  athletes in the world. It's the greatest form of
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  entertainment in the world. And now, because they've
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  inducted me into the Hall of Fame, Hulkamania will be
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  immortal. Hulkamania will live forever.
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  And what you're going to do, brothers, when the WWE runs wild
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  on. You.
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  Thank you. Welcome back to Part 2 of our
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  SummerSlam spectacular episode of the Extra Cooler show.
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  My name is Nick, otherwise known as Extra Cooler.
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  Oh, that was a mouthful. And I know.
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  Oh. Man.
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  I'm joined by Matt, Mike, and Jim as usual.
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  You can find us on Instagram at Extra Cooler and at the Extra
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  Cooler Show. Join us over on our Discord
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  channel. It's gonna come in handy because
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  we are This is like the season finale of of the extra cooler
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  show, right? Like Jim always teases seasons
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  and I don't feels. Appropriate.
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  It feels appropriate. Right.
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  We're recording this in July and here we are.
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  This is like a yeah two-part season finale like in the 90s
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  and where we left left last left off was the Bushwackers going
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  down a log flume and the WrestleMania 7 commercial.
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  It's like the perfect Cliff anchor.
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  We are pre recording this like we're demolition with clean face
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  paint. Yeah, we got all freshened back
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  up again and fired it back up. Do you think that the
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  Bushwackers survived that ride? I doubt it it was.
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  What's the pit? Pit of jobbers.
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  Try to lick. Someone's head in front.
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  Of them sardines sandwich while they were riding it.
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  Drinking. Drinking the log flume water.
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  Do you think they do that? They probably would.
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  So we've already kind of teased this a little bit, but a little
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  peek behind the curtain. First of all, it's thank you for
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  listening to this podcast. I, I've been saying a lot
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  lately. I am so appreciative to anybody
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  that hops on and turns this on as one of their choices of their
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  wrestling podcast that they listen to.
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  But the truth is, is we're we're approaching Year 5 of this
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  podcast and we all love it. We're all here for it.
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  But when we started this, our kids weren't that old.
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  And we've realized over the years that the you.
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  Weren't even 40 yet. Yeah.
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  That's true. That's part of the problem
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  there, yeah. Yeah, that the summers get busy
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  and things pop up and I, I love this podcast, but I don't want
• 9:29
  to tell my wife and my kids know we can't do that because I have
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  to record this podcast. How do you get out of the pool?
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  I got to talk about. I got to talk about scanner.
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  I got Matsui. So the truth is, is like in the
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  summer, we were always overloaded and like, there's
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  always conflicts that pop up. But anyway, So what we've
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  decided to do is this is our our season finale, if you will, and
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  we have all intentions of returning to you in the fall.
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  But we're leaving the door open in case if we decide to hop on
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  and record in in the month of August, whether it's because
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  something big on that Summer slam happens, something big in
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  wrestling period happens or or. If stop by coming back from the
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  dead, yeah. Yeah, that's that's an emergency
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  episode right there. Break the glass.
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  Here we come. Or like Jim said, if you guys
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  throw something out on our Discord channel, especially if
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  you're a new member and you say cover this challenge, you never
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  know what would happen. Challenge.
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  Accepted. If you're joining just to tell
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  us, hey, you got to cover this. Yeah, it's that spicy.
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  If we like take a quick look and we're like shit.
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  So have No Fear. Again, thank you for listening.
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  You know, feel free to go back in the archives.
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  There's so much summer content that we have out there and
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  rather than us like pushing it again, just go have fun.
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  Just go search through or, or we'll see you in September or if
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  you miss us that much, like I said, hop in the discard.
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  Matt, you got some quick housekeeping before we play a
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  quick game. Oh, a game.
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  Well, enough is enough, and it's time.
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  For housekeeping. After Part 1, we started talking
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  about during the Sherry segment that AWWF official came to the
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  ring and informs the sink that Sapphire has 30 seconds to make
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  it to the ring or risk of forfeiture.
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  I thought it was an interesting way that they say risk of
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  forfeiture, but it was the guy with that classic almost bowl
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  looking hair that you think of when you think of a WWF show
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  from the early 90s and we couldn't figure out his name in
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  the moment that is Renee Goulet. So he started in the AWA, which
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  was then the WWWF, or excuse me then was in the WWWF in the 70s
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  and 80s. He was a www.f tag team champion
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  with Carl Gotch, which was in December of 1971 and they were
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  defeating the crazy Luke Graham and Tarzan Tyler.
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  That's where they won the titles from.
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  But he retired in 1987, and he was one of the He was also one
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  of the officials that tried to save The Ultimate Warrior after
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  he was locked in the casket by the under.
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  Oh, yes, yeah. Or more memory for this little
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  warrior guy here. We always called him like Hulk
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  Hogan's brother or like. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  I think was it fake Hulk Hogan? I myself and my brother Brian
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  were like kind of fascinated by this guy 'cause you always show
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  up when it was like, you know, the shit was hitting the fan and
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  it's like, oh, there's fake Hulk Hogan or whatever it was.
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  Yeah. Renee Goulet.
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  That was his name. That was his name.
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  It's the hare. I mean, he's got the same.
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  Definitely the hare. A little sleazier almost, which
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  is hard to believe. Oh yeah, sleazier.
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  A good word. All right, you guys want to play
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  a game. I got a game for you guys that
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  we're going to we're going to play right now.
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  I'm going to have you guys blind rank wrestlers from the first
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  half of SummerSlam. 90 card that we covered in Part 1.
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  OK, so here's how this is going to go.
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  There's five empty slots, and I'm gonna give you wrestler.
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  I'm gonna give you the first guy.
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  I want you to slot him somewhere 1234 or five.
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  Then I'll give you the second wrestler, and then the 3rd and
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  the 4th and the 5th, OK? So choose wisely as I present
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  these to you. OK, Let's.
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  Do it. You're ready.
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  The first wrestler that I'd like you to rank numbers one through
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  5 before we hit record, Mike went and jumped the shark is
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  Marty Gianetti. Rank Marty Janetti one through.
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  Five. I knew he was going to be first.
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  So you have to rank them how? What are we ranking them for?
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  Like most overall? Hard overall.
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  No, no, nothing. I'm sorry, that's a thank you
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  for bringing that up. Just overall career.
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  Overall career. Oh, wow.
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  Oh. All right, that changes.
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  Everything let's do overall WWF career.
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  OK, that's fair. Their time in the Federation.
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  I'm going. To say. 4 You said genetti the
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  genetti. Oh boy. 4/4 sounds pretty
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  appropriate. I'm with you guys.
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  I think Party Marty is headed in at #4.
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  Yeah, You know, Brett's around up there, right?
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  Perfect. Cato could be in there.
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  Oh no. Well, Cato's in the back half,
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  but you don't know, he might not even Nick's going to like not
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  hold these guys back and really left ranking, you know, Paul
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  Roma or something, right? God forbid if Paul Roma is the
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  head of party. Marty All right, Ready.
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  Move him. SEC.
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  As a safety, I don't know. Marty, Marty.
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  Three. Put him at three.
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  Put him at 3:00. No, no, no.
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  It's. Party Marty Ginetti, the patron
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  St. of the Extra Cooler show. That's right.
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  Continental Champion. I I he's getting extra, He's
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  getting extra points because he is the patron St. of the extra
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  cooler show as Jim as so eloquently put him.
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  I don't control the screen. I'm controlling the right guys.
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  I'm putting him at. Three.
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  All right, there he is. Marty Ginetti at #3 ready,
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  ready. Here's your second superstar,
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  Jake the Snake Roberts. All right.
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  This has to be two if you're holding out for Brett.
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah. This would have been if we kept
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  Marty at 4:00. This would have been the the
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  rock. Solid three.
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  Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'm comfortable with two because
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  you know he's going to throw us some sort of trash.
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  Sean is out there bro. Yeah.
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  Yeah, but messed up. We messed up.
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  OK, Jake the snake is ready. Yeah.
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  We're good. Jake's at #2 ready #3 the big
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  boss man. OK, that I feel good about this.
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  Yeah, I miss that. All right.
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  Never had a title. Yeah.
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  Another one or hardcore title I guess.
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  Another one that's close to the extra cooler.
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  Maybe not necessarily the show, but we'll interact with with you
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  online I'm pretty sure. Not big boss man, but his son.
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  Obviously big boss man. So they got we've got, we're
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  looking at spots one and five are open right now. 2 is Jake, 3
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  is Marty, 4 is boss man number, fourth choice that I am going to
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  give you. Here comes the Dick move.
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  Dusty. No, he's in the back.
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  He's in the front. Go.
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  Mr. Perfect. One, he can't be 5.
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  Yeah, yeah, I like it. I like it because if Brett comes
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  up, then Matt is going to be like, you know, he's going to
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  put a do a celebration around his.
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  House and Shawn are both out there.
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  That's fine. I'm I'm into it.
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  I'll. Take it.
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  He can't be 5 perfect. Come on.
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  I'm begrudgingly walking. It in perfect I What if I throw?
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  You Shawn Michaels right now, you're going to put him at #5.
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  Or Brent. Or that's the whole game.
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  Game right? Well gentlemen, you have played
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  this game wisely. Because the number 5.
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  Superstar is Texas tornado all right I.
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  Like this ranking? I I.
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  Perfect you. Guys did a really nice job on
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  this. I'm kudos to you.
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  I thought I had you for a split second there.
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  It was tricky. I thought for sure Brett would
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  appear. Yeah, I purposely kept Brett and
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  Sean off of this. I couldn't help myself, I had to
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  throw flaws. All right, so your your blind.
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  Rankings are. Perfect Jake, Marty Bossman and
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  Texas Tornado. Kudos to you guys.
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  I am wow, I should have thrown you Texas tornado earlier.
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  I'm really. Pleased that we put Marty at
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  3:00. I am too.
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  I was about to say the same thing.
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  I think Marty, you could argue bossman.
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  Bossman and Marty you could argue.
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  I think Bossman obviously in in the regular WWF fan fandom.
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  Longwood. Longevity as well.
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  But Party Marty's just crack a butt.
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  Nice man. Let's let's do it.
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  Yeah, and the rockers were, I mean, Bossman was over, but
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  rockers were so over, so. Yeah.
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  So you could, you could definitely argue it.
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  It's it's, it's a fun game. I'm cool with it.
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  Yeah, we'll have to play it again.
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  But yeah, again, that was based off the first half of Summer
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  Slam 1990. So if you didn't listen to it,
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  go back, hit pause right now, go back to listen to Part 1 and
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  then join us and and continue it right now because we're best
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  part. You if you play along, tell us
• 18:25
  what you had in the discord. Go.
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  I like that. I like that.
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  If you guys didn't pick up on it already, we want you to join our
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  discord. So yeah, stop being lazy.
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  Click the link, join it. It's just an extra app on your
• 18:39
  phone, right? It's better than Facebook and
• 18:41
  looking at your grandma. Yeah, if you're taking, if
• 18:43
  you're taking a dump and you're dumb with your New York Times
• 18:46
  puzzles for the day and you need to look something else and
• 18:48
  you're sick of the other stuff, pop on Discord and read about,
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  you know, all the fun stuff we talked about.
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  Hell yeah. So we're continuing.
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  Now. Summer Slam 1990 which takes
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  place on Monday, August 27th, 1990 from the The Spectrum in
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  Philadelphia, PA. There's close to a little over
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  19,000 people. The tagline is the heat returns.
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  This is the third annual SummerSlam and we are picking up
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  right where we left off with a Demolition backstage interview.
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  If, if you care to watch along, we're not doing this and watch
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  along presentation, but we are like almost exactly halfway
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  through the pay-per-view at one hour and 20 minute mark.
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  And Demolition is basically here ranting and raving how they're
• 19:34
  pissed that Legion of Doom came to help.
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  They would have won without the help of, of Legion of Doom
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  against the Heart Foundation that is.
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  And I have a massive gripe with this.
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  OK, there. I, I alluded to this in Part 1.
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  There are so many promos that must have been taped before the
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  event began, or like the next day or the next night or the day
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  before, because the demolition is standing there with me and
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  Gene. In front of that like clouded
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  classic summer slam screen and they look like they took turns
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  spraying each other's body with a, a like a a mistake bottle.
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  They have the cleanest. There is no chance these two
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  these 3 wrestled at all like and they're they're they're they're
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  pissed. They're fired up all right.
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  Yeah, the line in the Warrens Yvonne Werewolves of London.
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  What? What is it?
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  His hair? His face paint was perfect,
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  which makes. Me think Axe Denny's head.
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  Because a couple months later, Axe's hair was perfect.
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  Survivor Series, 1990. Oh yeah, famous, famous signage.
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  So hawk, you'll be Hawking hot dogs in the stands and animal
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  you'll be neutered their their key tagline.
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  What did Crush say? Nothing.
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  Crush. Crush.
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  Crush Crush very looked very strange to me here.
• 21:13
  I don't know what it is and they kind of hide him in the back.
• 21:15
  Obviously he's the tallest one, but huge.
• 21:17
  Compared to the other two. Yeah, yeah.
• 21:19
  But for some reason he looks more naked than he normally is
• 21:22
  because that makes sense. Like he's got 1, you know, And
• 21:25
  he wears trunks to the ring, which is like crazy that I'm
• 21:29
  even like putting that together. But I think what it is is he
• 21:31
  wears the tall boots and then the big knee pads.
• 21:33
  So the only like skin that you see is from knee to crotch I
• 21:37
  guess you can say. But.
• 21:39
  He's wearing these like, shredded pants, like it looks
• 21:42
  like somebody that has like holy leggings, like a woman would
• 21:46
  wear leggings with holes in them in the thighs.
• 21:48
  Like that's what it kind of looks like.
• 21:49
  And it's jarring to me looking at him because he looks more
• 21:53
  naked than I. Remember as as off putting in
• 21:56
  general I think as demolitions ring gear.
• 21:58
  Is he the other guys, like you said, are the same size
• 22:01
  basically right? And they're kind of squat
• 22:03
  looking, built like a fire hydrant Guys where this guy's
• 22:06
  stretch and it it works even less on him the demo gear are
• 22:11
  they and he. Doesn't have like any of the
• 22:13
  straps on on the top. And stick up on the pants.
• 22:16
  It's so. Weird.
• 22:19
  It's almost like he's got an Ahmed Johnson type thing going
• 22:22
  on where the knee pad is over his thigh.
• 22:24
  I don't know, it's weird. If you look at photos of him
• 22:28
  like in his ring gear, it's it's very different than what you're
• 22:31
  seeing here. And it like I said, just jarring
• 22:33
  because he looks more naked than normal.
• 22:35
  And I think he's like relaxed a lot too, because his potbelly is
• 22:39
  hanging out a little. Bit more too.
• 22:41
  He probably has one of the longer mullets of all time too,
• 22:44
  I would say, right? Like he's got a oh.
• 22:46
  Yeah, crazy mullet rivals like the Michaels 1 you know,
• 22:50
  wrestling 10 era. I'd say you know is a serious.
