Ronnie Garvin on his WWE Career!
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- ''Rugged'' Ronnie Garvin on his WWE Run!
Former NWA World Champion & WWE Superstar ''Hands of Stone'' Rugged Ronnie Garvin talks his time in WWE working with the likes of Greg Valentine and Dino Bravo. He also discusses "WWE Hall of Famer" Pat Patterson bringing him into the company, Johnny Valentine, his friendship Wahoo McDaniel and more!
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I used to love the Garvin stomp! He was old school all the way!
And those chops. Holy shit. He had a chop exchange with Valentine during the 89 Survivor Series. They were really popping each other. It left Ventura and Monsoon quiet for a bit until Jesse breaks character and says: "Ugh remember those chops in those days Gorilla?" You could hear the pain in Jesse's voice.
that was what was good about his wrestling style he made a match look interesting he had that ability which most wrestlers don't have, todays wrestlers focus more on mic than ring skills and you can tell he like what he did it was fun
Randy does the stomp rather well but he wasn't Ronnie.
Ronnie Garvin was a helluva worker, but the Garvin Stomp was the WORST finishing maneuver ever.
ron garvin , isn't lying... about johnny valentine...he was double tough.. he held the fans in the palm of his hands...
His match with Valentine at Rumble 90 was very underrated.
met ronnie after his wrestling days when he was flying freight planes out of south carolina and delivered freight to our terminal in flint. probably late 90's, wish i would've got his autograph!!
He was and still is my top 10 favorite wrestler...He was a legitimate tough guy with a heart of gold.
id love even today for him to don a pair of jis fav trunks and ride me in a sested rear chinlock, id buck and struggle while he cockily taunts and humiliates me in it just for his total satisfying pleasure, refusing to release it after i submit, so he can enjoy hearing me beg in it for as long as he wants, the man is still a stud and it would be a pleasure to "job" for him in that hold
Ronnie was a great worker and very believable
The Garvin Stomp was great!
He was an old school rugged tough guy who could flat out wrestle or mix it up with brawling tactics, Mr. Murphy
Jesus, I loved Ronnie's feud with Valentine! I was a kid who grew up in NY and was fed the Hogan-diet but there was something that really stood out about their series...it felt wonderfully authentic compared to the usual WWF-schtick.
All in all, Ronnie has aged rather well.
Ronnie is just a humble guy he worked for what he needed never got greedy and that is rare.....
Filler? Nooooo! Ron Garvin was to the NWA what Paul Orndorff was to the WWF in those days # Legend
If Garvin would have been a little younger and came into the WWF in the mid to late 1990s he would have been successful. He just came at the wrong time because he was just a straight up wrestler. I actually have recently watched old WWF Primetime and pay per views and he was great in the ring.
I really enjoyed his feud with Greg Valentine their matches were very hard hitting and intense I agree Ronnie didn’t have much in wwf after that was done. But it gave some good matches in 89
It was a great feud. Completely different from what WWE was at the time. Of course Ron was a completely different type wrestler.
Loved his matches with Valentine.
Still remember the Garvin Stomp.
Yeah me to but I love the knock out punch way better for some reason
Man him and Greg beat the hell out of each other! I love those matches
Yup, they certainly did, Mr. James. Those were some memorable, very physical ass kicking matches between them
Ronnie Garvin doesn't look much different than he did 40 years ago.
only his face
Ron Garvin was awesome. My all time favorite wrestler.
Definitely
Mine too.
I could get a case of beer and hang out with this guy all day
He should be in the hall of fame.
Garvin vs Valentine matches, were tough hard hitting matches, loved them. Royal Rumble '90 submission match was a classic.
Agreed!!
He never got the respect he deserve in the WWE, that was a shame
That's because they were used to cartoon character wrestlers. WWF was for kids. NWA was for adults.
Garvin lost a lot in the WWF but had some great matches with top talent # Pure Wrestler
The WWF had a habit of taking former JCP/WCW champions and booking them as highly credentialed superstars who were now past their prime. Vader was the most famous example but they did it to Garvin and Harley Race as well. To be sure, Garvin and Race were past 40 so that angle kinda made sense.
@@chazatlasNo doubt
Let's be honest;Garvin was past his prime by the time he came to the WWF. He was 42 years old when he has NWA World Champion and that was 1987.
Ronnie is one of the most sincere guys you'll ever listen to.
Loved watching him knock out Ric Flair on The NWA studio Wrestling, seemed like Every week Garvin was knocking him out!
They had a helluva feud themselves during the 2nd half of the 80s culminating in Starrcade'87 : Chi-Town Heat when Slick Ric beat Ronnie to reckaim the NWA title
Oops...reclaim
I liked Ronnie Garvin best in his days with Georgia World Championship Wrestling he was a straight up wrestler to the core and I could tell he was a legitimate tough guy and I remember when he was briefly the NWA World Heavyweight Champion.
Garvin's feuds with Blanchard, Anderson, Flair, and Valentine were on the parallel of Rome versus Carthage, Sparta versus Persia epic battles.
