Ep. 390: WWF's European Rampage 1993 (Part 2)

And we are very much back. How do you say that in Italian? Ir? We you're back, Thank you very much. Lapsed fan Wrestling podcast WWF European Rampage nineteen ninety three from April of nineteen ninety three, the post Prestlomania tour of Europe and a time when it was still quite better. Milan,

Italy. It's the city and a unique destination for your coach. Heres as we crack into it, and it's broadcasting live on Diretta Plus according to the logo on my screen, And it sounds like this nothing wrong with that. Yeah, that's fine. It's kind of like at a Monda of night Raw feel the opening montage, Yeah, they have like it's like it has that feel and then it opens into that kind of that nineties logo without the

raw part, right, the old from the era video game. Yeah, and the early credits of Raw. They show irs and Bam bam and all kinds of European countries and landmarks too, show France and Spain and Italy, which is kind of strange. This must be the same channel that broadcast wrestling matches from all those European countries, not just Italy. I don't know why they'd show. It's kind of it's kind of a graphic for a European rampage tour as opposed to this, Yeah right, this particular show. So maybe

if you watch some of the aforementioned cards that broadcast from this tour. In Spain, for example, they use the same opening montage. They show Steiner hitting Roun or Brett, the headshrinkers all that, and the WF logo, the gold one flipping around like it does at the beginning of the Money at

raw yept. So it's fortum milano us. I'll go April twenty fifth, nineteen ninety three, and we're welcomed in by the one and only Dan Peterson, who, according to this translation, opens with sporting friends, Welcome to the Asago Forum for the nineteen ninety three European Tour of the World Wrestling Federation. We have some great matches for you tonight. Steiner Brothers Challenge Money Incorporated for the World Wresting Federation taking title Undertaker versus Yoko June. That's amazing.

That's one of the tallest against the heaviest undertaker, one of the tallest tallest. That's one thing we can say about him, Yes, and then former champion Brett Hitman Heart versus Bam Bam Bigelow, and he says, now, let's go to to Coula, Mexico. Here is the mattador Tito Santana entering the ring for the first match. Here's this is what it sounds like when he said it in Italian. I mean he's for TV Trinusia Forum Yasaro Pare

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black and gold Matador gimmick. Yeah not the pink and uh teal one and yeah no this is this was the towards the end. He started wearing this towards the end, the black and gold. Uh definitely, uh like late Uh. I don't know if it was like ninety two he started orf. It was really early ninety three. Fascinating we started doing it. Yeah. I don't know if the word for viva sounds like fuck or what, but my translation says, here is the matador Tito Santana entering the ring for the

first match, Tito Santana, the Matador fuck Mexico. It quotes Dan Peterson to say, maybe maybe that's what it is, and his opponent none other than Doink the obnoxious Clown, or or as the as the ring announcer says, the evil clown doing. Is that Joe Fowler on the call? I think that's Joe Fowler ring announcing, No, he wasn't there yet. It's the other guy. It's the guy. I forget his name already. I can't remember. Yeah, Mandy Garcia, it's the other No, no,

no, this guy was there for a long time too. He was the secondary one to uh hold on, let me take a look here. I think as he was making his way to the ring. Dan Peterson says, of doink. Yeah, I know, I know it's not tonim is it. It might be that I don't think Tony Chimill was there, but I always mistake Tony Chimmell with this guy. Uh ring Bill done? He Bill done? Bill done? No, No, not Bill done? Wait a minute? No, yes, okay, wait a minute from well done?

No, that's Stephen done, Kevin done? Ye, Bill done. I think. Yeah he was a announcer, Yeah, right, he was. He worked as a merchandiser for the W for nine and a half years and was a ring announcer for his final three. Absolutely amazing. Yeah I remember, Yeah he was that kind of right. Yeah, he was a fucking oh he's a hog T shirt he did. But that's you know he did. Uh you know, I'll show it if we canna find his face here. Yeah, yeah, this is that's him for sure. God, he's

such Can you do your imitation again? Oh? Perfect? So as Donk's making his way to bring Patterson, says Peterson. Peterson says the audience doesn't like his presence, and we see that everyone is standing up to say, hey, doink. We don't like it at all. Hey, doink, we don't like your presence. Go back to the store and get us something new. Yeah, you don't want to see what's in that present, that's the thing, right. So here we go, titos named as much as

Matador interchangeable. Here red white and blue ropes, clean, plain blue apron, that's all on point blue mats on the floor. Here comes my build one picture. Yeah, there he is. Looks like it's like a character and curbed yeah, right, or a rapist. Well, it looks like you know, he you know what he looks like. He looks like uh, Bob Backland's unsuccessful brother, right and Andy Richter put together right exactly. So what this is, by the way, doink music. It's very it's

very important and sp it's a little different. It's not the exact same thing that that we would get it. Also, it repeats very quickly, which the in in America that doing music does not repeat that quickly. It stays on the on the very dark you know, the dark version. For a long time, I don't I don't remember it repeating like I don't remember ever hearing the traditional circus version ever again in the times, I watched it on TV. You know, it remained dark, so I don't know they're doing

over there with a frown and there's maniacal Doink laughs. Opening contest European Rampage nineteenninety three two Santana versus Doint. There's a matchup for you. Does does Tito ever talk about wrestling Doink in his book? No? Not well, he mentioned it briefly as somebody that he wrestled in the Twilight on his WW

front. I just wonder, I wonder what you know, Tito Santana a fucking legend, a guy, a journeyman wrestler in the w W WEE been there forever one titles, you know, just one of you know, not in terms of of this whatever, but you know, I think he can safely say one of the greatest. You know. And here he is in Italy and he looks across the ring and he has to wrestle a fucking goof and a clown outfit. Like what is he thinking having to wrestle this fucking

idiot that Vince just trying to tell him something? Yeah, Like, you know, here's a guy who's who's you know, he's he's wrestled, Uh, fucking Don Morocco. He's wrestled Greg Valentine, He's he's wrestled Demolition, He's wrestled Brick Martel, He's wrestled Sean Michaels, Randy Savage, Randy Savage. And now he's wrestling a guy dressed like a clown. And and then there's doing That's right, I know, m Tito chance break out. The show, as uncompetitive as the matches might be, has a nice and crisp

look to It looks major league. Yeah, it does get your old w to be a black and gold banner hanging from the rafters. Yep, yep, Doink out for the handshake, but no, he takes the middle rope and soaks in the jeers instead of accepting yes, yes, Doink dodges a lock up. Early had mugs for the crowd. Big time delay tactics here. Hey, you know, I didn't realize something about this, about this match from particular, I did not know that I was a referee in Malon

when I was twelve. O, my god is that you has a lot of very similar character. You know of physic trends, profound sense of sorrow is being felt. So after avoiding the lock up three times. Tito just turns us back to drink, like the hell with this, and of course immediately Dork attacks him from behind. Idiot, come on, irish whipped duck and Tito with a drop kick in a right hand and Doink pulls the referee in between them and they all laugh at that in the crowd. They think

that's pretty funny. Yes, of course, Tito the side headlock, rabs the ponytail does Doink from the headlock position and let's go as soon as the referee checks on him. Push off Dan Peterson. You know he's uh, you know, he shows some bias in this match, if you ask me, because the crowd chants for Tito and then in comes Peterson channing, channing along, and I don't think that's fair. Yeah, that's that is some

bias there, tee. T t I kind of get away with that push off tackle down, goes Jink over the top and he stops on a dime Doink now mugging and turns him around into another standing side headlocked by Tito. Push off tackle over the top and a leap frog and Tito dunks him on the head in the exchange. Then a push off and a hiplock, but it's a blocked and then Doint goes to the eyes of Tito, and of course, of course here's that for sure. To the floor goes Tito a

doink, lays on his back like an upside down turtle. Six of that on the campus. He giggles like a fucking toddler. I'm pretty sure. At one point, Dan Peterson says, he says, Santana savice, which is not a bad appetizer order. Honestly, it is not. I've heard I've heard good things about it, all different kinds of shrimp in it. Is that what it is? Although I understand that enchiladas are also pretty good.

Yeah, I guess enchilado's are pretty good. At one point, I swear to God, sorry, sorry, I guess enchilado's are very good. I guess they're very good. Right there is that he guesses they're very gooddos are very good? My god, Oh my god? Are they? Jeff? Are you sure here's one for you? Uh? Peterson says, Santana after a good start down one, two, three, four. The principle of desire Santana, Here's is that? Is that? Uh? Is that kind of the the blending of of of Doink and uh uh, Tom Prichard

the pretty much the clown, the clown prince of desire ship. You nailed that one. Yeah, when you quoted him saying, Tito Tito. What he's saying, according to this translation, is Santana. Here's the voice of the audience, t O t So it's him. Yeah what he bullshit bullsh it makes it acceptable. Apparently don't know it does not. I'm pretty sure he says Terry Taylor at one point, and it made no sense at first. Then I realized there were dark matches. Yes, that makes sense.

So Doink brings Tito back in by the hair. It seems like Peterson even laughs at that one. Uh. Donk goes to work on the arm now and he does a yeah, here here I got I got him. He counts with this, he counts with the beating on the arm. Here is doing gray se do you say Santana's in occhio? As sounded like that's what he said, now, Santana is pinocchio. I can see his nose growing.

And speaking of which, it should be noted that Doink could put a creepy orange flower faced lapel thing in the corner before the match, as he did to show a close up of it continuously. They always do that, They always do that. Yeah, that's what they would have, the little the what do you call it, the the spraying flower thing, right, gimmick? Whatever the fuck? That is like a carnation almost, but a gimmick right right. They keep flashing an advertisement for a company that looks to

be g I G. I don't know what it is. At the top of the screen, Doink cranking an armlock, right hands to the shoulder. He pulls him down and you can hear I feel like you can hear Matt Bourne's voicing, no no, no, no, no cranking. He's into the arm. Tito rises up and corner's Doink. Doink marks him in the eye, hammer lock into the corner. Is Uh is blocked and Tito fires out with right hands, a bit irish whip, and he bends down for the backdrop and he takes a knee from Doink, who goes right back to

work in the arm. Doink then whips that Tito in the corner, sidesteps and Doink goes into the post. Tito then runs them over with the lariat, throws some rights a duck and an atomic drop and then an inverted atomic drop on doink and then a flying forearm yep connects with the El Paso del Burrito. What is it called? The flying burrito with Verde sauce? There fruit a sauce scores and uh, hey, can I have what does you mind getting me? That man chatters with the Verde sauce. Oh please,

I need the verdict sauce. Can you do that? Is that a thinking you do? Jerry ordered, Jerry Law order the Perverde sauce and in Minnesota you get the Verne sauce. Good one, that's really good. Actually, imagine Laala rubbing his hands together. Was seeing Cinziah his autograph session. You know, you know, he was like, can I have a wack of He had many letters from many teenagers in Italy. Oh absolutely absolutely. He

invited them for like a steak of cheese in Cleveland. Oh come on, you can have fucking you know, don't don't invite him over at his hotel so we can make homemade ravioli in Italy for exactly exactly So what right costume? And now that he's off payroll again, he's subjected himself to roast. Imagine it's going to be at the lahouse. Oh my god, can you make a lot of Instagram very nervous about the pictures that he's going to be taking in his house now that he's off payroll and that he's We did it

years ago now, and it was the ultimate okay, describing him. That wasn't even years ago. It was, well, we did I don't care what it was. We did one. We did one not too long ago. I think we did one when when with Terry Funk, I think we were talking about fucking Lawlor at Christmas. I mean just him sitting down tonner, he takes a shower. It gets changed himself. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The fact that he does all he does, all the things, he does, all the things that you would do with the family, but

by himself, all right. Like he sets the stockings up like he's got like four stockings, all right, Like why does he get four stockings above the fucking you know by the fireplace? All right? When there's only one of him, you know. And and he'll go to he'll go to bed for a little while, but then he's gonna wake up to put out the gifts. Stop stop, Okay, right now. Okay. He puts out his own gifts, so sad his own stockings, wraps his own gifts okay,

then opens them, puts the next morning and acts surprised. He goes on the line in November twenty fourth and he clicks something he wants from Amazon. The package is delivered from the logistics center to his doorstep. He takes said package. He puts it into his closet until December twenty third, at which point he takes the package out with full knowledge of what's in there.

