@@surreydaprejident432 as Ventura once said Lanny can't punch his way outta a wet paper bag !! I'm not that hard on Poffo , I believe he could punch his way outta a wet paper bag,(but he'd probably get hurt trying ! )👍🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️🙂🙂
He wasn't some brilliant mat technician like a Steamboat or a Flair, but he didn't have to be. He had buckets and buckets of charisma, and that's what draws people in, and in turn, that's what makes money.
Well I’ve been a fan of JYD since I was nine years old and I’m currently 50 years old and the truth has come out about JYD He was an average wrestler at best but he was extremely good looking Chris Matic guy that was among the first wrestlers to enter the rain using music but he had a drug problem he was overweight but I will always be a fan of his
I remember JYD from when I lived in the south and watched him on Mid-South Wrestling. This was sometime between 1978 and 1982. He was great back then. People loved him because of his showmanship over his wrestling. He was damned funny! The kids loved his music and how he danced after winning the match. Later on JYD would get kids in the ring to dance with him and the people ate that stuff up. That's why he was so popular, his showmanship. Now these two guys are talking about later in his career and they said he abused drugs and that's why he was bad later. I don't know about that. But JYD is one of the all time greats.
MultiSamTaylor LMAO. YOu never watched mid south then. His matches with Butch Reed were legendary. Please refrain from calling yourself a wrestling fan..the fact you said IWA tells me you are a youtube wrestling fan.
Roc Hallaway, I always liked to watch the Junk yard dog back in day. Loved his music, his entrance and especially his gimmick. But, to be honest, he did have have some great matches and no so great matches. He was fun to watch either way though. I've been watching the sport since the mid 1960's. Just sayn!
He knew how to work the fans. He was great in the early 80s down in Mid South but by the time he got to the WWF he was out of shape and his drug habit was getting out of control.
Wow, so weird. Although not in the video, I was working the cash register that day. I remember you bought a pack of wrigley spearmint gum before you left.
I can't recall JYD having to sit in some Goodwill with a mid south "jobber" and talk about another wrestler for $5.00. Dude is in his 60's and still thinks he is in character with his Elvis costume. Maybe he is waiting for that WWE callback.
JYD was dead before that could happen, which it probably would have. Comment again when you achieve the success these guys have. In wrestling. Or even otherwise.
@@jonbourgoin182 Look... a nobody telling a somebody to comment when they achieve sitting in a Goodwill with a jobber and a Elvis wannabe. FACT: Honkey Tonk was a clown. A corny gimmick that couldnt put asses in seats. Not a single 90's star said he was worth a nickle with a hole in it. Yet the ones worth their salt said JYD was King of Mid South. All he had to do was show up and it was a sellout. Another one who watch onr Wrestlemaina and wants to tell people they know wrestling. Run along and get to that Goodwill before these 2 idiots bu all your favorite outfits!
that's his deal nowadays. trying to make a few bucks telling old stories and talk shit about old wrestlers. Christ look where they are, looks like some goodwill store in nowhere Nebraska. what did they get to appear there, 50 bucks?
Junkyard dog came to our hood mall in like 85-87...the place was mobbed wall to wall ..this was in CT too the home of wrestling...people loved this guy
@@evalsoftserver Yeah but at the end of the day he wore a dog collar around his neck and barked. Likable I’ll give you that especially to children. But he never had a belt around his waist so I don’t see what there is to be jealous about professional wise that is
@@evalsoftserver That’s all well and good if none of it pertained to the Honkytonk Man. You’re actually backing up my point and you don’t even realize it. A honky-tonk man had all of those things. There’s nothing for him to be jealous about. If you want to say that he just flat out didn’t like the guy then that’s one thing that you might have a point on. But jealous? There’s no reason to be, he had a more successful career
I wrestle with JYD on some Indy shows after his days in the NWA, WWF of old, he was great guy, was he stiff? yeah, but so was a bunch of other guys, the point was to entertain and but butts in seats and that he did...RIP my brother
You never heard of Lanny's insulting limericks towards his opponents before the match starts as he throws the frisbee afterwards to anyone in the crowd? This actually happens when the match is about to start.
Reading through these comments it is amazing to see that HTM still draws heat. Let's face it he was not the best wrestler by any means. But what allowed him to hold a strap for so long was his ability to draw heat. So many "marks".
