Brian Pillman

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Brian Pillman So the story about how Brian Pillman quit WCW and joined the WWF in the mid-90s is like something out of a spy novel.

The loose cannon managed to persuade Eric Bischoff to legitimately terminate his contract as part of a storyline, and then he used this to joint Vince McMahon's WW for a few months later, leaving Eric Bischoff to go, well, that motherflubber worked me.

Now, given how brilliant this plan was, it deserved a better payoff, but Pillman's Federation career was mediocre at best.

match.

Pillman and Ricky Morton.

Eh.

Wasn't a great match.

just this episode

oh shit what i will tell you is to make it more modern if you look if you see the guardians of the galaxy uh three trailer that looks like the uniforms they wear in that movie in that trailer just fyi just fyi all right all right so uh both of these guys open up popping each other in the face with a hard punch which i like steamboat um Steamboat and Roode and Liger and Pillman have now been announced for Super Brawl 2, according to Jim Ross.

He calls it the biggest event in WCW history that is coming up.

Dustin hits a monkey flip, a backdrop, and a nice leaping lariat.

We're going to go to our next match.

Oh, and speaking of our fucking ourselves, boy, this match.

It is Bobby Eaton and Arne Anderson taking on Brian Pillman.

And podcast favorite, Mike Graham.

But that's not the match I'm talking about here.

It's Sting and Ric Flair versus Brian Pillman and Arn Anderson This is such an awesome buildup.

I freaking love this.

The horsemen are coming back.

The most underrated horsemen ever.

I love this horseman.

So, of course, Ric Flair and Sting win via disqualification over Arn and Brian Pillman.

But that's because Ric Flair turns on his tag team partner, Sting, which you kind of saw coming because, obviously, Flair had been feuding with Arn for a few months.

But then we start the show on a very somber note because early in the day, Brian Pilgrim had passed away.

And Vince McMahon announced it at the beginning of the show and the broadcast wouldn't be the last time they announced someone's death during a show, uh, during the broadcast, but his Vince McMahon doing it and damn Brian Pillman dead on a day of a show.

How did you, you know, what, what did you, what were you thinking? What were you thinking as a kid watching this when you hear that news?

I don't even know.

So I did not know how people dealt with,

you know, death at that time.

And the way they went about the show and the way Vince talked about Brian Pillman throughout the course of the show, I was kind of like, damn, if you, so if you die, it's just kind of like life goes on type thing.

Like pretty much no one cares.

He was actually based off of... a lot more like pop culture stuff too like even in modern day like even like nerd stuff like uh like trading cards like from traded card sets there's like a jewish and thunder liar card and almost anything so he's very influential in that way too like pop culture wise

Yeah, and even, like, I feel like when you think of, like, early 90s WCW, you always think of, like, that match with Pillman at Super Bowl, like, when you think of those early pay-per-views, you know, and his work

there.

All right, I'm going to be the first, of course, to take this in a different direction.

Yes, Pugilist.

And then our TV main event of Bill Kazmaier and Brian Pillman over Abdul the Butcher and Cactus Jack.

Then we go to Worldwide, where we have PN News over Mike Fever.

The Freebirds over Joey Maggs and Chris Sullivan.

We'll probably get into that in a second.

Dustin Rose over Lee Fabiano.

Thomas Rich and Brian Pillman had a match.

And Thomas Rich won, if I'm not mistaken.