1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - Favorite WrestleMania Moments: April 18th, 11:45am

Episode Date: April 18, 2025

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You're listening to One-on-One with DP. Brought to by Canopy Street Market on 937 the Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Pop up the biceps. Tie some tassels hard. Shine up the boots, sprint to the ring. And then grab a microphone and make absolutely no sense. It's WrestleMania week. Bach, I asked you a.

question. I gave you options. Kind sir. For you, sir, what's the moment or match or both that locked you in as a WrestleMania fame? I'd have to say, you know, I kind of came back to wrestling. So I think a lot of us kind of have this story of, you know, loving it as a child, maybe phasing out of it a little bit and then kind of coming back to it. And when I came back to it was kind of part of the Daniel Bryan movement, which was a big movement. It was kind of exciting. So kind of in that era, but I think the most exciting WrestleMania moment that kind of really helped solidify. I mean, I was already kind of in on wrestling at that time, but the highest of the century, the cash in from Seth Rollins on Roman Raines and Brock Lesnar, which was supposed to be the big

match, obviously. And early in the night, Rollins had beaten Randy Orton. So he kind of always thought, okay, well, there is, WrestleMania moments over, and then he comes out there. I just, I was, I think that's been tough to top until this previous last WrestleMania.

I think it will also go down as an iconic moment. There are those moments, right? Where you go, okay, I'll circle this. And you don't realize then that it impacted you as much.

And then I asked, you, we were talking earlier as well, the moment, like if you had to describe to somebody who was not as familiar, as you were about WrestleMania, if you could show them a video of a moment,

of a moment, and there's a whole series of them, and you just go, okay, and when WWE talks about WrestleMania, it has its montage of those moments. And then you go, for me, I'm old enough to have watched pre-Resslemania super shows,

to see Flair, Hogan, Andre, Billy Graham fly by helicopter into a football stadium to wrestle. You go, like, I don't know everything about this, but this is really cool. Like, okay, this dude, so really? Like, you got a, you got a private jet to fly. You get a small plane to fly you into the wrestling match. Okay, yeah, I'm good with that. And there are days prior to, so WWF had three super shows at Shea Stadium. And 72, 76, and 80.

So every four years, they would go to Shea Stadium and have these supercars, these super shows. and I panicked because I thought in retrospect these cards weren't as good as I thought they were like I went back I went back and went okay so I need these cards

right so imagine and this is what I remember so think of the hype pre social social media pre like cable TV is just sorting sorting itself out but the main event for the second super show,

1976, 1976, that Baron Miguel Sucluna, who, for old wrestling heads, he may be the goat

of jobbers. Like he and Tony Garria wrestled in every small gym in America. Like every high school gym that hosted wrestling back in the 70s saw Baron McCall.

there's a group of like six. Johnny Rods, Jose Estrada, the Brooklyn Brawler, later 80s, but Baron Miguel Secluna, Tony Garria. They were in every

high school gym wrestling for 500 people. Oh, yeah. And then they got to be on TV and you would just go, okay. But Ivan Putzky, Polish power,

against Baron Miguel Scaluna, opened the Super Show. Then Jose Gonzalez versus Kevin Sullivan. Chief Jay Strongbow and Billy White Wolf. Another Native wrestler, we don't talk about much, but Billy White Wolf had his run as the Native American face for wrestling after Chief Jay Strongbow and before Jay Youngblood.

But then here are the three matches that featured this thing and allowed them to sell massive amount of tickets at Shea Stadium. Bach. You know the name Chuck Webner? Chuck Webner is basically the North Star for Rocky. Okay, okay. Right, boxer. Yeah.

And Chuck Webner was put in a match, a singles match with Andre the Giant. Oh, boy. Andre the Giant versus Chuck Weppner. That's kind of like when they did Floyd Mayweather and Big Show. Well, this is, again, this is 1976. well before. Right. Yeah.