He wraps it and then he puts it under his own free and then he wakes up on Christmas morning and he had wraps the same box that maygan on his doorstep a month before. He stuffs all four stockings. Okay, he stuffs all four stockings. He puts, you know, email, how people will put the the money in the envelopes. Yeah, and they'll put him on the tree. He does it for himself. He puts cash and envelopes and puts them on the ja. This year, I I can't do this.

I can't go there right now. It's not even the season. First of all, oh God, and then I just you know, and then I think I said this when we did this, But if I didn't, I picture him, you know, on Christmas Day, and again he waits until dinner, you know, and he has like a whatever he may,

makes a giant meal all right, and only feeds himself. And he has like a TV tray, a TV or like a TV stand like he he gets the food out, and then he watches Christmas Store, it's a Christmas No, no, no, he watches like a Miracle on thirty fourth Street, or It's Wonderful Life, something black and white, definitely, something black and white, you know. And then just after that starts flipping channels, makes himself go to the grocery store to hold hoping to say Merry Christmas to

somebody. Yes, yes, yes, yes, just picking up some things for the holidays, you know. Yeah, uh huh. No, one who knows who he is hasn't worked out a day in his life. Nope, nope, same lunch place. I imagine, imagine barbecue, all right, oh yes, but just imagine all right, Like he's got turkey on his plate. Okay, he's got turkey on his plate, like you get like a small like baby, I don't know, fifteen pound turkey oh my god, all right, stuffed, okay, all the stuff he's got,

this whole fucking thing. He's like Brett showing up at the front door. Yeah, exactly, Oh my god, except for himself. And then he eats, but he has a can of regular Coca Cola there as well, and he eats slowly watching the movie. He hasn't spoken a word in two days, by the way, because he's getting known to big to Oh my god. So he's just he's just been doing this thing, this routine. Every now and again, he stands at the window and just looks outside at

other people who are happy. It's like when Kevin looks out the window at the end of part one and his family exactly exactly, and he's got like a light up Christmas sweater. Just maybe next year Santa will give him a sweetheart for Christmas. Oh god, huh. All he wants is a family. Yeah. And then after like fifteen minutes, he just closes the blinds. Nobody notices him, Nobody saw him come to the window, nobody saw him leave the window. He puts on his night before Christmas Jammi's with his

cap. He does, yes, he does. He wears throughout the entire like Christmas season, he wears this same kind of silky, you know, a pajama outfit with with a yeah, with a with a cap, for sure, he definitely has a cap. He's he gets in the middle of his bed. It's a huge bed. It's a huge bed. It's a huge bed covers up to his chin, his chin like little Farrell in James CON's house. Yes, yes, And he's kind of said he'll sit there for a little while and then he'll smile and close his eyes. Oh god,

and reds of the moonlight strikes. He's smiling. He smiles and closes his eyes does oh my god. The day after Christmas, he volunteers that the high school like to give out like, you know, condomns for Boxing Day about condoms, and he definitely hits on the girls, guys cheerleaders. Huh oh yeah, what are you doing tonight? Oh my gosh, you guys want to come over. I got movies, I gotta I gotta coke collection. They got excited thinking they're gonna do cocaine. They get there.

I have a large collection of coke. I got lines of coke. Go in there. It's like, now you can't leave. Ha ha. Here's like a there's a button on his phone. He presses that locks all the doors windows up, like fucking like in the purge. Oh my god, And I can see inside of his house because he's done like tours, so

I know so old. Oh god, it's gonna ye. He then he puts on he locks all these these poor these poor girls in there, and then he puts on his Christmas Story Ralphie Bunny pajamas and started to sing. He does a jig first. First he does a little a little dance all right, like he was fucking right, and then all of a sudden, he stops. He like pauses, like he freezes, and like mid hop almost, you know, so like one leg is off the ground, all right, and then he's like he stops, stops, and it's like a

good thirty seconds of him just standing there. And then slowly he turns his head towards the girls, and he did this an awful, horrifying grin, and he goes chasing. I really want you to go back and listen to that. That was fucking amazing. Oh and like he read like after they're gone, he reaches into the fridge for a coke and like like, think of the material that those bunny costumes are made out of, that like fluffy yet yet stiff, kind of like material with crags in it, and to

think of like the cold from the fridge touching that material. He reaches his arms and too much to there. It's gross. So anyway gross back to back to European. A couple of atomic drops and then Tito hits his pet in flying forearm, but Dank lands near the rope so he's able to get his foot on the ropes at too, and he pissed. It absolutely is yeah, and then he comes up stumbling does doink no idea? Where he is corner to corner whip in a corner mountain from Tito and the crowd chants

along in English as he rains down the punches. Doint then reaches into the jacket, ref turns hold on, but the ref pulls Santana down from the mounted punches for some fucking reason. This is illegal in Italy to mount punches. I don't know. I don't know why he stops this. That's a great question. He stops it. It must be. And then while there's the ground is the opportunity to don't needs though it is. He reaches into the jacket, ref turns his back. He sprays Tito in the eye from

that lapel flower he has, and apparently this completely immobilizes Tino Santana. I mean, apparently getting squirted in the eyes is enough to make you not want to raise your shoulders off the mat one two three. Doink pins Tito Santana al mattad Or in the opening contest of European Rampage ninety three. What a bitch, Tito, Dan Peterson said, Doint take something and squirts and Santana's eyes while the referee didn't see. He returns his pocket and Doink will win

this match. Oh, a terrible reaction from the public, who have no credit for this at all. I would agree with all that. I agree with it. You wonder the evil clown Doink. Bill Dunn says, the evil clown Doink. It's awesome then doing jugs up the aisle as they replay

the finish, And they showed it. In fact, when he was yanking the ref down, when the ref was yanking him down from the corner mounted punches, Tto actually struck the ref on the head with his elbow as he was following the canvas, and so that's what kind of created that momentary distraction allowing Doink to get the spray and hit him in the eye. Back to stage WeGo for the first time of the broadcast to g God the Olin position mm hmm and Money Incorporated here he is, I mean, Irwin tells a

lie and Deebs is pretty fucking funny. Actually, well, Federation sonqui conimpioni the tag team over the Money inc ted dibiazi altra iris ala la prima domanda. So you're gonna find the Steiner brother Loreandrano Combatrick one brother team Distra pario titolo money in Steiner brother they were looking to get the title from you. Well, the Stiner Brothers are as obviously as stupid as they look. If they think they're gonna walk in here and take the World Wrestling Federation Tag team

titles from Money Incorporated. No other team in the World Wrestling Federation has been able to do it yet. Not true, not true. Natural disasters took it away for a few months. But anyway, and it's not gonna happen in Milan. Stiner Brothers Messago Carissimo. The I R S is Steiner brother So, of course, if you stupid n the Combatra Coloro andtpar Titolo money in Manonchela far Milano, don't think for one minute that we underestimate the Steiner

Brothers. They are, without a doubt, a very formidable team. They have marched through the World Wrestling Federation and have defeated every team that they have faced. But until tonight here in Milan, they have not faced money incorporated. And the buck stops here. Excuse me here, you would say, the Lira stops here Again, Deebs responds right to him in Italian. He is apparently fluent in Italian, but will not speak it back immediately jumps in

with whatever it was he was saying. So back to the ring, we take a break, we come back. Gibios's music is playing and they come Pondcopia. We're told I must see, and he says, also Musica do money like the Musica do money incorporated? Para money in corporated? Come Tai teams champions than I fucking can't tag team champions. Yeah, they think it's

so funny that he has that accent. I think that's awesome that his Midwestern accent still comes through when he's speaking Italian, because it does sound kind of jarring. I don't know Italian, but he does not sound like Guido perfect Italian exactly. So I says what he says, A play it again for those who maybe forgot. We're close to the tax team phone and at our phone right here in no nos a great okay, My George Park was already tach an Italian from a Milano that the LOOI it's no secret, is it?

That's all he says. It's such like it may be it may be one of listen, I mean he's no, he's no gem on the mic as I r s. But I'll tell you that may be one of the worst ones ever. So like they didn't even bother to figure something out for the right, Like there was nothing funny about it, Like there's nothing clever. Usually he finds something about local, right, there's usually some kind of

local reference he can make, and he just doesn't even fucking try. And if you're wondering again, what Dan Peterson says according to this translation, I don't like this even in English because he imagines it agreed show. I'll say the whole, the whole fucking show is imagine that the Michigan fight song,

and here they come. It's a story of two brothers. They've had arbitrary can Can Kan Kan Can let him in jack it Kang Kank King Kang Can mixtures on the amateur mats Caan Can King Kang Kang Kang Kang King Gang Gang Gang Gang Gang catch a guy midleap frog and suplex him over there Gang Can King Kang King Frankensteiner Kang Kang Gang Kang Kang op Ro bull Dog Kang Kang Kangle. I know I know the Oklahoma and the Michigan fight songs because of

wrestling. Yep, I love the I I I love the the Michigan one. I love that drum bit at the beginning. And so it was great. I always liked the signers coming down to that that it was great. It was great. So the anounswer says, the left fore is just informed us that if Money Corporated does not give up the briefcase that I RS has in his hands and return to the locker room, they will have to forfeit the match and the championships. Uh okay, silence from the crowd. They

don't understand this. And even when it's translated for them. They still don't respond. Really they don't care. I mean, yeah, but they probably don't. Yeah exactly, so uh like also, I mean he didn't do anything with it. What the fuck is the problem? He's just holding it. He's holding it exactly. The Steiners are on the floor, reticent to

get into the ring, probably because he's wielding a briefcase. But Dave Hefner Yangster from my RS and the stun Brothers slip in and drop them with right hands, and here we go. I RS is tossed by Scott and Deeber's is backdropped by Rick and they're both clotheslined out of the ring. Steiner's takes center stage and even Peterson with a bit of a wolf wolf there. Yeah, here I got that for you. Frattelli Steiner, Rick Steiner, who

whoa do it again? Please hit that again? Eat Frattelli Steiner, Rick Steiner, who you say, Kenosha Bayne and doing on John Candy's lines. Yeah, that's amazing, it's amazing. So yeah, they they're taking center stage and uh, crowds liking what they're seeing here in Milan and uh Grande Superstar they're called is apposed to mente and you hear that. You heard Fratelli in there a few times. Yeah, do it again? That has to go to the permanent. Thanks, that is key? What the fuck do

it again? There's a particular podcast. There's a particular podcast a little bit about man is stamping a brisk you. He's a come on, no go ride trying oh sd sider sly fighter, the falls. It really isn't fair. It is like becoming a real problem in g l f X. How many times I listened back to that clip of you losing it on Davy last week? People hitting us back on Sedter. I'm pacing around my house like laughing my ass off all over again. Anyway, for Teddy Steiner, I

was an accident. There was a particular podcast, Full Time Man. For Telly Steiner is a revelation. We're not gonna forget that anytime soon. It's down at this show, all right, all right, no doubt Scott Scott in TNA like looking at the camera like, what fucking funking again? It's this weird throwaway moment that just caught my ear. You know what people are saying all around him, but he just happened to say no doubt, just fucking like, like, did he just say no doubt? So good?

So very good? Oh my god? So U Rick and uh ted mixing it out? Yes, tbs. He goes to the gut with an ean, slams Rick Steiner into the corner, and then headlock. Steiner's champ breaks out. There's a takedown for two. Uh Peterson sounds like he does his uh gorilla version of no, no, no, not gonna get him that way as the poorly execute Pitt goes nowhere. Then Rick Sneyder pushes off Teddybiossi tackles him. He keeps saying football Peterson. I hear that too. I

don't know what the fuck he's talking about. I think he's just talking about how they played football as defensive backs at the University of Michigan. That's what my translation says. But they never emphasized their football backgrounds. It was always their wrestling background, right, So I don't know, but apparently that means something to to the Italian fans. Steiner snatches at belly to belly scores and gets too on belly to belly otherwise known in Italy as a shared entree pork

belly to belly, so it tags Scott belly to belly. I was like, fucking osmosis, Like you want to share here? What with an axe handle? Scott Steiner. Then he goes to work on Debiosi's arm Rick comes in. Now Fireman's carrying an armlock and then an Irish whip and Scott's center back for teller. By the way, for Kelly Steiner. Great name for a tag team, absolutely Steiner. Know what I'm not afraid to do? What tell you to put that on? The T shirt with the Michigan I

like the head gear. Oh my god, the Michigan, the gear in Italian colors. Yes, yeah, Telly Signer, Oh my god, the Don, the Dan Peterson line, Don Peterson. It would be pretty funny if he ended up like mob ties. Oh my god. I love it oh so much. Still have strong cravings for the what the fuck? I still have strong cravings for the There's so much balsamic and oh you know, there is much much lettuce. He's he's all about it, all right.

