WWE In Your House: Season's Beatings Review - Yes, Virginia, there is a XANTA KLAUS!
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2024
- As WWE limps its way to the end of 1995, Bret Hart and the British Bulldog put on an awesome match for the title, and we get the debut of Santa Claus' evil twin! YAY!
00:00 Intro - Our Story So Far
02:30 Sid & The Kid vs. Razor Ramon & Marty Jannetty
05:06 Jerry Lawler interviews Jeff Jarrett
06:15 Ahmed Johnson vs. Buddy Landell
09:17 Razor Ramon reads Goldust's letter
09:40 Hogpen Match: Henry O. Godwin vs. Hunter Hearst Helmsley
12:23 Diesel vs. Owen Hart
14:31 Introducing ... XANTA KLAUS!
16:00 Casket Match: The Undertaker vs. King Mabel
18:08 The Challenger and Champion are interviewed
18:58 WWF Championship: Bret Hart vs. The British Bulldog
21:50 A face-off between Diesel and the Undertaker
22:03 Final Thoughts
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Jeff Hardy dying trying to carry Mable 😂😂😂 16:21
Owen Hart ribbing Vince by getting the hogs in his office is one of my favorite backstage ribs and stories.
RIP Owen. One of the best in both wrestling and ribbing.
Sid had this strange goofy form of charisma as a big man that made him so endearing as a fan, plus he had such a great look. He looked and acted like a 90’s action cartoon/comic book enforcer come to life.
It’s like how the “Omosapien” meme today with Omos, that was Sid in the 90’s.
He could've done well in comedy, I think.
"TWENTY-TWO!? Oh, man!"
Heel Lex Luger had a ton of this too, in my opinion.
I mean, he does kinda sorta look like Brock Samson.
WHO'S THE MAN?!
It feels like Von Wagner in NXT is getting over in a similar weird way. It feels part meme and part sincere
Jeff Hardy looking like he was gonna die carrying Mabel lol
Happy to see Zane bring up Triple H's bleeding at the end of the Hog Pen Match, because I noticed that too when I first saw this match years ago & instantly thought "Man, I hope Hunter didn't get sick after getting mud & pig crap all into that wound", but never really saw anyone else ever bring it up.
Kevin Owens mentioned it on the Art of Wrestling podcast with Colt Cabana. He was really concerned.
@@dr.snakesI miss Colt Cabana’s podcast
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong, but I think in Nash’s Kayfabe Commentaries WWF 1995 review, he said HHH got a staph infection from those bumps in the mud. He still has a scar on his back from it to this day.
I remember seeing the hog thing years ago.😂
Any classic PPV review from the 80s/90s/early 2000s will get a thumbs up from me.
I always feel Zayn's intro for the Classic PPV Review is like gangsters cruising and bopping their lowriders up and down quiet suburban streets.
Today I learned that there’s a show that’s somehow worse in terms of buy rates than December to Dismember
Balls Mahoney was on both shows
@@claymathewselevator8121all his fault 😂
December to Dismember was WWE pissing on the original ECW's grave. What an absolute abomination of a PPV.
@@ziahamm1603nobody cares
@@erikaw7767 and yet you cared enough to respond with your wonderful, evocative and insightful comment 🙄
The Main Event is criminally underrated, it would've gotten more love had it happened at a main PPV in a major Venue instead of In Your House
Something Brian didn't bring up about the main is the TV aftermath. The match was deemed so good they played it, at length, to get people to buy more IYH events. As to that point the IYHs weren't selling loads. At this time they had two major things going against them. The first was they often looked quite weak on paper. The second was the reality mirrored that.
I think it’s better then their SummerSlam 92 match.
@@catchcan221me too. We are probably in the minority but many have never even seen this match.
True, but having Bulldog at this point in his career, as a challenger for a world title, at a major show, would have been a waste because no one would have thought he would win, so it would rob the drama of the match and build.
By this point in his career, he was firmly in the IC title realm, which is fine, because he's a great worker but there was 0 support for him being a world champion.
You can see the scars from that cut on Triple H's back all through the rest of his career.
The same man who went over god in a match, booked a heelturn for Santa Claus….Vince is truly a unique individual 😂
The more I see of Jeff Jarrett, the more I appreciate him.
