Superstar Bill Dundee Full Career Interview 2hrs!
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- Опубліковано 6 жов 2024
- Superstar Bill Dundee Full Career Interview 2hrs!
Former AWA World Tag Team Champion, Memphis Wrestling Legend and former WCW agent and manager "Superstar" Bill Dundee does a full career shoot interview with "The Hannibal TV" covering all sorts of topics such has his start in wrestling in Australia, coming to the US for the first time to wrestle for Jerry Jarrett in Memphis, working with Jerry Lawler, Hulk Hogan and many others, his time booking of Bill Watts's Mid South Wrestling, working for WCW, why he never got in WWE his heat with Macho Man Savage and the Undertaker, managing Lord Steven Regal, his Jerry Springer appearances, road stories and much more!
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You're literally helping to save and document wrestling history w/these shoots. Dundee and the whole Memphis, Atlanta, and Crockett territories presented a special type of wrestling. Much appreciated.
Memphis wrestling was not good. It was comedy matches and silly gimmicks. The ref breaks up every match constantly! People say how good the ratings were. Well if you have 3 channels and 2 are news it’s not hard to be number one. It’s a great fallacy, but a fallacy non the less.
@@isjones2112As a life long Southwest Tennessean, who grew up on Memphis wrestling from the 80's-early 90's, everybody around here had their console tv's tuned in to channel 5 on Saturday mornings. If something came up to where we had to leave our house, to go somewhere else, we didnt have to worry about missing the show. Because anywhere we went, if they owned a TV, it was on Channel 5. We watched Lawler, Dundee The Gilbert's, Brian Christopher, The Moondogs, The Jarretts, Sid, etc. Lawler and Sid used to come to my town of Bolivar back then and play Softball. If you only had 3 channels, you must have lived inside a cave and used bunny ears. I live way out in the woods, 70 miles from Memphis, and we had channels 3, 5, 7, 10, 11, 13, 16, 24 and 30. So for everything you said in your comment, I call BS on every bit of it!
Thanks
Bill Dundee should have been in the hall of fame years ago
which one?
He may not be the biggest but damn. He was a hell of a great wrestler. A great singles, tag team and a great interview. Truly a superstar.
Bill has a most fascinating accent and speech inflection, you can hear the Scots pronunciation over an old-school Aussie accent, but with Tennessee expressions. Sometimes he finishes his sentences with an Aussie deadpan and sometimes with the same inflections as Lawler and the Honky Tonk Man
Superstar Bill Dundee was and is one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. He definitely belongs in the HoF
Agree 💯
Bill was a great worker. He was as good as a heel or a face. His work with Lawler but as a team and enemies was great. Now hearing about his booking he was a great booker.
As stated by Stone Cold Steve Austin himself. Superstar Bill Dundee deserves to be in the Hall of Fame! Such a gigantic icon & legend of the wrestling business both as a worker and a great mind. Dundee could do it all! Walk the walk & talk the talk! He was definitely the work horse of the Memphis territory & for Watt's Mid South territory in Watt's best money making years
well said
Bill speaks in a Scottish, american, austrailian, welsh, tunisian, armenian, israeli, southern botswanin, czechoslovakian, romanian, bolivian, marsian, icelandic, german and ancient babylonian accent. 1 in a billion trillion
Thank you, Hannibal, for uploading Bill's Full Career. I've watched him since 1975 in Memphis.
Lawler, Dundee, Mantel and Idol were my Mount Rushmore of Wrestling growing up
Would still be mine 👍
Take Idol off put Bullet Bob on that’s my 4 favorites.
@@markharrison4415 Take Off Idol, add Jackie Fargo
Dundee will always be one of my all time favorite wrestlers and bookers. True talent and legend
Me Too
I bumped in to Bill at a Hardee's in Horn Lake Mississippi about 5 years ago....He's actually smaller in person than he even looks on Television...
Really Polite,but you could tell he was a tad bummed to be recognized by everyone in there.
Poor guy was just trying to grab a burger and get the hell out of there.
I could sense that so I only acknowledged him and settled for a handshake while waiting in line even though I really wanted a selfie with him.
Absolute LEGEND in Memphis Wrestling.
