The ONE Star WWE Wouldn't Get Away With Today!! | WWF WrestleMania V - Wrestle Me Review
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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Marc & Pete try to track down Akeem The African Dream's birth certificate (whilst trying not to mention the name of his tag-team), as they kick off their review of WWF WWE WrestleMania V 5 Five!!
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Pretty sure the joke with Akeem was that "the African Dream" was a jab at "the American Dream" and Dusty Rhodes' propensity to jiggle around the ring and talk "jive" in a stereotypical way.
This! I’m African American and I was a kid when this gimmick was out. It was utterly confusing and even as a kid, I didn’t like it. Now knowing the backstory, that’s hilariously petty of Vince! 😂
I genuinely wasn't sure if Vince was trying to hint that the African dream was to be a fat white guy 😬
Of course it was. But no-one outside the industry knew that at the time. So, to the audience, it's just One Man Gang pretending to be African.
Came here to say this! He’s not trying to act “African” he’s just trying to act like Dusty Rhodes!
This is one that's for the ones who know
“She’s the half sister of Jake the snake, the have the same dad..”
Yeah best to just leave that story there.
She been half-sister? 🤨
@@regkray Jake and Robins father, Grizzly Smith is such a scumbag that he may legitimately be the worst person to ever be involved in wrestling. And that’s over guys that have committed murder. His shits so awful I don’t even know how to type it without getting deleted. Let’s just say worst father ever. On numerous counts.
@@regkray look up their father, "grizzly smith". dude was a fucking monster.
@@YourEvilHenchman Did so. Evil bastard. Hope every person he abused is managing to find their own peace. Thanks for the heads up 👍
@@regkraywell aren't you nice, love seeing wholesome interactions.
Akeem/One Man Gang/Crusher Broomfield is a genuinely nice guy in real life and was also quite well liked by other wrestlers for his in-ring work. He wasn't out there performing moonsaults, but he knew how to work a superheavyweight match and more importantly, he knew how to control his 400 lbs. The Hitman was always a fan of his, and imo that counts for a lot.
Best big splash in the business
Big and a good worker. He should have been WWEs first black heavyweight champion.
😆
Why not, since Elizabeth Warren can be a Native American and Kamala Harris can be African American.
In 1989, a young Rachel Dolezal was watching Akeem in Wrestlemania V....
Her and Shaun King (Talcum X).
Let's not forget Kamala Harris who was inspired by Rachel Dolezal.
Bruce Pritchard says she volunteered to sing and no one ever checked to see if Rockin Robin knew how to sing. They just assumed she could because she volunteered ! 😂😂😂
Hats off to BanyaBat for this edit, the Jesse Ventura stuff, disclaimering Gorilla’s advice on electricity and the second Rocker line. Chef’s kiss.
Body Glove was an 80s surfer brand and for some reason American teenagers went through a surfer trend for a bit. Brands like Ocean Pacific, and Body Glove
Ocean Pacific was the sh##, back in 1989 Majorcan resorts!
Panama Jack all the way!!!!
Body Glove is still going. I remember the singer from living colour wore a body gloves wetsuit for cult of personality.
@@rahowherox1177 I hope that guy did his own laundry because I can only imagine the smell after a full set under stage lights in that thing
Remember the hypercolor shirts that'd change colors with heat?
Jesse Ventura looked like he was a second from tears when the reporter insulted his singing voice - “I was having fun…”
The reporter should have asked him to singe "America the Beautiful".
The music cue right then killlllls me 😂😂
Wasn’t Akeem basically Ali G, just a few years earlier?
Holy shit, I'd never seen Ventura butchering Werewolves like that before, with Zevon right there next to him. And him getting his feelings hurt over the rib from the reporter was chef's kiss.
Dad sung that song all the time in karaoke. It was out of key, and he made no qualms the rendition was awful. Sounded better then Jess there. Ouch.
I used to hang around a Grateful Dead cover band years ago, they used to do Werewolves and somehow it became a thing where when they did it I'd get onstage and make a drunken ass of myself. I used to record the shows but could never bring myself to listen to any of the recordings of that, Jesse probably did better than me. But dammit I brought energy, it was more of a hype man thing. Still, all these years later, seeing him "singing" that song made me wince for him but more for me.
Jesse Ventura at that press conference has all the energy of mum who's had one too many glasses of Pinot Grigio with Christmas dinner and then been told that her Brussel sprouts may have been slightly over-seasoned.
the thing that akeem was doing was a shot at dusty for how dusty would move his arms and legs and "jive"
"Rockin" Robin is a real one. Compared to women of the Era she could work a bit. And she stood up to Grizzly for little girls. Robin has my respect forever.
