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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- On This week's Something To Wrestle With Bruce Prichard, Bruce and Conrad discuss the 1995 Royal Rumble! Hear all about the Rumble in the "New Generation" era! Opening the show was one of the great sleeper matches in WWE history, as Razor Ramon defends the Intercontinental Championship against Jeff Jarrett! A not so fondly remembered match between the Undertaker and IRS follows, plus WWE Champion Diesel has his first high profile title defense, against the former champion Bret Hart. In a tournament final to crown new WWE Tag Team Champions, The 1-2-3 Kid and Bob Holly faced and defeated Bam Bam Bigelow and Tatanka to win the titles, which sent a raging Bigelow after Lawrence Taylor in a post match brawl that sets up the Wrestlemania XI main event! And finally, the Rumble match itself, which showcases Shawn Michaels, but includes regular top names like The British Bulldog, Owen Hart, King Kong Bundy, Lex Luger, The Smoking Gunns, Crush, Bob Backlund and more! PLUS, Pamela Anderson!
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Who remembers this VHS with the super nintendo cheat codes by Todd Pettengill at end of tape????...good ol' Coliseum video.... Thanks Conrad for such a badass podcast. Been listening for a couple years now. Roll tide...
Too bad the game they had codes for was crap(Wrestlemania the Arcade Game). I wish they would've made a game like Fire Pro that had those same graphics.
@ Me either, best game then was steel cage for sega cd. Only thing it was missing was Royal Rumble, tag team matches and Hogan and Warrior. But overall a big roster for those days and pretty cool having the cage.
I can still hear Bret Hart saying “toward, toward, and power punch”. 😂
Last night, I had a dream that I was at a restaurant eating, looked up, and saw Bruce. I walked over and said hello, and he gave me a big smile and a handshake. I need to take a long, hard look at my life.
I had a dream I ran into Sid vicious at a water park and he was wearing floaties lol
Even I wasn't that deep into this show but RESPECT 💯 for the dream lol.
Last night I had a bad dream, that I was trapped in this city. Then I asked, is that really such a bad thing?
@@brianmcdonald7017 He actually ran into my fist in WcW
Dude I go to sleep listening to this shit and have wrestling dreams all the time. I’m 41 so have time to grow out of it at least
Royal Rumble talk starts at 13:07.
Doing the Lord's work
MVP status
Love the ist 13:07
you deserve all the goods in life
Anyone else listens to STW while trying to go to sleep? Conrad's Voice conks me right out most nights.
Hahaha i thought i was the only one who did thst
I do this!
... while I shit
@@SupaStah01 You should watch 'The Morning Deuce' at that time...
Yeah it's a goodone... the wrestling bios does it as well.
Love the Police Academy 5 picture design 👍
Very, very, VERY good taste, sir. 🏙️🗣️📢👮🏅🎷⛳🐠
"Yeah, we've seen Smackdown." Great timing on that one Conrad
I didn't know Tracy Smothers is sick my prayers to a man who makes me smile every timē I see him
It's so wild cuz that dude is notorious in the biz but yet i've never came across him when i was watching in all those years
That Bret Hart vs.Diesel match was DAMN good especially that finish. Sad we don't get finishes or let alone the multiple interferences in matches like that anymore
@@acecadet8812
I had liked that as well. We saw Diesel do a tweener turn before going full heel when he attacked HBK,Bret & Taker with a chair at an MSG house show
The match was great, but the finish? I don’t think a non-finish is ever good on a PPV.
Razor usually was the IC champion come time of the Rumble. In fact, all of Scott Hall's Rumble appearances were title matches.
Cdubya Yep 93 challenged Bret for the WWF title and the next three he defended the IC title. So he was never in the actual Rumble as they rarely did double duty back then. Funny enough, the bogus Razor Ramon WAS in the Rumble match in 97.
I was born in the states in 82. My family moved to Europe in 1990, and by then I was hooked as a fan just by catching the 89’ Wwf PPV’s. My cousin would send me VHS tapes of all the ppv’s except 90 and 97. I look at back and remember how different the company became year after year. All the little changes in presentation, the characters, the announcing, logos etc. This royal rumble felt different. But so did 94 survivor series. Man those were the days as a kid. After 96 he stopped sending me tapes. When I returned to the states in 97/98, you can imagine my shock at how the landscape had changed. Bret was gone from WWF, Shawn formed DX, and Hogan took over WCW with Razor and Diesel. Even if I had a million chances, I couldn’t predict these turn of events. What a fascinating thing pro wresting can be!