I love Hannibal's laugh. It's one of those laughs that makes you laugh lol
An underrated legend. Great interview and thanks for doing it!
Superstar Bill Dundee was and is one of the greatest wrestlers of all time.
Bill invited me in his house back in Tennessee. I lived with him and his wife and Jamie for a while. He is a good man.
The 1st Thursday of every month in the late 70s/ early 80s I was there at rupp arena in Lexington. I’ve seen Bill and Lawler a thousand times. Loved those days.
I have tons of respect for this man. He is a legendary phenomenon. He is tougher than a 2 dollar steak.
This man was a big part of my childhood. Even got to shake his hand one time in the very late 80's in Memphis, at a live Saturday morning tv taping. I was 8 or 9. I remember he had to have been wearing about a half gallon of cologne. 😂 Such a great performer.
Bill Dundee was the real man no fake shit like today
Brilliant interview. What a legend. Will be buying his book. Thanks Hannibal.
How was the book 📙?
Brand new shoot interview at 3:46am?!? Why not!
Keep 'em coming!!
I am half Vampire and work best at night!
Bill Dundee I had the pleasure of working with you for a few years at the 126 club. Thanks for the memories and the good times I owe you much and you will always be my hero
Loved watching this interview with The Superstar! Growing up in Louisville watching WRASLIN and was a huge fan in the late 70's early 80's.
One of the legends of wrestling no doubt!
As a longtime Memphis fan, really enjoyed this. Thank you for posting the entire interview!! Any chance you’ll be posting the entire Jerry Jarrett interview? Thanks again for doing these, you have one of the best channels on yt.
1:15:49 I love how bill lifts his butt and apparently farts silently and continues on like nothing happend 😂
I have an old photo, from '89 or '90 I think, of Bill Dundee, Jimmy Valiant, my grandma, and myself, taken by Wolfie D at Sadowski Field House, Ft.Knox,Ky. Harvey Wippleman/Downtown Bruno, Bam Bam Bigelow, Scott Steiner, Jeff Jarrett and Chris Champion were also on the card. Memories...
Bill Dundee comes across as very honest which seems rare in wrestling interviews 😁😉😏
On of the greatest most underrated wrestler of all time,should be in the hall of fame
Great interview Hannibal! We absolutely need one with Ken Patera now. Hell of a storyteller.
Sat morning ------- Hello everybody this is Lance Russell with Dave Brown, we got another big day of championship wrestling. Memories of my youth
Looked up a recent pic, he's JACKED for 75. Still clearly takes care of himself.
I loved watching Bill in the Mid 80s in Mid South! All the great talent flowed in and out of there. The stars and matches I saw! Back when wrestling was wrestling, Mid South was the wild west!
Glad I watched this, Bill D a great guy . Lots of honesty here. Wish could have known him .
Your were awesome bill I just started watching your wrestling and interviews from the 70s and 80s you were great Mr Dundee
Loved it. Thank You
Great stories, love hearing from the old timers. As a writer, I just see so many dark comedy road movies from all the stories these guys tell. Love it.
If I can get to the back of my car , I will restore order.
Great show man. Keep on giving them to us!
Thanks! Will do!
Awesome stuff Hannibal, keep em coming!
For me pound for pound the greatest wrestler of all time,what a worker an had all the moves,really miss him in the ring,but it's great to see him doing well,thx for the vid!!
Loved the Superstar from the time he and Barnes started in Tn
as always thank you sir
Top 5 favorite of all time! Whoop!! Whoop!!!
Compared to Jamie Dundee, Bill Dundee is a class act.
Jaimee Dundee makes Marty Jenetty look like Nick Bockwinkle. Besides, accordin to Jaimee, Bill was into some bad shit like fucking kids, just like Lawler.
🤣🤣🤣
I don't hold much stock in some of his stories.
Superstar ! One of the greatest of all time !
Good interview!
Gotta disagree about cornette, the cussing doesnt make him popular, its his wrestling knowledge
I only listen to Cornette because he says the F word a lot
His wrestling knowledge , other than the midnight , is only shit he's herd from people like bill dundee
@@imafreakinhistorian2169 that’s one of the dumbest comments I’ve read today. Cornette has one of the most extensive archives in the World of professional wrestling memorabilia, magazines , scholarly work etc. So his knowledge is based on a lifetime of studying the business as well as living it. He knows more about wrestling than anyone alive, and it’s not based on just hearsay.
