1 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:11,880 We're the best at doing whatever it takes to win. 2 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:18,080 In the 1980s, Marty Jannetty and Shawn Michaels formed one of the greatest tag 3 00:00:18,080 --> 00:00:23,520 teams of the WWF golden era, the Rockers. We're coming at you. With their 4 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:28,380 -flying moves and glam rock style, they became heartthrobs and wrestling 5 00:00:28,380 --> 00:00:33,280 superstars. An arena of 15 ,000 to 20 ,000 screaming people. 6 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:35,560 You don't even get that kind of high from drugs. 7 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:40,120 They've got that charisma that people love. And the outfit and the hair and 8 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:45,640 smile. After a shocking betrayal, only Sean would ascend to the dizzying 9 00:00:45,640 --> 00:00:48,140 of fame that Marty had always created. 10 00:00:48,460 --> 00:00:50,440 Sean Michaels, ladies and gentlemen! 11 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:54,100 Marty just let him walk all over him and just steal away his life. 12 00:00:54,880 --> 00:01:00,700 Driven by an insatiable desire to reclaim his former success, Marty 13 00:01:00,700 --> 00:01:03,380 down a destructive path of self -sabotage. 14 00:01:03,900 --> 00:01:07,160 I get in a lot of trouble for my outsider's ring annex. 15 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:08,760 He takes everything to the extreme. 16 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:10,860 It's all about getting that reaction. 17 00:01:11,060 --> 00:01:13,360 The problem is, you get hooked onto that. 18 00:01:13,620 --> 00:01:15,280 Sometimes Marty's just his own worst enemy. 19 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:20,460 Burdened with health issues, Marty ignites a storm of controversy that 20 00:01:20,460 --> 00:01:21,800 to consume his legacy. 21 00:01:22,820 --> 00:01:27,460 Bringing him face to face with a secret that has haunted him for over 50 years. 22 00:01:27,860 --> 00:01:29,780 He suggested he committed murder. 23 00:01:30,380 --> 00:01:33,540 I was only trying to beat his ass. I wasn't trying to kill him. I mean, he 24 00:01:33,540 --> 00:01:36,480 a lot of crazy things, so we can only hope that there's no truth to any of it. 25 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:40,320 Trying to decipher a fact from fiction is part of the game, too. 26 00:01:40,580 --> 00:01:41,680 Wait, so did it happen? 27 00:01:42,340 --> 00:01:43,440 It didn't occur to us. 28 00:02:00,429 --> 00:02:02,930 How many cameras we got? 48 today. 29 00:02:05,930 --> 00:02:11,750 I am MJ in the house, otherwise known as Marty Jannetty, one of the rockers from 30 00:02:11,750 --> 00:02:12,750 back in the day. 31 00:02:15,630 --> 00:02:20,770 This morning was rough. It's a nerve. I can touch it right now. 32 00:02:21,370 --> 00:02:24,570 Right there is the worst point. 33 00:02:25,170 --> 00:02:29,470 Man, I can't wait till it heals all the way so we can cut it open and put the 34 00:02:29,470 --> 00:02:30,470 joint back in. 35 00:02:30,990 --> 00:02:34,210 He's a very charismatic, very charming individual. 36 00:02:35,550 --> 00:02:38,130 My name is Al Snow, former WWE superstar. 37 00:02:38,690 --> 00:02:39,810 What does everybody want? 38 00:02:40,230 --> 00:02:43,930 I've been a professional wrestler for going on 41 years, and at one time I was 39 00:02:43,930 --> 00:02:45,790 Marty Jannetty's partner in the New Rockers. 40 00:02:47,550 --> 00:02:52,050 And on that run, that was when Marty hurt his ankle. I really severely rolled 41 00:02:52,050 --> 00:02:55,960 it. And Marty Jannetty collapsing into the rope. Over the years, it just got 42 00:02:55,960 --> 00:02:57,340 progressively worse and worse. 43 00:02:57,700 --> 00:03:03,060 Yeah. I've known Marty Jannetty since really high school is where we played 44 00:03:03,060 --> 00:03:05,700 football together and just were in the same class. 45 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:11,580 I'm Lee McCluskey. I'm an orthopedic surgeon. I do mostly foot and ankle 46 00:03:11,980 --> 00:03:17,840 Marty was a fantastic athlete, first of all. You know, wrestling, of course, in 47 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:18,829 high school. 48 00:03:18,830 --> 00:03:22,770 He had a lot of interaction with my brothers playing ball and so forth. 49 00:03:23,670 --> 00:03:28,050 I'm George McCluskey, and I'm a shoulder and elbow surgeon in Columbus, Georgia. 50 00:03:28,470 --> 00:03:32,310 Most people have one problem in one shoulder or one problem in one foot or 51 00:03:32,310 --> 00:03:34,690 ankle, but he's got about six or seven things. 52 00:03:35,690 --> 00:03:37,030 MJ's up in the house. 53 00:03:38,150 --> 00:03:42,130 On a scale of one to ten, what kind of pain would you say Marty is under right 54 00:03:42,130 --> 00:03:43,130 now? Twelve. 55 00:03:45,010 --> 00:03:46,010 On a good day. 56 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:52,840 Your body can only take so many slams, and I took quite a few. 57 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:57,400 The ankles were bound to go, and we're working on those now. 58 00:03:58,820 --> 00:04:03,840 I had joint replacement in the right ankle, reconstructive on the left. Both 59 00:04:03,840 --> 00:04:05,840 shoulders are kind of torn up. 60 00:04:06,700 --> 00:04:12,580 I remember him as being a very aggressive football player. Probably 61 00:04:12,580 --> 00:04:16,100 more seriously than he did school. A little on the wild side. 62 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:24,440 I remember, we were chemistry lab, we were doing some experiments, and he 63 00:04:24,540 --> 00:04:29,220 whatever you guys do now, do not put the blue chemicals in with the orange 64 00:04:29,220 --> 00:04:32,260 chemicals. And he didn't say why. 65 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:36,840 And I thought, well, I would like to know why. 66 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:42,960 Well, I took the two chemicals and mixed them together, and wham! 67 00:04:44,960 --> 00:04:47,520 One girl, she got blown back a few feet. 68 00:04:53,930 --> 00:04:58,090 The window that was behind me blew out, and I got stuff on me from the 69 00:04:58,090 --> 00:04:59,090 explosion. 70 00:04:59,890 --> 00:05:01,270 I was all over the school. 71 00:05:02,150 --> 00:05:05,810 Everybody's like, man, Jeanette, he blew up the lab. Everybody, Jeanette, he 72 00:05:05,810 --> 00:05:06,810 blew up the lab. 73 00:05:07,290 --> 00:05:10,010 I don't think anybody else ever tried to mix the blue and orange. 74 00:05:12,010 --> 00:05:18,970 You can't believe 99 % of what Marty's, you know, talking about. 75 00:05:20,590 --> 00:05:26,390 My name is Karen Walker, and I've known Marty for upwards of 40 years. 76 00:05:27,990 --> 00:05:31,590 He comes up with some of the strangest things, you know. 77 00:05:32,930 --> 00:05:37,350 You know, Marty just walks up and talks to you. It's probably all a big story 78 00:05:37,350 --> 00:05:39,410 that he's making up as he goes along. 79 00:05:56,310 --> 00:06:02,970 He puts on a show for every single person he comes in contact to. 80 00:06:03,190 --> 00:06:04,870 So if you don't know him... 81 00:06:05,430 --> 00:06:10,550 Intimately, you don't know the gentle side, you know, the kind side, the side 82 00:06:10,550 --> 00:06:11,830 that gets his feelings hurt. 83 00:06:12,530 --> 00:06:17,410 You know, growing up, my mom and dad had a lot of issues with each other. We 84 00:06:17,410 --> 00:06:18,570 struggled a lot. 85 00:06:18,970 --> 00:06:23,730 My dad would never let my mom beat on me. She would always have to wait until 86 00:06:23,730 --> 00:06:24,449 went to work. 87 00:06:24,450 --> 00:06:27,770 So I would hide it from him so that they wouldn't get in a fight. 