WHY Yokozuna Had Two Different Banzai Drops

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  • Опубликовано: 10 янв 2025

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  • @Radiounderground
    @Radiounderground 2 месяца назад +631

    Mr. Wonderful spoke about things like this when he was alive. Basically said it's pathetic to hurt someone when they give you their body, it's not a real fight you didn't prove anything,

    • @Brahaja
      @Brahaja 2 месяца назад +9

      Yeah, but it’s funny

    • @RG-lr4pk
      @RG-lr4pk 2 месяца назад +45

      Maybe that's why Orndorff beat the crap out of that fake tough guy Vader with one arm while wearing flip-flops.

    • @TheSilentScreamX
      @TheSilentScreamX 2 месяца назад +108

      @@Brahaja If you find this funny, you're sick.

    • @dreadtrain2846
      @dreadtrain2846 2 месяца назад +57

      @@TheSilentScreamX He's probably 12, ignore him.

    • @fatjec
      @fatjec 2 месяца назад

      Sure he did. You really believe that, you have an IQ of 63. ​@RG-lr4pk

  • @krandonmartin168
    @krandonmartin168 2 месяца назад +565

    Remember Matt & Jeff talked about Jeff having to take a bonzai drop and Yoko assured Jeff “I like you, Don’t worry Yoko take care of you”

    • @danielroeg
      @danielroeg 2 месяца назад +100

      Then he hit him with the top rope, no-hands Bonzai death drop.

    • @twiceonsundays
      @twiceonsundays 2 месяца назад +161

      Why would he talk like that? He's from California.

    • @chrisgartung1708
      @chrisgartung1708 2 месяца назад +33

      This is the funniest shit 😭😭

    • @hobbs616
      @hobbs616 2 месяца назад +4

      @@chrisgartung1708😂😂😂

    • @alanguages
      @alanguages 2 месяца назад +74

      @@twiceonsundays The op thought Yoko was really Japanese, like this "Showwie no speak Engrish."

  • @valaryansteelkatana5798
    @valaryansteelkatana5798 2 месяца назад +279

    I remember as a kid watching Yokozuna crush enhancement talent and being convinced that wrestling couldn't be fake lol.

    • @AManCalledDutch
      @AManCalledDutch 2 месяца назад +13

      So committed to the kayfabe 😂

    • @s.a.classic874
      @s.a.classic874 2 месяца назад +3

      Me 2

    • @adamkratos9323
      @adamkratos9323 2 месяца назад +19

      It's one of those things where even if you protect the person taking the move, even if Yoko holds onto the ropes & doesn't kick his feet out, that's still over 500 pounds..600 pounds..hell even Yoko at his heaviest! That's a lot of weight dropping down on someone.

    • @sampleoffers1978
      @sampleoffers1978 2 месяца назад +4

      it looked crazy a-- anvil physics

    • @pepeshadilay
      @pepeshadilay 2 месяца назад

      WHAT A MARK ....

  • @yesthisisvic
    @yesthisisvic 2 месяца назад +169

    He didn't 'take care' of anyone out of respect. The top guys said that they woukdn't work with him if he didn't start working safer and 'Taker told him that he better listen, or his time in WWF would be very short. He never would have gotten away with taking liberties with jobbers if Andre was still alive then. Andre would have put manners on him the same way he did to Studd and The Iron Sheik, both of whom Andre HATED because they hurt job guys for no reason.

    • @stillcantbesilencedevennow
      @stillcantbesilencedevennow 2 месяца назад +42

      Andre was the real deal. Class act. The world was poorer for his loss.

    • @Majorhotshot
      @Majorhotshot 2 месяца назад +15

      Not even true , you may want to go listen to Undertakers Podcast about Yokozuna and get you some facts, he literally says for as big of a man Yoko was he took care of you in the ring if he liked you . Think you’re getting your facts mixed up with Mable who was hurting everyone in the ring .

    • @poorsimplemike
      @poorsimplemike 2 месяца назад +6

      ​@Majorhotshot yeah I get those two mixed up often

    • @jjalkman1999
      @jjalkman1999 Месяц назад +47

      ​@@Majorhotshot "If he liked you". They act like it's badass but it's cowardly. The other guy is trusting you but if Yoko for whatever reason doesn't like you he's going to genuinely hurt you? Pathetic.

    • @orangemaniabrother2232
      @orangemaniabrother2232 Месяц назад +23

      ​@@MajorhotshotAnd if he didn't like a lot of people for silly petty reasons, that's ok then? It's unprofessional

  • @countquackula8539
    @countquackula8539 2 месяца назад +365

    Jobbers back in the day had it rough. 😮

    • @westernsellers9148
      @westernsellers9148 2 месяца назад +10

      Ritual

    • @thespanishflyangelmiguelto1797
      @thespanishflyangelmiguelto1797 2 месяца назад +4

      Very much

    • @claycrawford7
      @claycrawford7 2 месяца назад +16

      Having to deal with the Kliq mentally and then dealing with BSK guys (& others) physically, it’s no wonder so many guys from this era imploded

    • @jasons2270
      @jasons2270 2 месяца назад +2

      Because they were actual jobbers.Now they use washed up talent and people on the level up roster for enhancement talent...the jobbers are actually trained and professional now!

    • @ShadowAngel-lt8nw
      @ShadowAngel-lt8nw 2 месяца назад +21

      @@jasons2270 They were trained professionals back then too, since a lot of the "jobbers" came from smaller, local wrestling promotions. Or do you think they just collected people from the local bar?

  • @Hypno_BPM
    @Hypno_BPM 2 месяца назад +149

    Yoko took “squash match” literally

  • @bitetheasp
    @bitetheasp 2 месяца назад +177

    Good thing Virgil warned Bret Hart about Yakazuma!

  • @donovanbradford8231
    @donovanbradford8231 2 месяца назад +259

    Damn never knew Yoko was basically the Road Warriors in those early days of Raw. As Jim Cornette says "when the enhancement talent would see they were working the Road Warriors and you'd see their hearts sink."😫

    • @michael-orian5773
      @michael-orian5773 2 месяца назад +74

      What tough guys to be able to hurt someone that trusted and let them perform their moves😂

    • @sherrix6881
      @sherrix6881 2 месяца назад +25

      Hawk was also a crack hitting bike lad who often partied with the old school hells angels.. Dude really was about that

    • @desisdosis473
      @desisdosis473 2 месяца назад +69

      @@donovanbradford8231 I love wrestling so much but the persons doing it are so cringe in their weird perception of "strength".
      With the knowledge of today a lot of them (especially the "Old School Guys") come off as the most insecure assholes you can imagine. I guess it's a byproduct of faking a real sport and constantly playing a tough guy.