@@joshmay2944 I agree
"He got over like a Steamship !" hahaha
Is it REMOTELY possible a territory could come back for Memphis? Maybe run 3-4 times a week at least? Or is there not enough money? Great interview again Hannibal, thank you
Blytheville Armory June 1980. Ringside eating Corn Dogs and drinking Beer. My grandma wanted to kick the refs ass for not paying attention. Bill Dundee was in a tag match. Don't remember who with. Great Night though!
Love Bill Dundee, one of my favorites....and he actually did wrestle Bruiser Brody in Memphis
in a tag match with Lawler vs Brody and Kareem Muhammad in '85, I think. Yeah, and it did look a little odd with Dundee in with those two huge guys, but good match. Its on here, I just happened to stumble across it the other day, then I saw this, lol. Id like to see you get The Grappler Len Denton on here Hannibal. Love your interviews.
Bill Dundee, rough, tough and hard to bluff.
Billy Dundee - George Barnes is probably still at Balmain watching this.
I used to look forward to Saturdays at 12 o'clock to watch championship wrestling here Louisville Kentucky I was too poor to go to Tuesday night at the Louisville gardens though
No stone unturned once again!
Arn never got over as a lone wrestler named Arn Anderson because he was a believable worker who protected the business and therefore protected the wrestlers around him so the top guys knew to attach themselves to him He’s An Anderson people enough said …
Dundee keeps puckering up his lips
I think he's flirting with ya *lmao*
lol...that's just old people shit
😂😂😂
Pleasing to hear how Jarret had been with Bill in word and action.
Adrian Street was truly a hell of a wrestler…
one of my favorites
But still here would have loved to heard Bill say Rick flair stole the Fargo strut !
Always thought lawler and dundee made a great tag team. Just as good as lawler and and austin idol. Dundee was very entertaining. So was jaime. Pg-13 at one time in the mid 90s i thought was memphis besr talent.entertainment wise anyways
Great interesting Interview . Tnx Hannibal! I love historian Interviews ; even when U don't Like Dundee U can watch it. But please don't make an Interview with His son. This Guy IS ..... No Words
And here we are, but that's another story.
Funny, I could always tell he was a Scot by that accent.
Billy Dundee was just an average bum in comparison to George Barnes who was the big star with all the talent in Australia. George Barnes wrestled with mask and called himself “The Original Mister Wrestling”. Barnes was also the tag team partner of Bobby Shane. Bobby Shane later went back to America and was killed in a plane crash somewhere in the Tampa Bay.
I’m not sure who the booker was in Australia after mark Lewin went back to America? It could have been at one time Bobby Shane or even Frankie Caine who wrestled as The Great Mephisto. Even after Jim Barnett sold the promotion to Tony Kolonie, there were still lots of great wrestlers coming to Australia.
The late Jack Little was the executive producer of World Championship Wrestling on Australian television and was a veteran American wrestling commentator who had been friends with promoters Jim Barnett and Johnny Doyle.
Occasionally Jack Little asked the wrestling fans which wrestlers they liked to come to Australia?
Apparently promoter Jim Barnett was gay, and wrestler George Barnes ones did a good impersonation of how he sounded.
There had been talk that after the Nine Network’s owner Sir Frank Packer passed away, some doubt existed if the network world continue producing the weekly television promotion, so this may have been one of the reasons that Jim Barnett sold the promotion to a former Hawaiian Tony Kolonie who resided in Sydney. Kolonie was more of an investor who would later get wrestlers Larry O’Day and Ronnie Miller to run the promotion for him. Even until the vestry end there were still top wrestlers coming to Australia and eventually the Nine Network’s new owner Kerry Packer decided to axe the television show and this caused the wrestling promotion to collapse in Australia.
Jim Barnett later started a new promotion back in America and decided to re-claim the name World Championship Wrestling once again after having sold it to Tony Kolonie.
Andre the Giant and others like Spiros Arion were very popular in Australia. Ox Baker, Harley Race, Mario Milano, King Curtis, Brute Bernard, Bruiser Brody were amongst the many popular wrestlers to wrestle in Australia.
