Ron Simmons-APA-Dam! Full Career Retrospective(born May 15, 1958) is an American retired professional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridiron_football and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestler. He is best known for his tenures in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Championship_Wrestling (WCW). Prior to becoming a professional wrestler, Simmons played football as a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_tackle in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League (NFL), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Football_League (CFL) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Football_League (USFL) for four seasons during the 1980s. Simmons played https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_football for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_State_Seminoles_football and was recognized as an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Football_All-America_Team. He played professionally for the NFL's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Browns, the CFL's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Rough_Riders and the USFL's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Bay_Bandits. Simmons performed for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Championship_Wrestling (WCW) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Championship_Wrestling (ECW) under his real name, and in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE (WWF/E) under both his real name and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_name Faarooq Asaad. In WCW, Simmons was a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WCW_World_Heavyweight_Champions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCW_World_Heavyweight_Champion; as the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_firsts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American to win the title, he is recognized by WWE as the first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling_championship#World_championships in professional wrestling history. He was also a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WCW_World_Tag_Team_Champions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCW_World_Tag_Team_Champion with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Reed and a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCW_United_States_Tag_Team_Championship with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Osborne. He was one of the most prominent stars in the WWF in the early https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_Erahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Tag_Team_Champions_(WWE)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_Erahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWF_Tag_Team_Championhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_Erahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Layfieldhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_Erahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acolytes_Protection_Agencyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Dominationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acolytes_Protection_Agencyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_wrestling_terms#Stablehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acolytes_Protection_Agencyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Hall_of_Famehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acolytes_Protection_AgencyHe formed the extremely popular tag team Doom with Butch Reed and manager Teddy Long- Soon after, in March 1989, Simmons began showing signs of a heel turn as he got more aggressive in his matches, including a non-title match against fellow babyface, then-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NWA_World_Heavyweight_Championship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_%22The_Dragon%22_Steamboat and a match on the April 29, 1989 episode of World Championship Wrestling, where he broke the rules during what was supposed to be a face vs. face match against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkyard_Dog. Simmons won the match when the referee, Ron's future manager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Long made a fast count (Long was fired (kayfabe) as referee by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Herd immediately following this match). He completed his heel turn on the May 27 episode of World Championship Wrestling during a tag team match, where he teamed with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_Ross against the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Headshrinkers as part of a tournament for the vacant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCW_World_Tag_Team_Championship, leaving him in the ring alone when Long came out. Simmons later teamed up with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Reed to form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(professional_wrestling). In the beginning, the members of Doom were masked and only known as Doom #1 and Doom #2, managed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Benoit. In their https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-per-view debut at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Havoc_1989, Doom defeated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Steiner_Brothers. In the "Iron Team Tournament" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starrcade_(1989), Doom finished fourth, losing all three of their matches. Doom's misfortune continued as Woman soon dropped the team to manage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Horsemen_(professional_wrestling). Then on February 6, 1990, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clash_of_the_Champions_X, Doom hit rock bottom when they were defeated by Rick and Scott Steiner and as a result of the stipulation were forced to unmask. It's been reported at this time that the aging Ric Flair was doing whatever he could behind the scenes to sandbag matches and hold the likes of Ron Simmons, Scott Steiner and Brian Pillman down ultimately crushing WCW and putting it light years behind the well oiled machine of the WWF. World Heavyweight Champion and final storylines (1992–1994)- Simmons spent the first half of 1992 feuding with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Foley, whom he defeated via pinfall at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperBrawl_II. On August 2, 1992, at a house show in Baltimore, Maryland, a scheduled title match between https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sting_(wrestler) and WCW World Heavyweight Champion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Van_Vaderhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerslam#Scoop_powerslamhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Van_Vaderhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Americanhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Van_VaderWorld Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment- He found his ultimate succes in the Nation of Domination giving a platform for the Rock to be himself and then form the APA with Bradshaw but let him explain how nuch differernt WCW was then WWE and how much fun he had

Jimmy Hart " The Mouth Of The South " Legendary Wrestling manager for Memphis Wrestling and was called up to the Big Leagues the WWE to manage the likes of the Hart Foundation to tag team gold as well as the Nasty boys, he was also critical in making the Honky Tonk Man one of the most famous heels in the late 80's and led him to become the greatest Intercontinental Champion of all time. Played key roles in Dino Bravo and the massive Eartquakes careers. Behind the scenes he became Hulk Hogans real-life personal assistance and when Hulk made the choice to join Ted Turner to help elevate a floundering WCW promotion with deep pockets but a resume of horrible and outdated leadership. Hart and Hogan no matter all the crying you hear from Ric Flair , Greg Gagne and Mike Graham at least the television savoy Bichiff new enough to listen to Hogan and convince him to turn heel and start the attitude era with the greatest fraction of it's time instead of recycling the four horsemen from the 80's over and over again. Deciding to go with less is more he built up Starcade 96 to a fever pitch and Flair and the Horsemen were were a afterthought thank God and the Monday night wars began and ignited the attitude era. No direspect to ECW becue they were innovative but they hot shotted until that heat burned them out in front of 1,500 fans and Vince used them as his triple A farm team after USWA closed up. Once again with Jimmy Harts assistance Hulk Hogan got a new paint Job and saved wrestling, forcing Vince to step away was that corny stuff and milk Heyman and ECW for hot shotting. Let me teach all you fans something very important, Brian Pillman was ahead of his time as Eric, Paul and Sullivan but ultimately Vince realized. Steve Austin and Brian Pillman were great friends runnibg the roads together as the Hollywood Blondes. You don't think they spoke about the buisness all the time. You don't think Brian explained the ultimate outcome of the Loose Canon Gimmick. He convinced Eric in a kayfabe manor to fire him. Unfortunately Brian pasted away and the only person who knew the loose Canon gimmick and it's expertise was Austin so the Taskmaster Became Stone Cold Steve Austin but really he became the loose Cannon. Hulk gave you the beginning of the attitude area because only h=Hogans star could play a heel to that perfection with the help of the the modern day cool guys around him in the likes of Hall and Nash but they should have stoped there but Bishoff was going to ride it out because he had nothing and hiring Russo was a blessing for vince and the final nail for Eric as well as the recipe the that Time Warner and AOL media cogolmerate needed to get rid of wrestling even with harvey schiller as the director. Let it be known that Ted Turner was worth 6 billion before the worst finiancel merger in history. He got taken off his board and lost over 2 billion. Jimmy Hart is a nice guy so he is going to sugar oat everything but he knows. Enjoy and learn

Steve Lombardi ( The Brooklyn Brawler ) Part 2 -In 2000, he scored a pinfall against Triple H in a handicap match and singles victory over Just Joe on an episode of WWE Jakked. He would then face Just Joe again and pick up the victory. As part of an angle on SmackDown!, he adopted the moniker of the "Boston Brawler", shedding his customary New York Yankees apparel in favor of Boston Red Sox clothing. This was done in response to the Red Sox' defeat of the Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series. Lombardi did this in a segment on SmackDown! (in New York City) with Heidenreich. Heidenreich was looking to make more friends, but Lombardi decided he'd rather be the Boston Brawler. Heidenreich stopped wanting to be Lombardi's friend, which aided Heidenreich's ongoing face turn. In early 2006, he still worked behind the scenes of WWE, including behind the camera with John Cena on his WWE.com show "Five Questions". Cena often makes references to Lombardi, even jokingly calling him the greatest technical wrestler of all time. Also, his face popped up in front of Cena's mouth to censor curse words, usually saying "nu-uh" or "brawler". On the June 2, 2006 episode of Five Questions, Brawler showed his face. He even censored himself, saying "you are a piece of Brawler". In another episode of "Five Questions," Cena acknowledged that Lombardi was actually born in Detroit, and not in Brooklyn. On May 7, 2006, WWE.com announced that, as part of Jakks Pacific's WWE Classic Superstars collection, they would be releasing a Brooklyn Brawler action figure. At Vengeance, Brawler appeared as Doink the Clown when he came out to the ring with Eugene during Eugene's match with Umaga. On August 1, 2006, Lombardi went to the ECW brand for a match against then ECW wrestler, Kurt Angle. Lombardi quickly lost when Angle applied an ankle lock on him. That same week, he appeared on SmackDown! against Vito, losing by submission. On the December 18 edition of Raw, Lombardi appeared in the 30 man battle royal as the Brooklyn Brawler. Lombardi made a return appearance in the November 15, 2010 "Raw Goes Old School" episode of Raw as the Brooklyn Brawler with Harvey Wippleman as his manager. He lost in a match against Ezekiel Jackson. The Brooklyn Brawler made a surprise return to pay-per-view on December 16, 2012 at the TLC pay-per-view (which took place in Brooklyn), teaming with the Miz and Alberto Del Rio to defeat 3MB (Heath Slater, Drew McIntyre and Jinder Mahal). Brawler won the match for his team via submission with a Boston crab on Mahal. At the July 15, 2013 Raw taping from Brooklyn, in a match taped for Superstars, the Brawler was defeated by Ryback, though, unlike the enhancement talent Ryback faced at the time, the Brawler took offense and even managed to dominate his opponent. On May 10, 2016, pwinsider.com reported that Lombardi had been released from WWE a week ago, thus ending Lombardi's 33 year career with WWE.

STEVE LOMBARDI ( The Brookyn Brawler )(born April 18, 1961) is an American semi-retired professional wrestler and road agent, better known by his ring name, the Brooklyn Brawler. He worked for the professional wrestling promotion, WWE, as well as several independent promotions. World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment / WWE- Lombardi began his WWF career in late 1983, competing under his real name, and being a heel, primarily as an enhancement talent. During this period, Lombardi occasionally teamed with fellow preliminary wrestler Barry Horowitz. Lombardi had a few victories during the 1980s, mainly against other preliminary wrestlers like Reno Riggins and Barry O, until early 1989, when he was repackaged as the Brooklyn Brawler. The Brawler character was that of a street fighter, wearing battered jeans and a torn New York Yankees t-shirt. Under the tutelage of Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, the Brawler entered a feud with the Red Rooster. When the Red Rooster left Heenan's villain group and became a fan favorite, Heenan stated that he had made the Red Rooster a star and could do the same with anyone in the WWF. The Red Rooster defeated the Brooklyn Brawler on Saturday Night's Main Event, and then Heenan at WrestleMania V. The Brawler was defeated by the Rooster again on the May 20, 1989 episode of Superstars of Wrestling. His alliance with Heenan was then phased out, though in storyline Heenan said it was an amicable departure, and Heenan would continue to speak highly of the Brawler whenever a match featured him. Lombardi soon returned to his former enhancement talent status. However, he retained the Brawler gimmick, a role he would utilize throughout his career. Lombardi was used in a number of gimmicks, often under a mask. In late 1993-early 1994, he briefly replaced Matt Borne as Doink the Clown until Ray Apollo was hired. He also regularly portrayed Kim Chee (Kamala's handler) during his 1986-87 and 1992 stints with the WWF and briefly in 1993 as a singles wrestler after Kamala left him for the newly ordained Reverend Slick. He still regularly used the Brooklyn Brawler gimmick during this period. He also played MVP (a short-lived baseball player gimmick) in 1993 between his stints as Kim Chee and Doink. The only televised match he wrestled as MVP was a battle royal in which the last two wrestlers in the ring would go on to compete for the WWF Intercontinental Championship, but he was eliminated half-way through the match. He would use the baseball player gimmick again, but this time as Abe "Knuckleball" Schwartz a year later during the 1994 Major League Baseball strike.[2] As MVP and Abe "Knuckleball" Schwartz, Lombardi's face was painted to look like a baseball and he wore a jersey with the number 00. In addition, he was accompanied to the ring by a carnival-like version of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game. Since the late 1990s, he has been semi-retired from the ring, working mostly as a road agent for WWF and only occasionally appearing in the ring, usually for comic skits and matches. The Brooklyn Brawler was defeated by Dwayne Johnson, who would later become the Rock, in Johnson's WWF tryout match on March 10, 1996. Johnson later recalled the match in his autobiography; praising Lombardi as a stand-up wrestler. The Brooklyn Brawler lost to the Rock on the February 28, 2000 taping of Raw Is War. Lombardi had some big wins and title shots. In 1991, he entered into a small feud with new WWF star Big Bully Busick after the Brawler challenged Busick to match to see who the real bully of the WWF was. The Brawler defeated the Bully by countout and in a rematch one week later saw the Brawler dominate the Bully until the latter's manager Harvey Wippleman grabbed the Brawler's leg, leading to a controversial win for the Bully. On October 4, 1993 Lombardi also competed in the WWF Intercontinental title battle royal (as MVP). On January 22, 1994, the Brawler defeated Jim Powers in a match prior to the Royal Rumble pay-per-view (however, Powers would later defeat the Brawler several times later in that same year). In 1997, he won a battle royal for a WWF Championship match in Madison Square Garden; he went on to face then-WWF champion Shawn Michaels, in a match where the Brawler dominated Michaels, but was defeated due to an interference of D-Generation X. On the September 20, 1999 episode of Raw is War, Lombardi was one of the replacement referees while the original referees were on story line strike. Part 2 Coming up next

Superstar Bill Dundee- William Cruickshanks (born 24 October 1943) in Angus, Scotland, and raised in Melbourne. At 16, he joined the circus as a trapeze artist. He started wrestling in Australia in 1962 and finally arrived in the United States as "Superstar" Bill Dundee in 1974 with his tag team partner George Barnes. Dundee made a name for himself in the Memphis Territory, where he regularly teamed and feuded with Jerry Lawler and Jimmy Valiant for years. Dundee and Lawler ventured to the American Wrestling Association in 1987 and captured the AWA World Tag Team Championship twice. As a singles wrestler, he held the Southern Heavyweight Championship belt several times from 1975 to 1985. Also, he had a successful team with "Nature Boy" Buddy Landel that wreaked havoc in Tennessee. Dundee had a brief run in the NWA's Jim Crockett Promotions, Central States Wrestling and Florida Championship Wrestling in 1986, where he teamed with Jimmy Garvin and feuded with Sam Houston for the NWA Central States Heavyweight Championship. He also briefly managed The Barbarian and The MOD Squad while in those territories. He also had a run in World Championship Wrestling in the early 1990s as Sir William, the manager for Lord Steven Regal. Dundee worked as a booker for Memphis, Louisiana and Georgia. Personal life- Dundee's son Jamie Dundee, also became a wrestler, whereas his daughter Donna, married wrestler Bobby Eaton. His grandson, Dylan Eaton, wrestles as well. BOOKS- If You Don't Want The Answer, Don't Ask The Question: Bill Dundee's Life Story

