Demolition vs The Hart Foundation at Summerslam 90 is still my favourite Tag team match ever!

@NOV123

Жыл бұрын

Maybe better than their match at Summer Slam ‘88

Demolition was the best tag team. And Champions. Best finishing move. And Best theme song.

Here comes the AX, And here comes the Smasher. The Demolition, Walking disaster.

Bill Eadie (Ax) gave the best promos with that bad-ass gravelly voice of his. He legit scared me as a kid when he talked!

Demolition had the best ever entrance music in the wff at that time.They would of been awesome in the attitude era.

@HereIsWisdom1318

5 жыл бұрын

Paul Fox I think it’s still the best. The only one that compares (whether you like him or not) is Hogan’s.

@rexsexson5349

5 жыл бұрын

@@HereIsWisdom1318 which was originally given to who? See the wrestling album for the answer.

@Jatycre

4 жыл бұрын

Mike The Scott What? It was given to Windham and Rotunda, Team USA. Hogan’s theme always loses a point or two over the likes of Austin, Bret, Rock, Taker, Foley, etc, just for that reason. Those themes were written FOR those characters, with them in mind. Hogan’s was written with two other guys entirely in mind. It’s as iconic as it gets, and it did kinda work for Hogan, but it still wasn’t written FOR him.

@jayballa1121

3 жыл бұрын

Facts

@jshipp5469

Жыл бұрын

@@Jatycre the lyrics to real American are written about any American white meat babyface. Sting could had that music at great American bash and it be about him

I've known that Demolition took their look (hockey mask, chest harness, black undies) from the movie Mad Max 2 The Road Warrior as that's the look of gang leader Lord Humungus from that movie. I also knew that before Demolition, the Lord Humungus look and name was used in southern territories. But I never put the pieces together until now. In late 1985, Randy Colley was in one of the territories as The Nightmare, managed by Sir Oliver Humperdinck. SOH also managed the second Lord Humongous, Jeff Van Kamp. Colley and LH worked together in a feud against (pre WWF) Jake Roberts. So it was Randy Colley that saw the Lord Humungus gimmick and brought it to the WWF. I have no idea if Colley knew LH or The Road Warriors were inspired by Mad Max 2.

Demolition had the BDSM gimmick crossed with KISS and the Road Warrior. It was really a great look. It frightened me a little as a kid.

Demolition still today my all time favourite tag team!

Demolition was the shit. I never looked at them as bootleg road warriors. They were dope and stood out on their own. And they entrance theme was legendary

@KomradeKrusher

9 ай бұрын

Ironically, they were much closer in their style to "The Road Warrior" than the Road Warriors themselves. I never got that finger pointing about another team taking inspiration from the same movie as another team, anyway. Neither "invented" the thing.

Definitely my all time favorite tag team!!! Demolition vs Hart Foundation SummerSlam 1990 Two out of Three Falls for the Tag Team Championship is awesome!!!

Demolition was based on Lord Humungous from the Mad Max movies

@jamescourt5201

4 жыл бұрын

All we want is the gas.

@xSuperiorManx

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamescourt5201 Just walk away!

@jamescourt5201

3 жыл бұрын

@@xSuperiorManx leave the gas

@xSuperiorManx

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamescourt5201 Hey, no problem. Here:" **farts** Pretty sure that's how it was in the movie. o_Ô

@83reggieT

3 жыл бұрын

They had done a litd humongous in Memphis with Sid under the mask.

Demolition was badass. One of my favorite tag teams. Personally never thought they were a ripoff of the road warriors Demolition walking disaster!

Demolition was awesome I November demolition win tag team championship from The Colossal Connection André the Giant Haku at wrestlemania 6 April 1, 1990 i hope one day Demolition in wwe hall of fame

I got to sit down and have a chat with Bill Eady for about a half hour years ago. He was the nicest guy ever and genuinely flattered when I told him that he was a super hero to me as a kid.

I loved Demolition. Before Crush.