My favorite Royal Rumble
Bulldog was always putting Shawn over. It used to piss me off. Royal Rumble(loss), 2 world title matches (draw, loss), lost both IC and European titles to Shawn. I never saw Shawn return the favor to Bulldog. I'm sure it had nothing to do with Shawn refusing to lose to anyone (sarcasm).
out of everyone on the poster parody for Police Academy 5, Bam Bam looks the most natural lol
Royal Rumble 1990 questions begin at 3:16.
Royal Rumble is always my favorite time of the year.
You guys should do a full show on Dave Meltzer and all the years he's been writing on pro wrestling
Bruce hates dave
Fuck Dave Meltzer
17:40 No Bruce, it was every 60 seconds in the 1995 Rumble.
For someone who left this ppv on loop all day, he sure misses key details mentioned on the broadcast several times.
Let’s keep it movin’
Yea wasnt that the year they hyped saying it will be the craziest Rumble yet? It was done in about 35 mins. And HBK was great in it but other than that it sucked. It was every 30 seconds I think not even 60. The match official duration is 30 mins and 39 second's. Unless that site's also wrong.
@@johncap7201 Yeah, but even Shawn's greatness was compromised by the fact that he didn't have to last 60 minutes from the number one position. Many people who DIDN'T win the Rumble over the years lasted longer than Shawn did in '95 as the winner.
@@Dizzy1980 Yes I know, but HBK made up for it in 96 and the Rumbles he was in during his second run. 95 was really the worst year ever for wrestling as a whole. But if not for that year we would have never gotten what followed. I just the current product someday explodes and bounces back but I do not see that happening any time soon.
I'm also a fat guy, but it's so obvious that Conrad has put on so many lbs from this opening commercial to now.
Thanks for asking my question, Conrad!
Backlund at this time was awesome. Those promos and always saying the plebians and always looking angry was entertaining
Love the Bret vs Diesel match and it really pissed me off in the moment how they wouldn’t DQ Bret after all the underhanded tactics. Plus the ref was seemingly favoring Bret. Allowed him to use a chair, and made Diesel back off of him as he was playing possum. Then doesn’t put the turnbuckle pad back on after Owen interferes. Just didn’t make sense to me, as they DQ matches all the time for much less. I was halfway expecting them to continue again after everyone hit the ring. Lmao! Good stuff, I enjoyed it.
Another great episode Conrad and Bruce!!!
"Wrestling used to be about two people pretending to hurt each other and everyone believing they did. To two people actually hurting each other and noone believing they do" - Jim Cornette
WIth all the RR 90 talk at the beginning, I thought the show was mislabeled
STW has to the best wrestling podcast going 👌
That Backlund impression though.... lol
Also really loved the Double J vs Razor match. Great stuff and I didn’t think he would get title there in that situation in Florida. Just a great match IMO. And I loved the roadie! Hilarious how he tries to stay out of sight and offers Double J a towel/ bottle of water throughout the match! Lmao!! Really great stuff.
I believe D-Von Dudley has never been in a Royal Rumble either, despite being on multiple Rumble PPV cards. In fact, it was both Bubba and D-Von who had never been in a Rumble match until that one year Bubba made a surprise appearance (2015? 2016?)
The 1 minute rumble. Hated that. Made it weaker. Though HBK and BB starting it and ending it was good.
I been wondering for years can WWE now pull off another one like this but with 90 seconds and go for 1 hour iron man style. I understand Rey and HHH went the distant but both men werent the final 2. Somehow wanna see a recreation though.
Also Austin and McMahon went the distance but not in the ring.
Should have included the likes of Jarrett, Razor, IRS, Undertaker in the Rumble. Also having Owen Hart in there for 8 seconds?? And you have Crush and Adam Bomb coming in for the last five minutes? Yet the first half have the likes of Well Dunn? I love this pay per view but the Rumble match was so badly booked.
Still better than anything WWE has done in the last 7 years.
1995 was a shocking year for wwe though
500th like! Shawn and Davey Boy really saved this Rumble. Very memorable. Great stuff!
