Speaker 1: M all right, let's close it out. Actually, the eyes
Speaker 1: up here extra for Thursday. As we look at a
Speaker 1: marquee moment in ECW's history. It's looked at a lot
Speaker 1: in the historical realm, but it's when Brian Pillman debuted.
Speaker 2: In the E c W rig Can I just say
Speaker 2: how handsome Joe's dials is? A look at that baby face.
Speaker 2: He was great in a suit, cheeks, he's so cute. Okay,
Speaker 2: so he's hyping it up up. Crowd's going, wellcome.
Speaker 1: Welcoming to everybody the ECW arena like you would normally
Speaker 1: do you know for shows like this? They were using
Speaker 1: this on TV. I believe, No, No, it's fine. This
Speaker 1: was CyberSlam ninety six. Okay, this uh well, here they go.
Speaker 2: Lights are out and we're frantically getting pilm into the
Speaker 2: ring because we don't know where we're going. I had
Speaker 2: to do that once and I was like, where the
Speaker 2: hell am I?
Speaker 1: That scary? Is that like a weird thought?
Speaker 2: Scary? You can't see anything?
Speaker 1: Oh boy, look at them, yes, look at that. Look
Speaker 1: at that outfit. They're going bananas. It's uh, it's quite
Speaker 1: the shocking revelation, especially for what he was doing at
Speaker 1: the time where the loose Canon you didn't know where
Speaker 1: he was going to end up, you didn't know what
Speaker 1: he was going to do, And here he is in
Speaker 1: freaking e CW. This was insane at the time.
Speaker 2: But now there's a fan in the front row with
Speaker 2: a Pillman sign. Somebody somebody snitched, somebody knew the smart
Speaker 2: marks know everything.
Speaker 1: It says, Pillman don't work me.
Speaker 2: Really, look at that cane just just he's he's got
Speaker 2: like a rock and roll look going.
Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely he could. Yeah, he could fit right into
Speaker 1: the grunge scene or something like that. The vest, the boots.
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy, I mean just completely ahead of
Speaker 1: his time with what this loose cannon thing was.
Speaker 2: And I'm looking at him and it's amazing how much
Speaker 2: his son looks like him too. I was gonna mention that, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: because I've met Brian a couple of times, you know,
Speaker 2: when conventions and something. He looks just like his dad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, down to that curly hairdoo like he's got it perfect.
Speaker 2: But when do you remembers Mullet is much more.
Speaker 1: He's got a combination of flying Brian meets the loose
Speaker 1: cannon in him. He's got more of the flying Brian mullet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because this haircut isn't mullody. No, this looks like
Speaker 2: this looks like a like a perm that he blew out.
Speaker 1: I bet when I think about nineties style, like this
Speaker 1: is kind of where I would start an end because
Speaker 1: that that is I think that still looks cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this works. It's not too long, it's not too short.
Speaker 2: It's just right. A handsome dude.
Speaker 1: So what do you remember about this night? And Brian Pillman, I.
Speaker 2: Remember the crowd going nuts. I remember everybody there was
Speaker 2: such a buzz, you know what I mean, Like we
Speaker 2: were excited to have them because we knew I mean,
Speaker 2: as you know when we had Steve Austin or when
Speaker 2: Mick Foley would come in. Uh, just anybody like it
Speaker 2: just gives us the advantage, you know. Oh look what
Speaker 2: ECW did again. We were the talk of the town
Speaker 2: this night. And we didn't keep them for long obviously,
Speaker 2: but it was a perk to have them there. So
Speaker 2: it just goes to show you you never knew who
Speaker 2: was going to come through the curtain, or when the
Speaker 2: lights went on, who would be standing in the ring.
Speaker 2: So it's a very very cool night and this, by
Speaker 2: the way, this promo was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Oh off the charts, I mean, and we're watching him
Speaker 1: do a promo as we're talking. The action will come
Speaker 1: towards the towards the end, but it's just like he's
Speaker 1: he goes from you know your shocked to see me.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, you know, I'm this great, I'm this
Speaker 1: and that, and then he slowly starts his turn on
Speaker 1: the crowd and he's ripping him apart and he's telling
Speaker 1: him now how great he is, and he was just
Speaker 1: you didn't know what he was doing because in WCW
Speaker 1: he started to pull this guy out. There was this
Speaker 1: segment in on a Clash of the Champions where he
Speaker 1: hits Bobby Heenan at ringside, and Bobby Heenan didn't know
Speaker 1: he was gonna do it, throws his headset off, thinking
Speaker 1: that it was a fan because he was literally going
Speaker 1: into business for himself just to get this loose Kennon
Speaker 1: character over. And I think it worked because I don't
Speaker 1: know if anybody really knew if he was working, you
Speaker 1: were not.
