Another great interview, Hannibal. Ted is a GOAT. That SME when Andre beat Hogan (with the two Dave Hebners) is one of the greatest angles in the history of professional wrestling.
Great interview Hannibal! I was born in 78, it's so funny, as a kid I used to think Hogan and Warrior were amazing wrestlers, now I look back at those matches and it is so obvious it was guys like DiBiase and Ric Rude that had the ring skill to make those matches look decent. Not to mention how much better they were on the mic as well.
Right!! I was born the same year and the Warrior was my favorite back then. So true who the real pros were!! The Warrior sure was entertaining though entering the ring!!
@@Rob78169All the golden era wrestlers were great. It was football team mentality they were all one big football team playing for eachother no matter if you were bad guy, good guy, worker, heal or babyface. Ted still got the most “evil” laugh in show biz. 🏈😄😄😄🎉🎉🎉
Ted handled the virgil questions and subject with class, but you can tell he really doesn't want to have anything to do with him. Virgil is a known hustler and has tried to profit from their relationship over the yrs without Ted even knowing about it.
@@lenwennerberg1631 LOL!! Frankie Valdez and Frankie DeFalco comes to mind, their blubber would be sloshing as they hit the canvas after a perfectly executed power slam via Air Dibiase. I've missed you brother, seems the old meeting ground (Wrestling Reaper) is closed until further notice. Edit: it was a wonder to me that buggy whip arm Ted could sling those chubby piggies as he so adeptly did. He really knew how to use their obesity against them. There were early Herc matches back in 85 (when he was mini Brody) that Herc used only muscle and no leverage and he failed a bunch of times, he botched lifts using Mario Mancini when Ted woulda adroitly flung the portly Mario like yeast dough
@@zombiefulci3301 Ho ho ho, right back at cha brother! Don't fret, The Wrestling Reaper will return eventually! 😁👍👌 I too miss seeing Ted fling that sweaty, pasty-white moustached Mancini up in the air like a chef in a North End Italian eatery heaving pizza dough ten feet high. Mancini was about as menacing as Grimace from Mickie D's, same goes with watching the Million Dollar Man land four or five fist drops on that fat slob Jake Milliman and then watching him flap around on the canvas like a Bluegill Sunfish fresh out of water. By the time the Million Dollar Dream was slapped on it was as if Ted was wriggling around a Bloomingdales mannequin. Let's face it, back in the late 80's Vince probably wiped his ass with 100 dollar bills and I'll just bet he gave Bruno the ol' playful nudge to the gut everytime Ted would stuff yet another grungy, gruby, grimy C-Note in the mouth of a hapless jobber!
As a youngster, I absolutely HATED this man. I was such a mark, and I bought into the "face/heel" ideas from my childhood. I've gained a new appreciation for guys like DiBiase, Piper, and Honky Tonk Man for their lives as human targets for our entertainment.
That’s b/c it felt real back then. You felt the struggle for the good guy to overcome the odds the heels put in front of them. DiBiase had The Rat Pack to go through before JYD or Mr. Wrestling ll could get to him and have a shot at the NA title. It was great back then.
Ted DiBiase is his real life gimmick. This man went to Mississippi, and stole millions from the poor and skipped town. I’m surprised he was not brought back in the WWE.
Thank you Ted for entertaining us at our childhood.....you are the one of the highest heel ..... At the time I really think you're a millionaire 🤣..... Nothing but love & respect from Turkey and Germany ❤️
‘Money, Money, Money. Mooonnnneeeeeyyyyyyyy. Everyone’s got a price, everyone’s gotta pay. Because the Million Dollar Man, always gets his way.Hhhhhhhhaaaaaahhhhhaaaaa’. Ted Dibiase, one of the greatest heels ever. Great interview. 👍
Ted seems like a very nice and decent man he had a few issues in his life but then again we all do hopefully he and his family are healthy and doing well thanks for the memories ted
And his son is in jail now. He embezzled the money and funneled it through his “Christian” organization. Stole the money from my daughter that she won as a scholarship
I used to put wwf on the tv as a kid eating dinner with my father back in 1988 , he said million dollar man never wins,, I was like,,, he's right he's the big top card heel but never wins, puts all the big baby faces over, so very important to the company at the time
Great interview! Part 2 is definitely warranted. I'd like to hear more about his time as the manager of the Million Dollar Corporation (and how that came about) and as a commentator on wrestling challenge, what his opinions were on all the wrestlers he managed, his time with IRS as Money Inc. and their various feuds including co main eventing Wrestlemania 9 with Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff taking over his role in the nWo, stories about the Million Dollar Belt, being recognized in public, etc.
