From what I remember, the general story behind Goldberg's loss here was that it was essentially punishment for him not being a team player & taking Triple H's place for a European tour, due to H's groin issue. Goldberg was asked to do some extra dates in Europe, he apparently declined (his contract only had so many worked dates on it, so he legally didn't have to do the tour), so WWE punished him by cooling off his push & losing here. I believe Goldberg has since admitted that regretted not doing the tour to help Triple H out, and that he should have been more of a team player during his first WWE run.
I've heard that the Elimination Chamber was a way to protect & work around HHH's injury so he wouldn't have to do as much. And they felt it'd mean more if Goldberg beat HHH 1-on-1 so they held off until Unforgiven 03. Not saying you're wrong because your comment does sound like a very WWE thing to do
@@bookaki4160 It probably was a bit of both, honestly. If anything, Goldberg losing so instantly to Triple H at the end of the Chamber match, instead of putting up more of a fight (I mean, Goldberg losing to a single sledgehammer blow didn't feel right), might have been the "punishment" for the European tour stuff.
The Christian musical number had me busting up. People thought SummerSlam 93 had the dumbest ending ever but 10 years later this idiotic finish gives it a run for its money
The reason Coach turned heel Because when JR was fired, Coach took his place. But when JR came back, Coach felt unappreciated for his work. In his words, Coach said, "No "good job, Coach," no "thanks for holding down for the fort. " He just gave me a condescending look as if to say, "Get outta my chair, boy!""
I’ve gone back and watched 2003-2004 for the first time on peacock and coachman’s heel turn was 100% JUSTIFIED!! He stepped up and took the reins for J.R. When J.R. Was burned by Kane and every single night week in and week out every time he talked Jerry Lawler treated him like human garbage and symbolically spit in his face making fun of him in for being “goofy” for “dressing funny” for having “hokey catch phrases” and for not being as good as Jim Ross. He bullied coachman relentlessly for no other reason than because coachman was nice and Jerry knew coachman would smile and take it. And when Jim came back what happened? Jim didn’t even shake his hand and tell him “thanks for keeping my seat warm while I was gone” he gave him a mean look and said “that’s my seat” and when coachman looked surprised Jim wasn’t nice Jerry said “why are you staring for! That’s his seat coach. See ya!” When coachman turns heel Jerry and Jim wanna act shocked “ah wha bah huh!!! THIS CAME OUT OF NOWHERE 😨😱” you were a bunch of JACKASSES!!
2 things I want to add about this show: 1) Brock was supposed to beat Kurt, but Brock insisted on tapping because he felt it'd add more to his character by showing weakness 2) After the show the roster came out to celebrate Vince's birthday and he vowed to outlive everyone in attendance
@@Joe90hThere's still a super slim chance rich people will get access to tech that significantly slows their aging before Vince croaks, meaning he's gonna become wrestling's Saburo Arasaka while the poor kids in attendance die before they hit 90
True, but there were literal 5 year olds in attendance in 2003. No amount of money can make him outlive them, or hell even me at the ripe age of 34.@@makeitthrough_
The roster was decently stacked for multiple champions during that time, ie RVD, Kane, HBK, Booker T, Goldberg, Steiner, shoot even Big show could’ve had a run. They really dropped the ball with the Trips greediness
I love how Taz sometimes is that guy who would say random things like "vato" for literally no reason, but it’s always funny. I think everyone has at least one friend or relative who is that guy in real life. It’s just so familiar and relatable.
Triple H is banged up real hard and he can’t compete! What would happen to our injured World Champion?! A. Have him relinquish the World title and hold a tournament to crown a new World Champion at Summer Slam 2003. B. Have Goldberg squash Helmsley for the title. C. In the elimination chamber match, Helmsley’s gotta go first and he’ll be eliminated by Goldberg. D. Ugh, have Helmsley hang on to the title despite being hurt!
Option B would've been the best, especially after Haitch's Reign of Terror: It should've just been 'bell rings, spear, jackhammer, 1-2-3, Goldberg is the new World Heavyweight Champion'.
This statistic seems to get thrown around a lot when this gets discussed; Unforgiven 2003 (the next month's PPV where Goldberg wins the title drew a higher number of buys compared to 2002 Unforgiven), so it was clearly the correct move! Except, Goldberg has already been...used less than ideally leading up to this, booking wise. Why not try and course correct a bit? And it continued to feed into the "TRIPLEHWINSLOL" reign of terror. It's yall's 2nd biggest event of the year. Why not give the title to Goldberg, let HHH heal up, and get a rematch later down the line? You can still do the bounty storyline, eventually resulting in Batista joining Evolution at some point. It's just weird that some try to justify the booking around it with "But it got more buys!" And it could have done way better! That's the point!
