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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 nobody eats beef and
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  roni on a. Boat.
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  Man, that's a problem. Yokozuna blew my.
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  Mind. Let's go.
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  I thought of your skin. I'm ready for this.
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  Episode now, yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome
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  back to the Extra Cooler Show and our King of the Ring 1996
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  two-part episode. My name is Nick, otherwise known
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  as extra cooler and as you guessed it, we've got we've got
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  the Knights have returned for for Part 2.
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  As usual, you can find us on Instagram at extra cooler and at
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  the extra cooler show. Join us over on our Discord
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  channel, which you can find in the show notes below.
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  We're. Here implying that I got
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  eliminated by Keith Hart. Is that the ugly brother that
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  Owen talks about later? No.
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  He was. Definitely talking about Brett.
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  All right, you've got some housekeeping before I give a
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  little quick recap of our Part 1 episode and we dive into Part 2.
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  Let's do it well. Enough is enough, and it's time
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  for housekeeping. I I figured we needed to get
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  some extra Owen Hart in here as we had to deal with him
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  commentating throughout the entire time.
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  It it happened really early in the last episode.
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  We started talking about the New Rockers and the Dark match and
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  Leif Cassidy, and this was not his debut.
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  The The New Rockers actually debuted back in February of
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  1996. So he'd been around for a little
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  bit at this. Point.
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  I remember that. That that was just, that's it,
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  the only housekeeping of the day.
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  Good old Marty. Marty Genetti making another
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  appearance on the Extra Cooler show.
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  You got a shoehorn him in if you can.
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  Here we give the party, party. Yeah, I'm not.
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  Yeah, hashtag party Genetti. All right, so we are we're
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  covering King of the Ring 96 from June 23rd 1996 in
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  Milwaukee, WI the Mecca Arena. To battle is to honor to win as
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  hell. I wish I had Vince doing that
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  like in the the class of Vince voice, but we don't.
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  Just to recap on the call, we've got Vince Jr. and Owen Hart.
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  I talked about this in last week's episode, so I'm not going
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  to dive into it too much, but two weeks after this is when
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  Bash at the Beach 96 happens. Hall and Nash have shown up.
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  They're speculating who the third man is going to be.
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  There's there's kind of rumors floating around at the time that
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  it might be Lugar, it might be Hogan or it might be Bret Hart,
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  which I thought was interesting spicing.
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  Yeah, so, and then there's obviously the curtain call,
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  which we talked about that happened May 19th.
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  So we've we we've unpacked the first half of this card.
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  You know the the semi final matches with Austin defeating
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  Mark Marrow and Jake beating Vader via disqualification,
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  which is kind of a cheap way to move on in a tournament so
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  illustrious as the king of the ring, but here we are.
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  Billy Goats gruff we covered as. Well, yeah, Billy Goats Gruff.
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  We talked about Sunny, we talked about Sable.
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  We've dabbled in a little bit of Diana as well.
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  I'm not sure, but Part 2 for Part 2 this episode, this week,
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  we're gonna, we're gonna start things off backstage with Doc
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  Hendrix, a Duke, Duke, Duke and, and Mr. Perfect, basically.
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  And I, I apologize, I I'm probably gonna give you more
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  housekeeping and unless someone can think about it and give me
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  an answer, but what is the deal with Perfect in 96?
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  Like he just came back and like essentially they're trying to
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  reintroduce his character in case if anybody forgot who Mr.
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  Perfect is. Yeah, don't forget something
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  like that. Come on, no I thought the the
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  weird part about this right. I mentioned this in Part 1 how I
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  felt like they needed they they tried to shoehorn Owen in there
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  as the heel commentator cause Lawler has a match.
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  But they had the perfect guy no one intended.
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  Look at that. They had a guy who used to play
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  this role all the time. Why didn't they just put perfect
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  on commentary? Like he would have fit there so
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  much better and like his role in the storyline.
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  Sideline him anyway too. We'll get there, but it.
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  It felt like another shoehorn job, like throwing him into this
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  feud. It, I don't know, I didn't like
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  it. Who said in the last episode
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  Vince is making a lot of calls to get the.
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  But isn't the sea horn job to get Owen still on our
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  televisions despite the broken arm?
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  Yeah, this is this is very true. It is Owen on the call, too.
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  I don't love Owen on the call. I think he's.
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  I like, this is a guy you've been told is like a famous
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  ribber and is apparently funny, right?
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  But I don't know. He's just like, leans into his
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  character a little too much for me.
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  Yeah, that's crazy. It's not funny.
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  I, I want like Keenan and you know, Owen's not giving me that
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  No, which is a small order, but. At first in the like I said in
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  the first match, I thought he was OK and I was like OK, this
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  is going to be OK. And then it just went downhill
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  pretty fast. Sean comes to take talk to Mr.
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  Perfect and basically confront him about, you know, why was he
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  in Bulldogs locker room and how he better call it down the
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  middle and he worked too hard for this.
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  His red leather, his leather. Cap.
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  Yeah, the leather cap is weird, but play.
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  Play Girl era, Michael, Chip and Bottom.
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  We will get to the gear because I do like the the the pants of
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  Michael. We'll talk about that one later.
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  So our next match on this card is kicking off with Ahmed
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  Johnson facing off against the Intercontinental Champion Gold
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  Dust with Marlena. This match goes 15 1/2 minutes
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  and Doc hands it back to Vinny and Jr.
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  I don't know if anybody caught that.
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  Owen's annoyed by this, and I don't know if you caught this.
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  I thought, I think it was a slip by Owen.
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  He hands it back. Owen's like pissed that he
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  forgot about him. And Owen starts talking about
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  how he thinks he, I, I know Kurt Henning, I mean, Mr. Perfect
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  will call it down the middle. I thought that was interesting
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  because we didn't really, We never heard him referred to by
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  his real name. Not in WWFI.
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  Don't think so. No, yeah.
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  So Gold Dust and Marlena come down first.
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  I, I that entrance still hits. Oh yeah, like.
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  With the confetti falling, gold dust falling.
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  Side the music The music's excellent.
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  The top. Tier entrance music.
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  Right. And like the the lack of better
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  words, the filter that they put on the counter old timey it's.
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  It's so good. This is the turning point in the
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  pay-per-view because every match thereafter, including this one,
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  all the wrestlers have gold confetti all over them.
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  Yeah, and not just like a little a lot.
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  All over. Mostly gold.
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  Mostly. All over Ahmed.
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  All over Bulldog. Shot back to get rid of all that
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  we get highlights of. As I'm oh, go, go ahead, I'll
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  hit it in a minute. I was going to say, we get
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  highlights of gold dust performing CPR backstage on
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  Ahmed Johnson, who's laid out on a stretcher.
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  This is pretty racy, this whole sequence of offense, you know,
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  because he's, he's laying one on Ahmed.
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  There's no way Ahmed Johnson is, like, comfortable with this.
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  I heard he was pissed because like they practiced a few times
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  and he like did it to his hands and then like once the cameras
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  were live, like he did like it got for gold dust, like it for
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  better that way, But it looks it makes Ahmed looks like he's been
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  like huffing paint out of a paper bag too.
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  He's kind of like a. Gold like Charlie and Always
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  Sunny. Yes.
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  Can you put that on a chalk line jacket?
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  Like just like? Hamed Johnson's face on the back
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  with gold. That would be good, like
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  airbrush style, you know what I mean?
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  Like. That would just.
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  We need to get Jim some airbrush.
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  Yeah. Got to go to like Coney Island
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  or the Jersey Shore and get those on the.
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  Boardwalk Yes, yes, my friend. My friend had a man on a mission
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  custom one from one of those it was.
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  A way? Sexy.
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  It was a loser. He kind of thought that, sure.
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  It was sick, it. Was sick.
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  I have a little bit of a throwback.
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  Let's see if Jim will even remember this.
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  But yeah. Oh.
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  Yeah, this guy, I, we are watching this episode and I'm
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  going back and it dawns on me that Jim years ago brought,
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  bought my son a gold dust Elite figure.
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  And he's born. He's like a Burke like infant.
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  Yeah, I think it was an Ultimate Warrior basic.
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  First you went nice and then it started to get bizarre.
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  But it is the gear and the the the robe from this event.
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  It was like crazy to me. So I went upstairs and I grabbed
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  it, but I'm a little disappointed that I can't find
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  the wig. There's a wig.
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  The plastic wig, right? The plastic.
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  It was plastic molded wig. Look at this.
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  Look at this picture of the box. Yeah, it's such a bizarre
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  figure. It is Elite 47 for all of you
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  figure guys out there. I think it says 47 B on the the
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  picture that I have, but I had to dig it up.
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  So I'm podcasting with gold dust staring you down in like.
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  I think we should, you know, to borrow from the other guys a
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  little bit of fig friends do 11 action figure in episode dig up
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  one just like that. I enjoyed looking at that right?
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  I get it now. I get the figs now.
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  You can go watch The Big Guys every Tuesday at 7:00 PM.
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  There we go, plug your plug. Tom, there's your plug.
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  Yeah, exactly. I mean, come on, If you're
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  listening to this episode and you didn't listen to me on
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  there, then shame on you. Yeah, that was a lot of fun.
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  They are two great guys and I got to do some fun artwork for
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  them. But anyway, back to Ahmed
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  Johnson and his his gold face. What on earth is Jr. talking
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  about with the Kuwaiti champion? Did anybody catch that in the
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  commentary? Had no clue what was going on
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  and I was actually hoping you would have done the the homework
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  for me I. I had no clue what he's talking
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  about. Ahmed Johnson being the Kuwaiti
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  champion, Like what? Didn't he like some overseas
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  thing at the time? That was only.
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  Featured in WWF Magazine probably.
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  No, because I remember that they really sold home, right?
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  Didn't they sell home Ahmed winning?
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  Or was it? Yeah, it was Ahmed when he won
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  the the Intercontinental title and like being of color.
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  I got it for sure. You got it.
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  What is it? Ahmed Johnson won the inaugural
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  WWF Kuwait Cup tournament in 1996, defeating Triple H in the
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  finals. Did they win a belt or just a
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  like trophy or nothing? Sounds like a cup.
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  It's like a house show thing overseas then probably, right?
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  Yeah. Super showdown like before.
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  Did it have a date? 1996.
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  Only available on Colosseum video.
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  Yeah. May 12th, 1990. 60 OK, so it's.
