Todd Pettengill

But, um, [laughs] that was a f- and if you know, you know.

Todd, Todd Pettengill head.

So again, a strong lineup in Tr- Tiffany Stratton, right?

Somebody agrees.

No, seriously.

Like, like, why aren't these guys managed by Todd Pettengill?

I never thought of that.

Doesn't that make more sense?

Uh, Wright worked behind the scenes in the WWF before getting experience on camera in ECW.

You know why he never hosts the Free for Alls?

Uh, Todd Pettengill?

Exactly.

Uh, and, like, he's talk- [laughs] maybe we'll pull up the clip as a...

They're like, Todd Pettengill is like, "How do you feel about wrestling in Madison Square Garden?" He's like, "I don't know.

The adrenaline's similar to, I don't know, wrestling a 5'7" blonde that weighs maybe 123 pounds," uh, you know, and he's just, like, kinda eyeballing her, you know?

[laughs]

Helmsley out first.

Todd Pettengill talks to Droese.

They show Helmsley attacking Droese on Superstars and cutting his hair, and Droese says it's payback time.

Droese runs to the ring and they start to fight as soon as he gets there.

Match for the WrestleMania title shot.

Shawn Michaels versus Owen Hart with Jim Cornette.

Todd Pettengill talks to Michaels.

He says this is the biggest match of his life on the way to WrestleMania.

Uh, you know, Rob Bartlett is, was a great comedian, is a great comedian.

And, um, vince as we talked about you know todd pettengill was another guy on the radio vince listened to the radio and uh brought todd in because of that and uh he loved rob bartlett and he wanted to he had this idea because you know he was always bringing people in from the outside world it was his way to combine the worlds uh together and for you know that all sports entertainment could work um unfortunately you do have to have you you have to be smart to the business you have to know the business you have to know what's going on

what you're talking about

yes especially if you understand the fans uh the greatest fans in the world i have covered every professional sport you can imagine and uh hands down and i've never wavered on this the greatest fans in the world, greatest sports fans in the world are wrestling fans.

Remember he wanted to take wrestle out of it and just call it Mania?

Like WWF Mania with Todd Pettengill?

No, just Mania.

Oh.

And with, I think, maybe, I don't know, like, the, the, the amount of importance for, like, a television show, like, you're expecting a whole lot more certainly going into a go-home edition, and this did not provide that.

Well, the Slammy Awards are also coming up this week, Wei, because that is how we will, uh, be spending Thursday on Rewind Away, where Wei and I will review the Slammy Awards from 1996 on the eve of WrestleMania 12, hosted by Todd Pettengill, featuring an ungodly amount of awards handed out.

And all I can say is we will properly contextualize the 1996 handling of the Goldust character by Vince McMahon and Jerry Lawler.

The nominees, Goldust.

OK, so he is standing there in the back.

And maybe Todd Pettengill was the interviewer.

He said, so Vince, what's going to happen tonight? And he looks and he says, I don't know.

I don't know.