Seems like a great guy honestly and wasn't too bad of a wrestler I liked him and wcw cruiser weight was insane Jericho geraro Benoit c'mon those we're the days if you were a wrestling fan
I agree with the class act comment about this wrestler but also I grew up with Davey Boy I knew his kids Alex Wright your class act in a stand-up gentleman congrats to you for being one of the true genuine articles always admired you but now I do even more
Good on Alex being upfront about this incident. Please remember he blames WCW management for the mishap, not Warrior, and we didn't know it at the time but Alex himself got hurt by the trapdoor in the match too.
Warrior also got hurt he ripped his bicep of his bone when he was hanging and kicking the cage apart looked good but when Warrior swung himself out the cage to the floor his arm got caught up ,that is a 8 to a year to recover from ,and Warr had to wrestlers Hulk at Halloween HAVIC few weeks later I DON'T KNOW HOW HE DID IT GIVING THE ALL THAT ,IT WASN'T THAT BAD WARRIOR SAID HE WAS IN A LOT OF PAIN BUT HE GOT IN THERE ,SUCKS HULK F,CKED UP THE FIRE SHIT AT THE END BUT IS WHAT IT IS , AND THATS WHY WARRIOR LEFT AFTER THAT HE HAD TO LET HIS BICEP GET BETTER.
Alex got his own indy Promotion running. It's called "NEW" (New European Wrestling) and It's quite successful over here in germany. Fabian Aichner, who was part of "IMPERIUM" at NXT and now is under a new name, started his career over here. Also there are certain other wrestlers, who started at NEW and now making themselves a big name in the european indy-scene. Some are at Westside Xtreme Wrestling, which is one of the biggest promotions in germany and europe and getting ready for the big time.
Very irresponsible on WCW’s part for not informing the talent about the trap door. That back injury Davey suffered was pretty much ended his career and never recovered from it
Yes, and that infection came from the trap door incident that occurred during the very match being discussed in this video. He got a staph infection and almost died in the hospital all stemming from the British Bulldog/Jim Neidhart Vs. Alex Wright/Disco Inferno tag match at Fall Brawl 1998. He was self-medicating before that, but this increased everything tenfold. That's not what this conversation is about anyway. Yes Davey had his issues, but we're not here to speak ill of the dead; especially when all of us are flawed as human-beings. Davey Boy did far more good for the business than anything else and lived and died for it. He's deeply missed by many of us.
The dumb thing about the trapped door is that they had TWO rings that night. They couldve just avoided that ring altogether but WCW was so dumb when it came to obvious decisions
All this S*** about Trap Doors it's not He-Man & Masters Of The Universe. Bulldog was hooked on drugs at the time, his bloated fish face proves that. Bret Hart even stated that it was nothing to do with the Trap Door he was just out of shape and injured and Drugged up, and that coming from The best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be
Sounds like a Russo idea... WCW had alot of bonehead mishaps in that time. Sid breaking his ankle & the Giant supposedly tossed off a roof. It was excess showtime. Glad they caught up with Alex.
All this S*** about Trap Doors it's not He-Man & Masters Of The Universe. Bulldog was hooked on drugs at the time, his bloated fish face proves that. Bret Hart even stated that it was nothing to do with the Trap Door he was just out of shape and injured and Drugged up, and that coming from The best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be
@@FTW54 I'm always impressed he came back and for me, I enjoyed that last run with Rock over this. He looked way worse here then I remember going back to the footage.
Alex Wright is understated here, WCW management was a joke, they should've had a mandatory meeting, once the ring was fully setup, that required ALL in ring performers (so refs included) to attend to show them the trap door and run it through with each person individually. Call it over-the-top health and safety if you want, to me, it's just common sense.
Watsup w you dudes and always wanting to drink beer with a wrestler? Like for real they don't and aren't gonna do that so QUIT saying it !! Getting pisst from always seeing this same comment !👇🏼
All this S*** about Trap Doors it's not He-Man & Masters Of The Universe. Bulldog was hooked on drugs at the time, his bloated fish face proves that. Bret Hart even stated that it was nothing to do with the Trap Door he was just out of shape and injured and Drugged up, and that coming from The best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be
@@farleysmoke5130 na keep your weird joe biden supporting ass away from me! And again, explain.. why ďyou always wanna have a drink w a wrestler? What do you expect to happen, hopefully he'd chug it and leave ya with a 5 second hello and goodbye.
