So you're telling me an "injured" Hulk Hogan, that could barely walk, got putting in multiple figure fours, but still only lost by count out and retained his title...yep, seems like a Hulk Hogan match.
Worth mentioning that the thing where a masked person hit Hogan's leg with a bar and it injured him is very much a play on the Nancy Kerrigan/Tanya Harding figure skating incident. That would have happened earlier that same year and was huge news at the time. Everyone watching then would have known about it.
@HugeFawkinPeckuh yes but WCW would go to that well a few too many times. And no not everything is always copied. Or at least given enough nuance to make it seem somewhat original.
@@NoneofYabiz-rx3zi Not everyone watching this video WAS watching back then. The point of these videos is to be a historical document. It was worth mentioning the Kerrigan-Harding connection.
I read in Ed Lesley's book (yes, I'm the guy that bought it) that all these gimicks were authored by the Hulkster himself. He just throws that ideas about Man With No Name, Zodiac, Booty Man and WCW authors did not knщw what to do with all this stuff (and did not want either). But they cannot igonre it because, you know... it is from Hogan, brother
As soon as Hogan came into WCW it became all about him and this was just the first part. Hogan vs his buddies & Kevin Sullivan. ''Me and Brutus were blood brothers, brother and he aint no jack dude'' I feel like this could have been a good blunder episode too
This is when I first started watching WCW. This was the first feud I watched in WCW. It was so silly, and over the top, but I remember loving it when I was 13.
I hated Hogan coming into WCW because it regulated Sting, WCW's #1 babyface by 1989, to being Hogan's 'friend' and backup. He was only in the main event scene during this time if it was in association with Hogan, and that was rare.
@@worthatrey1992 then how is it wrong goof. Anyway sting was at his best when he didn’t talk or wrestle while hogan was the biggest babyface in the 80s and heel in the 90s kicking off both boom periods in wrestling
Initially, I actually thought the Beefcake angle was good. I genuinely didn't see it coming and this was Hulk's one mate who you thought would never cross him. But then of course reality set in, as I realised that we were getting Brutus in the main event.
I was stunned when it was revealed to be Beefcake, and my brother (we were very young when we saw the ppv) started crying. Wrestling just had that type of magic back then.
I love Reliving the War, but I always really love when you focus on a wrestler(s), factions, events... Either way, it's always great stuff. Thanks for keeping the videos coming. Long time viewer (own original logo T shirt, which is also great quality...like the channel/videos, haha)
Three faces of fear it's also the english translation of the italian movie "I tre volti della paura". An anthology horror film directed by Italian director Mario Bava, who outside Italia is known by the title "Black Sabbath".
Hogan betrayed by his best buddy was such an overused trope. I can think of Hogan/Orndorff, Hogan/Andre, Hogan/Macho man, Hogan/Beefcake. Any others? Tugboat & Hogan were besties for a brief stint and the Tugster turned heel, joining Earthquake as Typhoon. But I do not think there was a Hogan/Typhoon feud.
30 years later it's still hard to imagine this happened, Ed Leslie in the Starrcade 94 Main Event. And as you said at least if they sold it more serious as Beefcake betraying his lifelong friend you could say well at least they tried but to just continue the rinse & repeat cartoony Bollocks that Hogan had been doing for a decade. Another disgraceful thing involving this was in a 2008 Ric Flair shoot interview Naitch said as he was in the original meetings of bringing Hulk in and all his demands. One was he pushed to have WCW part ways with Arn Anderson & in Hogan's words "could be replaced by Ed Leslie." Fortunetly even though they did bring in Brutai they didn't end up cutting Arn.
I missed the episode when they named Edd Leslie as The Butcher, so when Hogan did the promo about them being childhood friends I thought he was talking about Abdula the Butcher
I want to see that match way, way more. Me and Abdullah dude, back in the Sudan, before I was in California, brother... playing around with forks and electrical outlets, dude!
Idk, I went to get my hair cut, and was given a male barber in a mesh shirt with ripped up jeans and nylons under, so I walked out, Brutus is definitely terrifying as an actual barber
Hot take: The Butcher persona for Ed Leslie was a good look for him. The biggest problem with Hogan’s WCW run pre-nWo was that no matter the odds, Hogan refused to lose. Hogan literally came out with a “horrible” knee injury and wrestled Ric Flair and Hogan STILL refused to drop the title.