Bruce says Dave was misinformed right after trying to tell us that VHS sales were going down because of DVD's and laser discs in 1995 not because the company was garbage. Laser disc was a niche format. It never took over VHS. Also, DVD's didn't out-sell VHS until 2001 a whole six years later. What a dope.
We had DVD in 93.... Considering my dad worked for a TOSHIBA plant in IN...
I'm pretty sure Twister which came out in 1996 was the first major movie to be released on DVD.
@@MrAdrenaline1982 idk if that's true. I know the first Disney film on DVD came out in 1998 but that's not even my point. The point is DVD's and laser disc played no impact on the VHS market in 1995 or 96 for that matter. DVDs didn't overtake VHS sales until half a decade later. Bruce just spews nonsense.
ive never understood why 1 is worse than 2 when they both start at the same time
in fact 1 is better than 2 as one gets a rest while two has their entrance
1 is also an advantage as you can attack number 2 as he/she enters the ring.
This show would've been 7 stars of it were I'm the Tokyo Done.
Fuck dave meltzer
@@shane-irish 😂🤣
@@kevinlee9929 and im a subscriber to him lol
RIP English
Rumors and innuendos pal.
I loved the idea of the first 2 being the final 2. The problem with this Rumble is what little star power involved in this match besides those 2. Most of the other big names in the company were in other matches on this show but not in the Royal Rumble match itself. Not sure why not as we've seen guys do double duty in other years. On top of that 2 of the other bigger names in this match were Owen Hart and Bob Backlund and neither lasted very long thanks to Bret's interference.
There were basically zero full-time main eventers in this match at the time. This was the beginning of HBK becoming a regular main eventer but he wasn't there yet. Owen, Backlund, and Luger all had brief stints as main eventers but by this point were basically upper mid-card guys who could do occasional main event duty. I don't recall Davey main eventing a PPV outside of the UK but he was a solid upper mid-card guy like the rest mentioned. HBK would eventually go on to be the biggest name, but going into this match that was probably Luger who barely had a storyline at this point.
Conrad: what's the first thing that comes to mind?
UA-cam Ad: Awkward, the christian dating app
Me: I can't be mad about that timing
Summerslam 95 please!
Twenty five years later, I had forgotten all about Mantaur. Hooves, indeed.
How did you forget about MAN-taur!?!?!
Oh wow, I'm watching this episode for the first time and I had no idea Jimmy Del Ray had passed. RIP. I think first time I ever saw a moonsault.
I REALLY hated the one minute intervals in this Rumble. Glad they did away with it. The weak roster of folks coming in really didn't help.
Edit: AND Timothy Well!? Geez.
Mr. Perfect should of won the 1990 rumble. Plain and simple.
have*
@@jasonbantle gotta love an unto correct Nazi. Just couldn't help yourself could ya?
Bullion Bully B-Clay you weren’t auto corrected. You legitimately did not know how to spell and I helped you.
Yeah I remember this year because I didn't have cable tv so I couldn't watch Raw and Superstars was on at about 3am early Sunday morning so couldn't watch any wrestling. Dark times...
@ghostgaming who gives a fuck, fucker?
The mantaur segment is hysterical
56:33 awesome ad.
Conrad seems like a nice guy. Ya know, other than that whole preying on the fiscally irresponsible.
wayell, you know.
Conrad the con.
Conrad The Chat Me Up Con Thompson
If they're stupid enough to pay all that money. Then that's on them.
It's called running a business, explain exactly what hes doing wrong?
Why wasn't Butch Reed in this Rumble? Dude was over in Florida .
I would put this Royal Rumble in my top 10. The Rumble was actually only about a minute for entrants. Shawn Micheals was in there for 38:41. I wished there were video for this episode. It would have been funny to see the facial of Conrad when he asked about the mantaour character that was some funny shit. I thought they used the celebs right. I dont know what Meltzer is drinking. It was plain as day the directions for celeb heading into mania 11. I would say from 94-96 was a rebuilding year for WWE after the steroid trial.
Meltzer’s limited human interaction is most obvious when he assumes 9 out of 10 segments, gimmicks, or angles are ribs. 😂
Is there an edit of these episodes where we hear the fatter guy less?
