Brilliant episode! Awesome to see Don again, awesome to see the magnificent 1 and the hammer chatting. Thanks James for setting this up Ive been a fan from the start, I know it's difficult with the time difference but would love to see Don back now and again
I am happy to see these two chatting together, I grew up on these guys, would love to get those shoot interviews you did with Don Muraco back on your page. I never got to finish them. It would be great if you can get these two on more often and other legends. I enjoy your content, by far one of the top wrestling shoot interviewers going, keep up the good work!!!
What a great show! That was a lot of fun. Like Dutch puts it, I was a fan in the backseat of the car while these two legends chatted in front. Just awesome.
Great to see Don back on your channel, I think if you can make it happen, having more duos is a great way to go because a lot of these guys have done many solo interviews. I would like to see Brutus Beefcake and the Honky-tonk Man go over together what was happening with their run because the stories are a bit different. Honky-tonk Man and Jake Roberts at the same time would also be good.
Love these guys talking, great stuff. Would enjoy seeing more of both men. I do think the videos need a date of filming on them so viewers know when they were talking, great for historical purposes.
Great interview, I remember watching these guys as a preteen, at age 12 when I started martial arts and boxing. I realized that they were working. Later as a kickboxer, I was in the same circles as the old-school pro wrestlers. I never failed to tell those guys how much I respected what they did. I still have mad respect for those tough guys! I had a fellow kickboxer who later became a pro wrestler. He related to me just how tough pro wrestling was, he actually received a serious injury wrestling. I was watching him on tv as he was injured. I immediately call him to see if it were legit, he was indeed injured!
James you're the best for this content. Valentine was one of my favorites growing up. I really loved his style in the ring. I finally got to meet him this past March and got an autograph and picture taken with him, myself and my 8 year old son. He was a great dude when I met him. A living legend and in my eyes the true master of the figure 4. Muraco is awesome too, these guys are a wealth of knowledge from the golden age of wrestling.
It's funny because these two guys were natural heels but are literally the two most nicest decent wrestlers I've seen to this date. If you asked me out of the blue who the two nicest and most decent people were and NEVER bad mouthed ANYONE , it would literally be these two.
Money does spend quickly when paying monthly expenses among other creditors. A monthly Net of fifteen thousand dollars does spend quickly and houses was selling for one hundred thousand dollars in the 1980's.
Been waiting for the full interview. Thank you for getting these two together. This is a good formula, I also enjoyed the Santana and Valentine DVD made by Kayfabe Commentaries where they talk about their feud.
Back in the early 90's, I was a taxi driver in the Newark NJ area. I use to drive around some real deal mobsters sometimes. I was telling one the mob guys one night during a ride, that I recently had the Metal Maniac and Jimmy superfly Snuka in the cab. He proceeded to tell me a few years back, over off of Wilson or Ferri st, not far from the airport. Don Morocco did something in one of their bars and he came real close to getting killed. He didn't get into detail, but he said they were set up to get him, when he left the bar, but something came up and they had to leave and when they got back he was gone. He said, that man had no clue how close he was to dieing that night.
As well as Booker T he was so nice. I love his finishing move of the Spinaroonie. He did that at FortuneBaynia and delivered it with such grace an humility.
I love Cody Rhodes he's such an awesome entertainer. And as Greg The Hammer Valentine goes. Such a nice man. Met him at Fortune Baynia at Fortune Bay Casino in Minnesota. The guy is a real class act
Great to see them together and to see Don again. I was always a Muraco fan and actually hoped he would beat Hogan. I always disliked Greg Valentine, but you could tell he was one tough dude. He was a true heel.
dumb Morocco and Greg Valentine was the best Heals in of their time they both could Kick-Ass that was when wrestling was really worth watching I think one of the best wrestling matches I've ever saw was Don Moraco and Ricky the Dragon Steamboat❤❤
These two legends are just saying what we all think. Too many high spots that are forced, too many false finishes, etc. Performers now seem to only care about big spots & moments. They fail to understand that those spots & moments mean nothing without storytelling.
i have both rubber first edition wrestlers Hasbro ..the ring an the blue cage ...white ring with comentstor stickers on the side an wwf in midle...white bkue an red ropes... i still have it all belts an accessorys i have 32 of em
What a treat seeing these two together again! And they are right, they technically ARE the Midwest Tag Team Champions STILL! With the right money I bet they would come back in the ring once more and defend their titles which I would pay to watch! I would love seeing them teach these little jumping bean guys in WWE how to wrestle and take a bump as well as take a real beating! Thank you for bringing them both here together, two very tough charismatic wrestlers of the Golden era, the best era in professional wrestling!
