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Why WWE Needs To Immediately Fix THIS Historic Mistake...

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🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Here comes the Ax, and here comes the Smasher. The Demolition, walking disaster...


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0:00.0

Right, so today, we are indeed going to be talking about the tag team demolition, so please

0:04.7

just let me get it out of my system. Because Smash was played by Barry Darsal, and Barry Darsal

0:08.9

would go on to become Repo Man, because you don't know, I'm not joking, I'm serious, I think

0:13.8

Repo Man is the best wrestling gimmick ever. Because for me it just sums up pro wrestling and how

0:17.9

there is no rules, and you can be as creative and as ridiculous as you like, and here we are 30

0:22.7

years later, still makes me feel warm and fuzzy in my downtown. Then aside though, most people

0:27.4

will do indeed remember Axon Smash as one of the best wrestling tag teams ever in demolition,

0:33.0

and that is what we're talking about today, if WWE needs to fix this damn mistake, why?

0:46.3

So firstly, let's go back to the roots, like a plant. Because before we did have Bill Edie as

0:51.0

Axe and Barry Darsal as Smash, Bill was actually teaming up with someone else's demolition,

0:56.3

and it was Moon Dog Rex. Because he got repackaged as Smash in 1987, and then somebody pulled the

1:01.5

trigger in a way we went. Plus as Johnny V was also their manager, which is the greatest name ever,

1:06.1

and kind of crazy, they only had three matches together before they were split up,

1:11.0

because Vince McMahon looked out on the crowd and they were like no, no one is buying Moon Dog,

1:15.6

as a part of this group, they know who he is, it's never going to work. It's actually amazing

1:19.6

this happened down to how the audience was responding to him, because you can leap into the future,

1:24.5

when Matt Blue, more Albert, was brought back to the WWE, as Lord Tensai, and even though everyone

1:30.3

was there was going, we know who you are, we're drawing man on your face, we still tried to get

1:35.8

this over, the Vince McMahon actually could have learnt from himself. The powers that beat did act

1:40.0

with this one though, when they turned to Jim Crockett Promotions, and they hired Clasher Clushem.

1:45.7

To reason forward to March of that year, all of a sudden Barry Darsal had been brought in by Smash,

1:50.7

and Johnny had sold the managerial right, which was a very weird thing, to Mr Fuji,

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