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Royal Rumble 1992 Watchalong
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Patreon Exclusive Introduction
00:00:09
Speaker
What is up, Foley fan? We are back with another Patreon exclusive Royal Rumble watch along. And this is without a doubt our most anticipated episode yet. We're going to be watching the 1992 Royal Rumble. But let me start by introducing the stars of the show. Sheena, how are you doing?
00:00:28
Speaker
Doing good. I'm definitely, oh, did you guys hear Presley's ears? She just, she just shook it off. Uh, one of the hounds of justice woke up, but, uh, I'm doing good. I'm excited. I'm after that snooze festival rumble last, uh, last time I'm pumped to dive into this one. Marco, how's life up in Massachusetts? Going good. Just can't wait to dive into this one. This is a, uh, this is an epic Royal Rumble right here. So. All right. And we have a special guest star with us all the way from the Midwest.
00:00:56
Speaker
Jordan the Fig God Wells. What's up, Jordan? What you doing tonight, man? What up, man? Just ready to watch some Royal Rumbus and have some fun with Phelps and Marco. Nice.
00:01:08
Speaker
Yeah, so thank you guys again for all the support. We do this stuff for you guys. Make sure you give us some feedback. Let us know
Upcoming Content Tease
00:01:15
Speaker
what you want to see. I believe our next Patreon exclusive episode, we're going to take a short break from the Royal Rumble watch alongs and we are going to do the chick Foley fam top 25 tag teams of all time. So we'll get some more details to follow in the next couple of weeks of exactly how we're going to execute that. But it should be a lot of fun.
00:01:35
Speaker
Again, we'll talk about the Rumble as we watch it. It's not a lot that needs to be said about this one. It's such an epic event from start to finish.
00:01:44
Speaker
Before we get going, though, we do get to do a quick beverage check. So, Sheena, what are you drinking
Beverage Choices: Margaritas to IPAs
00:01:48
Speaker
tonight? I'm drinking a skinny margarita. So it's just basically a spindrift, which is my seltzer of choice, my sparkling water of choice. Really, really good. If you guys are still drinking La Croix or bubblies or whatever, those are fine. But you definitely need to get on your spindrift game because they are just, they're just a touch above all the other heart or the seltzer waters out there. So that with a little bit of Terra Mana tequila, a little fresh lime over ice. And yeah, it's perfect.
00:02:14
Speaker
Marco, what are you sipping on? I'm trying out a new bear from that company that makes the love and wrestling. It's called Fear and Patience. It's a double IPA. They're getting really poetic with these names. Yeah, it's a pretty cool can, too. It looks like a jig to snake design on it as well, which is why I pretty much picked it up, just keeping the theme of things. OK. And Jordan, how about you?
00:02:44
Speaker
I went with the hard stuff tonight. So little maker's 46 cast straight tonight. So, uh, it's delicious. What do you got it? Uh, what are you drinking it with? Uh, splash of Coke. Not very much to ruin it, but just give it a little flavor.
00:03:00
Speaker
Nice, man. I'm in a similar vein. I'm drinking the OG Maker's Mark, a Double Maker's with 7UP. And then after I finish this off, I'm going to wash it down with some Miller Lite. So obviously, Marco didn't get the memo. You know, these Patreon exclusive episodes were supposed to be getting loose, man. I'm supposed to be drinking some liquor, but I guess...
00:03:20
Speaker
If we're all tapped out
Setting Up the 1992 Royal Rumble
00:03:22
Speaker
by the time Hulk Hogan comes out at number 27 or 28, whatever he is, Marco's going to have to carry a solo for the rest of the episode. So you up for it, Marco? Of course. I'll carry the light. We'll have to have Marco run post-production on it. We'll all just be passed out.
00:03:38
Speaker
All right, so let's get queued up load up your cocks. All right, go to the world one one 1992 which because the peacocks asinine Kind of titling situation is listed as season five episode one season premiere and the season finale Yeah of season five of Royal Rumble. But yeah, so hit it up and then get to The one hour 27 mark even so your time stamp should be 127 0 0 Jordan Marco you guys ready?
00:04:07
Speaker
let's roll are going to count it down i'm going to say 321 play when I say play hit your a button your x button whatever. button you got if you have a switch I don't know if you can watch TV shows on switch but whatever you got hit play in 321 play.
00:04:28
Speaker
It's crazy how uniform they kept the set design across the first five years. I mean, just seeing this like pan scan shot right here, this could have been from anything from Royal Rumble 89 through 92, man. It looks exactly the same. I love that logo, the classic purple and gold. Yeah, I love like the burgundy logo. We got a Hulk Who sign there in the second row. So keep that in mind. You know, some of the fans, some of the smarter fans already started to turn against the Hulkster and I saw Mr. Perfect sign also. So we got some smarts out there in the first couple of rows on the hard cam side.
00:04:57
Speaker
Yeah, that was the original tweeting. That's how you let people know how you feel. For those that are, you know, new to the old-school World Rumble game and are just jumping in with us on these watch-alongs. So the backstory on this, this is the first World Rumble that had stakes. The four prior to this all were just exhibition matches. These are major stakes. Yeah, and everyone from here on out would have some sort of stakes where it's a title shot or it's been for the championship on two occasions.
00:05:24
Speaker
at Survivor Series, which was the major pay-per-view before this. Hulk Hogan and the Undertaker fought. Undertaker defeated Hulk Hogan with some interference from Ric Flair. They had an experimental pay-per-view called This Tuesday in Texas, which was held a week later. On that one, Hulk Hogan won the belt back, but again under controversial fashion.
00:05:42
Speaker
And, you know, that was just too much to too much to bear. So here the president, Jack Tony, that you're seeing on your screen right now just came in and said, you know what? Fuck this shit. I'm stripping the title off of you, Hulk, which is pretty crazy at the time to think about. And they vacated it and they said the Royal Rumble that she was going to be for the World Championship. So by this time, the Royal Rumble was already a huge fan favorite event. And this just put it over the top. I remember this just blowing my mind as a kid, hearing that not only are we getting the Royal Rumble,
00:06:10
Speaker
but the winner is going to be the champ. So really, really crazy
Ric Flair's Iconic Entrance
00:06:14
Speaker
setup. It was an awesome story. If you want a little bit of prelude to this, go back, watch Hulk and Taker at Survivor Series 91. And then this Tuesday in Texas, you can watch the rematch. That's really all the kind of buildup you need for this one. Jordan, do you remember watching this as a kid, do you remember who you were rooting for?
00:06:39
Speaker
Uh, I do. Anyone but Hulk. Yeah. So you're already smart. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I was a warrior fan, so I didn't like Hulk. See there. We got the bulldog coming in at number one, the beautiful cape. Love this look of the bulldog. I hope if we end up getting that rumored ultimate edition British bulldog that this is the look we get. The sequined cape is just mage, mage, mage, like so good. Marco, who are you rooting for?
00:07:08
Speaker
Um, of course you remember. I know that's nuts. I wasn't saying anything. It's Jordan. They can warrior making a surprise return here instead of WrestleMania eight. Yeah. For me, I was hoping that, um, even though Brett was the intercontinental champion up till about a week before this, I was hoping that he would, would enter the rumble and, uh, you know, walk away with a belt about nine months early on that, that wish. Look at Sherry coming out with the million dollar man. Oh my goodness.
00:07:35
Speaker
That Sherry look is awesome. Yeah, she looks great. Sherry shirt. Oh, custom airbrush T-shirt that I need that haircut. It was like a one of my Mr haircut right there. Freakin Sherry airbrush T-shirt. That is an ultimate fan right there. I mean, look at the folks come here right here. Dude, there's some drip in the audience right now. This guy had like a full on puzzle piece sweater.
00:08:00
Speaker
Guy beside him had a nice print button down. Yeah, the bullets are flowing. I feel like I need some, like if, it would be awesome if Mattel did it, but I think it's a long shot. It'd be cool to get a customized or make a few of the cameramen in the WWE jumpsuits. Like imagine that for like your photography. Yeah, why haven't they made that? That would be perfect. Give us a, I want an eight pack. I want it to be like four of those and then like four of the security guys in the yellow jackets. That would be awesome. Just generic dudes.
00:08:28
Speaker
Yeah, I remember going back to it. I was hoping Brett would be in this. If you guys remember, Brett got the flu or something and ended up dropping the title at a house show to the Mountie, the Intercontinental Championship to the Mountie. And then Roddy Piper wins it back on the undercard on this show.
00:08:43
Speaker
leading up to our legendary match at WrestleMania eight. So Brett was out of picture and I was rooting for Sid after this. I was a big Sid fan at the time. I loved Sid Vicious and WCW. I was a little bit confused as to why he changed his name from Sid Vicious to Sid Justice when he came over to the WWF, but still a big fan of the guy. And I was hoping he would, would walk away with the belt. Oh yeah. Everybody loves Sid.
