Ted DiBiase RESPONDS to Honky Tonk Man
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- Опубліковано 4 вер 2024
- 'The Million Dollar Man' Ted DiBiase looks back at his Hall of Fame career, from Mid-South, to Japan, to WCW, to WWF, and everywhere in-between! Join Ted and Marcus every Friday at 6am ET on all podcast platforms or if you want early access, get it commercial free on Premier+ with Premier Streaming Network!
In 1988 my family and I were in an airport in Florida. My Dad was in the car rental line and just so happened to be behind Ted DiBiase in line. This was at the apex of DiBiase's heel run in the WWF. My Dad asked him for an autograph and DiBiase told my Dad to meet him at a spot outside of the line. When my Dad went to the meeting spot, DiBiase was there with Honky Tonk Man and The Warlord. DiBiase signed an autograph for my Dad and made polite, nice small talk with him. My brothers and I watched from a distance with our jaws dropped that our Dad was talking to the evil Ted DiBiase! Ted didn't have to do that. He could have just shrugged my Dad off easily with his heel gimmick, but he didn't. 36 years later, we still talk about it.
Why were you at a distance? We're you contagious?
This seems weird AF.
@@vladanot as weird as ur response. in those days heels kayfabed .....duh!!
The dad was ashamed of his kids! They struck out in every game !
no need to make up stories like this. it isnt impressive
I've heard countless times over the years that Ted is one of the best guys in the wrestling business when it comes to meeting the fans, I hope to have the pleasure of meeting him someday.
I heard he is happy to defraud people of money. Depends on who you speak to.
In Retrospect, the Million Dollar Championship Title Was a Genius Plan
That's such a great story. I watched this growing up, and we loved to hate The Million Dollar Man. I remember looking at the belt and thinking "No way that can be real" but apparently it was very expensive. So glad to know Mr. DiBiase is doing well.
Da million dollar belt was da truth
@@roger7311I want to buy a replica.
I was terrible lucky to be born in the 70s to watch wwf in its prime, ted dibiase was one of the greatest 🎉
Same..1974 to be exact
This is gold. Man that theme song…haha, it was a special moment of disgust. Always a threat. Haha, classic. Good job
It's nice to see the true Ted 👍
He played his character extremely well. I even believed it as a kid
I get what Ted's saying. For the sake of real business, yeah, it made business sense to create the Million Dollar Belt and such. But from a fan's perspective, I have to say, a picture of Ted with the world title around his waist as a legit world champion would've also made us very happy. Even an IC title run would've made sense considering the IC title was always kinda "the heel belt" in those days (Honky Tonk, Rude, Perfect, etc.)
Ted came in above IC level to begin with. Sort of like how Ric Flair came in with the WCW big gold belt and immediately began feuding with Hogan.
If they guaranteed him a six-month reign. However the fake belt made it more interesting for that short period. What the writers are thinking just baffles me. Could have been better could have been worse. Although he played the bit well
I remember as a kid I hated MDM, and I most likely would have hated to see him with the belt. But the Million Dollar Championship was always a genius idea. Once he had the Million Dollar belt he didn't need any belt. Matter fact they should retire the Money on the Bank and use the Million Dollar belt instead or have a Million Dollar tournament to replace King of the Ring and they would be the Million Dollar champion for a year.
The self made championship was the ultimate heat. Ted DiBiase was the greatest heel in the WWF. He knew when, how, why to play to the crowd. Loved to despise.
Million Dollar Man was my favorite heel of all time. Ted was the perfect person to pull it off. The promos leading up to his ring appearances, especially the kid with the basketball, made us want to see him get in the ring and get his butt kicked. Then in his first matches, he paid other wrestlers to fight for him, building the anticipation of seeing whether or not he could actually wrestle. Then he would humiliate the wrestlers he paid to fight in his place when they lost. Buying the title from Andre, then creating the Million Dollar belt. Absolute genius gimmick and storyline with a person who was actually a great technical wrestler. And that arrogant laugh!!
And the music: "Money money money money money". Pretty much sums it up, doesn't it?
