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[ Barry Narrating ] I don't know why I like it. I just always have.
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This is where I first became addicted.
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[ TV: Announcer, Indistinct ]
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I'd spend countless hours planted in front of the TV,
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mesmerized by these images of these strong guys taking matters into their own hands,
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watching,
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fantasizing.
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Thirty years later, I'm a screenwriter with a wife and two kids.
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I still watch wrestling.
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I just don't tell a lot of people about it. Can you blame me?
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Can you imagine the level of a mind that watches wrestling, huh?
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[ Barry Narrating ] I don't care.
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I love the pageantry,
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the athleticism,
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even the incredibly cheesy acting.
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I look at wrestling as theater at its most base.
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And guess what. So do most of the fans.
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We know what's going on.
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Is it sport? Is it entertainment?
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It's both. It's, um, wrestling.
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Now let's get something straight.
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I know wrestling is a show.
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But it's not as fake as you think.
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Of course, the winners of the matches are predetermined,
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and the violence is choreographed.
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However, the result of the violence is very real.
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All these years watching wrestling,
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one thought still swirls in my mind.
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What sort of human being...
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bashes another man's skull into a ring post for a living?
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[ Bell Dings ] [ Announcer ] And here they go!
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[ Barry Narrating ] Who are these guys?
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So I got out of my chair and decided to find out.
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I figured, why not start at the top?
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The World Wrestling Federation.
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[ Woman ] World Wrestling Federation.
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One moment.
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World Wrestling Federation.
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One moment.
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- World Wrestling Federation. - [ Cheering ]
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One moment. [ Barry Narrating ] The WWF is big. How big?
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They're worth close to a billion dollars.
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That's more than the New York Knicks, Rangers and Mets combined.
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[ Receptionist ] World Wrestling Federation.
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One moment.
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World Wrestling Federation.
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World Wrestling Federation.
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[ Barry Narrating ] This empire has been ruled by one family...
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for four generations.
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The McMahon family.
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Its current jefe: Vince McMahon.
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After you.
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[ Barry Narrating ] When Vince bought the WWF from his father,
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overnight he changed wrestling from a regional business...
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to an international phenomenon.
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[ McMahon ] Some of our success stories--
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a certain amount of respect comes with that.
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But hopefully that simply will only be used as an entree...
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to encourage someone's interest to then find out what we're really about.
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We make movies.
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We're gonna shoot-- How we gonna shoot this? Straight down this way?
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[ Man ] Right. He's gonna walk on. I want to get a background.
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You're not dancing. I know.
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I'm strutting. That was my strut.
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[ McMahon ] Can you see the cable behind him?
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Can you see the cable behind him? No. I want a nice, clean shot.
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[ Barry Narrating ] Like an old-time studio, Vince has writers.
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That's it. Calm, cool and collected. And by the time you have that out, here she comes.
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And it's that simple. Very good.
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And that's where she does a number on you, and I guess it's gonna be the back. Right?
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And just really, really, really sell the back.
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Sell the back to the point that we don't think you're gonna be able to compete.
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[ Barry Narrating ] Vince has in-house composers.
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It's-- You know, he walks like this. Boom.
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So the theme's gotta reflect that.
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[ Announcer ] The man they call Vader! ♪♪ [ Speakers: Guitar Riff ]
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[ Crowd Cheering ]
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[ Barry Narrating ] He even has wardrobe designers.
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The way I see it, the critics have it all wrong.
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The WWF isn't about fighting.
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It's about spectacle.
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I could care less who wins. I could care less who loses.
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As long as we got an ass every 18 inches, I'm a happy man.
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[ Barry Narrating ] Oh, yeah. They have wrestlers too,
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because without them it would be hard to move the merchandise.
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[ Man ] Reports from retail, we are still one of the top-two-selling licenses.
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It's us and South Park fighting it out almost head-to-head at every retailer right now.
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Way to go. Way to go.
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There's a direct similarity between WWF and the Muppets.
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Family-owned company, the whole business based in performance and characters,
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with real human beings playing characters.
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In our case, they just don't happen to be using puppets.
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[ Man ] It's gonna have motion detector eyes.
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[ Barry Narrating ] To keep the merchandise fresh, they're always creating new stars.
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Sounds good. Thank you. Make yourself comfortable though.
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Okay, thank you. [ Barry Narrating ] The day I was there,
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they were beginning a push for Droz.
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From an upper-class background, Darrin Drozdov was an unlikely candidate.
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A former Denver Bronco, his career was undistinguished.
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However, he did have one particular talent.
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[ Vomiting Loudly ] Golly!
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[ Man ] Now you puke!
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[ Barry Narrating ] In this, Vince saw a potential superstar.
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Sorry again for keeping you. Oh, that's okay.
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Have a seat. Darrin.
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How's it going?
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Quite frankly, what we've come up with...
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is since you are able to...
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regurgitate, you know, on command,
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[ Laughs ] it just seems to me that it's pretty logical...
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that you should be "Puke."
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Okay. You know?
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"Puke" has a nice connotation to it.
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I mean, it's like you got Animal, you got Hawk, you got Puke.
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You know? And it shouldn't be just plain Puke.
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It should be-- [ Grunting ] Puke. You know?
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So after you've regurgitated on one of your opponents or on the referee itself,
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then, of course, the ring announcer would,
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you know, then say your name.
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And then again, since you've got the fundamentals and so forth,
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and I think you're ready to go with it, I think that...
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Puke is-- Puke is good.
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I think Puke is nice. I've never heard that. That's great.
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That's right. Everybody always gives me stuff about it.
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No. It's--
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It fits the WWF attitude.
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Okay. Sounds-- Sounds good to me.
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Think you're ready for it? I'm ready to roll with it. Definitely.
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I've got one thing I want you to do for me. Okay?
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And that's gonna be right back over here.
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[ Darrin ] Oh, no--
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I've been waiting for this. Okay. You want me to get sick, huh?
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You want a little coffee or what? Huh?
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[ Darrin ] I think I'll be good. You need some water?
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Try not to get it on the rest of my table here.
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I can do that. Can you do that? Huh? You gonna get sick?
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It's a possibility. Huh?
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Huh? Oh, my God. He's-- He's gonna-- He's gonna--
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He's gonna-- He's gonna puke!
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He's gonna puke! He's gonna puke!
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He's gonna-- He's gonna puke! [ Vomiting ]
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[ Man ] That's it. Oh, man.
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[ Laughing ]
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Hi, Mama. It's me.
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Oh, it went well.
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You'll be real proud of me, Mama.
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I'm now known as Puke. [ Laughing ]
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[ Barry Narrating ] But what if you weren't born with the skill of projectile vomiting?
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How do you become a wrestler?
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The same way you become a doctor. You go to school.
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[ Darrin ] That's a good name.
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[ Phone: Line Ringing ]
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[ Man On Recording ] Thank you for calling Pacific Coast Sports,
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home of All Pro Wrestling, Gym Wars and APW Boot Camp,
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the number one pro wrestling training camp in the country.
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[ Barry Narrating ] So I went to All Pro Wrestling,
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school and independent promotion in Hayward, California.
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Most wrestling schools are run by wrestlers.
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This one is run by an accountant, Roland Alexander.
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I don't guarantee them anything except an education in pro wrestling...
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and make a better person out of them, improve their character.
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We try to run APW more like a family thing.
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I don't want steroids.
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If our guys don't have bodies, they don't have bodies. That's it.
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- [ Barry Narrating ] Roland has had some success. - You gotta get way up there.
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Two of his graduates have gone on to sign with the WWF. Very good. Very good.
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Hi. Can I help you? I'm looking for a Roland Alexander.
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That's me. Your name? I'm Ben Segal.
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Ben Segal. Good to meet you.
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I'm gonna tell you something that you might not like.
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There's no money in pro wrestling on the independent level.
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I mean, you're gonna make anywhere from 25 bucks to maybe a hundred and a quarter.
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Sometimes if you're real good, you can make as much as 300...
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wrestling for an independent promotion.
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But really where the big money is, is with the major leagues.
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Not that our product isn't major league.
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You can't tell our fans that. You can't tell our wrestlers that.
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But we're really a minor league feeding system...
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to the WWF, WCW and ECW.
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Are you aware of the proper way of eating?
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Are you conscious of looking at labels and the back of labels and looking at fat content?
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Yeah. Stay away from the Jack in the Boxes and--
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I don't care if you got good credit, bad credit, no credit.
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Everybody applies.
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We have a rule around here-- You don't pay, you don't play.
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Okay? Um--
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So, how soon are you ready to make a commitment?
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Are you ready to make a $500 deposit in the next couple of weeks?
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By the way, anybody that needs to make payments tonight, make sure you get 'em out of the way.
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I'm gonna be out of town tomorrow.
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[ Barry Narrating ] One of Roland's most promising students was Tony Jones.
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Hey, Dad. Hey, how you doin'?
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Pretty good. I'm tired. Just got off work.
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Yeah. I know how work is.
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[ Tony ] I work at Visa right now. I been workin' at Visa for about two and a half years.
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I'm pretty content there. I make pretty good money.
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I usually get about $25 to do a gym workshop.
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I take all the damage for $25,
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and I use the experience to try to better myself and get out of there.
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See how I did that?
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Don't get me wrong. There's times when we don't get paid at all.
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$25 sometimes is a privilege.
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He tells you that he doesn't pay you...
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unless he feels that you had a good match and you're worth it.
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They get paid after every show, and they're loving it.
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And they're gettin' paid well.
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I really believe I'm probably the best indie promoter...
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as far as payoffs are concerned.
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There's no excuse for not paying someone.
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You have to be a prick in this business.
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If you don't, the wrestlers will run all over you.
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Their egos are such and their characters such...
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that they will just walk all over you.
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If you think you can be a nice guy and a successful promoter in professional wrestling,
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you better get out of this business right now.
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See, James? You went in like you were gonna give him a blow job.
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Your face was right in the middle of his pelvis.
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[ Barry Narrating ] Mike Modest was Roland's golden boy.
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Therefore, Mike was given a room above the gym.
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How long have you been living here?
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I've been living here for about, uh--
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for about a year, year and a half.
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[ Barry Narrating ] Not making a killing in wrestling,
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Mike supports himself by working for a local funeral home, picking up bodies.
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[ Mike ] I don't fool myself.
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I'm very realistic about wrestling in the United States.
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Japan would be the place for me to go,
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because in Japan they still appreciate the sport side of it.
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Whereas in the U.S. it's become...
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almost completely entertainment and Hollywood.
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All right, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to APW's Gym Wars!
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[ Crowd Cheering ]
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Come on, move it! We gotta move it! Quick!
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[ Barry Narrating ] The night I was there,
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the boys wrestled before a record-breaking crowd of 112 people.
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Fans are close to the action. Sometimes too close.
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[ Shouting ]
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Like this guy in the green shirt who spat on a wrestler.
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I'll send you right over.
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[ Shouting, Arguing ]
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You spic-ass motherfucker!
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Shut up! He spit in my face, man.
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Five minutes! Outside, you bitch!
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A thousand dollars says you don't fuckin' show!
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[ Barry Narrating ] This guy here-- his real job?
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Mechanic for United Airlines.
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I'm callin' you out right now, motherfucker. Meanwhile--
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It seems like he's got pretty good timing.
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I showed footage of Mike and Tony to Jim Ross back at the WWF.
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He agreed to give them a tryout.
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Mike Modest has been ready for a year.
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And it's--- it's sad.
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Mike Modest is 215 pounds.
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And he's too big to be a flier,
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and he's too small to be a heavyweight.
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For him not to have a contract is a travesty.
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[ Barry Narrating ] Tony, Mike and Roland's big day had come.
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They were about to get their tryout with the WWF.
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- That guy. - Okay.
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Tip it up.
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Tonight you'll probably go on first or second, early.
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Don't get nervous, 'cause the people are not gonna know you, 'cause you haven't been on TV.
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The most important thing is, you're telling them the story, they're not telling you.
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So even if they don't get with it at first, don't get going too fast.
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When you go too fast, you start making mistakes.
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The ring is bigger. The ropes--
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Are looser. Are looser.
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Can't bounce off the ropes like I usually do. I gotta work it more.
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It's kind of an amazing sight.
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You know, when I first walked in today,
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I said, "Jesus God, this is so big and so complex.
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I hope the APW never gets to that point."
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I always picture myself just being content with a small...
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regional promotion in Northern California, but who knows?
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Who knows what will happen to APW?
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But this is kind of an amazing sight.
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[ Crowd Cheering ]
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Jones, goin' out first. Modest, second with music.
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Wait till I send you.
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[ Barry Narrating ] I think Roland was even more nervous than Tony and Mike.
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That's because if the WWF signed his boys,
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Roland would receive 20% of their contract.
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[ McMahon ] What do you guys think so far?
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[ Ross ] I think he's doing good. Both of them.
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First time I've seen Tony in person. That's a nice bridge.
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Nice wrestling move for a change. Yeah.
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[ Man ] I've never seen Tony either. I've seen Michael.
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[ Ross ] Modest is pretty solid.
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Jesus Christ. I think maybe we need a little work there. [ Chuckles ]
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I gotta run. You give me a videotape? Yeah.
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Okay. Tony's got a big frame.
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Needs to work on his upper body a little bit.
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The people are not crucifying him even though they don't know him, which is good.
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That always throws guys off.
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They're giving us what they got.
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That's all you can ask.
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Wonder how old Tony is.
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What is it-- Oh, my God! I've never seen that one before.
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I have never seen that before! That's pretty spectacular.
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[ Laughs ] Jesus Christ.
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I'm stealing it. Huh? You're gonna steal it?
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[ Crowd Roaring ]
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[ Ross ] I like the effort. Yeah.
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Gotta love the effort.
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You did a nice job. I was very impressed. Appreciate it very much.
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Both of you guys. Thank you.
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We will-- I'm sure we'll be looking at this tape.
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Okay. And you never know what comes out of it. Hopefully good.
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Work on your arms. And get something that's a bit more flattering for you.
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Little more mass on the upper arms. Yeah.
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You're gonna be-- Then you get in the hunt.
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Right when I hit it, I knew that's it. Did you hear me say, "Go home"?
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Yeah. A couple of the boys said, "I'm gonna steal that move."
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I think the overall reaction was...
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Tony's got a lot of potential, Modest is ready.
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I think that was the overall reaction.
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Good job. Thank you very much.
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Kinda nerve-racking out there, isn't it? Yeah. A little bit.
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Probably the most nerve-racking couple of minutes of your life.
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Yeah. It was. Yeah.
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[ Barry Narrating ] Roland and the boys left that night excited,
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their expectations high that they soon would hear from the WWF.
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While Tony and Mike were beginning their career,
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a wrestling legend was nearing the end of his.
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Terry Funk.
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My favorite wrestler growing up was Terry Funk.
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A lot of guys acted crazy,
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but Terry made you believe it might be true.
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[ Shouting, Indistinct ]
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At age 53, Terry was still going strong.
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So I went to Texas to meet Terry Funk.
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I went to his hometown of Amarillo,
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where he was a bit of a local celebrity.
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I was excited. I'd never met a legend before.
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Terry. Time to get up, dear.
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Rise and shine.
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[ Groans ]
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[ Crowd Cheering ]
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[ Announcer ] Funk goin' up!
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Mornin'.
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[ Shouting ]
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[ Exhales ]
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[ Man Announcing ]
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Your high country Chevy dealers are so caring.
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They love nothing more than the shine of happy faces during summer closeout.
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[ Crowd Cheering ] [ Terry Shouting ]
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Number one!
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Number one! Forever!
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And ever!
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Forever!
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[ Crowd Roaring ]
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Forever!
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Forever!
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Forever! Forever!
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Forever!
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[ Barry ] Do you think he'll quit?
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I think he really is being serious about it lately.
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He has really confided in us.
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Brandee, don't you think?
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Yeah. I think for once in his lifetime I think he maybe is serious.
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[ Chuckles ]
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I mean, he really has started just talking about it a lot,
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and before he never talked about it.
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I think he knows we're serious now too,
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that we're really worried about him, as far as his health and physically and all that.
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He should not be wrestling at all for probably about--
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I'd say the last five to 10 years, wouldn't you, Stacey? Yeah.
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Aren't I pretty?
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Papa. Papa is here.
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[ Woman ] One, two, three.
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The mothers.
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Okay. Let's go out there.
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Lord, thank you for life itself...
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and the joys of life.
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And may Stacey and Kelly have those joys and cherish 'em...
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and always be joyful.
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In Christ's name we pray. Amen. Amen.
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Thank you. [ Woman ] Okay, you all better haul.
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[ Crying ] You look great, Stace.
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[ Barry Narrating ] How can a man be so tender outside the ring--
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How am I doing?
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And so brutal in it?
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[ Minister Performing Ceremony ] [ Terry ] The appeal is, uh, it's fun.
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I think that's a lot of it. It's fun.
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[ Ring Announcer Speaking Spanish ]
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I guess, you know, what it is, is that I've wrestled for 32 years.
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And they say, "Boy, that's a long career."
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Maybe I wasn't smart enough to do anything else and make a living at it.
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I don't know. You know?
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On your good knee, your left knee,
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you have moderate to severe degenerative arthritis.
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You don't have a good joint space in here.
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You have some narrowing of the space, arthritic spicules, in there,
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and it's not gonna function very well.
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It ought to be able to get by the rest of your life just hurting all the time.
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All right?
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On your bad knee, on the right knee, you have no joint space.
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You have severe degenerative arthritis. You have worn that knee out.
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It's been hurt too many times.
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And you are gonna need a new knee.
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You need a new knee now. Let me ask you one thing.
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If I don't have an operation, or if I don't have a new knee put in there,
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can I go ahead and live comfortably?
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Can I get around comfortably?
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You shouldn't be able to get around comfortably now.
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This ought to give you pain chronically.
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It ought to be disabling to you.