All he loves listen, listen along with his mineral water. He loves capraisy, Oh god, he loves the capraisy with with oil and balsam. Let's go ship fresh basils on his pizza. I'll have the capraisey, please the capras? Well, hey, you know, I like, I can't. I can't go with that. What do you want? I can't go wrong with that balsamic? All right, give me that, give me the capraise?

All right? Well, he offers capraise for the Steiners. Here to tell you, you got to keep that for Telly cyder Bite at least for the Goonies episode. Yes, how does that happened? How does that land in our fucking hot little hands? Like a show like who the fuck knew it existed? Since there it is, and we're coming for you, Dan, that's right at all. Let me tell you, abrat pal, you are in the crosshairs. Is he dead? All right? No, he's not dead. We gotta find this fuck. You're still alive? I need

I need some Dan Peterson's stories. Anybody out there? Now let us know. I meant least according to Wikipedia, he's still alive. He's born nineteen thirty six, so he's eighty eight. Now. I don't know that he'll probably to an interview, that's all. That's a you never know. Maybe he's uh you know, maybe he's sharp. You never know. Yeah, it's true. My grandma when she was adah, she could definitely have given an interview ye, but just never did it right, just did it,

just didn't do it. Uh So when I were shipping, Scott center with kind of a backhand that drops Tobiassi. Then he hits an arm drag back up, push off Steiner with the tackle went into the kitchen Sen knee lift and by Teddybiyasi who tagged an IRS who misses an elbow. Rick Standard comes in such a fucking idiot to work on the arm and Irs kIPS up, gets a small response for his athletic kip up. Ladies and gentlemen, it's not the micro tunda we saw. How did it have a GVY nine?

I guess not. Scott Stender comes in and Irs it's a knee lift and puts him into the corner. IRS whip Scott Steiner. It's reversed and Irs bails before Stander can capitalize and they bow the cowardice on display. But he gives chase and back in over the top goes Irs. He snatches the boot of Steiner, who then grabs the tie of ir s and they love that. Oh my god, of course you've gotta grab the tie. They love when he grabs that tie. Man, it is something to see. They

think it's the funniest thing in the world. And it kind of is. He's got his tongue, that's what he would say. Oh his tongue. Yeah, oh my god, I forget about that. It's not what a not at all? What what Dan Peterson says, I'm trying to lockdown where Dan Peterson says, cravat or something. Cravat. Yeah, no, I don't think so that's a French by so yes, now with the with the tie, he runs with it, and he does the Randy Savage next snap over the top rope holding the tie. It's kind of cool. I like

that a lot. Actually never did that. I don't think I TELLVI his match. I don't remember seeing that spot before. No, I never saw that before this. And then and you know, it's like, you know, but that's for some reason, that's not an illegal thing. It's not a weapon. Well, it's almost like the risk irs now he's taking by wearing one of those things in there. So he nails him with that,

and then he covers him and Dave Reffe. Dave Hebner is distracted by Rick who's trying to enter the ring and some crowd protests, and the crowd protests Dave missing the cover, but then he turns around and counts two. Scott's Stanner now with the headlock push off DBIASI low bridges him and Scott standard falls. He turns around and is blindsided by Irs to the floors. He takes him on a tour of the railings. He does, yes, he does back in Irs with an elbow drop. He gets two on Scott nice tight

fast counts here by Hebner. They are slapping that mat with a with a pace that's appropriate it. I will say, yes, indeed, I will. I will agree with you. You's a double back handles. We get more of that, we get more of that that bias here with a as a crowd chance for Scott Steiner, So does Peterson Ida Scott Scott Scotty Scott Steer. Yes, Scott Seiner tat that's what he said. Yeah, yes, I did hear that. I did. I I have heard that. Scott Seiner does call my on the tatas he's a big fan of that.

Mm hmm. But Majia. What's your name? But Mahadra, I don't know who that is. Majara is the manager in w W Medigia. What's your name? Who Majada? Yeah, that's right, that's right. I heard he did call me on her and uh. The the tag the idea of tagging is translated to touch. So it says here Scott Steiner can't organize himself to touch his brother. I heard they. I heard it really was hard for them to really come to terms with their emotions. Yeah right,

they felt about it all. Yeah, couldn't touch each other. Here, it says Scott Steiner very fatigued, traveled and touched. I r s. I guess it's accurate, right, I mean, yeah, lack, but all the way over there, it does. It does imply, you know, like flesh on flesh interaction. So yeah, I don't see the problem. I don't know why there's such a big uproar about it. I don't know why people are so angry. Here, Jesus great Sneiner craftsman, it

says, yes, he does, say secret Steiner Craftsman. Steiner uns debiasty into the corner. We take a quick break, we come back and I r S is in the ring on Scott Standard with a sleeper hold, who then sits down a break. I wish there were commercials for this fucking thing. I would love to see the commercials in between these Italian ads. Let's do it, ah, what was in the zeitgeist? What will you selling? You know what'll do? Good buying? Jobbreaker by Steiner breaks the whole.

Tissi comes in. He cuts off Scott's Standard before you can tag Rick TBS with a absolutely wonderful vertical suplex. Oh for sure, Jesus Christ, what a fuck no scientist in there? It is? It is absolutely picture perfect. Thank you spectacular Ottawa price hooks. The leg gets two to is dibias on Scott, who elbows out but gets his eyes raked and tries a a sup plex, but it's blocked, and Steiner tosses Debas with one and uh they do the double down. Spot Irs comes in and cuts off an

attempt to tag. He whips Steiner and Stander hits a sunset flip and pulls down I r S, but referees distracted again. It's time by DiBiase turns around and counts one. Crowd jeers that I'm un happy with that quick tag now to DiBiase some corner chops by the million dollar man and the ref is in his face and that allows Irs to choke Scott with a tag rope dbs cut hits two Irs in with a snapmare missus nelbow drop. It stays on the drop and this is another fucking elbow drop. I know a lot of

that going on. You might stop trying to do that. Irish whips standard ducks and hits a fast cross body block for two tag to Debias and Steiner's searching around. Uh try to make a tag. Irs grabs his ankle, allowing Tobias this time to drop the elbow and then he gets up and hits Rick Steiner. Rich Stander comes charging in like a hothead, and that allows Ted to toss Steiner to the floor and uh do some damage there. Meanwhile,

Irs is on the floor doing something untoward. We can't see it, but the crowd's reaction tells us he's egregious, sadly doing something agreed egregious, agreed egregious, agreed to be egregious. Scott Sander comes back in thanks to

Rick Sander's help, and tedbiask with a great gutrench suplex. I mean he's pulling out the soup plays here he is, I mean, listen, he he you know they talk about tax but in many ways TBIASI was the human supplex massolutely TBS gets two off that sup plex tags I r S. They kind of double supplex machine. But million dollar man Ted Dbass he goes to double teaming in the corner. Steiner stays and elbows and starts swinging out of

the corner, but he collapses and crawls. His I r S yanks him at the last second before tagging his brother, and that tags Ted Dibiascio comes back to stop. That Irish whip drops down and Steiner drives his head into the canvas t Dibiassi's head. That is the FATCA which I think his face. Yes, yes, I believe the other fat fa several times. That's Dan Pearson. So okay, okay, yes. It says took a flight dunk bota from the back to the back out of the ring. It's up

to Scott Steiner legally. And then it said load now public load now exclamation point publo. Oh my god, and he wants it all okay this before it's the franken Stentder. So we're getting ahead of ourselves. Yes, So after the facia, TBS tags Stander almost makes it to Rick, Irs is on him in time, slams Scott Steiner climbs to the top rope. Irs

comes down with an ax handle a tent on a fallen opponent. I don't know why he was going for the axe handle whence Scott Stander is laing flat in his back, but whatever, that allows Stander to get the boot up into into IRS's face as he comes down, and there's a race for the tag again. I r S Tagsdbasi, but this time Scott tags Rick and gets a big pop for that. As Rick comes in cooking on Teddy Basse, Irish whip flying lariot one to I r S as well. He slams

Teddy byass he's a back elbow so crazy. He's so fucking crazy it's getting nuts. Scott comes in, but then they have dropkicks for both members of money inc. Yeah. Steiner now Rick working on everybody by our IRS blind sides him as Scott Stander's force to the apron Dave Ebner's and IRS. His face now is Teddy Basse tries to pile drive Scott Steiner, but it's blocked. He tries to pile drive Rick, but it's blocked as Steiner soars into the frame with a lariat. It's it's here. This is listen to.

This is where I get there for Telly Steiner from this is a deebs. This is hilarious, Yer, I know, holy shit, No, oh no, no, don't get the wrong idea. How the xp W announcer used to do it? Really? Yeah, like oh show like a girl's like ass or something. All right, all right, so we got that Rick standard covers for two Whip is reverse leapfrog. Nope, not again, Rick, He's dropped with a soup play and uh uh, Rick drops him with a soup play in mid bleep frog and then Iris is knocked to the

floor. And then Scott Steiner and Jesus Christ do they cut away from the franken stander? Yes, they do. I mean, why why what Scott? The second time this happened to Hollywood havoc two? Why are you cutting away? All that matters is Scott Frankenstein right exactly. That's where the money is and he scores with it and the crowd goes nuts. Even Dan Peterson reacts positively to it, right of course, because it's a fucking amazing you'll see it. Now, we're too busy cutting to ir S snatching a title

belt from you. You know, I don't you know the last the last thing I need is IRS is snatch. Okay. The announcer calls the Franken Center. Anyway, IRS gets in and hits Scott with the belt as he's covering Teddy Biassi, And quickly the steam comes out of the crowd on that one as they hear the bell ringing. The belts are handed to the Steiners like they won them, which is so bizarre but always happens. They always fucking do that to like make the fans think that they won the belts,

like you know, the fans. It's one of the weirdest I guess if the rest ofers grabbed the belts, but they were handed them, it's it's it's still the cheapest little thing. Maybe the Italians, you know, ring crew, they don't understand. But it is one of those wacky things where no matter how many times you've heard the rules, they always try to grab the belts. Whoever won by DQ or count out or whatever. They always try to grab the belts and it's like no, like you're not pulling one

over on anybody. Everyone knows the rule. But maybe back then I guess as fans like, oh, maybe they fucking did it. Maybe they stole those belts. Yeah right, but no never never, Yeah, we have we have for what it's worth. Dan Peterson really driving home to the TV audience that the titles don't change hands. So while the crowd live in Milan kind of sits in suspense until it's announced that the Stunners didn't actually win the

belts. For those watching the television, at least Peterson knows the rules right away. Dbias's waving an off around the ring like, no way they won the belts, And this is where the announcer makes the explanation. Steiners wave them, wave them on, and they act like they're going to fight them further, Money Inc Does but then they ultimately don't. They just hoist the

straps high to a round of gears. Is the Stunner music hit and Money Ink by disqualification here at European Rampage nineteen ninety three, Still Champs Round the Ink, Still Champs? Did we need Steiner's this champs in ninety three,

