10 Most Infamous WWE Ruthless Aggression Era Controversies

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  • @stingrey1571
    @stingrey1571 11 месяцев назад +48

    All these angles can be summed up in one word, VINCE!!!

    • @Sabbathbloodysabbath666
      @Sabbathbloodysabbath666 11 месяцев назад

      Even Benoit? 😂

    • @rcdune7132
      @rcdune7132 11 месяцев назад

      And they were all either great or hilarious!💯😂... ( Except for the Benoit stuff for obvious reasons)

    • @jp3813
      @jp3813 11 месяцев назад

      @@Sabbathbloodysabbath666 Keyword: "angles".

    • @jp3813
      @jp3813 11 месяцев назад

      @@rcdune7132 The Eddie Guerrero exploitation?

  • @SD03XX
    @SD03XX 11 месяцев назад +14

    As a Mexican-American that grew up in Texas, seeing the JBL character do his thing was a little weird. But I was in my mid 20's when it happened. I understood what the character was doing and realized it was a character. Never took it personal.

  • @dtanobo
    @dtanobo 11 месяцев назад +16

    It's also insane and hilariously on brand of the WWE that Muhammad Hassan was played by an Italian guy lmao

  • @azenar1
    @azenar1 11 месяцев назад +27

    Simon blessing us with 2 episodes today let's goo

  • @markm9282
    @markm9282 11 месяцев назад +27

    I think JR is going to have the last laugh on Dr Heiney joke...

  • @jcast23
    @jcast23 11 месяцев назад +14

    Where exactly was JBL going to deport Eddie to? Back to El Paso, Texas? 🤔

  • @BreakerX42
    @BreakerX42 11 месяцев назад +11

    Someone NEEDS to get Vince on an interview to ask why he liked half this stuff

    • @jp3813
      @jp3813 11 месяцев назад +1

      Ask Janel Grant instead.

  • @richardtherichard26
    @richardtherichard26 11 месяцев назад +9

    Before I even watch the rest of the video Katie Vick @ 9 is WILD 😂😂😂

    • @tp2005
      @tp2005 11 месяцев назад +1

      OMG same! I literally thought, "Was this era even worse than I remember? How tf is this only at #9?!" 🤣

  • @GLJosh
    @GLJosh 11 месяцев назад +22

    I tried to explain the Katie Vick storyline to my wife...it didn't go well. Just remember Vince green lit and probably giggled the whole time.

    • @NyxPoppinz
      @NyxPoppinz 11 месяцев назад +1

      as a wife of a non wrestling fan who’s trying to teach about wrestling, i’m praying she never stumbles upon Katie Vick or Snitsky🤦🏾‍♀️🤣

    • @rcdune7132
      @rcdune7132 11 месяцев назад

      Katie Vick was hilarious 😂

  • @ashtonkusher433
    @ashtonkusher433 11 месяцев назад +8

    Billy and Chuck crawled so Pretty Deadly can walk

  • @Radi0Wires
    @Radi0Wires 11 месяцев назад +8

    Simon is such a gifted storyteller, and a really level-headed fan of the industry as a whole. The man simply doesn’t miss.

  • @i.am.king89
    @i.am.king89 11 месяцев назад +9

    Booker T should've won. The end!

    • @JoveJoved
      @JoveJoved 11 месяцев назад +1

      Nope. Based Triple H. Can you dig that, sucka?

  • @zacharycunningham1789
    @zacharycunningham1789 11 месяцев назад +4

    Indeed, Billy and Chuck was a travesty. Can we also celebrate Billy Gunn for joining AEW and teaming with the Acclaimed, a beautiful way to make amends to the fans he hurt back in the RA era! Thank you, Billy!

  • @NexxtTimeDontMiss
    @NexxtTimeDontMiss 11 месяцев назад +8

    i love this list,, we need more goofy wrestling for life

    • @JoveJoved
      @JoveJoved 11 месяцев назад +1

      Except for the deaths of course, most of this list was gold. Sad that WokeCuckture gets so triggered.

