[40 / 6 / 30]
>“Burt (Reynolds)’s job was to introduce the match, introducing Roddy (Piper) as the guest referee for the match. And we’re in the dressing room now, and I have cards made up for Burt, and I’m explaining to him, I said ‘the only thing I ask of you, is when you’re getting ready to introduce Roddy, I said please, just, now introducing your guest referee, stop, and then once the music hits, give yourself about 10 seconds before you introduce Roddy Piper. His music will hit, he’ll come out the entry way, we’ll let the crowd react, and then introduce Roddy.’ Burt flipped. I mean f**king flipped. I’ve never been cursed out like that in my life, in public, in that way. And he said ‘you know, what you should have said, is you should have said, ya know, Mr. Reynolds, I’m sure in your over 40 years performing, that you might have done an introduction before in your life, and since you have starred in more movies than I’ve ever seen, maybe you should just say go on out there and have fun.’ But he’s yelling this in his locker room, and everyone stops and they’re all staring at me, so I said ‘well Mr. Reynolds, in your over 40 years of performing I’m sure you’ve announced a thing or two, I tell you what why don’t you just go out there and have fun’ and I walked out of the dressing room feeling about two inches tall.” - Bruce Prichard
Anonymous
owned. fuck bruce prichard.
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>9259170 I called Burt the n word.
Anonymous
Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy
Anonymous
fucking nerd im not reading that book you posted
Anonymous
Quoted By:
Burt was known to be mental.
Anonymous
>>9259264 "Reading makes my head hurt!"
Fuck yourself you illiterate dumbfuck. I read it in 10 seconds and I'm glad I did because it's a funny story.
I know 3rd grade must've been a bitch but go back and at least graduate middle school you simpering hillbilly cunt.
Anonymous
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>9259170 i ain't reading all that
Anonymous
>>9259170 Bruce is a pathological liar
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>9259301 And a corporate stooge.
And an ass kisser.
And a carny.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>9259170 prichard comes off like a legit fucking retarded faggot.
Anonymous
Anonymous
>>9259170 >I said please, just, now introducing your guest referee, stop, and then once the music hits, give yourself about 10 seconds before you introduce Roddy Piper. His music will hit, he’ll come out the entry way, we’ll let the crowd react, and then introduce Roddy.’ kek. Burt announced him before the music even hit
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x805rp4 Anonymous
>>9259289 Sure anon, people who live in rural areas are intellectually inferior to you. That's why they don't live in crime ridden urban hellscapes with high population density and a reliance on imported food to survive. People who are independent and self-sufficient are always less mentally capable than the modern urban hipster, I know this thanks to the mass media and popular culture, so it must be true!
Anonymous
>>9259888 Oops, I made the shit kicker angry.
Yes, a major city with millions of people will have a higher crime rate than Bumblefuck, Arkansas. More people, more crime. I wouldn't start with throwing around figures when you're in a glass house. High school dropout rates, low college attendance, illiteracy and voting against their own interests are hallmarks of the southern states. Travel more Skeeter...
Anonymous
Anonymous
Quoted By:
prichard always got bitched out by everyone and yelled at because he was such a retarded faggot
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>9259755 Fire selfie, king
Anonymous
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>9259170 Based Burt putting Bruce Bitchard in his place
Anonymous
Quoted By:
Bruce was right. Bruce understood the importance of the moment and was trying to explain it to Burt was either too dumb or drunk or didn't care. too bad because Burt did kind of ruin the moment of Piper's return. it could've been a bigger and better moment with Finkel announcing. oh well. the over reliance on celebrities often ruin moments like this.
Anonymous
Who the fuck is Bruce Prichard? How the fuck is this wrestling related
Anonymous
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>9260119 >>9259801 >>9259758 >>9259749 >>9259301 >>9259247 >>9259180 you have to remember Piper had been gone for 2 full years. he hadn't been seen since Wrestlemania 8 when he lost to Bret. no internet back then. Piper was a memory at that point. it felt like an eternity. nobody was expecting him to be back at WM X. the 2 special referees were surprises we were wondering about for weeks. who could they be? the other one was mr perfect also returning after a year. Piper's music hitting out of nowhere would've been the biggest pop of the night by far and would still be up there as one of the most memorable returns of all time. but burt reynolds clumsily calls out his name too early and spoiled the surprise of the moment. poor timing.
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>9260248 I'm 19 and I've been posting on /aspw/ longer than than you
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>9259865 Oh, for fuck's sake. He still did a good job dropping Piper's name and the crowd still popped huge
The moment was still nice, who cares if the pop came a few seconds before the bagpipes hit instead of exactly the moment when the bagpipes hit?
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>Magnum PI taking Prichard to the woodshed What a bitch the Prich
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>9259264 Based illiterate retard
Anonymous
Vince's fault for insisting on bringing in celebrities who don't know or care about wrestling. It makes everyone and everything look terrible. Burt Reynolds didn't add a single ticket or PPV buy to Wrestlemania.
Anonymous
>>9260563 >bringing in celebrities who don't know or care >didn't add a single ticket Based ignorant anon
Anonymous
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>9260667 not one person watched wrestlemania 10 to see burt reynolds. not one. burt's own stuff wasn't even drawing. he hadn't had a big hit movie in years (this is a few years before Boogie Nights and even that he didn't really capitalize on. that was his last hurrah as a big name). His tv show was a flop and was getting cancelled.
wrestling fans didn't care one way or the other. they were watching anyway.
at the most they might've said "oh cool, burt reynolds. the guy from deliverance and smokey and the bandit."
and even those hits were from 20 years ago. kids wouldn't know him from Adam. i sure as hell didn't then when i was 10 at the time.
Anonymous
the WWF was heavily geared and marketed to kids during the years of '94 and '95 yet the celebs they brought in for those Manias made no sense at all: 2 playboy playmates and people from primetime shows that kids didn't watch like NYPD Blue, Home Improvement (maybe some kids watched it) and Beverly Hills, 90210/Melrose Place. and Burt Reynolds for some reason. i still haven't watched those shows or even Baywatch. kids and most people watching WWF then had no idea who these people were. the wrestlers were the stars to the fans.
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>9259865 thank you anon, upon reading OP's post I was very curious to see how burt performed
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>9260770 JTT was the only celebrity guest host that made sense. I was a kid back during that era, and in the mid 90s he was very popular thanks to both Home Improvement (kids did watch it) and Lion King. He also made appearances on the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, back when the channel was very popular.
The other guests didn't really make sense, aside from any of the attractive women because they will always draw boys.
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>9260563 Meltzer referred to Burt as "rumored Observer subscriber" or something like that
Anonymous
Quoted By:
>>9259865 that was terrible! he needed cards to read rowdy roddy piper?? all he had to say was the special referee is... but he barely talks into the mic