Zane, it's like when we correct your Streets of Rage reference for Dan Severn in a past PPV review. Although, I'm sure Severn can kick Mike Haggar's ass
It couldn't duplicate the build up of WM6, yet it was still a rematch many people had wanted for 8 years. Combining Hogan's ego with Warrior's limited in ring ability, topped off by WCW's generally over complicated/shitty booking and yeah, we should've really seen that train wreck before it happened...
Sherri deserves a lot of credit for the work she did in her match. She was working with Sapphire, who was not very skilled, and you can tell that Sherri completely worked around Sapphire's deficiencies to bump and sell and roll with her moves. The fact that you rated this match so high, despite how unskilled Sapphire was has everything to do with Sherri's incredible skills and abilities.
In a documentary about Sherry (I forgot which one) but Sherry one time hated Sapphire so much that she pulled her into the womens shower cause Sapphire smelled so bad and her hair smelled to high heavens. That woman was ruthless back in the day so I seen. I don't know if that was true or not but damn if that is that was mean as hell.
@@MrBootydaddy is it though? You can bet they were working house shows for months- when someone, a supposedly functioning adult, can't be bothered to maintain basic hygiene..... Yeah I would call her out too. Sherri was already doing every bit of the heavy lifting nightly. The least Sapphire could do was not smell horrendous 😂
@@JennaLeighthat wasn’t calling out that was physically abusing someone to wash them, if a guy even said the same thing y’all would go bananas, but a women sexually assaults another you defend it
True story: I was a junior in high school in 1990. Science teacher taped WM 6 off ppv onto vhs and we watched the Hogan/Warrior match during science class that Mon. The girls in class were very unhappy.
If you listen to any old Demolition promo Ax was always the voice of reason if you will, he'd be talking all tactical meanwhile Smash would just yell and want to murder everybody. It was great.
Same with The Road Warriors Animal would be talking about being better and how they where going to punish their opponents then once it was Hawks turn and WELL You had this impression that Hawk was really out there and wanted to kill someone
Sapphire actually was a trained wrestler! She wrestled in the mid 70s but was 42 years old when she debuted. She was about 56 or 57 here and had been retired for some years.
Fun Fact: Former Impact Wrestling Star, Killer Kross has mentioned this was the show that helped garnered his interest to be a pro wrestler and his was a hulkamanic
Rob C at four years old your brain is developing enough to where you can remember things most kids like me were in pre school. Which says a lot. So stop being a jerk on RUclips.
I was such a Sherri mark as a kid. I always thought she was beautiful, and would rip anyones head off that messed with her. Loved her HOF speech. She was one of a kind and truly missed.
That promo by Jake here was epic. _"This time, you'll be the one that's humbled! This time, you'll be the one that's humiliated! And this time, you'll be the one that grovels for the money. And how appropriate, that the money you grovel for is your very own. A victim of your own greed, wallowing in the muck of avarice."_ This is why Jake is the GOAT for promo skills.
I never realized that this was Andre's final match. It was a fitting and classy send off for him. It makes me look at that match in a completely different way.
Well, Andre's actual final match was in Japan in December 1992, just a month before he died. He teamed with Giant Baba against Keiji Mutoh (aka The Great Muta) and Rusher Kimura. This was Andre's final WWF match.
Gene Bone the biggest star the wrestling industry has ever produced, responsible for the largest wrestlemania buyrate of all time and second highest rated RAW segment of all time is overrated? Just stop.
When I was a kid I rolled up pennies to rent this Wrestlemania from the video store. I rented it dozens of times. My favorite of all time for nostalgia reasons.
I'll put Jake's promo here up with Dusty's "Hard Times" promo as one of the best ever. I watched this in a hockey arena on closed circuit PPV and as a kid, I remember having chills. One of the best ever.
Fun Fact: Apparently the moment when Brutus Beefcake tries to cut The Genius's hair was unplanned as Pat Paterson told Brutus to cut Poffo's hair without the latter's knowledge. It lead to some problems backstage with Randy Savage and Beefcake but they were able to reconcile
Savage really stood up for what he believed in didn't he at Mania? Between this and taking HBK and Razor at X for being selfish by going long in their ladder match, and leading to a 8 man tag being left off the card for lack of time, he seemed to not be afraid to ruffle feathers when he felt it warranted. Can't fault him for that, gotta respect the passion he had for doing things properly if nothing else.
I was terrified of Earthquake as a child and as I grew up i began to like him. Very agile for his size and well underutilised. He could have been still going strong in 98 as a main event heel.
@@Jacktrack7 Yeah, but most of them have died young. It may have been 30 years ago but most of them were young 30 years ago. Randy died at 58, Warrior was 54 and Andre was 46.
I gotta say, the mimmicked voiceovers actually placed in sync with the video had me laughing so hard I fell off the treadmill. Keep that up! Suffering builds character YEAAH!!!
I'm an old fart and can tell you that back then even those who didn't like Hogan or Warrior still tipped their hat to them for this match. It was a great Wrestlemania main event that actually lived up to the hype.
I was a school kid during WM6, it was the show everyone was talking about. Every kid in school was divided into Hogan or Warrior fans, with about 70% of them being Warrior fans. I remember being so nervous as a Warrior fan everytime Hogan went for a pin. The momentum both guys had going into the match was huge nobody knew who would win, great times. The only other time I remember my wrestling buddies being so divided into factions was during the whole WCW vs NWO black n white / red n black days.
