Scott Norton on Why Haku Was the Baddest Motherf***er in Wrestling History!

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Комментарии • 236

  • @johnny5805
    @johnny5805 5 месяцев назад +84

    Someone in an interview said, you might THINK you can fight Haku, but are you prepared to lose an eye, a nose, an ear, your lips, your teeth ? To live physically impaired for the rest of your life ? If you're not prepared to fight to the death like that, then don't even think about it.

    • @timkane6392
      @timkane6392 5 месяцев назад +11

      I think that may have been Bobby Heenan, but I could be wrong. Great quote either way

    • @pandavelli8176
      @pandavelli8176 5 месяцев назад

      Don’t fight a DRUNK Meng 😂

    • @ThailandDantotherescue
      @ThailandDantotherescue Месяц назад

      Exactly... That is what sets Haku apart...

  • @NickPR87
    @NickPR87 5 месяцев назад +57

    The best thing about Haku being brought up constantly when this question is asked is that everyone points out how he's also one of the nicest people ever in the business as well.

    • @Meatball2022
      @Meatball2022 5 месяцев назад +11

      He seems like a legit wonderful dude. Which is even scarier in a way. Lol

    • @justafanofnerdculture7602
      @justafanofnerdculture7602 5 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@Meatball2022Agreed

    • @Camcolito
      @Camcolito 5 месяцев назад +8

      They are afraid to say anything bad about him, they see what happened to the last guy who did.

  • @HAVOCJKD
    @HAVOCJKD 5 месяцев назад +126

    The question should be "Other than Meng...."

    • @kristimccabe8288
      @kristimccabe8288 5 месяцев назад +3

      Exactly!

    • @jaw-knee-5
      @jaw-knee-5 5 месяцев назад +22

      The other answer would most likely be "The Barbarian" 😅

    • @marcbasil
      @marcbasil 5 месяцев назад

      @@kristimccabe8288🎯🤤

    • @scottbreon9448
      @scottbreon9448 5 месяцев назад +14

      Rick Rude? Harley Race?

    • @TheRmm1976
      @TheRmm1976 5 месяцев назад +1

      Danny Spivey, Billy Jack Haynes

  • @TheStuport
    @TheStuport 5 месяцев назад +65

    Scott Norton has the BEST response I have ever heard about Meng...."Not only is he the toughest guy I have ever met, he is The Best Guy I have ever met"! Really says a lot about Meng, but EVEN more about how humble Scott Norton is too. I have always enjoyed Norton's presence in and around The Ring, but to get to hear him speak candidly with James is a real treat! Cheers From Across The Pond In Ohio 👋

    • @RyanHunter723
      @RyanHunter723 5 месяцев назад

      For real, Nortons no pussy either.

    • @SkylarReed2L
      @SkylarReed2L 5 месяцев назад +5

      Been on indy shows with him. He and Barbarian are amazing people. 👏

    • @TheStuport
      @TheStuport 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@SkylarReed2L I've also read this about Barbarian as well! As a squirt BOTH scared the living chit out of me....but as an adult kid I have total respect for both of them! Cheers👋

    • @sirwalterii_2nd
      @sirwalterii_2nd 5 месяцев назад

      Here's another Scott Norton video on Haku. Very similar response
      ruclips.net/video/lfDe37cZM48/видео.htmlsi=iQ0j6dd-55SKKWT7

  • @Ifoughtpiranhas
    @Ifoughtpiranhas 5 месяцев назад +59

    Wrestlers tend to embellish their stories a bit, but when Don Frye said Haku was a scary and frightening human being, that's all the convincing I needed that starting shit with Haku could be extremely hazardous to your health.

    • @jimclaus1576
      @jimclaus1576 5 месяцев назад +9

      To tell you the truth, I think Prime Ken Shamrock (The ‘97-‘98 version that was still bench 550-600) would give ANY wrestler in history a run for their money in a scrap. Mr Wonderful would too. Both athletes and savages

    • @TaravistaVelvetSmoov
      @TaravistaVelvetSmoov 5 месяцев назад

      Steve Blackman was another killer!

    • @kevthegoat8774
      @kevthegoat8774 5 месяцев назад +6

      ​@@jimclaus1576Other than highly trained professional fighters, historically professional wrestlers are probably the worst guys to fight and plenty of them could beat pro boxers due to many having high level wrestling backgrounds.
      Guys like Ken Shamrock, Brock Lesnar, Dan Severn, Bobby Lashley, Sylvester Terkay, Craig Pittman and Danny Hodge were all high level amateur wrestlers/professional fighters. Guys like Bart Gunn, Shinsuke Nakamura, Alberto Del Rio and Rodney Mack all fought and won fights in MMA too.
      Peter Maivia, Sika and the rest of the Samoans were known to love a good scrap, Kurt Angle said Rikishi was a legit badass. Harley Race grew up working the carnival scene and was known to have knockout power, Tracy Smothers is another one that gets mentioned as one of the toughest too. Hell even comedy characters like Rico and Santino Marella were legit Martial Artists.
      Chris Taylor is another guy worth mentioning, 6'5 400 pound Olympic bronze Medalist in Greco and two time national champion, who's gonna stop that kind of man? I'd definitely pick him to handle a guy like André in his prime.

