FretzleMania 244: Mike Tyson's Punch In

What is going on, peeps? Welcome to episode 244 of the Fretzel Media Podcast. I am the North American

treasure and your second favorite Canadian, Mr. Fretz. Today, I have a doozy of a show for you,

a his Norrick Monday Night Raw for more than one reason. Now that I have since gotten back and

watched the whole episode, but first folks, there's a few things we're going to go through before

we get into the rigors of this Monday Night Raw, one of which is this past weekend in the real

world, that is, on February 28th, about 2026. I did not watch elimination chamber live.

I did go to a indie wrestling show in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. GCW, not that one. Great Canadian

wrestling now. This was a smaller match card because a lot of the other roster they share with

various other Ontario indie promotions. So some people that would be booked on this show,

like who have in the past. For example, King Izzy Dubs or Ryan Donovan or Andrew Daddy Davis,

where they were otherwise occupied. So I have the results that I remember from this day. I believe

there were only four matches on the card. So we had my boys. Ontario's most decorated

tag team, the Empire, represented by JT Kirk and Matthew Grant, defended the tag team titles.

There was a bunch of weird titles on here tonight, like there wasn't like a GCW straight up title.

I don't think. But I believe these men are the GCW tag team champions, along with a couple of

other promotions that they defeated the short Kings. I forget the names of these two guys,

but they're a tag team from Calgary. I believe, and I'd be remiss if I did not mention

the Empire member Van Landon, who was conspicuous by his absence today. I love the Empire. I've

been watching a little bit of their stuff on on Reels, a little bit of their stuff online. Matthew

Grant was actually at a GCW show in the past, or if it wasn't off the ropes studio match.

Great trash talker. I was a little gutted that there was no Empire Merck at this show. Apparently

their wives go through, they man the Merch table for that one, but they weren't there. No biggie.

So if I see the Empire again, they'll get some of my money because they're they're a great

heel to egg team. We had Jack's Williams. They're all dropping athletic excellence, defeating

young Lion Bryce Hanson. Mr. Wilde, these ears have perked up. I have alerted him

with this young man, Bryce Hanson. I believe he is from Waterloo, Ontario,

though the Kitchener Waterloo where I went to college. Yeah, he is he is from there.

And he I believe he had a brief excursion to grow wrestling Noah some time last year. So

yeah, he was a cool dude. Jack's Williams got the dub in this one, but Taylor's all this time.

I think I saw these two have this exact match before. We had Travis Moore defeating Andrew

Love. I'm a fan of both of these guys. They're they're smaller wrestlers. They're Cruiserweight

style wrestlers. I do believe. Travis Moore is about is he's about as tall as I am. I'm about five

foot five. That dude is just he is quick. He is good. Andrew Love. Great baby face fire for him.

He's a good one. I sent them a real where I was setting, you know, Lempis gets my way to their

match because I have seen this before. They have danced a lot of times. I can tell.

Brandon, the main event for the chaos pro wrestling championship. We had

bone crusher Steve Brown retaining against bonsai Jay Blast. Initially, this match was

a double count out, but Jay Blast got on the mic and said, let's have an own sound street fight.

So they did Steve Brown then would do what he always does in in his matches. He cuts a promo.

He does a bit of crowd work as as he called it. So when they were

ratatiting back and forth and going for this, he's like, oh yeah, okay. He sees this kid in the crowd

who was a little emo looking. So he starts singing my chemical romance, which,

wow, chef's kiss, say magnificent. Steve's a great heal. He's a good sport. Really funny guy.

His entrance music is like a fire by Nirvana. Someone on the crowd screamed Nirvana sucks,

which I want to have a word with you. And secondly, he's like, oh, you probably listen to rush.

Okay, low blow. What kind of kind of deserved? Nickelbacks better than rush, by the way,

for Canadians that are listening to this. I will take all the hate mail coming my way right now.

Speaking, of course, oh, yeah, the match restarted and Steve Brown won. Jay Blast had a bit after

words where Steve was talking trash. Jay came up behind him, did the, uh, the crane kick,

you know, right out of karate kid says, see you later. I share that chaos pro-wrestling gets a

hold of me and says, can we have that video? Yes. Yes, you can. So that's going to be something for

their world title a little later on. G.C. Dubbs returning to Owen Sound in October.

