Revisiting ECW Hardcore TV 1995 Steve Austin Debuts, Rey & Psicosis Extreme Lucha, WWE 2K24 Royal Rumble Trip

The boys are Welcome back, everybody to the Deadlog Podcast, the number one
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Tony is to talk about what we're talking about today on the show, which
is not only ECW Hardcore TV from September twenty sixth, nineteen ninety five,
the episode where Steve Austin uh does the whole time Steved your brother Well,
it's also Raymsteer debuts of the ECWS the first time of All Time Coast.
It's pretty crazy. That's awesome. Not only that, Tony, we're also
going to be talking about our trip to Florida where we uh we got to
play w W E two k T four. I was there, you were
there, James was there? James not here because you guess we got him.
You got the w W germs. I think it's Florida in general.
The whole state got strap insane. So James uh medically uncleared to be on
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I got all the opinions on the winners. Great, that's fucking great.
Well, so we were flown out to Florida, flew out on Friday.
My uber lady is nuts. She's like talking the whole fucking really,
dude, she's nuts. Yeah, she's like telling me about like she's like,
yeah, I like, you know, I can't keep a job.
I said, Oh well, now I'm curious and I was like, oh,
yeah, I got it because Tony's been in ubers with me and I
will, I will only you have the craziest uber, because I never,
like I just put my headphones in and sit in the bag and I don't
know what we find the craziest people anyway, going. So yeah, she's
telling me like, oh, well, this job, like this dude was
like high on like coke and like hit me in the back of the head
with a door and then I was trying to complain and then they didn't do
anything. And this other job, like I was supposed to give out the
checks but then they like some lady was taking the checks and hiding them everywhere.
And she was also on coke. So like all these jobs have a
lot of coke related stories. I don't know how she's so involved with it.
She was very twitchy, probably unrelated, I'm sure, just aunt.
She was fine, okay, great, great driver though. Yeah, it
got me there in record time, super super fast. Uber. Yeah that'd
Mastadon told me it took him like forty five minutes to get to the airport
or to the hotel from the airport. Took me fifteen minutes. No,
it was like twenty minutes for me. Yeah, yeah, it was.
It was a battle. So yeah. I get to the hotel. The
girl behind the counter immediately says, oh, you want some of this?
And there's like a little like how would you describe it, like a I
don't know if the spenser is the right word, but a little gimmick.
And it has a drink in it called Carol's Juice. I said, I
don't think so. It turns out it was like a fruit juice with like
an unbelievable amount of vodka in it. Dude, that's awesome. Any you
didn't have anything I got in. By the time I got in, there
was another you know that wasn't I'll tell you soon. I'll tell you who
had a lot of it. I can only imagine. We have to be
up at eight in the lobby. Yeah, eight am, which is always
a lie. By the way, it's never eight am, it's always eight
it's always like a half hour after it's like eight am. And then we'll
start getting ready at eight fifteen and then leave at eight thirty, which means
I'm gonna keep this in mind for the next time we do all of these,
because I I will take a little bit of uh the liberties here to
sleep. Yeah, but say we go to lobby, everyone's down there,
we're bullshitting. I'd love. There's this thing that I do. I love
doing it. It makes me very happy people I do it who probably doesn't
make it happy because I don't mind being on camera as much now, Like
if I'm not gonna make somebody blur my fucking face or whatever someone, So
like, I'm totally down. So like Luge, you know, doing vlogs
and stuff, so fucking I love there's this thing that I do. Luge
hates it because I started doing this last year where if you're vlogging, I
will I will go out on my way to like yell fuck to get you
demonetize. Dude. I don't know if anyone's ever actually gotten demonetized from it,
but it makes me laugh. Dude. I did one thing at the
Rumble that she just stopped recording. Wait, really would you do? Hold
on? Hold We'll hold it, hold it, hold it. Yeah,
it was. It was a good just trying to remember. So bash World
is in the lobby, he's vlogging. He's like fucking all fired up,
and I just fucking looking into his camera say it's on his channel. I'm
pretty sure. Look at the cameras. I'm gonna get you to my time.
And I did that to louj at the Rumble last year. She was
like streaming her reacting and she was super pissed off. She forgave me,
though it was it was very funny to everyone around me, so that was
worth it. So yeah, we're in the lobby. So I'm standing there
with like Chris and Michelle and like so like dealing with me like at like
normal Johnny hours like now Tony is like it's already a lot. Yeah,
you know, I'm fucking when I'm on I'm on dealing with me at fucking
nine am, when I eight nine am, when I had like I'm on
little sleep, same exact guy. Because I'm still like I'm once, I
like once, I know I got something to do. I got to like
I'm in I'm still fired up. So Michelle's looking at me. This is
their second weekend having to deal with me, and she's like, I can't
fucking do this. Chris is like I'm just like fucking punching. Both of
them just talking ship and they're like both like so fucking mad because I do
not want to deal with It's eight am in the morning. Chris is still
like half a silly alone. I fucking talking so ship just someone spiking everybody.
I'm fucking listen, man, I don't see I'm ready to go.
All right, you already know how I am. I'm like, fuck you,
I need to go get my coffee. And then I don't don't funk
with Tony without his coffee. Yeah. Yeah, we had to get that
coffee. And then I was like all right, now I'm good to go.
But like he was good, yeah, but you deal with your bullshoot
and let's have a car. But I and I accept that, you know,
like when it was DPW, like ill in the morning, I'm chill.
But no, yes, it's like I got I got a lot of
people I can yeah, yeah, I get it. I'm walking round with
everybody. So we get to the event. We go down there. It's
like it's in another hotel, like but like it's like two minutes away.
I don't know why this was Yeah, I'm not sure why it was set
up that way. It's like one of those conference rooms kind of thing,
and they uh yeah, yeah, they rented the whole thing out for the
event. So that's cool, yeah, exactly. So we get to the
conference room thing, uh, big fucking area. There's already a ton of
people in there, like all you know, like the media people. Yeah,
because it was press and uh rex maker people. So that's right.
Yeah, so we go in in the first thing. I notice this is
a problem every time. And I understand why they do this because they wanted
to be like a social event. Sure, but we're there to record shit
and people are there like record interviews and all, and they got like fucking
loud, fucking music playing. Man, it tells me every time they hire
a DJ. Every event, there's avery time we have to record, there's
a DJ dude, there's a booth and like god bless the guy. But
like every time I have to go up to the fucking two k people and
say, listen, brother, turn this shit down, please, did they
already did? They did? They do? And they usually do, but
like I don't know how many times, Like what a waste of money for
them to hire this dude. It is incredible that they do this every year.
It's like they have a red carpet thing where like you can interview uh
superstars when they come in and stuff like that, and it's like why would
you want to DJ when people are interviewed superstars, Like I don't know what
it is, but it's like real music too, I'm gonna get claim.
Yeah yeah, And then like the room is not big enough, like anywhere
you sit in the room, you'll hear the DJ. Yeah, also hear
us too, which is also great. Yes, but yeah, super nice
set up. All the t K people are super fucking nice, so that
it's always nice to you know, get the bullshit with him. Brian Williams
was in the house. He was shout out to go Brian Williams. Yeah,
we were. We like picked his brain for I swear it was like
an hour almost for a long time. Yeah, dude, and he like
he's so passionate about these games. It's hard to not like love the dude.
Dude. It's crazy. He's got such history and like the wrestling game
scene from like all the way back in the day to like even the aw
game. We talked about that for a little bit and talk about this game.
It's just like, Wow, he's been through every he like knows and
he was actually surprised, like uh, he was like, wow, you
guys actually remember that, like you know that blown away that we remember this.
Yeah, James is like, this is my life, dude. Then
we start recording, which I guess is where we could talk about what we
think about the game. Yeah. So we all had like our own stations
here to record, so we were all sitting by each other. So we're
all like having a fun time, screaming, yelling. I got but yeah,
so we were all in the in the group having a good time.
And then like you know, we'd hop Johnny would have people come over to
videos and scream his fucking head off, and I'm like, I'm trying to
do this. But it was funny, like we were all just like,
oh, do you see this? Did you see that? And then we're
all just going back and forth with it, and then then we get to
uh, recording the game. It's yeah, I mean jump ahead. We'll
give our thoughts on the game in a minute. Yeah, let's talk about
the recording process of the game. All right. So this is super nice
that they do this because they have station set up. It's an Xbox,
it's a capture device. What is it? Algato something AVerMedia which shouts out
not brother, Maybe that explain you don't like it media, No, we're
a el Gato family in this house. Apologies, I use I used to
use AVerMedia back in the day, but I had the like a live gameer
portable thing, you know, back in the day. I have always issues
avermdia. I never changed for some reason. Yeah right, yeah exactly.
But anyway, not the dog on AVerMedia. But they're media, so it's
almost your capture cards. So it's not hooked up to any computer. It's
just a little micro SD card that goes in the the SD card. Yes,
and so you hit one button, record it and then you got it.
You can't look at it. You know, you don't know what's going
on, right, if there's issues, you don't know exactly, so you
record and hope for the best. That's kind of how it goes here.
So they have it all again, super nice set up there. So I'm
hooking my shit up, I'm starting, I'm getting ready to go, and
this is also super nice. There's like a pair of headphones there and it's
plugged into the capture card. I'm like, okay, cool, I'll get
to hear like some game sound, which I wasn't planning on using. Anyway,
because all my stuff is with somebody, So like, what the fuck
am I gonna do this? But if I want to hear something, so
I try them on and I realized I can't hear anything. I'm like,
oh, that's fucking weird. But I don't think anything of it. So
I record an ambulance match with James. This match is awesome. I don't
know how much of you, how much you saw it, Tony, but
it was fucking awesome. Yeah, it was the best match. I think
he recorded the whole It was so funny. We were killing it. We
glitched the game. I was like, this is like, this is the
best shit ever. This is like I couldn't asked for it. I was
two videos in. I did a James video and then I did a backstage
brawl Chris. I was like, I don't have to record anything more.
I said, this is I got everything I need. And then a homeboy
comes over I forget his name, super nice guy, sweet mustache comes over
and he's like, oh, you're having headset problems all the yeah, so
he switches it to another port and I should have fucking thought more about that.
I should have thought more about that, but I didn't, so recording,
recording, recording, We're all recording, jumping ahead a lot. We
go back to the hotel because I want to upload my stuff for Beefy.
I want him to sure. I'm gonna get the shit uploaded now so BEEFI
can work on it. Yeah, embargo was February. First, I'll give
him a the head up because he's already worked on a ton of shit.
Yeah. So, like after these events, we all go to the room
and dump footage on the computers or like share you know, hey, did
you get this or whatever, and we share whatever we need footage like that,
and then it's like okay, now we're good. Now we're checking all
the footage. So this gets good. So first I I don't know who
what was discovered first, and I don't know if Macho No, I think
it was it was Macha. Think it was definitely Macho because he was playing
his stuff back right away. Okay, yeah, so Macho very quickly finds
out. Oh also, Macho has the oldest shittiest laptop of all time.
It was like a twenty ten laptop. I'm not even joking, like Apple
twenty ten MacBooks laptop. He already uses it for like recording, do not
even record? I don't even know what you use it for. These trips
is the only thing you use it for? I guess. So dude shouts
out the mastadon who bought a new laptop after I said did should buy a
new laptop, and he got on it. It was like a couple hundred
bucks. It's awesome. Yeah, yeah, fucking Macho could get a new
one. He's being a pitch. So Macho checks and he's like, there's
no sound. I said, what are you talking about? He said,
there's no sound on any of my footage, and I said, that is
fucking crazy. And then he checks yours. There's no sound on Tony's footage.
I said, this is bad. So clearly we thought at first thought
was you have a shitty twenty ten laptop. So I was probably just lab
yes, so check it on mine. Right while they're doing that, I'm
checking my footage and I'm looking at I'm looking and I'm like, okay.
I'm like, cause there's some like they obviously tested it before we tried it,
because there's some footage on there that wasn't for me. So I was
like, okay, good, they tested it then I have a video that
is a complete black screen, and I said, well, that's weird.
And I'm looking through it all. I'm looking through it all and I realized
I don't have an ambulance match. I saw. Oh no, no,
I'm like so fucking sad, Like I was mad, but I was more
sad because it was so good, and I was, as you know,
James and I playing, It's like, this is awesome. It not only
was it a black screen, but I turned the volume up and I very
faintly hear James and I and I said, well, how is that?
