September 11, 2025 • 10 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
It's hot in here.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
So all that DeAngelo we were playing earlier in the
show got a hose us down. That was a weird intro,
but we move on. It's Watson Walker Sports Radio ninety
two to seven WFNZ. Who are the greatest meanest athletes.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Of all time?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
We were talking about some really angry men yesterday and
we thought, you know what, thanks to M Dog, who
we should give credit to, We'll just go ahead and
give the people what they want.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And coaches slash coaches slash coaches as well.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, just anybody, just the meanest cusses, you know, and
sport we're gonna be talking about.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Thanks to M Dog for the suggestion. Number one might
be the scariest person in sports history. Maybe Mike Tyson
West fire Fizzle.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Extraordinary hands speak, raw knockout power, coming into the ring
with the black shorts and boots, never smiling, giving you
that unnerving icy glare. His punches when you talk force
near eighteen hundred pounds per square inch one of his
first nineteen professional fights by knockout twelve of them in
(01:18):
the first round. What also makes him mean as well? Well?
Biting Evander Holyfield's ear in a nineteen ninety seven rematch
his wild brawl with Lennox Lewis's bodyguards at a press conference,
and who could forget I know some of you are
too young to remember. In this room myself included his
street fight with Mitch Green that resulted in a fractured
(01:42):
wrist and a swollen eye for Green. When you talk
Mike Tyson coming out into the ring, simplicity and fear
is what he entered it with, and more than likely
your body laying on the canvas is what he left with.
He's built himself quite a career since then and has
become one of a Manica's most lovable figures. Even though
(02:02):
you know that that tiger is still in there somewhere,
and he once owned a tiger when he was getting
all that bread. But Mike Tyson has start this thing off.
Greatest mean athletes coaches in sports history.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Mike Tyson, Hey, straight fire, where did you think this
was going? He also punched Alan right in the face
and dropped him in the hangover.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's right, he sure did. Genuinely one of the scariest
human beings to ever walk the earth, Mike Tyson, we
start off with a fire number two, Draymond Green, Yes,
Draymond mean firefil like that one.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Well, let's start with his indefinite suspension for striking youself
Nurkice struck the man in the face while failing his arm.
Flailing his arm during a game led to an unprecedent,
unprecedented indefinite suspension by the NBA, which cited his repeated.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
History of unsportsmen like that.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Just weeks before that, he was suspended for putting go
Bear in a headlock when he claims that he was
trying to be a peacemaker. Among his other highlights of
being a mean athlete, knocking out Jordan Poole, kicking Lebron
James in the NBA finals, got kd pretty much out
of town by arguing with him and calling him.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
The word that rhymes with itch.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Draymond Green will go down as a Mount Rushmore NBA
bad boy with the likes of Dennis Rodman. And you
can take your pick of several others. Isaiah Thomas, There's
so many that can go on this list, But to me,
Draymond Green maybe number one. When it's all said and done,
if we didn't have TMZ, maybe we never get to
(03:40):
see that knockout of Jordan Poole and practice, but who knows.
We know that MG and several others have attacked some
of their teammates, but Draymond Green nobody does it better
when it comes to NBA bad boy crowd billing, Draymond
Green sarrak fiya.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I love the dum really thought that was going.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Fizzle would have put a lot of money down that
you were gonna go straight physical times you.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Got to let a team, ain't know what time it is.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Raymond Green does knock him across as the guy that
you usually pull for, So I'm surprised about I'm.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
A Dubs guy, man, so you know I like Draymond
And then you're talking to Wes Bryan, a guy who
got excited when when an opponent would try something dirty
because that gave me a free pass in my mind
to do it back to him. So if I played basketball,
I wouldn't be quite like Draymond Green, but I probably
would be looked at as somewhat of an enforcer that
could hoop go and get buckets.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I would hope that you wouldn't be as illigical as
Draymond Some now as a logical, but I'd be lit
out there. Okay, two fires. I know where this one
is going because we've talked about this man before.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Bobby Knight.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Oh my, So within the sake of just being mean,
I think he's number one on the list.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
He might be fire Fissle.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Three NCAA Championships nineteen seventy six, undefeated, thirty four oh season,
n IT title, nineteen eighty four, Olympic gold medal. He's
won of only three coaches to achieve the triple crown,
winning the NCAA title, NT title and Olympic goal. But
he's also throwing a chair across the court during the
nineteen eighty five game against Purdue, choked the player during
(05:13):
the nineteen ninety seven practice that was caught on video,
and the two thousand incident where he grabbed a student
on campus, which ultimately led to his firing from Indiana University.