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  Like $80 fresh. Yeah, yeah, $80 it.
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  Was like that. It's like modern prices, yeah.
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  Awful. It's.
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  It's listed in the very header of the Ahmed Johnson Wikipedia
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  page. Even before no, it says.
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  You're the former. One time intercontinental
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  champion and the first African American to hold that title.
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  And then first Kuwait. International, you make that.
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  You make that chalk line jacket, that thing's going to get the
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  picture on the Ahmed Johnson Wikipedia page.
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  That's going to be the frowning achievement, so.
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  You want to talk iconic how that that Ahmed Johnson entrance is
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  absolutely that's like iconic GIF material right there when he
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  bursts through the door and like just the way how they like the
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  Knights or whatever they call them fall like he bursts through
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  the door and the way they fall so awkwardly like it it it's
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  absolutely fantastic. The wind.
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  Does the GIMP? Exist we gotta Oh yeah search.
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  It search it right now and it's it search Ahmed Johnson I bet
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  you it's the first thing that comes up it's.
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  Funny because it almost happens like in the exact same time,
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  like the door swings open, they hit both of the the the jesters
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  or the Knights at the same time and they both go flying.
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  It was a funny, funny image for sure.
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  But Ahmed Johnson runs so strangely too.
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  Maybe it's just he's he's so wide that he just looks like
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  he's just rumbling down this aisle trying to go.
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  You know why? You know why he runs funny?
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  Because dude has. Well, he's got a wedgie and he's
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  also wearing knee pads on his goddamn thighs, so that's right.
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  Fair. All right.
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  I'm not. Getting any returns for Ahmed
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  Johnson? Yeah, and I know.
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  Neither am I I I'm talking out of my ass right now, but I'm
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  going to find that actually, Mike, you could probably find it
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  a lot faster than I can We'll. See, we'll see.
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  So. Talking about iconic, let's take
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  a a a turn here because Ahmed jumps on gold dust and he is
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  throwing fists on him on the corner, on the floor.
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  I don't think a single one of those fists or his arm even
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  grace Ahmed Johnson's head. Did you catch that?
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  He's just punching the mat like repeatedly over and over again
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  and then gold dust then bails. He goes to the outside of the
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  ring and talk about things that I did not have on my bingo card.
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  Is Ahmed Johnson with a suicide dive over the top row that?
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  Is true suicide dive too This guy's.
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  Gonna kill himself right now he's £300.
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  It was wild to watch, especially in 96.
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  And then he almost hits his head on the steel steps as as he's
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  flying and and landing on to gold dust.
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  Who's on the outside? You know they're calling
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  Warrior. Reckless before that is
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  reckless, yeah. Like these we didn't really
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  paint the picture like because I think everybody when they think
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  king of the ring 96, you think more of like the the entrance
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  and the stage and and all and the crown and the chair and
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  nobody thinks of it. But it's like one of those
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  awkward aisles that hits at the corner of the ring.
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  So when he does that suicide dive he probably would have hit
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  right on the corner of the step if he was like 1 foot over to
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  the left hand side easily. It was really close call.
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  And I'm going to say it again. I know we said it last episode
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  with with my Mount Rushmore of the Attitude era, but God damn
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  it, Gold dust is one of the more underrated and under appreciated
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  wrestlers, especially of the attitude era, I think.
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  And and this is just so much further evidence this match,
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  right, like the gimmick that he is putting over and selling in
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  96. It's so like it's so
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  uncomfortable for the time. Like I can we were kids, like
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  Jim said, I think in the last episode, we were what, 8th
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  grade, 9th grade 14, you know, like to us at that age, in that
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  time frame, this was this was awkward to see like a guy like
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  Goldust doing what he's doing and like, it's wild.
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  And watching it back, it's like, kudos to this guy, man.
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  What he was able to pull off, he goes.
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  In 110%, yeah, yeah. Ahmed Johnson dominates pretty
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  much most of the match. Also don't forget.
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  Marlena too, right? I mean Marlena is huge like the.
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  Just her presence alone and the cigar is is incredible.
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  Do you mean she? Smoked cigars at house shows
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  too. She had to have.
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  She sounded like. She sounded like.
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  Axe at Denny's, but I. Feel like she didn't always
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  smoke them and a lot of the time it was just like carrying it
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  around, like putting it in and out.
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  You can't she. Can't be doing that every day.
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  That's a lot. Of that's a lot of cigars, Yeah,
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  that's not healthy. Goldust nearly wins the match
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  after Sleeper Hold, which he called Good Night Sweet
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  Charlotte, which I do not remember that being the name of
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  it, but he decided. I believe Charlotte may be his
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  daughter's name. Dakota.
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  Dakota. Dakota.
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  All right. Thank you for fixing my
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  housekeeping already, but. Instead he decides not to pin
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  Ahmed Johnson and just further lays on his like sexual assault
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  on him. Then they start.
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  Talking about fondling being fondled by gold dust, so much so
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  that we now have something on the soundboard that will with
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  your for a while. How did you not going to be
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  fondled by? I think throughout this match
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  and the ending, right, So when when he doesn't finish him off
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  with the sleeper, first of all, the sleeper hold.
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  Did anybody catch how he's got him in it?
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  And the third time the hand drops it, the way the camera has
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  it right, it's like gold dust. And especially Ahmed doesn't
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  realize where he is in the ring to the hard Cam.
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  He's got his back to the camera as the arm is being raised and
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  lowered. The third time it dropped, it
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  probably hit the mat. And Vince and Jr. are like going
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  nuts about it on commentary. I hit the mat.
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  I think it hit the mat. And for them to talk about the
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  babyface who everybody is all in on is kind of wild.
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  I thought that was a really interesting.
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  Like, that's the way Vince handled it as he was pissed off
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  at Ahmed for almost touching the mat.
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  I mean, yeah. They didn't like try to gloss it
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  over, no. Gloss over it.
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  I mean. Good is your babyface falling
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  out of favor like with Vince this this is a big part.
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  This is a big you know you screw up on the night that you're
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  supposed to win the title and you have this quote UN quote
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  botch if you will and thanks for the camera didn't pick up on it
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  in the right way. The it's interesting
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  commentators made it such a big deal was really interesting to
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  me. Well, think about.
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  That suicide dive, too, right? Like even Owen says he's like,
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  he didn't hurt himself. And that's like the most honest
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  thing Owen says all night. I think.
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  Like he, like that's him actually saying that, you know?
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  Yeah, He. He did not see that happening.
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  He didn't see that coming. No.
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  So Ahmed, you know, counters hit scold us with the sit out Pearl
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  River Plunge to win the Intercontinental Championship.
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  And I've got to tell you, I cannot believe how over this guy
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  was the crowds, the crowd was he, he was clear cut #2 in the
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  company, right? Like he was.
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  And and we're going to see this later, but it was like Sean.
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  And then like Ahmed Johnson was like there, man, they loved this
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  guy. Maybe the Undertaker was there,
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  but like, he's this guy. 'S fresh.
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  He's 95 summer 95. Just like gold dust a whole
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  game. On it the entrance.
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  Team slaps. So I mean, that has something to
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  do with it too, right? It's very.
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  Intense. And it's maybe, do you think it
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  has to do with the butt cheeks and the wedgie?
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  Yeah. And the, the the knee pads on
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  his thighs, probably. Yeah, it's.
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  Ahmed, it's not so much you that's over, it's your ass
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  cheeks that are over. Yeah.
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  Can you maybe figure out the tights and the trunks so that we
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  don't have to see it riding up your buttocks?
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  It wasn't. Terrible.
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  No, it wasn't. Usually you get full butt cheek.
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  Oh yeah, you're right. Oh, there's one point though
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  where he goes for that weird pile driver and I'm like, oh,
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  there's his tank. Yeah.
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  Do you think that Vince ever? Do you think?
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  Vince ever goes back and and like, watches these cards, like
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  we watch it. I mean, imagine like Vince now
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  with like the watery eyes and the mustache, right?
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  The Bolzer, he's watching, yeah. He's like watching.
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  He's like. Bitch.
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  He probably is like I should have named him Ahmed Cheeks.
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  It was the NBA guy, Maurice Cheeks.
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  Yeah, Moe Cheeks. Moe Cheeks is long lost.
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  Son or brothers? Who knows, it might have been
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  like back in 95, Vince in doc in the, you know, in like the room
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  where like they interviewed puke and he's puking like it's Ahmed
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  and they're like, turn around, Ahmed Johnson, turn around.
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  They had cheeks like like. They.
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  They flipped a coin. This is the.
• 21:00
  Benefits of us double recording. As Jim said at the end of last
• 21:03
  episode when we're half in the bag, we just started with two.
• 21:07
  Oh. God, all right, Johnson's right.
• 21:09
  Up there with Davy Boyd Smith and my favorite extra cooler
• 21:12
  characters before I ask. For no the guy.
• 21:15
  The cooler talk worth a damn. Yeah, exactly.
• 21:17
  Before we give. Cans in the cooler.
• 21:19
  We have to talk about the Coliseum.
• 21:20
  Home video footage of Ahmed being celebrated in the locker
• 21:24
  room by a bunch of faces and jobbers.
• 21:27
  You're thinking, yeah, you're born.
• 21:29
  The Bush wackers are still there.
• 21:32
  I. Was like what, the first of all,
• 21:35
  what is Butch doing in street clothes in jeans and a blue cut
• 21:39
  off sweatshirt and and it's 1996, they're still under. 96
• 21:44
  mid. 96 Holy. Crap that that's legit
• 21:49
  housekeeping. We need to figure out when their
• 21:51
  contract ran out. Yeah, I got to say, this is a
• 21:55
  point in your favor in the in the Jobert conversation, because
• 22:01
  this is a room full of absolute losers.
• 22:05
  Like like, right, absolute losers.
• 22:09
  Well at this. Point The Bushwreckers were
• 22:10
  definitely Jobert's. Oh God.
• 22:15
  All right. Give it cans of the cooler,
• 22:17
  somebody. How's this?
• 22:20
  Again. Oh man, I go.
• 22:25
  OK. I made cheeks man, get it right
• 22:30
  2.75. I'm going 2 1/2.
• 22:34
  Meltzer gave it two. Really.
• 22:36
  I like the, I like the characters.
