As someone who hasn't watched monster jam in years, it's good to see a content creator who educates about a motorsport which is, in all honesty, very difficult to find information about online. Not to mention content aimed at older fans as well. Keep up the great work, you've earned yourself a subscriber!
Here's a big controversial moment for part 3. Back in 2018 (I think it was 2018) when FELD decided to copyright strike almost all monster jam fan coverage videos (including mine lol) so that tanked a lot of channels. Even with highlight videos that DID use FELD owned footage, the footage was changed enough that it followed copyright guidelines, but FELD still copyright striked them.
tbh there are plenty of companies who copyright footage of anything be it clips from shows or just clips from movies and most prominently Disney are majorly known for this so I wouldn't deem it as controversial
@@theunhingedgamer3762 that's different. Those clips are owned by Disney, not much of it is changed by the user. And majority of the times it's just a copyright claim, not a strike or a full video take down.
@@AngelPerez-dw8oui mean he’s not wrong a bunch of other stuff like Disney do this worse, specifically Warner bros stated out the if anyone covers anything Warner bros, like a movie or something, by showing footage of at least 5 minutes or more they immediately get a copyright strike
On the BKT subject I can tell you as a former dirt track announcer company’s love hearing their brand out there. Even if it’s annoying it’s what pays the bills. Everytime a car would wreck and have to be towed I would have to plug the towing company. EVERY SINGLE TIME. It’s annoying to say the least but it’s what pays the bills
What person thought Meents in Bulldozer beat Porter in Carolina Crusher in that Nashville race? That might be the worst call in a motorsports event ever.
I actually think adding the tiebreaker made for much bigger controversy. Tony Farrel should have a championship. I feel his run was way better than Jimmy's. That said they BOTH should have won because tiebreakers are just dumb with the way monster jam works. I also found it really amusing how mad Neil was when he lost in round 1 and shouldn't have even been there any way. The fast loser thing was always really dumb.
To this day I still have absolutely no idea how the judges at WF 5 could have thought that soza and madusa’s runs were anywhere near on par with cretens or meents. Not to mention Anderson’s extremely weak and unimpressive run scoring a 30 for some reason, which Dennis himself thought was absurd. WF 5 was something else and you could probably make an entire video on it if you wanted.
Back on all 4 BKt tires!🤣 I remember hearing that a lot but I mean, I also hear filling up with Sunoco fuel and 4 goodyear tires literally every pitstop in NASCAR so can’t be too mad about product placement
@@SenorWoods2722that maybe the case but you could also look at it differently. If Hartsock didn’t like that decision then he could just not compete in Monster Jam. However since Hartsock was a reoccurring truck at that time, that would mean that Hartsock is totally fine with that call. In fact changing the name to Slinger is up to him.
A note about the BKT tires; They are perceived to be cut more easily because they are. It isn't because they're poorly made, but rather they are a thinner ply than most other tires. This is done on purpose to save weight. It makes the trucks faster and makes life a little easier for the crews. I'm still not a fan due to their presence affecting (at least in part) how the shows are formatted, but there isn't anything wrong with them from a technology perspective.
I do think they pop easily but I’m not sure they pop easily on cars, I remember then popping on the ground, but I’m not sure because I don’t know anything about cars
If you do a part three defidently include the Gunslinger & Soldier Fortune censorships like others have said, but I'd also like to see Dennis's rant in Minneapolis about being shut off mentioned. I forget what year it was, but he lightly tapped a container and was shut off and ended the run.
He didn't hit a container, he hit the wall. Even all the way back then, the rule was if you touch the wall you're done. Dennis was mad his run got cut short, but they weren't going to give him special treatment.
For me the world finals move itself wasn't necessarily the big issue, but it was a catalyst for other issues such as changing the track style from Vegas styled racing, downsizing the event, and adding new championships. These changes are really what most people I think hated, myself included.
