Bruce Prichard shoots on Earthquake & Hulk Hogan
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John Tenta soooooooo underrated. He was such a nice guy.
He was, and he sure loved to sit on things.
One of my favorite wrestlers! I'm very sad that he passed away so young.
apparently genuinely tough too, as well as nice
@@startrackertrax6493 he definitely was. He was a Jr Freestyle wrestling champion in Canada, and wrestled collegiate/folkstyle at LSU before they dropped their wrestling program.
+ he was an experienced and decorated sumo champion. And he did it as an American in Japan.
He was super athletic for his size and was the real deal.
All the kids who wrote in to support Hulk Hogan actually had their addresses recorded by the WWF and were then sent monthly merch catalogs. True story.
It was spam before the internet was mainstream.
Zdiddy7 It was actually about 7 minutes 30 seconds into the video.
It’s a business, duhhhh
@@realityorfiction Otherwise known as junk mail
Yea those catalogs were great. That's how I got my Hitman shades!
Earthquake scared the shit out of me as a kid..I can't believe he was in his twenties...his promos were awesome as well that deep gruff voice spraying spit everywhere
Judge Dredd ME TOO!
Yeah, him losing his hair so early in his life and made him look older
Earthquake was, and always will be, one of my favorite wrestlers of all time!
Haha not for me. I grew up in western Canada. Saw tenta long before in vancouver - they called him john tenta the BC giant. He was already a minor celeb here for his sumo career. He was a face in Vancouver.
Then him bouncing up and down too while doing promos was very intense
Earthquake’s music is sooo cool. I’m glad he got some gold in his career. Loved pulling his finisher in WWF Wrestle Fest.
Me and my brother cried. I thought Earthquake killed Hulk Hogan!
I had tears of joy.
I was only 8 at the time and I HATED hogan. Never liked hogan until he turned into hollywood!!!!
I love listening to these old stories
Earthquake should be in the WWE HOF
MorganTyler86Youbarw absolutely correct. No doubt.
@@TheGoddamnJefe Really? Tell me about your meeting.
1978mackdaddy It was... nice. Not great but nice. We went over some numbers. Thinking about going in 100% but have to check with the rest of stockholders first. We then tried to make arrangements for Dorsia later. They wouldn’t squeeze us in but it doesn’t matter. Nobody goes there anymore anyway. Going home to do some crunches. I can do a thousand now.
This comment section is interesting...
Go Mountaineers
The best part about Hogan slamming Earthquake on the table was... the table didn't break.
I AM THE TABLE!
@@jasonrichard981 you beat me to it.
Very very breaky breaky BISHI BISHI!
This was a great fued. As a kid I got to see the two wrestle at a house show in Pittsburgh. The main event was a stretcher match between the two and it ended with Earthquake being carted off in a stretcher after getting hit over the head with Jimmy Harts megaphone and taking the leg drop for the 3 count.
I saw a stretcher match at a house show between Hogan and Earthquake with Hogan pinning Quake. (first time I had ever seen Quake pinned) and it ended up being Jimmy Hart being taken away on the stretcher
I was there too it was in early 1991
I was there. February 91
Earthquake and Big John Studd would have been a great team. Tenta was great as a heel, and really looked like a monster.
Earthquake was the man he was my favorite heel as a kid loved his music and how he would rock back and forth during his promos rip john tenta
I don’t know how he weighed that much doing promos like that lol
Unfortunately l was out of wrestling by 1989, so I missed Earthquake. Luckily when l got back into wrestling heavily in 2003, l came across Earthquake and instantly he was and still is one of my all time favorites!
I cried so hard and then released the tribute package......... I’m still mentally damaged! We will never get storylines the felt so real ever again , shame , wrestling’s best times
What's amazing is seeing how much John took care of the guys he wrestled. He was overly protective.
Yes. I think it was Royal Rumble 92 where the Disasters fought LOD - Tenta slams either Animal or Hawk on the outside and he couldn’t really have been more gentle if he was laying a babe in a crib. 😂
"I felt like I needed this bracelet..."
"Ya Did!!"
Yeah Tenta was a proper big man worker. A great talent. RIP Earthquarke. Love that feud.
