Sting: *tags Ric* Ric: *enters the ring* Sting: "finally a break" Crowd: "goes wild" Ric: *hits the ropes.. Ric flair strut... Punches sting right in the face* 😂😂😂😂 I couldn't stop laughing at that
I love Sting, but damn they made him look real dumb when it comes his friends. I genuinely can't think of any top star who gets betrayed constantly in the most obvious ways but doesn't seem to lose his shine.
@@mikecabral2420 I think I read that something happened a bit later on when one of the valets was being harassed by the Horseman so Sting gave her a can of mace in case they attacked her during a match he was in. To the surprise of nobody, she uses the "mace" on Sting but it turned out to just be silly string, so he did learn eventually.
This really started the whole mythos of "Sting trusts a heel who has "turned face" and pays for it in the end". I mean, literally, how many times did this happen to Sting? Heel: Hey Sting, we should *totally* team up to fight those other heels! I've seen the light! Sting: What do you think, fans? Should I trust him and team up with him? Fans: No! Sting: Ok! Heel, let's team up! *Heel turns on Sting and beats him up with other heels* Sting: *Shocked Pikachu face*
@Gary Hall Meh, to be fair, The Horsemen only turned on Sting because he had the "audacity" to ask for a title shot, IIRC, not so much a "Hey Sting, trust me.....psyche! I'm turning on you!" moment.
Past being Prologue not withstanding... as I remember it The Intensity and Duration of the Flair v Anderson Feud at this point was such that for the Whole thing to be a Con wouldn't even enter your mind if it wasn't Ric 'Dirtiest Player" Flair
The best thing about the whole thing was Lex Luger's heel turn. Anybody that hasn't watched this run of Lex from this point to about the time of Uncensored 96 needs to check out some of it. Luger is hilarious in the role. The whole time he is trying to convince Sting that he really isn't a part of the Dungeon of Doom and still the straight and arrow guy he always was only to do something dirty behind Sting's back. Like he would be hugging Jimmy Hart then when Sting entered the room suddenly he would act like he had no idea who Jimmy was, or he'd be slapping fives with fans when Sting was watching but as soon as Sting turned his back he would treat them like they were the plague. It was such good stuff. My favorite though is when he challenged LOD to face him and Sting in a "Chicago Street fight". Of course LOD are kayfabe from the "streets of Chicago" so this is a trademark match of theirs, Sting knowing this asked Luger why he would accept this match and Luger's like "I'm from Chicago too so I can handle it", Sting then correctly points out that Lex is from the upper middle class suburbs of Chicago and not the "streets". Just a hilarious interaction.
Lex just came off like an undercover cop trying (and failing miserably) to act like a drug dealer: "Ahem.....how do you do, fellow Faces? Boy, those Heels in WCW sure are jerks, right? I sure am glad to be a fellow Face, and not a stinky, rotten, poopie head Heel.....I am totally a Face."
@@swoosh4644 unfortunately I can't find any specific videos on yt. But if you go on the network and watch the February 26 1996 Nitro you can see some of the stuff with LOD. It starts at around the 10 min mark. Then right after the promo luger faces renegade. That match is horrible but you have to see the ending and how Luger interacts with Jimmy Hart until Sting comes to the ring. So hilarious.
@Herp Derp Yep, I also love his totally disingenuous over the top enthusiasm about everything.. Not to mention all his "right Stinger!" with a shit eaten grin on his face. So awesome.
19:04 original Lyrics Brian Zane: the two trucks meet in the middle of the roof on Cobo Hall and they start pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing the trucks back and forth it just keeps going on forever and they're not keeping score they just keep pushing along until The Giant falls off of the ledge of the building and is presumed dead wait what
It specifically came after Heenan said something like "What side did he fall off, the side facing the parking lot or the river?" Only for Bischoff to reply with "One's side is a parking lot, the other is a river, what difference does it make?" At that point Heenan was done. lol
TrollskieTV Seriously!! She was good at it too! She had a real passion for Monster Trucks and she is a 2 time Monster Jam World Finals champion! Wrestling fans need to understand that WCW and Monster Jam worked well together and I would say it was successful! Especially for Madusa and former WCW wrestler Chad Fortune!
@@SunshineStateCoasters i was pissed when Monster Jam came to New Orleans and she was Toronto for her farewell tour, everybody I talked to that worked for MJ had nothing but high praise for her. I wish their venture into nascar would of worked out better
Well this is under totally different trucks hulkster and giant (and stinger) were under team bigfoot while madusa, goldberg, sting and nitro machine was under Monster jam
@@chronovac Funny enough you think with the disaster that this was they would stay clear from Monster Trucks and never have anything to do with them again. But back when I was a young kid I used to watch Monster Jam all the time which if similar to Nascar or anything like that where they had legit competitions like races and freestyle and kept standings and had world championships. But this was far from the last time they got involved in the sport. As back in the late 90's and early 00's they had a bunch of monster trucks which I owned all the toys for. They had an NWO truck. They also had a Monday Night Nitro one they had 2 for actual talent one for Sting and another for Goldberg which the Goldberg truck actually had the best driver in the world at the time behind the wheel. And then the coolest thing was Medusa had a monster truck which she was the actual driver for it. And she has been driving it for pretty much two decades now. Not sure what is going on with the sport as I stopped watching and not sure what they are doing with COVID and if they are still doing events for TV during this time period. But Medusa was still driving the truck as she came back in 2020 to have her farewell tour with it.