He deserves it. You could see his hair thinning before the Beryln character he started doing in 1999. I remember WCW saying he was an 18 year old rookie in 1994 so he had to be around only 23 in '99. Only seems fair it would compensate elsewhere.
This might sound weird, but all the guys in my family have similar features (minus the physique) to Bulldog, so when I saw him, he looked like he’d be related to me so he was one of my favorites instantly! 🤣
Alex! I haven't forgotten about Alex Wright and was wondering recently what he has been up to. It's good to see he is doing well and is healthy. I still do the Alex Wright dance to make my son crack up laughing even if he doesn't know where it's from.
Alex Wright looks like an IT technician more than a wrestler - he also looks really young, not sure if he just stayed out of trouble or what but he looks really healthy.
It also helps that he was pretty young (18 or 19, I think) when he started in WCW. I think a lot of us (myself very much included) think of him as being older because he wrestled so long ago (mid to late 1990s), especially in comparison to some of his peers from that time who perhaps didn't take care of their bodies as well as he did.
Alex Wright you can't say anything bad about this he is probably one of the greatest European wrestlers one of the greatest wrestlers of his generation give him credit put him in a hall thing I believe he should be in the ilio DiPaolo's Wrestling Hall of Fame in Buffalo New York part of the first iliot Apollo night that WCW had and it closed down the Aud
I could have swore I saw an interview with Bischoff where he said they had a meeting with all the talent to tell them about the trap door and to stay away. He was very dismissive about Davey saying he didn't know about it but it sounds like Alex didn't know about it then either.
All this S*** about Trap Doors it's not He-Man & Masters Of The Universe. Bulldog was hooked on drugs at the time, his bloated fish face proves that. Bret Hart even stated that it was nothing to do with the Trap Door, he was just out of shape and injured and Drugged up, and that's coming from The best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be
How sad. One of greatest, most underrated talents in the business injured by a stupid gimmick for a no talent who didn't give a crap about the business
Yeah, I think he could have easily revived WCW if not for the turmoil going on at Turner. Bischoff was burnt out and frustrated, which led to him getting himself fired. Russo then came in and killed the gimmick, and the reason is thought to be because he thought it was Bischoff's idea. (As Alex Wright explains in another interview clip on the channel, it was actually his idea. Bischoff simply gave his idea the green light because he really liked it.)
@@honestreviewer7788 Of that baffoon who was supposed to be his translator... she couldn't actually speak German, and was trying trying to recite her lines she couldn't remember...
Thinking more about, you might be right. Davey thought all throughout the week leading up to One Night Only that he would be going over and promoted the show as such. Only to find out the night of that Shawn had politicized to get the finish changed so as to go over himself. He looked genuinely devastated when he lost that match, and given Montreal happened not long after he was out of work for a while and probably hit the drugs even harder.
Nice shout out to Ted there. I knew Ted, lovely bloke. He showed me where he taught Davey, Steve and the rest. Davey was nice, met him in O'Malley's a few times.
I remember when I first heard about this trap door in the ring and not telling the wrestlers and thinking, "What the hell was the management thinking? There is a solid trap door that has never been used before, and they don't tell the talent? They didn't think there was a risk of injury?" Regardless, if I was in management, I would never have agreed to having a door installed. Not only is it a safety hazard, but the whole teleportation thing was just stupid. Of course, the problem with WCW at the time was that the management didn't understand or care about the ins and outs of the business. THAT is a whole other part of the story of the downfall of the company.
He isn’t wrong, he was on a spiral. However, that does not take away from the fact that Davey was genuinely injured. That said, it isn’t warrior’s fault.
The funny thing with the Junkyard Invitational, if you were already on a guaranteed contract there was no incentive to participate. You were already making as much money as you were gonna make, why put your body into a bigger risk than the Brawl-For-All. It's like when Kevin Nash was in a Triple-Cage Match on Nitro, he had the common sense to basically only do a handful of moves and stood outside the ring by the door for nearly his entire time in there.
@@LordDeBahs Absolutely, I remember a World War III where he eliminated all the guys within his one ring of the three rings, basically in record time. Then he just waited for nearly all the others in the other two rings to eliminate each other.
On top of not informing the talent. They could have just had the trap door in the ring where the regular matches where NOT taking place! As it was a double ring set up for War Games. Incompetency all round.
Both their careers (Bret and Davey) ended premature because they went to WCW. Davey made it back to WWE but like others have said, that back injury was the beginning of the end. Never fully recovered.
