Sandman looks like that guy who shows up to do the drywall in your house, takes a giant dump in your toilet, doesn’t flush and never finished the drywall job.
He actually kinda is that guy lol. I think he has done construction. He built scaffolds for different companies for Scaffold Matches and somehow had a hand in the ring CHIKARA was using in their early days like 2003-2009.
I know a lot of people point to the Fingerpoke of Doom being the first warning sign that WCW was definitely heading down the wrong path, but to me, the Uncensored 1999 main event, and *especially* the double-turn in particular was the TRUE catalyst for the spiraling decline that WCW would go on from this point onward, made only worse the following month with the logo change/re-branding. From this point onwards, things get incredibly sad, and the highlights become much fewer and farther in between.
It wasn’t that everyone was joining Nwo the first sign of company crumbling lol. But yea finger of doom, matches , promos, story lines etc was down fall that everyone seen coming. Not to mention not letting DX into building that day made WWE take over lol
There were many inflection points that sent them backwards or downwards between Hog Wild 97 and March 99 but *this* is the cliff face they fall off only to really start to recover once they were weeks from death.
The logo/set change is probably the best marker of where the good old WCW ended and when it started going down hill. Not that the logo/set is what caused it but it certainly didn't help.
Aside from the main event itself, even Whipwreck vs. Kidman was an example of just how chaotic WCW was backstage, creatively. According to Mickey himself, he was given at least three different orders for his match when it came to length, balance of offense, etc., and from three different people! Meanwhile, there's also a rumor that Mickey's entire push was more or less quashed after that debut match because the match itself was too good & that someone got annoyed that their later match was made to look pathetic. That person? Vincent. Yeah, aside from being given conflicting orders regarding the match itself, Mickey Whipwreck's time in WCW may have been screwed over by Vincent, of all people; not even Stevie Ray! At any other time & any other promotion this would sound completely absurd, but this is WCW in early 1999 so it actually sounds believable.
According to the WWE Documentary , they signed Whipwreck to a 1 year deal, despite knowing that he’d be out for about 6 months to have knee surgery. This kept him out of ECW though, so…win?
@@TimTE01 WCW did the same exact thing with Sandman, signing him to a contract but initially not doing anything with him for a few months, so he just stayed at home & got paid to do nothing, before they finally brought him in to be Raven's neighbor & then Hak.
WCW Uncensored 1999 was the last WCW PPV of the iconic WCW period from 1988 to early 1999. After this and a number of Nitros and Thunders, get ready to wash your eyes out after April 1999 because WCW will get its most hated symbol and look soon.
Yup. That logo change symbolizes the beginning of the end and the start of the fall of WCW. We’ve now entered the third and final act of this War. WWE will reach new heights and WCW will reach new lows. This is going to be a sad and fun ride.
Arguably this is where the WCW vs nWo storyline ends. With Hogan and eventually Nash turning face, being an nWo member has little meaning and the group will slowly fade away.
And they were such big idiots that they continued to do weekly nitro and ppvs in their territory. Nobody thought that after turning Hogan face they should start touring North East more and more. Because that would significantly increase their revenue.
This might have been the only world title match where Flair went over Hogan. I remember not really wanting to see them do a double-turn, but after watching it recently, many of the fans seemed to be behind it. However, this begins a series of nonsensical turns in several months with Kevin Nash (heel in March '99, babyface by end of April), and the nWo wolfpac elite slowly dissolving with Steiner turning on Bagwell, Hogan going off TV after Spring Stampede, and Scott Hall off TV until October. Then there's the DDP slow heel turn and his first two World Title reigns. There will be some unintentional comedy soon with the return of Sid Vicious in the summer, especially when he begins a feud with Goldberg.
The Ric Flair promo at Chapel Hill leading up to this ppv is my favorite Flair promo of all time. "When I get through with you they won't wanna be like Mike. They'll wanna be like the nature boy!"
I went to this event and remember being utterly confused at the main event. I was a WWF guy and at this point barely paying attention to WCW. This PPV pretty much sealed the deal of me giving up on the brand altogether.
"Tony Schiavone says the rules are clear; the first one to bleed is the loser of the match, and I want you to keep that in mind as we take a look at this main event." "This supposed to be a First Blood match, but the commentors say forget about it, it doesn't matter. So, what the f*ck is going on? " 😆😆😆😆
Was Bischoff's biggest failing the fact that he was such a mark for Hogan? Or whenever he hit a creative wall, he thought putting the belt back on Hogan was always the answer....
Biggest failing was not resolving the Hollywood vs Wolfpac situation and then dissolving the nWo. I bet that idea got That-doesn’t-work-for-me-brothered though.
No, Hulk was incredibly over during this time. Having him front and centre made perfect sense. Eric also learned from his mentor's major mistake - Verne Gagne, who Eric worked for in the AWA, infamously refused to put the belt on a young Hulk Hogan, which eventually lead to him jumping to the WWE and becoming the biggest star in the industry.
I don't know, I remember watching this live and remember being really pleased with the Main Event. For the first time in ages the Horsemen were acting like Horsemen and it paid off.