• 22:38
  I like the back story, Yeah. This is a good wrestling like
• 22:42
  story like it's it's your, it's typical wrestling storyline to
• 22:48
  me. I I put it up there with Marrow
• 22:52
  and Austin in the opener. So I'll give it 3 1/2.
• 22:55
  I was entertained because I love gold dust and I love gold era.
• 22:59
  I gave it a three. Do you?
• 23:01
  Do Nick as our gold dust aficionado.
• 23:04
  Do you mind when he zips halfway down and his man boobs are
• 23:08
  breathing? I.
• 23:10
  I am dying for him to do that because I don't know how that
• 23:13
  man wrestles in that full body suit without like.
• 23:16
  Dropping. 10 lbs every match. Like what kind of.
• 23:20
  Especially back then, yeah. Like.
• 23:22
  What kind of material is that Back then?
• 23:24
  It's like like he's wearing like a a garbage bag on him.
• 23:28
  It's like that. Solar outfit you used to wear to
• 23:30
  drop weight in wrestling, right? Exactly, that's what.
• 23:33
  It reminds me of every time and those things are not fun.
• 23:37
  It's had. Things like outlawed, now it's.
• 23:38
  Outlawed. 48 liters per hour. You can buy it at the fireworks
• 23:43
  shop across the state line. It's in Pennsylvania only.
• 23:46
  Yeah. Phantom.
• 23:48
  Oh. God.
• 23:50
  All right, What's in the cooler? The extra cooler showing what's
• 23:53
  in the cooler is brought to you by Sloop Brewing Company.
• 23:55
  Sloop Brewing is known for their hazy and golden Ipas like Juice
• 23:58
  Bomb and Super Soft. What do you guys got this week?
• 24:02
  We know what Matt has Actually, I gave, I want to say this
• 24:05
  before everybody gives their drink.
• 24:08
  I Matt has had many different drinking names on the show.
• 24:13
  He's had Matt's in the cooler, right, his handle.
• 24:16
  He's had the hop God, he's had Matty Light.
• 24:20
  But I'm going to rename this guy to El Matador because this guy
• 24:27
  brought to my house Memorial Day weekend some homemade homemade
• 24:31
  salsa. And holy shit, this stuff was so
• 24:35
  good. Like, he left me a container in
• 24:38
  my refrigerator. And my wife and I proceeded to
• 24:41
  eat all of it throughout the weekend.
• 24:44
  And I'm going to say it was probably my favorite salsa that
• 24:47
  I've ever had. Wow.
• 24:49
  Yeah, wow. Up there with, like, restaurant
• 24:52
  style salsa. I was going to say you're a.
• 24:53
  Fan of Mexican restaurants? Big fan.
• 24:54
  They're your, you know, FMK champion.
• 24:57
  I I've and I told him this like on the side the next day it it's
• 25:02
  he this guy has perfected his salsa.
• 25:04
  So forget the drinking because you got your your tum tum
• 25:07
  problems happening. So stick to the salsa, the.
• 25:12
  Salsa is highly. Salsa is highly acidic.
• 25:16
  Yeah, That's that's. Going to be worse for your tum
• 25:18
  tum than the beer. In order, Yeah, we don't blame
• 25:21
  the beer this guy's eating, like jalapenos and habanero Peppers
• 25:24
  and with tomatoes. What kind of sauce is it,
• 25:27
  though? I got to know a little bit more
• 25:28
  what we talked about here. It's.
• 25:30
  Restaurant style salsa. There's some jalapenos right
• 25:33
  there and there's some Hatch chilies in there, but aside from
• 25:36
  that, it's got the right. Amount of kick, like it's not
• 25:39
  going to light you, yeah. Yeah.
• 25:43
  Yeah, Matador is a killer day for a salsa brand, by the way,
• 25:46
  right I. Know I said let's get you a
• 25:47
  label let's work on this and get you to farmers I told them let's
• 25:52
  set up a table at farmers markets all right let's do it
• 25:55
  here we go get the. Little poodle hat, too.
• 25:59
  Keenan calls it a poodle. What's really?
• 26:01
  Jacked up is that Acefield Retro was at my house when I was
• 26:04
  making it before we went to Nick's house that day, and I
• 26:07
  totally had a container set aside and I forgot to send him
• 26:11
  with it. So he's going to listen to this
• 26:12
  and listen to you put me over so bad and I'm just going to have
• 26:15
  to bring it to the next fantasy baseball draft next year.
• 26:18
  So there's that. I guess I'm locked in for that
• 26:21
  and the chicken wedge that I usually do.
• 26:25
  All right, hungry, I have. I have tequila right now and I
• 26:29
  have no homemade salsa in front of me, but yeah.
• 26:31
  Oh damn. That would be perfect.
• 26:33
  I've got the other Jenny, I've got the mango Peach Colts, just
• 26:37
  the I do like. That one, yeah, they're both.
• 26:39
  Good. I like the OG but those?
• 26:41
  Things out of a cooler like sitting on ice are top notch.
• 26:46
  Got to be. Ice cold, like all things Jenny.
• 26:51
  Michael, yeah. I got Threes Brewing, Shapeless
• 26:56
  Days, 16 ounce can, summer seasonal summer lager.
• 27:03
  Yeah, it's bright, it's citrus, it's sessionable.
• 27:08
  I I'm still working through this 316 but it is a lot.
• 27:12
  A lot emptier. Than I expected it to be I'm
• 27:15
  actually going to finish this bad boy and it's been a long
• 27:17
  time since IPA is is Nelly boy so yeah yeah all right back.
• 27:23
  Back to our program here, we've got Brian Pillman making his way
• 27:27
  down the aisle. And when I watched this King of
• 27:30
  the Ring card and I think it was Matt who suggested we cover
• 27:34
  this. I, I totally forgot this, this
• 27:37
  whole segment was on here, right?
• 27:39
  Tillman was just recently signed WWF.
• 27:42
  You know, everybody knows the Pillman story.
• 27:44
  He he was signed by WWF, he's involved in the accident.
• 27:48
  So he's on crutches. He's legitimately hurt, but
• 27:50
  they're trying to get him on TV. Dude still has an IV hooked up
• 27:54
  to him on his arm, which I'm wondering if that's real or not.
• 27:58
  Like when do you know when the accident is anybody?
• 28:03
  And I apologize, I'm not trying to do that to be a Dick, but
• 28:06
  like now that I'm sitting here and I'm like, I'm wondering if
• 28:08
  that is a legitimate IV in his arm or he was like slapped out
• 28:13
  on me to make me look like April 90. 6 April 96, that's when it
• 28:16
  was, yeah. So he so that he just said let's
• 28:19
  do this for the gimmick, which is cool.
• 28:22
  I'm into that 'cause he's a absolute lunatic.
• 28:26
  He's they're selling the loose, the loose cannon gimmick.
• 28:29
  And I swear to God, I know him and Austin were partners in WCW,
• 28:34
  but there's, there's so much like overlap with the two of
• 28:37
  them at this time. And I know like they, they meet
• 28:41
  in storyline and stuff, but they're characters.
• 28:44
  I feel like there's just so much of an overlap and similarities.
• 28:49
  It's such a. Bummer that.
• 28:51
  Yeah, it's a bummer that Pillman was hurt.
• 28:54
  Pillman. It's even worse that he dies,
• 28:56
  obviously, because you wonder, like, how they would have if,
• 29:00
  you know, Pillman's still with us or at least through that era,
• 29:02
  like what that would have looked like on TV.
• 29:04
  He's he's. Referencing Jeffrey Dahmer and
• 29:08
  he's also saying at the end of it, he's going to rape, pillage
• 29:12
  and blunder this entire federation, which I thought was
• 29:16
  an interesting line. And to the point where they,
• 29:19
  they, I, I did like a 1990. Six.
• 29:22
  Yes, I was. Like holy crap.
• 29:24
  And then so at the end of the show, wait, but at the end of
• 29:27
  the show, I don't know if you watch this entire thing through,
• 29:29
  they recap the show and that's the highlight they choose to
• 29:33
  show of Brian Pillman saying that exact line.
• 29:36
  And it's like, wow, OK, it's. It's really crazy cause again,
• 29:40
  we're talking about the the seeding, the seedlings of the
• 29:43
  Attitude Era coming about. And Pillman is certainly oh God,
• 29:47
  specifically with this promo. Not only that, but like Jim, I I
• 29:51
  don't mean to steal your Thunder here, but earlier in this week,
• 29:54
  while you were doing your homework, you texted us of like
• 29:57
  how impactful and like foreshadowing it was when
• 30:01
  Pillman delivers this line through the promo.
• 30:04
  And I'll allow it to play here and a.
• 30:06
  Time bomb if there ever was 1. Crowd a king of the Ring.
• 30:12
  I would suggest that of a new revolution.
• 30:20
  That line, that line is wild. It's crazy.
• 30:23
  And the fact that, you know, they have the they cross each
• 30:26
  other in the aisle way, Austin coming down for his next match
• 30:29
  in the final here and Pillman on his crutch is moving backwards
• 30:33
  and it almost looks like he Pillman puts his fist up to like
• 30:36
  give him a fist and Austin no sells it.
• 30:39
  So he decides to give the little like thumb across the throat,
• 30:42
  the little throat slash thing, and it was a really cool, cool
• 30:47
  moment to watch. So, you know, especially now
• 30:51
  having hindsight of what Pillman says with this leader of the
• 30:54
  revolution, how? Hearing that line, it makes you
• 30:58
  wonder like why they have not used that like that.
• 31:02
  That sounds like the perfect line on like Attitude Era or
• 31:05
  like King of the Ring recaps or like Austin recaps or like
• 31:09
  Austin documentaries, Like how is that line not used more
• 31:13
  often? But.
• 31:13
  Is he talking about? He's like about Austin, but he's
• 31:16
  also talking about himself. He's yes.
• 31:17
  Yes, gonna be the new. You're gonna crown the king, but
• 31:21
  I'm the leader of the revolution, right?
• 31:24
  But yeah, no, I'm with you. The look, too, they give each
• 31:27
  other is it's incredible. Arguably, if Austin 316 wasn't
• 31:31
  on this card like that would be like the coolest moment.
• 31:34
  Yeah. And I think.
• 31:35
  I I remember them too, again, to go back to the, the old
• 31:38
  magazines and the trading cards. I can remember them as the
• 31:42
  Hollywood blondes, blondes just from that.
• 31:45
  Like, I didn't never watch their matches.
