Stunning Steve: E26 - Dragon Slayer: July '94

How stupid are you guys? All you people out there in TV land, you just make me sick. We told the world what we were gonna do and we went out and did it. The wrestler who will dominate the sport like no other wrestler can. WCW has tried way too long to try to hold me back. The whole facade, who cares? No one cares.

Welcome to the Bottom Line Wrestling cast the career of Stone Cold Steve Austin. And we are back with another episode of our special series covering Stunning Steve Austin. It's episode 26, Dragon Slayer. We are covering July of 1994. I'm Mike Prue along with JV. It's good to be back, JV, how you doing?

Doing well, man, how you doing?

Good, good. Here we are on a Sunday morning, you know, just before Thanksgiving, you know, and we want to thank you guys for always tuning in and checking us out here on the Bottom Line Wrestling cast. And it's good to be back doing this. We've been covering a lot of ECW over at the Extreme ECW Live Cast. So it's nice to go back to 1994 and get back into stunning Steve and WCW. Granted, it is changing wildly in WCW in July of 1994, but it's still fun nonetheless to go back to and check out. So yeah, we got, we got a jam packed episode and we don't want to go on and on about it because there's a lot to talk about that we'll get to. So let's just run through our opening here real quickly. Give us a follow on X at Bottom Line cast. Follow me Mike Pru at NPRUA 3. Follow JV at John Van Damage. Also please, wherever you get your podcast, give us a review. Click on the ratings. You know, give it five stars, you.

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Exactly. All right, so we're gonna just get right into this. I mean, we left off in June of 94 last time and we already started to see and the creeping Hulkamania is on the rise here and it's in full form here in July of 1994. So yeah, that's kind of where we left off. And I guess the mood right now is that stunning Steve is starting to lose some clout. He's starting to lose his spot and it's just gradually happening and we're seeing it more and more throughout June and now into July, we'll, we'll see it even further. So yeah, that's kind of the downer that we're in right now with Stunning.

Steve, they took our jobs.

So I'm going to kick things off with the WCW Saturday night from July 2, 1994. This was at Center Stage in Atlanta, Georgia, and it was taped back in May, May 25, 1994. And it's just squash match. Basically. It's Stunning Steve taking on Ta McCoy. All right, so Stunning Steve heads to the ring and Tony Schiavone mentions that he's come to the ring alone finally. Right. All that time that they said, you know, you know, Colonel Parker was like, oh, I'm not going down to the ring with you anymore. He said that. And then for like a month later, he was still coming down to the ring. And now it's finally, it's finally happening where Stunning Steve is walking to the ring on his own, which is in itself a shot at Austin. Like, you took away his heat seeker, you know, you took away Colonel Parker from him. Now it's just him, which should be good enough. But Sonic, Steve has been great with Colonel Parker and they just stripped him away. So I'm about that. But anyway, he heads on to the ring on his own. He's still the U. S. Champion. Tony also mentions that he'll be defending the US Championship against Ricky Steamboat at Bash at the beach coming up on July 17th. And right as the match starts, they cut to an insert promo with Stunning Steve. And that's like old school WWF when that happens. Yeah, the squash match, the guy in the ring wrestling is talking as well. Kind of weird. But Austin says a year and a half ago, Ricky Stebo, you took the world television title from me. That was at Clash 20 in September of 92. And I like how they throw back to a couple years ago, you know, and they mention the history and these that they actually allow it. Because in WWF at this time, if you said something from me, you would actually, you wouldn't even hear it. They wouldn't even say anything about something from like a year ago or two years ago. Vince McMahon always wanted everything to be like fresh and in the moment, never looking back.

People living in the past.

Right.

Which I mean, kind of makes sense, but.

Yeah, but it does. This is also good to the viewers that have been watching to see the connection, like, oh, they acknowledging that. I saw that and I know that happened.

That's what makes wrestling so great, is its long history.

Right? You know.

Well, that's one of the things that makes it so great.

Dawson continues. More recently, you stood in my way, the number one contender's way of the world heavyweight title. With nature boy Ric Flair. Now at the Bash of the Beach, I'm going to show you that I'm going to stay the US Champ. So Austin's basically saying, oh, well, I guess I'm not getting the world title, so I'm just gonna stay the US Champ forever. Yeah, it's not in the cards for me, so I'm gonna stay US Champ. So anyway, at this point in the match, Austin and TA have only been locking up during that whole time, which is only 30 seconds. But TA McCoy is a pretty big dude. He overpowers Austin with some arm wringers. We have Tony Schiavone and Bobby Heenan on commentary, and they're. They're hyping up how good the match will be between Steamboat and Austin because of, you know, the caliber of both guys. And they've both been champions, so they're both doing a really good job putting over the match. That's coming up at Bash at the Beach. Tony mentions that for the first time that next week on WCW there will be interactive wrestling. We're gonna have interactive wrestling where fans will be able to call in live and select the wrestlers that will be in the main event. There'll be a heel locker room, a baby face locker room, and you get to call in and vote who you want to have a match with.

Wow.

Okay. Yeah. It's interesting at this point that in 1994 they're doing live shows. Mm. They also, I think that has to do with Hulk Hogan as well. Like, hey, over there on Monday, they're doing Monday Night Raw. That's live every other week or we're gonna do something like that. I feel like he would have influenced that.

Yeah, and they can't blame him. He probably knew the money that was coming in, the contracts, and he's, you know, that ends up in his pocket.

Yeah, yeah, makes sense. All right, so I wrap up this match here. Austin works McCoy's knee locks in a standing reverse figure four. The called.

That's called.

That's a wrap. And that makes McCoy submit in just about two minutes. Easy victory for Austin. So there. That there that is. And not much there. Basically the match was meant to just say that Austin was going to take on Ricky Steamboat. That Bash at the beach, they talked about something else. Most of the match talking about the interactive wrestling. So anyway, a couple side notes though, from WCW Saturday Night on July 2, Hulk Hogan reveals that his training partner for the Bash at the beach match against Rick Flair is going to be George Foreman. So you're bringing on all, all his friends. Oh yeah, keep popping on George Foreman. Shaq shows up, you know, get all these people. Well, hey, it's good exposure. I mean criticize it now but Hulk's connections are helping wcw. We have a Dick Dancer showdown match between Johnny B. Bad and Chick Donovan. That was pretty funny.

Dancer, dick dancing.

You know the thrusting in the. Yeah, yeah, all that. Cactus Jack and Kevin Sullivan retained the tag team titles against the Nasty Boys after Paul Olndorf hits knobs with a crutch. And Cactus and Kevin Sullivan are going to defend the titles against pretty wonderful at Bash at the Beach. So that was the main things happening there on WCW. Saturday night on July 2 isn't pretty wonderful.

A current WWE tag team, they have something, they have a name like that.

Is it.

You know what I'm talking about?

I don't know. I haven't been really watching the show to see the like the mid card and. Yeah, maybe. Is there an NXT team?

Yeah, that's what I meant. They're like an NXT team that kind of comes up once. It came up once in a while like this summer. Oh, pretty deadly or something. Pretty dang. I don't know.

Yeah, I think I know you're talking about but yeah, it's probably not pretty wonderful but something like that.

Yeah. Let's talk about a real wrestler here, right? All right, Todd Morton.

All right, jb, bring us the WCW Pro.

So we got WCW pro here from July 9, 1994, Orlando, Florida. We got stunning Steve Austin versus Todd Morton. This matches for one fall. It's a Saturday morning match which is kind of funny. I don't know who the hell the guy is on commentary, the first guy talking, but I don't think I've ever heard him before.

Is it Gordon Sully?

Maybe it was Gordon Sully.

Might be. Dusty and Larry Zabisco are on there, right?

Yeah, yeah, they're on there too. So Dusty is hyping up. It's hyping up the upcoming match between Stunning Steve and Ricky the Dragon. Larry Zabisco calls Todd Morton a perfect warm up match to get Austin ready for Steamboat. Zabisco briefly puts Todd Morin over and this was crazy as having some good moves in the ring and Austin shouldn't take him lightly. Yeah, we'll say when you watch the match. Todd Morton is kind of. He's pretty crisp. But start of the match we get a recorded promo from Austin. So we kind of cut to like a picture in picture and Austin's on the screen. He says he's Going to bash Steamboat's head in at Bash at the beach. And he has his sights locked in on him. Austin then says his hats off to Ric Flair, the man who unified the world title. But the results of the Flair Hogan match determine to Austin will get a world title shot against and he's not going to wait much longer. Little does he know, back to the match. Morton lands a nice arm drag on Austin, but Austin takes control and kind of pummels Todd Morton into the corner. Dusty refers this, this was crazy. Tustin refers to Todd Morton almost as a clone of Ricky Steamboat. Like, come on, dude.

Yeah, I guess he's trying to put over the point that he's preparing for Steamboat. So he wanted an opponent like Steamboat.

Yeah.

If anything, he's a clone of Ricky Morton from the Rock and Roll Express.

Yeah, exactly, exactly.

I'm Ricky Morton. I guess it's his cousin too.

Oh, really? Yeah, I know that. So Larry says Steamboat is definitely, you know, out in the back watching the tenacity of Austin and how he snaps his move. Zabisco calls Austin like a 240 pound blob of human crazy glue. And when you get behind him and try to get him off it, Homophobic Todd Martin gets a small package for a two count and then a sunset flip for a failed pin attempt. Austin then counters Morton with a big shot to his back and then locks in a double arm chin lock to slow Todd down as Austin kind of, you know, he's trying to take take control. Morton's slippery though. He eventually flips out of the hold pretty impressively and then locks in a sleeper hold on Austin. And he's just kind of like hanging on Austin's back and he's trying to lock in the sleeper hold. Austin eventually comes to his sentence and breaks the hold by just kind of running back first into the turnbuckle and kind of slamming Todd Morton into that. And you know, that causes Todd to break the hold. Austin then takes the match back to the mat with another chin lock. Morton counters with a jawbreaker. And Austin looks shook. Right? You know, champ is shook here. Morton then drops a parry of elbows to the inside of Austin's leg and then puts Austin into like what it looked like a messy hold, but I think it was. Dusty referred to it as a side figure four leg lock.

