@@Censored4UViaGoogle I live near Toledo...the attendance record in our old arena was set by Hulk Hogan for a WWF card the day after Christmas in 1987. That's normally when WWF ran the Garden for a huge show. Found that card online...Honky and Macho Man headlined the Garden day after Christmas. You don't get more over than that
You have to pay to talk to Honky he is all business. If it was a big convention it was probably part of the payment to be at the show paid by the media outlets.
Loved watching him oblivious to the boos and hatred with a big grin on his face,acting like everyone loved him. Bring back the 80's,it was so good. Saturday night main events were amazing.
Hogan was the World Champion for four-years. That record still stands. Hulk has accomplished a lot however, so he doesn’t milk that like HTM has to milk his only accomplishment that was only given to him cause he was a Hogan stooge.
It is amazing the people who believed that HTM was a "bitter, angry mark." He was clearly working at the time and the marks bought it hook, line and sinker. He used it to promote his sot interviews and indy matches.
Still looks great. He's a great example that you don't have to do a bunch of ridiculous stuff in the ring if you can get heat, sell and get the crowd to respond to what you're doing.
I think the majority of people in the business and fans at the time felt the same way about Taker. He was entertaining and unique, but I don't think anyone would've imagined that character being a mainstay. No one foresaw it evolving into a multilayer "phenom".
I think Taker worked because he went all in for it not because it was an inherently brilliant idea. If he wasn't doing the makeup and the eyes rolled back and the zombie like movement and was just Texas Red in a hat and duster it would have flopped.
@@gilson1982 Or people that actually know wrestling and don't talk out of their asses. I went to wrestling a lot as a kid. And yes, I wasn't having much sex at 7 years old. When I was going, Hogan was the champ, but Bruno was still wrestling. The older fans would tell me about him.
@@had1toomany114 - It’s a fake sport, dude and it’s primary targeted audience are children and teenagers. The majority of people outgrow wrestling when they become adults. Wrestlers probably mock fans like you.
I saw a video of him before he was doing the HTM gimmick amd he was damn good looking guy actually! Probably could have been a baby face under the rigjt gimmick.
I was hoping he was gonna ruin Mr. Gunther record run. Could you image the pop if he was in the front row sitting next to Chad's family in disguise as Grandma GABLE. As soon as the big German turns around out comes the Guitar.
Always nice to see the interviews and documentaries honky tonk man does he was a great wrestler and never has anything really bad to say about the men and women he worked with all those years ago
That aint true. He has said nasty things about Jaek Roberts and even his cousin Jerry Lawlor. Many others Warrior, Bulldogs, Vince, etc. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I like wrestlers to be honest.
Honky went through a phase about 10-15 years ago where he was coming across as somewhat nasty and bitter in interviews. I don't know what was going on in his life at the time but he seems so much more relaxed and happy these days. Good to see.
HTM seems a little older and his voice a little weaker. That comes with age. But HTM is still the greatest Intercontinental Champion ever! Never should have dropped the belt to the Ultimate Warrior. Warrior made that belt look bad where as Honky Tonk Man made lt look like a million bucks!
Wonder if he has to get permission every time he wants to use the HTM name and gimmick. I heard The Rock just got ownership of that name which, again, I wondered if he always had to get permission.
@@humbleking800 - Or it’s because he wasn’t talented enough. The man couldn’t wrestle to save his life. He didn’t even know how to play the guitar. Mic skills was all he had.
he was a great gimmick wrestler. nothing to take away from him but he sure wasnt no bret hart; Shawn michaels, Austin type of wrestler but he always kept us entertained
What did they do with the real Honky Tonk Man and how did they find such a good lookalike? All of the other shoot interviews that I've seen of Wayne Ferris show him cursing everyone. His attitude bears no resemblance to the attitude of this genial Comic Con attendee. I note that the subject of Jake the Snake Roberts and "the guitar shot" wasn't brought up in this segment.
he looks pretty good! He seems to be a genuinely good guy that loves his fans! as far as Pro Wrestling he’s a national treasure! very humble not a narcissist 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍
i wish honkey tonk did his own podcast because im sure many would listen to it weekly
People adored him in the late 80s and even today! Everywhere he went the crowd cheered and threw roses at his feet!!!
