Robert Gibson of the Rock and Roll Express - SAS CLASSIC

The Steve Austin Show

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Society & Culture, Comedy, Sports, Wrestling, Talk Radio

4.8 • 8.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Oh hell yeah! The Rock 'n' Roll Express are going into the WWE Hall of Fame! It's about dang time! And Robert Gibson is not only talking about how that feels, he's also sharing stories from the 40 years in the ring that it took em to get there! Hear how he got teamed up with Ricky Morton, where the name and look came from, what it was like working for Bill Watts, Jim Crockett, and Jerry Lawler, and how he got Jim Cornette to stop shoot-swinging that tennis racquet at him! Robert also remembers their feud with The Midnight Express, working matches with Ole & Arn Anderson, being fired from WCW, and the one night that 3,000 fans that basically wrecked his brand new, black trans-am.

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0:00.0	The following program is a podcast one.com production.
0:03.0	From Hollywood, California, by way of the Broken Skull Ranch, this is the Steve Austin show.
0:09.0	Give me a hell yeah.
0:10.0	Hell yeah!
0:11.0	Yeah! Now, here's Steve Austin.
0:13.0	God thing I got him in a headlock.
0:15.0	I'm calling a high spot.
0:17.0	How are you, Robert?
0:18.0	I'm doing a pie, my friend.
0:20.0	God thing, I tell you what, uh, I got up this this morning I got on the internet and all of a sudden my Twitter account started blowing up
0:27.2	Everybody knows how big of a fan I am of the Rock and Roll Express and I heard you guys were finally going into the W.W. Hall of Fame.
0:34.0	So I called your longtime partner Ricky Morton because I had his phone number and said,
0:38.7	hey man, congratulations. If you talk to Robert, please tell him I say congratulations.
0:43.8	He goes, hey Steve, I'd rather you call him.
0:45.9	And I said, well, give me his phone number.
0:47.6	So I got your phone number.
0:49.0	Called you this morning to say congratulations.
0:51.4	It turned into a podcast. I apologize to my
0:54.1	listeners if I'm under prepared for this podcast, but I was just excited to talk to
0:58.6	two of my favorite guys in the business of tag team wrestling. Robert, congratulations on going into
1:04.6	W. W. Hall of Fame. What does this mean to you? Man, I tell you Steve, it's uh, means
1:10.6	a lot, you know, worked hard all of our life. Me and Ricky, we've been together.
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