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Now here is another primetime bite. And well, if Warrior's out, Mr.
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Perfect somehow randomly on an episode of primetime wrestling, where again,
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there has been no indication. There is a beef between
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Ric Flair, Mr. Perfect, Bobby Hina, Razorbone, never once. Out
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of nowhere on this random primetime episode, Mr.
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Perfect is there.
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Macho Man is live from a TV station in Sarasota.
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And he has to, you know, they're using satellites to
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do this in 1992. And he's out of nowhere saying, well,
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Warrior's out. I need a perfect partner. So throughout the show,
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Bobby Heenan is making fun of Savage. And then we
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even have Ric Flair and Razor Ramon via satellite, also
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from Charlotte, North Carolina.
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Cutting brothers.
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And they're all just beefing with each other because this
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is all has to be done now. Clearly, this was
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recorded very soon before Survivor Series. And Macho Man wants perfect.
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Bobby Heenan makes fun of him the whole episode. Eventually,
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it ends with Perfect saying, you know what? I will
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come back. I will be the perfect partner. Dumps water
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on Heenan. It's a classic moment. When did you know
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that Mr. Perfect was even cleared to wrestle?
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Well, I mean, it was about the time, and he
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wasn't ready. That was through necessity that, you know, he
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had a devastating back injury. Um, you know, people often
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talk about the, you know, the insurance and stuff that
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was involved. And I don't know how we, how we
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worked that one out, but, uh, yeah, he wasn't, uh,
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he wasn't ready to, he wasn't ring ready. Um, not,
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not even, not to the point where he was healed
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and at the point, uh, and anybody that's been in
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the ring there, I can't contest that, but, uh, at the,
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I can tell you though, but being around those guys
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that you've got to be what they call it a
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ring shape. You can't just go, you may know where
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all the, the, the steps go. You may know where
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the body's supposed to be, but you, you have to
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be in ring shape. And you know, Kurt wasn't really
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capable of doing all of that months prior. And not
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that he got out of, out of shape, you know,
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he didn't balloon up or something like that, but he wasn't,
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Wasn't ready to step back into the ring at the time,
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but he was a player. I'm sure money probably had
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something to do with it. And they needed him. They
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needed a name because the plan was he was going
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to continue. He was doing the managing thing. He was
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doing play-by-play. He was doing some commentary stuff.
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Executive consultant, I believe, was his title.
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Right. And so that whole situation was out of they
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needed him. And, uh, and, and Kurt stepped up the, the,
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whatever the carrot was, uh, it was worth it to him. Um, uh,
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taking that chance that, uh, he may have hurt himself
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permanently for the rest of his life. Uh, but to him,
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it was worth it. And, um, they worked out, they
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worked out a deal to get him back on the
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other side of the ropes.
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It must've happened so quickly. Like it inspires the phone
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up and just calls.
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Perfect.
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Yeah. Well, yeah, but he was already in the mix.
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But you mentioned that whole thing they do like the
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via satellite. And they had with Randy in Florida. And
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I thought that stuff was brilliant. I love it. You know,
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you look at that stuff now, it's nothing. But at
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the time, it was like, that is so cool. It
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really did look capture like they've, you know, this is
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spur of the moment. And this great new technology, we
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get these guys on, we get the answers right away.
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So.
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I loved that. I loved that whole, the way they
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put that together.
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Same.
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I was happy to see perfect back, but even when
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he shows up though, he's not
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wearing his classic singlet.
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He's wearing like black and on the back, it's all
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bedazzled and says, Mr. Perfect on his like rear end,
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I guess. And it was just shocking. Oh, I I'm
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so happy to see you, but what, why aren't you
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wearing your classic yellow, yellow outfit with the black on
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the front or the blue in the back? Like it
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was just so funny to see, but it was shocking
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because again, as you're watching these events unfold, Mr.
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Perfect has been a bad guy, a heel, and... And
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a good one. And a good one. And he, you know,
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who's in the corner, Mr.
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Perfect's corner is going to be Warrior Savage at SummerSlam 92.
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They beat the shit out of Macho Man multiple times.
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And yet... here we are, we need a replacement. It's
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the perfect partner.
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Mr.
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Perfect is in, uh, though, like, did you ever talk
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to Mr.
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Perfect about the situation where you're like, Oh, how you
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doing buddy? Because you know, you must not be fully healed,
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but they got you on the road now.
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Yeah. And, uh, yeah, I did have, uh, you know,
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conversations with them and, uh, you know, the way that
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you would have thought that the situation he had prior
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to that was great. You know, he didn't have to
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go in there and get beat up. He didn't have
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to travel near as much. But it's crazy with those guys.
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They miss it. And I think, yeah, and he wanted
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to get back in there. That was just who he was.
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And you see that a lot with these, with the
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guys that you know, Randy would also have the same situation.
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Probably he could, could have continued to make a lot
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of money. Uh, but that wasn't what he wanted to do.
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He wanted to be in the ring and, and, and
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Kurt was the same way. And, uh, that, and he
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lived for that life.
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He loved it.
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He loved being, uh, you know, doing all those dates and, and, uh,
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being at those arenas and hanging with the guys and
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pulling the ribs. And, and I, I know he missed it. So, uh,
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I don't, you know, I don't think it was a
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whole lot of arm twisting to get him to go. And,
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and then, and the fact that you get, and then
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you're going to be a baby, you know, kind of
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to step on that other side, you know, another new
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little challenge here to see if you can pull it off. And, uh,
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you know, uh, I, he certainly did, but come on, Mr.
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Perfect.
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Kurt Hennig was a heel down to the, down to
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his bones. So, but, um, yeah, I, I, it wasn't,
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I don't think he went in kicking and screaming. He
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was like, oh, man, I got to do this. I
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think that, you know, he embraced it.
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Well, if you need me.
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That's who Kurt was.
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He was great.
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I did enjoy him more of a heel than a
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baby face, honestly. But he still had a great, fun
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run coming back and beating Ric Flair on, like, the
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second episode of Raw where he retires Flair and he leaves.
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And that's, to me, what is even more insane about
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this whole event is, so we have no Warrior.
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We have no Hogan.
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And then Macho Man eventually goes to do commentary.
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So he's out.
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Your classic golden era main event stars are all leaving
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or doing commentary or doing something else.