Three Guys Around a Table and The Best Of…
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Three Guys Around a Table and The Best Of…
The Best Of: Wrestling Intro Songs
What happens when a lawyer, an engineer, and a school superintendent walk into a frosty room and break into a debate about wrestling intro songs? It turns out, quite the entertaining spectacle! We humorously shift from the predictable college football banter to a passionate discussion about the most legendary entrance tracks in wrestling history. Our chat kicks off with a nod to the Road Warriors' iconic charge to Black Sabbath's "Iron Man," setting the stage for our animated journey through the soundtracks that defined wrestling eras from WWE to ECW.
No wrestling intro conversation would be complete without a salute to Sandman's unforgettable ECW entrances. Picture this: Sandman emerging from the crowd with his kendo stick, cigarette smoke trailing behind, and beers smashing against his head to the powerful chords of Metallica's "Enter Sandman." We share a laugh over his current resemblance to a possibly grizzled Walmart greeter and I get personal about how that same anthem became my own sports soundtrack. With a blend of nostalgia, laughter, and spirited camaraderie, we invite you to walk down memory lane and relive some of wrestling's most exhilarating intro moments.
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Speaker 3:We're talking about three friends a lawyer, an engineer and a school superintendent and just like our personalities, our opinions vary and we certainly don't always agree. Whether we're discussing the best of or giving our tips and tricks of things in everyday life, you're sure to learn something if you stick around. Good evening from a very cold, very snowy evening. Glad to have you guys here with me.
Speaker 1:Is he talking about the temperature in this actual?
Speaker 3:room. That is correct, because I'm frozen, if you notice.
Speaker 2:I didn't say which way or the other. I am burning up because I turned it up two degrees in here. You're burning up just because you're with us.
Speaker 1:I'm sitting on one of my hands. It's so cold. Look under my fleece my Sherpa. Christmas tree on a car blanket.
Speaker 3:Thank you for clarifying, because I wasn't sure why you were sitting on your hand.
Speaker 1:But I had a guess.
Speaker 2:Anyhow, so moving on on.
Speaker 3:It is 67, by the way, that's plenty warm. 67, okay, anyhow, anyhow, uh, yeah for ice cream in your freezer um so guys I'm glad we're gonna be here. Okay, for everybody listening, we're gonna have to be talking about college football tonight. That's a shame, that's that's not true.
Speaker 2:I am absolutely kidding. I am so glad we're going to be talking about college football tonight. That's a shame, that's not true. I am absolutely kidding.
Speaker 3:I am so glad we're not, not true, just throwing it out there, but of course we're going to go back. We've had a lot more requests from people because they like our conversation. We have around again professional wrestling, wrestling. Wrestling we're talking about professional wrestling tonight and we're going to be talking about intro songs. Now, guys, are we talking about songs only, or are we talking about the songs along with the videos that played later?
Speaker 1:No, I think it's just songs, Just songs, because you're going to get your road dog GCJ. Oh, you didn't know. No, I knew what it was going to be Just curious.
Speaker 3:All right guys. So we're going to be talking about the best intro songs for professional wrestling? I'm assuming we're talking WWE, wwf, or are we going?
Speaker 2:anywhere.
Speaker 3:Everywhere.
Speaker 1:Everywhere.
Speaker 3:Anywhere and everywhere, all right. So everybody buckle up, have fun. We're going to talk about some wrestling songs. We're going to throw some cool ones out there, wrestling. Uh, you'll probably like the banter between the three of us because I already decided they're wrong.
Speaker 2:so let's roll, all right. Well, mark, you go first, okay you go first I'm going old school to start now old school old school for me or old school for you?
Speaker 1:well, an old school for you is black and white, that's true. How old were you?
Speaker 3:I'm not going. Gorgeous george and which, by the way, was a guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So I'm going back to the early 80s, when the Road Warriors first started out he said road, I thought road dog when the Road Warriors first started out, when they were still allowed to come out to songs that weren't produced by WWF. At the time they came out to Iron man by Black Sabbath.
Speaker 1:I remember that.
Speaker 2:When that first.
Speaker 1:Look, we've had it. They're the best tag team ever, 100%. They were awesome.
Speaker 2:Those shoulder pads coming in. And their later song in WWE was good too when it started off with oh, what a rush. And then it, you know, but old school iron man.
Speaker 1:For me, road warriors, that would be number one for me yeah yeah, I got no complaints with it. Iron man's legit all right, chris no, you go ahead.