Wrestlers' Hall of Fame Status
00:09:08
Speaker
So we're two for two on the Hall of Fame count. I think Sheena's gonna help us out with the Hall of Fame ticker throughout the event, right Sheena? Yeah.
00:09:17
Speaker
Go ahead, Marco. I was going to say, Oh my gosh, Bulldog just eliminated Ted DiBiase. Dang it. No, what am I cool if, uh, you know, the shield came in as the, the hounds of justice, but they were, you know, they were, you know, they were fans of Sid justice or they were the hounds of Sid justice. So like all three of those guys, they looked up to Sid.
00:09:43
Speaker
They're all three Grand Slam champs. I don't know if that would have been the case if they would have come in and used the hounds of Sid Justice. I mean, he was a champ, man. Took out Brady and Sean.
00:09:52
Speaker
Look in here at number three, we got the black butterfly robe making its way to the ring. This was just stunning at the time. Obviously, you know, I won't get too deep in the spoilers, but Rick Flair is going to do something incredible here tonight. And since then, we've seen people go from wire to wire to win a rumble. But up until this point, the guys that were in the rumble, it was always somebody that came in and like the last five or six spots.
00:10:16
Speaker
You knew flair was it was really flair Sid and Hogan were the three favorites going into it I just remember just being mind-blown as a kid when I see holy shit Rick flair is number three I just like how cool Rick walks to the ring. He just walks to the ring with an air of confidence It's just like you just feel it as he's walking in there, dude It is feels amazing and he looks like a million bucks black on black on black with that. This is a lot of people
00:10:40
Speaker
A lot of people love the stuff that, I mean, he did some amazing stuff in NWA. His feud with Ricky Steamboat was probably my favorite stuff he did there. Had some awesome matches with Dusty Rhodes and Harley Race in the early days of the NWA on pay-per-view in the early 80s. But when I think Ric Flair, I think this is his all-time greatest performance. What do you guys hear tonight? Oh, Bulldog's just pressing Flair.
00:11:04
Speaker
I still think we need this flare and figure form they've gotten close, especially if you if you mix and figure, so we got the black butterfly robe on the first defining moments Rick flare but he had on.
00:11:15
Speaker
I believe it was the baby blue gear underneath. And then we had, it was the same boots and it was black trunks, but it had a white RF instead of a red RF on the Ric Flair Elite that came in the four horseman pack at Target. So we've never gotten a true 92 Flair from Mattel. I think it'd be an awesome Ultimate Edition because you could have, obviously you got the robe and then I think you do three head sculpts. You could have him looking smooth and everything for the entrance. You could have like a mid-match look.
00:11:43
Speaker
And then you get to have a, you know, the crazed isolate from his promo at the end of the night. I think that would be really, really incredible.
00:11:51
Speaker
Yeah. And if you guys haven't yet, they're on the WWE hidden treasures show. They did a whole, I mean, it was like a, basically like the season finale. It was a whole segment on trying to track down this road. Apparently Conrad's been trying to find it for like 10 years and, uh, you know, tweeted and all this kind of stuff. And then they put together this show where it all comes to fruition. So definitely check that out. All right. So we'll count Jimmy heart. So that puts us at four hall of famers. Now a sensational Sherry in the hall of fame machine.
00:12:18
Speaker
Do a check. You're on the Hall of Fame watch tonight. See if Sherry's in there. That would get us up to five already. So far, Jerry Saggs of the Nasties is the only...
00:12:26
Speaker
The only one that's for sure not a Hall of Famer. Jordan, Marco, do you guys know at the top if Sherry ever got put in the Hall of Fame? I don't think she is. I want to say no. I want to say maybe she was like one of the legacy inductions. You know how every year they do a catch-all and grab like 10 old timers? Oh, man, you can't give her a legacy induction. No, that's a share. They did that to Luna Vachon and Lord Alfred Hayes, man. Yeah. I don't think she is. I don't think she is. Yeah, I think she's.
00:12:53
Speaker
It says in 2006 yeah Yeah by Ted D. Biase on April 2006. All right, so with between flair Bulldog D. Biase and now Sherry and Jimmy Hart were up to five Hall of Famers on this one match If we I think the nasties are Hall of Fame worthy too, man. What do you guys think? Oh, I do too They had an awesome run in
00:13:22
Speaker
They had an awesome run in WCW, some of their street fights with Harlem Heat. They had some pretty badass matches. Yeah, no, they did. They definitely did. And then, of course, they had one of my all time like most pissed off moments as a wrestling fan when they beat the Hart Foundation at WrestleMania 7.
00:13:40
Speaker
I forgot Sherry did get in while she was still alive too. They got her in before she passed. No, I'm not trying to be funny. I'm being serious. Usually they wait until someone passes. That's what we could have done. We could have kept count of Hall of Famers versus dead people and see which one we get higher by the end of the night. Oh, my gosh. Oh, man. That's a pie cast. Dude, we need this figure big time, man. I think everybody, as much as I wax poetic about a Ric Flair Ultimate Edition, I think this is probably my most wanted figure.
00:14:11
Speaker
I don't know anybody's been in so far. Haku in this specific gear. Not a lot of guys rock the crops. You know, I think the crops is a very unique look. It was either pants, trunks or like, you know, little shorty shorts. Yeah, back then, definitely. I'm surprised we haven't had a Mattel Haku. Definitely need it. Yeah. Yeah, this look is dope. Yeah, I love the tropical leaves.
00:14:38
Speaker
No, not me. That would definitely be a good headband design, I think. Oh, yeah, that'd be dope. Haku, you know, a lot of urban legend stories in the rest of the world about how tough he was and how badass he was as a fighter.
00:15:10
Speaker
He says one of the last guys you want to mess with backstage. There's a no frills. Did have one tag team title reign with Andre the Giant. They lost those belts to demolition at WrestleMania six. That was it. And as far as TV ships though, I don't think I can't, I don't think he ever won any belts in WCW either. Okay. And Pacu is not a Hall of Famer. Nope. That kind of sucks.
00:15:35
Speaker
Yeah, I think he's worthy. I mean, it's really hard to say because they put in I mean, they put in freaking, you know, Coco beware, obviously, which I still think Coco bewears pretty legendary just as a character. Who was the the female that they put in a couple of years ago that everybody got so pissed off about? The Bellas? No, it wasn't the Bellas. I think the Bellas.
00:16:00
Speaker
Dang Bulldog Bulldog is doing work right now. Yeah, don't talk who I think I think he's already limited like three people. Oh boy Hbk is coming out his first pay-per-view as a heel Think about all the freaking history he would make it the world rumble over the years. Yeah. Yeah pretty crazy. Um
00:16:20
Speaker
Also, something to note, there is no entrance music in this in this Royal Rumble and the like the set is just so basic. You know what I mean? Like it just looks so plain with just the blue curtain and the big WWF logo. I love that. Yeah, it looks I mean, it looks sweet music on Ric Flair. Who would have known that 16 years later that would be a good career. It's just a regular move at this point.
00:16:51
Speaker
By the way, Ming won the WCW hardcore title. Oh God. That was one of the worst championships in wrestling history. Wasn't good. All right. And the woman you're talking about, it has to be one of these three, either I'm guessing Ivory, Jacqueline Moore, or Tori Wilson would be my guesses for. Yeah, I think it was Tori. I think Tori was the one that got everybody fired up a couple of years ago. I know a lot of people were mad when Jackie got inducted, but she definitely deserved it. Oh yeah, definitely.
00:17:18
Speaker
She did a ton of stuff before she went into WWE, man, like on like the Texas wrestling scene and stuff. Oh yeah. They'll be putting Alicia Fox in here before long. She'll be, yeah, clearly she'll be a Hall of Famer. I don't think people get mad at a non-existent facility. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. This hypothetical Hall of Fame we have here. Yeah, it doesn't even exist. The fact that we still don't have a physical brick and mortar Hall of Fame is criminal. It's just,
00:17:48
Speaker
It's just obscene dude, especially with as much pomp and circumstances, WWE likes to, you know, throw on everything that they do. The fact that they don't have somewhere where they can display all this stuff all the time. It's just insane to me. El Matador, Tito Santana, Tito and HBK would be wrestling at WrestleMania eight in a few short months.
00:18:16
Speaker
I'm surprised we haven't gotten the El Matador figure either yet. I guess since the old Tito is such a Hall of Fame peg warmer, they shied away from any more Tito figures. But they already get all the parts. They can take the legs and stuff from Los Matadors. Los Matadors is what I was thinking. That's their exact outfit. Yep. Machine, you're slacking on the Hall of Fame count. So we got HBK and Tito Santana. So now what do we have here? Gotcha. We are up to seven. All right.
Age Comparisons: Flair vs Modern Wrestlers
00:18:50
Speaker
It was like, what, in his forties? All right. Uh, look up. How old was your statistician? And I seen, you know, I'm the worst. How old was Ric Flair in 1992? I want to say 43 or 42 or something like that. Could be wrong, but it was 43. Wow. Look at that. Look at Marco go.