• 22:54
  Mullet of mullets Next up, we've got the Brother Love show and
• 23:00
  brother Love is here with his special guest Sergeant
• 23:04
  Slaughter. And basically this is like a
• 23:06
  reintroduction of the character Sergeant Slaughter, right?
• 23:10
  Like he, you know, for me personally, I knew Sergeant
• 23:15
  Slaughter from Hulk Hogan's Rock and wrestling, right?
• 23:18
  He was like the main bad guy on that show.
• 23:21
  And now he's been John from WWF for a while and here he is
• 23:25
  coming back and this is their their opportunity to have
• 23:29
  brother Love, who is a heel, you know, in ring heel manager.
• 23:36
  I don't even know he's he's not managing manage.
• 23:38
  Not at the I don't think. So that's the point, not.
• 23:41
  Here nobody. But he's here with the brother.
• 23:43
  Love Show whenever he's on. Yeah, whenever he's on the
• 23:45
  television. He's yeah, he's a heel persona
• 23:47
  at least, yeah. And he's here to reintroduce
• 23:52
  this bad guy, Sergeant Slaughter, who is?
• 23:54
  Like a long colossal prick. Hard launch of the Iraqi
• 23:58
  sympathizer. Yeah, Oh my God.
• 24:01
  How nervous do you think Vince is behind the scenes here for
• 24:04
  this whole thing? Like this is a roll of the dice.
• 24:06
  Right. Like this is, this is ballsy
• 24:08
  man. This is, could you imagine this
• 24:10
  35 years later, like them trying to pull something like this off
• 24:15
  you? You could not get away with this
• 24:17
  in wrestling nowadays at all, I don't think.
• 24:19
  I mean, although they tried it in the 2000s when we weren't
• 24:24
  watching. But, but here he is, Sergeant
• 24:27
  Slaughter's out there and he's presenting the Great American
• 24:29
  Award. He claims that the United States
• 24:32
  has become soft and weak, and he's declaring, he's declaring
• 24:36
  war on Nikolai Volkov. Like, this is the best we can
• 24:40
  do. We're going to like, shoot this
• 24:42
  guy to the moon and he's declaring war on Nikolai.
• 24:45
  Volkov. Yeah, yeah, he's punching down
• 24:47
  for sure here. Nikolai is like 60 years old it
• 24:50
  looks like at this point too, you know?
• 24:53
  Yeah, and he's this bumbling, happy go lucky Nikolai Volkov at
• 24:57
  this point too. It's.
• 24:58
  Yes, I love about Ko and he uses the term here.
• 25:02
  Pinko. Pinko commie maggot scum.
• 25:05
  It's the four that's great. Put that on the.
• 25:10
  Put that on the hat there and. I love that Roddy Piper calls
• 25:17
  brother love blubber love. Yeah, yeah, that's the classic
• 25:20
  Piper stuff. Yep, and but they were trying to
• 25:23
  sell Drill Sergeant Slaughter as.
• 25:26
  Yeah. Drill.
• 25:27
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 25:28
  And they do, Vince that often. Drill Vince Slaughter.
• 25:32
  Doing his Vince thing and and talking him up and keep in mind
• 25:35
  like this being in Philadelphia all throughout this entire card
• 25:39
  and we're going to get to a lot of it in the back half here is
• 25:42
  very you know 1776 constitution and like a very much American
• 25:47
  history. And here we are with slaughter
• 25:50
  coming in and being this you know Iraqi sympathizer.
• 25:54
  Like you said, Jim, that you know what they've called him for
• 25:56
  so many years, but he. Says, and I quote, he says that
• 25:59
  Saddam Hussein is going to kick our boys butts if war broke out
• 26:03
  tomorrow, which like imagine pitching that to Sergeant
• 26:06
  Slaughter. Like that's a like people are,
• 26:09
  you know, it's Mr. Gigg. Sure, like it's not as people
• 26:13
  don't think it's as real as they once did maybe, but like people
• 26:17
  there's people out there that sure do think it's real and they
• 26:19
  would like stab a man for that. You know that's that's wild
• 26:23
  shit. I'm.
• 26:23
  Surprised that I'm sure there's stories that about slaughters
• 26:27
  like life being at risk in many territories and different areas.
• 26:32
  Slaughter does seem like, I mean like later on he's a he's like a
• 26:36
  Vince stooge, I would assume, right.
• 26:37
  He's like the commissioner later.
• 26:39
  Obviously that's hey Faye, but like he seems like a serious
• 26:42
  behind the scenes guy and he's probably a car or whatever,
• 26:44
  Vince. Vince Guy.
• 26:45
  Feet in my family. After he drops the title to
• 26:48
  Hogan at 7, he goes in teams with freaking Hacksaw Jim
• 26:52
  Duggan. I mean, come on, Jesus Christ.
• 26:54
  I mean, it's redemption. The only thing worse than that
• 26:56
  is throw. Throw the Bushwhackers with
• 26:58
  those two and we're off to the races.
• 27:00
  I'm pretty sure that's a Survivor Series team.
• 27:03
  No, you're thinking of WrestleMania 8, the 8.
• 27:05
  Oh yes, yes, that's correct, The Family Feud host one.
• 27:10
  But could you imagine being like Ultimate Warrior?
• 27:14
  Like you're you're doing such a bad job at carrying the company
• 27:18
  that they have to introduce this jabroni as.
• 27:20
  A heel. To take the title like and oh
• 27:24
  man, brutal. Brutal.
• 27:27
  Anyway, I I don't know the history.
• 27:28
  Is that the plan from the jump though?
• 27:29
  I don't think so. Like that's.
• 27:31
  No, because originally the. OK so originally, and I know I'm
• 27:34
  gonna jump things but we haven't really talked about him at all
• 27:38
  or enough. Fred Ottman Typhoon is a major
• 27:42
  character leading up fan of the show.
• 27:45
  Originally the story is supposed to be Typhoon turning on on
• 27:51
  Hogan and then it going on to be Hogan and Typhoon at
• 27:55
  WrestleMania 7 for No title involved.
• 27:58
  But you know, they decided to take advantage of the real life
• 28:03
  storyline and and and the war and and all that and bring in
• 28:07
  slaughter and obviously one last grasp with Hogan and.
• 28:12
  Wasn't Ottman also getting too big for his britches or
• 28:14
  something like that? Supposedly, that's definitely
• 28:16
  that's the rumor that Pritchard that Conrad pitched to Pritchard
• 28:20
  that he was too getting too like cocky about himself.
• 28:24
  So Vince wanted to like pump the brakes on him, but like dude,
• 28:28
  guys dressed like like tug boat to Tooting his way through
• 28:34
  wearing white white. Pants.
• 28:36
  But like even the, the even the poster and like the graphic that
• 28:39
  I came up with for for this, like it's got Hogan and typhoon
• 28:43
  in the square like, you know, like so it it was definitely a
• 28:47
  last minute thing like that. They switched gears so.
• 28:51
  I don't know that they robbed you of a Hogan Typhoon chocolate
• 28:55
  jacket. Damn it.
• 28:58
  Take him money out of your pocket.
• 29:00
  They're calling him Tugster now Hogan and a promo calling him
• 29:04
  Tugster. That's like a that's a little
• 29:06
  too close to tugger for me, you know, like.
• 29:08
  Like, yes, all right, let's talk about what's in everybody's
• 29:13
  cooler. I don't even know if we have a
• 29:14
  drop for this anymore. We do.
• 29:16
  We do. Here we go.
• 29:17
  You're. Stupid.
• 29:19
  Show me something great. Look what a.
• 29:24
  Kick like it had the Royal mumble graphic.
• 29:27
  The cooler is brought to you by Sloop Brewing Company.
• 29:29
  Sloop Brewing is known for their hazy and golden Ipas like Juice
• 29:32
  Bomb and Supersoft. Who wants to go first in this
• 29:37
  beautiful summer night? I have two drinks because my
• 29:40
  wife came home from her parents house and delivered me a like a
• 29:44
  vodka something, I don't even know what it is, but I already
• 29:48
  had, I had yeah, I had a yeah, No, hell yeah.
• 29:51
  I was not going to complain about that.
• 29:52
  But I had a beer from I got out on vacation and went down to the
• 29:56
  Outer Banks. We stopped in Shenandoah
• 30:00
  National Park and and in Front Royal, the town leading up to
• 30:04
  it, there's a brewery, Vibrissa Northbound West Coast Double
• 30:09
  IPA. It's like 18.4%.
• 30:11
  It's very West Coast Y and the double makes it really kind of
• 30:15
  like, you know, you taste the the alcohol for sure.
• 30:18
  But it's good and it's refreshing and I like it and
• 30:21
  it's a good drink for the back half of summer Slam, that's for
• 30:24
  sure. Delicious.
• 30:27
  Michael Michael Wurquake. Yeah, so I got try.
• 30:31
  Not to spill your drink while you're bouncing back and forth
• 30:33
  like earthquake, by the way. Oh yeah, cuz I'm work Quake.
• 30:37
  That's right. Yeah.
• 30:41
  I got another cut water. I had one a couple of weeks ago.
• 30:44
  Oh nice but re upped on them. This Queens what?
• 30:49
  Is that Queens cut water? No, I'm sorry.
• 30:52
  Are you drinking that out of a can?
• 30:54
  Right out of a can. No, no, no.
• 30:55
  Oh. You poured it on ice.
• 30:57
  On ice, yeah. Oh yeah, I've had that out of
• 30:59
  the can, that that stuff is strong, man.
• 31:01
  It it is 12 1/2% so one of those you know, it makes you feel nice
• 31:07
  for sure we're. Going to see work Quake just
• 31:09
  fall over. I'm going to look over.
• 31:12
  Yeah. I'm bouncing though, yeah.
• 31:14
  Oh wait, is it? It's a seltzer.
• 31:17
  No. It's like a like a Margarita in
• 31:18
  a can Margarita. OK, gotcha.
• 31:21
  Well, there's legit tequila in it.
• 31:23
  Yeah, I feel like they're right up Jim's alley, too.
• 31:26
  I feel like somebody needs to deliver some Cut Waters to Jim
• 31:30
  like they're legit. Is it like the I've been having
• 31:32
  the the ranch water that Yeah, same kind of thing, yeah.
• 31:37
  But more slimy. Gotcha.
• 31:41
  So for me, I found my way to a Lagunitas my father had some
• 31:47
  extra. Well, we went to his house.
• 31:49
  I've seen that one before. My grandmother's 95th birthday
• 31:53
  and we had a lot of extra. Yeah, cheers to grandma.
• 31:57
  So we had a lot of extra beers in the cooler and I took a
• 32:00
  couple home. I saw these Lagunitas.
• 32:02
  It's called the Beast of Both Worlds.
• 32:04
  I've never had it before, and I had to look into what it was all
• 32:08
  about. So it's essentially one of their
• 32:10
  newest beers, and it's a combination of East Coast hazy,
• 32:16
  but West Coast clear crispness. And it doesn't make sense,
• 32:20
  right? It's like kind of this
• 32:22
  hermaphrodite, hermaphrodite of a beer here.
• 32:26
  It's got both old styles. It's a little strange.
• 32:29
  But it's not. It's pretty, pretty sweet.
• 32:34
  It's pretty sweet. So I, I, I'm, it's, it's
• 32:36
  definitely something that I'm enjoying, but I don't know if I
• 32:39
  would be able to have like a ton of these.
• 32:42
  I met and you're like back on the wagon here.
• 32:46
  It feels like, you know, he's like, listen to him talk about
• 32:49
  the the drink like that. I was like, whoa, look at this
• 32:51
  guy. Had to.
• 32:52
  I had to look it up. A bicoastal IPA is what they're
• 32:55
  calling it. So.
• 32:56
  If you're really back, you would have talked about the mouthfeel.
• 32:59
  The the mouthfeel fruity blast of Citra and mosaic.
• 33:03
  So those are two two of my favorite hop strings.
• 33:05
  So it yeah, it says get finished steeper smooth wasn't.
• 33:09
  Mosaic, a Midget wrestler in the like the mid 90s.
• 33:13
  Yes, yes, we covered them recently.
• 33:15
  Nick, what do you drink? You want to talk some more about
• 33:22
  Mosaic? I do.
• 33:24
  Real quick, apologies. Single cut is the Queen's
• 33:27
  Brewery. I'm sorry.
• 33:28
  Oh yes, single cut. Yes, I have tequila.
• 33:30
  I'm drinking a play. Music.
• 33:33
  Play the music, not that music. Tito Santana.
• 33:39
  'S music, of course. You have Tito's?
• 33:42
  Yes. Should I talk?
• 33:44
  About the background, here we go.
• 33:45
  There we go. Thank you.
• 33:47
  All right. I have some Escalon tequila with
• 33:49
  a little with a little lime flavored seltzer.
• 33:54
  Yeah, it's summertime, baby. It's like my daily intake.
• 33:58
  Can we talk about? How much of A value Tito?
• 34:02
  Santana is on Cameo $15 baby. It's 15 bucks in our Knicks
• 34:07
  group chat that they somebody actually went out and bought a
• 34:12
  Tito Santana cameo and sent it to the group as it's been a, you
• 34:17
  know, a rough end to the Knicks season.
• 34:20
  And apparently we learned that Tito Santana is a mixed thing.
• 34:24
  Hell yeah, he. Consoled us a little.
• 34:26
  Bit all better. I'm gonna start using Tito
• 34:27
  Santana for everything in my life.
• 34:29
  I'm gonna use him as like my out of office message next time.
• 34:32
  Like if someone else it's me. The cameo of Tito, like Jim is
• 34:36
  low. Yeah, I believe he's not.
• 34:39
  Here right now. Clearly reading.
• 34:41
  Clearly reading. From he has not read it before
• 34:44
  he started recording, that's for sure.
• 34:45
  He's like, what is this shit? They were 15 bucks he's making
• 34:49
  probably if he's banging them out like that.
• 34:52
  He's a smart businessman, very smart.
• 34:54
  Bucks undercount everybody man. Undercard sell Pashango, you
• 34:58
  know. Yeah, yeah.
• 34:59
  Pop He did it in 24 hours or less.
• 35:02
  Yeah, hell yeah, I agree. He's outside Bushwhackers,
• 35:05
  whichever 1's still alive. He's always clearly wearing
• 35:08
  those sunglasses, the slash glasses, you know, what do they
• 35:10
  call them? The faders?
• 35:12
  The yes. Yes, All right.
• 35:15
  Do we need to get back to this card all right?
• 35:17
  Oh jeez, I forgot where. We play that behind what's in
• 35:21
  the color every time. Next, our next match goes 3
• 35:27
  minutes and 22 seconds. It is so Jim Duggan and Nikolai
• 35:32
  Volkov versus the Orient Express with Mr. Fuji.
• 35:38
  Fuji is backstage with Orient Express and we have audio on
• 35:41
  this I do believe, right? Oh yeah.
• 35:44
  Oh yeah. I like that it's 30 minutes in
• 35:46
  and we're just getting to a match.