Agreed man! Certainly a highlight of my childhood. I was in 4th grade at the time. Like a lot of kids my age , I was pulling for Hogan. My family didn't have the means , to purchase the PPV at the time. Obviously no world wide web & Google search to find out who came out on top. So I waited & wondered until Monday , when a classmate filled me in. First time in my short life , I was absolutely CRUSHED!!! LOL Good old days indeed!
I’m with you guys. I remember watching this with my buddy because his dad always got the ppvs. At the time, I was thinking that I still liked Hogan, but I was getting tired of the hulking up, then the big boot, and then the leg drop. I can still feel how upset I was when Hogan went for the leg drop, and how excited I was that he missed. Great drama in the match and a great main event. P.S. I also remember how we all loved Andre nailing Heenan and riding in the cart by himself!
All of you guys share the same sentiment that I do. I remember watching this on PPV at a friend's house with around 10 other guys. We were having a blast! And if memory serves, were were pretty well sit down the middle between Hogan and the Warrior (I was rooting for the Warrior). That was a great match, and we were on the edge of our seats the whole time. I realize I'm showing my age here and I don't want to come across as the crotchety old guy (I'm 50, and I saw this WM when I was a senior in high school), but for me personally, this was the last WrestleMania of what I consider to be the "golden age" of the WWF. It was the last one that Monsoon and Ventura broadcast together, the end of the DiBiase/Roberts feud, the last hurrah for Andre the Giant (in my opinion only), the end of the "cold war" rivalries involving Volkoff, and the end of the peak of Hulkamania. Those were such fun times. I'll always appreciate them.
Ah, yes Lance Storm the future Canadian Heavyweight Champion, the 100 Kilos and Under Champion, and the Saskatchewan Hardcore International Title Champion.
The biggest problem with earlier Wrestlemania's was the lack of time. They had to get every match in 3 hours and you could always tell that some matches were rushed which I hated because they were good matchups that needed more time. Years later WM went on to about 4 hours long and now today its like 7 or 8 hours long with no lack of time.
I was lucky to have attended this at the Skydome. First time I attended a wrestling event. Can't describe the experience, the awe, and how happy I was when Warrior beat Hogan, and when the Hart foundation beat the Ruskies. I will never forget the promo the Warrior cut before this event. Thanks for covering this Brian!
That awkward interaction between Sean Mooney and Mary Tyler Moore at 31:36 made me lol, especially her 'How about him?' comment regarding Greg Valentine. 😄
The Steve Allen bits were FANTASTIC, definitely funnier with adult eyes understanding the quips. The Combined weight jokes on Sapphire and Dusty was Hysterical. Probably can't do that in today's era. Also we need more PPVS with the Ring Car again. Such a great visual That Main event was everything to me as a kid, I wept when Hogan lost.
12 years later rock vs hogan wmx8. Remember JR in that match mentioning Hogan not having luck in Toronto. Hogan vs Warrior was a dvd extra in the Wrestlemania 18 dvd. Both great matches.
Can't believe you missed the best thing on this whole show. When the royal scepter hits Dusty's head, Jesse goes "Ding!" gleefully and it's the funniest thing ever.
I was hoping you'd mention my favorite line of the night from Heenan's (awesome) Andre promo, where it starts with Gene saying "Bobby Heenan, where do you have the bal--the nerve to hit Andre the Giant in the face?" And Heenan says "I'LL TELL YOU WHERE I GOT THE B--NERVE TO HIT ANDRE IN THE FACE!"
Hey man, I just found your videos and I really like them. I was a huge Hulkamaniac when I was a kid after I got the Hulkamania Workout Set for my 7th bday. The mid to late 80s was a golden era of wrestling and your videos always take me back.
Been waiting for this show ever since the classic PPV review series started!! The first WM I ever watched live on tv. I’d become a fan the year before and this was the peak time of my fandom ( if that’s a proper word!!)
Coming from the UK, this was actually the first big WWF show we got in the UK once Sky satellite television was launched. I grew up watching World of Sport UK wrestling with my dad, and the difference was just night and day in terms of razzmatazz etc. So glad you mentioned how good the Santana/Barbarian match was. Tito made Barbarian look like a big deal with not very much time to work with at all (Rockers vs Barbarian and Haku at WM7 was a similar match, few expectations, big payoff.)
Agreed. Koko was one of my favorites back in the day. A good to great worker, oceans of charisma, and, of course, Frankie. I can't see him ever holding the Winged Eagle, because he was a smaller guy in Vince's "land of the giants", but he should have had the IC belt at least once.
I grew up in the "Andre gets tied up in the ropes" era of WWE. I swear, EVERY Andre match i ever saw back then ended in him tied up in the ropes & looking absolutely surprised that it happened again lmaoo
Not only was the acknowledgement of the wave something that would never happen today, but Ventura's brilliant ad lib, "Wow, what an ovation they're giving The Million Dollar Man," followed by Monsoon being completely flabbergasted that he'd say that, is my favorite Jesse/Gorilla banter ever. Getting their announce team dynamic over and staying in character in a spontaneous moment with a simple back and forth. Without even thinking about it, Jesse demonstrates his twisted logic. Biased af toward the heels, but in a way that made it sound like he honestly believed they weren't heels.
