I did recreate the fire extinguisher bit with a friend of mine. or better put, I sprayed fire suppression chemicals point blank in his face when he turned around. He didn't take it well and to this day he insists that he will someday die of cancer from that trick. Hearing that Morton died of lung cancer now has me worried for my friend.
The fact that he smoked 4 packs of cigarettes a day for at least 20 years had nothing to do with it. It was the 15 seconds he got sprayed with a fire extinguisher that gave him cancer.
I won't call Morton Jr. show Howard Stern before Howard Stern more Jerry Springer before Jerry Springer Show only reason I remember him was a interview with Lloyd Kaufman from Troma
Not to mention the other films he did, including Batman and Robin, which they name dropped. I always associated Jesse with being famous for movies too. He did pretty well in film while Hogan did not.
I was just about to write the same thing. @WrestleMe put some respect on Jesse's name & career! Jesse always played a heel, especially to Hogan while commentating. Part of the work, but behind the scenes Jesse didn't like Hogan being a grass.
Glad to see another Wrestle Me, when I get my finances under control, I will surely see your patreon stuff, in the meantime...thanks for the free content.
Been a listener to the pod since it started (all still free on whatever app you use) and subbed to the patreon since it started, easily the best thing I spend my money on each month
Who was on the roster who didn't get a match? I guess you could have done Robin-Sherri. Koko B. Ware wasn't on the card but was there a heel for him to wrestle? Would it have been worth it to throw on a Koko-Brawler match?
Piper despite all his down falls is still one of my favorite heel wrestler promo guys I know that he has done some extremely questionable things but it is just human nature to make mistakes or dumb ideas up no great is without fault
Making mistakes is one thing bit you need matirity to at least recognise your mistakes and try to correct them. Sadly most people in the wrestling business (and life) refuse to acknowledge when they have made mistakes.
Love the story at the beginning about the sign and Arn Anderson. My dad and i were at a wcw taping at the omni in atlanta in 93...we were in the cnn building before and we bumped into arn, just him...he was coming out of an elevator...he just got done cutting a promo and i look up at him and in very condescending 13 year voice said "heeey arrn"...i almost got him to laugh. Almost...he gave a nasty look to my pops tho ha.
tbh I will always consider Hogan's best film role to be his cameo in Muppets From Space, mainly because he just cut a promo and was cut off by the main antagonist being confused by the whole thing.
How on gods green earth you's two have only 22k subs is beyond me. Without a doubt THE best pro-wrestling outlet on youtube. Born in Doncaster, 1976. 1st wresltemania V in 1989 watched on mam and dad's square BskyB dish. Keep up the great content lads ❤
A frenenemy of mine apparently went to see a wwe show in the mid 90s and he called Jerry lawyer Burger King but Jerry just looked at him angry no verbal abuse like Arn Anderson
Somebody remembers Dream On, it was in the early days of Channel 4 when friday night meant Cheers, Frasier ,Roseanne ,and .Friends , beside them was short lived comedies. This one was about a guy who worked for a literary agency, His parents plonked him down in front of the TV, so when he is faced with a situation which usually involves another new girlfriend he,d hark back to a ..tv show .,... he,d watched like Abbot & Costello to replicate what he,s thinking. One episode had Sly Stallone praising his ex wifes new boyfriend.& yes, it got some notice for having near nudity..
You know, it's not often when Roddy Piper is in a bad segment that involves him talking, especially since he's one of the greatest talkers in pro wrestling history (or THE greatest talker depending on who you ask).
Roddy is nowhere NEAR my top mic workers. I feel he is one of the most overrated characters in wrestling history. He has one good promo against Bret Hart at WM8. Also his best match. Otherwise he rambles, and tries to get by off the up and down, whisper and shout style he uses. I really think Roddy has one good match. One good promo and a career of HYPE and nonsense promos. The guy RUINED the Bret Hart v Bob Backlund " I quit Match " and countless other segments and matches throughout his career.