I guess Hogan pushing Big Show off a roof to his death only to come back later probably inspired wwe to do the same thing for Aleister Black and Rey Mysterio at Money In The bank
FOUR AND A HALF YEARS! I totally forgot that this song was done before, much less realizing you had guitar chops. And now, next to your Superbrawl 91 take on the Oz squash match, this is my second favorite single match review ever. That is serious dedication to the fans of this channel. I love it, and PLEASE break out the guitar more often.
@@aztecwrrior1997Modern WWE Pay Per Views Deserve Negative Stars & 0. If The WWE Didn't Have The WWE Network, Their Pay Per View Buys Would Be 60,000-70,000 Buys.
Wrestling With Wregret Is A Smark. There Are So Many Videos And Articles On WWE Worst Matches, Which Rated Lower. There Are RUclips Videos On WCW Matches That Got Less Than Zero Stars. There Is An Article. The Lowest Star Rated WCW Match Was A -3.5 Star. The Worst WWE Matches Got -5 Stars. There Are Many WWE Matches During Attitude Era The WWE Most Successful Ratings Year That Get -5 Stars , -4s & -3.5 Stars. Wrestling With Wregret Is Lowkey Biased. The Wregret Word In His Name, He Got The Regret Part Right.. For Every WCW Mistake, There Are 5/10/12-? Times As Many WWE Mistakes. There Are Lots Of Worst Wrestling Matches, Storylines, Feuds That WCW Isn't On The List.
I still, too this day, cannot figure out who Luger was supposed to be "for." Like, I was such a huge Sting mark that I think this was the show where I cried when Flier jumped him (I would have been 7 at the time) and even I hated Luger.
@@michaelreppenhagen736 Luger was mainly for the ladies ages 35-55 with unfulfilled desires and lustful dreams of muscular men who grunt at every action.
I believe because it was originally planned to be Giant Gonzalez (in a similar outfit to his WWF one), but there were visa issues, so they improvised by covering the guy completely as a Mummy for Halloween Havoc with the intent of Gonzalez replacing him down the road... which never happened XD
One of the underappreciated dumb things about The Yeti is the fact that they would cast somebody that is bigger than The Giant to play him. The Giant was clearly the big monster that they were planning to build their future around so why would you bring in somebody even bigger than him and bring light to that(Schiavone points out how the Yeti is bigger)? That takes all the aura away from The Giant. You think if there was a guy bigger than Andre in his prime that VKM would've brought him in as a throwaway character and put him next to Andre? Not a chance, he either would keep that guy as far a way from Andre as possible or he would build that guy to be his next Andre. Just another dumb move my WCW that doesn't get enough attention due to how comical the rest of the situation was.
I actually think what you described is one of the many reasons they had the whole Yeti gimmick in the first place. It was a way to use Ron Reis (the guy who played the Yeti) in a way audience wouldn't grasp on to him as an actual wrestler and wouldn't take any of the spotlight off either The Giant or Hogan. It was meant to be a very disposable gimmick from the beginning IMO. They didn't want to take the chance of him building up a fan base and diverting attention from the Giant who they were investing a ton of time, effort and money into becoming the next "big" thing, before they could "properly" introduce him with a real gimmick (which never really happened anyways) but they also figured that since they had such a huge guy might as well find something for him to do. But in the end instead of their hamfisted solution, to their self-created problem, of trying to draw attention away to from the gigantic cluster**** that was whole Hogan/Giant feud and with the ridiculousness of Yeti, it ended bringing even more attention to the whole messed up situation. The best analogy for it would be, a person trying to cover up dog crap, be taking a even bigger crap next to it so people will focus on that one instead of the original one. But in the end the only thing that does is to make the whole situation even shittier and make an even bigger mess for you to clean up. (Of course, this is all just hearsay, and my thoughts on matter from a fan/viewers standpoint, so take what I say with a grain of salt as I may be completely and utterly wrong on all fronts.)
@@Aevilbeast I heard El Gigante was supposed to be The Yeti but he had travel issues which lead to Rees filling in for him (the idea was that once Gigante was there the bandages would be removed and it would be revealed to be him).
the only reason to do it, is if you want Andre/The Giant to be babyface and put him up against a monster; which was the thinking behind Undertaker/Gonazales but hopefully with two wrestlers instead of one. And the Giant and Reese would have worked, give them a few years but 98 versions of them... that might have been fun to watch if built to right.
The "Goldberg" monster truck became one of the most successful trucks as it became "maximum destruction". Madusa had a storied monster jam career and it was overall pretty fun to see, as well as the wcw racecars.
Wow thought I was the only one who brought up such info. I used to be a big fan of the sport and would watch it all the time along with wrestling so I loved seeing the WCW trucks. They also had a few other trucks like the NWO one but that only was around for a few months. Then they had the WCW Nitro truck and finally they had one for Sting. I stopped watching the sport awhile ago though ever since Gunslinger and the driver Scott Hartsock retired as he was my favorite. Actually met almost all of the drivers from that era took pictures with them talked to them and had their autographs. As I lived about an hour away from a small dirt race track called lebanon valley speedway where every year they would have a 3 day Monster Truck event. Where they would have races and then freestyle event after it. And before and after the events the drivers would all sit down and meet with the fans.
