1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Best Mic Skills in Wrestling History: December 30th, 12pm

Episode Date: December 30, 2024

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It's time to go one-on-one with D.P. Coming at you live from the couple Chevrolet GMC Studios. Here is your host, Derek Pearson. Brought you by Mary Ellen's Move for the Soul on 937 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. The song says, look into my eyes. What do you see? It is living color. Yeah, some will call it.

the CM Punk theme song from WWE. But that is Living Color. One of the great albums ever. If you don't know it, just type in Living Color album. And the first thing that pops up, and it is an absolute jam. Absolute jam. It is one-on-one character

is going to enjoy some family time this week. Simplicity in what we do. 402, 464, 56685. You want to be a part of what we're doing. Hit us up. up. Get me with a what's up. You know what? Let's go old school with this thing. Give me with a what's up. And then we'll get into the conversation. Sartre-Haman text line, you're wide open. Several things that I'm going to engage you with that I need your response

to. And so we're going to do that. Bach and I will man the next hour and go through several things that I want to talk about, you know, boxer wrestling dudes. So he understands when I say, let me talk to you. let me talk to you and and and to sidebar that one if you walk into a new town you pull a cody rose and you say hey lincoln what do you want to talk about do you like that i always find that sometimes it doesn't get the biggest reaction just kind of well people are weird that way about what they respond to or don't respond to um the call and response aspect of it people fight, you know, they sink their teeth and do the thing that, that, that resonates to them

best at that moment. But it was the McFoly thing. You know, we're having a great time and it's great to be here, right in Sunday, downtown Lincoln, Nebraska, and everybody will pop and everything. Just mention the city you're in and they'll go crazy. Right. Like, it's a, you know, finally, one-on-one is back in Lincoln, Nebraska. There's so many. There's so much juice to it that, right, it's always worth the squeeze. And it doesn't really matter what you're doing in the system, in the system. We got to debut it yesterday.

And it's the first of several. But in the system was we got, we got the little snippet from, from Kurt Angle. Oh, gold. Right? Is it go? Let's go ahead. Do you have access to? Yeah.

Like, it's pretty cool to be able to, to, to, to have that. and we've got some really cool ones coming. I've got one for nuclear heat, and I'm not even going to tell you, it's just going to, it's just going to play in one of your, not this Sunday, but next Sunday.

So the first Sunday in January, it's actually, it's just going to show up. And I, like, it's just going to show up. I'll be looking forward to that. Right.

All right. Like, it's, yeah, which wrestler was the best of doing the cheap pop? I always, it's the rock. Like pretty much if you asked the question, who did the best promo at anything, the rock's in the conversation.

The rocks in the conversation. Mick Foley, you know, because of Rock and Sock, you know, they kind of got into it and Foley would steal some of the Rock persona. But I always thought from a cheap pop standpoint. And then the other part was that Daniel Brian, you know, really went off, you know, off the, off the hook with, with, with the cheap pop. What's up? 7.7.4.5. We got to get a name on there. You guys, you know, stop being anonymous now.

We're, we're friends. We're family. You're more than a number. You're more than a number. Downtown Scott, what's up, man? Wow, we got some smart people on it. Bill and Bennett, why are you putting that out there for the universe, man? Behave yourself. We're not trying to do that stuff out there. That's a little bit too much. Fake IDs and whatnot.

Yep, it's, Kupske, you're right. We're going to have some fun today. Here's what I want to know. Well, Simples number one fan says, D.P., if you're talking greatest promos, you got to go with Paul Heyman. Um, no, no. Because, and then promo, promo, in air quotes, if you're talking about in ring ad lib,

if you're talking about cutting a promo, a wrestling promo in the old, in the old days of cut the promo, come out and sell the next event, the next time for you to buy a ticket, I don't think there's anybody, I don't think there's anybody better than Flair. I just don't think there's anybody better than Flair.

I don't think many people, and that era of it, because Flair was so good, Terry Funk was exceptional. Dusty Rose was exceptional. Harley Race became, you know, they elevated Harley Race from every guy to one of the great cutters ever.