Terri Runnels get deep about Dustin Rhodes and New Jack. Starting out as a make up artist and then working in the WCW and becoming one of the sexiest superstar Divas to grace the square circle in the WWE during the attitude era alongside Gold Dust and many more. Pro Wrestlings own Kim Kardashshin. (born October 5, 1966) is an American retired https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manager_(professional_wrestling), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_presenter, and part-time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestler. Runnels began her professional wrestling career in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Championship_Wrestling (WCW) as Miss Alexandra York, manager of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_York_Foundation. She later joined the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE (WWF), later renamed World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where she worked for two years as Marlena, and then under her real name. In the early years of her career with the WWF, she managed her (then) real-life husband https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Rhodes (known on-screen as Goldust) and was a member of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Mean_Sisters alliance. She also managed both https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy_Boyz and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_%26_Christian following the Terri Invitational Tournament in 1999. Subsequently, she had an on-screen rivalry with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kat, managed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Radicalz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_professional_wrestling_terms#Stable, and worked as a host and interviewer including a number of titillating segments such as bra & panties, wet t-shirt contests, and lingerie matches. During her time with the World Wrestling Federation (or WWE), she briefly held the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Hardcore_Championship, her only championship during her career. After leaving the wrestling business, Runnels became involved in philanthropic work. Professional wrestling career-World Championship Wrestling (1988–1991)Runnels was originally a make-up artist for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNN from 1985 to 1991, where she worked on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_King's make-up. On the weekends, she did makeup for the wrestlers of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crockett_Promotions (JCP).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Runnels#cite_note-slam-4 When the company was purchased by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Turner in 1988 and renamed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Championship_Wrestling (WCW), she moved to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanta and continued doing make-up for some of the wrestlers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_professional_wrestling_terms#Book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Anderson eventually asked her to become part of the roster as a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manager_(professional_wrestling). Runnels debuted in 1990 as Alexandra York, a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop-carrying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accountant who led an alliance known as the York Foundation, a group of wrestlers with finance-themed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_professional_wrestling_terms#Gimmick. The York character was created over a lunch with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Schiavone, one of WCW's announcers. She worked at WCW for two years.World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment (1996-2004)Marlena gimmick and managing Goldust (1996–1998)- Runnels debuted in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Rumble_(1996) in 1996 as Marlena, a character modeled after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlene_Dietrich. She debuted as a coolly unconcerned and indifferent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_director-like manager, often sitting at ringside in her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director%27s_chair. With her cigar-smoking, seductive, nonchalant and mysterious gimmick, she acted as the manager of her (then) real-life husband https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldust, who was wrestling under the gimmick of Goldust. The risque characters helped bring about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Attitude_Era of the late-1990s and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Diva. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Pillman feuded with Goldust over Marlena. Originally, the plan was to have the rivalry culminate in an on-air wedding where Marlena would leave Goldust for Pillman.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Runnels#cite_note-ringposts-8 After the Marlena-Goldust alliance dissolved, Goldust revealed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_Vachon as his new manager. Pretty Mean Sisters (1998–1999)- Runnels later re-emerged in 1998, under her real name, as the on-screen girlfriend of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Venis. When Runnels claimed to be pregnant with Venis' baby, he dumped her. She later joined forces with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Moore, who had just ended her alliance with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Mero, to form the Pretty Mean Sisters (P.M.S.). (Vince Russo and his lackey Ed Ferrara were always throwing sleaze into any angle they could, remeber they did not create the attitude ERA, the fans did, they just cheapened the product with Howard Stern and Jerry Springer antics)During her tenure in the WWF, Runnels appeared on the show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakest_Link_(U.S._game_show) in 2002 as part of a charity show where all the contestants were WWF personalities. Personal life- She dated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Pillman in 1990 while they were both in WCW. In 1993, she married https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Rhodes, whom she met while they were both working for WCW, taking his last name as her own. They have a daughter, Dakota, who was born in 1994. Dustin Runnels' strained relationship with his father https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusty_Rhodes caused problems in their marriage, and Terri alleges that Dusty spread rumors about her that included infidelity and gold-digging. ( At this time Dusty Rhodes was fired from the WCW and the WWE did not need his talents, the ego maniac got many wrestlers like his sun and greats like Bam Bam Bigelow to work his Florida TurnBuckle area for free to get it off the ground, but Dusty has know buisness acuemen and it went bust quickly so he grabbed onto whatever cheap headlines he could) If that meant ruining his oldest sons marriage then Dusty Rhodes spared no expense: it's too bad he did'nt have that kind of budget in Turnbuckle championship. The greatest thing that Dustin Rhodes did was escape the shadow of his father, having his greatest succees and chemistry in the big leagues with his wife Terri at his side as Gold Dust. The couple divorced in 1999 after six years of marriage. Years after the divorce, they were able to have a "better relationship". Terri began dating former professional wrestler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Jack in 2009. Jack professed his love for her in an interview with host Fat Man After Dark on the Future Endeavors wrestling radio show and described some of the pitfalls, even today, of a mixed-race relationship. In August 2011, a Florida judge ordered Jack to stop selling nude and bloody photographs of Runnels. Runnels filed suit, accusing Jack of making libelous comments about her and requested that a court ban him from distributing sexually-explicit photographs of her. Jack said that he took the photos, that they belonged to him and that he should be free to pass them on to whoever he pleases. A judge in Sanford, Florida, temporarily banned Jack from distributing photographs of Runnels ahead of a hearing.

Its not easy being Dusty Rhodes first born Son but when your a natural you can pull off anything. Even when your tasked with one of the strangest gimmicks of all time of GoldDust with your shoot wife terri runnels the cigar smoking sex machine Marlena leading you down the aisle from a leash. All the way to intercontinetal champion. He made it work and work it well. Hear all the gimmicks and the stories from growing up in the buisness to the WCW and then back to the WWE during the Monday Night Wars he tells it like it is from from both sides.

Hulkamania is running wild with this completely uncut shoot life

Jim Cornette known as The Louiville lip, Wrestling Historian, most famous for his heel management of the Midnight Express in the Mid South and Mid Atlantic Jim Crockett Promotions until Ted Turner bought them out and change the promotions name to World Championship Wrestling, Promoter of Smokey Mountain Wrestling, manager and on the creative team in World Wrestling Federation and one of the best talent trainers Ohio Valley Wrestling has ever had first made a name for himself with one of wrestlings hottest angles in the 1980's when his heel Midnight Express battled the babyface Rock N Roll Express starting in Mid South and ending their famous rivalry in Jim Crockett Promotions at the height of there popularity. Only few in wrestling history have the knowledge that Jim Cornette has about all of wrestling and he is one of the few who can give you the full story of Jim Crockett Promotions in all it's glory from beginng to end.

Steve Borden takes live questions from fans from WCW , NWO, Hulk Hogan, TNA, his debut in WWE to the 1996 Starcade match against Hulk Hogan. Rare fun time with the Icon Sting.

Jim Hellwig ( Changed his name to the Warrior just to win a lawsuit with Vince Mcmahon) This super shoot has been edited so many times that us professionals can't count. He rips apart Hulk Hogan but never mentions the facts that Hogan made him look great in the Ultimate challege at Wrestlemania 6 in the Skydome as he passed the torch who could not wrestle to save his life and whose entire gimmick was steroids. Although the storylines where abysmal in WCW he never mentions that Hogan brought him back as he wrestled like garbage 3 time and made millions. How many times have you made a million dollars for a couple of appearances? His trap door idea lead to Davey boy smith breaking his back which eventuaully led to his death but you will never believe the words that come out of his mouth about Hulk Hogan, the level of jealousy that he hold and the contempt in his heart at the vitriol he spits out about Hogan are and still are unprecendented to this day. It shows how much class Hogan has because he never responded to trash talking. Warrior I thought my life was bad when I had no shoes until I saw a man who has no feet. He tear hogan apart, it's really sad but amusing.

No hold barred or sugar coated questions, Listen to a interview thats supposed to be a shoot but he worked michael because hogan is the best worker of all time

Hulk Hogan live a a comic convention takes live awesome fans questions and Hogan answers them all from Andre the Giant in Wrestlemania 3, Mr. T in Wrestlemania 1&2, to the The NWO in and wrestling Sting at the second most famous Starcade. Thunderlips " The Ulitmate Male" In the flesh , baby gives a great Q& E to a lucky audience.

Listen to the great stories between 2 of the best on the mic of all time with great, funny, scary, stories that will leave you on the edge of your sleep by to great friends. Talking about the talent of the 1980 compared to the 2000's. Marque matches that took place in Wrestlemania and Starcade. They give you what they thought of the movie The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke. They talk about their opiunions on the WWE Hall Of Fame, talking about hanging out with Snoop Doggy Dog and the Pimp of the Year. These wo partying is crazy then ever. R.I.P Roddy , thank you for doing one last one the man Ric Flair. This is a classsic

Awesome interview with Ric flair on th final days of WCW when Russo was runnig into the ground and Flair predicted it all, rare awesome interview. quick but a learning experience from one of the greatest being physic

The Road to the first Starcade-First supershow The Flare for goldMeeting Harley RaceFirst time Harley wrestled FlairCrockett mangementRic vs HarleyRic learning from HarleyVinces offer to harley Race not to show up to Starcade at the Flare for GoldThe phyiscal confrontaion between themHarley Race not coming to WCWRic Flairs match promoNo one deserves it more then HarleyThe passing of the torchwinny the wwe championship guest questionsjohn hitchcockAce Montanaheat between performersGene OakerlandThe Art of Storing tellingTriple HHouse shows ane televisionPuerti Rcan Fans

Memerioes workinhg with Greg "the Hammer" Valentine as tag team partners and rivals, Flair wrestled Greg and his lendgary father Jonny Valentine whom he was in that infamous plane crash. Ric gets final in this final ineterview and tears do occur.Personal account abouth the difference in his wives Beth and Tiffany.He compares Charlotte and explains the greatness of Grensboro and both revenues diferrences.Explains the face flop he made famous.The greatness and original of woo and the great origin of the classic finishinhing move of the best figure four leg lock in the sport. How Terry Funk hopped Paul Jones and taught Ric oir,random respect and memoeries of Austin Idol.What he looks as cynical in the business. where he learned his clasic moves from.

Rotator Cuff injury and surgeryLeter of agreementHeart Attack angleRey mysterio angleWhat were your first imptressions ofthe talented Rey Mysterio Jr.?Austin is the biggest star in the WWE history buy we are all aware of what hogan has done for Flair fro leanding him thousands of dollars to helf s son without questions asked and having Ric Flair tour Australia on Hogans tale.

In this none of a 4part shoot interview Ric tells all not like his RF shoot interview which to most fans seems like these shoot interviews that are really becoming a work as part of a new way to make money and stay relevant. Ric Flair does a 4 part seies that will bolw your mind.Flair explains the first ever War Games with memories of the brillant war game concept and the competion and ideas that truly lead to Hell in a Cell, The elimanation chamber. The Junkyardyard dogg matches. The thunderdome cage match. The start of his anxiety pobelms culminating in neing the biggest stars and having to deal with transition from Crockett Promotion with the hope of finicanial stability with Ric being the flag ship of the company. Battles with the famous imbecile Jim Herd because he promised to drop the title to Stink because he promised but Sting got hurt so he agred to Barry Windham but Herd wanted to him to drop the championship to barry windam which Flair but we all no that luger even with his look was not ready for the responibility of of being the flgship. Im order and a responibility to holding the zzzzznwa belt Flair ad to put 25,000$ deposit on the nwa heavyweight title legallyn giving him thw ownership of the belt anf if you add interest to it its much hire. Jim herd fired him knowing it was a bad mistake herd offered him 3 million would come but Vince promised him he would make more then he ever did before and if he could'nt keep flair as a top talent he would honor Fairs release and help him make money in WCW being in the top starts that Vince would do whatever he could to help.He speaks about the first time he started feeling axienty attacks from all he pressure they out on him. He explains Scot Potentials talents and the matches and swears he never sandbgged Steiner like Paul Levevasque did to him. Sadly many wrestlers held Sctott down because he was a all american who was a innovateroter in the ring and with a body like that and a gimmck like that he posed fear in all wrestlers. When he back to WCW he new he was in the best wresling promotion in every aspect of a buisness especially with mega greats like Bobby the Brain and second generation greatness like curt henning and bret hart and after wwe bought WCW randy orton , cody rhodes , etc. explains the greatest gimmick of all time wih his matches with Randy Salvage and Miss Eazibeth.

we all know what Brock Lesner has accomplished as a all american wrestling superstar, his accomplishments becoming champions un the UFC and WWE, making the final cut for the football team the Minnestota Viking never playing football is a acheivement most man can't do and we all know about his wife and marriage to the Sable the Diva who garner the same or more audeince love then the late great Miss Elizabeth and the first lady of wrestling Missy Hyatt. What treat to listen to Brock to sense to a dedicated man of wrestling journalism Dave meltzer before he made mega stardom in different combat sports and entertaiment. you wil enjoy the man befor the accolades he collected when you listen to this special rare interview.

Kevin Nash and Sean Waltman have been friends forever. From their days in "New Generation" WWF-era to the NWO (New World Order) in WCW, Nash and Waltman remain close to this day. In this legendary shoot interview the pair discuss working with the Rock, rumors about the Kilq, how Paul Heyman's ECW is overrated and why no one in the Nexus is recognizable (Wade Barrett's original NXT group).Kevin Nash and X-Pac also talk about Hulk Hogan being the toughest guy in wrestling, why the Montreal incident was a total work, what it was like dealing with Dixie Carter and TNA (Impact Wrestling) losing so much money on their initial investment, Triple H & plenty more.It's real, it's emotional, it's just too sweeeeet!

George Gray (born February 12, 1960) is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name (The) One Man Gang. For three years in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), he was Akeem "The African Dream". Prior to this, he was the top heel for Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF), and UWF Heavyweight Champion for six months in 1986 and 1987.The One Man Gang has one of the most interesting wrestling careers you are ever going to hear. He got his break in the Poffo owned ICW with Macho Man Randy Savage and his brother lanny and he learned his graft under the name Crusher broomfield.He wrestled in the W.C.C.W. under the tutelage of the late great wrestling manager master mind Gary Hart who gave his long hair a mohawk and a tattooed head to boot and the great wrestling moniker The One Man Gang because he wrestled at a weight over a incredible 400 pounds as a heel against the likes of the Von Erichs and Brusier Brody. He tells you about the time he spent in Florida with Dusty Rhodes and then his trips to Japan.He also wrestled for the Jarrets in Tennesse and was always watched over by Mid Souths Bill Watts, in fact he was the UWF Heavyweight Champion until he decide to except Vince Mcmahons offer to wrestle in the big League , the W.W.F. as a heel to Mega Star Hulk Hogan. He was managed by his friend the doctor of Style Slick and he tell us all about how he found out about his routes from Africa and had to learn how to dance as he became Akeem. We learn all about how he was involved in the infamous Mega Powers angle while he and his tag team partner The Big Boss Man formed the Twin Towers and forced the Mega Powers to explode on N.B.C Saturday Night Main Event. We learn about his tenure in the WCW and his final run with infamous ECW.This is a fan who has lived a dream career in every territory and every angle and he tels you all about it. Don't miss this one, he played a heel but he is a babyface for sure

Stephen Paul Keirn (born September 10, 1951) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances in multiple National Wrestling Alliance territories as Steve Keirn as one-half of the tag team The Fabulous Ones, as well as his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation under the ring name Skinner. Much of Keirn's early career was spent wrestling as part of a tag team. While wrestling in Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF), he held the NWA Florida Tag Team Championship twelve times; once each with Bob Backlund, Jimmy Garvin, and Brian Blair, and nine times with Mike Graham. In addition, the team of Keirn and Graham won the NWA Florida United States Tag Team Championship three times. In 1981, Keirn began wrestling with the Tennessee-based Continental Wrestling Association (CWA). He was successful as a singles wrestler, winning a tournament to claim the AWA Southern Heavyweight Championship. He also held the NWA Mid-America Heavyweight Championship on two occasions. As in CWF, Keirn found his greatest success in the tag team division. He held the AWA Southern Tag Team Championship 17 times, including 14 reigns as one half of The Fabulous Ones with Stan Lane. Keirn and Lane also teamed to win the CWA World Tag Team Championship twice. The Fabulous Ones competed in various promotions over the next decade. In 1984, the team won the Southwest Championship Wrestling World Tag Team Championship while wrestling in Australia. In the United States, they won the NWA Florida United States Tag Team Championship twice. In 1991, the pair wrestled in the United States Wrestling Association, defeating Tony Anthony and Doug Gilbert to win the USWA Tag Team Championship. In the summer of 1991, Keirn debuted in the WWF as Skinner, an alligator hunter from the Florida Everglades. He was portrayed as a generally nasty individual, always chewing on tobacco and sometimes spitting it on his opponent. He carried an alligator claw to the ring with him, which he would often use as a weapon against his opponents. He competed in the 1991 King of the Ring tournament, defeating Virgil in the first round but losing to Bret Hart in the second round. While still being billed as undefeated, he challenged Hart for the WWF Intercontinental Championship at This Tuesday in Texas on December 3, 1991, but lost by submission. Skinner competed in the 1992 Royal Rumble, lasting 2:13 before being eliminated by Rick Martel. At WrestleMania VIII, he was defeated in one minute and eleven seconds by Owen Hart. Keirn also unsuccessfully challenged Randy Savage for the WWF Championship on the June 29, episode of Prime Time Wrestling. He also competed in the 1993 Royal Rumble, but was eliminated by Mr. Perfect at the 3:05 mark. While in the WWF, Keirn also portrayed Doink the Clown on occasion. At WrestleMania IX, Keirn helped the original Doink defeat Crush by attacking Crush dressed as Doink during the match.

