Some excellent Dming advice also. I believe Johnny Chiodini put it more or less as, "Never have your players roll for something you kind of need for them to succeed at."
Jim is 100% correct. A guy Bundy’s size who is not only not helping you with the slam, but may be squirming around to obfuscate you, is not likely to be slammed.
He had huge legs too. I don’t see many people under 250+ with extreme wrestling experience slamming Bundy in his prime. Earthquake aka John Tenta also. Probably two of the hardest people to slam in pro wrestling.
I was in this bar in Thailand that had a ring in the middle of the place. They sent two local muay Thai dudes in for a spar. They went easy. Then asked if anyone from the crowd thought they could win. Was sitting right at the corner ringside. This American bloke reckoned he could win. His friends encouraged him. As soon as the bell went the soft sparring local hit him with three elbows and a kick the american dude fell into the corner missed the top ropes and bounced his face of the second rope when he eventually hit the deck the look of terror in his face was priceless. Same carnival shit here.
I’ve seen it backfire too. In the navy we’d see it with the marines, usually drunk and easily got whooped. Once they got some big fucker in there, Pattaya I think, very drunk but also had legit kickboxing skills of some sort and just mauled the much smaller Thai guy and nearly caused a riot.
This is random but I watched John Morrisons Chronicle doc on the WWE Network the other day and to no surprise they completely flopped on his debut. He debuted on The Bump? That's exactly why people trash on how terrible the WWE is. Idk about any of you but John Morrison is a legit talent, could've been a modern day Shawn Michaels and is good enough all around to be a main event player. He can act so his mic skills are better than most if they'd just let him be himself out there rather than over script him like they do everyone else then he would be a reason why people won't turn the channel. His in ring ability and his athleticism is superior to most guys, he is a solid wrestler, he has the look, the body and the personality to be taken seriously on the main event level but instead they job him out week after week as Miz sidekick. They started him out beating Big E and Kofi back to back weeks and then at the rumble he was eliminated in under 30 seconds? How do you f*ck that up? They killed any chance he had at being a main event guy after a weak ass 2 week push like they do everyone else. Its not rocket science to come up with good creative and book/push guys effectively to a point where the audience believes in the guy. They ruin everything and yea this is a random comment but they once again wasted the kind of talent John Morrison brings to the table. It's embarrassing. Are they intentionally burying guys? No one could be that stupid to ignore & bury talents like Morrison, Ricochet, Ali, Cesaro (until recently), Nakamura. It comes off as blatant and they wonder why they have record low ratings. Its not like there's a better alternative to watch either because we all know how much of a joke AEW is so Cornette is not wrong when he says wrestling is dead and it'll never be on the level of the attitude era or even the ruthless aggression era ever again so we're pretty much screwed with terrible wrestling products as our only options on TV.
This is why I'm glad I never followed John back to WWE. The guy had been the World champ in both AAA and Impact, had a great cocky, chickenshit heel gimmick thinking he's a Hollywood star and then he goes off to wrestling's version of Purgatory.
@@sgtraytango its not like it is a surprise to him of how they're booking him and the joke of a character they're having him portray. He had two runs with WWE and that should've been enough of a warning to go elsewhere. He's had success everywhere else but he chooses to go back to WWE and he's right back where he was in 2011, irrelevant. He signed with WWE because of the money/security, there's no other reason why he would've signed back with them other than money. He did this to himself and idk if he even cares about how they're burying him or not but it's such a waste of talent.
He knew it might be bad but took the money. I understand bc he's right about 40 and doesn't want to wrestle solo matches 6 days a week. Now, he never has to.
Doing a legitimate audience challenge on a military base is a very bad idea. You really have no idea where a lot of those guys came from. I was in with a couple of guys who were NCAA wrestlers, but didn't look like anything special. There are also some crazy SOB's that go into the military, as evidenced by the finger biting story.
Not professional wrestling, but Michael Bisping has a story about Carlos Condit KOing a special forces guy during a UFC troop visit in Afghanistan. They were sparring, and this prick went too hard, so Carlos had to peel his peanut.
@@Lee-fq5xs Why did he have it coming to him? The Tough Enough participants were given an opportunity to shoot wrestle Angle and he took the opportunity before being screwed (I agree with the point Lance Storm made at the time that it was a silly idea even if the TE guys had been put through work-out drills all day). Besides, having 3 faces attacking one heel is ridiculous when the only thing he's actually done is be arrogant because of his Tough Enough victory (it's not as if he was a Vader-sized wrestler who would need ganging up on to realistically eliminate).
