Bruce would make a great politician, he’s very careful when answering questions and never really gives the full story. Always feels like he’s holding something back.

@ii9714

4 жыл бұрын

It's why he's back in wwe

@CyrusCageSCWS

4 жыл бұрын

Cause he's a carny to the core.

@Tony-fq5bn

3 жыл бұрын

The thing he's holding back on this one is that, yeah, Vince knew what he was doing and he buried the fuck out've WcW lol

@TheJulior1983

3 жыл бұрын

@@CyrusCageSCWS for sure

@v.k.rt.m.6030

3 жыл бұрын

@shawn buckley didn't Prichard defend the DDP Stalker gimmick?

Biggest ball drop in history that could never be picked up, "The Invasion"

@markolsen7010

4 күн бұрын

Jr is perfect

So much talent not even mentioned. WCW I will always miss

@FnRenner

5 жыл бұрын

La Parka would still be going strong in WWE today

@StonewallStacks

3 жыл бұрын

@@FnRenner chairman of the board with the best dance moves

@leesmith813

2 жыл бұрын

Norman Smiley would have been great

@nomikes4392

Жыл бұрын

@@leesmith813 Doink the Clown 2

If possible Hogan, Hall, Nash, Sting, Savage vs The Rock, Austin, Undertaker, HBK, Foley would of been a killer Invasion showdown match.

@shockerrocker1

5 жыл бұрын

That's why I said if possible. I know they were retired at the time but ultimately they both came back years later to wrestle again.

@FnRenner

5 жыл бұрын

Hogan had quit WCW before WWE bought them.

@robdangripp9406

4 жыл бұрын

HHH was hurt during the invasion angle Hall & Nash was under contract so they just took it easy until there contract was up...i mean sit and get paid what would you do??

@jasondiend4248

4 жыл бұрын

@@robdangripp9406 During but the thing is possibility of a better invasion would have been use of Hall, Nash, Hogan and Savage. 1 they can easily bring up heat with Vince why they left and now you have Flair flipping their bill to bring them in storyline wise. So you have Flair being the "money guy" again if a big IF you could have snagged Sting and Luger and throw in DDP as the 4th you got the 4 Horsemen and 4 guys from NWO teaming up to take down WWE with everyone else their grunts. WCW and NWO icons teaming up against WWE top guys. You get stories where you have Hogan, Hall, Nash and Savage who all left WWF for more money and brighter future then you got guys WWE brought in later and you can push them as guys who were jaded against WCW. You have natural built in heat on both sides. WCW territories you book the WCW talent as faces and WWE territory heels and flip it obviously. There was money to be made.

@mistanderson

4 жыл бұрын

Contracts kiddo. Plus Sting wasnt coming

Bam Bam would have been awesome in a feud with AB Taker.

I remember meeting Lash Leroux aka Corporal Cajun at a Tenacious D show after the buyout. My brother and I asked him what he had been doing since the fold. He told us that basically, he was getting paid to sit at home.

Tony Schiavone should have been a voice in the company. He was very good.

@anthonywilliams6002

5 жыл бұрын

He was mentally burned out so wwe would've really had to persuade him at the time.

@the-NightStar

5 жыл бұрын

I keep hoping they'd at LEAST try to contact him to record some goddamn commentary for the WWE video games for the Nitro arena. Can't be that much worse than the commentary already in the game for everything else.

@ndr523

5 жыл бұрын

He did go there eventually

@kennethmalone4689

5 жыл бұрын

Schiavone worked in WWF back in the day. As the story goes Vince didn't find his Southern voice appealing.

@huffy6192

5 жыл бұрын

He remains on good terms with the company, and even at one point. Vince left the door for him to return. He said no eventually, when Time Warner was going downhill, and Tony wanted to comeback. "Fingerpoke of Doom" night happened. Which kinda hurt Schivone. When the invasion happened. WWE reached out to him, to replace Ross. But, he turned it down.

I always thought Luger, Macho and Sting would end up in WWE from 2001-05. Would of been interesting to see how they would be used.Also Disco Inferno and Alex Wright could of helped as mid carders. They did bring in some of the luchadors and Goldberg, Hall, Nash, Hogan eventually.

Shane Douglas didn't return to wrestling until early 2003 when his Time Warner contract expired. So he likely would have preferred to accept the full payout for his contract from Time Warner rather than take a lower offer for a WWF 'opportunity.'

@BOBBYSOX86

3 жыл бұрын

And we all know how that "opportunity" turned out during his brief 1995 run. So he made the right choice to sit home and get paid.

@ezstreete

Жыл бұрын

On the flipside, DDP takes a buyout on his contacts, comes in as Undertaker's wife's stalker, and is gone within a year.... Vince couldn't wait to bury WCW & it's stars....

Even though WCW was scraped I miss the competition

I want my future wife to be as loyal to me as Bruce is to vince. P.s. How wwe didn't make sting v undertaker happen seriously what idiots

@jakelang806

3 жыл бұрын

smh

@slabbusterrtr7690

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah if I ever had a woman that loyal id be golden hasn't happen yet

So many guys who didn't get hire should be lucky. Because during the Invasion storyline and afterwards, WWE really did drop the ball on some of those WCW guys.

