honky tonk man gracious to make $50,000 payout back then putting over new stars. meanwhile there's a bunch of no talents in wwe right now who shouldn't be earning 50 cents with million dollar contracts sitting in catering every week because they're supposedly veterans of the business.
Yep, plus he played the long game, knowing that a wrestlers career is tentative. He played his cards right and made a good run. Gotta respect the dude.
Smaller runs but probably no return matches that lasted months. I saw Rude vs Hulk in Baltimore and I know through my cousins that they had matches in Philly and NYC.
Got to remember a run back then didn't necessarily mean a run on TV or PPV. A run could mean a run on the house shows as WWF ran multiple crews so you could be mid card on TV but in the main event on the house shows.
Yeah 4 million was probably the minimum guaranteed then there were bonuses for appearing on Nitro, ppv, wearing an NWO shirt on tv, etc.,etc.,etc.......I'm pretty sure I saw a video where they showed parts of his contract it might have been on the podcast with Sean Oliver and Nash
I was there that night at the Meadowlands Honky, in the nose bleed section. I think it was February 1988. This was a few weeks after Hulk lost the title to Andre.
Honky is delusional, even though we all know Wrestling is scripted there has to be the illusion of believability. In NO WORLD, in NO SITUATION could ANYONE believe that The Honky Tonk Man could have beat Hulk Hogan. The Bossman DESERVED that run because the Bossman was a credible threat to Hulk Hogan. The Honky Tonk Man was a Screaming Norman Smiley level talent in the WWF, nothing more.
The selling out of buildings and arenas back during the 80s was the WWF brand and not who was the main event, we didn't know who would be on the card let alone who would actually show up, and we bought our tickets months in advance as soon as we knew the WWF was coming to our city or town.
Mean Gene used to cut promos in the media room in front of a bunch of monitors announcing who would be wrestling at the house shows coming to your town. That’s part of what got people to buy tickets. Same way he did the Wrestlemania Report.
Not sure how or why anyone gave this a thumbs up, but I’m going to assume it was either casual fans who weren’t paying attention or people who weren’t even born at the time. We had Event Centers running down the cards and who was supposed to be there, and in my city they ran newspaper ads promoting the top matches. The whole “it’s the brand, not the wrestlers” thing has only come about in the last 10 years when the roster became completely homogeneous.
honkey always mixed truth,lies,and crying...and was always consistent with it in every interview so i give him that....but overall this did not age well lmao
Jake never got a run with Hogan they squashed it because Jake was getting more over than Hogan. There's an unpaired Snake Pit segment where Jake DDTs Hogan to set up an angle that never happened.
Honky is just so full of it. There's no way Vince promised him a run with Hogan, because Vince intended to bring Honky in as a babyface.Just watch his first couple of appearances. He turned into a heel when people - to nobody but Vince's surprise - didn't eat up a wrestling Elvis impersonator as their new hero. And back then, face vs. face didn't happen, especially not in WWE. Not until 1990 with Warrior and Hogan. And that was only because Vince and Hogan expected the latter to gradually phase over into making movies fulltime, another hilarious misjudgement by Vince.
think he meant 2 one saturday and 2 on Sunday. they used to do that back in the late 80's, I remember seeing the exact a show in the city I lived in in at 1 in the afternoon and the exact same show winners and matches at 8 pm 2 hrs from my home town, I was 11 or 12 at the time
Vince McMahon was famous for, among other things, dangling the carrot of a run with Hogan or winning the belt from Hogan in front of a LOT of the talent ... and then not delivering on the promise. But can you really blame Vince for keeping Hogan as the champ or at least as Top Dog for so long?? Hogan was still more over in the days when Hulkamania was waning by 1992 than guys like Bad News Brown or even Honky ever were.
HTM good heel but dude to complain about SAVAGE you ain't even close and you're take on the UNDERTAKER well I guess you really don't know what you're talking about do you
There could have been quite a few who could have done as well as Hogan, or even better. The thing is, the fans were and still are, complete mongoloids who never realize what greatness is. A few I can name offhand are Andre the Giant, Randy Savage, Ricky Steamboat, Jim Duggan, Tito Santana, and those are just the ones from the Hogan WWF era. Hogan got lucky with the timing as his adversaries put him over all the time.
@@CannedHam2479 I am a bigger Hickomanius than both of you combined and I only disagree -- because he understated it. HTM would have been 1,000 times bigger than Hogan with 1/10th the booking. To only say he could have been bigger is too mild, the reality is, HTM was actively held back in order to keep him from easily overshadowing Hogan. It took every booking decision they could make to do it and even then it's arguable that HTM was a much bigger star than Hogan.
Well I can tell you us kids in the neighborhood back then, not Honky Tonk fans, boring to watch and was int champ for WAY too long it was an early meme watching him bs those matches.