D, because you are about to do an international tour and you want your World Heavyweight champion to make appearances to compete to sell tickets and Goldberg refused to go on the tour
@@Kaltagstar96 if I gotta rearrange the Summer Slam 2003 match card, Angle vs Lesnar would be the main event while HHH vs Goldberg opens the show. My revised Summer Slam 2003 line up WWE Championship: Angle vs Lesnar Shawn Michaels vs Chris Jericho RVD vs Kane: No Holds Barred Guerrero vs Benoit for the US title Christian vs Booker T for the IC title* Undertaker vs A-Train Shane McMahon vs Eric Bischoff Dudleys vs La Resistance for the World Tag Team Championships World Championship Match: HHH vs Goldberg (Flair and Orton interfere, they get smoked and Helmsley gets smoked as well. 1-2-3, Goldberg wins the strap!) *-if Booker T isn’t cleared to compete, Christian would not be on the show
Guy should have been world champion leading to a match against taker at mania… his heel work was that good. His feud with Shane McMahon kinda took all the spark out of him tho… it was way too competitive between the two… “If kanes such a monster why is he struggling against Shane McMahon”
@@Evs78101yeah first they made him lose to HHH repeatedly but at least he's a champion wrestler. Kane should've kicked the everlasting shit out of Shane one time in a brutal squash and had that be that
@@Evs78101 Because Shane was doing crazy things like knocking Kane into burning dumpsters and crashing him into tractor-trailers and he always attacked him with a weapon.
2:12 Brian brings up the dubbing on the Network/Peacock version. They had Metallica's "St. Anger" (yeah, that song) as the theme for this show. Dudleyz had Powerman 5000's "Bombshell" as a theme and it's constantly dubbed for 2002-04 shows.
OK, it's insane to see the sheer pettiness of a lot of WWE at this time, La Resistance were viewed as being absolute scum because (checks notes) France didn't want to get involved in the Iraq War and, speaking as a Brit, Paris certainly made the correct choice.
That was a broadly American thing though, WWE was just capitalizing on *general* sentiment. Google freedom fries. Obviously that general sentiment aged poorly then and now
Between Triple H’s run of dominance rearing it’s ugly head to close the Elimination Chamber match and St. Anger as the theme, he has every reason to hold a grudge against this PPV.
The fact that Vince approved Eric Bischoff kissing Stephanie - his daughter [who's married to Triple H (who also okayed it since that's his irl wife)] and Linda [his wife] for national TV...I am honestly still speechless that this got greenlit.
The fact Zane used the shot of Nash getting stabbed for real filming the apartment fight scene in 'The Punisher' is amazing considering the fact Nash no-sold the stab and stayed in character.
Given what I know about Goldberg now, I'd probably be just as angry during Triple H's reign of terror. Probably the biggest thing that the H Man had to make up for when he took over NXT!
Fun Fact: Dean Ambrose was given the nickname of Lunatic Fringe, because of our local rock radio station in Cincinnati Ohio, WEBN...which is called "The Lunatic Fringe of Greater Cincinnati"........I know no one will care....can I just have a like???
It's funny how WWE was still using the 1998-2002 WTTC belt design for the championship graphics despite the current ones being used since November and still being used for the graphics until late 04 - early 2005
Now you've gone and done it. I'm gonna need a full PPV review with Brian cosplaying as John Travolta. Gotta do the whole thing in his voice and with his mannerisms.
Ahh, the “Bizarro World” Summerslam. The Till Death Do Us Part match, Edge getting booed by his home crowd, Diva Dodgeball, the snooze fest for the WWE Championship, and how Randy Orton just won the WHC out of nowhere (since all WWE produced series never say who he faced)
The dubs for Taker especially make no sense given the fact they *MADE* a new theme for him in the form of “Your gonna pay!” So I don’t know why they normally dubbed it over with different themes.
4:05 The Smackdown lockerroom was full of hardasses around this time between Taker, Bubba Ray Dudley, JBL, Bob Holly, Eddie, and Angle. Guys like Sly, Rene, Paul London, Brian Kendrick, Daniel Puder, Muhammad Hassan and even Batista had a really rough go in the locker room.
I loved when Nash hit those back to back Jacknife power bombs. They really sounded brutal and the way JR sold them was magic. I rewatch this match just for those spots. I’d recommend anyone to watch those closely. The way Y2J screamed was comical
With the benefit of hindsight, the WWE should have kept Kane babyface after the unmasking. Instead of being met with the features of a Jason Voorhees, the fans are introduced to a giant Uncle Fester whom they're told they should hate and fear. He lost his mystique and his coolness factor with his mask and he lost fan support with his heel turn. The unmasking was always going to be disappointing, but at least fans would have stuck with him had he stayed with RVD. It could have allowed for character growth in a different direction. Six months later, after we were all accustomed to the "real" Kane, they could have turned him heel and had him go on his rampage with far more momentum.
