The problem with Glacier: He was a year too late. If he'd debuted in 1995, amidst all the Dungeon of Doom silliness and schlock, he'd have fit right in.
@@holystars he should have been the third man instead of Hogan, he could have finished off sting, luger and savage and made sure that no Wolfpack would have occurred
To be honest, that last Glacier run as the Superhero That Doesn't Actually Care, and Normal Smiley's fanboying over him just to be disappointed every time, was a brief moment of comedy gold for me. I loved it. Glacier's deadpan delivery of the hero too late, and Norman's over the top wackiness, made a perfect combo. I wish it went on longer. Or maybe I don't as they'd have found a way to ruin it.
Yeah in the end Shinnok had successfully killed all of Earthrealms defenders. This would have to include Glacier. I think Wrath and Mortis got the drop off the top rope on him
It was a weird thing that when Glacier debuted he never had any run-ins with the NWO. You would think that he would be a threat to them like Sting but it was like he was wrestling in a different company with Wrath and Mortis
Well his only goal was to protect Earthrealm from the invasion of Outworld. That's why his only focus was on Wrath and Mortis. Clearly agents of Shao Khan
Man, I honestly REALLY like the return of Glacier. That would've been a really good story I think if it had panned out. One can only dream though. Glad to know he's still active to this day!
@@Bmoney88x Because they learned nothing from ripping off Spider-Man and the Ultimate Warrior, or their "I don't know what we're doing with this story" booking of the Black Scorpion. But these are people who managed to kick Flair off of booking (he was pushing new talent and creating stories that made sense, when they wanted a WWF knock-off), sabotaged Muta, Foley, Mark Calloway, Austin, Sting, Rey, Jericho, Cornette, and Paul Heyman...among so many others... Pulling failure from the jaws of success was their gift. Even if Glacier wasn't a Sub-Zero rip-off, he was doomed.
At that time in my life, wrestling and Mortal Kombat were my life, so I loved glacier and that he looked like Sub-Zero. It was like 2 of my favorite things coming together. Now that I think about it, not much has changed now that I'm 40...
Imagine Glacier was actually what Vince would've wanted from Austin with all those ringnames like Ice Dagger, Fang McFrost and Chilli McFreeze been suggested
Glacier deserves more credit. Next to Sub Zero, Ice-Man, and Arnie's Mr Freeze, he was the coolest ice themed character in the mid to late 90's amongst adolescent boys between 9-13. And that's no small achievement.
Whatever man I was a total Mark for Glacier. He had great in ring work and his move set was phenomenal. As a martial arts nerd I've never seen better strikes in the ring up to that point.
I watched a Kevin hart comedy special on Netflix with my wife this weekend and laughed way less than I do when I watch a wrestling bios video. Keep up the good work!!
Awesome video buddy 💯 I'm enjoying this series here on your channel I've been lucky enough to see if Glacier wrestle many times on the local Indy shows here in Georgia over the years I was also blessed to interview him on my You Tube channel
I remember when a neighbor taped Royal Rumble 2004 for me the tape actually had that episode of WCW Glacier vs Chris Adams, and after growing up playing the WCW games it was actually the FIRST time I seen a WCW show and I remember thinking how it was weird how the matches were shorter lol. Would be cool to see that episode again.
I don't care what anybody says. I was 13 / 14 in 1997 and used to LOVE the gimmick, entrance and music back then, regardless the BS going on backstage and in reality. I was even really hyped when Glacier returned in 2000. Yes, I was pretty much a WCW die-hard super fan until the end. Glacier is just pure nostalgia to me, personally. And no, I'm not being sarcastic and I'm not trying to rib y'all.
This is amazing. Wrestling Bios your content is something that I listen the audio while I'm doing work at home but your video content is next level that it makes me quit my work, procrastinate and keep watching your work. I don't regret keeping my work aise and listening to your take on the past. I love Wrestling Bios ❤️🙌
wow! i remember being 7 years old and addicted too both wrestling and sega at the time i absolutely loved glacier hahaha ''cringe'' looking back man jesus 🤣😅 as always bro fantastic content! love this channel 💙
I remember the Glacier stuff well, surprised he didn't get over more than he did. Had an alright gimmick despite it being something like right out of Mortal Kombat, hehe. I think they just couldn't figure out what to do with him, which you always see that with some wrestlers across every promotion. Sadly, never found his niche like some eventually did.
