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Lex Luger was the biggest stars in wrestling.
>> We brought an attitude.
>> Lex was a big giant muscle guy that looked like Cain man.
>> His body was a temple.
>> Vin signed in for the world body building federation.
>> Well, you can't miss still.
No telling what this guy.
>> They brought him in as the narcissist.
>> It's like that might be kind of neat.
I think I can sink my teeth in to being a narcissistic bad guy.
>> But Vince saw him as the next Halk Hogan.
>> I don't know if I was ever be the guy, but who would want to be the guy?
>> He's the American superstar now.
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That whole
bus tour.
>> Lex Express say was a complete, utter flop.
>> It was like a curse.
It ruined him.
>> It's easier to be a bad guy.
Good guys assume responsibility.
>> I was going to help but, I'm fatigued, [LAUGH].
>> I didn't know whether he didn't connect with the people.
He could be one of the guys.
>> He couldn't be the guy.
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>> Sometimes you don't realize what we had until it's gone.
>> The demise of Lex Luger started to happen and
things started to go bad for him.
>> My life had become a total train wreck.
>> I was there the day that
he went paralyzed.
>> Your heart breaks a little bit for
somebody has a friend that had to go through what he went through.
But on the other hand.
He came out of it,
stronger than ever.
>> Our wrestling audience and how they relate to us, we're like family I
messed up and made a lot of mistakes, they still showed me a lot of love.
>> She is powerful.
>> Beth Phoenix is the new WWE Women Champion.
>> Beth want to be wrestler.
From the time she was a kid.
>> She started watching wrestling with my parents.
>> We liked watching Ivan Putski on the screen.
>> The Polins power.
>> My grandmother was a very small, very conservative, tiny petite polish woman.
The only thing that would bring out this wild woman in her was prowrestling.
Watching television with her and her getting down on the ground.
And pounding your fists and getting super animated.
>> I was like, this is what I wanna do and this is all I want to do.
I got to figure this out some how.
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>> Her brother joined the wrestling team.
And I said okay, she says but I wanna join I said, well you're a girl.
So usually there's men wrestling, and
she says, well I will be the first one to be wrestling.
>> There was no female wrestling team at my school and
never had been a female wrestler.
I took a deep breath and wrote my name under the male wrestler side of the sport
sign up sheet, >> The coach and everybody else,
kind of I tried to talk her out of it and she refused.
She wouldn't give up.
>> This what I want to do.
I'm not scared.
I'm going to do it.
>> She wanted to show that you can be a woman and you can have muscles and
you can exercise.
And you can do the same thing that boys do.
To be able to say I was at Notre Dame name wrestler was a big deal at adding that at
the bottom.
I remember taking this in again broidered and then being light weight would
because I was not done by females at the time so that's really special to me.
It was a big deal.
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>> When you hear the name Beth Phoenix I go back to Beth broke
glass ceilings for women to be viewed as super stars.
>> She showed women back then that it's okay to wrestle, it's okay to be strong.
And when one door slammed in your face you open up another door.
When somebody says no, you turned that no in to a yes.
>> She would use her strength which was her strength and
that's what set her apart, that's what made her different.
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I approach everything differently.
>> My God.
>> Martial arts, acrobatics, flips and
splits that's just me, that's the way I am.
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>> As a kid, I felt that pressure of
trying to fit in just like all the kids, but I hated it.
I decided instead of trying to blend in, screw it.
I'm gonna be myself.
That me became a person of substance that other people could look up to,
through my accomplishments, through my way of life.
>> Rob Van Dam makes his ECW debut, a well travelled world class wrestler.
>> What you see on camera is pretty much what you see behind the scenes.
That's Rob.
>> You are seriously stressed.
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He got to the top being Rob Van Dam.
>> What an accomplishment.
>> [NOISE] >> Nothing more, nothing less.
He did his own term.
>> If you guys know my initials are RVD.
>> [NOISE] >> One of a kind.
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>> I remember watching the Flinstones and the Jacksons and you' always see the dad
with the brief case and a suit on, and have this breakfast and go out the door.
Our that wasn't like that.
[LAUGH] >> No I remember like all the kids at
school and like you, my dad's the strongest or like,
our dad actually was the strongest.
>> He loved working out.
>> You're always wanting to go on an adventure.
When we were growing up, all we saw was Davey on TV.
>> Yeah, >> So
that's why we refer we held the baby daddy.
>> Big smile [INAUDIBLE] Boyd Smith victorious.
>> He was really proud of a lot of the tag team matches of him and Dynamite had.
[INAUDIBLE]
>> [NOISE] >> Look at that.
>> [NOISE] >> They were like brothers,
they had each others backs.
>> They make a fantastic team in my opinion,
may be the greatest team I've ever watched.
>> [NOISE] >> When the Bulldogs split up,
it was like a divorce.
>> Dynamite never talked to him again.
He said you won't make it without me.
I knew that Davey had something to prove.
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>> [INAUDIBLE] >> Summer Slam 92,
that match is just incredible.
In fact it was in Wembley Stadium, the fact that was sold out,
the British Bulldog.
The guy from Britain was in the main event against Bret the Hitman Hart.
>> There was this sister who was torn between her brother and her husband.
>> Wrestling's all over.
Done all my life.
I'm trying to provide for my family, my wife, my kids, my future.
I'm in the best shape of my life.
>> [APPLAUSE] >> He
was the greatest British wrestler that the WWE ever had.
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>> [INAUDIBLE] You just can't imagine somebody as
can be able to move the way that he can move.
>> The Samoan wrestlers that came in before him were always respected athletes.
>> The family, probably the most powerful family ever in the history.
>> He was a title bearer for our family.
He will be the most massive presence that our family my dad ever puts out there.
>> Ronnie when my other nephew Rikishi we train them in my backyard.
I had a ring in and that's how they become wrestlers.
>> Even though he was the bigger out of all of us.
He never quit.
He love professional wrestling.
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>> First time I saw him was in the championship wrestling as Cokina.
>> [NOISE] >> And though, wow.
This guy has it.
>> So we knew that we wanted to do something with them.
And it was Sergeant slaughter who said, why don't you make him a sumo?
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>> They were sorely lacking new monster villains and he fit the bill.
[INAUDIBLE] >> You beat the Golden Goose.
And you beat him in that fashion.
I mean you've arrived he was an awesome big man.
There's not a guy on the crew.
That didn't respect him.
Yokozuna is the only heal at a time that not only kept the belt but was dominant.
>> [NOISE] >> Yokozuna
backstage was absolutely, totally different.
>> [NOISE] >> He was always on a really
good mood [INAUDIBLE].
>> What, he wasn't somebody to go out on his way to be a [INAUDIBLE].
>> What did you eat for breakfast?
>> Let's say more than you do.
>> [LAUGH] >> Yoko liked food.
>> His weight kept increasing in the difficult trouble.
>> Rodney had to travel first class or two sometimes three seats and coach.
>> They were worried about him having a heart attack and Ray.
>> We tried dieting.
We tried a workout routine with him on the road.
Yoko just didn't do it.
Yoko did not believe that he had a problem.
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>> He felt like he let us down but he kept going.
>> This the that's behind
the scene, that I only wish that
one day that everybody can know
a person the man Icons Yokozuna.