Terry Wayne Allen (born June 11, 1959) is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Magnum T. A. Allen won the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship twice and was being groomed for a potential run with the NWA World Heavyweight Championship but a car crash in 1986 forced him into retirement. After retiring, Magnum T. A. continued to appear in non-wrestling roles for multiple promotions. In 1984, the National Wrestling Alliance's Jim Crockett Promotions signed Allen. After debuting, Magnum began feuding with Wahoo McDaniel and defeated him for the United States Heavyweight Championship on March 23, 1985. At The Great American Bash, he successfully defended the title by defeating Kamala. He then began feuding with the Four Horsemen before feuding solely with Horsemen member Tully Blanchard and his valet Baby Doll, losing the title to him on July 21. On September 28, Magnum lost to the Horsemen's leader Ric Flair in a nearly 30-minute title match for Flair's World Heavyweight Championship. Magnum would regain the U.S. title in the famous "I Quit" match at Starrcade on November 28. Terry talks about his early days in San Antonio and Florida with Dusty Rhodes learning from him, Brusier Brody, Andre the Giant and Eddie Graham. Then he talks about the break he recieived in Bill Watts Mid South Wrestling. Then his big NWA fame came when Dusty Rhodes took the booking for Jim Crocket in the Mid Atlantic territory with the power of the TBS Ted Turner broadcasting Terry worked with the likes of Ric Flair and the Four Horseman and soon he was looked at as the rival to Hulk Hogan in the NWA. Sadly a carreer that destined for ultimate stardom was curtailed by a terrible car accident that he was lucky to survive from. What a great Classic Interview with stories from Dusty Rhodes to Baby Doll.

Edward Harrison "Ed" Leslie (born April 21, 1958) is an American professional wrestler, best known for his work in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) under the ring name Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake. He later worked for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) under a variety of names.Leslie held nine titles throughout his career, and is a former WWF World Tag Team Champion with Greg Valentine. He also sporadically competed for major singles titles on pay-per-view and television, headlining the 1994 edition of WCW's premier annual event, Starrcade, in a match against then-WCW World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan.Ed explains how he and Hulk Hogan started their wrestling journey and more!! Starting in the Fuller terriotory, Memphis all the way to becoming the tag team champions as the Dream Team with fellow Hall of Famer Greg "The Hammer" Valentine and his road cut short to intercontinental champion by the Ultimate Warrior. Then making the massive choice after being in many Wrestlemanias to follow is best friend to the big time and finally getting the credit he deserved with contracted money in the WCW with the Billionare Ted Turner. Becoming the Booty man and the Disciple reaching the pinnacle of his career. Learn about him and hogans early true life stories on the road.

Kevin Francis Sullivan (born October 26, 1949) is an American retired professional wrestler and booker, perhaps best known for his role in World Championship Wrestling.Early career (1970–1982)Championship Wrestling from Florida (1982–1987)- Known as the heel "Boston Battler", Sullivan's "Prince of Darkness" gimmick started during this time, adopting the persona of an occultist and cult leader who would invoke the powers of dark spirits in promos and matches. The gimmick was inspired byy the satanic panic of the 1980's that was a huge hit with the help of "Maniac" Mark Lewin (Purple Haze), Mike Davis, Bob Roop, The Lock and Luna Vachon and others as the Army of Darkness. His biggest rivals during this time included Dusty Rhodes, Barry Windham, and his former partner Mike Graham. Sullivan split his time with International Championship Wrestling and brought "The Prince of Darkness" gimmick there, along with Lewin and Roop. He had the Fallen Angel as his valet, who later became known as Woman. Sullivan was the top heel in ICW when the company first went national and had noted feuds with Austin Idol, Superstar Billy Graham, Bruiser Brody, Joe Savoldi and Blackjack Mulligan.Jim Crockett Promotions/World Championship Wrestling (1987–1991)- Sullivan formed The Varsity Club upon arrival in Jim Crockett Promotions with Mike Rotunda and Rick Steiner. They immediately started feuding with Jimmy Garvin because Sullivan wanted Garvin's wife Precious for himself. This feud lasted a while with Sullivan kayfabe breaking Garvin's leg at one point. Steiner left the group and was replaced by "Dr. Death" Steve Williams and Dan Spivey. They feuded with Dusty Rhodes, The Road Warriors, Rick Steiner and Eddie Gilbert. Sullivan even attacked Gilbert's wife Missy Hyatt.Smoky Mountain Wrestling (1992–1994)Eastern Championship Wrestling (1993–1994)Return to WCW (1994–2001)- Retirement and switch to booking duties (1997–2001)-Afterward, Sullivan and Horseman Chris Benoit began a feud much like his with Pillman. It lasted for over a year, during with Benoit took Woman from him. Sullivan brought in Jacquelyn to help him and added Konnan to the Dungeon. He lost a retirement match to Benoit at Bash at the Beach on July 13, 1997. This loss gave him more time to concentrate on his job as booker. Sullivan stayed on as the booker or a member of the WCW booking committee after he put Benoit over and made a brief on-screen appearance with the reformed Varsity Club of Mike Rotunda and Rick Steiner with their cheerleader, Leia Meow. After a couple of months, he was back off television. He talks aboput the famous genius of the Bookerman match with Brian Pillman, Hulk Hogan sleeping at his house the night before he booked the NWO angle of Hulk Hogan turning heel . The booker of the greatest angle of the 90's which most fans know started the attitude era in which the WWE copied Sullivans remarkable booking style. THIS IS A MUST LISTEN FOLKS

The Von Erich family is an American professional wrestling family. Originally from Texas, their actual surname is Adkisson, but every member who has been in the wrestling business has used the ring name "Von Erich," after the family patriarch, Fritz Von Erich (Jack Adkisson). Jack took on the name as part of his wrestling gimmick (i.e. in-ring persona) as he originally portrayed a Nazi heel, hence his use of a German name. By the time Fritz died of cancer in his Denton County home in 1997 at the age of 68, five of his six sons had predeceased him, three by suicide. His firstborn, Jack Jr., was accidentally shocked and drowned in a puddle at the age of 6 in 1959, outside his Niagara Falls home. In 1984, David Von Erich died in a Tokyo hotel from enteritis at the age of 25. Mike, Chris, and Kerry all died by suicide; Mike took an overdose of Placidyl near Lewisville Lake in 1987 at the age of 23, Chris shot himself in the head with a 9mm handgun in 1991 at the age of 21, and Kerry shot himself in the chest in the family yard in 1993 at the age of 33. Kevin Von Erich is the last surviving son. These deaths are the main basis for a widespread myth about a family curse. The term "Von Erich curse" is also used colloquially to refer to the chain of events. The story of the Von Erich family has been presented as a cautionary tale about parental influence, sibling rivalry, and the various dangers of the professional wrestling business. The Iron Claw takes its title from the wrestling move used by several of the family members. The movie portrays the Von Erich family through the 70's, 80's, and 90's; directed by Sean Durkin, the film stars Zac Efron, Lily James, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Maura Tierney, Maxwell Jacob Friedman, Chavo Guerrero Jr. and Holt McCallany.This is the true report on the Von Erich W.C.C.W. story that hit movie The Iron Claw does not tell you.

Barry Windham, as you may know, is the son of Blackjack Mulligan, brother of Kendall Windham, and brother-in-law of Mike Rotundo (Irwin R. Shyster). He's also a multi-time WWF tag champ, a former NWA champ, a member of the most highly regarded lineup of the Four Horsemen, and a fairly honest guy. My only problem with him is that he's a bit scatterbrained and will start a topic but never finish it up (meaning I have to complete some of his thoughts), but I think that's residue left over from some nasty concussions he's had over the years.The interview opens as RF is interviewing Windham in the Turnbuckle Championship Wrestling dojo in Marietta, Georgia. TCW is Dusty Rhodes' current indy fed. How did he get started? He was going to West Texas State, which produced some of the GREAT wrestlers of all time including Terry Funk, Bruiser Brody, and Tully Blanchard. He got into the business setting up the ring for Dick Murdoch's territory in 1979. He couldn't wrestle at first because he was on football scholarship to West Texas, but JJ Dillon came to town one night and insisted he wrestle him. He went back to doing grunt-work and learned the business-side of wrestling from Terry Garvin, whom he puts over heavily. He refereed for QUITE a while before he was allowed to start wrestling full-time. His father's reaction- Blackjack never really asked him if he wanted to get into the business. When he found out Barry was wrestling in violation of his scholarship, he apparently wasn't happy but didn't say much. (Windham claims he was fast enough to make it as a pro football player (4.6 40 yard dash at 238 pounds) and could deep-snap, as well as being a heavily decorated amateur wrestler, so those options were open until he violated his scholarship) His first major territory- He'd worked Amarillo before but that was more like working a HUGE region rather than a real territory. He thinks he started working in Florida for Eddie Graham and Dusty Rhodes in February 1980. Guys he learned from- He learned a lot by watching Don Muraco. Unlike the current style in the business, Muraco would be slow and methodical but would make every single move mean something. Manny Fernandez was a guy he learned the technical side of the business from. Dusty also coached him on a lot of stuff. Mike Graham- One of his best friends. Hard worker, worked his way up from setting up the ring to finally wrestling. During the mid-90's while both were working for WCW, they'd be buying Harley Davidson motorcycles from people up north during the winter and either keep them or resell them in the south, which allowed them to pick up a nice amount of pocket change along with some nice hardware. Eddie Graham- Long-winded, only had a 6th grade education but learned out in the world VERY well. His suicide was a tragedy and was probably the result of unchecked mental illness. Had a great relationship with him. Dick Slater- "Like a Terry Funk clone." Slater watched Funk like Windham watched Muraco. Hard worker, very stiff. If he hits you, it WILL hurt. Kevin Sullivan- Vivid imagination. He predicts their shoot with him will be pretty interesting. "He was like the Devil's Advocate" and came up with a lot of unusual stuff like having Blackjack, Barry, Kendall Windham, and Mike Rotundo team up and discuss how they're family. Ending up in the WWF the first time- Dusty ran a show in the Orange Bowl in Miami and management's numbers came back lower than the actual attendance, so Dusty left Florida and took Mike Rotundo, Ron Bass, and Barry with him to Mid-Atlantic. The towns in Mid-Atlantic were on their asses at the time, so Dusty had to work hard on the storylines as well as getting guys to work hard in the ring, but promoter Jim Crockett wasn't taking care of the guys monetarily. Barry got a check for $134 for two weeks of wrestling, so he bailed on Crockett and it caused a large rift between him and Dusty. Blackjack hooked him up with George South, who was Vince McMahon's booker at the time, and Vince gave him a tryout which lead to a job. He ended up making $6000 in his first week, but is unsure if Vince did that for everyone to get their attention or if he did it in his case because he knew the chickenfeed Barry had gotten paid in Mid-Atlantic. Locker room atmosphere in the WWF- He wasn't really accepted into the power clique of Hulk Hogan, Roddy Piper, and Paul Orndorff, but Orndorff did like him and took him under his wing. He ended up hooking Rotundo up with a job in the WWF, but Rotundo did it in his usual formal way and gave his two-week notice to Dusty and Crockett before leaving. He thinks Pat Patterson came up with the US Express concept and talked about how they were getting thousands of dollars each week and made about $200,000 a year in 1985. Winning the tag belts from Dick Murdoch and Adrian Adonis- He'd known Murdoch all his life and Murdoch was a true character. He was happy-go-lucky 95% of the time but you'd KNOW if it was that other 5% of the time. Adrian Adonis was a guy he didn't really understand. Adonis didn't like the idea of putting them over, so he refused to put them over for the belts one night. Murdoch eventually talked Adonis into working the match. Adonis and Murdoch were probably the biggest opposites he'd seen in the business and thinks it's horrible that Adonis died like he did (car accident), but he never really knew him well because Adonis didn't want to know him. Early impressions of Vince- He was always treated well. He doesn't have any problems with Vince, but Vince has a LONG memory, which bit Barry in the ass years later. After having a 96-day run on the road, Rotundo eventually flipped out and disappeared. It turned out that he used one of the open-ended plane tickets Vince had given them and flew home to Florida, which Barry found out from his sister when he got back to the hotel. The next night, Barry went off HARDCORE on George Scott, Chief Jay Strongbow, and a few others, talked about how he was done in the WWF, then went home to Tampa and disconnected all his phones. Considering that they were criss-crossing the country and flying all the time instead of making regional loops and driving a few hours from town to town, it sounds HORRIBLE. He figures Vince would have worked with him if they'd talked, but he was too far gone. Rotundo, on the other hand, flew back a few nights later and just started working again. Around this time, something to the effect of "Aw FUCK!" came out of Barry mouth because he'd burned QUITE a few bridges when he'd walked out. Dan Spivey ended up in his spot eventually because Vince figured that he could clone Barry. Working with Tully Blanchard- He wrestled him at the time that the Horsemen started. He talks about how people think he was one of the original Horsemen, instead of being in the third lineup after Ole Anderson and Lex Lugar had been in the group. He joined the group when he, Crockett, and Dusty realized that it was the perfect time for him to turn on Dusty, as well as his ability to lead a match making him a great heel (heels control most of the match, with the babyface's comeback usually being the limit of their involvement in the match's direction). He and Lugar were partners against Tully and Arn Anderson when he turned. Since Lugar was the #2 face at the time, it meant that Dusty, as the #1 face, was the next guy who'd face Windham after the Horsemen destroyed Lugar. (Typical Dusty logic... sacrifice someone to make a new guy, then use them to keep yourself over). Nervous about the heel turn? No, because he'd get more control over the match as a heel (which was truer back then than it is now). Since he was able to work with the babyfaces who were getting stale facing the other Horsemen, he was able to inject some new life into the promotion. He then talks about how it was a major image change becoming a Horsemen, as he had to put his blue jeans and cowboy boots aside for nice suits and $1000 shoes. However, the timing was right for the turn so it was all good. Working with the Road Warriors- Worked with Rotundo against them at the Orange Bowl show mentioned earlier. Both teams were tentative at first but things started working out when Windham decided to play heel and start calling the match, at which points things took off and it turned out well. Working as a heel against Dusty- It was during Dusty's heyday. "He's still capable of getting over in the ring and on TV" (I challenge this because Dusty's old fat ass wouldn't be over) Talks about how Dusty always won. Ricky Steamboat- "Probably the best babyface of his era, and possibly of all time." Nothing but a gentlemen, and has his total respect. (Another common thread... every guy in one of these who's talked about Steamboat puts him over HEAVILY as a person and as a wrestler.) Was he contacted to go with Tully and Arn Anderson to the WWF? No. Talks about how the Horsemen angle had run its course and egos were clashing, so it was probably for the best that they jumped to the WWF. Doesn't think that their move turned out as good as it should have. Drugs in the industry- He took painkillers while injured, and there's a reputation for guys in the business to abuse them. "You take a beer and a Vicodin and you're havin' fun." He, however, has legitimate bone and joint conditions which mean that he could legally have them prescribed if he chose to ask for them. Talks about people passing out on Soma tablets because the recommended dose is 1-2 pills and guys would take a handful of them at a time. Talks about how he had one of his knees completely replaced (MCL, PCL, ACL, meniscus, etc. all at the same time) using cadaver parts. West Texas Rednecks- When he came back to WCW, they put him in that gimmick and they got to have a lot of fun with it. It was Jimmy Hart's idea, and was the result of an off-hand comment he'd made about Barry and Kendall. Then, without the knowledge of himself, Kendall, or Bobby Duncum Jr,

KERRY VON ERICH'S Daughter Lacey Von Erich from the new moview The Iron Claw Lacey talks candidly about how her father's suicide impacted her and her entire family. It isn't all roses, as Lacey is brutally honest about her family's history. Lacey tells the shocking truth behind the accident that changed her father's life forever. How did Lacey deal with her father's problems? One of the most celebrated families in pro wrestling is the Von Erich family. Through numerous documentaries and home videos, the fascination with the Von Erichs continues to grow. We will bring you a side of this family that you have never seen. We have heard all of the controversies surrounding this Hall of Fame family for decades. This video opens up a side of this family that you haven't seen. Lacey shows you a heartwarming side to this family that you have yet to hear. Those quick to judge owe it to the Von Erich family to watch this video before coming to conclusions about the stories and rumors you have heard about. The beautiful Lacey tells us some incredibly touching stories between her and her father Kerry. What was Kerry like away from the ring? What was Kerry like as a father? How much did Kerry live his gimmick? What was it like having a father who was a heartthrob? One of the most revealing stories is told by Lacey as she talks about rubbing her father's foot with medications after his tragic accident. Lacey talks candidly about how her father's suicide impacted her and her entire family. It isn't all roses, as Lacey is brutally honest about her family's history. Lacey tells the shocking truth behind the accident that changed her father's life forever. How did Lacey deal with her fathers problems? Lacey tells a crazy story about the night her mother and Kevins wife followed their husbands to a groupie's home. What did they say and what was the fallout?? In addition to the torrid family history, Lacey also talks about her own short career in the business. Is it an asset or a detriment being a Von Erich? Why wasn't Lacey allowed to be mentioned in Kevin's Hall of Fame speech? The person who made the decision will shock you. Lacey also talks about her brief stint under a WWE deal. Additionally, Lacey talks all about getting into Playboy and what it was like meeting Hugh Heffner.