    • @brandonsmith5880
      @brandonsmith5880 2 месяца назад +8

      ​@@sherrix6881lmao you're right he lived the gimmick. He had to be tough with that haircut and crack habit 😆

    • @toadvine7952
      @toadvine7952 2 месяца назад

      @@sherrix6881 Anyone who hangs out with bikers is a closet case dork.

  • @cailcampbell5890
    @cailcampbell5890 Месяц назад +7

    Bret Hart's last words (to Yokozuna) before the match, "Please don't kill me." 🤣🤣🤣

  • @jasoncoward-aintscared
    @jasoncoward-aintscared 2 месяца назад +361

    That is fckng evil. It's not supposed to matter if you like someone or not.

    • @JohnTune-u2x
      @JohnTune-u2x 2 месяца назад +73

      Yeah wrestlers are cowards, they often take advantage of the trust their opponents give to keep them safe.

    • @NoName-wi4od
      @NoName-wi4od 2 месяца назад +17

      Pretty sure the promoters tell them to do it, and ole Yoko is just doing what he's told

    • @TheVanDammeFan2009
      @TheVanDammeFan2009 2 месяца назад +46

      ​@@NoName-wi4odStill a sick thing to do

    • @jeremyvisser3877
      @jeremyvisser3877 2 месяца назад +11

      Sure, but the context matters and retconning history with current standards is ludicrous and frankly irresponsible

    • @thagrammarnazi
      @thagrammarnazi 2 месяца назад

      @@TheMegaBucksYou mean shoot on him…
      - Backstage, where the boys will most definitely jump in to stomp an uppity jobber trying to fight a regular, well liked performer? Or…
      - In the ring, dropping the act in front of a TV crowd and GUARANTEEING the boys will actually try to murder them when they get backstage

  • @urboycorey1
    @urboycorey1 2 месяца назад +51

    Stevie, I’m so glad you chose this as a topic to cover. I have tremendous respect and admiration for Yokozuna and he’s always been one of my favorites, but this part of his career is *never* discussed. It is always willingly glossed over by wrestlers and fans who talk about him being light as a feather.

    • @AMaidenlessRunt
      @AMaidenlessRunt 2 месяца назад +5

      Well he's a big dude and the concept of gravity exist that banzai drop is dangerous no matter how many ropes he grabbed or how many times he landed on his feet when he lands on you it's going to hurt.

    • @tritchie6272
      @tritchie6272 2 месяца назад

      @@AMaidenlessRunt Which is why he should take special care each time to try and do it safety. And with everybody,not just the big stars. With somebody that heavy it wouldn't take much for somebody to get legit bad hurt.

    • @bloodangel13
      @bloodangel13 2 месяца назад

      @@tritchie6272 Nia Jax never held the rope and kicked her feet when she did the Banzai drop to Charlotte Flair and Rhea Ripley a couple of years ago.

    • @tritchie6272
      @tritchie6272 2 месяца назад +1

      @@bloodangel13 Sounds to me like she was reckless as well.

    • @bloodangel13
      @bloodangel13 2 месяца назад

      @@tritchie6272 Reckless and moronic 'cause both Ripley and Flair are bigger named talents than her and she has a habit of being downright dangerous in the ring.

  • @joshuahurdle239
    @joshuahurdle239 2 месяца назад +102

    I had always been told that Yoko was genuinely a nice dude, but that's a dick thing to do. You should be willing to protect all workers, not just the stars.

    • @nitailevi8001
      @nitailevi8001 2 месяца назад +11

      It's the same as when someone is being bullied and you feel sorry for them, only to find they are also a bully to someone else.

    • @bedford4383
      @bedford4383 2 месяца назад +13

      He was a nice dude to people he liked and respected. An awful dude to new guys and jobbers who were just trying to grab a cheque

    • @dreadtrain2846
      @dreadtrain2846 2 месяца назад +10

      It's more than a dick move, it's a move that deserves retaliation.

    • @mattm7798
      @mattm7798 2 месяца назад +4

      Agreed. Really curious if this was Yoko just not caring about these guys and taking it upon himself to make the move look more dangerous, or if Vince or a producer actually told him "ok, really make the Banzai Drop look devastating" and pseudo encouraged him to not worry as much about safety.

    • @edwells4769
      @edwells4769 2 месяца назад +2

      ​@@mattm7798both likely

  • @jesterr7133
    @jesterr7133 2 месяца назад +36

    As a kid in the 90s, I noticed the difference in the way a lot of finishers looked, but I thought it was because the enhancement guys just sold it more than the stars to make the stars look good. I didn't realize it was because the finishes were being executed more stiffly on the enhancement guys. That sucks.

    • @Tman2135-1
      @Tman2135-1 2 месяца назад +10

      Like Nash talking about giving job guys an extra hundred bucks during nWo matches on Saturday Night and beating the dogshit out of them.

    • @54raceman
      @54raceman Месяц назад

      @@Tman2135-1foley has said he was making 4x what roster guys( minus the super stars obviously)were making during his enhancement talent days without realizing it until years later

    • @Tman2135-1
      @Tman2135-1 Месяц назад

      @@54raceman good too, that clothesline from Dynamite was no joke.

  • @RobsRobertson
    @RobsRobertson 2 месяца назад +63

    I really don't care what good stuff people say about him. If you do something like that on purpose, you're a pos. I really don't care. These guys lay there, waiting for him, trusting and hoping, that he takes care. Without someone free willingly laying there, there would be nothing. How many lifes he probably destroyed. I would be in fear of heart failure every day after this. If someone is reckless like that, that really says everything I need to know about a person.
    Very well said in the end Stevie 👍

    • @mihaimercenarul7467
      @mihaimercenarul7467 2 месяца назад

      Womp womp. You are such a snowflake. Cry more, little boy

    • @mihaimercenarul7467
      @mihaimercenarul7467 2 месяца назад

      But tbf youbare just a loser. All your comments are " you are a good guy syevie ❤". Why are you acting like a little princess? Grow a pair, little boy. You are such a drama queen.