88 00:06:28,410 --> 00:06:32,270 It was a tough upbringing. I mean, you know, he's got some bad stories. 89 00:06:33,710 --> 00:06:37,950 My name is Mean Mike Moran, and I wrestled for WCW as one half of the 90 00:06:37,950 --> 00:06:41,630 conduct, and I also wrestled for 20 -plus years as one half of the Texas 91 00:06:41,630 --> 00:06:44,930 hangman. I met Marty in 1984. 92 00:06:45,750 --> 00:06:48,370 It was both our first territories, our first opportunities. 93 00:06:48,770 --> 00:06:50,850 Here we are 39 years later, still friends. 94 00:06:52,630 --> 00:06:54,170 Marty's mom was very abusive. 95 00:06:54,430 --> 00:06:56,930 His daddy loved to death, but his dad wasn't always there. 96 00:06:57,170 --> 00:07:00,550 I think that, honestly, athletics got him out of there. I mean, he was a good 97 00:07:00,550 --> 00:07:01,550 athlete, thankfully. 98 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:06,600 And he punched his ticket and got to see the world and get the hell out of 99 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:07,600 Columbus. 100 00:07:08,120 --> 00:07:12,780 Determined to channel his natural athleticism into a pro wrestling career, 101 00:07:12,780 --> 00:07:17,920 picks up the trade from veteran Jerry Oates before making his debut in 1983 in 102 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:22,020 Mid -South. A great maneuver by Marty Oates. After jumping to Central States 103 00:07:22,020 --> 00:07:26,560 Wrestling in Kansas City, Marty's invited to mentor another young 104 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:30,640 So I'm looking for him in the dressing room. I don't know who I'm looking for. 105 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:36,320 went up to this one guy because he looked shy and quiet, kind of 106 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:39,940 was sort of nerdy. You know, he had just blue jeans pulled up, you know, up 107 00:07:39,940 --> 00:07:43,860 under his chest with a big belt buckle, short hair. 108 00:07:44,100 --> 00:07:48,040 I felt comfortable to go ask him, like, hey, man, you know, is Shawn Michaels 109 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,920 around here? You know Shawn Michaels? Well, I'm Shawn Michaels. 110 00:07:51,370 --> 00:07:54,590 And I'm thinking, I'm supposed to hang out with him and show him around. 111 00:07:54,790 --> 00:07:56,570 It's going to take some work. 112 00:07:58,370 --> 00:08:02,930 You know, from there, it was probably two weeks later, they said, you guys get 113 00:08:02,930 --> 00:08:04,370 together for a tag match. 114 00:08:04,730 --> 00:08:07,710 We went out there, and it was like magic. 115 00:08:09,090 --> 00:08:12,190 Just like telepathy. We already knew what we were thinking. 116 00:08:13,690 --> 00:08:17,050 When we tapped, he goes, did you feel something there? 117 00:08:18,670 --> 00:08:20,210 Yeah, that's different. 118 00:08:21,970 --> 00:08:23,010 Midnight Rockers! 119 00:08:23,710 --> 00:08:25,970 Those guys were incredible. 120 00:08:26,650 --> 00:08:28,090 My name is Pat Tanaka. 121 00:08:28,310 --> 00:08:33,789 I've wrestled for many decades, and I guess people would know me, Pat, because 122 00:08:33,789 --> 00:08:36,950 I've wrestled the Rockers for many, many years. 123 00:08:37,350 --> 00:08:42,270 Look out! Marty and Sean would run out. All you heard was just loud, high 124 00:08:42,270 --> 00:08:45,330 -pitched screams of girls going crazy. 125 00:08:45,650 --> 00:08:49,970 Marty just seemed like he was out there having fun. He was just doing what he 126 00:08:49,970 --> 00:08:50,970 knew how to do. 127 00:08:52,160 --> 00:08:57,380 I am Bruce the Barber Beefcake, WWE Hall of Famer. Welcome to the barbershop, 128 00:08:57,380 --> 00:08:58,540 ladies and gentlemen. 129 00:08:58,860 --> 00:09:02,660 And I am Missy Beefcake, also known as the Delish. 130 00:09:03,100 --> 00:09:07,260 Marty had this thing where you just, no matter where he was in the ring, you 131 00:09:07,260 --> 00:09:11,320 couldn't take your eyes off of him. He'd go here or there and he just, yeah, 132 00:09:11,420 --> 00:09:15,800 made you want to look and, you know, maybe even like undress him with your 133 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:18,540 and wonder like what else was going on in that. 134 00:09:19,040 --> 00:09:20,760 You know, a little outfit he was wearing. 135 00:09:22,060 --> 00:09:26,720 I mean, I was in heaven having all these girls around several states. 136 00:09:27,140 --> 00:09:31,220 I got into, like, middle school, and I got a crush on Cary Von Erich, you know. 137 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:36,900 And I went to see Cary Von Erich one night, and Marty was there. And I saw 138 00:09:36,940 --> 00:09:40,560 and I was like, oh, my God, that's a great guy. I'm going to go home and 139 00:09:40,560 --> 00:09:41,720 rocks at my boyfriend. 140 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:44,360 Yeah, and he was looking at me the same way. 141 00:09:44,820 --> 00:09:47,100 So we ended up getting together that night. 142 00:09:48,190 --> 00:09:50,150 I'm his forever wifey, by the way. 143 00:09:50,790 --> 00:09:54,550 Every time I went to St. Louis, I would see her. We hit it off. 144 00:09:55,410 --> 00:09:56,410 Like a girlfriend. 145 00:09:56,670 --> 00:09:57,890 Well, for St. Louis. 146 00:09:59,690 --> 00:10:05,690 From 15 feet above us. Marty and Shawn have a stellar run in the AWA, 147 00:10:05,950 --> 00:10:09,730 culminating in a violent match that gets the attention of Vince McMahon. 148 00:10:10,370 --> 00:10:15,130 Dropping midnight from their name, the Rockers are signed to the WWF. 149 00:10:15,530 --> 00:10:20,330 And I think this is well known through the wrestling world what happened our 150 00:10:20,330 --> 00:10:22,190 first day in there. 151 00:10:22,410 --> 00:10:27,890 It was common for all the wrestlers to go out, party, you know, rumble around. 152 00:10:28,170 --> 00:10:34,150 But to the extent that Marty and Shawn would go, it was ridiculous. 153 00:10:34,590 --> 00:10:41,390 We had great times. I mean, we had great times. But that's the only way I can 154 00:10:41,390 --> 00:10:42,390 say it. I'll get myself in trouble. 155 00:10:43,670 --> 00:10:48,150 To celebrate their first night in the company, Marty and Sean joined their new 156 00:10:48,150 --> 00:10:52,870 colleagues at a bar. But their notorious reputation for partying precedes them. 157 00:10:53,390 --> 00:10:54,870 Jimmy Jack Funk comes up. 158 00:10:55,450 --> 00:11:00,190 Hey, I heard you guys are partiers, huh? Y 'all supposed to be some big 159 00:11:00,190 --> 00:11:04,530 partiers. Yeah, let me see you do this. He takes a glass. 160 00:11:05,430 --> 00:11:06,710 He bit the glass. 161 00:11:07,130 --> 00:11:12,370 And Sean's like, well, I can't do that, but I can do this. He took a wine. 162 00:11:14,579 --> 00:11:15,680 Breaks it over his head. 163 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:22,200 And then they ended up throwing some shot glasses, I believe, over the bar at 164 00:11:22,200 --> 00:11:23,200 the mirror. 