I think the only wrestler that beat all four of the original horsemen.
Remember Ronnie back when I was a kid.
$100,000 in 1967 would be around $700,000 in 2016.
Crabby Old Gamer yeah....he's not hurtin
A little more than 700k. More than 3/4 of a million in 2020.
Love Ron Garvin. A very underrated worker and his cops are the most vicious I’ve ever heard.
Garvin still looks great all these years later
$100k in December 1967 is equal to just under $810k as of September 2021, for those curious.
He was great in wcw
he comes off as a john wayne type of guy
A very genuine seeming fellow as well.
Thank you sir for your performances and dedication n commitment stay bless n keep it moving bruh
I like the Garvin stomp and his feud with Greg the Hammer Valentine in the WWF.
I remember when he took the belt from Ric Flair. Mr. R. Garvin said he’s feeling the BUTTERFLIES in his belly. Ric Flair said he would make sure he killed all the butterflies in their rematch. This was 1986/87.
I love them both now even though I couldn’t stand Ric then.
That was a classic feud them 2 guys had👌 I recall it when I was in high school
The Rugged/Hammer program wasn't just a highlight of Ronnie's WWF run, but the final highlight of Greg's run: after that it was he and Honk being an official team, then turning baby face and phasing-out by 1992.
Wwe should've pushed him he was champion material
Back then the wrestlers didn't have to win a belt to get over. Just had to have good feuds.
damn, him and the Model would have had some good matches !!!
I heard he and Rick Martel were in the initial stages of an upcoming feud when Garvin left the WWF sometime during the fall of 1990
I'm curious whether he had better financial years as NWA champion or the couple years he was in WWE. I know the payoffs for WWE PPV were where most guys made their $$$.
He was such a badass back in the NWA days Then he and many amazing guys go to then WWF and they drove them all into the ground. What a shame.
Wow how had I forgot about him????
Ron Garvin had the best knock out punch in pro wrestling ,,,he was pretty good don't know why he never tried coming back to WCW in the early 90s
Because he had a good pilots job and he likes to hunt during hunting season more then wrestle.
+THE HANNIBAL TV oh OK then that explains it then,,,thx
+FerretJohn but in a style , garvin is too goofy
your opinion
he retired in the early 90s because he didnt want to embarass himself by working way after his prime. he also saved a lot of money and didnt need those indy bookings (as he sad "i didnt want to look like an imbecile") great shooter- just look at his 80s nwa jobber matches where he beat up job guys for real
"Rugged" Ronnie Garvin was grit and tough as they come. World Wrestling Federation dropped the ball promoting this legend. The referee gimmick was a disaster.
Garvin/Valentine in WWF worked out pretty well. I enjoyed the Wrestlemania match. The "blocked" Figure four.... and the face Garvin gave was hilarious.
They kept screwing up and going for the pinfall. It still came off very good for a submission match. Perhaps the best match of the Rumble. They had chemistry. Good physical style matches.
The Mania match with Dino Bravo? The Hammer submission match was at the Royal Rumble.
@@steeltownbrown52 Yeah, I remember Rugged Ronnie giving Dino's manager, Frenchie Martin, the Garvin Stomp😂😂
That was off the rails funny as hell. Frenchie sold the shit out of it, legs shaking and all😂😂
Got to see Ronnie Garvin two times wrestling for Corny's Smokey Mountain Wrestling in Knoxville in 1992!
ron garvin tough as nails he,s chops cut open ric flairs chest,had a nice 30 yr career in wrestling he,s best work was in the 1970s in the knoxville territory
Fun to hear Ronnie Garvin remember Johnny Valentine. J.V. was before my time, but on tape he gives a real sociopath vibe.
Al Pacino was a wrestler?
Hey Hannibal !!! Ronnie says the wwf or whoever had a hard time keeping him during hunting season and then he looks at someone to his right and says “ You Too I Think “ !!! Who was he looking at and talking to ???
Love you work especially this interview ... Thanks ... GOD BLESS !!!
I was wondering the exact same thing! Hope Hannibal can get us the answer.
Ray Rougeau this was recorded at his house.
@@TheHannibalTV Thank you brother.
@@TheHannibalTV No kidding?? Raymond Rougeau??😳 Jeez, I watched a match with them in tag team action on TH-cam years ago in Quebec where their respective partners were Gorgeous Jimmy Garvin & Jacques Rougeau. Thst was in the mid-80s sometime
Vince didn't give a shit about Ronnie Garvin he just wanted to take away WCW's best talent and either used it lose it or abuse it Garvin should've stayed in the WCW✌
Garvin wasn't in WCW. He got him from the AWA.
@@manuginobilisbaldspot424 Yes that's true, but he was only in the AWA for a short period. In the big picture, Vince surely looked at it as getting hold of a guy who held the NWA Title just 2 years prior and who was one of their big stars for most of the 80s. But really, Garvin did just fine in the WWE, he and Valentine made good $$, and really Garvin just wanted to slow down, go hunting, and run his used car dealerships. He was just a laid back good ole country boy and had already gave 30 years of his life to the business by then, seen the world, and paid the price. God Bless Hands of Stone.
