Met this awesome guy at Comic Con in San Diego. I told him I was a fan of his as Tugboat and just by me remembering him as Tugboat it made his day. He shook my hand and I felt Starstruck.
How tall would you say he was? I've seen two different heights for him. Sometimes he looked as tall as Earthquake, who was 6'7", but on his WWE Alumni profile, he's listed at 6'3"
I’ve heard nothing but amazing things about him.. the consummate professional who did his job.. I would love to meet all the old school guys one day...
+Ty Marshall The Shockmaster really isn't a "bad thing". It's a gimmick that fell completly flat, yes, but that's to no real fault of the man, for one, secondly I think the commentor was talking more about Ottoman as a person and worker. Not that "everything he did was perfect", but that "whatever he did he was a good guy".
About the Shockmaster tripping up, it turns out that he tripped over a piece of wood on the bottom of the wall or something that wasn't there when he practiced the routine of bursting through the wall. Even so, the gimmick wouldn't have worked as he had an odd costume with a weird coloured stormtrooper helmet and someone else doing the voice for the character so odds are that it would've flopped even if he hadn't tripped.
Ty Marshall the shockmaster was doomed to fail even if he didn’t trip. the stupid glittery stormtrooper helmet, captain caveman vest, and jeans...terrible costume overall.
Well, you cant expect wrestlers to be supernice and talk for hours to everyone. They sometime travel 300 days a year and has a hard job, the body takes a lot of pain. So....have that in mind. Would you be eager to chat with someone asking you your lifestory after working 2 weeks in a row and taking hundreds of bums?
@@Millwall77 Makes sense. On a somewhat relevant note, one thing that annoyed me about the wrestler CM Punk was him bitching about fans wanting to approach him when he'd be at public places like airports while he was WWE champion back in 2012. If you're WWE champion, you're going to be popular, and on average, people are going to be more interested in approaching you than if you're a midcarder like Carlito was, or a jobber like Zack Ryder was. If CM Punk didn't want to have so much attention, then he could have asked to stop being champion and be out of the main event spotlight. In 1995, people probably wanted to approach the WWF champion Diesel a lot more than Dean Douglas, who wasn't a main eventer.
This man one of the hardest hitting of all time off those ropes. Let him get up a little steam and lights out. He was a tank at 400 and a fast man on his feet for that size with unbelievable power.
He was one of my favourite characters when I first started watching WWE. He was sorta like Bluto but as a good guy. The music always stuck in my head too. I didn't like Typhoon as much though.
Yeah, but it was still nice when him and Earthquake finally turned babyface. Would’ve been funny if when they did turn babyface..... Fred could’ve become Tugboat again rather than remaining as Typhoon. But then of course there would have been no point calling them the Natural Disasters. There wasn’t even a natural buildup as far as I can remember, to him turning heel in the 1st place. Maybe I missed something 🤷🏻♂️. That match with the Bushwhackers and Tugboat against Earthquake and the Nasty Boys...... didn’t really see that heel turn coming. I get that Vince probably wanted a new monstrous team, but I think he needed to build up the heel turn. It seemed far too quick.
I loved watching Tugboat wrestle. He would take those jobbers and toss them around with no effort at all. I was surprised that he manhandled The Undertaker the way he did. I wish I could meet him one day, I've heard great things about him.
I always felt that wwe could’ve expanded this gimmick, he was great as typhoon with earthquake, but he could move around the ring really well, and I wish the tugboat character stuck around, imagine him and Diesel as a TagTeam
I see this, think back to Diesel's original theme and compare the two. Damn that Jim Johnston is a freakin genius. Made a whole lot of money with just things that go HOO! HOO!
I Like him as tugboat and typhoon plus it's kind of strange seeing him wrestle his future tagteam partner Earthquake, John tinta before He turned heel and became typhoon
The original plan for a Tugboat heel turn was to make HIM an Iraqi sympathizer as Shiek Tugboat and beat the Ultimate Warrior for the WWF Title for a brief run before losing it to Hulk Hogan. Vince changed his mind and brought back Sgt. Slaughter instead.
His theme reminds me all of the NES games that I played in my life
Devon Reed sounds more like a Genesis theme...Desert strike or something like that
ivor biggun nope, sounds more SNES than Sega Genesis
😂😂😂 Sound like sum shit you would hear in Die Hard movie
Wow yes.
SNES, when the console first came out
Met this awesome guy at Comic Con in San Diego. I told him I was a fan of his as Tugboat and just by me remembering him as Tugboat it made his day. He shook my hand and I felt Starstruck.
You weren’t shocked? Bedazzled?
How tall would you say he was? I've seen two different heights for him. Sometimes he looked as tall as Earthquake, who was 6'7", but on his WWE Alumni profile, he's listed at 6'3"
@@BigMoneysLife he looked about 6’4 alright. Big dude.
Lucky you.
Lucky. Always wondered how he was in person.