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That is a problem. There's not a lot we can do when we get to that point.
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Chronic pain for the next 30 or 40 years isn't a fun thing to think about.
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[ Barry Narrating ] Terry wasn't happy with his doctor's prognosis.
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He told me he wasn't about to retire.
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In fact, he had agreed to fight in Philadelphia...
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for ECW-- Extreme Championship Wrestling--
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a renegade company that Terry had pledged to get off the ground.
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[ Terry ] They got a few ships over there.
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[ Barry Narrating ] Neither his doctor nor his family were thrilled...
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about Terry's bout in Philadelphia.
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Are you gonna wear these? [ Barry Narrating ] But Terry kept his promise.
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Yeah, I'm gonna pack those. Show starts at, uh--
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I honestly think that my husband's fearless.
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And that's the truth.
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He would-- I just don't think he's afraid of anything.
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Don't forget the branding iron is in the trunk. Right?
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I love you. [ Mrs. Funk ] I wanted him to stop wrestling...
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since probably 1990.
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I've decided that it's his profession,
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and it's up to him when he's gonna quit.
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Go get 'em, Terry. Okay. How you guys doin'?
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Did you get enough sleep last night, chief? Oh, I did.
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[ Laughs ] Had a good time.
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I'll walk up this way.
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Okay. [ Man ] Terry!
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[ Fans Cheering ]
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[ Together ] ECW! ECW!
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[ Barry Narrating ] No wrestling group is more violent than ECW,
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and no fans scared me more.
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Fuck WWF! Fuck WCW! Blood, guts and glory!
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Fuck 'em all! [ Laughing ]
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[ Announcer ] You're lookin' at hard-core, chair-swingin' freaks!
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And we're too damn ugly to be in any cartoon!
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ECW! [ Shouts ]
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[ Barry Narrating ] And this incredibly violent product?
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It's produced out of this peaceful house in a New York suburb.
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[ Man ] It's ECW! Extreme Championship Wrestling!
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Wrestlepalooza '98! Tickets on sale at Ticket-- Fuck.
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It's time that we play a game of truth or consequences.
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[ Barry Narrating ] ECW is run like a commune.
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Its spiritual leader and owner, Paul Heyman. Truth or consequences.
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Pass me that? [ Barry Narrating ] Everybody pitches in.
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We would have to find new opponents--
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Promos are done downstairs while Mom irons.
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[ Heyman ] Here, it's a simple philosophy.
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Everybody wants the other guy to get better so they have someone else to work with.
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[ Barry Narrating ] ECW is the Ellis Island of wrestling...
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where old wrestlers go to be reborn...
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and young wrestlers go to be discovered.
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[ Heyman ] The best part of my job is watching people...
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who never knew that they could,
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who never dreamt that they could,
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but wanted it, but didn't really believe it.
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And when they start to believe it,
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it's better than anything in the world that you can have...
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because it's like watching your children make it.
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It's just-- It's there.
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[ All Chanting ] Let us in! Let us in! Let us in!
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You lean back, you hold him for all you're worth!
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[ Barry Narrating ] This wasn't an ordinary show for Paul and Terry.
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It was ECW's first pay-per-view.
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If it didn't succeed, neither would ECW.
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[ Crowd Chanting ] Pay-per-view! Pay-per-view!
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Pay-per-view! Pay-per-view!
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Seven minutes till showtime.
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[ Heyman ] There's 17 million homes that have availability for this show tonight.
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They will pay $20, hopefully,
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for the privilege to see you guys do...
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what you have done for three and a half years.
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Thank Terry Funk for all he's done for this company,
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for help putting us on the map,
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for being unselfish in selfish times,
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for taking the young guys and showing them a better way.
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Tonight we have a chance to say, "Yeah, you're right.
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We're too extreme. We're too wild.
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We're too out of control.
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We're too full of our own shit."
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Or we have a chance to say, "Hey, fuck you. You're wrong.
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Fuck you, we're right."
487
00:27:23,842 --> 00:27:27,712
Because you have all made it to the dance.
488
00:27:27,746 --> 00:27:30,982
'Cause believe me, this is the dance!
489
00:27:31,016 --> 00:27:33,918
- Yeah! - Whoo-hoo-hoo!
490
00:27:33,952 --> 00:27:35,954
Start the show!
491
00:27:37,355 --> 00:27:40,692
[ Crowd Cheering, Gasping ]
492
00:27:43,528 --> 00:27:47,899
You're gonna be fine. I promise you, you're gonna be fine.
493
00:27:47,932 --> 00:27:51,036
You earned this. You earned this. You'll make me cry!
494
00:27:51,069 --> 00:27:52,270
All right.
495
00:28:00,945 --> 00:28:06,017
[ Announcer ] From the Double Cross Ranch, Amarillo, Texas,
496
00:28:06,051 --> 00:28:10,889
weighing in at 251 pounds,
497
00:28:10,922 --> 00:28:14,292
wrestling's living legend,
498
00:28:14,325 --> 00:28:16,761
ladies and gentlemen,
499
00:28:16,795 --> 00:28:18,329
Terry...
500
00:28:18,363 --> 00:28:21,132
Funk!
501
00:28:26,337 --> 00:28:31,242
[ Mrs. Funk ] He has knee injuries and back injuries.
502
00:28:31,276 --> 00:28:34,112
I have confidence that he knows what he's doing.
503
00:28:34,145 --> 00:28:39,184
But it's still hard after all these years.
504
00:28:39,217 --> 00:28:41,953
Just him getting hurt, mainly.
505
00:28:41,986 --> 00:28:44,289
He's in control, but...
506
00:28:45,824 --> 00:28:47,292
it's pretty scary.
507
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:51,896
[ Crowd Roaring ]
508
00:28:56,167 --> 00:28:58,403
I need you to go to Steve...
509
00:28:58,436 --> 00:29:01,139
and tell him that I said...
510
00:29:01,172 --> 00:29:04,042
to get word to them they need to go home in 30 seconds.
511
00:29:04,075 --> 00:29:06,144
[ Man ] They know this is it. They're going now.
512
00:29:06,177 --> 00:29:08,279
[ Woman ] They need to go home within 30 seconds. We need them out.
513
00:29:11,883 --> 00:29:15,286
[ Crowd Chanting ] Terry! Terry! Terry! Terry!
514
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,956
[ Woman ] Terry Funk!
515
00:29:27,999 --> 00:29:29,901
[ Announcer ] Raven with a full head of steam!
516
00:29:29,934 --> 00:29:32,070
[ Crowd Gasping ]
517
00:29:34,239 --> 00:29:37,275
[ Announcer ] Two count only! Two count only!
518
00:29:37,308 --> 00:29:41,212
- Inside cradle, small package. - [ Referee Hitting Mat ]
519
00:29:41,246 --> 00:29:43,181
[ Crowd Roaring ]
520
00:29:43,214 --> 00:29:46,951
[ Announcer ] Terry Funk!
521
00:29:46,985 --> 00:29:49,921
Do you believe in miracles?
522
00:29:49,954 --> 00:29:53,258
[ Crowd Chanting ] ECW! ECW! ECW!
523
00:29:53,291 --> 00:29:55,326
ECW! ECW!
524
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,395
We did it!
525
00:29:57,428 --> 00:30:01,065
We did it! Hey, kids, we did it!
526
00:30:06,671 --> 00:30:10,341
We did it, honey! We did it, baby.
527
00:30:10,375 --> 00:30:12,477
Fifty-three years old, and he's still kicking ass!
528
00:30:12,510 --> 00:30:16,247
[ Coughing ] Think you have any blood in your lungs?
529
00:30:18,449 --> 00:30:21,186
Any stethoscope at all, Terry? You feel like you have anything in your lungs?
530
00:30:21,219 --> 00:30:23,087
Are you coughing up anything?
531
00:30:23,121 --> 00:30:25,924
I think it just went down. The blood went down. Okay.
532
00:30:25,957 --> 00:30:28,993
[ Coughing ]
533
00:30:31,095 --> 00:30:33,464
Is there water or anything?
534
00:30:33,498 --> 00:30:36,167
I need a stethoscope. I want to listen to his lungs.
535
00:30:36,201 --> 00:30:39,037
How'd it go for me? I'm just glad it's over.
536
00:30:39,070 --> 00:30:41,472
If they liked it, I liked it.
537
00:30:41,506 --> 00:30:43,975
If the crew liked it, I liked it.
538
00:30:44,008 --> 00:30:47,178
How'd it go? I'm just happy it's over. I don't know.
539
00:30:47,212 --> 00:30:48,680
I'm proud of my guys.
540
00:30:48,713 --> 00:30:51,382
[ Terry ] What a life, huh, Tommy? Well, we did it.
541
00:30:55,220 --> 00:30:57,288
[ Tommy ] I'd never trade it for anything.
542
00:31:00,992 --> 00:31:02,927
[ Man ] You don't have to clean my face. Just the nose.
543
00:31:06,998 --> 00:31:09,133
There's a man out there-- Terry Funk--
544
00:31:09,167 --> 00:31:11,402
who's done more in this sport than I'll ever do,
545
00:31:11,436 --> 00:31:14,305
who's more of a role model than I'll ever be.
546
00:31:14,339 --> 00:31:19,377
And I've got a match April 15, and I've got serious doubts!
547
00:31:19,410 --> 00:31:23,281
He burned me, Mommy. He burned me bad.
548
00:31:23,314 --> 00:31:26,551
And then he pile-drove your little boy on a flaming branding iron.
549
00:31:26,584 --> 00:31:29,220
[ Barry Narrating ] I could never get over the fact...
550
00:31:29,254 --> 00:31:31,990
that guys could beat the crap out of each other in the ring...
551
00:31:32,023 --> 00:31:33,591
and be friendly outside of it.
552
00:31:33,625 --> 00:31:38,096
Some of Terry's most famous matches were against a man 20 years his junior--
553
00:31:38,129 --> 00:31:40,031
Mick Foley.
554
00:31:40,064 --> 00:31:42,300
Over the years, Mick and Terry have traveled the world,
555
00:31:42,333 --> 00:31:44,736
setting each other on fire-- [ Announcer ] Oh, my God!
556
00:31:44,769 --> 00:31:48,206
tossing each other into barbwire.
557
00:31:48,239 --> 00:31:51,342
Yet outside the ring they were truly at peace with one another.
558
00:31:51,376 --> 00:31:55,346
What's so stupid about it is that the worse you hurt each other,
559
00:31:55,380 --> 00:31:58,049
the better-- the more money you make,
560
00:31:58,082 --> 00:32:00,518
and the more money you make, the better friends you are.
561
00:32:03,421 --> 00:32:06,057
[ Barry Narrating ] Wrestling under the name Mankind,
562
00:32:06,090 --> 00:32:08,593
Mick is one of the biggest stars in the WWF,
563
00:32:08,626 --> 00:32:11,095
earning in the high six figures.
564
00:32:11,129 --> 00:32:13,464
He even has his own ravioli commercial.
565
00:32:13,498 --> 00:32:17,201
It's the perfect ravioli for all mankind.
566
00:32:17,235 --> 00:32:20,305
[ Barry Narrating ] Known for battering and brutalizing his body...
567
00:32:20,338 --> 00:32:22,340
to unprecedented heights,
568
00:32:22,373 --> 00:32:25,777
Mick's behavior could be explained if he were crazy.
569
00:32:25,810 --> 00:32:30,315
But of any wrestler I ever met, Mick was the most normal...
570
00:32:30,348 --> 00:32:33,518
and in a strange way the one I had the most in common with.
571
00:32:39,157 --> 00:32:41,092
Mick grew up in a small Long Island town...
572
00:32:41,125 --> 00:32:43,127
about 20 miles from where I did.
573
00:32:44,562 --> 00:32:47,332
Like me, he loved wrestling and making movies.
574
00:32:47,365 --> 00:32:49,600
[ Shouts ] [ Man ] Oh!
575
00:32:49,634 --> 00:32:52,170
Whoa! Unbelievable!
576
00:32:52,203 --> 00:32:54,272
Dropping the big elbow.
577
00:32:54,305 --> 00:32:56,441
[ Mick ] Dad?
578
00:32:56,474 --> 00:32:58,509
[ Barry Narrating ] When I caught up with Mick he was with his kids,
579
00:32:58,543 --> 00:33:00,445
visiting his father.
580
00:33:00,478 --> 00:33:03,181
[ Knocking ] [ Man ] Hold on.
581
00:33:03,214 --> 00:33:05,049
Yes?
582
00:33:05,083 --> 00:33:07,352
Can I wrestle with the kids downstairs? What?
583
00:33:07,385 --> 00:33:09,354
Can I wrestle with the kids downstairs?
584
00:33:09,387 --> 00:33:11,422
For what? It's for the camera.
585
00:33:11,456 --> 00:33:13,358
Pulling down anything? Yeah.
586
00:33:13,391 --> 00:33:15,426
They're not taping this now, are they?
587
00:33:15,460 --> 00:33:17,161
Well, yeah.
588
00:33:19,197 --> 00:33:22,133
It doesn't matter if our basement's messed up, does it?
589
00:33:22,166 --> 00:33:23,501
How-- No. There's no way.
590
00:33:23,534 --> 00:33:25,436
No way, Mick.
591
00:33:25,470 --> 00:33:28,272
You can't get in through the garage. You can't get in through my office.
592
00:33:28,306 --> 00:33:30,141
No way. No.
593
00:33:30,174 --> 00:33:32,143
All right, we won't do it if you don't want to.
594
00:33:32,176 --> 00:33:34,212
This is not on camera, I hope. No.
595
00:33:34,245 --> 00:33:39,217
Mick is a very honest, sincere person.
596
00:33:39,250 --> 00:33:41,386
I'm not talking as his father.
597
00:33:41,419 --> 00:33:44,155
I'm just talking as I see him as a person.
598
00:33:44,188 --> 00:33:46,524
And really, what you see is what you get.
599
00:33:46,557 --> 00:33:50,094
He's always been very, very polite.
600
00:33:50,128 --> 00:33:54,565
He's been like that since grade school.
601
00:33:54,599 --> 00:33:57,635
I want to be referred to as the world's most polite wrestler.
602
00:33:57,668 --> 00:34:00,605
[ Mick ] Gimme a big drop kick. [ Kids Chattering ]
603
00:34:00,638 --> 00:34:03,574
[ Man ] You know how most kids have no idea what they want to do.
604
00:34:03,608 --> 00:34:07,145
Eighth graders, 14 years old. What do you know? One! Two!
605
00:34:07,178 --> 00:34:08,379
Did Mick know he wanted to be...
606
00:34:08,413 --> 00:34:09,447
a wrestler from the time...
607
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:10,882
he was 14 when I met him? Yes.
608
00:34:10,915 --> 00:34:13,084
[ Shouting ]
609
00:34:15,620 --> 00:34:17,522
[ Groans ]
610
00:34:17,555 --> 00:34:20,391
[ Ross ] He feels terribly bad if he doesn't put his body on the line...
611
00:34:20,425 --> 00:34:24,729
in some serious fashion at least half a dozen times in a match.
612
00:34:24,762 --> 00:34:28,733
If he doesn't, he thinks he's cheated the fan out of the price of admission.
613
00:34:28,766 --> 00:34:33,371
They come to see Mick Foley or Cactus Jack or Dude Love or Mankind...
614
00:34:33,404 --> 00:34:35,273
put his body at risk.
615
00:34:35,306 --> 00:34:36,474
I don't think that Mick Foley...
616
00:34:36,507 --> 00:34:37,742
has a death wish at all.
617
00:34:37,775 --> 00:34:39,343
I think that he has...
618
00:34:39,377 --> 00:34:40,445
a very clear idea...
619
00:34:40,478 --> 00:34:41,612
of what he wants to be...
620
00:34:41,646 --> 00:34:43,681
and how he wants to be remembered.
621
00:34:43,714 --> 00:34:45,650
[ Crowd Gasping ]
622
00:34:45,683 --> 00:34:48,486
[ Mick ] Several times a year I look at something,
623
00:34:48,519 --> 00:34:51,689
and I say this is going to be dangerous-- it could turn out real bad.
624
00:34:51,722 --> 00:34:55,426
But it's got to be done for the sake of history.
625
00:34:55,460 --> 00:34:58,463
I don't know if Mick enjoys the pain,
626
00:34:58,496 --> 00:35:00,398
but I don't think he hates it.
627
00:35:00,431 --> 00:35:04,535
♪♪ [ Pop ]
628
00:35:04,569 --> 00:35:07,371
[ Man ] ♪ Come on, baby Let the good times roll ♪
629
00:35:07,405 --> 00:35:10,174
[ Mick ] Once I'm done with wrestling,
630
00:35:10,208 --> 00:35:12,710
I'm certainly not gonna miss the pain.
631
00:35:12,743 --> 00:35:15,613
I'll miss the reaction to the pain.
632
00:35:15,646 --> 00:35:18,583
I don't have a whole lot of room in my life for pain.
633
00:35:18,616 --> 00:35:21,719
It just so happens that I can absorb more than most people,
634
00:35:21,752 --> 00:35:24,522
and that has made me marketable.
635
00:35:24,555 --> 00:35:27,625
♪ Come on, baby Let the good times roll ♪
636
00:35:27,658 --> 00:35:31,762
I can tell them till the cows come home that Daddy is just playing,
637
00:35:31,796 --> 00:35:36,701
but sometimes they don't buy it.
638
00:35:36,734 --> 00:35:38,970
But then I tell the kids,
639
00:35:39,003 --> 00:35:43,307
"Daddy rehearsed that four or five times. Daddy was fine."
640
00:35:43,341 --> 00:35:46,310
I just want to set their little hearts at ease.
641
00:35:46,344 --> 00:35:49,480
Think there's nothing wrong. They'll grow up quick enough.
642
00:35:49,514 --> 00:35:52,583
Let them believe their dad's all right.
