I still maintain, the biggest miss in wrestling history isn't Hogan vs. Flair at Wrestlemania 8. It was the fact that Mantaur and El Matador never had a feud.
Miss Alexandra York entered WCW near the end of 1990 as the manager and financial analyst of Mike Rotunda. According to the storyline Rotunda had inherited a lot of money, turned heel and then adopted the name “Michael Wallstreet” (a gimmick patterned after Gordon Gekko from the film Wall Street). Miss York would use her laptop to analyze Wallstreet's opponents and help him win matches. Miss York would use her laptop to analyze Wallstreet's opponents and help him win matches.[1] Wallstreet started off strong by defeating The Starblazer at Clash of the Champions XIII[2] before engaging in a feud with Terry Taylor. Miss York claimed that her computer program predicted that Wallstreet could beat Taylor in less than nine minutes, so during their Starrcade 1990 match a nine-minute countdown clock was used. Wallstreet won the match within the time limit. In early 1991, Rotundo left WCW and signed with the World Wrestling Federation where he became a “ruthless tax collector” known as Irwin R. Schyster.[ With no one to manage, Miss York started to scout WCW, looking for her next “project”. At Clash of the Champions XIV Miss York found her man. During a match between Terry Taylor and Ricky Morton Miss York appeared at ringside, distracted Morton and allowed Taylor to win the match.[3] Taylor's turn did not come as any surprise as he was mistakenly introduced as “the Computerized Man of the 90s” before the match. Taylor joined the York Foundation and insisted on being known as Terrence Taylor from now on and started wearing a business suit. Miss York also added Mr. Hughes as a bodyguard.
I lik listening to wrestling history. Bruce on the other hand spent so much time up Vince's ass he can't call it for what it was. Bad gimmicks. The best lie Bruce ever said was that the Road Warriors was a copycat of Demolition. He has alot of historical knowledge but his opinions straight up suck...
John Nord did the Brody mannerisms because Brody was his friend/former tag partner and did it as tribute. They even teamed at Wrestlerock 86. Seems like he's had health issues lately including possibly ALS. Berzerker is my favorite silly gimmick ever.
Literally every gimmick Conrad said made by blurt out "Goddamit" except for Repo Man - I agree with Bruce, that one was cool. Oh, and IRS was quite good too.
WWE missed the mark with Repo Man. He should of been a babyface. Can you see him repossessing DiBiase’s car or IRS’s briefcase and finding money inside? Ratings gold.
I have to give credit where credit is due, for a guy that spent his entire career as a super-sized badass, it was incredible to see how One Man Gang really went all-out with a character as outlandish as Akeem.
When Conrad brings up Tugboat & says "so I guess we're a boat now" & Bruce says LIKE a Tugboat and Bruce names off things like Diese and Mack Truck & it IMMEDIATELY brought me back to the promo Shawn Michaels gave when he 1st introduced Diesel as Diesel & its an interview back stage or whatever & Shawn Michaels introduces his body guard and calls him Diesel & I can't remember if the person interviewing Michaels says "Diesel?" Like questioning him or wat but something possesses Shawn Michaels to say "You Heard that right, Diesel, as in that which makes a Mack Truck go"... 1 of those things that's only funny if you watch it but I laughed my ass off when Bruce damn near recited that same Michaels promo & didn't even know lol
Barry Darsow said in an interview that he himself pitched the Repo Man (one of Darsow's previous jobs before wrestling). He said his goal was to turn face with it eventually.
I'll be darned... I have been away from the show for a good while, I come back and what i find... Bruce! Thank you Conrad for finally getting Bruce on screen! i have a lot of catching up to do.
OKC has the “Lebanese Mafia.” It’s actually just a group of Lebanese people who settled in OKC. Many went on to become prominent people and professionals in the area.
it could have only worked if Terry was gonna stay a heel and fall into the strutting, cocky character. The name wasn't the worst, even the silly ass hair could have worked for him as a heel. But Bruce for whatever reason thinks strutting around and crowing like a Rooster was actually gonna pop as a babyface character in '89 if Terry had embraced it. It was never gonna work the way they pushed him, first as a heel being berated by his manager, then as a crowing, head bopping babyface... it all sucked, lol
@@neilefc877 I get what that part means... like how Dusty got the polka dot dancing gimmick and totally fell into it and it actually got over because he just had that kind of personality and ability to pull it off. He thinks Terry didn't do the same with the Rooster, but I just think it sucked either way, because he was a babyface cutting cockadoodledoo promos 😅
There's too much explaining needed for the gimmick. That's a huge reason why it'd be a pain in the ass for anyone to get it over. If a wrestler has to do or say a lot of shit in promos to let the audience know WHY they're called whatever they are, it's not good. A good gimmick is one that doesn't need to be explained.
