I think some (if not all) of these were inducted into WrestleCrap. (I distinctly remember the one featuring Kid Rock because RD Reynolds was complaining about Kid Rock being surrounded by Nitro Girls XD)
Because nobody saw it or even heard of it happening, and if they did they'd forgotten about it..like I did. WCW had far more dreadful programming with main event talent. Undercard messes weren't worth the time to think about.
IM SO GLAD YOURE COVERING THIS I REMEMBER IT WELL!!! i cheered during the snow show when disco inferno got eliminated and fans started throwing snowballs at him!
I've been watching this channel since 2016 and it amazes me that there are still random wrestling related things I haven't heard of yet. I love videos like this! The pop culture tie-ins and wrestling adjacent stuff is so fun to learn about.
As someone who did lots of camera work in the snow for college, a Cancun show sounds lovely. Our ear pieces froze so we had to just kinda guess our shots 😭
Only in WCW would a guy who already told management that he wasn't re-signing with them be awarded with not just a free vacation to Cancun, but also win the televised special attraction match he was sent there for!
@@V-Master-ez1ht Oh absolutely! It's a very powerful song and has the right groove to fit into wrestling environment. Surprised that nobody used it as an entrance theme in 2000s honestly, would fit like a glove
Raven attacking DDP on MTV in 1998 always makes me laugh what makes it even funnier is that raven is doing this in front of dave grohl I'm so glad brian is talking about that was great stuff lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I love how Raven just hated being there so much so he wanted the other artist to win the vote so he could leave and when it didnt he was even more done lol
I was a big WCW fan and watched every single Nitro, Thunder and PPV from 95-01....and I have absolutely NO recollection of any of these events. Thanks for suffering through these on our behalf, Brian!
Do you blame them sit out in the rain for three plus hours listening to mostly terrible promos from people that either are terrible at promos Brad is an example also Billy heroine junky Kidman and people that can’t speak English Ultimo Dragon who spoke fluent Japanese and Spanish absolute disaster had some great wrestlers in the event unfortunately weather prevented them from doing so poor WCW always shooting itself in the face
The rained out WCW event I had never heard of before. I was familiar with the Snow and Beach themed shows but that rainy MTV disaster? Not sure how I never came across any of that. Thanks Brian, that was a lot of fun watching wrestlers come into a rained out ring area through a tarp haha, what a weird event they held.
Jesse camp was one of the first examples of internet troll voting. In the VJ contest, the finals was between one guy who was tailored made to be a VJ and the other was camp.
I remember watching the ultimate video music feud live. I lived in New York and not only was it rainy it was also slightly snowing too. So it wasnt just wet it was cold and wet. What I remember most was the issues with Kidman and Ultimo's choice, and especially Ultimo looking like he was freezing to death.
"THEY COULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING....LIKE LOOKED AT THE 7 DAY FORCAST OR RENTED A TENT" The bar has been set to a whole new low And they couldn't even clear that
Page and Raven's feud was my intro to WCW. Raven, one of the most underrated performers in wrestling history. Page, of the most rock-solid guys you could ask for. I remember wishing more of WCW was like this feud.
Fun Fact: There is a live version of the song Replica by Fear Factory where vocalist Burton C. Bell says " This is a song you won't hear on MTV, Fuck MTV!"
Seeing DDP and Raven in the thumbnail made me expect Stuck Mojo to be mentioned, since The Flock and DDP were in one of their video(and SM used a couple of old WCW belts in photoshoots and album cover around this time)
I remember the Chris Jericho battle royal. After he won he was interviewed by Kid Rock and Jericho called him Rock Kid cause he used to get everyone's name wrong lol
Folks always look to 1999-2000 when analyzing the WCW collapse, but 1998 was when things really went to hell. They had so much over talent who were drawing big, but the shows and PPV’s were always a complete let down again and again. Fans finally just gave up
The nWo would just NOT go away. At least the McMahon organizations would get comeuppance (In that era anyway.......) but the 119th nWo screwing, you just stop watching. I had watched WCW since 1995 but tapped put like late '98/early '99.