643
00:35:52,617 --> 00:35:55,419
[ Barry ] Do you wish he'd stop wrestling? [ Together ] No.
644
00:35:55,453 --> 00:36:00,324
It's going to be? Great nipples. [ Giggles ]
645
00:36:00,358 --> 00:36:04,262
Every child needs a favorite word, right? Nipple.
646
00:36:04,295 --> 00:36:06,597
[ Barry ] What's a funny joke your dad tells?
647
00:36:06,631 --> 00:36:08,766
He puts his finger in his nose.
648
00:36:08,799 --> 00:36:11,469
[ Both Giggling ]
649
00:36:11,502 --> 00:36:14,305
I don't think it's the fans that demand too much.
650
00:36:14,338 --> 00:36:16,507
I think it would probably be I demand a lot more of myself.
651
00:36:16,541 --> 00:36:19,644
I don't want to be remembered as the guy...
652
00:36:19,677 --> 00:36:22,346
who pulled the sock out of his tights.
653
00:36:22,380 --> 00:36:25,016
[ Announcer ] We got trouble. Mr. Socko is out!
654
00:36:25,049 --> 00:36:27,351
"His mother called him Wild Thing."
655
00:36:27,385 --> 00:36:29,520
[ Mick ] I'm very sensitive.
656
00:36:29,554 --> 00:36:34,358
I've seen deterioration of my wit and my speaking skills.
657
00:36:34,392 --> 00:36:38,696
I want to die an old man with all my mental--
658
00:36:38,729 --> 00:36:41,465
my mental faculties.
659
00:36:41,499 --> 00:36:44,335
You know, people feel like I have a death wish...
660
00:36:44,368 --> 00:36:46,304
or that I'm a masochist.
661
00:36:46,337 --> 00:36:48,739
But really, I feel like I'm taking my risks now,
662
00:36:48,773 --> 00:36:53,811
that I'll have the ability to retire at 35 or 36...
663
00:36:53,844 --> 00:36:56,881
and spend more time with my kids.
664
00:36:56,914 --> 00:37:00,818
It's not like I'm gonna sit at home and miss being hit in the head with chairs.
665
00:37:00,851 --> 00:37:05,590
It's just something I feel like I do very well.
666
00:37:05,623 --> 00:37:07,625
[ Announcer ] Insane. I've never seen it.
667
00:37:07,658 --> 00:37:09,360
[ Barry Narrating ] Every time I turned the TV on,
668
00:37:09,393 --> 00:37:11,762
Mick was taking more and more risks.
669
00:37:11,796 --> 00:37:14,498
He assured me he knew what he was doing.
670
00:37:14,532 --> 00:37:16,667
Then I got this call.
671
00:37:16,701 --> 00:37:17,868
[ Mick On Recording ] Hello, Barry.
672
00:37:17,902 --> 00:37:21,405
This is Cactus Jack, calling from the emergency room.
673
00:37:21,439 --> 00:37:23,874
[ Chuckling ] I just, uh--
674
00:37:23,908 --> 00:37:25,843
[ Barry Narrating ] For the first time,
675
00:37:25,876 --> 00:37:28,379
Mick was incoherent and rambling.
676
00:37:28,412 --> 00:37:31,382
I was worried. ...the spectacle-- wondered if you saw it.
677
00:37:31,415 --> 00:37:34,885
If you didn't, they tell me it was good. I don't remember much about it.
678
00:37:34,919 --> 00:37:36,654
[ Announcer ] Look out!
679
00:37:38,589 --> 00:37:41,425
[ Crowd Screaming ] Good God almighty! They've killed him!
680
00:37:41,459 --> 00:37:45,329
There was two big, big falls during the match.
681
00:37:45,363 --> 00:37:47,932
And, uh, wrestling fans-- [ Crowd Screaming ]
682
00:37:47,965 --> 00:37:51,736
I guess, uh, unanimously praised the first one,
683
00:37:51,769 --> 00:37:53,404
where I was thrown off the cage--
684
00:37:53,437 --> 00:37:55,406
probably the more spectacular of the two.
685
00:37:55,439 --> 00:37:59,410
But it's the wrestlers who appreciate the second one,
686
00:37:59,443 --> 00:38:01,946
because they've been body-slammed and back-dropped on our WWF mat,
687
00:38:01,979 --> 00:38:04,548
which doesn't have a whole lot of give to it.
688
00:38:04,582 --> 00:38:05,850
[ Announcer ] On the other side!
689
00:38:05,883 --> 00:38:07,585
Oh!
690
00:38:09,587 --> 00:38:11,489
[ Announcer #2 ] Good God! Good God!
691
00:38:11,522 --> 00:38:13,391
[ Announcer ] That's it. He's dead.
692
00:38:14,492 --> 00:38:16,661
Will somebody stop the damn match!
693
00:38:16,694 --> 00:38:18,663
When the cage started to break--
694
00:38:18,696 --> 00:38:20,398
I mean, you could--
695
00:38:20,431 --> 00:38:22,133
you could see it breaking.
696
00:38:22,166 --> 00:38:24,935
And when the Undertaker choke-slammed Mick,
697
00:38:24,969 --> 00:38:28,906
I knew for sure the cage was gonna break. There was no way--
698
00:38:28,939 --> 00:38:33,577
There was no way out without getting hurt. I thought he was dead.
699
00:38:33,611 --> 00:38:36,681
[ Mick ] Usually after a physical match, I'll call home and tell the kids,
700
00:38:36,714 --> 00:38:39,817
"Daddy's all right. No need to worry."
701
00:38:39,850 --> 00:38:43,587
And in this case I was paged.
702
00:38:43,621 --> 00:38:46,991
One of the agents had to tell me, "Call home. Your wife's really upset."
703
00:38:47,024 --> 00:38:49,927
And she was cry-- you know, in tears.
704
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:54,165
And screaming at me-- "You can't do this to us anymore."
705
00:38:54,198 --> 00:38:56,967
And I guess it was very traumatic for the kids.
706
00:38:57,001 --> 00:39:00,705
Um, since that point, my daughter does feel like...
707
00:39:00,738 --> 00:39:04,475
I'm being hurt every time I go out there.
708
00:39:04,508 --> 00:39:06,877
And my daughter-- she loves her dad.
709
00:39:06,911 --> 00:39:09,413
I worry about it a lot. I have a lot of guilt about it.
710
00:39:09,447 --> 00:39:14,685
That's one of the reasons we thought maybe it's best if Dad did something else.
711
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,755
[ Barry ] What would be something else? That's the problem.
712
00:39:17,788 --> 00:39:19,590
[ Announcer ] He's the toughest S.O.B.--
713
00:39:19,623 --> 00:39:20,891
[ Shouting ]
714
00:39:20,925 --> 00:39:22,793
that I have ever seen.
715
00:39:22,827 --> 00:39:25,429
[ Mick ] It was a scary moment.
716
00:39:25,463 --> 00:39:29,867
It was one of the worst moments of my life, certainly.
717
00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:32,937
It's just a really horrible feeling,
718
00:39:32,970 --> 00:39:36,907
and I know there's more to come, which is the scary part.
719
00:39:36,941 --> 00:39:38,809
[ Phone Ringing ]
720
00:39:42,947 --> 00:39:46,717
[ Barry Narrating ] While visiting Mick, I got the call I was waiting for.
721
00:39:46,751 --> 00:39:48,953
I was finally able to locate the whereabouts...
722
00:39:48,986 --> 00:39:52,223
of the one wrestler I always wanted to meet--
723
00:39:52,256 --> 00:39:54,692
Jake "The Snake" Roberts.
724
00:39:54,725 --> 00:39:57,528
[ Jake ] I'm going to make you beg!
725
00:39:57,561 --> 00:40:00,765
You are going to get down on your hands and knees.
726
00:40:02,032 --> 00:40:05,603
You will be the one that grovels for the money.
727
00:40:05,636 --> 00:40:07,838
And how appropriate-- [ Chuckles ]
728
00:40:07,872 --> 00:40:10,975
that the money you grovel for is your very own,
729
00:40:11,008 --> 00:40:15,045
wallowing in the muck of avarice.
730
00:40:17,281 --> 00:40:19,083
Longfellow couldn't have said it better.
731
00:40:19,116 --> 00:40:20,918
[ Announcer ] Ladies and gentlemen,
732
00:40:20,951 --> 00:40:23,888
Jake "the Snake"...
733
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Roberts!
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Here he goes! Look at that!
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[ Barry Narrating ] At one time one of the biggest wrestling stars in the world,
736
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Jake had dropped out of sight in the early '90s.
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[ Announcer ] ...with Damien and Alice Cooper!
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But his legend lived on.
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[ Heyman ] Jake Roberts is one of the most phenomenal performers...
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this industry has ever seen.
741
00:40:45,609 --> 00:40:48,712
Now, there's a guy with "it."
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00:40:48,746 --> 00:40:50,848
There's a guy that has that intangible.
743
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There's a guy that truly comes through the camera...
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and captivates your attention.
745
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Jake Roberts had a-- had great gifts and great skills in our business...
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because he had a tremendous, tremendous aptitude...
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for the performance side...
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of this business.
749
00:41:12,903 --> 00:41:14,738
He never had a good body.
750
00:41:14,772 --> 00:41:16,774
He never was a great athlete.
751
00:41:17,908 --> 00:41:20,978
But he had-- His gift was his brain.
752
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[ Heyman ] He's probably one of also, when it comes to the actual--
753
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um, the actual psychology of how to control the audience,
754
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one of the most ingenious performers the industry has ever seen.
755
00:41:33,090 --> 00:41:36,327
I don't know that you can separate Jake Roberts the performer...
756
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,162
from Jake Roberts the person...
757
00:41:38,195 --> 00:41:40,931
because, quite frankly, I never knew which one I was talking to.
758
00:41:40,965 --> 00:41:43,100
I don't know that they're not the same.
759
00:41:43,133 --> 00:41:47,004
[ Ross ] Unfortunately, he has had a lot of encounters with demons over his lifetime...
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that have been very destructive.
761
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[ Man ] He called us about two days before the show.
762
00:41:52,076 --> 00:41:55,012
Of course, he wanted his retainer. We sent him his retainer.
763
00:41:55,045 --> 00:41:57,948
And then he called us up, and Jake told us straight up...
764
00:41:57,982 --> 00:42:00,150
if we didn't get him some crack, then he wasn't gonna come to our show.
765
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[ Ross ] If Jake Roberts can control the demons,
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Jake Roberts could be one of the most influential...
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creative forces in our industry.
768
00:42:10,094 --> 00:42:12,363
That's how talented he is.
769
00:42:12,396 --> 00:42:17,001
But for some reason it just, uh--
770
00:42:17,034 --> 00:42:20,104
It doesn't seem like it's meant to be at this time.
771
00:42:20,137 --> 00:42:22,673
Sometimes I, uh, realize...
772
00:42:22,706 --> 00:42:24,708
the person I hate most in this life...
773
00:42:24,742 --> 00:42:27,044
is the person I'm looking at in the mirror.
774
00:42:27,077 --> 00:42:29,947
That's a scary thought.
775
00:42:29,980 --> 00:42:31,849
But, uh--
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00:42:32,983 --> 00:42:34,985
Diary of a madman, huh?
777
00:42:40,991 --> 00:42:42,993
[ Barry Narrating ] I was told that on February 3...
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Jake would be wrestling in North Platte, Nebraska,
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home of Buffalo Bob's Trading Post.
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00:42:49,133 --> 00:42:52,169
[ Prerecorded Voice ] Howdy. My name is Cody.
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Welcome to North Platte, Nebraska.
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[ Barry ] Why do you like Jake?
783
00:42:57,741 --> 00:42:59,977
I like his snakes. His style. Do ya?
784
00:43:00,010 --> 00:43:01,946
The way he does his thing.
785
00:43:01,979 --> 00:43:05,249
I like him. I like what he does. One day, I wouldn't mind meeting him.
786
00:43:05,282 --> 00:43:07,151
[ Barry ] What would you do if you met him?
787
00:43:07,184 --> 00:43:10,020
I would faint, most likely. Really?
788
00:43:10,054 --> 00:43:11,922
How about you?
789
00:43:11,956 --> 00:43:14,224
I just want to hold the snakes.
790
00:43:15,192 --> 00:43:17,861
Okay. He'll find it.
791
00:43:17,895 --> 00:43:19,863
The only guy that hasn't heard...
792
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about Jake "The Snake" Roberts...
793
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is probably Santa Claus.
794
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[ Coughing ] God almighty.
795
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[ Jake ] These people been watching you for years.
796
00:43:36,146 --> 00:43:40,250
You wonder what connected them with you or why they want to see you or be a part of it.
797
00:43:42,119 --> 00:43:44,221
I'm a lucky man.
798
00:43:47,291 --> 00:43:49,927
[ Barry Narrating ] Backstage, there were wrestlers I had never heard of...
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and wrestlers I hadn't seen in years.
800
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♪♪ [ P.A.: Man Singing "Star-spangled Banner" ] [ Urinating ]
801
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For a guy who once wrestled before 80,000 people in the Pontiac Silverdome--
802
00:44:02,506 --> 00:44:05,142
Filmed me pissin', huh? Excellent.
803
00:44:05,175 --> 00:44:09,179
This was about as far down as you could go in wrestling...
804
00:44:09,213 --> 00:44:12,149
without starting over.
805
00:44:12,182 --> 00:44:15,185
♪♪ [ "Star-spangled Banner" Continues ]
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♪♪ [ Stops ]
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[ Crowd Shouting, Cheering ]
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[ Announcer ] Hello, sound man!
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I think somebody pulled your plug, buddy.
810
00:44:26,830 --> 00:44:29,867
[ Barry Narrating ] It was depressing seeing Jake in such bad shape.
811
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But when it came time to perform--
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[ Announcer ] Ladies and gentlemen, Jake "The Snake" Roberts!
813
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He could still turn it on.
814
00:44:40,110 --> 00:44:42,946
[ Jake ] My match starts when I come through that curtain.
815
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The character is there. The coldness is there.
816
00:44:46,850 --> 00:44:50,821
The walk is there. Everything that I do helps create that character.
817
00:44:50,854 --> 00:44:53,957
My breathing, the way I get into the ring, the way I get out of the ring.
818
00:44:53,991 --> 00:44:56,160
The way I look at people. The way I use my hair.
819
00:44:56,193 --> 00:44:59,897
The way I use my hands. Everything.
820
00:45:02,266 --> 00:45:05,536
The ring psychology is something that's so beautiful, man,
821
00:45:05,569 --> 00:45:08,305
such a joy to be a part of.
822
00:45:08,338 --> 00:45:12,042
But by having ring psychology, you gotta be able to look people in the eye...
823
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and convince them that you believe what you're doing.
824
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You look at one person and just literally melt them into that seat.
825
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Make 'em cry.
826
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Make 'em smile.
827
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And it's like a ripple effect. It goes right through the whole crowd.
828
00:45:38,001 --> 00:45:41,305
Put me on the card. Let me bring some asses to the seats.
829
00:45:41,338 --> 00:45:44,374
Pay me. I don't care if I'm the champ.
830
00:45:44,408 --> 00:45:47,144
I don't care if I'm the waterboy.
831
00:45:47,177 --> 00:45:50,581
Just let me be a part of the show, and I'll do my share.
832
00:45:50,614 --> 00:45:53,350
[ P.A. Announcer, Indistinct ]
833
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[ Jake ] She was just such a kind little thing. You know?
834
00:46:01,992 --> 00:46:04,928
Right there-- She's gonna live here the rest of her life, probably,
835
00:46:04,962 --> 00:46:08,031
and have seven kids and seven husbands and whatever,
836
00:46:08,065 --> 00:46:11,401
and wind up bein' a lady truck driver that cross-dresses or something.
837
00:46:11,435 --> 00:46:15,139
But she'll always remember tonight, man. You know?
838
00:46:15,172 --> 00:46:19,009
That's why I enjoy the small towns, because they really dig it, appreciate it.
839
00:46:19,042 --> 00:46:22,312
You come to a place like this-- My God, I could be mayor here next week if I wanted to be.
840
00:46:22,346 --> 00:46:24,982
They'd execute the one they've got and just put me in power.
841
00:46:25,015 --> 00:46:28,852
I'd be like a dictator mayor. You know? And they'd love it.
842
00:46:28,886 --> 00:46:31,021
That's what really scares ya.
843
00:46:31,054 --> 00:46:32,923
[ Woman ] Jake, can we get your autograph real quick?
844
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I gotta go. Right now. [ Boy ] Hey, Jake. Good to see ya.
845
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[ Jake ] In the arena, nothing hurts. Everybody's glad to see ya.
846
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You come back to all the glamour of a Ramada Limited.
847
00:46:46,036 --> 00:46:47,905
This is the real world.
848
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Just take your shower and get dressed and go on to the next one, I guess.
849
00:47:01,385 --> 00:47:05,055
[ Barry Narrating ] The next day I spent eight hours in a van with Jake.
850
00:47:05,088 --> 00:47:08,025
Look at those ducks. [ Quacking ]
851
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Things would just come out of my head. I don't know where they come from.
852
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[ Barry Narrating ] The more we traveled, the more he confided in me.
853
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I still don't think-- My mother was 13 years old when I was born.
854
00:47:20,204 --> 00:47:24,975
Why? Because my dad raped a little girl that was in a room asleep.
855
00:47:25,008 --> 00:47:27,477
My dad was going out with my mother's mother.
856
00:47:30,147 --> 00:47:33,917
There you go. There's some bones for Jake the Snake.
857
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:40,290
[ Barry Narrating ] Jake's father was also a wrestler-- Grizzly Smith.
858
00:47:40,324 --> 00:47:44,194
Though he was well-known, he never reached the heights his son did.
859
00:47:47,331 --> 00:47:49,366
[ Jake ] My dad was never there for me.
