Episode 12: Canadian Stampede

Grilling JR

Podcast Heat

Sports, Wrestling

4.7 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2019

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

On this week's Grilling JR with WWE Hall Of Famer Jim Ross & Conrad Thompson, the subject is WWE's Canadian Stampede! This show is one of the most unique, the most celebrated, and the most critically acclaimed WWE shows of all time! It took place during the 1997 main event run of Bret Hart and his Hart Foundation, which consisted of his brother Owen, his brothers in law Davey Boy Smith and Jim Neidhart, plus Dungeon trainee and Stampede Wrestling alumni, Brian Pillman! They were set to main event this show in Calgary against a makeshift team of babyfaces including the red hot Steve Austin, The Legion Of Doom, Ken Shamrock and Goldust! Hear all about that main event, plus, issues between Bret and Shawn Michaels at that time, the feud and matches between Mankind and Triple H, Undertaker's WWE Championship run and his match against Vader, Taka Michinoku vs. The Great Sasuke, news and notes about the war with WCW at that time, and so much more! Rate/subscribe in Apple Podcasts! New episodes every Thursday at 6 AM Hit JR on Twitter: @JRsBBQ Find JR on Facebook/Instagram: @JimRossBBQ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:22.7	hey it's Connor Thompson and you're listening to Grillin' JR with the voice of wrestling.
0:27.8	Mr. Jim Ross Jim what's going on man how are you? Life is good Colin Radd is
0:31.7	great to hear your voice it's great to have all the folks with us our show is
0:35.0	ever growing and I think that's a deserves a big thank you from all of us here
0:39.5	at Grillin' JR we've got a big team that work on our project this should be I
0:43.9	perceive in my mind's eye and I just watched this back again this morning as
0:51.2	we're recording this the Canadian Stamphine is as good as as much fun an
0:57.2	unindicated ability at a paper w paper view that I can remember having the one
1:02.4	that comes closest to mine you know the the Rock Hogan match at 18 was
1:07.0	extraordinary two icons that clicked in different and they recast their roles
1:12.7	walking to the ring the WrestleMania 17 in the Astridome because it was the
1:20.8	Astridome and that was a eighth one of the World War 4 Andre was special
1:27.0	it brought back to me memories of my dad and I watching the Houston
1:31.3	owners of Coast above Phillips Earl Campbell company on the KJRH Channel 2
1:39.2	in Tulsa back in the day they cared the Astridames so but this I watched it
1:46.2	it was just so much fun to go back and watch and as I was telling you before we
1:50.4	started recording there's so many little nuances that I had forgotten about
1:55.8	it was just tremendous to go back and retreat so this should be a fun show an
2:02.0	excellent show and if you haven't already you should go out of your way to take a
2:05.7	look at it and went down on July 6 1997 from the Saddle Dome in Calgary Albert
2:11.4	of Canada it does 0.59 pi rate so the Meltzer would say that's 1.32 million in
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