The best story from this run is when Mikey met Curt Hennig. Hennig kind of blew him off before Mikey's first match with Kidman. Afterwards, Curt made it a point to go back to Mikey and give him a true handshake and apologized for assuming Mikey was just another bad wrestler. Curt gave Mikey the respect he deserved after that performance.
Allegedly, WWE did have big plans for him. He was slated to be ECW champion in short order and eventually drafted to Smackdown, where I gotta believe the big gold would have been in store.
@@ghostmark2005 The inner dialogue was a segment that Jeff sometimes did in TNA where we can inner thoughts. The Swanton thing is made up though, he doesn't care about people using the move
I always liked the way that other wrestlers were down with the fact "no one can powerbomb kidman". Idk if he ever was powerbombed but i appreciate who contributed to that. Also wow Mikey is quite the wrestler. Hes underrated
Damn this actually makes me realize how good ECW wrestlers tend to be, none of them that had short runs in other companies actually did get low scores for their runs and a lot of them can actually wrestle really well. It makes me kinda wish that ECW just had a guy who could take control of the finances because Paul Heyman was really very good at finding talent and developing them in his brand and using the guys properly so they actually made a name for themselves as talented wrestlers. Like just think about it Mikey Whipwreck was 100% an homegrown ECW talent who was actually quite good in the ring, Sabu and Rob Van Dam are also ECW talents who were quite good in the ring. Tajiri got known in the US through ECW because they would actually give Japanese wrestlers more respect than WWE or WCW did.
@jeff-ds2pr that was what made mikey so great even in ecw he was a guy who never should of been a top guy but he was so good in ring and so over with the crowd that he was a top guy
@@jeff-ds2pr He beat Steve Austin for the ECW Heavyweight Championship. buuuut "jObBeR". Also, he worked the ring crew before Paul Heyman saw him and turned him into the exact character you explained. Try to keep up.
I loved Mikey back in the day, he was so good and it was such a shame WCW screwed him around and WWF was only going to do the same. Like you said Hawk he was a perfect underdog who should of at least won a match.
I heard in a shoot interview that Vincent (Virgil) played politics and buried Mikey behind the scenes by telling Hulk Hogan lots of B.S about Mikey, which is a huge contributor to why Mikey didn't do well in WCW. Yeah, Vincent (Virgil) was pretty low on the card, but he did know people (one of the reasons he was employed for so long) and one of them was Hogan, who had close relations with the WCW bookers.
The thing of making fun of his name. That was entirely Bobby Heenan, and something he had discussed with Mikey Whipwreck. Heenan apparently quite liked him, and suggested it to him as it would mean he would have something to stand out with all the variations of it. Whipwreck has said repeatedly that he absolutely loved it.
Mikey told me that Bobby 'The Brain' asked him before the match if he could do that with his name. He always had glowing stories about "The Brain" as the two were close while Mikey was there.
I heard Mikey was given different instructions by different agents backstage before he even had his first match which made him regret signing in the first place
@@jonbourgoin182 He regretted when he signed, but in hindsight appreciated his WCW run because he was physically busted up from his ECW run and the WCW run gave him a good paycheck and time to heal up and return to 100% before they cut him.
@@stlfatman watched plenty and stand by what I said. It's different in some ways for sure. But plenty of talent that has been wasted in AEW much like WCW
It's been awhile since I've mentioned this, but I've mentioned this multiple times over the past few years. Eric Escobar on WWE smackdown for ring of the hawk.
Surge was a short lived soda that was a competitor to Mountain Dew. it was actually REALLY GOOD and better than the Dew from the late 90s (cancer battery acid), they had all these crazy commercials to try to appeal to skaters and bikers and extreme sports people, but it never caught on. Dew was always bigger and a lot of people were put off. Coca-Cola still brings it back in short runs every once in awhile but its not the same as the original version i promise you that it was actually really good, i would buy it a lot because i prefer lemon/lime/grapefruit sodas most of the time and this slotted in perfect. my elementary school had a Coca-Cola deal and one of the vending machines had the Surge logo. it was cool, i'd always get one to eat with my chalupa
If Kevin Nash and Scott Hall took Mikey under their wing, they could’ve gotten some great mileage out of him. They could’ve made Mikey their new Syxx, but with a schlubby underdog quality like Mick Foley. And then manipulate him and use him week after week for months until he finally breaks the spell and fights back. But instead we got this. At least his tag team with Tajiri was good. And I think they were tag team champions if I remember correctly.
