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00:30¡Larger-than-life John Tanta had a meteoric rise in the WWF's Earthquake
00:42before being paired with another big man, Typhoon, in the iconic tag team, The Natural Disasters.
00:48It's bad weather for everybody at the WWF.
00:52Natural Disasters, Earthquake and Typhoon.
00:55A thousand pounds of fun.
00:56There was no picking them guys up, put it that way.
00:58You go to lift them and, you know, blow your back out type situations.
01:02Intimidating in the ring, behind the scenes, John Tanta was a very different man.
01:07There were gentlemen, respected by everybody.
01:09Everybody could count on John Tanta to do the job and do it right.
01:12No doubt about that.
01:14My dad was a good guy, regardless if he was a heel or not.
01:17He cared deeply about his family, and he also cared a lot about other people.
01:21It's not a very dark side of the wrestling, huh?
01:24But a change in fortune for both men...
01:26Rock the shot!
01:28...turned these once-respected superstars into parodies of themselves.
01:33He was so many gimmicks.
01:35It was probably hard from the tape.
01:37I felt like that was the low of the low, Frank.
01:39Vince McMahon can put you on the stars, or he can put you in hell.
01:43Just that simple.
01:44You don't walk out on Vince McMahon.
01:46If you do, you're going to pay for it.
01:49I don't think John gave a damn.
01:51It's the main important thing to make the money to take care of his family.
01:54And for John Tanta and his family, a cruel ending that no one saw coming.
01:59John doesn't want to go to the doctor.
02:01He waited too long.
02:03My dad's a fighter.
02:04He's going to fight through this.
02:05There's no way this will take him down.
02:06I just prayed, God, please heal him.
02:09Please let us have more time with our dad.
02:20Dino Bravo just told me that I could pick the largest man, the biggest man in the audience right now,
02:27and bring him into the ring, and he can get on Dino Bravo's back!
02:30Dino Bravo and the Ultimate Warrior were having push-up contests in the middle of the ring,
02:35and the gimmick was to find the biggest guy in the stands and to call him down.
02:41The whole audience already realized there was this giant man in the audience
02:45that would be perfect to be in this competition.
02:48Wow!
02:48Oh, my goodness!
02:49When my dad made his debut in the WWE, he was planted in the audience.
02:55Take a look at the size of this man!
02:58Jimmy Hart called him down.
03:00John from West Virginia.
03:04And he's wearing this bright blue shirt, jeans and white shoes, looking like a dad.
03:08And so he's sitting on Ultimate Warrior's back, then he just smashes him.
03:15Wait a minute!
03:15Whoa!
03:17Bravo!
03:17We see the first iteration of the Earthquake splash, and establishing himself as a pretty
03:23major heel.
03:24Felt of a man down across the chest!
03:27Hey, this guy learned how to wrestle pretty quick!
03:29Yeah, no kidding!
03:30I smell a rat!
03:32That's how he's introduced into the wrestling world.
03:36My name's Jeff Tenta, and Earthquake's my father.
03:40Everybody knew me as Lil' Quake, everybody knew my dad.
03:44I was just in the backstage a lot of times when he was wrestling.
03:47I can honestly say that he was definitely respected.
03:51My dad told you to keep an eye on my kid.
03:53They were going to do it.
03:54It was kind of surreal being backstage.
03:57I've watched these wrestlers and their own personas and their gimmicks,
04:01just kind of doing their thing, just talking to each other.
04:04I'm Joanna, and I'm the daughter of Earthquake, John Tenta.
04:10I did want to be a wrestler.
04:11I still love wrestling today, and growing up, I thought there was nobody cooler than my dad.
04:17My name is John Tenta, the youngest child of John, Earthquake, and Josephine Tenta.
04:23My dad was good at making the audience buy into this villain.
04:27I think he was incredible in the ring.
04:29When John Tenta debuts in WWF in 1989, he's already had a storied career that has taken
04:37him halfway around the world from his hometown of Surrey, British Columbia.
04:41My dad knew that he wanted to become a wrestler from a very young age.
04:47My grandfather was also a huge wrestling fan, and so they only got a few channels,
04:51but they would always tune in to watch wrestling.
04:53From that moment on, he was hooked.
04:55He knew that that was what he wanted to do.
04:59His grandfather were not wealthy people.
05:01They couldn't afford to buy him a weight set or get him into extracurricular sports and
05:05things like that, so he found other ways to exercise.
05:08Going to the parks, lifting park benches, or doing whatever he could to just get stronger.
05:13They believed in him from the beginning.
05:15He was a Canadian world champion in wrestling, and he was being prospected by 12 major universities
05:20in the U.S., and we know that he ended up going to LSU and wrestling there.
05:26But when they dropped their wrestling program, he found wrestling in other ways.
05:29The oldest Japanese sport is sumo, a form of wrestling which dates back to hand-to-hand
05:36combat techniques of nearly 20 centuries ago.
05:39John Tenta was 22 years old.
05:41One of the sumo wrestling stables came to college wrestling meet and recruited him when he was
05:47in Louisiana State University.
05:49He quit college and came to Japan to live and start as a sumo wrestler.
05:54Hello, my name is Fumi Saito.
05:55I'm a journalist.
05:56I'm an author.
05:57I'm a wrestling historian.