Love when Valentine got a little political and said Democrats destroyed Los Angeles. Not sure Muraco agreed he kind of stayed silent he lives in Hawaii a strongly Democrat state. Lol
Dusty Rhodes Bankrupted everything he Booked so not a Surprised he would be Broke. His stuff never worked driving away Powers of Pain wanting to do STupid Scaffold Match with guys like 300 pounds who can match Road Warriors ;)? Funny they had liquid Valium which can't imagine what that must have been like. Lou Albano sounds difficult to deal with drinking all that but always liked him as Super Mario on that Super Show. Though I hear stories about Phil Baroni being problem so people not wanting to book him who related to him. Funny that one trip had All Those Guys Fired like JYD or Bulldogs or Rock. Glad they didn't get Brown Frown Weed back then. Must be nice having it Legal in Vegas. RVD is there so must toke with The Hammer too :).
Today wrestling isnt wrestling its acting and thats vinces fault used to the made it look real now they make it completely obvious i watched a WrestleMania match with my grandkids and one guy got knocked down the other guy got on the top rope the guy laying down was in the wrong position so he got up moved to the right position and layed back down i was like what the hell but Vince made it non violent no blood and really its alot of talking and most of them are bad with the microphone the guys today couldn't lace the boots of the wrestlers from the 70 s and 80s and even the 90s when things started to suck if Vince senior had known what Junior was going to do he would have given the wwf to someone else because he kept it good and interesting but junior built hogan on the rocky movies his entire career was a rocky movie until he went to wcw
Cody Rhodes sucks that ain't supposed to be at church is supposed to be a wrestling match they just handed him the title and says you're a champion and even took his name from his brother the American Nightmare in my ass even though I don't like the guy but a La night would be a better Fit For A Champion in Cody Rhodes is
that's not wrestling they do so much acrobat is more like a circus is there any snow wrestling holds and I don't think anybody knows anything about wrestling they know how to jump around nobody gets hurt nobody believes they get hit with chairs the only one have credible at this time is Guther
Growing up, I was a huge Valentine mark, but his desire to sound important and knowledgeable is like fingernails on a chalkboard. I can't imagine the torture of sitting next to him on a 5 hour flight. I would love to hear his full story, but I couldn't stand listening to him telling it. More of Don would be great.
For someone like valentine, having watched so many of his interviews, and Don as well, you have to ask good specific questions. Some of these guys require that assistance and direction to get the most out of their views and thoughts.
@@BigBadJerryRogers Good point. Less open-ended questions would likely make Valentine more palatable. I usually prefer more open-ended questions for a more wide ranging interview. You get better stories. Sometimes it is necessary to reign people in. I think you may be right with Valentine. Regardless, I have no interest in listening to this entire interview. It's sad, because I have enjoyed his work since the early 1980's. He was such a great heel.
I worked a show w the Hammer back in 2018 here in Cali and man Greg is one of the best coolest guys in the biz and we toked the ganja from Salinas Ca to Fremont Ca , great times indeed..! And the Rock Don Muraco is a sweet guy God bless these legends of the SQ circle
We need Muracos podcast back love the dirty Dutch but get OG Rock 🪨 back asap we can have both and if possible get Greg the Hammer and the real entertaining badass HONKY TONK MAN
These two guys are giants of wrestling. It's so great to have them on the show together.
James, thabks for getting these two together on camera together. You are a straight up gem stone for this one.
Very entertaining. I am 51 and remember these two extraordinary performers do their thing on early 80s WWF TV!
I laughed hard at Greg's liquid Valium story. Blessed to hear these stories from two great friends.