Feels like I'm living under a rock, cus I just looked that thing up, and I've never heard anything about it before, huh. Weird. Is it true, or just a "Hogan level" lie?
18:58 Poor Vader with that exposed rip in the butt-crack of his sweatpants when he power-bombed Hogan and was clotheslined by Hogan and Macho Man. I think that was worse for his image than Hogan no-selling the Vader Bomb.
brutus beefcake headlined STARRCADE. a modern equivalent would be roman reigns politicking to get his family to main event wrestlemania, roman reigns vs....MANU!!!!! or a contemporary version in the mid 90s wwf, shawn michaels main events summerslam against his fellow kliq member....ALDO MONTOYA!
The whole masked man saga was what got me hooked as a kid. Me and my brother would lose sleep debating who it could have been. Wrestling was so good back then, despite being corny as hell.
My God, we remember the Dungeon of Doom from the early days of the war. I’m interested to see what you can do, but part of me is dying inside at the thought of it.
Was the Inoki vs Regal match at this ppv the one where Inoki had to choke out Regal for real? Regal talked about it in his podcast. Super weird situation.
You forgot to mention Hogan and Beefcake had a previous feud with each other in the WWF in 1985 after Beefcake and Greg Valentine beat up Hogan's buddy Hillbilly Jim (the Dave Sullivan of 1985). This made Beefcake the 4th enemy turned friend of Hogan to go back to being an enemy and then lose a big World title match after Paul Orndorff, Andre The Giant and Randy Savage. Pro Wrestling Illustrated referred to this as "The Pattern" and predicted the Beefcake heel turn as far back as 1989. Of course all of this was undermined later on when it was revealed that Butcher/Zodiak was a mole in the Dungeon and had secretly been still friends with Hogan all along, so he didn't actually turn on Hogan as such.
John Tenta deserves hall of fame
The hall of fame doesn’t deserve John Tenta, tho
@@EnjoySackLunchhe’s one of the few talents wwe didn’t do dirty
@@JasonPeck-pf6rn wcw could've done so much more with him and Ray Traylor
100%
Yes
There was nothing scarier than Ed Leslie main eventing starrcade
Not even if they had him win, even by screwy means?
He should have won
@@pleaseshutup7053for the lolz maybe
Leslie lost the starrcade 94 match by design
Bootyman lol
So you're telling me an "injured" Hulk Hogan, that could barely walk, got putting in multiple figure fours, but still only lost by count out and retained his title...yep, seems like a Hulk Hogan match.
Creative control, brother. Lol
This is why you're watching and not wrestling.
Worth mentioning that the thing where a masked person hit Hogan's leg with a bar and it injured him is very much a play on the Nancy Kerrigan/Tanya Harding figure skating incident. That would have happened earlier that same year and was huge news at the time. Everyone watching then would have known about it.
@@Morbos1000 oh yeah. Good catch and just demonstrated WCW's lack of originality at times.
@@ziahamm1603everything in wrasslin is copying something 🤦🏼♀️
@HugeFawkinPeckuh yes but WCW would go to that well a few too many times.
And no not everything is always copied. Or at least given enough nuance to make it seem somewhat original.
Everyone watching back that has known that, broski. What's next? Are you gonna explain that water is wet and fire is hot?!?
@@NoneofYabiz-rx3zi Not everyone watching this video WAS watching back then.
The point of these videos is to be a historical document. It was worth mentioning the Kerrigan-Harding connection.
I read in Ed Lesley's book (yes, I'm the guy that bought it) that all these gimicks were authored by the Hulkster himself. He just throws that ideas about Man With No Name, Zodiac, Booty Man and WCW authors did not knщw what to do with all this stuff (and did not want either). But they cannot igonre it because, you know... it is from Hogan, brother
This is something I could actually believe. I didn't know Mr. Leslie had a book, I'm going to look that up right now!
@@WrestlingBioshe sold loads of signed ones through facebook wrestling groups and never sent them out. Never thought I could think less of old Beefy
Oh man, so you were the one copy!
Keep him on contract he is my coke holder
Towards the end of his WCW career, he was simply known by his real name. Would have been hilarious if Hogan FINALLY said, "Just be yourself, brother!"
Almost forgot these guys where the precursor to the Dungeon of Doom. 😂
Needed a pick me up before I have my operation on Friday. This is chicken soup for the soul. Cheers, Wrestling Bios.
good luck with your surgery, hope everything goes smoothly and you're able to make a full recovery
Good luck on Friday! Hope to read you on the weekend video of Bios!
