These guys are great. Respectful and well-spoken and I love how Smash defers to Ax on almost every question. That would've been something to see Ax against Vader.
Demolition in WCW could have been very interesting! They could have had great matches against the Fabulous Freebirds, The Steiner Brothers, Dr. Death & Terry Gordy, Ricky Steamboat & Dustin Rhodes, Arn Anderson & Larry Zbyszko... Shame it never happened!
I would have loved it too.once DEMOLITION was gone from wwf I didn't want any thing else to do with that company.i had hope they would had come back as a team but it never happened.i miss this team .
Problem is it would not have been as Demolition, as WWE would have owned the rights (though I know this issue is up in the air as WWE claim it’s theirs, Axe claims its his and others say its Moondog Spots), so it would have been as totally new characters
@@clark82 Exactly! Had Bill and Barry could have taken the team on the road, but would have cease and desist orders raining from Titan Towers. But Bill has been making the bold move in more recent years to use the name on independent shows without Vince's permission and the inevitable C&D orders.
I gotta say, they tell ya, never meet your heros. However I can say without any hesitation, both of these Men, they where even better in person than on television. Brutal in the ring, but very serious gentlemen out of it. Meeting them goes down in my top 30 greatest moments of my life.
I wish they would've gone to WCW & won a title there. They are severly underrated. They are viewed as an LOD ripoff. Maybe that's the way they started, but they have a legacy of their own. If they would've had a WCW title I think they'd get more respect.
Demolition is my favorite next to legion of doom and I loved demolitions finishing move. That was cool like totally decapitation if a member of another team was the recipient of that move. It's great watching these interviews with Axe and Smash together. Brings back wonderful memories of watching wrestling during the 80's and 90's
Yes... hard to improve on already gained success. I think it hurt more than it helped. For some stupid reason the three of them together reminded me of ZZ Top.
It truly pains my heart to think...what could have been...for me, pro wrestling star rose and set over demolitions shoulders. After they where gone, so was I. I met them a few years back, Barry, smash, seemed genuinely moved when I told them that.
I used to believe Demolition's gimmick and image was taken from the rock band KISS. The face paint, Smash would stick his tongue out like Gene Simmons after removing his mask. I also used to think Gene Simmons sang the Demolition theme song. I learned later on that wasn't the case.
Here comes the axe and here comes the smasher the demolition, a walking disaster. Oh my I’m getting seasoned as I remember their theme song for their entrance. I loved them in their days.
A feud btwn Demolition and Road Warriors culminating to a losers leave town match at WrestleMania 7 would have been HUGE! Not to mention a FAR better use of each tag team for the event. I don't care how old Bill was, he was doing matches after McMahon phased him out of Demolition and subtly pushed him to leave. If there was an issue of clash with styles...his name is Pat Patterson put him on it. Make it his next big project like he did the year before with Hogan and Warrior. Because those 6 man tag matches when the equalizers were an unimpressive green wrestler on one end and the company champion on the other, are all this rivalry has to show for what could have been good.
Even without the Road Warriors crashing the WWF, Demoltion's run was ending. In 1990 there were also the Rockers and Hart Foundation as top face teams. It was crowded even before the Road Warriors arrived. The change of pace of going to WCW would have refreshed Demolition and let them start over in a new run. Talk about a missed opportunity. Also the Powers of Pain should have gone back to WCW. The Barbarian was so-so in singles but Warlord was terrible.
I'll be honesty with you now that hearing what ax and smash had said I can understand how they both felt.i would had been upset and frustrated and even mad too.but I still would had loved to see them in wcw.
The pop Demolition received at Wrestlemania 6 in 1990 when they won the tag titles was huge. They were over. Then WWF turned them heel just to feed them to the Legion of Doom. Demolition was booked very poorly after losing the tag titles at Summerslam.
It couldn't have happened because they couldn't take the Demolition gimmick to WCW. They would have had to come up with a new gimmick. It wouldn't have been the same.
After Vince bringing up the road warriors(and changing the name)I think demolition going to WCW would have been huge. Would have liked to see demo bust in during the monday nite wars too. lots missed due to court. shame really.
