TIMESTAMPS!!!!!!!! 4:57 - First episode 10:55 - Steiner’s first rage at the audience 13:41 - Jimmy Rave’s thoughts on his first match 15:23 - Morgan V. Steiner in the RKK final 17:03 - Aldis’ take on Steiner attacking the crowd 20:33 - Jimmy Rave on his time with Scott Steiner 22:23 - Episode 2 24:05 - Steiner Goes off!!!!!!!! 29:04 - The birth of Barood 👑 34:21 - Nick Aldis on why Steiner wasn’t pushed for RKK main events 36:45 - Episode 3 41:55 - Steiner and Abyss become the brothers of destruction to the audience 51:40 - Rave on stories of bad happenings during RKK shooting 52:57 - Aldis on who booked RKK 55:42 - Rave on what the locker room was like during tapings 56:48 - Episode 4 1:01:44 - Aldis on the impact of holding the RKK belt 1:08:52 - Aldis on what does RDX stand for 1:13:33 - Rave explaining why RKK had Golden wings instead of a Cruiserweight belt 1:14:25 - What happened to Rave’s sword from Ring of Glory 1:14:42 - Aldis on how going to India came about 1:15:24 - Aldis on whether he was forced to go to India 1:17:01 - Episode 5 1:23:31 - Is Rave ready to party? 🎈 1:28:25 - RKK assembling the steel cage with sheer man power 1:31:35 - Rave and Aldis on the challenges of working with the Indian RKK talent 1:35:45 - Episode 6 1:43:03 - Rave reveals a big secret about the Mumbai Cats 1:47:07 - Aldis on his time with future Wrestlemania headliner Barood 1:49:55 - Rave on training and working with the Indian talent + his time with Barood 1:51:47 - Aldis on Barood’s future as a wrestler 1:55:15 - Rave opinion on who wasn’t good in RKK 2:02:45 - Why there were so many TATA truck placements on RKK 2:03:19 - What was the Indian public’s reception of RKK (Rave) 2:07:11 - Aldis and Rave reacting to Indian culture and customs during his time in RKK 2:08:40 - The final episode :( 2:22:22 - Aldis on the final scene of RKK 2:23:37 - Rave on the (doomed) plans for season 2 of RKK (Rave) 2:24:20 - What happened to the RKK belts? (Aldis) (Thank u Hawk for the such an amazing series. Remember us when you get famous 😇) If you found the time stamps useful, I’d appreciate a sub. Peace and love
@@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819 it’s like Magnus and jimmy said. The Indian fans were going nuts over a shoulder block and they were running scared from Steiner. We’ve seen everything over here and maybe wrestling needs to die off for a bit over here to make a proper comeback.
@@Markyd123 maybe if every match didn’t have all the crazy flips and crazy moves the crazy flips and the cool moves would get more of a reaction and make it feel fresh
I think Steiner pulled a Bruiser Brody. Once he saw the crowd was all in on kayfabe, he played into it. If they didn't react the way they had been reacting, he wouldn't have ran into the crowd like that. He knew what he was doing...
I know it's been 2 years since you left this comment, but I wanted to say that I think you're 💯 percent right about Steiner/Brody. It's not possible to pull off in anything but the freshest markets (i.e. India, Saudi Arabia)
Useless trivia: Yamamotoyama Ryūta (aka "Samosa Joe"), was once deemed "Japan's fattest man" and actually got banned by the Japan Sumo Association for match fixing, which was a legit scandal in 2011 that damn near killed the sport. Also, if watched John Wick 2, he appeared in the movie.
I'm surprised Antonio Inoki didn't hire him for his now defunct IGF promotion, given that he got several controversial former sumo wrestlers under his wing, Koji Kitao (aka Futahaguro, the only Yokozuna who never won a tournament), Shinichi Suzukawa (expelled for smoking marihuana), and Shogun Okamoto (who was part of the same scandal as Somosa Joe)
okay so what sonjay dutt basically said was " this wrestler here, hes a former mr pune and mr india (beauty paegant contest i believe lol) and he undoubtedly is india's best. In this wrestling business he's the pride and joy of india and when he loses his cool , its game over for every wrestler he faces . Every wrestler on this planet salutes this guy's strength, so be ready , here is BAROOOOD" Thats the literal word to word translation of the segment lol.Yeah sonjay was kinda sarcastically roasting the boy lmao. Also love your vids man, keep up the good work
India best achievements so far India's Hunger index 2013: 63rd rank 2022: 107th rank India's Happiness index. 2013: 111th rank 2022: 136th rank India's press freedom rank 2013:79th 2022: 150the the fourth pillar of worlds largest democracy is no more India's unemployment rate 2013:4.9% 2023:7.5% Unemployment rate never increase in growing economy.. india is growing only on paper and by loan India's Debt before 2014: ₹55 lakh crore 2023: ₹155 lakh crore India's GDP from 2004 to 2014: $709 billion to 2.04 trilion (almost triple) India's GDP from 2014to 2024: $2.04 trillion to 3.6 trilion (expected)...not even double
If there’s one thing I learned from watching the interviews on patreon, Magnus is a Hawkamaniac brother, awesome work as always brother! Awesome that Magnus and Jimmy gave you their shoots on RKK!
@@coconutshrimp707 The Boy, Garrett Bischoff, Wes Brisco, Scott Steiner and Jimmy Rave vs New Jack, Mad Mikey, Shark Boy and 90% of you are straight but 10% of you are okay but thats okay, were all watching the hawk talk.
Lot of people are complaining that it could have been better if booked properly but as an Indian I can tell you that almost 90 percent of wrestling fans in india are just casual fans lot of them don't even know the insides of the buisness so to them the storylines doesn't matter nor the match quality but just two people fighting is enough to get people hooked.