Good luck 👍
Wishing you the best of luck with your surgery. I am keeping you in my thoughts and prayers.
wishing you a speedy recovery
Man hands down this is the best channel for wrestling talk. Thanks brother
As soon as Hogan came into WCW it became all about him and this was just the first part. Hogan vs his buddies & Kevin Sullivan. ''Me and Brutus were blood brothers, brother and he aint no jack dude''
I feel like this could have been a good blunder episode too
As it should have hogan was the man
@pleaseshutup7053 the man who almost killed the company before the nwo and actually did kill the company a few years after the nwo
@pleaseshutup7053 well as a nWo soundbite he was the biggest icon in wrestling but doesn't mean people weren't getting sick of him
@pleaseshutup7053 Hogan is a selfish racist #^&&& who f over wcw with his ego and politics! He deserves nothing
Mr. T vs. Kevin Sullivan is perhaps the unintentionally funniest match in wrestling history.
Have you seen OSW's review of Starrcade 1994?
All these years later and I still don't understand why T was dressed as a referee to 'wrestle' a match.
11:36 Sullivan lookin like the inside of a McDonalds burger wrapper
Imaging having a 2nd chance at Hulk vs. Earthquake and this is what you come up with
Agreed. On the plus side for Tenta, he worked really well with Sting IMO.
Sting vs Avalanche would have easily been a main event on any ppv if Hogan wasn't there to take the main spot.
That chair shot Brotha Bruti eats at 17:11 really makes you appreciate modern wrestling's banning of chair shots to the dome!
Hogan always gave really weak looking chair shots which, fair play to him, shows he didn't want to hurt anyone properly with them.
I think a genuine look into the career of Haku is something only you'd be able to do justice to. Seriously.
It be interesting to see how he was booked prior to his WWF days and afterwards
I would watch
"Kevin thought it wasn't Hulk's ego that was out of control it was actually Hogan's insecurities." Ego is often born out of insecurity.
6:48 Ric Flairs been having retirement matches since before I was alive, wild
This is when I first started watching WCW. This was the first feud I watched in WCW. It was so silly, and over the top, but I remember loving it when I was 13.
R.I.P. Kevin Sullivan a great wrestling mind and a legend down in Florida, Actually I’ll just say the south. He’s a legend in the south.
This has got to be the most unintentionally funny video you've ever made.
Did no one notice that Vader split his pants? 18:57…
Nice. 😂 at least he didn’t have a skid mark 💩💩😂😂
Everyone noticed
First a no sell and then his fat ass ripped his sweats. Not a good day for Leon.
🎶When I ripped🎶
🎶My pants🎶
🎶I thought I had the world by my side🎶
Yup
I liked Earthquake
The Man with No Name…I s*** you not!
😂😂😂😂😂
LMAO kevin Sullivan dressing up as Santa is a hilarious visual 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
They should have changed their names to J, O and B.
"I fear NO MAN!
I feel.. ...NO PAIN!
You livin' with the demon, brother. The demon... ...is FEAR!"
R.I.P. Vader
I hated Hogan coming into WCW because it regulated Sting, WCW's #1 babyface by 1989, to being Hogan's 'friend' and backup. He was only in the main event scene during this time if it was in association with Hogan, and that was rare.
Hogan was better
@pleaseshutup7053 wrong but you're entitled to an opinion
@@worthatrey1992 then how is it wrong goof. Anyway sting was at his best when he didn’t talk or wrestle while hogan was the biggest babyface in the 80s and heel in the 90s kicking off both boom periods in wrestling
@pleaseshutup7053 because it's factually incorrect, despite how you feel.
@@worthatrey1992 I’m open to hearing facts. What facts you got?
Initially, I actually thought the Beefcake angle was good. I genuinely didn't see it coming and this was Hulk's one mate who you thought would never cross him.
But then of course reality set in, as I realised that we were getting Brutus in the main event.
I was stunned when it was revealed to be Beefcake, and my brother (we were very young when we saw the ppv) started crying. Wrestling just had that type of magic back then.
Always funny when Ryan cracks up.
"This is the lowest point of WCW." Oh. Oh, you sweet summer child...
What a thanksgiving special! Good vid
I absolutely love your content. I been watch this channel more than any other one. Keep up the awesome work!
