How stupid are you guys? Guys. All you people out there in PB. Led, you just make me sick. We told the world what we were going to do and we went out and did it. The wrestler who will dominate the sport like no other wrestler. WCW has tried way too long to try to hold me back. The whole facade. Who cares? No one cares. No one can beat.
Welcome to the Bottom Line wrestling cast the career of Stone Cold Steve Austin. And we're back this week for another edition of Stunning Steve. This is episode eight of Stunning Steve Austin and we are covering February of 1992. I'm Mike Pru along with JV. JV. Welcome back. How are you doing?
Doing well, man. How are you doing?
Doing all right. You just came back from a trip not too long ago since the last time we recorded you took a vacation and hit up Vegas.
Viva Las Vegas, baby. Fucking awesome. A lot of fun. You saw the pictures?
Oh, God, the pictures, the videos.
You sinked it. I think fucking balling felt like ballers out there, dude.
Yeah. Fucking all dressed up, all dripped out.
As the kids say.
Dripped that drip. Seth Rollins drip. Yeah. Fucking great, man. I can't wait to go on a fucking vacation at some point.
Good luck.
My vacation was well, I had February vacation, though.
I can't complain.
But not going anywhere, really. Just wife and kids hanging around. We're in bowling. We went to David.
That looked cool, though.
Yeah.
So you lost one of your daughters. I hope that was a fucking purpose. I think you lost a Tatum.
I did lose the Tatum, dude.
He sucks at bowling.
I don't know what the fuck happened on that. First.
Your balls about that. I'm glad you brought it. I was going to talk shit on the thing like it's all pictures of the kid and stuff. I'll wait till I see him. I had to talk shit to him. He lost. Did you have the bumpers on? Did you both have the bumper?
Yeah. You did, too?
And you still got destroyed?
Yes.
With the bumpers on, bro.
Okay, let's talk about the other set, though. I kicked everyone's ass the second time around.
You can't go there anymore.
I was warming up. Yeah. I don't know how she got the score. She got never mind how I got the score I got. But it's different, though. I barely ever play with the little balls.
To talk about bowling.
This is the duck pitts, though. It's a different technique than I was used to with the regular sized bowling balls. When you put your fingers in, this is like you throw in a fucking yeah, you palm it.
It's like a ski ball.
Right. So it's a little different technique for me to get used to because I hadn't done that's even worse.
So she couldn't even get lucky and beat you because she had a bigger ball.
Hey, fuck off. I don't know how she got, like, a strike or something randomly. I don't know.
I'm terrible at bowling, but god damn, I would have tripped her revised if I saw I was losing.
She was doing under her legs and shit. And then she was, like, doing this other maneuver where she was, like, holding the hand, holding the ball with both hands. And then she was doing, like, track or something, like, maneuver.
That's funny. Maybe she's just a natural.
Well, no, because she sucked the next game.
Ever see that bowling video? That guy is whoever you Think You are. I am. You ever see that guy?
No, what?
I got to send it to you. It's like this pro bowler and, like his retirement match or something. Old dude, I guess. He was like the Michael Jordan of bowling, though. He used to win all the time, and he fucking won on the last got like four strikes in a row.
I don't know.
I don't know. Bowling. He did something that was awesome to win. And after he did, it was like the best shit. Talking every like, yes.
Oh, yes.
Whoever you think you are, I'm him.
That's great. Bill Murray and Kingpin.
Yeah, this guy was basically him. Our listeners have heard of this guy. It was like a viral moment.
Yeah, I miss out on some of the viral moments. Well, yeah, that was fun. David Buses was fucking, I guess, fun. The food sucks, man.
It always sucks.
I'm always disappointed. Like, what the fuck are we here? Should have eaten the fucking food court. Providence, they get a great food court, not a fucking different. Thai, Japanese, Chinese. It's good shit. We were walking by, and there was one lady at the Thai place, like on a sample, and, man, it smells so good. I was like it took me a lot to say, no, thank you. And immediately my wife Alex was like, we should get Thai food to bring home. We never ended up doing it. But was this before or after on our way to David Buses and you.
Got to eat this shit?
Then we ate their fucking crap ass food.
I make the same mistake. I always forget how bad their food is because I don't go there enough. So I have it that I'm like, that's right. This food sucks.
Yeah. I'm going back to thinking that the food was good from my memory of being, like, 20 years old or something going there, being fine with it, like, all right, yeah. Chicken ten is. Or the cheeseburger. This shit blew. I had a cheeseburger. It sucked. I didn't even eat the whole thing. The cheese wasn't even, like, melted on it. And they put two slices of cheese on the burger, and it was just, like, floppy and peeled it off.
Like they're plastic cheese they use.
Yeah, and I don't like cheese.
I like that from Cisco distributors, right?
It looks like fucking play food not good. I don't like too much cheese to begin with because I don't like it being all like, yeah, you're not a cheese. No, I used to take fucking cheese pizza, right? I used to take cheese off pizza for a fucking long shot. I accept that. People talk shit then. They talk shit now. Fine, I eat it now. I eat the cheese now.
The sociopath needs anyone to talk to you. I'm going to kill him. No cheese killer.
All right, so I love bullshit. But anyway, it's good to be back here. Bottom Line wrestling cast getting into another episode of stunning Steve Austin. It's been a couple of weeks, maybe a week and two and a half weeks, whatever. But we're back at it. And we're in March now, and know what that means. 316 days coming up. We'll talk a little bit about that later.
That's right.
But yeah, we're in our favorite month for Austin March. Okay. So anyway, thanks, guys, for joining us once again here on the Bottom Line Wrestling Cast. Give us a follow on Twitter at Bottom Line Cast. That would be great. Follow me. Mike Peru at MPRU, JV at John Van Damage. And thanks, everybody who checked out our previous episode signing Steve, episode seven, covering late January 92. And we hit some gold in that episode. JV, you hit some gold. I set you up for it and you fucking ran with it in our Burger King Arm Bar song that you spit out there.
Yeah, that was a viral moment for the show.
Yeah. I don't know how viral, but our listeners seem to like it. Two of our best long term listeners, Ian Milligan, alex Dorio appreciated it and reached out to us and shared Ian he shared a video with us of him doing it. Ian nails it every time. Ian will send those videos where you have a little group with him on Facebook, like, just me, him and JV. Like, just the bullshit around here and there. And Ian will send those videos of just clips from the past, from the podcast of either me saying something or JV saying something that he thought was funny. And he'll say it himself. And he fucking nails it every time.
Better than we do. Like the fucking clean, better version of what we intended to say.
So that was great. He did the Arm Bar song and he said his newborn got to kick out of it, too. Laughing. It's awesome. And then Alex Dorio talking taker, he sent us a little clip on Twitter, right? Was Twitter, right? Is that where else? Yeah. And he took the clip, but then mixed it with the Burg King song, the background music.
That's right.
