I mean he did run his own company

Yea I was starting to think at what number can it no longer be considered “accidental”

He also has several stories where he "accidentally" seen another wrestlers dick.

Especially the wrestling business

I got in with some literal traveling carny’s for a year when I was in my early 20’s and if anyone received a check they wouldn’t just laugh at it, most of them probably wouldn’t even know what it was.

Motorhead711 It's not a different subject. It's the same subject. No offense but demolition derbys and pro wrestling are carny businesses. Pro wrestling deep down is carny, and will always be. But that's when it is at it's best. When things are simpler they are always better. Look at it now, it's corporate. When things go corporate they lose passion.

@@1985nyg carnies*

The only man(...ager) ever to do so, if I believe

And he got those jobs by confronting promoters with a gun after setting their ring on fire 😂

Especially when you consider the international date line

This is a reference to Hogans' ridiculous ass stories right?

​@@twoshirts1842 yes

What was your role? and just out of interest what was it like in the final days of WCW?

@@OrbitStrike The title was assistant event coordinator. Mostly working in advance promotions, autograph sessions, and special events (bikini contest, volleyball game, driving workers to the airport if they had to catch a flight following their match). The last show I worked was Greed in Jacksonville Fl. The company was already in chaos. After the matches in Jacksonville, I remember Flair making several phone calls to either save the company or to secure the future. I did not know who he was talking with. The folks who owned more stock than Turner did not understand our business and wanted us gone. Rumor had it that Bischoff wanted to start a new promotion in Vegas or LA with Fusion as the TV Network. I guess we will have to ask Eric about that one. It seemed to be all about Hollywood Stars & Movies. Bischoff made a critical mistake. He lost the WCW fan base in attendance & ratings by burying the WCW boys. He had hired too many WWF boys and they were getting the push. Toward the end , there were many disgruntle workers and confusion.

@@diamondwchamp I remember Bischoff saying that the deal killer was them not keeping the time slot on the network. Fusion wasn’t interested in a wrestling company with no TV deal. There were less stations back then and they weren’t beating each other up to put wrestling on their stations. So,the sharp executives at Turner/AOL decided they would rather sell the valuable WCW/NWA library to Vince for 2 million and unload cheaper contracts,but Turner still had to pay the main eventers for the life of the contract instead of getting 80 million and allowing Fusion to assume all the contracts and have 5 hours of TV time,that they could still generate ad revenue from. This kind of decision should almost classify as criminal. How do people like that make a buck in the world? The funny part is that they are now paying a million a week to air another wrestling show now with AEW.

@@lodi70005 Ted Turner admitted that he sold too much percentage of stocks or shares. I wish AEW had a better product. Tony should allow Arn or even Tully to do the booking. Before the WWE boys came over, including Hogan, we all took pay cuts stating the ratings and the gates were down. About a few months later, big guaranteed contracts with extra perks were being signed. That was a huge discrepancy and what wind was left in the sail was now gone. Eric did some wonderful things but he made a couple critical mistakes. Remember he went from 3rd string announcer to VP or Booker. I remember when Eric joined us, Terry Taylor inquired, "who is the guy with the perfect hair? I laughed so hard and told him Eric and he is from AWA. When Chip lost his job he went to become a stock investor or broker. We kept in touch afterward talking wrestling and SEC football.

​@@diamondwchamp What I never understood is how a few WWF guys come over & then Eric takes over & all of a sudden the majority of the WCW locker room allowed them to get over over all of them. No pushback or anything. Was it as simple as taking the money & letting WCW going to hell - or did any of them ever try to unite & fight back? They love to shoot about it today but it seems they were happy to make a deal with the devil.

The ads on Jim's podcast are better than most podcasts actual content.

They sure wrote that off again... :-D Trumpanomics

Not just wrestlers either. If you've met an employee, you've met someone getting taken for a ride

@@SplitGoose the lockout exposed these employers, big or small. They were crying about not having enough workers during the pandemic and calling people lazy, now that there’s a recession there firing everyone and laughing about it

@@SplitGoose That's only peons like you with no skills.

That’s when he left his wife for Madusa. He ended up going back to Julie.

No shi? The led Zeppelin guy has pro wrestling ties?

@@markl5998 Yeah, he'd been a wrestler in Britain in the 50s. Back then, maybe even more than in most of the US, pretty much everyone in British wrestling was dangerous with real shooting ability. With his size and a bit of training, it's no wonder he became so intimidating.

@@XKenny77 It 's why wrestling over here in the UK looked so real, because everyone was legit training in catch-as-catch-can or cornish wrestling or some other legit style, and it could go from work to shoot in a blink, if need be.

@@thelastmotel Yeah, it's easily forgotten that people like MMA stars like Josh Barnett, Kazushi Sakuraba, Minoru Suzuki, Masakatsu Funaki and many more were all trained by Wigan-trained pro wrestlers like Billy Robinson and Karl Gotch, and all considered themselves pro wrestlers throughout their MMA careers. Those trainers were, by all accounts, legitimate badasses who would have likely been amongst the best actual _fighters_ in the world at that time.