    • @mihaimercenarul7467
      @mihaimercenarul7467 2 месяца назад +2

      Alsooo, idiot, taking a banzai drop is going to hurt NO MATTER WHAT. You can make that move safe when a 450 pounds guy is jumping on you. It's gonna hurt no matter what.

    • @toptenguy1
      @toptenguy1 Месяц назад +9

      @@mihaimercenarul7467 What an idiotic take. It can OBVIOUSLY HURT 1000X MORE if the doesn't take care of you.

    • @Digitalsapien
      @Digitalsapien 14 дней назад

      @@toptenguy1 1000x more? No. 2-3 times more at most? That might be believable. The reality is that if he wasn't taking care to some extent, every single time, people would be dead. That being said, they were free to go sling a hammer at any time, so what is with the sympathy? They made their own choices. Stop being a little gamma boy beyatch and trying to retroactively find controversy. The dudes were free to walk at any time. Beyatch.

  • @vxrdrummer
    @vxrdrummer 2 месяца назад +20

    I have seen loads of wrestlers talk about this sort of thing, where these guys come to help and make the big guys look good, and then they are abused and hurt. For the most part, they weren't earning thousands per match and had to go back to a day job also. So if they got injured via negligence or disrespect, whilst giving someone their body, then they could lose their livelihood as well. Bobby Heenan said it best in a shoot he did.

  • @user-vj9qz3br6l
    @user-vj9qz3br6l 2 месяца назад +94

    Yoko gets a lot of compliments, but the guy was a major sociopath for doing this to up and coming wrestlers

    • @trendmassacre8423
      @trendmassacre8423 Месяц назад +3

      Oh get over it, you know damn well things were different back then and complaining about it will not change anything. In fact they still do stuff like this today I can almost guarantee it and it will not change!

    • @paulearle3780
      @paulearle3780 Месяц назад +35

      @trendmassacre8423 lol great reasoning ability. " different time" purposely hurting someone was pretty frowned upon in the 90s dude. You have no argument. Literally.

    • @C-Russ
      @C-Russ Месяц назад +1

      They were not upcoming. They were there to do a job and that was it.

    • @Slop_Dogg
      @Slop_Dogg Месяц назад +2

      he used his obesity as a weapon

    • @zeonacepilot3420
      @zeonacepilot3420 Месяц назад +3

      @@C-Russ so its ok to try and hurt them?

  • @nobleone89
    @nobleone89 2 месяца назад +189

    The fact that was acceptable is just insane to me

    • @bedford4383
      @bedford4383 2 месяца назад +1

      And some people still look back at this and think it was hilarious! Such a dick thing to do.

    • @bigbadmamajama11
      @bigbadmamajama11 2 месяца назад +6

      it was acceptable because those guys didnt rect their ass back in the locker room.

    • @nobleone89
      @nobleone89 2 месяца назад +10

      @@bigbadmamajama11 rect their ass?

    • @willdiesel8431
      @willdiesel8431 2 месяца назад +2

      What would you have them do to Yokozuna?

    • @deathmetallongsleeve
      @deathmetallongsleeve 2 месяца назад +1

      Still kinda is in a way, wrestlers give each other receipts all the time

  • @ModalGroove
    @ModalGroove 2 месяца назад +69

    A man who can't even take care of his own body can not be trusted to take care of others.

    • @Dr._P._Enis
      @Dr._P._Enis 2 месяца назад +3

      Yeah sure Doctor Bullshit, you know everything! 🙄🤦🏻‍♂️

    • @ryanbutler8333
      @ryanbutler8333 Месяц назад +8

      Well put

    • @Bheliar
      @Bheliar Месяц назад +1

      @@Dr._P._EnisNo, you’re just an imbecile.

    • @sweetpepino1907
      @sweetpepino1907 Месяц назад

      By that metric almost anybody you can think of from the era shouldn't have been working. And that's ignoring the fact wrestling itself is a horrible thing to do for your body. I know Yoko had his problems but so did so many of the other guys.

    • @ChrisReid-k3r
      @ChrisReid-k3r Месяц назад

      Very interesting to say the least .
      I think he really would have came back lost the weight needed had his organs not gave out on him😢 .

  • @ryanboscoe9670
    @ryanboscoe9670 2 месяца назад +269

    Any wrestlers that take liberties to hurt other in the ring have some serious psychological issues

    • @RobsRobertson
      @RobsRobertson 2 месяца назад +34

      Yeah and should face legal consequences.

    • @KasualBeast
      @KasualBeast 2 месяца назад +3

      @@RobsRobertson He should sue Yoko! oh wait...

    • @pepeshadilay
      @pepeshadilay 2 месяца назад +9

      A girl in lucha Libra broke a another girls arm clean in half during an arm bar just because she didn't like the other girl wrestler

    • @piguelmonce9937
      @piguelmonce9937 2 месяца назад +1

      For real like low ki

    • @smithmeister
      @smithmeister 2 месяца назад +6

      It's far closer to a trapeze artist intentionally letting the other guy fall than a real fight.

  • @davidbreakspear8776
    @davidbreakspear8776 2 месяца назад +8

    An honest wrestling opinion from Stevie is what you always get, because he knows the business is all about the fans and not bigging himself up like most other guys.

  • @blackcountrysmoggie
    @blackcountrysmoggie 2 месяца назад +51

    "Now Virgil was way out there, man"
    Yep. That statement rings true.

  • @owenreynolds8718
    @owenreynolds8718 2 месяца назад +34

    This takes me back. I forgot about the days when Superstars at house shows almost always wrestled local enhancement talent, and rarely each other. Even back then I noticed some matches let the local guy get over and get some applause first; but mostly there were squash matches. The lack of respect got painful. It was so nice when guys with the company took on that role, like Disco Inferno, who lost every match but you could see he was having fun.

    • @Turk_2023
      @Turk_2023 2 месяца назад +1

      Nah they should still do squash matches to enhancement talent.

  • @ronfigg1
    @ronfigg1 2 месяца назад +8

    I knew Rodney. I hung out with him a lot! He was a good dude with a ton of cool stories to tell. Pun intended! I talked to him the day before he passed. He was abroad and coming home. We were supposed to hang out when he got home. He was trying to make a come back and he could still go. I was amazed to see him hit the ropes and take bumps still. Luckily I save a few messages he left me on my answering machine including him singing happy birthday to me! RIP Rod!