Shut up Slap nutz
Back in the day, you couldn’t stand him. Today, we realize, that’s how good at his job he was.
Jeff just *gets* pro-wrestling. The way he strutted, how he sold, and his working punches. He was so good, he was getting entertaining 10 minute matches out of Chyna on his way out the door when he could have just phoned it in. Also his match with HBK at IYH is easily a top-10 IC title match of all time.
@@zlinedavid
Jarrett gets hate because of his WCW run when he broke thousands of guitars but didn't draw a dime, even though he was one of the better parts of dying WCW. He is one of the greatest heels of all time because he knew how to get the heat and when the bell rang he could wrestle.
Balls Mahoney as Nega-Santa I forgot that happened lol
AHHHHHH!
Xanta Claus
I miss Balls Mahoney
No no Paul is putting the straps on me and Axl and we’re the focal point of TV don’t arrest me- Balls Mahoney
@@claymathewselevator8121 he did have the biggest of them all,
R.I.P.
21:25 Bret Hart always knew how to hide that blade. I remember in one of those Kayfabe Commentaries shoots with Sean Oliver when he was asked how he got away with blading in Wrestlemania while Ric Flair got fined doing it on camera. He replied "Because I'm a professional", with a smug smirk on his face. That gave me a chuckle.
Bret was also the one that cut Austin during the WM13 match. They came up with the blood idea and decided that the best way they could both get away with it was for Bret to carry the blade and cut Steve during a floor spot. That way they couldn’t go back and watch the tape to see when Steve did it and pass it off as a hard way.
Owen Hart putting pigs in Vince’s office 😂
Even when WWE was at their low point from 1992-95, they could always count on the Hitman to not just have the best matches any given card but to also make his opponent look good.
I remember the Hog Pen match being on Triple H's DVD Release in 2008 (For some reason) and I remember being very entertained at 8 years old at the "spectacle" I thought it was. Now I'm just shocked it was actually a fairly decent match with some actually alright comedy.
I'd love to see a Review for ECW December to Dismember 1995, the one where Steve Austin fought Mikey Whipwreck
having just recently read Bret's autobiography, cool to see one of the highlighted matches. particularly, as you mentioned, the blood
The Hart and Bulldog match looked like it really hurt. Amazing.
The next classic review is Starrcade 2000? Yayyyyy, Zane Claus read my mind about WCW in 2000. What a great, early Christmas present!!!! LOL
I always love seeing Kevin Nash hit the jack knife power bomb. A thing of beauty to me.
Tommy Dreamer said Balls Mahoney once told a cop “No no no Paul is putting the straps on me and Axl and we’re the focal point of TV don’t arrest me” and cops let him go
As a kid in the 90's we all loved Sid despite his alignment or angles. He was huge, built like a brick wall, and had a goofy comic book charm that just worked back then. I remember seeing his leg breaking live and it just crushed me.
Usually when people talk about "it" the conversation is about the guys who had all the talent but didn't have "it." But on the opposite end of the spectrum are the few guys like Sid succeeded in spite of their many flaws precisely because he had "it."
@@jliller Sid also worked his gimmick. You didn't pay money to see him do wrist locks and chain wrestle. You paid money to see him beat the shit out of his opponents and be "The Master and Ruler of The World."
Even as a kid, Sid was always my favorite heel monster around 99 WCW. Millennium Man Sid Vicious jumping people with powerbombs and Charles Robinson holding up his records.
If Dean Douglas fought Bad News Brown it’d be Brown vs The Board Of Education
This is going to fly about 10,000 feet above some heads but 👏👏👏👏. Nicely done. 😂
I always like that Bulldog wore the same tights he wore at Summerslam 92.
Jim Cornette belongs in the WWE HOF. What a legend!
He’s talked about this on his podcast. Jim said that he doesn’t feel he should go in alone, and that he’d only consider it if WWE decided to induct the Midnight Express with him as their manager.
@gabepollock1641 , what a shame but I understand. So I definitely hope he's gets inducted either way 😊
@@criminalmindsgirl2936 True, he’s in a class to himself as far as managers go, he 100% deserves the honor. But I think Jim has always been aware that his successes were as much his own as they were the talents he managed, so I get his hesitation all the same.
