Bruce Prichard shoots on The Honky Tonk Man refusing to lose the IC title to Randy Savage

Savage being protected over liz makes a lot of sense when you think about the fact that sable found shit in her lunch box. Savage was the real Mccoy.

I don't understand why Bruce gets upset with Conrad. Ted Dibiase has PUBLICLY said over the years that he blamed Honky Tonk Man for refusing to drop the IC title to Savage as the reason he did not win the WWF title at WrestleMania IV. These were Dibiase's words, not Dave Meltzer's. Also, HTM has publicly stated he refused to lose to Savage because of how Vince presented the finish to him. We, the fans, did not state these things, Dibiase and HTM stated these things.

Bruce needs to realise there is a difference between people not listening to what he says, and people not believing what he says.

Best thing that could have happened to Savage. That fruitless run to reclaim the belt made Savage's career. Without it we don’t get the MegaPowers, the WM5 main event, or the WM7 redemption arc.

Conrad pushing hard over and over and over again to get Pritchard to say yes he knew. 😄

Bruce’s poker face is horrendous lol. Never before have I heard someone basically say, “I don’t know,” while sounding so unbelievably guilty and defensive.

Half of the videos Conrad: Asks detailed question Bruce: I don't know

Everything meant something back then. All these years later and not only are we still talking about this, but it feels like it just happened last week...

Vince: Jump. Bruce: Off which cliff, Sir?

This is the most pathetic I've heard from Prichard. He spends the whole time trying to say that what Honky Tonk said isn't true, but in the way that somehow Honky Tonk isn't lying and then randomly attacks Meltzer when he gets too pressured

The only other thing I can think is that Honky Tonk Man was actually thinking of the SNME from February 1988 and that was the one where maybe they wanted to put the IC title on Savage. That makes more sense because with Wrestle mania being around the corner Dibiase was a big player then.

Its "rumor" if a wrestler directly involved says it, but its "truth" of Bruce Pritchard says it.

We played the Honky Tonk man song at our wedding

Please bring back that Legendary IC title belt!

Bruce said: I AM NOT GETTING FUCKING ANGRY" lol.

I love how Honky Tonk Man has told this story for at least 20 years and Bruce's reaction is to deny it and say "I'm not going to lie to you like Dave Meltzer." Um, yeah if you can get your head out of your ass for a minute, this isn't a Meltzer report this comes directly from HTM? God this show is impossible to listen to.

I believe HTM. He spells it all out in DETAIL in his shoot interview with Oliver. Savage was going to win the IC belt at SNME.

It was definitely a huge angle...I remember being about 7 or 8 and staying up watching sat night main event seeing this happen

Bruce made some very fair and valid points here. HTM never seemed to be telling the total truth in the KC special he did on Summerslam '88 with Sean Oliver in 2016. HTM claims he was being laid off for a short period, then he'd be repackaged as a new gimmick, which was never told to him what that would be during the meeting. Then HTM said he talked to Jim Barnett after the incident and when Vince found out he only yelled at him...? Yeah, I didn't buy that at all. HTM was with the WWF from 1986 to 1991. If Vince was pissed off at HTM over that, he'd have been fired or at the very least not used as much anymore to make him quit. I seem to recollect he was used quite a lot after Summerslam, all the way up to his departure in 1991. If someone was truly that unhappy with the way a promotion was doing them, they left. HTM stayed for 3 more years. Did HTM win anymore belts after that? No. But no heel every really did. And I'm sure someone is going to mouth off saying, "What about Savage?" Savage wasn't a heel. He was an anti-babyface. He was a babyface with an edge. He had some heelish attributes, but he was a babyface like Hogan. But back then no pure heel ever won the world championship belt. That's not how the WWF was back then. HTM was lucky to have even won the IC belt. I honestly think HTM is just a bitter guy because he wanted to be the next Hulk Hogan star-level-wise and never made it that far. He claims to have made his gimmick a heel, and perhaps he did, but he sure didn't fight Vince on being a babyface when he came into the WWF in '86, did he? No, he went along with it until he was becoming clear he wasn't going to draw any money as one. And with a gimmick as corny and out-dated as his was, I'm not surprised he fizzled out by 1991. No kids I knew liked him when I was growing up in the 1980's. He was a total goof. If Vince wanted to repackage HTM, he should've done it when he brought the man in initially. If he would've gave him a street punk look with a black leather jacket, it might've worked with the slicked back jet black hair. Hell, was Punk Rock Wayne for a minute. Could've worked since no one knew who the hell Honky Tonk Wayne was back then.

rumor and innuendo should be the name of a tag team someday