Could you imagine if they tried to have a 15-20 minute match with Jeff in that condition? It's scary that Dixie didn't realize how horrifying a situation that was.
@@PeterHowe228 that’s what “they” planned to do. It was sting that realized what shape he was in and called an audible… I don’t think the ref or anyone was telling sting to do that
Spotify not working great for podcasts at the mo so I'm glad I've got the exact same Podcasts on RUclips to see me through the corona crisis (stay safe everyone) thanks Conrad (and Bruce Eric and JR!)
Everything Bruce said was true, and I don’t hate the Young Bucks. I’ve seen some matches of theirs that I did like, but doing flips and a bunch of cool moves just to show that you can do them gets stupid after awhile. Conrad saying “oh well people used to say the same thing about Flair/Steamboat doing too much”, well every Flair and Steamboat match I ever saw had psychology, fatso. Conrad is such a baby sometimes
I hate when Conrad ask questions and doesn't like the answers then spends the next 10 minutes bitching about it. Why can't people accept that The Young Bucks are overrated. I dont understand why people love those guys.
I'm coming back to this after listening to the first few Jeff Jarrett podcasts. So interesting to hear Bruce's thoughts on TNA all these years later, especially considering how things turned out for all the different people mentioned.
In the exchange TNA made with WWE, Ric Flair and Christian..I thought Christian did his best singles work in TNA..He was a top notch heel and on the mic better than his singles return to WWE
only reason christian appeared to be 'top-notch', is that he went from being a medium-sized fish in an ocean, (wwe) to being a big fish in what may as well have been a mud puddle with TNA. lol
Something To Wrestle With Bruce Prichard is my favorite show!!! I need to find a retired wrestler/producer/manager and start a podcast in this format! I love Bruce and Conrad!
nonamerequired123 I don’t know if I’d want to get someone from ECW, but I definitely would! I’d maybe want someone whose been around to multiple companies. I live in MA so if anyone’s around here they most likely worked for WWE. I’d even like someone who was never a big name or a known guy like Bruce or Tony but a guy who was around during the end of the territory days & continued on with one or two or even all of the big 3 and then maybe went on to the Indies or ROH/TNA lol. I am sure it would be hard to find someone who’s done all of that near central MA. Although I do have an actual studio I can use outside of Boston or I could use my little amateur home studio which will be good enough. But anyway thanks for replying. I really do think Bruce, Conrad, and Tony Shiatsu have something great going! And of course Ric but I want someone from behind the scenes or an out of the ring talent. Being an announcer, DJ, & promoter myself I sometimes find guys like Bruce, Tony, Penzer, etc more interesting than the wrestlers.
nonamerequired123 oh yeah I appreciate it big time!! I didn’t mean I wouldn’t want someone from ECW especially since there is a need for it, I just mean I’d love to have someone whose been with a bunch of the different companies including the tail end of the territory days maybe even earlier than the tail end so they’d be really old of course lol.
Conrad himself said on Twitter he's nothing special, he was just able to find people and cozy up. Or something to that affect and that anybody can do what he does. You don't need to have his level of knowledge to do this.
On them wanting Christian for Flair, only thing I can think of is that most TNA marks I knew at that time were HUGE marks for Christian. So, probably wrong, cause they didn't seem to give a fuck what their fans wanted most of the time, but maybe they wanted to, for once, get someone their own fans really loved.
I haven't listened to STW for years, but dwam when Bruce was unemployed, he was the best listen in the podcast game. Hearing this made me remember why this was my favorite show of any kind for a year or so
It sucks that this show is dead and I feel like they could’ve made more money for less work if they would’ve continued. I guess Bruce prefers to be at WWE, but I really wish he would’ve stuck with this show.
Man the early episodes of STW were so great an fun to listen to but man conrad would get hot an bent out of shape when Bruce gave him a answer he didnt like lmao like when he was asked about why they didn't consider joe in the wwe earlier
It was as annoying then as it is now listening to it again. I mean seriously why couldn't conrat understand that Bruce was giving him what Vince and those in the office thought, as to why Joe wasn't good enough, and that was not what Bruce himself felt, but he was not the one who made the decision. Vince made the decision and he's telling conrat why he did that and I don't know what other answer he was looking for when he knows very well that is how Vince thinks. Umaga was already there before as Jamal in 3 min warning.
The BIGGEST problem with wrestling is that every company hires "wrestling people" to run it...and all they know to do is try and run an old playbook. Wrestling people LOVE to pretend the wrestling business is unique and HAS to be run a certain way....and completely ignore that Vince's success was completely throwing away the playbook. The problem with wrestling is the talent drain at every level, insider and outsider alike, and the only threat WWE would face is business innovation from a dispassionate and skilled business person, who can analyze the market, spot WWE's blind spots/weaknesses, and only cares about money...not fame, not personal wealth, not living a fantasy...just a ruthless owner who wants to build a company.