05:59Sumo is Japanese national sport.
06:01They still wear kimonos, they have samurai hairdos, and sumo wrestler is like more like a sumo society.
06:11Sumo is different.
06:13The way they train, the discipline, you have to fight for it.
06:19My name is Haku.
06:21I've been with wrestling for 40 years.
06:23One, two, three!
06:25For wrestling, you climb over the top rope and jump.
06:29Sumo is more underground and more physical.
06:34John was probably the tallest one of that time, and he was big too.
06:40I believe they were looking at him to be a grand champion.
06:45He went into three consecutive tournaments and won all three tournaments.
06:52He was basically undefeated for eight months period until he decided to walk out.
06:58I like sumo, I like the sport, but I just can't live the lifestyle.
07:04There was a lot of demands and a lot of pressure put on you.
07:07I had to do anything that my senior wrestlers asked me.
07:10And when I interviewed him the following year, he felt that he always wanted to be a professional wrestler.
07:19That was his goal.
07:21He was signed with All Japan Pro Wrestling in July of 1986.
07:25He basically learned from Japanese side and American side together.
07:29He enjoyed professional wrestling a lot more than he enjoyed sumo wrestling, that's for sure.
07:37He learned the customs and spoke Japanese too.
07:41He was treated more like a local now.
07:44My love, there's only John in my life.
07:52It's only John forever.
07:55My name is Josephine and I'm married with John Earthquake Tenta.
08:05I'm from the Philippines.
08:08Luckily, I got my visa and go to Japan for a singing entertainer.
08:15He went into the place that I was working and my mama-san introduced him to me.
08:21This love at first sight for him and for me.
08:24My mama-san told me he's a wrestler, but I don't know nothing about wrestling.
08:29So, to me, so what?
08:31He's really famous.
08:34John was 6'7".
08:35How tall are you?
08:374'11".
08:38It didn't bother me at all.
08:40Don't get it twisted, man.
08:41My mom may be barely five foot, but she's the alpha in the house.
08:44I promise you that.
08:46They really are a love story for the ages.
08:48Everything had to be in the right place and set in motion at the right time
08:52for them to even find each other in such a big world.
08:56I know right away that he's a good man and a big heart.
09:00The following year, WWF at the time was already interested in John Tenta as Hulk Hogan's opponent.
09:07And John Tenta asked the company, would it be okay to leave and join WWE?
09:14The great Kabuki, I believe, was the one who told him, go ahead and do it.
09:20That's your chance.
09:21Before accepting the offer from the WWF, John Tenta makes a commitment,
09:27not just to Josephine, but to her son Jeff as well.
09:31We were a package deal, me and my mom.
09:33And the first time I saw him, he was sitting there in one of our chairs in front of a window
09:37and just his whole body would just cover that whole window.
09:41That's the lasting image I have the first time I meet my father.
09:44Only father I know, so he is my dad.
09:47When they got married shortly after we both flew from Philippines to Canada,
09:53obviously I was a little nervous, a little scared.
09:56Different country, a whole new world.
09:59As John and his family settle in British Columbia,
10:02his WWF career ignites with an in-ring feud against the world champion Hulk Hogan.
10:08There he is, World Wrestling Federation heavyweight champion.
10:12And he has never looked better.
10:14There's nothing going on in the Ransom Village.
10:16It couldn't even be any bigger than the Hulkamanias.
10:19When you come in there and you're working right off on top,
10:22that means you're somebody and you're good.
10:25Hey, this is Earl Hebner and I've been a referee for over 40 years.
10:28Such a catering going on around here.
10:30John was a special friend of mine, always.
10:32We were all a team.
10:34John knew how to handle the matches.
10:36He knew how to make them exciting.
10:38Oh!
10:38He may have been a rookie, but he had credentials.
10:43He earned it.
10:44Hi, I'm Jake the Snake Roberts,
10:47WWE superstar and master of the DDT.
10:51DDT!
10:52DDT, Stone Mountain Georgia!
10:55John took it like he'd been doing it for years.
10:57I couldn't believe when I found out how long he'd been wrestling.
10:59I was amazed.
11:02Hogan tries to go for the bonus.
11:04It's a spot that everybody wants.
11:07When you're wrestling the champ, you're going to be paid like a champ.
11:10I think my dad was a great foe for Hulk Hogan
11:12because he was one of the only guys that was actually bigger than him.
11:16He was really great at generating heat.
11:18So you needed somebody that you could really hate.
11:20The last time I came face to face with Hulk Hogan,
11:24they carried him out on a stretcher
11:26and all the little Hulkamaniacs
11:29cried their little eyes out
11:31because they knew Hulkamania was dead.
11:35Now forget about it.
11:36You wrestle Hogan, you've made it.
11:38You're that guy.
11:38You're it.
11:40His career was going to just take off and keep taking off
11:43and it was exciting.
11:45The most important match for John Tenter
11:48as a professional wrestler
11:50happened back in Japan, 1991.
11:52The Tokyo Dome event was Hulk Hogan,
11:56Randy Savage, Bret Hart, all these superstars.
11:59But it was another attraction,
12:01former sumo wrestler John Tenter
12:03against former grand champion of sumo wrestling,
12:07Coach Kitao, rookie professional wrestler.
12:10Kitao was not popular professional wrestler.
