Tag Team Wrestling Tournament Finale

Last time on GCRN Ward Z. TV's Mr. Neal, final

thoughts and vote on Hart Foundation and Dudleys.

The winners and new GCRN Tag Team Champions,

Hart Foundation. What? Throwing it to Hart, he's

been loyal to the Hart Foundation from get -go.

There's no double sharpshooter talent out here.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is your TCRN Wars

Tag Team Wrestling Tournament with your host,

Mike, TFG1 Blanchard. A lot of people think I

enjoy going out, repossessing cars from poor

people. You're right. I love it. And featuring

TV's Mr. Neal. The whole wrestling world is going

to stand up and take notice. And from Simplistic

Reviews. matthew stewart you know what you have

a malignant case of wall -to -wall you're stupid

and now let's get ready to podcast hello and

welcome to gcr and wars this is the 33rd episode

overall and it is our tournament reveal for our

tag team wrestling tournament that we have been

doing i'm of course tfg and mike joining me is

tv's mr neil Yes, and I just want to say that

I'm the only one here who didn't get hit with

a chair or showed up late or was moonlighting

on another podcast. Only one guy has two thumbs

and perfect attendance, and it's this guy. Yeah,

because let's face it, both of the simplistic

tag team members have tagged out at one point

or another. What are you, blind? It took four

of them. I mean, three of them. Kevin Thompson.

Neil Purcell. I thought Neil Purcell was dead.

Mike Bledner. DJ Valentine. Who do you think

you are? Nobody does this to Matthew. Oh, my

Jesus. So Matthew's here, but DJ's tagged out.

We can't ever seem to get all five of us. Hell,

even the guy that's not even here right now,

the other guy that isn't here right now, even

he tagged out and basically left me holding the

bag one week. Anyway. Maybe he tapped out. Exactly.

Tapped out to the spin of Rooney is what he did.

Oh, God. All right, so the path to the finals.

The finals, oh, boy, of this tournament. So the

final matchup is the Hart Foundation and the

Dudleys. The path for the Hart Foundation was

through Doom. New Age Outlaws, Brain Busters,

and Legion of Doom. Isn't Doom and Legion of

Doom the same damn thing? I know it's not. I

know it's not, but Matt, what is your thoughts

on the Hart Foundation's path to the final? Hmm.

Well, I think we talked about this off the podcast,

but they had to deal with guys with fake... spiked

shoulder pads, and the other team, you can't

really say they did. I don't know. They had a

pretty... Doom and Legion of Doom, you had at

least some type of thing going on with that.

They had the New Age Outlaws, they had Brain

Busters. I feel like looking at the four teams

that they faced, I don't know. Outside of the

New Age Outlaws, they had a reasonably... Brisk

and easy path to the final. I mean, you could

say Legion of Doom. Everybody wants to say they're

the number one tag team of all time. But I don't

know. I don't think history treated the Legion

of Doom all that well. And it was easy pickings

for the Hart Foundation. Or easy pickings for

Bret Hart. Because, come on. I mean, you're not

going to go against fucking Bret Hart. Yeah.

The closest thing Jim has come to an anvil is

when the Animaniacs dropped it on his head. Oh,

boy. Respect the dead a little bit. God. He's

been dead a while now. It's not like I'm Bill

Maher going after Stan Lee. Anyway, you know.

Man. Yeah. Neil, thoughts on this, on the Hart

Foundation's path to the final? Oh, it's been,

of the four teams that they faced, I'd say that

three of them are very good. and the other one

was Doom. Yeah, come on. They took out the Legion

of Doom in the last round, so that's got to account

for something. And, you know, I have to take

personal responsibility here that I didn't give

enough credit to Jim the Animal Neidhart. He

is a great, great tag team wrestler. He's the

complement to Bret Hart's technician. He is the

brawler. He's the... the yin and yang of this

team. So he counts, too. We keep bagging on him

like, oh, he's the weak link of the team. It's

just because Brett is so good that it makes Jim

look inferior by contrast. But he's an excellent

tag team wrestler, too. Jim is essentially the

plucky duck to Brett's Buster Bunny. Oh, man.

Yeah, you heard it here first, folks. Tiny Toon

Adventure references only on this Wars episode.

Of course. Such weird analogies. Because now

Neil has to put all kinds of audio in here. That's

what you think. I don't know. I looked at the

two paths that... you know, Optimus soul had

laid out for us, which, you know, we'll talk

to him later. Cause whatever, um, looking at

the two different, you know, the, the two roads

diverge in a yellow wood here. Um, I can't decide

who had the easier or the more difficult path,

uh, between the heart foundation and the Dudley

boys. So I'm not sure like new age outlaws and

Legion of doom. I thought were pretty tough teams.