I think there's a big difference between "jobber" and "carpenter". The words are commonly used interchangeably, but I see them as two separate descriptions. A jobber just loses. They're there to be cannon-fodder. A carpenter BUILDS things. Mikey was helping build "stars" in WCW (or what WCW thought were future stars). I mean the dude made Chase damn Tatum look threatening.
I was a WCW kid to the bitter end and I literally have no recollection of Chase Tatum at all. Is he some Mandela Effect castoff from another dimension or something???
@@kami_in_the_skye I VAGUELY remember him. I remember he had a backwards baseball hat at one point, and for some reason stuck with me. But yeah. not the most memorable guy, but rewatching that match Mikey was on his A game doing what he could to make Tatum look strong.
0:42 And the first WCW match Mikey Whipreck had cost him big. According to management, because Mikey Whipwreck had his match overshadowed Virgil's match at WCW Uncensored (1999), he was made a job guy and forced to lose. According to Mikey Whipwreck in an interview from 5 years ago, he was positioned for either a WCW Cruiserweight Champion run or a WCW World Television Champion run by WCW Slamboree (1999) if his match with Billy Kidman didn't overshadow Virgil's match. It did, so he got buried.
@@pendafen7405 I had the one with the red dragon on it when I was in school. I got it from a catalog that was 50% Grateful Dead merch and 50% other random merch. Among the sea of kids in Stone Cold and DX shirts I was the kid with the Mikey Whipwreck shirt and the ankh shirt Kidman wore when he joined The Flock. 😅
I heard something that when Kevin nash had the book, he and others didn’t even realize mikey was signed. That tells you how disorganized wcw was. It was basically biscoff then russo running everything. Hogan also basically was the defacto president so nothing was approved without hogans permission.
Mikey Whipwreck was the perfect fit for ECW, he didn't look like a wrestler, but he can wrestle good matches. He benefited from Paul Heyman greatly. A lot of the guys in ECW are underappreciated in my opinion as they generally don't fit the bill that WWF/E and WCW wants, that is one of the reasons why I refer to ECW as "The Land of Misfits", guys that Paul Heyman saw as valuable, where other promotions didn't.
Id be interested in seeing him cover Dusty in ECW. I keep hoping he will cover Al Snow in ECW for that series. I find it interesting because Al had reached main event status in ECW with the Head gimmick before returning to WWF in 98
Ah, Mikey Whipwreck. The real 90’s kid-looking wrestler. Hell, I remember buying that exact same dragon t-shirt he normally wears to the ring from Newbury Comics back then.
If you were any kind of fan of his ECW work, knowing he was signed to WcW had to give you this sense of sadness and doom. You KNEW they weren't going to do anything with him. you KNEW that no matter how hard he worked or how much he put his body on the line, they wouldn't let him shine. The fact that Virgil....FUCKING VIRGIL....was able to complain about him and have enough stroke to get him further buried should tell the whole story.
It’s funny that we’re on the cusp of another over-signing golden era where companies keep stuffing their rosters just to stiff the competition, yet have no actual intention of booking them competently. The WCW-era Sandman and Whipwreck stints of yesteryear are the Lexis Kings of tomorrow.
Mikey's character doesn't really work outside of ECW (at least in this gimmick) unless you completely restart his character arc from hapless loser to eventually becoming skilled enough to pin Steve Austin.
He was so good at being a jobber that another prolific jobber raised a stink on Mikey, thus his downward spiral in WCW happened. Thanks Vincent, FKA Virgil.