I can't wait to finally hear future episodes of the 'Something To Wrestle With Bruce Prichard' podcast being recorded like this, again. If/when that'll ever happen, again remains to be seen & it'll be great once it finally does...
Im with Bruce the Young Bucks are overrated. In a 20 min match you got 5 minutes of highspots 5 minutes of superkicks, 8 minutes of no selling, and 2 minutes for finishing sequence and posing.
@@BrandanTheBroker ok so 20 minute match 10 minutes for entrance and playing to the crowd 5 minutes of superkicks 4 minutes of no selling 1 minute for finishing sequence and posing. How's that work for you?
you could almost fast forward this video to where Brucey gets a buzz and enjoy this show much more!!!! Great show fellas these videos aka podcasts are great!
I definitely stopped watching TNA within 3-4 months of Hulk coming in. The whole show ended up being about him and other over the hill talent and completely removed all of the parts of the show that separated TNA from WWE. Totally ruined it for me.
Yeah, the fact they kept teasing matches with him when he could barely even walk, the walks to the ring when he would one hit the talent and they would fall over like Mike Tyson uppercut them, or the montreal screwjob moment just please no.
Am I the only one who thinks the backstage/inner workings of TNA would have been a better angle than the bullshit they posted on TV. More action seemed to be going backstage than what was in the ring. Lol
shoutout to conrad thompson, really love the TNA series with bruce and eric. special mention on the part where they pissed on not getting $38 per head even though sold 4500 tickets.
Growing up North (NJ) and working there and moving down South (Richmond, VA) this sounds like my experience. But in Bruce's case he's a Southern guy. Working down south is very vague and nothing got done. And people don't do confrontation in public often so things that are uncomfortable rarely get addressed. This is more cultural then laziness.
Juan Unda Richmond isn't the South. I know historically it's considered South but to us Southerners the TRUE SOUTH IS NC, SC, GA, AL, MS, TN, AR, LA, EAST TEXAS, NORTH FLA. RICHMOND IS REALLY DC.
Doug Navarrone I'd love to see you tell that to the Southerners in Southern Virginia where I live now. I'm just a yankee from Baltimore, but my boyfriend would knock you the fuck out if you tried to tell him he's not a real Southerner because he lives in VA. TL; DR: stfu, you idiot.
Kyle Gardner Oh, it's true they believe that, doesn't make it true. I'd even agree with them, if we're talking north of Williamsburg. That doesn't mean the extremely Southern residents of lower Virginia and Western Virginia wouldn't take offense.
Yesss so glad to hear someone say it every match they have is the exact same 28 super kicks a couple dices outside the ring some flippy shit in the ring then a false finish or 2 and a Meltzer driver every time
Would you rather watch The Young Bucks or a 20 min HHH Vs Batista smoke and mirrors bs snorefest? The Young Bucks or a 2min Brock Vs Goldberg match? The Young Bucks or watch HBK ruin his legacy in one of the shittiest tag matches ever? Maybe you're just really easily amused. Nostalgia and riding on past glories only goes so far and if WWE don't start making some changes then AEW is going to be a problem.
@@TheMrFlitz The Young Bucks would be at the bottom of your list for me. Don't think that I want to see HHH, HBK or The Undertaker wrestling anymore. I don't. But I'd far rather watch Brock Lesnar suplexing the shit out of Roman Reigns than two teenaged gymnasts doing 1080 degree dick flips at each other.
I'm relistening to earier episodes of this podcast and reviewing them. This is maybe the first really big hit for the show, and I personally tend to enjoy the longer episodes better. Conrad hates every honest answer he gets in this one... Typical conman 😆. But this episode has a lot of meat on the bone, and we learned a lot about the behind the scenes of TNA, hearing alot that wasn't really widely known. Overall I definitely enjoyed hearing this one again, and even brought back warm memories hearing it years ago. The boy were having fun here, and so was I. I give this one 4.5 doots of of 5.
Forget the star ratings. Just use your words as you did for majority of your comment. Actually I am doing the same thing you are doing going back, but TNA I actually skipped it and never listened to it at all when they were just starting. I only wanted to hear about WWF and then ruthless aggression stuff and TNA I basically left it for a later date. Although I didn't think it would be this late 7 years later.
Spouting shit about James Storm here, everyone wanted him to be the guy to take down Roode the story was excellent but Austin Aries was on fire at the time so putting the belt on him became imperative so James was a victim of circumstance. You don't need to work for the company to know that it's obvious.
