The way they talked about Crush was like if he was Brutus the Barber Beefcake. Crush was way more popular and was probably the nicest guy in the locker room from hearing stories from Taker, The Rock, Stone Cold, Bret Hart, Macho Man, and more. I can say this, if Brian was still alive today, you BET he'd have a good position in the WWE since it's under TKO with the Rock's management. Him and The Rock were on very good terms. The Rock still talks about how Brian Adams was selfless and gave The Rock the spotlight when The Rock was a nobody. Brian Adams didn't have to do that, but he did, and this was during a time of wrestling's biggest ego's and how most wrestlers were sharks and will lie to you and stab your back in real life. Class act of Brian Adams. Will always have my respect.

Brian Adams & Brian Clark were 2 wrestlers that got better with age. They both stepped up their game physique & skill-wise, particularly Clark. It's a shame wwe pulled the plug on them. Adams seemed like a cool guy, for whatever reason he didn't gel with fans after his 1st run. He was a much better heel. R.I.P. Kona Krush

@kesuya

10 ай бұрын

Kronik was an awesome duo

@TheJDough1

4 ай бұрын

I loved them as Kronik!! They honestly felt like they could have big a mega tag team if WCW lasted longer. To me, they were special

Kronik was the best thing for Brian after Demolition

@christophermorrow7524

3 жыл бұрын

plonkersbro always wanted to see Kronik vs. APA....

@plonkersbro

3 жыл бұрын

@@christophermorrow7524 There were a lot of teams I did as well, they were one of the few reasons why i was still watching WCW in its dying days. Plus which going back and watching them on here you can tell Russo used them as a cheap rip off of APA

@adamantium9491

3 жыл бұрын

@@christophermorrow7524 dude that would of been AWESOME!

@marcusrob02

3 жыл бұрын

I thought Crush/Bryan Adams had a solid solo 90s career though, that is quite underrated!

@adamandanna

3 жыл бұрын

@@marcusrob02 Yeah he was a solid big man. Nothing too flashy but I always liked him.

Crush was one of my favs as kid, even as a heel. I always felt like I was in the minority.

@animalcol1

3 жыл бұрын

I liked him too

@DarthKaine666

3 жыл бұрын

You are not alone. Crush should have been a bigger star.

@theprepubescentgrandpa7999

3 жыл бұрын

He was friggin awesome

@matwilson4643

2 жыл бұрын

He was also my favorite growing up

@craigwenham4182

10 ай бұрын

I always thought he was awesome

Drew McIntyre looks so similar to Brian Adams. I imagine Adams could have reached the same heights of McIntyre if his drive was the same.

Crush and the Undertaker both had their WWF debuts in 1990. Perhaps they bonded being the new guys.

@thedramainew

11 ай бұрын

Sounds about right

Crush will always be my favorite. If he didn't make a huge impact then why do they bring him up in so many conversations to this day? I always found him impressive. It's not his fault that both WCW and WWE didn't know what to do with him. Any item of crush whether it was action figures or magazines, I picked up. Of course it's rare to see a new figure for crush. The ones that were released sold out quick and now are highly collectible. What does that tell you about Crush? That he's definitely a wrestler that people still remember fondly and miss terribly. I know I do. R.I.P. CRUSH🙏🌹

@Fektthis

2 жыл бұрын

all the hate he gets, Russo knew what to do with them. Kronik were getting way over. Breaking necks and cashing checks. APA would steal that gimmick later on.

i miss crush

Brian Adams Crush deserves to be legend for a future WWE game cause create a wrestler mode just lazy and bored as hell I had enough of that mode. Brian Adams as Crush in demolition and Kona crush was amazing in WWF days. Kronik in WCW best Faction of all time deserves to be a legendary team to be in a WWE game and Hall of Fame. I miss Crush Brian Adams 2007 of his passing if respect for Brian Adams Crush God bless himself I'm still a fan of Crush forever.

I heard that Crush left the WWF because he didn't approve with how Vince handled Bret Hart at the Survivor Series in '97.

@paulcarpenter7844

3 жыл бұрын

He got caught with a gun

@rickyaguilera2301

2 жыл бұрын

@@paulcarpenter7844 that was two years before in 95, because Adams was originally going to be taker's opponent at WrestleMania 11 instead of king Kong Bundy

@hosewaterpapiwarren9797

Жыл бұрын

He left b cause Kane hurt him when he tombstoned him in 97. It’s on KZread you can see him yelling at Kane laying on his back. Bruce Pritchard said he went backstage furious yelling at management threatening to leave and saying he wanted out his contract and he caught Vince on a bad day and Vince let him out his contract.

