Three Guys Around a Table and The Best Of…
Three buddies sitting around a table debating the best of everything and discussing what is on their minds
Three Guys Around a Table and The Best Of…
Summerslam Recap and Untimely Passings...
When wrestling history is being made, you need friends to break it all down. That's exactly what happened when three very different personalities – a lawyer, an engineer, and a school superintendent – gathered to dissect the unforgettable two-day SummerSlam extravaganza that rocked the New Jersey/New York area.
Day One emerges as the clear winner in this epic breakdown. The hosts vividly recreate the electricity of Gunter and CM Punk's bloody battle, with one declaring Gunter "the best talent in the world" who carried an exhausted CM Punk to a spectacular match. But nothing compares to their animated recounting of Seth Rollins' masterful fake-injury storyline that culminated in what they call a genuine "holy ass moment" – when Rollins dramatically dropped his crutches, removed his knee brace, and sprinted to the ring as the crowd erupted.
Even Logan Paul earns surprising praise for his legitimate wrestling skills, particularly his death-defying frog splash through the announcer's table. "He can do things nobody else can do," admits one host, despite acknowledging that "everyone hates Logan Paul."
The conversation takes a poignant turn when discussing recent losses of childhood icons, particularly Hulk Hogan. Despite controversial aspects of his career, the hosts unanimously recognize his transformative impact: "Wrestling would be nowhere near where it is today, but for him." They reminisce about his historic 1984 championship victory and the birth of Hulkamania with the kind of detailed wrestling knowledge that only true lifelong fans possess.
What makes this conversation special is the genuine friendship and passionate disagreement that shines through. Whether debating Jay Uso's worthiness as a main eventer or critiquing Brock Lesnar overshadowing Cody Rhodes' championship victory, these three friends exemplify why wrestling is best enjoyed with people who don't always see things the same way.
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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.
Speaker 1: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 as we sit here around the table, the three guys we are 30 minutes away from wwe raw the day after the first ever two-day summer slam from new jersey, new york city area. So we have to talk about summerSlam and where we stand with that, and then we also have to talk about there's been since the last time we've been together a bunch of our childhood icons have passed on.
Speaker 2:I see dead people.
Speaker 3:Everybody needs to check on Dick Van Dyke.
Speaker 2:He's like 99. Is he really?
Speaker 1:Yep, make sure he's in bubble wrap, but yeah, we have to talk about that a little bit, but yeah, but we we talked a little bit today. The per this, this uh episode, was going to be a recap of summer slam and what we thought about summer slam, but we have to talk about yeah, we've lost the deaths that have happened in the last, uh, couple weeks. That it's, it's almost our child. Well, two of our childhoods are dying.
Speaker 3:One of your middle ages die. Charlotte chaplin's been gone for years yeah, yeah, when chaplin died.
Speaker 1:It was a rough one for me no that that uh summer slam two-day event yeah, okay, first question yeah, day one or day two better, I think you and I agree no yes, so day one a show if yes, absolutely I would give it an a day, two, not so much I, I you know what really made it worse for me is is after the day one show, and we'll talk about the big, the big turn of event in the day one show, yep, but after it, triple H is on the post show and he says you thought tonight was a lot, you ain't seen nothing yet. Yeah, and I kept waiting for the. You ain't seen nothing yet. And I'll be honest with you, we're a day later.
Speaker 2:I still ain't seen it I don't know if I missed it. If the big reveal at the end was Right. If that's it. If that's it, I'm sorry that isn't better than what we saw on day one.
Speaker 1:Day one was millions better.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean okay, so let's talk day one. My main, uh, my main man, uh, yes, gunter, uh lost.
Speaker 1:He just beat the tar out of him and during the match, you and I were texting and we said, yep, they're setting this up for a cash in, for the money in the bank. Yes, yes, because they kept talking about how bad he was getting beat to death. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, uh, gunter put the hammer on him and then you know, they had the thing that happened outside the ring where CM Punk, you know, hits Gunter, he goes under the table. Blades himself, blades it up Great, great blade job, Great job Gunter, because the blood was gushing from his head and he comes out and gets. But what hit was supposed to get his head busted open?
Speaker 1:That's a good question. I mean, he rolled over the announce table and then he comes out bleeding out of his head.
Speaker 2:And he kind of had to crawl the last foot under the table.
