Al Snow on Shawn Michaels
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2018
- Al Snow on Shawn Michaels
WWE Legend and former TNA & ECW Superstar Al Snow talk about his experiences wrestling with "WWE Hall of Famer" Shawn Michaels as well as the backstage environment in WWE around the the time that his match with Shawn as "Shanobi" took place.
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This guy needs to be head of talent relations or something,wwe needs it
HEAD of Talent Relations
It won't ever happen. The WWE only exists to try to control the wrestling industry and make sure their financial lives are controlled. That's why the majority of the wrestlers will never go anywhere in their careers while in the WWE at this point.
Isn't that HHH's job? What would he do?
@@thisisdilly god bless you sir
What does every want? , What does everybody need?....
Al looks better n his 50’s than he did in his 30’s.
Testosterone replacement therapy works wonders
Dave Hobbs looks like I may have to follow suit. 😂😂
True. Snow was a fat slob with no cardio in his prime
That's life on the road.
@@AnArchyRulzz proper training and strict diet make it work
I was on a small commuter flight from Evansville IN to Cincinnati OH and being a wrestling geek I chatted briefly with Al. He was the nicest guy ever .. he let other older people and women into the aisle before he left. He was seriously the most centered dude ever. This was during the Head era of his WWF career. I got mad respect for this guy.
Al Snow is one of the nicest people I've ever had the good fortune of meeting. My mom took me to get his autograph when I was in the fourth grade. I was incredibly shy, but he was very understanding and quite funny.
Just picturing the Warrior running through the airport shaking stuff would have been a great promo lol
With how security is nowadays I wouldn't want to see this, they would probably try to arrest him 😅
I could listen to Snow for hours. I started watching again after hearing him on the radio promoting a show in the boonies outside DC. He's the man.
Al snow talks so much sense, say’s it how it is and explains everything crystal clear, best way to be, not just this video but all of his previous
Coming from the guy that plays a character that is in love with a head lol
He thinks hulk Hogan is the best wrestler of all time
"Erm" "erm" "erm" yhyh okay
"I got a black belt, a brown, a green...I bought them all at JC Penney's " 😂😂😂
He should have credited Mr. Miogi there
I was even lazier, I got my black belt on Amazon.
Al is a humble guy and is good to his fans! I met him at the Y and flat ask him are you Al Snow and he said yes nice to meet you and shook my hand!
I'd like Al Snow to be on an episode of Rogans podcast, five minutes of Al explaining the psychology of pro wrestling and Joe would be intrigued.
C. Phoenix That would never happen. But boy do i wish it would. Al is one hell of a story teller.
C. Phoenix Plus Al trained Dan Severn for the UFC. And he understands amature wrestling. They would have one hell of a talk.
I'd love that too. - I actually like Joe Rogan, but I wish he'd take a second or two to understand pro wrestling.
I think he gets it a bit. But since he works for the UFC who used to be WWEs competition he had to talk down to wrestling fans. Now they work together so hes a lot nicer to wrestlers. Listen to how he talks about CM Punk in his second fight. Thats what he thinks of pro wrestlers in reality.
Totally makes sense. :)
I'd have loved to have seen the warrior running through and airport shaking stuff!
His theme plays in the airport lol.
That mental image was hilarious.
That really just sounds like the average person at the airport scrambling when they start boarding. Gotta get on first and get that bag space brother!
I literally spit my coffee out that was so friggin funny
Lmao it be like oh God my flights about to take off
The undertaker is an example of the character turning to the gimmick, to turning into a good mixture of both.
Sometimes the lines blur. Actually, a LOT of the times, the lines get blurred.
I will watch any Al Snow interview you post , Hannibal . More than once . Keep em comin
Al Snow was a great worker. He looks like a legitimately tough dude too. I think if he would have gotten the chance to just be himself he could have been a mainstay on the midcard level. He has a seriousness/coldness to him that is real and it's apparent that the man is intelligent. His look...Austin didn't have a look. Austin was believable. What could a been I guess? Always dug Al Snow though.
Thank you Al Snow for correcting the marks,
Al snow was never right after boss man fed him his dog pepper
Damn right, he has nothing but second guessed himself since those events.
Al is a true genius and WWE needs him desperately!
Wwe has fallen apart. Late 90s was electric. Sad how it's gone down
It's AEWs time now. They are going to sign all the talent WWE fired. WWE has been dead since 2002
@@ModernDayRenaissanceMan😂😂😂😂
If ever I would consider....
