The Mike Blackwell Incident - A Match that got TOO REAL TOO FAST
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- August 5, 1989 - NWA's World Wide Wrestling broadcasted an enhancement match gone wrong as Sid Vicious and Dangerous Dan Spivey (The Skyscrapers) took on Avalanch and Mike Blackwell. Inexplicably, Blackwell went into business for himself - and the Sky Scrapers made him pay for it on national television.
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What other moments come to mind when you think of wrestling matches that got too real too fast?
The Ghastly match between Act Yasukawa and Yoshiko
Oh man I had forgotten about that one - I remember that trended worldwide when Facebook still had a trending tab. I want to say yoshiko was punished by stardom afterwards but don't remember if she was fired or blackballed
@@JOBdOut She was suspended but came back as if nothing happened
Waited til the heat died down eh. Def worth looking back and reflecting on
there was a wrestler that intended legitimately to assassinate Austin Idol and was caught. I don't remember who it was though.
If Blackwell owned a store and you walked in, he wouldn’t sell you anything.
Notice that they kept throwing Avalanch out of the ring and Avalanch knew enough to stay out of it.
@@georgejackson4426 yep! Looks like Spivey was saying something to him, like “Stay outta the way of this!” 🤣
Gotta love that Spivey told the other guy "stay away" at 3:00 & did his best to protect the guy from the beating that was about to take place.
So did Teddy Long.
@@michaelfalkner1186 Yeah, they did Avalanche a solid. He wasn't the problem.
Well sure. Avalanch wasn’t being a turd, so their issue wasn’t with him.
@@TheNotoriousJP Obviously. But a number of us make note that you can see that, as a result, the Skyscrapers and Teddy are making sure he stays out of it and then protecting him.
@@michaelfalkner1186 oh yes. I agree, and both Sid tossing him out at the beginning in case it got haywire, so he was out of harms way, and Spivey tossing him out after the fact and at a distance away from where they were beating Blackwell’s ass wasn’t lost here. They showed decency towards him and didn’t guilt by association attack him.
3:22
Teddy Long saying "KICK HIS ASS" will ALWAYS be legendary 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lucky he didn't declare Blackwell would have to go one..on one.. with the Undertaker, playa
@@JOBdOut It's like the old say...You stick your hands in the fire you're gonna feel the burn! Is what it is.
The lessons continued in the locker room is more like it.
It would have been more legendary, if Teddy joined in and punched Blackwell also.
At the time I thought Blackwell was just a random extra tough jobber getting a post match beat down. When Teddy said kick his ass and I thought it was just part of the program. It wasn’t until I watched the match again closely years later what a terrible job Blackwell was doing.
Avalanch's easiest payday
I wonder if Avalanche knew that he was going to no sell , so they told him stay out of the ring.
Ha ha ha 🤣🤣🤣
@@emt5330 yep that’s probably what happened avalanche knew his job and didn’t want to cause a problem
Im glad they took it easy on Avalanche. Lol
Avalanche looked like he was prepared to run out of the arena in his ring gear, leaving all of his stuff behind, just to get away from the Skyscrapers. 😆
Avalanch. 🤣
@@Scorch1028 Blackwell: “Hey, Lanch! Get these big muh fuckas off me!”
Avalanch: “💨”
I heard Dan Spivey saying in an interview, that the beating continued in the locker room.
Yup I believe he said that to Hannibal. Cornette confirmed it
Spivey was and is a pansy wannabe tough guy
@@Cawksuckah that's the exact opposite of what Taker says and I think he's far more credible in the industry than you'll ever be.
@@Cawksuckah Oh no, He is a bad ass, just not a super over wrestler. Beat the soul out of Adrian Adonis for taking liberties with him in the ring and got in the face of the Road Warriors when they wanted all the glory, said you ain't the only one who wants to get over! They didn't respond with aggression from what I heard.
@@Cawksuckah nonsense
Spivey seems to be the wrong guy to play silly games with.
