Jim Cornette Reviews A&E's Ricky 'The Dragon' Steamboat Biography
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- From Episode 537 of the Jim Cornette Experience
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This was like a reverse Dark Side Of The Ring
Ricky Steamboat, Diamond Dallas Page and Mick Foley are wrestling saints.
Reports Foley is getting divorced. Sorry Mick.
Wifey probably didnt appreciate him trying to wrestle again.@@maitreyas.4902
@@maitreyas.4902Is that why was done with the podcast so abruptly.
Dude she is going to take him for everything.
Steamboat had five ex wives
@@DaveShalim I didn't know that. I knew of 2 or 3 but I only ever saw 2. 😂 Poor guy's only fault evidently is he feel in love too easy and was probably taken advantage of by gold digging bitches. Also I kept thinking through out where's Bonnie??? 😂😂
Yep, if Steamboat was in his prime during the Attitude Era, he would've 1000% been Dick Blood.
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He would've tagged with val venis
Rickys. Arm drag. Was a thing of art. Best in the buisness. 🤼. 💯 👏
Ricky steamboat is better than Will Osprey
YOUR POINT BEING?
Absolutely
Ricky Steamboat, Bret Hart, Kurt Angle, Curt Henning, Randy Savage, Shawn Micheals all could work and perform wonderfully.
If it wasn't for petty Vince Jr letting Ricky go in 88 for taking time off for his kid's birth the Ric Flair trilogy wouldn't have happened in 89
You're right. But I also wonder what feuds/matches we were robbed of because of petty Vince. Ricky's IC reign should've been awesome. I always wonder if he would've had a chance at the WWF title when Hogan went to go film movies.
As a kid I always wondered wtf happened to Steamboat. Today I learned.... lol
@@Damesbrgwould been first Japanese WWF champion official recognition
Might of got a heal Shawn Michaels vs Steamboat trilogy 🤗
You're right, it would've happened in '92 instead. Steamboat could've also had feuds with Hart, Michaels, Perfect, Taker, and more matches with Savage.
Awesome huge fan of Steamboat and he's one of the few guys in wrestling who didn't turn out to be a asshole.
The fact I was only about 12 when he had to "retire" yet he's in my top 5 wrestlers of all time (and very high) is my own tribute. An absolute joke in that ring. If Bret Hart/Shawn Michaels/Ricky Steamboat were able to have worked together in 96/97...
That's how I feel about him and The Undertaker. I guess the time the Undertaker was getting over he had already left for WcW.
Steamboat was back late 1987
@@MarcoNegrisEye Steamboat wrestled Hart in 86 once or twice
@@rubenarriaga3029 One of the fundamentally best matches in WWF history. When new fans ask me how wrestling "works" in the ring, I show them the Hart/Steamboat Boston Gardens match. It's a textbook on how to do wrestling.
The baby face is selling the bumps and therefore selling the match. And yes, the job of that baby face to take a beating because nothing is quite so heroic as perseverance.
Steamboat vs Savage WM3 is still one of the greatest ever.
Great match. Too bad McMahon had to overbook and diminish it with the ridiculous Animal Steele-Miss Elizabeth love angle ending. gag!
Ricky steamboat is so nice. 🙂
A while back I wrote him a letter and asked him if he could autograph a picture for me.
Not only did he autograph the picture for me. But he noticed that my sharpie sucked.
So we wrote a little note to me saying "I went ahead and used a paint pen for the autograph I hope you don't mind"
The autograph looked absolutely beautiful and is a prized possession in my collection to this day.
"Midget car racing is a great sport. It just doesnt get TV coverage because you cant see the drivers over the wheel " ...Bobby Heenan ... probably.
It is just butters and cartman racing each other
The late, great Ascot Park in Gardena CA used to have weekly midget car racing. Spent many a night taking that in, fun stuff. The figure-8 jalopy racing was the best though.
I can't think of a wrestlers work who has aged as well as Steamboat's. He always moving, always selling, and always making use of the small details.
