about the strange and bizarre and professional wrestling,

but we're going to celebrate it with my good friend, Ben.

Ben, are you prepared for this journey talking about the strange and bizarre moments

and matches in professional wrestling history?

I sure hope I am prepared.

I did my homework.

You told me what we were going to be talking about.

I watched it.

I took notes.

I have hopefully some interesting insights, but I guess I'll let you and the fans

be the judge. Okay. And today's subject on the first episode is the boiler room brawl from a

SummerSlam 1996 between Undertaker, who's very purplely at the time, purple gloves, purple tie,

purple hat, everything. He's taking on mankind. And before we even get into this matchup, what are your thoughts on when you're watching wrestling out of nowhere, you hear a new stipulation match? It's no longer a steel cage, it's a ladder. They're like, it's going to be an upside down blackout match. And you're thinking to yourself, this sounds terrible already.

What were your thoughts when you hear the terms boiler room brawl heading into this?

Well, when you say what's my thoughts when I hear a new stipulation match?

Usually my thought is it's probably just going to be a street fight.

Because usually that's what these all end up being is like you said an upside down

match or a lights out match okay what are the stipulations well there's no rules and falls count

anywhere that's like all right so you just gave a a fancy name to matches that we all know and love

when i first heard boiler room brawl i thought it would be more like a lion's den

match where the match actually takes place within the confines of the name there. So a lion's

den match was in the lion's den, as I recall, right? Yeah. And yeah, there were some special

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