Definitely one of the best talkers especially when he was a heel in the early eighties in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling and Georgia Championship Wrestling and in the WWF in the mid eighties before he turned baby face.
I’m so glad I’ve found this channel, every video brings back memories. In this episode Dream on (used to love Friday nights on channel 4) and then something I thought I would never see HAL wrestling on the game boy, I spent hours and hours with that game thanks for making me laugh so much
In the real early 80s we had a show called Not Necessarily the News on HBO, it was pretty raunchy, and adult oriented. For some reason I wasn't allowed to watch MTV, but I would watch Monty python, and Benny Hill with my dad...
And that is the main reason why I always hated Jim Duggan, every match he would have a booger, spit, or snot all over his face. I honestly have only watched maybe 4-5 of his matches all the way through. Billy Jack Haynes had that all the time too.
I was too young at the time to know or care why Morton was at Wrestlemania. I'm currently watching some episodes (Paparazzi one right now lol) thanks to this upload and it is a very interesting show. Thanks Wrestle Me! Hilarious observations as usual, love the channel!
On Bruce's podcast he claims he was involved because Piper didn't really plan things out in his live segments, Piper was not beneath taking shots at celebrities in the business (Mr T) and neither Downey or Piper intended to put the other over, so he was the fall guy/damage control. VKM was allegedly angry at how long they drug on once he left.
If it was Bruce then maybe 25% of that is true lol, Morton Downey Jr, was good friends with Dr.D David Shultz, he was on his show a few times, he loved wrestling, and it inspired his show, he loved getting heat from an audience.
I've come to feel that whatever Tom Prichard says, because he's a vince kiss ass, I tend not to believe most of what he says. But I'm sure there's a hint of truth in there somewhere
@@GenXrecluse But did Downey ever "do a job" on his show? I know he did a job to cigarette-smoking after this, but was he ever willing to look intentionally foolish on his own show?
0:41 Oh that was YOU, was it? Yes, I remember you and that sign. It wasn't Wembley Arena, it was the Olympia in Kensington, the place where they used to do the showjumping championships on BBC2 at Christmas back in the day, (next door to the original Olympia where Hackenschmidt beat Madrali in 1904 as Jim Ross spent weeks reminding us British viewers on WCW Pro Wrestling every Sat night at 1am in late '91) I was the kid with the umbrella who tried to trip up Terrance Taylor by hooking his ankle with the brolley handle (a la Mr Fuji and his cane) in the opening match against Steve Regal because I had the idea that if I could change the course of a match and it got reported in the results section of Pro Wrestling Illustrated I would have made my mark on wrestling history and I could show my grandkids "I did that!". If Taylor had tripped up and broken his neck and lost by countout then Steve Regal wouldn't have been able to pin him and get spotted by WCW management and gone on to be a big star in America and lots of American fans would not have discovered my beloved old British wrestling via TH-cam. So I'm glad I didn't manage to rewrite the booking with my umbrella. In the event, Taylor told me I should put the umbrella in the cloakroom and then a security guard threatened to chuck me if I did it again to anyone that night.
Those photos are the second tour from early 1993 which *was* at Wembley Arena, the night Sting won the title. They borrowed the ring from S4C's Reslo for the first tour.
I remember being on vacation when I was a kid my mom and dad and myself saw suburban commando. I thought it sucked and i was 10 never really a Hogan fan. I was a Randy Savage fan . I miss those days . Keep up the good work
Well I do care to have that argument and Hogan's best movie IS Suburban Commando followed by No Holds Barred then Mr. Nanny. Actually those are his only (so bad they're) good movies. Everything else like is either unwatchable or movies like Rocky 3 and Gremlins 2 were he wasn't the main star.
Bad News Brown should have gone to WCW. I think he could have had good matches with the guys they had ~1992. If I had to guess though, he didn't because there definitely wasn't a spot for him in the heel factory that was 1991 WCW.
The Jesse Ventura "Hollywood is my domain!" thing is a work. He never really saw himself as a movie star. It was just him being the heel as a counterpoint to Hogan who had a new movie out.