My parents got me Karate lessons when I finished Elementary School because I was a huge fan of the 123 kid. I was young but took it seriously for a few years. It was cool seeing a wrestler do martial arts type maneuvers all in good form. Glacier was cool
Another awesome upload from the greatest wrestling channel on the planet! WCWs booking of Glacier. Was one of the many examples of proving WCW had no idea how to book a wrestling show. After months of hype up videos. They debut him strongly, only to do precisely nothing noteworthy with him. Then not long after debuting he’s jobbing.
It's about time winter fresh is getting his own video. You know I don't think he realized that the jam doesn't go in the freezer. Otherwise it just cracks and shatters.
Idea for more videos: Hi Ryan, I hope life is good brother. I was watching Wrestlemania 7 the other day (the very 1st wrestling VHS I owned/watched) and one of the matches was a blindfold match featuring Jake the Snake. As both were blindfolded Jake would point around the ring and when his finger pointed to his opponent (I think it was Ric Martel) the audience in the arena went crazy, massive pops. My recommendation is to do a video on the biggest fan interactions in WWE history. I don't know if the match was as loud as it seemed or maybe the commentary swung me but I do not remember a match so diffirent yet all fans were in grossed in the final outcome. I'm sure u have plenty of ideas however I thought u cud try one on fans, their experiences and wht got wrestlers over. Good luck in the future!
It really sucked because Glacier was caught in between the NWO stuff, the Four Horsemen still demanding TV time while doing nothing, and the new editions. There wasn't a place for him to be the kind of eye opener that people wanted without taking TV time from the main eventers who wanted the spotlight. That being said, my memory of Glacier since I watched WCW in late 1997 was that he was one of the very many things WCW offered at the time. He was lower midcard, but he definitely was someone I loved to watch because of the unique entrance, personality, and style. WCW had so much variety at this time and Glacier was just a small part but definitely significant and memorable. I also liked heel Glacier and think he really sold his cocky attitude and Tenay really sold him going down the wrong path with it.
@@GibDozer1 I believe WCW made it a big deal about him losing his first ever singles match. A few months later they had him get squashed by Goldberg in under a minute he was a JTTS after that.
I started watching WCW right after the more obvious MK stuff was dropped. I was a big fan of Glacier for some reason. Like he was my favorite character to play in WCW World Tour on N64. His appearance in that game might have been why I liked the character so much. He was a secret character, so he felt more special.
I was big into the gimmick but again at that time I was still a huge fan of mortal kombat, I remember switching back and forth from WCW and wwf having some interest in what they'd do with his character since they built him up so much. They certainly dropped the ball with him.
BTW, I wanted to thank you for giving me the perfect song for talking about Mortal Kombat. Now when I make my videos and I have to talk about MK or Glacier, The Kombat Tomb Megadrive theme will be there.
Bret Hart said that Stu Hart would’ve fixed Goldberg. Goldberg was an unsafe wrestler that hurt guys and that was seen when he wrestle the Undertaker, Goldberg even hurt himself before he had the match against the Undertaker. William Regal rightfully put Goldberg in his place.
glacier just needed a knock-off mortal kombat style techno theme song and he would have been way over! test your might! fight! pew pew pew pew pew pew!
I live in Valdosta. I remember seeing Glacier on WCW, but I didn’t know til around 2008 that he had gone to college here. I ended up working at my local sheriff’s office with his tag team partner from back when they were in the independent circuit. Their team name was “The Blazers” which comes from the name of the Valdosta State University sports program.
I cant wait for the Deadly Kung-fu Legacies: Glacier game. Where Glacier gets tricked by the evil wizard Quantum Chief, into killing the pet of the fire warrior Dessert. Dessert not knowing of Quantums tricks decides to kill glacier and all of the Kwin Lei, Glaciers group of Kung fu practitioners.
@@The_Bad_Guy. every time I faced glacier in revenge I destroy him last night i played wcw revenge on my phone I was 1998 superstar Scott steiner and I wresled glacier
Glacier in 2001 was GOLD! Loved those few weeks with Norman Smiley. Would love to know why they stopped it so suddenly, fans even brought Glacier signs they were getting into it.
