Episode 69: New Generation Declassified: The Art of Tom Fleming
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling
4.8 • 356 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Today's New Generation Declassified welcomes former WWF artist / designer, Tom Fleming. Tom worked for the World Wrestling Federation from 1990-1994 as a full time artist and during his tenure helped develop the concept art for many of the iconic characters that would go on to become key members of the New Generation. He was also the main designer for the beloved WWF Survivor Series 1993 and Royal Rumble 1994 pay per view posters. From Razor Ramon to the 1-2-3 Kid and even Adam Bomb, Tom's input and designs played a vital part in how each character came to life.
You can visit Tom's official website: tomflemingartwork.com and see each design he helped bring to life as well as the iconic pay per view portraits of Survivor Series 1993 and Royal Rumble 1994.
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| 0:00.0 | The upcoming presentation is a two-man power trip on wrestling podcast production. |
| 0:06.1 | All right. Let's get it going right here. right now. This is New Generation Declassified. |
| 0:25.4 | And you're listening to an all-new new, new generation declassified here exclusively on the two-man power trip of wrestling's podcasting Empire. |
| 0:33.4 | If you didn't know by now, my name is Chad. And every single week, we go back in time and we look at the finer days of professional wrestling and we check out the new generation era. |
| 0:43.6 | And maybe I'm in the minority, but I love the new generation era. |
| 0:46.9 | And I love bringing it to you every single week and dissecting a moment, dissecting a match, and running down a little bit of history. |
| 0:54.9 | And that's exactly what we're doing today, but we're kind of switching gears a little bit. |
| 0:58.8 | And I'm going to welcome in a guest that I have been really dying to get on for quite a while after I had found some of his work online. |
| 1:08.2 | It is a former artist and designer for the World Wrestling |
| 1:11.6 | Federation from 1990 to 1994 and then later on as a freelancer. But we're talking about |
| 1:18.1 | the art of Tom Fleming today. And for all us new generation fans and growing up during |
| 1:23.6 | the early 90s, we know Tom's work very well. And now if you weren't sure it was actually done by him, |
| 1:30.4 | we're going to hammer it home today, folks, |
| 1:32.3 | because if you do remember the 1993 Survivor series, |
| 1:36.6 | iconic poster and Coliseum Video cover of the All-Americans, |
| 1:41.9 | getting ready to feast on some foreign fanatic turkey. |
| 1:44.6 | Well, that was designed and actually drawn and painted by Tom Fleming. |
| 1:51.6 | And we're going to talk about all of that today. |
| 1:54.1 | This was an incredible chat covering basically his whole entire run with the WWF |
| 1:59.7 | and even dipping into the latter stage of the |
| 2:02.7 | Federation years, the Hogan era, if you will, listen to the Hogan era here on the TMPT Empire. |
| 2:08.4 | But what we talk about with Tom is not just the creation of the Royal Rumble poster from 1994 |
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