Prime example of how being one of the most over babyfaces of all time wins you half of the battle. He had charisma but was limited in the ring and it didn't matter...When we showed up at Wrestlepalooza in 98 a month before his death he got a standing ovation from one of the hardest crowds to win over in the history of the business...not because he was a great "hand" but because he was an incredible babyface. A trailblazer as far as African American main eventers go. Aaaand he beat Steve Keirn's sorry ass naked in the locker room. Legend...
Let me tell you something. HTM got to be the longest reigning IC Champ by doing three things: 1. Being in the right place at the right time by beating Steamboat while he was on the outs with Vince. 2. Losing by DQ and countout to every major contender to the title. 3. Threatening to go to the Crocketts if he had to job to Savage and lose the title. Not a very credible source. As far as Lanny Poffo, the best win he ever had was a countout over Hulk Hogan in 1990.
I saw Honky Tonk Man wrestle JYD in Louisville when I was a kid. Honky Tonk was fairly new and just a laughable character that didn’t seem tough at all, but JYD got everybody excited; I mean, the guy was a legend. Poffo was out in the hallway signing frisbees for whoever even bothered to stop and ask for an autograph
JYD had terrific charisma. But even in the Mid-South dvd, Ted Dibiase said how difficult it was to work with the Dog, even in his prime. He was using the "five moves of doom" long before John Cena.
No, I agree with you on that. Honestly, these two sound bitter more than anything else. I am sure Dog's popularity, in spite of his lack of ring skills probably rubbed a few people the wrong way.
Anyone liking this video needs to check search JYD Blinded for Life. You see the talent that JYD had prior to moving to the WWF and being used as a mid card act. He was one of the most popular wrestlers in the country while in Mid South during his feuds with the Freebirds, Ted DiBiase and others.
i still vividly remember terry and hoss funk vs jyd and george teh animal steel on an episode of the wrestling classic. JYD couldn't carry a bottle of water let alone a match. he made 'the animal' work pretty much about 85% of the match. JYD would come in blow up after about 30 seconds and tag out. terri was bumping all over the place for JYD's weak punches and head butts. it was a shame because JYD was one of my favorites but even kid me at that time could see how washed up he was. the incredible thing is he kept showing up in major promotions for like another 5 years but he did have an undeniable charisma, million dollar smile, and silly promos
JYD was a very natural likable charismatic persona in wrestling, I recall JYD’s WWF run when I was a kid & his character was immensely popular, now I also remember when HTM debuted on Superstars or Challenge & he was not at all popular with watchers but when he lost that WWF phone contest they made a heel out of him & it was definitely a no looking back success story as well, people always say attitude era was the best but nothing beats the feel good entertaining wrestling show of shows during the rock n wrestling era.
The memorable thing about JYD was him babbling. No matter what, he was always yapping about something in the ring. Usually, it was incoherent. But, babbling was still funny.
When it comes to Lanny, I remember him, and really liked his gimmick as The Genius, BUT, it's s little disturbing how they throw that word LEGEND around. Good guy, decent wrestler, but Legend?
Many wrestlers over the years have claimed that JYD was a crack user. Bret Hart would be the most prominent one to do so. And I don't believe it was all sour grapes because Bret was always on good terms with him.
I appreciate their honesty. I was a huge JYD fan, but decades later, I see what they mean. Honky and Poffo were great in the ring, professionally. This isn't gimmick vs gimmick, this is real talk about selling in the ring. JYD wasn't an in ring persona, like Hogan, but a character more than a gimmick. Some of us watched for the WRESTLING more than storylines. That takes nothing away from JYD, just like you cant discount Hogans contributions.
love him or hate him,he tells it like it is. some wrestlers were hard to make a good match with and it didnt matter if they played a heal, or a baby face.
I think this was the classic where Funk left Vince Junior a note that he had a sick horse and had to go home to the Double Cross Ranch in Amarillo, TX.
Charismatic as hell, and Watts pushed him correctly as a brawler, but as soon as he went to the WWF that was it for him. His matches with Flair in 1990 were atrocious.
Judy started in stampede as Big Daddy Ritter, played a white womanizing heel, who had alot of heat, even held the top belt in the territory for a while.
Lanny was and still is in the shadow of his brother Randy and has major psychological issues with other wrestlers based on that jealousy and bias. Ferris aka High Honkytonk man with his major fucked hatred of JYD and totally jealous of his gimmick and charisma.. JYD was jyst simply awesome and couldn't get enough of watching him as a kid..