• 35:48
  It's awesome. I mean, I feel like it's pretty
• 35:52
  appropriate for Summer Slam 19. 99-O absolutely, that's true.
• 35:54
  Absolutely. We might go along.
• 35:56
  Tonight Mike's drinking 1212 percenters.
• 36:00
  My beer's at 8%. We're I got another one in the
• 36:03
  cooler next to me man, I got maybe.
• 36:05
  Drinks I got 2, I got 2 going at once.
• 36:07
  Nick's got tequila like we're we're in it.
• 36:10
  It's that Mister Fuji job. Yeah, yeah.
• 36:13
  From USA, Hacksaw Duggan, you have one cross eye.
• 36:18
  We hit so hard. After that you have two cross
• 36:22
  eye. I I've decided that I.
• 36:29
  I love. Mr. Fuji and I hate Hacksaw Jim
• 36:32
  Duggan like I, I, I, I hate. I cannot stand Hacksaw Jim
• 36:38
  Duggan. I think I might dislike him more
• 36:40
  than the Bushwackers. Wow.
• 36:43
  Anyway. Do you notice the?
• 36:45
  I'm sorry, I I know I'm more of a Orient Express.
• 36:48
  Kato and Tanaka, who's the other guy again in the Sedo Sedo.
• 36:53
  Thank you. He do you notice in the
• 36:54
  background he crosses his eyes when he does that?
• 36:58
  Yeah, for a beat. For a beat.
• 37:01
  He he does like the full cross eyes.
• 37:03
  Pretty fantastic. It's a great line.
• 37:05
  You don't expect him to go in on the guy?
• 37:06
  'S eyes like that? No, that's a deep dive dive.
• 37:10
  Huge dig Yeah. For Duggan.
• 37:12
  Who? Huggan's probably like God damn
• 37:14
  you man. We're we're before the match,
• 37:18
  we're interrupted by me and Gene with breaking news.
• 37:20
  We see Sapphire go into the locker room and slams the door
• 37:23
  on me and Gene. They're, you know, this is
• 37:27
  obviously intertwined throughout the entire night and we're going
• 37:32
  to get to there. We're we're going to get to it,
• 37:34
  but. It's K fob though because
• 37:36
  they're real friends like me and Jane and Sapphire.
• 37:41
  Oh, thanks. Thanks for that.
• 37:43
  That was the real missus. Lippi's car is green prior.
• 37:50
  To the match, Dax Ojem Duggan and Nikolai Volkov sing God
• 37:54
  Bless America I I. Think that.
• 37:58
  I purposely did not pull this audio.
• 38:00
  Duggan's voice is offensively bad.
• 38:03
  I'd say Nikolai has a decent voice.
• 38:04
  Actually he does 100% but but Duggan is is bad and again like
• 38:10
  once again where what what what is there to like about Hacksaw
• 38:14
  Jim Duggan besides the fact they could throw the 2 by 4 up in the
• 38:17
  air and catch it? He looks.
• 38:19
  A Royal Rumble winner. He looks like a hoss in this
• 38:21
  match I think I I'm not a huge Duggan guy either but I think he
• 38:25
  looks strong this match. He knocks him around.
• 38:27
  Maybe that's more the Orient Express being talented ring
• 38:30
  workers and selling the shit out of them Probably.
• 38:33
  I mean like, he's not silly. Tanaka sells as well as Mr.
• 38:38
  Perfect in this match. I think so.
• 38:40
  Yes, I agree. Agreed.
• 38:42
  And that's the thing you'd think Volkoff and Duggan could hold
• 38:47
  their own a little bit more. I don't know.
• 38:48
  It's it's the match is a joke. It's.
• 38:50
  You get right to dueling atomic drops in the beginning of the
• 38:53
  match. You don't see that anymore.
• 38:55
  They don't make them like they used to.
• 38:59
  I felt like they were booing and This is Philadelphia, but I felt
• 39:03
  like they were booing Hacksaw and for them, singing the
• 39:06
  anthem. I mean, it's kind of
• 39:09
  disrespectful when you think about it.
• 39:10
  It's like. It was funny though, that they
• 39:14
  had the microphone. Nikolai is holding it and it's
• 39:16
  specifically closer to him than it is to Duggan.
• 39:19
  They're like trying to hide him. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 39:23
  Duggan also bad. How about the fact that Duggan
• 39:26
  is constantly taking that 2 by 4 and pointing it at people as if
• 39:30
  it's a gun? As an art teacher, I am like
• 39:33
  throughout my career I'm constantly teaching kids like
• 39:36
  Nah, sorry guys, we cannot draw guns like or you can't draw a
• 39:39
  gun pointing at someone. And then we got old Hacksaw in
• 39:42
  the ring with a 2 by 4 pointing at poor mess or Fuji like he's
• 39:46
  going to kill him with this Well.
• 39:48
  It was that cross eyed remark, you know.
• 39:52
  If these 6-7 year olds were like well I just saw Hacksaw Jim
• 39:56
  Duggan do it. Hacksaw Duggan did it.
• 40:01
  Piper, Piper is on fire in this match.
• 40:05
  And it starts right out the gate when Duggan's music hits and he
• 40:08
  asks, what do you suppose is the combined IQ of these two fellas?
• 40:11
  And then while while they're singing the anthem, he goes or
• 40:18
  God Bless America, he says, sounds like dinner was late at
• 40:20
  the dog pound. But I think my favorite is
• 40:26
  during the match when Duggan is in there.
• 40:29
  He asks, does his tongue hanging out of his mouth give him
• 40:32
  balance? Oh.
• 40:33
  My God. Those were Piper's golden,
• 40:36
  golden remarks during this match.
• 40:40
  Tanaka. This is a a big splash.
• 40:42
  Volkov tags in, dug in, and then we get a few clothes lines on
• 40:46
  Tanaka and Sato and Volkov and dug in then Irish whip their
• 40:51
  opponents into each other. We get another clothesline from
• 40:54
  the three-point stands and Dugin pins. 3610 out of that thing
• 40:59
  though. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
• 41:00
  Tanaka sells the hell out of it. Also, can we just talk about how
• 41:06
  this is how stupid Hacksaw Jim Duggan is, right?
• 41:10
  Picture the ring. Picture the ring.
• 41:12
  Right. Anybody that's listening,
• 41:13
  Picture the ring. Picture a square.
• 41:16
  OK, Orient Express lines up in the top left hand corner of the
• 41:21
  ring, right? Where would you think Hacksaw
• 41:23
  would go? The bottom right hand corner?
• 41:26
  Nope. This stupid idiot goes to the
• 41:29
  bottom right hand side. Have you ever seen that in A tag
• 41:32
  team match? Have you ever seen two guys line
• 41:35
  up on the same side of the ring? Maybe it has to do with this
• 41:39
  cross eye? Yeah, it is cross eye and also
• 41:44
  the the. Right spot.
• 41:47
  Already expressed are wearing like their color rush uniforms
• 41:49
  and they look like they might be color blind right too cross eyed
• 41:53
  and color blind. Yes, exactly.
• 41:56
  Look at that point. Look at let's well, Duggan.
• 41:58
  'S the only one in blue. Yeah.
• 42:00
  All right, give it cans in the cooler, somebody.
• 42:02
  Half a can. Half.
• 42:04
  Yeah, I'm with you. I don't know.
• 42:06
  Man, give it -1. Don't you -1 I Duggan looks good
• 42:10
  here. He's the lowest ever.
• 42:12
  I don't know. I guarantee there's some other
• 42:16
  like you know, putrid one like that, but Doug, it looks good,
• 42:21
  even strong. He's sexy.
• 42:23
  His music slaps. It does slaps.
• 42:27
  I I think it's, you know, top 20% of entrance themes.
• 42:32
  I would say I would argue it's it's so good.
• 42:36
  It's. What are you giving it?
• 42:37
  Can't in the corner. I'm going to give it a 1.5.
• 42:41
  OK, I was going to give it one can.
• 42:42
  Not even the top 20% of this color of this paper.
• 42:45
  No way. What do you got against Duggan's
• 42:47
  theme? It's the best part of the whole
• 42:49
  deal. Rockers is better.
• 42:51
  Mr. Perfects is better. Jake's is better.
• 42:55
  All right. Boston Ants is better all.
• 42:57
  Right. How about warriors?
• 42:59
  Is better. Bingo.
• 42:59
  There you go, We're going to. Talk a little bit about Rick
• 43:03
  Cruz. Right here.
• 43:04
  Demolition. Yeah, very much Heart
• 43:06
  Foundation, Yes. All right.
• 43:09
  This. Is peak theme music all right?
• 43:11
  It is peak theme music. Take some notes, all right?
• 43:16
  Now we. Can move on, thank God.
• 43:18
  Next match on the card is is Randy Savage King.
• 43:22
  Oh, wait, I had one last thing. I had one last note.
• 43:25
  I'm talking I yeah, I do my homework late at night, unlike
• 43:29
  some of you guys, right? Like, so I have to, like, play
• 43:32
  it at just a level so that, like, I hope my wife doesn't
• 43:35
  wake up. And I'm sitting there watching
• 43:36
  Hacksaw Duggan, you know, go over his music glass.
• 43:40
  And I always think, like, like, imagine waking up and Hacksaw
• 43:43
  Jim Duggan's on your screen. The music's blasting.
• 43:45
  She's like, what the fuck have I done with my life?
• 43:51
  Of all the guys, right? Like it's weird.
• 43:53
  Like on paper that's a weird thing to wake up and watch your
• 43:56
  see your husband watching. That's all I have there.
• 44:00
  At least his face. At least his face wasn't painted
• 44:03
  red, white and blue like. Yeah, yeah.
• 44:08
  Are these bitches? Is Macho King versus Dusty?
• 44:12
  And before we can get there, we got Dusty trying to get into the
• 44:14
  locker room, begging Sapphire to answer.
• 44:17
  And I think it's safe to say that he is one of the worst
• 44:22
  wrestling actors. What?
• 44:25
  What are you sick? Come more sick, The man.
• 44:27
  Whistle after the match. Come more sick baby, I think.
• 44:30
  That's pretty strong. But yes, he's really.
• 44:33
  Bad he's he's really. Really bad.
• 44:37
  Oh damn, you're going to be a hate.
• 44:38
  Man, for this, yeah, I think so. Come on, come on, baby.
• 44:41
  I answered the door. It's a he's a one-of-a-kind.
• 44:45
  I I get where you're coming from, but like, he's, he's just
• 44:48
  a wrestling creature. Like, it's watching this whole
• 44:52
  bit. It's insane.
• 44:53
  Yeah, he's that's, that's what he is.
• 44:55
  He's born to, to do what he's doing here.
• 44:57
  It's insane. It's really like watching him
• 45:01
  anytime I've watched him. And granted, I'm not going to
• 45:03
  sit here and act like this huge like Dusty Rhodes, you know,
• 45:08
  fanboy or this guy who's watched so much in his career.
• 45:11
  But if you've watched anything he's done outside of WWF and
• 45:15
  then you go watch like this American Dream version of him,
• 45:19
  it's it's kind of nauseating to see what, what he was asked to
• 45:25
  do. Like, and you know, like I know
• 45:27
  we've heard about like all the rumors and stuff and it's just
• 45:32
  so corny. It's just so like, outside of
• 45:36
  what he's capable of doing. It's disappointing and it's a
• 45:40
  missed opportunity. It's like they left money on the
• 45:42
  table. Like it's like Vince would
• 45:44
  rather humiliate someone, which I guess is true, right?
• 45:47
  Then make money. It seems.
• 45:49
  I I don't know. And then but the fact that like,
• 45:52
  it's crazy that he paired up with Macho Man like like this is
• 45:57
  an icon. Like 2 iconic guys who like
• 46:01
  nobody would ever say like 01 of Macho Man's best opponents is
• 46:05
  Dusty Rhodes but like. Yeah, on paper, this is the best
• 46:08
  match on the card, right? On paper.
• 46:09
  It should be easily, easily and it's it's it's far from it.
• 46:13
  It goes 2 minutes and 15 seconds.
• 46:16
  Absolute part of a match. The previous match is better I
• 46:20
  think. Yes.
• 46:21
  Before the match you got Sean Mooney, who's like shaking on a
• 46:24
  ladder that's like not even that high trying to interview Macho
• 46:27
  King on his. He's doing the whole.
• 46:32
  Like dude, that ladder is no larger.
• 46:34
  Than the World Wrestling Federation.
• 46:36
  We go to New Heights to get our interviews.
• 46:40
  Todd Pettengill must have watched touched that.
• 46:42
  And then like, yes, I'm finally going to get a job with this
• 46:45
  guy. It's like.
• 46:47
  What do you think this? Is Sean Moody the stairway to
• 46:49
  heaven? Oh, as macho as macho.
• 46:55
  So Dusty comes out first and then macho comes out as he's
• 46:59
  being carried to the ring. And I always the.
• 47:02
  To me, one of the cool things about this is the macho King
• 47:05
  gear. It's like you can see how things
• 47:10
  are about to go over the Top Gear wise for him for macho,
• 47:14
  right right now he's just got like he's he's got the yellow
• 47:17
  jacket with the tassels, but it's just a yellow jacket with
• 47:20
  the tassels. It's not there's no crazy
• 47:22
  intricate design on it, but he's LED out to to the ring by Sherry
• 47:28
  on that throne and as. Matt asked in the text.
• 47:34
  Like what the name of it was. We had called it a palanquin in
• 47:37
  the past. We were wrong.
• 47:38
  That's more of like a Indian thing, like the, like Aladdin
• 47:42
  would you know, like it's covered with the curtains and
• 47:44
  stuff. This is just like a, it's, this
• 47:46
  is just like a, it's a platform. There's no like, no proper name
• 47:50
  for it unfortunately. Yeah, I don't even remember why
• 47:54
  I was texting that that late so. It was it was a really been
• 47:58
  watching this. Yeah, it was a word I was trying
• 48:00
  to. Think of.
• 48:02
  Poorly spray painted throne. I don't know whatever you want
• 48:06
  to call it. Yeah, it's like a just a, a, you
• 48:08
  know, carried throne. That's it.
• 48:11
  So as Macho King enters the ring, you hear Dibiase's laugh.
• 48:16
  He's in that like iconic WWF Superstars stage off to like the
• 48:22
  side of the entrance ring. He, he appears in this spot a
• 48:25
  lot where he's slapping basketballs away or whatever,
• 48:28
  right? Like.
• 48:29
  The mean gene position. Yes, yes.
• 48:31
  Yes, he's on stage with Virgil telling Dusty he brought his
• 48:35
  humiliation. That's where Sherry starts.
• 48:39
  Yes, exactly. He revealed that he has
• 48:42
  purchased sapphire and outcomes sapphire.
• 48:46
  She's got a smile on her face, pink dress, fur coat, diamond
• 48:49
  necklace, bracelet and a bag of money.
• 48:53
  WF gym bag Yeah baby a nice to sell.
• 48:57
  How much does Ted get for that on Wrestling for-sale.com?
• 49:00
  Oh my God that act. Forget about that actual thing.