Ring Ka King represented what wrestling could be. Something fun, something crazy, enjoyable, never boring, something that doesn’t take itself so seriously.
This is Entertaning as F#%k = if someone makes a Best Of Compilation, please put "Markyd123" as a Commentator - brilliant analysis of all of the wrestlers involved. Sonjay Dutt's "Golden Wings" for a Ladder and/or on a Pole Match, involving Little People (a 6 letter word: m#%gets) -- a classic (Vince) Russo-style of match ("Crash TV;" "Jerry Springer"-era..) They could have gotten Sabu for this event - maybe.
The Indian talent being primadonnas is just the most baffling and surprising thing to me. It’s like, this company traveled around the world to try and build you up, and you’re just going to.... not put in effort? This might be the first time I’ve ever felt sorry for TNA as a company...
its totally possible they are upper casters and already lazy fucks. Watch any videos on travelers in india and you wouldn't be surprised by that behavior.
R.I.P. Jimmy Rave. Had an arm and both legs amputated due to MRSA (unfortunately it sounds like the infections were caused by IV drug use) and still passed away. And yeah of course it could have been avoided if he wasn't using drugs but that has to be one of the scariest and worst ways to die.
The thing about the crowd popping for basic wrestling moves is because in India people love Amateur wrestling and our country has several world champs and Olympics/CWG heroes in wrestling .. also KUSHTI (traditional Indian amateur wrestling) is one of the most loved things here.. so basically it's the style that ppl here love and resonate to automatically..
This is 2 hours and 29 minutes well spent. Love it. I can actually hear the Hawk's tone for the Fat 8 year-old Boy changes from his early appearance up til the season finale that he's actually liking the boy bit by bit lol
I think its funny how Marky burns them so much during the episodes Lmao! I mean, its all good natured ribbing but it is kind of ironic that he picked those two to interview!
Nick Aldis is great in these videos. I love how candid he is. I watched most of Ring Ka King and loved it. Too bad it couldn't continue. Also, RIP Jimmy Rave.
All i could find on that Pagal guy(the super talented indian fellow) is that his name is Vikas Kumar, he seems to have debuted in 2011 with ring ka king being his first known company. He also briefly worked for Impact in 2017. I would maybe assume he was a gymnast perhaps prior
The 1 good thing Chavo did since Eddie passed was in Lucha Underground. if youve never seen it, watch the first few episodes. He actually is pushed as a heel and starts fucking shit up!
27:18 Chavo will always have that "I'm Eddie's nephew" vibe about him. He's an annoying jobber to you and me without Eddie but the Latino wrestling fans and diehard Eddie fans are like hey we gotta keep him around like Fredo in the Godfather.
Chavo as a wrestler is pretty decent, he's not Eddie but in his own right he's decent. It's when he has to keep bringing up Eddie is when you have to tune him out
@@BrandanTheBroker I will never understand why people kept booking him as a babyface just because he's Eddie's nephew. Like, the fans are sick of it! When you book him as a heel, he's far more compelling! He knows how to be irritating and he is far better at making you feel annoyed than making you feel sympathy for him! Also, his face is 10 times more punchable than Eddie's
Man if this was booked correctly it could have been huge. Such a missed opportunity. Steiner as a monster heel (on his own without the stable, kinda how they booked the homeless guy but winning all the time and still fucking with the crowd). Build the tag team division around the Bollywood Boys as faces and the Shieks as the heels. Make Baroods losing streak a storyline with a final match where if he loses he is fired, put him up against one of the taller American guys (Masters maybe) and give him the upset victory. So many missed opportunities.
Coming from a guy who used to watch this thing when it came out , it was a missed opportunity in every single way. They had a surprisingly large fanbase who regularly watched it . I remember being 11 years old when it came out and we would all be talking about it in school. Perhaps if TNA wasn't such a wuss company this show might've became the biggest thing .
TNA was just made up of a useless, close minded idiotic wrestlers. Like, it felt overly gay. If you have WWF, you can actually have something cool on it. In TNA, no one had characters. It was just screaming and yelling and tropes. That's why nobody cared. You need characters.
I wish we could get a full documentary of RKK, it deserves it and the behind the scenes seem just as entertaining if not more so than the show itself. This video, commentary, interviews, a pure work of art.
Ring ka king was a wonderful wrestling show. I always used to watch RKK on Saturday & Sunday with my family. I remember that I was always in a hurry to come home from my tution to watch
I've been sick with food poisoning the last couple days and this compilation is the only thing that has made me feel a little better. God bless you markyd123
The best wrestling channel on RUclips without a doubt. Makes me miss wrestling and I end up watching several of his videos and a few old matches to get my fix lol.
@@Markyd123 no thank you sir, I've learned about a lot that I would have otherwise never known existed. Now quit making me feel sentimental or I'll have to smack ya one!
Colors TV is the biggest tv network in India. They have the most expensive shows and licences for most USA based reality shows including fear factor (khatron ke khiladi translates to players who play with danger) and big brother (big boss)
Great video man! Really cool to hear from rave and magnus about the show. Hopefully this opens doors for you to interview more superstars. Huge respect brother!
This is literally the best video I’ve ever watched 😂😂😂 I couldn’t turn away. The cricket guy. Samosa joe. The Indian leather man. Random Dudes Xtreme. The Bollywood boys and there banging theme music. And obviously, everyone’s favourite...The obese Indian 8 year old boy
Amazing vid Marky, im gonna miss your reviews of Ring Ka King. It really brought a smile to my face and made work go by super quick. Cant wait for more of your reviews!
"the idiot abyss finally made his way to India, i missed this from my abyss video but looks like I've got even more proof for how much of an idiot abyss is" Most MarkyD123 line ever
Greetings from Trinidad I looked at the series ring ka king it was great ,one thing that happened is the the midget and the giant guy was supposed to be a tag team like the great Khali and Hornswoggle however after 3 shows the giant guy passed away ,also keep up the good Work .