JYD wasn't a great worker but that wasn't his role. I believe JYD was one of those guys Vince used to entertain the fans ala Santino. JYD was so over but lets face it wrestling really isn't all about work rate its a circus where we have to pretend it's real. Everyone knows it fake anyway we just want a good show. Wrestling is more of a movie than a sport it's about as real as LOST and the dam button.
Well them painful arm bars are real along with them wrestling holds. Along with them falling on top of the other and being slammed, hit by a chair, etc. For one to do it , one' s got to be real tough. I like the wrestling soap operas. Especially the older ones.
It's funny how 2 pro wrestlers who wrestled the same time as JYD and want to bad mouth the guy, names are not in the WWE HOF like JYD. Maybe if they would've had whatever it was JYD had, they'd be in the HOF. "Don't hate on the man, hate the facts that you guys didn't have IT!!!"
Damn, they really don’t have a good thing to say about JYD. Wow… He did enough to where people fuckin remembered him and still adore him.. But no kind words from his peers, got it..
The people gravitated to JYD because he had personalty, we can understand why a Elvis impersonator who never developed his own personality can't see that. HTM not being able to see that is soo sad that its pathetic.
In wwf, yes, but let's not think that JYD's career was encompassed in the couple years he was in that federation. I grew up down south on the MS gulf coast and I was lucky enough to get to see Bill Watts' Mid-South Wrestling (later known as UWF) in my area. Just about every two weeks it would swing through Biloxi, MS and through four years of high school, I rarely missed a show. The man was phenomenal, no if's and's or but's about it. I remember many great matches with him against Hacksaw Duggan, Ted DiBiase, Super Destroyer, The Samoans (Afa & Sika) and the list goes on and on. Trust me, I'm no fan, I'm no mark. Sine the rist time I ever watched pro wrestling in January of 1980, I've been a student of the business, always wanting to know how they did this and that and figure out the secrets of the business which I did successfully long before the internet was commonplace in everyone's home. After matches I would stop by this 7-11 that was near the Gulf Coast Coliseum because it was where the wrestlers would all stop to get gas, beer, food for the journey up the road to the next town. They'd try their kayfabe speak and storylines but I'd just look at them and ask, "do I look like a fool?" lol. They'd break and we'd sit shooting the breeze telling me road stories which was pretty damned cool. Crap, sorry, got nostalgic there for a bit, but as for JYD, he simply went to wwf for the big payday, thats it. He left at the same time Vince raided the territory and got One Man Gang, Buzz Sawyer, Ted DiBiase, Hacksaw Duggan, Hacksaw Reed etc etc. I'll tell you something though, Bill Watts used to bring in top talent like Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Andre etc for short tours of the area. He never once brought wayne farris (HTM) in because he simply wasn't regarded as a good worker or even as a draw to put asses in seats. HTM's whole career can be considered as encompassed in wwf simply because he didn't draw anywhere else and quite frankly, other than swinging a guitar and dressing like an effeminate Elvis, he was just part of the clownish cartoon era of wwf.
The stuff he says about brett hart and shawn michaels was true tho. Not sure about jyd, because all ive heard is the exact opposite. He was a HUGE draw in the south hence wwf had to sign him and he was a star tho too but they never really gave him title runs.
Dog made money, but was horrible in the ring; Harley Race bumped his ass off at Mania III, and Dog added nothing, and that match only lasted about four minutes, but Race's work made it seem much longer and better.
JYD was the man...he had the physical prescence...and his own personality and charisma. How dare you speak ill of the man...you never coyld fill his shoes...even after he went down hill because of age and drugs
Junkyard Dogs powerslam was better than both these guys move-sets put together. It's nice to know Honky's a jerk in real life also. Maybe my hatred was justified as a kid. I loved it when Warrior crushed him in seconds. He never deserved that long of a title run anyways...S.M.H
I see why these two guys get along so well....they are both dickheads.
@@thorn35 I've seen Poffo equate homosexuals and child molesters, so he's not exactly a genius either.
@@surreydaprejident432 So JYD was a great worker because he's dead? Fuck outta here.
The funniest thing is that Hannibal pinned this, while he had at least two interviews with them since...
