He was a great teacher. Spent time with him in Florida. One day made the mistake while sparring I said lets go old man....I one second flat I was on my back, he posted my knee, rocked back and forth and it felt like my knee was going to explode...He was great.
I witnessed the "Exotic One" in action in the little town of Bessemer Alabama. He was amazing! To this day, I always tell people how impressed I was with his ring presence. A true legend!
He did a stint with Joe Blanchard's Southwest promotion here in San Antonio. He was amazing. The South Texas crowds were stunned by his gimmick. Genius.
I actually never heard of Adrian Street until just a few years ago and I've been watching wrestling since the early 80s. That's sad really because after I watched some of his matches I was blown away with how ahead of his time he was. Not just with the gimmick, but how he worked. Criminally underrated wrestler.
That's part of the reason I love pro wrestling. There's so much out there, I'm never going to run out of new wrestlers, new matches, and new stories that I've never heard of.
There was a show called Superstars of Wrestling or something like that (with Joe Pedicino and Bonnie Blackstone) that showed like *8* hours of wrestling from all the territories on Saturday nights. Much of it was like a blur, but fun to watch all these people I'd never heard of. Adrian Street was always one of the standouts I remember, and I've been on a bit of a classic wrestling kick and had to look up videos about him. You have to be a legit tough ass mofo to pull off that gimmick back in the 80s in some of those redneck shitkicker towns.
I remember the old Continental Wrestling Association in Alabama- Adrian was a heel...Adrian was a face...but he was and shall ever be one of the finest wrestlers who graced our wrestling rings...Here now, we know he has passed but he is still one of my favorite wrestlers to watch!!!
Being the toughest guy in the Memphis dressing room wasn't that hard to be in the early 80's who was going to beat up Adrian Jerry Lawler or Jimmy Valiant? Joking 🤣.
That is not evn close to being his best song...Check out "Im only happy breaking bones" or anything from his 1st album Shake Wrestle and roll is his 2nd album.
This wrestling channel is one of the best ones for shoot interviews that I've ever came across you carry yourself well and you interview some pretty good guests
Both Adrian Street and Chuck Norris are 81 years old. There are two 81-year-old men on this planet I would never even dream of messing with.... Try and guess who? LMAO
@@billy4892 dude, Adrian Street just had his 81st birthday in December and he is more ripped than he was in the 1980s. I am a very healthy 6ft for 240 lb man and I would not mess with him even at 81. Him and Chuck Norris are both 81. Guess who the only two eighty-year-old men on this planet that I would not ever mess with are?😉 If you're thinking of adorable Adrian Adonis, the guy who ripped exotic Adrian Street off, then yes he died
@@billy4892 no problem my friend, you're not the first guy to mix them up LOL no problem. Adrian Street actually had a 57-year career. His first match was in 1957 his last match was in 2014. His outlandish wardrobe actually inspired in part the glam-rock movement in England. Marc Bolan of T-Rex proudly said he got the ideas for his outfits by watching Adrian Street on TV, David Bowie as Aladdin Sane completely ripped off Adrian streets look. He was actually 40 years old when he came to North America in I believe it was early 1981 and was a star in multiple territories across the South. Fun fact, he was the first wrestler that the great Jim cornette ever managed! You can look on UA-cam here there's matches of him against Dusty Rhodes( Adrian jumped him put makeup all over his face and declared he was now "the American Queen" LMAO) Randy Savage Jerry Lawler Jimmy Valiant among others. He had one of the greatest gimmicks on top of being a very skilled in-ring technician. Despite being only 5 ft 7 and 220/230 lbs, the "sadist in sequins, the Merchant of Menace" was a trained catch wrestler and legitimately one of the toughest wrestlers out there. As Mick Foley said on Adrian's documentary movie "He was one of the those legendary figures in our business who could hurt you really bad, really quickly". He had no fear of getting heat with the audience because he could tie people into a human pretzel like Stu Hart or Billy Robinson. He wrote some of the most hilarious songs of all time that he used as his theme songs like "imagine what I could do to you" and = ua-cam.com/video/TILYV_fpjlw/v-deo.html
Who could forget "Exotic" Adrian Street and his smash hits... "There's something very strange about a cowboy" "I'm in love with me (can't you see what I mean") & "I'm in love with myself" just to name a few!😁👌 Damn I miss the 80's!!
LOVE that Adrian is getting some respect lately. Criminally ignored for his historical contributions in and out of wrestling including his influence on the glam rock movement. Never given the respect he is due for how good he was in the ring as well.
LOL, so Adrian Street was doing glam before Bowie and Bolan, you're hilarious - next you'll be saying Street and Barnes influenced the hell's angel movement 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember in Mid-South he kissed Terry Taylor on the lips and Terry was so shocked that Adrian pinned him. My dad called the move "The Lip Lock". I lost my shit laughing! 8 years old. Miss you Pops!!!
I think there was a clip somewhere on youtube talking about it but he actually won a championship from that. I don't remember which one it was but it might have been a television title or something. I don't know too much about Mid south.