So I heard Bad News Brown was a very accomplished Judo competitor. Did he ever do anything in the ring that would indicate that? You'd think they would try to incorporate that into his gimmick a bit.
@@fattiger6957 first, Vince had nothing to do with Allen’s wrestling style or character. He wrestled that same way as a top heel in Canada and Japan for many years previous. Second, no, Vince did not think only Asians knew martial arts. Zybyszko, Graham, Muraco and others had used the gimmick.
Theory...but I'm sure I'm not off. Pretty sure Robert Downey was on here smoking and then getting doused with the fire extinguisher because Vince HATES smoking. Utterly hates it. So I get why Vince would book something he hates negatively to be utter shit. (Rosie o Donnell on raw, Barack on Raw, Bill Clinton at wrestlemania 10, Bastion Booger etc etc...)
Am I getting another wrestler confused with Bad News Brown? I keep thinking his "finishing move' at one time was the "Ghetto Blaster", sort of like the axe kick that Booker T would use later. And, having read most of the other comments, I also seem to recall him coming to the ring during one of the Stampede Wrestling broadcasts wearing his martial arts outfit and at the end of the match giving a somewhat pointed discussion about the level of his belt (comparing it to someone else involved claiming to be better?).
Morton Downey Jr was not that famous. I was 12 at the time & pretty much plugged in to everything pop culture. He may have had a bit of moderate fame but definitely not a household name. Certainly not at the level warranting a major segment at WrestleMania.
He was a household name for about a year as so many programs and people condemned his show. Keep in mind, this is WM5. It's not what it is today. He's the right level for a WM guest star to get publicity in this era.
@@JimValley they had names like Mr T, Joan Rivers, Elvira, Cyndi Lauper, Muhammad Ali, Ozzy, Alice Cooper, Liberace, Refrigerator Perry, Bob Uecker, any many who were all much bigger names than Downey. Maybe in certain regions he was more well known than others but he definitely wasn’t a household name deserving of over 20 minutes of screen time.
No Holds Barred was a theatrical release in North America. I saw it in the theatre when I was 8. I was a massive Hulkamaniac and even I didn’t think it was great.
1:56 it's a pity he didn 't mention Demoltion and how the fans were cheering for Ax and Smash who put him out for months and had just own their blowoff with the Powers of Pain whom Rick and Tito had brought in as mercenaries to beat up Demolition.
Watch on TH-cam the Morton Downy Jr show about wrestling with Dr D David ‘don’t call me fake’ Shultz, Captain Lou Albano who says “I’ve never cut myself with a blade in a wrestling match” and others as it’s absolutely great
As a non-American kid watching back then, I had (and still have) no idea about who that Morton Downey guy was and why he was getting 20 minutes of stage time at Mania, with a returning Piper, no less! BTW, the problem with Bad News Brown is that he felt he was legit, due to his Olympic background in judo, so he didn't want to job to other midcarders. However he didn't have the charisma to be higher on the card, which made booking him and his matches probably a tough and thankless job, for terrible return as well.
1:38 very risky piledriver - close to a neck breaker. Its very good that move has been removed from wrestling outside of gimmicks where it is designed around how truly devastating the piledriver is such as Eric Young in TNA.
British/Irish comedy legend. Wrote the Goon Show, which also launched the career of Peter Sallis, then carried on later doing more surreal work on his own. Also depicted South Asian people a lot because he grew up in British India, so not all of it has agreed well. But incredibly influential nonetheless.
"If they could've got the Predator to wrestle Hogan" ... heh, the WCW would've done. They had bloody Robocop appearing at a PPV to rescue Sting. FFS! Ha ha ha ha ha h a a a a a a a a !
I think that the predator and Hogan look like twins of a different species. The skulet, the mandibles (handle bar) and the way they both hulk up. Seriously, late 80s Hogan on one knee before the hulk up, looks like the predator.
