08/09 WWE: Bruce Prichard talks SummerSlam '88, Vince McMahon
State of Combat with Brian Campbell
CBS Sports, Boxing, MMA
4.6 • 765 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2018
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Summary
This week on 'In This Corner,' we find someone else to wrestle with as Bruce Prichard graces the show with his presence while discussing his tremendous post-WWE success, the first SummerSlam in 1988, what it is really like working behind the scenes with Vincent Kennedy McMahon and who wins the Shawn Michaels vs. Bret Hart debate (01:12:15). Brian Campbell and Adam Silverstein open with the Main Event (6:33) where they wax poetic on Paul Heyman's epic interview segment, break down Ronda Rousey's first Raw match and try to figure out what's going wrong on Monday nights. BC and The Silver King then discuss yet another tremendous edition of SmackDown as it builds towards SummerSlam (30:40) before updating you on the latest and greatest from NJPW's G1 Climax 28 as the annual event enters its final weekend (51:55). This week's show wraps up as usual with your DM slides and the guys' feel spots (1:45:15). This episode is sponsored by www.ZipRecruiter.com.
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| 0:00.0 | 5, 4, 3, 2, 2, 1, 2, ignition, feel spot activated. |
| 0:27.8 | It's the ITC. |
| 0:29.9 | In this corner with Brian Campbell returns with the pro wrestling edition as we |
| 0:34.2 | hook the leg for the perfect plex dose of that one and only performance enhancing audio. |
| 0:40.6 | The Brian Campbell, the king of the long intro is in fact the voice that you hear. |
| 0:45.2 | And like you, dear listener, I often wonder whether our prodigal podcast son, well-dressed Nick Costos, will ever return. |
| 0:52.8 | His face adorns the back of so many milk of Marknesia cartons these days, |
| 0:57.4 | and yet the handsome one still can't find the time to slip on those Farragamo shoes |
| 1:02.4 | and inject you with that Greek sauce. |
| 1:05.5 | And let me be frank, I got that hot sauce. |
| 1:08.8 | Hey, oh, little consensual sauce there. |
| 1:10.7 | No, the passionate man of North America will not be joining us this week to recap the week that was in WWE. |
| 1:15.4 | Just two weeks out from SummerSlam, the biggest party of the summer folks. |
| 1:20.5 | He won't be here either to share his feels as we enter the final weekend of the G1 Climax 28 tournament from NJPW and Mark out for just how real that revolution actually is. |
| 1:32.2 | But fear not. |
| 1:33.3 | We got the Silver King. |
| 1:34.5 | You got your boy, B.C. |
| 1:36.2 | And S.K. has acquired the services of a worthy, worthy replacement. |
| 1:46.1 | Oh, yes. |
| 1:48.1 | Oh, yeah, you heard that right. |
| 1:54.3 | Brother Love, aka the great Bruce Pritchard stops by to get us something to podcast with, if you will, and share the inside story behind so many big moments in WWE over the past |
| 1:59.0 | three decades, including the first SummerSlam, |
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