STW #8: The Radicalz 

"I'm not listening to you cheat on me" cracked me up 😂😂😂

A review of the Radicalz first year in WWF 1. Chris Benoit- Won The IC Title three times, had a great feud with Chris Jericho, challenged the Rock for The WWF Title at Fully Loaded and Unforgiven, was an upper mid carder by the end of 2000. 2. Eddie Guerrero- Won the European Title and the IC Title, had a very entertaining run with Chyna, he would break up with Chyna and reform The Radicalz. 3. Perry Saturn- Won the Hardcore Title twice and the European Title, he gets paired with Terri Runnels, and reforms The Radicalz with Benoit, Eddie, and Malenko. 4. Dean Malenko- Won The Light Heavyweight Title twice, had a great match with Scotty Too Hotty at Backlash, he would turn into a ladies man and do jobs for Lita, Ivory, and Jacqueline.

listening to this in a time where Jeff Jarrett has just done a bit with Elias and Road Dogg, and is also a WWE Hall of Famer. Great call Bruce!

Thank you for your insight Bruce.

loved when Eddie stole JBL"s rims lol

Found these old leaked wrestler salaries online just for Conrad: ''Radicals Chris Benoit, Eddie Guerrero, Dean Malenko and Perry Saturn all left WCW in January 2000 and signed three-year contracts with the WWF. Benoit, whom WWF management believed had the most potential of the four, was signed to a $400,000 annual downside guarantee. Benoit certainly earned more then that in 2004 when he held the WWE World Title for five months. At the time of his death, his downside had risen to $500,000 per year. Guerrero, Malenko and Saturn each recieved $250,000-per-annum downsides when they signed with the WWF in January 2000.'' From Powerslam (UK) magazine 10 years ago. Seems like they could be pretty accurate.

I can't wait to hear a full episode of Both Eddie Guerrero and No Way Out 2004!!!!! Bruce talking about Eddie Guerrero when he passed made me cry!!!!! God I miss Eddie Guerrero

Been 13years and i still tear up.

eddie guerrero probably will go down as one of the most entertaining and excellent workers ever. pound for pound he may be the greatest worker/entertainer ever. inventive, imaginative, always progressing, never leaning on old gimmicks

It's funny as hell that they bleeped out Snuka's name..😂

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Hearing you talk about Eddie at the end made me laugh & cry from one minute to the next. Thanks for sharing all that.

I love eddie guerrero hes my all time favorite wrestler .

To me, this is the episode that “made” this show. Great stuff.

love how Conrad just blows off HHH finishing a match with a blown quad, The pain would be immense and HHH deserves huge credit for his level of dedication, look how Nash reacted to the same injury (which is how 99% of people would react though lol)

Benoit is a tricky subject, however I try to separate the ills of the person vs the entertainer when talking about a Hall of Fame. To keep a talent like Benoit out of the WWE HOF is to damage the HOF because it clearly becomes not about actual careers, but what people will look the other way on personally with a guy vs another guy. I think our understanding of mental health, in combination with drug use, may have us viewing people like Benoit in a different light in a decade or so...I would say similar to the way we look at drug addicts today vs 30 years ago. Sad situation all the way around and certainly a deal that puts things into perspective even years later.

RIP Nancy and Daniel Benoit. Shit still devastates me to this day.

Perry Saturn is one of my favorite wrestlers of all time. Was an Army Ranger too.

Love the show!! Big fan. Ive loved the business all my life and love getting into the workings of the business and what bruce has done in his career. Its a great show

Meltzer definitely said “They changed The plans after I reported it” before

500 extra points for Bruce giving the Charlie Chan reference when talking bout Konan..all but 5 people got it including me haha.

Who would've thought we'd see Dominic again over a decade later?

Benoit was given a perfectly fine title run, Mania til Summerslam isn’t a short run in modern wrestling and he had Triple H and Shawn to share the load of carrying Raw while he was asked to represent the title by doing what he did best - wrestle so his weaknesses on the mic weren’t highlighted. Realistically that’s the best he and his fans could’ve hoped for. Eddie’s run, in comparison, was done dirty.

I'm still not sure where the F Conrad gets his massive ego from

Triple H burying Benoit and also Tazz is so obvious. Conrad is spot on with that observation.

More Meltzer hits at the start, pushes this 4 star subject to 5 stars, great solid show 5/5

Did they check with Mike Graham first, to see if they had drawn a dime?

I had always thought that Vince was wearing the neckbrace because that was not long after Nailz was stopped from strangling him. Seriously.