Bruce has actually said piper smacked the piss out of him to make it look good… 😂😂 His brother love gimmick was doing a few of these types of things with piper Bruce had cleared it all with piper before, but he legit slapped him sideways afterwards 😂
I did recreate the fire extinguisher bit with a friend of mine. or better put, I sprayed fire suppression chemicals point blank in his face when he turned around. He didn't take it well and to this day he insists that he will someday die of cancer from that trick. Hearing that Morton died of lung cancer now has me worried for my friend.
Ricky Morton is dead? He was wrestling in NWA a couple of years ago! 😮😮😮😮😮
Ohh Morton whatever, whoever that Downey guy is. RIP in Peace. Not a guy who is known in the UK at all.
Piper's version looked like CO2 abc type. Hopefully you used the same
The fact that he smoked 4 packs of cigarettes a day for at least 20 years had nothing to do with it. It was the 15 seconds he got sprayed with a fire extinguisher that gave him cancer.
ARN ANDERSON AGE IN 1991 = 51
ARN ANDERSON AGE IN 2024 =51
He is a lot like Greg Valentine as he looked like he was 51 when he was actually 38
Sorry I almost gave it the 52nd thumb 👍
ARN ANDERSON AGE IN 1986 = 51
Downey's got Shooter McGavin vibes.
Mean Gene helped the wrestlers cut their promos. What a legend.
It was so disappointing to hear not a lot of fellas went to his funeral
I won't call Morton Jr. show Howard Stern before Howard Stern more Jerry Springer before Jerry Springer Show only reason I remember him was a interview with Lloyd Kaufman from Troma
Especially since Howard Stern was already pretty famous for several years before Morton Downey Jr. blew up.
Ventura had also been in The Running Man by the time WMV came around (released the same year as Predator).
Not to mention the other films he did, including Batman and Robin, which they name dropped. I always associated Jesse with being famous for movies too. He did pretty well in film while Hogan did not.
@@distinguishedcatfish Most were after WMV though, so wouldn't count in this context.
Ironically, No Holds Barred WOULD count here. 😂
I was just about to write the same thing. @WrestleMe put some respect on Jesse's name & career! Jesse always played a heel, especially to Hogan while commentating. Part of the work, but behind the scenes Jesse didn't like Hogan being a grass.
Predator was 1987.... 2 years before WM5.
@@airfixx_8952 Yeah?
Glad to see another Wrestle Me, when I get my finances under control, I will surely see your patreon stuff, in the meantime...thanks for the free content.
I read that as "as soon as I get my fiancée under control..." and I thought "Man, I can relate to that"
@@DanielGutierrez-zu9fv good to know!
@@DanielGutierrez-zu9fv I love the audio because I can listen at work. There's a lot there which will never be on youtube
Been a listener to the pod since it started (all still free on whatever app you use) and subbed to the patreon since it started, easily the best thing I spend my money on each month
@@MichaelSmith-yr4kpbahahaha brilliant
Had this segment not happened, they could have fit 2 more matches on this show.
Well I'm glad it happened because we didn't need 16
Who was on the roster who didn't get a match? I guess you could have done Robin-Sherri. Koko B. Ware wasn't on the card but was there a heel for him to wrestle? Would it have been worth it to throw on a Koko-Brawler match?
Piper despite all his down falls is still one of my favorite heel wrestler promo guys I know that he has done some extremely questionable things but it is just human nature to make mistakes or dumb ideas up no great is without fault
Making mistakes is one thing bit you need matirity to at least recognise your mistakes and try to correct them. Sadly most people in the wrestling business (and life) refuse to acknowledge when they have made mistakes.
@@zemox2534if you talking about when he painted his face then Jesus Christ everyone is soft
Love the story at the beginning about the sign and Arn Anderson. My dad and i were at a wcw taping at the omni in atlanta in 93...we were in the cnn building before and we bumped into arn, just him...he was coming out of an elevator...he just got done cutting a promo and i look up at him and in very condescending 13 year voice said "heeey arrn"...i almost got him to laugh. Almost...he gave a nasty look to my pops tho ha.