• 49:05
  Just a the bag. The classic one that they used
• 49:07
  to sell got to be at least 200. I love the idea of like Dibiase
• 49:11
  paying for everything out of AWF duffel bag.
• 49:14
  Like, yeah. Right.
• 49:16
  I don't know, like goes to the Ponderosa Steakhouse and he's
• 49:18
  like, here's here's a. There's a couple hundreds.
• 49:22
  Yeah. This is to me, this is
• 49:27
  interesting because I talk about this like when I when we talk
• 49:29
  about wrestling nowadays. I love intertwined storylines in
• 49:34
  my professional wrestling, like not just cut and dry, like
• 49:38
  match, match, match, match. I love something and I love the
• 49:41
  fact that this weaves its way throughout the card, but after
• 49:46
  this whole like humiliation thing, we get Dusty Rhodes
• 49:49
  before the match can even start, walks down the aisle towards
• 49:52
  Dibiase and Sapphire, but he's attacked from Savage and matches
• 49:58
  is underway. Sherry interferes it with the
• 50:01
  match as the referee's distracted.
• 50:04
  Just you know, your stereotypical back and forth.
• 50:06
  But the match does not last long.
• 50:08
  It's it's a little over 2 minutes.
• 50:11
  It's crazy. Rose makes his brief comeback.
• 50:14
  Savage is able to pin him after hitting him with Sherry's purse,
• 50:17
  which is loaded with something. And and that's that man.
• 50:24
  Sherry at the end of this is screaming and the only way that
• 50:27
  Sherry can better than the best on the outside of the ring.
• 50:30
  I just thought that was like a nice touch finish of this match.
• 50:34
  But otherwise, yeah, it was. Meltzer gave it a -1 and just
• 50:38
  the same as the the dug in match.
• 50:40
  But. You know.
• 50:41
  Loaded purse. That's all well and good, but
• 50:43
  two minutes and 15 seconds, it's like, oh man, come on.
• 50:46
  It's just like I said before, like a few minutes ago, it's
• 50:49
  insane that these two had a match and they like they didn't
• 50:53
  let them go, like they did not let them wrestle and.
• 50:58
  It's all for the storyline, baby.
• 50:59
  That's right. That's what I wrote in my notes.
• 51:01
  I said my notes are I want to see this match.
• 51:04
  Like I want to see it. I don't want this crap.
• 51:06
  And like you said, they have got this storyline like it's the
• 51:09
  major storyline of the entire card, right?
• 51:11
  Like in the back, it's like the one that keeps coming back and
• 51:14
  like they go to it multiple times and obviously there's more
• 51:18
  there's, but there isn't more to the story.
• 51:20
  Like they like, doesn't really play out that much more like
• 51:22
  this is it? Yeah.
• 51:24
  It sucks. It sucks.
• 51:25
  It sucks. It's almost like they didn't
• 51:27
  want to and maybe it's just like recency in my mind, but like
• 51:32
  would it have played off better if they had Sapphire turn on
• 51:37
  Dusty in the match and then Dibiase show his his his
• 51:42
  allegiance with her? I feel like I feel like it plays
• 51:46
  it better this way, especially in the 1990 lens.
• 51:49
  Like if you're. Yes, if you're.
• 51:51
  Thinking about it in the current day wrestling then yeah, that's
• 51:53
  the pop. That's the big like oh man.
• 51:55
  But they've they were kind of playing this up and the fact
• 51:58
  that $1,000,000 man isn't involved in the match.
• 52:00
  It's a all mental mind games with $1,000,000 man playing on
• 52:04
  Dusty and now Dusty is so distraught and he does a good
• 52:07
  job at selling it in the beginning here and, you know,
• 52:10
  running up the aisle to try to, you know, go save his his lady.
• 52:14
  But you know, it takes a toll on Dusty.
• 52:17
  And maybe that's why, you know, you can get over the fact that
• 52:20
  it's only a 2 minute and 15 second match as opposed to, you
• 52:23
  know, this grueling one-on-one match.
• 52:25
  And of course we would want to see that as wrestling fans.
• 52:28
  But from a storytelling perspective in a 1990 lens, I
• 52:31
  actually feel like I like this better than it in match turn.
• 52:35
  Know what happens to it does, Yeah, go ahead.
• 52:38
  Oh well, I was just going to say then we don't get Dusty asking
• 52:43
  Hacksaw for help so. That's true.
• 52:47
  That's true. We we want that this leads I.
• 52:50
  Do. This does the next pay-per-view
• 52:52
  survivor Siege, which is crazy to think that it seems so far
• 52:55
  away from somebody, right? But it is Dusty Rhodes team
• 52:59
  against the $1,000,000 team. And of course the $1,000,000
• 53:03
  team features the Undertaker who eliminates Dusty Rhodes.
• 53:07
  So all roads lead to that, I guess, yeah.
• 53:10
  So what are you guys giving this cans in the cooler this is?
• 53:12
  00.250.25 Yeah. Man, I gave this one.
• 53:17
  I gave it one one can in the cooler and it was because of the
• 53:20
  loaded purse. I like the one loaded anything
• 53:24
  gave it an extra half a can above the Duncan match, but
• 53:28
  yeah. Give me, give me 8 more minutes.
• 53:31
  I have 6 more minutes with the loading and give it 5 minutes.
• 53:35
  So much more meaningful though, too.
• 53:37
  But I mean, you gave it a one. It's not like I'm here, you
• 53:39
  know? You gave it a three.
• 53:40
  Yeah. No, I agree.
• 53:41
  I agree. I would have, I would have liked
• 53:42
  to have seen a little bit more, a little bit more. 2-3 minutes
• 53:47
  would have been huge, would have helped, I wrote.
• 53:49
  Storyline 3 cans match one can. Yeah, I like that.
• 53:54
  Good point. I like it A.
• 53:55
  Lot yeah yeah, I guess yeah for hacksaw looking for sapphire
• 54:00
  just just that alone I'll. Be.
• 54:02
  Yeah. All right, moving right along
• 54:05
  our next match is Hulk Hogan with the Big Boss man facing off
• 54:09
  against Earthquake with Jimmy Hart and Dino Bravo.
• 54:13
  Before we get to this match, we've got a we, we've got a, a
• 54:19
  scene with Sean Mooney backstage with the limousine as he sees
• 54:22
  $1,000,000 man and Virgil and Sapphire getting into the limo.
• 54:28
  And God, I don't I, I don't even know.
• 54:31
  I, I'm like over it. I'm just like, I'm frustrated.
• 54:34
  We see Dusty, you know, running from the ring.
• 54:38
  Into the back. Go.
• 54:40
  And then you see Dusty running like towards the I swear you,
• 54:44
  you here go. Oh yeah, you do absolutely 100%.
• 54:46
  No, it's you do not have to turn up the volume or anything
• 54:49
  either. No, it's.
• 54:50
  Right there, it's a beautiful scene, like the background of
• 54:53
  Dusty just running alone with his big old back there it the
• 54:58
  all of the backstage equipment around and you know, seeing this
• 55:02
  car speed off like it looked like something that Nick should
• 55:05
  draw intense. Like I really see it.
• 55:08
  Fruition. That's that's, that's pretty,
• 55:10
  pretty good. I like that.
• 55:11
  I think that's going to be. That's a that's a money maker
• 55:13
  right there. I do like you got Mooney, the
• 55:16
  dogged journalist going after Ted here, right?
• 55:19
  He refuses to to, you know, not get an answer from but the first
• 55:24
  thing he hears is listen, peon like I love he calls him peon
• 55:27
  right out of the gates and the dusty classic.
• 55:31
  I love the it's like such AWWE trope of like banging on the
• 55:35
  limo as it drives away, right? Yeah, it's such a wrestling
• 55:39
  thing, like banging on the windows and the thing peels out.
• 55:43
  And so our next match is Hogan versus Earthquake, as I said.
• 55:48
  And this, this feud goes back to May of 1990, where Hogan is
• 55:54
  attacked on the Brother Love Show by Earthquake.
• 55:58
  Earthquake hits him with a chair, jumps on his stomach with
• 56:00
  an earthquake splash. Hogan's taking off on a
• 56:03
  stretcher, which we've seen way too many times in Hogan's 90s
• 56:07
  career. Hogan is gone.
• 56:10
  He's gone for a good two months. So not the first time that we
• 56:15
  here on the Extra Cooler Show have covered this, but not also
• 56:19
  the first time that WWF has covered this.
• 56:21
  But they are teasing Hogan's possible retirement throughout
• 56:25
  that span. But Hogan comes back on July
• 56:28
  14th episode of Superstars says he's coming back and he's gonna
• 56:32
  face Earthquake at SummerSlam. This is when Tugboat was said to
• 56:37
  have been in Hogan's corner, but he's attacked by Earthquake and
• 56:42
  Dino Bravo on the August 18th episode of Superstars, which is
• 56:47
  like a week before this, which is is pretty crazy.
• 56:51
  They were like and then right before he's Tugboat receives 2
• 56:58
  earthquake splashes before being rescued by Big Boss man who is
• 57:02
  now replacing Tugboat. It's it's very interesting the
• 57:06
  way that this is all worked itself out.
• 57:11
  The fact that they thought Tugboat could hold his own in a
• 57:15
  main event spot is so strange to me.
• 57:19
  Yeah, the earthquake, typhoon situation and I guess why, you
• 57:24
  know, why they would shoehorn them in there.
• 57:26
  But, you know, hearing you guys talking about, you know, him
• 57:28
  being too big for his britches and Vince wanted to teach him a
• 57:31
  lesson. You know, that could could
• 57:33
  certainly be at play here. But you know, it's 1990
• 57:37
  wrestling like a big behemoth, a monster like that.
• 57:40
  Being in the ring and being on the good side is not normal
• 57:43
  either. So, you know, sure, 2025 we're
• 57:47
  looking at at Tugboat in the main event no way, but here 90
• 57:52
  All right, all right. I'm going to get Fred Ottman on
• 57:55
  this show. That's my life's mission now.
• 57:58
  I've threatened that before, right before.
• 58:01
  So this is like the common theme.
• 58:03
  I I talked about this in Part 1. It's interesting to me how we
• 58:08
  get the deal gets introduced, then we get a backstage promo
• 58:13
  almost every single time. So does that like like look like
• 58:16
  a warthog or what? As as.
• 58:20
  Earthquake. Comes down the aisle and then we
• 58:23
  get a backstage promo from. Home Wait, this is AD they show
• 58:27
  ADHD Dino Bravo just running in circles around.
• 58:31
  Get your energy out. Like it's like dinner's almost
• 58:33
  ready. Go go outside.
• 58:35
  Dino just runs around a tree. I feel like, you know, Bravo is
• 58:39
  like the cartoon dog that is like on side Yes, yes.
• 58:43
  Where did he? Go.
• 58:44
  Where did he go? Like that's. 100% he brings in
• 58:47
  this match. Yeah, if you like fake throw a
• 58:49
  ball, he's going to chase it, Yeah.
• 58:53
  Yeah, and on a swivel. Yeah.
• 58:56
  Hogan backstage has so much baby oil on him.
• 59:01
  Like it's disgusting the amount of baby oil on his arms.
• 59:06
  But again, like to me, this looks like clearly a backstage
• 59:11
  promo that was played on a different recorded on a
• 59:15
  different day, whether it was before or after.
• 59:18
  Because Hogan, he's back there and he's wearing one bandana.
• 59:22
  And then literally a minute later after boss man comes out,
• 59:27
  Hogan is wearing a completely different bandana on his head.
• 59:30
  No, this is not to push different merchandise like this
• 59:34
  is just. This is just poor planning if
• 59:36
  you ask me. I don't think.
• 59:39
  I just don't think you know. And he's not as oily.
• 59:42
  Do they care as much then? You know what I mean?
• 59:44
  Like it was like, they're not thinking like people are going
• 59:47
  to like be. Be bringing in on the Extra Cool
• 59:50
  show. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 59:52
  Tearing it apart. And I know they do.
• 59:55
  I mean, like Vince is big on like, you know, the production
• 59:58
  of things, right? And like, so I'm sure it's
• 1:00:00
  something they thought about, but I, I think they're like,
• 1:00:02
  whatever, like this is how it's going.
• 1:00:04
  To work. Let's get it done now while we
• 1:00:05
  can. Nobody cares, brother.
• 1:00:08
  Yeah, because when you think about it too, for production
• 1:00:10
  purposes back then in the 90s, like you'd rather get it done
• 1:00:14
  with and out of the way. And they banged through all
• 1:00:16
  those like that they used to do like the town ones on Superstar,
• 1:00:19
  not the town ones, but like whatever city they were visiting
• 1:00:21
  next for the house show we're. Going to be in Poughkeepsie, NY.
• 1:00:25
  Exactly something to be said though to me, in my opinion,
• 1:00:29
  Hogan, like with the full bandana, looks a lot younger
• 1:00:33
  than Hogan with the. Like the classic band?
• 1:00:36
  Headband on like under his hair but.
• 1:00:40
  I I love I love watching this and thinking like imagine, like
• 1:00:45
  imagine like some Gen. Zier watching this now and like
• 1:00:48
  be like this was your hero. Like this was like, it must be
• 1:00:51
  so weird, right? I don't know.
• 1:00:53
  I don't know what that has to be.
• 1:00:54
  Harrison. It's like what we thought, like
• 1:00:55
  you saw like Steamboat Willie, Mickey Mouse cartoon like look
• 1:00:58
  at it. Our parents were entertained by
• 1:01:00
  this shit. Like like.
• 1:01:02
  When you think about this too, like what looks.
• 1:01:05
  Like mouse? Come on.
• 1:01:07
  Yeah, what makes Hulk Hogan look so cool?
• 1:01:09
  Like, I don't know. I don't know it's.
• 1:01:12
  It's crazy, man. Always Sunny said it best,
• 1:01:14
  right? Like.
• 1:01:15
  Skin of a hot dog. Yeah, skin of a hot dog.
• 1:01:19
  Oh God, how many times did Hogan make his long-awaited return?
• 1:01:24
  Because it's more they talk about it here and it's more than
• 1:01:28
  I remember as a kid. Like I don't remember that as
• 1:01:31
  again, we were like elementary school.
• 1:01:33
  And it's not something I remember like Hogan
• 1:01:35
  disappearing, Hogan coming back, Hogan disappearing, coming back.
• 1:01:40
  But as his music for my time, yeah.
• 1:01:42
  As his music plays, Hogan spits from inside the ring like a
• 1:01:46
  massive loogie. On to Earthquake.
• 1:01:48
  Did you guys catch that? No, no.
• 1:01:50
  It's just Bret Hart esque. Before we get there, we have to
• 1:01:55
  go back and talk about how beautiful this promo is.
• 1:01:59
  Like this is backing up. This is backing up everything
• 1:02:02
  that I was talking about earlier.
• 1:02:03
  With this being Thomas Jefferson and Washington.
• 1:02:07
  Yes, I apologize. Let's take a listen, because
• 1:02:10
  Hogan gives us something that will live in this soundboard for
• 1:02:12
  as long as I have it. And let's.