Speaker 3:I got a real quick question. Why is it they always? Every time there's anything with the announcer's table, it's always it's the spanish announce table. What's up with the spanish announce table? Why, is it always the one that gets destroyed?
Speaker 1:yeah, well, I mean, you know it's right are there more viewers in the united states or are there more viewers in espanol?
Speaker 3:I want to hear the. It's a fair question on the french announcers table, so we we look what was.
Speaker 2:What was kind of interesting that I I found interesting last night was they went back to day one and they played the clips from all the different countries yes, uh-huh who are broadcasting it, and they did have the french announced team and the turkish announced team and I don't know what.
Speaker 3:I got nothing. What about turk? What about the sign language team?
Speaker 2:uh, the asl team, that was pretty quiet. You know, much like at the special olympics when the when the deaf team can't wake up because they can't hear the alarm, right uh homage to family guy.
Speaker 3:Yes, I think you just really. Yeah, you went there. Yeah, I went there you went there.
Speaker 2:I didn't go there. Family guy went there. I'm just repeating it, he went there. Yeah, I went there. I didn't go there. Family guy went there. I'm just repeating it, he went there.
Speaker 1:So, so the big deal, yeah, so the big deal.
Speaker 2:CM Punk wins the title and then we hear he's the five minute man, baby, five minute champion, and then we hear Burn it down and I kept waiting for it. I was like, come on, come on, come on, yep, and seth rollins comes out. Seth, and this is freaking rollins, and this is what we have to say about, uh, the whole thing, because I watched, I don't know, did you see his interview today? Seth rollins, all right. So seth rollins was interviewed today on the rich eisen show because when he was injured he actually took over for rich eisen for a day and did the show.
Speaker 2:Right and he had the crutches and all that stuff, Complete kayfabe, complete work.
Speaker 3:the whole thing Awesome Everything I read. Said he was really hurt.
Speaker 2:Yeah. And so when he was interviewed today he said his wife Becky Lynch the man yeah, she's the man Was mad because he had to play up the gimmick the whole time. So he took her to a nice steak dinner and he did the crutches. And when he dropped his kid off at preschool he took the crutches.
Speaker 1:Well, did you see her when it was happening? And they did a thing with her and she goes. Were my post misleading?
Speaker 2:Yes, they were and it was awesome. He said that he was really getting aggravated with it because it was, it was painful, like doing the crutches.
Speaker 1:Being on crutches is not fun. One of us knows all the time.
Speaker 2:That's true a little bit they're not fun no, the one that's generally a little more quiet during the wrestling, because we do 100 but he is wearing a wrestling shirt yes we are both rocking some collar and elbow. That's true. I didn't get the memo You're wearing the. I got lucky on mine.
Speaker 3:Lucky in Kentucky.
Speaker 2:I would warn, the ring in a row.
Speaker 1:Where do you put the Seth Rollins? Oh, it's way up there, it's way up there, it's super good.
Speaker 2:His music hits and everyone's like, oh my god, oh my god.
Speaker 1:And then he comes out and he's still on the crutches and he's hobbling down and he basically says I got, I got time, I'm coming after you, blah, blah, blah turns around, hobbles back, stops and perfect timing dropping the crutches. Drops the crutches. Perfect timing with the song.
Speaker 2:Turns around, takes the knee brace off, takes the glasses off Knee brace, comes off, runs to the ring. It was a holy ass moment. Yes, it was. It was, I agree.
Speaker 1:So that was what other big highlights from that one? Yeah, so oh, jelly Roll, jelly Roll getting put through the table. You know what was great about that match is they always put the celebrities over, always, and I was so happy that they didn't. And I'm a big fan of Jelly Roll singing yeah, I am I do not like the idiot that he wrestled though but look, logan paul's legit.
Speaker 1:I can tell you that frog splash on the top row onto the spanish announce table. That was awesome. That dude can do things nobody else can do. He's legit, he's whacked out.
Speaker 2:Here's the thing he is really good at what he does, because he ticks everyone off, everybody. Everyone hates him. Okay, here's a great example of that. You know, you remember they said the other day that the ljn wrestling figures, they're bringing them back at target. So you can pre-order them now, and one of them is the hulk hogan, the original one. I have that one right. One is a dusty roads. Uh, one is a john cena. Give me that, was it, what was?
Speaker 3:that smile dusty roads had, was it the million dollar smile?
