Welcome to football Sunday! Break down the thrills and spills in this, YOUR discussion thread.
As a tribute to the passing of Bobby Heenan, tonight’s live watch will be the 1992 Royal Rumble match. So make sure to be here at 9:00 Eastern to catch that!
Feels weird having a big shootout game between the Pats and Saints on at 1pm. Feels like a late afternoon or night game.
Good God Gostkowski. How do you miss an extra point in a dome?!?!
Saints defense is putrid. My goodness.
Yeah no bueno. This gonna be a rout.
Glennon is fucking terrible
Romo is fantastic on commentary.
https://twitter.com/JRsBBQ/status/909544054941036544
Shit. Awful news.
“You win some, you lose some. Unless you’re Virgil then you lose them all.”
“Barbarian doesn’t like anybody. When I managed him he barely liked me!”
“He’s not a hairdresser on his day off ya know!”
Any thought to an impromptu change to the Live Watch tonight give the sad news today? I’m not suggesting, just wondering.
Working on that right now. Will keep everyone posted.
Cool, thanks Greeny, ya humanoid!
Ok guys… Tonight we will pay tribute to the Brain. At 9pm EST, we will be live watching the 1992 Royal Rumble match. Have it paused at the 1:26:00 mark.
Still no WiFi at home so can’t join in unfortunately..hopefully I’ll have it back by tomorrow.
Bobby and Gorilla finally get to have that Prime Time Wrestling reunion episode in the sky.
Rest in piece, Brain.
About 20 mins, guys
Live watch roll call.
I’m here and definitely ready to pay tribute to the Brain.
I’ll be around
In for the first time ever here and ready to remember Bobby!
Welcome!
Thanks, long time listener, first time poster, life long humanoid.
Welcome about bud!
I’m here ya ham n eggers!
There are certain names that I call “Mom” noticeable names. Randy Savage, Hulk Hogan, Roddy Piper and Bobby “the brain” Heenan
5 minute countdown.
Have it paused on Hogan at 1:26:00
One of my favorite Heenan Prime Time moments was when he led Moonsoon in the trek through the woods to Andre training camp and that never was
2 minutes. Grab a drink… some thing with a kick
LET’S DO IT!!!
The beginning of the dark Hogan eyebrows
It’s that No Good Jack Tunney!
Hogan always hated Tunney. He bailed him out IMO
Oh God.
Hello?
Is it me you’re looking for?
Tell me how to win your heart….
Fink always with the long rules explanation
I remember this event was in Albany, NY. Believe the Knickerbocker Arena
Yessir. Now the Times Union Center
Tunney was the worst public speaker
Tunney’s getting booed so much you’d think he was Roman Reigns.
Greatest president since Noriega.
Old On the Take Tunney!
I wish current authority was a square like Tunney
Jack “on the take” Tunney
There are some people in the wrestling business who were so great and did so much for the business that even being in the HOF (whether it be WWE or WON) isn’t enough of an honor and Bobby Heenan was definitely one of those people.
I graduated HS in 1992. Wrestling was far more untethering than my senior year
Interesting
Best music ever!
So will Bulldog win this whether he wants to or not?
Its according to if he was feeling bizarre on this night.
WOuld ya look at them!
Good callback with Davey wining the battle royal in London in October of 91
Always loved that
I want that Sherri airbrush pronto
I wonder if that huge WWF logo over the entrance in in the warehouse somewhere.
I would imagine it’s above Vince’s toilet
Super STAR entrance
Let the Heenan anxiety attack begin.
Ted Dibiase was so good. His Mid South/UWF is some of the best things to watch in the network
Man, I miss DiBiase.
And here is where the fun begins.
He whacked his way in and immediately whacked his way out
Dammit!!!
NO NO NO DAMMITT!!
The commentary to this show is the soundtrack to my early teens for sure. I watched this show live on scramble vision because my dad couldn’t get the box from the cable company in time to order it. The commentary was burnt into my mind… I could lull myself to sleep with it every night.
Dibiase and Flair in the ring would have been gold
“Ah shut up”
I know Perfect’s got him ready, he’s confident!
AW SHUT UP!