Speaker 2: WHOA F bomb was just dropped.
Speaker 1: After Brian f and Pillman. But how did they not
Speaker 1: bleep that I think this is this CyberSlam ninety six
Speaker 1: copy release. Yes from e c W home video.
Speaker 2: Yes, extreme, it's extreme.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's dropping f bombs like crazy. Now he's uh, you.
Speaker 2: Know, Joey's not scared. Joey's Joey's right there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he doesn't let over that microphone.
Speaker 2: He's not scared. He's not scared of you, buddy.
Speaker 1: And now he's lost it. As soon as I say
Speaker 1: it up, he took he took it. But like do
Speaker 1: you hand do you remember, like was he in the
Speaker 1: locker room or was he kind of floating around doing
Speaker 1: his own thing because he was trying to be that
Speaker 1: loose cannon? Do you remember?
Speaker 2: I again, you know, me with my shitty memory, I
Speaker 2: want to say he was in the locker room because
Speaker 2: I know I met him back there. But again, everybody's
Speaker 2: doing their own thing, like who was getting ready for
Speaker 2: their matches? Like every everybody had something to do that night.
Speaker 2: So but I don't think he was like a lawler
Speaker 2: who put him isolated himself and he didn't want to
Speaker 2: be near anyone. I'm pretty sure he was around the
Speaker 2: boys that I can remember.
Speaker 1: And this is to start off a show so they
Speaker 1: probably had a couple of dark matches before this was
Speaker 1: to quote kickoff cyber Slam. So I guess, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe makes more sense that he's in the back because
Speaker 1: he has to come during the blackout, whereas Lawler. Yeah,
Speaker 1: was Lawler in the the limo or in the or
Speaker 1: in the did he stay in the back room?
Speaker 2: Remember Jerry coming in and just going to the locker
Speaker 2: room by himself. He wasn't out at all, right, but Jerry,
Speaker 2: Now Jerry has always been sweet to me, So I'm
Speaker 2: not not him. I just he was just he did
Speaker 2: his thing, you know, didn't sit with the boys. He
Speaker 2: was just by himself.
Speaker 1: Here we go. Now he's to take out the Johnson
Speaker 1: and piss all over this dump. Okay, Todd Gordon paul A.
Speaker 2: Still think that the only person who's ever successfully taken
Speaker 2: their penis out with Sandman.
Speaker 1: And look you see who else made the save because.
Speaker 2: He needs to be in the segment that glory hog.
Speaker 2: Look at them.
Speaker 1: And now this is also a newly returned Shane Douglas.
Speaker 1: He had just come back like I think the previous month.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm still with the Pippoles here, You're.
Speaker 1: Still with the pipples. He's a babyface right now.
Speaker 2: Look at him.
Speaker 1: So handsome, you know, and if anybody had history with Pillman,
Speaker 1: it was probably gonna be him because.
Speaker 2: It makes sense, totally makes sense. He's wearing a company shirt.
Speaker 1: Yes he is.
Speaker 2: Shirt. It's always a franchise shirt.
Speaker 1: Now we have the cops. I was gonna say that
Speaker 1: guy the cops have arrived with a night stick. So
Speaker 1: Philly's finest.
Speaker 2: He really goes to the TZ team TZ dojo.
Speaker 1: They were like, oh, he was a little bit older.
Speaker 2: I have no idea who that guy is. Arrest me.
Speaker 2: That's okay. Well, now the short dude I think was
Speaker 2: really a cop. See the little guy pop outfit. I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure he was a real policeman. I could be wrong.
Speaker 1: There you go. So they're they're putting them in cups.
Speaker 1: They're going to arrest him. This is I mean, this
Speaker 1: is cutting that stuff though. In February ninety six.
Speaker 2: Now, if you're watching this as a fan, do you
Speaker 2: say to yourself, what a work? Oh yeah, those are
Speaker 2: those cops. They're going to take them to jail.
Speaker 1: Like do you believe in ninety six with Brian Pillman, Yes,
Speaker 1: because he was doing the same thing like two weeks
Speaker 1: earlier in w CW and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: he's in ECW and you didn't know why, how the
Speaker 1: hell is he here? He was in the Four Horsemen
Speaker 1: a few weeks prior, and now he's free from the policeman.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, this is great. Look at this now he.