Lol at bischoff and vince mcmahon fighting over jacque rojeau.
Gotta drop the Browns off at the Super Bowl 00:58:38
I like how pritchard smooths over the meeting Vince had with the talent about WCW. Love X-pac's take on the meeting "You guys aren't going fucking NOWHERE!!!"
The Q & A at the end of the episodes have easily become my least fav part of the show. Its like a crap shoot of i don't knows when even someone like me (a not so cynical fan) can tell you Razor Ramon had high profile matches at the rumbles he performed in & that's why he was never in the rumble as opposed to " I have no idea "
Meltzer says the crowd was Meh, I was there, it was loud as all hell up in the noose bleeds. Plus the sun dome has these wobbly ass wooden bleachers which we all stomped the hell out of. I will admit tho, the rumble entrants did take a few seconds to figure out who was who. The feeling of ecstacy when our boy the bull dog won only to realize that shawn hadn't actually been eliminated. We were devastated. We booed our asses off while others were still trying to understand what just happened. But it was the most fun I ever had at a wwe show and the biggest ppv tampa ever got. That truly will always be a cherished memory I got to share with my father.
Hey. Do you realize you have a 45 long episode of the Rocks show on NBC runni g as an ad on this
I had never heard about that with Ultimate Warrior and selling fake belts. That is hilarious
"What are we doing with our life?".....LMAO.
The real question is what are all of us doing with our lives
1:00:49-Dave Meltzer didnt know this shit!?!? I was 14 and i knew the story that everyone was just laughing at Bam Bam!
Royal rumble talk???? I cant find it.
Brother love 2020 rumble
Where the fuck can I find me some Jerry Jarrett Chicken Salad? Goddamn it! I need to have it! Motherfuck! Shit! I NEED Jerry Jarrett's Chicken Salad! NOW!!!!!!
So I pay 9 bucks a month for ad free shows and now more ads appear
I love Bam Bam. Every time I watch him I am so impressed. He was so athletic and talented. Also, I think Kid busted his mouth up with a kick to the face off the top rope. Looked like he nailed him and Bigelow was bleeding.
Agree very athletic
Best show to wash dishes to. 👍
This show is tame compaired to how it used to be.
I was expecting Conrad to start dancing to Slick's music.
1:13:40 What you all came here for. I'd totally mark out if Bruce did this backstage on air on RAW with both double Js one day.
Who was Bruce talking about when he said there is somebody that doesn’t like Tom, but likes Bruce. This one is a story I must not know?
1:33:00 a wrestlers time is based on the buzzer, not the time in the ring. Owen Hart lasted closer to two minutes while he was being beaten up outside by Bret...
Rude was injured and retired by 94 not in the rumble
Conrad laughs like the principal on saved by the bell just saying
They should have thrown Dave Meltzer off the Jericho cruise.
Subscribed for ya and him
Have a good weekend
Bret never allowed Nash to pin him. At least not in the WWF.
Who is Bruce talking about, supposedly the only person who likes Bruce more than Tom?
Who The Fuck Likes You and Hates Tom - CONRAD"S LAUGH LMFAO around 33:24 That Was Hilarious
I did not know IRS was the Fiends father.
You would think Jean Paul Leveque would have portrayed Jean Pierre Lafitte
Shades of the Roadie when he did B-Lo
I forget my old shit...yea we've seen smackdown lmao
Meltzer just looking for shit that ain't there with his complaints over Pam and L.T.'s reaction. Pam's reactions at ringside just played like a regular's girls response. Like she's just embarrassed and just awkward. Like she's just trying to laugh it off. Makes perfect sense to me. "FUCK DAVE MELTZER"!
Enjoy this rumble but don't think the rumble itself is the best. Like the finish. Its spoiled by the fans at ringside noticing that both feet haven't touched.
Hated the faster rumble thing. Wait all year for it an was giving this shit.
I have to respectfully disagree with Bruce I always thought that Shawn and Diesel had better chemistry than Bret Hart. Both are good wrestlers no doubt, but Shawn and Diesel imo had arguably one of the best natural fits of all time.
How big was Batista's ...?
Diesel actually never beat Bret clean. Only via DQ at the 1994 King of the Ring. It's kinda sad I don't even have to look this up lol.
