Jim Cornette on Managing The Headhunters In WWE 

I just remembered them from the '96 Royal Rumble. All two minutes of action... 🤣

I just watched the 1996 Royal Rumble last night. They literally brought in Takeo Omari, Doug Gilbert and The Headhunters in with no matches on TV, no hype and barely any notice. No wonder the crowd never pops

Just went on the network to see it. Total cringe. Davey looked like he hurt himself picking him up

I loved Jim's introduction for these guys. "They didn't get here in time for the tournament, but do you guys want to see how bad they are?"

Sunny was the best head hunter in wrestling.

That ".... Oh God" at 0:58 killed me lol

The Headhunters were actually kinda cool.

Also Montoya & Avatar aka Justin Credible & Al Snow. They were Headhunter A & B in ECW.

Twin Bros Manuel and Victor Santiago (the Headhunters), aka Headhunter A and Headhunter B (Mofat and Mahim) in ECW! They were both HUGE but moved quickly for their sizes! Addendum - Ok Friends reminded me these two were called The Squat Team and The Arabian Butchers in Mexico (CMLL) and Japan (IWA).

''They were Twins .......they were from puerto rico'' - ive heard enough Jimbo

I could never find any trace of this segment online. I began thinking I imagined it all those years ago.

I remember Bruce Pritchard's shoot about Jim's reaction to this. Hilarious if you haven't seen it already.

Those guys were in Puerto Rico when I was and they were fucking hilarious. They did look little Abdullahs. One has a fucked leg but they could do some amazing shit for their size. It was WINGS in Japan that they worked in.

The Super Abdullah the Butcher Brothers

Superb artwork Travis

When I saw Vader and Yoko toss them over the rope in the royal rumble I cringed because one of the headhunters looked like he could of ended up with "cricket" legs like that mudshow guy who bent his legs inwards

New listeners are coming in and groves because people are tired of the modern wrestling bullshit

i remember Owen throwing his hands up and just walking out in the middle of the attack LOL

The only time these guys were ever good was on the ICP tape - Stranglemania!

I had never heard that about Gorilla and Victor Q before.

who can forget the squat team from RR 96? LOL

"The only thing they had going for them was that they were fat fucks" just made me cackle

I remember them from Stanglemania.

Their names were Ponderosa and Sweetinhouse and don't you forget it, Gweedo!

When I lived in Japan I got to go to see FMW shows. The Headhunters scared the hell out of the audience! I made the mistake of heckling one of them but thankfully I was much faster than them! 🤣😂

They were very popular on México

They had good matches in triple AAA they were from dominic Repúblic!!!

I vaguely remember them. Don't remember being impressed with them. It was funny seeing Vader and Yokozuna get rid of them quick

Cornette managing early indie indierific team The irony

Headshrinkers, headbangers, headhunters

I don't remember this. Can't remember them in WWF. I'm senile.

Davey's slam looked sloppy and uncoordinated which looks like to be a result of poor communication amongst the wrestlers. Cornette almost sounds like he says, "do you wanna see how fat they are?"

Vince called them "uniquely constructed individuals" lol

i remember watching those two. it was like picturing a cartoon in which to huge egg shaped characters were trying to run, but moved slow motion. moving slow motion while their little legs moved 100 miles per hour. watching them do the moonsault was impressive somewhat. but watching them do anything else was almost torture.

they could moonsault

Another tape trader special from the mid 90's, The Headhunters in Japan.

I just remembered watching this and always wondered what happened with them, but now I know. Thanks.

That last bit about the chicken wing shows how much thought went into wrestling back when it was good

They weren't Abdullah's sons they were Jim's sons from a wild night of passion in Memphis with a waitress at a Waffle House.

Didn't one of these guys pull a Sid jumping off the top rope?

Anybody else remember their entrance theme from Rumble 96?

I have only ever seen these guys on the Stranglemania tapes. I had no idea Corny managed them.

They had a run on Mexico around mid 00's, great heel tag team ✌didnt know corny used to manage them .. anyway saw one of them get injured live, nasty sight 😅 They were no longer doing moonsaults by that time btw

Samoan swat team was LA Smooth and Samu on house shows and the Fatu "gangsta" angle.

They are Dominicans, yes they started in Puerto Rico.

as a kid I thought they were called the Swat Team..huh... .. .

"Oh god"-Jim Lmfao Just watched the video the Head bangers got offense for 90% of that attack lol.

They're Puerto Rican and born in New York. Trained by Johnny Rodz.

I always wondered what happened there. That was one of the most random run-ins ever, and nothing ever happened.

They were in the 1996 Royal Rumble because Vince was struggling for talent for it. I can quite believe there'd be a Gorilla-Quinones connection involved in that. Same reason Vince used his working relationship to offer a spot in that Rumble to the winner of a USWA battle royal (Doug Gilbert) :)

I saw these guys on stranglemania, I’m still laughing over the commentary.

I just watched a dark match headhunters vs avatar and aldo montoya and it was actually a pretty decent little match.