@@surreydaprejident432 as Ventura once said Lanny can't punch his way outta a wet paper bag !! I'm not that hard on Poffo , I believe he could punch his way outta a wet paper bag,(but he'd probably get hurt trying ! )👍🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️🙂🙂
@TheVoiceOfTruth Get with the 21st century.
The Junkyard Dogs popularity despite having minimal wrestling skills, goes to show just how far having charisma can take you.
his tank was always full on charisma.
He wasn't some brilliant mat technician like a Steamboat or a Flair, but he didn't have to be. He had buckets and buckets of charisma, and that's what draws people in, and in turn, that's what makes money.
@@gavinstutler2469 If people are attracted to you, thatś charisma.
Well I’ve been a fan of JYD since I was nine years old and I’m currently 50 years old and the truth has come out about JYD He was an average wrestler at best but he was extremely good looking Chris Matic guy that was among the first wrestlers to enter the rain using music but he had a drug problem he was overweight but I will always be a fan of his
Yeah, JYD was just good energy. Never notice how good or not a "technician" he was... he was a likable character.
I remember JYD from when I lived in the south and watched him on Mid-South Wrestling. This was sometime between 1978 and 1982. He was great back then. People loved him because of his showmanship over his wrestling. He was damned funny! The kids loved his music and how he danced after winning the match. Later on JYD would get kids in the ring to dance with him and the people ate that stuff up. That's why he was so popular, his showmanship. Now these two guys are talking about later in his career and they said he abused drugs and that's why he was bad later. I don't know about that. But JYD is one of the all time greats.
As a kid in early eighties. I loved jyd
Facts!!! The Freebird hair cream incident that caused JYD to be blinded (wink) had my Granny in tears. She hated the Freebirds for life after that.
Funniest thing about this is Lanny Poffo billed as a WWE Legend. That's even funnier than them sitting at a Goodwill for a few dollars.
slimydick23 i agree on poffo....and hall of fame..needs a face lift
He's a legendary jobber!!👍🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️🤸♂️😎
He was The Genius, the world's smartest man.
I think everybody forgets his dad owned a territory that him and his brother mocho man ran.
That HTM impression of Funk had me in tears
It was great.
Sounds like jealousy to me, Leaping Lanny Popoff, was a jobber in Mid South where the JYD ruled
MultiSamTaylor LMAO. YOu never watched mid south then. His matches with Butch Reed were legendary. Please refrain from calling yourself a wrestling fan..the fact you said IWA tells me you are a youtube wrestling fan.
Tell him Watson
Roc Hallaway, I always liked to watch the Junk yard dog back in day. Loved his music, his entrance and especially his gimmick. But, to be honest, he did have have some great matches and no so great matches. He was fun to watch either way though. I've been watching the sport since the mid 1960's. Just sayn!
JYD is dead and Poffo is still alive. JYD is jealous of Poffo.
Everyone said the same. Wasn't jealousy. Poffo probably made ten times the money being a jobber.
JYD wasn't a great worker, but the dude had charisma.
when he came to the WWF he was on borrowed time though.
He knew how to work the fans. He was great in the early 80s down in Mid South but by the time he got to the WWF he was out of shape and his drug habit was getting out of control.
Jeez wow I never thought I would see this again. I'm the kid with the two title belts standing there btw
No you’re not
Wow, so weird. Although not in the video, I was working the cash register that day. I remember you bought a pack of wrigley spearmint gum before you left.
@@sickboy6663 No way, I was the trashman who found that rapper in the trash the next day!
Oh shit! Im the rapper you saw in the trash!
I’m the title belt sitting on your shoulder
I can't recall JYD having to sit in some Goodwill with a mid south "jobber" and talk about another wrestler for $5.00. Dude is in his 60's and still thinks he is in character with his Elvis costume. Maybe he is waiting for that WWE callback.
JYD was dead before that could happen, which it probably would have. Comment again when you achieve the success these guys have. In wrestling. Or even otherwise.
@@jonbourgoin182 Look... a nobody telling a somebody to comment when they achieve sitting in a Goodwill with a jobber and a Elvis wannabe. FACT: Honkey Tonk was a clown. A corny gimmick that couldnt put asses in seats. Not a single 90's star said he was worth a nickle with a hole in it. Yet the ones worth their salt said JYD was King of Mid South. All he had to do was show up and it was a sellout. Another one who watch onr Wrestlemaina and wants to tell people they know wrestling. Run along and get to that Goodwill before these 2 idiots bu all your favorite outfits!
