The Story of Demolition in WWF
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Wrestling Bios Presents - The Story of Demolition in WWF
The WWE used to have one of the greatest Tag Team divisions in wrestling. During the wrestling boom period of the 80s, the WWF had teams such as The British Bulldogs, The Hart Foundation, and The Rockers just to name a few. When the big main event wrestling superstars were unable to perform in quality matches, there was a trust that the tag teams would always deliver.
A team that was introduced towards the end of the 80s was Demolition, featuring Ax and Smash. While the original team would go through a quick change when Barry Darsow replaced Randy Colley, it wouldn't be long before Demolition began dominiating the WWF Tag Team division. Booked as heels, Ax and Smash steamrolled through their opponents in the early days of Demolition.
As time went on, the team won the WWF Tag Team championships and went on to have one of the longest title reigns in WWE history. During their WWE careers, Demolition turned babyface and back to heels, were managed by Mr. Fuji twice, added a third member when Crush joined Demolition, and became very popular as members of the WWF roster during a time when the company was seeing huge growth.
In this mini documentary from Wrestling Bios, we take a look at Ax, Smash and Crush as we remember the Story of Demolition in the WWF. Topics include:
- The debut of Domolition in the WWF
- Randy Colley working as Smash but getting replaced by Barry Darsow
- The early success of Demolition
- Demolition defeating Strike Force for the WWF Tag Team titles
- Demolition turning babyface when Mr. Fuji joined The Powers of Pain
- Crush joins Demolition
- The Legion of Doom joining the WWF and Demolition turning back to heels
- Demolition's forgotten WWE legacy
- Much More!
#wwe #documenatry #wrestling
I was born in 1981 and was a huge wrestling fan as far back as I can remember. Demolition was always my favorite tag team, bar none. They're the greatest tag team in WWF history, in my opinion.
The British Bulldogs 1
The Dream Team 2
Demolition 3
The Hart Foundation 4
The Iron Sheik Nikolai Volkoff 5
I agree with you - their theme music completely sent chills down my spine. Being raised in Wisconsin, we had WWF and AWA so I really never saw the Road Warriors so Demolition were not a 'rip off' to me, maybe that is why I remember them so fondly.
Agreed
I’d say either Luger and Bulldog or New Day
Totally agree. Even when I was young and always cheered for the good guys I loved them when they were heels. I was the happiest 7 year old in the world when they turned face 😂
How are these guys not in the Hall of Fame? They were the best team in WWE for half a decade. Their match at Wrestlemania 6 against Hakku and Andre was amazing.
Summerslam 1989 with Hacksaw against the twin towers and Andre was quiet fun as well.
It's because Ax is part of a class action suing WWE
Summerslam 1990 against Hart Foundation in a "best of 3 falls" was an all-time classic, often seen as one of the greatest matches in the history of Tag Teams.
@@J.D.1. Such a double standard when WWE had no problem suing DEMOLITION for using the name in Indy shows!
The match was a joke. Andre couldn't wrestle by that point. It was against just Haku.
Well here comes the AAAaaaxe, and here comes the Smmaaassher! Loved these guys as a kid!
@Jah Will B Dunn Hahaha! Yeah! So good. Loved the little stint Hacksaw had with them as well. Great brawlers, fun promos
@Jah Will B Dunn you're so right. Half these guys couldn't make it n those days
VINCE NEEDS TO PUT THEM IN THE HALL OF FAME,JUST LOVED THERE FACE PAINT AND OF COURSE THERE INTRO THEME SONG WAS THE BEST ALL TIME JUST MY OPINION.
@Jah Will B Dunn lmao. Axe looks EXACTLY like my uncle. No joke!
I like how their theme sounded like KISS!
No mention of Royal Rumble 1989? One of the greatest moments in RR history? Ax number 1 and Smash number 2 beating each other up until 3 Andre The Giant showed up.
And it was like 2 on 2 with andre lol
I AGREE
and, they didnt tease a spilt with this, either, which made them look even more badass
I hated seeing them fight each other. They should have waited for the next person and double teamed them.