@NLaBar

Жыл бұрын

Dude went straight to WCW making more money for less dates & joining the nwo … i would pick WCW too

The way that Kona Crush turned heel in late 1993 was dumb as hell. Yokozuna squashes Crush's sternum. Then Crush gets pissed off at Randy Savage for "no reason", and ambushes him. The following week, Crush forms an alliance with Mr. Fuji and Yokozuna "against" Randy Savage. Then Crush vs. Savage at Wrestlemania 10 was the drizzling sh*ts.

@marcusrob02

3 жыл бұрын

But Crush and Savage's feud/buildup was EPIC at the time!! They literally couldn't be in the same building! And I disagree about the "for no reason" bit. The storyline was that Savage was on commentary and didn't help out Crush while he was being beaten by Yoko. To me, a 10-yr old kid at the time, the heel turn made sense and was effective in getting me to hate Crush! And the massive beating he gave Savage (and then his anti-American alliance with Yoko) further sold it! Crush was truly one of THE more underrated heels of the 90s, period!

@DubGEnt

2 жыл бұрын

@@marcusrob02 that randy n heel crush seem so real as a kid

I still miss Brian Adams Crush he was cool in demolition and Kona Crush gimmick in 80s and heel 1994 team with Yokozuna and Fuji and wwf 1997 raw Debute of D.o.A biker gang when nation of domination was in the ring with Vince was greater moment of Crush was cut off after that I never cared about his Nwo Recuit to join the Nwo but 2000 Kronik in WCW with Bryan Clark still the top team faction of WCW after losing to Kane and undertaker in 2001 it was the end road for crush in wrestling and I stopped watching wrestling then I watched wwe in 2002 after Brock lesnar debuted with Paul Heymen on raw was great year with THQ and yukes was in charge of wwe games my 3 favorite WWE video games were Wrestlemania X.I.X WWE Raw 2 and Smackdown Here Comes the Pain. Then in 2007 I saw WWE list of dead wrestlers on WWE web site Crush Brian Adams passed Away I was in upset and tears now WWE won't allow Crush to be on no more games which still sucks to this year unfair.

This is the only podcast I can listen to knowing my intelligence wont be insulted by constant lies, like Bischoff and Prichard spew from start to finish. JR is honest and he doesn't care how he looks, or how he looked back then, unlike the other guys who constantly re-write their history because of how embarrassed they are of who they were back when they were in the business. True legend, JR!

@GAT-pr6dt

Жыл бұрын

Yes, you should definitely know everything since you were there.

I loved KONA Crush !

Doink bruh, you’re scaring the children bruh

Mark Calloway buried him at Unforgiven 2001

@niaedmonds3342

2 жыл бұрын

oh my

Kronik was really misused in WWE and was shit on. Kane and The Undertaker vs Kronik was a dream match and rivalry for me. What's amazing to be is usually the wrestling world disagrees time and time again with how Adams and Clark were handled throughout most of their career. Then when they were put together, people went nuts for them. Even the office in WCW tried to squash Kronik, but fans loved them. They went to WWE as a tag team, that one match where EVERYONE involved was suffering from an injury... Got them killed. They were told to go to developmental, which was such a damn slap in the face, I don't think WWE tried properly with them, and let them go for one bad mat H that EVERYONE messed up in. Yeah, Kane and Taker wouldn't get heat for it, well, Kronik should've also gotten a pass. A redo. Give them 3 months, see what they are like after that. Another WCW thing WWE fuxked up.

@palmergriffiths1952

4 ай бұрын

I thought Kronik were a great tag team and should have got a big push in both companies.

I disagree wholeheartedly with Ross. Crush was VERY over as a heel in late-1993/1994, and had great feuds with Savage and Lugar! And he was a fan favorite in 1993 as well. He was great as DOA leader, and did GREAT in WCW as an added muscle in NWO, The Demon, and then Kronik! I fail to see why there's this "failure" perception with the guy. The guy probably didn't have his BEST potential reached, but I disagree totally in ANY notion that he was a complete waste. I watched Crush most of his career, and yeah, he lacked some tools here and there, but fans (from what I remembered) received him about as well as they'd receive any heel!

@GeekExtremist

3 жыл бұрын

Well said, completely agree. I always liked Crush when I was a kid and first started watching WWF in the early 90s and stuck with him the whole way. I guess his shirts didn't sell well and that's why backstage didn't think he was over well enough. I was never a fan of 2 big men tag teams, but Kronik was such an awesome team; granted I also really liked Adam Bomb, so makes sense for me to love this team.