Rip uncle jyd
I loved JYD the man made me a wrestling fan.
Has this guy ever got a positive thing to say unless it pertains to him?
that's his deal nowadays. trying to make a few bucks telling old stories and talk shit about old wrestlers. Christ look where they are, looks like some goodwill store in nowhere Nebraska. what did they get to appear there, 50 bucks?
***** LMFAO hahahaha This comment has made my week !
You sir, have made my week!
No. End of sentence.
Matthew Caligari He even says negative shit about his cousin Jerry Lawler! lol
@@068dirtboy $50, between the two of them, I'll bet.
Junkyard dog came to our hood mall in like 85-87...the place was mobbed wall to wall ..this was in CT too the home of wrestling...people loved this guy
As opposed to that 5 star classic vs ultimate warrior 😂
JYD could job to everyone for 5 years straight and still have the crowd eating out of hand, he was THAT OVER
jack frost 🥶 💯
@@Ijustinsultedyou Over like Rover. Like your boy, Roman Reigns.
I detect Jealousy of JYD.
I don’t know what for ?
@@Ijustinsultedyou JYD was always very popular and very likeable especially in the South
@@evalsoftserver Yeah but at the end of the day he wore a dog collar around his neck and barked. Likable I’ll give you that especially to children. But he never had a belt around his waist so I don’t see what there is to be jealous about professional wise that is
@@Ijustinsultedyou SUCCESS POPULARITY AND MONEY 3: THINGS TO BE JEALOUS ABOUT
@@evalsoftserver That’s all well and good if none of it pertained to the Honkytonk Man. You’re actually backing up my point and you don’t even realize it. A honky-tonk man had all of those things. There’s nothing for him to be jealous about. If you want to say that he just flat out didn’t like the guy then that’s one thing that you might have a point on. But jealous? There’s no reason to be, he had a more successful career
That kid with the two belts looks like Ralphie in A Christmas Story being told by Santa "You'll shoot your eye out, kid."
Spoiler alert for anyone born after 1991. Wrestling wasn't invented in 2005.
I wrestle with JYD on some Indy shows after his days in the NWA, WWF of old, he was great guy, was he stiff? yeah, but so was a bunch of other guys, the point was to entertain and but butts in seats and that he did...RIP my brother
You should do a shoot interview. Were you enhancement talent? I'm genuinely asking
@@jonbourgoin182 He’s an Indy mark who thinks he’s a worker and probably paid his own money to “work a name.”
I always watched wrestling in the 80's. I loved JYD, I've never even heard of Lanny Poffo before these videos.
You never heard of Lanny's insulting limericks towards his opponents before the match starts as he throws the frisbee afterwards to anyone in the crowd? This actually happens when the match is about to start.
Lanny Poffo is Macho Man’s real life brother.
Reading through these comments it is amazing to see that HTM still draws heat.
Let's face it he was not the best wrestler by any means. But what allowed him to hold a strap for so long was his ability to draw heat.
So many "marks".
+drookor Bingo. He can still rile up people
Agreed 100%
Reading the comments, it just seems like the JYD was cool as hell!!!! Simple as that. Can’t get to clearer than that.
Prime example of how being one of the most over babyfaces of all time wins you half of the battle. He had charisma but was limited in the ring and it didn't matter...When we showed up at Wrestlepalooza in 98 a month before his death he got a standing ovation from one of the hardest crowds to win over in the history of the business...not because he was a great "hand" but because he was an incredible babyface. A trailblazer as far as African American main eventers go. Aaaand he beat Steve Keirn's sorry ass naked in the locker room. Legend...
Let me tell you something. HTM got to be the longest reigning IC Champ by doing three things:
1. Being in the right place at the right time by beating Steamboat while he was on the outs with Vince.
2. Losing by DQ and countout to every major contender to the title.
3. Threatening to go to the Crocketts if he had to job to Savage and lose the title.
Not a very credible source. As far as Lanny Poffo, the best win he ever had was a countout over Hulk Hogan in 1990.
With Mr. Perfect outside ring interference by helping lanny win on that count out. It wasn't even clean.
JYD was the most over wrestler that Mid South ever had.
No doubt about that. Mid South produced a lot of really talented guys but JYD was definitely the biggest star down there.