I remember having wwe12 i was ax i was number 1 and number 2 was smash talk about a coincidence
Always loved the original Axe and Smash as Demolition. Their intimidation and bullying of all the other pretty boy tag teams at the time really drew my attention. They're my favorite tag team of all time. Great look, entrance and punishing style of fighting.
As far as WWF goes they are the best tag team that company has produced. Also one of the best themes ever.
These guys are one of my favorite tag teams of all time. They were insanely over amongst my group of friends and it’s a damn shame they aren’t in the HOF
After watching wrestling for almost sixty years I would say demolition was my favorite and the best tag team of my life
Demolition were such a great tag team and really should get so much more credit
Facts
Demolition had one of the best Theme Songs ever. May have been the first Metal song I was exposed to. Also, love your channel.
agreed, and that was one of my favorite things about wrestling in the 80's/90's was the music, which has more or less gone away
Totally agree. I think it was the first metal song I was exposed to as well. I worshiped Demolition as a kid in the 80s.
Not metal
Yeah was one of my fav themes of all time thought there was so many themes I loved during that era.
@@presidentfunnyvalentined4c567 There's pretty intense solo and it sounds like a "reductive" take on "ironman." If it's not metal, it's something lost in a hot topic.
They have to induct them into the hall of fame. Hell, even their entrance music deserves it.
Personally I always thought Demo’s matches looked better then LOD’s. Ax and Smash actually put some effort into making themselves and their opponents look good. I think the experience of Bill Eadie and good promo skills of both of them really helped the team look good. Crush was a decent wrestler all round but wasn’t right for demolition
But at the time, Demolition had a domination of tag team divisions
The Man 316 the LOD were never wrestlers, they couldn't even be trained to wrestle.
They just beat people up.
Demolition could actually wrestle....
@@bensonwedge2474 and your point is ?
The LOD were jacked up Powerhouses and Hawk could fly. Demolition had good promo skills but they looked fat in comparison to the Road Warriors. I would place the Powers of Pain on par with the Road Warriors due to Barbarians agility, the Demolition were different types of workers.
@@1981CrueHead more brawler
Demolition and the Rockers in back to back videos you are spoiling us
My thoughts exactly!!
@@taydafranklin7800 keep em coming please. I enjoy these
*You're*
Here comes the Axe, here comes the Smasher, they're Demolition, walking disaster.... Pain and destruction is our middle name!!!
Loved Demolition
My first exposure to wrestling! 1987
My brother n I had a VHS my mom accidentally recorded wrestling on.
Demolition was on there.
My brother n I were instantly hooked!
She accidentally recorded it? How did she do that?
Nice
I was born in 87 lol
Demolition was surely one of most underrated tag teams of the WWF!
Lol underrated? Please know what that word means before using it. Demolition are absolutely NOWHERE near underrated.
Demolition was fuckin awesome when they exploded onto the scene. Still one of my favorite tag teams. Great video!
Demolition definitely underrated one of the very best tag teams ever. No question about it
Yeah, these guys had an impact on me as a 10 year old fan. They were the real deal, and a bit frightening at first. Their finishing move was pretty decent too.
I got into wrestling in August 1991 so I missed out on Demolition. However, after watching endless VHS/DVD's over the past 28 years, I'm very familiar with them and love them.👍
Joe Whittle got into wrestling in 1984 I didnt miss it
always thought The Powers of Pain were more of Road Warriors knockoff than Demolition
Not many people know that Powers of Pain had a feud with the Legion of Doom in WCW in the late 80s
They were but since they weren’t as popular as LOD or Demolition, nobody gave them any flack for it.
@@leereeder2293 Jim Crockett Promotions.
Sad story ...I remember when they were the most brutal tag team back in the day...hope they get there place in the hall of fame they deserve it
Very sad. Wwe has a record of mistreating wrestlers. Being rude and trying to destroy wrestlers careers too.
Demolition was really something......... they had a "beat down" style that really worked. They wrestled differently than the LOD, and I was a Demolition fan.