Doom itself. I don't know. I mean, call, call

the doctor or call the thing or human torch or

something. No clue. You know, and, and I mean,

yeah, that's right. Damn. And brain busters.

Yeah. They busted their own brain vessels. They

didn't have the sexy matchups that I think the

other... I mean, Doom is sexy, and New Age Outlaws

is, but I mean, Brain Busters is like... It's

wrestling royalty to the old school wrestling

heads, and then Doom, like Neil... And we all

keep saying and harping on, and we will continue

to harp on how bad doom is. I don't care how

bad they are bad. So yeah, Neil will appreciate

this, but I look at the Dudley's path and I can

see almost every single one of those, uh, team

names as, uh, musical bands. Uh, like The path

that the Hards took, I don't see any music in

that whatsoever. Because, you know, Public Enemy,

they were a group of themselves. Fabulous Freebirds,

that's essentially Leonard Skinner. And the Hardy

Boys, hmm. They could have been an early 90s

hip -hop group. They had the Z at the end of

their name, you know. Oh, so, okay, so they're

Limp Bizkit. Yeah, there you go. Now you make

me hate them more. And Harlem Heat. I mean, they're

just John McClane's nemeses. Thoughts on the

Dudley's path, Matt? I mean, you take the last

two teams that they had to kind of fight off

to get this far between. The Hardys and Harlem

Heat. And who would have thought Harlem Heat

would have made it this far? I thought they would

have made it that far. I wish they would have

made it to the finals. So a little upset about

that. But, I mean, Public Enemy was a role. But

at least Public Enemy had, you know, name recognition

better than Doom. And then Fabulous Freebirds.

I mean, they're the proto New Day tag team and

everything with more than two members. But, I

mean, I don't know. Dudley's had a... really

hard i mean when i look and compare and contrast

both of them i think there's definitely a little

bit of a harder path um for the dudleys and the

heart foundation had so at least from my perspective

i think recency bias would say the hardy boys

are top five tag team harlem heat as much as

people don't want to think about harlem they're

a top five tag team in my book and fabulous free

birds were you know i guess you could say ahead

of their time and Public Enemy, you know, they

couldn't even go platinum. Nope. That's a bad

music reference. I know, right? Neil, thoughts?

Like Neil's sigh. Well, let's face it. Public

Enemy, they're barely a warm -up. They're not

even an appetizer. I mean, what probably happened

is D -Von took a little snoozy snooze while Bubba

Ray just tore them apart. And, you know, it didn't

even break a sweat. I mean, it was just more

fun than anything. He had Spike with him for

that fight. Yeah, probably. Spike even probably

never even tagged in. And then you have the Freebirds.

You know, the Freebirds, that's probably when

D -Von woke up and was like, okay, we're going

to put an end to this. So that wasn't really

a challenge, and we sent them back to Bad Street.

I think I made that joke already. God damn it.

Then who else? Did you say Bad Street or Back

Street? Bad Street. Okay. It's their theme song.

Don't make me explain my jokes. I just wanted

to make sure I heard you right, because I was

going to say, if they were sent to Back Street,

that would really end suck. Oh, man. We're on

it tonight, baby. That would warrant another

three count. But anyway, who's the... Talk about

a cherry pie. We're going to have to talk about

jokes, Mike. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, God. Now my

train of thought is derailed. Who was after that?

The Hardy Boys. Yes, the Hardy Boys. Jeff Hardy

probably had a bad night. What's his name? Probably

slipped on a banana peel. Just, you know, the

Hardy Boys. They're on and off. So, you know,

Dudley Boys just went through them. And then

the big surprise with them was just them – well,

not really surprised. I shouldn't say that. But

the most challenge that they had was Harlem Heat

because Harlem Heat's a great tag team. They

were so good. I will not hear anything against

this. They were a great tag team in WCW. And

people just don't know this because you didn't

watch WCW until, like, 96. So I love Harlem Heat.

It was kind of sad to see them go, but those

damn Dudleys, you know, they just bulldozed through

everything. It's a 3D all the way to the top.

