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We're going to get right to it. We don't like to mess around.
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So we are back with the extra cooler, show summer spectacular,
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where we'll be covering SummerSlam. 1997, heart and soul
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and we are here right now for part 1.
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All right. So This event takes place in
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East Rutherford, New Jersey, right around the corner.
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From where we grew up. Well, not right around the
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corner, but, you know, good. Our course, not a minutes and
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it's at the Continental Airlines Arena and it takes place on
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August 3rd 1997. This is the tenth SummerSlam and
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I didn't mention this in our two previous bash at the beach
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episodes, but this is the 25th anniversary of these shows,
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which is pretty crazy. Think of, because I can remember
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watching this SummerSlam with Jim and Mike when we were in
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high school. So some interesting tidbits
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actually really, the only main one is during this pay-per-view.
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We, we say goodbye to Todd Pettengill.
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This is his last Appearance on WFTV and we say hello to Michael
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Cole for the first time ever on WWF television.
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So changing of the guards if you will yeah for real.
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So let's Dive Right into things. Alright and this this
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pay-per-view is glorious at the end of part 2.
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Next week we will go over and kind of compare and contrast how
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we feel about WCW. Has WWF at the time.
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But today this episode we're talking about SummerSlam 1997.
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We've got four matches and a bunch of ridiculousness in
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between. So things kick off with our Star
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Spangled Banner, and it's a very, very New Jersey crowd.
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And probably the Highlight is Vince with his hand inside his
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jacket, with his hand, on its belly button instead of his
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heart. He looks like a, like General in
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the Army, you know what I mean? Like, you always see the picture
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of the guy on the horse. The General on a horse that has
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his hand inside of his coat jacket.
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And of course, Vince is the very first super score if you will
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that you see, on on your television screen, but they pay
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in the crowd, they do all that fun, New Jersey stuff, and come
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on back to good old Vince, mr. Patriotic himself.
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I've read that. This was this kind of intense
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beginning, it's not. 97. This is not after 9/11 or
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something right? But it was because an answer to
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the Canadian Stampede the the month before so that's why
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they're over the top with the patriotism.
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Interesting. I wouldn't go over the top with
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this Star-Spangled Banner on cassette tape or what, but the
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beeps is looking very Stern, serious?
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Like yeah, cut to him and Jonathan Lipnicki in the
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audience. Yeah, pretty Center.
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And then that is with the bandanna is Is that Jonathan?
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No no I thought the same thing, though.
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I was looking to help Jonathan Lipnicki.
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What good home here? I've lost to Mike I'm with your
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is go Google. So the kid from Jerry Maguire.
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Yes. Do you mean, who is he now you
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know exactly who he is. All right, just there's on, on
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on your wall. It's got an enormous head.
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Okay. All right, so we get the opening
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promo, the video package is like is just what with WWF is so
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good. At it, black and white.
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And I just love like the video If Life were Fair.
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Yeah. And it's song about how
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basically, how Brett is becoming a heel takers about to meet his
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brother Kane and Sean just came back and wants the title back
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and the package ends with life isn't fair.
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But who said it would be? Yeah, it's so good.
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The classic movie trailer voice to life isn't fair Gordon has
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the best that Shawn Michaels stuff.
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Great. It's like, oh yeah, give me a
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break. It makes you want to go boohoo.
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It's nobody's like Vince holding on to that baby face.
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Shawn long. This time?
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No, dark and Ashes, right? No, no, I didn't find any dark.
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No, same interesting. It's brought to you by Straight
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X. Those of you that are not
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familiar, or don't remember stride X, it's a pimple product
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which is very familiar with it. Yeah, it's perfect placement for
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the night. 1890s it on your face like yeah I think a little
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damage to my face then yeah. I was absolute five.
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Simple into like the agitated the pimple got made it more red.
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We have absolutely spoken about stride X or not OxiClean.
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What's the other one oxy? I know not?
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Tickling OxiClean free like your shirt?
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No, that's that's different. Yeah.
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Oxy pads on man but those were like Prime Our Generation
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targeted perfectly. You're 100% right?
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And we've absolutely spoken about these things before
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powderly, bad cover 97's, several times now.
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Yes, this listen. We're going to talk about it in
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depth next episode, but the feud that goes between Bret and Shawn
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and Brett, and the Undertaker, who is the champion at the time?
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Is just tremendous and it shines throughout that video package
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and later in the night. It really is.
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All right, so first match on the card, we've got a steel cage
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match. It's a grudge match.
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Its mankind facing off against Hunter, Hearst Helmsley with
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China and you've got Triple H, you know, that blue blood
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gimmick is still kind of he's holding on to it.
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He's got the green bedazzled rub robe.
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Sorry, he's the 1997 King of the Ring that he just one in June
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May, it's fantastic. I absolutely love this gimmick.
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We've caught, we've talked about in depth, Triple H, and Mankind,
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or Mick Foley before. But to me, this is like their
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first real Feud. Yeah, and it's in big blue, the
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big blue steel cage, which does not look very tall at all.
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It looks so sings acting. Right?
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It looks like about a foot and a half taller than both guys,
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controlling. I love it here.
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Oh, I do yeah, compare it to the aew cage now which is monstrous
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like especially we're just coming out of their blood and
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guts pay-per-view or not pay per view.
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Their blood and guts match where they have the two cages that are
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like look like they're 100 feet tall.
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And now, this big blue looks just like you stand on the top
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rope and it's a cuirass. It's it was certainly.
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And as a kid Did it looked monstrous like, it looked huge
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and now you're like, yeah, that's nothing.
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Yeah, watching them. Take bumps off.
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It is wild. Go, that's what I do.
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That's why they got rid of it. I mean, it's funny that it's
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basically like not unlike Todd Pettengill is about to meet its
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maker, right? Not long after.
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Because the Hell in the Cell is right after this, and that's
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basically replaces it. They, so again, he's facing off
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against mankind, but mankind is also dealing with.
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He's also doing double time and To do love gimmick going on.
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He is co Tag Team Champions with stone cold at the time.
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And right now, he's in that mankind, gimmick.
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And I'm talking about Mankind, gimmick with the all brown, not
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mankind with like the white button-down, you know, we cut
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lots of cuts to Vladimir and they do do love knockoff who
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barely looks like, Dude Love Vladimir where they can tempt
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Vladimir's wearing a oh quite wife-beater as opposed to the
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white one. I may be representing the
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Attitude Era jacket. Dark saw the shift coming.
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Yeah, um I man, we've said it before, but mankind, with the
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intro and the outro music is fantastic.
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Hmm, top-notch stuff. So all right, so Hunters the
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heel and I love how this match kicks off because the bell rings
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and he goes and Dives at the door and can't make it out.
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Mankind has to tackle. And, and then, from there, the
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ref closes the cage door and China's left outside, and this
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is a very like brute looking China.
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This is before any of her work was done, this is just body
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augmentation. Yes.
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No. The best version of China.
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She's scary. She.
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Yeah, I know in the intros, she's like checking the cage,
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like, rattling the cage like every single second that she can
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get. And I don't like, Like fully
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understand it when I was watching it the first time of
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like why is she like really going after this thing trying to
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like put her hand underneath, find out where to get in my file
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but she just inspecting everything and then you have
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mankind coming down, dirties his intro and he pretty much puts
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his face right up against it and like, gives it gentle.
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Kisses like it's perfect because it shows how he's not afraid of
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it and Hearn and Hunter a little trepidatious to enter that cage.
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Love So there's there's a ton of spots.
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This match goes 16 and a half minutes almost and there's
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there's a ton of great things that happen.
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The one thing that I found most frustrating there in this match
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is that Vince felt the need to remind us of Dude Love any
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chance he had. Yeah.
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But as mankind goes to climb the cage trying to prevent him from
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going over. And did you guys catch it when
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she basically like punches him in the balls?
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Like I thought he got him right in the ass.
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Yeah, it will right the ass cheek.