• 1:02:14
  Let's. You know something?
• 1:02:15
  That's right, me, Gene. Another chapter in American
• 1:02:19
  history will be written tonight. It's just as Thomas Bossman
• 1:02:23
  Jefferson stood at the side of George Washington Hogan as I
• 1:02:26
  chopped down on the Cherry Tree with the 20 forest pythons will
• 1:02:30
  chop you down earthquake and the holster never tells a lie.
• 1:02:34
  So what you going to do when the holster and the Big Boss man
• 1:02:38
  pass their constitutional rights on to you?
• 1:02:44
  Oh my I. Apologize for skipping over that
• 1:02:47
  I I should not have I. Promise it has nothing to do
• 1:02:50
  with constitutional rights, but this lives in the board forever.
• 1:02:53
  The holster never tells a lie. Forever.
• 1:02:57
  Prep. Constitutional rights.
• 1:03:00
  Hogan never tells a lie. Man.
• 1:03:02
  He is. He never.
• 1:03:04
  Tells a. Lie I.
• 1:03:05
  I I had a nickel for every time he told a lie.
• 1:03:07
  A. Million yeah, Ohms.
• 1:03:10
  Can we? Can we do another Thunder in
• 1:03:11
  Paradise episode just. We might have.
• 1:03:13
  To for no reason. We we might have to.
• 1:03:17
  Five years coming up. Real quick on before we move on
• 1:03:21
  to the match. Real quick, I might be a sick
• 1:03:23
  freak. I like that you.
• 1:03:26
  Wow. It's like almost better than the
• 1:03:27
  sound board right now. Dino.
• 1:03:35
  Bravo, Real quick because I don't know if we're going to
• 1:03:38
  touch on him the rest of the way, right?
• 1:03:40
  Do you know how sometimes someone dies of whatever happens
• 1:03:42
  to him? I don't know.
• 1:03:43
  They get a tree falls on when a shark kills him People people
• 1:03:46
  are like never in a million years would have thought he
• 1:03:48
  would have gone out that way right but Dino Bravo with what
• 1:03:51
  the cigarette smuggling like he gets killed in some sort of
• 1:03:54
  shenanigans with. That Canadian mafia or
• 1:03:56
  something? Canadian Mafia and you look at
• 1:03:57
  him, you're like, yeah, that makes sense.
• 1:04:02
  We're like his. I think when his mom, like when
• 1:04:04
  he was first born, she's like, this is some bitch going to die
• 1:04:06
  in like a fucking cigarette smuggling operations.
• 1:04:10
  I'm sorry at first place. Mrs. Bravo, how could you say
• 1:04:16
  that? I see it.
• 1:04:19
  He's going to be smuggling camel Turkish goals.
• 1:04:22
  I don't know if that's not what a French person sounds.
• 1:04:26
  Like sound like a yeah. Smuggling.
• 1:04:28
  Yeah, smuggling. I can't do it.
• 1:04:35
  I think if he he didn't smoke Camel, Turkish goals, he smoked.
• 1:04:41
  He smoked defense Defense shit. Where do you put Earthquake?
• 1:04:49
  Where do you put Earthquake as Hogan's opponent?
• 1:04:52
  Like one of Hogan's WWF. Credible threat.
• 1:04:56
  He's a credible threat and he's only Yeah, and he's only 27
• 1:05:01
  years old. 27 years old. A double axe handle off the top
• 1:05:04
  rope. Yeah, that's yes, Earthquake's
• 1:05:08
  the man I I'm into. I, I To me, Earthquake is more
• 1:05:11
  of a credible opponent than Sergeant Slaughter.
• 1:05:14
  Like, you know, like Earthquake is a badass and like.
• 1:05:18
  Hogan was running train over Slaughter.
• 1:05:21
  Man, yeah exactly. I want Earthquake at
• 1:05:22
  WrestleMania 7 instead. I wish they were that program.
• 1:05:26
  Put the put the strap on Earthquake and let him drop it
• 1:05:30
  to Hogan. Right?
• 1:05:31
  Like at some way, somehow? Talk about you.
• 1:05:34
  Talk about a guy like Jake. You talk about a guy like Boss
• 1:05:38
  Man never getting a title and like, but Earthquake Man, that
• 1:05:41
  guy would have benefited from putting the strap on him for a
• 1:05:44
  little bit. But I feel like they never
• 1:05:46
  really did that back in like this era, the early 90s.
• 1:05:49
  They never put it on a heel for long enough where they would
• 1:05:53
  become a credible guy, you know what I mean?
• 1:05:56
  Like. Hogan, you just have it,
• 1:05:58
  brother. Have Dino Bravo jam up ultimate
• 1:06:01
  warrior. Then he squashes him eight times
• 1:06:04
  and like takes the belt off of him, right?
• 1:06:06
  Like and like, like you don't need.
• 1:06:07
  I mean, Rob was of the scepter and you know, Macho King Randy
• 1:06:12
  Savage. But like, I, I, I think
• 1:06:14
  Earthquake's fantastic here and like.
• 1:06:16
  I agree. He's like, when you think about
• 1:06:18
  it and and listen, there's probably some old school fans
• 1:06:21
  who will hate me for this. Yes, you could look at this as
• 1:06:26
  maybe Vince trying to recreate Andre and Hogan, right?
• 1:06:29
  Like a big man. But Earthquake can go, he can
• 1:06:33
  move. He is nimble.
• 1:06:35
  He he looks. Like $1,000,000.
• 1:06:39
  Like Mikey said, he doesn't goes to the top rope.
• 1:06:41
  It's wild, Yeah. But think about Hogan.
• 1:06:44
  Hogan does best when he's up against a huge threat.
• 1:06:47
  And it's maybe they set this the tone with Andre, like you said,
• 1:06:51
  Nick, but like when you have a credible threat, I'm stealing
• 1:06:55
  Jims verbiage because it's so perfect, but believe it for
• 1:06:58
  Hogan. And keep in mind, Hogan is 676.
• 1:07:00
  8:00 and 3:00. 100 plus pounds, like it's tough to make him look
• 1:07:05
  like like he's the underdog and that's what they're trying to
• 1:07:07
  do. And that's what works best with
• 1:07:09
  Hogan is when he looks like he's fighting an uphill battle.
• 1:07:12
  Especially Hogan's coming off a WrestleMania 6 loss here too,
• 1:07:15
  right? Like at the previous
• 1:07:17
  pay-per-view, so. Oh, that's true.
• 1:07:19
  It's. Very believable like that.
• 1:07:22
  He's on the downswing. If you're a, if you're a Hulk
• 1:07:25
  maniac in 90, you're concerned, right?
• 1:07:27
  You're very concerned. If if maybe this is maybe you
• 1:07:31
  guys would agree or maybe not, but I think Earthquake is Hulk
• 1:07:35
  Hogan's most underrated opponent.
• 1:07:38
  I'm I, I. Like, underrated, yeah.
• 1:07:40
  You know, and researching, I'm like, I've definitely at least
• 1:07:43
  put a good chance of that being true.
• 1:07:46
  But if we give Earthquake the belt, it's possible we don't get
• 1:07:51
  smiling tag team champion Earthquake and Typhoon.
• 1:07:55
  Bringing like idiots? Yeah, smiling bastards don't
• 1:07:59
  remind me of that. Earthquake you got multiple
• 1:08:01
  times in this match. Earthquake, you know, he's it
• 1:08:04
  looks like it's looking good for Earthquake.
• 1:08:07
  Right, his power step to that. Except for that string hanging
• 1:08:09
  out of the front of his. Yeah, Come on, tuck that thing
• 1:08:12
  in. Quick.
• 1:08:12
  Tuck that string in. Earthquake forms 2.
• 1:08:17
  Earthquake splashes and unable to get the pinfall.
• 1:08:20
  Vince Clash, classic. Like it's over.
• 1:08:22
  He's reading Hogan's eulogy as Earthquake goes for a splash for
• 1:08:26
  the second time. It's it's kind of nauseating how
• 1:08:30
  much of a hard on Vince has for Hogan.
• 1:08:32
  Yeah, this is Hogan. Classic classic fish out of
• 1:08:36
  water cell out of Hogan here after the first the first.
• 1:08:40
  The first Rushmore so. This this may be his like Magnus
• 1:08:45
  opus or whatever he's supposed to call it Magnus opus.
• 1:08:50
  WrestleMania 8 might have something to say about that, but
• 1:08:53
  all right, I'll give you this one too.
• 1:08:56
  The bear hug that Earthquake has on Hogan at multiple times like
• 1:09:00
  it just It looks like 1,000,000 bucks and you you'd think that
• 1:09:04
  Earthquakes might have a chance. This match goes 13 minutes and
• 1:09:08
  16 seconds. According to Wikipedia, it's a.
• 1:09:11
  Good time. Yeah, why not?
• 1:09:13
  Too long. Why does before we move
• 1:09:16
  completely to the cans and the ending, why does Hogan shred?
• 1:09:20
  I don't know. I don't know.
• 1:09:22
  Yeah, that was my. Next point, it's by accident.
• 1:09:25
  No, No way. He's a prick.
• 1:09:27
  He's an earthquake cat. Yeah, he has his bear hug.
• 1:09:30
  And Hogan, just out of nowhere, rips Hebner's shirt off.
• 1:09:33
  Like show me those nips, brother.
• 1:09:36
  And it's like awkwardly, the the shirt just tears in a strange
• 1:09:39
  place too. I didn't grab the.
• 1:09:41
  Pocket like so? So what's What's happening here
• 1:09:44
  is Hebner's doing the classic arm lift while he's in the bear
• 1:09:47
  hug. And Hogan just snaps back and
• 1:09:50
  just, I think, grabs him by the pocket and rips at the pocket.
• 1:09:55
  But the entire shirt just disintegrates.
• 1:09:57
  And he's you've got, you've got his tit hanging out.
• 1:10:00
  You've got his gut hanging out. Yeah.
• 1:10:01
  Yeah, yeah. Poor old Earl, here is is
• 1:10:04
  exposed. Like truly exposed.
• 1:10:07
  Here, I bet, I bet Hogan beforehand was talking to Earl
• 1:10:10
  and he's like, brother, you've been working out lately.
• 1:10:13
  Like show him something. Brother, show him.
• 1:10:18
  I eat hot sauce, brother. I completely agree with you guys
• 1:10:22
  about that being random, but I think there's an even more
• 1:10:26
  random thing in this match and it all right, so let's go to the
• 1:10:31
  ending. He Hogan body slams earthquake.
• 1:10:36
  He then performs a leg drop on him and then Jimmy Hart
• 1:10:39
  interferes. Hogan throws him out of the ring
• 1:10:41
  and then body slams earthquake onto a table at ringside.
• 1:10:44
  Why is that table there? Where did it come from?
• 1:10:47
  Why all of a sudden at this match at the front corner of of
• 1:10:52
  there is a is a table covered in blue apron.
• 1:10:56
  I have no I'm like I'm. I'm backtracking as I'm watching
• 1:10:59
  this match trying to figure out where did this table come from.
• 1:11:02
  Why is there footage of whoever was carrying it out?
• 1:11:04
  Renee. Yeah.
• 1:11:05
  Renee Goulet. Is that his?
• 1:11:06
  Name. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:11:08
  And this coming from. This table falls over it.
• 1:11:13
  Yeah, when Hogan slams Quake on it, it makes the New Japan Pro
• 1:11:18
  Wrestling tables that are, like, historically sturdy.
• 1:11:21
  It makes it look like a twig, like this thing doesn't even
• 1:11:24
  budget. When Earthquake gets slammed on
• 1:11:27
  it and he just slides off it and falls down to the concrete, it
• 1:11:30
  was wild. Yeah, like it's hard to even say
• 1:11:33
  that table broke, right? Like it's like, it's like it
• 1:11:36
  like buckles or something. Yeah, it.
• 1:11:38
  Didn't even buckle. This thing looked like cement.
• 1:11:41
  Of course, Hogan gets back in the ring and wins the match via
• 1:11:44
  count out. Earthquake attacks Hogan after
• 1:11:47
  the match, but the Big Boss man saved Hogan by hitting
• 1:11:50
  Earthquake with a step stool. Not a chair, a step stool.
• 1:11:55
  And it leaves the whales in. Welts on whales back.
• 1:11:59
  Yeah, Oh my God. And you you see it multiple
• 1:12:03
  times after the match and then. He's like, still holding on
• 1:12:07
  Hogan. Yeah.
• 1:12:08
  Yeah, dude. Dude doesn't budget.
• 1:12:10
  He budgets less than that table. Right.
• 1:12:12
  Like, yes, concrete earthquake, yeah.
• 1:12:17
  Pete and world tables for my next.
• 1:12:19
  Peek, John Tenta. Peek John Tenta, what do you
• 1:12:22
  give this cans in the cooler? I'm going last.
• 1:12:26
  I'm going last because I think that.
• 1:12:28
  I3 and 1/4. Yeah, I'm 3 1/2.
• 1:12:32
  I have 3 1/2 as well. Yeah, I think this is one of the
• 1:12:35
  better Hogan mattress. Agree.
• 1:12:38
  Sarah, go ahead. Maybe if it didn't end in the
• 1:12:40
  count out, but. No, I like it though.
• 1:12:42
  It's smart booking though because it keeps tend to looking
• 1:12:44
  good, you know? This is 4 cans in the cooler.
• 1:12:48
  This was so much fun. So much fun.
• 1:12:51
  I feel like it barely touched on some of the entertaining pieces
• 1:12:55
  of this match. Like this is a top tier Hogan
• 1:12:58
  match in my 1. 100% I agree that.
• 1:13:00
  Really goes to show how much Earthquake was underrated
• 1:13:05
  because you sure you think of Earthquake being one of those
• 1:13:08
  main rivals for Hogan, but this match delivered and the crowd,
• 1:13:12
  which has kind of been engaged all night, like I wouldn't call
• 1:13:15
  them a phenomenal crowd up until this point.
• 1:13:19
  They absolutely explode for everything and anything that
• 1:13:23
  they're doing in this match. And Hogan has them eating out of
• 1:13:25
  the palm of their hand and it's a ton of fun.
• 1:13:29
  Meltzer gave it 2 1/4 being an asshole I guess.
• 1:13:33
  He's a little. He's poisoned from the previous
• 1:13:35
  matches though. Too negative.
• 1:13:36
  Sure, sure, but this is so much fun to watch.
• 1:13:39
  Like yeah, I agree, good entertaining Hogan match.
• 1:13:42
  Not a work rate that you're not going to find work rate
• 1:13:44
  throughout 1990, but. Work rate.
• 1:13:46
  It's not bad, though it's not I. Think it's I think it's AI think
• 1:13:50
  it's actually really important that Jimmy Hart, Dino Bravo and
• 1:13:54
  Big Boss Man are involved in this match because it's what you
• 1:13:58
  want to see. Like I especially watching back,
• 1:14:01
  I don't want to see Hogan carrying a match like like
• 1:14:03
  that's all the Hogan matches are.
