Hello everyone and welcome to Saturday Night’s Main (Flashback) Event, coming to you live on a Saturday night! I’m your host Carja and here are some musings before we get to ringside action.
A heel that I hated. Where have I heard that one before? Surprisingly the WWF tried to bring the Honky Tonk Man in as a face but he was getting such vicious heel heat that they had to turn him heel. Oh, if only they still did that today! *cough* Roman Reigns *cough* But back to the Honky Tonk Man. He’s the champion they just couldn’t get the belt off of for lack of a suitable face to win it from him. Rumor has it that he only won the belt from Ricky Steamboat because the guy who was supposed to win that night didn’t show. It started a great heel run for the Honky Tonk Man that culminated in him getting beaten in less than a minute by the Ultimate Warrior two years later. I’ve grown to appreciate his work now and find him to be very entertaining looking back, but gosh how you just wanted to see him get his butt whooped back then.
Here’s Cyran dressed up as the Honky Tonk Man. I still don’t feel like I could do Honky Tonk Man’s blue jumpsuit justice, which is why I stuck with the red one with its easier to draw records and musical notes.
Here’s a comparison to the original.
And that’s all! Good night everybody!