It looked like to me that Sid got really pissed when Blackwell was thrown out of the ring and he didn't sell that. The look on Sid's face was awesome. It was 100% "I'm going to give you something to sell now." Blackwell would have been wise to just take off into the crowd and drive straight home.
@@tritchie6272 yeah Spivey and Sid
Blackwell sold that last shot whether he wanted to or not...funny that Sid kept throwing working punches while Spivey was throwing the real live rounds...
That wasn't the ring bell that you heard ... that was Blackwell's head 😄
Well my understanding is that when they got to the locker room, there was a lot of real life lessons for Mr. Blackwell. Horrible decision to not job. He is paid to "Job" not be a main event guy.
I read an interview somewhere with Sid and he said that he actually felt bad about it while Spivey was absolutely livid, you can kinda see it here where, like you said, it's Spivey that is going for the damage...
Mike Blackwell must have thought he was Hulk Hogan that day...
LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL same haircut
and that is how Hogan would Hulk out and beat his opponents
Hahahha "that doesn't work for me brother"
It’s a rumor that Blackwell met a girl in town and wanted to impress her but no one really knows 😂
What’cha gonna do? When Blackwell Mania runs wild on you?
LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL, LOL you are right. All Blackwell needed to do is tear off his T-Shirt and point at the crowd......Brother
“You’re gonna job to The Skyscrapers.”
“That don’t work for me brother.”
If you watch the match, you can see Teddy Long going up to Avalanche after he gets thrown out and is yelling "Get back in the ring!" at him...I bet between the "Get back in the ring!"s he was probably telling him in a much softer voice "Just stay down, playa..."
Blackwell went on to have a highly decorated career in the indies, but no major promotion would go near him after this.
exactly, he did well on Indies, but if he sold properly here and had a good match he would have maybe been in WCW or WWF at the time or even ECW maybe... but what major promotion is going to touch a guy who was willing to no sell top guys and making your top stars look trash... Sid did not even want to hurt the guy...
@@aoisora1445 He wrestled near the top of the card in the indies, and had numerous reigns as heavyweight champion and a couple as tag champion. I don't think he ever would've had that success in a big promotion even if he had done his job here. He didn't have the look or charisma.
@@MattyIcecubes The guy has no presence online aside from his incident, hell, I'm not even sure he is alive now, a shame because, aside from this incident, he did look like a competent wrestler.
@@paulll47 I don't know if he's still living either. He almost certainly would've advanced much further than he did if he would've just done his job here. But I don't think he'd have ever held a world title in a major promotion. Maybe not even a secondary title either.
@@MattyIcecubes Yeah, a shame since he could have been noticed if he worked for some good selling, I bet the Skyscrapers wouldn't have objected to it since it would have been good for everybody, guy had his ego get to his head.
One of the other stories I heard: Blackwell agreed to job for the Skyscrapers but wanted to show some kind of offense and didn’t want to look like a scrub, because the match was in his hometown & his girlfriend was in the audience.
Yup that was the "oh yeah, well let you show something" story. Unfortunately the only corroboration I could find for that was from a message board
Shoulda told his girl it was all fake to help the Skyscrapers, stay employed, and eventually get picked up by WWF, and have a decent career.
I hate when scrubs are hired to be scrubs because they look like scrubs and they ARE scrubs and they want that scrub money but didnt want to do that scrub work.
@@JOBdOut Yeah. You'd think they could have just told him, "Nah, we can't do that. The job is to get pulverized, take it or leave it." Then again, who knows? Maybe that's what they told him and he insisted on getting his way, which led to the "Oh yeah, we'll let you show something" beating.
