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I'm from Leeds. I took great pride in the Fink usually announcing Davey Boy from Leeds, untill I learned he was from Manchester. Bulldog will always have a special place in my memories. Back in 97 I saw him and Owen team up. On the way to the ring I was screaming their names and they both winked at me and smiled. I'm 33 and still remember that moment as vivid as the birth of my kids. Much love from the UK.

I met the lawyer who defended Davey Boy in the bar incident. He told me this story 2 years ago and I was just blown away listening to this just now.

Show starts at 7:40

Bruce always protects Shawn, Shawn is Vince’s boy. Bruce won’t piss off Vince.

Bulldog became my favorite guy after Royal Rumble 91 when he tossed all these people out and lasted until the end with Hogan. Then Warlord at Mania. It was great to be a Bulldog fan. In the mid 90's he played the top heel in a few championship matches just to lose to guys like Bret, Shawn, Diesel, and Undertaker, but when the Foundation came together around 96/97, they made him really strong again. He didn't really ever lose in that era. Actually, most of the Hart Foundation did not lose around then (save maybe for Anvil). Awesome time for a Bulldog/Bret/Owen fan! Davey was never the same after Shawn beat him for the millionth time at One Night Only. Nate is not the only one who noticed Michaels beat him every time! Fans know this stuff!

Saw bulldog main event house show in Birmingham (England) in Oct 1991 against earthquake. He came to the ring with Andre! 1 of the greatest nights of my life Davey is a national treasure! R.I.P Bulldog

I met Davey at a house show in the early 90's. He was really nice, signed autographs and posed for pics with my family (unlike Virgil who wanted $20).

You can't underestimate how big a star Big Daddy was in the UK. There was only 3 channels during his peak so the viewers must have been 20 to 25 million each week. He was also a crossover star and made regular appearances on kids tv.

So glad you guys did that research and put a mention in about big daddy and giant haystacks, they were what got us in the uk into wrestling and I really love that you guys finally done a show on bulldog and actually went right back to the start of his career! Fantastic!

The British Bulldogs were so awesome. I would have loved to have seen them against the Road Warriors or the Midnight Express.

2:05:00 According to Cornette, he thought it was Bruce Prichard on the phone pretending to be Stu Hart and it was Bruce walking in the door that made him realise it was really Stu.

I saw Bulldog and Animal (from L.o.D.) standing outside the Tower of London in '92 both eating ice creams. One of them had a cut/injury on their leg (forget which). Was absolutely shocked to see them as a little kid - had no idea they were even in the UK at the time.

Gonna listen this while driving my semi truck.

I love the BBD... One of the most underrated under used wrestlers of all time..! I also loved this show back then, when this show was GREAT.

Bruce in stus voice saying pervert gets me going

The cover of Conrad as a British Guard is Hilarious!

Dynamite kid is a LEGEND

I loved the British bulldogs as a kid they were my favorite tag team I was devastated when Jimmy Hart and the Hart foundation stole the tag titles on superstars or challenge on Saturday morning

If you make a list of Bulldog's ten best matches two of them were with Bret Hart (Summerslam 1992 and In your house 5). Those two were magic together.

I couldn’t handle being a pro wrestler in the 80’s and 90’s. What a tough job. Major respect to Davie boy Smith and all the other tough guys who did the hard yards. Rest In Peace Bulldog.

2:32:00 Bulldog v Owen for the European Title is a wrestling masterpiece. A shame that the environment took away from the caliber of match. Put that match on a major PPV stage with good lighting, etc and we are talking about one of the best matches ever.

About to listen to the show, hope they careful because little bulldog is out in these streets.

I need this in my life now thanks guys, its brilliant. Prichard HOF 2019

Man I love something to ad with I just hate when they take breaks and talk about wrestling

I love this show, but I found myself disagreeing with Bruce on this one to the point of annoyance. Conrad dropped the ball a few times by skipping over bs comments instead of calling him out on them.

They had Bulldog go out and promise to beat Shawn at One Night Only and dedicate it to his sister Tracy who was dying of Cancer at the time. That was why Bret was so pissed at how that event finished.

The call to stu hart about diana had me in tears omg 😂😂

Nice of Bulldog to help out HBK from all those Marines. Impressive that Bulldog was taking on 3 of those cowards at once.