Yeah, that merchandise mentality ruins a lot of great TV Shows as well. The same thing happened to Static Shock, and other legendary cartoons. I'm surprised that a business cared more about per heads than actually doing record numbers and attracting a greater audience
😆 I wish Conrad would just ask a question, then turn his mic off until the question/story is fully told. Then turn it back on for the next question. I'm trying to hear Bruce's stories and instead half of it is covered up by Conrad cosigning or speculating or "freestyling"
998 likes & 1986 I watched Ric Flair vs Magnum T.A. @ Huntington WV .60 minutes flew by .Great House Show card !RNR Express, Russians,4 horseman, Jimmy Valient& more
1:04 to expand on what Bruce was saying about Joe, I don’t watch a lot of new wrestling but I did tune into WWE last month or the month before at some point just to check it out. Samoa Joe was cutting a promo on the announcers and someone told him it was a good idea to stand up on the announcers table in point at them and yell. Whoever told Joe to stand up on The table and yellow the announcers needs to be fired. When Joe stood up on that table to yell at the announcers it look like he stood up on the table so he could be at I level with them. Samoa Joe and Jean standing at a table yelling at Corey Graves and Michael Cole look like Michael Cole son wanted to be I level with dad and yell at him.
Conrad asks a question before Bruce can even answer goes off on some topic completely not related then before that second topic can get answered switches back to the first topic...it can be such a fucking chore getting through listening to these shows sometimes LOL
Young bucks still have no psychologically. No selling. 100 things in a match when could get by with less. Things don’t make sense. Completely overrated. I don’t blame them tho the business has been diluted with so many wrestlers like that, that’s normal to fans. But fans and people who watched wrestling forever. They’re like what tf is this? Why is this popular. And it’s not like they mysterio. His shit made sense and he sold
Brother Love vs The Red Rooster... I think Brother Love would definitely go over in that match... Terry Taylor/Red Rooster 🐓 or whatever they wanted to call him, the dude sucked
True. With Bully Ray as champ, X division with Zema Ion and Austin Aires, and Chris Sabin, and Chris Daniels, Kazarian etc. Knockout division, aces and eights storyline with AJ styles teasing that he would join, before that James storm and Bobby roode rivalry for the championship.
I see a HUGE issue on this episode... Bruce states TNA/Dixie Carter didn't ask for anyone but Christian Cage for the Ric Flair 4 Horsemen HOF swap. But on their WWE Network cast recently, Bruce said Dixie demanded Cena as trade for Ric at first... Well? which is it?
Joseph Charles I believe him here because when WWE does documentaries I’ve pretty much learned not to believe them if it’s produced by WWE. WWE is going to put out whatever truth they want the general public to believe. That’s why there is so many people out there today that really believe that WCW died and that’s why they went away because they started sucking and WWF made them go away. Did WCW suck the last two years they were in business? Yes they did, however by the logic that WW we would have you believe if WWE been that much better than WCW would’ve shut down in 1991. When WCW shut down they did not have the ratings WWE had a WCW was still the highest rated show on TNT. The people that bought turn our soul every subsidiary turner had. The Atlanta Hawks and the Atlanta Braves have nothing to do with the wrestling bubble but yet they were sold to. By the way I also think the entire book of the death of WCW was complete shit too. But yeah any documentary WWE puts out especially if it’s something on a Nother company or involves another company I don’t believe a word of it.
Why would I believe what dixie says on a wwe produced documentary? And on top of that how she was dealing with the Brooke Hogan situation telling Bruce one thing and then Hulkster another thing. And Hulk himself saw what she was doing.
Bully Ray with Aces and Eights was Superstar level. One of the Best Heels in many years in all of wrestling . WWE dropped the ball not using that character.
The young bucks still have no ring psychology. They’re over with the 2 million wrestling fans that are left, the other 8 million fans that gave up on wrestling aren’t the biggest fans of what they do. The 2 million fans that are left though however are the type of vans that are just your typical smart fans Who think a great worker is someone that does 200 high spots a match and really don’t know a damn thing about working. To Jay’s vans that are fans of the current product don’t know what ring psychology is into them if you just do 200 high spots that means the match was good. That’s why when you watch wrestling today the fans don’t pop up like they did in the 80s and 90s they’re more interested in chanting along with the Roessler’s or chanting this is awesome after a hard spot because they’re not invested in the story that’s being told they’re invested in the moves it.
Here is the video of the mentioned Jeff Hardy drug incident vs Sting at Victory Road 2011. ruclips.net/video/8uTCHS8KHdE/видео.html. How in the hell is TNA still in business as Impact 17 years later. It truly is unbelievable. While 2004-2012 was some of the best times in TNA's history, who would have ever throught that behind the scenes, shit was hitting the fan. I hated the Impact Zone for all the same reasons that Bruce did. I could tell those fans were just escaping the heat of the Orlando sun. To me, Dixie didn't know what the hell she was doing. When AJ left all hell broke loose cause he was truly the last TNA original who stuck it out throughout this mess.
I heard the story that that was part of the issue. His ex-wife Karen Jarrett was worried about saving their marriage. She didn't want to be a WWE wife anymore.
sure, but thats like comparing shit to piss! Neither one is comparable to NJPW or WWE! Ok, so the piss(Roh) doesn't smell as bad as the shit(TNA)... But the wrestling companies (NJPW, WWE) and not the same thing!
