Arsenio and "the African Dream"

I never did watch much Arsenio Hall as a kid, but I did watch a pretty fair amount of WWF (now WWE due to a lawsuit) wrestling, and something of that obsession carried over into my adult years thanks to the Youtube revolution that has gripped humanity over the last few years. Thanks to that site (and other various video sharing sites) I have been able to spendcountless hours watching footage from what is considered the Second Golden Age of Wrestling from the early 1980's to sometime in the mid-1990's. Watching countless clips of Legion of Doom, Junkyard Dog, and of course, The Iron Sheik has been - in my opinion - time wasted quite well.

So where does Arsenio fit into all this? Well, Mr. Hall, in all his zeitgeisty glory had his finger on the pulse of many things (see the video of then presidential candidate Bill Clinton playing the saxophone in sunglasses, and thus making the youth think he was the coolest guy since, well, Arsenio), including Americas obsession with professional wrestling. And on the clip above, from a pre-L.A. Riot time, apparently when I guess a police figure beating a handcuffed black man wasn't such a hot button topic (also pointing at another black man, and calling him "boy" didn't seem to register on the racist meter either), Big Boss Man, and Akeem "the African Dream" (formerly known as One Man Gang), known by their tag team name of "The Twin Towers", make a guest appearance (accompanied by their manager Slick) on Hall's show, and hilarity ensues.

Oh, and if ever you wondered how One Man Gang became "the African Dream" (I know you do), here is the explanation behind that one.