Is it the. That's a wrap. I think it was. That's a wrap.

No, no, it's not. What Morton's doing to Austin.

Oh, gotcha. Yeah, I bet.

And then Austin uses his free leg to Stomp Morton out of the hold and then lands a big vertical suplex. Morin hits a flying drop kick and he has all the momentum. But Austin dodges a body splash attempt by Morton in the corner and then wraps Morton up in a modified death lock to which Morton submits. Weird.

Yeah, it sounds like something strange happened towards the end of that match. Like. Yeah, like the finish wasn't done properly.

No, it wasn't. Because like it. I mean, it's a cool ass hold, what he has him in like this modified. That's what Zabisco called it, a modified death lock. Because I'm like, what the hell is that? Yeah, hurt like, look, it's gonna snap his, like his shin. It's almost like a shinlock. But you know, it actually wasn't that bad of a match.

No, Todd Warren's pretty good as well.

Especially considering, like, I actually think this is better than the match I'm going to cover later. But we'll get to that. Which is freaking crazy to say. Todd. This Todd Morton match is better than. I don't want to spoil it, but the match we're gonna. I'm gonna cover later.

All right. Yeah. So Todd Morton's pretty. Like I said, pretty, pretty crisp. You said the same. Austin pulls it off, but yeah, strange ending there. All right, so from there I'm going to go to cover some side notes for WWE Saturday night. This was the live episode. So let me just run through some of the highlights here. It's the live interactive wrestling. The fans are calling in. 99 cents per minute calls have to select from the blue locker room and the red locker room. Blue for baby faces, red for heels. In the blue dressing room, you have Johnny B Bed, Flying Brian, Guardian Angel, Sting, Jungle Gym, Jungle Jim Steel. That guy sucks. Kevin Sullivan. I don't know why Kevin Sullivan's in the. In the blue dressing room, but he's there nonetheless. Jv, who would you be picking? Who would you be voting for if you called 1-900-3703, WCW. What baby face are you picking? Johnny B. Bad, Flying Brian, Guardian Angel, Sting, Jungle Geo. What do you think? Stink. Stink. Yeah. Of course, in the Heel locker room, we get Stunning Steve, Terry Funk, Bunk House Buck, Big Van Vader, Jean Paul Leveque, and Rick Flair.

Ooh, that's a tough 1.

Sting vs who would you want?

Stunning Steve.

Yeah, I'd probably go Stunning Steve or Vader.

I think that's what I was thinking. That's why I was storming between two Vader and Stunning Steve.

Yep. So we'll see how it goes out. All right, so earlier in the night, Hulk Hogan, he gets on, he's on here and he takes control of the pole. Basically he, he tells all the Hulkamaniacs that he wants to see Ric Flair versus Sting. I want to see it, guys, so vote for that. So they freaking basically just go with that. And that's what it ends up being. The fans voted 57, Ric Flair 60 sting. And that's going to be the match at the end, which all this probably anyway. Probably nobody called, they just booked the matches anyway. But anyway, Flare and Sting fall to no contest. When Sherry, who was barred from the studio, she ran in, she interfered, dressed up as a man. She looked like, I don't know, like Mr. Fuji or something. Like a little suit on and a little mustache and hat. She comes running out, she's dressed as a man, she rakes things, eyes and then Flare, you know, Flair was in a scorpion death lock. So she interfered and messed that up for them, this thing. And then Hulk Hogan runs in. And then it's revealed that Sherry and then flare attacks Hogan. Because you know, Hogan was about to punch the, the little man, but once he realized it was Sherry, he oh, I can't. And then Ric Flair clipped his leg from behind. And then you also have Mr. T running in too. So you have George Foreman, Mr. T. All these running in help Hogan. Mr. T. Yeah. So flare runs off and that concludes that episode and house show result. We are in Albuquerque, New Mexico, New Mexico. ABQ. Breaking Bad, July 15, 1994. You have stunning Steve Austin in a non title match. Get pinned by sting after 15 minutes. Austin was arguing with the referee and Sting rolled him up. Or 1, 2, 3. All right, from there now we go to WCW. Saturday night, July 16, 1994. Taped also in May of 1994. May 25, and another squash match. Basically stunning Steve takes on Johnny Rich. And this show opens with a cold open. No, no intro, no Terminator bullshit. You just get right to the match. Cold open starts the show. Austin walks out and he goes through spaceship doors. And his opponent is Johnny Rich, who looks like mashed up asshole. A mashup.

Mashed up.

It's a reference from Eastbound and Down. Kenny Powers. Like I think it's the first episode. Kenny Powers is going to like driver's ed class or something. Some kind of class. And there's to get his license back. And there's a guy sitting behind him, he's on his phone, he's like, oh, Kenny Powers is here. He looks like messed up. Anyway, Tony, Tony Schiavone's on commentary. He's talking about ordering Bash at the beach now because you can't miss that Hogan and Flair match. Remember that when they used to suggest like, oh, call ahead, call weeks ahead, make sure you get it.

Yeah, pre order.

Yeah. It's funny though that you had to do that call ahead. But yeah, that's how it was. But they made it, they made it seem like you'd be locked out though if you didn't fucking get your order in on time.

Yeah, like you can just get it that day, right?

I mean, you could get it that day, but there was, there was a cutoff though. Like if you tried to call like last minute, you might not be able to get it. All right. So anyway, Austin's hair is longer and shitty at this point. He's going through that mid phase where it's, it's longer but it just really, just shows off. Like his balding is what's happening. When his hair is nice and short, you can't tell, but as it's grown longer, then you know what I mean? Just looks thinning and bald, whatever. It's not a good look. I think that's why he starts to grow his facial hair. He's compensating for the longer hair. Anyway. Austin and Tommy, Johnny Rich do a test of strength. Austin breaks it and rings Rich's arm a few times. Bobby Heenan finally starts to talk about the man in the ring, Steve Austin. Austin says that Austin is like a. Bobby says that Austin is like a dynasty. When you know someone has it, they're gonna have it for a long time. Bobby's speaking in regards to the US title, but he's right in more than one way. Bobby knew ahead of time. Bobby knew Bobby could spot talent. He's like, this dude has it. And he was probably thinking, wow, they're, they're with this guy. This is the real star and we're doing this here.

We know.

Tony says that Austin could beat people many ways. He could beat him with the Hollywood vine, the stun gun, and that's a wrap. Tony says that Ricky can win in many ways as well. Bobby says if Johnny Rich was a drummer. No. Bobby asks. Tony says, is Johnny Rich a drummer? And then Tony reminds him that Buddy Rich is the drummer. As dead as a doornail. Bobby Heenan being Bobby Heenan, just bringing up random shit. Not much going on in this match, obviously, if I'm talking about Buddy Rich. Austin works from works of arm locks, very slow. It's slow paced, it's formula, formulaic and they're just really building to the finish. Tony and Bobby don't even bother to call any of the action. They talk about Shaq, they talk about Hank Aaron, George Steinbrenner comes up. I mean they're talking about anything other than the match itself. You know, it's kind of like what we do when we're doing a watch along. That's what they're doing. Yep. So Johnny makes a hot comeback towards the end. We get a drop kick but Austin quickly rebounds and locks in. That's a wrap. And finishes it up. Gets the win with the submission. And then from there we get a post match interview with stunning Steve. As he's leaving the ring. Mean Gene cuts him off and wants to talk to him. So take a quick listen to what Mean Gene and Austin talk about and we'll be right back to cover it.

Batting down the doors. All right folks, less than 24 hours from now, 7 o' clock Eastern daylight time. Tomorrow, live from Orlando, Florida, the Bash at the beach. The single biggest wrestling spectacular of all time. United States champion studies Steve Austin. You've been on a roll for the last year and a half or two. But tomorrow night challenging you, Ricky the Dragon Steamboat. I'm ready for Ricky the Dragon Steamboat. You know why? I bet you notice that martial arts just play. I just gave you, didn't you Gina? Did you notice the sideburns? I'm growing too stunning. Never noticed those. You know that does it Gene. I come out here, I give you the martial arts display, I show you the sidebars, you don't give me any respect. And I think that's Ricky Steamboat's biggest problem. He never has given Steve Austin any respect. Just like the whole United States public. I'm telling you right now, Ricky stable, I think you're too stupid to beat me because you've got all the qualifications.

Hold on.

I find Ricky's Steamboat to be rather brilliant, especially in the ring. Has he ever turned the referee's head and cheap shot at his opponent?

No.

Has he ever thrown a man over the top rope while the referee wasn't looking? It's not his stuff. Has you ever stuck a thumb in a man's eye to get back on top? Well that's what I call stupid. And that's what it's gonna take if he's going to be the United States champion. Cuz I'm going to hit him with that stuff all night long. And that's the bottom line. Steve Austin will Be United States Champion. He is looking for respect. When he get it Tomorrow night at the Bash at the Beach. Contact your local cable company and join us. And we're back after.