Speaker 2:awkward. No, it's what he did, you did. And. And the other one, the the fourth one in the series, is logan paul right. I went online last night to target to pre-order. I was like I gotta get the hulk hogan one right. Hulk hogan, john cena. Dusty roads sold out for pre-sale right. Guess which one? You can still get logan paul. You can still get to logan paul everybody hates logan paul, but he's really good I I have a million percent in agreement with greg. The man can can do things that no one else does.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's got some moves that nobody else can do when he did that frog splash yeah, that was did you see the point of view frog splash that was on going around twitter?
Speaker 3:where he had a camera on him and yeah I mean he's way up there, dude well, here's what I like about. Yeah, he was way up there, but what he did you could tell. The jelly roll was laying there prepping for it yeah, sure, and when he? Hit him, he hit him, he took. Logan paul took all the hit on his elbows and his knees. Jelly Roll didn't feel a thing when he hit. He hit so perfect.
Speaker 2:He raised up right when he hit him, which is what you're supposed to do. It looked great, but what was funny was you could see him scooting up. Oh yeah, he scooted up on the table.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you know what? It was not a terrible match. It wasn't. Most of the celebrity matches are terrible.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Now they said he was doing the Ric Flair strut. I thought it looked more like Jeff Jarrett to be honest A million percent. Jeff Jarrett, that's who I thought too. They kept saying Ric Flair, but I was like that's.
Speaker 3:Jeff Jarrett's strut, just for the record. You mean the. I love a Jeff Jarrett.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was so. Okay, let's talk about the first match of the evening. Yes, roman reigns.
Speaker 1:Yeah, teaming up with jay uso, first of all. How awesome is it?
Speaker 2:he's the tribal thief by having the shoes walking down with the shoes, that's so good things like that.
Speaker 1:That's so good. Um, now, I know I'm in the minority of wrestling fans here, but I'm over jay main event. Jay uso. No, you, you are. I'm over J main event. J Uso no, you are.
Speaker 2:I'm over it. In this room you and I are alike on that. I think what's interesting is now that we can watch the WWE Unreal and kind of see the behind the scenes. And you see, when Triple H goes and talks to J Uso, he says I'm going to put you to the moon or whatever right.
Speaker 2:He's definitely doing it. Yeah, and I don't think Jay Uso really came through. Um, I mean, he's obviously still really popular, but I thought it was telling that the night they, they, uh, you know that he won. Uh, he gets hammered. Oh yeah, he, he gets hammered.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, he's not ready for that. No, he's not ready for that role.
Speaker 2:No, but the match itself. There were some great spots in the match.
Speaker 1:Do you know the one thing? I was late watching that match, as you know Right, and I went back and watched it. Do you know the one thing that drove me crazy? And it's happened the last two matches? You know he's big about doing his song over and over again.
Speaker 2:Don't do it in the middle of a match. That's stupid. And he even had Roman jumping in with him.
Speaker 1:I think that's dumb.
Speaker 2:I thought Roman Reigns looked great, as always.
Speaker 1:But he is the needle. You and I have talked about that. He shifts the needle. If he's there, they sell more tickets. He's just not gonna be there much longer.
Speaker 2:No, no, I mean, he is as you said. He's the straw that stirs the drink and um it, it's kind of. It's kind of interesting, I think, what we're going to see moving forward after we recap day two. What are they going to do? Who's going to be kind of the next in line to go after the titles, because now you've got Seth Rollins as the world heavyweight champion?
Speaker 1:Undisputed. No, cody Rhodes is the new undisputed. Seth Rollins is the heavyweight champion of the world. Cody Rhodes is the undisputed champion.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I thought the first match was good. You know, I have no issues with the way it ended, other than it looks like Braun Breaker is truly injured.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they can't do another. I'm faking hurt.
Speaker 2:I mean, if he's hurt, he's going to be hurt, yeah he looked legitimately hurt because it was all behind the scenes stuff. It wasn't like he was limping in front of everyone.
Speaker 1:Do you know? The funniest thing about that match though I don't know if you all noticed this or not, but I didn't notice it during the match, but I noticed it on Twitter. You know, when Braun Breaker's getting ready to do one of his big spears, he takes his straps off his shoulder. He takes his straps off, so they were already down around his waist.
Speaker 2:So he puts it back on. I thought that was great.
Speaker 1:I saw it live and I was like oh, my God, that's awesome, it was awesome. I was like wait a minute, did he really just do that?
Speaker 2:What so? What else was for night? One Cause it's. It blends together after yeah.