He is asked about is football career. He said that junior and senior year in high school, he was All-American and recruited by about 50 schools. He grew up in inner city Los Angeles and was attracted to Colorado for college due to the spacious setting. He was a four-year starter and drafted by the Los Angeles Rams in the 3rd round but ended rupturing his patella tendon in training camp. The Rams made the playoff that year and he was activated when the starting center got hurt and played a few snaps against the Steelers in the Super Bowl, said he has the ring. Vader got into wrestling when his football career finished and he came back to Colorado and got his license to be a broker in Colorado. He talks about how he built and sold houses and while making good money, was getting bored and out of shape and felt that he had a lot left in his body to use. When asked if he was a wrestling fan growing up, Vader said that he followed it a little bit. He then said that he watched Hogan as a kid, which makes no sense seeing as Vader was 28 years old when Hogan went back to the WWF in 1984. Vader said he was up to about 380 lbs when he went back to the gym. He went with a few friends to an AWA show and left midway through, saying the match quality was poor, and went to the hotel across the street. He saw the wrestlers hanging out there and was recognized by Gene Reed as a football player, who then introduced him to Greg Gagne. Reed told Vader to come back in a few weeks and he met Brad Rheingans, who was running a wrestling camp for Verne. Vader adds that Brad was the one who created stars from that camp, not Verne. Vader says that his real height is 6’4 ½ and in wrestling, got at low as 340 lbs and high as 440 lbs.He remembers his first match and it was against Bruiser Brody. He says it was one of the most painful things that ever happened to him. He did say that Brody tried to teach him. He then went on to wrestle with Jerry Blackwell then Stan Hansen. He said after working with those guys, who were very stiff in the ring, went to work with other guys and hit someone so hard in a match that they rolled out of the ring and complained to one of the Gagne’s. Vader said he thought you were supposed to hit that hard, because those guys hit him like that. When asked about why he left the AWA, Vader talks about the relationship between Verne Gagne and Otto Wanz. They had a partnership at the time. Vader goes off topic for a bit and forgot the question before saying that Verne told him to go over as he would learn a lot and get a lot of dates.He said that he wound up in New Japan after spending two seasons in Europe. One of the referee’s in New Japan approached him and said that Masa Saito remembered a six-man tag they had and was impressed by his power moves and wanted him to tour New Japan after finishing up with Otto in Europe. Vader said that he already had dates with Giant Baba and All Japan after he contacted Stan Hansen so he could wrestle between the tours of Europe. He said that New Japan offered a lot more than Baba. He said after speaking with his wife and just starting off in the business, he took the original offer. After that, Antonio Inoki paid a fee to Baba to get Vader for New Japan. In his first tour, he beat Inoki in four minutes. He compares the psychology between Japan and America at the time, saying the faces in America sold a lot more than they did in Japan. He compares guys like The Rock and Stone Cold today (this was filmed in 2001) and how they have done a 180 and they are selling like the Japanese did back then and Japan faces are selling like the American’s did at that time.Up next is his infamous match against Stan Hansen in which his eye wound up on his cheek. Vader said that he turned right into a punch by Stan and felt his eye on his cheek, half popped out. He remembered swearing at Stan then turned his back and popped it back in place before putting him in an armbar. He said he took his mask off and the crowd popped. The camera zoomed into his eye and it showed on the screen. He is asked about his team with Bam Bam Bigelow. Rob tells him that in Bam Bam’s shoot, he mentioned that they had a bit of a rivalry. Vader puts over Bam Bam for his agility but didn’t think they had a rivalry. He also calls Bam Bam a great partner and that they both knew the Japanese style well. He said that they wrestled the Steiner Brothers, who were nervous as they were unfamiliar with the style, and helped them through the beginning of the match and it turned out great. He also says that he wants to work with him and has talked to Paul Heyman about coming to ECW. Rob breaks to Vader that a 90% confirmed rumor has Bam Bam not being at the PPV and signing with WCW. On how he wound up in WCW, he got hurt in Japan and tore his cartilage, which had also flipped and wedged itself. He wrote a letter to the promoter saying he would be able to compete in the tournament as he needed surgery. Japan pressured him to hold off and wrestle but Vader did not want to risk his career and elected to have the surgery. His contract was also up at that time and said that Jim Ross was a huge supporter of his and called him up, telling him to speak with Dusty Rhodes who was the booker and got hired. Vader said that Dusty was the booker for all of the Executive Vice President’s until Bischoff took over. He said that he was booked to lose against Flair at the 1993 Starrcade 1993 by Bischoff to give Flair a bit rub and that Dusty told him not to job as Flair was getting old. He then said that he would put Flair over, with the interviewers calling it a great match, and that afterwards, Dusty told him he would get the belt back in a cage match before Hogan came to the company. Flair wound up getting Dusty’s job a few days later and he did not get the belt. Vader then said that as a result, Flair ended up having to job to Hogan when he came to the company. Vader said that he had his best matches with Sting. He said that was the best point of his career as he didn’t have to deal with the political manipulation from guys like Hogan and Flair. He is then asked if there was any added pressure for working with Sting. He said they had a strong respect for each other and does not recall ever having a bad match together. Vader was asked about working with Cactus Jack when his ear got ripped off. He said that match, Jack choked himself in the ropes and was turning purple and couldnt get out so Vader had to rip him out and when that happened, Jack’s ear was partially torn. Vader said he saw blood and thought it was a perfect time to get heat and go home so he punched him and his ear fell off. The ref gave the ear to the ring announcer and they brought it backstage. He said that they all tried to talk him out of the crazy moves and at one point, he told him to shoot on him in a match. Vader said that he earned his spot in history. He is asked about the incident between Arn Anderson and Sid Vicious in Europe. Vader blames WCW saying that they had a poorly timed schedule that had them land, wrestle, travel, the wrestle. After all that, everyone was frazzled and they were drinking beers at a table and he left. After that, Sid and Arn squared off. Vader then heard screaming in the lobby and left his room in his underwear and saw Sid walk over to him and blood was pouring out of his belly and stopped the flow by sticking his thumb in the wound. He screamed for towels and a chair and held the towel until the ambulance came. He never saw Arn though. When asked about how the rest of the boys felt, he said the net night they had a meeting and Turner had apparently thought about shutting down the tour and Dusty gave them a meeting about what happened and they moved on. Now, he is asked about his altercation with Paul Orndorff. Vader said that he will not elaborate a lot on the situation but said that TV tapings are long and hectic. He then said that after missing a few photograph sessions, Bischoff told him that he would be fined. He was also supposed to do some pre-tapes but did not want to be fined so he went to the sessions. He said that Orndorff was not a booker but acted like that in the sessions when he was only a assistant. After a long photo session, he was in the locker room talking to Meng when Orndorff yelled at him, saying he was late and held up the crew. Vader said not to yell at him and that he was told to be at a photo shoot but Orndorff became abusive and there was no reason for that as Orndorff was not his superior and after some words he walked away. Terry Taylor walked up to him and Vader told him what happened and Taylor said he did not know that and asked him to prepare for the tapings. He said sure then Orndorff confronted him again and called him out. Vader said he was disrespectful to Orndorff after he yelled at him. Orndorff told him to hit him and Vader said he slapped him then realized it was wrong and his job was in jeopardy. He said at that time, he froze, thinking of his family and future, and Orndorff came down head-first in the hallway, nearly hitting a corner of a box. Vader then states he went over to see if he was okay and Orndorff slapped his hand away. He then said that he made the decision not to throw another punch but Orndorff came up and hit him a few times, claiming that his hands were down at the time. After that, Vader said that he grabbed him in a front facelock and claims that if he wanted to hurt him, he easily could have. He then said Orndorff was in the locker room telling people that Vader gave him a cheap shot. Vader then said that he kicked open the door of the executives office and asked Orndorff if he wanted to finish the fight, with Schiavone and Bischoff in the room. Vader said he called him out and when he finally came out he grabbed him but Meng walked by and stopped him. He claims that if Meng

This is one of the most controversial shoot interviews in shoot interview history. Wayne Ferris, best known as The Honky Tonk Man unleashed his honest opinions about everything hes been through in the wrestling business. He never knew what he wanted to be growing though thought he’d either get into sports or entertainment, with wrestling he found it was the perfect mix of both. His memories of early Jerry “The King” Lawler (his first cousin) and Karl Fergie (also a cousin) and how he looked at them starting too make money with no athletic ability and seeing as he was the family athlete; he went to school and learned the craft. Was trained by Herb Welch and had Koko B. Ware and “Dr D” David Shultz as training partners. He talks about the pay-off for that week, $999, and Jerry Lawler saying what does it feel like to have his first thousand dollar week and Honky saying “it’s not a $1000” and after that Lawler would start screwing him on bookings and pay-offs. To say Honky doesn’t care for Lawler would be an understatement. Relates stories of how Lawler would play a dirty tricks campaign on the WWF when it was expanding, including that he maybe set a fire in the kitchen of the Mid-South Coliseum and leaking it to the local news station to scare fans from coming. He talks some more about the Concession Stand bawl and how it was a fore runner to ECW. He talks about how he and Dr D. helped out Hulk Hogan in his early days in Florida and how they used to house and train perennial Hogan flunky Brutus Beefcake. Funny bit as Honky calls Hogan a bald headed bastard. Says Hogan was a good person until Vince got hold of him, and just like Shawn Michaels, Kevin Nash, Bret Hart after him, turned him into an egotistical piece of work. He gets into the correlation between music and wrestling and using it to help get a character over and how it relates to sports entertainment. This was a cool bit as he explains how to make the connection, not just pass it off as opinion. Talks about doing a Loser-Gets-A-Dye-Job match and him having to dye his blonde hair black. That ties into how the HTM gimmick came about and his initial reluctance to do the Elvis gimmick because Bill Dundee was doing it first. Moving on to how he started working Canada when Dr D convinced him to go there with him and the bond that exists between guys that have put in time up north. Admired Stu Hart for keeping the territory going despite the geography and the seasonal weather. Said he got stiffed on his first pay-off but after having it out with Stu everything was fine. States that Stu liked him because he supplied the entertainment while other supplied the work during a match. Offers his opinions on Stampedes big stars and says Bret Hart found his “match” that he always works and how he adapts very little to circumstance of a match outside of it because he has reached the stage he doesn’t have to. Liked Bad News Allen/Brown and says Vince missed a huge opportunity not making him Heavyweight Champ and thinks Allen had every right to get into Vince when he heard the HUGE differences in pay-offs between Bad News and Roddy Piper even though they worked the same match. Says Dynamite Kid was the innovator of the high risk outside the ring stuff and thinks he was stupid for doing all that stuff for little money. He also talks about various run-ins with Dynamite in the WWF. He also slips in a bit about working with the then rookie Chris Benoit and says that the only thing holding him back is size and promos. States you will never really get a shot at the WWF main event slot unless you can talk and are over 6 foot tall. Maybe true, but sometime talent does overcome. Also states that it was a no brainer that the Hart Foundation and the British Bulldogs had great matches because they had worked hundreds of matches together and should have been able to have good matches at anytime. Moving onto Vince McMahon and his talent raids on Stampede and the other territories and how he missed his window on the first go round because he though he wasn’t good enough to compete there, but got picked up when Vince came round next time on a handshake deal the guaranteed no jobs on TV.

"Nature Boy" Buddy Landel, was an American professional wrestler born in Knoxville, Tennessee. 1976–1990Landel first became interested in professional wrestling when his sister was dating Barry Orton, and the two would occasionally wrestle when he came over to visit. Landel was an amateur wrestler in high school, but dropped out during his junior year. While he was training with Boris Malenko, Landel lived in an apartment with Olympian Bob Roop. He started his career in 1979 in Bill Watts's Mid South promotion. He also worked in International Championship Wrestling. He went to the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA)'s Jim Crockett Promotions in 1985 and joined manager James J. Dillon's stable. A wrestling card with a Landel-Ric Flair main event in July 1985 broke Elvis Presley's attendance record in Dorton Arena in Raleigh, North Carolina. He won the NWA National Heavyweight Championship from Terry Taylor at Starrcade '85 in Greensboro, North Carolina.[2]Landel was set to win the NWA World Heavyweight Championship from Ric Flair in 1985. However, Landel had a falling out with the management of Jim Crockett Promotions and left the company. Landel went back to the Tennessee area in 1986. With Bill Dundee, Dutch Mantell and Jerry Lawler, he headlined the last sold-out show in the Mid-South Coliseum. He worked in the Alabama territories in 1987 and 1988. Landel at one time was managed by Andy Kaufman, Jim Cornette, and Jimmy Hart. He came back to the NWA in 1990 and wrestled "Nature Boy" Ric Flair in a "Battle of the Nature Boys". He wrestled Flair in a "Gauntlet match" which aired on November 24, 1990. The storyline was dropped after three months because of Landel's personal problems. He worked in Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW) in 1994 and 1995. There he became one of the main events managed by Jim Cornette. Buddy held the SMW Heavyweight Championship and the SMW Television Championship in 1995. He remained a heroic character until the promotion folded in late 1995. After Cornette closed SMW, both Cornette and Landel went to the World Wrestling Federation.[5] He started the same day as The Ringmaster (the future Stone Cold Steve Austin) on December 5, 1995.