Awesome interview Hannibal always like ted biasees million dollar man. Glad he too got saved speaks the word of.the most high. All praise the our Almighty heavenly Father Yah in Jesus Name
Thank you Hannibal for bringing the million dollar man on your show. He was a fantastic heel and helped made awsome period of wrestling. His theme music was soo cool too lol. Good day Hannibal 👍
Dibiase was an awesome heel. His million dollar man gimmick was great. He was perfect as the million dollar man in the wwf in the 80's. His evil laugh was awesome.
A real pro.. I watched him in the 80’s at Mid-South Wrestling, and he was great then.. Smooth, effortless.. Loved him later on too, but those regional years were so awesome..
Even as a young kid myself I thought it was hilarious when Ted Dibiase would kick the basketball away from the child after he told the child he would get a 100 dollars if he could dribble the ball 10 times. im sure the kid got the hundred bucks or a free ticket to the show but boy did we ever laugh when he thought he was going to win until the last minute
Million Dollar Man had a great character & was very entertaining in and out of the ring. Ted was also very athletic much like Savage, Flair, Brett Hart, Shawn Michaels etc.
That was a great interview...just a little disappointed in some of the live comment's (We all stuff up and he is rectifying his past) ..just disrespectful. Ted's a legend...I remember hating him in the 80's, to me at the time it was real. One of the best heels ever.
Use to hate Ted when I was kid especially when they screwed the Hulkster out of the belt, lol. Miss the good old days of wrestling and the great heels that era had.
I used to work with his brother in law in NJ. He told me how Rowdy Roddy Piper owned a condo across from the Woodbridge Mall here in NJ in the 80's and all the wrestlers including Ted used to hang there.
This was unexpected but I am glad Hannibal got to interview him. Great interview. Looking forward to Part 2. Love to hear stories about his brief run when came back to WWE in 2005 to work as a producer or something.
Absolute classic heel, one the guys i saw in Mid-South and WWE live in person,famously carried so much heat turning on my 'Dawg,my aunt drove from New Orleans to Houston carrying a switchblade with Teddy's name on it.Naturally,my mom got tickets that were neither ringside nor near the aisleway at the Coliseum.
40:44 Fact check: False. There was a SNME before WM IV with the two of them in the last match. It's a good match too. Hulk vs Harley was on the card, as well.
Dibiase is INCORRECT about about Trump owning the bldg for WM 4 and 5. He promoted wrestlemania BUT did not own "The Atlantic City Convention Center". He owned Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. But he didnt own the Convention Center which is where is took place.
I'm feeling like there's something missing from this conversation. Hmmmm oh well I can't think of what it might be. Glad to see he's doing well financially and earning all the money on his own.
You know these interviews are a business agreement, right? Pretty sure there's some degree of vetting out what personal stuff will or won't be brought up...
I think Vince based on the MDM gimmick on himself. I think Vince always wanted to be a wrestler but didnt have the skill. So being wealthy but not a wrestler he gave it to Ted Dibiase to make a copy of Vince as a wrestler.
Yes!! His Heart of David program awarded her a scholarship and when it was time to use it in college, he was involved with his son’s embezzlement from the Mississippi Department of Human Services and he no longer had funding. His son is in jail now. But that’s not how scholarships work. The money funding the scholarship is to be set aside before the scholarship is awarded!
Another great interview, Hannibal. Ted is a GOAT. That SME when Andre beat Hogan (with the two Dave Hebners) is one of the greatest angles in the history of professional wrestling.
Great interview Hannibal! I was born in 78, it's so funny, as a kid I used to think Hogan and Warrior were amazing wrestlers, now I look back at those matches and it is so obvious it was guys like DiBiase and Ric Rude that had the ring skill to make those matches look decent. Not to mention how much better they were on the mic as well.
Right!! I was born the same year and the Warrior was my favorite back then. So true who the real pros were!! The Warrior sure was entertaining though entering the ring!!
@@Rob78169All the golden era wrestlers were great. It was football team mentality they were all one big football team playing for eachother no matter if you were bad guy, good guy, worker, heal or babyface. Ted still got the most “evil” laugh in show biz. 🏈😄😄😄🎉🎉🎉
Ted handled the virgil questions and subject with class, but you can tell he really doesn't want to have anything to do with him. Virgil is a known hustler and has tried to profit from their relationship over the yrs without Ted even knowing about it.