Yeah. So that was great. That was fun. I knew when you did that, all people are going to get a kick out of that because that was fucking great. I was laughing, right? So now from this point on, Marcus Alexander bagwell, we're going to be looking out for on bars and hip tosses. That's it. And we do have a watch along match during this episode that has Marcus Alexander bagwell. So we'll definitely be looking for some arm bars during that match. All right. So like I said, we're going to cover February 1992. But before we get into it, there's one thing that I have to recap that we didn't get to on the previous episode. It was Saturday night from January 25. It was a match between Dustin Rhodes and ARN Anderson of the dangerous alliance. Dustin Rhodes defeated ARN Anderson. VDQ Larry zavisco interfered. And then Barry Wyndham came in, made the save. But then Austin got involved. So that's why we're bringing up here. Austin got involved, and he ended up getting beat with taking let me fucking rephrase this here. Because Barry Wyndham made the save, fought off an attack from Steve Austin, and then repeatedly hit Austin. Austin's getting Whacked to hell with all his phone. So Barry Windham got a handle of the phone and started beating up Austin with it and then put Austin in a figure four. So Austin got his ass kick. We failed to mention, I think probably because we were sick of Austin looking like a chump, that I just left this one out. But to tell the true story, I had to bring it up here. And also, Barry Wyndham is going to be getting only true involved. Barry window will be getting more and more involved. So I figured I had to put that in there because we'll see where it goes over the next couple of months between Austin and Wyndham. All right. So that's the only coverage that I wanted to just recap from what we should have done last time. Now we'll get into February 1992, and I'm going to kick things off this time. And we're going to go right into that. So we got a stunning Steve Austin versus Barry win the match for the TV Championship. And this was from February 1, 1992. Episode of WCW World Championship Wrestling. The Saturday Night Show. And it was taped on January 22, 1992, in Kansas City, Missouri. So we'll get right into the action. This is not available to watch on YouTube. I tried finding it. I couldn't get it. So I had to reach out to our buddy, the Hook up man. I'll plug Richard LAN and he has everything. Of course, every podcast has a plug. And he sent it over. And a lot of times it's Richard. Richard is for wrestling podcast. He's the go to guy. Even podcasts that are making a lot of money use him. We appreciate Richard helping out. Bottom line, wrestling cast ecw. He's been helping us out for years, getting those of the episodes. So he's a cool guy, very nice. We support him. Also, check out his website, the History of wwe.com. He has all the fucking results for anything you could ever think of, basically. All right. So anyway, stunning Steve Austin versus Barry Winham. We got our TV champion Steve Austin, head to the ring. He's heading to the ring with Pauly. And he has a very noticeable limp. And last episode I talked about how we know he's been injured. And he did miss some time in January. So he was legit injured. But now it looks like they're using it as part of the story here. So he's over selling, really, because he's fine to wrestle. Obviously, if he's not fine, he's not going to be wrestling. But he's fine to wrestle. But he's selling the injury. Jr is on commentary here. And he's solo on commentary, which he does a pretty good job. JV on commentary by himself. I like it because Jr at this time in 92, 91, when he has somebody that he's working with, jr can come off like an asshole sometimes on commentary when he's interacting with another person. So in this situation where he's by himself, he's not as snarky or an asshole because he doesn't have anybody to talk shit to. He's better off by himself at this point, I think. So anyway, Jr is on commentary and he points out that Paul is giving Austin the new rockney style pep talk. So of course, we got to bring it to old school football, which they are. New rockney. He's giving it all new rock. Austin is a walking ginger to the ring. Barry Window makes his way to the ring now. And he's got some knock off ZZ Top music. It sounds just like Lagrange, the song. Anyway, great song. And I got to bring this up to you because we haven't talked about this yet. But on our last episode of the extremely SW live cast where we covered Cyber Slam 96, at the end of the episode, we play a song. We played Rush, Tom Sawyer. And we went into playing that song by saying like, oh, this would have been a good fucking great wrestling entrance team. And it already was. I don't know why I zoned out and didn't remember that. I felt like I've done that a couple of times with Tom Sawyer. But it was fucking Carrie von eric's theme music like this whole time in World class championship wrestling because his nickname was the modern day Warrior. That's one of the main parts of the song. Modern day warrior mean. Oh, yeah. So we got called out, of course, on that one. It is wrestling entrance music already. It wasn't just Rick BB. Rick BB said it initially. And I was like, oh, man, that was fucking dumb shit. That's right. Yeah.
They expect that shit from me, not you. Yes.
I was like, Jamie's not going to care because JV is probably like, I knew that, but I forgot.
I was like, oh, wow, I'm wrong again.
Yeah.
You know when I'm right, just assume I'm wrong.
Yeah, that was my fault. We're under the assumption Jamie doesn't fucking know. World Class Championship wrestling. But I'm trying to act like I know everything, obviously or I forget things because we fucking record it out like fucking 11:00 at night, whatever. So anyway, had to bring that up. But yeah, Lagrange, maybe I bring all that up to say this. That would be some good wrestle and entrance music too, in this case apparently. Is it's a knock off? Barry Wyndham? Barry Wyndham used the knock off version of it. Anyway, Jr. Points out that Wyndham wants blood but especially he wants Larry's Abisco's blood because they have an ongoing thing going on. Austin sets to lock up with Wyndham but Wyndham says fuck that. And Wyndham just starts kicking at Austin's injured leg. So the injured leg comes into play right away. Austin drops to the mat and Wyndham works Austin's leg with repeated knee drops to the back of Austin's leg. And Jr. Does a great job repeating that Austin is vulnerable and again telling the crowd this is for the TV Championship. This is for the TV Championship to get people invested in this match and the fact that Austin is vulnerable and he might lose this championship because of his condition. At this point, Barry Wyndham goes for an early figure four. But as he turns to lock it in, Austin kicks Wyndham in the ass and then wind them flying through the second row to the outside. Austin gets up and takes the fight to wind them outside of the ring. Austin slams Wyndham's hand on the guardrail multiple times. And this is also part of story is that Barry Wyndham has an injured hand. It's also wrapped up. He has protected covering on the hand. So good story telling people going after Austin window, going after the injured part of their opponent, which makes sense. Austin slams the window's hand on the edge of the ring and the ring apron as well. And then he tries to unravel the tape covering whatever it is. Austin slides back into the ring, windham yanks Austin's foot from the outside, drags Austin to the corner and then he slams Austin's injured leg into the corner post. Great spot. It reminds me of Brett Haw and Austin. Brett hall would do that shit to Austin all the time. Barry Wyndham tears away at Austin's bandages and pounds away on Austin. Austin hobbles away and Wyndham climbs into the ring and he stalks Austin. I put emphasis on the notes of stalks because Barry Wyndham, he was the stalker. He become the stalker.
Wait, wasn't he already the stalker when.
He goes to WWF in 96?
He's the stalker, okay?
He has like the face paint and that sucks. And then Survivor Series 96, he has a stupid ass WWF T shirt that he's wearing when he's wrestling. But anyway, he stalks Austin. Wyndham kicks a vulnerable Austin who's hanging on the ropes to stand. So Austin is just trying to survive. And that kick sends Austin flopping down to the mat. And we got good stuff here. Great stuff. Solid match already. And it's only been a few minutes. Jr. Says that Wyndham is wild eyed and has never seen anybody with this much intensity in their eyes. That was oversaw on Jr. Big time, like ever. Come on. Huge. Yeah. A lot of hyperbole there. Austin has had no offense at this point. Austin is just getting his ass kick. Barry windham snap airs Austin in the middle of the ring. Follows it up with an elbow drop on Austin's injured leg. Paul Lee looks like shit. I'm about to lose TV champion here. He looks frustrated outside the ring, as he should. Because the story here is Austin's got no chance. No chance. That's what he's got. Jr mentions it's. It's been a tough night for it's been a tough night for Coach Rockney. Fucking give it up, Jr. Football stuff gets annoying sometimes.
Yeah. Who the fuck is Coach Rockney?
New rockney that is. Yeah, wasn't it like fucking Notre Dame or something?
College. I don't know.
College? Yeah, it was college. Notre Dame, like the 1940s.
I only watch professionals. Fucking kid.
So yeah, of course. He's fucking bringing up some old shit. I think New Rockney might be wrong, but I won't fucking just be wrong. But I think.
Ronald Reagan Notre Dame sounds right.
Ronald Reagan was in a movie about new rockney, I think.
Oh, really?
That's where the whole line came. We're going to win one for the Gipper. That's what his character said. Yeah, something like that anyway. Gives it a rest. Jr. Although Jr. Does bring up some good points, though, on commentary. He points out that stinging, the Steiner brothers are breathing down the neck of the Dangerous Alliance. And the Dangerous Alliance has been in a tough position as of late. And we've been talking about that all along here, covering stunning Steve Austin and the Dangerous Alliances. That while the Dangerous Alliance is great on paper and the accolades are great, tag team champions get the US champion. They get their ass kicked all the time. They won the titles, but ever since they win the titles, they are just finding ways to hang on to the titles. They're almost losing every time until they come together as a group and fucking cheat cause a DQ or something. So yeah, they are in a tough position. It's stinging. The Steiner brothers are fucking sick of their bullshit. They want to kick their ass, which is going to be great because it's going to lead to one of your favorite matches. JV going to get to war games. Wall games.
Nice.
Get the revisit wall games. We did a watch along at one point a while back. But we're going to revisit it. Do it again. All right. So we get Barry Wyndham chopping the hell out of austin in the corner. Windham whips Austin to the opposite corner. But Austin falls flat on his face in the middle of the ring. I love it because it just shows. Like, Austin doesn't have the energy to run to the opposite side.
That was awesome.
Falls right in the middle. Great job. That's fucking brilliant. That's so smart on Austin's part to just do that. So Austin gets up and he gets up like he's like the last girl Friday the 13th.
I saw that in your notes. And when I watched, I was like, dude, nailed it. Nailed it.
He tripped and I got to get.
On Bigs and shit.
And the stalker, Barry Wyndham, is coming after him like he's fucking Jason voice. It's perfect. Barry window continues to attack Austin's leg. Paul, he's distraught still. And Jr. Says, you might as well look, Paul, because it's about to be a reality. The television championship may be about to leave the Dangerous Alliance. I wasn't trying to do a Jr. I'm just fucking reading this time. Television championship. It's about to leave. The dangerous lion. Newt Rockney. Paul Lee. How about that one for the Gipper? All right.
Anyway, that impression sucks so bad.