Dibiase and Flair get their moment in the 93 Rumble
Man, Davey is not taking it easy with those clotheslines.
Saggs was always kind of a weird choice at #4
Random hard hitting heel
Don’t think Davy Boy is hitting Flair hard enough?
Someone for Flair to double team
Yeah, the other Nasty Boy was out with an injury as I recall.
Guess just a warm body to eat up time.
I wonder if in the leadup to this event if Patterson went to Flair and said “So Naitch, feel like going an hour in da Rumble? It’ll be banana!”
I would imagine JJ had some good input here given his association with Flair as well with roadmapping the match
I stand a chance of making a fortune here!
“This is not fair to Flair”
Take a drink.
I love how Davey dropkicks him when he could have just shoved him and conserved some energy… be smart!
Speaking of hard hitting heels.
If this was a shoot rumble…
This will always be my favorite wrestling match of all time. It encapsulates everthing I enjoy about pro wrestling in one concise hour.
I managed him he didn’t like me!
Haku’s final PPV match for nine years.
This isn’t fair to Flair #2, take another drink.
Tremendous piledriver by Haku
Headbutt by Haku, well that was reckless and I feel like writing a long diatribe about it and how dangerous and stupid it was.
Two of the greatest workers of all time in the ring right now….. and Shawn Michaels
Yes!
“Some guys hate Flair more than others.”
THEY’RE JEALOUS!
This is like beta HBK.
More like Alpha Beta HBK. He won’t start really blowing up until the summer
Shawn is in there thinking “watch me sell Ric, watch how I sell everyone here. Ric? Ric? Are ya watching?”
Man, imagine if we had gotten Flair and Tito in ’85
Bobby running down Tito’s credentials is another wonderful bit of work in making him look like a threat
It is amazing how loaded this field is and Gorilla & Bobby do a perfect job of establishing everyone as a possibility to win it.
Good chance we have around 18-20 guys that make my final top 100
He’s making guacamole outta El Matador!
Someone keep a running total of how many finishers Flair eats during this match.
Barbarian doesn’t like Flair.
“Barbarian doesn’t like anyone!”
“He’s not a hair dresser on his day off, ya know.”
I want to know how Gorilla knows that Barbarian doesn’t like Flair. I picture them talking about it over lunch one day.
So great Flair punches Bulldog in the head as Barbarian is trying to throw him out
Really happy at the pop KVE gets. Kerry has a good case of being a top 5-7 Flair opponent all time.
I can’t watch the Barbarian after the Schiavone podcast without laughing
Kerry and Ric….
The fans who know their history you can see them pop when they go at it.
And here comes a blast from the past!
Listening to Gorilla and The Brain do commentary on this match makes me wish WWE pushed to have their announce teams sound more like this than the dull corporate speak they’ve been pushing for so long. Commentary like this never takes away from the match. Almost every match was enhanced with these two on the stick.
Imagine turning into Heaven’s feed tomorrow for RAW.
Sucks that KVE was such a mess by the time he joined WWE. Could have been a huge star all over again there if he had his shit together.
He could never put one foot forward
I see what you did there.
There is a boatload of Former ic champs in this Rumble
Ton of former and future WWF world champs too.
And Future…hell Flair’s one of them!
Will’s favorite!!
Darsow will repossess that old sow’s heart some day…
REPO REPO REPOmayyyyyan
Hope he doesn’t get Smashed. Turn him into a Blacktop Bully.
Either way, the guy’s a hole in one
Ah, Valentine!
Valentine on his last legs here too.
Sure, but he and Flair don’t know that!
Yeah, he was in WCW by Spring
Obligatory “it takes XXXX for Valentine to get warmed up” by Gorilla.
Never missed it…ever
HE never….doing this on my phone blows
“WILL YOU SHUT UP?!?”
Gorilla bullshitting stats again, talking about Bulldog being in there 20 minutes, when it’s been maybe 16.
He is terrible at match times… I think that’s where Scott C got it from.
I always forget how good Shawn does here.
Bobby was using insider terms, “We were jobbed Monsoon!”
1992 Nikolai… such a random entrant here.
Injury bug. Why Haku was in there earlier. Marty Jannetty out selling, the other Nasty Boy I believe was legit.
