Bruce Prichard shoots on the formation of the Acolytes

[@ronmower]

The APA were freakin awesome.

[@danzena4059]

APA is one of my favorite tag teams ever. However, I also loved them as the Acolytes. Every time I heard that Acolytes theme song, I got friggin pumped because I knew some ass kicking was going down!

[@Jesus1sLord777]

I thought APA and Acolytes were the same?...

[@danzena4059]

@@Jesus1sLord777 They are but the difference was that the Acolytes were apart of the Ministry Of Darkness and were a much more serious and dark tag team. APA came out as a "protection agency/mercenary" tag team gimmick (Hence the name Acolytes Protection Agency) that was much more comedic and light hearted.

[@Rev201287]

Man these guys were larger than life back when I was little.

[@d3ath8ybac0n4]

Ron Simmons, oh I get the “Damn” gimmick was legit, but goddam, what could have been if he was booked legit.

[@d3ath8ybac0n4]

Gene Bone lol, “duh,” edgy 😂

[@d3ath8ybac0n4]

Yes mark, Mankind will forever be indebted to you for maintaining the integrity of the comment's section. lol!

[@SandmanFightingSys]

Gene Bone he was far from old and broken down. At the time he was in as good of shape as Tony Atlas was in his prime.

[@drexlspivey5828]

He was always booked legit in WCW and came across as genuinely great, WWE realised he had a talent for comedy but WCW made him look like he had a talent for wrestling, this is why WCW was a better promotion no matter how successful WWE was

[@soramirez5473]

@@daleva187goligo so you think slang is people trying to be "cool"? yea there are a lot of phony ppl, but there are also a lot of ppl that speak slang because it is part of who they are and how they speak.. I think EVERYBODY speaks with some sort of slang..

[@richardbishop8666]

They should have done more with the acolytes.

[@drexlspivey5828]

I was never a WWE fan but they showed it in the UK around this time and the APA was definitely one of the best bits of comedy I've ever seen in wrestling

[@joeydavila8244]

Middle Symbol is Tarus. You have two best friends going in to something great. Breaking them out of their shell and left ok for them run the show, that was the good Wwf

[@WarhawkBeyond2040]

As entertaining as Faarooq and Bradshaw was during their APA run, i loved the work they did as The Acolytes when they were part of Undertaker's Ministry of Darkness faction and didn't speak while letting their actions spoke for them and they were perfect in their role as 'hell's henchmen', they may have not won many matches but when you heard their music, you knew someone was going to get hurt badly. They were two legit badasses and one of the toughest tag teams in the company.

[@SparkyTakedown]

Agreed

[@diamondlandscapingllc1998]

Completely agree. Acolytes def were better than APA.

[@vineetv]

I thought the same acolytes better than APA

[@gregorylevi1826]

They were a modern day Doom & Road Warriors rolled into one.

[@johnjones-qq6bo]

Great team but Simmons should have had a run at the main event or semi main for a little while before or after the tag team

[@alexbergquist3110]

There were a helluva tag team fucking powerhouses and Ron Simmons is a legit bad ass anyway

[@TheTruth-pl3mk]

The Acolytes was great but the APA was even better. Comedy gold!

[@slickx82]

Death In The Spotlight nothing beat the “use the door”

[@SparkyTakedown]

@@slickx82 😆yes! I appreciated both Acolytes and Acolyte Protection Agency. Showed how diverse both guys could be.

[@drmurde55]

APA's theme sucked, The Acolytes theme was way better, also that team was better as heel

[@marcomancilla6457]

My favorite tag team ever in the WWF

[@youngboss87]

APA was epic

[@richie5599]

An underrated tag team

[@L1TTLEH0RN666]

Really? They were pretty prominent. Might have been overrated.

[@ReanimatorsMutilations]

@@L1TTLEH0RN666 nah thru never had a good run with the titles. The apa gimmick was great, and badly needed as they were kinda boring before that.