    • @jimclaus1576
      @jimclaus1576 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@kevthegoat8774 Yeah the wrestling base definitely helps. I mean at the end of the day I would put my money on Kyle Snyder or Sadulaev to beat any modern day HW boxer in a scrap on the street. Then you throw in someone with both wrestling and an MMA background like a Shamrock, Frye or Brock and it’s even more of a safe bet. It’s crazy how many people laughed at the idea of Shamrock beating Tyson in an all out fight in the mid to late 90’s. Lol A lot of peoples minds would have been thrown through a loop had that fight actually happened.

    • @xsqrewfacex
      @xsqrewfacex 5 месяцев назад +8

      Can you imagine the fucking savage that is Don Frye saying anything is scary 😂😂😂😂 Meng is a tank

  • @Halbared
    @Halbared 5 месяцев назад +52

    Never get tired of Haku or André stories.

  • @DewlayLomo
    @DewlayLomo 5 месяцев назад +69

    The only wrestler i heard was tougher than Meng is Haku! 🤪

    • @michaelmarkowski204
      @michaelmarkowski204 5 месяцев назад +14

      I think Meng and Haku would've won the tag-team title. Little-known fact: Meng and Haku never had a match against each other.

    • @LPVPisFr33
      @LPVPisFr33 5 месяцев назад +15

      Nah, King Tonga beats them all, easy!

  • @NightcapLover
    @NightcapLover 5 месяцев назад +20

    I'm digging these Scott Norton snippets so far, can't wait for the full interview 👍

    • @jaythor70
      @jaythor70 5 месяцев назад +3

      Same. He seems like a great interview.

  • @WrestlingBios
    @WrestlingBios 5 месяцев назад +19

    Cheers James! Really enjoying hearing these stories from Scott.

    • @mjdf122
      @mjdf122 5 месяцев назад

      Wrestling bios you’re a jam up guy Chinese proverb once said we’re on the road to WWF Fully Loaded 1999 and WCW Bash at the Beach 1999 there are also PPVs you still have to do videos for both WWF/WCW for the years 1995 and 1996 still to finish/complete the timeline

  • @mjdf122
    @mjdf122 5 месяцев назад +35

    Ravashing Rick Rude another legit bad ass

    • @jimh.412
      @jimh.412 5 месяцев назад +5

      Simply Ravishing!!💪💪

    • @theshawdows
      @theshawdows 5 месяцев назад +5

      I heard Steve Blackman was pretty tough too

    • @jimh.412
      @jimh.412 5 месяцев назад +5

      @@theshawdows Yes he was. Very tough guy 💪💪

    • @johnnyestrada6993
      @johnnyestrada6993 5 месяцев назад +3

      Rick Rude was a damn arm wrestling champ at young age so you know he was strong AF. Heard Dan Spivey being another one no one wanted to fuck with.

  • @XARIER39
    @XARIER39 5 месяцев назад +13

    I'd like to hear more guys talk about Barbarian. He was a badass AND sooo frickin strong.

    • @RyanHunter723
      @RyanHunter723 5 месяцев назад +2

      I don't think he partied as hard as Haku, hence less craziness. I would like to hear a story about Barbarian having to calm a raging Haku.

    • @DewlayLomo
      @DewlayLomo 5 месяцев назад +4

      Heard Barb’s wife is the only person he was afraid of.

    • @donjohn2695
      @donjohn2695 5 месяцев назад +1

      Barbarian and warlord to of the strongest guys EVER in the business

    • @XARIER39
      @XARIER39 5 месяцев назад

      @@donjohn2695Possibly even the strongest.

    • @abhinavkumar547
      @abhinavkumar547 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@@XARIER39Strongest guys of pro wrestling in its history is a toss up between Bill Kazmaier and Mark Henry.

  • @milla7391
    @milla7391 5 месяцев назад +16

    Legit tough guys that I always hear are Meng, Harley Race, Dr. Death, Blackjack Mulligan, Rude, Orndorff, Tracy Smothers, Jack Brisco, Barbarian, Dick Slater.

  • @koolkeiths
    @koolkeiths 5 месяцев назад +7

    check out the video of Meng hitting the Giant in the face with a standing sidekick, from a stance…no “wind up”, that was wild.

  • @TeijoKhanfan
    @TeijoKhanfan 5 месяцев назад +26

    Ron Simmons i heard was legitimately very tough.

    • @GameTime-yj6qv
      @GameTime-yj6qv 5 месяцев назад +6

      I also heard he was naturally strong and wouldn't lift weights too much

    • @Arayig1982
      @Arayig1982 5 месяцев назад +7

      DAMN!!!

