What’s amazing is this is the exact story he told me when I met him a couple years ago. HTM is a great guy and very down to earth. Very glad I had the opportunity to meet him. Even happier that he spent 40mins telling me some great stories!
I am watching the next part of the interview about HonkeyTonk's first match. I just watched his first 3 or 4 matches. He was a baby face. I never remembered it until recently watching his first matches. Jesse the Body was even clowning him that most the people hated HonkeyTonk. Crazy stuff!
Wayne has the best stories , cuz he didn’t ruin his life with drugs and alcohol, he was married was smart was taking care of his family , he’s coherent and able to remember these stories, thanks Honky Tonk for telling me these great stories , I grew up on wrestling since a kid , I can’t watch anymore , but still follow the politics of the business , podcasting and shoot interviews are my wrestling of today.
That's one of the most well put together comments I've ever read, you're absolutely right about his coherence due to not living a life of drugs and alcohol, I too grew up on wrestling and also use the politics, interviews etc as my go to. Happy Days Steven 😁💪🏴
My favorite wrestler back then was Ted Dibiase. I loved him. I talk to him on twitter a bit and he's the nicest guys I have ever talked to. He actually remembered me with my sign in Sacramento Arco Arena in the late 80s. I was cheering for him and the rest of the place was booing. He picked me out of all those boos! He still remembers it to this day.
Warrior was in the right place at the right time for his WWF run. Warrior was the Golberg of the 80's. He was so over . Give HTM props for doing the job. This started the path for Wrestlemania 6 which was magical to watch as little kid. I would have loved a longer match, HTM deserved it.
Honestly a longer match would have exposed The Ultimate Warrior's in-ring weaknesses. Warrior at that point couldnt do longer matches. To be honest, at the point where he won the IC belt he should have been working indies or developmental. He got pushed because Hogan was leaving and Warrior looked like a million bucks. So you give him a monster push, keep the matches short, and put him in matches with guys that can bump for him and make him look awesome. Guys like Honkey Tonk, Rick Rude, Bret Hart. WM 6 WAS magical for a kid. But Warrior and Hogan had the benefit of planning that match out move for move for a whole month before. On top of that Hogan led Warrior thru their WM 6 match the whole time, even stopping the match for a while a few times, to put Warrior in rest holds like a rear chin lock, to let Warrior catch his breath. Warrior was all blown up and wanted to bring it home like 10 minutes into the match, and Hogan had to settle him down cause he knew they still had like another 20-25 minutes of the match before taking it home. Can you imagine if Warrior had got his way and Warrior pinned Hogan to win the world title, in a ten minute match cause Warrior was tired? LOL
I never enjoyed HT's matches, and didn't care for the man or his character. And again, I'm reminded to not judge by what I merely see on the surface. i enjoy his interviews immensely, and his take on things. Sure, it's one side of a story. Yet he's so open and seems like a real up front guy who also talks about his own mistakes and misjudgements as well as his successes. You're awesome, HT! Keep it up.
Thank you for posting this. I’ve watched all your clips for this shoot countless times and it’s never gotten old. For several years I searched for this dvd before finally locating it a few months ago.
honky was a true road warrior. he always gave it his best...and as a kid, i hated him. but now, 30 years later, i really respect how hard he worked to make those days legendary. thank you honky tonk man.
HTM is a gentleman, and another one of those few who understands what pro wrestling actually is, and how to craft a match to get the best out of someone. I have had the honour to work with him on the indies, and have fond memories of not only our matches, but his storytelling. Best wishes!
Now I wanna see some of his Honky Tonk/Savage matches! BOTH were GREAT showmen! Kinda like getting Deniro AND Pacino in the same movie! No way it can be bad!
Your a Good Man honky tonk every one Love's you Brother 🙏😇🙏 thanks for all the Great work you put in to the business and all the BS you've seen Happen. God bless you and your family 🙏😇🙏.