Douglas wanted to come in with Benoit and company in 2000, so of course he wanted to come to the WWF. What's so frustrating about the botched Invasion is the fact that Flair, Hogan, Hall, and Nash came in literally right after it ended lol. Flair was on Raw the next NIGHT.

Goldberg Vs. Stone Cold and Sting Vs. Undertaker was the 2 matches I wanted the most

Shane never wanted to go to wwe. In an interview I did with him he stated he wanted to hit up n.h.b at the time. The offer was better and was owned by his good friend.

Tony became a Baseball Announcer after WCW Ended, yeah they didn't exactly reach out to him the Day of, But he already had his Interview Suit on for the Baseball Job on the Last Nitro.

@11094DEREK

3 жыл бұрын

He went to TNA later on and currently in AEW I think

Why wasn’t there interest in Vampiro? One of the best looks in the biz

Jim definitely wasn’t jumping for joy to bring Bischoff in back in the invasion angle lol.

What the hell?! I thought that WAS Jr. talking to Bruce

It's weird. I loved wrestling like only wrestling fans can love wrestling. I had completely blocked out that Arn Anderson did commentary on that match. I don't know if I was frustrated or ashamed, but the WCW fan in me never acknowledged it. Like, I at the time, I wasn't surprised, because of course he is, watching it back 20 years later, I'm like, what? That's weird. Still love it.

Just out of curiosity, what's with the background guns....is it because it's called a "shoot" interview? I don't remember seeing that background on any other of these video's but definitely could be wrong. Cheers

Too bad Juventud burned every bridge he crossed. He was so much fun to watch. Wish they held onto Psycosis and La Parka longer too.

@HeatseekersUK

4 жыл бұрын

They never had La Parka for any period of time what so ever did they

@TheRustedShackleford

4 жыл бұрын

@@HeatseekersUK I remember him being involved in a couple of matches early in the "Invasion" angle, but thats about it.

@RedRaptor7

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheRustedShackleford La Parka never wrestled in the WWF what are you talking about? And Psicosis didn’t come in until around 2005

@StonewallStacks

3 жыл бұрын

Hypnosis?

Not true Bruce....JR tried to hold Jesse Ventura back by purposely no selling and ignoring things Jesse said while commentating together.

You should have hired me The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Ikea I would have given you Ecstasy! beyond your wildest dreams lmao.

@TheSinisterCrow

5 жыл бұрын

This shit made me die laughing hysterically

@acehunter3229

5 жыл бұрын

lol @@TheSinisterCrow

When I first started listening I had just transitioned from cornies podcast, so if I’m being honest I found the structure a tad boring but didn’t take long and now I’m quite a fan, t shirt discount please

Why don't they ever mention the Vampiro snub. He was a very popular WCW midcarder at the time.

@Ijustinsultedyou

3 жыл бұрын

He wasn’t shit ! Looked like a junkie

At the time I think want to just mainly use the younger up and coming WCW talent because they where still fresh and can be utilized but at the same bring over a few big names DDP Booker T Etc most of those wrestlers had accepted a contractual buy out so that they can walk away and move on.

Kronik no selling Undertaker and Kane was awesome.

@Rschr101

4 жыл бұрын

Was it?

@frankricard3853

4 жыл бұрын

Rschr101 It was because Kronik could have beat Kane and Undertaker’s asses if they wanted to.

The way Bruce Prichard and comrade are raw about how they speak all f*** it I love it keep it up boys

If you notice In all these shoot interviews where they ask WWE behind the scenes guys about why certain people didn't get hired from WCW they all seem to be really defensive and trying to do damage control because looking at it in retrospect it makes WWE look like spiteful dickheads

@salvagemonster3612

Жыл бұрын

No not really. Vince not had room for so many. Many had issues with steroids and drugs. Others just weren’t needed. Vince didn’t need jobers. He didn’t want more Smokey mountain caliber wrestlers. It’s business. You got space for so many.

He didn't want to use Animal as a singles so he just waited a few years and used him as a singles.

tony said if wwe called he wanted to be there its bullshit

Had Owen Hart would've lived. I would have loved to see him have a match against Billy Kidman!

@captaincracker8980

4 жыл бұрын

Criminal Minds Girl that’s a strange mix, I would’ve like to see Owen Hart doing a run with booker t.

@jamesjones-ez9ug

4 жыл бұрын

@@captaincracker8980 Owen vs Kurt angle

@captaincracker8980

4 жыл бұрын

james jobber yeah, excellent, I can see them forming a tag team.

Sid had a career ending injury...... that would be why he didnt get brought on lol.

@diggadirt393

3 жыл бұрын

What injury

@julioalmeida9259

3 жыл бұрын

He was always a pain to deal with, probably wouldn't have gone to wwf even if he was fit

@Jeffersonstarship01

3 жыл бұрын

@@diggadirt393 i believe he jumped from the top rope and from his knee down blew out sideways 😣

@RobwLPOC

3 жыл бұрын

@@diggadirt393 oh dude Google Sid Vicious leg break that was the nastiest injury ever shown on television since Joe Theismann

@RobwLPOC

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jeffersonstarship01 no, his tibia / bottom half of his leg snapped right in the middle of the bone. That was freaking nasty

Just think, with the money Vince dumped into the xfl, he probably could have bought out some of if not all of this guaranteed contacts. What a massive mistake

torrie wilson and stacy keibler were out of all the wcw talents that a chance to get over bigger in the wwe out of the invasion people booker t comes close

@RandalfElVikingo

5 жыл бұрын

RVD was another one, but he was ECW.