Allen James Coage (October 22, 1943 – March 6, 2007) was an https://infogalactic.com/info/United_States https://infogalactic.com/info/Professional_wrestling with the https://infogalactic.com/info/World_Wrestling_Entertainment, https://infogalactic.com/info/Stampede_Wrestling and other promotions, better known by his https://infogalactic.com/info/Ring_name Bad News Allen and Bad News Brown. He won a bronze medal in heavyweight https://infogalactic.com/info/Judo at the https://infogalactic.com/info/1976_Summer_Olympics. He remains the only American heavyweight judoka to have won an Olympic medal.Early judo and wrestling training- Allen Coage was a US Grand Champion for Judo and received a full scholarship to the Kodokan with the help of https://infogalactic.com/info/Hank_Kraft. Prior to his training as a wrestler, Coage trained in judo for the better part of two decades, under the direction of renowned instructor Yoshisada Yonezuka, and earned a spot on the United States Olympic team at the Games in https://infogalactic.com/info/Montreal. He even trained in https://infogalactic.com/info/Japan with judoka masters, living in near poverty and continuing on solely for the love of his sport. After his bronze medal victory, Coage attempted to open his own judo school. Later, he decided to try his hand at professional wrestling. He began training with https://infogalactic.com/info/Antonio_Inoki around 1978. New Japan Pro Wrestling, World Wide Wrestling Federation, and Stampede Wrestling (1977-1988)- After short stints with https://infogalactic.com/info/New_Japan_Pro_Wrestling and the then-https://infogalactic.com/info/World_Wrestling_Entertainment, Bad News Allen found a long-term home in https://infogalactic.com/info/Stu_Hart's https://infogalactic.com/info/Stampede_Wrestling, centered in Allen's adopted home city of https://infogalactic.com/info/Calgary. Allen remained with Stampede from 1982 until 1988, with some tours of Australia and https://infogalactic.com/info/Championship_Wrestling_from_Florida during that time, and had matches with wrestlers such as the https://infogalactic.com/info/Dynamite_Kid and https://infogalactic.com/info/Bret_Hart. He often referred to himself in interviews as "the Ultimate Warrior," a name that was later used more famously by wrestler https://infogalactic.com/info/Warrior_(wrestler).Return to WWF (1988-1990)- Allen returned to the World Wrestling Federation in early 1988 as Bad News Brown, and it was during this time that he achieved his greatest notoriety. While the roster was mostly filled with ultra-virtuous https://infogalactic.com/info/Face_(professional_wrestling) and cowardly and monster https://infogalactic.com/info/Heel_(professional_wrestling), Bad News was something entirely different; a tough loner. While other heels were likely to form alliances with one another, Bad News was reclusive. He didn't respect anybody, and was just as likely to attack heels as faces (character traits that would later be employed to great fame by https://infogalactic.com/info/Stone_Cold_Steve_Austin). His dislike for all fellow wrestlers was clear when he abandoned his teams at the https://infogalactic.com/info/Survivor_Series of https://infogalactic.com/info/Survivor_Series_(1988) and https://infogalactic.com/info/Survivor_Series_(1989). Some memorable moments from his WWF tenure included winning the https://infogalactic.com/info/Battle_royal_(professional_wrestling) at https://infogalactic.com/info/WrestleMania_IV by eliminating https://infogalactic.com/info/Bret_Hart, who was then a heel, after a sneak attack, a brief feud with then-champion https://infogalactic.com/info/Randy_Savage in early 1989 that led to main-event matches, feuding with https://infogalactic.com/info/Roddy_Piper (starting before the https://infogalactic.com/info/Royal_Rumble_(1990) and culminating at https://infogalactic.com/info/WrestleMania_VI) and with https://infogalactic.com/info/Jake_Roberts (where Bad News had a sewer rat against Jake's snake) and attacking WWF President https://infogalactic.com/info/Jack_Tunney on https://infogalactic.com/info/Bruce_Prichard#Brother_Love_Show. Bad News also had a brief run challenging https://infogalactic.com/info/Hulk_Hogan for the https://infogalactic.com/info/WWE_Championship. On the March 11, 1989 edition of https://infogalactic.com/info/Saturday_Night%27s_Main_Event Bad News memorably took a microphone towards the end of his match with Hogan and told him that it was time for the Ghetto Blaster (his finisher). As he was getting ready to execute it however, Hogan got out of the way, leading him to miss the move terribly and suffer an eventual loss. Bad News eventually left the WWF after https://infogalactic.com/info/SummerSlam_(1990), claiming https://infogalactic.com/info/Vince_McMahon failed to live up to his promise to make him the company's first black champion. The same BS that Kamala and Ahmed Johnson would say but you never hear it from Afrifican wrestlers who can draw and have a lick of talent. I remeber watching him and his matches nwere brutal. You had a run with Hulk Hogan in the Prime of wresling when they ran 3 sold out shows a night and you wrestled the popular wrestle on the planet. You never hear complaints from people with talent who are african American like Ron Simmons or Booker T , New Day, or even Koko b. Ware or Doomk. Sasha Banks? Allen returned to the World Wrestling Federation in early 1988 as Bad News Brown, and it was during this time that he achieved his greatest notoriety. While the roster was mostly filled with ultra-virtuous https://infogalactic.com/info/Face_(professional_wrestling) and cowardly and monster https://infogalactic.com/info/Heel_(professional_wrestling), Bad News was something entirely different; a tough loner. While other heels were likely to form alliances with one another, Bad News was reclusive. He didn't respect anybody, and was just as likely to attack heels as faces (character traits that would later be employed to great fame by https://infogalactic.com/info/Stone_Cold_Steve_Austin). His dislike for all fellow wrestlers was clear when he abandoned his teams at the https://infogalactic.com/info/Survivor_Series of https://infogalactic.com/info/Survivor_Series_(1988) and https://infogalactic.com/info/Survivor_Series_(1989). Some memorable moments from his WWF tenure included winning the https://infogalactic.com/info/Battle_royal_(professional_wrestling) at https://infogalactic.com/info/WrestleMania_IV by eliminating https://infogalactic.com/info/Bret_Hart, who was then a heel, after a sneak attack, a brief feud with then-champion https://infogalactic.com/info/Randy_Savage in early 1989 that led to main-event matches, feuding with https://infogalactic.com/info/Roddy_Piper (starting before the https://infogalactic.com/info/Royal_Rumble_(1990) and culminating at https://infogalactic.com/info/WrestleMania_VI) and with https://infogalactic.com/info/Jake_Roberts (where Bad News had a sewer rat against Jake's snake) and attacking WWF President https://infogalactic.com/info/Jack_Tunney on https://infogalactic.com/info/Bruce_Prichard#Brother_Love_Show. Bad News also had a brief run challenging https://infogalactic.com/info/Hulk_Hogan for the https://infogalactic.com/info/WWE_Championship. On the March 11, 1989 edition of https://infogalactic.com/info/Saturday_Night%27s_Main_Event Bad News memorably took a microphone towards the end of his match with Hogan and told him that it was time for the Ghetto Blaster (his finisher). As he was getting ready to execute it however, Hogan got out of the way, leading him to miss the move terribly and suffer an eventual loss. Bad News eventually left the WWF after https://infogalactic.com/info/SummerSlam_(1990), claiming https://infogalactic.com/info/Vince_McMahon failed to live up to his promise to make him the company's first black champion.Allen returned to the World Wrestling Federation in early 1988 as Bad News Brown, and it was during this time that he achieved his greatest notoriety. While the roster was mostly filled with ultra-virtuous.

Bruce Prichard - Part 2 - This could be the biggest shoot interview that has ever conducted as we were able to sit down with one of the most powerful men in the history of the wrestling business… Vince McMahon’s right hand man Bruce Prichard!!! In a million years I never thought we would be able to sit down with one of the top 3 WWE executives of the last 50 years. If you know the business, you know there was Vince McMahon, Pat Patterson and Bruce Prichard. There were others like JJ Dillon and Jim Ross, but none of them made as much of an impact, dealt with more huge stars, or wielded as much power and influence behind the scenese as Bruce Prichard. Whether it was running and producing the TV tapings during the late 80’s and 90’s, heading the talent relations department and working closely with every major name in the company during his more than two decade long stay with the company, Bruce Prichard did it all. He was there for it all, and to use a popular phrase from the eeriely similar mafia world, Bruce “knows where the bodies are buried” We can't express this statement with anymore gravitas!!, please do not underestimate shoot interviews like these or J.J. Dillions for example who had held all roles in wrestling. Somebody like like J.J. Dillion is famous for being the manager of the Four Horsemen but has been Dusty Rhodes right hand man in Florida and with the crocketts. People like him are a wealth of information. Gary hart is another one. Their is a reason both their books are collectors items and very expensive because they have been all over the world and bookers and always kept extensive notes. Don't overlook a shoot interview like this! Bruce has been involved with wresling since he 10 year old working with the highly respected Promoter by all wrestlers, Paul Boesch, Bill Watts and Vince Mcmahon. Not only a character Brother Love but he was in Vince McMahons inner circle with booker genuis Pat Patterson. He was also a major producer in television for wee and tried his best to help TNA/Impact wrestling at a time when the Beautiful Dixie Carter was backed by Panda energy. They had more money then Vince but she was used and abused by charlatans like Vince Russo who's came to fame was he invented the WWE's attitude Area. Which is a bold face lie. He had masterminds like Bruce, Cornette , Vince and Patterson checking all his Jerry Springer Howard Stern Shock value. Dixie had Cornette , Bruce, Dutch Mantell ( research is WBC rating in Purto Rico after they killed Brusier Brody. She chose to listen to charlatans like Russo who signed with WCW but did nothing but kill it with TED TURNERS money backing it. All he has is ecuses. People like Shane Douglas, trained by greats like Dominick Denucci, worked for Bill Watts but his claim to fame was ECW. Fans do not take this personally but ECW was Hot shot booking with a genuis Paul Heyman but when is the book the Death of ECW coming coming out. They had a internet faithful cult following that seriously garnered respect like cult classic movies nthat fail at the box office but become legendary. You have people like Shane but this time they have Panda energy money backing them and they still floundered. Paul Heyman and all his genius knew not to touch TNA even with Panda energy's money.( look up how much money they were worth, Panda Energy purchased a controlling interest (72https://infogalactic.com/info/Percentage) of the https://infogalactic.com/info/Nashville,_Tennessee-based https://infogalactic.com/info/Professional_wrestling https://infogalactic.com/info/Professional_wrestling_promotion https://infogalactic.com/info/Total_Nonstop_Action_Wrestling from founder and https://infogalactic.com/info/Chief_executive_officer https://infogalactic.com/info/Jerry_Jarrett. ) Paul knew he had a cult following in ECW and Tod Gordons business acumen not to mention his bankrolland money tht his family invested in your whole lives. Everyone says Puals a Genuis but it's Tod Gordon who gave you ECW as Paul already super shay from New York was a con man from the start with great ideas. Buy Tods Book TOD IS GOD , it's great and all the ECW marks owe tod that much. and hot shot booking with Terry Funks loyalty to Eddie and Missy Hyatt alog with Nancy Sullivan he hit lightning in a bottle and that never haappens once let alone twice. Think about it To me a what my mentor and idle calls a wrestling historian. Pa created the Sandmam , Austins gimmick very similiar but with a guy like Vince controlling Wrestle crap Russo and look at what he turned Heyman into. Don't miss this shoot. Total Nonstop Action Wrestling Back Story It was reported on October 7, 2010, that Prichard had been hired by TNA to presumably reprise the role he had in WWE working as a backstage agent and producer. On October 6, 2011, Prichard took over the role of TNA head writer from Vincent Russo because he convince Dixie that TNA needed his expertise because he created the attidude area in the WWE and his hand were tied with the WCW because of standads and practicing curtailing his creativity because he was so politally incorrect. From racist gimmick matches to the shear fact that TNA wrestling literally stood for Tits and ass and had the closest thing to strippers dancing in cages above ring entrances and crowds. He's a uneducated man that single handlely destroyed TED Turners billionare dollar merger with Time warner and although AOL merger turned out to be a diasaester, Ted Turner was a visionary and wasn't sfraid to gamble. CNN was a major success, HLN News was very succeesful, The Weather channel at one time was one the most watched Cable channels onn Cable. He fought the FCC and won. He owned the Braves who didn't have a winning season for what felt like for ever but in 1995 they won the the World Series, He owned the Atalnta Hawks, once a struggling ABA team that Ted brought the human highlight reel Dominque wilkins , Kevin Willis, "pistol Pete Maverick, and underrated coach named Mike Fratello replaced Loughery as head coach in 1983 who in 2 years brought them to there ist 50 win season. Don't forget Spudd web and lenny wilkens (at the time one of the best coaches)Atlanta was growing and it was bein built on Ted turners back. From a media Conglamerate the Turner Warner merger with AOl ade alot ot of sense becaue Ted saw the internet coming and at the time America Online was a major player on the block. Bigger then Google and Facebook (never heard of) Microsoft were big players but Gates is a Robber Barron. Aol turned out to really hurt Turner as they were a bunch of frauds but Turner and Warner were so pissed they just dropped them but Aol's Email database was just sold to Verison as well as yahoo for around 5 billion each so they have value. Bruce never talks bad but you will learn alot of wresting knowledge. Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (2010–2013, 2017)- It was reported on October 7, 2010, that Prichard had been hired by TNA to presumably reprise the role he had in WWE working as a backstage agent and producer. On October 6, 2011, Prichard took over the role of TNA head writer from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Russo. In May 2012, Prichard was promoted to Vice President of Talent Relations to replace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Taylor. On October 17, 2012, Prichard was promoted to Senior Vice President, Programming & Talent Relations. In this new role, Prichard oversaw talent relations, talent scouting and development as well as the creative direction of the company. In May 2013, Prichard began appearing as a judge alongside Al Snow and Taz in the monthly Gut Check segment on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNA_Impact. No matter what lies Vince Russo the Legit voted on most desiped man in wrestling says or numbers he makes up, it Bruce prichard that got TNA in order as much as you could but sadly they him go in 2013.I'm really stressing this heavy, at a time when the wrestling world needed TNA Impact wrestling to the succeed they had the smarts of Bruce Pricharcd , Jerry Jarret, Jim Cornette, Dutch Mantel and brains like Raven to go with talent like A.J Styles , C.M Punk, Samoa Joe and Fn favovorites like Sting, Scott Steiner , Booker T, Nash, and Kurt angle. Some may argue that they went WWE light but you needed start power and panda Energy had more money then Vince and the WWE. Taxes for pubiclicly traded companies are literally public. JEFF JARRET IS NOT A SUPERSTAR , promoters kids are never order or talented except for Dustin Rhodes. facts, Greg Gagne, Nick Gulas's kid Daddy said sell, Erik Watts, Mike graham, Jamie Dundee, Chistoper daniels, and yes theres always a exception the Von Erichs but we know how that turned out. b Garret bishiff, David and Reid Flair, Wes Briscoe, ( the harts were in the promotering machine of the WWE. Cody rhodes had several gimmicks that were terrible until he copied his father correctly, bwhere is ole andersons kids. Vince Russo knew he had to push jeff who nobody cared about him, evenbin his prime he was 200 soaking wet. the Fullers knew how to promotte as well as others but Vince Russo ruined the WCW with a billionares money and ruined TNA. Did he have durt on Dixie? Bruce is a wealth of history and knowledge.

Bruce Prichard (born March 7, 1963) is an American professional wrestling executive, booker, and producer and a former manager, commentator, and occasional professional wrestler.Houston Wrestling (1973–1987)- Prichard began his career in 1973 working for Paul Boesch's Houston Wrestling promotion out of Houston, Texas. At 10 years old, he sold posters at the Sam Houston Coliseum with great success. He worked as assistant director of television at age 12 and acted as a ring announcer at age 14. Due to Boesch's working relationship with Bill Watts' Universal Wrestling Federation in the 1980s, Prichard would also act as ring announcer for some UWF shows. As Houston Wrestling became defunct in 1987, Prichard was hired by the World Wrestling Federation. World Wrestling Federation (1987–1991)- After entering the World Wrestling Federation in 1987 shortly after WrestleMania III, he first occasionally worked as an announcer for the WWF's television programs alongside Mike McGuirk and "The Duke of Dorchester" Pete Doherty and occasionally Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, before creating the Brother Love character. The Brother Love Show (1988–1991)- In June 1988, Prichard debuted as "Brother Love", a red-faced, smarmy, dishonest, effusive and boisterous "preacher" character, dressed in a conspicuous white suit, tight red shirt and white tie, who claimed to preach not the word of God, but "the word of love." He was best known for his disingenuous catchphrase "I love you!", during which he would enunciate each word with exaggerated prolongations in a thick Southern accent. The character was inspired by controversial televangelists of the time, with Prichard specifically citing Robert Tilton as his most direct inspiration. However, shortly after the character debuted, similarities were also noted between Brother Love and controversial pastor Jimmy Swaggart's style of preaching. Though Prichard has credited Tilton as the main inspiration for the Brother Love character, he has also credited Swaggart, Jim Bakker and even Oral Roberts as inspirations for the character as well. Months before Brother Love debuted, Swaggart and Bakker were involved in controversial scandals which tarnished their public images and resulted in networks cancelling their television shows. Introduced to the WWF by Bobby "The Brain" Heenan, Love hosted a segment on the World Wrestling Federation's syndicated and cable television programs called "The Brother Love Show", in which he would interview wrestlers In a 2016 podcast with Stone Cold Steve Austin, Prichard recalled that he had long been a fan of evangelist preachers, more for their theatrics than their religion. When Prichard first pitched the idea of Brother Love to WWF owner Vince McMahon, Vince generally liked the idea but did not believe that Prichard "had the face" for the role. Determined to get himself into the role that he had created, Prichard, dressed as Brother Love (minus the red face paint he would appear on television with), invaded a meeting at the WWF's headquarters between McMahon, the head of WWF International and the WWF's chief financial officer. While there, he gave an impromptu two minute sermon before quickly departing. When he arrived back at his office at the WWF's television studios five minutes later, he discovered that he had two missed calls from McMahon who he was relieved to find had liked what he had seen. However, Vince wanted to see how it worked on camera. Thus, the Brother Love character became a reality. Prichard also told that the bright red face make up was unknown to him the first time he appeared on television as Brother Love. As it was a television taping, Prichard thought it was just normal make up being applied and he did not look in the mirror, not knowing that Vince McMahon had ordered that he be given the red face.Manager of The Undertaker (1990–1991)- On November 19, 1990, Brother Love began managing The Undertaker (who at the time was known as "Kane the Undertaker", the add-on of "Kane" inspired by Prichard). Global Wrestling Federation (1991–1992)- After his release from the WWF, Prichard moved home to Texas where he eventually joined the Dallas-based Global Wrestling Federation, where he worked as a manager and ringside interviewer between 1991 and 1992, using his real name.Return to the World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment (1992–2008)- Prichard returned to the WWF in August 1992 and portrayed two short-lived characters. He first appeared as "The Wizard", a heel color commentator on All-American Wrestling (who never appeared on camera during the character's brief run), and then as "Reo Rodgers", a satire on Dusty Rhodes.

