Nick Bockwinkel on The Dick Pomerantz talk show somewhere around May 1982

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Nick Bockwinkel on The Dick Pomerantz talk show somewhere around May 1982

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This is a really cool interview to watch Nick Bockwinkel keep kayfabe and have an intelligent conversation with someone asking him real questions as the same time.

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@georgeschire3590 Жыл бұрын

Knowing Nick and being Nick's friend, this was Nick at his best. He had it all as a wrestler and was absolutely one of the best of his era. Few were better! I am forever blessed to have had his respect and friendship.

@jabbahursty 3 ай бұрын

growing up in NYC, i didn't get a chance to watch bockwinkel wrestle, but i today consider him to be one of the very, very best

@chrissutter2253 3 ай бұрын

Hails To You!

@timwoods3171 11 ай бұрын

This is an amazing interview with one of the master craftsmen of the squared circle… Nick gave away no “secrets” of the sport, gave great insights to how wrestling is done properly, he saluted longtime rivals …. and the interviewer was great too. This was a real hidden gem!!👍🏻👍🏻

@jamesgonzalez6548 Жыл бұрын

If wrestling had more Nick Bockwinkels it would not be in the sorry state it is in today. You can tell he loved and respected wrestling.

@user-sq2fb8bq9r 4 ай бұрын

Nick was one of the all-time greats.

@richardwakefield3178 9 ай бұрын

I could listen to Nick Bockwinkel all day long.

@jonathanturbide2232 Жыл бұрын

Awesome post, never seen that one before. Nick was the GOAT, pretty cool to get a glimpse of his personality here.

@chrissutter2253 3 ай бұрын

Best GOAT ever!

@surfczar Жыл бұрын

Nick was the man, he was a great interviewer, and could back up everything he said.

@dannystory1916 8 ай бұрын

Very cool! I always liked listening to Nick when he would come to Memphis and watching him vs Lawler. Thanks for sharing!

@RealYRM 8 ай бұрын

People born since the WWF became the WWE never lived through the times when a lot of people were arguing about wrestling being scripted. Nick goes out there and explains it the same way a faith healer or magician would defend "real magic". Nick had better answers here than your parents had explaining how Santa Claus makes it to a few billion homes that don't have chimneys in a single night. I love how he pulled off the "practicing football plays" with rehearsing a match comparison. Lol.

@Bunbunfunfun 10 ай бұрын

This is an amazing interview Bockwinkle was a very intelligent guy. He handled the wrestling is phony questions masterfully. Such poise and elocution . He should be studied thoroughly. He is actually in my top ten of all time in top three. I wish Nick Bockwinkle and Bret Hart could have had an extended series of matches. Nick may have been the original excellence of execution. I have seen them in one match it was fantastic.

@gregorykrug8034 11 ай бұрын

One of the most underrated wrestlers of all-time. Nick Bockwinkel would probably be on my Mount Rushmore of wrestlers. He was the total package, and could wrestle against opponents who were high-flyers, or 400+ pounds.

@chrissutter2253 3 ай бұрын

Nick Bockwinkel was the greatest of the champs. From a fellow Sagittarius!

@CatsClaw44 3 ай бұрын

Nick Bockwinkel is/was awesome.

@lonewolftrucker99ky90 8 ай бұрын

Rip champ. Grew up on Memphis rasslin . Loved when Nick came in to work with Lawler

@wrobinson1702 10 ай бұрын

Nick did a great job with this. And, the interviewer was respectful, even as he questioned the validity of wrestling.

@ArmstrongAlley Жыл бұрын

I really liked this interview and it was something I found randomly on a 'tape' that I got for something else. Help me keep finding hidden gems like this by signing up for my Patreon www.patreon.com/KrisPLettuce

@PulverizerA Ай бұрын

North Stars season was over in early April, as Chicago took the series 3-1. So, this took place in April. Nick was the best and I was lucky to have watched his and Bobby Heenan's shenanigans, throughout my childhood. God bless em both.

@thebigandgreat1 9 ай бұрын

Class act interview! Nick Bockwinkle was a professional through and through. He took this guys questions and knocked them out of the park without exposing kayfabe. This is how I used to defend Professional Wrestling back when it was worth defending, now it's a shit show thats overly exposed and blatantly so phony to the point where the wrestlers don't even wrestle many times. Hell they can't even do basic shit like lock up or throw a proper working punch. So glad I found this!

@CertifiedHuSTLer 7 ай бұрын

Ring the bell! Dr. D that Reporter!

@troylowe814 4 ай бұрын

Nick was the real total package.

