HONKY TONK MAN ON WCW 

@@devinlaheywho I've heard that before but, is it possible some odd that heat was just because many fans thought it was a bad idea to have an Elvis impersonator?

Watch the disco Hannibal shoot. I BELIEVE (if I remember correctly) disco was apparently supposed to come to WWF as his protégé

Omg double hate

I enjoyed him as a kid but really liked idea of him as a Manger in WWF in beginning of attitude era..to bad that didn't pan out he was good in ring on mic and commentary...

Alex Wright too. 🕺🏼

Yea..... me too

@Carl Munroe...And they said The Armstrong’s were cursed. Ha!

Damn right! WCW was fucking up themselves in the ass by giving free money away.

Absolutely!! Me too!

Wwe is doing that

Yeah. I love Ferris

I love Honky Gimmick.

Bischoff's fault

The older I get, the more that I too have greatly appreciated these guys. HTM was a tremendous heel and really knew how to get the fans to hate them.

@@ericphilbeck7858 good htm sucked

@@hokumdog he would a good fit for a world TV champ or world tag team champion with a good partner.

@@ericphilbeck7858 Not just Bischoff's fault. Society's fault too. By 1992, playing Heartbreak Hotel on a saxophone was popular enough to aid a landslide Presidential victory. Elvis couldn't have a heel parody when diehard Elvis fan Bill Clinton was in the White House. Attitude was shifting back in favor of Elvis even among certain adult aspects of society who thought they could outgrow him. Frequent Graceland visitor Carla Tortelli on Cheers was even a sign that that was impossible.

HTM knew his worth.

Thank God he never met Paul Heyman then...

He was right

@@mayorhaggar1275 didn’t say he wasn’t.

Overweight CRYBABY---> decades of too many P B & J SAMMICH WITH A KIDDIE JUICE BOX. The tubby Elvis impersonation, bad look.

@@tomcollins3137 Childlike comment.

I sorta like him , but somehow Bischoffs version of those events seem more plausable.

He was a awesome heel

Yes he was a very good heel

Wow what about Alex wright, the mummy and other gimmicks in wcw ?? They knew nothing

His gimmick was fuckin great

He was a brilliant heel

Probably the best!!! I still wanna hit him now haha

He was a good heel he could had been a exelentgood guy

he probably paid for the flight as he is not on a contract

@@Frankf9382 he said they flied him . He is working 1 -2 nights a week earning 2k but others are on 400k a year contracts for similar work and less return

@@Frankf9382 that never happens. The wrestling companies always fly them in and out - although most of them have their own road and hotel expenses though. That's why you hear of them car sharing hired car's and rooming in hotels. Decent hotels in USA can be very expensive, especially if you want the room to yourself irrespective of what money they might get paid on the house/their contract or whatever.

That’s 30 seconds on camera. If he was flying from Phoenix to Atlanta or Nashville that a minimum two or even three day trip. If he paid for the flight and hotel. It’s crazy to do in one day. Depending on the time of the interview He would have to get up at 3AM for 6:30 flight that arrives in Nashville at 10:30 or 11:30 AM Getting from the Airport Downtown and having lunch the interview is probably at about . 3:00 PM . Yes you could probably rush back to the airport to make an early evening flight and be back home by 10-11 Pm That’s if you skip dinner. No human being is doing that more than a dozen times s year. Atlanta is even worse to get out of than Nashville. You tell me that’s a good gig in the entertainment industry we’re guys are making $300000 a year. He would have to be crazy to work the day before or after that ordeal.

Well, that's not a lot when you consider he had to pay for all his expenses too. So a plane ticket to the show was around $200, then another $200 back. So now his paycheck is $600 for a 30 second spot. However, now he doesn't work again until the next week, so that $600 has to last the next 7 days. Oh, and don't forget he has to pay taxes on that money. It's gross income, not net income. So take another 25-30% off that $600 for the week and all the sudden it's looking not so great. If he was lucky, he'd get two shows in a week, but that didn't happen all the time.

I rewatched that 5 times and laughed every time 😂

@i am demetrius i am with you i miss wcw to and ecw but honkytonkman is right wcw had his wrong doing business but i still dont think they should shot down wcw hust like i dont think they should shotdown ecw what i think should had happen is alots of wrestlers should stand up spoke up and fire erich bishoff and vince russo

i dont

Don’t worry that’s what Joe Biden is doing now 😂

No . That's not what he is doing . Your former clown in chief and his fraud family were using their position to steal money .

Lanny Poffo had about 3 years pay from WCW for doing nothing but bleaching his hair and sitting at home.

Iron Sheik had a hundred grand contract there for one year in 1989 and they sent him home because he couldn’t go anymore and forgot to terminate him so his contract rolled over and they had to keep paying him for another year. Wasting money was nothing new to WCW in the 90s.

Brad was talent, whoever thought he was better sitting at home than on the show doing something, anything is an idiot

Wwe does that too

Yep he never gives anyone credit but Meltzer for info he uses.

