Apr 10 2025 38 mins 3
Step into the squared circle of wrestling’s most explosive, beer-soaked era with "Bundy's Last Stand"—the podcast that drags the brutal, untold truth of King Kong Bundy’s WrestleMania 2 carnage into the light. This isn’t a nostalgia trip—it’s a verbal demolition derby, where the 450-pound colossus himself rips open the vault on one of wrestling’s most pivotal, blood-money moments. Hosted by a wrestling historian with a vendetta against revisionist WWE lore, this episode unearths how Bundy’s clash with Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania 2 nearly derailed the company’s future, exposed Vince McMahon’s desperation, and cemented Bundy as the most feared monster of the 80s.
Relive the chaos of WrestleMania 2’s three-city circus—where Bundy’s steel cage match became a corporate Hail Mary to outshine Ric Flair and the NWA. Hear never-before-told stories of Bundy’s backstage mutiny over payoffs, Hogan’s secret panic about selling for a man his size, and the career-ending risks Bundy took to make McMahon’s carnival gamble work. With unearthed audio of Bundy’s profanity-laced rants about WWE’s exploitation, a forensic breakdown of his infamous “countout loophole” loss to Hogan, and interviews with crew members who witnessed McMahon’s backstage meltdowns, this podcast is a time bomb of 80s wrestling’s darkest secrets.
From Bundy’s real thoughts on being “the guy who couldn’t pin Hogan” to the shady contracts that doomed his WWE exit, "Bundy's Last Stand" is a no-holds-barred autopsy of the match that nearly killed WrestleMania—and the beast who refused to play nice. Press play and witness the unscripted, unfiltered rage of a man who carried an empire on his back… and got crushed for it. Bundy is from New Jersey so his 21 minute rant is funny at times and sad at times as WrestleMania 2 as a vision of 3 different cities in one night on paper sounds great but sadly back in the mid 80's it was very difficult and almost did'nt come true but set the stage for Wrestlemania 3. The Blame should not be put on King Kong Bundy and he should be in the WWE Hall of fame
Relive the chaos of WrestleMania 2’s three-city circus—where Bundy’s steel cage match became a corporate Hail Mary to outshine Ric Flair and the NWA. Hear never-before-told stories of Bundy’s backstage mutiny over payoffs, Hogan’s secret panic about selling for a man his size, and the career-ending risks Bundy took to make McMahon’s carnival gamble work. With unearthed audio of Bundy’s profanity-laced rants about WWE’s exploitation, a forensic breakdown of his infamous “countout loophole” loss to Hogan, and interviews with crew members who witnessed McMahon’s backstage meltdowns, this podcast is a time bomb of 80s wrestling’s darkest secrets.
From Bundy’s real thoughts on being “the guy who couldn’t pin Hogan” to the shady contracts that doomed his WWE exit, "Bundy's Last Stand" is a no-holds-barred autopsy of the match that nearly killed WrestleMania—and the beast who refused to play nice. Press play and witness the unscripted, unfiltered rage of a man who carried an empire on his back… and got crushed for it. Bundy is from New Jersey so his 21 minute rant is funny at times and sad at times as WrestleMania 2 as a vision of 3 different cities in one night on paper sounds great but sadly back in the mid 80's it was very difficult and almost did'nt come true but set the stage for Wrestlemania 3. The Blame should not be put on King Kong Bundy and he should be in the WWE Hall of fame
