SummerSlam 1998: Grilling JR

[@kevinbudzinski9576]

The ladder match for the Intercontinental Title between Triple H and The Rock stole the show at SummerSlam 98!

[@delbertprince5302]

1998 was a great year in wrestling.

[@GregOGrady84]

Not according to this show you would think its the worst

[@d-mo733]

Well, Greg..They are right about shit on this show! Russo was a shit writer and wrote the stupidest angles and that’s all they are basically saying

[@alberts1985]

There was a lot of disqualifications that year

[@MikeyP1983]

My favourite Summerslam

[@mEmShannonDAB]

I saw this and said Summerslam 98. That’s a good one

[@MikeyP1983]

@@mEmShannonDAB yeah an awesome choice

[@blakemaxfield4267]

Love that show

[@dougeaton7600]

Mine too

[@user-ol1zk3kv1d]

Likewise

[@artsteinbach4450]

Hey JR, the best thing I ❤ about watching all your shows, is skipping through all of Conrad's 80 Ads! 😂, he Never stops, but neither will my Fast Fwd!

[@boombringer4078]

J. R the voice of many of our childhoods! Absolute legend!!

[@chico1680]

My two favorite matches on this card were X-Pac vs Jarrett and the Lion's Den match between Owen and Shammy. I liked the ladder match but, too much gaga at the end for me. The thing I remember most about the ppv is the crowd being super hot and into everything . Even Method Man was in the crowd rocking his DX merch looking like he having fun with his kids

[@lb2.0.45]

Loved this SummerSlam

[@mjdf122]

Good SummerSlam 1998 Great Year

[@dustin6528]

*the sun rises* Conrad: “I can’t believe this is real”

[@The_Sage_of_Rage]

😂 so true!

[@Ahmad.KSA85]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@thefiggamehunt6946]

Well sometimes it's a damn good view so I can dig it 🤣🤣

[@danielescalera6638]

Topic @ 14:19

[@drew9351]

Thank you

[@billyziggler1862]

I loved the ladder match. Also as a kid I had no idea there were any issues with taker or austin in the main event. I remember thinking it was awesome

[@alberts1985]

Tell me what else you think

[@mlamanno]

I’m so looking forward to survivor series 98. So many stories, swerves, culminating to a hugely memorable ending and the first championship one of The Rock.

[@PhilThePromoter]

Take a shot everytime Connie my boiiii says “Self”. lol

[@The_Sage_of_Rage]

😂

[@davidbonilla7770]

“HRMMM SASSAFRAS”

[@jeromemanley7885]

Don't knock Scranton Pa lol! I was at that show!

[@drewamongstus]

The DQ’s made it feel like the WWF was unraveling and the wrestlers were taking over. It was the attitude.

[@The_Sage_of_Rage]

Drinking game: every time conman says"we couldn't do this in 2023" "this didn't age well" "I can't believe this is real" take a drink. Expert/suicide rules: every time he mentions aew or meltzer take a drink.

[@schizzo8959]

No shi*t some stuff is not gonna happen now, blame social media for that, but it was stuff that was problematic even back then.

[@Godzilla1982]

"Mrs. Yamaguchi" WAS presented as Wally Yamaguchi's wife - she was TAKA's "sister" which is why he turned heel.

[@JarodJoseph]

This obsession over the number of tickets AEW sells for this show is straight up bizarre

[@dustin6528]

It’s their self masturbatory way of convincing themselves that “wrestling is as hot as its ever been”

[@schizzo8959]

That's the largest crowd outside of WWE for an american wrestling company ever, so I get why the hype it up.

[@Jetup24]

Why is jr Snake plisken?

[@Godzilla1982]

Nah that's Solid Snake JR. Always equipped with his cigarettes!

[@chico1680]

Not advertised but, subtly teased at the very end of Thunder prior to Warriors debut

[@stinger5127]

1:45:20 I agree with JR. I rewatched every Raw from 98 and 99 and there were way too many DQ finishes and outside interference on a weekly basis back then. It's lazy booking imo.

[@mightyknight]

There were still a lot of dq finishes between 1996-97 but they weren't as comon and they had more meaning to them.

[@alberts1985]

Because of Vic Venom 🤦‍♂️

[@sammydabull4001]

THE ART WORK IS SO COOL ,BUT .....IS THAT CHUM LEE FROM PAWN STARS⁉️⁉️⁉️🤩💯

[@chrishh5777]

41:00 Mrs. Yamaguchi, in kayfabe, was the sister of Taka. Mr. Yamaguchi was her husband.