Speaker 1:I was. I was pulling at the results. Oh, we had a women's title match. That made sense to us, with Charlotte Flair and Alexa Bliss winning the titles that all made sense. The match that nobody cared about. I don't think Sami Zayn versus Karrion Kross I mean Sami Zayn's not mattered, since the bloodline and you know, the WWE fans are just all about carrying cross.
Speaker 2:They love them.
Speaker 1:Some carrying cross but is he done?
Speaker 2:he's done, I think he's done and you know, at the uh last night after the day two, they had triple h come out. They're interviewing him and the fans are all chanting we want cross, we want cross, and he was like, and triple h was like. I know you want the surprise person from last night, right, uh, which we haven't mentioned yet which I'm not saying the name, but that's what.
Speaker 1:That's not what they were chanting right, yeah so, and the other match we haven't talked about, the only other match from night one was tiffany stratton beating jade cargill, and that was a seven minute match fast like, a fast like, and it was.
Speaker 2:It was a clean, decisive. No, no issues. Yeah, it was like what you would see on a smackdown or something.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was.
Speaker 2:It was not an impressive match yeah, and I don't know what what that was all about, if they were just, you know, running short of time and maybe too many yeets in the first match they were a bunch of yeets, so so nat two started out with the triple threat women's world championship match. Chris, are you still with us?
Speaker 1:We'll run through these quick, so Naomi retained the title.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:EO Sky lost EO Sky and Rhea Ripley got beat. I saw that yeah, naomi kept the title. She is definitely the worst of the three Is she won in the yellow outfit caution tape. Nope, not a fan no, I mean Rhea Ripley.
Speaker 2:If it was, she's the best and it's not close and as far as technical stuff and high flying stuff, io Sky she has earned my respect.
Speaker 3:She reminds me of old Ray Mysterio.
Speaker 2:She's a lot like that, she can do a lot of stuff.
Speaker 1:The next match. The only thing it had going for it was it was a tables, ladders and chairs match.
Speaker 3:The tag team nonsense.
Speaker 1:And there were 78 people in the ring at the same time and who cares Right, it was a who cares moment.
Speaker 3:But I gotta tell you there and who cares? Right, it was a who cares moment but I got to tell you there were some great spots there were some great spots in it, though, some great ladders busting.
Speaker 1:But that's all it had going for it. Tag team wrestling is at the lowest point it's ever been.
Speaker 2:It's terrible. Yeah, something's got to give there. Put the Usos back together.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's what it was better. Bring back the New. I get it. I'd be okay with that.
Speaker 1:It couldn't be worse you didn't know.
Speaker 2:Bring back the road warriors. Oh wait.
Speaker 1:Bring back the Dudley boys, they're 70.
Speaker 2:And they'd be the champs today. By the way, before we get to other matches, can I just say Slim, jim Boy, it's smart. They advertised on all of the tables.
Speaker 1:How many tables were put through last night. But wait, where was the match? Wait a minute. Where was LA? Oh, wait a minute. Yeah, sorry, la nuts, that's spokesperson for slim Jim. Where was he at? In slumber, slam, where was he?
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know where he was Sidelines. Oh wait, that's music I meant. I meant that's where he was, is it?
Speaker 3:that one? No, it's not that one.
Speaker 2:Did he do something wrong or something? Why are my buttons all messed up? That's a fun fact.
Speaker 1:Yeah, where was he at At home sleeping? Did he get kicked out, or what? No, I mean Triple H, just don't like him. Oh, I mean he's got the crowd. Yeah, it's awful, it's awful. So anyway you telling me, look, Sammy Zane won. The crowd likes LA Knight more than Sammy Zane.
Speaker 2:LA Knight is going to be on Raw tonight and I'm predicting right now it is what 749, 11 minutes until Raw. I'm predicting we're going to see some stuff tonight with LA Knight. He's going to come out and he's either joining Seth Rollins in that faction which I can't see happening or he's going to get involved big time and he's going to have a promo tonight and they're going to start pushing him.
Speaker 1:That's my hope he deserves it yeah.
Speaker 2:A hundred percent. What was the next match? Becky Lynch.
Speaker 1:Keeping the title.
Speaker 2:Sato masochistic. I know you didn't see this match, but there was torture via choking with a chain, oh yeah. Zip-tied handcuffs. I saw that, yeah, I did see that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I did see that. I saw the highlights of that.