Man had Mikey won every match after losing to kidman the rematch at match 7 would've been so epic. Whipwreck vs Kidman 2! Mikey hasn't lost since his debut vs Kidman. Could've been a perfect revenge match and Mikey Could've turned full heel after losing for a second time
The match he had with Villano V isn't even listed on Mikey's official profightdb page, but I found it on RUclips and saw it and was amazed that Mikey actually won. Someone should really add that match to Mikey's profightdb page. Anyway, only reason it wasn't added to this Ring of the Hawk episode is because, for the sake of time, he ignores the smaller C and D list shows and only focuses on the PPVs and the A and B shows (the Villano V fight took place on WCW Worldwide, which was WCW's D show at the time which very few people watched and the Bobby Blaze match took place on WCW Saturday Night, which used to be an A show during the 80's and early 90's, but got demoted to B show status with the introduction of Nitro and got demoted even more to C show status with the introduction of Thunder and by 1999 when Mikey was in WCW, the Saturday Night show was a struggling C show). Anyway, I'm happy Mikey at least won two matches and wasn't completely at zero wins.
The only thing I remembered about whipwreck's run in WCW was his match against van hammer when the lady shoved his head and he looked pissed about it,thanks for making sure you got that in,man after my own heart,ty
9:30 Surge was marketed to young boys as as VERY high caffeine drink to help keep you up and hyper! Hilariously, it has a fraction of the caffeine in prime energy drinks.
I recomend you to do some foreign wrestling reviews. Xtreme Club Lucha Libre is a chilean wrestling organization and have a lot of good and funny stuff.
Surge wasn't an energy drink. It was Coca-Cola's attempt to challenge Pepsi's Mountain Dew, with a big advertising campaign pushing it as more "extreme".
Coca-Cola released Surge in the mid-1990s to compete with Pepsi's Mountain Dew but Surge was discontinued in 2003. The amount of caffeine in Surge was not higher than most other sodas. In 2005, Coca-Cola released Vault which was essentially just Surge with 50% more caffeine than before.
@@katherine9447 They brought back Surge in the mid-2010s to sell in smaller stores like 7-Eleven in select locations. Nowadays it's part of the Coca Cola Freestyle machines at Burger King.
1997 - 2003. Coca Cola's attempt to "kill" Pepsi's Mountain Dew. Citrus soft drink with extra maltodextrin for "hardcore energy" or some such _radical_ '90s nonsense Didn't work. Mountain Dew won.
Surge was a pre-monster energy drink. Instead of random mushrooms and buffalo semen or whatever alchemy early energy drinks used, it was just caffeine. It was a competitor of Jolt, which was basically Pepsi with 5x the caffeine where Surge was Mountain Dew with 2-3x the caffeine. I think around 100mg/can was the number.
@@pendafen7405 For a while its precursor, Jolt Cola actually was banned from sale within a certain radius of a school, including colleges. This was in the mid 90s,. By the time the "real" energy drinks like monster, red bull and 5-hour energy came out Jolt and surge came back on the shelves, but only in bodegas and dollar stores, their mystique haven worn away. It was mainly abused by college kids to cram, as this was before energy drinks and adderol, and I guess they were too good for speed or blow.
It's crazy how much influence Virgil apparently had behind the scenes. Being friends with Hulk was like having dirt to blackmail your boss with, I guess. He will always be "Lonely Virgil" to me though. 😏
I like the fact before he came a wrestler he cameo'd in the crowd on a early episode of Raw. he only really worked in ECW. but could've had that cruiserweight potential if not buried behind the scenes.
Mikey was one of the most underrated workers ever. Heyman acknowledge how great he was by putting a strap on him, but the other idiots just had muscle eyes. Mikey was absolutely incredible.
The brand is liquid blue,they do dragons,skulls,all sorts of prints but it’s their double sided all over prints sre their best ones. It’s thanks to seeing Mikey in them I ever even learned they existed,it bothered me for years as to what the exact label name was until recent years. I’ve now got pretty much nearly every set of shirts you can see him rocking here
The best story from this run is when Mikey met Curt Hennig. Hennig kind of blew him off before Mikey's first match with Kidman. Afterwards, Curt made it a point to go back to Mikey and give him a true handshake and apologized for assuming Mikey was just another bad wrestler. Curt gave Mikey the respect he deserved after that performance.
You gotta be honest he didn't look like an athlete at all.
You don’t really hear anything bad about Hennig
@@Markyd123 man lived the gimmick 😂
@@Markyd123Well, Henning did participate in the beatdown of Jacques Rougeau. He's no angel.