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Okay. Yeah, I guess it's lowered a
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lowly a sack, and we just spoke about this with SummerSlam 1998,
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where she basically does the same thing to the rock.
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As he's climbing the ladder. It was it was definitely a weird
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spot even though not even Bruce on something to wrestle with
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comments about how the back just exploded with laughter.
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Whenever she, she climbed up and pop them right in the ass right
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there. Looks funny and Miguel trabajo
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rate or whatever his name is over there.
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I like the ref starts talking trash to China.
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Like, what are you doing? What are you doing, like?
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But it's a no DQ match. So right so she could do
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actually It doesn't matter, right?
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Absolutely. Yeah.
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It's like annoying little thing and my favorite is it's like the
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cage is supposed to keep her out.
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Like, come on that. They actually goes right on.
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Yeah, so there's a ton of spots in this at one point Triple H,
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climbs up and Mankind and gives mankind of superplex off the top
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of the cage. It's good.
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It it's perfect. This is like, they're both
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playing their roles perfectly. You've got great.
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Work. You know he's scared to be in
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the cage. You've got mankind who just
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looks possessed throughout it. I love at one point, Hunter goes
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to walk out the door decides he wants to destroy mankind a
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little bit more. That's yeah.
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It was a weird spot. Like a chair explains it though
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because he's like, he has the distinct Advantage after suplex
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after suplex from the top and he wants to punish mankind now.
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So I yeah, he could have won by like he wants to kick the shit
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out of him. I'm kind of Pissed that the
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Triple H curtsy in the middle of the Ring turned into the crotch
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chop. You know yeah I'm all my
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favorite part of Foley during this entire match is just the
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way that he sells is on another level and just the way he flops
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around the ring and just everything is sold with a
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intense. Believability that just I love
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about Foley in any capacity but here he'd like you sense pieces
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of Cactus Jack, he sends pieces of mankind in there, dude.
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Love, of course, we'll get there but like you feel every little
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bit of fully throughout this match.
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And I love this rivalry 100 times, I love this rivalry but
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seeing the start of it here really, really amazing.
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Even gives a little bangbang. Yeah, well, yeah, they're
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amazing how good he looks, you know, back in the day you're
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like, always thought he was bigger than me, but now you're
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like, oh, he's like pretty slim back here without a doubt,
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right? There's, there's the spot.
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Swear he basically Triple H is bouncing his head off of it age
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and it is it is really ugly. And those are like those shades
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of of Mick Foley and Cactus Jack that the WWE crowd, I don't
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think is fully ready for and he talks about that in his book,
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how we're going to talk more about the the door spot but
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apparently these spots where Triple H's throwing him into the
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cage back and forth, it concussed him.
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So bad that the pain wasn't even in his head.
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It was in shoulder. Well rabbit.
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Geez, we get rid of big blue. Yeah, pretty much.
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Because when you think about it, that's a lot a lot thicker than
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a, you know, chain link fence. We've played football with the
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kid named big blue once another day.
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That's for another day. The president got the Mall Rats
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handshake, right? Yeah.
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Well, we'll move on d-did, you guys.
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Are you pick up? On the crowd in this at, there
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were like times early on, where the crowd seems very
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disinterested in this match, and I kept wondering, like, was it
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because of the cage, was it? Like distracting.
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And I'm trying to remember like watching the big blue cage in
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person at the Westchester County Center and I don't remember it
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being like distracting. No, because there's so much
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action outside the ring to with China's, right?
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I don't know. I think I don't know what their
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problem is. I agree for the most part.
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They were like they go get real quiet at points during this this
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card. Now this is a good match.
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Oh, without a doubt. You know what else is crazy?
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I thought of I think they said on the broadcast.
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This is only the third so this is the tenth SummerSlam, but
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this is only the third steel cage match at SummerSlam persons
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Breton Owen. And yeah the first being the
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warrior and rude. Yes.
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So at one point we get Hunter climbing the cage and he
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continues to fight mankind off. But mankind, just keeps getting
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saved over and over again. And at that point, Is when I
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realized that that cage is not very tall but Triple H goes to
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go off the ropes. They may notice this and he hits
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his back on the cage, maybe pick up on that.
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There's one point, he goes off the ropes and it's like he goes
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way too hard and smooth. Slams is backed up against the
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big blue crab. There are a couple of moments
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where that happens but there was one that I think the one that
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you're talking about where Triple H like stumbles because
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he doesn't get the Off the Rope like he wants to see.
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It's the cage may be here mankind.
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He's full he's a big dude and he's good at it.
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A full force into those ropes and definitely going up against
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the cage and it certainly doesn't give as expected or as
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what it would normally be. So it was definitely a
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interesting part of this match. So on top of like I was talking
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about earlier with Foley, taking those bumps off the cage, his
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head just bouncing off of Of the cage.
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The big spot is Hunter's leg gets caught in the ropes
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opposite of the door and Mankind starts to leave.
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And this is when we get China run up to the door and slams.
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Mankind's head, and then takes the ref out on the steel steps.
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That that spot is really hard to watch.
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It's the most iconic part of the match.
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The. All right, we got us out.
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The door slam is what stands out the most me aside for the very
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end iPods. Exactly yeah, yeah, I was gonna
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say, I think whole, I think it's more I think it's more iconic.
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The the door closing on his head, then ending of this man.
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I love the Raskin tossed into the steps.
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Those old steps. Yeah, he takes a hell of a bump
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because not only doesn't hit the steel steps, but he also goes
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headfirst into the open door. So it, it was, it was a hell of
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a bomb that it looked like one of those like, a rag doll spots
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that you see from China, over the years, this certainly feels
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that fills that role. Mmm.
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So all right, let's get to the Finish.
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We've got China, she climbs the cage, she throws the chair in
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and Hunter goes for the pedigree on the chair, but mankind,
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reverses it slingshots. Hunter into China, who has
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climbed up outside the cage? At this point China's out, cold
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on the outside of the ring and Hunters out cold.
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In the middle of ring mankind, goes to climb the cage as the
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crowd starts to chant Superfly Superfly, which is a pretty cool
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spot. So, mankind has now climbed up
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to the top. And then over and he's about to
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hit the bottom where he realizes.
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I've got to go back up and he climbs back up, this is the
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other iconic moment from the match that Jim was talking about
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crowd is super hot at this point.
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They've like, I still remember his home videos to yeah, yeah,
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that's doing the superfly jumping off, the roof of the
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house, right? And this goes back to them,
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pumping like the Dude Love stuff down our throats.
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Yeah, the legend is that fully was there for the right Superfly
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spot. Not like he was actually at MSG
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for it, which is why he constantly spoke about it.
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And it was in all of those dual of vignettes of him jumping off
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the house and all that crazy stuff.
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That was at MSG though. Correct.
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I believe. Yeah, okay, yeah, so not the
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supervisors that MSG. Yeah.
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It's like this is like a bring you back to the Garden but we
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can do Jersey. Our case one can get you back to
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the Meadowlands. So again, so mankind.
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He gets up there into the corner.
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And he takes his mask off. Rips open and brown shirt.
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He's got what is now a? You know, the heart is sweated
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off it at this point and he drops That Elbow off the top of
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the cage and the crowd just goes absolutely Bonkers.
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After he hits that Hunters out. Mankind climbs the cage.
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Once again this time. China is awake.
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She gets in the ring tries to pull Hunter out in.
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The timing is damn near perfect. If you ask me, I love the race
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at the end. And yeah, it's bit Mankind's
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going and going, she's poem. She's at the door and then
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mankind hits the bottom. Yeah.
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If you believe she's gonna get there.
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Yeah, no. No.
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What happens? You know, Mankind's your winner
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and as I said earlier, his outro music plays the piano and Bravo
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man, he's, he's laying outside the ring and and Vince tells us
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that he's, you know, the Dude Love music hits and then he
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starts tapping his foot and Vince has to remind us once
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again, that is His inner dude love.
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It's do love battered and bruised.
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It's do love and Mankind's clothing.
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He's hurting puppy, and it's just so weird.
