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Talk Is Jericho

Tribute To Big Titan - The Life & Times of Razor Rick Bognar

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Don Callis and Paul Lazenby return to help Chris pay tribute to their old friend and fellow Calgary wrestler, Rick Bognar, who passed away unexpectedly last month at the age of 49. They remember their training days together, Rick’s first success in Japan, his Big Titan gimmick, and his brief stint at ECW with Paul Heyman. They also talk about Rick’s WWE gimmick as the “Fake Razor Ramon,” his relationship with Bret Hart, and why Rick’s career didn’t prove to be as successful as it should have been.

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0:00.0

All right, welcome to talk as Jericho. It's the part of the Thunder and Rock and Roll.

0:17.2

And today we're paying tribute to my old friend Rick Bogner, a better known as Big

0:22.4

Titan or the second razor-amone, the fake razor-amone and WB, shall we say. Rick passed away

0:29.2

suddenly and unexpectedly last month at 49 years old. I grew up with Rick in the business.

0:36.4

He was a Calgary guy, good friend of mine, Dallas, Paul Azenby, Dr. Luther, Lenny Olsen,

0:42.6

or Lance Storm. He was one of those guys that was with us right at the beginning of Bracoomo.

0:47.3

We all came up together and Rick was the first of our gang to make it in the business in

0:51.3

Japan and the first to go to WWE. So I got Don and Paul on the line to share some of their

0:57.8

memories and stories about Rick from his time in Japan to his brief run at ECW and why

1:02.7

that didn't work out to his time in WWE. What happened with that? Kind of the trials and

1:07.6

tribulations, the ups and downs and the life and times of a really great guy. I hadn't

1:12.6

thought about a lot in the last few years, but I just wanted to say a few nice things about

1:17.6

him because he was a great guy. He always made me smile, great disposition, very friendly.

1:23.3

And for the time was perfect, genetically created to be a pro wrestler as you'll hear.

1:29.6

In this upcoming tribute to Titan, but let's go to Don Callis and Paul Azenby now. As we

1:36.4

remember, Big Titan raised a Rick Bogner. Hope you enjoy it.

1:41.6

Let's just jump right into it then. Kind of some crazy news this week when we found

1:50.0

out that our old friend, Rick Bogner, aka Big Titan, or as Lenny what he used to call

1:56.2

a big titian, passed away suddenly at 49 years old, which is just so insane. And I think

2:03.7

we all kind of found out about it together when there was a tweet or something posted,

2:08.5

we've got a group text with the two of us, three of us in Lance, Storm, and Lenny Olsen,

2:14.0

Dr. Luther. And I think that's kind of how we all kind of found out about the news of my

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