@astroust1043

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with you. Crush was an awesome talent and character in his time. Probably didn't reach his full potential partially because of back stage politics. That's what I'm getting from what Ross is saying here.

@jeremykratsas1776

9 ай бұрын

Crush's face run and heel run in 92-94 were both ruined by booking. He had the pop as a face and the heat as a heel. They talk as though he had chances but blew them. He had prolific matches during pay per view events and sure, that's an opportunity but he was always booked to lose. Eventually, without any notable big wins, people start to lose interest. He just needed a few notable wins.

Well Jim I SURE AS SHIT voted for it...!!! Brian was one of my favorite big man wrestlers. The things he could do right around that 6'6 300lbs mark was off the charts. Yes he used power but he also knew martial arts or at least utilized some of them in his arsenal. You don't see too many big men his size pulling that off. And i had known for years his close friendship with Mark Calaway and kudos for Mark in going to bat for him per say. But as the saying goes; "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink it". Sort of applies here. He was at times right on the cusp of breaking out into a major player and then things just fizzled. I don't know if it was lack of motivation, drug abuse, etc...I know he wrestled with those demons. One thing is for certain we lost a GREAT TALENT well before his time was up. And that's probably the most tragic part of his whole story in the end.

I liked his DOA biker gimmick

Let’s hear some stuff on the DOA disciples of apocalypse

I always liked the match between Kronik, taker and kane! When I heard it had bad reviews I had to re-watch it. After watching it again I still think it was good and one of the better matches from the invasion angle to be honest.

@Gpgonzalez623

3 жыл бұрын

I too love low intensity fighting amongst giants

I actually liked Prisoner Crush...

@thunderlightning1980

Жыл бұрын

Me too.

Brian was best friends with everyone

I dont understand why they say the fans didn't buy it? I remember crush as a kid and liked him, sure looking back his old gimmick sucked, but I was sold on it as a kid, also Adam Bomb. I loved that character, he was a badass. So I dont understand how people said Kronik didn't work, hell I thought and I know many fans loved that tag team, so who was man there saying they didn't work. I mean these are the same people who pushed red rooster and the fucking repoman for godsake. Yeah they weren't the the Chris Jericho or Bret harts of the world but they were just a bit better then Goldberg in the ring so how the fuck didn't they work? Seems to me they booked them wrong and didn't want to admit it. They worked as both Crush and Adam Bomb and had fan bases and so how is they were "good wrestlers" then but all of a sudden as Kronik they "dont work " I smell bs. Maybe the company just wasn't comfortable pushing a pro weed tag team back then.

@richardtheconquerer

Жыл бұрын

I think it's because someone starts a narrative and it just gets repeated over and over. I've been watching 1992-93 era WWF lately and the fans clearly like Crush. But guess what else happened? Doink comes out during an important match for Crush, somehow captures his complete attention, Crush loses. This happened MULTIPLE times. You can only make a Babyface look like an idiot so many times before fans think that hey, maybe he is an idiot.

@jeremykratsas1776

9 ай бұрын

Exactly, he had many squash matches and beat mid carders but lost all of his bigger matches. Knocked out and counted out against Luger when distracted by Doink, lost WM9 because of 2 Doinks, lost IC title opportunity because of Doinks, failed to slam Yokozuna and then lost the match against him as "a message to Luger". How was he supposed to succeed? The fan support was there, just not the results.@@richardtheconquerer

The problem with crush is I remember him for several years being one character or another in the WWF but I can't recall 1 time where he spoke now I'm sure he did but the fact that I can't remember that is not good. But it could just be me. Wasn't he in the nation of domination? Lol I mean if that didn't miss the mark on booking I don't know what did.

I feel like JR can’t remember shit that happened back in the day. It’s like he can never give you a clear answer to the question

Always messed with crush all his gimmicks

Chainz of DOA was the underfaker /takers cousin

@rickyaguilera2301

2 жыл бұрын

Is he's still alive

Best big man match was Kane v. Test.

There was nothing wrong with Stevie ray and as far as a worker you cannot tell me that Stevie ray was any worse than Hulk Hogan when it came to move set. Stevie was never on the top 10 worst wrestler's list. Keep in mind this was during the time that visara was still walking around.

Bryan Adams is the only wrestler who could feud with a 🤡 and make it awesome.

Seemed like Adams was given a bunch of dumb gimmicks. Hard to win the fans with dumb gimmicks.