"I felt like I NEEDED this damn bracelet..."
"You did."
Lmao
John Tenta...one of the absolute sweetest men I have ever met!
I remember watching that as a kid. It was over with me.
Thats the mark of a great feud when its still remembered 30 years later. How many people will remembers todays joke feuds?
He was 27 years old at the time. The reason why for this because Hogan needed some time off because he was about the film Suburban Commando and it was the birth of his son Nick
This interview really went off the rails
I miss those wwf catalogs that were in the magazine
My fandom started right around the Hogan-Earthquake angle.
For the time it was a hot storyline.
Can you imagine, Tugboat taking Slaughters place, imagine, Tugboat as WWF Champion
He could have been pretty good as champion. He could move for a big guy and he was able to cut a decent promo
I was 10 years old, and as a Hulkamaniac, it made me cry.
Would av loved a full show on this feud???
Or even a full show on the 1990/92 era..the golden era of the WWF
I remember writing and posting Hulk a get well wish - on the back of a ‘Visit Aberystwyth’ postcard - in blue pencil crayon.
Bruce was so, so damn good as Brother Love. Cornette levels of heat. The guy you truly loved to hate. Tenta was also truly amazing here, just perfect in his role.
I can’t believe it’s been 30 years now.
6-16-20
that ecw part went 20 miles over brucies head lmao
I remember that I was 11 yrs old I thought Hogan was on life support DAMN you Earthquake R.I.P.sir. y'all got me😆😕
Hah me too. I was 11 as well and was super sad. Especially when they played that tribute.
Earthquake was the man. Probably my favorite of the monsters that got put up against Hogan. He was intimidating, intense, and talented. The perfect package for a monster.
Love listening to Bruce.
Imagine if Shawn Michaels had tried to physically fuck with Earthquake like he did with Vader.
Hed have got pasted. Vader was soft as shit apparently in real life in that hed get shouted at and cry.
Before the Shark, Earthquake showed up in WCW as Avalanche
There was a coliseum video I watched when I was a lot younger where hogan legit beat the hell out of earthquake with a non-gimmicked chair. It wasn’t a regular folding chair either. You saw the massive purple welts start on earthquake’s back and shoulder. You could literally see the outline of the chair. I remember seeing that as a kid and wincing. I wonder if Bruce remembers this event...
Loved the old videos except there was always boring Warlord , Berserker , and other big slow muscle heads
I have that tape. It's called Hulkamania Forever.
J D that’s awesome man. I haven’t seen it in for years, but it’s etched in my memory. Funny to see someone else who remembers that.
I thought that was Boss Man smacking Quake with the chair at Summer Slam 90
you're correct
Earthquake should have been the one to get the win by count-out, and then at house shows, he could have gotten a few wins by DQ with Hogan or Boss Man using the chair. That would have pushed Quake as a true monster until the 1991 Rumble when Hogan could get the final elimination for the win !
I was there for this one in Albany, NY.
I believe it was actually in Glens Falls, NY.
Love the ECW joke. Did not exist in 1990, but Summerslam 90 was in Philadelphia.
They played this gimmick to the bone! One of the best I've ever seen. I felt like they wanted that Hogan/Andre feud so bad that this was the best they could come up with. And I dont mean that in a bad way, but a great way! I'd give ANYTHING for them to make stuff like this today. I'd probably start watching again.
Im from western canada. Tenta was seen working out at ubc and recruited for sumo. When he came back he wrestled in vancouver as john tenta the BC giant. He was a face. That first time they picked him out of the crowd, my only second of hesitation was: dp they know who he is, or did he just get picked as a huge heavy fan??
lol. He played it perfecly, scared and tentative- until he dropped the hammer!
Its nice getting behind the scenes of historical wrestling!
My ALL Time favorite tag team was The Natural Disasters!!!!!
Power and Glory were better than those fat F%cks
Shawn Baker The Steiners would've suplexed the fuck out of the Disasters. Shame that match didn't happen.
@@TheTruth-pl3mk I like the Steiners but earthquake could have whooped both of them at the same time
Stop!! Beverly Brothers
Awesome!