Ricky is one of the all time great workers. Dude was spectacular. An overlooked series of matches that were awesome were within his feud with Steve Austin in 93/94. And the Hollywood Blondes against Ricky and Shane Douglas.
Joe Hendry NXT appearance had more views than Dynamite this week.
There were more mutants alive in Genosha after Bastion attacked than AEW viewers.
To be fair, I believe in Joe Hendry. AEW?....
@@wilcee238too soon 😂😢
Focus
A female kangaroo has more vaginas than a badger and an ostrich combined.
Oh, sorry. I thought we were offering random truths that had nothing to do with what was being discussed
Steamboat/Savage has gone from:
- One of the greatest matches of all time
to
- One of the greatest WWF/E matches of all time
to where it is now:
- One of the greatest WrestleMania matches of all time.
Easily top 3 WWF for the 20th century, if not #1, without question.
Sam Steamboat's real name was Mokuahi which means steamship in Hawaiian.
😂😂😂 nice try. His real name is Richard Blood.
@@moffjerjerrod1579 Nice try. You're talking about a completely different person 😂
@@moffjerjerrod1579 You clearly didn't listen to the video very closely and also didn't read the OP's comment very well.
Well Brian and Jim have forgotten discussing Sam in guess the program. They said the name was stolen off a champion surfer...
@@moffjerjerrod1579 different steamboat dude. ricky vs sam
Steamboat vs Savage was the first WrestleMania Classic
Who's waiting for JC to react to Jacob Fatu's debut?
What do think Jim,Brian are going to say ?
As for Myself I happy that Jacob is in the WWE Family
Solid debut.Looking like Bloodline vs Bloodline saga ...i wonder who will join Roman ...maybe he will recruit Usos and Sammy for 4 vs. 4
That and the Wyatt sicks thing
I think he'll like him but still think his introduction was maybe a little too over the top violent
Humanity.
Ive got 502,000 reasons to look forward to the next dynamite ratings
Oh Damn😂
AEW just keeps going Down Down Down
Do all you idiots share 1 brain?
Focus
Your tribalism is killing pro wrestling
I know jim and brian and all of us like to past the time making fun of jericho these days. But he had nothing to do with the brain bleed. It was the nexus beat down specificly the hard slam by michael tarver ( remember him ) that caused steamboats brain bleed. Thats why tarver didnt last long after that!!!!
I could seriously listen to an entire show of Eddie Gilbert stories.
Dear CM Punk & Ricky "The Dragon"🐉 Steamboat, ❤️
I'm sending this prayer straight from the heart, brother. May the big man upstairs bless you with nothing but the best in your journey. Your passion and dedication to the craft inspire me and countless others in the squared circle.
To Paul Heyman, Jim Cornette, and Cowboy Bill Watts-legends who've shaped the game-I tip my hat in respect. Your wisdom and guidance are lights in the darkness of the ring, and I'm grateful for your impact.
CM Punk, keep rocking the mic and breaking barriers. Your straight-edge spirit and fearless drive remind us all why we love this business. From San Pedro to Puerto Rico, your influence spans far and wide, and I'm proud to ride alongside you in this wild ride.
☮️✡️ ✝️ Paul Heyman, your genius on the mic is unmatched. Jim Cornette, your passion for the history and tradition of wrestling is truly inspiring. Cowboy Bill Watts, your old-school grit is a blueprint for greatness.
In the ring and beyond, let's keep raising the bar and making magic happen. Here's to more epic moments and keeping the faith strong.
With respect and gratitude,
@PDC-yy4gh (Ponce de León of San Pedro, California, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Spain, & PONCE City, FLORIDA!!!) 👑🇺🇲🇬🇧
@PDC-yy4gh
I 2nd That ❤️😇🙏, By the way, Awesome playlist! I discovered the great Jim Cornette & Cult of Cornette through your channel, much love from Louisville, Kentucky ❤️☮️
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Steamboat as Dustin’s mystery partner against The Enforcers was legendary
"who was it for? The kids didn't care about it"
Huh? Who are you kidding? I was a kid and I thought it was AWESOME.