    • @donjohn2695
      @donjohn2695 5 месяцев назад +10

      Even the Steiner Bros said they stayed clear of Ron

    • @Rondondemarco
      @Rondondemarco 5 месяцев назад

      I heard that many times about him as well back in the day.

    • @justjarvis106
      @justjarvis106 5 месяцев назад +3

      @@GameTime-yj6qvthere’s stories of how he barely trains but would randomly turn up in gyms in jeans and bench and squat more than any other wrestler training and then just dip.

  • @dwade6322
    @dwade6322 5 месяцев назад +7

    Scott is a legend. Love hearing him.👍

  • @murraykelm5691
    @murraykelm5691 5 месяцев назад +10

    Brad Rhenigans always seems to be the forgotten tough guy.

    • @kevthegoat8774
      @kevthegoat8774 5 месяцев назад

      Norton did say Rheingans was right up there with Haku in an older radio interview

  • @nathanwanner..44
    @nathanwanner..44 5 месяцев назад +5

    I had a guy tell me something that always stuck with me. He said the security at wrestling events is there to protect the public from the wrestlers not the other way around

  • @michaelmarkowski204
    @michaelmarkowski204 5 месяцев назад +9

    I saw a shoot interview with Haku on RUclips, and when he was asked who he thought was the legit toughest pro wrestler, he said Barbarian, and also said he wouldn't want to face him in a shoot fight.

    • @saschafeld5528
      @saschafeld5528 5 месяцев назад +1

      I think he knows it would end with one of them dead and the other one in prison and he dont wants do be either one.

    • @sirwalterii_2nd
      @sirwalterii_2nd 5 месяцев назад

      Barb says the same about Haku. He even said Haku us "The Man" according to Arn Anderson. Barb said at 13 years old Haku was beating up grown Samoan adults. He told this story to Konnan

    • @funkster007
      @funkster007 2 месяца назад

      They are brothers to the core. Total mutual admiration. All I know is if they both did have to square off, I wouldn't want to be within a hundred yards from those monsters.

    • @kurtwpg
      @kurtwpg 22 дня назад

      I mean, he's not going to say himself so he went with the next option.

  • @AAVVVAAADDAAAKAAADAVRAAA
    @AAVVVAAADDAAAKAAADAVRAAA 5 месяцев назад +5

    Meng road stories are always the best

  • @joeriveracomedy
    @joeriveracomedy 5 месяцев назад +8

    Hard to have social anxiety or insecurities when you fear no man

  • @jaythor70
    @jaythor70 5 месяцев назад +2

    Meng and Barbarian- 2 names that always come up. i would love to have these guys as friends- they are the nicest people, very respectful, polite, and generous. Then there is the flip side of having the 2 best guys in the world on your side in a scrap.

  • @Devypocalypse
    @Devypocalypse 5 месяцев назад +3

    Name dropping Meng, Barb, Steiners and Dom Frye. Thats some serious hard asses.

  • @chaoticdays
    @chaoticdays 5 дней назад +1

    Mean Gene Okerlund also said Haku and Masa Saito were the toughest. Nice to see Scott Norton mention Saito because he doesn't get the recognition he deserves.

  • @Meatball2022
    @Meatball2022 5 месяцев назад +6

    There’s something to be said when 6’ 350 lb muscle dude smiles and says “that guys dangerous”…

  • @B-Eazy999
    @B-Eazy999 5 месяцев назад +2

    Meng was a primal badass reminds me of some kids I knew growing up lived out in the middle of the woods never enrolled in school , I know there was at least 16-17 siblings , we were like 10-11 yrs old I saw one of them same age as me climb up a small tree 30-40ft the tree snaps he falls to the forest floor on his back and jumps up and starts running around playing like nothing had happened I was like wtf , they never wore shoes and grew all their own food all the children were born at home and had never saw an antibiotic or vaccine but those children were the toughest people I ever saw in my life and are the definition of primal badasses .

  • @dustinsliger3122
    @dustinsliger3122 5 месяцев назад +6

    I like how Scott Norton put all these guys over as bas ass but the cat wouldn't put no one over except him self.

    • @rccomics
      @rccomics 5 месяцев назад +2

      Thats why I only fully watched 1 Cat episode and stopped a minute into a second one and that was it.

  • @user-rd1sz4kk9f
    @user-rd1sz4kk9f 5 месяцев назад +11

    Put some respect on Steve Blackman

    • @kazman_6899
      @kazman_6899 5 месяцев назад

      Bro, Blackman got injured or a tick or something. Kept him out of wrestling for 8 years. Tough as a pair of panties.

    • @KylesWorldChamp91
      @KylesWorldChamp91 5 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@kazman_6899bet you wouldn't refer to Steve as "soft" to his face. Dude is a badass.

    • @kazman_6899
      @kazman_6899 5 месяцев назад

      @@KylesWorldChamp91 I would.