Today I rewatched Reliving the War Episode 3 because I kinda like the 1994-95 WWE era and it's so cool to see how your channel has grown and the work refined and all. Thank you for this. I've been on board since episode 6 or 7 and I'll stay until you kick us out ❤
RtW got me to go back and re-watch all the old Raw and Nitro episodes. All the pay-per-views too. Watching all those old episodes really helps put this series into perspective. I feel a lot more connected to RtW than I did before. Peacock owes you a debt!
This is where my time with WCW ended. I was only 9 but I know I after watching the main event I didn't even bother tuning into Nitro to see more of what I saw. My family would take a short break from wrestling until my parents ordered our first WWF PPV, SummerSlam 1999. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Looking forward to seeing the parts of Nitro I missed.
Terrible mistake. I'd take WCW 99-01 any day over what was going on in the WWE at the time, or at any time for that matter. Sure, it wasn't the peak of the industry as it was from 96-99, but it was still better than watching an ancient Vince McMahon who can't wrestle give himself the WWE title (Sept 99).
I was at Freedom Hall in Louisville for this show. I would have been in my teens at the time. I had forgotten some of the Mid-card matches but still remember the main event and how confusing it was. In hindsight it may not have been the greatest show, but I remember having fun that night, and am glad I was able to attend a WCW PPV. This video was a nice trip down memory lane.
I've been watching your show for the entire run. When it started I had COVID in 2020 I think? That's been how long it's been going. This ppv has a sad special place in my heart. This was the last wrestling event I watched with my childhood best friends before I moved to another state and never saw them again. We had an illegal cable box and our house became the go to spot for everyone to watch wrestling. Thanks for making these.
“No one knows what’s going on here, but Robinson refuses to make the count…” Followed by an ominous fades-to-black. No joke, given the state of WCW at this point, I was truly expecting that to be the end of the PPV. Just, “We’ll write our way out of this tomorrow on Nitro!”
I’ll never forget Flair had the belt after it was over. Now wrestling was back to when it was the best. Flair as champion making every challenger look unbelievable. Should have been a longer run for him. Hogan fights Flair especially hard if you ever notice. No taking it easy against Flair in a match.
You could say that about almost any WWE PPV in 2000. I firmly believe that WWE from the beginning of 2000 to WM X-Seven was top to bottom the greatest period for a wrestling promotion from an overall quality standpoint and I will die on that hill.
While WM XV wasn't a great card from top to bottom, to know that the WWF put their two hottest wrestlers together in a main event that actually made sense and furthered the future of the company while WCW primed the pump once more and again with Hogan v Flair says so much about how WCW couldn't get out of its own way
I know he said he wasn't gonna do the invasion angle but man i would love his comments on the underrated stone cold and booker t fued it was timeless 😂😂😂
Off to to get belittled by the Rock and midcarded for years. Even when they finally put him in the main event he was treated as a comedy act and a sideshow next to Stephanie, because in the WWE a McMahon always has to take the spotlight.
@namikstudios years in mid card? Lmao did you even watch? It took a little around 2 years for him to become the first ever undisputed champion...wtf lmao
@@Miguel-mp7uz like I said and as you agreed, Jericho was midcarded for years. It wasn't until well after WCW was sold to WWE that he was finally put in the main event. As the first ever Undisputed Champion he was treated as a sideshow, doing such things as wondering around backstage walking Stephanie's dog with a belt over each shoulder. After a few months of being treated as an afterthought he was promptly jobbed out to Stephanie's talentless husband then relegated back to the midcard for another 6 long years.
Tbf, the main point of the main event was to show that flair had become corrupt enough to now start fixing matches for himself (ie bribing refs etc). Problem is, Hollywood was also a heel and it was hard to know how we the audience were supposed to feel. Although it's clear from the crowd reaction, that they wanted them to ditch the Hollywood gimmick.
WCW uncensored 1999 was a great PPV another awesome episode of Reliving the war can't believe this PPV happened 24-years ago time flies it's really been that long lol.
This is where WCW started to feel the consequences of the Fingerpoke of Doom. Kevin Nash claims it was done to set up a heel faction for Goldberg to go through but instead it was Ric Flair and then Flair abusing his power as President caused the nWo to become babyfaces.
No, he really was a legend. And I say that as someone who lost pretty much all respect for Terry Bollea after his racism came to light. Like him or loathe him, Hulk was the biggest star the industry has ever had.
I remember when I was watching the DSOTR Ep on Bash at the Beach 2000 and Russo is talking about how he was in a creative meeting (allegedly Bischoff claims this never happened because he wasn't present at the meeting) and everyone in that meeting wanted to make Booker T the next pet project of the brand Jarrett (Russo's friend) says he was (allegedly) supportive of the idea namely because it would get the belt off Hogan. This match with Steiner was likely the inkling that Booker was gonna be the guy
I am far from a Russo fan, and think he got more things wrong than he did right. But I will admit that occasionally, he had a good idea. If this is true, he was dead on right. Booker vs Steiner should have been happening in 1999, not 2000.