It was like ax said... they rushed it! It should've been a nice slow and long build. With the demos as the heels and the champs and the lod chasing them! Maybe they go at it,in a battle royal,or royal rumble! Maybe a 8 man survivor series match ..but beyond that,no physical contact at all! Just trash talking each other..with a lot of build! Make the fans want it! And crave it! Drive them crazy waiting! Then a huge match at mania,where they put lod over!
Plan was to leave it for Wrestlemania 7 (rumors go Vince had this “dream” card in his head, with Hogan v Warrior 2, and a dream undercard, which would have had LOD winning the titles from Demolition) but 1990 the WWE Tag Division was really short on heel monster tag teams.... LOD could only go through cannon fodder like Bolsheviks, Orient Express and Rhythm and Blues etc for so long, when everyone knew the money was a LOD v Demolition feud for the titles. Ideal situation would have been to keep Powers of Pain together for 1990 and let them go up against LOD, then at Survivor Series 1990 have LOD and Demolition in same team, then do the Demo heel turn there and start the build up to WM7 from there.
He was the Mid-Atlantic heavyweight champion, a World Tag Team champion and a 6-Man Tag Team Champion in the NWA before going to WWE as Smash. But, like you said, after he left WWE, after his stint as the Repo Man, he didn't get many, if any, title matches in WCW. He did have one memorable match with Dustin Rhodes though. The match on a flatbed tractor-trailer. ua-cam.com/video/r77868CA-DE/v-deo.html
I love Demolition, and I have worked on shows with Bill Eaddie... He is extremely smart. Which is why I can't understand how he can't see that there is NO way they could have used the Demolition name in WCW. It is a WWE trademark. They could have painted their faces still, wore similar gear, and called themselves Destruction or something like that, but even then WWE would have a case to at least take it to court. I don't get it.
There was an argument over who created Demolition as we know them, in another interview Bill talks about Vince bringing him and Randy together to make a new team and then leaving them to decide the finer details and his argument was that him and Randy created the look of Demolition so it was theirs. Bit like the Marvel artists back in the day and their argument over did Stan Lee create the hero with his idea or the artist who first drew them
I always thought Powers of Pain were a Road Warriors Rip off... Demolition wore Bondage gear with face paint & masks totally different then the Road Warriors... Road warriors didnt wear masks entering the ring they wore spiked shoulder pads. And the road warriors were built The Demo's were stocky... It might of been Vince's formula to copy the Road Warriors but I think the Demo's were different and they put their own spin on the tag team and made it work
I wish Bill had discussed in depth about the lawsuit he mentioned involving Demolition because we are all now sitting here wondering what happened here.
After JCP sold NWA to Ted Turner in 89 or maybe 1990, the company just wasn’t the same anymore, many of the top wrestlers were leaving & 40% of the wrestlers that were there had horrible/ stupid gimmicks & that went on for a couple years but were I’m getting at is if Demolition Axe & Smash would have went to Ted Turner’s WCW in the 90’s, they would have been hot / successful in that territory, they would have been up there with Ric Flair, Sting, Lex Luger, Dr Death, Ron Simmons, Barry Williams, Ricky Steiner, Kevin Sullivan & other popular wrestlers who decided to stay in WCW instead of going to WWF💵💵💵 , that just would have been something see…..
I forget what went down legally with the name, but some guy ended up being Detroit Demolition, with the face paint and leather, on the Northeast Indies. It wasn’t any of the Demolition members from wwe, but I think the guy got it through some bullshit legal wrangling if I’m remembering correctly.
The only Detroit Demolition that I know of was Randy Colley, who was the original Smash, although only for a handful of matches. He was replaced by Barry Darsow and went on to compete as Detroit Demolition down south and perhaps elsewhere.
Thanks for the info both of you, I knew Colley aka moondog Rex was in the original, but I didn’t realize it was him using it as Detroit Demolition, I only saw a picture of the guy once and he looked younger, plus as I said I know what Colley looks like. Is it possible he sold or let some other guy use the name? The dude looked huge, like really tall, and built, definitely not Colley at any point in his career.