Yes, why because they were the fucking best period. It's it actually is such a it's such a fucking miserable thing is that they held the belts for so little, you know, like it really is just awful that, like, what are you guys doing that they had it what from June until September? Like, come on, they had they had them through one pay per view because they were trading them, if I remember correctly, they were in

that weird Beckers. Well they first though, they traded the belts with money Ink over a like a weekend and I think it was the weekend of King of the Ring, right, Like I feel like what happened was like like Steiner's wanted it like on on a Friday, Money Inc. Won it back the day after on like Saturday, and then King of the Ring happened, and then like the Monday or Tuesday after Steiner's wanted again for the final time. It was weird. It was weird, Like I was like, what

the fuck is this? What is this? This weird changing of the championships like so bizarrely frequently trying to occur. What are they trying to accomplish. Yeah, it was very very odd and speaking very very odd. Guido was with Yoko and Fuji. Yes he is, Yes he is, And I was gonna say. Then they ruined it by by by jobbing them to the Quebecers. And in September, like months after they had it. Uh yeah, here's here's Guido, Guido bagatt and uh asking Fuji the tough questions with

the Undertaker. Everybody is afraid of the Undertaker. Yeah, very very true. She of the Undertaker when they thought his body he's cold like ice. Ma Maya go on five hundred and five pounds, is not afraid of Undertaker. Take that he is a clod blooded person himself, and he will squash you. Undertaker. Hey, mister, that's okay for the Undertaker. Man Fredo, Hey, my undertake care. Let me tell you, my man, when Mayo goes on again, hold of you, Undertaker, he'll squat

your flat like a pancake. Hello, come on, pancake, require mister Fuji, that's it. No, let me tell you, Undertaker. Next time when you go to a funeral in a fruno palla, perhaps it's going to be your funeral Undertaker, good lie would be present. You'll message Undertaker Yokozuna, the Undertaker Tutol backstage, ratling del for you know what he said, absolutely right, absolutely right. As they go to a break and then come back, Yo Kazin is making his way to the ring and Dan Peterson

says, here's Yokozuna. The audience wants to touch it. At the end of that promo, by the way, Yoko's scowling into the camera and they hover as long as it takes to hit the brake. But he gets the cue right before they break away, so he totally boats character and looks away and starts chewing his gun. Seris, I were you for him to like just fucking like fuck this. It's like Hogan on Scendari. It's an event. Need to countdown, need to kids out down, kids out. Dude,

what's what's the kids? Brother? That's a great question. So Yoko's music is playing a spankings went to the ring and they kind of have those boom boom boom boom on hun huh go boom boom boom. It's all about folks and they have the old yellow graphics like it's WrestleMania one for someone I know, it's very weird, uh Fooji with the Japanese flag waving, and we see an American flag interestingly waving on the hard camera review. So many kids in the front row, man, I know you much the appeal back

then and we hear the dong and they're on their feet. Paul Barrel leads with the urn Undertaker comes out in gray yahya ya ya ya. Absolutely. You know, I was just thinking Fuji's look really changed fast between ninety two and ninety three. Yeah, you know when he was when he when he was managing Yokozuna, he first came down in his traditional odd job outfit, you know, with the bowler hat and shit. Then he traded in that outfit for the the yeah what you might call it the the robe that he

wear kimono type thing. And then he'd have but he had a flat top. Oh, he had a buzz cut flat top look. And then and then by this time, I mean we're talking April, just on first, he's already he's already shaved bald with his the way he do it was my my yoga Luma under Taker squat like a pancake, kulaat you like a pancake. Yeah, that's something to be afraid of if you forget about it. They show a corner shot of the salt bucket and they love those corner shots.

Man, Yes they do. And Yoko's robe and Yoko dis robes after the bell takes his time and fair quick formula one ad on the screen. Really fucking funny. That was really fucking funny. As Undertaker takes off his hat, Dan Peterson says, no, he's burdened. The hat is removed very carefully. It is true. He does take it off with two hands, mind you two hands. He then says, I swear to God. According to this translation, the order of the genre is what gives the Undertaker

strength. That's what I've been told. We need to we need to discuss really all right, So upcoming show, we got to discuss the order of the genre. Can we do that? Please? Working on it. Do we have order of genre please? Yes? First? And entertainment? Yes? What do we? First? Sports entertaining uh vehicles? We need sports entertaining vehicles, and then second we need uh entertainment value genre. Yoko's universe is the Undertaker. Are you ready? Uh? Uh? It's not their

best match. I'll say that. I mean it is so bad. It is like the worst thing I've ever seen in my life. Seriously, So yokotas assaultant to the cloud while Paul Barrow keeps the Undertaker at bay. They do the interlakeho of zoom, stomping and assuming the sumo position. Yes, you got the class. That's the classic shot under the legs. Don't forget uh, don't forget Undertaker from de Vlli Dylan Norte. Face to face gets a rise. As it comes to the center, Yogo throws a punch.

Taker no sells it, steps forward, he blocks and throws upper cuts to Yoko. They like that, and they break out the d DT right away, which I know, which you know, you know you're going downhill when you break out that. Yeah, you don't have that one deep in the match yet. That's that's always. That's all when you when they're having one of their longer, yep, more well thought out matches, that's comes towards the end, so they cut out a lot of stuff in between. Well,

that's for such a good point. It's when you know, Yoko drops down for the backdrop and Taker does that leaping DDT, which it works such a Yoko because he just it's flat face. It's a beautiful yeah move, it's a The whole thing is so beautiful, the way that they do it, and it's it's one of their They do it every match, Honestly, it's every time they they they wrestle that that spot happens, and it is

it never ceases to to blow me away. I mean, fucking Yoko's going to selling a DDT like that is is worth the price of admission for any fucking shoe, any fucking show. Taker tries to follow up missus the elbow drop and Yoko clothes lines him out onto his feet. Of course, three sixty over the top. Landing on his feet does the Undertaker, but mister Fuji hits him with the flagpole, and then Yoko blindside's Undertaker as he's pursuing

mister Fuji. So now Taker is selling. Now he's actually getting hurt, right, which I don't understand, But okay, into the ringside table goes the Undertaker. He's rolled back in. Back in. Yoko puts sticker into the corner as they chant, Undertaker take her no, sells a bit in the corner, then grabs Yoko's corner and goozles him Yoko just standing there talking to Undertaker with a squint on his face. That's I know, that's the

extent of his selling. There's a corner to corner whip and Yoko hits the buckle hard but catches Taker on the way in with a back elbow and hits his body slam. Yoko then hits that big ass leg dropped Undertaker's face an Undertaker sits right up, thank you very much, take that hulk, yeah, brother, help me up in a couple of months. Yoko then runs them over with the clothesline tak her lays flat on the canvas for a little longer, this time, as Yoko playfully slaps the face of the apparently dead

again Undertaker, yo go gloats, but then Taker sits up. Of course, just like that. Yoko grabs the bucket and hits take her on the head with it twice in the ring the bell. That's it. Well, that's what you do, BSk brother. This emphasis on bs I mean,

just so bad. Such an it's so stupid. It's such a I mean, it's kind of it is interesting to think about the fact that they're doing this match in April in Europe, which wouldn't happen until really the end of the year was when they would do it in America, right, you know, they kept these guys as far away as possible until Survivor series and then it became a big thing. So it is fascinating to know that they were doing this this early. Dan Peterson, No, it's not good. It's

not good. No, it's not it's if this is what people were getting buying a ticket to us see Yoko in action on the road back then this is this is not great, Dan Peterson says. The referee says, the match is over. You lost. What's this story like, Oh, because Yokozuna will have to sit on top, and Yokozuna gives you news that you have lost your political loser. I agree, I have lost my political loser. I will tell you that. I've i've I was wondering about that and

you guys, yeah, I have lost my political loser. To the bell sounds, Yoko just standing there having accomplished nothing, heaving, heaving, okay, heaving. Apparently Paul Barre had been attacked, so he's selling on the floor. We didn't see that. Yoko's just standing there like a cop on it the camera, the cameraman over here not good at their jobs. I'm sorry. The directly they're not doing great either. The real they really stink

up the joint. Then they're never where they're supposed to be. Thing's hard to shoot, man, if you don't know, like, let's comment, what do you mean shoot? Sorry? Yoko is standing there honestly like a cop, like getting paid to look in the hole instruction site. Right as Fuji jams taker with the flagpole and they drag take her to the corner.

Yoko is gonna go up for the bonds I drop and that gets a stir but he misses and lands on his ass and then take her clothes lines him, and Yoko does the big dcleat bump which looks cool, and then then a goozle and take her kind of choke slams Yoko. It's a it's a kind of a goozle. It's not easy. Barely leaves his feed and the crowd hardly makes any noise for that matter. As Yoko walks up the aisle pretty much no selling the choke slam, He's like, I gotta fucking I

gotta. I got a bowl of pasta waiting for the turkey tales. Absolutely, he's fucking done. So Taker announces the winner by this qualification. He takes your need to the urn, and the replay shows that take he's not wrong. Turkey tails are tasty, but and the replay does show the Taker time to sit up is kind of perfectly like, Yes, he sits up just as as Yoko sling down with his big fat ass. You imagine if you miss time that and your and your neck is up and he lands on

your top of your head. Oh, can you imagine if you're like if if like you're you're trying to get up, but like he's already coming down, so like your head meets with his taint, and then all of a sudden, he just fucking sits on your face. Your head meets his taints. You said, that's what you said, right, right, that's right.

I did say that, Yes, I said, your head, you know, your head meets his taint, and then all of a sudden, you can't you know, you can't obviously go through that, and he just fucking comes down and just destroys your face with his fucking tailbone going into your throat and his fat ass just crushing you like a grape and so we go to a commercial break and when we come back, it's Papa Shungo on his way to the ring. He's going to be taking on Ta Tanka ill Papa.

Oh my god, what is that what they say? No, but that's what they should call them, that's what they call. Uh, let's say you call the pope Papa. He led to the ring by Tom Papa I Papa Shango is Shango tano is with Guido Bagatta Gui Bagatta and they talk about I heard that. Well here you want to listen to it again. I got it. Empressario. The reason he's an Empressario because home and set that up to repeat that, that would be to hear that again. Calabario,

Labsario, introdoto Ringan. It's gonna be tough, mat first time Italia. You know, this is my first time to Milan. This is my first time to Italy. I was walking the streets today and the yeople are great, They're fantastic, they're beautiful. But there's one thing they could ruin this. Papa Shango Italo, Papa Shango, Papa Shango, the voodoo, the Indian tradition, Pa Indiana, Indian Papa Shango. I know your world

of black magic and voodoo. I come with the power of the Great Spirit and all my people and all my little praise here in Milan, and I will make all my people proud here in Milan. Is grand the Spirit to Indiana control sangoes, grandismmage. Oh my god. I mean he said, he's said, literally, the Great Indian Spirit against Papa Shanko's Voodoo spirit. But you understand, like there he's like he's he's criticians. He's criticizing Papa

Shango's spirits even though he himself is praising spirits. Right well, I mean there are good spirits and bad spirits of America, of course, of course, yes, Like you know, some people like to drink wild turkey that is, you know, necessarily a good spirit, but it is a spirit. Nonetheless, others like to slaughter wild turkey and put it on the first Thanksgiving table. It's quite something here, Dan Peterson say, Pembroke, North Carolina, for what it's worth. I didn't even hear that. I missed

that one. That's hilarious. Tanno out with the tomahawk and the war dance and Daya Nina n Canaan, Dan Dansting Canadeen d Dan Dane tayl Lan Ding Dan Dane, Dandelin, Dan Lane, Dane, Danie Land Dan Dane, Cana Nana Lin Dan Daniel lint Dan Dan Dan. And then it hits that d D So you better believe he looks at all four sides of the ring and he realizes that there are no Native Americans there. I am only Native Italianos of Italianos. I am fairly fascinated with what the global citizen thinks about

Native Americans. Like, you know, growing up Stricicuarly in New England. You know the history of the Native Americans is so central to understanding the land right that was that became the United States. So you grow up very constantly, you know, around me especially you know, you know, if you're if you're from New England, chances are you've been to Plymouth Plantation and done the whole absolutely thing there. And then every other town is named after an

Indian tribe, and in Massachusetts is named after an Indian tripe. Yeah that's right. But but I wonder, you know, in like Italy, if they even like have much of a conception of like what the Native Americans were so and what they're seeing here represented by Tatanka. I don't know, yeah, I would, I have no clue. I know he's letting out whoops and they appear to like it in Newlan so they watch them on TV. That's like, oh, we're supposed to cheer for this guy. It's Tonka

verse Papa Shango. They lock it up and the referee steps in and Shango comes over the back of Dave Hebner to take advantage, like the heel that he is. He of course came to the ring completely shrouded in smoke, sort of the British Bulldog, but he was not even in the show. Huh yeah, yeah, he picked up Bulldog's jim bag on the way to the ring. Mister Shanle, mister Papa here Papa what heal? Papa as in like heel, like a dog or like bad guy? I don't know.

