Demolition on Crush Replacing Ax in WWE!
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- Demolition on Crush Replacing Ax and Ax's WWE Release!
3 time WWE Tag Team champions and longest reigning WWE tag team champions ''Demolition'' Ax & Smash discuss he WWE brining in Crush to replace Ax on the team which led to Ax's release from the company.
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It was soul destroying to see WWF destroy a brilliant team.
Fans were screaming at the top of their lungs for them at Wrestlemania 6, then by Survivor Series 1990, WWF ruined them.
Good ol' WWF.
Jonathan Turbide I loved LOD, but Hawk made a hell of a lot of mistakes. Where as Demolition were loyal and obedient. I'm wondering if that was why WWF suddenly turned Natural Disasters into faces.
As WWF would shortly be lacking a strong fan favourite team.
why hans't mcmahon ever brought back the demolition or the powers of pain back to wwe wasnt it cus ax sued mcmahon?
DON PARADISE Ax sued WWE?
I don't blame him.
I think the unfortunate reason Demolition got pushed to the side was McMahon finally got his hands on the Road Warriors.
I give a ton of credit to Ax and Smash for being as successful as they were. Initially stuck with the label that Demolition were just Road Warrior clones, the two of them worked hard to earn the fans cheers.
reidkhnl They were a team that had a good run for just over 3 years. Yet fans remember them fondly to this day.
A modern wrestler could stick at it for over 10 or even 20 years, few fans care.
41 year old man here. I love Demolition. I hope you guys got in your heads you were the best.
Barry was super nice guy. Remember him from Robbinsdale High School, he played hockey with my older brother. Ran into him years later while he was selling cars in Brooklyn Center Minnesota. Still a nice guy!
Haha he was the repo man, after demolition split, selling cars later..
Growing up, Demolition was my favorite tag team. 🤔Come to think of it. They still are my all time favorite. Thanks for the memories guys!
Vince Mcmahon please put Demolition in the WWE Hall Of Fame. They deserve to be there
They belong in the hall of fame.
Hell ya they do
How are they not ?!?!
Absolutely man I fucking hope that they get inducted
They definitely do, but I fear due to their concussion litigation against the WWE it’ll never happen. The McMahon’s are bloodthirsty scumbags who treat their talent like the Amish treat their animals....work them to death and throw them away when they have no use for them. The McMahon’s are piles of shit and Vince hold grudges for decades. In fact, I’ve read the only reason they put the warrior into their hall of fame is that he told Vince he was dying and worked a deal with Vince to sell merchandise after his death and cut a large percentage to the warriors wife and kids.
They turned it down
Bill Eadie is such a cool dude
they both are
Wow how the hell are they not in the hof they 3 time tag team champs
But the Bushwackers are in the hof
We asked Dave Meltzer that question and this was his response: czcams.com/video/TNEUGjOf4E4/video.html
+THE HANNIBAL TV yea I can agree lets face it these guys along with Rick Rude, Owen Hart should've already been in the hof
The rumour is that things between ax and mcmahon got pretty heated when he left.
Also ax won a lawsuit against wwe for the rights to demolition name which smash refused to be a part of
4180stephen wow I didn't know that see Vince can be really shitty when it comes to certain talent
they had the longest rein record as title holders that new day just broke....and yet these guys are not in the HOF? is the hof a dictatorship committee or is there a fan base or fair board voting process?
Very smart wrestlers and very kind hearts..
Crush was a beast on that WrestleFest game in the Arcades back in the day. I won the Royal Rumble with him. I liked him in the Kronik tag team in WCW as Bryan Adams also.
Brian Adams was actually a much better babyface than he was a heel. He was always over working baby...'Hawaiian Crush.....DOA Crush....Kronik Brian Adams'
Love Bryan Adams.
@@paulcounelis4363 Yeah, Run To You is a pop-rock classic
@@alanfarquharhill hahahaha good one !
Oops...Brian :D
Demolition was cool as hell watching as a kid. But when you grow up and realize what they were wearing....you think WTF
Apologies for the mental scarring I'm about to inflict on you but.... Demolition was tame compared to Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake. :)
The story I always heard was that they brought in Crush as Bill was diagnosed with a heart defect and Vince was terrified he might die in the ring.
He got food poisoning and Vince used it as a reason to get rid of him.
@@paulchoccyt1303 The irony is these two are both still alive and Crush and both Road Warriors are dead. Even both Powers Of Pain are still alive.