12:12He thought he was going to be just the biggest star.
12:15He wasn't.
12:17For Kitao, John Tenter was somebody
12:20who tried sumo wrestling for one year
12:22and didn't even make it.
12:24And this time,
12:25actually,
12:26John Tenter was bigger and better than Kitao.
12:31Kitao think that, you know,
12:32he was Bruce Lee or something.
12:35He didn't care about the rules,
12:38the respect, and everything.
12:39The first match, an earthquake drop.
12:48Oh, it's a good one!
12:49It's a good one!
12:50John Tenter pinned Koji Kitao,
12:53a former Yokozuna grand champion sumo wrestler.
12:56Oh, Kitao wasn't happy.
12:57I believe second night at Kobe,
13:01John was going to go over too, again.
13:03That night, Kitao worked against the booking plan.
13:09Oh, Kitao got up!
13:11Kitao got a horse to get a horse to get a horse to get a horse.
13:14We were standing there because we knew already
13:16that he was, you know,
13:18he might pull something, and he did.
13:19Which one is going to be going to get to?
13:21Kitao or Tenter?
13:22Kitao went like this.
13:24He was going to poke his eye.
13:25He was like, come on, you've got to have a fight.
13:28You've got to have a fight.
13:29And I know when he went for that eye poke,
13:31my dad delivered a real kick.
13:34Like an MMA match.
13:35After Kitao disqualified himself from the match to end it,
13:39he saw it wasn't going anywhere,
13:41grabbed a mic,
13:41told everyone that wrestling was fake,
13:43that it was all a lie, it was all a scam.
13:49John Tenter, you are fake,
13:51and this is the whole thing is fake,
13:53and he walked out on the match.
13:55We were all there in the dressing room,
13:58and John bussed in there.
13:59He said, where's this son of a bitch?
14:01I'm going to kick his ass.
14:04It was Kitao who got booed out of the building.
14:06That was the last time Kitao worked for SWS company.
14:11He was fired the next day.
14:14John is very kind.
14:15John is very quiet.
14:17Those are the guys that you have to watch out for.
14:19After former sumo grand champion turned wrestler,
14:31Koji Katao goes rogue during a match in Japan.
14:34He's fired for his actions.
14:39But for John Tenter,
14:41the incident cements his reputation as a true professional.
14:44When John Tenter went back to the States,
14:47entire backstage of WWE asked him,
14:50I heard you had shoot match in Japan,
14:52and you took care of yourself.
14:54Great.
14:56Everybody had so much respect for John Tenter,
14:59Earthquake, from that day forward.
15:02Oh, look at this.
15:04Earthquake doing his team.
15:05He loved that gimmick.
15:06It made him feel big.
15:07It made him feel like he was a force to be reckoned with.
15:10My dad would always brag about,
15:12look, I'm the most hated bad guy.
15:14You know, because he knew he did his job.
15:16Roberts, last week you thought you were real smart,
15:19trying to put that snake on me.
15:22I'm telling you here and now,
15:24keep Damien away from me.
15:25I can't stand snakes,
15:27but most of all, I can't stand you.
15:30I hate your guts.
15:32Damien was my pet snake that I loved and trusted,
15:35and I always had the snake with me, you know,
15:38and then at the end of the match,
15:40I'd get the snake out and drape it
15:42across the fallen opponents.
15:44It was my gimmick.
15:45Jake the Snake Roberts with Damien in the bag.
15:49The idea was for him to kill it.
15:51They wanted me to get knocked out of the ring
15:53in the intent to do the damage to the snake
15:56where he jumps on the snake while I'm down and out.
15:59So I would never see it.
16:00I told him, hell no, that's not the way to do that.
16:03The way to do that is to tie me in the ropes
16:05and make me watch it.
16:07Jake always puts Damien underneath the ring,
16:09and at that time,
16:11there was another bag underneath the ring,
16:13so he'd grab the bag, put it on the center of the ring.
16:15He's got Damien in the ring,
16:17but from behind again.
16:18Quick ran into the ropes
16:19and give him this big boom squash.
16:22Watch this, folks.
16:23Please don't watch it.
16:25No.
16:25He's gonna come.
16:26Come on, he's down.
16:27Oh, my God.
16:29The amazing Oscar performance of Jake,
16:31you know, crying and bawling his eyes out
16:33while he watched my dad sit on Damien.
16:35I went to the bag and opened up the bag
16:42and seen Damien all crushed,
16:44which wasn't Damien.
16:45It was a pair of women's pantyhose
16:48full of hamburger meat.
16:51Tragedy here has befallen Jake the snake.
16:53Roberts.
16:54We got some letters over it,
16:55you know, because it traumatized so many kids.
16:58You know, it's wrestling, for God's sake.
17:00Come on.
17:00And not only that,
17:02the aftermath after squashing Damien,
17:04there's a segment where he serves
17:06Vince McMahon and Bobby the Brain
17:07some burgers that he'd cooked up
17:09and he called them Quake Burgers
17:10and that the meat rhymed with Quake.
17:13You think this is funny?
17:14I got to eat.
17:16After my dad feuded with Hulk Hogan
17:22and with Jake the snake,
17:24you know, the storylines were maybe running
17:25a little bit thin.
17:26My dad approached Typhoon, or Tugboat, Fred,
17:29at the time to essentially join up.