Nope Conrad. Repo Man was hilarious, awesome and even somewhat over as a heel who got heat/laughs from the audience. Man the vignettes/antics that could've been in the attitude era if he remained there repossessing Head from Al Snow, Socko from Mankind and the list goes on haha. Still lmao at the vignette where he busted the car window with his boot to repossess a car hahaha. Also as disgusting as Bastian Booger came off, the very first live match I ever saw @ Rosemont Horizon Chicago Sept 93' was Tatanka vs Bastian Booger. And they actually put on one hell of an opener match with the crowd really behind Tatanka litterally rumbling the Horizon by stomping their feet in that echoy venue, Booger getting good drawn out heat, and him making Tatanka look like a million bucks with a surprise crossbody off the top rope for the pin!!!
Just want to make sure I understand this, in the mid '80s you have a character called Battle cat. In Conrad thinks it may have been an homage to thundercats. He-Man was also around in the mid eighties and actually had a character on it called Battle cat. It was his faithful cat cringer after he got imbued with the mystic powers the cat became Battle cat.
Skinner was memorable… I went to a house show in the early 90’s at the Capital Center as a very young kid. Skinner wrestled champion Bret Hart in the main event. I don’t remember anything from the show other than Skinner’s very loud and very annoying entrance music. And the music wasn’t music at all, but just noises you would hear in a swamp.
I totally agree with Bruce on this. Curt could have gotten over just being himself with no gimmick what so ever. But Taylor needed something that would make him stand out.
Again, maybe the red rooster looked good on paper, and maybe TT could've embraced it more BUT "cock of the walk" "rules the roost" just aren't the most common sayings. And this was the cattoon era WWF and Bruce saying "We didn't expect him to act like an actual rooster..." I call MAJOR bullshit, as you know they wanted TT to be as literal as possible with the gimmick, just like any other gimmick back then. ALSO: Any gimmick that needs some explanation, as to why someone is called whatever it is you're seeing, is never going to be great. The best gimmicks are the ones you see and fully understand without any explanation as to WHY they're named the way they are.
How about a show going in detail about the stuff on the shelves behind you. We would really love to know more about the stuff you guys hold important and what is more important than the rest and just more detail in general about what all that is, where you got it and which ones you value the most
Conrad, this might be a long shot, but can you guys do a review of Warrior from 88 and 89? He was so massive and had so much intensity in those two years. It would be interesting to hear you guy's thoughts on it.
He never said that Terry Taylor was potentially going to be Mr Perfect. He has NEVER said that. His story has been very consistent on the Mr. Perfect, Red Rooster thing
@@randylynch4330 I stand corrected. It was Terry Taylor who said it and Bruce and Cornette actually clarified where the gimmick came from. It was around the same time though. My mistake. Which is weird. Cornette wasn't around until after.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to the STWW team! Great episode. I agree with Bruce about the IRS gimmick being successful. It deserves more love IMO. Can someone tell me what gimmick he thinks WCw were ripping off with Taylor’s computer gimmick? That idea seemed quite ahead of its time to me
@@MrMarchollywood I don't remember Wallstreet/Rotunda ever using a computer. But I guess I can see how they are similar characters. Not sure Taylor's character was ever supposed to be a Wallstreet Broker, that was more his manager.
Want about the gimmick Brutus had in 91 where he came out in a mask and beat people up and leave? No one knew who he was. Could have worked maybe for a bit?