@@DixiePokerAce it’s crazy how over he was when he got to the WWF as well
Informative. I didn't know that JYD was so despised.
I saw Honky Tonk Man wrestle JYD in Louisville when I was a kid. Honky Tonk was fairly new and just a laughable character that didn’t seem tough at all, but JYD got everybody excited; I mean, the guy was a legend. Poffo was out in the hallway signing frisbees for whoever even bothered to stop and ask for an autograph
Another Louisvillian in the house!
JYD had terrific charisma. But even in the Mid-South dvd, Ted Dibiase said how difficult it was to work with the Dog, even in his prime. He was using the "five moves of doom" long before John Cena.
No, I agree with you on that. Honestly, these two sound bitter more than anything else. I am sure Dog's popularity, in spite of his lack of ring skills probably rubbed a few people the wrong way.
I paid to see a match live where JYD Took one move and laid on the mat sayin “gegegegegegegegege”
Best money I ever spent
Ptl . Stop the hating gentlemen the man is dead and beside he is still being talked about and you too are alive and nobody remembers you.
When I was growing up in the 80s JYD was awesome! R.I.P JYD
was this a shot in a goodwill store
It's where Kevin Owens gets his wrestling gear.
The honking
joke man couldn't lace the junkyard dog boots
Honking sucked - lame gimmick and his own biggest mark.
Anyone liking this video needs to check search JYD Blinded for Life. You see the talent that JYD had prior to moving to the WWF and being used as a mid card act. He was one of the most popular wrestlers in the country while in Mid South during his feuds with the Freebirds, Ted DiBiase and others.
Someone please buy Poffo a glass so he doesn't have to drink out of a plastic jug.
Wow, they don't sound spiteful all....
i still vividly remember terry and hoss funk vs jyd and george teh animal steel on an episode of the wrestling classic. JYD couldn't carry a bottle of water let alone a match. he made 'the animal' work pretty much about 85% of the match. JYD would come in blow up after about 30 seconds and tag out. terri was bumping all over the place for JYD's weak punches and head butts. it was a shame because JYD was one of my favorites but even kid me at that time could see how washed up he was.
the incredible thing is he kept showing up in major promotions for like another 5 years
but he did have an undeniable charisma, million dollar smile, and silly promos
Let's see, of the 3 guys ( JYD, Honkytonk Man, Lanny Poffo) who's in the WWE HOF? Oh yea JYD.
JYD was a very natural likable charismatic persona in wrestling, I recall JYD’s WWF run when I was a kid & his character was immensely popular, now I also remember when HTM debuted on Superstars or Challenge & he was not at all popular with watchers but when he lost that WWF phone contest they made a heel out of him & it was definitely a no looking back success story as well, people always say attitude era was the best but nothing beats the feel good entertaining wrestling show of shows during the rock n wrestling era.
Honky thonk man, we like the junk yard dog because he had personality and charisma, that's why.
The memorable thing about JYD was him babbling. No matter what, he was always yapping about something in the ring. Usually, it was incoherent. But, babbling was still funny.
When it comes to Lanny, I remember him, and really liked his gimmick as The Genius, BUT, it's s little disturbing how they throw that word LEGEND around. Good guy, decent wrestler, but Legend?
I feel like Honkey's Elvis gimmick never got him quite where he wanted to go.
Are they signing autographs at a Salvation Army?
it’s sad
Always enjoyed these stories from the wrestlers i grew up watching
Saw JYD at wally world in his later years pushing a show at the National Guard Armory in Indiana......RIP Sylvester Ritter
As i got older i went back to watch his fights man they were atrocious
Many wrestlers over the years have claimed that JYD was a crack user. Bret Hart would be the most prominent one to do so. And I don't believe it was all sour grapes because Bret was always on good terms with him.
Not sure about crack, but there was another wrestler that JYD turned on to speed, not sure who it was.
+dharmaseed Buddy of mine met JYD at an ECW PPV weeks before he died. JYD was doing coke in his car early in the day and was fucked up out of his mind
I love how a guy that's has a Elvis wrestling gimmick and Macho Mans untaleted brother are ripping JYD....classy guys
that* has an* Elvis wrestling gimmick
untalented*
Darth Vader u sad pathetic turd
I appreciate their honesty. I was a huge JYD fan, but decades later, I see what they mean. Honky and Poffo were great in the ring, professionally. This isn't gimmick vs gimmick, this is real talk about selling in the ring. JYD wasn't an in ring persona, like Hogan, but a character more than a gimmick.