  • @cigar88up
    @cigar88up Месяц назад +1

    Great show Stevie, my buddy Pete Polanco said the same thing when we were chatting and I joked about getting into wrestling, he said “if you do just be polite and respectful to everyone, cause on your way up, you’ll see them on your way down”.

  • @RGT85
    @RGT85 2 месяца назад +48

    Yoko was insane with some of those.

    • @gotmilkfunb
      @gotmilkfunb 2 месяца назад +13

      It's wild how wrestlemania:the arcade game seems like a simulation with some of these!

    • @TubbyJ420
      @TubbyJ420 2 месяца назад +9

      'Oh my god it's Stevie Richards!'

  • @robinhood-s7g
    @robinhood-s7g 2 месяца назад +43

    We use to call the enhancement talent roody poohs, but as a grown man they were the real mvps for making the talent look good

    • @MarcantonioStanga
      @MarcantonioStanga 2 месяца назад +22

      Whilst dealing with egomaniac stars who tried crippling them like they were disposable straws

    • @cobrakainevereverdies6940
      @cobrakainevereverdies6940 2 месяца назад

      @@MarcantonioStanga - CM QUNNNNNT/JOHN @Eniss/Sami/Kevin/Goldturd and SEFF destroyed Sting Rollins

    • @mihaimercenarul7467
      @mihaimercenarul7467 2 месяца назад

      @MarcantonioStanga you are such a mark, little boy. Cry harder, little boy

    • @robinhood-s7g
      @robinhood-s7g 2 месяца назад +2

      @@MarcantonioStanga facts, they took some brutal bumps fr

    • @MarcantonioStanga
      @MarcantonioStanga 2 месяца назад

      @ The marks are idiots like you that think hurting your opponent on purpose is normal in pro wrestling. I know you’ve lived the last 38 years in your mother’s basement without this knowledge, but I’ll let you in on a secret: wrestling is fake.

  • @troyelich9307
    @troyelich9307 2 месяца назад +9

    Late 90s I'm reffing an indy show in New Castle PA. Headshrinker Samu vs Julio Sanchez. The spot was Samu is charging Julio in the corner for an avalanche. I'm supposed to be right next to Julio. At the last second Julio moves and as he moves, he grabs me and pulls me into the corner and Samu avalanches me. Samu told me in the locker room before we went out not to flinch or turn sideways, he'll protect me. I saw him coming on a full sprint and i flinched and turned slightly. He hit me so hard I heard something crack. I was in horrible pain. The only time I ever got hurt in the ring as a ref. I was screwed up for 7-10 days. I never got it checked, but I heard something crack and knew immediately I was going to be screwed up for awhile. And Samu and I were pals. We worked tons of indies together and we'd go out for beers after the shows all the time. So I trusted him and don't think he tried to hurt me. But wow. Afterwards he told me "I told you not to flinch and you'd be ok, but you flinched."

  • @deansennett1940
    @deansennett1940 2 месяца назад +12

    A great podcast showing detailed analysis. I never knew Yokozuna's finisher had two different types of the banzai drop. Top talent were really protected, compared to enhanced talent.

    • @planexshifter
      @planexshifter 2 месяца назад

      You never heard this story before?
      Then you didn’t hear much about him

    • @deansennett1940
      @deansennett1940 2 месяца назад

      ​@@planexshifter Yokozuna's story is the first I heard.

  • @L3ghair
    @L3ghair 2 месяца назад +8

    Glad to see people that have worked in the business for a long time call this type of thing out, always thought this was complete bullshit when anyone does it, but especially a man that damn heavy just dropping himself on your chest.

  • @charlesmarcus7864
    @charlesmarcus7864 2 месяца назад +6

    When I first heard this, I watch some of Yoko's matches with jobbers and superstars. With jobbers, Yoko would kick his legs out and bounce off their chest (asshole move) but with stars who would squat and barely touch them. It shouldn't matter what their rank is. They're giving him their body. TAKE CARE OF IT!!

  • @MarcantonioStanga
    @MarcantonioStanga 2 месяца назад +60

    Crock of bs that these wrestlers treated guys, with the sole job of making them look good, with such a lack of care. They’re not gonna steal any shine off you, they’re getting beat in a min or two. You don’t have to pretend like they’re NPCs without lives.

    • @Kalbuir66
      @Kalbuir66 2 месяца назад

      cry a little harder why don't you.

    • @adamg2031
      @adamg2031 2 месяца назад +4

      It's not ballet.

    • @Raydaruckuz
      @Raydaruckuz 2 месяца назад +4

      I agree, but in thier point of view its like a combination of hazing or paying your dues. Kind of shitty though considering what these guys were getting paid and the majority of them not ever getting past the "jobber" stage and lots living with some injury complications for life

    • @MarcantonioStanga
      @MarcantonioStanga 2 месяца назад +26

      @@adamg2031 You're a mark lmao. The point of wrestling is to simulate violence without actually hurting your opponent. Purposefully hurting your opponent is not the point of the profession lol.

    • @adamg2031
      @adamg2031 2 месяца назад +3

      @@MarcantonioStanga No one pays a dime because they want to see the "enhancement talent". Until you're putting butts in the seats, you're worth nothing to the business, so at that point you can either shut up and earn your money by taking your lumps or you can leave and never come back. Nothing in this world comes free, son.

  • @d.carpenter7519
    @d.carpenter7519 2 месяца назад +31

    Unprofessional. You are aupposed to take care of WHOEVER you are in the ring wifh. PERIOD!

  • @StephenHarrison-gw1yu
    @StephenHarrison-gw1yu 2 месяца назад +8

    Steve talks the fine art of wrestling in a similarity NFL explanation. Best way to explain this to anyone. Love ya work Steve in your retirement. Great watch💯👍🔥👌

  • @josephsalerno7325
    @josephsalerno7325 2 месяца назад +11

    Yoko was given the edict by the office to land on the enhancements unprotected. WWF wanted to push Yoko as vicious and your not going to do that with your travelling talent. The reason he was rough on Duggan was because Jim was on his way out so he got it snug.

  • @GreetingsFromSpace
    @GreetingsFromSpace 2 месяца назад +4

    Coach Stevie always has the best analysis. Keep it up, brother

  • @OGCuster
    @OGCuster Месяц назад +1

    “How would you like to be there James?” 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I’m fn dead

  • @jamiemccue761
    @jamiemccue761 2 месяца назад +10

    Can't finish watching this after the 2nd one. Mindless.