165 00:11:23,740 --> 00:11:27,960 They would tear things up. They would fight. They would bleed everywhere. I 166 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:30,100 mean, just like they were in a wrestling ring. 167 00:11:30,400 --> 00:11:34,980 Throw each other around and stuff. Just get so, so messed up. 168 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:39,580 And that's why they were booted out, because they were just too wild. 169 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:46,000 If we just got one day and out on this one day and done for WWE, now what do we 170 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:47,000 do? 171 00:11:53,660 --> 00:11:59,160 After only one week in the WWF, Marty Jannetty and Shawn Michaels are fired 172 00:11:59,160 --> 00:12:01,360 their wild and out -of -control antics. 173 00:12:02,380 --> 00:12:06,300 And, I mean, what kind of luck, you know, that Gat luck that I talk about? 174 00:12:06,300 --> 00:12:07,580 not explained Gat yet, have I? 175 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:12,480 I'm going to bring it up as many times as I can because it's a factor that 176 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:13,480 exists. 177 00:12:13,820 --> 00:12:15,160 MJ's up in this house. 178 00:12:16,080 --> 00:12:20,680 We are gathered here today in the Holy Spirit of GAT. 179 00:12:21,980 --> 00:12:26,120 It just stands for God's Amusement Toy. 180 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:32,920 When God gets a little bored with his natural disasters, where's Genetti? 181 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:36,860 And I'll be just strutting down the street minding my own business. 182 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:44,460 So he throws a couple bolts of lightning on them, and he just sits there 183 00:12:44,460 --> 00:12:45,460 and giggles. 184 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:47,080 Gat, back at Gat again. 185 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:51,740 Gat, because he can't accept responsibility, so it's got to be 186 00:12:51,840 --> 00:12:55,260 so it must be God who's always turning the tables on him. And it's like, no, 187 00:12:55,440 --> 00:12:56,440 it's you. 188 00:12:56,540 --> 00:12:59,820 I do believe Marty has had some bad luck, no doubt about it. 189 00:13:00,120 --> 00:13:04,760 But I also believe, and I've told Marty this, that a lot of the decisions you've 190 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:06,300 made have caused the problems you have. 191 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:09,600 And we need to stop blaming Gat. 192 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,940 His worst quality is Marty is Marty's own worst enemy. 193 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:18,940 Gone from the WWF, Marty and Sean signed with a much smaller promotion, 194 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:20,620 Continental Wrestling. 195 00:13:20,900 --> 00:13:23,200 You know, in our short career, we beat them all. 196 00:13:23,460 --> 00:13:27,660 Where they struggled to make ends meet. But after a year of impressing the 197 00:13:27,660 --> 00:13:32,420 crowd, they once again attract the attention of Vince McMahon, leading to a 198 00:13:32,420 --> 00:13:33,860 second chance with the company. 199 00:13:34,260 --> 00:13:36,100 Well, if you got talent, you get many chances. 200 00:13:36,670 --> 00:13:37,670 in any sport. 201 00:13:39,350 --> 00:13:43,430 They just kept moving up and up and up on the card. Women loved them. The guys 202 00:13:43,430 --> 00:13:44,430 wanted to be them. 203 00:13:44,510 --> 00:13:48,270 I mean, the Rockers were truly on their way. 204 00:13:49,090 --> 00:13:53,150 I was backed down from nobody. And the future has a lot to hold for the 205 00:13:53,450 --> 00:13:54,810 We are the masters of motion. 206 00:13:55,030 --> 00:13:59,250 And whether it be for business or pleasure, we have all the right moves. 207 00:13:59,250 --> 00:14:05,870 girls that were chasing the guys around the 80s and the 90s were, you know, 208 00:14:05,910 --> 00:14:12,650 models. We always partied together. I 209 00:14:12,650 --> 00:14:16,210 mean, we used to have like, you know, 20, 30 girls down at the pool. 210 00:14:16,830 --> 00:14:19,850 I was getting tired in the morning. I'm going to lay down for a minute. 211 00:14:20,380 --> 00:14:25,280 So I lay down, I close my eyes, and all of a sudden, he has his pistol in his 212 00:14:25,280 --> 00:14:27,760 hand, and he just starts going, bam, bam, bam, bam. 213 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:30,200 You can have, you know, everything. 214 00:14:30,940 --> 00:14:33,060 I jumped up, I thought he'd shot me. 215 00:14:33,380 --> 00:14:34,720 He was trying to wake me up. 216 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:36,960 He didn't want me to go to sleep. 217 00:14:38,780 --> 00:14:40,900 Jesus Christ, I had a heart attack, man. 218 00:14:42,320 --> 00:14:48,420 When he had done that, he shot his car, put a hole in his bedroom, through the 219 00:14:48,420 --> 00:14:49,420 glass windows. 220 00:14:49,820 --> 00:14:50,860 And he got mad at me. 221 00:14:51,120 --> 00:14:53,900 You wouldn't have laid down. I wouldn't have had to have done that. 222 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:58,700 Yeah. Marty was crazy, man. We had so much fun. 223 00:15:00,280 --> 00:15:03,960 When Marty and Sean were really getting it out of the park, they'd go to the 224 00:15:03,960 --> 00:15:07,980 hotel. They'd take a girl to the room, and there were girls lined up in the 225 00:15:07,980 --> 00:15:11,700 hallway waiting to go and take their turn at bat. 226 00:15:12,140 --> 00:15:14,580 Like, we were on the road 300 days a year. 227 00:15:15,100 --> 00:15:17,000 We partied 290 of them. 228 00:15:18,170 --> 00:15:21,990 And Sean and I, we were like brothers. We would room together, we would rent a 229 00:15:21,990 --> 00:15:24,450 car together, we'd go eat together, we'd go to the gym together. 230 00:15:24,810 --> 00:15:27,190 You know, a lot of women we did together. 231 00:15:27,510 --> 00:15:32,850 And at one point, you couldn't have been a closer couple of guys in wrestling. 232 00:15:34,630 --> 00:15:39,910 As their popularity soars, Marty and Sean reach the pinnacle of their careers 233 00:15:39,910 --> 00:15:40,769 a tag team. 234 00:15:40,770 --> 00:15:46,350 But on December 11, 1990, a tragic incident threatens to derail their 235 00:15:47,220 --> 00:15:51,080 Chuck Austin is his name. I had to show him there's this move I do for the 236 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:52,960 finishing, the rocker trapper. 237 00:15:53,180 --> 00:15:54,180 Look at this, here we go! 238 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,080 I was going, stepping through it. He goes, oh, I know what you're talking 239 00:15:58,160 --> 00:15:59,600 I know, yeah, I've done it before. 240 00:16:00,260 --> 00:16:02,260 I know exactly what went wrong. 241 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:06,940 Right before, I was going off the second rope and come down, grab everybody by 242 00:16:06,940 --> 00:16:09,440 the back of the head and drive down like a bulldog sort of type of thing. 243 00:16:10,880 --> 00:16:15,140 He took that decent, and the crowd popped. They looked good. So when I... 244 00:16:15,610 --> 00:16:19,410 Got him up in for the rocket dropper. He was all excited, wanted to make sure he 245 00:16:19,410 --> 00:16:20,590 got that same pop. 246 00:16:21,010 --> 00:16:24,050 But see, he stood all the way up and dove down. 247 00:16:26,230 --> 00:16:30,750 He dove straight into the ring and broke his neck. 248 00:16:31,250 --> 00:16:35,110 I go to roll him over. I stepped over him. I saw his legs crossed. 