Speaker 3:I did my one. I was talking to Greg, we're going around.
Speaker 1:Mine's going to be ECW. Oh, you know, yeah, okay, I'm pulling a little ECW out, my favorite intro, and it was the total package for the intro. I have a feeling where you're going. It wasn't just the song, yeah, it was when Sandman came out. Yeah, oh, my E-C-W. He would come out to enter Sandman Yep, and he would just be some random place in the crowd, yep, with his stick Smoking a cigarette With his cigarette in his mouth. Kendo stick With his kendo stick in it and four or five beers on him.
Speaker 1:And bashing himself in the head, it would start the song he would kiss the beers Fans would go crazy. He would drink a little bit of the beer. He'd pour the rest of it on it. Then he would take the can, smash it against his head, get his head start bleeding before the match even started. 100%.
Speaker 2:Have you seen him lately?
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, he looks like the guy that stands out here in front of.
Speaker 2:Walmart asking for money. It's not good, but it might be him, it could be him. Fantastic intro Amazing, fantastic, ditto. That's a great one.
Speaker 1:That was also my song when I came into close baseball games. Really, yep, I'll be darned.
Speaker 3:So we're starting off with our all-time favorite, that's my favorite.
Speaker 1:Yep, I'll be done. So we're starting off with our all-time favorite.
Speaker 3:That's my favorite. Mine has to be more because, guys, I didn't watch wrestling back then.
Speaker 1:Right, we've talked about this.
Speaker 3:Mine has to be simply because I also like Lemmy Kilmeister a lot, it has to be Triple H, the Game.
Speaker 2:That's really good. That's a good one.
Speaker 1:Because that's like I am the Game.
Speaker 2:You know the way I want to play.
Speaker 3:It just gets you so pumped up Lemmy's screaming and you hear Motorhead just getting at it. It's so cool. It gets you jacked up, ready to go.
Speaker 1:My favorite one about Triple H, though, is when some fan was getting on him in the front row and you know how he gets up there and he gets his water and he spits it up there. He spit it straight on these people. I mean damn on him right in the front row.
Speaker 3:He spit it straight on these people I mean damn on them, right in the front row. I love it. That's when it was fun, right.
Speaker 1:Yeah absolutely.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm going to come in with Rick Mellon, our producer.
Speaker 1:I talked to him this evening A little pregame. He's been quiet here lately. What's going on with that?
Speaker 2:He's been listening and I told him about this topic.
Speaker 1:It's because it's like 50 degrees in florida oh, he's like he's loving it. I'm in. I'm in for the winner I got my blubber.
Speaker 3:That's it. You know what's awesome. You know what's awesome about that being 50 degrees in florida right now. It's warmer than it is bingo. Yeah, yeah, it's like 45 here, whatever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go ahead, so anyway. Uh, rick threw out a couple of really really good ones. I'll use one of his first, and I got to agree with it when the first note of the Nature Boy, rick Flair.
Speaker 3:Zastruthra.
Speaker 2:Fanfare. Yeah absolutely, you know, I mean, that's a classic. Is it Zastruthra Fanfare? Yeah, so is it. It's not Thus Spake Zarathustra, is it? It is yeah.
Speaker 1:Is that it?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:That's it.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It's the German version. It's great.
Speaker 3:Wagner, it's gotta be on any list. Yes, fantastic. You know that was on the opposite side of the. That was the B side to Flight of the Bumblebees by.
Speaker 2:Wagner Okay, yeah, alright, alright.
Speaker 1:This one's not my number two, I just think it's pretty good.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:And um, and it's because I kind of liked the guy when he first came out. Yeah, right, yeah, how did you know?
Speaker 3:Easy.
Speaker 1:Uh, the big show when he, when he first when he goes the Big Show, it's the Big Show, the Big Show. It was pretty cool when he came out. You know, I thought that was pretty good, not an incredibly creative lyrical song no, definitely not.
Speaker 2:It's like me coming out to you.
Speaker 1:It's more. You know what's funny.
Speaker 3:That's what his alarm is on his phone. What's wrong with that?
Speaker 1:Every morning I thought that was pretty good.
Speaker 3:That's what his alarm is on his phone. What's wrong?
Speaker 1:with that Every morning. Yeah, I thought that was pretty good.
Speaker 3:That's good. That was a good one. I'm kind of torn on my number two. You know, you guys with me I've got to give you my top 17,.