I feel like there were a lot of missteps early on...I think Bischoff thought that Glacier and Krew would catch on because of Mortal Kombat, but it was running it's course as a phenomena itself. Yeah, it's still around, but they missed the heyday of Mortal Kombat 3. They COULD have tried to use Glacier and the gang to fight the NWO, but that would have put a corny spin on that angle they probably didn't want to touch. So it just kind of died a slow death.
They did Glacier a year or two too late. If he had debut spiring/summer of 1995 he would have been popular. Mortal Kombat was at it's peak popularity with MK3 just coming out and a movie and cartoon coming out.
I was mildly interested in Glacier when Mortis and Wrath turned up but it really did feel out of place at the time. When the whole thing went nowhere but he continued the gimmick it just seemed pointless because the longer he stuck around the more out of place he seemed. If he had turned up a year before the whole thing may have worked and probably would have been one of the bigger funds and gimmicks in 1995.
Have you done a video on WTF happened to Alex Wright? Disappearing and coming back as "Berlyn". That was ridiculous. Unlike Glacier, heel Alex Wright was actually a good character. I don't know why the whole Berlyn thing happened.
They brought in Vampiro and didn't know what to do with him, so maybe a Glacier/Vampiro angle might have been a better pairing than the Vampiro/Sting angle.
Vampiro/Sting made a lot of sense to do. Two very visually similar characters and WCW was grasping at anything to survive. Vampiro just wasn't a great Character. Even ICP couldn't help him get over that much and ICP turned the failed Truth Commission into the Fan Favorite Oddities faction. ICP were jokes in the music industry, but holy hell their gimmick fit in perfectly with Wrestling. The Oddities were legitimately Fun to Watch.
@@justinlast2lastharder749 It didn't work because they were too similar... Sting being headliner was more reality based conflicts and storyline so didn't match well with Vampiro being a little over the top, where maybe it would fit better with Glacier. And I don't know what all that blathering about ICP was about. Lol
But he's right about one thing; his entrance was simply ravishing, complete with fake snow and blue lighting. He was introduced as from the Shinjiro temple in Japan, where he learned the martial Arts.
I met Glacier at an independent show in my hometown back in 2008 he was a cool guy no pun intended.
Admit it. That pun was intended.
@@Ellie-i7q-t5w That's cold...sorry LOL
@@monarched No worries. We chill.
I don’t remember you.
@@Ellie-i7q-t5w Cool
The problem with Glacier: He was a year too late. If he'd debuted in 1995, amidst all the Dungeon of Doom silliness and schlock, he'd have fit right in.
Glacier gimmick would of worked in early 90s wcw say 1992 93
he could team up with hulk Hogan
@@holystars he should have been the third man instead of Hogan, he could have finished off sting, luger and savage and made sure that no Wolfpack would have occurred
Would have been more in time with the popularity of Mortal Kombat as well, MK's super mainstream popularity dropped massively after 95.
@@mysteriousbob The Mortal Kombat 4 home versions where terrible, only the Dream Cast Version from 1999 was good.
It’s no coincidence that WCW slowly started falling apart after their mismanagement of Glacier!!!!
I guess you can say that WCW let Glacier melt away
@@PoeticProphetic bazinga! Lol
Why not let Glacier & Ernest Miller become a tag team 🤔 at least try something differently it may have worked
The affects of global warming….
@@melvynsngltn27 I think they were a tag team for a cup of coffee weren't they lol
There really should be a "Dark Side of the Streak" documentary, showing us how many wrestlers Goldberg injured during his streak
Frosty ball blunders. Sunday sorted.
Been loving these “Blunder” episodes lol. The MTV beach and snow episode was great.
To be honest, that last Glacier run as the Superhero That Doesn't Actually Care, and Normal Smiley's fanboying over him just to be disappointed every time, was a brief moment of comedy gold for me. I loved it. Glacier's deadpan delivery of the hero too late, and Norman's over the top wackiness, made a perfect combo. I wish it went on longer. Or maybe I don't as they'd have found a way to ruin it.
Considering how Glacier’s storyline ended can we assume he was kayfabe assassinated
It was a real FATALITY.
Sub Zero II killed him for sport to get to Noob Saibot. Canon or Kanon 😂
Yeah in the end Shinnok had successfully killed all of Earthrealms defenders. This would have to include Glacier. I think Wrath and Mortis got the drop off the top rope on him
It was a weird thing that when Glacier debuted he never had any run-ins with the NWO. You would think that he would be a threat to them like Sting but it was like he was wrestling in a different company with Wrath and Mortis
It might be that the NWO wouldve been a squash match to bury him. They didnt want him to look weak right away?