@@MyNameIsUnavailable And it’s extra funny because look at those guys compared to the friggin Skyscrappers. By any measure of logical reason, they’re losing to them. They’ve got 6” and 40lbs on you, take the L with no shame. Don’t try to tell a fuckin underdog story on your own hahaha
I feel sorry for Avalanche in this incident. He did "everything right", selling the Skyscrapers' moves. However, his partner Mike Blackwell, didn't understand that he needed to convincingly sell every move that Dan and Sid performed on him. You can actually see the "look of fear" on Avalanche's face as he's been tossed out of the ring. According to some accounts, the Skyscrapers attacked both Blackwell and Avalanche backstage in the locker room. I seriously doubt that Avalanche ever tagged with Mike Blackwell again.
I doubt Sid and Spivey went after Avalanch. They weren't the sharpest pencils in the box, but they could easily tell Avalanch did nothing wrong.
@@AV57 I believe one of them to not get involved they weren't mad at him.
You can tell they were being professional with Avalanch, and had no beef with him because he was doing his job well by selling.
Avalanche might have been worried but clearly they shitcan him from the ring in worked fashion to get him out of the way so they could teach Blackwell a lesson.
I wonder if there's an Avalanche side to this story...I bet he was like "Uh, what the fuck???" and tried to play along with the basic concept of the match but he probably thought he'd missed out on something...
Classic case of “know your role and shut your mouth”
I smell what you're cookin'
Except that when it came to the Black Adam film, the Rock didn't know his role and shut his mouth.
Blackwell should’ve Hulked up…
That's what Blackwell constantly getting up looked like. I was waiting for him to tear off his T-shirt and point at the crowd............"Brother"
Blackwell knocked Sid down - best part of the match !
That was awesome! And Blackwell got up before Sid did !
I was in the business myself for 25 plus as Sonny Rogers. Danny Spivey is a great Human Being and the 11th commandment is " Thou shall not press Danny Spivey's buttons ". Had no idea that Mike Blackwell still was involved in the business for another 8 years.
He would have gotten worse from a Billy Robinson, Lou Thesz, Verne Gagne, Pat O'Connor , Harley Race, Larry Hennig, The Warriors, and many others like Slater, Orton, R. Garvin, Thornton, Vachon, Brody, etc.
awesome!
who was the toughest/best (shooter) you ever wrestled or worked out with?
who named you rogers and how did you get the name sonny.
thanks!
I'll go with Brad Rheingens. Brad is a good guy and surprised he never made it further in the business.@@grawakendream8980
he blew the promoter and got the name. @@grawakendream8980
Blackwell did the same thing on a live TBS show against The Road Warriors and they threw him out and legitimately kicked his ass on live tv! 🤣
Blackwell looking like Waingro from Heat.
His hair looked like
CANTgrow
@@MyNameIsUnavailable Come on, man....that thing's epic. How you gonna sh!t on a perfectly executed be"Franklin"?
@@dullahan7677 only thing he was missing was the glasses
"He was makin' a move, I had to get it on" --Blackwell explaining why he didn't sell
Avalanche was like "Ah damn, you're on your own in there, buddy."
I had a similar incident happen to me when I was in professional wrestling. I was working a show down in Texas. My partner & I, whom I had only met a mere hour before our match, were to do a job for the promotions top team. A little 5 minute squash match. I started off the match, taking a high back body drop & a couple of tag team moves before tagging out. My partner was supposed to take moves & then their finish for the ending. He instead went into business for himself, not selling moves, side stepping other moves & trying to generate offense that they weren't prepared for. Eventually, they started beating the shit out of him for real & I got tagged back in. I immediately took their finish. The match ended up being nearly 15 minutes, when it was only supposed to go 5.
Believe it or not, while the other wrestlers were fine with me & severely pissed off at my partner, the promoter took it out on me in the locker room. Some how or another, he figured it was my fault that my partner went into business for himself. That it was my responsibility to keep him in line & prevent him from doing this. He didn't really even say anything to my partner who was responsible for how the match turned out. He instead yelled at me. I'm not much for taking the blame on something that wasn't my fault, so I told the promoter that I can't control another guy. I had driven all the way from Iowa, with the impression that I was going to have a singles match. Then when I get there they throw me together in a makeshift tag team with a guy that I've never met.