@knowyourroleboulevard7119

3 жыл бұрын

Nope the biggest was Hurricane Helms. Lasted till 2010.

@marka.graffakasnakebitenat3736

3 жыл бұрын

They were blonde. Vince likes his blondes. No matter what company.

Despite what Luger did to Vince he definitely dropped the ball with not signing Luger in 2001. He was still a big name that could have been the big star of the invasion instead of Booker t

@IrishCarney

5 жыл бұрын

If Booker had just cut off those stupid dreadlocks he would have gotten ten times more fan support. Just go back to the crisp crew cut with the little shaved-in part in hair. His face was too ugly to also have an ugly 'do. Sorry Booker, I'm telling it like it is.

@Sickillj

4 жыл бұрын

He couldnt cut a promo, booker t was way better on the mic

@Tony-fq5bn

3 жыл бұрын

It coulda been Luger AND Booker T and DDP, smh, they just needed more people

@salvagemonster3612

Жыл бұрын

Lex was having so many personal issues with his drug use. Lex just was never a draw.

@davidgraham8299

Жыл бұрын

No one was interested in Lex in 2001. NO ONE. He was never the "big star" either company wanted him to be.

Shane Douglas had a very ugly falling out with WWE in 1996. So, I'm not surprised that the WWE didn't ask him to return in 2001. I have met Shane Douglas, and he's a great person. He told me that he has nothing but contempt for the WWE.

What's the guy's name that interviews to Bruce Prichard.

@bossmann6358

5 жыл бұрын

HereIsWisdom 1318 Conrad

Sid was hurt, Douglas had some issues with Vince McMahon over creative, Bam Bam's contract was impossible to be matched by WWE, same were the likes of Nash, Goldberg, Hall, and Luger, Animal has to be a packaged deal with Hawk as Road Warriors. Tony Schiavone, on the other hand, was a different issue altogether considering he was still under contract with Turner at large, although he left under WWE due to high living cost in the Northeast back then, Vince may have felt betrayed the way Shiavone left WWE.

@TFRANCHISETHERILLA

4 жыл бұрын

Jeff Ng Vince wasn’t into Tony Schiavone commentary when he worked for WWF in 89/90.

Would have been interesting if the Nitro Girls had been brought in. I wonder how they would have been used. Titantron show opening promo?

Animal was on SD in the 2000s...

@jasondiend4248

4 жыл бұрын

That was after Hawk died though. Up till that point it was a package deal. Even Hawk wrestled in a different tag team The Hellraisers when he was in Japan with Power Warrior. Also by the Animal had started working there again his brother was running things for talent relations. So that would have smoothed things over even thought hat did burn him and their relationship later.

A lot of the big name players were still under contract and getting paid in full by AOL Time Warner. They would’ve been crazy to sell out their contracts for less than fifty cents on the dollar. That’s what the WWE offered them.

I always believe WWE/ F could've had a good run with Buff Bagwell as the champion

@davidgraham8299

Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂 wait, are you serious? 😭😭😭😭😭😭

Man, I don’t know about the rest of the card, but the top matches should have been as followed Steve Austin, The Rock, Kurt Angle, Undertaker, Kane vs. Goldberg, DDP, Booker T, Sting, Scott Steiner Hogan, Hall, Nash vs. Triple H, and the New Age Outlaws Ric Flair vs. Vince McMahon From there you can split off the matches to rivalries, and throw in the younger WCW wrestlers with potential, and I know Tommy Dreamer and RVD debut at this time, you could split ECW and nWo to be wild cards. The nWo vs DX match X I would have X-Pac turn on DX and have him and the Big Show join the nWo in WWF. So much you can do.

I’ve never heard that macho man had the reputation of being the hardest person to work with In the bizz. There isn’t anything in the STWWBP Macho Man episode being difficult. You lose em in the ring 123 uh huh you win em in the ring 123 uh huh

@Ijustinsultedyou

3 жыл бұрын

That’s cuz you’re not in the business and not supposed to hear anything.

@OliveMule

3 жыл бұрын

Its because he ultimately DIDNt trust the boys. He knew more than most. R.i.p. to the GREATEST Macho man RANDY SAVAGE

The episode kinda made the WWF brass look bad, I understand some of the big stars but you couldn't have resigned Vader as Shane's hired gun to back Booker and DDP? Macho Man or Terry Funk weren't available? Shane Douglas could've been a killer promo alone.

@davidgraham8299

Жыл бұрын

Macho wasn't going back under the wwe umbrella

This is extremely interesting. I have a lot of respect for Tony he would have been great.

No Interest in Bam Bam Bigelow. They still list him in their top ten list. His feud with Lawrence Taylor put asses in the seats.

@Ijustinsultedyou

3 жыл бұрын

It was one match.

