Rick Steiner on Haku (aka Meng & King Tonga)
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- Rick Steiner on Haku (aka Meng & King Tonga)
10 time World Tag Team champion and Professional Wrestling hall of famer "The Dog Faced Gremlin" Rick Steiner talks about witnessing legendary tough guy wrestler Haku in action against a bunch of Marines at a bar in St. Louis MO when they were out with Kurt Hennig and Rick Rude.
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When guys in a bar decide to go to a table that seats Haku, Rude and Steiner, and decide to mess with them, the guys really need to rethink their life choices.
Was thinking that too. And they have 6'4 240 Henning as the low man on the totem pole. I mean Rick Steiner in the 80's looked like an absolute animal.
Don't forget Road Warrior Hawk. That guy was a former bouncer just like Rick Rude and was the tougher half of the road warriors IRL.
You're right....It doesn't seem like a good idea....
Darac2 true
+Darac2 Any assholes that go to a bar looking for trouble should rethink their life choices. Doesn't matter if they were messing with a table full of bad ass wrestlers or a table full of steve urkels, people like that are pathetic and need to get a life.
If Rick Steiner says you are a bad ass, that's about as legit as it gets!
Imagine Frye, Severn, Blackman, Shamrock, Meng, and Dr. Death as a stable
@@ermonski dawg😀😀 also bart gunn, lesnar and rude
#facts
@@ermonskiand all those men said Haku is legit & a scary man.
Steiner looks like he could break a guy in half.
If Rick Steiner, an All-American collegiate amateur wrestler and badass in his own right gave Haku these kind of props, that's all the legitimacy you need.
This 100%. Rick is legit. Realize he is the only recognizing how badass Haku was not making up or exaggerating stuff.
lol
And don frye
Dame skippy
Everyone talks about how scary and tough Rick and Scott Steiner are and even they say that they wouldn't mess with Haku.
@@handleunavailable Alcohol makes you extremely overly confident and stupid lol
...or Ron Simmons
Hey UnlikeTower1 , is that pic you have the rapper Cage ??
@@wellyunnoso3087 senor, when I'm "socialising" I get on it to my fullest. Stone cold sober or smashed to little beer and whisky pieces for the right reason I'd take on Mike Tyson and Haku if I knew they'd been evil, nasty or just plain wrong to a lady or an obviously weak or soft target and right was on my side. Be certain, I'd fully expect to sprout a headstone but I'd do it for the right reason. But to impress my "friends"? To show how tough I am? To show off? I'd rather stick a screwdriver in my ear!
@@handleunavailable perquisites
You know someone is tough when a guy like rick steiner is talking about how tought he is.
Haku....the legend continues. I love the Haku stories, theres enough of them to make a mini-movie!!
Meng the Merciless...
Wait a minute
Oh man that would make an interesting movie. If they could collect all the stories and connect it all. I want to see it through their eyes
they need to make a movie honestly
Dude...Haku alone can murder 3 guys...but with Rick Rude and Rick Steiner?!? Those marines should be lucky they survived that. lol.
Rick Steiner is one of the most respected men in the business. Loved watching him wrestle as a kid
No doubt.
The Steiners were my favorite tag team along with Demolition.
"It was over before it started..." sums it up perfectly. Haku one dude you should never mess with
Holy crap so many tough guys were present in that fight. Rick Steiner, Rick Rude, Haku, Road Warrior Hawk. That is not a bar fight I'd get in the middle of.
Listen again...Hawk was NOT there.
Haku and Rick Rude cleaning house that would have been awesome to watch. Frightening combination
that guy I was thinking the same thing when Rick mentioned that. I'd pay money to see Haku & Rick Rude whoop ass in a bar fight!
Ddd Bbb Rick Rude was a serious ass kicker in real life. A feared man in the business
I wish security cameras were around back then. That would have been awesome footage.
@@cwell510 I'd pay anything to see that
Damn I was thinking of the same..he also mentioned BillybGunn..hell Haku, Rick rude and billy gunn..are the Marines that drunk?
You know all the Chuck Norris sayings...theyre really about Haku..he just doesnt want the credit!
I could literally sit and listen to stories all day long about how bad ass Haku and Rick Rude were in real life. Every single shoot I've seen, everyone has consistently said that those two guys would give you the shirt off their back, but if you crossed them, you betta watch out!
Me too. I'll bring the beer.
As soon as he said Rick Rude i knew he was involved in the fight some how. To be the fly on the wall in that bar lol
Yeah, there are stories about Rick Rude from his bouncing days about him one-shotting guys with an open hand slap and throwing them out of the bar.