I can't believe these guys are still rocking face paint haha. I love these guys as a kid though
So did Road Warrior Animal in his later retirement years during interviews. Good stuff.
I dont know how the hell i got here to this vid...bt Im gonna watch them all now!...great memories of tag teams in the 80s & early 90s with the hart foundation,british bulldogs,road warriors,rockers,strike force,brain busters,killer bees,the islanders...even the average ones like the bushwackers,the rougeau's & the powers of pain...humble & down to earth these guys...total opposite to how I remember them as heels..awesome interview!
The Bushwackers were even less than average to me. They just plain sucked. Imo the best tag teams were Demolition and the Hart Foundation.
I actually liked Crush in Demolition, they were like a badder ass version of the Fabulous Freebirds.
I enjoy these Demolition interview segments, They don'y have to slander anyone. They just tell it like it is
Demolition were a great tag team, one of the best in the WWE for several years. The decision-makers at WWE were so foolish to replace Ax with Crush, then to split the team up. If the WWE hadn't changed anything about them, Demolition would have continued to be one of their top tag teams for years. I knew WWE was making a huge mistake when they brought in Crush, and an even bigger mistake when they got rid of Demolition altogether. But I'm glad that fans still remember Ax and Smash fondly, because they had a reputation for being hard workers and real good guys.
why the wwe split such a successful tag team makes no sense.
These guys were a great team in the 80s and 90s they deserve to be in the WWF HOF
I really miss him. Kona Crush could have become such a great wrestler. He needed counseling and guidance, but the wwe didn't have the policy that time. Miss you Crush.
I loved Crush in Demolition. I still remember when one came through the curtain and then the next and the. a THIRD?!! I was like “what is this?” I loved it!!!
Hahaha i remember that as well ! Maybe that was on a Saturday Night Main Event ? And i also remember thinking to myself that Demolition is now even more invincible !
A rare instance of Vince burying his own creation to put over outside talent (Demolition/Road Warriors)
Greed. Pettiness. McMahon is the ultimate heel, and he's not faking it
I want one of those shirts
They wrestled clean at a time when that was rare.
Original and best line up of Demolition
Putting the masks on Demolition didn't make any sense! They were already wearing their masks as part of their entrance attire! It was done to avoid the confusion between Demolition and the Road Warriors/Legion of Doom! It just didn't work!
Even though I am a long time fan of Demolition , first saw them compete at wrestle mania 4 . With that said , I loved repo man as a kid . He was hysterical to me !
When demolition added crush on paper it made them look like a badder version,but crush was green ax wasn't wrestling but an occasional 6 man match other wise he played the role of manager, they always had to cheat,the fans didn't care about them anymore,turning demolition heel in 1990 after being so popular as babyfaces was not a good idea,then they added mr fuji in late 1990 but it wasn't the same like it was in 87 88,then ax left the wwf,so after ax left demolition should have been disbanded,the dream feud between demolition and lod was terrible because ax wasn't no longer with demolition,when people think of demolition they don't think of smash and crush or even.ax,smash, and crush they think ax and smash,adding crush and turning demolition back heel so soon after turning face 1 year prior hurt the team.
But that led to us getting...REPO MAN!
these guys were awesome. one of the best tag teams of all time. whoever thinks the dudley boys are the best tag team ever is on another planet....these guys are in the top 5 imo
This is funny because this isn't the original Demolition either, technically speaking. Barry Darsow isn't an original member. Smash replaced Smash...lol
K Moore yeah I think that was one of the Moondogs(is that it?) that was Smash initially but they thought he was too recognizable so they put Barry in instead
@@TheMan-je5xq yup. Moondog Rex was the original Smash. Lol.
@@araynova He's the one that pitched the idea of Demolition to Vince walked into Vince's office in full demolition Gear
I loved this team, they were up there with the Ultimate Warrior in how much I liked them.
They were kind of cool.
Demolition was cool but Warrior is the embodiment of don't meet your heroes.
The Demolition wrestled in Dominatrix's ring Gear looked nothing like LOD so I didn't understand why Vince got rid of them they could've had a long feud with LOD it would've been a Big Draw👊
The arms on axe.
That's a 70 year old man you wouldn't want to mess with
I don’t get it, around Mania 6 time they were one of the top teams in the world. On top of that it was Vince’s own creation and he just destroyed them within weeks.