• 1:14:05
  It's Hogan and a bad guy and Hogan going over and this is,
• 1:14:09
  you know, I would have liked a more clean finish maybe, but I I
• 1:14:14
  agree, it was a lot of fun. Let's I wonder how this is
• 1:14:17
  regarded. If it's go ahead.
• 1:14:18
  No. No, no, go ahead.
• 1:14:20
  I was just going to say I wonder how this is regarded if it
• 1:14:22
  finished the card, which maybe it should have.
• 1:14:25
  That's another really great point.
• 1:14:26
  Like if this was the main, and I understand trying to, you know,
• 1:14:29
  we're going to get to Warrior in a minute and trying to put the
• 1:14:32
  company on his back with Hogan faltering and yadda, yadda,
• 1:14:34
  yadda. But like it goes to show that
• 1:14:37
  the crowd wasn't ready for that. Like this was this was Hogan's
• 1:14:40
  show still. But I think another thing that
• 1:14:43
  goes kind of unmentioned as we're talking through this is,
• 1:14:47
  you know, this is the era where there is no big video package.
• 1:14:50
  And for us rewatching this in 2025, what 35 years later, we
• 1:14:55
  have Hogan's promo here. That Constitution promo started
• 1:14:59
  out with him telling the back story of this match.
• 1:15:02
  And I felt like I understood what was happening and all the
• 1:15:05
  minutiae of the Tugboat and the Boss man and, you know,
• 1:15:08
  Earthquake and all of these things that were going on.
• 1:15:10
  It made me feel like I was more invested in the match and maybe
• 1:15:14
  that showed in my 4 cans and the cooler rating here.
• 1:15:17
  I just really enjoyed taking this in as peak 1990.
• 1:15:21
  To me, this match is summer like is a summer Slam match like this
• 1:15:26
  is what you want to see out of your summer Slam matches like
• 1:15:30
  you want to see a fun ending, You want to see multiple people
• 1:15:33
  involved. It's it's a lot of fun.
• 1:15:35
  It's it's. Like the main event I think.
• 1:15:38
  Yeah, that's. Probably true.
• 1:15:40
  Yeah, it's. Not even the main technically.
• 1:15:43
  He's definitely one of the most underrated heels in the
• 1:15:46
  business. You got to give him an insane
• 1:15:48
  amount of credit, I think. I mean, Hogan's Hogan.
• 1:15:50
  I, I, you know how I feel about Hogan on this show.
• 1:15:53
  But like, he Earthquake's a perfect foil for the guy.
• 1:15:57
  He's not just a big guy. He's a big guy who can go,
• 1:15:59
  right? And that's a big difference
• 1:16:01
  between him versus King Kong Bundy at WrestleMania 2.
• 1:16:04
  No offense to King Kong Bundy, but this guy can move.
• 1:16:08
  He goes to the top rope and he like, he looks athletic.
• 1:16:11
  He's athletic. That's what he is.
• 1:16:12
  And he's a sumo wrestler, right? Like he's a legit athlete who
• 1:16:16
  can go. And it really, it pops off the
• 1:16:18
  screen this match. It's surprising.
• 1:16:20
  I think that's what it is too, right?
• 1:16:21
  Like for a Hogan match, he used to like the usual tropes of a
• 1:16:25
  Hogan match, the the formula. But this thing is.
• 1:16:28
  This thing is. Good.
• 1:16:29
  It looks it's fun. No clean finish.
• 1:16:31
  Like you said, a perfect summer time man Step stools, Yeah.
• 1:16:36
  All of this earthquake love is making me go on eBay right now
• 1:16:39
  and looking at earthquake hasbros.
• 1:16:42
  Yeah, no, one more. One more thing.
• 1:16:45
  An earthquake. Sadly we're we're like fantasy
• 1:16:47
  booking him into slaughter spot WrestleMania 7.
• 1:16:51
  Unfortunately, he ends up facing like Greg the Hammer Valentine
• 1:16:54
  in like a 32nd squash match. Somewhere in the very bowels of
• 1:16:58
  the card at the end, you know. It's towards the end.
• 1:17:01
  Oh God. Yeah.
• 1:17:02
  Does the same thing to Adam Baum at WrestleMania 10.
• 1:17:05
  Yeah, yeah. And then he's in like an idiot.
• 1:17:09
  It up. Vince kept him around though,
• 1:17:11
  for a while. When you think about it,
• 1:17:13
  oddities. He always came back.
• 1:17:14
  Yeah. All right, moving on to our main
• 1:17:20
  event of the night. But before we get there, we've
• 1:17:22
  got a new look. Ravishing Rick Rude backstage
• 1:17:25
  with Bobby the Brain Heenan and. His last pay-per-view.
• 1:17:29
  This Yeah, this guy looks like 1,000,000 bucks.
• 1:17:33
  He's got a new haircut. He ditched the long like perm
• 1:17:37
  look, but he his physique. I mean, you look at ravishing
• 1:17:43
  recruit and I wonder why this guy was never again shot to the
• 1:17:49
  moon like you know. He had almost disagreement with
• 1:17:53
  Vince, I think. Yeah.
• 1:17:54
  Oh, OK. Not surprising.
• 1:17:58
  Because I Yeah, he barely like does much over the next year,
• 1:18:03
  which is when his contract runs out in 91.
• 1:18:06
  Then he goes really W yeah, yeah.
• 1:18:09
  I didn't know that. Just like he's on the bench,
• 1:18:11
  basically. Yeah, pretty much He wanted to
• 1:18:13
  like run out his contract because some like money
• 1:18:16
  disagreement over this event too.
• 1:18:19
  Like he he was like I I'm not getting paid enough for like
• 1:18:22
  main eventing. Fair enough.
• 1:18:26
  They they're basically running a ton of backstage BS because they
• 1:18:32
  can't get that cage up fast enough for the main event.
• 1:18:36
  Which is kind of ridiculous how long it takes them back in 1990
• 1:18:41
  to put up the Big Blue cage. Well, as as his Lordship Alfred
• 1:18:45
  Hayes explains, the erectors, you know, he calls them, he
• 1:18:50
  calls it the erectors. I was like, what?
• 1:18:52
  What? What?
• 1:18:53
  Yeah, the erectors. What did he say?
• 1:18:55
  I think my wife woke up for that part too.
• 1:18:57
  The first thing she hears. Oh dude dude rectals like what?
• 1:19:01
  Like a fuck. First time we're seeing Lauren
• 1:19:03
  Alfred Hayes freaking ass on the screen.
• 1:19:06
  Oh my God, we got a Dusty Rhodes promo calling out $1,000,000
• 1:19:09
  man. Again, just bidding their time
• 1:19:12
  as these guys are lugging this giant cage down to the ring.
• 1:19:17
  Feels down emotions. And the to again, though, but I
• 1:19:25
  feel like, OK, so this is the the forever battle that will
• 1:19:31
  follow Hogan and Warrior is the fact that this match just ended,
• 1:19:37
  Warriors getting to go on. And before we can even get
• 1:19:41
  there, we have to hear from Hogan again, right as as Lord
• 1:19:46
  Alfred Hayes is telling the Scream.
• 1:19:49
  But then we get Hogan and he's back there with his demandments
• 1:19:53
  and telling us to believe in ourselves, and he's talking
• 1:19:56
  about buying a surfboard. We got a sad dusty before that
• 1:19:59
  though. Earthquake proof buildings,
• 1:20:02
  right? He's gonna be Quake.
• 1:20:04
  Yeah, again. Yeah.
• 1:20:05
  Gonna be earthquake. It's gonna.
• 1:20:07
  Can I? Can I?
• 1:20:08
  Play it. Yeah, please.
• 1:20:09
  I'm gonna play what I labeled as the surf promo.
• 1:20:12
  And right now I'm getting a new 9 foot gun made brother, a brand
• 1:20:17
  new surfboard with a 2 1/2 foot scag.
• 1:20:20
  And I'm going to go out to Venice Beach and I'm going to
• 1:20:22
  chase each and every shark I can find.
• 1:20:24
  And when I find the biggest wave I can find, I'm going to catch
• 1:20:27
  that tidal wave brother. I said tidal wave and I'm going
• 1:20:31
  to ride it right to the top. What you going to do?
• 1:20:34
  WWF, Earthquake and Jack Honey and anybody else in my way.
• 1:20:40
  I don't mention Tony. Tony.
• 1:20:43
  Yeah, he's getting like he thinks the politics are against
• 1:20:45
  him. This is this is probably the
• 1:20:49
  most giftable, if that's actually a word, Romo of all
• 1:20:53
  time, because this is the one where Hogan does the backstroke
• 1:20:57
  out of frame and it's. No, you're thinking of.
• 1:21:00
  No, you're thinking of wrong promo.
• 1:21:02
  Wrong promo. Yeah, this ones that he does the
• 1:21:05
  motorcycle out of the back of the page engine, engine and he
• 1:21:11
  does, he does the whole yeah, I blew it.
• 1:21:18
  I said Piper Wave. But again, then then after that
• 1:21:22
  promo, we're we're killing more time.
• 1:21:24
  We've got to listen to Piper and Vince like.
• 1:21:27
  Is he saying about title wave like the title the WWE?
• 1:21:32
  Title. Well, you just pick up on that.
• 1:21:34
  Yes, I swear. I said title waves.
• 1:21:40
  My God, I can't believe I didn't think of that so.
• 1:21:42
  What do you think? Why do you think he was like,
• 1:21:44
  you know, emphasizing it? Just saying tidal wave like.
• 1:21:49
  Like you have. To wave God.
• 1:21:52
  Pronunciation. We have more looks at the the
• 1:21:57
  stage crew setting up this this giant.
• 1:22:00
  Dude, they're called it erectors, right?
• 1:22:03
  They're erecting it and then we get earthquake Dino Bravo and
• 1:22:07
  Jimmy Hart backstage once more with Sean Mooney.
• 1:22:11
  This is this is taking a long time to put up the the steel
• 1:22:15
  cage and I've got a. Problem says the erectors do it
• 1:22:18
  as their record was 8 minutes and 42 seconds and this sucker
• 1:22:22
  weighs over 3000 lbs but this feels like an hour.
• 1:22:26
  It feels it. Feels like forever.
• 1:22:28
  What do you say? What do you say They're.
• 1:22:30
  What did you say? They're a record.
• 1:22:32
  I'm sorry, I fucked it up. What did you say?
• 1:22:35
  Their their erectored was. I can't even say it.
• 1:22:38
  I can't. It's in 42 seconds for the
• 1:22:41
  erectors. That's my record.
• 1:22:44
  All right, so after after we get Dino Bravo looking like a real
• 1:22:48
  idiot back there. I don't even know what he
• 1:22:49
  blabbers on like Fred Flintstone.
• 1:22:52
  We finally Dino Bravo. Talked.
• 1:22:54
  I didn't even have that in my smoking a clamble.
• 1:22:59
  Turkish gold. We're finally about ready for
• 1:23:03
  the main event, but before we do, we've got Ultimate Warrior
• 1:23:07
  backstage with me and Gene. And I realized with this strap
• 1:23:11
  that he wears with this blue strap, do you think he like
• 1:23:14
  unscrewed all those things and spray painted that thing
• 1:23:16
  himself? Because it is not clean.
• 1:23:18
  No way. A clean blue strap.
• 1:23:21
  Which are surprised, but you didn't know what he's what he
• 1:23:25
  how many different color titles does this guy have?
• 1:23:28
  Yeah, what? What?
• 1:23:29
  Yellow for Matt? You might know.
• 1:23:31
  Matt. Matt.
• 1:23:32
  Earmuffs, Matt. Yeah.
• 1:23:34
  Earmuffs you. Didn't hear that question.
• 1:23:35
  You didn't hear that question? I, I hate this guy.
• 1:23:39
  I, I, I, I legitimately hate The Ultimate Warrior.
• 1:23:43
  I am putting him up on my Mount Rushmore of wrestlers that I
• 1:23:47
  hate with the Bushwhackers, Hacksaw Jim Duggan and The
• 1:23:51
  Ultimate Warrior and. Goldberg.
• 1:23:53
  And Goldberg, Yeah. Nicholas, if you could erase if
• 1:23:56
  you could erase one from history.
• 1:23:58
  Goldberg or Ultimate Warrior? Who is it?
• 1:24:00
  Oh, Goldberg, Easily. Wow.
• 1:24:01
  All right. Yeah.
• 1:24:02
  All right. Because Nicholas.
• 1:24:04
  Yes, Nicholas. Go ask yourself.
• 1:24:09
  Where's face paint is peeling off of his face as he's
• 1:24:12
  blabbering on about the Liberty Bell.
• 1:24:16
  Like can I play it? This is this is not to play.
• 1:24:20
  I I love, love that Ultimate Warrior, I think is trying to
• 1:24:24
  make a joke here. Jim may say otherwise, but I
• 1:24:27
  think he's trying to make a. Joke Do you know what Rick Rude
• 1:24:30
  and Bobby Enan have in common with the Liberty Bell?
• 1:24:35
  Well, no. One is cracked and the other is
• 1:24:40
  a Ding Dong I. Love.
• 1:24:49
  Gene's reaction so good there. Everyone that's ever seen that
• 1:24:53
  needs to go watch it because Gene sells like he is about to
• 1:24:56
  die if he does not laugh at this or or joke The Ultimate Warrior.
• 1:25:03
  It's not bad if it's Warriors trying to be like, I'm not
• 1:25:06
  funny, but but it's so weird. It's like he's doing the Hogan
• 1:25:08
  thing sort of. I don't know.
• 1:25:10
  Yeah, it does, definitely. Feel the whole warrior.
• 1:25:13
  Warrior. You could like speculate, but
• 1:25:16
  like the warrior warriors introduction and like title
• 1:25:21
  reign was too close to Hogan's title reign almost.
• 1:25:24
  But at the same time, like if you went further on in the 90s,
• 1:25:29
  like clearly as we covered in King Ring 96, Warrior would not
• 1:25:33
  be able to hang. Like, so I don't know, like it
• 1:25:37
  feels like he should have been over down in the South somewhere
• 1:25:41
  and maybe would have had more success down there.
• 1:25:44
  Warrior is such an interesting thing because you have to go
• 1:25:48
  back to like how you felt then, right?
• 1:25:50
  Like, and he, he's, he's a huge deal.
• 1:25:53
  Like he was a huge deal. Like in hindsight, it's.
• 1:25:56
  He are Goldberg, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:25:58
  Like you believe. Yeah.
• 1:25:59
  You believed in like, like, how destructive of a force he was,
• 1:26:04
  right. Like, he was more unbeatable, I
• 1:26:07
  think, in my mind, than Hogan. Like I'd be more afraid of him
• 1:26:10
  going against my favorite guy than Hogan I think.
• 1:26:14
  That's that's fair. Yeah.
• 1:26:15
  No, no, no, that's fair. Because he was a lunatic.