​@@TheHannibalTVExactly. At least u are original unlike Meltzers Soap Boy Conrad the worst shoot interviewer of all time.

Yeah, that would of been a great idea or make him a world TV champ defeating it against DDP, Marc Mero, Arn Anderson, and Flyin Brian,

@@ericphilbeck7858 Honky Tonk Man could have gotten some great matches great feuds during his time in WCW with WCW stars besides Johnny Badd aka Marc Mero like DDP, Arn Anderson, Flyin Brian, Dustin Rhodes, Marcus Bagwell, imagine a match with Ricky Steamboat the same man that he took the IC title from during their WWF days. Honky Tonk Man Vs Sting would have been a great as well, I think WCW could have done alot of great things with the Honky Tonk Man during his WCW run had he been used properly, had him paired with Col Robert Parker.

+Midnighthour71 They had some real dipshits working there. All you had to do was sign in and they figured you were working lol.

+MusicDude86 Pretty much what will happen with my job in the new year.Seriously!We have no supervisor anymore due to budget cuts and no one will be watching over us.So I might pull a "Brad Armstrong" and stay at home all day and get paid for it(LOL!!!).

@@Midnighthour71 Just make sure the head honchos see you a week or two in the building before your contract expires!

While HTM was a silly gimmick. And Jimmy Hart being a Col. Doink The Clown had it worst. I'm sure Matt Bourne didn't like dressing up as a clown to wrestle!

@@excelsciors Adrian Adonis had it worst in the WWF

There was a running debate that Roddy Piper had with Hulk Hogan concerning the main event at Wrestlemania I. The debate was whether the fans wanted to be there to see Hulk Hogan (Hogan's position), or whether the fans wanted to see Hogan beat up Piper (Piper's position). I think Piper is just as right as Hogan, maybe more so. Good faces need good heels to beat up on and even lose to. Could you imagine the heat that would have been thrown at Piper if he had cheated at that match and he and Orndorff would have won? I know that wouldn't have happened, but I don't know if Madison Square Garden would still be standing! Lol

More like the cartoon Johnny Bravo!

Daryl Baumann yes definitely Ace with that shirt he is sporting 😂 😂

Lmao

i did i don't even have him top ten.

@@jakelang806 what is this david letterman...

Probably not top 10 but good solid worker

No Ferris owned the Honky Tonk Man gimmick

The same thing will happen with AEW to a lesser extent

@@TheHannibalTV I hope not.... AEW is getting 40 million a year for their wednesday night dynamite tapings/show. AEW just need to stick under a budget. Saying that this Honky Tonk Man interview was enjoyable. 3 million views and Counting. Well done Hannibal

yup

He doesn't get paid until he DOES the job. So basically he told that POS Bischoff to basically fuck right off and rightfully so.

Respect comes into play as well. He felt mistreated at WCW. Mero was this new guy in WCW, but HTM already established a name and legacy at WWF. It's like if two video producers were doing the same job at a company with great results except one has a contract making nearly $60,000 a year, but the other makes nearly $100,000 a year. The other guy would be like, "Why does he get to make nearly six figures, and I don't when we've been doing the same job for years, and I have more credentials under my belt."

Vince Fox THIS.... well said

Vince Fox we'll actually he didn't because he was promised a contract with more money and he probably didn't know a thousand is al, he'd be getting until, his first payday

Stop crying

He's not? I thought he was... But the Mcmahons are so petty !!! So you telling me that Goldberg is the HOF and HTM isn't What a load of shit !

Hmmmm....you clearly dont know what you are talking about....

Ron shader dont forget hulk hogan

He’s the biggest ass kissin, butt suckin, bastard in this business.

Hogan and Russo might wanna have a word with you?

how much are you worth?

A big ass fool

How do you evolve it lol

Nash was still in WWF

Wow, thats ta bit too much of coughing going around here

doogan chode it would have hurt his Independent market especially since he wasn't making hundreds of thousands of dollars like the others in WCW

The honky tonk man is a hall of famer. Who are you again?

@@r0ckstar666 im most likely not an infidel who's named after the prophet and a drug lord at the same time.

I misunderstood the "yes but Vince paid me very well for those jobs" thinking that why would Vince pay someone just to lose, he's the boss if he tells you to lose then you lose. However i've come to understand that clearly Vince knew that when a guy loses, (who used to be a top draw as HTM was) then it affects his future drawing whether with your company or not. That affects the ticket sales etc. However clearly Bischoff had no idea how to draw properly and let guys like HTM make his company money, he made the same mistake with loads of talent esp Bret Hart!!. HTM could have had a great run against Bret in WCW "HTM - My dad taught you everything and you disrespect him"

They should have given him a contract for all the shitty wrestlers they did give them too and lesser known ones like Wayne Bloom making over 100k for hardly doing anything.

@@TheHannibalTVwhy should wcw have given him anything?