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Vince really pushing the dude lovers Achilles.
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I love that fully on his way. Out goes over and like attacks
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the Dude Love cosplay guy. Yeah attacks him gives him this
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huge hug but he's like running at him as it's it's really
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something right next to Vladimir doesn't.
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Hold back man. An.
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All right. So cans in the cooler, anybody
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want to go first out of 5? I'ma start us hot here, boys.
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I'm going for and a half. I am feeling good, right out the
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gate and SummerSlam. I am ready.
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I'm here. I know I'm high on this one.
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Not like that. I am very high on this Mash
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four-and-a-half. This is starting this Feud that
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is Iconic to me and you all know by.
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Now, listening to me, 463 episodes that I I love these two
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and these two together. No, you know, you are a little
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high for me but I was going to go for, I really enjoyed this
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match. You know, my biggest concern
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beginning was like, wait why is it?
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Why is we why is the crowd not into this and if they were into
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it in the beginning I think it would have really elevated.
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The two of them, but it's in my eyes, it's an iconic match.
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That I remember so much detail from and I got four out of five.
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Five top-notch storytelling throughout the entire day.
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These two are great Feud. Mike.
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What you got? Yeah, yeah, I got, I was going
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to give it a three quarters in there.
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So, Jesus, I guess. Dolly liked it bonus.
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Stars, bonus star, and you better give it three and three
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quarters, because I would give it a 4, but the crowd, Not being
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super into it hurts a little bit so that's why I didn't give it
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for. If the crowd was like super into
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it, I would have given it for. Yep.
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It shouldn't. You take it over before Dolly
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takes over? Yeah, no problem.
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So, Meltzer gave this match, actually a 5.75.
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Oh, no, wait a second on the gate.
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We gave that a five point seven five, he gave that combine to
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the first five matches. He gives the 2.5 actually, you
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know, I like, I pulled the melter ratings to, and I
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couldn't Believe it, it made me want to go higher just because
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yeah. I I'm you know what?
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I love how this match is steeped in the old school nurse, right?
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You got the blue cage, a clue. It's about to meet its
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replacement. Also you get the old-school
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SummerSlam logo. I think it's probably the last
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time the banners up top, right? It's like the old-school like
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the one you see on the everyone's favorite t-shirts.
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So it's got that going for it. I guess.
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I have to come for. I'll say a for.
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All right. All right, here we go.
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Moving right along. So before we go on to the rest
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of this, what's in it? Ready schooler Jim's taking a
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big swing of beer go. First since I went last I've got
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a Sloop this time. This is you know you guys are
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right next to sleep. So you guys go as get the good
24:04
stuff, right out of the gate, but my local gas station.
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Always has sloops. I'm like, I got to go for
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tonight. So I have gentle Whispers, which
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is a New England IPA. And what we got here, it is a
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6.2 percent with malted wheat, flaked wheat, Citra and and some
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stuff I hpcc. It's 30 hops.
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It's Matt, we don't you need you to explain?
24:28
Yeah, you're going to break it down, please don't.
24:30
I'm gonna, I'm gonna go mr. Wizard on us, but it's mr.
24:34
Wizard, it's absolutely 360 or 6:30 inside the barrel.
24:42
If you will be had. There you go.
24:44
Good, really pleasing. Can yes, just idea the leaves
24:47
blowing in the wind and one of their less colorful cans but it
24:52
is, I've never had this one, it's really good.
24:54
I'm gonna piggyback on top of you because we've talked a lot
24:57
about this. The 12 pack, the variety pack
25:00
that's Loop has out now. And I've had my hands on it for
25:05
a while, and I've been holding this one specifically for
25:08
tonight. It's the Citra bomb.
25:10
I believe someone's brought this mat.
25:12
You've brought this before it, it's the, it's just it's great,
25:18
man. Any sleep can do no wrong that.
25:22
It's a New England, IPA. Say it just hits.
25:26
It's got a little bit of Flavor of the the New England flavor.
25:29
But it's also got that Citrus that I'm so used to with Sloop
25:34
that that orange juice like like that that single hop series is
25:39
so good and the I know we've been talking about it a lot, but
25:42
the Citrus is my favorite. So cheers to that.
25:45
Cheers to Sloop and I'm coming in with a Lawson's, little sip.
25:49
So they have their sip of sunshine.
25:51
For me, this is the littler Version of the cipa sunshine
25:56
called little sip. It is essentially, they're like
25:58
session ale. It's not as big and powerful as
26:01
your, your traditional sip of sunshine, but it's actually
26:05
still a 6.2 percent or so. A good one, anytime you can get
26:09
your hands on Lawson's. I highly recommend it so here's
26:13
and like you work, right? What you got a big fan of
26:16
Lawsons to I myself. I'm really needed a brewski
26:21
tonight. So I went for the easy drinking.
26:24
Inking. Hell or high water melon?
26:26
Again, nice doubling down from a few weeks back.
26:29
But you know, I was in the mood for one and I sometimes when
26:33
you're in the mood for one, you know, you just got to have it.
26:36
So, all right, doing it. Good.
26:39
Good around the beverages, you know what to do, and then you
26:41
do. Here's Cheers.
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shows. All right, if I was in the crowd
27:24
and that's tried X blimp was flying towards me.
27:27
I might have a damn near panic attack because that thing looks
27:30
terrifying in that Arena and I always was concerned with how
27:34
they have a blind inside of a. There's not somebody in there,
27:37
is it it's an Airship. First of all it's the stride X
27:41
Airship get it right or pay the price.
27:45
It's got some strings attached to the bottom and come on, look
27:47
at this thing. But, you know, I, yeah, I right,
27:49
I would be nervous. It was near me.
27:51
Like I just my greasy face start breaking out, maybe maybe that's
27:55
the idea. They've got like Super Soakers
27:57
filled with me right x. What is wrong?
27:59
What is the fluid in the strident?
28:02
A lot of rubbish. So, here we get to our next
28:08
match, right? We've got a highlight and we've
28:12
got Pettingill Todd. Pettengill got a fun.
28:16
Todd Pettengill fact for you. Todd Pettengill at SummerSlam.
28:21
1997 is 31, no way. I'm crazy.
28:28
Is that this guy looks like he's 45 1997.
28:32
It's shocking. All right, speaking of 45 in the
28:36
90s man. Looks like it's 10 years older
28:38
than it actually is, I don't know.
28:40
I don't know. We've got Pettingill out here in
28:43
his, you know, I'm I'm not gonna hate on his like purple-ish of
28:47
some of the chat. I will hate on the European
28:50
caller. Yes, yes.
28:52
With a little it's like a white European collar with a little
28:55
Diane's stud gem on. There's like a brooch.
28:58
Yeah yeah he's wearing like another black European collar.
29:01
Underneath the white one is almost like a priest like the
29:04
most. Yeah, so so Todd fan.
29:08
Goes out there and he's here to introduce us to Governor Christy
29:12
Todd Whitman. Wrong with Gorilla Monsoon and
29:16
The Headbangers Christie tax Crusher with it.
29:20
Yeah. Thanks the crowd.
29:21
The Crowd Goes Bonkers and they do it.
29:26
They boo, this Ellen DeGeneres look alike.
29:29
Yeah, I think she looks more like the like a Multiverse
29:32
version of Todd Pettengill actually got Christy Todd
29:34
Whitman, they look like they are related, I don't know.
29:38
I was gonna say more. She looks like Owen Hart and and
29:42
Ellen DeGeneres head. Well she's dressed like William
29:45
H may see on a dinosaur Safari in Jurassic Park 3, I sent you
29:49
guys a video of one of her press conferences for the Undertaker.
29:54
Comes out with like a cardboard Tombstone.
29:58
Yeah, resent the her. Yeah, they show that like the
30:01
newspaper. Clipping from that.
30:04
So acting acting gorilla, acting president Gorilla, Monsoon gives
30:09
her the wing Eagle, which is actually the Undertaker's Wing.
30:13
The eagle that Will later be pretty hard?