17:33Hi, this is Fred Ottman,
17:35Tugboat, Typhoon, the Shockmaster,
17:37the B-A-double-D Big Steel Man,
17:40and also one half of the Natural Disasters.
17:45What you got?
17:46And I was superstar Big Bubba, too.
17:50I have a memorable dance contest
17:52with Rocky Johnson,
17:55and I got the opportunity
17:56to bust a giant boombox over his noggin.
17:58Rocky, oh!
18:00Good night!
18:02Fred, you know,
18:03he didn't know his own strengths,
18:05and Rocky was laying there
18:06in a puddle of blood.
18:07I go, what?
18:08You killed him!
18:11That was Fred, or Big Bubba,
18:13wrapped up into a ball.
18:16I'm Jerry Sags,
18:17one half the infamous tag team,
18:19the Nasty Boys.
18:20That's the time we first met Big Bubba, Fred.
18:23He'd become many other gimmicks after that.
18:26See, old Tugboat is just like
18:27the Battleship Missouri, brother.
18:29He's loaded.
18:29He's ready for battle, brother.
18:32Full steam ahead.
18:34Tugger's coming to town.
18:35No.
18:37Indeed!
18:37Oh, look at that shot right there!
18:39Talk about power!
18:41The office call from WWF,
18:43and they go,
18:44we'd like to put you
18:45and Earthquake together.
18:48Jimmy Hart will be your manager,
18:50you will be Typhoon,
18:51and he will be Earthquake,
18:53the natural disasters.
18:55I thought it was a great deal
18:56for Fred to transition,
18:58because those two guys together
18:59were monsters.
19:01852 pounds combined weight.
19:06Got to be a record.
19:07We wrestled John and Fred a lot,
19:10but you had to change
19:11your whole game plan up,
19:13because you weren't throwing
19:14these guys in the rope
19:15and power bombing them.
19:16You go to give them a double tackle,
19:18but me and Donaldson
19:19both get knocked on our ass.
19:20You know,
19:21you let Fred do his strongman stuff,
19:23the weight could work with anybody.
19:25They were just another notch,
19:26one of the greatest teams we've wrestled.
19:28You got the Earthquake
19:29and you got Typhoon.
19:30In that kind of weather,
19:31you shouldn't be wrestling.
19:32Chasing the dream,
19:43the champ deal,
19:44is awesome.
19:46And having it is awesome.
19:47But you may be in Connecticut today
19:50or Madison Square Garden
19:51and then have to fly out to L.A.
19:53The schedule of the WWE
19:55was really brutal.
19:57Seven days a week,
19:58twice on Saturday,
20:00twice on Sunday.
20:01You're like an absentee father,
20:03sort of.
20:04Your wife is a stronghold
20:05of the household
20:06and she's taking care of the family
20:08while you're gone.
20:10He'd be gone a month at a time
20:12and he'd be home for a couple days.
20:14Clearly it was tough on my mom,
20:15new environment, new country.
20:18She expected him to be home
20:19a little bit more.
20:20John was having a hard time too
20:22because I'm new to the place
20:24so he's worried about me.
20:27Especially when I have Jeffrey
20:30and Joanna at that time.
20:32I didn't know who he was
20:34because I saw him very seldomly.
20:37It was this massive giant
20:39walking through the door
20:41and the person who's been with me
20:43the most is this petite,
20:45tiny Filipino woman.
20:47And I'm sure that broke his heart,
20:49which makes me sad to think about.
20:51The pressure there to come home
20:54is monstrous side, man.
20:57How much is too much?
20:59The answer is,
21:00it was all too much.
21:01But that didn't matter to me.
21:03It's like, man.
21:03And there he is.
21:14There's my buddy, Quig.
21:17And I can't leave him by himself,
21:19you know what I'm saying?
21:20So the disasters have to be together
21:21spending some time.
21:22And we're equal opportunity smashers,
21:24okay, because
21:25there's money incorporated
21:27having a bad day.
21:28In 1992,
21:33the natural disasters
21:35dominate the WWF tag team scene,
21:38setting themselves apart backstage
21:39with their unique approach
21:41to life on the road.
21:42There were guys that their goal
21:44was about a strip club or women.
21:46Where's the party?
21:48John was neither of those.
21:50And Fred was neither of those.
21:51I wasn't ever really a big drinker.
21:54I didn't do drugs and that stuff.
21:56You know, I'd be with John.
21:57And we'd go in the room and bullshit
21:59and talk about home life
22:01and stupid shit
22:02that we'd seen on the road.
22:03Sometimes it's better
22:04just to sit back
22:05and see it unfurl.
22:07They were straight up guys.
22:09You know what I mean?
22:10But the two son of a bitches
22:13could put some food away.
22:14You know what I mean?
22:15You know?
22:17The plate couldn't hold enough.
22:18I'm like, Fred,
22:19you go back for more.
22:20It looked like
22:21Mount St. Helens or something.
22:23You know, but he would go back
22:24for four more plates.
22:25He's one of the greatest guys
22:28I've met in this business.
22:29He's very humble,
22:31always ready to give 100%.
22:33Plus, it wasn't bad
22:34having a guy his size
22:36covering my back either.
22:38They really became close friends,
22:40that natural disaster run.