DiBiase looks great.
Ted took the high road but if he had a choice, back in the 80’s I believe he would have went with the World Heavyweight Championship. Plus, he could have introduced the world to the million dollar belt after he lost the title. Could have been the best of both worlds!
A heel we all loved. No one hated him
Who Ted? Uhhhhh the million dollar tried to buy a slave! He was very HATED!
that needs to be a shirt with mdm 'don't play with my money'. hell that wouldve been a great catch phrase if he had said it in the 1980s
Ted will always be a Boss
Big Boss Man.
Marcus u are the man love this channel great content
Ted Ted. Ted.....I used to watch you here in Texas long before you were a millionaire (maybe?).... always one of my favorites
Iv met ted at a convention, I went and got a 90s toy million dollar belt signed and I asked him if he still had his belt, and he told me about the million dollar belt and his replica and he said god bless, I was hoping I was going to meet evil million dollar man but I met reverend ted dibiase, hes genuinely are great guy, and maybe the greatest heel of all time
Bret Hart said that Honky Tonk man poked fun of Harley Race at one point in the locker room and Dynamite Kid came up to Honky Tonk Man and slapped him on the head or something knocking him off the wooden bench he was sitting on in the locker room. Bret said Dynamite Kid was the policeman of the locker room always trying to keep other wrestlers on the line.
That story is true, but HTM and his marks deny it of course, despite the fact that there were several witnesses.
Harley had a surgery and a part of his gut (intestine) was removed. Honky Tonk Man made the joke that Harley got no guts.
@@bublubhuyan937 yup that's when Dynamite wacked Honky Tonk Man over the head or something.
@@gilson1982 always lying never wanting to face the truth.
@@Brook11223 Dynamite is possibly the biggest POS in the history of pro wrestling. Bret Hart wrote in his book about the type of things Dynamite did not only to his co-workers in the business but also to his ex wife Michelle, it's impossible to have any sympathy for him. Having said that Dynamite is definitely pound for pound the greatest wrestler to have ever lived.
Nobody talks bad about other wrestlers as much as Honky Tonk Man. Heels in wrestling are usually the nice guys in real life.
Yeah he’s kind of a dirtbag. The crap he spread about Ravishing Rick Rude is disgraceful, I’d love if Rick could come back just long enough to break his face for it.
HTM is a truly miserable human being. Every time UA-cam suggests a HTM video, I remove it. I have no desire to listen to this lying PoS. I hated his character, he had turn-the-channel heat, and I feel the same way about his real-life self. I have met and spoken with Ted Dibiase before, and he is an awesome person.
Honky Tonk Man rules.
@@maitreyas.4902 opinions vary
Except he isn't.
Ted-Dibiase-was-the-WWF-World-Champion..He-bought-it-and-was-recognized-as-the-champ-for-a-little-while-so-it-counts-in-my-book
That's a smart way of looking at it.
Ted should of been NWA Worlds champion.
“The Man With The Money”, Ted Dibiase!
Loved his million dollar championship match with virgil. Wow honky n dibiase had heat.. they barely talk to 1 another
To be honest I never turned on wrestling back in the day to watch Ted DiBiase do anything. It was always bathroom break time when he came on.
It was a genius decision. I grew up during the Ruthless Agression era so I never really saw the million dollar belt outside of games at that point but just that belt being so unique even if the design was a bit gawdy (intentionally so) I thought it was so cool. To this day I think it's cooler than the world belt. It's also one of the most porotected belts in wrestling history, I think it's something like less than ten people have ever held it.
Ted DiBiase, was the greatest heel along with,Mr perfect, Rick Rode,Jack the Snake
I would ask Mister Dibias if he was ever asked to be a MOVIE VILLAIN? LOL! Please ask. Thanks so much for this content. Keep up the great work. All the best.
Wasn’t he in Paradise Alley ?
I mean, did you even wrestle in the 80s and 90s if Honky hasn't buried you in a shoot interview? 😂😂
Ted did get the belt on SNME in the double ref`s gimick and for a few house shows. He was the only WWF wrestler to hold Hogan`s belt outside of Paul Orndorff.