Man, Demolition was probably my favorite tag team as a kid. Saw them at the Civic Center in Butte, Mt had to be like '90. Coolest gimic. Loved Bill Eadie with the like slicked hair with the like sparkle? SUCH a cool gimic. Great champs, longest resigning for quite awhile.

The mask always reminded me of the Jun Horde from Beastmaster.

I watched the demolition in my hometown back in the late 80s.I remember watching Ax and Smash come out and couldnt believe the enormous size of them up close in real life.Demolition was a better team because the talent level of Masked Superstar and Crusher Krushchev couldnt be matched by LOD or POP.

@KomradeKrusher

9 ай бұрын

Exactly. Both were much more accomplished workers than the Road Warriors. I LOVE the Road Warriors, but they didn't have a lot to offer beyond power moves and brawling, but both Eadie and Darsow could wrestle any style if called for. That's also what made Crush stand out like a sore thumb, he was just not even remotely on the same level.

When anyone asks me, Road Warriors or Demolition, I always answer Powers of Pain. As a kid I was always a mark for huge muscle bound monsters. By the time LOD got to WWF, they were still big guys, but a lot of the muscle mass was gone, well at least compared to Barbarian and Warlord.

@MarkSmith-ho5yc

10 ай бұрын

I liked the Powers of pain as well.

Had no idea that "Smash" was the "Repo Man." I remember the "Repo Man" so clearly and I thought he around way after Demolition but I guess I'm clearly wrong. They were an awesome tag team and fans loved them. They were kind of the antithesis to teams like the Hart Foundation that seemed so clean cut while Demolition had that sadistic, leather, steel and fire look.

@MrRabiddogg

2 жыл бұрын

that tattoo on his arm was a dead giveaway

After demolition ended Barry darsow had a handful of singles matches as smash. I wished they would have stuck with it as opposed to the repo man gimmick.

@leroymelancholy3825

5 жыл бұрын

Repo Man was hilarious though.

@MrJjburgess11

4 жыл бұрын

Repo Man was actually Barry's idea

@taekwondotime

4 жыл бұрын

Repo man was a successful gimmick. People like to make fun of it, but it was popular.

@cutekanjii

3 жыл бұрын

The repo man was cool lol hehehe

@KomradeKrusher

9 ай бұрын

While I agree I think that Darsow seemed to have a lot of fun with the gimmick and it also seemed to be an easier paycheck. And while it's a goofy gimmick, people actually reacted well to it, which I credit wholly to Darsow making it work.

Demolition was awesome

Just to clarify- it was the Powers of Pain that were the Road Warrior rip-offs. Vince signed them from Crockett when he lost out on the Road Warriors when they re-signed/re-upped with Crockett for $500,000 guaranteed per annum. The Powers of Pain quit Crockett due to having to take bumps off the scaffold in scheduled scaffold matches with the Road Warriors, and that was when Vince signed them with the intention that they were akin to the Road Warriors.

@KomradeKrusher

9 ай бұрын

Exactly. POP were pure carbon copies down to almost the exact styling of the beards and hair. Demolition took the "Road Warrior" (the movie!) inspiration and turned it into their own thing, sticking much closer to the actual look and mixing it up with heavy metal aesthetics al'a KISS and Judas Priest.

Demolition vs LoD could have been a two year long run. 2v2, 2v3....bring back Paul Elering to even the odds. So much story left untold.

I never thought Demolition and The Road Warriors were the same team, as far as likeness goes.

my favorite Tag Team growing up I always related them to Mad Max

Here comes the Ax.. here comes the Smasher.. then goes the Smash and here comes another Smasher.. then comes the Crush and there goes the Ax.. then here comes The Kona Crush and here comes the Repo Man...

Demolition was the best!!! They had the best entrance & music they were dope I hate when ppl say they're road warrior rip offs

I thought the gimmick was a play on Lord Humungus from Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior.

@taekwondotime

4 жыл бұрын

Bingo!

@miguelsaez7654

4 жыл бұрын

Demolition outfits were similar to Lord Humongous but better quality and harder look. The road warriors look were inspired by the main antagonist's outfits.