Hands Of Stone. I liked Ron Garvin
Funny, when he said Wahoo made $100k in 1967, I hit pause and looked it up on an inflation calculator, and it was $800k+. And then I come back and Ron says, "Today that would be about a million, or about 800k". Man knows his math, lol.
Sometimes I wish a wrestler would use the Garvin stomp! One of my favorite wrestling 🤼 moves. I thought 💭 for a moment that Randy Orton was going to bring it back.
Who was Ronnie talking about between 3 and 6 mins?
@@andrewbarbarash3116 Johnny Valentine
He reminds me a lot with his stare of Robert deniro
its so good to see Ron in such great physical and mental condition, when so many others are not, he's still a stud in his 70s, and id give anything for him to put on a pair of his fav trunks an "punish" me in a rear seated chinlock, and let him enjoy cockily humiliating me in it as i buck and struggle, listening to him verbally taunting and humiliating me, refusing to release it after i submit, and then hearing him snickering as he makes me have to beg in it until he finallllly feels like letting me out of it......you reading this Ron? heheh
Always wondered what was the big deal about Garvin until tape trading revealed a world of wrestling outside the WWF, then we discovered WTBS and the 'rasslin business.
he had a wonderful jobbing career in wwf
He made money and got more excited crowd response in matches he lost than some of the main event winners in WWE.
Why did WWE not let Garvin use his knockout punch?
Hands of Stone Ronnie is now the badass Grandpa that would be there at prom night and fuck up any snot nosed disrespectful kid that had bad intentions for his granddaughter even before Dad had a chance to.
Who was Pac song
If I were making a WWF gimmick for him, I would have made him a Cajun. He is from Quebec, so he's got a slight accent with a little bit of a twang for having wrestled for years in the South. Plus he's a little dark complected, like he has a little bit of Indian like Cajuns do
He was billed from North Carolina, but seems he had programs with fellow Quebecois like Dino Bravo and Rick Martel (planned).
@@steeltownbrown52 Ric Flair was also billed from being from NC (only because he moved there to work for Crockett), but his accent remained FAR from Dixie (Minnesota)
The non steroid guys are still alive while the majority of the roided wrestlers are either already dead or knocking on death's door.
Yea he's got be 77 yrs old now
McMahon wasted him.
Ronnie Garvin was treated pretty much like a jobber in the WWF
The HANDS OF STONE or THE GARVIN STOMP…I don’t know which I preferred! RUGGED RONNIE! When he turned Heel: I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MONEY!!
One of a few wrestlers that saved his money and wasn't a dope head
After the Valentine feud Vince used him as a jobber mostly in tag team matches.
Ronnie sounds Southern. Must be because he had spent alot in MidSouth
He went from main eventer to lower mid carder. Proving that if Vince didn't create you he will destroy you.
I dont remember him in wwe.
His run was mostly in 1989. 1990 he was phased out.
It was like 1989 , way before they changed from the WWF
Pat who?
Pat Patterson.
I like these shoots, but I'll be honest, I never was a Garvin fan. I always saw him as a 'filler wrestler' as a kid that I was. He's right in that he never truly fit in WWE. Also I noticed the guy is very stand offish and maybe bitter? Doesn't sound like he cares much for his craft. At least not in these interviews. Anyway, thanks for the upload.
You have to watch his matches in the NWA. He had great matches with Ric Flair. I remember him going for almost an hour on television with Tully Blanchard. Don't judge Garvin by his short stint in the WWE.
I don't see him as bitter....I think he was honest, but I agree with you, I saw him more as a 'filler'. At least he was straight up and said, he gave it his best, but If I remember correctly, Garvin was quite older when he got to WWE, and his better days were behind him.
Oh yea , Im familiar with his NWA work as well. I do remember the angle him and Jimmy had with the 4 horseman. It was funny as hell when he clocked JJ Dillan at the hotel room in drag. I dunno, something about him was just boring to me as a kid. He did have some good matches with Flair though, but if you want to be 'fair to Flair" the nature boy was haven't good matches with everyone as well. Sorry, had to copy the fair to Flair bit from Heenan. Lol.
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at least he never got into trouble or lived a reckless life like many of the big wretling stars hogan, warrior, dusty and many others where are they? lol
Not sure he could be labeled WWF Superstar. They had him refereeing matches.
That was Ron's own idea!
Ron Garvin could not could never beat Dino bravo
Ron could beat anybody. The only wrestler to defeat all four of the original four horsemen and Andre The Giant.
WWE ruined his career! Dino Bravo & Greg Valentine matches didn't bring out the best of him
Garvin stomp......worst finishing move I ever saw
It wasn't his finisher it was more of his signature move his finisher was the punch to the face
Hands Of Stone. I liked Ron Garvin