As always, Brian, I absolutely love your videos. I truly don't think there's a better wrestling-centric RUclipsr on this platform. And as for the PPV itself, all I can say is that SS03's main event epitomizes why Triple H's reign of terror stifled my interest in watching wrestling in perpetuity. I vicariously watch it through your channel, and thoroughly enjoy doing so, but the stench of the RoT has never left my nostrils.
I was there. However, I wasn't anti-Goldberg at that point, because the last years if WCW were still fresh enough in my head, so I wasn't sad when he lost TBH. People around me were pissed, tho.
It's funny because just a couple days ago I found myself reading up about the Triple H Reign of Terror and 2003 really was the nadir. Just in that year you had the botch-fest at Royal Rumble '03 with Scott Steiner, then *that* promo with Booker T followed by BEATING HIM at 'Mania XIX, then killing any heat for Goldberg here at SummerSlam. And then Goldberg finally did beat Triple H for the belt, the heat was gone, nobody cared, and then Triple H won it back just a few months later so none of it even mattered. At least there was Smackdown still giving us good wrestling with guys like Brock and Kurt.
This world title chamber match was one of the first I saw during the time I started borrowing WWE DVD's from the library in the late 2000s. I always enjoyed the match when seeing it as I had no clue who Goldberg was or how Triple H had a chokehold on the main event scene in 2003. Being a naïve fan made it easier to enjoy matches for me and I'm glad I didn't do research on matches at the time. Also, I popped for the song you sang for the Christian segment.
Summerslam '03? This is the one with the Saint Anger match card promo, right? I think I recorded the match card on the go-home Smackdown and watched it several dozen times after that.
@@Powelljacob1408You're kidding me? I was hoping that wasn't dubbed. Despite RUclips's faults, I'm glad it exists so people can upload the original unedited WWE stuff.
@@redbigun I dunno why St. Anger is the only Metallica song that gets dubbed, along with For Whom The Bell Tolls for Triple H's Wrestlemania 27 entrance. I don't
When this show first premiered back in 2003, my father recorded it on a blank tape. I used to watch this show a lot as a kid. Brock Lesnar vs Kurt Angle has always been one of my Favorite SummerSlam Matches
This summeslam was a interesting time for me 1) this marked the 1 year anniversary of watching WWE 2) I was at the Raw where Kane Tombstoned Linda & 3) Like Zane I was angry Goldberg didn't win Also St. Anger one of the best Summerslam theme songs
RE: Announcer’s tables and them being broken, I’ll say this: When it’s not at the end of a show, and they fix the table immediately after it was broken between the match/segment it happened in and the next immediate part of the show, I find it somewhat immersion breaking. If you’re going to have an announcer’e table broken, keep it broken the rest of the show and sell how it happened or don’t bother breaking it in the first place.
Interesting point about the dubbed-over music. Often, I look at the wrestlers' pace and cadence as they walk to the ring, either that or see if any fans are bobbing their heads. That's how I figure out Edge's theme around this time. Also, how was the Shane vs. Kane last man standing match from Unforgiven '03 not on this show instead?
My dad used to tape WWE PPVs on VHS. I remember we taped this summer slam. Due to the outcome of the main event, my dad labeled this summer slam as “Bummerslam” on the VHS tape. It’s sitting somewhere at their house.
"Salt through a widow woman" is a reference to using epsom salts as a laxative. The term "widow, " I suppose, is supposed to indicate the woman's old and, therefore, constpiated. It's a really weird old saying.
![OsamaSon - ik what you did last summer [Official Music Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4DIQDnu3mr4/mqdefault.jpg)
From what I remember, the general story behind Goldberg's loss here was that it was essentially punishment for him not being a team player & taking Triple H's place for a European tour, due to H's groin issue. Goldberg was asked to do some extra dates in Europe, he apparently declined (his contract only had so many worked dates on it, so he legally didn't have to do the tour), so WWE punished him by cooling off his push & losing here. I believe Goldberg has since admitted that regretted not doing the tour to help Triple H out, and that he should have been more of a team player during his first WWE run.
Yeah Goldberg said he really didn’t want it be in WWE. Which is why he did a 1 year deal, and he was committed to not renew it
Sounds on brand. Never liked Goldberg fake ass
I've heard that the Elimination Chamber was a way to protect & work around HHH's injury so he wouldn't have to do as much. And they felt it'd mean more if Goldberg beat HHH 1-on-1 so they held off until Unforgiven 03.