It does. Yeah, it's supposed to suck. All right, so window blocks. All right, let me straighten up here. Windham blocks Austin and the figure four leg lock. Now when I saw this, I was like, oh, shit. He's doing the figure four because Rick Flare is gone. Rick flare is gone. So now Barry Wyndham can do the figure four. So Rick Flay is gone at this point. He just became WWF champion at the Royal Rumble days before this. Austin is in pain. But Wyndham makes the dumbass move, grabs the middle ropes for extra leverage. Paul is screaming, screaming like a banshee. Every side just yelling. And we see that Paul is on his phone, his fucking cordless phone that he needs to charge. And he's screaming. He says. Larry Bard. Help. So he's screaming for Dangerous Alliance members to come down. And speaking of bowling, when he said Larry ARN, it just made me think of the Dangerous Alliance members as a whole group. So we got Larry, ARN, Steve, Bobby, Rick, and Pauly. I was like, this fucking sounds like a Saturday bowling league team. Yeah, it does. Larry ARN, steve. Bobby.
Rick men, they're polos.
So I figured their team, they're going to have their bowl insurance. They would be the split alliance. Anyway, Pauli jumps into the ring. He goes to hit Barry with the phone. Barry pushes him off. The ref calls for the bell. And now you get the DQ, which should have happened earlier when Barry Wyndham had the figure four on and he was using the second ropes for leverage and not letting go. Pretty sure the ref should have called that DQ at that point and awarded the win, right? He should have awarded the match to Austin. But no, it took somebody running in to cause a DQ. A bullshit referee. I think it was Pewee Anderson. Poor officiating peewee, poor official what's his name? You know the guy's name?
Francis.
Francis? Yeah. Francis from Big Adventure.
That's my bike peely.
Fuck that guy.
I hated him as a kid. I fucking hated him. That piece of shit. Sorry.
He did make a fucking convincible. John Wayne Gacy. I don't know if you ever saw him. No. Yeah, he did.
He's good in that. It looks like black gum. He's like Dank P and he's chewing on the gum. And it's the trick gum black shit coming out of his mouth. I don't know why that scarred me. Oh, that was a crazy movie at that badass pool.
All right. The rest can really make yeah, I've said this before, but I bring it up again. Ref sometimes just make things look like shit. They can make great matches, but then they can also make them look like shit. That's kind of what happened here. It's like this was a good match and just and shitty. It can't totally be their fault because they're not booking the match. They're just following what they're supposed to do. But it looks bad. And the referees I don't know, most people probably don't give a fuck, but since we watch it and we kind of critique it, this gets me to, like, shitting on the referees or otherwise. I probably wouldn't give a fuck if I was just watching and we didn't have a podcast. I probably wouldn't give a fuck about Earl Hebner or anybody. But since we're reviewing it, I oftentimes shit on them. But referees are kind of in a bad position because it is a thankless job. They're the third guy in the ring, and people forget about them. A lot of the times in a singles match or a tag team match, they're the third or the fifth person in the ring that's a performer as well. And they do have a job of being a good performer. But I think I criticize them too much sometimes. I just wanted to put that out there. I understand. They're not all bad. They're just booked to do whatever they're fucking told to do. So anyway, at this point, aren't Bobby and Larry of the split alliance run into the ring and attack Wyndham, who is not letting Austin out of the figure four leg lock. So Wyndham is like, fuck you. I'm going to fucking break your leg here. The alliance finally puts Austin, pulls Austin away. Then ARN Anderson begins stomping away on wyndham's injured hand. So good. All right, you want to go after my guy's leg? I'm going to fucking stomp the shit out of your hand. Then we get the Steiner brothers come running in, and the alliance literally splits this time. All right. I got to be done with that joke, right? So hell of a title match. Although they don't really like the ending because it's what we've been seeing, which is what we've been bitching about. It started off great and looking forward to seeing more of Austin and Wyndham over the course of the next few months because we are going to have some good stuff between the two of them involving the TV title. So good shit. Wyndham was put over strong. Austin looks weak as always, so nothing new. He was injured, but still that doesn't matter because he's always looking like shit. If he was getting over strong sometimes, then in this case he didn't because he was injured. That would make sense. But this is just the norm. He's never really looking that good. So who cares about the injury? Shit would have happened even if he wasn't injured. So that's kind of my only gripe about this match is the ending. So from there now, JV is going to cover another match from the same night. JV, take it away.
All right. Thanks, Pru. So, yeah, we're going to move on to WCW Power Hour from February 1, 1992 in Washington, DC. And we have a six man tag team match. We get the team of Ricky Steamboat, the good guys, Dustin Rhodes and Ron Simmons up against WCW TV champions Steve Austin and the WCW Tag team Champions ARN Anderson and Bobby Eaton representing the dangerous alliance. So this match kicks off with Eaton and Steamboat and they kick it off here with a grapple. They exchange some leapfrogs, but Eaton gets the first big move of the night as he hits a huge neckbreaker. It was actually a pretty cool looking neck breaker on Steamboat and then continues working on Steamboat's neck. So it looks like the emphasis is for Steamboat. They're going to work on his neck so quickly. Before he can do any more damage, he decides to tag in. Afresh r anderson. Steamboat briefly gained some momentum after like a back kick. But ARN Anderson breaks for the corner. And before Steamboat can get going, he kind of huddles with Pauly Dangerously to get some advice. So after a while, you can't really tell what the fuck Pauli is telling him. He's just kind of like screaming and he's kind of like trying to get his shit together. He's clearly flustered. So he heads back to the middle of the ring and he locks up with Steamboat. And ardent does get control. He can handle a nice little shoulder block on Steamboat and then a left hand. But Steamboat kind of brushes it off, quickly recovers, and then we get a martial arts kick as Jr. Calls it out of Steamboat and then the remaining members, eaton and the fuck is the other guy? Boston. Jesus Christ.
Boston. Anderson, Eaton. Yeah, you got to come by their other names now. You got Steve, Bobby, and ARN.
Yes, Steve, Bobby, and Orn. So they cop in and Steamboat clears the remaining interfering members of the alliance with more martial arts move, which. Are like back fists and another kick and shit. And he's kind of flexing like he's Bruce Lee and stuff. Really selling the martial arts stuff.
Everybody's kung fu fighting.
Yeah, basically. And Jack tends to put over his martial arts acumen. Well put over steamboats martial arts acumen. So next up we get Ron Simmons. He gets tagged in and he looks like the best in this match in my opinion. He gets tagged in and he dominates. Early on, he's just overpowering them and then he locks them up with like a waist lock. So he has him held tight, really sucking the breath out of them. But before he kind of really do any significant damage, eating into fears and takes advantage of a ref who's distracted. I forget why the ref was distracted, but for whatever reason the ref was like distracted by what are the other members? Yeah.
I don't understand. Yeah, it's a typical thing where one of the good guys comes in and then the referee is like immediately yelling at them to get out of here.
That's what it was. So Ian takes advantage of that and kicks Ron Simmons in the back, which causes Simmons to break the hold. But Ron Simmons is basically unfazed because he's a fucking beast. And he just hit nails a double closed line and then clears the ring of the alliance. So the alliance is back outside the ring. They're regrouping with Pauly dangerously. Pauly Dangerously is flipping the fuck out and he's basically on like a lifeline. So he's on his cell phone and he's bitching. You can't tell who he's bitching to. But then Jr kind of fills us in that he's actually bitching to Medusa, who's on the other line, who has some title. I forgot to write it down. She's like cheap operating manager.
Yeah, he said something like that.
Yeah, she has some official title.
Yeah, first time I mentioned it.
So finally we get the man of the hour. We get Austin, and he's going to square up with Dustin Rhodes here in the middle of the ring. But before things can really get going, the alliance interferes yet again. And now it's Rhodes is time to shine. And he cleans them all out with clears them all out with some bionic elbows. And once again the alliance gets dominated. And they're outside the ring with Pauly Dangerously, who's throwing a massive temper tantrum. And basically the alliance right now is looking like a bunch of chumps. But the crowd is loving it. I'm kind of entertained by it. It's like predictable as it is, but everything's kind of like flowing smoothly.
And I love the baby faces too.
It's interesting. It's fast paced. It's not slow. Like people tagging in and out. So the crowd is loving watching the faces go over here. So eventually we get back in the ring here and Austin Rhodes square up. Austin overpowers dustin Rhodes and smartphone. He does this in the alliance's corner and then he quickly tags it on to Anderson. And after a brief advantage that ARN had, rhodes hits a nice counter. He lands a pretty cool drop toll hold. Patent Dustin Rhodes move hits a drop toll hold and then starts working on Anderson on the mat. And you can see that Arnayson is very frustrated, but it kind of works back into the Alliance's corner. So they double team him in the corner, Rhodes kind of gets back up and whatnot, but his momentum has stopped after R Anderson hits him with a nice Iraq. So right there. R Anderson, Iraq's. Dustin Rhodes. He can't see he's flustered. ARN. Anderson tags in Austin, and then Austin starts stomping Rhodes in the corner and then finishes off, throws him against the rope and finishes it off with a pretty smooth flying back elbow. So Austin tags back in our Anderson and Arnayson gets some payback on dust and Roads with a very deliberate and effective knee drop to Dustin Roads, his chest, which if you know our you know exactly what move I'm talking about. So back in the corner, Rhodes tries to fight out, but Eaton rather kills that momentum and Arnanon tags Austin back in and Rhodes sneakily lands an inside cradle for an extremely close to count. Austin then lands a lateral press for a quick fail to pin attempt. So Eaton gets tagged back, then he's backing with Roads. And at this point it hits him like even though the alliance kind of looks like chumps, they kind of look like the better tag team, I guess team, and that they're doing a great job, like rotating fresh bodies in and out of this match.