Some of us watched for the WRESTLING more than storylines. That takes nothing away from JYD, just like you cant discount Hogans contributions.
that's new, a white guy bemoaning the fact that a black guy is well liked and they don't know why, how original
Rob Hansen Almost as funny as the lie BLM was built on
@@chitownace777 you responded to a 4 year old comment 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
love him or hate him,he tells it like it is. some wrestlers were hard to make a good match with and it didnt matter if they played a heal, or a baby face.
I think this was the classic where Funk left Vince Junior a note that he had a sick horse and had to go home to the Double Cross Ranch in Amarillo, TX.
Jyd was a legend man,cmon
Charismatic as hell, and Watts pushed him correctly as a brawler, but as soon as he went to the WWF that was it for him. His matches with Flair in 1990 were atrocious.
I loved JYD. It's easy to bash a guy when he's dead-you 2 sound jealous.
Say's a man that got pinned under 3:00 minutes by the Ultimate Warrior at Summer Slam 88.....smh
Because he was booked to... It's all planned, you do understand that right? It's fiction.
If i was a wrestler back in the 80s i would have been a awesome member of the fabulous freebirds
I loved the junkyard dog
Judy started in stampede as Big Daddy Ritter, played a white womanizing heel, who had alot of heat, even held the top belt in the territory for a while.
Lanny was and still is in the shadow of his brother Randy and has major psychological issues with other wrestlers based on that jealousy and bias.
Ferris aka High Honkytonk man with his major fucked hatred of JYD and totally jealous of his gimmick and charisma.. JYD was jyst simply awesome and couldn't get enough of watching him as a kid..
Its the name. Junkyard dog. thats what it is. Everyone likes the name.
JYD wasn't a great worker but that wasn't his role. I believe JYD was one of those guys Vince used to entertain the fans ala Santino. JYD was so over but lets face it wrestling really isn't all about work rate its a circus where we have to pretend it's real. Everyone knows it fake anyway we just want a good show. Wrestling is more of a movie than a sport it's about as real as LOST and the dam button.
Well them painful arm bars are real along with them wrestling holds. Along with them falling on top of the other and being slammed, hit by a chair, etc. For one to do it , one' s got to be real tough. I like the wrestling soap operas. Especially the older ones.
Hey, he couldn't wrestle, he couldn't talk but he drew money so that's all that mattered LOL
True.
Exactly, JYD was way over with the fans. He had drug issues and he was out of shape but wrestling fans loved him.
Watch that JYD vs Harley Race match at Wrestlemania III. It is atrocious.
JYD's matches at the Wrestling Classic were even worse...
Sound like hate to me .. but what do I know I'm jus a wrestling fan
JYD was in the cartoon- that's mainly what I remember him from
I can't disagree with him there. JYD had an extremely limited moveset now that I look back on his matches.
Didn't the warrior beat this ass clown in like 30 seconds for the IC title JYD is a Legend
That's funny, everyone did gravitate to JYD, but all I know is I absolutely hated hated hated Honky Tonk Man.
It's funny how 2 pro wrestlers who wrestled the same time as JYD and want to bad mouth the guy, names are not in the WWE HOF like JYD. Maybe if they would've had whatever it was JYD had, they'd be in the HOF. "Don't hate on the man, hate the facts that you guys didn't have IT!!!"
Supposedly, JYD is the guy who introduced Dynamite Kid to the world of substance abuse.
Looks like a lot of fan envy, JYD like the great one's no not great wrasslers but great personalities live on.....and that is what he had
look like some hate in the air.RIP JYD..
Damn, they really don’t have a good thing to say about JYD. Wow… He did enough to where people fuckin remembered him and still adore him.. But no kind words from his peers, got it..
Wrestlers are very jealous people overall
The people gravitated to JYD because he had personalty, we can understand why a Elvis impersonator who never developed his own personality can't see that. HTM not being able to see that is soo sad that its pathetic.
2:02 people love dogs 🐕 that’s why and he was a cool black dude
Honky Tonk was never a favorite of mine and anyone else that I knew. His "gimmick" was corny.end of story.
JYD has charisma. He has a good body for a wrestler. For what i saw he had to work hard to mantain a fit body.
Two NON hall of famers ragging on a true hall of famer, gee, I wonder why? A little jealousy there?