Funny how the WWF couldn't seem to decide on a name for them when "the Headhunters" is already a great name. In regards to bringing in someone for one move I could see it being worth a shot in a Zeus way. Zeus wasn't a wrestler and they weren't going to get much out of him so they tried (not sure if it worked) to build up a mystique about him without having TV matches prior to the PPV and then they put him in tags so his partner could carry the load. So the Headhunters would work well for a Survivor Series main event where the heel introduces them on his team and they take out the babyfaces with the moonsault. And that can get shown on replays on TV while the Headhunters otherwise just look mean behind the main heel during promos. Babyfaces aren't 100% because these huge guys on the heel team crushed them with a moonsault. Can they defeat them? The Headhunters can be hidden in a four or five man team and just get a few moves in and go for their big move but the faces barely move out of the way and then the Hunters can get eliminated by count out or something. Then they might still have enough juice to be fed to the tag champs. They'll get exposed as useless goofs in the tag match but they're just going to job anyway so who cares? There's two PPV appearances and literally two matches out of guys that can do one cool move and some babyfaces got to go over without anyone on your main roster taking the pin.

The Headshrinkers = The Samoan SWAT Team

I believe that is Ponderosa and Sweden house.

Davey was trying to kill it ....

Going to wikipedia for facts? 😂

when i first read the title of this video i thought it said "The Headbangers" lol

I remember seeing them on VHS in the IWA Japan King of the Death Match tournament in 1995. They were truly big men. I also recall seeing them in New Jersey wrestling and couldn't believe the size of these guys, but moved around like lightweights. Too bad they were cut short on being successful in the U.S.

I remember the Headshrinkers and the HeadBangers but I had never heard of the HeadHunters

Davey Boy Smith probably could have bodyslammed just about anyone. I've never seen anyone do a list of the strongest wrestlers, but I'd bet he'd be on that.

They were on ecw also

The Squat Team. XD

Thanks. I asked this question

The Head Hunters were from neither Sudan, Puerto Rico nor The Dominican Republic, they are from the Bronx NY. They were huge stars in Japan IWA and were over in both CMLL & AAA. Great guys both of them. I’m friends with both shout out to the “goldos”!

My first exposure to The Headhunters was on that hilarious bootleg Insane Clown Posse tape called Stranglemania where they commentated over all IWA Japan death matches. They named The Headhunters "Ponderosa" and "Sweden House". Also, Gorilla Monsoon's obituary did indeed list Victor Quinones as his son.

Amazingly the Arabian Butchers garner no results after a network search

Saw headhunter 2 at a local show about this time last year. Dropped the wrestler he was working with get on the head and ended the match.

They were also supposed to be on the June 1992 NWA Tag Tournament Clash Of Champions show, but I think there was some problem with them doing a job for the NJPW team or something, so they no-showed & WCW stuck a pair of job guys under hoods.

Why would you book someone to do a move? *Because Paul Heyman was a mark.* No other explanation.

I remember these tubs of blubber.

I remember seeing them in ECW too

Davey boy sold out Wembley ,that puts him up there with queen and Elton john

Mushroom boys*

The Mushroom Boys, Ponderossa and Swedenhouse.

Samu and Fatu were the Samoan Swat Team

Ponderosa n Sweden House. I member

Didn’t Raven and Kanyon break one of their necks in wcw?

Happy New Year Corny, Brian and all the Cornyholics out there. 👍🏽

I had wondered if they were any good . I had seen them in magazines

I love the legacy of the British Bulldog and Owen but that was a d*ck move. If you don't want to do something just don't do it al, don't purposefully sabotage the segment. Undertaker did his absolute best to make Giant Gonzalez look like a monster even tho it was very clear he was never going to be a decent wrestler because Taker was always a professional and did the job right

One of the great mysteries of pro wrestling: Why the hell were they named the "Squat Team"??? Sounds like some kind of tag team tea bagging porno!

Yay!!! The Mushroom Boys!!!!

McCrary Twins vs. Headhunters = ring collapses all the way down into the molten center of the Earth!

They were fun to watch

This is a goodie

Team Squat !

The two blobs from RR '96!

I’ve asked this question on Twitter every week for over the last two months!!!! Thanks for ignoring me

The Mushroom Boys

these guys were interesting they worked best in Japan (Why on earth the WWF brought them in makes no real sense) Some people just can’t translate to different countries They appearance in the original Eastern Championship Wrestling is very bizarre then again SMW did a crazy angle with W*ing Kanemura and Kevin Sullivan with the spike! First seen that footage during 98-99 on a vhs tape called Juice-O-Rama: A Salute to Bloodbaths

Brodie Lee

I'm just waiting for Jim to shed light on the recent passing of Brodie Lee

I think they were Puertorrican

They were very good in garbage brawls/spot fests, but ask them to work a regular match and it was no.

Saw them a few times in Japan and Australia. Great guys, they were all busted up and injured by the time they did this WWF spot. For Corny to shit on them now is typical of him. TBH I enjoyed their matches FAR more than 90% SMW.

Where is the aew review?

Flabber-lanche!!!

I mean i don't remember these guys

Much like Luke Harper.... Vince never really going to get behind characters modeled after stars big outside WWF