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Bruce: "Being a bid deal in Ring of Honor is like being the shift leader at Sonic". lmao
It's not nice to talk about Sonic like that
Worked out for seth rollins kevin owens an generico pretty well
My Mom was a shift leader at Sonic - and we all KNOW - the caliber of woman she was
@@benshapiro5474 nah, politics are a waste of time
Don’t even have a Sonics over here in Hollywood California lol
Conrad: Lets talk about Brooke Hogan.
Bruce: Brooke was ahhh.. the daughter of Hulk Hogan.
Dead 😂
that cracked me up
At least bruce finally killed the false narrative that it was Hogan's idea to bring brooke in. Thank you Bruce for finally setting the record straight
"We're going to do our best to jam it in as much as we can, just like Bruce did with Heather Hunter." LOL
*bruce no sells*
Congrats to Bruce if true. She was hot.
They didn't call him Brother Love for nothing 😆
Dixie Carter's reaction to Jeff Hardy being under the influence, "well you know he'll be alright." LOL
Could you imagine if they tried to have a 15-20 minute match with Jeff in that condition? It's scary that Dixie didn't realize how horrifying a situation that was.
@@PeterHowe228 that’s what “they” planned to do. It was sting that realized what shape he was in and called an audible… I don’t think the ref or anyone was telling sting to do that
@@treywar25lol what do you mean? It’s well documented it was Bischoff’s call, it’s even on camera, have you not actually seen the incident?
Starts at 15:00 ish
Guessing you didn't donate to cancer.
God fucking bless you
Don't fall for the false flag start. Starts at about 2:00 than gets about 5mins in, and restarts.
John Wigmore nah John
Starts at 15:00 ish like pizza said, beginning is as always just advertisements.
Several years since this was recorded and the Bucks still absolutely suck.
Yeah and they need to make a turn on know your role boulevard, go down jabroni drive, and check themselves right in to the SMACKDOWN HOTEL!!!
Spotify not working great for podcasts at the mo so I'm glad I've got the exact same Podcasts on RUclips to see me through the corona crisis (stay safe everyone) thanks Conrad (and Bruce Eric and JR!)
there are two Samoan families. the one where everyone's related to the rock, and Samoa Joe lmfao
Your misuse of grammar hurts my soul.
Grant Howse to be fair all he did was use commas in place of periods and mix up we’re and where. It’s really not that big of a deal.
Dey knight I just don’t rip on people because he might not know any better.
Samoa joe is a fat slob. No wonder the ratings are at all time lows.
@@ryanstevens1855 he's boring af too
Conrad brings up the Bucks. Bruce gives his opinion and Conrad gets butthurt lol
Conrad is a fat pussy
The bucks smell of poo
As usual. Some episodes i can't watch cuz he doesn't accept any of Bruce's answers & is extra bitchy.
Everything Bruce said was true, and I don’t hate the Young Bucks. I’ve seen some matches of theirs that I did like, but doing flips and a bunch of cool moves just to show that you can do them gets stupid after awhile. Conrad saying “oh well people used to say the same thing about Flair/Steamboat doing too much”, well every Flair and Steamboat match I ever saw had psychology, fatso. Conrad is such a baby sometimes
I hate when Conrad ask questions and doesn't like the answers then spends the next 10 minutes bitching about it. Why can't people accept that The Young Bucks are overrated. I dont understand why people love those guys.
Bruce on the Young Bucks was fricking awesome!!!
TNA should’ve hired Nick Hogan to be Dixies personal driver.
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I'm coming back to this after listening to the first few Jeff Jarrett podcasts. So interesting to hear Bruce's thoughts on TNA all these years later, especially considering how things turned out for all the different people mentioned.
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In defense Christian was the only one in WWE at the time who had made a name for themselves in TNA
Bruce is right on about the bucks . Spot wrestlers and nothing more.
Bruce: Saying you're a big deal at Ring of Honor is like saying you're the shift leader at Sonic" 😂😂
Hey dude Ring of Honor is my favorite promotion
@@michaelgartside9544 Mine too.
Not knocking Ring of Honor. Just thought that was funny
John Lynch I like it too but it’s big fish in a lil pond type deal. The Elite would get buried in wwe sadly.
a lot of guys in wwe right now are from the ring of honor correct?
Hearing Bruce talk about his time in TNA is fascinating, I cant wait for Eric's take here in a few weeks :)
Starts 15:20
The Bucks... most over rated synchronized tumblers ever...
In the exchange TNA made with WWE, Ric Flair and Christian..I thought Christian did his best singles work in TNA..He was a top notch heel and on the mic better than his singles return to WWE
only reason christian appeared to be 'top-notch', is that he went from being a medium-sized fish in an ocean, (wwe) to being a big fish in what may as well have been a mud puddle with TNA. lol
Christian was more confident, creatively probably more free, and experienced after TNA too.
Did you watch the royal rumble 2021?
Christian was a face for the most part in TNA. His best singles work in WWE was as a heel though for sure.
AJ Styles has openly given kudos to Hogan and Eric for trying to build stuff up.