Except now it's even more obvious. At least then, even though Tenta was conveniently sitting in an aisle seat, the easier to be spotted and get out of his seat for the segment, now they just put the "fan" in the front row, ringside, just across from the hard camera, so it's even easier to be spotted and so no time is wasted by having a guy have to come down from the higher seats.
I was attacked in a phone booth by Scott Steiner in late 89' in Chattanooga Tennessee. I was on the phone with my brother and someone started pounding on the doorb and pointing his finger. I slide open the door and he tells me to hang up. I go to slide the door shut and he's holding on to it. I try one more time to close it and he basically yanks on it so hard I'm yanked out of the booth along with this tiny door. I just thought it was some gym bully. He was wearing white high tops and neon spandex with a big white shirt. A few years later I finally recognized my attacker on t.v.
Never offer money for a challenge you don't plan on paying out no matter how impossible the feat may be. There's always one guy that's gonna shock everyone and want his f@#king $$$!
@@chisasa9509 And Angle hated him for that. What Angle should have done was pat him on the back backstage and bought referee Jimmy Korderas a new car, maybe even a house for saving his ass from a broken arm or the humiliation of tapping out.
@ATF Media, No fan EVER challenged Danny Hodge or Skandar Akbar because Danny could legit hurt somebody with his amateur background & his hands were like stone too, he got his hands strong by crumpling up newspapers & with Ak, he was a powerlifter in his day when he worked as a wrestler, he could bench 500-600lbs with no problem.
When he came into Dallas, he was booked as Big Daddy Bundy, and was a friend of the Von Erichs. He had hair and wore overalls. He turned on the Von Erichs and became King Kong Bundy, joining Akbar's stable.
I'm curious about the Mark Henry splash challenge where a Doritos contest winner took a splash from Mark Henry in exchange for "better than ringside" seats.
This outlaw mudshow guy named Moshpit Mike would do a chest chopping contest. There was no prize, but he would allow anyone from the fans to come in the ring and give him the hardest chop they could. It was messed up because he would teach them how to do a worked chop with the palm of the hand rather than with the edge of the hand...My father said in the 70s there was a wrestler who carried a fishbowl full of silver dollars and he would except challengers from the crowd to try and win the cash if they could beat him. I don't remember the name.
Like Brian, Tracy Smothers, was my immediate pick for whom Jim would have used for a fan challenge, during the SMW days.. “Tracy Smothers fought 3 of ‘em (bears)..! One of ‘em almost killed’em..!!” Lol Classic
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I believe before going to the WWF, Bundy was in Tennessee where he had a brief feud with the Macho Man, and he was managed by Jimmy Hart. He was also in the AWA, but he went by the name boom boom Bundy, since Bruiser Brody was called King Kong Brody in the AWA. I know he teamed with Jerry Blackwell, and they challenged the Road Warriors for the tag team titles.
Iron Shiek did his Persian Club challenge when he was in Georgia. When they got the challengers in the ring they were then informed that the Athletic Commission would not allow it to take place because of liability issues.
Hodges wanted Lewis to hurt people but Lewis kept refusing until one night Hodges made his move by confronting Lewis with a choice. Either hurt the guy for real or shoot fight a very enraged and way out of control Hodges.
I used to play hockey regularly and I never squatted much bc I have a badly effed up knee but I could do bent over rows of 300+@ 185. I also maxed out all the leg machines at the gym and deadlifted a bit. I could also bench 240. I just had terrible cardio bc I hated cardio. I had an uncle at 170 who legit benched 440+. However, if someone is 450 lbs of dead weight, it's MUCH harder. Trying to pick up dead weight that had its own feet dug in is much diff from the gym. I think J Maddox would be a threat to do it, as well as B Shaw, Eddie and Thor (plus Big Show). That's about it.
That one big beast of man might do it, you might meet a 6'5+ 300+ man monster who will slam you. If he gets you up you fall an stay down, take that guy in the back an offer them a job for the cash, he's the one in a thousand.
I used to go to GCW house shows as a kid in the early 80s in Saginaw MI & Bundy was doing the audience challenge. No matter how much I whined, my dad never did get in the ring to try to slam Bundy lol
shout out to jim . he does really know what he is talking about when it comes to shooting . ive done submission wrestling since I was 8 and mma since I was 18. I have friends that are 220 to 240 . they are body builders and also have black belts in bjj and judo . I can give them either my left or right hand and let them start in a submission . I slip out of it and gain full mount every time. they have yet to tap me one time yet.