• 31:47
  And I just remember knowing them.
• 31:48
  So like seeing that interaction in 96, I remember thinking,
• 31:53
  damn, that that's pretty cool. Like these guys used to be
• 31:55
  partners. Like, yeah.
• 31:57
  It's crazy that Pullman like owns this character out of the
• 31:59
  gate too and it's just him being himself or whatever, but like he
• 32:02
  is so believable from from the job and again.
• 32:07
  I know we've talked about this with Pillman before on on an
• 32:09
  episode. Like I feel like he's like a
• 32:13
  little too early, like, and, and obviously the injury throw the
• 32:16
  injury out. Like if he's healthy, like I
• 32:18
  feel like what he's trying to do, like I, I don't know, like
• 32:22
  he's a, a touch too early of, of what he's trying to present
• 32:27
  because like if Austin did his thing first and then I don't
• 32:30
  know, there's so many things. Moving parts if like.
• 32:35
  Pillman's not hurt. Like, does he over shadow Austin
• 32:38
  Almost. You know, like, yeah, what's
• 32:40
  his? Involvement into that.
• 32:41
  That's like his that slot that like he's going for there, you
• 32:44
  know, right. Is that the?
• 32:45
  Typical Vince thing where Vince like all these two used to be
• 32:48
  partners. They used to work together.
• 32:49
  Let's have them work together here right off the bat, like and
• 32:52
  then the gun. Stuff happens later this year,
• 32:54
  right? The home invasion, I should call
• 32:56
  it, Yeah. The home invasion how how are we
• 32:59
  187 now episodes in and we have not covered the home invasion.
• 33:04
  All right. I've said before we should cover
• 33:06
  Altmore 95. I love 96.
• 33:09
  It's so good. It's fantastic.
• 33:10
  Yeah, I've said it. I've.
• 33:12
  Said how much I love 97, but 96 is, is the favorite because
• 33:18
  it's. It's, Yeah, everything's like
• 33:19
  building up and you can just watch it as it happens.
• 33:23
  And it's so like, natural. Nothing is forced about it in
• 33:27
  both companies. Yeah.
• 33:29
  So Austin's out first. He just got back from the
• 33:32
  emergency room where he received 16 stitches.
• 33:35
  They're not saying that he went to the emergency room on this
• 33:38
  car, but they're like they're really trying to.
• 33:41
  Vince calls it a local medical. Facility you're right, OK, but I
• 33:45
  feel like they're they're stressing more Jake's ribs than
• 33:48
  they are the actual legitimate injury that occurred in the
• 33:52
  night. And then Jake comes down and so
• 33:56
  we can hear Vince remind us once again how old Jake the snake is,
• 34:00
  and he's 41 years old. And and it would be.
• 34:03
  His dream to win the King of the Ring the Crazy.
• 34:07
  Part is 2025 and we're watching guys like AJ Styles right still
• 34:12
  and CM Punk who are how old and it's just insane, but a.
• 34:18
  Lot better than shit, yeah. We.
• 34:20
  Get right off, right off the bat, Gorilla Monsoon and his
• 34:23
  presence, which I thought I think that's interesting how
• 34:26
  much they're really trying to push Monsoon as the president
• 34:29
  comes to the match right off the bat, he hasn't gotten.
• 34:32
  Vader bombed by Vader yet? Like the get well get well
• 34:35
  gorilla campaign, but still coming he's.
• 34:38
  Offering Jake to stop the match due to his rib injury.
• 34:42
  Vince's you know, he refuses Vince sorry Jake is recouped.
• 34:48
  He's refusing to to forfeit the match.
• 34:51
  He begins attacking Austin and attempts to DDT, but Stone Cold
• 34:55
  avoids it And he's just working on the ribs, just tearing the
• 34:59
  the the tape off. And it's, it's a scene.
• 35:02
  It's it's a scene. That's a good way of putting it.
• 35:05
  And Jr. is calling it a vile mean streak for Stonewall Steve
• 35:09
  Austin. Really again, we talked about it
• 35:11
  in episode 1 or in Part 1, pardon me, of just how
• 35:14
  overselling some of the themes that they were doing throughout
• 35:17
  this this card and that's exactly what they were doing
• 35:20
  here and and making this vile mean streak for Austin.
• 35:23
  But hey, he's treating. Austin like he's the Cobra Kai
• 35:26
  as like Johnny Lawrence or something, this.
• 35:28
  Card is wild because every match is either a double digit minutes
• 35:35
  or like 3 minutes long. This match goes like 4 1/2
• 35:39
  minutes and rightfully so. Like, I know they're crowning a
• 35:44
  new champion and obviously like it's overshadowed by the the
• 35:48
  post game, the post match stuff, but you don't looking back at
• 35:53
  this, you don't need this match to be any longer than than 4 1/2
• 35:56
  minutes that it is. That's almost too long, you
• 36:00
  know, especially with the. Jake Roberts theme all night
• 36:02
  long with the ribs and you do the right thing here and you
• 36:05
  have you know, Austin really take advantage of it.
• 36:08
  So you know this isn't a work rate special by by any means.
• 36:12
  It's not designed to be. But did anybody else really hate
• 36:15
  the fact that gorilla stops the match?
• 36:17
  Like he really makes Steve Austin back up off and even Owen
• 36:22
  at one part is like he you know, he's given time to Jake Roberts
• 36:26
  to recuperate and like really diving into that kayfabe side of
• 36:30
  this sporting event that we're all watching.
• 36:33
  But I it I didn't love the interruption.
• 36:36
  I mean, hint, come down on the outside and like screaming to
• 36:39
  Jake and you know, Jake being on the side near the ropes, like I
• 36:43
  could see that. But right, getting into the ring
• 36:45
  and like, interrupting the action was like, Oh man, like
• 36:48
  this. Isn't a good look.
• 36:49
  No, no, it doesn't feel that necessary.
• 36:53
  Can you? So before we get to the the post
• 36:56
  match stuff, can you give this match?
• 37:00
  Like is it even worth us giving cans in the cooler because I
• 37:02
  feel like it's not right. Like match the match.
• 37:05
  Sucks match sucks. Doesn't matter though, like if I
• 37:08
  give it one can in the cooler like that.
• 37:10
  Doesn't matter what happened. Zero.
• 37:12
  The coronation is five. Yeah.
• 37:15
  Right, so I'm not going to even ask you for cans in the cooler 4
• 37:18
  if they. If they knew like what if they
• 37:21
  hadn't like to look into the future and like book this match
• 37:24
  like it, it would should be just like a stone Cold stunner beats
• 37:26
  them and then it's over. Yeah, kick to the.
• 37:29
  Kick to the ribs. They don't know.
• 37:31
  That yet you know so so. That's, that's how the match
• 37:34
  ends. Austin hits Stone Cold Stunner
• 37:36
  wins the match, and he's the new king of the ring.
• 37:39
  I mean, it's it's him at the the podium at the stage with the the
• 37:44
  chair behind him, never wearing the crown, no robe, no scepter
• 37:48
  in his hand, sitting there with Doc Hendrix.
• 37:51
  That is right up there with as iconic of an image as bash at
• 37:56
  the beaches 2 weeks later, you know, with Hogan and and Nash
• 38:00
  and Hall, like those are the 2 two the most iconic images in
• 38:04
  professional wrestling, if you ask me.
• 38:07
  And you know, there's so many parts of this promo that he
• 38:11
  cuts. It's it's like the smoothest
• 38:14
  promo ever and it's like. He just, like, figured it out
• 38:17
  off the car too, yeah. Right.
• 38:19
  Because they kind of tipped him off.
• 38:21
  Like they told him that Jake was doing all these like, you know,
• 38:24
  when he came. Back from the hospital, right?
• 38:26
  The medical facility. Sorry, the medical.
• 38:28
  Facility they told him that Jake was throwing these Bible verses
• 38:31
  out there and the fact that he was able to do that and just
• 38:34
  mock Jake for his Bible preacher gimmick.
• 38:39
  You sit there, you thump your Bible like Matt has the the
• 38:42
  whole. Audio, that's what's so
• 38:44
  interesting like we if you bring up the NWO thing because that
• 38:47
  was like premeditated, right? Like that was a plan and they
• 38:51
  like it was their master plan and they executed where this is,
• 38:55
  you know, Triple H is supposed to win.
• 38:56
  So if this is the backup plan to begin with, Austin's coming up
• 38:59
  with his promo on the fly. And yeah, you know, it's pretty.
• 39:03
  It's amazing that WWF was able to lift off with this.
• 39:06
  Oh, my God. And.
• 39:07
  You could. So I talked about this in Part 1
• 39:11
  when we talked about Austin and Mark Marrow's match.
• 39:15
  You can hear the crowd turning completely.
• 39:18
  You can hear them like getting hot on everything he's saying.
• 39:21
  There's, there's not a lot of booze.
• 39:23
  No, Austin's getting his coronation speech.
• 39:27
  Vince tries to cut him off. He like wraps him up.
• 39:29
  Basically. It's like Jesus, Vince, sorry,
• 39:32
  don't. You realize you got gold?
• 39:34
  Yeah. This, this to me was just so
• 39:37
  impressive. And you hear all the stories
• 39:39
  now, of course, because it's such a important part of
• 39:41
  wrestling history, not only just for often, but just the industry
• 39:45
  as a whole and where Austin goes from here.
• 39:47
  But the fact that you hear that story that you guys told of
• 39:51
  like, hey, Jake's doing Bible shit, like get in there and have
• 39:54
  fun. And then I, it was impossible
• 39:56
  for me to chop this up and your guys are going to get 38 seconds
• 40:00
  worth of this promo and it easily I could have delivered
• 40:03
  the whole thing. Let's just all relive it
• 40:05
  together and enjoy Stone Cold Steve Austin the 1st.
• 40:09
  Thing I want to be done is to get that piece of crap out of my
• 40:14
  ring. Come on, don't just get him out
• 40:19
  of the ring. Get him out of the WWF because I
• 40:22
  prove, son, without a shadow of a doubt, you ain't got what he
• 40:27
  takes anymore. You sit there and you thump your
• 40:32
  Bible and you say your prayers and it didn't get you anywhere.
• 40:38
  Talk about your Psalms. Talk about John 316.
• 40:42
  Austin 316 says I just whipped your ass.
• 40:49
  It's absolutely phenomenal what he's able to able.