I love Reliving the War, but I always really love when you focus on a wrestler(s), factions, events... Either way, it's always great stuff. Thanks for keeping the videos coming. Long time viewer (own original logo T shirt, which is also great quality...like the channel/videos, haha)
Great video! I can't wait for the The Dungeon of Doom video!!
Oh hell yeah a series on the dungeon of doom!!! I'm 100% here for that. Can't wait till you get started on those.
Three faces of fear it's also the english translation of the italian movie "I tre volti della paura". An anthology horror film directed by Italian director Mario Bava, who outside Italia is known by the title "Black Sabbath".
I heard the Black Sabbath movie was the inspiration for the heavy metal band White Zombie
yes, also for the chapter-based narrative style of Pulp Fiction
@@lizardman7364
I do enjoy you breaking down the individual stables.
I hope you keep that up.
seriously, Kevin Sullivan's booking and Hogan being Hogan is why WCW went out of business
🙄
It's really not, this happened way before WCW went out of business and didn't contribute to it in any way.
Thank you for all the hard work you put I to the channel!! 🙏
Happy Thanksgiving to our WrestlingBios Sensei!
Hogan betrayed by his best buddy was such an overused trope. I can think of Hogan/Orndorff, Hogan/Andre, Hogan/Macho man, Hogan/Beefcake. Any others? Tugboat & Hogan were besties for a brief stint and the Tugster turned heel, joining Earthquake as Typhoon. But I do not think there was a Hogan/Typhoon feud.
Yeah, Tuggers turned on the bushwhackers or something with Earthquake
Hillbilly Jim never turned on him😂
@@Barry_Matthewsleaving money on the table there! 😂
Real recognizes real@@Barry_Matthews
30 years later it's still hard to imagine this happened, Ed Leslie in the Starrcade 94 Main Event. And as you said at least if they sold it more serious as Beefcake betraying his lifelong friend you could say well at least they tried but to just continue the rinse & repeat cartoony Bollocks that Hogan had been doing for a decade. Another disgraceful thing involving this was in a 2008 Ric Flair shoot interview Naitch said as he was in the original meetings of bringing Hulk in and all his demands. One was he pushed to have WCW part ways with Arn Anderson & in Hogan's words "could be replaced by Ed Leslie." Fortunetly even though they did bring in Brutai they didn't end up cutting Arn.
I missed the episode when they named Edd Leslie as The Butcher, so when Hogan did the promo about them being childhood friends I thought he was talking about Abdula the Butcher
I want to see that match way, way more. Me and Abdullah dude, back in the Sudan, before I was in California, brother... playing around with forks and electrical outlets, dude!
A Prime Vader with Ric Flair managing him still couldn't be world champ.... what the heeeellllllllll
1994, the best WCW could do is ape the Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding incident...
Yet another banger of a video! Thank you so much for your efforts! You’re the best! 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
Wow. Hope whoever reads this has a great week.
Same to you 👍
You too
You too, what a nice thing to write.
You too. I will once I've had my operation on Friday.
Same to u
9:55 absolutely amazing 🤣🤣🤣 So much Love lol
My favorite OSW story arc
Can of Coke sir, mine too.
When I think fear Brutus Beefcake isnt exactly the first thing that comes to mind. OH, im sorry.."The Butcher" 🤣
The booty man
Idk, I went to get my hair cut, and was given a male barber in a mesh shirt with ripped up jeans and nylons under, so I walked out, Brutus is definitely terrifying as an actual barber
@@z216ghost yeah i guess the idea of having your hair cut with hedge trimmers could be a bit unnerving
Great great stuff , I was 12 when this was going on
Hot take: The Butcher persona for Ed Leslie was a good look for him.
The biggest problem with Hogan’s WCW run pre-nWo was that no matter the odds, Hogan refused to lose.
Hogan literally came out with a “horrible” knee injury and wrestled Ric Flair and Hogan STILL refused to drop the title.
After Brutus Beefcake’s horrific parasailing accident, his pro wrestling career never fully recovered.
Feels like I'm living under a rock, cus I just looked that thing up, and I've never heard anything about it before, huh. Weird. Is it true, or just a "Hogan level" lie?
This is classic Wrestling Bios right here, like before RTW.
Love to see it 🐢
Still too comical, he used to be serious but Glacier broke him
"e tu Brutus Beefcake"
cannot wait for the dungeon of doom videos
Hearing the “Dark5” intro theme behind part of this video threw me for a loop
I can't wait for your dungeon of doom video 😅.