Sure it could, and if only Schwarzenegger let them put 30 different actors playing the Terminator in his role in 1984 we'd have loads of legends too....................................
@@phillipivey4833 Nope, if it is on the network version then they've messed with the audio. On the live/VHS versions demolition winning is the loudest pop on the card by far, it's potential for a "10 greatest pops of all time" list.
Fun Fact: Roddy Piper had a liquid solution to get that black paint off his body but a few wrestlers got rid of it. So this forced Piper to go to places including the airport still painted half black
That was the real rub in the cultural insensitivity side of things; Roddy didn’t regret it because it was offensive in hindsight, but because he couldn’t get the paint off for weeks afterwards. Still, him and Bad News Brown ending the angle in a no contest comes out more PC-friendly than the Booker-T/HHH racist storyline at WM19. Some of the family still won’t watch WWE to this day because of how that match ended.
SoLoMoN DaViDSoN oh yeah the story where it clearly paints Booker T in a story of redemption loses in the worst way possible. Not only was it a regular pin fall but a minute delay . That’s burying someone deliberately not just booking the wrong guy to go over.
@@JohnWilliams-wl9px To be fair, outside of how the match ended, I think HHH retaining works in the fact that it leads into Evolution running RAW as a major heel faction for the rest of 2003 and it builds towards Benoit actually beating him next year. I don't think that would work out as well if he lost. Booker T should have won it a month or two later though and been a major rival for Evolution in 2003.
I like how the main premise of Hogan's promo was that "it doesn't matter if you win or lose, all that matters is what type of winner you are and what type of loser you are", basically telling people that the real winners are the guys that are good sports. Of course Hogan said this cause he knew that he was gonna be the 'good sport" later that night.
This was the first major wrestling show I saw on satellite TV when I was a kid here in Scotland, and it blew me away!! It had all my favourites, Machoman Randy Savage, Roddy Piper, Jake The Snake Roberts!! I loved it and was hooked on WWF for years!!
Remember when both Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior were both universally loved by the fans.... Pepperidge farms remembers Remember when wrestling had fans.... Pepperidge farms remembers.
John Tenta was such a cool dude. When I was a kid I went to a house show that took place at an amusement park. They had a autograph session with Sargeant Slaughter and The Macho Man. After getting their autographs, I saw him sitting on one of the benches. I went up and asked him and asked for his autograph. He could have said get lost, but he was pretty chill and signed it. He was a great guy and I miss him. He was gone too soon.
He was technically 26 as he hadn't had his birthday yet. Either way, I agree with Brian in that Tenta never looked a day younger than 40. I had a friend like that in school. I would have to remind myself whenever us and another one of our other friends were together that he was the youngest and I was the oldest by about 6 months despite the fact that he looked like he was 30.
To be fair, Shawn Michael's was in the Golden era, New Generation, Attitude and Ruthless aggression and PG era. I know he missed out the hight of the attitude era but for a guy who takes huge bumps it is kind of amazing he lasted so long.
@@chrisyanover1777 I don't really count shawn Michaels attitude era run cause he didn't wrestle during that era that much. He wrestled during the beginning of that era and that's it. He wrestled full time during the Golden, Ruthless, PG, and reality era which is the current era apparently
@Jackson Five technically The Undertaker didn't debut till the New Gen era. Kind of the reason he at first was heavily gimmicked. But the Undertaker is by far the best gimmicked wrestler!
@Jackson Five I guess you are technically right about the Undertaker. I always associate Undertaker with New Gen and after. But you are right about the Undertaker premiering in the Golden era.
This is pure gold!! Thank you!!!Great channel..29:45...akeem talk....on arsenio hall slick tells arsenio akeem is going to be the 1st african american champion in the WWF..lol 36:34....iconic!!!!😎 How many stars??? 😁😁😁😁
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Thanks to everyone who pointed out that Tito said "rodent" and not "rotund"! You were all very much on the ball with that one!
Wrestling With Wregret, dang I was just about to comment with the correction
You’re welcome considering I’m the one who’s friends with Tito himself. Lol.
Glad to help, Z-Man. Keep up the good work.
Zane, it's like when we correct your Streets of Rage reference for Dan Severn in a past PPV review.
Although, I'm sure Severn can kick Mike Haggar's ass
Was just about to say .....and rodent fits the weasle nickname more than rotund does
WrestleMania 6:
*The Ultimate Challenge*
Halloween Havoc 98:
*The Ultimate Disaster*
Shane Hill 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿😂😂😂
Hell yeah
Hogan-Warrior 1998 literally blew up in WCW's face.
It couldn't duplicate the build up of WM6, yet it was still a rematch many people had wanted for 8 years. Combining Hogan's ego with Warrior's limited in ring ability, topped off by WCW's generally over complicated/shitty booking and yeah, we should've really seen that train wreck before it happened...
@@LteasAVFC. Aaaaa 😝😝😅
As a kid, Hogan vs Warrior was like two gods that descended from the stars to do battle on Earth.
2 Most Amazing Wrestlers Ever
Well said
I know right...
With their respective egos, that's probably how they saw it too...
I loved it too. Was so pumped Ultimate Warrior beat Hogan!
Sherri deserves a lot of credit for the work she did in her match. She was working with Sapphire, who was not very skilled, and you can tell that Sherri completely worked around Sapphire's deficiencies to bump and sell and roll with her moves. The fact that you rated this match so high, despite how unskilled Sapphire was has everything to do with Sherri's incredible skills and abilities.