30:17
No, she doesn't. But then, according to Bruce
30:20
Prichard Vince, gifted her a women's title, like a custom
30:25
women's title that he signed on the back.
30:27
It's nice. I got a wonderful Easy by using
30:29
this. So I thought, I thought that was
30:34
really the most interesting part, but the, the crowd Boos
30:37
the shit out of her. Yeah, you know, something you
30:39
never see today like they're not never going to bring a
30:41
politician out on no, not a good idea.
30:44
No, no, Gary guaranteed go sideways.
30:48
It's a little different from what the Bill Clinton they used.
30:50
And yeah, I love that WrestleMania, 10, they make a
30:56
huge deal out of this being the first wrestling event in New
30:59
Jersey since SummerSlam. 1889. And they get really political
31:05
here to the point where they're like bashing the New Jersey
31:09
government, previous to the the tax Crusher, Miss Whitman
31:13
herself, and like they had to pay 5% of the gate and 5% of the
31:18
pay-per-view run of your Revenue just to like put on a show in in
31:23
New Jersey. So they made a huge to do about
31:26
it and they he really went in on something to wrestle with gave
31:31
you. Additional details of why and
31:33
how it all worked and why this was such a big deal.
31:35
But man you're right. The politicians on my wrestling.
31:39
I'll pass thanks. So before we get to our next
31:43
match, does anybody want to talk about tiger Ali Singh with his
31:45
dad in the crowd? No, no.
31:47
Okay. Does anybody want to talk about
31:48
the beach party? I met a lot of parking.
31:50
Yes, of course. Okay.
31:53
Got a beach party in the Meadowlands parking lot.
31:55
Including Honky Tonk Man. Sunny Shawn Michaels dok
32:00
Hendrix. And then To me, still to this
32:02
date. One of the most jarring things
32:04
is seeing Legion of Doom without their face pain.
32:06
Huh? Yeah.
32:07
Yeah, I think I wrote that in my notes to I said, it's
32:09
unsettling, it's like barrier without the paint or things like
32:13
see that man. Did you ever watch Ninja
32:15
Turtles? And like they didn't have the
32:17
headband things on? Yes, I'm back on like gross.
32:23
I always liken it to Homer Simpson without the beard.
32:26
When holy shaves, it's off-putting and this is the same
32:30
situation, but A huge inflatable Undertaker.
32:33
That was pretty cool and the highlight of that entire episode
32:37
or that entire section of this SummerSlam was the sunny is hot
32:41
sign. Yeah backgrounds.
32:43
I thought that was effective direct Sean's being Sean there
32:47
too. Yeah. 30.
32:48
Right on top of a limo funny. His hot period.
32:50
Yeah. The point is all know that this
32:54
punctuation you're right. Mike jump on your point about
32:58
Homer Simpson with a back to the face paint.
33:00
It's like I think Nick Us up recently like my dad when he
33:03
shaved his mustache. Yes, yes.
33:04
I know my niece said to me on vacation, she said I saw a
33:10
picture of you before you had a beard.
33:12
You should never do that again because and I quote your face is
33:15
nasty. Thanks!
33:18
I was born with that face. Oh whatever.
33:26
I got one of those traveled into a store and One of the guys that
33:32
works there was like you know, I told Matt to keep the beard okay
33:38
I don't know which way I should be taking that cool.
33:41
I don't think my kid has ever seen me without a beard so I pop
33:44
it off and see if see them see them, you know, like the coil on
33:48
the car. So the second match of the night
33:52
is a singles match and we've got gold dust with Marlena and he's
33:57
facing off against The Loose Cannon, Brian pillman.
34:02
All right, so this view has been ongoing for a while and the
34:07
stipulation is if if pillman loses, he has to wear a dress
34:12
that Marlena has picked out, but if pillman wins, he gets
34:16
Marlena. Hmm.
34:18
That's pretty, hear ya later or dress?
34:21
Yeah, it's me. Hey, my wife, the I don't know
34:28
if anybody noticed It was like Marlena struggled to get down
34:31
the aisle because they're cigar wasn't lit.
34:33
Yeah she like paused in the middle King cells before you can
34:38
King tells us how he'd have no problem striking Marlena which I
34:42
thought was kind of interesting. I've never hit my mother but I
34:45
have no problem striking Marlena like.
34:48
All right. Yeah here he carries in a weird
34:51
spot in this this time, he doesn't know where his loyalties
34:54
lie and he's like saying weird things and not that he doesn't
34:56
often. Say weird thing.
34:58
I know I've said this A lot on my social media but this era
35:03
really makes me feel like we missed out on a lot of Brian
35:06
pillman stuff because two months after this event, he's no longer
35:10
with us. It's crazy.
35:11
That's, that's insane when you think about it because exactly
35:15
is his self in this match either like, he's, he's like got a lot
35:21
of things going on. Got a lot of injuries that he
35:24
still working on. So, but Tammy looking cool.
35:29
Well, with the Maryland Rocher. Yeah, the shirt still the man.
35:32
But yeah, it's not. He said flexing on the fans and
35:35
the way down, I can't do it. So there's a mannequin at the
35:39
ringside with the dress on. And I just like even the coolest
35:44
part is, I don't know why I found this.
35:47
So interesting. But how much of gold bus makeup
35:50
and his face paint rubs off on tommen, right?
35:52
Turn right off the bat. I kiss, ya know, even both not
35:55
before I ran them again. After they kiss, If you guys
35:59
remember health class in tenth grade, when they showed us this
36:01
video, like don't do drugs and was like, people huffing silver
36:05
spray paint from a paper bag and it get it all over the face.
36:08
That's exactly what he looks like.
36:10
Looks like Charlie Day from Ole Miss.
36:12
Yes, exactly, exactly. Thank you, thank you.
36:15
Thank you. I love this spots with pillman,
36:19
chasing Marlena outside the ring.
36:21
And, and just, you know, Goldust clocks him, that's the best spot
36:24
of the mash. Yeah.
36:25
Oh, wow, awesome, right? Yeah, and the crazy part is Like
36:29
this match, if the two of them were at their Peak, let's say
36:32
this Mac, be a banger, I'm compound big time does the two
36:37
of them can go but you know, terrible.
36:40
It's just a match. Yeah.
36:42
The other two things, I thought it was really interesting how
36:47
Vince constantly was pointing out how Goldust used to be so
36:52
bizarre. And but now he's like, you know
36:55
what normal like, you know, like he used to me the most Tsar
37:00
wrestlers Superstar, whatever he kept saying Yeah, over and over
37:03
again grab this match and even at one point I think it's j.r.
37:10
goes and drops a if you will and then seeds from like them
37:16
referencing, how who his father is, how his father's Dusty
37:21
Rhodes, which I thought was kind of interesting, because at the
37:24
time, Dusty's, in WCW. And he's on, yeah, I'm in Terry.
37:27
Yeah. Goldust looks gas throughout the
37:31
match. Let's chew, just get to the
37:35
ending. Yeah, it looks gas throughout
37:37
the entire match to just walking on the outside.
37:40
But yeah, I'm good to go straight to the end on this one.
37:42
I do like one quick thing. There's a really noticeable
37:46
assign in the audience. That's one for, like a tape
37:49
Trading Company in the audience, which is like, it feels like
37:52
from another planet where like celery the sign like trade me
37:55
your tapes. Like yeah, that's pretty obvious
37:59
ww. That Geo cities wrestling.
38:01
Yes, I call ref video or yeah. That it was probably Sam Roberts
38:06
if I was to guess. Yeah yeah.
38:08
Another Westchester County boy. This one box from the match were
38:13
pillman's up on the top rope I think and gold and goes to like
38:17
toss him and he's supposed to like get knocked down the raker.
38:22
Yeah. Crotch on the ropes but he's
38:23
like totally misjudges it and like he lands over the ropes and
38:28
like on his shoulder. Yeah.
38:30
Why did Vince think that pillman with the makeup all over?
38:33
His face made him. Look like a baboon.