Wrong. Ted DiBiase was immediately stripped off the belt afterwards in kayfabe and never had it. Never even for a single match, as immediately after Main Event 1, he and Andre teamed up against Hogan and Bigelow on the House Shows throughout February.
Paul Orndorff also never had the belt, not even in a "he stole it" way and certainly never had a match with the belt.
Why do you lie? Stuff can be so easily verified on countless websites like historyofwwe, cagematch and profightdb nowadays.
@@ShadowAngel-lt8nw ua-cam.com/video/4QWRZjx0Sm0/v-deo.html
Here`s Million Dollar Man with the WWF Belt.
WWF Champion Ted Dibiase & Andre vs Hogan & Bigelow
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Honky and Ted were both great workers
One was an all time great. The other was an elvis imitation
@@chrischar9428I have to disagree with you, Watching Honkytonk Mans run with the IC title was epic!! Saturday Night Main Event match with Macho Man was epic!! Every opponent he faced during his run it looked believable that he could lose an he would find a way to win, his matches told stories, Ted was legendary himself, blessed to have watched these 2 and now able to reflect both were great heels!! The way Honky shoved Elizabeth out the way, and nailed the guitar on Macho, with The Hart Foundation and Jimmy Hart backing him up, was to me one of his epic moments that made him, this is my opinion but those who saw it also may agree it was one of his finer moments, Ted was great buying his way to the top!! He made the role Million Dollar Man!! Both men had above technical ability in the ring and made others look good in the ring!! They both checked all the boxes of being a heel, only time was their enemies
@@-XKHAN- I put him with warrior....arcidi and kazmeier
Ask Ted about his heat with the state of Mississippi.
I wanna hear that story!
I will always like Honky Tonk Man the wrestler is awesome
MDM was blessed with quite possibly the best gimmick of all time. Honky Tonk Man had a good one, too, but I always thought he was a little lazy to not learn at least a few guitar chords. Other great gimmicks were Hulk Hogan, George Steele, Undertaker and so many more. The greatest "manager" gimmicks were Grand Wizard and Paul Bearer. The absence of great gimmicks, along with the loss of kayfabe, are what hurts pro wrestling today.
Honky was the greatest
@@danoc51Was Piper considered a gimmick? I guess kinda sorta in a way. Would you say so?
@@NOV123Piper actually knew how to play the bagpipes.
He’s the Foghorn Leghorn of wrestling.
I totally get what Ted's saying but I wish he got on long Flair esque heel run.
Real Life : Ted needs the money
WWF : MDM needs the belt
All boils down to the two C's - cash and creative.
First of all , would love to congratulate you guys on a great Podcast. And finally, I can finally listen to a wrestler from my childhood always giving a coherent interview without being bitter at the business. I have a question for Mr. DiBiase : I have read about the story where Andre the Giant won the Championship and sold the belt to you right away. So , Andre was technically Champion for an hour. Can you elaborate on the story if it's true ? Thank you
Yes, it’s true. This happened on the Main Event, Feb of ‘88 in Indianapolis, IN. It originally aired on a Friday night on the NBC network.
I think you would have to tweet or email your question. I don't think much of any youtube channels read the comments.
@@chadwickerman i answered the question, sir!
Is the match available somewhere ? I loved how a Heel Andre would spit some crazy French in his promos. Oui oui, Pepe le Pew.
Wayne Farris is full of "it".
Atleast he didn't steal from the hungry, like Ted has.
This guy was as convincing in his gimmick as anyone. I genuinely hated him. He was one hell of a performer.
He would have gotten more heat had he won the title, then created the Million $ Belt after he lost it.
Wayne still working his gimmick hard
THE MDM PROVED HE DIDNT NEED THE BELT!!!!!! THATS WHAT MAKES HIM SO SPECIAL.
Can he podcast from prison??
He is the million dollar man, everybody has got a price. He has grease the right palms to stay out
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Jeebus will save him! 😂
Ask Hunter Biden and Donald Trump.