00:19:19
Speaker
I'm just going by like how he looks like he does not look like a, like looking at AJ styles of like in his forties. It is pretty crazy. It's a different time. That's what like back in the day when, you know, Hulk was having all his like dramatic, like, Oh, this is going to be my last match. Everybody was saying it was time for him to move on. Yeah. He was like, you know, 10 years younger than guys who are regular. We made a vending without bat nine nowadays. Exactly.
00:19:44
Speaker
Yeah, AJ Styles is a family man. Uh, Ric Flair was definitely not a family man at this point in life. A lot of, a lot of wear and tear on that guy. He just hit the flying forearm on Ric Flair, man. These guys are spamming the finishers tonight. That's one thing there has, there has not been a lot of like lag time in this rumble. Like a lot of guys just like hanging around the side. Yeah. The work rate is pretty freaking the barbarian.
00:20:11
Speaker
I'm praying, praying that we get a barbarian figure to match the, uh, the warlord. Oh, that figure is so fucking dope. I almost feel like it's going to end up being like an homage to the LJN line though. Cause LJN, you know, it's the same thing. We got warlord, but never got the barbarian. Uh, yeah, probably somebody can custom make us one. Yeah, definitely. Cause you can pretty much use the body. You just need a different head sculpt. The gear was close enough when they were in powers of pain.
00:20:40
Speaker
Barbarian is not in the Hall of Fame. We didn't really discuss it. Jordan, are you a very big Ric Flair fan? I obviously appreciate what he's done, but no, I'm not like the biggest Ric Flair guy. When he came back and was in Evolution, I liked him a lot more, honestly. I just felt like he connected more with the fans later in his career. I don't know, man. Just early in his career, to me, he just never connected with the fans. He just seemed like an asshole.
00:21:10
Speaker
I like the promos man. The promos were cool, but the actual matches for all the credit gets, I always felt like they were kind of similar to Triple H man. I feel like his matches were more long than good. You know what I mean? Like it's easy to have a match. It seems like it was epic when it lasts like 40 minutes, but he actually watch him like he runs through a lot of the same spots over and over again. You know what I mean? Every single match he's good and flipped over the second turnbuckle run into the other corner and then getting thrown off the top and it just
00:21:36
Speaker
I don't know. I was never a huge fan of his actual matches. How about you, Marco? Were you at on the Flair bandwagon? Probably the same as Jordan on that. I just definitely appreciated what he did for the business and stuff like that. I wasn't the hugest fan of Ric Flair. He actually did say that that was like his MO when he would do mattresses, give the fans what they want to do.
00:21:58
Speaker
He's playing the hits. Yeah, do all the hits and don't do anything to stray away from that. Make everyone go or keep everyone satisfied during the match and when they go home at night. He's kind of like the Triple H thing where it's just like marathon matches, but really nothing exciting going on within those matches. People are probably going to kill us for that.
00:22:24
Speaker
No, I echo what all you guys are saying. I totally agree. I mean, I can't talk shit about Ric Flair. I mean, he's a legend in the business and you know, but yeah, he never did anything to like super excite me. Yeah. I put him on my Mount Rushmore of, uh, I think he's on the Mount Rushmore of wrestling, but I'm still just not a huge fan. Uh, Kerry Von Eric, the Texas tornado is out here. Sheena, give us his, uh, what's his Hall of Fame status. Yes. He is in the Hall of Fame. What year did he go in?
00:22:50
Speaker
Well, I mean, you didn't ask me what year you went in. I just knew you were missing the whole thing. Come on. You got one job tonight, Shane. We're putting you to work.
00:22:56
Speaker
I guess I can't complain. I mean, sure. Michael's is carry on. Eric's out here wrestling with one foot. I guess I can look up what, uh, what Yuri went into the hall thing. I wonder, you know, this is well before the age of the smart fan. I wonder how many of these, uh, people in attendance really know the history between flair and carry on Eric. These guys had some legendary matches back in the eighties in Texas. They're reading their, uh, wrestling observer newsletter, getting all the, uh, getting all the information. So there are all those marks out there are well-informed of what's going on. Definitely.
00:23:26
Speaker
carries out there wrestling on a stump and Sheena's complaining about searching. Dude, but let's be real real quick before I look this up, dude, he, you, can you tell that this guy because I can't, because this guy's out here doing work right now. I mean,
00:23:45
Speaker
Shouts shouts to freaking Kerry Von Erich. You can't tell at all if I had a mangled up crush stump of a foot There's no way I'd be out there doing that shit. No 2009 that's when the Von Erich's were had their big group induction into the Hall of Fame Wasn't also a quick plug for the dark side of the ring episode on the veneerx. It's really good As good as it can be to be as sad All right, we're gonna pop quiz Sheena who was the repo man in his previous life
00:24:16
Speaker
I don't know your mom.
Repo Man's Origin Story
00:24:18
Speaker
Oh, sick burn. No, he was demolition smash. He was by criminal. He is not in the Hall of Fame. But the repo man. Yes. Yeah, he should be. Yes, the repo man should be in the Hall of Fame.
00:24:37
Speaker
I remember, I don't know that I'd never liked the repo man gimmick. He does have a cool look, but, uh, I just, as a kid, I didn't really understand what a repo man was, you know? Yeah. So just a weird gimmick for a wrestler. This is kind of like the front end of the wrestlers as, you know, occupations gimmick thing that they had for like all the, the low Carter's and like the, you know, the low mid Carter's there during the new generation era repo man was really one of the first.
00:25:05
Speaker
We had such guys as, you know, TL Hopper, Isaac Yankum. He had the goon, remember the hockey player? Yep. We had, uh... Aldo Montoya. Did you say Duke the Dumpster already? Yeah, Duke the Dumpster, you had the hog farmer, Henry Godwin. Yeah, everybody had a job, you know. You had to represent the working band, the WWF. Duke the Dumpster dickhead.
00:25:33
Speaker
Why do you say that? Is, uh, is he a bad guy or something or used him like him? I could not stand that dude. I wish we could get a figure of him. I would still take a figure of him. I'm not saying I wouldn't take a figure of him, but I'd take a figure of Bastion booger too. And he's horrible. So which point? True. We got to figure the shock master.
00:25:57
Speaker
That was a legendary moment in wrestling. I was going to say, that thing is awesome. You bite your tongue, Sheena. I have no, I have no, um, no ill will with the shock master, dude. I got to actually wear the original shock master helmet at, uh, at wrestle con. So here comes Greg, the hammer Valentine still looks the exact same age as he did now in 1992, Greg, the watch lady Valentine colored in like a house of fire. What year did, uh, the hammer go into Hall of Fame? Shane.
00:26:27
Speaker
I don't know, but he was definitely serving meatloaf sandwiches at the whole thing. What is it going to take for demolition to get in there, man? They got to be up close to the top of the list of like the most deserving wrestlers that aren't in there right now, right? Vince to pass away. That's what it's going to take. Yeah, I was going to say. It's going to be some sort of posthumously. Is he still that mad at demolition for being in the concussion lawsuit? I mean, he's forgiven people for worse.
00:26:51
Speaker
weren't they like one of the weren't they some of like the first five people to be in it though? Yeah, they were kind of like the ringleaders. Yeah, that's what I thought. They, they deserve it big time though, man. Those guys were, they should 100% be in. That one's not even debatable. Yeah. 2004 Greg, the hammer Valentine went into hall of fame.
00:27:16
Speaker
Greg the valent the the hammers got a lot of love man. I was never a huge fan Maybe I think he did most of his best work back in the early 80s and late 70s, but uh Like I said, I still to me, but I think Greg Valentine. I think rhythm blues man He was never more age to me than during that time Okay, so I was kind of like a I want to say a fan of him, but I appreciated him but
00:27:41
Speaker
We got some blonde on blonde crime. We got the Valentine going up against Ric Flair. The nature boy and the Valentine, the hammer. So going back to demolition, Marco, I'll ask you first, man, if they go in, do you include Crush or do you just do Axon Smash? No, you just do Axon Smash. Okay, Jordan.