22:41And it was a good run.
22:43At the beginning of 1993,
22:45the reign of the natural disasters
22:47comes to an end
22:48as John Tenta returns to Japan.
22:51That's probably been the problem
22:54with my career
22:55is that I'm impatient
22:56and I just didn't see
22:59a whole lot going on.
23:00They had different tag teams
23:02they wanted to push
23:03and we kind of got pushed
23:04to the back.
23:05I just felt we were too big
23:07to be pushed to the back.
23:08So I kind of took a hiatus
23:11and went back to Japan
23:12for a while.
23:13Fred Ottman continues
23:14to wrestle for the WWF
23:16until later that year
23:18when an unthinkable tragedy
23:19brings Fred home to Florida.
23:22I was opening two bars
23:24in Key West.
23:25My brother-in-law, Randy,
23:27was supposed to run the business
23:28when I was on the road
23:29and my brother-in-law
23:30was out on the phone
23:31by that building
23:32and there was some young kids
23:34that were there
23:35and they start messing
23:36with a good friend of his
23:37and Randy drops the phone
23:39and goes over
23:40to try to de-escalate
23:41the situation.
23:42Well, the oldest guy
23:43had a pistol
23:44and shot the gun
23:47and he hit my brother-in-law
23:50and he dropped dead
23:51on the spot.
23:54And so with everything
23:56I had going on
23:57there was no one
23:58to take over the business
24:00and it took me off the road
24:01and not what I had planned
24:03but, you know, my family.
24:06While Fred struggles
24:07to help his family,
24:09John's work schedule
24:10in Japan
24:10takes him further away
24:12from his own.
24:13My dad at the time,
24:14the travel was starting
24:15to wear on him.
24:16My mom and dad
24:17got into a pretty big fight
24:19just because he wasn't
24:20home enough.
24:22It was a pretty big blowout,
24:23you know,
24:24my mom was just tired
24:25of not, you know,
24:27seeing him
24:28as often as she would
24:29have liked to.
24:30I remember that day,
24:31like it was yesterday, man.
24:32In August of 1993,
24:35Fred Ottman
24:36makes his return
24:37to the ring
24:37for the WWF's rival,
24:39WCW,
24:40but soon finds himself
24:42at the center
24:42of one of the most
24:43embarrassing moments
24:44in wrestling history
24:45while the cameras
24:46are live.
24:50The Shockmaster
24:52was the gimmick.
24:54This was Live TV.
24:56Tonight's special guests
24:58are Sting,
24:59the British Bulldog,
25:00Davey Boy Smith,
25:01and their mystery guest.
25:03It was Sting and Davey Boy.
25:05They're tagged up
25:05and it was
25:06the Harlem Heat
25:07on the other side
25:08and Fred was supposed
25:09to attack
25:10Harlem Heat or something.
25:11Hey,
25:12they're going to tell us
25:13before you get carried away
25:15who their special
25:17tag team partner is,
25:19brother.
25:20You better go down.
25:21The whole idea was
25:22that I was
25:23the mystery partner.
25:24Let me bust through
25:25the wall
25:25with this gimmick on.
25:26The true Shockmaster
25:27was almost like
25:28a comic book,
25:29like a Darth Vader head
25:31or something, right?
25:32Here, try this on.
25:33This is what you're going
25:33to wear when you
25:34go through here.
25:35It's got two little
25:35pinholes,
25:37like little pinholes,
25:38like this,
25:39at most.
25:41And then glitter
25:42is coming in.
25:43They built a wall
25:44that was 2x4 studs,
25:46you know,
25:4612, 14 inch on center,
25:485, 8 sheetrock,
25:49like a wall in your house.
25:50Now, they didn't gimmick
25:51the wall, though.
25:53They didn't score it
25:53or anything like that
25:54to make it easier.
25:56The guy came to the queue,
25:57he says,
25:58Fred, you're going to have
25:58to hit that wall hard, man.
26:02Do you remember
26:02the Shockmaster?
26:04Shockmaster.
26:05I can show it to you.
26:06Do you want to see
26:06what I'm talking about?
26:08Our partner is going
26:10to shock the world
26:11because he is
26:13none other than
26:14the Shockmaster!
26:17Look at the Shockmaster!
26:20I go,
26:22what in the hell
26:24who was that?
26:25Was that Fred?
26:27The Shockmaster!
26:29All right!
26:30The Shockmaster!
26:31I told you.
26:33Oh, God.
26:38Look at this,
26:39mother
26:39.
26:40Oh, God.
26:41He fell down!
26:44It looked like
26:48he hit that thing
26:49and come down.
26:51What happened was
26:52I hit it so hard.
26:54Like this,
26:55when I went through the wall,
26:56it put me straight over
26:57like a teeter-totter
26:58at a kid's playground.
26:59Oh, God.
27:02Oh, God.
27:02He was looking
27:05for the gimmick.
27:07Oh, God.
27:13They call me
27:15the Shockmaster.
27:17What a lot of people
27:18don't know
27:18is that wasn't
27:20Fred's voice
27:20talking.
27:22It was only
27:23Anderson
27:24with his growly voice
27:26was on a microphone.
27:27Come after me,
27:28Sid.
27:29I'm ready.
27:31Is this the end of it?
27:34We might as well.