Because it's how is the capture card picking us up? So this is where
we all we all figured out what the issue was. The sad reality that
in our section at least, I don't think this happened to everybody. It
happened to Chris, who was also in our section. It happened to us
that the headsets were all plugged into the mic port of the capture card,
so it was picking up somehow our voices through the headphones. And it wasn't
until the guy switched mine that mine was fine. So mine was fine.
Michelle switched Chris's, so most of his was fine. Except for like his
showcase shit Tony and Macho never got there switched and James Skiff did James ever
tell us of his was I think his video was fine? So I think
his was good. But okay, Mine, I unplugged my headset at the
last couple of matches I recorded. Oh so you do have some that are
fine. There's like two matches I think that were fine, okay, But
other than that, it was like this. Yeah, but uh so,
I guess when you plug a headset into the audio jacket, it'll turn it
into a microphone or something. Correct works. So even like some of my
videos with no audio, I could hear like you screaming in my background and
my game or whatever. But no matter what you did. But it was
incredible that all that was gone. Like we were so sad. It was
one of those like uh like the balloon deflated kind of feeling, you know,
like just it was horrible because we just spent seven hours there. This
is what we get flown out to do is this, And like, I
fucking I text Cornell and he's like, dude, I'm so fucking sorry,
Like we'll see what we can do, and it's like, what can you
do. Yeah, there's but no shout out Cornell, shot out Mike.
Those guys are everyone there, but shouts out Derek the two K dev who
was fucking having to watch me fuck everyone's matches up the whole time. Do
they just stand over you like all right, what are you gonna do now?
But they were super nice about They were like, dude, like we
watch like your release streams, and like we know like what you guys do,
and like we like it because, like you know, it's it's and
you guys do it in like a fun way. So it's like, yeah,
I'm sure there's a line. I'm pretty sure in my video that he
says, because you can hear him talking to me during one of these He's
like, there's bugs and then there's new legacy bugs, which I thought.
I was like, super that was a huge compliment to Yeah, going back
a bit the game itself, if you liked two K twenty three, you
will really like this game. I mean that's really what it is, because
it's just an upgraded two K twenty three. Now, if you didn't like
two K twenty three, it's probably bad for you. I Mean, this
is just the reality of a yearly release. That's really what exactly ambulance match.
As I said in my video. If you haven't checked, by the
way, I upload a video about it. Tony uploaded video on his channel
Tony Pizza Guy James. James has one c impulse the ambulance match. I'm
glad that they added it in just because I like more options. Yeah exactly,
but I'm gonna be like I'll play it four or five times, like
a handful of times. Yeah, yeah, and like that'll be it.
I was watching the AI. I think you did an AI one that seemingly
lasted for fucking ever. Yeah, I did a women's uh trician Ria,
trician Ria and they went on for ever. Did it ever end? Like,
did you just stop it? Uh? No, it ended, they
eventually, I did. But the problem was, uh so, you know
that there's a part in the ambulance backs where you throw them in the ambulance.
Like the objective is throw them in the back of the ambulance and then
shut the first door and then shut the second door. Well, they were
in a like a perpetual struggle to shut the first door for like ten minutes
of them. Really they because it was like AI so I think, like
I don't know what difficulty it was on or whatever, so they were just
like because we couldn't. They were just like very even so they was like
they were both just struggling to close that first door and then eventually I think
Ria closed it or something, and they got it. It just got it
like got stuck in like a loop or something for a minute. That makes
sense. Yeah, but it didn't look didn't look great for the AI there.
But no, you know, like I said, like I said,
my cute game out. No, yeah, I think it's cool. I
think the fact you can go backstage and close the ambulance is a cool touchdown.
That is cool cool add a little bit to it again, like you
said, it's probably one of those game I was that you won't play a
lot, but it's cool that it's in the game. I'm assuming, like
I don't know if this is true, but just my thought off the top
of my head is that they were like making the mechanics for the ambulance in
the backstage and they're like, oh, we should just put match, make
this a match because like, yeah, and I've seen like criticism of it,
like oh, that's all the ambulance matches, but like that's what an
ambulance That's like what an ambulance match is? Like, yeah, I guess
the only thing I mean, you know, I would like to slam them
on the hood of it or like put them through the top of it,
but like, ot that what the fuck eutse are you going to do?
Oh? Yeah, yeah, you're right, I drive it. I think
it's sweet. Like they have like a little cut scene at the beginning where
the ambulance backs up and brings it in and that's pretty cool. So yeah,
fun mess though. Yeah that was that was cool. Like I said,
I'll play it a few times, but like it's single player, so
you know, yeah, yeah, backstage brawl I okay, the fact that
they had us play that at all made me think, Okay, they like
super revampthis, but like it's it's not like it's They added an elevator,
which is cool, and you can break the glass, which again I had
fun doing both those things. But I was like I was hoping for like
a lot. I was hoping for a whole new backstage area. Oh sure,
yeah, I mean they just redid the bat a couple of years ago
or something, and they redid the backstage area and did this new one.
I'm pretty sure after twenty they did it, right, twenty two is the
one that had this one first. Yeah I'm wrong. Yeah, they wanted
to make more of like a because its almost like backstage of salt Ish backstage
now where there's like a little platform that you can fight on and stuff,
you know, kind of like that. Yeah, and uh yeah they added
the glass, they added the elevator, they added water bottles coming out of
the vending machine. It all seems like stuff that was supposed to be in
last year that they just finally got in this year. But yeah, get
me wrong. The throw throwing weapons in any area is awesome. Oh Like
that's like the best part of it. Especially with the chair feels great because
you can catch the chairs is awesome. To sell off the weapons, yeah,
the sell off the weapons is awesome. I'm pretty sure every weapon you
can put your hands on you can throw. Like I was throwing tables,
Yeah, yeah, you can do all of them. Yeah, throw trash
cans like, yeah, you can throw every weapon. The war bottles,
that's all fucking awesome. The elevator, I'm gonna get a lot of fun
out of purely because I'm gonna try to fuck it up. Like, yeah,
I was taking a table through the elevator and I think I was standing
there washing maybe and I forgot which developers with and they're like, yeah,
we not. It's a table like glitches through the elevator there because it's like
clipping. Yeah, but we just left it because like we wanted to have
the table go up to the elevator. I'm like, yeah, you know,
that's just gameplay. We love like some of those gameplay. I mean,
it doesn't have to be all perfect, man, Yeah, it's fine.
It's fine if you get I want to be able to take fucking weapons
up this thing. Yeah, it's awesome. Oh. Going back to Macho,
by the way, this dude, what a struggle for this all time
recording. All right, this happened twice, maybe more than it was a
lot of his recording guy, I know of twice. So Macha said,
oh, come play a backstage browl with me. I said, all right,
So I fucking sit down and we're going and this is a this is
a fucking sweet match. We are breaking shit, uh, doing a bunch
of spots, a lot of fun jokes. About ten minutes in I look
over and he is not recording the gameplay. The capture card is not recording.
And I think it was Michelle that pointed out behind us. She said,
are you recording? And we both look and I said, holy fun.
You probably hear it. He probably has the audio of me saying what
the fuck, dude? So we he eventually got something like we recorded a
little more after that, but it was still it was still good, but
the first cut was great. Fast forward a little bit. I'm sitting there
eating cake or something. I don't remember what I was doing, and James
and Tony are doing a match with Macho Trible Threat, just normal trouble Threat,
right yeah. It was like, uh, I don't remember what matter,
we're doing it normal match. Maybe I don't remember. I think it
was. I think the only thing you could do Trible Threat was that or
vacage brawl, right yeah, I think so that might have been it.
So I'm listen, They're having an awesome time. I'm like, I'm watching.
This is fun. And then I see that he's not recording. I
said, Macho, are you recording? You said I woked the man and
he did it again. I swear he did it again. And I know
I know exactly why he did it too. It's because he was messing with
his laptop and he was like, he's the most incredible setup of any person
I've ever seen in my life. So there's a flat screen monitor in front
of us, right and then the Xbox right down there, so there's like
literally like no space there. Plus he puts his mic on the on the
table, so there's like no space. So what he does that's honestly the
same setup as me. I actually not to like mine was almost exactly.
So what he does is he will take his computer and like the screen of
it will be like behind the monitor and behind the camera, and the keys
are there or whatever, and uh so he's like fidgeting trying to make sure
that he gets the audio. So he's like, okay, record and he's
like all rights to the audio, and then he does the audio clap or
whatever, and then he's ready to go and then he's like, I forgot
to hit record on the game play. He starts recording, and then he
goes like like like he records audio and then that's like the beginning of his
video and he forgets to record the video. D he is incredible too.
I'm like, you're not gonna do enjoy anything. He's like, no,
this is like I'm going. We're I'm like, all right, let's go.
Here we are. Oh, also we're he's recording with I don't know
who was recording with, but his laptop dies doing it. Oh no,
do you remember that? Were you there for that? No? Like this
is that near the end. I don't know who was recording with, but
his laptop fucking died doing it. Sounded horrible, dude. Eventually I think
he gets it set back up, remember, and then and then they're like,
all right, guys, we gotta go. We gotta get on this
bus because we got the robe and his his laptop stays dead. He's just
now just recording. Okay. Yeah, so we're like, oh, we
gotta get on the bus. We gotta go, guys. But mind you,
we had seven hours of recording and he's on like super crunch time,
like I gotta get this ship done right now. By the way, none
of that ship mattered because he didn't have sound. You didn't have sound on
any of these videos. Oh my god, He's like crunching to get this
done. It's just like, poor guy he's got the most incredible like,
yeah, shitty fucking luck dude. Yeah, it was crazy. It was
uh it was interesting watching him do his thing, but I love it.
It was he can't replicate it, man, dude, holy ship. I
can't believe we frid about this. James is the craziest of all time.
Before he fucking comes in, he sits down, he sets all this up.
He has like this lapel mic ship, which is smart. Trying to
use it. I don't know. I don't think he did. He tried.
He So we're sitting there before we go by the way, Yeah,
we're like all right, we're gonna. We're like we I think it was
like last week's pot or something. And then we're like talking and we're like
all right, guys, yeah we're gonna. You got all your ship for
the recording or whatever. We're ready to go. Uh yeah, I get
off flight here or whatever here. Okay, yeah, what do you guys
bringing? Oh yeah, yeah, bring these pel gimmicks like what He's like,
yeah, I'm gonna bring two wapels. Like, I said, what
are you talking about? He's like yeah, I wanted to like do video.
I'm like, what the fuck are you talking if I want to try
these? Yeah, like all right, but so he was like dead said
then, and then he shows up and he pulls out the LA pills and
starts putting them on, and like, all right, there we go.
So he's trying them out, he's messing with him, and then we're sitting
there and then he fucking he starts playing. He's doing Paul Cooking for his
Ultimate Warrior. So I'm just watching him. He's like riffing. We're fucking
laughing. He keeps doing this one spinning punch and it's about like five or
six minutes in. I don't know if it was your or me that said
something Tony, but one of us were like, dude, why are you
not recording this? And he said, I'm just fucking playing. I said
what. He's like, it's spots. He's like, it's so funny,
dude. It was he recorded. It would be an all timer video fever
record. This is fucking funny. Yeah. He was like doing spitting bagfizz
with all gogin and stuff, trying to count out cheese. The cpe I
did an unrecorded video off the record video. Oh dude, it was so
fucking funny I was so mad that he fucking drives me insane. I don't
know why I didn't record it. He's just funny like that. He was
just having a good time, you know. I think at first he didn't
really know what to do. He was like, I don't know which,
because it's hard when you go to those you know, like you're going with
a plan and it's like it's out the window because you don't know how you're
gonna feel. Like sometimes it's weird, like for me, like all my
stuff, I can't I can't play on my own. I just don't have
a good time. Yeah, so like I need somebody playing with me.
So like that's why, you know, But you know, we get seven
hours, so I got plenty of time to grab people. Yeah, like
I did you know, I did a video with Afro, Small Afro and
Aaron, which was awesome. Those guys are fucking I love those guys.