Many of the WCW guys that the WWE did not hire actually came out ahead considering that they didn’t have to risk physical injury, yet they still got paid the remainder of their WCW contracts. Bret Hart complained about “getting paid to do nothing in WCW”, then eventually he took a botched kick to the head from Bill Goldberg that ended his career. So much for “getting paid $2.8 million to do nothing”. While Bret was recovering in the hospital, he probably felt like it would have been better to have had the day off, rather than getting kicked in the head.

@hectorrico8661

4 жыл бұрын

You've never read his book? He says basically aftet the kick. Wcw got an NHL doctor to look at him. The doctor told him his career is over. Dumbass stubborn Bret still does a few more months wrestling anyways. Making his neurological injuries worse. Had he just quit right then and there, he probably would have never had the stroke.

@Scorch1028

3 жыл бұрын

@@hectorrico8661 Bret says that once he finally did leave WCW, that he was paid a fraction of the $2.8 million all the way up to the end of 2000. According to Bret's calculations, he ended up clearing about 1/6th of the $2.8 million. I hate to say it, but the struggling WCW saved a chunk of change from not having to pay Bret the full amount of his contract.

Schiavone had the contract. I remember they did an angle with Tenay on TNA, about Tony wanting to collect his paycheck with Time Warner. Bagwell had the scuffle with Hurricane Helms, that’s why he was let go. Road Warrior Animal had just signed with WCW in 2001, so he still had a lot of his contract left. If they wanted to do something great, they should have paid some of those contracts. After all WCW cost only 4 million… it was a bargain…

I never understood why they didn’t just keep wcw as a brand and keep the wrestlers on their own show, and just collected income from tv and ads.

@Linusofthedead

4 жыл бұрын

Couldnt find TV for it. The original plan was to keep WCW seperate, as if nothing ever happened. But, no TV company wanted to touch WCW.

Savage Luger and Bam Bam should have been brought back in 2001 - 2004

Since WWF had gotten WCW so ridiculously cheap, it should have been willing to cough up to lure in the big stars who were sitting out. This was a once in a lifetime chance to do something amazing.

@toddpurcell26

5 жыл бұрын

From what I have heard, most of the top WCW guys had contracts which paid them to stay home. Had they signed with WWF/WWE, they would lose the guaranteed money.

@IrishCarney

5 жыл бұрын

@@toddpurcell26 I know, that's what I'm talking about. That's the excuse for not bringing in the top guys like Goldberg, Sting, etc. - that it would be too expensive to offer them enough money to make it worth their while to set aside their guaranteed contracts for sitting at home. My point again was that Vince should have compared that expense with the tens of millions that WCW was expected to sell for and realize that since he got WCW for such a fire sale price he could splurge on its top stars to make the invasion angle the biggest all time event.

@grabbity

5 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately, even with the Stone Cold money, WWE couldn't afford to even match a lot of those contracts, let alone offer extra to have them work. Just between, Sting, Hall, Nash, Hogan and a couple others, they'd have been looking at 20 million bucks. Which, with current profit vs their profit then, would be the equivalent of paying Seth Rollins 75 million a year.

@davidgraham8299

Жыл бұрын

@@IrishCarney Your assuming they WANTED those contracts to be bought out. If I can be paid and sit at home, I'd do that.

@IrishCarney

Жыл бұрын

@@davidgraham8299 No, I'm not assuming that. I get it that it would have cost a LOT to get them to suit up and take bumps since they were being paid well to sit. Again, I'm just comparing the cost of luring them back, eye-watering as it was, to the cost of having bought WCW at a more realistic, less of a fire-sale, price. If WCW would have cost hundreds of millions, or a hundred million, at a realistic price, and you got it for just a handful of million, then spend tens of millions or more to get those mega stars off the couch. Once in a lifetime angle, bigger than Hogan-Andre, nWO, you name it - it was worth it.

Crazy they both work for AEW now

I was waiting for Alex Wright. Sadly it was not meant to be.

@huffy6192

5 жыл бұрын

Wright, like a lot of other wrestlers. Was still under contract with AOL TimeWarner.

@cobrasvt03

4 жыл бұрын

Bruce has said in other shoots he doesn’t know why they didn’t bring him i but Alex has said he wouldn’t have given up his money

@frankricard3853

4 жыл бұрын

The monster, Berlin!

@jakelang806

3 жыл бұрын

why would anyone want that?

Sid just had his ankle split in two, obviously he wasn't available to come in during the Invasion.

I feel Disco Inferno should have been brought in eventually. Of all the other goofy shit this company has done, Glenn Gilbertti would have been over as f*ck.

@jakelang806

3 жыл бұрын

i mean yeah look at fandango basically a rip off

@davidgraham8299

Жыл бұрын

@@jakelang806 Sure, and what happened to Fandango?

@davidgraham8299

Жыл бұрын

Disco Inferno was never over. Anywhere.

Great podcast, but this episode on The Invasion exposed Prichard for the WWE sycophant he is.

Tony would have been great for Sunday night heat at the time then could have moved over to smackdown but who knows how big his contract was compared to two other people

Sting Vs. Undertaker SHOULD have happened. What a travesty?

@frankricard3853

4 жыл бұрын

Games Until Dawn So many dream matches should have happened. Austin vs Goldberg is another one.

@Jay-Kaizo

3 жыл бұрын

@Edgehead10075 Uh huh.