Honestly WWF was creatively and artistically better starting around May 97. Kind of mind boggling WCW had the ratings edge for about a year afterwards. Just goes to show how bad WWF was in 95 and most of 96 and lost a lot of their fan base during the beginning of the NWO run. Took awhile to get the fans back but if you compare both products on the whole (Raw v Nitro, House shows PPV'S and an overall fresh product) WWF was superior for a lot of those 83 weeks
I had known before about SnowBrawl and BeachBrawl, but this is the first time I have *ever* even heard of that Ultimate Music Video Feud. I'm amazed that MTV didn't just pull the plug right then and there considering how THAT show went. But hey, atleast BeachBrawl gave us prime Fear Factory, so that was nice.
Several years ago, I went to a TNA house show at the local fairgrounds. It rained throughout the entire show. All the wrestlers still performed despite the wet ring. The stage lights made the water splashing in the ring look pretty cool. It was a little scary when they did certain moves but (to my knowledge) no one got hurt.
Well Brian, we didn’t get to see you dressed up for Halloween this year. But this WCW/MTV collaboration was about scarier than Rick Steiner wanting to fight Chucky. Hell, WCW should had been doing Celebrity Death Match. You could imagine… Hogan vs. Savage, Sting vs. DDP, Steiner vs. Chucky. Lol
Fear Factory does kind of have a tie-in to wrestling. The guitarist, Dino, worked under a mask as a member of Brujeria. If you asked him about it, he would deny it up and down. Keeping kayfabe, brother!
This show was their recital, they thought it's very vital, to book a match that did not suck- it's tricky and they failed. Sometimes, to book a match, to book a match that does not suck, it's tricky.
I had seen stuff about the holiday stuff on Bios (well done) but the rain event was new to me (also very well done sir!). Any chance we could see a co-review with Bios and Wregret? I think these two would be a great listen!
I always liked how the belt that they gave DDP during the MTV rainy day wrestling Jam there is just an old WCW six-man tag team belt with an MTV sticker slapped on the center plate
when you so perfectly, randomly said " We see tournament brackets for the first time.. " & they had 2 matches already into the show it was such a random thing to wait that long to put up the brackets... I laughed so god dam hard.. maybe more than I have in a long time
If someone described this event to me, I wouldn't have believed it was actually real and that it actually happened. That was SO bad. So very, very bad. Thanks for being brave enough to cover this, Brian.
I watched this as a teen in my living room.My cousin and I felt so sorry for them to be wrestling in the rain.I'll never forget Booker T slipping in the rain on the mat.
wrestlers wrestling in the rain: oh those poor babies, I hope they don't get sick, they have such a tough job and no one appreciates them for it... baseball players playing until the game is canceled: OH! those pooooooor BABIES! GET THEM BACK ON THE FIELD... seems like we all know they were actors and have no coping skills at all, bunch of pre Madanas
Raven was a hidden gem in WCW. Didn't do a heck of a lot from what I can remember, other than brood in the corner of the ring.. or sit at ringside with his flock.. but when he got spurred into action, it was often memorable. Never heard of this event, but him telling people to vote for Madonna so he can leave was gold.
First battle royal uses My Own Summer by Deftones and Fear Factory are playing Edgecrusher during the match. Wrestletalk's Luke Owens has mentioned it fondly/nostalgically before!
uh yea...the one so bad it didn't sound like any stop sign attacks before...even how he took it was completely different. Killed him but then an alien entered his body so thats why the DDP of today is a yoga teacher...and not to creep on gals.
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I feel like Public Enemy not representing the actual Public Enemy is a missed oppurtunity
I 100% agree.
sounds stupid to me
This whole event is a missed opportunity
@@jamesmeppler6375 WCW in a nutshell
Public enemy are jabronis
I've never heard about this show before. With how everyone talks about WCW's blunders, you'd think more people would talk about this.
you must not be open to new things. Since these new things are decades old at this point...
@@jamesmeppler6375 How about you not insult a stranger who left a completely innocuous comment.
Wrestling bios has already covered it though.....
@@elchomper.1063 doesnt mean everyone has seen it though
I think some (if not all) of these were inducted into WrestleCrap. (I distinctly remember the one featuring Kid Rock because RD Reynolds was complaining about Kid Rock being surrounded by Nitro Girls XD)
How is this not talked about more? This is DREADFUL.