• 40:53
  He's always been incredible on the mic and like especially like
• 40:57
  the which is a whole nother can of worms, the whole what
• 41:00
  gimmick? But like he's so smooth, his
• 41:03
  cadence, his delivery, like you have to wonder if Vince is
• 41:07
  sitting at the table and he's like, Oh my God, like if you're
• 41:11
  Vince, how are you not like, Oh my God, Oh my God, this is, this
• 41:14
  is, this is it, this is, this is a turning point.
• 41:17
  Like because it is. Stuff he was doing it in like
• 41:20
  ECW though, the year before and they signed him and they made
• 41:22
  him like silent and yeah, yeah, with $1,000,000, man.
• 41:26
  Yeah, exactly. So I mean, like it was practiced
• 41:29
  at least, you know, like Austin knew he could do this even if
• 41:32
  fence, you know, didn't. He was also almost Fang Mcfrees
• 41:37
  too. Fang Mcfreeze.
• 41:38
  Hang. Mcfreeze I I just love like
• 41:42
  there's other, there's other lines in here.
• 41:45
  Like with the Thunderbird, he's talking.
• 41:47
  All I got to do is buy all he's got to do is buy his cheap
• 41:50
  bottle of Thunderbird and try to dig back some of the courage he
• 41:53
  had in his prime. Like, Oh my God.
• 41:56
  And the fact that Jake, just like Jake was probably like this
• 42:01
  is so great. Like again, again though,
• 42:04
  perfect storm if we have no Jake, like if we have no Jake,
• 42:09
  41 year old Jake the snake Roberts that we've been dogging
• 42:12
  on there is no Austin 316. If Vince doesn't make the like,
• 42:16
  oh, we got to go back in the bag with Jake the Snake Roberts who
• 42:20
  looks like dog shit right now, like without him, like he's not
• 42:24
  cutting this promo. On religious too, right?
• 42:28
  Why not? Like I'm cutting this.
• 42:29
  Promo. On Wildman, Mark Marrow, Yeah.
• 42:32
  The amount of butterfly effects shit in this night, in this
• 42:36
  event is unbelievable. Unbelievable.
• 42:39
  Yeah. It's crazy.
• 42:41
  Doesn't really even super take off until later in the year,
• 42:44
  too. Like even like the Brett feud is
• 42:46
  really what gets it going. Yeah, yes.
• 42:49
  Put an. S in front of hit man Yeah, he.
• 42:51
  He even mentions he even mentions at the end of his promo
• 42:55
  how he doesn't care if it's I don't give a damn if it's Davey
• 42:58
  Boy or or Shawn Michaels. Steve Austin's time has come.
• 43:02
  And when I got a shot, you're looking at the next WWF
• 43:04
  champion. I don't know if he gets a title
• 43:06
  shot like a main title shot until you know, until Shawn.
• 43:11
  I'm sure there's something in there, but here's here's.
• 43:14
  Something else to think about. You commented on it when you
• 43:16
  were setting the stage here of imagine he is forced to put on
• 43:21
  this robe and crown and Holden scepter.
• 43:24
  Austin is Austin 316 is dead immediately 100%.
• 43:28
  It's another. Just joke of King of the Earth.
• 43:31
  And you've got this photo. Instead of the photo that I I
• 43:34
  put with that video that I just played him pointing at, at Jake
• 43:39
  in the ring with Doc Hendricks standing there next to him, that
• 43:41
  iconic photo, if that iconic photo is with him in a robe in a
• 43:45
  crown. Oh yeah, no.
• 43:46
  Way it doesn't hit unreal stuff does not hit yeah the Austin.
• 43:50
  Character wasn't ready for that until like Keel Austin after
• 43:53
  WrestleMania X7 when he's with Vince right then you could have
• 43:56
  warned the crown have been goofy like that but not now like
• 43:59
  correct would have killed. Him, you know, all right, let's
• 44:03
  move on to our main event, which is like it.
• 44:06
  It's super hard to believe that there's still another match to
• 44:09
  come, right? Like there's still another match
• 44:13
  that has to come after this. But we've got Sean who's the WWF
• 44:17
  Champion and he's got Jose Leftario in his corner and he's
• 44:21
  facing off against the British Bulldog who has Diana Smith and
• 44:24
  Jim Cornette. These are perfect.
• 44:30
  You could tell she looks a lot like Helen.
• 44:33
  Oh, very much, Very much. No, that's.
• 44:36
  Where you're going? I'm I'm.
• 44:38
  I'm being actually serious. Like she's, she's got a lot of
• 44:40
  Helen in her, hey. Man, Yeah, yeah, she's getting a
• 44:43
  Stew in her, too. Oh.
• 44:48
  The alley was there and he's. Talking about heading, Really, I
• 44:53
  say. Oh no, you.
• 44:55
  Better not be that. Oh God.
• 45:05
  All right. My my favorite part of this and,
• 45:10
  and as we're talking about Diana here, Owen gets to drop my
• 45:15
  sister, usually my brother. And I love.
• 45:20
  That he gets the drop of my sister here as he as Bulldogs
• 45:24
  music hits and he enters with Diana and Cornett.
• 45:28
  So so good. It popped me so big.
• 45:30
  You got the audio. For that, no.
• 45:32
  No. Before.
• 45:34
  Over him, the music's in the background.
• 45:36
  It's not something you could pull.
• 45:38
  Before we get to, I don't know if anybody caught this, but
• 45:42
  before we get to this match and the actual like participants
• 45:46
  coming out, you get Mr. Perfect out here right after the recap,
• 45:50
  did anybody catch Mr. Perfect's entrance?
• 45:53
  And what he does? He completely so the doors swing
• 45:58
  open right from the the Knights or whatever we're calling them.
• 46:02
  Perfect comes out. He takes 2 steps out.
• 46:05
  He forgets to put his gum at in and he reaches into his pocket.
• 46:10
  Wow and wraps a piece of gum, sticks it in his mouth and
• 46:13
  throws the wrapper off to the side.
• 46:16
  It's like it's, it's just one of those things like it.
• 46:19
  It's wild to me that like, this guy's been off TV that long that
• 46:23
  he's forgetting to put his gum in his mouth like which is Mr.
• 46:26
  Perfect him and. Warrior man, they're like
• 46:29
  mailing, you know? Yeah.
• 46:31
  And he's probably drunk. I mean, I hate to, like, say
• 46:33
  that, but like, wasn't that like the thing he was a booze hound,
• 46:37
  too? Just like, all of them, Yeah.
• 46:40
  You know. We'll find out what happens in
• 46:43
  a. Minute, sorry, sorry sorry
• 46:46
  you're not passing zoom and boom on what happens.
• 46:49
  He passes out in the side. That's why he can't even can't
• 46:52
  even ref the match. Yeah.
• 46:54
  So after perfect comes out, he's in there Owens on commentary
• 46:59
  once again, Owens Owens got some remarks man in this match that
• 47:04
  are also do not age very well at all.
• 47:09
  So Bulldog, sorry, I'm all over the place, 'cause I'm watching
• 47:14
  this match as it's happening, I'm looking at my notes.
• 47:17
  So Bulldog comes out with Diana, right?
• 47:20
  And it's just one of those things.
• 47:22
  The Diana thing doesn't work for me at all.
• 47:24
  Like it just doesn't make sense in 92, four years ago.
• 47:29
  We're seeing her there and, like, this is like a babyface
• 47:33
  thing, right? And we're trying to rehash this
• 47:35
  thing with Diana. No, she sucked on camera in 92.
• 47:39
  She stopped even more in 96. This makes no sense.
• 47:44
  Yeah, nobody cares. Nobody cares.
• 47:49
  What's that Matt say again? They put her.
• 47:51
  In picture In picture, throughout the entire match and
• 47:53
  it's way, way overboard. It's almost.
• 47:56
  Like they they're trying to. Drill home.
• 47:58
  That is enough. Like stop, stop it.
• 48:01
  It's almost like Vince didn't watch 92 SummerSlam back and see
• 48:04
  how awkward she was. Like she's she's a heart.
• 48:07
  God damn it. Like they're not natural at
• 48:10
  this. Like, I'm sorry, they're not.
• 48:12
  They're like there's like this little bit of charisma that they
• 48:18
  or as the kids say, rizz that they lack, right, Like the
• 48:22
  hearts don't. There's like a an A little bit
• 48:24
  of it that just doesn't put them over the edge.
• 48:27
  I think it's. They think they're they think
• 48:29
  they're cooler than they they are than 100.
• 48:32
  Percent like maybe? That's maybe that's cool in
• 48:34
  Calgary, but doesn't, yeah. They're like that guy that
• 48:37
  they're like that kid that probably hangs out on the
• 48:39
  bowling alley, like with the wrist thing on.
• 48:42
  That's like, I am hot shit right now.
• 48:46
  Like, you know what I mean? Like Mike, he's like.
• 48:48
  Hey now, hey now. I never had one of those.
• 48:52
  No, Mike. Was he brought us into the fold
• 48:54
  all right, They are the. Coolest bowling family, which is
• 48:57
  still, you know, a bowling family.
• 49:01
  I, you know, I I called her team.
• 49:03
  It was sunny. I called her.
• 49:05
  Not you, the Hart family. I drove.
• 49:08
  By JV lanes yesterday, it's now got a.
• 49:10
  No fence. I love bowling, but they're
• 49:12
  still the Harts. It's the Harts.
• 49:14
  I called her Timu Sunny in the last episode.
• 49:17
  She's more like Timu Miss Elizabeth.
• 49:19
  Cuz she does all the same stuff, right?
• 49:22
  She's like looking all kind of concerned constantly.
• 49:25
  Like it's that. It's just the concern.
• 49:27
  Yeah. Lip biting and the worried eyes.
• 49:30
  Yeah. Why Elizabeth?
• 49:31
  Why do we? Need the picture in picture.
• 49:34
  Yeah, yeah, this is all right. We don't care.
• 49:37
  We don't. Nobody, yeah, nobody cares about
• 49:39
  her. Like nobody.
• 49:40
  Bulldog isn't this underdog either.
• 49:43
  Like where we should be like it worked in 92 because she was
• 49:46
  conflicted. There's no she's not.
• 49:48
  Facing like her brother? No, there's.
• 49:50
  No. Why is she?
• 49:51
  Conflicted like there's no reason to be conflicted.