Bro, he uses a church to rob the mentally feeble. He just can't be attached to more crime
Virgil trained Ted and broke him in the business. Virgil also scoop slammed Andre before anyone else did. He also invented garlic bread sticks 😋
@@DaviWalt he also graduated from West Point at the top of his class.
Virgil has a huge fucking weiner.
Virgil has booked himself & Ted as a pair at conventions without Ted ever knowing
Ted was perfection in the ring, there was no one that executed moves as smoothly or gracefully. His body slams were absolutely effortless
You speak the truth as usual brother, I loved it when after a match he would feed some porky, pot bellied jobber a Benjamin sandwich! 💵😁👍
@@lenwennerberg1631 LOL!! Frankie Valdez and Frankie DeFalco comes to mind, their blubber would be sloshing as they hit the canvas after a perfectly executed power slam via Air Dibiase.
I've missed you brother, seems the old meeting ground (Wrestling Reaper) is closed until further notice.
Edit: it was a wonder to me that buggy whip arm Ted could sling those chubby piggies as he so adeptly did. He really knew how to use their obesity against them. There were early Herc matches back in 85 (when he was mini Brody) that Herc used only muscle and no leverage and he failed a bunch of times, he botched lifts using Mario Mancini when Ted woulda adroitly flung the portly Mario like yeast dough
@@zombiefulci3301 Ho ho ho, right back at cha brother! Don't fret, The Wrestling Reaper will return eventually! 😁👍👌
I too miss seeing Ted fling that sweaty, pasty-white moustached Mancini up in the air like a chef in a North End Italian eatery heaving pizza dough ten feet high. Mancini was about as menacing as Grimace from Mickie D's, same goes with watching the Million Dollar Man land four or five fist drops on that fat slob Jake Milliman and then watching him flap around on the canvas like a Bluegill Sunfish fresh out of water. By the time the Million Dollar Dream was slapped on it was as if Ted was wriggling around a Bloomingdales mannequin.
Let's face it, back in the late 80's Vince probably wiped his ass with 100 dollar bills and I'll just bet he gave Bruno the ol' playful nudge to the gut everytime Ted would stuff yet another grungy, gruby, grimy C-Note in the mouth of a hapless jobber!
Gonna watch all of this.
Thanks for getting Ted on.
Hope all's well with you, Devon.
God bless, brother
Fantastic voice. In his promos, I'm not even sure what he was saying, but it always sounded awesome. He and Neidhart had the best spinning powerslams.
As a youngster, I absolutely HATED this man. I was such a mark, and I bought into the "face/heel" ideas from my childhood. I've gained a new appreciation for guys like DiBiase, Piper, and Honky Tonk Man for their lives as human targets for our entertainment.
That’s b/c it felt real back then. You felt the struggle for the good guy to overcome the odds the heels put in front of them. DiBiase had The Rat Pack to go through before JYD or Mr. Wrestling ll could get to him and have a shot at the NA title. It was great back then.
What an idiot !
Just the opposite with me. I loved the bad guys from the time I was a child. They always seemed to have the most fun. 🎃🎃🎃
Where are the scandal questions? How about stealing money, his son being found guilty?
Ted DiBiase is his real life gimmick. This man went to Mississippi, and stole millions from the poor and skipped town. I’m surprised he was not brought back in the WWE.
Ted DiBiase sure knows his politics....respect.
nah
great interview hannibal! been a viewer of your channel for 10 years, cheers to 10 more!!
That was a great interview!
This is awesome. Great memories from my childhood watching Ted DiBiase wrestle. Fantastic interview Hannibal, as usual!
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Ok, that was a great shoot! One of my favorites, so far. Thank you, Hannibal.
Thank you Hannibal. Good shoot right here 👌
Really enjoyed watching Ted Dibiase matches. Technically one of the very best.
A great interview.
I could listen to Ted for hours and as always, you let your guests really talk. Great Interview brother!
I remember seeing him wrestle when I was a kid. Thank you and keep
Up the great work
Thank you Ted for entertaining us at our childhood.....you are the one of the highest heel .....
At the time I really think you're a millionaire 🤣.....
Nothing but love & respect from Turkey and Germany ❤️
‘Money, Money, Money. Mooonnnneeeeeyyyyyyyy. Everyone’s got a price, everyone’s gotta pay. Because the Million Dollar Man, always gets his way.Hhhhhhhhaaaaaahhhhhaaaaa’. Ted Dibiase, one of the greatest heels ever. Great interview. 👍
There was nothing like being in Lafayette Municipal Auditorium for a Mid South card. All the memories and legends...