@Thomas Jamison a friend of mine is a brown belt in Machado BJJ; he'd tell me about Rigan saying which submission he would be going for, and which side, just like Rickson would do, and Rigan would still hit the sub. Has to be humbling.
It wouldn't have been that hard to record a challenge like this. A simple, "8 of the fans in attendance came into the ring each attempting to body slam King Kong Bundy for a chance to win $15,000. None of them were successful at this feat." Boom it's been recorded. Dunno why Brian said, "How do you list those as a result". It's relatively simple to do.
You cant pick somebody (unwilling) up like that just like you cant pickup a full waterbed matress. No puchase point allows you to prevent the weight in one controlled area like a lift. I was recruited at D1-FBS level as an offensive tackle back in the early 90s whena 6'5", 305 -310lb 17yo with a 36" waist/56" chest was still a rare find. I could move some weight. I have been a paramedic/in ems for 3Oyrs. A 160lb dead guy (without rigor)can exhaust you trying to move them under bad circumstances. A morbidly obese asshole that purposefully makes themselves flaccid as a dish rag from head to toe on purpose will kill you. Ive been out injured for this very reason. I always try to explain to ppl how a limp chunky munky thats only 200lbs is like teying to move a waterbed mattress. No good spot to get a solid hold and adipose flesh just pours off like squeezing the middle of a half filled water balloon. Mr Coronette,i grew up on southern wretling, GCW/CONTINENTAL/MID-ATLANTIC-NWA, and i lived for the tbs shiws all weekend and worldwide on an asheville affilite i could antenna in on sunday afternoons. I just want to thank you for the wit and entertainment for all those years, and since. Im from Morristown and used to see you in town during the smw days.i never wanted to bug you when you were off duty(who wants to be aggravated at ingles buying TP and Sprite,right😂?). We arent all Tim horner here,btw😂. I watch old nwa -wcw on tbs on youtube frequently and i wanted to say,i wish i had appreciated how damned funny Bobby Eaton was in the ring when i was a kid. His cheeky shennanigand have me rolling. Its on par with his working skills and he was wo a peer as a worker/wrestler/performer. Sorry for the novel.
Scott Levy wrote a comic about fan challenges once for Marvel basically writing it as a desperate attempt for a local fed to boost business. The joke was at the end, the wrestler was challenged by Peter Parker right after he got his superpowers. It’s actually a fun read if you get the time.
I HATE that wrestling doesn't have Fan challenges anymore. You think you're tough- in the business or out of?- test your strength against our bravest battle ox. That method also opened the door for fans to get their foothold in wrestling if they held their own. Today wrestlers are too scared to even think about doing something like those old Carnival time "Take on all comer's." Event's.
World championship wrestleing was World Wide Wrestleing on euro sport on the old cable sky remember just clouds logo. I used to watch www and the wwf after it in the early to mid 80s my grandmother watched UKs World of sport wrestleing till she seen some one get hit by a bat blood every where she never watched British Wrestleing again. Hogan's not just for Christmas he's for life like a kitten or puppy.
I wish somebody would shoot on the legitimacy of the angle challenge, and the master lock challenge. That is to say, when it came to fans, not other wrestlers.
I had an actual cat jump on my back at the shelter last weekend - she wasn't attacking me it was more like a mountain goat, but yeah it's not fun having something or someone on your back lol
I know you see Somehow the world will change for me And be so wonderful Live life, breathe air I know somehow we're gonna get there And feel so wonderful I will make you change your mind These things happen all the time And it's all real I'm telling you just how I feel So wake up the members of my nation, it's your time to be There's no chance unless you take one and the time to see The brighter side of every situation, some things are meant to be So give me your best and leave the rest to me I know it's time To raise the hand that draws the line And be so wonderful Golden sunshine I know somehow it's gonna be mine And feel so wonderful Show me what you can become There's a dream in everyone And it's all real I'm telling you just how I feel So wake up the members of my nation, it's your time to be There's no chance unless you take one and the time to see The brighter side of every situation, some things are meant to be So give me your best and leave the rest to me Leave it all to me (leave it all to me) So make it right (make it alright) And see it through (you got to) You know won't be free until you Wake up the members of my nation, it's your time to be There's no chance unless you take one and the time to see The brighter side of every situation, some things are meant to be So give me your best and leave the rest to me Leave it all to me, (leave it all to me), leave it all to me, just leave it all to me
I would add Bruno Sammartino, Ken Patera, Andre the Giant (in his prime), Road Warrior Animal, Scott Steiner, Mark Henry, Superstar Billy Graham, Tony Atlas, and Bob Backlund to that list.