• 49:54
  It's awful. It's she's rooting for Bulldog,
• 49:56
  obviously. Like no, but she.
• 49:58
  Apparently hit on Sean. I thought she got a.
• 50:00
  Got a thing for Sean? Yeah.
• 50:03
  And he? Like was a gentleman about it
• 50:04
  and declined. I.
• 50:07
  I He was a gentleman in decline. Very.
• 50:10
  That was very UN chipping bottom like of him.
• 50:13
  I'm just. I'm going to make that a thing.
• 50:14
  I'm sorry. Sean's out with Jose Lethario
• 50:18
  and this is I'm not going to quote him because the the own
• 50:22
  commentary is just it. It's like wildly racist against
• 50:26
  Jose Lethario, and it's uncomfortable to hear he's he's.
• 50:31
  On the mic too long. Yeah, yes, gave him way.
• 50:35
  Too much space, but I know we dogged on Michaels for the the
• 50:40
  leather cap, which I hated the leather cap era, but these pants
• 50:43
  are pretty sweet. These pants are sweet.
• 50:47
  Do you have these? Don't they have the chalk line
• 50:49
  shorts of these or the ring gear?
• 50:50
  Yeah, yeah, or the shorts. That I have.
• 50:53
  Are the two dudes with the attitude OK?
• 50:55
  The same color scheme. It's the same color.
• 50:57
  Scheme that teal blue and the black but the dudes with
• 51:01
  attitudes has the like Zubaz print inside of the hearts.
• 51:04
  This one does not have that this has.
• 51:06
  Like almost. I can't tell if it's sequence or
• 51:08
  what, but they're like sparkly inside the heart.
• 51:12
  You know how to catch mix attention just.
• 51:16
  All right, so perfect is in the ring, right?
• 51:19
  Wait, wait. Look at the clock if you would.
• 51:21
  Is that what he says? Yes, if you would.
• 51:24
  I have that in my O2 word for word.
• 51:27
  What a Dick. And he loves Sean so much.
• 51:32
  Yeah, and the. Jose Latario gimmick is just
• 51:34
  pathetic. Like why did this linger on for
• 51:37
  this much after WrestleMania? Jose Latario.
• 51:40
  Does well, he sticks around because he he's yet to get the
• 51:43
  camera thrown on him by the fact that he.
• 51:45
  Sticks around almost a full year like obviously the the the buzz
• 51:49
  is that he sticks around to, you know, keep Sean in check
• 51:52
  backstage. He just.
• 51:54
  Stands there like, as the kids would say at NPC, right?
• 51:58
  He's just like, yeah. If you're playing.
• 52:00
  Zelda, you would go up to him and ask him a question and he'd
• 52:03
  be like, the end is that way. That's it.
• 52:08
  I love that. You got something that went
• 52:10
  completely over my head with NPC and then brought it way back to
• 52:13
  Zelda. Also, do you think Mr. Perfect
• 52:17
  had that like referee shirt stitched up just for him?
• 52:22
  Like the mock turtleneck version of it?
• 52:25
  Wait, it's not the. Same one he's wearing at
• 52:26
  WrestleMania 10. No, it looks.
• 52:28
  Like it. And Speaking of WrestleMania 10,
• 52:30
  that's the reason why he's thrown outside the ring, because
• 52:32
  Gorilla has some sort of like flashback, like he's in nom or
• 52:37
  something. And, and God damn it, I remember
• 52:40
  WrestleMania 10, WrestleMania 10.
• 52:42
  No, throw him. Out there, he's like your.
• 52:45
  Grandpa that doesn't like to talk about the war.
• 52:46
  That's how Gorilla thinks about WrestleMania 10.
• 52:50
  The special. Guest referee and then.
• 52:52
  Right after he throws perfect out there is when Owen starts
• 52:56
  like awkwardly talking about how beautiful his sister is and it's
• 53:00
  very uncomfortable and then he spins it into talking about his
• 53:03
  ugly brother, how he has an ugly brother.
• 53:07
  But then but then it almost like I don't wish he.
• 53:10
  Had to be like for my sister right now I'm so I got to find.
• 53:13
  It I'll try. The fact.
• 53:15
  That he's talking about about his sister being beautiful.
• 53:19
  Then he starts talking about one of his brothers being ugly, but
• 53:22
  it doesn't like sound like he's talking about Brett.
• 53:25
  It sounds like he's legitimately referencing one of his ugly
• 53:28
  brothers because he's got a few ugly brothers.
• 53:30
  Like he's probably he's. Probably Bruce when he's
• 53:34
  probably referring to his face after he hit him with that
• 53:37
  ashtray. He is.
• 53:40
  He is pretty banging. The match is a lot of back and
• 53:46
  forth with with Diana in the picture.
• 53:49
  In picture Cornett's interfering on Bulldogs behalf a ton during
• 53:53
  this match he gets Cornett's spanked by Sean with Dennis
• 53:58
  Rackett at one point. Classic, it's how to kick off
• 54:02
  the match is. Corner and spanked with a tennis
• 54:05
  racket. Straighten that big old pink
• 54:07
  khaki ass that he's got. We've, we've covered these two
• 54:11
  and we've actually covered these two relatively recently, right?
• 54:14
  Like in this, like in the school year as I the school calendar,
• 54:18
  as I call it the school. Calendar the season of the Extra
• 54:21
  Cooler Show. But these two have a ton of
• 54:25
  chemistry together, Sean and Bulldog.
• 54:27
  And even though this is like a totally different version of
• 54:30
  Bulldog than we're used to, I I I always love this version of
• 54:35
  Bulldog just because it's the heel version of him.
• 54:39
  How can you? I don't know.
• 54:39
  I love the heels. Yeah.
• 54:41
  I. Would you say this is maybe the
• 54:43
  height of his it's hard to say. It could be the height of his
• 54:45
  career right. He like does stuff with Michaels
• 54:47
  in the rumble 95 right. He's the first, second guy in
• 54:51
  the the second to last guy, yes, right.
• 54:53
  And then this a title match, which is, I don't know how many
• 54:56
  other title matches he gets in either this run or you know,
• 55:00
  what he's like. He's got that in your house.
• 55:03
  Run with HPK. It's it's.
• 55:05
  An interesting Bulldogs interesting because I feel like
• 55:10
  he floats in and out of the company so much for like a
• 55:13
  really long span of time and like Vince like almost wants to
• 55:17
  commit to him, but like doesn't isn't ready to go all in on
• 55:22
  Bulldog and he always comes back.
• 55:24
  Again, jeans bulldog. And, you know, jeans Bulldog.
• 55:27
  I there's a lot of different errors.
• 55:28
  Jeans bulldog heel era this one and Cancun cut or Bahamas spring
• 55:34
  break baby boy. Yeah, Spring sounds like a
• 55:38
  Barbie version, you know. Can we?
• 55:42
  Can we get? Yeah, the big guys need to
• 55:43
  explore this do like I wish like the the Bulldog toy that we had,
• 55:47
  it was called Spring Break Bulldog, the one the the Hasbro
• 55:50
  from 92 or whatever. Spring break Bulldog.
• 55:56
  With party. Marty Party.
• 55:58
  Marty. So this match, we could dive in
• 56:01
  depth to this, but this match goes 26 minutes and and 24
• 56:05
  seconds. It is a very lengthy match.
• 56:08
  Especially for this. A lot of them.
• 56:11
  Most phenomenal. I.
• 56:13
  Truly. I truly believe this is a
• 56:15
  phenomenal match and it's a it's a hidden gem because it's hidden
• 56:19
  on this card right after the Austin 316 parmo and they come
• 56:23
  out real hidden. Gem Yeah, not like those things
• 56:26
  we did for WrestleMania. This is the perfect chemistry
• 56:32
  between Bulldog who is just this monster of a man in the ring and
• 56:37
  can bump around or can can throw Sean.
• 56:41
  So Sean can do what he does best and bump his freaking ass off
• 56:45
  and that's. What Bulldog can bump too.
• 56:48
  Bulldog can bump too and and I think that helps.
• 56:51
  It's it. I think you're right.
• 56:53
  And I know like in Part 1 I said that Mankind and Taker was my
• 56:57
  favorite match on the card. I guess I'll wait till I'll wait
• 57:02
  till Ken's in the cooler till I till I dive into why, but we're
• 57:08
  seeing. Superplexes we're seeing Oh my
• 57:10
  God it's incredible superplexes. My favorite part was the bulldog
• 57:16
  goes for this like running leg drop that looks like it was
• 57:18
  straight out of WrestleMania the arcade game where he like.
• 57:22
  Floats. In the air and just hits this
• 57:24
  perfect dual legged leg drop that it doesn't look like Hogan
• 57:27
  won. It looks like it's just straight
• 57:29
  out of a video game. It was, it was really
• 57:32
  entertaining, extremely entertaining and it has a lot to
• 57:35
  do with the chemistry between these two.
• 57:37
  But it has a lot to do with with Sean for me and just bump it.
• 57:41
  So here's the thing too. Like and listen, I could sit
• 57:44
  here and gush about Sean, but like at the end of the day,
• 57:48
  we're not used to seeing what what we're seeing from Sean.
• 57:51
  We're not used to seeing that out of the main event there in
• 57:54
  WWF. And I think that's part of it.
• 57:57
  Like the the moves that he's pulling off, the the you know,
• 58:00
  the head scissors that when he throws Davey boy from inside the
• 58:04
  ring to the outside and then he performs like the her Corona and
• 58:07
  then he's just like going at him on top, right.
• 58:10
  There's a ton of that kind of stuff that we're just we're not
• 58:12
  used to seeing in a main event match.
• 58:15
  His title run matches are upper tier.
• 58:20
  I think maybe the best of his first run, like I don't know
• 58:25
  like this the mankind match, the Vader match, like I love those.
• 58:29
  I think those are like the best like but he.
• 58:31
  Didn't get the credit because it was so down.
• 58:34
  It was such a long time like. Would you say this is like a top
• 58:38
  ten first run Michaels, you know?
• 58:41
  Oh yeah. Oh, 100% this, this, this match
• 58:45
  is is incredible to me. The downfall and I'm jumping it
• 58:50
  is, is the length. And I know I bitch and harp
• 58:53
  about the the length of matches, but I don't need a close to half
• 58:58
  hour wrestling match in my life. That's just not I don't need
• 59:02
  that to get everything across. Like if it was 20 minutes, I
• 59:06
  think that would have helped this match.