Speaker 1:but I'd love two of them, Number one. Well, we're going to go around a couple more times.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we've got to go, yeah, we got to come. All right, it's so hard for me. This was such a terrible group of wrestlers. I'm going with a group. Okay, the Oddities. I don't remember that one. It's the Insane Clown Posse. I don't remember that song. Jay and Violent Jay and Shaggy Too.
Speaker 2:Dope Too Dope, I mean, I remember who those people were.
Speaker 3:They come out with the Oddities, but I'll let you hear it. We can't play it because we don't have rights to the song of course, but I'll let you hear it. It's just a head-banging heavy rap.
Speaker 1:I don't remember much about that. You remember the oddities though.
Speaker 3:Yes, I do so is it back to me by? The way guys, you guys didn't comment on my Beetlejuice picture I sent you today. No comment.
Speaker 2:All right, go ahead.
Speaker 1:The post I sent you got taken down. I didn't see that one. Yeah, you did. You commented on it yeah, you did.
Speaker 3:Oh, I did. Yes, never mind moving on.
Speaker 2:Oh boy, yeah, I wonder why I got taken down mel gibson I'm gonna go with uh, and really this is my number two because I used rick and I've got my number two okay so, um, I'm gonna go with one that doesn't have any words at least I can't remember, didn't either I can't remember any words. Well, it did say I am Ironman.
Speaker 3:Oh, Ric Flair wasn't though List number three.
Speaker 2:The Brood when the Brood would come out and you know that their entrance was better than their wrestling.
Speaker 1:At least.
Speaker 3:Gangrel. I never think Gangrel was very good. Listen, we had the blood and the fangs and your Christian and Edge and all and you're.
Speaker 2:Yeah, christian and Edge and all that when they were, you know but that was a good intro song.
Speaker 3:I would play it for baseball when they were taking in for us.
Speaker 1:That's cool, yeah, so this is actually my number two and it's solely because I find it so funny, all right, and it's one of Chris's favorite wrestlers.
Speaker 3:Sexy boy.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, Never mind.
Speaker 1:That's interesting. This podcast just got uncomfortable.
Speaker 2:It did Wow.
Speaker 1:I'm going to have to start calling in from now on. It is one of two of the road dog Jesse James and Billy Gunn. Oh, you didn't know it's one of two, but when Billy Gunn was in a singles restaurant when he was Mr Okay. He was a proctologist man, mr Backside His intro song was hilarious. Yeah, he would say, I love to lick.
Speaker 2:Mr Bottom. His intro song was hilarious. He would say I love the, I love the lick yeah.
Speaker 3:Did you know that guy's still wrestling? I did not know, billy Gunn is still wrestling and he has had some Botox and some Buttox is all I gotta say he was terrible as a single. Never did anything, but he had a funny intro song. You mean this, yeah?
Speaker 2:That was sure, I mean, he had a funny entrance song, you mean, this.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was Sure. I mean, he had a funny entrance song, that's fair. It's made me laugh since the first time I heard it.
Speaker 2:That's fair.
Speaker 3:So I was going to bring up Shawn Michaels. I already gave you a preview, that's a good one, that's a good one, that's a good one. I'm not your boy toy Sexy. Yeah, that's a good one, that's a good one. I like it because it came out, you know, did the stretch and the flex. Yeah, but anyhow that's not my next one. I just want to throw that out there.
Speaker 2:I have to go with the Godfather.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, Ho Train.
Speaker 2:Come get on the Ho Train yeah there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 3:I love it. The Godfather man. What was his real name? I can't remember. Because I was always shocked that he never hooked up with the nation of domination.
Speaker 2:He used to be Papa Shango, didn't he? Yeah, he did Back in the day.
Speaker 1:My favorite thing of the Godfather is when he tried to get the Undertaker to get his hose to the fans. He Undertaker to get his hose to the fans. He was like we don't know what to do with this. You can have your choice of these high quality hoses.
Speaker 3:But he never joined the Nation of Domination. That was weird. I'm going to throw out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 1:D-Lo baby, D-Lo's the man.
Speaker 2:I'm going to throw out another one for Rick Rick's number two that he mentioned.
Speaker 3:Rick's number two that he mentioned, rick's number two.
Speaker 2:Mr Mellon has shared that whenever you heard.
Speaker 3:The glass shatter, no question.
Speaker 2:I mean it's iconic. People would lose their minds.