Rob Van Dam (frequently abbreviated to RVD). He is known for his tenures in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Championship_Wrestling (ECW), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wrestling_Entertainment (WWE), and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_Wrestling. an Dam gained mainstream popularity in ECW during the latter half of the 1990s. During his time in ECW, he was managed by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Alfonso and had feuds with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lynn and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabu_(wrestler), also forming a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Van_Dam_and_Sabu. They won the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECW_World_Tag_Team_Championship twice. On April 4, 1998, Van Dam defeated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bam_Bam_Bigelow to win the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECW_Television_Championship, a title he held for 700 days until he vacated the championship due to an injury on March 4, 2000. When ECW closed in 2001, Van Dam signed a contract with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) and was involved in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invasion_(professional_wrestling), where several former https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Championship_Wrestling and ECW wrestlers joined forces against WWF wrestlers. After the Invasion ended, Van Dam wrestled the following years as singles and tag team wrestler, winning the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Hardcore_Championship, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Intercontinental_Championship, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_European_Championship, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Raw_Tag_Team_Championship and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tag_Team_Championship_(WWE). At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WrestleMania_22, Rob Van Dam won the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_in_the_Bank_ladder_match. After this victory, he challenged https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Champion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cena to a title match at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECW_One_Night_Stand_(2006), an ECW-themed PPV. At the event, Van Dam defeated Cena and won his first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_heavyweight_championship_(professional_wrestling). Two days later, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Heyman awarded Van Dam with the reactivated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECW_World_Heavyweight_Championship making him the only man to hold both titles at the same time. After leaving WWE in 2007, Van Dam worked on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_circuit until he signed a contract with Impact Wrestling - then known as Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) - in 2010. A few months after his debut, he defeated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJ_Styles to win the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNA_World_Heavyweight_Championship. He would also appear for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucha_Libre_AAA_World_Wide and challenged https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Wagner_Jr. for the newly created https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAA_Latin_American_Championship at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplemania_XIX, albeit in a losing effort. He remained under contract with TNA until 2013, leaving the company after a run with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_X_Division_Championship. After departing TNA, he returned to WWE, where he worked for one year. Then, he would stay in the independent circuit, also wrestling from 2019 to 2020 with TNA, now known as Impact Wrestling. In https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Hall_of_Fame_(2021), he was inducted into the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Hall_of_Fame, and the following year he was inducted into the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcore_Hall_of_Fame. Between ECW, WWE and TNA/Impact, Van Dam won 21 total championships, including three world championships, and is only one of two wrestlers in history (alongside https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Lashley) to have held the WWE, ECW, and TNA world championships. In addition, he headlined many pay-per-view events throughout three decades between the 1990s and 2010s, including the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_to_Remember#1998 edition of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_to_Remember (ECW's flagship event) and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripleman%C3%ADa_XIX edition of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripleman%C3%ADa (AAA's flagship event). In 2002, Van Dam was ranked the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Wrestling_Illustrated#PWI_500 in the world by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Wrestling_Illustrated. He was voted "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pro_Wrestling_Illustrated_awards#Most_Popular_Wrestler_of_the_Year" by readers of the magazine in 2001 and again in 2002. WWE named him the greatest star in ECW history in 2014.In addition, he headlined many pay-per-view events throughout three decades between the 1990s and 2010s, including the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_to_Remember#1998 edition of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_to_Remember (ECW's flagship event) and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripleman%C3%ADa_XIX edition of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripleman%C3%ADa (AAA's flagship event). In 2002, Van Dam was ranked the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Wrestling_Illustrated#PWI_500 in the world by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro_Wrestling_Illustrated. He was voted "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pro_Wrestling_Illustrated_awards#Most_Popular_Wrestler_of_the_Year" by readers of the magazine in 2001 and again in 2002. WWE named him the greatest star in ECW history in 2014.In early 1996, Van Dam signed with promoter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Heyman's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia-based promotion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Championship_Wrestling (ECW), defeating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axl_Rotten in his debut match at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_Party_(1996). Van Dam's mannerisms were those of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_subculture, and he became a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(professional_wrestling) due to his laid-back attitude and unorthodox style. On March 30, he faced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Cold_Scorpio in a match for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECW_World_Television_Championship. The match ended in a draw with 2 Cold Scorpio retaining the title. Van Dam gained attention following a series of matches with long-time rival https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabu_(wrestler), which began with a match at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostile_City_Showdown#1996, won by Sabu. After the match, Van Dam declined to show proper respect for his opponent, leading to a rematch at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECW_A_Matter_of_Respect#1996, which was won by Van Dam. Per the pre-match stipulation, Sabu then offered Van Dam a handshake, but was again ignored. Instead, Van Dam left the ring and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_wrestling_terms#Turn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heel_(professional_wrestling) under the management of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Alfonso. At https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcore_Heaven#1996, Van Dam faced his rival Sabu once again, in a match to prove who was the better man, but Sabu won the match.

While touring the country's independent circuit, Danielson was signed to a developmental deal by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) to work in their developmental system and was assigned to Memphis Championship Wrestling (MCW), where he gained exposure and was trained by WWF competitor William Regal, whom he credited as being instrumental in the development of his career. During this time, he adopted his moniker of the "American Dragon". In 2002, Danielson wrestled two matches for the renamed World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) despite not being a contracted performer for the company. He was quickly defeated by both Sean O'Haire and Little Guido in his two appearances. Danielson went to Japan after his release from the WWF, competing in Japan's premier promotion, New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he used his American Dragon persona and donned a red, white and blue mask reminiscent of a dragon. As a part of the junior heavyweight division, Danielson had success in both singles and tag team competition in the company, winning (without wearing a mask) the IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship with Curry Man on March 12, 2004.Ring of Honor-Founding father (2002–2005). In 2002, Danielson joined the independent promotion Ring of Honor (ROH), where he is acknowledged as a "Founding Father" of the company. On February 23, 2002, he competed in the main event of the company's debut event, The Era of Honor Begins, in a three-way match against Christopher Daniels and Low Ki, a match that Low Ki won. One of his matches with Austin Aries, performed on August 7, 2004, at Testing the Limit, lasted seventy-four minutes before Aries was finally declared the victor. One of the more notable rivalries he had in the early years in the company was with Homicide, as the two fought numerous matches with a variety of stipulations, culminating in a steel cage match on May 13, 2005, at The Final Showdown, where Danielson was victorious. Despite winning the company's inaugural Survival of the Fittest tournament in 2004, Bryan did not win a ROH title. In 2005, Danielson explained in the company's newsletter, The ROH Newswire, that he had quit ROH after being frustrated by his inability to defeat Austin Aries for the ROH World Championship. It was later revealed Danielson had become frustrated in general with professional wrestling and planned to take some time off to evaluate his career options. Aside from competing primarily in ROH, Danielson has also competed in a multitude of other independent promotions, both in the United States and abroad. n 2003, he toured the United Kingdom for the British promotion All Star Wrestling (ASW), where he sometimes used the name Dynamic Dragon. While there, he won the World Heavy Middleweight Championship on May 6 in an eight-man one-night tournament in Croydon, defeating James Mason. He spent the next six months in the United Kingdom, working for ASW, Frontier Wrestling Alliance (FWA), the World Association of Wrestling (WAW), and Premier Promotions. He returned several times over the next five years, working for various promotions. In February 2005 at New Dawn Rising, he made his debut in ROH's sister promotion, Full Impact Pro (FIP), teaming up with Rocky Romero in a match against Austin Aries and Homicide. The next night at Dangerous Intentions, Danielson competed in a losing effort against CM Punk, which led to a brief feud between the two. Danielson has spent the majority of his career without an overt character or catchphrase in favor of becoming popular with the fans through his monikers, signature mannerisms, and wrestling ability. His attire has also varied, with the majority of his tenure spent wearing a pair of short trunks, but he also ventured into wearing a mask for a time in Japan as an extension of his American Dragon persona. He has cited a number of international wrestlers as influences to his style, including Japanese wrestlers Toshiaki Kawada and Mitsuharu Misawa and English wrestler William Regal. He has also made mention of modeling his wrestling on that of American wrestler Dean Malenko and Canadian wrestler Chris Benoit in his early career, before using Brazilian jiu-jitsu as a platform to develop his own style.

Mart Jannetty is an American retired professional wrestler who has worked for promotions including the World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment (WWF/E), the American Wrestling Association (AWA), World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), and has won a total of 20 championships. Jannetty is widely known for his tenure as half of tag team The Rockers, in which he partnered with Shawn Michaels. The duo originally found success during the mid-to-late 1980s under the moniker of The Midnight Rockers, becoming two-time AWA World Tag Team Champions and winning various regional titles. They became one of the foremost teams of the WWF's "Golden Age", headlining multiple events. The Rockers held the WWF World Tag Team Championship in late 1990, but their reign was voided for disputed reasons. After splitting from Michaels in early 1992, Jannetty became a one-time WWF Intercontinental Champion and a one-time WWF World Tag Team Champion with the 1-2-3 Kid. He competed in multiple world championship matches between ECW and the WWF from 1995–1996, but Jannetty's star faded thereafter, and he was largely used as enhancement talent during a late 1990s run in WCW. He made sporadic appearances for WWE during the latter half of the 2000s (including a brief 2005 reunion with Michaels), and has remained a challenger for titles on the independent circuit.

Allen Ray Sarven (born July 18, 1963) is an American https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestler, better known by his https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_name Al Snow. He is best known as a wrestler for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoky_Mountain_Wrestling, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Championship_Wrestling, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE. Snow has also held various backstage positions for professional wrestling promotions. Snow worked as a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_Agent_(professional_wrestling) for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_Wrestling (TNA, later Impact Wrestling) from 2010 to 2017 and has owned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Valley_Wrestling since 2018 (first as majority owner, and a minority owner since 2021).Sarven attended a professional wrestling tryout camp held by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Anderson and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Anderson_(wrestler). There he met Jim Lancaster, promoter of Ohio's Midwest Championship Wrestling, who agreed to train him, Lancaster later described Sarven as "a leader in the ring" who "had drive and natural ability". Sarven wrestled in various independent promotions throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, capturing both tag team and singles titles, but failed to make any big breaks. In 1993 he competed in the WWF as a jobber losing to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Jannetty and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Undertaker under the name Steve Moore. He gained a reputation as "the best-kept secret in wrestling". Sarven was also being courted by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Cornette for his https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoky_Mountain_Wrestling federation. ECW booker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Heyman agreed to let him work for both companies. Sarven soon found that he was not being utilized by ECW and went to Smoky Mountain full-time. In Smoky Mountain Wrestling, Snow teamed with Unibomb (Glenn Jacobs, later to be known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kane_(wrestler)) as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Duo_(professional_wrestling) and defeated the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_%27n%27_Roll_Express for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMW_Tag_Team_Championship. Sarven began working for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE (WWF) when he signed a contract in August 1995. During his tenure in the company, Sarven wrestled under numerous https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_professional_wrestling_terms#Gimmick, such as Avatar, which saw him come to the ring unmasked, putting on a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucha_libre#masks to wrestle, then removing it afterwards. The gimmick was based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Morphin_Power_Rangers whose popularity the company wanted to capitalize on at that time. During his particularly short run under this gimmick, Sarven's WWF debut as Avatar took place on the October 23, 1995, episode of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday_Night_RAW, defeating Bryan Walsh. About a month after his debut, he was scheduled to be the third man for The Underdogs at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_Series_(1995) but for reasons unknown, was replaced by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcore_Holly. After this, he started teaming with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Credible. His two final matches as Avatar were against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Eudy & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Waltman. He was also to partake in the 1996 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Rumble_(1996) match but once again, due to unknown reasons, never appeared. His final match in February was against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kane_(wrestler). On February 20, 1996, Sarven wrestled as Shinobi, a "ninja assassin" hired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Cornette to dispose of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Michaels, who defeated Shinobi in quick fashion. Avatar returned for one last appearance against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Bradshaw at a house show on March 17, 1996, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden in a losing effort.Sarven received his first mainstream exposure with the WWF as Leif Cassidy, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_team partner of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marty_Jannetty in February 1996. The duo were promoted as The New Rockers, a throwback to the original https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rockers team of Jannetty and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Michaels. Eventually, Jannetty left, and Sarven was reduced to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_(professional_wrestling) for mid-carders in January 1997. In the late 1990s, WWF and ECW began to cross-promote their organizations to counteract the success of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Championship_Wrestling (WCW); Sarven was one of the wrestlers sent to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Championship_Wrestling (ECW). His last appearance in WWF in September 1997 was a loss to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Ali_Singh at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWF_One_Night_Only.Sarven found success back in ECW, billed once again as Al Snow. Sarven developed a new character gimmick after reading about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abnormal_psychology and finding a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannequin head on the street near the ECW Arena during a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummers_Play Day parade. He got the idea to portray an individual with a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizophrenia disorder using the head as a prop for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection. In this role, Sarven received a lot of fan and management support for his https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_J.O.B._Squad storyline, which promoted him as being https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_breakdown by his years as a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_(professional_wrestling) for the WWF.In the storyline, Snow, upset at his lot in life, asked https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Foley what he had to do to get anywhere in wrestling. Jack said to Snow that to become famous he had to "get a little head" (meaning he had to be willing to sleep with/have sex with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_professional_wrestling_terms#Book). Snow, however took this literally, and thus he started coming to the ring with the mannequin head (with the words "Help Me" written backwards on its forehead, an action Snow himself began to do) whom he talked to as if it were a real person, which prompted ECW crowds to chant "We want Head", an intentional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_entendre. ECW promoters handed out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expanded_polystyrene_foam mannequin heads at wrestling shows, and audience members started waving them and shouting, "Head! Head! Head!" in time to "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathe_(The_Prodigy_song)" by The Prodigy, his entrance music. The entire audience would then throw the heads into the ring before the match started. The biggest match of his ECW career came when he wrestled for the promotion's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECW_Championship, losing to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Douglas at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestlepalooza_(1998) in 1998.On April 7, 2018, it was reported Snow purchased https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Valley_Wrestling. Snow was heavily featured in the docuseries https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestlers_(TV_series), a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix released series focused on OVW that was released September 13, 2023.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Snow#cite_note-42 Following the series release, OVW had their first Thursday night sold-out show in eight years.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Snow#cite_note-43