All right. So as Austin's leaving the ring, it immediately cuts to me and Jean with Steve Austin. We get this green. Like it's a green screen or blue screen. What the. And it has the WCW Saturday Night logo. Kind of weird. It seems pre taped and dropped in. It doesn't seem like it was right after the match. It seems like it was done later or before. Just didn't look fitting. Mean Jean hypes up the Bash of the beach in the US Title match with Austin. Austin starts making karate sounds like he's going to. He's trying to make fun of Ricky Steamboat like being a karate guy. So Austin says he's ready for Ricky and ask Gene if he just noticed the martial arts display that he put on. And Austin says mean Gene is not giving him any. Austin says, me Jean's not respecting him and that Steamboat is a problem. Austin says to Steamboat that Steamboat is stupid. Too stupid to beat him. So he's just laying it and he's. He's making fun of him doing karate. He's calling him stupid. Then Mean Gene has had enough. He, he cuts him off and says that Steamboat is brilliant. And then Austin asked Gene if Steamboat has ever hit someone when the ref wasn't looking. Or I gouge someone and mean jeans like oh, that's not Ricky's style. And Austin says, well, Steve, oh, stupid. Because they'll. Those tactics are what's going to take to beat me. He needs to do those types of things if he wants to beat me for the US Title at the Bash of the Beach. Austin says I'm going to hit him with stuff all night long. And that's the bottom line. Steve Austin will be the United States Champion. So we got a bottom line right there. And that's the bottom line. Yep, he's dropped that in a couple times. But it always stands out obviously when he does that.

Yep. Because it becomes his biggest thing obviously.

Right. All right. From there now we, we go to Bash at the Beach. So we're gonna get right into this match. I just want to break down some of the results quick. We had Lord Steven Regal defeat Johnny B. Bad to retain the US WCW TV title. Rather Big Van Vader defeated the Guardian Angel. Terry Funkin Bunkhouse Buck defeated Dustin Rhodes and Arn Anderson. Arne turned on Dustin Rhodes, which was so predictable at the time. It's like how would you ever trust Arne Anderson to be Tag Team Bonder? Like. But yeah, that happened. And I remember as a 12 year.

Old like, oh, that's gonna end bad.

Yeah, pretty wonderful. Won the tag team titles from Cactus Jack and Kevin Sullivan. And then of course Hulk Hogan defeated Ric Flair and won the world title, WCW World Championship in a long ass match. 20 minutes. I was surprised that they went that long, but I guess they had to, right? That's the thing they were building up. That's the pay per view. It's why people bought it. I remember getting it for that very reason for Hulk Hogan. And yeah, they put on a good match. 20 minute match. All right, so from there now we're going to check out the only match that I didn't mention the results. And that's the match we're going to watch. Stunning Steve taking on Ricky steamboat defending his U.S. championship. And I'm going to get us set up here. Jv, you all set up? Ready to go? Yep. All right. I just got to get to the time stamp.

106.03, right? Yep.

106.03. Okay. I mean this is available on Peacock as well. The timestamps can be a little different than what we have because we have the original pay per view version. Yeah. If you want to watch along with us, you can sink in and I'll give a countdown. Three down to one. When I say play. Well, I'll click play. All righty. Three, two, one.

Play.

All right. Ricky heading out to the ring with his music. You like it?

Yeah, I've always liked actually.

Yeah. This song's better than his previous one that he had about being a good dad. And he's the man who likes a family. Yeah. Yeah. He almost burnt the entrance with that. There's a little torch.

I guess the entire world celebrates professional wrestling. The two greatest champions of all time will collide.

I'm surprised that Ricky Steamboat was able to be Ricky the Dragon. Steamboat even in wcw. That was a WWF gimmick. They created that. He wasn't the Dragon anywhere else.

Let him have it.

Yes. Then he even took the gear too. This little dragon suit.

Yeah. So he wasn't known as the Dragon at all in the 80s.

In WWF he was. But before he was in WWF he was just Ricky Steamboat. Yeah. I don't remember anything before that him being referred to as the Dragon.

And ladies and gentlemen, his opponent, he's from Hollywood, California. He weighs 253 pounds and he is the United.

Austin looks fed up. He's like this.

Stunning Steve Austin, United States heavyweight champion. He knows Ricky Steo quite well.

His hair looks a little better here than the previous match.

Freaking airbrush piece here. Airbrush needs to come back. Remember how big airbrushing airbrushed everything. Yeah.

The 90s.

You got a nice hat. Let me, let me, let me make it look like. Put your name on the back.

So trashy.

Oh, it's a nice Red Sox T shirt you have. Be a shame if someone airbrushed it.

Heavyweight title belt. Randy Anderson, the referee and we are set to go. Well so far Lord Steven Regal retains the television title.

Oh, right. Hat.

Yeah. Awesome. Bell rings. Austin goes right for him. Coming in hot. He told, he told Steamboat. You got to be ready. I'm going to do whatever it takes to keep this title. You better be willing to cheat that.

The yellow pants that Steamboat wears compared to the green ones.

Yeah, yeah. This nice gear kind of looks like something that RVD would have on his. Austin's trunk. Say Dragon slayer title.

A little where.

We get the name from the episode. Oh, jeez. That was a little dramatic though. Steamboat kicked Austin in the butt and then Austin went flying to the corner, slammed his shoulder into the post. Ricky Steenbell doing some old school Undertaker. But he went all the way across to the other side of the ropes. He didn't go halfway. He went the whole way. Oh, I love this. I love the body slam when you have the arm behind the back.

Yeah. Colonel Parker, what is it called?

He was best suited to be on his own that he would just to.

Terry Funk be like Larry Zis say it's a modified body slam.

Yeah, everything's modified.

Well, he's in there with the dragon and stick around. I bet the dragon gets slayed.

Stick around.

Brainy is in with the Dragon. See, I know it all.

Randy Anderson's a referee here. Randy Pen's hung upside down like an opposite tree of woe. Hey, Steve Oats taking advantage. He's supposed to be leaving Austin alone if he's tied up in the ropes. But said this. Austin flopping around the ring.

Austin bounces away to the other corner. You know, Austin's taking a heck of a beating in a short period of time.

Yes, he is.

He ran his shoulder into the ring post.

So we've watched this match before. We did a watch along back in the early episodes of the Bottom line wrestling cast. So.

Yeah. How many years ago?

I know, years ago. Like 2017.

Remember it? Arm Dragon.

Right. I'm watching this now. I feel like I've never Seen the match? Yeah, we obviously seen it multiple times. Yeah.

So far.

I'm wondering. So with that said, guys, go listen to the old one and see. See what the difference is. See if we have more insight back then than we have now. Maybe we on it. Maybe we like that security. Yeah. But watching it now sound. It's good. And we're actually watching it now with, you know, all the context that all build up to this match. What's been going on with Austin? We kind of watched it just cold last time.

True.

Just. Oh, yeah. Let's just call an old WCW match.

We didn't know the build, Right.

So Austin's faking an injury over here. The referee is allowing it to get away. He's in the corner. Steve O doesn't give a though again going back to Austin saying, hey, you're gonna need to cheat to beat me. So Steamboat said, okay, I'm gonna cheat, then I'm gonna take advantage when I can.

Reaching that drop kick.

That drop kick sends Austin out of the ring. Austin just flopping around in this match being a great deal here, but he's.

Got a 10 count. He's got to take advantage of that 10 count. Roll in just at nine. Now he's not playing Possum Shabani. His knees hurt.

Johnny Be Bad must have been out in the previous match. You know, the glitter on the that.

Trying to buy some time. And he's effectively done so now.

Bad Blaster.

What was it called you said? Bad Blaster?

Yeah, the Bad Blaster.

Wait a minute. Looks like he's standing and walking. Okay, now. SEO got too close.

O.

What a chop.

Must be a trick knee.

All right. Austin's been outside the ring for like 30 seen.

Must be a trick knee.

A trick knee. Austin doesn't look like his knee hurts now.

No.

Oh, locked in a sleeper.

He's on his back.

All you got to do is fall down. Austin. One, two.

No, sir, he couldn't get him.

Yeah, the referee stopped coming counting, that's why.

One, two.

He doesn't even want to get off the mat. I'll just lay here, Bucket.

I'll just wait till you guys need another count. We got the fake Hulk Hogan in the front.

Rowan see him? Look at that. Oh.

Oh, God.

Brutus.

Beefcake Baba, wcw. What the world is watching now.

Brutus be so funny. That's what Zeus says. Brutus be stupid.

I know. It's what he.

Keep Austin grounded. Keep him on that mech. Austin gets on his feet, he's going to start dictating his kind of a match. Exactly.

All right, so the match is slowed down here.

Think of all the years like JV said.

Probably because Randy Anderson wanted to rest. Guys, I need a break. Been running around this ring all night. Oh, mule kick.

Good luck.

There goes that trick knee.

There's the trick knee, see? Who's this jackass in the front?

Yeah, boy.

He's just creeping up around the ring. Looks like a cameraman, but came out of nowhere.

Sometimes it goes the other way, sometimes it goes to the side. You never know it's something like that.

Ooh. Oh, my little clothesline. But Steamboat quick quickly to rise to his feet. Austin, look, he going for a side suplex.

A pickup.

Nice.

Yeah, I bet it is his arm, huh? What about that knee? You never know when that'll flare up again. Right hand and an elbow.

Steo like not selling anything. Just keeps getting up.

Look at Steve.

Oh, get out.

You should work.

Oh, but he fell out of the ring.

Should work at a shooting gallery. Now he's on that dirty ass floor.

Just leave him there. Those green bags are garbage.

That floor is a disaster.

Yeah, mess. How come they didn't clean it up after the last match?

I can smell that. Stunning. Come on, lift them up. And I'm over.

Oh, nice.

I like how we face the hard cam a little quicker before he did that.

One, two. Steamo kicked away. It'll take more than that to keep Steamboat.

Only a two count.

A simple suplex.

Going for another side suplex. But I think Steamboat will flip out of this one. Y saw that coming.