And pushing, and pushing, and pushing. God I cannot tell you the joy it brought me when you broke out the guitar again Brian. I loved it the first time I loved it the second. Great job. Thanks for the smile today!
I'm such a huge fan. Your back catalogue has really helped throughout the pandemic. Keep up the great work, thanks for being such a great representative for the on line wrestling community. Thanks Brian
Between 'Yetay" and every episode of Nitro being the "Greatest night in the history of this Business" I lost all respect for Schiavone to the point I don't think I saw/heard "That'll put butts in seats" when they tried to Bury Foley...
The rather odd way you wrote that sentence almost makes it sound like you WANT the Road Warriors to be forgotten. Seriously, folks proper punctuation and even basic grammar knowledge can really help get your message across and be understood by more people. . One missing comma can turn what would be a rather nice and thoughtful comment about a wrestling legend who recently passed away into sounding like the way too common random mumblings of an attention-seeking internet troll. I'm pretty sure, that is the former rather than the latter but figured I'd mention this just in case some one does misunderstand this comment and maybe hopefully prevent someone from making this same mistake in the future. Just remember, re-reading your comments before posting them and seeing if they actually make sense can save a ton of misunderstandings, frustration, and misguided anger.
Savage's ring IQ is insane, the fact that he saw the fan rush the ring and so quickly took the match to the outside so that it didn't interrupt anything is amazing. Compare that to the "cerebral assassin" who's game plan was just to beat the shit outta the guy....
Both equally awesome, in different ways. You just wanna shit on Levesque. That wasn't on a PPV, it was a house show and that fool got what he deserved, the crowd got an unexpected treat.
Best part of this show- heenan sends his source to the back to find flair. Flair comes out during the match. "My source just came back and told me he couldn't find flair anywhere"
I remember watching this PPV as a kid and I remeber Sabu vs JL (had no idea that was Jerry Lynn obviously) and Sabu hit his springboard moonsault, and on the replay Bobby Heenan said, "Kids, dont try this at home on the ironing board!" That always stuck with me. Gotta love prime Bobby Heenan on commentary
I’ve always loved the extra spice Z-Man puts into the DIAMMMMMONNNNNDDDDD CUTTERRRRRRRRR, but this time it was edited so perfectly to match the footage
..."With the double dry hump onto Hogan..." LMAO!! I remember seeing this pay-per-view when it happened, and I think my thought at the time was very similar. Giving the show a -1 star rating just made my day! This is my favorite review of yours so far!!
When Sting finally agreed to team with Flair didn't he say something to the effect of "I still think you're probably going to turn on me. And when you do I'm going to kick your ass worse than I ever have before."
Side note for the Monster Truck stuff, there was many monster trucks with WCW Branding later on in 1999-2001 ranging from NWO, Nitro, Sting, Goldberg, and Hogan of course. Not sure how much more advertising it did to help WCW, but definitely did help a few drivers build up to get a career going in Monster Jam and other indy shows.
The "flat tire" angle was done in GCW back in the late 70's or early 80's between the Freebirds vs Kevin Sullivan and Austin Idol, and it still worked in 1995. Remember, what's old is new again.
I remember seeing the Hulkster truck and Dungeon of Doom truck on TV in the mid 90's. The Bigfoot team had a number of trucks that were running on the PENDA Monster Truck circuit. They had the Hulkster, which became Hollywood Hogan. Then they had the Stinger truck, which became Sting. And then they had the Dungeon of Doom truck, which became The Outsiders. Monster Jam also had a number of WCW trucks in the late 90's. There was an nWo truck, a Goldberg truck (which became Maximum Destruction), the Nitro Machine truck, a Sting truck, and of course, the Madusa truck, driven by Madusa, who was actually pretty good at racing. WWF didn't really go into the monster trucks like WCW did, but they did have the Stone Cold Steve Austin truck. They went into drag racing more, as they had a number of Funny Cars driven by Jerry Toliver and Jim Epler in 1999-2001. Toliver drove two Stone Cold funny cars, The Rock funny car, and the XFL funny car. Jim Epler ran the Undertaker funny car, as well as the Kane funny car.
Thank God we are getting a Halloween Havoc '97 review. That PPV is easily the best WCW show ever. I like how we go from worst to first the next week in these reviews sometimes.
I’ve been rewatching these classic reviews and I’m noticing a trend with Halloween Havoc. Chamber of Horrors, Monster Truck Sumo match, Hogan vs Warrior, the ‘98 scheduling snafu. All incredible stuff
AND PUSHING AND PUSHING AND PUSHING!!!!... That was a lovely call back there Brian. 10/10
Your comment is from one day ago? How ?
@@NexusFantismo Patreon backer :)
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Whats so funny is i can remember watching that live when i was five thinking it was awesome
You should make a longer version of the song. This sounds really great.
I was hoping THE song would return. I was not disappointed in the slightest.
Starting the video now. Hope it’s the song I think you’re referring to.
Edit: I was not disappointed. This was wonderful.
Loved it too.
Genuinely lol’d, woke my family up. Worth it
As soon as I saw the thumbnail, I thought the same thing!