00:28:01
Speaker
I would do all three, honestly. I would do all three, dude. Yeah, even though Crush was, even though he had such a short run with him, I still- He prolonged demolition's existence, dude. Yeah, and I just thought it was so cool when they had three people on it. I feel like Crush gets a lot of undeserved hate nowadays, but it was seriously like, I think it was maybe like a four or five month period that it was really all three of them, because Crush came in, they dropped the belt. Look at Nikolai Volkov going over the top row. Good God. Doing the work. Wow. It was only like a four or five month
00:28:31
Speaker
Period that all three of them were there and then axe went away and it was just crushing smash for a few more months Yeah, I don't know. I thought he I thought he looked really cool
00:28:39
Speaker
The man if you know like 18 different gimmicks. Yeah, it's not it's not hate towards them I just think if they if they're ever gonna get put in they should just go in them too Because they when they do signings and stuff there. He's not with them. It's just them two doing well. Yeah signings and appearances It's kind of hard to be with them for the afterlife dude Jesus Marco
00:29:15
Speaker
How's he supposed to show up sign autographs Marco you tell us Trying to keep this family friendly and not bring up
00:29:36
Speaker
We are the Nikolai Volkov was our 10th Hall of Famer so crazy Mark I was gonna go to a convention and he's gonna meet demolition like Bullshit where the fuck is
00:29:50
Speaker
What even have the balls to choke to this conviction? Yeah. Late, late. Always late. Never shows up. Yeah. Garbage. What'd I pay for this? Marco's
Big Boss Man's Legacy
00:30:02
Speaker
no cell in a death. That's the ultimate no cell. But he's dead. Dead on arrival. Get your freaking medium out here and get his ass down here and sign this figure. Crowd is going nuts for the big boss man. What year did boss man go in? Pretty sure boss man's in.
00:30:21
Speaker
He never shows up either to appearances. Oh my God. Oh, forgive us. Thank God. This is only going to our Foley fam. Oh, repo man just dumped right now. 2016. Okay. I feel like he went in earlier than that. But yeah, me too. Boss man was awesome. I thought his gimmick was so strong that I feel like he doesn't get all the credit he deserves. Just as a worker, man, dude was really,
00:30:49
Speaker
Along with Bam Bam Bigelow, one of the first really agile big men in the WWE. Yeah. Agreed. And he's like, he's probably about 75, 80 pounds lighter here than he was when he first came in as a heel. He lost a lot of weight. He was a big dude. There goes the repo man. Oh darn. Really? You would think boss man and the repo man will work together because they made repo man out to just be a thief, but a repo man, somebody that, you know, goes collects on, you know, people are going deadbeats on there.
00:31:13
Speaker
their debts and stuff. I don't know why they change it to just be like, he's just going to steal everything. Yeah, he looks like the hamburglar.
00:31:21
Speaker
You got to say that he went all in like as far as like abrupt gimmick changes go like it's one of the biggest ones because it was quick it was like one week demolition was still around and it was like you know the next week all of a sudden there's this repo man guy and Yeah, that's the reason why I hit you with oh Rick flair dumps the bulldog That's why I hit you with the pop question because he did such a good job like for the longest time I didn't even realize that uh
00:31:45
Speaker
that Smash was the repo man now. Today, Flair dumping all the fan favorites. They're with the Tornado and the Bulldog. That's probably my two favorites in the ring right there. Flair dumped out old Stumpy.
00:31:59
Speaker
Wow. Again, this is what you guys pay for it because you get to hear the uncensored version. This is the type of stuff that you would never hear us say on the regular weekly feed. Oh my God. There we go. Despite what you might hear here, we're actually kind, loving, empathetic. I thought you were going to say- Well, most of us, except for Marco. I thought you were going to say, Fair Dump the Stump. That's what I thought you were going to say. Oh my God. Jumps, Hercules, Power and Glory. Damn, what a boot from Barbarian.
00:32:25
Speaker
Uh, look up Hercules. I don't think he's in the Hall of Fame. He's definitely in the, uh, you know, the other category. We said we were going to score tonight, but, uh, but yeah, I don't think Hercules is in the Hall of Fame. He's not been on good, great terms with WWE here lately.
00:32:44
Speaker
He's another one of the most, uh, he's another one of the most requested license. Hercules was just juiced out of his mind. I don't know what kind of gas he was on, but I think, uh, you know, pretty much the whole time he was in WWE, he was, he was on the, uh, so he came in at number 14. So we're almost halfway through the room. Wow. Can we talk about how Rick Flair has just been whooping ass the whole time though? Like he hasn't really taken much breath work. Yeah.
00:33:11
Speaker
What are you talking about? How is Hercules still in bad terms with WWE? He hasn't said a word about the company in 17 years. Yeah. Well, his estate. His estate. Yeah. He doesn't have a legend deal. I never had a figure. Now we've got Bossman and Ric Flair. One on one. Oh, bitch smack from Ric Flair. Has it really been 17 years since Hercules passed away? Yeah. We're old, Seth. We're old. You have to admit it at some point.
00:33:39
Speaker
Jordan's, uh, rattling around all his ice cubes. Make sure he gets every last drop of his, uh, maybe 46. Jesus. Sorry guys. I didn't know we were on like production level 100 tonight. We're not, we're not, man. Like I said, this is why. Oh, Oh God. Did you see that bottom rope? Just snap and hit big boss man in the head. I think that was the worst pump ever seen big boss man. The nature boy is clear the ring. We get the classic Jackie.
00:34:05
Speaker
cargo flop that Ric Flair stole. Man, what a freakin... What a performance so far. Yeah, it was kind of like that bump that Enzo took. Remember when he knocked himself out cold? Yes. Yeah. It was almost very similar to that.
00:34:19
Speaker
Here we go. So the race was not supposed to happen like that. We're getting this break and who's coming in. One of his all time rivals. The crowd is on fire. Keep in mind about it. Roddy Piper. The crowd has already seen Roddy Piper win his first ever championship, the Intercontinental title earlier tonight. So he is on fire right now. This is my favorite era of Roddy Piper also.
00:34:41
Speaker
Going into his legendary match with Brett at WrestleMania 8. Yeah, it is not want to see him come out It's June 28th as we record this again We design all these patreon episodes to kind of be evergreen that you can go back and listen to them whenever and they'll be good but it is kind of cool watching this today because earlier this morning we saw the WWE calm the latest Mattel reveals and Piper is gonna get an upcoming legends figure that is based off of his 1992 look with the longer hair and the black t-shirt that he was wearing to the ring during that time, so
00:35:11
Speaker
Really excited for that one. That's gonna kind of be my my default Roddy Piper figure Once I get it for my collection. Yeah, he's our 12th Hall of Famer and he went in in 2005 Think about that. We're halfway through the rumble and we've seen 12 Hall of Famer so far tonight. There's a lot of oh five inductees Five was a hot year for the Hall of Fame. Apparently we have another member to our other list as well. I
00:35:37
Speaker
Oh yeah. He gets pointing both columns. He's a dual threat. I just want to say, I say this every rumble because we're watching these older rumbles, but somebody needs to bring back monogram boots. I know Charlotte wears monogram boots. They're beautiful, but like, dude, they just set off the ring gear, dude. I think they just make it look so mage. Yeah. A lot of guys don't even rock the regular boots like that anymore. Most guys are going with the kick pads over like the wrestling shoes.
00:36:08
Speaker
or sneakers. Let's make let's make boots great again. Roddy's Roddy's finisher. We should have done a finisher count also. Next. Next one we're going to start up. Everybody's going to get I think before the next rumble watch along, all four of us. Here comes Jake. Another Hall of Famer. He'll Jake with this. This look was in the original Legend series. Yeah.
00:36:31
Speaker
Um, I think for the next rumble, all four of us are going to get a task here that we got to keep the count on all throughout the rumble and we'll roll with it. Look at Jake classic Jake, the snake move. He's just chilling out. So yeah, you guys have at it. Why dive in on it? That's the strategy that I use in a triple threat matches on WWE 2k. How about the computer? Just fight it out and I go hide outside the ring. Jake Lynn, 2014.
00:36:53
Speaker
Oh yeah, that's right. Yeah. WWE waited for him to sober up before they put him in there. No shit. They were going to let him get a live mic on stage when he was still, you know, fighting with his demons. Geez. They wanted him thumping his Bible before he got on stage. His punches were so clean. Oh yeah. Short arm clothesline.
00:37:21
Speaker
He was so good as a heel, man. Like, even though he had an awesome run as a face, he was so good as a heel. It seems like the crowd still wanted to cheer for him here though, man. The DDT, like, it was just, it was basically like the one-winged angel of its day, like, as far as finishers go. People love seeing that move. It's hard not to cheer for him. So sick. This is, uh, he would have this match and then he would fight the Undertaker at WrestleMania 8 and that would be it for, for Jake on pay-per-view in the WWF.
00:37:50
Speaker
Until he came back in 1996. That's crazy. That run kind of was what it was. It gave us the famous Austin 316 moment, but aside from that, it was not the greatest. It's going the same, seeing Jake coming out in like green sweatpants and shit. The vest, like the snake's name vest. Three legends though, Jake, Ric Flair, and Roddy Fibers. It's crazy what a difference a year makes. You know, we talked about it last, on the 91 Royal Rumble watch, it's a mouthful.
00:38:21
Speaker
That one cannot run a steam. This one has been incredible. So that's the difference when you give a match stakes. I mean, the championship is on the line here. You can't have a bunch of freaking jabronis coming out. I mean, arguably any of the guys that we've seen so far aside from like repo man could possibly have won the freaking title outside of, uh, I sound like repo man, uh, you know, barbarian and Haku and maybe sags.