8:40 if Steven Tyler covered a song and made it famous, the original author would receive the royalties for the song. If someone pitched a TV show and the network stole the idea, they’d be liable.

@LembeckIsStaying

3 жыл бұрын

Bruce definitely ain't a lawyer...

@119Agent

11 ай бұрын

The owner to the rights of the song receives royalties. That might not be the original writer. In this case, the WWF would own the gimmick since Colley was an employee of the WWF.

My uncle had a dented up chair from early 90's probably USWA that the Moondogs had used in a match lol

Am I the only one who feels that the WWF gave up on Demolition too soon?

@vladmichaels2154

5 жыл бұрын

should of held off and put them on the shelf for a year and brought them back after LoD didnt work out they would of had awesome matches with the natural disasters and the Steiners.

@Dizzy1980

5 жыл бұрын

Not to mention Demolition vs Money Inc. Now THAT would've been a great match!

@southbeachtalent

5 жыл бұрын

Ax was on the shelf and was looking old af late 90/ early 91. I think Crush and Smash had a ton of potential, esp if Ax could do the occasional run in with the black mask on. Crush just needed more time to grow into the role.

@Dizzy1980

5 жыл бұрын

Crush had time; he and Smash teamed for nearly a year after Ax left and they never got over. They just faded, as the fans just never accepted Crush. It looked awkward with a very experienced Smash alongside an obviously novice Crush. They wouldn't ever have been equals.

@southbeachtalent

5 жыл бұрын

@@Dizzy1980 that time was like the new generation of tag teams. Both the Harts and Rockers went single. The Steiners were coming in. They started pairing singles wrestlers together more often like Money Inc, Hogan and Beefcake, etc. L.O.D I'm sure would've been booked to run rough shod over everyone, but they never really got good matches out of the mix matched teams. L.O.D vs original Demolition should've headlined a ppv

Best tag team ever! The best intro music ever to! They were the first tag team i actually loved to watch.

The original Demolition should’ve stayed heel together and kept Fuji!

My favourite tag team ever

Believe you forgot Scott Norton, in that Minnesota crew of friends.

To me, Eadie will always be the Masked Superstar first, and then part of Demolition.

Gotta love "rumor and inuendo "

@falseshepherd-490

5 жыл бұрын

love it so much I bought the shirt

WWF made tag teams awesome, Demolition, Hart Foundation, British Bulldogs, Can Am Connection, Killer Bees, The Dream Team, The Islanders, Iron Sheik and Nikolai Volkoff, The Bushwhackers, The Fabulous Rougeaus, The Islanders, The Rockers, Powers Of Pain, Colossal Connection & Twin Towers

@NOV123

Жыл бұрын

How about The Young Stallions?

DEMOLITION#1 LEGENDS OF WRESTLING! AXE#1 SMASH#1 & CRUSH#1

I remember when the moon dogs first started out

Randy Colley would compete in Continental (CWF) as "Detroit Demolition" in 1988.

The Masked Superstar gave Backlund ,the swinging neckbreaker and left Bob laying. Didn't need the title to get over, great Heel.

Always figured it was a take on Lord Humongous from Mad Max: The Road Warrior.

@119Agent

11 ай бұрын

Demolition: Lord Humongous from Mad Mad 2 LOD: Wez from Mad Max 2 Lord Humongous (Sid Eudy): Lord Humongous from Mad Max 2

I agree with Prichard, at the very end, actually. He’s absolutely right, in the different feel. I ALWAYS felt that way, in real-time…I lived it. In fact, I was actually a bigger fan of Demolition BECAUSE of that. Ironically, then being in WWF, THEY felt like the more REAL team, to me

Eadie is legend

I loved the Masked Superstar -- broke a lot of necks on old-school TV

The Moondog gimmick almost certainly started out with Louius "Moondog" Hardin, a blind blond and eccentric musician who had a long beard and hung out on the streets of New York in the 1940's and became quite well-known.

Demolition

"That's how it goes in the creative world, life's not fair". If I created something new & someone stole my idea & that someone makes a fortune from my idea- I sue 'em for all they're worth.

