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I got a question please ask since he has been everywhere what is his take on neighborhoods does Houston have the worst or New York or jersey? What is his take on people and areas the roughest nicest or just rough looking towns with nice people. Would love to hear his insight as I've been almost everywhere and Houston hoods look somewhat intimidating but usually the people are really chill and laid back but take a place like Detroit and man it feels like a set up no matter where u go in some spots.
i was expecting some incredible story and all i got was steve bitching how he wasn't on the ppv and wanted to leave during the greatest night in wrestling history!
dru713281 So, out of all questions on the planet, you want to know one of the most stereotypical questions possible. You're asking this question because Steve is black & from Houston. That question wouldn't be a thought if Hogan was in this interview. You wouldn't think to ask Hogan which place is richer? The Hamptons or Beverley Hills.
For big guys,,it's a matter of taste,,I'm a fan of all eras,,80s midnight express,,rock n roll,,arn Tully,,..moving to big guys..Lod steiners,Harlem heat,,edge Christian,,hardy boys,,dudleys,,New Age Outlaws...80s 90s 2000sall 3 in those eras,,were dominating
Thats so hard to pin down, theres been a ton of great tag teams, the freedbirds, The Road Warriors, steiners, hart foundation, demolition, the list goes on & on. But i do agree on the sentiment, harlem heat was just as good as all those tag teams & honestly, you could throw em all in a bag & give me a top 5 of any order & id agree with you. The old tags were legends, sadly cant say that anymore but harlem heat was so damn awesome for sure!
I always loved Harlem Heat. After they split I was so expecting Stevie Ray to get a push just as they were doing with Booker. Love hearing Stevie Ray's interviews! Seems like a guy you could drink a beer with and shoot the shit.
ConiferTreez Why are you here? I liked Harlem Heat and both Booker and Stevie as singles wrestlers. Stevie wasn't as good as Booker but he still could have been used properly. You could easily use half the guys for your idiotic argument. Go away, holy shit.
@Marky Whitemale. the three teams you mentioned. Awesome in their own right no doubt about that. Outsiders would be my number 2 pick for sure. I grew up with the Steiners in WWF around 93 so i kinda place them there. And well The Roadwarriors belong under the NWA umbrella. Considering it morphed into WCW later but still. NWA all the way for me.
bibby42 would’ve been good for Stevie to “legitimately” win the TV Title while Booker was the US & later on the World Champion while they were working as singles. But Stevie always talked about the bad decisions the front office made...
As a black kid I loved watching Stevie Ray. That love flipped over to the Rock. Black wrestlers were so inspirational to so many. Seeing someone who looks like you matters!
@@scottyellis3442you are privileged and have always seen someone who looks like you at the top of virtually every field out there. Ethnic minorities haven’t seen someone who looks like them in every fuek
@@ThaSilentOne420recognize your privilege and know you have always had people that look you at the top in every field of work imaginable. So, when you are an ethnic minority and see a Booker T, a Gabby, a Serena, or a Tiger Woods succeed and be at the top it is huge.
@@ThaSilentOne420says the white guy... Tell ya ppl to do the same foh everybody u've seen growin up on tv looks like u so its ez for u to say that. Take ya white privilege sumwhere else 🤡
nWo made wrestling more popular. This was the greatest time in professional wrestling. It didn't necessarily run too long, it just got out of hand. Everyone was nWo at one point.
Not too long....could have been greats like the horsemen and run for years. But once they got bigger than 4-5 members, was out of hand. But that was Bischoffs idea....thinking NWO would spin off into its own entity.
@@moorejonothan exactly, I think it should've stopped after Hall, Nash, Hogan, Giant, Syxx, Dibiase as manager, and Virgil as the the guy who had to take the pin if NWO had to lose
DH1986 i don’t feel like it ran to long. The problem is that any and everybody could be in NWO. And the few that couldn’t be in it were trying to mimick it which made the hype die down.
LoL...you’ve got to love Stevie Ray’s honesty. This is absolutely fantastic. He has a cool, largely untapped perspective of the business. I haven’t heard him shoot and share his stories until this show. I’ll definitely be listening to more of this podcast.
So let me get this straight...they put DESPERADO JOE GOMEZ VS. STEVE MONGO MCMICHAEL on the PPV, but not Harlem Heat vs. The Steiner Brothers. That totally should of been switched around.
@@sicco5 That was indeed WCW in a nutshell. Now of course, they were getting ready to catch fire in 1996 with the nWo and become the #1 wrestling company in the world, but it’s decisions like that which eventually led to WCW’s downfall; you’ve got The Steiner Brothers and Harlem Heat, the two best tag teams in the company at the time, with the tag team titles at stake, and you not only put them on the pre-show, they only have a 5 minute match. Meanwhile John Tenta, the Nasty Boys, Public Enemy, and Disco fucking Inferno get to wrestle on the PPV. There’s something wrong with that picture.
Lmao I think Nasty Boys vs Public Enemy were also on the PPV but Harlem Heat were the freakin Tag Team champions and they on the pre-show with the Steiners lol just peak WCW
Since watching the network and not really watching WCW originally I can say that Harlem Heat are now my favourite tag team of all time. And damn Sister Sherri was hot.
