The 1990 Wrestling Summit event in the Tokyo Dome saw WWF, All Japan, and New Japan collaborate for a massive show. On his podcast Everybody’s Got a Pod, Ted DiBiase recalled his match against then-WWE Champion The Ultimate Warrior. You can check out some highlights below:
On his steel cage match with Ultimate Warrior at the 1990 Wrestling Summit event: “Oh, it was horrible. I’ll be the first one to tell you it was horrible. Number one, we’re in Japan — and the other thing is, in Japan I’m already to the Japanese wrestling fan, an established star. A lot of these other guys, it’s the first time they’re being seen live in Japan, right? And again, the Ultimate Warrior — you know, he couldn’t wrestle, legitimately. It was extremely hard to even have or try to have a good match with him. And for that reason, we didn’t go very long.”
On the match being short: “That was the thing that really pissed me off, but it was nothing I could do about it… And for me, an existing star [in Japan], have to do a job for that guy and do it in seven minutes — yeah… Because he didn’t care about anybody else but himself. And I pretty much probably didn’t care to have a much longer match. Because the longer it is, the worse it would be. I don’t think he had a long match with anybody.”
On whether things got out of hand: “No, because the other thing that I was, was a businessman. And pro wrestling is a business. And so when you get in the ring, you’re going to do what you’re told. And I did my best to make him look good, which is — I don’t know. I had never seen that match replayed, and I probably don’t want to.”
If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit Everybody’s Got a Pod with an h/t to 411mania.com for the transcription.
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