Doing a legitimate audience challenge on a military base is a very bad idea. You really have no idea where a lot of those guys came from. I was in with a couple of guys who were NCAA wrestlers, but didn't look like anything special. There are also some crazy SOB's that go into the military, as evidenced by the finger biting story.
Al Snow put it best: You should never do anything in pro wrestling you can't control.
Some excellent Dming advice also. I believe Johnny Chiodini put it more or less as, "Never have your players roll for something you kind of need for them to succeed at."
Jim is 100% correct. A guy Bundy’s size who is not only not helping you with the slam, but may be squirming around to obfuscate you, is not likely to be slammed.
He had huge legs too. I don’t see many people under 250+ with extreme wrestling experience slamming Bundy in his prime. Earthquake aka John Tenta also. Probably two of the hardest people to slam in pro wrestling.
@Abc Xyz They use ad blockers which you're evidently not intelligent enough to use.
Iv learnt a new word wtf is obsfucticate
Basically not cooperating or trying to cloud or block.
If the man doing it was 6'5+ and 300+ then he might get the left up.
But you ever see a man built like that? There rare as hens teeth.
We gotta get Jim to check out the end of Botchamania 428. Words don't do it justice you just gotta see it lol
It was amazing! It did sound like he was explaining each character in Tekken 3😆
Yeh that was awesome. Some people got a lot of spare time lol
Gotta time stamp
Jim will outlive AEW mark my words
Botchamania hasn’t been good in like 5 years
I was in this bar in Thailand that had a ring in the middle of the place. They sent two local muay Thai dudes in for a spar. They went easy. Then asked if anyone from the crowd thought they could win. Was sitting right at the corner ringside. This American bloke reckoned he could win. His friends encouraged him. As soon as the bell went the soft sparring local hit him with three elbows and a kick the american dude fell into the corner missed the top ropes and bounced his face of the second rope when he eventually hit the deck the look of terror in his face was priceless. Same carnival shit here.
I’ve seen it backfire too. In the navy we’d see it with the marines, usually drunk and easily got whooped. Once they got some big fucker in there, Pattaya I think, very drunk but also had legit kickboxing skills of some sort and just mauled the much smaller Thai guy and nearly caused a riot.
This is random but I watched John Morrisons Chronicle doc on the WWE Network the other day and to no surprise they completely flopped on his debut. He debuted on The Bump? That's exactly why people trash on how terrible the WWE is. Idk about any of you but John Morrison is a legit talent, could've been a modern day Shawn Michaels and is good enough all around to be a main event player. He can act so his mic skills are better than most if they'd just let him be himself out there rather than over script him like they do everyone else then he would be a reason why people won't turn the channel. His in ring ability and his athleticism is superior to most guys, he is a solid wrestler, he has the look, the body and the personality to be taken seriously on the main event level but instead they job him out week after week as Miz sidekick. They started him out beating Big E and Kofi back to back weeks and then at the rumble he was eliminated in under 30 seconds? How do you f*ck that up? They killed any chance he had at being a main event guy after a weak ass 2 week push like they do everyone else. Its not rocket science to come up with good creative and book/push guys effectively to a point where the audience believes in the guy. They ruin everything and yea this is a random comment but they once again wasted the kind of talent John Morrison brings to the table. It's embarrassing. Are they intentionally burying guys? No one could be that stupid to ignore & bury talents like Morrison, Ricochet, Ali, Cesaro (until recently), Nakamura. It comes off as blatant and they wonder why they have record low ratings. Its not like there's a better alternative to watch either because we all know how much of a joke AEW is so Cornette is not wrong when he says wrestling is dead and it'll never be on the level of the attitude era or even the ruthless aggression era ever again so we're pretty much screwed with terrible wrestling products as our only options on TV.
This is why I'm glad I never followed John back to WWE. The guy had been the World champ in both AAA and Impact, had a great cocky, chickenshit heel gimmick thinking he's a Hollywood star and then he goes off to wrestling's version of Purgatory.