TNA “missing the checks” just showed how bad their company was ran
what makes it worse is that they were owned by a billion dollar company and could of easily paid it
Something To Wrestle With Bruce Prichard is my favorite show!!!
I need to find a retired wrestler/producer/manager and start a podcast in this format! I love Bruce and Conrad!
A good idea is to do one like Conrad does with Bruce and Tony with someone from ECW.
nonamerequired123 I don’t know if I’d want to get someone from ECW, but I definitely would! I’d maybe want someone whose been around to multiple companies. I live in MA so if anyone’s around here they most likely worked for WWE. I’d even like someone who was never a big name or a known guy like Bruce or Tony but a guy who was around during the end of the territory days & continued on with one or two or even all of the big 3 and then maybe went on to the Indies or ROH/TNA lol.
I am sure it would be hard to find someone who’s done all of that near central MA. Although I do have an actual studio I can use outside of Boston or I could use my little amateur home studio which will be good enough.
But anyway thanks for replying. I really do think Bruce, Conrad, and Tony Shiatsu have something great going! And of course Ric but I want someone from behind the scenes or an out of the ring talent. Being an announcer, DJ, & promoter myself I sometimes find guys like Bruce, Tony, Penzer, etc more interesting than the wrestlers.
Well you do what you want to do of course, I was just throwing it out.
nonamerequired123 oh yeah I appreciate it big time!! I didn’t mean I wouldn’t want someone from ECW especially since there is a need for it, I just mean I’d love to have someone whose been with a bunch of the different companies including the tail end of the territory days maybe even earlier than the tail end so they’d be really old of course lol.
Conrad himself said on Twitter he's nothing special, he was just able to find people and cozy up. Or something to that affect and that anybody can do what he does. You don't need to have his level of knowledge to do this.
On them wanting Christian for Flair, only thing I can think of is that most TNA marks I knew at that time were HUGE marks for Christian. So, probably wrong, cause they didn't seem to give a fuck what their fans wanted most of the time, but maybe they wanted to, for once, get someone their own fans really loved.
I haven't listened to STW for years, but dwam when Bruce was unemployed, he was the best listen in the podcast game. Hearing this made me remember why this was my favorite show of any kind for a year or so
It sucks that this show is dead and I feel like they could’ve made more money for less work if they would’ve continued. I guess Bruce prefers to be at WWE, but I really wish he would’ve stuck with this show.
Man the early episodes of STW were so great an fun to listen to but man conrad would get hot an bent out of shape when Bruce gave him a answer he didnt like lmao like when he was asked about why they didn't consider joe in the wwe earlier
It was as annoying then as it is now listening to it again. I mean seriously why couldn't conrat understand that Bruce was giving him what Vince and those in the office thought, as to why Joe wasn't good enough, and that was not what Bruce himself felt, but he was not the one who made the decision. Vince made the decision and he's telling conrat why he did that and I don't know what other answer he was looking for when he knows very well that is how Vince thinks. Umaga was already there before as Jamal in 3 min warning.
I love Bruce saying Low Ki is overrated. He's right about lethal as well.
Low Ki is an idiot
The episode starts around 3:09.
15:20
@@justinorel6592- Close, enough...
"For both of Chris Saban's fans" 😂😂😂
Bruce is hilarious...i personally love it when he pisses conrad off!!
TNA had great wrestlers in the mid 2000’s....
The BIGGEST problem with wrestling is that every company hires "wrestling people" to run it...and all they know to do is try and run an old playbook. Wrestling people LOVE to pretend the wrestling business is unique and HAS to be run a certain way....and completely ignore that Vince's success was completely throwing away the playbook.
The problem with wrestling is the talent drain at every level, insider and outsider alike, and the only threat WWE would face is business innovation from a dispassionate and skilled business person, who can analyze the market, spot WWE's blind spots/weaknesses, and only cares about money...not fame, not personal wealth, not living a fantasy...just a ruthless owner who wants to build a company.
I can't wait to finally hear future episodes of the 'Something To Wrestle With Bruce Prichard' podcast being recorded like this, again.
If/when that'll ever happen, again remains to be seen & it'll be great once it finally does...
I absolutely love Bruce now after what he said about The Young Bucks. Absolutely despise them. Hell I’d take a bullet for Bruce now.
Im with Bruce the Young Bucks are overrated. In a 20 min match you got 5 minutes of highspots 5 minutes of superkicks, 8 minutes of no selling, and 2 minutes for finishing sequence and posing.
Oh come on man, that's not true at all. 10 minutes is their entrance and playing to the crowd 😂
@@BrandanTheBroker ok so 20 minute match 10 minutes for entrance and playing to the crowd 5 minutes of superkicks 4 minutes of no selling 1 minute for finishing sequence and posing. How's that work for you?
@@joshuabowen6589 don't forget the 5 minutes after the match checking Twitter to see if Meltzer gave them 22 stars
@@BrandanTheBroker damn! So we can come to a mutual agreement that it's impossible for TYB's to have a 20 minute match?