Speaker 1:The next match was one I thought would be really good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, Steel cage match Jacob Fatu and Solo Sequoia, and it was a snoozer, it was an absolute, as I mentioned earlier, like you would see, on a Friday night, smackdown, it was just not good.
Speaker 1:The next match was one of the MFTs. Climbs the cage and handcuffs Jacob Fatu to the cage. Yeah, but Jacob Fatu literally puts his hand up there and holds it there for him to handcuff him to it what's an MFT? That's the people with Solo Sequoia, the three guys. Yeah, so he literally just holds his arm up there for him to handcuff to it and as soon as he does, he just breaks it. They say he breaks the handcuff because he said it was terrible.
Speaker 1:It was not good. Then you had Dirty Dom against AJ Styles.
Speaker 2:I appreciate the flashback paying homage to Eddie Guerrero. I love that.
Speaker 1:That was the only good part of that match.
Speaker 2:The only good part Become a low rider.
Speaker 3:AJ.
Speaker 2:Styles did.
Speaker 1:But during the match, dirty Dom gets a steel chair referee's backstab and he hits it down on the mat. Makes it settle. He throws it to AJ Styles and he falls down like he's dead, yeah. But then AJ Styles says okay, and then he tacks it around his head and then he falls down and then he falls down.
Speaker 2:So the ref didn't have any idea what to do. Yeah, that was good. That was the best part of that match. That's great. And I know they're not going to give AJ Styles a push. I mean, he's older.
Speaker 1:He's old. Is he going back to TNA?
Speaker 2:I don't know, wasn't he there not?
Speaker 1:long ago. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I prefer TNA. I am ready. I am ready for a true challenger to to dirty dom. This has got to end. I'm ready for the gold to leave the waste of dirty dom and all of the other but he's got the perfect stack yeah, he looks like a slime bag.
Speaker 1:yeah. And last but not least, yes, the main event. You and I were texting saying the main event's got to save the night because it wasn't a good night and and having had a day to think about it, yeah, I think they did a disservice by the way they did it. Yeah, yeah so so the match goes, great match. Who's in it? You didn't do it. John Cena and Cody Rhodes. There you go. Great match, great. John Cena's got the crowd behind him.
Speaker 3:Still, still being the bad guy.
Speaker 1:No, he changed a good, he changed a, he changed to good on Friday night, but I thought everybody loved Cody Rhodes.
Speaker 1:Well, they were booing him. They were totally more for John Cena. So Cody Rhodes said he wanted the best, john Cena, and you missed this on SmackDown. And then John Cena said I don't hate wrestling, I love wrestling. I'm going to give you my best. You've lit a fire under me. He turned back to a baby face instantly and people got behind him instantly, yep, behind him instantly, yep, yep. And they were all behind him like that and it was a great match. They let cody rhodes win clean clean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no interference, no, nothing.
Speaker 1:I thought, I thought the match if you just look at it in and of itself great match and it was to me it was a passing of the torch from from our generation not yours, mark, but mine and chris's generation and we'd have to go back to like dino bravo or something like that for more your generation.
Speaker 1:Yeah, maybe dick the bruiser right something like that, but for it was passing the torch from baby face to baby face, yeah, from our generation to the younger generation. They had an emotional hug after the match blah, blah, blah. And then. Is that what people are talking about? No, what people are talking about is brock lesnar shows up yep, brock lester shows up after cody rhodes has already went backstage yep. John cena's staying out getting love from the crowd yep. And lester shows up, comes down, does f5 on whatever it's called on. John Cena rolls out.
Speaker 3:Did they hate each other or something they had?
Speaker 2:a big rivalry at one time, and Cena supposedly wanted to work with Brock Lesnar on this last farewell tour. Yeah, but it didn't have to happen last night. No, it did not.
Speaker 1:I thought it took away from last night. It did.
Speaker 2:Honestly it did.
Speaker 1:I mean Cody rose won the championship right, he got very little fanfare, that's that nobody's talking about that no, and I don't look, you know I'm not a big fan of cody road right, but I thought it was a disservice to the title.
Speaker 2:I have grown also to respect cody roads so much because he puts his body on the line, unlike some of these other guys, and, uh, some of the bumps he takes for being the baby face. I mean they're stupendous. Yeah, he is the baby face and John Cena being a 48 year old man, and he took that uh flip onto the uh oh, what'd he call it? The barricade last night that couldn't have felt good, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3:Okay, I really thought it was dumb where they went under the stage and then he came back on the elevator yeah with uh cody rhodes on his shoulders, like really I just it's like what are they doing under the state right, the spanish?