I love you guys but first no mention of Akeem being a jab at Dusty Rhodes, second James Dudley was an old family friend who did a bunch for the company in the past, dating back to working with Jess McMahon in the 50s. VKM kept him on the company payroll as a promise to his father. Dude ended up doing all sorts of stuff for the company. Feels weird to pretend it was racial and reduce him to just a driver. I also resent being put in a position where I'm having to defend Vince, I feel so dirty ughhh!
Body Glove was a popular beach clothing brand in the US during the time. They made things like beach swimwear, wet suits, tshirts etc.
That was a thing in the 80s and early 90s: you wore a t-shirt with the name of the brand rather than the actual clothes they made. I had like three "Bugle Boy jeans" t-shirts and zero pairs of Bugle Boy jeans
It's still around, albeit overseas.
The lead singer of Living Colour, Corey Glover, wears Body Glove gear in the Cult of Personality music video.
I just thought it was a joke referring to a shirt as a glove for the body lmao
@@MBM1117727they started off making wet suits. Body Glove makes sense for that, not so much as a clothi g brand though.
The boys were so enamored with Hakeem they didn't notice the selling competition between Shawn and Marty? Stop ogling the big mashing brute and appreciate coked up super selling!!
Brits are fascinated by huge, shapeless wrestlers.
@@johansmallberries9874*Dreams in Big Daddy*
Interesting that you mention Boss Man being great at selling it's basically how he got his start. He was brought in as a local jobber on a territory show and his first night post training he was matched with Tully Blanchard. "Big Bubba" as he was billed was about 340 or 350 lbs at that point and took a slingshot suplex from a 230 lb Tully like a veteran middleweight. Dusty Rhodes then tapped him for a future star.
Boss Man and Akeem were some of the best big men in the business along with Bam Bam Bigelow. They could really move given their weights.
Body Glove was huge in the 1980s/90s here in the US. i had a color-changing design where it was heat-sensitive from the company.
I wasn't ready for "A second Rocker has hit the Twin Towers." 🤣
Oh, yeah but Samba Simba or whatever the fuck Tony Atlas was named around this time, would go off without a hitch.
People that found WrestleMe from this UA-cam channel; The reason Pete is a little bit clueless here is the podcast started with him knowing nothing and they reviewed every Wrestlemania, so this was only the 5th recording
Slick is criminally underated in my opinion
The Akeem promo video with Mean Gene in a back alley is pure comedy gold. That stuff would never fly today.
Akeem "The African Dream" was mocking Dusty Rhodes with his dancing. He didn't think African natives moved like that 😂
The pettiness of Vince knows no bound
They don't?
James Dudley was a longtime Vince loyalist, driving was his retirement job. First African American promoter under Vince in DC circa late 50s early 60s.
In the history of the crazy world of wrestling, no one has ever been more uncomfortable in a wrestling ring than she was whilst signing this anthem. I include Hart in the 97 Survivor Series
😂😂😂👍🏼
Jumping Jeff farmer has entered:
YIP!!
@@Dr.Meth666you turned the tables on me, you turned the tables in a wrong way…
In fairness to Robin, she's got a good voice but damn, she DID NOT want to be out there.
I love your stuff guys, but its well known, even at the time, that it was a rib on the American Dream Dusty Rhodes.
Jesse cannot take criticism he is so butt hurtable
Haku - the real tribal chief
Body Glove is was a brand of clothing that was popular in america in the late 80's early 90's.
Have you guys read books about Africa? You could use a glance....
NAH!!!
Just hurl basic racist stereotypes like "All Africans are darker than midnight"
@@darrengordon-hillhuh? Its pretty obvious by the dress and clown like mannerisms what they were going for with this character.
Worth mentioning that in the full WrestleMe pod for WM V - Mark does talk about Akeem The African Dream being a mean spirited joke on Dusty Rhodes. Its just missing from the video edit. Mark knows his Dusty
That he is... The man is a true Rhodes Scholar.
Why is it mean spirited?
Hercules and Scott Norton as Jurassic Power in 93 was short lived but was good.
The fact there's legitimate creative meetings to come up with such terrible ideas....makes me wonder what gets tossed aside
This was one as a kid I couldn’t understand why he wasn’t The One Man Gang. Looking back in it, Akeem, done the best with what he was given.