Okay, hard hands in the corner from Shango and Tana reverses and throws some chops in the corner and you can hear fans do the loop as he lands offense. Yeah yeah, yeah, they they They're all for it. They followed their television very well. Corner on a corner whip and a lariat

in the corner by Tuthankah clips Shango. It goes for another but it's reverse and Tano hits the buckling hard than Shangha and to Tono's boot and hits a lariat and another Tano is a I believe Papa Shango is bumping and feeding here, and I believe, yes, I I am. I do believe that we are seeing a bump and feed situation. Yep. And the feed starts when he gets back to the hotel. I'm sure, well, the feed definitely climaxes back at the hotel. The feed is it's actually kind of grainy,

and then I would indeed appreciate it upgrade. So uh. A third lariat put Schoango over the top of the floor. Shango comes back in and engages in the testa strengths, but no, of course he takes the short cut. He first ducks away and then again they go forward and Shongo kicks to Tanka in the stomach. Instead of being such a fucking that's it's such a This is as weird as it gets. Yeah, they are. The translation does call him Pope Shango Papa. Yeah, that's true. That's what

they call the pope unbelievable. So yeah, there's some talk about him being of the Lion tribe or it says Loin tribe in Pembroke. Of course, I don't know if whatever word Dan Patterson used translates to loin the pork Loin tribe. He said that Papa Shango here says clever Django as in jangle. And the test of strength is referred to on a literal translation by Dan Peterson as the hand test. Of course that's what it is. I mean,

how, how, how how hard is that the hand to test? So when Shango kicks him in the gut, he slams to Taco, but missus an elbow drop. A lot of missed elbow drops in Milan. Yeah, this is I wonder if it's a comment on a commentary on something in Milan

that I noticed it's missed elbow? What do we really? You know, I'm a little disappointed because I did specifically ask for elbow macaroni, and and so that I'm getting elbow maloney, and so far I have not yet been granted my request, right, So I do wonder exactly, you know, am I being disrespected by the Italiano Milano cookie population double chocolate baby, I want that double crich on the way down, dude, I think we may

have to drop missed elbows to really get across our frustration. This community Conka slam Shango. He climbs the top rope and he goes for something, but he gets hitting the gut on the way down, and Shango corners and goes to work a bit Tono than fires out of the corner, hits the ropes and his side step and he can flying over the over the top of us. He does just fucking sends him over hard. It's Tonka. The yanks

Shango to the floor and their back end whip is reversed. Shango hits Tonka with a big sidewalk slam for account of two into the buckle they go and here here goes the war dancing Tano is hawking up here in Italy. Yep, the uh the uh offensive hul cup of doom here absolutely is this such a fucking uh well you get you get a nice uh uh pembroke chop house on the top of the head for Shango. Dan Peterson exclaims the war dance the audience went crazy there you have it, attacks, avoid the hit ax,

blow war, dance, Hope upside down Hope. I believe, yes, I do know that it is Hope upside down. Oh my goodness. So yeah. Totnau goes off, hits the ropes, ducks and chops down Shango and again with another chop whipping a big backdrop Shongo up into the lights covered by Kanaka gets too. Then a whip is reverse in. Tino dives on a schoolboy roll up. So still some degree of trying to protect Shango here, I guess from just taking me on the following What he's gone?

I don't know. It's so weird he's gone. He's donet even like that. After this, he's pretty much gone. I just talk to have to roll up Shango brother one two three? Woo? Who you know, Tonald? Dude? What's the deal? Brother? Did? Who told you to do a roll up? Finished? Brother? Well, the way it was translated here from Dan Peterson's language, it says the attack leg freeze backland, cradle one two three, cradle and pin. Oh sorry it's leg freeze a

cradle and pin. Nice pop to the win to Tanka defeats Papa Shango here at European Rampage nineteen ninety three. They take another commercial break, and when they come back to Beverly Brothers are in Italy. Oh, yes they are. And I believe that's Kang Swingang Pain Tang Heng Gang King King King, Kang King, Kang King King King King King King King Gang B nine and d d then Dan and Dent, Dent, d Dent didn't Nana. Yeah,

I love there. I love their theme song. Way underrated if you ask me, it is, I agree, I agree, this is This is, of course a a rematched from that Applican counter at the nineteen ninety two Royal Rumble. Oh yeah, that's right, it sure is. Yes, in purple capes and here come the Bushwhackers to their music. By the way, it should be noted that in the Wikipedia entry of notable people from Shaker Heights, Ohio, the Beverly Brothers are listed as being built from there.

Indeed, yes, definitely Midwesterners. I think they're fucking I mean that that the Wikipedia page actually says makes note of them is hilarious as being from there, being from there, are being billed from there, bill from there. Well, I guess that counts for something. Yeah, pretty sure. Wayne bloom Is from Minnesota definitely started there as well as Mikey knows. Actually, now that I think about it, yeah, weren't they they were something?

What awa? They were a destruction crew, right, the crew of destroying moms whatever the fuck it was, right the next Minnesota wreking crew. But we can't use that name. Right. Right as the Beverly Brothers hit the ring, Dan Peterson says, color, how do you describe it? Purple? Just purple and white. The audience wants to play these like capes, they say, so, they're really well made. When you see them just like that, it's a scary elegance here present hation to the public.

Really is purple the color? Okay? Okay? Watch that he's obsessing over whether the Beverly Brothers capes are purple or some other hue. Who cares exactly? So the Bushbackers come out, and certainly these fans got the memo. They know what to do with their arms when they want to do with their

arms. And you know who else loves the loves the Bushwhackers commentator Dan Peterson bushwhackers deep Sea Yeah, the Bushwhackers, Oh my god, or as the translation tells us all the crazy people here, all the fools from bush Whackers, great entry of them, very beautiful. They are a couple from New Zealand who wrestled for several years in the Little Couple. They are a couple from New Zealand. That's fantastic. That's the first way I think of describing

the Bushwhackers great protagonists of great sympathy. He says, it's hard for you to translate. The American translation is the one they shot from behind the bush? What Whacker is the one who just shoots okay with a right one who he says with the rifle clearly from long distances. This is definitely him sending messages to Terry ba what. I never knew what Bushwhacker even meant. Apparently it had something to do with firing a gun. I like, you know,

someone who did like land That's what I always thought it was. I always thought it was, yeah, like they I mean they look like landscapers the way they're dressed and shit, I thought the sound at the beginning of their entrance theme was like literally a bush being rustled with like dried leaves in it, or only know. According to Dan Peterson, Whacker is one who shoots with a rifle clearly from long distances. But in this case, of course, he says, there are a lot of bushes in the area,

brother that pussy or is that? Or they are the bushes in town? Well, I guess that remains to be seen. But he's loving it. You can just tell, even if you can't understand it. Word he's saying that. Dan Peterson thinks the bushwhackers are a hoot. He really does. And that's what they're there for. I mean, you know, yes, for smile on here put smiles on faces. So a fair play to them in Milan. Whatever it is, doesn't matter which maybe it's head available of

course to the Milan faithful for some rubbing. That's right. Of course they do this walk though for a long ass time. They milk this under. Oh its fucking taste forever. It's remarkable how long this is. I don't have the match is timed out, but this one seems double the length you would expect. Oh, it's like it's it's like seventeen minutes. I think, I mean seventeen minutes. I don't know why, Like it's the I

believe where did I where did I did I did find. Yeah, I'm sure they're on like match tree somewhere, but uh, because like I think it's the second longest match of the night after Breton Bambams. Like who the fuck said? Hey, you know what, give the get the Bushwhackers, and that's what they're here for. Give the Bushwhackers in Beverly fucking twenty minutes. It's a strange choice. I mean, you know, if the novel,

why why not give fucking money inc In the Steiners twenty minutes? I know, I know, I feel like if your kids coming with the novel team WWF, seeing the Bushwhackers, you know, do all their comedy might be a little closer to what you showed up for than a Stander Brothers German super X fest. I agree with you, except for the fact that it gets old so fucking fast. Great agreed. So they do the rope shout thing and Butch does a fairy dance thing to mock the Beverleys, and they

run them out of the ring because I guess they're gay too. Got to make fun of them for that. Absolutely, it is so weird to watch how gimmicks like this translate to an audience. In Italy, the bushwa Yes, yes, what did they make of this? I know, like, what are they? Yeah? What do they think they are? Exactly because they're well you hear Dan Peterson struggle to explain it to him. Yeah, because they they don't really make sense. He's like trying to I'm sure he's

trying to translate into Italian words bush whacker, but that means nothing. But what's funny about is all these people are watching till anyway, right, it's got to be something. A bushwhacker must be something. I can't believe we've never run this down before. Well, let's let's consult while we go through this, but find a bushwhacker here and see what a bushwhacker is. It's funny because I'd imagine these fans are looking at the bushwhackers and saying, you

know, this is just like some quixotic, stupid thing. You didn't know it's. A bush Whacking is a form of guerrilla warfare common during the American Revolutionary War, War of eighteen twelve American Civil War. Interesting, So a bushwhacker is indeed someone who who engages in guerrilla warfare. Yeah, someone who travels through or clears out bushy wooded areas often full for exploration or adventure, but it does have that war connotation to it as well. Yeah, very

bizarre. Okay, well, there it is. I'm sure Vince heard the word once and thought it was just hilarious. Maybe that's why they're wearing the camo. Maybe that's why they were in the cameo. It has nothing to do, of course, with being from New Zealand, which I always thought

was some New Zealand thing. You know, you know what really what it is actually it's my own personal sense of humor because I look at it as I am a bushwhagger exactly when it comes to sexual endeavors, right absolutely, you know private, you know, intimate endeavors in the bedroom that require the use of my personal member to please and pleasure a person of the female persuasion. So glad you're describing it clinically for once instead of as a normal human

would you know? This is starting to fascinate me, Like what if Bush sees the Bushwhackers is like, you know, you know, Southern fighters in the Civil War, and he's sort of like, this is like a knock another knock on the South very well, could be very well, could be. I always thought of it as something I didn't understand about New Zealand. But yeah, me too, I see nothing of the sword here. Anyway, Luke bends down and lets Butch lick his head. Did not get the

response I think they were expecting when he did that. Yeah, that might be a little too much for the Italians. Honestly, there's often a lot of product and guy's hair in Italy, and I don't think licking the head is something that they identify with Dan Peterson's voice still cracking. However, when they go about that, Luke then locks up with Bow and ends up on the mac, getting stomped and choked across the middle rope, and then Blake

sits on him. As the Beverly Brothers put some tag team cohesion together, Blake with a whip, Luke ducks and kicks him and bites him in the ass. So we get that spot in early. Blake runs in it gets in and they run into each other and they get knocked down a couple of forearms, and there they are the crazy bushwhackers, and running there are I want you to know that there are a number of spots, and I'm going to well, I'll wait till a little bit later, but there are a

lot of spots here that are resembling that nineteen ninety two. Yeah, well, run match. Yeah, you kind of get their routine down with two teams like this, and every match is pretty much going to look the same either, I guess, But like I mean, I guess. I don't know how often they've wrestled each other, but certainly I haven't seen them wrestle each other for a year and a half. Right, Yeah, Usually they

work around the horn. Back then, pay per views were so rare that you could afford to put guys, pair them up on the road and have them work through their match over and over and over again before they get to pay per view. So Bo protesting the closed fist of the bushwhackers, and then they chant they do this. They begin to count the Beverly brothers out of the ring. Yes, the entire crowd starts going seven, A, nine, ten, which I always thought would be such a fucking hilarious thing

to do to arrest the referee. Yep, And they do it to put pressure on them for not observing the count out of the ring if the finish didn't call for it. And they do it, and nothing happens back in in Burch circles and corners Bow and attack to the Blake and Blake jumps to the floor as Peterson keeps messing up Bow and Blake like I always do, as in terms of who's who, well, I know that. I well, yeah, well Blake's got the mustache. Yeah, And I always,

for some reason say it's Bow. I don't know why. I look at mikey Nose and I think he should be the Bow, but it's just not the way it is. Butch turns to yell, and Blake blindsides him with a sledge and that's that's that's ye for being a moron. The Rumble match and this one we're off by twenty seconds. Oh my god, they were that same same length. Yep, same length. Yeah, that's one of those matches on a show that you watched one hundred times. So you know

this not well, yep, I know it well. So Butch starts stomping his foot while he's down on the canvas, and they chant Butch as he rises to his feet, whip is reversed and Butcher buries and knee and hits a bulldog kind of up here. Four brawl breaks out the Beverly brothers are whipping for each other. Yeah, it goes, it turns, it completely falls apart very quickly. They go down on all fours and they join hands to the bushwhackers for a double clothes line to clear the ring. And it