They picked a body part and went to work... Quick tags
Demolition had the look, the theme song, the finisher, and great as heels or faces. Its a disgrace they aren't in the hall of fame yet.
The era of Wrestlemania 3 thru 5 is my favorite ensemble of cast, characters and talent. They had a ridiculous amount of talent and countless guys that could have gotten pushes for titles or had longer title reigns. The tag team division ws certainly unmatched. Look at the future careers and titles they had.
I despise the horrid and generic shitty belts today. Them old belts were beautiful.
Totally agree. They went from looking like giant pennies to giant nickels when they did the brand split
The new belts look like bootleg knock-offs from the 99¢ store, lol 😂
Woof. Those ridiculous new tag belts looked like a pair of giant pennies. And then when they split the bands again they changed the tag belts so now they look like giant DIMES! Absolute GARBAGE!
Bay BossMAN that’s what happened with Cody Rhodes when he was IC champ, he brought back the classic IC championship.
@@joshkeller4780 who likes the new IC belt ? I think it's very good...the best belt in WWE now.
Besides Roddy Piper, Demolition were my favorites. I didn’t watch WCW so didn’t care about the road warriors. Demolition were the best tag team imo.
Sorry to hear you missed out on real wrestling and just focused on Vince McMahon and his travelling circus
A lot of modern tag teams could take notes from Demolition on how to work a tag match. Awesome video, I simply love Demolitions style and entrance theme.
Don't forget their mic skills that always killed.
It is amazing that Eadie was also the great Masked Superstar. Best promo ever. And his matches with Mr. Wrestling 2 are some of the best of all time.
They were so big at one point they made a cameo in a Pizza Hut commercial. Also Bill Eadie was a legend in Japan so that's why he went overseas. He would team with Andre as the Masked Superstar, his other famous gimmick as well as Ax.
Love the coverage of DEMOLITION and agreed. . .they should be in the HOF
My favorite tag team of all time. Loved them as a kid in the 80's.
They were and still are my favorite tag team. They also had awesome entrance music.
If you don't think Demolition belongs in the WWE HOF, then Smash is going to kick your stinking teeth in 😝
They won’t be because they are part of the concussion lawsuit
John Allen his old fatass couldnt get his foot up high enough 😂
Wrestling isn't real?
Devon Schwartz You are rude
@@matthewseller3711 What does real mean? Is a concussion lawsuit real enough? Wrestling is a stunt sport and just like movies aren't real, the stunts are. Love the movies, love the show, appreciate these great performers who give it all every time they go out there. That's real enough for me.
Wwe should've let them keep the longest tag championship record. Nothing against New Day but they didn't need the record.
especially since new day is a basically a comedy act
New day basically got affirmative actioned into the record.
@@emilyanderson9559 nailed it
@Patrick majors TRUTH!
They still have the record for the old WWF/E World Tag title as that died out in 2010. New Day held the RAW tag title originally created as the Smackdown tag title in 2002.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_team_championships_in_WWE#Longest_championship_reigns
Still one of the best tag teams ever and still one of my faves of all time.
Same
Wow I totally forgot about their finisher. That was a good looking move.
Thanks for making this. Demolition were my favorite tag team of all time
They will forever be my favorite tag team. I remember one year as a kid my friend and I dressed up as them on Halloween. We painted hockey masks and did our face paint up , and instead of saying trick or treat, we would pull our masks up and stick out our tongues. I hope they get inducted soon while they both are still alive.
Wonder how many peoples minds just got blown when you said Smash was Repo Man
It's obvious, you can't change your face dude
@@alicongo I spotted it was Smash the first time I saw Repo Man in WWF Magazine.
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402
Of course you did, it was obvious, like when hulk hogan was the patriot
@@alicongo you're getting the Patriot confused with Mr America. Patriot was Del Wilkes, formerly the Trooper in the AWA.
Even at 17 I could see Repo Man was very obviously Smash after a haircut and with no paint - the moustache and the eagle tattoo on his arm and the receeding hairline gave it away.