@juckimal 11 ай бұрын

The master at work. He did the best job of not answering THE question that I have ever seen. amazing. We all know the truth now so it really doesnt matter.

@bemore1134 11 ай бұрын

Yep. More than articulate & intelligent enough to dance around questions until the cows come home. Very, very good at what he does. Certainly one of the greatest wrestling personalities of all time.

@bobbyhulll8737 4 ай бұрын

If I was 16 and watched this in 82 .. I might be left guessing a little especially if I wanted to believe it . Bockwinkel did well to keep the magic alive.

@strothermartin5368 10 ай бұрын

Great Interview 👍

@rsuriyop 2 ай бұрын

Bockwinkel is articulate and speaks with some degree of intellect. That's rare these days in wrestling.

@marcntexas 22 күн бұрын

Nick has always been the consummate pro

@GraemeCree 9 ай бұрын

Pomerantz seems like the kind of guy who'd invite a magician on his show and then ask him to give away all the secrets. If you know that wrestling is a work (not a fake, there's a difference), and can't enjoy it, don't try to spoil it for everybody else. Rumor has it Pomerantz stood outside theaters next year yelling to everybody that that lightsaber duel with Luke and Vader wasn't real! Luke was booked to win!

@ArmstrongAlley 9 ай бұрын

I don't think that's fair in the context of 1982 when wrestlers and wrestling promoters were still trying to insist to the public that it was all real. Pomerantz HAD to ask that question first so they could get it out of the way and have a real conversation about professional wrestling.

@GraemeCree 9 ай бұрын

@@ArmstrongAlley Yes, if you bring him on at all, you probably did have to ask that. But then why bring him on at all if you're convinced it's not real? Have you ever seen that Dick Van Dyke episode where Laura goes on a game show, and the host tricks her into revealing that Alan Brady wears a toupee? That's what's happening here. Bockwinkel isn't going to come and willingly drop some bombshell just to help Pomerantz's ratings. The best he could hope for was for Nick to screw up and say something he'd regret later. Nick was too smart to do that.

@CatsClaw44 3 ай бұрын

@@ArmstrongAlleyBut the point of the interview shouldn't be a "Gotcha, it's fake" thing,

@dennismarcucci3465 10 ай бұрын

He is so right!

@rickschaefer7415 4 ай бұрын

I wish that smug “reporter” would’ve told Dr. D David Schultz that wrestling was fake…

@pinotnoir6974 8 ай бұрын

I had the pleasure to quickly meet Nick Bockwinkel. He came to Calgary during the Calgary Stampede to defend his belt against Leo Burke. If I didn’t know it was Nick Bockwinkel, I never would have ever guessed he was a wrestler. An incredible talent and gentleman.

@Benwah 11 ай бұрын

Yo, "Paul Harvey says Reaganomics works, I'm not certain I like the analogy." To hear a Dick Pomerantz, a television personality make that anti-Reagan sentiment in '82 got a pop out of me.

@joebagadonuts8852 10 ай бұрын

In fairness, 1982 was a recession year. The economy turned around in a big way later and Reagan famously said that he knew his program was working when the press and Democrats stopped using the term Reaganomics.

@KKC70 9 ай бұрын

@@joebagadonuts8852😂 Still trying to defend trickle down economics. Every economic problem in America today can be traced back to Reagan.

@Joebagadonuts-dw9pn 9 ай бұрын

Inflation? We've had very little of it for the past 40 years, now it's Reagan's fault. The debt? Okay, blame 1/32 of it on Reagan. Even though the Congress always said that Reagan's budgets were dead on arrival. Crappy economic growth? Be serious. Reagan had 6.7% growth in his 4th year in office, and the US economy grew by a third bc of the recovery he touched off. I could go on.

@bobberg7540 8 ай бұрын

@@KKC70I see you flunked econ, huh? Political science as well.

@KKC70 8 ай бұрын

@@bobberg7540 😂 I see you flunked reality. It's probably not your fault. Are your parents first cousins? That would explain it.

@buddmannable 5 ай бұрын

Nick was a legit 5-Tool Wrestler......and there were (are) not many.......

@larryfloyd4993 7 ай бұрын

nick is a beast, better then flair hogan any of the 90' and up wrestlers.. he is real ..he cares about what wrestling once was

@shaolin1derpalm 6 ай бұрын

The older i get, the more i feel Nick is better than Ric.

@larryfloyd4993 6 ай бұрын

@@shaolin1derpalm nick bockwinkle is on par with lou thesz, pat o'connor gene kiniski , dory terry funk, jack brisco harley race... they care about their craft.. pluse verne gagne and bruno and backlund...