Kurt Angle cutting a promo in the middle of his match and turning the Olympic gold medalist accomplishment into a heel angle is one of the greatest moments in Western wrestling
My personal Angle moment was the "You dare boo me? OK We'll do this over and over until you show me some dam respect." The 3rd You Suck nearly took the roof off. lol One of the greatest heels ever that could have been in legit trouble in the territory days with how he got heat. He could squeeze that extra final 1db heat over anyone else in the locker room at that time.
Despite the Rikishi payoff being strange and disappointing.. It was low key brilliant that Too Cool was on this card, but Rikishi only made his debut (Possibly on Heat or another "B" show) a few weeks later. So when Too Cool told Foley that they were hanging out with Rikishi, he figured it out.
@@madwarrior922 Ah ok thanks, that might be where I saw him (I had no internet at the time, so the timeline was foggy). I will then rephrase it, he was NOT on the Survivor Series card. :)
It's honestly amazing how Kurt Angle was able to become WWF Champion and break into the Main Event Scene in less than 12 months when he was on the same roster as The Rock, Stone Cold, Triple H and The Undertaker.
@@joel9507 Nobody doubted his in-ring skills... Tbh, I rate Angle above Eddie, Benoit and even Shawn... Eddie felt-more like a luchadore. Benoit looked too stiff for pro-wrestling. Though I liked his moveset (minus the headbutt). Even during Attitude Era, I always felt headbutt doesnt suite well with his other moveset... HBK relied mostly on selling and high-flying moves... Hitman, on the other hand... Man !! He could go ariel, do submissions and classic chain-wrestling moves. His selling and bumps looked to smooth...
Amazing how,it’s been done before,Diesel was on the roster with Hart,Undertaker,Michaels…And Lesnar was on the roster with HHH,Rock,Austin,Undertaker,Booker T
On the funeral segment from SmackDown. Bruce Prichard revealed that Big Show pitched the idea, so WWF's production requested to film the segment in a real cemetery in Connecticut. They were authorised on the condition to not cause any ruckus. The thing is this was filmed while an actual funeral was being held there. To no one's suprise, WWE has been barred from that cemetery ever since.
That seems to be a recurring thing with WWE... according to Triple H, the infamous Katie Vick segment was filmed at a real funeral parlour, while an actual funeral was taking place in the next room.
Man Survivor Series 1999 was a crazy PPV. Kurt Angle debuts here, Austin is run over by a car, Big Show wins his first WWF Title, and the Mcmahon/ Triple H feud continues on.
oh boy, lol. 😂 In my opinion, even though 2000 was a great year for the WWF, they also jumped the shark like WCW with the Mcmahon/Helmsley era down peoples throats. This was the Authority before the Authority.@@timbartschwolfman
@nickbanks7954 I agree. TheMcmahon/Helmsley alliance was a precursor to more stories revolving around the Mcmahon family in the future. And they would get more annoying as time goes by.
@tayojones9460 Likely during the McMahon Helmsley Regime there was Resistance against the Faction During the Authority Reign of Terror they basically stomped out any Resistance
Imagine the rammifications if Savio Vega was in this match as well and a Davey Boy Smith Chinlock and a Savio Vega Nerve Pinch was applied to Steve Blackman.
Man this just shows you how badly WCW was at this point. The fact that the WWF could put on a dreadful PPV (and a big 4 one at that), and still dominate. I'm sure 90% of that crowd felt deflated when they found out Austin wasn't in the main event.
It is a shame Austin got injured in 99. Stone Cold vs. HHH vs. The Rock would have been amazing. It is a dream match that did not happen, just like Sting vs. The Undertaker.
Should have been Main Event for Mania 17......made sense...HHH just beat Austin at No Way Out in the 2/3 Falls match, Austin had the Rumble win and Rock was champion. But, if they were going with the two man power trip, I dont know how you do that coming out of the three way. Austin wins and turns heel, but what do you do with HHH? His character isnt gonna just let Austin win that match....wouldnt make sense booking wise.
You have to understand prior to this match Steve mufug Blackman had to stop on the way to the arena and save 1000 kittens from a inferno while also going toe to toe with chuck norris while playing a chess master for the fate of the world….he was tired bro
I don't know what was a bigger "Sike! Got your money moment": Austin getting ran over during this show and substituted or Hogan teasing the "Ultimate Warrior" at Uncensored 95 and we got Renegade
The latter probably, WWE likely intended to have that match take place and believed Austin’s neck could at least hold out until after the match (heck it was probably even made inti a triple threat to ease up on the workload on Austin’s part). Meanwhile WCW werent even talking to Warrior about appearing at Uncensored let alone planning to bring him in.