Wrestling coach.....Al Snow
Life coach...............DDP.
Thank you Al Snow for clarifying that up.
I'm pretty sure, back in the day, the Ultimate Warrior was always in character, and I wouldn't be surprised if he did go through airports acting like a fool.
Breaks into the neighbors garage after taking too many steroids & coke and offers kids some smoked meat on a stick!!
StatismKills watch him in non wwf interviews and you'll see he didn't.
I remember seeing The Warrior on Arsenio Hall. It was pretty funny
@Killer Rune oh look a moron who watch the dvd of self destruct and believe in it
Probably annoying asl in real life
i loved al in tough enough it really show how good he was n how much he knew about the biz
Get your own podcast Al!!! Please.... Love listening to you 👍
He’s humble because he was humbled in the past. Something Shawn Michaels never went through.
Al snows a fukin legend. Love the way he explains the behind the scenes stuff. We want head!😬
Probably a top 5 mind in wrestling. This man gets the business in every which way
I say it all the time, win & losses don’t matter. It’s pre determined. What truly matters is how you go out & perform for the crowd & viewers at home.
If wins and losses don't matter, then what's the difference between watching wrestling and watching circus performers?
@@Spamcloud There’s no difference. It’s a tv show with characters
I’ve always liked and respected Al. Dude offers great insight.
He's giving millions dollars worth of game to the industry. He very well spoken and had a character that was IDK lol
This guy has had a hell of a career in pro wrestling
Characters that absolutely did work: Taker, Goldust, Big Boss Man, Mankind etc.
Hands down on of the best minds for wrestling
4:15
He’s clearly talking about the Kliq w/o actually saying that it was the Kliq who had that attitude
The shaking hands thing is really true, you wouldn't be headlining anything if there wasn't other people to make up the card. You also wouldn't be making any money if not for the big draws on the card it's a two way street. One of the few nice things Bret wrote in his book that wasn't about himself or his family was that house shows headlined by Hulk were big payoffs to be on and everyone including himself shook Hulk's hand and thanked him. Hart Foundation got quite a few spots on house shows with Hulk and the payoffs were huge so it helped them a lot.
Much respect to AL Snow
Al Snow is quite real!!!!=)
He had the best entrance music of "ALL TIME"
He's a great trainer and motivator.
Very well spoken
HBK was good but he didn't have the levelheaded humility of Al Snow. Shawn was a bit of primadonna, kliq-member who only cared about his buddies. Al Snow is a legit teacher who can pass down knowledge to the younger generation of wrestlers. With HBK, he was catered to by Vince during that 90s era & only cared about himself.
WWE is BETTER than New Japan! Level headed humility comes with being mediocre
Gene Bone lmao exactly
Gene Bone I mean...look at his avi
Also i remember one was in love with a mannequin head.... Sorry who was more levelheaded? Ok one was able to teach the next generation how to suck ass and be cardboard cut outs. Each has their perk each as something they don't do. HBK was a hell of an entertainer and made everyone laugh for the right reasons. Snow just made people laugh because he always got his ass kicked and as said. Had an unhealthy love twards a fake head. Whether it was a bit or not it's still sad. Think HBK was more the level head. Either way i love em both.
WWE is BETTER than New Japan! - He didn't even care about his friends. Just look at the way he purposely botched the sell of the jackknife powerbomb at Wrestlemania. Nash acknowledged that Shawn purposely botched it but was fine with it because at the end of they day, they were friends but there was only 1 top spot
Al is one of the smartest and most underrated minds in the business. His psychology and in-ring abilities were second to none. I'd love to be able to just pick his brain for a day.
Lol dude you sure? Hes a moron
@@vampirascoffin870 how is he?
Snow is indeed a moron. When interviewed by Sean Oliver, Snow aggressively asserted that Hogan vs. Andre was "unequivocally" the best match at WM3, above Savage vs. Steamboat (Oliver's choice), because it generated more revenue. Not only is there no measuring tool to determine which match drew the most people, what makes something the best is pure, subjective opinion. I'm damn sure not going to declare "Taylor Swift" a better musical act than Rage Against the Machine, despite her selling 10 times as many records. Snow dismisses the positions of others and believes his own opinions are fact. Dumb, and dangerous.
@@Provos7777 Again, what is the measuring tool to determine who drew each and every fan to WM3? Was each audience member individually polled? You, like Snow, are literally trying to push two opinions (Hogan/Andre drew the crowd, the biggest-drawing match is the best) as unequivocal fact. You have zero empirical data to support your first assertion, on top of which you have constructed another assertion based on completely subjective opinion about what is "best" in a fucking entertainment field. Seek help.