You mean Jr don’t you ?
True story except 'Randy Savage' was suppose to head to 'WrestleMania' 4 as 'The Intercontinental Champ' also, dropping the I.C.title due to there rules of being able to hold only 1 belt!
No...
The question becomes how long can you maintain main event status without the title? Ted had the gimmick and wrestling pedigree to keep him on top but lesser wrestlers like the Honkytonk man needed the belt to keep their earnings going. In essence it’s not the title so much as the money that comes with it.
Coolio said it best:
"When it's all about money, ain't a damn thing funny!"
I always wanted to be the millionaire champion
"It's a work!" Someone should tell Bret Hart that!
Had Ted won the WWF title, WM 5 would have been him losing it to Hogan. I could see a lead up angle to this match with a special referee (celebrity?) that Ted paid off only to backfire on him. By the next year, Ted would have been reduced to mid card status as many of Hogan's feud partners had become after they lost to him.
I'm surprised MDM never did a face turn. It probably would have worked, and if not it would have set up for another turn and big ppv match.
He’d have to give out free money to crowds to do that. And that money would have to be Vince’s money.
Everybody has a price for The Million Dolllar Man.
I wonder if Ted kept his million dollar belt.
I don’t think so. Ted was white hot from mid 87 up until about wrestlemania 4 so I don’t think creating the million dollar title got him more heat or made him as white hot as he was after they ripped off hulk in early 1988. By the time he got the million dollar title, it was going into Mania 5 and he already took a step back on the ladder. He was feuding with the Hercules, Brutus beefcakes and Jake the snakes of the world. His run with Hulk and Randy was over
I remember an article on the WWF about maybe there should be more titles since wrestlers seem to be "inventing" their own titles these days First we have King Of The WWF" and now you have Ted Dibase who custom made his own belt and put it on the line against the jobbers.
Trivia, which 2 wrestlers held it in their possession without Ted wanting them to? Lol
Title reigns didn’t last 5 minutes, the golden era of wresting only saw 8 different champions in a decade. Lots of top guys never got the big belt; Piper, Rick Rude, Jake the Snake etc from that era but were all huge draws in their own right.
Everybody’s got a price for The Million Dollar Man
Honky Tonk Man -- even when I was a kid and thought it was real on certain levels -- still came off as a bad Elvis impersonator that took awkward looking bumps. He also didn't have very much offense (that was interesting to see). He was kind of a clown then, and he seems like more of a clown today. There were jobbers and locals during that time that sold better and were more believable.
If The Million Dollar Man buys a Million Dollar Belt surely he has no money left
Honkytonk man is 💯percent on ted the con man.
The only reason HTM wasn't a jobber was because his cousin was Jerry Lawyer.
This comment makes no sense. Jerry was still running Memphis then and had nothing to do with it
wasnt ted the former wwf champ? after he bought it from andre
That was never official. On the record, Andre was stripped of the WWF title and it was vacated until Wrestlemania IV.
Honky tonk definitely affected his money if he would have won the title he would have made a lot more money
Hey, Ted! Couldn't you have at least made the bed?😂
What if..we steal funds from the poorest, most impoverished, and vulnerable people in America in league with other rich star athletes? That will get the biggest heat of all!😮
his son jr sr wasnt charged
Speaking of money......
I remember as a kid ted turned on jyd and i hated him for that
Unfortunately for Ted , he came along about 3 yrs too early, and the Ultimate Warrior got sich a huge push. Lets face it. No one was taking the belt from Hogan for long. It was always going to be a short term thing. Especially for a heel. ( which is the biggest reason Ted didn't win in WM 4). In those days you weren't sending the crowd home in at that time was your only pay per view, with a heel champ. But if Hogan could have dropped it to Ted when he went to make No Holds Barred, and had Savage pick it up look later year. And they could have stretched out the Mega Powers as well. But who knows with all the politics back then. And Warrior threw off any chance of Ted winning gold in that period. Shame.