• 1:26:18
  Yeah, exactly. And on top of it, the gear, the
• 1:26:21
  color, the face paint was. Bad at that down the aisle, you
• 1:26:24
  know? Now, so one of the things they
• 1:26:27
  talk about on Prichard is how at this event, like leading up to
• 1:26:30
  this, was when Warrior decided out of nowhere he was gonna
• 1:26:33
  change his face paint, right? Like leading up to this he had
• 1:26:37
  the solid color, like it was like 3 solid colors.
• 1:26:41
  Like, you know, like a black and then a pink inside and then a
• 1:26:44
  green inside. Now he started to introduce like
• 1:26:48
  the the polka dots and the lines inside.
• 1:26:50
  And apparently that was because he was so self-conscious of him
• 1:26:57
  and Texas Tornado being compared to one another and looking so
• 1:27:02
  similar that he wanted, he thought that would be things
• 1:27:05
  that would separate him from Texas Tornado, which is
• 1:27:08
  interesting because Texas tornado doesn't wear face paint,
• 1:27:12
  yes. You don't have to say that is
• 1:27:20
  fantastic. But like, it's, I mean, it's
• 1:27:24
  true. Don't get me wrong.
• 1:27:25
  As a kid, I remember thinking as soon as I told a Texas tornado,
• 1:27:28
  I was like, oh, this guy looks exactly like The Ultimate
• 1:27:30
  Warrior. You know, between the physique,
• 1:27:32
  the hair, the the gear, like the tassels on the boots.
• 1:27:39
  I think this is the warrior. It's AI think it's a tough spot
• 1:27:42
  for Warrior also because they're putting him up against Rick
• 1:27:45
  Rude, right? He too had like an iconic feud
• 1:27:48
  for the Intercontinental title. And like, to me, I watch this
• 1:27:53
  match and I, I feel like it's for the Intercontinental title.
• 1:27:56
  I don't feel like it's for the main championship.
• 1:27:59
  Like great way to put it. I can't remove myself from that.
• 1:28:02
  Yeah, it, it totally makes sense.
• 1:28:04
  And when you definitely, when you think about Warrior and
• 1:28:08
  Rude, you think about the Intercontinental title, you
• 1:28:11
  don't think about the heavyweight title.
• 1:28:13
  That's a really great point that I didn't think of.
• 1:28:15
  And it definitely takes its goal on this match.
• 1:28:17
  Although you know, spoiler alert, I do enjoy this match and
• 1:28:20
  I think it's in the contention of Warriors Best match between
• 1:28:25
  this and Mania 7. Like those are the only two.
• 1:28:28
  I have that in my notes. It's this, this, and it's like
• 1:28:31
  those are one and two, one and two.
• 1:28:33
  Yeah, I don't think this goes above 7, but this is definitely
• 1:28:37
  enjoyable. But we'll, we'll get there.
• 1:28:41
  I do love warriors gear. He's got like the black trunks
• 1:28:44
  with a lot of the neon green and pink and blue in there.
• 1:28:49
  It's just it again. It just feels like it it it's
• 1:28:54
  one of those feuds that just. Yeah, I think you could.
• 1:28:58
  They're too. Close in timeline to each.
• 1:29:01
  Other they're doing a disservice to them like too, you could
• 1:29:04
  probably, if you did research on this, I'm sure there's a million
• 1:29:07
  guys who won the title and they like kind of like maybe we made
• 1:29:10
  a mistake and they kind of like, you know, kind of run it down
• 1:29:15
  and put it in bad spots. I'm thinking of like, you know,
• 1:29:18
  Jericho versus Triple H at the WrestleMania, which follows a
• 1:29:21
  Hogan essentially. I know there's a a women's title
• 1:29:24
  match in between, but like this match coming off of the
• 1:29:26
  Earthquake Hogan match, they're not doing it any favors
• 1:29:29
  whatsoever. Why not put that other match way
• 1:29:33
  earlier in the night and throw in friggin Badmuth Brown or the
• 1:29:36
  Nikolai Volkoff match? Even the Saturday night more
• 1:29:38
  event treatment. Yes, exactly.
• 1:29:41
  Like you got a space these double main event and Hogan's
• 1:29:44
  got the promo basically in the middle.
• 1:29:46
  You know, like in the beginning of this match, like.
• 1:29:48
  It's. It's not really fair, I don't
• 1:29:50
  think. But it's it's it's kind of a
• 1:29:52
  microcosm for the title brain, too, you know.
• 1:29:54
  You know, he takes it off of Hogan and then he's got to
• 1:29:57
  follow Hogan. But yet they put him in the main
• 1:30:01
  event of a pay-per-view and he still has to follow Hogan.
• 1:30:05
  Like, there was no time for, you know, Hogan to go away,
• 1:30:10
  essentially. And sure, yeah, there was times
• 1:30:12
  that he was in and out, but like, he was never truly given
• 1:30:15
  the ball. And it's also tough to go from
• 1:30:18
  babyface champion to babyface champion, especially when it's,
• 1:30:22
  you know, through the 8 year old lens of of us.
• 1:30:25
  Like it was just more of the same.
• 1:30:28
  And how do you compare anything to Hulk Hogan?
• 1:30:31
  Anyone in that position would have probably been set up to
• 1:30:33
  fail unless they had this, you know, this buffer transition.
• 1:30:40
  Yeah, Yeah, Hogan holds. Up a warrior does the same
• 1:30:42
  thing. I guess at the end of the day,
• 1:30:44
  like the, the proof's in the pudding, right?
• 1:30:46
  Like, 'cause I know they ran the A house show and the B house
• 1:30:48
  show and wanted Hogan at the top, wanted Warrior at the top
• 1:30:51
  and the Hogan one killed and the Warrior one didn't.
• 1:30:54
  So I mean, like the end of the day, that's, you know, unique
• 1:30:58
  business. Perfect.
• 1:30:59
  Sense like think about it if you're like, hey, you love this
• 1:31:04
  but now we want you to love this like it's never gonna work It's
• 1:31:08
  it's. Similar formula, just this guy
• 1:31:10
  looks like an absolute maniac and runs around like a
• 1:31:13
  psychopath. And on top of it, like that's
• 1:31:16
  the other thing too, Warrior, Warrior doesn't sell as well as
• 1:31:21
  Hogan does. Like Hogan.
• 1:31:24
  Hogan like sells over the top like but Warrior I feel like
• 1:31:29
  just immediately rises to his feet almost every time.
• 1:31:32
  Hogan's on the Mount Rushmore. Fish out of water it's not.
• 1:31:36
  Warrior is as far as you can be from that, right?
• 1:31:39
  Yes, I don't know. He he kind of humped the mat a
• 1:31:42
  couple of times. A.
• 1:31:44
  Few times if he's in a. Casket, or if he's in a snake
• 1:31:48
  den or whatever the hell you call it.
• 1:31:50
  Don't. Don't remind me.
• 1:31:52
  The the match. Listen, we're not going to sit
• 1:31:55
  here and breakdown move by move unless anybody has a spot.
• 1:31:59
  That they want to talk about. Let's go.
• 1:32:00
  Let's talk about the stripper music.
• 1:32:02
  Yes, yes, we did not OK, we did not talk about that.
• 1:32:06
  And I listen if you were to breakdown the four of us and how
• 1:32:10
  we record how we prepare for this you know like Typic, it's
• 1:32:16
  usually Mike or I who are usually the first ones to watch
• 1:32:20
  what we're sign for homework. I watch this and I I must have
• 1:32:23
  texted you guys like everything I wait.
• 1:32:26
  Did anybody watch Rick Rude's entrance?
• 1:32:28
  Did anybody watch it is forget about the music?
• 1:32:34
  It's it's completely dubbed. It's like the first thing that
• 1:32:37
  they dubbed over on the WWE Network is get rid of music and
• 1:32:42
  you you can't hear anything behind it.
• 1:32:45
  Right. It's like stripper music from
• 1:32:46
  the 40s. But yes, but on top of that,
• 1:32:48
  it's not Rick Rude's music. You don't hear any crowd noise.
• 1:32:52
  You don't hear any. The commentary is.
• 1:32:54
  Like wartime era stripping, it's.
• 1:32:56
  Muffled because if you can't hear anything and and rude like
• 1:33:03
  it it it it doesn't war done. If you look up on Spotify, it's
• 1:33:07
  not Jim Johnston, it's actually the erectors who performed that.
• 1:33:13
  Yeah, I'll hit it again for anybody that wants to.
• 1:33:18
  But it's the it's no joke, but it's, it's not even war music.
• 1:33:21
  It's the fact the way that it's dubbed over is so poorly done.
• 1:33:26
  They didn't play with their levels.
• 1:33:28
  Yeah, it's like the first thing that they ever dubbed over a
• 1:33:31
  music. Yeah, that was pretty bad.
• 1:33:34
  It was awful. It takes it like it's.
• 1:33:38
  It takes you out of the moment too.
• 1:33:39
  I. Think.
• 1:33:40
  Oh yes. I agree the match goes 10
• 1:33:42
  minutes and 5 seconds. It's like you said to me and I
• 1:33:47
  have in my notes. It's funny you said it.
• 1:33:49
  This is number 2 behind Warrior and Macho Man at WrestleMania 7
• 1:33:54
  as Ultimate Warriors best match in WWF.
• 1:33:58
  At WrestleMania 12. In WrestleMania 6.
• 1:34:01
  Yeah, I think, I think I'm with Mikey on that one.
• 1:34:03
  I. Don't know I would put this I
• 1:34:06
  think. Maybe third?
• 1:34:08
  Crowning perspective you know, Hogan and Warrior, but I I
• 1:34:12
  really enjoyed this match. I thought they were told a good
• 1:34:14
  story of, you know, the trying to escape the cage and, you
• 1:34:18
  know, Bobby Heenan makes his way into the cage at one point and
• 1:34:21
  pays the price and, you know, Hogan warriors going for the
• 1:34:25
  door and Heenan slams it on his head.
• 1:34:28
  And Rick Rude gets busted open in this match too.
• 1:34:31
  Like there's there's a lot of fun things that I found
• 1:34:34
  throughout this match that made me want to actually go back in
• 1:34:38
  and pay closer attention to the to the move by move and a lot of
• 1:34:42
  it goes to Rick Rude. Obviously Rude is pass off for
• 1:34:45
  the majority of this this match, but there's a lot of fun spots
• 1:34:49
  in a classic big cage kind of way where guys are trying to
• 1:34:53
  climb up and Rick the other one pulls them down and so on so
• 1:34:56
  forth. Rick Rude goes off the top of of
• 1:34:59
  the cage, climbs the corner and goes off the top corner.
• 1:35:03
  That was like one of those things that I did not remember
• 1:35:05
  happening. And then he goes and does it a
• 1:35:07
  second time from the opposite corner.
• 1:35:10
  He doesn't go as high up. He's probably like, oh shit,
• 1:35:12
  what did I get? Myself.
• 1:35:13
  Into but he still goes pretty high up and I was like wow, I
• 1:35:17
  did not have that on my bingo card.
• 1:35:19
  He's one of those perfect dance partners for a warrior type, you
• 1:35:23
  know? They kind of talked about
• 1:35:26
  Pritchard and Conrad on their podcast.
• 1:35:29
  They talk about how Rude never really had a guy in WWF like he
• 1:35:35
  Heenan was like the closest that he had or Perfect because he and
• 1:35:39
  Perfect are both Minnesota guys. Like a buddy behind the scenes,
• 1:35:43
  yeah. Like he never really Rick Rude
• 1:35:45
  never had that solid like buddy backstage and and and Conrad and
• 1:35:51
  and Pritchard kind of allude to that being part of the reason
• 1:35:55
  why he never really fully succeeded in WWF, which would
• 1:36:00
  kind of make sense like. Yeah, definitely.
• 1:36:03
  Him and Perfect were close, like maybe that came later on a
• 1:36:07
  little bit. Again, I think that's the
• 1:36:08
  Minnesota connection. Like those two, it was.
• 1:36:11
  It was the two of them that. It's that's the, that's the
• 1:36:15
  extra cooler show tip for graduates, right?
• 1:36:18
  Like get along, get along with your colleagues.
• 1:36:20
  You go places there. You go try, try for everybody.
• 1:36:24
  Warriors face paint is peeling off as as it did in episode 1 of
• 1:36:29
  the Extra Cooler Show of Warrior.
• 1:36:31
  Versus and that clip you showed, he did have the Whitehead
• 1:36:34
  nipples, the Whitehead nipples. They were ready to be popped.
• 1:36:38
  The nipples are on the the Mount Rushmore of this show I believe.
• 1:36:41
  Right, like we they put. Both of them one and two.
• 1:36:44
  Both of them one and two. Yeah, you can even duplicate
• 1:36:46
  them. I don't know who else, but also
• 1:36:48
  there's a spot where where Rick Rude goes to climb out of the
• 1:36:52
  cage and he's going to exit the door and Warrior goes and pulls
• 1:36:57
  his pants down and Warrior does like a full pull down like Rick
• 1:37:02
  Rude's balls. It's like the word definitely in
• 1:37:05
  Warrior's face. You can't be putting the ground
• 1:37:08
  on like no cheese. He's like, I definitely went too
• 1:37:10
  far. And he pulls his pants back.
• 1:37:14
  He definitely had a full view of Rick Rude's butthole, that is
• 1:37:17
  for sure. Taint who tainters?
• 1:37:21
  Just grundle? What's the term?
• 1:37:22
  Is this the same thing they're? Interchangeable they're.
• 1:37:26
  Interchangeable. My wife would say.
• 1:37:28
  It's called the perineum like. She's in the medical field, so
• 1:37:32
  yeah, yeah, sure. I trust her.
• 1:37:37
  He takes an atomic drop as well. It's who do you?
• 1:37:40
  Think of who do you think of pantsed more in their career?
• 1:37:43
  There's some homework for you, yeah.
• 1:37:44
  Right. I was kidding.
• 1:37:47
  Rick Root or Michaels? Yeah.
• 1:37:49
  Ought to be up. It's close.
• 1:37:51
  I asked Vince McMahon. He probably has a written down.
• 1:37:54
  Somewhere. Oh, yeah.
• 1:37:55
  Oh, yeah, yeah, I think I check, check.
• 1:37:59
  Let me see that. Let me see.
• 1:38:01
  That looks good. I think the problem with warrior
• 1:38:09
  as you watch the end of this match is it is it is a carbon
• 1:38:14
  copy of Hogan and hulking up like the the shaking of the
• 1:38:18
  ropes, the the raising of the hands.
• 1:38:21
  Like to me, that's that's the problem where I can't remove
• 1:38:24
  myself from how it just feels like he.
• 1:38:27
  Is. Like shaking the ropes.
• 1:38:31
  Yeah. Same thing.
• 1:38:32
  And and the fact that and, and again, I hate the leg drop.
• 1:38:35
  The leg drop is a terrible famous move, but he lifts him up
• 1:38:39
  for a gorilla press slam. Gorilla Press slams Rick Rude in
• 1:38:42
  the middle of the ring and then just climbs the blue cage goes
• 1:38:46
  over the top and we have a winner and Ultimate War retains
• 1:38:50
  like. No drama, no drama this is.