@@sgtraytango its not like it is a surprise to him of how they're booking him and the joke of a character they're having him portray. He had two runs with WWE and that should've been enough of a warning to go elsewhere. He's had success everywhere else but he chooses to go back to WWE and he's right back where he was in 2011, irrelevant. He signed with WWE because of the money/security, there's no other reason why he would've signed back with them other than money. He did this to himself and idk if he even cares about how they're burying him or not but it's such a waste of talent.
He knew it might be bad but took the money. I understand bc he's right about 40 and doesn't want to wrestle solo matches 6 days a week. Now, he never has to.
Doing a legitimate audience challenge on a military base is a very bad idea. You really have no idea where a lot of those guys came from. I was in with a couple of guys who were NCAA wrestlers, but didn't look like anything special. There are also some crazy SOB's that go into the military, as evidenced by the finger biting story.
Not professional wrestling, but Michael Bisping has a story about Carlos Condit KOing a special forces guy during a UFC troop visit in Afghanistan. They were sparring, and this prick went too hard, so Carlos had to peel his peanut.
Daniel Puder nearly broke Kurt Angle’s arm and they had to gimmick it to say Angle won and it looked like a complete mess on TV
And then Benoit, Hardcore Holly and Eddie choppped the shiz of out of him because he had it coming in the royal rumble
@@Lee-fq5xs Id say Puder made out alright in the end considering what happened to two of those three wrestlers a few years later.
@@tonymcneill7779 lol literally
Puder was doing mma in a wrestling style match. It was a legit illegal hold to begin with.
@@Lee-fq5xs Why did he have it coming to him? The Tough Enough participants were given an opportunity to shoot wrestle Angle and he took the opportunity before being screwed (I agree with the point Lance Storm made at the time that it was a silly idea even if the TE guys had been put through work-out drills all day). Besides, having 3 faces attacking one heel is ridiculous when the only thing he's actually done is be arrogant because of his Tough Enough victory (it's not as if he was a Vader-sized wrestler who would need ganging up on to realistically eliminate).
That is how they introduced John Tenta (Earthquake) in the WWF, as a fan Challenge
Except now it's even more obvious. At least then, even though Tenta was conveniently sitting in an aisle seat, the easier to be spotted and get out of his seat for the segment, now they just put the "fan" in the front row, ringside, just across from the hard camera, so it's even easier to be spotted and so no time is wasted by having a guy have to come down from the higher seats.
I was attacked in a phone booth by Scott Steiner in late 89' in Chattanooga Tennessee. I was on the phone with my brother and someone started pounding on the doorb and pointing his finger. I slide open the door and he tells me to hang up. I go to slide the door shut and he's holding on to it. I try one more time to close it and he basically yanks on it so hard I'm yanked out of the booth along with this tiny door. I just thought it was some gym bully. He was wearing white high tops and neon spandex with a big white shirt. A few years later I finally recognized my attacker on t.v.
Big Poppa Pump was trying to get the hook-up!
Liar
@@fatjec might not be lying.. Dude had roid rage and I've heard lots of stories of him being a douchebag
Never offer money for a challenge you don't plan on paying out no matter how impossible the feat may be. There's always one guy that's gonna shock everyone and want his f@#king $$$!
David Pewter. While Kurt Angle is crying.
@@chisasa9509 And Angle hated him for that. What Angle should have done was pat him on the back backstage and bought referee Jimmy Korderas a new car, maybe even a house for saving his ass from a broken arm or the humiliation of tapping out.
@@chisasa9509 Daniel Puder
@@josheisert8380 oh for sure. I would have bought the kid a 🍺 live 📺. Not cry and act less mature than the youngster you are wrestling.
I like your comment Josh. : )
16:18...
Poffo Has *NEVER* Forgot That "Pay-Out".
(I Bet.)
I like your comment : )
I do love these particular questions, because you're actually learning about wrestling history.
SMW - The beat Tim hornier bloody before he can sing a song challenge
You know which wrestler no fan ever challenged? Ronnie Garvin, because his hands were made of stone.
Or Dwayne Johnson, because he is a Rock.
Or haku after he ate peoples eyeball
@ATF Media, No fan EVER challenged Danny Hodge or Skandar Akbar because Danny could legit hurt somebody with his amateur background & his hands were like stone too, he got his hands strong by crumpling up newspapers & with Ak, he was a powerlifter in his day when he worked as a wrestler, he could bench 500-600lbs with no problem.
@@zachbalon4027 ask dudes about this challenge with one right eye or missing other pieces
@@zachbalon4027 bit off the nose
Awesome Shoot Today Jim!!😎🐐🐐
Always thought it was funny king kong bundy was on married with children but wasnt a bundy 😂🤣
He appeared twice on the show, and they said he was a distant relative on the second time.
