Have you seen his work as one half (the beast half) of the Beauty and the Beast tag team, with Terrence Garvin (Simms)? It makes this look tame by comparison.
Omg, he’s channeling Tim from Monty Python and the Holy Grail when he uses the Scottish inflection to talk about picking your bones! I just put it all together!
3.5 second 40 yard dash, would have loved to see him line up with Bo Jackson, and have a 40 yard dash race. Look at that impressive running form, and that amazing stride is what surely must account for that "totally awesome" 40 yard dash time!!!!
To his credit, he at least acts like he believes what he is saying but I can't tell if Khan is wild or running scared from something he saw in the bottom of the lake. Maybe he saw Mark Lewin??
Something tells me that Teijo Kahn didn't possess the required subtlety to be a great pressure point manipulation exponent but who knows? Totally Awesome!
English??? I thought it was French. If you look further on YT you can see Dundee (who trained him) actually tell Gullen in a promo that he can't figure out what his accent's supposed to be! Seriously.
What I don't get is how his 40 time is relevant to being a pro wrestler or even just someone who hurts people. Maybe he always gets away with crippling his victims because he can escape the scene of the crime really fast?
@DavidFullam Had actually forgotten about the Beast. Obviously this incarnation of Gullen didn't last that long. This should have been mid-late 1987. Khan was in JCP with Paul Jones in 1986 and in AWA with Soldat Ustinov by early 1988. When Beauty and Beast came into Memphis, Beast was still introduced as Mark Gullen and did full interviews. I wonder if Yomamba ever actually made it to TV?
You don't see a vignette like this today except in Lucha Underground (where guys can also have amazing superpowers like Khan's super-speed and pressure point manipulation) As an aside, looking back today I think Teijo Khan has a great memorable look, but he probably didn't stand out from the pack of Road Warrior wannabes at the time
This is the most Adult Swim shit in wrestling I have ever seen 😂😂 And I mean that in a complementary way. This guy, the announcer guy that is, would totally get over today if he was used as a comical villain.
@@NickInfante1992 Nah, Timmy clearly edited the video as a way to sum up the entire promo, or the Tommy Rich laughing thing came after that promo in sequence to how it was recorded. Doesn't matter. It's a perfect way to end it.
@unknowable1968 Sounds about right. He was in Flordia for a period of time in mid 87 teaming with the Tahitian Prince but it was being folded into Crockett at that point. Showed up in Memphis around Oct/Nov.
@wrestling782 Search YT for Midnight Rockers In Memphis - Part 6. From looking at the timeline and title histories this would have been a short run during the holidays of 1987. Not surprised that Gullen didn't last as Shawn Michaels was polishing his mic skills and Jarrett probably figured there was no need to pay an extra person who was just a mouthpiece. The Rockers run in Memphis was never acknowledged on AWA TV and they were always faces there so Gullen wouldn't have fit. in with Gagne.
Does anyone know if Mark Gullen was the illegitimate child of The World's most Dangerous Hair Dresser "Count Dante" of the World famous and founder of the Black Dragon Fighting Society ?
The ONLY reference I could find to Yomaba: 11/30/87 Memphis, TN/Mid-South Coliseum drawing ??? Shawn Michaels & Marty Jannetty beat Teijo Kahn & Yomaba.
I'm proud to call "The Beast" my uncle. He's a great guy. I always looked forward to when he would come to visit when I was younger. He would step into his beast wrestling role and I would get to wrestle the Champ that I got to watch on saturday mornings. he would make me feel like a pro wrestler by selling the hits and tosses i would try to give him. To a 4 year old he made me feel like a wresting superstar.
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Huh, Gullen managed the Midnight Rockers for a time during their Memphis run and also supposedly arranged that Mantell-Jarrett match that was done with the orchestra.
not even kidding, Mark Gullen needs to make a comeback
Have you seen his work as one half (the beast half) of the Beauty and the Beast tag team, with Terrence Garvin (Simms)? It makes this look tame by comparison.
that would be totally awesome!
but sadly, Marc Gullen passed away a couple of years ago 😞
It's the way Khan comes blundering out of the lake and runs off that always cracks me up the most.
That, and Gullen's TORTAL DEVASTAYSHUN.
YOMAMBA THE JUNGLE SAVAGE!
Totally awesome
HAHAHAHAHA! - Tommy Rich.
This is one of these things you just cant stop watching/listening over and over again.
Mark's gimmick as Aelister Crowley occultist world traveler is tremendous. This is what I miss about wrestling.
Misterioso yup
He also managed the Midnight Rockers in Memphis when they went heel.
Singapore, blood sports...this guy inspired James Vandenberg!
I love Mark Gullen! His Shakesperean vocal inflections, snazzy wardrobe,
and fierce look are terrific.