Old school wrestlers tell the best stories.
And Danny Spivey back in his prime.
Drunk in a bar, look over and see Rick Rude and Haku. Yeah, hold my beer, I can take them. LOL
Curt Hennig and Steiner were there as well.
If you see those 4 at a bar, I wouldn't start. This is why Ric Flair laughed at Conor McGregor when he said he could put any wrestler out.
Imagine what Haku would do to McGregor? It'd be fucking murder.
Henning probably sat there with a smirk on his face and kept drinking his beer as this all unfolded.
It was over before before it got started 😂😂😂. That Haku guy moves really fast
Rick Rude was a former boxer. According to Smash from "Demolition".... Rick Rude would fight anybody and would do anything to win a fight. Smash said Rick Rude was the coolest guy to hang around, but if you ever pissed him off or double crossed him, that was it!
These marines had the right courage though. Walking up to a table that seats Meng, Rick Rude, Rick Steiner and Curt Henning, and looking for some trouble, is excellent preparation for the battlefield. If you survive fucking with Meng you're ready for anything.
My favorite line in this is "Not tonight." lol
The funny part of this story is that Steiner one of wrestling's well known tough guys didn't even have the opportunity to do a thing because Haku and Rude were at the table.
Haku is of course Haku but its legend is that Rude was like a viper and would clear out groups like the matrix.
Haku took out 4-5 marines. Rick Rude took out 2 of them. Imagine cloning Haku and Rick Rude and replacing our entire military with them. Haku needs to write an autobiography. I would love to read about his bar room brawls and backstage stories.
I'd pay fucking good money to read that! :D
My God!😲
They have it's called the mmt rugby league team and the island of tongs 😂
So I was at a Random nightclub in Osaka 20 years ago and Rob Van Dam came in and a substitute Kamala came in and me and Rob chopped it up for a minute and it was dope. About 30 minutes later (out of coincidence) I saw him kind of start a fight, it didn't end up being a fight with a friend of mine over a chick Kamala liked.
Just to say, I'm not sure it is ALWAYS the truth that the strangers in a bar wanted to pick a fight with the wrestlers. For example.
Screw the Super Soldier program
I can't imagine who the hell would want to mess with Haku, Rude, Rick and Kurt, that is insane.
Surge-Cess Maybe USMC training makes you crazy enough to try those guys!
Wayward Son16
lol yeah, that's for sure
While marines can be tough they are also arrogant and stupid of their surroundings they think just because of their training no one is a threat until they meet some of the names above then realise they don't know shit !
Alcohol is an amazing drug lol
Most of those marines are barely even 200 lbs. Liquid courage makes anyone stupid. And the racist bullshit at that. What Steiner shld have said was so why do you have something against black people? All he said was no he ain't black. Statement was questionable
The shear thickness of Haku scares everybody...
All these stories about Americans messing with Haku is insane to me.
We have lots of Pacific Islanders in my country and everyone knows not to mess with them.
It’s mainly the dumb ones lol
@@purdybeard8772
The racist ones
It's true. But only the stupid ones here in the US bother us and they learn their lesson instantly. The infamy is starting to widely spread now because people record everything nowadays. It's why I got locked up a few years ago. I'm not proud of it.. it's stupid. But it is what it is. We don't go looking for a fight. But we will gladly welcome it as I'm sure you know. Where you from? Australia?
@@kevinscott59 lol true 💯
Marines are tough and I respect what they do for our country but they think they are machines. Haku showed them they aren’t lol
I like how Steiner didn't say how tough he is, from all accounts he could handle himself too
He was a colegic wrestler, wrestlers are dominating mma today
I wish I was there to witness the legend of Haku.
Rick Steiner is the man. Just a cool down to earth additude and a kick as wrestler with serious skills.
I watched the Stevie Ray shoot where he reminisced on the time he walked in on a bar fight and in the midst of the chaos Haku was taking it home LOL he was legitimately finishing a guy with his Tongan Death Grip finisher Hahahaha in real-life he put a dude away using his in-ring finishing maneuver. Supposedly the opponent was also selling it and going into a passed-out state. This officially in my opinion makes Haku the coolest professional wrestler to ever live. Gets in a bar fight, wins bar fight and puts opponent away with wrestling finisher, opponent sells submission hold and passes out, bell rings. Haku should have been inducted to the HOF just for that.