Look at the team you have. You got eaten. Anderson and Austin. Fucking great.
Yeah, and it just.
I'll be eating already two of the best tag team wrestlers ever at that point.
That's right.
And then we know going forward that Austin is going to be great in the next year as a tag team wrestler. Fucking makes sense.
So it's just great to see, even though you're not seeing a lot of big spots, the momentum of these guys tagging in and out and getting moves in and then the baby face is kind of getting a big move in to kind of counter it and it's enough to fluster the alliance. It's good wrestling. It's good wrestling. It's not the shit you really see a lot today.
It's much better than the shit we've seen in the past couple of episodes with Van Hammer. Yeah, at least we had good matches to watch this time.
So Eaton tosses roads outside the ring. Arm starts beating on him, but Steamboat comes over to help the referee, Pee Wee, he has no control here. Eventually, order does get restored and we're back to Rhodes, who's kind of sounding like an arm injury.
An arm injury.
That was a tough one with Arnan coming up next. So they're back in the ring. So Rhodes is down. Arnold kind of has the advantage. He attempts a knee drop on pretty damaged roads. But Steamboat jumps in the way of the knee and takes the knee drop himself. So Steamboat, being a great partner is, knows that Roads is like fucked up and that if Arm would have landed, that knee probably would have won the match, probably would have got the pin on that. So Steamboat jumps in and takes the hit. ARN Anderson then sets Rhodes up to kind of drive his head into Austin's knee. So Austin's in the corner. He's kind of got his knee through the middle rope. And R Anderson is going to take Rhodes by the head and slam against Austin's knee. But Rhodes counters it, which results in ARN Anderson taking the knee to the head instead, which was a great spot. So now you have both men down. You know what's coming up next. You know what's a race for the freshman, for the hot tag. ARN gets the tag first, and he gets Bob Eaton in there. But then immediately after, before Eaton can get to Rhodes, rhodes tags in. Big ass Ron Simmons. And Ron Simmons just comes in like, I'm fucking outclasses everyone else in the ring and just cleans house. Eventually, we got all six members end up in the ring, and we just have complete mayhem. So Eaton attempts a top rope move. I don't know, I think he was an attempted finisher at the Alabama Jam. But Simmons catches him. Oh, fuck. Lands up. Massive spine busting.
Yeah.
And hooks the leg for the three count and the win. So I'm glad Simmons got the victory here because he looks like the strongest wrestler of the six. He just looked it like if it was a good day for him or what, but he just looked like the guy you didn't want in the ring if you were the other team. Keep this guy out of here. So naturally, the Lions are pissed off, but they got some help coming out. Larry Zabisco arrives from the back, RDT's Ron Simmons, which allows the alliance to kind of start to do some damage. The alliance starts stomping away on Steamboat. They actually hit him with a spike pile driver, followed by Ian hitting him with the Alabama Jam. And then eventually, finally, the good guys get some help. Barry Wyndham shows up. He's got a two by four in hand, and everybody scatters. And then we cut to like a break and that's it. So Wyndham kind of saves the day for the good guys. This was a really good six man tag.
Yeah.
It might not have seen like a flip or a moonsault outside the ring or all that shit. This was entertaining. It was like a tag, 1415 minutes, fucking six man tag. And it felt like it was like five minutes. It's really good shit.
That was excellent.
Yeah.
I think both matches that we covered so far. Pretty good.
Yeah, I really like them. And then from there, we don't know the result of this.
Right.
Mike, this is the one you said you couldn't find?
Yeah, at first I didn't even realize it was on actual television, but it was, it was on www Power Hour, and it's Ricky Seymour versus Steve Austin. And like I said, I didn't know it was on TV when I first looked it up, so I didn't bother trying to find anything. It's just listed on the history www.dot.com. It just listed Ricky Simon versus TV champion Steve Austin. No result.
But we know the title doesn't change.
Yeah, obviously the title doesn't change. It's probably safe to assume there were some shenanigans bullshit at the end of the match and everybody was just fighting. Everybody. Steamboat, dustin roads, Ron Simmons, barry Wyndham against the alliance. Probably some shit like that. But yeah, it was already too late for me to go ask Richard if he had it. I was like, yeah, fuck it. Anyway, we're going to move on now to our first watch along of this episode. And we're going to be checking out WWE main event from February 16, 1992. So we're going to jump ahead in two weeks. That's it. There's Austin matches here on February 1 on Power Hour and World JV Chip wrestling. And then he's not on TV until that match on Power Hour. And then now here again on the 16th. And this match is going to be Rick Rude teaming up with Austin and Bobby Eaton to take on Sting, ricky Steamboat, and one of our new favorites, Marcus Alexander. Bagwell arm drive guy. All right, so this is on YouTube, so if you did want to watch this and check it out, you can search WCW main event, February 16, 1992, and you'll be able to find that there. It's a full episode and we're going to start off at 1 minute, 26 seconds. Got about eleven minute match here. I'm all set up. JV, you're all set up? Yes.
Let me go to this tab. Yes.
All right, so I'll give a countdown, and if you're going to watch along with us, and like I said, go find that video. Pause those now and go check that out. Find it. And then I'll give the countdown. Three down to one, and I'll say play, and I say play. We all click play and check this match out. All right, here we go. Three, two, one, play. All right, so we get right into it. Big six man tag. Another six man tag. JV just covered one. And here's another one, but this time we get Rick Rude instead of Arnason. And on the other side, what's the difference? On the other side we have Sting now Bagwell super Bro coach Newt Rockney is in there. Polly talking to his guys, and looks like Rick Rude is going to start off the match. We got Rude and Steamboat. The referee is Nick Patrick. Kenny Powers. Steamboat did that lamest thing that I talked about a couple of weeks ago, a couple of episodes ago when Steamboat avoids Rude, but then does it like a double punch to Austin and.
Steamboat and Ravishing Rick Rude.
It kind of a heel move.
It feels like the same exact match.
United States heavyweight title, but we know it lesser talent. Yeah, mostly, but well, better talent. Just diving center brings it down.
Concerning that match, we know at this time they they would repeat spots. They're filming so many different episodes. Of course, Ricky Seamless is going to do the same shit at the beginning of each match. That was a hill move. And Ricky's acting like a hill right now as he's got this wrist lock on Rick Rude. And he's taunting them like, oh, does that hurt by that left arm?
All that tension now is right.
Rick roots have fuck you forearms to their face. We got Tony Shivani on commentary this time, which is a nice change. I love Tony on Commentary.
Me too. I really, really like Tony Shivani. Always have.
Great. Look at fucking Steamboat taunting. Rick rude. Just gave Rude an atomic drop. So Rude's like bending over all my ass hurts and Steamboat is making fun of them. Your ass hurts, man. I haven't seen Steamboat be heelish baby face like this. It's annoying. Doesn't fit him against Ravishing Rick rude and stunning steam.
No, it doesn't at all. Has he ever been a heel?
Never been a heel. Brothers, you have Bagwell in here now. And Bagwell is in the alliance corner getting his ass double teams. And he's in there now with Bobby. And Bobby is just slamming Bagwell's head from corner to corner.
Yeah.
But now he gets momentum. Power slams to Bobby. Bobby ends up in the good guy's corner and stinging hard slam stinging. Steamboat rather is slap the fuck out of Bobby and Bobby days. He's in his corner. He wants to get out of there.
And that is an old danger to lights tactic. It's been so successful so many times. And that is when things are not going your way. Your first retreat is to your corner.
A good point. Tony just brings up when you're in trouble or retreat to your corner holding firmly. Bagwell not experienced enough to know that you need to avoid your point of getting to the other corner. Maybe try to stop him. Now.
I think now he's in their corner.
Now they better look at the referee. I don't think that's Nick Patrick. I think that's the fake Nick Patrick. Yeah, it's the other guy that looks like Nick Patrick. Yeah, I don't remember his name. Doesn't matter. Austin, once again, it's a guy from 1992 with a mullet and a mustache. Every referee is trying to be like.
Austin sells that arms.
Austin staying in the rank. It's like Nick Patrick. Whoever this guy, whatever his name is, they were going for like, Jake Roberts look, which I guess is the look of the late 80s, early 90s. Sting going out. Oh, no. Eating in Austin. Get the better of Sting that time. But no sting comes back.
Didn't get the double, though.