I loved this whole saga. Ive been watching for almost a year now ever since lock down started and this has been my favorite by far. I really think you did an amazing job with all the work you put in to make these videos. I would love to see you review lucha underground in the future if you ever got time. Keep up the good work or ill smack you one.
I believe Magnus is right about the audience being paid in some way or the other. Because Ring ka King definitely wasn't a live show, and back in the day I never heard about any ticket sales or anything. One day colors just had a wrestling show on their main TV channel. This wasn't the first attempt Colors had in bringing a wrestling show on their TV channel however. They did something with a South African wrestling promotion for one season before this. Also the thing about Indian audiences are, a lot of us are not hardcore fans, most watch WWE, most like what WWE does but TNA did have an audience too, and honestly back in the day TNA really did a lot more to branch out in India than WWE did, with their live shows. Also because we are not smart fans, kayfabe works really really well here. God forbid some heel came in and insulted the city, there would probably be an actual riot. Scott clearly realised that and did old school heel stuff which worked well. And lets be real here, seeing a guy like Scott Steiner would be shocking for almost the entire world, man's so jacked, so there's obviously that factor playing into how intimidating he comes off as.
Barood, Steiner, Nick Aldis (the only one who looked like a legit main eventer) and probably the Bollywood Boys and Mickie were absolutely great in RKK. In fact they had a solid mid card/lower card. What did not work at all was Jarrett and Harbhajan (he just had 0 chemistry with anyone), the loveable Love story, and in a way Veera as well (he did his best but was green as a chlorophyll).
Damn pretty crazy that they could get someone like Harbhajan Singh on the show.He was hot stuff in the IPL at that stage. Thanks for the vid Marky.Really enjoyed it.
I remember this well, one of a russian wrestling sites for some reason actually uploaded episodes of the show. It was short, funny, 2-3 fast matches, crazy Scott Steiner. I enjoyed this program more than 2+ hours of WWE or TNA.
This is excellent, was profoundly entertained watching the first episode, but checked out due to keeping track of the episode's, so this is just what I needed, cheers!
Fun fact: The girl who was ring announcer for this show is now in an Apple tv show called "Foundation" and she's playing Grand huntress Phara. Her name is Kubra Sait. I guess she's the only one who made a career from this show.
Not really. This was the Bollywood Boys' first break too. They'd go on to be Jinder's lackeys in WWE. Saurav Gurjav who's in NXT and was formerly in a tag team with Veer also got his first break in pro wrestling here. Mahabali Shera, who was in TNA until 2021, also got his first break in RKK
These two guys are fucking cool as hell. Not primadonnas like a lot of wrestlers *cough*HawkHogan*cough* And you know they had to be intrigued that anyone at all even knows anything about Ring Ka King to begin with. Great interview segments in this.
First of all, this is the best wrestling channel on RUclips; great commentary. Before Magnus talked about paying the crowd, I was thinking that it was for hype and that nobody else knew it was going to happen. When he turned around and lunged at the other fans, they were legitimately scared, lol. Probably not a good idea to grab that fans neck. Of course, he may have been a plant, but I doubt it; like I said I don't think anybody else knew he planned on taking it as far as he did. No executive would ever approve that shit, lol. Shit was funny as hell looking at the fans terrified faces.
I love how even after all the time since Ring Ka King, Mahabali Veera/Shera, has had a TNA push with the the shera shake, then randomly got signed to NXT, and he got cut even with 4 or more other Indian talents who haven't had TV matches, and now he's back in Impact.
Saw Mahabali Sheera on the Netflix Doc “Wrestlers” recently and it’s awesome to see him still pursuing his dream in the USA after having been Ring Ka King Champion! If only he’d brought Baroot with him to OVW so that Al Snow could mold him into a champion 😢
I was kinda surprised we didn't see more of the India talent in TNA. I remember when this show was taping, I read in a dirt sheet (so you know it's true) that TNA Management were creaming themselves over the Giant before he passed away.
I’m from India. Old school wrestling fan. From wwf to wwe to wcw to ecw to Njpw to aew now. This shit is shit. I didn’t know there was cheap Indian wrestling until I saw this video. I see you have a lot of questions In every episode about this show
Back of truck and the Lorry all was product placement lmao. I vaguely remember their main sponsor was a big truck manufacturing company (Tata). It must have been in their contract or something.
Tata is one of India's largest companies, which I didn't know about until these videos. They specialize in freight vehicles, but have also dabbled in sports cars.
When Veera won the no1 contendership the crowd were going insane, great stuff. Awesome series. Lots of laughs in it too 😂 Wregret somehow pretends to be comedy for the few smirks an episode but this is actually funny. Great stuff Hawk 🎉 I cant believe this wasnt kept on as a series watching how it developed and how popular it seemed from the series and the comments here. I would have watched an English dub of it! They should have syndicated this to other countries - it should have at least worked in countries close to India if they added a wrestler from the other nations who was a part of the show?
Weird that they showed Veera with the belt rather than building up towards the I assume climax we are going for? His chase for the belt should have been a lot more intense. If he couldn't talk well they should have given him a manager to do the local guy promos (but he did seem extremely over anyway) Barood seemed super over and done dirty by the editors. You can see he's trying and working hard from his ring work and the comments from the interviews shows the same. Samosa Joe's breasts are genuinely offensive and obscene. Why are they not covered up by some kind of ring attire? (Or at least out of ring attire and boobs out if he ever actually wrestles lol)
Fake Hawk seemed pretty impressive by the end too. Never seen a jump from the ropes to land on the ladder before I don't think? That was crazy impressive - how didn't the impact of the jump knock the ladder over? 😮
Random Dudes stealing the belts from the rightful Indian holders was a decent ending to continue into season two. Not sure how it could be better booked?