Yeah. Yeah, certainly seven hours Macho gets no footage. Fucking is crazy,
dude, he did get footed, Bobby got Foot's no audio, that's
true, You're right. But the incredible crunch time at the end, it
was just the greatest thing ever. Yeah, it was cool. The biggest
part of the event was when uh, so, I think Johnny was eating
cake or something. I forgetting this. Oh my god, Johnny's eating cake
and then somebody says cake. After though, somebody says something like, uh,
Michelle, we're sitting there recording and they're like, Michelle said, is
that fucking Jimmy Hart? And we look up for fucking Jimmy Hart and nobody
nobody's going up to him. The chill of the South Legendary run in the
extra BF. Of course, he's just standing there chilling and like we're like,
holy shit. I don't know if it was your James, but one
of you guys said we got to take a picture with him. Yeah,
I said, we have to meet Jimmy Hart. Like he's just standing there
by himself on the red carpet by the cake, and nobody's talking. I
don't think anyone's talking to him. No, We're just like, uh,
we gotta talk to this guy. We got to talk to the mouth of
this goddamn's mouth. And then we walk up with his head. Daddy,
No, I don't do that. We walk up and we're fucking he's super
brothered out by the way, handshake it. He's like, uh, dude,
and fucking Tony, this is like one of my favorite things you've ever
done. Was because it wouldn't it wouldn't have happened, like this conversation would
not have happened if you because I wasn't gonna say anything. Of course I
had Okay, so we take a picture. At first, I'm like,
you just get a picture with you and he was like he was, of
course, let's take what And so we get a picture with him, and
like the picture we put on Twitter, it's just like the coolest picture of
all time. It's tremendous, like out of all the things that we could
have done, Like there was like Cody Rhodes and like and all these people
were there and we want to be Jimmy Hart like all right, let's go.
We got my favorite part of it. Oh that was so cool.
And then just like him standing there taking a picture with the dead like boys,
iconic, iconic stuff, Tony, we take this picture, Tony.
Tony looks him in the eyes. It was eye contact, his hand icon
Tony says, we really love the XWF. I could. If I didn't
know better, I would have laughed. Fucking I would have died laughing right
there, but not ironically. We love the XIBF, like, but it's
a fucking big part of our show. It's like it changed our show.
It's legendary, like and like for the next like five minutes, Jimmy Hart,
We're just fucking standing there in Tampa, Florida at a two K event
talking to Jimmy Hart about the fucking XWF. He's like talking a lot about
it, and I'm dude, dad, he really likes the XCV, Like
I think that he if you could bring it back, he would. He
thought this was going to be the next wwf W. He was like super
insightful about Yeah, Tony, he was like super and sufful. He was
like, if we did a paper V first, it would have did better
like this and that, and like he's like I asked him about like the
footage. He's like, yeah, we got like a bunch of footage left.
I was like, dude, put that on a trip. I wish
I would have fucking pitched him and put it on our ship, but I
would have been a crazy carny number. Dude. That would have been insane.
That would have been I would have loved to know dude, us just
watching the unreleased actually, like that's our pitch. Yeah, that's what I
would do. But uh yes, So he's like, if I would have
done pay for All, we had the deal with the Universal Studios and so
like he was just like, I know, he was thinking, oh,
well TNA did that and we should have done that and then it worked TNA,
but whatever, and then he goes on and he goes he goes,
Dude, the biggest star of the whole thing was Hale. Hale was the
guy. Well that was That was after I said we really liked Harrison.
He said, oh yeah, you know, he was a big guy.
And he said what about hell hell hell yeah. Man, there was no
way he was ready for that conversation, but he was, dude, he
was. He's always ready. That's like in his back pocket. He's just
waiting to talk about it. I swear, I feel like one of the
biggest things in his mind that like he did and wrestling attempted, like as
far as like his own projects besides like the music stuff he did. Definitely.
Then he goes on to tell us that Jerry Lawler went to the x
w F and uh that made w t B want Jerry Lawler back. Yes,
that's right. W just poached Jerry. He just let him go.
He said, I'll just go. He's like, we can do anything we
can. We can put anybody on comment. He said, no offense,
so we can put anybody is Tony. I can't believe I wasn't gonna bring
that up. I'm glad you all the timer moment meeting Jimmy the Mouth of
the South heart Man two K flew us out to talk to Jimmy Hart dude,
and the fact that he, like I know, he's been waiting for
years, he's got that like in his vault talking about it. He wants
like a tell all we should just have him on the pod just to talk
about ever have that, but maybe just for the pod. Yeah, he
was so cool that, like he was superl uh. Like he had no
reason to like talk to us about the XB. Why the funk was he
there because Cogan was going to be in the Royal Rumble brother, That's right.
I couldn't pas a physical dude. I would ticul. Everybody said,
uh, it's because Hokies is the rubble. Yeah, okay, whatever,
dude, that would even nuts. But yeah, that was an incredible moment
and then uh yeah, then it was open bars, so we were getting
drinks last minute leaving. I know, Johnny was, I was getting cake
and I stole a bunch of candy. Dude, they had like a ton
of candy bars. I got a Crackerjacks. So much cracker Jacks in the
years. But fun time, good experience. Uh, they always don't like,
Uh, there are so good parties. They could go without the DJ
though. I tell you that. Yeah, I mean good. I mean
he listen, that's a hard working man right there. But the fuck goddamn
yeah. I mean, like I said, we only got to play a
demo version of the game, so like we didn't get to play everything.
But throwing weapons is cool, new match type is cool. If you like
two K twenty three, you'll like this game. If you didn't like two
K twenty three, you probably won't like this game. Like I could tell
like that this isn't the end of like where they're building this game. They're
definitely gonna keep going. But it's like what can you do in a year?
It's like the curse of like the yearly franch Like Madden has Call of
Duty, which sucks, but yeah, then we uh we go to the
rumble. Uh we get to our seats. We're on floor seats, which
what a scam floor seats are, dude, they were both not only this
floor seats suck and I already knew that floor seats sorry before before we go
on listen. They fuck it was a free ticket. I'm not. I
don't give a fuck, you know what I mean, Like I I was
not upset because but like you know, I wanted to watch it was like
my favorite show. Yeah, like we have these floor seats and like,
you know, everyone stands up the whole, which is you know, you're
excited, like you stand up for the entrances at all. But like even
like where we were sitting, because this arena sucked is why it was so
bad that way. Okay, so this is the Tampa Bay Ray Stadium,
which is like fucking ginormous and it's huge, so much ship, but it's
you know, it's a baseball stadium. So like, right, you put
the ring in the middle or whatever and then you have the seats around it.
And I don't know who the fuck thought this was a good idea,
but they literally So we go to our seats on the floor. Right,
I'm already like, all right, floor seats fucking suck. I've sat in
floor seats if you're not in like the first half rows, and it always
sucks. It's got to be fifth in front or it sucks. It's good
for like maybe TV's okay, but paper you're definitely not. And then we
get down there and we're like, okay, we're walking past. Oh there's
the pre show panel back there. You got Booker t back there, and
a bunch of other people were like, oh, that's very cool, we'll
sit right next to that. We're in the back row of the floor seats.
So it's already like the worst part of it, if you know,
just before we talk about the chairs itself, the Royal Rumble entrance, they
don't have a tron. They don't have tron, and the tron that's above
the ring is a circle cylinder tron, so you can't really see it,
but I will tell you, if you turn around, you could see big
ass baseball fields, big as screen. So if you want to watch the
Royal Rumble, don't look at the ring, look behind you and you can
watch the show perfectly. So that was fantastic. So there are times when
like boy in front of me would turn around and look at the screen behind
me and I'm like, what's going on back there? Oh, they're watching
the match. They're watching the because the one in the above the ring was
just showing Tron's and the one behind us was showing the footage. Yeah,
and it's curved too, so it's like you only get half of you of
it and it's like wide and whatever. Yeah, but then back to the
chairs, and I don't know why the fuck they set this up this way.
It is ridiculous. So we have our chairs are or there's there's a
section of chairs that's facing the ring right like normally, so like you know
a ring, it's a square, so they have the all four sides there's
chairs facing it, and then for sides that aren't facing like corner KEG caddy,
I guess you call it ring posts. Those chairs are facing the chairs
looking at the ring. We're facing a section, which again not the worst
thing, but it's just it looks so here's so we're we're looking at another
section in front of us, and then there's a section to our left that's
looking at us, which is where fucking Domin Coore dude. And then violences
forever are sitting three rows to the left of us, Like, what the
fuck is going on here? I'm just shouting at them the whole time.
Uh So, but again, that is not a two K thing. I'm
the craziest fucking shut up. Uh chairs I've ever never have I ever seen
Maybe it's been like that for bigger shows, but they never sat in an
area like that. But yeah, no, that again, I appreciate that
they took us to the show. I think it's very cool. Yeah,
this was all w b's shitty set up. It was fucking bad. Yeah,
it's terrible. But and then uh and then like uh, the security
cards are like yelling at people who are standing up and stuff, and it's
like, this is not so weird. It's such a notable experience. The
Wi fi was fucked up. Oh yeah, of course all you could like
run outside if you wanted to use your phone at all. It's like,
yeah, it's crazy. I mean, like, again, giant ass stadium,
You're gonna have this problem when you try to fit as many fucking people
in a big ass stadium and get a tendance record that you can and that
you're always gonna have problems. But honestly, it was a, like I
said, cool experience just to go to roller Rumble. That was like last
year was the first one I've ever been to a roll rumble, So going
to this again, you know, it's like a bucket listing to go to
Royal Rumble and it's cool just to like, I feel like the crowd there
was very like a very hot crowd, but like I always saw like people
on Twitter were like, uh, yeah, the crowd's dead or whatever,
and I'm like, they were definitely hot during the entrances. But I don't
know if anyone give a fuck about any of the matches. No, especially
like towards like the end of like as it got later in the night,
it just felt like, oh I got I don't want to get. I
don't want to I got no thoughts on this show, I'll be honest with
you. No, yeah, I'm just saying the crowd experience. No,
I'm so, I don't got any thoughts on the show. I will say
though, four matches in like four and a half hours. It's fucking crazy
that the Royal Rumbles itself the last two hours, right, was that they
were over an hour each rumble, I think, yeah, yeah, which
again the rumble I understand, but like, holy fuck, that was crazy
seeing everybody come out and then the Jordan Grace coming in like we're like,
what the fuck is happening? Actually, okay, the women's rumble I liked
a lot. That was like, yeah, that was that was like the
I think out of everything like that was like my biggest like the Heawnhill from
Make It Yeah. Once they Alby came out. Brother h yeah, so
the rumble we get out of the place like midnight, I think, right,
yeah, I think so that sounds about another fucking forever ride back to
the hotel. I'm making fun of Brandon because Brandon's voice is blown out.
Uh. Oh, you can talk about the rubble when we like, like,
while we're at the rumble, there's a couple of hot dogs. Ever,
what are we talking about? No, not that, but yeah,
people coming up to say hi to us and stuff. That was that was
awesome. Yeah, dude, that's a couple of dippers came up to us
and said shut out. Oh yeah if you yeah, dude, shouts out
uh to anybody that came up. One of the guys came and said,
my daughter got me into the podcast and ship. That was incredible and he
was awesome shots out to them. He said his favorite episode. I can't
remember what he said now Jericho one. Oh yeah, the Jericho one.
Yeah. I was like, what Jercot debuts on Monday Night? Raws like
his face. I was like, I was like, what fucking episode is
that? But that's a Jesse even terror episode. Oh okay, that makes
sense, which makes way more sense. I was like, I don't remember
from that episode jerk debuting. I don't think we said anything, but I
was like, I don't remember that being a funny episode in that episode,
and that makes total sense. That is why that was a good episode.
Yeah, so that was pretty sweet and then it was very nice. Yeah,
also to laugh at like the the kids that came up to Brandon and
then the adults that came up to Chris. It was just like night and
day. It was hilarious. Yeah. Yeah, it was cool. It
was it was it was. It was cool. So we leave there fucking
takes forever to get back to the hotel. I'm blown up, like I
was like falling asleep with the rumble like I was. And that's now I've
never fucking dozed off at a show before. But like I was, and
it was bad. It was just a long, like a whole long.
We were there forever and like, I don't think you. I don't think
you recovered from like the DPW weekend on the previous weekend. No, I'm
still not recovered from sucking anything. I haven't stopped, Tony. I'm fucking
January. It has been fucked. Dude. If I never have to flag
in in my entire life, that would be great, because I'm we gotta
fly to Texas here, tired of it. But yeah, so like you
were just like completely done. You're like, I'm going to bed good night.
And you know me, Tony, I'm usually the one that makes everyone
stay up. Yeah. Yeah, I was fucking tired, and like I
was like, because you guys wanted to get food, I said, I'm
fucking dead. I'm dead. Let me tell you my food experience by the
way. Oh yeah please, Okay, so you you go with what Macho
and Luch. Yeah, we were going to, uh go get food Dominoes,
Dominoes. Right, so we go to Dominoes. We look in,
there's nobody in there. We're like, okay, all right, let's maybe
like go figure out if maybe go to the gas station or whatever. So
we're like, okay, we'll walk to this gas station that's like right down
the street or whatever, which is a Base gas station by the way.