@@WorldTravelA320 I don't member this.
Poor Tim Wood, trying to protect the integrity of the business and ends up losing some of his finger.
F*** Tim Woods the same way I say f*** Kurt Angle you put yourself in the situation that you can't possibly control you get what you get
@@chrischar9428 Fair play, I guess in a roundabout way it also help get Tim Wood more over
Cant stop playing midnight express theme chase i love that song
Just give me fruity peebles, rice krispies or honey combs. Magic spoon is for the privilege lol.
When he came into Dallas, he was booked as Big Daddy Bundy, and was a friend of the Von Erichs. He had hair and wore overalls.
He turned on the Von Erichs and became King Kong Bundy, joining Akbar's stable.
I'm curious about the Mark Henry splash challenge where a Doritos contest winner took a splash from Mark Henry in exchange for "better than ringside" seats.
This full episode is going to be so loaded. Jim is on a roll.
I've been enjoying it, hope they do that 1992 Rumble watch-along that they mentioned the other week at some point!
@@jamesburns248 1992 would be one of the good ones to do
Botchamania 428 go to 20:26 to view one of the best endings ever, Jim describing the tekken 3 roster
Incredible
This outlaw mudshow guy named Moshpit Mike would do a chest chopping contest. There was no prize, but he would allow anyone from the fans to come in the ring and give him the hardest chop they could. It was messed up because he would teach them how to do a worked chop with the palm of the hand rather than with the edge of the hand...My father said in the 70s there was a wrestler who carried a fishbowl full of silver dollars and he would except challengers from the crowd to try and win the cash if they could beat him. I don't remember the name.
Much appreciated Mr.Cornette.
Like Brian, Tracy Smothers, was my immediate pick for whom Jim would have used for a fan challenge, during the SMW days.. “Tracy Smothers fought 3 of ‘em (bears)..! One of ‘em almost killed’em..!!” Lol Classic
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I believe before going to the WWF, Bundy was in Tennessee where he had a brief feud with the Macho Man, and he was managed by Jimmy Hart. He was also in the AWA, but he went by the name boom boom Bundy, since Bruiser Brody was called King Kong Brody in the AWA. I know he teamed with Jerry Blackwell, and they challenged the Road Warriors for the tag team titles.
Blackwell and Bundy won the tag titles at the end of that mess of a tag team battle royal AWA ran for the belts.
@@sr7312 they didn't win the AWA tag belts
@@chrischar9428 I stand corrected. I forgot that Battle Royal was not for the belts.
No one uses the sugar hold today, I don't think I've seen it. It's a full nelson combined with a Steiner Recliner, right?
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He was “Crippler” Chris Canyon in late 81 in Georgia. He wrestled in the WWF as a job guy previous to that.
Roop said in an interview that he didn't want to put the guy in the hold because he knew the guy would probably slip out because he was a skinny guy.
Interesting segment.
Iron Shiek did his Persian Club challenge when he was in Georgia. When they got the challengers in the ring they were then informed that the Athletic Commission would not allow it to take place because of liability issues.
Looking at this pic.. im surprised WCW never signed Bundy.
King Kong Bundy should have played Kingpin in one of those old live action spiderman movies
Also remember the John Stud challenge 😂
Jim im sorry 😂 kim these dam key pads
Hodges wanted Lewis to hurt people but Lewis kept refusing until one night Hodges made his move by confronting Lewis with a choice. Either hurt the guy for real or shoot fight a very enraged and way out of control Hodges.
This entire segment and not a single mention of Andy Kaufman.
You have a point there. Even though he wasn’t a wrestler and that schtick wasn’t the focus of the question. Still worthy of mention.
I knew he was going to say bruiser bedlam
I used to play hockey regularly and I never squatted much bc I have a badly effed up knee but I could do bent over rows of 300+@ 185. I also maxed out all the leg machines at the gym and deadlifted a bit. I could also bench 240. I just had terrible cardio bc I hated cardio. I had an uncle at 170 who legit benched 440+. However, if someone is 450 lbs of dead weight, it's MUCH harder. Trying to pick up dead weight that had its own feet dug in is much diff from the gym. I think J Maddox would be a threat to do it, as well as B Shaw, Eddie and Thor (plus Big Show). That's about it.
That one big beast of man might do it, you might meet a 6'5+ 300+ man monster who will slam you.