This is the greatest thing I have ever seen, ever. Ever.
That last frame of Tommy Rich and Buddy Landel suits the perfect for Teijo Khan's introduction.
RIP Marc Gullen, tremendously underrated figure.
THE SEA CREATURE
FROM THE SEA
Teijo runs like Denim Fritz applied the denim claw to his hemorrhoids. yeeeaa
This is all sorts of awesome.
Pressure Point Manipulation lol
This is gold from start to finish!
PACK YOUR BAGS, BILL DUN-DEEE
I have no idea who any of these people are, but this is incredible!
"This man is TOTALLY AWESOME!" Yes, Mr Gullen, you certainly are.
RIP Teijo Khan.
"Totally awesome!"
The House of Gullen was once the most powerful house in wrestling.
2:12 The guy almost drowns making his entrance, no wonder he ran away once he was on shore.
Omg, he’s channeling Tim from Monty Python and the Holy Grail when he uses the Scottish inflection to talk about picking your bones! I just put it all together!
" Under his guidance" begins his reign of tyranny. Just simply the best thing ever
Hot Bruno is taking the strap next week! I'll tell ya!
B&V brought me here
Southpaw Regional Wrestling!
"we've come to this part of the world" . . . as in rural western tennessee on jerry jarrett's property
One of my all time favourite promos of all time
That would be a good restaurant name "House of Gullen Cuisine"
The Tejio Khan Supreme would be the House favorite
....he found a white dude with a handle bar mustache in the mountains of china?
He could find a needle in a haystack if needed - Mark Gullen is just that good!
Well, he's a world traveler you see...
Very near the province of parts unknown.
@@JeremyPeeples LMAO!!!
THAT is the part of wrestling I miss the most when I was a kid. The sheer absurdity. It was so fun.
3.5 second 40 yard dash, would have loved to see him line up with Bo Jackson, and have a 40 yard dash race. Look at that impressive running form, and that amazing stride is what surely must account for that "totally awesome" 40 yard dash time!!!!
Lmaooooo
Yeah well I bet you Bo don't know Mo tu kai chi! 🤣🤣
6:05 Superpodcast brought me here!
+Mohan Kumar Greatest podcast ever!
Misterioso Totally Awesome!!!!
Me too
Me to I found super six through cornette
THE MOTHERSHIP
Hilarious, especially when he runs the 40 yard dash.
To his credit, he at least acts like he believes what he is saying but I can't tell if Khan is wild or running scared from something he saw in the bottom of the lake. Maybe he saw Mark Lewin??
I trust him...I don't know why but seems legit
Something tells me that Teijo Kahn didn't possess the required subtlety to be a great pressure point manipulation exponent but who knows? Totally Awesome!
Mortu tai chiiiiii......I love this guy. He should come back.
Holy fuck this just gets better and better
Amazing
That guy Khan stole my stewed meat taco in Dallas Texas in 1987.
HE RUNS THE 40 YARD DASH IN 3.5 SECONDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!Although in this video it takes him more than double that time to run 10 feet.
lmao
Mark Gullen has the best fake English accent ever. I bet he's a huge draw on the Renaissance Fayre circuit nowadays.
His delivery on "pick his teeth with their bones" suggests... Russian, maybe?? I have no idea.
@@flattenedSlattern He is a world traveller remember.
English??? I thought it was French. If you look further on YT you can see Dundee (who trained him) actually tell Gullen in a promo that he can't figure out what his accent's supposed to be! Seriously.
Kahn looked the character Wez from the movie "The Road Warrior".
The 40 yard dash in 3.5 seconds?!? I'M DED 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣☠
What I don't get is how his 40 time is relevant to being a pro wrestler or even just someone who hurts people. Maybe he always gets away with crippling his victims because he can escape the scene of the crime really fast?
This is like a episode of Doctor Who! 7th Doctor era.
Amazing!
@DavidFullam Had actually forgotten about the Beast. Obviously this incarnation of Gullen didn't last that long. This should have been mid-late 1987. Khan was in JCP with Paul Jones in 1986 and in AWA with Soldat Ustinov by early 1988. When Beauty and Beast came into Memphis, Beast was still introduced as Mark Gullen and did full interviews. I wonder if Yomamba ever actually made it to TV?
I mean c'mon he was a member of Paul Jones Army....like one rung below Shaska Whatley. Also listening to this guy reminds me of SULLIVAN MY SON
You don't see a vignette like this today except in Lucha Underground (where guys can also have amazing superpowers like Khan's super-speed and pressure point manipulation)
As an aside, looking back today I think Teijo Khan has a great memorable look, but he probably didn't stand out from the pack of Road Warrior wannabes at the time
Because of Marc I found a totally awesome gamer handle Yomamba
This is the most Adult Swim shit in wrestling I have ever seen 😂😂 And I mean that in a complementary way. This guy, the announcer guy that is, would totally get over today if he was used as a comical villain.
