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I got a question please ask since he has been everywhere what is his take on neighborhoods does Houston have the worst or New York or jersey? What is his take on people and areas the roughest nicest or just rough looking towns with nice people. Would love to hear his insight as I've been almost everywhere and Houston hoods look somewhat intimidating but usually the people are really chill and laid back but take a place like Detroit and man it feels like a set up no matter where u go in some spots.
i was expecting some incredible story and all i got was steve bitching how he wasn't on the ppv and wanted to leave during the greatest night in wrestling history!
dru713281 So, out of all questions on the planet, you want to know one of the most stereotypical questions possible. You're asking this question because Steve is black & from Houston. That question wouldn't be a thought if Hogan was in this interview. You wouldn't think to ask Hogan which place is richer? The Hamptons or Beverley Hills.
For big guys,,it's a matter of taste,,I'm a fan of all eras,,80s midnight express,,rock n roll,,arn Tully,,..moving to big guys..Lod steiners,Harlem heat,,edge Christian,,hardy boys,,dudleys,,New Age Outlaws...80s 90s 2000sall 3 in those eras,,were dominating
Thats so hard to pin down, theres been a ton of great tag teams, the freedbirds, The Road Warriors, steiners, hart foundation, demolition, the list goes on & on. But i do agree on the sentiment, harlem heat was just as good as all those tag teams & honestly, you could throw em all in a bag & give me a top 5 of any order & id agree with you. The old tags were legends, sadly cant say that anymore but harlem heat was so damn awesome for sure!
I'm laughing just thinking about Bret after a match in the car driving to the next town with his then tag team partner Stevie Ray asking, "hey Stevie. ""What's up Bret"", Yeah I just have one question, your in the nWo and we are tag partners but.....I'm I in the nWo?"
Earliest memory of Wrestling seeing Freddy Blasey at the Los Angeles coliseum when I was a baby . Just a vague glimpse of a memory. To the Olympic Auditorium. ,
Matches from the ppv include: Steve McMichael vs Joe Gomez The Nasty Boys vs Public Enemy DDP vs Jim Duggan John Tenta vs Big Bubba Matches that didn't make the ppv include: Harlem Heat vs Steiner Brothers Eddie Guerrero vs Steven Regal
nWo and DX are some of the most FUN I ever Had as a young fan. nWo the music, the intros, the in ring madness. But nothing tops DX driving a tank down the street outside Norfolk scope chanting Free Kevin & Scott, with Chyna (RIP) standing on top of the tank
RetroHabit82 Yeah thats so true, Hogan, Nash, Hall, Million Dollar Man, Randy Savage, Curt Henning Maybe some undercard former wwf guys like Big Boss Man or Virgil That would have been great
Luger would have been a good choice too. But they would have enough Faces: Sting, Goldberg, DDP, Giant, the four horsemen, many cruserweights who could have benn pushed, Bret Hart, Harlem Heat, the Steiners.
Bret Hart wasn't there at the time. The third man situation: They hinted it to be him at first.. Savage would have been great... NWO LEader Randy Savage
I love listening to Stevie Ray tell about his time wrestling with his brother... And it cracks me up how many F-bombs he sprinkles thru his storys... He might use as many f***s in conversational analysis as Cornette! Lol
The fact that no one ever acknowledges the truth and what really happened. Bro if it wasn't for AOL everything was gonna be different. Bisoff wanted to have what the wwe is now in the sense that there was 2 separate shows competing as 2 companies. Thunder was gonna be the nwo show that's how the war was supposed to end with them "getting their own company''but AOL killed that n any momentum wcw had by the end of 97.
7:31 That happened to me one morning on the bus on the way to work. I was standing and there was a woman sitting below me. The gum landed in her hair but she didn't feel it at all. Nobody saw it I didn't say anything. I felt so bad. I wonder how long it took for her to discover it and what she thought when she did.
So a Harlem Heat vs Steiner match didn't make the cut. I would like to see the rest of that card. I think booker said it best. Good is supposed to win eventually. And it never did with the NWO.
Scott Norton should of been a dominant force in the USA as he was in Japan, guy was built like a tank, strong as hell and murdered wrestlers with his power moves.
DH1986 i don’t feel like it ran to long. The problem is that any and everybody could be in NWO. And the few that couldn’t be in it were trying to mimick it which made the hype die down.
