Superstar Bill Dundee Full Career Interview 2hrs!

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  • Опубликовано: 27 дек 2024

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  • @ironimpactdojo
    @ironimpactdojo 6 лет назад +61

    You're literally helping to save and document wrestling history w/these shoots. Dundee and the whole Memphis, Atlanta, and Crockett territories presented a special type of wrestling. Much appreciated.

    • @isjones2112
      @isjones2112 2 года назад +1

      Memphis wrestling was not good. It was comedy matches and silly gimmicks. The ref breaks up every match constantly! People say how good the ratings were. Well if you have 3 channels and 2 are news it’s not hard to be number one. It’s a great fallacy, but a fallacy non the less.

    • @1980bwc
      @1980bwc Год назад

      ​@@isjones2112As a life long Southwest Tennessean, who grew up on Memphis wrestling from the 80's-early 90's, everybody around here had their console tv's tuned in to channel 5 on Saturday mornings. If something came up to where we had to leave our house, to go somewhere else, we didnt have to worry about missing the show. Because anywhere we went, if they owned a TV, it was on Channel 5. We watched Lawler, Dundee The Gilbert's, Brian Christopher, The Moondogs, The Jarretts, Sid, etc. Lawler and Sid used to come to my town of Bolivar back then and play Softball. If you only had 3 channels, you must have lived inside a cave and used bunny ears. I live way out in the woods, 70 miles from Memphis, and we had channels 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 13, 16, 24 and 30. So for everything you said in your comment, I call BS on every bit of it!

    • @TheHannibalTV
      @TheHannibalTV  4 месяца назад

      Thanks

  • @dustinsisco9461
    @dustinsisco9461 3 года назад +7

    He may not be the biggest but damn. He was a hell of a great wrestler. A great singles, tag team and a great interview. Truly a superstar.

  • @kissforever1970
    @kissforever1970 4 года назад +14

    Bill Dundee should have been in the hall of fame years ago

  • @raleighwelborn1136
    @raleighwelborn1136 3 года назад +8

    As stated by Stone Cold Steve Austin himself. Superstar Bill Dundee deserves to be in the Hall of Fame! Such a gigantic icon & legend of the wrestling business both as a worker and a great mind. Dundee could do it all! Walk the walk & talk the talk! He was definitely the work horse of the Memphis territory & for Watt's Mid South territory in Watt's best money making years

  • @KenDelloSandro7565
    @KenDelloSandro7565 4 года назад +13

    Superstar Bill Dundee was and is one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. He definitely belongs in the HoF

    • @theandygriffithshowfactsan3585
      @theandygriffithshowfactsan3585 4 года назад +2

      Agree 💯

    • @markharrison4415
      @markharrison4415 4 года назад +2

      Bill was a great worker. He was as good as a heel or a face. His work with Lawler but as a team and enemies was great. Now hearing about his booking he was a great booker.

  • @SteveHolsten
    @SteveHolsten 6 лет назад +21

    Thank you, Hannibal, for uploading Bill's Full Career. I've watched him since 1975 in Memphis.

  • @1980bwc
    @1980bwc Год назад +1

    This man was a big part of my childhood. Even got to shake his hand one time in the very late 80's in Memphis, at a live Saturday morning tv taping. I was 8 or 9. I remember he had to have been wearing about a half gallon of cologne. 😂 Such a great performer.

  • @rict5878
    @rict5878 6 лет назад +16

    Dundee will always be one of my all time favorite wrestlers and bookers. True talent and legend

  • @mdjcsmith
    @mdjcsmith 5 лет назад +27

    Bill has a most fascinating accent and speech inflection, you can hear the Scots pronunciation over an old-school Aussie accent, but with Tennessee expressions. Sometimes he finishes his sentences with an Aussie deadpan and sometimes with the same inflections as Lawler and the Honky Tonk Man

  • @clayp7284
    @clayp7284 5 лет назад +7

    Lawler, Dundee, Mantel and Idol were my Mount Rushmore of Wrestling growing up

  • @davidking2835
    @davidking2835 2 года назад +1

    The 1st Thursday of every month in the late 70s/ early 80s I was there at rupp arena in Lexington. I’ve seen Bill and Lawler a thousand times. Loved those days.

  • @ProphetJayWyatt
    @ProphetJayWyatt Год назад +1

    Top 5 favorite of all time! Whoop!! Whoop!!!

  • @mikehardister9186
    @mikehardister9186 3 года назад +3

    Superstar Bill Dundee was and is one of the greatest wrestlers of all time.