It almost makes me wonder what would have happened to Owen Hart if he would have gotten his release from Vince McMahon and been allowed to go down south with the rest of his family. I can say with almost complete certainty that he likely wouldn't have fallen to his death in 1999 the way he did. But if he would have suffered an injury or something to that effect, the way they mismanaged both Davey and Bret's injuries makes me wonder if he would have been able to maintain a good quality of life after retiring. Just something I thought about after reading your comment.
From what I understand the trapdoor was likely made out of plywood and it was held up between the floor and the bottom of the canvas by a piece of 2x4 cut to length and it was covered over with the canvas that's all I really know so that section of ring had no give cuz the 2x4 was ensuring the trap door wouldn't swing open and close stay closed and wouldn't open
I don't know how WCW's bookers and others didn't tell the talent in that match about that trap door. WCW effectively ended Bulldog's career as a result. That promotion was so incompetent in the late '90s.
Warrior claims Bulldog was gone before that bump...but I'm sure it didn't help lol. (Not telling the wrestlers that ring has been "modified" is unacceptable) P.s Alex was awesome in WCW
That's a lawsuit, WCW had two rings on this night since it was War Games night, all the matches til the main event should've beeen held in the other ring w/o the trap door. Who ever was responsible should've known better.
Alex was trained by his father Steve Wright, a British professional wrestler.[1] He wrestled his first match in 1991 in Germany when he was sixteen years old
Alex Wright..... Being a life long wrestling fan I thought Alex was going to be the man over the nature boy one day... I always thought he was an incredible performer in the ring... and Berlin with the wall I thought was pretty cool. Always wondered what happened to Alex Wright
Hannibal asked the Warrior about Davey Boy's injury and Warrior was having none of it. Davey Boy's career was ruined by his addiction to crack and that was going on way before his back injury.
Anyone else not buy the trap door story? He looked pretty hurt before the match started and he worked for quite a while afterwards despite presumably having a guaranteed WCW contract.
Also, Davey was on massive doses of roids in the 90's, no doubt that wore his body out prematurely (Superstar Billy Graham says that his own drug use broke him down fast).
All this S*** about Trap Doors it's not He-Man & Masters Of The Universe. Bulldog was hooked on drugs at the time, his bloated fish face proves that. Bret Hart even stated that it was nothing to do with the Trap Door, he was just out of shape and injured and Drugged up, and that's coming from The best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be
Recently on Keeping It 100, Disco and Konnan both said, “everyone knew about the trap door.” And Davey was incredibly messed up when he came into work. Gotta be honest, it’s hard not to believe everyone knew about the trap.
WCW had a history got goofy setups that messed up performers. One can’t forget the cheap rope that ripped Cactus Jack’s ear off or the platform by the ring Rick Rude hurt his back on that he fell into.
So sad seeing Alex like this. All bald and with basically no hair on the top of his head. I want to cry. I remember him young, so full of life and with a great head just overflowing with all that hair. Now he's like a cueball or an egg. How cruel life can be. To have so much hair one day and then Father Time comes and leaves you this sad hairless shell of your former self. So horrific. Then he's grown a silly mustache on his face as if by having some hair on his lip that might help balance the loss of all that hair on his head. It doesn't. Alex, it doesn't. I just want to cry.
If you have eyes to see, you could see he already losing his hair in the mid 90's. Just because he has no hair doesn't mean life is cruel. Are you a mo ron? He is very proud to show off what you are obviously embarrassed enough to HIDE, dick!!
Nah, he's good looking. He probably should have gone hard when he was losing his hair -- and he was losing his hair in WCW. The technology probably wasn't there at the time, but min + fin + transplants could have seen him with a head of hair today.
Keepin' It 100 with Konnan podcast with Disco Inferno in 2020 as heard in the TH-cam video titled "Disco Inferno on: behind the scenes drama at Fall Brawl 98" Host: "It's always claimed and it's become like accepted fact almost that Davey Boy hurt his back on the Ultimate Warriors trap door" Disco: "Yeah he's full of shit, now we all knew that, everybody knew that that door was there, everybody during the day, you know." Konnan: "It's like you're on drugs you don't know what the fucks going on."