In a documentary about Sherry (I forgot which one) but Sherry one time hated Sapphire so much that she pulled her into the womens shower cause Sapphire smelled so bad and her hair smelled to high heavens. That woman was ruthless back in the day so I seen. I don't know if that was true or not but damn if that is that was mean as hell.
@@MrBootydaddy is it though? You can bet they were working house shows for months- when someone, a supposedly functioning adult, can't be bothered to maintain basic hygiene..... Yeah I would call her out too. Sherri was already doing every bit of the heavy lifting nightly. The least Sapphire could do was not smell horrendous 😂
@@MrBootydaddyis that rude? It's rude to not take care of your hygiene while doing a job like this in close quarters.
@@JennaLeighthat wasn’t calling out that was physically abusing someone to wash them, if a guy even said the same thing y’all would go bananas, but a women sexually assaults another you defend it
I miss these insane 80s promos SOOOOOO MUCH.
They were either hilarious, ridiculous, or insane gibberish.
Win,Win, & Win!
Belzer just died
This was 1990
Cocaine is a helluva drug
Sometimes they were all 3!
True story: I was a junior in high school in 1990. Science teacher taped WM 6 off ppv onto vhs and we watched the Hogan/Warrior match during science class that Mon. The girls in class were very unhappy.
That is a fantastic memory. I wish I had a teach that would have been cool enough to do that!
LMAO that's amazing bud
WOW!! That's so cool. Your science teacher is definitely a legend in his own right
The girls weren't happy lol. Good, let's watch it again
Mustve been the wrong girls in that class lol, i wouldve been happy.
Lol I think Tito said "rodent manager" because he's the "weasel."
I think you're right
You are correct. Rodent
Weasels are mustelids, not rodents. Minus one star for biological inaccuracy in the promo!
@@DFloyd84 That's what I thought.
He did say rodent manager.
If you listen to any old Demolition promo Ax was always the voice of reason if you will, he'd be talking all tactical meanwhile Smash would just yell and want to murder everybody. It was great.
Same with The Road Warriors Animal would be talking about being better and how they where going to punish their opponents then once it was Hawks turn and WELL
You had this impression that Hawk was really out there and wanted to kill someone
Those were 90s promos...lots of yelling
I miss 90s wrestling, not the music or movies. A little TV, but wrestling was my major addiction back then
Sapphire actually was a trained wrestler! She wrestled in the mid 70s but was 42 years old when she debuted. She was about 56 or 57 here and had been retired for some years.
Man Haku does not get the recognition he deserves. From his time here with Heenan to being imo the most intimidating dude in WCW. Such a beast
He should have gotten a WWF Championship run. Plus, he should have been booked up to his real life capabilities.
@@factfiend1000the ic strap yes not the big one
Fun Fact: Former Impact Wrestling Star, Killer Kross has mentioned this was the show that helped garnered his interest to be a pro wrestler and his was a hulkamanic
Edge, Christian, Lance Storm and Renee Young where there. DDP drove Jimmy Hart and Rhythm and Blues.
Rob C at four years old your brain is developing enough to where you can remember things most kids like me were in pre school. Which says a lot. So stop being a jerk on RUclips.
I was such a Sherri mark as a kid. I always thought she was beautiful, and would rip anyones head off that messed with her. Loved her HOF speech. She was one of a kind and truly missed.
Whopper rack too
She gave easily one of the top 5 HoF speeches. Up there with Bobby Heenan’s or Ric Flair’s.
Agreed.
yep, if you looked at her without the weird makeup, she was quite attractive.
She was a great wrestler too
Actually, Tito calls Heenan a "rodent manager", in reference to Heenan being the Weasel.
Got it before me. Sounded semi clear to my ear...
Just about to say it to lol
Sounded little rotten to me with his accent.
That's how it sounds to me too, definitely "rodent manager"
17:00
That promo by Jake here was epic. _"This time, you'll be the one that's humbled! This time, you'll be the one that's humiliated! And this time, you'll be the one that grovels for the money. And how appropriate, that the money you grovel for is your very own. A victim of your own greed, wallowing in the muck of avarice."_ This is why Jake is the GOAT for promo skills.
Hope he didnt mean humbled the way Iron Sheik mean it....
Even wasted he was great. He made blackjack enthralling to hear about
Miz: wait right there
As a 45 yr old man, I now realize how damn sexy Sherri was. I'd take her over Elizabeth any day.
@@MasterOfViewership Miz?! That bearded weasel Daniel Bryan made him cry just by calling him a coward. Gtfo here.
I never realized that this was Andre's final match. It was a fitting and classy send off for him. It makes me look at that match in a completely different way.
Well, Andre's actual final match was in Japan in December 1992, just a month before he died. He teamed with Giant Baba against Keiji Mutoh (aka The Great Muta) and Rusher Kimura. This was Andre's final WWF match.
This was actually Andre's final TELEVISED WWF match. They brought him out for some foreign house shows like the Royal Albert Hall.
A another cool thing about Brets glasses...every pair he gave away, he signed and dated them with the location...kinda cool
Serious! That’s amazing! As a kid that was basically all I ever wanted.
That's 😎 cool
@@robertpeacock894 same here
That was Hogan's only clean loss in the WWE until The Rock at WM X8, which of course was in the same building.