@@Provos7777 well then by his own metric Al Snow is not quite the brilliant wrestler or ring psychologist you might suggest since he never really drew a dime 🤷
Taker, Warrior, Kane, Goldust, Mankind just to name a few were all very much characters, no matter how you look at it.
Great wrestler... So underrated
I love Al's theories.
Al snow is so jacked he makes water bottles look tiny
The gold dust character worked...but I do agree to a point
Al Snow well said!!
Ultimate Warrior character was his alto ego and the job allowed him to be it...thats why it was so great
The Undertaker WAS a character, it's just that Mark Calloway managed to make it his own and worked it til it meshed with who he is.
And I am so disappointed that some airline didn't use Ultimate Warrior in an ad campaign now...
Al Snow = truth
Warrior was NOT his gimmick. Warrior was his life. Dude was a giant head case.
See what I did there? Warrior a 'head' case? Cuz Snow used to carry a head to the ring? No...nothing? Fine, I'm outta here....
😁😂😂😂 Well done Good Sir!
@Peter Taboni no no, see I said I'm outta here. And that was a few days ago. And I'm not here now either.
Crap, he really is going to be here all week? What time are you playing tomorrow? I am going to bring the family by.
@@PortableXombie no really, I won't be here tomorrow. I'm still not here now.
I believed this since forever...
hitting your head on that mat had to cause real concussions
It's such a contrast to see Al Snow now than back in his days of wrestling as the Al snow gimmick with the dolls head, Such an intelligent guy, Imagine a room with him and Raven , that would be an I.Q masterblast :)
Al snow should write a book called wrestling 101
Omg I just watched dark side of the rings newest episode and got so confused. I had a brain fart during the interviews. I had completely mixed up Terry Bradshaw and Al Snow and was so confused just now why the person I'm watching now isn't the person I saw last night 😂😂
Would he be a better wrestler now just acting normal? Hes a good talker and in good shape
Characters DO work, just not often. Mark Calloway was not originally the Undertaker character. The feuds in the new generation moved it into gimmick territory perhaps, but at first it was a character. Goldust was DEFINITELY a character, because that’s nothing like Dustin.
Oh, and the punches are fake.
I love Al Snow though, he definitely does know his shit:
Love Al snow interviews but holy shit did he skirt round the actual questions being asked of him
Dude's off his rocker
@@thisiskris017 He never even had a rocker to begin with
Pretty sure he basically compared Shawn to other guys at the time basically worried about themselves and staying ahead….Shawn is just a piece of shit to begin with doesn’t matter if Al snow comes out and says it or not…..every other wrestler already had called the shit out
Oss @ Al Snow
1:00 nice to see someone say something good about Ultimate Warrior instead of trying to nip at his flaws.
"A lot of guys had this attitude that I'm the main event, this guy's a curtain jerker..." Coughmichaelsnashhallcough...
It was in Cincinnati Ohio!!
Talented smart man.
Nicest way to say Shawn Michaels was an asshole without single him out. RVD shoot on Shawn Michaels says the same.
Best thing on youtbue: "RVD destroys Shawn Michaels."
The smarter thing to do is be respectful so you don't have to make the grovelling apology that RVD did later on though.
Have some class like Mr Snow.
I miss this hardcore crazy bastard. Those were the days..........
al snow is a hero
It’s still a character. Like Undertaker for instance. Especially the Ministry days, or even when he first came in. How is that just a heightened version of Mark Calaway? It’s a character. Stone Cold, that was a gimmick. American Bad Ass Taker was a gimmick.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Randy Savage and Bret Hart had gimmicks (and were two of the best ever in my opinion), but Undertaker surely has to be classed as a 'character'.
Taker's got skulls and skeletons tattooed all over his body. On "Undertaker's Greatest Rivals", Austin said that Taker very rarely smiles. He appears to be quite a dark dude, closer to the character than one might think.
Golddust was a character too-there was no way that was an extension of Dustin's personality. But he committed himself to it and made it work.
When Calaway dropped the American Badass gimmick and went back to being the Undertaker was when he put a little more of his personality into the Undertaker. Before that it was fully a character.
I love Al Snows honesty in his interviews but I thought “Head” was a character..
"Head" was a gimmick
Al Snow is a pretty smart dude.
Goldust was a character that Dustin made work. That's the first clear example that came to me.