“This is not right”
“I think it’s fair”
“Not to Flair!”
Boss Man is awesome in this match.
Underrated big guy the Boss Man.
One of the best for sure
“Repo’s gone! Repo’s gone!”
I always remember that call.
Poor Nikolai flew all the way in for that. Why not just use some local whoever that is hanging around.
jr new fav wrestler, Hercules
#11 right now on my GWWE list.
Boss Man and Barbarian continuing their match from the year before.
And what a match that was.
One of the best five minute spots in Rumble history coming up
And young JR cries tears of blood.
Flair’s eye pokes and nut shots all through this are awesome.
Here we go!
Boss Man’s bump is so nasty.
PIPER!!
Is this Piper’s greatest WWF night as a face? Better than WM3?
I think so. I’m not sure Hogan gets as big a pop when he comes out.
That entrance and moment plus his IC title win and pop.
Could say the same thing for WM III too.
“How long has Flair been in Gorilla”
“Flair has been in there in excess of 723 hours Brain”
Gorilla timing.
Exactly half of the participants in this match will be on my GWWE list.
Jake is so great
So incredibly over as a heel. Shame he left so soon after.
Jake… the Snake… ROBERTS
Jinx!
Loved him at this time
Those tights of Jake’s are great!
YOU SKIRT WEARING FREAK!
Someone get some water, cause Bobby’s on fire.
“COLLEGE?!?”
Duggan vs. Jake is a cool random matchup.
So was Jake and Piper.
We were jobbed Monsoon!
“You tax cheats need to pay your taxes!”
“Pay your taxes or my son will cut another long winded, rambling promo that goes nowhere!”
And be pushed above a guy that he should just be the mouthpiece for!
“He’s got him by the tongue!”
“What a surprise, an arena full of tax cheats!”
“Follow the 1040s!”
Nice foreshadowing by Gorilla.
“I dunno what I’m saying anymore!”
Snuka in long tights was always weird.
Damn, this is a stacked Rumble, really!
Absolutely loaded… maybe just a handful of low end guys.
So Taker gets the shaft on the “preferential treatment”
Tunney at it again!
So on the take.
The funny thing is he really did take bribes!
I guess he didn’t shake his own hand backstage.
TAKER!
IRS and Taker working together… should have been a new team: “Death & Taxes”
“THE only thing in life that’s certain
Bruce Prichard said that floated out there but never done
Ha nice!
An actual idea Prichard and Pat had
God Jake is the BEST
Rare for Savage to go back to the bandana in ’92. He was locked in on the cowboy hats for a while
What a great shot, we see Savage in the corner bursting through the entrance and in the overhead shot see Jake slide out of the ring before Randy gets there.
And Taker to the rescue!
Jake looking towards the curtain, and dipping out when savage comes in is great
Nice touch with Taker helping Jake here still.
Heenan must have got fed the rule about having to be thrown out to be eliminated to cover for Savage’s botch.
Also great cover by having Taker go out and get him too.
Taker no-selling low blows from Flair
Half selling
HUSSSSS
AND WHAT’S HIS SPECIALTY?
Has to be unbeatable in battle royals
His specialty is throwing people over the top rope! HE CANT LOSE
Virgil Mania was NOT running wild
Wrestling Superstar Virgil. Get it right, jabroni!
My mistake
Thank you my good man. I’ll make sure he gets it.
“BOBBY, I GOT TEN OFF A HAM AND EGGER!
Gorilla says Flair has been in over 45 minutes.
Actually, 40, but keep trying Gorilla.
Never understood why they didn’t try Flair Taker after Mania.
FUCK THE MUSTAFA
Hysterical that he tries pumping his arms, then starts jogging.
Pa-TOOOOEY
Gorilla keeps mixing up Flair and Martel
Such a neat intersection of old and new stars in here, just all mishmashed into an epic war.
It is the perfect distillation of what pro wrestling is. If I want to show someone what is pro wrestling, I show them this.
Good way to intro people to the legend that is Monsoon/Bobby
Boooo
When it comes crashing down and he’s still over…
Quick poll: I assume most of us have this as *****
If the commentary team is different, how different do you think the grade ends up?