38:37
What are you talking about? Vince.
38:40
All right, so with one last thing I didn't realize before I
38:43
was reading about this match that Brian pillman.
38:46
Dated Terry wrong. Yes.
38:47
I know, I'm not being that. Yes in WCW.
38:50
Yeah, he used to date Terry rentals.
38:53
I skipped over that because they brought that up on something to
38:57
wrestle with how they Conrad wondered.
39:01
If Goldust was uncomfortable and goal do sexually.
39:04
In his book, how he was uncomfortable?
39:06
Yeah, Feud because of the past history that he has messed up.
39:10
That seems like a Vince thing, like, let's see what happens,
39:12
right? Throw some bugs in a jar and see
39:15
if they fight, you know? Like like it's kind of messed up
39:18
but it really is Vin Tom. All right?
39:21
So to the ending right at this point, Goldust really looks
39:25
completely shot and he's outside the ring.
39:28
He goes for a sunset flip and nearly breaks his neck.
39:31
Yeah. It's very sloppy.
39:33
P. Another human goes to pull
39:35
himself up out of the sunset flip and marlina.
39:39
Someone was smart enough to tell Marlena to clock him with her
39:42
purse and Goldust roles. And look for the pin, it like
39:46
pillman, kind of like dregs Goldust with his taint like to
39:50
be the first paint reference on the show before but tell ya, it
40:02
was such a spot. And I was pretty impressed with
40:05
how on the Fly Marlena was to hit him with the purse.
40:09
I don't know who called that spot, but it definitely made it
40:13
look a little less ugly, but he's ugly.
40:18
I think it's funny Marlena. I automatically like rolls the
40:22
mannequin into the Ring We crests and like a media is like,
40:26
here you go. Brian deal with it.
40:28
Yeah. Have at it Hoss.
40:30
All right, so cans in the cooler for our second match of The
40:34
night. This one's a tough one.
40:36
Because this could have been a four star, but in the end, man,
40:40
maybe because I'm feeling nostalgic, I'll give it two and
40:43
a half. I was looking through the same
40:45
two and a half, I'll give it to Cannes.
40:48
I mean, it's just not memorable. Yeah, it's never like looking
40:50
forward to it too. I remember, it's like kind of
40:52
got a lot of good psychology so that's why I give it like a 2
40:55
and a half. Yeah, it's a rare.
40:57
Brian pillman in the ring down payment double.
40:59
Yeah, yeah. Going from the high man to the
41:03
low Mana. I went one and a half on this
41:06
one. Come on.
41:07
Yeah, we're on it. We're on the same range.
41:10
Yeah, I don't know. I just, I think, like Mike said
41:13
there, there's like that feeling of like, how cool is it?
41:17
That Brian pillman was in WWF and I'm trying to like, cherish
41:20
it and cherish. Yeah, this guy who was like.
41:23
So like I said, this probably over a year and a half ago, how
41:27
Goldust to me was like the start of the Attitude Era Yeah.
41:31
But like without Goldust without Brian pillman in this Loose
41:34
Cannon gaining gimmick. I don't know if we fully set
41:37
their own cold, I don't know. I'm sure we do but I don't know
41:41
it's valid. It's a valley players to The
41:43
Attitude Era. Butterfly Effect.
41:45
Yeah meltz Meltzer. Gave it up right 0.5.
41:49
Yeah screw it. He's he hammered a lot of
41:51
matches on this. Yeah.
41:53
Yeah right. Yeah but we went over how much
41:56
he felt sure looks like a catcher's mitt so All right,
42:04
moving right along the announced, it attendance record
42:08
of 20,000 213. And we've got a tag team match.
42:12
We've got the Legion of Doom, animal, and Hawk facing off
42:16
against the Godwin's. They recap it by telling us, and
42:19
showing us the highlights of the Henry godwinn getting his neck
42:23
broken by the doomsday device. So the Godwin's are back.
42:29
They've ditched their shirts and they're rocking.
42:30
Just Rawls and dear God. Their nipples must be chafing
42:36
the, the me metal. Yeah, right.
42:38
Over Chuckles them up like the girls do.
42:43
I don't know how you guys do. I don't, I like most people.
42:46
I just don't personally, like, looking at people wearing
42:48
overalls, you know? But it was kind of funny that
42:51
they're always wearing Guess jeans overalls isn't there
42:54
another? Yeah.
42:55
Yeah. But they've got that Confederate
42:56
flag out there them in the Confederate flag on their knees.
42:59
Yeah, they got Claudia Schiffer. Denim.
43:01
But they got the connect, the stars and bars wave in like I
43:04
don't know. Does anybody really have much to
43:07
talk about with this match? Let's be honest like if, if
43:10
Meltzer wants to give that last match of a dud or zero.
43:14
Like I can't even imagine what he's going to rate this.
43:16
Well, what do you think this? Yeah there was this one box
43:22
where I think there's a bear hug double-team by the Godwin's like
43:28
someone I think Henry's got One of them in the bear hug and then
43:33
the other Godwin goes off the ropes and was gonna like hit him
43:38
hit hawk or whoever's in the bear hug and just I think Henry
43:43
let's go over the bear hug and it's just they all just go like
43:46
Separate Ways. Did you see that?
43:50
Yeah yeah, yeah. That was, yeah, I was falling
43:53
asleep, during John, not going to lie.
43:55
I was like, what just happened? Like, I was lost after the grown
43:59
man in 1997, with the Hasbro's that.
44:02
Yeah. Doom Hasbro's, like you like
44:05
kept those around and 1997's, I gotta bring these to the
44:08
Meadowlands LOL. The guy just bought him off
44:11
eBay. I don't know, maybe I was going
44:16
to say, I think they're within Arm's Reach of you.
44:18
You right now. Why don't you pick some up shown
44:21
it is that it is it is 2022 and collecting figures is cool, even
44:29
though I don't do it. There it is.
44:31
There it is. He's showing into the camera
44:33
folks. Like our dilemma is kids play
44:35
where I Hasbro's. I just thought.
44:37
Yeah go ahead. My favorite part of this match
44:40
and actually the only part of this match was a Jerry Lawler
44:44
comment. He goes these fans here in, New
44:47
Jersey wish to leave. Doom would sell those shoulder
44:49
pads to the New York Jets. Probably, the only way they
44:52
would win a game this year, Jess, twenty, nine, and seven,
44:57
and finished third, in the AFC East, but missed the playoffs.
45:00
That's the first Parcells here. Yeah.
45:03
Jeff what I do first? I think that they didn't all
45:07
agree on. They didn't push the Godwin's
45:09
hard enough, like with it these, he'll version of them with a
45:11
Confederate flag and stuff. They could have Mia kind of
45:14
monster heels. They're big and mean they're
45:16
always sweating in their overalls already.
45:18
They come down the aisle, I don't know.
45:20
Yeah, I hated them. I did not like them but like,
45:22
no. Like no liver.
45:23
It's theme that the yeah, like it's fake.
45:25
They could have pushed that in the atom on they just did just
45:28
recently during this point in time just recently ditch poor
45:32
old Hillbilly Jim. Yeah it was their manager.
45:35
But yeah therefore really, really big dudes, right?
45:40
So like it just doesn't I don't even doesn't.
45:44
Hello t feel like in this match I feel like the most gone the
45:46
way of like Bret Hart. We're People are about to turn
45:49
on them which I don't think it does that happen and it kind of
45:51
does with New Age Outlaws right? Like yes, but they still look
45:54
cool. Like a big deal.
45:55
No, no. And and think about it, the
45:58
Godwin's you stand in the middle of ring like that.
46:01
Feud that Legion of Doom had with the nasty boys, right?
46:05
Nasty boys are big, dudes. But they're not like towering
46:07
over the know. There's a spot in this match in
46:09
the beginning where they show them and and the Godwin's are
46:12
towering over big, big do they are big guys?
46:15
Yeah, no doubt. They're big boys, it's just the
46:17
whole match. It just does not work.