Didn't get the double. Close line, but Austin and Eaten down to the mat. Both of those guys take a powder and head outside the ring. Rick Rude doesn't want to get in. You can see Rude is like, fuck you. I'm not fighting. You stink. Which is hyping up the crowd because they want to see it eating in. Pauly acting like they're holding Rude back, trying to save him some face. Paul, he's like, no, don't get in there. Don't get in there. Sting, don't give him the time of day. Sting's like, come on. You want me? Come on, bro. Loves it. Where is this? Did we say where this Shibbles? This is in Atlanta, Georgia. Center stage.
And we are going to have next Saturday with Jim Robson tremendous eight man tag event as a result of what happened.
WWF this time is a big fan of like six man and eight man tag team matches.
Good old talent in the ring.
Let's just have a shit show in the ring. So far.
They do kind of do them well.
Yeah. And this is fine. This is star heavy, too, so I can't complain. Like I was saying before, at least we don't have fucking Van Hammer this time. The only thing that sucks here is bagwell, which we go. We got to be on the lookout. I don't think he did an arm drag yet. Arm bar. Was it an arm bar? That was JV. Arm bar. Arm bar. Bar. Arm not arm drag. I'm sure there was plenty of arm drag.
It was like arm bar. Arm bar, arm bar. Right, bunch.
No hip toss there's. That back breaker that you're talking about from the Last man did it again. To Steamboat Bobby. Another one. Back to back breakers from Eaton to Steamboat.
There is no question as we head to our Super Bowl.
Yes, that's right, tony just mentioned it. We're on our way to superbrall pay per view of February Super Bowl Two. Which, man, that's a damn good pay per view.
Basically one man, then the other root coming in. And now he's really unloading.
Great opening match on Super Bowl, too. Brian. Pillman versus juice and thumbnail liga. Fucking awesome. Which is also the first match on Night Trail.
Say Brian pillman.
Yeah. Brian pillman.
No shit.
Versus liga. Awesome, man. It's awesome. 1992, that match is happening and it's like quality, like we've seen with Ray Mysterio versus Psychosis and Ecw that we covered recently. 95, late 95.
Going to the top. Ravishing.
Oh, Ravishing. Taunton. Taunton. Sting little gyration. This match is so similar to a match. We've already covered spots of the same.
Yeah.
It does repeat but that spot with Rude where he comes down with the single axe handle and then does the hip thrust, his little move on a sting on the ringy.
Maybe in the latter stage in the month of February, we'll hopefully have some more.
Yeah. That's just a product of having to do so many matches that you don't even know which ones are going to be yet. Air and when they air.
Let's just do what worked last time.
Yeah, let's just do the same shit.
We'Re thinking about us in the future.
I think Austin's good about trying to do different things every time, though.
Yes.
He's not formulaic at this point.
He's still inventing himself, right. Still trying to prove he, like, belongs.
Right. Where somebody like Rude is like, I've been through all this shit before. I'm just doing what's work. That's the veteran thing. Yeah. I'm doing what works for me instead of trying to learn some new tricks, which is fine when you're that good. Sticks out. All right, so what we got here is an Alabama jam, which we've seen before. Referees tied up. Eaton hits an Alabama jam on Marcus Bagwell, who was covering Austin. So after that Alabama jam, bobby Eaton just takes Austin and covers him over bagwell. And you get the one, two, three. What I'm happy about here, though, is that Austin actually got a pin over Bagwell.
Yeah, for real.
But the shitty part is he was about to lose the bagwell if it wasn't for eaten. Austin still kind of looks like shit because it's not for eaten. He would have lost the fucking bag. Well, lamo. All right, so we got a little lad here. Superl 2, February 29. We'll get to that a little later. All right, with that said, we're going to take a quick little break as we head into the second half of our episode covering February 1992. We are going to have some household coverage to go through. And then one more big watch along. It'll be super broad, too. February 20, 1992. We're going to get a tag team match. Steve Austin teaming up with a different partner this time, Larry Legend. Larry Zabisco taking on Dustin roads and Barry Wyndham. So that'll be at Super Bowl, too. And we'll get to that after the break. We'll be right back. All right, we're back now, so let's get into some of this House show coverage. The first show that we're going to recap here is actually from the night before the previous episode that we just watched along, which was February 16. This House show was February 15 in Baltimore, Maryland. And you had a crowd of 3400 people. You had Ricky Steamboat Barry windham dustin roads, taking on Rick road, steve Austin and Arnason. And another combination, it seems like that's the thing going on here is the combination of these baby faces and dangerous Lions guys going at it. And what we had in this match was seamboat Wyndham Roads getting the victory, of course. But you had some interesting stuff happened here in this match. You had Pauly Dangerously got bull rope, got tied up at ringside. And Larry Vizca runs in at the end. He interferes. Arna Anderson gets hit with a cowbell.
I should be in bull rope. That put me in a bummer for a while.
Yeah, well, not only that, Paul bull roped, the Dusty Roads. Dusty Roads is there, if you will, in public, if you will. All right. That's a good attraction, though, to have at that Baltimore show. And then the next night there's another attraction match on February 16 at Norfolk Scope in Virginia. You have Sting Steamboat, Dustin Rhodes. And now Ron Simmons joining the team to take on dangerous Lions members. Rick, Steve, Bobby and ARN. Almost all of them. And this is in a steel cage. So the baby faces prevail again when Steamboat pins Bobby in the steel cage. And they had 2400 people there in Norfolk. And then we go to Dallas. Another big show. Well, not really, but it should be. It's reunion arena. And business not too good there in Dallas. You got 800 people in attendance.
Wow. How many did it hold?
I don't know exactly, but 800. What the fuck is 800? Nothing. All right, let me do a quick little check and see if we can get Reunion Arena. What's it fit? Let's take a look. I'll do it. It could fit thousands in that fucking place. Primary home of Dallas Stars, Dallas Maverick.
Oh, God.
Yeah. Shit. They had a little rinky ding wrestling show there. Yeah, this is fucking big time. That's why I said, oh, it's a big show, because I saw the name of the place and it was like, oh, 800 people. What they fucking do? Section off a little corner of the place, have the fucking little rinky ding wrestling show. All right. Anyway, there might be more to that story, but no. Well, steamboat defeat Rick Rude and Steve Austin at Reunion Arena. Steamboat Pins Austin after Barry Winter hit Austin with poly dangerously. Cell phone or cordless phone? After that you get Medusa running in along with Larry Zabisco. And similar to the bull rope situation that they had a few days before, we have Barry Wyndham handcuffed to Poly Dangerously. So instead of a bull rope, we got handcuffs. This time it's windham and dangerously. And Wyndham was actually a replacement for who was supposed to be handcuffed Polly Dangerously. And this doesn't make much sense at all to me based on what we've seen over the past few months with this feud and who's involved in this feud, wyndham makes sense, right? Wyndham has been involved in this. He just come out, makes the saves. He has fucking hacksaw two by four. But the person that he replaced that was supposed to be handcuffed to Poly Dangerously was fucking Elige. How is he going to do with this?
Shit, like they just wanted a really big guy. Yeah, maybe is what I'm guessing.
Yeah, an attraction. Yeah. Yeah, that's probably what it was. But Elian, I think this is the reason why he was subbed is that this time he lost one of his parents. So he went back to Argentina during this time in February of 1992. All right, so from there now we're going to get some repeat matches on this loop from February 22 through the 25th. So four nights in a row, you're going to get Sting and Steamboat beating Rick Rude and Austin tag team matches. And these matches happen on February 22. Chattanooga, Tennessee, 23rd in Knoxville, Tennessee. Greenville, South Carolina, on February 24. Macon, Georgia on February 25. Largest of all those shows being Chattanooga, Tennessee, with 3100 people then, that leads us now into Super Bowl to February 29. So this is a leap year day, February 29 here in Milawake. As Alice Cooper says in Wayne's World, Milwaukee, which is algonquin for the good land. You remember that, JV?
No, I don't. Funny Milawake.
So they're in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 5000 people in attendance at Super Brawl, too. It is a really good show. I wouldn't recommend it. So if you're going to check this match out that we're about to watch, check out the whole show. It's pretty good. There is some kind of crap on there, but it's crap that's fun. It's fun to just look at. Oh, look how stupid this shit is. Like Van Hammer and Vinny Vegas going at it. The tag team match, this good stuff. Like I said earlier, you had Brian Pillman juice and Thunder Liger. You got Sting taking on Lex Luger. And I'll go over some of the things that pertain to the Dangerous Alliance after we cover the match, during the match. All right, so like I said, we got Austin and Larry Zabisco, the dangerous alliance. Larry and Steve taking on Dustin road. And Barry Wyndham. And this match is going to kick off at 1 hour, eight minute mark, 2 seconds. 1 hour eight minutes 2 seconds. And we're using Peacock version. So if you have Peacock and JV, was there an ad rate before the match? No, there wasn't. Hopefully don't get fucking oh, no, there was.