Great to have you back. I’ve been a Pat Patreon since day one and absolutely love it. The newsletter alone is a work of art and worth the monthly fee.
tbh I will always consider Hogan's best film role to be his cameo in Muppets From Space, mainly because he just cut a promo and was cut off by the main antagonist being confused by the whole thing.
For me Gremlins 2, so much nostalgia with that movie.
Love that movie.
How on gods green earth you's two have only 22k subs is beyond me. Without a doubt THE best pro-wrestling outlet on youtube. Born in Doncaster, 1976. 1st wresltemania V in 1989 watched on mam and dad's square BskyB dish. Keep up the great content lads ❤
Probably because between the two of them they have the IQ of an amoeba.
A frenenemy of mine apparently went to see a wwe show in the mid 90s and he called Jerry lawyer Burger King but Jerry just looked at him angry no verbal abuse like Arn Anderson
Somebody remembers Dream On, it was in the early days of Channel 4 when friday night meant Cheers, Frasier ,Roseanne ,and .Friends , beside them was short lived comedies. This one was about a guy who worked for a literary agency, His parents plonked him down in front of the TV, so when he is faced with a situation which usually involves another new girlfriend he,d hark back to a ..tv show .,... he,d watched like Abbot & Costello to replicate what he,s thinking. One episode had Sly Stallone praising his ex wifes new boyfriend.& yes, it got some notice for having near nudity..
If these 2 ever tackle the Star Wars Holiday Special it'll crash Google's servers
You know, it's not often when Roddy Piper is in a bad segment that involves him talking, especially since he's one of the greatest talkers in pro wrestling history (or THE greatest talker depending on who you ask).
Roddy is nowhere NEAR my top mic workers.
I feel he is one of the most overrated characters in wrestling history.
He has one good promo against Bret Hart at WM8.
Also his best match.
Otherwise he rambles, and tries to get by off the up and down, whisper and shout style he uses.
I really think Roddy has one good match. One good promo and a career of HYPE and nonsense promos.
The guy RUINED the Bret Hart v Bob Backlund " I quit Match " and countless other segments and matches throughout his career.
Definitely one of the best talkers especially when he was a heel in the early eighties in Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling and Georgia Championship Wrestling and in the WWF in the mid eighties before he turned baby face.
Piper in Oregon > anything else
Downey i remember from Predator 2 where he was the sneaky producer out to get a rise outta Danny Glover and at the end he gets punched
I’m so glad I’ve found this channel, every video brings back memories.
In this episode Dream on (used to love Friday nights on channel 4) and then something I thought I would never see HAL wrestling on the game boy, I spent hours and hours with that game thanks for making me laugh so much
This was Piper’s first WWF appearance in two years. They built this up for several weeks
"Bastarding" 😂 such a great term. Gotta start using that. Brother Love looks like he stood too close to a blast furnace.
Rick martel in that interview looks like he could have pulled off a scarface gimmick.
*Sad Scott Hall noises*
In the real early 80s we had a show called Not Necessarily the News on HBO, it was pretty raunchy, and adult oriented. For some reason I wasn't allowed to watch MTV, but I would watch Monty python, and Benny Hill with my dad...
And that is the main reason why I always hated Jim Duggan, every match he would have a booger, spit, or snot all over his face. I honestly have only watched maybe 4-5 of his matches all the way through. Billy Jack Haynes had that all the time too.
I was too young at the time to know or care why Morton was at Wrestlemania. I'm currently watching some episodes (Paparazzi one right now lol) thanks to this upload and it is a very interesting show. Thanks Wrestle Me! Hilarious observations as usual, love the channel!
Lister was best known as D-Bo the neighborhood bully in the movie Friday
He was also President Lindberg in The 5th Element
I don't believe in Piper's ghost calling Hogan, I believe in Piper's ghost crank calling Hogan.