[@bryanqueensberry6215]

Jacqueline the most beautiful woman in wrestling history & one of the most underrated. & I wish Conrad would stop saying what stars Dave Meltzer gives a match. It's one man's opinion who cares what uncle Dave thinks

[@alberts1985]

👏 yes

[@LetsBeReal-tr7wt]

She is stunning

[@ryanhudson4426]

Lexington ky!

[@alberts1985]

I hated the oddities. That n the brawl for all were horrible ideas from 1998.

[@prezzyx6158]

Please get another sponsor I'm tired of you talking about balls in every episode/channel

[@prestonwidener2760]

Wreslemania 32 had 101k people not 80k

[@thefiggamehunt6946]

From what I've been seeing 101k was the announced attendance 80k is actual tix sold, but apparently the number falls between 75k-85k or thereabouts which I find interesting,so I guess the 80k is the middle number that was settled on for paid attendance 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@ryanlehman75189]

Classic John Wayne Bobbitt

[@adrianriley753]

The amount of discussion for the actual show is very disappointing. Half the card is basically conrad skipping over it. Lions Den- hope they got a good pay day and how amazing aew is for using owens name. So much more that couls have been duscussed here. Ladder match and Main event- brief chat like they both just wanted to finish the show now. Rest of the card- just skipped past.

[@mightyknight]

Conrad mentioned that he will not do any favours to the show if he goes in depth about it. That's why he also mentioned that we should watch that PPV as a whole.

[@adrianriley753]

@@mightyknight then why bother doing it as a topic if you're not really going to discuss the show properly? Let's chat about Aew for ages and summerslam 98 for 20 mins. Poor

[@thechosenones4375]

I love how much attention Warrior gets on these shows lol It's such a contradiction to how they try and portray him. He's over.

[@TheMarc388]

1:54:30 lmfao

[@adrianriley753]

This should be called... talk about everything but summerslam 98 😂 2hrs 20mins and they review the actual topic for 20mins with almost no real discussion of the card- in fact no discussion at all for some of the matches. What a shame

[@howgamer365]

@@adrianriley753 Haha exactly what I was thinking. We need another episode where they talk about the actual topic!

[@AmericanGypsy206]

WCW didn’t know how to move forward from the NWO storyline, they kept it going too long, and Eric Bishoff had his nose to far up Hogan’s ass that’s what ultimately killed the company. Nobody wanted to see Hogan anymore because he was slow and he was past this prime I don’t care how popular he was in the 80s because this was the late 90s and he was old and boring. I was never a fan of Hogan he was too cliché, and his matches were never exciting WCW could’ve easily beat the WWF in the ratings war in 98 but they relied too much on the same things Eric Bischoff was stuck in 1996

[@alberts1985]

And he thinks he accomplished something spectacular because the people he made rich told him that. 83 weeks 🙄

[@zachary_attackery]

hrrrnnnmmm sassafrass

[@GregOGrady84]

I love how negative ye are speaking of the product back then like it was awful with all time high ratings but how positive ye speak of aew now with their shit ratings

[@AmericanGypsy206]

And one thing that annoys me about JR’s podcast, he refers to grown men as good kids every time Conrad mentions somebody JR’s reply is he’s a good kid It’s just very offputting and weird how he refers to grown men as kids I wonder if it’s an Oklahoma thing?

[@Falconesports2025]

This is gonna be an instant classic like the ppv itself, the whole card had good energy…. We saw one of the best Rock vs HHH matches the best for the ic title imo in a great and underrated ladder match and the main event between Austin and Taker was great straight up 1 on 1 action between the top 2 at the time. At one point in that match taker goes to back body drop Austin but stonecold kicks taker In the chest as he’s doubled over and he rises up from the kick catching Austin right on the chin with an inadvertent headbutt that dropped Austin for a second. A Madison square garden event for the ages right up there with the greatest fights, matches, shows etc. the garden ever saw. As Vince Sr. Would say.. “The Garden’s the Garden.” 🏟️

[@The_Sage_of_Rage]

Zzzz conman has covered this (and everything 1997-98) to death at this point. Yay let's keep asking the same questions that we've already had answered across 5 podcasts... 🥱