TIMESTAMPS!!!!!!!!
4:57 - First episode
10:55 - Steiner’s first rage at the audience
13:41 - Jimmy Rave’s thoughts on his first match
15:23 - Morgan V. Steiner in the RKK final
17:03 - Aldis’ take on Steiner attacking the crowd
20:33 - Jimmy Rave on his time with Scott Steiner
22:23 - Episode 2
24:05 - Steiner Goes off!!!!!!!!
29:04 - The birth of Barood 👑
34:21 - Nick Aldis on why Steiner wasn’t pushed for RKK main events
36:45 - Episode 3
41:55 - Steiner and Abyss become the brothers of destruction to the audience
51:40 - Rave on stories of bad happenings during RKK shooting
52:57 - Aldis on who booked RKK
55:42 - Rave on what the locker room was like during tapings
56:48 - Episode 4
1:01:44 - Aldis on the impact of holding the RKK belt
1:08:52 - Aldis on what does RDX stand for
1:13:33 - Rave explaining why RKK had Golden wings instead of a Cruiserweight belt
1:14:25 - What happened to Rave’s sword from Ring of Glory
1:14:42 - Aldis on how going to India came about
1:15:24 - Aldis on whether he was forced to go to India
1:17:01 - Episode 5
1:23:31 - Is Rave ready to party? 🎈
1:28:25 - RKK assembling the steel cage with sheer man power
1:31:35 - Rave and Aldis on the challenges of working with the Indian RKK talent
1:35:45 - Episode 6
1:43:03 - Rave reveals a big secret about the Mumbai Cats
1:47:07 - Aldis on his time with future Wrestlemania headliner Barood
1:49:55 - Rave on training and working with the Indian talent + his time with Barood
1:51:47 - Aldis on Barood’s future as a wrestler
1:55:15 - Rave opinion on who wasn’t good in RKK
2:02:45 - Why there were so many TATA truck placements on RKK
2:03:19 - What was the Indian public’s reception of RKK (Rave)
2:07:11 - Aldis and Rave reacting to Indian culture and customs during his time in RKK
2:08:40 - The final episode :(
2:22:22 - Aldis on the final scene of RKK
2:23:37 - Rave on the (doomed) plans for season 2 of RKK (Rave)
2:24:20 - What happened to the RKK belts? (Aldis)
(Thank u Hawk for the such an amazing series. Remember us when you get famous 😇)
If you found the time stamps useful, I’d appreciate a sub. Peace and love
This should be pinned.
there are 26 episodes man
Tt
He didn't even give you a sub. I just gave you one, thanks for the work!
@@ChristopherJohn4389 I sub to people that have content I want to watch, not for nice comments, simp.
"Scott Steiner went in the kitchen and made his own omelette"
Steiner is the man 😂😂😂
Who would like a Steiner video?
@@Markyd123 me, god damn scott is a legend
@@Markyd123 *raises hand* me me me!
He wasn't kidding when he said "I'm doin' him an egg"
@@Markyd123 DO IT
One thing I have learned from the video....Maybe wrestling isn't dead, it's just dead in the Western market.
Wrestling is super huge in Asia
Wrestling has been oversaturated in America and Japan. Mainland Asia hasn't been spoiled by it, so it's still untapped.
@@bigjohnsbreakfastlog5819 it’s like Magnus and jimmy said. The Indian fans were going nuts over a shoulder block and they were running scared from Steiner. We’ve seen everything over here and maybe wrestling needs to die off for a bit over here to make a proper comeback.
@@Markyd123 maybe if every match didn’t have all the crazy flips and crazy moves the crazy flips and the cool moves would get more of a reaction and make it feel fresh
@Markyd123 Did you ever find out what became of P.P. Hawkman? He seemed like a legitimate talent
The boy is so awesome. No matter how much the buried him, he ran out and gave it his best. You cant help but love the boy
I think Steiner pulled a Bruiser Brody. Once he saw the crowd was all in on kayfabe, he played into it. If they didn't react the way they had been reacting, he wouldn't have ran into the crowd like that. He knew what he was doing...
I know it's been 2 years since you left this comment, but I wanted to say that I think you're 💯 percent right about Steiner/Brody. It's not possible to pull off in anything but the freshest markets (i.e. India, Saudi Arabia)
@@JVCurmudgeon I know it has been three days since you left this comment but I agree with you about OP. 🤣 Steiner was having a blast.
Exactly...He has seen it all..
I dunno though did you notice how stiff he was in that match? 🤣🤣 that was a jab and a half
@@jasondowling5798That’s just how Scott wrestles
Useless trivia: Yamamotoyama Ryūta (aka "Samosa Joe"), was once deemed "Japan's fattest man" and actually got banned by the Japan Sumo Association for match fixing, which was a legit scandal in 2011 that damn near killed the sport.
Also, if watched John Wick 2, he appeared in the movie.
I'm mad at myself, for wasting my time to see this is fake af
FAT
I'm surprised Antonio Inoki didn't hire him for his now defunct IGF promotion, given that he got several controversial former sumo wrestlers under his wing, Koji Kitao (aka Futahaguro, the only Yokozuna who never won a tournament), Shinichi Suzukawa (expelled for smoking marihuana), and Shogun Okamoto (who was part of the same scandal as Somosa Joe)
OH YEAH, he was the guy that somehow survived getting shot in the head once before being shot by Wick again.
Nah that didn't almost kill the sport sumo wrestling is one of the most fixed sports in the planet. Shout out freakanomics
If someone wants to do timestamps for the episodes I will pin it but might be tricky with how the interviews break it up.