If he gets you up you fall an stay down, take that guy in the back an offer them a job for the cash, he's the one in a thousand.
Tony Atlas could have slammed him easily
Does anybody have a link to a video of that Joe Leduc bear hug challenge?
GIMME A 5 COUNT!
Bundy DOES look like a real life Wilson Fisk
Cast him instead of big Michael Clarke Duncan!
@@DIESEL0759 he was alright but yeah give me the one I grew up on
The worst thing that ever happened to pro wrestling was the Irish whip. After that, it all went hokey.
*"BONESAW IS READY!"*
I love these type of stories, so fascinating
You can't body slam a guy who keeps dumbing himself out of position.
😂
Hey kim i was a hair away from entering your business wrestling but i decided to take martial arts vee arnis jitsu a philapino art
Ring of Honor Wrestling vs. Major League Wrestling:Fusion. Which show has the better product?
I used to go to GCW house shows as a kid in the early 80s in Saginaw MI & Bundy was doing the audience challenge. No matter how much I whined, my dad never did get in the ring to try to slam Bundy lol
Who was the 1st wrestler to bodyslam bundy? Was it road warrior animal? I don't know.......
shout out to jim . he does really know what he is talking about when it comes to shooting . ive done submission wrestling since I was 8 and mma since I was 18. I have friends that are 220 to 240 . they are body builders and also have black belts in bjj and judo . I can give them either my left or right hand and let them start in a submission . I slip out of it and gain full mount every time. they have yet to tap me one time yet.
@Thomas Jamison a friend of mine is a brown belt in Machado BJJ; he'd tell me about Rigan saying which submission he would be going for, and which side, just like Rickson would do, and Rigan would still hit the sub. Has to be humbling.
Ok Solid McNails
*That's Good Sh!t Pal!*
I don't think there would be alot of challengers for Bruiser Bedlam.
*a lot
Harley Race slammed Andre?!?!!?
Indeed. Harley was incredibly strong for his less than impressive physique
So did a few others. Butcher Vachon did it.
6:58 it true, heck you cant body slam someon 300lb against their will. All you have to do is potato them an it'll break the move for most.
It wouldn't have been that hard to record a challenge like this.
A simple, "8 of the fans in attendance came into the ring each attempting to body slam King Kong Bundy for a chance to win $15,000. None of them were successful at this feat."
Boom it's been recorded.
Dunno why Brian said, "How do you list those as a result". It's relatively simple to do.
King Kong Bundy slamed some goof from the audience ..he won ONTO THE NEXT EVENT.
You cant pick somebody (unwilling) up like that just like you cant pickup a full waterbed matress. No puchase point allows you to prevent the weight in one controlled area like a lift. I was recruited at D1-FBS level as an offensive tackle back in the early 90s whena 6'5", 305 -310lb 17yo with a 36" waist/56" chest was still a rare find. I could move some weight. I have been a paramedic/in ems for 3Oyrs. A 160lb dead guy (without rigor)can exhaust you trying to move them under bad circumstances. A morbidly obese asshole that purposefully makes themselves flaccid as a dish rag from head to toe on purpose will kill you. Ive been out injured for this very reason. I always try to explain to ppl how a limp chunky munky thats only 200lbs is like teying to move a waterbed mattress. No good spot to get a solid hold and adipose flesh just pours off like squeezing the middle of a half filled water balloon. Mr Coronette,i grew up on southern wretling, GCW/CONTINENTAL/MID-ATLANTIC-NWA, and i lived for the tbs shiws all weekend and worldwide on an asheville affilite i could antenna in on sunday afternoons. I just want to thank you for the wit and entertainment for all those years, and since. Im from Morristown and used to see you in town during the smw days.i never wanted to bug you when you were off duty(who wants to be aggravated at ingles buying TP and Sprite,right😂?). We arent all Tim horner here,btw😂. I watch old nwa -wcw on tbs on youtube frequently and i wanted to say,i wish i had appreciated how damned funny Bobby Eaton was in the ring when i was a kid. His cheeky shennanigand have me rolling. Its on par with his working skills and he was wo a peer as a worker/wrestler/performer. Sorry for the novel.
Scott Levy wrote a comic about fan challenges once for Marvel basically writing it as a desperate attempt for a local fed to boost business. The joke was at the end, the wrestler was challenged by Peter Parker right after he got his superpowers. It’s actually a fun read if you get the time.