Yeah, from there it was very good. The gas station is closed,
no, I think it closed like one thirty or something like all this stuff
closed like one third, like one o'clock. So then just go back and
like fuck it, I'm going to bed. I'm like, oh shit,
I have a milky Way in my bag from the bed. So I ate
a milky Way in my room and then went to bed. And that was
I just like I didn't know any of this. No, we tried.
It's like I ate a milky Way and then I went to bed. And
that was my experience of the trying to get food the entire time. Awed
I didn't know this. Yeah, it was a bad experience. So we
didn't get any food. No food, milky Way based though, shout out
just milky Way and went to bed. Yeah. I came in class.
I was like, oh shit, I forgot. We sold a bunch of
snacks and then I had definitely sound asleep. But while that was going on,
I got to my room and passed out. I think I had to
get up at like six thirty in the morning to get my foor flight was
crazy. I was like, can I just get some food please? I
just want to go to bed right now. Wait, what time did you
get to the airport. I think I went at like six thirty and then
okay, I just made sure I got like a ride or whatever. But
the airport is the most based airport of all time. What a great airport.
Yeah, but you tell your story before your experience. I'm getting there,
all right. So this is the end of the story here everybody.
I know we've been going on for a while, but I love the two
K trip stories, so I hope you get them too. So my flight's
boards are like nine am. So like ever since I got t SA pre
check, I fucking I paid a play. I have no problem if my
flight boards at nine am, I have no problem getting to the airport at
fucking nine forty five. Yeah. Usually that's usually experience. But I was
not sure about the Tampa Airport. If it was going to be it was
you or somebody was like their driver or somebody said that like the airport's gonna
be fucked up on Sunday. Oh okay. That's why we were like,
okay, we should get there early. Yeah, what I've heard with like
a tip for you if you fly before like eight am, or if you
get to the airport at before like eight or seven thirty. I forgot what
it was. That's what it's usually the busiest. So if you get there
like Astra eight, then it's like all right, So like, yeah,
that's why that is awesome. Yeah, you're probably thinking like, oh,
it's going to be fucked up. It's Tampa or whatever. My shipboards so
I get nine, so I was like, I don't give a fuck,
but I knew James wanted to get to the fucking airport because his flight boarded
like sure. So I was like, fuck it, I'll just go with
James. I'm giving shit probably better than I wanted to get there early anyway,
because I thought it was gonna be fucked up. So I get up
at six a shower, get all my shit together. It's like six point
twenty and I text James and I say, hey, you still want to
leave it up? No response, So I'm texting him, I'm calling them
nothing nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. It's like seven twenty. Now
it's an hour after I first tried to get ahold of him and try to
get a hold in the wholeway. Since I'm like, huh, do I
gotta worry about this? Or has he left or what is going on here?
I text Tony, Sayy, and Tony He's like, hey, I'm
at the airport. It's play is awesome. I was like, oh,
yeah, awesome. I said, have you heard from James? He said
no. I said, hell, maybe me either supposed to fucking leave by
now. Tony says, well, maybe you should ask the front desk to
call him. So that's a great fucking idea. Go downstairs and I say,
hey, my buddy is staying here. We're supposed to leave. I
just don't know his room number, give him his name. They call his
room, no answer. I'm starting to worry. I'm starting to worry.
Now. Yeah. So I'm like, so, I'm like, my fucking
buddy just died. Like James is fucking dead, and I have to be
the one to find him. So I'm like like, I'm I'm not fully
believing that, but like you know, it's in the back of my head.
I'm like oh, worried, but like, all right, I'm gonna
so I said, hey, can you just give me his room? Give
me his room. I go up. I knock on his door, and
his TV's loud as fuck. By the way, I heard it from the
hallway. It was it was like Comedy Central ninety volume. So so I
hear I knock, here's TV. And then I hear some rustling around him,
like okay, he's in there. Ten seconds fifteen seconds later, he
opens the door and he's like, he looks at me and he says,
holy ship. I said, dude, he said, he said, dude,
I fucking I missed my alarm. I said, yeah, hell yeah.
Like I go in his room and he's like he's looking at his phone.
He's like, dude, I set alarm and like it didn't go off,
and like my volume's off. I said, that is crazy. That
is a crazy situation we're in right now. And he's like, all right,
it's fine though my flight boards like eight fucking Like, but yeah,
dude, like I don't know, you would have missed his flight and I
didn't. He would have woken up and then he would have to book a
new flight. And so yeah, weing, but we got to the airport.
Got to the airport, awesome airport, scan your boarding pass to get
through, and then you take a little train ski or whatever. There's like
a whole separate area for if you have a check bag or carry on bag
like that incredible experion, like you before you go, like the uber drivers
like okay, do you have a carry on bag? And I'm like,
uh no, why and then or do you have a check bag And I'm
like no, and they're like okay, so we take me another separate area
with zero people in line. And TSA pre also with no people, like
even the regular line had like nobody in it. But then like my regular
line had a bunch of people. But I actually got there like an hour
or so after you. Okay, so like but mine was us was great.
So they have different gates for like like even like for the main gate.
It's like my gate was right after TSA thing or whatever. I was
like, oh really, this was like the craziest thing ever. Like I
walked through TSA and the fastest process of all time, and then I get
right there like four more steps is my game. I'm like, holy shit,
this is incredible. This is the best. I got a bagel.
I was super nice. Airport too, Like just incredible, great experience.
And I was thinking because Machu had me worried the night before, He's like,
oh, well the Royal rumbles go and everybody's gonna want to go home
the next day. And there's like there's like a festival here and then there's
like another thing going on there pirate. Yeah, there's there's like four different
things going on, and I was like, I wish we went to that
instead, dude, that would have been crazy. So the whole time I
was thinking, ship, everybody's gonna be wanting to go home after Barti Gras
and then the fucking row rumble and all that, and it's gonna be the
craziest thing ever. Yeah. But nothing, it was great nothing experience.
Nothing. Yeah, it was very good. Uh yeah that was that was
our two K trip. Shouts out again two k Ah. They're super nice
and they like they always it's it's actually really cool. They pay a lot
of respect to us, which I think is fucking cool. It's like they
consider us o gs, so like they take good care of us, and
I think that's pretty cool. Yeah, it's cool for them too, like
I was talking to them and they're like, yeah, man, It's like
it's really cool to see you guys, because like, you guys are like
our first feedback for what we've been working on forever, you know, so
like and it's like yeah, they and it's like a reunion almost, Like
I know, some of the guys come up to me, Hey, what's
up, Totty, Like I haven't seen you. It's you know, like
seeing each other and it's like besides like the game, Like these people are
just like cool to hang out with, you know what I mean. They're
all fucking sweet. Like I'm saying Mike and I like, Mike is fucking
awesome, Cornell's fucking sweet, Derek, all those dudes, Yeah, Ryan,
Dude, all literally everybody is so cold. He was super cool.
Yeah, used to hang on but uh yeah so awesome trip, fun experience,
get to go to the road, rumble cool, super time. Yeah,
hanging out with all the boys and girls, you know, just doing
all the fun ship where we always do. Getting it crazy. H Do
you see like I saw on social like, uh, they were getting coffee
and then they ran in to see him punk. I did see that.
That is crazy. That was like, I'm pretty sure that was after that
was on Sunday, right, that was after I left. Yeah, that
was Sunday. Yeah, which is like he must have been at the same
hotel then or something or like, because there's as good question because I don't
know. Coffee was like and then walking distance, so I don't guess there
was other hotels in the area, which probably I mean, well, the
one that we were at was like I think I think the Wrestler Hotel was
the one we did the event at, which was very Oh yeah that was
crazy. I was like, all right, we're just we're just there and
he was there incredible, But yeah, man, that was that was a
fun trip. And uh I always like telling those stories and I will and
that's really the I mean, obviously going for the content is cool, but
the big reason why you're going is because I'd like to have the memories.
That's a big leave the memories. No, Well, there you go.
That was that was a two K truck. That was two D Daddy and
we got to beat hell. All right, now it's time to get into
the retro review for this episode. East w Hardcore TV September twenty sixth,
nineteen ninety five. I was just a little boy, Tony Early. Was
a little boy. You were a grown ass man. No, no,
I'm not sorry. Really, I was still a little boy there, and
I was not watching ECW at the time, so I probably was two year
old, three year old Johnny probably watching you had you had do you were
in there, of course. Well, before we get into that tourny,
let's take a look at what was going on in the wrestling world at the
time with the Wrestling Observer newsletter. Yes, indeed, nineteen ninety five observers
here, Tony, Oh wow, that's great. I don't even know what
the fuck they're talking about. Well, this is a big one, Tony
and WCW and WF news. We are talking about Lex Luger jumping ship.
Oh my. The Lex Luger jump became an even more intriguing situation this past
week when word we received is that contrary to reports here and elsewhere and claims
of ww management, WWF is claiming that Luger has a valid contract with their
organization through January sixth, nineteen ninety six. Luger has claimed all along he
was wrestling with Titan for the like I didn't that's an error that I'm unfamiliar
with, where WWFF was referred to as just Titan Titan Sports. Yeah,
Titan Sports yeah. Uh. He was wrestling with Titan for a past few
months without a contract, and thus was free to make the jump at any
point. Apparently, Luger, according to sources within WCW, is now claiming
that Titan put white out on his original contract and filled in a new later
date in order to make his disclaim, and that his contract had long since
expired. Oh fucking crazy white out. Wow, that's incredible. No lawsuit
has been founded by WBF in regard to the Luger jump at this point,
but the situation is said to be in the hands of the lawyers. According
to other sources, the word that Luger informed Vince McMahon he was going to
ww was said to be denied with the report that McMahon found out about Luger
joining WCW at the same time the rest of the country did while watching Monday
Nitro on September fourth. According to wf SOORTSS, Luger's window to give notice
would have ended on October six, ninety five, but that is because he
had exercised his option to not have his contract renewed months before that date,
as has been reported elsewhere, during the spring, he gave notice and wanted
a guarantee money deal and or a guarantee of a specific spot in the pecking
order. You want a little push ski Wow. Even more strange about this
deal is that in mid August McMahon and Luger had a meeting where Luger informed
McMahon about the potential WCW DEW and McMahon gave him permission to negotiate. However,
it is said that after the original negotiations fell through with Luger and WW
over a large difference in money, Luger informed the McMahon negotiation fell through and
he was put a semi prominent position. The claim is that after Luger and
WW reached their verbal deal on August thirty first, Luger called McMahon the next
day, but never told him about any negotiations or informed him of anything.
Holy shit, dude, that's totally Eric Bischoff thing. Right. Don't say
the word, We'll get you an idea. Yeah, I mean yeah,
don't tell them shit. Don't tell them shit. But I I don't know
what actually comes of this, I don't know, like whose side is actually
true. I love the idea that WWBF white outed his contract to put in
a fucking lying date. That is Yeah, that sounds real. I believe
that's that's crazy. I was thinking about like ninety five. I'm like,
there's no way Luger was gone in ninety five. But it was like just
sure, wow, incredible, Yeah, that's I mean, what a fucking
crazy thing. I mean that really if I wonder, Like, obviously Nitro
probably ends up doing well regardless, like it obviously picked up steam. But
the Luber thing was a pretty big deal. Yeah, for him to just
show up randomly, Oh shit, what's going on here? This is a
big We reviewed that right, was that the Postumania episode? Shit, oh
my god? But Luger debuting on the debut episode of Nightro like crazy,
that's like crazy poll for them. Well, WCW other news here, Tony.
They did fire Steve Austin on September fifteenth. Austin, thirty years old,
was considered for years as perhaps the best young wrestler in the United States.