How has it taken me this long to discover this channel. These two guys are hilarious. I'm watching everything that comes out.
What's the name of the intro/outro song?
On Bruce's podcast he claims he was involved because Piper didn't really plan things out in his live segments, Piper was not beneath taking shots at celebrities in the business (Mr T) and neither Downey or Piper intended to put the other over, so he was the fall guy/damage control. VKM was allegedly angry at how long they drug on once he left.
If it was Bruce then maybe 25% of that is true lol, Morton Downey Jr, was good friends with Dr.D David Shultz, he was on his show a few times, he loved wrestling, and it inspired his show, he loved getting heat from an audience.
I've come to feel that whatever Tom Prichard says, because he's a vince kiss ass, I tend not to believe most of what he says. But I'm sure there's a hint of truth in there somewhere
@@GenXrecluse But did Downey ever "do a job" on his show? I know he did a job to cigarette-smoking after this, but was he ever willing to look intentionally foolish on his own show?
@@blmareterroristsBruce, not Tom.
I love how that is an “I met man Anderson” story 😂😂
0:41 Oh that was YOU, was it? Yes, I remember you and that sign. It wasn't Wembley Arena, it was the Olympia in Kensington, the place where they used to do the showjumping championships on BBC2 at Christmas back in the day, (next door to the original Olympia where Hackenschmidt beat Madrali in 1904 as Jim Ross spent weeks reminding us British viewers on WCW Pro Wrestling every Sat night at 1am in late '91)
I was the kid with the umbrella who tried to trip up Terrance Taylor by hooking his ankle with the brolley handle (a la Mr Fuji and his cane) in the opening match against Steve Regal because I had the idea that if I could change the course of a match and it got reported in the results section of Pro Wrestling Illustrated I would have made my mark on wrestling history and I could show my grandkids "I did that!".
If Taylor had tripped up and broken his neck and lost by countout then Steve Regal wouldn't have been able to pin him and get spotted by WCW management and gone on to be a big star in America and lots of American fans would not have discovered my beloved old British wrestling via TH-cam. So I'm glad I didn't manage to rewrite the booking with my umbrella.
In the event, Taylor told me I should put the umbrella in the cloakroom and then a security guard threatened to chuck me if I did it again to anyone that night.
Those photos are the second tour from early 1993 which *was* at Wembley Arena, the night Sting won the title. They borrowed the ring from S4C's Reslo for the first tour.
I remember being on vacation when I was a kid my mom and dad and myself saw suburban commando. I thought it sucked and i was 10 never really a Hogan fan. I was a Randy Savage fan . I miss those days . Keep up the good work
Anyone else remember the episode of ninja turtles with a Morton Downey parody? Krang was heavily involved. I can barely remember it.
“WHAT’S THAT SMMMELLLLLL?”
Are you guys The Card Bros?
Well I do care to have that argument and Hogan's best movie IS Suburban Commando followed by No Holds Barred then Mr. Nanny. Actually those are his only (so bad they're) good movies. Everything else like is either unwatchable or movies like Rocky 3 and Gremlins 2 were he wasn't the main star.
Something tells me that Downey never took a shower. The human armpit.
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you would! Newsletters are great
Ventura was also in a Denzel Washington movie called Ricochet. Check it out it's a pretty crazy movie.
Bad News Brown should have gone to WCW. I think he could have had good matches with the guys they had ~1992. If I had to guess though, he didn't because there definitely wasn't a spot for him in the heel factory that was 1991 WCW.
The Jesse Ventura "Hollywood is my domain!" thing is a work. He never really saw himself as a movie star. It was just him being the heel as a counterpoint to Hogan who had a new movie out.
So I heard Bad News Brown was a very accomplished Judo competitor. Did he ever do anything in the ring that would indicate that? You'd think they would try to incorporate that into his gimmick a bit.
He came way too early, or Vince's mindset was too juvenile. Who knows 🤷♂️
@@GiltiatheDarkNight Probably. I'm sure Vince is the kind of person who thinks only East Asian people know martial arts.