@@FIXTREMEboo hoo he beat up a guy , that was every guy ever before pussification
Marcus Cor Von in ECW, less than 30 matches, was on multiple PPV’s including Wrestlemania 23. Think he’d be perfect for ring of the hawk
Yes! I’m surprised he hasn’t covered this yet, since he’s talked in detail Monty Browns TNA career
Allegedly, WWE did have big plans for him. He was slated to be ECW champion in short order and eventually drafted to Smackdown, where I gotta believe the big gold would have been in store.
He did a video 2 years ago
THE ALPHA MALE?? (DMX dog barking noises)
Did you mean Marquis Cor Von?
I love how Jeff Hardy randomly appears like a specter in almost every video.
Makes me laugh every time 🤣🤣 don’t know what’s better this or a wild slapnuts appears
Jeff hardy watches every Marky D video 😂
Lmao it's perfect.is it actually a reference to something Jeff did or said or is it completely made up for this channel?
@@ghostmark2005 The inner dialogue was a segment that Jeff sometimes did in TNA where we can inner thoughts. The Swanton thing is made up though, he doesn't care about people using the move
Except he doesn't smoke weed
aaah the life of a jobber is truly a thankless one........
Then go put a thank you card on his grave. 🙄🙄
@@dangerousdays2052 hey.... what are you doing man??? like REALLY, what are you doing????
@@dangerousdays2052 ofc you won't answer since you're nothing but a cornball
@@dangerousdays2052 ofc you won't answer since you're a B🤡Z🤡 at the end of the day
"Who's going to miss me? I'm just Mikey."
Instead of thanking him for his opening work he was quickly shove in the shove it zone for making a good debut
Bookers, whoever was that week, were incompetent in WCW at this time. That's why the company went down hill.
One of those times I wish Saturday night had not been a "C" show. That was where we were seeing Mikey get wins.
Yea like two of them it was t great 😢
I always liked the way that other wrestlers were down with the fact "no one can powerbomb kidman". Idk if he ever was powerbombed but i appreciate who contributed to that.
Also wow Mikey is quite the wrestler. Hes underrated
He's too beautiful to powerbomb, I don't argue with pretty gurls
Mike Awesome in ECW
He was truly awesome
Mikey wasn't lazy. Respect the hard work. 😊
not just Mikey had a heavyweight title in ECW - Steve Austin put him over back when he was in ECW
Just happy to see him getting some kind of recognition.
Damn this actually makes me realize how good ECW wrestlers tend to be, none of them that had short runs in other companies actually did get low scores for their runs and a lot of them can actually wrestle really well. It makes me kinda wish that ECW just had a guy who could take control of the finances because Paul Heyman was really very good at finding talent and developing them in his brand and using the guys properly so they actually made a name for themselves as talented wrestlers. Like just think about it Mikey Whipwreck was 100% an homegrown ECW talent who was actually quite good in the ring, Sabu and Rob Van Dam are also ECW talents who were quite good in the ring. Tajiri got known in the US through ECW because they would actually give Japanese wrestlers more respect than WWE or WCW did.
Mikey in WCW is pretty good wrestler. He did have some good moves.
He was a glorified jobber who could take some bumps. Looks like some dude they pulled out of the crowd to wrestle.
@jeff-ds2pr that was what made mikey so great even in ecw he was a guy who never should of been a top guy but he was so good in ring and so over with the crowd that he was a top guy
@@jeff-ds2pr He beat Steve Austin for the ECW Heavyweight Championship. buuuut "jObBeR". Also, he worked the ring crew before Paul Heyman saw him and turned him into the exact character you explained. Try to keep up.
I loved Mikey back in the day, he was so good and it was such a shame WCW screwed him around and WWF was only going to do the same. Like you said Hawk he was a perfect underdog who should of at least won a match.
I heard in a shoot interview that Vincent (Virgil) played politics and buried Mikey behind the scenes by telling Hulk Hogan lots of B.S about Mikey, which is a huge contributor to why Mikey didn't do well in WCW. Yeah, Vincent (Virgil) was pretty low on the card, but he did know people (one of the reasons he was employed for so long) and one of them was Hogan, who had close relations with the WCW bookers.