  • @SuperMastodon
    @SuperMastodon 6 лет назад +24

    An underrated legend. Great interview and thanks for doing it!

  • @terrell9457
    @terrell9457 2 года назад +2

    I bumped in to Bill at a Hardee's in Horn Lake Mississippi about 5 years ago....He's actually smaller in person than he even looks on Television...
    Really Polite,but you could tell he was a tad bummed to be recognized by everyone in there.
    Poor guy was just trying to grab a burger and get the hell out of there.
    I could sense that so I only acknowledged him and settled for a handshake while waiting in line even though I really wanted a selfie with him.
    Absolute LEGEND in Memphis Wrestling.

  • @sammyshaw2753
    @sammyshaw2753 4 года назад +5

    Brilliant interview. What a legend. Will be buying his book. Thanks Hannibal.

    • @Morra5472
      @Morra5472 2 года назад +1

      How was the book 📙?

  • @johnj28
    @johnj28 Год назад

    Loved watching this interview with The Superstar! Growing up in Louisville watching WRASLIN and was a huge fan in the late 70's early 80's.

  • @ryanmontgomery5988
    @ryanmontgomery5988 6 лет назад +9

    Brand new shoot interview at 3:46am?!? Why not!
    Keep 'em coming!!

    • @TheHannibalTV
      @TheHannibalTV  6 лет назад +12

      I am half Vampire and work best at night!

  • @rickhorton8889
    @rickhorton8889 2 года назад +2

    I love Hannibal's laugh. It's one of those laughs that makes you laugh lol

  • @nazgul12000
    @nazgul12000 6 лет назад +8

    One of the legends of wrestling no doubt!

  • @adamglasgow9268
    @adamglasgow9268 4 года назад +6

    Bill speaks in a Scottish, american, austrailian, welsh, tunisian, armenian, israeli, southern botswanin, czechoslovakian, romanian, bolivian, marsian, icelandic, german and ancient babylonian accent. 1 in a billion trillion

  • @rockdog2843
    @rockdog2843 3 года назад +2

    I have tons of respect for this man. He is a legendary phenomenon. He is tougher than a 2 dollar steak.

  • @roadglideusmc
    @roadglideusmc Год назад

    Great show man. Keep on giving them to us!

  • @DonFarruge
    @DonFarruge 6 лет назад +5

    Great interview Hannibal! We absolutely need one with Ken Patera now. Hell of a storyteller.

  • @joeycoll007
    @joeycoll007 2 года назад

    Bill Dundee I had the pleasure of working with you for a few years at the 126 club. Thanks for the memories and the good times I owe you much and you will always be my hero

  • @TheMontgomery333
    @TheMontgomery333 5 лет назад +2

    Glad I watched this, Bill D a great guy . Lots of honesty here. Wish could have known him .

  • @michaeltrowbridge7174
    @michaeltrowbridge7174 5 лет назад +3

    Bill Dundee was the real man no fake shit like today

  • @jimmymarino8870
    @jimmymarino8870 5 лет назад +6

    Bill invited me in his house back in Tennessee. I lived with him and his wife and Jamie for a while. He is a good man.

  • @karlyoung5089
    @karlyoung5089 9 месяцев назад

    I loved watching Bill in the Mid 80s in Mid South! All the great talent flowed in and out of there. The stars and matches I saw! Back when wrestling was wrestling, Mid South was the wild west!

  • @shanelanham1643
    @shanelanham1643 3 года назад +1

    On of the greatest most underrated wrestler of all time,should be in the hall of fame

  • @johnonan744
    @johnonan744 6 лет назад +7

    As a longtime Memphis fan, really enjoyed this. Thank you for posting the entire interview!! Any chance you’ll be posting the entire Jerry Jarrett interview? Thanks again for doing these, you have one of the best channels on yt.

  • @CupcakePyro
    @CupcakePyro 6 лет назад +5

    I have an old photo, from '89 or '90 I think, of Bill Dundee, Jimmy Valiant, my grandma, and myself, taken by Wolfie D at Sadowski Field House, Ft.Knox,Ky. Harvey Wippleman/Downtown Bruno, Bam Bam Bigelow, Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarrett and Chris Champion were also on the card. Memories...

  • @MC-rf8sx
    @MC-rf8sx 5 лет назад +1

    Your were awesome bill I just started watching your wrestling and interviews from the 70s and 80s you were great Mr Dundee

  • @Bazzeboy
    @Bazzeboy 6 месяцев назад

    Good interview!