I totally enjoyed this shoot! Look forward to seeing pt 2.😊👍
Another awesome interview. One of my top heels.
One of my top 5 heels of all time
Great interview! I waited on Ted at Denny’s in north Syracuse in the early 90’s. Cool dude and left a 100$ tip 😊
Ted seems like a very nice and decent man he had a few issues in his life but then again we all do hopefully he and his family are healthy and doing well thanks for the memories ted
“Decent man” he stole millions from the MS as fake preacher.😂haha
And his son is in jail now. He embezzled the money and funneled it through his “Christian” organization. Stole the money from my daughter that she won as a scholarship
I used to put wwf on the tv as a kid eating dinner with my father back in 1988 , he said million dollar man never wins,, I was like,,, he's right he's the big top card heel but never wins, puts all the big baby faces over, so very important to the company at the time
Great interview with Ted Debiase…
This interview is worth more than gold. Way to go Hannibal!
JYD was friggin' jacked back in those Mid South days.
Great interview! Part 2 is definitely warranted. I'd like to hear more about his time as the manager of the Million Dollar Corporation (and how that came about) and as a commentator on wrestling challenge, what his opinions were on all the wrestlers he managed, his time with IRS as Money Inc. and their various feuds including co main eventing Wrestlemania 9 with Hulk Hogan, Eric Bischoff taking over his role in the nWo, stories about the Million Dollar Belt, being recognized in public, etc.
Great interview
Great interview Hannibal
Great interview. Hannibal asks excellent questions and is my favorite wrestling interviewer.
Ted knew his wrestling and ring psychology of the face and the heel.With his baratone voice,mic skills were good 😊
I'm glad Ted is doing well. He played a great heel 👍
You and jake had the best interviews.. hands down
Imagine He came Back as the 2 Million Dollar Man 😂😭😈
Great Interview. Always loved the million dollar man.
Awesome!
Awesome interview Hannibal always like ted biasees million dollar man. Glad he too got saved speaks the word of.the most high. All praise the our Almighty heavenly Father Yah in Jesus Name
Thank you Hannibal for bringing the million dollar man on your show. He was a fantastic heel and helped made awsome period of wrestling. His theme music was soo cool too lol. Good day Hannibal 👍
Our pleasure!
Such a legend. Imo very underrated
great job!! thanks
Ted: Tell the truth... 🤣
Dibiase was an awesome heel.
His million dollar man gimmick was great.
He was perfect as the million dollar man in the wwf in the 80's.
His evil laugh was awesome.
Ted DiBiase was the best heel ever! He had the best character, laugh, and he was a really great wrestler.
Watched the entire shoot interview and they saved the best part for last!! $$$$
Ted is a class act. So professional, humble and kind. One of the nicest guys from the WWF era.
who also stole $ like favre
Class criminal ye
A real pro.. I watched him in the 80’s at Mid-South Wrestling, and he was great then.. Smooth, effortless..
Loved him later on too, but those regional years were so awesome..
His gimmick was top notch. I remember when he would offer a kid a 100 bucks to bounce a basketball 5 times and kick the ball away at the 4th bounce.
Great interview Hannibal! You should come to chiller expo in jersey and do autograph signing!
Saw Ted wrestle Brutus Beefcake on my 8th birthday.
`excellent interview!
We luv you ted. Youre the man !
Great stuff!
Money, Money, Money, Money, Moneeeyyyyy.
Even as a young kid myself I thought it was hilarious when Ted Dibiase would kick the basketball away from the child after he told the child he would get a 100 dollars if he could dribble the ball 10 times. im sure the kid got the hundred bucks or a free ticket to the show but boy did we ever laugh when he thought he was going to win until the last minute
Ted was without a doubt one of the greatest heels of all time
Wow, impressive speaker with some interesting things to say. Thanks to both of you 👍
Ted is classic...one of the top heels ever! :) Great to see him.
LOVE YOU MILLION DOLLAR MAN!!!
GOD Bless Ted DIbiase!!!!!!!
You share my son's first and middle name, Nicholas Phillip M, but goes by Nick Phillips when he is on stage behind his 🎸
"FAAAAAAAHHHHK THE TED DIBIASE" -The Iron Shiek
Vince Russo "Bro, Bro, Bro, Bro, Bro, Bro, Bro, Bro". Ted DiBiase "You know, You know, You know, You know, You know".