Speaker 1:announcers table. Trying to figure it out cinema was okay, but it it didn't do anything.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, uh, when they did that, actually I thought they were setting it up for the rock or someone to come out so I think there was a bunch of things they could have done differently.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so, first of all, I think if they were really wanting to shock people, they could have had seth rollins come last night and take it back away from cody rhodes, more than taking it away from cm punk.
Speaker 1:I know he hates CM Punk Right. But people were kind of expecting Seth Rollins that night. Yeah, but if Seth Rollins didn't come out that night and came out and cashed in last night, that would have been a bigger shock. That would have been wild. And did I make up that the Rock was involved in the turn of John Cena? He?
Speaker 2:100% was.
Speaker 1:And Travis Scott was there. I don't care if travis scott comes back ever, but did that just die on the vine, or what's happened.
Speaker 2:Cena mentioned it just a kind of really subtly on smackdown when he said you know, there are people that I was listening to that are no longer here, right, and that's obviously who he's talking about but, they could have had the rock come out and do the exact opposite and have Cody Rhodes turn Right, and that would have been better.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I mean there's a bunch of, there's a bunch of ways I could have thought it would have been better.
Speaker 2:Now here's what I'll say about Brock Lesnar. He is the beast.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:He's beast yeah, he's legit. I mean, yeah, he kicked butt in ufc too. Yeah, I mean he's legit. When, when the b as triple h said after the show last night, when the beast is in wwe, things are just different, right, and so I'm really looking forward to these next four or five months.
Speaker 1:So so, but I agree with you, I thought it was a disservice to that match so I was reading online stuff today and stuff and it's saying you know him and Cena's gonna have their thing, but then is he gonna fight your boy the ring general? Next WrestleMania.
Speaker 2:Man I. I hope that Gunter gets the push that he deserves. Here's the thing I love CM Punk. You guys know that I adore Gunter. He's the man.
Speaker 1:I think he's the best talent's the thing I love CM Punk.
Speaker 2:You guys, yeah, you do I. I adore Gunter. He's the man. I think he's the best talent in the world. He carried CM Punk. Cm Punk was so tired.
Speaker 2:He was yeah you could just watch him. He was just like, and Gunter just carried. That match made it a just a freaking great match. I thought we had two really, really good matches this weekend that one and then the main event last night. Right, I had no issues whatsoever with either of them. However, when Gunter comes back, they better push him to the moon, and I I want to see him get a push for the undisputed championship.
Speaker 1:So now we can't talk about wrestling without talking about the death of Hulk.
Speaker 2:Hogan, and this is where Chris is going to wake up. There we go, I'm back, let's go, let's go. I can hear that because I am not dead.
Speaker 3:Yes, hulk Hogan passed. What a shock and what a shame. Yeah, heart attack, he built wrestling. I don't care what anybody says.
Speaker 1:There's no question.
Speaker 3:It was mainstream.
Speaker 1:because of him, wrestling would be nowhere near where it is today, but for him.
Speaker 2:We wouldn't be talking about it on this podcast. No, I agree.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean no question. Who did he win the title from when he won it the first time? I know, I know, you know. Oh yeah, I know the date. I don't know the date, I'm ready, but you were probably in your no the iron chic.
Speaker 2:January 23rd 1984, madison square garden. Against the iron chic.
Speaker 3:Yeah that was like your 40th birthday. I remember it like it was yesterday. Yeah, I mean, right, look the iron chic had the green championship belt.
Speaker 2:The belt was green with gold. It was the ugliest. That's where he had the green championship belt. The belt was green with gold.
Speaker 3:It was the ugliest championship belt. That's where he won the green fairy shoes right.
Speaker 1:He did have those. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2:And he would load them up.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah he'll load them.
Speaker 3:I'm going to put a lid in my shoes. Here's another.
Speaker 2:Okay, if we're getting into some deep trivia from back in the day. Who was Iron Sheik's manager? If we're getting into some deep trivia from back in the day. Who was iron sheik's manager? Ali Akbar Classy, Freddie Blassie.
Speaker 3:Oh, yep, he wears robes. Then, when he was a manager, he wears robes.
Speaker 2:No, so um, the iron sheik only had that title for a really short time, not seeing punk short.
