One thing about Honky he doesn't seem to change as much as other wrestlers. He was one of my favorite heels of the 80s. The only dude that could compete with him as far as wearing the belt is Mr. Perfect. Both looked great wearing the title and both did great in the ring. I have come to appreciate Honky more as I have gotten older. I see now how truly great, he was.
Shout out to the legendary Honky Tonk Man🔥 Please note this shoot is from 2004 - Honky & Mick made up long ago Watch Every HTM Interview ➡titlematchnetwork.com/wrestling-shoot-interviews-results/
In case people didn't know, Honky Tonk addressed this issue on his podcast. Mick heard Wayne was mad at him. Mick called Wayne personally to apologize. Wayne accepted the apology. He praised Mick for "being a man" and buried the issue.
I can listen to Honky Tonk Man shoot for hours bro. Sometimes when I’m working from home, I’ll just have these interviews on in the background and he can make my 12 hour shift so much more enjoyable lol
He's full of it and he's a hypocrite. Bashed bret for Montreal and he walked out of wcw during a ppv because he refused to do a j.o.b to Johnny b badd. I know world title wwf blah blah blah but same circumstances a little bit. Cornette is the 🐐 of shoot interviews
His first book was really good. I'd say the others weren't quite as good. But I do appreciate his vocabulary and of course all the crazy bumps he took to further separate himself from everyone else.
I’m an 80s baby from Mobile, AL Honky is the 2nd person I’ve ever heard Using Beefcake’s real name. The first is Edward “Eddie” Leslie. A woman I dated worked in a check cashing place and he came in to cash a check. Honkey needs a podcast!!!
i heard on a podcast about the toupee story...ric flair was doing commentary with the announcer , he said when it came off , flair and the announcer lost it and was laughing so hard
No, he always tries to make himself look like the hero who got done dirty. He’s a lying carnie just like all the other old timers who thinks nobody can tell they’re “working”. When I look at these comments, I’m afraid they might be right. I see too many “HTM keeps it a buck!” posts. It’s disheartening.
Seinfeld had an episode like this, Peterman bought Krammers stories and claimed them in his book. I would imagine this happens much more than we realize.
Honky tells it straight at all times! One man gang and I seen him go ballistic on a promoter in the room one night.... One of the greatest promos I ever seen cut wish there was a camera! 💯😁
I saw it … he was wrestling for Al Tomko in British Columbia… used to get the program on a local station in Peterborough ontario… god it was great and terrible all at once lol
@@johngallagher72 oh ya… you are missing verne seibert, the frog, mike edwards, tim patterson, sweet daddy sampson, tim flowers, fuzzy sayers among others. I once bought a tape from verne seibert that was the “best” of 1986. It was awesome
@@johngallagher72 spider web, E T Stanton, Sonny Myers ( let me tell you sumthin JACK), rocky della serra, fred birch, ivan gorky, buddy wayne, Look for the pile driver by tim flowers on rick patterson
It was actually the the fault of Pat Patterson's long-time partner or husband Louie (sort of) that went and bought the extremely solidly built guitar having no idea what they were going to be using it for. They just told him to go out and buy a guitar for The Honky Tonk man and that's all they told him. On top of that, nobody thought to check it to make sure the inner skeleton or structural pieces had been removed. Honky is the one that hit him with it but you can't blame him for Jake's injury.
Wrong. You're so wrong. Jake said HTM had done the guitar spot numerous times with others. HTM *knew* what a gimmick guitar felt like (guts removed so it'd break easy) a gimmick guitar is lighter than a regular guitar. HTM knew what he was doing. At 6:20 he describes the guitar he hit Jake with and even says it was *heavy* ! Why would he say that? Hmm is it because the gimmick guitars were lighter? He absolutely knew what he was doing. HTM doing this to Jake is what started Jake on his addiction to pain pills because the impact and the pieces of fiberglass in his skin. I didn't hear about this in a video, I heard it in person firsthand from Jake himself.