Kool interview, but too short
Met him at the squared circle expo in indy he's a really nice guy
Million Dollar Man had a great character & was very entertaining in and out of the ring. Ted was also very athletic much like Savage, Flair, Brett Hart, Shawn Michaels etc.
Even as a kid I loved the million dollar man one of the best heels ever.
That was a great interview...just a little disappointed in some of the live comment's (We all stuff up and he is rectifying his past) ..just disrespectful. Ted's a legend...I remember hating him in the 80's, to me at the time it was real. One of the best heels ever.
Use to hate Ted when I was kid especially when they screwed the Hulkster out of the belt, lol. Miss the good old days of wrestling and the great heels that era had.
I used to work with his brother in law in NJ. He told me how Rowdy Roddy Piper owned a condo across from the Woodbridge Mall here in NJ in the 80's and all the wrestlers including Ted used to hang there.
You are so right! My dad owned a condo there in the 80's and I couldn't believe my eyes I saw Piper and Pedro Morales at the pool. Unbelievable..
I Know exactly where you are talking about just drove past there last week.
Hated this dude as a kid! One of the best heels of all time.
I remember when Ted was the North American champ, and Pat Patterson knocked him out with a Brass nucks (soap in a sock). I was very upset at the time
Yesss always loved his catchphrase and his laugh there are times I would do his laugh but not as Great as his
Ted Dibiase, what an absolute legend, one of the best gimmicks in wrestling history, so funny. Great interview, thanks Hannibal.
Extremely Fantastic Interview with The Million Dollar Man part 2 for sure
the kid with the basketball...funny he mentioned that b/c that is the thing we all talked about (and still talk about)
This was unexpected but I am glad Hannibal got to interview him. Great interview. Looking forward to Part 2. Love to hear stories about his brief run when came back to WWE in 2005 to work as a producer or something.
Can u interview Koko b ware
Couldn’t stand him as a kid. As an adult I recognize The Million Dollar Man as a top 5 heel of all time and my personal favorite.
Yea him & Brutus Beefcake are my favorites from that time 🔥
Greatest heel ever.
I went to USMC bootcamp with Ted's Nephew in San Diego. When the Drill Instructors found that out it was pretty funny.
Absolute classic heel, one the guys i saw in Mid-South and WWE live in person,famously carried so much heat turning on my 'Dawg,my aunt drove from New Orleans to Houston carrying a switchblade with Teddy's name on it.Naturally,my mom got tickets that were neither ringside nor near the aisleway at the Coliseum.
One of My favorite Heels In The wrestling
Ted has a great personality.
Top 10 all-time great heel.
I'm the Hundred Dollar Man!
40:44 Fact check: False. There was a SNME before WM IV with the two of them in the last match. It's a good match too. Hulk vs Harley was on the card, as well.
I want to hear about his legal issues with the state of Mississippi. Did he really steal the money?
His prime was in Mid-South/UWF.
As the leader of The Rat Pack, he was awesome. The “loaded” black glove. He was the epitome of a heel. No one could touch him in Mid South.
Dibiase is INCORRECT about about Trump owning the bldg for WM 4 and 5. He promoted wrestlemania BUT did not own "The Atlantic City Convention Center". He owned Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. But he didnt own the Convention Center which is where is took place.
Best sinister laugh in the business
Yep
I'm feeling like there's something missing from this conversation. Hmmmm oh well I can't think of what it might be. Glad to see he's doing well financially and earning all the money on his own.
You know these interviews are a business agreement, right? Pretty sure there's some degree of vetting out what personal stuff will or won't be brought up...
The Lord needs money and who better to get it from than the million dollar man?
Defo €4 million missing
Not a word about him and sons robbing €4 million.
yeah he lived up to his vile evil millionaire character in real life 😂
I think Vince based on the MDM gimmick on himself. I think Vince always wanted to be a wrestler but didnt have the skill. So being wealthy but not a wrestler he gave it to Ted Dibiase to make a copy of Vince as a wrestler.
Everybody’s got a price
Ted Dibiase stole my daughter’s scholarship money!!!!!!! And he calls himself a Christian?!?!???!
Really?
Yes!! His Heart of David program awarded her a scholarship and when it was time to use it in college, he was involved with his son’s embezzlement from the Mississippi Department of Human Services and he no longer had funding. His son is in jail now. But that’s not how scholarships work. The money funding the scholarship is to be set aside before the scholarship is awarded!
There's a video of Ted and Stan Hansen vs The Bulldogs, in Japan online (site name clue = D.M)
Good stuff.