Honky Tonk Man on Why He Refused to Lose Title to Macho Man

[@TheHannibalTV]

Honky Tonk Man The Hannibal TV playlist: kzbin.info/aero/PLvoIHF4T3-L7Do3DQztyUHR_2WlDLuXRW

[@Sneakerveli]

I'm so glad honky got at the "Smart Marks" The know it all about the wrestling business who ain't never been in in the business and get their info from gossip! Salute!!

[@charleslane4188]

HTM is a great story teller,I think he is very descriptive and he seems really genuine.

[@fredantoun1683]

Upload the entire interview please. 👍

[@russellscott1064]

I don't think this interviewer is the right person for this. He seems better suited to a home decorating show.

[@festushaggen2563]

Queer Eye for the Straight Wrestler. 😄

[@russellscott1064]

@@festushaggen2563 there ya go! That's a winning formula.

[@victorearl-melton1109]

LOL

[@russellscott1064]

@greglbennett but he's a little light in the loafers.

[@victorearl-melton1109]

@greglbennett I don't know what comment you're responding to. I made about 8 of them never mind

[@markjackson419]

🎵🎸The Honkey Tonk Man is one of the most memorable wrestlers of my childhood 🎸🎵

[@JohnnyDouchbag-nr5yf]

I sell quality rugs to bald men's and this is a quality toupee!

[@MrDoneboy]

Nah...Just shave your head!

[@JamesChatting]

​@@MrDoneboyok egg

[@theboysllc3174]

@@MrDoneboyit takes areal man to wear a toupee I say while having long natural curls

[@brianwintersdruveitismvpd4785]

Are we talkin about honkey tonk or the twink interviewer?

[@e.e.8265]

😂 good eye! good eye!

[@chadjustice8560]

Now we know it wasn't promised and the million dollar man didn't actually care

[@sitcom1971]

Is the interviewer wearing a wig?

[@maximumlibertarian]

Yes, but no underwear. My 3rd cousin’s college roommate said so.

[@JohnnyDouchbag-nr5yf]

It's a toupee not a wig!!! Have some respect asshole!!

[@JohnnyDouchbag-nr5yf]

It's a toupee not a wig! Show some respect!!!

[@TorbenFewell]

​@@maximumlibertarian🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@packofjokers]

no. its the result of his "ive come out the closet" visit to the barbers.

[@mattnerdy7236]

Love you Honky Tonk Man ❤️

[@louierocco4706]

Honky always seemed like a malcontent. Bischoff told negative stories about him in WCW.

[@kingsports1113]

Everytime I see this picture I see butch Reed 😂 im thinking why he didn't wrestle for Ic title

[@BillyBob-pu2vc]

Is that Pat Patterson's son?

[@dannybursace9151]

It would’ve been his adopted son

[@brettbard3616]

Honkytonk Wayne Ferris keeps 💩 real...Love this & all his past interviews

[@jonstefanik9400]

C'mon dude! Ask Honk if wrestling's fake.

[@neilboucher2529]

Honky tonk should have cut a shoot promo on hogan in the ring. Call him out. Vince would have boiled but would be better than walking out

[@timthegem]

There were no promos in the ring back then unless someone like Okerlund was in there holding the mic. That stuff didn't begin until the late '90s. Plus the only live WWF television were the pay-per-view events or paid channels like MSG Network, so it wouldn't have received much attention from fans.

[@B.M.F.KingLouis]

I'm glad they went a different route with Randy at WM4

[@marchess7996]

Honkey always ribbed Macho Man for having tiny hands

[@bigjoe8198]

Interviewer has annoying voice.

[@dannybursace9151]

So gehy

[@joemomma3988]

Greatest IC champ of all time.

[@BrianSerpente]

No doubt about it

[@rizzalater72]

Are you kidding me? He was a one hit wonder. He was a nobody before he won that title and was a nobody after he lost it. And calling someone who always got himself disqualified or counted out to keep that title the greatest of all time is a joke. And putting him over for it against Steamboat is more of a joke. He couldn't hold Steamboat's jock.