@@redeastwood4850 I agree it started Jake's pain pill problem and If you are saying it is at least in part his fault because he knew "it felt heavy" and didn't check it, that is fair. I should have said "You can't put most of the blame on him" To suggest he is 100% to blame or mostly to blame for not double-checking because "it felt heavy" it is not fair because different guitars WITH the guts removed will be still be different weights. A cheap-ass one with the guts still in can easily be far lighter than a high quality one made of better quality/a different type of wood with the guts removed. He wasn't using the same type of guitar or same quality every time. The same size guitar with the wood being the same thickness made of pine wood and one made from oak wood would not weigh the same or have the same strength. He may have just figured it was better quality guitar than usual and that was why it was heavier, not even thinking to check it. To suggest he "absolutely knew what he was doing" and either knew the guts were still in it because he HAD looked and didn't care, or just knew "by the weight" that this particular one still had the guts in, and purposely with malicious intent he hit Jake with a guitar he KNEW would cause Jake injury because he wanted to injure Jake is absurd!
You need to do your research. Road warrior hawk who has no dog in this fight subsequently said that it was laughable that Jake tried to blame honky tonk Man for the guitar hit starting his drug addiction. I can't remember the exact quote but when asked about the situation hawk said laughing 'well what the hell was Jake doing before the guitar hit?' @@redeastwood4850
Jake said HTM had done the guitar spot numerous times with others. HTM *knew* what a gimmick guitar felt like (guts removed so it'd break easy) a gimmick guitar is lighter than a regular guitar. HTM knew what he was doing. At 6:20 he even describes the guitar he hit Jake with and even says it was *heavy* ! Why would he say that? Hmm is it because the gimmick guitars were lighter? He absolutely knew what he was doing. HTM doing this to Jake is what started Jake on pain pills because the impact and the pieces of fiberglass in his skin. I didn't hear about this in a video, I heard it in person firsthand from Jake himself.
I spent 25 years in wrestling with both these guys Jake is full of 💩 he was on the drugs long before he ever took a guitar shot 💯 best con in the biz! 😇
@dondemmeljr1765 yes Jake used different drugs before this. This did damage to his neck and is when he started him on pain pills. You don't know as much as you say you do, jobber.
Dynamite Kidd had a Napolean Complex aka Little Man Syndrome. Love him or Hate him The Honky Tonk Man was Honest, Compassionate, and Truthful on what he states. One of the Best Workers and Greatest Heels to EVER work in the Business...
Jake is using Honky as a Scapegoat just like Austin is using Owen Hart as a scapegoat.. Both already had bad necks before AND Austin was the one who suggested the piledriver spot at Summerslam 97 Owen Hart and HTM 4 LIFE!!!!!
Austin is lucky Owen didn’t kill him with that jacked up pile driver. I loved watching Owen and he seems like a person that never would have done anything malicious to hurt someone, but he screwed up bad on that spot.
@ Austin screwed up by suggesting the piledriver spot. Only a reckless goof would suggest taking ANY kind of piledriver when he ALREADY had a bad neck..
@@jamespaul6315 Austin is insane to have suggested taking a piledriver when he already had a bad neck.. Did Austin ever call DEBRA at home to apologize??
As much as I like HTM, and his stories, two things spring to mind. If he never reads wrestling books, how does he know so much about the contents of so many? And secondly, Fit Finlay or a fit Tom Billington would both absolutely batter him in a real fight. But, as I say, he's a good interview.
I've heard the Jake guitar story a 100 times and duh !! Instruments , the better they are the more tender they are ! As in a head shot with a $100 guitar is subject to do WAY more damage to your head that one with a $4000 guitar . Simple as that ! (As in a video Jakes claims Honkey was suppose to use a cheap guitar and hurt him because he used the very best )
If you watch the footage though, it definitely looks like it fucks jakes neck. It smashes on his head and jakes neck just gets crushed like an accordion.
he did but very briefly. he wasnt pluck bald like patrick stewart style at the time...believe it was just a hairpiece and not a very big one I agree he doesnt strike me as the vain type who would care about that
One thing about Honky he doesn't seem to change as much as other wrestlers. He was one of my favorite heels of the 80s. The only dude that could compete with him as far as wearing the belt is Mr. Perfect. Both looked great wearing the title and both did great in the ring. I have come to appreciate Honky more as I have gotten older. I see now how truly great, he was.
Shout out to the legendary Honky Tonk Man🔥
Please note this shoot is from 2004 - Honky & Mick made up long ago
Watch Every HTM Interview ➡titlematchnetwork.com/wrestling-shoot-interviews-results/
Called Lawler "Chester the Molester" 😂😂😂
Whats messed up is they are cousins
@@huflungdung8252 I learned a long time ago.... Never Do Business With A Relative!