I wonder if there are any Virgil anecdotes where Virgil isn't being a total bastard? 😂
And look at Vincent (Virgil) life and career after that 😅
@@kidwaryodproductionhe dead
The thing of making fun of his name. That was entirely Bobby Heenan, and something he had discussed with Mikey Whipwreck.
Heenan apparently quite liked him, and suggested it to him as it would mean he would have something to stand out with all the variations of it. Whipwreck has said repeatedly that he absolutely loved it.
Mikey told me that Bobby 'The Brain' asked him before the match if he could do that with his name. He always had glowing stories about "The Brain" as the two were close while Mikey was there.
The fan pushing Mikey off the guard rail is so poetic
It is amazing how many random ass matches with zero storylines were on WCW PPVs in 1999 before Russo took over. Bischoff was completely checked out.
Two good candidates for Ring of the Hawk:
1) Alex Wright as Berlyn in WCW
2) Ron Simmons in ECW
Id like to add Al Snow in ECW to that list for the Was It Any Good series
Mikey whipwreck deserve a lot better than WCW
WCW deserved a lot better than this jobber. The fact that guys like this were being used on TV tells you how close to death WCW was.
I've been waiting for this Mikey Whipwreck run in WCW 🔥 !
“Whatever a surge can is.” Sir I am not THAT old. Stop it
SUUUUUURGE!! The 90s in a can.
His debut match in WCW was good
I heard Mikey was given different instructions by different agents backstage before he even had his first match which made him regret signing in the first place
Maybe he does regret it in hindsight but it's unlikely he ever made more money before or since his WCW run
@@jonbourgoin182 He regretted when he signed, but in hindsight appreciated his WCW run because he was physically busted up from his ECW run and the WCW run gave him a good paycheck and time to heal up and return to 100% before they cut him.
Yeah, like a lot of guys in WCW, he didn't fail because of lack of talent and ability, he failed because of WCW being WCW.
like AEW now.
@@adamandanna You must not watch any AEW then.
@@stlfatman watched plenty and stand by what I said. It's different in some ways for sure. But plenty of talent that has been wasted in AEW much like WCW
WCW dropped the ball on Billy Kidman. If WCW couldn't make him work, no-one stood a chance.
Mickey Shipwreck was his nickname by Bobby The Brain/The Weasel Heenan because WCW was a sinking ship by the end of 1999 early 2000
It's been awhile since I've mentioned this, but I've mentioned this multiple times over the past few years.
Eric Escobar on WWE smackdown for ring of the hawk.
Mike actually got a power bomb off on Kidman that is actually kinda rare to see Kidman getting power bombed
From not being paid to world champion to working mainstream TV in 3 years. Yup sign me up WCW!
Surge was a short lived soda that was a competitor to Mountain Dew. it was actually REALLY GOOD and better than the Dew from the late 90s (cancer battery acid), they had all these crazy commercials to try to appeal to skaters and bikers and extreme sports people, but it never caught on. Dew was always bigger and a lot of people were put off. Coca-Cola still brings it back in short runs every once in awhile but its not the same as the original version
i promise you that it was actually really good, i would buy it a lot because i prefer lemon/lime/grapefruit sodas most of the time and this slotted in perfect. my elementary school had a Coca-Cola deal and one of the vending machines had the Surge logo. it was cool, i'd always get one to eat with my chalupa
"I've got a 2 litre bottle of Surge and the D!sney Channel, I'll be inside"
ruclips.net/video/ASPO9cYL8Eg/видео.htmlsi=YJNYFhDIwuX2_aYO&t=1463
If Kevin Nash and Scott Hall took Mikey under their wing, they could’ve gotten some great mileage out of him. They could’ve made Mikey their new Syxx, but with a schlubby underdog quality like Mick Foley. And then manipulate him and use him week after week for months until he finally breaks the spell and fights back.
But instead we got this. At least his tag team with Tajiri was good. And I think they were tag team champions if I remember correctly.
I think there's a big difference between "jobber" and "carpenter". The words are commonly used interchangeably, but I see them as two separate descriptions. A jobber just loses. They're there to be cannon-fodder. A carpenter BUILDS things. Mikey was helping build "stars" in WCW (or what WCW thought were future stars). I mean the dude made Chase damn Tatum look threatening.