@@Ultimate23Dragon I wanna say somewhere between mid 2021 to early 2022. If I remember correctly, he was on his way to attend a local monster truck event and as soon as he was crossing the train track, the train went through and the impact took his life
Great video! I'd love to see a third & maybe a forth video of covering Monster Jam controversial moments. maybe even expanded outside of Monster Jam and into some independent shows!
Fun fact: Although the crash of Captain's Curse was censored in US airings, you can see some bits of it during the onboard cam segment including Max-D and the CBS Recap.
I don't know if this also counts as controversial, but the removal of intermission events such as Pro Stadium Truck Racing, Quad Wars, Freestyle Motocross, or even the fire breathing Cybersaurus is a major loss because they also added pizzazz to Monster Jam events in the 2000s and the early 2010s
Here's another one. From World Finals 5, El Toro Loco's score being changed to pass Bounty Hunter due to such a poor fan reaction for his first score from the judges.
I'm so glad you mentioned Wold Finals 5 freestyle honestly seemed like an absolute disaster of a freestyle Tom Meents on Maximum Destruction seemed like the only worthy champion though I guess you could argue Jimmy Creten in Bounty Hunter also deserved it
@@Pablo-312 Now that would be interesting because I still wonder why the Grave Digger team just stopped using the headers after 2016, But something interesting to note is that Jamey Garner and Team Over Bored were the only trucks that used Zoomie Headers post-2016, But by 2019, They too would make the switch to the standard mufflers.
Here's my scores for WF 5 Maximum Destruction: 29 Bounty Hunter: 27 Hot Wheels: 25 Blacksmith: 24 King Krunch: 23 Grave Digger: 22 El Toro Loco: 21 Bulldozer: 20 Monster Mutt: 19 Little Tiger: 17 Madusa: 14 TMNT: 11 Power Forward: 10 Team Suzuki: 6 Blue Thunder: 5 Avenger 4
5:44 it's hard to say but my money is on Carolina Crusher Edit: also I hope they bought Gary Porter dinner after absolutely screwing him, also if you think about the narrative, Gary Porter did eventually sell Carolina Crusher and became a Grave Digger driver (know this as I have a Grave Digger hat signed by Gary Porter and Tom Ments)
I enjoyed World Finals 5 for the most part. However the most controversial moment to me was actually Tom Meents being given a score high enough to tie for the win. The truck had a part break on the first jump & the rest of his run was literally him plowing into things. Definitly not worthy of being world champion thst year to be honest.
BKT tires shredding on cars is completely true, it happens in indy shows ALL the time. Side note - I am going to be so disappointed if part 3 doesn't mention Ami Houde.
This could be an outlandish idea but what if FELD and some Partners bought Sam Boyd and made it a permanent Monster Jam only venue. Which would be the first of its kind
that would make no fiscal sense for FELD. what is FELD going do, hold every MJ event there? the costs alone of just operating Sam Boyd while not hosting a MJ event would be insane
I was at Works Finals X on the side Captain's Curse raced on (I was inline with the freestyle ramp closest to the turn) & seeing the crash is something I'll never forget. It was probably 50-100ft from where I sat and was still scared for Alex, the cameraman and fans nearby. Easily the scariest moment I've ever seen at a monster truck show in person.
Hi Jackson how are you watching 1999 episodes of monster jam on a membership when the membership goes back to 2000 to 2018 on the monster jam youtube channel?
Also people don't realize that the Bkt tire mandate is Ultimately what stands in the way of Bigfoot from coming back because Bigfoots main sponsor is Firestone tires.
@@OskarasNauseda still the merchandise can be worked out some. MJ can't just say they have to have full control & rights over your merch which is bad business moral & what can I say just asinine.
I can definitely see the common consensus that only Tom Meents should've won the Freestyle title at World Finals V. But I think what rubs me the wrong way is the fact that in earlier World Finals (I and III specifically), they actually had six judges for scoring. They even mentioned in World Finals III that they would reinsert the high and low scores for tiebreaking purposes. So why were there only four judges in World Finals II (which already had its share of controversy) and obviously here in World Finals V?