Konnan had a couple of matches on TV as Max Moon but I think he was called 'The Comet Kid' then. I remember his debut and thinking his lucha style was space-age compared with other WWE wrestlers at the time
Hell, I get it. Just thinking about the way the Red Rooster gimmick was SUPPOSED to go, I can see a bunch of ways he could have made it work, both face and heel. I saw an interview one time about Dusty Rhodes and his training talent in the WWE. The person he was training said he didn't like the gimmick he was giving and couldn't make it work. Dusty looked at him and said," When I got here, they put me in yellow and black polka dots and said make it work. I had a family on the line so I made it work. Don't tell me you can't make it work." Understandably, there are some bad gimmicks out there. But it comes down to the talent to make it get over and maybe down the road a better angle will come around if you get this over.
Yeah, but this was late 80s cartoony WWF. I totally the "rules the roost" and "cock of the walk" sayings looks good on paper (albeit they're not the most common and people having to think "cocky" and linking it with that)and yeah, he could try and give the impression of why he was called that, but I can also see the WWF trying to get Terry to literally act like a rooster. It's the type of gimmick where if you have to explain and link and why you're called something to have your name make sense, probably not the best gimmick. The best gimmicks are where you don't have to analyze what it is you're seeing. Could he have made it work? Yeah, but he hated it too much, it was never gonna happen.
Repo would have been great if they did a more modern gritty repo deal. Instead they did Batman 66, which is funny but didn’t have the legs. He did hang the bulldog, which was pretty hardcore for the time
This show is better when you guys are not on screen im just saying lol. Like when bruce does his voces off cam its better to invision than to see him doing them.
The red rooster gimmick sucked. Terry Taylor was a better hand than that. He definitely was NOT a Mr Perfect. That had Curt written all over it. Does Bruce have anything good to say about any stars that did not get their start on WWE?
No one but Vince understood the Rooster gimmick. I was 15 at the time and I liked Terry Taylor from other companies. When they unveiled the Rooster gimmick, I immediately thought, "They named him after a chicken." That's what we ALL thought.
But that's also Bruce's point. Terry acted like a chicken. If he didn't acted like an actual chicken and cockadoodledoo then your initial impression would have quickly disappeared
@@randylynch4330 Yeah, Terry didn't know what Vince was going for, either. I'm amazed someone just didn't tell Terry to strut around like a cocky, playboy type, not an actual cock!
Max moon suit seems like it would have lots of failures. Even the confetti guns they used barely worked lol. If did work might be underwhelming. Look like sparklers and smoke bombs probably. Side note wouldnt old timers just find Giant Gonzales committed to the gimmick?
Man, I don't remember a single person complaining about that Sting/Hogan match when it happened. Not 1. The only thing I heard during the aftermath of that match was "Yes! Sting Won!" Why is the dirtsheet narrative, which was in the minority back then, now suddenly the de facto narrative that everyone remembers? It's the same thing with the curtain call. No one talked about it back then unless you read the sheets, and there weren't as many as people make it about to be who were reading them.
The best way I can describe to people what the Red Rooster should have been is Jake the Snake Roberts. Jake didn't pretend to be a snake, he embodied a snake. That's how Terry Taylor should have approached the Red Rooster gimmick.
Bastion Booger was probably the worst of the era he was in. I wasn't following WWF much during that time but I saw that and really thought they were completely out of good ideas.
I never liked Taylor, but to be fair, when criticizing Taylor for trying to be like flair or look like flair, Flair himself imitated several people, or even Hulk Hogan imitated Billy Graham, but turned out to become one of the greatest stars ever.... so in my eyes... trying to be an imitation of big stars is likely to work more than being a freaking rooster!
Taylor major flaw was lack of charisma and more emotional, dramatic promos{like he couldn't create a bond with the fans when you can't communicate with them}Talented and skilled, at a level to face Flair in a 60 minutes Broadway, but he lacked the charisma like Steamboat, the popularity and seat filling potential! Vince loves to humiliate some talents loosing self-esteem! Unneeded Polka dot Dusty, who make it work and still popular with crowd, post ECW sterilized WWE Stone Cold! But be by luck or destiny and talents leaving, you can't get fired and SC may have improvised and changed scripts that gave unexpected ratings who peaked at SC segment, saved WWE!
I guess Glenn Jakobs did embrace the Kane gimmick but didn’t embrace Isack Jankem or Fake Diesel..same with the Ringmaster/ Stonecold..if you believe Bruce & Conrad their Red Rooster reasoning...
