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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- In this episode of Something To Wrestle, Bruce and Conrad discuss the 30+ year career of the tag team best known as The Bushwhackers! Bruce takes us back to his first meeting with Luke and Butch, the origins of the gimmick, and some of their most memorable matches. We’re going back in time to learn all about the wacky team that once upon a time...was anything but cartoony.
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Luke doing the bounce into the Rumble, getting thrown out immediately and then just keeps bouncing back to the locker room was my favorite moment ever. Amazing!
2:15 start.
I’ve been a wrestling fan for 30+ years (probably like most of you) and the Bushwackers will be one of the first things I show my kids to get them hooked on wrestling too. That is their legacy. Great episode.
These types of episodes are what I listen for , great episode. More old school.
Just wanted to add a couple that were in the Lawler stratosphere: Dusty in Florida and Tommy Rich in Georgia.
After all of that crazy hardcore bloody shit they did as The Sheephearders they deserved to take it easy as The Bushwhackers.
When I played football in high school, we did the bushwhacking strut as a drill
That’s awesome lol I’m guessing you went in 90’s
Fans forget how popular some legends used to be. Case in point.
Fun episode. Nice job guys 🤘
Havnt laughed this hard in awhile, thank you guys, my favorite team as a kid by far, I see them and just smile because they were simply fun!. Luke's royal rumble is possibly the most replayed rumble spot ever!
😡"Ugh....these guys....why these guys?"
🙂So I take it you didn't like the episode?
😒I didn't even watch it."
🤔So you left a comment about not liking the free video that you didn't even watch?
🤨"Something like that....I guess....why?"
🙄Never mind
This guy gets it lol
This was my favourite episode thus far. Great job guys!
Still my favorite moment with them was WrestleMania VI, when they licked and smashed the guitars of Rhythm and Blues.
In reference to the WM5 tag team match. You would think that a "wrestling historian" like Meltzer would understand, that not every match is meant to be a classic. Not every match needs to be balls to the wall. Sure the match was bad, it wasn't meant to be Midnight vs Rock N Roll.
Haha. It would have got 4 stars if it happened in the Tokyo Dome.
Hey Conrad, the “Hongi” your referring to isn’t a gimmick , but it is actually a traditional native Māori greeting in New Zealand . Its pretty cool that Luke and Butch took our small greeting to the world of wrestling.
Great biographical look at the Bushwhackers. They have might been a comedic team but hell they made a 8 year run out of it which is incredible. My favorite memories were when they embrassed managers like The Genesis and Jimmy Hart.
I still remember them being on an episode of Family Matters. 😂
Was Boston Garden considered a destination wrestlers wanted to go work in as well?
Great Episode. However remember that the Bushwhackers are New Zealanders not Australians. It's like calling Canadians "Americans" or vice-versa. I used to own an Authentic Bushwhackers Cap. In 1989 it was my Freshman year and my roommate was dating Butch Miller's daughter. During the 1980s it was difficult to get any WWF merchandise here in Wellington, New Zealand and so I was pleased when my roommate got me a cap. At the time my Dad was the main Bushwhackers fan in my family, so I gave him the cap for his birthday.
They were completely over. I loved those guys!
Great episode. I love the bushwackers
Greensboro Coliseum, Tokyo Dome
They look like they're stood in Bruce's weed plantation
Got a chance to see The Bushwhackers wrestle in their last tour in the UK in 2001, just before the end of Butch's career.
Awesome show as always
Shut up
Hope they’re covering Royal Rumble 1990 and 1991 this year #RumbleSeason
What a good question regarding if it was ever considered to revert back to their old style. Knowing how the Attitude Era went, had they even stayed that long, I can totally picture them getting screwed over by the New Age Outlaws only to see them revert back to their old hardcore violent style. The Outlaws could've worked with a babyface violent Bushwhackers version just like they did with Cactus Jack and Terry Funk in Chainsaw Charlie character. Also, I wouldn't have minded seeing them revert back to their Sheepherder style to fit in with the WWF Attitude Era.
It wouldve been a good chance to put the belts on them. But it would have been weird to see the Bushwackers beating the Outlaws, seeing how the Outlaws kicked the shit out of the LOD all the time!
20:00-Having been a three-time world Tae Kwon Do Champion, i can tell you that since we did Tae Kwon Do with no shoes on, it felt REALLY WEIRD and extra heavy to do kicks with our shoes on.
My Father and his poker buddies would do the Bushwhacker walk waving the arms and everything, when someone got a good hand...that's the definition of OVER
No mention of the run with their manager Andre the Giant?
Their Hall of Fame speech is one for the ages
We first meet Jamison on "The Bobby Heenan Show" not when he was paired with The Bushwhackers.
Hunter Hearst Helmsley mentions hongies in his first vignette. There’s even footage of the hongie while the future HHH is turning his large nose up at it.
Jonathan Boyd was awesome as well ! forgotten legend , look up his work with SCOTTY THE BODY IN PORTLAND
54:44 A quick rub, followed by a squeezy-squeeze.
Very cheeky there and Ray pointing the row of his boot in Luke’s bumhole
TOE ^
I don't think it was on purpose but Bruce left out that Eric Embry and Jack Victory were part of the sheepherders down in SCW until they left. Victory would go on to be associated with them occasionally in UWF and JCP.
When in God's name are we going to get the Prince Iaukea episode already?! I mean, come on...
a buulding you're missing : PORTLAND SPORTS ARENA
It's kinda becoming my gimmick. I also feel I am helping the unfortunate who has to sit though the first 1:25
Another great episode
That old bingo hall is treasured by both workers and fans alike. And if you grew up in that Northeastern area and were an aspiring young wrestler, finding yourself working at ECW would be just as motivating as the Omni back in Arn's day. Bruce's predisposition against ECW doesn't serve him here as he's wrong in not adding it to that list.