  • @crunch1586
    @crunch1586 11 месяцев назад +1

    People like Simon is why we have boring cody finish your story stories in wwe smh

  • @claymathewselevator8121
    @claymathewselevator8121 11 месяцев назад +3

    Jinder Mahal and JBL both start with J and end in L 😂

  • @jenniferkovalick2959
    @jenniferkovalick2959 11 месяцев назад

    I seriously think Vince hated JR because he is so beloved by wrestling fans, and he's hated by everyone.

  • @justin_your_cousin9273
    @justin_your_cousin9273 11 месяцев назад +1

    The Ruthless Aggression was basically Attitude but with WCW and ECW mixed in

  • @mcj88
    @mcj88 11 месяцев назад +4

    I've always felt that the Attitude Era was insanely overrated, and most of these Ruthless Aggression controversies actually relate to why: to me the Attitude Era was cringeworthy storylines being carried by transcendent talent, and the Ruthless Aggression era showed how things would have gone without that talent at the top: their ratings and reputation _plummeted._

  • @PrincessofPower84
    @PrincessofPower84 11 месяцев назад

    I never knew J.R.'s wife cried at that Dr. Heiney storyline. 😢 God, Vince is such a POS.

  • @jamalvargas6146
    @jamalvargas6146 11 месяцев назад +3

    Chris Benoit Is Number 1 That's a Given For sure killed the era entirely

  • @MrWolfchamp-xi3cu
    @MrWolfchamp-xi3cu 11 месяцев назад +1

    Billy Gunn did say that but y'all don't mention what he said right after that.

  • @DjHandicap
    @DjHandicap 11 месяцев назад +1

    Big show tonging Vickie after her husband just died every week was what finally drove me away from wrestling for over 10 years.

  • @SuburbanProperty
    @SuburbanProperty 11 месяцев назад +3

    I genuinely can’t imagine wanting a murderer to be commended as a “hall of farmer”. His entire legacy is tarnished because of his actions and just for that, he doesn’t deserve it.

  • @jermainemartinez8282
    @jermainemartinez8282 11 месяцев назад +1

    The Katie Vick angle needs to be on Dark Side of the Ring.

  • @impolitesociety6998
    @impolitesociety6998 11 месяцев назад +3

    Zack Gowen prosthetic leg has a better chance of making into the HoF than Benoit.

  • @USCTrojan12
    @USCTrojan12 11 месяцев назад +6

    We all cry about Booker/HHH for eternity but no mention ever of Rodney Mack’s White Boi Challenge?? 😂😂😂

    • @jp3813
      @jp3813 11 месяцев назад +5

      Never compare Booker T & Triple H to Rodney Mack.

    • @USCTrojan12
      @USCTrojan12 11 месяцев назад

      @@jp3813Good point. The Mack stuff was way worse. That angle was outright racism whereas HHH/Booker was only some simple implied racism.

    • @EQuanKeith21
      @EQuanKeith21 11 месяцев назад +2

      Both were racist that triple thing was worse because he is well known

  • @cypher515
    @cypher515 11 месяцев назад

    CM Punk said it best about Katie Vick: "Go look it up. It will drive you to drink -- and then I can save you!"

  • @chrisguardiano6143
    @chrisguardiano6143 11 месяцев назад +5

    One infamous Ruthless Aggression storyline that wasn't on the list that I remember well is everything with Dawn Marie, Torrie Wilson & Al Wilson especially the wedding of Al & Dawn Marie on Smackdown & the honeymoon footage on the following episode. Another infamous storyline that I remember from the RA era is everything with Eugene in which WWE took advantage of nearly every stereotype that exists about people with intellectual disabilities. How both of these storylines made TV I will never know.

  • @TitusRedwind
    @TitusRedwind 11 месяцев назад

    The ruthless aggression era was just the Attitude Era but with less of the viewership and none of the competition from WCW.
    Although I admit that the in ring quality drastically increased

  • @archangel2015
    @archangel2015 11 месяцев назад +1

    No not Simon miller again wow my Sunday video viewing a really mixed bag.

  • @zacharycunningham1789
    @zacharycunningham1789 11 месяцев назад +1

    You point out all of those that died of drug overdoses and CTE related tragedies, but you don’t mention all of those from this era who were so shamed out of the business that they committed suicide. (That list may be even bigger.) That was the environment of pro-wrestling at this point. Let’s not gloss over those that suffered and took that way out.