    • @KylesWorldChamp91
      @KylesWorldChamp91 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@kazman_6899 good luck with that. Lol

  • @CosmicChris410
    @CosmicChris410 2 месяца назад

    Would love to see Norton have his own dedicated podcast. Not just a quest. He is an amazing dude. Met him a few months ago

  • @kelefane6233
    @kelefane6233 5 месяцев назад +3

    Scott Norton is Stone Cold at home.

  • @NightcapLover
    @NightcapLover 5 месяцев назад +5

    Meng/Haku all day, you don't question that.

  • @kpllc4209
    @kpllc4209 5 месяцев назад +6

    It was Nebraska Cornhusker John Parrella that KOed Hawk in an elevator in Japan after Hawk started a fight with a Kansas State wide receiver. The wrestlers had to drag Hawk away and said they would get even LOL.

    • @kevthegoat8774
      @kevthegoat8774 5 месяцев назад

      Sonny Onno mentioned a story of Masa Saito and Hawk getting into with a bunch of football players claiming that the football players said a racial slur to Masa then Hawk called them out on it, Sonny claimed Masa whooped one of them bad but never mentioned the Hawk getting knocked out story which I've heard for years. Maybe it's a case of Hawk getting knocked out then Masa whooping one of their players in return? I could imagine both sides not wanting to mention that they lost. Bruno and Iron Sheik both claim they took of a CFL player and five of his buddies but then the friends of the football player have stated it was the other way around. Pride and egos always gets in the way of stories like this.

    • @kpllc4209
      @kpllc4209 5 месяцев назад

      @@kevthegoat8774 This is a famous story in Nebraska but no wrestler ever mentioned it (wonder why) it was way before Sonny Onno's time. The story I heard 35 years ago from people that were there (same story they say today) was Hawk a woman he was with and another wrestler where in an elevator (later I read it was Mr Fuji , WWF was in town) I doubt Chono was involved because WWF was not promoting with NJPW. In this elevator were two Kansas State players. One player a wide receiver (not sure who) apparently was checking out the woman Hawk was with. Hawk said "what are you looking at n____r" (sounds like Hawk) Hawk started fighting and the other player ran and the first person he seen was John Parrella who stepped in and KOed Hawk.

    • @kevthegoat8774
      @kevthegoat8774 5 месяцев назад

      @@kpllc4209 Hmm so is this the story that Norton would be referring too? Again like I said I don't think either side would want to say they took a loss, the way you say it though makes it sound like Hawk was beating the football player until the other one came to the rescue. I don't know where Masa Saito comes into this story but Saito was as strong as an ox with an Olympic wrestling background, I'd favour him to take a young jacked up football player for sure.

    • @kpllc4209
      @kpllc4209 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@kevthegoat8774 It is the only story about NU football and wrestlers in Japan I have ever heard. I doubt Norton was there either, so the story grows and gets better, he might be combining other stories he has heard too. One thing I have learned watching shoot interviews is that wrestlers are carnies and will lie about everything. This Hotel would have had both teams (NE and K State) over 100 football players in it at the time, I doubt a huge brawl took place. At the time I defended Hawk by saying the same thing, I assume Hawk was getting the better of the Wide receiver (they are small) but Parrella was a nasty 300lb D-lineman played over a decade in the NFL.

    • @MrMferg240
      @MrMferg240 5 месяцев назад

      @@kevthegoat8774 BRUNO and the IRON SHEIK did beat their asses. the CFL guy named ROOSTER FLEMING who i also think played for the steelers at one time,[ could be wrong], started it by calling BRUNO washed up. well, BRUNO showed him first hand he wasn't washed up. don't believe the football players because they got wrecked.

  • @neilsmith9066
    @neilsmith9066 5 месяцев назад +6

    Can’t wait for an older guy to say Dr D David Shultz love that guy

  • @JGD185
    @JGD185 5 месяцев назад +2

    I'm glad Scott mentioned Bart Gunn cause he doesn't get mentioned enough when it comes to this list. A lot of fight stories with wrestlers are backstage fights or beating up some drunk idiot at a bar, but Bart won a shoot tournament among pro wrestlers. He beat like 4 or 5 guys, legitimately knocked out Dr. Death, Bradshaw, and Godfather. Bart Gunn was for real.

    • @jamesdheel1568
      @jamesdheel1568 5 месяцев назад

      Not to mention he was a regular winner of tough man competitions

    • @kevthegoat8774
      @kevthegoat8774 5 месяцев назад

      Bart also went on to fight in MMA and beat former UFC heavyweight Cabbage Corriera with no training then lose a competitive fight to Minowa in Pride. Bart would have destroyed most Pro wrestlers and that includes guys that get mentioned like Rick Rude and The Steiners.

  • @dank6514
    @dank6514 5 месяцев назад +1

    Trev Alberts and Tommy Frazier were on that Nebraska team. I wonder if they've ever taked about that fight?

  • @tommydreamer18
    @tommydreamer18 5 месяцев назад +3

    i always thought norton is a great guy and very underrated.