@@gabepollock1641 Some humility from Corny. He’s usually regarded not as one of the best but 2nd best of all time, behind only Heenan. But Jim will always be quick to deflect the praise onto whoever he managed, namely the Midnight. Class move, IMO.
@@gabepollock1641, I definitely agree!
watching these old ppvs and listening to vinces commentary hits different when you know he's the owner and booker
And was weinsteining broads left and right the entire time
@@jackburton2680 Aside from Sunny and Marlena, there wasn't too many in WWE at this time.
Henry O might legit be one of the best feuds Hunter ever had that no one talks about. Henry was wrestling at his peak and their chemistry was legit.
At the tail end of the “Wrestlers with Jobs” era, the blueblood aristocrat vs. the hog farmer actually worked too. Of course those two guys would hate each other.
If Triple H had remained a snob heel instead of becoming a degenerate, getting HOG and PIG to clean up their act and become his henchmen could have been a good angle.
@@jliller
They kind of did as Southern Justice as suit weating goons for Jeff Jarrett under their real names.
@@jeffbeyer43 Yes, similar to that. I don't think their transformation was explained either.
Having to sit through a Hog Pen Match, Xanta Klaus, and a Undertaker/Mabel casket match was worth it for that awesome Bret/Bulldog match.
I miss the Vince from 1995....I wish he would never age
We need more In Your House reviews.
As someone who was watching a lot of WWF and WCW in the early to mid ‘90s, I can’t find the words to properly convey how insanely over Sid was back then. We just loved the guy, there was something about his look and intensity that made us want to cheer him no matter what.
Because he looked like he could legit kick anyone's ass, even people twice his size.
Sid was a central casting version of a pro wrestler, like Hulk Hogan V2.0
I mean he was cheered over Hogan AND Flair in the ‘92 Rumble . if you weren’t watching at the time I have to tell you, Sid was hands down the fans’ choice to win that.
@@119Agent kinda like the Nasty Boys in 95 in their three-way feud with the Blue Bloods and Harlem Heat. Go back and watch Nastys vs Bloods on WCW Saturday Night June 17, 1995. It was the Night before Great American Bash 95 where they basically had the exact same match. Duuuuuuuuude.. the Boys were OVER. I don't think I ever saw a reaction out of a Saturday Night crowd like I saw then. It's hard to tell if the crowd really liked the Boys or if they simply hated Bobby Eaton and Regal, but good god were they engrossed in that match. Both times. I've seen main event, Attitude Era PPV draws with less crowd engagement than that little Saturday Night crowd. Run in at the End by Harlem Heat tipped the crowd. It's crazy going back and watching older stuff where guys just had the crowd and then trying to watch the odd clip of today's stuff where it's just dead or the morons chant 'what'.
@@119Agent He would’ve won if not for that punkass Hogan.
Happy seasons beatings to you 1 and all
Hershey is a few hours away from Pittsburgh, but the fact that Sid and Sean Waltman were in a tag team called 'Sid & The Kid' ten years before Sidney Crosby was drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins is a crazy coincidence.
This was that weird time between the New Generation and Attitude Era.
I remember Zanta Claw being a character in a very old Commadore 64 wrestling game.
the Bret and Bulldog Match was very underrated
This aired on my 10th birthday, cant believe it was that long ago
Thank you for pointing out Hog pen match with Triple H. Everytime I hear about the curtain call incident they always reference this match as a punishment for Triple H!
Yep, this and getting squashed by Warrior at Wrestlemania.
I don't remember the curtain call incident.
@@mychaeljones7526 you should google it or find a RUclips video about it. It explains the importance of Kayfabe back then.😊
But this before the call so you’re saying they were already punishing him before it even happened?
I also heard Ric Flair was selective when he bled. Only did it in days that end in Y
Zane and Tony from Deadlock having a years old video is like a Kevin Steen vs Tyler Black RoH match
They should pushed Xanta Claus during Summer and called it Christmas In July 😂
Dean Douglas was Andre Chase before Andre Chase
I remember Diesel's quasi-turn like it was yesterday. Very confusing and heartbreaking to me at the time. I had just gone as Big Daddy Cool for Halloween, cheap foam WWF title belt and all. At least he was still giving high fives to his doppelgängers...