Actually, Bruce is wrong about Kwang. The mask had nothing to do with Savio's face. Vince wanted a Japanese ninja character (even though he was named kwang which i believe is korean lol) and Savio obviously has no Asian features, and would never be mistaken for one in a million years (I would know because i'm Hispanic American myself), so they put the mask on him. I feel like Vince could've easily looked past Warrior, LOD, Demolition, and all those guys who were no longer with the company that wore paint (his excuse for not doing it), and let savio use it.
I think (sadly) most in the business didn’t have a lot of love for Warrior (even though we all loved him as fans) . He was clearly a difficult individual in his earlier years…but thankfully he made it good with most/many before he passed. I see Bruce as being honest and unfiltered on these pods. Which I value and prefer.
@@Compassiron1 I Think he is Full of Shit !!! His Writing scripts in WWE Now is Stupid him & Vince Kevin Dunn bucktooth ass & John L Ruined a lot of Talent
Cringe lol next it will be putting on a Jim'll fix it episode and singing "u wanna be on my gang" by Gary Glitter. In fact Hogan did a cover of that song lol
I still maintain, the biggest miss in wrestling history isn't Hogan vs. Flair at Wrestlemania 8. It was the fact that Mantaur and El Matador never had a feud.
Lmfaooooo
Also no Rock vs HBK match
I know this is part of his gimmick but God I love when Bruce is in character defending bad ideas.. "You don't have a hat payment?"
The genius of the Akeem gimmick was his hat. The older I get the more I love watching Akeem matches.
Akeem is a wrestling guilty pleasure of mine. His entrance gives me life
The One Man Gang 👍
I loved Akeem the African Dream, great stuff.
Jive soul brother.
Miss Alexandra York entered WCW near the end of 1990 as the manager and financial analyst of Mike Rotunda. According to the storyline Rotunda had inherited a lot of money, turned heel and then adopted the name “Michael Wallstreet” (a gimmick patterned after Gordon Gekko from the film Wall Street). Miss York would use her laptop to analyze Wallstreet's opponents and help him win matches.
Miss York would use her laptop to analyze Wallstreet's opponents and help him win matches.[1] Wallstreet started off strong by defeating The Starblazer at Clash of the Champions XIII[2] before engaging in a feud with Terry Taylor. Miss York claimed that her computer program predicted that Wallstreet could beat Taylor in less than nine minutes, so during their Starrcade 1990 match a nine-minute countdown clock was used. Wallstreet won the match within the time limit. In early 1991, Rotundo left WCW and signed with the World Wrestling Federation where he became a “ruthless tax collector” known as Irwin R. Schyster.[
With no one to manage, Miss York started to scout WCW, looking for her next “project”. At Clash of the Champions XIV Miss York found her man. During a match between Terry Taylor and Ricky Morton Miss York appeared at ringside, distracted Morton and allowed Taylor to win the match.[3] Taylor's turn did not come as any surprise as he was mistakenly introduced as “the Computerized Man of the 90s” before the match. Taylor joined the York Foundation and insisted on being known as Terrence Taylor from now on and started wearing a business suit. Miss York also added Mr. Hughes as a bodyguard.
Amazing early Christmas gift. Classic episode. Thank you for video too. Adds so much to Bruce’s storytelling.
How many ways can Bruce blame the talent fot the company's bad gimmicks
He wont ever accept blame for his ineptness. Not gonna happen
I lik listening to wrestling history. Bruce on the other hand spent so much time up Vince's ass he can't call it for what it was. Bad gimmicks. The best lie Bruce ever said was that the Road Warriors was a copycat of Demolition. He has alot of historical knowledge but his opinions straight up suck...
Artful dodger
How many ways can Conrad blame the sponge cakes and assorted pastries....for his gigantic girth?
Conrad could rock quite a plausible Akeem impersonation.
Holy crap, Conrad looks awesome as Akeem!
Repo Man is the uncrowned IC champion!
Repo Man forever!
Calling Terry Taylor a wannabe Ric Flair when Ric Flair basically copied Buddy Rogers
John Nord did the Brody mannerisms because Brody was his friend/former tag partner and did it as tribute. They even teamed at Wrestlerock 86. Seems like he's had health issues lately including possibly ALS. Berzerker is my favorite silly gimmick ever.
Kane aka Glenn Jacob's WCW name was also Bruiser Mastino .. (like the guy that played Mantaur)
Literally every gimmick Conrad said made by blurt out "Goddamit" except for Repo Man - I agree with Bruce, that one was cool. Oh, and IRS was quite good too.