Macho, even if we didn't quite know where what Matro was going and an ultimate warrior was much CTV we still don't know what ultimate warrior was talking about. Like we still don't know. There's a Scott Steiner math promo. I mean, I don't know if it's

consistent, but that's like that's legendary. The 33% based on the 50% based on the 25% based like the listen and Big Papa Pump falls into that category. Not Scott Steiner, but Big Popa

pump and there's a different there he is we see you brother we see you and you walk by big pop a pump and and that's like saying that mankind and and dude love cut the same sort of promos no sir mankind was his own level was his own level Mick Foley could never achieve that as McFoly and he could never achieve that as as dude love but my goodness gracious, mankind put put some words salads together. Like he really,

he really fed you. DMX. Uh, uh, road dog and, yeah, right. But,

but road dog, the new age outlaws is game changing promo. Like just new level. Stone Cole to take 316 and rewrap it, rebrand it. re-identify it and give it a whole new level of power is just exceptional business. Right. So, but this is why, like in the microphone game, having your thing, that's a lie.

It really is call and response. And so the fist bump, I get more fist bumps in Lincoln than everybody else combined. Because when I got on, I used to say, hey, man, you see me in public. Come say, hey, DP, what's up? and give me a fist bump. Like, give me that. And y'all have been exceptional, right? Exceptional.

Well, and then here's the thing. With mankind, remember that you have to cut that in half because Cactus Jack is also elite in the promo business, right? That you go, wow, this was amazing. Underrated, we don't talk about him enough. Superstar Billy Graham. was the coolest white dude ever until Flair came along, until Dusty came up. Like, early Dusty was a cowboy.

He was an outlaw. And then Dusty went way cool because Billy Graham was out here talking about being from Paradise, Paradise, Arizona. And remember, Python, Hulk Hogan. owes residual checks to Billy Graham to superstar Billy Graham because fluxing when I wrap these

pothed out of you that was superstar Billy Graham before it was Hulk Hogan right all the whole look the slick back blonde hair super jacked up figure came out in the tights and the boots and he was going to let's about lay it down and come down he he would steal for

Muhammad Ali in the tower power too sweet to be sour and then everybody went behind him to tell the tail. And then Jesse the body Ventura. Like Jesse was a bad dude, man. Like you talk about it, like a real ranger? Like let's not miss, let's not bury the lead that that dude. So again, Austin has figured this out.

When I get one-on-ones and I get free time, we'll go down any rabbit hole and never come out, especially with Bach. Of course Bach and I are going to have wrestling talk. Yeah, Bray Wyatt was an exceptional storyteller. And I wish that his brother had some of that in him. Like, I want that for him. I want for his little brother to find his niche when it comes to the microphone.

Not everybody has it. No, no. Bray White was so good at it that that was his thing. Like they didn't even, they just throw them out in the middle of the ring. So that's what you're going to do for the week. And it almost hurt some of his like momentum at times because it was, I mean, he was so good at it that they relied on it so much that that's what they threw out there. Right. Like it was, it was interesting to see.

And it was, it's the same punk factor that they are more promo than than performance. There's no way to match. Bray Wyatt was a, to me, he's a much better in-ring wrestler than CM Punk. But they both lost some juice because they were so good on the microphone. They were so good on the microphone. A guy that if he had been good on the microphone, Tony Atlas, if he had been good on the microphone,

would have stood toe to toe with Hulk and superstar Billy Graham. He just, you know, Tony didn't have a thing. You know, junkyard dog figured out his thing, right? Every dog needs the bone to chew on. And everybody went, Ah! Like to know your thing and to know your space, it's there.

Don and Don's legit. Don was always, I don't know if he shows up during a nuclear heat, but Don's a great, great texter. And that best manager to cut promos, Heenan, Heyman, or Cornette.

I'm old school in this. That Lou Albaano, Fred Blassie, did it. Blassie was the first to identify that, you know, listen, if I name call the fans, I got a pop. And so him pulling out pencil neck geek. How are you pencil neck geeks out there?