Not saying you're wrong because your comment does sound like a very WWE thing to do
@@bookaki4160 It probably was a bit of both, honestly. If anything, Goldberg losing so instantly to Triple H at the end of the Chamber match, instead of putting up more of a fight (I mean, Goldberg losing to a single sledgehammer blow didn't feel right), might have been the "punishment" for the European tour stuff.
Some punishment. He waited a whole extra month for the title.
The Christian musical number had me busting up. People thought SummerSlam 93 had the dumbest ending ever but 10 years later this idiotic finish gives it a run for its money
Agreed, at least with SummerSlam 93 the babyface won the match, just not the title.
@@SoFarSoGoodSoWhat84 then you flash forward to 2013 which was an all time great ending, then another all time bad one in 23
😂 🎶shoop bop bop 🎶shoop bop bop 🎶
Typical Reign of Teremror fuckery
@@96grungeat least that means 2033 will have a good ending 😂
The reason Coach turned heel
Because when JR was fired, Coach took his place. But when JR came back, Coach felt unappreciated for his work. In his words, Coach said, "No "good job, Coach," no "thanks for holding down for the fort. " He just gave me a condescending look as if to say, "Get outta my chair, boy!""
Coach sucked anyway
Sounds very WWE to me.
I’ve gone back and watched 2003-2004 for the first time on peacock and coachman’s heel turn was 100% JUSTIFIED!! He stepped up and took the reins for J.R. When J.R. Was burned by Kane and every single night week in and week out every time he talked Jerry Lawler treated him like human garbage and symbolically spit in his face making fun of him in for being “goofy” for “dressing funny” for having “hokey catch phrases” and for not being as good as Jim Ross. He bullied coachman relentlessly for no other reason than because coachman was nice and Jerry knew coachman would smile and take it. And when Jim came back what happened? Jim didn’t even shake his hand and tell him “thanks for keeping my seat warm while I was gone” he gave him a mean look and said “that’s my seat” and when coachman looked surprised Jim wasn’t nice Jerry said “why are you staring for! That’s his seat coach. See ya!” When coachman turns heel Jerry and Jim wanna act shocked “ah wha bah huh!!! THIS CAME OUT OF NOWHERE 😨😱” you were a bunch of JACKASSES!!
2 things I want to add about this show:
1) Brock was supposed to beat Kurt, but Brock insisted on tapping because he felt it'd add more to his character by showing weakness
2) After the show the roster came out to celebrate Vince's birthday and he vowed to outlive everyone in attendance
Weird dude
Vince outliving the kids in attendance? No chance in Hell.
@@Joe90hThere's still a super slim chance rich people will get access to tech that significantly slows their aging before Vince croaks, meaning he's gonna become wrestling's Saburo Arasaka while the poor kids in attendance die before they hit 90
@@Joe90hfuck them kids
True, but there were literal 5 year olds in attendance in 2003. No amount of money can make him outlive them, or hell even me at the ripe age of 34.@@makeitthrough_
How Zane feels about Goldberg losing at SummerSlam is how I feel about Booker T losing earlier that year at 'Mania.
Same. Still makes me angry.
There's no shortage of stupid HHH favored booking to be mad at from that period lol
I found the WM 19 one way worse, (not JUST because of the racial tones of the storyline.. But also, Booker did NOT win the title the VERY NEXT MONTH).
@@juicepouch1 At least at this time HHH was able to draw more heat than Dave Meltzer and Kevin Dunn
The roster was decently stacked for multiple champions during that time, ie RVD, Kane, HBK, Booker T, Goldberg, Steiner, shoot even Big show could’ve had a run. They really dropped the ball with the Trips greediness
“Bischoff has gone up and down more than an Otis Elevator.” - JR just prior to the Coach heel turn 😂🤣
I love how Taz sometimes is that guy who would say random things like "vato" for literally no reason, but it’s always funny. I think everyone has at least one friend or relative who is that guy in real life. It’s just so familiar and relatable.
Honestly, Tazz and Cole is one of the more underrated commentary teams that I can think of.
The one uncle that orders poorly in the native language of the cuisine of the restaurant “yeah lemme get uno el chicken polo” type of stuff
@@Kaltagstar96Tazz and Cole at this time were better than JR and Lawler, only because Lawler was insufferable.
It’s that Eddie Guerrero influence back then lol. “Ese vato”
@@aoglyI read that order in taz’s voice lol
Well, to borrow from the (dubbed over with something else) theme song of this show: Brian’s *madly in anger with* this main event.