I loved that catalog as a kid. I couldn't wait to get them in the mail. Genius move by Vinny Mac.
Tenta should be a show unto himself , Steve Ray has a funny backstage story with Arn Anderson . Awesome story of his life
"I'M NOT A SHARK, I'M A MAN!.
OG BRUCE PRICHARD#1 LEGENDARY#1
Maybe Tugboat should have come back as the SHOCKMASTER!
The Andre chain pull for WMIII was on Piper's Pit not the Snake Pit.
I don't remember what happened on raw but I remember this
My dad took me to see the WWF when I was a kid. We went to the Rosemont Horizon in Illinois for the show. Hogan vs. Earthquake closed the show. Of course Hogan won. It was great! Hulkamania was still running strong. I thought Earthquake was a cool, monster, bad guy as a kid.
I was 8 years old and remember this very well.
Earthquake is so legit lol i almost feel bad for not putting enough speck on his name all these years.He was the truth.
Ultimate Warrior get so much crap for being so one-dimensional and having a limited moveset, but what about Hogan? As far as his matches in the WWF / WWE I could easily say that those were very much one-dimensional. On the other hand I know he was more than capable of being more diverse in the ring do to his matches in Japan.
Holy smokes! I remember the bracelets!
(RIP) OG EARTHQUAKE#1 LEGEND#1
Hey I loved the sole survivor match at the end! I thought it was a cool idea.
Survivor Series 90
That is so funny "Can he talk?" Cuts incredible promo. "Great put him with Jimmy Hart." The MOUTH of the South. Lol
RIP Quake
John Tenta was one of the best wrestlers EVER!
I still have my postcard from writing to Hulk and still have the bracelet too. Hulkamania running wild!
ha, I love that you bought the tugboat bracelet.
1990 was a special year in wwf hulk hogan was the Man i was a big fan of ultimate warrior but after he beat my child hero i was mad with warrior and never supported him
When I starting watching 1990!
The year I graduated from high school
@@williambarnes7133 What was life like then?
@@MohamedAli-xu3uw well ... It wasn't so bad back then ... Pro wrestling was a lot more fun on the 80s...
@@williambarnes7133 True. But going after the ladies back then was a lot easier than now especially in the offices.
@@MohamedAli-xu3uw yeah you're right back in that time girls were a lot more easier to get along with nowadays they're too stuck-up...
We *NEED* a Brother Love wrestling figure, NOW!!
Still have the postcard....man I would have loved to be on the WWF mailing list, but I never got anything else.
chris markin Wow, you didn't? That's interesting. What state did you live in?
HereIsWisdom 1318 Iowa...they came through once or twice a year.
Damn...I was 10 and remember that
Seriously, Vince has to be the most unique and interesting personality ever created. You couldn’t write a character like this.
“Can he cut a promo”
“Yeah, he can speak, he’ll be fine”
“GREAT...WE’LL PUT HIM WITH JIMMY HART”
SUCH GOOD SH*T
Should have been a Wrestlemania.
What about when Eatthquake jumped the warrior?! That’s was awesome
I saw this I remember it so well
The real question is why did Hulk Hogan keep going on a show where he got his ass beat by villains?
The best tag team match I ever saw involved earthquake, the legions of Doom had just came out and beat the crap out of money inc.then they had to put the belts up against the natural disasters, and somehow money inc. came out victorious after getting that ass kicked by both teams, great work by all of them.
I wrote to Hulk too. Lol I remember being disappointed at 10 years old that the postcard was presigned. They didn't get me with the friendship bracelet though
Babyface goes on Brother Love show.
90% chance of getting jumped.
Tenta was 27 when this angle was done in 1990. Crazy.
Earthquake was one hell of a worker and really should have had a longer run on top
I might have been the only 8 year old cheering that Hogan got squished
Haha way ahead of your time
Nah I was as well! I thought macho shoulda been the guy to pin hogan instead of having him there in the fuckn ring with him @mania 4! Ugh I hated that shit! My entire school didn't want mania 5 to come knowing hulk was 98% probably gonna win & when the Champ came out 1st????????? We knew it was done & I don't many fans who didn't want macho to win
I did too
the truth I was going for Hogan at WMV; I was about 10 or 11 yrs old. But I thought it was shitty that Hogan came out second. I thought it took away from Macho’s importance.