And I hope to make it again. It's a fun night out. It's not that expensive. And you'll see some

people that that might surprise you. Jay Blast, speaking of him, I mentioned this a little while ago.

Smackdown was in Montreal recently. And Montreal needed some security guards for a segment

featuring Jacob Fattu, Drew McIntyre, Cody Rhodes, and more. So not only did they use Jay Blast,

but they also got a hold of Ryan Donovan, always go full Donovan, by the way.

And he's kind of turned into his gimmick in Ontario indie wrestling like big time.

Yeah, I told Jay that I hope he gets some more exposure on a bigger level.

Because he's he is pretty cool. He's just he's like the karate kid wrestler. He kind of looks

like Jason News. Yeah, that crane kick he does right out of Cobra Kai. Good stuff. Speaking of

elimination chamber. Now hang on a second. I'm going to need a hand of Coke for this one.

Or a sugar free doctor pepper, if you will.

That has a wicked aftertaste. Bad.

Anyways, elimination chamber. Not a bad event. I watched the whole thing

Sunday night, like the day after. Just to have on the backroom while I was doing other stuff.

And I was actually doing some prep for this show as well.

It's again, big big episode of raw right here. You want to talk about the moments of the attitude

era. They're all in here. So rare Ripley and EO Sky. They dropped the tag team titles to

Nia Jackson, Lash legend. Good stuff. Lash legend is getting some exposure.

She is her and like she is going to be something special in the women's division for years to come.

And Nia Jackson has come. No, she's come a long way. She's dropped some weight. She's

gotten better in the ring. And I give her all the credit. This is a receipt for all the hard work

that she did. And getting a young lady like Lash legend under her wing, phenomenal. I'm

looking forward to that feud when the tag team eventually breaks up. Not rare Ripley won that one.

So she's punching her ticket to WrestleMania against Jade Cargill. You know, we all know that

Bianca Belair had her had like a finger operation. People were wondering, you know, why did it take so

long for this surgery to happen? Hand and finger injuries in particular are complicated.

They are a bugger. And they're, yeah, they're not fun at all. So you have to wait for certain

things to happen or you're weighing out your options. Either way, we're not going to see Bianca

for a little while. Which is unfortunate, because I thought we were going to get the blow off to

this feud between her and Jade. But we'll put that on the back burner until she is ready to return.

It was kind of, I don't want to say funny, but it was kind of ironic, don't you think,

that we had endless hand injury stuff. And then we saw her in the Slim Jim ads with LA Knight,

yeah, where she's, you know, like doing stuff that, oh, yeah, your hand looks okay. That was

taped a long time ago. We, we all know this Finn Balor and CM Punk had a really good world title

match. We had AJ Lee winning the Intercontinental title, giving us a phenomenal CM Punk tweet where he

puts, you know, both titles on him, one above his past and one above his crotch, you know,

much like Becky Lynch did when, you know, that photo shoot with her in Seth Rollins, if you know,

you know, the men's chamber match was okay. Randy Orton winning was surprising, but he's not

going to be the only man facing Drew for the title at Mania. Drew's got his fingers in a lot of

different pies, Giggity, and he's getting, he's getting, he's getting into a lot of other people's

faces, rather than focusing on, you know, being the champion. So he costs Cody. Cody gives him the

crossroads. Randy immediately swoops in like a viper with the RKO Randy wins. Drew McIntyre still

being a troll. Nick, all this says, you know what, F this, enough of your BS, you're defending

the world title against Cody on SmackDown this week. Okay, I'm expecting shenanigans in that one.

So I'm expecting like a triple threat or a fatal four way hell, even a fatal five way,

six man hell in the cell, even for the world title at WrestleMania, saw it. Go, go balls to the wall.

I mean, I'm sad for New Orleans that they got this WrestleMania taken away from them.

Smiley, if you're listening to this, I'm sorry. That sucks so bad for you guys. I was

hoping for another New Orleans WrestleMania that I wasn't planning on going. I don't know if I

want to go to the States right now, but if I do, it won't be for WrestleMania, unless I win

some sort of Conte. Anyways, there's going to be shenanigans for that. And I love that the

world title scene, at least on SmackDown has a lot of, it has a lot of curves on the road.