All these years later, the only person I ever heard from again was the guy I tagged with. Received a random Facebook friend request from him one day. I finally got a chance to ask him what the "F" he was thinking during that match. He told me that he had driven down from Minnesota. He had been told that he was gonna get a 20 minute match & that he was gonna get paid a certain amount of money. Then when he got down there, the money was 4 times less than what he had been promised & now he was in a makeshift tag team that was to do a 5 minute squash. He said he wanted to take it to the promoter. I told him that was fine, but there was no use in f'ing me or the other two guys. That was uncalled for.
What a crazy business this is.
Do you know the name of this promoter. I would love to completely unleash on him without mercy.
@@zap_sigma1 - No need to completely unlash on someone for something that happened nearly a decade & a half ago. People change. So maybe he's a better person now. I don't know. I don't care. But in the case you're thinking I'm deflecting...
Top of Texas Wrestling
Nathan Briggs
@@TheNotbadphonedaddy Maybe Blackwell has changed. But, nonetheless, at the time, in that instance, Sid,Spivey & Long had to receive him according to how he presented himself & rightfully so.
That's not "unleashing", that's accountability.
So, that part, of your reply, is a strawman.
In instances like that, going into business for self in a match is taken as disrespect to the wrestlers involved & the business in general.
I have personally known wrestlers throughout my life & can say, without equivocation, that, aside from messing up their promos, wrestlers hate no selling them/going into business, like nothing else.
@@zap_sigma1 I don't mind giving people 2nd chances. Not everyone is worth a 2nd chance, but sometimes they are. I had a guy wrong me once in North Dakota. He apologized & made it up to me later on.
@@TheNotbadphonedaddy Truth. Heck, if Shawn & Bret could patch things up, nothing is impossible.
One of the things that bugged me about wrestling is that jobbers are quite important. Everyone has a job to do and their purpose is to make the star look good. There are so many guys who jobbed but did it so well and this clown thinks he is going to go for "real" in a pro wrestling match. What a bad idea. Plus Sid and Spivey were MONSTERS in their day, these are the LAST people I would want to be pissing off.
Only thing I'd dispute is the tag team vision at the time also had the road warriors in it.. so maybe 2nd last team to piss off 😅
@@JOBdOut lol. true
@@knicksprop Spivey intimidated the Road Warriors.
Jim Cornette had actually done a watch-along of this match, and he mentions that not only did he witness it, he was in the back after it and saw the beat down himself. He didn't interfere because he knew the dude deserved it but kept telling spivey "I wish you wouldn't do that" because he was in the office back then XD.
Also, Sid's punches in the end were working punches. Spivey was the only one actually beating him up.
Yeah - I thought about including a bit of audio from that - I like to use clips like that often - but I worried about things bein a bit too long so I just included cornettes tweet. Ditto some audio from Dutch that originally was going to be included
@@JOBdOut yea jim said the beating continued backstage too. Spivey wemt in locker room, jobber stood up spivey punched him laid him out, slapped him 3 times, kicked him on the ground then spit on him n left. Lmao!
@@JOBdOut Too long? You could cut out a bunch pointless chatter and add this in no problem
3:23 Those are not working punches from Sid. Lol
I don't know. Sid's wasn't stoping the ground with his foot (while throwing punches) and it looked to me like he was connecting on his jaw. It seems that once Sid threw Blackwell out of the ring and Blackwell "no sold it", Sid instantly reacted with some real punches.
Can we all take a moment and appreciate the fact they didn't obliterate Avalanch on this too? They clearly threw him out in a worked fashion and left him alone for just about the entirety. At the 2:59 mark you can see the absolute fear in his eyes being back in there. It was very gracious of Spivey to toss him out again. The fact that he leans in as he throws Avalanch out was probably when he assured him to just stay out of the way.
Its obvious they knew he wasn't part if it and spared him
So THAT'S how G.G. Allin broke into the entertainment industry. Got it!