860
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I never lived with my father-- For a very short time.
861
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[ Barry Narrating ] In the hour they spent together,
862
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the two could barely look at each other.
863
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[ Jake ] I would do anything to gain my father's love.
864
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And I reached a point I came out of high school. I was gonna go to college.
865
00:48:05,549 --> 00:48:08,285
I said, "Dad, I'm gonna go to college." He said, "Good luck."
866
00:48:08,318 --> 00:48:11,121
Gee, Dad, thanks. You know?
867
00:48:11,154 --> 00:48:14,191
And right then something inside me said, "If you're ever gonna get him to love you,
868
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you're gonna have to be better than he is at what he does."
869
00:48:18,462 --> 00:48:23,033
So I went out to the ring and I jumped in there and got the crap beat out of me.
870
00:48:23,066 --> 00:48:26,036
And when I walked back into that locker room, he looked at me and said,
871
00:48:26,069 --> 00:48:29,506
"I'm ashamed of you. You'll never amount to anything."
872
00:48:29,539 --> 00:48:31,475
And walked away.
873
00:48:31,508 --> 00:48:35,078
And that's when I gave up my dreams and said, "Okay.
874
00:48:35,112 --> 00:48:39,316
By God, if it's the last thing I do, I'm gonna shove this business up his rear."
875
00:48:40,350 --> 00:48:43,186
And guess what. I did it.
876
00:48:43,220 --> 00:48:45,489
And guess what. It didn't matter.
877
00:48:45,522 --> 00:48:48,158
He's got-- He's got a lot of good qualities.
878
00:48:48,191 --> 00:48:50,594
And, uh--
879
00:48:50,627 --> 00:48:54,131
It's, uh--
880
00:48:54,164 --> 00:48:57,067
He was born out of love, and I still love him.
881
00:49:06,810 --> 00:49:09,212
[ Jake ] My stepmother was very jealous...
882
00:49:09,246 --> 00:49:12,349
of the time that my dad spent with me and my sister.
883
00:49:12,382 --> 00:49:15,352
And, uh, he drove my sister to the point...
884
00:49:15,385 --> 00:49:18,255
that she wound up marrying a 50-year-old man...
885
00:49:18,288 --> 00:49:20,057
and then a year later...
886
00:49:20,090 --> 00:49:21,558
being kidnapped and murdered by his ex-wife.
887
00:49:23,393 --> 00:49:25,395
And we've never got her body.
888
00:49:25,429 --> 00:49:27,230
We know that she was dead,
889
00:49:27,264 --> 00:49:29,166
'cause there was enough blood in the car...
890
00:49:29,199 --> 00:49:31,201
to know that she was dead.
891
00:49:31,234 --> 00:49:34,271
The woman went to prison for kidnapping-- 10 years.
892
00:49:34,304 --> 00:49:36,506
Got out, and I said, "Please tell us where the body is."
893
00:49:36,540 --> 00:49:39,276
"Fuck you guys. We're not telling you shit."
894
00:49:39,309 --> 00:49:41,211
You know?
895
00:49:41,244 --> 00:49:43,513
And it's always seemed like, all my life,
896
00:49:43,547 --> 00:49:45,315
it's like there's one...
897
00:49:46,550 --> 00:49:49,252
gruesome, horrible thing happen after another.
898
00:49:49,286 --> 00:49:52,122
My stepdad, who I felt very close to,
899
00:49:52,155 --> 00:49:55,125
he winds up getting electrocuted in the attic of our house.
900
00:49:55,158 --> 00:49:57,160
My mother goes up and finds him.
901
00:50:07,270 --> 00:50:10,440
[ Jake ] The road really screwed up my sex life at home.
902
00:50:10,474 --> 00:50:14,845
You go on the road, you get some type of fame or whatever,
903
00:50:14,878 --> 00:50:17,614
and all of a sudden you can have it every day.
904
00:50:20,183 --> 00:50:22,552
But then all of a sudden you want to get selective.
905
00:50:22,586 --> 00:50:26,289
Then all of a sudden one a day's not enough. Then you do two a day.
906
00:50:26,323 --> 00:50:28,291
Then three a day.
907
00:50:28,325 --> 00:50:30,560
Then two at a time.
908
00:50:30,594 --> 00:50:33,697
Then two at a time with toys.
909
00:50:33,730 --> 00:50:36,600
Then two at a time-- "I'll just watch."
910
00:50:36,633 --> 00:50:40,270
And it just gets more bizarre and more bizarre.
911
00:50:40,303 --> 00:50:45,308
And it finally gets to a point that when you go home and try to make love to your wife,
912
00:50:45,342 --> 00:50:47,377
ain't no way.
913
00:50:47,411 --> 00:50:50,247
Ain't no way.
914
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:54,217
Because the mental stimulation is not there.
915
00:50:55,619 --> 00:50:57,254
That's bad.
916
00:50:58,455 --> 00:51:00,590
That's bad.
917
00:51:00,624 --> 00:51:03,293
It's like a joke I seen in a book one time.
918
00:51:03,326 --> 00:51:05,695
A man and woman are laying next to each other.
919
00:51:05,729 --> 00:51:08,498
He says, "What's wrong? You can't think of anybody else either?"
920
00:51:12,636 --> 00:51:17,407
[ Barry Narrating ] Traveling around the country, I met all kinds of wrestlers.
921
00:51:17,441 --> 00:51:20,544
[ Cheering ] [ Ring Announcer ] The ninth wonder of the world--
922
00:51:20,577 --> 00:51:22,446
[ Barry Narrating ] Appearances can be deceiving,
923
00:51:22,479 --> 00:51:24,214
especially hanging around wrestlers.
924
00:51:24,247 --> 00:51:26,450
For example, Chyna.
925
00:51:26,483 --> 00:51:28,151
Looking at her in the ring,
926
00:51:28,185 --> 00:51:32,355
I would never have guessed she was a U.N. scholar and had served in the Peace Corps.
927
00:51:32,389 --> 00:51:36,393
But then again, everything about Chyna surprised me.
928
00:51:36,426 --> 00:51:41,731
Well, Kathy, we have an item up for sale here today. That would be item J-24073.
929
00:51:41,765 --> 00:51:46,436
- J-24073. Ooh, do we have a caller? - [ Laughs ]
930
00:51:46,470 --> 00:51:50,373
[ Chyna ] My mother was all buttons and bows and teatime.
931
00:51:50,407 --> 00:51:54,511
[ Laughs ] And she always tried to dress me up in long skirts,
932
00:51:54,544 --> 00:51:56,713
and I always wanted to show my body.
933
00:51:56,746 --> 00:51:58,548
[ Laughing ]
934
00:51:59,749 --> 00:52:02,552
And when I started lifting weights, she--
935
00:52:02,586 --> 00:52:04,688
I really think that she thought I was a lesbian.
936
00:52:04,721 --> 00:52:07,958
I remember her saying to my dad, listening to the conversation,
937
00:52:07,991 --> 00:52:11,394
saying, "Joey, I think she's a lesbian or something.
938
00:52:11,428 --> 00:52:13,730
Girls don't lift weights like that."
939
00:52:13,763 --> 00:52:17,667
Not that anything's wrong with that, let me interject-- [ Laughing ]
940
00:52:17,701 --> 00:52:20,570
for all you lesbians out there.
941
00:52:20,604 --> 00:52:23,974
To me, I'm just as feminine as any other woman--
942
00:52:24,007 --> 00:52:26,243
uh, maybe even more so--
943
00:52:26,276 --> 00:52:29,312
in my attitude, because I have, um,
944
00:52:29,346 --> 00:52:33,717
a certain confidence about myself that most other women don't have.
945
00:52:33,750 --> 00:52:36,586
I just happen to be a very feminine woman...
946
00:52:36,620 --> 00:52:39,556
with an incredibly fit, muscular body.
947
00:52:39,589 --> 00:52:43,260
[ Barry Narrating ] One year later, Chyna got her jaw restructured...
948
00:52:43,293 --> 00:52:46,596
in order to enhance her femininity.
949
00:52:46,630 --> 00:52:49,799
Matt Hyson had an intriguing early career change.
950
00:52:49,833 --> 00:52:52,769
[ Barry ] Four years ago, you were teaching third grade.
951
00:52:52,802 --> 00:52:55,539
Now you're mutilating yourself every night.
952
00:52:55,572 --> 00:52:58,475
How do you explain that?
953
00:52:58,508 --> 00:53:00,644
It's what I love to do.
954
00:53:00,677 --> 00:53:03,280
What do you love about it, Matt?
955
00:53:03,313 --> 00:53:08,418
Um, I love the drama, I love the physical--
956
00:53:08,451 --> 00:53:10,787
[ Sighs ] I love takin' bumps.
957
00:53:10,820 --> 00:53:13,757
I love poppin' a crowd.
958
00:53:13,790 --> 00:53:16,793
I love makin' a crowd go, "Oh! Ooh!"
959
00:53:16,826 --> 00:53:19,329
What did you study in college? English.
960
00:53:19,362 --> 00:53:21,831
English literature. Shakespeare. Shakespeare?
961
00:53:21,865 --> 00:53:24,568
Yes. What was your favorite work of Shakespeare?
962
00:53:24,601 --> 00:53:26,436
Henry IV, Part 2.
963
00:53:26,469 --> 00:53:28,305
Can you quote anything from that?
964
00:53:28,338 --> 00:53:30,807
Uh-- What? I'm sorry? Wipe it?
965
00:53:32,642 --> 00:53:36,379
I'm sorry. Uh-- Oh, I can't think of that.
966
00:53:36,413 --> 00:53:38,682
I would have to explain the whole situation.
967
00:53:38,715 --> 00:53:40,617
Do you have any Shakespearean quotes?
968
00:53:40,650 --> 00:53:43,320
"I shall, I do."
969
00:53:43,353 --> 00:53:45,422
Falstaff, the drunk.
970
00:53:45,455 --> 00:53:48,758
[ Man ] I'm gonna just have to be just a normal person.
971
00:53:48,792 --> 00:53:50,760
I'm gonna have to take my wig off,
972
00:53:50,794 --> 00:53:52,696
take the feathers off of Frankie.
973
00:53:52,729 --> 00:53:54,631
Take him and let him go on his own.
974
00:53:54,664 --> 00:53:56,399
Say, "Frankie,
975
00:53:57,767 --> 00:53:59,669
God bless you."
976
00:53:59,703 --> 00:54:02,405
[ Barry Narrating ] Some wrestlers have trouble leaving the spotlight,
977
00:54:02,439 --> 00:54:05,642
always trying to recapture their glory days.
978
00:54:05,675 --> 00:54:07,777
[ Announcer ] Koko B. Ware and Frankie!
979
00:54:07,811 --> 00:54:10,814
[ Barry Narrating ] Like Koko B. Ware, who was once a headliner.
980
00:54:10,847 --> 00:54:13,717
Other guys? Well, they do a little better job of adjusting.
981
00:54:13,750 --> 00:54:17,387
And the American dream lives on in Minnesota-- [ Cheering ]
982
00:54:17,420 --> 00:54:20,757
'cause we shocked the world!
983
00:54:20,790 --> 00:54:23,493
I really didn't know what to do with myself,
984
00:54:23,526 --> 00:54:26,796
but I knew that I would do something with myself.
985
00:54:26,830 --> 00:54:31,534
You know, my career didn't come to as an abrupt an end...
986
00:54:31,568 --> 00:54:33,803
because I quit while I was on top.
987
00:54:33,837 --> 00:54:37,307
I just knew it was over, and it was time to move on.
988
00:54:38,842 --> 00:54:42,646
Politics is way more cutthroat, I think, than wrestling is.
989
00:54:44,648 --> 00:54:48,518
- Deep down, I'm a softy inside. - [ Both Laughing ]
990
00:54:48,551 --> 00:54:53,523
I put on an outer appearance of being very hard and calloused,
991
00:54:53,556 --> 00:54:56,593
but deep down inside, I think that I have a big heart and that I--
992
00:54:56,626 --> 00:55:00,563
that I'm a sucker for a good sob story.
993
00:55:00,597 --> 00:55:03,967
- That's excellent. - You know, that I can be vulnerable that way.
994
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:07,837
You know, with cer-- Let me categorize that-- with certain people.
995
00:55:07,871 --> 00:55:10,674
Other people could tell me any story they wanted...
996
00:55:10,707 --> 00:55:14,144
and I wouldn't be vulnerable to them.
997
00:55:14,177 --> 00:55:16,680
[ Barry Narrating ] I didn't think wrestling could surprise me anymore.
998
00:55:16,713 --> 00:55:18,915
[ Ring Announcer ] And now, introducing--
999
00:55:18,948 --> 00:55:21,584
[ Barry Narrating ] That is, until Vince McMahon became a performer in the ring.
1000
00:55:21,618 --> 00:55:23,653
[ Man ] Look at him! Look at that!
1001
00:55:23,687 --> 00:55:27,791
With a shortage of "heels"-- that's wrestling jargon for bad guys--
1002
00:55:27,824 --> 00:55:31,561
Vince decided, "Who was more hateable than Vince McMahon?"
1003
00:55:32,729 --> 00:55:35,732
As usual, Vince guessed right.
1004
00:55:35,765 --> 00:55:39,402
After all, who wouldn't want to punch out their boss?
1005
00:55:39,436 --> 00:55:41,871
[ McMahon ] You know, it's real easy to be Mr. McMahon the performer.
1006
00:55:41,905 --> 00:55:45,975
Um, that's a hoot.
1007
00:55:46,009 --> 00:55:50,880
That's not really who I am, although I guess maybe that I'm a part of that character.
1008
00:55:50,914 --> 00:55:56,453
[ Barry Narrating ] What other head of a billion-dollar company does this for a living?
1009
00:55:56,486 --> 00:55:59,889
I think everything has its own little life, you know.
1010
00:55:59,923 --> 00:56:01,925
I don't know what this one is.
1011
00:56:01,958 --> 00:56:06,563
It's-- It's all about giving the audience what they want,
1012
00:56:06,596 --> 00:56:08,898
whatever it is.
1013
00:56:08,932 --> 00:56:14,037
I got crutches, this guitar. [ Barry Narrating ] And then there was New Jack.
1014
00:56:14,070 --> 00:56:16,840
What did you do before this? A bounty hunter. And I was good.
1015
00:56:16,873 --> 00:56:18,708
A toaster. A toaster?
1016
00:56:20,510 --> 00:56:23,613
That was four justifiable homicides.
1017
00:56:23,646 --> 00:56:27,450
Four. You know? I wasn't proud of it, but it happened.
1018
00:56:27,484 --> 00:56:30,019
It was either me or them, so I'm still here.
1019
00:56:30,053 --> 00:56:33,022
Jerome Young created New Jack. You know what I'm saying?
1020
00:56:33,056 --> 00:56:35,625
I get paid for what I'm doing. It's like any entertainer.
1021
00:56:35,658 --> 00:56:37,227
You know what I'm saying?
1022
00:56:37,260 --> 00:56:39,629
You come up with a gimmick or a character that's marketable.
1023
00:56:39,662 --> 00:56:42,031
You know what I mean? So I created New Jack.
1024
00:56:42,065 --> 00:56:44,567
And that's what I get paid to do.
1025
00:56:44,601 --> 00:56:48,671
I'm not like these other guys you see that might be kind of iffy or questionable.
1026
00:56:48,705 --> 00:56:52,776
I'm a very violent person, and I'll hurt you, and it's no secret.
1027
00:56:52,809 --> 00:56:57,080
I talk shit and back it up. I ain't like a rapper. You know what I mean?
1028
00:56:57,113 --> 00:57:00,650
I don't go in the studio and talk all that violent shit and ain't never lived it.
1029
00:57:00,683 --> 00:57:03,820
I done lived it. I get a kick from gettin' pain, man.
1030
00:57:03,853 --> 00:57:05,889
See my knuckles?
1031
00:57:05,922 --> 00:57:08,525
You don't, 'cause there ain't none.
1032
00:57:08,558 --> 00:57:10,560
See these two?
1033
00:57:10,593 --> 00:57:12,495
That's from hittin' a bitch in the eye.
1034
00:57:13,730 --> 00:57:15,665
I'm violent by nature, man.
1035
00:57:15,698 --> 00:57:17,967
And I don't care.
1036
00:57:18,001 --> 00:57:22,705
I ain't-- I ain't a 40-hour motherfucker, man. Never have, never will be.
1037
00:57:22,739 --> 00:57:24,808
I like my shit quick.
1038
00:57:25,975 --> 00:57:27,777
[ New Jack On Tape ] Hey, Barry.
1039
00:57:27,811 --> 00:57:30,680
This is your favorite Negro. Give me a call--
1040
00:57:30,713 --> 00:57:32,682
[ Barry Narrating ] Of all the wrestlers I met,
1041
00:57:32,715 --> 00:57:34,551
the last one I expected to bond with was New Jack.
1042
00:57:37,687 --> 00:57:39,756
New Jack was coming to L.A. to visit.
1043
00:57:39,789 --> 00:57:42,525
Truth be told, I was happy to see him.
1044
00:57:42,559 --> 00:57:47,030
None of my friends had any justifiable homicides, let alone four.
1045
00:57:47,063 --> 00:57:49,132
I hope not. [ Both Laughing ]
1046
00:57:49,165 --> 00:57:51,835
[ Barry Narrating ] We were quickly becoming chums.
1047
00:57:51,868 --> 00:57:54,070
He wanted to see if he could make it as an actor.
1048
00:57:54,103 --> 00:57:56,840
I've been captured by three white people!
1049
00:57:56,873 --> 00:57:59,742
[ Barry Narrating ] So I got New Jack an appointment with a casting agent.
1050
00:57:59,776 --> 00:58:02,946
[ Beeps ] [ Woman ] Rolling.
1051
00:58:02,979 --> 00:58:06,983
Looks like your man did pretty good. Here you go. Your share.