I know the video is about Hogan joining the NWO but I think the fact that 2 of the greatest tag teams of all time worked the preshow and not the main card really show how fucked yo that company was even when it was good
Crash Davis yes you are right even Eric bischoff admitted a lot of tag teams including Harlem heat shouldve been taken more seriously but he says It was all about timing and profits
I'm laughing just thinking about Bret after a match in the car driving to the next town with his then tag team partner Stevie Ray asking, "hey Stevie. ""What's up Bret"", Yeah I just have one question, your in the nWo and we are tag partners but.....I'm I in the nWo?"
Nick A 5 time champ couldn't even win the WWE world title once....politics..... I know how it works ...I knew Booker would never win the WWE world belt ...I was right
“I think it was good…and bad, at the same time.” YUP! Nailed that one, on the head. In hindsight, and no longer a high school teenager…I can see where the bad was.
Harlem Heat was big even when Hall and Nash showed up...but they split up.... Good for Booker but bad for Stevie in a way...who was treated as the Jannety of the Heat
I remember Harlem Heat debut back on WCW Saturday Night I think in 93', I may have been 11 so it was still real to me damnit, they were all scarred up and they screamed a lot I thought they were legit gangsters man. I was terrified of them. Harlem Heat was like my first 'introduction' to the aggressive, 'angry black man' stereotype. I remember them just disappearing once Bischoff started dedicating 2hours of every Nitro to NWO promos. But then again, pretty much everybody did.
I loved the early WCW because it had less cartoonish storys and cheractors that the WWF had. The early WCW was smash mouth more wrestling action. WCW had 1 good story and that was the NWO, but they didn't know how to follow up with it. And it seemed like the writers thought " well if they like 1 they will like 3 a whole lot more", and the next thing you knew the whole roster was in the NWO.
Earliest memory of Wrestling seeing Freddy Blasey at the Los Angeles coliseum when I was a baby . Just a vague glimpse of a memory. To the Olympic Auditorium. ,
Stevie ray is SO underrated! I do have to call out something though. Stevie I love you but I was in a building for 10 HOURS just today. And I'll be there for 10 HOURS tomorrow. And wed. And Thursday and Friday. Your talking about staying at a ppv.
Tagteam wrestling has always been treated like second best, but it actually was the main reason most of us watched,grew up watching Harlem heat, stiener Bros, road warriors.... Two men are better than the groups or stables of a bunch of guys so you forget who is even in it. Love you Big Stevie Ray thanks for all your hard work!!
For people saying Stevie is bitter,I dont get that vibe at all. In fact,Stevie strikes me as being the more political of the two. Booker is a great talent but Booker seems like he gets along just to get along,Stevie on the other hand peeps bullshit and knows how to talk around it,he is VERY street smart but cunning as well. I could see him as more of a Booker(no pun intended lol) of talent more so than a wrestler. He probably was happy once it was over,he could live the same life and not have to do the work so you know he aint jealous over no money and even now we still know him when/if we see him so the notoriety is still there. I fuck with Stevie Ray,good guy.
Harlem Heat had a huge Southern following at that time and management wouldn't give them a push. It was so blatantly obvious that's what led to the eventual lawsuit. I was like twelve at the time and could see it was going on
nWo and DX are some of the most FUN I ever Had as a young fan. nWo the music, the intros, the in ring madness. But nothing tops DX driving a tank down the street outside Norfolk scope chanting Free Kevin & Scott, with Chyna (RIP) standing on top of the tank
I never forgot you were a leader in the nWo. I thought Stevie was a great addition to the group. Wouldn't have minded seeing a more consistent Stevie/Bret Hart tag team though.
Someone like Stevie should have dismantled the NWO on purpose. Goes in the ring as leader, tells everyone it's over, to go their separate ways, and people leaveee, one, 2 at a time...that's as far as I get with the storyline. LOL.
Matches from the ppv include: Steve McMichael vs Joe Gomez The Nasty Boys vs Public Enemy DDP vs Jim Duggan John Tenta vs Big Bubba Matches that didn't make the ppv include: Harlem Heat vs Steiner Brothers Eddie Guerrero vs Steven Regal
The only gum that takes more of a beating than stevie rays.. is curt hennigs. R.i.p. curt keep doin ya thang Stevie Ray. Love the podcast guys always legit always entertaining and funny as hell.
Come on now the Wolfpack was a great faction born out of hall and hogan heat. I as a kid knew that they hated each other because Nash would always looked so fucking pissed and would shoot on hogan but not actually say his name. It was cool to see the shoots especially when he would make fun of Hogan and the way he said two sweet and Nash would come on and say no ya fucking old grandpa it's toooooo sweeeeetaaaa. Loved that salty shit from Nash
I remember this it was such a Big Deal. ALL THAT TRASH BIENG THROWN. every one just standing dumb struck. I was like 14 and I could hardly believe it. After that Sting and Luger became our main heroes. And when Savage joined that was wayyy hard too
