Episode 8: POZCAST - WWF SummerSlam 1998 with Vince Russo
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast
Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling
4.8 • 356 Ratings
🗓️ 11 June 2022
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The eighth POZCAST with John Poz will feature former WWF Head Writer, Vince Russo as we discuss WWF SummerSlam 1998. On this show we will breakdown the entire PPV show, as well as talk about the events that led up to it, and all the backstage drama going on at the time. We will discuss Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Undertaker, Mankind, Kane, Vince McMahon, The Lion's Den, Ken Shamrock, The Rock, The Highway to Hell, AC/DC, and so much more!
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| 0:00.0 | The upcoming presentation is a two-man power trip of wrestling podcast production. |
| 0:10.2 | What's up, guys? It's a phenomenal AJ Stilegen and listen to the two-man power trip. |
| 0:14.6 | Hey, John. |
| 0:15.2 | Cool, man. What's going on? We're ready to go, or what? |
| 0:17.2 | Podcast. to go or what? Oh, change! Huh! Oh, change! The The The I'm Hello and welcome to the latest podcast here. |
| 2:12.9 | I am your host, J.P. John Paz. |
| 2:14.6 | With me is none other than the former W.S.W. World Champion, believe it or not, former head writer for WSW and the WWF. He is Mr. Vince Rousseau. Vince, welcome back. How you doing? John, what do you got? Dirty laundry behind you, bro? Look, look behind you. That's dirty laundry, bro. No, it's all my kids' toys. That's my daughter's, you know, the little doctor jacket you put on and stuff like that, yeah. |
| 2:37.1 | Can you sure that's, you sure that's not dirty underwear? |
| 2:40.4 | Swear, I swear. |
| 2:41.3 | I believe you because I knew you're very honest. |
| 2:43.6 | I had flooded my office. |
| 2:44.8 | So now I'm with, like, all my kids' toys. |
| 2:47.2 | I had to move my spot. |
| 2:49.3 | My son's Hot Wheels, daughter's toys. I had to move my, my spot. My son's Hot Wheels, daughter's toys. Yeah, I also didn't know you were a New York Giants fan, bro. Oh, huge. Huge fan, yeah. Okay, yeah. I go way, way, way, way back with the, I go back to the Spider-Lockhart days, you know, Spider-Lockhart is? Oh, my God, yeah, I haven't heard that name in a long-ass time. |
| 3:07.6 | Oh, my God. |
| 3:07.9 | I go back to those days. |
| 3:09.6 | I thought you're just saying like Y-A-T-L or something. Yeah, Ron Johnson. Remember Ron Johnson? Oh, yeah, of course. They had in the 70s. I go way back to that, bro. Frank Gifford, legend? Well, that was a little before my time. |
| 3:06.5 | Okay, okay, yeah, definitely. |
| 3:08.2 | But I go back, really, I start with the LT era. |
| 3:11.0 | You know what I mean? The course domination era is when I start. Yeah. I tell you, when I started, bro, honestly, I remember Fran Tarkington. That's quarterback of the Giants. I got that's probably as far back as I go. Nice. Yeah. Well, the real reason we're here. We're not to talk about the Giants. Wow. That's probably as far back as I go. |
| 3:41.7 | Nice. Well, the real reason we're here. We're not to talk about the Giants, unfortunately. We're not talking about football. Can Larry not let us talk football for the next hour, bro? No good. He wants us to talk about SummerSlam 1998, believe it or not. Let's get at it. Let's do it. August 30th, 1998, New York City, in New York, of course, Madison Square Garden, 21,588 in attendance. |
| 4:04.9 | The tagline, of course, Highway to Hell, pay-per-view buys, 700,000. |
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