So let me get this straight...they put DESPERADO JOE GOMEZ VS. STEVE MONGO MCMICHAEL on the PPV, but not Harlem Heat vs. The Steiner Brothers. That totally should of been switched around.
@@sicco5 That was indeed WCW in a nutshell. Now of course, they were getting ready to catch fire in 1996 with the nWo and become the #1 wrestling company in the world, but it’s decisions like that which eventually led to WCW’s downfall; you’ve got The Steiner Brothers and Harlem Heat, the two best tag teams in the company at the time, with the tag team titles at stake, and you not only put them on the pre-show, they only have a 5 minute match. Meanwhile John Tenta, the Nasty Boys, Public Enemy, and Disco fucking Inferno get to wrestle on the PPV. There’s something wrong with that picture.
Lmao I think Nasty Boys vs Public Enemy were also on the PPV but Harlem Heat were the freakin Tag Team champions and they on the pre-show with the Steiners lol just peak WCW
nWo made wrestling more popular. This was the greatest time in professional wrestling. It didn't necessarily run too long, it just got out of hand. Everyone was nWo at one point.
Not too long....could have been greats like the horsemen and run for years. But once they got bigger than 4-5 members, was out of hand. But that was Bischoffs idea....thinking NWO would spin off into its own entity.
@@moorejonothan exactly, I think it should've stopped after Hall, Nash, Hogan, Giant, Syxx, Dibiase as manager, and Virgil as the the guy who had to take the pin if NWO had to lose
I know the video is about Hogan joining the NWO but I think the fact that 2 of the greatest tag teams of all time worked the preshow and not the main card really show how fucked yo that company was even when it was good
I always loved Harlem Heat. After they split I was so expecting Stevie Ray to get a push just as they were doing with Booker. Love hearing Stevie Ray's interviews! Seems like a guy you could drink a beer with and shoot the shit.
ConiferTreez Why are you here? I liked Harlem Heat and both Booker and Stevie as singles wrestlers. Stevie wasn't as good as Booker but he still could have been used properly. You could easily use half the guys for your idiotic argument. Go away, holy shit.
@Marky Whitemale. the three teams you mentioned. Awesome in their own right no doubt about that. Outsiders would be my number 2 pick for sure. I grew up with the Steiners in WWF around 93 so i kinda place them there. And well The Roadwarriors belong under the NWA umbrella. Considering it morphed into WCW later but still. NWA all the way for me.
bibby42 would’ve been good for Stevie to “legitimately” win the TV Title while Booker was the US & later on the World Champion while they were working as singles. But Stevie always talked about the bad decisions the front office made...
As a black kid I loved watching Stevie Ray. That love flipped over to the Rock. Black wrestlers were so inspirational to so many. Seeing someone who looks like you matters!
@@scottyellis3442you are privileged and have always seen someone who looks like you at the top of virtually every field out there. Ethnic minorities haven’t seen someone who looks like them in every fuek
@@ThaSilentOne420recognize your privilege and know you have always had people that look you at the top in every field of work imaginable. So, when you are an ethnic minority and see a Booker T, a Gabby, a Serena, or a Tiger Woods succeed and be at the top it is huge.
@@ThaSilentOne420says the white guy... Tell ya ppl to do the same foh everybody u've seen growin up on tv looks like u so its ez for u to say that. Take ya white privilege sumwhere else 🤡
Since watching the network and not really watching WCW originally I can say that Harlem Heat are now my favourite tag team of all time. And damn Sister Sherri was hot.
LoL...you’ve got to love Stevie Ray’s honesty. This is absolutely fantastic. He has a cool, largely untapped perspective of the business. I haven’t heard him shoot and share his stories until this show. I’ll definitely be listening to more of this podcast.
Harlem Heat was big even when Hall and Nash showed up...but they split up.... Good for Booker but bad for Stevie in a way...who was treated as the Jannety of the Heat
I remember Harlem Heat debut back on WCW Saturday Night I think in 93', I may have been 11 so it was still real to me damnit, they were all scarred up and they screamed a lot I thought they were legit gangsters man. I was terrified of them. Harlem Heat was like my first 'introduction' to the aggressive, 'angry black man' stereotype. I remember them just disappearing once Bischoff started dedicating 2hours of every Nitro to NWO promos. But then again, pretty much everybody did.