He's one of the first five action figures I gotten.. what I loved about his character is how he always talked about being best guitar player and then acts like he's gonna sing a song but soon as he barely strokes The strings he stops and starts talking Crazy about fans and super stars .. Till this day I never seen him ever play the guitar 😂 He played his character perfectly IMO
Dang, poor Ted Dibiase! So he was supposed to be WWF Champion for sure! But I guess that was cool of Vince to be all "Well we will make ur gimmick a billionaire, and u gotta live the gimmick but we'll pay for everything", that's a nice consolation. I wonder if Dibiase got tons of heat just because he got everything paid for lol
docthemetalfreak WWF needed to add another Tag Team Title & 2 other singles Titles including a Jr Title.That would have gave the underused jobbers some push & value
@@wow77777 I agree 100%. As much as demolition was my favorite, teams like the powers of pain, twin towers, the rockers, rougeau brothers and more, never got a sniff at the belts. Same with the singles division, guys like paul orndorff, john studd , etc should of been title holders of some kind
It just goes to show how cruel the Wrestling business can be. Imagine being the IC champion for that long only to be treated like dirt towards the end of your run.
Honky Tonk Man was soooooo annoying back in the day you just couldn't wait for someone to pin him and get on to the next act... that's pure talent! Hated you back in the day and you get my applause for being so good at being a heel.
Vince bought out the Rougeus and probably more importantly I'm guessing the rights to run the Montreal Forum. I remember around this time International Wrestling was really good and they had Dino Bravo as their face champ , the rougeues and a few other prospects like Dan Kroffat who HTM mentioned earlier. I'm guessing part of the agreement in buying out Montreal is that he signs the Rougeaus and Bravo who arrived around this time.
@@gregorylevi1826 Vince SCREWED Stu out of his territory, Vince promised him millions of $, & Stu didn't get shit. I would've LOVED it if Stu would've took Vince down to his dungeon & stretched him like he did many people he trained over the years.
@John Gallagher, I wouldn't be surprised if he screwed Jacques Rougeau Sr out of the territory like he did Stu Hart out of Calgary . The Rougeau Brothers should've been given a tag title run & Bravo should've been given an IC or a world title run & all 3 as well as Jacques Rougeau Sr & his brother Johnny should be in Vince's HOF by now & it's sad that they're not yet.
It’s pretty shocking that no one talked about pay days back then. You would think the boys would stick together and if one got shafted they would speak up.
My two favorite wrestlers of all time are the Honky Tonk Man and Bret Hart. Honky's job was to be hated and he was the best at it. Those were the days.
Na, not really. I say it went downhill in 1990, but 1988 and 1989 were very strong years for WWF. Particularly with the record ratings on NBC (over 30 millions for Hulk vs André), record profits for Wrestlemania, amount of NWA guys who jumped ship to WWF around that time (like Dusty and the Horsemen), and the huge storyline of the Mega Powers exploding.
I’d say it was still pretty awesome through most of 1990, but there was a noticeable shift around the 1991 Royal Rumble. Vince got going on his ludicrous gimmick guys like Saba Simba, and he didn’t properly pass the torch to guys like Perfect, Rude, etc.
Tom Evans WM V did bigger business and held the PPV buyrate record until WM XV. WrestleMania VI was a bigger gate than V and III. I would say WWF rode the wave until SummerSlam ‘92, when almost overnight, you have a mass exodus of main-event and semi-main event caliber stars
Like who? JYD blew his push thanks to his drug addiction, Dibiase was given the best heel gimmick ever, Duggan main-evented shows with André and was basically unbeatable all his run....these are the top guys that came in from Watts, and they all did pretty good in WWF. I know that Ted should have been given the belt in 1988, true, but he still was treated as a top guy and as a top character during 90% of his run there.
@@jonathanturbide2232 like Ted who should have been at least the IC champion. Terry Taylor with the ridiculous Red Rooster gimmick.The One Man Gang,Kamala,Bundy,Duggan,Butch Reed,Jake Roberts all should have been used better
I will tell you I think Honkey carried a large percent of the WWF/WWE on his back way back when,so much so that it led to him getting fired because of others insecurities.
So when HTM didnt do the Saturday Night thing because Vince said we gonna "rebuild" you,what happen after that? I thought he called Jim Barnett,didnt he leave? So did he stay,then soon afterward do the job to Warrior at Summer Slam??
