Barry Darsow On Why 80s Wrestling Is Still Popular, Demolition’s Record Title Run, Today’s Stars

Today The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling welcomes former 3x WWE Tag Team Champion, Barry Darsow AKA Demolition Smash. The full episode as well as the entire Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling catalog can be downloaded at this link.

Why is the “1980s” wrestling era still so popular amongst old-school fans? “I think back in the 80s I’m not saying we cared more about wrestling but we treated it more like it was really a professional sport. You really protected the business and I think that was kind of a major part of it. When you try to protect the business you are better at it than when what you are now.”

What would the generation of wrestlers that Barry learned from think of today’s wrestling scene in 2016?”Oh my God, they are probably rolling over in their graves and the guys who are still alive are probably losing their minds and want no part of it now. Not saying that now is bad it is just that it is so completely different it’s just not like professional wrestling anymore. The guys that are on TV right now with WWE or TNA they are phenomenal at what they do and with the whole wrestling profession changing and how it has evolved over the years, the bottom line it all gets back down to “wrestling”. If a guy is out there and can’t wrestle and all he does is high spots he is not going to get over like that a wrestler would. It all goes back to that old adage of come-on you have to know how to wrestle.”

How would Demolition from back in their prime work with the top stars of today?”I think we could probably just after having a few matches with them and teach them exactly how to tell a story out there, I think we could tear the house down. I just don’t know if teams could keep up with us. With both Ivan and Nikita Koloff as well as with Bill (Eadie) the whole thing that we did was our endurance. We could wrestle hour matches and I don’t think that these guys could go a half hour without having their tongues hanging out and they would have to wait up for us and I am not saying that in a bad way because that is just how we were trained. When me and Ivan were together we wrestled the Rock and Roll Express in one day wrestled three-one hour long broadways. First …

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