'WrestleMania' Countdown: Day 5 With Bill Simmons (Ep. 50)

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The Ringer

Sports, Wrestling

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

The Ringer's David Shoemaker teams up with HBO and The Ringer's Bill Simmons to grapple with being a wrestling fan in the mainstream media (02:00), the importance of 'WrestleMania' in the 1980s (05:30), Mr. T in the WWF (07:00), the 30th anniversary of "Macho Man" Randy Savage vs. Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat (09:00), all-time WrestleMania matches (14:30), gimmick ideas (24:00), the signature match this year (30:30), the need for a resurgence of heel managers (41:00), and the upcoming Andre the Giant documentary (58:45). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:36.6	WrestleMania is right around the corner and sitting right next to me is my boss
0:45.0	Your friend and my friend and you know one of the first mainstream pro wrestling fans out there, man, Bill Simmons. Who beat me?
0:46.0	Oh, there are people that beat you.
0:48.0	We'll get people, who are they?
0:49.0	People will tweet me about all the people that were famous wrestling fans before you but
0:52.6	no no who in the mainstream media who who because I always felt like a pariah
0:57.0	whenever I brought it up it's true on my old website from 97 to oh one it was, we had a wrestling call.
1:04.0	My friend Birdman wrote wrestling,
1:05.0	and I would do running diaries of some of the pay-per-views.
1:08.0	And then when I went to go do it at page 2,
1:10.0	they were like,
1:12.0	I can't remember what the first one I did, but I know it was in the first
1:15.1	chair, I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna do this ring and dire, and they were like, what?
1:17.8	Yeah, it was more socially acceptable to show up at WrestleMania as a guest star
1:21.4	than to write about wrestling on the internet.
1:23.3	Yeah.
1:24.3	Nobody gave Bob Uker shit, but you got lots of, but you know what's funny?
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