Well his only goal was to protect Earthrealm from the invasion of Outworld. That's why his only focus was on Wrath and Mortis. Clearly agents of Shao Khan
Man, I honestly REALLY like the return of Glacier. That would've been a really good story I think if it had panned out. One can only dream though. Glad to know he's still active to this day!
Man. Getting hurt in a match against Goldberg... Who saw that coming?
Goldberg cleaned house!
🤣 Dude was good at injuring people.
In a submission move no less, how is that even possible?
@@underpressure07140 cause Goldberg didn't know how to work and put a move on for real
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Ah, Frosty McShiverballs! Or Snowballs the Mighty!
Still was super cool to see him in AEW and having some fun there.
I still love Glacier, I did as a kid and rewatching his matches as an adult, I appreciate his in ring style and ability
Just started the video and already know this will be a classic bio’s episode
Loving the Mortal Kombat themed BGM to the video. Nice touch
Sometimes I think that professional wrestling companies just want to make a guy's character a rib to see if he can make it work.
Supposedly yes. Though more often it seems to be just a rib, with no care whether the person/victim can make it work.
You're right but not in glaciers case lol. They invested like 500k initially in his entrances/gear
@@Bmoney88x
Because they learned nothing from ripping off Spider-Man and the Ultimate Warrior, or their "I don't know what we're doing with this story" booking of the Black Scorpion.
But these are people who managed to kick Flair off of booking (he was pushing new talent and creating stories that made sense, when they wanted a WWF knock-off), sabotaged Muta, Foley, Mark Calloway, Austin, Sting, Rey, Jericho, Cornette, and Paul Heyman...among so many others...
Pulling failure from the jaws of success was their gift.
Even if Glacier wasn't a Sub-Zero rip-off, he was doomed.
At that time in my life, wrestling and Mortal Kombat were my life, so I loved glacier and that he looked like Sub-Zero. It was like 2 of my favorite things coming together. Now that I think about it, not much has changed now that I'm 40...
It is nice to see everyone's favorite wrestler gets a full wrestling bio episode.
Imagine Glacier was actually what Vince would've wanted from Austin with all those ringnames like Ice Dagger, Fang McFrost and Chilli McFreeze been suggested
Ice Dagger is the best (or least stupid) sounding of the 3.
Chilli McFreeze sounds like some nightmare Chilli a la mode from McDonald's
Glacier deserves more credit. Next to Sub Zero, Ice-Man, and Arnie's Mr Freeze, he was the coolest ice themed character in the mid to late 90's amongst adolescent boys between 9-13. And that's no small achievement.
😅😅😅
Are you kidding me?
Vanilla Ice was obviously the top of that short list.
You are forgetting Glacius from Killer Instinct
@WrestlingBios GLACIER was pretty damn good in the WCW/NWO N64 Game. I was happier when I unlocked him more than when I got Macho Man😭😂
Whatever man I was a total Mark for Glacier.
He had great in ring work and his move set was phenomenal. As a martial arts nerd I've never seen better strikes in the ring up to that point.
I watched a Kevin hart comedy special on Netflix with my wife this weekend and laughed way less than I do when I watch a wrestling bios video. Keep up the good work!!
Since when did you get Netflix. Haven't watched that with me. SMH
Wait... is Kevin Hart supposed to be funny?
Awesome video buddy 💯 I'm enjoying this series here on your channel I've been lucky enough to see if Glacier wrestle many times on the local Indy shows here in Georgia over the years I was also blessed to interview him on my You Tube channel
I remember when a neighbor taped Royal Rumble 2004 for me the tape actually had that episode of WCW Glacier vs Chris Adams, and after growing up playing the WCW games it was actually the FIRST time I seen a WCW show and I remember thinking how it was weird how the matches were shorter lol. Would be cool to see that episode again.