Dead..... looks to camera.... ZERO STARS
Sting: *tags Ric*
Ric: *enters the ring*
Sting: "finally a break"
Crowd: "goes wild"
Ric: *hits the ropes.. Ric flair strut... Punches sting right in the face*
😂😂😂😂 I couldn't stop laughing at that
Man that shit was hilarious
Comedy timing haha
I know I've watched it so many times stitches Everytime😂
I love Sting, but damn they made him look real dumb when it comes his friends. I genuinely can't think of any top star who gets betrayed constantly in the most obvious ways but doesn't seem to lose his shine.
@@mikecabral2420 I think I read that something happened a bit later on when one of the valets was being harassed by the Horseman so Sting gave her a can of mace in case they attacked her during a match he was in. To the surprise of nobody, she uses the "mace" on Sting but it turned out to just be silly string, so he did learn eventually.
9:21 - "He goes for another dive, but he eats shit..."
This is Sabu in his purest form.
OSW Fans: I hope Lex's selling technique gets mentioned...
OSW Fans at 20:36 - "Hooray!"
AUGH
OUGH
ERMAGOD
@@SomeDumbKid1 Ohhhh Mi MOW!
Lex selling sounds like the bad guys in Streets of Rage 2 dying
Oh me meow !
Sexy Lexy forever
This really started the whole mythos of "Sting trusts a heel who has "turned face" and pays for it in the end".
I mean, literally, how many times did this happen to Sting?
Heel: Hey Sting, we should *totally* team up to fight those other heels! I've seen the light!
Sting: What do you think, fans? Should I trust him and team up with him?
Fans: No!
Sting: Ok! Heel, let's team up!
*Heel turns on Sting and beats him up with other heels*
Sting: *Shocked Pikachu face*
it happened 3 different times with just ric flair!
Only man unluckier than Sting is Tommy Dreamer. Who hasn't stabbed Dreamer in the back?
@Gary Hall Meh, to be fair, The Horsemen only turned on Sting because he had the "audacity" to ask for a title shot, IIRC, not so much a "Hey Sting, trust me.....psyche! I'm turning on you!" moment.
42...the answer is 42.
Past being Prologue not withstanding... as I remember it The Intensity and Duration of the Flair v Anderson Feud at this point was such that for the Whole thing to be a Con wouldn't even enter your mind if it wasn't Ric 'Dirtiest Player" Flair
"AND THE YET-TAAAAAAAAY!!!" Tony Schiavone at an Italian restaurant: "I'D LIKE SOME SPAGHET-TAAAAAAAAY!!!!!"
15:10 "Achievement Unlocked"...absolutely fantastic
The best thing about the whole thing was Lex Luger's heel turn. Anybody that hasn't watched this run of Lex from this point to about the time of Uncensored 96 needs to check out some of it. Luger is hilarious in the role.
The whole time he is trying to convince Sting that he really isn't a part of the Dungeon of Doom and still the straight and arrow guy he always was only to do something dirty behind Sting's back. Like he would be hugging Jimmy Hart then when Sting entered the room suddenly he would act like he had no idea who Jimmy was, or he'd be slapping fives with fans when Sting was watching but as soon as Sting turned his back he would treat them like they were the plague. It was such good stuff.
My favorite though is when he challenged LOD to face him and Sting in a "Chicago Street fight". Of course LOD are kayfabe from the "streets of Chicago" so this is a trademark match of theirs, Sting knowing this asked Luger why he would accept this match and Luger's like "I'm from Chicago too so I can handle it", Sting then correctly points out that Lex is from the upper middle class suburbs of Chicago and not the "streets". Just a hilarious interaction.
Lex just came off like an undercover cop trying (and failing miserably) to act like a drug dealer:
"Ahem.....how do you do, fellow Faces? Boy, those Heels in WCW sure are jerks, right? I sure am glad to be a fellow Face, and not a stinky, rotten, poopie head Heel.....I am totally a Face."
Please tell me or direct me where I can find some video of this stuff. In need for a good laugh
@@swoosh4644 unfortunately I can't find any specific videos on yt. But if you go on the network and watch the February 26 1996 Nitro you can see some of the stuff with LOD. It starts at around the 10 min mark. Then right after the promo luger faces renegade. That match is horrible but you have to see the ending and how Luger interacts with Jimmy Hart until Sting comes to the ring. So hilarious.
@Herp Derp Yep, I also love his totally disingenuous over the top enthusiasm about everything.. Not to mention all his "right Stinger!" with a shit eaten grin on his face. So awesome.
Then Jimmy Hart pulls Luger out of the match and puts him in the stupid Doomsday match and Sting is forced to team with Booker T
Just pushing along by Brian Zane should be a number one hit around the world.
He needs to put it on Spotify
A bop.
@@masonscott2440 With Luger's grunts
19:04 original Lyrics
Brian Zane: the two trucks meet in the middle of the roof on Cobo Hall and they start pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing the trucks back and forth it just keeps going on forever and they're not keeping score they just keep pushing along until The Giant falls off of the ledge of the building and is presumed dead wait what
Lol I said A flat tire Ahhhrrrgggg best Wrestlin acting
... *ZERO STARS*
Lmfao
*Zero stars*
That's Grammy worthy
Moustache-less Hogan looks just like John Cleese and it's absolutely startling
Oh my god you're right. Why have you done this to me.
Strange seeing as John Cleese is best known with his moustache, at least these days.