@Jay-Kaizo

3 жыл бұрын

@@frankricard3853 There will always be those matches that we'll never get :( It's like Ali vs. Tyson. We'll never know.

Ya know I went back and watched a lot of Nitros & WCW from late 99 and it was actually pretty good! Sure it wasn’t perfect but I thought Russo was making some good moves and I liked what he was doing until too many other cooks came into the kitchen. Remember ppl WCW didn’t really go out of business the merger is what ended the company & then McMahon and WWE totally screwed up an amazing opportunity!

@kayandaeddings4803

5 жыл бұрын

Pinnacle Productions to me, WCW was good from its debut in 95 until January 4, 1999 with the finger poke of doom.

Why didn't the WWF just change the WCW signs and kept everything the same?

They should've put Tony Schiavone on smack down and made smackdown into the new wcw program. Put ALL the wcw employees over there and do story lines intertwining the 2 shows. That's what a smart guy would've done. Monday night Raw and Friday Nitro 2.0

In the long run they were better off not getting hired by Vince look at how they handled a lot of WCW guys when they worked there.

@kayandaeddings4803

5 жыл бұрын

George Williams well, there is only one WCW guy that still works there although he is not wrestling anymore. Well, there is two guys. One is Michael Hayes, the other is arn Anderson. Wait! I forgot two more other people. Jamie noble who used to work for WCW back in the day, and of course fit finlay. Of course all of those guys is producers, and road agents.

@antoniusjohnson3824

5 жыл бұрын

George Williams Big Show, Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Booker T, Rey Mysterio, William Regal, Stacy Keibler, and Torrie Wilson all were successful in WWE. Shane Helms had a decent run in WWE as the Hurricane, so did Chavo Guerrero and Jamie Noble.

@ii9714

4 жыл бұрын

Well said they ruined sting

Norman Smiley

@Qeoa

4 жыл бұрын

Luis Ferri he was eventually brought in as a trainer

@abcsin6526

4 жыл бұрын

Who??

@11094DEREK

3 жыл бұрын

I remember him in TNA for a bit

They should have shelled out for the big names right away. Scott Steiner, Randy Savage, Jeff Jarrett, DDP, Sid and Lex Luger would have been willing to come in at that time. I don't buy that Goldberg had no interest. They needed NWO replacements anyways for Hall and Nash after each had their own problems after coming back.

@rumtuckskatter

5 жыл бұрын

No one should believe Bruce's lies

@QuentinDude

5 жыл бұрын

Nope. Because then WWE would have to pay all their top guys even more than the WCW guys and I think they didn't want to bring all those guys in at once because it would disrupt the locker room.

Man you can tell the fans of this guy in a heartbeat. I've watched wrestling since 1985 and had no idea who he was until these clips. Didn't even know he was brother love, as i hated that character even as a 12 year old. He's so full of shit I'm surprised he can walk. Always say"WE thought " when something worked, then blames Vince for everything that didnt. Tony specifically said he called WWE to say he was available. And I'm glad they brought up Jim Ross, he is the typical old man that thinks anyone younger than him is after his job. Eric B. specifically said he didn't come back for the invasion angle because of Ross' attitude toward him on the phone. Only when Vince called later did he agree to do it.

@garyschneider8700

5 жыл бұрын

If you didn't know who Bruce Prichard was and claim to be a fan since 1985 then your opinion means very little. More like you watched a couple of shows, thought it was real, don't know a damn thing about the business.

@fuffb140

5 жыл бұрын

@@garyschneider8700 Ok Ill give myself a labotomy and cut off my balls so we can start even. I watched religiously from a kid in 85 to a man in 98. Switched to nwa wcw late 80s because I would rather watch the Road Warriors cut out Dusty Rhoades eyeball than Don Muraco and Dusty Wolfe in a 2 minute squash match. Yes at 12 I thought it was real,until the Iron Sheik and Hacksaw Duggan were caught in the same car together. The realized it was fixed, but not fake. They dont yell cut and put stunt men in the ring. I have the utmost repect for the business and the wrestlers and have found myself over the years having to defend the years of my life I spent following it.

I know several people on the inside and Buff Bagwell hurt Buff Bagwell. He was disrespectful and got too big for his 👢

Anyone else think that Conrad sounds like ole JR ?

How did randy have “the worst reputation “ before he signed with the WWF

@TheEvolver311

5 жыл бұрын

Look up Macho Man fighting Police in Waffle House, dude was crazy

@stephencostales7658

5 жыл бұрын

I think he’s saying that due to icw which was him his pops and bros company trying to invade Memphis without the king and jarrets ok I think I heard he even pulled out a gun on bill dundee

@wrestlingbb61

4 жыл бұрын

@@stephencostales7658 Dundee pulled the gun on Savage.

Sid was injured to be fair

Lol i wish the mark interviewer would stop trying to find conspiracy EVERYWHERE

@graham2sexy955

4 жыл бұрын

I like conrad

@StuUngar

4 жыл бұрын

I think theyre legit questions. Some of these guys arguably had some juice left and these guys had their small fanbase that was probably disappointed they didn’t come in.

