Funny, but true!!! My three year old daughter LOVES this video. She will ask to see “the blue boy” every time I’m on the computer. Of course her favorite part is the “Yik Yik Yik Yak Yak Yak” part. Last Sunday my wife and mother in law was having an extremely long conversation on the phone and out of the blue my daughter went “A YIK YIK YIK UH YAK YAK YAK” complete with Ernie’s facial expressions. I spit my Tea out across the table. Needless to say Wifey was not pleased.
She'll be the lawyer in da family. Ernie Ladd shoulda did the "yik yak yik" at least once when he commentated at WM 1986: "all them talkers like Andre da Clown," or whichever site of Wrestlemania he was at (3 that one year).RIP Big Cat!
RIP the Big Cat Ernie Ladd you a great Wrestler and a hell of an Athlete. He had some great years in the American football league From the Chargers 1961-1965 Houston Oilers 1966-1967 Kansas City Chiefs 1967 to 1968 He won an AFL Championship with the Chargers in 63 and was a three time AFL All-star.
One of the greatest promo artists of my youth besides dusty,piper and flair.me and my grandpa got kicks out of listening to him shuck n' jive one minute and be dead serious the next.there were few like him then and none like him now.so sad.
ERNIE LADD ON NAMES FOR WRESTLERS HE CALLED DUSTY RHOADES= DIRTY RHOADES. RAY CANDY= UNCLE TOM CANDYMAN STEVEN LITTLE BEAR=STEVEN YELLOW BEAR THUNDER BOLT PATTERSON=THUNDER MOUTH PATTERSON WHAOO MCDANIELS =DRUNKEN INDIAN. WHAT A FUNNY MAN R.I.P BIG CAT
Uncle Victor and one of my favorite's..''hold that microphone steady mr. TV announcer''..loved big cat, he was talented and so unique..never considered him a heel..love that avatar picture..VICTOR VON DOOM :)
Dusty Rhodes= Dirty Rhodes Dick the Bruiser= Dick The Loser Chief Jay Strongbow= The Drunken Indian Mr Wrestling II= Masked Varmint Rocky Johnson=Uncle Tom Johnson Wahoo McDaniel= Cigar Store Indian Andre the Giant= Andre the Dummy Junkyard Dog= Greasy Black Dog.
The Big Rat, Loudmouth Ernie Ladd. 'Course, ain't no ones never did nothin' about him, couldn't expect Dirty Rhodes or Andre da Dummy..SHUDDUP OUT DERE!..to intimidate a athelete like the Big Cat! RIP Ernie.
TheTexasViper You mean Denzel cuts an Ernie laugh! The Big Cat was an original. Imitated, but never duplicated...AND you can always count on Ernie to mutilate the English language!
Mr Ladd used to say" I want to tell all you people out in TV land,get on the phone and call somebody. Somebody's going to get hurt. Hurt somebody,hurt somebody".
Did the Big Cat Just say they're going to have a necktie party, it just occurred to me that everybody in this clip is dead, rest in peace fellows, job well done
Oh my gosh I think he did say that! He also made some other outrageous remarks like he’d send Tony Atlas back to Africa, telling us he’d beat all the black off of greazy Bubba Douglas and saying Rufus R. Jones had to sell hubcaps in the ghetto! 🤣
Part of the Legend and Lore deservingly surrounding this man (and that is mystifyingly unmentioned) is that Ernie Ladd defeated a Professional Eater in a 1962 Eating Contest not long after he was recruited to The AFL from Grambling! The food that these two formidable chowhounds devoured has to be read to be believed.😂😉🎤🐅🏈🍔🍗🍗🍕🌭🍟🥗🍤🥧🥛B.W.
@OLDSKOOLCHAOS But he feuded with Dusty Rhodes in GA and called him "Dirty Rhodes". There was one interview that had me cracking up. EL said that Dirty Rhodes was not a real Texan cause he never rode an animal in his life. He got on one in front of the Safeway store the the thing threw him off.
It was Koloff. Ladd brought him in when he was feuding with Ole Anderson. Ole and Lars Anderson ended up winning the feud several months later. He was known as Uncle Ivan at that time. Always claimed to be from Russia but was actually Canadian.
i'm disappointed in myself for not appreciating how beautifully and wonderfully ugly and awesome things were back then. gas was 19 cents. cars would smell so much like gas they could gag a maggot. the popular in-color was shit colored brown, green, and yellow. lamp shades covered in purple velvet . . . i grew up in the 70s and LOVE it!
@blackdiesel- Dirty Rhodes- real name Roger Smith- also wrestled as 1/2 of the masked assassins in memphis, also as 1/2 of fire and flame, 1/2 of the Ateam- all with the same partner.
Some of his interviews used to crack me up. I know all you pencil necks out there in TV-land your wives see me out here: slap you and say "why can't cha be a man like dis here man?" I know all you women out there in TV-land see me walking, all 6' 10" 320lbs, size 19EEE shoe, big enough to cover the ground I walk on, all you can do is shake your head and say, "what a man, what a man!" LOL
And EVERYONE was an "egg-suckin' dog"!!! WHAT ARE YOU TRYIN' TO DO!!! Ladd's interviews were great promos...they don't make them like The Big Cat anymore..."ah yick yick yick...ah yuck yuck yuck yuck!"
LOL I remember how masterful he was behind the microphone phone. There was a wrestler in Atlanta named Rm Candy Ernie called him and Thunderbolt Patterson an Uncle Tom talkin out the side of their mouth Yik Yak Yak Yak Yak . LOL he was just so hilarious . I'm going to pull that sock off Mr. Wrestling 2's head
@@RADIO1990 The same reason why Dirty...er I mean Dusty Rhodes and the Junkyard Dog sometimes wore one. There are times when one in the game has to go undercover to seek revenge and justice against their adversaries.