"It was over before it even got started"...THAT I Believe
I loooooove hearing these stories about Haku!
remember hearing a story that rick rude knocked a guy unconscious with an open hand slap outside a bar in georgia. thats some serious hand strength
When you have a mustache like that, chances are your open hand slaps are going to hurt.
I heard Rude had the strongest measured grip in the company. With that solid hand, wrist and forearm strength I wouldn't be surprised if that story was true
Rude was a top notch Arm Wrestler so it’s not that surprising!
Shane Douglas mentioned in a shoot interview that you would be better off fighting the US Army than fighting Haku.
I was in a bar in Western Canada during the mid 80's and saw 4 -6 guys from the WWF including Rude, Hennig, Piper(RIP) Hart and i cannot remember the others. I sent over a round of drinks and then gave them thumbs up when they asked where it came from. they called me over and were the nicest guys you can imagine ( Canada eh,) and my spider senses also told me that if you fucked with these guys in any way imaginable, your face would be relocated to where your ear currenty resides in about 3 seconds ....
laughter..... another haku story! from everything I've read and seen, Haku is allegedly an incredibly kind and nice person, until you piss him off..... But I still have to ask why anyone would want to mess with a 300lb Tongan who's in shape and heavily trained in the martial arts....
BBBYpsi this story seems real
what makes haku so different? there are so many people who train in martial arts ,haku did sumo also . so is haku better than mas oyama?
paras tandon Mas Oyama wasn't very tall.....short and powerful. Haku in his prime is 280 lbs . ...combination of a wolverine and a woodchipper. If his first shot didn't hurt Tonga Fifita.....he would be fucked.
Haku wasn't very tall, either. He was billed as 6'2 but was probably like 5'10 or 5'11.
But he was built like a brick house and tough as nails.
It is so awesome to hear that the Tongan Death Grip actually works.
Arn Anderson's Haku bar story has him doing it on a guy and him going in the air and on his back, out cold in 3 seconds. Haku's hand-grip strength must have been unreal. Some guys have it in their forearms.
@@discodesanti2459 Islanders from the islands have crazy grip and finger strength from genetics and manual labour as a child. Finger strength as in feats of strength with thumb and finger, or fingertips
rick should talk. he's a legit tough guy as well..always liked the steiners. they were incredibly bad ass.
I don't understand what makes people continue to mess with Haku.!
Feeding up the legend , man ! haha
People used to line up on the streets to fight Bruce Lee. When you have a rep for being an ass kicker, everyone wants to try you.
All those stories about those type of people seem to be the same.
drunk small man syndrome idiots are everywhere but they stop once they get knocked out
freighttrainsahpassing drunks guys always poke the bears
seheadhunter50 Yup. That pretty much sums it up.
I love Haku. Good family man and very humble. I think he is a car salesman now. I can imagine me going to a dealership just looking because I’m planning on buying a car in the next few months. Behind me I hear “Hi. Can I help you?”. Half annoyed and still looking in the other direction I say, “well, I was just looking because I am…(then I turn around and see King Haku)…looking to buy a car soon”
Haku: “Are you planning on purchasing one today?”
Me: “yes, if you think that I need to buy one today”
Haku:” Great, my name is Tonga and I’m a salesperson here. What kind of vehicle are you looking for?”
Me: “umm…whichever one you like?”
Haku: “I really like that Blue Chevy Silverado 3500. It’s spacious, a lot of power, the gas mileage is…”
Me: “I’ll take it. Let’s do the paperwork”
Haku: “don’t you want to test driv…”
Me: “no. That’s ok. I believe you that it’s good and it’s not fake and it’s….its…its…good”
"We are marines, we do whatever the hell we want" .... IoI
Not in this case.
Luis Alberto Rotondo meng "not in my watch" lmao
"Not tonight."
they have it backwards lol
They must have wanted to get knocked out that night
Rick Steiner!!! Growing up I always felt honoured that Polynesians got to hangout with these guys.all my heroes
Roode in his prime was a killing machine too.
Why would anyone want to fuck with any wrestler in a bar?
Let alone HAKU!! 👀
Well they say Haku is the most feared man in wrestling. On and off screen.
Rick rude and haku what a combination
We need a movie on this men, so many stories on him.
damn! yeah ive heard Haku and Rick rude were some power guys not to be messed with.
He also mention Bart Gunn and Hawk from Road Warrior.
true
Yh i cant remember who said it but one wrestler said in a shoot interview that the steiners used to love playing pranks and messing with people by holding them down and duct taping everybody. But the one person they didnt do it to was Ron Simmons, because apparently they knew it wouldnt end well for them lol
....OK Ive just traced it, it was Arn Anderson who said it
Bad News Brown was a olympic judoka. Definitely not someone you want to mess with
They wanted to mess with Haku and Rude at the same time? LOL
The Steiner Bros: Top 5 best pro - wrestling tag team ever.
