Dean Malenko

AEW Unrestricted

AEW

Wrestling, Sports

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Dean Malenko is one of the greatest technical wrestlers of all time, and a super funny guy! He shares stories from his incredible wrestling career that started in the land of referees and cut a trailblazing path through ECW and WCW before reaching WWE. He remembers close friend Eddie Guerrero, offers his take on Chris Benoit, and explains why he reformed The Four Horsemen. Hear about Dean's solo match with Ric Flair, his relationship with Arn Anderson, and what prompted Dean’s decision to leave WWE. Plus, Dean talks AEW and assesses some of AEW’s upcoming, young talent, including one of his personal favs, Darby Allin!

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0:00.0	This is AEEW Unrestricted, the official all elite wrestling Tony Shavani and my longtime close personal friend
0:17.0	Aubrey Edwards. Yes, that was talking about you.
0:19.5	Close time personal friend? Yes. It's been like three months dude.
0:22.0	Well there you go it feels like forever. It's been like three months, dude. Well, there you go. It feels like forever.
0:23.4	Oh, we like to thank our guests for shaving. Dean Malenko is with us. Dean, thanks for coming. Good to see you. How you been?
0:31.8	I've been awesome actually.
0:33.0	It's shaved about five minutes ago.
0:35.0	Yeah, my parents were Chia Petz.
0:38.0	D'Minko, as you know, and as I had said many times during the 90s the man of a
0:45.7	thousand holes one of the best technical wrestlers in the ring ever ever ever
0:50.0	many times a champion in not only the W.C.W. but an E.C.W. and W.F. Best Technical Wrestler 96 and
0:58.1	97 is voted on by Wrestling Observer. And now one of the coaches in AEW. Yeah. Lucky me. I can't tell if you're being
1:05.3	sarcastic or not. No I'm not I'm not fortunate. Yeah it's been actually really
1:09.3	great having you around. Yeah well it's been a lot of fun, you know, and I had a 25, 30 year career and, you know, I used to get my
1:16.6	highs having a good match in front of a lot of people now.
1:19.6	I just feel good
1:23.0	what's been your favorite part working with kind of the newer talent caring
1:26.0	catering is probably the only favorite part
1:30.0	just watching you just you know sitting back watching these guys grow and two really good professionals.
1:36.0	You 18 years, I can't believe this, 18 years backstage with with WWE.
1:40.3	That time goes by fast.
1:41.9	Yeah, it does. Yeah, and then so then so felt like 17 actually in April of
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