2 absolute legends in the business!!...great to see them together
Love seeing Don and Greg. Two legends
Brilliant episode! Awesome to see Don again, awesome to see the magnificent 1 and the hammer chatting. Thanks James for setting this up Ive been a fan from the start, I know it's difficult with the time difference but would love to see Don back now and again
Wow! I didn’t notice this on here! I’m about to lay down and throw blanket over my head and body and watch in dark and warmth lol!
thank you james . 2 legends talkin about all kind of stuff is always great
I am happy to see these two chatting together, I grew up on these guys, would love to get those shoot interviews you did with Don Muraco back on your page. I never got to finish them. It would be great if you can get these two on more often and other legends. I enjoy your content, by far one of the top wrestling shoot interviewers going, keep up the good work!!!
Google Don Muraco Podcast Archive - all full episodes are there now
What a great show! That was a lot of fun. Like Dutch puts it, I was a fan in the backseat of the car while these two legends chatted in front. Just awesome.
Loved this so much. Don and Greg are just such down to earth guys who both has awesome runs!
Great to see Don back on your channel, I think if you can make it happen, having more duos is a great way to go because a lot of these guys have done many solo interviews. I would like to see Brutus Beefcake and the Honky-tonk Man go over together what was happening with their run because the stories are a bit different. Honky-tonk Man and Jake Roberts at the same time would also be good.
2 of my absolute favorites. Thanks so much for putting this together. This helps keep the legacy of pro wrestlings halcyon days alive.
I loved Don when I was a kid, I grew up on the beach in Australia surfing and I saw a photo of Don riding a surfboard and I was hooked.
Two of my favorite heels ever!
2 of my all time favorite wrestlers ❤️ saw Don Muraco in 1974 vs Jimmy Valiant in the Philadelphia Spectrum
This was awesome. Just sitting back and listening to 2 legends have a conversation
Don Muraco is one of my all time favorite heels . One of my all time favorite in wwe 💯
Having two Legends on the same interview makes all the difference in the world. Excellent dynamic!
Love these guys talking, great stuff. Would enjoy seeing more of both men. I do think the videos need a date of filming on them so viewers know when they were talking, great for historical purposes.
James you are the best . So great to two of my all time favorites trading stories and going down memory lane .❤
We used to watch the Hammer in '75 in LA on Spanish language TV in Chicago ! Gordman and Goliath were great workers .
So nice too see these two all of the time s I have watched them mind boggling
the hammer is maga another reason to love him 🤣
Great interview, I remember watching these guys as a preteen, at age 12 when I started martial arts and boxing. I realized that they were working. Later as a kickboxer, I was in the same circles as the old-school pro wrestlers. I never failed to tell those guys how much I respected what they did. I still have mad respect for those tough guys! I had a fellow kickboxer who later became a pro wrestler. He related to me just how tough pro wrestling was, he actually received a serious injury wrestling. I was watching him on tv as he was injured. I immediately call him to see if it were legit, he was indeed injured!
Roddy Piper doing 110 down the highway, while pouring beer in his eyes is a hilarious image.
Great to see these two legends have a conversation!
Much love to Greg.❤
The Hammer and The Rock!!
This interview is great, you can tell these two still have great chemistry together. James is a masterful conductor.
Oh man this is great. I love these guys.
James you're the best for this content. Valentine was one of my favorites growing up. I really loved his style in the ring. I finally got to meet him this past March and got an autograph and picture taken with him, myself and my 8 year old son. He was a great dude when I met him. A living legend and in my eyes the true master of the figure 4. Muraco is awesome too, these guys are a wealth of knowledge from the golden age of wrestling.
I’m impressed with this catch of characters Me James . Good one
Fellow Mancunian here, loves these podcasts. Nothing mean spirited just great stories.
I enjoyed listening to this and I hope we get more wrestlers together talking like this because it is a treat for sure thank you all very much...
This is fantastic content! Thx u.
It's funny because these two guys were natural heels but are literally the two most nicest decent wrestlers I've seen to this date. If you asked me out of the blue who the two nicest and most decent people were and NEVER bad mouthed ANYONE , it would literally be these two.