They should of held back and waited to do it before the rain or after.
@@nehemiahpouncey3607 or moved it indoors.
Because nobody saw it or even heard of it happening, and if they did they'd forgotten about it..like I did. WCW had far more dreadful programming with main event talent. Undercard messes weren't worth the time to think about.
@@nehemiahpouncey3607I’m gonna assume you’ve never heard of TV timeslots
@@nehemiahpouncey3607 Spring weather in New York means it could've been that bad weather for 2-3 days...
"Representing Run DMC, it's Barry Darsow, yeah!" is going to live rent-free in my mind for a long, long time, and I'm okay with that.
Seems like Booker t would represent them
This may be the best crossover of all time
He repossessed their chains, I guess
Lol and they weren't even relevant by 1998 MTV standards. Very odd choices all around.
IM SO GLAD YOURE COVERING THIS I REMEMBER IT WELL!!! i cheered during the snow show when disco inferno got eliminated and fans started throwing snowballs at him!
I've been watching this channel since 2016 and it amazes me that there are still random wrestling related things I haven't heard of yet. I love videos like this! The pop culture tie-ins and wrestling adjacent stuff is so fun to learn about.
"Oh no, Brad has to cut a promo" made me have to take a 2 minute break for laughing. So deadpan, yet so damn funny!
9:10 "Poor tony is chilly and has a towel over his shoulders"
😂 i cackled a little
At least Raven and Jericho used it to get their characters over
they were already over...so they didn't use it for anything.
I’m not sure Raven was doing that I think he was just so done with this bullshit 😂😂
@BirdGang6 was probably both
Jericho would bring that haircut back
During the ruthless era.
Does anyway remember this I watched everything wcw at the time I associate it with visiting my grandparents as a child and I have never heard of this
As someone who did lots of camera work in the snow for college, a Cancun show sounds lovely.
Our ear pieces froze so we had to just kinda guess our shots 😭
Only in WCW would a guy who already told management that he wasn't re-signing with them be awarded with not just a free vacation to Cancun, but also win the televised special attraction match he was sent there for!
17:18 Gotta admit having Deftones My own summer blaring during a match sounds badass.
That's purely because My Own Summer is a badass song. I think you can make kittens look badass with that song playing in the background 😂
Fair enough. Imagine this song used in a hype package either for a feud or a wrestler showcase.
@@V-Master-ez1ht Oh absolutely! It's a very powerful song and has the right groove to fit into wrestling environment. Surprised that nobody used it as an entrance theme in 2000s honestly, would fit like a glove
20:03 I know he was still at the Power Plant, but that was the perfect time for Chuck Palumbo to debut.
Whatever happened to him? He was pretty good actually.
@@makaveli4205 pretty sure he owns a motorcycle shop now
@@mrterp04Yes he owns his custom motorcycle garage, a gym, and plays guitar in 3 Spoke Wheels.
@@mrterp04 He does kind of look like a biker guy
Zane, that was a fantastic Eddie Vedder impersonation @12:29!
I don’t remember the first tournament, but I do remember SnowBrawl vividly. And even as a kid, I was like “Brian Adams, really?” 😂
3:54 "Nashsaid he wasn't about to miss mother's Day" LMFAO! That's the most Kevin Nash thing I've ever heard. 😂
"What about me? What about raisin?" - Me and my friends mocking Raven on the playground
Raven attacking DDP on MTV in 1998 always makes me laugh what makes it even funnier is that raven is doing this in front of dave grohl I'm so glad brian is talking about that was great stuff lol 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I legit didn’t know about any of this but man it’s funny! “This show had everything - production, a covered area… PEOPLE” 😂
I love how Raven just hated being there so much so he wanted the other artist to win the vote so he could leave and when it didnt he was even more done lol
Hahaha I had to rewind and watch that section again immediately.
This is probably my favorite video you have ever uploaded
Raven on this show was fantastic, they fact he didn’t care about the competition when cutting his promos was hilarious
My favorite part of BeachBrawl is Jericho referring to Kid Rock as "Rock Kid" during his post match promo.