@StuUngar

4 жыл бұрын

Also, he’s right to press Bruce because he’s a con man and a liar. Tony Schiavone has said in interviews that he contacted Kevin Dunn and Vince and asked if there was anything for him. Often times when these questions are asked, Bruce will side step the real answer and say, “They werent available/they had no interest.” I can’t remember the others off the top of my head. But I know Ive listened to the show a few times where he said the exact same about others who said they tried to come to the WWF but Prichard says they werent available

No interest in Bam Bam or Sid??? ....why

@rumtuckskatter

5 жыл бұрын

Because Bam Bam was waaaaaay broken physically and Syd was a headache who only wanted to play softball AND they both already had been there done that with WWF

@kbshowtyme

5 жыл бұрын

Besides Sid broke his leg at a PPV. Who would put him back in the ring a year or so later?

@themadrapper101

5 жыл бұрын

wakeupdead718 the millennium man

@the-NightStar

5 жыл бұрын

He answered the question directly after. He said it was a "rehash". At that time, they weren't going to bring in guys from the early WWF era when it was clear that's not what the WWF audience coming off the Attitude Era wanted to see. Easy as that.

@billdonahue3765

5 жыл бұрын

sid = softball

I would think Alex Wright, Disco Inferno, and Konan all would have done well at WWE. I didn't see much of him, but Vampiro could have formed a good tag-team with Gangrel. They could have put Buff Bagwell and Scotty Riggs back together too. I'm a big Shane Douglas fan as well. Tony Shiavone too when WCW wasn't having him promote the main event and ignore the action in the ring.

@cryptozoomauler5505

6 жыл бұрын

Also Meiko Satomura and Ultimo Dragon!

@themadrapper101

5 жыл бұрын

Dragon did come to WWE

@jaythor70

5 жыл бұрын

These are all REALLY bad ideas.....

they buried Bagwell, they deliberately told him NOT to be Buff Bagwell, not to look at the camera, not do what it is that he does.. the showboating

@cryptozoomauler5505

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@dgenerate707

6 жыл бұрын

Yup I heard that interview, they fucked him.

@joshuaarmand5236

6 жыл бұрын

J.R. had his hand in that with Buff. He f-ed with Bagwell and a few others like Kronik.

@jeffmurphy101

6 жыл бұрын

Who cares

@josephjohnroe3678

5 жыл бұрын

Bagwell was an idiot.

Some top WCW stars wouldn't have been available immediately even if Vince had paid off all their Time Warner contracts. Goldberg was on the shelf after shoulder surgery, Hogan was in the thick of his legal battle with Vince Russo and needed his hip done anyway, Steiner got surgery done after WCW closed and Sid Vicious' career had essentially ended after shattering his leg in that top rope stunt.

@QuentinDude

5 жыл бұрын

WWF originally wanted to bring in Hogan and Goldberg in 2002 but settled for Hogan, Nash and Hall

@michaelbarker3749

5 жыл бұрын

Middle rope bro, middle rope.

@ryvrdrgn16

5 жыл бұрын

@@michaelbarker3749 That move from Sid looked pretty dumb to begin with. He should have just done like a jumping punch.

