Whoever is drawing these caricatures are awesome. They are insanely good.

Ron Simmons and Butch Reed were two of my favorites coming up. That's when you had to look like you could kick some ass in real life to get over as a wrestler.

"Why can't we let people be themselves?" Because Vince can't trademark "Ron Simmons"

Both of them guys need to be in the Hall of Fame Ron Simmons and Butch Reed

Butch Reed's face turn against Buddy Landell and Skandaar Akbar in Mid South was awesome.

"Got over like a fart in church"...gotta love corny🤣🤣🤣

Butch had some great matches with Jim Neidhart in Mid-South as well.

Hearing him talk about Doom and Nancy really makes me wanna a WWE produced Woman tribute. Lots of good memories there.

Butch Reed in mid 1985 was in the AWA, though he probably had an open contract. I remember this, because the first card I went to was in the summer of 1985, and on that card was "Hacksaw" Butch Reed vs. "The Claw Master" Baron Von Raschke. It was a great match.

Damn, this episode gave me the urge to watch some Mid-South rasslin'.

Doom is one of my favorite tag teams in wcw/nwa history! Love hearing these stories and insights from Jim Cornette.

Jim, Brian, thank you for taking my question on this week's Drive-Thru. (I'm sorry it was so long, I'll try to remember to keep it short next time I write in.) I was really happy to hear about all that backstory on Butch Reed, especially since a lot of people seem to kind of overlook him in a lot of cases, particularly his time in WCW with Ron Simmons. It's just nice to know that Butch's name is still kept out there among some of the great wrestling stars from Florida from that time period, along with other big names like JYD and Ernie Ladd. Thanks again for taking my question this week, guys.

Rick & Scott WERE scared of Simmons, along with Doc and Meng, they were friends but the Steiners were smart enough not to screw with certain people.

I got to see Ron's first match in Florida. He started in a tag team with a guy named Dewey Forte, who passed away a few years ago.

I loved Doom with Teddy Long, such an underrated tag team, their theme music was badass. Funny enough I used to think Ron Simmons was the older of the two simply because facially at the time Butch Reed just looked like the younger guy and Simmons looked like the seasoned veteran.

Ron Simmons. Coolest wrestler I've ever met.

Ron Simmons had one of the BEST natural physiques of anyone! People say he rarely lifted weights!

Saw the Steiners and Doom go at it a lot at WCW house shows in '89 and '90, those were always great matches. Just no bullshit, physical as hell matches. Good times.

Lex Luger vs Ron Simmons fued in the 90s was near n dear to my childhood heart. Cultivated to Ron beating Lex for the title. Good stuff...

Doom! One of my favorite tag teams back in the day.

Ron Simmons had one of the best gimmicks ever in the early 2000’s. Remember when he would stumble across something random happening and he would just say “DAMN” in that deep hard ass voice of his? Awesome tv. I think they could have done much more with that.

I remember like it was yesterday. I was just a month or a few weeks until my freshman year in high school when Ron Simmons became WCW champ. I was really excited for him.

Remember back in the day when Doom came on the scene as a pair of masked guys brought in by Woman to feud against The Steiners and along the way Steiners won the NWA Tag Team Titles from The Freebirds and they did some where Doom lost a match and ended up unmasking where they were exposed to be Ron Simmons and Butch Reed then they got brutal and winning the tag team titles from The Steiners with the help of Teddy Long and reigned for a good 9 months and having a feud with The Horsemen over the titles and having feuds with The Road Warriors as well . They lost the titles to The Freebirds in February '91 therefore the team breaking up and feuding with eachother with Simmons becoming a babyface . Always liked Doom . Just thought the masks were unnecessary cause they were 2 legit badass wrestlers that could kick the crap out of you .Would have liked to have seen a longer title reign out of them cause when they were champions they dominated the competition . Simmons was a legit badass and Reed with his feud with Junkyard Dog and the Ghetto Street Fight is legendary .

....I wish I could see Ron Simmons vs Stan Hansen in a match in both in Japan and the USA; especially Texas or Georgia/Florida.

the partner of Ray Candy in the commandos was called in the WWC " Grizzly Boone".

Met Mr Simmons at fan axxess in Orlando for WrestleMania. Very awesome experience asking him questions about his time at FSU ( I’m a FSU grad)

Butch Reed promo on dark journey is a you tube classic.