@wrestling782 I'm pretty sure Umamba is Kimala 2 of All Japan and ECW fame.
Teijo running like he ate some bad Taco Bell!!
So Khan started in JCP/WCW in 1986, then went to Memphis in 1987. Then Khan jumped to the AWA in 1988, right?
totally awesome
He certainly looks like he could climb a mountain
Lmfao,this looks like a segment from Southpaw Regional Wrestling
Oh man it's the "Beast" too cool.
I have no clue what Tommy Rich and Buddy Landel are laughing at.
@@NickInfante1992 Nah, Timmy clearly edited the video as a way to sum up the entire promo, or the Tommy Rich laughing thing came after that promo in sequence to how it was recorded.
Doesn't matter. It's a perfect way to end it.
It was heavily rumored that NWA was going to have him turn face and have a run with Flair.
J.B. Nutter
I’d have booked him single handed against the Mulkey Brothers to put the Mulkeys over.
2:28 - He turns into The Great Cornholio!
The Great Cornholio would dominate Memphis wrestling
Is the ad up front for Vera Clinic simply someone with a sharpie drawing dots on that guy's head?
This is where Matt Hardy copied his Broken Matt gimmick
The best part of this video - After all this corniness, the last three seconds was Tommy Rich laughing his ass off.
40 yard dash in 3.5 seconds.... on what planet!
+rossomac21 In soaking wet pants, no less!
6:05 super podcast brought me here
That was incredible.
This is corny, but great.
Yo Mama, the Jungle Savage?
Singapore is nowhere near Northern China though. That would be like saying, I started in Michigan and we went on a trip to Columbia to hunt cocaine.
3.5 seconds... That's hilarious
Especially since anyone who actually counts can easily tell it was at least twice as slow.
@unknowable1968 Sounds about right. He was in Flordia for a period of time in mid 87 teaming with the Tahitian Prince but it was being folded into Crockett at that point. Showed up in Memphis around Oct/Nov.
lmao...just about to say that. This shit was too funny.
Marc Gullen is my dad.
Motigichee
As tom servo said hey sigfeid pick an accent an stick with it
@wrestling782 Search YT for Midnight Rockers In Memphis - Part 6. From looking at the timeline and title histories this would have been a short run during the holidays of 1987. Not surprised that Gullen didn't last as Shawn Michaels was polishing his mic skills and Jarrett probably figured there was no need to pay an extra person who was just a mouthpiece. The Rockers run in Memphis was never acknowledged on AWA TV and they were always faces there so Gullen wouldn't have fit. in with Gagne.
I never see Gullen at ringside during any of the Monday night highlights of the Rockers' Memphis run so you're probably right.
good promo!
WTF was he doing in the water?
Drowning
Fishing with his teeth? I mean, that's one of the things uncivilized savages do, right?
@@DolFan316 He was down there using pressure point manipulation on the fish!
Be amazed at how his goat dropped in fear at the mention of TIJO KAHN!!!!
3.5 40 yard dash 😂
Does anyone know if Mark Gullen was the illegitimate child of The World's most Dangerous Hair Dresser "Count Dante" of the World famous and founder of the Black Dragon Fighting Society ?
Why did Tommy Rich have his tongue out next to that blond wrestler at the end of the clip?
Come out of a pond, and you're over.
The ONLY reference I could find to Yomaba:
11/30/87 Memphis, TN/Mid-South Coliseum drawing ???
Shawn Michaels & Marty Jannetty beat Teijo Kahn & Yomaba.
What the hell did i just watch!!!
Y O M A M B A
I'm proud to call "The Beast" my uncle. He's a great guy. I always looked forward to when he would come to visit when I was younger. He would step into his beast wrestling role and I would get to wrestle the Champ that I got to watch on saturday mornings. he would make me feel like a pro wrestler by selling the hits and tosses i would try to give him. To a 4 year old he made me feel like a wresting superstar.
I loved him in World Class with Terry Garvin. Met both of them and they were cool!
Teijo Kahn hates Kix
I thought basketball players were fast and tough.
AAAAHAHAHAHHAHHAAA!!!
Ha ha! Broken Matt Hardy’s father!
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#TheMothership
What year is this
1987.
Botswana beast Kamala 2?
Huh, Gullen managed the Midnight Rockers for a time during their Memphis run and also supposedly arranged that Mantell-Jarrett match that was done with the orchestra.
Well, this white guy as an Asian guy gimmick wasn’t as offensive as Yoshi Kwan at least.
Lol 😂
What the hell lol
Ahhh, Teijo Khan. Ahhhhhhhhhh.
Haha