Episode 488: Magnum TA & Nikita Koloff Face Off!
What Happened When
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
On this edition of What Happened When, Tony Schiavone and Conrad Thompson fire up the time machine and take you back 40 years to one of the most explosive stretches in Jim Crockett Promotions and the National Wrestling Alliance. It's Memorial Day weekend 1986, and the road to The Great American Bash is already blazing hot. Tony relives the intensity of the unforgettable contract signing between Nikita Koloff and Magnum T.A. a moment dripping with tension that set the tone for the summer ahead.
Things get even more brutal as Ricky Morton suffers a gruesome broken nose at the hands of Ric Flair, showcasing the violent edge that defined the era and cemented Flair and the The Four Horsemen as the most dangerous group in the business. Plus, the guys spotlight the debut of a man who would go on to become a major force in wrestling Big Bubba Rogers and discuss how his arrival fit into the rapidly evolving landscape of JCP.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's episode comes to you from the Blue Chew Studio right now when you buy two months of |
| 0:04.2 | Blue Chew Gold. |
| 0:05.3 | You get the third for free with promo code WHW at bluechew.com. |
| 0:11.6 | What happened when? |
| 0:13.2 | WHW Monday. |
| 0:16.8 | And now let's go to the ring. |
| 0:19.2 | And here's your co-host. |
| 0:20.6 | Hey, hey, it's Conrad Thompson. |
| 0:25.9 | Hey, hey, it's Conrad Thompson. And you're listening to What Happened When? With the voice of your |
| 0:32.0 | childhood, Tony Chavani. Tony, what's going on, man? How are you? What a great time to be alive. What a great time to be a wrestling fan. |
| 0:41.1 | I say it's so many, many times when I talk to people. I'm fine, by the way, Conrad, but I'm just really happy to be here with you once again. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm always happy. Did you know that? You're not always happy. Sometimes you're grumpy. |
| 0:53.7 | Yeah, well, that's being grumpy, but deep down inside I'm happy. |
| 0:58.1 | Grumpy on the exterior, but deep down inside I'm happy. |
| 1:00.7 | Oh, and by the way, I guess I can say this right now. |
| 1:04.8 | It was announced during a double or nothing on Sunday that the next two pay-per-view events have been booked. |
| 1:13.3 | Oh, how about that? |
| 1:14.8 | That's right. |
| 1:15.9 | And our next two will be in Chicago, then in St. Louis. |
| 1:20.4 | And starting in the month of July, we are going to go out week to week back live on the road. |
| 1:25.9 | So God bless America, right? |
| 1:29.2 | God bless the low key big hogs and the top guys over at ad free shows too. |
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