First mission of Mortal Kombat: Glacier: Save Ernest Miller from Wrath and Mortis😂
Wondered how long until after Glacier’s interesting start it would take you to do a blunder series on him 😂
U hit the nail on the head😂😂😂😂
@@ImInevitable1987 look n pop gun I lol I love bovk
Say what you will but Glacier was pretty fun to watch. Granted they could have done more w' him but I still think it was a solid idea
I don't care what anybody says. I was 13 / 14 in 1997 and used to LOVE the gimmick, entrance and music back then, regardless the BS going on backstage and in reality.
I was even really hyped when Glacier returned in 2000.
Yes, I was pretty much a WCW die-hard super fan until the end.
Glacier is just pure nostalgia to me, personally. And no, I'm not being sarcastic and I'm not trying to rib y'all.
same here
WWE guy here think goodness for stone cold, the rock, Kurt angle and attitude era.
This is amazing.
Wrestling Bios your content is something that I listen the audio while I'm doing work at home but your video content is next level that it makes me quit my work, procrastinate and keep watching your work. I don't regret keeping my work aise and listening to your take on the past.
I love Wrestling Bios ❤️🙌
Wonder how many wrestlers did the boy wonder Goldberg seriously injure during his run. Highlight being he's destruction of Brett Hart's career.
Only channel I go out of my way to watch anymore
Try osw
For a future Blunder show, I'd recommend the Warrior/Hogan feud. Who could forget the flash paper refusing to put Hogan over?
As a massive WCW fan, thank you for all these blunders. They make for a great laugh now lol
I know my man had a field day with this one. 😆
wow! i remember being 7 years old and addicted too both wrestling and sega at the time i absolutely loved glacier hahaha ''cringe'' looking back man jesus 🤣😅 as always bro fantastic content! love this channel 💙
8mins and I'm not even in the 1st 10 comments 🤣let's go glacier! Still can't believe he didn't win the snow games from the last episode 🥶🥶🥶
Glacier vs. Saturn feud be like: In this world it's Cryonic Kick or be Cryonic Kickin'
I remember the Glacier stuff well, surprised he didn't get over more than he did. Had an alright gimmick despite it being something like right out of Mortal Kombat, hehe. I think they just couldn't figure out what to do with him, which you always see that with some wrestlers across every promotion. Sadly, never found his niche like some eventually did.
My parents got me Karate lessons when I finished Elementary School because I was a huge fan of the 123 kid. I was young but took it seriously for a few years. It was cool seeing a wrestler do martial arts type maneuvers all in good form. Glacier was cool
I really would be curious about Glacier
Another awesome upload from the greatest wrestling channel on the planet!
WCWs booking of Glacier. Was one of the many examples of proving WCW had no idea how to book a wrestling show. After months of hype up videos. They debut him strongly, only to do precisely nothing noteworthy with him. Then not long after debuting he’s jobbing.
This might as well be the Glacier retrospective lol
What a surprise goldbergs lack of care for his opponents injured somebody
Can't wait, just 20 more years we get to see a Veer video from Bio!
This will be almost as popular as Reliving The War if it continues.
Absolutely Brilliant stuff from this channel, Thank You Wrestling Bios
😄👍
It's about time winter fresh is getting his own video. You know I don't think he realized that the jam doesn't go in the freezer. Otherwise it just cracks and shatters.
Can't wait for episode 5!
Buzz Stern had the original Alpha Academy. He even had a number one guy.
Excellent work again my friend
Love the commentary on glacier always makes me laugh my ass off 😂are you gonna cover RVDs ecw tv title reign on here?
Idea for more videos: Hi Ryan, I hope life is good brother. I was watching Wrestlemania 7 the other day (the very 1st wrestling VHS I owned/watched) and one of the matches was a blindfold match featuring Jake the Snake. As both were blindfolded Jake would point around the ring and when his finger pointed to his opponent (I think it was Ric Martel) the audience in the arena went crazy, massive pops. My recommendation is to do a video on the biggest fan interactions in WWE history. I don't know if the match was as loud as it seemed or maybe the commentary swung me but I do not remember a match so diffirent yet all fans were in grossed in the final outcome. I'm sure u have plenty of ideas however I thought u cud try one on fans, their experiences and wht got wrestlers over. Good luck in the future!
The timing of all this content is so interesting.
It really sucked because Glacier was caught in between the NWO stuff, the Four Horsemen still demanding TV time while doing nothing, and the new editions. There wasn't a place for him to be the kind of eye opener that people wanted without taking TV time from the main eventers who wanted the spotlight.