  • @DietColaJokic
    @DietColaJokic 5 месяцев назад

    I’d love to hear more on him fighting the Nebraska Cornhuskers in Japan? That may be my favorite fight ever and this is all I know about it.

  • @davidthanos
    @davidthanos 5 месяцев назад +1

    It's funny how he keeps looking over his shoulder like if Haku is going to pop out of nowhere

  • @patrickheath5011
    @patrickheath5011 22 дня назад

    Was he talking about Masao Hattori?
    Masao was (is) a GREAT wrestler. I met him when he was working in Florida in the 70s. Masao was the Japanese collegiate national champion.
    Saito was the scariest wrestler at the time in this territory, even though Gotch lived about 20 miles from the Sportatorium. At the time Haku was called Prince Tonga and he was a great athlete but still breaking in.
    People used to go after Masao all the time because he was so small. Big mistake.
    I watched a fan take a swing at Masao on the way to the ring and Saito grabbed his arm, put it into a double wristlock (Kimura) straightened it, lifted it high and stepped back and turned. Snap- if you blinked you would have missed it, it was so smooth. And then the three of them (along with Mr. Sato) continued back to he locker room like nothing happened.
    That was the last we saw of that guy. Never understood why he didn't 'come back.

  • @richardmorris6365
    @richardmorris6365 5 месяцев назад +3

    An obvious tuff guy is Lesnar,280 lbs & probably the second best wrestler of all time & UFC champ. Cmon let's give him his props, he might have only got beat because of colitis or whatever intestinal problem.

  • @weseisenschenkslostmusclec9123
    @weseisenschenkslostmusclec9123 5 месяцев назад +2

    Herc being a badass is something you hear about as well.

  • @SurgeCess
    @SurgeCess 4 месяца назад

    That thumb story is gold!

  • @markcarr2420
    @markcarr2420 5 месяцев назад +1

    Stretched his ankles off?? 😮😱

  • @shonmoody1706
    @shonmoody1706 4 месяца назад

    Norton way underated in WCW. The dude was a beast and could put on a good match with just about anyone. He looks great for his age. Looks like he's only aged like 10 to 12 years from the late 90's.

  • @wesleywarsmith1113
    @wesleywarsmith1113 5 месяцев назад

    Coming from Norton that means alot.
    When I was a teen in the 90s I thought Scott looked meaner and more tough then most wrestlers. He had that prison bulk.

  • @austenrobinson2747
    @austenrobinson2747 3 месяца назад +1

    Back in the day I would walk down any dark alley with Meng or the Barbarian. Total harasses.

  • @charlessavoie2367
    @charlessavoie2367 4 месяца назад +1

    WHAT? Norton beat the top lights in the WORLD at arm wrestling, 465 pound barbell press behind NECK? He should be impressed with himself. And close to 700 BP too.

  • @gmoney8585
    @gmoney8585 5 месяцев назад +1

    When scott says your the toughest your a bad mf

  • @MrMferg240
    @MrMferg240 5 месяцев назад

    BRUNO SAMMARTINO is definitely up high on the tough guy list. he sparred with a young SONNY LISTON who was one of the hardest hitting heavyweights in boxing history. he hit BRUNO with his hardest shots and couldn't knock him down. the boxing trainers were so impressed with his ability to take those shots and keep coming back that they tried to convince him to quit wrestling and train to become a pro boxer. that's a true story, not fiction.

  • @iTubeYourDadsMinge
    @iTubeYourDadsMinge 3 месяца назад

    I’d like to commend the interviewer on these shows. His really laid back and chilled interview style is awesome. And never once does he look intimidated or fanboyed out by the wrestlers he’s interviewing and it always makes for good interviews.

  • @bz3105
    @bz3105 Месяц назад +1

    Why do people mess with people like Meng in public? Personally, I think it's usually just insecurity. They see someone like that at the bar or whatever, immediately realize that they might not be able to "take" him and the petty feelings of inferiority just take over.

  • @surfleopard
    @surfleopard 5 месяцев назад +2

    Don Frye fought legit professional fighters and tough guys and overcame them. Not drunks in a bar. Wouldn't you say he proved himself a lot more than Haku?
    We never hear stories about Haku in actual fights where he is having to take it as well as dish it out. That's the real mark of a badass. And Don has proven more in that way by far. I'm not saying Haku ain't tough or bad. But I can't place him above guys like Frye and Shamrock, who proved it against much more formidable challenges.

    • @mpkrist5701
      @mpkrist5701 5 месяцев назад

      I remember hearing a story where Haku walked through 5 cops no problem, took the mace from the 6th female cop, maced himself, and then walked away. Good enough?

    • @surfleopard
      @surfleopard 5 месяцев назад

      @@mpkrist5701 And if you believe that I have some ocean front property in kansas to sell you.