@the-NightStar

3 жыл бұрын

WWE's backwards-ass logic has always been "Well if a guy has a stupid gimmick but the fans like them anyway, that means he's ready". But that's not always the case. It's like they use the Undertaker as the yardstick for everyone to get over but they fail to understand that not everyone gets over the same way. You can't stick everybody into a giant cucumber costume, give them a pogo stick and expect that if he can't get over as "Buford the bouncing cucumber" than he just doesn't have a future.

@youtubemember1115

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I liked him as the surfer in 92-93, but then they dumbingly turn him heel with Mr. Fuji & being a Nation of Domination member ruining his momentum. Then he was cool with the D.O.A, but it didn't last long, then WCW wastes him as another nWo member.

@Scorch1028

3 жыл бұрын

Luis Ferri Yeah, Crush looked ridiculous as a "white guy" in the Nation of Domination.

@adamandanna

3 жыл бұрын

@@the-NightStar Or you have recent times. Hey this guy got over organically and its getting cheers from the crowd and is over with the crowd. Quick lets bury him because I wanted to push this guy who isn't over and is bland as shit. I truly believe what somebody said that Vince is afraid to truly get behind one guy because The Rock and now even Cena have left for hollywood. But that is stupid logic. You had Punk and Bryan several years back they could have really led a new movement but they both got cut off at the legs. Yeah Punks attitude is to blame for some of it and with Bryan is was just bad timing with neck injury and the concussions. Yeah people have to find the right fit for their character. Hell this is the best Roman Reigns has been. Hell I actually feel the emotion with his feud with Jey Uso because I have a reason to feel something its like Owen and Bret a little bit. And how many guys did they push too soon with a Money in the bank win and then botch them either winning the title and having a joke short reign or not win their championship match. Yeah not everybody is going to be World Champion, everyone has their place on the show. Sorry got off on a tangent there.

Crush was the only man to ever military press Taker. Ntm he got in a good 3 reps before dropping Undertaker. Also Crush was super over as Babyface in 1992-1993. The only other babyfaces who were more popular than Crush for a long stretch of time were Hitman and Taker. So what Ross is saying is not true. The people loved him and the WWF made a terrible decision by turning him heel then having him loose all his matches. They burried him when Crush could have and should have been Intercontinental Champion and then WWF Champion. He was far more skilled and powerful than Diesel was.

@sticksman1979

7 ай бұрын

Yes. That was insane.

@FractalKrystian

5 ай бұрын

Crush was Great

@danadane2501

5 ай бұрын

@@FractalKrystian 💯 percent Crush is still the man even 17 years after leaving us. RIP to Brian Adams.

Yeah I spelled it his name wrong bit I knew just had a brain fart

I met Brian Adams and Hulk Hogan with Brian Blair and another wrestler when I broke my neck and Hulk Hogan and Brian Adams said how Hulk Hogan went up to Undertaker while he was bench pressing and grab the bar shoved it to Undertaker's chest and tour a ligament in his shoulder and they told me this while laughing because they were happy they injured Undertaker this was the mid-2000s when the Monday night Wars was coming to an end almost but every since then I didn't like them as much as I did before I met them because Undertaker was always my favorite wrestler besides the Rock and stone cold but the Undertaker was my favorite wrestler the longest besides Hulk Hogan but now I look back after all these years and I would still say Undertaker is the best wrestler ever and the rock stone cold are the top 3 wrestlers ever and thats including every wrestler ever.

@niaedmonds3342

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, that's a shame. They did that for real? Yet, Hulk wondered why Taker couldn't stand him.

@djdecimator97

Жыл бұрын

Coz Hogan was jealous of the Undertaker even though Hogan was considered Vince's Golden Goose.

He was good friends with Undertaker and lived near him. Undertaker had him watch his dogs and water his plants while Undertaker was on the road. He got arrested one time and told the police he was The Undertaker. After that I don't know how it went. But The Undertaker and WWE was not happy. There are rumors of him messing with The Undertaker's first wife but that was a rumor so I don't know if it was true.

@bigimpin

3 жыл бұрын

That was Brian Lee not Brian Adams. Brian Lee player the fake Undertaker and is Takers real life cousin

@wwedxecw

2 жыл бұрын

@@bigimpin holy fuck thats insane 😭

@warseasonband

Жыл бұрын

@@bigimpin they were not related.

Shocka brah?

It’s ashame that we have to listen to Conrad even talk. It’s a shame that we can’t just hear Jim Ross and block out Conrad.

They were lovers.