Tweener diesel that we got here at shows like this could've did better business than smiling baby face diesel. But hindsight is 20/20.
What is absolutely crazy is when you look at this card. JEFF JARRETT IS THE ONLY ONE STILL ACTIVE TODAY!!!!
A lot of the boys no longer with us: Mabel, Razor, Owen, Davey, Balls….
Santa Claus vs Xanta Claus should be the ultimate Christmas clash!
Stone Cold Santa Claus?
@@dr.snakes That actually happened on a show.
I like how WWE history Still dictates that The Hogpen match was penance for HHH participating in the Curtain Call, despite this proving the match took place 6 months before the Call 😂
14:28 Not sure if it was on purpose, but the paraphrased Doctor Doofenshmirtz quote gave me a good laugh.
This show was saved by Bret/Davey. It was another excellent match, that had a much different look/feel than the SummerSlam '92 match. It really seemed to resonate with that tough Philadelphia crowd, that is not an easy crowd to please.
If you're familiar with grindhouse movies, they are a very grindhouse crowd.
I doubt any of them fans are still around watching wrestling anymore. Why would they, its turned into a giant childrens colouring book with video game wrestling
@@Michael-cz6ob Yeah, things were a lot different back then.
Been in the hersheypark arena a few times in my life and it’s a fun little older building. Didn’t know this happened being that I’m about 25 miles or so from Hershey. Still there but haven’t been in there since the later 90s
This channels videos have become my bedtime story every night. Love the work and the fact your voice isn't annoying as hell is an added bonus! Great content and production too. ❤
5:07 Vince goes BALLISTIC on this 😂
0:28 You make reference to the PPV's subtitle as the first of the "Season's Beatings" portmanteau. I just learned that Clash of the Champions IV actually had the subtitle "Season's Beatings" all the way back in 1988. However, I guess since that's a TV special and not a PPV, BZ is still correct on a technicality.
3:14 RIP WWE Home Videos, sad day for physical media 😢
I don't recall if kayfabe anything else happened with the urn-chains, but if they didn't get melted down, there was a missed opportunity to include them in Bikertaker's look.
Wrestlemania The Arcade Game for PS1 was so fun. I'd love to see the Z-man give that a review.
Hoping you eventually review IYH 4: great white north.
Curious to see if you would give that infamous show the same grade as WM 11 as Vince expressed how much he loved the main event once they went off the air lol
Holy shit, I'm kinda caught off guard by how young Balls Mahoney looks when his Santa beard gets pulled off, it's insane to think about how he'll look like he aged 10 years in only a few years from this when he's in ECW.
The fat-guy fear of caskets makes Kayfabe sense. They probably feel extra claustrophobic in there.
Sid was always beloved!
The WCW content is always A+ stuff, which is why I’m stoked for
the Starrcade 2000 review.
I heard that the Davey Boy Smith did not care for the Hershey Park Arena. And would always complain when the WWE went there for PPVs and televison tapings. Funny that he would have one of his best matches there.
Bret vs Bulldog here in my opinion was the match of the year in 1995, not Diesel vs Shawn. I think it was too late in the PWI voting period
It was clearly Diesel vs. Mabel!
Diesel vs Shawn in 95 wasn't even top five matches anyway. PWI gave some horrific winners over the years.
11:49 Well obviously this match was part of his punishment. So was Warrior burying the Pedigree, and his time in WCW as Terra Ryzing. Vince was just that forward minded.
Please do more In Your Houses! In Your Homes? They had so many shenanigans in them and were largely trash, which is perfect for reviews like this!
"Jerry King...Jerry the Lawler!" LOL! I'm glad someone besides myself remembers that Vince flub. 🤣🤙🏽🤙🏽
Sounds like something Captain Lou would say.
Xanta Claus and Adam Rose’s Bunny as an odd couple tag team 😂
8:28 Jeff's reaction is gold. That's the moment he knew the Gold CD was a little too strong.
2:15 A Tatanka reference! I remembered it from your McMemphis video!