WWE Had ECW To Join WCW To Make Up For The Fact That The Top WCW Stars Weren't Coming Over/Weren't Going To Be Brought Over. There Were 10 ECW Wrestlers That Joined WCW & Maybe 2 Or 3 More Before The Invasion Pay Per View. WCW Had 10 Top Stars, No 11 Top Stars, 1 More Than ECW's Entire Number Of Wrestlers(Same Number Of ECW Wrestlers That Joined) & Most Of The ECW Wrestlers Were Already With WWE.:Raven, The Dudley Boyz, Taz, & Rhyno.: Mike Awesome & Lance Storm Were With WCW. AND The Three ECW Wrestlers That WWE Just Signed Were Rob Van Dam, Tommy Dreamer & Justin Credible. Really WWE Just Signed Three ECW Wrestlers That We r n't There Already Opposed To Signing Top WCW Stars In Atlanta, GA; WCW's Hometown. You Think WWE Would Sign TOP WCW Stars In WCW Hometown To Help Or Perhaps Let WCW Get Over On Its Own, But Instead They Signed 3 ECW Stars. How Many Top ECW Stars Were There Already. I Think Mike Awesome & Taz, Maybe Rob Van Dam. WCW Had 10 Top Stars, No 11 Top Stars To Be Signed, Plus DDP Had Already Signed. WWE Tried To Make It Look Like ECW As A Company Was Going To Replace A Few Top WCW Stars, But 8 ECW Wrestlers Were Already In WWE & WCW, & They Just Signed 3 More. ECW As A Whole Company Better Choice Than A Few Top WCW Stars To Make It Seems Like More Wrestlers Joined, Like The More The Better. I Don't Think So. Most Of Those ECW Wrestlers Were Already There In Both WWE & WCW. Only 3 More Joined. I DO You Think More ECW Wrestlers Would've Joined. If So, Then Maybe 9 More. Plus 3 Already Signed Is 12. WCW Had 11 Top Stars Plus DDP. Everybody Knows ECW Didn't Have More Top Stars Than WCW Nor WWE. Asides From Kurt Angle & Possibly Chris Jericho Either Became A Star In 2000 Or Was On The Verge Of Becoming One In 2001. WCW Rivaled That With Jeff Jarrett, Booker T & Scott Steiner, He'll Even Chris Benoit (He Became WCW World Champion Before He Left) In 2000, WWE Were Trying To Push Benoit Again, Chris Jericho & Kurt Angle. WCW Tried To Push Several Younger Guys In The New Blood, But They Failed & Jeff Jarrett, Booker T & Scott Steiner Ended Up Succeszful. That's 3 & 3 For Both Companies. Say If WWE Tried To Push Rikishi. WCW Tried To Push Billy Kidman, Shane Douglas, Vampiro, Chuck Palumbo & Mike Awesome, Which WWE Could've Rivaled With Rikishi. They Both Successfully Pushed 3 Stars Each, Plus Chris Benoit Each. And The Already Top WWE Stars Were Steve Austin. The Rock, The Undertaker, HHH, Kane, Mick Foley, The Big Show & Shawn Michaels. That's 8 Established Main Eventers, Full Main Eventers A+ Players. And WCW Top Stars were Hiulk Hogan, Sting, Goldberg, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Sid Vicious, Lex Luger, Roddy Piper, Ric.Flair, Randy Savage & Bret Hart. That's 8 WWE Established Attitude Era Top Stars & Add DDP & That's 12 Top WCW Stars, Established. ECW Doesn't Have More Than Either WCW Nor WWE. So ECW Couldn't Replace WCW Top Stars, Because WCW Had/Has More Top Stars Than ECW Had A Whole Company In The WWE During The Invasion. Now Since WCW Had/Has More Top Stars, They Could've Still Brought Over Some More Mid-career To Match Or Outmatch ECW Wrestlers That Come After The July 9, 2001 Raw Is War In Atlanta. Perhaps They Could've Brought Over Stevie Ray, Bam Bam Bigelow, Kronik, &Jerry Flynn & Scott Steiner Who Was Main Eventing The Last 4 Months In WCW. Maybe Meng/Haku Could've Jumped Ship To WCW; After All, He Did Almost Become WCW World Champion August 10, 1998 & He Wrestled More Main Eventers In WCW Than In WWE; Sting, Hogan, Savage, Luger, Hall & Nash With The Barbarian, Goldberg, The Giant & Bret Hart. Meng & The Barbarian Could Jump Ship vs D'Lo Brown & Mark Henry, & Harlem Hest Could Take On Any WWE Midcard Tag Team & Kronik Could've Taken On the APA. Yeah & Scott Steiner & Booker T Can Feud With Chris Jericho & Kurt Angle, Which Booker T Did Wrestle Against Kurt Angle & Scott Steiner Could Feud With Chris Jericho. NOW HOW DOES THAT SOUNDS! SO REALLY, THE INVASION LACKED QUALITY TOO.

@MK-zy3ez

Жыл бұрын

That’s some serious Steiner math

Umm no Sting was getting paid really well. So you saying he had no interest, means he does not want to take a paycut.

@WOHBuckeye

6 жыл бұрын

prof shad sting was considering it, but after he saw the Rock bury Booker T and the company bury DDP, he said he would never go there

@cobrasvt03

4 жыл бұрын

Lol Sting has said numerous times they reached out but he had guaranteed money left. Also how the rock said who the hell are you to booker rubbed sting wrong

Would have liked to have seen Vampiro, Glacier, bam bam bigelow, randy savage appear in wwe in 2001 but then again the wcw guys did not get written well in wwe Shame the old wwf guy like bam bam, savage etc didn't get a second go

I wonder why they didn't bring in Above Average Mike Sanders? I thought he could've been an asset. Kinda had that little man Tully Blanchard loud mouth cowardly heel thing going.

@dirtyhall4074

5 жыл бұрын

i heard he did get signed but never made it out of the farm system they had at the time... along with elix skipper.

@oldschoolfan420

5 жыл бұрын

They should have brought him in.... he was above average.

@georgewilliams1470

5 жыл бұрын

Mike Sanders wasn't even average. Not really sure why WCW even hired him.

what's up with the assault rifles ? is that what Bruce brought to work with him ?

@jasonbent97

6 жыл бұрын

Ben Ashworth it was a cannon is what I heard. Like ‘Death Wish III’ is what it was like.

@rumtuckskatter

5 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing it's a dumb way of saying bullshitter Bruce is "straight shooting" here.

@blakecrawford-3204

5 жыл бұрын

It's symbolism for opposing sides confrontation and the like Red vs Blue He's Red The Host. The Rifle appears to be a M-16 a2 with a x4 scope, Almost certainly semi-auto with a possible 3 round burst (3-rnd was Never used with that scope would break it in half) Scouting gun a watch and some times fire but only at a very particular someone gun, On a separate note it has a conspicuously huge Bi-Pod for resting fire it looks like a second barrel.

@michaelbarker3749

5 жыл бұрын

There is no such thing as an assault rifle. It’s a term used by the media to scare the uninformed public in regards to a rifle that fires no faster than a pistol.