@@huflungdung8252 he isn’t wrong. Lawler has been charged with it
@@wrongwayranger4736 Convicted?
He ain't lying... and that's his first cousin! Probably knows a whole lot of secrets about Chester 💯
In case people didn't know, Honky Tonk addressed this issue on his podcast. Mick heard Wayne was mad at him. Mick called Wayne personally to apologize. Wayne accepted the apology. He praised Mick for "being a man" and buried the issue.
Figures I did a search for that clip but can't find it. Id like to hear it
@@jonbourgoin182 no need. It's in this same video. 6:56
Honky tonk shoots are fascinating.
He was a great heel.
The 🐐 of shoot interviews
I can listen to Honky Tonk Man shoot for hours bro. Sometimes when I’m working from home, I’ll just have these interviews on in the background and he can make my 12 hour shift so much more enjoyable lol
@@ericvon2561 So good. You ever hear Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson talk about Honky?
Not even close. The only person that would say that is someone that hasn't seen many interviews.
He's full of it and he's a hypocrite. Bashed bret for Montreal and he walked out of wcw during a ppv because he refused to do a j.o.b to Johnny b badd. I know world title wwf blah blah blah but same circumstances a little bit. Cornette is the 🐐 of shoot interviews
I hate 🐐 and people who use it. It's a nonsensical term that doesn't mean anything
Saw Honky grab some French fries with ketchup after a show at an arena in LaSalle Ontario in 1998
Something I never forgot 😂
does he have heat with the ketchup?
Just realized that Honky and I golf at the same course in Mesa, AZ (Superstition Springs). If I ever see you Wayne, beer is on me! :)
Don't get that 9 iron 😅
😂😂😂
if you see him, see if you can get him to give you a shake rattle and roll in a sand trap
foley was lowkey a very talented writer, that books was phenomenal
His first book was really good. I'd say the others weren't quite as good. But I do appreciate his vocabulary and of course all the crazy bumps he took to further separate himself from everyone else.
Marty should've bought industrial strength glue! Those 3 glues for a dollar ain't gonna cut it!
I like This Good Ole Boy, Southern Boy, I enjoy his Interviews very much.
I loved the honky tonk character, he did it great.
A Honky Tonk Man book would be amazing! Bret’s was my favorite, but I think a HTM one would be even better!
I’m an 80s baby from Mobile, AL Honky is the 2nd person I’ve ever heard Using Beefcake’s real name. The first is Edward “Eddie” Leslie. A woman I dated worked in a check cashing place and he came in to cash a check. Honkey needs a podcast!!!
I love his intervews the best. Great storyteller and humor.
Happy New Year!
I've no idea if his version of things is any closer to the truth than someone else's, but you gotta love the way he tells a story.
Any day of the week!!! Then names 3 days of the week 😂😂 priceless
The greatest intercontinental champion of ALLLLLL time!
I'm surprised HTM doesn't have a podcast.
he'd be great at it, I just dont think he wants to do it
He used to many years back and I believe he was the first to do it 💯
i heard on a podcast about the toupee story...ric flair was doing commentary with the announcer , he said when it came off , flair and the announcer lost it and was laughing so hard
Thanks for the video, TITLE MATCH WRESTLING
I told folks that too , Ric Flair matches were the same. When he was a face going against Steamboat , Vader and others he did more
Happy new year 🎉
Honkey always tells it the way it was not sugar coting his stories always keeping it real 💯
No, he always tries to make himself look like the hero who got done dirty. He’s a lying carnie just like all the other old timers who thinks nobody can tell they’re “working”. When I look at these comments, I’m afraid they might be right. I see too many “HTM keeps it a buck!” posts. It’s disheartening.
Seinfeld had an episode like this, Peterman bought Krammers stories and claimed them in his book. I would imagine this happens much more than we realize.
Honky tells it straight at all times! One man gang and I seen him go ballistic on a promoter in the room one night.... One of the greatest promos I ever seen cut wish there was a camera! 💯😁
Love Honky
HTM is quite the raconteur
Hes actually right ...he was on Canadian TV for about at least a year before WWF .