There was also an alleged punch of a policeman at
the nineteen seventy nine Pan Am Games. You get it,
Bobby Knight, the press conferences, the things that he has said,
the things that he has done, he might be the
(05:34):
ultimate mean coach. Maybe we need to do a mean
coaches segment. But when you talk about mean athlete slash coaches,
there's none meaner than Bobby Knight. And for that reason,
Bobby Knight is straight fizzle. Let's get him to do
hell out of here. Yeah, you don't ever put his
hands on me with scrapping.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
There's plenty more incidents with Bobby Knight, one hundred percent
all straight fizzle. Those aren't even fun things that you
just mentioned, right, the Draymond Green stuff, there's, yes, I
don't know where the comedy.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I get a good laugh out of Dremond Green incidents
when they put together those compilations all.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Of the time.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Number four best name of all time, possibly Dick buckis
the name snarling at you just upon hearing it.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yes, fire fizzle.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I mean this man was a six time All Pro,
two time NFL Defensive Player of the Year, an eight
time Pro bowler. But then we have events like during
a nineteen sixty nine preseason brawl against the Dolphins, referee
Red Morecroft ejected Buckkis, accusing him of biting his finger.
The man bit the referees finger. And another game, Buckers
(06:40):
was accused of biting an opposing center's leg, and a
game against the Detroit Lions, running back Alti Taylor stepped
out of bounds to avoid a hit from Buckis. Buckis
chased Taylor along the sideline and into the stands, and
Taylor told a.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Teammate that man is crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
In another game against the Detroit Lions, he had an
affinity for the Lions. He knocked every member of the Lions'
I formation, center, quarterback, four back, and half back out
of the game with his tackles. He once called two
timeouts in the final minute of a game his team
was losing to give himself more chances to take teap,
(07:19):
cheap shots at an opposing at a center.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
That is the best thing you may have ever said here.
He loved to mix it up with guys after the play.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
He was the definition of a dirty football player, but
also a baller. He is the definition of a guy
that you would love to have him on your team,
but you would hate to see this man coming. Vick
Buckis when you put together an NFL linebacker, if you
were to dream up what you want an NFL Mike
linebacker to be, it would be this man rough, tough,
and tumble, and he's going to bring it. Because he
(07:49):
was an All Pro Hall of Famer, all of these things.
Dick Buckins could play on my team any day of
the week. He is the right fire all day long.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Short of learning the history on how chocolate chip cookies
were invented. This fact toid about Dick Budkis calling timeouts
just to inflict further pain at the end of a
game is one of my favorite fact toys you've ever brought.
Fact toys you've ever brought anywhere?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I like running the guy into the stands.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Could you imagine that if somebody did that, or a
player being so afraid of a guy that he allowed
him to I'm cutting that running back on the spot
for allowing him to run you into the stands.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Thank you for that information. I love that. You know
it one more? Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Oh, you see that in the rearview mirror. Yeah, man,
start shaking in your boots. It's the intimidator. Yeah, it's
Dale Earnhard. Oh yeah, is he fire Fier?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
You know? I had to keep it Carolina up in
here for the last installment of fire Fizzle. That black
number three Chevrolet, the ominous signature black car contributed to
this persona especially for handy driver.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I saw it in their rear view mirror.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Seven NASCAR Winston Cup Championships, seventy six race wins, but
among some of his more infamous moments, the nineteen eighty
seven passed in the grass trailing Bill Elliott at the
NASCAR All Star Race when his car slid onto the
infield grass on the final lap. He managed to keep
the car from spinning, using the grass to stay on
the lead lap and ultimately win the race that earned
(09:16):
him the nickname be Intimidator. The nineteen ninety nine Bristol
Night Race, white flag waving, earn Hart got bumper to
bumper with Terry Labonte and spun him out. Earnhart then
took the lead and won the race, a controversial move
seen by many as overly aggressive. Well, if deal had
a middle name, it might be aggressive because when you
(09:36):
talk about one of the true true legends of the sport,
just a nasty, dirty dog as much as you could
be riding in a car, Bill Earnhart. If we close
out this fire Fizzle Cannapolis, you stand up, hudd up
right now for.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
The Intimidator, Bill Earnhart, closing this thing out because he
has the rap fire. Let's get it swapping, turn to music.
Oh before eighty of these man come after you.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Raise Hail for Dale, Baby, Raise Hall for Dale. Poor Napolis,
k Tan, pour out your sun drop. This one's for
you Dale. Already.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
That was great.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I loved every bit of that, and I would like
to recap that as soon as we come back. Don't
go anywhere. We got one more hour to go. It's
Weston Walker Sports Radio ninety two to seven WFNZ right
there for Dale.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah,
It's hot in here.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
So all that DeAngelo we were playing earlier in the
show got a hose us down. That was a weird intro,
but we move on. It's Watson Walker Sports Radio ninety
two to seven WFNZ. Who are the greatest meanest athletes.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Of all time?