No it doesn't.
Yes it does.
No it doesn't.
Yes it does!
*Ding* Good morning.
The Brain's facepalm after the monster truck segment was one of legend. I do not think I have ever seen anyone more done with anything.
It specifically came after Heenan said something like "What side did he fall off, the side facing the parking lot or the river?" Only for Bischoff to reply with "One's side is a parking lot, the other is a river, what difference does it make?" At that point Heenan was done. lol
@@mattthomas1442 I HATE THIS PLACE
(Duck Hunt "DUCK GET!" music)
Medusa always gets snubbed when talking about WCW monster trucks, and she drove her truck until she and her truck retired in 2015/16
The whole category should be snubbed..forgotten..erased from history..anything but celebrated
TrollskieTV Seriously!! She was good at it too! She had a real passion for Monster Trucks and she is a 2 time Monster Jam World Finals champion! Wrestling fans need to understand that WCW and Monster Jam worked well together and I would say it was successful! Especially for Madusa and former WCW wrestler Chad Fortune!
@@horrorfan4-life689 unless you're a monster truck fan, the cross over was pretty cool
@@SunshineStateCoasters i was pissed when Monster Jam came to New Orleans and she was Toronto for her farewell tour, everybody I talked to that worked for MJ had nothing but high praise for her. I wish their venture into nascar would of worked out better
Well this is under totally different trucks hulkster and giant (and stinger) were under team bigfoot while madusa, goldberg, sting and nitro machine was under Monster jam
19:29 "zero stars" - this killed me
Eric Bischoff: WWE had a better production value, more money, so we couldn’t make a “resurrection”
Also WCW: *monster truck fight and set-up*
@The Book Of ƬЯXPXP I’m sure they rented them out and put on custom shells. Those shells are significantly cheaper.
@@chronovac Funny enough you think with the disaster that this was they would stay clear from Monster Trucks and never have anything to do with them again. But back when I was a young kid I used to watch Monster Jam all the time which if similar to Nascar or anything like that where they had legit competitions like races and freestyle and kept standings and had world championships. But this was far from the last time they got involved in the sport. As back in the late 90's and early 00's they had a bunch of monster trucks which I owned all the toys for. They had an NWO truck. They also had a Monday Night Nitro one they had 2 for actual talent one for Sting and another for Goldberg which the Goldberg truck actually had the best driver in the world at the time behind the wheel. And then the coolest thing was Medusa had a monster truck which she was the actual driver for it. And she has been driving it for pretty much two decades now. Not sure what is going on with the sport as I stopped watching and not sure what they are doing with COVID and if they are still doing events for TV during this time period. But Medusa was still driving the truck as she came back in 2020 to have her farewell tour with it.
And pushing...and pushing, and pushing, and pushing!!
It's a girl!
ITS TWINS, Congtus mr Zane.
No it's Kevin Sullivan in a skirt
It's a Roman Reigns face run!
ITS THE YET-TAY
IT’S STING!
I guess Hogan pushing Big Show off a roof to his death only to come back later probably inspired wwe to do the same thing for Aleister Black and Rey Mysterio at Money In The bank
there was a window washing scaffold on the side of titan tower at the time. cole failed to mention it during the match.
I'd kill everyone if it meant bringing Rey back
I mean they at least explain how Rey and Aleister weren't dead.
FOUR AND A HALF YEARS! I totally forgot that this song was done before, much less realizing you had guitar chops. And now, next to your Superbrawl 91 take on the Oz squash match, this is my second favorite single match review ever. That is serious dedication to the fans of this channel. I love it, and PLEASE break out the guitar more often.
That old school west coast beat can only mean one thing: Time for another classic PPV review from Zane. Awesome
Whenever there is a worst WCW PPV, there has to be a match of negative stars.
Has any of the modern WWE matches gotten negative stars
@@aztecwrrior1997 tbh no while boring some can be they aren't bad in a sense where they are so confusing that it isn't funny or botchy as hell
@@aztecwrrior1997Modern WWE Pay Per Views Deserve Negative Stars & 0. If The WWE Didn't Have The WWE Network, Their Pay Per View Buys Would Be 60,000-70,000 Buys.
Wrestling With Wregret Is A Smark. There Are So Many Videos And Articles On WWE Worst Matches, Which Rated Lower. There Are RUclips Videos On WCW Matches That Got Less Than Zero Stars. There Is An Article. The Lowest Star Rated WCW Match Was A -3.5 Star. The Worst WWE Matches Got -5 Stars. There Are Many WWE Matches During Attitude Era The WWE Most Successful Ratings Year That Get -5 Stars , -4s & -3.5 Stars. Wrestling With Wregret Is Lowkey Biased. The Wregret Word In His Name, He Got The Regret Part Right.. For Every WCW Mistake, There Are 5/10/12-? Times As Many WWE Mistakes. There Are Lots Of Worst Wrestling Matches, Storylines, Feuds That WCW Isn't On The List.
Damn OSW. All I can ever hear when I close my eyes is Lex Luger selling.
Randy Savage = colorful, entertaining to watch, good promo, has a lot of wrestling moves.
Lex is the anti-Randy Savage
I still, too this day, cannot figure out who Luger was supposed to be "for." Like, I was such a huge Sting mark that I think this was the show where I cried when Flier jumped him (I would have been 7 at the time) and even I hated Luger.
