I liked Al Snow's other gimmicks, I think they really could have been something if they gave them the chance, at least Leif had a longer run. Yes, that last is similar to what the Hardy Boys would become. Oh that was a good promo there by Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake, that's cool how he did the 1, 2, 3 and it's always good to see Sean Mooney

OK, here's the Hardy Boys debut. They face Kaientai. This is on WWF Sunday Night Heat which was just before the WWF In Your House: Break Down PPV in Hamilton, Ontario on September 27, 1998. This was an epic episode. I really miss the days when they'd had an episode before the PPV on the same day/night which sometimes that episode would have the same feeling as the PPV themselves. Previous versions like Showdowns, Countdowns and Free For All was great too but during these days of the Attitude Era they upped the ante Michael Cole was still an off & on again interviewer, it's pretty exciting how he hypes Stone Cold and all this up. This is just yet one of the many things that today's wrestling lacks. Sure they have kickoff shows but they really stopped having bonus matches which that only happens once in a while now. So this match has a commentary team of Shane McMahon & Jim Cornette which is something else how they talk here...listen to what Cornette says about the Hardys. While WCW and the Independent Circuit had high flying wrestlers & teams, WWF was really still behind but that wouldn't last long because now The Hardy Boys are here and when 4:50 happens look at the long sign in the crowd, it says 318-XMEN

Kaientai choppy choppy pee pee!

Yes Oh man Greg Valentine was something then...a great US champ that defended his belt left & right...too bad he never had that kind of run in the WWF yes, that is what started the legendary Valentine & Piper feud

OK, I'm going to show you another transition... I'm getting back to the Hardy Boys in a minute so just follow Me, let Me show you this first of another before & after here...Scott Taylor is making his debut on Raw in 97 according to JR...that is so not the case, he wrestled years before on Raw and on other WWF programming He faces Leif Cassidy and this is I believe he last match as Leif as he would become Al Snow sometime after this.



Here comes Brian "Two Sexy" Christopher, he comes out to Kama "The Supreme Fighting Machine's" theme (yes the same Kama Mustafa that become The Godfather!). Jerry Lawler is with him and they had an storyline about him being Jerry's son but they never admitted it on air which is a shame Brian has a promo about him being in the USWA. Who's his opponent in this match It's Scott Taylor



OK, now not too long after that all of a sudden at a Shotgun Saturday Night there's a new team in the ring...it's "Too Sexy" Brian Christopher and "Too Hot" Scott Taylor who cut his hair...they are now known as "Too Much" and still coming out to Kama's theme Isn't that something else Who's their opponents It's the Hardy Hardy Boys and listen to Jim Cornette on commentary saying how they beat Kaientai



OK, fast forward a while later...Too Much has become TOO COOL

Oh yes, that was something seeing Becky Lynch, Braun Strowman & Simon Gotch in Adam Rose's Rosebuds of the Exotic Express. There was many others at different times as well that was from ROH and Independents. WWE does that a lot of putting upcoming wrestlers in situations like that. Not everybody catches on to it especially with noobs and that's how they get away with "new" debuting wrestlers when they've been around a while or even years before that. WWE has been doing that for decades. Just recently when I showcased the 93 Royal Rumble, Louie Spicolli was one of Caesar's soldiers...it was so obvious to Me cause I liked Louie and he wrestled there for a long period of time prior but most people probably didn't notice. WWE has been doing that for ages...there' another memorable one where Dean Ambrose/Jon Moxley was one of The Undertaker's Druids a long while before the Shield was a thought It also pays to look at the security guards & officials that brakes up fights because it's either retired guys or newcomers...in NXT I'm always looking for Steve Corino & Albert

HAPPY EASTER Here's this Easter clip of WWF Mania in 93. I've always like "The Toddster" but I don't like what he does to the Easter Bunny here "Macho Man" Randy Savage is at the annual White House Easter Hunt with The Easter Bunny



I posted a lot of The Bunny with Adams Rose before...you can post your own PB Now before that Bunny, there was this Easter Bunny when The Ruthless Aggression Era was young

Ah The Dream Machine aka Troy Graham. Jimmy Hart discovered him a while before that. Sadly he's been gone over 20 years now He was pretty good in the ring and on the mic. Yeah, that's what commentators do...they "Hooperin & Hollerin'" The First Family was a really good stable...Hart tried to have something like that in the WWF but it really never happen. Heenan had his Family and Jimmy only really had his guys separate though there was a time when The Mountie & Nasty Boys got together

It's APRIL FOOLS DAY

Austin from the Attitude Era



Johnny Rodz from 2009, 15 years ago this year



Rollins & Ambrose



Absolution

Weird, I thought I posted a vid yesterday but doesn't look like it went through. Hmm. Well, here's what I thought I put up complete with classic Coast to Coast AM music...



Heck, let's do another then for today...

Huh, that's weird Well their showing up now cause I saw Macho Man way before his WWF days when he was really something else

It's Wrestlemania week so that means I'm gonna post some great classic Wrestlemania stuff for a while

WRESTLEMANIA 1 - 1985!

Wendi Richter & Cyndi Lauper



The Hogan & Piper feud

I don't remember see WM when it first aired My first memory of WM was 2, and I loved it. I had taped it to VHS and I remember watching the Bulldogs the Battle Royale, and Hogan vs Buny over and over again. In fact, most of my eariest sports memories are from '86. The '86 Mets World Series and the Giants Superbowl and my earliest sports memories, though I recall cartoons and movies from previous years.