Crash Davis yes you are right even Eric bischoff admitted a lot of tag teams including Harlem heat shouldve been taken more seriously but he says It was all about timing and profits
Someone like Stevie should have dismantled the NWO on purpose. Goes in the ring as leader, tells everyone it's over, to go their separate ways, and people leaveee, one, 2 at a time...that's as far as I get with the storyline. LOL.
I loved the early WCW because it had less cartoonish storys and cheractors that the WWF had. The early WCW was smash mouth more wrestling action. WCW had 1 good story and that was the NWO, but they didn't know how to follow up with it. And it seemed like the writers thought " well if they like 1 they will like 3 a whole lot more", and the next thing you knew the whole roster was in the NWO.
nWo made wrestling a must watch TV, however, it became big that the organization couldn't handle it anymore and the people involve didn't want other people to shine. They should have made a better ending to the Goldberg streak, not just defeated by Nash. There's a point that Goldberg was more famous that Stone Cold especially prior to the Vince feud. They could have build up another main event player to help Goldberg sustain WCWs great run.
For people saying Stevie is bitter,I dont get that vibe at all. In fact,Stevie strikes me as being the more political of the two. Booker is a great talent but Booker seems like he gets along just to get along,Stevie on the other hand peeps bullshit and knows how to talk around it,he is VERY street smart but cunning as well. I could see him as more of a Booker(no pun intended lol) of talent more so than a wrestler. He probably was happy once it was over,he could live the same life and not have to do the work so you know he aint jealous over no money and even now we still know him when/if we see him so the notoriety is still there. I fuck with Stevie Ray,good guy.
Nick A 5 time champ couldn't even win the WWE world title once....politics..... I know how it works ...I knew Booker would never win the WWE world belt ...I was right
“I think it was good…and bad, at the same time.” YUP! Nailed that one, on the head. In hindsight, and no longer a high school teenager…I can see where the bad was.
Harlem Heat had a huge Southern following at that time and management wouldn't give them a push. It was so blatantly obvious that's what led to the eventual lawsuit. I was like twelve at the time and could see it was going on
Come on now the Wolfpack was a great faction born out of hall and hogan heat. I as a kid knew that they hated each other because Nash would always looked so fucking pissed and would shoot on hogan but not actually say his name. It was cool to see the shoots especially when he would make fun of Hogan and the way he said two sweet and Nash would come on and say no ya fucking old grandpa it's toooooo sweeeeetaaaa. Loved that salty shit from Nash
why the fuck would you get rid off something that put asses in seats? casual fans for the first time gave a fuck about wrestling. it was a terrible MISTAKE BY WCW to get RID off the nwo wolfpac in 99! The RATINGS COLLAPSED shortly thereafter, that is the TRUTH! it KILLED WCW!
Stevie Ray’s voice just scares me. The guy was intimidating as all hell. As dumb at it may sound considering how much of a bad ass Booker T can be, I always saw Stevie as the “muscle” of the team. Wish they handled his feud with Booker better, as I think those two could have had a great run in 1998/1999.
It should be a crime of the the century that Nash and company got filthy rich...in Atlanta of all place's. The power's that be completely ignored and threw to the ditch, the old school wrestling fans. What should've really shined above all was the young talent and the cruiserweight devision. Not those air time hogging promos of these fuckheads.
Yes the NWO was good but just got way to big, out grew it's on britches. I believe if they had kelped it smaller like the four horseman it would have been a lot better. There were more than 4 in the horsemen but not at the same time. Bring a new member in & kick one out, so like the horsemen had a storyline against everyone else plus had a storyline amongst themselves at times.
Wrestling can never match the nwo take over again it was the golden age of wrestling the climax that will never be reached again ....especially with todays lack of talent for the men. The women would have a chance at pulling it off if charlotte an bailey an becky an a few others go to aew an do it but aew dont have the star power in the womens div to do it
I never forgot you were a leader in the nWo. I thought Stevie was a great addition to the group. Wouldn't have minded seeing a more consistent Stevie/Bret Hart tag team though.
NWO was good but it went on to long n i hated the match was going on n the others wd cone in and ruined the match and Goldberg was on a streak and they should have milked him winning more.
the nwo was good for wrestling, BUT it was in the wrong promotion to be expected to not get fucked up. Vince, Pat, and Prichard could have made sure it ran just as long as it should have, and in the way it could make the rival top guys feuding with the NWO just as important as them.