Speaker 2 (00:28):
We were talking about some really angry men yesterday and
we thought, you know what, thanks to M Dog, who
we should give credit to, We'll just go ahead and
give the people what they want.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
And coaches slash coaches slash coaches as well.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, just anybody, just the meanest cusses, you know, and
sport we're gonna be talking about.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
That's right.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Thanks to M Dog for the suggestion. Number one might
be the scariest person in sports history. Maybe Mike Tyson
West fire Fizzle.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Extraordinary hands speak, raw knockout power, coming into the ring
with the black shorts and boots, never smiling, giving you
that unnerving icy glare. His punches when you talk force
near eighteen hundred pounds per square inch one of his
first nineteen professional fights by knockout twelve of them in
(01:18):
the first round. What also makes him mean as well? Well?
Biting Evander Holyfield's ear in a nineteen ninety seven rematch
his wild brawl with Lennox Lewis's bodyguards at a press conference,
and who could forget I know some of you are
too young to remember. In this room myself included his
street fight with Mitch Green that resulted in a fractured
(01:42):
wrist and a swollen eye for Green. When you talk
Mike Tyson coming out into the ring, simplicity and fear
is what he entered it with, and more than likely
your body laying on the canvas is what he left with.
He's built himself quite a career since then and has
become one of a Manica's most lovable figures. Even though
(02:02):
you know that that tiger is still in there somewhere,
and he once owned a tiger when he was getting
all that bread. But Mike Tyson has start this thing off.
Greatest mean athletes coaches in sports history.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Mike Tyson, Hey, straight fire, where did you think this
was going? He also punched Alan right in the face
and dropped him in the hangover.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's right, he sure did. Genuinely one of the scariest
human beings to ever walk the earth, Mike Tyson, we
start off with a fire number two, Draymond Green, Yes,
Draymond mean firefil like that one.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Well, let's start with his indefinite suspension for striking youself
Nurkice struck the man in the face while failing his arm.
Flailing his arm during a game led to an unprecedent,
unprecedented indefinite suspension by the NBA, which cited his repeated.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
History of unsportsmen like that.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Just weeks before that, he was suspended for putting go
Bear in a headlock when he claims that he was
trying to be a peacemaker. Among his other highlights of
being a mean athlete, knocking out Jordan Poole, kicking Lebron
James in the NBA finals, got kd pretty much out
of town by arguing with him and calling him.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
The word that rhymes with itch.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Draymond Green will go down as a Mount Rushmore NBA
bad boy with the likes of Dennis Rodman. And you
can take your pick of several others. Isaiah Thomas, There's
so many that can go on this list, But to me,
Draymond Green maybe number one. When it's all said and done,
if we didn't have TMZ, maybe we never get to
(03:40):
see that knockout of Jordan Poole and practice, but who knows.
We know that MG and several others have attacked some
of their teammates, but Draymond Green nobody does it better
when it comes to NBA bad boy crowd billing, Draymond
Green sarrak fiya.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
I love the dum really thought that was going.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Fizzle would have put a lot of money down that
you were gonna go straight physical times you.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Got to let a team, ain't know what time it is.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Raymond Green does knock him across as the guy that
you usually pull for, So I'm surprised about I'm.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
A Dubs guy, man, so you know I like Draymond
And then you're talking to Wes Bryan, a guy who
got excited when when an opponent would try something dirty
because that gave me a free pass in my mind
to do it back to him. So if I played basketball,
I wouldn't be quite like Draymond Green, but I probably
would be looked at as somewhat of an enforcer that
could hoop go and get buckets.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
I would hope that you wouldn't be as illigical as
Draymond Some now as a logical, but I'd be lit
out there. Okay, two fires. I know where this one
is going because we've talked about this man before.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Bobby Knight.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Oh my, So within the sake of just being mean,
I think he's number one on the list.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
He might be fire Fissle.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Three NCAA Championships nineteen seventy six, undefeated, thirty four oh season,
n IT title, nineteen eighty four, Olympic gold medal. He's
won of only three coaches to achieve the triple crown,
winning the NCAA title, NT title and Olympic goal. But
he's also throwing a chair across the court during the
nineteen eighty five game against Purdue, choked the player during
(05:13):
the nineteen ninety seven practice that was caught on video,
and the two thousand incident where he grabbed a student
on campus, which ultimately led to his firing from Indiana University.