Yeah. All right, folks. I think we're going to

go down to Miami, Florida to find the dead carcass

of DJ Valentine and head on over to some new

WWE, WCW, NWO Performance Center where we have

Optimus Solo live on the scene where the Dudleys

are making the Hart Foundation tap to the 3D,

right? Thanks, guys. This is Optimus Solo, and

he is right. I am here at ringside with – have

you guys ever seen Weekend at Bernie's? I have

the dead targets of DJ that I'm dragging around

with me. He's not providing a lot of color commentary,

but we'll have to go with it nonetheless. Andrew

McCarthy to his Jonathan Silverman. Basically,

that's it. I am here at Ringside reporting on

what you may call the crown jewel of the tag

team universe. This tournament, which began what

feels like months ago, has finally reached the

grand finale. Now, as you know, we have the iconic

Hart Foundation made up of Bret the Hitman Hart

and Jim the Anvil Neidhart facing off against

Bubba Ray and D -Von, the Dudley Boys. But what

we didn't know, guys, as we went through this

tournament, was just how the championship was

going to be determined. As you heard Shane McMahon

announce last night on SmackDown, the winner

of this tournament was to be decided in a Best

of Three series. The Best of Three series started

last night at the end of the broadcast, and the

first match, as most people know, was a traditional

tag team matchup. This match was sponsored by

Facebook, and as you could guess, most people

thought that this match would greatly benefit

the Hart Foundation being more of a traditional

tag team, and that's exactly... What we saw go

down. The Hitman and the Anvil were able to isolate

D -Von and keep him out of Tag's reach to his

tag team partner, and eventually, after the action

went out of the ring, we saw the Anvil lay the

hammer down on Bubba and remove him from consideration

for just long enough to allow Bret to snap on

the sharpshooter in the middle of the ring and

submit D -Von, the winners of the first of the

three matchups, we have the Hart Foundation.

The second match, which was sponsored by the

Geekcast Radio Network, happened earlier today,

and this was, of course, a tables, ladders, and

chairs match. And we saw the Hart Foundation

completely out of their element. The Dudleys

probably could have ended this one much sooner

than they did, but it seemed like they wanted

to take advantage of the match style to inflict

as much damage as possible to the Hart Foundation

heading into the third and the final matchup.

The end of the match came when Devon had Jim

the Anvil Neidhart, I'm going to try to describe

this scene to you guys, on two tables, two tables

that were stacked on top of each other. Devon

and Jim the Anvil Nightheart are standing on

top of the second table. Bubba used a chair to

jump off and hit the Dudley Death Drop onto a

ladder that was laying across the mat. For a

while, we were not even sure if Jim the Anvil

Nightheart was dead or alive. Winner of Match

2, the Dudley Boys. So now we head to the final

of the three matches, and this match, of course,

is sponsored by the folks over at Twitter. All

right. In this corner, accompanied by their manager,

the Mouth of the South, Jimmy Hart, at a combined

weight of 515 pounds, Jim the Anvil Neidhart,

and God, a .k .a. Brett the Hitman Hart, the

best there is, the best there was, the best there

ever will be, the excellence of execution, the

greatest tag team of all time, the Hart Foundation.

And in this corner, coming to us from Dunkin'

Donuts, hailing from the great state of obesity,

weighing 565 pounds, allegedly, perhaps on average,

Team 3D, Bubba Ray and D -Von, the Dudley Boys.

It's time to make the Dudleys. So with each team

holding one victory, we have moved now to the

final decisive matchup. And something that I'm

not sure if I've ever seen, a tag team lumberjack

match. Obviously, this will prevent the teams

from using the outside of the ring, using foreign

objects, let people run in, try to leave the

match. And the lumberjacks have made their way

around the ring. And who are the lumberjacks,

you might be asking? Well, it makes sense. We

have the Legion of Doom, the Steiner Brothers,

Harlem Heat, the Hardy Boys. And the Rockers

are all around the ring trying to, I guess, enforce

law and order here so we can have a fair match.

Let's join the action here with the referee for

this match, Earl Hebner. It looks like the match

has been going back and forth for the most part.

Neither team has been able to find an advantage.

We have had a Spike Dudley sighting, but he was

prevented from impacting the match. as the Hardy

Boys took care of him in short order. Maybe a

little payback from their earlier exit in the

tournament. But wait, what is this? The remaining

members of the Hart Foundation, Owen Hart, and

the British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith are headed

down the ramp to the ring. All hell has broken

out between Owen, Bulldog, and the Lumberjacks,

and it seems to have distracted Bret the Hitman

Hart as well as the rest of the competitors inside

the ring. The ref is leaning through the ropes

trying to restore order. Wait, what is this?

Devon Dudley has snuck in from behind. He's attempting

to roll Brett up in a pin. And wait, one of the

lumberjacks is holding Brett's trunks. And the

referee cannot see it. He's counting one, two,

three. We have a three count on replay. You can

clearly see one of the lumberjacks. It looks

like it's one of the rockers. Yes, in fact, it

was Shawn Michaels holding Brett's trunks and

allowing the Dudleys to score the pinfall. Let's

go to the ring announcer for the final decision.