00:38:45
Speaker
Yeah, you're right. Any of these guys could win it. What year did Hacksaw go in the Hall of Fame team? 2011. She's on it. I know. Hacksaw getting one of these. Hey, listen, I cut all my excuses. I couldn't make any more excuses after I got motivated. Keri Von Erich motivated me to stay on top of this. Hacksaw is one of the nicest wrestlers you could ever meet. If you get a chance to meet this dude, you get an autograph, take a picture, do it, man. This guy's... He's so cool, so friendly, man.
00:39:14
Speaker
Are you saying that Kerry helped you stay one leg up? Wow. Oh my God. No, he motivated her to put her best foot forward. Yes. You guys are next level. No half stepping on this one. Jesus.
00:39:42
Speaker
Hey, Foley fam. I'm trying out a new app called Wisdom. Wisdom's a place where you can listen and talk with interesting people, share advice, ask questions, and be inspired. I hope you'll join me in the app. I'll be doing my first talk on Wisdom this Sunday, December 12th at 8 p.m. Eastern. We'll be chatting about how to start your own podcast on the hobbies you're passionate about. Download the Wisdom app and use the link in my show notes to follow Chick Foley and participate in my talk.
00:40:10
Speaker
Sheena wants to be 10 toes down on this assignment. Not five. Oh, my God. Again, this is what you guys pay for on the Patreon exclusive. You guys are getting the uncensored version of the Chick-fil-A show here, so.
00:40:29
Speaker
Yes. All right. Kerry Von Erich. Oh, you can't apologize. Yeah, we've made all the wise cracks, but we've also showed a ton of love. I love Kerry Von Erich. He's currently on a year long championship reign in my universe on WWE 2K. So, yeah, we love the Texas tornado. We're trying to make comedy. My son, my son, Brett's even actually a fan of the tornado now. He always wants to get the Texas tornado in any of his matches when he plays WWE 2K.
00:40:55
Speaker
This is the uncancelled culture side of the Chick-Fully. IRS. As an adult, I hated this guy as a kid, but he's so much more of a heel now that I'm a grown up making my own money. Fuck the IRS. If there's IRS around nowadays, I would throw a freaking beer bottle at his head at a live show. Jesus.
00:41:16
Speaker
Do you like paying taxes? Do you like the government has scammed everybody in the world to freaking, you know, giving part of their paycheck to them for nefarious purposes. Don't be putting my business in the streets. Jordan's like, I don't pay taxes. What are you talking about? I'm paying my taxes in years. I want to get the, uh, I want the, I want to get the hot tub time machine and go grab IRS and bring them into 2021. Let them fight Nick Gage in a death match, man.
00:41:43
Speaker
Mike Rotunda is not in the Hall of Fame. Really? That is crazy because he had a hell of a run. He was a tag team champ with Barry Windham as a. What were they called? Were they called the U.S. Express or something like that? Look up, get us on that stat sheet. What was what was Barry Windham and Mike Rotunda's tag team name? He should be one against the chic and Nick Leibovikoff. He should be in off of Bray Wyatt alone.
00:42:09
Speaker
Come on now. For giving us Bray Wyatt. The other crazy thing for Mike Rotunda, their tag team with Barry Wyndham, they originally had Real American, Hulk Hogan's legendary theme song. That was originally their... US Express. US Express, yeah. Yeah. Real American was their song first, and then WWF basically said, nah, y'all got to come up off that play, and they gave it to the Hulkster. I was Hogan saying that, oh, I like that brother.
00:42:36
Speaker
Yeah, that song works for me, brother. But yes, a freaking IRS microtunde. He had a big run in WCW2 as part of the varsity club. So yeah, I don't know why he's in the Hall of Fame. And he's worked backstage for WWE for years. You know, he's the father of the fiend Bray Wyatt. So that's weird that he's not in the Hall of Fame. And the homesteader Bo Wyatt, or Bo Dallas.
00:43:00
Speaker
Here comes the murder. Allegedly. Allegedly. Yeah. Jimmy Snook, a Hall of Famer. Yes. 1996. We call it right down the middle here on the Chick-Fully show. We're not taking a side. Yeah. Alleged. Alleged. Does this guy look like a murderer? He wasn't convicted, right?
00:43:26
Speaker
No, he had a I think it ended him. He finally went to trial shortly before he died in a mistrial and then like in between when they were going to go and have a second trial. That's when he passed away. So I think pretty much everybody kind of understands what happened. It's just I don't know. It's kind of just one of those tragic moments in history. I don't think it was like straight up
00:43:48
Speaker
not to get too far down the weeds. There's a great episode of dark side of the ring. You guys can watch. I don't think it was straight up like first degree homicide. I think he was just, you know, physically abusive and a little bit too much damage, which I mean, still makes you a piece of shit. But, um, yeah, Vince McMahon covered it up too. That was the other. Yeah. Yeah. Talk to the cops. That's what I was going to say. I wonder how it ended in a mistrial. Could it have been some McMahon bucks?
00:44:14
Speaker
We haven't even thought about this. I didn't think about it until just now. What are we going to do with the 2004 rumble? I think we should just pick some random event and watch that instead of that one, man. Oh, no, we got to watch that. No. You think we need to watch it? Yeah, we got to watch it. What do you think, Marko? Yeah, let's watch it. Why not?
00:44:31
Speaker
That rumble is really good. It is a good, it is a good rumble, man, but I just, you know, you got to prosper in law from start to finish. Maybe we'll just call him the wrestler. We won't say his name. We won't acknowledge him the entire time. We'll just call him the Crippler because that's what he is. The Crippler.
00:44:53
Speaker
Mark it down June 28th, 2021. We're about four months shy of the three year mark. This is the night that the Chick Foley show got canceled. Here we go. Oh, baby. So we have one Hall of Famer and one dead man on this entrance.
00:45:11
Speaker
the Undertaker. So one of the stipulations from all the championship controversy was that Hogan and Undertaker would be able to come out in the final 10, which number is Undertaker?
The Undertaker's Evolution
00:45:21
Speaker
Undertaker is, this is 20.
00:45:24
Speaker
Yeah, so they come out 20 and later, of course, Holt gets a prime number, Undertaker gets screwed and gets basically like the least amount of advantage possible, but here he comes. He's still deep into his straight up zombie gimmick, like moving slow, no selling everything. It's pretty crazy. Yeah, exactly. It's pretty crazy seeing this compared to what he would become just a few years later. There you go. Oh, just eliminated Jimmy Snooker right off the bat.
00:45:49
Speaker
Goes right for the murder. Yeah, went back to WrestleMania 7 when he squashed him.
00:45:55
Speaker
Yeah, he did cut a promo before the Royal Rumble Undertaker, so he was speaking a little bit. He was like, what sentence? Yeah, he was. And by this time, if you go back and watch that Tuesday in Texas in Survivor Series 91, he had a lot of fans, because he was just such a badass. I mean, he's a cool ass character. He looked different. Iconic look. And he kicks everybody's ass. Whoa, Undertaker with a low blow on Roddy Piper. I did not remember Undertaker throwing low blows back during, or on a hacksaw.
00:46:23
Speaker
I don't remember throwing low blows back during this time, but, uh, yeah, he started getting some cheers to where they were basically forced to turn him face. And between this event and, uh, and WrestleMania, he would end up turning good and end up fighting Jake at WrestleMania eight. Remember Jake was about to, uh, hit Elizabeth with a steel chair and it was undertaken to stop him. Jake was hating on Elizabeth man. Yeah. Paul Bear also a double threat in this match, by the way.
00:46:50
Speaker
Yeah, true. Didn't even think about that one. Do the listeners even know what the, what the second column is? Yeah. We talked about it earlier. We said, remember I said that we should have done. What do we have more of on this event? Dead people or hall of famers. There's another two for look at macho man. He's coming out to whoop some ass. He's just looking for somebody. Where are they at? Did Jake take off? Jake didn't get eliminated, right? Didn't Jake take off running to hide from macho man?
00:47:18
Speaker
Uh, yeah, there's Jake right there. See Jake, I want no part of macho. He saw macho man coming and I just dipped out because they're deep in their few right now. I think they've, uh, they fought it Tuesday, uh, in Texas, but they hadn't yet had their, their big Saturday night's main event blow off from the huge feud that these guys have been having.
Macho Man's Self-Elimination
00:47:35
Speaker
Savage is in the hall of fame 2015 clearly. So he's our 16th hall of famer. We were at, we were at that mania Sheena. So I hope you would remember that.
00:47:47
Speaker
I didn't go to the hall of fame. That's for sure. Yeah. But we saw them come out at WrestleMania. Oh yeah. That was, that was the, um, I didn't see macho man come out at WrestleMania. Yeah. Freaking, uh, every single person remember was wearing that purple. And then macho eliminates him macho man's shirt that they were selling at hot topic that year.