@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 Smash was a rare case of being billed shorter than his real life height. Barry Darsow is 6'3" and was billed 6'2". Bill Eadie is 6'1" and was billed 6'3". They shouldve given Smash at least 6'4" lol
Fun fact of myself. My mom is actually friends with Ax's wife. I've never actually met them but still. My mom used to work at one of those fancy golf clubs and they were apart of it for a little while. That's how they met
I'm lod fan til the end but demolition was great. they worked great matches with anybody, something lod couldn't do.
WRONG. The Road Warriors had MANY more legendary matches than Demolition!
MrJon76 wrong I stand by what I said.
yes they has some legendary matches but they didn't "work" well with most others. Hell lod bragged in shoots they didn't
Hawk drank the WWE tag titles off LOD. Demolition were way more reliable for Vince
@@MrJon76 LOL ok man. LOD were great in their own right, but they had some clunkers. Watch their 1991 match against the Rockers. Shawn Michaels even made excuses for the match being a dud in his biography heartbreak and triumph. Shawn said their timings were off. Rockers had much better matches with Demolition
@@mangamegs LOD used a stiff one style fits all approach. Demolition knew how to make any opponent look good whether Andre The Giant or The Rockers
It was obvious to me, even as a kid, that Demolition were going to get buried when LOD appeared in WWF. Demo and the Hart Foundation were both favorites of mine, and while neither of the Demos were as good individually as Bret, together they were a GREAT team.
Man i love taking these rtrips down memory lane with ya BRUDDAH!
The reason the WWE hasn’t done much with Demolition is because of a number of lawsuits brought on, the latest being the concussion suit which was dismissed in 2018 and upheld last year.
Demolition & The Hart Foundation my favorite tag-teams of all time....💯
Fave tag team as a kid! More than deserving of their place in the Hall of Fame!
Demolition is one of the greatest tag teams ever. They did so much for tag team wrestling
Makes you wonder if their popularity in Japan was the reason they were included in WWF WrestleFest, when they were the fading Smash and Crush itteration.
Elo you!
$$$$
My favorite Tag Team of all time.
I thought they were real demons from Hell then Mr. Fuji ! Choppy Choppy was awesome. I loved it all the way down.
Their iconic music is out of this world
by far my favourite wrestling RUclips channel
4th
Wish the original members would be brought back as managers & make Demolition a stable.
Original Smash died recently
@@NukeIt2Bdone woah. I did not hear that.
An episode of Mr. Fugi would be awesome. I always wanted to know more about him.
Actually, ALL of Captain Lou's tag teams should be covered. The Wild Samoans, Valiant Brothers, Orient Express... then morph to Mr. Fuji's teams... since he was once one of Captain Lou's teams, and thusly a protégé .
Never liked Fugi, he was a pale imitation of Fuji.
Fuji is a typical Japanese loser who can’t wrestle.
Demolition was one of my favorite tag teams of all-time.
Get these lads in Hall of Fame!
These guys were my favorite tag team. The way that they worked in the ring in such cohesion and no nonsense style was fantastic. They deserve their spot!
The Bushwhackers in the HOF before Demolition? 😂🤦♂️
Bushwhackers never sued vince.
@@emilyanderson9559 Point taken. Lol
Bushwackers were actually entertaining and memorable , had an original gimmick too. Unlike the cheap road warrior knock offs
@@julezjohn5785: I bet The Killer Bees will be inducted in the H.O.F. next.
@@devonschwartz6456 Demolition was my favorite tag team growing up. If they were Road Warrior "knock offs" they did it pretty damn well because I liked them much better than those 2 midgets with rubber spikes.
Favorite tag team of the 80s . I even got the action figures as a Christmas gift. Good Times
Would love a Rougeau Brothers video.
Great content dude. One of the better wrestling channels on RUclips in my humble opinion.
So many memories of watching Demolition especially on Saturday nights main event cause it seemed like they were always on those specials so u know they had to awesome
Good Lord the Tag Team Division in this age was Spectacular, HOF teams galore, division will never be that strong again
Bill Eadie (AX) has been my favorite since 1988...
Man those were some GREAT days to be a kid.