@@joshuabowen6589 of course
1:00:52 Conrad- "Do you think he could have ejac, ADAPTED?.... " Conrad legit almost asked if Abyss could have ejaculated on the WWE roster. 🤣🤣
you could almost fast forward this video to where Brucey gets a buzz and enjoy this show much more!!!! Great show fellas these videos aka podcasts are great!
This a great episode if you want to get perspective on the business end of wrestling industry. Good stuff!
56:23 THANK YOU. Young Bucks are seriously over rated.
100% agreed
Agreed
One of the best installments.
When Bobby Roode gets to WWE he'll be a superstar....
I definitely stopped watching TNA within 3-4 months of Hulk coming in. The whole show ended up being about him and other over the hill talent and completely removed all of the parts of the show that separated TNA from WWE.
Totally ruined it for me.
Yeah, the fact they kept teasing matches with him when he could barely even walk, the walks to the ring when he would one hit the talent and they would fall over like Mike Tyson uppercut them, or the montreal screwjob moment just please no.
Am I the only one who thinks the backstage/inner workings of TNA would have been a better angle than the bullshit they posted on TV. More action seemed to be going backstage than what was in the ring. Lol
shoutout to conrad thompson, really love the TNA series with bruce and eric. special mention on the part where they pissed on not getting $38 per head even though sold 4500 tickets.
Bob Carter: “I gaht hulk hogan wraslin for meh” 😂
@15:06 - TNA Starts
1:05:37
I love how he crapped all over TNA but does everything possible to defend WWE... And now he took Heyman's job so i guess asskissing pays off
Does this skip for anyone else?
Evan Remillard yeah, weird
I just missed what Hogan gets (I'm guessing a bad rap)
It's cuz the audio version has ads they cut out of the RUclips version
Growing up North (NJ) and working there and moving down South (Richmond, VA) this sounds like my experience. But in Bruce's case he's a Southern guy. Working down south is very vague and nothing got done. And people don't do confrontation in public often so things that are uncomfortable rarely get addressed. This is more cultural then laziness.
Juan Unda Richmond isn't the South. I know historically it's considered South but to us Southerners the TRUE SOUTH IS NC, SC, GA, AL, MS, TN, AR, LA, EAST TEXAS, NORTH FLA. RICHMOND IS REALLY DC.
Doug Navarrone I'd love to see you tell that to the Southerners in Southern Virginia where I live now. I'm just a yankee from Baltimore, but my boyfriend would knock you the fuck out if you tried to tell him he's not a real Southerner because he lives in VA.
TL; DR: stfu, you idiot.
June Stormcrow It's true that a lot people from the deep south don't consider most of Virginia to be truly southern.
Kyle Gardner Oh, it's true they believe that, doesn't make it true. I'd even agree with them, if we're talking north of Williamsburg. That doesn't mean the extremely Southern residents of lower Virginia and Western Virginia wouldn't take offense.
@@dougnavarrone123 Richmond isn't like DC in my experience. DC people are more direct than Richmond folks. DC isn't as slow either.
Part owner could mean he owns 5 percent. I can see why they told people not to call him.
"I hope they can be saved..."
least convincing thing i've ever heard lol
Internet marks everywhere are trolling furiously at Prichard after he states (correctly) that Meltzers buttboys The Young Bucks are overrated.
Yesss so glad to hear someone say it every match they have is the exact same 28 super kicks a couple dices outside the ring some flippy shit in the ring then a false finish or 2 and a Meltzer driver every time
Would you rather watch The Young Bucks or a 20 min HHH Vs Batista smoke and mirrors bs snorefest? The Young Bucks or a 2min Brock Vs Goldberg match? The Young Bucks or watch HBK ruin his legacy in one of the shittiest tag matches ever?
Maybe you're just really easily amused. Nostalgia and riding on past glories only goes so far and if WWE don't start making some changes then AEW is going to be a problem.
Fanboy wanking xD
They are a LOW RATE HARDY BOYZ.....
BUT.... THEY CAN WORK (YOUNG BUCKS)
@@TheMrFlitz The Young Bucks would be at the bottom of your list for me.
Don't think that I want to see HHH, HBK or The Undertaker wrestling anymore. I don't.
But I'd far rather watch Brock Lesnar suplexing the shit out of Roman Reigns than two teenaged gymnasts doing 1080 degree dick flips at each other.
Conrad is the Suge Knight of wrestling podcasts
Meaning they’re both egotistical fat asses?
I'm relistening to earier episodes of this podcast and reviewing them. This is maybe the first really big hit for the show, and I personally tend to enjoy the longer episodes better. Conrad hates every honest answer he gets in this one... Typical conman 😆. But this episode has a lot of meat on the bone, and we learned a lot about the behind the scenes of TNA, hearing alot that wasn't really widely known. Overall I definitely enjoyed hearing this one again, and even brought back warm memories hearing it years ago. The boy were having fun here, and so was I. I give this one 4.5 doots of of 5.