I used to watch monster jam for the entertainment around 2008 and I seen the 5th world finals somehow but it was one of my favorites purely for the destruction and chaos. Looking back at it now makes me realize how fucked up the judging was lol
I honestly kinda like the rotational world finals schedule. I can see how people dislike it, but I think it allows a ton more people who wouldn't normally be able to see a world finals show to see one (says I, from Indianapolis).
Of worthy note is that color commentators (Ryan Lacosse) dont always know what the heck they're talking about so if they see something or hear something catchy they latch onto it and repeat it a lot. If you ever attend mud racing events, demolition derbies, tuff trucks, or other similar events put on by small clubs or even small towns you will often hear the color commentator/DJ/etc saying things repetitively or in a repetitive manner like "insert tire size mudders", "xxx small number of horsepower as its the biggest amount ever", etc..
In the early 90s Taurus flipped over on its roof at a small arena show near a section of front row seats.Taurus also knocked down a track official in Florida in the tunnel one time.
@@ausproductionsofficial Brandon Budd didn’t have his sets of BKT’s before the event, and it ran Firestone tires during the 2022 Toughest Monster Truck Tour, running as Brandon’s variant of Bigfoot. So he ran Firestone tires and walked away without controversy.
From the view of the whole track in Orlando in 2010 you can see that Neil's light also flickered. That could've been a whole different story had he jumped or neither moved until the green
I’m gonna see my first monster jam show in Hamilton Canada. It’s a really small arena and I watched some monster jam videos when they were in Hamilton before and was like. Why? The arena is tiny. They only have like one truck out at a time and don’t have many barriers set up because the trucks can hardly do anything
Even with the problems of monster Jam. I still love watching Monster Jam and I will never stop watching even though I will get pissed seeing Grave Digger win everything.
Here’s another MJ controversy: UNNECESSARY CENSORSHIP! Examples of this atrocity are Making Scott Hartsock change Gunslinger to Slinger when competing in MJ, the removal of the mini guns on Soldier Fortune and SF Black Ops, and more. Another one is the REMOVAL OF ZOOMIES! As the story goes, Kenneth Feld’s daughter and granddaughter were attending a Monster Jam event when the granddaughter complained about it being too loud. One thing lead to another and no more zoomies . If you decide to make a part 3 you really should include these.
none of the things you listed are controversial at all so calm down lol also zoomie headers were still around for a fair bit given Dennis was running them on GD20 and Adam still had them on GD The Legend and as for the whole censorship thing with guns of course that was gonna happen it just makes sense to censor any reference to weaponry in a family event
Okay calm down, first things first zoomies, like what’s the deal with them, they don’t do anything but make the truck louder I get people like that trucks make loud sounds but I don’t need them to be louder, they are already loud enough as it is, and the censorship makes sense because one monster jam is meant to be for all families and everyone and 2 there was a time frame last year between April and May of 2022 where there was a stupid amount of mass shootings, that was a really tragic time and no one wants to support the usage of guns anymore after these tragedies especially the Uvalde Texas shooting, so I think it’s good that censorship had to be implemented because of things that happen that no one wants that happens
I was working for MJ in 2015 and I can confirn that the gen 1 BKTs were junk. The drivers loved them because they were wide and soft, but they were super easy to cut and were too wide a d caused issues loading and unloading the tires out of the hauler and storage issues in the trailers, the later iterations of the tire addressed these issues.
You tell me that the powers that be behind the scenes in monster jam on most nights don't have a narrative of who they want to win?! It boils down to ratings & money not true competition because that doesn't always mean big money. WWF of motorsports.
So my question is Monster Jam racing always seemed to me like a show and not a legitimate competition. So does winning and finishing last even matter ? Since it seems like a traveling circus, aren’t the truck all Paid the same
@@belujour2787they can’t because the Vegas football team (I don’t know their name) don’t want anything to do with Sam Boyd Stadium and left it to rot, so nothing will happen in Sam Boyd stadium not even monster jam ever again
Raiders moved in 2020 to Vegas they did not use sam boyd cause its a college stadium which will not hold enough people fora nfl game due to there policy
In fairness, BKT doesn’t pay a lot of money to be ignored and unmentioned on TV. Sponsors deserve recognition and acknowledgement in exchange for their big money payments. So Ryan Lacosse (who is a very nice guy and genuine monster truck fan, I may add), was doing his job well by plugging BKT in his catchphrase, overdone or not.