Everybody said, I'll fight you. Yeah, sure. Like, oh, okay, fine. And Lou Albaeno was so on fire that Cindy Lomper grabbed him and changed pro wrestling. There's no other manager that you can say that about. Like the ever, like at the ape,

at the real split in the road of pro wrestling become nationalized and normalized was Lou Albauna. Because he's in the girls just want to have fun video. And everybody's like, what's Lou Albaughbano doing in Cindy Lomper's video? Right? So you go, okay. Um, precious Paul Ellery was, listen, the Legion of Doom, they weren't, while they were exceptional communicators, they were, like, they were afraid of what the road warriors were going to say.

Like, it depends on, on what chemical imbalance they had going that day, that you didn't, you didn't want hawk and animal giving you just ad living. There were some things that, that they would say that, quite frankly, still exists on the end. internet that people just go, wow, how did that, how did that get by the censors? Paul Elling is amazing. Cornett, I love Cornett for, because Cornett is the guy that doesn't belong. In pro wrestling upper echelon, Jim Cornett, to make nerds cool, like he made not being cool, cool, I mean, this dude was wearing a pink blazer and walking with a tennis racket, right? And here's the thing, he was so good.

His teams were never that great when it came to, but he made them, right? And then the guy that was willing to sell and give his body to blot his knee falling from a, from the rafters, right? You go, okay, that's pretty good. Heenan was great. Heyman, in this space, Heyman's necessary. because you bought into Brock Lesnar and who's not a talker. Brock Lesnar doesn't sound like he looks. He doesn't care enough to his persona is not having a persona.

Like that's why he gets paid. There's a mystique behind Brock Lesner. And the two times that he broke character are his two most famous. One, you know, when Art Truth got him, right? Our truth got him, which is still like, you know, our truth. And let's give a full shout out to our truth while we're at it. When we talk about promo and being on the microphone, there's nobody, there's two people that I enjoy the most in wrestling right now.

Our truth, because he's just pure comedy. He's just pure comedy. And Tony Storm. Like Tony Storm's just the best. and everybody else is just making a bid. But our truth for what he does, exceptional. He broke Brock Lesnar. And then who was it that tried to get Lesnar to dance or rap?

And it was just pretty funny in that. So, yeah, it, it, Jaron, we saw you, bro. We appreciate you waving in the window and getting it done. Gold dust was exceptional. Yeah, you're good. You're right. The road's, the entire Rhodes family. The entire Rose family.

right um josh you got to tell me who you um 9 716 tell me who you met oh macho as the yeah i i'm a macho fan because that was more personality and he gave you catchphrases but macho never said anything think about that like he he would take some trip around the amount around his mental universe and then he would finish with did it and everybody It was like, that was exceptional. Like, no, we, I don't know. I don't remember anything. Booker T.

Yeah. Booker T has done a lot. Stephen, you just hit a home run. Stephen, I tell you what I'm going to. I'm going to, we have some cake from, from Beatrice's bakery. Your text is so good. Stephen just typed two words and he typed a name. And when you talk about underrated on the microphone, Gary Hart, who was a manager back in the day,

mainly in the world championship wrestling, AWA, a lexicon of it. And Gary Hart was a maestro, dignified in genius. So we're going to, if you want, if you're in the area, there's a cake, Beatrice's Bakery, strawberry,

strawberry-dackery cake waiting for you. I'd love that. So I just Slaughter was really good because he really kind of carried that thing. He sold the bit. He sold the bit. So it's there. I loved Heenan because I'm old enough to remember Heenan and Blassie and other when they were wrestling.

And I caught them at the end of their careers where they were still kind of tough, right? These were, you know, Bob the fist, knuckle guys and then into talking. Because in the space that they were working and they didn't talk. They weren't even on the microphone. So imagine in the

silent ages of wrestling and then having these these oral geniuses and not using it. Like it's pretty cool. Ted DiBiase was such a great storyteller. And the fact that he

sold for everybody. Dibiosi sold for everybody. You know, yeah, you're right. Yeah, it says, stop, yeah. Steven, stop by the station. It'll be waiting for you. Yeah, it's good. NWO era

Sting. Beach Bodybuilder Sting. Not Phantom Sting, not late Mystique sting. And then, yeah, John and Cortland, we're going to, we'll go to break on this one. Yeah, that's pretty good. Rowdy, Roddy Piper on the microphone is on the,

on the Mount Rushmore of those that can talk. Withward break, come back. More one-on-one here, 93-7, the ticket.