46:19
No, hey. Now it's yeah it but during the
46:22
match you do get. You can tell it's like you know
46:26
maybe a piss break because Jr. Start selling the the hotline
46:29
right? Yes.
46:30
Yes. He's like gold dust and more
46:32
leaner on one line and like what the hell are they going to say?
46:36
That's worth. What through 99?
46:38
Do you remember I made for 15-hour like scrubbing?
46:40
Burnt mozzarella from Silver fact in his head like an hour's
46:45
hour to hear what that your Marlena paw.
46:48
On her cigar. Do you think it would be worth
46:50
paying if they had like Stu Hart?
46:52
Come on, like, he's the host who's back here.
46:55
He's like tricking the 13 Saskatchewan.
46:58
Pilsners, the clip 399. Hey, is it is now that's hot?
47:09
I would pay to 495. All right, so the end, they will
47:14
start line this match. Ella, Ella deacon Continually
47:18
works on the neck of Henry godwinn at the end, Legion of
47:23
Doom, goes to put Henry up for the doomsday device.
47:26
Phineas comes in with the save eventually, Legion of Doom
47:30
delivers, a spike Piledriver on Henry for the win match, just
47:34
doesn't work in my opinion, LOD hawk and animal look great.
47:39
Like physically, but I this matches I could have no interest
47:44
in it. 00, people's heads. Yeah, I like it.
47:48
Awful. You know I think you give a zero
47:50
cancer because they don't know what this match reminds of and
47:52
Ryan to demolition verse the powers of playing aggressively
47:57
new five that we made. You watch a hundred times 6 is 9
48:03
minutes and 15 seconds, like a bunch of drugs.
48:06
It's for mattresses fighting each other in the rain without a
48:09
doubt. I like that.
48:11
I'll give it one star. One can in the cooler.
48:13
I apologize One mattress that if you give this a higher ranking,
48:17
then When the previous match, we're going to have problems.
48:22
I you've got problems. We got problems.
48:27
I gave it one can in the cooler Meltzer also gave this match
48:30
point five cans of the cooler Frick but he's right.
48:33
I'm gonna get only five, but yeah, there's been a Henry.
48:39
Oh, Godwin Henry godwinn sighting on the WWE Network if
48:43
you guys didn't know. On that table 3.
48:47
Yes. Cable along.
48:48
Yes. Table of five.
48:49
Yeah. Because the bsk.
48:52
As done a little get-together, their people, all right, we
48:58
ready? Yes, because this is probably
49:00
the highlight of the first half of SummerSlam 1997 and to be
49:05
honest this segment is so outrageous that it deserves a
49:09
little bit of play-by-play. So Vince sends us over to
49:12
footage of Ryan and Patrick both being sent to New Jersey for the
49:17
Discovery Zone, 1 million dollar giveaway and what they're going
49:22
to To have here. Is this 12 year old kid?
49:24
And a fan who looks like Stone Cold, Steve Austin on stage in
49:29
their Red? Scare Discovery Zone shirts,
49:32
right? At Li the classic like, zo on
49:34
the top and the any like if anybody watched wrestling during
49:37
1997 WWF in particular, they know exactly the the logo that
49:42
we're talking easy and they're on stage with a casket, some
49:47
producer. A 31 year old Todd, Pettengill
49:51
and sunny, and Sable Sable who, by the way, doesn't even hold a
49:55
candle to Sonny and gnome and if your team Sable at this point
49:59
and not seems honey. What's wrong with you?
50:01
Who hurt you? It's sunny.
50:03
Sunny is like this peak sunny right now Sables.
50:07
Like a pinup from like one of those fellows.
50:09
Ava that magazines. Yeah easily.
50:12
I'm sorry Todd. Pettengill can't even help
50:15
himself. Wait can we just for before we
50:18
go any further? We talked about the Montage as
50:20
the fans are getting flown in the family.
50:24
The chaddock families, that their name should dick predict.
50:27
Oh okay. Should it family apologize.
50:30
What a family did you have a question?
50:33
See the father, did you see the father?
50:35
Yes. Do you think those kids were
50:37
conceived when the father stuck is chaddock through the vagina
50:41
hole? If you know what I smell and
50:55
they've got a WWF logo and it has 100 Keys number, 1 through
51:01
100. All right.
51:06
So then going through the anything that happens in this
51:08
holds. It is no, it's fragments great,
51:11
so-so. They got to shout out to Andrew
51:16
because he's been telling us about this segment.
51:18
As soon as he found out we were going to be covering it.
51:21
He had Adam ribbon. Yeah, so there's 100 Keys.
51:26
Numbered 1 through 100. They're going to pick a number.
51:29
They grabbed the key. They see if the key opens up the
51:31
coffin. If it does, they win the million
51:33
dollars. If it doesn't?
51:35
They still walk away with a five thousand dollar savings bond.
51:38
So they've got it. Scheduled that they're going to
51:41
have for Or people write to people in person to on the
51:45
phone, what happens is the first person, drives draws the right
51:48
key. Like where does this whole
51:50
segment go? First of all better, it goes
51:53
better because actually when it ends.
51:57
All right, so so we've got we've already talked about Ryan
52:01
chaddock and now that also this Stone Cold, Steve Austin
52:05
look-alike and Todd, Pettengill basically calls him out, right?
52:09
Right off the bat. Like this guy probably is A buck
52:12
25 and he's like, he's, he says, like so, did you come here?
52:17
Just to be looking like Stone Cold.
52:19
Steve Austin. He's like, well, actually I did
52:21
it a few months ago, like, you know, there is anything you
52:24
sound any better, it's you Nick. I don't know what important this
52:28
event. Yeah.
52:30
I heard a proposed friend Nikki looks like the him to Stone Cold
52:34
is like that. You know and Harry Potter.
52:36
The little baby Voldemort thing. Yeah.
52:39
That's like this guy looks like a sickly at this.
52:42
Like that. - yeah, the fetus Stone Cletus of stone cold.
52:47
It's definitely puts his arm around the sunny too.
52:50
Well, he did. You see when they they show his
52:53
like his local Hometown newspaper.
52:55
The top. The headline is wrestling fan
52:57
losing sleep over contest and then like the next story below
53:01
it under the photo says 15 killed in bombings.
53:05
Wow. Priorities are like so this is
53:09
why do you put that on there? Why can't you just crop that
53:12
out? Like he was banking on winning
53:14
the million. So he took that story out in the
53:16
paper for it to be at the top. Sorry, go ahead so before so
53:22
it's really interesting. So she Dick and Stone Cold
53:26
Bizarro, they picked their numbers first and I like it, how
53:30
it King. This is where King is great,
53:32
like the stone, cold guy picks. His number and picks number 13,
53:36
stone, cold calls, him, an idiot for picking number 13, but
53:40
before they can try their keys Todd.
53:42
And Gil has to call to people from home, and they're going to
53:45
pick a key and then Sable and Sonny are going to do it for
53:49
them. So the producer hands Todd,
53:52
Pettengill a piece of paper, and it's got about, like, 50 names
53:56
on a, like eight and a half by 11 inch sheet of paper.
53:59
And Pettingill is not only expected to call the phone
54:04
number, he's expected to look at it while holding that and the
54:09
microphone. So then eventually, as he's
54:11
dialing, Honey. Holds the paper up to her
54:14
breast. And technicals making perverted
54:17
comments as he's dialing as slow as possible.
54:21
So the first number he calls, no one picks up the second number,
54:25
he calls is disconnected, then the third number they call.
54:40
Michael picks up. And admits the Mike, this guy,
54:45
Michael picks up the phone and he admits to not watching
54:48
SummerSlam at the moment, crowd finally wakes up and goes nuts.
54:53
Like what the hell is going on? He said most people company
54:57
don't carry it. Michael's mom picks up the phone
55:01
first. Yes, and yes.
55:02
Todd like answers. Like hello is Michael there like
55:06
doesn't like Indianapolis anything and then yes, yes one
55:10
second my God. And know who it was.
