Bill Eadie

So that's why that still exists.

And I will say, having met Bill Eadie at one of the CWF Fan Fests, he was such a gentleman, but for me it was a complete honor.

Um, one of my all-time favorites, and they, they say don't meet your heroes, but he's an awesome guy.

But over the years I kept all of those videotapes, and I would buy where I could.

So when the Warlord and Barbarian were a team before Legion of Doom came to WWE, they were the sort of faux Legion of Doom at that point.

And then one of the other teams that they'd done, and one of the first that they got to work with was Demolition Axe and Smash.

And obviously there's already been an Axe and Smash and a Crush in that Hasbro line, but they've done alternative versions with using the other face paints that the boys have.

And so I'd sort of seen what they were doing and I really liked what they were doing.

And at the time that I got in touch with them, I was actually working for the as a consultant like a graphic novel consultant for the Terry Pratchett estate so for those of you who know or may not know Terry Pratchett he was a very well-known sci-fi sorry sorry fantasy writer and one of his creations was a what he co-created with a guy called Neil Gaiman and they made a book called Good Omens which was a or yeah was until recently a a TV show on Amazon as well.

But what we've done with Demolition is we've taken them... and put them in parts unknown, which we felt was kind of really fitting for those guys.

And it's kind of taken it back to the roots of where those characters are sort of coming from, particularly at that period where they're coming from a Mad Max era kind of space.

So it's just really fun characters action and just allowing those two characters, Axe and Smash, to go off.

Who was Power and Glory?

Uh, wasn't that maybe Bill Eadie and somebody? Uh, I don't know.

I'm not, I'm not sure.

I can't remember either, yeah.

Handsome Stranger, and I didn't come up with it.

Um, so Bill Eadie was a boss of GWF, Global Wrestling Federation.

Bill Eadie of Demolition?

Bill E- Bill Eadie of Demolition was a owner/boss of the GWF that was on ESPN as I was the Handsome Stranger.

His wife is who thought of the Handsome Stranger.

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So they bought me a dozen real roses every television taping, and I would hand roses out as I came to the crowd.

But, uh, that was Global Wrestling Federation for ESPN.

Born on October 6th, 1959, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Barry Darsow became known to wrestling fans as Demolition Smash.

Alongside Ax and, of course, Crush, Demolition was one of the most dominant and recognizable tag teams of the '80s.

Demolition captured the WWF Tag Team Championship three times, battling the teams like The Hart Foundation, The British Bulldogs, and Strike Force during their run at the top.

And of course, Barry Darsow also reinvented himself numerous times, of course, as Crusher Khrushchev, Repo Man, and the Blacktop Bully.

I sat this one out.

The main event was the Big Machine, Super Machine, and the Piper Machine, uh, defeating King Kong Bundy, Big John Studd, and Bobby Heenan.

Studd and Bundy got into an argument after the match.

Steve, one of the things I do not like about The Machine's angle, like, I think it was a little bit of a bait and switch because theoretically, this is Andre the Giant's thing, right?

Uh, I mean, he had some good matches with Hogan, I would say.

But, uh, this match, Eadie, uh, was very competitive, very strong, and, uh, ha- hung in there with Bundy.

I think in the end Bundy won the match, uh, via pinfall, but, but, uh, Eadie or the Super Machine did quite well for himself.

himself.Okay, uh, uh, I have seen that match, but not recently.

So that's one thing.

The other thing is... from the Bill Eadie lawsuit against Vince McMahon.

I went to in-person to the courthouse and actually went into the archives and got files that show the discovery from that case, including a basically day by day breakdown of all the shows that Bill Eadie wrestled on and how much the gate was and how much he got paid.

And so when you and then also the box office receipts from certain years that show what the attendance was.

So all these are like internal WWF produced documents that you literally are not going to find anywhere else unless you work for them.

Mullen was willing to agree to the pay cut, but the Knicks still had to do some roster finagling in order for a deal to happen.

And finally, in the World Wrestling Federation, an event was held in Madison Square Garden, where in the main event, the Giant Machine, the Super Machine, and the Hulk Machine defeated King Kong Bundy, Big John Studd, and Bobby the Brain Heenan.

Let's now see what the top five movies at the

box office were during this weekend in 1986. we finally have a new release that grabbed the number one spot.