He is so truthful and his heart is pure. Nicest guy ever.
😆 Mark. He’s one of the biggest jerks. He’s only nice unless he gets paid. He’s just like a stripper.
Dude had a two year run near the top of the card in WWF and he's managed to parlay that into a paying job 30+ years later. God love him...
He’s an atheist.
Back when being a champion meant something. Now days wwe has like 20 titles
@@Censored4UViaGoogle I live near Toledo...the attendance record in our old arena was set by Hulk Hogan for a WWF card the day after Christmas in 1987. That's normally when WWF ran the Garden for a huge show. Found that card online...Honky and Macho Man headlined the Garden day after Christmas. You don't get more over than that
@@Censored4UViaGoogle - Old man.
Honky looks great.......looks like he is happy....
Always good to see HTM. Seems like he's doing well and comes across happy in this interview.
He probably got a nice paycheck.
You have to pay to talk to Honky he is all business. If it was a big convention it was probably part of the payment to be at the show paid by the media outlets.
@@markleshane9314 - Yup. He’s just like a hooker.
Loved watching him oblivious to the boos and hatred with a big grin on his face,acting like everyone loved him. Bring back the 80's,it was so good. Saturday night main events were amazing.
If I could meet him and Valentine and Jimmy Hart that'd make my entire year
Haha love the Honkster!!! Honkamania running wild!!! Wooooooo!!!! ❤ ☺
The Greatest Intercontinental Champion of All Time. His record stood for 34 years.
Hogan was the World Champion for four-years. That record still stands. Hulk has accomplished a lot however, so he doesn’t milk that like HTM has to milk his only accomplishment that was only given to him cause he was a Hogan stooge.
35 years actually. He lost it in August of 1988 and Gunther just passed the mark in September 2023
@@gilson1982 Bruno Sammartino was the World Champ for seven years
@@TheVincenzoGaming - I’ll tell you the same thing I told the other guy - Only virgins know that.
Longest record doesn’t mean greatest. He doesn’t have a good match under his belt
Honky tonk Man so cool he's a very genuine person
Living legend 🙌🏼 love the Honky Tonk Man. 🎸
80-90's Era was the best larger than life personas.
If that Live Cartoon crap was so great, things would have stayed the same.
It is amazing the people who believed that HTM was a "bitter, angry mark." He was clearly working at the time and the marks bought it hook, line and sinker. He used it to promote his sot interviews and indy matches.
Honky was so funny.
His Elvis gimmick was so cool.
Gotta love The Honky Tonk Man !
He is the greatest intercontinental champ of all time!
That would be Randy Savage. In ring and out of the ring.
Agreed. The Macho Man also evolved into becoming the World Champion. That’s something Honky Tonk Man never achieved.
@@gilson1982you mean something he was never given.
@@Censored4UViaGoogle - Yeah. Cause he didn’t bring in the big bucks. He was a one-hit wonder who wouldn’t be anywhere if it wasn’t for Hogan.
@@gilson1982 negative about everything. Did your dad abuse you?
Thanks for doing this!
One of the greatest stick men of all time...national treasure
Love him
I had a dirty thought after reading that. And I thought you guys were his groupies.
@@gilson1982 did you really, Chachi, kind of old for that 🤡 comment.
@@canadiantraveller281 - Or you just don’t have many guy friends.
Still looks great. He's a great example that you don't have to do a bunch of ridiculous stuff in the ring if you can get heat, sell and get the crowd to respond to what you're doing.
For awhile, he was a pretty bitter angry dude........ I think he's at peace now. I always liked his work in the WWF.
was a work
It wasn't a work . He was horrible in a shoot interview and he was clearly drunk
He wasn't bitter nor angry he was working.
@chriskennedy2298 It was a work and the wrestlers even said as much. He just knew that marks like you would buy it.