@beauclark1650

3 жыл бұрын

realize bruce has been in a creative field for 45 years and never had a creative or original idea, it explains alot about his willingness to steal and general lack of character

Barry Darsow was, in fact, a power lifter.

Do you all feel that Demolition is the greatest WWF tag team ever? I know many people give them the top nod.

@merleshand2442

5 жыл бұрын

Roon Mc yeah even though Hart foundation and edge and Christian were right up there the Hardy's were a team before they got there I think

@rickmartin7006

5 жыл бұрын

Yes they were the greatest

@rickmartin7006

5 жыл бұрын

@Dante Carroll they were of the best!!!!

@DabblerHitman

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I agree they were the best

@suzannewillis817

5 жыл бұрын

Demolition all the way.

Back in the 80s there were all big guys

The outfits were taken directly from Road Warrior. Lord Humongous specifically.

The moon dogs where cool. Demolition was great.

Bruce is mistaken. He seems to have confused Sailor Art Thomas and Sailor White, the latter being Moondog King. He referred to him as Sailor White Thomas.

@johnrevene3053

4 жыл бұрын

You are correct Sir, Sailor White was Moondog King, and legit Badass.

@elland37

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnrevene3053 legit badass for sure. I can attest to that.

@AWX_Wrestling

3 жыл бұрын

Sailor White used to scare the absolute shit out of me as a kid.

I always thought Demolition looked like the berserker “bad guys” from the movie “Beastmaster”. Not sure if the movie came before Demolition was created or not though.

@Zero8880

5 жыл бұрын

They were called the Jun

@piperar2014

5 жыл бұрын

The Beastmaster staring Marc Singer? That was an early 80s movie and easily before Demolition.

Bruce is also full of it that demolition isn't a rip off of road warriors. Even Bill eadie came out in interviews and said they were and that's why the matches didn't work because they were the same.

I don't get why Demolition got the rip-off rap, yet the Powers of Pain don't so much. They look far more like the Road Warriors

@suzannewillis817

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah look at how the powers of pain were dressed and the hairstyles and even the face paint they were the rip offs and not demolition.

@nunyabidness7463

4 жыл бұрын

Powers of pain weren't as popular or successful as demolition

If anything the Powers of Pain were a Road Warriors knockoff. But I was still a fan of theirs.

Why is it that Anyone would think Demolition was a rip off of the Road Warriors? The Powers of Pain were clearly the Road Warrior rip offs.

@kurtvanderbogarde8402

5 жыл бұрын

The Powers of Pain were meant to be rip-offs because they were meant to be Evil Road Warriors who feuded with the real Road Warriors in JCP. Then they came to the WWF.

@suzannewillis817

5 жыл бұрын

You are correct brandon.

@kurtvanderbogarde8402

5 жыл бұрын

@@suzannewillis817 Like I said, the Powers were meant to be the Road Warriors evil opposites in their 1988 feud for Crockett. "Power of Pain" was a slogan used by their then-manager Paul Jones.

Tuesday night titans with lord alfred Hayes high noon tea ceremony..Mr Fuji with a moon dog ...vince ..the British bulldogs ..of course it descends into madness and fuji smacks moondog with a plate and it breaks in half and one half flys across the set and lands in the jam ..Great times ..the week before they did Mr Fuji's saki ceremony.. With vince and his lordship and Mr fujis geisha girl spills saki on fujis hand and he goes berserk..one of the greatest skits in WWF history look it up on KZread

I liked repo man

@scottanderson8167

5 жыл бұрын

Merle hand that is a really brave admission. We should all give you props for admitting that.

@frod79

5 жыл бұрын

@@scottanderson8167 what's your opinion is his opinion, and what's my opinion is his opinion

They blew the load way too fast with Demolition and L.O.D.. There should have been *no contact* between the two tag-teams until at LEAST the Royal Rumble '91 setting up a Wrestlemania VII match.

@MrRabiddogg

2 жыл бұрын

and kept it Axe and Smash not Crush.