@@XKenny77 Well said

Junk as in useless crap or Junk as in drugs?

@@gaylordfocker7990 pills and roids

There was an NBC Correspondent named Jack Perkins who proved that it truly pays to understand perfectly what someone means by "junk." When he negotiated a move across America he just simply mentioned that all he cared for was to have "(my) family and (my) junk" moved across America free of charge. So then Jack Perkins managed to have NBC News move free of charge mind you his family and a full sized Chinese junk across America. Ole Anderson himself couldn't have booked it better!😂🤣😂🎤🐴💎🚢📺🤼‍♂️B.W.

@@gaylordfocker7990 They'd get paid in roids and cocaine

I believe there were rituals for it. You hand a guy you would suspect of stealing your money your wallet, ask him to watch your cash while you're in the ring infront of EVERYBODY. if you come back and it's gone, you know.

I'm sure of that, pro wrestling was a shady environnement especially during the last century Some dark stuff still happen to this days (Speaking Out is a big example) but comparing the two, wrestlers in the territory would make someone like Joey Ryan an innoncent child, that's saying

@@CrystalSpirit7 Eh, nothing would make Joey Ryan innocent.

Of course father douggg!!

Virgil. "He came out number 22, right?" "Yeah.." "Who knows how many bags he's been through in the locker room!" - Bobby Heenan, 1992 Royal Rumble

Respect my Baby Itoh

He'll destroy how competitive that match was. I half thought Itoh may snag an upset.

Me too

Do your research and not listen to old stories, the IRS is crumbling. They can't even answer 90% of their phone calls.

Yeah. I think you're right

Jake Roberts

I can’t wait for Jim to stop Exposing the business this is worse than those young bucks and aew and modern wrestling

Should have Fired Sasha Banks but Suspend Naomi

@Torrence Kingman this isn’t the only thing he’s done in his last video he said you work as a referee to figure out how to work good in the wrestling business he’s also covering other people exposing the business and saying they are exposing the business and giving more exposure he’s told me about how ropes are wires people not wanting to do the job and all his backstage creative storys

@Torrence Kingman so how do you explain him participating in a documentary exposing the business called beyond the mat he allows the camera to film him explaining the boys what are they gonna do in the match

@@wake6937 its too late the business has already been exposed to the max as is. If it was the 80s or 90s no way but anyone who is into wrestling already knows how it works

Young Rock is bullshit.

LOL, you think this is Heyman's podcast.

If you're Paul E.

It's all good if you report it.

Its all good if you are rich and dont

I use cash when making modest purchases from local businesses. Then they don't have to eat card processing fees.

Meanwhile others get roch with destroying the worth of your money with nfts, bitcoin and other shite also. Buy food cans. :-D

Not sure what was better, that or Brian's Dangerfield impression after the fact "I'll tell ya what it was rough...."

I mean shit, 30k in 7 days would still be a-ok today for an industry that was still niche. Nice. Though, god bless 'em, those guys sure did work their asses off and their bodies to the limits. 👏👏👏

..in Germany know one knew what IRS is. So i always thought Irwin R. Schyster Was a lawyer. Close though

Entertainment is weird, why do Influencers get millions to tell you to buy their new perfume?

Dax isn't half bad either.

That thing that has lost 99% of it's value over the past 100 years....I'll take my cryptos, gold and silver

Cryptos haha, while i dont plan to live in 100 yeats, i know they will come back to their Zero worth a lot sooner, gimme a renner and i paint you some nfts on MSPaint

@@herzkine Haha.....these are arguments I've had over the past 5 years....in the meantime I retired, while being in debt and having "regular joe" jobs

Yeah the same guy who said he wouldn't repeat the mistakes of TNA 😒

@@kingslayer2999 the mistake Tna made was signing talent that was past there prime and also had bad egos and put them in creative they had great signings like Christian cage sting and Kurt angle they went wrong with hulk hogan a drunk Scott hall an broke down Kevin Nash and a bunch of washed up Legends

@@wake6937 I'm probably the biggest Nash mark you'll ever meet and even I wouldn't have hired him to wrestle at any point after like 2003 or so. He'd be a great commentator though.

I’m sick of this ex wwe argument nobody’s ex wwe they are independent contractors we can make the same argument about wwe signing ex Roh and Ex Tna Guys this is so stupid it doesn’t matter which company they where from before

@@Cruising_On_Lake_Havasoma that’s exactly my point Aew isn’t signing people with A barley working Quad and drug habits they are signing talent that can still go

Then again maybe cody and brandi genuinely love each other look like a ken doll lol

Ken and barbie lol

I am very happy for you, Dan the man.

Your mom must also be so proud of you.

Your parents will be proud

CONGRATULATIONS...for being first you win...ABSOLUTELY NOT A DAMN THING... had you been 3rd you would have won ... SWEET FUCK ALL

@@rockybalboa1847 😂😂😂 10/10 would cackle again. Bravo, good sir!👏