This is the most coherent, somewhat sober and healthiest Sandman shoot I've seen ever. Glad he is looking better. I hear he still drinks but no more hard drugs
Can we be honest the wrestling back then wasn’t as good as it is today it was more entertaining but the good wrestling matches were once In a blue moon
Who cares? They paid wrestlers good sums unlike WWE and ECW who screwed over wrestlers and paid them nothing. Glad the wrestlers got paid worth a damn in WCW.
Sabu claims he was the highest paid wrestler in ECW but wasn't supposed to tell anybody. When other talent found out they got raises that came out of Sabu's pocket.
After 2 minutes I had no idea what's going on. Sandman took to many blows to the head. He's all over the place. I has DDP phone # - No I didn't have his #. He starts off saying that Sabu made $15,000 and he made $14,000 so he was going to quite. He made a phone call. No he - - -, No I ....
Regal and Finlay were great workers, they didn't need to do hardcore matches, but watch their match from WCW Uncensored 1996. It was damn near a hardcore match and it was probably the best match on that PPV.
Justin WWENXTGuy saw him at a tommy dreamer house show in nj few years ago, he dumped a beer down my throat. Greatest moment as a wrestling fan. I was going to cheers him and he pointed at me and raised it to chug lol
sandman gives a great interview espeically when he's clean!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 250,000.00 a year to do nothing............ you wont find those kind of paydays anymore....i feel bad for sabu who never got a payday like that and worked much harder than sandman..............:(
Damn. They had him on contract; he wasn't on tv; and they paid him. Sandman? Woaw. Put him on Thunder, Saturday Night, whatever. The guy got a fair bit of burn in ecw. It's an asset.
So Sandman states that Nash got the book in March? That basically kills the rumors that he booked himself to beat Goldberg or to drop the title to Hogan via fingerpoke of doom (which made him look like shit)
also sting didnt hate you because "you were better than him at spades" he was a recovering alcoholic and he had to see/look/smell you while you were being all sandman-y
But wait smarks say Nash booked himself to end the streak in December 1998 but Sandman (and others plus evidence) says Nash got the book in March 1999!?!
@@MrJjburgess11 excactly flai even admitted he was glad to see it go. Said he saw it change too much and didnt want to be in it any longer. And to the other guy of course aol was the final nail, but you dont look at any other faults that led up to that? Telling someome to stop posting isnt going to bring wcw bacm its been 18 years all the info is out there. Your not stopping any misinformation
Two questions: 1) Where the hell are they doing this interview at?!?! I mean there's Christmas lights strung up and stars painted on the wall with a plastic sheet in front of all that. AND 2) Did Sandman ever have surgery on his head? Because the only thing I couldn't stop staring at during this whole piece was that indentation on his forehead just over the top of one of his eyes. I mean I guess it could've been from the hardcore style of wrestling and all those damned chair shots. If so, then just like Abdullah's blading marks all over his skull this definitely is a fair warning to others not to do the hardcore style.
I remember the Sandman with great fondness. I was interested in what he said about Fit Finlay. Although he may have been a great worker, I admire their abilities so much, I was not a big fan. His shtick was really not very good and so never really got my attention. Both Warrior and Hulk had a better persona, although they really were not very good wrestlers, and even at the height of their fame, I considered one trick ponies.
I hope he's sober now. His liver is probably jelly. Alot of ECW alumni died early deaths because of drugs. Axl Rotten, Balls Mahoney, Spicoli, Mike Awesome to name a few. I hope Sandman doesn't end up on that list.
What a glorious place wcw was during the Monday night wars... Everyone was making great money; I mean 5 grand a week for the Sandman for six months of no actual wrestling?!
i can only imagine how drunk he was and how much his wife didnt want him around anymore while he sat at home for months gettin paid like that lol prolly drove her nuts. "Hack, i love you, but you need to get your ass back in the ring or at least leave the house" lol
when he says Dusty and lawyer says concerns over being sued for use of Sandman name (spite hes saying he owns his name)...Really...Dusty Rhodes should have been sued for using that name because of minor or major baseball player with that name....Doesnt matter how minor of a matter it would be for Dusty since they are bitching Sandmans wrestling name vs a concrete company....Heck there is a Sandman comic. Why didnt the comic sue since Hogan had to get rights from marvel comics
This is the most coherent, somewhat sober and healthiest Sandman shoot I've seen ever. Glad he is looking better. I hear he still drinks but no more hard drugs
Sandman looks like beavis all grown up
Max Reed lmfao hehehehe cool
I am cornholio ....