I have seen videos of Ax wrestling in the GWF on his own, calling himself "Axis the Demolisher," and I saw a promo of Ax with another partner, named "Blast". That guy didn't look anything like how Demolition should have looked.
I could never get into demolition. Was always a road warrior guy. I even preferred the powers of pain over demolition. I do enjoy their podcast interviews though. 2 great talents. I always preferred barry as Krusher, and bill as the masked superstar.
It was sad how Vince just disbanned the Demo's with no ending they just disappeared from T.V. Ax was old Smash became Repo Man & Crush became the Hawaiian Kona Crush what a shitty way to destroy an Iconic 80s tag team
Well the plan was for Ax to become an agent out back and Demolition to go on as Smash & Crush but Vince was messing them around more and more out back so they just went their separate ways
Not when you compare styles and think about it. LOD were all muscle and like Cornette said the only good matches they had were with the smaller guys that could bounce around for them, Demolition on the other hand could do the power moves but also did moves like other tag teams were doing. Plus which LOD were always that muscle team that every match went in and overpowered their opponents night in night out never really adapting themselves and their style
Basically he got put on medication, can't remember if it was temp or not, and once he was he was fine. The problem was Vince paniced and decided Ax was retiring from being a wrestler while he worked for him regardless of Ax's doctor clearing him to still wrestle, after leaving WWF Ax went back over to Japan as the Masked Superstar
No wonder Demolition isn't in the HoF right now. They acted like a couple of assholes to Vince. Lol.. but they sure still love to wear that Demolition face paint at conventions for beer money! 😭
I agree it's past time to retire the makeup. If you look at the general population, Bill and Barry are doing better than most men their age. Hell there are 45 year old men that look worse than Barry at 60.
Can someone explain to me why they didn't go to WCW in the end? Barry said that he was done, but that would have been shortly before Survivor Series 1990, yet he continued playing Smash until the summer of 1991, and then spent another two years as Repo Man, so what made him stay?
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These guys are great. Respectful and well-spoken and I love how Smash defers to Ax on almost every question.
That would've been something to see Ax against Vader.
AX vs Vader would have been great!
Vader was bigger than ol AX, but AX was a tough, strong bastard.
AX is my favorite till this day.
Vader vs The Masked Superstar wd have been BEST!!!!
Demolition was one of the best tag teams in the 80s.
More like one of the best tag teams ever! only reason there not in the hall is because they had a lawsuit vs vince!
yes sir!!! my favorite I thought they were even better than the road warriors
Demolition in WCW could have been very interesting! They could have had great matches against the Fabulous Freebirds, The Steiner Brothers, Dr. Death & Terry Gordy, Ricky Steamboat & Dustin Rhodes, Arn Anderson & Larry Zbyszko... Shame it never happened!
James Byers I agree that would've been great to see a bunch of Classic matches that could have been legendary but never happened what a crime
Demolition vs Doc and Bam Bam would have been huge!
I would have loved it too.once DEMOLITION was gone from wwf I didn't want any thing else to do with that company.i had hope they would had come back as a team but it never happened.i miss this team .
Problem is it would not have been as Demolition, as WWE would have owned the rights (though I know this issue is up in the air as WWE claim it’s theirs, Axe claims its his and others say its Moondog Spots), so it would have been as totally new characters
@@clark82 Exactly! Had Bill and Barry could have taken the team on the road, but would have cease and desist orders raining from Titan Towers. But Bill has been making the bold move in more recent years to use the name on independent shows without Vince's permission and the inevitable C&D orders.
It's great to see how well these two get along. Like brothers. Only a few other tag teams seem as close as these guys.
Hart Foundation, Dudleys, New Age Outlaws...
@@popeyedoyle6360 ? None of those are around.
They were both good and known before Demolition. But together as Demolition they became legends.
I gotta say, they tell ya, never meet your heros. However I can say without any hesitation, both of these Men, they where even better in person than on television. Brutal in the ring, but very serious gentlemen out of it. Meeting them goes down in my top 30 greatest moments of my life.