I saw it … he was wrestling for Al Tomko in British Columbia… used to get the program on a local station in Peterborough ontario… god it was great and terrible all at once lol
@stevejohnson1577 if you know who any of the following are there is a very good chance you are a legend ...Olly Olsen, JR Bundy and Rick Davis
@@johngallagher72 oh ya… you are missing verne seibert, the frog, mike edwards, tim patterson, sweet daddy sampson, tim flowers, fuzzy sayers among others. I once bought a tape from verne seibert that was the “best” of 1986. It was awesome
@@johngallagher72 spider web, E T Stanton, Sonny Myers ( let me tell you sumthin JACK), rocky della serra, fred birch, ivan gorky, buddy wayne,
Look for the pile driver by tim flowers on rick patterson
Thank you Honky
Mick Foley has told some whoppers. A lot of people in the wrestling business have. Hard to know whose telling the truth.
if you read twitter at all he doesn't seem significantly more credible than Hogan nowadays
"Everybody lies. Honest...."
@@dereks2042 Especially politicians.
I know who's not telling the truth. This douche bag.
It was actually the the fault of Pat Patterson's long-time partner or husband Louie (sort of) that went and bought the extremely solidly built guitar having no idea what they were going to be using it for. They just told him to go out and buy a guitar for The Honky Tonk man and that's all they told him.
On top of that, nobody thought to check it to make sure the inner skeleton or structural pieces had been removed.
Honky is the one that hit him with it but you can't blame him for Jake's injury.
Was there no "prop master" back then? FR
Wrong. You're so wrong. Jake said HTM had done the guitar spot numerous times with others. HTM *knew* what a gimmick guitar felt like (guts removed so it'd break easy) a gimmick guitar is lighter than a regular guitar. HTM knew what he was doing. At 6:20 he describes the guitar he hit Jake with and even says it was *heavy* ! Why would he say that? Hmm is it because the gimmick guitars were lighter? He absolutely knew what he was doing. HTM doing this to Jake is what started Jake on his addiction to pain pills because the impact and the pieces of fiberglass in his skin. I didn't hear about this in a video, I heard it in person firsthand from Jake himself.
@@redeastwood4850 I agree it started Jake's pain pill problem and If you are saying it is at least in part his fault because he knew "it felt heavy" and didn't check it, that is fair. I should have said "You can't put most of the blame on him"
To suggest he is 100% to blame or mostly to blame for not double-checking because "it felt heavy" it is not fair because different guitars WITH the guts removed will be still be different weights. A cheap-ass one with the guts still in can easily be far lighter than a high quality one made of better quality/a different type of wood with the guts removed.
He wasn't using the same type of guitar or same quality every time.
The same size guitar with the wood being the same thickness made of pine wood and one made from oak wood would not weigh the same or have the same strength.
He may have just figured it was better quality guitar than usual and that was why it was heavier, not even thinking to check it.
To suggest he "absolutely knew what he was doing" and either knew the guts were still in it because he HAD looked and didn't care, or just knew "by the weight" that this particular one still had the guts in, and purposely with malicious intent he hit Jake with a guitar he KNEW would cause Jake injury because he wanted to injure Jake is absurd!
You need to do your research. Road warrior hawk who has no dog in this fight subsequently said that it was laughable that Jake tried to blame honky tonk Man for the guitar hit starting his drug addiction. I can't remember the exact quote but when asked about the situation hawk said laughing 'well what the hell was Jake doing before the guitar hit?' @@redeastwood4850
That shirt is loud
Jeff Jarrett stole his guitar break
Jarrett never really got over. bland milquetoast performer
Jake said HTM had done the guitar spot numerous times with others. HTM *knew* what a gimmick guitar felt like (guts removed so it'd break easy) a gimmick guitar is lighter than a regular guitar. HTM knew what he was doing. At 6:20 he even describes the guitar he hit Jake with and even says it was *heavy* ! Why would he say that? Hmm is it because the gimmick guitars were lighter? He absolutely knew what he was doing. HTM doing this to Jake is what started Jake on pain pills because the impact and the pieces of fiberglass in his skin. I didn't hear about this in a video, I heard it in person firsthand from Jake himself.
Jake spent his life abusing girlfriends and his poor snakes that he let starve to death and was incredibly cruel to. Zero compassion for the scumbag.
As if Jake wasn't self-medicating his entire life. Nothing emotional all because of the pain from the neck?
I spent 25 years in wrestling with both these guys Jake is full of 💩 he was on the drugs long before he ever took a guitar shot 💯 best con in the biz! 😇
@dondemmeljr1765 yes Jake used different drugs before this. This did damage to his neck and is when he started him on pain pills. You don't know as much as you say you do, jobber.