Oh my goodness. Did they choke.

I love it.

Slams him down.

Come on. Come on. What?

Kick out.

I'm talking. I'm cheering.

I'm.

I'm excited. You shouldn't.

Why?

Middle of the road here, brain non partial.

Oh, my.

Andre Tickle.

Bob Behen was a manager at this time. He'd be managing stuff. Think Steve Austin.

Oh, yeah. And doing great things with him.

Yeah.

Not that Colonel Parker was bad, but.

Yeah, I can totally see Bobby being, I think with Austin.

Yeah, Bobby could have done more for him. You agree?

I guess it would be like similar to Mr. Perfect. Like how Bobby was with Mr. Perfect and Rick Rude.

Referee's asking if he wants to give it up. Austin's not a quitter though. Not like Steamboat. Neither one. Oh, we've always known Steve Oak's a quitter. I've heard that from a lot of people. What? You've never seen anything in the ring that would make you think that and.

You know that Bobby's So good he just spouts out, says whatever he's thinking, don't tell me what I know.

That's the brain, by the way. That's the other part of the.

That's the brain. That's the other part of the. That's the dick. That's what he was thinking on the brain.

You're the Dick Steamboat who likes matches to go a long time because his conditioning. I mean, you're talking about a guy who could go an hour. I've seen him wrestle over an hour. Oh, I bet. Remember, you don't get paid by the hour, you get paid by the match. You get paid more if you win.

Than if you lose.

So why not knock the guy off as quick as you can?

Good point.

Where they would go 60 minutes, the time would run out. They come back, the next rematch, Steamboat and flair a 90 minute time limit and go most of that. Oh.

Two close one.

Oh, the fans thought it was over. One, two. And stunny Steve kicks out on a two. Well, this could go any way at any time.

Oh, I thought he was going for a stun gun, but no. Oh my. And down to the matt.

He didn't only hit his back, he hit his head.

Yeah, whiplash.

Steve snapped him down, knock a few feathers loose.

But that's about. He might be slaying the dragon here.

And you got to wonder if Steve's got to go get him now. You can't waste any time loading with the Dragon.

It's not going to end well, buddy.

The dragon's still down. And Austin, wasting a lot of time.

Drops the knee on the back of the neck.

And that may have been a mistake. Austin really being nonchalant here. Now he's rubbing Steamboat's faces. Now why after that sensational move, would he not try to pin him?

Cocky here, Austin obvious he knows the man's beat.

So now he's gonna have some fun. Now he's gonna embarrass the Dragon. I'm not in the ring. I don't know what Austin's thinking.

Is that Hulk Hogan's wife in the front row? The blonde.

The blonde.

Linda, maybe that was.

His wife's name's Linda.

I think it's Linda. Another drop to the back from the second rope.

That time the Dragon has been. I love him, mocking him.

Big elbow.

It's incredible. He can still stand.

Oh, he's egging him on.

Yeah, he's like, give me more. Come on.

May I have another?

Yeah.

Steveo pushes him off. Come on, get me again.

Maybe Steve like a building. A 80s action movie.

Come on, do it.

Oh, you mean just hope that sunny Steve Austin breaks a hand. He breaks the wrist by pounding on it. Great strategy.

Slingshot, catapult and a roll up.

One, two. Nope.

Ah, quick close line sends both ten to the mat. Ricky's up already saying give me.

I.

Want it, give it to me.

Why would you tell a guy to keep coming? The guy that's beating your butt?

You must be nuts.

Bobby Ne want to get those chops in. And that one rang out through the arena here.

The home of the match is awesome.

Yeah, this is good night ever in our sport.

Back body drop.

Swinging, swinging neck breaker, swing brawn breaker.

On cover there. You're not going to get him like that.

A little too nonchalant for me too, buddy.

Preventing him from doing so.

Gonna do a over clutch. Yeah, camel clutch.

Oh, that's nice.

Modified, modified chin lock. I'm gonna start to use that more often my daily speak. Modified.

Modified.

I don't like the position Austin's in right now. That's right.

Yeah. What the was Steve O. Thinking? Break your neck doing that 30.

That was dumb.

Two count. No, Austin's away. Kind of a slow count.

Hey, Austin's now is. Is wrapping it in. Even clinching his hands together to in the hold the COVID Steamboat keeps kicking out. Steamboat won't relent. Yeah, I was just gonna say Austin's been giving him everything. And Steamboat just keeps coming back.

He's trying to wear them out here.

I guess just to wear out the rest.

Hand hurts, can't slap it anymore.

Oh, on his feet. Austin's down on the mat. Oh, Austin hits him in the boot. With the boot to the chest. And now Steamboat's down on the middle rope. Oh, here we go. He's gonna miss. Oh, he nails it. Classic Austin right there.

Ah, I like that. I'm sure you do. He is in his face.

Isn't he?

The epitome of arrogance. There's no question about it. Stunning, Steve. What's he doing here? He's got that bad knee, you know.

Austin's freeing up his knee. Steamboat turns around. Stun gun, Steamboat. Stun gun.

Austin give him a piece of his own medicine.

One gun.

One of his premier moves. But I don't think Steamboat really knows where he is right now.

Austin rolls out. Smart move, Austin.

Go for the sidelines, go for the apron.

Well, Steveo doesn't give a. He goes and follows. Now they're fighting on the outside. Austin tosses Steamboat to the guardrail.

Is that all, Johnny? B Bad.

That's what I was saying before from the Bad Blaster.

Yeah, that's still though. Look at all over there. That was in all over before.

It's like all around the whole ring.

Yeah.

Damn shot is load everywhere. Lewis Love. He's not going to p now. Now you have to getting greasy. Double check.

Kind of making the same mistake Austin made earlier in the match when Austin should have ste sealed the deal.

The match right before this, the match before this was Terry Funk and Bunk House Buck versus Dustin Rhodes. And on Anderson.

Got his second win.

That's not Johnny B Bad. And Lord Steven Regal opened up the show. Then there were two matches before this. All that was just left out there from the beginning of the show.

Because.

Nobody else had confetti Vader, Guardian Angel, Dustin Rhodes, Arne Anderson, Terry Funk, Funk. I was that's all from Johnny Bat in the opening match. They just didn't even sweep it up. I'm sure they sweep it up before Hulk Hogan goes out there though.

I mean right in front of the referee. Dumped him over the top rope. Now look at Steamboat now like I said, he's got his second win. He smells victory. He thinks he has Austin.

All right, looks like we're look he tried heading to the finish here.

A desperation move. He did not try to get the spot and he didn't hit.

The great back and forth match here.

Two A two cat. Back and forth, back and forth. What a man.

Please. Two Bob's taking the words right from me.

Come on up.

Damn.

These guys got some serious.

Yeah.

Austin obviously trying to get disqualified.

Imagine moving around doing all that for 20 minutes away.

I do sit ups on the ground. I can't get up.

Also going for a power driver. Steamboat reverses a reverse.

Another reverse.

Now Austin's in control. Oh, another gets it back. Oh, Tombstone. Steamboat with the Tombstone pile driver to Austin. That was impressive.

That was sick. He's going to the top to put.

The Put this down for a cross body. What the hell is that?

That's a great idea.

He grabbed the referee and put him in front. He's going to disqualify. Let me hear what he's saying here.

Yeah, the referee wants to disqualify him. Steamboat's like no, don't disqualify him. Steamboat threw Peewee Anderson in the way. Steamboat is like no, don't let this happen. No dq. I want to win.

And the match is going to continue. Well he had no reason to disqualify.

Him or even be careful what you wish for. Cross Body. Oh, roll over.

Nope. Oh, there we go.

Oh, Austin uses the ropes for leverage and sneaks out the wind. The referee didn't even notice.

That's a good. That's good, though. I like that. That.

Yeah, No, I like it. I like it, too, because Steamboat's like, yeah, let it continue. Let it continue. And Austin still is able to cheat and win.

Steamboat is frustrated, so it's good to see him kind of pull that out. True to keep the belt here.

The man's totally in a bad position. He's in a very bad way.

Yeah, well done. Fun match. This has got to be, like, one of the best matches of this show. Cross body, roll up. Referee does a good job not looking accidentally hooked on the ropes. Bobby says his legs are accidentally hooked on the rope.

Unbelievable. Maybe it was the. Maybe it was the trick knee that.

Got the trick knee. Yep, they pointed out. Tremendous match. Oh, we got a Hooters girl behind Bobby. All right. All right, so we'll stop there and continue our coverage.

Oh, yeah, we're not watching this anymore.

It would be nice to just keep watching it now. I'm hooked. Anyway, let's get back to our action here on WCW. Saturday night dark match at center stage. On July 19th, stunning Steve defeated Brian Armstrong. And then we move on to WWE. Saturday night, July 23rd, 1994. And JV, what do you got for us?