@@zlinedavidBooker was another correct decision but the execution sucked. Months prior to his title win he was a mid card joke act. Definitely needed to spend the months ahead building his credibility
I remember feeling mikey whipwreck was rammed down everyones throats in the last days of wcw. Was never a fan...maybe I missed something, was only 10 at the time 🤷♂️
He was really over in ECW when he was pushed as a under dog. Here he looked like a lot better, he was very shaky back in ECW and was pretty young, he became a world champ down there tho making him a triple crown champ in ECW
So we've had heel Referee Nick Patrick in 96/97, heel Referee Slick Johnson in 98, heel Referee Scott Dickinson in 98/99, and now heel Referee Charles Robinson?
It's crazy that anyone would think that putting Flair in a first blood match would work out well... his forehead must be made of paper, he busts himself open when he farts for Pete's sake! You just knew he was gonna bleed before he was supposed to
People talk about the Fingerpoke of Doom marking the beginning of the end for WCW, but they still did a 1.1 buyrate with this PPV (only slightly below Starrcade 1998) and they were still doing great ratings for Nitro, just not as good as Raw's absurdly good ratings in this period. Most WCW fans still had faith that they could still get back on track, like the awesomeness of mid-1996 to mid-1998 - roughly from after Uncensored 1996 to Goldberg beating Hogan for the title. The problem was that WCW became increasingly like a second-rate WWF (especially once Russo came along, but even before that) with lots of soap opera shenanigans and a focus on promos/vignettes over in-ring action, while lots of WCW fans' favourite wrestlers started going to the WWF or not getting pushed. Jericho, Goldberg, Benoit, even DDP for the most part - they were relegated to the sidelines and we got e.g. Hogan vs. Sting, long after that pairing was a confirmed damp squib. And we never saw Hart vs. Hogan, which was their last Ace of established names cards. WCW was apparently in profit in the first half of 1999, then did so badly in the second half that they lost $8 million overall in 1999, according to Dave Meltzer. If you look at ratings and buyrates, April-June 1999 was when the big slide happened, and early 2000 was when the nadir was reached. WCW never escaped it, though the actual shows in the last ~4 months were better that the horrorshow that was late 1999 to mid 2000. Unfortunately, even previously loyal WCW fans like me had mostly stopped watching at that point; I only found out about the WCW sale when I was watching the WWF. So, the poor booking decisions in March 1999 were a major reason of why WCW didn't just become the number 2 company (subsequent companies have shown that it's possible to survive for years that way) but actually began to go into financial meltdown. They needed Ric Flair to be doing old-school WCW booking that their fanbase loved, not main eventing an increasingly WWF-lite company.
@@kevingriener7441Eddie Guerrero Vs Dean Melenko in a 2-3 falls match was insane. A young Rey mysterio also put out bangers every match without using weapons. Don’t speak on it if you have never seen it. Respect ECW
I watched this entire PPV last night. Lol I was left thinking "they should've just never called the flair/hogan a first blood match. wtf?!" .. I still LOVE WCW... Even when the end is near like this lol
This was the first and only WCW PPV I owned I bought it when I use to work at a video store named Hollywood Video in 2006, bought the VHS for 50 cents. When I got into wrestling in 2001 ECW and WCW were already gone. So it was cool watching a WCW PPV even tho a lot of the matches weren't great this was the first time I saw Rey Mystero without his Mask. I really enjoyed Raven vs Hak (sandman) vs Bam Bam Bigalow. Jerico vs Saturn. Benoit, Malanko vs Henning and Windham.
Not really, Hogan was going crazy with all that red and yellow Hulkamania shtick in WCW for a couple of years straight before he turned heel. And of course, Hulkamania returns before 99 is done... So you'll be saying your prayers and eating your vitamins again before too long, brother.
I always liked Mr. Perfect as a kid. But, I really wished I would have appreciated him more at the time. He was brilliant. He could go from comedy, to technical, to selling, to… anything. He was awesome.
Though they were building to it, watching Hogan turn face during this period was strange to see. Even the announcers (except Heenan) stopped running him down on commentary. This would've hit even harder if Nash and the rest of the nWo were questioning Hogan's decisions as Arn and others were questioning Flair's.
Im so confused by the main event, but a memory hit me of Charles Robinson becoming Mini Nature Boy, maybe this is the start of that. Otherwise I'd still be pissed at the end of this ppv.
My God it's shocking how quick wcw has fallen. I'm younger so this is my first time seeing it week to week from the start of the Monday night war. It felt like just a couple weeks or months ago they were on fire, starting to lose to the momentum of Austin but still in a boom period. Then all of a sudden, Horace Hogan is claiming he's the leader of the nwo and is there for Stevie Ray vs *Vergil* ; yes, Vergil, in 1999. This is sad.
@juststatedtheobvious9633 that's true that it'll get so much worse but man, it's hard to view this as glory. It's wild that the main event went in like 8 months from red hot Goldberg vs Hogan in one of the most anticipated matches of the era, to Flair who already needs to retire and is past his glory days, vs Hogan who's half heartedly doing his old face shtick, in an overbooked mess of a match. It's wild with hindsight too because 24 and a half years later, we're still begging Flair to retire lol
@@theoldhermit2601 Glory in the sense fans still gave a damn about the stories and characters, plus they were building Rey, Steiner, Booker, Saturn, and Kidman, getting new talent like Blitzkrieg and Whipwreck, while Sting and Savage were expected back soon. There was still so much potential. Nothing was beyond saving yet.