Honestly, if we’re going to call out WCW for not giving fans the advertised Hogan vs Sting match at Halloween Havoc last month or so, we have to call out WWF for advertising Austin for this PPV knowing full well he wasn’t going to wrestle. Yes a car attack is better as an angle than a badly done worked shoot, but they still conned the fans.
IIRC, when Austin returns in 2000, he had a bit more of an intensity to his character, which is naturally understandable given he did get run over, and it'd later translate to the 2001 heel turn.
@@FatJackedNerdI interpreted it as he didn’t have much left in the tank, and there was no way in hell he was going to beat the rock at WM X7 without help from Vince. Don’t know why he still allied himself with Vince after though, but they had some great segments.
@@FatJackedNerdthat 2001 heel run was a diamond in the rough. Did it make sense? No. Was it entertaining as hell? Yes. Wrestling isn’t meant to be taken that seriously.
03:48 "I have no idea why I'm telling you this" Because people will just point it out otherwise. Most fans know Patriot was the first to use the theme. Kurt Angle was the one who popularised it but not a lot of fans remember Sgt. Slaughter using it. Might as well reference it before anyone else does.
Smart booking by putting Davey and Sensei Blackman on opposing teams, had they been on the same team, absolutely no one would ever believe they could legitimately lose to any team!
@@StraightEdgeKnight19 rock was still the face of the company when austin came back, besides he came back then turned heel a bit later for the majority of 2001. Austin was legit the face of WWE for less than 2 years, then Rock, then Lesnar.
@@zaymclemore so why is Austin constantly hailed by critics and the WWE themselves as the face of the attitude era from 97 to 02? As popular as Rock was (especially in 2000) he was a notch below Austin, and that’s pretty much confirmed to be a fact by WWE.
@@StraightEdgeKnight19 cause austin was the face of the attitude era as a whole, by 02 Rock was the face of the company and was going to give the torch to Brock Lesnar as the next face of the company. Theres a reason why Brock vs Austin was surpossed to be a RAW match, while Brock vs. Rock was the main event of SummerSlam to usher in a new face of the company.
God I love this guy’s commentary & dammit I miss the 90’s and these days of wrestling. Thank you so much for making these videos. So nostalgic. Can’t believe this was a quarter of a century ago.
Years later and the music played during the final matches always gets me hyped. I never played the game it's from but I've since added it to my playlist to listen to. One of the moments I look forward to in every RTW video.
Kurt Angle is a one in a lifetime talent. Won a gold medal with a broken freaking neck and was at the same time a natural at pro wrestling as well. Perfect ability, look, charisma, personality. Incredible. Absolutely one of the greatest wrestlers of all time.
Ah yes, the PPV debut for Kurt Angle, Austin getting ran over & Big Show taking Austin's spot and winning the championship are the 3 biggest takeaways from Survivor Series 1999.
If I recall, I believe that Steve Blackman was supposed to not only survive his elimination match but was also the original alternate to Stone Cold in the triple threat match. However, the night of Survivor Series, he was contacted about solving the upcoming Y2K problem (apparently only his abilities could save the world from the millennium bug) and WWF had to alter the show to allow him to leave earlier.
The Survivor Series I went to. It took place 1 week after my dad passed away. So this was art imitating my own life. Though happy to say, when we laid my dad to rest, I didn't have to boogey board my way across the cemetery on his casket
Been waiting for this episode since you started this series. Angle is such a phenomenon, this is probably his worst night ever as a performer, and he did perfectly fine, just didn't have heat until he turned heel with that mic. From here on out it's just up, up, up with him, and I am compelled to see how you treat his first feud, against the true standard, Sensei Blackman. Also the night that completely changed the main event scene for the next year. With Austin gone Rock and HHH would get greater focus, but there would be lots of interchangeable cogs from the mid card dabbling more with the top tier, namely Jericho, Angle himself, the Dudley's when they turn face, and the soon to debut Rikishi and Benoit.
The reason the WWE penciled in The Big Show to replace Stone Cold in the triple threat match was to honor a clause in Big Show's contract. When Big Show signed with WWE in January or February of 1999, there was a guaranteed clause put in his contract that he would win the WWE Championship within a year of starting. So, placing Big Show in this triple threat was the loop hole that they gained to legally honor that clause.