[@dannybursace9151]

Who is this interviewer?? What a disgrace

[@Jim-Tuner]

The real story is probably more complicated than what he is telling. Part of that story that he wasn't working under a proper contract and he was able to pull the move from a real position of strength right before "the main event". He was also real buddies with Hulk Hogan at that time. Part of the additional story of what happened was who Honky Tonk Man feuded with after wrestlemania and who he was supposed to eventually lose the title to: Brutus Beefcake. Beefcake never got the title because of his accident, but the change-up in the plans for Wrestlemania IV didn't just benefit HTM. It promised an IC belt win for Hogan's best friend. The other part to all this is that Hogan supposedly didn't like working singles matches with Ted. He would work with him alot in tag matches, but after wrestlemania IV, he did about five singles matches on house shows with Ted and otherwise no singles matches at all. If Ted has been given the title, Hogan would have had to work a long program with him. There are probably five people who actually know the story: Vince, Patterson, Pritchard, Hogan and HTM. Bruce Pritchard claims that HTM's story is totally false which is hard to believe. The others have never said anything. Maybe Savage and Dibiase knew, but Savage is gone and Dibiase's version seems to indicate that either didn't know all of what is going on or that he is still unwilling to talk about it. The other obvious part of the story that HTM still denies is that him getting squashed by Ultimate Warrior for the title was delayed punishment for refusing to lose the title earlier.

[@plonkersbro]

The good thing about this story is that he gives far more details in his Kayfabe Commentaries interview, as for Bruce I always take his side of the story with a barrel of salt since he's proven without doubt he's a company man

[@roccoz2231]

Your version makes sense. But I refuse to believe that the original plan at WM4 was for DiBiase to win the world title. He was 10 months into the company *and* a heel. Vince would've never let a heel victory close out a Wrestlemania with a world title victory. (He didn't even let Yoko go fully over after WM9!) If anything, maybe the plan was for Randy to go into WM4 as the IC champion, win the tournament and close out the PPV with two belts, just as Warrior did two years later. The IC Belt is now vacant and Beefcake wins *that* tournament. (Again, just as Curt did two years later...) Either way, HTM's claim that he completely upended Vince and Pat's booking with his refusals, and that his petulance inadvertently led to Randy winning his first WWF Championship is ludicrous.

[@Jim-Tuner]

@@roccoz2231 Heels as interim champions for a few months was a tradition Vince's father had. It was how Hogan got the title from the Iron Shiek. You are right that they couldn't have ended the show on a downer with Ted winning. So they would have to have some other match end the show. The other factor that plays into all of this is that the original brackets they announced for the WMIV tournament were change after they were announced. Its a nice thing to speculate about, but there is no way to prove it unless Vince were to talk about it. Patterson and Savage are gone. I wouldn't trust anything Hogan or Pritchard had to say. Ted didn't seem to be told the whole story.

[@GameTime-yj6qv]

At that point Macho Man was ready for the World title. Instead of dropping the IC title to him, Honky should have dropped the IC title to Jake the Snake instead.

[@bugwajinini5545]

Jake wasn't reliable d'/t his struggles with alcohol. They unfortunately couldn't trust him to appear yet alone with a title.

[@rizzalater72]

They should've gave it back to Steamboat imo. Maybe he wouldn't have left after WM4

[@victorearl-melton1109]

He dropped The IC title to Warrior

[@timbrown5576]

Honky Tonk was was never over with the fans during his IC Title run and the arenas were selling out because of the Macho Man, not because of him, so how would management know what to do with him? Honky was so wrapped up in his own ego that he couldn't see it.

[@dank6514]

HTM was never over as IC champ?

[@timbrown5576]

@@dank6514 C'mon man. Every time Honky's entrance music came on, the fans not only boo, they moan.😂

[@JamesChatting]

BS, Honky was a big heel and sold lots of toys too

[@chadjustice8560]

​@@timbrown5576I'm confused by your comment, he wasn't over because they didn't boo? But they did lol we have video evidence of it, second a heel is not supposed to be cheered lol he was a huge heat magnet and most definitely was over.

[@timbrown5576]

@@chadjustice8560 What I'm saying is that the heat that Honky was getting isn't from his heel character, it's from that the fans are tired of him and his gimmick. Nobody cared or even remembered his IC Title run.