  • @PeterUrbanowski
    @PeterUrbanowski 2 месяца назад +21

    I absolutely love watching Stevie and James breaking down matches, one observation I made is perhaps Stevie zooms in too far on certain clips, maybe zooming half the distance gives him more space to draw the lines and explain things in full rather than a full zoom and having to explain things in 2 sections, the start and the finish. Just a small critique but i do love the content

    • @damostack3432
      @damostack3432 2 месяца назад +5

      Also helps avoid copywriting

  • @CarlHodkin
    @CarlHodkin 2 месяца назад +34

    I remember watching WWF Metal on SkyOne as a kid and thinking JBL was like this with the enhancement talent, I was surprised he didn't break someone's neck with the clothesline from hell it seemed like he was doing it every week.

    • @billanddougsuck
      @billanddougsuck 2 месяца назад

      Bradshaw was always just 90’s Blackjack Mulligan.

  • @LordZaayl
    @LordZaayl Месяц назад +1

    Videos like this I think really highlight how valuable Stevie's POV on the business is. Its so different from the top guys we more frequently hear from.
    Top guys try their best not to criticize the wrestlers of their era/before their era. Part of that is because their view from the top didn't show them things like this, they worked with Yoko and were taken care of. Then backstage he was a friendly guy they all liked. They aren't going to call out the era of wrestling that made them mega stars and where they had the most fun as a toxic environment. They also still want to get on legends contracts, so they aren't gonna call out Vince's booking decisions or his vindictive little ways he fucked with wrestlers just to amuse himself/prove points. (And from their POV Vince was a great booker most of the time, they made millions off his booking decisions and got big pushes, they have nothing to complain about! Of course they all have a weird amount of loyalty to him.)
    So Stevie's much more grounded, realistic POV on things is a breath of fresh air in wrestling videos.

  • @twiceonsundays
    @twiceonsundays 2 месяца назад +20

    And what about the two versions of the Razor's Edge that Razor Ramon would do? He would do a regular powerbomb that planted the big names relatively flat during the move, but he would straight up slam jobbers right on their neck/head causing them to flip over on impact.

    • @ryanjacobson2508
      @ryanjacobson2508 2 месяца назад +6

      Pretty much was a given in the pre-attitude era that old school Boomer wrestlers got beat up when they started, then became the bully when they got older/more experienced.

    • @snowStorm2k
      @snowStorm2k 2 месяца назад +10

      From what I remember, Scott talked about it once, saying that if a guy got stiff with him or sandbagged him, he got dropped.

    • @TheCastellan
      @TheCastellan 2 месяца назад

      Ain't that how DeBiase got hurt?

  • @AaronLesterMedia
    @AaronLesterMedia Месяц назад

    I love listening to Stevie talk about wrestling. Thank you.

  • @paulearle3780
    @paulearle3780 2 месяца назад +85

    So he was a scumbag. It's that simple.

    • @JoeDiego
      @JoeDiego 2 месяца назад +16

      100% There’s no excuse.

    • @shahrosebhatti9122
      @shahrosebhatti9122 Месяц назад

      Na can’t really fully blame him if upper management was telling him to do it to make himself look like a dangerous heel different time tho

    • @paulearle3780
      @paulearle3780 Месяц назад +3

      @shahrosebhatti9122 yeah true. Can't really blame the Nazis if Hitler was telling him to do it. Different time, bro.

    • @clarencegutsy7309
      @clarencegutsy7309 Месяц назад

      @@paulearle3780 You know if someone didn't follow the order they'd be placed in a concentration camp as traitor, right?

    • @paulearle3780
      @paulearle3780 Месяц назад +1

      @clarencegutsy7309 it's a well known theory of herd mentality. Look it up. It speaks to following the crowd when each one knew ot was wrong. If they all spoke up. Nothing could be done.

  • @ModernDayRenaissanceMan
    @ModernDayRenaissanceMan 2 дня назад +1

    This may have been the first time in a long time I've heard "THIS IS VIRGIL!!" with such high regard

  • @AD-se7ty
    @AD-se7ty 2 месяца назад +8

    I do remember those drops where his legs just hanged out. I thought he was just tired or trying something different. You can break a sternum with that.

  • @IncredibleC85
    @IncredibleC85 Месяц назад

    3:41 "How would you like to be there James"😂💀

  • @2010theunit
    @2010theunit 2 месяца назад +4

    The Virgil one was at the 1992 Survivor Series. Bobby Heenan was on fire during commentary. One of my favorite all time squashes.🤣

  • @kefkakrist
    @kefkakrist 2 месяца назад +19

    Funnily enough: Taker said he gave Hulk Hogan a different version of the Tombstone, and then was surprised that Hogan claimed he got hurt by it.

    • @deandreharrison9558
      @deandreharrison9558 2 месяца назад +3

      he just wanted the belt back. he got it. hogan did similar things to get it off people and onto himself

    • @kefkakrist
      @kefkakrist 2 месяца назад +1

      @@deandreharrison9558 Sure, yes... whatever.

    • @Dr.JHamilton
      @Dr.JHamilton 2 месяца назад

      Stevie did a whole video about it.

    • @RG-lr4pk
      @RG-lr4pk 2 месяца назад

      ​@@deandreharrison9558Hogan wanted the belt back by faking an injury????

    • @deandreharrison9558
      @deandreharrison9558 2 месяца назад +2

      @RG-lr4pk said similar things. like positioning himself to vince and going behind people's backs etc. it why savage and others didn't like him.

  • @Phildo8
    @Phildo8 2 месяца назад +19

    I’ve never understood just how Yoko never crushed anyone’s chest!

    • @Big_Ben1988
      @Big_Ben1988 2 месяца назад +13

      He probably did. But if the jobber said anything, it would be career suicide.

    • @trojanhorsechannel
      @trojanhorsechannel 2 месяца назад +1

      Ribs are very strong, each rib absorbs less pressure than it would otherwise as it's spread across the chest. So not a result of care ir anything, just Yoko underestimating human bodies

    • @pyllywaltteri
      @pyllywaltteri 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@Big_Ben1988yep. Shows how insecure many of those "wrestlers tough guys" really are.

    • @TheWishDragon
      @TheWishDragon Месяц назад +4

      @@trojanhorsechannel Not true... you can break ribs with CPR, think about how much more pressure is behind the weight of this guy dropping on someone.