That table in Raven/BBB/Sandman looked like it had seen two World Wars. The Magna Carta was signed on that table. It survived the blast that killed the dinosaurs. Why does anyone think that an unmodified, made-in-America, honest-to-God table is going to break?
The PPV was really good but had some downers. I forgot about Mikey Whipwreck vs Kidman. Again very underated. Jericho vs Saturn was physical. Booker T vs Scott Steiner was good as well.
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The first blood barbed wire steel cage match is truly symbolic for the backstage chaos of WCW at the time.
Along with Hulk Hogan's usual ways of when he had to lose a championship
That is still one of my favorite Flair matches. I love blood. Just not mine.
@@JeffTullock-fs4deflair bled all the time in the 80s and 90s so u can find a better Flair match where he gets color
5:41 - The way Scott Norton sold that low blow had me dying of laughter.
Right? It was like a cartoon getting kicked in the nads!
Right!😂
@@kidz4p509 No idea.
@@kidz4p509 March 8, 1999.
I guess he's always been serious as a heart attack so it lands really well, much like Rey's kick.
Sandman looks like that guy who shows up to do the drywall in your house, takes a giant dump in your toilet, doesn’t flush and never finished the drywall job.
Looks like a meth dealer
Lol
😂
He actually kinda is that guy lol.
I think he has done construction.
He built scaffolds for different companies for Scaffold Matches and somehow had a hand in the ring CHIKARA was using in their early days like 2003-2009.
He was
I know a lot of people point to the Fingerpoke of Doom being the first warning sign that WCW was definitely heading down the wrong path, but to me, the Uncensored 1999 main event, and *especially* the double-turn in particular was the TRUE catalyst for the spiraling decline that WCW would go on from this point onward, made only worse the following month with the logo change/re-branding.
From this point onwards, things get incredibly sad, and the highlights become much fewer and farther in between.
It wasn’t that everyone was joining Nwo the first sign of company crumbling lol. But yea finger of doom, matches , promos, story lines etc was down fall that everyone seen coming. Not to mention not letting DX into building that day made WWE take over lol
There were many inflection points that sent them backwards or downwards between Hog Wild 97 and March 99 but *this* is the cliff face they fall off only to really start to recover once they were weeks from death.
The logo/set change is probably the best marker of where the good old WCW ended and when it started going down hill. Not that the logo/set is what caused it but it certainly didn't help.
Aside from the main event itself, even Whipwreck vs. Kidman was an example of just how chaotic WCW was backstage, creatively. According to Mickey himself, he was given at least three different orders for his match when it came to length, balance of offense, etc., and from three different people! Meanwhile, there's also a rumor that Mickey's entire push was more or less quashed after that debut match because the match itself was too good & that someone got annoyed that their later match was made to look pathetic.
That person? Vincent. Yeah, aside from being given conflicting orders regarding the match itself, Mickey Whipwreck's time in WCW may have been screwed over by Vincent, of all people; not even Stevie Ray! At any other time & any other promotion this would sound completely absurd, but this is WCW in early 1999 so it actually sounds believable.
Virgil better be sending Mikey a lifetime supply of meat sauce to make up for that.
According to the WWE Documentary , they signed Whipwreck to a 1 year deal, despite knowing that he’d be out for about 6 months to have knee surgery.
This kept him out of ECW though, so…win?
@@TimTE01 This was devastating for ECW. The great Whipwreck boycott of '99 is what put them out of business.
@@TimTE01 WCW did the same exact thing with Sandman, signing him to a contract but initially not doing anything with him for a few months, so he just stayed at home & got paid to do nothing, before they finally brought him in to be Raven's neighbor & then Hak.
I know. And this, this match, if you can call it one, is what caused Mikey to snap and vow to never wrestle again.
WCW Uncensored 1999 was the last WCW PPV of the iconic WCW period from 1988 to early 1999. After this and a number of Nitros and Thunders, get ready to wash your eyes out after April 1999 because WCW will get its most hated symbol and look soon.
The starship logo is fine. WCW can't keep everything the same forever
Did give us some iconic Nitro and Thunder opening themes, though. Who didn't get at least some enjoyment out of the Adrenaline Nitro theme?
Crazy thing is the next month I think wcw would put on the last great all around ppv in Spring Stampede 1999
Yup. That logo change symbolizes the beginning of the end and the start of the fall of WCW. We’ve now entered the third and final act of this War. WWE will reach new heights and WCW will reach new lows. This is going to be a sad and fun ride.
to be fair its still better looking symbol than the cheap MS Paint one WWE did.
I'm so not ready for this series to end... Ima have to start over n binge watch it all over again
I started my second go yesterday 😁 I'm already on episode 26😔
He should keep it going up to the 2000s
I bet tho in a way Bios is kinda looking forward to it.
I know right 😢
@@micahhill4786facts the monday night wars didn't end till 2001
Arguably this is where the WCW vs nWo storyline ends. With Hogan and eventually Nash turning face, being an nWo member has little meaning and the group will slowly fade away.
Good call.
They were a year late into ending it..