249 00:16:35,730 --> 00:16:36,810 And I saw him. 250 00:16:37,370 --> 00:16:41,430 He was laying there. He picked his arms up and, like, wiggled his fingers. And I 251 00:16:41,430 --> 00:16:42,610 tagged Sean. I said... 252 00:16:43,050 --> 00:16:47,390 I think he might be hurt, man. And Sean did great. He dove off the top. He did 253 00:16:47,390 --> 00:16:48,390 not touch him at all. 254 00:16:49,610 --> 00:16:50,970 Then he covered for the pin. 255 00:16:51,710 --> 00:16:53,890 And he was still laying there. He hasn't moved. 256 00:16:54,790 --> 00:16:56,730 So we got out in the ring. 257 00:16:57,190 --> 00:17:00,490 So by the time I got in the back, everybody's gathered around the monitors 258 00:17:00,490 --> 00:17:01,490 looking. 259 00:17:01,650 --> 00:17:04,109 But he has not moved his legs. They're still crossed. 260 00:17:04,609 --> 00:17:06,130 He's not moved from the spot. 261 00:17:07,130 --> 00:17:09,589 I took him in the back and got him on a helicopter. 262 00:17:11,390 --> 00:17:12,530 And I'm watching all that. 263 00:17:14,190 --> 00:17:17,550 And just thinking, man, I caused that. 264 00:17:18,770 --> 00:17:23,990 His job was to lose, but he lost more than he bargained for. And Chuck says he 265 00:17:23,990 --> 00:17:28,850 expressed reservations about having to fall to the mat without using his hands 266 00:17:28,850 --> 00:17:29,850 to break his fall. 267 00:17:30,050 --> 00:17:33,870 I questioned him several times, and he told me he was a professional and he 268 00:17:33,870 --> 00:17:38,510 would protect me. When I hit the mat, I knew my neck was broken. 269 00:17:39,130 --> 00:17:44,330 I find out six months later they're suing us for $10 million. 270 00:17:45,250 --> 00:17:48,550 The jury, they know what they saw on the TV, you know, because they had the TV 271 00:17:48,550 --> 00:17:53,030 monitor and they showed them. They reacted on that. I did too. Oh, God. 272 00:17:53,510 --> 00:17:56,990 If they don't see it done right, it looks sickening to see. 273 00:17:57,490 --> 00:18:01,170 There's a story that Dean Malenko came into the court. Yeah, Dean come in and 274 00:18:01,170 --> 00:18:03,310 they told the jury, well, now you're going to see the move. 275 00:18:03,870 --> 00:18:04,870 Brought the mat in. 276 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:10,420 Did the rocker drop her there? The jury just sat there, like, just looking, but 277 00:18:10,420 --> 00:18:14,280 it was just no reaction, none. And for wrestlers, that's the worst thing. You 278 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:16,180 either want a yay or a boo. 279 00:18:16,720 --> 00:18:18,060 You don't want just nothing. 280 00:18:19,900 --> 00:18:23,600 It was seven days worth of trial. We're done. They got the judgment. 281 00:18:24,300 --> 00:18:28,700 And it was probably 20 minutes. 282 00:18:28,980 --> 00:18:32,800 When they come down and say, we're ready, you know, it's hard to get two 283 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:34,460 to agree. Get 12 people. 284 00:18:34,890 --> 00:18:36,370 and you're ready in 20 minutes. 285 00:18:44,230 --> 00:18:48,970 After a very brief deliberation, the jury returns with a verdict. 286 00:18:49,650 --> 00:18:56,410 We find WWE 90 % negligent. We find Chuck Austin 5%, Marty 287 00:18:56,410 --> 00:19:01,150 Jannetty 5 % negligent. We find for Chuck Austin $24 million. 288 00:19:02,330 --> 00:19:05,950 I jumped up, and I was going to say, they were suing for 10. 289 00:19:06,370 --> 00:19:08,490 You know, my lawyer said, sit down, sit down, we'll appeal. 290 00:19:09,310 --> 00:19:14,310 We appealed. They called me and said they're willing to make a settlement for 291 00:19:14,310 --> 00:19:15,310 $10 million. 292 00:19:15,770 --> 00:19:17,530 You mean I got paid 5 % on that? 293 00:19:17,830 --> 00:19:21,430 I think they had said they would just take it out of my royalty checks. 294 00:19:21,690 --> 00:19:25,210 I just didn't get as much pay as I was supposed to get for a while. 295 00:19:25,810 --> 00:19:29,730 The judge dismissed the charge and says, you're out of it. There's not no 296 00:19:29,730 --> 00:19:30,730 evidence against you. 297 00:19:31,310 --> 00:19:32,470 That's the look of Sean. 298 00:19:33,450 --> 00:19:37,230 I've said this a million times, and everybody who knows him will agree. 299 00:19:37,510 --> 00:19:40,310 He can step in shit and come out smelling like a rose. 300 00:19:42,010 --> 00:19:44,730 I'm not a Sean fan at all, not even this much. 301 00:19:45,110 --> 00:19:51,850 He was egotistical. He was, you know, the heartbreak kid kind of attitude. 302 00:19:51,930 --> 00:19:52,930 that's his real attitude. 303 00:19:53,150 --> 00:19:54,230 That wasn't a show. 304 00:19:54,810 --> 00:19:58,110 He was always a little cocky and arrogant, but, you know, that's my 305 00:19:58,250 --> 00:19:59,250 He's good to me. 306 00:19:59,520 --> 00:20:04,180 Then he started getting edgy towards me. He would get aggravated when Marty'd 307 00:20:04,180 --> 00:20:05,180 overdo something. 308 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:09,860 But on Sean's behalf, he didn't have quite as bad of a habit as 309 00:20:09,860 --> 00:20:16,280 Marty did. I couldn't list the number of drugs Marty's probably done. 310 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:20,960 I know cocaine, crack, sovas, halcyons. 311 00:20:23,060 --> 00:20:28,420 I saw him take a lot of halcyon. 312 00:20:28,830 --> 00:20:30,390 The heavy -duty tranquilizer. 313 00:20:30,950 --> 00:20:35,110 And he was laying on the floor with the pills spilt everywhere. 314 00:20:35,930 --> 00:20:39,670 I had to call Sean and tell Sean, what do I do? Do I call an ambulance? 315 00:20:39,890 --> 00:20:42,490 Do I call a cop? What do I do? And he's like, don't call nobody. 316 00:20:43,290 --> 00:20:49,890 Him and Jimmy Schnuka, they just bust through the door and grabbed him and 317 00:20:49,890 --> 00:20:56,610 got him in the shower and stuff. And I cleaned the room, got the pills, and, 318 00:20:56,710 --> 00:20:57,679 you know. 319 00:20:57,680 --> 00:21:02,700 I just was so, I was just somewhere else, you know. I just, oh, my God. 320 00:21:03,140 --> 00:21:04,600 You know, he almost died. 321 00:21:05,980 --> 00:21:12,720 I think maybe it was that Sean thought that Marty was going to screw up really 322 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:16,800 bad because some of the shit that he did was, you know, crazy. 323 00:21:17,040 --> 00:21:19,400 Like most partners do, because I'm in a tag team. 324 00:21:19,980 --> 00:21:25,140 Marty and Sean started butting heads a little bit and escalated to where they 325 00:21:25,140 --> 00:21:27,260 actually had a physical fight in a hotel. 326 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:33,740 Marty came in drunk, bumping all over, cussing Sean. 327 00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:41,240 And then here comes Sean and runs across the room and hits Marty, knocks him out 328 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:42,240 a window. 329 00:21:44,700 --> 00:21:47,040 Luckily, we were down low. 330 00:21:47,630 --> 00:21:53,630 And he hit the bushes and crawled back through the window, 331 00:21:53,810 --> 00:21:57,950 got up in Sean's face and said, think you can do it again? 332 00:21:59,350 --> 00:22:04,750 Marty gets up and walks out the door. Sean walks out behind him. Next thing 333 00:22:04,750 --> 00:22:09,410 know, I look out there and Marty's got Sean on the ground. He's got his knees 334 00:22:09,410 --> 00:22:11,410 his arms and he's choking him. 335 00:22:12,230 --> 00:22:13,490 And he's already purple. 336 00:22:14,430 --> 00:22:17,310 Marty said he just remembers looking down and seeing his jeans were all 337 00:22:17,310 --> 00:22:18,310 and it wasn't his blood. 