No, there was. It was like a 32nd one.
Okay. All right, so yeah, you probably have the ad. So if you're going to watch along with us, bang that ad out and then join us for our countdown. All right, JV, you're all set and ready to go, right?
Yes, sir.
All right, so again, 1 hour, eight minutes, 2 seconds. You should see either a crowd shop or a faded chop. JV, what do you have? Do you have the faded chop with.
It'S like fading out?
Eric Bishop. Tony. Is that who it was?
Yeah.
All right, so, yeah, you either have a fade out of Eric and Tony leading to the arena shop, depending on what? Millisecond, you're on. All right, here we go. Three, two, one, play. All right, so here we are, super Brawl Two. Alright, we go. Wirey head. And I like Larry Levisco Austin.
Yeah, I like him. Solitary.
No, he's great on commentary. The only thing that sucks about Larry on commentary was the constant during the Nwo time. The New World odor. Odor. Like that was his go to joke.
Well, he had no business being in it. No, I meant on Commentary.
On commentary. No, that's what I mean. On commentary. Making fun of the Nwo.
Okay.
New world odor. I like how he was always against the Nwo, though. Constantly. Fuck them.
He never ends up joining them.
No, I thought he did briefly, but.
I thought everyone did.
And look at Medusa, man.
That was just to write a passage.
Medusa looks great. All right, so we got Jr. But who wrote some commentary. Jesse. The body. This is his first pay per view. Last episode, we had Jesse make his debut at Clash of the Champions for one match, which we covered. But here he's on the full Super Bowl, too. And that's another great reason to watch this pay per view. Is that it's Jesse's return to commentary since 1990 here in 92. And it's funny to hear Jr. Be all pissy about Ventura being on his team. I think Jim Ross was kind of not intimidated, but like, fuck this guy. Why are they bringing him in? I'm the man here. All right. The action kicks off hot and heavy. Got two big boys, Dustin Rhodes and Barry Window. Man, what a team.
Yeah, they're big bastards. I always forget how big a window is until you see them.
Yeah. I always figure how big Dustin Rhodes is.
Is he in the hall of Fame?
Dustin?
No.
Window.
Window. No. I'm going to say no off the top of my head. I don't think he's in as a horseman. Let's see, I'll look it up. We'll have fucking somebody. You're wrong again, motherfuckers.
He should be in, though, right? I mean, he might not be in now.
Okay, so he did go in as the Four Horsemen, which is what I thought because they just comped them all together. So yeah, he's in as the Four Horsemen member. Yeah.
I was thinking more as like an individual.
Yeah, not as an individual. I think it makes sense that he's just in there with the full hospital, though.
Slow it down. That's to their advantage.
Jesse Ventura speaking truth. Yeah, good advice. Dustin and Barry got matching boots.
The big Texan from Sweetwota.
Steve Austin rocking the traditional traffic keeper types. Larry's Abyss got fucking diaper trunks on always. It's like old man trunks. They go halfway up your chest because he's just trying to cover the lower part of his stomach. So you just fucking raise those suckers up like earcle. How small Zabisco is compared to windham. Holy moly.
Beautiful.
Man. They loved utilizing that ramp at ringside. Back in the day, every match, something would happen on the ramp.
I like that set up.
I do like it, too. And why not use it if you had it there? Yeah, nice Larry.
Nice Larry.
I was going to say I like the rant, though, because it puts the wrestles above the crowd, makes them look like stars.
Yeah.
We had to watch you. We're looking up to you. Same thing with in the ring. The ring is higher than the crowd for the most part. The lower part, obviously solid match. This match is going to get rated as one of the best matches on the show. Obviously not going to be rated higher than Pillman versus Juice and Thunder Liger.
What's the main event for this one?
Main event is Sting versus Luger for the championship. Okay. A big match that's been being built up for a while. All the way back to Starcade. Remember JV with the battle ball stinging Lugar, the final two.
We were talking about how Flare had just left, right?
Yeah. I have Wuger as the champion. Stinger in this shot and he's going to go for it tonight. Here, February 20, 1992. Good teamwork between Rhodes and Wyndham. Here. Nice gut wrench on two two. All right. Kicks out. Austin. Just cut his hair already. Take a look at Vgard capacity.
Right. Both their fathers wrestled Wyndham and Rhodes.
Yes.
Well, obviously Rhodes are no windham.
I forgot.
Blackjack mulligan. Right.
Yeah.
Because he's bray and bo's Uncle Jack mulligan. No, Barry Wyndham.
Oh, Barry Wyndham.
Because their dad is Mike Ratunda.
Yeah.
Or is it vice versa? Mike Ratunda is the uncle and Barry.
Windows their dad, Mike Rotunda, is the Wyatt, Bray and Bow's dad. Okay. All right.
So it was right?
Yeah. Blackjack Mullion is the grandfather of Bray Wyatt in Bow, Dallas.
And then Barry Wyndham is an uncle or something.
Yeah. Right.
Microton married like the uncle, right?
Yeah. Barry is the son of Blackjack Mulligan Ratunda. Barry the sister, that one.
Right.
You got it. He knows it. Fucking tangled web, though, with that family. I guess it's pretty straightforward.
Austin and Sabisco should go after that.
Bro, you went flying.
That's one of the teams that gets forgotten about sometimes in early WWF history is the US Express. Barry window, man. Mike Ratunda. Oh, yeah. They were tag team champions. It's weird to think that years later, microtend is this tag team champion, the US Express. Then he just becomes this IRS.
Well, he was in a tag team.
Money, Inc. Yeah, Money, Inc. After yeah. For me, watching that at that time, I didn't know Mike Raton. I knew Mike Rotunda from WW. But not being in www prior and then coming back and being IRS, and.
I've said it before, but he had the best move set in WCW wrestling for Nintendo flying. To me, the only one with that broken ass move. Oh, yeah, the hitbox was insane.
Yeah, that's an underrated move. He used that a lot as IRS whipped the guy into the ropes and then as they come back to fucking knee him in the gut and they flip over. It's a good spot. I like it. Medusa's got a hair. Nice. No selling meal medusa this week.
For me.
Yeah, she looks good, man. No, she does.
I always thought she's pretty hot.
The only thing she's not hot was when she was a Lunder blaze.
Yeah, no, you're right.
What happened?
Something about it. It was the gear.
Yeah, maybe she wasn't appealing. The name sucked, too, I guess. Come on, Jay. Are you talking about football randomly right now?
We know it. We get it. Wrestling was your second choice.
What's wrong with me? I couldn't been John Madden instead of Jim Ross football as Jr barbecue. Another thing. When I was watching Subaru, this stood out to me in the opening when Jr. Introduces the crowd to Jesse Ventura making his pay per view debut. Jesse Ventura says something that shocked me, goes, you know what, Jr. He said no. Jim Ross, you look like jring. If only you had a cowboy hat on. You look like jring. From Dallas.
Then he starts wearing one.
Well, then Vince McGregor makes him wear one because he probably thought the same thing. Like, you look like this guy. Fucking wear the hat that became his freaking stable. And Jesse Ventura says it right away. Boom. You got to put a cowboy hat on. Dustin Roads, house of Fire, right now. Oh, what a Simon drop kick. Dustin Roads is awesome. Nice elbow drop coming. Boom. One, two. We got Nick Patrick with no mustache. No mullet either in this match. What kind of sneakers are those JV that Nick Patrick has on?
I can't tell. They look like high top air forces.
Yeah, I was going to say they look fucking pretty cool for a referee. Also going for a roll up, Dustin. Oh, shit. What a spot. Austin just nailed the hell out of Austin with a close with Dustin. Austin just nailed Dustin with the clothesline and sent them spinning in the air. Wow. There is no control, really, of the tag teams in this match right now.
Zero.
There's two legal guys in the ring, but it's like constantly some bullshit going on outside with the other partners.
Yeah, like two matches going on.
Right? There's never or has rarely been guys just hanging on the ring, aper the.
Guys getting tagged out of the ring into the new match.
Right. Stirring up shit. He's pissed at their officials. They're definitely Nikes that Patrick has on.
Yeah, I can't really tell. I'm pretty sure they're oh, no, maybe they're just plain.
They're just plain.
I like a generic batch.
I thought I saw more white or mid top. No, it has a strap. It has like, that Air Force One strap at the top. I'll do that medusa with a slap to Dustin Roads face. What an insult.
Yeah, they got to be Air Force ones like the Mids.
Dustin Roads going out. Dustin was going for Medusa, but Austin came up saying, I have to bring that one back. Not bottom line wrestling cast without.
A new girlfriend.