Depends on the team. Only really Monsoon/Jesse could keep it at four snowflakes though.
Vince & Bobby?
Oh no… “What a maneuver!” would handicap Bobby. Need Monsoon here for Bobby to play off of.
The match is still really good, it might be ****1/4-1/2. If anything, and I’m gonna go Meltzer here, the commentary makes a ***** match a ****** match.
Still great. Not sure though. Vince escalating voice would’ve got tired. Jesse and Gorilla would be just as good for different reasons I think
How about Vince & Perfect or Gorilla & Perfect?
Vince yelling “what a maneuver” would make it not so good
I think as long as Bobby is involved it’s perfect, whether he was matched with Monsoon or Vince!
Anyone up for a Bobby HOF induction live watch after this?
I’ll grab the time stamp
Sounds good, I’m up for a good cry.
Who bring the Kleenex for “I wish… Monsoon was here.”?
Cool. We’ll take a quick break then start that up
Sure
Martel selling that head scissors was awesome.
Sarge’s only Rumble match appearance.
He never showed up as a legend entrant in like 2006-12?
Don’t believe so.
Nope, aside from Mania 8 and his match with Aytch and the Gimmick Battle Royal, this was it.
And SurSer 2006 right? Wasn’t he on that legends team?
Yes
And the boot camp match against HHH at IYH: DX.
Amazing how fast Slaughter lost his heat.
Why is Sid struggling with IRS!?
See a softball game just let out.
Damn, nice kipup by Sid!
Slaughter bump!
Love the Slaughter death drop
There goes the beef!
Fantastic final six!
Warlord is not a very good rumble competitor
He is terrible. Him and Adam Bomb, huge disappointments. Sad!
I love 94 when MDM loses his mind for Adam Bomb being sent out so early.
Which audio do we get?
Guessing the dubbed.
I believe it’s original broadcast.
Correct!
Piper should have been final four.
HULK WHO
EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF BIG BOY
Yes!
I hear cheers!
YES YES YES YES YES YES YESYES I TOLD YOU
My brother danced around and threw pretzels at me. The one time in my life I wasn’t rooting for Flair.
I remember going as crazy as Brain did while maybe cousin cried, good times
YES yES YESYESYES
If Hogan let go of his hand and Flair shoved him out, it doesn’t look as bad. What makes Hulk look like such a cunt is how he grabs his head and pulls him all the way down too.
“I’m the hero brother!”
I concur JR. And this version on the Network is the original. Hogan getting trashed by the fans.
Trainers, referees, EMTs down…
Lots of slacks and tennis shoes.
Booing the Hulk! “It’s those damn Albany people! Too close to that bizare Canada Pal!”
I absolutely love the promo coming up, one of my all time favorites
“C’MON!! I’LL KILL YEWWWWWW!!”
WITH A TEAR….IN MY EYE…
Love Sid’s “Cmon, I’ll kill ya!”
Shit Gets get me pumped
I always thought Bobby & Perfect were legit marking out like 10 year old fans.
PUT THAT CIGARETTE OUT!
I always thought it was Pat, but he was in the ring
We’re not the kinda guys to say we told ya so…
But we….TOLD YA SO!
Careful ric, it’s a CHAMPIONSHIP, not a TITLE.
I wish Bobby had been made Flair’s manager so he could officially have been manager of the WWF champion.
SAd Fuji was and the Brain wasn’t
Jimmy Hart too.
That’s right….ugh
Jimmy is the only classic Fed manager to have managed clients to all three titles. And given his association with Sheri, you might even be able to say he managed the Ladies champs for both singles AND tag.
Bobby tried, but way too late in his career. Couldn’t keep up with Ric.
Fucking cancer… imagine what Bobby could have done in wrestling over the past 15 years if he didn’t get sick.
Imagine him tutoring announcers instead of Vince.
Let’s take a 10 minute break and come back for the Bobby HOF induction.
Time stamp is 1:05:00
2004, as an FYI
So about 10:25?
Sounds good
That was a blast, could watch that match over and over and over.
Absolutely, even with all the great Rumbles since (2001, 2002), this one is still the greatest of all time.