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+Edwin Newberry dude they went over that..
Yup i have that match on tape from all the way back then!
I got a question please ask since he has been everywhere what is his take on neighborhoods does Houston have the worst or New York or jersey? What is his take on people and areas the roughest nicest or just rough looking towns with nice people. Would love to hear his insight as I've been almost everywhere and Houston hoods look somewhat intimidating but usually the people are really chill and laid back but take a place like Detroit and man it feels like a set up no matter where u go in some spots.
i was expecting some incredible story and all i got was steve bitching how he wasn't on the ppv and wanted to leave during the greatest night in wrestling history!
dru713281 So, out of all questions on the planet, you want to know one of the most stereotypical questions possible. You're asking this question because Steve is black & from Houston. That question wouldn't be a thought if Hogan was in this interview. You wouldn't think to ask Hogan which place is richer? The Hamptons or Beverley Hills.
Man, he really wanted to leave that night.
LOL..RIGHT!
Can you blame him?
Did he? I missed that part.
I didn't pick that up at all.
@@jesuszamora6949 didn't he say that they were the tag team champs at the time? I'd be pissed as hell about not being on the damned ppv as well.
Stevie Ray is venting a lot of frustration..lol..Harlem Heat were one of my top 3 tag teams of all time tho..
Definitely agree
For big guys,,it's a matter of taste,,I'm a fan of all eras,,80s midnight express,,rock n roll,,arn Tully,,..moving to big guys..Lod steiners,Harlem heat,,edge Christian,,hardy boys,,dudleys,,New Age Outlaws...80s 90s 2000sall 3 in those eras,,were dominating
Thats so hard to pin down, theres been a ton of great tag teams, the freedbirds, The Road Warriors, steiners, hart foundation, demolition, the list goes on & on. But i do agree on the sentiment, harlem heat was just as good as all those tag teams & honestly, you could throw em all in a bag & give me a top 5 of any order & id agree with you. The old tags were legends, sadly cant say that anymore but harlem heat was so damn awesome for sure!
Stevie Ray is one of, if not the best wrestling storytellers out there.
Scott Davenport Agreed. These stories have had me happily wasting an afternoon.
Stevie "It was what it was" Ray
Stevie "sukkas gots to know" Ray
25 years ago today! The 90’s were on a different level!
Hahahah Stevie Ray is somebody I would not piss off still angry about not being on the PPV
I'm laughing just thinking about Bret after a match in the car driving to the next town with his then tag team partner Stevie Ray asking, "hey Stevie. ""What's up Bret"", Yeah I just have one question, your in the nWo and we are tag partners but.....I'm I in the nWo?"
Stevie Ray is the best interview in pro-wrestling. I could listen to him tell stories all day.
Lol we do forget that Stevie Ray was leader of the Nwo B-Team at one point
LMAO @ "The hotel was right across the fuckin' street!" 😂😂😂
*edit* LMFAO also @ "Fonzie and Al's Diner." Stevie Ray is hilarious!
Had me rolling man 😂
He had me laughing in the whole clip 😂
I just finished watching this episode with Stevie Ray Stevie speaks his mind truthfully which makes you wanna watch more
I don't think Stevie wanted to stay the whole night
romans52345 it’s a stretch, but I think you might be right sir
I wouldn't say he didn't want to stay the whole night but he definitely wanted to leave and hit up a few bars.
Apparently, the hotel was across the street.
Only craft he wanted to sit and study was the craft beer across the street
Well it is what it is
Stevie Ray keeping it real. Lol 😂
This was great. I’ve never really heard him interviewed
Earliest memory of Wrestling seeing Freddy Blasey at the Los Angeles coliseum when I was a baby . Just a vague glimpse of a memory. To the Olympic Auditorium. ,
Video should've been named "Stevie Ray not giving two shits".
Stevie keeping it real!
Stevie Ray seems so cool
Harlem Heat. One of my favorite tag teams
Stevie ray is a great man. Glad I came across this channel.