He was One Man Gang for 1988 Royal Rumble.
Ventura really is thin skinned. The reporter was clearly joking and he got so bent of shape about it. Then again he is known for suing a widow.
He didn't sue a widow. He sued the publisher and rightfully so.
@@theliesisire7485 Chris Kyle was one fo the Defendants. When he died. He had his wife changed to the lawsuit. So Yes, he is a widow suer.
Afriiiiiicannnnnnnnn..... Dreeeeeeeeam.... -bangs cow bell
I had to look up the Akeem thing- wiki quote
''In September 1988, One Man Gang's manager, Slick, announced that Gang was reborn as African and planned to embrace his roots. An episode of WWF Superstars, which aired on September 24, 1988, featured a vignette with Gene Okerlund on-location in an American ghetto that was dubbed "The Deepest Darkest Parts Of Africa," where dancers dressed as tribal Africans danced and chanted around a fire; Slick then announced that Gang would be known by his new name, "Akeem, the African Dream", though Okerlund immediately called him out as the One Man Gang. This vignette received some criticism, as the Caucasian "Akeem" delivered a promo in which he spoke with an extremely stereotypical "jive" black accent and danced in the style of Dusty Rhodes while an African ritual took place in the background''
Sounds perfectly fine,
Body Glove is a Clothing Line popularized in the 1980’s- ‘90’s.
Akeem has a better chance of existing in modern times than Eugene IMO
Jesse really got his feelings hurt.
I actually feel really bad for Rockin Robin. From the sound of things she *did* know at least a little vocal technique, probably from school choir or church or something, but she very clearly was not comfortable or confident singing to a crowd.
There were plenty of black wrestlers in WWE before 1989. Enough of the leftist nonsense please.
George Gray was the One man Gang for a long time before he became Akeem and he was a great huge heel. He got tons of heat in Mid-South and Texas. After he retired from wrestling, he became a prison guard in Louisiana, which was probably a lot tougher than anything he did in the ring.
He did not make that much money in the business so he had to get a real job. Despite his excessive weight, he is still alive while others who took steroids and recreational drugs passed away.
I'm sure Jesse was just being "in character" when he made that crack about Robin. If he was himself, he probably would've said something like, "Eh, she did the best she could. Yeah, I wouldn't have done a better job. Know she needs, though? Not singing lessons. A union! That's what we all need! It's a conspiracy, Gorilla!"
Always thought Jesse going off on Hogan about doing a movie was funny considering that Jesse is actually in the movie. Playing himself as well. Well, his "kayfabe" self anyway. Ha
3:10 "They had an employee sing it (Star Spangled Banner)".
That employee was MEAN GENE OKERLUND!!!
They should have had Nicolai Volkof sing the national anthem. He had the voice of an opera singer.
Laaaaads… lads, c’mon… The African DREAM. A big fat dude called Dream, doing jive dancing.
*the gimmick was a comedy elbow in the ribs on Dusty* 😂
Everyone makes fun of Akeem for portraying a black man or whatever he was trying to do but there's something else even more crazy that no one talks about. Slick is an African American and he created Akeem The African Dream so why in the hell is Slick aligned with a seemingly racist Big Boss Man and his CONFEDERATE FLAG patch on his shirt? So yeah Akeem wouldn't work today but The Big Boss Man and his racist patch would be a lot worse in today's culture.
Rockin Robin is a cutey aww
B O D Y G L O V E
6:00 Body Glove was a famous surf apparel brand in the States at the time.
Of course Okerlund's anthem rendition was better. Mean Gene is a South Dakota Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Famer
HBK's bump on that clothesline is phenomenonal 11:40
I could watch Shawn sell all day.
@@areviewsmovies8573 ua-cam.com/users/shortsiofWC6EJXB8?si=odV4jdIjKX5LOVU7
Talk about a pioneer!! Jesse Ventura was bridging the gap between furries and normal people even in 1999 😱 5:20
Nowadays they would bill King Kong Bundy as "Putin, jr."
Ya'll never heard of Body Glove. What's up with you Brits
FYI there are white people in South Africa and a lot of North Afrcans are very light skinned. Stereotypical to say all Africans must be black.
It’s downright dumb! Egypt? Libya? White people in SA? Hello?
They never said that. Stop reaching.
They were clowning on the gimmick and how dumb it was.
0:58 Blimey! Vince McMahon looks like a 1930s actor!!