St. Anger, very appropriate
The snares from that album are probably what Brian's mind sounded like during this show.
Flesh it out, flesh it out
The Angry Wrestling Nerd.
*paint can snare intensifies*
6:12 Brian Zane is "The John Travolta of Wrestling", ya'll! #BestSummerNightsParodyEver
Glenn Gilbertti: "Don't forget about me, guys!"
...
Yep, I'm going with Brian Zane for the moniker.
@@Joe90h Disco Inferno is pretty good but he can't sing or rap.
The last WWE appearance for Kevin Nash until 2011. I liked his 2003 theme
Would you like to see the text message on his telephone
Kevin Nash OMG thought he was dead LOL
Is that the one that sounds like the Diesel theme or a different one?
@MrT571 Its a modified version of his Diesel theme.
@@Billy-ot8mk Good, that one is awesome.
I miss when SummerSlam had the green and blue colors with the giant S
Same here. My favorite SummerSlam logo
💚💙
Yep so nostalgic and familiar font 😂
Agreed
I still remember the crowds reaction when Goldberg did the Military Press into the spinebuster combo onto Orton.
Or that sickening thud when Randy Orton made contact with the mat after the Kevin Nash powerbomb.
Triple H is banged up real hard and he can’t compete! What would happen to our injured World Champion?!
A. Have him relinquish the World title and hold a tournament to crown a new World Champion at Summer Slam 2003.
B. Have Goldberg squash Helmsley for the title.
C. In the elimination chamber match, Helmsley’s gotta go first and he’ll be eliminated by Goldberg.
D. Ugh, have Helmsley hang on to the title despite being hurt!
Option B would've been the best, especially after Haitch's Reign of Terror: It should've just been 'bell rings, spear, jackhammer, 1-2-3, Goldberg is the new World Heavyweight Champion'.
This statistic seems to get thrown around a lot when this gets discussed; Unforgiven 2003 (the next month's PPV where Goldberg wins the title drew a higher number of buys compared to 2002 Unforgiven), so it was clearly the correct move!
Except, Goldberg has already been...used less than ideally leading up to this, booking wise. Why not try and course correct a bit? And it continued to feed into the "TRIPLEHWINSLOL" reign of terror. It's yall's 2nd biggest event of the year. Why not give the title to Goldberg, let HHH heal up, and get a rematch later down the line? You can still do the bounty storyline, eventually resulting in Batista joining Evolution at some point.
It's just weird that some try to justify the booking around it with "But it got more buys!" And it could have done way better! That's the point!
D, because you are about to do an international tour and you want your World Heavyweight champion to make appearances to compete to sell tickets and Goldberg refused to go on the tour
@@Kaltagstar96 if I gotta rearrange the Summer Slam 2003 match card, Angle vs Lesnar would be the main event while HHH vs Goldberg opens the show.
My revised Summer Slam 2003 line up
WWE Championship: Angle vs Lesnar
Shawn Michaels vs Chris Jericho
RVD vs Kane: No Holds Barred
Guerrero vs Benoit for the US title
Christian vs Booker T for the IC title*
Undertaker vs A-Train
Shane McMahon vs Eric Bischoff
Dudleys vs La Resistance for the World Tag Team Championships
World Championship Match: HHH vs Goldberg (Flair and Orton interfere, they get smoked and Helmsley gets smoked as well. 1-2-3, Goldberg wins the strap!)
*-if Booker T isn’t cleared to compete, Christian would not be on the show
He literally wrestled Goldberg next month at unforgiven so he wasn't banged up that badly
Everyone praising the Christian Grease song, nobody praising the "it's... it's Christian" gag!
"Man...Vince is a weird dude." Is the understatement of the century.
🎶 71 days ‘til Halloween, Halloween, Halloween. 71 days ‘til Halloween, Silver Shamrock! 🎶 iykyk
Love Season of The Witch
HHH's reign: Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! STOPPPP ITTTT!
Between Harlem Mutant Sewer Rats and your version of Tell Me More from Grease, I love your song gags. 😂
Was not expecting Zane dancing in front of the camera
Here to eat the big snake, gobble gobble!
@@zlinedavid LOL 😄
This was the first PPV I watched on scrambled TV, which I found out I got completely by random.
What a time to be alive
If I remember, they used Metallica's "Saint Anger" as the theme for this ppv
Huh, maybe dubbing this one over wasn't that bad of a move.
@@martinmortyry7444Not really, because that was one of the better songs on the album.
@@thedudewiththeface that's not saying much, and you know that.
Holy shit I remember the marketing for it now. I was so young memory unlocked
Pretty good album, to be honest.
Kane's resurgence was amazing in 2003. One of the very few good things about Raw that year.