@fattiger6957 I wouldn't be shocked at all. Apparently, he didn't know what a burrito was back in 03.
@@fattiger6957 first, Vince had nothing to do with Allen’s wrestling style or character. He wrestled that same way as a top heel in Canada and Japan for many years previous. Second, no, Vince did not think only Asians knew martial arts. Zybyszko, Graham, Muraco and others had used the gimmick.
Just think, if you got thrown out of a mall in Airdrie Alberta in the early 2000's, it might have been bad news Allen who threw you out.
I loved Dream on, my favorite Saturday night show on HBO
Theory...but I'm sure I'm not off. Pretty sure Robert Downey was on here smoking and then getting doused with the fire extinguisher because Vince HATES smoking. Utterly hates it. So I get why Vince would book something he hates negatively to be utter shit. (Rosie o Donnell on raw, Barack on Raw, Bill Clinton at wrestlemania 10, Bastion Booger etc etc...)
gotta listen to Jesse, hes a Sexual Tyrannosaurus, like me.
Rowdy Piper is not from the United States of America. He is canadian he's from Skatchewan
The very town where Scotty Levi would no show a WCW taping! How about that!?
That's the WrestleMania that was two VHS tapes and 4 hours long
No that was WrestleMania 4
@Club147Leicester yeah your right, all those years of getting laid messes with my memory, that God for virgins like you
@WrestleMe did y'all know Mr. Downy also played in one of those "Tales From The Crypt" episodes?
10:35 When he says traffic he means floor traffic on the casino
Came to say the same 😂
He was in The Running Man with Schwarzenegger
And Demolition Man. Very small part though
@Giambijuice yeah so he was in some big time Hollywood movies
Am I getting another wrestler confused with Bad News Brown?
I keep thinking his "finishing move' at one time was the "Ghetto Blaster", sort of like the axe kick that Booker T would use later.
And, having read most of the other comments, I also seem to recall him coming to the ring during one of the Stampede Wrestling broadcasts wearing his martial arts outfit and at the end of the match giving a somewhat pointed discussion about the level of his belt (comparing it to someone else involved claiming to be better?).
Omg…. That snot made me want to puke too. 🤮🤮
❤ You guys regardless. ❤️
6:20 Poor old Stan Hansen having to do comedy there.
Love your channel. Do Ludvig Borga
"Hollywoods my domain Hogan, even tho u already did Rocky IIII and became a big name bcos of it"
Strike Force were great. Martel and Santana, what a team.
I wouldn't touch Bad News Brown, knowing what Andre the giant did to him 😂
They never did a proper Tito vs Martell fued nor finish
I better watch this now before it gets pulled
Morton Downey Jr was not that famous. I was 12 at the time & pretty much plugged in to everything pop culture. He may have had a bit of moderate fame but definitely not a household name. Certainly not at the level warranting a major segment at WrestleMania.
He was a household name for about a year as so many programs and people condemned his show. Keep in mind, this is WM5. It's not what it is today. He's the right level for a WM guest star to get publicity in this era.
@@JimValley they had names like Mr T, Joan Rivers, Elvira, Cyndi Lauper, Muhammad Ali, Ozzy, Alice Cooper, Liberace, Refrigerator Perry, Bob Uecker, any many who were all much bigger names than Downey. Maybe in certain regions he was more well known than others but he definitely wasn’t a household name deserving of over 20 minutes of screen time.
It’s my obligation as a Canadian to remind you Piper is not American.
He said North American
Great video. Right up until Duggan's snot.
No Holds Barred was a theatrical release in North America. I saw it in the theatre when I was 8. I was a massive Hulkamaniac and even I didn’t think it was great.
fun fact the half blackface roddy pipper was at the canadian wrestlemania. . .
Are you deliberately leaving Demolition vs Powers Of Pain & Mr Fuji until last?
roddie piper does some commentary work on the bluray of They Live....
its full of gems... well worth dissecting ;-)
Massive underrated heel turn = Martell. Strike Force were a popular team and this really made Tito a sympathetic figure.