🤣
3:24 Teddy Long’s “Kick his ass!” didn’t help, either! 🤣
@@creoleDJ Teddy wasn't playing 🤣
One other comment. I remember this as it happened and remember thinking (even though kayfabe was still a thing, we knew it was a "work" but we didn't talk about it) "This guy just doesn't get it--he's got to stay down a while."
I had a match a couple of months ago and I had orders not to let the other guy see the light of day, so when he asked me if I could let him shine a bit and I told him to ask the booker. The booker got so mad he made it a handicap match and the beating was worse.
That actually sounds really petty on the booker's part.
@@bronstet we'll, it is but the booker had given instructions and this fellow wrestler was questioning his authority and not wanting to take the original punishment since it was a punishment for doing things wrong prior to that
I remember watching this and you just knew something wasn't right if I was going to do something stupid like that I would have picked someone other than those 2 guys I always thought it was a shame spivey never got used right ither then as a member of the skyscrapers
The issue Spivey had was once he got beyond the skyscrapers he was broken down and hurt. When he was in WWE his body was already in "its time to retire" shape physically
That is just insane. I'm scared of Sid from behind my keyboard, never mind pi**ng him off in the ring.
Can't really blame Sid or Spivey for how they went about it. It's like Blackwell was trying to go into business for himself.
Not selling or jobbing was very disrespectful on Blackwell's part. That's a good way to get yourself blacklisted where nobody will work a match, program or angle with you.💯
The irony that he was never known for his ability; but is known for his LACK of ability.
Look, whether you think you deserve more or not, you are under the promotions care and they reward those who make THEM look good.
YOu'll get yours, AFTER they get theirs. That's the way it is.
You pay your does first.
Mike barely finished paying his ENTRANCE fee after a year and then to do what he did. He wasn't green, he intentionally tried to make himself look good. The castoff is that while he tried to make himself more appealing to the promoters, he did so by completely underselling his opponents who were the big money makers at the time.
That's colloquially known as 'going into business for themselves'.
They chose to be their own promoter once they were inside the ring and .. YES.. they DO have the control when they are inside the ring.
Remember how Undertaker was waiting just backstage to put a beatdown on Shawn Michaels if he did NOT do the job he was supposed to?
That was barely 10 years after this incident. It was how it was.
The business has changed, but if you go into business for yourself when you KNOW you're supposed to just do your job, Yep. You got some REAL receipts coming your way.
Thank you for clearing up the "going into business for yourself" statement. Last Summer CM Punk kept saying that about Adam Page and I had no idea what he was talking about.
My understanding is that this practice of "hurting someone for real" was very common at one time when someone wouldn't sell punches and go off script. I heard an interview with Dutch Mantel once where he ordered Abyss to "hurt someone for real" in the ring because he wouldn't sell anyone's moves. Mantel said that once Abyss started hurting this guy, he was the best jobber in the company. Problem solved
You're going to job in a squash match with vicious and spivey
"That doesnt work for me brother"
another story is that he was wrestling in front of a home town crowd with family members and friends present...
Mike Blackwell not selling in this match would fit perfect in todays AEW. Think of this match as an AEW match and it looks normal.
You know you've actually got a point
Man, Spivey kind of slipped when he threw that kick off the apron and landed unstable on one foot, that looks like he was lucky not to get hurt. He was probably extra pissed after that.
He was trying to kick the guy really hard legitimately
This is a textbook case of you had ONE job.
And it was literally to DO a job 🤣
Big Dollar Dan the left hand man.
spivey damn near took his head off. body shots from sid were flat out loud
Camera Man rocking a
"Capitol Wrestling Center" t shirt 30 years ahead of its time
Or 7 years behind depending on which mcmahon you ask 😅
@@JOBdOut expert ! Pop well deserved! As a fan since 1980, SALUTE! and POP! 💯
I have it on good authority that Dan Spivey was a legit tough bastard with a nasty left hook!
He pick two monsters to prove that he can be a star.....bad choice...