@@travismcdonald6576 Well it wouldn't have been half of that to taxes. The highest tax bracket I think is 40%, and that's if you make over $250,000 a year. I'd say around 20% went to taxes. You're right though, wrestlers were paying for themselves when it came to everything unless they were holding the belts.
Making that call to WCW screwed him…. He would’ve been around a lot longer. Whether it be on commentary, manager, or whatever. I think he realizes that the older he gets.he was still over enough as a heel he could’ve still been booked on the upper midcard. Valentine really screwed himself.
HTM real nice guy . I was so excited to meet him I’m like I’m sorry to hold you up here so I did my autograph and he turns to me and says Graham I will hold the show up until everybody in this arena gets an autograph from me so relax take your time enjoy the show. Ric Flair George South Tito Santana Greg Valentine Bob Backlund real gentleman I had the chance to meet Reid flair before he died
Honky (the crowd and his fans too) deserved a lot better, more interesting, more 'credible' booking on how to losing the title to Ultimate Warrior. Would have made the Warrior more genuine warriorish - so to speak - if there would have been a 'real' match. The booker's dislike of The Honky Tonk Man was quite observable though....
@Bryan Sande, you really don't understand the way the business was back in the 70's & 80's do you? With Graham, He & Ivan Koloff were the only guys who were ever allowed to go over on Bruno, & Graham took it seriously being a world champ much like Bruno & Ivan did as far as HTM goes, he came from the territories where it's important how you're booked.
BIG SHOW WAS A FUCKING COLD TURD IN THE BUSINESS A FUCKING NOBODY A TURD THAT JUST WOULDN'T FLUSH AND JUST STUNK UP THE HOUSE, MICK FOLEY WAS THE SAME WAY, EDGE, CHRISTIAN, RIKISHI, RED ROOSTER, SANTINO MARELLO, THE MIZ, ALL FUCKING DISGRACES IN THE BUSINESS
timthegem- you're an idiot, utterly clueless- the business today is made up of those "vanilla midgets" and, independent wrestling at least, is booming because of it.
Edge and Christian had some killer tag team matches so I don't know what the fuck that guys talkin about. As far as Big Show goes, and he at some point was kind of on the back burner because I remember being at shows and it seemed like every time his music with hit is when everyone will get up to go to the bathroom LMAO. But as far as him doing jobs for the smaller Talent is a fact because that's when WWE started getting fucking stupid when they was letting Rey Mysterio jr. Beat him for the heavyweight championship. I mean that was just fucking asinine. And I believe JR even got some heat from Vince because of his comments that he made about Rey Mysterio being the heavyweight champ, because he literally said on air, not scripted, was bitching about it saying "well King that's why we have weight classes, this doesn't make any damn sense for him to have the belt". Or something to that effect.
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Honky really put the Warrior into orbit that night, by doing that job, he was so under-rated.
Warrior got the loudest pop of the night. He was mad over, but HTM was the ultimate heel who got Warrior that much more over.
Summerslam 88 was an exciting card.
What’s amazing is this is the exact story he told me when I met him a couple years ago. HTM is a great guy and very down to earth. Very glad I had the opportunity to meet him. Even happier that he spent 40mins telling me some great stories!
You didn’t meet him loser
Me I I me I. Amazing!
I am watching the next part of the interview about HonkeyTonk's first match. I just watched his first 3 or 4 matches. He was a baby face. I never remembered it until recently watching his first matches. Jesse the Body was even clowning him that most the people hated HonkeyTonk. Crazy stuff!
Wayne has the best stories , cuz he didn’t ruin his life with drugs and alcohol, he was married was smart was taking care of his family , he’s coherent and able to remember these stories, thanks Honky Tonk for telling me these great stories , I grew up on wrestling since a kid , I can’t watch anymore , but still follow the politics of the business , podcasting and shoot interviews are my wrestling of today.
That's one of the most well put together comments I've ever read, you're absolutely right about his coherence due to not living a life of drugs and alcohol, I too grew up on wrestling and also use the politics, interviews etc as my go to. Happy Days Steven 😁💪🏴
What a polite comment section this is, well done everyone 👏
No drugs or booze Just 200 pound over weight. That’s all good and normal. 😂
He was heavy on booze
My favorite wrestler back then was Ted Dibiase. I loved him. I talk to him on twitter a bit and he's the nicest guys I have ever talked to. He actually remembered me with my sign in Sacramento Arco Arena in the late 80s. I was cheering for him and the rest of the place was booing. He picked me out of all those boos! He still remembers it to this day.