Really wish he would have kept the train on the tracks. He deserved a top title reign. In either organization

Just want to add a comment about Leo Burke a he was mentioned. In the Maritimes, I'd compare Leo to Jerry Lawler in Memphis when he was a babyface or Dusty in Florida. He was super over. I was stunned when I read Bret's book saying how he often worked with Leo and Leo would be the heel. I thought "No Way that Leo Burke would be a heel!"

British Bulldog is one of the most under utilized wrestling performers of all time!

You NEEEEEEED to do a podcast on Backlash 2000!!! THE PINNACLE OF THE WWF!!!!

the word "rib" gives the impression of a practical joke but for the bulldogs included stuff like drugging someones drink and then urinating in their face when they were incapacitated but still conscious

You can tell which ideas are Bruce's, because of the fervor with which he defends them. The Diana storyline always seemed superfluous to me.

Thank you Conrad and Bruce!

Summerslam 92 remember being 8 years old with my brother and uncle seen teams score goals at Wembley still haven't heard a crowd cheer the way they did when he won And Bruce bravo your posh English accent pretty spot on

True Story: As a kid, I went to a house show. The last match was Lex & Bulldog vs Shawn & Diesel, Bulldog was on the apron and I think Lex was tossed into the ropes and accidentally elbowed Bulldog in the back and knocked him off the apron. Bulldog held his back, then walked out. I was shattered, Shawn & Diesel got the win. THE NEXT NIGHT ON RAW, Lex & Bulldog came out, I thought, great, they patched things up. it was the same damn match. I was such a mark. lol Great stuff. I love wrastlin'

Just picturing a couple of guys walking into a bar and seeing Legion of Doom doing their finisher on Vince McMahon.

The rib Davey played on Lex arranging for a cop to pull Lex and Davey over and Davey gets Lex arrested was one of the greatest ribs in WWE history.

Bruce's Bulldog impression is hilarious

One of the best reviews yet. Seems like a great family and solid pizza

I am extremely interested in learning a lot more about Davey Boy Smith A.K.A The British Bulldog

2:29:06 The funniest Stu Hart impression ever.

I always wanted them to make a Wrestlefest 2 with the same premise as the first one but with these characters to select :Hulk Hogan -Ultimate Warrior -Macho Man Randy Savage -Mr Perfect -British Bulldog -Undertaker -Papa Shango -Bret Hart -Million Dollar Man. -LOD (playable) -Rockers

Bruces definition of beefin made me laugh so hard!!

Bulldog 4 hof 2019

King Kong Bundy went from main eventing WM2 to wrestling with midgets at WM3. That was worse than Luger

This is the best show on RU-vid of any genre. It just wrecks me that I have to start late in the day and then I'm fooked trying to finish at god knows what time in the morning! The stone cold one is amazing as well but the Tony schavoni one doesn't do much for me though.

Owen & Davey didn't lose the belts to the Head Bangers; the match was for the vacant titles which were held up because of Austin's neck injury, and Owen & Davey had lost the titles to Austin & Michaels in May.

Over 100 episode and not one criticism of Vince or HHH.

One unique feature of the original European Championship belt was that it included a side plate on one end that had the belt maker's phone number on it. I discovered this due to the plate with the number being fully visible in a poster of Shawn Michaels from Pro Wrestling Illustrated. So of course I had to call it.

I started watching about 88 or 89 when I was 3, since my birthday is November 26 I don't remember if it was the end of that year or early the next year. I always loved Bulldog, by going back and renting vhs that had been out. I loved the Bulldogs, his run to win the IC belt, his WCW run, my 2 personal favorites the different trios of Davey, Owen, and Yokozuna, then Vader replacing Yoko, and the Hart Foundation group or faction. The only 2 runs I personally didn't care for one way or the other was the Allied Powers tag team with Lex Luger, and the singles run when he came back from late 90s and early 2000s. His last run the only 2 things I remember were the Rock Bottom on dog crap, and when Rock was special referee in a match with Davey and Triple H on SmackDown. I remember Rock before dropping the People's Elbow sliding before hitting it since he was in street clothes.

Bruce's Bulldog impression is underrated

What was the theme they were playing in the background before tatanka???? Sounds so familiar

You should put for your patreon the obvious deleted scene: Conrad: Do you actually eat blue apron? Bruce: Do I look like I'm tired of living?

Just imagine Davey Boy being wwe world champion that be freaking awesome

I can highly recommend checking out some Jacques Rougeau shoots. He seems very open and honest regarding what happened. Not a hint of 'I knocked out Dynamite Kid' BS. Just his story.