[@richie5599]

L1TTLEH0RN666 yeah, not the first team people mention when they speak about the attitude era. They certainly didn’t provide the excitement the Hardys, E&C and the Dudleys did, but they certainly held their own. Loved the backstage APA segments too

[@lewjones3]

You had the Dudley's, The Outlaws, the Hardys, Edge and Christian.. was kinda easy to get lost in the shuffle a lil bit

[@besteverepicmillennial5927]

They were? Why is everybody underrated these days, or are you just being trendy? They were top billing richy

[@kdckan21]

The symbol reaction 😂😂😂

[@mran3902]

Best tag team ever

[@Slechy_Lesh]

This was a really good clip

[@franciscouch8378]

Brilliant tag

[@brandonholyfield5995]

DAMN!

[@lloydlyall8120]

My favourite tag team of all time😎

[@Tsadi9Mem9Khet9]

The symbols came from the mass produced supposed Necronomicon.

[@grendelvs]

The Simonomicon!

[@PPKNexus]

Not quite. The main symbol on displayed on their tights was the Simon Necronomicon symbol. But, the symbols displayed on their chests(which were not always the same) were in fact random occult/pagan symbol. Some are variations of symbols of specific demons.

[@Tsadi9Mem9Khet9]

@@PPKNexus There are drawings of all of them IN the mass-produced Necronomicon.

[@PPKNexus]

@@Tsadi9Mem9Khet9 Maybe I should have a look at it. In all my demonology research, I never bothered looking in to it, as most occultists and demonlogists advised to avoid it, classifying it as a work of satire.

[@Tsadi9Mem9Khet9]

@@PPKNexus You do know that Aleister Crowley admitted that all the "angels:", "demons", etc. conjured by such "magickians" are aspects of the imagination, and that the entire thing was invented by psychopaths with zero grasp on the concepts of justice and conscience, and thus no ability to comprehend the reality of spiritual existence, right? You are aware that they, in their base, profane, meager minds, conceived of allegories for base, profane, meager material things as spiritual, all while portraying it all as the exact opposite, depicting the God of Abraham as the one Who is merely a psychic entity with no awareness of the spiritual realm, believing He is God because of that ignorance or blindness, while it is the pagan psychopaths who ACTUALLY believe themselves to be God because of their defective, inferior psychopathic makeup which causes them to perpetually function according to the delusion that they are infinitely important "divine sparks" "trapped in the matrix", right? You know of their belief that their "divine sparks" depicted by the Wachowski Brothers (brothers at the time and obviously no normative human beings given their subsequent "transition", who nonetheless based the story on so-called kabbalah, which is merely veiled Gnosticism) as literal batteries "imprisoned" by the "false god" of Abraham because they aren't allowed to be their own Gods, don't you? The reality is that each and every psychopath thinks it is God and believes all the others are mistaken in believing that about themselves, thinking it is exploiting all the others to accomplish its own sole ascendance to "Godhood". Of course, Gnosticism is a case in which the Roman Empire devised a system to control its subjects by stating through it that there was no hope in rebellion, because the "false god" was the power behind Rome, while they simultaneously told adherents to orthodox Christianity that the God of Abraham was the One Who sent "Jesus" and, as in Gnosticism, that He was the power behind Rome, so that you have the reasons given in Romans 13 for meekly submitting. It's a ploy of ruling psychopaths just like the fact that Christianity and LaVeyan Satanism accomplish the same goal of preventing people and their concerns from "disrupting" their control and direction of society by telling one to forgive and the other to perform a "destruction ritual" but not actually physically do anything to anyone.

[@blesstv8994]

Acolytes should’ve dominated the wwf tag team division.

[@quentinkaasa47]

T&A should have got a Tittle run and had a bigger feud with the APA in 2000.

[@lordtrigon1733]

Yeah, fuck Edge & Christian and the Hardyz...

[@chadstokes1997]

Ron should have been bigger.. he was a fuckin beast

[@tonyslicer7399]

APA vs 1980s Road Warriors dream matches wish could of happen

[@benjamingamache6441]

I wanna know the story behind the complete DISMANTLING of Public Enemy... OMG! That match was F*CKING BRUTAL!

[@debo1937]

Life itself hasn't worked out for the Jackyl.