I spit Brute cologne at a stick we put on fire. Lost my eyebows 😂
Just rewatched Steamboat-Youngblood vs the (newly heel) Briscos in 1983: awesome stuff
Ricky The Dragon Steamboat the only true babyface in professional wrestling
Don't forget Tito Santana never turned heel.
@@giovanimontoya4302 Tito Santana has been heel in other promotions I’ve seen all from 1980-Now
Im shocked!@@mjdf122 gonna have to find this...or then again best remember Tito as a good guy.
@mjdf122 OK my friend, I couldn't leave this alone. Had to try to clear the good name of Tito Santana. I searched thru out the internet, there seems to exist no footage of him as a heel anywhere. I went to different sources, including Wikipedia, several different forums on Reddit, a wrestler record data base and some other wrestling websites and all of them unanimously cited that Tito (along with Stramboat) is one of the rare wrestlers that stayed baby face their entire career. The closest Tito came to turning heel was during Strikeforce were he reportedly begged Vince McMahon to turn him heel but Vince wisely turned Rick Martel heel instead.
WrestleMania 3 was a bit before my time, but my fondest memory of Ricky steamboat was when he returned at the clash as Barry Whindam's mystery tag team partner
Ricky was great as a Bruce Lee type wrestler in the 80s.
Steamboat v rude was great aswell
@14:25 ernie ladd was no joke. he cussed people out. fans rarely tried anything as he was a 6'8 AFL defenisve lineman.
Look at Survivor Series team in 1987 he was on. Two of his partners were Randy Savage and Jake Roberts, both of whom tried to kill him in the last year before. Babyfaces, always so trusting and forgiving.
Still waiting for the dynamite lowest ratings and Jacob’s debut
When I saw Steamboat in the WWF as a kid, I thought he was wearing a Native American head dress and wondered why he was called “The Dragon.”
Wasn't Ricky back on WWF TV before 1987 was over.
I would buy a Ricky The Dragon Steamboat lighter if it was mould from the image of Ricky Steamboat’s 1990s WWF return.
The brain bleed was from a spot with the Nexus guys. Not Jericho.
“STEAMBOAT vs FLAIR” … “STEAMBOAT vs MACHOMAN”, are my ALL-TIME FAVORITE WRESTLING 🤼 MATCHES!!! STEAMBOAT & AJ STYLES remind me of each other!!! Similar styles & smooth as butter 🧈!!!😏🙌🏽💪🏽🔥💯😎
I always thought that he was a class act. Him and Randy greatest match ever.
I remember watching Macho slam the ring bell into his throat😃
@@Breakfast_of_Champions I thought he was going to kill him. lol( I was a kid)
I thought it was ryback/skip sheffield that injured him later on. I don't remember Jericho
57:47
Not true. Shane/steamboat dropped the titles before the Dos Hombres gimmick
Ricky Steamboat was so good he could make Jim Cornette use "ballet" to describe his work in a positive fashion.
It's nice to see a story where the good guy won. There's no tragic downfall of Ricky Steamboat. Whatever problems he ran into in life, no one's life is perfect, the dude is doing great now and that's great to see.
My jr high school gym teachers name was Richard Head. If we ever wanted to piss him off wed call him Coach Dick Head
The short stint in AEW with Punk and Starks, as well as reffing in the various indies
they really got sidetracked on this review. Last misremembered, Steamboat came back a few weeks pripr to Survivor Series 87, illogically teaming with Savage who he had just been feuding with. the Intercontinental title loss is one of the weirdest things after such a big match. Vince really screwed himself in the early 90s. He lets Rick Rude go, then chases off Steamboat for a second time., and pushes silly gimmicks. Rude and Steamboat were two of the better things in WCW in the early 90s. Glad to see Ricky living well. Did not know of that serious brain bleed. it was nexus who injured him, not jericho
Savage teaming with Steamboat wasn't illogical. It just didn't have a build-to. In kayfabe, Savage had to prove to the fans that he had changed and Steamboat trusting him was the ultimate endorsement. Savage asked Ricky to be on his team and Ricky said "yes" because he's THE good guy. That's more than enough for a SS team. If they were going to explain anything, Steamboat not wanting to work probably killed those plans.