You could of at least gave the guy a sub
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What guy
@@Markyd123 I think he said that you should subscribe to the guy that did the time stamps for the video.
okay so what sonjay dutt basically said was " this wrestler here, hes a former mr pune and mr india (beauty paegant contest i believe lol) and he undoubtedly is india's best. In this wrestling business he's the pride and joy of india and when he loses his cool , its game over for every wrestler he faces . Every wrestler on this planet salutes this guy's strength, so be ready , here is BAROOOOD" Thats the literal word to word translation of the segment lol.Yeah sonjay was kinda sarcastically roasting the boy lmao. Also love your vids man, keep up the good work
I think he meant the bodybuilding competition
India best achievements so far
India's Hunger index
2013: 63rd rank
2022: 107th rank
India's Happiness index.
2013: 111th rank
2022: 136th rank
India's press freedom rank
2013:79th
2022: 150the the fourth pillar of worlds largest
democracy is no more
India's unemployment rate
2013:4.9%
2023:7.5%
Unemployment rate never increase in growing
economy.. india is growing only on paper and by
loan
India's Debt
before 2014: ₹55 lakh crore
2023: ₹155 lakh crore
India's GDP from 2004 to 2014:
$709 billion to 2.04 trilion (almost triple)
India's GDP from 2014to 2024:
$2.04 trillion to 3.6 trilion (expected)...not even
double
@@jacksmith-mu3ee .....and what exactly are you trying to say here?
If there’s one thing I learned from watching the interviews on patreon, Magnus is a Hawkamaniac brother, awesome work as always brother! Awesome that Magnus and Jimmy gave you their shoots on RKK!
Ba "8 Year Old Obese Indian Boy" rood was robbed. He should have been the first Indian WWE champion.
Lol
The Boy vs New Jack.
@@lewisaino The Boy and Scott Steiner vs. New Jack and Sharkboy
@@coconutshrimp707 oof
@@coconutshrimp707 The Boy, Garrett Bischoff, Wes Brisco, Scott Steiner and Jimmy Rave vs New Jack, Mad Mikey, Shark Boy and 90% of you are straight but 10% of you are okay but thats okay, were all watching the hawk talk.
Definitely a fan of Barood. This is some of Steiner's best stuff character wise. I loved the unstable crowd attacking madman!
Him being world champion would’ve made that gimmick much better
That's some of the most legitimate heel work I have seen in a while
@@soumyadeepbanerjee964 Steiner could get heat no matter what. There are only a few wrestling personalities that can get that much heat.
Man, this series had me in tears from laughter and made me a fan of yours, Marky! Shame it's over...
These were such interviews you can tell the wrestlers feel the same way about it! Thank you.
Lot of people are complaining that it could have been better if booked properly but as an Indian I can tell you that almost 90 percent of wrestling fans in india are just casual fans lot of them don't even know the insides of the buisness so to them the storylines doesn't matter nor the match quality but just two people fighting is enough to get people hooked.
90%, that means that about 10 million people know.
@@limay-yelsew12 firstly 10 percent of 1 billion is 100 million not 10 million and second the whole population of india doesnot watch wrestling
Even if you're a casual fan it's: come for the wrestling, stay for the storylines that's how you build an audience
@@Robyamdam true but now it's hard to even get casual fans to watch in the first place.
The problem is that most of the money a company makes comes from 10% of its hardcore fan base
Ring Ka King represented what wrestling could be. Something fun, something crazy, enjoyable, never boring, something that doesn’t take itself so seriously.
I completely agree. The focus was on entertainment, not on doing 50,000 moves and trying to get a 5 star match.
This is Entertaning as F#%k = if someone makes a Best Of Compilation, please put "Markyd123" as a Commentator - brilliant analysis of all of the wrestlers involved. Sonjay Dutt's "Golden Wings" for a Ladder and/or on a Pole Match, involving Little People (a 6 letter word: m#%gets) -- a classic (Vince) Russo-style of match ("Crash TV;" "Jerry Springer"-era..) They could have gotten Sabu for this event - maybe.
Funny Bone it's rare for me to agree wholeheartedly!. Love of hate Bollywood, they entertain full stop!
If you want cartoon wrestling, it's not like AEW doesn't exist.
@@realtalk6195 it’s not the same thing I wouldn’t call AEW fun. It takes itself way too seriously which is the opposite of RKK
"So random, so stupid, but I just loved it. It was the best." Magnus summed up Ring Ka King so well. Major thanks to Marky D and the RKK roster.
The Indian talent being primadonnas is just the most baffling and surprising thing to me. It’s like, this company traveled around the world to try and build you up, and you’re just going to.... not put in effort? This might be the first time I’ve ever felt sorry for TNA as a company...
Except Barood and Pagal. Yup I really did not expect it.
@@Markyd123 It was nice to see those two actually cared. I hope it worked out for them in some way.
@@0supermoose804 it hasn’t yet but I’m going to use my platform to help these guys. I know Barood still wrestlers in India.
@@Markyd123 God, if only Chikara was still around. They'd book him up in a heartbeat.
its totally possible they are upper casters and already lazy fucks. Watch any videos on travelers in india and you wouldn't be surprised by that behavior.
I think the thing with Steiner is he finally saw a chance to revive kayfabe. He lived the character in India
R.I.P. Jimmy Rave. Had an arm and both legs amputated due to MRSA (unfortunately it sounds like the infections were caused by IV drug use) and still passed away. And yeah of course it could have been avoided if he wasn't using drugs but that has to be one of the scariest and worst ways to die.
So sad. Rip
Well he did say he liked to party...
@@Jacktrack7 *slow clap begins*
Geez. Addicts need help.