When Crush came in I stopped caring about Demolishion, just never liked Crush at all, I think it was the Mullet
Same here. It was already the 1990s and Crush and other wrestlers like The Rockers and the early version of The Undertaker were still sporting mullets. 😂
@@motorheadforlife9431 mullets were popular up until around 1997
The problem was they were booked very poorly once Crush joined. I guess they WWE stopped caring about them because they signed the Road Warriors. Which surprises me as Vince usually favors stars he created rather than stars from other promotions.
Vince had actually tried to sigh the Road Warriors in early 1987, but failed. In response he then created his own version with Demolition. What they never envisaged though was that, especially after Barry Darsow became Smash, that Demolition would actually be as good as they were. And they never thought they would actually be popular with the fans.
@@bigmacsauce7257: I don't recall anyone that I know or a celebrity sporting mullets in 1997.
Loved this Tag Team I’m sure part of the reason they are not in the Hall of Fame is because they were part of a concussion lawsuit against the wwe another great Video Thank You
Easily my favorite tag team. I never liked Legion of Doom because Demolition were the originals to me. They were also in a couple awesome Arcade games I used to lose many quarters to.
I would have loved it if they had an intense feud with LoD instead of just getting beaten and cast aside.
Lod started in 83 Demolition 87.
They lost their tag titles at Summerslam 90 due to Lod interference
The Road Warriors were already a main event tag team before Demolition.
Demolition (Ax and Smash), The Powers of Pain (The Warlord and The Barbarian), and The Twin Towers (Akeem and The Big Bossman) were my favorite big men tag teams from 1987-1990.
Totally missed Demolition when they disappeared. Sure I liked the RW, and they were even fun to use in the Wrestlemania Arcade game..but Demolition is who I cheered from the get-go.
I'm a big RW fan, the match between these two great tag teams, was rushed and was not given much thought. They could have played off the rivalry that the fans has. But nope, just like Vince he rushed it.
Bill Eadie always looked to me as someone most people would be happy to have as their favourite Uncle.
I liked them better than road warriors and powers of pain tbh. I 100% agree they don't get the credit they deserve.
Wrestling was a lot better back in those days. I miss that era.
Demolition was my favorite tag team when I was a kid watching wrestling. There matches with the Hart Foundation, British Bulldogs, Strike Force & others were some of the best tag teams matches I ever saw!! I seriously can't believe they are NOT in the WWE Hall of Fame? One of the greatest tag teams of all time!!
My #4 rated tag team of all-time. Just an awesome combination of brawn and belligerence.
What's weird though is that the LOD wanted the Powers of Pain to be broken up before their debut, because they were afraid the fans who only watched WWF would've thought they were copying the Powers of Pain.
Much Respect for Demolition. The Road Warriors vs Demolition should have been one of the Greatest Tag Team Rivalries in History but Vince and the WWF Ruined it...The Road Warriors will always be The Greatest Tag Team in Wrestling History but Demolition is not far behind.
Is put the Steiners in as well
@@rodneyprill4618 Steiners are number 1 to me
Vince usually does ruin gimmicks
This was my favorite tag tean when i was a kid. You don't hear much about them. Thanks for the video.
STILL my fave tag team of all time
I remember watching WWF Primetime Wrestling where Smash did a singles match where he jobbed to someone at MSG. The odd part of the match was when Smash was introduced he and Crush were playing the mystifying intrumental, but for this match the music went back to Derrindger's Demolition song with "Here comes the ax, and here comes the Smasher."
My favorite Tag team of all time. Travesty they are not in the HOF.
Excellent..excellent channel! I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Subscribed!!
Demolition were great. They could've had an amazing running feud with LOD if booked differently and had Bill's health not been an issue.
I was born in 1981 as well wrestling was always on the tv my favorite tag team was sting and Lex Luger , bushwhackers too , even road warriors, Steiner brothers
Demolition is my favorite tag team of all time to this day they are still my favorite tag team of all time ax Smash and Crush I know I'll never forget them once I'm at 7th birthday my father text me backstage so I can meet them I cherish that moment to this day
I had a poster of these guys on my wall. Demolition and Macho Man were by far my favourite wrestlers. I still remember when they weren’t getting their push anymore and I hated crush. I knew of the Road Warriors and when they arrived I wanted Demolition to kick their asses but it never happened. It was sad to see them fade away. Was hoping Smash would get psh on his own. Definitely need to be in the Hall of Fame.