Honky Tonk Man is a straight shooter. I love his shoot interviews. He always keeps it real.
Man I can listen to this guy all day
That's exactly what I'm doing today can't get enough of these
HTM, Nash, and Cornette are the three I can listen to all day. Great shoot interviewees
He’s a great interview and he’s right I was there 1988 the garden never heard a roar like that ever again..
I used to think he was good but limited but now I can see he is deffinately one of the more intelligent wrestlers
Warrior was in the right place at the right time for his WWF run. Warrior was the Golberg of the 80's. He was so over . Give HTM props for doing the job. This started the path for Wrestlemania 6 which was magical to watch as little kid. I would have loved a longer match, HTM deserved it.
Warrior & Sting were a good heel team for Bill Watts in Midsouth.
@@TheSportsfan35
Raven was Goldberg's Honky then lol!
Honestly a longer match would have exposed The Ultimate Warrior's in-ring weaknesses. Warrior at that point couldnt do longer matches. To be honest, at the point where he won the IC belt he should have been working indies or developmental. He got pushed because Hogan was leaving and Warrior looked like a million bucks. So you give him a monster push, keep the matches short, and put him in matches with guys that can bump for him and make him look awesome. Guys like Honkey Tonk, Rick Rude, Bret Hart.
WM 6 WAS magical for a kid. But Warrior and Hogan had the benefit of planning that match out move for move for a whole month before. On top of that Hogan led Warrior thru their WM 6 match the whole time, even stopping the match for a while a few times, to put Warrior in rest holds like a rear chin lock, to let Warrior catch his breath.
Warrior was all blown up and wanted to bring it home like 10 minutes into the match, and Hogan had to settle him down cause he knew they still had like another 20-25 minutes of the match before taking it home. Can you imagine if Warrior had got his way and Warrior pinned Hogan to win the world title, in a ten minute match cause Warrior was tired? LOL
HTM is the one who wanted the match to be short he tells the story in another shoot interview
They both had like 4 moves,.both sucked at promos, both were squashing opponents yeah I can kinda see the Goldberg comparison
Wayne always keeps it real I grew up watching him.
I never enjoyed HT's matches, and didn't care for the man or his character. And again, I'm reminded to not judge by what I merely see on the surface. i enjoy his interviews immensely, and his take on things. Sure, it's one side of a story. Yet he's so open and seems like a real up front guy who also talks about his own mistakes and misjudgements as well as his successes. You're awesome, HT! Keep it up.
Agreed. Didn't like his gimmick and thought he was boring in the ring. He's a great storyteller and provides lots of insights into the business.
He's a good interview
Thank you for posting this. I’ve watched all your clips for this shoot countless times and it’s never gotten old. For several years I searched for this dvd before finally locating it a few months ago.
I hated him as a child.. love his interviews and him being so real. It feels he lets his emotions show.. real guy
I agree huh its like they said the heels are the most cool ppl
listened to a lot of WWF interviews from them ALL . . . but Honky Tonk can talk, and talk and talk so well, & I just keep listening.
Honky Tonk Man was the Best ICC
I love Wayne Ferris' interviews
Loved when he hit people with the guitar.
Out of all the wrestlers that tell stories. His are the best
honky was a true road warrior. he always gave it his best...and as a kid, i hated him. but now, 30 years later, i really respect how hard he worked to make those days legendary. thank you honky tonk man.
HTM is a gentleman, and another one of those few who understands what pro wrestling actually is, and how to craft a match to get the best out of someone. I have had the honour to work with him on the indies, and have fond memories of not only our matches, but his storytelling. Best wishes!
Now I wanna see some of his Honky Tonk/Savage matches! BOTH were GREAT showmen! Kinda like getting Deniro AND Pacino in the same movie! No way it can be bad!