Love these Meng stories. Flair tells a few good ones as well.
If Rick Steiner tells you not to mess with Haku. Sheeeeeeit.
Would feel so awesome to feel like a bad ass like Haku. Man, I'd love to spend a day with that kind of Haku swagger.
But Haku never walked around with a swagger. He had the friendliest air about him and was genuinely warm. Genuine badasses don't need to act tough
That's correct. Badasses and genuine tough guys are secure with themselves and don't need to be in some constant dick measuring contest. The expression "all bark, but no bite" exists for a reason.
Even some of the stories are little exagerated, i love watching/listening/reading about Meng stories. Just classic.
All the wrestling legends should get together and make a book of Haku stories
Bet it would be a best seller
The problem with that is he already had some legal trouble over some of the stuff that happened and that could open up the door to more.
They thought he was "black ".
HE WAS!
WE ARE MANY .
Those Marines didn't have the benefit of TH-cam videos to warn them what they were getting into. Lol picking a fight with Haku, Rude, and Steiner is like strapping raw meat to yourself and charging a pride of lions...
Adam Lone there must of been a whole heap of them to even look at those guys and wanting to start a fight
Most folk are trained to fight, Haku was born a fighter/killer..big difference
Why do people mess with Haku? I hear story after story of him being challenged. I mean...does he look like someone who you should mess with? That is a terrifying looking human being.
Some guys are like dogs, they just have to find out who's boss.
Andarovin its probably cause people might take a kindness for weakness. Everyone describes him as really nice and kind...until he gets angry
Well apparently these idiots messed with him because they thought he was black
@@alfonzowyatt6564 That always seems to be the case with the Islander guys. It's like people don't trip on them for being Polynesian (that's ok for the racists) it's because they're associated as being Black
Rick Steiners a bad ass himself.
i don't think haku got many peacefull nights on the road the stories are starting to pile up, he must have been hard as nails.
This is why groups like Gypsies are hard as nails, every time they go to a new town some cunt gives them a hard time and it`s get tough or get whooped. Life on the road for wrestlers seems to have been similar.
Good point
being a man of color in those times around in some bars across the country probably didn't help him, especially during the time
Dotn you think it might also suck? nowing you cant go anywhere without people trying to test out out? itd be a nightmare even if you manage to KO every guy in front of you, knowing that people might want to get into trouble anywhere you go
if Rick Steiner and Don Frye are scared of Haku... we all should be too
Why would anyone mess with haku?
Guy is one of the most generous and nicest guys in the business, backstage or to the fans.
When andre the giant knew better than to mess with haku, take notice. A fucking giant would not fuck with haku.
Haku alone its already suck to start messing but in additional malus you have Rude + Steiner in the equation^^
"...if I was you, I wouldn't..."
At that moment, one would need to re-think their future decisions...
Haku gave those Marines PSD!!!
Not tonight. Hilarious.
Love the Steiner brothers. But I think Rick is the crazier one. He’s a beast
These Haku stories are better than the Chuck Norris urban legends...
The way he said “you got haku” “you don’t mess with that guy”
Even if you knew nothing about wrestling and you were drunk,just looking at Haku back then,shoot now.... What would make you think it was a good idea to mess with him?
Don't fuck with Haku. He is a master of martial arts and will kill you in 5 secs.
MikeJames6 Yeah i just dont understand why people continue to mess with him. Have they heard the stories...
+MikeJames6
It's the curse of having a badass reputation. Some people are going to want to see for themselves. It doesn't matter how badass you are, if you're known for being that way, someone will *always* try to fuck with you.
What A Team... Curt, Rude, Rick nd Haku...
Haku, Rude and Steiner having a quiet drink in the corner of the bar minding their own business? Right time for me to go fuck with them.. Lets see how far I get?!
I know Rick personally he is one of the coolest guys you will ever meet just a down to earth good man .
I love hearing these stories of haku
Some drunk marines wanted to fight Haku AND Rick Rude? They HAD to of been totally wasted to have come to that 'logical' conclusion! Between those two you have the upper crust of some of the TOUGHEST guys who have ever lived! Hell, Haku was crazy enough as it is, and even though Rick wasn't trained in martial arts he was tough as nails. There's literally a dozen stories about Haku biting a guys nose off, beating another wrestler unconscious, and Rick whupped Ultimate Warrior's ass in a locker room brawl.lmao.
