ECW Legend and ECW Original, Gary Wolfe aka Pitbull #1 and NEW tag team partner Christopher Annino aka Pitbull #3 join Perched On The Top Rope for an extreme conversation! Gary talks about his new book, Pitbull Unleashed while sharing behind-the-scene stories from ECW, WWF, NJPW and we hear how The NEW Pitbull's formed with Pitbull #3 Chris Annino!

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00:00 - Show Opener

00:06 - The Pitbull's Show Opener

00:20 - Show Begins

01:00 - Pitbull #1 Gary Wolf on his new book

01:05 - Book came out #5 on Amazon charts

01:35 - How he connected with Kevin C. Davidson

02:20 - Talking on Jasmin St Claire's Pod. 2.5 months on the book. How many hours a day were you spending on it?

03:05 - When did Pitbull #1 know he wanted to re-form The Pitbull's?

04:30 - Pitbull #3 looking up to The Pitbull's. Remembers Pitbull #2 death

05:44 - training with Chris Blackheart

06:00 - training with handsome jimmy v and getting retrained

07:28 - relaunching Veteran Pro Wrestling

08:07 - Susan Green first to train Pitbull #3

08:36 - Susan shoot on Moolah to take title 

09:03 - only female flair would book on tours with him

10:00 - tagteamhof and women's hof & thoughts on current state of tag teams in AEW and wwe

11:10 - in WWF in the 80's 100's of tag teams

11:25 - Vince McMahon cut teams because of $

11:30 - What makes a great team and tag match

12:45 - Gary Pitbull #1 nota fan of throw together teams                                  

12:50 - Larry Sharpe with the idea of putting Gary and Anthony together

14:00 - Gary shares a secret about The Pitbull's

14:38 - How welcoming have fans and ECW OG's been to Pitbull #3

15:20 What ECW OG's have been supportive

17:20 - Who's being negative

17:35 - Asking Anthony (Pitbull #2) brother about honoring him as Pitbull #3

18:50 "US ECW guys, when we say brother we mean it"

19:00 - Pitbull one and three being with Sabu and Sabu supporting Pitbull #3

20:30 - Missy Hyett is the manager

21:00 - Mad Dogs Of War

21:45 - Why the tag team hall of fame

23:15 - being fans of the cauliflower ally club

23:45 - supporting autism, women's wrestling

24:00 - first women's hof was at 2300 arena and who they inducted

24:50 Why they started the tag team hof

25:40 - Talking about Sherri Martel

27:47 - When did Gary know he wanted Chris as Pitbull 31:00 - Pitbull #3 looking like Pitbull #2

31:30 - Mickie James shocked meeting Pitbull #3

33:00 - What Gary likes in tag team and partners

33:45 - Having had three wrestling schools, guys like The Briscoes, Eddie Kingston Chris Daniels, Cesaro

34:18 - story on Cesaro

35:30 - any talk of Vince signing Gary and Anthony to the wwf

36:45 - how much wwf was paying them a night

37:30 - Gorilla Monsoon wanted Vince to sign them

37:33 - the hardy boys were like this pen (comparing debuts) 

38:45 - How working for wwf led to njpw

40:40 Toyoko Joe offers Pitbull's NJPW deal

41:10 - Asking Vince if he can match the NJPW contract

41:45 - Advice from Monsoon and Kevin Sullivan

43:00 - Does Pitbull wish he wrestled Owen HArt. Shares Owen Story from Japan

43:47 - What was The Pitbull's first good match

46:20 - Drinking with the bulldogs

48:20 - todays generation is different than when i broke in - pitbull 1

48:48 - knowing people who work for aew and how bad it is locker room wise

49:00 - looking to go to the nwa, being invited to Crockett cup

49:55 - bryan idol defending tv title September 26th at Veterans Pro Wrestling

50:40 - being part of TWA one and done show, working with Joel Goodhart, Chubby Dudley

52:13 - teaming with Shane Douglas at the ecw arena for twa

53:22 - the halo incident. Was Gary shocked at the fans reactions

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