"I Just Left!" | Demolition Ax on Quitting The WWF

[@rockvillem]

Could listen to him all day - a class act and a straight shooter. Great interview James!

[@jamesgallagher1992]

Same👍

[@mikepilcher1614]

A lot of people rave about Flair and Hogan. In my opinion this humble man Bill Eadie should be theG.O.A.T.

[@herbjergens6350]

One of the scariest voices in the ring!! Yelling to the crowd "should I break it?" holding an opponents arm out in an arm lock. Class act!!

[@axeladams3626]

I love how soft spoken and sweet Bill Eadie is, what a gentleman. Him and Barry Darsow are the best \m/

[@N1120A]

Bill was one of those guys in the business who really knew, and still knows, how to make the industry work for them. He and Barry have given lots of interviews, talking about how they knew how to spend money and where to save money. Comfortable, name brand hotels, good gyms, good food, full sized cars, but don't go crazy on anything. Put the rest away. Both guys are in good financial situations now.

[@vicvaccani7015]

They weren’t blowing their paycheck literally

[@taekwondotime]

I wish I could get to the same point in my career. Making the industry work for me instead of always being a slave (and being treated like a slave) to get a paycheque.

[@nicolemerrill9167]

I got my picture taken with ax and smash of demolition at Walmart in Plattsburgh NY It was 1998 I believe

[@reynaldoreyes9927]

Thursday, 11/22/1990 WWF Survivor Series PPV Demolition Ax Last WWF Match- his Best Hair Day!😊

[@pauleswitalski8187]

Bill Eadie maximized his opportunities both in US and Japan. Remember $100K just working Japan in the late 70s / early 80s, was big money. Ronnie Garvin said in a shoot interview one of his best yrs in rasslin, he made $100K + working primarily Florida in the mid 70s. For perspective, you could buy a 3/2 house with a carport for $25-30K in Tampa, mid 70s.

[@TL....]

my dad used to work with a guy that was on price is right in the early 80s and he won $11,000 on the big wheel alone my dad said back then the average working stiff made around $12k a year so yeah, $100K in the 70s was huge money

[@richardthompson6366]

Hogan's first title defense came against the Masked Superstar I believe.

[@FurQ69]

Correct there is a video on KZbin of it, Hogan has the eye of the tiger as entrance music :)

[@2010theunit]

February 18(?) 1984, Philadelphia Spectrum... Hulk Hogan(c) vs the Masked Superstar WWF World Heavyweight championship match

[@destronia123]

​@@2010theunitDid Hogan get the clean win?

[@FurQ69]

@@destronia123 Take a wild guess :)

[@brianhanssens7996]

​@@destronia123he wins by DQ or countout if I recall.

[@KofCFrank06511]

He faced Hogan at the Kiel Auditorium which was the main event of a TV Taping. One of Hogan's first title defense matches

[@dirtyharry9922]

Masked Superstar Wrestled Bob Backlund in Madsion Square Garden. (The Mecca of Professional Wrestling) Bob Backlund was the recipient of the swinging neckbreaker on the concrete. The fans were cheering for the Masked Superstar.

[@Farmerb1985]

Very good interview 👍

[@daveconleyportfolio5192]

The one really rich territory Vince couldn't get his hands on was Japan. Many wrestlers weren't cosmopolitan enough to fit in with the culture over there, but Eadie could play by their rules. And that mask gave him a tremendous advantage over the other foreigners.

[@phildicks4721]

I think that's the same reason The Destroyer had such a career in Japan. First he worked under a mask, and he kinda embraced the culture, and even let his children attend school over in Japan. The Japanese fans and Wrestling promotions appreciated that type of thing.

[@DecemberGuy77]

I would hardly call Terry Gordy & Stan Hansen "cosmopolitan". :D

[@JohnnyDouchbag-nr5yf]

Lol

[@mamayl8592]

He had a great setup. He could keep his toe in each promotion. That way he always had a place to ply his trade on his terms.

[@TheTonybova24]

I just left... he wasnt playing

[@dominicrossitto5890]

As the Masked Superstar, be it in the Mid-Atlantic, Georgia, the WWF, his run in the AWA during the Pro Wrestling USA, co-promotion, and even his short runs in Florida (his vacation he mentioned where he won the Southern Title for 1 week), in Stampede, where for a short time he was "IWA World Champion", as a face or heel, he always gave these GREAT, well spoken, intelligent , interviews. He could work stff or technical, had great speed and agility for a man his size. The thing about him moving around is that was the nature of the business at the time. Jim Ross broke it down in the most simple to understand terms: "How can I miss you if you don't go away?" Basically "Absence makes the heart grow fonder". When a favorite of your left YOUR territory that you followed and they returned, it was a big deal. Greg Valentine essentially broke it down the same way on his first two times he went up to New York, the wrestle Bob Backlund. He was doing great in Mid-Atlantic and was over with the fans as a heel and draw, but George Scott wanted to keep it that way. Every time he was scheduled to come back in, Bob Caudle and David Crockett, the announcer team, put it over as a big deal. If you stayed in a territory too long, you become stale both in the eyes of the fans and your work in the ring and on the microphone. This is how the territories stay so exciting, getting to see new talent every year...and why they were so important to one another.

[@randyfreeze789]

I believe he wrestled Hogan in an early Saturday Night's Main Event.

[@clark82]

Masked Superstar was basically Hogans first feud on the house show loop right off the bat when Hogan had beat IS

[@elland37]

Also at the Spectrum.

[@megapumped7021]

Smart man

[@MissterX]

Masked Superstars match Vs Hogan as new champion are on KZbin.

[@lrm215]

They also wrestled many times in New Japan him and Hogan and if you think about him and Savage of a handful of people that never went back to the WWF

[@jrupp8853]

Bill is correct. He had one of the first title matches with Hogan back in 1984-85.

[@leecrowder4934]

Bill was the first person to wrestle under a mask in MSG…..

[@kdogg8601]

Is the whole interview somewhere at one spot rather than all the pieces of it?

[@Music-qt3ok]

What year is this? This clip is cut up.

[@tomtomwhatwhat22]

I always liked Ax

[@cwillie1492]

Smart

[@James-ki5ix]

Vince McMahon is and was something else.

[@Saint3188]

This comment aged well

[@UNCNCAAChamps]

I loved him as the Masked Superstar

[@gregorykrug8034]

I wonder if Bill Eadie, Stan Hansen, or any of the other American wrestlers learned any significant amounts of the Japanese language. I assume they did not.

[@Millwall77]

Why do you assume that?

[@gregorykrug8034]

@@Millwall77 I read that Steve Corino and Kenny Omega both speak conversational Japanese, but I have never heard of anyone else learning it.

[@destronia123]

Quit before WWE turns you into a jobber to be squashed by the next flash in the pan.

[@brianpendergast2894]

It's always about money. Bottom line