    • @surfleopard
      @surfleopard 5 месяцев назад

      @@mpkrist5701 "walked through 5 cops"...yeah right. Just because you "heard a story" doesn't make it true.

    • @kevthegoat8774
      @kevthegoat8774 5 месяцев назад +1

      Bart Gunn fought two credible professional fighters too going 1-1 in MMA

  • @walterdavies6434
    @walterdavies6434 5 месяцев назад +2

    King Tonga

  • @timjespersen3605
    @timjespersen3605 5 месяцев назад +5

    Howard Finkel was another legendary shooter.

  • @willglenn8638
    @willglenn8638 5 месяцев назад

    I always go with meng or new jack, maybe even nick gage

  • @user-lt1xf9xc8w
    @user-lt1xf9xc8w 4 месяца назад

    Billy Jack Haynes was Ken Norton's sparing partner!

    • @kevthegoat8774
      @kevthegoat8774 4 месяца назад

      Vince McMahon is also possibly Billy's brother according to Billy Jack Haynes!

  • @PulverizerA
    @PulverizerA 5 месяцев назад +1

    The difference between the Haku and everyone else is that everyone else is just trying to stop the fight with 1 good punch. Haku was usually on the fire water and would literally try and destroy people. When Nick Bockwinkel has to pull you off of some guy in the bar for an imagined sleight, you need to stop drinking the hard stuff.

  • @kevthegoat8774
    @kevthegoat8774 3 месяца назад

    Imagine great Pro Boxers past and present like Muhammad Ali, Joe Louis, Mike Tyson, Lennox Lewis, Joe Frazier, Sonny Liston, George Foreman, Tyson Fury, Rocky Marciano, Oleksandr Usyk, Wladimir Klitschko etc go against professional wrestlers past and present in an old school UFC rules bout. I think the boxers would get destroyed by guys like Danny Hodge, Sylvester Terkay, Brock Lesnar, Haku, Harley Race, Tracy Smothers, Masa Saito, Chris Taylor, Earthquake, Mad Dog Vachon, Shinsuke Nakamura etc

  • @franciscouch8378
    @franciscouch8378 5 месяцев назад +1

    Who'd win in fight Meng/Haku?

    • @DewlayLomo
      @DewlayLomo 5 месяцев назад +1

      Haku cuz he is younger

    • @RyanHunter723
      @RyanHunter723 5 месяцев назад +1

      They meld onto King Tonga Prime

  • @xbigwormx
    @xbigwormx 5 месяцев назад +1

    Sucks Meng and Haku never got a WCW tag team title run.😢

  • @swlabretwquint1311
    @swlabretwquint1311 5 месяцев назад

    Am I the only one who thinks it’s interesting that most of the tough guys that get put on the Mt Rushmore of tough wrestlers are all 6’0” to 6’1” ? Haku, Harley Race, Dick Slater, Danny Hodge, John Pesek, Dr Death Steve Williams, etc

  • @jamalsoward8404
    @jamalsoward8404 5 месяцев назад

    People like to test folks, pick fights

  • @karlvanslyke9059
    @karlvanslyke9059 5 месяцев назад

    I heard a story about Haku once in a night club in Minneapolis 4 guys tried Haku he laid all 4 out before security could get their

  • @olalesio9260
    @olalesio9260 5 месяцев назад +1

    Isnt this what happened with him and jack perry 🤔 sounds like an old school exerting his authority

  • @reallyannoyingguyrighthere
    @reallyannoyingguyrighthere 5 месяцев назад +2

    Ernest would’ve battered Haku and Rude at the same time. Look what he did to Scott 😉

  • @rw1557
    @rw1557 4 месяца назад

    Dan Severn, period

  • @GodLovesYou828
    @GodLovesYou828 5 месяцев назад

    Haku needs to be in wwe hof

  • @MrEmperorApples
    @MrEmperorApples 5 месяцев назад

    Scott seems like one of the most normal men who happened to be a wrestler in a business full of odd balls

  • @CP-kb1du
    @CP-kb1du 5 месяцев назад

    Dec 6 1992 NCCA Coca Cola Classic Nebraska vs Kansas State Big Eight in Tokyo WWF was in town it was the Nebraska Cornhuskers John Parrella knocked Racist HAWKS face off for trying to jump David White a linebacker off the elevator at a Night Club ,Mr Fuji was there as well .... Scott has a selective memory .... Minnesota thing .

  • @marc-mv1kf
    @marc-mv1kf 5 месяцев назад +2

    The predator.

  • @marcbasil
    @marcbasil 5 месяцев назад +6

    Lesnar & Angle >>>>>>

    • @timthegem
      @timthegem 5 месяцев назад +5

      Barbarian grew up and trained with Haku. He said Lesnar would beat Haku in a sanctioned fight with rules, but Haku would kill him in a street fight.