Speaker 1:I was one of them, and my next one is a similar one.
Speaker 3:Of course we're talking about Stone Cold Steve Austin. I'm sorry, stone Cold Steve.
Speaker 1:Austin and on the athlete's list of the top 50 songs yes, that is number one.
Speaker 3:Really Okay. Well, it's the one you hear. It's so iconic. As soon as you hear it, you're like everybody's up and mine is from the exact same era.
Speaker 1:Okay, the Rocks. If you smell.
Speaker 2:The Rocks People went nuts as soon as that happened.
Speaker 1:That's true, the Rocks and he was my favorite during that era.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I was always a.
Speaker 1:Rock guy and look, and that's the reason why I like, I mean, I like LA, not so much now, because he's a promo machine, just like the.
Speaker 3:Rock was. Rock was the best. There was the best there ever will be. Yeah, he was unbelievable.
Speaker 2:So I got to tell you a funny little.
Speaker 1:Was the Rock better at promos than Dusty? I think he was, he was really good.
Speaker 3:Dusty was amazing, but Rock was.
Speaker 2:Who was. Let me tell you something Don't even bring up the American dream in this podcast. I've got a fun fact. So I saw this actually on TikTok or whatever.
Speaker 2:Conan O'Brien had a writer that left the Conan O'Brien show at the time to go and write for WWE, and Conan tells the story that when he used to go into the writer's room at his show, he used to always just badger them, just to have fun with them, you know. And he used to say, uh, he used to go in and say, um, why don't you just go get a big glass of shut up juice? And so the writer heard it goes to WWE, tells it to the rock, and the rock comes out. And so the writer called Conan and says, hey, if you watch wrestling tonight, I just want you to know I stole one of your things. And so he did it, and the rock was like why don't you just have yourself a big glass of shut up juice? You know, conan thought it was the one of the greatest moments of his career and the Rock used his life.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but the Rock was as good as there was at the time.
Speaker 2:Amazing. All right, Chris, where are you at?
Speaker 3:I have to go with D-Generation X.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And the video added to it with the green laser.
Speaker 3:No, oh, boom, boom, bow to the master.
Speaker 2:That's true. Boom, boom, bring it down. That whole era was really good Absolutely Attitude era.
Speaker 3:Everything was good, but the same guy wrote them all.
Speaker 1:I still think it was the best era in wrestling.
Speaker 3:Yeah For only one ever watched. But one guy did all these songs. Yeah, john Jacob Gene Larmor Schmidt, or whatever his name is.
Speaker 1:I don't think that was it. It could be. You know his name is my name too. You should know that. What about current ones? All right, Do you have a current?
Speaker 2:one you like I do. All right, it happens to be from my son, I knew it.
Speaker 3:Let me tell you something the American Nightmare. Oh, it's a cool song, cody Rhodes Whoa.
Speaker 1:I mean, look, when they do the whoa, the crowd goes nuts. I mean it's not yeet, but then they go crazy, that's true.
Speaker 3:He puts his fist down and pops it up. Oh, it's cool, it's a cool song. Yeah, man I get and pops it up. It's cool, it's a cool song.
Speaker 2:I'm down with that.
Speaker 1:For a newer one? Sure, For a newer one. What about CM Punks? Oh my god, I forgot.
Speaker 2:That's my cult of personality.
Speaker 1:Oh really, that's cool, it's amazing.
Speaker 2:I can't believe I forgot that one, that's a great song.
Speaker 3:I, oh I can't believe I forgot that one. That's a great song. That's my favorite curl.
Speaker 2:I had that cassette yeah, well, I mean when he comes out to that it is like they go crazy, oh yeah it's heavy banging, too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's, that's really good yeah that I'm.
Speaker 2:I'm a little disappointed in myself for forgetting that yeah, he's great.
Speaker 1:Call to personality is fantastic now can I?
Speaker 2:can I give a controversial one that you all will not agree with? Sure, all right, here we go. I am a real American.
Speaker 3:A Hulk Hogan Terrible Torture Terrible. The Hulkster's probably the best there ever was.
Speaker 1:Yep, yep, I mean, but that's terrible, yep.
Speaker 2:Yep, I mean, but that's terrible. Yep, yep. When I was a kid, you heard when it comes crashing down and it hurts inside.
Speaker 3:Such a terrible song. Do you know who wrote that? No, john Jacob. That's not even funny now.