27:35We can't top this one here.
27:39Fred, I still love you.
27:45I've never seen
27:46that shit before.
27:51He was going to crush
27:52people or shock them,
27:53whatever he was going to do,
27:54but he fell.
27:55And that was
27:57the end of that.
27:58The Shockmaster.
27:59It was horrendous,
28:01but you know what?
28:02You can turn a negative
28:03into a positive.
28:04It's been very,
28:05very good to me.
28:06That's the
28:06classic Shockmaster.
28:09It made an internet sensation
28:10out of Fred
28:11falling through the wall.
28:12So if there'd be
28:13like a plane crash
28:15and Fred ran in
28:15and saved
28:16like all the school kids
28:18out of the plane
28:19and before it blew up,
28:20he'd still be remembered
28:21as Shockmaster.
28:22It's funny as shit.
28:26Oh my goodness.
28:36A former star
28:39for Vince McMahon's WWF,
28:42John Tenta
28:42has grown disillusioned
28:44with the company
28:44and the toll
28:46its aggressive schedule
28:47took on his family.
28:49And I wasn't so pleased
28:51at the time
28:52with the financial situation,
28:54so I called WCW.
28:56I think that he was
28:57ready to find a solution
28:59that would allow him
28:59to be with his family more.
29:01And I think at that time,
29:02WCW kind of threw him
29:04in the life raft.
29:05They gave him
29:05such big contracts
29:07and less working
29:08days on the road.
29:11We moved
29:12from Canada to Florida
29:14so that my dad
29:16could have more time
29:18at home.
29:20It was so easy
29:21to be around him,
29:22to be around family
29:23and just to enjoy
29:25each other,
29:25whether it was something
29:26like going to Disney
29:28or it was a Thursday night
29:30and I popped in a laser disc
29:31so we could sing karaoke.
29:34He is a karaoke king, man.
29:37House of the Rising Sun
29:38was one of his
29:40favorite songs they sing.
29:42We sing together
29:43and we like the
29:45duet of endless love.
29:48When my dad was home,
29:50he showed up
29:51to any event,
29:53any show,
29:54any game,
29:55anything that we had
29:56going on.
29:58That was a nice
29:58bass hit there.
30:00He was all about
30:01making memories
30:02and doing things
30:02with the family.
30:03That's awesome.
30:04Thank you, sweetie.
30:05But as John's
30:07family life
30:08is solidified,
30:09his career
30:09in the ring
30:10is coming apart.
30:11Introducing first,
30:13Avalanche!
30:16The WCW
30:16couldn't use
30:17the earthquake name
30:18so he came in
30:19as Avalanche.
30:20Vince McMahon
30:21owned the name
30:22Earthquake.
30:23You go out there
30:24and change your name
30:25and everything,
30:25it confuses the fans.
30:27The Avalanche
30:28was too close
30:29to Earthquake
30:29and so that'd be
30:31kind of infringing
30:32on that trademark
30:34so unfortunately
30:35that gimmick
30:36didn't last very long.
30:38After Avalanche,
30:38we all got graced
30:40with Shark,
30:41which he absolutely hated.
30:43Did they put
30:44a fin on him?
30:45I thought to myself,
30:46that's stupid.
30:48He did it just
30:49because, you know,
30:50it's supporting the family.
30:51Once again,
30:52it's a job.
30:53You know,
30:53he's going to do
30:53what he needs to do
30:55to make it work
30:55and be all in on it.
30:57You know,
30:57at that time
30:58I was still about
30:59430 pounds.
31:00There were two people
31:01serving geeks,
31:03whales,
31:03stuff like that.
31:04I just think
31:05maybe they just
31:06never could get
31:07the right character
31:09that they wanted
31:10out of him.
31:12After a year
31:13of portraying
31:13the shark in WCW,
31:15John finally gets
31:16the opportunity
31:17to define himself
31:18in the ring.
31:19I'm not the shark.
31:20I'm not a fish.
31:21I'm not an avalanche.
31:24I'm a man.
31:26John Tanta.
31:28Very much felt like
31:29it was his mic drop moment
31:31with all of
31:32all of these gimmicks.
31:34The bottom line is
31:35he was never given
31:36the storylines
31:37that he had
31:37in the WWE.
31:39He was never put
31:40in the position
31:40to make money
31:41in WCW.
31:43He was just used.
31:45But in 1998,
31:46during what is supposed
31:47to be his triumphant
31:49return to the WWF,
31:50John Tanta is forced
31:52into his oddest gimmick yet.
31:55The Golga character
31:55was a member
31:56of the oddities
31:56where you had
31:57Luna Vachon,
31:59Kurgan,
32:00and Giant Silva.
32:01He had this huge
32:03Hartman doll
32:05that he brought out
32:06to the ring with him.
32:08He was under a mask.
32:11Putting John under a mask
32:12was just humiliation.
32:14They didn't want him
32:15to get the kudos
32:17that he would have had
32:18if they just ran him
32:19out there as Earthquake.
32:21They wanted to do
32:22something that was
32:23just grotesque.
32:26Even when he was
32:27in the Shark
32:27or the Avalanche,
32:28he was an Earthquake.
32:29Even when he was Golga,
32:30he was an Earthquake.
32:31Everybody wanted
32:32Earthquake back.
