1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Best and Worst Finishing Moves in WWE History: April 18th, 11:00am

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the heart of Lincoln America, a 93-7-the-ticket and the ticketfm.com. Here is your host, Derek Pearson, brought you by Canopy Street Market. Friday, congratulations. You made it. You made it, you made it, you made it. You got through the tough week, and you got to Friday, so you get to exhale a little bit.

Hopefully you had a great week, and you were planning for a great weekend. you are in Lincoln. There is a ton of stuff for you to do this weekend. We'll talk about that over the course of the two hours. 402, 464-5-6-85, Sartar-Haman. The Sartre-Haman text line. You want to be part of what we're doing to hit us up.

Let me with the what's up. We'll talk about it. You can follow on all the streams, Facebook, YouTube, X, Allo Channel 961. If you have not downloaded the ticket app, please do so. Good time for it. We can do Christian and Edge pause. Pose for the cameras. It is a WrestleMania weekend,

but it is also a big sports weekend in Lincoln, Nebraska. Lots for you to choose from on this particular weekend. It starts today. And you'll have choices. Early choice, starting at 4 o'clock. down at the Dillon Center. And Dillon sits right next to the soccer stadium. So it's in the same space.

And based on the weather, on whether they play indoors or outdoors, I would imagine, I mean, I think they would like to try to play outdoors, but it has to be in those three, two or three hours, it has to be above 50 the whole time. Two of the three hours, I think is what they said, is what Cobalt said. so but as as as as coach said on Wednesday dress dress for the weather in case they're outside so dress so that you're not shivering and that the wind which would probably be helpful to the

Huskers against USC but I think there's a 15 mile per hour rule and I think we're right at the cusp of that earlier this morning. It was at 19 miles per hour, but I think it has to be an order to play outside. It has to be under 15. So prepare for indoor and or outdoor tennis. Their double start at 6 o'clock. Then you can bounce down. There's softball at home, baseball at home. Softball against Indiana, baseball against Northwestern, and circle this particular weekend for Husker baseball, an opportunity to find their way to 500,

one game at a time. Fight your way to 500, one game at a time. And it's a big one tonight for them. For softball, for them planting their flag into the upper echelon of NCAA softball this season and trying to get wins that will make it so that the resume is attractive, that their momentum is strong heading into the Big Ten season finalies and tournaments, etc. And then maybe getting a home series, it would be nice to play at home.

The weather should be nicer than to do that. So you have the opportunity. Rocky Russo and the Andrew. Cup champion, regular season cup champion, Lincoln Stars. They start round two of the players. Round one brings them a winner in Sioux City, and they play the musketeers at home at the Icebox tonight and tomorrow. I think it's tonight and tomorrow.

I know it's tonight. I would imagine that they're going to play the first two at home. So you'll have opportunities this weekend to be, supportive of Husker athletics. I think for all of them, the start times are kind of bunched together. So Lincoln, you'll have to make some choices, which is going to suck a little bit, but that's okay. At least you have options to make choices.

And I got all that out. I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure that I could remember. I wanted to be sure to remember everything that was going on. Bach, first of all, folks, Bach, how are you? Oh, not too bad. Very excited for this weekend ahead. The NBA playoffs.

I mean, we've got, I love these kind of play-in games. They kind of have these somewhat game sevens or at least season on the line type of deals tonight. Then as I know we'll get into WrestleMania, it's one of my favorite weekends of the year. Of course, Easter also involved in that. So, you know, a lot of family planning and exciting, you know, hey, I ain't, hunting and all that.

So it'll be a good weekend. Yeah, it's there. Just a programming note that the ticket will take Easter Sunday off. There will be no live programming that we will run some replays and we'll do some national stuff. And, of course, we'll have stars hockey, you know, both nights. So that will certainly be a thing. Bill and Ben and I am with you. Back in my coaching days, one of my teams went and had the fatheads.

made and they captured a picture i don't know how they captured the picture i'm a little frightened i still years later that somebody captured me in the moment and i it is the dp roaring face right right um i'll i'll find the picture and post it but yeah it and then they all at the awards banquet they all showed up with it with the fat heads they held on a stick that they held up That might be the correct face to put on a in-your-face t-shirt. Yes. Either that one or maybe wearing the Husker jersey and the helmet and just kind of giving the Lex Lugar crab pose.

I said you bring back the, I don't know this might bring back dark times, but the COVID-era DP that was sitting in the, what was that, PBA? Right. That one's still there. That one, actually, it is, there's one in my. office here and i have it hidden so that you know one dp's enough uh you don't want you know you don't want to walk in see me sitting at the desk and then have another me uh behind you staring down at you um but yeah maybe the other one's at home so uh and and uh it's actually on a wall at home

which people who come to the house are always abused by um so yeah but bill i think that you know We're all for there. We do need a Bok and black shirt. So you guys have to figure out what? Yeah. What that'll be? You know, or maybe a Bok nuclear heat. I root for the bad guys.