Watching reliving the war makes me feel old cause I watched all of this as it happened now watching it back is like man I can’t believe this show was 25 years ago I was 12
That ppv was basically the finale of the first half of the attitude era, Austin written off tv, HHH vs Rock rivalry teased, Kurt Angle debut and Tag division main focus became Hardys, Dudley’s and Edge & Christian
Yep Kane came into that feud red-hot and gets sucked into months and months of losing to a guy he outweighs by 150 pounds in increasingly silly ways. Meanwhile the crowd did not see X-Pac as a top guy in November, and they *definitely* don't see him as a top guy by February when he wins the blow-off against Kane when a bunch of more exciting heels are on the come-up.
23:42 Oh, that explains why you were questioning on who's heel or face in the women's match like there were more than one awkward pairings, I forgot that Terri was managing The Hardyz right when they did their face turn, but even in her moments of managing The Hardyz, I declare Terri a neutral/tweener as she never really seem to officially turn face despite being aligned with faces at the moment, I more likely say she did an official face turn when she pinned Steven Richards for The Hardcore Belt in 2002, but before that, I always declare her either heel or neutral
Just wanted to say, I've been loving the Reliving The War series. When we were all stuck indoors because of the pandemic, I started rewatching Attitude era PPVs on Peacock. And your videos have been really entertaining. I know invasion is coming up. So even if this series ends, I'll watch whatever comes up next. keep up the great work!
Its wild watching Kurt Angle go from the Wholesome All-American/Cornball, to King Kurt and WWF Champion, to Wrestling Machine, to his Final Form, Perc Angle.
The official debut of my fav wrestler of all time, Kurt seemed to just have it even out of the gate and look forward to the many highlights he'll bring to this war.
Ahh, the survivor's series 4 on 4 matches. The only night in the wrestling calendar where a double axe-handle off the second rope can get you a pin on a dude. Good times.
I love me some Wrestling Bios for sure, but my man got it wrong about Paul Wight's dad. Paul Wight, Sr. didn't die in 2016. He died about 5-7 years before the whole "Big Show's daddy's dead!" angle ever took place.
Amazing video but we are getting so to 2000 and I’m terrified for the nitros of new blood vs millionaires club and the ppv like bash at the beach and slamborre
Anytime Kane sets off his pyro during his opening he loses. I do not know when but there was only one instance where he got the win and a second pyro. Just one.
Agreed, I think he truly has the best stretch maybe of all time from 1999-2003, and then he went on another amazing run in 2005-2006 in WWE, and then *another* amazing run in TNA that went quite a few years. He could keep up with absolutely anybody on the mic, even someone as great as Austin, and yet he could outpace just about everyone in the ring. He could look legitimately terrifying or have you laughing until you cry with comedy segments. Honestly, I would never want to change his initial TNA years because they're in many ways, perhaps the best work of his entire career, but I wish we could've had him active in-ring in WWE in the very early 2010's or so, when he was aging but before his movement was completely compromised. He was still doing amazing matches then, he could've done so much in WWE against Punk, Cena again, Viper Orton, Undertaker again, etc Honestly my favorite wrestler of all time, all in all.
As I was a kid I couldn't stay up and watch PPVs in the UK. Used to tape them and then watch them once I got back from school. One lad at school knew the result and when he said big show won I was all cocky saying he wasn't in the match he tried to protest that Austin got run over and we just gave him stick and said he was a liar. I was gutted when It all started to play out. I always got up early and watch PPVs before school after that.
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The greatest triple threat match that never happened
In an Alternate Universe
It did happen
Right
Was just about to comment the same thing. Amazed they never tried this match again.
I was about to comment that
Rock and Austin didn’t wanna put HHH over
Kurt Angle cutting a promo in the middle of his match and turning the Olympic gold medalist accomplishment into a heel angle is one of the greatest moments in Western wrestling
It was Vince's idea.
My personal Angle moment was the "You dare boo me? OK We'll do this over and over until you show me some dam respect." The 3rd You Suck nearly took the roof off. lol
One of the greatest heels ever that could have been in legit trouble in the territory days with how he got heat.
He could squeeze that extra final 1db heat over anyone else in the locker room at that time.
Yeah, it's not like Angle thought it up on the spot lol
My favourite is his upcoming match with Val: “You’d rather cheer a porn star than me? What is wrong with you people?!”
I still wonder if the plan was always for him to be a heel or if Vince thought it’s gonna happen and told Kurt to respond based on the crowd reaction
Welcome to the War, Kurt.