1052
00:58:07,016 --> 00:58:09,118
$219.
1053
00:58:09,152 --> 00:58:12,856
You telling me there was only one person in each car?
1054
00:58:12,889 --> 00:58:15,024
That's right.
1055
00:58:15,058 --> 00:58:17,627
[ Man ] And cut. That's good.
1056
00:58:17,660 --> 00:58:20,864
Okay. The audition's over.
1057
00:58:20,897 --> 00:58:23,666
It's good-bye. Good to meet you.
1058
00:58:23,700 --> 00:58:25,802
Good work. Should I go out the window or take the stairs?
1059
00:58:25,835 --> 00:58:27,670
You got an extra-long audition. Uh, stairs. Stairs.
1060
00:58:27,704 --> 00:58:29,639
Thank you. Thanks so much.
1061
00:58:29,672 --> 00:58:32,041
I could see real possibilities with him. I think he could be a leading man.
1062
00:58:32,075 --> 00:58:34,143
[ Woman ] You do? Really? Absolutely. Absolutely.
1063
00:58:34,177 --> 00:58:37,747
I think he's got a great face. I think he's got sexuality, charm.
1064
00:58:37,780 --> 00:58:40,783
I think there's a lot of potential there. I really do.
1065
00:58:40,817 --> 00:58:44,053
But, I mean, as far as the leading man thing-- It's just that this is--
1066
00:58:44,087 --> 00:58:47,123
He's a little character-y. I think he'll be the best friend.
1067
00:58:47,156 --> 00:58:49,759
[ Woman ] I think he'll be Denzel's pal. I don't think he'll be Denzel.
1068
00:58:49,792 --> 00:58:51,461
[ Barry ] I think they were pretty impressed.
1069
00:58:51,494 --> 00:58:55,098
[ Barry Narrating ] While New Jack was auditioning, I got a call from Terry Funk.
1070
00:58:55,131 --> 00:58:56,900
Maybe I'll be the next Denzel.
1071
00:58:56,933 --> 00:58:58,668
[ Chuckles ]
1072
00:58:58,701 --> 00:59:01,104
[ Laughter ] No, I do. I love my family very much,
1073
00:59:01,137 --> 00:59:03,740
and that's what's gonna bring me to this next announcement.
1074
00:59:03,773 --> 00:59:06,943
The next announcement is that 1997 is my last year.
1075
00:59:06,976 --> 00:59:10,780
I will not be wrestling anymore after the end of this year.
1076
00:59:10,813 --> 00:59:14,884
It's over. After 32 years. That's it. [ Men Shouting ]
1077
00:59:14,918 --> 00:59:18,788
[ Terry ] No, I'm serious. And I've loved every minute of it.
1078
00:59:18,821 --> 00:59:21,190
But it's time to go home.
1079
00:59:21,224 --> 00:59:23,092
It's time to say good-bye. [ Applause ]
1080
00:59:24,694 --> 00:59:26,696
[ Whistling ] [ Cheering ]
1081
00:59:26,729 --> 00:59:28,998
Thank you!
1082
00:59:29,866 --> 00:59:31,134
Thank y'all!
1083
00:59:31,167 --> 00:59:34,203
[ Chanting ] Terry! Terry! Terry!
1084
00:59:34,237 --> 00:59:36,706
[ Man On Radio ] We come back now on KGNC.
1085
00:59:36,739 --> 00:59:39,876
And let us go now to Terry Funk as he prepares now for-- Is James here?
1086
00:59:39,909 --> 00:59:42,011
Yes. the final matches of his career,
1087
00:59:42,045 --> 00:59:45,682
including one Thursday night here in Amarillo. James, Terry Funk to see you.
1088
00:59:45,715 --> 00:59:47,717
We got about 30 or 40 seconds here.
1089
00:59:47,750 --> 00:59:50,987
Tell the audience again the when and where of the big event Thursday night.
1090
00:59:51,020 --> 00:59:53,823
Well, it's gonna be at the Tri-State Fairgrounds.
1091
00:59:53,856 --> 00:59:57,727
And it's gonna be at the Tri-State Fairgrounds, Maxor Coliseum.
1092
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:00,863
And it's gonna be a great card you're gonna have from the WWF.
1093
01:00:00,897 --> 01:00:04,701
Bret Hart, the world's heavyweight champion. I'll be going up against him.
1094
01:00:04,734 --> 01:00:08,004
It'll be a nontitle match. Mankind will also be here.
1095
01:00:08,037 --> 01:00:10,006
[ Barry ] Where'd you guys come from?
1096
01:00:10,039 --> 01:00:12,008
Come over from England, in Britain. Yeah.
1097
01:00:12,041 --> 01:00:14,877
About a 5,000-mile trip just to see this show.
1098
01:00:14,911 --> 01:00:18,681
[ Barry Narrating ] Terry wasn't the only wrestler who lived in Amarillo.
1099
01:00:18,715 --> 01:00:21,851
The other one was unfortunately not as successful.
1100
01:00:21,884 --> 01:00:26,155
Dennis Stamp had over 800 matches, none of them main events.
1101
01:00:26,189 --> 01:00:31,194
Now an exterminator, he was the self-proclaimed "King of the Cockroaches."
1102
01:00:31,227 --> 01:00:33,162
[ Barry ] Are you coming to the show Thursday night?
1103
01:00:33,196 --> 01:00:35,832
Uh, no. No, I won't be. Why not?
1104
01:00:35,865 --> 01:00:38,101
I'm not booked, for one thing.
1105
01:00:38,134 --> 01:00:42,739
And what really-- what really bothers me is Dory Funk Jr.
1106
01:00:42,772 --> 01:00:46,976
You know, I have nothing against the man he's wrestling,
1107
01:00:47,010 --> 01:00:49,779
but I could swear to you-- I could guarantee to you...
1108
01:00:49,812 --> 01:00:54,484
that nobody, no one could have a better match with Dory than I would have.
1109
01:00:54,517 --> 01:00:56,753
So that part hurts. So--
1110
01:00:56,786 --> 01:00:59,288
But I really wanted to be on as a referee,
1111
01:00:59,322 --> 01:01:03,192
but, um, the people who make the decision,
1112
01:01:03,226 --> 01:01:05,228
whoever that would be,
1113
01:01:05,261 --> 01:01:08,031
didn't-- didn't offer me any position.
1114
01:01:08,064 --> 01:01:10,767
So, I'm not booked, I won't be here.
1115
01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:14,003
My biggest fear is that he's gonna be disappointed.
1116
01:01:15,538 --> 01:01:19,075
If he doesn't make any money, that's not the big deal.
1117
01:01:19,108 --> 01:01:22,812
If he's disappointed-- I don't think I will be.
1118
01:01:22,845 --> 01:01:24,981
I hope not. I mean, it's up to me.
1119
01:01:25,014 --> 01:01:27,517
It's not a downhill side of my career.
1120
01:01:27,550 --> 01:01:32,188
I've tried to pick out a time where I can go out and still be somebody that's important.
1121
01:01:32,221 --> 01:01:34,090
[ Chattering ]
1122
01:01:34,123 --> 01:01:37,060
[ Man ] Look at it. I mean, you have WWF people here,
1123
01:01:37,093 --> 01:01:39,262
ECW people, people from other places.
1124
01:01:39,295 --> 01:01:42,331
I mean, it's-- Terry has been able to do what the promoters couldn't.
1125
01:01:45,068 --> 01:01:48,538
I don't do any tricks. But I just jump.
1126
01:01:48,571 --> 01:01:51,340
[ Stamp ] I stay fit, I watch what I eat...
1127
01:01:51,374 --> 01:01:54,310
because I never know when my next match is gonna be.
1128
01:01:54,343 --> 01:01:57,847
I had my last match, I think it was 1991.
1129
01:01:57,880 --> 01:02:00,316
So it gets to be a lot longer between matches.
1130
01:02:00,349 --> 01:02:03,119
But, uh, I never know when I'm gonna have my next match.
1131
01:02:03,152 --> 01:02:05,822
So I've gotta stay in shape for that. I've gotta be ready.
1132
01:02:05,855 --> 01:02:09,892
You know, I'm only 50 now, and the phone could ring at any time, you know.
1133
01:02:11,160 --> 01:02:13,162
[ Terry ] How's everything going?
1134
01:02:13,196 --> 01:02:16,265
I'm not gonna be here, but-- Why aren't you?
1135
01:02:16,299 --> 01:02:20,002
Because I'm not booked. You're not gonna be here. Why aren't you gonna be here?
1136
01:02:20,036 --> 01:02:23,072
Please be here. I'm not gonna be here, Terry, 'cause I'm not booked.
1137
01:02:23,106 --> 01:02:26,809
That's an old rule I've had for a long time. But I want you here.
1138
01:02:26,843 --> 01:02:30,813
Because I'm not involved. I want you to come, please.
1139
01:02:30,847 --> 01:02:35,351
I'm asking you, please come. I already have other arrangements.
1140
01:02:35,384 --> 01:02:39,055
And don't take it personally, because...
1141
01:02:39,088 --> 01:02:42,391
I used to be in the dressing room, and I used to see the old guys.
1142
01:02:42,425 --> 01:02:45,895
And that's where I am now. I used to see the old guys that came in the dressing room...
1143
01:02:45,928 --> 01:02:48,931
that come round, and they'd look like old dogs...
1144
01:02:48,965 --> 01:02:51,400
just hoping somebody would recognize them-- "Here, Spot!"
1145
01:02:51,434 --> 01:02:55,004
Why don't you come and see us? I really have to be involved, and I'm not.
1146
01:02:55,037 --> 01:02:57,406
I want you to be there. You know, and I did--
1147
01:02:57,440 --> 01:03:02,345
And I did ask you in April if I could referee some matches on the card.
1148
01:03:02,378 --> 01:03:04,614
You're refereeing tonight then. Which would have been--
1149
01:03:04,647 --> 01:03:07,049
You're refereeing tonight. But I'm not on the card. I'm not booked.
1150
01:03:07,083 --> 01:03:12,088
You're refereeing. You wanna referee me and Bret? Referee me and Bret.
1151
01:03:12,121 --> 01:03:16,125
I already have-- I already have other arrangements made. I want you to referee us.
1152
01:03:16,159 --> 01:03:18,227
I want you referee me and Bret. I'm just telling you--
1153
01:03:18,261 --> 01:03:20,096
Okay. So what happened? I guess you--
1154
01:03:20,129 --> 01:03:22,131
And I'm running 900 miles an hour is what I'm doing.
1155
01:03:22,165 --> 01:03:24,367
I guess I was just so far down-- I guess you just didn't hear me...
1156
01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:26,235
or something when I asked you before. I don't--
1157
01:03:26,269 --> 01:03:28,137
Didn't think about it? Dennis, I didn't even know about it.
1158
01:03:28,171 --> 01:03:30,940
But I want you to. I want you to. I appreciate that.
1159
01:03:30,973 --> 01:03:33,009
Okay. I want you to. Will you please do it?
1160
01:03:33,042 --> 01:03:35,945
Appreciate that. And it's my last match. It's my last match.
1161
01:03:35,978 --> 01:03:37,980
Call me if you can, 'cause I would love it. Okay.
1162
01:03:38,014 --> 01:03:40,249
I would love it. I'd love to have you there as part of it.
1163
01:03:40,283 --> 01:03:42,285
I appreciate that, Terry. I want you to be there.
1164
01:03:42,318 --> 01:03:44,253
I appreciate that.
1165
01:03:47,190 --> 01:03:50,893
[ Woman ] ♪ I'll be seeing you
1166
01:03:51,460 --> 01:03:54,397
♪ In all the old
1167
01:03:54,430 --> 01:03:57,333
♪ Familiar places
1168
01:03:57,366 --> 01:03:59,969
♪ That this heart of mine
1169
01:04:00,002 --> 01:04:02,371
I got ya. ♪ Embraces
1170
01:04:02,405 --> 01:04:04,440
♪ All day through
1171
01:04:04,473 --> 01:04:06,375
[ Chattering ]
1172
01:04:06,409 --> 01:04:10,379
I've gotta head over to Coors right now. I'll be right back.
1173
01:04:10,413 --> 01:04:12,448
Were you serious? Yeah, I'm serious.
1174
01:04:12,481 --> 01:04:17,920
It's costing me $134 to change my ticket. Will I make that much?
1175
01:04:17,954 --> 01:04:20,523
I was gonna pay you 50. Close. I'll get half of it back, right?
1176
01:04:20,556 --> 01:04:23,092
I was gonna pay you 50, Dennis. Thank you.
1177
01:04:23,125 --> 01:04:25,061
You mean you're gonna double pay me?
1178
01:04:25,094 --> 01:04:28,264
My wife says, "Do you really want to do it?" I almost broke down and said,
1179
01:04:28,297 --> 01:04:30,299
"It's the main event. It's the main event.
1180
01:04:30,333 --> 01:04:32,435
You think I'm not gonna be in a main event?"
1181
01:04:32,468 --> 01:04:34,503
Thank you, Dennis. I'd rather be in the main event than breathe.
1182
01:04:34,537 --> 01:04:37,974
This is it. This is it. This is the final one.
1183
01:04:38,007 --> 01:04:40,276
This is the final one, so...
1184
01:04:40,309 --> 01:04:43,980
Vicki-- she'll be there whenever it's all over with.
1185
01:04:44,013 --> 01:04:47,350
She always has been, and I think she always will be.
1186
01:04:47,383 --> 01:04:52,021
♪ I'll be seeing you
1187
01:04:52,054 --> 01:04:55,057
There's supposed to be 10 chairs up there for them. Okay.
1188
01:04:55,091 --> 01:04:58,394
I don't know, but I want him setting up because he's the head of the Chevy dealers.
1189
01:04:58,427 --> 01:05:01,430
Okay. But I just want him taken care of.
1190
01:05:01,464 --> 01:05:05,034
And he's supposed to have those seats in between the two-- But he's not there.
1191
01:05:05,067 --> 01:05:07,737
Okay, I'll find him. Just lay it on your lap. All right.
1192
01:05:07,770 --> 01:05:10,106
You'll probably get 180 over 110.
1193
01:05:10,139 --> 01:05:12,208
♪ I'll find you
1194
01:05:12,241 --> 01:05:15,311
♪ In the morning sun
1195
01:05:15,344 --> 01:05:19,515
♪ And when the night is new
1196
01:05:21,450 --> 01:05:25,421
♪ I'll be looking at the moon
1197
01:05:25,454 --> 01:05:27,423
[ Terry ] Slow down.
1198
01:05:27,456 --> 01:05:31,260
♪ But I'll be seeing
1199
01:05:31,294 --> 01:05:36,599
♪ You ♪
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01:05:36,632 --> 01:05:42,204
From the Double Cross Ranch in Amarillo, Texas,
1201
01:05:42,238 --> 01:05:46,375
weighing in at 251 pounds,
1202
01:05:46,409 --> 01:05:50,212
wrestling's living legend,
1203
01:05:50,246 --> 01:05:52,448
ladies and gentlemen,
1204
01:05:52,481 --> 01:05:56,252
Terry Funk!
1205
01:05:56,285 --> 01:05:59,388
[ Loud Cheering ]
1206
01:05:59,422 --> 01:06:04,593
[ Crowd Chanting ] Terry! Terry! Terry! Terry! Terry! Terry!
1207
01:06:04,627 --> 01:06:08,631
Terry! Terry! Terry! Terry! Terry!
1208
01:06:08,664 --> 01:06:10,499
Congrats, Terry!
1209
01:06:12,401 --> 01:06:14,403
[ Cheering ]
1210
01:06:19,108 --> 01:06:21,410
It's about you!
1211
01:06:21,444 --> 01:06:23,412
[ Cheering Continues ]
1212
01:06:25,681 --> 01:06:29,652
[ Man ] I give to you the lifetime heavyweight...
1213
01:06:29,685 --> 01:06:33,456
champion of the world, his final match,
1214
01:06:35,358 --> 01:06:37,293
the living legend,
1215
01:06:37,326 --> 01:06:40,262
Terry Funk!
1216
01:06:40,296 --> 01:06:42,298
[ Cheering Continues ]
1217
01:06:50,639 --> 01:06:53,409
[ Barry Narrating ] That night, Bret beat up Terry for a while.
1218
01:06:55,444 --> 01:06:57,580
Then Terry beat up Bret for a while.
1219
01:07:03,519 --> 01:07:06,288
Terry told me he was going to lose.
1220
01:07:06,322 --> 01:07:09,658
He didn't think the fans would believe an old man could beat the champ.
1221
01:07:09,692 --> 01:07:12,294
Plus, every wrestler knows...
1222
01:07:12,328 --> 01:07:14,430
it's always better going out on your back.
1223
01:07:19,268 --> 01:07:20,636
[ Ring Announcer ] The winner of the match--
1224
01:07:20,669 --> 01:07:22,304
[ Booing ]
1225
01:07:22,338 --> 01:07:24,540
Bret "the Hitman" Hart.
1226
01:07:28,511 --> 01:07:31,313
Ladies and gentlemen, let's hear it for Terry Funk.
1227
01:07:31,347 --> 01:07:33,616
[ Cheering ]
1228
01:07:35,551 --> 01:07:41,190
No complaints about the match tonight.
1229
01:07:41,223 --> 01:07:43,459
No complaints...
1230
01:07:43,492 --> 01:07:48,130
about the Funk family's life of wrestling.
1231
01:07:48,164 --> 01:07:51,534
It's been wonderful, and it's been a great trip.
1232
01:07:51,567 --> 01:07:54,637
[ Man ] We love Terry! And-- Hey, I love you guys too.
1233
01:07:54,670 --> 01:07:57,239
[ Cheering ]
1234
01:07:59,575 --> 01:08:02,244
[ Ring Announcer ] Ladies and gentlemen, let's hear it for Terry Funk!