Stand up for greatest is really good
Stevie is hilarious
Matches from the ppv include:
Steve McMichael vs Joe Gomez
The Nasty Boys vs Public Enemy
DDP vs Jim Duggan
John Tenta vs Big Bubba
Matches that didn't make the ppv include:
Harlem Heat vs Steiner Brothers
Eddie Guerrero vs Steven Regal
nWo and DX are some of the most FUN I ever
Had as a young fan. nWo the music, the intros, the in ring madness. But nothing tops DX driving a tank down the street outside Norfolk scope chanting Free Kevin & Scott, with Chyna (RIP) standing on top of the tank
If the nOw had just stuck with former WWF guys, and had a 2 year only run, it wouldn't have been watered down and monotonous.
nWo*
RetroHabit82 Yeah thats so true, Hogan, Nash, Hall, Million Dollar Man, Randy Savage, Curt Henning
Maybe some undercard former wwf guys like Big Boss Man or Virgil
That would have been great
Luger would have been a good choice too.
But they would have enough Faces: Sting, Goldberg, DDP, Giant, the four horsemen, many cruserweights who could have benn pushed, Bret Hart, Harlem Heat, the Steiners.
RetroHabit82 yeah Would have been cool to stick to the whole "invasion" idea. Eventually It got bloated and overdone
Bret Hart wasn't there at the time. The third man situation: They hinted it to be him at first.. Savage would have been great... NWO LEader Randy Savage
I love listening to Stevie Ray tell about his time wrestling with his brother... And it cracks me up how many F-bombs he sprinkles thru his storys... He might use as many f***s in conversational analysis as Cornette! Lol
I like it when Stevie Ray loses his temper on the other dude. Seems to happen frequently
Stevie is a really likable guy
People don't really know just how good harlem heat was, they could wrestle a mop and a broomstick in a tag match and make it a five-star affair
The fact that no one ever acknowledges the truth and what really happened. Bro if it wasn't for AOL everything was gonna be different. Bisoff wanted to have what the wwe is now in the sense that there was 2 separate shows competing as 2 companies. Thunder was gonna be the nwo show that's how the war was supposed to end with them "getting their own company''but AOL killed that n any momentum wcw had by the end of 97.
7:31 That happened to me one morning on the bus on the way to work. I was standing and there was a woman sitting below me. The gum landed in her hair but she didn't feel it at all. Nobody saw it I didn't say anything. I felt so bad. I wonder how long it took for her to discover it and what she thought when she did.
The NWO got corny once jeff jarrett joined. Once he joined it was over
@Mugwort hell no
Brad Gilmore and Matt Topolski look like they could be related lol.
literally on the wikipedia page lol
What they should have done is actually ended up giving The nWo their own show ( nWo Thunder ) and handled it like the WWE brand splits.
Stevie Ray says he doesnt want to sound bitter, but yet he is coming across as the most bitter person I have heard in a long time
So a Harlem Heat vs Steiner match didn't make the cut. I would like to see the rest of that card.
I think booker said it best. Good is supposed to win eventually. And it never did with the NWO.
NWO too much too fast too long. But hell did I love it then.
Scott Norton should of been a dominant force in the USA as he was in Japan, guy was built like a tank, strong as hell and murdered wrestlers with his power moves.
"I didn't give two shits what happened in that building that night". LOL
The NWO was good for wrestling. It just ran too long.
DH1986 i don’t feel like it ran to long. The problem is that any and everybody could be in NWO. And the few that couldn’t be in it were trying to mimick it which made the hype die down.
DH1986 & had way to many members
big662 yea, they should have gotten rid of it in 98 and started pushing younger talent and building new stars.
@@big662 Even vincent can be in the fuckin nWo 🤣🤣
Exactly, they had no exit strategy.
Hulk Hogan, we coming for you %#&$*@
NIGGAH!!!!!!!
Raymond S. First who are you and who are you imitating
We want the gold SUCKAAAAHH!!!
@@sethschiller832 i believe he was imitating WCW Booker T when told Hulk Hogan were coming for you N#####
😂😂😂😂
So let me get this straight...they put DESPERADO JOE GOMEZ VS. STEVE MONGO MCMICHAEL on the PPV, but not Harlem Heat vs. The Steiner Brothers. That totally should of been switched around.
I agree
I'd have been pissed if I were stevie ray too.
Isn’t that WCW in a nutshell?