Did he really just say he would have both those belts? Does this guy actually really believe he was world champion material let alone going to beat Hogan? I hope he was just being sarcastic. I mean is he really serious and actually thought he was going to be in a main event program with the biggest name that the industry has ever seen and he’s a wannabe Elvis gimmick…
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"His days as the Undertaker are probably finished." You were only off by about 20 years lol
Exactly underestimated the deadman 😂
The Undertaker faded into oblivion. Honky called it!
@@905JimRaynor faded into oblivion?? Clearly that's what happened 😂😂
@@905JimRaynor you do realise when this interview was from 😁😁😁😁
the only reason undertaker stayed "relevant" during the next 15 or so years, its because he was mostly a part timer for most of that time...
honky tonk man gracious to make $50,000 payout back then putting over new stars. meanwhile there's a bunch of no talents in wwe right now who shouldn't be earning 50 cents with million dollar contracts sitting in catering every week because they're supposedly veterans of the business.
Roman reigns is a jobber at best
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Honky is the best looking, best dancing, best singing rassler of all times!
Like him or not…he is a professional who loved his job!
Yep, plus he played the long game, knowing that a wrestlers career is tentative. He played his cards right and made a good run. Gotta respect the dude.
I don't remember Rick Rude and Jake Roberts having runs with Hogan.
Loved the shake rattle and roll
Jake and Rude never got a run, lol
Smaller runs but probably no return matches that lasted months. I saw Rude vs Hulk in Baltimore and I know through my cousins that they had matches in Philly and NYC.
Got to remember a run back then didn't necessarily mean a run on TV or PPV. A run could mean a run on the house shows as WWF ran multiple crews so you could be mid card on TV but in the main event on the house shows.
Mac Man😂
And taker lasted another 15 or 20 years after the american bad as$ run. Lol
4 million a year for Hogan in WCW? I think it was closer to 10 mill
Yep, I bet the 4 million was only Hogan's base salary.
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@@CatsClaw44Yea. Base salary. In sure incentives and bonuses were the bulk of his pay.
Hogan was making 5 mill per year from WWF in the mid-late 80's!
Yeah 4 million was probably the minimum guaranteed then there were bonuses for appearing on Nitro, ppv, wearing an NWO shirt on tv, etc.,etc.,etc.......I'm pretty sure I saw a video where they showed parts of his contract it might have been on the podcast with Sean Oliver and Nash
I love Honky Tonk...the person.
Wayne Ferris.
Anyone that watch Taker come out for the very 1st time and thought it wouldn't make it was delusional. You could hear a pin drop during that entrance.
I was there that night at the Meadowlands Honky, in the nose bleed section. I think it was February 1988. This was a few weeks after Hulk lost the title to Andre.
Rude had a Saturday night main event match was great.
Back in the 80s. Tht was insane money for tht time👏
Honky is delusional, even though we all know Wrestling is scripted there has to be the illusion of believability. In NO WORLD, in NO SITUATION could ANYONE believe that The Honky Tonk Man could have beat Hulk Hogan. The Bossman DESERVED that run because the Bossman was a credible threat to Hulk Hogan. The Honky Tonk Man was a Screaming Norman Smiley level talent in the WWF, nothing more.
Your right, especially at that time in wrestling
The selling out of buildings and arenas back during the 80s was the WWF brand and not who was the main event, we didn't know who would be on the card let alone who would actually show up, and we bought our tickets months in advance as soon as we knew the WWF was coming to our city or town.
Not true all that business from 84-90 was totally hulk hogan fueled, they would announce who was on the house shows
Mean Gene used to cut promos in the media room in front of a bunch of monitors announcing who would be wrestling at the house shows coming to your town. That’s part of what got people to buy tickets.
Same way he did the Wrestlemania Report.
Not true, it was all about Hogan not the brand, things didn't start going in that direction until he was gone.
A Hogan Maple Leaf Gardens crowd was totally different from a Maple Leaf Gardens card without Hogan.
Not sure how or why anyone gave this a thumbs up, but I’m going to assume it was either casual fans who weren’t paying attention or people who weren’t even born at the time. We had Event Centers running down the cards and who was supposed to be there, and in my city they ran newspaper ads promoting the top matches. The whole “it’s the brand, not the wrestlers” thing has only come about in the last 10 years when the roster became completely homogeneous.
Hogan in one match. Would make more then most working stiffs make in a year
honkey always mixed truth,lies,and crying...and was always consistent with it in every interview so i give him that....but overall this did not age well lmao
I love watching HTM shoot interviews..I can watch his interviews all day. He tells it like it is.
Like he thinks it is 😂
Except totally different than how it was.
Mack Man Lol
honkey tonk is great always told it like it is
Jake never got a run with Hogan they squashed it because Jake was getting more over than Hogan. There's an unpaired Snake Pit segment where Jake DDTs Hogan to set up an angle that never happened.
That’s what Jake says. Who knows.