This is a good one. The 1st 10 or so was my childhood. Good times.
WWE missed the mark with Repo Man. He should of been a babyface. Can you see him repossessing DiBiase’s car or IRS’s briefcase and finding money inside? Ratings gold.
Demolition Ax tells a great story about Red Roosters gimmick...
I have to give credit where credit is due, for a guy that spent his entire career as a super-sized badass, it was incredible to see how One Man Gang really went all-out with a character as outlandish as Akeem.
When Conrad brings up Tugboat & says "so I guess we're a boat now" & Bruce says LIKE a Tugboat and Bruce names off things like Diese and Mack Truck & it IMMEDIATELY brought me back to the promo Shawn Michaels gave when he 1st introduced Diesel as Diesel & its an interview back stage or whatever & Shawn Michaels introduces his body guard and calls him Diesel & I can't remember if the person interviewing Michaels says "Diesel?" Like questioning him or wat but something possesses Shawn Michaels to say "You Heard that right, Diesel, as in that which makes a Mack Truck go"... 1 of those things that's only funny if you watch it but I laughed my ass off when Bruce damn near recited that same Michaels promo & didn't even know lol
That whole Narcolepsy conversation Lmao!!! Conrad moved swiftly away from that 😂😂😂
I came for Mantaur. I was not disappointed.
"Oh I'm a big Hollywood somebody so that means you have to give my kid an autograph!" Go **** yourself lol
Barry Darsow said in an interview that he himself pitched the Repo Man (one of Darsow's previous jobs before wrestling). He said his goal was to turn face with it eventually.
I'll be darned... I have been away from the show for a good while, I come back and what i find... Bruce! Thank you Conrad for finally getting Bruce on screen! i have a lot of catching up to do.
I liked tugboat as a kid, but when he was typhoon I thought he was a good heel and great team with earthquake
Me too. I swear I feel like I was the only kid on the planet that loved that tag team.
I popped for " I wut'nt theya! I wut'nt even theya". Great episode Brucey
If Konan had stuck with Max Moon, would he have eventually become M Dog?
Macho Man' was behind on his hat payments......
Who's smoking dope?!?? Lol. Good shit man
OKC has the “Lebanese Mafia.” It’s actually just a group of Lebanese people who settled in OKC. Many went on to become prominent people and professionals in the area.
I love how Bruce is so firm that the freaking red rooster could have gotten over…
If only Terry had gotten behind it 🙄
it could have only worked if Terry was gonna stay a heel and fall into the strutting, cocky character. The name wasn't the worst, even the silly ass hair could have worked for him as a heel. But Bruce for whatever reason thinks strutting around and crowing like a Rooster was actually gonna pop as a babyface character in '89 if Terry had embraced it. It was never gonna work the way they pushed him, first as a heel being berated by his manager, then as a crowing, head bopping babyface... it all sucked, lol
Yeah, I've always wondered, what exactly does Bruce mean by "embracing" the gimmick??
@@neilefc877 I get what that part means... like how Dusty got the polka dot dancing gimmick and totally fell into it and it actually got over because he just had that kind of personality and ability to pull it off. He thinks Terry didn't do the same with the Rooster, but I just think it sucked either way, because he was a babyface cutting cockadoodledoo promos 😅
There's too much explaining needed for the gimmick. That's a huge reason why it'd be a pain in the ass for anyone to get it over. If a wrestler has to do or say a lot of shit in promos to let the audience know WHY they're called whatever they are, it's not good. A good gimmick is one that doesn't need to be explained.
Nope Conrad. Repo Man was hilarious, awesome and even somewhat over as a heel who got heat/laughs from the audience. Man the vignettes/antics that could've been in the attitude era if he remained there repossessing Head from Al Snow, Socko from Mankind and the list goes on haha. Still lmao at the vignette where he busted the car window with his boot to repossess a car hahaha.
Also as disgusting as Bastian Booger came off, the very first live match I ever saw @ Rosemont Horizon Chicago Sept 93' was Tatanka vs Bastian Booger. And they actually put on one hell of an opener match with the crowd really behind Tatanka litterally rumbling the Horizon by stomping their feet in that echoy venue, Booger getting good drawn out heat, and him making Tatanka look like a million bucks with a surprise crossbody off the top rope for the pin!!!
