Al Snow Explains "Kayfabe" 

Al Snow: "What color is grass?" Me: *silent*

@@mattthomas1442 Al Snow: nnope

Al Snow: what does everybody want? Everyone: Head Al Snow: Nope!

@@mattthomas1442 What color is grass? Me:.......green? Al Snow: Nope, emerald

Al snow whats 1 + 1 Me 2 Al snow : yes, kind of but......

You got my name wrong.

RU-vid guy couldn't sell a jacket to an Eskimo; talks shit about wrestler of 30+ years drawing money

not uncommon for an irrelevant loser to have someone get their name wrong

Met him and Foley on the 20yrs of Hell Tour, great guys, both legends

Very under appreciated. In the defense of WWF at the time they had the stars they needed. Al was a great entertainer. He never got the chance to be the guy but he very well could have been.

Passin By he spat knowledge it's all about the finish

Karl Kani stories of ass kissing and being a jobber with a shit gimmick lol

@@am-tu6nj and yet he's smarter to the business than your favorite wrestler and the majority of guys with a contract to a big company today I'm sure he cares you don't like his gimmick

And like wrestling, the magic industry kept the techniques behind the tricks behind a secretive curtain in order not to ruin the industry and still get bums in seats. People obviously knew it was trickery rather than actual unexplained “magic”, but put it to the back of their minds to be fooled and entertained. I’d recommend watching ‘The Prestige’ by Christopher Nolan just as a random recommendation, a fantastic movie about magicians dedicated to the craft that take things too far!

Dillusional

​@@andrewburgemeister6684magic is even better once you learn how the trick is done.

Any link to that?

@@simplyjay0748 God, i loved that VHS to death, but I honestly can't remember. If you have access to the network, scrub through the footage and look for backstage brawling. I want to say acolytes vs outlaws, but as I say, it's been a while.

I thought it was the Debra strip tease segment where you can see Jeff Jarrett upset that she was stripping and you can see Rock and Mankind watching it along with a referee and the Blue Blazer.

Randy Savage rolled over in his grave

Send for the man!

Spiderman screwed Spiderman.

Don't forget Spider-man was also a wrestler before becoming a superhero

Mario U The Human Spider!

💯

Agreed this is my opinion It's a difference tho like actors can have a rivalry in a movie than take pictures in public the next week cause movies are a one time thing. Wrestling is an on going program that comes on every week so staying in kayfabe makes the stories feel authentic where like if i see seth rollins and rey mysterio posting pics at a bar together while their currently in a fued kills the vibe

They were probally scared lmao

Wrestling is back those days are gone

Other companies tend to though

I miss the “Attitude” era so much

He has no competition. That's why he can put out a crappy product and getaway with it.

Erm I knew it was fake but the attitude era and Austin Vs Hart submission match were two of the greatest things I've ever seen.

What makes wrestling truly successful is when a promoter, like Vince or Eddie Graham or The Crocketts, find one (or 2 guys if they are lucky) that make the audience say "I know all that other shit is fake but that guy........that guy is real".

​@@6steveo9or the guy is just very charismatic has a great gimmick and sells it properly. Also selling in the ring and match pace is very important. I can't tell you how many times as a kid the matches turned me off because they were too slow and too long. Brett Hart was my favorite as a young boy because of the shades he handed out to kids and he good in the ring. But he bored me while watching his matches. As a kid I didn't understand in ring tactics move sets ECT. Matches would go like this. Wrestler A throws Wrestler B into some hard surface and Wrestler B injures arm. Now I have to s Wrestler A working on Wrestler Bs arm for 10 mins.

And Iron sheik!!!

The Original Sheik also was know for staying in character all the time.

Abudullah was great at this too. If you watch one of his matches 100% of the moves he makes are in character

It basically means..... maintaining the illusion that the stories were real.

Undertaker

not my spiderman

great comment! haha

and the sad/funny thing is Al has being doing these dad jokes for well over 20yrs and his current material is just as dad-like as it was a couple decades ago! Al snow truly is the king of corny comedy. well him and mick foley.. they're tied for first place.

Better video titles.

Smartass prick

@@danwilmot4235People who complain about dad jokes are zoomers who can only understand "muh subversive" comedy and need popculture references to laugh.

That the feud when Bossman fed him Pepper?

MJF is terrible. Another little indy bitch that no one cares about besides internet wrestling fans. So he pretends to be a heel in interviews, that doesn't change the fact that he's about as big as my little ass and is in no way believable as a tough guy

@@richspeck8932 he is not suppose to be a tough guy

Abby always said " live the gimmick and people will believe

@@richspeck8932 lol he's got heat with you. He's freaking great ☺️.

@@cherokeeoutlaw2.011 He doesn't have heat with me because I'm not a wrestler or a nerd so I don't use insider terminology like that. I just don't like him and I already explained why

Wglass90 WELL SAID

yeah, that's why people don't really take Nia Jax seriously when it comes to wanting the title from Alexa Bliss. Posting pics and shit all the time.

holy shit....i nominate wglass for lamest loser on the planet....its not that serious....calm down...it was always stupid nonsense to begin with......fucking al snow talking about people already knowing its fake for decades ... yet they still were not allowed to do other shit that might "expose the business"...so the business wasnt exposed yet supposedly until "the curtain call"?...even tho it was common knowledge that it was basically the equivalent to a broadway show or some shit...omg oh no...fans know now that rival wrestlers are actually friends outside the ring.....big fucking deal....all that heat for the cliq,if that never happened wwe wouldnt be as big as it is now still. the whole attitude era or whatever the hell it was called that austin led probably wouldnt exist..hhh was originally supposed to win the king of the ring but because of what happened they replaced him with austin that year which helped catupult him to basically lead the business in the most popular era to date so who knows how different it wouldve been...wcw wouldve still been winning the monday night battle at the time probably maybe even wwe/wwf wouldve went out of business.....whoever came up with kayfabe is a cornball

Thomas Barrett Did you not hear Al's analogy on movie production? It's not about "tricking" people, it is about keeping a certain level of quality in their work. If you watched a movie and saw camera crews and equipment in the background of every scene, surely you would think it's a shit movie. Well it's not much different than this. Except the camera crews and equipment are the wrestlers in real life. Keeping their real selves hidden from the show makes the show better.

*women's division

Yes!!! I loved the "chocolate bunny" joke 😂😂😂😂

Me too lol What Does Everybody Want?!

Al owns OVW, and other training companies. He lives in Louisville KY.

He still comes off as a needlessly aggressive asshole lol

It probably was a concept. Just not to the knowledge of the general public. They do keep SOME secrets

Its an illusion...plain and simple theatrically and deception

@Jt Money of course it's not, in the 30s people cared about wrestling and today they don't.. Face it kid, wrestling is not cool again and it never will be while companies play to a handful of smartmark loyal fans that think they are special for being smart. In the 1980's and 90's we all knew wrestling was fake. We didn't ruin the show because of it though

The only thing AEW HASN'T ruined was MJF. And they were pretty dang close to doing that.

Patrick P... not like he said: I hope those shit heads continue to make noise in this fucking building... with context, he is trying to talk with other wrestlers in the middle of the fucking building.

He's being sarcastic.

Yep hilarious