I got to be honest. I hate that loud af intro sound when binge watching a few 4 minute clips. I get it. The intro makes it look "professional", but can't the volume be equalized? It's just 2 clicks
@@iamdb1990 Sure I can. I just don't want to turn it up and down every few minutes. Is that hard to understand. These aren't hour long videos and I don't click to turn down my volume. This isn't the 1900's lol
All this S*** about Trap Doors it's not He-Man & Masters Of The Universe. Bulldog was hooked on drugs at the time, his bloated fish face proves that. Bret Hart even stated that it was nothing to do with the Trap Door, he was just out of shape and injured and Drugged up, and that's coming from The best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be
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Alex Wright a class act and being kind to Davey Boy
Alex seems to be a well spoken class act. Doesn't trssh other people in the business.
Seems like a great guy honestly and wasn't too bad of a wrestler I liked him and wcw cruiser weight was insane Jericho geraro Benoit c'mon those we're the days if you were a wrestling fan
Alex Wright vs a healthy prime Davey Boy Smith would have been a great match
@@patrickfennell6372 no doubt
I agree with the class act comment about this wrestler but also I grew up with Davey Boy I knew his kids Alex Wright your class act in a stand-up gentleman congrats to you for being one of the true genuine articles always admired you but now I do even more
Good on Alex being upfront about this incident. Please remember he blames WCW management for the mishap, not Warrior, and we didn't know it at the time but Alex himself got hurt by the trapdoor in the match too.
Warrior also got hurt he ripped his bicep of his bone when he was hanging and kicking the cage apart looked good but when Warrior swung himself out the cage to the floor his arm got caught up ,that is a 8 to a year to recover from ,and Warr had to wrestlers Hulk at Halloween HAVIC few weeks later I DON'T KNOW HOW HE DID IT GIVING THE ALL THAT ,IT WASN'T THAT BAD WARRIOR SAID HE WAS IN A LOT OF PAIN BUT HE GOT IN THERE ,SUCKS HULK F,CKED UP THE FIRE SHIT AT THE END BUT IS WHAT IT IS , AND THATS WHY WARRIOR LEFT AFTER THAT HE HAD TO LET HIS BICEP GET BETTER.
I've wondered where Alex Wright has been since 2001. So cool to see him again and hear he's doing great.
He opened a wrestling school in Germany.
I would never have recognized him
@@desisdosis473 successful one. Great guy. You can text him on FB. We had a nice little conversation.
He trained Giovanni Vinci from NXT
Alex got his own indy Promotion running. It's called "NEW" (New European Wrestling) and It's quite successful over here in germany. Fabian Aichner, who was part of "IMPERIUM" at NXT and now is under a new name, started his career over here. Also there are certain other wrestlers, who started at NEW and now making themselves a big name in the european indy-scene. Some are at Westside Xtreme Wrestling, which is one of the biggest promotions in germany and europe and getting ready for the big time.
Davey Boy Smith was one of my late Pops' favorite wrestlers. Davey had one of the best dropkicks for a big man
Very irresponsible on WCW’s part for not informing the talent about the trap door. That back injury Davey suffered was pretty much ended his career and never recovered from it
Facts I hate bulldog went out on a whimper
He did recover but yes, was a shell of himself during his final WWF run in 1999-2000.
Yes, and that infection came from the trap door incident that occurred during the very match being discussed in this video. He got a staph infection and almost died in the hospital all stemming from the British Bulldog/Jim Neidhart Vs. Alex Wright/Disco Inferno tag match at Fall Brawl 1998. He was self-medicating before that, but this increased everything tenfold. That's not what this conversation is about anyway. Yes Davey had his issues, but we're not here to speak ill of the dead; especially when all of us are flawed as human-beings. Davey Boy did far more good for the business than anything else and lived and died for it. He's deeply missed by many of us.
Alex Wright vs a healthy prime Davey Boy would have been a great match
@Marc Carran carran telling truth
The dumb thing about the trapped door is that they had TWO rings that night. They couldve just avoided that ring altogether but WCW was so dumb when it came to obvious decisions
great point
Exactly. It's just negligence.
😲 Oh shit! That’s right, such a shame it could have all very easily been avoided.
All this S*** about Trap Doors it's not He-Man & Masters Of The Universe. Bulldog was hooked on drugs at the time, his bloated fish face proves that. Bret Hart even stated that it was nothing to do with the Trap Door he was just out of shape and injured and Drugged up, and that coming from The best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be
Sounds like a Russo idea... WCW had alot of bonehead mishaps in that time. Sid breaking his ankle & the Giant supposedly tossed off a roof. It was excess showtime. Glad they caught up with Alex.
Alex Wright is in my OSW boys stable, criminally underrated!
can of coke!
Oh me meow!!