1235
01:08:05,648 --> 01:08:08,217
Ladies and gentlemen, thanks for coming out tonight...
1236
01:08:08,250 --> 01:08:10,719
and spending your night with us and the Funk family.
1237
01:08:13,456 --> 01:08:16,392
Drive home carefully. Thank you. Good night.
1238
01:08:18,294 --> 01:08:19,562
[ Chattering ]
1239
01:08:19,595 --> 01:08:22,364
♪ And when the night is new
1240
01:08:22,398 --> 01:08:25,434
Thanks for having me here, Terry. I loved having you.
1241
01:08:25,468 --> 01:08:26,702
Appreciate it.
1242
01:08:26,735 --> 01:08:28,304
♪ I'll be looking at the moon
1243
01:08:29,472 --> 01:08:33,442
♪ But I'll be seeing
1244
01:08:33,476 --> 01:08:36,445
♪ You ♪
1245
01:08:36,479 --> 01:08:38,681
I hope I did a good job.
1246
01:08:38,714 --> 01:08:40,349
Very good.
1247
01:08:59,435 --> 01:09:01,537
[ Barry Narrating ] When I caught up again with Jake the Snake,
1248
01:09:01,570 --> 01:09:03,539
he was appearing in Kearney, Nebraska.
1249
01:09:03,572 --> 01:09:06,675
[ Ring Announcer ] Ladies and gentlemen,
1250
01:09:06,709 --> 01:09:10,312
Jake "the Snake" Roberts!
1251
01:09:16,352 --> 01:09:17,786
Ahhh!
1252
01:09:17,820 --> 01:09:20,789
[ Barry ] So where are you going next? My daughter's.
1253
01:09:20,823 --> 01:09:24,293
She's, uh, doing her master's in psychology.
1254
01:09:24,326 --> 01:09:26,529
So she's a real freak.
1255
01:09:26,562 --> 01:09:29,665
[ Barry Narrating ] So the next day we traveled 300 miles...
1256
01:09:29,698 --> 01:09:32,668
to see Jake's oldest daughter Brandy.
1257
01:09:32,701 --> 01:09:35,704
[ Jake ] My first marriage was over when she was, like,
1258
01:09:35,738 --> 01:09:37,640
seven, eight years old.
1259
01:09:37,673 --> 01:09:40,576
And I was on the road.
1260
01:09:40,609 --> 01:09:44,813
I'd see her a couple times a year. Not much of a relationship with her.
1261
01:09:44,847 --> 01:09:48,384
I mean, it's not that I don't love my children. I do love my children very much.
1262
01:09:48,417 --> 01:09:51,453
I don't know how to be close to them.
1263
01:09:51,487 --> 01:09:55,624
I don't know how to, uh-- how to have that--
1264
01:09:55,658 --> 01:09:58,827
that melting of together.
1265
01:09:58,861 --> 01:10:01,664
I really feel gypped, you know, by the whole situation,
1266
01:10:01,697 --> 01:10:03,465
so I made this book.
1267
01:10:03,499 --> 01:10:05,034
And, um,
1268
01:10:05,067 --> 01:10:07,736
this is kind of the screen...
1269
01:10:07,770 --> 01:10:10,272
that my father hides behind.
1270
01:10:10,306 --> 01:10:13,342
And these are actual picture-- uh,
1271
01:10:13,375 --> 01:10:15,511
letters that he wrote me...
1272
01:10:15,544 --> 01:10:17,713
that I tore up and I pasted in here.
1273
01:10:17,746 --> 01:10:20,349
And this one actually says, "Love, Dad." I mean,
1274
01:10:20,382 --> 01:10:23,285
they were very few and far between, but I saved all of 'em.
1275
01:10:23,319 --> 01:10:24,820
You know?
1276
01:10:24,853 --> 01:10:27,356
And this is a card.
1277
01:10:27,389 --> 01:10:30,859
Um, this was when he had gone straight.
1278
01:10:30,893 --> 01:10:35,364
And it says, "A daughter is a treasure."
1279
01:10:39,668 --> 01:10:41,904
This is me and my mom at my prom.
1280
01:10:41,937 --> 01:10:44,907
And it says, "All of my life, I wanted Daddy's love,
1281
01:10:44,940 --> 01:10:47,676
but now I'll hold on to what is really important--
1282
01:10:47,710 --> 01:10:50,546
unconditional love and support from my mom."
1283
01:10:52,781 --> 01:10:57,586
And the back of it is by a really wonderful poet named Sylvia Plath.
1284
01:10:57,620 --> 01:11:01,457
And it says, "In the words of Sylvia Plath, ‘Fuck you, Daddy.'"
1285
01:11:01,490 --> 01:11:02,925
And that's how I felt.
1286
01:11:02,958 --> 01:11:06,362
And that's still how I feel a lot of the times.
1287
01:11:16,705 --> 01:11:19,808
[ Jake ] We're at the lovely Ramada in lovely Emporia.
1288
01:11:19,842 --> 01:11:21,343
[ Brandy On Phone ] At the Ramada? [ Jake ] Yeah.
1289
01:11:21,377 --> 01:11:26,815
Okay, well, is it okay if I bring my friends-- two of my friends with me?
1290
01:11:26,849 --> 01:11:28,651
Absolutely. Okay.
1291
01:11:28,684 --> 01:11:30,953
'Cause I would-- I'm--
1292
01:11:30,986 --> 01:11:34,390
I would really like to bring them with me.
1293
01:11:34,423 --> 01:11:37,393
Okay. I mean, I just feel kind of nervous.
1294
01:11:37,426 --> 01:11:40,929
I mean-- I don't know. About what?
1295
01:11:40,963 --> 01:11:43,766
It's just been a long time, Dad. You know?
1296
01:11:43,799 --> 01:11:45,834
Oh, okay. I haven't seen you in a long time.
1297
01:11:45,868 --> 01:11:49,805
I haven't-- I haven't been around you. All right.
1298
01:11:49,838 --> 01:11:51,874
I mean, I'm not scared of you. I know-- Okay.
1299
01:11:51,907 --> 01:11:54,977
I don't want that to be the way it's coming across at all. That's all right.
1300
01:11:55,010 --> 01:11:57,680
I feel very comfortable with you. Mm-hmm.
1301
01:11:57,713 --> 01:12:00,716
And you and I have a pretty good understanding together.
1302
01:12:00,749 --> 01:12:02,518
Okay. You know. It's not that.
1303
01:12:02,551 --> 01:12:04,019
It's just I feel really--
1304
01:12:04,053 --> 01:12:07,856
I feel really, like, inspected or something. You know what I'm saying?
1305
01:12:07,890 --> 01:12:10,659
[ Scoffs ] Like--
1306
01:12:10,693 --> 01:12:12,594
Okay. Well, just come on out.
1307
01:12:12,628 --> 01:12:15,931
I'll be in the, um-- that restaurant.
1308
01:12:17,533 --> 01:12:18,734
Whew.
1309
01:12:18,767 --> 01:12:20,836
Hmm.
1310
01:12:21,970 --> 01:12:24,873
That wasn't much fun.
1311
01:12:24,907 --> 01:12:27,643
[ Snaps Fingers ]
1312
01:12:27,676 --> 01:12:29,545
[ Sighs ]
1313
01:12:31,513 --> 01:12:33,949
I don't know, man. I don't know.
1314
01:12:33,982 --> 01:12:36,485
She's just acting real funky.
1315
01:12:36,518 --> 01:12:38,854
What the hell is this shit?
1316
01:12:43,692 --> 01:12:46,795
Is that chocolate or something off--
1317
01:12:46,829 --> 01:12:49,198
[ Barry ] What's your biggest fear when she walks in here?
1318
01:12:49,231 --> 01:12:51,500
[ Jake ] Rejection.
1319
01:12:51,533 --> 01:12:54,837
Always rejection. Hey.
1320
01:12:54,870 --> 01:12:57,573
[ Brandy ] I'm not sure if he's ready to be a father now.
1321
01:12:57,606 --> 01:12:59,775
You okay? Hi.
1322
01:12:59,808 --> 01:13:01,844
You look good. Thanks.
1323
01:13:01,877 --> 01:13:04,913
I don't know if now he's ready or not.
1324
01:13:04,947 --> 01:13:08,050
I can't say that, 'cause I've only-- I've only been around him a little bit.
1325
01:13:08,083 --> 01:13:11,520
[ Barry Narrating ] Jake hadn't seen his daughter in four years.
1326
01:13:11,553 --> 01:13:14,456
I was amazed. Five minutes after meeting her,
1327
01:13:14,490 --> 01:13:16,525
he went to his room for the night.
1328
01:13:16,558 --> 01:13:21,730
He needs to step away from the cameras and get the glitz out of it.
1329
01:13:21,764 --> 01:13:24,967
[ Coughs ] [ Brandy ] Wrestling, you have a camera on you.
1330
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:27,636
All the things he's done in his life, he's had a camera on him.
1331
01:13:27,669 --> 01:13:30,773
I wish he would step away from that and he would say,
1332
01:13:30,806 --> 01:13:34,476
"Hey, I wanna be with my family. I wanna be real.
1333
01:13:34,510 --> 01:13:37,679
I wanna be there without cameras and try to work some of this stuff out."
1334
01:13:37,713 --> 01:13:39,815
Hello. [ Brandy ] Hello.
1335
01:13:39,848 --> 01:13:43,018
Maybe he really honestly believes this is gonna help heal things.
1336
01:13:43,051 --> 01:13:45,587
[ Sighs ] How are you this morning? It would be wonderful...
1337
01:13:45,621 --> 01:13:50,259
if I could know him on a level that other kids know their fathers.
1338
01:13:50,292 --> 01:13:53,829
Me too. I wonder how she got that number. Well, let me guess.
1339
01:13:53,862 --> 01:13:55,964
Not from me. Really?
1340
01:13:55,998 --> 01:13:58,934
No. I did not give her the number at all.
1341
01:13:58,967 --> 01:14:01,537
[ Brandy ] He makes me nervous, and I make him nervous...
1342
01:14:01,570 --> 01:14:03,839
'cause we don't really know how to act around each other.
1343
01:14:03,872 --> 01:14:05,974
Because he knows that I'm gonna be very straightforward with him,
1344
01:14:06,008 --> 01:14:08,710
and he doesn't always like that.
1345
01:14:08,744 --> 01:14:11,580
A lot of people don't understand. "Gosh, if you were making that good of money,
1346
01:14:11,613 --> 01:14:13,982
why didn't you just take three months off and go stay with your kids?"
1347
01:14:14,016 --> 01:14:17,519
Well, because if I took three months off, I'd have been fired.
1348
01:14:17,553 --> 01:14:20,656
I know that, but you-- When I was working for Vince McMahon,
1349
01:14:20,689 --> 01:14:23,926
I was obligated to wrestle every day.
1350
01:14:23,959 --> 01:14:25,794
I know that. But--
1351
01:14:25,828 --> 01:14:29,731
And-- And it wasn't fair, and it wasn't right.
1352
01:14:29,765 --> 01:14:32,000
But I do know I love my children...
1353
01:14:32,034 --> 01:14:34,503
in whatever twisted--
1354
01:14:36,772 --> 01:14:38,674
twisted way there is.
1355
01:14:38,707 --> 01:14:40,108
Then you need to learn a different way.
1356
01:14:40,142 --> 01:14:42,578
I quit learning.
1357
01:14:42,611 --> 01:14:45,614
That doesn't stop though. You can start learning again.
1358
01:14:45,647 --> 01:14:49,051
Maybe. Maybe. If there's time.
1359
01:14:49,084 --> 01:14:51,687
Why wouldn't there be time?
1360
01:14:51,720 --> 01:14:53,622
I don't know.
1361
01:14:54,790 --> 01:14:57,593
I just don't wanna hurt no more.
1362
01:14:57,626 --> 01:14:59,928
I don't wanna hurt you no more.
1363
01:14:59,962 --> 01:15:03,565
That would hurt me. That would be the ultimate hurt, Dad.
1364
01:15:03,599 --> 01:15:07,769
That would be the ultimate pain that you could bestow on anyone.
1365
01:15:07,803 --> 01:15:09,638
Sometimes I-- I don't think that's fair.
1366
01:15:09,671 --> 01:15:11,807
I think that's selfish. I think that's a cop-out.
1367
01:15:11,840 --> 01:15:14,009
I think that's bullshit.
1368
01:15:15,777 --> 01:15:17,880
I don't know. Just tired. You cannot do that.
1369
01:15:17,913 --> 01:15:21,183
That is not fair to anybody. That is just your way out.
1370
01:15:21,216 --> 01:15:24,086
You know, but sometimes you don't understand. See, it's like--
1371
01:15:26,121 --> 01:15:29,057
When I was growing up, I swore up and down I would never treat my kids...
1372
01:15:29,091 --> 01:15:32,160
the way my father treated me.
1373
01:15:32,194 --> 01:15:34,730
And 24 years later, I look back and say,
1374
01:15:34,763 --> 01:15:38,033
"My God, you've done the exact stinkin' same thing."
1375
01:15:40,969 --> 01:15:43,071
But it's not the way I wanted it to go.
1376
01:15:43,105 --> 01:15:45,807
How did you want it to go?
1377
01:15:45,841 --> 01:15:49,144
I guess I wanted that Walt Disney ending, you know.
1378
01:15:49,177 --> 01:15:51,780
Not the Old Yeller one either. [ Chuckles ]
1379
01:15:52,981 --> 01:15:55,651
Dad, we've never had a Walt Disney ending.
1380
01:15:55,684 --> 01:15:58,153
I know. I certainly haven't.
1381
01:15:59,655 --> 01:16:01,156
I'm sorry.
1382
01:16:03,091 --> 01:16:04,960
I don't know where to go.
1383
01:16:11,733 --> 01:16:13,902
I'm just getting really, uh--
1384
01:16:17,906 --> 01:16:20,676
really fucked-up inside.
1385
01:16:24,046 --> 01:16:25,981
[ Groans ]
1386
01:16:30,052 --> 01:16:32,120
[ Exhales Sharply ]
1387
01:16:32,154 --> 01:16:35,791
I don't know. I wish he could be real more often.
1388
01:16:35,824 --> 01:16:38,894
That would really help him, and I think it would help us.
1389
01:16:40,762 --> 01:16:43,031
[ Brandy ] He stayed here and hurt, you know.
1390
01:16:43,065 --> 01:16:45,200
Before, he would have just walked out and left.
1391
01:16:47,803 --> 01:16:50,739
It's part of an act, and part of it's real.
1392
01:16:50,772 --> 01:16:53,208
I mean, his hurt is very real, I think.
1393
01:16:56,712 --> 01:17:00,048
[ Barry Narrating ] After seeing his daughter, Jake was quiet for the first time.
1394
01:17:02,851 --> 01:17:06,021
After checking into a hotel, he disappeared.
1395
01:17:06,054 --> 01:17:08,256
When I caught up with him a few hours later,
1396
01:17:08,290 --> 01:17:10,125
he was doing crack.
1397
01:17:12,728 --> 01:17:15,263
[ Jake ] I never use a needle.
1398
01:17:15,297 --> 01:17:18,233
Thank you, Lord.
1399
01:17:18,266 --> 01:17:21,069
But, um-- [ Coughs ]
1400
01:17:21,103 --> 01:17:24,206
I used to tell myself I'll never ever do drugs.
1401
01:17:24,239 --> 01:17:26,274
Never. No way.
1402
01:17:26,308 --> 01:17:28,977
It's for losers.
1403
01:17:29,011 --> 01:17:32,214
And we were wrestling 26, 27 days a month.
1404
01:17:32,247 --> 01:17:35,150
Twice on Saturday, twice on Sunday.
1405
01:17:35,183 --> 01:17:38,320
Catchin' eight, nine airplanes a week.
1406
01:17:38,353 --> 01:17:41,289
It was basically a necessity just to continue.
1407
01:17:41,323 --> 01:17:43,759
And you took pills to go to sleep.
1408
01:17:43,792 --> 01:17:45,260
You took pills because of your pain.
1409
01:17:45,293 --> 01:17:48,063
You took cocaine to wake up, so you could perform.
1410
01:17:48,096 --> 01:17:51,833
You drank-- You go to sleep, you took sleeping pills.
1411
01:17:51,867 --> 01:17:54,336
It's a trap, you know.
1412
01:17:54,369 --> 01:17:57,239
It's a trap. Cocaine.
1413
01:17:57,272 --> 01:18:01,209
It speeds me up so fast, I can't think about my past.
1414
01:18:01,243 --> 01:18:03,879
It speeds me up so fast that...
1415
01:18:05,080 --> 01:18:08,817
I don't have to be... responsible.
1416
01:18:08,850 --> 01:18:13,155
It is really tough for me to sit here and tell you guys this.
1417
01:18:13,188 --> 01:18:16,191
You got no idea how tough it was today with my daughter.
1418
01:18:20,862 --> 01:18:24,032
There is not an addict that's happy. Okay?
1419
01:18:26,168 --> 01:18:29,171
You ever met a drug addict...
1420
01:18:29,204 --> 01:18:32,874
or a homeless person that said, "When I was a child, this was my dream"?
1421
01:18:36,845 --> 01:18:39,815
No self-pity. No. Absolutely not.
1422
01:18:39,848 --> 01:18:42,184
I do not feel sorry for myself.
1423
01:18:42,217 --> 01:18:44,986
Okay? That's wrong.
1424
01:18:45,020 --> 01:18:47,322
Totally wrong.
1425
01:18:47,355 --> 01:18:51,259
And if that's what you're getting on that camera, it's wrong.
1426
01:18:51,293 --> 01:18:56,064
I do not feel sorry for myself. I asked for every damn thing I got, okay?