I get why people hate that kinda thing but one I don’t think it was product placement you can disagree with me if you want but also his catchphrase is funny sometimes
Tom Meents should have easily won world finals 5! He filled the clock and went at least another 30 seconds after the clock with a broken truck and smoked up the whole stadium! How does he not win that?!
iv said it a thousand times to the owners of Monster Jam you have very deep pockets why not buy Sam Boyd Stadium and use it as a dedicated Monster Jam compound when there isn't a show there Turn it into Monsters Jam University cut-off access in the off-season or give tours around it the same way the patriots would in there arena when its in use world finals it felt like such a tradition coming back there every year its like when NASCAR fans come to Daytona or indy car fans come to the brickyard that was like our Daytona my first experience of seeing an encore was grave diggers 30th and I always go back and watch the trucks charging down charging down thunder ally into the classic style j hook racing epic freestyles with overkill evolution and son uva digger
I definitely dislike the bkt sponsorship. Does anyone else find it annoying that they constantly refer to the trucks as "Monster Jam Trucks" instead of just monster trucks? I swear they have to fit the words "monster jam into every sentence, it feels incredibly shoehorned in ngl. Also I disliked colt stephens becoming an announcer. idk about anyone else but i absolutely hate listening to him yell constantly
As someone who hasn't watched monster jam in years, it's good to see a content creator who educates about a motorsport which is, in all honesty, very difficult to find information about online. Not to mention content aimed at older fans as well. Keep up the great work, you've earned yourself a subscriber!
Hell ya a channel like this is lonnnggggg overdue! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@leeswea_dagoat4961 Absolutely! It's great to see!
Here's a big controversial moment for part 3. Back in 2018 (I think it was 2018) when FELD decided to copyright strike almost all monster jam fan coverage videos (including mine lol) so that tanked a lot of channels.
Even with highlight videos that DID use FELD owned footage, the footage was changed enough that it followed copyright guidelines, but FELD still copyright striked them.
tbh there are plenty of companies who copyright footage of anything be it clips from shows or just clips from movies and most prominently Disney are majorly known for this so I wouldn't deem it as controversial
@@theunhingedgamer3762 that's different. Those clips are owned by Disney, not much of it is changed by the user. And majority of the times it's just a copyright claim, not a strike or a full video take down.
@@AngelPerez-dw8oui mean he’s not wrong a bunch of other stuff like Disney do this worse, specifically Warner bros stated out the if anyone covers anything Warner bros, like a movie or something, by showing footage of at least 5 minutes or more they immediately get a copyright strike
On the BKT subject I can tell you as a former dirt track announcer company’s love hearing their brand out there. Even if it’s annoying it’s what pays the bills. Everytime a car would wreck and have to be towed I would have to plug the towing company. EVERY SINGLE TIME. It’s annoying to say the least but it’s what pays the bills
What person thought Meents in Bulldozer beat Porter in Carolina Crusher in that Nashville race? That might be the worst call in a motorsports event ever.
yeah same here I bet porter was pissed
I would call this the Montreal screw job of motor sports
Another thing is Dennis actually got pissed at the judges at world finals 5 for there judging and actually called them out on the mike
When you call out the judges on the house mic because you felt you were scored too high, that is why Dennis is THE icon of the sport.
@@azisles02 yeah haha he has rights
Never mind calling them out, to my knowledge Dennis never got punished for it
@@azisles02 I love Dennis but he had no issue when fans were rigging his runs back in 1999-2002
I actually think adding the tiebreaker made for much bigger controversy. Tony Farrel should have a championship. I feel his run was way better than Jimmy's. That said they BOTH should have won because tiebreakers are just dumb with the way monster jam works.