He’s too well known and successful to be a boy… I suppose they’d have to make a ruling…
The gross negligence of either the office or the bookers to not tell anyone about that door, is.......insane, almost criminal. Jesus Christ.
They could of had a nice lawsuit
@@ozzymorrison8628 I'm shocked that wasn't even on the table, it left Bulldog with a serious injury leading to painkillers........
All this S*** about Trap Doors it's not He-Man & Masters Of The Universe. Bulldog was hooked on drugs at the time, his bloated fish face proves that. Bret Hart even stated that it was nothing to do with the Trap Door he was just out of shape and injured and Drugged up, and that coming from The best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be
@@JoeChillton To be fair Bulldog was already a pretty bad addict before he even got dropped on the door. But theres no denying that was the end
@@FTW54 I'm always impressed he came back and for me, I enjoyed that last run with Rock over this. He looked way worse here then I remember going back to the footage.
Always great to see Alex Wright. He was a great worker and always had entertaining matches.
What's insane is that Bulldog had a WWF run in the main event for a short while after this.
Alex Wright is understated here, WCW management was a joke, they should've had a mandatory meeting, once the ring was fully setup, that required ALL in ring performers (so refs included) to attend to show them the trap door and run it through with each person individually. Call it over-the-top health and safety if you want, to me, it's just common sense.
What a gent! Man after thease interview’s with Alex I bet there’s a ton of people who would love to go for a pint 🍺 with this guy. Legend 😎👍🏼
Watsup w you dudes and always wanting to drink beer with a wrestler? Like for real they don't and aren't gonna do that so QUIT saying it !! Getting pisst from always seeing this same comment !👇🏼
All this S*** about Trap Doors it's not He-Man & Masters Of The Universe. Bulldog was hooked on drugs at the time, his bloated fish face proves that. Bret Hart even stated that it was nothing to do with the Trap Door he was just out of shape and injured and Drugged up, and that coming from The best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be
@@ASCUMBAGWh0re aww some one needs a hug 😂
@@acehunter3229 haven’t a clue what this has to do with my comment?
@@farleysmoke5130 na keep your weird joe biden supporting ass away from me! And again, explain.. why ďyou always wanna have a drink w a wrestler? What do you expect to happen, hopefully he'd chug it and leave ya with a 5 second hello and goodbye.
Das Wunderkind! Alex Wright was really one of the very best.
Alex does his interviews respectful ,and explains his story..A+ ,He doesn't bitch or cry like most wrestlers do
Alex Wright is aging great so far. He looks like he just turned 41.
He deserves it. You could see his hair thinning before the Beryln character he started doing in 1999. I remember WCW saying he was an 18 year old rookie in 1994 so he had to be around only 23 in '99. Only seems fair it would compensate elsewhere.
I think he just trains wrestlers now in his native country.
It's because he doesn't jerk off
The last tag match with Alex, disco / bulldog, niedhart was freakin classic. Still makes me laugh until this day.
Always though alex wright was criminally underrated. Very talented.
This might sound weird, but all the guys in my family have similar features (minus the physique) to Bulldog, so when I saw him, he looked like he’d be related to me so he was one of my favorites instantly! 🤣
Alex! I haven't forgotten about Alex Wright and was wondering recently what he has been up to. It's good to see he is doing well and is healthy. I still do the Alex Wright dance to make my son crack up laughing even if he doesn't know where it's from.
Alex i love your dance i still do it at the clubs sometimes
Alex Wright looks like an IT technician more than a wrestler - he also looks really young, not sure if he just stayed out of trouble or what but he looks really healthy.
I get the feeling he wasn’t a big drug user.
It also helps that he was pretty young (18 or 19, I think) when he started in WCW. I think a lot of us (myself very much included) think of him as being older because he wrestled so long ago (mid to late 1990s), especially in comparison to some of his peers from that time who perhaps didn't take care of their bodies as well as he did.
Alex Wright you can't say anything bad about this he is probably one of the greatest European wrestlers one of the greatest wrestlers of his generation give him credit put him in a hall thing I believe he should be in the ilio DiPaolo's Wrestling Hall of Fame in Buffalo New York part of the first iliot Apollo night that WCW had and it closed down the Aud
His dad has crazy skills too though Alex is more high flying. Too bad his heart wasn't in it when WWE made him an offer.
Agreed. Davey is one of my all time favourites.
It was the door knob they landed on
Mr. Wunderkidman, I'm fooked.
