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I like the wild card, sometimes you dont need a story for a wrestling match. Nice being different

lol yesterday I literally just thought how much I'd like to hear from Bruce on this show. This is still my fav Survivor Series.

Thank you guys for the podcasts and for keeping us stuck inside/quarantine entertained. 😊🙏👍

One of my all time favorite shows Survivor Series 1995

I did sort of miss it when Survivor Series moved away from Thanksgiving. That was kind of the reward as a kid for going to school non-stop since August. You get a four day weekend, you get to see family, see Santa, and stay up late and watch Survivor Series.

Bret vs Diesel is a classic match

just for the record i never got karate fighters for christmas

Alundra was supposed to face Aja at the Rumble. It was advertised in the magazine.

The wild card match is awesome.. imagine trying to stand on the red rooster but shiting on the wild card match lol.

I still think the best time in Wrestling was 1984 - 2001. It hasn't been great imo in almost 20 year's.

The best thing about this episode is that there's a lot to unpack here.....

I have an old WWF magazine that had a Royal Rumble preview. And one of the matches they had listed was Alundra Blayze vs Aja Kong. Just saying.

Then they started breaking the Spanish announcement table every week.

I know business was down during this time but 94-98 was my favorite era!

loved the wild card match was different

When he rips on Dave meltzer… that has to go down in the annals of podcast history.

I remember doing odd jobs, like mowing lawns, etc, just to afford to buy this on VHS, for a whopping 39.95, plus tax! No regerts though. I LOVED this show! You could really feel the tone of the company, shifting. Also, I really enjoyed the Wild Card match. They didn't provide much backstory or context, but it was a lot of fun!

It was funny how Diesel had his hair braided in the back for this match dropping the belt to bret.....you could see on Diesel attitude but shit he couldnt sell

Meltzer cant handle the fact that a Japanese match sucked. He even said it was bad. Still gave it 2 1/2* though

I got this show for free live on accident from my cable company! My neighbor must have ordered and I got it by mistake hahaha! Got to see the Bert vs Diesel classic.

Still makes me laugh that the Kliq ran things backstage but never drew a dime in that new generation era

I really loved the bill clinton impersonator at this event. It was actually hilarious and I laugh more now then I was a kid. Totally random but funny stuff

Why is there 25 ads for EVERY video? I never get this many ads for any other channel. And THIS video has 300 views!

Enjoyed listening to this, because you get a bit of insight into what Bill Watts did and wanted to do. Plus, it lets you know how much Bruce clearly doesn’t like Watts 😂

This was a great Survivor Series 1995. It did feel like WWF was in a transitional place with this pay per view. The reason why cause this was the first Survivor Series on a Sunday instead of Thanksgiving Night or Thanksgiving Eve. I was thumbs up about this pay per view too for the same reason as Bruce. Bret and Diesel was match of the year for me. It told a great story. The Wild card was useless as a 2 dollar bill. It felt like Bill Watts was thrown shit to the wall to see what stook to get those stars that need a match to have match plain and simple.

Ok... the commercials frequency is getting out of hand

Have Bruce and Conrad done a show covering the WWE Career of Mick Foley i feel like that would be something to cover in the future if it hasn't been covered already

love it when Bruce goes off

Awesome show

A good survivor series as a kid I would have never thought the ratings were bad I love wrestling @ this time the main event with Bret & diesel was great especially the end of the match

01:10:45 wow! Bruce ripping Meltzer to shreds 🤣👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Undertaker Sneezed in Front of Vince and he had to Retire

11/22/1963 is also when A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector was released.

If Aja Kong wasn't next in line, why was she the sole survivor?

That damn JVC boombox was advertised for what seemed like years. Jvc kaboom box i think lol

Goldust, like the Undertaker is one of those gimmicks that most people would failed at, but the people to whom it was given made it their own and absolutely nailed it. I mean describe to someone the Goldust character, and then be amazed how good Dustin was to get it over.

Austin vs. Bigelow during the Attitude era would have been badass, or am I just high? Also, a "Jerry Seinfeld" character in the WWF would have been awesome!

I was actually at this one! Totally and completely forgettable, except for Bret vs Diesel. But Bret vs Diesel was 100% worth it. Bret's spill to the outside looked brutal in person and Diesel's limp at the end of the match was very convincing.

I loved the Undertaker with the mask. I thought it matched the purple and black very nicely.

RIP PAT PATTERSON 🙏🙏🙏

1 hour 13 minutes in red ass Bruce shows up.....what a rant

Love the way Bruce lies his ass off. We all know what happened 99% of the time, but he still has to besmirch anyone who questions the WWE or his bottom HHH

You said Perfect was one and done with commentating PPVs but he also did color for Royal Rumble 96

I like how Bruce goes on rants about Meltzer. And he was hot about Meltzer saying WWE was high on Aja Kong. Saying the WWE wasn't interested in using her. Yet on this show she eliminated most of the woman in the match. And was the sole survivor. Yet they weren't interested in using Kong. Okay Bruce.

Bruce cutting a better promo than the entire roster other than Pat McAfee

The darkside vs royals was good in retrospect when you look at who the talent in this match became

*1ST MATCH TALK @ **1:00:30*

Of all the guys in the clique and the issues with Bret it's funny that this is Kevin's best match, Waltman has said many times his favourite match was with Bret and Shawn's best/biggest match was wrestlemania 12

Just listened to a Nash interview talking about the Cliq and how they made some of their own hype by coming in early to an arena and putting a sign on the locker room door saying CLIQ like the office did it

Is this the episode with the most commercials ever? Glad it wasn't a watch-along.