1:26:29 I know Jim would be pissed hearing that
Bruce Prichard’s Corny impressions are the best!!😂😂😂
Just want to make sure I understand this, in the mid '80s you have a character called Battle cat. In Conrad thinks it may have been an homage to thundercats. He-Man was also around in the mid eighties and actually had a character on it called Battle cat. It was his faithful cat cringer after he got imbued with the mystic powers the cat became Battle cat.
Skinner was memorable… I went to a house show in the early 90’s at the Capital Center as a very young kid. Skinner wrestled champion Bret Hart in the main event. I don’t remember anything from the show other than Skinner’s very loud and very annoying entrance music. And the music wasn’t music at all, but just noises you would hear in a swamp.
😆 just watched the Akeem the African Dream vignette. Wow!!! Let's just say um, yeah, probably can't do this shit in 2022🤣
I totally agree with Bruce on this. Curt could have gotten over just being himself with no gimmick what so ever. But Taylor needed something that would make him stand out.
Love it when Bruce gets fired up. I seem to believe Terry Taylor has gotten under his skin!
Love these podcasts! Thank you Bruce, Conrad and Dave
Max moon is an early mortis/glacier gimmick
Again, maybe the red rooster looked good on paper, and maybe TT could've embraced it more BUT "cock of the walk" "rules the roost" just aren't the most common sayings. And this was the cattoon era WWF and Bruce saying "We didn't expect him to act like an actual rooster..." I call MAJOR bullshit, as you know they wanted TT to be as literal as possible with the gimmick, just like any other gimmick back then. ALSO: Any gimmick that needs some explanation, as to why someone is called whatever it is you're seeing, is never going to be great. The best gimmicks are the ones you see and fully understand without any explanation as to WHY they're named the way they are.
The red rooster should of tag teamed with the Goboldy gooker lol
Even if I could fast forward through the smooth balls commercials, I wouldn’t.
So happy you put the videos podcasts on RUclips
Merry Christmas to all!
How about a show going in detail about the stuff on the shelves behind you. We would really love to know more about the stuff you guys hold important and what is more important than the rest and just more detail in general about what all that is, where you got it and which ones you value the most
Love the idea!
I agree
Yea man I'm pretty sure Conrad owns some ring used belts
He does that as part of the paid ad-free channel.
Great idea!
Conrad, this might be a long shot, but can you guys do a review of Warrior from 88 and 89? He was so massive and had so much intensity in those two years. It would be interesting to hear you guy's thoughts on it.
They did a full Warrior show
"Almost Mr. Perfect. Who says that?" ......You have, Bruce Prichard. On this podcast. Might have been the Mr Perfect episode, but you did say it.
Would help if you could produce the existing audio
He never said that Terry Taylor was potentially going to be Mr Perfect. He has NEVER said that. His story has been very consistent on the Mr. Perfect, Red Rooster thing
Pr5etty sure it was Prichard. Cornette wasn't around than.
@@randylynch4330 I stand corrected. It was Terry Taylor who said it and Bruce and Cornette actually clarified where the gimmick came from. It was around the same time though. My mistake. Which is weird. Cornette wasn't around until after.
Bruce forgot to mention that The Bulldogs put a gimmick in Outbacks drink which set off the chain of events that night
A gimmick? As in a halcyon or something? Like slipping him a mickey?
Pertaining to the Gobbley Gooker, if anyone could work and bump in a huge turkey costume it's a Guerrero
Conrad, your knife is not engraved, it's damascus steel
When I seen Conrad head on Akkems I laughed until I was crying
The Xmas tree story got my like 😅
I sincerely LOOOOOVE YOU.... GOD BLESS MERRY CHRISTMAS 🎅 🎄 🙏 ❤️
What's the thumbnail?