I miss this time in wrestling. It was far from perfect, but the memorable personalities made it work for me
16:20, I see London, I see France, I see a young Jeff Hardy.
As a kid I always enjoyed this instalment of in your house, the Bret Hart match was amazing.
How Mabel wasn't fired after crushing UTs orbital socket and hurting Diesel and IIRC Fatu(among others I assume) is beyond me.
If you listen real closely, you can hear nia jax giggling.
Marty and Razor: The Party Hardy Boyz
In the mid 90s a guy named Simon Garfield wrote a book calltled The Wrestling. It was a book about the death of the UK World of Sport and the rise of populatity of the WWF in the UK (in 1995 Europe was one of the few places the Fed made money, if you look at when they run the most European tours its generally a bad business year). The last chapter of the original he had flown out to the states to observe what the fed was doing and actually was in attendance for this show. During rhe show he got interviews with a few of the guys. Without it in front of me the two i remember him including were HBK and HHH. The Hunter one makes for interesting reading in hindsight as HHH does it fully in character. He goes on about how he is going to work his way up through the ranks before eventually taking over the company. Insane to think it happened exactly as he said it would within less than a decade.
Damn that Triple H Flippy bump was NICE! Don't think I've ever seen him do that.
Awesome Review Brian You're the best.
As a kid in the 90s I was a big Sid fan. I still have a pic of me and him when I met him at a house show at my local convention center.
Ah the Dark Times of Wrestling 1995
Come here kids let me tell you about wwf in 1995
I do enjoy this ppv. Bret vs Bulldog is great and bloody. The Hog pen match was a fun gimmick. C+ is about right for this show. It's so very weird to think that the next night on RAW was the debut of Steve Austin and we were 3 weeks away from him debuting on tv for the first time. The Santa heel turn is hilariously bad. Dianna Smith continues to look like someone who has never been on tv in her life before. The main event is a pretty underrated and often overlooked match. Give it a watch.
That main event was on a VHS I owned as a kid, along with the Razor Ramon/1-2-3 Kid Crybaby match and Bret vs. Lawler and the Kiss My Foot match. I wish I could remember what it was called, but yeah, the only thing I ever saw from this show was the Bret/Bulldog match.
The arcade game brings back sooooo many memories.
Poor guy on the left that's carrying Mabel looks like a young Jeff Hardy😂
New camera? Very nice set up including the lighting you've got going on.
Thank you for noticing! It's the same camera I've been using but I've been playing with the lighting a little bit lately (especially that back light getting the back of my head)!
Thanks for the review Brian ❤
It’s been said many times before but Bret Hart could wrestle a broom and it’ll be a 5 star classic
Well thats a lie. He wrestled Goldberg and hes about as mobile as a broom.
This might be the earliest PPV I remember. That hog pen match seemed like it aired the Triple H mudpen bump over and over on Raw.
On 6:04 , Jeff Jarrett announced himself as the first participant in the 1996 Royal Rumble match.
However, Jeff didn't participate in the Rumble match (Jeff Jarrett wrestled the man who he attacked on this PPV, Ahmed Johnson).
I wondered why the WWE Hall of Famer didn't participate in the 1996 Royal Rumble match. I don't think even Brian Zane knew the reason on his WWF 1996 Royal Rumble review.
Watched this in preparation for the video 😄
0:44 That In Your House graphic is definitely a choice.
Ngl I thought it was a bit of an exaggeration of how much Shane Douglas gets injured but omfg I’m pretty sure this is if not the 11-12th time he’s injured at a show. Damn guy was legit injury prone
good review
A motivate Kevin Nash has a good match 😱😱
Sadly he wasn't motivated very often.
Jeff Hardy there as one of Mable’s throne carrier ,)
The biggest surprise in this video is seeing that even in his younger days Balls Mahoney looked about 65.
That last little bit of Diesels run before he left was fire
13:53 Tim White referring a Kevin Nash match in this era is WEIRD
Underrated Bret Classic that doesn't get talked about enough. Also one of the reasons why I love Bret's in-ring psychology is that he doesnt always win with his finisher he just finds a way to get the win. I love that subtle hint of logic.
I am so happy you chose this pay-per-view.. my Christmas came early.Thank you