Met this awesome guy at Comic Con in San Diego. I told him I was a fan of his as Tugboat and just by me remembering him as Tugboat it made his day. He shook my hand and I felt Starstruck.

@tims4502

3 жыл бұрын

You weren’t shocked? Bedazzled?

@BigMoneysLife

3 жыл бұрын

How tall would you say he was? I've seen two different heights for him. Sometimes he looked as tall as Earthquake, who was 6'7", but on his WWE Alumni profile, he's listed at 6'3"

@1776Sledge

3 жыл бұрын

@@BigMoneysLife he looked about 6’4 alright. Big dude.

@davidgiezyng4195

3 жыл бұрын

Lucky you.

@davidgiezyng4195

2 жыл бұрын

Lucky. Always wondered how he was in person.

His theme reminds me all of the NES games that I played in my life

@ivorbiggun7014

7 жыл бұрын

Devon Reed sounds more like a Genesis theme...Desert strike or something like that

@Chucky_Martinez

6 жыл бұрын

ivor biggun nope, sounds more SNES than Sega Genesis

@RonaldDorsinator

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂 Sound like sum shit you would hear in Die Hard movie

@eddiemarin2984

3 жыл бұрын

Wow yes.

@aminurrrr0621

3 жыл бұрын

SNES, when the console first came out

Tugboat reminds me of Bluto from Popeye the sailor man 😂😂😂😂

@khanpaniora5346

2 жыл бұрын

typhoon

@JasonL77

Жыл бұрын

Blitz after a baby face turn.😁

@romanempire5460

Жыл бұрын

Actual he’s bluto with Popeyes gimmick…. Pluto 😂😂

@pb4ugo2bed84

3 ай бұрын

Thats Where I Developed Fetishes After I Saw Bluto Touch Olive In Different Ways

@CanadianRedEnsignCountryball

9 күн бұрын

Tugboat also looks like Captain Lou Albano

Before A-Train, before Diesel there was Tugboat.

I’ve heard nothing but amazing things about him.. the consummate professional who did his job.. I would love to meet all the old school guys one day...

I've never heard a bad word said about Fred, only that he was a consummate professional and gave his all in the business, whatever roll he was given.

@TyMarshall007

8 жыл бұрын

+TheCodedtestament how about The Shock Master

@DrunkenCoward1

8 жыл бұрын

+Ty Marshall The Shockmaster really isn't a "bad thing". It's a gimmick that fell completly flat, yes, but that's to no real fault of the man, for one, secondly I think the commentor was talking more about Ottoman as a person and worker. Not that "everything he did was perfect", but that "whatever he did he was a good guy".

@girlgarde

7 жыл бұрын

About the Shockmaster tripping up, it turns out that he tripped over a piece of wood on the bottom of the wall or something that wasn't there when he practiced the routine of bursting through the wall. Even so, the gimmick wouldn't have worked as he had an odd costume with a weird coloured stormtrooper helmet and someone else doing the voice for the character so odds are that it would've flopped even if he hadn't tripped.

@AltCTRLF8

5 жыл бұрын

Ty Marshall the shockmaster was doomed to fail even if he didn’t trip. the stupid glittery stormtrooper helmet, captain caveman vest, and jeans...terrible costume overall.

Thug boat

@ghosthunterfallout

7 жыл бұрын

LOL

@philipg6579

6 жыл бұрын

👍🤘

@robbo5life

6 жыл бұрын

rocks the hat like a real G

0:01 that face tho

Fred was one hell of a compeditor. I loved watching him as tugboat and typhoon alongside John Tenta as the earthquke

I got the chance to talk to Fred. He really was a decent bloke outside wrestling. Many of my older heros turned out to be douches.

@itsover-fw9mi

4 жыл бұрын

@Craig Colby seriously

@1776Sledge

3 жыл бұрын

@Craig Colby Ok, now you got us hooked. Out with the whole story.

@Millwall77

3 жыл бұрын

Well, you cant expect wrestlers to be supernice and talk for hours to everyone. They sometime travel 300 days a year and has a hard job, the body takes a lot of pain. So....have that in mind. Would you be eager to chat with someone asking you your lifestory after working 2 weeks in a row and taking hundreds of bums?

@Steveman27

3 жыл бұрын

@@Millwall77 Makes sense. On a somewhat relevant note, one thing that annoyed me about the wrestler CM Punk was him bitching about fans wanting to approach him when he'd be at public places like airports while he was WWE champion back in 2012. If you're WWE champion, you're going to be popular, and on average, people are going to be more interested in approaching you than if you're a midcarder like Carlito was, or a jobber like Zack Ryder was. If CM Punk didn't want to have so much attention, then he could have asked to stop being champion and be out of the main event spotlight. In 1995, people probably wanted to approach the WWF champion Diesel a lot more than Dean Douglas, who wasn't a main eventer.