Can't wait 😊
In storyline it’s he who puts an end to the war two years later at survivor series 2001
Welcome to Wal-Mart Kurt
Welcome to Wally World Kurt
I wonder how Kurt would be welcomed into Nastyville.
Rikishi was just trying to find a parking spot 😎
Despite the Rikishi payoff being strange and disappointing.. It was low key brilliant that Too Cool was on this card, but Rikishi only made his debut (Possibly on Heat or another "B" show) a few weeks later. So when Too Cool told Foley that they were hanging out with Rikishi, he figured it out.
Just trying to find a parking spot… for da Rock 🪨 🚙
Rikishi was on the Nov. 13th (filmed Nov. 5th) episode of Jakked, 1 day before SS '99.
@@madwarrior922 Ah ok thanks, that might be where I saw him (I had no internet at the time, so the timeline was foggy). I will then rephrase it, he was NOT on the Survivor Series card. :)
Look at the detective here 🕵️♂️ @@madwarrior922
JR delivered the best line during the tag title match, "Mankind gave Al Snow head last Thursday night on Smackdown." 😂
I loved Foley and Snow working together, their bits on tv were absolutely hilarious 🤣
It's honestly amazing how Kurt Angle was able to become WWF Champion and break into the Main Event Scene in less than 12 months when he was on the same roster as The Rock, Stone Cold, Triple H and The Undertaker.
He was chrismatic... he just had a different kind of charisma 😂😂😂
@@FatJackedNerd Not to mention elite wresting skills. Performing and selling moves, he was brilliant.
@@joel9507
Nobody doubted his in-ring skills...
Tbh, I rate Angle above Eddie, Benoit and even Shawn...
Eddie felt-more like a luchadore.
Benoit looked too stiff for pro-wrestling. Though I liked his moveset (minus the headbutt). Even during Attitude Era, I always felt headbutt doesnt suite well with his other moveset...
HBK relied mostly on selling and high-flying moves...
Hitman, on the other hand... Man !! He could go ariel, do submissions and classic chain-wrestling moves. His selling and bumps looked to smooth...
Amazing how,it’s been done before,Diesel was on the roster with Hart,Undertaker,Michaels…And Lesnar was on the roster with HHH,Rock,Austin,Undertaker,Booker T
Well it helps that both taker and austin are injured at this minute
16:07 It was at that moment that Rikishi knew that he'd... did it for The Rock, he did it for the people!
The mufugg kick was a thing of beauty.
Two Pittsburgh natives doing their thing at Survivor series in Pittsburgh my home town
On the funeral segment from SmackDown.
Bruce Prichard revealed that Big Show pitched the idea, so WWF's production requested to film the segment in a real cemetery in Connecticut. They were authorised on the condition to not cause any ruckus.
The thing is this was filmed while an actual funeral was being held there. To no one's suprise, WWE has been barred from that cemetery ever since.
That seems to be a recurring thing with WWE... according to Triple H, the infamous Katie Vick segment was filmed at a real funeral parlour, while an actual funeral was taking place in the next room.
That’s hilarious. Imagine if the people at the funeral could see that being filmed 😂😂😂
1999 Bossman is the level of evil all heels should aspire to reach.
I wish he'd rolled the Blues Brothers car into the arena at least once.
@@fangjokerLS 🤣
@@fangjokerLS Jake: You got us into this parking lot pal! Now you get us out!
Elwood: You want out of this parking lot?....Ok...
I love how Kane switched up his colors on his tights the red and black in reverse on opposite sides
I'm so glad torri stayed with Kane and Stephanie married Test and they all lived happily ever after
@@Former_Employeeproper Yankee Doodle obnoxious response there.
Man Survivor Series 1999 was a crazy PPV. Kurt Angle debuts here, Austin is run over by a car, Big Show wins his first WWF Title, and the Mcmahon/ Triple H feud continues on.
We're getting closer to the McMahon Helmsley Faction
oh boy, lol. 😂
In my opinion, even though 2000 was a great year for the WWF, they also jumped the shark like WCW with the Mcmahon/Helmsley era down peoples throats. This was the Authority before the Authority.@@timbartschwolfman
@nickbanks7954 I agree. TheMcmahon/Helmsley alliance was a precursor to more stories revolving around the Mcmahon family in the future. And they would get more annoying as time goes by.
@@timbartschwolfmanwe’ll
@tayojones9460
Likely during the McMahon Helmsley Regime there was Resistance against the Faction
During the Authority Reign of Terror they basically stomped out any Resistance
Val Venis, Mark Henry, Steve Blackman and Gangrel. Aka, THE MOST INSANELY RANDOM SURVIVOR SERIES TEAM IN HISTORY!!