Who goes to a steak house and orders bologne. That's like going to a Italian restaurant and ordering spaghettios
Credit where it's due, Bruce has always defends the Red Rooster gimmick
Terry better have been humbled by the rooster gimmick. Yeah berserker was a Bruiser ripoff. But I liked it
In an Alternate Universe, The Red Rooster, nine time WWF heavyweight champ just signed a legends deal and is now spokesman and owner of Chick-fil-A.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to the STWW team! Great episode. I agree with Bruce about the IRS gimmick being successful. It deserves more love IMO. Can someone tell me what gimmick he thinks WCw were ripping off with Taylor’s computer gimmick? That idea seemed quite ahead of its time to me
Mr. Wallstreet/ Mike Rotunda
@@MrMarchollywood I don't remember Wallstreet/Rotunda ever using a computer. But I guess I can see how they are similar characters. Not sure Taylor's character was ever supposed to be a Wallstreet Broker, that was more his manager.
I think it was a missed opportunity that Thurman 'Spark' Plugg hadn't the "Miledriver" as his finisher.
Want about the gimmick Brutus had in 91 where he came out in a mask and beat people up and leave? No one knew who he was. Could have worked maybe for a bit?
Konnan had a couple of matches on TV as Max Moon but I think he was called 'The Comet Kid' then. I remember his debut and thinking his lucha style was space-age compared with other WWE wrestlers at the time
Its hilarious. The Akeem gimmick would have BLM all over it today lol
To Hell with you guys, Repo Man was the shit.
As a kid, I'm watching wrestling and the Hamburgler comes out? My life was completed.
Hell, I get it. Just thinking about the way the Red Rooster gimmick was SUPPOSED to go, I can see a bunch of ways he could have made it work, both face and heel. I saw an interview one time about Dusty Rhodes and his training talent in the WWE. The person he was training said he didn't like the gimmick he was giving and couldn't make it work. Dusty looked at him and said," When I got here, they put me in yellow and black polka dots and said make it work. I had a family on the line so I made it work. Don't tell me you can't make it work." Understandably, there are some bad gimmicks out there. But it comes down to the talent to make it get over and maybe down the road a better angle will come around if you get this over.
Yeah, but this was late 80s cartoony WWF. I totally the "rules the roost" and "cock of the walk" sayings looks good on paper (albeit they're not the most common and people having to think "cocky" and linking it with that)and yeah, he could try and give the impression of why he was called that, but I can also see the WWF trying to get Terry to literally act like a rooster. It's the type of gimmick where if you have to explain and link and why you're called something to have your name make sense, probably not the best gimmick. The best gimmicks are where you don't have to analyze what it is you're seeing. Could he have made it work? Yeah, but he hated it too much, it was never gonna happen.
Repo would have been great if they did a more modern gritty repo deal. Instead they did Batman 66, which is funny but didn’t have the legs. He did hang the bulldog, which was pretty hardcore for the time
Loved the show. There's so many bad characters in wrestling out there.
This show is better when you guys are not on screen im just saying lol. Like when bruce does his voces off cam its better to invision than to see him doing them.
The red rooster gimmick sucked. Terry Taylor was a better hand than that. He definitely was NOT a Mr Perfect. That had Curt written all over it. Does Bruce have anything good to say about any stars that did not get their start on WWE?
I've never found a YT video packed with so many interrupting commercials, at least 20 PLUS multiple live reads. How hard can you squeeze the nickels?
Absolutely loved Akeem.
I loved that The Repo Man was a cartoon villain come to life.
Papa Shango was an excellent gimmick
The best gimmicks like Papa Shango don't last and are cut short when they are a threat to the established order!
What was censored at 35:08?
"Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport" is a song written by Australian singer Rolf Harris
Harris was convicted in 2014 of the sexual assault of four underage girls, which effectively ended his career.
No one but Vince understood the Rooster gimmick. I was 15 at the time and I liked Terry Taylor from other companies. When they unveiled the Rooster gimmick, I immediately thought, "They named him after a chicken." That's what we ALL thought.
But that's also Bruce's point. Terry acted like a chicken. If he didn't acted like an actual chicken and cockadoodledoo then your initial impression would have quickly disappeared
@@randylynch4330 Yeah, Terry didn't know what Vince was going for, either. I'm amazed someone just didn't tell Terry to strut around like a cocky, playboy type, not an actual cock!
Loved Akeem the African dream Slick and Bobby the brain and the Red Rooster fun tv
I loved Repo Man sorry Conrad.
Max moon suit seems like it would have lots of failures. Even the confetti guns they used barely worked lol. If did work might be underwhelming. Look like sparklers and smoke bombs probably. Side note wouldnt old timers just find Giant Gonzales committed to the gimmick?