  • @real-babz-tv
    @real-babz-tv Месяц назад +1

    AW STEVIE!!!!! I'm so happy YT suggested this to me. Miss your work brother!

  • @johnathan7258
    @johnathan7258 2 месяца назад +13

    My friends "that's fake"
    Watches Yoko finish
    Me "You sure😮"

  • @phils.5060
    @phils.5060 2 месяца назад +4

    It's interesting, how one cheers those kind of wrestling movies as a kid, but winces as an adult...

  • @Anuskasv0
    @Anuskasv0 2 месяца назад +9

    Damn I always thought Yokozuna was one of the nice guys, I was wrong.

  • @CuttinBlade
    @CuttinBlade Месяц назад

    Good to see Stevie Richards channel getting so popular the guy is cool

  • @johnbeer4963
    @johnbeer4963 2 месяца назад +26

    Deliberately not taking care of someone who is trusting you with their body. F*** Yokozuna and any so-called wrestler that did this. That's not professional and it's a piece of s*** thing to do. It being a jobber who was making the big star look good for a tiny pay off and probably had to go work a regular job afterwards just makes it worse.

    • @mihaimercenarul7467
      @mihaimercenarul7467 2 месяца назад +1

      You are such a morob

    • @johnbeer4963
      @johnbeer4963 2 месяца назад

      @@mihaimercenarul7467 and you are a victoria sponge cake. Or maybe a banana, mr/mrs/other mihaimercenarul7467.... if that is even your real name

    • @johnbeer4963
      @johnbeer4963 2 месяца назад

      @@mihaimercenarul7467 You don't even warrant correct usage of capital letters.

    • @mihaimercenarul7467
      @mihaimercenarul7467 2 месяца назад

      @johnbeer4963 not exactly sure what you tried there, but, ok.

    • @mihaimercenarul7467
      @mihaimercenarul7467 2 месяца назад

      @johnbeer4963 wow you are such a Karen. Now you use grammar as a comeback? You are such a snowflake. The fact remains, little boy, that those jobbers remained jobbers, broken spine or not, nobody cares. While others who abused jobbers still are huge stars. You can cry as much as you want, you can call them pieces of stars, the truth is the same. You can hate those huge stars as much as you want, they are still more successful than you are, and more loved than you. While those jobbers... Well we don't even know their names. Oh well

  • @kevinb9830
    @kevinb9830 2 месяца назад +16

    Some of those jobber ones lo0ked incredibly dangerous

  • @NateDawg920
    @NateDawg920 Месяц назад +3

    6:10 the worst part with this one is he sits on him for awhile, then Rougeau comes in and does an interview. It was leading up to wrestlemania vs Brett and Mr. Fuji goes "respect?! You wanna see about respect?!" Yoko proceeds to pick him up beat on him, another belly to belly followed by a banzai drop worse than this one in the video. Then sits there while Fuji keeps talking and Rougeau keeps yelling get him off of him. If that guy wasn't injured it would be a miracle.

  • @jeffreyblock16
    @jeffreyblock16 2 месяца назад +52

    The useless aggression era

  • @Johnboy2k7
    @Johnboy2k7 2 месяца назад +24

    Lots of toxicity in wrestling culture.

    • @pollard068
      @pollard068 2 месяца назад +3

      Every job has it. Different versions in an office vs a factory, but its there

    • @geedee1264
      @geedee1264 2 месяца назад

      They weren't employees

  • @Filmation77
    @Filmation77 2 месяца назад +13

    I KNEW that Yokozuna had two Different drops! And i didn't imagine them

  • @MK-gn9zm
    @MK-gn9zm 2 месяца назад +7

    I'm thrilled you did this episode, I've been wanting to cut up these clips to make this exact point for some time now. Recently went through Yoko's '92-'94 run and you didn't even show some of the worst examples. Wish I could remember his name, one guy was literally gasping for air and begging the ref for Yoko to get off him. I'm so glad talent isn't treated that way anymore, it's hard to watch.

    • @Longlostpuss
      @Longlostpuss 2 месяца назад

      Yep the "OOooooooof" guy.
      If you know, you know.

  • @Maxx_XIII
    @Maxx_XIII 2 месяца назад +80

    Yet another reason why wrestling needed a union.

    • @themobseat
      @themobseat 2 месяца назад +9

      Jesse Ventura said the wrestlers don't want it.

    • @joeyhoser
      @joeyhoser 2 месяца назад +8

      @@themobseat I'm generally pro-union, but even I can see that it doesn't really work for wrestling.

    • @bashamd96
      @bashamd96 2 месяца назад +5

      Wrestlers openly believe that the cons outweigh the pros it's why they try ruining every attempt

    • @desisdosis473
      @desisdosis473 2 месяца назад +1

      ​@@joeyhoserJobber-Union then?

    • @Maxx_XIII
      @Maxx_XIII 2 месяца назад

      @@joeyhoser I have a union job, and I can tell you the only reason they wouldn't work is if the union is, figuratively speaking, "in bed" with the management. If management gives a union representative some money, the union rep could tell the workier, "Ibdid everything I could, but no dice." When all they did is play ducking golf with management over the weekend.
      A wrestling union CAN work, provided all of the talent is on board with the idea, no rat-finks like Hulk Hogan tattling for the promise of an under the table bonus. What's a promotion going to do? Hire untrained meat-head scabs off the street and hand them title belts to ACTUALLY murder each other for because they don't know what they're doing in the ring? Those promotions would get shut down.
      Wrestlers have promoters by the balls, and they don't even realize it. Meanwhile, Saffney shoots herself in the heart because TNA made her do dangerous ring work that concussed the shit out of her? How long before another Chris Benoit situation happens?

  • @hasbook7156
    @hasbook7156 Месяц назад +1

    I always noticed this! Thanks for doing this topic

  • @tormmac
    @tormmac 2 месяца назад +22

    Where's all the "Stevie and James are hot-shotting this channel! It will be dead in 2 months!" haters now? The channel has a bunch of momentum and is a total treat to listen to.

    • @planexshifter
      @planexshifter 2 месяца назад +1

      What?!

    • @PAlt-p6y
      @PAlt-p6y Месяц назад

      Strangely though, Steve is the host and James is usually background.