Tugboat reminds me of Bluto from Popeye the sailor man 😂😂😂😂
typhoon
Blitz after a baby face turn.😁
Actual he’s bluto with Popeyes gimmick…. Pluto 😂😂
Thats Where I Developed Fetishes After I Saw Bluto Touch Olive In Different Ways
Tugboat also looks like Captain Lou Albano
Before A-Train, before Diesel there was Tugboat.
I’ve heard nothing but amazing things about him.. the consummate professional who did his job.. I would love to meet all the old school guys one day...
I've never heard a bad word said about Fred, only that he was a consummate professional and gave his all in the business, whatever roll he was given.
+TheCodedtestament how about The Shock Master
+Ty Marshall
The Shockmaster really isn't a "bad thing".
It's a gimmick that fell completly flat, yes, but that's to no real fault of the man, for one, secondly I think the commentor was talking more about Ottoman as a person and worker.
Not that "everything he did was perfect", but that "whatever he did he was a good guy".
About the Shockmaster tripping up, it turns out that he tripped over a piece of wood on the bottom of the wall or something that wasn't there when he practiced the routine of bursting through the wall. Even so, the gimmick wouldn't have worked as he had an odd costume with a weird coloured stormtrooper helmet and someone else doing the voice for the character so odds are that it would've flopped even if he hadn't tripped.
Ty Marshall the shockmaster was doomed to fail even if he didn’t trip. the stupid glittery stormtrooper helmet, captain caveman vest, and jeans...terrible costume overall.
Thug boat
LOL
👍🤘
rocks the hat like a real G
0:01 that face tho
Fred was one hell of a compeditor. I loved watching him as tugboat and typhoon alongside John Tenta as the earthquke
I got the chance to talk to Fred.
He really was a decent bloke outside wrestling. Many of my older heros turned out to be douches.
@Craig Colby seriously
@Craig Colby Ok, now you got us hooked. Out with the whole story.
Well, you cant expect wrestlers to be supernice and talk for hours to everyone. They sometime travel 300 days a year and has a hard job, the body takes a lot of pain. So....have that in mind. Would you be eager to chat with someone asking you your lifestory after working 2 weeks in a row and taking hundreds of bums?
@@Millwall77 Makes sense. On a somewhat relevant note, one thing that annoyed me about the wrestler CM Punk was him bitching about fans wanting to approach him when he'd be at public places like airports while he was WWE champion back in 2012. If you're WWE champion, you're going to be popular, and on average, people are going to be more interested in approaching you than if you're a midcarder like Carlito was, or a jobber like Zack Ryder was. If CM Punk didn't want to have so much attention, then he could have asked to stop being champion and be out of the main event spotlight. In 1995, people probably wanted to approach the WWF champion Diesel a lot more than Dean Douglas, who wasn't a main eventer.
Because Only Kids Should Meet These Guys, Why TF Would Anybody Want To Meet Some 30 Or 40 Year Old Man???
At 0.75 speed it literally sounds like an SNES boss level music
This is an 80s theme, so that would make more than sense...
It does lol
And if you speed it to 1.25 speed it sounds like the time limit winding down on a SNES game lmao
This man one of the hardest hitting of all time off those ropes. Let him get up a little steam and lights out. He was a tank at 400 and a fast man on his feet for that size with unbelievable power.
450 ?
He was around 385 lbs.
Me when I survive from Somalian pirates attack
I can't remember Tugboat ever having a bad match as Tugboat of Typhoon
Come on Tuggers, fighting round the world!
He was one of my favourite characters when I first started watching WWE. He was sorta like Bluto but as a good guy.
The music always stuck in my head too.
I didn't like Typhoon as much though.
Yeah, but it was still nice when him and Earthquake finally turned babyface. Would’ve been funny if when they did turn babyface..... Fred could’ve become Tugboat again rather than remaining as Typhoon. But then of course there would have been no point calling them the Natural Disasters. There wasn’t even a natural buildup as far as I can remember, to him turning heel in the 1st place. Maybe I missed something 🤷🏻♂️. That match with the Bushwhackers and Tugboat against Earthquake and the Nasty Boys...... didn’t really see that heel turn coming. I get that Vince probably wanted a new monstrous team, but I think he needed to build up the heel turn. It seemed far too quick.
This was his best gimmick I reckon
this guy reminds me of bluto from popeye the sailorman
STOP CALLING HIM THE SHOCKMASTER!
How about "Tugmaster" instead? :-3
Thugmaster
Tugfaster
Typhoon
I loved watching Tugboat wrestle. He would take those jobbers and toss them around with no effort at all. I was surprised that he manhandled The Undertaker the way he did. I wish I could meet him one day, I've heard great things about him.
Tugboat is one of the best wrestlers of the 1990s
Best? Best? He could move for his size but best?
@@Millwall77 thanks man
Early 90’s
He had a bad ass match with diesel before he jumped ship to wcw in the summer of 94. Good entertaining big dude.
I always felt that wwe could’ve expanded this gimmick, he was great as typhoon with earthquake, but he could move around the ring really well, and I wish the tugboat character stuck around, imagine him and Diesel as a TagTeam
Just thinking abt him TOOT! TOOOOT!
Vince: "Hey, I have an idea. Let's bring in a huggable sailor type guy and have Hogan befriend him...."