1427
01:18:58,900 --> 01:19:01,136
♪♪ [ Pop ]
1428
01:19:03,038 --> 01:19:04,873
[ Man ] ♪ Come on, baby Let the good times roll ♪
1429
01:19:04,906 --> 01:19:07,042
[ Barry Narrating ] It had been six months since I last saw Mick,
1430
01:19:07,075 --> 01:19:10,579
when he called me up and told me they were giving him the championship belt.
1431
01:19:10,612 --> 01:19:14,983
But he was going to lose it at one of the WWF's biggest pay-per-view events of the year,
1432
01:19:15,016 --> 01:19:16,151
the Royal Rumble.
1433
01:19:16,184 --> 01:19:18,587
♪ Come on, baby Yes, this is it ♪
1434
01:19:18,620 --> 01:19:21,022
This year, the Rumble was taking place in Anaheim.
1435
01:19:21,056 --> 01:19:23,325
Mick told me he was gonna bring his family.
1436
01:19:23,358 --> 01:19:26,361
♪ Come on, baby Let the good times roll ♪
1437
01:19:26,394 --> 01:19:29,598
♪ Roll all night long
1438
01:19:29,631 --> 01:19:32,400
[ Laughing ] Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Injury time-out.
1439
01:19:32,434 --> 01:19:35,170
You okay there, buddy? Let me see.
1440
01:19:35,203 --> 01:19:39,207
Mix it with your saliva so it looks a lot worse than it really is, all right?
1441
01:19:40,642 --> 01:19:43,178
Ah, there you go! [ Laughing ]
1442
01:19:43,211 --> 01:19:45,180
Oh, there you go. All right!
1443
01:19:45,213 --> 01:19:47,182
Twenty lashes.
1444
01:19:47,215 --> 01:19:49,151
Are you scared? [ Both ] No.
1445
01:19:49,184 --> 01:19:51,353
No? Are you sure?
1446
01:19:51,386 --> 01:19:55,023
[ Mick ] I'm hoping when they get on that plane in about four hours after the show...
1447
01:19:55,056 --> 01:19:57,092
that I'll be fine.
1448
01:19:57,125 --> 01:20:01,196
There's a chance that I won't be, and that's--
1449
01:20:01,229 --> 01:20:03,298
Then we won't be on that plane. Yeah.
1450
01:20:03,331 --> 01:20:06,067
♪ Come on, baby Let the good times roll ♪
1451
01:20:06,101 --> 01:20:07,335
[ Cheering ]
1452
01:20:07,369 --> 01:20:10,172
♪ Roll all night long ♪
1453
01:20:10,205 --> 01:20:12,340
[ Cheering ]
1454
01:20:12,374 --> 01:20:15,076
[ Ring Announcer ] The WWF championship's on the line.
1455
01:20:15,110 --> 01:20:18,380
An "I quit" match: Mankind versus the Rock.
1456
01:20:18,413 --> 01:20:20,916
I accept. You and I...
1457
01:20:20,949 --> 01:20:24,252
at the Royal Rumble in an "I quit" match.
1458
01:20:24,286 --> 01:20:26,354
You stop me, drop me with something.
1459
01:20:26,388 --> 01:20:28,356
Then you start climbing like anything.
1460
01:20:28,390 --> 01:20:31,059
Get right the hell out of the--
1461
01:20:31,092 --> 01:20:32,928
out of the arena, okay? Uh-huh.
1462
01:20:32,961 --> 01:20:35,230
[ Mick ] I will not say them here nor there.
1463
01:20:35,263 --> 01:20:38,033
I will not say them anywhere!
1464
01:20:38,066 --> 01:20:43,238
I will not say those words, you twit. I will not, will not say "I quit!"
1465
01:20:43,271 --> 01:20:46,341
Up on the ladder and whammo. Sure. Yeah. That's fine.
1466
01:20:46,374 --> 01:20:49,311
But if that's the case, we can get out of that, we'll climb on up there.
1467
01:20:49,344 --> 01:20:52,147
Okay. And have the announcer go as soon as I'm up there.
1468
01:20:52,180 --> 01:20:55,283
And you don't see me. Do this.
1469
01:20:55,317 --> 01:20:59,287
Come on. And you come up. Wham. Bam.
1470
01:20:59,321 --> 01:21:02,157
I think we might as well hit the heavy stuff quick.
1471
01:21:02,190 --> 01:21:05,060
Mr.-- You know, Mr. Socko,
1472
01:21:05,093 --> 01:21:07,495
which leaves you down, but--
1473
01:21:07,529 --> 01:21:10,498
but not able to say it because you're out.
1474
01:21:10,532 --> 01:21:13,468
Put Socko on right away? First couple of minutes.
1475
01:21:13,501 --> 01:21:17,138
Which one would you like? White, white or white?
1476
01:21:17,172 --> 01:21:20,709
Mick Foley we love because he can take anything. This guy could fall down,
1477
01:21:20,742 --> 01:21:24,145
slam himself from, like, a two-story building and fall on spikes...
1478
01:21:24,179 --> 01:21:27,382
and get hit by a chair and still stand right up and everything.
1479
01:21:27,415 --> 01:21:31,152
- This guy kicks ass. - [ Man ] The pain advantage. It's all about Mankind.
1480
01:21:31,186 --> 01:21:33,989
Mankind don't hurt. You can throw him off the top of the cage onto a table.
1481
01:21:34,022 --> 01:21:35,957
That man know. What the Rock gonna do? Rock bottom, man.
1482
01:21:35,991 --> 01:21:37,092
That man know. [ Grunts ]
1483
01:21:50,205 --> 01:21:52,741
[ The Rock ] You go out there and you improvise, you ad-lib.
1484
01:21:52,774 --> 01:21:57,045
We have an idea of what we're gonna do-- a couple of things-- but the rest is just--
1485
01:21:57,078 --> 01:22:00,215
We go out there and do our thing. You know, a lot of it's on feel.
1486
01:22:00,248 --> 01:22:04,185
I'm banking on there'll be a ton of heat on me tonight,
1487
01:22:04,219 --> 01:22:08,056
being the piece of shit that the Rock is, so it should be fine.
1488
01:22:08,089 --> 01:22:11,059
You know the Rock is Daddy's friend, right?
1489
01:22:11,092 --> 01:22:13,361
He's not gonna do anything to really hurt Daddy, right?
1490
01:22:13,395 --> 01:22:16,031
Okay. Peanut, you know that?
1491
01:22:16,064 --> 01:22:18,433
You do, right?
1492
01:22:18,466 --> 01:22:20,769
You're not gonna be scared, right?
1493
01:22:20,802 --> 01:22:23,538
Daddy's gonna be okay.
1494
01:22:23,571 --> 01:22:26,408
If you can go on Back to the Future, you can do anything.
1495
01:22:26,441 --> 01:22:28,476
Right? Yeah.
1496
01:22:28,510 --> 01:22:31,012
Can I have a hug for good luck, please?
1497
01:22:33,148 --> 01:22:34,616
Did you guys have a good time at Disneyland?
1498
01:22:34,649 --> 01:22:36,284
Yeah. Did you?
1499
01:22:36,318 --> 01:22:38,486
What did you ride? Everything. [ Laughs ]
1500
01:22:38,520 --> 01:22:41,056
[ Man ] You went on everything?
1501
01:22:42,524 --> 01:22:45,226
You look very pretty today. Oh, they had a great time.
1502
01:22:45,260 --> 01:22:47,595
Did they? I hope I have energy left for the match.
1503
01:22:47,629 --> 01:22:49,497
Hey, gang. Hi, how are you?
1504
01:22:49,531 --> 01:22:52,100
Hi, Steve. How are you? Nice to see you again. Nice to see you again.
1505
01:22:52,133 --> 01:22:54,235
Dewey, remember Stone Cold? Hi, Dewey. Nice to see you.
1506
01:22:54,269 --> 01:22:56,438
How are you feeling, Steve? Ready to go? What?
1507
01:22:56,471 --> 01:23:00,608
How are you feeling? I'm not feeling very good at all, but I'll be ready to go.
1508
01:23:00,642 --> 01:23:03,044
My little girl's out there. Oh, is she really?
1509
01:23:03,078 --> 01:23:05,547
Yeah. Maybe we'll see you after the show. Okay. That'd be great.
1510
01:23:05,580 --> 01:23:07,148
Good stuff. Nice to see you again.
1511
01:23:07,182 --> 01:23:08,416
Okay. See you, Steve.
1512
01:23:08,450 --> 01:23:10,285
- Bye-bye. - Oh, Daddy's gotta go, okay?
1513
01:23:10,318 --> 01:23:12,387
Okay? Give me a hug, buddy.
1514
01:23:14,522 --> 01:23:17,592
I love you guys. Bye, hon.
1515
01:23:17,625 --> 01:23:20,261
I love you too. I gotta get ready.
1516
01:23:20,295 --> 01:23:23,498
Get ready? You're not ready? I'm not ready. I'm not mentally prepared.
1517
01:23:23,531 --> 01:23:26,434
[ Barry Narrating ] I had never seen Mick this nervous before.
1518
01:23:26,468 --> 01:23:29,204
Have fun. You too.
1519
01:23:29,237 --> 01:23:34,075
He clearly was preoccupied with what was going to happen that night.
1520
01:23:34,109 --> 01:23:37,545
You play it by ear out there. Whatever feels right, do it.
1521
01:23:37,579 --> 01:23:40,148
But, in other words, if they got a real tight close-up,
1522
01:23:40,181 --> 01:23:42,417
and it's obvious that his lips aren't moving,
1523
01:23:42,450 --> 01:23:44,853
then you can just say, "I don't see him saying that."
1524
01:23:44,886 --> 01:23:46,254
"How do they do that?"
1525
01:23:46,287 --> 01:23:49,391
You're the one befuddled because you've never seen anything like this.
1526
01:23:49,424 --> 01:23:51,292
You might have an explanation.
1527
01:23:54,596 --> 01:23:57,165
[ Announcer ] A lot of dignitaries here to see the action.
1528
01:23:57,198 --> 01:23:59,434
Where the hell's the Rock? Hey, Bruce, when you gonna send the Rock?
1529
01:23:59,467 --> 01:24:01,669
[ Announcer ] He agreed with my analogy...
1530
01:24:01,703 --> 01:24:05,073
that the "I quit" match will be the most physical--
1531
01:24:09,444 --> 01:24:12,280
Befuddled. Befuddled?
1532
01:24:12,313 --> 01:24:14,282
You're befuddled. The Rock wouldn't be befuddled about this.
1533
01:24:14,315 --> 01:24:17,385
All of a sudden the Rock is just like some roody-poo candy-ass...
1534
01:24:17,419 --> 01:24:20,622
standing on the corner, and Mick Foley is just gonna have his way with him?
1535
01:24:20,655 --> 01:24:24,225
No, no. Piss on that. The Rock is the great one.
1536
01:24:24,259 --> 01:24:27,295
The Rock is the most electrifying man in sports entertainment.
1537
01:24:27,328 --> 01:24:29,364
The Rock is the great one. And tonight,
1538
01:24:29,397 --> 01:24:32,233
after the Rock makes that son of a bitch scream "I quit,"
1539
01:24:32,267 --> 01:24:36,304
he's gonna be the best damn WWF champ there ever was-- Once again.
1540
01:24:36,337 --> 01:24:38,473
If you smell what the Rock is cookin'. There you go.
1541
01:24:38,506 --> 01:24:41,342
[ Man ] We're just afraid we might miss the shot.
1542
01:24:41,376 --> 01:24:44,612
Make sure you're facing the announcers on the last move.
1543
01:24:46,748 --> 01:24:48,650
[ No Audible Dialogue ]
1544
01:24:52,720 --> 01:24:56,291
[ Cheering ]
1545
01:24:56,324 --> 01:24:59,427
All right. I'll count you down. Thirty, twenty, fifteen.
1546
01:24:59,461 --> 01:25:01,262
All the way, all right? Yeah.
1547
01:25:01,296 --> 01:25:02,597
Good.
1548
01:25:04,466 --> 01:25:06,501
And, Mick, please be careful.
1549
01:25:09,270 --> 01:25:11,439
Well, here we go, Rock. It is showtime.
1550
01:25:11,473 --> 01:25:14,542
The table is set, and the big question is simply this:
1551
01:25:14,576 --> 01:25:16,711
Will you be able to do...
1552
01:25:16,744 --> 01:25:19,514
what no one has ever done...
1553
01:25:19,547 --> 01:25:23,485
and make Mankind utter the words "I quit"?
1554
01:25:23,518 --> 01:25:26,654
I tell you what, Mankind. There's something about this whole situation...
1555
01:25:26,688 --> 01:25:29,390
that really befuddles the Rock.
1556
01:25:29,424 --> 01:25:33,394
Because, you see, the Rock isn't just some roody-poo candy-ass...
1557
01:25:33,428 --> 01:25:36,531
on the corner of Know Your Role Boulevard and Jabroni Drive,
1558
01:25:36,564 --> 01:25:38,800
that you're just gonna have your way with the Rock?
1559
01:25:38,833 --> 01:25:43,771
Well, uh-uh, because tonight, in front of the thousands of Rock's fans here tonight,
1560
01:25:43,805 --> 01:25:47,275
all chanting his name, and the millions...
1561
01:25:47,308 --> 01:25:50,378
and millions of the Rock's fans watching live,
1562
01:25:50,411 --> 01:25:53,982
the Rock guaran-damn-tees to prove to you...
1563
01:25:54,015 --> 01:25:59,521
that the Rock is the most electrifying man in sports entertainment today.
1564
01:25:59,554 --> 01:26:02,657
And after you utter the words, "I quit,"
1565
01:26:02,690 --> 01:26:05,226
the Rock will go down as being...
1566
01:26:05,260 --> 01:26:08,696
the best damn WWF champ there ever was,
1567
01:26:08,730 --> 01:26:11,432
if you smell...
1568
01:26:11,466 --> 01:26:15,470
what the Rock... is cookin'.
1569
01:26:15,503 --> 01:26:18,339
Here we go, guys. It is showtime.
1570
01:26:32,487 --> 01:26:34,589
[ Man ] Over here. Mick, Mick, Mick.
1571
01:26:39,894 --> 01:26:42,597
[ Crowd Chanting ] Foley! Foley! Foley!
1572
01:26:42,630 --> 01:26:46,301
Foley! Foley! Foley! Foley! Foley!
1573
01:26:47,735 --> 01:26:50,305
[ Cheering Continues ]
1574
01:26:54,509 --> 01:26:56,444
[ Indistinct ]
1575
01:27:02,817 --> 01:27:06,688
[ Announcer ] This is gonna be the ultimate slobber knocker.
1576
01:27:06,721 --> 01:27:11,859
Mankind, perhaps the most unlikely champion in the history of the WWF,
1577
01:27:11,893 --> 01:27:16,531
but perhaps-- well, no "perhaps"-- he is the most deserving champion ever.
1578
01:27:16,564 --> 01:27:21,369
- And take a look at this! - And here we go! The "I quit" match is under way.
1579
01:27:21,402 --> 01:27:24,405
Folks, there are no pin falls, there are no count-outs,
1580
01:27:24,439 --> 01:27:26,274
there are no disqualifications.
1581
01:27:27,475 --> 01:27:29,377
Yeah!
1582
01:27:33,715 --> 01:27:38,519
Oh! Mankind clotheslined Rock out by the barricade.
1583
01:27:38,553 --> 01:27:42,590
- He's been thrown. - [ Crowd Shouting ]
1584
01:27:42,624 --> 01:27:44,525
And the Rock's in trouble here.
1585
01:27:44,559 --> 01:27:46,661
Reversal!
1586
01:27:46,694 --> 01:27:48,796
The Rock!
1587
01:27:48,830 --> 01:27:51,799
We got trouble! Mr. Socko is out!
1588
01:27:51,833 --> 01:27:53,668
And the claw is on the Rock!
1589
01:27:56,604 --> 01:27:58,606
Oh, no.
1590
01:27:58,640 --> 01:28:01,442
[ Loud Cheering ]
1591
01:28:03,778 --> 01:28:06,648
I can't see a thing.
1592
01:28:06,681 --> 01:28:10,752
Rock up the ladder now and into the crowd here at the Arrowhead Pond.
1593
01:28:10,785 --> 01:28:12,720
Mankind's after him.
1594
01:28:12,754 --> 01:28:15,490
Excuse me. Mom!
1595
01:28:15,523 --> 01:28:17,458
I'm not going anywhere. I'm not going anywhere.
1596
01:28:17,492 --> 01:28:19,661
I'm not going anywhere. I'm not going anywhere.
1597
01:28:19,694 --> 01:28:22,563
Rock is taunting Mick Foley.
1598
01:28:22,597 --> 01:28:26,768
A right hand! Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
1599
01:28:26,801 --> 01:28:29,437
Mick Foley!
1600
01:28:29,470 --> 01:28:31,139
[ Cheering Continues ] We've lost the lights in the arena!
1601
01:28:31,172 --> 01:28:33,374
♪♪ [ Ballad ]
1602
01:28:43,985 --> 01:28:47,455
[ Man ] ♪ When the night has come
1603
01:28:49,190 --> 01:28:52,460
♪ And the land is dark
1604
01:28:52,493 --> 01:28:55,730
♪ And the moon is the only
1605
01:28:55,763 --> 01:28:57,865
♪ Light we'll see
1606
01:28:59,734 --> 01:29:03,404
♪ No, I won't be afraid
1607
01:29:03,438 --> 01:29:07,575
♪ No, I won't be afraid ♪
1608
01:29:07,608 --> 01:29:09,610
♪ Just as long
1609
01:29:09,644 --> 01:29:11,746
[ Woman ] Oh, Jesus! He's a freaking nut!
1610
01:29:11,779 --> 01:29:13,648
♪ Stand by me ♪
1611
01:29:17,452 --> 01:29:19,020
[ Referee ] Oh, come on.
1612
01:29:19,053 --> 01:29:21,622
No! No!