So far…
I never realised that Rikishi wasn't even a character on TV when Austin got ran over.
Could you imagine if Steve Blackman teamed with the mean street posse. That's the REAL mega powers right there
"HAVE YOU EVER BEEN COLD AS ICE?/I HAVE--IT FELT GREAT!"
Davey Boy defeated Mufugg Blackman without a chinlock! WOW!
Bulldog knew that if his Chinlock had been applied on Muffigin Blackman the fabric of reality would've been torn apart.
Was that the only time he used the perfectplex? I don't remember him using it before but who can remember
A true master of the chin lock, does not need to apply a true master chin lock 🔒 💪
The best survivor series elimination match ever
Imagine the rammifications if Savio Vega was in this match as well and a Davey Boy Smith Chinlock and a Savio Vega Nerve Pinch was applied to Steve Blackman.
Man this just shows you how badly WCW was at this point. The fact that the WWF could put on a dreadful PPV (and a big 4 one at that), and still dominate. I'm sure 90% of that crowd felt deflated when they found out Austin wasn't in the main event.
It is a shame Austin got injured in 99. Stone Cold vs. HHH vs. The Rock would have been amazing. It is a dream match that did not happen, just like Sting vs. The Undertaker.
Should’ve been saved for a wrestlemania though
@Kas58223 Austin would have still required neck surgery by the time WM 16 arrived.
@@tayojones9460No. Wrestlemania 17.
Should have been Main Event for Mania 17......made sense...HHH just beat Austin at No Way Out in the 2/3 Falls match, Austin had the Rumble win and Rock was champion. But, if they were going with the two man power trip, I dont know how you do that coming out of the three way. Austin wins and turns heel, but what do you do with HHH? His character isnt gonna just let Austin win that match....wouldnt make sense booking wise.
@jimmyplenderleith9471 Nothing in wwe makes sense half the time. The triple threat at WM 17 would have been better.
You have to understand prior to this match Steve mufug Blackman had to stop on the way to the arena and save 1000 kittens from a inferno while also going toe to toe with chuck norris while playing a chess master for the fate of the world….he was tired bro
For a Belgian (like me) that Marouane Fellaini reference isn’t obscure.
Chyna invented the Pepsi Plunge
@@theitfactorjameswheezer2852 Terrible.
RC Cola Plunge
Cocaine plunge 😵💫
@@757jlhood Such a flat soda. But my mother loves it.
@@Speedyreedy1218 hmm?
I don't know what was a bigger "Sike! Got your money moment":
Austin getting ran over during this show and substituted
or
Hogan teasing the "Ultimate Warrior" at Uncensored 95 and we got Renegade
I like how Wolverine will sometimes refer to Cyclops as Cyc.
The latter probably, WWE likely intended to have that match take place and believed Austin’s neck could at least hold out until after the match (heck it was probably even made inti a triple threat to ease up on the workload on Austin’s part). Meanwhile WCW werent even talking to Warrior about appearing at Uncensored let alone planning to bring him in.
Definitely Renegade. People actually like Austin, and at least WWE turned his surgery into an angle. There was a payoff in the end.
Honestly, if we’re going to call out WCW for not giving fans the advertised Hogan vs Sting match at Halloween Havoc last month or so, we have to call out WWF for advertising Austin for this PPV knowing full well he wasn’t going to wrestle. Yes a car attack is better as an angle than a badly done worked shoot, but they still conned the fans.
@@arlibrarian And they made sure to have Austin taken out DURING the PPV so people were still ordering up til the start of the show
Austin's last appearance on television until his Super Bowl halftime interview with JR.
Why couldn't Jim Ross interview Oklahoma during the Super Bowl halftime? That would've brought in big ratings.
@@roccojamison89gooker51because he was more focusing for Austin
@@roccojamison89gooker51 cuz Oklahoma never drew a dime, pal
@@Former_Employee yes
I feel like this was an end of an era in a way with Austin character he came back in 2000 but it didn't feel the same in a way it's probably just me
IIRC, when Austin returns in 2000, he had a bit more of an intensity to his character, which is naturally understandable given he did get run over, and it'd later translate to the 2001 heel turn.
@@DasNordlicht91
I never understood the 2001 heel turn, on top of that his tag team with Triple H 🤔🤔
Hard to believe Austin had to retire at like 38. Imagine if Owen hadn't got Austin hurt
@@FatJackedNerdI interpreted it as he didn’t have much left in the tank, and there was no way in hell he was going to beat the rock at WM X7 without help from Vince. Don’t know why he still allied himself with Vince after though, but they had some great segments.