@@kelbob00It was actually confirmed.
@@kelbob00 My point is The Honky Tonk Man wasn't giving totally correct information. I don't think that was intentional.
Because Jake got a babyface pop from the crowd when he hit the DDT.
I also don't remember Rick Rude getting a run with Hogan.
That’s not true Rick rude has never wrestled Hulk hogan
Once in Boston he did.
Rude had a run against the Ultimate Warrior
Boston Garden in '88 before the infamous Main Event screwjob and a brief encounter at the inaugural Survivor Series prior.
Yes he did, and Vader, hulk wrestled both guys.
Rude did wrestle him but he never got a run with Hogan.
They did 4 shows on Sunday?
Honky is just so full of it. There's no way Vince promised him a run with Hogan, because Vince intended to bring Honky in as a babyface.Just watch his first couple of appearances. He turned into a heel when people - to nobody but Vince's surprise - didn't eat up a wrestling Elvis impersonator as their new hero. And back then, face vs. face didn't happen, especially not in WWE. Not until 1990 with Warrior and Hogan. And that was only because Vince and Hogan expected the latter to gradually phase over into making movies fulltime, another hilarious misjudgement by Vince.
it wasn't a mistake by vince. Yes, hogan failed to be on the movies, but he left wrestling for hollywood in 93..and he was mostly retired after wm8...
Honky was a heat magnet as IC champ though.
Had a good program with Jake heading into Mania III.
HTM always whining about money 🤣
At 4.20 or so... no way honky tonk man taker still goin 2021
I don't think Jake got a run with Hogan
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I thought the Honkytonk gimmick was kind of embarrassing when I was a kid .... too cartoonish
Where was he doing 4 shows a day at?
think he meant 2 one saturday and 2 on Sunday. they used to do that back in the late 80's, I remember seeing the exact a show in the city I lived in in at 1 in the afternoon and the exact same show winners and matches at 8 pm 2 hrs from my home town, I was 11 or 12 at the time
Might have meant TV tapings, too. They often taped multiple shows in one day.
Vince McMahon was famous for, among other things, dangling the carrot of a run with Hogan or winning the belt from Hogan in front of a LOT of the talent ... and then not delivering on the promise.
But can you really blame Vince for keeping Hogan as the champ or at least as Top Dog for so long?? Hogan was still more over in the days when Hulkamania was waning by 1992 than guys like Bad News Brown or even Honky ever were.
The taker comment seems like another underline shot at taker like he does to others
I think he was wrong about Undertaker being finished 😂
Lol Undertaker over after American Badass. Not so much
Hello
4 or Sunday? I call BS on that
Rick rude got a run with Hogan??? When???
Matches right there on RUclips
Greatest Intercontinental Champion of all time.
Sound like a lot of “HATE” coming from Honky Tonk boy(!)
Honky sounds kind of jealous though
he sounds bitter
i thought dibase and bossman were good heels
Honky Tonk Man may be the single most unathletic wrestler ever.😁
HTM good heel but dude to complain about SAVAGE you ain't even close and you're take on the UNDERTAKER well I guess you really don't know what you're talking about do you
Rude never had a real run with hogan
Nobody is coming to see Honky.😂
Im the biggest Huckster of all time, but I gotta admit that HTM couldve been bigger than Hogan if booked right, Brotherrrrrrrrrrr
There could have been quite a few who could have done as well as Hogan, or even better. The thing is, the fans were and still are, complete mongoloids who never realize what greatness is. A few I can name offhand are Andre the Giant, Randy Savage, Ricky Steamboat, Jim Duggan, Tito Santana, and those are just the ones from the Hogan WWF era. Hogan got lucky with the timing as his adversaries put him over all the time.
@@SuperN1ntendoChalmersIm the biggest Huckamaniac of all time, but youre 100 pct right
What drugs are you on? He was lucky to have what he did.
@@CannedHam2479 I am a bigger Hickomanius than both of you combined and I only disagree -- because he understated it. HTM would have been 1,000 times bigger than Hogan with 1/10th the booking. To only say he could have been bigger is too mild, the reality is, HTM was actively held back in order to keep him from easily overshadowing Hogan. It took every booking decision they could make to do it and even then it's arguable that HTM was a much bigger star than Hogan.
@ Well said. I stand corrected
Well I can tell you us kids in the neighborhood back then, not Honky Tonk fans, boring to watch and was int champ for WAY too long it was an early meme watching him bs those matches.
Bullshit
I like the Honky Drunk Man
Honky was a joke. Never drew a crowd. NOBODY I know went to go see Honky as a main event person at best he was a mid to upper card but that's it
Did he really just say he would have both those belts? Does this guy actually really believe he was world champion material let alone going to beat Hogan? I hope he was just being sarcastic. I mean is he really serious and actually thought he was going to be in a main event program with the biggest name that the industry has ever seen and he’s a wannabe Elvis gimmick…