  • @coolcarley100
    @coolcarley100 6 лет назад +2

    Loved it. Thank You

  • @lindabradshaw-fi2xh
    @lindabradshaw-fi2xh 9 месяцев назад

    Sat morning ------- Hello everybody this is Lance Russell with Dave Brown, we got another big day of championship wrestling. Memories of my youth

  • @lost_prophet2672
    @lost_prophet2672 6 лет назад +1

    Awesome stuff Hannibal, keep em coming!

  • @romanmartinez6458
    @romanmartinez6458 Год назад +1

    If I can get to the back of my car , I will restore order.

  • @flj-fp6rb
    @flj-fp6rb Год назад

    For me pound for pound the greatest wrestler of all time,what a worker an had all the moves,really miss him in the ring,but it's great to see him doing well,thx for the vid!!

  • @rhysm.5915
    @rhysm.5915 5 лет назад +3

    Looked up a recent pic, he's JACKED for 75. Still clearly takes care of himself.

  • @dennismarie6599
    @dennismarie6599 6 лет назад +1

    as always thank you sir

  • @imafreakinhistorian2169
    @imafreakinhistorian2169 6 лет назад +2

    Superstar ! One of the greatest of all time !

  • @dalegreening6476
    @dalegreening6476 6 лет назад +5

    Bill Dundee comes across as very honest which seems rare in wrestling interviews 😁😉😏

  • @denniscook512
    @denniscook512 4 года назад +1

    Loved the Superstar from the time he and Barnes started in Tn

  • @Lonewolf-b4u
    @Lonewolf-b4u 4 года назад +2

    1:15:49 I love how bill lifts his butt and apparently farts silently and continues on like nothing happend 😂

  • @tuner1972
    @tuner1972 2 года назад

    I used to look forward to Saturdays at 12 o'clock to watch championship wrestling here Louisville Kentucky I was too poor to go to Tuesday night at the Louisville gardens though

  • @OldFatGuy
    @OldFatGuy 2 года назад +1

    Blytheville Armory June 1980. Ringside eating Corn Dogs and drinking Beer. My grandma wanted to kick the refs ass for not paying attention. Bill Dundee was in a tag match. Don't remember who with. Great Night though!

  • @burymeinsmoke5383
    @burymeinsmoke5383 6 лет назад +1

    Love Bill Dundee, one of my favorites....and he actually did wrestle Bruiser Brody in Memphis
    in a tag match with Lawler vs Brody and Kareem Muhammad in '85, I think. Yeah, and it did look a little odd with Dundee in with those two huge guys, but good match. Its on here, I just happened to stumble across it the other day, then I saw this, lol. Id like to see you get The Grappler Len Denton on here Hannibal. Love your interviews.

  • @charleswilson4526
    @charleswilson4526 4 года назад +2

    Is it REMOTELY possible a territory could come back for Memphis? Maybe run 3-4 times a week at least? Or is there not enough money? Great interview again Hannibal, thank you

  • @RJ-jc4zb
    @RJ-jc4zb 5 лет назад +3

    No stone unturned once again!

  • @studbourbon798
    @studbourbon798 Год назад

    Bill Dundee, rough, tough and hard to bluff.

  • @RyHughes1978
    @RyHughes1978 9 месяцев назад

    Pleasing to hear how Jarret had been with Bill in word and action.

  • @sukerAndre
    @sukerAndre 3 года назад

    Great interesting Interview . Tnx Hannibal! I love historian Interviews ; even when U don't Like Dundee U can watch it. But please don't make an Interview with His son. This Guy IS ..... No Words

  • @gregorykrug8034
    @gregorykrug8034 5 лет назад +5

    Compared to Jamie Dundee, Bill Dundee is a class act.

    • @Firetrainer60
      @Firetrainer60 4 года назад

      Jaimee Dundee makes Marty Jenetty look like Nick Bockwinkle. Besides, accordin to Jaimee, Bill was into some bad shit like fucking kids, just like Lawler.

    • @catfatherb2072
      @catfatherb2072 4 года назад

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @TeresaShinkle
      @TeresaShinkle 6 месяцев назад +1

      I don't hold much stock in some of his stories.