I need TP for my bunghole.....
Lmao
Lmao
Now I can't unsee this lmao
i miss the late 90s so much it hurts
Fans these days have no idea how good it used to be.
@@seano79 Facts they think AEW is cool.... They just don't know.... We had WCW, ECW and WWF all fighting to be #1.... Good times.
Great times for wrestling.
Can we be honest the wrestling back then wasn’t as good as it is today it was more entertaining but the good wrestling matches were once In a blue moon
@@_meangreenjersey973 I'd take an exciting popular wrestling show over a show with higher match quality
“Showed up late for whatever reason”. You’re sandman, that’s the reason.
Sandman looks like the Human version of Bender from Futurerama 😂
"Oh, my God! I bet I can eat nachos and go to the bathroom at the same time"
Pahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!
They based his human form on sandmans apperance in 99
Totally!!
"that was a sunday so the next day was monday" the magical interviewing skills of the sandman ladies and gentlemen
To be fair, the story is from almost 20 years ago. Plus with all th beers he had in his life I would be f*cked up with the dates if I was him.
From all these shoot interviews it sounds like WCW was a dream job.
As long as you didn’t get on Hogan or Nash’s bad side.
@@dr.floridamanphd Yep, there's a reason that place went under.
@@butchvito Not For Refusing To Push Vanilla Midgets.
*Modern fans* " THEY SHOULD HAVE MADE JERICHO, BENOIT AND EDDIE GUERRERO CHAMP OVER GOLDBERG, HOGAN, NASH, DDP, SAVAGE!!! "
lol not according to Jericho.
That’s why WCW went down, paying huge money for no reason . Except piss testing Sandman, that’s worth the 5,000 a week
Who cares? They paid wrestlers good sums unlike WWE and ECW who screwed over wrestlers and paid them nothing. Glad the wrestlers got paid worth a damn in WCW.
WCW seemed like the greatest no show job ever.
Joseph E Molinaro a select group of people really understood that joke.
Joseph E Molinaro right! Seriously tho, you could just lay at home..get out of shape and addicted to pain pills and get a check
Marco very few 😃
God’s girl Harlem sounds like some job resume
They had Lanny Poffo on the payroll for multiple years and never used him.
Nice! Sandman seems healthier now then a few interviews years ago..
Yeah i was happy aswell dude
He's completely stopped drinking since then, he seems so much better.
I can see why he and DDP would have been immediate blood bros, they’re basically just the same CAW with different tatts and hair at this point.
Yeah Lotta Phila-Jersey guys have that look.
loving these sandman shoot clips dude sounds like an awesome guy.
He respects finlay and regal for sure.
Sandman actually looks clean here.
He has been sober for a year
I love EVERY shoot the sandman is in. He's a great story teller.
Seeing Sandman again makes me thirsty for a beer.
Im so glad I got to meet this guy and we shared a beer and he signed the can my prized possession
Sandman does a great Beetlejuice impression.
Sabu claims he was the highest paid wrestler in ECW but wasn't supposed to tell anybody. When other talent found out they got raises that came out of Sabu's pocket.
😆
shouldnt of said anything then
@@hanndonfield91 Someone else got his check by accident.
LOL thats so Paul Heyman..