    • @tormmac
      @tormmac Месяц назад

      @@planexshifter before this video content was getting spammed with messages to stevie that he was hotshotting his channel like mick foley and going to ruin it

  • @Slop_Dogg
    @Slop_Dogg Месяц назад +2

    he squanched one jobber so hard that his gizzards flew out. when he weighed 700 pounds

  • @RBlair69
    @RBlair69 2 месяца назад +23

    That first one was Justin Credible

  • @johnliberty3647
    @johnliberty3647 Месяц назад

    Never seen Stevie wrestle but he is my favorite in the wrestling podcast world. At least for his generation. I like the guys who wrestled during the Hulkamania era more because that’s when I watched. Stevie is just the guy I just like to listen to because he seems like a genuine dude.

  • @foxmccloud7055
    @foxmccloud7055 2 месяца назад +4

    If I had to take this move and it killed me, lie to my family and friends and tell them that I died in a dignified manner.

  • @bencerwinske559
    @bencerwinske559 2 месяца назад +2

    This was when I started watching wrestling. I was 7 or 8. Yokozuna was something else. When Lex Luger, who I only knew as The Narcissist, body slammed him, it was a huge deal. That was probably the first major face turn I saw.

  • @ClintThrust-e8r
    @ClintThrust-e8r 2 месяца назад +14

    There’s making a guy earn his stripes, then there’s crushing a guy.

    • @RobsRobertson
      @RobsRobertson 2 месяца назад +1

      But how do you make someone earn his stripes really when that's basically entertainment. There should be no point in competing.

  • @richmiller8615
    @richmiller8615 2 месяца назад +5

    Nia Jax uses this for her finish currently, and after watching this, I suspect she may be dropping all her weight on some people. She about killed poor Lyra Valkyria at the Queen of the Ring with this move! I honestly thought Lyra was legit messed up after that.

  • @JUYAN16
    @JUYAN16 2 месяца назад +19

    I always wondered if Yoko would just blast a fart into thier face when it did it. Especially if he didn't like them.

    • @ODMagicMike
      @ODMagicMike 2 месяца назад +10

      Listen to Jake Robert’s story about Andre the giant on joe Rogan. Apparently Andre liked doing that to a lot of people.

    • @danielroeg
      @danielroeg 2 месяца назад

      Hmmm, it seems that, by all accounts, Andre was little more than a very large filthy bastard.

    • @d.52555
      @d.52555 2 месяца назад +10

      Rikishi would do that, he said in a shoot interview that he would make sure he either didn’t shower or wipe (or both) properly if he didn’t like his opponent. Vince even asked rikishi to make sure it was extra ‘dirty’

    • @CHOZAHYAHU
      @CHOZAHYAHU 2 месяца назад +4

      ​@@d.52555😂that is so wrong! 😂

    • @ryanjacobson2508
      @ryanjacobson2508 2 месяца назад

      ​@@ODMagicMikeAndre just sounds like a mean SOB.

  • @Joshknott405
    @Joshknott405 2 месяца назад

    It’s good to see you, Stevie!

  • @Chaardvark
    @Chaardvark 2 месяца назад +19

    How did people not die from this? Jesus christ!

    • @mykoniichistorychannel
      @mykoniichistorychannel 2 месяца назад +3

      Tough, tough men.

    • @dc1440
      @dc1440 Месяц назад

      They still could have as a result just not immediately.

  • @TheLokiBiz
    @TheLokiBiz 2 месяца назад +28

    I am very grateful for the wrestling RUclips "community" or whatever, for keeping me from having to think about election related bullshit all day. Id much rather listen to Stevie talk wrestling. Only wish Dutch was healthy enough to be here too. Hope he gets well soon

    • @retro2485
      @retro2485 2 месяца назад +2

      Fuck all dat shit you talking about Donald Trump won!!!!!! We good now my boy tax cuts for all

  • @JackgarPrime
    @JackgarPrime 2 месяца назад +48

    I really hope any enhancement guy who got put on Yoko Duty got extra pay.

    • @RickRage740
      @RickRage740 2 месяца назад +2

      Yeah hazard pay!

    • @SatanSquad
      @SatanSquad 2 месяца назад +6

      The privilege of taking The Bonsai Drop was their payment!

    • @bluntamainia444
      @bluntamainia444 2 месяца назад

      The made less money than the other jobbers

    • @alexpartridge1989
      @alexpartridge1989 2 месяца назад +4

      Not Mike Bell…. RIP. He was in his younger bros movie
      Bigger, stronger, faster.
      And was gone for his other movies.
      Wwe released him when they had taken everything he had. He got injured. Started taking pills.

    • @smithmeister
      @smithmeister 2 месяца назад +6

      They give everything to an industry that is basically a clown show and universally laughed at. Why?

  • @aronraygetchapull42071
    @aronraygetchapull42071 2 месяца назад

    Thanks guy's!

    • @aronraygetchapull42071
      @aronraygetchapull42071 2 месяца назад

      Stevie & James, just wanted to say that this is my go -to channel for this kind of content!
      You guy's are doing something different and doing it the right way, and as a fan I really appreciate it!
      So as long as you guy's wanna keep crankin' em' out, I'll be watching and supporting in any way I can! God bless you guy's!✌️

  • @bigc2626
    @bigc2626 2 месяца назад +68

    I see all these wrestlers talk so great about Yoko, but I saw that dude a number of times give banzai drops at 500+ pounds and land on guys chests with his legs straight out and did nothing to break his own fall to protect the enhancement talent. That is an incredibly despicable thing to do. Him dying at 34 was karma.

    • @GameTime-yj6qv
      @GameTime-yj6qv 2 месяца назад +21

      Karma is not real. Yoko died because he was morbidly obese. But yes it was a despicable thing to do

    • @desisdosis473
      @desisdosis473 2 месяца назад +32

      When people like Taker or Godfather say that Yoko was a "family man" it means that he was propably a bully like them.

    • @sherrix6881
      @sherrix6881 2 месяца назад +1

      Soyy

    • @RG-lr4pk
      @RG-lr4pk 2 месяца назад +3

      Just compare the comments on this video to the Goldberg one. Smarks are the biggest marks.

    • @FishJesus420
      @FishJesus420 2 месяца назад +2

      @@RG-lr4pkI mean yoko was actually a good worker so unsurprising

  • @M4tt888_
    @M4tt888_ 2 месяца назад +1

    Really interesting watch, and love the channel! the one thing I'd request for next time is for those of us not familiar with seeing these clips before, it would be better to play the drop first in normal view, and then zoom in and rewatch after.
    Sometimes I found it a little hard to follow or get the real impact of what Yokozuna was doing for a while as I'd first seen a zoomed in shot watching his feet position. Just a minor thing as you show the full view after and maybe just my personal preference

  • @Thekowaikaiju
    @Thekowaikaiju 2 месяца назад +12

    Man didn't pull ribs; he smashed em!