And he kicked out at 3.00001 😂
Hogan’s kryptonite is Canada.
Was there not a thing, that Hogan would not loose clean on Americain soil???? 😕 just something i have herd a while back.
Gene Bone the biggest star the wrestling industry has ever produced, responsible for the largest wrestlemania buyrate of all time and second highest rated RAW segment of all time is overrated? Just stop.
Yeah and it was still 1 more clean pin than Warrior ever gave!
"It doesn't matter if you're some kinda karate"
ALL HAIL AL GREEN!!!
When I was a kid I rolled up pennies to rent this Wrestlemania from the video store. I rented it dozens of times. My favorite of all time for nostalgia reasons.
I'll put Jake's promo here up with Dusty's "Hard Times" promo as one of the best ever. I watched this in a hockey arena on closed circuit PPV and as a kid, I remember having chills. One of the best ever.
When the Great Khaki debuted, I just thought they shaved Giant Gonzalez
Kyler Sinjin 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
At least we never saw a match between Great Khaki and Giant Gonzalez.
@@enigmaskull3495 That would have been worth watching just to see how bad it would be.
Khaki 😂
@Zamza oh naff off
The homies over at Grove Street appreciates your intro music.
Its public domain I think. I've heard it in a few places haha
ALL YA HAD TO DO WAS FOLLOW THE DAMN TRAIN, CJ!
Fun Fact: Apparently the moment when Brutus Beefcake tries to cut The Genius's hair was unplanned as Pat Paterson told Brutus to cut Poffo's hair without the latter's knowledge.
It lead to some problems backstage with Randy Savage and Beefcake but they were able to reconcile
Savage really stood up for what he believed in didn't he at Mania? Between this and taking HBK and Razor at X for being selfish by going long in their ladder match, and leading to a 8 man tag being left off the card for lack of time, he seemed to not be afraid to ruffle feathers when he felt it warranted. Can't fault him for that, gotta respect the passion he had for doing things properly if nothing else.
Savage was a man of principle. It’s partly why he had some issues throughout his career, but also probably why he kept the respect of his peers too.
@@ajk That's what one would call a "leader".
What was Elizabeth's opinion? Oh nevermind, she was probably locked inside a closet/storage room by her husband at the time.
@@toptenguy1 yes. Alive.
"I've never seen a good Brutus the Barber Beefcake match."
I'M AFRAID I'VE GOT SOME BAD NEWS
Andy Reierson ok barrett
I actually loved Brutus The Barber Beefcake when I was a kid, although I think it was just the gimmick more than anything!!
@@michaelward5370 I met him and Tatanka like 10 years ago they were both super cool
I was terrified of Earthquake as a child and as I grew up i began to like him. Very agile for his size and well underutilised. He could have been still going strong in 98 as a main event heel.
Once Hulkamania runs wild on you it’s pretty much over for you as a singles wrestler.
Events of this era have so many wrestlers that have passed away. ☹️☹️
+420 Benton
Yeah.
Godspeed to them.
Yeah man, it's crazy to realize that everyone in the Savage/Rhodes tag match has passed away :(
@Gene Bone lol you need that explained to you?
I mean it was 30 years ago and death is only a natural part of life but I get what you mean, it makes you think.
@@Jacktrack7 Yeah, but most of them have died young. It may have been 30 years ago but most of them were young 30 years ago. Randy died at 58, Warrior was 54 and Andre was 46.
“YOU DON’T DESERVE TO BREATHE THE SAME AIR AS THE WARRIOR AND HULK HOGAN!” Lmfao!
Hamms710 *Ho Kogan lol
FellOnBlackDayz **Coke Hogan
Then pushes him out of the frame - subtly handing him his microphone.
22:32
“ Black face isn’t good.” Cut to sign saying “Piper for Prime Minister”
Kid's a fucking time traveler
Hey. That guy won PM and travelled to another province during a “stay at home” pandemic
We aerially perfectly okay with prime ministers in blackface.
But what about half blackface? Is that only half as bad? 😁
@@DanJay1983 Depends, is he being viewed from the front or in profile? :P
25:31-I never thought about the transition from Andre to Earthquake. That’s a great catch!
I gotta say, the mimmicked voiceovers actually placed in sync with the video had me laughing so hard I fell off the treadmill.
Keep that up!
Suffering builds character YEAAH!!!
Something about the delivery of “Miss Elizabeth, looking glamorous as shit” made me laugh for a solid minute.
Brian saying "Ho Kogan" when talking about the Warrior promo is everything.
Personally, I prefer "Hull Kogan".
Koke Kogan IMO
Better than that girl saying Hulk Holgan lol
As a child I thought his name was “Ho Kogan” for years due to Warrior’s promo on him.
@@1krani me too
I'm an old fart and can tell you that back then even those who didn't like Hogan or Warrior still tipped their hat to them for this match. It was a great Wrestlemania main event that actually lived up to the hype.
"The Midnight Rockers, Shawn & Marty: They love to wrestle & they love to party!".
Good times...
Wrestling was best thing in the world when I was 6 years old in 1990. My god how the world was better back then. RIP to life as we once knew it 😥
I TELL MY SON THE SAME EXACT THING!!!! GOD BLESS 90's WWF!
ok boomer
@@barthomero721 he was born in the 80's you spastic
I was a school kid during WM6, it was the show everyone was talking about. Every kid in school was divided into Hogan or Warrior fans, with about 70% of them being Warrior fans. I remember being so nervous as a Warrior fan everytime Hogan went for a pin. The momentum both guys had going into the match was huge nobody knew who would win, great times.