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Demolition had one of the all time best entrance themes. Fantastic team! I miss this era of tag team wrestling.
Demolition had Rick Derringer sing their theme he also sang hulk Hogan's theme song and rock n roll hoochie coo
Me too wrestling has been boring without them.
agree but if they went wcw would have been bad as wcw did not know what to do with talent like that back then
Demolition in WCW would have been something.
They need to be in the Hall of Fame
Idk why but Smash reminds me of Cliff from Cheers
It's the body language and posture😆👍
So that makes ax norm?
He does smash looked like king diamond during his demolition gimmick.
Haha I can see that
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I wish they would've gone to WCW & won a title there. They are severly underrated. They are viewed as an LOD ripoff. Maybe that's the way they started, but they have a legacy of their own. If they would've had a WCW title I think they'd get more respect.
One of my favorite tag teams at the time
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Demolition is my favorite next to legion of doom and I loved demolitions finishing move. That was cool like totally decapitation if a member of another team was the recipient of that move. It's great watching these interviews with Axe and Smash together. Brings back wonderful memories of watching wrestling during the 80's and 90's
I ever wondered if crush had never joined, and Ax had never gone out with his issue, if demolition would of been there longer..
Yes... hard to improve on already gained success. I think it hurt more than it helped. For some stupid reason the three of them together reminded me of ZZ Top.
They were a very good tag team of there day
Underrated tag team..great athletes
Nice work 😊
It truly pains my heart to think...what could have been...for me, pro wrestling star rose and set over demolitions shoulders. After they where gone, so was I. I met them a few years back, Barry, smash, seemed genuinely moved when I told them that.
That song was responsible for a small bit of there success. The pop was huge
I used to believe Demolition's gimmick and image was taken from the rock band KISS. The face paint, Smash would stick his tongue out like Gene Simmons after removing his mask. I also used to think Gene Simmons sang the Demolition theme song. I learned later on that wasn't the case.
That was Rick Derringer.
@@danlc95 rock n roll hoochikoo
Gene Simmons almost sang the demolition theme song
It would of been nice to see demolition work in WCW. Now there would of been some good matches
Here comes the axe and here comes the smasher the demolition, a walking disaster. Oh my I’m getting seasoned as I remember their theme song for their entrance. I loved them in their days.
A feud btwn Demolition and Road Warriors culminating to a losers leave town match at WrestleMania 7 would have been HUGE! Not to mention a FAR better use of each tag team for the event. I don't care how old Bill was, he was doing matches after McMahon phased him out of Demolition and subtly pushed him to leave. If there was an issue of clash with styles...his name is Pat Patterson put him on it. Make it his next big project like he did the year before with Hogan and Warrior. Because those 6 man tag matches when the equalizers were an unimpressive green wrestler on one end and the company champion on the other, are all this rivalry has to show for what could have been good.
Demolition
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Even if it's not the Cauliflower Alley or PWI , Demolition still deserves a WWE HOF induction
Even without the Road Warriors crashing the WWF, Demoltion's run was ending. In 1990 there were also the Rockers and Hart Foundation as top face teams. It was crowded even before the Road Warriors arrived.
The change of pace of going to WCW would have refreshed Demolition and let them start over in a new run. Talk about a missed opportunity.
Also the Powers of Pain should have gone back to WCW. The Barbarian was so-so in singles but Warlord was terrible.
I'll be honesty with you now that hearing what ax and smash had said I can understand how they both felt.i would had been upset and frustrated and even mad too.but I still would had loved to see them in wcw.
The pop Demolition received at Wrestlemania 6 in 1990 when they won the tag titles was huge. They were over. Then WWF turned them heel just to feed them to the Legion of Doom. Demolition was booked very poorly after losing the tag titles at Summerslam.
Warlord is still better than 99% of the ballerinas and gymnast we see today.
It couldn't have happened because they couldn't take the Demolition gimmick to WCW. They would have had to come up with a new gimmick. It wouldn't have been the same.