  • @MarioPikachu626
    @MarioPikachu626 11 месяцев назад

    1:38 the definitive Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl experience

  • @punkvspod
    @punkvspod 11 месяцев назад

    The fact that Katie vic was #9 on the top 10, should scare you.

  • @unholyperiodza5442
    @unholyperiodza5442 11 месяцев назад +1

    You forgot Brock Lesnar Suing WWE after leaving the company in 2004

  • @Dr_1212
    @Dr_1212 11 месяцев назад +1

    Good list

  • @craigcarlock8910
    @craigcarlock8910 11 месяцев назад +1

    The Katie vick storyline was indefensible too gross to explain made me hate wrestling and tv 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

  • @geeshep4836
    @geeshep4836 11 месяцев назад

    Lita's Storylines With Both Kane And Edge.

  • @F0XXDweller
    @F0XXDweller 11 месяцев назад

    "IT shouldn't and will never happen."
    Welp, somebody get Snuka out of there. And if we can be a little bit more empathic, get Stone Cold out of there too since the only person he was actually beating up was Debra. If Benoit shouldn't be there because of that tragedy, fine. But let's not put the Hall of Fame on some moral pedestal.

  • @Jim4815162342
    @Jim4815162342 11 месяцев назад

    Until they start cleaning some of the monsters out of the Hall of Fame, I will never discount Benoit. What he did at the end was monstrous, but there are far worse people secure in their places.

  • @Mewtwo976
    @Mewtwo976 11 месяцев назад

    Triple H was not being racist to Booker T. He was just trying to get heat. Ric Flair was being himself.

  • @tompatchak8706
    @tompatchak8706 11 месяцев назад

    My friends and I talk about the #1 all the time.
    Like for a while there professional wrestlers were dying at an alarming rate.
    Something like 3 every month for 5 years.
    Crazy!

  • @kickflipdemon
    @kickflipdemon 11 месяцев назад +1

    as much as the mysterios benefited off eddies name i just wish somebody (besides chavo) to think of his children

  • @austindeanblade8070
    @austindeanblade8070 11 месяцев назад

    You know what's hilarious though is Billy Gunn now manages and tags with a gay guy... full circle moment?

  • @benjaminparkinson5255
    @benjaminparkinson5255 11 месяцев назад

    The katie vic story was so disturbing

  • @raidenblizzygaming9702
    @raidenblizzygaming9702 11 месяцев назад +1

    Mohammed Hassan was a great character imo

  • @Kiddism101
    @Kiddism101 10 месяцев назад

    Sensitive Simon at it again

  • @josedealba6533
    @josedealba6533 11 месяцев назад

    I’m Mexican and the JBL storyline was hilarious 😭😭

  • @killingragethrowback
    @killingragethrowback 11 месяцев назад

    Well about Billy and Chuck... at least we got the Golden Lovers now. As for Jim Ross, it might be his Southern roots. Vince hates Southerners, because he was one and he was abused. So I think he low key hates any Southerners who are intelligent or charming or successful because it reminds him of his stepfather and their neighbors.

  • @ClassicManTV
    @ClassicManTV 11 месяцев назад

    The Mohammed Hassan character was a big missed opportunity and a fairly big what if for the WWE. The man was great on the Mic and was a decent wrestler with the limited experience he had.

  • @lukehenderson436
    @lukehenderson436 11 месяцев назад

    I could be wrong, but didn’t Billy and Chuck go on to say that they knew the whole “pretending to be gay” story was wrong, but they felt that they had to do it to get screen time? Which actually made it an interesting story (although still exploitative).

  • @jamiewilshaw3595
    @jamiewilshaw3595 11 месяцев назад

    😂😂 Katie Vic 🙈loved it 😂

    • @nosickl
      @nosickl 11 месяцев назад

      I once saw the sex in the coffin segment, the moment Triple Kane said "I just f*cked your brains out" I read a comment saying "Still a better love story than Twilight" and I f*cking lost it 😂

  • @z216ghost
    @z216ghost 11 месяцев назад

    Eddie Guerrero was the most offensive and racist gimmick ever

  • @LorcanaControl
    @LorcanaControl 11 месяцев назад +1

    OMG the nurse is ashley massaro. So creepy now

  • @marvelsProtege
    @marvelsProtege 11 месяцев назад

    11:42 but Undertaker wants the good old days back

  • @wriththing9489
    @wriththing9489 11 месяцев назад

    Remember when HHH went to Orton's house?