  • @Liryc83
    @Liryc83 5 лет назад +2

    "He got over like a Steamship !" hahaha

  • @redberry3852
    @redberry3852 2 года назад

    Arn never got over as a lone wrestler named Arn Anderson because he was a believable worker who protected the business and therefore protected the wrestlers around him so the top guys knew to attach themselves to him He’s An Anderson people enough said …

  • @theandygriffithshowfactsan3585
    @theandygriffithshowfactsan3585 4 года назад +4

    Gotta disagree about cornette, the cussing doesnt make him popular, its his wrestling knowledge

    • @TheHannibalTV
      @TheHannibalTV  4 года назад +2

      I only listen to Cornette because he says the F word a lot

    • @imafreakinhistorian2169
      @imafreakinhistorian2169 3 года назад +1

      His wrestling knowledge , other than the midnight , is only shit he's herd from people like bill dundee

    • @joshmay2944
      @joshmay2944 3 года назад +2

      @@imafreakinhistorian2169 that’s one of the dumbest comments I’ve read today. Cornette has one of the most extensive archives in the World of professional wrestling memorabilia, magazines , scholarly work etc. So his knowledge is based on a lifetime of studying the business as well as living it. He knows more about wrestling than anyone alive, and it’s not based on just hearsay.

    • @thekornreeper
      @thekornreeper 2 года назад +1

      @@joshmay2944 I agree

  • @Bazzeboy
    @Bazzeboy 6 месяцев назад

    Adrian Street was truly a hell of a wrestler…

  • @tmnl8037
    @tmnl8037 2 года назад

    Billy Dundee - George Barnes is probably still at Balmain watching this.

  • @tmnl8037
    @tmnl8037 2 года назад +2

    Billy Dundee was just an average bum in comparison to George Barnes who was the big star with all the talent in Australia. George Barnes wrestled with mask and called himself “The Original Mister Wrestling”. Barnes was also the tag team partner of Bobby Shane. Bobby Shane later went back to America and was killed in a plane crash somewhere in the Tampa Bay.
    I’m not sure who the booker was in Australia after mark Lewin went back to America? It could have been at one time Bobby Shane or even Frankie Caine who wrestled as The Great Mephisto. Even after Jim Barnett sold the promotion to Tony Kolonie, there were still lots of great wrestlers coming to Australia.
    The late Jack Little was the executive producer of World Championship Wrestling on Australian television and was a veteran American wrestling commentator who had been friends with promoters Jim Barnett and Johnny Doyle.
    Occasionally Jack Little asked the wrestling fans which wrestlers they liked to come to Australia?
    Apparently promoter Jim Barnett was gay, and wrestler George Barnes ones did a good impersonation of how he sounded.
    There had been talk that after the Nine Network’s owner Sir Frank Packer passed away, some doubt existed if the network world continue producing the weekly television promotion, so this may have been one of the reasons that Jim Barnett sold the promotion to a former Hawaiian Tony Kolonie who resided in Sydney. Kolonie was more of an investor who would later get wrestlers Larry O’Day and Ronnie Miller to run the promotion for him. Even until the vestry end there were still top wrestlers coming to Australia and eventually the Nine Network’s new owner Kerry Packer decided to axe the television show and this caused the wrestling promotion to collapse in Australia.
    Jim Barnett later started a new promotion back in America and decided to re-claim the name World Championship Wrestling once again after having sold it to Tony Kolonie.
    Andre the Giant and others like Spiros Arion were very popular in Australia. Ox Baker, Harley Race, Mario Milano, King Curtis, Brute Bernard, Bruiser Brody were amongst the many popular wrestlers to wrestle in Australia.

  • @TheMontgomery333
    @TheMontgomery333 5 лет назад +1

    But still here would have loved to heard Bill say Rick flair stole the Fargo strut !

  • @sccc6758
    @sccc6758 4 года назад +2

    Always thought lawler and dundee made a great tag team. Just as good as lawler and and austin idol. Dundee was very entertaining. So was jaime. Pg-13 at one time in the mid 90s i thought was memphis besr talent.entertainment wise anyways

  • @ProphetJayWyatt
    @ProphetJayWyatt 6 лет назад +1

    And here we are, but that's another story.

  • @steveschmidt4063
    @steveschmidt4063 2 года назад

    Does he talk much about Dutch Mantell

  • @benjaminharrisongray9079
    @benjaminharrisongray9079 6 лет назад +2

    Funny, I could always tell he was a Scot by that accent.

  • @jasminejohnston5138
    @jasminejohnston5138 6 лет назад +10

    Dundee keeps puckering up his lips
    I think he's flirting with ya *lmao*

    • @rict5878
      @rict5878 6 лет назад +3

      😂😂😂

  • @sammydabull4001
    @sammydabull4001 Год назад

    @4:10 I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU ASKED ABOUT SOMEONE'S GENITALS.... AGAIN ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️😳😳😳

  • @tritchie6272
    @tritchie6272 2 года назад

    From what Watt's has said trying to deal with the cooperate environment in WCW was a nightmare for him. I guess they wouldn't let him be fully in control and wouldn't let him get rid of dead weight.