There is a interview with Bradshaw about the formation of the APA. Says someone came to them and "they told us we want you to sit in the back and drink a lot of beer. Ron said..."that's the best idea I've ever heard" I didn't realize Teddy was managing that far back. See I remember him as the ref at first.

I saw Doom vs Road Warriors at the Ft. Bragg arena. Ron Simmons attacked a fan ( or vice versa ) on the way out after their loss. I'll never forget all the MPs that came rushing in to break it up. I was the most excited 10 year old on Earth at that moment.

Best spinebuster in the business

I miss the name Farooq but thanks to terrorists, WWE had to change his name to his real name Ron Simmons. When Farooq was the leader of the NOD, he definitely should have won the WWF championship.

Didn't Steve Austin say that only Ron could have walked around in that ridiculous blue helmet and nobody would say a thing about it, he was not only intimidating but very well respected and if the Steiners don't fuck with u that means u r a total badass

One thing Ron Simmons never lacked--a KILLER INSTINCT! He always had a violent style in the ring, a legit tough guy out of the ring. I remember seeing Ron Simmons and Dr Death team once or twice in WCW, and I thought they were more badass than the Road Warriors

The Natural Butch Reed

Ron Simmons was always a favorite of mine. I wish he'd have gotten bigger spots.

Im so old i remember a fresh young babyface outta KC named Bruce Reed.

I love this period of time in the NWA as well!

Jim and brian, keep up the great work!!!👍

Tough guys in wrestling that can take or hold their own on with shooters...Simmons, Dick Slater, Dr. D Shultz, Hawk, Haku, Peter Mavia, Blackjack Mulligan, Rude, Harley Race. Maybe Race had some High School wrestling in his background if I remember.

In a shoot interview, Brickhouse Brown says that he and "Iceman" King Parsons were sought out by Ole Anderson to be Doom but turned it down because they were on national television in memphis and making money. He also hated Ole Anderson which was part of the reason for turning it down. Of course, he considers it the biggest mistake of his career.

The Skyscrapers would have been huge if they played it right

Great Shoot Today Jim!!😎🐐🐐

Butch reed was also doing rodeo and would take time off for that, which interrupted his career, more than once. That is another reason why he gets forgotten. I first saw him as a babyface, in Georgia and he was fantastic.

Excellent video, I appreciate the story.

It was Ahmed who got his kidney lacerated... not sure how Mark got that story turned around like that.

Off topic, but The Nation was the best thing to happen to the Rock's career. I don't wanna say it literally "saved him" cause someone as talented as the Rock would've probably broken through the glass ceiling, but hey NOD might've just saved him. And if it didn't disband, it might've saved Owen too.

Butch Reed is underrated and was great on the stick.🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪🏾🏋🏾🏅

Jim Cornette was the freaking man. I don't care what anyone says, he and Jj Dillon were freaking awesome. They were actually intelligent in their promos. Him weilding that tennis racket around was priceless. I love you Jim Cornette. Wrestling wouldn't be what it is without him.

Doom was awesome. I missed the masked time period, by the time I saw them Woman was gone. I do think that WCW made a mistake by not putting the tag belts in Ric and Arn at least once - They deserved those belts

Hmm just had a thought that could have worked had the timing worked out, Doom vs MEX run, first w/ Woman, then Long picks them up and to make a name once they won the tag titles claiming they're the greatest tag team ever in front of COrny - BIG MISTAKE and leads to a run. I think it could have worked.

Butch Reed is underrated grew up watching him in mid south some of the best matches I've seen in tag team wrestling was Doom vs the Steiners . Teddy long was hilarious with the team to what a great Hill they were

Doom was an awesome tag team. They were split up way too early.

Man! You have the timeline of the Nation all jacked up. Lol! First incarnation was Cursh & Savio Vega. Then, when it became Black Power/Nation of Islam, Mark Henry was the 4th. Rock didn’t join till like a year later, when he was IC Champ.

LOVED Ron Simmons! Doom were one of my favourite ever Tag Teams, and I loved his World Title run in 1992. I didn't mind the APA, what little I saw of it, but the Farooq Asaad character was just terrible!

This is one of your best podcasts.