It got worst backstage, for Blackwell.
Yeah, I did some research after I saw this and I read that Spivey messed him up pretty good.
This is why you hear of Blackstone, and BlackRock but not of Blackwell.
In Blackwell's defense, he was wrestling before a home town crowd with most of his family and friends in the audience. Had he done the job as a jobber, nobody would have remembered this match. Kind of like the opposite of the Hogan-Michaels match when Michaels oversold to embarrass Hogan. But since Blackwell refused to do the job, this match and Blackwell have been immortalized in the history of wrestling.
That's no excuse.
3:20 that kick to the face was the real beginning of the assault. Dan was fed up at that point
Literally Nobody: I'm going to fuck with Dan Spivey and Sid Vicious and try to ruin putting them over. Mike Blackwell: THAT sounds like a great idea!! Especially since Spivey was not only legitimately tough, but he was very much respected in the business. If you were a new guy, making friends with Spivey would have been an amazing way to get an education in the business. Who knows how Blackwell really thought that bullshit he did would turn out.
Spivey was legit.
At 3:25 you hear Teddy say “Kick his Ass” 😂
Put it this way, Mike Blackwell should've used his brain. Sid Vicious & Dan Spivey did a great job humbling Mike Blackwell.
Good Morning. Ok, so I saw another video that led me to yours. It was called " The Jobber Who Wouldn't Job Out".
Your video was on the same incident with the same people. Yours had Updadted Commentary. It was interesting, and Funny. I have to Subscribe to your Channel. I'm bout to look at the Saturn now. Thanks, and I hope all is well ✊
Ha - I'm going to look them up just to leave a cheeky "thanks for mentioning my name" comment. Much love and I'm glad you enjoyed it. Hope to keep making videos that you'll enjoy. I do have more "real fights in wrestling" subjects coming this year.
I wish someone would do a career retrospect on Avalanch.
Say what you want against Blackwell. But one thing is true from this that he will never be forgotten for what he did. Can't say the same for other jobbers.
You may be right but there are plenty of jobbers who did the job well and are fondly remembered - Steve Lombardi, Mike Sharpe, Barry Horowitz, Colin Delaney, hell Mikey Whipwreck became a world champion
@@JOBdOut Mikey Whipwreck also helped to train future champions.
respect to Mike Blackwell
@@JOBdOut I fondly remember the Mulkey brothers in Jim Crockett Promotions.
1:50 Truthfully, this looked much better on Cindy Crawford back in '89.
I was a HUGE fan of Waylon Mercy's. It's a shame we didn't get more of him.
So much potential in the right era for his character but he was so broken down his back and knees just couldn't handle it
Instead of wondering, find Mike Blackwell and interview him. If he is dead, find a close relative he might have told the story of that night to.
Been trying to track him down for two years - the days of everyone being listed in the white pages are long gone
@@JOBdOut mike blackwell is my dad lol, if you want i could ask him about this and if he would be willing to share his account of this
Teddy Long saying, whoop his ass!😂😂😂
The day this happened, in some random trailer park, a young Windham Rotunda watched Mike Blackwell and said to himself, "That's a helluva gimmick."
Meanwhile, in other trailer park, a young Seth Rollins watched Mike Blackwell and said to himself, "That's a helluva look!"
And that's how we got the worst Hell In A Cell ever.
Thats absolutely hilarious
how huge Spivey and Sid were i wouldnt piss them off nope 😂
Blackwell should have known the biz better.
I’d like to hear Blackwell’s side.
We needed WWF-era JR on commentary for this! 🤣
Teddy long at 3:24 " *KICK his ass!* "
respect to Mike Blackwell
He got off lucky, imagine if he pissed off New Jack. LOL He would have ended up getting stabbed. LOL
Can't blame them. lucky he didn't get really hurt.