  • @barneyjohnson3573
    @barneyjohnson3573 2 года назад

    Mr wrestling2 vs Tim woods

  • @openmodalguitar61
    @openmodalguitar61 2 месяца назад

    Why did Jim Barnett leave Australia? It seems the taxman had a lot to do with it. So why was Jim scared of the taxman? It was claimed in one forum, from inside knowledge, that WCW had a silent financial partner who happened to be the organized crime king of Australia, Abe Saffron, known as Mr Sin. This makes sense, as Saffron was also known as the King of Kings Cross (Sydney), which is where Barnett stayed (in a penthouse) and ran the business from, and where the wrestlers stayed and hung out. You could not set up a business like that in Kings Cross, with that sort of cash flow, without Saffron having a piece of it
    Saffron was largely untouchable, he bribed police, judges, politicians all over mainland Australia, however after a change of federal government late 72 the feds started to try and reel Saffron in. The only charge that ever stuck against Saffron over decades was tax evasion, they eventually discovered his two sets of books
    It seems reasonable to speculate that if Barnett fled the country to avoid the taxman it may have had something to do with his financial arrangements with Mr Sin. It is possible perhaps logically inevitable that if the feds were trying to get Saffron through his accounting and taxes that they would target a business in Kings Cross like WCW to see what the account books revealed. Caught between the feds who could jail him on tax law and Saffron who could make him disappear Barnett chose to return to the US. They apparently tried to extradite Barnett which suggests the feds really wanted to ask him some questions

  • @TheMontgomery333
    @TheMontgomery333 5 лет назад

    Nothing to do here but really sad many Great names just died and dissapeared away .. 40s 50s 60s and very early 70s...

  • @blacksmith44
    @blacksmith44 3 года назад

    You could hear the racist comments Flair would make when he was about to go at it with a black man,making it obvious he was racist against black people.

  • @timmypaxton4844
    @timmypaxton4844 3 года назад +1

    Gooddayforapicnicsteaksandamovieandhotrods

  • @Powers3848
    @Powers3848 2 года назад +1

    He was goofy.

  • @paullindstrom7635
    @paullindstrom7635 6 лет назад +1

    Geez Bill what the hell happened to your face ? Too much gigging yourself?

  • @patricodesouza7453
    @patricodesouza7453 4 года назад +1

    DOES DUNDEE TALK ABOUT HIS FEUD WITH JOHN TATUM IN THE USWA AND THE GWF IN THIS INTERVIEW?!!
    P. S.
    NO HE DOESN'T MENTION HIS FEUD WITH JOHN TATUM OR JOHN TATUM AT ALL THROUGH OUT THE ENTIRE SHOOT INTERVIEW! FOR THOSE OF YOU OUT THERE THAT MIGHT BE INTERESTED?
    SURPRISING, AND EVEN MORE SURPRISING THAT THE INTERVIEWER DIDN'T ASK DUNDEE ABOUT THE FEUD?!
    BECAUSE SAID WAS QUITE SOMETHING IN VERY LATE 1980s BOTH ON THE USWA AND THE GWF!
    ANYWAY, IT IS A VERY INTERESTING CHAT NONETHELESS...

    • @TheHannibalTV
      @TheHannibalTV  4 года назад +1

      You are only given so much time for interviews when you pay people for them in most cases I need to stick to the topics that most people know about.

    • @patricodesouza7453
      @patricodesouza7453 4 года назад +1

      @@TheHannibalTV OKAY, IT'S JUST THAT THERE FEUD APPEARED TO BE QUITE WELL KNOWN AND POPULAR DURING IT'S HEIGHT!
      AND SPEAKING/TEXTING OF JOHN TATUM, DO YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE A VIDEO OF A MATCH FROM THE GWF NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT FROM AUGUST 10TH 1991,. BETWEEN JOHN TATUM AND AL PEREZ?!
      AL PEREZ WINS THE MATCH AND ADVANCES TO THE NEXT LEVEL AGAINST THE PATRIOT!
      MUCH TO JOHN TATUM'S CHAGRIN LOL 😂!
      AND IT'S A GREAT MATCH ALSO!
      IF YOU DO HAVE SAID, OR CAN FIND IT? PLEASE POST THE MATCH?!!
      AND THANK🙏 YOU FOR YOUR REPLY AND YOUR GREAT UTUBE CHANNEL!!!

    • @brianspence8302
      @brianspence8302 4 года назад

      @@TheHannibalTV did bill dundee whoop jim jamison a few times

  • @donaldmay9842
    @donaldmay9842 2 года назад +1

    He ever was little he always was a Giant