2:36 if I'm thinking of the same thing, I always wanted to know how he came up with that - almost slinging himself outside the ring but landing on his feet. I remember one Main Event where Hercules did a reverse atomic drop on him, and landed outside the ring and I was amazed. It got a huge response and I've (obviously) never forgotten it!

Ted was an epic bumper. Man he took some high ones.

For those of you not familiar with the spinning toe hold, it's the starting point for the figure four but you stop after you wrap the guys leg around yours.

I think splashes and drops from the top is dangerous if any part of yours or your opponent’s body part is in the wrong spot and I mean limbs hands feet arms legs those are gonna get hurt your head is typically safe but imagine a knee coming down on your thigh or bicep, and snap it’s cast time and you are going home for a while it wouldn’t matter if you were just starting a title run or your last match your stewed for 6-8

unless they changed them (which i doubt) there is a big spring (like from an old car suspension) right in the center of the ring. i have seen it myself, in person with my own 2 eyes. i went to a match at a high school in new jersey in 1978 or 79. the main event was my hero (at the time) superstar graham vs ivan pudooski. after it ended, me and my buddy went into the ring and screwed around with our version of wrestling moves, it was padded as could be. your feet sank into the mat. and when the roadies broke down the ring, there was a big spring. furthermore, when 20/20 did their "expose" on wrestling, they showed it on there too. hard to believe they would have made them HARDER over the years, especially after they admitted it was "sports entertainment". incidentally, i met a young ted dibiase back stage at the mid-hudson civic center in poughipsy ny around the same time. a lady who was friends with my mammy was the head if ivan peduski's fan club (so i was told. she was probably fucking him) and she took me to the matches there. met peduski, iron sheik, sd jones and ted. he was telling a story of a dream he had about his dad, when ted was a teen, after his dad died that he was outside the window and when he woke up, the tv antenna had fallen off the roof and was tapping against the window. ask him if he remembers. also, on the way up the ny throughway, we passed a car with johnny rodz and jose rivera, who were wrestling EACH OTHER on the card that night.

@MrMoe158

4 ай бұрын

Plus they had a microphone next to the spring

@capacola262743

4 ай бұрын

you are correct sir. i remember the first time i saw "georgia championship wrestling" on a family vacation. their ring must have had 10 microphones. every step they took made the ring sound like a giant snare drum. @@MrMoe158

Yeah definitely one of the goats. Flair, funk, race, savage all top performers in 80s

What does Ted feel about Owen Hart's tombstone piledriver on Steve Austin and injured his neck?

I like Dibiase but it has to be said that in these clips Marcus has to lead him to an answer all the time.

What about the time terry Gordy piled rived Ted on the concrete floor?

@bryanmack4054

4 ай бұрын

Ouch

@sitcom1971

4 ай бұрын

First thought. 🙌

@1950Grendel

3 ай бұрын

His response is on an interview somewhere in YT. He said they took him out on a stretcher and he spent a week in the hospital and there wasn't a single thing wrong with him. Bam Bam did the spot perfectly. He also said the Birds weren't allowed to visit him because of kayfabe.

DiBiase 😊😊😊😊😊

The rude awakening looked very dangerous

Respect for insisting on not being coddled. ❤

I would have refused to take the Road Warrior’s finisher

I wonder what's happening with his son?

Least favorite move to take: Vertical suplex, screwdriver, German suplex, suplex off top turnbuckle, koko B ware's finisher

I would not want to take a Steiner screwdriver or brain buster.

Piledriver

i would not want to take any move where the other guy's ass and balls are in your face. another one which i still can't imagine not hurting like hell or causing injury was george animal steel's flying hammer lock. how could that not dislocate a shoulder? also, hat's off to steel for being deceptively strong enough to lift his opponents and hold them up there, even late in his career.

pile drivers are reserved for tall guys on short guys, all about ensuring safety. You don't pass the height test, you don't get to do a pile driver.

@davej.meister5421

4 ай бұрын

Terry Funk did it well.

@datacipher

4 ай бұрын

Orndorff, Bret hart, dynamite kid, Randy savage… countless short guys have done it. Yea, even Owen Hart who did thousands and thousands of piledrivers without incident. Bruce hart was even shorter and did it all the time. Benoit and jushin thunder lager did it too.

ted is so boring

@jamesm1579

4 ай бұрын

I wonder if it's an age thing. If you listen to earlier interviews he's a lot more articulate, but in these interviews he doesn't seem to be able to bring an answer to mind and has to be led to an answer all the time.

@1950Grendel

3 ай бұрын

No enough f-bombs and screaming? Stick with Cornette.