It's crazy how far Demolition dropped from WM 6 to WM 7.

@Pushateetee83

8 ай бұрын

As a kid, their match at WM7 was a head scratcher, and then the finish was absolutely shocking. I still rewatch it and it’s still as crazy now as it was then.

@lPHOENIXZEROl

7 ай бұрын

Vince got LOD and didn't need Demolition anymore.

Bill Eadie is an absolute Legend

@toma.4808

2 ай бұрын

Masked superstar!

I was a fan of demolition and the road warriors. I was at the royal rumble in Houston when Ax and Smash came out 1st and 2nd then went at it. Probably one of my best wrestling memories ever. I'm 45 now so that was way back in the day. The demolition theme song was pretty damn cool too.

@jamescourt5201

8 ай бұрын

I concur. Than Andre came in and they started beating the piss outta him.

@jamiethompson1008

7 ай бұрын

I saw demolition wrestle live a few times and they looked awesome walking out to the ring. Demolition was great and not a road warrior rip off. They had their own style and they had a great run and they deserve the wwe hall of fame

The GREATEST Tag-Team in all of wrestling history. Bill Eadie's Ax voice is the narrator for nightmares.

@danlc95

7 ай бұрын

Like he gargled with broken glass.

One of my all time favorites. Should be in the hall of fame. Had the hardest hitting entrance music ever too

@deebo1103

8 ай бұрын

When that theme hits, you knew someone was getting their ass kicked.

@cutekanjii

8 ай бұрын

Yeah but didn't they have 2 different entrance themes one as heels and one as babyfaces? Or was it just the original one got replaced just like Hogan's original was "eye of the tiger"

@heyyou9693

8 ай бұрын

Yes and no. It was basically the same, but it got lyrics in late 1987 for the Piledriver album sung by Rick Derringer. I love WrestleMania 4 when they faced Strike Force and their intimidating theme, "Girls in Cars ". Good stuff.

@cutekanjii

8 ай бұрын

@@heyyou9693 no I'm pretty sure I heard one that was kinda scary horror movie like music that was definitely different from the one with words

@justafanofnerdculture7602

8 ай бұрын

​@cutekanjii You are correct! The original was a slower paced, horror type theme.

These guys belong in the hall of fame

@Casperpks

8 ай бұрын

Agreed!! It would have happened a long time ago, but both members were involved in the concussion lawsuit against WWE

@philipcohen7192

8 ай бұрын

@@Casperpks they were extremely over both as heels and faces

@Casperpks

8 ай бұрын

@@philipcohen7192 they were my favorite tag team as a kid

@toma.4808

2 ай бұрын

They tried to sue the wwe in 2016. Unless vince has no part in the process demolition will never see a hof induction

@philipcohen7192

2 ай бұрын

@@toma.4808 I don’t think Vince is involved anymore and I know they tried to sue

After it became just Smash and Crush they were basically job guys, but I liked using them in the Wrestlefest arcade game back in the day.

@kurtvanderbogarde8402

8 ай бұрын

They got wins over the Bushwhackers and DQ losses to the Rockers. They won some of their later SWS matches in Japan.

@toma.4808

2 ай бұрын

Barry loved the repo man gimmick

@jamesbyersmusic

25 күн бұрын

Nothing beats Ax & Smash, but I liked Smash & Crush and WrestleFest is an amazing game, still love it! 🙂

One of the best teams in WWE history , Back then , being three reigns as tag team Champs was huge , could be in any of hall of fame

@user-ux3pr4fz4z

8 ай бұрын

LOD knockoff

@user-ut8zu5bq1v

8 ай бұрын

​@user-ux3pr4fz4z Not true Using face paint back in those days was very popular , Sting , Ultimate Warrior , the Great Muta , Powers of Pain , the Great kabuki and etc were all great with face paint In reality , if Demolition didn't draw , Vince wouldn't have put the belts on them on three different occasions . Demolition vs Hart foundation , 2 of 3 falls for the belts , that match was phenomenal

@GameTime-yj6qv

8 ай бұрын

And longest reigning tag Champs for decades until New Day broke the record

@SeanJohnson-sj1su

Ай бұрын

@@user-ux3pr4fz4z That would be the Powers of Pain

I love how the "Russian" Krusher Kruschev had an American eagle tattooed on his left arm 😂

@sammystocks206

8 ай бұрын

Facts

Have to agree with Bruce Pritchard on this one. Both teams look very similar in wrestling gear, but once the bell rings, you know you have two very different teams. Road Warriors were brawlers with very few wrestling moves. Demoilition were wrestlers that used power wrestling moves and brawled when necessary.