A lot of pit stops. A lot of twists and turns if you wheel. It's cool to see it. Pat

don't remind me of WrestleMania 2000. Like when we had the whole Royal Rumble controversy with

Rock and Big Show, Big Show on that match, by the way, and he also won his match at no way out. So

we were robbed of Triple H, which is Big Show main eventing WrestleMania 2000,

and comes in the McMahon family drama, and comes, you know, Mick Foley getting one last kick

in the can. And, you know, off from there, it reminds me of that with a lot less Mick bands.

Well, Helmsley, but not a Mick, but one that Mayor Heath on Mick Man. And Dan Housen debuted.

The big old crate that's been on Monday Night Raw every week. Man, how has he been able to

survive in there with all those, all those lady Dan Housen dancers? One of them was his wife,

which was, which was just a great moment for him. That boot, because I think a lot of people,

including myself, I do this sometimes, you fantasy book yourself to the point where you're

hyping up something. And if it's something that's not that it's considered a flop or a failure,

which I think that's stupid, honestly. I was expecting Chris Jericho. I was expecting him

at the rumble. And now with some more time allotted to his AEW contract due to injury and time

off for Fawzi, I don't think we're going to see him for a little bit if at all in the company.

That don't, don't matter. I'm, I'm non-plussed. I am so pumped for Dan Housen. I've been a fan of his

for a long time. Dude is, he's a walking Simpsons reference. He's the leader from that episode,

where you know, the leader is good. The leader is great. We surrender our will as of this date. Yeah,

he's that guy. He's a, he's good stuff. He's gonna curse somebody. And I'm gonna wait and see

who it is. So now more than enough waffling about a modern day product. Let's jump in that time

machine. Let's grab that remote control. Let's go grapple surfing to see what else was going on.

And the world of wrestling in 1998. It is March 2nd, 1998. We're three weeks out from

four weeks out, three, a certain amount of days out from WrestleMania 14. My special guest has

been notified. And you're on the clock. You got, he got two or three weeks.

That ain't Nitro. Three hour Monday Nitro from the core state spectrum in Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania. I am predicting that Scott Rand was at this show. Scott, if you hear this,

hope you're well. Chris Benoit defeated Riggs, because he is too old for this shit.

Moving to Guerrero, beat Chavo Guerrero Jr. Not that rigs on, come on. You know me. I'm full of

niche references. Yeah, who do you beat, Chavo? Prince IK, I beat Scycosis. Raven beat disco and

Ferno. Thank goodness. Public Enemy defeated Humorous and the Barbarian. Goldberg beat Scycboy.

DDP defeated Van Hammer by DQ to retain the US title. Yeah, this is DDP versus the flock.

And this could have also been around the time that DDP and Raven had a bit on TRL.

It was pretty funny. The British Bulldog beat Scott Northern by DQ,

Honehand defeated Supercalo. Scott Steiner defeated Haxa Jim Duggan.

Booker T and Dean Milenko beat Chris Jericho and Eddie Guerrero. We're at heart defeated

Brian Adams crushed by the qualification. And Randy Savage and Sting defeated Hollywood

Hogan and Scott Hall by DQ, more NWO, Shenanigans. I swear to God, I'm going to pistol whip the next

man that says Shenanigans. Speaking of Shenanigans, we got the Shotgun Saturday night, March 7, 1998.

Aguila defeated Brian Christopher, Bradshaw beat Mark Merrill, Flash Funk beat Goldbust,

and the National Domination Farook and the Rock defeated Tom Brandy and T Ranchula,

not to be confused by the many wrestler, Tarantula. It's another guy. It's a big ball, the heavy bloke.

Monday Night Raw, March 2, 1998, from the Dunderrina in Cleveland, Ohio. Thank you to

pro wrestling dot fangom.com. They're whom I get my nitro notes for. They have dark matches on

here. So I'm going to have to start looking ahead with them to see who else are all these dark

matches because there's a couple of names on here. And they're going to be coming up on our

screens in the next little while. Hmm. We had Brockis defeating Rekon, Bulbukan. Hey,

Zeus Castillo of the Barriquas defeating Adam Copeland, big old edge getting a try out here.