@@Jacktrack7wooooo
The thing about the crowd popping for basic wrestling moves is because in India people love Amateur wrestling and our country has several world champs and Olympics/CWG heroes in wrestling .. also KUSHTI (traditional Indian amateur wrestling) is one of the most loved things here.. so basically it's the style that ppl here love and resonate to automatically..
man it still sucks, RIP jimmy. really glad you got to interview him about all this.
It's surreal now seeing him in this. Rest in Peace.
This is 2 hours and 29 minutes well spent. Love it. I can actually hear the Hawk's tone for the Fat 8 year-old Boy changes from his early appearance up til the season finale that he's actually liking the boy bit by bit lol
Marky this is some of your best work. Had already watched all of these but the added interview segments just made it such an intresting watch
Thanks brother.
That thumbnail is incredible
It sure is he's a talented dude.
Can't believe Magnus watched your vids and read the comments haha, what a guy
Watching the people of India play along and run from Scott when he charges the audience warms my freaking heart. What a wonderful audience.
The interview segments in this are pure gold. Magnus is cool as hell in real life; someone youd wanna have a pint and bullshit with for sure.
Yea it was a really fun interview
Met the dude and you're not wrong.
Unless you're in Japan lol
I think its funny how Marky burns them so much during the episodes Lmao! I mean, its all good natured ribbing but it is kind of ironic that he picked those two to interview!
And get a sniff of Mickie from his fingers
49:42 I started laughing my ass off at this visual of Scott just randomly going into the crowd.
Since now i know that he checks the comments...
Hi Nick Aldis... Im a huge fan of yours 😁😁
And he's married to Mickie James. I couldn't be more jealous.
That thumbnail 🥵🙌🏼 BAROOD MY LORD AND SAVIOR
Barood for India NXT
I love hearing everybody gush about Barood. Warms my heart.
I still come back and watch this every few months. Its a bewildering piece of history
Nick Aldis is great in these videos. I love how candid he is. I watched most of Ring Ka King and loved it. Too bad it couldn't continue. Also, RIP Jimmy Rave.
All i could find on that Pagal guy(the super talented indian fellow) is that his name is Vikas Kumar, he seems to have debuted in 2011 with ring ka king being his first known company. He also briefly worked for Impact in 2017. I would maybe assume he was a gymnast perhaps prior
The 1 good thing Chavo did since Eddie passed was in Lucha Underground. if youve never seen it, watch the first few episodes. He actually is pushed as a heel and starts fucking shit up!
Heel Chavito >>>>>> Babyface Chavito. He's not quite as despicable than WCW heel Eddie, but he's still really hateable
“scott steiner then attacks the midget...” man i popped so hard for that back suplex
You are a miracle. Feel like you have already won the best youtube content of 2021 with this video. Current favorite channel.
Thanks brother
Magnus looking at Steiner raging is just like when you get involved with the bad guys and then are worried about how you'll break up with them
I wonder if Steiner going into the hotel kitchen to make his omelette inspired him to buy that 'Shoneys' restaurant?
Wow, I can't believe Barood was censored so hard by the executives. I hope he gets another chance in the limelight.
27:18 Chavo will always have that "I'm Eddie's nephew" vibe about him. He's an annoying jobber to you and me without Eddie but the Latino wrestling fans and diehard Eddie fans are like hey we gotta keep him around like Fredo in the Godfather.
Thing is Chavo can actually wrestle
Chavo as a wrestler is pretty decent, he's not Eddie but in his own right he's decent. It's when he has to keep bringing up Eddie is when you have to tune him out
Chavo may be a decent wrestler, but he'll never be anywhere near Eddie's level
@@BrandanTheBroker I will never understand why people kept booking him as a babyface just because he's Eddie's nephew. Like, the fans are sick of it! When you book him as a heel, he's far more compelling! He knows how to be irritating and he is far better at making you feel annoyed than making you feel sympathy for him! Also, his face is 10 times more punchable than Eddie's
Man if this was booked correctly it could have been huge. Such a missed opportunity. Steiner as a monster heel (on his own without the stable, kinda how they booked the homeless guy but winning all the time and still fucking with the crowd). Build the tag team division around the Bollywood Boys as faces and the Shieks as the heels. Make Baroods losing streak a storyline with a final match where if he loses he is fired, put him up against one of the taller American guys (Masters maybe) and give him the upset victory. So many missed opportunities.
Coming from a guy who used to watch this thing when it came out , it was a missed opportunity in every single way. They had a surprisingly large fanbase who regularly watched it . I remember being 11 years old when it came out and we would all be talking about it in school. Perhaps if TNA wasn't such a wuss company this show might've became the biggest thing .
Really? So it didn't bomb?
@@EdertheJust nope on the contrary it was quite popular. They could have made this into a really popular series.
11 when this aired? it wasn't long ago lol.. jeez I feel old, I was 11 in 1998 lmfao.
TNA was just made up of a useless, close minded idiotic wrestlers.
Like, it felt overly gay.
If you have WWF, you can actually have something cool on it.
In TNA, no one had characters. It was just screaming and yelling and tropes. That's why nobody cared. You need characters.
@@rowdsYeah, me too, lol...
What a time to be a wrestling fan back then though, it was something else, perhaps it'll happen again.
I wish we could get a full documentary of RKK, it deserves it and the behind the scenes seem just as entertaining if not more so than the show itself. This video, commentary, interviews, a pure work of art.
I love how Steiner was just waiting every episode for the part he could run into the crowd
This is better than when HBO or Cinemax will play the Lord of the Rings trilogy in one shot all day long.
YESSIR
:)
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Now with more walking!
Even the fucking trees walked in those movie
Now thats some Quality Content people are always raving about.
Woooooooh
I can't wait until your girl screams after ring ka king and then we can PARTAYYY WOOOO
great i have summoned a few jimmy raves on comment. thats what you get when you say any form of rave.