I was born, raised, and still reside in south Mississippi and I was 14 yrs old in 1985, the year Adrian Street came to our high school gym, and provided some the starkest, and most educational memories of my young life. At that age, I thought if you gay, that you wasn't nothing but a dainty little sissy, and there wasn't nothing to beating up a sissy. I mean sweet Jesus on a moped they WERE sissy-fied. Or so i thought. Anyway, as they were coming through the crowd, our fullback, l won't mention his name, who was a pretty big guy, and pretty tough in my young eyes, made the mistake of spitting on Adrian Street, which I instantly was kinda stunned, but what really put me in shock, because I was less than 3 foot away when Mr Street reached over about 4 people and with just one open hand slap, knocked every last drop of fuck off our fullback, MY full back because I was tailback. And I thought for a fleeting second, of avenging our fallen fullbacks honor, till I realized that chances of that huge fairy beating the shit out of me, with almost no effort on his part from what I just witnessed, were astronomically good. So I figured I better stfu before I got slapped completely sideways too. So that's what I done. I stfu.
Well, Dutch has more wrestling knowledge in his pinky than some full wrestling cards. Seems down to earth and like a nice fellow. No one ever says anything bad about him, in wrestling that's something.
"Exotic" Adrian Street and Miss Linda, Skull Krushers Wrestling School in Gulf Breeze, Florida, great people, love them. One of the greatest of all time IMHO
His song “imagine what I could do to you” was the bomb when I was a kid even in the Deep South here it was just amazing. He could get people to cheer like maniacs or boo and shout slurs, it was up to him. I saw it live in Alabama in the 80’s as a little kid.
Cornette did manage them for a time in Memphis in his early days, so he has a great affinity for them and probably learned quite a bit about the business from them too at that early age!
Wow! I think it’s cool that soo many American pro wrestlers all say they loved Adrian and Miss Linda! I hope that he caught some of these interviews, while he was still with us, to remind him how much he was loved and appreciated. Rest In Peace Adrian Street 🙏
Hey friend glad we are talking about Adrian Street, but I actually heard the opposite was true. Recently watched something the Jim Ross said that Bill Watts didn't want a gay / sissy gimmick in his promotion back in the mid South. Apparently Jim Ross wanted him there because he could draw a lot of heat but apparently old cowboy wasn't sold on Adrian and miss Linda. But apparently after watching some videos and having others vouch for Adrian bill was finally relented.
Dutch is 100% correct about fans wanting to see Adrian Street perform. Adrian's introduction, his robe removal by Miss Linda, the referee checking Adrian's boots & tights, and all of his other gimmicks were awesome. He would sell out the Coliseum in Jacksonville during the Florida Championship Wrestling era. Adrian's wrestling skills were unorthodox and off the scale. He was tough and could sugar his opponents very quickly.
Its one of my biggest regrets I never got to see Adrian Street back in his prime when he came to the States. The UA-cam videos are great, but I can't imagine what that would have been like live to watch it.
I feel like when I discovered Street in 2020, he seemed like he'd been forgotten about... but either he's had a resurgence since then or everything I read at the time undersold how important people still think he was.
WWE did a Network documentary on Adrian in late 2019, after he did some coaching at the UK performance center. That might be a reason why he had a resurgence.
@@jmc7504 Adrian Street is 81 years old. Chuck Norris is 81 years old. Adrian Street and Chuck Norris are the only 81 year old men on this planet I would never even think messing with.
Adrian Street's 'gay gimmick', actually came aboout by accident. He'd been to America where he'd seen the more tanned/bodybuilder types (British wrestlers around the time were more in the Harley Race mould) and done some workouts, got a tan and had his hair bleached. When he returned to the UK, he thought he looked great, but the British wrestling fans of the era decided otherwise. He was angry initially, as he'd put some work into looking that way, but then he realised it was an instant heat machine, so he started making it more and more outlandish, without ever outright addressing his sexuality. There's a great book about British wrestlers/wrestling, called 'The Wrestling', by Andrew Garfield out there which has mentions of Adrian as well as Dave 'Fit' Finlay, and Steve Regal among others :)
According to an interview I watched of his a few years ago the one comment that got his attention when he came out for his first match with his brand new bleach blonde hair was from some women in the crowd Who said "My....isn't she the one" LOL And as tou said at first he was angry until he realized he could use it to get over with a new gimmick
I got to see Adrian Street with Miss Linda several times in small-town Texas. And boy was he ever a fun and great time. Very entertaining and such a great wrestler. Some loved him and others loved to hate him. Nonetheless, he made a Splash every time!!
Is this the drag racer, if so you are awesome, I am a big fan. I drag race a 1968 tbird. Been in a wheel chair for a year but out now ready to roll this spring.
Exotic Adrian Street. I remember the first time I saw him in Los Angeles when I was a youngster back in the early 80s. To me I thought he was an unusual character. Although. He had great wrestling skills. Flamboyant individual. Great wrestler bar none.
Adrian Street was also the fella that retired Jimmy Savile, radio host and prolific chicken hawk, from the ranks of professional wrestling by beating the living SHIT out of him.
One of the very few good things that happened to me when I was in prison, was when one of the shot callers dubbed me a little Mick Foley mf'er, and the name stuck. It didn't necessarily save me from any ass whoopings, but it definitely gave pause to the younger cats that were always on that bullshit, that even though I might not look like much, I didn't mind fighting or bleeding, and wasn't going to be a easy mark.