Remember when Greg used to wrestle in Albuquerque as one of the Fargo Brothers at the Civic auditorium. NWA. Mike London, promoter.
Money does spend quickly when paying monthly expenses among other creditors.
A monthly Net of fifteen thousand dollars does spend quickly and houses was selling for one hundred thousand dollars in the 1980's.
Been waiting for the full interview. Thank you for getting these two together. This is a good formula, I also enjoyed the Santana and Valentine DVD made by Kayfabe Commentaries where they talk about their feud.
Two of the best to ever do it.
Awesome episode. Greg always a favorite of mine since his Buffalo and Maple Leaf days.
Two of the greats! Real wrestlers!
Lol!! These guys jump up and down like a bunch of Mexican jumping beans. That legit made lol 😆
I LOVE THIS!!
Great the entire interview!
Back in the early 90's, I was a taxi driver in the Newark NJ area. I use to drive around some real deal mobsters sometimes. I was telling one the mob guys one night during a ride, that I recently had the Metal Maniac and Jimmy superfly Snuka in the cab. He proceeded to tell me a few years back, over off of Wilson or Ferri st, not far from the airport. Don Morocco did something in one of their bars and he came real close to getting killed. He didn't get into detail, but he said they were set up to get him, when he left the bar, but something came up and they had to leave and when they got back he was gone. He said, that man had no clue how close he was to dieing that night.
As well as Booker T he was so nice. I love his finishing move of the Spinaroonie. He did that at FortuneBaynia and delivered it with such grace an humility.
Lots is fun here. Greg is high as a kite, Muraco is about how he usually is. Very enjoyable.
Legends both...😊
these two need a weekly show
I was out in Waikiki on Halloween and wore my Muraco shirt and few people said "Muraco lives around the island"
Loved Valentine VS Flair in Mid-Atlantic 1979 I think
Yea Greg moved from the swamp to the oven 😂
This what a nigga been waitin fo!
Both men were managed by the Grand Wizard of Wrestling in the WWF (now WWE) in 1981.
I love Cody Rhodes he's such an awesome entertainer. And as Greg The Hammer Valentine goes. Such a nice man. Met him at Fortune Baynia at Fortune Bay Casino in Minnesota. The guy is a real class act
I would proudly wear an official Don Muraco "You're nothing but a pecker checker" shirt to wear through TSA checkpoints. XD
Excellent, #SCM Squared Circle Maniacs.
Great to see them together and to see Don again. I was always a Muraco fan and actually hoped he would beat Hogan. I always disliked Greg Valentine, but you could tell he was one tough dude. He was a true heel.
Who would ever think that Don is actually a very down to earth guy?
if i was indy promoter with some extra cash id do an angle with don and greg and the mid west tag belts lol
Iam stuck in the 80s
dumb Morocco and Greg Valentine was the best Heals in of their time they both could Kick-Ass that was when wrestling was really worth watching I think one of the best wrestling matches I've ever saw was Don Moraco and Ricky the Dragon Steamboat❤❤
These two legends are just saying what we all think.
Too many high spots that are forced, too many false finishes, etc.
Performers now seem to only care about big spots & moments.
They fail to understand that those spots & moments mean nothing without storytelling.
i have both rubber first edition wrestlers Hasbro ..the ring an the blue cage ...white ring with comentstor stickers on the side an wwf in midle...white bkue an red ropes... i still have it all belts an accessorys i have 32 of em
What a treat seeing these two together again! And they are right, they technically ARE the Midwest Tag Team Champions STILL! With the right money I bet they would come back in the ring once more and defend their titles which I would pay to watch! I would love seeing them teach these little jumping bean guys in WWE how to wrestle and take a bump as well as take a real beating! Thank you for bringing them both here together, two very tough charismatic wrestlers of the Golden era, the best era in professional wrestling!
Love when Valentine got a little political and said Democrats destroyed Los Angeles.
