Stevie. Ive had some major events happen in my life recently beyond my control making me feel pretty hopeless at times. Just the small break i get from reality watching your show is immensely important to me. Thank you so much for helping me get my mind off the bullshit.
I went to a show in Atlanta and tony literally came out ring side and shook hands with EVERY SINGLE PERSON that came over. This was the night Cody had the flaming table match so they were red hot and that place was sold out. I couldn't believe how much time he spent shaking hands. It was so cool
I'm subscribed to Netflix,Now T.V,was subscribed to Disney + at one time etc,but I can honestly say I would much rather watch the The Stevie Richards Show on UA-cam over anything on those platforms, Always look forward to the next one each week and I haven't looked forward to any show on T.V or anything for years, Cheers lads,
Another great episode fellas. I agree Terry Saturn had an amazing elbow. He hit the rafters on the height of that elbow. Beautiful. Catch you on the next.
Honestly, this is by far my favorite wresting UA-cam show on the market. I have enjoyed your humility, your kindness and your unique insight into the wresting world. I’ve been so happy tuning in and listening to you speak about what you so evidently love. Keep up the great work Stevie! Big fan!
Honestly learned more from this show about wrestling than most channels out there. Between you and Maven it has been insightful. I love Stevie's breakdowns about matches and spots, it has given me more appreciation of how matches are constructed understanding what happens inside the ring and why.
One of my favourite things is coming to the next episode each friday and seeing the subscriber count has increased. This show is a real highlight to my week.
I love when stevie started talking about triple h and how he wasnt to be seen in a vulnerable position in ads or commercials promoting video games. And then the part about him wanting to have the biggest quads. He was trying hard not to laugh instead kept it professional with a little smile "i dont know why we give our energy to these things 🥴"
Stevie Richards jas the nest most articulate wrestling show that explains theater performance the act and physical stunts and personal conflicts of the performing artist
James on WSI: "Much love for you all! Although i'm not sure why you guys follow me..." James on Big Stevie Cool's Show: *Pulls off the funniest double entendre concerning the word dump i've ever seen.* Excellent work as always, my dudes!
Another great episode on one of my favorite subjects. Always have great memories of watching enhancement talent growing up as a kid. The Mulkeys and Barry Horowitz were my personal favorites. It's definitely a lost art in the wrestling business today as you guys mentioned. You didn't mention it but even AEW Dark I liked because it was the last show that legit featured local or indy talent to put over the current stars on the roster that would be considered enhancement talent as far as I know. Every promotion should and need to have enhancement talent to put over top stars and talent getting or needing a push. The 50/50 booking of seemingly all the talent is one of the things that has driven fans away from the business today IMHO.
Thank you Doc Stevie and James! My best to Dutch and his family. Much love to everyone 💜💜💜💜💜 By the way I keep watchin cause you keep showin me. So yeah... I see...?
I lived near Charlotte in the 80s. Ron Rossi lives in my home town and when I ever saw him, even though he lost all the time, it was like seeing a celebrity cause he was on TV. RIP Ron Rossi
Remember the mid 80s local show promos behind the cage😂 I live outside of Baltimore and always begged my dad to take me to the matches in the (then) Baltimore Civic Center- had I been old enough to drive I'd be there. They came to Baltimore every month- now we're lucky if WWE comes twice a year.
Carmelo Hayes and Andrade "that wasted the fans' emotional investment in that entire thing" there was no investment in those two, that was the problem from the start, LA Knight was the only thing that made it interesting
I agree. Who really cares about them in any significant way? I don't think Carmelo will ever be a big star organically, I don't think people will ever really get behind him. However I do think Andrade *can*, in my opinion he's got "It", not that he necessarily will though. I think he needs a gimmick change and to further distance himself from previous relationships. Obviously that isn't going to happen, as he is currently he is midcard for life. He's a big guy, he looks believable, he moves good, his wrestling is better than most guys nowadays, he's athletic, I think he's got good presence, etc.