I think Miss Linda was a female wrestler in the UK -- that is how they met and got married -- both tough as nails from what I understand -- he gave an interview once on why he chose to become a wrestler -- said his father was a coal miner and at 16 after watching mining take it's toll on his dad decided that anything had to be better than that so he left home and became a professional wrestler for All Star in the UK
Adrian and Linda met while Linda was working at a pet store where Adrian bought exotic fish. He trained her to become a wrestler years later when the promotions were in need of female wrestlers.
Actually it was joint promotions max crabtree's promotion. He did work for all star later on, as well as for Steve Wright (Alex wright's dad) in Germany.
Love your show!! Brilliant questions and guests 👍👍 Adrian Street’s matches in the U.K. in the 70’s, before he went to America are worth checking out. His match against Jim Breaks is brilliant 🤩 Here > ua-cam.com/video/hcdMPLmPGsQ/v-deo.html
Well considering bare knuckle fighting was a weekend hobby in the part of Wales he was from, wouldn't surprise me. Another guy from the same part of Wales as Adrian was Don vines, duel code Welsh rugby International who went to pro wrestling. Don trained my dad in catch and he was hard as a oak door. So I can imagine Adrian being the same.
Watch wrestling my whole life! Never even heard of Adrian Street until two or three years ago! This is your guy's fault! I mean, the guy is still alive! How does America not know about this guy?!
Technically queen is as big as they've ever been in America I love queen and live in America where they use their songs in commercials , TV shows , movies and stadium or sporting events all the time more so than any other artist but yes at that time them dressing up as girls did hurt their careers some.
You could do the gimmick just an up to date version but not stereotyped stuff it wouldn't work I'd lick to have another . it couldn't be like Goldust but we need a heroic gay dude or woman or villainous but you have to make him or her looks scary when the bell rings . my opinion
The music video for "I Want to Break Free" didn't kill Queen in the USA. It was banned by MTV before most people could see it and remained something that was hard to find until the internet era.
It was not banned by MTV. They played it quite often, when the album (The Works) was out, but eventually took it out of rotation. The only Queen video they wouldn't show was "Body Language." Queen's career, in the US, had been on the downward slide, for a while. Rolling Stone regularly slagged them off and radio stations considered them old news. After "Another One Bites the Dust" was a hit, in 1980, they pretty much were ignored by most mainstream stations. MTV was about the only ones playing their later stuff though even they skipped some and didn't play anything after A Kind of Magic and mostly only ran "Princes of the Universe" to sell the film (Highlander) and because of the sequence where Lambert steps out of the film, onto the stage and faces off with Freddie. Their last US tour was in 1982, for Hot Space, which didn't do well, in the US and had negative reaction, elsewhere, since it departed more from their previous work, with more funk and disco. MTV played "Under Pressure" and "Calling All Girls", in their early days, but balked on "Body Language. The "I Want to BreaK Free" story is pure revisionism, much like that biopic.
They used to play that video every year as part of the top 100 videos of all tim on labor day weekend Banned for cross dressing? I guess everyone has forgotten Boy George and Culture Club and Dee Snider and Twisted Sister on heavy rotation on MTV in 1984 the same year that I Want To Break Free was released as a single
You know wrestling all the way up into the late 90s, really was a perfect example of how most people thought of gay people. Now we all knew that there were some creepy dudes in wrestling, look at the ring boy incidents. But because anyone that was gay was so deeply closeted, anytime you heard about anything even remotely in the homosexual genre it involves molestation. So it really lead a lot of fans to make the connection between homosexuality and being incredibly creepy if not a sexual predator. It's no one's fault this happened, and I think more over that statement can be expressed for the whole of America. That also perfectly explains the mindset of a lot of individuals over the age of 60, we use the phrase recruiting, in reference to homosexuals. As if they have to recruit new homosexuals, because in their mind it's so connected with predatory behavior. Not saying it's right just saying it's something I've noticed.
Vince again instead of getting the real deal no Vince has Adonis play exotic part like road warrior Vince makes demolition superstar say Vince made hulk Hogan so Vince makes copies before getting the real deal
"it's bad enough that you're going to get thrashed within an inch of your life today, but i'm going to deliver that thrashing, looking as beautiful as i do"
Adrian had two flaws . One he somewhat managed and the other he did not . Firstly he was short , 5'6" . He was not a heavyweight , he was a middle heavyweight . Secondly , he was not snapoy on the mic . He was a bit to conversational and not very quick . Even still , he was awesome . His wrestling was a show .
Stu Hart brought Adrian Street to North America. His first territory here was Calgary. He had a chip on his shoulder and was not liked by the rest of the locker room according to some of the other Brits working in Calgary at the time.
Never heard that before. Bret Hart has never had a bad word to say about Adrian but quite the opposite (and Bret buries everybody). I wonder if jealousy played a factor in what the other Brits had to say.
@@HarkerDirge Adrian was particularly unfond of Keith Hart for some reason and he claims he turned down a booking at the German tournaments because Keith Hart was booked for the same time. It's strange because Keith Hart is one of the most personable and well-liked Harts. Adrian also hated the long drives on the territory loop. Coming from England he was used to driving an hour between towns.