Davey was my favorite guy, too
Who wouldn’t want to enjoy a relaxing spot of crack cocaine with Davey Boy and Jim The Anvil
Lmao lmao
Saw your mom out there with them getting passed back and forth
@@yurafaget2457 no you didn’t. Now go play with your Hot Wheels Mr I got picked last in kickball and I’m still mad
Wright looks fantastic! really interesting interview 👍
Das Wunderkind! 😁
When he started talking I completely forgot AW was German haha
Hearing him speak reminded me that he is German. Classy guy, solid work in WCW.
@@adamirishconundrum851 Oh I loved him when I was a kid
His father, Steve Wright, is British. From Warrington, England.
Alex seems like a great respectful person. Makes me a bigger fan of him
I could have swore I saw an interview with Bischoff where he said they had a meeting with all the talent to tell them about the trap door and to stay away. He was very dismissive about Davey saying he didn't know about it but it sounds like Alex didn't know about it then either.
Easy E is a known liar, cmom I bet there was no meeting
@@M.S.Fitness I think Brett supported the Bischoff story on this in his book
Ultimate warrior has also dismissed the claims that bulldog didn't know.
@@grantmcphee5149 Honestly you can’t trust addicts. May he RIP.
Even if that was the case, there were two rings. You could have put all the matches in the ring without the trapdoor, avoiding any risk.
negligence is the word he was trying to think of
Bret Hart had to carry him in that Summerslam match.
So bret says
@SS666 it was clear Davey didn’t know where the fuck he was
All this S*** about Trap Doors it's not He-Man & Masters Of The Universe. Bulldog was hooked on drugs at the time, his bloated fish face proves that. Bret Hart even stated that it was nothing to do with the Trap Door, he was just out of shape and injured and Drugged up, and that's coming from The best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be
How sad. One of greatest, most underrated talents in the business injured by a stupid gimmick for a no talent who didn't give a crap about the business
Why does Warrior keep getting blamed for the trap door? It’s not like he installed the thing.
Alex was a damn good worker. And Berlin coulda worked if they gave it time.
Yeah, I think he could have easily revived WCW if not for the turmoil going on at Turner. Bischoff was burnt out and frustrated, which led to him getting himself fired. Russo then came in and killed the gimmick, and the reason is thought to be because he thought it was Bischoff's idea. (As Alex Wright explains in another interview clip on the channel, it was actually his idea. Bischoff simply gave his idea the green light because he really liked it.)
Berlyn was a doomed gimmick, with terrible support characters
@@SmithCommaBenjamin can't argue that. Having "the wall" with him did NOT help
@@honestreviewer7788 Of that baffoon who was supposed to be his translator... she couldn't actually speak German, and was trying trying to recite her lines she couldn't remember...
@Envoy you can totally hear bischoff selling it that way. "The berlin/wall" tagteam!
To me, Bulldog was never the same after the one night only bout with Shawn Michaels.
Thinking more about, you might be right. Davey thought all throughout the week leading up to One Night Only that he would be going over and promoted the show as such. Only to find out the night of that Shawn had politicized to get the finish changed so as to go over himself. He looked genuinely devastated when he lost that match, and given Montreal happened not long after he was out of work for a while and probably hit the drugs even harder.
@@XtotheK I think everyone in that group hit the bottle pretty hard. Smith. Pillman. Neidhart.
Nice shout out to Ted there. I knew Ted, lovely bloke. He showed me where he taught Davey, Steve and the rest. Davey was nice, met him in O'Malley's a few times.
These interviews are very good 👍
Alex was so underrated 🤼
No one's shorts were tighter 😄 God blessed Alex.
Hennig wasn't mucking around either.
Alex Wright is the man!
Das wonder kid! 🕺
Alex Wright was a good talent
Oh snap the guy with the good hair and black leather jacket with his famous dance lol I remember this guy lol
Das Wunderkind 👍
Man I actually grew up watching WCW and wwf and I have absolutely no recollection of this dude Alex wright.
He would always do that goofy dance. You can't forget him
Does Alex Wright still Wrestling or training others?
He was Great in WCW days...
Yes he runs a school in Nuremberg Germany! I actually looked it up bc I’m going to Germany soon, and I live close and I like wanna go lol.
I remember when I first heard about this trap door in the ring and not telling the wrestlers and thinking, "What the hell was the management thinking? There is a solid trap door that has never been used before, and they don't tell the talent? They didn't think there was a risk of injury?"