I'm a Paul Heyman and heel guy there. Once I got to look up, I should know about it, but Scott All's line about bad guys. Yeah, yeah. Say hello. there say hello to the bad guy you know which is just that was also another uh wb programming masterpiece was uh raise romone versus uh sean micha and they did a full the the sunday night show yeah if you if you're a wrestling fan at all um on 80 uh they do the sunday night

and and and they started with with telling the superstar stories and um um um um um um They did two recently that just glowed for me. One, I had forgotten how amazing Ricky Steamboat was and is. And my time in Charlotte, you got a little bit closer to him, my time in Richmond. But how good Ricky Steamboat was. Ricky Steamboat, there was a time when Ricky Steamboat was the most overface in all of wrestling. and that for the three technicians that people talk about, that Ricky Steamboat is all of their favorite opponents.

Like when Flair tells you, macho spoke glowingly that, you know, Roddy Piper, that when they knew that when Ricky Steamboat was their opponent on the card, they were going to, it was going to be a fantastic show. And he could go an hour and it was never a thing. but they also did a feature on rivalries. And they told the story of Sean Michaels, the Heartbreak Kid and Raisin Ramon.

But they went back and told the Scott Hall story getting to Razoramon and then basically him pilfering Scarface. And the fact that people didn't know that he was just stealing lines from the movie Scarface and using them in wrestling. And they were like, wait a minute. And there were people that thought he was. Cuban. And he was like, no.

There was a, there was also a show, there was a podcast and they were, they were redoing wrestling cars, but using the people's real names. Uh-oh. Like, they were, it was so good. Bach, it was so good. Because, like, I didn't know. I actually, let me see if I can find it. Because it, to have them.

tell these stories about these people. And you went, wait a minute. Okay. And they would tell the story of the rivalry and that they're finishing move. And then you'd realize, well, wait, that's Paterson. So they were talking about it. They went through that, let me find the one that was, that really just kind of set it off for me because I just thought,

from the Hall of Fame standpoint because it's a Hall of Fame weekend, right? That Buddy Rogers, right? One of the great grates, right? One of the goats. That his real name, and I said, just imagine trying to sell this card,

gorgeous George Raymond Wagner was gorgeous George, who has Nebraska connection. Yeah. Right? In the pro, you and I were having the conversation as well about the WWH Hall of Fame and pro wrestling.

Hall of Fame. They're separate entities. And that there is another Nebraska connection in that that we don't always talk about by the last name of Stecker. So Joe Stetcher is a Nebraska local and his son often pokes his head on the text line whenever we start talking about it.

It was, so Luthez, Luther's legend, like one of the, iconic wrestlers, Aloysius Martiz. Yeah, I kind of like that one. Right?

That he could have, he could have gone, right? Yeah. He could have gone with that. Um, of course, you know,

Andre Rusmanoff. You know, you know, he, you know, he, but Ricky Steamboat's real name, and they said, man,

you could have gone with that. His real name is Richard Blood. Oh, yeah. Right. Right. Right. But that's, that's,

that's a great heel name. Right. Not a great face name. So it was kind of interesting. Killer Kowalski. His real name was Edward Spolnik. Sounds like a dentist or something. Like you're not, you're not, you're not really going to, right?

Like, it's not the killer move. You can't do that. Of course, Terry Belaya, everybody knows this. Hulk Hogan. The fabulous mullah was made. Mary Ellen Ellison. I kind of like that one. Mary Ellen,

Allison. And then there was a whole legion of folks who actually, you know, use their actual name. But they went through, it was pretty amazing to go through and have them sell it. And then it got into, of course, of Russia, Romania.

We get a big part of it is the Hall of Fame induction. And this year's group, going in. You and I were talking before the show. And we'll get into this year's card, right? But we were talking before the show, and there's some things around it. There are people who are not in the WWE Hall of Fame.

And some of it, you know, some of it is that there are people before the great merge, the great pro wrestling merge, that never crossed over. Right? They never got to the WWE. And then there were these people who never got to work at WrestleMania.

And you think about it, Bruno's Summer Team, and never got to wrestle at WrestleMania. And then Bach, I did find the thing that I was looking for. There was these supercards that used to happen where they would cross over and you would have the Omni in Atlanta, like they were travel. It would be the Cow Palace. in California, then the Omni in Atlanta,

maybe one of the baseball stadiums in New York, whether it be Shea or Yankee Stadium, sometimes RFK Stadium, where they would have these belt versus belt cards. And one of these days I'd like to put together what the ideal card would have looked like if you crossed, like what would you do with Nick Bockwinkle? And like back then,

you would have a card where they would, The promoters would agree. We'll put these champions together. You can see them wrestle. You would never have one, like, I would imagine the agreement was that nobody loses. Like it's always a draw, but at least you got to see them together.

I know that Bob Backland and Flair did a few. I know that Bachwinkle and Flair did a couple. Then there were the regional ones like Mid-South. If you went down to Texas and the Von Erick's, Flair would be known to take the title down there. Harley Race would take the title down there and let them use it for a month while he had a surgery done or, you know, he would let the Von Erick's wear it. Harley Race was exceptional bouncing around the country and allowing this thing to happen. But there were folks who didn't get in.

