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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Sept 15, 2022 15:00:37 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1PsCwg6w_QFrom WCW Saturday Night in May 1992. This was during a phase on Saturday Night where they were having celebrities come in to host the show with JR. It didn't last long probably due to segments like this. JR has said on his podcast that he hated doing these. I love that Randy's first question is "why did you leave the dubya dubya ef?". Rude seems genuinely taken aback probably thinking to himself "did anyone smarten this guy up?". Although to his credit he able to roll with it pretty well.
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Post by Squirrel Master on Sept 16, 2022 0:34:46 GMT -5
Wow I watched WCW religiously at the time yet have no recollection of this segment. Never saw it before; thanks for posting!
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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Sept 16, 2022 2:25:06 GMT -5
I misread that as Randy Orton.
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Post by Mandarin Dessert Version 0 on Sept 16, 2022 2:37:04 GMT -5
I misread that as Randy Orton. Make that two of us.
Would not be even that strange, perhaps he might have interviewed Rick Rude as a part of a school project.
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Post by James Fabiano on Sept 16, 2022 15:12:42 GMT -5
Naturally I lost my s*** when that happened. As it was very rare that companies acknowledged companies. If anything it was only seen on Gordon Solie's Wrestling News Network on the Power Hour, and the GWF Newsroom segments on Global TV.
It was a shoot, then?
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Sept 16, 2022 16:16:14 GMT -5
Naturally I lost my s*** when that happened. As it was very rare that companies acknowledged companies. If anything it was only seen on Gordon Solie's Wrestling News Network on the Power Hour, and the GWF Newsroom segments on Global TV. It was a shoot, then? It would've been funnier if he really went all out in keeping continuity between the two promotions and was like "Well ya know Randy it goes like this. I told it the way that it is and called the Big Boss Man's mother a sweat hog and slimy swamp sow and that senile idiot Jack Tunney indefinitely suspended me. So I packed my bags and headed to greener pastures". Instead he went with the I was disgruntled because I wasn't getting World Title shots even though I was #1 Contender due to being the IC Champion even though WWF never went by that rule. And even WCW while had top ten rankings and the US CHampion was always ranked #1 Contender I can't recall the US Champion ever fighting the World Champion for the title. I guess it possibly does confirm though that Rude was an avid reader of the PWI Magazines. In kayfabe I like to picture him looking at the back pages where the rankings were in of one of their magazines in some grocery store sometime in June 1989 and going into a rage that he wasn't getting World Title shots against Hogan. |
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Post by James Fabiano on Sept 16, 2022 16:49:11 GMT -5
Naturally I lost my s*** when that happened. As it was very rare that companies acknowledged companies. If anything it was only seen on Gordon Solie's Wrestling News Network on the Power Hour, and the GWF Newsroom segments on Global TV. It was a shoot, then? It would've been funnier if he really went all out in keeping continuity between the two promotions and was like "Well ya know Randy it goes like this. I told it the way that it is and called the Big Boss Man's mother a sweat hog and slimy swamp sow and that senile idiot Jack Tunney indefinitely suspended me. So I packed my bags and headed to greener pastures". Instead he went with the I was disgruntled because I wasn't getting World Title shots even though I was #1 Contender due to being the IC Champion even though WWF never went by that rule. And even WCW while had top ten rankings and the US CHampion was always ranked #1 Contender I can't recall the US Champion ever fighting the World Champion for the title. I guess it possibly does confirm though that Rude was an avid reader of the PWI Magazines. In kayfabe I like to picture him looking at the back pages where the rankings were in of one of their magazines in some grocery store sometime in June 1989 and going into a rage that he wasn't getting World Title shots against Hogan. Didn't get them as IC champ, but it's not like he didn't get a spring and summer full of Warrior matches. The other thing is, I still remember this segment for leading to female plants in the audience claiming they had affairs with Ricky Steamboat, complete with censored "slut" utterances. |
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Post by fortknox on Sept 16, 2022 20:07:24 GMT -5
Naturally I lost my s*** when that happened. As it was very rare that companies acknowledged companies. If anything it was only seen on Gordon Solie's Wrestling News Network on the Power Hour, and the GWF Newsroom segments on Global TV. It was a shoot, then? It would've been funnier if he really went all out in keeping continuity between the two promotions and was like "Well ya know Randy it goes like this. I told it the way that it is and called the Big Boss Man's mother a sweat hog and slimy swamp sow and that senile idiot Jack Tunney indefinitely suspended me. So I packed my bags and headed to greener pastures". Instead he went with the I was disgruntled because I wasn't getting World Title shots even though I was #1 Contender due to being the IC Champion even though WWF never went by that rule. And even WCW while had top ten rankings and the US CHampion was always ranked #1 Contender I can't recall the US Champion ever fighting the World Champion for the title. I guess it possibly does confirm though that Rude was an avid reader of the PWI Magazines. In kayfabe I like to picture him looking at the back pages where the rankings were in of one of their magazines in some grocery store sometime in June 1989 and going into a rage that he wasn't getting World Title shots against Hogan. US champ, Lex Luger, was constantly fighting Ric Flair for the World belt. |
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Post by jason1980s on Sept 16, 2022 22:50:59 GMT -5
Rick Rude was a perfect fit for 1989s and 1990 WWF BUT he was also a perfect fit for early 90s WCW.