5000 a week that’s awesome sandman was the best I loved him in ECW hardcore HAK
Agree with Sandman on Kimberly Page, she was DAMN fine back then
Just another Bitch
Sting sucked at cards but everyone let him that's why they were shocked sandman was winning
That some bread 5 gs a week from late 98 to march 99 to just sit
I could see ddp and sandman hitting it off
I was so excited when Sandman debuted in WCW I pop so loud
You mean HAK? LMAO
After 2 minutes I had no idea what's going on. Sandman took to many blows to the head. He's all over the place. I has DDP phone # - No I didn't have his #. He starts off saying that Sabu made $15,000 and he made $14,000 so he was going to quite. He made a phone call. No he - - -, No I ....
Sabu always deserved more money then the Sandman.
This is all speculation, but I'm happy to see Sandman looking cleaner and healthier than he has in previous shoot interviews.
I agree.i met him back in 97 at the Downingtown Farmers market. He was cool.
Regal and Finlay were great workers, they didn't need to do hardcore matches, but watch their match from WCW Uncensored 1996. It was damn near a hardcore match and it was probably the best match on that PPV.
I don't know if it's me but The Sandman looks like Steve Austin when he was the ringmaster and Val venis when he shaved his hair bald
looks to be in great shape 😄 long live the sandman!
Great 👍 interview
Damnit I love Sandman.
Sandman still has the best entrance in the busniess
Justin WWENXTGuy saw him at a tommy dreamer house show in nj few years ago, he dumped a beer down my throat. Greatest moment as a wrestling fan. I was going to cheers him and he pointed at me and raised it to chug lol
How was he the highest paid in ecw? That should have been sabu or rvd taz anybody but sandman
Say what you will about sandman but he’s entertaining as hell and you can see how excited he’s getting telling these legendary stories
hahaha this is just great, top to bottom. and the fit story at the end about working a pinky is hilarious.
Sandman turned into Shoenice.
Either way.
This nigga here is a LEGEND!!! He was definitely one of a kind and an innovator wether it was purposeful or not...Lol!!! R.I.P. Sandman!!!
He's not dead fool.
raven took me to DDPs birthday party - The Sandman
ur awesome sandman, u r my favorite wrestler in the wrestling code roster
Sandman and Cactus Jack matches are classic ecw...
I was at the table next to Sandman when Raven introduced Sandman to Lee Marshal. It was at the bar in the Cleveland airport Marriott
Nobody believes you.
Yea ok! Fucking liar!
I reffereed a match between Genghis Khan vs The Predator
@@petermccavington8232 I believe him.
This guy's had one too many crushed cans to the head. Interesting life and a great entertainer
Nice sandman history, I always wanted to know from him lol how he became hak
That turner money 💰💯
sandman gives a great interview espeically when he's clean!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 250,000.00 a year to do nothing............ you wont find those kind of paydays anymore....i feel bad for sabu who never got a payday like that and worked much harder than sandman..............:(
Remember that epic story of Sabu getting a nasty gash and having to super glue his flesh together b/c he couldn't afford the medical bill?
Love it!
Damn. They had him on contract; he wasn't on tv; and they paid him. Sandman? Woaw. Put him on Thunder, Saturday Night, whatever. The guy got a fair bit of burn in ecw. It's an asset.
Damn I wish I work for WCW free money to do nothing
“Paul being the idiot that he does”
So Sandman states that Nash got the book in March? That basically kills the rumors that he booked himself to beat Goldberg or to drop the title to Hogan via fingerpoke of doom (which made him look like shit)
Is he ok? Did he survive this interview?? I hope that 5 GRAND PER WEEK went towards life insurance for his family
also sting didnt hate you because "you were better than him at spades" he was a recovering alcoholic and he had to see/look/smell you while you were being all sandman-y
"Paul being the idiot that he does"
Wow Devon must have paid him upfront. In meth.
Who?
@@horrorfan4-life689 devon is hannibal
"Paul, being the idiot that he does..."
Sting vs sandman would be epic AF
"Fit Finlay (the Belfast Bruiser in WCW) can work a Pinky (for 20 minutes) and get It over." - the Sandman
But wait smarks say Nash booked himself to end the streak in December 1998 but Sandman (and others plus evidence) says Nash got the book in March 1999!?!
Nash was on the committee before that
The funniest sh*t ever with this dude! 😂😂😂
This is why wcw went under. Not utilizing talent that they had, and paying for talent they never used.