Demolition smash and Axl are my favorite wrestle old time fan eddie crimmins
I’m still waiting for them to be inducted in the Hall of Fame. It’s long overdue.
After Vince bringing up the road warriors(and changing the name)I think demolition going to WCW would have been huge. Would have liked to see demo bust in during the monday nite wars too. lots missed due to court. shame really.
Don't know why WWE never did a proper demolition and L.O.D storyline
It was like ax said... they rushed it! It should've been a nice slow and long build. With the demos as the heels and the champs and the lod chasing them! Maybe they go at it,in a battle royal,or royal rumble! Maybe a 8 man survivor series match ..but beyond that,no physical contact at all! Just trash talking each other..with a lot of build! Make the fans want it! And crave it! Drive them crazy waiting! Then a huge match at mania,where they put lod over!
Plan was to leave it for Wrestlemania 7 (rumors go Vince had this “dream” card in his head, with Hogan v Warrior 2, and a dream undercard, which would have had LOD winning the titles from Demolition) but 1990 the WWE Tag Division was really short on heel monster tag teams.... LOD could only go through cannon fodder like Bolsheviks, Orient Express and Rhythm and Blues etc for so long, when everyone knew the money was a LOD v Demolition feud for the titles. Ideal situation would have been to keep Powers of Pain together for 1990 and let them go up against LOD, then at Survivor Series 1990 have LOD and Demolition in same team, then do the Demo heel turn there and start the build up to WM7 from there.
All i need is a Demolition face mask n LoDs shoulder pads
Smash (aka Barry Darsow) ended up going to WCW and had several different gimmicks but never won any championships there.
He was the Mid-Atlantic heavyweight champion, a World Tag Team champion and a 6-Man Tag Team Champion in the NWA before going to WWE as Smash. But, like you said, after he left WWE, after his stint as the Repo Man, he didn't get many, if any, title matches in WCW. He did have one memorable match with Dustin Rhodes though. The match on a flatbed tractor-trailer. ua-cam.com/video/r77868CA-DE/v-deo.html
@@maddogmarc the repo man did some work for ted dibiasi if memory serves.😎
I love Demolition, and I have worked on shows with Bill Eaddie... He is extremely smart. Which is why I can't understand how he can't see that there is NO way they could have used the Demolition name in WCW. It is a WWE trademark. They could have painted their faces still, wore similar gear, and called themselves Destruction or something like that, but even then WWE would have a case to at least take it to court. I don't get it.
There was an argument over who created Demolition as we know them, in another interview Bill talks about Vince bringing him and Randy together to make a new team and then leaving them to decide the finer details and his argument was that him and Randy created the look of Demolition so it was theirs. Bit like the Marvel artists back in the day and their argument over did Stan Lee create the hero with his idea or the artist who first drew them
Besides the Brainbusters, they were my favorite team in late 80s WWF.
I always thought Powers of Pain were a Road Warriors Rip off... Demolition wore Bondage gear with face paint & masks totally different then the Road Warriors... Road warriors didnt wear masks entering the ring they wore spiked shoulder pads. And the road warriors were built The Demo's were stocky... It might of been Vince's formula to copy the Road Warriors but I think the Demo's were different and they put their own spin on the tag team and made it work
I wish Bill had discussed in depth about the lawsuit he mentioned involving Demolition because we are all now sitting here wondering what happened here.
I would have liked Bill returning to WCW as The Masked Superstar that would have been awesome.
After JCP sold NWA to Ted Turner in 89 or maybe 1990, the company just wasn’t the same anymore, many of the top wrestlers were leaving & 40% of the wrestlers that were there had horrible/ stupid gimmicks & that went on for a couple years but were I’m getting at is if Demolition Axe & Smash would have went to Ted Turner’s WCW in the 90’s, they would have been hot / successful in that territory, they would have been up there with Ric Flair, Sting, Lex Luger, Dr Death, Ron Simmons, Barry Williams, Ricky Steiner, Kevin Sullivan & other popular wrestlers who decided to stay in WCW instead of going to WWF💵💵💵 , that just would have been something see…..