  • @WastedTalent-
    @WastedTalent- 2 дня назад

    Whenever my father saw Yokozuna, he'd say, "I'd hate to be his toilet seat."

  • @desisdosis473
    @desisdosis473 2 месяца назад +14

    When wrestlers describe one of their peers as "Family Man" it comes off like a safe way to say that he was propably a bully.

    • @mihaimercenarul7467
      @mihaimercenarul7467 2 месяца назад

      Sounds like a personal problem. Are you ok, snowflake?

    • @mihaimercenarul7467
      @mihaimercenarul7467 2 месяца назад

      @@desisdosis473 oh wait you are that weirdo who thinks shawn has surpassed bret in every aspect. You have brain damage

    • @geedee1264
      @geedee1264 2 месяца назад

      "Lovable rogue" etc

  • @RIDEshadowfax
    @RIDEshadowfax 2 месяца назад +3

    I'd probably would be still watching WWE if Stevie was sitting next to Michael Cole

  • @jimsheppard3166
    @jimsheppard3166 2 месяца назад

    The bonsai on Virgil makes me think of the old Royal Rumble game on SNES, where Yoko would hit the move out of the corner to an opponent laying near the middle of the ring. 😂

  • @abusivegamer7788
    @abusivegamer7788 2 месяца назад +7

    Stevie Richards 100% correct if you look at everybody The Undertaker Chris Jericho sting any type of those moves that were dangerous enhancement Talent got the worst. Look at the walls of Jericho for instance it is so much more tame when he's against a major star the tombstone Undertaker practically carries them to the ground but if you're an enhancement Talent drives you into the mat

    • @civx343
      @civx343 2 месяца назад +1

      That’s why I don’t really respect a lot of these older wrestlers people praise. If you go out of your way to hurt someone in wrestling you’re a piece of shit, end of story. In some small way all of their health problems are just karma catching up to them.

    • @TheQuincyEdwards
      @TheQuincyEdwards 2 месяца назад

      I’m gonna tell and some old wrestler is gonna suplex yall…😂

  • @supersaiyanbino
    @supersaiyanbino 18 дней назад

    I remember he wrestled Goldust in a house show and he took ALL of the Bonzai Drop, like Yoko didn't hold back at all, legs out, full force

  • @deonlepharaoh
    @deonlepharaoh 2 месяца назад +3

    We would've been fighting for real lol

  • @johnathanrush4666
    @johnathanrush4666 Месяц назад

    I will always remember that Banzai Drop from the RAW open
    Yoko BOUNCED off of dude's chest

  • @ryane5483
    @ryane5483 2 месяца назад +4

    Back in the mid and late 90s I wrestled in the indies. I worked a few WWF tapings and I remember what my trainer said as were walking into the building the first time I worked a set of tapings.
    Keep your f'ing mouth shut. The only time you should be talking before being spoken to is when you're introducing yourself.
    Someone speaks to you, you look them in the eye and it's yes sir, no sir, thank you sir. The word Brother doesn't ever come out of your mouth.
    You don't know anybody in there, so you act like everyone is someone important.
    If there are guys working out in the ring and you're just hanging out in the back, you're in the wrong place.
    Do not Fk up in that locker room. You do not want to look at the match card and see your name across from Bradshaw, Vader or Yokozuna. My name and rep are on the line, not only will you get punished in that ring, you count on the only things you'll be trained in for the foreseeable future is running the ropes and taking chops.
    It was a different time and a different business.

  • @psyberoneofchrist2310
    @psyberoneofchrist2310 Месяц назад

    Keep up the good work fellas!

  • @i000110001100
    @i000110001100 2 месяца назад +18

    Nia Jax is equal opportunity at least.

    • @MrVariant
      @MrVariant 2 месяца назад +1

      Lol she made a woman pee, yoko made stone cold crap his pants 😂

  • @billyd530111
    @billyd530111 2 месяца назад

    I was friends with Virgil and we talked about this. He was pretty good buddies with Yoko, he said Yoko was always super nice to him. Said that drop was light as a feather.

  • @shock_n_Aweful
    @shock_n_Aweful 2 месяца назад +35

    I hate seeing Nia Jax doing this, she is gonna seriously hurt someone.

    • @hoodafudj
      @hoodafudj 2 месяца назад +3

      Agreed she's too reckless of a monster, beautiful lady, but she needs to learn how to work .. reminds me of Vader now that I know more

    • @richmiller8615
      @richmiller8615 2 месяца назад +6

      I also agree. She looks to be legit dropping every ounce of her weight onto some, if not most, of those other women.

    • @desisdosis473
      @desisdosis473 2 месяца назад +3

      @@hoodafudj Vader knew how to work safely, he was wreckless on purpose. Shawn had every right to kick him when messing up the spot.

    • @hoodafudj
      @hoodafudj 2 месяца назад +4

      @desisdosis473 yeah he was a victim of his own training on Japan

    • @boratwilson9916
      @boratwilson9916 2 месяца назад

      I would like nia to do that to me. I can handle it

  • @RedBeardedLife
    @RedBeardedLife Месяц назад +2

    It would be fun to find some of those enhancement guys and get their take on the subject

  • @NazJones2212
    @NazJones2212 2 месяца назад +5

    20 minutes is the perfect length for these videos chaps

  • @joehung1552
    @joehung1552 Месяц назад +1

    I remember hearing a story of a Jobber disrespecting Mr. Fuji and Yoko and that's the one where Yoko looks like he tried to kill him.

  • @ODMagicMike
    @ODMagicMike 2 месяца назад +3

    Yoko straight up trying to kill some people.

  • @MavenOmega
    @MavenOmega Месяц назад +1

    Another fun fact about Yoko, was along with Undertaker he was also one of the judges for wrestle court

  • @e.rodriguez1551
    @e.rodriguez1551 2 месяца назад +4

    I always wondered why he did that. Literally squash guys.

  • @benjamin8002
    @benjamin8002 Месяц назад

    You guys should have Ace and Crowbar on to talk about being enhancement talent in 90’s. Ace has a channel and is very entertaining! 😁