Thanks to Bruce and Conrad for touching on Chris. You can feel Bruce's uncomfortableness (if that's a word) and i'm glad when that part of the show ended. RIP to the Benoit Family.

I've seen people complain about Benoit only having the belt 5 months. Steve Austin's longest title reign was 5 months.

We need to put a bow on this and get to the Radicals...Dave Meltzer says...

Sometimes Bruce is full of shit. But you can tell how much he loved Chris and how hard it is for him to talk about it. He wanted to just change the subject so bad

The beep is Jimmy Snuka

I can't friggin wait for Conrad and Bruce to have Meltzer on the show. Wait no, that'll be a handicap match. I know they say they don't have guests, but get Meltzer and Tony Schiavone on. Can't friggin wait.

Vince, macho Man, dusty, Bruce has got the best impressions

Their is a really insane but intriguing theory that Kevin maybe possibly had some to do with a certain persons death

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I CAN SAY THIS..... I WAS IN ATTENDANCE BOTH TIMES BENOIT WON THE "BIG GOLD" BELT..... SOULED OUT 2000 (CINCINNATI) WRESTLEMANIA 20 (NEW YORK)

And, Jeff Jarrett is in the hall of fame, haha.

Saturn was the only tattooed wrestler to pull off wearing a dress 👗

I just started listening to these recently and have been listening to 83 weeks for awhile now as well. Idk about anyone else but it’s really annoying to me when Conrad will drill into Bruce or Eric for the smallest detail they get wrong or accuse them of making stuff up or lying etc…..yet he never calls out his best buddy Dave Meltzer for basing his entire “news” letter off of second hand info, gossip, and his own opinions/agenda. Dave has blatantly lied, got stuff wrong, printed some of his “inside sources” opinions as factual info for his entire career. Conrad will quickly gloss over or completely ignore something that Dave gets 100% wrong or some opinion that Dave has but basically states it as a “known fact backstage”. It’s really scummy the kinda stuff dave has done for years. He’s negatively impacted careers and reputations, ruined angles, created false narratives and drama, all while calling himself a journalist 😂. He’s a gossip columnist who claims to be an expert in a business he’s NEVER been in. He’s proven what Eric and Bruce have always said about him is true with how he’s covered AEW. Verbally blowing Tony Khan, the young bucks, Kenny Omega, Chris Jericho, Moxley and the company in general. They name moves after him and treat him like a real sport journalist, so he glorifies their AWFUL writing, booking, and wrestling. He viciously attacks anyone who says negative stuff about his AEW butt buddies and he buries people like CM punk or Cornette and Bischoff for telling the truth about the juvenile EVPs and the way that company is ran. When Bischoff supposedly let talent run the show, Dave blasted him for his inexperience and said the inmates ran the asylum. When that same thing but worse is happening in AEW, Dave says Tony is a creative genius and mostly everything they do is amazing. Meltzer is a dirtbag who gives bad reviews to/prints lies and rumors about the people who don’t give him the time of day. Meanwhile…For all his “friends”, he’s gives them 5 star match ratings and writes stories to make them look good and bury their competitors. I wish Conrad would grow some balls and stop being such a Meltzer fanboy.

I love this episode. Conrad was pushing the shit out of Bruce when it came to Dave M. Lmao. Classic

used to see perry at the gym on long island alot with taz...prob around 96 /97...perry was perry...(not a bad thing) ...they trained hard

I'm very excited that Bruce was rehired for creative.

I love Conrad, he's a great host and really grills Bruce sometimes, but he can also be argumentative just for the sake of stirring the pot.

enough about Benoit.. Eddie was hands down the best wrestler among them.. Benoit would have even said that..

Shane Douglas would have been a perfect mouthpiece for these guys.

all legends especially Benoit

1:44:00. Conrad is dumbfounded that the door isn't shut on someone like a Jeff Jarrett and can't fathom Vince would ever welcome him back. Bruce says the door is never shut on anyone. And, the 2019 Rumble #2 entrant, Double J.

@59:50 Whose name are they beeping out?

Conrad said, "he's dead" lmao!!

That story with Eddie's mom, talk about working yourself into a shoot lol

Ok well Conrad is calling bullshit bc they all lost didn’t go over well I agree with Bruce bc look at flip side WCW had 2 superstars that were not hogan that were not sting or flairs level of superstar level but shook entire roster up with baseball bats... dude u can’t shit in both ways of bringing in new talents

It's hard to believe that August will be 3-years that the show has been on. It doesn't seem it.

1:43:58 And Double J has came back now 🤣

Bruce cannot defend the fact that the WWF did take pleasure in killing WCW & ECW top guys when they first came in. If Eddie and Benoit had come in strong it wouldn't have taken so long to build them back up.