@pb4ugo2bed84

3 ай бұрын

Because Only Kids Should Meet These Guys, Why TF Would Anybody Want To Meet Some 30 Or 40 Year Old Man???

At 0.75 speed it literally sounds like an SNES boss level music

@brianschaffer9220

4 жыл бұрын

This is an 80s theme, so that would make more than sense...

@PrinceNyNy

3 жыл бұрын

It does lol

@BugsyMogues

2 жыл бұрын

And if you speed it to 1.25 speed it sounds like the time limit winding down on a SNES game lmao

This man one of the hardest hitting of all time off those ropes. Let him get up a little steam and lights out. He was a tank at 400 and a fast man on his feet for that size with unbelievable power.

@bigben0316

7 ай бұрын

450 ? He was around 385 lbs.

Come on Tuggers, fighting round the world!

He was one of my favourite characters when I first started watching WWE. He was sorta like Bluto but as a good guy. The music always stuck in my head too. I didn't like Typhoon as much though.

@ScottyBugler2005

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, but it was still nice when him and Earthquake finally turned babyface. Would’ve been funny if when they did turn babyface..... Fred could’ve become Tugboat again rather than remaining as Typhoon. But then of course there would have been no point calling them the Natural Disasters. There wasn’t even a natural buildup as far as I can remember, to him turning heel in the 1st place. Maybe I missed something 🤷🏻‍♂️. That match with the Bushwhackers and Tugboat against Earthquake and the Nasty Boys...... didn’t really see that heel turn coming. I get that Vince probably wanted a new monstrous team, but I think he needed to build up the heel turn. It seemed far too quick.

I can't remember Tugboat ever having a bad match as Tugboat of Typhoon

Me when I survive from Somalian pirates attack

Tugboat is one of the best wrestlers of the 1990s

@Millwall77

3 жыл бұрын

Best? Best? He could move for his size but best?

@AJSP2009

3 жыл бұрын

@@Millwall77 thanks man

@Jawwzzz808

9 ай бұрын

Early 90’s

this guy reminds me of bluto from popeye the sailorman

This was his best gimmick I reckon

Vince: "Hey, I have an idea. Let's bring in a huggable sailor type guy and have Hogan befriend him...."

STOP CALLING HIM THE SHOCKMASTER!

@xSuperiorManx

3 жыл бұрын

How about "Tugmaster" instead? :-3

@Arvenux

Жыл бұрын

Thugmaster

@dcmoderato

Жыл бұрын

Tugfaster

@vinnie.rickasleywwe8365

10 ай бұрын

Typhoon

I always felt that wwe could’ve expanded this gimmick, he was great as typhoon with earthquake, but he could move around the ring really well, and I wish the tugboat character stuck around, imagine him and Diesel as a TagTeam

@actuary33

3 ай бұрын

Just thinking abt him TOOT! TOOOOT!

Dude is a beast.

I see this, think back to Diesel's original theme and compare the two. Damn that Jim Johnston is a freakin genius. Made a whole lot of money with just things that go HOO! HOO!

I loved watching Tugboat wrestle. He would take those jobbers and toss them around with no effort at all. I was surprised that he manhandled The Undertaker the way he did. I wish I could meet him one day, I've heard great things about him.

He had a bad ass match with diesel before he jumped ship to wcw in the summer of 94. Good entertaining big dude.

Man, never seen anyone really manhandle Undertaker like that before. lol

@sevenman9672

4 жыл бұрын

A great example of a somewhat silly gimmick on one hell of an intimidating wrestler.

the beat is badass

This is EXCELLENT. Talk about great timeing 4 the horn along with the action from Tugboat :)

Yeahhh Yeahhh yeahhh"" I love that damn Boat sound for real.. R.i.P Tugboat and Earthquake

@girlgarde

5 жыл бұрын

I imagine that the two of them are hanging out together in Heaven and talking about their wrestling days over a pile of cheeseburgers.

@Geewunner4life

4 жыл бұрын

@@girlgarde tugboat is alive and well, dude. Its earthquake who died several years ago.

@BigMoneysLife

3 жыл бұрын

Tugboat is still alive..........

@lukaelprillo475

3 жыл бұрын

Tugboat is still alive

@madshark2163

Жыл бұрын

Tugboat is still alive

Thank you, Tugboat the best!

Good ol Uncle Fred:-)

I made the mistake of opening this video while I was drunk. My friend and I could not stop laughing.. the blowhorn and Tugboat making them faces

From Norfolk, Virginia, Weighing 384 Pounds, TUGBOAT!