338 00:22:20,250 --> 00:22:21,750 Shouldn't have never happened, but it did. 339 00:22:21,950 --> 00:22:25,270 And, you know, Sean had to miss a few days on the road from it. 340 00:22:25,790 --> 00:22:29,310 And I think that was the catalyst to the end of their partnership because, you 341 00:22:29,310 --> 00:22:32,010 know what, if you get your ass kicked by your partner, it's kind of hard to go 342 00:22:32,010 --> 00:22:33,010 back to normal. 343 00:22:34,470 --> 00:22:37,790 We met with Vince, and Vince is like a... 344 00:22:38,240 --> 00:22:41,980 Trying to find a way to split you guys up and take you into singles. 345 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,720 I said, Sean, I need to talk about that first. 346 00:22:45,100 --> 00:22:46,400 Sean's like, I'm okay with it. 347 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:48,040 Right there. 348 00:22:48,340 --> 00:22:49,740 I mean, like, wow, man. 349 00:22:50,260 --> 00:22:53,200 I said, well, where are we going to go with this? You know, Vince was saying, 350 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:58,620 well, I see Sean being a superstar, and I just don't quite see that in you right 351 00:22:58,620 --> 00:22:59,620 now, Marty. 352 00:23:00,340 --> 00:23:02,420 Could that have crushed him or what? 353 00:23:03,139 --> 00:23:07,460 Vince just saw something more in Sean, and I think that probably Sean was in 354 00:23:07,460 --> 00:23:10,560 Vince's ear or ass more than Marty was. 355 00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:16,840 I hate to use this expression, but kiss an ass. 356 00:23:17,260 --> 00:23:23,020 I said, what are we doing, me? Because, see, I figured, okay, you just need to 357 00:23:23,020 --> 00:23:26,440 get him over it and shit, Cammy. I ain't going to do it. If you're keeping me 358 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:27,980 aboard, of course I'll do it. 359 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,780 Although there has been a great deal of speculation of the late that maybe 360 00:23:31,780 --> 00:23:32,780 there's a... 361 00:23:35,300 --> 00:23:41,200 They were planting the seeds in matches prior where Marty and Sean had a little 362 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:42,200 dust -up. 363 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:46,800 Sean would always be the one that was initiating or getting angrier and more 364 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:51,280 frustrated. Of course, the magazines were running with the story, how we were 365 00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,920 jealous of each other, who had prettier girls. 366 00:23:55,380 --> 00:24:00,800 They had the barbershop, which was bruised. 367 00:24:01,130 --> 00:24:02,990 The Barber Beefcake's kind of like talk show. 368 00:24:03,350 --> 00:24:04,990 Let's welcome them right now. 369 00:24:05,430 --> 00:24:06,810 They're the Rockers. 370 00:24:08,830 --> 00:24:12,030 And that was the pinnacle of the turn. 371 00:24:12,430 --> 00:24:15,450 You've been having some problems, but I want to get you out here on the 372 00:24:15,450 --> 00:24:19,830 barbershop so we can talk about this thing and get it all straight once and 373 00:24:19,830 --> 00:24:24,830 all. Before that day, I had no idea that that was going to happen. 374 00:24:25,420 --> 00:24:28,340 I don't want to put the blame back and forth, just like you said. I'll take the 375 00:24:28,340 --> 00:24:31,960 blame. I'm sorry. I want this thing to work with the Rockers. 376 00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:35,160 And if you want to go on your own, then walk off and leave. 377 00:24:36,580 --> 00:24:40,500 If you want to stick together and make this thing work, when I turn around, 378 00:24:40,660 --> 00:24:44,520 we're going to shake hands, and we're going to go on a rock and roll like the 379 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:45,700 Rockers can do. 380 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:49,680 He waits a second, listens to the crowd, saying, you know, stay together, stay 381 00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:50,680 together. 382 00:24:51,100 --> 00:24:52,500 And he spins me around. 383 00:24:54,830 --> 00:24:55,830 Shake hands. 384 00:24:59,550 --> 00:25:06,530 You know, when the crowd goes crazy, I look that way and he turns, 385 00:25:06,630 --> 00:25:09,750 wham! Oh, I knew he was going to do that. 386 00:25:10,450 --> 00:25:12,110 I just knew he was going to do that. 387 00:25:12,330 --> 00:25:14,430 He kicked me so hard I didn't even feel the glass. 388 00:25:26,120 --> 00:25:28,360 The fans didn't want the team to break up, no doubt. 389 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:29,960 Nobody saw it coming. 390 00:25:30,220 --> 00:25:33,120 That's, you know, what really made it the moment. 391 00:25:33,740 --> 00:25:36,320 In a way, it really broke my heart. 392 00:25:39,020 --> 00:25:43,720 I think we seemed like best friends, you know, to the people. 393 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:48,600 So it really kind of broke their heart for us to split, but then to split that 394 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:54,260 way. It was a career -defining moment for both of them. 395 00:25:55,899 --> 00:25:59,900 Really, I hate to say it, in two different ways. For Sean, it was a 396 00:25:59,900 --> 00:26:03,220 pad, and he took it. It's a problem with you, Sean. 397 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:04,680 Rockers are history. 398 00:26:04,900 --> 00:26:09,160 And Marty, if he could have just stayed out of his own way, could have had the 399 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:13,660 same ascension as what Sean did. And I think that's where you could see the two 400 00:26:13,660 --> 00:26:16,500 go different paths. 401 00:26:24,530 --> 00:26:28,850 Following a tumultuous relationship soured by excessive partying and 402 00:26:28,850 --> 00:26:34,230 fights, the Rockers finally split, leaving Shawn and Marty to pursue their 403 00:26:34,230 --> 00:26:36,110 separate journeys as singles wrestlers. 404 00:26:40,170 --> 00:26:40,770 Things 405 00:26:40,770 --> 00:26:48,850 definitely 406 00:26:48,850 --> 00:26:51,730 had changed. It's almost like they weren't a tag team at all. 407 00:26:52,310 --> 00:26:53,650 It got a little ugly. 408 00:26:54,110 --> 00:26:58,710 I think Marty resented Sean at that point, and I think Sean's trying to 409 00:26:58,710 --> 00:27:03,750 himself from Marty because he was, you know, making his way up the ladder, and 410 00:27:03,750 --> 00:27:06,770 so he was trying to get as far away from him as he could. 411 00:27:07,410 --> 00:27:10,850 Marty lives for the moment. He just makes really bad decisions. 412 00:27:11,250 --> 00:27:15,350 One of the girls I was seeing down in Tampa, we went to a club, and she was a 413 00:27:15,350 --> 00:27:18,410 dancer, stripper, dancer, whatever, exotic dancer. There we go. 414 00:27:18,930 --> 00:27:22,090 There was a policeman on the premises, passed me down. 415 00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,820 And he pulls out a little baggie of cocaine. 416 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:26,640 We got arrested. 417 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,740 And I did six months house arrest for that. 418 00:27:30,860 --> 00:27:36,160 He's got multiple stories of getting kicked out of multiple countries because 419 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:37,580 got arrested for doing something. 420 00:27:37,860 --> 00:27:41,460 We're just waiting to get his ass home. He was in India. It's a five -star 421 00:27:41,460 --> 00:27:44,640 hotel. Marty goes up to a cop. Can I ride it? 422 00:27:45,260 --> 00:27:48,620 Can I ride? Asks if he can ride his motorcycle. I'm sure the cop is thinking 423 00:27:48,620 --> 00:27:52,300 he's going to drive down the street. Marty goes upstairs of this hotel. 