Does he talk much about Dutch Mantell
From what Watt's has said trying to deal with the cooperate environment in WCW was a nightmare for him. I guess they wouldn't let him be fully in control and wouldn't let him get rid of dead weight.
Why did Jim Barnett leave Australia? It seems the taxman had a lot to do with it. So why was Jim scared of the taxman? It was claimed in one forum, from inside knowledge, that WCW had a silent financial partner who happened to be the organized crime king of Australia, Abe Saffron, known as Mr Sin. This makes sense, as Saffron was also known as the King of Kings Cross (Sydney), which is where Barnett stayed (in a penthouse) and ran the business from, and where the wrestlers stayed and hung out. You could not set up a business like that in Kings Cross, with that sort of cash flow, without Saffron having a piece of it
Saffron was largely untouchable, he bribed police, judges, politicians all over mainland Australia, however after a change of federal government late 72 the feds started to try and reel Saffron in. The only charge that ever stuck against Saffron over decades was tax evasion, they eventually discovered his two sets of books
It seems reasonable to speculate that if Barnett fled the country to avoid the taxman it may have had something to do with his financial arrangements with Mr Sin. It is possible perhaps logically inevitable that if the feds were trying to get Saffron through his accounting and taxes that they would target a business in Kings Cross like WCW to see what the account books revealed. Caught between the feds who could jail him on tax law and Saffron who could make him disappear Barnett chose to return to the US. They apparently tried to extradite Barnett which suggests the feds really wanted to ask him some questions
@4:10 I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU ASKED ABOUT SOMEONE'S GENITALS.... AGAIN ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️😳😳😳
Mr wrestling2 vs Tim woods
Nothing to do here but really sad many Great names just died and dissapeared away .. 40s 50s 60s and very early 70s...
You could hear the racist comments Flair would make when he was about to go at it with a black man,making it obvious he was racist against black people.
He was goofy.
Gooddayforapicnicsteaksandamovieandhotrods
Geez Bill what the hell happened to your face ? Too much gigging yourself?
Yes
DOES DUNDEE TALK ABOUT HIS FEUD WITH JOHN TATUM IN THE USWA AND THE GWF IN THIS INTERVIEW?!!
P. S.
NO HE DOESN'T MENTION HIS FEUD WITH JOHN TATUM OR JOHN TATUM AT ALL THROUGH OUT THE ENTIRE SHOOT INTERVIEW! FOR THOSE OF YOU OUT THERE THAT MIGHT BE INTERESTED?
SURPRISING, AND EVEN MORE SURPRISING THAT THE INTERVIEWER DIDN'T ASK DUNDEE ABOUT THE FEUD?!
BECAUSE SAID WAS QUITE SOMETHING IN VERY LATE 1980s BOTH ON THE USWA AND THE GWF!
ANYWAY, IT IS A VERY INTERESTING CHAT NONETHELESS...
You are only given so much time for interviews when you pay people for them in most cases I need to stick to the topics that most people know about.
@@TheHannibalTV OKAY, IT'S JUST THAT THERE FEUD APPEARED TO BE QUITE WELL KNOWN AND POPULAR DURING IT'S HEIGHT!
AND SPEAKING/TEXTING OF JOHN TATUM, DO YOU HAPPEN TO HAVE A VIDEO OF A MATCH FROM THE GWF NORTH AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP TOURNAMENT FROM AUGUST 10TH 1991,. BETWEEN JOHN TATUM AND AL PEREZ?!
AL PEREZ WINS THE MATCH AND ADVANCES TO THE NEXT LEVEL AGAINST THE PATRIOT!
MUCH TO JOHN TATUM'S CHAGRIN LOL 😂!
AND IT'S A GREAT MATCH ALSO!
IF YOU DO HAVE SAID, OR CAN FIND IT? PLEASE POST THE MATCH?!!
AND THANK🙏 YOU FOR YOUR REPLY AND YOUR GREAT UTUBE CHANNEL!!!
@@TheHannibalTV did bill dundee whoop jim jamison a few times
He ever was little he always was a Giant
Ive always love Bill's hillbilly aussie accent
Try and get ahold of his boy Jamie. I personally think that it would be a fucking entertaining interview
He's Goofy 🤣