    • @HAVOCJKD
      @HAVOCJKD 5 месяцев назад +3

      Danny Hodge over those two

    • @jimclaus1576
      @jimclaus1576 5 месяцев назад

      Prime Shamrock???? Like ‘97-‘98 Ken???? That was a beast right there! And probably every bit as strong as Brock

  • @capitalconcierge6635
    @capitalconcierge6635 5 месяцев назад +2

    Yea Scott you knew and KNOW damn well what would happen if you played with Haku like you did ernest that cat...

  • @albertgallanosa8600
    @albertgallanosa8600 3 месяца назад

    Haku is pure Rough n Tumble

  • @FormulaJRay
    @FormulaJRay 5 месяцев назад +2

    Can anybody even find a wrestler who doesn't say Meng/Haku was the toughest guy?

    • @Music-qt3ok
      @Music-qt3ok 5 месяцев назад +4

      The Bezerker did.

    • @davidstirrat8815
      @davidstirrat8815 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@Music-qt3okwho did zerker say?

    • @kencromwell2805
      @kencromwell2805 5 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah he said Meng wasnt that tough, I call BS on that.

    • @kevthegoat8774
      @kevthegoat8774 5 месяцев назад +1

      Terry Funk and Ole Anderson said Danny Hodge. Rob Van Dam and Kurt Angle said Brock Lesnar. CM Punk and Bret Hart said Harley Race.

    • @bangalorerapunzels
      @bangalorerapunzels День назад

      The Berzerker is always high on drugs and has been jailed few times for driving under the influence. He is also a wanted criminal in many countries.

  • @josgor9061
    @josgor9061 5 месяцев назад

    If Young Bucks vs Haku in his prime could happen today. AEW could sell out a arena the size of ten Wembley stadiums.

    • @kazman_6899
      @kazman_6899 5 месяцев назад

      Kayfabe, no one believed Haku was the toughest. That's why he never got a push.

  • @toddrunyon
    @toddrunyon 4 месяца назад

    I thought in one of these videos, someone commented that even Andre thought Meng was tough and was one of the few people he would want to really scrap with.

  • @mmv3345
    @mmv3345 5 месяцев назад

    These stories really don't surprise me at all. Honestly I think even the girls in WWE could beat up the average guy pretty easily

  • @walterlundy723
    @walterlundy723 4 месяца назад

    Iron Shiek

  • @laurenced2916
    @laurenced2916 5 месяцев назад

    Dr D Dave Schultz. Ask Stossel.

    • @Arayig1982
      @Arayig1982 5 месяцев назад

      Open hand slap, ala cornette style.

  • @southin47639
    @southin47639 5 месяцев назад

    “Dirty “ Dick Slater was one of the baddest dudes to ever go in the squared circle. He was feared in the locker room if you did he wrong in the ring. Ask sting about it.

  • @mmv3345
    @mmv3345 5 месяцев назад +1

    Can anyone tell me some of the other wrestlers mentioned who he thinks were legitimately tough? I can't understand a word this guy says

    • @BobTheRetroGamer
      @BobTheRetroGamer 5 месяцев назад +3

      I caught Barbarian, Rick and Scott Steiner, Brad Reinegans, Masa Saito, Bart Gunn

    • @mmv3345
      @mmv3345 5 месяцев назад

      @@BobTheRetroGamer Thanks I appreciate it

  • @dtruth5769
    @dtruth5769 5 месяцев назад

    THEY ALL SAY MENG WAS THE BADDEST!

  • @g-man2507
    @g-man2507 5 месяцев назад +1

    The last part of the interview made absolutely no sense at all.

  • @Geraldo-ro9rc
    @Geraldo-ro9rc 5 месяцев назад +2

    Ken Shamrock would have decimated Haku in his prime.

    • @darrell2640
      @darrell2640 5 месяцев назад +1

      Whatever

    • @Geraldo-ro9rc
      @Geraldo-ro9rc 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@darrell2640 I love Haku but im just saying Ken was a world heavyweight champ in mma.

    • @bangalorerapunzels
      @bangalorerapunzels День назад +1

      @Geraldo-ro9rc Let some wrestler say it, not a random nobody like you. Lol

    • @Geraldo-ro9rc
      @Geraldo-ro9rc День назад +1

      @@bangalorerapunzels I am a wrestler

    • @bangalorerapunzels
      @bangalorerapunzels День назад +1

      @Geraldo-ro9rc ya right ! And I'm the reigning UFC Champion. Get lost troll and stop hating on Haku videos.

  • @TheZom1965
    @TheZom1965 5 месяцев назад

    😂😂😂

  • @Grey-x2c
    @Grey-x2c Месяц назад

    Meng or roddy piper on coke

  • @sweetpetergeda
    @sweetpetergeda 5 месяцев назад

    This is why wrestling sucks so bad, now 😂. Most of the wrestlers today are really wimps in real life

  • @user-ot4qi8kt2l
    @user-ot4qi8kt2l 5 месяцев назад +3

    Haku just stories mike Tyson would kill him easy

  • @Music-qt3ok
    @Music-qt3ok 5 месяцев назад +8

    I'm tired of hearing about Haku.