There was also an alleged punch of a policeman at
the nineteen seventy nine Pan Am Games. You get it,
Bobby Knight, the press conferences, the things that he has said,
the things that he has done, he might be the
(05:34):
ultimate mean coach. Maybe we need to do a mean
coaches segment. But when you talk about mean athlete slash coaches,
there's none meaner than Bobby Knight. And for that reason,
Bobby Knight is straight fizzle. Let's get him to do
hell out of here. Yeah, you don't ever put his
hands on me with scrapping.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
There's plenty more incidents with Bobby Knight, one hundred percent
all straight fizzle. Those aren't even fun things that you
just mentioned, right, the Draymond Green stuff, there's, yes, I
don't know where the comedy.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
I get a good laugh out of Dremond Green incidents
when they put together those compilations all.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Of the time.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Number four best name of all time, possibly Dick buckis
the name snarling at you just upon hearing it.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yes, fire fizzle.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
I mean this man was a six time All Pro,
two time NFL Defensive Player of the Year, an eight
time Pro bowler. But then we have events like during
a nineteen sixty nine preseason brawl against the Dolphins, referee
Red Morecroft ejected Buckkis, accusing him of biting his finger.
The man bit the referees finger. And another game, Buckers
(06:40):
was accused of biting an opposing center's leg, and a
game against the Detroit Lions, running back Alti Taylor stepped
out of bounds to avoid a hit from Buckis. Buckis
chased Taylor along the sideline and into the stands, and
Taylor told a.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
Teammate that man is crazy.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
In another game against the Detroit Lions, he had an
affinity for the Lions. He knocked every member of the Lions'
I formation, center, quarterback, four back, and half back out
of the game with his tackles. He once called two
timeouts in the final minute of a game his team
was losing to give himself more chances to take teap,
(07:19):
cheap shots at an opposing at a center.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
That is the best thing you may have ever said here.
He loved to mix it up with guys after the play.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
He was the definition of a dirty football player, but
also a baller. He is the definition of a guy
that you would love to have him on your team,
but you would hate to see this man coming. Vick
Buckis when you put together an NFL linebacker, if you
were to dream up what you want an NFL Mike
linebacker to be, it would be this man rough, tough,
and tumble, and he's going to bring it. Because he
(07:49):
was an All Pro Hall of Famer, all of these things.
Dick Buckins could play on my team any day of
the week. He is the right fire all day long.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Short of learning the history on how chocolate chip cookies
were invented. This fact toid about Dick Budkis calling timeouts
just to inflict further pain at the end of a
game is one of my favorite fact toys you've ever brought.
Fact toys you've ever brought anywhere?
Speaker 1 (08:13):
I like running the guy into the stands.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
Could you imagine that if somebody did that, or a
player being so afraid of a guy that he allowed
him to I'm cutting that running back on the spot
for allowing him to run you into the stands.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Thank you for that information. I love that. You know
it one more? Uh?
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Oh, you see that in the rearview mirror. Yeah, man,
start shaking in your boots. It's the intimidator. Yeah, it's
Dale Earnhard. Oh yeah, is he fire Fier?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
You know? I had to keep it Carolina up in
here for the last installment of fire Fizzle. That black
number three Chevrolet, the ominous signature black car contributed to
this persona especially for handy driver.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I saw it in their rear view mirror.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Seven NASCAR Winston Cup Championships, seventy six race wins, but
among some of his more infamous moments, the nineteen eighty
seven passed in the grass trailing Bill Elliott at the
NASCAR All Star Race when his car slid onto the
infield grass on the final lap. He managed to keep
the car from spinning, using the grass to stay on
the lead lap and ultimately win the race that earned
(09:16):
him the nickname be Intimidator. The nineteen ninety nine Bristol
Night Race, white flag waving, earn Hart got bumper to
bumper with Terry Labonte and spun him out. Earnhart then
took the lead and won the race, a controversial move
seen by many as overly aggressive. Well, if deal had
a middle name, it might be aggressive because when you
(09:36):
talk about one of the true true legends of the sport,
just a nasty, dirty dog as much as you could
be riding in a car, Bill Earnhart. If we close
out this fire Fizzle Cannapolis, you stand up, hudd up
right now for.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
The Intimidator, Bill Earnhart, closing this thing out because he
has the rap fire. Let's get it swapping, turn to music.
Oh before eighty of these man come after you.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Raise Hail for Dale, Baby, Raise Hall for Dale. Poor Napolis,
k Tan, pour out your sun drop. This one's for
you Dale. Already.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
That was great.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
I loved every bit of that, and I would like
to recap that as soon as we come back. Don't
go anywhere. We got one more hour to go. It's
Weston Walker Sports Radio ninety two to seven WFNZ right
there for Dale.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Yeah,
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