That being said, my memory of Glacier since I watched WCW in late 1997 was that he was one of the very many things WCW offered at the time. He was lower midcard, but he definitely was someone I loved to watch because of the unique entrance, personality, and style. WCW had so much variety at this time and Glacier was just a small part but definitely significant and memorable. I also liked heel Glacier and think he really sold his cocky attitude and Tenay really sold him going down the wrong path with it.
Glacier really is a good dude, irl. I loved the debut and a few months of the gimmick, but they misused him for real.
He arrived a few years too late. A debut together with the nwo was yery hard.
They could have booked him as someone that stood against the nWo akin to Crow Sting but he did his own separate thing from the rest of the WCW roster.
That Nash commentary episode is the BEST Thunder episode. OLD GLORY!
Glacier v Goon feud was a HUGE missed opportunity during the Invasion angle.
In the 90s WCWs midcard was where most of the talent was
No one talks about the "Glacier Vs. Goldberg" match? It's the ONE TIME we've seen Goldberg do a back flip! 😎🔥🔥🔥🔥
i think he does it even in his debut match.
I love your coverage of Mr Frostyballs He should of been the henchman of Mr Freeze 🥶
I seem to remember that they brought the glacier character back in late 2000/early 2001.
I knew Glacier was done when they let Buff Bagwell, of all people, end his undefeated streak. I liked Glacier, his gimmick was Ironically cool.
Mortis ended his streak a few months before. The feud was quietly dropped.
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Was that a house show? I recently watched the Nitro where Buff gave him hist 1st L according to the commentary team.
@@GibDozer1 Mortis pinned him at Bash at The Beach 97 in a tag match and WCW quietly dropped the feud.
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Maybe they didn't "count it" because it was a tag match. They definitely made a big to do about Buff ending his run on Nitro.
@@GibDozer1 I believe WCW made it a big deal about him losing his first ever singles match. A few months later they had him get squashed by Goldberg in under a minute he was a JTTS after that.
I started watching WCW right after the more obvious MK stuff was dropped. I was a big fan of Glacier for some reason. Like he was my favorite character to play in WCW World Tour on N64. His appearance in that game might have been why I liked the character so much. He was a secret character, so he felt more special.
I was big into the gimmick but again at that time I was still a huge fan of mortal kombat, I remember switching back and forth from WCW and wwf having some interest in what they'd do with his character since they built him up so much. They certainly dropped the ball with him.
BTW, I wanted to thank you for giving me the perfect song for talking about Mortal Kombat. Now when I make my videos and I have to talk about MK or Glacier, The Kombat Tomb Megadrive theme will be there.
The popularity of Mortal Kombat TV show on TNT was one of the ideas for Glacier creation for WcW, BTW, love the WCW/NWO Revenge VGM in the background.
Glacier was an unlockable in WCW world tour. He was definitely meant as a marketing tool.
Bret Hart said that Stu Hart would’ve fixed Goldberg. Goldberg was an unsafe wrestler that hurt guys and that was seen when he wrestle the Undertaker, Goldberg even hurt himself before he had the match against the Undertaker. William Regal rightfully put Goldberg in his place.
I have every piece of Buzz Sterns memorabilia
lmao seriously? How come?
He did have one of the more cooler entrances in WCW. Shame his character didn't work out.
@Michael Marzullo 😁👍🏻
glacier just needed a knock-off mortal kombat style techno theme song and he would have been way over! test your might! fight! pew pew pew pew pew pew!
Great series. Blunder is superb.
I live in Valdosta. I remember seeing Glacier on WCW, but I didn’t know til around 2008 that he had gone to college here.
I ended up working at my local sheriff’s office with his tag team partner from back when they were in the independent circuit. Their team name was “The Blazers” which comes from the name of the Valdosta State University sports program.
I cant wait for the Deadly Kung-fu Legacies: Glacier game.
Where Glacier gets tricked by the evil wizard Quantum Chief, into killing the pet of the fire warrior Dessert.
Dessert not knowing of Quantums tricks
decides to kill glacier and all of the
Kwin Lei, Glaciers group of Kung fu practitioners.
Glacier did Karate not kung fu 😒
If Sting had got Glacier, Wrath, and Mortis to set their differences aside for a time, they could have made a great gimmick team against the NWO.