Wayne Maurice Keown, you knelt in front of pat patterson and accepted the name zeb..thats how tough you are. you know it. stu hart knew it and calgary didnt want you. you were terrified of bad news and dynamite. office stooge who had no problem getting on his needs to pat. he liked your moustache...lol
I would find a better way to create heat with the audience as in sighting hate against homosexuals is just not healthy. People aren't responsible enough not to stigmatise a whole group over an individual. They hate Adrian then they may end up hating all homosexual's in that way, people often follow patterns, herd mentality.
@@catfatherb2072 Are you a homosexual though? there is already a stigma over them so a character like this is an excuse for abuse. Ironically, the one's who shout slur words against homosexuals are the one's who are offended lol
I've wrestled with many of the boys from the Memphis area and all through the South never heard any of them talk about Adrian Street as great... Wonder why? 🤔
Couldn't do a "gay" gimmick now? There's more LGBTQ wrestlers than ever with their sexuality central to their gimmick. You not seen Sonny Kiss or Effy? Do you mean you couldn't get away with a "hate the gay" gimmick? Too fucking right you shouldn't get away with pushing fans to hate a wrestler because they're gay
I think he meant straight men doing a gay gimmick which i agree its cant be done now. Billy gunn was really the last one with gay gimmick with chuck and its would never works today. We have now legitimate lgbt wrestlers so there no need for gay gemmick anymore anyway
@@christophergibson7944- Billy and Chuck didn't work because not too many people bought it. First thing I thought was 'I wonder how much Vince is paying these two for this'
Take a valium dude. Not what he said anyway. He saying people wouldn't view him as heal solely on basis of being gay. People would judge him now on performance an d wrestling ability. I think many did at the time and just wouldn't admit it.
He was a great teacher. Spent time with him in Florida. One day made the mistake while sparring I said lets go old man....I one second flat I was on my back, he posted my knee, rocked back and forth and it felt like my knee was going to explode...He was great.
He is a legit badass...He can hurt a man very bad very quick...Dont let his size or 💄 lipstick fool you!!! '¿'
He could kill a man... eventually
Always remember it's not the size of the guy in the fight but the size of the fight in the guy. He may have been 5'6" he fought like a 12 foot giant.
I witnessed the "Exotic One" in action in the little town of Bessemer Alabama. He was amazing! To this day, I always tell people how impressed I was with his ring presence. A true legend!
He did a stint with Joe Blanchard's Southwest promotion here in San Antonio. He was amazing. The South Texas crowds were stunned by his gimmick. Genius.
I actually never heard of Adrian Street until just a few years ago and I've been watching wrestling since the early 80s. That's sad really because after I watched some of his matches I was blown away with how ahead of his time he was. Not just with the gimmick, but how he worked. Criminally underrated wrestler.
That's part of the reason I love pro wrestling. There's so much out there, I'm never going to run out of new wrestlers, new matches, and new stories that I've never heard of.
There was a show called Superstars of Wrestling or something like that (with Joe Pedicino and Bonnie Blackstone) that showed like *8* hours of wrestling from all the territories on Saturday nights. Much of it was like a blur, but fun to watch all these people I'd never heard of. Adrian Street was always one of the standouts I remember, and I've been on a bit of a classic wrestling kick and had to look up videos about him. You have to be a legit tough ass mofo to pull off that gimmick back in the 80s in some of those redneck shitkicker towns.
I remember the old Continental Wrestling Association in Alabama- Adrian was a heel...Adrian was a face...but he was and shall ever be one of the finest wrestlers who graced our wrestling rings...Here now, we know he has passed but he is still one of my favorite wrestlers to watch!!!
Back in early 80s he wrestled in Memphis. He was without a doubt the toughest guy in the dressing room. He was very good at playing his role.
Being the toughest guy in the Memphis dressing room wasn't that hard to be in the early 80's who was going to beat up Adrian Jerry Lawler or Jimmy Valiant? Joking 🤣.
*”There’s Something Very Strange About A Cowboy” by Exotic Adrian Street on Shake, Wrestle ‘N’ Roll*
Adrian Street rocks and so does Dutch
That is not evn close to being his best song...Check out "Im only happy breaking bones" or anything from his 1st album Shake Wrestle and roll is his 2nd album.
Can't wait to hear the interview you did with Adrian, James! Should be a fantastic one! ✌🏻
Adrian Street : One of the All Time Greats - and one of my all time favorites...!
This wrestling channel is one of the best ones for shoot interviews that I've ever came across you carry yourself well and you interview some pretty good guests
Adrian is 80 years old and still looks like a million bucks.
Both Adrian Street and Chuck Norris are 81 years old. There are two 81-year-old men on this planet I would never even dream of messing with....
Try and guess who? LMAO
Isn't he dead? Do you mean that's how old he would be?