I also found it really amusing how mad Neil was when he lost in round 1 and shouldn't have even been there any way. The fast loser thing was always really dumb.
6:05 That clip of Jacksepticeye sums up what Gary Porter must’ve been thinking about that call very well 😂😂
The amount of bullsh*-
To this day I still have absolutely no idea how the judges at WF 5 could have thought that soza and madusa’s runs were anywhere near on par with cretens or meents. Not to mention Anderson’s extremely weak and unimpressive run scoring a 30 for some reason, which Dennis himself thought was absurd. WF 5 was something else and you could probably make an entire video on it if you wanted.
“that ain’t no 30 right there” 😂 dennis was hot!
The weird thing is why they had all the same numbers when they could’ve gone to a higher number each time especially for Meents
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Back on all 4 BKt tires!🤣 I remember hearing that a lot but I mean, I also hear filling up with Sunoco fuel and 4 goodyear tires literally every pitstop in NASCAR so can’t be too mad about product placement
What about for Jackie carizosa or the gun censorship or the treatment of independent trucks or bigfoot leaving monster jam.
Monster jam changing the name of Gun Slinger to just Slinger was very controversial
FELD/MJ didnt change the name, Hartsock did
@@harveylong5878 because he had too
@@SenorWoods2722that maybe the case but you could also look at it differently. If Hartsock didn’t like that decision then he could just not compete in Monster Jam. However since Hartsock was a reoccurring truck at that time, that would mean that Hartsock is totally fine with that call. In fact changing the name to Slinger is up to him.
A note about the BKT tires;
They are perceived to be cut more easily because they are. It isn't because they're poorly made, but rather they are a thinner ply than most other tires. This is done on purpose to save weight. It makes the trucks faster and makes life a little easier for the crews.
I'm still not a fan due to their presence affecting (at least in part) how the shows are formatted, but there isn't anything wrong with them from a technology perspective.
I do think they pop easily but I’m not sure they pop easily on cars, I remember then popping on the ground, but I’m not sure because I don’t know anything about cars
And to those thinking Ryan Lacosse saying "Back on all 4 BKT Tires" is product placement, Just remember that the Emoji Movie and Foodfight exist.
@@SakicFan yeah I’m pretty sure it’s just Lacosse’s catchphrase
@@SakicFanalso Space Jam 2
If you do a part three defidently include the Gunslinger & Soldier Fortune censorships like others have said, but I'd also like to see Dennis's rant in Minneapolis about being shut off mentioned. I forget what year it was, but he lightly tapped a container and was shut off and ended the run.
He didn't hit a container, he hit the wall. Even all the way back then, the rule was if you touch the wall you're done. Dennis was mad his run got cut short, but they weren't going to give him special treatment.
I would like to see the Zoomies removal controversy in Part 3.
For me the world finals move itself wasn't necessarily the big issue, but it was a catalyst for other issues such as changing the track style from Vegas styled racing, downsizing the event, and adding new championships. These changes are really what most people I think hated, myself included.
That Ryan lacosse meme was the funniest part in this video 😂lolollolol
Is Ryan saying "All 4 BTK Tires" any different then when at a NASCAR pit, they say "getting 4 new Good Years"?
Pretty sure the nfl also says a bunch of sponsors too, only I think they actually do it as product placement where Ryan just says it as a catchphrase
R.I.P. Scott Hartsock. A great person gone way too soon.
Wait what?... When did that happen?
@@Ultimate23Dragon I wanna say somewhere between mid 2021 to early 2022. If I remember correctly, he was on his way to attend a local monster truck event and as soon as he was crossing the train track, the train went through and the impact took his life
Great video! I'd love to see a third & maybe a forth video of covering Monster Jam controversial moments. maybe even expanded outside of Monster Jam and into some independent shows!
Fun fact: Although the crash of Captain's Curse was censored in US airings, you can see some bits of it during the onboard cam segment including Max-D and the CBS Recap.