I was a WCW kid to the bitter end and I literally have no recollection of Chase Tatum at all. Is he some Mandela Effect castoff from another dimension or something???
@@kami_in_the_skye I VAGUELY remember him. I remember he had a backwards baseball hat at one point, and for some reason stuck with me. But yeah. not the most memorable guy, but rewatching that match Mikey was on his A game doing what he could to make Tatum look strong.
Anytime the Hawk uploads its a win.
I know some people have to count the lights but at least have him win a couple of matches
0:42 And the first WCW match Mikey Whipreck had cost him big. According to management, because Mikey Whipwreck had his match overshadowed Virgil's match at WCW Uncensored (1999), he was made a job guy and forced to lose. According to Mikey Whipwreck in an interview from 5 years ago, he was positioned for either a WCW Cruiserweight Champion run or a WCW World Television Champion run by WCW Slamboree (1999) if his match with Billy Kidman didn't overshadow Virgil's match. It did, so he got buried.
And later WCW went on to bury the exceptionally-talented Kidman just because a washed veteran wanted it. The company never learned.
If you're looking for nitrous at a festival find the guy that's dressed like Mikey Whipwreck.
Those dragon shirts were glorious, and I bet they looked even cooler deep in a strip of Voidrealms
@@pendafen7405 I had the one with the red dragon on it when I was in school. I got it from a catalog that was 50% Grateful Dead merch and 50% other random merch. Among the sea of kids in Stone Cold and DX shirts I was the kid with the Mikey Whipwreck shirt and the ankh shirt Kidman wore when he joined The Flock. 😅
@@pantheonvideo you were indeed the playground tastemaker. I wanted that Kidman Ankh shirt SO MUCH. lowkey still do
@@pendafen7405 I wish I still had them!
I miss Surge! It was like the original energy drink haha
I heard something that when Kevin nash had the book, he and others didn’t even realize mikey was signed. That tells you how disorganized wcw was. It was basically biscoff then russo running everything. Hogan also basically was the defacto president so nothing was approved without hogans permission.
Mikey Whipwreck was the perfect fit for ECW, he didn't look like a wrestler, but he can wrestle good matches. He benefited from Paul Heyman greatly. A lot of the guys in ECW are underappreciated in my opinion as they generally don't fit the bill that WWF/E and WCW wants, that is one of the reasons why I refer to ECW as "The Land of Misfits", guys that Paul Heyman saw as valuable, where other promotions didn't.
And an idea for Was it any good?
Dusty Rhodes in ECW
Id be interested in seeing him cover Dusty in ECW. I keep hoping he will cover Al Snow in ECW for that series. I find it interesting because Al had reached main event status in ECW with the Head gimmick before returning to WWF in 98
Mikey Whipwreck was good in WCW. He took what he learned in ECW and had good matches. A good arsenal of moves too.
Ah, Mikey Whipwreck. The real 90’s kid-looking wrestler. Hell, I remember buying that exact same dragon t-shirt he normally wears to the ring from Newbury Comics back then.
If you were any kind of fan of his ECW work, knowing he was signed to WcW had to give you this sense of sadness and doom. You KNEW they weren't going to do anything with him. you KNEW that no matter how hard he worked or how much he put his body on the line, they wouldn't let him shine. The fact that Virgil....FUCKING VIRGIL....was able to complain about him and have enough stroke to get him further buried should tell the whole story.
This is how I'm feeling about MCMG joining WWE, though perhaps that's just old trauma
It’s funny that we’re on the cusp of another over-signing golden era where companies keep stuffing their rosters just to stiff the competition, yet have no actual intention of booking them competently.
The WCW-era Sandman and Whipwreck stints of yesteryear are the Lexis Kings of tomorrow.
1:33 one of those few times in which, as the venerable DDT Digest would say, you just can't powerbomb Billy Kidman... regardless if it was a reversal
Mikey's character doesn't really work outside of ECW (at least in this gimmick) unless you completely restart his character arc from hapless loser to eventually becoming skilled enough to pin Steve Austin.
That dude sucked! The fact that he was on WCW TV that much just illustrates how AWFUL WCW was by this point.