Yes I thought of Nick Diaz when Jim said “Wolf tickets” too

Doom is still one of my favorite tag teams all around...

I loved the old WCW in the 80's

THUMBNAIL PICTURE RON SIMMONS HAS PROBABLY DONE THAT TO SOMEONE AT LEAST ONCE

Travis Heckel, bravo!

The Skyscrapers were better than the Master Blasters 🤣

I loved Ranger Ross as a kid.

Doom was awesome - but.. I feel that WCW goofed in not giving WCW Tag belts to Ric / Arn once... Doom could have regained them back

Ron Simmons is a beast, and a great guy! Always my favorite black wrestler

Doom was Bad ass

There needs to be a Dark Side of The Ring episode on Jim Herd. That would be really interesting.

The artist of the thumbnail is pretty damn good.

The Commandos were Ray Candy and Grizzly Boone

You "Don't Step to Ron!"

If you are listening to this and haven't heard the Steve Austin show with Mark Henry you need to. Mark said Ron is the only person he has ever been scared of. That is huge praise from a man who was one of the strongest people on the planet at one time.

Unfuckwithable

1989 NWA was crazy, when you had Gilbert & Sullivan as your booking committee.

Doom and L.O.D. best 80's tag teams ever more badass dudes never looked so damn strong and legit

Explain to the folks at home who the Zambuie Express were.

Love 2 hear jimmy rant on jim herd🤣🤣🤣

Ron Simmons should have been the Ron Simmons WCW Champion in WWE. He was a stud dominating wrestlers. Vince why with the "DAM" gimmick. It was boring.

I had such a crush on Woman. She was so smoking hot back then.

Always liked Doom. Simmons & Reed we're awesome.

I only watched WWF as a kid in the 80's and 90's so I didn't really see Ron Simmons until he was Farooq later, but one thing that always struck me about him was that he just looked like a badass, like a guy you wouldn't want to mess with. Not only was he obviously pretty well-built, but he just had a kinda "mean look" to him, lol.

It bugs me that if Dan Severen had been wrestling literally any other time than when he was in the WWF he probably would have got over much more. Like think about it before that shooters tended to get over in some territory and they built Brock Lesnar partly on his UFC record when he came back. Timing really is everything.

Got over like a fast in church...oh holy shit the bed that's funny!!

Only thing about that thumbnail.... Nobody's ducttaping Butch Reed to a wall lol.....

Butch Reed was Stone Cold before Steve Austin

Ron is a amazing guy !!! Just a amazing guy to hang with and be out with. Jim is right, they f'd with Ron at wwf at first .

Iceman Parsons & Brickhouse Brown The Blackbirds were supposed to be Doom originally

I always felt like the Farooq Asad outfit was an inside joke based on the Ric Flair Spartacus thing.

Do Cornette reviews Moxley's G1 matches

"Whoever the Steiner's were fuckin' with." Even as he ages Jim Cornette has his finger firmly on the pulse of the parlance of the time.

Roman gladiator!!?? Was there a friend of jim heard on the WWF creative team?

Doom was the shit

Ron Simmons! Dam!

Idk what scott hall was doing in 89 but i think he woulda been a better choice 2 team w sid 4 the Skyscrapers

Doom is still so underrated & wish they could have lasted a bit longer as team & had another Tag Title run or 2. Although I know Butch Reed was worse for wear with knees etc.

Doom,Road Warriors ,Steiner Brother's & British Bulldogs the most popular tag teams ever imo

Ron Simmons and Aymrd Johnson had trouble being a tag team.

From WIKI on Ranger Ross.... In February 1996, Ross was arrested at his home in Acworth and formally charged with bank robbery as the "Motorcycle Bandit", an unidentified man who made his escape on a Honda motorcycle. Following the robbery of a bank in downtown Acworth, Ross surrendered to federal agents on February 9.[16]

I really was a big fan of Teddy Long and Doom!!!

Jim cornette Can or have you Do a video on jobbers I think it interesting. I grow up on 80 wrestling when jobbers were all the Craze ( The Moche brothers Lee Scott & so on.

I have doom Number 4 of all Times,,, I know how good the midnight express was at 8, ( first us , world) and about the belts , Doom was a dominant World Tag Team with Teddy Long, ... Back to Roh ,, see big men are important to have .....

DAMN!