Maybe Vince felt slighted the Ax would sooner quit and go to Japan over doing what he wanted him to do. Being so thin skinned and vindictive...
love these interviews !
Demolition was the best thing to ever have happened to Bill (career-wise). He deserves it. He was often overlooked and under rated and even unrated as the Masked Superstar but Demolition really opened a lot of doors for him after he left WWE. I don't know why the people in WWE are so pissed off at him just because he decided to take the Demolition character and everything that came with it as his own. I thought Vince said " We wish you the best in your future endeavours! " Now that the best did happen to Bill The WWE turns their back on him and Smash. Smash didn't do anything "wrong" but WWE disses him as well. Now I know why Ax lead the team. You go boy!!!
Loved this team growing up. Cool entrance music. WWE just wasn’t behind them tho I feel even tho they had title runs
Why should Smash feel insulted Demolition jobbed to Genichiro Tenryu at Wrestlemania 7?
The WWE was entering into a relationship with SWS at the time and Tenryu was one of the biggest stars in Japan.
The WWE could have however promoted Tenryu much better though for the U.S. audience who didn't know him.
Of course.
@@theungreatkahli unfortunately it didn't work, since Vince only had eyes for his own product.. WCW and NJPW succesfully did the co-promotion.stuff some years later and that about put WCW ahead of the WWF
I loved Crush joining. It was exciting not knowing which 2 you get. We would get Smash and Crush or Axe and Smash but the team of Crush and Axe never had a match that I can remember.
And often the third Demolition member was ringside acting as their "manager", just waiting to do sneaky, underhanded, illegal shit and interfere. Lol !
Freebird rules.
Being such a JCP fan all i could see was Ax & Krusher Kruschev
Bill and Barry you are the best! I wish I could have seen you wrestle live. Your still the best tag team champs ever. Wish you both the best.
Saw them fighting LOD a long, long time ago. What a great match ! I remember seeing one lout by ringside screaming something at Smash. Smash turned around, gave him a scary look, pointed at him and said in a loud voice: "You're afraid, not me !" Lol !! Demolition were the best tag team of all time imo. I also loved the Undertaker when he first appeared, so intimidating.
Noticed towards the end their gear was missing studs, no elbow pad for smash, they threw it in
But love demolition!!
R.i.p. crush
Hannibal is so well educated in WWF history that he seems to already know the answers to his questions
Personally, I thought Crush was a good addition or replacement to the team, but it seems the WWF didn’t care much for what to do with them once LOD arrived.
They should be in the Hall Of Fame. Like the Glamour Girls should
Demolition was my favorite team and then I remember them coming out on a Superstars TV show with 3 members and going heel and it was weird to see a team that was really popular as good guys going heel and then getting jobbed out after LOD feud
should have kept them together and Ran with it as far as they possibly could. they could have done so much more !
One of the best Tag Teams and Theme songs EVER
Agreed Rougeaus is up there too!
I loved their entrance music ! Went terrific with their image, hey even Jessie The Body Ventura loved it ! Lol
I would've liked to see a shoot interview with crush.
Not sure what Ax is talking about here. When he left the late-1990 incarnation of Demolition and went to Japan, he still wrestled there as Demolition Ax. He says he pulled out the other gimmick, but to my recollection (and records show) he was still wrestling as Demolition Ax in Japan in 1990/1991. First night in he beat Masa Saito.
I believe he meant that he could go to Japan and wrestle as the Masked Superstar anytime he wanted to. He didn't. But, he could have.
I didn't know they didn't mash well with crush!
The repo was a good villain! Thar character wouldnt work now like it did when it came out! And he killed it! I was afraid for my wrestling figures being stolen!
I hardly ever saw demolition lose one of my favorite
Best tag team of my generation. No disrespect to the Hart Foundation, but Demolition was way cooler and so much more over.
they belong in the hof for sure.one of the best tag teams ever.and it seems they are very nice too.
Where can I get one of those shirts?
They seems like genuinely nice guys
They brought in the new guy Crush to replace Ax who had a heart attack thinking Ax would not be able to keep going. In the end Crush dies and Ax and Smash are still here and as of last year both Hawk and Animal are now gone. Who could have predicted that?
Demolition is without a doubt the best tag team of all time
Vince is getting his come uppance now.
Cool gentlemen
they deserve to be hall of fame
Yes
People get wrestling confused because even though they are playing a character doesn't mean they are bad people. They do everything they can to entertain people
Demolition are fuckin legends!