Shawn Michaels did make a cameo on Baywatch.
His acting was shit:D
So did Giant Gonzalez
"buy the expensive tickets guys"-it just shows how far from reality from the average Joe that millionaires like Conrad are
Why the hell did Typhoon come up at the beginning of this podcast????
Nah man, Conrad is Akeem's son.
I still am shaking my head on Bam Bam vs LT as the main event.
I used to rent this Ppv on VHS like twice a month for years and I'd always hit ( stop & rewind ) going into the main event.
What a yawn.
Nobody cared except Vince and his yes men
why didn't you buy it at that point? ha
1:04:00...So Sherri Martell is, “long overdue”, but #TrishStratus isn’t ?!? 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
2020 ‘s shows r off to an AMAZING start!
Who said Trish wasnt? Sherri just is MORE overdue than any other female past or present.
I get that Conrad is technically loosely employed by WWE, but he needs to stop with the "we" and "we're" when he's talking about things from the past. He wasn't a part of the business in '95 to say "we weren't drawing big numbers."
Bruce Prichard said he thought this Royal Rumble match was GOOD ......WOOOOOOOW. LOL SMH
It was
@@theSFjammer Thats your opinion. I personally didn't enjoy a Rumble match filled with 90% jobbers that had Owen Hart in for 3 seconds.
True..to me only take away was the 60 seconds time. Btw that happened to Owen due to storyline of Bret getting back at him and Backlund for costing him the title.
@@theSFjammer I understand what you're saying bro. But between Bulldog and HBK working the whole match and the 1 min interval (which this is the only time its ever happened) WWE knew this was a weak Rumble roster. The Owen thing was storyline, but man .... they could have used him being in there for 20 mins cause they lacked star power BAD.
True very lack of starpower. Owen and Backlund deserved more time. Also Luger was saved for the second half was best for him. They shouldve have done more with Mabel and Bundy with more time they them both consider as "HEAVY" favorite.
This rumble is by far the worst i've seen... only 60 seconds between entrants.... jobbers galore
I cannot believe I heard Bruce Prichard said he thought this shit was good. SMH
96 wasnt dat good either
1999 is the worst
@@justin9767 1996 > 1995
@@eeeeewewew Naw. 1995 is HORRIBLE.
#dieselvBrethart
This Royal Rumble was supposed to be in Buffalo New York my hometown best city in the world LOL easy now. But there was a conflict in schedule so they moved it to Tampa Bay oh well one day we'll get a big for pay-per-view here in the seven one six. By the way anybody hear about when he was talking about Vinnie Paz? Boxing? Is it the Vinnie Paz the rapper from Philadelphia????? Anyways happy New Year hope this year brings you all good health and good wealth greetings from Buffalo New York by the way San Francisco wins the Superbowl 35 17 over Kansas City
Had it been in Buffalo the crowd reactions would have been way better.
Ths rumble Is when i became a shawn mark,
Honestly good guy shawn michaels always bored me to tears. I always preferred Shawn as a cocky heel. Sadly his entire 2nd run from 2002 to the end was like 99 percent face work.
I agree, I never bought Shawn as a babyface. It was too forced and too phony. He was deliciously enjoyable as a cocky bastard heel.
@J Crash he was a pretty brutal heel with his feud with hogan though lol
When did you become an ugly-ass dog mark?
I was ok with Rumble 95. Not the best but then not the worst. I liked the match between Bret and Diesel, but too many run ins spoiled it for, even though there was a story to it, that slowly burned to SS 95. didn't like Rumble. Too short, too quick and Shawn was the only credible winner. Shawn lasting 29 guys in as many minutes was a bit tainted. Sione was Sione, not Barb because he was a head shrinker. also, my fav Mo moment was Rumble 94 when he was potatoed and heard shouting, 'Ah Shit!'
Can you smelllllllllllllllllll, what the brock is cooking
Naw he only comes to the kitchen twice a year so he doesn't have anything cooking
Thanks 4 answering q
When they cut up the announcing, that was around the time when the SUPER cynical critic was in the media. Everything sucks, it's all a bore, sooooo last year.
It always facanated me that the most powerful pdo wrestling promoter of all time hates pro wrestling!!! He hates terms like wrestling, wrestler,booker,anything that's says pro wrestling!! Weird