  • @My19812011
    @My19812011 11 месяцев назад

    Vince Mc-fucking-Mahon is all you can say

  • @benjaminparkinson5255
    @benjaminparkinson5255 11 месяцев назад

    They ars still doing it with reys,son dominic and rea ripley

  • @nicksoapdish157
    @nicksoapdish157 11 месяцев назад

    Dishonorable mention.
    The storyline in 2005 with Kurt Angle, Booker T, and his wife Sharmel.

  • @lb2.0.45
    @lb2.0.45 11 месяцев назад

    I will never understand why Bruce Prichard always has to defend all of Vince's stupid decisions.

  • @ddjsoyenby
    @ddjsoyenby 11 месяцев назад

    yeah a lot of these were unneccesary.

  • @BobbyCrosthwaite
    @BobbyCrosthwaite 11 месяцев назад

    Simon your covering of this topic was fantastic

  • @BushHead90
    @BushHead90 10 месяцев назад

    The image you used when mentioning Arab Americans at 3:10 is an image of Sikh people. Sikh people are not Arab and are from the punjab region of northern India.

  • @andrewblanchard2398
    @andrewblanchard2398 11 месяцев назад

    I'm glad I didn't see
    the 2001 to 2005
    WWE era
    the last RAW I saw was
    the week after
    VINCE
    bought WCW
    I stopped watching after that

  • @showthemnomercy
    @showthemnomercy 11 месяцев назад +3

    I wish hassan came back and fought jinder😂

    • @waxmandr
      @waxmandr 11 месяцев назад

      Why, cause he's brown?

  • @craigcarlock8910
    @craigcarlock8910 11 месяцев назад

    Also Muhammad Hassan and triple h vs booker t were completely offensive racist and had no place in wrestling

  • @voidbby5407
    @voidbby5407 8 месяцев назад

    IF BENOIT CANT GO IN THE HALL OF FAME TAKE OUT SNUKA

  • @venkateshkondapalli1299
    @venkateshkondapalli1299 11 месяцев назад +1

    3:11 you say Arab Americans in the background and showing Sikhs and Hindus in the video

  • @ferncruz4250
    @ferncruz4250 11 месяцев назад

    As a Hispanic I can tell you no one cared

  • @benjaminparkinson5255
    @benjaminparkinson5255 11 месяцев назад

    Wrestlers still die young bray .and brodie lee

    • @joshmans7307
      @joshmans7307 11 месяцев назад

      True. But it's significantly more rare these days. Those two were both sort of victims of the right (or more accurately, the wrong) medical circumstances all coming together.

  • @therockazoid
    @therockazoid 7 месяцев назад

    Billy and Chuck were amazing performers. Sad they got such lame roles in the companies.

  • @stephenthedude4383
    @stephenthedude4383 11 месяцев назад +1

    And back stage Vince is just laughing while shitting on people while yelling "THATS GOOD SHIT"

  • @jeremywilliams5141
    @jeremywilliams5141 11 месяцев назад +1

    Vince McMahon vs God, anyone?

  • @stuartday1330
    @stuartday1330 10 месяцев назад

    Yes cause patriotism is horrible thing. Wrestling should never go into the realm of politics or social issues. Either in a Democrat virtue signalling way or in a making a statement way..

  • @FilthyCasualYT
    @FilthyCasualYT 11 месяцев назад

    The Ruthless Aggression Era will always hold a special place in my heart. That's when I really got into WWE for a good few years for the first time, starting a little after Wrestlemania 19. I think a lot of my enjoyment of that time came from completely missing the beginning of it. I didn't hear about the whole Katie Vick thing until over a decade later. I also never had a problem with JBL being the top guy because I never knew of him as Bradshaw of the APA. To me he wasn't a midcarder given the top strap, he was the racist heel you tuned in to watch hopefully get beat down, every single week.

  • @jamesmcgeachy5433
    @jamesmcgeachy5433 11 месяцев назад

    🎉

  • @rcdune7132
    @rcdune7132 11 месяцев назад

    Ok most of these angles were hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂... Its WRESTLING! it's FICTION!!