Austin had been in the doghouse of ww management over the past year over
a reputation for not exactly keeping quiet with his discontent about how he was used,
and for those involved in cost cutting seeing the two hundred thousand dollars or
so figure he was earning per year while not being involved in any significant programs
as wasted money. Austin did not hang out with the right crowd. When
the Hogan camp got into Powers, They Oh Brother, they dismissed Austin as
a highly paid wrestler who was a good worker with no charisma and in their
review of wrestling, work rate meant next to nothing. It's unknown what Austin's
plans will be once he returns to the ring, but he would be a
but he would be able to get a strong spot with ECW if he would
want it, since he's long time I'm friends of Paul Hayman, although that
would until a major come down in money. Obviously, as we were talking
about fucking Austin being on ECW in this episode. Obviously he does go to
ECW. But seeing Austin described as just a good worker with no charisma is
unbelievable. That's how they thought of him in WW. Eric Bischoff never thought
shit of Stone Cold is. He wasn't a but like he wasn't a bad
promo then was he? No? Even like a stone cold, but he
like had a fucking him and Pilman were doing this stuff and even that stuff
was gone. Yeah. EW News Speaking ECW at the September sixteenth East of
Arena show, there was a situation in the afternoon of the show involving Mustapha
said of the Gangstas where he apparently freaked out in the hotel in South Philadelphia
and several police officers were called and hauled him out. I include this because
him being arrested is mentioned on the show. I thought it was a work,
but it was not. Say he was arrested. That's crazy. From
The Observer, October second, ninety five in WW news, the big joke
going is that when Eric Bischoff met Terry Brunk Saboo at the Miami tapings,
he brought up having grown up in Detroit and watched his uncle wrestle, and
then talked about seeing his uncle lose the title to Hal Cogan. Well,
Saboo's uncle is not the Iron Chic, It's just the chic. Bischoff was
talking to Saboo about the Iron Ge and the reason that Bischoff miscalled Saboo's finisher
as the Arabian Press. Uh that he did on I guess his debut on
Nitro somewhere around that was because Sabo told Bischoff the finish would be the Arabian
Press. However, Nick Patrick counted three on a move that wasn't supposed to
be the finish, so Bischoff just called it that anyway. Oh wow,
if we're in like such a weird era of wrestling right now, because ninety
five, like the beginning of Nitro and then even like Saboo going from ECW
to WW, and that feels like like it doesn't feel real, Like I
not like I know he like I've seen his WW stuff. I know he
was there, and like this guy as that go there, I'm like,
okay, Like for some reason, the Mikey Whipbreck one I also feel the
same about. But like Stevie Richard's being in WW is like okay, that
I guess I can accept that. Yeah, I like Psyching, but Mikey
Whipwreck and Sabu being WW feels fucked up. Like especially Saboo I'm pretty sure
wrestled Disco Inferno, and like Alex Wright and Ship dude, he like goes
breaking tables and shit and nobody else is doing that. He was doing sab
shit, which I always forget that. It was like ECW, then WW
then back to ECW, and it's it took a minute for him to get
back to CW because he had heat ski Oh yeah, of course he had
heat with everybody I think, brother. But yeah, well he goes back
to like Japan, you know what I mean. Yeah, you get Saboo
going there and then Austin leaving WW to go wherever like W. It's like
a crazy it's like a turning point in the wrestling industry right here where Yeah,
I guess it's a really good way about that. Is it crazy?
That's it's definitely a turning points, A pretty good way to put it.
A couple of things here just to end here. Uh well, actually one
more thing here. From the Observe. October fifth, nineteen ninety five,
Vince McMann announced at a meeting of all WWF superstars prior to the In Your
House pay per view show on September twenty ninth and Sagontaw, Michigan, that
Bill Watts would be taking a larger share of responsibility for creative end of the
wrestling. The meeting, described as an anti WCW oriented meeting, saw McMahon
talk mainly about the Monday night head to head situation, telling the wrestlers that
the WF isn't interested in running live shows weekly. This is all crazy here.
They're not interested in running live shows weekly, and that this season they
would adopt a quote unquote melrose Place attitude toward the tape forra AW segments by
teasing at the end of the show highlights of next week's episode. At the
meeting, McMahon blasted WCW, saying they're going on Monday nights. Them going
on Monday nights wasn't good business. He said that they could have put the
show on a Wednesday or Thursday and had the night to themselves, and said
by going on Mondays, they showed it's more important. I tried to hurt
them in the ratings than draw big numbers themselves, which he called stupid business,
which is unbelievable to hear fucking Vince McMahon say that is so incredible.
The fact that they were like buguess hypocritive all time, dudu WCW, and
then they hired Bill Watts. Why did they sign his son Eric brother?
Dude? Oh he said, the legend Eric Watt. Yeah, dude,
yeah, they signed Bill wattson. Then Vince says, oh, we're what
why did they Why run mondays man? Dude? Why the funny that the
example he used was fucking Wednesdays. It's like, oh, yeah, you
guys never tried Wednesdays ever, dude. And to do like the Melrose placetime
ending of a raw, I was like, incredible, crazy example, Like
okay, we're gonna tase you with another match's coming up next week, you
actually show part of it or something that's crazy. Yeah. It was Bill
Wat's career in WA. He was only on a three month contract and had
no interest in staying long term, so I really worked up for him.
He had a fucking heavy vision. Huh yeah, right, that's good.
Well that is it for the Wrestling Observer portion of this show, and now
it is time to get into the retro e ssed to be Hardcore TV September
twenty sixth, nineteen nine to five. All right, so we start the
show and I was confused because I didn't know if this was just them showing
the match or if this was a recap, because this is how their whole
show is. Yeah, so I think we talked about this a while ago
with hardcore TV, it was most so it's like a clip show. Yeah,
so e c W did uh? Super shows? Is that what you
call them? Pay per view? Sure? I don't even know how to
explain it. So, well, like just a big super shows is probably
good way. Well, like imagine if we taped you already know, right
right, and instead of putting it up as a pay per view, we
create a whole show around like three of the matches maybe and then sure,
and then they put promos and stuff in there as well, But it's not
like they so when you when you go to the pay per view because it's
a or go to the show Gangsta's Paradise was the was the show? That's
right, That's what this one is kind of revolving. So if you go
to that, you don't get a hardcore it's not like a hardcore TV tape
being it's just like you're getting like a full card of matches. So it's
like and they turn it into a TV and they turn it into a TV
show. So that's how ECW is run. In ninety five, which is
actually so smart because like I actually like this a lot because then you can
get you know, if a match is not so great, you can cut
parts of it and looks awesome because they fucking trim everything. Yeah, and
so so yeah, we're getting clips from Gangster's Paradise throughout this entire show here,
which is this is a crazy, crazy way to open the show because
this is a big match here. So it's the Pippulls Piple number one and
Piple number two taking on a Raven as they would be taking on supposedly just
Raven. Now, Raven and Steven Richards are the tag team champions of ECW.
Here the biggest loser in the history of ever is this is Raven's bitch,
that's all, of course. And Raven is the coolest dude fucking ever.
He's the best. It's like really cool here, and he gets cooler
and he's always cool. Don't don't don't do it, don't fucking do it.
Well I'll stop, okay, So yeah, Raven's was dude ever.
Like I he's one of my favoriterestlers of all time. So this and like
he's in his prime here. Uh, those TNA run is pretty good too.
I'm not gonna talk about that. The Pimples come to the ring,
Raven's already seated in the corner. Bula mcgilla cutty on the apron. For
those who don't know, Bula mcguilla cutty is the She was a fat girl
at summer camp that was in love with Tommy Dreamer, who Raven was in
love with, but she wanted to give him the time of day. And
now she's hot, so she's back to haunt Tommy Dreamer and she's raised.
How does this relate to the Uh? It doesn't. You're talking about Where's
Canyon in all of this is involved in this either? Stop just trying to
figure it out. It's kind of blurry for me. So they figured out
it should stay blurry. Figure I'm blurring it. I'm blurring blurring. Uh.
So this is supposed to be a tag title match, but supposedly Stevie
Richards injured his arm. That's at least what they're saying. Uh. Beulah
steps up and says, listen, the only thing I ask is you to
make this fair and make this two out of three falls. I have no
idea how that makes it fair. Raven's in a handicap match, supposedly.
I don't know why two out of three falls would make it better. But
not only it's a dog color rets, right, so it is a dog
collar match. But they never ever mentioned, No, they don't. And
also I think Joey Styles says bullshit. I don't think Richard's hurt. I
didn't see a cast on him or anything. I don't think he's Joey Sau
says Steve. He's probably cowering in the ladies room. So that's so.
Raven is set to defend the tag titles here on his own. Uh Piple
number one attacks Stevie in the back and drags him to the ring. He
wears the dog color. It goes to the back and then puts it around
seas neck drags him out because that's how it goes. Uh Piple number two
puts a table in the ring. Piple number one and Steve, you are
still fighting on the outside. Raven puts fucking Piple number two on the top
of the table. Most looking table by the way, it's like dude beating
up plywood. Yeah, it's it is crazy looking. This table is awesome.
Well, Raven pile drives Piple number or two through this table. It
breaks in the shittiest way possible that the legs stay up and they just go
through the middle of it. It's locked up, but Raven gets a three
wins the first ball, then the pi Bulls super bomb, which is a
power bomb off the second rope. Top roight is awesome. Name yeah,
Candidos was better, but you know, blonde bombshell, but this was still
cool. They super bomb Stevie throw a table. Fucking table explodes. Oh
my god, you've seen this clip. It is a legendary clip. It's
on the ecw intro if you see the E X T R E M E
n oh, yes, yes. They show the clip a lot which I
never knew where I came from, And yeah, I came from here.
A super bomb through a table. It's awesome. So Pipples get the second
fall big easy to b chan. Everyone's fired up here. The referee eventually
gets sandwiched in the corner by Piple number two. By the way, just
to differentiate the pimples for anyone that doesn't know, if you've seen the Pippulls,
Piple number two is the bald one. That's all you need to know
pible number two is bald pimple number one, not bald piple numb One's get
wolf, that's what you need. So the rough gets sandwich in the corner
and another table gets out up in the ring. The Dudley's hit the ring.
But I believe this is either before or just about the time that the
Bubba and Devon are in. So this is not Bubba and Devon coming out
here. This is the beat. I guess b team right, Dudley's did
you think of like the lore of the Dudley right, the Dudley Boys or
whatever the lackeyst kind of, I guess right, So, yes, it
is dances with Dudley, and I believe it. What's the other one they
said, Dudley Dudley? Is that Udley Dudley? Yes, that's right,
that's right. Yeah, So originally the Dudleys were just an inbred family gimmicks.
Yeah, Joyce Dolls make sure to let us know that they're in bred.
But I'm pretty sure it's a raven gimmick that he came up with,
like Blue Meanie. But yeah, Dudley, So there's a million Dudley's dancing
with Dudley, Dick Big Dick Dudley, Son Guy Dudley, Dudley, Dudley,
Dudley Dudley. Yeah, better what og og. Eventually Devon and Bubba
join, but they're originally like they're not a team. At first, they're
feuding Bubba and Devon like they're against each other, and then eventually they come
together. Dude, I do not know my Dudley lore. I always thought,
you know, like you always think the Dudley boys, like that's them.
Yeah, No, they were like the last Dudley's. That's that's insane
and successful. Yeah. Wow. And they started out as rivals. Yeah,
I did not know that. That's crazy. Dances with Dudley and Dudley.
Dudley hit the ring. Stevie and Raven hit stereo super bombs from across
the ring to each other, to the Pipules, pippoles, no cell road
warrior style get up, crowds fucking popping, they start sucking everyone up.
Stereo double ddts, I wrote, I wrote, stereo double ddts. Yeah
to the Dudleys, n Raven and Stevie from all of them. They super
bombed Dudley Dudley Joe styles as you said, said, and all of his
inbred brothers felt that. One they super bomb dances with Dudley. Then Joey's
because dances with Dudley is a I guess he's a Native American gimmick. Yeah,
like dances with wolves. You know that movie here in that movie you
heard about this, Well, have you seen this very much? Joey says,
see you at the reservation. Say hello to Tatanka. I hear he's
looking for work too. Tatanka just got fired by w He said, why
fuck me? Why I didn't do anything. Piple number two does a fuck
you sup plex to Stevie and puts them through a table, while Raven I
think, kills Pipple two on the outside and unhooks him from the dog collar.
Yeah whatever, yeah, I think so. One of my favorite easy
to me things is when the crowd goes when the fucking paramedics come out,
which is Treder that needs to come back, which the paramedics is a guy
wearing all white, which is funny. Paramedics come out to stretch her out.
Pit Bull number two Bula gets in the ring. Then Stevie's ex girlfriend
Francine hits the ring and attacks Beulah. Right, Raven grips up Francine and
hits her with the fucking DDT, which looked gnarly. Yeah, that was
crazy Logan. Yeah, fren Sine started as like a crazy Stevie Richards fan.
That was her original giming woway. She was a Stevie Richards upsess fan
that became his girlfriend and then he broke up with her. All right,
Yeah, as I said, Piple number two gets stretched out. Then Tommy
Dreamer in a cutoff flatnel shirt, hits the ring, puts himself in the
chain that's attached to Raven and they start fucking brawling. Dreamer hits the DDT
on Raven and then Pitbull number one and Dreamer when the tag titles Dude.
At this point, before like anything else goes down, I said, what
the fuck is this? This is so stupid, This is so overbooked.