The WWWF heavyweight championship was Brino San Martino versus Stan the Lariat Hanson, which would have filled every building in America at the time, right? That would be like this year that would be except any other year that would be the main, that would be the marquee event, except at this event. It's boxer versus wrestler. That was the theme. Remember, André versus Webner, but also Antonio Inoki versus Muhammad Ali. 45 minutes of Muhammad Ali on his back kicking at.

Anoki was just like they kicked. He was on his back and he just kicked. And there was no like they weren't really going to battle. And then four years later, the final of the three before WrestleMania took effect. Here's the card. I'll go through it quickly. Jose Estrada and Angel Maravilla was the opener. Another of the great of the Jobber Hall of Fame, Dominic Danucci,

defeated Baron Miguel Secluna. Tatsumi Fujimami was the WWF Junior Heavyweight Champion who beat Chavo Guerrero Senior. Dad for the belt. Antonio Inoki beat Larry Sharp, who is still funny to me that he was a superstar. Because there's nothing superstar about Larry Sharp. Bob Backlin and Pedro Morales tag team together to future Hall of Famer and world champions, tag team together to defeat the Wild Samoans for the tag team championship.

Paterson defeated Tor Kamada. There was actually a wrestler named Torquamata. Pretty scary. The fabulous Mullah and Beverly Shade defeated Candy Malloy and Peggy Lee. Couldn't identify him in a lineup. Greg Gagne defeated Quickdraw Rick McGraw. Tony Atlas defeated Ken Patera, the world's strongest man at the time. Ivan Putzky, pulled his power, beat Johnny Rods.

Again, Johnny Rod's Jabber Hall of Fame. Somehow he's in the top. Also in the jobber Hall of Fame, Renee Goulet. Then the two feature bouts of the evening, Andre the Giant defeated Hulk Hogan before. See, when people talk about Andre and Hogan, they pinpoint WrestleMania 3. No, no, no, no, no, no.

These two were at Shea Stadium in an eight-minute bout between Hogan and Andre. Andre won that match. And then the feature for that one, which drew everybody, the entire world was watching, was Larry Zabiscoe versus Bruno San Martino. And Larry Zubisco,

prior to NWO turn, heel turn, one of the biggest heel turns of all time. Of all time. You want to, like if this had happened during social media, Larry Zabiscoe turning on Bruno San Martino, who was his mentor,

and his trainer is still a moment that, like, if you're an old school wrestling fan, you remember watching Saturday morning, watching Zabisco turn. And then they all showed up in full numbers at Chase Stadium to watch Bruno beat up Zabisco. Do you remember were these on cable television or pay-per-view? Yeah.

Well, this one was like an old-fashioned paper for you. You had to go to a movie theater. Oh, okay. But then they ran it, they ran like highlights of it. back then, again, gather around kids, Uncle D.P.'s telling wrestling stories, that you would get one live show from Madison to Gergarten on USA once a month on Monday night. So this was before Monday Night Raw, but you got, you got one. And it was, oh, Bach, it was everything.

So you got, and then Cable, Cable did this. So W-O-R, TBS, TBS gave you Georgia Championship Wrestling, which was in W-A, right? And they kind of worked with Mid-Atlantic and big South wrestling. And you got bitten parcel. You got some of the Midwest from AWA because ESPN picked up AWA with Nick Bachwinkle, Vernon, Greg Gagne, Jum, Jumping Joe Brunzel,

like you got some of that. but when the WWWF gave you the live Monday night, that's the snooker on the top row, on the top of the cage on a Monday night and the whole wrestling world losing its mind. Oh, yeah. Because we hadn't seen it, the introduction, some crossover, Dusty Rhodes.

You can find online the early Rick Flair, the pre-die-job fit Rick Flair. Yeah. He was a chunky monkey, man. He was there. So there was lots to it. We'll get to this year's WrestleMania card as well.

We'll refresh your memory because we want you to bounce around Lincoln and support whether it's the stars, the Husker, softball, Husker, baseball, Husker tennis. Find your way, find something to do, get out and support these teams and these athletes as well.

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