Ed Leslie deserves his own video 😂 Talk about a blunder
Barberism
"The real low point of WCW"
> Vince Russo has entered the chat
For some reason, seeing that Hogan/Savage vs Butcher/Sullivan graphic reminded me of that Rock/Cena vs Miz/Truth match
The song playing in the background is 🔥
That Hogan clothesline on Vader was so effective that Vader split his trousers!
Can’t wait for the Dungeon of Doom video
18:58 Poor Vader with that exposed rip in the butt-crack of his sweatpants when he power-bombed Hogan and was clotheslined by Hogan and Macho Man. I think that was worse for his image than Hogan no-selling the Vader Bomb.
3:08 Tonya Harding was really busy that year!
7:58 Stings outfit 🔥
11:40 Sting's hair is so bleached blonde it's white and I love it ❤
Sting looked like he was just in a Jean Claude Van Damme or Steven Seagal movie
You should totally do a series on the ruthless aggression era raw vs smackdown
Ugh how many 'retirement' matches did Flair have?
The world will never know.😵💫
Flair must have had as many retirements as he did heavyweight championships
@ , does Flair get a gold watch every time he retires? Maybe that’s the problem. Stop the watches and you stop the retirement matches.
How many more does he have left!!!
As many Stepmoms Charlotte Flair has apparently
After a long ass day, I needed something great to watch.
brutus beefcake headlined STARRCADE.
a modern equivalent would be roman reigns politicking to get his family to main event wrestlemania, roman reigns vs....MANU!!!!!
or a contemporary version in the mid 90s wwf, shawn michaels main events summerslam against his fellow kliq member....ALDO MONTOYA!
lol damn, POOR MANU!!
Cool video. Thanks
THANKS FOR WATCHING WILL SEE YOU ON THANKSGIVING DAY FOR RELIVING THE WAR TIL THEN HAVE A GOOD NIGHT AND TAKE CARE.
Wow. Ric Flair retiring in 1994 at the top of his game. What a class act.
Love Hulk Hogan content, so it will be great to see the fusion of the three stooges and the Job Squad
17:10 peak Hogan chair shot.
Sometimes we laugh because things are awesome. That was me during this video.
Looking forward to seeing the dungeon of Doom series
Any way to get a thunder in paradise videogame review?
The whole masked man saga was what got me hooked as a kid. Me and my brother would lose sleep debating who it could have been. Wrestling was so good back then, despite being corny as hell.
My God, we remember the Dungeon of Doom from the early days of the war. I’m interested to see what you can do, but part of me is dying inside at the thought of it.
Only Hogan holds that creative control brother.
I love this pre Nitro WCW stuff
WCW 👍
Gone but never forgotten
Kevin Sullivan and John tenta should be hall of famers
it has layers, but "It's Not Hot"
Dave Sullivan was like the OG Eugene .
Starrcade was basically WCW wrestlemania for those of you who want to know, and Brutus Beefcake was main eventing it. Give me a break man.
This...
works for me, brother.
It had to work for me first brother - Hulkster
I was hoping for a Ming and Barbarian video to be honest.
Take what you’re given
I run into the bsrber all the time atleast a few times a year
Was the Inoki vs Regal match at this ppv the one where Inoki had to choke out Regal for real? Regal talked about it in his podcast. Super weird situation.
All of this was planned so as to introduce the Yetttttttaaaaay
I totally forgot about this group.
Vader's pants ripped when he took the double clothesline.
😂 that dropkick in the 6 man clash match didn't come close to connecting
We'll do the J-O-B, brother!
John Tenta is underappreciated.
You forgot to mention Hogan and Beefcake had a previous feud with each other in the WWF in 1985 after Beefcake and Greg Valentine beat up Hogan's buddy Hillbilly Jim (the Dave Sullivan of 1985).
This made Beefcake the 4th enemy turned friend of Hogan to go back to being an enemy and then lose a big World title match after Paul Orndorff, Andre The Giant and Randy Savage. Pro Wrestling Illustrated referred to this as "The Pattern" and predicted the Beefcake heel turn as far back as 1989.
Of course all of this was undermined later on when it was revealed that Butcher/Zodiak was a mole in the Dungeon and had secretly been still friends with Hogan all along, so he didn't actually turn on Hogan as such.
This is great