• 1:38:52
  My complaints about this match, the ending, it's very
• 1:38:55
  lackluster. And don't get me wrong.
• 1:38:57
  Expecting rude to like at least grab him or something.
• 1:38:59
  Through the well, that's that's the problem with our our current
• 1:39:02
  mind and set is that there's too many false finishes.
• 1:39:06
  But back then there was like, is there not enough false finish?
• 1:39:09
  I needed like 1. I needed one.
• 1:39:11
  There was not one. There was not one point in this
• 1:39:15
  match where I felt like Rick Rude had a chance.
• 1:39:19
  Yeah, no, that's that's a great way to put it.
• 1:39:22
  He was not a credible, he was not a credible threat like
• 1:39:25
  Tensa. No, I guess there's the times
• 1:39:28
  where Heenan comes in and you're feeling like, OK, now, you know,
• 1:39:32
  Rude's going to have the upper hand and it's his way of, you
• 1:39:34
  know, getting out. But you're right, he never gets
• 1:39:37
  like that false finish. I'm going to escape.
• 1:39:39
  Except for maybe when he had his grundle out but other than that
• 1:39:43
  like you're right. But at the end you know he hits
• 1:39:47
  the gorilla press slam and he goes over the top.
• 1:39:49
  I enjoy the fact that this is a over the top and not through the
• 1:39:53
  door finish. I always prefer that personally.
• 1:39:56
  And you get. You get Rick Rude selling pretty
• 1:39:59
  well at the end when, you know, Warriors, of course, like 9/10
• 1:40:04
  of the way out of the ring already.
• 1:40:05
  But Rick Rude gets up and he's stumbling, can't get his feet
• 1:40:09
  underneath them. And you know, there's definitely
• 1:40:11
  a way where he falls into the ropes.
• 1:40:13
  Like there's some good selling that's going on.
• 1:40:15
  But I understand the criticism of it not being a, you know, a
• 1:40:19
  credible threat, that's for sure.
• 1:40:21
  I think I think the hardest part for me, and a lot of this is my
• 1:40:25
  own personal thing, it's hard for me to watch these matches
• 1:40:28
  with a lens like I have no clue what happens, you know what I
• 1:40:32
  mean? Like, like, you know, the way
• 1:40:35
  that Warriors title run goes like, so it's hard for you to be
• 1:40:39
  like, oh, there's a chance Rick Root has a chance.
• 1:40:43
  Just like it's hard to watch the Hogan match and be like,
• 1:40:46
  Earthquake has a chance. You know, I would love to have
• 1:40:51
  been like a kid and, and, and be able to think of it through that
• 1:40:55
  mindset of thinking like maybe Rick Rude did have a chance,
• 1:40:59
  but. Well, you know what?
• 1:41:00
  We just talked about this in the King of the Ring episode, the
• 1:41:04
  Michaels verse British Bulldog match where that came after
• 1:41:08
  WrestleMania. So British Bulldog was the
• 1:41:09
  cannon fodder after WrestleMania.
• 1:41:11
  Yeah, and this is after WrestleMania as far as paper
• 1:41:13
  reviews go, right? True.
• 1:41:15
  So Rude is in that cannon fodder position.
• 1:41:17
  He's not going to. I mean, it's, it's, they're
• 1:41:18
  still, they're still how many years in and they're still doing
• 1:41:21
  it. We're at WrestleMania 41.
• 1:41:24
  That's still the formula. It is what it is.
• 1:41:26
  Like you can't, you can't do that.
• 1:41:28
  No, it's like I don't. Know give it give this Cannes in
• 1:41:31
  the cooler Warrior versus Rick Rude at.
• 1:41:33
  Some running the bank the main event.
• 1:41:36
  Well, now, yeah, I. I I gave it 3 1/2 just like
• 1:41:41
  Hogan and and Mike I had I, I enjoyed it.
• 1:41:45
  I don't listen. It's not again, it's it for me.
• 1:41:50
  I have a hard time and maybe it's my own personal ranking
• 1:41:53
  system. Like if it's a match that I
• 1:41:56
  haven't watched a lot of, like I enjoyed watching Rick Rude in
• 1:42:00
  this match, maybe a three is a better justification.
• 1:42:05
  But based on when I watched this match a month ago, I have a 3
• 1:42:08
  1/2 written down. I, I gave it a 3 1/2 as well and
• 1:42:11
  I thought I was going to be the high man on the totem pole here.
• 1:42:13
  Like I didn't expect the way that you spoke about this match
• 1:42:17
  and the way that you threw shaded that warrior.
• 1:42:19
  I had no expectation of it being anywhere near that, to be honest
• 1:42:23
  with you, but I'm I'm right there with you.
• 1:42:24
  It's not. Of course I went above and
• 1:42:26
  beyond with Hogan. I enjoyed the Hogan shtick of it
• 1:42:29
  all. I I did and this I enjoyed the
• 1:42:32
  warrior of it all and Rick Rude even more so.
• 1:42:35
  But I gave it 3 1/2 and Meltzer gave it 2 1/2.
• 1:42:39
  Yeah, I'm like A275I. I've really enjoyed the previous
• 1:42:42
  match for some reason. Again, I'm not a Hogan guy, so
• 1:42:45
  that really popped for me. But this one, I don't know, it
• 1:42:48
  just kind of felt flat to me. And the ending in particular,
• 1:42:52
  just I would watch it like the endings.
• 1:42:54
  Definitely recommend checking it out.
• 1:42:56
  But like it's just, I don't, I don't think it deserves the main
• 1:42:59
  event status that it has. No, I think it is.
• 1:43:02
  Higher than an intercontinental. Tier.
• 1:43:04
  That's it. That's I think you said it best
• 1:43:05
  when you said that, when you put it that way.
• 1:43:09
  Yeah, I agree with pretty much what Jim said.
• 1:43:13
  I gave it a three like 3 and a quarter.
• 1:43:16
  The ending was just ruined it kind of for me a little bit.
• 1:43:21
  Just how like you kind of feel like insignificant.
• 1:43:24
  Yeah, yeah. You know, when we watch these
• 1:43:27
  matches, like especially this, right?
• 1:43:29
  We were, we were what, 8 years old, approaching 8 years old.
• 1:43:34
  Like I always watch it through that lens.
• 1:43:37
  I feel like and and this especially like an event that I
• 1:43:41
  didn't watch live. I watched a lot after and like,
• 1:43:44
  I don't know if it was when we were recorded or before we were
• 1:43:47
  recorded. Like whenever we would watch
• 1:43:50
  this pay-per-view and rewatch it in college, like Jim talked
• 1:43:54
  about, we would rarely make it to this main event because past
• 1:43:58
  the Warrior promo, there was nothing like that appealing.
• 1:44:01
  Yeah, You know, she puts nothing that funny.
• 1:44:02
  Well, you put it on at the end of the at night at the bar or
• 1:44:05
  something like that. You know, like it's just.
• 1:44:08
  You watch the Warrior, trust me. In Sapphire, you watch.
• 1:44:10
  Yeah, the promos. Oh yeah.
• 1:44:13
  It's you. This is at the end of the card.
• 1:44:15
  You barely make that part. Warrior.
• 1:44:17
  Is just a. Warrior is an interesting guy,
• 1:44:20
  man, and we could dive deep and like, but we would be saying a
• 1:44:24
  lot of things that people said. But what I was getting at is I
• 1:44:27
  would love to know the perspective of people that watch
• 1:44:32
  wrestling that like grew up as Hogan guys and say they were
• 1:44:36
  like 18, like 20s in their 30s in their 40s and older that
• 1:44:40
  liked Hogan. Like I can't imagine those
• 1:44:43
  people getting behind Carbon Copy in Ultimate War who was
• 1:44:47
  like the same exact thing but with a little bit of a like
• 1:44:51
  jazzier outfit. I feel like he's very like
• 1:44:55
  Warriors millennial and Hogan is Gen.
• 1:44:57
  X almost like I feel like there's a slight generation
• 1:45:01
  difference right there. Like you can like they splinter
• 1:45:03
  off there I think but I could be wrong pulling that on my ass.
• 1:45:07
  I mean, listen, look at it. Look at it like whether you're
• 1:45:11
  whether you grew up as a Hogan guy or a Warrior guy, I don't
• 1:45:14
  think anybody is walking back and be like, I love these guys.
• 1:45:18
  Like kids, especially like our generation with again, whether
• 1:45:22
  you're Hogan or Warrior guy, you're not like I still love
• 1:45:24
  Warrior. He's got the best matches or
• 1:45:26
  Hogan had the best matches back in the 90s.
• 1:45:29
  Like, you know, nobody. 'S Matt's got the face paint
• 1:45:32
  with the crisscross stuff on right now.
• 1:45:33
  That's what you're talking about.
• 1:45:34
  Mr. Perfect was my favorite guy. You.
• 1:45:38
  That's the 217th time you've mentioned that.
• 1:45:43
  All right, so ready. So let's let's rewind.
• 1:45:45
  Let's take Part 1 into account and Part 2 into account and give
• 1:45:50
  the entire Summer Slam 1990 cans in the cooler.
• 1:45:54
  Jim, you're going first because this was your event. 5.25 cans
• 1:45:59
  oh shit. I love this card.
• 1:46:01
  It's great. It's like the ultimate comfort
• 1:46:03
  food, wrestling comfort food. I think I, I didn't, I it's
• 1:46:07
  funny because it's the one that transcends like not having seen
• 1:46:12
  it as a kid, you know, like I think it's so good, but it feels
• 1:46:16
  like one of those WrestleMania 7 type cards.
• 1:46:19
  I think where it like really speaks to the kid in me and I
• 1:46:22
  like it's very nostalgic and it's comfort food and it's
• 1:46:25
  something like, are the matches bangers?
• 1:46:28
  Some of them are actually like Heart Foundation versus
• 1:46:31
  Demolition, Earthquake versus Hogan, like it's got a little
• 1:46:35
  bit of everything and it's a blast to watch and it's only two
• 1:46:38
  hours and 40 minutes or whatever it is and highly recommend.
• 1:46:42
  Mike, what do you got? All right, so I split it up.
• 1:46:45
  I'm I gave it like a moment's 4 1/2 cans and matches like 3 1/2.
• 1:46:53
  So I, I guess like we'll split it down the middle and give it a
• 1:46:57
  four total, Matt. I'm at 4 there.
• 1:47:05
  It's sure if I guess Jim's selling it a little bit more,
• 1:47:08
  but if you're looking for work rate of matches, 1990 is not
• 1:47:11
  where to go. Although the Hogan match was was
• 1:47:13
  very entertaining, I found that the car dragged a ton at times,
• 1:47:18
  especially like the intermissions and the head up
• 1:47:22
  blue cage. But this isn't about any of
• 1:47:25
  that. And this is all.
• 1:47:26
  About the erectors, it's the erectors.
• 1:47:30
  It's the erectors. Sorry, but this is all about the
• 1:47:33
  promos. It's all about, you know, the.
• 1:47:35
  Holster never tells a lot. It's all about the glory of the
• 1:47:39
  soundboard clips here, like it's that's what I enjoyed with this
• 1:47:43
  the most and the chaos that was happening in all.
• 1:47:45
  It's a lot of classicness for sure.
• 1:47:47
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:47:48
  Classic is Shawn Michaels like I think destroyed at the beginning
• 1:47:53
  there like. Two hours.
• 1:47:55
  All the stuff I can never forget.
• 1:47:58
  Two hours and 40 minutes, and if you add up all the match times,
• 1:48:01
  it's one hour, 4 minutes and 49 seconds.
• 1:48:04
  So that's why. People are getting in a tizzy
• 1:48:07
  about Monday Night Raw. Like being too much mic work
• 1:48:10
  like too not enough in ring action.
• 1:48:11
  Like it's been happening forever, people.
• 1:48:14
  Yeah, I said it feels like a blueprint for WWE in 2025.
• 1:48:18
  One hour, 4 minutes and 49 seconds of wrestling in a two
• 1:48:22
  hour and 40 minute show. That's Sean.
• 1:48:23
  Sean Mooney gets more mic time than Dusty Rhodes gets ring
• 1:48:27
  time. So before like quadrupar?
• 1:48:30
  Yeah, before Nick gives his cans in the cooler.
• 1:48:33
  Who is your MVP of this overall card?
• 1:48:36
  If you have the full vouch, give an MVP to someone here.
• 1:48:41
  I don't even know who it could be.
• 1:48:45
  Well, the erectors come to mind. But so.
• 1:48:49
  I have two MVPS ready. Here are my 2 MVPS.
• 1:48:52
  First, I'm going to give mine 4 cans in the cooler I'm going to.
• 1:48:55
  I'm going to do that. Get that out of the way, my 2
• 1:48:58
  MVPS are Jim the Anvil Neihart. And Jake?
• 1:49:01
  Roberts and. Damian, Damian, Damian.
• 1:49:05
  Those two, the Anvil's promos and Jake and the snake choking
• 1:49:10
  him are are the top 2 moments on this entire card.
• 1:49:13
  And they are. They are top notch.
• 1:49:17
  That's that's for me, sorry. I'm going to say Hawk because
• 1:49:20
  he's a good friend. He gives the courtesy.
• 1:49:24
  What a. Good.
• 1:49:25
  Friend, thank you for being a friend.
• 1:49:29
  Oh, boy, that's a tough question.
• 1:49:30
  I don't know. I'm going to say Hawk, and I'm
• 1:49:33
  going to say fan of the show Ian because he introduced us.
• 1:49:37
  Like, if not for Ian, we're probably not covering this right
• 1:49:39
  now. Or maybe we are.
• 1:49:40
  Or maybe we're not. But I do I do enjoy that Ian did
• 1:49:43
  text us all with like, why am I not hearing SummerSlam 1990 in
• 1:49:48
  my podcast app right now? So.
• 1:49:51
  Champion at the bit. He, yeah, he, he certainly was.
• 1:49:53
  I feel like the way that we talked through this card,
• 1:49:57
  Earthquake certainly deserves a nominee.
• 1:50:01
  Yeah, Earthquake is the in ring MVP if you ask me.
• 1:50:03
  Yeah. That's for sure.
• 1:50:05
  And then I think that Hogan Hogan's promos make that the MVP
• 1:50:10
  for me, just on the mic. Yeah.
• 1:50:12
  Marty, honorable mention to Marty.
• 1:50:14
  For sure. Honorable mention to baby Oil
• 1:50:17
  Hogan's. All right.
• 1:50:19
  Yep. Yep.
• 1:50:19
  Whoever was supplying all the baby oil.
• 1:50:22
  Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:50:25
  All right, well, thank you guys for listening to this episode
• 1:50:29
  and last episode of our Summer Slam special.
• 1:50:33
  We really appreciate it. Thank you again for for tuning
• 1:50:36
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• 1:50:39
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• 1:50:42
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• 1:50:46
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• 1:50:50
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• 1:50:53
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• 1:50:54
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• 1:50:56
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• 1:51:00
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• 1:51:03
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• 1:51:51
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