@@sicco5 That was indeed WCW in a nutshell. Now of course, they were getting ready to catch fire in 1996 with the nWo and become the #1 wrestling company in the world, but it’s decisions like that which eventually led to WCW’s downfall; you’ve got The Steiner Brothers and Harlem Heat, the two best tag teams in the company at the time, with the tag team titles at stake, and you not only put them on the pre-show, they only have a 5 minute match. Meanwhile John Tenta, the Nasty Boys, Public Enemy, and Disco fucking Inferno get to wrestle on the PPV. There’s something wrong with that picture.
Lmao I think Nasty Boys vs Public Enemy were also on the PPV but Harlem Heat were the freakin Tag Team champions and they on the pre-show with the Steiners lol just peak WCW
Stevie Ray with a podcast? HELL yeah.
get ready for neck bones and bbq recipes, because Stevie Ray is here.
hell no
nWo made wrestling more popular. This was the greatest time in professional wrestling. It didn't necessarily run too long, it just got out of hand. Everyone was nWo at one point.
Not too long....could have been greats like the horsemen and run for years. But once they got bigger than 4-5 members, was out of hand.
But that was Bischoffs idea....thinking NWO would spin off into its own entity.
@@moorejonothan exactly, I think it should've stopped after Hall, Nash, Hogan, Giant, Syxx, Dibiase as manager, and Virgil as the the guy who had to take the pin if NWO had to lose
Stevie don't play games with no one
He would have killed Vince for his BS.
I know the video is about Hogan joining the NWO but I think the fact that 2 of the greatest tag teams of all time worked the preshow and not the main card really show how fucked yo that company was even when it was good
WCW was smart not to tell anyone Hogan was the third man
Stevie Ray is like that cool Uncle at the family BBQ , that's going to keep it real
Stevie Ray, straight up guy.
Stevie Ray is is killing me with his stories hilarious 🤣🤣😃🤣
As a kid i really thought Harlem Heat was from Harlem. They're Texas boys
I always loved Harlem Heat. After they split I was so expecting Stevie Ray to get a push just as they were doing with Booker. Love hearing Stevie Ray's interviews! Seems like a guy you could drink a beer with and shoot the shit.
the greatest tag team in wcw history
ConiferTreez You seem lost.
ConiferTreez Why are you here? I liked Harlem Heat and both Booker and Stevie as singles wrestlers. Stevie wasn't as good as Booker but he still could have been used properly. You could easily use half the guys for your idiotic argument. Go away, holy shit.
@Marky Whitemale.
the three teams you mentioned.
Awesome in their own right no doubt about that.
Outsiders would be my number 2 pick for sure.
I grew up with the Steiners in WWF around 93 so i kinda place them there.
And well
The Roadwarriors belong under the NWA umbrella.
Considering it morphed into WCW later but still.
NWA all the way for me.
bibby42 would’ve been good for Stevie to “legitimately” win the TV Title while Booker was the US & later on the World Champion while they were working as singles. But Stevie always talked about the bad decisions the front office made...
As a black kid I loved watching Stevie Ray. That love flipped over to the Rock. Black wrestlers were so inspirational to so many. Seeing someone who looks like you matters!
Yawn start seeing ppl as human once u learn to do that color dont matter
@@ThaSilentOne420 Exactly, take the skin off & we all are identical.
@@scottyellis3442you are privileged and have always seen someone who looks like you at the top of virtually every field out there. Ethnic minorities haven’t seen someone who looks like them in every fuek
@@ThaSilentOne420recognize your privilege and know you have always had people that look you at the top in every field of work imaginable. So, when you are an ethnic minority and see a Booker T, a Gabby, a Serena, or a Tiger Woods succeed and be at the top it is huge.
@@ThaSilentOne420says the white guy... Tell ya ppl to do the same foh everybody u've seen growin up on tv looks like u so its ez for u to say that. Take ya white privilege sumwhere else 🤡
Bret Hart should've came in to take out the nWo, not join it. It was amazing for wrestling but they didn't know how to end it.
Since watching the network and not really watching WCW originally I can say that Harlem Heat are now my favourite tag team of all time. And damn Sister Sherri was hot.
