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Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast

TMPToW: Eddy Mansfield

Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast

Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling

Sports, Wrestling

4.8356 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2020

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

This week TMPT welcomes into the show, for our Feature episode, The Continental Lover Eddy Mansfield. Fresh off his appearance on the Viceland Documentary series, Dark Side of the Ring, Eddy talks all about the ABC 20/20 expose done by John Stossel. Eddy shares his stories of being setup by Stossel and subsequently blackballed from the wrestling business. Did he expose the business? Did he go too far with breaking kayfabe on national television? Does he have any regrets about it? Eddy also discusses Dr D David Shultz, Andre The Giant, Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, his feud with Scott Casey and so much more!

Transcript

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0:00.0

The upcoming presentation is a two-man power trip on wrestling podcast production.

0:07.0

And now for something completely different.

0:12.0

Hey, I was, I'm a Hall of Fame, I'm in three Halls of Fame.

0:16.0

For the young fans, they don't give a damn.

0:18.0

They just give a damn about themselves and what they're hearing now. And I got no problem with those rules.

0:22.2

I know the rules going in.

0:23.3

I'm happy to play the game that way. And when Ivan came off with that knee drop on the top rope and he bent me, I thought that something happened. I couldn't hear a thing. You could have heard the pin drop in that arena. It touched me so deeply that when I went in a dressing room, I really felt depressed.

0:21.5

I'll tell you that, I went in a dressing room, I really

0:38.5

felt depressed. I'll tell you that. I'd tell you right to his face. If if Hogan and I, if he wanted to get the real street fight with me, trust me he would lose and he knew it. You know, that's the other thing. They give you the belt and they're like, okay, you're in charge of it. I was like, What?

0:34.3

What?

0:35.3

You mentioned a guy like Harley Race, that kind of legendary status.

0:37.8

It's obvious why people would get upset. Oh, as I'm concerned, Rodney Piper was not a wrestler. He wasn't even a good worker. If he had to go out and work his way to the top and not have good friends like Jim Barnett, me. I'm not, I'm not saying he's not a good guy.

1:12.3

He's just not a tough guy. Bro, I swear to you, I don't have an ego. Like, I don't give a crap.

1:17.3

That stuff is not important to me. People don't know me. They have no idea of who I am. They know

1:24.3

of me as being a fictional character that they saw on people.

1:28.3

People didn't understand that, you know, the guy they saw in the ring that happened to be using his real name,

1:33.3

and happened to actually be the president of the company.

1:36.3

They really believe that that guy that they loved to hate was actually a pretty decent guy.

1:41.3

And I think many people have the perception that I really was that character.

1:48.0

They are

1:49.3

Primetime Pod

1:51.1

and Chad!

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