    • @Ifoughtpiranhas
      @Ifoughtpiranhas 5 месяцев назад +9

      Stop clicking on Haku videos than. Pretty simple.

    • @dustin6528
      @dustin6528 5 месяцев назад +9

      Say that to his face 😂

    • @Music-qt3ok
      @Music-qt3ok 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@IfoughtpiranhasI am writing this, because people like James talk about him.

  • @marcbasil
    @marcbasil 5 месяцев назад +4

    It’s a rib on the marks for the boys to keep putting over this tubbi as!an as the toughest rassler IoII 🎯🤤🥴😂

  • @KAllen-wj6eb
    @KAllen-wj6eb 5 месяцев назад

    I always liked Scott Norton happy to see him, but I gotta say Lesnar or even Angle would could destroy any former or current pro wrestler no matter how TOUGH they seemed to b

    • @kevthegoat8774
      @kevthegoat8774 5 месяцев назад

      I think Danny Hodge, Craig Pittman and Bobby Lashley could all take Angle. Hodge was an Olympian too and could box, Pittman was a Greco Roman wrestler and fought in Vale Tudo and Lashley has the MMA/BJJ advantage. All these guys would have certain advantages to cancel out Angle's amateur wrestling.

    • @LPVPisFr33
      @LPVPisFr33 5 месяцев назад

      I don't remember who said this (apologies because I watch so many of these types of interviews) but they were ask about the very subject. The wrestler then asked ''you mean in a MMA ring or bar fight?'' the presenter said ''Whatever''.
      The wrestler then answered, ''In a MMA ring, Brock beats Meng but in a bar, Meng wins''. If someone else remembers this and knows who said it please leave an answer below, thank you.

    • @kevthegoat8774
      @kevthegoat8774 5 месяцев назад

      @@LPVPisFr33 Barbarian

  • @bobbysveen391
    @bobbysveen391 5 месяцев назад

    No the question I want to hear is who does haku think is the toughest wrestler ever and would he name himself because he might know some guys who gave him all he ever wanted in a fight so I want to hear what haku has to say just out of curiosity because he is so humble in his interviews and maybe for all we know Mr Saito gave him a whooping when he was green and young but I bet haku has some great stories

  • @runJFK
    @runJFK 5 месяцев назад +2

    Don’t really understand how someone looking to start shit at a bar would target Haku of all people.

  • @BruceWayne-ri4wr
    @BruceWayne-ri4wr 4 месяца назад

    Rick rude probably would have kicked his ass

  • @user-nt5wr6ib6l
    @user-nt5wr6ib6l 5 месяцев назад +1

    You have to be tuff ass guys to withstand the beating night in night out !!!! But according to John nord he is the only tuff guy that's in wrestling I don't believe that for one second

    • @kevthegoat8774
      @kevthegoat8774 5 месяцев назад +1

      Nord mentioned Brad Rheingans and Steve Williams as legitimate tough guys.

    • @user-nt5wr6ib6l
      @user-nt5wr6ib6l 5 месяцев назад

      @@kevthegoat8774 did he I must of missed that after hearing him say how he went toe to toe with meng and best Butch Reed and rude wasn't tuff at all

    • @kevthegoat8774
      @kevthegoat8774 5 месяцев назад

      @@user-nt5wr6ib6l Nord also mentioned Mike Rotunda as a legit tough guy, Nord said in an interview that he always looked at the amateur wrestlers as the legit tough guys and while Hawk and Rude could knock people out they didn't have the skills to deal with a wrestler. Realistically he's right as guys like Dr. Death, Brad Rheingans, Mike Rotunda and even lesser known guys like Craig Pittman or Sylvester Terkay would have taken down Rude and Hawk with little trouble.

    • @user-nt5wr6ib6l
      @user-nt5wr6ib6l 5 месяцев назад

      @@kevthegoat8774 I seen his interview on Boston wrestling a couple of years ago I don't recall him saying those things maybe a different interview idk

    • @kevthegoat8774
      @kevthegoat8774 5 месяцев назад

      @@user-nt5wr6ib6l In the Hannibal interview I remember him mentioning that Hawk and Rude didn't have the amateur wrestling skills to be the toughest.

  • @gaylordfocker7990
    @gaylordfocker7990 5 месяцев назад +2

    Don "the mayor of metro city" Frye. More people need to learn about him.

    • @scottbreon9448
      @scottbreon9448 5 месяцев назад +2

      He was Dan Severn before anyone even knew who Severn was

    • @kpllc4209
      @kpllc4209 5 месяцев назад

      @@scottbreon9448 Actually Severn was first and got Don into MMA.

    • @HAVOCJKD
      @HAVOCJKD 5 месяцев назад

      nope, he was trained by Severn so came after@@scottbreon9448

  • @ebonyroundass
    @ebonyroundass 5 месяцев назад +3

    anyone wanna see scott norton in wwe hall of fam?