Tugboat

So he was with those top guys.

He was beating guys like, you know, like Tugboat and Gradenhammer Valentine, Texas Tornado on TV.

So he was beating some established guys, not top guys, but not jobbers either.

You know, those sort of stepping stone guys on the way up to the top of the card.

years in a row, right?

One time it was Hulk Hogan, Tugboat, Hacksaw Jim Duncan, the big boss man.

you know, and then, uh, there's, uh, the other team, which a lot of people say this is one of the best teams was Hulk Hogan, Jake, the snake Roberts and demolition.

That's my favorite.

mask fella.

Who was that? That was Tugboat, wasn't it? Yeah, it was Tugboat, yeah.

And the story goes that he had tried that stunt earlier in the night, but they didn't put a board at the bottom.

Apparently they had put a board across the bottom.

There we go.

And Tugboat.

And Tugboat.

There we go.

OK.

But their longevity is definitely there as a character and a group that you remember forever.

Though, unfortunately for them, also in 91, they're teaming up with Tugboat.

And Tugboat turns on the Bushwhackers and they're fighting Earthquake.

And this begins the formation of the natural disasters where Typhoon is born and Tugboat is now dead.

Poor Bushwhackers.

But this is a monumental moment.

But yet, remember that rumor that Tugboat was going to be Sheik Tugboat in fighting Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania 7 as an Iraqi sympathizer? And now instead of being the main event of WrestleMania...

Now, you are no longer Tugboat, you're going to be Typhoon with Earthquake, which again, I love the natural disasters, but going from main eventing WrestleMania to being a tag team, I feel like is a little different than what you expected originally.

Oh, wait, did they do it? OK, sorry, I was looking at the wrong one.

Oh, no, this was the tag rematch with Tugboat and Earth.

OK, so Tugboat's back in main events, too.

That's interesting.

Two, two.

Randy Savage squares off against the American Dream, Dusty Rhodes.

American Dream gonna knock the king right off his throat.

And tonight we have tag team action with the immortal Hulk Hogan teaming up with Tugboat to square off against Jimmy Hart.

you Thank you.

Hulk's new friend, Tugboat, would not stand idly by and watch the Hulkster sink any lower.

He pleaded with the Hulkamaniacs to write letters of encouragement.

Mountains of mail piled up in the Venice Beach, California post office.

And when I steal the energy from all my little hulksters, I'm gonna take that 500 pounds of the Earthquake, and as I cinch him up in the launch position, I'm gonna hold him for a while, man.

I'm gonna walk around the ring with him and show each and every one of my little hulksters that they're believing in the right thing.

And as I slam him through the center of the ring and the Earth opens, I just hope that Dino Bravo comes into the ring because Tugboat is gonna be in my corner.

And Jimmy Hart, what you gonna do when Hulkamania, Tugboat, and the Big Brother run wild on you?

...

if he was a wrestler, he'd be Tugboat.

[laughs]

Did we get correspondence from them in the end though?