13:55 My favorite Kidman powerbomb attempts are by guys who NEVER, EVER did a powerbomb at any other point in their career.
It's too tempting and he's too gorgeous, they have to shoot their shot
Dude put on a awesome debut match on ppv and instead of being rewarded he was punished.
Damn so much smoke for Jeff lmao
He was so good at being a jobber that another prolific jobber raised a stink on Mikey, thus his downward spiral in WCW happened.
Thanks Vincent, FKA Virgil.
Man had Mikey won every match after losing to kidman the rematch at match 7 would've been so epic. Whipwreck vs Kidman 2! Mikey hasn't lost since his debut vs Kidman. Could've been a perfect revenge match and Mikey Could've turned full heel after losing for a second time
Roderick Strong in TNA
Good Ole WCW, punishing someone for being good and over with the crowd. Thanks alot Vincent.
I mean, it really seemed to depend on what town they were in that night because there's too many examples in this video of the crowd chanting "boring"
'Over with the crowd'
Ha. Good one.
Surge was a Mountain Dew knock off that WCW promoted the heck out off in 1999.
Is the Surge ice-cold yet? (niche joke)
It sucks cause this is the man that helped Austin get his Stunner.
Paul London and Billy Kidman as a Tag Team for ROTH
🙏🙏🙏we need this!!!!
1:30 So you COULD powerbomb Kidman. You just have to reverse one of his moves into a powerbomb.
RANDOM DISCO DUCKS MUSIC REFERENCE! RICK DEES WOULD BE PROUD
My dad to this day still sings or hums a bit of Disco Duck every now and then, dunno why
@@pendafen7405 It's a classic!
Mikey Whipwreck in the mid '90s was the ultimate example of just how genius a booker Paul Heyman could be.
Mikey Whipwreck was seriously under appreciated. WCW was too stupid to deserve a guy like him.
he was just doing his job brother. I loved Mikey's work
That Jeff hardy part had me rolling!!! 😂😂😂😂
Didn't realise how diverse whiprecks moveset was.
Mikey had two wins in WCW. It was against Villano V and Bobby Blaze.
Must have been at house shows
@@jonbourgoin182 It was on was the smaller WCW TV shows. Both matches are on RUclips.
The match he had with Villano V isn't even listed on Mikey's official profightdb page, but I found it on RUclips and saw it and was amazed that Mikey actually won. Someone should really add that match to Mikey's profightdb page. Anyway, only reason it wasn't added to this Ring of the Hawk episode is because, for the sake of time, he ignores the smaller C and D list shows and only focuses on the PPVs and the A and B shows (the Villano V fight took place on WCW Worldwide, which was WCW's D show at the time which very few people watched and the Bobby Blaze match took place on WCW Saturday Night, which used to be an A show during the 80's and early 90's, but got demoted to B show status with the introduction of Nitro and got demoted even more to C show status with the introduction of Thunder and by 1999 when Mikey was in WCW, the Saturday Night show was a struggling C show). Anyway, I'm happy Mikey at least won two matches and wasn't completely at zero wins.
The only thing I remembered about whipwreck's run in WCW was his match against van hammer when the lady shoved his head and he looked pissed about it,thanks for making sure you got that in,man after my own heart,ty
Whipwreck was an elite cruiser weight
Man, threw this one up as a recommendation ages ago. Anyway, big fan of Mikey Whipwreck's ECW work, shame his WCW run never went anywhere.
9:30 Surge was marketed to young boys as as VERY high caffeine drink to help keep you up and hyper! Hilariously, it has a fraction of the caffeine in prime energy drinks.
Brick time 👍
WCW Gone but never forgotten
Whipwreck put all his stats on wrestling skills. So his charisma and look stayed at 0
Shane McMahon's 2016 and onwards run in WWE, a lot of big matches mainly at events. Would make for a good episode.
Akira Maeda in WWF in 1984 for Ring of the Hawk
I recomend you to do some foreign wrestling reviews. Xtreme Club Lucha Libre is a chilean wrestling organization and have a lot of good and funny stuff.
the man who created the stunner
@notsure8921 kind of ironic that Disco (aka Glen) defeated Mikey with that move.
I believe Surge was an energy drink during the late 90s.