This is EXCELLENT. Talk about great timeing 4 the horn along with the action from Tugboat :)
Man, never seen anyone really manhandle Undertaker like that before. lol
A great example of a somewhat silly gimmick on one hell of an intimidating wrestler.
the beat is badass
I see this, think back to Diesel's original theme and compare the two. Damn that Jim Johnston is a freakin genius. Made a whole lot of money with just things that go HOO! HOO!
Dude is a beast.
This is my phone alarm
0:24❤❤
0:25❤❤
Damn this man can wrestle.
From Norfolk, Virginia, Weighing 384 Pounds, TUGBOAT!
Thank you, Tugboat the best!
Good ol Uncle Fred:-)
10 year old me loved Tugboat!
He deserved to be in the hall of fame
Fir his weight he is fast. Not like khali who walks like he dont have knees
I saw a video of khali in shorts and he devoted no time to developing his legs. I think Shawn Bradley could probably squat more than him
Our partner is gonna shock the world because he's none other than the sockmast... of wait, its tugboat...
Damn hahahahaha so true
This song fires me right the F up.
After I have that first cup of coffee in the morn , this theme starts playing and you know what time it is ......
hes like one of those bosses from a sega game 😂
haha childhood memories I was big fan of Tugboat and his entrance music
Love it with the soundtrack...homage to Tugboat!
what up shockmaster
Best alarm clock ringer ever
At first I wasn't keen on the 2nd foghorn being a little off time and after listening many times over I realized the error of my ways and it's genius.
I made the mistake of opening this video while I was drunk. My friend and I could not stop laughing.. the blowhorn and Tugboat making them faces
Yeahhh Yeahhh yeahhh"" I love that damn Boat sound for real.. R.i.P Tugboat and Earthquake
I imagine that the two of them are hanging out together in Heaven and talking about their wrestling days over a pile of cheeseburgers.
@@girlgarde tugboat is alive and well, dude. Its earthquake who died several years ago.
Tugboat is still alive..........
Tugboat is still alive
Tugboat is still alive
A.K.A. the Shockmaster!
Sad!!!!!!!!!
But
True?
I remember when he was big bubba in Memphis wrestling, one of the most agile big men in wrestling. They put him in a marching band uniform in the wwf.
I really miss this era of wrestling
Same😢 what a time was that
Got to meet him in person. Lemme tell ya, ain’t no one pulling the legacy of the WWF like Tugboat
Great theme
He was the car ahead of me in Nov 1989 in the It's A Small World ride at Disney World. My father and I spotted him.
This man's body is so epic
Evet
HOF tugboat and earth quake
The Natural Disasters
Tugboat wasn't a member of the natural disasters if that's what you meant
But he was a member I a different gimmick
Typhoon*
awesome job
Dat childhood memory.......
I met him yesterday really nice guy
This my new alarm 🔥
Thats awesome. Best Entertainment.
Very cool beat
Uncaged: Shipwreck Rage!
A tipical music of end 80's
That IS SO AWESOME! HE.... HE IS THE TUGBOAT !!!!!
Now that is a man who has eaten ALOT OF BEEF....
The shock master
Greatest of all time
The grand master of the shock
The timing of the "Honky" Sound Kills me badly!
He is the Shockmaster!
" i think that was uncle fred"
The boat sound 🛥 his face 😮 His hand 🤜.
cracked up the whole time
Go get em tugger!!!!
The Shock fuckin' Master! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I wonder will him and earthquake ever go into the hall of fame
Cool !
Great wrestler
GOAT
Se parece como la del super nintendo
God
Hes awesome
I love tugboat, he was my favourite wrestler at all times
I just met tugboat he gave me advice about going into wrestling
I Like him as tugboat and typhoon plus it's kind of strange seeing him wrestle his future tagteam partner Earthquake, John tinta before He turned heel and became typhoon
For whatever reason the tugboat theme popped into my head. ..here I am.
This theme gets better and better the older i get
Good days
I love him
feels like I'm playing DooM
Tugboat pretty damn but when yell's TWHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Bust my dman ears and makes laughs and same damn time LMAO
Uncle Fred... Uncle Fred, with his lil striped shirt on out there going ‘toot toot’ bebe is sheeeit...
this is the best
It's the Shockmaster in a different gimmick
Ty Marshall uuuh3heheh
STOP calling him the SHOCKMASTER!!!
Lmaoooo awesome
I was a little Tugger and I wanted Tugboat to win the WWF title so bad.
The original plan for a Tugboat heel turn was to make HIM an Iraqi sympathizer as Shiek Tugboat and beat the Ultimate Warrior for the WWF Title for a brief run before losing it to Hulk Hogan. Vince changed his mind and brought back Sgt. Slaughter instead.
this gimmick is not that shabby when you consider the creative team at the CNN Towers in Atlanta, GA decided on the Shockmaster
When I saw him as a kid I was like why is there a boat wrestler😂
he's a real life tug boat
The Captain of the boat TUGBOAT a man with the strength of a Warwis watch ppl AAAHOWY MATE