00:48:08
Speaker
Macho is in such a rage he eliminates himself. This is actually two straight ears that Macho man would make a straight buffoon of himself. I won't spoil what happens at the end of the 93 rumble for our next watch along, but keep in mind that Macho man straight up just eliminated himself by jumping over the top rope to get a Jake. Like, dude, why couldn't you take half a breath and roll under the bottom rope or something? He hasn't kissed. He's filled with anger and hate right now. Seth giving the listeners a tease.
00:48:39
Speaker
Playing the long game. Undertaker and Jake working together. That was pretty badass, too. So remember, they crashed Macho Man's wedding at SummerSlam 91. And maybe they're saying Macho Man's not eliminated. That's the Undertaker throwing him back in the ring. Oh, no. He's got the rope. No, he's definitely throwing the top rope. But maybe they
00:49:09
Speaker
Sometimes, you know, they sometimes kind of pick and choose when they actually want to enforce the rules. We have the commentary turned off right now, just so we can can give you guys the best audio experience possible. And we are delivering, pal. Oh, yeah. Undertaker is scary right now. What number are we on, Shane? Savage just came in at twenty one. OK, so we got nine people left to go.
00:49:32
Speaker
I think we can already say it even without seeing how this thing ends up. I think this is by far the best one we've watched so far. Are you guys in agreement on that? Yeah. This is one of the best rumbles ever. I love a hacksaw too. I mean, I think it is, yeah. Undertaker, just no fair at all. Like Shane said, there's just really been no filler.
Hulk Hogan's Mixed Reaction
00:49:52
Speaker
Even the people that suck have kind of been, or not suck, but the people that have no shot at winning, they've at least been interesting. Yeah.
00:49:59
Speaker
Hacksaw could have won this too if he was super over. Oh, yeah, Hacksaw was over as hell. Only he ever got a title reign until he he found the WCW TV championship in the in the trash on episode of Nitro became a TV champion. Ric Flair with the low blow and Tager. I saw that he had him right in the little tombstones.
00:50:24
Speaker
Not in the Hall of Fame. He got Mr. Fuji who is though. Should be. So we got one Hall of Famer. Y'all hating on Hacksaw, dude. He's our OG Royal Rumbler. True. Yeah, I forgot about that. He's a former Royal Rumble winner. I think last I saw of a barbarian, John Nord, I think he got into some legal trouble up in Minnesota a few years back. Minnesota?
00:50:50
Speaker
I'll see what it is. I'll see what ended up having. I remember seeing he got arrested for something. I never saw the fallout though. We got a lot of double threat managers tonight, Seth. Mr. Fuji, also a double threat. Oh, is Mr. Fuji, he's not in the Hall of Fame, is he? Definitely needs to be. I'm pretty sure he's in the Hall of Fame. Look at that, Shane. I miss your job. Mr. Fuji's got to be in the Hall of Fame. I don't know. If he's not, that's a tragedy. He might not be.
00:51:15
Speaker
That's tragedy. I guess he knew this. Oh, wrong. He is. He is 2007. He's got to be. Well, I don't know why I was thinking he wasn't, but let's see. It's because he's never had a he's never had a figure by Mattel. Yeah, that's bullshit. That is bullshit. This is bullshit. Yeah. So on March 23rd, 2019, John Nord was arrested for DUI.
00:51:45
Speaker
And his license, it was a. So he was already riding dirty, so he's riding dirty and drunk. He has had, so here we go. So, you know, go ahead and mute us for the next, you know, 30 seconds if you're a huge barbarian fan, because you're not going to hear this. Dude has had seven DUIs. Jesus Christ. I mean, I gotta say, at this point, just lock him up. Yeah. This was his seventh DUI arrest, and he's had 16 arrests in the last 10 years for either felonies or misdemeanors.
00:52:13
Speaker
All he got was five years probation for that. How crazy is that? How messed up is our legal system? The prosecution was trying to send him to jail for four years, but he ended up just getting probation for five years.
00:52:28
Speaker
He was on like Judge Judy or Judge Mathis on one of these DUIs too. I'm almost positive. Really? Yeah, he was. I'm almost positive. No, no, no. So, okay. So interrupt me if we hit anything interesting on here. Yeah, Virgil was not in the Hall of Fame. John Nord appeared on the January 2004, 2018 episode of Judge Mathis where he was sued by someone that he became friends with at a substance abuse facility.
00:52:54
Speaker
He had charged up 4,800 bucks on one of her credit cards and to help pay her back He gave her two this is in quotes on the Wikipedia page 205 valuable wrestling dolls from his days in the wrestling business The lady the lady sold all of them, but they only came up with 1,700 bucks Yeah, but he said that she should have got more he said the toys were enough to to pay her off me wrong actually
00:53:21
Speaker
Yeah, so it ended up being, he ended up getting a judgment of having to pay 3000 bucks to his friend from the substance abuse facility. So hard times for the barbarian. Let's get back to the rumble. I just increased my barbarian knowledge by like 300%. That was our dark side of the ring segment. Yeah, dark side of the chick. Yeah, we need dark side of the rumble. That's what we're going to start.
00:53:43
Speaker
I still want a baby face version figure. I don't really like the candy striper pants he's got on here. I like the boxing shorts from his Hasbro look, man. He's dripping that meat sauce. That's why he's wearing those. Yeah, baby, breadsticks. Fuck money in meat sauce, baby. Take you to the Olive Garden.
00:54:01
Speaker
At least he's keeping his balls in. We talked about it before, man. It was so depressing at WrestleCon, at WrestleMania 33, because his booth was right across from Scott Hall's. And Scott Hall's got this huge line. All the way back out the door. And then there's nobody there waiting for Virgil. And Scott Hall's coming in with a big drip with the outsiders, like suit jacket on stuff. And then Virgil's over there in like a faded Under Armour sweatshirt, you know, just looking like a badass. I experienced the same thing.
00:54:29
Speaker
He was at a he was at a wrestle con before and I was waiting in line to get a picture with the Steiner brothers and He was like right that line was like way past his table And he's literally trucked us trying to get everyone in the line to pay him 20 bucks to take a picture with him What's our what's our hall of fame now?
00:54:51
Speaker
Iron Sheik is Hall of Famer 2005 and he is our 18th Hall of Famer. This is going to be one of the next collector's editions, the Colonel Mustafa version. We're getting the slaughter too, we just need to find a way to get General Adnan now so we'll have the whole kind of axis of evil. Yeah, I get to find a picture when I met him, Iron Sheik.
00:55:15
Speaker
It was like 2014 or something like that. I told him he was the greatest world champion. Oh, thank you, Bubba. Thank you, Bubba. I was like, you're the greatest world champion that ever lived. Oh, thank you. Thank you.
00:55:29
Speaker
There's a there's a guy that I work with that I'm not sure where he's from. It's definitely some sort of Persian descent man. And like he gets fired up at work, dude. He sounds just like the Iron Sheik. He's like, fuck that motherfucker. I want to ask him like, dude, can you please just show me that you want to put somebody in the camel clutch and break their back and humble them? Like, I'll pay you. I'll break you.
00:55:52
Speaker
Yeah, dude, he'll be having a conversation with me and tell me about something he's really fired up about. And I'm just like having to hold back my laughter. So I'm like, dude, all I can hear is the baby fucking Hulk Hogan raising balls. Blair still wants to see that in my ultimate edition figure that I described earlier on. Yeah, this would be like the the second head sculpt for flair right here. This look, he's got going with the hair. Yeah, it's like some sort of like peacock or so.
00:56:23
Speaker
Oh, Rick Martell. I don't know. OK, let's do a quick pop quiz. I think I don't think he is. Marco, he's definitely knows. OK, we're in the pop quiz. Yeah, there you go. Everybody take a guess, but Marco came in hot.
00:56:39
Speaker
He's definitely not in the hall. That's crazy, man. How is Tito in, but he's not. He doesn't want to be. That's what I've, I mean, if you listen to like, uh, Yeah, that's true. Yeah. We talked about that on his previous appearances on the watch the series. He's kept a very low profile. Um, since he left the wrestling game, he just, I think he's kind of just happy to chill in Canada and do his thing. Yeah. So I'd love to get a strike force. Uh, I'd love to get a strike for Rick Martell though. That's actually one of my most wanted figures right now, as far as the legends go.
00:57:06
Speaker
I was a fan of rick martell the bottle Think about all the hall of famers we have in here and we have Undertaker walking around not a hall of famer. Yeah, you know, yeah, I still there and then with the chic aka colonel mustafa I still feel like when undertaker goes in he should be the only um, yeah, the only hall of fame induction that year they should do like they did with andre the giant and I think you could do
00:57:30
Speaker
Um, like four separate inductions for like his different characters. You know what I mean? You could do like the zombie, then you could do the guy, like the black and purple baby face run. Like the ministry of darkness. Yeah. American badass. Think about how, think about how much they cashed out on the 30 years of undertaker do with all the merch, all the collaborations that they just did a single undertaker, um, induction for the hall of fame. Like it would be insane.