@@nicholasvertucci2054 actually Savage's whole face turn was illogical. He fought the Honkytonk man out of jealousy because he was calling himself the greatest I-C champ. so yes Steamboat going from still feuding with Savage 5 months earlier because Savage injured hin was illogical. Even Last brought that up several months ago. Here you have Roberts and Savage with Steamboat and he'd just had blood feuds with them both. in WWF land in the 80s nothing that happened two weeks earlier existed
This was a great review of the life and times of Eddie Gilbert
Haven't seen it yet but if past A&E "documentaries" are any indication it'll be interesting to discover how Vince McMahon "discovered" Steamboat. gag!
Is any of this video about steamboat?
JFC. Steamboat wasn't off until WM4. He was at MSG in July and August 1987. Survivor Series. December MSG and Royal Rumble vs. Rude.
That's what I was saying
He and Rude worked a house show program before his departure, and they also had another televised match on Superstars that aired the day after Main Event on NBC. The match ended after a schmozz that also involved Hercules, Harley Race, Warrior, and Jim Duggan
Well, with Flair/Savage at WM8, Flair was a HUGE heel and Savage was the sympathetic babyface. "She was MINE before she was yours." Wasn't just "let's have two big stars go at it". Cornette says that but turns around and praises a match like Danielson/Ospreay, but nevermind.
I’m still in love with Steamboat 😅
You said you’re going to shorten the SmackDown review if it’s for last night SmackDown I doubt very highly you’re going to shorten that one
love the shitting on bruce prichard
We never got Steamboat vs Tugboat. Greatest missed opportunity of all time.
I would have loved to have seen Steamboat vs Mean Mark Callas ...
I was never a fan of the UT character.
If I remember right from Flair’s book, Harley hard way punched Steamboat then sandpapered him.
Vince McMahon gave Sable the stinkface in his office before he took a shower.
No Mention of Bonnie Steamboat?
The less mention of her, the better.
Still waiting on the Roman Reigns biography review....
Best wrestling documentary I’ve seen so far. 👍
Thank you❤
Ricky should have been a huge action movie star.
Some guys would gig and then use Nu skin one pop in the match no need to carry a blade 👍
I didn’t know Savage & Piper both wanted to come in back in ‘88: would’ve been huge.
502K. We're *ALL* waiting on that video.
Both Flair v. Steamboat & Flair v. Savage are GREAT matches 5 stars across the board! But as for the greatest WWF match (singles) I would have to go with Mr. Perfect v. Bret Hart for the I.C. title (Summer Slam) has to be one of the if not "THE" Greatest (singles) matches ever in the old federation imo.
i don't think we can overstate who significant steamboat was to the careers of so many in the 80s and early 90s. you look at his feuds, tag teams, matches and nearly everyone who worked with him went on to MAJOR success. flair is of course an early example but then jay youngblood (only hurt by his own demons), piper, jake the snake, savage, honky tonk, flair again, dustin rhodes, steve austin, shane douglas, etc etc.
it's not to say these people were not legends in their own right or wouldn't have had success without steamboat, but steamboat's programs with them preceded (except flair) a near supersonic launch in their status within the business. and when asked those guys (all of them) praise extensively and cite all they learned from him
I had heard that a ring announcer announced him as Ricky Steamboat without Steamboat's approval, because "Richard Blood" sounds like a heel's name.
I should probably watch some of this guy's matches. I've always heard about the match he had with Randy Savage. I don't think I've ever seen him wrestle if you count anything he did in AEW. That's not wrestling, guys.
Wild take.....Steamboat vs. Luger GAB 89 was better than the WM3 match.