The enhancement guy I remember the most from that golden era was Mario Mancini. He even acted as enhancement talent to other enhancement talents when they got small pushes. I also remember 'Red Taylor' (sometimes named Red Tyler depending who he was working for) and his matches against Mr Perfect where for some reason Curt insisted on wedging Red's tights right up his butt crack every match! My personal favourite enhancement guy though was Leaping Lanny Poffo during his frisby poem days before he became The Genius. Regarding enhancement matches being a thing of the past, they still have them on AEW television (you know when one is going to happen because a wrestler will be advertised as being 'In Action' rather than having an opponent listed) whether it be a local wrestler coming in from an indie promotion in the town where they're working or from ROH where they have several uncontracted wrestlers come on from time to time to put over the bigger stars. This is why I miss the old web show AEW Dark and Dark Elevation... we got to see a tonne of enhancement guys and girls on that show, many of whom where eventually picked up by NXT (the likes of Fallon Henley, Lexis King and Wren Sinclair being prime examples).
cool show as always. need to get the vocal volume mix same as the intro/segment volume. the intro/seg mix is mega high then the speaking volume in low. cheers
@Stevie and @James should absolutely play a wwe game together for one episode like a Royal Rumble and see who last the longest lol, would love to see that
Brad Armstrong was a star in the territory days, winning many championships. His problems began when Bischoff took over and he would do everything asked of him.
It's great you talked about Batman video games I played more of Batman Origins than other games and the bosses of Origins is so difficult.I tried beating the game to get a Xbox 360 avatar Batman costume and if you die the game starts all over.Deathstroke/Slade was great in the Teen Titans show and Arrow but don't feel they knew what to do with him.Teen Titans have a villain called Control Freak that is a great watch.
You've seen one Tito, you've seen them all. Money In The Bank is actually a pretty genius heel storyline. This isn't genuine competition where it is unfair to the guy who has put in the hard work. This is so you will hate (or at the very least be annoyed) with the one cashing it in. It makes sense. As for Karrion Kross, if he doesn't get over, he could always switch to commentary and call the match in his Jesse Ventura voice. 😂
20:10 i saw RVD when I was a little boy and he was probably a teenager or under 21. He stood out as different, smaller like younger and rookie like, the older guys were vets like Mulligan and the early big guys like the Smoking Gunns on the cards.
Savage started piling on a ton of muscle around 1999 as well,which probably didn't help. I remember reading regular reports in the Torch of him injuring people with the elbow, including collapsing Konnan's lung, I think?
Kinda nuts. I'd always been a wrestling fan, but wasn't aware of too much before the 2000s and for a good chunk of that time was only a casual fan. About 12 years ago I ended up being in a community college class out in Las Vegas with an older lady and found myself helping them out with math. They were going for a hospitality management degree, I believe. I end up going to her house and there's all this memorabilia of Randy and Bob Orton and maybe one or two others I didn't recognize. Come to find out these actually were Randy Orton's siblings and the person I was tutoring was Randy's aunt. Sure enough, Barry-O lived there as well. Didn't know who he was at the time, but got to talk to him quite a bit. Very talkative, very open and opinionated, and definitely a character. I remember feeling a little uncomfortable around him, but you could see how he would be good in the wrestling business. Tried looking Barry-O up on UA-cam after those encounters and didn't really see much, but it's awesome to hear his name again having once met the man.
Blackwell went into business himself, he had friends & family in the crowd and wanted to get offense in and look good instead of getting a traditional squash.
Does Stevie think of CM Punks elbow off the top as more a Savage homage, or a Michaels? I always liked how he sprinkles in little references to past wrestlers in his big/most used moves in his matches. Punk seems to enjoy honoring the past legends during fueds with big names, and I was wondering how stuff like that is taken by other talent. Is it a cheap knockoff, or a respectful throwback?
Stevie, what about "One guy goes over, one guy gets over" with the job guys? Specifically at 1:25:00 when you're talking about the match with Jim Powers and Scotty Riggs.
Randy Hogan, Brooklyn Brawler, Jeff and Matt Hardy, Sean Waltman, and a few others. there was one guy who i remember seeing a lot as he looked great and seemed to perform well but always ended loosing. not part of the family but last name was armstrong. Johnny Polo who begam Raven.
Stevie. Ive had some major events happen in my life recently beyond my control making me feel pretty hopeless at times. Just the small break i get from reality watching your show is immensely important to me. Thank you so much for helping me get my mind off the bullshit.
I wish WWE invited you to be at the old ECW arena during the NXT episode this week. You definitely deserved to be there, Stevie!
I'm a Stevie Richards Show Stooge!!! Stevie's Stooges! Get well Dutch and family! Miss you so much...
Stevie does kind of look a bit like Iggy Pop, so it works
Stevie Richards is the best wrestling channel imo. I get the most joy and entertainment listening and watching Stevie. Great chemistry.
These podcasts are so insightful. I dont even watch the product but god damn is this industry utterly fascinating.
Two of the most likeable guys. I always liked Stevie Richards even when I was a kid. I always created him in the first smackdown game.
Tony Khan is a standup guy for that, regardless how I feel about AEW that dude is more than generous towards wrestlers.