  • @CDJRsByDustin
    @CDJRsByDustin 11 месяцев назад

    Seems this channel is going woke

  • @andycain4351
    @andycain4351 11 месяцев назад

    I remember seeing Bradshaw at a house show shortly before the JBL character debuted. The crowd were completely indifferent to him whereas i was booing him unrelentlessly. After his match, he looked at where i was sitting and very clearly wasn't happy and he swore in my direction.
    The next time i saw him was on Smackdown as JBL. Now, i'm not saying that i inspired Bradshaw to become JBL. Im just not not saying that didn't 😉❤️👍

  • @MapleLeafsMike
    @MapleLeafsMike 11 месяцев назад

    It is a terrible thing

  • @MrSHADOWANGEL999
    @MrSHADOWANGEL999 11 месяцев назад

    Yikes

  • @claymathewselevator8121
    @claymathewselevator8121 11 месяцев назад

    Loved JBL

  • @marvelsProtege
    @marvelsProtege 11 месяцев назад

    Idgaf what Booker T says too slaves would fight for the person who had them even when they had better lives waiting for them they still would fight for them

  • @otrgamestyle3562
    @otrgamestyle3562 11 месяцев назад

    This is why movies suck nowadays people can’t separate what’s meant to entertain and what’s real

  • @Brooks1874
    @Brooks1874 11 месяцев назад

    Woke culture wrestling

  • @christopherballero866
    @christopherballero866 11 месяцев назад

    Just curious should Vince go into the Hall of Fame

    • @Duckiefasca
      @Duckiefasca 11 месяцев назад +2

      Unfortunately now, after all the stuff that came out, he'll like be a Benoit thing. We know Benoit was a fantastic talent that made an awful mistake, ruining everything in the past.

  • @KaBu_FCB
    @KaBu_FCB 11 месяцев назад

    Chris Benoit deserves to be in the HoF!
    The man who murdered Nancy and Daniel and himself was not Chris Benoit anymore and the WWE should be ashamed for erasing him.
    A companie's central task is to protect their employees and no wrestling company did that before 2007 and Chris Nowinski was the point of change as he had to end his short career because of concusions, but they just went on and this is how it ended.
    And those are only the big news....wonder how many cases of brain damage there really are...
    @Miller
    Funny you say he should never get into the HoF, but 10 seconds later you praise all those who died too early....most for similar reasons, like steroids and who knows how many had brain damage too that just wasn't checked?
    Oh and isn't Jimmy Snuka in the HoF?
    I hate hypocrisy!!!!

    • @SuburbanProperty
      @SuburbanProperty 11 месяцев назад

      1 - Steroid use does not make you a murderer. You’re comparing people who used a performance enhancing drug and paid the price to a brain damaged killer. There is plenty of evidence to show that steroids played no part in that tragic event.
      2 - unfortunately, there is no evidence that Jimmy did anything. It’s probable but he’s innocent until proven guilty. Chris Benoit WAS guilty of murder suicide.
      3 - What a dumbass statement. That WAS Chris Benoit. He had CTE due to lack of knowledge at the time but HE still committed those terrible acts.
      He will never be in the HOF and anyone who says otherwise is an absolute clown

    • @joshmans7307
      @joshmans7307 11 месяцев назад +1

      "10 seconds later you praise all those who died too early...most for similar reasons," Let me know if anyone of them killed their wife & child, then we can talk hypocrisy. WWE definitely bears some culpability in the Benoit tragedy, between how dangerous the work was at the time, and how rampant the drug abuse was. But at the end of the day, he killed his wife & child. That's it. Full stop. There's no getting around that. There's no justifying or rationalizing it. Period.

    • @SuburbanProperty
      @SuburbanProperty 11 месяцев назад

      One is a literal proven killer while the other died before a proper trial could be held. Innocent until proven guilty. And you’re comparing people who use steroids to someone who killed his whole family. Get over it, he’ll never be in the HOF

    • @KaBu_FCB
      @KaBu_FCB 11 месяцев назад

      @@SuburbanProperty So Benoit came back from the dead to stand trial?
      You people have to look for the reasons something happen, but you only see what happened. That's a big problem of today's society.