@@michaelreppenhagen736 Luger was mainly for the ladies ages 35-55 with unfulfilled desires and lustful dreams of muscular men who grunt at every action.
Luger had the look, was decent in the ring and was a draw. Look at the pop he got when he beat Hogan for the title.
@@buddyravage1634 like Elizabeth?
@@DOYLETWAT She seemed like she could have fallen for that kinda guy.
I never got why they called him the Yetay when he's clearly a mummy.
Yetay and Gobbledy Gooker for WWE Hall of Fame!
I believe because it was originally planned to be Giant Gonzalez (in a similar outfit to his WWF one), but there were visa issues, so they improvised by covering the guy completely as a Mummy for Halloween Havoc with the intent of Gonzalez replacing him down the road... which never happened XD
Because the Giant is a giant man....
The Abominable snowman is a bigger monster....
So instead of frankenstein we got a mummy...
I heard that Tony Schiavone just happened to come up with the term/name THE YETI- and since was live on PPV they had to go with it.
@@gsesquire3441 I be,I eve mummy is public property
I don't know what I'm here for more The YETAY! or the Pushing and pushing and pushing and pushing.
The YETAY of course!!!
Yeti vs. Monster truck = That's good watchin'!
The Yetay, Giant and Hogan sharing a group hug made my night 😂
Who is Yetah?🙄
@@michaelrivera8360 You are both wrong it is: Yetaaaay! And you must pronounce it screaming at the top of your lungs.
@@jeffjackson9679 no dude the dude I wrote to had wrote Yetah and fixed it and I know is YETAY BTW
The YETAY who looked more like a MUMMAY.
@@MinscFromBaldursGate92 You beat me to it.
The fan who threw the soda at Flair and Anderson was the true MVP of this show
Would have been hilarious if Arn took a drink of it
One of the underappreciated dumb things about The Yeti is the fact that they would cast somebody that is bigger than The Giant to play him. The Giant was clearly the big monster that they were planning to build their future around so why would you bring in somebody even bigger than him and bring light to that(Schiavone points out how the Yeti is bigger)? That takes all the aura away from The Giant.
You think if there was a guy bigger than Andre in his prime that VKM would've brought him in as a throwaway character and put him next to Andre? Not a chance, he either would keep that guy as far a way from Andre as possible or he would build that guy to be his next Andre. Just another dumb move my WCW that doesn't get enough attention due to how comical the rest of the situation was.
I actually think what you described is one of the many reasons they had the whole Yeti gimmick in the first place. It was a way to use Ron Reis (the guy who played the Yeti) in a way audience wouldn't grasp on to him as an actual wrestler and wouldn't take any of the spotlight off either The Giant or Hogan. It was meant to be a very disposable gimmick from the beginning IMO. They didn't want to take the chance of him building up a fan base and diverting attention from the Giant who they were investing a ton of time, effort and money into becoming the next "big" thing, before they could "properly" introduce him with a real gimmick (which never really happened anyways) but they also figured that since they had such a huge guy might as well find something for him to do.
But in the end instead of their hamfisted solution, to their self-created problem, of trying to draw attention away to from the gigantic cluster**** that was whole Hogan/Giant feud and with the ridiculousness of Yeti, it ended bringing even more attention to the whole messed up situation.
The best analogy for it would be, a person trying to cover up dog crap, be taking a even bigger crap next to it so people will focus on that one instead of the original one. But in the end the only thing that does is to make the whole situation even shittier and make an even bigger mess for you to clean up.
(Of course, this is all just hearsay, and my thoughts on matter from a fan/viewers standpoint, so take what I say with a grain of salt as I may be completely and utterly wrong on all fronts.)
@@Aevilbeast I heard El Gigante was supposed to be The Yeti but he had travel issues which lead to Rees filling in for him (the idea was that once Gigante was there the bandages would be removed and it would be revealed to be him).
Lol I never thought of that , great point! 👊
The yetay who was more like a mummay.
the only reason to do it, is if you want Andre/The Giant to be babyface and put him up against a monster; which was the thinking behind Undertaker/Gonazales but hopefully with two wrestlers instead of one. And the Giant and Reese would have worked, give them a few years but 98 versions of them... that might have been fun to watch if built to right.
Honestly, these reviews are absolute treats!
Helpful for the winter depression.
I see the thumbnail and literally my first thought: "and pushing, and pushing, and pushing..."
The "Goldberg" monster truck became one of the most successful trucks as it became "maximum destruction". Madusa had a storied monster jam career and it was overall pretty fun to see, as well as the wcw racecars.
Wow thought I was the only one who brought up such info. I used to be a big fan of the sport and would watch it all the time along with wrestling so I loved seeing the WCW trucks. They also had a few other trucks like the NWO one but that only was around for a few months. Then they had the WCW Nitro truck and finally they had one for Sting. I stopped watching the sport awhile ago though ever since Gunslinger and the driver Scott Hartsock retired as he was my favorite. Actually met almost all of the drivers from that era took pictures with them talked to them and had their autographs. As I lived about an hour away from a small dirt race track called lebanon valley speedway where every year they would have a 3 day Monster Truck event. Where they would have races and then freestyle event after it. And before and after the events the drivers would all sit down and meet with the fans.
"These shoes are worth more than your house!"