@toma.4808

2 ай бұрын

Powers of pain looked similar to road warriors and they were brawlers. Demolition could incorporate technical wrestling in their style

Demolition were a really awesome old school tag teams, when tag teams were real men, like the Legion of doom, The Hart Foundation, the Freebirds, the Horsemen, British Bulldogs, awesome teams, cant forget the Midnight express and the Rockers ❤❤❤

These were the glory days in the wwf when it was great and made my childhood so great imitating the ultimate warrior

If any team was a Road Warrior rip it was Powers of Pain ! They even dressed the same and had the same haircuts !!! At least Demolition had their own look somewhat . Short trunks , bondage gear , hair ! And they came to the ring in those cool spiked masks . I loved all 3 teams as a kid and I cant lie and say I didnt notice a resemblance though .

@kurtvanderbogarde8402

8 ай бұрын

Konga The Barbarian and The Warlord were put together by JCP especially to feud with the Road Warriors in 1988. They left the NWA because they didn't want to do scaffold matches with the Roadies and fall to their deaths so they quit.

@toma.4808

2 ай бұрын

Agree. The hairstyles alone gave that away

Demolition to me were one of the very best WWE tag teams of all time. LOD coming in 1990 and the health issues Ax had, made their end come short and not as they should've deserved. WWE didn't use the potential of LOD vs. Demolition right. I don't see them as a Road Warriors rip off. I saw the band KISS in Demolition's look and outfit and the the thing with the tongue.

@ShadowAngel1860

8 ай бұрын

Bill Eadie himself stated that they copied the Road Warriors. So no matter how much you marks screech against it, a fact is a fact, especially if it's confirmed from one of the guys.

@MrRabiddogg

8 ай бұрын

I thought they should have had one big one w/Ax and then have him get injured in the match in order to slip him into that manager role and bring in Crush to avenge him or something. He wrestled enough at that time to be able to do a short series, even if it was just tv/ppv

@oldschoolprowrestling2653

7 ай бұрын

@@ShadowAngel1860 Copied is stretching it, certainly, they took great inspiration but had and developed differences. So what anyway? This happens all the time in wrestling. I could name a bunch of "rip-offs" that made it big borrowing from others in one way or another. P.S. We are all marks for something, in one way or another. Mark simply means "fan". lol

@ianlock3313

7 ай бұрын

There's always some idiot that wants to do the mark quote. If you are here commenting on a wrestling podcast video you are a mark as well you fool.

@shooter86-uw8ce

7 ай бұрын

@ShadowAngel1860 I've seen an interview where Eadie said it wasn't a rip off of the RW

Barry Darsow is one of my all time favorites. Great character worker.

This is by far the best wrestling podcast that really answers so many questions, many might have had throughout the years. Bruce and Conrad compliment each other well.

@sporty1976s

7 ай бұрын

Nah, both of Cornette's podcasts are better.

@RyanRumbles434

7 ай бұрын

@@sporty1976s I like Corny's too but it's nice to hear Bruce's side on certain things

@toma.4808

2 ай бұрын

It's one of the better ones. I still think jim cornette and uncle Dutch mantell do a better program

WWE really missed the boat by not having Demolition and the Road Warriors at WM 7.

@jimmygialelis5708

8 ай бұрын

No way Road Warriors would do the job so no chance of that match ever happening.

@kurtvanderbogarde8402

8 ай бұрын

@@jimmygialelis5708 Demolition could have had the Nasty Boys's spot, regaining from the Hart Foundation and then having one last showdown with the LOD at SummerSlam '91, where they were both knocked out, had their paint wiped off and were carted off in boxes never to be seen again - and then a few weeks later a new tag team debuts - The Repo Men!

@airfixx_8952

8 ай бұрын

@@jimmygialelis5708 - LOD wouldn't have needed to job.... WM7 was Demolition's last PPV match anyway. They were finished by then.