00:57:55
Speaker
Yeah, they could just have like all his like opponents come up and like, you know, do like a speech like Mick Foley, Stone Cold, The Rock, Triple H, Jimmy Snooka. You guys remember 2015 Survivor Series when they did the 25 years of like it was the Undertaker 25 celebration? Yeah, I have that book actually.
00:58:17
Speaker
Yeah, you guys realize this year is going to be 25th year since the rock debuted at Survivor Series. My God. Check your mouth. Did you guys know? There he is. The real American has entered the match. There's the Hulkster.
00:58:30
Speaker
No, did you guys see that fan-made poster that was going around a couple weeks ago though on social media? It was it was badass It was a it was like a brick wall and it showed a picture of the it was it was the rock walking by like, you know modern-day rock But the shadow was like rocky my yeah Yeah, it looked like it was like goosebumps dude like it was really I don't know even like the hugest like nostalgia guy for the rock as much as I appreciate everything he's done in the wrestling biz, but Yeah, just really really cool
00:58:59
Speaker
We need this whole thing. Yeah, Hogan is Hall of Famer 2005. Yeah, definitely He can he can relax somewhere Virgil of all people dumped Rick Martell. Look at the heels. He's teaming up on the whole story doing some math There you go, you had a couple eye rakes again the whole keeping with tradition from the last one he's wrestles like a heel He is a he's I think he's always been a heel
00:59:29
Speaker
Oh, there went the undertaker. Oh, dumps taker. Fucking Hogan and those barbarians. I mean, the place is going nuts for now. Maybe we spoke to you sooner and we were saying that the crowd was kind of overhaul. They're going nuts right now. Not fuck Hogan. Hmm. I mean, he is a racist piece of shit. We've definitely kind of established that it'll always be fuck Hogan.
00:59:57
Speaker
Yeah, but since he tried to kick out on the worry, I've hated. Oh, double elimination of hacksaw and Virgil, man. Yeah. If you, if, if you don't hate Hogan because of that, you're not a real warrior fan. He tried to kick out at three, like those blatant right there. What, uh, what entry are we on, Shane? We are. Hogan is number 26. Okay. So four people left. Yep.
01:00:27
Speaker
Skinner. Oh, God. I would take an Alita Skinner, man. We need a... Is Skinner in your universe? Your 2K? Tobacco stains on his... He's not. He's one of the Hasbro Five, man. There's five wrestlers that the only figure they've ever had was in the Hasbro line. It's Skinner, Bart Gunn, Nails, Ludwig Borga, and Headshrinker Samu.
01:00:55
Speaker
I know we'll talk about this on the show, but did you guys see who Zombie Sailor signed? Fuck yes. Yeah, I was kind of as excited as I am for that figure. I'm a little bit bummed because I was really hoping we'd get a Mattel one man gang. But I suppose those deals aren't exclusive. You know, I can't imagine Zombie Sailor signing these guys to exclusive deals. Yeah. Because yeah, there was a Mattel prototype of one man gang that was made and then I guess his contract ran out or whatever. But yeah, I'd love to have another Akeem and a
01:01:22
Speaker
A one-man gang figure. Yeah, that's gonna be awesome.
01:01:28
Speaker
Skinner, for those that don't know, his most valuable contribution is he started Florida Championship Wrestling, which is the organization that would eventually turn into the NXT that we know and love today. So this dude has had a huge impact on the wrestling biz. He was part of the fabulous ones in the USWA Mid-South territory before coming to WWE as Skinner, which was basically just like an Everglades Swamp Man.
01:01:56
Speaker
is look up Steve Kern Hall of Fame. He's not. He's not. No, I thought I knew Skinner wasn't in the Hall of Fame, but I thought maybe a Steve Kern, he might have went in. He should be if he definitely did that, like be that controversial. Yeah. Yeah. Because he was in. I mean, that tag team was huge and like, you know, the southern southern wrestling. And then, you know, like I said, he started Florida Championship Wrestling. All right. Here we go. And over 28. Three.
01:02:23
Speaker
How are you already tired you just got in the ring come on in? Slaughter another Hall of Famer another former world champ This was you know we saw a slaughter at the world rumble last year It was the freaking Iraqi sympathizer of all things when in the world championship from the ultimate warrior That's another one right up there with right up there with the nasty boys
01:02:46
Speaker
Went in the tag belts from heart foundation at WrestleMania 7. There goes Skinner Slaughter beaten warrior. I was so pissed off man Just because slaughter was such a bore to me just with his in ring style and stuff Yeah, he had some pretty badass matches back in the 80s. He was actually doing some really really violent stuff, especially by WWF standards But this this birds gonna slaughter in the early 90s was a straight-up snooze fest in the ring
01:03:12
Speaker
I really enjoyed the Sergeant Slaughter Iron Sheik Hidden Treasures episode. I thought that was really good. Yeah, that was good. Those have all been pretty good. Yeah, they have all those shows and all the biographies and stuff have been great. Yeah, I can't say anything bad. They did a really good job with those. Yeah, that show had the potential to be really lame. And I mean, I know a lot of it's a work, but I feel like they still did a really good job.
01:03:41
Speaker
Macho Man choking out IRS with Hulk Hogan's tank top. I like to suspend my disbelief a little bit. You know, I'm with, I'm with you, Shane. It's not a word. I'm like, Oh my God, that Ric Flair just popped up on eBay. No way. What timing. Yeah. What timing. They just happened to be filming at the time. The listing went up. Who knew? And has it been, hasn't been seen and you know, 20 plus years. That's possible.
01:04:14
Speaker
Hogan and flair. It's still crazy that Hogan and flair didn't end up main eventing WrestleMania this year.
01:04:22
Speaker
This year has in like 20 and 21. I mean, this year as we're watching it. Yeah, I definitely want to see that. There
Sid Justice's Performance
01:04:29
Speaker
he is. Logan and Flair. The master, the rule of the world, Cid Justice. That was a huge bump. I'm still a little bit pumped that the Summer Slam Elite this year didn't have the blue gear underneath. I was really hoping for this look underneath the referee gear, even though the red singlet for the WCW look was cool. I still think we're owed the Cid Justice figure. I'm so mad they didn't have it. Cid, not in the Hall of Fame.
01:04:51
Speaker
No, definitely not. I'm so mad they didn't coin that phrase, Sid Marks, if you're a Sid fan. Sid Marks. That's what I was. I was a Sid Mark, dude. I love Sid. He's got to be up there with demolition, man, is the most deserving.
01:05:07
Speaker
You know, non Hall of Famer. He's a two-time world champ, man. Yeah, he beat, he beat Brett and Shawn Michaels. Come on now, like he beat like two guys. He's main evented, he's main evented two Wrestlemanias. He main evented WrestleMania 8 against Hogan and WrestleMania 13 against The Undertaker. Yeah. We'll have to do a deep dive sometime and see how many world champs aren't in
Hall of Fame Speculations
01:05:29
Speaker
the Hall of Fame. It can't be many.
01:05:33
Speaker
That's true, yeah. Yeah, there can't be very many. You're exactly right. That's what I do. Thanks, Seth. Best in the business. Yeah, Encyclopedia Phelps over here. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, obviously, Sid and Chris Benoit. Off the top of my head, I don't know if there's any others that aren't in the Hall of Fame. Chris Benoit's not in the Hall of Fame yet.
01:06:00
Speaker
No, I wonder when he'll get in. He's a he's in the Hall of Fame in hell somewhere. You know what I mean? The hell of fame. Yeah. On a highway to hell. Look at Sid with the kip up. Dude was a freak, man. Yeah, man. That's what I'm saying. With the blonde here. So good.
Who Will Win the Rumble?
01:06:20
Speaker
Is this number 30 right here, Sheen? This is number 30 coming in in five seconds.
01:06:25
Speaker
I have no idea who this is. Again, this is before the number 30 spot was really hyped up. It would be some sort of warrior. I'm joking. Dude, that would have been amazing. It's the warlord. Harvey Whippleman. I don't think either one of these guys are in Hall of Fame.
01:06:41
Speaker
Nope, nope, no. Warlord was a freaking beast. Talk about Hercules. Yeah, this is another dude that was definitely on some high grade. He's got some of that titty meat. He was like Braun Strowman before Braun Strowman. This guy. Definitely on the diesel. Oh yeah, for sure. He just couldn't move around, man. His matches were again, just straight up snooze fest, man. Dude moves like he's made of wood or something. That Flair and Hogan on the outside.
01:07:12
Speaker
Oh, oh, that's not a vertical suplex. Hulk must get his shit in. Oh yeah. Hogan must pose. All right. So we're down to one, two, three. Oh, what an elimination from slaughter, man. Hits the turnbuckle so hard. He just goes flying out. So we're down to eight. So Sid could obviously win. We talked about him, Hogan and Flair kind of being the favorites coming in. Macho could definitely win.