Dynamite Kidd had a Napolean Complex aka Little Man Syndrome. Love him or Hate him The Honky Tonk Man was Honest, Compassionate, and Truthful on what he states. One of the Best Workers and Greatest Heels to EVER work in the Business...
Yeah it's well known that the British bulldogs were British bullies
How the hell would he know what that guitar shot did to Jake? He wasn't the one that got hit with it.
Jake is using Honky as a Scapegoat just like Austin is using Owen Hart as a scapegoat.. Both already had bad necks before AND Austin was the one who suggested the piledriver spot at Summerslam 97
Owen Hart and HTM 4 LIFE!!!!!
I mean I love owen but he botched that move and its insane not to admit it.
Austin is lucky Owen didn’t kill him with that jacked up pile driver. I loved watching Owen and he seems like a person that never would have done anything malicious to hurt someone, but he screwed up bad on that spot.
@ Austin screwed up by suggesting the piledriver spot. Only a reckless goof would suggest taking ANY kind of piledriver when he ALREADY had a bad neck..
@@jamespaul6315 Austin is insane to have suggested taking a piledriver when he already had a bad neck.. Did Austin ever call DEBRA at home to apologize??
@@CannedHam2479 lol WHaT
Say what you want about HTM, everything he said turns out to be true.
The Smartest Man In The Business
3:38 Chester who?
Must be talking about Jerry Lawler because he mentions his ex wife Kat
Jerry Lawlor, and he allegedly had an attraction to 16 year old blondes.
@@afattori316 - I mean...
Regardless of if people like Honky or not he's a good ol boy old school heel who knew how to work, get over, & draw money.
Did he actually know how to work tho?? Lol I've seen his matches.... he got work bc he's lawlers cousin
Whoop whoop 😅
I always got a good laugh out of HTM as a kid..😂
I guess there's only one guy who knows and tells the truth. 😅
So did Honky Tonk hit Jake and damage his neck or not???
Wayne is surprised that Wrestlers tell the occasional untruth to make a story 'Pop'.😏
Foley was wrong to do what he done.
As much as I like HTM, and his stories, two things spring to mind. If he never reads wrestling books, how does he know so much about the contents of so many? And secondly, Fit Finlay or a fit Tom Billington would both absolutely batter him in a real fight. But, as I say, he's a good interview.
They wouldn't dare touch the honky tonk man because they know they'll deal with Roscoe! 🤠
I've heard the Jake guitar story a 100 times and duh !! Instruments , the better they are the more tender they are ! As in a head shot with a $100 guitar is subject to do WAY more damage to your head that one with a $4000 guitar . Simple as that !
(As in a video Jakes claims Honkey was suppose to use a cheap guitar and hurt him because he used the very best )
If you watch the footage though, it definitely looks like it fucks jakes neck. It smashes on his head and jakes neck just gets crushed like an accordion.
The real Blue Suede Goo
I like Honky Tonk but has anybody ever seen an upbeat video from Wayne/Honky Tonk.
The one where hes drunk off “Ripple”
Seems to know alot of wrestling books details for a guy who never read one😅
I'm sure word gets around !
Yep .. word getting around .. it's called gossip
The very BS he's bitching about
@@timingerman5107 lol
When does someone call this dude out on his BS??? OMFG...........SQUIGGY FROM LAVERNE AND SHIRLEY WANTS HIS GIMMICK BACK
All facts all straight up facts! 💯
Honky has been pronouncing McMahon wrong for forty years. Honky says MacMahon not McMahon.
Mick wrote that Einstein misplelled the theory of relativity and that Volkswagon actually has two "r"s in it
So everyone's a liar but HIM... Interesting!!!
That's right! Honky 4 life! 👍
Elvis is still alive
I'm doubting that Arn Anderson ever wore a toupee much less while wrestling.
he did but very briefly. he wasnt pluck bald like patrick stewart style at the time...believe it was just a hairpiece and not a very big one
I agree he doesnt strike me as the vain type who would care about that
Imagine HTM calling another wrestler out for having the same match over and over. That's literally what he did
Hey, his double ax handle was devastating 🤣 But I love watching HTM wrestle, he's corny but sells good and is entertaining.
Mack man & Chester the Molester