And they were such big idiots that they continued to do weekly nitro and ppvs in their territory. Nobody thought that after turning Hogan face they should start touring North East more and more. Because that would significantly increase their revenue.
Predictable outcomes > outcomes that shock for the sake of it
This might have been the only world title match where Flair went over Hogan. I remember not really wanting to see them do a double-turn, but after watching it recently, many of the fans seemed to be behind it. However, this begins a series of nonsensical turns in several months with Kevin Nash (heel in March '99, babyface by end of April), and the nWo wolfpac elite slowly dissolving with Steiner turning on Bagwell, Hogan going off TV after Spring Stampede, and Scott Hall off TV until October. Then there's the DDP slow heel turn and his first two World Title reigns.
There will be some unintentional comedy soon with the return of Sid Vicious in the summer, especially when he begins a feud with Goldberg.
Yes! Half the brain! 😂
The Ric Flair promo at Chapel Hill leading up to this ppv is my favorite Flair promo of all time. "When I get through with you they won't wanna be like Mike. They'll wanna be like the nature boy!"
I went to this event and remember being utterly confused at the main event. I was a WWF guy and at this point barely paying attention to WCW. This PPV pretty much sealed the deal of me giving up on the brand altogether.
"Tony Schiavone says the rules are clear; the first one to bleed is the loser of the match, and I want you to keep that in mind as we take a look at this main event."
"This supposed to be a First Blood match, but the commentors say forget about it, it doesn't matter. So, what the f*ck is going on? "
😆😆😆😆
I'll never ever get tired of that Hollywood Hogan Voodoo Child remix, always a banger
His best entrance.
@@JeffTullock-fs4deHis WWE run where he was in the red and yellow but still using Voodoo Child was the perfect Hogan entrance.
I remember the first match that caught my eye and made me pay attention to the actual wrestling was DDP vs. Chris Benoit vs. Raven at Uncensored 1998.
More of Hogan's "He beat me, but he didn't really beat me" play in the main event
Apollo Creed Rocky II
People love Flair for being the dirtiest player in the game, so why are we pretending this is like Hogan screwing over Sting and Savage?
@@juststatedtheobvious9633 Because Flair would at least lose clean once and a while, whereas Hogan never did.
Tbf had they bothered to enforce the first blood rule. Hogan is right to say that this time.
"He beat me....
OR MAYBE HE DIDN'T, BROTHER!" 😂
Was Bischoff's biggest failing the fact that he was such a mark for Hogan? Or whenever he hit a creative wall, he thought putting the belt back on Hogan was always the answer....
Biggest failing was not resolving the Hollywood vs Wolfpac situation and then dissolving the nWo. I bet that idea got That-doesn’t-work-for-me-brothered though.
No, Hulk was incredibly over during this time. Having him front and centre made perfect sense. Eric also learned from his mentor's major mistake - Verne Gagne, who Eric worked for in the AWA, infamously refused to put the belt on a young Hulk Hogan, which eventually lead to him jumping to the WWE and becoming the biggest star in the industry.
I don't know, I remember watching this live and remember being really pleased with the Main Event. For the first time in ages the Horsemen were acting like Horsemen and it paid off.
Today I rewatched Reliving the War Episode 3 because I kinda like the 1994-95 WWE era and it's so cool to see how your channel has grown and the work refined and all. Thank you for this. I've been on board since episode 6 or 7 and I'll stay until you kick us out ❤
Ric Flair in a first blood match….. 😂 😂 😂
Only thing more redundant would be Moxley in a first blood match.
I died a little when I read this 😂
Lol flair bled way more, not sure what you smoked today.
RtW got me to go back and re-watch all the old Raw and Nitro episodes. All the pay-per-views too. Watching all those old episodes really helps put this series into perspective. I feel a lot more connected to RtW than I did before. Peacock owes you a debt!
This is where my time with WCW ended. I was only 9 but I know I after watching the main event I didn't even bother tuning into Nitro to see more of what I saw. My family would take a short break from wrestling until my parents ordered our first WWF PPV, SummerSlam 1999. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Looking forward to seeing the parts of Nitro I missed.
You didn’t miss much 😂
You made the correct decision sir
Terrible mistake. I'd take WCW 99-01 any day over what was going on in the WWE at the time, or at any time for that matter. Sure, it wasn't the peak of the industry as it was from 96-99, but it was still better than watching an ancient Vince McMahon who can't wrestle give himself the WWE title (Sept 99).
I love that Norton did the "timber sell" off a nut shot. 😂
Can't wait for you to cover Spring Stampede 99 the last good WCW ppv also the returns of Sting and Randy Savage.
I was at Freedom Hall in Louisville for this show. I would have been in my teens at the time. I had forgotten some of the Mid-card matches but still remember the main event and how confusing it was. In hindsight it may not have been the greatest show, but I remember having fun that night, and am glad I was able to attend a WCW PPV. This video was a nice trip down memory lane.
I've been watching your show for the entire run. When it started I had COVID in 2020 I think? That's been how long it's been going.
This ppv has a sad special place in my heart. This was the last wrestling event I watched with my childhood best friends before I moved to another state and never saw them again. We had an illegal cable box and our house became the go to spot for everyone to watch wrestling. Thanks for making these.