I also remember Kid Rock butchering the pronunciation of Hurricanrana.
@@emanuelespinoza9325 That was actually the wasted Raven on commentary who butchered that.
And then he partied with Rock Kid for like 12 hours that night. Jericho gonna Jericho!
@@FelixRodriguez "Shuishusai Hurranacarrana"
Just seeing ultimate dragon, standing there cold, and uncomfortable in the rain talking about Madonna had me crying. Forgot that I watched this live.
Yes, I knew that chairshot to the Bodyguards vs Bandits rap video was gonna be on the intro sooner or later. Such a funny moment
I was a big WCW fan and watched every single Nitro, Thunder and PPV from 95-01....and I have absolutely NO recollection of any of these events. Thanks for suffering through these on our behalf, Brian!
Finally, the feud between David Lee Roth and Van Halen hits the ring.
Yes!!!
"Whose side did you take?"
""Van Halen"
"He's a cop!"
“Tony Schiavone and Larry Zbyszko Look absolutely miserable” 😂 💀
Do you blame them sit out in the rain for three plus hours listening to mostly terrible promos from people that either are terrible at promos Brad is an example also Billy heroine junky Kidman and people that can’t speak English Ultimo Dragon who spoke fluent Japanese and Spanish absolute disaster had some great wrestlers in the event unfortunately weather prevented them from doing so poor WCW always shooting itself in the face
Tony is in for a wild 2 years
The rained out WCW event I had never heard of before. I was familiar with the Snow and Beach themed shows but that rainy MTV disaster? Not sure how I never came across any of that. Thanks Brian, that was a lot of fun watching wrestlers come into a rained out ring area through a tarp haha, what a weird event they held.
Brian with the best Eddie Vedder impression ever😂
4:00 to 4:28 😂😂😂 Thanks to Brian, this golden time in history has been recorded 👍🏽 great review. Keep up the great work!
Am I the only one that finds it funny how in the span of a year Brad went from representing Metallica to the No Limit Soldiers?
Now there's a Judgment Night style pairing I would LOVE to hear.
Ah yes. My favorite Fear Factory song from their album Obsolete. "PREPARE FOR CHUUUUUUUUUUUUCK"
That album is really good
I kinda love how much crossover Wrestling With Wregret and Wrestling Bios have in terms of what they’ve covered
I legit don't remember those shows, and I was watching WCW on a regular basis still, back then.
Jesse camp was one of the first examples of internet troll voting.
In the VJ contest, the finals was between one guy who was tailored made to be a VJ and the other was camp.
And the other guy went on to have a longer run on MTV as well!
"Prepare for Chuuuuuuh!" Print the t-shirts
I watched all of WCW at this point and yet I'm fairly sure this is the first time I've ever heard Sick Boy speak
I must have totally missed this when it was happening, but this was glorious 😆 great job 👏
I remember watching the ultimate video music feud live.
I lived in New York and not only was it rainy it was also slightly snowing too.
So it wasnt just wet it was cold and wet.
What I remember most was the issues with Kidman and Ultimo's choice, and especially Ultimo looking like he was freezing to death.
lol, yes. We go from sleeting to 90 in about 2 days.
"THEY COULD HAVE DONE ANYTHING....LIKE LOOKED AT THE 7 DAY FORCAST OR RENTED A TENT"
The bar has been set to a whole new low
And they couldn't even clear that
Barry darsow is to weird 90's wrestling shows what Jesse Hernandez is to being a 90's ref.
He's every where.
Page and Raven's feud was my intro to WCW. Raven, one of the most underrated performers in wrestling history. Page, of the most rock-solid guys you could ask for. I remember wishing more of WCW was like this feud.
I didn't know until now that these existed. Magnificent!
I've been watching wrestling as long as I can remember, and 43. I've never seen these, thanks you Brian at least I knw they exist
Fun Fact: There is a live version of the song Replica by Fear Factory where vocalist Burton C. Bell says " This is a song you won't hear on MTV, Fuck MTV!"
For record: Kidman was NOT Madonna's boyfriend. Louie Spicolli was.
@hulk6785 If Louie hadn't passed away months prior, I wonder if he would have said that.