1613
01:29:21,656 --> 01:29:23,558
[ Announcer ] Oh, no!
1614
01:29:28,730 --> 01:29:30,598
[ Grunts ]
1615
01:29:32,500 --> 01:29:33,868
No, no, no!
1616
01:29:33,901 --> 01:29:35,636
Not the chair.
1617
01:29:37,672 --> 01:29:39,841
Close your eyes.
1618
01:29:39,874 --> 01:29:41,909
What is he-- Oh, come on!
1619
01:29:43,811 --> 01:29:46,581
- Don't do it! - He can't do that. Electrify!
1620
01:29:46,614 --> 01:29:48,516
Oh!
1621
01:29:48,549 --> 01:29:52,053
He may have shattered Mick Foley's skull! [ Gasping ]
1622
01:29:52,086 --> 01:29:55,656
He's really busted open now. [ Man Laughs ] He's really busted open now!
1623
01:29:58,826 --> 01:30:00,795
[ Sobbing ]
1624
01:30:00,828 --> 01:30:02,930
Oh, no. Not this.
1625
01:30:02,964 --> 01:30:05,700
- It's gonna break! - Come on. Stop this damn thing!
1626
01:30:07,935 --> 01:30:09,804
Turn around! Don't!
1627
01:30:09,837 --> 01:30:11,439
Oh, no!
1628
01:30:12,607 --> 01:30:13,941
[ Crying ] [ Chair Smacks ]
1629
01:30:13,975 --> 01:30:15,943
Oh!
1630
01:30:15,977 --> 01:30:18,479
[ Crying Continues ]
1631
01:30:18,513 --> 01:30:19,847
Mick!
1632
01:30:20,915 --> 01:30:22,817
No!
1633
01:30:29,724 --> 01:30:31,659
[ Referee ] Back off!
1634
01:30:36,731 --> 01:30:40,935
Wanna go upstairs? You wanna go upstairs?
1635
01:30:43,070 --> 01:30:47,041
Come on. No, no, no!
1636
01:30:55,850 --> 01:30:59,987
I want Daddy! I know, I know. Excuse me.
1637
01:31:00,021 --> 01:31:04,625
Oh! Oh, my! [ Announcer ] Please, do something!
1638
01:31:04,659 --> 01:31:09,630
[ Ring Announcer ] The new World Wrestling Federation champion,
1639
01:31:09,664 --> 01:31:11,632
the Rock!
1640
01:31:20,041 --> 01:31:21,509
Over here.
1641
01:31:25,580 --> 01:31:29,016
[ Chattering ]
1642
01:31:29,050 --> 01:31:31,853
He's okay. He's okay. I'm all right.
1643
01:31:31,886 --> 01:31:33,888
Just some boo-boos. It's no big deal.
1644
01:31:33,921 --> 01:31:36,157
Just a boo-boo. He's okay.
1645
01:31:36,190 --> 01:31:38,059
It's a boo-boo. It's water. It's a lot of water.
1646
01:31:38,092 --> 01:31:40,127
Daddy's okay. He's okay.
1647
01:31:40,161 --> 01:31:42,730
Where's Dewey? He's in the bathroom.
1648
01:31:42,763 --> 01:31:45,900
[ Man ] It's okay. He's right. He's right there.
1649
01:31:45,933 --> 01:31:48,769
[ Chattering ]
1650
01:31:48,803 --> 01:31:50,671
Daddy's gonna be okay.
1651
01:31:50,705 --> 01:31:52,640
Don't you worry about Daddy, all right?
1652
01:31:52,673 --> 01:31:55,109
[ Applause ] [ Cheering ]
1653
01:32:01,182 --> 01:32:04,652
They said they got a plastic surgeon here. This thing is probably a mess.
1654
01:32:04,685 --> 01:32:06,120
[ Woman ] Get in there, big guy. Get with your dad.
1655
01:32:07,722 --> 01:32:11,592
Are you guys okay? Daddy's all right, okay?
1656
01:32:11,626 --> 01:32:13,895
Were you worried about Dadas? [ Girl ] Yeah.
1657
01:32:13,928 --> 01:32:15,796
Okay. Well, don't worry no more, okay?
1658
01:32:16,864 --> 01:32:20,001
They can't hurt Dadas.
1659
01:32:20,034 --> 01:32:22,737
Daddy, you have blood. I know. I have a little boo-boo.
1660
01:32:24,005 --> 01:32:27,041
It's a big boo-boo. It's a big boo-boo.
1661
01:32:33,114 --> 01:32:35,049
Oh, God.
1662
01:32:35,950 --> 01:32:37,852
Ooh.
1663
01:32:38,853 --> 01:32:40,721
It's okay.
1664
01:32:43,691 --> 01:32:45,960
I hope everyone feels like they got their money's worth out there.
1665
01:32:45,993 --> 01:32:47,995
[ Man ] But, you know, it's okay. It's fake, so--
1666
01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:54,869
[ Chattering ]
1667
01:33:15,690 --> 01:33:18,693
Here, drink some water. Oh, you have some here. Some fresh water.
1668
01:33:18,726 --> 01:33:21,429
[ Mick ] Peanut, you okay? What are you doing?
1669
01:33:21,462 --> 01:33:23,731
He's okay. It's just some-- They're sewing up his boo-boo.
1670
01:33:23,764 --> 01:33:25,866
[ Mick ] They're putting Daddy's head--
1671
01:33:25,900 --> 01:33:29,003
[ Man ] It's a big boo-boo, you know, when you fall down. Just a boo-boo like this.
1672
01:33:29,036 --> 01:33:33,140
[ Mick ] You know how you fell down at Disney a couple years ago, right on your nose?
1673
01:33:33,174 --> 01:33:37,011
Kind of like that. I fell on my knees a couple of times.
1674
01:33:37,044 --> 01:33:39,113
And your knee bled a little bit, right?
1675
01:33:42,817 --> 01:33:44,819
Mick, what time's our flight?
1676
01:33:44,852 --> 01:33:46,821
12:00. 12:00 what?
1677
01:33:46,854 --> 01:33:48,756
12:05.
1678
01:33:48,789 --> 01:33:51,726
You want a charter flight? No, I was testing his mind.
1679
01:33:51,759 --> 01:33:55,096
[ Woman ] Oh, okay. [ Mick Chuckles ]
1680
01:33:55,129 --> 01:33:57,732
[ Man ] Mick, that was unbelievable, brother. [ Mick ] Thank you, guys.
1681
01:33:57,765 --> 01:34:01,235
How is he? Good shit. It looked un-- Brother.
1682
01:34:01,268 --> 01:34:03,304
You are the fuckin' man.
1683
01:34:03,337 --> 01:34:05,906
Half of you is saying, "Why the hell am I doing this?"
1684
01:34:05,940 --> 01:34:09,143
And the other half is saying, "This is exactly why I do it," you know.
1685
01:34:09,176 --> 01:34:13,047
Just that these-- You can't have these matches very often or you'd be dead.
1686
01:34:13,080 --> 01:34:16,717
You know, when you have someone as good as Rocky, you trust his judgment.
1687
01:34:16,751 --> 01:34:19,253
If I saw him now, I'd probably strangle him, he hit me so damn many times.
1688
01:34:19,286 --> 01:34:21,122
But it was probably, in retrospect,
1689
01:34:21,155 --> 01:34:23,124
you look at that tape and say that's what made it,
1690
01:34:23,157 --> 01:34:25,259
was those last couple of extra ones.
1691
01:34:25,292 --> 01:34:28,729
Mick, I don't know if I can take much more of this. I'm gonna let you know that.
1692
01:34:28,763 --> 01:34:30,898
[ Mick ] We reached a lot of people. We can't reach everybody.
1693
01:34:30,931 --> 01:34:33,067
You can't even reach a majority. But, I mean--
1694
01:34:33,100 --> 01:34:36,203
I know, but you have to stop trying.
1695
01:34:36,237 --> 01:34:38,205
Can you hold-- Yeah. We are entertainers, but I think it--
1696
01:34:38,239 --> 01:34:39,974
Don't move. I'll hold him. Okay?
1697
01:34:40,007 --> 01:34:41,776
[ Colette ] Well-- I think we reached--
1698
01:34:41,809 --> 01:34:43,310
Can you hold the hair up in the back?
1699
01:34:43,344 --> 01:34:46,013
I think we touched a lot of people, if you don't mind me saying.
1700
01:34:46,047 --> 01:34:47,948
I might touch you later, if you know what I mean.
1701
01:34:47,982 --> 01:34:50,951
Ow, have mercy. Dad looks cute.
1702
01:34:50,985 --> 01:34:52,953
He is cute. Thank you. I am cute.
1703
01:34:53,854 --> 01:34:55,990
In a rugged type of way.
1704
01:34:58,993 --> 01:35:00,861
Daddy.
1705
01:35:04,899 --> 01:35:07,234
♪♪ [ Ballad ] [ Man ] You okay?
1706
01:35:07,268 --> 01:35:09,003
Yeah? You sure?
1707
01:35:09,036 --> 01:35:12,373
Well, I feel pretty bad.
1708
01:35:12,406 --> 01:35:14,208
[ Indistinct ] Thank you.
1709
01:35:16,844 --> 01:35:18,212
[ Laughing ]
1710
01:35:20,014 --> 01:35:23,117
It wasn't too gratuitously bloody, was it--
1711
01:35:23,150 --> 01:35:25,186
my thing tonight?
1712
01:35:25,219 --> 01:35:27,254
[ Man ] It was fabulous.
1713
01:35:27,288 --> 01:35:30,124
I'll let you know when I get the feedback. Hold on.
1714
01:35:30,157 --> 01:35:32,259
Thanks, Vince. Thank you very, very much.
1715
01:35:32,293 --> 01:35:34,929
Do you feel okay? I feel all right.
1716
01:35:34,962 --> 01:35:37,031
[ Man ] I'll take care of you tomorrow. Okay, I'm hoping--
1717
01:35:37,064 --> 01:35:40,868
I mean, if someone was offended by that, I think it was a hell of a contest.
1718
01:35:40,901 --> 01:35:44,105
I think, you know, for every one person who was offended and thought it was too violent,
1719
01:35:44,138 --> 01:35:48,275
there's probably 10 or 20 who thought that it was a dramatic--
1720
01:35:48,309 --> 01:35:52,146
That character just won't-- won't die, you know.
1721
01:35:52,179 --> 01:35:55,349
And then when they get the story about how you were screwed--
1722
01:35:55,382 --> 01:36:00,154
You know? I mean, I just think that, you know, that's show business.
1723
01:36:00,187 --> 01:36:04,258
[ Man ] ♪ Stand by me Stand by me ♪♪
1724
01:36:04,291 --> 01:36:08,395
Did you have fun? [ Colette ] Oh, yes, we had so much fun.
1725
01:36:08,429 --> 01:36:10,264
[ Chuckles ] Are you kidding?
1726
01:36:10,297 --> 01:36:12,433
[ Barry Narrating ] I was glad to see Mick was okay...
1727
01:36:12,466 --> 01:36:16,837
and was happy that he could walk out of the arena with his family that night.
1728
01:36:16,871 --> 01:36:20,040
But the sight of Noelle and Dewey watching their father being beaten up...
1729
01:36:20,074 --> 01:36:21,909
haunted me for weeks.
1730
01:36:23,878 --> 01:36:26,013
I decided to go to Florida...
1731
01:36:26,046 --> 01:36:28,215
to show Mick the footage.
1732
01:36:28,249 --> 01:36:31,252
[ TV: Crowd Cheering, Screaming ] Oh.
1733
01:36:31,285 --> 01:36:34,054
[ Crowd Shouting ]
1734
01:36:34,088 --> 01:36:37,158
That right there is where that picture was taken.
1735
01:36:37,191 --> 01:36:39,160
That was even before things got--
1736
01:36:39,193 --> 01:36:41,862
Oh. [ Crowd Shouts ]
1737
01:36:41,896 --> 01:36:44,899
Oh, God. I--
1738
01:36:44,932 --> 01:36:47,101
[ Crying ]
1739
01:36:47,134 --> 01:36:49,303
No! [ Colette Winces ]
1740
01:36:49,336 --> 01:36:51,472
[ Noelle Crying ]
1741
01:36:51,505 --> 01:36:53,874
Oh.
1742
01:36:53,908 --> 01:36:56,110
[ Noelle Crying ]
1743
01:37:00,014 --> 01:37:03,150
Aw. I don't feel like such a good dad anymore.
1744
01:37:05,386 --> 01:37:09,156
I felt very guilty all of a sudden, like a real--
1745
01:37:09,190 --> 01:37:13,127
Really like my, uh-- you know, my priorities were out of order.
1746
01:37:13,160 --> 01:37:18,499
I can't-- I mean, I feel like a bad dad, and I've never felt like that ever before.
1747
01:37:18,532 --> 01:37:22,503
Right then I just felt like-- like I was a bad person.
1748
01:37:22,536 --> 01:37:27,374
I don't-- I don't ever want to see my children like that again.
1749
01:37:27,408 --> 01:37:29,410
I'll-- Maybe I will be the guy...
1750
01:37:29,443 --> 01:37:32,680
who pulls a sock out of his tights for the next couple of years.
1751
01:37:32,713 --> 01:37:35,182
- That's, uh-- - Reading. E, E, E, E.
1752
01:37:35,216 --> 01:37:38,686
[ Mick ] For the, uh--
1753
01:37:38,719 --> 01:37:42,122
Yeah, nothing's worth that. Nothing.
1754
01:37:42,156 --> 01:37:44,692
I don't-- I will never do that again.
1755
01:37:44,725 --> 01:37:47,261
I don't-- I don't want my children, um,
1756
01:37:49,263 --> 01:37:52,066
involved in something like that.
1757
01:37:52,099 --> 01:37:56,270
You know, I want our family to have the last laugh.
1758
01:37:56,303 --> 01:37:59,306
That's very good, Dew.
1759
01:37:59,340 --> 01:38:02,042
I'm very proud of you. [ Dewey ] That came in the mail.
1760
01:38:02,076 --> 01:38:03,377
Yeah.
1761
01:38:06,146 --> 01:38:09,250
[ Barry Narrating ] Tony Jones and Michael Modest never heard from the WWF.
1762
01:38:09,283 --> 01:38:11,485
Tony still works at Visa.
1763
01:38:11,518 --> 01:38:13,520
Michael left his job at the funeral home...
1764
01:38:13,554 --> 01:38:16,056
and now delivers furniture for a living.
1765
01:38:16,090 --> 01:38:18,158
They both still hope to make it as wrestlers.
1766
01:38:20,294 --> 01:38:23,530
As far as Roland, his wrestling school is still open.
1767
01:38:23,564 --> 01:38:26,300
However, his monthly Gym Wars shows were closed down...
1768
01:38:26,333 --> 01:38:29,303
because of building code violations.
1769
01:38:29,336 --> 01:38:33,307
Terry Funk's retirement lasted all of three months.
1770
01:38:33,340 --> 01:38:39,013
He continued wrestling on a regular basis until finally retiring on June 7, 1999--
1771
01:38:39,046 --> 01:38:41,515
that is, until the next offer comes along.
1772
01:38:41,548 --> 01:38:45,219
Since I last saw Jake, he has spent considerable time in jail...
1773
01:38:45,252 --> 01:38:47,521
for nonpayment of child support.
1774
01:38:47,554 --> 01:38:51,292
He has not spoken to or seen his daughter since I filmed their reunion.
1775
01:38:52,626 --> 01:38:55,162
The Droz never made it as Puke.
1776
01:38:55,195 --> 01:38:59,366
He did go on to become a regular in the WWF.
1777
01:38:59,400 --> 01:39:03,237
Paul Heyman and ECW-- they're still hanging in there,
1778
01:39:03,270 --> 01:39:05,572
recently signing a deal with The Nashville Network...
1779
01:39:05,606 --> 01:39:08,042
to produce a weekly wrestling show.
1780
01:39:08,075 --> 01:39:10,511
Vince and the WWF--
1781
01:39:10,544 --> 01:39:12,613
they're stronger than ever.
1782
01:39:12,646 --> 01:39:15,582
They just issued an I.P.O. on the stock market.
1783
01:39:15,616 --> 01:39:18,619
The family business has finally gone public.
1784
01:39:18,652 --> 01:39:21,255
"Oh, you mean the golden showers?" "Yes, yes!"
1785
01:39:21,288 --> 01:39:25,059
As far as me, after three years on the road,
1786
01:39:25,092 --> 01:39:29,596
I still feel the same way about wrestling that I did when I was eight years old.
1787
01:39:29,630 --> 01:39:31,632
What kind of person does this for a living?
1788
01:39:31,665 --> 01:39:33,634
They're showmen.
1789
01:39:33,667 --> 01:39:36,070
They're carnies.
1790
01:39:36,103 --> 01:39:38,238
They're fathers.
1791
01:39:38,272 --> 01:39:40,474
They're sons.
1792
01:39:40,507 --> 01:39:42,409
They're artists.
1793
01:39:42,443 --> 01:39:44,511
They're toys.
1794
01:39:44,545 --> 01:39:46,513
They're people with families,
1795
01:39:46,547 --> 01:39:49,249
with the same concerns and fears we all share.
1796
01:39:49,283 --> 01:39:51,018
They're just like you and me.
1797
01:39:52,086 --> 01:39:53,354
[ Shouts ]
1798
01:39:55,189 --> 01:39:57,091
Except they're really different.
1799
01:39:58,525 --> 01:40:01,161
♪♪ [ Acoustic Guitar: Ballad ]
1800
01:40:03,197 --> 01:40:06,066
♪♪ [ Woman Vocalizing ]
1801
01:40:19,613 --> 01:40:23,050
♪♪ [ Continues ]
1802
01:40:48,475 --> 01:40:51,445
♪♪ [ Continues ]
1803
01:41:34,721 --> 01:41:36,623
♪♪ [ Continues ]
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