Surge wasn't an energy drink. It was Coca-Cola's attempt to challenge Pepsi's Mountain Dew, with a big advertising campaign pushing it as more "extreme".
Coca-Cola released Surge in the mid-1990s to compete with Pepsi's Mountain Dew but Surge was discontinued in 2003. The amount of caffeine in Surge was not higher than most other sodas. In 2005, Coca-Cola released Vault which was essentially just Surge with 50% more caffeine than before.
It was bad. 😢
@@katherine9447 They brought back Surge in the mid-2010s to sell in smaller stores like 7-Eleven in select locations. Nowadays it's part of the Coca Cola Freestyle machines at Burger King.
1997 - 2003. Coca Cola's attempt to "kill" Pepsi's Mountain Dew. Citrus soft drink with extra maltodextrin for "hardcore energy" or some such _radical_ '90s nonsense
Didn't work. Mountain Dew won.
"Whipwreck locking on a pretty unique submission... Not sure what to call it".
That my good man, was an Indian Death Lock.
Surge was a pre-monster energy drink. Instead of random mushrooms and buffalo semen or whatever alchemy early energy drinks used, it was just caffeine. It was a competitor of Jolt, which was basically Pepsi with 5x the caffeine where Surge was Mountain Dew with 2-3x the caffeine. I think around 100mg/can was the number.
How weren't kids chugging that having heart attacks?
@@pendafen7405 For a while its precursor, Jolt Cola actually was banned from sale within a certain radius of a school, including colleges. This was in the mid 90s,. By the time the "real" energy drinks like monster, red bull and 5-hour energy came out Jolt and surge came back on the shelves, but only in bodegas and dollar stores, their mystique haven worn away.
It was mainly abused by college kids to cram, as this was before energy drinks and adderol, and I guess they were too good for speed or blow.
I absolutely hate that Jeff Hardy impersonation.
Rugged Ronnie Garvin’s WWF run is one you should do
please do Nidia next! It surprised me how over she was once she turned face yet they did NOTHING with her.
Bam Bam Bigelow ECW Run Ring Of The Hawk
Havant had a Tag Team in a while, and I think Booker T & Goldust could be a fun episode
It's crazy how much influence Virgil apparently had behind the scenes. Being friends with Hulk was like having dirt to blackmail your boss with, I guess. He will always be "Lonely Virgil" to me though. 😏
Whipwreck my coach from his school long long long time ago. He is incredibly talent. being small was why he couldnt get a push
I am huge biggest fan of mikey whipwreck on early years of ecw
They killed the hope I had for Mikey I don't know why but he was one of my favorites
Mikey couldn't win one match in WCW, but Braden Walker is undefeated in WWE (his 2 matches in the early 90s don't count). Let that sink in.
I was rooting for that Whipwreck win too.
"Chastity grabs Mikey's eyelash!" Haa haaaaaa 😂😂 Man you really say it how you see it!
I like the fact before he came a wrestler he cameo'd in the crowd on a early episode of Raw. he only really worked in ECW. but could've had that cruiserweight potential if not buried behind the scenes.
Hard to believe it's season 5
Mikey was one of the most underrated workers ever. Heyman acknowledge how great he was by putting a strap on him, but the other idiots just had muscle eyes. Mikey was absolutely incredible.
Mikey Whipreck was not marketable
Mikey Whipwreck and Tajiri were so cool in ECW
Mike Whipwreck. The 1999 return of Jimmy Graffiti (Jimmy Del Rey) who wrestled in 1996 for WCW
At least Mikey had a great ECW run and trained Matt Cardona.
Great video
I still see his dragon shirts at my local thrift store
The brand is liquid blue,they do dragons,skulls,all sorts of prints but it’s their double sided all over prints sre their best ones. It’s thanks to seeing Mikey in them I ever even learned they existed,it bothered me for years as to what the exact label name was until recent years. I’ve now got pretty much nearly every set of shirts you can see him rocking here
@@Sketchfan yeah, those t shirts really take me back. Too bad the ones I find are either too small or are XXXL. Lol
Commenting every video till we get RKK Scott Steiner for ROH
Mikey is the WCW version of the brooklyn brawler. Shame