While, yeah, Heenan never liked Hogan to start with, him calling attention to it as Hogan came out ruined the moment a bit for me, because as a viewer, that thought is in your mind that he IS the third man that hasn't come out yet.
I always felt like this was worse in retrospect, watching it on YouTube or other clips. Back in '96, I had no thoughts that Hogan was coming out to be the third man.. zero at all. Heenan saying anything didn't even register in my brain.
I'm another one who saw the Hogan reveal live and Heenan's comment didn't even register. It was amazing.
Is there animosity between Flair and Mick Foley? I noticed during that before the HoF when they were sitting on the panel that Flair took a lot of shots at Mick.
Flair generally doesn't have a lot of respect for him, he's called him a glorified stuntman in the past and said he wasn't good enough to be a top guy.
Ric saying Foley outstayed his welcome was hilarious. He's kinda right, but that's such a hypocritical thing for Flair, of all people, to say.
Did anyone watch that Main Event match between the Shield and the Wyatts? Really great match, but Dean at the end of it was clutching his ribs, barely able to talk, and told the other guys to handle the rest of the promo while he grimaced against the ropes. He was able to grab the mic and growl a few words out then went back to clutching his ribs.
Seemed like he might have really gotten one broken.
It was just really good selling.
Foley ripped into him in his first book, which probably didn't help.
At the 2K14 panel before Summerslam last year, he also shit on Daniel Bryan for being out of place and not deserving to be up there with him.
Flair generally doesn't have a lot of respect for him, he's called him a glorified stuntman in the past and said he wasn't good enough to be a top guy.
Ric saying Foley outstayed his welcome was hilarious. He's kinda right, but that's such a hypocritical thing for Flair, of all people, to say.
Can't say I remember that while watching it.
I do remember D. Bry saying he didn't belong, but not Flair.
Yeah it was one of those "is this injury real?" moments. Haha my joke is you know it's fake if they put that stupid mummy wrapping around the wrestler's "injury".
I always felt like this was worse in retrospect, watching it on YouTube or other clips. Back in '96, I had no thoughts that Hogan was coming out to be the third man.. zero at all. Heenan saying anything didn't even register in my brain.
All I know is that before reading the book, I always thought Flair was a classy guy, but I came away from the book thinking he was actually a real jerk.He didn't "rip into him" at all. All Foley said was that he disagreed with how Flair used some of his power as booker, which is something that he also said all wrestler/bookers fall into, and used Dusty and Bill Watts as other examples. But Dusty and Bill Watts didn't throw a 10 year hissy fit over it and then bring it all back up after the air had been cleared. For whatever reason, Ric Flair is a hyper insecure guy and takes everything personally. And will do everything he can to demean and take attention away from any other guys that weren't 70s dudes, NWA Champions, other Horsemen, or HHH/HBK/Batista/Orton.
At the 2K14 panel before Summerslam last year, he also shit on Daniel Bryan for being out of place and not deserving to be up there with him.
Flair's known to be a bitter old man who picks fights with everyone though. He said that Shawn Michaels carried that entire ladder match with Razor(which is funny because Shawn would tell you the other way around) and that Hall or Nash never had any talent whatsoever.
MANY wrestlers would say Nash had zero in ring talent, which I would agree with. Hall is pretty well respected in the ring though
I disagree with that. When you see Nash in WCW pre-Diesel, he was athletic and wasn't just a big stiff. When he went to WWE, Vince told him to knock that shit off because he's a big man and he shouldn't be doing leap frogs and sunset flips. And Nash took it to heart. But I still think he was better than what people gave him credit for and I think he had better matches with Bret and HBK than they had with each other.
MANY wrestlers would say Nash had zero in ring talent, which I would agree with. Hall is pretty well respected in the ring though
While, yeah, Heenan never liked Hogan to start with, him calling attention to it as Hogan came out ruined the moment a bit for me, because as a viewer, that thought is in your mind that he IS the third man that hasn't come out yet.
Also, Heenan spoiled the surprise of Hogan turning on commentary by asking "Whose side is he on?" while he was coming down the ramp.
Seriously Brain...don't spoil the freakin surprise as it happens. Dammit.
WCW's policy at the time was not to tell Heenan anything about upcoming storylines, so it's not his fault his heel comment turned out to be true.
In Bischoff's book, he told NO ONE who the 3rd man was.
Only Bischoff & Hogan knew.
Even Hall, Nash & Macho Man didn't know who it would be right up until Hogan actually came out.
Bischoff even has Sting show up backstage to throw people off (and in case Hogan swerved & refused to go through with it).
Bischoff is lying, at the very least exaggerating. Kevin Sullivan, you know the booker, knew and had Hogan stay at his house the night before so no one could talk him out of it.
In Bischoff's book, he told NO ONE who the 3rd man was.
Only Bischoff & Hogan knew.
Even Hall, Nash & Macho Man didn't know who it would be right up until Hogan actually came out.
Bischoff even has Sting show up backstage to throw people off (and in case Hogan swerved & refused to go through with it).