Speaker 2:No, it's pretty funny. I believe his last name.
Speaker 3:I guess I think he was part of the Gentries. Oh, that's pretty funny. I believe his last name. I think he was part of the Gentries.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's Jimmy Hart, I believe.
Speaker 3:Jimmy Hart wrote that Really.
Speaker 2:Really.
Speaker 1:No kidding, I think that may be.
Speaker 3:I may have just made that up.
Speaker 2:He may just be putting A plus D, 100%, whatever.
Speaker 3:I also liked for classical music wise. I also liked Macho man. Okay, All. I also liked for classical music-wise. I also liked Macho man. Okay, all right, that was pretty cool. Yeah, pump and Circumstance, that's right, it's not Pumps and Circumstance, it's Pump and Circumstance. Yeah, yeah, that's the graduation theme. That's right. That's right. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2:So now, if we can shift for a little bit of worse stuff, oh, okay, a little bit of worse stuff, ones that you may not have liked at all.
Speaker 3:Hang on real quick yeah, edge metal ingus, that's another heavy hitter. Oh okay, solid heavy banger, yeah, all right before we get into worse ones.
Speaker 2:Greg, you got any more best ones that? You like no red new okay, um, how about this one for a worst one, the honky tonk man. You remember his? I don't, I pick a mean guitar that's right.
Speaker 3:Oh, that's so bad so awesome.
Speaker 1:What are you talking about?
Speaker 3:oh, what was jake?
Speaker 2:the snakes uh I don't know, did he even have one? I don't know. I think he just came out because dusty didn't have one. No, I think well, dusty did when he went to wwe. Uh, he came out because he had he had the, uh, the woman who was with him um, I can't remember her name sensational sherry like no, no uh it was african-american lady or I think her name was Sunshine or something.
Speaker 2:I can't remember, but anyway it would American dream. And then he would dance down the aisle. It was the worst, I'm sorry. He would hit you with the elbow and dance.
Speaker 1:It was not my favorite. My favorite scene in wrestling is when he and Avalanche are wrestling.
Speaker 3:Oh, and he does this. They keep dancing, they're shuffling over. It's so bad man, it's so good, it was the greatest oversell ever. Who was that? Avalanche Avalanche? Never heard of that yet. Oh, I'll tell you another one. I like, I like Dude Love Okay yeah. But I did not like Cactus Jack.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 3:That's fair. Oh Kane, we forgot about Kane on a good one, kane and Undertaker both Undertaker's killed Undertaker's killed Whenever you hear that bong. But I like when he was American Badass better he played a little Kid Rock. What was the Dudley Boys, by the way. Was it D-Von and Bubba Ray and Devon? I honestly can't remember. I think it was Bubba Ray and I think it was Devon. That's pretty funny. What was the Million Dollar man?
Speaker 1:He had one. He was in the Honorable Mentions on this list Ted DiBiase.
Speaker 3:I'm trying to remember. He comes to town quite frequently. By the way, we need to meet up with him next time.
Speaker 1:Everyone's got a price and everyone's going to pay, Because the million-dollar man always gets his way, it's all about the money.
Speaker 2:Money money.
Speaker 3:money, money, money, that's right, I got a good one, okay, and I've got it on my phone right now.
Speaker 2:But you're not allowed to play it. But I can't play it, yeah, because of trademark copyright infringement. Lawyer's a jerk.
Speaker 3:Shane O'Mac here comes the money. Shane McMahon here comes the money.
Speaker 1:That's pretty good, so let me give you the top 10. Alright, good On this, and you see what you think. Okay, see which ones we've talked about and which ones we haven't. Number one is Stone Cold, steve Austin. That's solid, that's a good one, yeah. Number two was Undertaker Love it Turn that off.
Speaker 3:Turn that off my phone ringing. I'm sorry guys, my phone's ringing.
Speaker 1:Number three we did not mention, okay, chris. Jericho. Walls of Jericho.
Speaker 3:Walls of Jericho. That's pretty cool, yeah, solid.
Speaker 1:Four was Randy Savage, which we did mention, we did Classic. Number five was Edge.
Speaker 2:That's Metalingus. I mean it's not that great.
Speaker 3:Isn't it, metalingus? That's a heavy banger.
Speaker 1:The Rocks was six. Rock should have been before him. Edge is overrated, batista.
Speaker 3:I don't remember what his was at all. Neither he looks weird now. He looks weird now. Have you seen him?