Lol yea I was like 9 @the time & I just didn't see hulk as the good guy lol!! Macho coming out 1st got me heated! Same with survivor serious, the entire team comes out together except Hulk?!? Then he's not wearing mega powers trunks??? Ugh
I did the letter thing and got the postcard back.
11:27 ''That's what I was saying dick-fuck! Pay attention to the show when you get done rearranging your goddamn office!''
i was so ambivalent about hogan at that point that i was pretty ok seeing Hogan get smooshed. didn't like earthquake (cause he sold the gimmick) but was ready for hogan to be crushed.
prichard's travel gear sounds comfortable as hell.
Sold the gimmick? His gimmick was awesome, he was huge and menacing.
@@markant9534 didn't say anything bad about the gimmick. Just that he sold it
TL/DR - talking about my relationship with Dory Funk Jr. And how Dory had told me about how he (Dory) had met John Tenta aka Earthquake backstage at a show in Japan and Earthquake hadn't become a pro wrestler yet and he hadn't told Dory he was a sumo nor did anyone else tell Dory who he was so that when he (Earthquake) started to tell Dory, after they exchanged pleasantries, that he (Earthquake) was going to be a pro wrestler, Dory looked at him and thought the guy was crazy because he figured the guy was older, obese or near enough and bald and balding so that Dory thought the guy (Earthquake) was crazy for thinking hed become a pro wrestler and yet not only did he become a wrestler but he feuded with Hulk Hogan and became a big star so in other words dont judge a book by its cover sort of deal.
Long story:
Hey so what i can add to this podcast here... so i was actually training with dory funk in 2004 and living in a house he owned. There weren't many other students with me at the time in fact for a short while it was just me and my roommate and we both got in the same day... shortly after some more people did show up, but I wanna say and sure I could be wrong but I think dory actually took a stronger liking to me than most of the typical students... and this was because my attitude then and it's the same now, I hated WWF/WWE. I wanted nothing to do with it. I mean I'm from NYC. Live here to this day, family is here etc etc so WWF was my home territory growing up and I DID love it. DID. But I felt like by the turn of the century the WWF basically turned it's back on pro wrestling and became sports entertainment completely and I hate hate hate sports entertainment. Also I was on the WCW side during the Monday night war. Well all i could ever talk about was Japan with dory. He showed me how to make this egg and rice Japanese breakfast. He did something very unusual and that was that he actually came over to the student house and brought over VHS of his matches in Japan and we watched them together he and I. And the other guys weren't interested at all. I couldnt get enough and I really think Dory liked that about me. I mean he had me come over to watch Raw and noone else was invited to his house. He brought over these Japanese wrestling magazines etc. So I think he felt candid when talking to me as opposed to when talking to the other students. So we were talking about Japan and stuff and making it as a pro. I was being conscientious about my physique. I was far too young, not even 20 and with no practical life experience, I really wasnt ready for the wrestling business. Had I of tried a few years later.... anyway so to try and be encouraging Dory started to talk about how he was in Japan working for AJPW and one day he went backstage and the Japanese had a white guy, (north) american they assumed (canadian I believe) and dory knew he couldn't have just been a nobody fan, he had to be someone special or a relative of someone special, so Dory went over and met the guy. So dory was telling me the guy was like you know, acting like a typical fan, being like oh you know I'm a big fan of yours etc etc etc. And dory is being gracious etc etc and then the guy starts saying one day I'm gonna wrestle and he was going on about how he was gona be a pro wrestler, I cant remember now if he had said anything like "I'm gonna make it big" or that kind of thing I really dont think so and finding out about the type of guy John was in real life I think it would have been very out of character. What I know for sure is that he DID NOT at that time clue Dory in that he was a sumo and nobody else told Dory either. In fact at that time Dory had no clue what could have been so special about the guy that he was able to get backstage. So Dory tells me after exchanging pleasantries etc and parting ways Dory was like yeah right heres a white extremely fat nobody guy going bald looks like the typical fat working class American guy he looks like someone's dad not a soon to be wrestler..