looks for a second like one of the Beverly's is under the ring. There's this big bulge in the ring. Ape right, yeah, well you see him is you see him kind of crawling under Blake's crawling under the ring for some reason, like you can see his feet. They do a close up shot, but nothing ever really comes to that, right. They don't get back to it at all. I don't know if our faithful, our faithful announcer said anything. I don't think he did. He's talking, of course

about cousins a lot. What would that be, Primo and Primo, Primo and Epico or their brothers. Yeah, a bite one. Well every now and then, you know headhead plus shoulder, shoulder, contracord and double arm please great house. Also for the public. He says, like these two of them are crazy. Okay, this is how it translates. Don't don't attack the messenger. I don't see any problem, right, so far it

seems perfectly normal. I totally agree with that. And so from here Bo distracts the bushwhackers from the floor and they're grabbing at him, and Blake slips in, but they run him off as well, and then Bow slips in and they turn and run him down, so they're keeping the ring cleared. Then Blake tries the same thing again but gets caught this time, and the clutches of the bushwhackers Luke with a headlock push off ducks Blake with a right

hand. There's then a instead of a flip flop and fly a flip flop and an eye poke for Beverly as Blake grabs the ropes and Bows whipped into him and retreats. But Butch gets hit right in the face, and then I don't know, it just stands out how immobile the bushwhackers are here. Oh, I know, like they really are, Like they do a lot of motion with their arms to hide the fact that their knees are so shot they can't even yep, yep, that they can't do shit. Yeah,

walk around right. Bow still manages to blindsided loop with a double legs handle, and then Butch comes in as distracted as the Beverlyes do there. I don't know, kind of like their heart attack Combo. I don't know what to call it. When they put them across the ropes. Is that not the shaker Hide spike? Is that what it's called? Really? I believe that's the Shaker Hide spike. Maybe it's something else. Hold on I did where I yeah, no, I don't know what it is, but yeah,

I believe that's the Shaker hed spike. It could be wrong or double team, and Butch starts making noises to get the crowd into it, and they start chanting for Luke and Blake with the side backbreaker on Luke get's acount of two. But I don't know there's one. There's one moment here I just wrote that the barrel was double team Luke, And it looks like Luke is telling Bo to come over and pin him, really like he's like waving his arms like come here, come here, come here. Do you not

recall the script? Mate? This was like fucking it was just weird, like I don't, like, you know, I've never seen anyone be that fucking you know, it's bad enough to hear, you know, triple H in your house talking at but like saying, give me the gut. But this is weird, like it's it's physically it's like come on, come on, come on. It's like seen on that one SmackDown and he worked in

Christmas time two years ago. He's on the apron screaming now now for the hot Oh my, It's like the camera's right there next to his head and he could give a fuck. So Luke's in trouble. Uh, they're working him over. Blake hits them with a backbreaker and then he goes for a splash but he misses, does Blake Beverly. Butch then gets them to chant Luke again, and Bo comes in and stomps to cut off Luke's attempt to make the tag corner to corner Irish whip and Luke leaps in back first and

takes the big bump, taking the bucket like a man. Bo Beverly now with a middle rope. I don't know what it is he does. He lands a double axe handle and he covers Butch in Butcher comes in rather with a stomp to break up the covers. Luke is on the verge of losing. This thing is a mad for an upcoming football match. Say that again, there's there's an ad well, you know the insects. Yeah, they would inset. Yeah, and there was a they were advertising a football match.

I'm sure they were. Yes, I'm sure that was what most people would have turned the television. The football isn't European football? Yes, yeah, not not football, which apparently was on this channel as well, or at least wow it something Guido was involved in covering and announcing for Italian television The Melican. The Beveries are double taming and stomping Luke as the referee is distracted. It's almost like a glimpse into all the house show tricks that they

would use back then, the stuff they would repeat around the horn. You know. It's like, yeah, we're not gonna do a hell of a lot in terms of moves, but we've got our five or six things we can layer on that reliably get a rise out of the crowd. And right right we're seeing that. I completely agree. Quick tags by the Beverley's yellow dropped by Blake on Luke. They're staying all over Luke here and Blake hits are running clothesline and that drops him Luke. Then starts fighting back, but

Blake still pulls ahead of him. Snapmare tag to bow, keeping Luke cornered, butch comes in. He's cut off by the ref for not having been legally tagged, and they choke Luke while holding his legs in the corner. Of course, yeah, of course, oh with a snapmare and a leg drop for two. Blake comes in, gets into the center. What's that fucking quick tag by the BEVs? Oh yeah, in and out the time, and now we will drop actually lands by Blake. That gets too well.

I did finally get my olbow macaroni, and I said, you can you can drop an elbow connect with it. He sent the word from Gorilla. Imagine the fucking no one saw Gorilla on this tour, man, no way. As soon as that plane touched down, he's just he was. You walked by, Yeah, you fucking just see him eating somewhere all the

time, Oh my god, all the time. He was born to be in like a Sicily pizzeria with like a short see white collared shirt with the top t yes absolutely with yeah yeah, with the gray and black and white hair, just you know, emitting him from the open collar. Right, And there's some you know, there's some like you know, and a lot of sweat marks. Yeah, yellow stains. I was trying to find a nice way to say it. But the sweatstains are there, and they're not

from sweating just now. They're from sweating for wearing that shirt for ten years, that's right, without changing it. And he sits there and he says sexist things for what it's worth, Butcher is still getting a rise out of the Milan faithful on command, so he's got that going for him if nothing else. But Blake hits him off the apron, and then Blake throws Luke into the arena floor, and then we have bo doing next to nothing with

that opportunity. Back in Luthy's dropped bows tagged in corner to corner whip, he fires out does Luke, and he turns bow inside out with a clothesline. I'm gonna I'm gonna pause here for a moment because what I want to do is what I did here, because I watched this final sequence this like last minute and a half, and I was like, no fucking way, and it is move for move is it now? Yes? And I the only thing that's that's different is the finish. So what I did was I

created a top and bottom split scream. I want to share the screen with right now so you can see. Now the timing is a little bit off, like it wasn't exactly but so I had to make a couple of like minor cuts here and there to kind of time it up right. But nonetheless, you'll get the you'll see the idea it is. It is pretty pretty wonky. Do you see my screen? It's not all wide, is it? It's fine? Great, let's do it. Rumble at the bottom. Ye here, uh, you get Italia on the top, you got Rumble

on the bottom. Here we go. The whip into the corner, takes the buckle and fires out of the gun. My god, he took a bigger Look at same fucking thing. This is wild. What's doing the same thing to get the hot tag? Look at this The genius was at the brumble. He's not in Italy. Same punches, yep, same punch ropes form three sixty. Wow, he's running him over with a precise sequence of

closed lines as butch, but that the same fucking thing. And then the battering ram, battering ram yep, there we go off the ropes flying my forearm thing, no break up, Luke, Wow, trip same exactly, which is trip from the floor. Luke makes a save. Here we go. Yep, this is the only different part. Wow, So what we have is the reverse? Yeah? The people what what? What? What they just saw? So same? So the same finish, you know. So so you had Butch. Bo was going up to the top. Butch

runs up and and looks like he's gonna press slam. And this is in both videos. Blake comes from behind, grabs uh Butch. In the Rumble version, Bo connects with the axe handle and hits Butch. In the Italian version, Butch moves and Bo hits Blake and then Blake gets pinned, whereas Butcher gets pinned in the in the Rumble match, that's wild, that's so cool to watch. And they say the stuff is real, that that's a grandpa thing to do. They did the exact same stuff in the last match.

I shot them do the same fucking thing. Alright, you're gonna tell me this isn't choreographed, give me a break. They fucking would. They fucking wrote it down, They take videos, they rehearse it. Fucking phonies.

Christ bunch of cocksuckers, as intimated there by the Boss. As Bou try to climb the ropes, he's cut off by Butcher and held open and Bow hits Blake by mistake, and Butch covers him for the one too, and the three big pop Bushwhackers beat the Beverley's here at European Rampage ninety three and they leave the crowd in some clapping and we go to the back. It's main event time. Guidos is with Bam bam, Guido is with Bammers. Here we go Hackle McGuire, then Bam bam Bigelo, the Beast of

the East viament that a long pubil World Western Federation. You're a big but you're also really really fast, don't you. Well, that's right, don't you. Bam Bam Bigelo, the Beasts from the East is not only the fastest four hundred pounds man in the world, but he's also are the strongest man in the w WF. Today, en Quarantakili on a solo piveloce my band bandianke Lomo piu forte de l w w F. You're gonna find bread the hitman heart prosimo combatim in so the band gonna bread the Hitman Heart.

Well, you know, Quido, the hit Man, you know, is excellent. Queen excusin. Let me make it simple. What he does, he does well, and he does it perfect. But tonight in Milan his excellence is going down because the piece on the east is not playing no games. I'm gonna beat the hit Man in the ring. It's gonna band beam, bigelow, bread the Hitman Heart. Letch lint and and Lsuez called it my safari solo de terminat because lefa molto bene maluis Sara and gradi bactro scopriramo,

in fact, proprio bread the hit Man Heart. Qui backstage of Oh my God, and he's he's making some some comment about how like you can the way Brett's last name is pronounced sounds a lot like hard, and you can do like an. Then the last is hard, and hard is hard. Its Quido, just knock it off. B Yeah, he takes a little bits, that's for sure. Let's just let's just drop it all right. You don't have time for that ship. Bam bam, bamm. Widows with bread. He is with Brett. Here we go, here's Brett.

I see Brett the hip Man Hart hip Mano called Lunico rest Tito, Intercontinental Tech Team Western Federation. You're the only one that won everything in the World Western Federation. So how do you start from this standpoint for the tonight match. I want you to take a good look at my eyes. These are the eyes of a guy that doesn't like to lose, you know, Bam Bam Bigelo. He doesn't know that I've gone through a lot in my career

in the World Wrestling Federation. I've held the tag titles, I've held the Intercontinental title, and I've held the big one, the World Wrestling Federation Championship belt. And Bam Bam Bigelow, he may be four hundred pounds of speed and strength and all that, but he doesn't have what it takes to beat the excellence of execution Bam Bank Bigelo. Sara Sara Piafarte Malamanca, quell the excellence of execution of Bred the Hitman Heart. You know, there's a lot

of things people can say about Bam Bam Bigelow. And I know what a lot of people are thinking. My patent moved the sharp shooter. Can I get the sharp shooter on a guy with legs that big. That's the big question. And you know what's gonna happen. We're gonna find out in just a couple of minutes. But everybody should remember one thing. I got a lot more moves than just a sharp shooter. That's why I'm technically the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.

There is Bretta hit mahse uh So I don't okay, Brett number one. You put the fucking sharp shooter on Yokozuna, right, so why is it going to be harder to put it on Bam bam? I understand. Also, I'm pretty sure Guido said something about Yoki. Pretty sure that too. Yeah, there, there's there's also something that Actually, as I was watching this, I realize something that we've never really seen Brett Hart with full

facial hair. He's had like stubble and stuff like occasionally. I know he did that for a lonesome dove, but he's never He's never ever had like a full on bushy beard. Yeah, Brett with a beard is alarming to think, it is, what are you hitting me with? Oh my god, did you make him? I made that? I made that. He's got your beard. You know, it actually doesn't look as bad as I thought it would. It just looks weird. Yeah, he's he's has to be. He has to be like a smooth faced guy. He has to

be. Yeah. Yeah, it's the only thing that makes sense. Like, I wonder, has he ever tried like a goatee before or anything like I've I I question you know, people who who've never grown some kind of facial hair. At this point, it sounds like a cameo request to me. Yeah, yeah, can you see him with a you know, a Keith Hart mustache? Yeah? Oh god, maybe I'll whip up another one quickly. What a mustache instead of a full beard? Yeah? Yeah.