Seeing DDP and Raven in the thumbnail made me expect Stuck Mojo to be mentioned, since The Flock and DDP were in one of their video(and SM used a couple of old WCW belts in photoshoots and album cover around this time)
Tony with a towel over his shoulders like a kid who just got out of the pool is iconic.
I remember the Chris Jericho battle royal. After he won he was interviewed by Kid Rock and Jericho called him Rock Kid cause he used to get everyone's name wrong lol
I've been stealing that gimmick for over 20 years now.
"Rent a tent or something."
UMVF walked so the Mighty Maccabee could run. Except MaccabeeMania happened before this. So never mind.
I had BeachBrawl on tape. Raven, Jimmy Hart and Kid Rock on commentary were insufferable. Fear Factory was good. :)
Oh god Jesse Camp. A friend of mine who worked at Blockbuster Music in the late 90’s almost punched him when he was doing an in-store appearance.
Jessie Camp was like 25 years ahead of his time.
@@anthonyrowland9072It's true, he would be SO massive if he did his atrocious schtick today.
I used to hate him lol
Jesse Camp AND Blockbuster Music? If your friend was wearing chucks and a pacifier necklace, he could have won late 90's bingo.
Folks always look to 1999-2000 when analyzing the WCW collapse, but 1998 was when things really went to hell. They had so much over talent who were drawing big, but the shows and PPV’s were always a complete let down again and again. Fans finally just gave up
I totally agree. It all started with that dreadful Starcade 97 main event and after that it was all down the toilet
The nWo would just NOT go away. At least the McMahon organizations would get comeuppance (In that era anyway.......) but the 119th nWo screwing, you just stop watching.
I had watched WCW since 1995 but tapped put like late '98/early '99.
Honestly WWF was creatively and artistically better starting around May 97. Kind of mind boggling WCW had the ratings edge for about a year afterwards. Just goes to show how bad WWF was in 95 and most of 96 and lost a lot of their fan base during the beginning of the NWO run. Took awhile to get the fans back but if you compare both products on the whole (Raw v Nitro, House shows PPV'S and an overall fresh product) WWF was superior for a lot of those 83 weeks
@@dantegood2195 Finger Poke Of Doom was so stupid.
@@makaveli4205and the same night as "butts in seats" for Mick Foley
Any blunt rotation that involves Kid Rock is cursed.
16:42 Well, since it was MTV back when music was still important, having Bryan Adams as a villain fits the musical theme.
WHO'S HOUSE!?
REPOMAN'S HOUSE!
Went from not wanting to make October a rock themed month to making it an Ayatollah of Rock & Rolla month. 😂
I had known before about SnowBrawl and BeachBrawl, but this is the first time I have *ever* even heard of that Ultimate Music Video Feud.
I'm amazed that MTV didn't just pull the plug right then and there considering how THAT show went.
But hey, atleast BeachBrawl gave us prime Fear Factory, so that was nice.
Several years ago, I went to a TNA house show at the local fairgrounds. It rained throughout the entire show. All the wrestlers still performed despite the wet ring. The stage lights made the water splashing in the ring look pretty cool. It was a little scary when they did certain moves but (to my knowledge) no one got hurt.
@@harrybehemoth2751 That's really dangerous though. Could get electrocuted too.
Well Brian, we didn’t get to see you dressed up for Halloween this year. But this WCW/MTV collaboration was about scarier than Rick Steiner wanting to fight Chucky. Hell, WCW should had been doing Celebrity Death Match. You could imagine… Hogan vs. Savage, Sting vs. DDP, Steiner vs. Chucky. Lol
Awesome video! Been watching your channel for years.
I wanna see you cover the documentary "Beyond the Mat" one day in a future video!
Fear Factory does kind of have a tie-in to wrestling. The guitarist, Dino, worked under a mask as a member of Brujeria. If you asked him about it, he would deny it up and down.
Keeping kayfabe, brother!
I'm in tears laughing right now. Heroes of Wrestling was more exciting than the MTV show in the rain.
This show was their recital, they thought it's very vital, to book a match that did not suck- it's tricky and they failed.