“No one knows what’s going on here, but Robinson refuses to make the count…” Followed by an ominous fades-to-black.
No joke, given the state of WCW at this point, I was truly expecting that to be the end of the PPV. Just, “We’ll write our way out of this tomorrow on Nitro!”
Face Flair vs Heel Hogan is awesome. The fact the crowd forgot who the current most evil villain in WCW is doesn't matter.
Love experiencing WCW PPVs for the first time. I was WWF all the way growing up. Regret not changing the channel every once in a while.
I used to watch this VHS ALL the time for some reason so thank you for all the recent context leading upto it. I always really enjoyed that opener!
Waking up to new reliving the war content, great start to the day
All love from the down under we love all the content you be outputting🇦🇺
I’ll never forget Flair had the belt after it was over. Now wrestling was back to when it was the best. Flair as champion making every challenger look unbelievable. Should have been a longer run for him. Hogan fights Flair especially hard if you ever notice. No taking it easy against Flair in a match.
I loved this PPV as a kid. Both this and the next PPV Spring Stampede are guilty pleasures of mine as far as WCW ppvs are concerned.
Perry Saturn is the most underatted ever imo
I saw the Judgement Day ppv in that arena in 2000. The one with the Triple H vs Rock ironman match, where biker Taker came out at the end.
A much better PPV
A complete 180 from this show 😂
You could say that about almost any WWE PPV in 2000. I firmly believe that WWE from the beginning of 2000 to WM X-Seven was top to bottom the greatest period for a wrestling promotion from an overall quality standpoint and I will die on that hill.
While WM XV wasn't a great card from top to bottom, to know that the WWF put their two hottest wrestlers together in a main event that actually made sense and furthered the future of the company while WCW primed the pump once more and again with Hogan v Flair says so much about how WCW couldn't get out of its own way
Uncensored was never one of WCW's good PPVs, probable because it was in the same month as Wrestlemania so they didn't put as much effort into it.
I know he said he wasn't gonna do the invasion angle but man i would love his comments on the underrated stone cold and booker t fued it was timeless 😂😂😂
Brilliant way to finish a fab weekend
Saturn's new gimmick in this PPV looked really really cool and I think it would get over easily here in 2023
Flair's son gets beat up by the NWO, son betrays Flair, and somehow Flair comes out the heel.
Kidman vs. Whipwreck was awesome!
We're quickly coming to the end of Jericho's WCW run. I think his last televised match is during the US Title tournament in April.
Off to to get belittled by the Rock and midcarded for years. Even when they finally put him in the main event he was treated as a comedy act and a sideshow next to Stephanie, because in the WWE a McMahon always has to take the spotlight.
@namikstudios years in mid card? Lmao did you even watch? It took a little around 2 years for him to become the first ever undisputed champion...wtf lmao
@@Miguel-mp7uz like I said and as you agreed, Jericho was midcarded for years. It wasn't until well after WCW was sold to WWE that he was finally put in the main event. As the first ever Undisputed Champion he was treated as a sideshow, doing such things as wondering around backstage walking Stephanie's dog with a belt over each shoulder. After a few months of being treated as an afterthought he was promptly jobbed out to Stephanie's talentless husband then relegated back to the midcard for another 6 long years.
@namikstudios nah...you're just wrong
Time to break it down again!!!
Come on wrestling Bios!!!!
Tbf, the main point of the main event was to show that flair had become corrupt enough to now start fixing matches for himself (ie bribing refs etc).
Problem is, Hollywood was also a heel and it was hard to know how we the audience were supposed to feel.
Although it's clear from the crowd reaction, that they wanted them to ditch the Hollywood gimmick.
Finally, someone uses the NWO's own dirty tactics against them. If WCW's storytelling had been less muddled, this would have been a huge moment.
yes that's very obvious, I don't know why WB at the end of the PPV says the match makes no sense.
The rules make no sense even with a fixed ref. So the match was just a steel cage match but they confused everyone.@@troywright359
Booker during the reliving the war series has been one of the ppv mvps easily
WCW uncensored 1999 was a great PPV another awesome episode of Reliving the war can't believe this PPV happened 24-years ago time flies it's really been that long lol.
Worst thing was Ric flair winning the WCW world title
This is where WCW started to feel the consequences of the Fingerpoke of Doom. Kevin Nash claims it was done to set up a heel faction for Goldberg to go through but instead it was Ric Flair and then Flair abusing his power as President caused the nWo to become babyfaces.
Bingo. There was no payoff to the Fingerpoke and WCW would just fart it’s way through the next 2 years before dying
At this point, from this ppv until the last episode of Nitro, the WCW world title is going to get passed around a lot.
The best game of Hot potato
The WCW Title will be tretated like a $2 whore
@@TheBandit025Nova27 times(I think) in the year 2000.
@@TheBandit025Novaa LONG game of hot potato too 😂
Like Sunny in any locker room...
Hulk is more of a Myth then a Legend
No, he really was a legend. And I say that as someone who lost pretty much all respect for Terry Bollea after his racism came to light. Like him or loathe him, Hulk was the biggest star the industry has ever had.