I don't know if this also counts as controversial, but the removal of intermission events such as Pro Stadium Truck Racing, Quad Wars, Freestyle Motocross, or even the fire breathing Cybersaurus is a major loss because they also added pizzazz to Monster Jam events in the 2000s and the early 2010s
Here's another one. From World Finals 5, El Toro Loco's score being changed to pass Bounty Hunter due to such a poor fan reaction for his first score from the judges.
I'm so glad you mentioned Wold Finals 5 freestyle
honestly seemed like an absolute disaster of a freestyle
Tom Meents on Maximum Destruction seemed like the only worthy champion though I guess you could argue Jimmy Creten in Bounty Hunter also deserved it
of course Tom was the only one who should've won, he was the only one to completely fill time
For part 3 I'd like to see the Ami Houd controversy discussed.
She likes thet new bear movie.
I would like to see the removal zoomies controversy discussion!
@@Pablo-312 Now that would be interesting because I still wonder why the Grave Digger team just stopped using the headers after 2016, But something interesting to note is that Jamey Garner and Team Over Bored were the only trucks that used Zoomie Headers post-2016, But by 2019, They too would make the switch to the standard mufflers.
Awesome, the picture of Gunslinger and Grave Digger in Orlando was taken by my Dad.
This vid and part one are probably my most favorite videos youve ever made. I'd love a part 3!
Jimmy Cretan should’ve sued Lupe and Madusa for property damage and sued monster jam for premeditated truck slaughter
I did not know Ryan Lacosse was a meme that’s so funny, Ryan to me was cool
Here's my scores for WF 5
Maximum Destruction: 29
Bounty Hunter: 27
Hot Wheels: 25
Blacksmith: 24
King Krunch: 23
Grave Digger: 22
El Toro Loco: 21
Bulldozer: 20
Monster Mutt: 19
Little Tiger: 17
Madusa: 14
TMNT: 11
Power Forward: 10
Team Suzuki: 6
Blue Thunder: 5
Avenger 4
5:44 it's hard to say but my money is on Carolina Crusher
Edit: also I hope they bought Gary Porter dinner after absolutely screwing him, also if you think about the narrative, Gary Porter did eventually sell Carolina Crusher and became a Grave Digger driver (know this as I have a Grave Digger hat signed by Gary Porter and Tom Ments)
I enjoyed World Finals 5 for the most part. However the most controversial moment to me was actually Tom Meents being given a score high enough to tie for the win. The truck had a part break on the first jump & the rest of his run was literally him plowing into things.
Definitly not worthy of being world champion thst year to be honest.
11:02 i mean just look at the tires after kevin tolbots debut, they took deep chunks out of them
BKT tires shredding on cars is completely true, it happens in indy shows ALL the time.
Side note - I am going to be so disappointed if part 3 doesn't mention Ami Houde.
I remember the Orlando light flickering. I watched that broadcast all those years ago. Memories sweet memories
This could be an outlandish idea but what if FELD and some Partners bought Sam Boyd and made it a permanent Monster Jam only venue. Which would be the first of its kind
that would make no fiscal sense for FELD. what is FELD going do, hold every MJ event there? the costs alone of just operating Sam Boyd while not hosting a MJ event would be insane
@@harveylong5878 no not hold every event there just make the track permanent world finals track at Sam Boyd
@@krnerf3600 it would be a waste of money to tend to the stadium all year just for one weekend only
11:39 to clarify that Ryan lacrosse gave me Mark Schreöder vibes in 2015 but then I lost hope when looking at 2017 rip
That Nashville show bugged me. Glad to hear more people thinking its about Tom getting pushed over more
I was at Works Finals X on the side Captain's Curse raced on (I was inline with the freestyle ramp closest to the turn) & seeing the crash is something I'll never forget. It was probably 50-100ft from where I sat and was still scared for Alex, the cameraman and fans nearby. Easily the scariest moment I've ever seen at a monster truck show in person.