Regardless, if I was in management, I would never have agreed to having a door installed. Not only is it a safety hazard, but the whole teleportation thing was just stupid.
Of course, the problem with WCW at the time was that the management didn't understand or care about the ins and outs of the business.
THAT is a whole other part of the story of the downfall of the company.
Absolute straight shooter...
Ultimate Warrior played it off and said Davey was already gone before Fall Brawl
A good example of how the warrior was a clueless jerk, he was obviously wrong
He isn’t wrong, he was on a spiral. However, that does not take away from the fact that Davey was genuinely injured. That said, it isn’t warrior’s fault.
Did WCW ever have unsafe matches? Ask Finley and the rest about the Junkyard Invitational.
The funny thing with the Junkyard Invitational, if you were already on a guaranteed contract there was no incentive to participate. You were already making as much money as you were gonna make, why put your body into a bigger risk than the Brawl-For-All.
It's like when Kevin Nash was in a Triple-Cage Match on Nitro, he had the common sense to basically only do a handful of moves and stood outside the ring by the door for nearly his entire time in there.
@@mattb6369 nash always worked like that . super lazy and weak legs
@@LordDeBahs Absolutely, I remember a World War III where he eliminated all the guys within his one ring of the three rings, basically in record time. Then he just waited for nearly all the others in the other two rings to eliminate each other.
On top of not informing the talent. They could have just had the trap door in the ring where the regular matches where NOT taking place! As it was a double ring set up for War Games. Incompetency all round.
I was 8 years old watching Summerslam in 1992
Both their careers (Bret and Davey) ended premature because they went to WCW. Davey made it back to WWE but like others have said, that back injury was the beginning of the end. Never fully recovered.
It almost makes me wonder what would have happened to Owen Hart if he would have gotten his release from Vince McMahon and been allowed to go down south with the rest of his family.
I can say with almost complete certainty that he likely wouldn't have fallen to his death in 1999 the way he did. But if he would have suffered an injury or something to that effect, the way they mismanaged both Davey and Bret's injuries makes me wonder if he would have been able to maintain a good quality of life after retiring.
Just something I thought about after reading your comment.
DIDNT REALIZE IT AT THE TIME BUT THE DANCIN FOOLS WERE A GREAT TAG TEAM
The bulldog should've gotten a lawyer,no doubt he would've owned Turner broadcasting.
Davey Boy has a great look was good in the ring and could cut a solid promo. Makes the Sport of Pro Wrestling look cool
From what I understand the trapdoor was likely made out of plywood and it was held up between the floor and the bottom of the canvas by a piece of 2x4 cut to length and it was covered over with the canvas that's all I really know so that section of ring had no give cuz the 2x4 was ensuring the trap door wouldn't swing open and close stay closed and wouldn't open
The word he is looking for to describe this is 'Negligent'.
Ooooooo Big Bratwurst OoooOooooOoooooOoooo
I always thought Alex's german accent made him sound innocent and sincere.
The whole situation could’ve been avoided if they were informed about the trap door and used the other ring.
The trap door of doom.
The only thing that doesn’t track is Wright got slammed in a completely different part of the ring
The word I would have used is "Negligent". - My name is Ed Baker from Portland, Oregon USA.
I don't know how WCW's bookers and others didn't tell the talent in that match about that trap door. WCW effectively ended Bulldog's career as a result. That promotion was so incompetent in the late '90s.
WCW in the late 90's ended a lot of legend's careers. Bret Hart, Davey Boy, and Rick Martel just named a few.
Warrior claims Bulldog was gone before that bump...but I'm sure it didn't help lol. (Not telling the wrestlers that ring has been "modified" is unacceptable)
P.s Alex was awesome in WCW
Legend
I would love to see Alex come back to wwe
I can still do the Alex Wright dance.
Can you?
Both the bulldogs were brought down by back accidents.
That's a lawsuit, WCW had two rings on this night since it was War Games night, all the matches til the main event should've beeen held in the other ring w/o the trap door. Who ever was responsible should've known better.
I was always a fan of das Wonder kid
Alex Wright has a better English vocabulary than the interviewer.
Careful.
People might take you seriously.
Alex was trained by his father Steve Wright, a British professional wrestler.[1] He wrestled his first match in 1991 in Germany when he was sixteen years old
I wish Alex had a run in WWE.
That's WCW 4 ya
Alex Wright.....
Being a life long wrestling fan I thought Alex was going to be the man over the nature boy one day...