I remember when I was watching the DSOTR Ep on Bash at the Beach 2000 and Russo is talking about how he was in a creative meeting (allegedly Bischoff claims this never happened because he wasn't present at the meeting) and everyone in that meeting wanted to make Booker T the next pet project of the brand
Jarrett (Russo's friend) says he was (allegedly) supportive of the idea namely because it would get the belt off Hogan. This match with Steiner was likely the inkling that Booker was gonna be the guy
I am far from a Russo fan, and think he got more things wrong than he did right. But I will admit that occasionally, he had a good idea. If this is true, he was dead on right. Booker vs Steiner should have been happening in 1999, not 2000.
@@zlinedavidBooker was another correct decision but the execution sucked. Months prior to his title win he was a mid card joke act. Definitely needed to spend the months ahead building his credibility
@@johnepants “Good idea, but they screwed it up in advance”. Pretty much the story of late stage WCW. Bret/Goldberg, Steiner/Booker, etc
I remember feeling mikey whipwreck was rammed down everyones throats in the last days of wcw. Was never a fan...maybe I missed something, was only 10 at the time 🤷♂️
He was really over in ECW when he was pushed as a under dog. Here he looked like a lot better, he was very shaky back in ECW and was pretty young, he became a world champ down there tho making him a triple crown champ in ECW
Whoever joins the channel now has a whole gold mine to binge on. We had to wait week by week.
So we've had heel Referee Nick Patrick in 96/97, heel Referee Slick Johnson in 98, heel Referee Scott Dickinson in 98/99, and now heel Referee Charles Robinson?
It's Little Naitch! He becomes much more than a ref...
It's crazy that anyone would think that putting Flair in a first blood match would work out well... his forehead must be made of paper, he busts himself open when he farts for Pete's sake! You just knew he was gonna bleed before he was supposed to
Hardcore matches in wcw always felt like wrestlers larping hardcore matches more than just having legit hc matches...
People talk about the Fingerpoke of Doom marking the beginning of the end for WCW, but they still did a 1.1 buyrate with this PPV (only slightly below Starrcade 1998) and they were still doing great ratings for Nitro, just not as good as Raw's absurdly good ratings in this period. Most WCW fans still had faith that they could still get back on track, like the awesomeness of mid-1996 to mid-1998 - roughly from after Uncensored 1996 to Goldberg beating Hogan for the title.
The problem was that WCW became increasingly like a second-rate WWF (especially once Russo came along, but even before that) with lots of soap opera shenanigans and a focus on promos/vignettes over in-ring action, while lots of WCW fans' favourite wrestlers started going to the WWF or not getting pushed. Jericho, Goldberg, Benoit, even DDP for the most part - they were relegated to the sidelines and we got e.g. Hogan vs. Sting, long after that pairing was a confirmed damp squib. And we never saw Hart vs. Hogan, which was their last Ace of established names cards.
WCW was apparently in profit in the first half of 1999, then did so badly in the second half that they lost $8 million overall in 1999, according to Dave Meltzer.
If you look at ratings and buyrates, April-June 1999 was when the big slide happened, and early 2000 was when the nadir was reached. WCW never escaped it, though the actual shows in the last ~4 months were better that the horrorshow that was late 1999 to mid 2000. Unfortunately, even previously loyal WCW fans like me had mostly stopped watching at that point; I only found out about the WCW sale when I was watching the WWF.
So, the poor booking decisions in March 1999 were a major reason of why WCW didn't just become the number 2 company (subsequent companies have shown that it's possible to survive for years that way) but actually began to go into financial meltdown. They needed Ric Flair to be doing old-school WCW booking that their fanbase loved, not main eventing an increasingly WWF-lite company.
The hard-core match was still better than anything ecw ever put out. Made from two of their guys- talk about making lemonade from lemons!
Awesome vs Tanaka, Heatwave 98.
@@kevingriener7441Eddie Guerrero Vs Dean Melenko in a 2-3 falls match was insane. A young Rey mysterio also put out bangers every match without using weapons. Don’t speak on it if you have never seen it. Respect ECW
I was never a Jerry Flynn fan but I have no issues with them giving him an opportunity. It obviously didn’t mean anything in the long run but still.
This was the first wcw ppv you could buy in shops in the uk since the very early 1990 ones in an interesting note about the show
I had this ppv on vhs growing up hell yea
I watched this entire PPV last night. Lol I was left thinking "they should've just never called the flair/hogan a first blood match. wtf?!" .. I still LOVE WCW... Even when the end is near like this lol
I never got why they made it First Blood. So stupid
This was the first and only WCW PPV I owned I bought it when I use to work at a video store named Hollywood Video in 2006, bought the VHS for 50 cents. When I got into wrestling in 2001 ECW and WCW were already gone. So it was cool watching a WCW PPV even tho a lot of the matches weren't great this was the first time I saw Rey Mystero without his Mask. I really enjoyed Raven vs Hak (sandman) vs Bam Bam Bigalow. Jerico vs Saturn. Benoit, Malanko vs Henning and Windham.
Getting some great content today from all my favourite RUclips wrestling channels. (OSW, Wrestle Me). But they all can wait. Wrestling Bios first!
This was my favorite era for Perry Saturn, he became a serious badass and I loved his ring attire! 🍻❤️
Wish he got a huge push around this time.