He eerily looks like my auntie...This brings me back to thinking of the good ol days of late 80's wrassling!! Golden era, imho
I think everyone has an aunt that looks like him lol fr
Your a Good Man honky tonk every one Love's you Brother 🙏😇🙏 thanks for all the Great work you put in to the business and all the BS you've seen Happen. God bless you and your family 🙏😇🙏.
He's one of the first five action figures I gotten.. what I loved about his character is how he always talked about being best guitar player and then acts like he's gonna sing a song but soon as he barely strokes The strings he stops and starts talking Crazy about fans and super stars ..
Till this day I never seen him ever play the guitar 😂
He played his character perfectly IMO
Dang, poor Ted Dibiase! So he was supposed to be WWF Champion for sure! But I guess that was cool of Vince to be all "Well we will make ur gimmick a billionaire, and u gotta live the gimmick but we'll pay for everything", that's a nice consolation. I wonder if Dibiase got tons of heat just because he got everything paid for lol
I think Rhythm & Blues shouldve been the tag team champs at least once
Agreed
docthemetalfreak WWF needed to add another Tag Team Title & 2 other singles Titles including a Jr Title.That would have gave the underused jobbers some push & value
@@wow77777 I agree 100%. As much as demolition was my favorite, teams like the powers of pain, twin towers, the rockers, rougeau brothers and more, never got a sniff at the belts. Same with the singles division, guys like paul orndorff, john studd , etc should of been title holders of some kind
Greg & Beefcake were a good heel team.
Honky Tonk was a great heel.
Awesome IC champ.
Makes fun of Bret for “not wanting to lose in Canada”
Also HTM: “I will never lose on TV.”
It just goes to show how cruel the Wrestling business can be. Imagine being the IC champion for that long only to be treated like dirt towards the end of your run.
Honky Tonk Man was soooooo annoying back in the day you just couldn't wait for someone to pin him and get on to the next act... that's pure talent! Hated you back in the day and you get my applause for being so good at being a heel.
Slick wasn't a pimp. He was the Doctor of Style.
Are you sure because I'be heard of a pimp named slickback
Honky Tonk is a cool guy
One wrestler who doesn't get credit for being a great Canadian wrestler Ivan the bear Kolaff
when HTK was acting concussed after the summerslam match talking about Priscilla was money lol
Ferris is a legend
Vince bought out the Rougeus and probably more importantly I'm guessing the rights to run the Montreal Forum. I remember around this time International Wrestling was really good and they had Dino Bravo as their face champ , the rougeues and a few other prospects like Dan Kroffat who HTM mentioned earlier. I'm guessing part of the agreement in buying out Montreal is that he signs the Rougeaus and Bravo who arrived around this time.
Same deal with Stamped Wrestling. When Vince bought them out he had to take Bret Hart, The Junk Yard Dog, Davey Boy Smith, etc.
@@gregorylevi1826 Vince SCREWED Stu out of his territory, Vince promised him millions of $, & Stu didn't get shit. I would've LOVED it if Stu would've took Vince down to his dungeon & stretched him like he did many people he trained over the years.
@John Gallagher, I wouldn't be surprised if he screwed Jacques Rougeau Sr out of the territory like he did Stu Hart out of Calgary . The Rougeau Brothers should've been given a tag title run & Bravo should've been given an IC or a world title run & all 3 as well as Jacques Rougeau Sr & his brother Johnny should be in Vince's HOF by now & it's sad that they're not yet.
I always liked honky, met him, many yrs ago. Was great person.. You can tell hes honest...the business was a jungle
He’s deff mellowed down
Shawn Afshar HTM retired the Gatorade bottle.
I so loved 💕 The Honky Tonk Man.
HTM doesn't disclose his SS88 payday despite the fact he did so on the YouShoot with the same production a few years previous14k
James Alexander Tizzard It was 22k. He got 13k for WM3.
@@travismcdonald6576 13k for WM3 makes me sick. He should have gotten much more. Especially since it was WM3.
You can tell the HUGE difference between the drunk shooting HTM and the sober one.
Should have teamed him with the Genius..that would have been fun..loved to see them beat the LOD..That would be Heat super hot heat
Odd to hear Honky so calm lol
It’s pretty shocking that no one talked about pay days back then. You would think the boys would stick together and if one got shafted they would speak up.