Love Kane
Guy should have been world champion leading to a match against taker at mania… his heel work was that good. His feud with Shane McMahon kinda took all the spark out of him tho… it was way too competitive between the two…
“If kanes such a monster why is he struggling against Shane McMahon”
Austin killed Kane's aura the day after KOTR 98.@@Evs78101
@@Evs78101yeah first they made him lose to HHH repeatedly but at least he's a champion wrestler. Kane should've kicked the everlasting shit out of Shane one time in a brutal squash and had that be that
@@Evs78101 Because Shane was doing crazy things like knocking Kane into burning dumpsters and crashing him into tractor-trailers and he always attacked him with a weapon.
2:12
Brian brings up the dubbing on the Network/Peacock version.
They had Metallica's "St. Anger" (yeah, that song) as the theme for this show. Dudleyz had Powerman 5000's "Bombshell" as a theme and it's constantly dubbed for 2002-04 shows.
I’m madly in anger with you
@@somebodyandthem *bonk bonk bonk bonk*
00:11 y'all ever get so mad your head turns into a Geocities gif?
OK, it's insane to see the sheer pettiness of a lot of WWE at this time, La Resistance were viewed as being absolute scum because (checks notes) France didn't want to get involved in the Iraq War and, speaking as a Brit, Paris certainly made the correct choice.
Totally agree, remind me how many WMD's we found? Was just Bush Jr trying to finish what his dad didn't back in 1990.
That was a broadly American thing though, WWE was just capitalizing on *general* sentiment. Google freedom fries. Obviously that general sentiment aged poorly then and now
I honestly don't think he even wanted to be president, but he did it anyway. Cheney was the genuinely evil one @robcassey6043
I don’t remember being consulted about any of it in Murica. The media / congress hoes/ Bush said “war is good”, and then the senseless war began.
The Christian song was 10/10
Best part of the video!!!!!😂😂😂😂
16:06 “The Best of friends! Helping him out while rehabbing his neck-BAM! Heel turn!”😂😂😂
Goldborg: "WHO'S ASSIMILATED NEXT!?"
Big fan of the new "Watching The Screen Backstage" template
Between Triple H’s run of dominance rearing it’s ugly head to close the Elimination Chamber match and St. Anger as the theme, he has every reason to hold a grudge against this PPV.
The fact that Vince approved Eric Bischoff kissing Stephanie - his daughter [who's married to Triple H (who also okayed it since that's his irl wife)] and Linda [his wife] for national TV...I am honestly still speechless that this got greenlit.
Triple H wasn't married to Stephanie at that time and Vince was the boss
Well, Vince seemingly gets turned on by people making out with his daughter. (How many sick fetishes does that guy have?)
@@madnomad3861 They were engaged and married just months later, but thanks nerd.
@@twopaypal_f1 that's a big difference, being married and just dating
Well Vince kissed other women on TV he should be ok with his wife kissing another man
The fact Zane used the shot of Nash getting stabbed for real filming the apartment fight scene in 'The Punisher' is amazing considering the fact Nash no-sold the stab and stayed in character.
That slap from Linda McMahon tho.
The "these two guys" dub at @18:07 fucking made me choke on my lasagna.
I’m at a loss…I 💯 % know what that’s from but can’t think of it
poor lasaga
Given what I know about Goldberg now, I'd probably be just as angry during Triple H's reign of terror. Probably the biggest thing that the H Man had to make up for when he took over NXT!
The Grease bit popped the hell out of me 😂
Ah, A-Train. Half hairy wrestler, half jobbing locomotive.
One of the strongest wrestlers of all time though.
The love child of George Steele and a trade unionist. Because of the jobs, you see.
Found my old school book were I had written my Top5 wrestlers in 2003. A-Train was nr3. I was a cool kid it seems.
Brian would be a god awful jail warden, because he keeps releasing bangers.
I know with that funky ass intro music I'm gonna have a good time for the next thirty minutes. Thank you for being so consistent Zane!
Fun Fact: Dean Ambrose was given the nickname of Lunatic Fringe, because of our local rock radio station in Cincinnati Ohio, WEBN...which is called "The Lunatic Fringe of Greater Cincinnati"........I know no one will care....can I just have a like???
Thumbs up for the 513
It's funny how WWE was still using the 1998-2002 WTTC belt design for the championship graphics despite the current ones being used since November and still being used for the graphics until late 04 - early 2005
What is WTTC?
