Pete Gas

He challenged for the WWF Championship, and he established himself as one of the most recognizable British wrestlers of all time.

But by Survivor Series 1990, the Bulldog found himself leading a team that could only be described as a complete disaster, The Mean Street Posse, Pete Gas, Rodney Mack, and Joey Abs.

Now, if you remember the Attitude Era, you probably remember the Mean Street Posse.

They were introduced as Shane McMahon's wealthy childhood friends.

Now, let's be honest, this wasn't exactly the greatest Survivor Series team ever assembled either, but compared with the Mean Street Posse, they looked like the damn Four Horsemen.

Once the match started, things went about as badly as you could expect.

Pete Gas eliminated, Rodney eliminated, Joey Abs eliminated, and suddenly Davey Boy Smith was standing alone.

To Bulldog's credit, he fought back.

It's literally like a backdrop into a power bomb.

But the one time they hit it, I- I was really impressed with it, and it apparently stuck with me because I remember it still more than Pete Gas' gas mask, which never finished the match.

[laughs] Sure.

And yeah, I'm talking about Pete Gas on a podcast.

I mean, obviously skip this.

You should.

He did.

He did, Viscera did, Pete Gas did as well.

I think it was for the hard, yeah, for the hardcore.

Yeah.

Uh, I can't even remember their names.

Pete Gas is the one that-

Pete Gas? So no women, involved in a trio, mid-card champion, also a tag team champion, not had a marquee match at 'Mania, known for being part of the Attitude Era.

Was I known for being part of the hardcore scene?

[sighs] I'm gonna say no.

No, no, no, no. Oh, God.

Thank God I, I didn't 'cause everybody's bleeding hard way, and to have Pete Gas and Crash, Pete Gas especially, oh my goodness.

[laughs]

Uh, that was tough.

I think I wrestled the Access week, and one of the people I wrestled was, I believe, Pete Gas.

I wrestled on those Access, the Fan Access.

They had matches that were, you know, an hour here, an hour there, and I, I wrestled a lot of those.

Clotheslines him into the front row, right into the Mean Street Posse area.

You like seeing Pete Gas and Rodney out there?

Yeah.

Why not, man? There's a couple extra members that I don't re- really recognize, but, you know, Rodney and, you know, Peter Gas, those are guys I, I definitely know.

"Hey, you and Joey, you're not part of the crew anymore." [laughs] "We got these other guys that look like they shouldn't be part of the crew anymore." [laughs]

I guess these are powerful names, man.

Pete Gas-

Joey Abs

Beat him back.

But we go to our third match, Val Venis, Sexual Chocolate, Mark Henry, Gangrel, and Steve Blackman versus The British Bulldog and The Mean Street Posse of Rodney, Pete Gas, and Joey Abs in a Survivor Series elimination match.

That's, uh, the collar pull sound effect.

'Cause, uh, how are you supposed to feel about this? [laughs] I mean, hopefully it's pretty decent, but you see that on the page and you're like, "All right."

And then there was an ad for ECW Wres- Oh, no wait, that was last week.

[laughs]

So Bulldog starts us off with Venus, where Val hits a shoulder tackle and a hip toss that sends Davey Boy tagging out to Pete Gas, who immediately brings the Bulldog back in, because Pete Gas is not a wrestler.

Yeah, these guys are, um, average post-college dorks.