@@stashallemagne4488 and then we PARTYY WOOO
That's was not a great time for getting the best talents from india, but right now, if you build a wrestling show, you will get great talents 👍
Steiner trying to get the crowd, hilarious. Wrestling needs more of that.
Respect for Barood 👍🏻👍🏻
Ring ka king was a wonderful wrestling show. I always used to watch RKK on Saturday & Sunday with my family. I remember that I was always in a hurry to come home from my tution to watch
I've been sick with food poisoning the last couple days and this compilation is the only thing that has made me feel a little better. God bless you markyd123
One of the best things about this video is the nicknames you give the wrestlers. Samosa Joe, the idiot abyss, the cricket guy.
The best wrestling channel on RUclips without a doubt. Makes me miss wrestling and I end up watching several of his videos and a few old matches to get my fix lol.
thanks dooooo
@@Markyd123 no thank you sir, I've learned about a lot that I would have otherwise never known existed. Now quit making me feel sentimental or I'll have to smack ya one!
It's Jimmy Rave, and I can't wait for this interview to be over with so we can par-tay!
wooooo
Colors TV is the biggest tv network in India. They have the most expensive shows and licences for most USA based reality shows including fear factor (khatron ke khiladi translates to players who play with danger) and big brother (big boss)
@034bloodas
Hindi
Great video man! Really cool to hear from rave and magnus about the show. Hopefully this opens doors for you to interview more superstars. Huge respect brother!
This is literally the best video I’ve ever watched 😂😂😂 I couldn’t turn away. The cricket guy. Samosa joe. The Indian leather man. Random Dudes Xtreme. The Bollywood boys and there banging theme music. And obviously, everyone’s favourite...The obese Indian 8 year old boy
Amazing vid Marky, im gonna miss your reviews of Ring Ka King. It really brought a smile to my face and made work go by super quick. Cant wait for more of your reviews!
"the idiot abyss finally made his way to India, i missed this from my abyss video but looks like I've got even more proof for how much of an idiot abyss is"
Most MarkyD123 line ever
Jimmy Rave is beyond baked. He's on another planet.
Wooooo!
Which is why he lost his arm. Sad, but true.
@@TheVampirePredator what’s the correlation?
@@justinthunder6284
Drug use
Poor dudes got no legs and one arm, if I were him I'd be hitting the drugs hard too
Your Ring Ka King saga is the excellence of execution
Thank you brother
Greetings from Trinidad I looked at the series ring ka king it was great ,one thing that happened is the the midget and the giant guy was supposed to be a tag team like the great Khali and Hornswoggle however after 3 shows the giant guy passed away ,also keep up the good Work .
R.I.P Jimmy Rave
Yikes shouldnt have gone to india
I loved this whole saga. Ive been watching for almost a year now ever since lock down started and this has been my favorite by far. I really think you did an amazing job with all the work you put in to make these videos. I would love to see you review lucha underground in the future if you ever got time. Keep up the good work or ill smack you one.
I believe Magnus is right about the audience being paid in some way or the other.
Because Ring ka King definitely wasn't a live show, and back in the day I never heard about any ticket sales or anything.
One day colors just had a wrestling show on their main TV channel.
This wasn't the first attempt Colors had in bringing a wrestling show on their TV channel however.
They did something with a South African wrestling promotion for one season before this.
Also the thing about Indian audiences are, a lot of us are not hardcore fans, most watch WWE, most like what WWE does but TNA did have an audience too, and honestly back in the day TNA really did a lot more to branch out in India than WWE did, with their live shows.
Also because we are not smart fans, kayfabe works really really well here. God forbid some heel came in and insulted the city, there would probably be an actual riot. Scott clearly realised that and did old school heel stuff which worked well.
And lets be real here, seeing a guy like Scott Steiner would be shocking for almost the entire world, man's so jacked, so there's obviously that factor playing into how intimidating he comes off as.
Barood, Steiner, Nick Aldis (the only one who looked like a legit main eventer) and probably the Bollywood Boys and Mickie were absolutely great in RKK. In fact they had a solid mid card/lower card.
What did not work at all was Jarrett and Harbhajan (he just had 0 chemistry with anyone), the loveable Love story, and in a way Veera as well (he did his best but was green as a chlorophyll).
somosa joe didnt work either
Damn pretty crazy that they could get someone like Harbhajan Singh on the show.He was hot stuff in the IPL at that stage.
Thanks for the vid Marky.Really enjoyed it.
I remember Ring Ka King was a pretty big deal when it launched back then. And Harbhajan Singh was a hero here,in 2012 due to the World Cup win lol.
look at the like-dislike ratio, i love how much of a niche this channel is
10:55 The fans reactions to Scott Steiner is like watching a raging bull. Who's going to get the horns?
I remember this well, one of a russian wrestling sites for some reason actually uploaded episodes of the show. It was short, funny, 2-3 fast matches, crazy Scott Steiner. I enjoyed this program more than 2+ hours of WWE or TNA.
It sure was more enjoyable than today’s wrestling shows!
Gurv Sihra and Harv Sihra are real life brothers who potrayed Bollywood Boys. Max B is Max Basnet a Nepal base real life boxer.
Informative, hilarious, and best of all that goddamn thumbnail.
After hearing the stories from Nick Aldis and Jimmy Rave: I hope Barood keeps at it. He definitely has Dusty Rhodes energy
I watched this whole show when it was originally aired. It was fun.
Barood is actually quite good, and I can see the gimmick work. Babyface Indian that has Eddie Guererro as his idol.
This is excellent, was profoundly entertained watching the first episode, but checked out due to keeping track of the episode's, so this is just what I needed, cheers!
Thank you brother
Fun fact: The girl who was ring announcer for this show is now in an Apple tv show called "Foundation" and she's playing Grand huntress Phara. Her name is Kubra Sait. I guess she's the only one who made a career from this show.