• 59:08
  And again, that's to each its own type thing.
• 59:12
  Like if you enjoy a long wrestling match, by all means,
• 59:15
  like, good. That's awesome.
• 59:16
  There's plenty of people that love the Iron Man match.
• 59:19
  That's not my cup of tea. Well, that's maybe.
• 59:21
  They're winding down from that, right?
• 59:22
  Like they're coming off coming off the high of that and he's.
• 59:26
  Probably realizes he can go, he can go that long and he's got
• 59:30
  something different in his bag. And Bulldog.
• 59:32
  Can too because he proves it back in the SummerSlam. 92 is
• 59:35
  also like probably a 20 minute match I would assume right?
• 59:38
  Yeah, against Sean's classic foil, too.
• 59:42
  It's interesting that those two, you know.
• 59:44
  My my issues with this match were not the length, it was more
• 59:48
  of the Gaga that came afterwards and I just.
• 59:51
  I just. I loved everything in the match.
• 59:53
  I really did. And all of the action.
• 59:55
  There was some ups and some downs and there's some lulls for
• 59:57
  sure that, you know, if you really wanted to nitpick, we
• 1:00:01
  can, you know, chop out some of those blocks.
• 1:00:03
  But like. Headed towards the finish here
• 1:00:05
  you get this reversal of the two finishers.
• 1:00:08
  You get, you know, Sean up for the running power slam and he
• 1:00:11
  wiggles out of it. He goes for the sweet Chin
• 1:00:13
  music, but he's able to you know, Davey boy's able to move
• 1:00:16
  out of the way and there's a miss and you know the the Gaga
• 1:00:20
  before the 123 is fine by me. The Mr. Perfect involvement here
• 1:00:24
  and you know, Perfect being escorted to the outside of the
• 1:00:28
  ring and you know, he's got a ref from the outside as opposed
• 1:00:31
  to the inside that that's all well and good and he wants to
• 1:00:34
  come in and count the three count when Sean finally gets the
• 1:00:38
  the 123. And of course, Owen gets off of
• 1:00:40
  the commentary table, pulls Mr. Perfect out of the ring and that
• 1:00:45
  starts the whole Gaga that happens afterwards.
• 1:00:47
  But to me it was a nice finish to this match and it was just a
• 1:00:53
  really nice icing on the cake. Yeah, no, the ending was I
• 1:00:58
  really enjoyed the ending and and like you said, just like how
• 1:01:03
  perfect finally turned, yeah turned, but like went away that
• 1:01:07
  you you didn't see coming. And then this was get everybody
• 1:01:11
  involved. And this though, was also
• 1:01:13
  wrapping up the story from the previous pay-per-view right
• 1:01:16
  where like they had that cheesy double ref thing.
• 1:01:19
  They're catching both shoulders. The beware of dog pay-per-view.
• 1:01:23
  I believe it is, yes. So that's a Bulldogs.
• 1:01:26
  Bulldogs got a pay-per-view named after him.
• 1:01:28
  How? That's kind of crazy.
• 1:01:30
  Like a. Long story Yeah, for and.
• 1:01:33
  It and it's not wait wait wait. So OK, so this match ends right
• 1:01:37
  and Owen gets involved. Owen hits his like a terrible
• 1:01:41
  Inseguri, which is my favorite Owen Hart move, but he's doing
• 1:01:46
  it in the tuxedo and he's out there and then Ahmed Johnson
• 1:01:50
  comes out there to help Ahmed Johnson kick.
• 1:01:53
  I think you're talking about spinning heel, yes?
• 1:01:55
  I'm sorry, spinning heel kick. It was a bad spinning heel kick
• 1:01:58
  I always want. To call it an inseguri as well.
• 1:02:00
  I do like the Inseguri. The Inseguri is my favorite but
• 1:02:03
  the spinning heel kick is top notch as well.
• 1:02:08
  Vader then comes out and that's when it's like this, this feud's
• 1:02:12
  not going to be over. Like this is this is about to
• 1:02:15
  continue. So Bulldog and Owen, they're
• 1:02:18
  they're attacking Michaels, then Ahmed, like I said, then Vader.
• 1:02:23
  And then here's where we have it.
• 1:02:25
  The weird, the weird shit that just does not fit.
• 1:02:29
  It's like I can understand Ahmed.
• 1:02:32
  I can understand Sean, but then we got a pigeon like throw.
• 1:02:38
  Well, first you get Yeah of. Course.
• 1:02:42
  That's the. Only redeeming quality of this
• 1:02:44
  entire like. The bell ringing, It's the bell.
• 1:02:48
  The incessant bell ringing that they do to try to break up the
• 1:02:51
  heels from, you know, beating down the good classic.
• 1:02:55
  It's the most iconic thing there is.
• 1:02:57
  I don't, but yeah, but yes. And then then what to?
• 1:03:00
  Be fair. To be fair, the crowd was
• 1:03:02
  chanting for him. Yes.
• 1:03:05
  Yeah, you kind of knew. Like the writing was on the
• 1:03:07
  wall. You got Camp Cornett out there.
• 1:03:10
  They're picking apart these guys.
• 1:03:11
  And what's he? What's he?
• 1:03:12
  Doing flossing his teeth back there like wait, wait, what'd?
• 1:03:16
  He wait for buddy. He's such a Dick.
• 1:03:18
  Get the Rock comes out there in his sleeveless duster.
• 1:03:23
  And I hadn't. To me.
• 1:03:26
  To me, the interaction with Warrior and Sean is like the
• 1:03:31
  most uncomfortable thing. It just it, you could tell Sean
• 1:03:35
  is like trying to be a good team player, but like nobody likes
• 1:03:39
  this guy. Nobody.
• 1:03:40
  He's just Warriors doing his own thing.
• 1:03:43
  He's bouncing off off the ropes, giving hugs, bouncing off the
• 1:03:46
  ropes, giving hugs. It's like a lot of back and
• 1:03:49
  forth Warriors. Probably like I can't believe
• 1:03:51
  you're a champion this. Little twerp, this little twerp.
• 1:03:58
  It's it's very interesting. I thought like, and, and not to
• 1:04:03
  dive into the current day product, it's very like it, it's
• 1:04:07
  what they're doing right now, right?
• 1:04:10
  Like it's, it's exactly what they're doing right now.
• 1:04:12
  They're they're essentially putting, you know, Jay USO, the
• 1:04:16
  champion with Sami Zayn, who's essentially like the
• 1:04:19
  intercontinental title tier. And then CM Punk is like that
• 1:04:23
  warrior role. It's like the same exact thing
• 1:04:26
  that they're doing right now. Less less cringe with yes right
• 1:04:30
  now. With.
• 1:04:31
  Oh 100%, don't get me wrong. But then so the match the the
• 1:04:36
  Gaga ends, right? It cuts off immediately.
• 1:04:39
  We go to to the Colosseum home video.
• 1:04:42
  I love it. And.
• 1:04:43
  And my favorite part about this is they try and sell it to us as
• 1:04:48
  if this is right after the match.
• 1:04:51
  But meanwhile Owen Hart, his tuxedo top, his tuxedo jacket,
• 1:04:56
  he's got no tuxedo tie, and he's wearing a goddamn pair of jeans
• 1:05:01
  and. And you're expecting me to
• 1:05:03
  believe that this is right after the match?
• 1:05:07
  Hell no. This probably happened like 3
• 1:05:09
  days later on Monday Night Raw. Whatever.
• 1:05:13
  It's so bad I don't even know if Cornett is wearing the same
• 1:05:16
  outfit. My favorite part was Cornet
• 1:05:19
  takes a shot at Jr. because you have the biggest jowls I've seen
• 1:05:23
  in my life and it pops Vader so big that he needs to look up,
• 1:05:28
  like away from the camera just to get out a little laugh and
• 1:05:31
  then he comes back with his owl on his screen.
• 1:05:35
  It's it's so it's so wild, but let's talk about before we give
• 1:05:40
  cans in the cooler to that actual match, because there's
• 1:05:42
  more, because there's there's the aftermath, the after of what
• 1:05:46
  happens. Obviously we know what's going
• 1:05:48
  to happen, but there's there's more another layer on top of
• 1:05:51
  that, right? So at we get Sean Ayman and
• 1:05:54
  warrior. They're they're scheduled to
• 1:05:58
  face off against Camp Cornet Bulldog, Owen and Vader at In
• 1:06:02
  your house the next in your house, whichever one that is.
• 1:06:06
  However, Ultimate Warrior has a match with Owen Hart on the July
• 1:06:10
  8th the go home edition of Raw and then Warrior.
• 1:06:15
  He's he's released. He's released from the house
• 1:06:19
  shows. Yeah, yeah, and the argument and
• 1:06:21
  he's replaced by Psycho Sid. Add your partner at In your
• 1:06:28
  house 9. I don't know which one, if it's
• 1:06:30
  got a name to it, I know. I am.
• 1:06:33
  Yeah. Yeah, they had the.
• 1:06:34
  Commercial for it earlier in this card we didn't talk about
• 1:06:37
  it has the the aliens and UFO and sunny from the body donnas
• 1:06:40
  gets like teleported it's excellent it.
• 1:06:43
  Is it is phenomenal. I was upset that we didn't.
• 1:06:45
  I know I. Apologize for glancing talking
• 1:06:47
  about it. Now we're talking about I even.
• 1:06:49
  Pulled. The line from Give It to Us, the
• 1:06:52
  kid, she's a baby. Talking about Sunny, she's a
• 1:06:56
  baby. I mean, he's not wrong.
• 1:06:58
  We're going to definitely use that clip, so please don't
• 1:07:00
  delete it. It's it's.
• 1:07:01
  On the board. Oh God, so we get a recap.
• 1:07:05
  So do you want to what do you give cans in the cooler to that
• 1:07:09
  main event match First? Let's do that quick, and then
• 1:07:11
  let's give the whole entire I. Was going to.
• 1:07:14
  Say maybe I need to go last, I set.
• 1:07:17
  The bar I have. It's going to be high.
• 1:07:20
  You know it's going to be high here and.
• 1:07:23
  Man, I have. Two ratings written down.
• 1:07:26
  I'm going to go with the lower 1/4 and 1/2 cans.
• 1:07:31
  Wow, it was. Five it was five, it was 4. 75 I
• 1:07:35
  wasn't going to go 5. I went you.