The only other time I remember my wrestling buddies being so divided into factions was during the whole WCW vs NWO black n white / red n black days.
Agreed man! Certainly a highlight of my childhood. I was in 4th grade at the time. Like a lot of kids my age , I was pulling for Hogan. My family didn't have the means , to purchase the PPV at the time. Obviously no world wide web & Google search to find out who came out on top. So I waited & wondered until Monday , when a classmate filled me in. First time in my short life , I was absolutely CRUSHED!!! LOL Good old days indeed!
I’m with you guys. I remember watching this with my buddy because his dad always got the ppvs. At the time, I was thinking that I still liked Hogan, but I was getting tired of the hulking up, then the big boot, and then the leg drop. I can still feel how upset I was when Hogan went for the leg drop, and how excited I was that he missed. Great drama in the match and a great main event. P.S. I also remember how we all loved Andre nailing Heenan and riding in the cart by himself!
All of you guys share the same sentiment that I do. I remember watching this on PPV at a friend's house with around 10 other guys. We were having a blast!
And if memory serves, were were pretty well sit down the middle between Hogan and the Warrior (I was rooting for the Warrior). That was a great match, and we were on the edge of our seats the whole time.
I realize I'm showing my age here and I don't want to come across as the crotchety old guy (I'm 50, and I saw this WM when I was a senior in high school), but for me personally, this was the last WrestleMania of what I consider to be the "golden age" of the WWF. It was the last one that Monsoon and Ventura broadcast together, the end of the DiBiase/Roberts feud, the last hurrah for Andre the Giant (in my opinion only), the end of the "cold war" rivalries involving Volkoff, and the end of the peak of Hulkamania.
Those were such fun times. I'll always appreciate them.
This Wrestlemania drew 67,000 people. That's 67,000 more than this year's wrestlemania
@@samoanfun11 that's because there wasn't a global pandemic in 1990.
@Zamza I know.
@Zamza Actually i'm the funniest guy I know
@@HypervoxelRBX Funniest guy you've been around in a while*
This is the RUclips comment equivalent of cheap heat
Ah, yes Lance Storm the future Canadian Heavyweight Champion, the 100 Kilos and Under Champion, and the Saskatchewan Hardcore International Title Champion.
The biggest problem with earlier Wrestlemania's was the lack of time. They had to get every match in 3 hours and you could always tell that some matches were rushed which I hated because they were good matchups that needed more time. Years later WM went on to about 4 hours long and now today its like 7 or 8 hours long with no lack of time.
I was lucky to have attended this at the Skydome. First time I attended a wrestling event. Can't describe the experience, the awe, and how happy I was when Warrior beat Hogan, and when the Hart foundation beat the Ruskies. I will never forget the promo the Warrior cut before this event. Thanks for covering this Brian!
Soon as he said "Hogan took a step back" Hogan actually fell back a bit, lol
That awkward interaction between Sean Mooney and Mary Tyler Moore at 31:36 made me lol, especially her 'How about him?' comment regarding Greg Valentine. 😄
This was my favorite WM. That crowd popped huge for Demolition when they won.
The Steve Allen bits were FANTASTIC, definitely funnier with adult eyes understanding the quips.
The Combined weight jokes on Sapphire and Dusty was Hysterical. Probably can't do that in today's era.
Also we need more PPVS with the Ring Car again. Such a great visual
That Main event was everything to me as a kid, I wept when Hogan lost.
That line about “haven’t been this excited since I found out Pee Wee Herman was straight” still gets quoted by my wife and I to this day
@@Fear2Stop MGTOW
Gotta love Mary Tyler Moore there trying to play along. Way to yes and
“What about his new partner?”
“how about him!”
Edge Christian Lance Storm and Renee Young were in the crowd.
guillermo acosta I did not know that.
I knew Edge was there but I didn't know that Christian, Lance Storm and Renee Young were there as well
X-Pac was there too.
@@MFD00MTR33
Really?
@@MFD00MTR33 lol
I never get tired of Brian's Jimmy Hart impressions!
Nor me. God I laughed
I do. Lol. Funny impressions but I think they take away from what a brilliant personality he was, his Mickey mouse squeakyness wasn't all he was.
Hahaha yeah. That's how I feel whenever he does the Dusty impersonation too
12 years later rock vs hogan wmx8. Remember JR in that match mentioning Hogan not having luck in Toronto.
Hogan vs Warrior was a dvd extra in the Wrestlemania 18 dvd.
Both great matches.
33:00 For as old as he was, Jimmy Snuka looked like a million bucks right here
Can't believe you missed the best thing on this whole show. When the royal scepter hits Dusty's head, Jesse goes "Ding!" gleefully and it's the funniest thing ever.
8:46 "Kane/Great Khaki vibes." Now I'm just imagining The Great Kahli cosplaying as Mike Haggar from Final Fight.
KHAKI
I was hoping you'd mention my favorite line of the night from Heenan's (awesome) Andre promo, where it starts with Gene saying "Bobby Heenan, where do you have the bal--the nerve to hit Andre the Giant in the face?" And Heenan says "I'LL TELL YOU WHERE I GOT THE B--NERVE TO HIT ANDRE IN THE FACE!"