@airfixx_8952

8 ай бұрын

@@kurtvanderbogarde8402 - They should have just had Demolition cost LOD the title shot instead of Power & Glory and end their feud at WM7...... Power & Glory were a cool team it was a waste having LOD crush right out of the gate. Have Nasty's beat the Harts as they did, then LOD > Nasty's...... LOD could have then had a nice little run with P&G challengers

@kurtvanderbogarde8402

8 ай бұрын

@@airfixx_8952 P&G got more title matches later on eg Battle Royal At The Albert Hall.

Demolition was the first tag team that I loved! Watching wrestling as a young kid they were like KISS of the wrestling world! SICK!!

Barry Darsow as the golfer was great. He was so close to getting his pro license for the tour.

@jonstefanik9400

7 ай бұрын

Stewart Paine

@donovanbradford8231

3 ай бұрын

I like Barry as that generic wrestler tough guy he dud before the golf gimmick because you could still see he was in shape, was tough, and that modified arm bar he did looked really solid as a finish.

Not a rip off of the Road Warriors because they didnt really have anything in common...however, it was certainly WWE's answer to the Road Warriors because of the Road Warriors' massive popularity.

Yeah, I was one of those kids cheering the heel Demolition. I was a WWF fan for sure, but my good friend, Norman Gerber got me into the NWA stuff too.

Bill Eadie was awesome. In his early days as the Masked Superstar his matches were always a must watch for me.

Demolition scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.

If anyone remembers the movie “the beast master” from the early 80’s, the look of demolition had to have came from that. The enemies from the movie would have a leach inserted into their ears and the mask would be locked on to their faces and they would go berserk. The costume was identical. Anyway, I’ve never heard anyone make that correlation so I thought I’d share that. Loved the tag team though!

@handsolo1209

8 ай бұрын

The look came from Mad Max 2. It is basically Lord Humungous with some face paint instead of a hockey mask.

@jeffmartin4596

8 ай бұрын

@@handsolo1209 I can see why people say that, but it’s actually from beast master. milliebotreads.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/beast-master-3-e1592174762144.jpg?w=584

@legendkilla2754

22 күн бұрын

Yes! You’re right! That movie was on TV like every weekend when I was a kid. And I watched it any time I could! LOL

It's sad how Vince just tossed them to the side after The Road Warriors came into the company!

@sampiHBK00

8 ай бұрын

Completely agree! WWF dropped the ball on the Demolition vs LOD feud, it could have been so much better. It’s real unfortunate that Demolition have been blackballed from the HOF after they were part of the class action concussion lawsuit a few years ago. We probably won’t see Demolition go into the HOF until after ax or smash dies.

@jamesg1974a

8 ай бұрын

Bill wasn’t well. We didn’t like Crush being added. That has a lot to do with that failed angle

@donjohn2695

8 ай бұрын

Vince had to because ax had a serious heart condition and couldn't carry on so crush took his spot and really demolition was ax and smash so the new demolition of crush and smash was never going to recapture what the original demolition had

@themadviking5746

8 ай бұрын

Demolition was cool AF back in the day . The look , the music , their brawling style and who can forget that finisher . Just another scenario where Vince showed how clueless he was .

@PontFlair

8 ай бұрын

​@@jamesg1974ahad they worked them like The Freebirds, they may have still had life

I loved The Masked Superstar. Great worker and his interviews were good too, never ranting and raving, only raising his voice occasionally.

Hi Bruce, I actually seen Barry Darsow as "Crusher Cruschev" and Ivan Kolloff vs the Road Warriors in 1986 in the Civic Center NJ no longer existing today. But yeah, I was and still is a huge professional wreestling fan since I was a kid in the 1970's!!! When the WWWF existed every Saturdays @ 12:00 afternoons and midnights as well. Sunday, we had "Lucha Libre", I can tell you many televised matches in Hamberg PA or the other venue I forgot maybe in NJ. Cheers!

@nickcangiarella7042

8 ай бұрын

Cool story bro

Difference between Demolition and the Road Warriors/Powers of Pain is that Ax and Smash were decent workers in the ring and could actually carry another team to a good match. Road Warriors and Powers of Pain pretty much had like three moves.