• 1:07:37
  Took you, took 1/2. You took 1/2 can off for Diana
• 1:07:41
  the. Picture in picture and the Gaga.
• 1:07:44
  Yeah, my sister, you do. You do and a half OK.
• 1:07:50
  What do you 2 have? Jim?
• 1:07:51
  Mike. Oh man.
• 1:07:53
  It's tough. I'm going to I'm going to I I
• 1:07:57
  know where Matt's at there. I I want to go there, but I'm
• 1:08:00
  I'm at a four personally, I love this match.
• 1:08:03
  I think it's great and I said as much.
• 1:08:05
  I think it's like these Shawn Michaels matches are up there.
• 1:08:09
  They're as entertaining as you could ask for.
• 1:08:11
  And I've admitted I love this going back and watching this
• 1:08:14
  era, but I don't know, I just can't do more than a four.
• 1:08:17
  I like the bulldog. I don't love him and I think
• 1:08:19
  that's what. Sean makes him look like
• 1:08:21
  1,000,000 bucks here. I know.
• 1:08:23
  This is the perfect. Bulldog.
• 1:08:25
  Ever looked? He's perfect for Sean because
• 1:08:28
  he's a strong guy. Sean can bump his ass off for
• 1:08:31
  him. I'll say I.
• 1:08:32
  I prefer, I just prefer Brett and and Bulldog to this.
• 1:08:36
  That's, that's and I think those are the comps.
• 1:08:37
  Those are the comps. And this is Bulldog.
• 1:08:40
  Just four years later, he's not quite there for me and.
• 1:08:42
  Again, this gets lost in the sauce.
• 1:08:43
  This is this is an afterthought in in this card.
• 1:08:46
  It's not the main event of of summer Slam 1992.
• 1:08:50
  Like of course you're going to gravitate towards that and
• 1:08:53
  towards Brett. I understand that the pole
• 1:08:55
  there, but I love this match. I I get it, Mike, what do you
• 1:09:00
  give? It it's a great.
• 1:09:01
  Match, I give it 3.75 cans. Oh boy, yeah well it's there's a
• 1:09:10
  few too many rest holes I think, but there's there's a lot of
• 1:09:14
  good action. There's a bulldog has an has a
• 1:09:17
  gnarly box from the top rope there and and the end I I don't
• 1:09:24
  really like the end with perfect doing the 1-2 and Owen pulls
• 1:09:28
  them out. Yeah. 2.
• 1:09:29
  Two. Oh, Oh yeah, that's stupid.
• 1:09:32
  That's stupid. You know, it's it's otherwise
• 1:09:36
  it's a good match. It's certainly worth watching.
• 1:09:39
  Again, like I would recommend somebody to watch it,
• 1:09:43
  absolutely. Yeah, like, like come for King
• 1:09:44
  of the Ring and like, come for Austin, But definitely stick
• 1:09:47
  around for this. Yep.
• 1:09:48
  Yep, I give it. I so I I teetered on between 4
• 1:09:54
  and 4.25. I rarely give the quarters I
• 1:09:57
  feel like. I think if you were to look at
• 1:10:01
  this match as a wrestling match and you were able to pull the
• 1:10:04
  Diana BS and the ending and and even the perfect involvement in
• 1:10:10
  the storyline as a wrestling match, I would give it 4 1/2.
• 1:10:13
  But I think I think perfect is completely unnecessary and
• 1:10:18
  that's part of it. I also think Diana, like
• 1:10:22
  especially looking back at this almost 30 years later, Diana is
• 1:10:26
  also completely unnecessary in it and even the ending is
• 1:10:30
  unnecessary. And that's that's where I land
• 1:10:33
  in the four range. Incredible match and I love the
• 1:10:37
  chemistry between these two because I think they do have it.
• 1:10:40
  And I I feel like it's again, because Sean has so many dance
• 1:10:43
  partners and great dance partners.
• 1:10:45
  Bulldog doesn't get the credit that he deserves, and Bulldog's.
• 1:10:49
  Set up in that post WrestleMania cannon fodder position, right?
• 1:10:53
  The new champ has to have someone sacrifice to him.
• 1:10:56
  You. Know they're going, yeah.
• 1:10:58
  You know they're going to sacrifice.
• 1:10:59
  And yeah, exactly, you know that you're he's not dropping the
• 1:11:02
  title. No.
• 1:11:02
  And it's like the first. I know they had it.
• 1:11:04
  In your house, but this is like the first bigger one of the
• 1:11:06
  bigger pay per views. At least King of the Ring was
• 1:11:09
  that way at the time, so. We've given cans in the cooler
• 1:11:13
  to the main event now. Now we have to give another
• 1:11:15
  round of cans in the cooler to the entire King of the Ring
• 1:11:18
  1996. Where do you guys land on this
• 1:11:21
  because this is a such an interesting era of wrestling.
• 1:11:26
  I think I'm going to go 4. Yeah, exactly where I.
• 1:11:29
  Have it same. I'm the same.
• 1:11:31
  I think it's like, you know, there's some matches that maybe
• 1:11:34
  you would think weigh it down, but it's definitely the sum of
• 1:11:37
  its parts. There's so much new things
• 1:11:39
  happening. There's Austin 316, which brings
• 1:11:42
  up the average no matter what it's it's I would this was a
• 1:11:45
  very pleasant surprise. I thought I first going into
• 1:11:48
  this all right, this might be a slog and I was like, I actually
• 1:11:51
  enjoy every minute of this. The roster is so.
• 1:11:54
  Thin but it's so enjoyable because you see these guys like
• 1:11:58
  showing out and I'll like and and again like it it's got the
• 1:12:02
  attitude era around Mount Rushmore for me.
• 1:12:05
  So how can you go wrong and you've?
• 1:12:08
  Got Alzheimer's? What?
• 1:12:10
  Do you want to go higher, you guys?
• 1:12:12
  Sold me. I'm I'm going, I'm going to four
• 1:12:14
  as well. I was.
• 1:12:15
  I was. Getting.
• 1:12:16
  Caught in the. Slog, if you will.
• 1:12:18
  I was getting caught up in the BS, but I was pleasantly
• 1:12:22
  surprised and my I talked about it before, my expectations were
• 1:12:26
  low coming in and it was surpassed and it deserves to be,
• 1:12:31
  you know, this rating deserves to start with a four, that's for
• 1:12:33
  sure. And I think the Pillman piece
• 1:12:36
  and the interaction with Austin was something that I completely
• 1:12:40
  forgot ever happened. I don't think it's ever really
• 1:12:42
  been focused on, and that alone is enough for me to like, really
• 1:12:46
  put another spotlight onto this because I discovered new things
• 1:12:50
  and Jim talking about it. You know, being surprised by
• 1:12:53
  things on this card is enough for me to say 187 episodes into
• 1:12:57
  the Extra Cooler show. When you find shit that's new
• 1:13:00
  and enjoyable, you got to give it some extra points.
• 1:13:02
  Hell yeah, I think. I think you have to like, give
• 1:13:04
  him grace almost for the stuff that doesn't work, like the
• 1:13:06
  warrior stuff, right? Like 'cause they're trying and
• 1:13:09
  you know, like and that kind of like adds to the charm of it.
• 1:13:12
  Like bringing back warrior, like it's very random at this point
• 1:13:17
  and doesn't work, but it's like to go back and watch it.
• 1:13:19
  Definitely it's. Fun and on on top of it, I think
• 1:13:22
  the crazy thing is to go back to your point, if you told me when
• 1:13:27
  you when you threw out king of the ring 96, I was all in just
• 1:13:31
  for the historical factor of Austin 316 and I remembered the
• 1:13:35
  tournament. I remembered him beating Mero.
• 1:13:38
  I remember Jake being Vader and I, and then obviously the finals
• 1:13:42
  and I remember Warrior Lawler. That's it.
• 1:13:45
  I didn't remember that Sean and Bulldog was the main event.
• 1:13:48
  I didn't remember Mankind and Undertaker on it until I started
• 1:13:52
  to glance over things. And for me to have those things
• 1:13:56
  snuck in here on top of the Pillman, you know, it just it,
• 1:14:00
  it was a lot of fun. And I definitely, you know, I, I
• 1:14:04
  recommend it. We, we here on this show like to
• 1:14:07
  hit things on big anniversaries. And I, I am so glad that we did
• 1:14:12
  not wait till the 30th anniversary of this King of the
• 1:14:15
  ring, which is next year. And we decided to cover it.
• 1:14:18
  Now I will just run. It back realistically.
• 1:14:22
  Nobody wanted to hear us cover Mabel.
• 1:14:24
  Yes, it says it all that during the opening promo, this car yes
• 1:14:29
  oh God, that's torch that's like going to the dentist.
• 1:14:32
  The opening promos card highlights every single match on
• 1:14:34
  the card, all eight matches right like and that's they they
• 1:14:38
  don't do the dark matches on there, unfortunately, because
• 1:14:40
  that would be hilarious, but. I think Isaac Yankum is actually
• 1:14:43
  on that card, so. God.
• 1:14:47
  All right, well, we've got some more fun things planned for you
• 1:14:50
  guys as summer is here officially.
• 1:14:53
  We've got we've got a fun episode coming up for you next
• 1:14:56
  in two weeks and then after that our our summer here's we can
• 1:15:01
  give a peek right. Summer slam 1990 is what we are
• 1:15:04
  covering this summer in A2 parter.
• 1:15:07
  I am so excited for this. I just, I don't know, like
• 1:15:12
  sometimes I wish we hit record on our pre show recording when
• 1:15:16
  we start tossing out ideas of what we want to cover live is
• 1:15:20
  for man Yeah, the the cell job of Patreon.
• 1:15:25
  Of. Patreon keep it K fob all right,
• 1:15:30
  but the the peek behind that curtain is a lot of fun and
• 1:15:34
  yeah, like I say, I've been trying to tell you guys all the
• 1:15:37
  time. Thank you so much for listening
• 1:15:39
  to us. We really appreciate that you
• 1:15:41
  are picking us as a one of your wrestling podcasts and dive back
• 1:15:46
  into the old stuff. So cheers, guys, you know where
• 1:15:49
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• 1:16:03
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• 1:16:05
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• 1:16:10
  Yes, cheers you. Sit there and you thump your
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  Bible and you say your prayers and it didn't get you anywhere.