Stevie Ray reminds me of me, when it's time to get off work on a friday...."holy fuck I'm glad that shits over"! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
He's so fuckin honest lol
Stevie Ray is a great guy.
and he has every right to be pissed, Harlem Heat was the best tag team they had and they were not on the PPV
LoL...you’ve got to love Stevie Ray’s honesty. This is absolutely fantastic. He has a cool, largely untapped perspective of the business. I haven’t heard him shoot and share his stories until this show. I’ll definitely be listening to more of this podcast.
Stevie Ray seems like one of the most legit guys in wrestling.
Harlem Heat was big even when Hall and Nash showed up...but they split up.... Good for Booker but bad for Stevie in a way...who was treated as the Jannety of the Heat
I remember Harlem Heat debut back on WCW Saturday Night I think in 93', I may have been 11 so it was still real to me damnit, they were all scarred up and they screamed a lot I thought they were legit gangsters man. I was terrified of them. Harlem Heat was like my first 'introduction' to the aggressive, 'angry black man' stereotype. I remember them just disappearing once Bischoff started dedicating 2hours of every Nitro to NWO promos. But then again, pretty much everybody did.
And Stevie was better than that and deserved better.
Harlem Heat definitely should've been on the PPV and not on the Main Event.
Crash Davis yes you are right even Eric bischoff admitted a lot of tag teams including Harlem heat shouldve been taken more seriously but he says It was all about timing and profits
At least they wrestled the stiener brothers....
Especially since they were the best tag teams in the company
Every question...I was there and I was pissed off lmao
Booker T and Stevie Ray were super underrated, specially booker he was too damn talented
High Till I Die Booker & Benoit had five star matches.
High Till I Die they should have handed the keys over to guys like Booker T and Jericho.
Harlem heat should have gone to WWE in like 97 98 and they would have run the tag team division.
Too who?
He won the world title
thanks for shorting down the intro fam
i was just about to say that to, great choice
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Stevie is fucking cool
Stevie’s gum took a bump.😂
Mike Keller ha ha ...not funny
That shit happened while I read this 🤣🤣
@Mike Keller 👎👎👎
BIGGEST MISTAKE WAS....... DROPPING THE LEG ON MACHO MAN! IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN STING! HE WAS ORIGINAL WCW. IT WOULD VE MADE MORE SENSE..CORRECT?
Serious Power Washing no it made sense
Macho was his boy
Stevie Ray seems cool as shit
Someone like Stevie should have dismantled the NWO on purpose. Goes in the ring as leader, tells everyone it's over, to go their separate ways, and people leaveee, one, 2 at a time...that's as far as I get with the storyline. LOL.
I'd be pissed off as a fan if I didn't get to see Harlem Heat! I wasn't watching wrestling at this time (on a hiatus). HH was a hell of a team!
I knew it was Hogan the second he stepped outside the curtain. I was dialing my friend’s phone number before Heenan asked “Whose side is he on?!”.
Start this at 4:43 trust me!
Is Stevie Ray ever coming back to do the Title Match Wrestling videos, he was so great to watch.
I was just thinking that.
I loved the early WCW because it had less cartoonish storys and cheractors that the WWF had. The early WCW was smash mouth more wrestling action. WCW had 1 good story and that was the NWO, but they didn't know how to follow up with it. And it seemed like the writers thought " well if they like 1 they will like 3 a whole lot more", and the next thing you knew the whole roster was in the NWO.
nWo made wrestling a must watch TV, however, it became big that the organization couldn't handle it anymore and the people involve didn't want other people to shine. They should have made a better ending to the Goldberg streak, not just defeated by Nash. There's a point that Goldberg was more famous that Stone Cold especially prior to the Vince feud. They could have build up another main event player to help Goldberg sustain WCWs great run.
Harlem Heat faced The Steiner Brothers on WCW Main Event on the pre show to Bash At The Beach on TBS ...
You know WCW. Always recognizing and appreciating their talent.
For people saying Stevie is bitter,I dont get that vibe at all. In fact,Stevie strikes me as being the more political of the two. Booker is a great talent but Booker seems like he gets along just to get along,Stevie on the other hand peeps bullshit and knows how to talk around it,he is VERY street smart but cunning as well. I could see him as more of a Booker(no pun intended lol) of talent more so than a wrestler. He probably was happy once it was over,he could live the same life and not have to do the work so you know he aint jealous over no money and even now we still know him when/if we see him so the notoriety is still there. I fuck with Stevie Ray,good guy.
thalrg22 spot on
I don't see bitterness in any of these clips. I find those statements perplexing as well.