Oh, medusa's character has been questioned before. What are you saying, Jr. What are you really saying? I know what you're saying. Lateral press, cover. Not quite. That's not a lateral press. That was a fucking just a lazy ass cover. Jr. Always likes to call a cover a lateral press. Lateral press is good. It can be a pin attempt, but you got to be holding down the arm in a lateral position. I like to say lateral press sounds better than pinfall. What are we doing? Are we wrestling? Jr. Is just going to be known from this point on to me as being the cranky ass old Jr. I love Jr. Anyway, just point that out. The football shit does get annoyed, but I get what he's doing. He's trying to bring some authenticity of these guys are athletes, these are real legit guys, and this is real sports, and bring up as many comparisons to football and sports as he can.
Yeah, that's true. That's a great point. It's like legitimize.
Yes. That's a better word than authenticate with the fuck I said. What a nickname for Larry Zabisco this time? The Cruncher. That fucking name sucks. The Cruncher.
Number crunchers.
Number of munchies.
Number of munchers. That's awesome.
Number munchers. Yeah, the munchers or munchies.
Munchers.
I think my dumbass always called the number of munchies.
I believe it. I seen your grades.
Elementary, middle school, some grades.
I saw your grades before you got smart. Not got smart. Before you took it seriously.
It took me a while.
No, I'm going to give this school thing a try.
Let me give it the old try here. I think I was just hanging around dumbasses too much. Josh, see my report card?
You're like, what the fuck?
Yeah. Oh, I can do that.
He doesn't even carry his books. I never had my books.
It's not too bad getting good grades. It was hard. Well, you did fine. But I'm going to say the middle school we went to, it was fucking hard to do good in that school.
Well, yeah, it got hard for me in 8th grade because I was in eight A. It was supposed to be like the college class. We had all the punks. We were, like, an embarrassment to the school. We were the only class that didn't get to go on, like, the trip in 8th grade every year, actually. It was like 7th and 8th grade was awful. It's like, Get these kids out of the class. Why the fuck you put them in this?
Yeah, but they were all smart.
They were they no, they were small assholes punks.
That's generally the case, a lot of the smartest kids are the assholes. What a punch. From Dustin to Larry Zabisco. I think we're getting to the finish here.
Big right hand. Big right hand. Big right hand. I like how he's using the heavily taped right?
Yeah. Fuck it.
He's a good wrestler. This guy never got his due. I think it's because he didn't take it he didn't take it seriously after his physical appearance. Seriously.
That is a big knock on him. People have often said that is that he had such great natural ability that he knew he could perform well. So he was kind of like he was taking a shortcut. Like, I don't have to do the working out shit because I'm good.
And that kind of pisses people off. When you have the talent and you don't put the work in.
Yeah. I can get by on doing what I'm doing.
Like that guy. Walter WWF.
Yeah. He fucking well, he made the initiative. Yeah.
That guy put the work in.
Yeah, he looks awesome. Still. Awesome win wrestling wise. Yeah, that was a good match, man. Hell of a match at Super Brawl Two. Here barry Windham and Dustin Rogue. Just getting a clean victory. I like how there's no bullshit. It was just a fucking win.
No bullshit here.
At this point in the Dangerous yeah. You're getting the shitty two guys. Larry Zabisko is at the bottom, I think, of the group. And then Austin is just above him.
Yeah, he's like Sunsetting out of wrestling.
Then you got Bobby ARN and Rude. Those are the top three. All right, so phone match. Good shit there. Like I said, I want to go over some of the things that were going on that night with Dangerous Hines. Actually, no, let me just go through a recap here of what was written in the observer because they liked this match, the rest of the observer, and we'll rate it, too. So let me just read the recap first and then we'll give a little rating. All right. So this is what melts the road. Barry Wyndham and Dustin Roads beat Larry Visco and Steve Austin 18 minutes, 21 seconds. This was a tremendous match with good brawl and back and forth. Austin's Simon is just incredible considering his experience. They got heat on Wyndham in the early portion, then heat on Roads. Later, Wyndham made the hot tag and came in and went for a superplex. But Zabisco shoved them off road, shoves the bisco off the top rope, and Windham pinned them with a flying lariot. How many stars do you give it, Davy?
Three and a half.
Yeah, that's where I'm sitting.
Maybe three quarters, but three and a half, definitely.
All right, sir. Agreed. He put three and three quarters.
Oh, wow. Leaning that way. Actually, we give three and a half out a lot and this was better than yeah.
Right. And like I said, I like just the clean finish. The Dangerous Alliance lost, but they always fucking lose. But at least let them lose clean. Some bullshit going on DQ or getting their ass beat, but there's no real winner in this case. They lost. That's it. They fucking lost her. Also another dangerous alliance news. You had ARN Anderson and Bobby Ian retain the Tag Team titles against the Steinus. Steiners didn't get the upper hand on them. And you had Rick Rude retain the US championship against Ricky Steamboat as well at Super Bowl too. So, man, this card JV Super Bowl two good shit there. Those two matches aren't anderson Bobby versus the Steiners. Rick Rude versus the Ricky Steamboat. The match we just watched brian Pillman versus Juice on the Liger. Then in the main event, you have Sting win the championship from Lex Luger. After the show, they had a press conference, a fake bullshit press conference.
I understand wrestling, Mike, I know, but.
I was going to continue on the bullshit press conference that they never have. And then they only have it when it's time to do an angle. You know what I mean? It's not like it's a normal thing. So it sticks out like a sore thumb. Like, oh, we're having a press conference. What the fuck you having a press conference for? Some bullshit is going to happen, that's why. So in this press conference, the Dangerous Alliance attacks thing. And then Nikita Koloff comes in and he's been a heel for a long time. He's back and he's going to make the save. He's going to help stink the kita. Koloff becomes baby face. So like I said, we're on our path back to wrestle war and throw war games. And we know Koloff is in that match. And here it is. Koloff makes his Baby Face turn here and helps out Sting to fight off the Dangerous Alliance at this press conference. I love that. I did pause there, though. So it was easy for you to sneak in there and it kind of set me up.
Set yourself up.
All right. So that was the dangerous alliance. And Superbroad too. Just another little bit of news before we wrap things up. Also in the wrestling observer from the February 24, 1992 edition, this little note I thought was notable. That's why it's a note notable. Lots of news regarding personnel. Dustin Roads, Steve Austin and Brian Pillman all signed two year contracts. These contracts have a base salary plus incentives, I believe. Both Rhodes and Austin signed for bases of $165,000 and $190,000. So Rhodes would have got 165, austin got $190 with incentives that will push that total up from there. Hey, that's fucking good money.
Yeah, shit.
I mean, they got to pay all their expenses and travel and shit. Yeah, that's a fucking lot number for 1992. Fuck yeah.
And I'll pay all my expenses and everything is cheaper then, right?
You don't have to stay at great places. Fucking all you're doing is going to bed.
Yeah, I'm a fucking jacked wrestler. I'm going to go fucking the cheapest place, all right. And usually sleeping with your other jacked badass friends, right?
You fucking share the room too. Yeah. So that was 92. So they had their contracts to 94. We know these three guys, rhodes, Austin, Pillman, they're all gone in 96, 95. Dustin Rhodes gets fired. Pillman does like all these guys get let go. Dustin Rhodes gets fired because of Uncensored 95, where he gets busted open in a match where they said there should be no blood. So he got fired. That fucking trailer match on the highway had uncensored. Steve Austin got let go because he was injured and wasn't fucking helping out or whatever. So they could let him go in 95, which would have been before his contract was up. Same with us in Rhodes. And Brian Pillman worked the thing with Eric Bishop where he wiggled his way out of working for WCW and set Bishop up to let me go. I'll be back once I'm more popular. So all these guys getting these deals in 92, they get extended again in 94. But then after that, they're all let go. By the time they're about to peak, they get let go when they're about to be stars. That's crazy. They all become more popular and still let go from there. And these are people that they've invested in. Obviously, they're going to spend this money on them in 92 and then again in 94 and then say, fuck it, it's so wild. I was thinking of this. It was like, all right. In 96, NW comes WWE is getting the guys from WWF. That helps them out, right? That helps NW. And then even with just having familiar faces in WCW that were former WWF guys, helps them out. So they're taking all that. But it's almost like there was a trade made. WWF who's faltering around 92, 93, not doing great. It's like they gave up their big size. And in return I know it wasn't worked out like this, but in return they get the young stars of WCW and use them to be the next generation of WWF.
That was the WWF trade off.
Yeah. It's like, okay, you have our big stars. We're going to suck for a little bit. But we're going to take the talent that you don't want to pay anymore because you want to pay all these old people, these old stars. And we're going to turn them into stars like McFolley and Dustin Rhodes and Austin and so forth. That was smart. It's like if you fantasy baseball is on my mind lately because it's coming up. And I'm in a league where I'm making some trades and shit. It's basically like in a dynasty league or something. A fantasy league where you have long term players. You get rid of some of your older guys to get some younger ones. And you might not win this year or next year, but in a few years you're going to be set up to have like three or four good years in a row because right, overall and it's almost like that's what was going on here. All right, yeah, you can have our other guys and we'll just pick up your trash that you're not valuing right. Anymore trash. Anyway, I just thought I'd bring that up. Okay, so that will wrap things up. JV. Anything to say before we get to the bottom line? Wrap up.