Because he loves wrestling and he has shown me how hellish it would be for anyone to compete with wwe.
Yeah, he's just so terrible at running anything
I went to a show in Atlanta and tony literally came out ring side and shook hands with EVERY SINGLE PERSON that came over. This was the night Cody had the flaming table match so they were red hot and that place was sold out. I couldn't believe how much time he spent shaking hands. It was so cool
Look forward to this show every week. Easy to support such a great humble, human man
I'm subscribed to Netflix,Now T.V,was subscribed to Disney + at one time etc,but I can honestly say I would much rather watch the The Stevie Richards Show on UA-cam over anything on those platforms,
Always look forward to the next one each week and I haven't looked forward to any show on T.V or anything for years,
Cheers lads,
Easily the most educational and entertaining wrestling-skewed show.
Both of you to thank.
Another great episode fellas. I agree Terry Saturn had an amazing elbow. He hit the rafters on the height of that elbow. Beautiful. Catch you on the next.
Honestly, this is by far my favorite wresting UA-cam show on the market. I have enjoyed your humility, your kindness and your unique insight into the wresting world. I’ve been so happy tuning in and listening to you speak about what you so evidently love. Keep up the great work Stevie! Big fan!
4 decade wrestling fan here , and this is THE best wrestling channel imo 👍 .
Best podcast on pro wrestling. I'm a Stevie Richards mark.
This has quickly become my favorite wrestling pod. And there are many great ones.
Really love the genuine nature and intelligence Stevie brings to the content.
Honestly learned more from this show about wrestling than most channels out there. Between you and Maven it has been insightful. I love Stevie's breakdowns about matches and spots, it has given me more appreciation of how matches are constructed understanding what happens inside the ring and why.
I LOVED Barry Horowitz and his dumb patting himself on his back. Lol the ultimate underdog!
One of my favourite things is coming to the next episode each friday and seeing the subscriber count has increased. This show is a real highlight to my week.
I love when stevie started talking about triple h and how he wasnt to be seen in a vulnerable position in ads or commercials promoting video games. And then the part about him wanting to have the biggest quads. He was trying hard not to laugh instead kept it professional with a little smile "i dont know why we give our energy to these things 🥴"
Great googly that's a lot of content, keep it up.
Minor note the volume seems a little low this week. That or I've gone deaf.
I can and do listen to these two for hours on end. Awesome show lads, awesome show!!
Stevie Richards jas the nest most articulate wrestling show that explains theater performance the act and physical stunts and personal conflicts of the performing artist
My favorite Stevie Richard’s moment is when is when Vince forced Triple H to put him over at Summerslam 99
Thanks for another great episode. Being from Philly I really miss the old ECW arena shows , man oh man , what a time to be alive !
The way you talked bout macho man was so heartfelt thank you
My favorite Stevie Richards moment is when he beat both Triple H and Shawn Michaels in the main event of Wreslemania XX. Good times.
I remember that
You don't understand how intently I've been waiting for a new episode.
I remember "Jumping" Joey Maggs from enhancement matches in WCW.
Just imagine- the jobbers/enhancement talent in the 80s/90s wrestled every legend week to week.
Bus fare home, nice throwback.
I love the content, guys. Thanks for the entertainment.☮️
I've been watching since episode 2. you are spoiling us with this top quality content
Remember the NWA World Wide Wrestling matches- literally 10 seconds😂 I remember the Road Warriors would come out and wreck guys in 5 seconds 😂
James on WSI: "Much love for you all! Although i'm not sure why you guys follow me..."
James on Big Stevie Cool's Show: *Pulls off the funniest double entendre concerning the word dump i've ever seen.*
Excellent work as always, my dudes!
tony kahn doing everything from his heart, makes him so authentic. what a good dude!
It’s interesting that the mid to lower card wrestlers make the best podcasters. (IE Maven, Stevie)
It helps that Stevie and Maven aren't complete luddites when it comes to modern technology 😂 no offense to the old timers.
Another great episode on one of my favorite subjects. Always have great memories of watching enhancement talent growing up as a kid. The Mulkeys and Barry Horowitz were my personal favorites. It's definitely a lost art in the wrestling business today as you guys mentioned. You didn't mention it but even AEW Dark I liked because it was the last show that legit featured local or indy talent to put over the current stars on the roster that would be considered enhancement talent as far as I know. Every promotion should and need to have enhancement talent to put over top stars and talent getting or needing a push. The 50/50 booking of seemingly all the talent is one of the things that has driven fans away from the business today IMHO.
50/50 booking sucks! Nobody looks strong and everyone looks weak. Constant run-ins, heatless feuds, it's all just so bleh.