32:33All these other gimmicks
32:34were just trying
32:35to get back
32:36to his glory days.
32:38When Golga ran
32:39its course,
32:41he couldn't go back
32:41to the WCW.
32:43Where else did he go?
32:45Which is likely
32:46why that sparked
32:46his wrestling school
32:47that he opened up
32:48in Sanford.
32:50It didn't work out.
32:52It's like always
32:53money coming out
32:54but nothing's really
32:54coming in.
32:55We had a bankruptcy.
32:58Everything changed.
33:00He has the school
33:00for maybe I would say
33:02a year or under a year
33:04and then he started
33:07doing the retail.
33:08He got a job
33:09at the mall.
33:11He worked in the
33:11big and tall section
33:12and he'd have fans
33:13recognize him.
33:15Dude was working
33:15in the men's department
33:17sweating his ass off.
33:20It is incredibly hard
33:22to go from being
33:23a superstar
33:24to working retail somewhere.
33:29John was going
33:30to make a living
33:31for his family
33:32regardless of what he was.
33:34If he had to shovel shit
33:35he'd do it.
33:36Provide for his family.
33:39After my dad
33:40left retail
33:40he started truck driving.
33:42He saw it as an opportunity
33:43to make a little bit
33:44more money.
33:45It wasn't a glamorous job.
33:47He would be peeing
33:48in gallon jugs
33:49because he just
33:50don't have time
33:50to stop at a truck stop
33:52and he started to notice
33:53that there were blood clots
33:55in his urine
33:55and he was on the road
33:57and so he wasn't able
33:59to get to a doctor
34:00very quickly
34:01and he kind of kept it
34:02a secret from my mom
34:02for a little while.
34:04He kind of got away
34:04with letting this thing,
34:07this tumor
34:08in his bladder
34:09grow for longer
34:10than it should have.
34:12When he went to the doctor
34:14he gave him
34:15a very short prognosis
34:16and said that there
34:18wasn't anything
34:18that they were going
34:19to be able to do.
34:20Said it was already
34:21advanced too far.
34:22It's already too late
34:24because the size
34:25of the tumor
34:25is like a baseball size.
34:36After being diagnosed
34:37with advanced bladder cancer,
34:40John Tanta and his wife
34:41must break the news
34:42to their children.
34:44My parents
34:45sat me and my siblings down
34:48and they said
34:51that my dad
34:52had cancer
34:53and that they were
34:54going to Houston
34:55for a second opinion.
34:57There were a lot
34:58of tears
34:58and a lot of worry
35:01and fear.
35:03My sister works
35:04in health care
35:06and she told me
35:08that bladder cancer
35:09is one of the most
35:09curable cancers.
35:12So for that
35:12to take him down
35:14because he was
35:15away from home
35:15or he kept it a secret
35:17it's really
35:19it's a bummer
35:20to hear.
35:21It definitely sucked.
35:22He felt like
35:23if he was still wrestling
35:24they might have
35:25caught it earlier.
35:27So he might have
35:27had a fighting chance.
35:30I walked in
35:31on him
35:32sitting at the edge
35:33of the bed
35:33watching some old tapes.
35:35There were VHS tapes
35:36all over the floor
35:36and I heard him laughing
35:38and he was watching
35:40the segment
35:40on primetime.
35:41He was quoting himself
35:43in the segment.
35:44He was loving it.
35:45He was making himself
35:45laugh with the jokes
35:46that he was telling.
35:48I do think
35:49that my dad
35:50was kind of forged
35:51to be tough.
35:52You know
35:52and it's funny
35:52you know
35:53you think like
35:53oh you just gotta fight
35:54as hard as you can
35:55but it's so much
35:56more than that right?
35:57It's not like he could
35:57do a body slam
35:59to the tumors
36:00in his bodies.
36:01As one of the wrestling
36:03world's most imposing
36:04figures takes on
36:05the battle of his life
36:06do you in the business
36:08even know of his struggle?
36:10John I wish
36:11was that you told me
36:14that you needed help
36:18especially
36:19it wasn't just about you
36:23but it was also for your family
36:26but too late to find out
36:32that you get big to yourself.
36:35In the summer of 2005
36:37gosh my dad looked
36:40actually great
36:41that summer.
36:43He looked a lot
36:43like himself.
36:45He was going through chemo
36:46and all that stuff
36:47and you know
36:48they still had
36:49high hopes
36:50that they were gonna beat it
36:51and I was getting married
36:54that June 2005.
36:57Before the wedding
36:59he called me on the phone
37:00he says Fred
37:01he says the cancer is back
37:04you know.
37:05We're trying to see
37:07if it can be fixed
37:08you know
37:08so we didn't tell the kids.
37:13At the wedding
37:13my brother and his wife
37:16had the karaoke machine set up
37:18and one of my mom's
37:20songs to my dad
37:22is You Needed Me
37:23and so she was starting
37:25to sing that song
37:27and kind of
37:29halfway through
37:30she just started
37:32breaking down
37:33and crying.
37:34My dad came to my mom
37:36and they had that
37:37crying session
37:39just hugging each other
37:41and crying.
37:43Love him so much.
37:46When you love someone
37:48nothing is hard
37:49as long that you
37:50you're with that person
37:52that you love.