I did the bushwhackers strut when my basketball coach aimed a ball at my nose and gave me a bloody nose. I thought he broke my nose.
Have there been STW episodes on the Slammy Awards '96 or '97? I guess they would be part of the WM 12 and 13 eps, but I only see an ep on WM 13.
Bruce's New Zealand accent is terrible lol it sounds more British than anything but thanks for doing a show on our very own tag team The Bushwhackers. The first New Zealanders in WWE I believe. Maybe one day you guys might do a show on Dakota Kai another fellow kiwi. I think Toni Storm is New Zealand born too.
The problem with The Bushwackers and Jim Duggan if you were on the B/C town you always got Jim Duggan and the Bushwackers.
I remember the sheepherders before they came to wwf...no team today was more insane more barbaric more hardcore then sheepherders in the past
Looked up Tully Blanchard's stats... he had 16 career td passes with 38 interceptions. I think he got benched for things other than height
Why does Bruce keep interrupting the advertisements?
😂🤣🤓
George napalitano was with the starlog group in NYC.
Saying New Zealand is like Australia is the same as saying America is just the same as Canada
Hey fans check out the Sheepherders/Bushwackers on the Great North Wrestling Podcast LIVE Sunday, January 8th at 8PM EST. Fan questions welcome…
54:10-The match at WM V wasnt bad at all!!
I remember the Bomber motel/restaurant "the plane is gone now I believe"
The moment which Conrad is referring to at 54:44 really put me in a strange place when I saw it. I didn't really see it as a "hilarious rib", as Conrad describes. I have zero problem with homosexuality, but it felt like more than a "check" and had my mentality of professional wrestlers very twisted at the time. I can understand a "sack tap" or a deliberate ball shot to be an asshole, but this was like a full grab with a circular rub with the palm, a grope, something that looked like enjoyment was a thing. Just so fucking weird 🤔
My friend and i caught this, and we laughed our fckn asses off; we must have replayed it for 30 minutes.
It was a quick rub and a squeezy squeezy or a firm handshake to the balls
Musta never caught an idiot trying to rush ya. That hook kick will ko an idiot faster than a couple of punches.
Bill Dundee is still at it. EpW north ms
I always thought Luke, in the face, looked like a big baby.
King Kong Bundy looked like a big giant baby as well.
The original Tiger Mask
Please do a Beverly Brothers show! Am I there only fan?
What? Red Rooster wasn't a joke? Are you kidding me....
WWE Heavy Weight Champion of the World, The Red Rooster!
Yeah, no... dude had no chance.
Bruce says the Red Rooster failed because Terry Taylor didnt take the gimmick serious or something like like that.
About an hour 23 Bruce talks about everyone talking about slipping on a banana peel but never actually seeing it happen. Reminds me of when I was at school, stuck in side on a rainy day. Teacher telling me to concentrate as I'm easily distracted. Halfway through that sentence class mate walks past the front of the class slips on a banana peel. I'm in tears laughing as it looked like a cartoon and I'd never seen that before. Teacher "See my point", me "He slipped on a banana and fell on his ass".
bare knuckles bro... that is how they did it back in the day...
How about an episode on Ricky steamboat?
You mean like the one from 10 months ago???
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Thanks iam def going to check it out
I made a list of wrestlers STW has left to cover, see any similarities ....
Bad News Brown
Koko B Ware
Haku
Virgil
Junkyard Dog
Butch Reed
SD Jones
Ahmed Johnson
Mark Henry
Shelton Benjamin
Booker T
Ron Simmons
They’re all BLACK you know what that means...
Classic case of trying to create racism where there isn't any. Climb into a dumpster and come out when you've stopped feeling "offended" about nothing. 🤦♂️
While I Personally would love an SD Jones episode, 1) I'm aware I'm in the VAST minority and 2) I doubt there's enough "meat on the bone" for a full episode, more like a "I don't know when we'll talk about him again..." Reference
What a race baiter you are does it feel good being a racist cause that's all you can see, considering Bruce has praised a bunch of these guys over and over, then you named people who will never get an episode, and on top of all that you leave out the fact that most shows are about a specific shows and not people
If you weren't such a racist you'd have lised some others on there because there's like a hundred wrestlers they haven't covered
Can you do an episode on Eugene ?
Mr. Hole In One I believe was Darsow's name in wcw.
yeah he was "Hole in one" Barry Darsow in WCW. He had this awful golf gimmick lol
@@heisensaul5538 when the heck was this?
Just saw it was 1999; by the time 99 came around, i was completely done with WCW.
@@HereIsWisdom1318 I thought it was before that but yeah, in 1999 I wasnt watching WCW either.
RIP Butch
Their run in 95-96 was dreadful in my opinion
The Omni
Conrad, c'mon . . . you can do better "research" than just reading wikipedia.
Bruce's stories are fun, though.
Is that all he does? I figured he at least read old wrestling magazines? My wife’s been buying me some on ebay.
1:51:17
What’s with the 100 ads
Would have preferred taboo or armagedon 2005
why
Ugh so sick of 2000s episodes, but to each their own.
Not me this was great
Are you guys going for the worst possible topics you can.? Man, it's getting really hard to go along with my weekly routine with terrible show topics.
And before anyone comments....
No, the Bushwhackers were not a good tag team. As a kid, I hated these guys.
Ok, this was a lot better than I thought it would be.
So your opinion tops all others, think quite highly of yourself, have fun with that
Another great episode