Demolition is the GOAT of tag teams. Hopefully they can get into the HoF now that Vince is gone.

Demolition was not a Road Warriors rip off. The only common trait was the make up. They did have a brawling style and both teams were big bodies. Road Warriors had the actual muscles and Demolition was big guys. Breaking them up was idiotic to me. When the Road Warriors had arrived the WWF tag team scene wasn't all that as it was before. The Demolition lost their toughness and edge when RW came. Never had a proper feud with the Road Warriors. Must was only on live events. That SS match was weird. Ultimate Warrior had no proper feud with anyone and he was the champion. I found it weird him teaming with them and no Demolition member was feuding with UW. Shame that Demolition after a good run will never be in the Hall of Famers with them in a law suit against WWE. Their longest reign as tag champions was purposely ended because of the law suit by the weak New Day!

@sampiHBK00

8 ай бұрын

Agreed. After Hogan & Warrior, Demolition was probably the most over act in WWF at the time. Just watch & listen to their crowd reaction at WM 6. It made no sense to turn them heel immediately after WM. Ax getting sick didn’t help, but the fans may have accepted Crush more if WWF kept Demolition as babyfaces w/Ax managing the team until he could come back. WWF didn’t need to immediately put LOD into a rivalry with Demolition, they should have instead pushed both teams as babyfaces for awhile before having them feud with each other.

@anthonyjohnson4390

8 ай бұрын

I always thought the look was based on the main villain in Mad Max.

@steveduarte7748

8 ай бұрын

I suppose Power of Pain wasn't a RW rip off either? Lol

@keithcrockett7838

8 ай бұрын

Faxxx..... ROAD WARRIORS was a take from the Mad MAX movies.... DEMOLITION was a rip-off of the band KISS during the end of the ROCK & WRESTLING era....

@Johnnyrocks34

8 ай бұрын

They absolutely were a road warriors rip off. Come on. I loved them. But road warriors had some influence

Ax took time off from active wrestling after he was hospitalized due to a shellfish reaction. Other than brief appearances in three man matches, he was effectively Demolition’s manager. I really think Demolition’s run would’ve had a much better conclusion if Ax stayed healthy.

Growing up back then, I was a much bigger fan of the NWA - which did feel more exciting and certainly less cartoony than WWF. And as a teenager back then, Demolition was and will always be Vince McMahon’s “Road Warriors”, until he could get the real thing. Also loved The Masked Superstar character. I remember a match between MS and Hulk Hogan shortly after Hulk won the belt. At the end of the match when Hogan started Hulking up and no selling, Masked Superstar looked disgusted and left the ring to be counted out. Very strange finish, and I wonder what the deal was with that?

@elsapoelsapo1821

8 ай бұрын

🤔Maybe Corny would know?

@oldschoolprowrestling2653

7 ай бұрын

How could you tell that he looked disgusted? Couldn't have been a huge deal as Eadie and Hulk were friendly and Hulk got him a role in No Holds Barred.

@KoolKumasi

7 ай бұрын

He wrestled with a mask on vs Hogan that time in 84 how could you see his emotions through a mask 😆😆😆😆😆?

@danlc95

7 ай бұрын

If he was showing signs of disgust it was probably just part of the show.

Moondogs should be in hall of fame

The Moondogs were legendary as well . But man , Demolition made WAY more money and that breaks my heart if its true about that being Randy's idea .

I was a fan of demolition back when I was a kid. Not to date myself but there was this amazing movie(I think it won the Oscar for greatest movie ever) called The Beastmaster. As a kid I always thought demolition were guys like from that movie called “the jun horde”. Same masks and everything. Interesting listening now to how they came up with that gimmick.

@bubbyp7741

7 ай бұрын

There gimmick was more based on the movie Mad Max 2 the Road Warrior

Bill Eadie got into the wrestling business on "AXE-iddent". 😂

They were inspired by The Road Warriors, but they were still awesome in a very different way. Adding Crush was a mistake.

shout outs to anyone that had the SD Jones LJN action figure back in the 80s. his figure pose was ready for action too.

Did I miss the part about The Last Days?