Not sure Muraco agreed he kind of stayed silent he lives in Hawaii a strongly Democrat state. Lol
God bless the guy as i love him, but gotta learn how to angle his vid camera--he looks like Muraco the Hutt
Dusty Rhodes Bankrupted everything he Booked so not a Surprised he would be Broke. His stuff never worked driving away Powers of Pain wanting to do STupid Scaffold Match with guys like 300 pounds who can match Road Warriors ;)? Funny they had liquid Valium which can't imagine what that must have been like. Lou Albano sounds difficult to deal with drinking all that but always liked him as Super Mario on that Super Show. Though I hear stories about Phil Baroni being problem so people not wanting to book him who related to him. Funny that one trip had All Those Guys Fired like JYD or Bulldogs or Rock. Glad they didn't get Brown Frown Weed back then. Must be nice having it Legal in Vegas. RVD is there so must toke with The Hammer too :).
Muraco, great wrestler. Podcast camera holder? Not so much.
Roman wrestled 56 times in three years. Wwe title means squat
Greg trying to talk about the current wrestling product is like his buddy Trump when someone asks him about his favorite bible verses. No clue.
Johnny Valentine should have been fired for doing those things.
Good ol democrats gotta lovem
The talent today has never been trained correctly.
Movies and television shows are no good as well. There are no good actors today as well.
I think it's time to stage a cou on Biden and Waltz as well as Newsom in California. Bring it back to the days of old
Román Reigns Rules
Jesus these guys surely can’t be still doing the wrestle are they?
I don't watch the new stuff
It’s just skinny underwear models doing feminine gymnastics
Today wrestling isnt wrestling its acting and thats vinces fault used to the made it look real now they make it completely obvious i watched a WrestleMania match with my grandkids and one guy got knocked down the other guy got on the top rope the guy laying down was in the wrong position so he got up moved to the right position and layed back down i was like what the hell but Vince made it non violent no blood and really its alot of talking and most of them are bad with the microphone the guys today couldn't lace the boots of the wrestlers from the 70 s and 80s and even the 90s when things started to suck if Vince senior had known what Junior was going to do he would have given the wwf to someone else because he kept it good and interesting but junior built hogan on the rocky movies his entire career was a rocky movie until he went to wcw
drugs suck
Cody Rhodes sucks that ain't supposed to be at church is supposed to be a wrestling match they just handed him the title and says you're a champion and even took his name from his brother the American Nightmare in my ass even though I don't like the guy but a La night would be a better Fit For A Champion in Cody Rhodes is
I say we go back to the old days and stage a cou. An imprisonment them both and put someone in there with common sense.
that's not wrestling they do so much acrobat is more like a circus is there any snow wrestling holds and I don't think anybody knows anything about wrestling they know how to jump around nobody gets hurt nobody believes they get hit with chairs the only one have credible at this time is Guther
Growing up, I was a huge Valentine mark, but his desire to sound important and knowledgeable is like fingernails on a chalkboard. I can't imagine the torture of sitting next to him on a 5 hour flight. I would love to hear his full story, but I couldn't stand listening to him telling it. More of Don would be great.
For someone like valentine, having watched so many of his interviews, and Don as well, you have to ask good specific questions. Some of these guys require that assistance and direction to get the most out of their views and thoughts.
@@BigBadJerryRogers Good point. Less open-ended questions would likely make Valentine more palatable. I usually prefer more open-ended questions for a more wide ranging interview. You get better stories. Sometimes it is necessary to reign people in. I think you may be right with Valentine. Regardless, I have no interest in listening to this entire interview. It's sad, because I have enjoyed his work since the early 1980's. He was such a great heel.
I worked a show w the Hammer back in 2018 here in Cali and man Greg is one of the best coolest guys in the biz and we toked the ganja from Salinas Ca to Fremont Ca , great times indeed..! And the Rock Don Muraco is a sweet guy God bless these legends of the SQ circle
Morocco was one time called the Jack brisco look-alike
We need Muracos podcast back love the dirty Dutch but get OG Rock 🪨 back asap we can have both and if possible get Greg the Hammer and the real entertaining badass HONKY TONK MAN
I attempted to watch Raw tonight and it's beyond unwatchable
Trump nut sorry to hear that 😊
gotta love people talking pot like its a good thing to do , only idiots do it and they get what they deserve