@@FatJackedNerdthat 2001 heel run was a diamond in the rough. Did it make sense? No. Was it entertaining as hell? Yes. Wrestling isn’t meant to be taken that seriously.
Marouane Fellaini 😂 - maybe David Moyes was at ringside too?
Miss Kitty in that outfit made me realize I had a 'type' very young.
Short women with black wigs?
Same! She looked 10/10 in this gimmick
Jerry Lawler had a “type” for the very young as well. 😅
Chyna and Miss Kitty were my wet dream as a kid
The Detroit crowd was ALWAYS a tough crowd for faces. Heels in Detroit always seemed to get cheers. Detroit fans are really their own breed.
Must be all the lead in the water.
Kurt Angle has entered the reliving the war chat.
03:48 "I have no idea why I'm telling you this"
Because people will just point it out otherwise. Most fans know Patriot was the first to use the theme. Kurt Angle was the one who popularised it but not a lot of fans remember Sgt. Slaughter using it. Might as well reference it before anyone else does.
Smart booking by putting Davey and Sensei Blackman on opposing teams, had they been on the same team, absolutely no one would ever believe they could legitimately lose to any team!
People need to look up Steve Blackman 1988 pictures. My God!
the kof13 character select theme remix during the main event segment was superb. great video
Come to think of it, the concept of the Survivor Series Match is very similar to the KOF matches.
1:03 Two years ago, Faarooq was teaming with two of his opponents while Bradshaw was teaming with the other two at 1997 Survivor Series
And Farooq's beard grow after September 1998
Wild.
The start of "Xpac heat".
Survivor Series 1999 aka When the Rock takes the mantle of face of the company from Austin until 2002
Actually The Rock is only the face for 2000. Once Austin comes back its his face on the product again.
@@StraightEdgeKnight19 rock was still the face of the company when austin came back, besides he came back then turned heel a bit later for the majority of 2001.
Austin was legit the face of WWE for less than 2 years, then Rock, then Lesnar.
@@zaymclemore so why is Austin constantly hailed by critics and the WWE themselves as the face of the attitude era from 97 to 02? As popular as Rock was (especially in 2000) he was a notch below Austin, and that’s pretty much confirmed to be a fact by WWE.
@@StraightEdgeKnight19 cause austin was the face of the attitude era as a whole, by 02 Rock was the face of the company and was going to give the torch to Brock Lesnar as the next face of the company.
Theres a reason why Brock vs Austin was surpossed to be a RAW match, while Brock vs. Rock was the main event of SummerSlam to usher in a new face of the company.
@@zaymclemoreBut not a proper build and ushering a new era was rushed
Mideon's face paint looks like a bootleg Demolition member figurine you'd buy from a shady shopping website or at a flea market 😂
“I did it, For The Rock!”
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHO YOU DID IT FOR
Ugh, terrible. Only for Triple H to still” be the one behind it
They're ripping off WCW.
"I did it, For the People!"
@@richardalvarez1084 We, The People, Did It For the All-American American Jack Swagger!
God I love this guy’s commentary & dammit I miss the 90’s and these days of wrestling. Thank you so much for making these videos. So nostalgic. Can’t believe this was a quarter of a century ago.
Years later and the music played during the final matches always gets me hyped. I never played the game it's from but I've since added it to my playlist to listen to. One of the moments I look forward to in every RTW video.
Hold it, I actually always wondered where he took those music cliips. Are they from a video game? If so, which one, and mind blown! lol
Kurt Angle is a one in a lifetime talent. Won a gold medal with a broken freaking neck and was at the same time a natural at pro wrestling as well. Perfect ability, look, charisma, personality. Incredible. Absolutely one of the greatest wrestlers of all time.
Ah yes, the PPV debut for Kurt Angle, Austin getting ran over & Big Show taking Austin's spot and winning the championship are the 3 biggest takeaways from Survivor Series 1999.
I did it for the rock 😃
If I recall, I believe that Steve Blackman was supposed to not only survive his elimination match but was also the original alternate to Stone Cold in the triple threat match. However, the night of Survivor Series, he was contacted about solving the upcoming Y2K problem (apparently only his abilities could save the world from the millennium bug) and WWF had to alter the show to allow him to leave earlier.