I think of it like...the two teams would exist in the same comic book world, but they are different. Demolition looked like dungeon masters, the Road Warriors were like insane steroided bikers who might show up at a bar just for a taste of fresh blood. LOD/RW were a more charismatic team, but Demolition worked a lot smoother. Their match with the Hart Foundation at Summerslam 90 is tied for my favorite tag team match of all-time.

Bill Eadie is my all time favorite wrestler, along with Harley Race, and LA Knight. His portrayal of AX was just awesome when I was a kid. I knew he spammed Andre back in the day as Masked Superstar. The year I got into wrestling is when I met my best friend, and he looked like he could have been Eadie's kid! 😂 That was 5th grade (1987/88). Greg ended up being 6' 3" tall, and 300 lbs. Just a huge, strong bastard.

Demolition is my favorite tag team. A close 2nd is Degeneration X. I remember when Tito Santana brought the Legion of Doom to Houston to take on Demolition and LOST lol. Only thing i dont remember is if it was The Sam Houston Coliseum or The Summit, where this took place.

This is about the start of Demolition not the last days?

Axe and Smash were awesome for a few years. Brother Love was right there.

I was 9 or 10......even though they started as heels...I loved those guys.

Still my favourite alltime tag team loved the look and pounding style

Demolition and the Road Warriors are similar in that they took the inspiration from the Mel Gibson movie Mad Max 2:The Road Warrior. Demolition took their inspiration from the villainous leader Lord Humungus while the Road Warriors took theirs from Wez, Humungus' lieutenant and right hand man. From there they each became their own thing organically. As has been said RW were legitimate brawling ass kickers while Demolition were polished wrestlers. I learned on this podcast how rich of wrestling history Bill Eadie has, very much an unsung legend. It is disappointing that Vince casted them aside once he could finally land the Road Warriors. But I think putting Ultimate Warrior in their feud did the rivalry no favors. Plus Demolition was in flux because Bill Eadie was slowly being relieved of his spot in the shape of Crush. That all being said, if anyone was a ripoff of the RW the Powers of Pain were, only they were muscled up in Vince MCMahon's vision.

@Dingoplexor

7 ай бұрын

Facts Powers of Pain were the rip-off 100% they looked the same as far as even having the black and red colors but they even were a pretty decent tag team

I've always thought that the Powers of Pain were more like the Road Warriors/LOD.

@kurtvanderbogarde8402

8 ай бұрын

They were meant to be, they were put together for that feud in JCP 1988.

@PontFlair

8 ай бұрын

​@@kurtvanderbogarde8402at that point, Warlord didn't even wear the face-paint yet

@kurtvanderbogarde8402

8 ай бұрын

@@PontFlair He had a Hawk hairdo. From the neck down, all four were Wez from MM2-RW. The whole point of the feud was that The Powers were the Anti Road Warriors. Like the Misfits (not the real life band) were to Jem And The Holograms in the erappy 1980s cartoon. The Powers and Paul Jones wanted to show that they were bigger and stronger - and more sadistic - they were than the Roadies and they did it by whacking Animal with a barbell in the eye socket.

As a kid, I always thought they resembled KISS, especially when they added a 3rd guy.

Demolition were awesome. Believable hard hitting no nonsense with GREAT music.

Is it a take on Jason or a take on Lord Humongus from Mad Max 2 the Road Warrior?

It is hard to believe that Luscious Johnny V was their first manager.

Bill Eadie was the best wrestling talent amongst Demolition, LOD and PoP and had a solid career before any of these teams formed. The Road Warriors were a phenomenon when they broke out onto the wrestling scene though.

I heard an interview where they said the mask and costume was inspired from Road Warrior movie villain Lord Humongous.

The analogy with the song. Even if Steven Tyler makes the song famous, the person who wrote the song gets credit for it. I'm sorry if that has been mentioned already. I know I'm responding a little late to this video

Men of extraordinary strength gave them alote of options in thier matches

The WWE screwed up the Demolition vs LOD feud. It should have been two teams both destroying the competition with them meeting up at Wrestmania.

Bruce and Conrad can we please get a show on “Bad News”. And if you’ve done it already please point me to it. One of the Most underrated wrestlers/heels to lace em up.