I love it, by the way, dude, by the way, it's
like the uh that were in the Raven Dreamer feud right where they Dreamer who
has right correct never never beat him, never beat him until Raven leaves.
So at this point I'm like, that was such a fucking stupid finish.
Why did they do that, but we continue on here. It was a
swerve tonyer because they got me. They got they got me, dude,
they got me. Yeah, Joey puts it over Crazy said Tommy Dreamer's dream
has been Fulfilledy pin Raven in the center of the ring. But Bill Alfonso,
the commissioner from the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission, comes out. I don't
know how he has say over this company, but he does. Dude,
I think that's pretty cool. Like I actually liked him being the commissioner of
the Athletic Commission because, like you know, they're just a pain in the
fault Athletic Comission. So for him to be the commissioner of that and then
there's still like owners of the company and so like he has kind of has
say over what goes on there. It's got a cool yeah, and it's
cool. So Bill Fonso comes down and says, I let a match take
place two hundred three falls, And I wasn't that contract, daddy, you
never been Raven. I'm not allowing that pit fun to go down in the
record books. That matches over because that pit bulls, Yeah, you're tad
you. So there he's Rett conning the Dreamer win just did not count.
Alfonso gives the tag titles back to Raven and Stevie, and then e CW
commissioner Todd Gordon. It's the He's fucking fired up, restarts the match.
Bill Alfonso bumps Todd Gordon, Big Dick Dudley one fuck he's he has one
crutch one on hand. Choke slam's Dreamer. That was awesome. Which,
oh, so this is another thing here, Tony. I mean, I
got you're learning a lot about ECW here, Dude. I thought I knew,
but I'm not in the ninety five trenches of ECW, you know what
I mean? So nine one one super over basically, yes, super fucking
over at ECW. And his thing, obviously was the choke slam. He
came in. He was fucking Paul E's, Paul Hayman's fucking just guy.
He would just choke slam and he'd come out jokes on choke choke slam crowd
with nine one one, he'd come out chokes He choke slam Santa Claus one
time. It was that is awesome. Yeah. Bill Alfonso from the State
of'sl Like Commission banned the choke slam. No choke slam is allowed in ECW,
so Big Dick Dudley choke slam's Dreamer and Bill Afonso gets some of Mike
and says allowed that chugslams and Daddy, which immediately sets off the crowd.
The crowd start shanning nine to one one because Bill Alfonso just fucking wrote his
death sentence he allowed to choke slam. Nine to one one comes out and
Bill Offonsa says, you're not gonna chuck slam me, not kills them.
Chuck slams on the hell shirtless Tommy Dreamer is hugging nine one one. They
this finish to this match is nuts, dude, this is fine. I've
never even thought of a move like this. This you've seen it. Ever,
this has to be completely unsafe. Someone had to get hurt, dude.
We need to like pass this on to like violence ifever let them do
that, dude, Jake something in speedball. They dude, all the boys
I don't think even think of like you. I'm anticipating what this move is
because we're hyping it up, but like I couldn't even dream this move up,
and it's fucked up. They double load up Steven, Stevie Richards and
Raven onto pit Bull number two, who is standing on the second rope,
So I think it's Raven is in the power bomb. Then they load Stevie
up behind him, so double loaded up power bomb, Like if you're playing
chicken in the pool, you know, we get on his shoulders. It's
just knock, get on his shoulders. Now he's just behind him. Yeah,
exactly, So double super bomb and Stevie eats complete fucking ship and dies
and the Pipules win the tag titles. Everyone loses the ship. This is
absurd. By the way, Todd Gordon cos the pin here legal, I
guess does he Yeah, he makes the pin. I don't know. I
guess he's allowed to do that. Well, you know him versus Bill Afonso,
so it makes sense. Sure, and Bill Afonso was a WWF referee,
so I think that's why he can fucking oh shot, which explains fucking
what happens here later. Dude, when they when they when they first did
it, and I was like, oh, this shitty like Dreamer wins the
tag belts here like that's dude. I was like, there's no fucking way
because I didn't remember that either. Yeah. I was like that kind of
sucks, and they were like so wherever They're like where it again, I'm
like, oh fuck, they got me. Yeah, Dreamer doesn't beat Raven
until Raven leaves for w CW wow. Yeah. But if Raymond hadn't left,
I don't know if Dreamer would have ever beat him. No. I
think that's what they said on like The Rise and Fall, like he never
want he never was supposed to. Yeah, but it was just you know.
So Yeah. We go backstage and Piple number two uh is on,
Sorry the pimples are back here and they're talking, and two says, give
me the life of a pit bull or give me death? What exactly right?
Piple number one says, we not only kicked your ass but and took
your belts. We also took your babe, Stevie's X. Unless Francine broke
up with Stevie. I'm not too sure. I might be wrong about him
breaking up with her. Francine says, cee is Stevie and choose gum fucking
Ken Kennedy style and girls and now we get the East to be hardcore.
TV intro didn't, which is not the fucking song. Uh, the original
intro is is closer by Nine Inch Nails intro legend into Into White Zombies thunder
Kiss sixty five. Dude, what great? Didn't Dan Dan it? Yeah,
it's fucking awesome. Great intro, which shockingly a lot shorter than the
intro they go to for like the tn In show, which I feel like
is a three minute entire song. Oh yeah, like the Renegades, a
funk or something wasn't I was going, yeah, yeah that interest based dude,
Dude, that the best music choice, by the way, Yeah,
it was awesome, So we got on the intro. Joey Styles welcomes us
to the show, he says. On tonight's program, highlights of J.
T. Smith versus hack Myers will be shown include as well as Taz and
the Steiners take on a new tech team too extreme for you, incredible like
with the like incredible cross, like turning point. I talked about, like
everyone's going everywhere at this point, like Steiner's showing up in like they were
just yeah in the WF right, such a weird time. Yeah, you're
right. Raymosiere versus Coasts for the first time ever. So both their debuts
here, which I didn't realize this was this episode. That's crazy good match
though too. Also ravend and Richards versus the Pipple has been signed again for
October seventh. The EV tag titles on the line. So two special guest
referees, which is one is Bill A. Fonso from the Pennsylvania say,
I have the Athletic Commission and the EB Commissioner Todd Gordon. Then we go
to Todd Gordon who's being interviewed by Lance Wright. Is that right? Is
Lance right? He's like the hype Man, the hip zone, hype zone,
the Sign of the Times. You know, it's like Ricky Rackman or
whatever, you know, like god damn deadlock, HiPE zone. That's what
right now? To find Lance right? Where's he at? He's probably getting
mad pussy right now. So Todd Gordon says, I don't know much about
refereeing, but I do know about making decisions. What you don't know?
Why you wrapped that? Not the fuck? Todd also says there will be
a winner and a loser in this match. Dude, fucking break ground.
He's just completely thick ground here. Then Bill Alfonso comes in and says,
you're gonna be a loser. After I get through hiring my big fat Jewish
lawyer out of Scarsdale. Everyone's gonna pay the price of Belfonso. And you
don't think about referee. Todd says. One thing I do know is if
you don't get in my face, I'm gonna kick your butt. Bill says,
you want to kick you guys. But who took a nine one one
one choke slam? He got neck proms you're a big charity pusher, you
raise money for your kids. You got nothing, Todd Gordon and Todd says,
what a jerk, and he leaves nice Boi. But everything is like,
everything's for a purpose. Everything's like to build to the October seventh show.
Dude, they're building this fucking tag match. You're gonna want to see
this tag matches. I'll tell you that it's a big fucking deal. And
like if we had like a show like DPW had a show, I don't.
This is not a bad format at all. No, Yeah, you
get the matches, like you know, you show the highlights of the matches,
and then you build to the angles and then you do the match you
know at the big show. Now super easy to consume, Yeah it is.
And then like even if you know, he like it's like consumed in
like a vacuum kind of as well, so like you can understand, Okay,
so this is what's going on with this pit Bulls ECW Stephen Richard's Raven
tag title feud, and then I know, okay, So then the match
is coming up, and here's the heat, and here's the you know,
like, and here's a promo from this guy. Here's a promo from the
refs, he's a promo from the teams. It's yeah, existently, you
know what's going on, and they only have I mean, this show's forty
five minutes, probably an hour with commercials, Like it's not a lot of
time, but there's a lot. Yeah. Here we go backstage again.
Raven and Stevie are sitting in some kind of fucking fucked up storage room,
shits everywhere, and Raven sitting on the floor, Stevie sitting on the floor
again. Building to the October seven tag match, Raven says, Pippus,
you gave us everything you could, but we're still standing and you may have
won thes TV tag titles, but you did it with the help of Todd
Gordon nine to one one and Tommy fucking dreamer, and so it is written,
and so we'll come to pass, which is funny because obviously they had
to fucking Dudley's help him. Yeah, well, Stevie says, you need
to help everybody. Everybody out there in the east of Arena thinks it's Stevie
Richards kind of woo was he? But I took your super bomb through a
table and Raven and Steven Richards took your super duper bomb. Yeah, Raven
says, on October seventh, we have a rematch and we win the tag
titles for the second time, except this time it's gonna be a little different.
You've got Todd Gordon as one of the refs, but we got Bill
Alfonso and this is a lumberjack match. What the fuck did that happen?
Because they got the Yeah, the Athletic Commission made it happen. Okay,
But he said, there's only two lumberjacks nine one one and Big Dick Dudley.
What a what a fucking tremendous, tremendous name. I you gotta you
gotta imagine the boys dying laughing knowing I'm a big d Dudley. Yeah,
you just pick Dick Dudley forever. I don't think he ever had any other
name. Oh he wrestled, Sorry, all right, he had two other
names. He had Alexander the Great, which is fine, Big Nick Dudley
and the Tennessee Fist Machine. Yeah, Big dck Dudley is, Raven says.
And if you think that concerns me, you're sadly mistaken. Raven says,
there will be no sanctuary. There will be no haven, and I
personally will power bomb both pit bulls through a table myself quote the Raven never
more so. The match is getting crazier. Now. We got two refs
and two Lumberjacks and Big DC Dudley nine to one one and the tag titles
are on the line. You gotta buy buy a ticket. Spoilers, Raven
and Sevie do win the titles back, and then they also on the same
show, the main event of that show, lose the titles to the Public
Enemy in a three way against the Public Enemy, the Gangsters and TeV and
Raven. What in the hell is going on? Which is you know,
they probably show that like three weeks after they should probably Wow, that's crazy.
Yeah, So we go backstage again and Joey Styles and Joey Styles says
J T. Smith is now under the tutelage of Big Valpuccio, who was
indeed an Italian American. But J T. Smith, Joey says, who
is a decent enough guy, really believes he's an honorary Italian, but he's
had some bad luck as of late. So J T. Smith's gimmick is
that he is fuck. He just fucks everything up. He fucks everything up,
dude. This guy crazy Jemmick dude, especially at this time in e
c W like this worked so good because they believed it because yeah, and
then we get in the match, he just does it perfectly. I love
it. It's awesome. So we go to the ring for J. T.
Smith versus Hack Myers. Dude, Hack Myers know nothing about him.
What a crazy looking dude. He's fucking dude. He's bald with long but
like not is insay looking. They don't make they don't make people like this
word these nineties. You like you have to live in cigarette smoke to look
like this guy. Dude. If you would have just gone like all the
like, if you stayed to like going to ECWXB tow all these you would
have ended up like him. That's so. J. C. Smith's on
the mic here he says, all Posino, all Paisanos here in Philadelphia.
When I kicked this chicken ships ass, you yell shah for me. Now
I have to explain this to you, tony Okay. Hack Myers was the
Shah of e c W because the crowd would yell shot at him anytime he
did something. Because every time hack Myers did a move, he would go
shah. So the crowd started making fun of him for this and it became
something that endeared them to him, and he became the sha of ECW.
So it's like a man cut like when he does so sha shah. Yeah,
he became the show and it got over because of it. Obviously,
you know, he didn't get crazy, but he's like, you know,
it was one of those like the crowd was into it, so they booked
them in the fact that you like know the lore of heck that is deep
in the tread, like even like the hardcore e CW fans like I don't
know three three years aldtery. So yeah, J. C. Smith and
Hackmeyers they're both going back and forth. The crowd's going shah. Every time
hack Meyers gets on offense. Uh, but when j T. Smith gets
on offense to when punches and chops in the corner, the crowd yells ship
every single time. So j T. Smith slips trying to climb in the
top rope because he has bad luck, the crowd all laugh at him.
They chan't you fucked up? Because they think he really dude. You know
what I thought of what I thought of this? I thought of Lucky Elie
like slipping, oh on that Yeah, because Lucky would do that too,
where he would go to go to the top rope and is like that slip.