Get the the Radicalz dammit LOL 😆

benoit actually left the wcw belt in the ring at the ppv so he couldnt have brought the belt with him anyhow

Maybe it was just me , but when they were talking about Mike Bell's brother making the documentary Conrad said "He has a new documentary about addiction... prescription drugs...you should check it out." Made it sound like Bruce is on pills and should watch it to help him out. That's just me though, I'm sure it wasn't what it was.

What happend when....The Radicalz came to WWF

How did they fight from underneath when they joined DX after they all got beat

From out wards Bruce is very unlikeable but listen to him his honest story's from inside the wwe makes me understand Bruce. I don't have wwe network. Its tapes and DVD. Don't care what David thinks Free thinking knows wwe sucks now but listen to them is more funny more entertaining than wwe. Thanks William morey

Wow half these are dead. RIP... one of the others is a recovering addict and the other has dropped off the face of the Earth.

they should put what min mark they actually start talking about the main topic. on this podcast it was like 30 mins in until they did 🤦‍♂️

Jerry Jarrett's Johnson

Eddie's last PPV was also his birthday.

the monday between was taped so the couldnt debut until the next live monday

That Brother Love music is top quality shit....👌🏻

Great podcast and episode!

Wwf smashed every guy that came in from wcw

44:14 Dean Malenko is not a shoot name 😂😂

interesting how right bruce was about jeff jarrett here

Eddie Guerrero and Art Barr were awesome

tazz debuted against jerry lawler lol

Triple wasnt drawing during his reign of terror. So why is he a 14x champion?

Around the 2:18:00 mark they talk about the 4 of them being the biggest exodus in wrestling without there being a buyout (WWE buys WCW), but that isn't true. Misawa taking almost everyone in All Japan with him to start up NOAH would get that honor.

If Vince had gone to jail the wwe wouldn't be in business today.

I love when Bruce gives a bullshit answer and Conrad calls him out Bruce gets all pissy about it

Christ. Conrad makes it so damn hard to listen sometimes.

@ 1:26:00 Saturn needed something to embellish his personality? Then Bruce, explain Bautista? Useless that's how I'd explain Dave.

Malenko was too NWA to get over in the modern era

were saturn and eddie supposed to beat the NAO?

Bruce claims he wasn't towing the company line, but now he's back in WWF....LOL

Meltzer has that annoying upward infection in his voice that makes everything he says sound like a question. He also has these awkward pauses in his senteces that just make me cringe. Nothing against the guy or his dirt sheets,I just can't stand listening to him talk.

8:40 ummmmm, well..... we'll just see about that.......

God that first 30 minutes was so annoying and pointless

What's so hard to understand about the fact that benoits brain was melting when he did that? But snuka tho..lol ok.

4:59 not saying he did but that sounds like Bruce just sniffed some drugs

Vince: "Come on Bruce jab it in my-ass!" Bruce: "But Vince I have never given anyone steroids!" Vince: "Who said anything about steroids Pal?" Bruce: "I ... LOooooooove Youuuuuuu....."

I mean Superfly Jimmy Snuka

Going back and trying to listen to this one was literally unbearable...conrad trying to get Bruce mad and talking about shit meltzer for over 20 minutes made me tap out. Any of con's newer podcasts have become unlistenable for me due to the LONG ad-reads every 20 minutes, as well as he has never evolved from basing everything he knows and asks off of dirt sheet rumors. I really thought I loved this podcast, but going back to relisten is making it very clear that I REALLY dislike conrad and his ways of talking to people. I loved these shows and kept listening because Bruce is an amazing story teller, really funny, and at the end of the day has a lot of good values he stands for. I was listening in spite of con's constant disgusting behavior. Time to move on and find something new. After all these years, I feel I've grown out of this podcast. Sad to say goodbye, but I wish Bruce good luck in everything he does.

Snuka bleeped out?

These dudes didn’t draw in WCW!!!! Malenko, Saturn, any of them. Maybe Benoit, maybe

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I came here for Benoit, and you don’t want to talk about him.

This has to make the network unedited its bullshit what ive seen so far edited alot of benoit out cant we just say hes the greats professional at the time n thats that

Strange how there are plenty of people here saying Eddie and benoit never drew a dime.... Pretty sure they have made more money then any of you have though?

shane douglas was supposed to join them

Oh jimmy Abuja probably huh?

The moppy gimmick was clearly a rip off of Chavo Jr gimmick in WCW, Pepe the stick horse. SMH