I always thought he was an incredible performer in the ring... and Berlin with the wall I thought was pretty cool. Always wondered what happened to Alex Wright
Did davey do chin locks?
Hannibal asked the Warrior about Davey Boy's injury and Warrior was having none of it. Davey Boy's career was ruined by his addiction to crack and that was going on way before his back injury.
Anyone else not buy the trap door story? He looked pretty hurt before the match started and he worked for quite a while afterwards despite presumably having a guaranteed WCW contract.
Brett didn’t buy it
Also, Davey was on massive doses of roids in the 90's, no doubt that wore his body out prematurely (Superstar Billy Graham says that his own drug use broke him down fast).
So both Alex and the bulldog were making this up?
All this S*** about Trap Doors it's not He-Man & Masters Of The Universe. Bulldog was hooked on drugs at the time, his bloated fish face proves that. Bret Hart even stated that it was nothing to do with the Trap Door, he was just out of shape and injured and Drugged up, and that's coming from The best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be
Ultimate Warrior in WCW was the REAL Messiah Of the Backbreaker!
So sad to see what became of both bulldogs
Recently on Keeping It 100, Disco and Konnan both said, “everyone knew about the trap door.” And Davey was incredibly messed up when he came into work. Gotta be honest, it’s hard not to believe everyone knew about the trap.
WCW had a history got goofy setups that messed up performers. One can’t forget the cheap rope that ripped Cactus Jack’s ear off or the platform by the ring Rick Rude hurt his back on that he fell into.
How is anyone surprised about this happening? This is late 90s WCW to a T!
Davey was your favourite surprises me as i thought Dynamite was cooler as a kid. Cooler name ect
Surprised that he was your favourite. I always liked Dynamite Kid but both had drug issues & massive back issues due to the company's incompetence.
So sad seeing Alex like this. All bald and with basically no hair on the top of his head. I want to cry. I remember him young, so full of life and with a great head just overflowing with all that hair. Now he's like a cueball or an egg. How cruel life can be. To have so much hair one day and then Father Time comes and leaves you this sad hairless shell of your former self. So horrific. Then he's grown a silly mustache on his face as if by having some hair on his lip that might help balance the loss of all that hair on his head. It doesn't. Alex, it doesn't. I just want to cry.
If you have eyes to see, you could see he already losing his hair in the mid 90's. Just because he has no hair doesn't mean life is cruel. Are you a mo ron? He is very proud to show off what you are obviously embarrassed enough to HIDE, dick!!
Nah, he's good looking. He probably should have gone hard when he was losing his hair -- and he was losing his hair in WCW. The technology probably wasn't there at the time, but min + fin + transplants could have seen him with a head of hair today.
Keepin' It 100 with Konnan podcast with Disco Inferno in 2020 as heard in the TH-cam video titled "Disco Inferno on: behind the scenes drama at Fall Brawl 98"
Host: "It's always claimed and it's become like accepted fact almost that Davey Boy hurt his back on the Ultimate Warriors trap door"
Disco: "Yeah he's full of shit, now we all knew that, everybody knew that that door was there, everybody during the day, you know."
Konnan: "It's like you're on drugs you don't know what the fucks going on."
I got to be honest. I hate that loud af intro sound when binge watching a few 4 minute clips. I get it. The intro makes it look "professional", but can't the volume be equalized? It's just 2 clicks
can you not just turn your volume down? it's just 2 clicks....
@@iamdb1990 Sure I can. I just don't want to turn it up and down every few minutes. Is that hard to understand. These aren't hour long videos and I don't click to turn down my volume. This isn't the 1900's lol
Bulldog with a push and putting tv title or us title run may of just saved him.
how do they not tell the wrestlers so they could plan the match around it?
Someone correct me if I’m wrong but wasn’t The Bulldogs bad back mostly due to his Steroid abuse along with his short temper in his personal life.
Steroids doesn’t give you a bad back I think talking bumps couple slipped discs might done it
All this S*** about Trap Doors it's not He-Man & Masters Of The Universe. Bulldog was hooked on drugs at the time, his bloated fish face proves that. Bret Hart even stated that it was nothing to do with the Trap Door, he was just out of shape and injured and Drugged up, and that's coming from The best there is, the best there was and the best there ever will be
Hope he's in a better place
Wonder why the British Bulldog was his favourite... 🤔
THEY HAD 2 RINGS!!? Why have all the matches in the only ring with a career ending gimmick....
poor management planning in this match!
Negligent was the word