Yeah, he loves J T. Smith went up there. They said
you fucked up, which is like perfect because he said every fans love Channing
you fucked up. And Lucky Ellie is also an honorary Italian. This is
this is crazy. You're right? Uh? So J T. Smith pokes
Hackmyer in the eyes, and the crowd chance we want blood? I think,
yeah, I think so okay. J C. Smith goes for a
topey Hack moves, j T hits the concrete. The crowd chance you fucked
up? They just JAZ Smith's gimmick is you fucked up. That's like his
gimmick, but it's fucking awesome. Yeah, I think it's like the reason
it works is because it's like he sells it like super serious, like oh
sh yes, exactly, like not like comedy. Yeah, he's damn I
didn't mean to do that, and it works. They fight into the crowd.
This is crazy for this fucking match. They I don't know why they
did this. This iss J T. Smith goes for a pile driver on
the bleachers and these bleachers. I've sat on these bleachers. They're just fucking
metal. Can you think of like soccer field bleachers or whatever else? The
shittiest baseball bleachers of all Yes, yes, Hack Myers back drops him on
the bleachers and he dies. It is brutal, man fucked up for this
kind of disgusting, this crazy. Yes, so fucking we fight back to
the ring. Hack is so show show show. Yes, just punches crazy
crazy back body drop from Hack to J. T. Smith. J C.
Smith almost dies in the ropes rag doll style. This is this is
unbelievable. Here, this might be my favorite ending to a match of all
time. Like, I didn't know what I expect from J D. Smith
to a sack buyers because like, I, who the fuck are these guys?
I don't know anything about it? And J. T. Smith was
like an FBI guy, like he was an Italian sure, And then I
was like I love this, like this is probably one of my favorite matches
on this wholehit, Like this is awesome. So J. T. Smith
is getting cocky, climbs to the second rope and he's tauting and he's setting
up to go to the top rope. He's gonna do a fucking moon Salt
goes to the top rope, he slips off the top rope, falls to
the outside through a table, through the time keeper's table rips, he brings
the table, falls in the ft he's selling, and like five seconds later
they ring the bell. He lost my count. So good, Oh my
god, I love this ship. This is like awesome and like fucking wrestling
needs ship like this man like a guy like this fucking kind of gimmick is
fucking so good because oh my god, I love his Like I said earlier,
like he just takes it so serious, like he's not a goof,
He's not like a comedy guy. It's like he just fucks up a little
bit. He's got bad luck. Yeah, falls off through the table.
That was like count out, Yeah, dude, unbelievable. Then he starts
arguing with the ring announcer Bob Artees, who announced obviously that he lost by
DQ. He's arguing with the ring announcer, and the ring announcer says it
was the ref DQ. Do you what not me? I just announced,
dude, tremendous, tremendous stuff here, really good, really good, really
shows how much they used to be. Crowd like made a show too,
because like this didn't have to fucking be on the show, This didn't have
to mean anything. But the crowd made hack Meyers into like a fuck crowd
favorite. And J. T. Smith's gimmick is over because everything he does
they change you fucked up. Yeah, and they played into it and they
knew like they knew all we do this with the table and the count out,
it will be sweet and crowded. It was brilliant perfect. Then we
go backstage. Two Cold Scorpio, the Extreme TV Champion is back here,
and two Cold Scorpio says once twice three times a champion, Taz Taz you
want it, but I got it, And the bottom line is yo,
ass is grass and I'm gonna smoke you. Oh shit, Yeah that was
cool, good probo. I love two Cold Scorpio. I think too Cold
Scorpio. I think he gets the respect now, but yeah, I don't
know if he gets as much as he should. I think too Cold Scorpio
broke a lot of fucking ground. I think he was fucking incredible high flyer.
I think the moon salt leg drop is one of the craziest fucking things
I've ever seen in my life. Dude, they fucked him over with flash
Funk two and give him the stupid game. I mean, god, yeah,
I mean, but I mean he's so good, you know, like
he is so good. I mean he was still wrestling like Scorpio, so
he is fine, but like that obviously had a ceiling and like then they
teamed with Terry Funk and called him Scorpio when he was already flash Funk.
I don't understand, Well how that how they fucked that up? Oh yeah,
I forgot about that. But Scorpio is all I think. I think
a lot of Scorpio. He still wrestles. He still wrestles, So shout
out to Two's Cold Scorpio and supposedly has a huge cock. Just one of
the many things Joe Styles. We're backstage with Joe Styles, and he says
earlier I interviewed then champion two Cold Scorpio TV Champion excuse me, two Cold
Scorpio, and he introduced a team that he says it's too extreme for east
W, the Eliminator, Saturn and Cronus. So they just are coming in
here. Uh, the Eliminators are here to uh take out Taz for Scorpio,
and they said they'll take him out and he could pay the bounty to
their manager. Returning to E c W, and I wish James was here
for this, the sexiest man on Earth, Jason, I didn't. Okay,
this is something I didn't know. Tony, I didn't know Jason was
here this early on. He thought he was a much later thing. No,
and he's still doing like the joycet also doing the itching thing like I'm
mitchig I'm itching. Yeah. Yes, he hates Jason. Yeah. So
Jason said he would take Scorpio spot in the six man match that they're supposed
to have on the show, but Taz wants Scorpio and challenge Scorpio and the
Eliminator. So Taz was ready for a four on one, but then the
Steiners come out and they got his back. So we got to the ring.
It's Taz and the Steiner Brothers versus two. Sorry, Taz and Siner
Brothers versus the Eliminators and Jason Knight two called Scorpio is in gear fighting everybody,
but not in the match. Yeah, I guess he's whatever. Yeah,
sure, fair enough. I mean they do bump the ref and distract
for shit, so I see what you're saying. Scorpio starts to match my
cheap shotting Tas from behind. Taz is a fucking fucked up neck, by
the way, which he injured because of Scorpio. Scorpio and Candido did like
a spike pile driver to Taz and fucked up his neck. The Steiners hit
a crazy pair of back body drops the Eliminators, Steiner lining them both out
to the floor. Dude, this is this is crazy here. Scott Steiner
loads up Jason for just a Steiner, just a soup plex, just a
fucking like you know, explo just a t bone exploder whatever. Loads him
up for some reason. Scott Steiner gives Jason the gnarliest fucking Weggie and shows
his like fulls and then Joey that's what joe keep saying, that's the Weggi
plex. Weggis the ship out of probably ship all over his underwear. Crazy
so far up Wow. Eventually Taz is just mounted punches beating the ship out
of Jason in the ring, busts him open. He is fucking leaking blood
here. And then the referee checks on Taz because Taz is held his neck.
He he's hurt. Then Taz throws the referee into the buckle and bumps
him. Yeah. Then he goes back to beating up Jason. Would lead
to the Scorpio getting back in the ring and kicking Taz in the back of
a neck knocks him out. Scorpio puts Jason on top of Taz, and
Jason, the world's sexiest man, the sexiest man on Earth, pins Taz
in the middle of the ring and it gets the fucking win, and Joey
Styles says, this has to be the most degrading moment in the history of
the career. Jason is fucking bleeding, fucking wedgied out, got incredible.
The win on Taz dude, the Stinners in a CW. I don't know
how any CW matches they had, but again, uh, it makes me
feel even more confident that I'm at Johnson would have it was. It's like
ECW is like a stopping port for these guys, like, oh yeah,
I need to I'm done with whatever contract I just finished up on and now
I'm gonna stop at ECW because I'm sure like it worked out for Paul or
Todd Gordon or whatever, and then those guys got their career back. I
think the Steiners were only there. Uh yeah, they're only there in ninety
five their first easy to be matched. This is fucking crazy. Is them
defeating Dudley Dudley and the Vampire Warrior fanging and banging what oh dude, this
is a We were gonna watch this for Patreon. We need to find this
fucking match because we couldn't find it or something. Fucking the Steiners and Eddie
Guerrero versus two Cold Scorpio de Malinko and Cactus Jack. Someone find this match
for us. We want to watch this. It's fucking crazy looking. So
we go backstage. This is crazy. This is like Big Papa Pump not
knowing he was Big Papa Pump yet. Yeah, like even in the match,
like he does like the crazy shit, like the belly to belly,
the Weggie play, you know what I mean, Like Weggi plex is something
he should have kept in his arms. It's like he's like channeling, like
he's ready to break out. He's ready to reach his brother and like be
a single star. Like you can see it. If somebody knew that ninety
five told him to die isair blonde and start cutting crazy for almost he'd be
a megastar. So this is Big Papa Pump for sure. But it's it's
definitely uh, it's not good, It's not it's it's of its time for
sure. So Steiner is in tazerbackstage and Rick Steiner it's they're standing there and
Tas in between him and Rixys Taz. He's being very nice. He says,
Taz, I know you got Jason. I know you're hurt. I
know you're next bothering you. Scott Steiner says, ah, forget about being
her task. I say kick his ass. Send Jason and all those feminine
wrestlers like John b Bad who has to makeup gold dust yeah, that's good,
and uh, Shawn Michaels, they should all have a feminine match and
wrestled for the Intergender Cold Championship. Russell women, kick your his ass.
Tz is about the fuckazzles to be like as bad as he's like about to
buzz that crack like test is. So it looks like Taz is uncomfortable because
Steiner goes on this fucking rant about feminine wrestlers and gold dust. Yeah that's
good, and then Taz and then Steider turns on the screams in his face,
kick his ass. He didn't say anything about fucking Jason other than send
Jason h Tas goes, uh, well, anyway, dude, what the
fuck you can't just do this? You can tell Styners wants a microphone in
his hand. He's ready to unload on and say whatever. He hates Sean
Michaels. How do you feel about that? He well, yeah, of
course Michaels, and he hates Triple H. I didn't know if you knew
that as well. The Intergender Continental Championship. Well, all right, all
right, Tad says, uh, well, guys, it's been hard lately.
I appreciate you being here. For me, it's two quois. He
says, Jason, I know you remember me, and I know you know
what I'm all about. And I stand alone. Come October seventh again,
Building October seventh. I know the signers this victory, and Jason, you're
gonna quit. And after that, I'm not dedicating this victory to my family
or my friends on the street. I'm dedicating it to my friends, the
Steiner brothers, and Scott says, yeah, beet, like we talked,
and the promo ends with Rick Steiner very quietly saying beat him. Yeah,
fucking I'm sorry, sad fucking stuff here. This, like, like I
said, felt like an early look at a big Papa Pump just being a
fucking complete mania. Dude. If they had like free reign, if they
were in like a longer in ECW and just were like doing whatever, they
would have like the craziest career of all times. I can't imagine. Yeah,
I can't fucking imagine. So we go to a recap from Russell Paluz
in ninety five where Mikey Whipwreck got a non title pinfall on the Sandman with
a cross body Mikey beat the world champion. That's awesome. Yeah. Then
we go backstage and Salmon and Woman are back there and Sandman is in what
I would describe as either a white bandana or a white do rag. I'm
not sure which one it is. It's like a mix of the s.
And Samman says, I've been embarrassed. I've been humiliated. Mike, He
went, rag, you think you're extreme, don't have to take this belt
me? You think your boy that? Do you think you're a boy that
could be baid of? Take my belt? He takes a drag of a
cigarette. Then Woman just repeats the same line four times in a row,
but she's you will never become the man that I can make you. She
just keeps saying that over and over again, like it's she says it,
then she says it angrily, then she says it's sad, and then she
says it kind of sexy. Yeah. Then she changes it and says you
could never become the man that I Yeah, which Sandman and Woman also a
strange combo that like, I don't know, I I like, if you're
like a hardcore say to be hand, you probably know because she was there
for the caning angle with Dreamer M M. Where fucking you know, thank
you, sir, may have another. When Dreamer lost the fucking singamore cane
match. And then when fucking Sandman gets both of his eyes caned, which
is also no sorry he caned one eye and a cigarette hit it. I
think the other eye double fucking double patches. His career is over due.
He was done, he was gonna shoot, stayed at home like k fabeah.
Yeah he that. He just takes both eye patches off and the gags
the funk out of him. I'll never not be upset that pac never did
the double eye patch. He should. He should have it. He should
have did one match with it. You make the double eyepatch. He could
have did it. Yep, he could have. Would have been fucking awesome.
