strickland is somewhat of an a-hole . . . not very good for the reputation of this game

Agree. You can't get on the board when The Pearl plays like a diamond !!!

Is that going to be broadcasted and if so, do you know where?

@@memehierarchy6226 Dazn

No doubt. Efren should’ve taken one look at that magnificent head of hair and forfeited right then and there

@@cry_now_laugh_later ,

Is that going to be broadcasted do you know?

@@memehierarchy6226 it will be on dazn

@@AndrewT thanks! Do they always stream on youtube?

@@memehierarchy6226 they will be uploaded eventually but to watch live you will need dazn subscription

They should've just fist fought and got it over with

They do this all the time--it really interferes with the match, for me anyway.

Holy cow they really are at every comment lol

Not to mention the older guy is just a racist prick

My favorite part of it. Grady was a fuckin legend. Mind your tongue

Is that going to be broadcasted and if so, where?

Sadly he didn't. He is the MVP for team Europe though

I came to the comments to see if anybody felt the same way! It was so frustrating to listen to the disagree on every single thing they said to each other 😂

Dude that was SO SICK

Ralf souquet lol

@@jlobiafra OH God yes. The dude is really good like all the euro players. But he is BRUTALLY SLOW and does not lend to the entertainment aspect or spectator aspect of he sport. I used to hate seeing him play... I think his slow play would get in his opponent's head, you're so eager to shoot after watching this dude pit you to sleep.... And Earl used to get pissed and talk shit to Ralf telling him to shoot and stop looking at it.

I was thinking the same. Has to be some solid remastering and the original tape must have been in good condition to begin with

Dude spoilers!

Efren was for money. He lost all the big tourneys where no money involved for sake of gambling lmfao. When the stakes were big at the tourney efren wiped the table with ease

Earl was the superior 9 ball player , efren was the superior all around player! When earl is in high gear he runs over everyone when he was in his prime .

Swami, we don't have Earl's first two, but I will work on getting the others uploaded.

When earl was in high gear he was better than everyone including efren

Southern states.

It never fails, the pretentious douchy snooker player always chimes in the comments. 😂

Nah he has a good personality he just gets mad a lot

It's an optical illusion. Earl put high right on the cue so it still had some side spin coming up table. I think the shadow also lends to it looking like the table was off a bit. The aggressor usually gets the rolls in a race to 11. Earl opening up running 2 racks was huge for him to find his zone. Once he was there, he kept tightening the noose. If Efren had a big break shot, he probably would've won 50% more tournaments over his career.

Billy Incardona and Grady Mathews.

Boy they argue alot lol

@@WilliamNavJones Yes they do. Most pool commentators do that. Don't know why though.

Egos. Lol

It's Grady Mathews and Billy Incardone

Would love to know myself

It likely had to do with the fact that Earl Strickland was among a group of players that bolted from the Pro Billiards Tour (note the patch on referee Scott Smith's jacket and Efren Reyes' shirt, as well as the fact that Strickland was not wearing such a patch). It's likely that those players were not allowed to participate in PBT events, which included the U.S. Open. Strickland had won the event in 1994, when he was still a member of the PBT, but then there was a split, and the group of players that bolted from the PBT, including Strickland, turned up on events broadcast by ESPN, including the Ultimate 9-Ball Challenge and the International Challenge of Champions, events you never saw any PBT players participate in (post-1994, in the case of the Int'l Challenge of Champions). As I understand it, the PBT went out of business in 1997, the year this match was recorded, so it's likely those differences were reconciled by then and all the players were invited.

@@cjs83172 Wow, I never heard about that. Thanks for responding!

@@hunterfisherpokerpoolguy7502 Some of that might be conjecture, but the fact about Strickland and other top players bolting from the PBT, as well as the PBT folding in 1997, is absolutely true. And that was unfortunate, because that came at a time when money was flowing into professional billiards, especially the PBT, which was sponsored by the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company's Camel brand in 1996, and the finals of every event from the 8-ball championships on that season was televised, and the TV window expanded from 90 minutes in 1995 to 2 hours in 1996, and in Prime Sports, which became the FOX Sports Network in 1996, they even had a TV partner. So professional billiards was about to take off in this country before the PBT went under in 1997. In fact, I think Johnny Archer won something like $165,000 on the PBT in 1996, which was unheard-of.

@@cjs83172 Super interesting, thanks!

😂

and 1995...4 times in a row

@@rabihavi8062great accomplishment - lost 3 though

Id take that with a grain of salt. I mean, people use politics as an excuse for anything. People say today, that Fedor isnt in the mosconi due to politics, which i think they have no factual basis to lean on.

@@shortydancer geography, not politics! The fact is that the Mosconi Cup started out between the USA and Europe and somehow Europe snuck a Russian to their ranks and we all know Russia is not in Europe. I can't think of any other players on the euro team that aren't living in Europe, can you?

@@sawmillsam7156 Jayson Shaw lives in Connecticut and plays for Europe.

@@djamo1969 thanks! I frogot about that! He should be on our team then, don't you think?

@@sawmillsam7156 Haha, it would’ve been nice. Shaw can shoot!

He always chocked in the finals , that’s why earl is the goat ! He always rose to the moment and has the accolades to show it .

Aha for real

Might want to do more research there bud

Never trash talk to efren.. Coz efren is a number 1 pool player in history! You can search it in a google.

@Shrimp Thompson Having said that, referring to the Color of Money final match, my money would always have been on the guy who had already been competing on that tough equipment all week and was in dead stroke winning most if not all of his matches, rather than the guy sitting in the booth commentating.

From the matches I've seen, it seemed to mostly happen with nine ball though. He seems to have dominated his one pocket finals matches and has won all the big eight ball matches I've seen him in.

@Shrimp Thompson Mike Sigel has won more pool events than anyone in history, he was a monster in finals

Around the world efren is a number 1 pool player in history.. Search it in a google.

​@@jordancesarmagos5843 efren reyes is #1 by people's VOTES because of his humbleness but when it comes to their resume earl has better resume . If only earl was humble like efren people would probably pick him as the G.O.A.T of pool. In fact earl has defeated efren more than the efren did to him. Earl: 5 times US 9ball champion Efren: 1 Time US 9ball champion Earl : 3 times WPA champion Efren : 1 time WPA champion Earl: he defeated efren 44 times out of 60 .. Efren : he defeated earl 16 times out of 60. There was a video on YT . Search it up.