Nice intro work. “Infamous up in this” 🎵
"AAAAAND THEEEEIIIIRRR OOOOOPPONEEEEENNNNNTTT"
RIP Fink
“….and NEEEEEWWWWWWWW World Wrestling Federation champion…”
Mideon looks like a Dollar store Undertaker
The Survivor Series I went to. It took place 1 week after my dad passed away. So this was art imitating my own life. Though happy to say, when we laid my dad to rest, I didn't have to boogey board my way across the cemetery on his casket
Kurt Angle... Our final piece of the attitude era puzzle has arrived.
Um...the Radicalz played a big role. They're not there yet. Nor is heel Stephanie.
0:18 love the intro Mobb Deep X D-Generation X 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Prodigy in my top 5 fav rappers
Absolutely
Been waiting for this episode since you started this series. Angle is such a phenomenon, this is probably his worst night ever as a performer, and he did perfectly fine, just didn't have heat until he turned heel with that mic. From here on out it's just up, up, up with him, and I am compelled to see how you treat his first feud, against the true standard, Sensei Blackman.
Also the night that completely changed the main event scene for the next year. With Austin gone Rock and HHH would get greater focus, but there would be lots of interchangeable cogs from the mid card dabbling more with the top tier, namely Jericho, Angle himself, the Dudley's when they turn face, and the soon to debut Rikishi and Benoit.
The reason the WWE penciled in The Big Show to replace Stone Cold in the triple threat match was to honor a clause in Big Show's contract. When Big Show signed with WWE in January or February of 1999, there was a guaranteed clause put in his contract that he would win the WWE Championship within a year of starting. So, placing Big Show in this triple threat was the loop hole that they gained to legally honor that clause.
Is there a source for this? I've heard it too but can't recall it being confirmed via interviews etc.
@@WrestlingBios This was stated in a Dave Meltzer Wrestling Observer Newsletter a very long time ago.
Watching reliving the war makes me feel old cause I watched all of this as it happened now watching it back is like man I can’t believe this show was 25 years ago I was 12
Good way to start. Open youtube and see a WrestlingBios upload 1min ago.
Stasiac getting up as quick as he did from the Olympic Slam was a death sentence
MEAN STREET POSSEE. That theme song. Still, still gets me cracking up. 😂
I can never fully understand the final line.
@@toptenguy1 actually, me neither come to think about it.
Something like.
It happend sexally out the penis.
I think. 😂
That ppv was basically the finale of the first half of the attitude era, Austin written off tv, HHH vs Rock rivalry teased, Kurt Angle debut and Tag division main focus became Hardys, Dudley’s and Edge & Christian
Ahhh, so here's where the X-Pac heat began if I'm not mistaken. From what I recall the fans pretty much hated him for good after this one.
Yep Kane came into that feud red-hot and gets sucked into months and months of losing to a guy he outweighs by 150 pounds in increasingly silly ways. Meanwhile the crowd did not see X-Pac as a top guy in November, and they *definitely* don't see him as a top guy by February when he wins the blow-off against Kane when a bunch of more exciting heels are on the come-up.
11:20 one night in Chyna can put this to rest. If anyone cares enough to do the research.
There's a touching tribute to the sequel by Doug Stanhope. Highly recommended, it's on RUclips!
Kurt Angle RTW debut let's go!
What a legendary showdown between Steve Blackman and the British Bulldog.
Yoooooo props on Prodigy in the intro 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Man, the way I paused the vid to laugh at "see Americans, we can do obscure sports references too" 😂
5:50 Now it's time for Team Chocolate Blood Cream Cheese vs The Mean Streets Of Chin-Locks
I was at this show. To this day it's the only Survivor Series I've been to. I really want a do over some day.
At least the product was good when you went.
I was at the next one.
The fight out of camera bit leading to the stunt was disappointing.
@@TimTE01 The part where Benoit loses Austin outside?
That MSP theme cracks me everytime bro 😎 GOLD
23:42 Oh, that explains why you were questioning on who's heel or face in the women's match like there were more than one awkward pairings, I forgot that Terri was managing The Hardyz right when they did their face turn, but even in her moments of managing The Hardyz, I declare Terri a neutral/tweener as she never really seem to officially turn face despite being aligned with faces at the moment, I more likely say she did an official face turn when she pinned Steven Richards for The Hardcore Belt in 2002, but before that, I always declare her either heel or neutral
Just wanted to say, I've been loving the Reliving The War series.
When we were all stuck indoors because of the pandemic, I started rewatching Attitude era PPVs on Peacock. And your videos have been really entertaining. I know invasion is coming up. So even if this series ends, I'll watch whatever comes up next. keep up the great work!