Watch Avalanch and his body language at the beginning.. even his facial expressions. That’s more than just “making my NWA debut” nerves. Blackwell acted like a mark for himself backstage, and I’d put real belief behind the “I’m not just a jobber, I want to get offense in” message board post. Avalanch seemed legit concerned he was gonna get kickback as a result of Blackwell’s bullshit. When Sid immediately tosses him and says “our issue isn’t with you pal, stick out here,” they were trying to see if Blackwell was going to cooperate and work with them, or be a dipshit. We found out quickly the latter, and it got ugly fast. Blackwell also took an even worse ass beating by Dan Spivey backstage after this.
Also heard Blackwell had people in the audience he lied too and told them he wasn't a jobber and asked sky scrappers to look good,yep looked "real good"
Skyscrapers vs natural disasters
@JOB'd Out Wrestling yea jim said the beating continued backstage too. Spivey wemt in locker room, jobber stood up spivey punched him laid him out, slapped him 3 times, kicked him on the ground then spit on him n left. Lmao!
another famed moment involving spivey was during a match with the road warriors. not sure if its real or fake but apparently the warriors decided to stiff and no-sell spivey's partner - a young, green around the gills 'mean' mark callous - and spivey uh... took offense to that. basically he started beating the crap out of both men in the ring, complete with making road warrior animal sell for real. again, idk if it was real or not and id like to have someone clarify.
I definitely will take a look into that. Spivey was never shy to talk about those incidents in interviews
@@JOBdOut yeah like the first video on the my reccomended is about spivey beating up adrian adonis :')
@@JOBdOut he also has a hard time with being honest in his interviews or remembers things differently.
I'm sure you know that Mean Mark went on to be the Undertaker. I don't see Hawk getting his ass kicked for real in the ring. If Hawk was getting his ass kicked, it was part of the show I'm sure.
Yes that's right. Taker told this story to Mike tyson. The funniest part is Mark / Undertaker was backstage and he was sitting there waiting for the Road Warriors to come back cuz he figured they were going to be having a legit fight against the Road Warriors because of what just happened. Spivey looked up at him and said " Mark what the hell are you doing we going to drive 300 miles get your s*** on" to which Mark replied to Spivey that he was not going to get caught with his pants down fighting the road warriors. Dan Spivey looked at him and asked what the hell he was talking about because nobody was going to be fighting anybody.
The Road Warriors came in walked up to Spivey and thanked him for the match telling him how great it was. Mark was sitting there like a deer in the headlights wondering what in the hell he had just witnessed and one of the other guys saw the look on his face and explained it to him that Dan was an absolute legit badass and no one not even the Road Warriors we're going to try to pick a fight with him.
Dan Spivey got Mark Callaus to stiff work the Road Warriors once.
poor avalanch outfit wasnt that form fitting
You could say the look was going downhill and fast
@@JOBdOut Avalanch probably never moved so fast to get out of the way of that ass whipping.
The craziest part is WCW actually aired it. You'd think someone would say nah lets edit this
They did the same with Death Row vs Mike Rotunda
It was clearly a case that Blackwell wanted to become a wrestling superstar and stupidly believed that by fighting back and not selling the promoted superstar's moves, he'd be elevated in status. In fact, he went about it the complete opposite, not realising that jobbers HAVE TO sell the moves in order to be noticed by upper management for a career 'move'. Stupid is what stupid does. He forgot that he has a job to do and if people don't do their job, they don't last. He may have continued wrestling thereafter but he was never going to rise up, because he broke the cardinal rule in the pantomime of wrestling - it's pantomime and you follow a script.
Did you notice Michael Jackson was there watching and eating popcorn? Who knew he was a wrestling fan? 2:05
I think he wanted to be taken seriously as a wrestling talent, but picked the WRONG GUYS to do it with. Sid alone could've taken him & Avalanche out in a handicap match.
Thing is there's trying to convince the fans and trying to convince the workers- and he put no work into trying to convince the workers he belonged in their lockerroom
I'd previously heard he was prospecting for a bike club and they had told him he could not look weak.