He CEO defeated Duke, the dumpster, Drosi because it is 1995. And Miguel Perez defeated

Don Morley. Of course, that would be the future valviness. Someone who is, yeah, he's not a

property man these days. So we kick off Monday Night Raw and the Dunderrina with a recap

of the whole ice Austin from Michael's Mike Tyson situation. And speaking of whom, we get a

D generation X promo. Who kick off this show? The X talks about their

Jeff thing they did a while back. Purple H says that I got a utinus. So you do have to get in

your drawer his penis. You know what they say about guys who brag about their size. At least I'm

honest about anyways, Shawn Michaels singly begins to call out Tyson, but no. He decides to make him

look in the moon off that he can refuse that he cannot and will not refuse. Hmm. Then he also

kind of underhandly threatens Mike Tyson as well. So we're thrown a little gasoline on that fire.

And then turns his attention to his WrestleMania opponent, Stone Cold,

Dev Austin says that he is going to give him a bit of sweet chin music. I think he does a little

later. And I'm looking at the at the crowd. There are signs everywhere in Cleveland is a hotbed

for wrestling. And even in the WWF, I believe they were the home of

some were slam in 1996. I'm not mistaken.

Shawn throwing a straw in a match with Vader, the boiler room brawl,

said versus Bulldog Owen Hart versus Savio. Yeah, that was a summer slam that happened.

He tells Steve to shine up that chrome dome so he can crack it like an egg.

And the glass shatters and a coordinate JR business has just picked up.

But then suddenly the lights go out and that's got to be Kane. Paul Barra

tells Steve that he won't have to worry about WrestleMania because he'll cross the bridge to

be turnity and go straight to hell as if he's Jimmy Swaggerd or insert other obscure televanjalist

here. Austin after this gets on commentary and says, you know, lights go out and Shawn

hauls his ass out of here. Someone get me a hot dog and a pole bear. I'm fixing to whip Kane's ass.

You know, you're off the lights. Bring a flashlight. It doesn't matter. I'll beat his ass in the dark.

It's as Austin. I'm going to wrestle. I can't do his impersonation. And plus I need a few beers

in me and the war lounge to really get into it. He says he's going to wrestle mania to take the belt

from Shawn Michaels and I'll knock Tyson's lights out to I'm the next champion and that's the

bottom line. You know the rest. They will pull us up and here comes the money, baby. It's Shane

O'Mac on Mike Tyson. We then get a promo for Carrot Top. It's the big match. Carrot Top versus

a sunny. You think you're special. You do. It's a commercial for chairman of the board. That's

herable. Herable Carrot Top movie that can be only compared to even worst polyshore movies.

And sunny. This robs to get her ring attire in. You want some of this? Carrot Top and 13 year old me.

Both say yes. Sunny knocks him down. Freddie Blassie is in Carrot Top's corner for reasons.

Get off the offense on that geek. That's why. Sunny does a decent airplane spin. A decent figure for

the Carrot Top MM. That's that's the commercial. That's that's the bit. Be sure to be sure to

watch chairman of the board and theaters now. No. I will rent it when it comes out on VHS and

probably demand a refund. At least it only costs like two bucks for rent a movie in 1998 because

a yacht. I don't come the new way job loss to potentially have a match. They are wearing Marlin's

rule spray painted homemade. Those spray painted homemade shirts that they wore all the time. Look

so hackney and deep. But almost like I would might wear that except not a Marlin's rule.

Sure, because let's go blue jays. No, I'm not over the world series yet and thank goodness that

we resigned Mad Max for another year or two. They come out neck braces. Road dog sounds

paggered. Trying to do his usual ladies and gentlemen stick. There's a dumpster at ringside

and I had a I text Nate about this one. The name of the company of the of the waste management

company had the initials BFI race for impact. So in 1998 Nate would have been like a toddler.

Maybe he was already cooking up BFI. He was cooking up a wrestling promotion that didn't exist

for another five years. Yeah, he's a wizard. You're a wizard, Nate. By the way, I got a I got a

show for you to do in the near future. So they show footage of a week previous where a cactus

jacket chainsaw Charlie up in the new wage yacht laws in the parking lot and do some damage to their

car with you know with the the chainsaw and the hit in the car and whatnot and they accuse

the outlaws of murder despite being very much alive. I think they meant tempted murder or maybe

he said it and I didn't take the note. So in this whole homemade footage thing which in 1998

did not look good. That camcorders were of a varying quality back then and somewhere in this house