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Post by XIII on Sept 16, 2022 22:58:26 GMT -5
Was this the Bill Watts era? I remember in a WCW magazine after he took over he did an interview where he talked about how the Steiner’s didn’t renew and went to the WWF and how he was going to offer Mondo Kleen(Damian Demento) X amount of $$ but the WWF offered more and then basically said that he wasn’t worth the money, lol
There was a weird spell where they were outright mentioning WWF and it’s wrestlers
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Sept 17, 2022 4:17:16 GMT -5
It would've been funnier if he really went all out in keeping continuity between the two promotions and was like "Well ya know Randy it goes like this. I told it the way that it is and called the Big Boss Man's mother a sweat hog and slimy swamp sow and that senile idiot Jack Tunney indefinitely suspended me. So I packed my bags and headed to greener pastures". Instead he went with the I was disgruntled because I wasn't getting World Title shots even though I was #1 Contender due to being the IC Champion even though WWF never went by that rule. And even WCW while had top ten rankings and the US CHampion was always ranked #1 Contender I can't recall the US Champion ever fighting the World Champion for the title. I guess it possibly does confirm though that Rude was an avid reader of the PWI Magazines. In kayfabe I like to picture him looking at the back pages where the rankings were in of one of their magazines in some grocery store sometime in June 1989 and going into a rage that he wasn't getting World Title shots against Hogan. US champ, Lex Luger, was constantly fighting Ric Flair for the World belt. True. However even that wasn't planned. Only reason that happened was because Sting who supposed to be feuding with Flair that whole stretch got injured which forced them to turn Luger face and take his spot since they literally had no other options as their roster depth was horrible at that point. NORMAN THE LUNATIC was their number 2 singles face before they switched Luger back which really how hurting they were for faces. |
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Sept 17, 2022 4:19:58 GMT -5
Was this the Bill Watts era? I remember in a WCW magazine after he took over he did an interview where he talked about how the Steiner’s didn’t renew and went to the WWF and how he was going to offer Mondo Kleen(Damian Demento) X amount of $$ but the WWF offered more and then basically said that he wasn’t worth the money, lol There was a weird spell where they were outright mentioning WWF and it’s wrestlers It's hard to say as it was in May 1992 which also happened to be the month Watts took over from K. Allen Frey. So it was either right at the end of Frey's run or right at the beginning of Watts. Since this was likely taped which means it actually probably took place in April sometime then I would guess it was probably the former. |
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Post by James Fabiano on Sept 17, 2022 8:47:55 GMT -5
Was this the Bill Watts era? I remember in a WCW magazine after he took over he did an interview where he talked about how the Steiner’s didn’t renew and went to the WWF and how he was going to offer Mondo Kleen(Damian Demento) X amount of $$ but the WWF offered more and then basically said that he wasn’t worth the money, lol There was a weird spell where they were outright mentioning WWF and it’s wrestlers It's hard to say as it was in May 1992 which also happened to be the month Watts took over from K. Allen Frey. So it was either right at the end of Frey's run or right at the beginning of Watts. Since this was likely taped which means it actually probably took place in April sometime then I would guess it was probably the former. Oh yes, the "macabre cartoon" speech when Watts joined too. The Rude example I think indeed was still Frey, though. And doing some looking online, it seems that Watts first appears on TV a month later. Before this, you did get some WWF references on the Power Hour, like I said, with Solie's wrestling news reports. Think those fizzled out by 1990 or so, no? But if you watched WCW Pro, there were many references to the WWF from time to time. I don't know if all the Pro telecasts were like the New York one, but that version had JR mentioning things like "some people wonder what would happen if Lex Luger (then WCW champ) wrestled Hulk Hogan (then WWF champ)!" Paul E. mocking Ric Flair for the real world champion bit too. |
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Sept 17, 2022 9:20:37 GMT -5
Wait, wait, wait.
There was a kind of bidding war for fricken' DAMIEN DEMENTO?!?!?!
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Post by James Fabiano on Sept 17, 2022 10:16:06 GMT -5
It's hard to say as it was in May 1992 which also happened to be the month Watts took over from K. Allen Frey. So it was either right at the end of Frey's run or right at the beginning of Watts. Since this was likely taped which means it actually probably took place in April sometime then I would guess it was probably the former. Oh yes, the "macabre cartoon" speech when Watts joined too. The Rude example I think indeed was still Frey, though. And doing some looking online, it seems that Watts first appears on TV a month later. Before this, you did get some WWF references on the Power Hour, like I said, with Solie's wrestling news reports. Think those fizzled out by 1990 or so, no? But if you watched WCW Pro, there were many references to the WWF from time to time. I don't know if all the Pro telecasts were like the New York one, but that version had JR mentioning things like "some people wonder what would happen if Lex Luger (then WCW champ) wrestled Hulk Hogan (then WWF champ)!" Paul E. mocking Ric Flair for the real world champion bit too. And the latter has been discovered...though on the Power Hour?? twitter.com/DeepCutsWCW/status/1505882147571175426 |
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Post by XIII on Sept 17, 2022 10:22:32 GMT -5
Wait, wait, wait. There was a kind of bidding war for fricken' DAMIEN DEMENTO?!?!?! He was actually getting some decent buzz in the Apter mags as Mondo Kleen at the time. Then he became Damian DeMento and didn’t do shit else as far as I can tell. lol |
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Post by James Fabiano on Sept 17, 2022 11:16:17 GMT -5
Wait, wait, wait. There was a kind of bidding war for fricken' DAMIEN DEMENTO?!?!?! He was actually getting some decent buzz in the Apter mags as Mondo Kleen at the time. Then he became Damian DeMento and didn’t do shit else as far as I can tell. lol Every company needs some jobbers. |
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Sept 17, 2022 19:46:09 GMT -5
First time I’ve seen this segment since it aired; wasn’t it on wcw Saturday Night? The women accusing Steamboat of affairs was burned in my brain; awesome to see.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Sept 17, 2022 19:46:51 GMT -5
First time I’ve seen this segment since it aired; wasn’t it on wcw Saturday Night? The women accusing Steamboat of affairs was burned in my brain; awesome to see. Haha and yes I can’t read, it was on Saturday Night. |
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