01:07:41
Speaker
and Piper could definitely win. I don't think anybody thought that IRS, Rick Martell or Warlord had a shot to win this at this point in their careers. Flares out. He could, I mean, they could toss him right now. They wanted to, but just leave him there. Let him rest. Got to take a nap. That's more blonde on blonde crime. How good a player.
01:08:08
Speaker
The trunks were definitely the way to go as far as a tire goes during this time. Yeah. It was championship trunks back then. Yeah. We have six of the final eight are rocking the trunks. Just look how plain. It's like plain blue trunks, plain yellow trunks, plain blue trunks.
01:08:29
Speaker
Black trunks and then Piper's got on playing like navy blue trunks warlords only one putting any swag on Yeah, Rick Flair's got a little a small monogram on his yeah, like that's it Sit in a wreck look like they could be like a tank or something with a combination with the pink
01:08:49
Speaker
Yeah. Just think, uh, you can just go into any freaking sports store and just buy a pair of like, you know, Trunks and Hogan, you know, that's actually, you know, that's doing summer 2021.
The Final Four Showdown
01:09:00
Speaker
I think I'm going to wear wrestling trunks instead of shorts. This summer. Highwaisted wrestling trunks.
01:09:13
Speaker
I think we got rid of all the cannon fodder. So yeah, here we go This is these are the four guys that would double main event WrestleMania 8. Yeah That's a hell of a final four
01:09:27
Speaker
This is like is this the best final four you've seen so far out of the rumble? And we'd have to do some obviously we have to keep up with it, but this has got to be in the mix for best The best final four ever, you know, yeah Hogan who's an eight-time champ flares a 16-time champ Sid won the belt twice and I think macho man ended up being a six-time world champ when all was said and done so
01:09:52
Speaker
Yeah, some serious.
Sid Justice's Victory
01:09:54
Speaker
Oh, oh, boy. Oh, boy. Oh, boy. Said to send back watching. So pay attention to the crowd reactions here. And here it is.
01:10:03
Speaker
Oh. Look at that. Okay, yeah. Crowds hype. I think it's a mixture of shock and hype. Everybody's going nuts, though. Look, there's a little boy in the front row. It's just like so sad. Clean as a sheet, man. Can we all agree? Look at this little boy. He's going over the guard rail. Can we all agree that that was 100% legal and fair? It was clean. Yeah, that was clean. And now watch this. Look at this, man. Bobby Heenan was right all along, man. He had been telling us that this dude was a freaking cheater and a baby and a sore loser.
01:10:33
Speaker
After being eliminated, we have to eliminate Sid Justice and Ric Flair is your new WWF world champ. That is some bullshit. This would lead to Hogan and Sid Justice at WrestleMania 8 in the main event, which was billed as Hulk Hogan's final match.
Is This the Best Rumble Ever?
01:10:53
Speaker
Obviously, we know that he was still wrestling, you know, some 16, 17 years after this. Yeah.
01:11:00
Speaker
Man. Great, great match, man. I think this is without a doubt the best rumble ever, and it's one of the best matches period you could ever watch, man. It's like Rod Stewart hair, it looks like.
01:11:11
Speaker
Hey, the other thing that we didn't really talk about, you're watching this on mute just for the listener's sake, Bobby Heenan on commentary does a tremendous job. It's Bobby Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon on commentary, and Heenan's just in the bag for flair all night. He's really like extra character, just selling you as soon as flair comes out, he just can't believe it. He's going off on flair being the number three entry.
01:11:34
Speaker
And the cool thing Gorilla Monsoon does, he starts off just shitting on everything Ric Flair does. And then over the course of the match, he kind of starts to buy in and starts showing respect to kind of just really sell at how impressive of a performance it is. Ric Flair coming in with that number three spot and winning the World Championship. So now we've got Hulkster and Sid, you know, going at it. Got the whole referee crew out there trying to break this up.
01:12:00
Speaker
There's Pat Patterson, just got slung by the collar. Pat Patterson's in the suit with the white dad sneakers. He is wearing white dad sneakers. When you have to produce an insanely good match and then go mow the lawn afterwards. Trying to see if they have Velcro straps on them, but we can't tell.
01:12:23
Speaker
Dave Heaveners out there with Earl, both twins. Twin magic. How much did they pay for the plastic surgery? The original twin magic. Yeah, they are. That really is the original twin magic, real talk.
01:12:39
Speaker
Shane, give us your thoughts, man. What do you think of the 1992 Royal Rumble? Oh, it's epic. It's classic. I mean, again, I've said earlier, it's one of the best rumbles of all time. And again, it's only one of two rumbles that has had the championship on the freaking line. The other one being our other favorite, the tribal chief Roman Reigns. So yeah, the 2016 Rumble one versus all. Yeah, this is epic.
01:13:08
Speaker
whole considered staring each other down. I just you know, I did I did kind of I mean, it is kind of lame how they did just
01:13:18
Speaker
They did like Ric Flair literally just won the title after, you know, making his, uh, coming in like five months earlier. And then he just runs out of the ring. Well, he gets his moment after this. So yeah, well, true. But I mean, still he didn't get his moment out in front of the crowd. It was all for Hogan. Yeah. Hogan always got a freaking win backstage. We have the idea right here. We're going to listen to one of the greatest promos in wrestling history.
Ric Flair's Emotional Victory Speech
01:13:43
Speaker
All right, by virtue of winning the Royal Rumble, we have a brand new World Wrestling Federation champion as the press watches on, at this time to present the title belt to the new champion, our president, the distinguished Jack Tunney. Congratulations, Ric Flair, on becoming the undisputed champion of the World Wrestling Federation. Let me just say, after very distorting the belt to proclaim you the real world champion, I'm gonna tell y'all
01:14:12
Speaker
with a tear in my eye. This is the greatest moment in my life. When you walk around this world and you tell anybody you're number one, the only way you get to stay number one is to be number one. And this is the only title in the wrestling world that makes you number one when you are the king of the WWE.
01:14:52
Speaker
What a promo. You can see the emotion just all over Flair's face here. He's going nuts. This is famously with the Rick Flair Hasbro figure that gets shit on for the face sculpt or whatever. It was based off this promo. That's why he had his eyes bugging out of his head. It's a really classic moment with a tear in my eye. It was just an awesome line. I think, Sheena, you were saying that he just did this all off the dome. There was no rehearsal or anything on this.
01:15:04
Speaker
You rule the world! Think about it like that, Mr. Perfect!
01:15:15
Speaker
Yeah, we were talking about that before we started the show that yeah, it was just kind of like in the moment and, uh, you know, all, all from the heart, which, uh, again, you never know if you're getting worked or not. He may have wrote all that shit out like the night before, but, um, he did, he has been on the record as saying it was all from the heart is the audio that we just played. Did they drop out the F he said, the WWE.
01:15:36
Speaker
Yeah, I guess I never paid attention to that. This idea was fooled from WWE's official YouTube channel. Oh, yeah. Makes sense. Yeah, they get the FL. Yeah. Yeah. So if you watch any WWF matches or anything like that, they always block it out. Now, even on the network, if you go on the network or on Peacock. Yeah, I guess I never paid attention to that until I was just listening to that in my ear. Oh, they dub it E. They'll say WWE. That's weird.
01:16:04
Speaker
I love how Triple H just entered in today. We ended up with 20 Hall of Famers, including managers and valets. We got to see 20 Hall of Famers. We got to see 20 Hall of Famers. Just in the rumble. Just in the rumble match. There were 20 Hall of Famers. This is not including the rest of the pay-per-view. That's insane. Pretty impressive.
01:16:26
Speaker
loaded, especially considering, I mean, it shouldn't be a surprise considering the rumble is like such a huge iconic match that we know it and love it as today. But from what we've seen from the first few rumbles that we've watched from these watch alongs, like this is a major upgrade and a major improvement.
01:16:42
Speaker
Yeah, for sure. Um, it's really the end of an era also, because starting next year, we're at Rumble 93, we would begin the now famous, um, you know, kind of wrestling clause of the winner of the Rumble going to WrestleMania.
01:16:57
Speaker
This is it. This was our you know, obviously this one had huge stakes and everyone from now on will have some some stakes built
Closing Remarks and Upcoming Episodes
01:17:03
Speaker
into it. So Stay tuned again. Our next paper and exclusive episode will be the top 25 Tag teams ever that's gonna be a lot of fun and then we'll kick back up with then 1993 war rumble Jordan your guest man You got any closing thoughts first tonight?
01:17:19
Speaker
Man, it's going to be tough sledding to live up to that rumble for the next, I don't know, 15 that we're going to have to watch. We will bring trivia back. I'm 100% positive of that. But yeah, this was a good one, guys. This was a fun show. And again, as always, thanks for having me on. And yeah, catch you guys next time. Oh, yeah. Thank you guys for your support. Let us know how you enjoyed this. And yeah, Foley fam for life.
01:18:01
Speaker
you