They rightfully belong in the Hall of Fame...
Thumbs up. Legion of Doom is my favorite tag team. Demolition is a close second.
LOD were clones, plain and simple. Demolition were the best !
@@rickleblanc8900
They defeated Demolition
very well spoken veterans
Guess what axe is my next door nieghbour... hes such a humble awesome man, so glad ive met him as they were my favorite tag team when i was young..
Where are you from. I want Axe's autograph. 😊
I always thought Demolition seemed to be straight shooters on these interviews.
GOD GIVE US BACK BRIAN ADAMS AKA CRUSH AND WILL GIVE U BRIAN GAMBLE !!!!
Why wouldn’t you want Bill in the office? He’s obviously a smart guy and knows the business in the US and Japan. McMahon obviously knows what he’s doing in the business, too, but this was a mistake.
It made and makes no sense to kill them off. For me the worked and that's all that matters.
Looks different without his long hair
Father Time catches up.....even with their Demolition make up on their faces
Repo Man was funny and cool...
I guess this was the only time where Vince destroyed his creation to put over some tag team from the competition... it was so sad to see how Demolition disappeared.. and that WM 7 match pleaaaaaaaaase!!! that night LOD took on PAG (an underrated tag team in my eyes)and they squash them ... WWF had a great tag team division but they didnt got the push that they deserve like Power and Glory, The Killer Bees, The Beverly Brothers, The Rockers, Orient Express and many others
Who was Power And Glory ?
They’re my favourite team in the world
They're still very big!!!!!
ニキ－タコロフとクラッシャークルスチェフさんですよね。ザロシアンズ！
I suppose they have the second longest WWE tag team championship reign ever.
Demolition was my favorite tag team of all time. I liked them way more than LOD. I don't think they were a rip off of LOD either despite the weenies out there saying so.
Barry Darsow Wcw finishing move.... barely legal LOL
" We re the Champions"
Thought Bill got sick and had to left
I didn't like how they broke up Demolition. And why aren't Demolition in the Hall of Fame! I don't support how wwe let the new day break Demolition title length!!!! For all you young bloods Demolition at the time is the only tag team that three repeat in the wwf at the time!!! I'm 51 and I remember when both of these guys came into the wrestling industry Ax and Smash are my favorite team besides the Road Warriors!!!
one of the best tag teams of all time!
Smash was amazing and always the more well put together and more exciting member of Demolition. His make up, hair, physique...was super strong for his size too...I remember him body slamming Akeem and boss man who were both bigger. Think he attempted to slam Andre too!
Should have gone singles as Smash...Fucking brilliant character and alway exciting to watch in the ring. Repo man sucked!
I liked the Demolition together
Ya wtf was McMahon thinking ? Repo Man !!!!!! Wow.
The greatest tag team ever.
I loved how these guys would just pound the shit outta people. throw them in a corner and wham wham wham wham wham wham wham wham wham wham wham wham
He still moving? yeah? HIT EM SOME SOME MORE WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM WHAM LOL!!
WWF / WWE is always killing good tag teams.
they fucked up putting crush into the as a doubles tag-team, as a triples and as a 4 man tag team increasing the demolition stable may be I think the idea initially was was likely to create a six man and 8 man tag division however the concept failed and was likely causes bad ratings, I think in some ways I think vince likely saw the writing on the walls that at that stage the tag division was stale ..
when they pyush someinto singles careers kinda killed the brand..
Lookiing at where WWE is today i can't see reliving the 80's again then again looking at the narrative there is no build up these dsys
Oh man, the WWE nowadays has nothing going on. Absolutely nothing. Forgettable characters, total unknowns, no image to speak of, when you consider we had Macho Man, Demolition, Undertaker , Hart Foundation etc etc. And half the show is macho posturing and yapping crap into a microphone..... Wtf dudes ? Wrestle, goddammit !!! 2 shows in, i gave up. The golden days of wrestling are gone forever
Too bad DEMOLITION SMASH and CRUSH didn't have an ECW tenure
REPO MAN !!!
They was pushed aside because the WWF was planning on bringing in the LOD long before they arrived
Ax looks like he ccan still kick your ass
They're very thick and solid still strong
the beste wrestler ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
DEMO THE LITION
One of MANY stupid things the WWF did was to kill Demolition. They were over big time, fan favorites. Crush sucked at everything. The guy just had no charisma at all.
Man Bill is so damn salty about Vince in almost every interview.