If Bruce can justify the rooster gimmick he can certainly defend the fire breathing dragon gimmick I thought the fire breathing and the dragon costume was cool when I was like 7
He skipped Roman Reigns, the latest Stone Cold one and Eddie Guerrero.
Never trust a...erm...dragon?...
Really Corny? You hate Shawn that much? No one ever matched him in looks when he was in his prime. Only one that could rival him was ric flair when he was young.
If you listen to Prichard, Ricky Steamboat was boring and difficult to deal with
i got to see this one! Love Ricky!
I can't blame Jericho this time it was one of the Nexus NXT jobbers that injured him, never happened in the two matches with Jericho.
Steamboat is one of the best workers, ever. His allowing his wife to meddle in his career set him back. The rare case of a career long baby face.
The brain bleed was from a spot with the Nexus guys. Not Jericho.
Sam Steamboats last name is legit Steamboat his last name is Mokuahi translate from Hawaiian to English is Steamboat
Jim Cornette A&E Omnibus when?
I would like him more if he wasn’t such a simp to that ex wife of his.
Glad he was never a heel loved when he carried that cage against jake
Wouldn't Mention The1st Wife on A&E Bio...Yet Couldn't Keep Her *OFF* Late 80's WCW TV.😒
The meddler. He really went wrong with that situation.
Ricky Steamboat: Great talent, horrible agent
Ricky Steamboat: Great talent, horrible agent
Did Jim ever talk about the iron claw once it released? anyone know if he ever saw it? been waiting for a video on it since December
It was very good, but the story can’t be fleshed out in a few hours.
52:46 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Always liked steamboat, but never cared for his family man gimmick in wcw!
I think he allowed his ex wife to influence his decisions. That is on him. She had no business near the ring.
Ricky the Dragon was my favorite wrassler as a kid. Never knew why he didn't show up on tv more. Didn't even know he had a documentary out. Gonna have to checc it out. Didn't know Corny was that much of a fan of him either, since he shits on most Asian wrasslers..
I've always been a Steamboat mark.
Corny always knows how to transition 😂
I did not know about that last WWE appearance with the NXT stars beating him and (unfortunately) hurting him legit. Think that was a pathetic angle attack on the companies part. They probably have a tag team revenge match down the road. But real bad turn out. Sorta like when the Dudleys put Mae Young thru a table but that worked out.
I though it was gonna be JC reacts to Cell Saga from thumbnail
Wrestlin'-Commentator-Man!😜
The story as I understand it...
Steamboat wanted time off so he could be home for his son to be born.
Vince pissed on it and said that that would leave the intercontinental belt dormant for too long. I think steamboat wanted off more than 2 weeks.
So from what I understand, was steamboat winning that much time off it would affect Vince's b shows. Because Vince was running A, B, C shows like 6 days a week. And with steamboat as the champion he would have most likely been the main event in the b shows.
So that's when steamboat said fine I'll take more time off then.
But steamboat wasn't gone until WrestleMania 4. He had some rematches with The honky tonk Man. He was at survivor series 1987. So I think he was really off only four or five months.
Wtf, what about the Eddie Guerrero episode?
In the late 70's the Apter mags promoted the hell out of the then youngsters Flair-Steamboat Carolina feud. I'd love to see extensive footage of that. The late 80's Flair-Steamboat trilogy was THE Gold Standard for U.S. wrestling for all-time. Loved how that seguewayed into the Flair-Funk feud. It blew the WWF cartoon wrestling out of the water. They also had a great forgotten 90's, I believe '94, TBS Saturday Night match that I've got on tape somewhere. Steamboat was a great star.
Ricky the Bobby steamboat
Ricky the potato Steamboat
Hope Cornette does a watch along to Steamboat matches either Savage at WM 3 or any of the trilogy with Flair
Pretty sure it was Ryback during the Nexus storyline that they attributed the brain bleed to.
This dragon is breathing fire 🔥, he will scorch your back Randy Savage and come away with championship belt and seek new horizons
Ian rotten was way better
If you dont like Rick steamboat: IMMEDIATE red flag