@@billy4892 dude, Adrian Street just had his 81st birthday in December and he is more ripped than he was in the 1980s. I am a very healthy 6ft for 240 lb man and I would not mess with him even at 81. Him and Chuck Norris are both 81. Guess who the only two eighty-year-old men on this planet that I would not ever mess with are?😉
If you're thinking of adorable Adrian Adonis, the guy who ripped exotic Adrian Street off, then yes he died
@@RobwLPOC sorry pal and thanks I didn't know adrian street I thought it was an early adrian adonis gimmick thanks for clarification appreciate it 👌
@@billy4892 no problem my friend, you're not the first guy to mix them up LOL
no problem. Adrian Street actually had a 57-year career. His first match was in 1957 his last match was in 2014. His outlandish wardrobe actually inspired in part the glam-rock movement in England. Marc Bolan of T-Rex proudly said he got the ideas for his outfits by watching Adrian Street on TV, David Bowie as Aladdin Sane completely ripped off Adrian streets look.
He was actually 40 years old when he came to North America in I believe it was early 1981 and was a star in multiple territories across the South. Fun fact, he was the first wrestler that the great Jim cornette ever managed!
You can look on UA-cam here there's matches of him against Dusty Rhodes( Adrian jumped him put makeup all over his face and declared he was now "the American Queen" LMAO) Randy Savage Jerry Lawler Jimmy Valiant among others.
He had one of the greatest gimmicks on top of being a very skilled in-ring technician. Despite being only 5 ft 7 and 220/230 lbs, the "sadist in sequins, the Merchant of Menace" was a trained catch wrestler and legitimately one of the toughest wrestlers out there. As Mick Foley said on Adrian's documentary movie "He was one of the those legendary figures in our business who could hurt you really bad, really quickly". He had no fear of getting heat with the audience because he could tie people into a human pretzel like Stu Hart or Billy Robinson.
He wrote some of the most hilarious songs of all time that he used as his theme songs like "imagine what I could do to you" and =
ua-cam.com/video/TILYV_fpjlw/v-deo.html
Who could forget "Exotic" Adrian Street and his smash hits...
"There's something very strange about a cowboy" "I'm in love with me (can't you see what I mean") & "I'm in love with myself" just
to name a few!😁👌
Damn I miss the 80's!!
Don't forget the classic
"A sweet transvestite with a broken nose"
LOL 😆
LOVE that Adrian is getting some respect lately. Criminally ignored for his historical contributions in and out of wrestling including his influence on the glam rock movement.
Never given the respect he is due for how good he was in the ring as well.
LOL, so Adrian Street was doing glam before Bowie and Bolan, you're hilarious - next you'll be saying Street and Barnes influenced the hell's angel movement 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@paulwilliams5121 Marc Bolan said he got the ideas for his outfits from watching Adrian Street on television...
@@RobwLPOC Really? Would love to see a link of Bolan saying that thanks
I remember in Mid-South he kissed Terry Taylor on the lips and Terry was so shocked that Adrian pinned him. My dad called the move "The Lip Lock". I lost my shit laughing! 8 years old. Miss you Pops!!!
I think there was a clip somewhere on youtube talking about it but he actually won a championship from that. I don't remember which one it was but it might have been a television title or something. I don't know too much about Mid south.
I was born, raised, and still reside in south Mississippi and I was 14 yrs old in 1985, the year Adrian Street came to our high school gym, and provided some the starkest, and most educational memories of my young life. At that age, I thought if you gay, that you wasn't nothing but a dainty little sissy, and there wasn't nothing to beating up a sissy. I mean sweet Jesus on a moped they WERE sissy-fied. Or so i thought. Anyway, as they were coming through the crowd, our fullback, l won't mention his name, who was a pretty big guy, and pretty tough in my young eyes, made the mistake of spitting on Adrian Street, which I instantly was kinda stunned, but what really put me in shock, because I was less than 3 foot away when Mr Street reached over about 4 people and with just one open hand slap, knocked every last drop of fuck off our fullback, MY full back because I was tailback. And I thought for a fleeting second, of avenging our fallen fullbacks honor, till I realized that chances of that huge fairy beating the shit out of me, with almost no effort on his part from what I just witnessed, were astronomically good. So I figured I better stfu before I got slapped completely sideways too. So that's what I done. I stfu.
Well, Dutch has more wrestling knowledge in his pinky than some full wrestling cards. Seems down to earth and like a nice fellow. No one ever says anything bad about him, in wrestling that's something.
Adrian was and is a powerhouse.. guy is a great bloke.
Hells yeah. Adrian Street was an awesome talent. To this day- I still enjoy watching his old matches.
Adrian Street wrestled for Stu Hart's Stampede Wrestling in 1981. Many UK wrestlers were recruited by Stu and went on to fame and fortune in the USA.
Yup and it’s too bad that he never came back! Guess the money 💰 was too good in the states? 🤷🏻♂️
Adrian and miss Linda is who I went through for my wrestling gear.
"Exotic" Adrian Street and Miss Linda, Skull Krushers Wrestling School in Gulf Breeze, Florida, great people, love them. One of the greatest of all time IMHO
His song “imagine what I could do to you” was the bomb when I was a kid even in the Deep South here it was just amazing. He could get people to cheer like maniacs or boo and shout slurs, it was up to him. I saw it live in Alabama in the 80’s as a little kid.
he was the show in Continental back in the day. Bullet Bob and Wildcat Wendell Cooley and the Stud Stable but Adrian was the show
If I remember correctly, saw him at a live show in the metropolis of New Brockton Alabama. Think Sid was Lord Humongous then too
He seemed LEGIT in his wrestling
British Wrestlers had to be legit back when Adrian broke in
He was great to watch,loved Adrian and Ms.Linda.