The winner and GCRN Tag Team Champions, the damn

Dudley boys. You sound so enthused for this.

Mike, Matthew, Neil, what is your guys' reaction

to this cast? It looks like we have Dudley boys

taking the Twitter match as well as the website

match, the Heart Foundation taking the Facebook

match. We have a 57%. win for the Dudley boys.

What's your guys' thoughts? Well, let's see.

For the Dudleys, it's the best there is, the

best there was, the best there ever will be outcome.

I knew as soon as they started winning, going

through, I knew they were going to win this.

The only way they might have had a closer matchup

in the finals is if it was the Dudleys and the

Hardys because they're both extreme tag teams.

The website difference, two votes in favor of

the Dudleys. The Facebook vote, two votes in

favor of the Heart. So they were dead even after

the website and the Facebook. Twitter, though,

not even close. The Dudleys almost tripled the

Heart votes on Twitter. Yeah, 71 % to 29%. So

that's why we have a 57 % Dudley vote and a 43

% Heart Foundation vote. Matthew, what's your

thoughts? Damn, damn, damn Dudleys. Damn, damn

Dudleys. I mean, this was probably the best matchup

that the Dudleys could have gotten. I mean, as

much as I love the Heart Foundation, you can't...

outdo the Dudleys because like Mike said, they're

an extreme tag team. People want extreme tag

teams. And yeah, maybe if you had the Hardy boys,

they're like in the finals with them. This could

have been a lot closer, but it's upsetting. I

feel like I'm giving my Hall of Fame speech right

now, and I'm about to start crying or something

like that on this upset. You mean your retirement

speech. Yeah, it could be my retirement. This

is my official retirement speech from this damn

countdown. Fixed. All you Twitter people out

there, triple the votes on Twitter. Wow. Neil,

what do you think? It's a sad day in Calgary.

This is the other Montreal Screwjob. I was going

to say the Miami Screwjob. The Miami Screwjob.

You know, Canadian flags are at half mass. Stock

in maple syrup has gone down. Shawn Michaels

will never be able to enter Canada again. The

hockey teams everywhere don't want to play. It's

just a bad day. Matthew, obviously we saw that

the traditional matchup went the Hart Foundation

way. The tables, ladders, and chairs went the

Dudley way. And this weird coincidence that we

have a lumberjack match in which we're seeing

many of the teams that have already been ousted

from the tournament, some by the Hart Foundation

or by the Dudley boys. Did we overlook, did we

not consider the impact that somebody could have?

Like a Shawn Michaels. You can't trust Shawn

Michaels around the ring during a Bret Hart match.

It's been proven, people. You can't have this.

And once again, Bret got screwed by Shawn Michaels.

Bret did not screw Bret. And there is some question

on if the referee could not see it or if he chose

not to see it. Of course, the referee being Earl

Hebner from the Montreal Screwjob. Could have

been his twin. It was Earl Hebner and the other

Hebner. The other Hebner. Twin magic. Oh, God.

So as DJ predicted at the beginning, I think

he predicted the Dudley boys to win it all. It's

interesting, though. They had to face some of

those high -flying matchups on their way through

here. I mean, they had to face the Hardy boys

in one of the other earlier matchups. You might

even say Harlem Heat is a little bit more. maybe

not high -flying like extreme rules type stuff

but a little bit more maybe than the heart foundation

so they had a little of that to go through but

uh interesting twists and turns we saw edge and

christian go out early we saw the harlem heat

make a cinderella story we saw the head shrinkers

and the bushwhackers upset some classic tag teams

neil we been through 32 teams. We've gone all

the way down to one. What's your reactions to

the overall whole process and anything that stood

out for you? It was a lot of fun. We picked some

good tag teams. I think the right teams ended

up in the finals. Definitely was a hard foundation

fan all the way, and I thought Dudleys were certainly

the best team on the other side. There were a

couple teams that could have maybe gotten in

there, you know, like the Outsiders maybe, but

maybe even Harlem Heat, but pretty much who I

expected to be in the finals from the very start.

And for the listeners, yes, we didn't even allow

Degeneration X to be one of the Lumberjacks.

I'm sorry. They couldn't even be Lumberjacks.

They're too busy licking their wounds from the

Brothers of Destruction. Oh, Lord. Talk about

a crown jewel. I threw that in there just for

you, Mike. I know you did. I almost had to muffle

my gagging. First pay -per -view of 2018. So

we have given the tag teams their moment in the

sun. We have highlighted some of the best tag

teams throughout time, throughout history. We've

talked specifically about 32 of them. We've mentioned

some others that didn't make it. But that's it

for tag teams, guys. We gave them their moment,

and now it's time to turn our attention to the

single wrestlers because coming in the next couple

months at Geekcast Radio Network, we're going

to be having our top 100 wrestlers of all time.