Al Snow has been around the wrestling business for approximately 16 years. Al Snow is very opinionated & is not one guy that holds back his views what so ever. Al Snow is a very funny guy,but also has a lot to offer as far as information & stories. If you wonder why he goes on TV & is constantly asking for a meeting with Vince, you’ll find out why after this interview, cause it is all based on a shoot. Discussed are the following:his NWA tryout with The Andersons, his memorable Michigan matches vs. Sabu, his early ECW stay & why it ended,his SMW run ,his WCW tryout,his early dealings with Vince & WWF,his Avatar gimmick,his days as a Rocker with Marty Jannetty, trying to get a meeting with Vince,his conflicts with the bookers including a great story about Jake Roberts,how he came up with the Head gimmick. We open on a clip of Al and Lance Storm kicking the shit out of the Triple Threat (Shane Douglas, Bam Bam Bigelow, and Chris Candido) at an ECW PPV in late 1997 or early 1998. How did he start in the business? He started watching Georgia Championship Wrestling in the mid-70�s and then started trying to get a hold of ANYONE he could to break into the business. Eventually, Gene Anderson told him that a tryout for a wrestling school would be held in the Carolinas in several months by himself and Ole Anderson. He then got a hold of Dick the Bruiser, Jim Lancaster, and some other wrestlers who�d run a fundraiser at his high school and was told that if things didn�t work out in Charlotte that he (Lancaster) would train him. He sold his car and took a 24-hour bus ride from Lima, OH to Charlotte, and ran out of food money almost immediately because of the costs of signing up and getting a hotel room. Ole then began doing training exercises to wear out his recruits, such as stair runs, free squats, pushups, etc. Once he finally got in the ring with Ole, he was being used as fodder for Ole�s recruits. Once Al embarrassed Ole�s recruits by escaping them then putting them in the holds they were supposed to put on him, they started stretching him. Ole had broken one guy�s jaw as a part of this process earlier. At that point, Gene gets in the ring and starts REALLY stretching Al (hair pulls, eye gouges, ball grabs), at which point Al puts a Greco Roman Nut Lock on Gene, and Gene started freaking out and pulling every dirty trick out of the book in order to escape. Gene had told Al that he doubted he�d ever see him again, although Al ended up working for Jim Crockett whenever he made runs through Ohio and West Virginia. Al then says that he found out later that Gene and Ole would do shit like what happened to him because it was a money-making venture to bring in about 30 guys and stretch them until they quit. Then Al goes into the trials and tribulations of finding a place for Lancaster to train him and some other guys. Eventually, Al worked in Japan and somehow ended up in a match with Sabu when Sabu was at his highest point. That got him noticed and got him work all over the indy scene in the US. The interviewer then breaks off into a story about how RF video owner and namesake Rob Feinstein had seen that match and had wanted Al to work an ECW show so badly that he paid for him out of his own pocket. At this point, they cut to the handcam from about 1994. It�s a glorified squash with a clean-shaven mullet-sporting Snow getting his ass whipped by the Tazmaniac (Tazz). It was the typical crappy Tazz match seen on every ECW show before he left in late 1999. They then ask if he got frustrated about being so talented yet not getting a shot. He never really got frustrated until he got to the WWF. It was also pretty frustrating for him that some of his students got further in the business than he did. There were no promises made to him when he entered ECW. There had been talk of him doing a �mirror man� gimmick since he was capable of doing any move that his opponents could do. His stay there was short because Jim Cornette made him an offer to work in Smokey Mountain Wrestling and ECW's booker and, later, owner Paul Heyman refused to let him split time between the two promotion. He then talks about his last week in ECW where he was driving all over creation for house shows before flying to Charlotte and driving to Tennessee to work a 4-hour TV taping for Smokey Mountain, driving to Nashville, flying to Detroit, then driving home to Lima.Snow had been brought in to Smokey Mountain as a last second replacement for Eddie Gilbert, who had left unexpectedly to book in Puerto Rico. He figures he would have been brought in anyway at some point because he goes back to the Jim Crockett Promotions days with Cornette and that his smartass interview at a UFC PPV where he was Dan Severn�s trainer made Cornette confident that Al could work as a heel. He didn�t doing promos with a set amount of time to them because you had to do about 10 different things such as getting your gimmick over, getting all the information in for the matches in each town, etc, all crammed into a rigid time limit, which could be from 30 seconds to about 2 minutes.The next clip is a promo he cut when he and Kane (then known as Unabom) were feuding with the Rock And Roll Express. They put on wigs and imitate the Express, then even start making fun of Robert Gibson�s deaf mother. Unfortunately, the sound of the tape give out after the comment �We�re so scared of getting the crap kicked out of us that Robert�s mother wrote us a letter� let�s see what it says. � Robert, you dummy, your mother wrote it in SIGN LANGUAGE!� There�s also a squash match to get the Snow-Unabom team over, and the Express attack them after the matchWhen asked to compare Jim Cornette to Paul Heyman, he says they�re a lot alike and that�s probably why they can�t stand each other.

(July 29, 1933 – October 14, 2009) was an Italian-American professional wrestler, manager and actor, who performed under the ring/stage name "Captain" Lou Albano. He was active as a professional wrestler from 1953 until 1969, before becoming a manager until 1996.Over the course of his 42-year career, Albano guided 15 different tag teams and three singles competitors to championship gold.In 1970, fellow wrestler Bruno Sammartino mentioned to McMahon that Albano, a mediocre wrestler who was nonetheless an entertaining speaker, might be better utilized as a manager. In professional wrestling, a manager might be tasked with behind-the-scenes efforts to help push forward a charge's career or handle his booking, but plays an equal or even greater role in the ring, speaking for his charge and helping rile up the crowd for or against him. Sammartino recalled: "One day I said to Vince Sr., this guy [Albano] isn't the best wrestler, as a team, they [Albano & Altomare] can only go so far. But he'd be a great mouthpiece for some guy. Lou has such a gift of gab that he can help out some people. As a wrestler, he just seemed limited. He was always the same. He was never looked upon by promoters as someone who could be anyone special. But as a manager, he shined. That was his calling."The events leading up to Albano's face turn proved to be pivotal in the history of the WWF. Hogan, Piper, and Orton began a feud at Lauper's award ceremony that culminated in The War to Settle the Score. The outcome of the War—Hogan winning by disqualification—was the impetus for the primary match at the first WrestleMania, in which Albano also participated, as a face manager. More importantly, the involvement of Lauper, a celebrity completely unrelated to wrestling, in the pro wrestling world was unprecedented. MTV's decision to broadcast the Brawl to End it All tremendously increased the WWF's public profile, especially in the coveted young adult demographic. This led directly to the 1980s professional wrestling boom. Wrestling Observer's Dave Meltzer wrote, "Without Albano, wrestling history would have been monumentally different because if you take Lauper's involvement out of the equation, the early losses on expanding nationally and buying so much television time were on the verge of putting the company under... Without her, there would have been no MTV special, no national media publicity, and it's highly unlikely without it that the first WrestleMania would have been a success. If you take Albano's participation out of the equation, there is a good chance the McMahon expansion would have hit an iceberg and died in early 1985 ... the attention garnered by the Rock & Wrestling Connection, stemming from that chance meeting on an airplane between Lauper and Albano less than two years earlier, led NBC to make the decision to air Saturday Night's Main Event several times per year in the Saturday Night Live time slot."Albano appeared in the 1986 film Wise Guys, starring Danny DeVito. He played the role of Mario, Nintendo's mascot, in both the live-action and animated segments of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, a TV series based on the Super Mario Bros. game series. He also had roles in the TV series 227, Hey Dude, and Miami Vice, the 1992 film Stay Tuned, and was a recurring guest on the game show Hollywood Squares. Albano played a villainous caricature of himself named "Captain Lou Morano" in the 1987 movie Body Slam, starring Dirk Benedict and Roddy Piper. The film also included cameo appearances by wrestlers Ric Flair, Freddie Blassie, and Bruno Sammartino. Albano played the role of the father in Cyndi Lauper's music videos for "Girls Just Want to Have Fun", "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" and "She Bop", as well as a cook in the video for her song "Time After Time".

Ted Dibase The " Million Dollar Man" is an American retired professional wrestler, manager, ordained minister and color commentator. He is signed to WWE as of 2023, where he works in their Legends program. DiBiase achieved championship success in a number of wrestling promotions, holding thirty titles during his professional wrestling career. He is best recalled by mainstream audiences for his time in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), where he wrestled as "the Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase. He has been named as one of the best technical wrestlers,and greatest villains, in wresting history.Ted DiBiase was trained by Dory Funk Jr. and Terry Funk. He made his professional wrestling debut as a referee in June 1974 in the Amarillo territory owned by the Funks. He then went to the Mid-South territory of Bill Watts being promoted as the son of Iron Mike in 1975 where he wrestled for four years. His first match was a loss against Danny Hodge. By February 1978, DiBiase would unseat Dick Slater to become Missouri State champion only to lose to Dick Murdoch after a few weeks on television. DiBiase also spent time in the Georgia area where he had an early face run. One legendary angle had DiBiase enduring four piledrivers (one on the concrete floor and three in the ring) administered in the WTBS studio arena by The Fabulous Freebirds before his tag team partner, Tommy "Wildfire" Rich, threw in the towel (the angle of DiBiase being badly injured was so real the TBS studio audience could be seen crying). Rich and DiBiase later feuded, leading to a loser leaves town match which DiBiase won, but instead of Rich leaving the area, he donned a mask calling himself "Mister R." The feud culminated in a match between Mister R and DiBiase, Rich appeared from backstage and distracted DiBiase. Mister R then rolled up DiBiase to get the win and unmasked as Brad Armstrong. Both DiBiase and Rich left the territory shortly thereafter.In the early to mid-1980s, DiBiase participated in angles in various territories feuding with the likes of Ric Flair best known from this point in his Mid South return with the likes of Bob Roop, Paul Orndorff, Dick Murdoch, The Fabulous Freebirds and One Man Gang. DiBiase turned heel against the Junkyard Dog and formed a group called The Rat Pack with Jim Duggan and Matt Borne, ran Mid-south for months. Aligning with Skandor Akbar, Dibiase caused a riff with the group, namely Duggan. The two would feud until DiBiase lost a loser leaves town match. He also held various championships.DiBiase made his return to the WWF as a babyface on May 15, 1987, at a house show in Houston, Texas. He came out to the ring to announce to those in attendance that it was only fitting that he was now competing in the WWF. Moments later The One Man Gang and Slick came to the ring for Gang's scheduled match. The referee had to force DiBiase to leave before there was a confrontation. At the next house show on June 7, DiBiase would have his first match and lose to The One Man Gang. He went on to lose two additional house show confrontations to The Gang. DiBiase would tag-team with Sam Houston on June 26 against The One Man Gang and Ron Bass (Houston had run in to assist DiBiase against The Gang at one of the earlier house show matches); towards the end of the match, DiBiase (kayfabe) turned on and attacked Houston after Houston missed a dropkick on Bass, leaving him to get double-teamed and pinned. His actions during the match served to effectively turn DiBiase heel, right before the onscreen debut of his new gimmick. On a June 27 episode of WWF Superstars, DiBiase had his first vignette. He would now be known as "The Million Dollar Man", a millionaire who wore a gold-studded, dollar-sign-covered suit and, in time, a custom-made, diamond-encrusted and self-awarded "Million Dollar Championship" belt. The Million Dollar Man character was based on the type of wrestler who Vince McMahon would want to be.

Managing Mankind and Kane (1996–1998)Eventually Bearer turned heel again by betraying his long-time protege at SummerSlam 1996 to align himself with The Undertaker's arch-enemy, Mankind and Goldust; during this time to form a group called "Forces of Darkness" to include The Executioner & Vader, Justin Bradshaw and The Stalker in order to take out Undertaker. In April 1997 at In Your House 14: Revenge of the 'Taker, The Undertaker set Bearer's face ablaze using a fireball, which was done in retaliation for Bearer having Mankind set a fireball to The Undertaker's face several weeks prior. Resulting from The Undertaker's actions, Bearer suffered (kayfabe) burns to his face and was bandaged for a time. Once healed from the burns, Bearer changed his looks, shedding the makeup of ghostly pallor and jet-black color to his natural strawberry blond hair and less make-up. No longer using his ghostly appearance and mannerisms, he became loudmouthed and shrill. Around mid-1997, Paul Bearer coerced Undertaker (WWF Champion at the time) into being his protégé again with the ultimatum of revealing a deep, dark secret from their past. During this time, Bearer made references to the "fires of hell," likening The Undertaker's dark secret to The Undertaker's act of setting fire to his face. Under duress, The Undertaker accepted after several weeks of resistance. While "managing" Undertaker this time around, Bearer engaged in tyrannical behaviors towards him, harassing him constantly. Eventually, Undertaker lost his patience and refused to allow Bearer to continue being his manager, leading Bearer to reveal the secret.The dark secret suggested that Bearer had a disturbingly traumatic past with The Undertaker which long preceded Brother Love's joining the two in January 1991. The dark secret dates back to The Undertaker's youth and involves domestic matters: Paul Bearer, while working for The Undertaker's parents as an apprentice mortician in their family funeral home business, witnessed a felony act during The Undertaker's adolescence. Bearer claimed that Undertaker had committed an arson murder, burning down his parents' family funeral home, in the process, killing them. This act also killed The Undertaker's younger "brother"—or so The Undertaker long thought. Bearer, who claimed to be attending a mortuary science college course at the time of the fire, hid Kane in a mental asylum during the rest of Kane's youth into adulthood. At the time throughout mid to late 1997, The Undertaker denied all this, claiming it was his younger brother's fault. Bearer, blaming The Undertaker, accused him of being an "arsonist", "murderer", and "liar." (Connected to these accounts, it was later revealed approximately six months after Kane's WWF debut that he was actually the half-brother of The Undertaker. The Undertaker's mother had an affair with Bearer and, as a result, gave birth to Kane. Bearer unintentionally (kayfabe) revealed to a Raw audience that he was actually Kane's father. This came to light when Bearer informed Jerry Lawler on Monday Night Raw, at a point in which he thought cameras had stopped rolling for a commercial break but were still on. Up until that point, The Undertaker was under the impression that Kane was fully related to him and his family. Presumably, The Undertaker's deceased father lived his entire life under the same impression) Because of the fire, The Undertaker thought Kane had been dead for all those years, claiming he was a "pyromaniac", obsessed with starting fires and, due to the incident, couldn't possibly be alive. However, Bearer introduced the vengeful, fire-personified Kane in October 1997 at Badd Blood: In Your House. In this first appearance for the character, Kane cost The Undertaker a Hell in a Cell match to determine the #1 contendership for the WWF title against Shawn Michaels. This led to a bitter rivalry between The Undertaker and Kane and Bearer. Kane was not revealed as Bearer's son until April 27, 1998, on Monday Night Raw, a day after the first Inferno Match, at Unforgiven, where Kane was set on fire. The Undertaker was shown to have also been unaware of this at that time, and helped to build the feud up further, as Undertaker initially refused to believe the story until an in-story DNA test proved it to be true. The feud lasted into summer of 1998, when Kane seemingly abandoned Bearer to side with The Undertaker, beginning a face turn.The Ministry of Darkness (1998–1999)-Bearer and The Undertaker became a heel team again toward the end of 1998 when Bearer betrayed his own son, Kane, in favor of managing The Undertaker once again. Once becoming a heel with Bearer, The Undertaker shamelessly admitted to setting the funeral home ablaze for which he had initially claimed was an accident or blamed Kane. Shortly thereafter, Bearer (returning in early 1999 to his signature black hair and mustache, but wearing a buttoned sweater and black overcoat, without the pasty white makeup and speaking in the same voice as his 1997 predecessor) and The Undertaker formed the Ministry of Darkness. Both he and The Undertaker took a hiatus from the WWF unceremoniously in September 1999 as a result of The Undertaker suffering an injury.