No, I got nothing.
All right, so we're going to head to The Bottom Line Wrap Up, take a listen to Alex Dorio as he talks about his great podcast Talking Taker. Take a listen to that and we'll be right back.
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All right, we're back. Now for the Bottom Line wrap up. And we're going to be back soon. We're going to be back on March 16. We're going to be back for 316 Day. So that's when the episode will be out because we can't have a 316 Day special come out on March 20, right? We got to get this out on March 16 on 316 Day. So that'll be our next episode and we're going to do a special review of WWF Livewire from October 19, 1996. This is the episode where Stone Cold takes over live Wire Don't really take over, buddy. He runs a muck in there. Fun episode, something that we didn't talk about at all in the early episodes of The Bottom Line Wrestling cast, which would have been around episode 4, October 96. We didn't really talk about that. So we're going to circle back and we're going to kind of relive 96. We're going to go over his first year, we're going to talk about Live Wire and then we're going to talk about the episode that he's on of Live Wire. So I think it'll be fun for a 316 Day special. So that's coming up when you're listening to this in about eleven days. All right, so we'll be back for that. Also the plug up house. So we just heard from Alex on Talking Taker and does a great show with Travis White. And they come out with new episodes once a month. Now, just like us, they've basically covered everything that needs to be covered of the career that they were covering, The Undertaker. And now they're just on a monthly basis doing special episodes. And they've been doing that, I think it's been two years already. Just crazy to think that the show wrapped up that long ago. But man, they still had it. And they got great special episodes coming out. They just dropped a new episode a few days ago on March 1. It's the life and times of Paul Berra. That's great. You can't have a Talking Taker podcast without talking about Paul Berra, right? I mean, obviously they talked about Paul Berra shit ton over the years. But full dedicated episode. It's awesome. It was a great episode. So fun stuff there as always. Follow them on Twitter at talking taker. And again, first of every month, a new special episode from them. And also they're on YouTube. They do video for all their episodes now. So good stuff. Also check out Booking the territory. The Unprofessional Wrestling Podcast. New episodes available every Thursday night at 08:00 P.m. Eastern Standard Time. And they are covering World Championship Wrestling WCW. They've been doing that since 1985. They've been covering the shows from 1985 up to where they are now, September 28, 1991. So they're pretty close to where we are right now. Here with stunning Steve. Check them out. Booking the territory. The unprofessional wrestling podcast with mike mills, harder, buddy hopper and doc turner. Also, check out our vantage point. The Retro Wrestling podcast with Joe Morata and Michael Quinn. New episodes get released every Friday. Their project currently is covering WWF weekly television. They started this as a side project and now it's become their main project for our vantage point. They have wrapped up their regular episodes that they've done and now they're just focusing on covering weekly episodes. And they started back in 1982 and now they're up to 1985 of WWF Weekly Television. Championship Wrestling was what it was called. They just released as we're recording here on a Friday, just released today, August 3, 1985. Machine Randy Savage has just come in over the past few weeks and is fucking already yelling about Holcogan, I want you. He's already bitching. He wants fucking title shot right away back in 1985, saying that he's better than Hulk Hogan. Awesome to think and see that shit. Montremen was after Hogan's ass from the start, like, all right, you're going to bring me in here? I'm going to fucking yell about the champion all the time too. Because if I yell about the Champion, that puts me on his level. That puts me in the title picture right away.
Manifests it.
Yeah, exactly. And also check out Joe Morale and Michael quinn on their new podcast, which is now already eight episodes in. It's acid washed memories. They release new episodes every Monday. This is a pop culture retro podcast, and they're covering all different types of things. Like, this past week, episode eight was all about a tribute to Mr. Rogers Neighborhood and memories of Mr. Rogers, but then also other children programming on PBS during that time. So, like Sesame Street reading rainbow and stuff like that. So great nostalgia over there. And Acid Wash Memories on episode nine that's coming out this upcoming Monday. I'm looking forward to this one. They're going to do a Mount Rushmore, which is one of their, you know, big time segments that they used to have on our vantage point. They're going to do the Mount Rushmore of breakfast cereals. JV, what's one of your Mount Rushmore breakfast cereals?
Cinnamon toast crunch.
All right. Yeah, I have that. I did my list. I said Cinnamon Toast Crunch is on there. I have cheerios. A couple of them are plain, but fucking hey, you can't go wrong. Cheerios corn flakes. Those are my plain ones. And then Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
Corn Flakes is definitely on mine, too.
Love corn flakes with the milk. Just awesome. Cinnamon toast crunch. And the other one was the fucking blank. Wasn't Tricks. Yeah. Fourth one was a tough one. I don't even remember it. So maybe it doesn't belong on Rushmore. It was Fruity Pebbles. You're right.
Pebbles.
Yeah. It was Fruity Pebbles. Fruity pebbles and cinnamon toast crunch. My two cereals. When I want flavor, those are the ones that I'll have when I want just something plain. Regular cereal. Cherry OS complex.
It's tough not to like a lot of cereals. They're all kind of the same. It's a fucking tall sugar.
Yeah, well, that's why I like Cheerios and Conflicts, because you can avoid the sugar on those ones.
I like kicks.
Yeah, Kicks.
Not big on cheerios. I mean, I'll eat them.
I like regular Captain Crunch. Me, too. Not the berries.
I hate the berries.
I like the regular little yellow artificial tasting. Yeah, whatever those things are. The thing with Captain Crunch, though, is I like it. It tastes good. It has stink like vanilla flavor.
Taste the fucking milk to it.
Yeah, in the milk. But the only thing that sucks about the Captain Crunch is when you bite. It fucks up the top. At least for me. It fucks up the top of the lawn for my mouth.
Cereals. Cocoa Puffs, Apple Jacks. I love apple Jacks.
Fruit Loops.
But you can't eat it's tough, like they fuck up the top of your mouth.
Yeah. So that'll be a fun one. I'm looking forward to listening to that and see what serials they talk about. All right. And also check out JV and I on the extreme ecw live cast. You can get access to the Extreme Ecw Livecast through booking a territory as Patreon $5 tier. And we've been doing this show for nearly four years now. We started covering all the way from the beginning of Ecw Hardcore TV in 1993, April 93, and we're currently up to February of 1996. Yeah, I know that's not quite four years, but it took us that long. But our latest episode is an Ecw Supercard special where we cover Cyber Slam 1996 from February. Also last week, Jamie and I joined Mike Mills on a book in the territory live stream. We also had our Head of Research, Rick Bieber, on there as well. And yeah, that was fun. That was 3 hours of talking to Ecw and we took the approach of covering what we've covered. So we went through 93, 94, 95 and into 96 and just kind of shoot the shit. Shot the shit about Ecw. That was fun. And that's available on Patreon as well. It's a nice companion piece to our entire project. It's always fun to be able to just hang out and talk like that. That was fun. Also, we do have Ecw Extreme Cast episodes available on a free feed. So our older episodes so about a year, a little less than a year ahead behind what we are at right now. So right now, April 11 and April 18 are available. So everything from 93 to April 95 is available for anybody to listen to. Just search Extremely SW Live Cast and you might as well plug this proresultantease.com if you go to the Booking Territory Store. Booking the Territory Store at Pro Wrestlentees.com, there is a new, extremely SW live cast shirt available. It's the extreme livecast T shirt. Cool one paying homage to the old Ecf and W T shirt. We had to get that one out there. I got to get mine still, but yeah, me too. Get yourself one. Yeah, me too much. It there. If you like us here, you like us there. Extreme EW Live Cast is gradually becoming our main project because we have a lot more to do and not so much more with Austin fading away here. So join over there so that you can continue to ride with us as this slowly comes to an end here on The Bottom Line Wrestling Gas. We'll probably get to a situation where, like talking taker, where we do one a month or every other month or something like that, just to continue with Austin in some form. Yeah, that's all plugs in guys. Thanks for listening as always. And like I said, we'll be back very soon for 316 Day and Cover Live Wire. But in the meantime, please, if you're enjoying the show, you've enjoyed the show for the years that we've been doing it. If you haven't yet, please give us a five star review on Apple podcast. Subscribe Spread The Word if you like it, share it, please. Even though, yeah, it is coming to a close, it's still a podcast that people can listen to. Even though it's. Older, right? If they haven't heard it, it's new to them. So just spread the word, please. We'd greatly appreciate that. And with that said, JV, any final words? All right, guys, thanks for listening. We'll see you very soon for Austin 316 day song.
And that's the bottom line. As far as I'm concerned, this over whistle get the hell out of here.
Thank you.