To be included on the list of the worst ideas someone can have: slapping André The Giant !
First time seeing your show. I'm hooked !! Great commentary !!
This...this is THE SHOW that made me a lifelong fan of the wild world of Professional Wrestling.
Everyone forgets how great Steve Allen was. It’s sad how forgotten he is. An absolute treasure
The Simpsons properly elevated his legend
Loved his Pee Wee Herman joke
i think he called him a RODENT manager, even though weasels arent rodents.
In the Orient express the one with the long hair is Tanaka, not Sato
I came here to mention this.
@@joere-uploader5766 Every year around Wrestlemania!
Hey man, I just found your videos and I really like them. I was a huge Hulkamaniac when I was a kid after I got the Hulkamania Workout Set for my 7th bday. The mid to late 80s was a golden era of wrestling and your videos always take me back.
This has been my go-to playlist of videos over the past few nights. Thanks for all the awesome videos.
The analogies to Who Framed Roger Rabbit made my heart grow, LOVE THAT SHIT!
I swear Brian just likes saying Great Khaki so he's just going to find ways to say it in every review for now on.
Definitely lol he loves it
Been waiting for this show ever since the classic PPV review series started!! The first WM I ever watched live on tv. I’d become a fan the year before and this was the peak time of my fandom ( if that’s a proper word!!)
Coming from the UK, this was actually the first big WWF show we got in the UK once Sky satellite television was launched. I grew up watching World of Sport UK wrestling with my dad, and the difference was just night and day in terms of razzmatazz etc. So glad you mentioned how good the Santana/Barbarian match was. Tito made Barbarian look like a big deal with not very much time to work with at all (Rockers vs Barbarian and Haku at WM7 was a similar match, few expectations, big payoff.)
I just want to live in a world where Koko won a ppv match.
Agreed. Koko was one of my favorites back in the day. A good to great worker, oceans of charisma, and, of course, Frankie. I can't see him ever holding the Winged Eagle, because he was a smaller guy in Vince's "land of the giants", but he should have had the IC belt at least once.
Brian's Dusty impression caught me off guard. I spit my drink all over the screen 😂
Just wanted to say: Pretty sweet Savage impression.
It looks like your wearing a crown royal bag.
I think this everytime her where’s this gimmick shirt!
Hahahaha best comment
🤣🤣🤣
I grew up in the "Andre gets tied up in the ropes" era of WWE.
I swear, EVERY Andre match i ever saw back then ended in him tied up in the ropes & looking absolutely surprised that it happened again lmaoo
Not only was the acknowledgement of the wave something that would never happen today, but Ventura's brilliant ad lib, "Wow, what an ovation they're giving The Million Dollar Man," followed by Monsoon being completely flabbergasted that he'd say that, is my favorite Jesse/Gorilla banter ever. Getting their announce team dynamic over and staying in character in a spontaneous moment with a simple back and forth. Without even thinking about it, Jesse demonstrates his twisted logic. Biased af toward the heels, but in a way that made it sound like he honestly believed they weren't heels.
"now called the Rogers Centre"
It will always be the Skydome to me.
I call a compromise of the Rogers Skydome.
Nathan Zimmerman
Much respect for your comment
But hey what about the Silverdome?
@@JulioHernandez-wy8nh Hull Cogan: "I always confuse that with the Superdome."
*It's Still SkyDome to Me*
That 1st “slap” from Andre is just 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The industry could have had even more Hogan-level mega stars back then if he put more guys over like this during his run
Sure it could, and if only Schwarzenegger let them put 30 different actors playing the Terminator in his role in 1984 we'd have loads of legends too....................................
Your impressions were on point for this review. Great Dusty, Jesse and Macho ones, and of course your Jimmy Heart is always hilarious. Well done! 👍
Brian’s impressions of Dusty, Ventura and Macho Man are absolutely spot on 😂😂
Earthquake looked 40 when he was 27
To be fair, he was first discovered in the late 1400's...
Earthquake had "Arn Anderson disease" pretty much.
The whole blackface thing was way over my head as a kid, but I remember being upset that Piper didn't continue it under his trunks.
🤔🙄🙄 ummm?! What?!
That would've been true dedication and attention to detail lol
He actually did but you could only see it if you used a special pair of Sunglasses. ;)
It's sad thinking of how many wrestlers from this are no longer with us.
Something not mentioned, the pop when Demolition won the tag titles is the loudest on the show, perhaps one of the loudest ever.
UH no it wasn't. Warrior winning was way louder.
@@phillipivey4833 Nope, if it is on the network version then they've messed with the audio. On the live/VHS versions demolition winning is the loudest pop on the card by far, it's potential for a "10 greatest pops of all time" list.
@@llynellyn IT certainly was not. I watch the PPV live as a kid. The Pop wasn't that loud at all.
What song did Brian Zane say at 15:56-16:01 that The Hart Foundation couldn't wait for, again?...
Fun Fact: Roddy Piper had a liquid solution to get that black paint off his body but a few wrestlers got rid of it.
So this forced Piper to go to places including the airport still painted half black
Andre got rid of it
Hakim Fullerton Yeah Roddy said he regretted doing it because he couldn’t get it off
That was the real rub in the cultural insensitivity side of things; Roddy didn’t regret it because it was offensive in hindsight, but because he couldn’t get the paint off for weeks afterwards. Still, him and Bad News Brown ending the angle in a no contest comes out more PC-friendly than the Booker-T/HHH racist storyline at WM19. Some of the family still won’t watch WWE to this day because of how that match ended.