All right, so what we have here is we actually just have a promo, an audio clip for you. So it's gonna be Mean Gene and Stunning Steve. We're gonna let you listen to it. It's about four minutes long, so give that a listen and we'll get back to cover it.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, guest this time, United States Heavyweight Champ. Champion studying Steve Austin. You know, you may think you've got things going your way, but that's not exactly true. Things are going my way, Gene Oakland. Because I've shown the world, I've shown everyone in World Championship Breslin that no one can beat Stunning Steve Austin. I'll be the United States Champion as long as I want to be. The thing that gets me though the most is this Ricky the Dragon Steamboat. Let's talk. Talk about him. Let's talk about Ricky Steamboat. Because there's a guy I used to respect, but this is a guy that's so damn stupid. He'll never learn from his past mistakes. He'll never learn what it takes to beat Steve Austin. You're gonna have to go into the rulebook, Ricky Steamboat, because there's no way no way that you can beat me. The whole facade, the stupid little lizard pies. He spins, gets the fire. Who cares? No one cares. Little kids might care. Oh, yeah, that's just kind of dangerous. I recall recently that that's not the way things went. Exactly. Things are going my way. As far as I'm concerned, Ricky Steamboat can do all the stupid little tricks he wants to do because he's not impressing me one bit. And I still got the United States belt. Hold on. Oh, come on out here. You got something to say to me, son? You know something Mean Gene? The times that I have specifically talked about Steve Austin, I have said that this man has a promising wrestling career. That I have said that in the short time that he's been in our sport that he has climbed that ladder of success and now has become the United States Heavyweight Champion and has held this championship for a long time. You should have said that because it's true, idiot. I'm sitting in the back listening on the monitor. Listen, you run me down, calling me stupid, calling me this, calling me that. I can do that if I want. My opinion about you has changed. You're nothing but a young punk. You think you're great. Well, I'll tell you something. In my wrestling career, I've wrestled the great ones and you couldn't even touch their jock. Let me tell you something, Steamboat. I don't want to touch anybody's. I. Got to be. If you were back. You have got to be kidding me.

Oh my.

God. Stay tuned. We're gonna be back after this.

All right, so Steamboat has just won a singles match against Brian Armstrong, as Prue just noted, right? No, that's from a different episode.

Yeah, that was the dark match.

That was Austin beat Armstrong. Yeah, I don't know who Steamboat beat, but he had just won a singles match. So we cut to Mean Gene, who's interviewing the United States Champion, the reigning, defending stunning, Steve Austin. Austin is not dressed to wrestle. He has a sharp crisp white button down shirt on. I could tell he used a lot of not much starch on that and a shit eating grit. Mean Gene tells Austin that you might think you have things going your way, but that's not exactly true. Austin assures Mean Gene though, that everything is going my way. I've shown everyone in the world and everyone in World Championship Wrestling that no one can beat me and I'm going to be the United States Champion for as long as I want to be. Austin then says what really gets him the most is Ricky the Dragon Steamboat. He's a guy Austin used to respect respect. But he's so damn stupid that he'll never learn from his past mistakes. And he'll never learn what it takes to beat stunning Steve Austin. Austin tells Steamboat to go to the rule book, find something, because there's no way that he can beat Austin. Austin then goes on to basically call Steamboat's entire gimmick a whole facade. His stupid little lizard tights. He spits the fire. Who cares? No one cares. Little kids might care. Oh yeah, that's just fine and dandy. Mean Gene says he and Austin are on a different page, but Austin reassures him things are going his way. Steamboat could do all his stupid little tricks, but it's not impressing Austin one bit. He still has the United States Championship. Steamboat then comes out. So he arrives here on scene to see Austin, and Austin just calls Steamboat, gets right to the point and calls him an old piece of trash. Austin asked Steamboat if he's got something to say to him. Son. Steamboat says, the time he spoke about Austin, he said Austin had a promising wrestling career. And at the short time he's been in this sport, he's climbed the ladder of success and held that championship for a long time. Austin's heard enough, though. He cuts Steamboat off and tells him, of course you should have said it because you. Of course you should have said it, you idiot, because it's true. Steamboat then says he was watching the monitor and Austin running him down. And Austin, you know, cuts him off and says, I can do that if I want to. Steamboat then says, in his opinion, Austin has changed and he's nothing but a young punk who thinks he's great. And Steamboat says, sorry, he's rest. He's wrestled the great ones and Austin couldn't hold their jock. And that Austin just kind of goes off the handle here. Austin then says he want to. Want to touch anyone's jock. And then we just get a bunch of like, censorship audio from the, from the broadcast, so we can't even hear what's saying, what Austin's saying, but he's going off, he's flipping out on Steamboat. And then he finally says something that triggers Steamboat. We don't get to hear what it is, but Steamboat cracks Austin in the mouth, like, punches him pretty hard. And then Austin's all worked up now. He starts taking off his shirt, but he doesn't really retaliate because he's kind of a little scared. And then he falsely accuses as Steamboat kind of walks away towards the heads to the rink. He accuses Mean Gene of holding him back. And Mean Gene wasn't doing shit to Austin. He was just kind of like bolt, look. So Steamboat heads to the ring. The crowd is pumped up. Austin follows him down. Steamboat's calling him into the ring, but Austin doesn't follow any cars away. And that's the end of that. That clip, that was a good. This is a good little segment here.

Great promo we got out of Austin.

Like you're little. This like we got a little bit of the. We've got a little stone cold in him.

Yeah.

Which we always come out here and there.

For those of you with a shopee ear, a lot of what you heard in this promo is in our opening. And yeah, opening theme music that Joe Morata put together for us.

Thanks, Joe.

The line no one cares.

Who cares?

All that. That. That's in our opening. That's from this promo. Yeah. Good there from Austin. And continuing on with the Steamboat feud, you know, so Steamboat's pissed, man, you keep screwing me, you keep hanging on to that title. And Steamboat believes it should be his at this point. So they just keep going at it. All right, so I'm going to continue some coverage here. Just a quick little house show result From Tupelo, Mississippi, July 23. Steve Austin pinned Johnny B. Bad. And that house show with over 3,000 people in attendance. And then we get WCW Main Event, which was also taped that same day in Tupelo, Mississippi, July 23. And this aired on July 24. Let me just get right into that. We got a quick match result that I wanted to bring up in relation to this feud, this ongoing feud. It's Ric Flair taking on Ricky Steamboat. So Ricky Steamboat defeated ric Flair via DQ in about 12 minutes when Steve Austin and Sensational Sherry interfere. And Steamboat hit a cross body off the top rope. And that's when Austin runs in. And one thing that's notable about this match is there's been. Well, there's a long story feud of Flair and Steamboat in many great matches, many of which weren't on TV because they had a lot of matches back in the 70s that Tony Schiavone always talks about and loves. But this is actually the last televised Ric Flair vs Ricky Steamboat match ever.

Really?

Yep. Wow. So after Austin comes in and starts to interfere with Cherry Austin and Flair holds Steamboat down as Sherry does a big splash from the top rope herself and lands on Steamboat. And then you have the baby face Jabras come running down. You got Brian Armstrong, the road dog and Todd Morton. They come together, they run in and they make the save a Steamboat. Wow. It's like who was backstage? WWE Main Event taping. So probably not many stars at that show. Anyway, Austin and Flair gave each other high fives and they embrace with Sherry and they walk back to the locker room as Steamboat is proclaimed the winner via dq. And then a quick turnaround right back to jv. Jv, you got WCW Worldwide and you have a big match. You know, it's a rematch of Bash of the Beach, Steve Austin, Ricky Steamboat.

So oddly enough we get a rematch here. But it's a non title match.

Yeah.

Kind of grinds my gear and you're gonna hear why that grinds with me in a second. So Steamboat comes out first with his torch and. And the crowd is all hyped up. And though it's not a title match, Tony Schiavone reassures us that Steamboat is still the number one contender. Then why the fuck is in a non title match, right?

Yeah. That doesn't make sense to me that.

It would be at all anyhow.

I guess. I don't know. Maybe it's just an exhibition like or chance to have a title shot. I don't know.

I don't get it. But not. I would. I would get it if Tony didn't just say on commentary like yeah, he's still the number one contender.

Right.

In what world does the number one contender wrestle for the title and not it not be a title match?

Right? Yeah. It's just doesn't make any sense.

No.

It's basically because this was taped back in May.

Yeah. They didn't know what direction they wanted to go yet. Right.

They just had this sitting that they hadn't used yet and they did new commentary for her. Probably.

Dumb. Anyhow, Austin's out next to loud booze from the crowd. Jesse the Body Ventura on commentary notes that that Austin's gonna win. That's the bottom line. Because somehow he always manages to hold on to his title. And that's what it's all about. Steam Goat Steamboat kicks things off with multiple side headlock takeovers one after another. Tony notes that Steamboat actually. So we had a little background of Steamboat some people might not have been familiar with. I was curious to know proof this is even true. But Tony notes that Steamboat actually opened the gym in 1984 and decided that.

Go ahead.

And he decided at that time he'd rather be at the gym than wrestle and retire at a young age. Until deciding to come back after Ric Flair for a title shot. Ventura then notes that when it comes to Retiring. Jesse is the only wrestler in history that actually retired and stayed retired. So did you know that about the gym?

1984? Yeah. No, I don't think I've heard that.

Or is that like.

I don't think. It doesn't sound like it'd be bullshit coming from Tony Schiavone. Yeah, like why make up that whole thing?

It would be weird bullshit.

Yeah, that's probably true. Yeah. Because he was gone for a little while. Then he made his return into WWF shortly after that. Like 85.

But he didn't get a title shot against ric Flair in 85. Wouldn't that be NWA or something?

Might have been. I'll take a look.