I have a VHS of my grade five drama club in 1995. That will tell you just that. I'm not digging that out

because I don't even know where my damn VCR is. And then he tells Road Dog when they're behind the

wheel here. He tells Michael Cole that you'll click pet and gale Todd six months after quitting

the company is still catching strays seriously. Then in the midst of this back and forth you know

they're just talking about how I'll pager they are how traumatized they are and that they they

can't do anything tonight. Hydrate kids by the way. Commissioner Sergeant slaughter appears on

the Titan Thrawn as if he's Joe Henry say commissioner's name and he appears. I believe in

Sergeant slaughter. You guys aren't hurt and I'm ordering you to defend the tag team titles

but it's against skull and eight ball. Hello well. And as they're about to start this match

cactus Jack cactus Jack contains not Charlie they were in the dumpsters because of course they were

you know laws immediately high tail it out they lose this match by count out but because this is not

a Canadian rules match in 1993 they do not lose the tag team championships. DOA kind of celebrate

but you won by count out you didn't win the tag titles. cactus Jack and santa Charlie pose for

crowd. And yeah we're getting a match between these two teams at russamania 14. By the way

can of coke through the spoon sign in the crowd the tick.

Wow good shit. They are asked we'll sayble and luna get it on tonight.

Crazy. And then speaking of whom we see a sizzle reel about the recent going on between stable

and marrow and luna and gold bust and the whole kit and caboodle but this mess of a tag team

match and feud is going to be we get your WrestleMania millennium moment sponsored by m&m's that

candy of the millennium and it is assault and pepper doing their performance at russamania 11

of what a man i believe this was the entrance music to Lawrence Taylor and his match with

bam bam bigalow someday i might review that that is one of the worst russamanias of all time

and yeah that's uh if i'm doing this in like five years time maybe i'll i'll do that one

mark marrow versus tom brandy is our next contest here. Thable is immediately sent to the back

much to the chagrin of equivalent faithful. Brandy wishbones maro's balls into the post

you get the bulldog we get the ten we get some punches.

marrow hits a dodgy sit down par well i'm going to slam a crowd booze because luna is coming down

to the ramp alone but in mind games coming up here i can see this of course have lovian dogs

teeth crowds are breaks out into the sable chan because of course it does.

we get a t-k-o which is reversed into a nail macaw fin a front uh like a gourd a sit down gourd

buster by tom brandy russian leg sweep into the cover seamless which is right out of the meat sauce

king virgins textbook r-i-t king luna comes down he trips tom go to low blow get a t-k-o

and mark marrow wins. hopefully putting this feud to bed for good because we remember

when he first came back mark maro was feuding with the former salutary sincere that's done

luna kisses mark mind games which prompts gold dust to come in here and pearl harbor

marrow it was uh actually wait wait wait wait it was a setup all along

shadowed to tom Campbell for that bit uh sable comes down to the ring and they have a fight

the i don't want to call them the baby is mark maro a baby face no sable is the baby face

uh so mark and sable send gold dust and luna blacking mark is yelling at his wife for helping him

or for not staying in the back sable pushes him saying like dude i helped you you idiot

uh okay uh the crowd is electric by the way as especially for sable this we're we're we're we're

doing the uh freaking leonardo decaraprio pointing meme here's another attitude air moment here

we're getting one again uh but it's not this next match which is oh and heart versus mark Henry

for the for the european title no offense to either of these men god bless oh and heart

and tonight monday night raw is brought to you by wix

wwf the music volume who had got that for my birthday that year and jack's action figures uh which

features legends this time around including jimmy murder fly snooka i believe also classy

for any blassy probably like the cast of rosimony oh one i think was this uh one of jack's action

figures immediately sergeant slaughter comes down to the ring to kick out the nation of domination

oh and heart is kicking mark's leg out of his leg we get a wheel kick sending the world's strongest

out of the ring tana comes down to the ring here to scout lane mind games and she is compared to

paul of jones i am not touching that with the ten foot pull mark hits a avalanche like he's king

kong bundy china and mark we're foreshadowing something here which i'm getting into this year if you

know you know yikes mark with a backbreaker oh and heart continuously tries to lock the sharp

shooter on the big man but it is denied because those uh those legs barbell barbell squatted

nine hundred and forty seven pounds so yeah uh strong man he is oh and heart with a missile drop