424 00:27:53,140 --> 00:27:58,340 For some reason, the doorman opens the door, and there's all these people 425 00:27:58,340 --> 00:27:59,139 the fountain. 426 00:27:59,140 --> 00:28:01,440 And then he goes straight inside the lobby. 427 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:06,700 And then wipes out and knocks one of the dudes into the fountain. 428 00:28:09,340 --> 00:28:12,920 It was just like, did he really do that? 429 00:28:13,140 --> 00:28:14,140 I mean... 430 00:28:14,980 --> 00:28:20,260 You know, he's been in trouble now with the law. They booted him out for a 431 00:28:20,260 --> 00:28:21,260 minute. 432 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:25,640 He and the Iron Sheik, I think he's ahead by one of the number of times that 433 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,120 person's been fired and brought back and fired again and brought back. 434 00:28:31,380 --> 00:28:36,800 And then they did the whole new rockers thing, which Marty feels Sean actually 435 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:40,120 was the one who suggested it to kind of sabotage and make people not think of 436 00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:41,120 the original rockers. 437 00:28:43,230 --> 00:28:47,370 The problem was I don't think Marty was 100 % invested in it. I don't blame him. 438 00:28:47,630 --> 00:28:51,710 It kind of took a swing at what he and Sean had accomplished and what they had 439 00:28:51,710 --> 00:28:52,569 done. 440 00:28:52,570 --> 00:28:54,870 They'll make you think they're really planning to do something with you, but 441 00:28:54,870 --> 00:28:56,390 you're just a pillar for the car. 442 00:28:56,750 --> 00:28:59,270 And that's when Marty realized it was time to go. 443 00:29:00,150 --> 00:29:03,610 He went to WCW, and it looked like they were really going to get behind him. 444 00:29:03,650 --> 00:29:07,930 They were going to try to do something major with him. But Marty kind of got in 445 00:29:07,930 --> 00:29:08,749 his own way again. 446 00:29:08,750 --> 00:29:11,210 In WCW, he was in trouble with the law. 447 00:29:11,850 --> 00:29:16,650 You know, he'd gotten several DUIs. One led eventually to him losing his license 448 00:29:16,650 --> 00:29:17,569 for 10 years. 449 00:29:17,570 --> 00:29:20,410 The contract ran out, and then that was it. 450 00:29:21,650 --> 00:29:24,270 He just kind of floundered after that. 451 00:29:27,710 --> 00:29:28,770 What the hell? 452 00:29:30,730 --> 00:29:34,170 You think it hurt Marty when Sean Stark was rising without him? 453 00:29:35,070 --> 00:29:40,410 It devastated him to the point where he had posters of Sean on his wall. 454 00:29:41,130 --> 00:29:42,290 With darts. 455 00:29:43,670 --> 00:29:46,890 And he would just try to hit him in the most perfect spot. 456 00:29:49,930 --> 00:29:55,190 By the late 1990s, Marty struggles to compete on the indie circuit and 457 00:29:55,190 --> 00:29:57,250 eventually vanishes from the public eye. 458 00:29:57,650 --> 00:30:02,610 Following a string of DUI charges, jail stints, and substance abuse issues, 459 00:30:02,850 --> 00:30:07,750 Marty spirals for the next five years before finally hitting rock bottom. 460 00:30:08,190 --> 00:30:12,550 The first time I'd ever considered ending a life, it was like, that bad 461 00:30:13,170 --> 00:30:17,210 What I was going to do is buy the biggest pile of cocaine and just do it 462 00:30:17,210 --> 00:30:21,130 my heart busts. So that was my conversation with the higher power. It 463 00:30:21,130 --> 00:30:24,010 you don't want me doing this, you need to let me know. And you know I'm pretty 464 00:30:24,010 --> 00:30:25,390 stupid, so make it obvious. 465 00:30:25,830 --> 00:30:30,610 You know, like you were given a sign? Yeah, make it obvious, my dumb ass. 466 00:30:32,470 --> 00:30:35,510 And his phone rang. I looked down, didn't recognize the number. 467 00:30:36,730 --> 00:30:42,470 And that call that came in was Sean calling me. And he was inviting me to 468 00:30:42,470 --> 00:30:45,010 called AIM. It's the Athletes International Ministry. 469 00:30:45,430 --> 00:30:47,570 He wanted me to go to that in Phoenix, Arizona. 470 00:30:47,890 --> 00:30:50,870 He goes, I'll take care of everything. Don't worry about that. But I would like 471 00:30:50,870 --> 00:30:52,090 you to be my guest. 472 00:30:53,650 --> 00:30:58,230 You know, before he made that call to me, we ain't talked in person, on the 473 00:30:58,230 --> 00:31:00,290 phone in seven, eight years. 474 00:31:00,570 --> 00:31:02,950 And that's when they hit me like, holy shit. 475 00:31:03,890 --> 00:31:05,890 I mean, you ask for a sign. 476 00:31:08,580 --> 00:31:13,900 And then I did go out to Arizona, and then, you know, Sean did the baptized 477 00:31:13,900 --> 00:31:17,540 thing where they dunk you in the water. Sean ended up being the one to dunk me 478 00:31:17,540 --> 00:31:18,540 in the water. 479 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,100 And we did all that, and for like three weeks, I lived the most pure life. 480 00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:28,960 Now that all that has happened, I get a phone call from WWE. 481 00:31:29,220 --> 00:31:31,560 You know, they want to do a rocker reunion. 482 00:31:31,940 --> 00:31:33,420 Of course, you know. 483 00:31:37,169 --> 00:31:41,110 Yeah, so we were at the curtain now. It's the Rocker reunion. I've been off 484 00:31:41,110 --> 00:31:42,210 for so many years. 485 00:31:42,490 --> 00:31:46,690 Now I start getting nervous, and Ishan picked up on it. 486 00:31:46,890 --> 00:31:47,890 He goes, what's wrong? 487 00:31:48,070 --> 00:31:50,090 I said, man, what if they don't remember me? 488 00:31:50,630 --> 00:31:52,150 He goes, are you kidding me? 489 00:31:52,410 --> 00:31:55,370 He goes, we were the Rockers. Nobody's going to forget us. 490 00:31:55,570 --> 00:31:57,310 He said that the music hit. 491 00:31:57,650 --> 00:31:58,930 The Rocker reunion! 492 00:31:59,430 --> 00:32:01,670 The fans are on their feet hearing it now. 493 00:32:02,050 --> 00:32:03,690 And I go out there, and they pop. 494 00:32:04,350 --> 00:32:06,050 And I was like, wow. 495 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:12,000 But the amazing thing with Sean and I was how we were so in tune with each 496 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,680 other. Like we became one when we tagged together. 497 00:32:18,500 --> 00:32:22,940 Even when he was bounced over the rope and went down, our feet would hit the 498 00:32:22,940 --> 00:32:25,800 floor at the same time. Everything was in unison as a one. 499 00:32:28,490 --> 00:32:32,170 At the next day, that's when they told me, well, you're a hell of a match. They 500 00:32:32,170 --> 00:32:33,930 want to give you a contract. 501 00:32:34,310 --> 00:32:36,750 The way we're going to use you, you'll make over a million. 502 00:32:37,390 --> 00:32:43,570 Couldn't ask for a better comeback to end up in jail a week later. 503 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:58,100 After a successful Rockers reunion, the WWF plans to continue featuring Marty on 504 00:32:58,100 --> 00:32:59,100 a regular basis. 505 00:32:59,260 --> 00:33:03,160 But trouble with the law once again prevents him from capitalizing on the 506 00:33:03,160 --> 00:33:04,160 opportunity. 507 00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:10,600 My wifey, we got to the apartment and got into a big fight. 