Yeah, I just thought that was cool. Little background from Jesse the body. So anyhow, Steamboat back in the ring here. Maintains control with the side headlock, followed by a snapmare takeover. Austin just can't get any offense in at all here early, as Steamboat is basically just putting on a wrestling clinic. Austin does finally get some work working when he counters Steamboat into a head scissors on the mat, but, but he doesn't really hold that long. Steamboat's just kind of. It's like a firecracker here. He takes control again with a headlock. Then Austin reverses it into an atomic drop until Steamboat again takes control with a short clothesline followed by a chin lock and a flying knee. Austin gets Steamboat into the corner and starts laying some massive chops in the Steamboat. But then Steamboat counters with a chop that knocks Austin over the top rope to the outside of the ring. Austin gets back up on the ring apron and Steamboat's kind of coming over. And Austin hits Steamboat with an eye poke and Steamboat gets caught in the top rope. So like his top left leg is like kind of wrapped up between the top rope and the middle rope and he's just kind of hanging. So Austin seizes the opportunity, takes advantage of it and just starts kicking the shit out of Steamboat. He's just, just stomping on him, kicking him in his midsection, hitting him, just completely beating the hell out of him. You can kind of see Austin just get letting out like a lot of bent up frustration with, with Steamboat. The ref's trying to stop Austin while also trying to unhook Steamboat. And Austin just freaking tosses the ref like a mile. Just grabs him and throws him. The ref then like gets back up and I don't think we're gonna get a DQ right away here. But no, the ref's like giving Austin a second chance. So he, he starts attempting like a Five count to get Austin to break the, to stop pounding on him and let Steamboat get out of the ropes. But Austin's not having it. He's just, you know, he's in the zone here. So the ref naturally calls for dq and Austin continues to pummel Steamboat. The ref has no control, matches over Steamboat's basic, you know, he's the winner by DQ at this point. So Brian Armstrong and Brian Houston come in to stop Austin, but then, and Austin just kind of like backs off. Then they think like it's all cool and that like Austin's done. But once they turn their back to Austin, Austin catches them both off guard, you know, beats them up, throws them outside the ring. And what does Austin do? He goes back to Steamboat, who's still like, you know, beat up. So he continues beating on Steamboat until WCW officials come into the ring to take control of the situation. And then finally order is kind of in place now Austin leaves the rink and Steamboat is announced the winner by dq as WCW officials tend to a beaten down Steamboat. So that was a cool little. The match kind of sucked. Well, the match did suck, but it wasn't much. But the like that end piece of that, just seeing Austin beat the living shit out of Steamboat was cool.

Yeah, I guess the main point of the match, they could have just made it a title match, but it had the same result.

Yeah, because it was dq.

Right? It's a dq. The match was meant to just continue to build the feud. So yeah, they could have just said, hey, yeah, you're getting another shot at the title. And it ended in again.

Yeah.

And that just further, you know, pisses off Steamboat and will lead to what we get to covering August. So yeah, it could have worked just by saying it was a dq, not a non DQ thing, but being a title match could have been a title match. Now this whole thing with a dq, that is gonna play into the storyline because that's what we get into in August is Steamboat was so sick of these DQs and whatnot that he wants a no DQ match. So I guess this helps build that storyline. That's probably why they used it. So that makes sense in that, in that case. All right, so with that said, we continue on. One more house show result for July 30 and Steve Austin defeated Ricky Steamboat in Jacksonville, Florida in front of 1800 people. And then from there now we move on to WCW Saturday night on July 30, 1994. And we're going to do some watch along for this as well. But before I Get to that. Just wanted to point out a couple side notes. Harlem Heat continues to be a dominant tag team at this point, and they're starting to tease that they're going to have a new manager. And that'll. That'll be Sherry. They are still currently Kane and Cole, not Stevie Ray and Booker T. But that'll change very soon as well. So this is the last of the Kane and Cole, but they're really heating up. No pun intended. And they're gonna, you know, get a big push coming up. All right. On Anderson turned on Dustin Rhodes at Bash at the Beach. As expected, are enjoying the stud stable. And Dusty Rhodes returns because he's pissed about his. His son getting over. And then Ming is also getting more involved as well with the stud stable. And we're gonna do a little watch along. We're gonna watch a big match. Ric Flair and Steve Austin teaming up to take on Sting and Ricky Steamboat. This kind of was set up when Steamboat got screwed by Austin in his match against Ric Flair. And Cherry came out and had a big splash on Steamboat. So now we get this tag team match, you know, big, big deal here. And even before that, though, we are going to check out a classic promo. I love it. And I don't know, jv, if you've heard it, you probably have heard it at some point, but either way, I want to play it and have us listen to it. It's Dusty Rhodes cutting a hell of a promo about his son and wanted to be tag team partners to take on on Anderson and Bunkhouse Buck.

I think I have seen this before, so good.

All right, so we're gonna go to that. Just a moment. So let me get set up. Jb, you got your stuff set up already?

Give me one second. All right, I'm there. You got the guy screaming in the crowd?

Yep, with the mud cats. Hey, that's my Beavis and Butthead shirt.

The one on the left. Yeah, it is.

Yeah, I used to wear that all the time.

It's so funny.

All right, I got it set up. All right, so, guys, I don't know if you'll be able to watch along with this if you have access to this episode. Great. It's 1 hour, 6 minutes, 32 seconds. We got a guy yelling with mud cats and a dude wearing a Beavis and Butthead shirt on screen. And I'll give us a countdown so that JV and I can sink in. Three, two, one, Play.

Audio's weird.

Audio sucks.

It's like one ear.

Yeah. All right, it's not just me.

I want everybody to bear with me just for a minute. I want to talk to my son in front of the whole world.

He's talking to Dustin.

When you were born, when you were a baby. And when you were born I went off to seek my fame and fortune. I neglected you. Then later on when I became world's heavyweight champion, I neglected you. Then later I became this corporate cowboy, if you will, in public with a suit and tie on. And I neglected you. And when it came down to choose a partner, I was off in Hollywood and I neglected you. Let me tell you something, bunkhouse buck. Let me tell you, Colonel Parker. They all nothing but chicken thieves. That's all they are, brother. Let me tell you something else. Terry Funk is nothing but a low life watermelon beef egg sucking down. And let me tell you something about Iron Anderson. Iron Anderson. My son offered up his innocence and you paid him back in scorn. The hell would you. Arn Anderson. Arn Anderson has never been nothing but a walk behind her. And when you walk behind and you're not a leader, then the view never changes, baby. The view never changes, baby. The view never changes. You have the ability to be the world's heavyweight wrestling champion. There is not a greater athlete at your age in this sport. But I. I want to ask your favor. I want to ask your favor in front of a. Front of God in the whole world. I know that the Clash of champions on August 24, you put your name on, on the dotted line. I don't want you to look for another partner. I don't want you to go and find another man. I don't want you to go out and get on your knees and bag another scum sucking pig to be a partner. I'm asking you if you can carry this old out of shape. Oh, bent out, old spindly legged man. I want to be your partner.

God loves it.

Oh, yeah.

Let's get this crowd under control too.

Dustin's getting emotional.

Yeah. Dustin has helped solve this as well.

I don't need no handshake. Because out there right now tonight there's. There's people with their brothers, their sisters and their wives. They are blood. The Kennedys were blood. The earth were blood. The roads are blood. I don't need a handshake. What I need now from you is just a hug and a kiss to seal the deal, baby. They playing the.

All right. That pulls at the hot strings.

Yeah, it does.

Good. That just really sold that match. I couldn't wait for Clash of Champions after seeing that back in the day.

Oh, you saw that back in the day?

Yeah.

I don't remember this.

I was really getting into WCW at this time mainly because of Hogan, even though I don't really like Hogan, but I could not see what was going on. All right, so we're gonna skip ahead a little bit, about 10 minutes. Go to all six minutes, go to one hour, 16 minutes and 47 seconds. And then we're gonna just continue from the rest of the episode. That'll be our wrap up because that match, the next match that we're going to cover, the tag match goes throughout the show and there's going to be commercial break. So we're not going to skip through them, we'll just check them out.

I guess we have no choice.

All right, so let's move on now to the tag team match and get us set up at 1, 16, 47. I'll give us a quick countdown so that we can sink in and then get going with this. Three, two, one, play. All right, so we're back to WCW Saturday Night and I'm gonna get the entrances of the opening match. For our opening match, this is the main event. All right, look at Sherry coming out to the ring here. Steve Austin and Ric Flair. Now we've been talking about how Rick. Steve Austin has been. Been getting de. Pushed basically, but here he is with one of the top stars. So I guess it would be tough to argue that now he's like, oh, Wally. Now he's in main event spots with Ric Flair.

Yeah, basically the one B, right?

Yeah, Yeah. This puts him on like top tier as a heel. He's with Ric Flair. You would think. Oh, after Hogan deals with Blair, then he's gonna deal with Austin. But doesn't happen. And we'll explore that more in the next couple of months because essentially what they're going to do is bring in another big baby face to deal with Austin. Like Hogan didn't want to deal with it, so he said, all right, yeah, bring Hacksaw Jim Duggan and he'll deal with Austin. I think Hogan was threatened by Austin. He knew Austin was gonna be a big star. It was like, nah, man, not working with him.

Game recognized game, right?

Yeah. And I'm glad when Austin was finally in the spot, he was like, no, I'm not dealing with. With Hogan not doing it. Oh, look at this. Airheads. This movie is great.

Oh, it is.

Adam Sandler jacked Adam Sandler. No idea what you're saying right now.

Brendan Frazier too, right?

Yeah.

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I don't know. Am I wrong about that?

Wrong about what?

Having a like a landline phone near your bed.

It's dumb.

Yeah, I don't think people did that. I don't remember that ever.

Like a designated room.

It be like in the kitchen or in the living room. Superstar.

You'd like to see battle about live at the main event right here.

Maybe like a den or an office or something.

But.

I guess a kid might have it in a bedroom.

I mean cordless phones.

Yeah. Once it was cordless phones and that. Talking about just the landline chord for him. Yeah. All right. So we finally get back to the ring. Do all mean jeans little promos to sell his hotline. We got a main event match in. Still trying to get that hotline going.

Nobody likes anybody out there. There. We've just heard comments from world champion Hulk Hogan as was announced in this program.

I see Austin's tights just win, baby.

Very generic. The white and the black.

Yeah, it is cheap Just like the dragon slayer one damn Sting phoned it.

In on the face paint today.

Oh, he of his haircut too.

Jesus Christ.

That reminds me of my hacked haircut. So. Oh yeah.