Speaker 1:No, but it was Drew McIntyre.
Speaker 2:short it was less than two months. When he won the title, he defeated one of your least favorite wrestlers of all time, who had been the champion for I mean a long time. Iron Sheik defeated Bob Backlund.
Speaker 3:I can't stand Bob Backlund.
Speaker 1:The cross-faced chicken wing Terrible. Here's the thing about Bob Backlund. I can't stand Bob Backlund. And here's the thing the cross-faced chicken wing Terrible.
Speaker 2:Here's the thing about Bob Backlund in that match. He didn't get pinned and he didn't tap out. His manager, Arnold Scullin, threw in the white towel. Oh wow, Because the Sheiky baby had him in the camel clutch and he wouldn't tap out.
Speaker 3:So that's how the Iron Sheik beat the champ Because Bob Backlund thought it was all legitimately real.
Speaker 1:Isn't it? So what else you got to say about Hulk Hogan, Don?
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:There's been tributes on wrestling for him for a long time, just a shame, but I wish we didn't remember his last memory at WrestleMania trying to sell his beer.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, it was terrible. Yeah, but man, what a guy, what a guy. Um, now you'll hear all the stories. You know he, he sold a lot of people down the river to get where he was at.
Speaker 2:But it happens, it's hulk hogan man yeah, so, um, but we also lost some other people you were going to mention, okay other people from our childhood.
Speaker 3:Some people had the poster of her on their wall.
Speaker 1:Lonnie anderson yeah, it's a big loss I didn't watch her on the tv show you were talking about. I never watched that show religiously I didn't.
Speaker 3:I never watched it, but mainly because of her jennifer. You mean jennifer?
Speaker 1:yes, yes I heard we were her on a um burt reynolds show when he was driving a race car. Oh yeah, that was the name of it. No, no, it wasn't six pack. No, no, no, no, it was um. Oh, can't remember the name of it no it wasn't six-pack.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, no, no, it was. Oh Gomer Pyle was in it too.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and John Biner.
Speaker 2:They had him wear a chicken outfit when he was driving.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah it was Fastest chicken in the South.
Speaker 3:Oh gosh, I know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1:Oh this.
Speaker 3:Yeah, lonnie Anderson's gone, so think about who all we've lost.
Speaker 1:Ryan Sandberg. Ryan Sandberg.
Speaker 3:Big baseball.
Speaker 1:I mean, you don't have to just be a Cubs fan for him. Chuck Mangione.
Speaker 3:Think about that. Yeah, that was a tough one.
Speaker 2:That was someone else, oh, malcolm Jamal Warner.
Speaker 3:Drowned yeah.
Speaker 2:Cosby Show right.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Theo. Right, yeah, but there was somebody else, there's somebody else huge we were missing. Uh, oh, ozzy osbourne.
Speaker 1:Oh, there you go, yeah who's been to an ozzy osbourne concert?
Speaker 2:not me, me I've never let's go, really yeah absolutely.
Speaker 1:He, uh, he was with corn and I was at it why did you go to a corn? Wearing khaki pants and a cream sweater.
Speaker 3:That's no joke at all. Hey, brian Wilson, roberta Flack, gene Hackman, val Kilmer, you've lost a ton of people this year.
Speaker 2:Bob Euchre Must be in the front row. Jump in at this time Very quickly. Did you all happen to see last night my words on the screen? I did.
Speaker 3:I did. What did it say? The son of a plumber.
Speaker 2:When Cody Rhodes came out, he had a new intro, new intro and they still kept the old. You know what?
Speaker 1:The song. Oh yeah, it had new words before the song started.
Speaker 2:Oh really, Dusty Rhodes.
Speaker 3:That's pretty cool. Yeah, it was good. At least it wasn't.
Speaker 2:Gold Dust Roads Well you know, so, anyway, I think we've about covered it, because Raw's coming on and we can't wait, so I think we should probably fade on out. Roll on down the road.
Speaker 1:So Friday you can't go to Lima, but we'll be in Ohio on Friday and we got to deal with the homeowners association, so that's gotta be our next podcast.
Speaker 2:Next podcast. We're killing homeowners associations.
Speaker 3:We got an issue with one in Ohio.
Speaker 1:We got an issue with some in Kentucky. It's on like Donkey.
Speaker 3:Kong. At least nobody's sweeping the mud and water away across the street tonight, but we'll be in Lima sometime. There you go.