Kaz Hayashi did get Glacier's full snow machine/lighting intro on Thunder a couple of times, I remember it well 🤣🤣
The Man himself: *Glacier*
I just saw Glacier wrestle a couple weeks ago. Funny to see this video pop up.
Might just be my personal opinion but Glacier was an underrated and fun character to use in WCW Revenge just cause of his different move set
Yeah he definitely was. His move set was definitely more of a stand up karate style. I don't think anyone else was like that.
Tru dat
@@The_Bad_Guy. every time I faced glacier in revenge I destroy him last night i played wcw revenge on my phone I was 1998 superstar Scott steiner and I wresled glacier
@@The_Bad_Guy. finished him off with the steiner recliner camel clutch
Would love to see a Norman smiley bio
The only show WCW should have put on was a New year's show. Because they're geat at dropping the Ball!
just realized, BLUNDER IS OUR reliving the war b-show. and I loved this hahahahah memories of the original wars, and WB's RELIVING of them .
In the 1994-95 cartoon world of wcw, glacier would have been better paired against the dungeon of doom, rather than hogan
He would have fit even better in 1994-1995 WWF
A great video. One more time you brought us an entertaining video. Although English is not my mothertongue it's good to understand. Thank you 🙂
I had to click as soon as I saw that title.
Glacier in 2001 was GOLD! Loved those few weeks with Norman Smiley. Would love to know why they stopped it so suddenly, fans even brought Glacier signs they were getting into it.
Goldust fizzled out quick ,too.Meanwhile Austin and NWO were raking in the dough.
I feel like there were a lot of missteps early on...I think Bischoff thought that Glacier and Krew would catch on because of Mortal Kombat, but it was running it's course as a phenomena itself. Yeah, it's still around, but they missed the heyday of Mortal Kombat 3. They COULD have tried to use Glacier and the gang to fight the NWO, but that would have put a corny spin on that angle they probably didn't want to touch. So it just kind of died a slow death.
They did Glacier a year or two too late. If he had debut spiring/summer of 1995 he would have been popular. Mortal Kombat was at it's peak popularity with MK3 just coming out and a movie and cartoon coming out.
I was mildly interested in Glacier when Mortis and Wrath turned up but it really did feel out of place at the time. When the whole thing went nowhere but he continued the gimmick it just seemed pointless because the longer he stuck around the more out of place he seemed. If he had turned up a year before the whole thing may have worked and probably would have been one of the bigger funds and gimmicks in 1995.
Have you done a video on WTF happened to Alex Wright? Disappearing and coming back as "Berlyn". That was ridiculous. Unlike Glacier, heel Alex Wright was actually a good character. I don't know why the whole Berlyn thing happened.
Berlyn coming back with The Wall
“It’s the wall Brother!”
WE LOVE BLUNDER! WE WANT MORE lol good videos bro
They brought in Vampiro and didn't know what to do with him, so maybe a Glacier/Vampiro angle might have been a better pairing than the Vampiro/Sting angle.
Vampiro/Sting made a lot of sense to do. Two very visually similar characters and WCW was grasping at anything to survive. Vampiro just wasn't a great Character. Even ICP couldn't help him get over that much and ICP turned the failed Truth Commission into the Fan Favorite Oddities faction.
ICP were jokes in the music industry, but holy hell their gimmick fit in perfectly with Wrestling. The Oddities were legitimately Fun to Watch.
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It didn't work because they were too similar...
Sting being headliner was more reality based conflicts and storyline so didn't match well with Vampiro being a little over the top, where maybe it would fit better with Glacier.
And I don't know what all that blathering about ICP was about. Lol
This video will never not be underrated. Letting the marketing department create gimmicks is hilariously WCW.
Glacier made a returned for CHIKARA's King of Trios tournament several years ago. That was a lot of fun.
But he's right about one thing; his entrance was simply ravishing, complete with fake snow and blue lighting. He was introduced as from the Shinjiro temple in Japan, where he learned the martial Arts.
Biggest blunders ..... letting go of stone cold austin , jericho , benoit , guerrero , malenko.
Can you talk about some of the wackiest and most Bizarre rip-off WCW Characters such as Asya, Oklahoma, Buzzkill, Berlyn and others?
In my head canon that Glacier video game is titled "Mortal Kombat Apologies: Glacier"
Ah as I remembered him the Mortal Kombat Guy 🤣