Blackwell probably had a ton of t-shirts printed for this event. He’s thinking that if he gets in some offensive moves and gets noticed by the crowd that they’ll buy all his merch during the interval.
They should put Blackwell in with New Jack
Did the guy ever do a shoot and explain himself?
Not to my knowledge- though shoot interviews weren't a thing in the 80s and he definitely hasn't been in the limelight or in the public eye recently enough to be asked
Just watch that punch from Sid vicious must have hurt that look hard and with a lot of power.
What's amazing about all of this is it took Sid and spivey to great big fellas to beat up this much smaller man they couldn't be too badass it wouldn't have took both of them
I would say Blackwell was successful!! All these years later and people are still talking about it! Lol
I don't know, dude....I'd prefer to remain in obscurity rather than have people only remember me for being stupid.
@@dullahan7677 No publicity like bad publicity, somebody could have used this to turn him into a great jobber, provided of course that he did his job lol.
Didn’t Dan Spivey say in an interview that he whispered in Avalanche’s ear to go back to the dressing room after he threw him out of the ring because he and Mark Calaway knew he did his job as a jobber?
I remember a match on a Saturday afternoon on Georgia Championship Wrestling. Stan Hansen went up against Mick Foley who was jobbing for GCW. Unlike most jobbers Mick always put up a decent effort and anyone watching him week after week could tell he had the chops to move up. But his role was still as a jobber.
He not only put up a spectacular effort, he held his own. Even had the upper hand a couple of times.
The great Gordon Solie was at the Mike and was having a great time calling a competitive match instead of the usual jobber getting destroyed. Even Stan Hansen enjoyed the way the crowd really got into the match.
Mick was able to pull this off because although he had never won, he always showed enough ability that it wasn't inconceivable that he might win.
Another crowd favorite jobber back then was Chick Donovan. He was very athletic and always put on a good show. His first win on TV was a mid level star called The French Angel. The crowd went completely nuts seeing this scrappy underdog get his first win.
Impressive horse shoe mullet on Blackwell
I like what Blackwell did. He showed a lot of guts no selling. He was actually put together pretty well. He wasn’t built like a jobber, so he shouldn’t have wrestled as one. He impressed me. Ate a two on one assault from some good sized guys. Including that potato @ the end. Good job, Mike 👍🏾
When Sid is the less scary guy on the other team, maybe sell that shit.
They were in Blackwell hometown that's why he didn't sell
Did somebody say Sexy Star and Rosemary yet?
Blackwell should have just ripped his T-shirt apart and started pointing at the crowd from each side of the ring. I would have paid good money to see what Spivey and Sid would have done then......................Brother!!!!!
Undertaker said Spivey was somebody who you didn't mess with. He was a 7 foot tall monster who also happened to be a pimp on the side, an actual pimp. What was Blackwell thinking lol?
One more though on another "famous" WCW squash match. The Midnight Express went up against a couple of jobbers on WCW's Saturday night show which was shot in the TBS TV studio. One of the jobbers wore, what appeared to be, a woman's one piece swimsuit. Bobby and Stan kept laughing and seemed to be reluctant to even touch the guy. Apparently, he hadn't showered in quite some time and smelled badly. See what you can find out about that. Link to video in my reply
Search Midnight Express vs Smelly Guy.
@@georgejackson4426 Oh. I've seen it. I just want the guys that run this channel to research it.
@@900milesfromnormal3 I was giving the description for the makers of the video in case they couldn't find it, also WTF was that guy wearing? 😂😂😂
I was looking for this comment... Smelly Guy is textbook for this.
@@900milesfromnormal3The match with "Wee Willie Wilkins" is better known for a guy trying to "make a comeback" on the Midnight Express to hilarious results.
i saw the full match on facebook
Supposedly it was Blackwell's hometown and he wanted to look good...Oops
Avalanche should have teamed up with Lance Storm who could have been known as: Ava-Lance.
Play silly games. Get silly prizes. SMH