Jim Cornette Reviews A&E's Ricky 'The Dragon' Steamboat Biography 

This was like a reverse Dark Side Of The Ring Ricky Steamboat, Diamond Dallas Page and Mick Foley are wrestling saints.

Yep, if Steamboat was in his prime during the Attitude Era, he would've 1000% been Dick Blood.

Rickys. Arm drag. Was a thing of art. Best in the buisness. 🤼. 💯 👏

Ricky Steamboat, Bret Hart, Kurt Angle, Curt Henning, Randy Savage, Shawn Micheals all could work and perform wonderfully.

Ricky steamboat is better than Will Osprey

If it wasn't for petty Vince Jr letting Ricky go in 88 for taking time off for his kid's birth the Ric Flair trilogy wouldn't have happened in 89

Ricky steamboat is so nice. 🙂 A while back I wrote him a letter and asked him if he could autograph a picture for me. Not only did he autograph the picture for me. But he noticed that my sharpie sucked. So we wrote a little note to me saying "I went ahead and used a paint pen for the autograph I hope you don't mind" The autograph looked absolutely beautiful and is a prized possession in my collection to this day.

The baby face is selling the bumps and therefore selling the match. And yes, the job of that baby face to take a beating because nothing is quite so heroic as perseverance. Steamboat vs Savage WM3 is still one of the greatest ever.

Awesome huge fan of Steamboat and he's one of the few guys in wrestling who didn't turn out to be a asshole.

I can't think of a wrestlers work who has aged as well as Steamboat's. He always moving, always selling, and always making use of the small details.

Steamboat/Savage has gone from: - One of the greatest matches of all time to - One of the greatest WWF/E matches of all time to where it is now: - One of the greatest WrestleMania matches of all time. Easily top 3 WWF for the 20th century, if not #1, without question.

Steamboat vs Savage was the first WrestleMania Classic

"Midget car racing is a great sport. It just doesnt get TV coverage because you cant see the drivers over the wheel " ...Bobby Heenan ... probably.

Sam Steamboat's real name was Mokuahi which means steamship in Hawaiian.

Joe Hendry NXT appearance had more views than Dynamite this week.

I could seriously listen to an entire show of Eddie Gilbert stories.

Steamboat as Dustin’s mystery partner against The Enforcers was legendary

WrestleMania 3 was a bit before my time, but my fondest memory of Ricky steamboat was when he returned at the clash as Barry Whindam's mystery tag team partner

Just rewatched Steamboat-Youngblood vs the (newly heel) Briscos in 1983: awesome stuff

"who was it for? The kids didn't care about it" Huh? Who are you kidding? I was a kid and I thought it was AWESOME.

Dear CM Punk & Ricky "The Dragon"🐉 Steamboat, ❤️ I'm sending this prayer straight from the heart, brother. May the big man upstairs bless you with nothing but the best in your journey. Your passion and dedication to the craft inspire me and countless others in the squared circle. To Paul Heyman, Jim Cornette, and Cowboy Bill Watts-legends who've shaped the game-I tip my hat in respect. Your wisdom and guidance are lights in the darkness of the ring, and I'm grateful for your impact. CM Punk, keep rocking the mic and breaking barriers. Your straight-edge spirit and fearless drive remind us all why we love this business. From San Pedro to Puerto Rico, your influence spans far and wide, and I'm proud to ride alongside you in this wild ride. ☮️✡️ ✝️ Paul Heyman, your genius on the mic is unmatched. Jim Cornette, your passion for the history and tradition of wrestling is truly inspiring. Cowboy Bill Watts, your old-school grit is a blueprint for greatness. In the ring and beyond, let's keep raising the bar and making magic happen. Here's to more epic moments and keeping the faith strong. With respect and gratitude, @PDC-yy4gh (Ponce de León of San Pedro, California, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Spain, & PONCE City, FLORIDA!!!) 👑🇺🇲🇬🇧

Ricky The Dragon Steamboat the only true babyface in professional wrestling

When I saw Steamboat in the WWF as a kid, I thought he was wearing a Native American head dress and wondered why he was called “The Dragon.”

I spit Brute cologne at a stick we put on fire. Lost my eyebows 😂

I know jim and brian and all of us like to past the time making fun of jericho these days. But he had nothing to do with the brain bleed. It was the nexus beat down specificly the hard slam by michael tarver ( remember him ) that caused steamboats brain bleed. Thats why tarver didnt last long after that!!!!

Ricky Steamboat was so good he could make Jim Cornette use "ballet" to describe his work in a positive fashion.