And the first thing that popped up in this podcast was that the Rock's not in the Hall of Fame. And, you know, W.V.E doesn't have it where, you know, you have to stop wrestling and be in Hall of Fame. There's some, you know, belief to it. But if you're not full time, right? The Rock, Batista, Bach, I'm going to say a name and I want to know whether you think they should be in the Hall of Fame.

We know that at some point, the Rock and Batista gets in the Hall of Fame. Yeah. Miss Elizabeth. Yeah, absolutely should be. Right? Yeah. Right?

Like that should be simple, especially being that you just put Luger in? Yeah. Yeah, Lugar's going in this. Like, Luger's going in. So, hey, you might want to honor, you might want to, you might want to honor Mr. Elizabeth. Personal lady of wrestling, right? Still, right?

Like, I mean, that doesn't, has that changed? Yeah, I don't think so. I mean, you might add Stephanie McMahon into the. Right, like, how does that, how does that play? Like, okay, so if you were going to, here's a challenge for you, Bach, if you're going to, open a woman's wing in the WW, in the pro wrestling hall thing. So we know that Mula,

Wendy Richter, because they were, you know, there's some other women from back of the day that, you know, Mula had to carry. Boy, Bach, you want to smile and laugh. Go back and find some old Mula challenger matches. It's, boy, not, it is not, it is not the Charlotte Flare level of,

The game is changed. It's not doing back. Backlifts from the top rope. But you can go back. I, again, having this conversation with Haas, and just laughing because you can't name, like other than Wendy Richter, even if you're old head.

And if you're an old head wrestling fan and you can name some of the women who got into the Hall of Fame and and there are a bunch, there's an actual wing in the in the pro wrestling

Hall of Fame. So, yeah. Yeah, Husker Pee, yeah, Ricky Steenberg was amazing. Pekin Pye asked the question. He says, what's the worst finishing move of all time. I think it's Hogan's leg drop. The worst. I hate to be that guy. But what was Santino's? That snake. Yeah. That's up there. Like that and Saco because they're like the mandible claw,

which became Sacco. Yeah. The mandible call, I loved Sacco. I had not so much. Hogan's leg drop. I just thought you, that's it? like Hogan, you know, bear hug, you know, throw hands. Yeah. Have something. A lot of theatrics in the ring before. Right. The build up, you're hulking out.

Like I, but actually and Hogan wasn't the first to Hulk out. I mean, that was a Tony Atlas thing. Tony Atlas hulked out long before. Uh, Hogan did. So, yeah, I, yeah, I mean, Bacch, what comes to mind? Well, you know, maybe. just because it's thinking right away. I understand the Cody's support.

I love it. I think it's been a great movement. He's, you know, partially changed boxing. I've always, or excuse me, wrestling with who's, they've been able to put them over these last couple of years. I always feel the crossroads is very underwhelming. It just doesn't look like a move. Looks like a standard wrestling move.

And for some reason, we're supposed to believe that that's what takes people out. Yeah. So Texas is, seen as, seen as finish is pretty lame. Yeah. At least you're lifting somebody in your back and... Well, no, but you remember that you can't see me. Yeah. Was the thing.

Yeah, I didn't know. But I'm old enough. Us old wrestling heads remember the days of where literally, you know, small package was the finishing move of all championships. You know, backflip. You roll them over and really? And, okay, show of hands, show of hands from everybody. If you've ever put somebody in a sleep roll, if you've ever,

Bach, my friends, I can't tell you how many times in the neighborhood, at school, at practice would literally just walk up and my friends. put somebody in a sleeper hole. And then, of course, you, yeah, you. And then, okay, since we do wrestling, the kickout is still the thing that wrestling purists hate the most. Because it's, there are people who went like high school wrestling thinking, hey, I can kick out.

Yeah. There's nothing box. If somebody wraps you up, there's no kick-up. You're just prolonging the embarrassment. So, yeah, there are some bad finishers. Bill and Benitez is I had a soccer shirt. Yeah, yeah, General Hall had a great finish.

The Brooklyn Brawler. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And yes, we put people. So moves that we've all done, sleeper, camel clutch, figure four, like trying to figure out how to make it work, right? Bach, have you ever speared anybody? I've tried to, yeah. Right? And if you're old enough, if you fake throwing a punch, you fake throwing a punch like the wrestlers did back in the day.

Like you, it's a very short, I mean, it is the thing. The stunner is, is, the stunner is, the stunner, diamond cutter, Goldberg spear, which was unique in its own. Like, Spears, I mean, I think Roman Raines spear is actually better. The Steiner's, the Frankensteiner.

Like, there's, but it was dangerous. Literally, you know. So there's some, there's some great finishers and some not so great finishers. We can continue this because it's WrestleMania weekend. D.P. Bach here on one on one.