And at this point dory hadn't told me he was talking about john tenta. So then he looks at me and says well you know something that guy turned out to be Earthquake and he went on a run with Hulk Hogan and made a ton of money and wrapped it up with some kind of looks can be deceiving phrase... so yea, God bless John Tenta may his soul rest in peace he was by all accounts a truly wonderful man.
As a kid, I was genuinely scared of earthquake and Sid Vicious… Sid STILL scares the sh¡t outta me
When is earthquake getting an episode
Can't believe earthquake was only in his 20s here! Lol he looks like a 50yo man or at least 40. Strange how you don't seem to get that sort of thing now, I mean I'm sure they are out there, young wrestlers who look like older, masculine type of men but mostly they don't. Even hulk hogan looked like that when he was young too
10 year old me defineltly cried
I remember sending that letter. I asked why Miss Elizabeth hadn't been out with Hogan in a while not knowing she was married to Macho. Got my pre-printed post card back with the same message everybody got with the bracelet with no answer. Lol!
I love this show
When you said “ what are you doing ? “ I reacted like you where talking to me
Hogan began wrestling Earthquake at house shows in April 1990 right after WrestleMania VI. I attended a house show in Cincinnati, OH where Hogan vs Earthquake was the main event.
Interesting what they say towards the end about Tito Santana. I think he was one of the most underrated stars the WWF had. He was basically their Mr Dependable and I don't think he gets the accolades his career really deserved.
Part of the problem I think Tito had, especially in the last years of his WWF run, was that while he was still a star, he was basically playing the role of the star jobber. He was putting everyone else over (Martel, Michaels etc) and wasn't getting a lot of big wins himself (which is why I think he was "rewarded" with that spot in the 1990 Survivor Series final match). But when you look just at his Wrestlemania record...he won the very first match at the original event, yet never won another televised Wrestlemaia match. And I think that hurt his career somewhat, that he couldn't get those big occasion wins. Oh sure he'd been the IC champ and a Tag champ. But those days had long past and his career was hurt by that.
That was the thing about survivor series the 5 man elimination matches that was exciting for me. That's why I watch survivor series see who survives I can't believe they said
How old was Conrad in May 1990 ?!?! Must have been incredibly young ! I was 7 and started watching just before Mania 6. Got bored with it after Owen died and Skipped all of 2000_2009 and then saw hit man return and the nexus invade. Hogan always wrestled the same match with Bundy, Quake and Yoko.
Wildberry Jam 2004 was a great year for raw and smack down...check it out
My buddies mom had a friend that worked for wwf back in the mid 90s. My buddy says look my moms friend got undertaker and Austin and all these guys to sign their pictures. It the exact same handwriting on each one lol.
Side topic, but regarding the match at SS 1990, I was stoked to see Tito pin the Warlord. I always felt so bad for poor Chico jobbing to everyone, it was nice to see him get a nod for a moment with that flying burrito. ¡Arriba! ✊
You aren't alone. I loved that Tito made it to that final match.
😀 chico..... reference made by Jesse Ventura.
@@markraymo997 And the flying burrito reference was from the late, great Bobby “The Brain” Heenan. Two amazing commentators, nobody like either of them before or after.
Talking about Tenta being a legit athlete & tough tough….his shoot against Koji Kitao, in Japan, is stuff of LEGEND!! Seeing Tenta get LEGIT pissed & warn Koji is legit fucking SCARY, man. He is ready to KILL that guy!
The Hogan/Earthquake feud was what made me a pro wrestling fan, and a lifelong Hulkamaniac!
I saw EARTHQUAKE in his hometown of SURREY B.C. Canada at GUILDFORD MALL, He was sitting at a table eating ORANGE JULIUS HOT DOGS (I counted 8 of them and he was eating one do I don't know how many he had) but Earthquake (John Tents) was very nice and Signed an Autograph!!! (RIP)
He took out Andres leg too
I love when you guys argue back and forth. Hysterical. What do you think would have happened if the WWE made Hogan a heel after 91?
Would have been huge.
I never knew that they were considering making Tugboat the Iraqi sympathizer. Glad they didn't go that route