Look at Survivor Series team in 1987 he was on. Two of his partners were Randy Savage and Jake Roberts, both of whom tried to kill him in the last year before. Babyfaces, always so trusting and forgiving.

Ive got 502,000 reasons to look forward to the next dynamite ratings

It's nice to see a story where the good guy won. There's no tragic downfall of Ricky Steamboat. Whatever problems he ran into in life, no one's life is perfect, the dude is doing great now and that's great to see.

Who's waiting for JC to react to Jacob Fatu's debut?

The brain bleed was from a spot with the Nexus guys. Not Jericho.

I would buy a Ricky The Dragon Steamboat lighter if it was mould from the image of Ricky Steamboat’s 1990s WWF return.

Wasn't Ricky back on WWF TV before 1987 was over.

Ricky was great as a Bruce Lee type wrestler in the 80s.

@14:25 ernie ladd was no joke. he cussed people out. fans rarely tried anything as he was a 6'8 AFL defenisve lineman.

Still waiting for the dynamite lowest ratings and Jacob’s debut

The short stint in AEW with Punk and Starks, as well as reffing in the various indies

“STEAMBOAT vs FLAIR” … “STEAMBOAT vs MACHOMAN”, are my ALL-TIME FAVORITE WRESTLING 🤼 MATCHES!!! STEAMBOAT & AJ STYLES remind me of each other!!! Similar styles & smooth as butter 🧈!!!😏🙌🏽💪🏽🔥💯😎

I’m still in love with Steamboat 😅

If I remember right from Flair’s book, Harley hard way punched Steamboat then sandpapered him.

I didn’t know Savage & Piper both wanted to come in back in ‘88: would’ve been huge.

This was a great review of the life and times of Eddie Gilbert

We never got Steamboat vs Tugboat. Greatest missed opportunity of all time.

I always thought that he was a class act. Him and Randy greatest match ever.

Well, with Flair/Savage at WM8, Flair was a HUGE heel and Savage was the sympathetic babyface. "She was MINE before she was yours." Wasn't just "let's have two big stars go at it". Cornette says that but turns around and praises a match like Danielson/Ospreay, but nevermind.

Ricky should have been a huge action movie star.

Steamboat v rude was great aswell

I thought it was ryback/skip sheffield that injured him later on. I don't remember Jericho

I had heard that a ring announcer announced him as Ricky Steamboat without Steamboat's approval, because "Richard Blood" sounds like a heel's name.

Haven't seen it yet but if past A&E "documentaries" are any indication it'll be interesting to discover how Vince McMahon "discovered" Steamboat. gag!

502K. We're *ALL* waiting on that video.

57:47 Not true. Shane/steamboat dropped the titles before the Dos Hombres gimmick

Steamboat is one of the best workers, ever. His allowing his wife to meddle in his career set him back. The rare case of a career long baby face.

Vince McMahon gave Sable the stinkface in his office before he took a shower.

i don't think we can overstate who significant steamboat was to the careers of so many in the 80s and early 90s. you look at his feuds, tag teams, matches and nearly everyone who worked with him went on to MAJOR success. flair is of course an early example but then jay youngblood (only hurt by his own demons), piper, jake the snake, savage, honky tonk, flair again, dustin rhodes, steve austin, shane douglas, etc etc. it's not to say these people were not legends in their own right or wouldn't have had success without steamboat, but steamboat's programs with them preceded (except flair) a near supersonic launch in their status within the business. and when asked those guys (all of them) praise extensively and cite all they learned from him

JFC. Steamboat wasn't off until WM4. He was at MSG in July and August 1987. Survivor Series. December MSG and Royal Rumble vs. Rude.

they really got sidetracked on this review. Last misremembered, Steamboat came back a few weeks pripr to Survivor Series 87, illogically teaming with Savage who he had just been feuding with. the Intercontinental title loss is one of the weirdest things after such a big match. Vince really screwed himself in the early 90s. He lets Rick Rude go, then chases off Steamboat for a second time., and pushes silly gimmicks. Rude and Steamboat were two of the better things in WCW in the early 90s. Glad to see Ricky living well. Did not know of that serious brain bleed. it was nexus who injured him, not jericho

My jr high school gym teachers name was Richard Head. If we ever wanted to piss him off wed call him Coach Dick Head

In the late 70's the Apter mags promoted the hell out of the then youngsters Flair-Steamboat Carolina feud. I'd love to see extensive footage of that. The late 80's Flair-Steamboat trilogy was THE Gold Standard for U.S. wrestling for all-time. Loved how that seguewayed into the Flair-Funk feud. It blew the WWF cartoon wrestling out of the water. They also had a great forgotten 90's, I believe '94, TBS Saturday Night match that I've got on tape somewhere. Steamboat was a great star.