- Bill Burr lovingly quoting Ric Flair
Ahh, the anthem of our generation returns
1995, or as we in wrestling call it, The Dark Times.
This ppv fucking stunk
2020 says hold my beer.
Hold my Thunderdome *
Viele Grüße!
I remember as a kid my family being upset they shaved the mustache and not his whole balding ass head 🤦🏻♂️🤣
And pushing, and pushing, and pushing. God I cannot tell you the joy it brought me when you broke out the guitar again Brian. I loved it the first time I loved it the second. Great job. Thanks for the smile today!
"Kevin Sullivan's mouth is very moist" is the line that will give me nightmares forever
I'm such a huge fan. Your back catalogue has really helped throughout the pandemic. Keep up the great work, thanks for being such a great representative for the on line wrestling community. Thanks Brian
The Classic PPV Reviews are some of the best content 👌
“He’s a stunt Johnny “
And Kevin Sullivan is a Stunt Granny
Halloween Havoc 95 was an absolute classic, this was WCW at it's hokiest and best if you ask me. "It's the YETAAAYYYYY!!"
Between 'Yetay" and every episode of Nitro being the "Greatest night in the history of this Business" I lost all respect for Schiavone to the point I don't think I saw/heard "That'll put butts in seats" when they tried to Bury Foley...
To bad the animal died 3 weeks ago the road warriors will never be forgotten
Remembered as shite...
@@Neithan02 what?
@@horrorfan4-life689 unsafe ones who could not sell
@@Neithan02 ah you must know from experience mark.
The rather odd way you wrote that sentence almost makes it sound like you WANT the Road Warriors to be forgotten. Seriously, folks proper punctuation and even basic grammar knowledge can really help get your message across and be understood by more people. .
One missing comma can turn what would be a rather nice and thoughtful comment about a wrestling legend who recently passed away into sounding like the way too common random mumblings of an attention-seeking internet troll. I'm pretty sure, that is the former rather than the latter but figured I'd mention this just in case some one does misunderstand this comment and maybe hopefully prevent someone from making this same mistake in the future. Just remember, re-reading your comments before posting them and seeing if they actually make sense can save a ton of misunderstandings, frustration, and misguided anger.
When you said you were doing this show, my first thought was "Bring back the 'Pushing' Song."
The osw review episode on this ppv is one of the funniest things I've ever seen...
“We’re gonna kick off with a bang and a whimper” is a truly perfect way to introduce a review of this ppv
The pushing song is the reason I’m here, the creative, long term, running jokes, loved it! Great job as always Brian!
17:00 THAT'S GOTTA BE CANE!
I'm so happy you sang the whole song. I'm literally crying.
To be fair:
The "F" stands for "Entertaining for all wrong reasons"
I'm sorry...
Hulk Hogan (1987): "I Am A Real American"
Hulk Hogan (2017): 17:13
I absolutely died at the song. My coworkers are looking at me funny cuz im laughing so hard. I cant stop watching it
"Marc Mero with the Atomic Drop, Inverted Atomic Drop, Hip Toss, Double Axe Handle from the top!"
That was the most 1995 move sequence ever.
That song may be the hardest I've ever laughed at one of your videos, and that's saying something! Bravo!
I too thought that Brian did this already but realized it was the OSW Review version I was thinking of. Everyone should check that review out as well.
WCW bollocks is the best bollocks.
@@daniellatkowsky6284 Absolutely
Lol that “ahh hell it was a damn setup” got a good laugh outta me
When are you going to do a crossover with the OSW podcast? They did an amazing retrospective of this PPV.
Savage's ring IQ is insane, the fact that he saw the fan rush the ring and so quickly took the match to the outside so that it didn't interrupt anything is amazing.
Compare that to the "cerebral assassin" who's game plan was just to beat the shit outta the guy....
Both equally awesome, in different ways.
You just wanna shit on Levesque.
That wasn't on a PPV, it was a house show and that fool got what he deserved, the crowd got an unexpected treat.
Oh, WCW's answer to WrestleMania IX....a few years later
Halloween Havoc 95 review? YES! (NO!) YES! (NO!)
Match is 0 stars. Brian's song 6 stars
6.5 if it was recorded in the Tokyo Dome
Infinity stars for Zane
Flair turning on sting was hilarious
19:01 i only clicked on this video just to go back to this special song again , ah memories
19:07 - I popped big for the return of the “pushing the trucks” jingle, and yes I did sing along😂
I pooped big for the return
Whatta know? I'm popping too.
Lololol thought I was the only one!
@@JofoInTheRing it’s a catchy tune😊
*𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐘𝐄𝐓𝐓𝐀𝐀𝐀𝐀𝐀𝐀𝐀𝐘!!!*
Who was more like a MUMMAY.
And the dry hump of doom!
@@ronaldcoleman4786 Better hide Billy & Chuck! LOL
Best part of this show- heenan sends his source to the back to find flair. Flair comes out during the match. "My source just came back and told me he couldn't find flair anywhere"
I smoke and watch this review at least once a month, this was a hilarious show, and Brian is in rare form for this one. CLASSIC!!!
I remember watching this PPV as a kid and I remeber Sabu vs JL (had no idea that was Jerry Lynn obviously) and Sabu hit his springboard moonsault, and on the replay Bobby Heenan said, "Kids, dont try this at home on the ironing board!" That always stuck with me. Gotta love prime Bobby Heenan on commentary
"kevin sullivan's mouth is very moist." i come expecting the oddest, and my expectations are exceeded.