I forget what went down legally with the name, but some guy ended up being Detroit Demolition, with the face paint and leather, on the Northeast Indies. It wasn’t any of the Demolition members from wwe, but I think the guy got it through some bullshit legal wrangling if I’m remembering correctly.
The only Detroit Demolition that I know of was Randy Colley, who was the original Smash, although only for a handful of matches. He was replaced by Barry Darsow and went on to compete as Detroit Demolition down south and perhaps elsewhere.
Thanks for the info both of you, I knew Colley aka moondog Rex was in the original, but I didn’t realize it was him using it as Detroit Demolition, I only saw a picture of the guy once and he looked younger, plus as I said I know what Colley looks like. Is it possible he sold or let some other guy use the name? The dude looked huge, like really tall, and built, definitely not Colley at any point in his career.
I have seen videos of Ax wrestling in the GWF on his own, calling himself "Axis the Demolisher," and I saw a promo of Ax with another partner, named "Blast". That guy didn't look anything like how Demolition should have looked.
He was smash. Black top bully. Repo man. Krusher krushev. And he played a golfer gimmick. 👋
Them in WCW would have been cool.
Poor guy went from Smash of Demolition to Repo man. What a waste of skill and time.
They even sit the same. 3:27
I could never get into demolition. Was always a road warrior guy. I even preferred the powers of pain over demolition. I do enjoy their podcast interviews though. 2 great talents. I always preferred barry as Krusher, and bill as the masked superstar.
It was sad how Vince just disbanned the Demo's with no ending they just disappeared from T.V. Ax was old Smash became Repo Man & Crush became the Hawaiian Kona Crush what a shitty way to destroy an Iconic 80s tag team
Well the plan was for Ax to become an agent out back and Demolition to go on as Smash & Crush but Vince was messing them around more and more out back so they just went their separate ways
Vice killed off Demolition just to ruin another great Tag Team in the Road Warriors
3.30.. weird body language mirroring
That doesn’t work for m brother
These guys are great and little full of themselves saying they would have been better for WCW the the road warriors
Not when you compare styles and think about it. LOD were all muscle and like Cornette said the only good matches they had were with the smaller guys that could bounce around for them, Demolition on the other hand could do the power moves but also did moves like other tag teams were doing. Plus which LOD were always that muscle team that every match went in and overpowered their opponents night in night out never really adapting themselves and their style
I thought they brought in crush because ax got sick. How could a sick ax go to wcw?
Basically he got put on medication, can't remember if it was temp or not, and once he was he was fine. The problem was Vince paniced and decided Ax was retiring from being a wrestler while he worked for him regardless of Ax's doctor clearing him to still wrestle, after leaving WWF Ax went back over to Japan as the Masked Superstar
Lousy business dealings. Vince sucks. Letting agents screw around with his top tag team... they should have left.
This was a great tag team but they were a Road Warriors rip off but it still worked & you have to give them there props
ax very defensive with the arms folded..
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No wonder Demolition isn't in the HoF right now. They acted like a couple of assholes to Vince. Lol.. but they sure still love to wear that Demolition face paint at conventions for beer money! 😭
I just looked at your channel, you are a mark. 😂
WWF always had shyte gimmicks
It's funny these Road Warrior fakers actually compare themselves to the real deal. Sad...
Have you seen these geriatric clowns doing interviews with their makeup on these days? Ridiculous. Its not needed. I'd rather see them without it.
I agree it's past time to retire the makeup. If you look at the general population, Bill and Barry are doing better than most men their age. Hell there are 45 year old men that look worse than Barry at 60.
@@piperar2014 Agreed.
I think they still do appearances, and the interviews happen at those conventions.
Animal wears the make up in almost every interview! And still has the mohawk,although it's very thin! Lol
Can someone explain to me why they didn't go to WCW in the end? Barry said that he was done, but that would have been shortly before Survivor Series 1990, yet he continued playing Smash until the summer of 1991, and then spent another two years as Repo Man, so what made him stay?
Darsow always has a selective memory in shoot interviews....