In the last couple seconds you see HTM wiggle to make himself perfect 90’ to take the splash.
My two favorite wrestlers of all time are the Honky Tonk Man and Bret Hart.
Honky's job was to be hated and he was the best at it.
Those were the days.
Nice job.
Sounds like the end of the Golden Era.
After Hogan v. Andre, and where Piper left, it was all downhill.
Na, not really. I say it went downhill in 1990, but 1988 and 1989 were very strong years for WWF. Particularly with the record ratings on NBC (over 30 millions for Hulk vs André), record profits for Wrestlemania, amount of NWA guys who jumped ship to WWF around that time (like Dusty and the Horsemen), and the huge storyline of the Mega Powers exploding.
Jonathan Turbide 90-91 was the start of the decline. Vince got too big too fast.
@@jonathanturbide2232 Dusty didn't jump ship. He got fired, that's why he went to The WWF
I’d say it was still pretty awesome through most of 1990, but there was a noticeable shift around the 1991 Royal Rumble. Vince got going on his ludicrous gimmick guys like Saba Simba, and he didn’t properly pass the torch to guys like Perfect, Rude, etc.
Tom Evans WM V did bigger business and held the PPV buyrate record until WM XV. WrestleMania VI was a bigger gate than V and III. I would say WWF rode the wave until SummerSlam ‘92, when almost overnight, you have a mass exodus of main-event and semi-main event caliber stars
McMahon missed the boat with alot of mid south talent.
Like who? JYD blew his push thanks to his drug addiction, Dibiase was given the best heel gimmick ever, Duggan main-evented shows with André and was basically unbeatable all his run....these are the top guys that came in from Watts, and they all did pretty good in WWF. I know that Ted should have been given the belt in 1988, true, but he still was treated as a top guy and as a top character during 90% of his run there.
@@jonathanturbide2232 like Ted who should have been at least the IC champion. Terry Taylor with the ridiculous Red Rooster gimmick.The One Man Gang,Kamala,Bundy,Duggan,Butch Reed,Jake Roberts all should have been used better
Jonathan Turbide Duggan dug a hole early with his arrest with Iron Sheik. But he did rebound and had a long run.
Paul Vines nah , that's was about right...
Vince missed the boat on alot talent regardless of the territory they were coming in from.
i liked rythem and blues i thought it was perfect
@Jake Lang, you were 1 of very few who did, Hammer hated it & thought it was a waste of time, & so did HTM.
The Montreal crowd always cliqued together.
How many times has htm been fired LMAO. I just watched a video where he was mad about dropping a belt to macho Man and he said he was out?!?
9:37 makes me lol loads 😂
We enjoyed it tooooooo
I will tell you I think Honkey carried a large percent of the WWF/WWE on his back way back when,so much so that it led to him getting fired because of others insecurities.
What’s the meaning of muraco wearing baby blue tights? What am I missing? Thanks.
Amazing stories
So when HTM didnt do the Saturday Night thing because Vince said we gonna "rebuild" you,what happen after that? I thought he called Jim Barnett,didnt he leave? So did he stay,then soon afterward do the job to Warrior at Summer Slam??
$600 for working a midcard match in MSG? I know it was the 80's, but Sweet Jesus.
Len Wennerberg Half that goes to taxes and then road expenses. The wrestlers paid for everything outside of airfare.
@tony gather Thank you
$3600-$4200 a week....even saying $2k a night for Snuka in 3rd towns is $10-$14K a week
@@travismcdonald6576 Well it wouldn't have been half of that to taxes. The highest tax bracket I think is 40%, and that's if you make over $250,000 a year. I'd say around 20% went to taxes. You're right though, wrestlers were paying for themselves when it came to everything unless they were holding the belts.
They're technically independent contractors. You pay as much as these guys on the road and you know a good tax man you ain't paying much.
@3:36 !!! Hahahaha a pimp!!!!
Ferris is completely clueless on the Montreal double-cross.
wow
lol @ WWE 2k16 t-shirt
Honky Tonk ❤
Did Koko ever win a singles match at a PPV?