[@philliptompkins4064]

One of the greatest regrets of my life is not having the $50 I needed to meet Ron Simmons and get a picture taken with him at comicon in Little Rock Arkansas

[@Debrody1]

OMG, I remember when Vince Russo teamed with Jeff Hardy. They fought Harley Race and Andre the Giant. Watch Russo drop the big elbow was amazing.

[@drmurde55]

I have this match on VHS and Giant Gonzalez was on commentary with Greg Valentine

[@fmthebaron]

Besides The Undertaker and Kane and Undertaker and Big Show tag teams, the Acolytes were the 3rd most devastating tag team back then.

[@pantangela]

Jackyl couldve worked in wwe as a mouth piece and a worker. Everyone already agrees Simmons and Bradshaw need no mouth piece. Just saying the federation held on to a lot of dead weight and could've done something useful w Don Callis.

[@guyincognito5706]

Sure. A lot of people were saying that in 1999. Go watch Faarooq’s “promo” against Stone Cold in 1997.

[@pantangela]

@@guyincognito5706 gotta have a gander

[@blackout2430]

Guy Incognito what about it?

[@ericgilbert56]

They could have been as big as L.O.D. had they been paired sooner and the timing had been better. 2 giant bad ass guys that could deliver.

[@johnschreckengost2847]

I remember watching them almost kill Public Enemy on a pleasant Sunday morning.

[@bohbruvinnit]

Acolytes kicked ass!!!

[@jayyarbrough4497]

Bradshaw pushed my brother in law at the gym one day during this run. lol

[@HereIsWisdom1318]

Lol. Why?

[@MASTER3371]

Faarooq being the Veteran that once led his own top group in WWF & Bradshaw who was just a Big Jobber/Low Card at the time. It’s weird to see how a Star of Faarooq could team with the Low Card Status of Bradshaw at the time but then again Midcard Triple H & Main Event HBK worked so it was possible & it definitely was lol we need more of these type of teams nowadays

[@THEJORDANLONGCHANNEL]

THE JACKYL WAS A FOLLOWER OF UNDERTAKER

[@ABSF49]

Il never forget when they beat the hell out of that tag team for not selling during the tag match.

[@THEJORDANLONGCHANNEL]

THE JACKYL WAS THEIR OVERSEER

[@Trill_4_Life]

It was May 31st not 24th

[@Bull1908]

It was shown on May 31st not taped on it. May 31st was actually Owen Harts funeral. They won on May 25th (day after Owen Hart Memorial Show)!

[@ac8274]

They never should’ve named him farooq

[@stevespurrier5536]

Sounds like Kenny powers

[@princessnahema]

the middle symbol is the horned god, the other 2 are not anything

[@blackout2430]

How do you know for sure?

[@geeboon669]

Was he talking about the cult of H.P. Lovecraft?

[@Jesus1sLord777]

Bruce smoking Mary Jane while recording this(:52)!...

[@julezjohn5785]

I loved them before they became APA and became corny asf

[@shindrithargriethrat8408]

APA was awesome as hell

[@julezjohn5785]

@@shindrithargriethrat8408 If u like comedy wrestling, sure

[@shindrithargriethrat8408]

@@julezjohn5785 Some comedy is good. Their style in the ring was anything but comedy.

[@ThunderLips730]

Get rid of that opening

[@rscottrogers22]

Again, no.

[@Jaybodian]

HOW WILL KNOW HOW TO MAKE CHICKEN SALAD!?!?

[@shawnbrock1545]

Oh, shut up about the opening already.

[@MeNoSpeakJibberish]

Still whining 😂😂😂

[@ThunderLips730]

@@guyincognito5706 Oh ok, thank you.

[@joselara7495]

Fake ass tough guys...they aint never went up against someone their own size except for when jbl had to go with bart gunn We all know how that went and had it been simmons same thing woulda happened to him

[@pri0r_t0_a_weekago...fukwi48]

They should haveve kept the jackyl !! He was so over with the crowd and he WASNT. A bad wrestler !!

[@HereIsWisdom1318]

DAMN!