This is easily one of the most entertaining podcast/channels I’ve ever come across regarding professional wrestling. Stevie Ray is great!
nWo ran way too long and it killed WCW. People got sick of seeing good guys getting beat up and never getting one over nwo..
Fucking love Stevie Ray
He really loves Daytona...fuckers ruined his night.
I love Stevie's attitude. Would have worked in WWE.
Nick How could it work? He was WCW... They would have barried him more
Nick I'd put him with the Nation ...but Vince hates WCW successful homegrown guys ....so no...wouldn't work
Nick A 5 time champ couldn't even win the WWE world title once....politics..... I know how it works ...I knew Booker would never win the WWE world belt ...I was right
Nick Booker was 10 times better...10 times...10 times...better then Ahmed Johnson...
@@EXPLISITemcee that was the biggest bullshit. I mean how could they make that story the way they did and not have Booker T go over.
“I think it was good…and bad, at the same time.”
YUP! Nailed that one, on the head. In hindsight, and no longer a high school teenager…I can see where the bad was.
Harlem Heat had a huge Southern following at that time and management wouldn't give them a push. It was so blatantly obvious that's what led to the eventual lawsuit. I was like twelve at the time and could see it was going on
Nwo was great for wrestling. Just too many members. & certain members just didn’t fit.
I wish this series with Stevie was still going on. I could watch these all day!
Come on now the Wolfpack was a great faction born out of hall and hogan heat. I as a kid knew that they hated each other because Nash would always looked so fucking pissed and would shoot on hogan but not actually say his name. It was cool to see the shoots especially when he would make fun of Hogan and the way he said two sweet and Nash would come on and say no ya fucking old grandpa it's toooooo sweeeeetaaaa. Loved that salty shit from Nash
why the fuck would you get rid off something that put asses in seats? casual fans for the first time gave a fuck about wrestling. it was a terrible MISTAKE BY WCW to get RID off the nwo wolfpac in 99! The RATINGS COLLAPSED shortly thereafter, that is the TRUTH! it KILLED WCW!
Stevie Ray’s voice just scares me. The guy was intimidating as all hell. As dumb at it may sound considering how much of a bad ass Booker T can be, I always saw Stevie as the “muscle” of the team. Wish they handled his feud with Booker better, as I think those two could have had a great run in 1998/1999.
Everything has an upside and a downside. nWo helped 100x more than it hurt the businesses. To make an omlette, u gotta break some eggs.
It should be a crime of the the century that Nash and company got filthy rich...in Atlanta of all place's. The power's that be completely ignored and threw to the ditch, the old school wrestling fans. What should've really shined above all was the young talent and the cruiserweight devision. Not those air time hogging promos of these fuckheads.
Yes the NWO was good but just got way to big, out grew it's on britches. I believe if they had kelped it smaller like the four horseman it would have been a lot better. There were more than 4 in the horsemen but not at the same time. Bring a new member in & kick one out, so like the horsemen had a storyline against everyone else plus had a storyline amongst themselves at times.
I'll never forget Stevie Ray as one of leader of the NWO holllywood but I wish they would of give him a push as the TV or US title champion.
lol stevies like, i was pissed we werent on the show. buddys like, you were second on the show, i dont remember that. lol thats funny idk why lol
Wrestling can never match the nwo take over again it was the golden age of wrestling the climax that will never be reached again ....especially with todays lack of talent for the men. The women would have a chance at pulling it off if charlotte an bailey an becky an a few others go to aew an do it but aew dont have the star power in the womens div to do it
I never forgot you were a leader in the nWo. I thought Stevie was a great addition to the group. Wouldn't have minded seeing a more consistent Stevie/Bret Hart tag team though.
Joe Montague Him leading black n white made it seem closer to a feud, instead of the long running squash it was.
The N.W.O. should've stopped adding members after The Giant.
NWO was good but it went on to long n i hated the match was going on n the others wd cone in and ruined the match and Goldberg was on a streak and they should have milked him winning more.
the nwo was good for wrestling, BUT it was in the wrong promotion to be expected to not get fucked up. Vince, Pat, and Prichard could have made sure it ran just as long as it should have, and in the way it could make the rival top guys feuding with the NWO just as important as them.