Forget the star ratings. Just use your words as you did for majority of your comment. Actually I am doing the same thing you are doing going back, but TNA I actually skipped it and never listened to it at all when they were just starting. I only wanted to hear about WWF and then ruthless aggression stuff and TNA I basically left it for a later date. Although I didn't think it would be this late 7 years later.
Is Bruce for real? AJ is one of the best wrestlers in the world. So is Joe
Nah Joe wasted his prime in tNa he's just fat now he's hurt a lot and no where near what he used to b
@@jessieb9384 As Joe misses another WM because of injury 9 months after your comment.
Its still true about the bucks today
Spouting shit about James Storm here, everyone wanted him to be the guy to take down Roode the story was excellent but Austin Aries was on fire at the time so putting the belt on him became imperative so James was a victim of circumstance. You don't need to work for the company to know that it's obvious.
1:05:12 When did Beaker become a co-host?
The Bobby Roode prediction did not age well.
Obironnkenobi I feel like now it’s a slow build for Bobby. I still want him to be a world champion tho
Yeah I realized a month later after this post lol 😩😩😩
2:15:30 Bruce finally shut Conrad up for a moment.
Yeah, that merchandise mentality ruins a lot of great TV Shows as well. The same thing happened to Static Shock, and other legendary cartoons. I'm surprised that a business cared more about per heads than actually doing record numbers and attracting a greater audience
1:04:52-Conrad is shocked by this?!?!?!
Awesome show guys, very insightful!
bruce looks like he was just freed after having his head stuck in a freezer for 6-9 hours
I wish Conrad would put as much energy into losing weight as he does into bitching at Bruce about things from the past.
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I wish Conrad would just ask a question, then turn his mic off until the question/story is fully told. Then turn it back on for the next question. I'm trying to hear Bruce's stories and instead half of it is covered up by Conrad cosigning or speculating or "freestyling"
@@charlielohr3448😂😂😂
"i can tell when youre hot" god i love their quarrels
Why did it restart 11 mins in?
$35!!!?? FOR A MAN AS OVERGROWN AS BRUCE!
THAT'S FUCKING INHUMANE!
For the record - The TNA VP for Programming actually admitted to paying Hulk and Bischoff four years ago.
998 likes & 1986 I watched Ric Flair vs Magnum T.A. @ Huntington WV .60 minutes flew by .Great House Show card !RNR Express, Russians,4 horseman, Jimmy Valient& more
And this my friends is Zip's brother
He was part of the family. Holy shit lol
Dixie Carter always came off to me as a southern Karen with wine addiction...
I'm sure Dixie is a nice person, but what an airhead.
16:35 not quite
Bruce had multiple heart attacks? Never heard when that happened
1:04 to expand on what Bruce was saying about Joe, I don’t watch a lot of new wrestling but I did tune into WWE last month or the month before at some point just to check it out. Samoa Joe was cutting a promo on the announcers and someone told him it was a good idea to stand up on the announcers table in point at them and yell. Whoever told Joe to stand up on The table and yellow the announcers needs to be fired. When Joe stood up on that table to yell at the announcers it look like he stood up on the table so he could be at I level with them. Samoa Joe and Jean standing at a table yelling at Corey Graves and Michael Cole look like Michael Cole son wanted to be I level with dad and yell at him.
If someone stands on a table, how are they eye level with someone sitting on a chair, or even standing up?
Conrad asks a question before Bruce can even answer goes off on some topic completely not related then before that second topic can get answered switches back to the first topic...it can be such a fucking chore getting through listening to these shows sometimes LOL
“It’s not that hard - you just write mortgages all day.” - Bruce P.
“Vince wanted someone to carry Smackdown!”
“That’s why he put the belt on him - Vince sees that in 2016”
Young bucks still have no psychologically. No selling. 100 things in a match when could get by with less. Things don’t make sense. Completely overrated. I don’t blame them tho the business has been diluted with so many wrestlers like that, that’s normal to fans. But fans and people who watched wrestling forever. They’re like what tf is this? Why is this popular. And it’s not like they mysterio. His shit made sense and he sold
Take a shot every time you hear “freestyle” and “rumor and innuendo”
Great booking.... CENA stays on top because he leavs on top...
When he comes back... Its usually off a "HOT" injury angle
He’s holding back about Terry, he was about to say something and stopped, and then said he found out from the assistant.
Cornette has said TT was always getting complaints for hitting on the girls lol.
"That was a funny haha for both of you Chris Saban fans out there" ...damn Bruce, wipe the blood from your mouth
Brother Love vs The Red Rooster... I think Brother Love would definitely go over in that match... Terry Taylor/Red Rooster 🐓 or whatever they wanted to call him, the dude sucked
I miss TNA wrestling.....There was a point when TNA was better than WWE in 2010,2011 and 2012......
True. With Bully Ray as champ, X division with Zema Ion and Austin Aires, and Chris Sabin, and Chris Daniels, Kazarian etc. Knockout division, aces and eights storyline with AJ styles teasing that he would join, before that James storm and Bobby roode rivalry for the championship.