Bruce Prichard talking with British accent sounded like Stewie from Family Guy: "is Big Daddy going to appear? Hm?"

Leo Burke is from Moncton NB, right around where Kurgan is from about 20 minutes away. Please remember that

In fariness to Davey. Most wrestling fans didn't even know WCW existed until Nitro. It wasn't his fault he drew. They didn't push hard, weren't well advertised. In 2000 I scraped to a show I'd have gone to only by hearing about it.

Dynamite kid is my favorite wrestler of all time. Look at his NJPW title victory. The match before the final where he wins the title he faced Davey boy and it is in that match that the famous injury happened to his back. Later on it was aggravated in the tag match. He hit the ropes and two steps into coming off the ropes or not even he just collapsed

Davey Boy: 'Bret, I don't fuckin remember anything...drop down what?, fuck' lmaooooooo

In Summer Slam 96 Sid did hit the choke slam but won with the Power Bomb I enjoyed the match for what it was.

Conrad I was hoping you would bring up Meltzer's hilarious review of Bret vs Backlund at SS 94. Monsoon was killing the moves like saying "I've never seen anyone submit to an armbar." he would not live to see Ronda Rousey. Davey also knocked himself out cold on the stairs in that match. Backlund and Bret had an "I quit" match at Wrestlemania and Hart said it was his worst match.

54:07 one of the funniest stories I've ever heard

Any chance you guys will come to Nashville?

I thought I was the only one that loved the 95 IYH Match with Bret more than the Wembley match. The Wembley match drew a huge crowd, but the IYH match was better worked. Less spots were botched, Davey looked better to (he had a gut and body fat in Wembley, and like Bruce said you had a heel and a face. I don't think it was just Davey's best match; it's my favorite Bret Hart match as well and Bret Hart had many many great ones.

By far the greatest royal rumble participant....

Wtf? That 1995 Survivor Series wildcard match is one of the best Survivor Series matches ever IMO.

I love their relationship. Like brothers

I know Bruce wasn't there, but Davey was there in WCW when the Shockmaster tripped live on TBS.

Bret/bulldog from iyh95 is A classic

I wasn’t even there! It was fookin Owen 3:29:40

I watched an old tag team match on RU-vid recently from the mid-80s. It was the British bulldogs vs Big John Studd and King Kong Bundy. For some reason, it was so strange seeing Davey Boy tie-up with Big John Studd. It just seems like they're from different generations but initially, they're not.

I don't think it's Vince doesn't want to see a wheel chair up on the stage, I don't think he wants to see Tom Billington at all. I do agree with Conrad that once Billington is gone the Bulldogs will be inducted in as a team.

I was a major bulldog fan in the 90s and warrior fan and i can remember the first time I picked up a magazine and realised there was actually another major promotion in the US ,I bought the magazine cause I loved wwf but it must have been a wcw mag cause wen I opened it a saw sting I was like who’s he where’s warrior and remember being really disappointed id bought it ,I think the reason bulldog never drew in wcw in England is cause we never really knew about wcw ,wwf was on sky all the time I think it was only really the really late 90s that wcw even registered over here

Davey Boy should've had at least one WWF Championship run, he should definitely be in the hall of fame

Surprised they never mentioned that Billington and Smith were cousins (assuming Conrad actually knew) as it gives a lot more context to their fall-out.

Love the impressions Bruce throws in now and then haha his Jim Cornette is hilarious haha

I was at in your house 4. The whole place booed diesel and cheered davey boy.

Such a shame that the time difference made uk ppv not viable for the wwf, our crowds especially then loved the wwf so much and we would’ve filled those stadiums over and over, one of the best crowd reactions of all time, the lod pop so many got at summer slam at Wembley stadium will always be remembered as probably the best crowd ever!! 80.000 legit number, gorilla 100.000 plus 😂

Can we get a Ken Shamrock episode? Or, would WWE nix that?

Why does Bruce start doing a German accent at 9:15?

thanks from the uk

On Bret, I find it funny that Bret took offense that HBK's WWF Title defenses would be against his friends, yet Bret suggests he drop a title to his family member. Oh the irony.

great episode! thanks again!

Anyone know of a good promo Bulldog cut? You got to hear him speak pretty rarely because he wasn't a good talker. I remember as a kid who didn't get wrestling on tv so VHSs of PPVs was the only wrestling I saw and I always wondered what part of England Bulldog was from because I never got to hear him speak so I could work it out.