kick an elbow drop in an instigiri he finally successfully locks in the sharp shooter

but to no avail china steps up onto the ring apron oh and heart tells her off

and when oh and heart goes for another top rope move she shoves oh and right into the world's

strongest bear hug and then she punches mark in the penis and he gets qualified oh and keeps his

title more mind games heading into rustle mania head bangers into talk versus rock and roll express

and berry wind them backstage we see Tyson and Vince talking um and i find it funny here that

that rock and roll express are using marty genetic team and i thought wait is marty already gone

from wcw oh and there might it's rock and roll use that theme at survivor series 93 when they

had an impromptu smoky mountain tag team title match against the heavenly bodies

head bangers cut a promo saying that you know they watched rock and roll and we were kids and we

were just little head bangers cheering you on uh you beat uh in that express you beat the horseman

but then we beat you uh it's not the eighties anymore take your eight crack

you're gonna retro act and get out of here uh it's Ricky Morton still rustles in 2026 and hits

everyone with Canadian destroyers and he is like the kind of the old grandpa of pro wrestling i mean

i loved the rock and roll express is sit down with uh rj city well i forget the name oh hey

e w the little talk show that he had there for for a while or if you want to go even further back

rj city makes coffee and his underpants and that's what he did on my twitter live

way back in the day yeah rj city is a cool is a pretty interesting dude so talk of then calls

cornet a jack s and not trooper open english the match quality actually not actually it was not

the much of a quality because the match quickly breaks down into ish ma's pacca flies at at

berry wind on my ring side just whoosh superman launch it to the outside jim cornet tries to get

involved here but thrasher kos rubber Gibson with tennis racket and the camera completely misses

it because they're focusing their attention on the brawl at ring side cornet cuts a promo after

this say and then if you guys got any guts put those titles on the line next week and we'll see

who's a flashback act and who's a flash in the pan the warzone kicks off with fencing man

and then Mike Tyson unquestionably the baddest man on the planet Mike Tyson and all my events

impressions are a few and far in between because you know what this is a situation where where

it's warranted mr. Tyson who will win the match or he's trying to really cause a little bit of

dissension here with Mike Tyson and whatnot he's asking who he thinks he's going to win despite the

fact he's going to be the enforcer not the referee remember this not initially considered the

referee of this match of course that duty would fall on oral hebner but the enforcer so he's out

there to make sure stuff doesn't go down some michael's interrupts this and says I'm not here to

disrespect you but you're interrupted a man that's disrespectful I'm calling you out face to face

right here right now and then that's what they do they have a tussle they have a little trash talking

little shoving and shall michael's rips off his WWF attitude shirt to reveal a DX shirt

it was a setup all along Mike Tyson joins DX another video point meme here here's another

attitude error moment this is another thing that kicked off the genesis of McGillicuddy

and the attitude error yeah and right here the road to WrestleMania 14 it's hey

with Mike Tyson and the generation X

we take this historic moment and we lead into historic man

and that man's name is Steve Muffin Blackman he's going up against comma from the nation of

domination nation the nation gets kicked out by sergeant slaughter again because we don't want no

interference spoiler alert there is interference at the end of this match and Steve wins by dq

but before we get there Steve has been taken down not only robot monsters but nation of domination

members as well we get a decent back and forth match here before we get them a fug kick and the

yarn bar which prompts the nation to interfere rock to come in plant the now named

rock bottom on blackman but Ken Chen Rock comes down here to make it shave save not the shave he

probably did that before this match the belly belly comma try to get a piece of the rock but the

rock gets out of dodge we see a sure respect between Ken and Steve as they are about to set

a tag team division on fire after the break in the ring we get

Tennessee Lee oh I know what's coming here I thought this wasn't for a while

but Tennessee Lee aka WCW's Colonel Robert Parker manager of many many people in the company

including Sid Harlem Heat and so much more manager of legends and in some cases champions

so Colonel Robert Parker now known as Tennessee Lee he is out here to introduce us

to the world's greatest wrestler world's greatest entertainer world's greatest singer that's right

WJ Jeff Jarrett reverting back to his country music gimmick complete with light up glasses and jacket