Tekken 3's soundtrack still holds up to this day.
A Sky High, Ho Train, AND Low Down in the same match? What a great day it is!
Its wild watching Kurt Angle go from the Wholesome All-American/Cornball, to King Kurt and WWF Champion, to Wrestling Machine, to his Final Form, Perc Angle.
The official debut of my fav wrestler of all time, Kurt seemed to just have it even out of the gate and look forward to the many highlights he'll bring to this war.
Peak Boss Man trolling with the coffin tow. This was the version of Boss Man I knew and loved.
"It's not like they would stop the show for any horrible tragedies." 😬
Ahh, the survivor's series 4 on 4 matches.
The only night in the wrestling calendar where a double axe-handle off the second rope can get you a pin on a dude.
Good times.
one thing it is interesting seeing Davey Boy been at the first Survivor Series and then back for this one...and moolah lol
So ?
It's clear that Blackman respected the chin lock so he decided to let Davey get a win tonight, because he's just that benevolent.
I thought Big Show's dad died in 1998, so they did the angle in 1999. His stepdad died in 2016
Yes.
Love the Mobb Deep intro! Great mix Ryan!!!
Jericho wanted to show Miss Kitty the Learning Tree.
Props for Bulldog not burying the Perfect Plex and actually getting a pin with it.
Austin’s last appearance, until Backlash 2000.
Thank you for letting me relive my childhood
Today i learned that Chyna invented the Pepsi Plunge.
Rikishi ran over Austin for the rock 😮😮
He did it for duh rok
He did it for the people.
Are u sure?
Surprise. It was David Flair that hit Austin. Kicking off the best rivalry in wrestling history.
I love me some Wrestling Bios for sure, but my man got it wrong about Paul Wight's dad. Paul Wight, Sr. didn't die in 2016. He died about 5-7 years before the whole "Big Show's daddy's dead!" angle ever took place.
'Mu' Fug' and it's variations has been added to my permanent daily lexicon. I thought you'd like to know, Bios
I was getting ready to break down for some muhfugg music n then you threw me a curve ball with the posse music. Nicely played sir. Nicely played
32:34 King of Fighters 13 character select theme. Awesome music choice.
Been subscribed for a long time. Genuinely only channel I get excited when I see a new episode
Amazing video but we are getting so to 2000 and I’m terrified for the nitros of new blood vs millionaires club and the ppv like bash at the beach and slamborre
At least they will be 2 hours!
We should keep an eye on this Kurt Angle guy, seems like he could have a good future ahead of him
Anytime Kane sets off his pyro during his opening he loses. I do not know when but there was only one instance where he got the win and a second pyro. Just one.
Did anyone else who watch this catch the Rock mocking Big Show during a punch sequence early in the match? It was funny as hell
The reason they went with Big Show is Vince thought they were paying Show alot of money and they wanted try to see if Big Show could cut it as champ
This is awesome work Wrestling Bios
That's an epic looking triple threat match in the main event. Would be a shame if something happened to it.
Angle was amazing in this debut. This PPV was really good. Angle's career was a start and it's got better and better.
Agreed, I think he truly has the best stretch maybe of all time from 1999-2003, and then he went on another amazing run in 2005-2006 in WWE, and then *another* amazing run in TNA that went quite a few years.
He could keep up with absolutely anybody on the mic, even someone as great as Austin, and yet he could outpace just about everyone in the ring. He could look legitimately terrifying or have you laughing until you cry with comedy segments.
Honestly, I would never want to change his initial TNA years because they're in many ways, perhaps the best work of his entire career, but I wish we could've had him active in-ring in WWE in the very early 2010's or so, when he was aging but before his movement was completely compromised. He was still doing amazing matches then, he could've done so much in WWE against Punk, Cena again, Viper Orton, Undertaker again, etc
Honestly my favorite wrestler of all time, all in all.
It's True. It's Damn True!
@@theoldhermit2601 That's when I swapped to TNA in 2006.
As I was a kid I couldn't stay up and watch PPVs in the UK. Used to tape them and then watch them once I got back from school. One lad at school knew the result and when he said big show won I was all cocky saying he wasn't in the match he tried to protest that Austin got run over and we just gave him stick and said he was a liar. I was gutted when It all started to play out. I always got up early and watch PPVs before school after that.
21:56 the future of the business begins, as Mr and Mrs Stephanie McMahon have their first storyline together
Team Blackman vs. Team Bulldog and Mean Street Posse = Greatest Survivor Series match ever
Sensei Blackman is his own Survivor Series team.