Speaker 2: It's a plant. I remember that guy. He's a worker.
Speaker 2: Sorry to bust your bubble.
Speaker 1: Look at this. This is this is classic ship. Here worker,
Speaker 1: he's got a fork. Look at that daming the kid
Speaker 1: with a fork.
Speaker 2: Here's Shane again, look a look at this. I don't
Speaker 2: think I like mister Douglas as a baby face.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Come on, Shane, you don't even know that guy. Why
Speaker 2: are you saving him?
Speaker 1: He's a good guy. That's why.
Speaker 2: It's a mark from the crowd. Now that I remember
Speaker 2: that dude, I don't remember his name, but I remember him,
Speaker 2: and he was he was very nice, always respectful. Didn't
Speaker 2: last very long with us, but cool guy.
Speaker 1: And you confirmed it, deny that he was picked out
Speaker 1: of a carrot top lookalike content.
Speaker 2: I cannot confirm North den eye it. But dad had
Speaker 2: a hair, was beautiful, nice thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very red. I believe Shane is saying get that
Speaker 1: out of here.
Speaker 2: Oh he said the F word twice. Goodness, gracious. Yeah.
Speaker 2: You never sees Shane with a company's shirt. It's always
Speaker 2: like a franchise shirt. One time he wore my shirt there.
Speaker 1: It is interesting. But I mean again, just you know,
Speaker 1: I see people posting about it all the last couple
Speaker 1: of days online. It's a big moment for ECW. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's really gonna go down. But again, wasn't there a
Speaker 1: long time, ended up leaving to go to the WWF,
Speaker 1: but then had the brutal, brutal motorcycle accident that nearly
Speaker 1: ended his life and basically he was never the same
Speaker 1: after that accident. That was only a few months after this.
Speaker 2: And what did he pass from? Was it drug use?
Speaker 1: Well, it was an enlarged heart, I believe, from you know,
Speaker 1: other substances. But they also said that he had some
Speaker 1: you know, pulmonary issues and there was some you know, uh,
Speaker 1: family things that might have caused it. But obviously I'm
Speaker 1: sure the amount of drug issues that have been documented
Speaker 1: may have played a part. I'm not one hundred cent sure.
Speaker 1: I don't have the coroner's report.
Speaker 2: Well, tremendous talent. It was. It was a cue for
Speaker 2: us to get him, even for a short time. And
Speaker 2: watching that just reminds me how rabid our fans were, yeah,
Speaker 2: in Philadelphia, So.
Speaker 1: It's almost more about that to show you and watch this,
Speaker 1: it's like just to see that atmosphere that was your
Speaker 1: that was your people.
Speaker 2: That's like everybody says, do you miss ECW? Do you?
Speaker 2: You know? Do you? Of course I miss it. I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm happy where I am today with my life,
Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, but you think back, and I
Speaker 2: think back fondly on my time in that company above
Speaker 2: everything else that I've ever done work wise, But the
Speaker 2: one thing that always stands out are the fans and
Speaker 2: how loyal they were to us, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: And not just in Philly, just everywhere we went. Like
Speaker 2: ECW fans were the greatest fans on the planet. I
Speaker 2: don't care what other fed you're in, you could say
Speaker 2: you're fans. Our fans were so loyal and just they
Speaker 2: were into everything and if they didn't like it, you
Speaker 2: knew it. Yeah, they held no punches. It was just
Speaker 2: they were a great group of people. They're still out
Speaker 2: there they're still representing the company twenty some years later,
Speaker 2: and it's amazing just to see the support that we
Speaker 2: still have, so.
Speaker 1: Oh so so great. One of my favorite things to
Speaker 1: go back and watch for sure, And again he was gone,
Speaker 1: but you guys would still sell his T shirts for all.
Speaker 1: Of course, for months afterwards it was like, we can't
Speaker 1: show you the new Brian Pillman T shirt because we'll
Speaker 1: get taken off the air kind of thing.
Speaker 2: Listen, you make march and it's left over, you need
Speaker 2: to sell it. And it probably did sell out, so
Speaker 2: of course we're going to sell that stuff.
Speaker 1: And who would have thought that you maybe you should
Speaker 1: grab a stack of them or wasn't that roadkill who
Speaker 1: grabbed all the road killed all the T shirts and everything?
Speaker 2: She was me?
Speaker 1: Who what a thought? Right? What I thought? All right, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll wrap it up for today. Go back and watch that.
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