Yes that came to mind also and let's not forget The Undertaker. Vince came up with that gimmick as well.
You don’t know dusty personally
Al: "Characters don't work"
Also Al: "Undertaker is the Undertaker"
I get what he's saying, but he's using an example that proves him wrong? Because I'm fairly certain Mark Calaway isn't a zombie wizard who killed his parents in a fire.
He did go on to say almost never work. Probably realised after he mentioned Undertaker.
Face-wise he morphed into a mix of Scott Norton and Scott Steiner.
Somebody should send this interview to CM Punk.
Undertaker works because he's Undertaker? The implication being he's actually an Undetaker with demonic powers. Ok Al. Ok.
Given what he said abou gimmick vs. character what does he think of Bray Wyatt? Hes had three different character/gimmicks and has made them all work reasonably well.
Theyre all extensions of the man though.
Everything this guy says is 1000% TRUE!!!!
He's right the punches in the face while they're on the turn buckle...like straight 10 punches to the doom and the dude is not bloody and is ok after 5 seconds
But i love 80's & 90' wrestling fr LOL.
Mr. Snow can’t say “characters never work.”…Undertaker was a character, and now a legend. Remember Biker Taker? That was a gimmick. Which was more popular? But, that’s probably the exception that proves the rule.
Well like Al snow said, there aren't really characters in wrestling, bc for Mark Calloway to be taken seriously in the Undertaker gimmick. He had to become the undertaker, to Mark it was more than a stupid character or gimmick. It was him, and his lively hood. So in a way there wasn't any character work being done. Mark Calloway became the Undertaker Gimmick.
Al snows head gimmick was class, WHO WANTS HEADDDD?!?
I'm confused on his explanations on the differences between a character and a gimmick.
I'm so sick of too cool for the room wrestling fans acting like Al Snow was this under appreciated wrestling genius. Even in his prime he was a mid carder at best.
When you check alot of wrestlers bios its this guy who has trained alot of them.
I use to be such a fan of HBK, and guess I still am, but it really seems like he was a total prick. I guess that's what Al was talking about though, that's why his gimmick worked so well.
Same here HBK had this swagger that in the early 90s wasn't common to see on everyday television for a young man who loves rooting for the "bad guys". But it wasn't long after that I learned that HBK was easily the worst of the worst when it came to ego maniac assholes who cares little about anything but himself
Gona Overhead I watched a vid in which Shawn Michaels kind of explained why he was a prick and it made sense to me in a way he was paying people back for shitty treatment he received albeit to the extreme sometimes
Holy crap I honestly think Al Snow may actually be the wisest person in the wrestling business. If I was younger I would beg him to train me as a wrestler. I mean literally BEG him!
“What does everybody want?!!!!”
When’s the part when he talks about HbK?
This is just speculating but at 2:45 he seems to take the high road as opposed to saying Shawn was difficult to work with.
He should be in a Pat Patterson type role in WWE but for the entire match not just finish.
I was picturing Ultimate Warrior shaking the ropes at the security line as he waits.
Who would win in a MMA fight between Al Snow Vs. CM Punk?
Al Snow
THE HANNIBAL TV definitely co-signing that
THE HANNIBAL TV Agreed
Al snow and anyone else.
He is so smart and anyone who says it's not real talk to Droze who broke his neck against Delo Brown who every time he is asked you see the pain in his face that's real and sid snapping his leg but the end of the match is set but like Al said the moves are real and Shawn was like any addict it changes you into a person who only cares about yourself and you don't care who you hurt and to get what you when you want you'll do it but Shawn made it out alive so he did ok so did hall XPac Nash is the type that can say I am done and he is not many like that.
AEW sign him plz
Nobody drinks water as much as Al Snow.
Agreed - for the most part - but some characters have taken off - Million Dollar Man for one.
Toe Hold.. LMAAAAAAO
it's a colloquialism for an ankle lock.
Smart guy were listening too here. Al snows ok too. Lol
Al snow one of the most intimidating looking dudes
One thing's for sure; Al Snow doesn't care what Anybody says.
You lost me with "The Undertaker is not a character".
I’d argue the reason that crop of guys acted that way is bc they came up watching it happen with the hogans, Mach, and the pippers of the worlds on top and saw it first hand
wrestlers win matches because the other is willing to lose, yes. But if someone refuses to lose, they'll get fired!
Id like the people who put thumbs down to explain
Guerilla PSYOPS I guess
Because he sounds like an asshole
are we sure the ultimate warrior doesn't run through the airport shaking stuff?