J. Clint Lewey If you count dark matches, yes. Poor guy got pinned by Heenan at WM 4.
@@travismcdonald6576 & ironically, Koko's in Vince's HOF & sadly Awesome workers like Ivan Koloff, Ray Stevens, the Rougeaus & Dino Bravo aren't yet.
Worst match ever. I cried. Greatest champ ever . Crushed by ultimate distrusity.
Slick came up with the pimp idea not vince
Good morning
Reminds me a little of Jim Cornette with his stories. And that's not a bad thing!
Rf video used to be a good interview company. The same guests with the same stories and questions.
What are your memories of ......
@@georgeelmerdenbrough6906 Marble-mouth Rob Feinstein, kiddie-fiddler extraordinaire
Andrew Gardener And then you’d hear a phone ring
I'm not losing in Canada hahahahaha
I knowdest when I was a kid I hated heels but I see that heels are koo asf they know there shit
Making that call to WCW screwed him…. He would’ve been around a lot longer. Whether it be on commentary, manager, or whatever. I think he realizes that the older he gets.he was still over enough as a heel he could’ve still been booked on the upper midcard. Valentine really screwed himself.
HTM real nice guy . I was so excited to meet him I’m like I’m sorry to hold you up here so I did my autograph and he turns to me and says Graham I will hold the show up until everybody in this arena gets an autograph from me so relax take your time enjoy the show. Ric Flair George South Tito Santana Greg Valentine Bob Backlund real gentleman I had the chance to meet Reid flair before he died
Nice to know my hometown is now pronounced "Des MOING" instead of Des Moines.
Honky (the crowd and his fans too) deserved a lot better, more interesting, more 'credible' booking on how to losing the title to Ultimate Warrior. Would have made the Warrior more genuine warriorish - so to speak - if there would have been a 'real' match.
The booker's dislike of The Honky Tonk Man was quite observable though....
2 guys who took their titles WAY too seriously & have never stopped complaining about losing a ficticious title are HTM & Superstar Graham
@Bryan Sande, you really don't understand the way the business was back in the 70's & 80's do you? With Graham, He & Ivan Koloff were the only guys who were ever allowed to go over on Bruno, & Graham took it seriously being a world champ much like Bruno & Ivan did as far as HTM goes, he came from the territories where it's important how you're booked.
And then kayfabe went away and in came the days where someone like Big Show did jobs for talent smaller than his turds.
BIG SHOW WAS A FUCKING COLD TURD IN THE BUSINESS A FUCKING NOBODY A TURD THAT JUST WOULDN'T FLUSH AND JUST STUNK UP THE HOUSE, MICK FOLEY WAS THE SAME WAY, EDGE, CHRISTIAN, RIKISHI, RED ROOSTER, SANTINO MARELLO, THE MIZ, ALL FUCKING DISGRACES IN THE BUSINESS
timthegem- you're an idiot, utterly clueless- the business today is made up of those "vanilla midgets" and, independent wrestling at least, is booming because of it.
Big show was a lazy piece of shit
Edge and Christian had some killer tag team matches so I don't know what the fuck that guys talkin about. As far as Big Show goes, and he at some point was kind of on the back burner because I remember being at shows and it seemed like every time his music with hit is when everyone will get up to go to the bathroom LMAO. But as far as him doing jobs for the smaller Talent is a fact because that's when WWE started getting fucking stupid when they was letting Rey Mysterio jr. Beat him for the heavyweight championship. I mean that was just fucking asinine.
And I believe JR even got some heat from Vince because of his comments that he made about Rey Mysterio being the heavyweight champ, because he literally said on air, not scripted, was bitching about it saying "well King that's why we have weight classes, this doesn't make any damn sense for him to have the belt".
Or something to that effect.
@@jhot2477 Mick Foley was great you are an idiot
Thanks to Eric B. new Wrestling sucks. He sold out the faithful American fan to parts unknown. He doesn't give one fk about us.
No not who cares wayne smh play role reversal there.
3:33 -- and the minute or so before, that is why Vince McMahon was/is a genius. Even Honky is laughing at the end of the comment.
Blue means your through !!!!
Personally I like the htm but it’s like in any ever case is different different sports now they make more money 💰 ❤❤❤❤❤