That DDP impression was amazing.
Dude please never stop doing these retro reviews I look forward to them every month!
Confetti gun? I believe it’s pronounced “Spooter”
Can of coke for you sir.
I thought the exact same thing!!!
What about that thing Chyna carried? The one that shot off pyro/fireworks?
I am honestly shocked you hadn't reviewed this before.
I’ve always loved the extra spice Z-Man puts into the DIAMMMMMONNNNNDDDDD CUTTERRRRRRRRR, but this time it was edited so perfectly to match the footage
..."With the double dry hump onto Hogan..." LMAO!! I remember seeing this pay-per-view when it happened, and I think my thought at the time was very similar. Giving the show a -1 star rating just made my day! This is my favorite review of yours so far!!
Brian, I came across your show last month and I have been catching up on your work. You’re a fantastic host.
When Sting finally agreed to team with Flair didn't he say something to the effect of "I still think you're probably going to turn on me. And when you do I'm going to kick your ass worse than I ever have before."
Yes he did. Sting beat Ric Flair at the next pay per view Fall Brawl.
Top 10 questions science can't answer.
number 1:
"How did you know it was FOUR flat tires?!"
If women and children wept when Hogan's mustache was shaved off, imagine how they'll react when Brian goes clean shaven next month.
Favorite parts of your recent reviews have been the random anime references. Ever so sudden and subtle.
That achievement unlocked Xbox notification was a great touch.
Missed that one.
I just found your show! You’ve made me a wrestling fan again! For years I was the WCW fan at school
1. *Skip to **0:17*
2. To quote Doctor Doom from the 2005 Fantastic Four movie:
*This is gonna be fun!*
3. (11:10-11:12)
#LOL #SAVAGE
4. (14:50-15:55; 16:16-20:17; 21:35-27:04)
*What we've ALL been waiting for*
5. (26:18-26:20; 26:36-26:40)
*Another rare f-bomb by Brian Zane*
6. (19:02-19:20; 19:26-19:30; 28:06-28:20)
*throwback*
"YOUR MOUSTACHE IS CROOKED!!!!" That is why I watched Macho Man's WCW run 🤣🤣
Finally! THE YETAY has made it to Wrestling With Wregret!! 😀
The best wrestler ever!!!
Videos like these just make me hope more and more for an OSW Review/Wrestling With Wregret crossover some day
Yes. I want this, make it happen
I always get a big shit eating grin when Brian mentions how bad a ppv is in the intro because the bad ppvs are so much more fun to me
Side note for the Monster Truck stuff, there was many monster trucks with WCW Branding later on in 1999-2001 ranging from NWO, Nitro, Sting, Goldberg, and Hogan of course.
Not sure how much more advertising it did to help WCW, but definitely did help a few drivers build up to get a career going in Monster Jam and other indy shows.
You're no longer allowed to do a classic review without having a song in it. I'm sorry, I don't make the rules, I just communicate them.
You singing the full version of the Monster Truck match gave me life. Thank you so much!
"ZERO STARS" 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
The "flat tire" angle was done in GCW back in the late 70's or early 80's between the Freebirds vs Kevin Sullivan and Austin Idol, and it still worked in 1995. Remember, what's old is new again.
just here for my favorite bit on the internet: the di-a-mond cutter 💎
I remember seeing the Hulkster truck and Dungeon of Doom truck on TV in the mid 90's. The Bigfoot team had a number of trucks that were running on the PENDA Monster Truck circuit. They had the Hulkster, which became Hollywood Hogan. Then they had the Stinger truck, which became Sting. And then they had the Dungeon of Doom truck, which became The Outsiders.
Monster Jam also had a number of WCW trucks in the late 90's. There was an nWo truck, a Goldberg truck (which became Maximum Destruction), the Nitro Machine truck, a Sting truck, and of course, the Madusa truck, driven by Madusa, who was actually pretty good at racing.
WWF didn't really go into the monster trucks like WCW did, but they did have the Stone Cold Steve Austin truck. They went into drag racing more, as they had a number of Funny Cars driven by Jerry Toliver and Jim Epler in 1999-2001. Toliver drove two Stone Cold funny cars, The Rock funny car, and the XFL funny car. Jim Epler ran the Undertaker funny car, as well as the Kane funny car.
Brian Zane, if you're looking at this comment, you've shaped my wrestling fandom and my childhood. Thank you.
Thank God we are getting a Halloween Havoc '97 review. That PPV is easily the best WCW show ever. I like how we go from worst to first the next week in these reviews sometimes.
THE MAAAAAN CALLED MEEEENG
gets me everytime
I love Bobby Heenan’s line “is that a head he’s got or is that a stump” lol god rest his soul!
"Achievement Unlocked"
LMFAOOOOOOOO
I’ve been rewatching these classic reviews and I’m noticing a trend with Halloween Havoc. Chamber of Horrors, Monster Truck Sumo match, Hogan vs Warrior, the ‘98 scheduling snafu. All incredible stuff
It goes up to a -d because of the musical number.
I’m starting to realize that Marc Mero was such an underrated performer, he might not have been Flair in the ring, but he was so fun to watch