Was a legend. It wasn't the lady you usually saw?

No, I went to a random person. I forgot the name of the place. But it's. It's. We're. I think it was called Cost. Cost Cutters I think is the name of it. But yeah, it's where Papa John's and Pizza Hut is. Oh yeah. Right around there. Today Act Haircut crew. I was so mad you cried.

Yeah.

On tv.

Oh. Random matches on not the viewers don't know what the we're talking about.

Yeah, I know, right?

But like I remember.

Yeah.

I had her daughter.

Really?

Yeah. In exploratory and how I knew was. I guess she went home and so I always tell the kids, like my background at the school, what shop I was in. So she went home and I guess told. I guess she liked the shop. Told the mom and she's like, oh, my teacher, Mr. B. Mr. Riveris. And then they got in like then I guess she was like, oh. And then they knew a shop, graphic arts and stuff. She comes in the next day. She's like, do you know my mom? My Kuji mom? Because her last name isn't. You know what I mean?

Right.

That's last name.

Yeah.

And I was like, oh, yeah. I'm like, yeah, I know your mom. I was like, your mom was cool. Like, yeah.

Yeah.

Then in my head I'm like, oh, she didn't say anything. Inside joke. Yeah.

Did I break your concentration?

We stay there with all of them. We were a walking soundboard.

Man. I think sometimes like I. The stuff I get upset about with students, it's like I was the worst person.

I think of that all the time too. I like. I think I was worse than these kids.

Oh, man. Yep. That's why I know to be so tough on him because I know they're being.

Oh, man.

Oh, it's funny.

So much animosity and flair.

Yeah. All took was Sting's haircut. The us up on this match.

Yeah.

That is a very high favor.

Yeah.

Actually I think that's what we referenced as the hacked haircut was kidding Play haircut.

Yeah. Yeah, he did.

I think it's in my yearbook where it says kid and play him Hiccup in my write up.

I'm actually up for an award. You are?

Yeah.

Best sneakers. The sneakers teacher with the best sneakers.

Oh, really? Yeah. That's cool. What do you switch them up all the time?

Yeah, so I always wear a button down dress pants. Well, I switch it up. I don't wear like dress sneakers. I wear like Clean Jordan 1 lows. I have like so many different colors.

Yeah, the kids probably like.

Oh yeah.

What's he got now? Fired up.

Ricky Steamboat. And I still say two weeks ago, brain. Two weeks ago at the bash. Stunning. Steve did everything he could to get disqualified. Steamboat deserves another shot at this.

A high energy match here.

I like Steamboat's trunks. He didn't already say that.

No, we didn't. But they're similar to the Bash of the beach ones, just different color. Yeah, these are the light ones. Right.

Why Walter White.

Been meaning to check out the new show. Pluribus, whatever it's called.

Yeah. I'm only gonna give it a chance because of the girl.

Yeah, right, Seahorn.

Yeah. Because the. The plot of the show sounds pretty dumb.

Yeah, I. I mean, I haven't really looked too much into it, but I think it has to do with like werewolves or something.

Oh, I didn't even know that. Now I'm more interested.

I could be totally wrong, but that's what I thought I heard about it.

I thought, I thought I heard.

I thought I thought I heard. Classic Ric Flair gear. I had his wcw. I forgot the name of the company was, but whatever. I had that figure. Ric Flair. He's wearing that same gear, same color scheme. Light blue boots, blue tights.

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Looks like young Bill Burr here with hair.

They sexualized the notebook.

I know. This is like a porno. A five star.

That's what happened when there was no PornHub in the 90s.

Yeah. Commercials had to get you off.

Sexualized a five star. See the chick in the Notebook commercial rubbing her hair?

Yeah.

Rub something else later.

It was about to tag team two girls because he has a five star notebook.

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My cat. Get in here.

It's not in there.

He just opens the door. Hold on.

Like a raptor.

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Meanwhile in the ring, studying Steve whatever.

With that reverse chin lock clamped on, tries to escape. And with a jawbreaker, gets out nicely. Boy, I tell you, he is the master of holds and counter moves. That's why he's a long time champion. I can the time, sonny. Steve has not been with the title. Been few and far between in wcw.

Big chop for Austin.

Very young man and he's relatively new in the sport. Ducking Steamboat, trying to hip toss. No stair Steamboat reverses trying to back slide. But stunning. Steve trying to get the leverage going his way.

And Bobby's putting Austin over again. Relatively young, man.

Who else said just win, baby?

Al Davis, right? Is that his name?

Yeah.

Raiders owner.

Yeah. Al Davis.

Just win, baby.

Can you imagine here live on tbs.

The Impact from that height was exceptional.

Incredible. Well, I suggest other. All other programming in the world take a day off because everyone's going to be watching this.

Hulk.

Oh, God. So we got a Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair rematch coming up in the Clash. Steamboat Austin rematch as well, I think.

And Flair taunting steam mode. Flair now in after the exchange. Long standing battle between these two. Many of them seen right here on tbs. Tremendous execution. But st.

All right. Flair going for good suplex. Huh? Nice. Oh, don't sell by Sting. Sting's right up right away. That did nothing to me. Sting totally missed that. Austin sneaking up behind Sting. We get an action outside the ring. Now, you had mentioned that Sting had shitty face paint along with his shitty haircut. But I do like his color scheme. His boots match his trunk. His tights, like the scorpion on his tights match his boots. And then his face paint matches the same color as well. And at this point, his face paint is faded away.

Oh, man. We could keep up like that.

Yeah. Good. Kip ups with the.

Whoa.

Is he doing a scream? No. Blair's like, I'm out of here.

Tag team partners with the per.

Heavyweight.

Yeah.

White, orange and purple that Sting has on, right?

I don't know why Sher's stealing Sting's gimmick by painting her face like Sting.

She's crazy. She's always yelling. She probably yells for everything.

I was saying, imagine living with her.

No, Imagine her ordering like Burger King.

I want a Whopper. Give me a Whopper.

Rice.

Onion rings.

Yeah, we don't want that.

I'll kick your teeth.

Say, do you guys have that thing? Do you guys have.

The Iceman?

Screen's broken. Which you.

The hair? The nip again. Watch out. We get a tag. And here comes the double.

Oh, she's awesome.

Yeah, she rules. She's awesome. I wonder if she has that same energy in like the bedroom. Oh, just like screams at your. Holds it like a microphone. She's shooting a promo into it and she's.

That was.

That was your promo from WrestleMania 7.

Of the World. It shows you what a great champion he is.

Oh, man.

A tremendous slam like that over three quarters of the way across the ring, he still got up and had presence.

Hey, Austin tags himself in.

He's just in the match now. Look how much bigger Sting is.

Holy.

What? That doesn't even seem right.

No, I didn't think there was that much of a difference in height.

No, Sting looks like a 12 right now.

It does.

And Austin looks like he comes with like the spring loaded missile toys. Like the little guys.

Yeah. The lgn versus Hasbro.

You didn't see it that time.

It's going to be a fluke. Whoever wins this match, it'll be luck. It'll be a fluke. R. It'll be effective double teaming.

Oh. Never give up.

Where does he get his energy, his endurance from? How many times have we said Sting is finished? Sting cannot take another shot and he comes back with moves like that. Well, it all stems from his stomach. It's a feeling he has in the pit of his stomach. It's the will to win and the conditioning. This man's in.

All right. Also back into the corner. And Sting just going after him. Haven't seen Steamboat in the ring in a while. What the referee doing? Getting in the middle. That's how a ref gets injured. All right. Fledges toss his thing out of the ring. Team's going to kick like sher Sherry going after Sting right to the eyes. I can't stop thinking about the microphone right now.

I just. I just had some coffee and I just kind of like got a second win. I don't know. We might have to cut that.

That's funny.

Just blur out a couple words.

That's why they started bel years ago today.

All right. St. Petersburg, that's in. That was Russia, right?

Centers nationwide.

Yeah. Is that when Nancy Kerrigan got like her knee legs taken out?

Don't understand voices, people mumble.

Well, wasn't that just like at a training, like a practice?

Oh, yeah. That was before the Olympics. That was the trials or something.

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How many combinations in every bag of skittles.

Bite sized candy. All right. Beltone. For over 50 years. Now we're just hearing about them. That's so funny. Like some. Some companies that are just like, you know, they're. They're barely anything, but they happen to be around for a long time. And that's what they accentuate like in business for 50 years.

Yeah.

Now you finally just got a commercial. I guess you weren't that good for 50 years. Get out. Dream Team 2.

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Dan, Molly after lunch. That world championship will taste super size.

What's cool, what's hot and looks awesome on you?

That's something McDonald's should do again is have special cups.

They don't. And even like monopoly sucks.

Now McDonald's, you got to put the in your app all ages.

That's. Yeah, like just give me the paper board.

All right.

You don't get pieces with everything. It's like only certain items.

Yeah, you have to get like a McNugget meal. You gotta get a Big Mac. Gotta get the I think large fry in order to get thicker.

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Bring it back.

Trash.

And they obviously didn't make the stickers for every place. Yeah, they make it so that you always need one more. Oh, I almost have all the blues. I almost have all the oranges. I just need one more. Like no, they didn't even make that piece. Nobody's getting it. Hulk hogan hotline. Hulk trivia. $49 per minute. It's gonna be a parents phone bill.

Feisty. My grandmother was feisty. That's not feisty. Your grandmother wants drunks like that.

Tony just simply says she is nuts in regards to Sherry.

Meanwhile, the end result is a battered and weakened.

She painted her face again by Sherry.

This is three times now since the latter part of June here on tbs.

Oh man. Just changed my whole view of Sher. Sorry.