In defense of Rockin Robin, the key of this version of "America the Beautiful" (soudns like E flat) is way out of her range. She's clearly not an Alto. A version in a higher key (like A flat or B flat) would have gone over much better. My guess is this was the cheapest version of the song Vince could get access to on short notice.
Way above their pay grade - they're just here to point and laugh
Why is Akeem bad but having Haku dressed as European royalty not?
Also.. what if Akeem is from South Africa? 😌
Wouldn't sell, considering A: A lot of people knew it was a rib against Dusty's "texas jive" schtick B: Almost everyone knew that was One Man Gang.
I was more talking about it being “culturally sensitive”…
I was around when Akeem came out and though nobody thought he was gonna be champ.. him and Boss Man were definitely a respected tag team.
Also.. EVERY single one of my friends loved that gimmick and would try to impersonate his mannerisms 😭
Shh, bigot, we're virtue signalling
Wasn't Rockin' Robin the half sister of Jake the Snake?
Just is Jake's sister.
@@adammercer6004 she is his half sister.
@@darthdmc My phone autocorrected She is into Just don't ask me how it did it but yeah she is indeed Jake's half sister
The real singer must’ve cancelled and she was the only one who was available to try..😂😂
The greatest African American Superstar ever!!!
Haku/Meng looks slightly annoyed too and that isnt a good thing.
Never Forget The Twin Towers 😢
As far as Hercules goes, during the referee count the camera angle only shows us Herc's right shoulder. If you look a moment before, right after the suplex, you'll see he lifted his left shoulder off the mat.
This is hands-down the best wrestling channel!
Oh God yes WrestleMania 5. Mega Powers Explode was the best angle they'd ever done for a long time.
You should ho on the wrestling with Paul channel. He’s got a wwf playlist of hrs of wrestling you can take the piss out of lol.
I don't think Akeem the character is offensive in any way, there are plenty of white Africans, I think it's just the racist way the guy portrayed the character, his hand movements, facial contortions, and how he spoke, that makes it offensive today. At the time as a kid i just thought it was funny. I certainly see the problem though..lol
How do "Africans" move?
Does anyone else pull out Akeem dance moves up in the club?
BODY GLOVE
The African Dream is one of the first characters I can remember because I had the 1989 Royal Rumble Silvervision VHS . Him and Boss man were the Twin Towers.
Just tried to replicate Vince and nearly coughed up my dinner.
I'd pay $39.99 just to here the "Vince voice" version of America the Beautiful.
Lol Hebner's face when Hercules botched the spot.
Slick should of said something to Akeem
You can only ever presume the rockin robin thing is a vince rib....
At least Jesse has stage presence and charisma
From pearl harbor to the twin towers
I bet Psycho would have nailed it, actually
Never forget.
Akeem and The Big Bossman, the TTs.
It's kinda funny that One Mang Gang is also a correctional officer
Where do I know the one called Pete from? I recognise him from somewhere.
Football Ramble
Body glove and a do not cut electricity with a knife… I need these tshirts
Kilroy Silk would be a great wrestling manager
Hurcs arm came up a little bit it was just the camera, I think a camera dude was in the wrong place, the Akem angle was he found ou his heritage was African, it was a rip on Dusty Rhodes because back in the day people said Dusty acted black, if you notice Akems little dance mimics Dustys.
I’ve seen a promo where called himself “blue eyed soul” pretty cringe
Jesse the Body was the star of this lol
Look at that shot of Sherri. What a smokeshow!
7:39
' Do you like wrestling?
Do you like wrestling?
Do you like wrestling?
Yes I do! '
I tried to replicate McMahons intros for each participant of the '92 Royal Rumble. Felt it in my throat for 2 days.
Warren Zevon had a wonderful career that was slightly derailed due to drinking and excess which held him back a little, When he did the Jess Ventura thing, he threw his bag on stage where his band was to perform he said "So my career has come to this?" all detailed in his book.
You guys need to do a bossman/big Bubba breakdown
More WMV please
Damn Robin was only like 25 years old here. lol
Love seeing Jesse Ventura snapping back like an angry X Factor contestant
Im still upset because they changed Crusher Broomfield
Pretty sure the pre-Akeem vignette is on UA-cam. Slick takes One Man Gang off down an alley to dance (Vince's request, obvs) round a fire by a boombox in some faux-African voodoo ceremony..and out comes Akeem 'The African Dream'. The fact that he wasn't black didn't even cross my mind back then, more that he was a terrible dancer. Should've given it away really.
Let's imagine if both Dusty AND Akeem showed up at on eof Dick Murdoch's KKK shindigs.