Buddy Lindell Ric Flair Copied ! Nature Boy Buddy Rodgers
Man, I don't remember a single person complaining about that Sting/Hogan match when it happened. Not 1. The only thing I heard during the aftermath of that match was "Yes! Sting Won!" Why is the dirtsheet narrative, which was in the minority back then, now suddenly the de facto narrative that everyone remembers? It's the same thing with the curtain call. No one talked about it back then unless you read the sheets, and there weren't as many as people make it about to be who were reading them.
I remember Repo Man being pretty popular when I was a kid
The best way I can describe to people what the Red Rooster should have been is Jake the Snake Roberts. Jake didn't pretend to be a snake, he embodied a snake. That's how Terry Taylor should have approached the Red Rooster gimmick.
Terry Taylor Was A Great Wrestler seen him in NWA & AWA & Mid South
And ric ripped off buddy rogers
Bastion Booger was probably the worst of the era he was in. I wasn't following WWF much during that time but I saw that and really thought they were completely out of good ideas.
I always wandered who bought into their gimmick the most or possibly too much.
Wiener meat?... I could have gone the rest of my life not hearing him say that!
I never liked Taylor, but to be fair, when criticizing Taylor for trying to be like flair or look like flair, Flair himself imitated several people, or even Hulk Hogan imitated Billy Graham, but turned out to become one of the greatest stars ever.... so in my eyes... trying to be an imitation of big stars is likely to work more than being a freaking rooster!
Taylor major flaw was lack of charisma and more emotional, dramatic promos{like he couldn't create a bond with the fans when you can't communicate with them}Talented and skilled, at a level to face Flair in a 60 minutes Broadway, but he lacked the charisma like Steamboat, the popularity and seat filling potential! Vince loves to humiliate some talents loosing self-esteem! Unneeded Polka dot Dusty, who make it work and still popular with crowd, post ECW sterilized WWE Stone Cold! But be by luck or destiny and talents leaving, you can't get fired and SC may have improvised and changed scripts that gave unexpected ratings who peaked at SC segment, saved WWE!
I guess Glenn Jakobs did embrace the Kane gimmick but didn’t embrace Isack Jankem or Fake Diesel..same with the Ringmaster/ Stonecold..if you believe Bruce & Conrad their Red Rooster reasoning...
Yea...thats correct. Austin HATED the gimmick so he actively pushed to change it lmao.
@@randylynch4330 I hated that WWF sterilized post ECW birth of SC character later refining in post WWE million $ gimmick.
Actually, Bruce is wrong about Kwang. The mask had nothing to do with Savio's face. Vince wanted a Japanese ninja character (even though he was named kwang which i believe is korean lol) and Savio obviously has no Asian features, and would never be mistaken for one in a million years (I would know because i'm Hispanic American myself), so they put the mask on him. I feel like Vince could've easily looked past Warrior, LOD, Demolition, and all those guys who were no longer with the company that wore paint (his excuse for not doing it), and let savio use it.
Hey man!!!
OMG!! Bruce trying to sell The Red Rooster gimmick as something remotely salvageable, please!
That's not a knife, this is a knife! That's not a knife, it's a spoon...
I see you've played knifey spooney before...
Ultimate Warrior Had A Great Gimmick & Lived it 24/7 ! Bruce Prichard still Hates the man he is Gone ! Super Petty
I think (sadly) most in the business didn’t have a lot of love for Warrior (even though we all loved him as fans) . He was clearly a difficult individual in his earlier years…but thankfully he made it good with most/many before he passed. I see Bruce as being honest and unfiltered on these pods. Which I value and prefer.
@@Compassiron1 I Think he is Full of Shit !!! His Writing scripts in WWE Now is Stupid him & Vince Kevin Dunn bucktooth ass & John L Ruined a lot of Talent
@@Compassiron1 most in the business Was Jealous Ass people
Is Bruce gone from WWE?
Don't apologize for any gimmick unless you are apologizing for its lameness.
Bruce singing Rolf Harris 😬😬😬
Cringe lol next it will be putting on a Jim'll fix it episode and singing "u wanna be on my gang" by Gary Glitter. In fact Hogan did a cover of that song lol
Lets assume (hope) he doesn't know.
Sami Zayn is the Viking?