Got to be very careful with stunning Steve. Cuz you know stunning Steve's got that trip knee fans. Don't forget as stunning Steve is up on the middle turnbuckle. As we said earlier.

Snapman Austin takes down Sting going to the corner. He's going to go for his little elbow. Oh, he was doing his little thing that he would do as Stone Cold. Or he's on the middle rope and he was the middle fingers. Although here he didn't do the middle fingers obviously, but same motions. Probably was thinking I want to pick a finger, but I can't do it. Got a. A couple accountants in the second row standing there. TBS workers evaluating the pro the program. See if this shows worth the money we're putting into it. Send Bill and Bob down there. Check it out. What's that talking about the two guys in the second row with the suits like they were sent by TBS to evaluate the program. See what this is all about. Are we. Are we spending the money in the right places here? Is this show worth having? Is this worth it? Then whatever they say, Tip Turner is like, oh, off. I want wrestling. Don't give a if we're losing money. I mean, that's probably the reason why it lasted so long anyways. That Ted Turner just liked wrestling in general and wanted it, even if it wasn't making him money. He didn't give a.

I don't know. Randy Anderson and sending FL out.

SteamBolt's a house of fire right now. Back body drop, couple chops.

I don't know how that happened, but Flair's back in. Side Headlock Takeover. One, two. No Sher. Celebrating on the outside prematurely there. Look at this.

Oh, I love that.

Yeah, nice bridge into a slide. Back slide for the back slide. Who's gonna get it? Steamo's got it. Got the back slide. Oh, Austin comes in and a little kick to the ribs. Going for a leg drop. He dropped. Oh, he misses. Off. Everyone seems exhausted in this match at this point.

Steve gets the exchange. Hogan and Flair Live on 24 August on the Clash of the Champions. Don't forget, you pick the main event next Saturday. Live from Disney MGM Saturday night. And then again we'll have a live telecast on Sunday the 7th. The Saturday show will be the interactive show, but the fans pick the match on Saturday. They'll be able to. Ridiculous.

Oh, they're going to have another interactive.

Wrestling.

First week of August.

Give Flare credit the importance of the match with him and Hogan and for him to take a match.

Suplex from the outside inside. 1, 2, 2 count.

Fl does look pretty exhausted drink last night.

Man. FL has a mop of hair on him. Yeah, that's one of the shitty looks.

Of Rick Flairs like this. A lot of times will be the difference in winning or losing a match. Well, double teaming part of life. Boy, is it ever.

Austin just trying to wear down Steamboat. Tags and flare. Little double team here. Boom. Blair with a punch to Steamboat's chest. Followed up by a punch to the head.

Right across to the jaw.

Classic chops. Nobody. Wow.

Story is nonstop.

Because it's a W Saturday night audience and they just walked in there not knowing what they were going to say. And they're generally told what to do. Tony is right. This match is endless. And Bobby's like, how much longer can they they go?

I don't know.

They're both sick of. Is crazy that this match basically took up almost an hour.

I know this match does not need to be this long.

And how many commercial breaks have we had just during this match? Get on with it.

Oh, nice breakup.

Yes, Steve.

I mean these guys are working hard. Like what are the stakes?

I mean, it's just Kind of a grudge match.

Right.

And it's familiar. People that have been in rivalries with each other. That makes sense. But why so long? And if they just played it straight through, it would probably be much better. You got to fit in. Those commercial breaks had the momentum and that's what happened.

Now I'm putting my hat in the corner for Ric Flair. He's got the momentum. It's on his side now. That's the feeling I get. You may be able to hear Sherry screaming like a banshee. You can hear Sherry in Seattle.

Can hear a yelling.

Yeah, screaming like a banshee. As Tony says, you can hear her in Seattle.

10 here, this is what it's all about. WCW Steve goes down. What a television match. This is.

A knife edge chop there. Knock both men down. It's pretty crazy when you're the one delivering it and you fall. That's how much effort he put in there. Steam ball going back and forth between Flair and Austin. He gets stinging, but the referee didn't see it. He was gonna yell at Sting.

He's lost all control.

Yep, down here. Yeah. No control. So Sting's not the legal man. All right, so you have Sting tussling with Flair. Steamboat with Austin again, Sting is not the legal man. Cherry's diving in. She gets caught by Sting. Sting press slams. Holy thing. Just press slammed. Sherry out of the ring onto flare. Wow. Austin gets the pin on Steamboat. Those were the legal men. So the referee did make the count. But Austin pulls off the win.

The Heels win.

Well, the Hills get away with the win. But Sting was able to toss Sherry out of the ring onto Flair. So you get something that the fans enjoyed, probably with Sting, you know, getting the upper hand on flare and Jerry, but then losing the match, which just further frustrates Steamboat. Now he took another pinfall loss to all. Austin. Steambolt saying that Sher just took a mean bump there. Holy, like, flare. Didn't even help her. He just let her drop.

I think it's every parent's dream, maybe.

To have a doctor in the family. The flare's checking on her. All right. Sorry. Funked up. All right.

I like this commercial.

Was this Metroid? No. Oh, it was a bunch of games.

Play loud.

Super Nintendo, right? Yeah.

So that must have been Super Metroid that I saw. Yeah.

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Did I eat the caramel chocolate first?

Goodwill Games.

This kid's studying in a library.

Yeah, right. No, Kids do that.

The goodwill games.

What is the goodwill games?

Kind of like the Olympics for. For some kind of people.

It's not the Special Olympics, right?

No, it's not the Special. I don't know if there's like.

Almost special Olympics.

It's a Ted Turner creation because of political trouble surrounding the Olympics. So he created his own Olympics.

Oh, that's what he did.

Called the Goodwill Games.

Wow.

That's like a Trump thing to do.

Yeah. Turner just walked around with his middle finger in the air all day.

I'm doing my own Olympics.

I got my own news. I got my own baseball channel. Got my own Olympics.

I got my own wrestling.

I bought Hulk Hogan. Middle finger up all the time.

Yeah.

Screaming the world. That guy ruled.

He could have been president.

Yeah. Low key, like one of the most badass people. That just does not get the clout he deserves.

Oh, yeah.

Talk about me and my two. Two channels on television.

Mine. Bunch of channels, man. You know what? Cartoons of mine now. Cartoon Network.

Yeah.

All the old movies. They're all mine. Turner Classic Movies. Tcm. Cartoon Network, tnt, tbs, cnn, Right?

I think so, yeah. Stetson, I never see cologne on commercials anymore.

I know. I was just gonna say cowboy cologne approach.

That stuff's definitely smart. Like, I think my dad had it.

I had it. Main point here is that Steamboat is sick of the cheating. You could have win a clean match if you had bar soap great gray.

Line C down your back. You know, Sting, I've got to say this. I watched that match in its entirety. And you and Ricky totally dominated Austin and Flair.

All right, so Steamboat wants special stipulations at a match at the Clash. We'll hear more about that next time.

All you know, the world title is gone now. It's on the Hulkster now, isn't it, Steve Borden?

It's no longer Sting, right?

Exactly.

His haircut does suck. It's uneven.

It cuts like a knife, doesn't it, nature boy? Cuts like a knife not having that world title around your waist. Well, let me tell you something. If I have my way, when I get to the Clash of Champions, I want you.

I want his teeth like that. Let me tell you something. When I come back.

Let me tell you something.

To dead ass. Let me tell you something, Mother trucker.

And perhaps that's going to happen on August 24th at the Clash of Champions next week from Disney, MGM.

We're going to be live, all right? Me and Jean's like, let's wrap this up. We're out of here.

Holy. Perhaps.

Go. For the wheeze. For the wheeze. I mean, the brain. All right, that wraps that up. All right. So, yeah. So moving ahead, you know, Steamboat's pissed. He keeps getting cheated out of matches and he wants Austin to know, you know, we're gonna have a match and you're not gonna be able to get away with shit anymore. So that's what we'll focus on next time here at the Bottom Line Wrestling cast, let's wrap things up with the bottom.

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All right, so let's wrap things up here. We got a few plugs. So as you just heard from Alex Dario, check out Talking Taker. They have new episodes every month. The first of every month in their latest episode is the Ultimate Survivor Series Fantasy draft. That was a fun one. So check that out. And also check out their archives covering the entire career of the Undertaker. So every month check them out, Talking Taker. And also they have their episodes on YouTube so you can see video versions as well. Check out Booking the Territory, the unprofessional wrestling podcast. And these guys, you know, Mike Mills, Hard Body Hopper, Doc Turner, they're covering WWE Saturday night. They've been covering it going all the way back to 85, and they're up to 1994. Now they're in March 1994. The latest episode was covering March 12, 1994. Check that out. Booking the Territory. Also check out our vantage point, the retro wrestling podcast with Joe Morata and Michael Quinn. And they're covering weekly episodes of wwf. And they've been doing that all the way back to 1983 and now they're in 1988. So check out the latest episode covering April 16th of 1988 and also check out JV and I and Rick Bibi on the Extreme ECW Live Cast. Our latest episode was covering December 6th and 13th of 1997 and that's available on the booking the territory patreon five dollar tier. We also have a free feed that is available wherever you get your podcast, Extreme ECW Livecast. And the latest episode available there is the episodes covering April 15th, 22nd, 29th, 1997 right after the first pay per view Barely Legal. So check that out on the free feed. But if you want to get up to date with our latest episodes, go over to Booking the Territory and sign up for that $5 tier. All right, thanks guys for listening. JV, any final words before we head on out of here?

Nah, man, was fun.

Yeah, that was fun. 1. And I'll never think of Sherry without thinking about a microphone. All right, with that said, thanks guys. Have a good month and have a good Thanksgiving and we'll see you soon. So long.

And that's the bottom line. As far as I'm concerned, this is over with. So get the hell out of here.

Sa.