10 year old me loved Tugboat!

After I have that first cup of coffee in the morn , this theme starts playing and you know what time it is ......

what up shockmaster

Our partner is gonna shock the world because he's none other than the sockmast... of wait, its tugboat...

@ladistar

2 жыл бұрын

Damn hahahahaha so true

Damn this man can wrestle.

This is my phone alarm

haha childhood memories I was big fan of Tugboat and his entrance music

Best alarm clock ringer ever

He deserved to be in the hall of fame

HOF tugboat and earth quake The Natural Disasters

@itsover-fw9mi

4 жыл бұрын

Tugboat wasn't a member of the natural disasters if that's what you meant

@itsover-fw9mi

4 жыл бұрын

But he was a member I a different gimmick

@wengrzynv8

4 жыл бұрын

Typhoon*

Fir his weight he is fast. Not like khali who walks like he dont have knees

@SHANKDAWGBABY

2 жыл бұрын

I saw a video of khali in shorts and he devoted no time to developing his legs. I think Shawn Bradley could probably squat more than him

This song fires me right the F up.

Great theme

A.K.A. the Shockmaster!

@davidjones6470

3 жыл бұрын

Sad!!!!!!!!! But True?

hes like one of those bosses from a sega game 😂

This man's body is so epic

@dcmoderato

Жыл бұрын

Evet

I really miss this era of wrestling

@mohammedshayaan9845

2 жыл бұрын

Same😢 what a time was that

Uncaged: Shipwreck Rage!

Got to meet him in person. Lemme tell ya, ain’t no one pulling the legacy of the WWF like Tugboat

The shock master

Love it with the soundtrack...homage to Tugboat!

I remember when he was big bubba in Memphis wrestling, one of the most agile big men in wrestling. They put him in a marching band uniform in the wwf.

Now that is a man who has eaten ALOT OF BEEF....

At first I wasn't keen on the 2nd foghorn being a little off time and after listening many times over I realized the error of my ways and it's genius.

The timing of the "Honky" Sound Kills me badly!

" i think that was uncle fred"

I was a little Tugger and I wanted Tugboat to win the WWF title so bad.

@PortsmouthPunisher

Ай бұрын

The original plan for a Tugboat heel turn was to make HIM an Iraqi sympathizer as Shiek Tugboat and beat the Ultimate Warrior for the WWF Title for a brief run before losing it to Hulk Hogan. Vince changed his mind and brought back Sgt. Slaughter instead.

I Like him as tugboat and typhoon plus it's kind of strange seeing him wrestle his future tagteam partner Earthquake, John tinta before He turned heel and became typhoon

Dat childhood memory.......

I love tugboat, he was my favourite wrestler at all times

@KAS08.13

Жыл бұрын

I just met tugboat he gave me advice about going into wrestling

😂nah this theme is insane 🔥🔥🔥🙅🏽‍♂️ TUGBOAT A LEGEND! No typhoon or shockmaster gimmick needed.

Greatest of all time

The grand master of the shock

Thats awesome. Best Entertainment.

It's the Shockmaster in a different gimmick

@markwebster4312

7 жыл бұрын

Ty Marshall uuuh3heheh

@Contact_Info

5 жыл бұрын

STOP calling him the SHOCKMASTER!!!

@ladistar

2 жыл бұрын

Lmaoooo awesome

feels like I'm playing DooM

Se parece como la del super nintendo

awesome job

Still better than today's roster

Go get em tugger!!!!

this gimmick is not that shabby when you consider the creative team at the CNN Towers in Atlanta, GA decided on the Shockmaster

This my new alarm 🔥

He was the car ahead of me in Nov 1989 in the It's A Small World ride at Disney World. My father and I spotted him.

I like Tugboat🧔🏽🚢💪

Very cool beat

God

That IS SO AWESOME! HE.... HE IS THE TUGBOAT !!!!!

the 2nd HEEE! is slightly off beat except for one spot, drives me nuts

GOAT

the signal is what a DE would do in the NFL after a sack

When Bluto from Popeye becomes a good guy

Cool !

Uncle Fred... Uncle Fred, with his lil striped shirt on out there going ‘toot toot’ bebe is sheeeit...

I met him yesterday really nice guy

Great wrestler

He is the Shockmaster!

The boat sound 🛥 his face 😮 His hand 🤜.

I wonder will him and earthquake ever go into the hall of fame

I love him

Hes awesome

cracked up the whole time

Good days

A tipical music of end 80's

he's a real life tug boat

sounds like something from an snes game like speedy gonzales or smthn

The Shock fuckin' Master! 🤣🤣🤣🤣