508 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:16,940 The neighbor called the police and police show up. They were like, oh, he's 509 00:33:16,940 --> 00:33:18,100 probation. Go get him. 510 00:33:18,400 --> 00:33:19,960 So I'm in jail now. 511 00:33:21,310 --> 00:33:26,670 And I just saw him and that stripper girl a week before, and I warned him 512 00:33:26,670 --> 00:33:30,710 her. And then a week later, they got in a big fight, and he got arrested, which 513 00:33:30,710 --> 00:33:33,510 eventually had him in the house arrest, and he lost his job. 514 00:33:34,470 --> 00:33:38,030 And he had just gotten that last, that was his last shot. 515 00:33:39,650 --> 00:33:41,190 But guess what's the common denominator? 516 00:33:41,830 --> 00:33:45,450 Hanging out with strippers that do drugs and things like that, that's a lot of 517 00:33:45,450 --> 00:33:46,450 fun. I like that too. 518 00:33:46,750 --> 00:33:48,830 But don't be surprised if it bites you in the ass. 519 00:33:50,010 --> 00:33:55,170 Vince, he's like, gosh, I love Marty. I love him. Great guy, but he's got the 520 00:33:55,170 --> 00:33:56,970 biggest black cloud over his head. 521 00:33:57,290 --> 00:34:02,750 I mean, that's, and it's true. When Vince recognizes that, you know, he's 522 00:34:02,750 --> 00:34:04,030 the smartest people I've ever met. 523 00:34:04,270 --> 00:34:09,429 He does have a black cloud that follows him around, but he's the one that's, you 524 00:34:09,429 --> 00:34:10,949 know, putting it up there. 525 00:34:11,190 --> 00:34:15,130 You know what I mean? And keeping it on a leash to follow him, you know? 526 00:34:15,389 --> 00:34:17,350 It doesn't have to be that way. 527 00:34:17,570 --> 00:34:18,570 Hold on. 528 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:22,840 I'm talking about, hell, it's so swollen I can't get the pants laid up. 529 00:34:25,020 --> 00:34:29,020 Sometimes when that crap's acting up, I get like lightheaded. As you're looking 530 00:34:29,020 --> 00:34:31,159 at y 'all, I'm like, oh, they're fading out. Oh, shit. 531 00:34:32,900 --> 00:34:34,179 Do you ever worry about Marty? 532 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:40,800 I do. I do worry about him because he's alone, even though he says he has a lot 533 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:42,659 of telephone girlfriends and whatnot. 534 00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:47,100 You know, in the past, in the last years, I would see him and he'd be. 535 00:34:47,550 --> 00:34:52,190 Still trying to get in the ring and trying to wrestle, and his ankle was 536 00:34:52,190 --> 00:34:56,530 horrible. It was ridiculous. I don't even know how he got around it. I was 537 00:34:56,530 --> 00:34:57,530 to walk or anything. 538 00:34:57,770 --> 00:35:04,670 His audience now, instead of being out around the ring, is the Internet, 539 00:35:04,890 --> 00:35:10,350 is Facebook. I think that Facebook makes him feel like he's not housebound, 540 00:35:10,570 --> 00:35:15,210 which for the most part he is with his injury. 541 00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:27,960 He can reach out and touch people. They can, you know, respond to him and get 542 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:29,260 reaction from people. 543 00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:35,660 I think his life feeds off of that because of the way we grew up. 544 00:35:35,980 --> 00:35:42,520 We grew up wanting that every night, right? And then all of a sudden one day, 545 00:35:42,580 --> 00:35:45,420 you know, you see that there's no more of that. 546 00:35:46,900 --> 00:35:48,500 Social media is right there. 547 00:35:48,990 --> 00:35:54,490 He sits around and he's trying to think, okay, what can I think of funny for the 548 00:35:54,490 --> 00:35:57,990 book? He sits around and tries to come up with a funny story. 549 00:35:58,590 --> 00:36:00,410 And those are the ones you know are bullshit. 550 00:36:01,270 --> 00:36:05,030 The post about you and your daughter. No, I didn't do the post about the 551 00:36:05,030 --> 00:36:09,130 daughter thing. That was a complete hack. I didn't even see it denoted or 552 00:36:09,130 --> 00:36:10,130 defended or anything. 553 00:36:12,790 --> 00:36:15,530 But I was hearing all these things like, you wouldn't have sex with your 554 00:36:15,530 --> 00:36:18,010 daughter. I'm like, what the hell are you talking about? 555 00:36:18,670 --> 00:36:23,470 I mean, she didn't deserve any of that. I mean, neither did I, but, I mean, she 556 00:36:23,470 --> 00:36:26,670 certainly didn't. I mean, I'm a little wacko on the Internet, and that's 557 00:36:26,670 --> 00:36:31,450 reason. You know, anything wacky like that is believable because, well, Marty. 558 00:36:31,670 --> 00:36:36,170 There are lots of things that I see Marty post on Facebook, and I'm like, 559 00:36:36,170 --> 00:36:37,410 are you doing? 560 00:36:37,630 --> 00:36:44,030 And there was a point where there were a lot of holy shit moments. 561 00:36:44,510 --> 00:36:46,770 So Marty Gennetti is trending on Twitter. 562 00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:52,280 because he says that he was 13 years old. Someone grabbed him, dragged him to 563 00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:53,320 the back of a bowling alley. 564 00:36:53,580 --> 00:36:57,400 And then here's a quote from Marty Jannetty on the Facebook post. He said, 565 00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,340 was the very first time I made a man disappear. 566 00:36:59,980 --> 00:37:03,320 One of my sheriff friends, he called me and goes, what did you do? 567 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:07,540 And I said, are you talking about the post on Facebook? He goes, I don't know. 568 00:37:07,540 --> 00:37:09,920 just know they're putting a warrant out to go arrest you. 569 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:14,900 The Columbus, Georgia Police Department told TMZ, the first step will be seeing 570 00:37:14,900 --> 00:37:20,460 if we have any missing persons or unidentified remains cases that match 571 00:37:20,460 --> 00:37:22,460 limited information in the post. 572 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:26,740 I mean, if something happened, I mean, it is not out of the realm of 573 00:37:26,740 --> 00:37:28,860 that they could solve this crime. 574 00:37:29,390 --> 00:37:32,890 When my friends in Germany are sending me to newspapers, and one of the 575 00:37:32,890 --> 00:37:38,930 headlines is, Mauler Marty kills man. I mean, what the... I mean, what happened 576 00:37:38,930 --> 00:37:43,770 to the rapist? You were more concerned that a kid tried to save himself, and it 577 00:37:43,770 --> 00:37:47,610 ended up accidentally, it was called accidental deaths for a reason. 578 00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:58,420 There was a big story about your claim that you made a man disappear after an 579 00:37:58,420 --> 00:38:00,740 attempted rape on your person as a teenager. 580 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:04,420 Did you realize how public this was going to get in police involvement? 581 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:05,760 No, hell no. 582 00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,180 The police showed up on a doorstep. I mean, this thing went all the way. They 583 00:38:09,180 --> 00:38:14,240 investigated. I had to deal with police. I was scared to go to the airport. 584 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:20,100 That's the only reason I had to tell that it was a storyline, you know, so 585 00:38:20,100 --> 00:38:21,100 would leave me alone. 