@119Agent

11 ай бұрын

@@MrRabiddoggAx had a health issue and couldn’t regularly wrestle.

@MrRabiddogg

11 ай бұрын

@@119Agent he was winding down, but wasn't quite ready to hang it up. He has said as much in interviews. They could have phased him out with a main event level match vs LOD and use an in ring injury as an excuse to turn him into a manager, bringing in Crush to replace him

@119Agent

11 ай бұрын

@@MrRabiddogg Bill himself has said they brought in Adams because Bill had a shellfish allergy and almost died. I’m sure by Royal Rumble ‘91 he was fine but they couldn’t shelve the tag team champions for months while he recovered.

Theu should have teamed up Demo with Road warriors. The 4 of the could have gone on a massive run like the 4 horsemen. Demo Warriors or Doom-O-lition

"Iiiiiiiiiiiii loooooovvvveeeeee yooouuuuuu!!!!!!"can't stand brother love but I love demolition!

Demolition for the AEW !

Demolition and Powers of Pain should have created a stable called Mt. Fuji. Crush is Fuji s personal ringside body guard. Then destroy L.O.D .

If I’m not mistaken isn’t there mass that they wore to the ring just like lord humongous from mad Max beyond thunder dome

@Dizzy1980

5 жыл бұрын

The entire outfit actually, and it was from "The Road Warrior" not "Beyond Thunderdome"

@piperar2014

5 жыл бұрын

It was from Mad Max, yes. The Road Warrior was Mad Max part 2 and Beyond Thunderdome was part 3.

@piperar2014

5 жыл бұрын

There were NWA wrestlers that used the Lord Humongous gimmick. Sid Vicious was the 2nd or 3rd Lord Humongous, in Memphis.

No Repro Man beat gimmick of all time

Their look was based around Mad Max.

I'm guessing these people never watched Mad Max movies.

Do Road Warriors marks not realize that Hawk and Animal ripped their gimmick off a Mel Gibson movie? Mad Max 2, The Road Warrior. Before teaming with Hawk, Animal was a singles wrestler called THE Road Warrior. Hawk and Animal look like Mad Max character Wez, the main antagonist to Mad Max. Wez had a mohawk and wore shoulder pads, but without spikes. Demolition looks like Mad Max character Lord Humungus, the leader of the gang of villians. Lord Humungus wore a hockey mask, a chest harness, and studs. Before Demolition, there were wrestlers in NWA territories named Lord Humungus, who copied that look right out of the movie. Sid Vicious was (I think) the third Lord Humungus in Memphis. Jake Roberts wrestled the second Lord Humungus in a cage in Houston.

@Icecreamforcrowtoo

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly! I was beginning to think I was the only wrestling fan aware of this!

SD Jones is from Antigua. A cricket island.

For a short time, they wore a cloth mask (luchador type). What was that about?

bestmster movie inspired demolition find the movie online nd youll see

I thought Demolition was a Road Warriors ripoff at first, but when I saw the Powers of Pain I said now THAT'S a true ripoff lol. Demolition eventually carved out an identity and legacy for themselves that separated them from the Road Warriors. Their wrestling style was different, but it can't be denied that the look was at least partially similar to the Road Warriors since they took the look from the same movie the Road Warriors took their look from. But if you break down the looks of both teams, it's really just the face paint that's the "ripoff". Remove the paint and we probably don't have the ripoff discussion. The Road Warriors probably got a large chunk of their look from the Bearclaw Mohawk character. Demolition probably took a lot of their look from the Lord Humungus character, which ironically was yet another gimmick that was played by numerous people, including Sid Vicious. The face paint was added MAYBE to give a small Road Warriors hint since the team was an answer to Vince not being able to get the Road Warriors. Whatever the story is, both are legendary tag teams and the word "ripoff" is inaccurate when describing Demolition's inspiration.

But for some reason they thought no one would recognize Albert a few years ago.

Then, the bell rang....

Barry Darsow is a nice guy but really believable as a nasty bad guy. Wcw had him just as himself and I thought it worked

Any team with big men with painted faces will be compared to LOD

Mad Max Lord humongous...anyone with a classic education or grew up south of the Mason Dixon line knows this..except for 2 individuals apparently.

