I remember a bit where they showed him adding detail lines to a drawing. I guess they think it’s a way to compensate for keeping him silent during promos. I remember he was decent on the mic when he did his Patrick Bateman angle on Impact.
FTR, I tried using the WaPad and pen he was using a couple years ago, and it took 2 minutes for me to get carpal tunnel syndrome. That pen is really sensitive and has to be held just above contact in a steady grip.
There was a cool moment during Dunne and O"Reilly’s match. I’m inclined to think it was unscripted. O’Reilly knocked Dunne’s mouth guard out, and the camera showed Dunne’s hand reaching for it. Right when he was about to grab it, O’Reilly’s boot stepped on Dunne’s hand and the camera panned up to his snarling face.
Greene played an important role in the history of the Four Horsemen, as he was the guy whom Mongo McMichael hit with the briefcase and turned on to join the group.
Of course, Mongo was probably the worst member of the group in its history.
I don’t recall him making more than a couple of appearances in WCW, and it’s best not to remember the Mongo McMichaels trainwreck.
WCW would bring in any celebrity to attempt to draw a mainstream audience. I remember they brought in the fat guy from MAD TV to wrestle Bret Hart for 30 minutes. This was after they signed Hart away from WWF and couldn’t figure out what to do with him. They had JAY LENO wrestle a match. They brought in washed-up country music and rap stars. They brought in Dennis Rodman and had the announcers go apeshit when he made his only wrestling move ever and jump over somebody. This is why I hate Pat Macafee.
Is anybody watching WWE any more? I didn’t feel like watching TLC. I’m not even interested enough to have RAW or SD on for background noise. I do like what NXT UK is doing, especially the massively violent match between Walter and Ilya Dragonov, and the UK Heritage series of matches.
Jim Cornette and his podcast cohost Brain Last hate AEW, but both agree it’s a better show. In their words, WWE is like watching somebody in a straightjacket drooling, and AEW is like watching monkeys flinging poo, but at least monkeys flinging poo is more entertaining.
I haven’t watched any type of wrestling in a good while and, unlike most who say that sentence, I kinda hate it.
I really enjoy watching wrestling, but it’s such a chore to. RAW is sooooo long, and SD is on one of the only nights I have free that I want to do other things. Frankly, the one I watch the most is NXT and I don’t even like it that particularly much because I find it boring. AEW doesn’t interest me in the least.
One of these days I hope to get into it more than I do. But until then, I’ll keep following on facebook and watching ppv’s when I remember they’re on and can stay awake for it.
In addition to losing Danny Hodge, who was well before my time (and I’m an old-timer), AEW’s Brodie Lee has passed at the young, young age of 41. Cause of death is reported as non-Covid related lung issue. Sad, sad news.
Apparently Jon Huber’s illness first showed up while he was off TV selling the Cody Rhodes beatdown. That’s why he wasn’t brought back. Still a shock. Seemingly he was near-universally loved by everyone he worked with.
Very sad about Huber, he was far too young. RIP Jon.
This is the first I heard about Danny Hodge. I watched him wrestle a few times on CWF with Gordon Solie back in the 70s. His boxing background was played up. He would come out wearing a boxer’s robe, towel around his neck, and his hands were usually taped, He wasn’t a big guy, working as a face there, but quickly did a huge turn to a sadistic heel wearing black leather gloves. His name would pop up from time to time in wrestling but it’s probably been 10 years since it’s come up. RIP Danny.
AEW is doing a tribute show to Brodie Lee, and it is kicking ass. Individual wrestlers are relating their personal stories of Lee in pretaped vignettes. Each match includes at least one of the Dark Order members. Lance Archer dressed up in Luke Harper-style wife beater and blue jeans with a kerchief hanging out his back pocket. Everybody’s been using one of Lee’s moves, and Erik Rowan showed up during a match! I marked out big time for that.
Lee’s young son Brodie was at ringside wearing a Dark Order mask. He got to participate in an angle. MJF pulled the mask off his face, and Kid Brodie whacked him with a kendo stick. The kid seemed to be having the time of his life. His dad’s show business family put on a truly heartwarming tribute to him.
Do you not see the link? Anyway, interesting you ask, because I had a couple of points to clarify anyway.
I asked what went on behind the scenes when Cornette introduced a new tag team to challenge Owen Hart and Davey Boy Smith, and these two twin 400+ pounders came stumbling to the ring. Hart and Smith fought them off with little effort, and then the Headbangers ran in to take their place and get the beatdown meant for them. They appeared in the Royal Rumble that year and were never seen again. It just seemed so random and pointless.
Cohost Brian Last assumed I was a new listener, since he said that question was asked before. I’d actually been listening to the podcast for years via the excerpts on YouTube, so there’s bound to be some content I missed. He also read my question as “You were involved in an interesting angle…” when I actually wrote “You were involved in a clusterfuck of an angle…” Cornette curses frequently on his show, so I don’t see why Last felt he had to clean that part up.
Turns out I was wrong in assuming they were the twin sons of Abdullah the Butcher, but it was a similar situation in that they were being promoted by a booker for a Puerto Rican fed for their ability to do Moonsaults off the top rope, and he was close friends with Gorilla Monsoon. That’s why they got their spot, but apparently it failed to generate interest.
The first time I saw that team was on a videotape called Stranglemania hosted by the Insane Clown Posse. The ICP dubbed over matches from Japan, renaming the wrestlers along the way (Cactus Jack was called Cactus Sack for copywrite reasons, I assume). All of the matches were pretty brutal and hardcore featuring barbed wire, broken glass, fire, and whatever else. Those two, christened the “Mushroom Brothers” if I remember correctly, had a match against each other and it was bloody for sure. So when I saw them going into the WWF I thought it would be great to see. They seemed like decent workers in the match I saw, they had an interesting look, and they had experience. Then they jobbed and disappeared.