Fargo strut and Tennessee Lee in this package it's so fitting but it's also kind of ironic

given that Jeff blasted this gimmick in his little

shooty hype interviews he did when he returned in late 97 but he's back to doing this

like Espen's keeps receipts after all yeah he does he holds a grudge too so

old school Jeff Jarrett is back here and if I he didn't want to do this

he says at the NWA I wish them luck but the NWA wasn't prepared for a man of my stature

oh boy you have it five years Jeff you will be running it and yes the NWA will be

of a man of a stature because he will own the damn company

he he he he he the only man who could promote tennis

for me is Tennessee Lee etc etc man and he great

so flash funk is Jeff Jarrett's first victim here they have a quick match funk gets the advantage

with a Harlem sidekick big spigango back party drop it's trouble and paradise

he goes for the 450 but TSC Tennessee Lee

jerks him off the off of the rope we get a figure four and a submission win by double J so the

Jeff Jarrett experiment in the NWA wasn't a thing so he got to go back to the well once in a while

to see what all the gimmick can dig up so you're gonna get the country music star once again

for a little while kind of disappointed that we're not revisiting the with my baby tonight stick

well that was last year and Jarrett in 97 like when that whole debacle was going on the WWE

I believe Jarrett was like the US champion or something like that

yeah double J jack Jarrett is back and Jennifer flowers it's going to lots of things

yeah uh that that interview that she did with the rock yeah that's there's there's some history

there that's all I'm going to leave it that like a cold backstage asks DX why Mike Tyson joined

a group they simply say that he wants to be around winners and degeneration X our winners

for now we then see a promo about Legion of Doom their history their triumphs

their downfall and their breakup and that's it because I think we're trying to remind people that

the LOD exists and that the LOD is a you know they're trying to rebrand and rebuild them

and a couple of weeks out from Russell Media and then making their return as what they did

yeah okay main event time already Kane versus Stone Cold Steve Austin we're getting this match

four months early except we don't because immediately it's not Michael's jumps Austin at the ramp

hits him with the superkick and they send Stone Cold pack and they take him out and Kane is stood in

the ring alone with Paul bearer that still allows for something to happen here so Paul bearer then

he says let's have a 10 but let's have a 10 bell salute Mark Eaton get the ring here great

now a 10 bell salute for the undertaker because he's not coming back there is one tombstone left

which I guess I am guessing here is like a symbolic thing like Kane has a headstone

for his next victim you know Vader's gone undertaker's gone they're like the only two people that

Kane is really feuded with on TV as of late he is beaten you know like he's only beaten time keepers

and other officials and Michael PS Hayes was beaten down by him once then this allows for a setup

for a certain return yeah it's here it's it's this show too we get we get a return here

let's go out gone Paul bearer is like it's not him it's not him it's okay oh no it's it's not him

let me get a casket spawning on the stage lightning strikes

it's the undertaker sits up

welcome to hell and I I gotta give it to the guy went when Paul bearer who was cutting a

problem all he was saying that hey maybe we're next victims are gonna be Jair or the king oh thank you

oh my god they killed on the sign spectacular so take her comes back

welcome to hell Kane you disappointed me is that the best you can do do you think that you

could destroy me what you did Royal Rumble do you think that you could destroy what does not

wish to perish Paul you have the audacity to take credit for my disappearance

I went into the darkness of my own accord to sue the souls of my parents because I am doing what I

promised them I would never do site my brother and then Kane he does his pose boom sets the

Kane pyro off undertaker walks through it and because this wasn't elimination chamber 2011 he

didn't catch fire and says that I will walk through the fires of hell the faced you Kane

maybe go on from there and this feud is kicking off we got Kane versus the undertaker coming up

at WrestleMania I know the n-ring quality between these matches aren't the best but I love the lore

I'm looking back at this now and it's a little corny it's a little cheesy but the quote once again

Tom Campbell wrestling's at its best when it's inherently ballads when it's silly because it's

supposed to be fun it's it's soap it's soap opera that that's what it is it's straight up

my goodness all the history on this show ice-enjoining DX

painly undertaker setting up double J or cooking folks were we're really cooking here

Mark Marrow sable gold bust everything here and the crowd in Cleveland was all for everything

Cleveland is a pretty underrated crowd in wrestling they straight up they're they're really good

they're not up there with the likes of you know LA Chicago sometimes Toronto I'm not saying that

for the bias because I've been a part of a few Toronto crowds but that

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