Cornette ALWAYS speaks very highly of Adrian Street and Miss Linda.
Yeah he said Linda was one tough cookie too
Cornette did manage them for a time in Memphis in his early days, so he has a great affinity for them and probably learned quite a bit about the business from them too at that early age!
grew up on Dutch and Adrian in Bontinental. great talents!
Wow! I think it’s cool that soo many American pro wrestlers all say they loved Adrian and Miss Linda! I hope that he caught some of these interviews, while he was still with us, to remind him how much he was loved and appreciated.
Rest In Peace Adrian Street 🙏
Adrian Street need to be in the Hall of Fame long overdue
Adrian was a true bad ass
Saw Adrian Street in Houston Midsouth as a kid. He was a huge attraction. Guessing Dundee booked him. Flambouyantly great.
dundee hadn't gotten to mid south yet, watts liked adrian because he was a "sissy" character that made his jock squad look even manlier
Hey friend glad we are talking about Adrian Street, but I actually heard the opposite was true. Recently watched something the Jim Ross said that Bill Watts didn't want a gay / sissy gimmick in his promotion back in the mid South. Apparently Jim Ross wanted him there because he could draw a lot of heat but apparently old cowboy wasn't sold on Adrian and miss Linda. But apparently after watching some videos and having others vouch for Adrian bill was finally relented.
Adrian could make a fortune painting faces at Disneyland!!!! He did such a rad job on his paint!! Love that guy
Dutch is 100% correct about fans wanting to see Adrian Street perform. Adrian's introduction, his robe removal by Miss Linda, the referee checking Adrian's boots & tights, and all of his other gimmicks were awesome. He would sell out the Coliseum in Jacksonville during the Florida Championship Wrestling era. Adrian's wrestling skills were unorthodox and off the scale. He was tough and could sugar his opponents very quickly.
RIP Adrian Street. Love the gimmick.
Its one of my biggest regrets I never got to see Adrian Street back in his prime when he came to the States. The UA-cam videos are great, but I can't imagine what that would have been like live to watch it.
I feel like when I discovered Street in 2020, he seemed like he'd been forgotten about... but either he's had a resurgence since then or everything I read at the time undersold how important people still think he was.
WWE did a Network documentary on Adrian in late 2019, after he did some coaching at the UK performance center. That might be a reason why he had a resurgence.
@@jonathanturbide2232 Ah this is true, I forgot about that!
he is late 70s in age, when l saw him as a kid in the mid 80s he was late 40s so wwf going national missed adrian
@@jmc7504 Adrian Street is 81 years old. Chuck Norris is 81 years old. Adrian Street and Chuck Norris are the only 81 year old men on this planet I would never even think messing with.
Adrian Street's 'gay gimmick', actually came aboout by accident. He'd been to America where he'd seen the more tanned/bodybuilder types (British wrestlers around the time were more in the Harley Race mould) and done some workouts, got a tan and had his hair bleached. When he returned to the UK, he thought he looked great, but the British wrestling fans of the era decided otherwise. He was angry initially, as he'd put some work into looking that way, but then he realised it was an instant heat machine, so he started making it more and more outlandish, without ever outright addressing his sexuality.
There's a great book about British wrestlers/wrestling, called 'The Wrestling', by Andrew Garfield out there which has mentions of Adrian as well as Dave 'Fit' Finlay, and Steve Regal among others :)
According to an interview I watched of his a few years ago the one comment that got his attention when he came out for his first match with his brand new bleach blonde hair was from some women in the crowd
Who said "My....isn't she the one"
LOL
And as tou said at first he was angry until he realized he could use it to get over with a new gimmick
I could listen to a Daily Dutch Podcast. What an incredible mind full of wisdom!
He had a podcast a few years ago, but it stopped suddenly after a few releases.
I got to see Adrian Street with Miss Linda several times in small-town Texas. And boy was he ever a fun and great time. Very entertaining and such a great wrestler. Some loved him and others loved to hate him. Nonetheless, he made a Splash every time!!
Adrian was GREAT. He actually turned face in Southeast/Continental and the fans cheered for him as much as we had been boing him.
Yes Dutch - your right ..Florida mid 80's - Adrian Street - Ms Linda with Gordon Solie ... Wrestling Gold!
You are the best interviewer on youtube and you are very knowledgeable. I'm gonna subscribe
Golddust owes a nod to Mr. Street.
He got a pretty good push in NWA. They would show videos every week prior to his appearance
Adrian spent some time in Portland Oregon working for Don Owens in the mid 80’s.
Adrian Street was the man...so good...
Is this the drag racer, if so you are awesome, I am a big fan. I drag race a 1968 tbird. Been in a wheel chair for a year but out now ready to roll this spring.
Exotic Adrian Street. I remember the first time I saw him in Los Angeles
when I was a youngster back in the early 80s. To me I thought he was an unusual character. Although. He had great wrestling skills. Flamboyant individual. Great wrestler bar none.