I see a HUGE issue on this episode... Bruce states TNA/Dixie Carter didn't ask for anyone but Christian Cage for the Ric Flair 4 Horsemen HOF swap. But on their WWE Network cast recently, Bruce said Dixie demanded Cena as trade for Ric at first... Well? which is it?
listen to the podcast again, bruce corrects himself, and said that wanting Cena was for another incident and not the Flair swap.
Joseph Charles I believe him here because when WWE does documentaries I’ve pretty much learned not to believe them if it’s produced by WWE. WWE is going to put out whatever truth they want the general public to believe. That’s why there is so many people out there today that really believe that WCW died and that’s why they went away because they started sucking and WWF made them go away. Did WCW suck the last two years they were in business? Yes they did, however by the logic that WW we would have you believe if WWE been that much better than WCW would’ve shut down in 1991. When WCW shut down they did not have the ratings WWE had a WCW was still the highest rated show on TNT. The people that bought turn our soul every subsidiary turner had. The Atlanta Hawks and the Atlanta Braves have nothing to do with the wrestling bubble but yet they were sold to. By the way I also think the entire book of the death of WCW was complete shit too. But yeah any documentary WWE puts out especially if it’s something on a Nother company or involves another company I don’t believe a word of it.
Flair isn't worth Cena at this time in history
Why would I believe what dixie says on a wwe produced documentary? And on top of that how she was dealing with the Brooke Hogan situation telling Bruce one thing and then Hulkster another thing. And Hulk himself saw what she was doing.
The other guy sounds like he tried to eat an entire turkey and it got caught in his throat
Tall Jay Conrad is cool, go fist yaself twatwaffle.
Sounds like a few company's I've worked for
Calling Bully Ray a superstar is hilarious.
Bully Ray with Aces and Eights was Superstar level. One of the Best Heels in many years in all of wrestling . WWE dropped the ball not using that character.
@@mikemcc8949 bahahaha....the aces and eights story was retarded :p lol
It's reality. But yes sometimes reality is hilarious. He was a great heel champ and made the guys who won the belt from him. Like Sabin for example.
I 1000% agree with Bruce about the big deal in ROH thing! 1:03:24 lol idk why tf Conrad keeps name dropping them like that!🤦♂️
This was excellent 👍
The young bucks still have no ring psychology. They’re over with the 2 million wrestling fans that are left, the other 8 million fans that gave up on wrestling aren’t the biggest fans of what they do. The 2 million fans that are left though however are the type of vans that are just your typical smart fans Who think a great worker is someone that does 200 high spots a match and really don’t know a damn thing about working. To Jay’s vans that are fans of the current product don’t know what ring psychology is into them if you just do 200 high spots that means the match was good. That’s why when you watch wrestling today the fans don’t pop up like they did in the 80s and 90s they’re more interested in chanting along with the Roessler’s or chanting this is awesome after a hard spot because they’re not invested in the story that’s being told they’re invested in the moves it.
Great description of the modern "smart" fans.
Shit gets real @2:41:00 mind blown!🤯
It sure is weird that the guy who worked right under Vince McMahon with all his "knowledge" never got $100 million to start his own company.
Here is the video of the mentioned Jeff Hardy drug incident vs Sting at Victory Road 2011. ruclips.net/video/8uTCHS8KHdE/видео.html. How in the hell is TNA still in business as Impact 17 years later. It truly is unbelievable. While 2004-2012 was some of the best times in TNA's history, who would have ever throught that behind the scenes, shit was hitting the fan. I hated the Impact Zone for all the same reasons that Bruce did. I could tell those fans were just escaping the heat of the Orlando sun. To me, Dixie didn't know what the hell she was doing. When AJ left all hell broke loose cause he was truly the last TNA original who stuck it out throughout this mess.
Kurt Angle got fired from WWE 'cause he was fucked up all the time? ... Did I miss this story?
I heard the story that that was part of the issue. His ex-wife Karen Jarrett was worried about saving their marriage. She didn't want to be a WWE wife anymore.
Bruce worked in TNA but his mind has always been in wwe
Yes he was HORRIBLE
@@MrTNA-ml8ttReally? Even though he cared more about the TNA talent more than those in the TNA office did?
37:24 🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's funny how he's dismissing ROH when TNA wishes it was half the company ROH is now
sure, but thats like comparing shit to piss! Neither one is comparable to NJPW or WWE! Ok, so the piss(Roh) doesn't smell as bad as the shit(TNA)... But the wrestling companies (NJPW, WWE) and not the same thing!
Hot Water Manifesto NJPW isn't even in WWE's league. WCW was the only that even came close to dethroning them.
I don't think Hot Water is saying New Japan is gonna dethrone WWE, I think he meant only NJPW are anywhere near WWE's popularity
I think it was a joke, sounded like he had respect for ROH and the work they've done
Impact is doing really well actually, dare I say better than ROH atm (which has terrible booking)