He was hammered drunk
I love this man. Don't know how I didn't find this video when it was uploaded. All the old timers love my favourite wrestler Randy Orton
Honky tonk man still knows the business very well
Y'know, I _just_ realized as he ages Honky Tonk Man is starting to look like Cousin Eddie.
Still eatin ur boogers eh kid
Glad to see him get his weight under control.
Honky has turned into Ron Jeremy
I think the majority of people in the business and fans at the time felt the same way about Taker. He was entertaining and unique, but I don't think anyone would've imagined that character being a mainstay. No one foresaw it evolving into a multilayer "phenom".
Honky Tonk looking more like a retired Undertaker than the Dead Man himself.
Man hasn't changed his hair style for 30 years
Always fun to listen to HTM. Also, the questions were pretty good. Thanks.
I think Taker worked because he went all in for it not because it was an inherently brilliant idea.
If he wasn't doing the makeup and the eyes rolled back and the zombie like movement and was just Texas Red in a hat and duster it would have flopped.
Honky is finally starting to show his age
He looks pretty good for being 70 years old.
He looks pretty good for being 70 years old.
Looks GREAT for 70 👍🏻🤙🏻💪🏻@@glengabruch4664
Big up the old skool legends! .....Honky's looking good for 70 y/o !
I like Honky's response, he's not the longest reigning, but he's the greatest!
Greatest ever!!!!
I'd so love to get Honky's take on MJF.
Great seeing him.
Hair still Fabulous
HTM is the longest running IC champ while he was competing in the WWF/E and he,ll settle for that. I.d love him to meet Gunther.
That must mean Hulk Hogan is the greatest World Champion because he held the title for four years.
@@gilson1982 You are replying this on multiple posts and it isn't even right. Bruno Samartino had the belt longer than Hogan.
@@had1toomany114 - Only people with no sex life knows that.
@@gilson1982 Or people that actually know wrestling and don't talk out of their asses. I went to wrestling a lot as a kid. And yes, I wasn't having much sex at 7 years old. When I was going, Hogan was the champ, but Bruno was still wrestling. The older fans would tell me about him.
@@had1toomany114 - It’s a fake sport, dude and it’s primary targeted audience are children and teenagers. The majority of people outgrow wrestling when they become adults. Wrestlers probably mock fans like you.
I saw a video of him before he was doing the HTM gimmick amd he was damn good looking guy actually! Probably could have been a baby face under the rigjt gimmick.
Yes he is. Honky tonk man is the greatest Intercontinental Champion of all time.
Great interview!
It's great that he's perfectly clear headed
Greatest IC champ
I first saw him on All Star Wrestling from Vancouver. He had a feud with David Schultz. This was almost a year before either one showed up in the WWF.
Schultz was done in WWF by '85, '86 at the latest.
Legend
Another Legend on my list of wanting to meet!
Love this Dude! Especially when he wrestle with Macho Man Randy Savage 😎
Please make an appearance on WWE one day! With your outfit & guitar 🎸
I would love for HTM to make a series of appearances on Impact just to tweak the nose of Santino Marella. Could be fun times.
Oh boy...don't let Gunther see this video.
other then the hair.. he looks a lot like carrol o'connor aka archie bunker
I was hoping he was gonna ruin Mr. Gunther record run. Could you image the pop if he was in the front row sitting next to Chad's family in disguise as Grandma GABLE. As soon as the big German turns around out comes the Guitar.
Keeping himself looking great! XD
Great interview
Mine and my bro's favorite back in the 80s. He looks great!!
Come to Baltimore Roy
Yep honky tonk man is the greatest
That's so rad bro.
The greatest intercontinental champion of all time can't say longest running intercontinental champion of all time anymore
I liked when he stopped dying his hair
Honkey Tonk Man is Jerry The King Lawlers cousin.
htm still got it
Honky Tonk Man looks like a character from House of 1000 Corpses.
Wonderful representative of the pro-wrestling profession!
I thought he was thinking of Taker as the one he thought wasn't going to be a success. It seems a common first appraisal.