God. I love the remix of voodoo child in the opening. You’re so damn talented.
"He beat me....
OR MAYBE HE DIDN'T, BROTHER!" 😂
Why would they give Meng a weapon? Do they want the Manly meter to explode again?
The last time they use the old WCW logo and transition to the bird logo era of WCW oh boy not gonna look foward to it...
I can still hear the commentary in my head "he understands it all Tony, do not try to correct the brain"
Funny enough I have this show on VHS. I love the WCW PPVs that were released with the Warner Brothers Home video logo on the case.
I remember this being the PPV where Heenan turned his back on Schiavone during the opening minutes
you, you beautiful person you make me bust out laughing every upload😂 THANK YOU!
Goth Saturn was my favorite.
It’s so strange to see Hollywood Hulk Hogan hulking up in a WCW ring.
Not really, Hogan was going crazy with all that red and yellow Hulkamania shtick in WCW for a couple of years straight before he turned heel. And of course, Hulkamania returns before 99 is done... So you'll be saying your prayers and eating your vitamins again before too long, brother.
I've been looking forward to this, its one of the only wcw tapes i was able to rent years back so i watched it to death
Great video. I watch all your uploads .
I never realized how funny it is that there is a move called "the big boot"
The wcw cruiserweight division was great they're matches was awesome
Am I alone in absolutely loving that Hogan Flair match?!??!
It’s epic.
It’s better than the Yappappi Strap match…so there’s something.
Wrestling BIOS review and Survivor Series in all one weekend cool 👍
0:52 interesting that this WCW PPV Poster predicted two future WWE PPVs.
I always liked Mr. Perfect as a kid. But, I really wished I would have appreciated him more at the time. He was brilliant. He could go from comedy, to technical, to selling, to… anything. He was awesome.
best intro yet bios, voodoo child is incredible, the wolfpac and bret ones come close though
This Hogan/Flair match in the cage with the “first blood” rules makes the Starcade match with Sting makes sense in comparison!
Though they were building to it, watching Hogan turn face during this period was strange to see. Even the announcers (except Heenan) stopped running him down on commentary. This would've hit even harder if Nash and the rest of the nWo were questioning Hogan's decisions as Arn and others were questioning Flair's.
yes, that's the thing, even with this storyline WCW could have still kept it coherent with a bit more effort and explanation onscreen.
Is there a music playlist from the episodes?
Yeah check out the n64 aki wrestling games, war zone and here comes the pain
The main event was a clusterfuck, Hogan and Flair were busted open but the match still continued, wtf WCW?
Welcome to post-FPOD WCW. Leave your logic at the door.
Another great video! Love your series. Just one question. What's the name of the song and band in the video intro?
Damn that was an awesome Voodoo Child mashup
Punk returns/a great survivor series, Wrestling Bios & a new OSW today. Grand slam Sunday!
Im so confused by the main event, but a memory hit me of Charles Robinson becoming Mini Nature Boy, maybe this is the start of that. Otherwise I'd still be pissed at the end of this ppv.
It's crazy how Saturns character and story seems to be evolving better than the main guys lol. Super underrated. ❤
My God it's shocking how quick wcw has fallen. I'm younger so this is my first time seeing it week to week from the start of the Monday night war. It felt like just a couple weeks or months ago they were on fire, starting to lose to the momentum of Austin but still in a boom period. Then all of a sudden, Horace Hogan is claiming he's the leader of the nwo and is there for Stevie Ray vs *Vergil* ; yes, Vergil, in 1999. This is sad.
This is still the glory before the fall. It's going to get so much worse...
@juststatedtheobvious9633 that's true that it'll get so much worse but man, it's hard to view this as glory. It's wild that the main event went in like 8 months from red hot Goldberg vs Hogan in one of the most anticipated matches of the era, to Flair who already needs to retire and is past his glory days, vs Hogan who's half heartedly doing his old face shtick, in an overbooked mess of a match. It's wild with hindsight too because 24 and a half years later, we're still begging Flair to retire lol
@@theoldhermit2601 Glory in the sense fans still gave a damn about the stories and characters, plus they were building Rey, Steiner, Booker, Saturn, and Kidman, getting new talent like Blitzkrieg and Whipwreck, while Sting and Savage were expected back soon.
There was still so much potential. Nothing was beyond saving yet.
That table in Raven/BBB/Sandman looked like it had seen two World Wars. The Magna Carta was signed on that table. It survived the blast that killed the dinosaurs.
Why does anyone think that an unmodified, made-in-America, honest-to-God table is going to break?
Saturn I give him credit incredible wrestler and he could make any gimmick work
I sure do miss Mark Curtis's finger guns.
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Same here
I miss the way WCW refs would flop their hands around between counts.
7:56-7:58 -- "Flynn Balor means business here tonight!"
Love the series finally caught up with it after a year
Kidman vs Whipwreck was so good that apparently other talent was pissed about it
And that other talent was Vincent of all people, apparently.
The PPV was really good but had some downers. I forgot about Mikey Whipwreck vs Kidman. Again very underated.
Jericho vs Saturn was physical.
Booker T vs Scott Steiner was good as well.