Adrian Street was also the fella that retired Jimmy Savile, radio host and prolific chicken hawk, from the ranks of professional wrestling by beating the living SHIT out of him.
Adrian should have retired Saville from LIFE.
Too bad he didn't leave saville lying in a puddle of his own blood and piss..
Street is so damn good.
I love your channel bro, dutch is a wealth of knowledge.
Adrien was in Southwest also
exotic adrian had an wrestling school in pensacola
Adrian also did a stint here in Calgary Stampede, Late 1980- early 81 i believe it was?
GREAT WRESTLER,GREAT CHARACHTER!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dutch looks like Yosemite Dam
The Harts promotion, L.A., Florida, Crockett, Mid South, Memphis, Continental, finished in Indies having wrestled in many decades.
Mick Foley is my all time favorite, but The Exotic One is a close second. Nobody was ever better in the ring, or worked their gimmick better.
One of the very few good things that happened to me when I was in prison, was when one of the shot callers dubbed me a little Mick Foley mf'er, and the name stuck. It didn't necessarily save me from any ass whoopings, but it definitely gave pause to the younger cats that were always on that bullshit, that even though I might not look like much, I didn't mind fighting or bleeding, and wasn't going to be a easy mark.
I think Miss Linda was a female wrestler in the UK -- that is how they met and got married -- both tough as nails from what I understand -- he gave an interview once on why he chose to become a wrestler -- said his father was a coal miner and at 16 after watching mining take it's toll on his dad decided that anything had to be better than that so he left home and became a professional wrestler for All Star in the UK
Adrian and Linda met while Linda was working at a pet store where Adrian bought exotic fish. He trained her to become a wrestler years later when the promotions were in need of female wrestlers.
Actually it was joint promotions max crabtree's promotion. He did work for all star later on, as well as for Steve Wright (Alex wright's dad) in Germany.
Rip Adrian
Love your show!! Brilliant questions and guests 👍👍
Adrian Street’s matches in the U.K. in the 70’s, before he went to America are worth checking out. His match against Jim Breaks is brilliant 🤩
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Dutch is one of the best minds in pro wrestling
Wasn't he a bare-knuckle fighter in his younger days, In the UK!
Well considering bare knuckle fighting was a weekend hobby in the part of Wales he was from, wouldn't surprise me. Another guy from the same part of Wales as Adrian was Don vines, duel code Welsh rugby International who went to pro wrestling. Don trained my dad in catch and he was hard as a oak door. So I can imagine Adrian being the same.
an miss linda was beautiful
I stop watching other programs when I know Dutch is on .
I remember as a kid seeing adrian arrive to an event on a pink hearse
as a kid adrian street scared mortal hell outta me
Watch wrestling my whole life! Never even heard of Adrian Street until two or three years ago! This is your guy's fault! I mean, the guy is still alive! How does America not know about this guy?!
Definitely influenced Dalton Castle
Chain looks like it would get jammed up if It jumps off the front sprocket.
Wales is still part of Britain James lol great stuff brother
Wasn't the Velveteen Dream's gimmick like an updated version of Street and Gorgeous George and its like?
Technically queen is as big as they've ever been in America I love queen and live in America where they use their songs in commercials , TV shows , movies and stadium or sporting events all the time more so than any other artist but yes at that time them dressing up as girls did hurt their careers some.
They always push the envelope with him it sounds like they push the envelope all the way to the bank
You could do the gimmick just an up to date version but not stereotyped stuff it wouldn't work I'd lick to have another . it couldn't be like Goldust but we need a heroic gay dude or woman or villainous but you have to make him or her looks scary when the bell rings . my opinion
Is it just me… or does it sound like Adrienne Street sounds like the original Golddust & miss Linda an original version of Terry?!
I've always thought that there was some inspiration from Streets gimmick in the creating of Golddust
Find the picture of Adrian Street outside the coal mine with his dad. You will laugh your ass off at how much of a ripoff Gold Dust is of Adrian
The music video for "I Want to Break Free" didn't kill Queen in the USA. It was banned by MTV before most people could see it and remained something that was hard to find until the internet era.
It was not banned by MTV. They played it quite often, when the album (The Works) was out, but eventually took it out of rotation. The only Queen video they wouldn't show was "Body Language."
Queen's career, in the US, had been on the downward slide, for a while. Rolling Stone regularly slagged them off and radio stations considered them old news. After "Another One Bites the Dust" was a hit, in 1980, they pretty much were ignored by most mainstream stations. MTV was about the only ones playing their later stuff though even they skipped some and didn't play anything after A Kind of Magic and mostly only ran "Princes of the Universe" to sell the film (Highlander) and because of the sequence where Lambert steps out of the film, onto the stage and faces off with Freddie.
Their last US tour was in 1982, for Hot Space, which didn't do well, in the US and had negative reaction, elsewhere, since it departed more from their previous work, with more funk and disco. MTV played "Under Pressure" and "Calling All Girls", in their early days, but balked on "Body Language.
The "I Want to BreaK Free" story is pure revisionism, much like that biopic.
They used to play that video every year as part of the top 100 videos of all tim on labor day weekend
Banned for cross dressing?