I miss dutch! You guys are so good for what you do. I love this podcast.
I love that you hear so many negative things about Punk and Stevie puts him in the S tier, I love Stevie so much
Thank you Doc Stevie and James! My best to Dutch and his family. Much love to everyone 💜💜💜💜💜
By the way I keep watchin cause you keep showin me. So yeah... I see...?
I lived near Charlotte in the 80s. Ron Rossi lives in my home town and when I ever saw him, even though he lost all the time, it was like seeing a celebrity cause he was on TV. RIP Ron Rossi
I am here for the Carry On Camping poster behind James every week!!
Loving the episodes brothers.
Been waiting all day for this!! Thank you for the great content so far!
Richards using video game analogies is funny to me, "he was like a sidequest before the final boss"😂
@Pezint It's always sports analogies so it's nice hearing video game analogies for once.
J.O.B. SquaD
PIN ME OVER
This show is brilliant, I just wish I could get an audio version so i can listen at work!
Best wishes to Dutch and his wife.
good questions this week!!
great show just volume was slightly lower had to crank the vol
Would Bam Bam be considered a enhancement talent? Considering his career towards the end.
Job squad ruled!
I guess this is a hot take lol but I don’t care for local talent squash matches, they don’t do anything for me and I typically skip over them
Remember the mid 80s local show promos behind the cage😂 I live outside of Baltimore and always begged my dad to take me to the matches in the (then) Baltimore Civic Center- had I been old enough to drive I'd be there. They came to Baltimore every month- now we're lucky if WWE comes twice a year.
Love you Stevie.
Carmelo Hayes and Andrade "that wasted the fans' emotional investment in that entire thing" there was no investment in those two, that was the problem from the start, LA Knight was the only thing that made it interesting
I agree. Who really cares about them in any significant way? I don't think Carmelo will ever be a big star organically, I don't think people will ever really get behind him. However I do think Andrade *can*, in my opinion he's got "It", not that he necessarily will though. I think he needs a gimmick change and to further distance himself from previous relationships. Obviously that isn't going to happen, as he is currently he is midcard for life. He's a big guy, he looks believable, he moves good, his wrestling is better than most guys nowadays, he's athletic, I think he's got good presence, etc.
Dusty Wolfe was one, Kris Germany and Kit Carson, Rudy Boy Gonzalez. Class act legends from Texas 👍
Great content
Thanks boyz
Mike Blackwell looks like Buzz Sawyer’s adopted brother popped me yuuuuuuuge!
Great show guys
53k subscribers In 3 months and keep it 💯 has 63k subscribers after years of videos entitled “The Real Reason Why “ Good job boys !
The enhancement guy I remember the most from that golden era was Mario Mancini. He even acted as enhancement talent to other enhancement talents when they got small pushes. I also remember 'Red Taylor' (sometimes named Red Tyler depending who he was working for) and his matches against Mr Perfect where for some reason Curt insisted on wedging Red's tights right up his butt crack every match! My personal favourite enhancement guy though was Leaping Lanny Poffo during his frisby poem days before he became The Genius. Regarding enhancement matches being a thing of the past, they still have them on AEW television (you know when one is going to happen because a wrestler will be advertised as being 'In Action' rather than having an opponent listed) whether it be a local wrestler coming in from an indie promotion in the town where they're working or from ROH where they have several uncontracted wrestlers come on from time to time to put over the bigger stars. This is why I miss the old web show AEW Dark and Dark Elevation... we got to see a tonne of enhancement guys and girls on that show, many of whom where eventually picked up by NXT (the likes of Fallon Henley, Lexis King and Wren Sinclair being prime examples).
J.O.B Squad
On our backs since birth
An interesting episode I think would be what the locker room was like once WCW was bought over and the Invasion happened.
Tajiri never got a good push even though his talent was amazing and fans did love him
Maybe check the volume before you export the file? Good show!
One of those security geeks may end up being a future world champion.
Just joined your Patreon. The nerd in me is excited to see more BTS 😂.
I'll throw out Mike Jackson and Pat Rose as carpenters worth mentioning.
Mike Jackson... thanks for the reminder. Always pulled for him.
My granny always said, bless his heart every time we saw Mike Jackson in the ring on WTBS 605
And Nick Nemeth is actually a good name for a wrestler anyway, that actually sounds intimidating
Rusty Brooks! Totallly remember him!
1:47:22 Just described the textbook jobber, Brooklyn Brawler. The GOAT.