37:55At that point
37:56they pretty much
37:57figured it was
37:59you know
37:59game over for my dad.
38:11Just before his eldest son
38:13Jeff's wedding
38:14John Tenta learns
38:16that the cancer
38:16has spread
38:17throughout his body.
38:19Looking back
38:19it's not shocking
38:20that he wasn't
38:21quick to tell us
38:22maybe
38:22maybe he knew
38:23it was bad
38:24from the beginning
38:24and you know
38:26was just trying
38:27to stretch out
38:28as much time
38:28as he could.
38:29I tell him that
38:32don't you worry
38:35the kids and I
38:40are going to be okay
38:41so if it's time
38:45he can go
38:48but before
38:50he closed his eyes
38:51one by one
38:53they
38:53they talk to him.
38:54I couldn't stop
38:56thanking him
38:57for the life
38:58that he's been able
38:59to give us
39:00you know
39:00give me
39:01he didn't need
39:02to take me
39:03along
39:03but he did anyways
39:05and I greatly
39:07appreciated everything
39:08that he's done
39:08made me a better person
39:09better man
39:10you know.
39:12I told him
39:13how much I loved him
39:14I told him
39:16thank you
39:18for being
39:20such a great dad
39:23and I remember
39:26just
39:27throwing myself
39:29on top of him
39:30one more time
39:30and giving him
39:31one more hug.
39:33my dad loved
39:43to laugh
39:44and so anytime
39:45he would tell a joke
39:46or he would tease
39:47my mom
39:48or he saw me
39:49from across the room
39:50he'd flash a wink
39:52at me
39:52and so
39:55I remember
39:58when it was
39:59my turn to go in
40:00I went to go
40:03and talk to him
40:03I don't remember
40:04what I said
40:04but he winked at me
40:07in his final moments
40:12he was looking
40:14at each of us
40:15in the room
40:16and locking eyes
40:17with us
40:18and
40:19my dad died
40:22while I was
40:23holding his hand
40:24he passed away
40:26on June 7th
40:282006
40:28which was just
40:30gosh
40:31a couple weeks
40:32from his
40:3343rd birthday
40:35and
40:36a couple months
40:37before his first
40:38grandkid
40:38so
40:40you can never
40:42forget about it
40:44you know
40:45it's still hard
40:47it was Fred
40:49who called me
40:50about John
40:51but
40:52those calls
40:53for our era
40:56of guys
40:56happened too many times
40:58too many times
41:00it was just horrible
41:02to hear it
41:02because he was
41:03such a sweet man
41:04John Tenta
41:06was laid to rest
41:07in Houston, Texas
41:08surrounded by the love
41:10of his family
41:10but without any
41:12representation
41:12from the business
41:13he devoted himself to
41:14for over 20 years
41:16there's no wrestlers
41:18no
41:20flowers
41:22from
41:22the boss
41:26the amount
41:28of work
41:28that my dad
41:29had put out there
41:30for the
41:31amount of punishment
41:33he put
41:33you know
41:34his body through
41:35for entertainment
41:36and for his bosses
41:38and
41:38I just wish
41:39that they would
41:40you know
41:41tried a little harder
41:42to reach out to him
41:43and to show more love
41:45because he was
41:46a gentle giant
41:47and he would have
41:47done anything
41:48for anybody
41:49John and Jimmy Hart
41:51and my brother
41:52who just passed away
41:54last July
41:55we were a family
41:57on the road
41:57this was my family
41:58talking about it now
42:01it's heartbreaking
42:02for me
42:03when you lose
42:04a good friend
42:05like that
42:05I will always
42:08remember John
42:09because
42:09this is
42:10my sumo brother
42:12here
42:12and that's
42:14how I am
42:15going to remember
42:15John forever
42:16brother
42:17he should be remembered
42:19as
42:20wrestler
42:21who lived
42:22the fullest
42:23you know
42:24he came to Japan
42:25and he had
42:26very healthy
42:27good run
42:28as professional wrestler
42:29I stopped
42:30watching wrestling
42:32for years
42:33and recently
42:34I've now
42:35been more interested
42:36in watching
42:36my dad's matches
42:37I feel a sense
42:39of pride
42:39I can watch them
42:41and I can be amazed
42:42that my dad did that
42:44he is a true legend
42:46not just for his talent
42:48him as a person
42:49he was the entire package
42:51I love you brother
42:53I love you
42:56what is that picture
42:59of mom and dad
42:59right there
43:00Johnny's my love
43:01of my life
43:02my
43:03soulmate
43:05well this is the first picture
43:07of him and me
43:08and he wrote something
43:10in the back too
43:11so this was in
43:121986
43:13what does it say
43:16on the back
43:17would you like
43:17this is our first picture
43:21taken together
43:22I was so happy
43:24being with you
43:25it made me feel
43:26so good
43:27I can hardly wait
43:28until we are together
43:30all the time
43:31always remember
43:35I love you
43:37John
43:38if you look up
43:41to the
43:41heaven
43:43you're gonna see him
43:44smiling
43:45to see how
43:47the kids turned out
43:49he's proof
43:50that
43:50you can
43:51be nice
43:52and work really hard
43:53and
43:55leave an impact
43:56my dad was
43:59many things
44:00to many different people
44:01but to us
44:03he was
44:03just a great dad
44:05yeah
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