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, this will make you happy. Okay, number eight is probably your favorite. Yeah, bret Hart.
Speaker 2:Oh, what was his called?
Speaker 3:I am Bret Hart. I am.
Speaker 1:Canadian Bret Hart's theme music has been remixed and used by other wrestlers, such as Tyson Kidd, but the original Hartman theme is as good as it gets. I don't think so. I don't know about that. Yeah me either.
Speaker 2:It's not memorable for me CM Punk Fantastic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, cultural personality is good. So that's the highest rated new one. Yeah, I think that's a good choice and Triple H was 10. Oh, so that's the highest rated new one.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that's Triple H was 10. Oh, I love that one. Okay, all right, what's 50?
Speaker 1:Hulk Hogan was 11.
Speaker 2:Oh, no way, I am a real Taking me back to my youth.
Speaker 3:How many shirts did that man tear off? 50 was the big show.
Speaker 2:Well, it's the big show. Hey, how about Hillbilly Jim? Is he on there? Hillbilly Jim, is he on?
Speaker 1:there, don't go messing with a country boy. I didn't look through the whole list Did the.
Speaker 3:Bushwhackers have one Aye.
Speaker 1:What did the British Bulldog Come out to?
Speaker 2:It was like an English sounding Song with trumpets and stuff in it. I can hear it, but I can't the one that drove me crazy was who was the guy?
Speaker 1:And I can't remember his name. You remember when Triple H first came out, he was trying to be this upright Hunter Hearst Helmsley. There was another guy similar to that, okay, who was kind of a pompous guy, almost like the Carson Drake.
Speaker 3:I know exactly who you're talking about. I know exactly who you're talking about.
Speaker 1:And he had a terrible song and I can't remember what his name is.
Speaker 3:I know exactly who you're talking about. He was British Yep and I'm trying to think Steven Riegel, steven Riegel.
Speaker 2:That's it.
Speaker 1:That's it. It was Steven Riegel.
Speaker 2:That's it, yep, yep I. What about?
Speaker 1:I can't believe you didn't say Freya the Slayer as your favorite.
Speaker 3:That's true. You know what Ryan Van Rocker is pretty awesome.
Speaker 2:We didn't mention Goldust, another member of the family.
Speaker 1:Terrible.
Speaker 2:What about Goldberg?
Speaker 3:I don't remember his.
Speaker 2:I never watched WCW. This was kind of low bassy yeah.
Speaker 1:What about Gilbert?
Speaker 2:I thought Gilbert had of Goldberg. Yeah, that's that's. I guess that's reasonable, do you know?
Speaker 1:Goldberg won a title in four decades Are you sure? I saw it on wrestling on Monday night. He he won one in the eighties, one in the nineties two thousand or no, maybe it's nineties. One in the 90s, 2000 or no, maybe it's 90s, 2010s. And did he win one in 2020? It said he won it in four decades.
Speaker 2:I remember when he won the first one, when he beat Hulk Hogan did that dude ever lose seriously, but eventually?
Speaker 3:he did. He had a terrible finishing move, though now it's pretty good, the spear no that wasn't the finishing move.
Speaker 1:That was, that was like the big leg or that was like that triple leg drop, that was like the three punches yeah, it was a, it was a suplex, they turned into a power. Okay, yeah, okay so that was the equivalent of hogan's big boot. After he punched, after he every, every had ended the same, he punched him three times, threw him into the ropes. Big boot, triple leg drop Terrible.
Speaker 2:Go back to January of 1984 when Hulk Hogan won the title from the Iron Sheik. If you ever have a chance to watch the highlights of the match, the Sheik's got him in the camel clutch right.
Speaker 2:The what Hogan gets up to watch the highlights of the match. Okay, the sheiks got him in the camel clutch, right? Yeah? And so Hogan gets up and and backs him into the corner and slams him into the turnbuckle and then goes and drops the leg on him and then pins him. It was, there was nothing else. He backed him into the corner. Boom Dropped the big leg and it was over.
Speaker 1:When you dropped that double leg it was over. It was over.
Speaker 3:You know who else had a pretty good one. It was Ken Shamrock. Ken Shamrock had a pretty good one as soon as he came over from UFC.
Speaker 1:Ken Shamrock was one of the baddest people to be in wrestling.
Speaker 3:He had a little bit of crazy going on.
Speaker 1:He used to nut job dude, but in UFC he kicked everybody's ass.
