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Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Saturday Night’s Main Event Secrets: Hacksaw Duggan & Andre the Giant Angle PRIME TIME VAULT

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Prime Time with Sean Mooney

Sports News, Sports, News, Wrestling

4.7796 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Fire up the podcast machine for another classic PrimeTme episode as Hacksaw Jim Duggan and Sean Mooney take fans back to the legendary era of Saturday Night’s Main Event.
The two revisit iconic episodes, unforgettable moments, and one of the most shocking angles in the show’s history—when Hacksaw Jim Duggan stunned the wrestling world by knocking out Andre the Giant with his trademark 2×4.

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0:34.4

main event there's the tease because you know what this week j Jim, I want to talk about Saturday night's main event.

0:40.9

You played a bigger role in these episodes than I did.

0:45.1

I had a chance to do interviews for a bunch of the shows.

0:49.0

But I wanted to talk about this week because I believe Saturday night's main event was a major, major part of making the WWUF at the time what it became, that launching it into the stratosphere, making it a mainstream form of entertainment, whatever you want to call it, but it really was. And it was a tremendous

1:13.0

rating success for the NBC network during its heyday. The very first airing took place on

1:20.0

May 10th, 1985, on Long Island, New York at Nassau Coliseum, it drew 8,300 people, okay?

1:29.2

But what I want to talk about, and if you know, you hear about ratings all the time.

1:32.9

You know, they talk about raw and the ratings they get and they're saying, you know, they're

1:35.9

getting threes now.

1:37.0

And a lot of people like, what the heck does that mean?

1:40.4

Well, what that means is, is that it it of all the capable television households that means

1:47.9

they have television uh household uh working televisions in their home and they tune in uh if let's say

1:54.8

it's a three share that means that three percent of the of all the television sets all the people

2:00.2

that are watching television, are watching

2:01.9

that program.

2:03.2

Okay.

2:03.9

So if you talk about what happened back then, okay, it would be 30, okay, so let's just

2:11.8

talk about the first one, okay?

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