The Road Warriors kayfabe wise in their prime are not going to be easily defeated by anybody.
You are truly the best at what u do
Demolition was my all time favorite tag team. Unfortunately when Crush was introduced to the mix the magic was gone. Even forced to job against Tenryu and his partner at WrestleMania 7.
And yet The Bushwhackers went into the HOF before Demolition.
search "Sheepherders" on youtube and you'll understand why they are HOF...
Maybe because the bushwackers weren't jobbers trying to imitate the greatest of all time
Lmbooooo
Belta vid my friend. Love how your having a run doing the old school tag teams. Its a travesty how Demolition havn't been inducted yet. While your on doing tag teams any chance you doing the Brain Busters cos Ive asked you to do the 4 Horsemen for ages. Cheers mate. Keep up the good work. Always great content.
In Melbourne in the 90's, Axe from Demolition wrestled at Wrestle Riot 2. He came to the ring, screaming 'I want to know whose in charge!' - as if he didn't know who was writing his cheque. However, he was So large, and so lod, I cowared away from him. What a presence he had.
I got to meet Ax & Smash at a horror convention a few years ago, and they were really nice guys. My friend got to pose with replica WWF Tag Team Title belts with them. I think there was a bit more to explore with the team here discussing their growing popularity that lead to the face turn, their Rumble spot in 1989, much more about their Heenan Family feud, and how they differentiated themselves from the Road Warriors. I think they had a much better defined gimmick and characters than Hawk & Animal did. The Road Warriors just felt like two muscle men with a unique look, but had nothing beyond that to help craft their promos around. Ax & Smash cut much better, stronger promos that fit into their Demolition moniker. And honestly, Demolition was as over in 1989 as anyone else. Just check out the pop they get at Survivor Series alongside Jake Roberts and Hulk Hogan. I think the WWF got the Legion of Doom a little bit past their hottest period. Their best stuff was undoubtedly before then in the AWA & the NWA.
As a footnote, I think the face turn HELPED Demolition, but really cooled off the Powers of Pain. As faces, the Warlord and Barbarian seemed on track to win the tag straps as two powerhouses barreling through the competition, but once the double turn came, Demolition became HOTTER than ever. You knew they weren't dropping the belts anytime soon.
Seriously? Hawk was a beast on the mic. These guys were just rip offs. Animal and Hawk were more popular, in better shape, and were all around a better team.
@@maximus3160 Fair enough to disagree. I just never found the Road Warriors as enjoyable. They typically just no-sold everyone and cut shouty-man tough guy promos. Demolition actually worked good back and forth matches with the Hart Foundation, British Bulldogs, the Rockers, and the Brain Busters. Bear in mind, I know LOD mainly from their WWF and later WCW runs, so, I've never seen them in their 80's prime.
By far my favorite tag team as a kid and now
damn shame they are not in the hall of fame, great bio by the way
They held the WWE World Tag Team Title longer then any other tag team in WWE history.
Were demolition a walking disaster!
Run and we’ll find you there’s there’s no place to hide, the Demos will get you!
What a kick a$$ intro tune & My favorite tag team by far as a kid ! Road Warriors Who? It was Crush that crushed the image and he totally wasn’t over with the fans.
I only watch old wwf and old WCW that's why I love this channel so much
No mention of Bill's success as the Masked Superstar
My favorite tag team of all times!
One of the greatest of all time
The best tag team in wwf wwe history hands down not the road warriors
Why Demolition is not in the Hall of Fame is beyond me!
Epic battles wit the Heart Foundation
i love Demolition Demolition is my favorite tag team in wrestling all time I’m happy to see smash and crush with wwe tag team champion
Demolition definitely underrated. A brilliant tag team for its time. They always worked so well together
Probably my favourite tag team.