@ShadowAngel1860

8 ай бұрын

Underrated, the most meaningless word of the 21st Century. Also Bad News wasn't underrated. He was a horrible wrestler who couldn't cut a promo to save his life and never was more than a midcarder at best.

@Mrman8313

6 ай бұрын

Bad news? Bad news Brown?

On a documentary I saw Demolition was brought to be by Vince to have a Road Warrior type team in WWF.

They reminded me of The Humongous from Road Warrior or the Junns from Beastmaster.

Just by what Bruce is saying here can lead to the idea there was more than one ultimate warrior

Every match I've watched of Demolition, they got the loudest pop from the crowd. Every time.

I kinda saw their look being similar to those characters out of the older ( Mel Gibson) Mad Max movies. Still though it was too similar to the Road Warriors who were nuclear over. They literally named a hug pop as a “Road Warrior pop” as it was known in the business

I always thought that if they got their look from anybody it was KISS.

Myself and my pals loved Demolition. Axe n Smash were badaases.

I would have paid good money to hear Ax and Hawk have a conversation on anything.

I never felt like Demolition were discount RWs. They seemed very different. Sting had Facepaint but I never thought of he and UW as clones.

Moon dog rex was Randy colley, moon dog King was sailor white, moon dog spot was Larry Wayne booker, moon dog spike was William smithson, moon dog cujo was Larry Kean Jr., and there were a few more gimmick was well used

I always thought of Demolition as being better then Road Warriors. Demolition could work a longer match then the Road Warriors and with a wider range of opponents.

This is about the First Days, not the Last Days. Wrong section of the full program.

If you watch the original Road Warrior movie all of this is in there. The Road Warriors sort of resemble someone in the Road Warrior but the Demolition look is straight out of the movie. The leather, the studs, the hockey mask ( Which is in the movie as the character Humongous. Wearing a hockey mask) I don't think Bruce and party are picking up on that.

SD Jones may have been missing "it," but he did make it to a WrestleMania PPV Anyhoo...when Demolition debuted, I initially wrote them off as Road Warrior rip-offs just like the Powers of Pain, but in a very short period of time, Demolition won me over; their promos, style and finisher as well as the fact that they were real defending champions as heels and faces.

Ok let me tell you how an NWA fan looked at Demolition. We looked at them as knock offs of the Road Warriors for mainly 2 reasons. Both almost always had the tag team belts, being pushed hard. Both started their matches identical. Come into the ring and blitzkrieg their opponents and win fast. Sure the face paint didn't help to make the teams different. They sounded similar on the mic. The length of the spikes didn't make them different. Vince knew he only needed to change it enough to make it different. They were very similar.

@sampiHBK00

8 ай бұрын

As a WWF fan growing up, I didn’t watch NWA, and I viewed Demolition as the original. No matter what the original intention of their gimmick was, Demolition established their own identities & legacy separate from LOD.

@sytharnia1717

8 ай бұрын

Bruce pretty much covers what you said here ... the biggest differences were Demolition weren't "body guys" and they could actually wrestle unlike the road warriors

@kurtvanderbogarde8402

8 ай бұрын

Would you have taken them more seriously if you had known they were Masked Superstar and Kruscher Kruschev?

@ShadowAngel1860

8 ай бұрын

@@sytharnia1717 Nobody would've wanted the Road Warriors to see pull of technical wrestling, it wouldn't make sense with the gimmick. That's something workrate marks and Meltzer don't understand. And it's not like Demolition were good wrestlers in a technical sense either.

@handsolo1209

8 ай бұрын

@@ShadowAngel1860 But by the end of the 1980s there were teams bigger than them in WCW (Skyscrapers) and body guys just as physical as them, but also much better wrestlers (Steiners, Doom, etc). The 1983 gimmick didn't work in 1990. In WWF, how the hell could anyone believe they could overpower the Natural Disasters. Darsow and Eadie were actually good wresters, so could adapt to the opponents. Road Warriors couldn't. Remove them being bigger and stronger then everyone else and there was nothing there. That's why each return they did in the 1990s and early 2000s were worse and worse.