No Mention of Bonnie Steamboat?

i got to see this one! Love Ricky!

Is any of this video about steamboat?

I should probably watch some of this guy's matches. I've always heard about the match he had with Randy Savage. I don't think I've ever seen him wrestle if you count anything he did in AEW. That's not wrestling, guys.

You said you’re going to shorten the SmackDown review if it’s for last night SmackDown I doubt very highly you’re going to shorten that one

Best wrestling documentary I’ve seen so far. 👍

Some guys would gig and then use Nu skin one pop in the match no need to carry a blade 👍

Hope Cornette does a watch along to Steamboat matches either Savage at WM 3 or any of the trilogy with Flair

He skipped Roman Reigns, the latest Stone Cold one and Eddie Guerrero.

Ricky the Dragon was my favorite wrassler as a kid. Never knew why he didn't show up on tv more. Didn't even know he had a documentary out. Gonna have to checc it out. Didn't know Corny was that much of a fan of him either, since he shits on most Asian wrasslers..

Jim Cornette A&E Omnibus when?

love the shitting on bruce prichard

Both Flair v. Steamboat & Flair v. Savage are GREAT matches 5 stars across the board! But as for the greatest WWF match (singles) I would have to go with Mr. Perfect v. Bret Hart for the I.C. title (Summer Slam) has to be one of the if not "THE" Greatest (singles) matches ever in the old federation imo.

If Bruce can justify the rooster gimmick he can certainly defend the fire breathing dragon gimmick I thought the fire breathing and the dragon costume was cool when I was like 7

Did Jim ever talk about the iron claw once it released? anyone know if he ever saw it? been waiting for a video on it since December

The story as I understand it... Steamboat wanted time off so he could be home for his son to be born. Vince pissed on it and said that that would leave the intercontinental belt dormant for too long. I think steamboat wanted off more than 2 weeks. So from what I understand, was steamboat winning that much time off it would affect Vince's b shows. Because Vince was running A, B, C shows like 6 days a week. And with steamboat as the champion he would have most likely been the main event in the b shows. So that's when steamboat said fine I'll take more time off then. But steamboat wasn't gone until WrestleMania 4. He had some rematches with The honky tonk Man. He was at survivor series 1987. So I think he was really off only four or five months.

He got the name one day that Jack Brisco, at card in Florida, saw his photo and name in a program that he showed to Eddie Graham who got impressed with his looks and body and told him that he was going to change his name to Ricky Steamboat and say that he was from Honolulu, Hawaii, and that they're going to say that he was Sam Steamboat's cousin.

Sam Steamboats last name is legit Steamboat his last name is Mokuahi translate from Hawaiian to English is Steamboat

Pretty sure it was Ryback during the Nexus storyline that they attributed the brain bleed to.

The Bobby eaton triliogy was classic

This was a really fun listen

Im stunned there is NO film of his first wife (Richie Jr's mother) Bonnie Steamboat or her name said. DAMN.

Wouldn't Mention The1st Wife on A&E Bio...Yet Couldn't Keep Her *OFF* Late 80's WCW TV.😒

I though it was gonna be JC reacts to Cell Saga from thumbnail

Glad he was never a heel loved when he carried that cage against jake

I wonder if jim and bryan are going to review the eddie guerrero documentary

Get Morton and Steamboat in a sell-off where they never touch each other and just sell the whole time :D

Wild take.....Steamboat vs. Luger GAB 89 was better than the WM3 match.

Still waiting on the Roman Reigns biography review....

52:46 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I can't blame Jericho this time it was one of the Nexus NXT jobbers that injured him, never happened in the two matches with Jericho.

Butch Reed is urban legend

I've always been a Steamboat mark.

Ricky the Bobby steamboat

Corny always knows how to transition 😂

I did not know about that last WWE appearance with the NXT stars beating him and (unfortunately) hurting him legit. Think that was a pathetic angle attack on the companies part. They probably have a tag team revenge match down the road. But real bad turn out. Sorta like when the Dudleys put Mae Young thru a table but that worked out.

This dragon is breathing fire 🔥, he will scorch your back Randy Savage and come away with championship belt and seek new horizons

First Japanese American world champion in WCW history, Steamboat earned that honor, but haven’t been mentioned due to not being from Japan like Shinsuke Nakamura, but Jinder Mahal was first Indian WWE Champion but he’s Canadian

Mike Hunt!!

I have the fire breathing dragon outfit action figure of Ricky. It was super fn cool so it was probably for kids i imagine

If you don’t know why Brian mentioned Bonnie… well Ricky has as had as many marriages as Ric Flair.