I'm 48 years old I watch demolition coming to the if it wasn't the action smash it would not have been nowhere near as action smash played those characters the best and smash sold that gimmick

I remember the first time I saw Demolition I thought, "Oh, they're like the Road Warriors.....except fat."

@LembeckIsStaying

3 жыл бұрын

*"FAT!"*

@NOV123

Жыл бұрын

I don’t think Ax was fat

Lord humongous was the first 2 wear that same outfit but with a white mask....

@piperar2014

5 жыл бұрын

I think Sid Vicious as the second or third Lord Humongous wore a white mask. A previous Lord Humongous wrestled Jake Roberts in a cage match and looked closer to the movie character. Jake gave Lord Humongous a DDT. LH kicked out. Jake got tied in the ropes. Someone threw a chair into the ring. Jake got out of the ropes and DDTed LH on the chair for the pin.

The fact that Demolition is not in the WWE HOF (most popular tag team of the 80's) while a nobody like Fabulous Moolah or Wendi Richter is, is proof that it's a fake HOF.

@Millwall77

4 жыл бұрын

I guess Vince is still sour after Bill Eadie sued WWE.

@NOV123

Жыл бұрын

Moolah, despite what have come up in recent years, definitely had earned her spot in the HOF

For one Don Muraco stakes claim to coming up with the idea...Two is this really an idea? About as ingenious as taking toast and replacing the butter with margarine! 🤐

I never thought of demolition as a road warrior rip off.. If anything, powers of pain is an lod ripoff.. Although as a kid i was 90 percent wwf and knew of demolition before legion of doom

....never heard of them...ever...

@scorpiothegreat1

4 жыл бұрын

Until recently, they were the longest running WWE tag champs of all time.

The mask superstar

What ashame... Stw was an amazing podcast when it began. 4 years later, with bruce back in wwe its just not the same anymore. Plus these ads on everyone of conrads pages normally contain countless ads to the point its unbearable i counted 4 in 5 mins every 5 mins for at least an hour.. Sucks but stw jumped the shark

Idk why after three decades people won't admit Demolition were a Road Warriors clone? Its common knowledge they were created after Hawk, Paul and Animal went to Vince's house in Connecticut, and thought about leaving Crockett. When they chose not to, Vince created Demo. and referred to them as "our Road Warriors" . That story of Randy Colley creating the gimmick was never heard until three years or so ago.

@sgzartan

4 жыл бұрын

100% spot on. Hypocrisy/WWF bias is why people won't admit it. A face painted tag team consisting of two big guys wearing all black, with spikes, heavy metal music, sticking out their tongues, menacing talk, power moves, etc = definite Road Warrior ripoff. The Road Warriors were over huge in the U.S. and Japan, having more imitators than any gimmick in history.

Not quite Bruce, music business works a little different since it's entirely founded on musical ideas. Any musician that doesn't cover their own asses with copywrite deserves to be ripped off, but musicians can and often do copywrite their ideas. That's not to say no one rips off other musicians, but it's a lot harder to get away with in music.

Steven Tyler would have to pay the writer..wtf..

Let's remember, every star before Hulk who slammed Andre, slammed him at 100 lbs lighter than he was at WM 3.

LARRY LATHAM WAS SPOT

To me (at 12) they looked like executioners, with the hoods.

Demolition in the road warriors Jimmy was completely different demolition kept up with the road warriors with their popularity and people didn't like the road warriors will cry babies when they went to the WWF it got rid of the powers when they said too many teams had the same all three teams will what the road warriors did not own the makeup gimmick the blade runner's get it first you alternate warrior and so if you want to call demolition show with the there's matches when they won against the blade when the roadways didn't have the blade runner's did restless get ideas from other teams and other restless and that's what makes it great don't make them copycat if they create their own characters

Demolition are called a Road Warriors ripoff, but Bill and Barry were much better workers tbh

Gramma B's Bud Bundy owns a restaurant?