In wwf, yes, but let's not think that JYD's career was encompassed in the couple years he was in that federation.
I grew up down south on the MS gulf coast and I was lucky enough to get to see Bill Watts' Mid-South Wrestling (later known as UWF) in my area. Just about every two weeks it would swing through Biloxi, MS and through four years of high school, I rarely missed a show. The man was phenomenal, no if's and's or but's about it.
I remember many great matches with him against Hacksaw Duggan, Ted DiBiase, Super Destroyer, The Samoans (Afa & Sika) and the list goes on and on.
Trust me, I'm no fan, I'm no mark. Sine the rist time I ever watched pro wrestling in January of 1980, I've been a student of the business, always wanting to know how they did this and that and figure out the secrets of the business which I did successfully long before the internet was commonplace in everyone's home.
After matches I would stop by this 7-11 that was near the Gulf Coast Coliseum because it was where the wrestlers would all stop to get gas, beer, food for the journey up the road to the next town. They'd try their kayfabe speak and storylines but I'd just look at them and ask, "do I look like a fool?" lol. They'd break and we'd sit shooting the breeze telling me road stories which was pretty damned cool.
Crap, sorry, got nostalgic there for a bit, but as for JYD, he simply went to wwf for the big payday, thats it. He left at the same time Vince raided the territory and got One Man Gang, Buzz Sawyer, Ted DiBiase, Hacksaw Duggan, Hacksaw Reed etc etc.
I'll tell you something though, Bill Watts used to bring in top talent like Flair, Dusty Rhodes, Andre etc for short tours of the area. He never once brought wayne farris (HTM) in because he simply wasn't regarded as a good worker or even as a draw to put asses in seats.
HTM's whole career can be considered as encompassed in wwf simply because he didn't draw anywhere else and quite frankly, other than swinging a guitar and dressing like an effeminate Elvis, he was just part of the clownish cartoon era of wwf.
Maravi Yoso I dont remember any of these guys in great matches. but wrestling is an art of con
Please, I'm begging you, provide me with the article you read that in!
Extremely well put James, after all, asses in seats is the real measure of the business.
The stuff he says about brett hart and shawn michaels was true tho. Not sure about jyd, because all ive heard is the exact opposite. He was a HUGE draw in the south hence wwf had to sign him and he was a star tho too but they never really gave him title runs.
Dog had great fueds wuth dibiasie freebirds butch reed that helps think he had bad knees later on his thump slam was great move
Lanny Poffo, Legend? WTF
YEP!......Wrong Poffo!
I'm from Houma I watched JYD growing up he entertained.
Is it true what Cornette said about Houma?
The Dog did his thing for years before the WWF that shit catch up with you sooner or later
JYD wasn’t boring
Dog made money, but was horrible in the ring; Harley Race bumped his ass off at Mania III, and Dog added nothing, and that match only lasted about four minutes, but Race's work made it seem much longer and better.
Lanny Poffo is one lucky man. He should keep his mouth shut a lot more than he does about other people.
Valentine said the exact same thing.
HTM was from the South as well, but in his Mid South days JYD drew more than Honky could even draw in his dreams
The jUNKYARD GOD...ok why not.
Right place, at the right time.
Odd. JYD is why I started watching WWF/E. And The Honky Tonk Man was the primary reason I stopped watching WWF/E.
JYD was the man...he had the physical prescence...and his own personality and charisma. How dare you speak ill of the man...you never coyld fill his shoes...even after he went down hill because of age and drugs
Honky Tonk Man 4 POTUS 2024!!!
Are they in a Value Village?
+GenXtasy Salvation Army Thrift Store. Lanny's favorite place to shop.
+THE HANNIBAL TV LOL...mine too...they are outstanding stores and get a bad rap
Where was this meet and greet filmed at?
I remember when this dork was called leaping Lenny poffo and would throw frisbees to the crowed and then he would get his butt kicked !!
What, are they inside some discount store or something?
Yeah Goodwill or Salvation Army😎😎
Junkyard Dogs powerslam was better than both these guys move-sets put together. It's nice to know Honky's a jerk in real life also. Maybe my hatred was justified as a kid. I loved it when Warrior crushed him in seconds. He never deserved that long of a title run anyways...S.M.H
Leaping Lanny Savage got fat. Haha Woooooo!!!!!
And he used to be so ripped.