SUMMERSLAM92..Davey Vs Brett hitman Hart..Davey fooked and an all time classic.Brett is class👍🇬🇧🏵️

You showed far too much respect to big daddy. I Remember him well, his matches was pure pantomime, he couldn’t work well. It baffles me to this day how he got so famous.

When are you guys going to do one on Kerry Von Erich???

IYH Dec 95 Hart/Bulldog match was awesome

if you're not thirty third you're last!! GREETINGS from Buffalo N.Y. THE best city in the world!!

I personally think it's not a co-incidence that in August of 1992 Leeds United were champions of England's top football division... and British Bulldog was announced as from Leeds, England at Summerslam.

Can’t push 2 baby face at a time, huh? 🤨 Bret and Macho held the belts from Mania to Summerslam only a month before. Hogan and Warrior had the belts at the same time. Shawn and Yokozuna had the belts as heels for months at the same time. I guess it was a temporary policy 🤥

My grandmother used to watch world of sport wrestling hell most my family did she always talked about haystacks and big daddy they were a national treasure, if you ask anyone who 45+ about wrestling they'll talk about big daddy and haystacks.

Great episode.

Okay, I gotta comment on the One Nite Only PPV mentioned around the 2:50:00 mark. I'm not an insider, but I was a fan and I did a little bit of wrestling myself a year or so after this. Doesn't make me an expert and I've never met any of the participants, so hey, fuck my opinion along with all of Dave Meltzer's, eh Bruce? But it's mine and I'm gonna give it. I don't find an ounce of fucking logic in saying that the screw finish on Davey in Manchester was designed simply to get heat and progress a story. a) The One Nite Only PPV wasn't even seen in North America and so far as I know (I could be wrong on this - you might know) there were no recap clips shown on major WWF shows either. Practically the entire audience for this show were Brits, which means any heat Shawn generated on the night went entirely to waste. Even if Americans had seen it, they would likely not have given much of a shit about the European belt anyway, much less Davey Boy, who was a heel to them and as you said elsewhere in this episode, there wasn't a huge amount of business in the UK anyway and even less so in the rest of Europe at the time. Putting the European belt on D-Lo Brown was pretty much a sign of how valuable that was. b) It wasn't done for a fucking story. Not only did Shawn never drop that belt back to Davey in a high profile rematch, they didn't even get a sniff of a programme, although I realise a month or two later everything went to shit regarding the Hart Foundation anyway. With Shawn slated to be moving on to higher things the following year so he could eventually be fed to Austin at Wrestlemania (should have been Bret and Austin 2 for the world strap at WM 14 IMHO - the greatest main event that never happened), the European belt should have been so far off his radar that he would have fallen over it without seeing it before winning it. At the time this went down I wasn't smart to the business, but I guessed a lot which subsequently turned out to be correct and I'd known it was pre-determined since around the time I learned to walk. So far as I could tell then and so far as I can still tell now over two decades later, that fuck finish on Davey was instituted for two reasons: 1) Shawn, despite being gifted by nature with more wrestling talent than almost anyone else in history, was a dishonest, selfish, immature, drug-addled fucking wanker who enjoyed fucking any of the Hart contingent over any way he could because of his heat chiefly with Bret. 2) Shawn could do any damn thing he wanted to the business, including devaluing and wiping his feet on it, because he figuratively had his dick in Vince's mouth. Vince has fired a LOT of people for fucking up or being rebellious over the years. Shawn committed so many fireable offences in the course of 95-98 but got to stay until he took his sabbatical for back surgery. The only thing that wasn't handed to him on the plate he chose, was Mike Tyson draping the Austin 3:16 t-shirt on him at Wrestlemania 14. The events of October and November 1997 killed my interest in continuing to follow the World Wrestling Federation stone dead and they've been in the grave ever since. One Nite Only remains the last time I ever gave the company any of my money and the subsequent Survivor Series was the last time I watched one of its shows. I realise Shawn was a heel trying to get heat, but the way he acted that night makes me feel fucking sick to this day. And not in a way that makes me want to tune in to see him get beaten, but in a way that made me walk away from the WWF forever in disgust and contempt. Shawn Michaels for me can forever be summed up as the man with so little class that he threw a knee brace at a woman dying of cancer to get some cheap heat which barely made it outside the building it took place in anyway.

It wasn't me, i wasn't even there

Damn it just hit me, unless I missed it we forgot to ask about the angle with the warlord were Bobby Heenan had a fake Queen Elizabeth badmouth the British bulldog

Easy, easy, easy. We love big daddy and so do you.