SoLoMoN DaViDSoN oh yeah the story where it clearly paints Booker T in a story of redemption loses in the worst way possible. Not only was it a regular pin fall but a minute delay .
That’s burying someone deliberately not just booking the wrong guy to go over.
@@JohnWilliams-wl9px To be fair, outside of how the match ended, I think HHH retaining works in the fact that it leads into Evolution running RAW as a major heel faction for the rest of 2003 and it builds towards Benoit actually beating him next year. I don't think that would work out as well if he lost. Booker T should have won it a month or two later though and been a major rival for Evolution in 2003.
17:05 I think he said "rodent manager" (as in "The Weasel")
Jeremy Russell ^^^^^
That’s exactly what he said, I was just about to comment that very same.
Lol exactly!
Big credit for trying to make sense of Hogan and Warriors promos Brian. My own reaction is simply), well I guess cocaine is a hell of a drug
I like how the main premise of Hogan's promo was that "it doesn't matter if you win or lose, all that matters is what type of winner you are and what type of loser you are", basically telling people that the real winners are the guys that are good sports. Of course Hogan said this cause he knew that he was gonna be the 'good sport" later that night.
@@mattthomas1442 In his book he says him giving Warrior the belt was unscripted and he did it to take the focus of Warrior and back onto him
The intro to Wrestlemania 6 reminds me of Lou Ferrigno's Hercules movies where there's special effects of constellations out there.
This was the first major wrestling show I saw on satellite TV when I was a kid here in Scotland, and it blew me away!! It had all my favourites, Machoman Randy Savage, Roddy Piper, Jake The Snake Roberts!! I loved it and was hooked on WWF for years!!
Remember when both Hulk Hogan and Ultimate Warrior were both universally loved by the fans.... Pepperidge farms remembers
Remember when wrestling had fans.... Pepperidge farms remembers.
Sherri Martel does NOT get enough credit by WWE (or anybody else for that matter) for her work and how good she really was.
Lots of cameos by future wrestlers and backstage personalities in this Wrestlemania is what I noticed.
John Tenta was such a cool dude. When I was a kid I went to a house show that took place at an amusement park. They had a autograph session with Sargeant Slaughter and The Macho Man. After getting their autographs, I saw him sitting on one of the benches. I went up and asked him and asked for his autograph. He could have said get lost, but he was pretty chill and signed it. He was a great guy and I miss him. He was gone too soon.
21:41
Can we just appreciate Brian's Macho Man impression 🤣🤣🤣
Earthquake was 27?!? WHAT?!?
Also Brian your ranking graphics are kinda glitching in this review, something went bad in editing?
@@SnesRulez I thought that was intentional? Could be a glitch though, I dunno
Either way I liked it, looks cool.
He was technically 26 as he hadn't had his birthday yet. Either way, I agree with Brian in that Tenta never looked a day younger than 40. I had a friend like that in school. I would have to remind myself whenever us and another one of our other friends were together that he was the youngest and I was the oldest by about 6 months despite the fact that he looked like he was 30.
7:39 I think Earthquake inspired the pacing Brock Lesnar does.
That Wrestlerock Rumble reference! 🤣
Can we just take a minute to appreciate the fact that we got to see The Big Boss Man in both the Golden Era and the Attitude Era both successful runs.
To be fair, Shawn Michael's was in the Golden era, New Generation, Attitude and Ruthless aggression and PG era. I know he missed out the hight of the attitude era but for a guy who takes huge bumps it is kind of amazing he lasted so long.
@@chrisyanover1777 I don't really count shawn Michaels attitude era run cause he didn't wrestle during that era that much. He wrestled during the beginning of that era and that's it. He wrestled full time during the Golden, Ruthless, PG, and reality era which is the current era apparently
@Jackson Five technically The Undertaker didn't debut till the New Gen era. Kind of the reason he at first was heavily gimmicked. But the Undertaker is by far the best gimmicked wrestler!
@Jackson Five I guess you are technically right about the Undertaker. I always associate Undertaker with New Gen and after. But you are right about the Undertaker premiering in the Golden era.
It's taken me 3 nights to watch this but finally got through it. I love these so I don't know why they keep putting me to sleep.
This is pure gold!! Thank you!!!Great channel..29:45...akeem talk....on arsenio hall slick tells arsenio akeem is going to be the 1st african american champion in the WWF..lol 36:34....iconic!!!!😎 How many stars??? 😁😁😁😁
You taught me something i didn't know it wasn't called skydome anymore
Yeah, well, a lot of us still wish it were, and actually still do call it that.
Well some do just refer to it as "The Dome" too.
Is it just me or are the star graphics glitching?
+O K
I thought I was the only one that noticed.
That was weird.
It's the Smackdown hacker!
It's not just you
@Bubble B absolutely. Nice touch by Brian to add more of that retro feel of immersion. Really feel like you're traveling back in time watching this
Brian.....you made my day when you pointed out the Model/Venis theme similarity. I’ve always thought that. Nice to get some validation, haha.
Man earthquake at 27 looks like he is 20 years older than me and I'm nearly 32. Wtf
I'm disappointed Akeem didn't pull a Hogan (8 years before Hogan did) by insisting that BBM give him his win back from their time in UWF.