Sometimes, to book a match, to book a match that does not suck, it's tricky.
Wrestling Bios Covered Those WCW Specials now Our Good Pal Brian Zayne is covering this
Van Hammer not representing Van Halen seems the most egregious oversight of all
I had seen stuff about the holiday stuff on Bios (well done) but the rain event was new to me (also very well done sir!). Any chance we could see a co-review with Bios and Wregret? I think these two would be a great listen!
I remember seeing that bit on MTV Live with DDP and Raven. I also watched the BeachBrawl.
19:20 I'm pretty sure he was making a menage a trois joke, Brian. The late-90's, folks!
😲
8:57 “Metala-rocks” sounds like a rock candy brand that was rejected by Metallica at this time 😂
I always liked how the belt that they gave DDP during the MTV rainy day wrestling Jam there is just an old WCW six-man tag team belt with an MTV sticker slapped on the center plate
when you so perfectly, randomly said " We see tournament brackets for the first time.. "
& they had 2 matches already into the show it was such a random thing to wait that long to put up the brackets...
I laughed so god dam hard.. maybe more than I have in a long time
The fact that Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins (RIP)where part of this is so weird it's great.
Okay, Brian channelling his inner Eddie Vedder caught me by surprise LOL
This is wild. I don't think I remember these at all! Great video
as a fellow new yorker i remember this at 7 years old 😁😁😁
Raven shitting all over this event is absolutely phenomenal lol
I was watching both WCW and MTV at that time. How did I miss this?
Nice Vedder impersonation! 👍
Idc what anyone says, raven’s behavior at the first event is a whole mood of it’s own 😂 dude is hilarious unintentionally
If someone described this event to me, I wouldn't have believed it was actually real and that it actually happened. That was SO bad. So very, very bad.
Thanks for being brave enough to cover this, Brian.
1:07 Raven scared the crap out of the Foo Fighters😂
Also the real Run DMC at the time made a song about DX, i still bump that WWF Aggression album.
Pissed myself laughing at that stop-sign noise and we're not even two minutes in.
As a massive foo fighters and wrestling fan when I found the clip of Raven and DDP a few months ago it felt like a simulation
I watched this as a teen in my living room.My cousin and I felt so sorry for them to be wrestling in the rain.I'll never forget Booker T slipping in the rain on the mat.
wrestlers wrestling in the rain: oh those poor babies, I hope they don't get sick, they have such a tough job and no one appreciates them for it...
baseball players playing until the game is canceled: OH! those pooooooor BABIES! GET THEM BACK ON THE FIELD...
seems like we all know they were actors and have no coping skills at all, bunch of pre Madanas
Love these kind of videos!
I was out to sea for about half of 1998, and totally missed this. This ranks up there with that AWA cereal show
WCW did an earlier thing with MTV with Kevin Nash, Scott Hall & Syxx. I think it ended with someone throwing rocks at them and Nash attacking the fan.
I absolutely love how raven just says what everyone is thinking and basically says vote me off this shit, literal storm
I LOVED REMEMBERING THEEE. So much nostalgia
WCW should’ve just used an arena for the MTV specials!! Doesn’t anyone from WCW back then know anything about scheduling?!
8:33
DDP looking like he absolutely despises cigars lol
My roommates in college were pro wrestling fans and I remember them watching SnowBrawl.
Raven was a hidden gem in WCW. Didn't do a heck of a lot from what I can remember, other than brood in the corner of the ring.. or sit at ringside with his flock.. but when he got spurred into action, it was often memorable.
Never heard of this event, but him telling people to vote for Madonna so he can leave was gold.
First battle royal uses My Own Summer by Deftones and Fear Factory are playing Edgecrusher during the match. Wrestletalk's Luke Owens has mentioned it fondly/nostalgically before!
uh yea...the one so bad it didn't sound like any stop sign attacks before...even how he took it was completely different. Killed him but then an alien entered his body so thats why the DDP of today is a yoga teacher...and not to creep on gals.
Even Van Hammer didn't want the Van Halen III stink on him.
Poor Gary Cherone...
I remember enjoying the battle royals as a kid. Seeing Fear Factory next to wrestling was amazing to 15 year old me