Moody entered professional wrestling in his teenage years as a ringside photographer. After high school, he enlisted in the United States Air Force, serving four years on duty; during this time, he often wrestled for independent promotions during off-duty hours. In 1979, Moody began managing as Percival "Percy" Pringle III in southeastern independent promotions; a few years earlier, in June 1974, he wrestled as Mr. X. There had been previous Percy Pringles in wrestling who were not William Moody. He was given the name by booker Frankie Cain. Immediately after his first son's birth, he cut back his involvement in the wrestling business in order to obtain a degree in mortuary science and earn certification as an embalmer and mortician. In 1984, he resumed full-time involvement in the wrestling business, using his Pringle character in Championship Wrestling from Florida and World Class Championship Wrestling in Texas. During this time, he was WCCW's answer to Bobby Heenan by doing "Heenan" like promos, even looking like Heenan as well with the blonde hair and attire. He served as manager for numerous wrestlers; he notably managed Rick Rude, "Stunning" Steve Austin, and Mark Calaway in their early careers. As Percy Pringle, he was also associated with the careers of Lex Luger, Eric Embry, and The Ultimate Warrior.World Wrestling Federation / World Wrestling Entertainment (1990–2002)Managing The Undertaker (1990–1996)-Moody joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) on December 22, 1990, after being mentioned by Rick Rude to WWF owner Vince McMahon. McMahon used Moody's real-life involvement in the funeral industry to create the character of Paul Bearer, a name given to him by Road Warrior Hawk and a play on the term pallbearer. In his portrayal of a very histrionic, ghostly manager, Bearer regularly communicated in his shaky, high-pitched, wailing voice and was almost always seen bearing an urn, which led to his mantra, "the power of the urn," allowing his main protégé The Undertaker to revive strength. His keeper-of-the-urn gimmick led to several storylines in which The Undertaker's antagonists stole his urn, causing The Undertaker to lose much of his supernatural strength. Bearer's catch phrase was "Ooooh, yes!" Moody made his first appearance in February 1991, as a heel, when Brother Love, who originally managed The Undertaker, delegated Bearer to take on the role of The Undertaker's manager. Complementing The Undertaker's Deadman gimmick, Bearer took on a spooky, ghastly character. Bearer hosted his own WWF talk show segment entitled The Funeral Parlor, which included memorable moments such as the Ultimate Warrior being locked inside a casket, among others. In late 1991, Bearer managed the Undertaker to the WWF Championship when Undertaker defeated Hulk Hogan at that year's Survivor Series, though Undertaker would lose the title back to Hogan six days later at This Tuesday in Texas. In early 1992, The Undertaker and Bearer turned face when Undertaker stopped former ally Jake "The Snake" Roberts from ambushing Randy Savage and Miss Elizabeth with a chair backstage; the Undertaker and Roberts had a match at WrestleMania VIII, which saw Undertaker win.

Tully Arthur Blanchard (born January 22, 1954) is a Canadian-American https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manager_(professional_wrestling). He is best known for his appearances with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crockett_Promotions and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE in the mid-to-late 1980s as a member of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Horsemen_(professional_wrestling) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_Busters.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tully_Blanchard#cite_note-OWOW-1https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tully_Blanchard#cite_note-WWEBio-2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Championship_(professional_wrestling) held by Blanchard over his career include the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCW_World_Television_Championship, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NWA_World_Tag_Team_Championship, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tag_Team_Championship_(WWE), and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_United_States_Championship. He was inducted into the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NWA_Hall_of_Fame in 2009 and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Hall_of_Fame in 2012.As the son of wrestling promoter and former https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Wrestling_Association star https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Blanchard, Tully Blanchard was involved in professional wrestling at a very young age. He began selling programs and refreshments at the arenas at the age of ten, and worked as a referee when he was older. Blanchard attended https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Texas_A%26M_University, where he played https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_football, first as a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarterback and then as a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_end, alongside fellow future wrestlers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tito_Santana and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_DiBiase.Blanchard was trained to wrestle by his father and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Lothario, debuting in 1975 in his father's promotion, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Championship_Wrestling, where he also held a number of backstage production and creative positions. He began his career as a face by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_team with his father in a feud against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dory_Funk,_Jr. and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Funk. Between 1978 and 1983, Blanchard held the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCW_Southwest_Heavyweight_Championship and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCW_Southwest_Heavyweight_Championship on seven occasions. He formed heel tag team with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gino_Hernandez, "The Dynamic Duo". They held the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_All-Star_USA_Tag_Team_Championship on five occasions and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCW_World_Tag_Team_Championship on one occasion in the early 1980s. Blanchard came to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crockett,_Jr.'s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crockett_Promotions (MACW) in early 1984. Blanchard immediately entered into a feud with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Youngblood over the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCW_World_Television_Championship, which would later be renamed the NWA World Television Championship and WCW World Television Championship. Blanchard won the title on March 28, 1984, and defended the title against some of the top contenders in the territory such as Ricky Steamboat, whom he faced at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starrcade_(1984). On March 16, 1985, Rhodes defeated Blanchard to win the NWA Television Championship, ending Blanchard's 353-day reign. The title would soon be renamed the NWA World Television Championship and the two continued to feud throughout the first half of 1985 with Blanchard regaining the title and losing it back to Rhodes in early July 1985 at the Great American Bash inside a steel cage; Rhodes also won the services of Baby Doll for 30 days. After Blanchard's feud with Rhodes ended, he soon found himself immersed in another high-profile feud over the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_United_States_Championship held by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_T._A. Much like his feud with Dusty Rhodes, Blanchard's rivalry with Magnum escalated into a series of bloody and brutal matches, and became one of the top feuds in the NWA. On July 21, 1985, Blanchard defeated Magnum for the U.S. Championship by punching him with a foreign object in his hand given to him by Baby Doll, who came to ringside dressed as a security guard. The feud culminated at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starrcade_(1985) during a brutal and extremely bloody "I quit" match held inside of a steel cage for the title. The match ended with Magnum driving a piece of a broken wooden chair into Blanchard's forehead, which was already deeply cut and bleeding profusely, forcing him to submit.In late 1985, Blanchard fired Baby Doll as his manager, slapping her during an interview segment and ignited a feud with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusty_Rhodes, who came to her aid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Dillon then became Blanchard's manager.Throughout the latter half of 1985, Blanchard and a number of high-profile wrestlers in the company had often competed together, usually in variations of tag team matches or interfering in one another's matches if they appeared to be losing. These wrestlers included https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ole_Anderson, who had long since become a legendary figure in the Mid-Atlantic and Georgia territories, rising star https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arn_Anderson and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric_Flair, the biggest star in the promotion and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NWA_World_Heavyweight_Championship. In early 1986, the foursome became a solidified group and called themselves the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Horsemen_(professional_wrestling). The group quickly established dominance within the territory by capturing numerous championships with Arn being the NWA World Television Champion simultaneously, Blanchard winning the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NWA_National_Heavyweight_Championship in March 1986 and with Flair as the NWA World Champion. The Horsemen feuded with the top baby faces of the territory including Magnum T. A., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Koloff, Dusty Rhodes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wahoo_McDaniel, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock_%27n%27_Roll_Express, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Warriors. After clashing with Jim Crockett and booker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dusty_Rhodes about their pay, Blanchard and Arn Anderson left the NWA for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wrestling_Entertainment (WWF) on September 10, 1988, losing in an 11th-hour title change to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Express_(professional_wrestling) tandem of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Eaton and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Lane after a brief feud. Fellow Horseman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Windham and manager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Dillon would leave later for similar reasons; Flair, meanwhile, considered leaving but decided to stay when the NWA signed his old friend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Steamboat and put them in a program together. In the WWF, Blanchard and Anderson were dubbed "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_Busters" and paired with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heel_(professional_wrestling) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manager_(professional_wrestling) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Heenan. The team defeated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_(professional_wrestling) for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tag_Team_Championship_(WWE)

The original Hart Foundation began in 1985, when Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, already managed by Jimmy Hart, joined his brother-in-law Bret "Hitman" Hart to form a villainous tag team. According to Bret, the tag team originated after he turned down the "Cowboy" Bret Hart gimmick he was given, claiming that he did not really take a liking to it. He then suggested to WWF management that he would much prefer to be teamed up with Neidhart. Management first laughed at the idea, but months later just as Hart was about to quit, he was given what he wanted: he was allowed to become a villain and was partnered up with Neidhart and Jimmy Hart to form the Hart Foundation. The name "Hart Foundation" was already used to refer to the stable of wrestlers managed by Jimmy Hart, and in early matches the Neidhart/Hart team would be introduced as "members of the Hart Foundation". With the success of the new tag team, however, "The Hart Foundation" came to be associated solely with the Neidhart/Hart team and their manager, who all had 'Hart' in their family names. The Hart Foundation made its pay-per-view debut at WrestleMania 2 in 1986 as participants of a 20-man battle royal which also included NFL stars. The duo were the final two men whom André the Giant eliminated to win the battle royal. The Harts gained their status as a mid-card team when feuding with The Killer Bees ("Jumping" Jim Brunzell and B. Brian Blair). At Saturday Night's Main Event VIII, the Foundation faced the Bees in a tag team match, which the Bees won. The Hart Foundation continued to feud with the Killer Bees for the better part of 1986. The Hart Foundation then began a feud with Tag Team Champions The British Bulldogs (Davey Boy Smith and Dynamite Kid) in early 1987 over the title. On the February 7 edition of Superstars, in Tampa, Florida, the Harts defeated Bulldogs for their first WWF Tag Team Championship when the referee of the match, "Dangerous" Danny Davis helped the Harts to win the match, and after Davis became a member of the Hart Foundation. On the March 14 Saturday Night's Main Event X, the Harts made their first title defense against Tito Santana and "Golden Boy" Danny Spivey, retaining the title after Danny Davis hit Santana with Jimmy Hart's megaphone. Santana began to feud with Davis as a result of this action and, at this point, it was strongly suggested that Davis, as referee, had been to blame for Santana's loss of the WWF Intercontinental title to Randy Savage with the help of a foreign object a year earlier (although in fact this had predated the start of Davis' "heel referee" angle). At this point, Santana joined the British Bulldogs in their feud with the Hart Foundation. The rivalry culminated in a six-man tag team match at WrestleMania III where the Foundation teamed with Davis against the British Bulldogs and Santana. Davis hit Davey Boy Smith with Jimmy Hart's megaphone and pinned him to get the victory for the Hart Foundation. On the May 2 Saturday Night's Main Event XI, the Foundation defended their tag title against the British Bulldogs in a Two out of three falls match. In the first fall, they got disqualified because of illegal double-teaming and in the second fall Smith pinned Neidhart. However, the Hart Foundation retained the title due to the disqualification result. On the October 27 edition of Superstars, the Hart Foundation dropped their title to Strike Force (Rick Martel and Tito Santana) after Neidhart submitted to a Boston crab applied by Martel, ending their 10-month reign. Soon after, the Hart Foundation began making claims that Neidhart had never submitted and that they were robbed on national television (the match was shown on an edition of Superstars of Wrestling). The two teams faced each other at Survivor Series in a 10-team Survivor Series elimination match. Strike Force captained a team of fan favorites while the Hart Foundation captained a team of villains. Strike Force was eliminated by the Hart Foundation, but the Hart Foundation also got eliminated and in the end, the fan favorite team won the match. The Hart Foundation's second title reign lasted until WrestleMania VII when they were defeated by The Nasty Boys (Jerry Sags and Brian Knobs), when Knobs nailed Neidhart over the head with Jimmy Hart's helmet (Jimmy Hart managed the Nasty Boys at the time).[7][27] The Hart Foundation split after WrestleMania VII, and Bret then focused on his singles career

Terry Dee Funk (June 30, 1944 – August 23, 2023) was an American https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling. Considered one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, Funk was known for the longevity of his career – which spanned more than 50 years and included multiple short-lived retirements – and the influential https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcore_wrestling style he pioneered in the latter part of his career.Over the course of his career, Funk wrestled for numerous major promotions, among them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Japan_Pro_Wrestling, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Championship_Wrestling, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Wrestling_Association_of_Japan, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Martial-Arts_Wrestling, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Wrestling_Association, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Championship_Wrestling, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE and multiple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Wrestling_Alliance territories including https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Class_Championship_Wrestling, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Championship_Wrestling_from_Florida, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Championship_Wrestling and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stampede_Wrestling. He was the promoter of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarillo-based https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_States_Sports promotion.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Championship_(professional_wrestling) held by Funk included the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECW_World_Heavyweight_Championship, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NWA_World_Heavyweight_Championship, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USWA_Unified_World_Heavyweight_Championship, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tag_Team_Championship_(WWE), and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECW_World_Television_Championship. He headlined ECW's premier annual https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay-per-view event, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_to_Remember, three times. Funk was inducted into multiple halls of fame, among them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Hall_of_Fame, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCW_Hall_of_Fame, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NWA_Hall_of_Fame, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcore_Hall_of_Fame.Funk was born on June 30, 1944, in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammond,_Indiana. He was the son of Dorothy (Culver) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dory_Funk, a professional wrestler and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling_promotion. Following the end of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II, the family relocated to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amarillo,_Texas, where Terry and his brother, known professionally as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dory_Funk,_Jr, grew up in the professional wrestling business. After graduating from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyon_High_School_(Canyon,_Texas), Funk attended https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Texas_State_University (now West Texas A&M University), where he competed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_wrestling and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_footballLater in Funk's career, his style changed from wrestling traditional southern style wrestling matches to the more violent style of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcore_wrestling. In 1993, after a special appearance against Blanchard at World Championship Wrestling's Slamboree, Funk promised to help the fledgling Eastern Championship Wrestling (later renamed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Championship_Wrestling or ECW) by lending his talent and notoriety to the promotion. On July 16, Terry and Dory Funk lost a barbed wire match against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Public_Enemy_(professional_wrestling). Funk maintained a regular schedule of wrestling for ECW in its early days while also competing in Japan. He had many feuds and wrestled programs with wrestlers such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Foley, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shane_Douglas, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman_(wrestler), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabu_(wrestler), and Terry's own protege, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Dreamer.In 1989, Terry Funk appeared as a bouncer in the movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_House_(1989_film) with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Swayze. In 1999, Funk was featured in director Barry Blaustein's wrestling documentary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Mat. His legendary toughness was attested to when cameramen followed him to a medical appointment, where he was told by the doctor that he would not be able to walk without intense pain. He also appeared in other movies such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Alley, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ringer_(2005_film), and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over_the_Top_(1987_film). He released an autobiography, Terry Funk: More Than Just Hardcore, in 2005. On May 11, 2010, Funk appeared on "Right After Wrestling" with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arda_Ocal on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIRIUS_Satellite_Radio to discuss his possible retirement, to which he replied "I never really truly will retire". This was also the interview with the infamous quote, "I dislike Vince (McMahon). I'm jealous of Vince." In 1985, Funk appeared in the short-lived western https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildside_(U.S._TV_series). Only six episodes were aired. Behind the scenes, Funk choreographed the street fight between Rocky Balboa and his nemesis Tommy Gunn at the end of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_V. Funk's name can be seen in the end credits. Funk also had a short lived career in music. The release of the album "Great Texan" in 1984 which was a soft rock AOR oriented album. The album was met with mixed reviews and is generally considered a "cult classic" by fans. Funk married his wife Vicky Ann on August 14, 1965. They had two daughters together. For many years, Terry and Vicky owned a ranch in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canyon,_Texas, which they later sold. Funk was close friends with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL player https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ayers. Funk was also close friends with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone. On September 12, 2016, Funk underwent surgery for an inguinal hernia, and was supposed to be resting and in bed for a couple of weeks, but chose to attend Tommy Dreamer's House of Hardcore shows. In June 2021, fellow wrestling legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Muraco reported Funk was diagnosed as living with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dementia , Funk died on August 23, 2023, at the age of 79, at a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona-area hospital. If there is such things of Legends then Terry Funk is one of the best.

Conducted in 1998, not too long after Terry Funk's WWF run, Terry Funk delivers what was perhaps the best interview shoot at this point in time. He is a natural storyteller and this was at a great point in his career for him to look back. Before his autobiography, his numerous interviews and coverage in "Beyond the Mat," this was an amazing piece of pro-wrestling history. Several parts of this such as looking at Amarillo, his NWA Championship run and the early days of ECW were interesting, but have been covered in greater detail in various places (including in future shoots by Funk himself). I felt the highlights of this, which stand up are the details concerning his time with All Japan and relationship with FMW head Atsushi Onita. Stories of Japan are not uncommon in shoot interviews, but Terry Funk's experiences are distinctly different as he worked in the All Japan office, saw many changes and worked with many of the top wrestlers (like Onita) when they were "young boys." Although this was the first Terry Funk shoot I heard and was, at the time, one of my favorites, this seemed so old and limited looking back. I've since heard Terry Funk partnered with all kinds of people from Harley Race and Bob Backlund to Shane Douglas and Steve Corino. I have to say, I've preferred those. His interaction with others and that necessarily limiting structure just work so well for a rambler who has seen so much. This "was" amazing nearly fifteen years ago