They were based on Mad Max 2 like the Road Warriors

Bring back brother love 😁

I thought they looked like executioner-type figures. They were great, imo. But they weren't flashy or pretty or fit and muscular. Just big dudes who bludgeoned their opponents into the canvas most of the time. Vince reemed them, but I think Ax getting sick is what really did them in, as Crush just didn't go over well with the fans.

Here comes the axe! Here comes the smasher...they're demolition....walking disaster!!!

he floored me with saying the Road Warriors were a 'punch and kick team',. That's literally what Demolition was. I saw the Road Warriors throw in some suplexes, i never saw Demolition do anything but punch, kick and double axe handles. they didn't even sell.

@kurtvanderbogarde8402

8 ай бұрын

Demolition sold loads of offence, what are you talking about?

@iang8169

8 ай бұрын

The road warriors were never a punch and kick team when they were faces . The punched and stomped when they were heels but for some reason they changed styles when they became faces. They d cut down the punches and kicks to almost nothing and use overhead presses and flying closelines for the majority of their offense. Thats why i always liked them better as heels

@texasrebel726

7 ай бұрын

Demolition were much better wrestlers than the Road Warriors, Thats not saying that they were more popular or more well liked. But Demolition were much more polished when it came to executing actual wrestling moves. Comparing The Road Warriors to Demolition is like comparing Ric Flair to Hulk Hogan. Were Demolition would be Ric Flair and The Road Warriors Hulk Hogan.

I remember Demolition being superior to the Road Warriors. Unfortunately, Demolition went downhill with the health problems brought in Crush.

Randy Colley came up with the idea and look, originally, according to Bill Eadie.

Demolition was mismanaged. They were over huge. Then they turned them bad and inserted Crush and ruined their run all in a few short months. This was totally on bad creative

The road warriors v Demolition in 88 would have been awesome, then they might have had a rematch in 89 when Demolition were at tyhe height of their fame as babyfaces.

SD Jones if he was wrestling in today era he wouldn’t had a big push he did his job and seems like a good guy

Most companies have a clause in their employment agreements that states anything created by you while employed by them is their property. You need to negotiate if you create something, you get compensation if the idea gets used... and you have to do something to prove you came up with the idea before the employer got wind of it.

I always loved Demoltion

9:38 yeah, it was an Ax-ident!

To me, Demolition were like Freddy Krueger where as the Powers of Pain & Road Warriors were more Jason Voorhies & Mike Meyers. There’s room for all in my universe!

I think Demolition was modeling off the death guards from the movie beast master

Randy sued Vince and reached a settlement. Bill Eadie actually owns the gimmick now

False: Darsow WAS a powerlifter in his early days.

@jamesg1974a

8 ай бұрын

power lifter isnt bodybuilding

I sorta of agree with Bruce on Demolition not being a direct rip-off of the Road Warriors (and Bruce will never take any accolades from his beloved Vince) but i firmly think had Road Warriors not existed there would ha have not been a Demolition or Power's of Pain.

Did Big John Stud bodyslam Andre? Because, I had thought that he did.

Better headline: Bruce talks about everything except the last days of demolition in the wwf

Demolition were not ripoffs of LOD. Both teams got inspiration for their looks from the Mad Max movie. Demolition facepaint was very different, their outfits were different, they had cool masks, awesome music, and were better workers than LOD

@burtonleffingwelljr7227

8 ай бұрын

Great tag team one of favorites just on gimmick alone but not better workers than road warriors.road warriors wrestle over seas alot too held tag titles over in japan

Demolition were definitely rw inspired but that was the culture of the day. Both the rock and roll express and the (midnight) rockers were both technically rip-offs but each did their own thing and they both found success in different ways.

When they had the masks on, they reminded me a little of the death guards on Beast Master.

And to no fault of their own LOD didn't get over too crazy. WWF weren't going let them be the Road Warriors, just a g rated watered down version. Demolition could've joined up with the Undertaker, maybe Papa Shango could've gotten in with them. Vince loved killing tag teams for some reason, maybe afraid of double paying if they both get over.

sadly, we never saw a proper L.O.D. vs. Demolition program

I think it's obvious both Demolition and Road Warriors gimmicks are based off Mad Max pt 2.if you haven't seen it, go watch it. They didn't rip each other off.

I dont care what anyone says , demolition was awesome and deserve a spot in the HOF