55:15
So then so he picks a number 33. Sony tries the key.
55:18
It doesn't work, so they just say, sorry, not you.
55:22
Fourth number Rebecca picks up and is excited.
55:25
She picks the number 14, Sable uses.
55:28
The key doesn't work and they remind her though.
55:32
That don't worry, you still get a five thousand dollar savings
55:35
bond. So then we've got one more
55:38
number that we tapped into. And, and, and they call.
55:42
Old. So, Producer.
55:45
Matt can you can you get us on the line right now and dial for
55:49
us? Let's do it.
56:07
Right now, you must be must be stretching the Anvil in the
56:10
dungeon here. Stu Stu Hart.
56:14
This Todd. Pettengill from WWF 100 for the
56:20
chance at winning a million dollars.
56:22
Still, what do you got? Yeah, D.
56:24
If you were you wondering where to the Rhino?
56:26
Was it that SummerSlam? It.
56:28
Yeah, we're has. The Rhino bit.
56:30
In what way, you know, he had the rest of, for the you CWS
56:35
post contract. You see him?
56:37
Yeah. He was there with my boy Bruce,
56:40
you know, I thought he was going to shave his goatee.
56:43
Yeah, wait, yes. Yeah, mr.
56:46
Brewster firefighter and the Falcon comparison Lewisville,
56:51
class kids, leave her. Marty jannetty was there to do.
56:54
Would you like to pick a number? You know, then that my Jetty was
56:57
a real funster, you know, and it's day.
56:59
Hey. Yeah, yeah yes.
57:03
Yeah. Are you running to think we'd
57:05
like to know if you would like to pick a number one number one
57:15
sorry. Sorry number one that's it.
57:17
Thank you stu. Hey alright.
57:21
So back to the action we found Ryan.
57:24
Ryan should take turns at Key. It doesn't work but stable you
57:28
know buries his face in his bullpen.
57:30
Her bosoms and Tango. Let's let him know that this is
57:34
going to be much more important. The time goes on, the kick goes
57:38
good. Good.
57:41
You might not know it yet, but that's worth more than a million
57:43
dollars. That kid knows.
57:46
And last but not least, you've got stone-cold, Patrick
57:50
Stephenson up and his key doesn't work and this segment is
57:54
over and no one, no one pulls, the winning Keith's.
57:57
Number 3 and Norm study and Sable open up the casket.
58:00
Skin norm, and it's over arm would it debacle nine minutes
58:04
and 50 seconds of this horror. You know, what's the horror
58:09
Sundays there though? Yeah, it is true.
58:12
I couldn't help but sing like as a man approaching 40 years old
58:17
thinking of myself at this time. And even right now, I'm like,
58:21
all right, Sony's there, that's all right, they literally.
58:24
Can you imagine if they did not have sunny in symbols on that as
58:27
they have it, that it's a nightmare, Vince would have been
58:30
on that. Headset, like, send them out.
58:31
Send them out. Yeah.
58:33
Some send out the Executioner. Yeah.
58:36
You know, like later. They Vince would have sent in
58:39
the chicken like a wrestling a bit.
58:42
And my favorite is they open up the casket and they had to make
58:44
that look like fancy. So they stacked up a bunch of
58:47
dollar bills in there, like Whoever thought putting a
58:52
million dollars in a casket was going to be a problem.
58:54
It's it had to have been all singles just to feel it up here
58:58
the whole thing to the top two. I wanted.
59:02
I wonder where are you now? See how these people spent their
59:04
savings bonds, but you know what?
59:06
So if I'm Vince McMahon, I give the zero cans and cooler, but
59:10
entertainment value, it is a good five, cans in the pool
59:14
house. A lot of Swing, really, really
59:16
dick. It's a train wreck and it's,
59:19
it's worthwhile, that's why you watch it?
59:21
Yeah, yeah. 52 dicks in the cooler, man, we're in for a week
59:27
worth of chidduck jokes. Now All right, we next up we've
59:32
got our last match that we're going to cover on this episode.
59:36
We've got a singles match for the WWF European champion and we
59:41
bought the first ever European Champion.
59:44
The British Bulldog facing off against Ken Shamrock.
59:47
This is Shamrocks like pretty much his first, big Feud
59:51
correct. Like, who did he?
59:53
I don't know who he feuded up against before.
59:55
Bulldog. That was memorable.
59:57
Yeah, I guess not. Because he next later.
1:00:00
Against The Rock and stuff, right?
1:00:03
WrestleMania XIII was just a couple months ago, which he was
1:00:07
the rest natural gas. Well, that's right.
1:00:08
Okay. So yeah.
1:00:09
He's brand-new, right? It's big and it's face.
1:00:12
Looks like raw beef Alpo and promo photo.
1:00:15
I don't know what's up with that well.
1:00:17
Foreshadowing, maybe. Yeah.
1:00:19
So this match the deal with this matches, the loser has to eat
1:00:23
dog food, right? Yeah.
1:00:25
And we've got a recap of the to Bulldog and Shamrock with an arm
1:00:29
wrestling match and Bulldog gives them a cheap shot and the
1:00:34
weirdest thing before this match even starts is there promoting
1:00:37
one night only pay-per-view next month and they're promoting
1:00:41
Bulldogs European Championship versus Shawn Michaels like she's
1:00:46
gonna lose right? Yeah and it's like okay so I
1:00:50
guess Bulldogs going to win this match.
1:00:52
Yeah because otherwise what would be the point in that?
1:00:57
I don't know. What does, what what does the
1:01:00
can of dog food say on it? Does it say oh oh Bo.
1:01:05
Yeah. I'm not quite sure.
1:01:06
I've never seen dog food like that before.
1:01:08
It's definitely like an. It's an Alpo.
1:01:10
Can that they've changed to? Yeah, not have to pay Alba.
1:01:15
Yeah, that's what I was gonna say.
1:01:16
It's like yellow tape with like black.
1:01:19
Like totally text on it. Yep.
1:01:22
Alpo son. Ken.
1:01:25
Shamrocks music is too. Ten Attitude Era theme song.
1:01:29
It's a good one. It it's awesome but he's he's
1:01:34
humiliated and observation from the aesthetic point of view Ken
1:01:39
Shamrock. I think is the first guy in WWF
1:01:42
WWE to rock the kick pads on his like Boots.
1:01:49
I don't remember ever seeing that until Ken Shamrock came
1:01:52
around your feel like it's on everyone now.
1:01:55
Yo, without a doubt because they all wear sneakers underneath it.
1:02:00
Now you can look like it's probably because of his
1:02:03
background, all right. And with a manifest, it may be.
1:02:05
Yes. Yeah.
1:02:08
So we've got the dog food can and the thing that I find
1:02:12
interesting is do you think like Bruce Prichard or someone Had
1:02:18
like a an intern, grab like a nice Cooper because it's that's
1:02:22
what's inside of the dog food. Can is like a nice Cooper from a
1:02:25
hotel? Yeah, yeah, married in there at
1:02:28
ringside, sounds like it could be true.
1:02:32
So yeah, this match is pretty, pretty hard hitting.
1:02:36
Like it it's very surprising. It goes seven and a half
1:02:40
minutes. There's a lot of spots inside
1:02:44
and outside of the Ring to me, the real highlight is Is towards
1:02:48
the end when Bulldogs slaps Shamrock with the can of dog
1:02:53
food and Shamrock completely snaps and loses it slamming
1:02:58
Bulldog on the back of the head with the can of dog food.
1:03:01
Oh yeah. And then at that point, the
1:03:04
match is over and the bell goes Bonkers thing, they meaning.
1:03:09
Oh yeah. Patterson for the ride, Briscoe
1:03:13
for the ride. Shamrock dq'd.
1:03:15
We get, we get them back in the ring.
1:03:18
Shamrock chokes out, bulldog and is not letting go, and you got
1:03:22
five refs in there who can't help, and he's giving them
1:03:27
belly-to-belly suplex has. It's just, it's weird.