I HATE that wrestling doesn't have Fan challenges anymore. You think you're tough- in the business or out of?- test your strength against our bravest battle ox. That method also opened the door for fans to get their foothold in wrestling if they held their own. Today wrestlers are too scared to even think about doing something like those old Carnival time "Take on all comer's." Event's.
We live in such a litigious society now. Plus in many states, you have to be licensed to even be in the ring area.
Adonis WAS a legit trained wrestler excuse me?
His ernie Ladd is soo funny
Didn't make me laugh
This didnt expose the business?
Bryan needs to show Corny the end to the latest Botchamania it cannot be explained, he need to see that masterpiece!!! 😂😂
mark henry could slam andre OR bundy whether he likes it or not
So 31 people , thumbs down, visited this clip and are clearly AEW fans🤣😀🤣
I was so upset when Bundy lost to hbk..and Bundy was the bad guy, hbk was a fan favorite.
Who was bigger adrian adonis or king kong bundy the whale adrian
Hey Baby
World championship wrestleing was World Wide Wrestleing on euro sport on the old cable sky remember just clouds logo. I used to watch www and the wwf after it in the early to mid 80s my grandmother watched UKs World of sport wrestleing till she seen some one get hit by a bat blood every where she never watched British Wrestleing again. Hogan's not just for Christmas he's for life like a kitten or puppy.
The body slam challenge happened because tracy smothers talks about being apart of it as a fan in some of his shoot interviews.
Bundyyyy
IM A CORN NUT
Who’s watching this in 2021?!
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No one.
@@Lenoxygen 😱
Actually u can slam A 500 pound guy against his aill
I remember watching the Joe Leduc bear hug challenge on TV.
I guess I'll keep the trend going......16th?!? Lol
I really wanna try Magic Spoon but $40 for 4 boxes though.....
Wtf is that lol
I wish somebody would shoot on the legitimacy of the angle challenge, and the master lock challenge. That is to say, when it came to fans, not other wrestlers.
I had an actual cat jump on my back at the shelter last weekend - she wasn't attacking me it was more like a mountain goat, but yeah it's not fun having something or someone on your back lol
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someone needs to buy jim a cameo with a wrestler explaining to him what GMO's are and what Non-GMO is
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you should change the title to "a bunch youtube commercials"
I know you see
Somehow the world will change for me
And be so wonderful
Live life, breathe air
I know somehow we're gonna get there
And feel so wonderful
I will make you change your mind
These things happen all the time
And it's all real
I'm telling you just how I feel
So wake up the members of my nation, it's your time to be
There's no chance unless you take one and the time to see
The brighter side of every situation, some things are meant to be
So give me your best and leave the rest to me
I know it's time
To raise the hand that draws the line
And be so wonderful
Golden sunshine
I know somehow it's gonna be mine
And feel so wonderful
Show me what you can become
There's a dream in everyone
And it's all real
I'm telling you just how I feel
So wake up the members of my nation, it's your time to be
There's no chance unless you take one and the time to see
The brighter side of every situation, some things are meant to be
So give me your best and leave the rest to me
Leave it all to me (leave it all to me)
So make it right (make it alright)
And see it through (you got to)
You know won't be free until you
Wake up the members of my nation, it's your time to be
There's no chance unless you take one and the time to see
The brighter side of every situation, some things are meant to be
So give me your best and leave the rest to me
Leave it all to me, (leave it all to me), leave it all to me, just leave it all to me
@The Legit Role Model *ICarly*
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Bodyslam King Kong Bundy with no help off Bundy..... Cesaro, Cena and Lesnar could do it. Maybe Big E too.
I would add Bruno Sammartino, Ken Patera, Andre the Giant (in his prime), Road Warrior Animal, Scott Steiner, Mark Henry, Superstar Billy Graham, Tony Atlas, and Bob Backlund to that list.
Big show could easily do it. Watch Show and Viscera. That match showed how strong both of them were.
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expected more from the pels
There's one thing consistent ever since Brian the fun-loving Jew has been around adds lots of addds😒
Brian's storytelling... ZzZzZzZzzzzzzzz........
they have no clue what thir talking about.. as always...
Enlighten us, Einstein.
Coming from someone who is illiterate...
Doing a legitimate audience challenge on a military base is a very bad idea. You really have no idea where a lot of those guys came from. I was in with a couple of guys who were NCAA wrestlers, but didn't look like anything special. There are also some crazy SOB's that go into the military, as evidenced by the finger biting story.
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