Never mind lol. Tag team championships
I think it definitely takes the cake for any belt graphic design. They were quick updates with it when it came to the wwe spinner graphics
And the wwe also used the wcw cruiserweight belt graphics despite using their own cruiserweight belt in 2002
"Bullshit then, now, forever"
Additional irony "Lunatic Fringe" was sampled for Kurt's TNA theme song
Now you've gone and done it. I'm gonna need a full PPV review with Brian cosplaying as John Travolta. Gotta do the whole thing in his voice and with his mannerisms.
Can’t wait for the SummerSlam 04 review. Especially with Kane’s worse storyline.
Ahh, the “Bizarro World” Summerslam. The Till Death Do Us Part match, Edge getting booed by his home crowd, Diva Dodgeball, the snooze fest for the WWE Championship, and how Randy Orton just won the WHC out of nowhere (since all WWE produced series never say who he faced)
@@christophermillsap5064also most of the matches being 6-8 minutes for some reason
The dubs for Taker especially make no sense given the fact they *MADE* a new theme for him in the form of “Your gonna pay!” So I don’t know why they normally dubbed it over with different themes.
4:05 The Smackdown lockerroom was full of hardasses around this time between Taker, Bubba Ray Dudley, JBL, Bob Holly, Eddie, and Angle.
Guys like Sly, Rene, Paul London, Brian Kendrick, Daniel Puder, Muhammad Hassan and even Batista had a really rough go in the locker room.
14:14 IMO Tajiri had some of the BEST German suplexes. Just beautiful when he pulled them off.
That Christian song 😂
I need to see more of that Christian x Grease bit in future videos somehow!
Triple H winning turned Brian from Zane to “In-Zane”.
I’ll let myself out.
That grease song skit was priceless
“St. Anger” by Metallica
Lost it at “these two guys”😂
I loved when Nash hit those back to back Jacknife power bombs. They really sounded brutal and the way JR sold them was magic. I rewatch this match just for those spots. I’d recommend anyone to watch those closely. The way Y2J screamed was comical
Brian, that shot of you looking pissed on the couch has me laughing. Also, that Christian musical number...ridiculously funny.
“Bischoff says he and Linda be fuckin” is outlandish 10/10 sir
Brian went from Scott the woz to The AVGN
Thankfully he kept his hair unlike avgn lol
Hi all, Zane here. Something something WWE on wii.
He's the angry, wrestling neeeeeeeerd.
@@tomofthepopsyou can't control where you go bald lol don't be a dick
He's gonna take you back to the past to watch the wrestling shows that suck ass
That “Tell Me More” bit bad me rolling😂😂
Why did I think you were gonna say Linda suffered a Kidney Stone instead of Tombstone
Taker turned that poor ref inside out
Ok, like you said about Howard finkels pernunciation of La rèsistance, your greese part of the review was *chefs kiss* impeccable.
The Grease Reference at 6:12 😭🤣
I love it when you do musical references 🥹
The actual theme song to the event is fire
Triple H’s Reign of Terror made Raw borderline unwatchable during this time.
Nah no border, I literally stopped watching Raw for a long time bc of him
@@StateoftheFranchiseGaming same
Triple H wasn't the whole show
@@madnomad3861he took up most of it with his boring ass promos
@@spencercole23 no different than Roman and the bloodline
With the benefit of hindsight, the WWE should have kept Kane babyface after the unmasking. Instead of being met with the features of a Jason Voorhees, the fans are introduced to a giant Uncle Fester whom they're told they should hate and fear. He lost his mystique and his coolness factor with his mask and he lost fan support with his heel turn. The unmasking was always going to be disappointing, but at least fans would have stuck with him had he stayed with RVD. It could have allowed for character growth in a different direction. Six months later, after we were all accustomed to the "real" Kane, they could have turned him heel and had him go on his rampage with far more momentum.
As always, Brian, I absolutely love your videos. I truly don't think there's a better wrestling-centric RUclipsr on this platform. And as for the PPV itself, all I can say is that SS03's main event epitomizes why Triple H's reign of terror stifled my interest in watching wrestling in perpetuity. I vicariously watch it through your channel, and thoroughly enjoy doing so, but the stench of the RoT has never left my nostrils.
That “Nash is giantly pissed” line has been in my subconscious for so many years
When Goldberg military pressed Orton into that spinebuster, it was insane!
Kurt Angle is without question Brock Lesnar’s best opponent.
Shoo bop bop!
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Tell us more, Zane
It's Wednesday! You know what that means! Another Classic PPV review!
The nod to Grease broke me 😂😂😂
Fun fact Rene Dupree family was hug back in the day up in New Brunswick canada
I was there.
However, I wasn't anti-Goldberg at that point, because the last years if WCW were still fresh enough in my head, so I wasn't sad when he lost TBH.
People around me were pissed, tho.
Even in a post-Tribal Chief world, HHH's Reign of Terror **still** feels like death.