But I you know, maybe another company will just the d and wrestled
to eye patches. So we go back to those to Joey styles, and
Joey says the Sandman that's extreme hardcore champion in the history of ECW has been
pushed to his limit. Here to tell you more about it is Lance right
to Lance right. He's a handsome, young gentleman, blonde hair. The
hype hyping out frosted tips. Yes, he's He says, that's right,
Joey, it's time for hype. This is Hype Central and not Lance right,
and the camera is zooming in and out so fucking crazy, Kevin Dunn
esque. It's unbelievable. It's like whoo. So he's about to get into
the zone and Pila McGillicutty walks in and starts flirting with him, touching his
hair, and he starts getting horny, and she says, is anything wrong
and he starts to panic. He says, no, everything, everything's fine,
Everything's everything's fine, All good, Joe Joey back to you, and
Peli says, you did that so well. And then Lance Wright comes in
his pants. He came at all in his fucking pants. Yeah, well,
there you go, crazy, And now it is time for the debut
match between Ray Massio Junior and Psychosist. This is pretty revolutionary shit here,
man. Yeah. If you look at it now in comparison like current wrestling
or whatever, it's not that big of a deal. But if you go
to ninety five, man, this is crazy. This is weird. I
mean, like this starts the whole I mean like I don't know if it
starts all because obviously, like there was Cruisewaights in WW, but like you
can pinpoint to this match of like, uh, you know, Luca Door
is really coming over to fucking America, and like this match. Fucking they
do this match for a while. I think we watch the two out of
three for Patreon or the Mexican Death Match for Patreon one, the one where
they go on the car whichever the Mexican Death match then, but yeah,
this match, they fucking go around the horn with this fucking match. Man,
this is a pretty important match and not only easy gonna be history,
but wrestling history, man history, because they just said, yeah we want
that, we want Rabis and Psycho Zichosts too. Yeah we'll take that off
a bit. Yeah, get him over here. So Ray comes out,
he polls on the top rope. I thought this was awesome. Psychosis climbs
up and gets right in his face during his entrance. That was a cool
visual something also that I thought was pretty cool. Joey Styles describes both gear
colors of the guys, like so you can keep track of like who is
who because okay, yeah, assuming everyone's not familiar, and like that's fucking
awesome. I and I kind of wish that something that wrestling would do more,
because like boxing does it, MMA does it. You know obviously you
know a lot of sports, you know, a team by their colors.
Yeah, and I think that's pretty cool and it kind of reminds you of
like, uh, Joey styles good at talking about like the internet style.
But Mike today, you know, we talked about that when you talk about
the ww episode. They just fell in about everything that we need to know
about these guys, like how they're already stars. You know, it puts
them over like it makes it so important. Yeah, they look cool,
but like hearing that, oh well they're already popular in Mexico. Okay,
well this guy's got the title and there this is you know, that's why
he's here. Yeah, yeah into that Yeah fuck yeah, And I did
h psychosis. His hair is fucking crazy here. It's crazy as huge as
uh what's his name? Would always say it looks like Peg Bundy from Married
with Children? No, it's a biscuit whatever, it's called the bisco.
It's called him Peg Bundy from Yeah, that's a good way to put him
over. But he did that. Yeah, that's good. Good stuff.
You know, he loved it. So we're going back and forth here with
arm drags. Psychosis gets raining a hammerlock. At one point, Ray tries
to run around to get it and he leaps into the air and face plants
in the hammer lock. I don't know that. I don't know he was
trying to get I guess it was like he was trying to get out of
it. And then he counted, pushes the shot off. Crazy bumped,
though Ray rolls through with a snap mare. Psychosis rushes Ray. Ray kicks
out Psychosia's leg kind of for the hammerck bump where you go through the middle
to the floor, but Psychosis Psychosis bounces off the ropes and recovers, which
is awesome. Ray will barrows Psychosis into an arm drag Ssychosis rolls to the
floor, and I, you know what, I thought this was cool that
Joey said this, Like he was like, these guys are doing things I've
never seen before, and you got to excuse me. I'm not sure of
the names of some of this stuff. It's my first time seeing these two
guys, and I'll ask them what these moves are after the match, and
I was like, that is fucking that feels like legit. Yeah, it
feels like good, because of course you're not them coming into ECW at this
time. They've never seen literally legit, probably have never seen half of these
moves, and they're like, no, no, I'll just make it up.
And even like at some point he's like, yeah, well I think
that's uh, this, this, this, and I don't know, we'll
call it that. Yeah, instead of just going oh, like he's like,
you know, trying to give something there. Yeah, I thought that
was fucking awesome. That was good. Psychosis leads up Ray dominator style,
runs across the ring and smashes Rain to the corner, presses Ray into the
air. Gorilla press style launches him throat first into the top rope. That
was gnarly. He hits running ball sack into Ray while standing in the corner.
How the fuck out does he describe it? Yeah, running balls,
I don't know how to describe it. Ray hits the West Coast pop for
two, which gets a big pop from the crowd. Psychosis goes for a
suicide dive and Ray fucking hits him in the head with a chair. Oh
he killed him with it. It was fucking sick. Psychosis hits like a
whisper in the wind to Ray who was laying on the mat for two,
which fucking yeah. This was where he was like, I think that's a
twisting. Yeah I don't, I'll just say it's a twisting, which again,
like it didn't sound like he was stupid, which is he did it
really well. No, he was like, I don't know, I've seen
lots of wrestling, but I've never seen it like this before, which puts
it over more because it's like, oh shit, these guys are doing stuff
that even Joey styles, who's like a smart guy, yeah, makes it
just seem crazier. Ray does Tiger Faint know six one nine, excepts doesn't
hit it, and then hits that springboard into the second row. Ray runs
up to the top with Psychosa is on the top. Ray runs up there,
ron ons them off, crunches him and gets the fucking win. Ray
beats Psychosis and Joey puts it over to you. She said this new He's
gonna be feud. I feel has only just begun fucking fun match man.
I mean, like like you said, Tony, like it's not as you
know, like compared to today, like it's not as crazy, but like
it's still fucking, really fucking solid, man, Really it's really good.
And then like, uh, like the this is like the introduction to like
the extreme Luta le verse where he uses the for a little bit and they
go on the crowd and stuff like that. So it was like a nice
little change of like, uh, it was awesome. Yeah, it was
a great match. Chang. Yeah. Yeah. So we go backstage again.
Joey Stylis says, oh, yes, mio, what a victory for
my cio. And then someone off screen hands Joey a headset and Joey puts
it on. He says, we got a problem in the locker room involving
the public enemy to go going New Jack. So this is I love how
they did this. So they go back to the locker room and it shows
New Jack and the New Jack emmediately says hold on, man, get that
damn camera out of my face and nuw Jack punches the camera and it scrambles
it. Yeah, scrambles it. He says, please hold on. Then
we go back to Joey and Joey says, we got a camera down.
We got a fan cam. Go to the fan came in the locker room.
Then we go to the fan cam in the locker room, which is
just another camera that says fan camel. The camera and Public Enemy are screaming.
They're yelling at New Jack and they immediately bumped the fancam and that camera
goes out. So we go back to Joey. Joey says, we got
no cameras, and then he says, well got one, Charlie, grab
your camera. We're going right to the locker room. This was I love
this. It just felt so chaotic. Yeah, that was I thought.
Yeah, that was the best part was He's like, all right, we'll
just we'll just take this camera and yeah, yeah, we gotta see what's
going on here. So Joey and the other camera go to locker room.
Rock O Rock, Johnny Grunge, and New Jack are all arguing Saeed is
not here because he's in jail. People are all trying to break it up,
and Public Enemy says, anytime you want it, anytime you want it.
They eventually break them up and we that. So obviously that's building to
a match with the Public Enemy and the Gangsters, which October seventh. I'm
assuming that's probably they probably advertised that on the next episode actually, but yeah,
fucking there screaming at each other. They didn't go. It doesn't come
to blows, but they come close. Breaks it up. Then the camera
pans to Joey, who is flipping out. He says, I don't know
what's going on. We got a fight going on. Then he very slowly
looks behind him, and the camera pans up and Joey says, you're Steve
Austin. Steve Austin is standing there, yellow bandana, yellow shirt with Steve
Amania written all over it. And I also think he's wearing red like Hogan
tights in the belt. I think he's full gimmick, by the way,
which is really sharp. Yeah, so Austin is does a full Hogan promo,
which this is like my world's colliding here. This is unbelievable, right,
by the way, I think I don't know if it's an actual like
bandana or if it's like a T shirt sleeve, because I swear there's like
a tag on it that looked like it was like part of it. I'm
not sure if he funny, because it's like he's just pretty. But yeah,
so Austin says, you know that just even thinking was c you know,
you know what. That's where you're wrong, I mean, Joey,
because Steve Austin doesn't have what it takes to get it done in the e
c W. Brother, I was never allowed to reach past midcourt status in
the w c W. Brother, So what you know what, dude,
I looked at the greatest heavyweight champion of all time, brother, and I
knew that I had to say my prayers. I had to take my brother.
I had to start training again, dude. I had to get my
mind right to do what it takes to get it done in the ECW.
Dude, I like he said, the ec W every time. The ECW
dude. Now, let me tell you something. Then rock O'rock, who
I don't know if he didn't know this was like going on the show or
something, just walks back into frame and he goes, ah, Steve Amania,
Oh brother, I'm a Steve Amaniac too, And then Austin turns around
and does the Hogan point and finger way into him, and then he turns
back to Joey. He says, let me tell you something, dude.
The Steevester's here. Steve Amania is gonna run wild on the ECW brother Steve
Amania, I'm taking the vitamins and I'm saying my prayers, and then he
rips off the bandana, Oh no, and he rips the shirt off,
Oh no. He throws it down. He stares at the camera and he
says, I'm not gonna do this shit anywhere, not even in the ec
W, because there's no way the lame shit is gonna get the job done
anywhere. And he turns around, he walks away, and the last thing
you see is Joey Styles saying, oh my god. And the show ends.
A tremendous show, by the way, great fucking show. This,
Like I've watched a decent amount of easy to be hardcore TV. This might
be like one of the best episodes they've done. Yeah, there's so much
on it. It really was. And for them to just like do a
card of matches and then put it together to make a show out of it
like this was and it was it made it all made sense and like you
just picked like cause Steve Austin's debut, but like they have like Ray Mysterio
and Psychosis on first match and then the top of Dreamer Raven feuds still going
on, you know, like it's yeah, Steiner's like Cyrus had like six
matches and he's to be that just happens to be on this episode. Steiner's,
Ray, Mysterio and Steve, Austin and Psychosis all in the same show.
Just like the fucking not to mention the stuff at the top with the
whole fucking tag tuntle, angle and ship like, like I said, they've
packed a lot in the forty five minutes man, and like like, yeah,
you're right, there's a lot of pivotal moments here in wrestling in general,
you know, like Austin doesn't have a long run here. No,
no, Like like if you're like a major promotion at the time, you
have to be watching ECW, like, oh shit, who's coming through?
What's going on here? Like fucking obviously work because they take all these dudes.
Yeah, Eric Bischoff joins them, while yeah, Eric get all of
them that they can want, they take. I think Austin only has two
matches in ECW. I think if it's Whipbreck right and then yeah yeah so
he yeah, so Whipbreck is champ and he beats Austin and then Sandman wins
the title from Mikey in a trouble threat. Also with Austin. There's like
a ladder match, right or something. It's a three way they probably use
a ladder though. Oh okay, we should watch that match. Yeah,
that would be good. I'm gonna write that down. That's dude, what
a crazy time this was? Uh dude. And then when I think of
wrestling, obviously like ninety seven, ninety eight, but like ninety five right
here was rocket Man. Dude, it was. And I guess because I
think very little of New Generation w WF, which maybe it's it's I'd say
it's kind of a weak spot for me. Maybe I'm not gonna maybe I'm
not fair to it. But anytime I watch New Generation WF, I think
it sucks. So this is so different. You know, it's definitely way
different than New Generation. And this is like way more up my wheelhouse,
and you know, it's Philly sting, but like, fucking like, this
is what this is wrestling to me. So I I I love this ship.
I thought this show was fucking awesome, good show, great show,
great pick, great fucking show. Stone Cold doing a haul Cogan impression is
like that is insane to me that it could because just of the show,
you know, yeah, like that is fucking crazy. Yeah, if you
ever want to like so, like this is like a great hook because like,
oh, you should watch this for the sole thing, and then you
watch it and you're like, oh shit, there's all this other stuff going
on, and yeah, man, yeah, like yeah, they packed a
lot into this. I highly recommend watching the show. And maybe I'm actually
gonna watch more. I'm gonna watch the follow up to this. Yeah,
I want to go watch more. JT. Smith though, I think he
was incredible. Jaguier's shaw Tony, you're like the show of the Deadlock podcast.
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