They make reference on the Italian broadcast to the sharpshooter and they translate it as sniper, So that's kind of that's about accurate. Yep, that's how they define sharpshooter to the people. So there you go. Brett interacting there before stepping through the curtain. Still has the original heart foundation music. Doesn't have the guitar screech yet not yet, not yet, coming soon coming to that's

a ninety four thing or ninety something like that. Yeah, okay, and here he comes, and man, so great the way he steps over the rope with that delay. Oh. Absolutely, he sits on the bottom rope for an extra beat. Yes, and it's so great. He's he really is, especially at this at this stage, he's just he's really special. He's showing up to in a wrestling match, exactly and that is enough. Yep and absolutely, And then he goes back out to the floor to do

the handing out the glasses routine. He's got the jacket hanging off his shoulders, you know, you know, the drill. Yep. An event time WWF European Rampage nineteen ninety three, Milan, Italy Bret the Hitman Heart versus Bam Bam Bigelo before they locked horns at King of the Ring. The Italians and many other ww fans across the Europe were party to these two, you know, basically putting their King of the Ring match together. I mean the finish is then for sure, totally. Yeah. You think you could do

a similar split screen with this and King of the Ring. I probably could. I probably could have done that, but I didn't. I should have. I bet it's a I bet there's a lot of echoes so yeah, and the early going Brett kind of scouts around, then leaves the ring, does the taking off of the shades and all that. They mentioned a bambino getting the glasses. I'm going to see here, bambin no interesting if I can find out where they make make reference to him giving his glasses over.

Uh does not? Oh yeah, I haven't seen yet. Everybody wants the little boy Brett Hitmanhart a little girl. A little girl, says Don Peterson, A little girl. Ah, and everybody there on the edge right at the tresanine, which I guess is the word for the guardrail there for Brett the Hitman heart so not nothing great there. Back into the square circle he goes heat man chant breaks out man and uh, well he is the heat man, that's for sure. Bambers would the shut the heck up to the

people. Shut the hell up? Okay, Bam, Bambers. He put more of a filter on it than he would do if he was on English language television. You could have shut the hell up or yeah exactly, or just at least shut the hell up, like what's your problem. That's like one of the most fun things of being an American wrestler in Japan. As you can go in their television and say fuck all the time and it doesn't get bleeped. No one cares, and the fans kind of know what it

means, but it's not like not something the sensors care about. To take that opportunity, No such luck. Here, Bermer rolls on the canvas to intimidate Brett. He literally does a a forward roll before the walk up. Yes, I mean you got it. You got to send the signal to Brett that you can cover distance remarkably quick for someone of your size. I'm gonna be sending you a couple more photos here. Okay, this is uh just with a goatee. Jeez oh man, that's way worse. Here makes

it look so low rent. Oh god, looks oh ah, now he looks like Vince one above him, looks like Ben Steller in Happy Gilmore. It does. And then we've got the puncho via mustache here on the hidman. That's that's fun. Actually, you should hold out of those. Oh my god. So Brett side steps to lock up and Vammer's lands on his face. Kind of a weird spot. I don't know what that was about. I don't know either. That was weird one landing on his face like

that. I don't know what's the message was there. I guess Brett just too quick. Dan Peterson says something that ends with chow chow, and I noticed Bamband makes a blne for catering the not the first time that day he'd

heard that echo. It just was in his head before. So then a lock up and Brett has shoved off hard to get over Bigelow's power advantage and hits the floor to think it over, realizing well, I can't really I can't really have any success from the classic coloring elbow position with someone of this this stature. That it's true they keep putting over over and over again.

You can tell, even if you don't speak Italian, that Brett has had held, you know, a championship in every category and they they they bring up WRESTLINGIA nine. Did you hear this one? Kind of yeah? I don't really know what to make of it. What did you hear here that parents rokor Yoko Tuna, I wrestle money in no way, Yoko Juna shook men O Cross ch So Trace Minuto, Hulk Hogan Company in the world,

right, wrestle mo knee yep. It says he said he lost the title to Yokozuna Yokozuna immediately the match, and then he kind of talks about Bam bam here. I think this is that that point of things. But yeah, so definitely getting across that this is what happened at WrestleMania. I do wonder how you could have seen Wrestleman in Italy. I'm sure it was available somehow it was a free broadcast. I don't know, but he kind of talks, he seems to talk about it like people would know that he's He

doesn't over explain it. It just makes reference to it. Now there's maybe they could a yeah, that would be magazine something there you go, oh yeah, yeah in two weeks. Yeah, definitely got the magazine. Brett snatches a sidehead lock Bamers, then hoists themitt of the ropes and pushes him off and a tackle and down goes Brett. Bambers lets out a roar on that one, and Peterson says something about football Americano. I guess every time

there shoulder tackle he's got to call out in America. He does. He does say that. I hear him say football every time. Every time there's a there's a shoulder block, Brett to the floor, taking a breath and trying to recover from again encountering the power of the beast from the east back end lock up, Bammers raakes the eyes and goes off with the clubbing again.

It's it's it's stuff like that too, like we're talking about before, where Brett these little details that you know are probably not spelled out, oh definitely not right away, not selled like, okay, you know, let do this and for him, but it's like, okay, Brett, do what you can to make him look like a monster. And Brett bailing a baby face bailing from the ring to reconsider his strategy is such a brilliant thing.

It's so good, so underdone. M it's so underdone in that, you know, some of the magic of wrestling is a babyface who finds a way to be crafty in the face of you know, a big, daunting, physical try And that's the thing, like, you know, he knows, he knows that he's an underdog, but he also knows that he is

the best wrestler. So like the the the details that are that are put across to the to the fans are there so that you know, subliminally, subliminally you can you know, you can, you can believe that Brett has a chance to win even though this guy you know, outweighs him two to one. Right, that he just has to make adjustments, he has to write, you know, he has to sort of take into account the fact that his instincts aren't working for him and he's got to try something else.

Case in point, when he gets back in Bamer's whips bretat in the ropes, Brett ducks the lariat and hits a running seated dropkick just basically throws his body dynamite. Kids dial it bam bam, which usually don't see him doing in quite that fashion. No, not at all, And that sends bam bam ricocheting into the ropes. And then he leaps and misses an elbow drop. And then now Brett is on Bamber's arm work in the arm over yep, Bigelow shoves him into the corner, charges and misses and hits the buckle.

Brett wrenches the arm and Bigelow because he's here to work, and he's here to add a quarter of star where possible. When when you give Bigelow an arm wrench. He's gonna front flip, Yes he is, you know what I mean. He's not just gonna like sell the shoulder. He's gonna go ahead over heels because he's here to prove that he can flip. And therefore it you know, it's a great big man worker. It is that he is. That he is, that he's a that he's an agile big

man. That's right. Brett drives his knees into the arm of Bigelow and hooks that arm bar tight. Bigelow goes to the ribs to break, and then the match continues. There's clubbing, and then a whip and a duck of the crossbody. Duck's hilariot a crossbody attempt. Brett Hardt is caught, but he comes down on Bimbam Bigelow and there's a big kickout from the Beast from the East that sends Brett all the way from the ring to the floor, which is always a great way to get a guy over as a monster.

Bret then to the apron Digg's shoulders to the gut slides in baseball slide again. He's got to exercise those yep, those crafty you know, almost junior heavyweight like motions to to stay a step ahead of Bigelow. So he baseball because Bigelow, Bigelow is gonna wear is gonna you know, he's gonna he's got a lot of steam, but he's gonna run out. That's right. He got to be faster. Yeah, that that's kind of the psychology.

It's like, you know, while he's gonna overpower me in every exchange, if I could be good enough to avoid any kind of like mortal blow, eventually he's gonna be tired and his strikes are gonna come up weak, and he's not gonna be able to throw me around anymore because he's got to carry too much. He doesn't have the cardio I do, and Brett's counting on that, so he again baseball slides back into the ring und Bigelow's legs, starts throwing punches. Bred hits the ropes and leaps at Bigelow with the

back elbow. Bigelow hits the floor. Brett gestures to the crowd like, come on, that was awesome, right, and then they cheer for him. I think he wanted more of a poplar. He's not. Yeah, he's he's uh, he's not completely over with the Italian the Italian strong. Yeah, it really is interesting. I can't I can't really tell if I'm watching a Brett that that's Brett yet to them. You know, I'm wondering maybe, uh, maybe there's such a delay in uh in the television programming

that they were expecting to see Brunos and Martino. It would have went nuts for him. You know. It's funny, all those years, I never remember hearing about Bruno ever working imagine Italy. He must have, but you would think would be legendary if he did, and that I've never heard of. It really interesting and you'd think that would be like a major thing, especially when I went to Australia and you know, all the Italians in Australia,

Mario Milano and that's why he went. You know. It's there was so many Italian wrestling fans in Australia that helped that territory be such a boom area in the sixties and seventies, and never hear one of them expanding in Italy or Bruno making the jump. You hear about Toronto another great example, Yep, you do you hear about Toronto? But you don't hear about the other ones as much. You don't hear like actually going to Italy. So bam bam. Then gets plenty of time to recoup on the floor, selling

that he was knocked loopy by that Brett back elbow. Brett comes to the apron and leaps and he's caught on the way down and driven spine first into the ring. Ah, yes he is, and does he sell that beautifully? The impact is there, Brett selling crazy on the floor like he's almost paralyzed, just laying there with his face in his hands, like he can't believe the pain shooting up and down his body. And then Bigelow comes out as Brett's trying to climb back into the ring, snatches him again and once

again drives Brett spine first into the post. Yes it twice. It's great stuff. And Brett let's out a fuck as the referee checks on him like, wow, beautiful cell job. Then Bigelow lifts the wooden blue steps. Suddenly he's got this huge fucking thing over his head. Now they're metal, they're wooden? Are they're metal? Okay, yeah, they're metal. I'm pretty sure these looked like would to me. But whatever it was, it

was, I thought I saw that. I thought I thought I saw them split apart like they like the uh the metal ones do, right, Chris sworn, That's what I saw. But and it's just whatever the case might be. It's jarring because you didn't really realize they were there. And then they're up in the air, right, and he wants to fucking drop him

on Brett's head, but it doesn't doesn't quite happen that way. As Bigelow trying to get Hebner out of the way, dave Hebner to hit Brett with the steps, but Hebner doesn't move, and then Bigelow just drops him and says, to hell with it. They're all channing something at Bigelow that hasn't worked up. I can't tell what exactly they're channing, but at one at one point chan heat mon, heat mon heat mon. There is heat. Maybe that's what it is, and I just didn't recognize it the same ironically,

there is. There's very little heat. Mon'm gonna work on that. Oh shit, it's pretty fans sotually pretty good. So Brett is a terrific selling on the floor, tries to stand up and has to take a knee, can't even stand out. Finally he rolls back of the ring and Bigelow was stomping away. Head butt to the small the back of the hitman,

series of forearms and Brett goes chest first into the buckle. Brett kicks and fires out of the corner, try to keep Bigelow at bay, but the Beast from the East cuts him off, going to the eyes and then a whip to the corner and Brett hits hard and collapses. Brett his bat has brought his one of a kind taking of the turn buckle. He he is there to show Italians exactly how much wrestling hurts. Plenty of klang right exactly

and plenty of quang coming January of nineteen ninety four. Absolutely. Bigelow then whips him again and he falls again on impact a bit of a targeted head button. I realize Bigelow, ever, went to impact, drops to Brett's back. Now with a big head butt comes Bigelow and then he launches Brett sliding out of the ring almost Brett climbs back in. Bigelow's on him with a kick and an unbelievable suplex. I mean, oh, it's clear the

decks. Okay, Yes, this is one of the finest vertical supe plays I've ever seen executed by Bigelow. He does the thing, but he's so powerful that he one arm is it, doesn't he? Yeah? Oh yeah, absolutely yes he's He is tremendous. He makes it the most devastating thing you can do to another human being. Don't write bam bam Bigelow off. Okay, absolutely knows what he's doing. He just was out of favor politically, blah blah blah. But the guy went in there and he could go

on par with a few others on the roster. Yeah, including just about every single person who was pushed above him. And this fucking delayed vertical with one arm puts me where I need to be as a wrestling fan. It's that smile, yeah, because you realize that it comes across it. He is a powerful man, yep, and he is a threat, and you know your guy's in trouble. God, is the vertical supplex such a thing worth celebrating? You know? I think a flair just elevating somebody, that's

just it. Like, you know, why have we just forgotten the importance of a vertical supplex. Yeah, now it's all snap and right, you lift and you you use that fulcrum. You know, you just use that moment where you turn over to really generate snap and impact, and that's what you need. You know. If the move worked before, it should work now. Yep, there's no reason it shouldn't continue to work. I mean, yeah, I know that that you know can be taken to an extreme.