586 00:38:23,490 --> 00:38:25,310 Let's talk hypothetical, okay? 587 00:38:25,910 --> 00:38:30,970 Hypothetical. Hypothetically, whatever the story was, hypothetically, that this 588 00:38:30,970 --> 00:38:33,190 did happen. Okay. Tell me the story. Okay. 589 00:38:41,770 --> 00:38:46,950 So this is Ebola now. It used to be called Victory Lane. When I was 14, I 590 00:38:46,950 --> 00:38:47,950 here. 591 00:38:49,870 --> 00:38:54,230 The dude that worked the front desk, he also was somebody to buy weed from. 592 00:38:55,570 --> 00:38:58,650 When I went to buy the weed from the guy, I went out in the parking lot and 593 00:38:58,650 --> 00:38:59,288 in the car. 594 00:38:59,290 --> 00:39:04,170 He gave me the bag. He reached over and he put his hand in my crotch and said, 595 00:39:04,210 --> 00:39:04,928 what's this? 596 00:39:04,930 --> 00:39:07,290 And I smacked his hand. I said, no, not me. 597 00:39:07,810 --> 00:39:10,730 He got a little aggressive off of that. 598 00:39:11,650 --> 00:39:14,850 And he chased and grabbed and got me to the back. 599 00:39:15,630 --> 00:39:18,330 Big boy, man. He got me down and got on top. 600 00:39:22,939 --> 00:39:27,860 And, you know, he was trying to get to my pants and button, you know, take my 601 00:39:27,860 --> 00:39:28,860 pants down. 602 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:34,840 I've got a 200 -pound weight on me, so this is as far as I can go, and it's 603 00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:35,840 right there. 604 00:39:37,860 --> 00:39:40,700 And it was about this size. Maybe it had touched bigger, maybe. 605 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,420 But it was like, get off me. You know, I'm just trying to get him off. 606 00:39:46,700 --> 00:39:51,740 And evidently I caught them in the wrong place, in the temple that can end your 607 00:39:51,740 --> 00:39:52,740 life. 608 00:39:54,820 --> 00:39:58,840 You know, I'm thinking, I don't know what to do. I mean, do I tell the 609 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,020 And I thought, go get my family member. 610 00:40:05,300 --> 00:40:09,000 We both agreed, can't call the police. 611 00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,140 You know, we thought that would be the wrong move. 612 00:40:14,890 --> 00:40:20,130 On the other side of the trees, the far back trees, that's Chattahoochee River. 613 00:40:21,230 --> 00:40:25,010 So, you know, we got to get it to the river. 614 00:40:29,130 --> 00:40:32,270 This is all hypothetical. Remember that Columbus Police Department. 615 00:40:32,670 --> 00:40:34,310 It's the storyline for wrestling. 616 00:40:38,110 --> 00:40:44,050 With what happened in the car with the grab, I'll give that. That's the truth. 617 00:40:45,279 --> 00:40:49,900 If you're going to write a storyline for wrestling, but you take something that 618 00:40:49,900 --> 00:40:53,560 happened and you magnify it. 619 00:40:54,140 --> 00:40:57,100 I mean, I see now that that was too much of a storyline. 620 00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,440 They did a missing person. They didn't find nobody. 621 00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:03,380 So, I mean, that should be the end of it. 622 00:41:03,700 --> 00:41:04,800 No body, no crime. 623 00:41:05,300 --> 00:41:06,300 From Marty. 624 00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:29,240 I love Marty dearly, and I just want him to be happy. 625 00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:35,700 I fear that he's going to be alone, because this becomes your life, you 626 00:41:35,780 --> 00:41:39,460 And now what do you do when you've got to keep going on living, but your life 627 00:41:39,460 --> 00:41:40,460 died? 628 00:41:40,480 --> 00:41:41,640 Marty, we love you. 629 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,120 Keep your hands off my wife. 630 00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:50,200 The future is bright, Marty. Give it a chance. 631 00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:52,100 There are people that love you out there. 632 00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:58,360 I'm one of them, and I had thought about maybe flashing you, Marty, but I'm 633 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:02,240 mic'd up, so you're missing out. 634 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:05,960 There's a thing in the wrestling business about, you know, oh, I don't 635 00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:07,240 be the Marty Jannetty of the team. 636 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:08,760 Let me tell you something. 637 00:42:08,940 --> 00:42:12,600 You'd be lucky if you were, because there would certainly not be a Shawn 638 00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:16,260 Michaels at the level that Shawn Michaels was if it was not for Marty 639 00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:18,120 How do you feel about Shawn Michaels today? 640 00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:19,400 I love him to death. 641 00:42:19,460 --> 00:42:20,820 I mean, there was... 642 00:42:21,260 --> 00:42:25,840 Seven years of undeniably the best relationship two people could have. 643 00:42:26,240 --> 00:42:31,020 And then, you know, from ever since the phone call, it's been great again. So, 644 00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:32,680 yeah, I love him to death, you know. 645 00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:38,360 He and I work together 24 hours a day for seven years. You know, I mean, for 646 00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:42,820 that time for us to get in maybe one fight is not bad at all. 647 00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:48,260 Can't hold something from this in your rearview mirror out in front of the 648 00:42:48,260 --> 00:42:50,200 street, you know, in front of you. That's back there. 649 00:42:52,069 --> 00:42:56,570 You know, on the real side of it, I didn't drag him to the river. 650 00:42:58,930 --> 00:43:03,130 One of my buddies would drug him over the woods and pour gas on him and burn 651 00:43:03,130 --> 00:43:04,130 up. 652 00:43:05,090 --> 00:43:09,530 And maybe I even heard that if they're burned, they don't burn as much as you 653 00:43:09,530 --> 00:43:12,150 think they would, and there's a lot of bones that you've got to bury them. That 654 00:43:12,150 --> 00:43:14,010 is the story that he told me, yes. 655 00:43:14,250 --> 00:43:15,250 And when did he tell you that? 656 00:43:15,590 --> 00:43:16,590 When we were partners. 657 00:43:16,830 --> 00:43:18,450 So in the 90s he told you this? 658 00:43:18,650 --> 00:43:19,650 Yeah, yeah. 659 00:43:19,900 --> 00:43:24,460 Now, you told us that Marty tells a lot of big stories, and 99 % of the time we 660 00:43:24,460 --> 00:43:26,160 should take it with a grain of salt. 661 00:43:26,660 --> 00:43:29,480 This story is not a lie? Do you think this is true? 662 00:43:29,700 --> 00:43:31,100 This is absolutely true. 663 00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,740 He told me a long time ago that did happen, yes. 664 00:43:37,620 --> 00:43:42,820 Because I can look at him in the face, and I can listen to the story and tell 665 00:43:42,820 --> 00:43:46,660 when he's telling the truth and when he's not, you know. 666 00:43:47,020 --> 00:43:48,880 So is it possible that this storyline, 667 00:43:50,480 --> 00:43:52,640 Explanation that has to do with the fact that you don't. 668 00:43:53,880 --> 00:43:56,040 You got as much as you can get. Yeah. 669 00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:58,120 That's as much as I can give you. 670 00:43:58,640 --> 00:43:59,980 Hypothetically or not, there it is. 671 00:44:02,420 --> 00:44:04,180 Sometimes you got to look through the smoke. 672 00:44:04,900 --> 00:44:06,140 Smoking mirrors does a lot.