Neil, before we kind of get into specifics, before

we actually start the countdown and reveal the

list and all this, that, and the other, what

are you looking forward to? What kind of questions

do you have that you're hoping to be answered

as we go towards the top 100? David Arquette,

number one. No. I really don't know what to say.

I'm just looking forward to the whole thing.

Wasn't really thinking about it tonight, but...

I'm interested to see... From you guys, I'm interested

to see because... Like I said before, it's been

easier to predict what's going to be at the top

of the different 100 lists as we've gone through

them. They reveal themselves to us and stuff

like that as we kind of make our way through

them. This one, with wrestling and having so

many different eras, so many different companies,

so many different times where somebody was number

one on top of their company, I don't think this

one's going to be as easy to predict as people

might expect because there's a lot of different

ways that you could go to try to find the number

one wrestler of all time. That seems like a challenge,

and I can see it going in about seven or eight

different ways. Matt, is there a clear -cut winner

that you're going to be championing to be number

one? I mean, I have a feeling who we're going

to. going to end up seeing in the top 10. I think

we're going to definitely have some... We're

going to have recency bias, I would say, with

wrestlers in the past 25 years. I think they're

probably going to be really high up on the list.

You'll have your classic. It's going to be interesting

to me to see where some of the more classic wrestlers,

like a Hulk Hogan, who's said some provocative

things lately, if that kind of affects... It's

going to be interesting to see how behavior affects

how people... see a wrestler as opposed to just

how they wrestle so um different times so it's

gonna be kind of a i'm looking forward to see

where the chips kind of fall and i want to see

how people kind of react as i think in the uh

in our big list we included quite a few female

wrestlers in there too so i'm interested to see

kind of where uh where they fall um in the top

100 if they fall at all hopefully a few will

be showing up because there's some some that

are definitely deserving of being in there but

we're going to see how it all shapes out. Yeah,

absolutely. And we gave everybody instructions.

Obviously there was a lot of different criteria

that we were supposed to be looking at where,

you know, in ring ability, Mike skills, charisma,

actual success in the business, longevity impact.

It's going to be interesting to see if people

took those into account and maybe which ones

weighed the more so than others. Mike, what are

you looking forward to in the top 100 as we close

this episode out? Just to see where it all lands.

Yeah, absolutely. See who else we can piss off.

Um, as far as people who don't make it and, you

know, obviously everybody's favorite wrestler

can't make it. There's only a hundred spots and

man, there's been a lot of wrestlers. I think

our, our tally of everybody that at least held

a title was up to like, what is that? 600, 700

people. So something like that. Yeah, it's crazy.

So that'll be coming soon for the geek cast radio

network. Mike, why don't you run down all the

different ways that people can get in touch with

us? Oh boy. There's tons of stuff. Um, The website,

geekcastradio .com. Listen to our shows. Comment

on the episodes. We have an all -new website

coming at the beginning of 2019. You can follow

at Geekcast Radio on Twitter. Like us on Facebook,

the Geekcast Radio Network. I am at TFG1Mike.

Kev, what is your Twitter? Mine is at OptimusSolo.

Neil? Neil Sama. Matt? Three Twitters, but the

main one is SimpleTweeters, or you can go to

Cheez -It -Men, that is Justin, or if you want

to see what the creator is, DJ Valentine. The

guy who stabbed me in the back! Trying to be

DJV on Twitter as well, too. I think we need

to hack his Twitter and change his handle. Dying.

From DJV or something. Dying to be DJV. Something

like that. Like DJ. Like DJ. Like DJ. Oh, God.

As I said, go to the website. If you want to

send us emails, it's feedback at geekcastradio

.com. Coming up on Wars, no one knows this yet

because I've been thinking about this. We're

going to have, this was episode 33 of Wars overall.

Episode 34, we may have a special thing, and

then 35, we may have a new tournament or a new...

I'm not even sure, but I've got ideas rolling

around in the back of my brain because there's

nothing else rolling around up there. True. If

you have ideas for future wars that you would

like to see, let us know. Different things in

this tournament fashion or like we've done in

the past where we just have one episode where

we pit two different things against each other.

That's always fun as well. Absolutely. Until

next time, unleash the geek in you, and we will

catch you later. Yeah, we're coming now. Century

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pity team. Now I'm not the same, because you're

not the same. And you're not the same, because

I'm not the same. And we're not the same, this

could never be the same. And we just want to

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