And I'm not saying every move that finished someone on the Dumont Network in nineteen fifty five should finish somebody in twenty twenty four. But kind of close, Yah, can hurt? Can hurt? Kind of close can't hurt? To keep that in mind when you're deciding what spots to do and how to sell them. So great suplex here by Bigelow, I would urge any wrestling student of the game to check it out. Like it's a one to two for Bigelow whipping a bear hug by Bigelow and then Brett is grabbing it,

Dave Hebner's shirt turn and find a way out of this predicament. He gets to a headlock finally, and he's elevated, and yeah, let's add a beautiful high back supplex too. Absolutely, I mean you talk about it left high delay. Oh it's ridiculous. Fuck it, Bigelow, perfect backsupplex, I mean unreal. For the out of two, biggel keeps digging into the injured back of Brett Hart and he lifts Bread over his shoulder. This is the spot you were talking about before. Yeah, what'll we see here?

We see him. This is when he uh uh right, he gets the he gets the the the Bruno. Ironically, he gets the Canadian backbreaker up right, you know, and he seeks he seeks submission. That's correct, all right, Brett, Brett. This so this, this is this is just again Brett is able to wiggle himself out of the hold after a while, like he is, he's trying to strategize while suffering. And then he's able to hit a back supplex. He's able to get out of it and

hit a backsup plex on on Bam, bam, Biglow. It's fucking money absolutely absolutely, And then you know, and and and and then after that bam bam has Brett in a slim position, and this is and Brett tries to get out. He tries to get out, and and and again Wrigal free, but this time he can't do it, and he gets a backbreaker like a you know, uh the move the you know dropping, not not the submission move, but the the you know you drop on your knee and

yeah, across the back yep. Dan Peterson is trying to figure out what's happening here, and he finally assesses that Bigelow, in doing this move, is trying to hurt Brett's back again just by holding him there. Dan Peterson explains the weight of the legs is what bends the back, and Brett in a huge difficulty. Dan Peterson declares, and uh, you know the hand drops once. It drops twice, and Peterson says, let's see if there's a third no Brett punch charge. He tries to get out of this.

He succeeds, it lights it does, he does, and he is lit. He's lit, yes, sir so. Then a belly to back rocks Bigelow like you said they do the double down spot blows both slow to get up. Brett ducks the line, runs into a cross body of a Bigelow with stands it and hits the front back breaker like you said, ye on the hit man. Bigelow then drops another head butt pulls Brett Hard up slow and slams him down hard to the canvas, which is a terrible position for

Brett Heart. We're told, indeed, and how you say it, Brettheart, Dan Peterson says, in a long and tiring bretttheart fight, go down, your champion, where is your sample now? And the Italian audience is stupid? But he is the ruler of the band. Damn Bigelow match this brother. Apparently, what he's saying wow wow calling out the goddamn fan mis mistranslation. Uh, then Bigelow with double under hooks, because right, I mean, let's go to Tokyo? Right? Why not? I mean?

I mean, I mean, I'm sorry, I thought we already saw the Steiners wrestler. I know, I know, I thought we had enough butterflies. Like I'm thinking, he's just gonna do a fucking traditional butterfly under hooks suplex, But what does he do? What do you do? Instead? He lives and dumps across? He lives and transitions. Thank you that backbreaker Jericho does from the double under hooks, And just like what fucking Scott Steiner does? You know, he doesn't do the back backer. He does to

the slam. But like for a second, I was thinking, you know how familiar Bigelow was with Japanese work rate, that he might just do a tiger driver in ninety three. I was half expecting to see a burning hammer. Absolutely absolutely, But we get the backbreaker, and uh, Bigelow thinks that's plenty to set up Brett for the kudu graand the top rope. Flying headbuton climbs the top rope. But you better believe Bigelow misses eats canvas. Yes, yes here, and uh, certainly the first and certainly not the

last thing he would eat on this day, not at all. Uh. Brett comes up kicking and punching away. One of those punches sends Bigelow leaping into the corner and there's a corner mound here as Brett is peppering him with shots to the head, and then a side rushing legs sweep by the hip man gets two one. Bigelow. Brett hart in the referee's face, thinking right, I don't say Brett yells at Hebner. I think he thinks Hepner screwed him. Yeah, he thought he thought that cat was a little slow.

Don't worry Brett. More of that to come. Betta rope inverted and Brett takes off with the flying clothes line. Another Football Americana reference by Dan Peterson's Brett Covers for two. Brett comes off the middle rope with a bulldog now on on a Bam Bam Bigelow and he lines up the legs. It's time for the sharpshooter, but Bigelow kicks him off. Brett comes off the ropes, gets stripped and fucking a generous individual protecting Bam Bam Bigelow in that

way, protecting him. How's that by not actually getting the sharp shooter on him right because it would look ridiculous. You know, I think I think it makes Bam Bam look tougher that he can never get him. He never does, he never gets the sharpshooter on him right right now? That those little again, those little things, that's what's important. You know. Not

not allowing your opponent to get into your move is important. Yep, you know that's what makes you know finishers mean something because it's like you don't you know, finishers have become such a a a requirement. But I challenge any wrestler in this day and age, to not necessarily apply your finish to somebody. Yeah, to like try to go for it for sure, make people think about it, but make people want it more than actually giving it to

them a million times. Make it special when you hit it, like how cool would you know? It's like, because then that also brings up that that makes them feel important, you know, And if you don't hit it on somebody, it does hurt your move. It actually makes your move look stronger because we don't know what would have happened if you if you'd applied it, yeah, exactly, And same thing here. We don't know what would have happened if if if Bam Bam Bigelow had connected with the head butt,

maybe Brett would have lost. You know, we don't know if Brett can put the sharpshooter on yeah, on Bam Bam Bigelow. These things like it's it's details like this that are well thought out and it's just it's just a shit show. But I would love to see you know, a pair of guys at you know at or women whatever at one of the next couple of shows, just like try not to don't get your move on them, you know, like, whoever's going to win the match, you know, they

don't even have to get it on. Brett doesn't get it on here, he doesn't you know, you know, he never gets the move on. The moves never connect their trademark moves, never connecting. This match. It's really interesting and that's what makes them both look strong. It all comes back to me to the principle of working backwards from the idea that a wrestling match is a mad scramble to hit your finish, because the finish is what you

know with confidence will put the opponent away. And so the opponent comes in knowing that, knowing it's coming, knowing you're going for it, and the whole match is really a dance to find an artful way to catch the valley that move, and you should be in there trying to put them away as quickly as possible. The only reason the match goes long is because you know that if you go right for the finish, it's not going to succeed,

and that you know then you're going to feel like fucked. And it's hard to catch a guy by surprise that way, and so you know, you kind of play the string out, you wear them down. You try different things to stay ahead of them all with the goal of grabbing that one opportunity when it presents itself to put the finish round. Yes, yes, and that should be the climax of every match, you know, I mean on

huge matches. Yes, you can have two or three more chapters after that where you hit the finishing he kicks out, or you go for the finishing counters. But you have to train the audience. I think that eighty percent of the time it's it's a dash for the finish, and when someone hits it, it is over, or you know, there's a run in for the DQ, or it would have been over, whatever the case might be. You can't have You can't kick out of finishes thirteen times a year.

No, I mean you can, but then people just want three crossroads before they believe the match is over. It kills it. It kills right exactly. You You the audience is now, the audience is now trained to you know, to know that it's not that a finish is likely to not happen

the first time it comes about. And here's Brett to your point, who doesn't only not have to hit his finish or three times he doesn't even have to hit it once to send the people home happy, right right, right now, Let's see, h let's see some of the modern greats pull that off. It came out. I don't say they can. I'm just saying try this. This fascination with American football is just there's something going on here.

When Brett hits that forementioned middle rope clothes line, and I made the reference that you can hear Dan Peterson talk about it, the translation says,

this is where American football comes in, though he's not American. So it's kind of like I almost feel like what this is is like the wrestling fans of Italy are being told that a lot of the techniques they see American wrestlers use, you know, are are are sourced front the ball, the gridiron, right food the ball, and that's supposed to be like an exotic thing to them, Like, oh, you grow up playing this American football,

you learn all these like hyperphysical ways to throw your body at somebody else. It makes sense, but it's funny that he talks about it. It's kind of like this differentiator, you know, this kind of like yeah, this American thing. So yeah, right off the middle of the bulldog lines up the legs. Bigelow kicks off Bread off the ropes into the bear hug again, and Brett starts to sort of bite his way free, I'm afraid to say, tries the backsuit planes, but Bigelow turns and lands on Brett for

a big cross body. But that's only good for one two, very close one too, Bigelow with the almost like an Andre Hogan falling on top of him on the slam thigh. Oh yeah, oh for sure. And then a corner to corner whip. Brett hits the buckling hard, but he gets the boots up on the charge. Bigelow spun around. Brett goes to the middle rope and then from that position he puts his legs on the shoulders of

Bigelow. He's up there, you know, in a whatever carry what is it, piggyback ride piggyback yeah, yeah, yeah yeah for a second. And then the forward victory rule just like we saw a King of the Ring nineteen ninety three for the one two three, like we would see what we would see. Yes, we haven't seen it yet the one two three, But ben Heart defeats Bam bam Bigelow in the main event of WWF European Rampage

nineteen ninety three. Here from Milan, Italy. Crowd explodes certainly, uh Dan Peterson is happy, calls Brett Hart masterful and the master of the mat instead of the excellence of execution maybe, and how great as they show the replay by the way the crowd responds, well, but they're not hanging on his every move like those clips we've seen from Germany and other European shots that

he did later in his career, and that has to be said. But you know, he's he's definitely serviceable as the guy you present as the main event headliner in a foreign market here. Definitely mean they probably want to see They wanted to see their countrymen. I'm sure they did, and he would come back. In fact, we know that really his final WWF dates before coming back in O two were actually not King of the Ring but rematches against

Yo Kazuna in August. And it is so so uncomfortable and no very hard to contend with, very hard to you know, to fold into your sense of when things happened in the Strangest year of all time nineteen ninety three. It really is the strangest of years. Yep, really is. But the replay is great because you see that when Brett is on Bigelo's shoulders trying to do the victory role, Bigelow is doing his part. He's feeling around with his hands yeap, like he's trying to find a way to grab on to

Brett because he's not used to someone coming at him from this angle. And it's great. So Bigelow's offering resistance. He's not cooperating the victory role, No, not at all. He does these little things to make it seem like he's just caught by surprise and doesn't quite know how to get out of the predicament of having someone piggyback ride him unwittingly or unwillingly, and then Brett somehow converts it into something that has Bigelow's shoulders pin to the mat in an

instant. And I'm sure Bigelow, despite losing, had himself a victory role backstage. I believe he had a victory Canoli. So Dan Peterson with the sign off says, among other things, Brett Hart mythical good sports friends from the Issago Forum in Milan, we saw the European Tour ninety three of the World Wrestling Federation with six great matches. Thank you for your attention and sports friends. Dan Peterson, greetings to all of you from the Isago Forum.

Goodbye everyone, and goodbye to you, nineteen ninety three Titan Sports. Before we go, though, let's see what we're going to do next. We continue the tradition yep, yep, of subjecting ourselves to complete randomness here on TLF. Wow, what do you mean Saturday night's main event? What November nineteen ninety two, that one, that one, the final one, the final one. Sean wins the title from Bulldog. Sean wins the title from

Bulldog Brett versus Papa Shango and the Money Incorporated versus the Ultimate Maniacs. Holy shit, So we rarely are all about Brett's fucking ninety two title run. I guess. So it all keeps clicking together somehow, Christ I know it really does remind the people what's in the hat. It's every WWF show, every w CW it's you know, since since yeah, it's every w show, every every ww show, A bunch of random NWA shows. I don't

I thought I could have sworn there's a that we never pulled one. I know I had him in here before, but I'll add him to it. I'll at ECW one's in there too. I don't feel compelled, I just will you have You've had that for the longest time. I want as many. I want as many as possible in there, so working down the master list. Friends, it's that's right. It's the macro journey we've all been on since twenty fourteen, and it will continue when we see you next time.

We're going to Fox, not NBC. Fox. That's right, Fox. So the last gasp. I think this is the the Saturday's main event that they co promoted with Al Bundy sitting on the couch, I'm watching wrestling, so that's tremendous. That'll be running up your alley. Yeah. So we'll see you next time with our right hand tucked into our waistband. On the Lapsed Fan Wrestling podcast