I just did a double take, thought Kevin Owens was doing the interview. Voice sounds similar
Now the 2nd longest IC Champ
Not yet...Not until Wednesday XD
Who knows maybe he'll appear on NXT 😉😉😉
could’ve at least spelled his name right I mean after all, it was on the banner behind him.
Always nice to see the interviews and documentaries honky tonk man does he was a great wrestler and never has anything really bad to say about the men and women he worked with all those years ago
That aint true. He has said nasty things about Jaek Roberts and even his cousin Jerry Lawlor. Many others Warrior, Bulldogs, Vince, etc. Not that there is anything wrong with that. I like wrestlers to be honest.
Pure Heat Entertainment
He seemed very down to Earth...
Honky went through a phase about 10-15 years ago where he was coming across as somewhat nasty and bitter in interviews. I don't know what was going on in his life at the time but he seems so much more relaxed and happy these days. Good to see.
HTM seems a little older and his voice a little weaker. That comes with age. But HTM is still the greatest Intercontinental Champion ever! Never should have dropped the belt to the Ultimate Warrior. Warrior made that belt look bad where as Honky Tonk Man made lt look like a million bucks!
I'm cool, i'm cocky, i'm bad 🙌
He's cool he's cocky he's no Walter.
The Hockey Tonk Man. I remember him, he had all those great matches against the Brooklyn Baller.
Hockey?
I'm gonna hit him with a honky stick.
Wonder if he has to get permission every time he wants to use the HTM name and gimmick. I heard The Rock just got ownership of that name which, again, I wondered if he always had to get permission.
Honkey no bumps tonk man
the Honky Tonk man . greatest musician and wrestler of all time.
he is NOT a musician
An Elvis impersonator at a Comic Con? Sure, why not.
He needs to bleach his hair back out and go to the blonde bomber.
He's still the greatest ICC of all time, regardless of who held it longer.
If he’s so great, why didn’t he win the I.C. title more than once?
@@gilson1982 Because it wasn't in the script bird brain
@@humbleking800 - Or it’s because he wasn’t talented enough. The man couldn’t wrestle to save his life. He didn’t even know how to play the guitar. Mic skills was all he had.
@@gilson1982🎯
@@paulsoxl7739 - You work for Target?
Keep On Truckin Wayne!
he was a great gimmick wrestler. nothing to take away from him but he sure wasnt no bret hart; Shawn michaels, Austin type of wrestler but he always kept us entertained
Is he single?
They should bring him back to let him play his song(guitar shot followed with SR&R) for Gunther lol
Buba Hotep!
What did they do with the real Honky Tonk Man and how did they find such a good lookalike? All of the other shoot interviews that I've seen of Wayne Ferris show him cursing everyone. His attitude bears no resemblance to the attitude of this genial Comic Con attendee. I note that the subject of Jake the Snake Roberts and "the guitar shot" wasn't brought up in this segment.
Jim Cornette and HTM are without a doubt the best storytellers and wrestling.
One of the greatest and one of the nicest.
🎸
They can leave the belt on Gunther for eternity, but HTM will still be the GOAT!
This dude charged me $10 for a fuc*ing polaroid picture with my son back in the 90's. F O.
Typo. You wrote hockey tonk man.
He was way off bout the Taker 😂
He look to’ve lost a lot of weight
My BOY HTM!!
If I Wuz U Wayne Farris! I Wouldn’t Refer 2 Mark Calloway As A Boy(IJS)!
he looks pretty good! He seems to be a genuinely good guy that loves his fans! as far as Pro Wrestling he’s a national treasure! very humble not a narcissist 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍
Give me a break, you mark. HTM is only “nice” when he’s getting paid.
@@gilson1982 well like mr Tonk Man said... he is a PROFESSIONAL wrestler
@@latex0r - Since he only cares about money he’s more like a professional stripper.
Greatest IC Champ ever!
Dude looks great !! I'm sure he takes care of himself.
"Honky Tonk Man" was the second worst gimmick after "The Red Rooster", which destroyed Terry Taylor's career.