Good to see Meng still around and working in NJPW
i would say haku is a gentle giant of a man,,but when he has been drinking and is seriously pissed off,,i dont care who you are,,you are in a world of hurt...total legit badass
Haku so bad ass
Chuck Norris tells haku jokes
like we tell Norris jokes
Rick is like that badass trucker uncle who's seen some crazy shit on the 🛣️
That would have been an Awesome Scene to witness....taken from the movie called "It's Over Before It Even Started"! See Everyone At Ringside Soon....Cheers
Rude,Henning,Steiner,and Haku
You have Some BALLS to try to start somthing with them
I sure hope Haku said than you for your service at the end
Haku is the baddest of the bad! I’d have loved to see him and a 21 year old Mike Tyson fight.
I think the world would’ve abruptly come to an end!
“Not tonight.”
"Well, not tonight..."
Rick Steiner, Haku and Rick Rude all walk into a bar.
All of the guys in the bar walk out.
I think this is the time Haku put a dude in the Tongan Death Grip. Stevie Ray had to get Haku out of there before the cops came.
Most of these old school wrestlers were tough as nails. They had to be or they wouldn't survive in the old territory based wrestling system. The so called wrestling schools would literally beat the crap out of the students to weed most of them out, and those weeded out would spread the word that wrestling was real to keep up kayfabe. The few that didn't drop out would then go on to be abused in the ring by the old timers in the beginning of their careers. The ones that ended up making a career of it were only the toughest SOBs out there. Even established wrestlers in the ring would be stiff enough to make the crowd believe it. They'd take bump and bump every night.
I don't think I'd want to fight even the old school wrestlers considered soft. Their version of soft back then would still be tough MFers outside of the ring.
@Jonathan McCully Either "harassment" or "backstage bullying" is what they'll cry if they get trained like the old school territorial wrestlers.
@Jonathan McCully All of these Millennial-aged pro-wrestlers along with modern-day wrestling smarks are the biggest reasons as to why wrestling has long gone downhill as a whole business in America. It sure as hell doesn't help either that these whiny millennial wrestlers get very divisively political on their social media, especially recently after they've all been getting massively butthurt screeching over Kane/Glenn Jacobs' political views and tweets.
Truth
They should start a bar fighting league! Oh mang how I would have loved to see these fights go down!
Haku is the REAL Chuck Norris!
You gotta be tough if Rick Steiner says so.
You got Haku man, you don't mess with that guy lol. Makes me laugh every time.
Why do idiots mess with wrestlers in bars??, its just stupid. My brother witnessed 2 guys mess with Black Jack Mulligan in a bar, the two guys ended up both out cold and needed 911 help. What folks dont know is some of these guys are really tough and dangerous in a bar fight.
that guy looks very strong
They messed with wrestlers because of the whole "wrestling is fake" shit.
cause guys who start fights with strangers usually have something to prove
More like they feel like they have something to prove
thing is people like meng are rare. there are a lot of wrestlers that are muscles and mouth but cant actually fight.
the way to know that the meng stories arent bullshit is because they come from dudes who were considered to be hard. perry, steiner bros, harley etc. all said to be hard as fucking nails but all of them just say meng was king. hes like some of legend. its crazy to see. i dont even get the jerk magnet attraction. if you could make a stereotypical islander haku fits the bill. he looks like an islander because he is. islanders are known to be cut from a different cloth. its ego that gets these people battered in bar fights. also russian...dnt fuck with them
I knew as soon as he said Rude he was gonna say he beat someone's ass lol
Perry Saturn is a ex army ranger said all the wrestlers from WCW were in a room with Haku Haku could just kill all of us and there is nothing we can do about it.Andre the giant wouldn't mess with only two wrestlers Haku and Harley Race. That tells you something.Andre could knock people out cold with a hard swipe or punch.
If you want to lose a body part (nose,ear) you mess with Haku.
the barbarian one of the toughest guys ever said he wouldn't mess with haku. I wonder if they would have allowed haku in brawl for all
There are like way too many haku stories of him being a badass people feared
Got to start believing after a while
The ironic thing I hear Haku is this big time bad ass but also one of the nicest guys you could ever meet
Ha! I think the only Marine that ever won a fight against a wrestler is the guy who messed up Shawn Michaels in the mid-90s.
Zach Gowen?
Wasn't a marine . It was a soldier who lived down the hall from me
The Miz?
Haha not saying Shawn is tough but it wasn't a "fight" he was passed out and beaten up by some chicken shits