I guess everyone has forgotten Boy George and Culture Club and Dee Snider and Twisted Sister on heavy rotation on MTV in 1984 the same year that I Want To Break Free was released as a single
I didnt they were now
You know wrestling all the way up into the late 90s, really was a perfect example of how most people thought of gay people. Now we all knew that there were some creepy dudes in wrestling, look at the ring boy incidents. But because anyone that was gay was so deeply closeted, anytime you heard about anything even remotely in the homosexual genre it involves molestation. So it really lead a lot of fans to make the connection between homosexuality and being incredibly creepy if not a sexual predator. It's no one's fault this happened, and I think more over that statement can be expressed for the whole of America.
That also perfectly explains the mindset of a lot of individuals over the age of 60, we use the phrase recruiting, in reference to homosexuals. As if they have to recruit new homosexuals, because in their mind it's so connected with predatory behavior. Not saying it's right just saying it's something I've noticed.
I’m just glad he whoop Jimmy got revenge for all them children
Vince again instead of getting the real deal no Vince has Adonis play exotic part like road warrior Vince makes demolition superstar say Vince made hulk Hogan so Vince makes copies before getting the real deal
Nobody remembers boy Tony
But some people might remember Tony Falk the referee. Until you brought the name up, I completely forgot about him.
He was more glamrock wrestler not gay
He beat Terry Taylor for the Midsouth TV championship by kissing him . Lol
You think he worked Continental? Geez Dutch, you DID beat him for the Southeastern belt, then destroyed it.
Imagine back in the 70s 80s getting and your manhood gets tested by a man dressed as a female that's capable of kicking your ass!!!
"it's bad enough that you're going to get thrashed within an inch of your life today, but i'm going to deliver that thrashing, looking as beautiful as i do"
Well, he didnt exacly dress like a female did he? More in a androgynous way, which isnt quite the same thing.
No matter how he dressed, he was still a man.
His intro music was about him beating you up and fcking you it's on UA-cam have a listen.
meanwhile in Mexico "Los Exoticos" are still Popular and are still Gayer than ever
Adrian had two flaws . One he somewhat managed and the other he did not . Firstly he was short , 5'6" . He was not a heavyweight , he was a middle heavyweight . Secondly , he was not snapoy on the mic . He was a bit to conversational and not very quick . Even still , he was awesome . His wrestling was a show .
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Stu Hart brought Adrian Street to North America. His first territory here was Calgary. He had a chip on his shoulder and was not liked by the rest of the locker room according to some of the other Brits working in Calgary at the time.
Never heard that before. Bret Hart has never had a bad word to say about Adrian but quite the opposite (and Bret buries everybody). I wonder if jealousy played a factor in what the other Brits had to say.
@@HarkerDirge Adrian was particularly unfond of Keith Hart for some reason and he claims he turned down a booking at the German tournaments because Keith Hart was booked for the same time. It's strange because Keith Hart is one of the most personable and well-liked Harts. Adrian also hated the long drives on the territory loop. Coming from England he was used to driving an hour between towns.
I had heard from Arn Anderson Adrian was no joke… Nobody Fuck with!
Adrian didn't like Stu Hart
Wayne Maurice Keown, you knelt in front of pat patterson and accepted the name zeb..thats how tough you are. you know it. stu hart knew it and calgary didnt want you. you were terrified of bad news and dynamite. office stooge who had no problem getting on his needs to pat. he liked your moustache...lol
You can do the gay gimmick if you are gay. Look at Sunny Kiss. Not near the lever of Adrian Street but still.
You can do whatever you want to, no matter who you are, you sound like a fascist
The F word? Dutch, we still aren't PC, we still show our true colors
Eveyone respects adrian!!!!!!!
I would find a better way to create heat with the audience as in sighting hate against homosexuals is just not healthy. People aren't responsible enough not to stigmatise a whole group over an individual. They hate Adrian then they may end up hating all homosexual's in that way, people often follow patterns, herd mentality.
People are too woke and get offended at everything nowadays
@@catfatherb2072 Are you a homosexual though? there is already a stigma over them so a character like this is an excuse for abuse. Ironically, the one's who shout slur words against homosexuals are the one's who are offended lol
I've wrestled with many of the boys from the Memphis area and all through the South never heard any of them talk about Adrian Street as great... Wonder why? 🤔
Street was legitimately one of the toughest shooters out there which totally made his effeminate gimmick even better.
Couldn't do a "gay" gimmick now? There's more LGBTQ wrestlers than ever with their sexuality central to their gimmick. You not seen Sonny Kiss or Effy? Do you mean you couldn't get away with a "hate the gay" gimmick? Too fucking right you shouldn't get away with pushing fans to hate a wrestler because they're gay
I think he meant straight men doing a gay gimmick which i agree its cant be done now. Billy gunn was really the last one with gay gimmick with chuck and its would never works today. We have now legitimate lgbt wrestlers so there no need for gay gemmick anymore anyway
@@christophergibson7944- Billy and Chuck didn't work because not too many people bought it. First thing I thought was 'I wonder how much Vince is paying these two for this'
Take a valium dude. Not what he said anyway. He saying people wouldn't view him as heal solely on basis of being gay. People would judge him now on performance an d wrestling ability. I think many did at the time and just wouldn't admit it.