1:03:33
The whole thing is weird. And for me, the most interesting
1:03:37
thing and I'm sorry, I don't have much to talk about with
1:03:39
this Max. Does anybody know how does he in
1:03:43
this up though? This cash down, what's going
1:03:46
nuts? I was gonna say the same thing.
1:03:48
Then when he snaps The Crowd Goes, absolutely Bonkers.
1:03:50
It was fun to watch him, you know, take care of the Stooges
1:03:53
and all of the WWF officials that comes with a ring.
1:03:57
But he writes for that, here's a trend throughout the night that
1:04:01
I have a problem with and I don't understand it.
1:04:04
And right here, is it? Where the hell is the Hart
1:04:08
Foundation? Bulldog is in the middle of the
1:04:11
Ring. He's getting absolutely choked
1:04:13
out. He's like purple in the face but
1:04:16
nobody from the Hart Foundation is going to come out.
1:04:18
I understand Owen and Brett haven't had matches but this is
1:04:21
where like, Anvil would have played a role.
1:04:23
Yeah. Right.
1:04:24
Have Anvil. Come out there and get a belly
1:04:26
belly suplex or an ankle lock. Have pillman come back out.
1:04:30
I don't know. And for was not even there like,
1:04:33
you told you in the. Yeah, I mean I told you From
1:04:38
what I read, I don't know, like, in my memory, the Hart
1:04:43
Foundation was like the solid group that was always around.
1:04:46
But apparently like if you read back about it, like they were
1:04:48
like kind of like come here and they're together.
1:04:51
Like obviously this card is like right after Canadian Stampede,
1:04:55
it's like when they're all United, but like it wasn't.
1:04:58
Like as NWO is you remember like in your mind, you know, I mean
1:05:02
if you remember it like that, like agreed, they weren't quite
1:05:05
like that. So Some, I watch this
1:05:09
pay-per-view in bits and pieces and one night.
1:05:12
My wife who's not a wrestling fan said she was going to go to
1:05:15
bed. So I was like, do you mind if I
1:05:17
put something on? So I put it on and I put on the
1:05:19
dog food match, I put on the dog food match.
1:05:22
That's where I picked up literally, right at the start of
1:05:24
it. First of all, she she she wanted
1:05:29
to make sure that I pointed out at the end of the match after
1:05:33
taking a belly-to-belly suplex that the gentleman in pink
1:05:36
pants. Picks.
1:05:37
What is the biggest wedgie and it is Patterson and the camera
1:05:42
is shining on his ass and he digs his fingers in and picks.
1:05:47
What is the biggest wedgie I've ever seen?
1:05:50
So, mrs. Extra cooler.
1:05:53
I talked about you on the podcast that you will never.
1:05:55
Listen to brought this up. Yeah.
1:05:58
Do you see the man in the hood? Did the red blazer 30?
1:06:01
And that's the Jack's. Brother Mack, Tony.
1:06:08
So there's definitely a lot of people hanging out with Ahmed
1:06:11
Johnson during this during this time.
1:06:14
So many Ken Shamrock has his entire yes cheek hanging out.
1:06:18
Allah Allah. Oh yeah, Ahmed Johnson, I have
1:06:24
the, I have the pay-per-view on in the background.
1:06:25
And it just so happened to witness the aspic, and it's
1:06:30
taking the right now plunge. It's it's not just, you know,
1:06:33
you pull the side and pull it out.
1:06:35
Know the fingers went in In the in the crack right there.
1:06:38
It was it was a good one. Good you gotta do.
1:06:43
All right there might have been really on there but it's crazy.
1:06:46
Like how over Shamrock is? He have you read it?
1:06:50
Like I read I think it's j.r. the talks about this about how
1:06:54
high Shamrock like could have risen.
1:06:57
Let me do this. Let me redo this thing, it goes,
1:07:00
let me tell you. He was very, very close to
1:07:02
becoming a Megastar and WWF, very close.
1:07:05
Close to my opinion of getting over a big Glam, talking about
1:07:08
being a top, the car to WrestleMania and whatever people
1:07:10
believed in him and says they should have.
1:07:11
Because he was damn sure. Real, he wasn't playing the
1:07:14
character of some of the fictitious name.
1:07:16
They couldn't believe it, he knew what he could do in
1:07:18
everything, he did was so damn, smooth and realistic.
1:07:21
So who's that close that close to becoming a major star and
1:07:24
losing him to go back to MMA hurt us.
1:07:26
It wasn't a good thing because we put a lot of money into them.
1:07:28
A lot of time Jared talks about how that can missed a couple of
1:07:31
like, Saturday shows here and there and they had to suspend
1:07:34
them. It was always like that kind of
1:07:36
thing, like, yeah. Up.
1:07:37
Like now that you read that that's from Jr.'s
1:07:39
book. Is that what it is?
1:07:40
Yeah, I'm almost positive because I read that probably
1:07:43
about two years ago. Okay, I can remember reading
1:07:46
this the same exact thing where how he could have went over man.
1:07:49
Yeah cuz he gets title shots, right?
1:07:51
Like here he he loses to The Rock.
1:07:53
He gets a title shot at a championship shot at Michael's
1:07:58
that like DEET to generate. Yeah, yeah yeah.
1:08:00
Big like Intercontinental title run.
1:08:02
Yeah. Yes he does.
1:08:03
As he even tag team title, run went, alright?
1:08:08
Tournament. Yeah yeah, he was always right
1:08:11
there. Yeah, probably little few screws
1:08:14
loose. Yeah up there, it looks like any
1:08:16
box here though. Like he does.
1:08:18
He - his face. That looks like he looks a
1:08:20
little. He looks like he was a UFC.
1:08:23
Fighter sever tiene Champion. Oh, all right.
1:08:27
Kids in the cooler for that match.
1:08:29
Before we say goodnight, Captain Lu Li Kathleen flew during the
1:08:34
LOD match. He's there the entire night.
1:08:38
Yeah, yeah. Like even my wife noticed him
1:08:40
because he's like, he's got, you know, those ties to Westchester
1:08:43
County and she knows who Captain lose.
1:08:46
She actually asked me, she's like, do you think people
1:08:48
outside of West Chester know like non wrestling fans know
1:08:51
Captain Lou as well? I know Captain Lewis.
1:08:53
Huh? Um hi.
1:08:55
I gotta get some rubber bands for my beard.
1:08:57
That's the last. I feel like you're just one
1:08:59
right on your cheek like you used to have Yeah, I feel like I
1:09:03
can get something that's long enough.
1:09:04
All right, Jim and I someone to give cans in the cooler to this
1:09:07
match. As you two are playing with your
1:09:08
facial hair. That I mean I'm sticking with my
1:09:11
one and a half here I'm I was not I was not thrilled with the
1:09:15
bizarre one and I'm not talking about gold dust.
1:09:19
You know what, I feel like me and net or net mat or never on
1:09:21
the same page. I'm going to give 1.5 as well
1:09:24
because this was like, just one of the least memorable matches.
1:09:26
Yeah, it's kind of fun when he freaks out the end.
1:09:29
I don't ya the and can't for me. On here too.
1:09:33
Wow, Meltzer 1.75. Oh well sir Pete us High Ground.
1:09:38
That's a rare thing. Alright, so the the fun is yet
1:09:43
to come we've got some good stuff to cover.
1:09:46
So next week we'll be covering part 2 of SummerSlam 1997.
1:09:54
This, that's the conclusion of our summer spectacular.
1:09:57
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1:10:22
See you guys next week. See, then see, you Ma a chance
1:10:30
to win a million dollars. Hours.
1:10:33
Nobody's home. What Pettingill is your phone
1:10:38
ringing right now? Pick it up because we're calling
1:10:40
you gonna give you one more ring.
1:10:45
Nobody home. Nobody home.
1:10:47
They just left a chance at a million dollars.
1:10:52
All right, we're gonna go into the next name on the list.
1:10:56
Nobody eats Beefaroni on a boat and that's a problem, right?
1:11:00
So I wasn't cooler.