WCW went under because of the AOL Time Warner merger. Dopes like you that say otherwise don't know the history of the business. Stop posting
@@MrJjburgess11 excactly flai even admitted he was glad to see it go. Said he saw it change too much and didnt want to be in it any longer. And to the other guy of course aol was the final nail, but you dont look at any other faults that led up to that? Telling someome to stop posting isnt going to bring wcw bacm its been 18 years all the info is out there. Your not stopping any misinformation
9k in today's money 😆 a week that's pretty good
His voice doesn't even sound like sandman. Even when people do their sandman impression, it doesn't sound like he does here.
Sandman looks like Beavis dad from Beavis and Butthead do america
Two questions: 1) Where the hell are they doing this interview at?!?! I mean there's Christmas lights strung up and stars painted on the wall with a plastic sheet in front of all that. AND 2) Did Sandman ever have surgery on his head? Because the only thing I couldn't stop staring at during this whole piece was that indentation on his forehead just over the top of one of his eyes. I mean I guess it could've been from the hardcore style of wrestling and all those damned chair shots. If so, then just like Abdullah's blading marks all over his skull this definitely is a fair warning to others not to do the hardcore style.
Is still smashed out of his face??
Sandman is still one of the best shoot interviews in the biz
Hell yeah
Sandman is the only person who didn’t blade in ecw
“Being the idiot he does.”
He owned the name but they wouldn't let him use it ? Genius move WCW ! Probably some asshole just trying to bury him from the kick off .
Needless to say sandman didn’t age well... still the man tho
God’s girl Harlem did you think he was going to? Lol.
WCW stayed afloat 2 years after he was released.
Glad he got at least $14k for a ECW ppv but Heyman never paid Francine once for her ppvs appearances
I remember the Sandman with great fondness. I was interested in what he said about Fit Finlay. Although he may have been a great worker, I admire their abilities so much, I was not a big fan. His shtick was really not very good and so never really got my attention. Both Warrior and Hulk had a better persona, although they really were not very good wrestlers, and even at the height of their fame, I considered one trick ponies.
best sabbattical ever
Im friends with this mans cousin who passed of a OD sad how much he looks like sandman
Sabu should get more
I hope he's sober now. His liver is probably jelly. Alot of ECW alumni died early deaths because of drugs. Axl Rotten, Balls Mahoney, Spicoli, Mike Awesome to name a few. I hope Sandman doesn't end up on that list.
What a glorious place wcw was during the Monday night wars...
Everyone was making great money; I mean 5 grand a week for the Sandman for six months of no actual wrestling?!
Heatwave
I'm willing to bet you that card game went the opposite way it was told lol
but was he making $5k a week?
i can only imagine how drunk he was and how much his wife didnt want him around anymore while he sat at home for months gettin paid like that lol prolly drove her nuts. "Hack, i love you, but you need to get your ass back in the ring or at least leave the house" lol
when he says Dusty and lawyer says concerns over being sued for use of Sandman name (spite hes saying he owns his name)...Really...Dusty Rhodes should have been sued for using that name because of minor or major baseball player with that name....Doesnt matter how minor of a matter it would be for Dusty since they are bitching Sandmans wrestling name vs a concrete company....Heck there is a Sandman comic. Why didnt the comic sue since Hogan had to get rights from marvel comics
There's actually another vid out there explaining the origins of Hulk Hogan and how he had to stop calling himself "Incredible" due to Marvel.
I stopped watching after 2 mins because he kept moving all over the place
No way they were paying $15k to sandman for ppv when they couldn’t afford to pay talent.
That’s alot of money he’s making
Go Pack
Awwww whata Hak lol man wcw didn't know what to do with Sandman
quater of a mil for pretty much nothing!
never got it bro. he had charisma and mystique but wanted to open a stripclub
DDP always has a smoking hot girlfriend.
PC Principal
GCW
Hardcore hack !
5 racks to do nothing sweet!
Not raw whatever the fuck they were doing lol 😂
He was a performer not ever a wrestler at all