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Liam O'Rourke, Author Of "Crazy Like A Fox" Talks Brian Pillman And Dark Side Of The Ring | CULTAHOLIC INTERVIEW

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Aew, Unknown, Wrestling Podcast, Wwe, Wrestling, Sports, Wwe Podcast, Sports & Recreation

4.7979 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Ahead of Dark Side Of The Ring Season 3, Liam O'Rourke talks about his involvement in the Brian Pillman two-parter and the process of writing the Brian Pillman biography "Crazy Like A Fox".


Buy "Crazy Like A Fox" On Paperback and Kindle: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Crazy-Like-Fox-Definitive-Chronicle/dp/1976541247



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0:00.0

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0:29.6

Or ere. O'er. The first time I saw him he had this magnetic charisma that you can feel across the gym and you just thought hey man this guy's a star and I'll do whatever it takes to look at

0:47.3

bursting in the face and spit in its eye. The wrestling world could never have imagined that an undersized football player from Cincinnati would revolutionize the business

0:57.9

Ushering in a whole new era

1:00.3

Shut the hell up! Brian knew what the deal was, that they're going to screw him over, they're going to screw anybody over it,

1:06.8

and how he could make that play for his own advantage.

1:11.1

In an industry that depends on the illusion of reality, no one did more to blur the lines than Brian Pillman, who shattered wrestling's fourth wall.

1:20.0

He was going against the script. This has never been done before.

1:24.0

I'm what the f- for you doing?

1:25.0

Easy!

1:26.0

Pillman's over-the-top antics exposed the inner workings of the business,

1:30.0

leveraging trade secrets to make the deal of a lifetime.

1:34.0

That loose cannon gimmick, he just took it so far.

1:38.0

A lot of people thought, oh man, it was too extreme.

1:42.0

You didn't know where Brian started and this wrestling persona pinned it.

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