Bobby and Monsoon just make it legendary.
NEVer drags
That is why it is my all time favorite match.
I hope they add more old school AWA to the Network. I want more Bobby & Bockwinkel.
Challenge for more Monsoon/Bobby. And have they finished the PTW?
Not even close. Boatload of PTW left to put up.
Chop chop then.
HOF watch in 3 minutes
Poll question for the room – how do you think Monsoon/Heenan/Piper calling SummerSlam 91 ranks?
LET’S DO IT! HOF 2004
Rolling?
yessir
I am.
Solid!
Heenan’s zinger on the married guy is my all time favorite Booby moment.
So great
I loved when they had all of the inductees on stage all night
Less of a show?
Meaning more about the inductees
And here… we… go…
The Pete zinger coming up is so fucking great
Fuck you fucking cancer you fuck!
Left us with a silent Bobby for far too long.
He has Kane cracking 3 minutes in
Jesse busting a gut is classic.
“You got a wedgie too!”
“I bet from the ring!”
Fucking Arnie
If Bobby doesn’t get the statue at the Hall this year, something is wrong…
Amen
Pointing to his head, only apropos.
Or pointing out at the fans, that classic photo.
Such a smooth delivery.
“Anybody got any weed? “
I bet during the low moments on WCW if Vince saw Bobby I bet he’d think “damn Brain, I wish you’d stayed with us.”
So did Bobby.
“Knowing Harley I thought we were going to be indicted.”
“Knowing Harley, thought we were going to be indicted.”
Harley! Wake up, or I’ll throw dirt on you!”
Imagine someone trying to fuck with Bobby in a bar, and he’s got fucking Harley and Haku behind him.
WALK AWAY.
Add Andre to the mix and they are more messed up than a Turkey at Thanksgiving
The WWF rant!
The fucking pet roll call
I’M THE WEASEL DOING COMMENTARY…WITH THE GORILLA!
Was Steph pregos here?
Maybe… definitely was two years later.
Not yet, but Shane was a new daddy.
Right. The Mania XX open
12 years later this kid will dance to the ring like a true McMahon!
No Aurora Rose wasn’t born till 06
Clean shaven Aitch looks like he belongs on the cover of a romance novel
Hunter when he still had a head of luxurious hair.
“Lou Albano who needed to be fired…”
Bobby knew!!
AWA- All the World’s Assholes!
LARRY FLYNT
I gotta go on the road…WITH LARRY FLYNT!
“So now I gotta go on the road with Larry Flynt” -points to Flair.
Spike Lee was at WrestleMania?!?
He thought it was a Knicks game.
“We could kayfabe in public! And some of us in private. Right Gene?”
So sharp
I swear, Bobby’s in Heaven right now with Gorilla, sitting down to commentary, looks at the match list… and sees Ric’s name is scratched out. The cries of “THIS IS NOT FAIR TO FLAIR!!!” fill the skies.
Vince’s Mom is still alive.
“Damn, I’m having fun!” So were we, Bobby. So were we.
He’s gonna say the Gorilla comment and I’m going to lose it
Just about to as it is.
What a great man.
He’s with you now Bobby,
Kiss to the Heavens… to the first face I’m sure he saw when he opened his eyes on the other side.
And then St. Peter heard “WILL YOU STOP!!!”
“Do they validate your parking here?”
“There’s no parking in heaven Brain!”
“Oh great, so I don’t have to tip then.”
“WILL YOU STOP!”
That’s still a top 3 induction of all time.
Fun time tonight guys.
No throwback live watch next Sunday because No Mercy will be our live watch.
Have we been bad tonight? Why are we being punished next Week?
Ha! We’ll be chatting No Mercy as it’s going down
I agree Gene, all night long.
Oooh Tito induction.
Damn, I have a Bobby shoot on tape he did in 2000. It’s in storage dammit.
Would love to join the live watch but will be too late for me in the UK tonight (or tomorrow morning) but I just wanted to add my own little tribute to The Brain. I probably spent more time as a kid watching (or listening) to him on TV than anyone and thinking about him will always make me smile. Bobby – you brightened up the life of this “limey” and ham-and-eggers the world over!