Speaker 2:How about that Steve Blackman guy, the martial artist? Do you remember him?
Speaker 3:Oh you know who else had a pretty good one JBL.
Speaker 1:JBL had a pretty good one. You know who else had a pretty good one? Mick Foley. I don't know which one we're talking about.
Speaker 2:He had like 78. Bang bang. We are the nation of domination.
Speaker 3:The best thing with the nation of domination is when the Rock is sitting there rolling his eyes and Ron Simmons is back there talking and he's like that's what made the Rock so amazing.
Speaker 1:So not to completely change topics, but what do you think about Raw and Netflix? It's way more commercialized now. If you look at the ring, it's got advertisements yeah all over it I.
Speaker 2:I think that the um, I don't know if it's just because it's on netflix, but the matches seem to go an inordinate amount of time. Last week it's three, it's over three hours yeah, and last week they had four matches, yeah, um you know, that's it. Yeah, and there was a lot of filler in between and you know, um, I think they need to turn it up a notch I think they need to, and I hate to say this, but I think they need some better writing.
Speaker 3:They're they're getting lost in too much of the bloodline and what I don't.
Speaker 1:There's nothing else going on and the bloodline storyline's kind of gone away because roman's out right now yeah but I don't like how they have a certain group on Monday and a certain group on Friday.
Speaker 3:Well, they're trying to do like they did with Raw and SmackDown.
Speaker 1:But the thing about it is is you've got really good wrestlers on Friday who aren't getting that attention. That Netflix is giving, I mean like you, and I have had this conversation. Jey Uso is the hottest one in wrestling right now. He's going to beat Gunther. Yep, gunther he is. He's going to beat him at WrestleMania.
Speaker 2:And that's a crock. Gunther shouldn't lose to anybody. That dude is a beast.
Speaker 1:He's going to win. Yep, they're going to put him over.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:I think they should have put LA Knight over Yep, should have put la night over yep. Uh, but like he's, he's not on monday night raw. He's on smackdown and on the on the lesser show.
Speaker 2:Obviously yep and, but, but crab loves that dude, yeah have you ever seen pictures of gunther from a few years ago? Gunther, I should say, where was he wrestling um when he was first in wd? He was a.
Speaker 3:He was a large what was his name originally? What was his name originally?
Speaker 2:they changed it on him, Not that I'm aware of, but he's always been a really good wrestler, but now I mean he's a beast. Did you see?
Speaker 1:him on Raw on Monday night when he walked down through the fan. This little kid's got this yeet shirt on him.
Speaker 3:He's like out of my way. Hey, I forgot of another good new song, new intro song. Val Venus.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Hey ladies.
Speaker 1:I always thought he was weird.
Speaker 3:I'm sorry, he wore a towel down to the ring and I got another one Too. Cool Too Cool, scotty Too Hotty Remember when they got Rikishi to dance, with them doing their little dance, wasn't that?
Speaker 2:Jerry Lawler's kid Jerry Lawler's kid, christopher Lawler. Yeah, brian Christopher, or whatever, yeah.
Speaker 3:But remember Scotty, too Hotty would do the worm in front of them.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, they get Rikishi to dance Worst finishing move ever. Oh yeah, the worm was the worm.
Speaker 3:Other than the pump handle. The pump handle is where it's at. You pump handle is where it's at and you know it. Most of the time it was the extra pump handle too.
Speaker 2:Another classic, great intro song with no words Roddy Piper, when he came out to Bagpipes, I mean because he was just like the best heel of all time, and don't even try to argue with me on that. What was Brutus beefcakes?
Speaker 3:Did he even have one? Um, I don't know, was it like like the snipping of scissors or something, or what? Edward Clippers, I thought we heard.
Speaker 1:Hey, greg Dahmer, valentine's should have been like uh, I love you.
Speaker 2:That's so good. Oh, that's great. Alright, so I think we've about. You know, scotty, too Hotty. I think we've done A pretty good job on.
Speaker 1:That Is Scotty Too Hotty From Limerick.
Speaker 2:No, but you know who is. I do know who Al Snow baby.
Speaker 1:That was a pretty good intro too. 100% what does everybody want?
Speaker 2:And the only reason we didn't talk about him was because of you and Lima, because I cannot go back.
Speaker 3:I mean, it's unbelievable. I told you I think it's December and we can go back. December of 25?, 25. Or not 26. It will have been two years, yeah, wow.