If they were gonna job out WCW they should have brought in Jarrett, Bigelow, Douglass and Sid. Sting was right not to come in, kinda wish Raven, Steiner and DDP would have followed him by going the TNA route they got ruined in their post WCW run in the WWE. We all know why Macho never went back....

vince didnt hire tony back becuase tony just gave vinve like 1 week notice when leaving. and vince got hot even telling tony " do you think they are going to take care of your family or me?". tony talked about this. tony has heat for leaving wwe in the late 80's or 91 i cant remember the year but tony has said vince wasnt paying him enough to take care of his family when living in conneticut.jim cottnete and JJ Dillion talked about money being poor when living in such an expensive state. tony did what was best for his family. and went to wcw. so vince should have understood. bruce twists things

What happened to Mike Tenay? Was WWE not interested?

@mattjustofficial

5 жыл бұрын

Mike Tenay and his forehead had to return to outer space

@jeremymillson4981

4 жыл бұрын

Tenay murdered a guy with his car(allegedly) A public relations nightmare from a WWF stand point (allegedly) the aforementioned statement has not been verified (allegy)

@Ijustinsultedyou

3 жыл бұрын

He’s awful !!!! There’s no way in hell they would have interest in him. Mike Tenay blows ass !

@RyanS881

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ijustinsultedyou totally disagree.

Sid couldn't go he had a rode in his leg dude snap it on a ppv Vs Scott stiner WTF wake up people know your history

Should have picked Alex Wright, the German. Would have been a hell of a victory.

@QuentinDude

5 жыл бұрын

Ya I think they should of brought in Alex Wright and Disco Inferno and all the luchadors like La Parka, Juvy, Psychosis, Ultimo Dragon, sooner than they did.

Dream matches should have been what happened. A damn shame it didnt. And ECW backing financially. ECW are the real winners of all that in hindsight.

Shane Douglas had burned a bridge for the way he left WWF in 1995 Lex Luger had burned a bridge for the way he left WWF in 1995 Konnan had burned a bridge for the way he left WWF in 1992 Jeff Jarrett had burned a bridge for the way he left WWF in 1999 Randy Savage had burned a bridge for reasons not really made clear Bam Bam had quit the WWF in 1995 after problems with the Kliq so he had not left on the best terms Sid Vicious had broken his leg BADLY in early 2001 and would not wrestle another match until 2004

@Djarra

5 жыл бұрын

Randy cost Vince millions of dollars. He took the SlimJim contract with him. In fact Bishoff has stated that rather than WCW paying Randy a salary WCW were paid by SlimJim for Randy appearing with SlimJim covering all of Randy's wages. On top of that Randy knocked Vince on his arse in front of would be investors in a hotel restaurant when he Piper and Hogan went to talk to Vince man to man about the Hickster and the Nacho Man stuff. As for the Randy/Stephanie stuff that is people putting two and two together and making five. Vampiro cut a promo where he called Randy old and pointed out the age difference between Randy and his then partner Stephanie Bellows aka Gorgeous George. But he used her real name (he would also call Sting Steve, Luger Larry and even Hogan Terry) as was his thing at the time, years later people hear this and and only know of one Stephanie in Wrestling. Bellows was 25 when she met Randy.

@kevan1700

5 жыл бұрын

@@Djarra is that where the Stephanie rumor came from??? I've been wondering about the source of that for years.

@superlex611

5 жыл бұрын

@@kevan1700 there is a speculation,

@QuentinDude

5 жыл бұрын

none of those guys could draw money outside of Savage. Lots of other guys we're brought back like Warrior

@superlex611

5 жыл бұрын

@@QuentinDude but it was different

I remember when Schivani was an announcer with WWF. Tony SUCKED then. He acted as if he NEVER knew the wrestlers he was doing commentary on.

Am I the only Shane Douglas fan who always got annoyed by John Cena calling himself the "Franchise" ?

@martyc909

6 жыл бұрын

Erik Hænes I mean Sting was the Franchise first

@alexanderwagner4587

6 жыл бұрын

martyc909 Hmmm I can't provide an exact date or reference, but I'm pretty sure Shane was calling himself the Franchise in ECW in like 94/95, but Sting wasn't referred to as such until his Crow gimmick, maybe a little earlier with the NWO perhaps in 96 at the earliest. Correct me if I'm wrong

@RetroMediaLibrary

6 жыл бұрын

ECW didn't matter in the other 2 companies. they stole Heyman's stuff but always acted as if they invented it...

@gator9339

6 жыл бұрын

Since when did Cena call himself the "franchise"?

@HereIsWisdom1318

6 жыл бұрын

Probably....but FCK John Cena.

Didn't Shane Douglas get run out of the WWF because of the kilqs power over Vince? He had a right to talk shit on the way out.

tony called vince 2 weeks before wcw closed before anyone knew wwe bought wcw tony asked for vince for a job. tony has talked about this before and said vince told him right out no.

why was machos rep so bad? cus of the underage steph thing?

Vampiro?

Never seen the hype for Shane Douglas

Ofcourse they weren’t going to buy out those contracts, buying a restaurant in times square was way more important!

Rip Dean Douglas😂

I Thought they should of hired Disco Inferno as a mid carder

If WWE had the money they have now they'd have hired every top star right a way and put on a true WCW invasion angle. They made WCW a joke in the invasion because they could only get the jobbers, the real stars were sitting out there multi million dollar contracts.

@FnRenner

5 жыл бұрын

You have faith that the modern WWE wouldn't fuck up the invasion angle? You're trolling, right?