1:56 it's a pity he didn 't mention Demoltion and how the fans were cheering for Ax and Smash who put him out for months and had just own their blowoff with the Powers of Pain whom Rick and Tito had brought in as mercenaries to beat up Demolition.
Fyi Jesse venture was also in the running man
I was 14. I'm not lying when I say I BEGGED my mom to take me to thiat movie.
5:27 Piper wasn't a Scot. He didn't hae the accent. I'd have loved to see him feud with Drew McDonald.
Watch on TH-cam the Morton Downy Jr show about wrestling with Dr D David ‘don’t call me fake’ Shultz, Captain Lou Albano who says “I’ve never cut myself with a blade in a wrestling match” and others as it’s absolutely great
As a non-American kid watching back then, I had (and still have) no idea about who that Morton Downey guy was and why he was getting 20 minutes of stage time at Mania, with a returning Piper, no less!
BTW, the problem with Bad News Brown is that he felt he was legit, due to his Olympic background in judo, so he didn't want to job to other midcarders. However he didn't have the charisma to be higher on the card, which made booking him and his matches probably a tough and thankless job, for terrible return as well.
When I was a young lad I called Bad News Brown baldy and he called me marshmallow head. 💯
American?! Piper was a fellow Canadian!
Jesse Ventura was also in running man with Arnold around that time he was more Hollywood than Hogan at the time of this wrestlemania
the woman in no holds barred did some nude photos - her name is Joan Severance. She was about 29 then. She is 65 now.
13:00 - HAL Wrestling on the Game Boy. What a crap game that was.
I remember Morton Downey Jr from the Detroit chanel when I was a kid. Hated him. I thought Piper gave Downey a good dose of karma
The Hacksaw & Bad News Double DQ/Brawl to the back special
I did not expect a reference to Dream On 🙂
1:38 very risky piledriver - close to a neck breaker. Its very good that move has been removed from wrestling outside of gimmicks where it is designed around how truly devastating the piledriver is such as Eric Young in TNA.
It's a very safe move when done by professionals.
I imagine this was one of those things that seemed great on paper but didn't work in execution.
4:22 Brother Love at the time was the big talker of WWF with Piper gone
13:10 This is like how a lot of modern wrestling is video game based only the games got better
Who the hell is Spike Milligan??? I wanna watch it!!! He looks like my pervert uncle.
British/Irish comedy legend. Wrote the Goon Show, which also launched the career of Peter Sallis, then carried on later doing more surreal work on his own. Also depicted South Asian people a lot because he grew up in British India, so not all of it has agreed well. But incredibly influential nonetheless.
Everyone always says Piper was amazing on the microphone but honestly I never saw it and always thought he was dogsh!t.
I'm noticing a pattern 😮
The last comedy TV show Spike Milligan wrote/did etc was about 20 years before he died
"If they could've got the Predator to wrestle Hogan" ... heh, the WCW would've done. They had bloody Robocop appearing at a PPV to rescue Sting. FFS! Ha ha ha ha ha h a a a a a a a a !
8:06 TNA STOLE the six sided ring from No Holds Barred!
I think that the predator and Hogan look like twins of a different species.
The skulet, the mandibles (handle bar) and the way they both hulk up.
Seriously, late 80s Hogan on one knee before the hulk up, looks like the predator.
Bruce has actually said piper smacked the piss out of him to make it look good… 😂😂
His brother love gimmick was doing a few of these types of things with piper Bruce had cleared it all with piper before, but he legit slapped him sideways afterwards 😂
I need Elon Musk to invent a Marc Haynes Internal Monologue brain implant
Snot annoys Ventura but not grease paint
What the Brits fail to a knowledge is that Zeus the wrestler is Deebo. Missed opportunity there.
Ventura has an actual chin cleft. Have never seen that in real life before.
Jeep Swenson was a Pro-wrestler too.
R.I.P. Jeep