I wish I could afford to donate. I love Dutch so much. 😢
Who’s BURP Johnson? Lol
Now, this was another good episode
cool show as always. need to get the vocal volume mix same as the intro/segment volume. the intro/seg mix is mega high then the speaking volume in low. cheers
@Stevie and @James should absolutely play a wwe game together for one episode like a Royal Rumble and see who last the longest lol, would love to see that
James Ellsworth was the best imo
each show could have a promo video that could be shared on social media and james could share on the wsi channel.
Brad Armstrong was a star in the territory days, winning many championships. His problems began when Bischoff took over and he would do everything asked of him.
It's great you talked about Batman video games I played more of Batman Origins than other games and the bosses of Origins is so difficult.I tried beating the game to get a Xbox 360 avatar Batman costume and if you die the game starts all over.Deathstroke/Slade was great in the Teen Titans show and Arrow but don't feel they knew what to do with him.Teen Titans have a villain called Control Freak that is a great watch.
The common dominator with the list is their physical stature and size.
You forgot to mention my favorite jobber... RED TYLER
Hogan, as champion, had a TV match with Johnny Rodz around 1985 or so where he gave Rodz quite a bit of offense, including a 2-count near-fall.
You've seen one Tito, you've seen them all.
Money In The Bank is actually a pretty genius heel storyline. This isn't genuine competition where it is unfair to the guy who has put in the hard work. This is so you will hate (or at the very least be annoyed) with the one cashing it in. It makes sense.
As for Karrion Kross, if he doesn't get over, he could always switch to commentary and call the match in his Jesse Ventura voice. 😂
Money in the Bank should guarantee a match at a PPV, not turn the WWE Championship into the 24/7 title.
Okay, enough comment spam for today.
You should play Arkham City. It's my favorite of the series. Also, great show!
I was a massive fan of Lance in WCW, but it WWE he was barely around and used to take pinfalls. It was depressing after seeing him be glorious in WCW.
20:10 i saw RVD when I was a little boy and he was probably a teenager or under 21. He stood out as different, smaller like younger and rookie like, the older guys were vets like Mulligan and the early big guys like the Smoking Gunns on the cards.
Can we get an episode/section on the Royal Rumble? I think it'd be interesting to break down how much of it is improvised Vs scripted.
No love for jobber, Troy Martin??? (Shane Douglas)
I posted too early... Lol
Savage started piling on a ton of muscle around 1999 as well,which probably didn't help. I remember reading regular reports in the Torch of him injuring people with the elbow, including collapsing Konnan's lung, I think?
Kinda nuts. I'd always been a wrestling fan, but wasn't aware of too much before the 2000s and for a good chunk of that time was only a casual fan. About 12 years ago I ended up being in a community college class out in Las Vegas with an older lady and found myself helping them out with math. They were going for a hospitality management degree, I believe. I end up going to her house and there's all this memorabilia of Randy and Bob Orton and maybe one or two others I didn't recognize. Come to find out these actually were Randy Orton's siblings and the person I was tutoring was Randy's aunt. Sure enough, Barry-O lived there as well. Didn't know who he was at the time, but got to talk to him quite a bit. Very talkative, very open and opinionated, and definitely a character. I remember feeling a little uncomfortable around him, but you could see how he would be good in the wrestling business. Tried looking Barry-O up on UA-cam after those encounters and didn't really see much, but it's awesome to hear his name again having once met the man.
Blackwell went into business himself, he had friends & family in the crowd and wanted to get offense in and look good instead of getting a traditional squash.
Does Stevie think of CM Punks elbow off the top as more a Savage homage, or a Michaels? I always liked how he sprinkles in little references to past wrestlers in his big/most used moves in his matches. Punk seems to enjoy honoring the past legends during fueds with big names, and I was wondering how stuff like that is taken by other talent. Is it a cheap knockoff, or a respectful throwback?
Stevie, what about "One guy goes over, one guy gets over" with the job guys? Specifically at 1:25:00 when you're talking about the match with Jim Powers and Scotty Riggs.
Great EP but no talk of Brooklyn Brawler?
I get by day to day just in the hope to hear Stevie say "smart ass" in his Tony Garea voice
i got into contact with george south a couple years ago, i waa too busy to start training but pretty sure he still runs his school in charlotte
Randy Hogan, Brooklyn Brawler, Jeff and Matt Hardy, Sean Waltman, and a few others. there was one guy who i remember seeing a lot as he looked great and seemed to perform well but always ended loosing. not part of the family but last name was armstrong. Johnny Polo who begam Raven.
I would love to see Al Snow reach out to SR to be a booker/agent/producer. See if he could help out OVW
Special Delivery Jones!