Not really. This was the Bollywood Boys' first break too. They'd go on to be Jinder's lackeys in WWE. Saurav Gurjav who's in NXT and was formerly in a tag team with Veer also got his first break in pro wrestling here. Mahabali Shera, who was in TNA until 2021, also got his first break in RKK
Holy shit, that was Kubra Sait?! She's famous for Sacred Games as well
@@jesseinfinite if i am not mistaken i think Saurav Gujrav played the role of Bheem in Mahabharat that aired in star plus.
Amazing video, this channel is low key becoming the best thing on RUclips.
I like how you Absolutely bury Jamie Rave and then do an interview with him 😂
It was just a bad promo, and he found it funny anyway, he's a good sport.
@@Markyd123 that was funny 😂😂
These two guys are fucking cool as hell. Not primadonnas like a lot of wrestlers *cough*HawkHogan*cough* And you know they had to be intrigued that anyone at all even knows anything about Ring Ka King to begin with. Great interview segments in this.
Jimmy Rave btw
First off it’s JIMMY RAVE and I’m sure he was ready to get the interview over with so he can PAAAAARTTTTAYYYYY WOOOOOO
“Everyone’s fvorite Joey Ryan and Nunzio” has to be my fvorite running gag from this. Breaks me everytime.
Thank you Jimmy and Nick for helping make Ring Ka King, and thank you Hawkster for the videos!
First of all, this is the best wrestling channel on RUclips; great commentary. Before Magnus talked about paying the crowd, I was thinking that it was for hype and that nobody else knew it was going to happen. When he turned around and lunged at the other fans, they were legitimately scared, lol. Probably not a good idea to grab that fans neck. Of course, he may have been a plant, but I doubt it; like I said I don't think anybody else knew he planned on taking it as far as he did. No executive would ever approve that shit, lol. Shit was funny as hell looking at the fans terrified faces.
If you had the show, the workers, the set, the crowd, exactly the same, but managed by literally anyone but TNA, this show would be huge by today.
This channel is absolute gold.
Thank you brooother
This one is addictive to watch, this is my third time watching it.
Keep coming back again and again to this series. Honestly it makes me smile more with every watch
this is the holy grail of this channel.
Nick Aldi's, just has the most random cameos across the late 2000s to the mid 2010's it's so funny... Like " wtf is Magnus doing here ? "😂😂
Scott going after the crowd was like watching Godzilla attacking Tokyo!
I love Steiner vs the crowd 😆😆😆
Steiner is the most entertaining thing on this show
I love how even after all the time since Ring Ka King, Mahabali Veera/Shera, has had a TNA push with the the shera shake, then randomly got signed to NXT, and he got cut even with 4 or more other Indian talents who haven't had TV matches, and now he's back in Impact.
Saw Mahabali Sheera on the Netflix Doc “Wrestlers” recently and it’s awesome to see him still pursuing his dream in the USA after having been Ring Ka King Champion! If only he’d brought Baroot with him to OVW so that Al Snow could mold him into a champion 😢
Scott Steiner with a potato to Vera due to that clothesline botch and Vera froze up. Steiner full on rung his bell with that close fist punch.
Steiner Made Omelets "break some f*cking eggs!!"
I can imagine him screaming at them
@@Markyd123 IM DOIN HIM AN EGG
“THESE EGGS GOT A 66% CHANCE AT ENDING UP IN AN OMELET”
@@heckles5866 there's only 30% of that happening.
I’m down with the shuv it squad.
Absolutely
@Philippe Populus , exactly
I was kinda surprised we didn't see more of the India talent in TNA. I remember when this show was taping, I read in a dirt sheet (so you know it's true) that TNA Management were creaming themselves over the Giant before he passed away.
I’m from India. Old school wrestling fan. From wwf to wwe to wcw to ecw to Njpw to aew now. This shit is shit. I didn’t know there was cheap Indian wrestling until I saw this video. I see you have a lot of questions In every episode about this show
The picture of the belt in the belt frame is brilliant!
Back of truck and the Lorry all was product placement lmao. I vaguely remember their main sponsor was a big truck manufacturing company (Tata). It must have been in their contract or something.
Tata is one of India's largest companies, which I didn't know about until these videos. They specialize in freight vehicles, but have also dabbled in sports cars.
When Veera won the no1 contendership the crowd were going insane, great stuff.
Awesome series. Lots of laughs in it too 😂 Wregret somehow pretends to be comedy for the few smirks an episode but this is actually funny. Great stuff Hawk 🎉
I cant believe this wasnt kept on as a series watching how it developed and how popular it seemed from the series and the comments here. I would have watched an English dub of it! They should have syndicated this to other countries - it should have at least worked in countries close to India if they added a wrestler from the other nations who was a part of the show?
Weird that they showed Veera with the belt rather than building up towards the I assume climax we are going for? His chase for the belt should have been a lot more intense. If he couldn't talk well they should have given him a manager to do the local guy promos (but he did seem extremely over anyway)
Barood seemed super over and done dirty by the editors. You can see he's trying and working hard from his ring work and the comments from the interviews shows the same.
Samosa Joe's breasts are genuinely offensive and obscene. Why are they not covered up by some kind of ring attire? (Or at least out of ring attire and boobs out if he ever actually wrestles lol)
Fake Hawk seemed pretty impressive by the end too. Never seen a jump from the ropes to land on the ladder before I don't think? That was crazy impressive - how didn't the impact of the jump knock the ladder over? 😮
Random Dudes stealing the belts from the rightful Indian holders was a decent ending to continue into season two. Not sure how it could be better booked?
Oh my god they didn't even give Baroood the win when they went on tour 😂 when i saw Josh Matthews the Fn commentator i was sure he would get his win!