It was a dq not countogut
This might have been news or worth listening to 35 years ago. I’m not sure many are worried if the million dollar man is friends with the honky tonk man though.
I beg please get some people interviewed who have wrestled recently this is saying to fans “you ain’t with a damn” here listen to some more 80s chat or worse still let’s hear about the Monday night wars
Stop degrading fans
Teddy fyi we didn't hate you it was virgil we didnt like😂😂😂
I love hearing ACTUAL pro wrestling psychology. It's a bygone era for sure
Stealing from needy families is not cool Ted
Doing this podcast when Ted might be prison bound seems dumb.
He doesn't care.
The mark gets to have a podcast with an actual star.
It's Ted Jr. facing prison time for potentially the rest of his life, not Ted Dibiase Sr.. Do some research before you slag your bullshit.
@@_Z-MAN_ You can't, if you let your kids take the fall for you.
Jake Roberts and Scott Hall were the same way. They weren't stupid marks for themselves and could care less about which belts they had, as long as they had their spot and were getting paid. That is something I could never understand with Bret Hart, that guy would be more happy having 10 world titles under his belt and be making 500k over his career vs. not having all of those belts and be making 5 million.
Some guy’s need belts & some guys don’t. Jake & Scott were two big charismatic guy’s with a great gimmick who were terrific on the mic. Bret was a “ wrestler “ who was an underdog beating much larger opponents, so a belt was more important for his character. Also Bret had a much different view of pro wrestling, not to say he didn’t want to get paid. I just don’t think he was a money grubbing type, just wanted to be fairly compensated.
Funny thing is Bret made more than all the guys you mentioned.....MARK
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Best of luck to Marcus, but I dont think this is going to end well. Ted doesn't exactly have a trustworthy or sympathetic image these days. And with the lawsuit he's facing, he's not going to drop the religious gimmick and tell tales from all the women he was plowing through in the 1980s.
I wouldn't say that, even though he owed money to Mississippi, which he paid off, doesn't mean he can't be trusted. I don't believe he or his sons are guilty of embezzlement, I believe it was a misunderstanding.
Stop humiliating us
Ted came from Mid-South. Vince was NEVER EVVEERRRRR going to put a title on anyone from Mid-South, well except for that jobber kid Shawn Michaels.
Who does Honky not have heat with? 😂
Honky was a mediocre wrestling talent with a mediocre gimmick who was a mediocre I.C title showcase.
Now he’s bitter as vinegar.
Far from it. Honky Tonk Man made his money and had one of the longest Intercontinental Championship runs in WWF history (with Gunther about to break that record). He's not bitter at all.
@@DevoJetBoy8680 Being the "longest Intercontinental Champion" is like bragging about being in second place for the longest time.
@@jscan4442 Well, at the present moment as I type this, he can still brag that he's the longest. Hasn't happened yet.
@@DevoJetBoy8680 No, he doesn’t sound bitter with all the bitching and moaning he does in practically every interview I see on social media.
A long title reign doesn’t mean anything as it’s not real. It was a gimmick. The I.C title is suppose to be a mid card title to build up talent before you go up to challenge for the world title as a main event attraction to feed the likes of Hogan or Warrior. Honkey wasn’t one of those because he was never a draw. He was a side act. A clown. He never generated money as an I.C champion.
As for him making the money that he has retired on?
He and a lot of people he can thank for that such as Hulk Hogan because if his name was on the bill it meant you was getting a great payday if you was running a town with him.
Honkey was smart enough to save the money he made.
@@jscan4442 Being the longest champion of a gimmick title belt is like saying you’ve been a great second performer in a circus or cop buddy in a movie.
I hope that $5 you donated to Virgil's gofundme to help with his funeral expenses does't cause you to have to file bankruptcy DiBiase! Some more of your Christian values just like when you scammed the state of Mississippi for millions of dollars. You will get your karma.
EVERYBODY was and is a pos except HTM, he is the biggest
Once Ted became a religious con artist I lost interest in him
Then why are you here?
Who the hell cares who won the title? We all knew it was fake so who would give a damn?