It's funny because just a couple days ago I found myself reading up about the Triple H Reign of Terror and 2003 really was the nadir. Just in that year you had the botch-fest at Royal Rumble '03 with Scott Steiner, then *that* promo with Booker T followed by BEATING HIM at 'Mania XIX, then killing any heat for Goldberg here at SummerSlam. And then Goldberg finally did beat Triple H for the belt, the heat was gone, nobody cared, and then Triple H won it back just a few months later so none of it even mattered.
At least there was Smackdown still giving us good wrestling with guys like Brock and Kurt.
This world title chamber match was one of the first I saw during the time I started borrowing WWE DVD's from the library in the late 2000s. I always enjoyed the match when seeing it as I had no clue who Goldberg was or how Triple H had a chokehold on the main event scene in 2003. Being a naïve fan made it easier to enjoy matches for me and I'm glad I didn't do research on matches at the time.
Also, I popped for the song you sang for the Christian segment.
Summerslam '03? This is the one with the Saint Anger match card promo, right? I think I recorded the match card on the go-home Smackdown and watched it several dozen times after that.
Yup. And they dubbed over it. Yet No Mercy 08 still has All Nightmare Long. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!
@@Powelljacob1408You're kidding me? I was hoping that wasn't dubbed. Despite RUclips's faults, I'm glad it exists so people can upload the original unedited WWE stuff.
@@redbigun I dunno why St. Anger is the only Metallica song that gets dubbed, along with For Whom The Bell Tolls for Triple H's Wrestlemania 27 entrance. I don't
@@Powelljacob1408 Because it's not that good?
@@tafua_a I do agree
“I feel gross just repeating what he said” I shouldn’t have laughed that hard at that line, but I did lol. Great delivery Brian.
When this show first premiered back in 2003, my father recorded it on a blank tape. I used to watch this show a lot as a kid. Brock Lesnar vs Kurt Angle has always been one of my Favorite SummerSlam Matches
22:52 "I've changed the rules, it's an Elimination Chamber match now."
This summeslam was a interesting time for me
1) this marked the 1 year anniversary of watching WWE
2) I was at the Raw where Kane Tombstoned Linda
& 3) Like Zane I was angry Goldberg didn't win
Also St. Anger one of the best Summerslam theme songs
That Grease/Christian musical is gonna be stuck in my head for ages. Lol
The Christian Grease musical number is what makes WwW the best of the best lol
Will never understand Vince. Its one thing to punish a wrestler but doing it on camera hurts the WWE
He’s a very arrogant petty man.
He is a bad and petty person
I'm guessing the hair loss gimmick for Nash was worked into the angle because of the character he played in The Punisher which came out in 2004.
Bring back more song parodies. Let's Dr. Demento up this page!
I’m still mad too. I watched that PPV live and I was so disappointed.
RE: Announcer’s tables and them being broken, I’ll say this: When it’s not at the end of a show, and they fix the table immediately after it was broken between the match/segment it happened in and the next immediate part of the show, I find it somewhat immersion breaking. If you’re going to have an announcer’e table broken, keep it broken the rest of the show and sell how it happened or don’t bother breaking it in the first place.
"Tell me more. Does he have a dead dad?" 😂
Triple H pulled a "Luigi wins by doing absolutely nothing" before Luigi.
What a reference!
"SS '03 pissed off Zane so much, he had to divide it into two periods of "pissed" and "still pissed"!"
It's wild seeing A-Train on these old shows, knowing that he's going to be one of the most important people behind the scenes 10+ years later.
Interesting point about the dubbed-over music. Often, I look at the wrestlers' pace and cadence as they walk to the ring, either that or see if any fans are bobbing their heads. That's how I figure out Edge's theme around this time.
Also, how was the Shane vs. Kane last man standing match from Unforgiven '03 not on this show instead?
My dad used to tape WWE PPVs on VHS. I remember we taped this summer slam. Due to the outcome of the main event, my dad labeled this summer slam as “Bummerslam” on the VHS tape.
It’s sitting somewhere at their house.
Love the graphic of you watching the tv at an angle, in standard WWE fashion
This would Kevin Nash's last match in WWE before embarking on a run with TNA from 2004-2010
12:25 Shaved Triple H with sideburns was the best!
6:12 as someone that grew up watching Grease I appreciate and laughed a lot when you started to sing, Brian. Sandy would approve.
"Salt through a widow woman" is a reference to using epsom salts as a laxative. The term "widow, " I suppose, is supposed to indicate the woman's old and, therefore, constpiated. It's a really weird old saying.
Let it go Brian, biker shorts Trips can't hurt you anymore. 😥