WOW! Greatest. Meltzer. Rant. EVERRRRR!!!!!!

The only difference in Meltzer and anybody on RU-vid that give their opinions on matches is that he came along in the 80s when nobody was doing it and you had to write for the magazine. I have no clue why people including Conrad care so much about what Meltzer thinks. He's a great historian, but I don't care about his opinion on the matches.

Don’t forget the JVC KaBOOM box

I was in church when Bruce went off on Dave my head phones got unplugged and I couldn’t shut off the volume or leave the room

We all know Connie's finisher would be a modified Banzai Drop. What would Bruce's finisher be? I'm leaning toward some kind of submission...?

Are we ever getting Diesel part 2?

Set that gimmick! 😆

greatest ever Bruce > Meltzer rant at 1:12:59

This was not Bam Bam Bigelow's last match with the WWF. He was at the Superstars and Raw tapings in Salisbury, MD two days after this.

I always find the "bad" shows make the best episodes.

250 stars in the Tokyo Dome 😂

I thought Jerry McDevitt was Vince's personal counsel

Bruce getting angry about Aja being prepared for a push because he thinks its Meltzers imagination.... Alundra vs Aja was on the cards to the point the WWF Magazine listed it in their preview of the Rumble PPV, printed ahead of time. And JR has confirmed that was the plan. It's unfortunate to believe that just because Meltzer reports the plan, its always an assumption, when sometimes company literature exists to prove that he was right.

I thought that Conrad was a humble guy, had that vibe, but after his opening statement talking about men's privates, I'm shocked. WWF used to be family friendly. 18+ content.

Diesel's best match in the year long title reign, was the last match for which he was the champion. Go figure

Going on 25 years, that 'SkyTwisterPress' is still one of the most impressive moves I ever saw.

Just here for the black guy astronaut and brain surgeon ads

1:12:57 FDM PERIOD HE WASN'T THERE BRUCE WAS GET OVER IT MELTZER

Prichard is either not remembering accurately or is just full of it because 100% Alundra Blayze vs Aja Kong was advertised in the WWF magazine for the 1996 Royal Rumble so that clearly WAS the plan. Blayze had done her feud with Bertha Faye by that point and it was clear by the Aja Kong booking of her as sole survivor and steamrolling her opponents in her 2 RAW matches following Survivor Series.

Piper did movies before hogan did!

"Everyone knows the rules." Is Conrad a fan of Davey Pageviews?

Its funny how bruce says aja kong wasnt pushed because she couldnt speak english yet they made bull nakano champion in 94 and she couldnt either

I call shit on Prichard here when discussing the direction they was going in for Alundra Blayze opponents at this time, he claims it was Bertha Faye they had in mind. Well that seems odd as Blayze and Faye had feuded for months prior to this event and ended their program. Aja Kong indeed was booked as the sole survivor here and won the next couple of matches on RAW and was even advertised in the then WWF magazine to be the opponent for Blayze at Royal Rumble 1996. It was in print. So i think Bruce is either confused on the timeline of events here or he is just denying what was happening at the time.

If a PPV has Skip, Rad Radford, Barry Horowitz, Savio Vega, Pig Farmer, Isaac Yankem, a terrible group of woman and Ahmed Johnson on it… it stinks. This was not the exception to that rule.

Lol - Meltzer ratings

Business is boomin

It might have been his best match but Diesel can’t put on a clinic, I’m sorry, even with Brett calling the match. I could never figure out the hype about Diesel because he would get gassed after 3 minutes and back then as a babyface he couldn’t promo either.

Aja Kong WAS the one WWF was going with against Alundra Blayze. I recall the Rumble match being advertised and then quietly dropped. Bruce just lost a lot of credibility with me.

Okay but here's where you lose me Bruce. You guys ROUTINELY brought in talent who legitimately couldn't speak the language, or had gimmicks that indicated such. Not only brought them in, but had them on top either chasing titles or holding them. So where's the logic in the argument that a female wrestler, who by your OWN ADMISSION was skilled in the ring, was passed over and "didn't make sense" because of an inability to communicate? Why not just give her a manager/mouth piece like you guys did for so many others? I'm not trying to be difficult here, I'm honestly just confused as to why that wasn't an option. Was it just an issue of women's wrestling still being seen as mostly a "special attraction" match ala Moolah, similar to what the Lord Littlebrook's of the past had been, so you guys didn't think the wrestling audience of the era would have accepted a female wrestler being presented with a manager? That would have required some pretty decent "screen time" in order to get her over that way, so was it an issue of being afraid "the boys" would have a problem with potentially having their own matches cut/shortened to free up that time/space? Again, really not trying to be a Karen here, I've been a wrestling fan as far back as I can remember (I'm 32), and have been fascinated by the psychology and theory and logic of booking/promoting, and I'd really just like to be able to understand this better.

Deesel

Give bret the belt and watch magic happen, its not that hard vince

The Bret - Diesel match was way too long I always thought. Good match though

1:50:14

just for the record i never got karate fighters for christmas