Vater’s Racing, Team Throttle Monster, and Mirror Image Racing also use BKT’s
the captains curse crash should've been a teachable moment for all events, stating why parts of the stands are blocked off for a reason
Hi Jackson how are you watching 1999 episodes of monster jam on a membership when the membership goes back to 2000 to 2018 on the monster jam youtube channel?
How do you go back and watch old shows from like pre-2013
there on monster jam's you tube channel but you gotta get the membership its gos all the way up to 2017 I belive
Aside from anything you can find freely, Monster Jam YT membership gets you stuff all the way back to 2000
Woohoo! Some more excitement! 😁😁
I like the mib music in the background!
I personally grown attached to the bkt tires lol
Also people don't realize that the Bkt tire mandate is Ultimately what stands in the way of Bigfoot from coming back because Bigfoots main sponsor is Firestone tires.
raminator ramunition runs even though they are sponsored by Firestone it is a merchandise deal that is stoping Bigfoot running
@@OskarasNauseda still the merchandise can be worked out some. MJ can't just say they have to have full control & rights over your merch which is bad business moral & what can I say just asinine.
the bigfoot thing happened decades before they even started running bkts
I'd love to see them take the World Finals to Rice Eccles Stadium in Utah. Similar layout to Sam Boyd
I can definitely see the common consensus that only Tom Meents should've won the Freestyle title at World Finals V. But I think what rubs me the wrong way is the fact that in earlier World Finals (I and III specifically), they actually had six judges for scoring. They even mentioned in World Finals III that they would reinsert the high and low scores for tiebreaking purposes. So why were there only four judges in World Finals II (which already had its share of controversy) and obviously here in World Finals V?
Can't wait for Part 3!
jesus christ did you see how much lupe soza whiplashed on that landing
I used to watch monster jam for the entertainment around 2008 and I seen the 5th world finals somehow but it was one of my favorites purely for the destruction and chaos. Looking back at it now makes me realize how fucked up the judging was lol
What about the time that Dennis Anderson and the officials got into it
I honestly kinda like the rotational world finals schedule. I can see how people dislike it, but I think it allows a ton more people who wouldn't normally be able to see a world finals show to see one (says I, from Indianapolis).
World Finals 5 had the most absurd and atrocious judging by far.
the 2 freestyle crashes at wf10, in certain broadcasts, cut to the on board camera that was in the cab and let it play out, which was a cleaver detail
Of worthy note is that color commentators (Ryan Lacosse) dont always know what the heck they're talking about so if they see something or hear something catchy they latch onto it and repeat it a lot. If you ever attend mud racing events, demolition derbies, tuff trucks, or other similar events put on by small clubs or even small towns you will often hear the color commentator/DJ/etc saying things repetitively or in a repetitive manner like "insert tire size mudders", "xxx small number of horsepower as its the biggest amount ever", etc..
Exactly the hate towards Lacosse is just really dumb in my opinion
In the early 90s Taurus flipped over on its roof at a small arena show near a section of front row seats.Taurus also knocked down a track official in Florida in the tunnel one time.
The question is where would the world finals be held in New York?
Likely in New Jersey or even Syracuse upstate.
@@Howard.Stern. Syracuse stadium is very small seating wise, it’s also in the middle of a school campus
You forgot to mention that Wasted Nites ran Firestone tires in Greenvile 2022.
That isn’t controversial lol. Gotta earn BKT
@@ausproductionsofficial Brandon Budd didn’t have his sets of BKT’s before the event, and it ran Firestone tires during the 2022 Toughest Monster Truck Tour, running as Brandon’s variant of Bigfoot. So he ran Firestone tires and walked away without controversy.
I’m grounded and still watching
If you don’t like BKT tires being mentioned constantly in monster jam broadcasts then you would absolutely loathe NASCAR
From the view of the whole track in Orlando in 2010 you can see that Neil's light also flickered. That could've been a whole different story had he jumped or neither moved until the green
I’m gonna see my first monster jam show in Hamilton Canada. It’s a really small arena and I watched some monster jam videos when they were in Hamilton before and was like. Why? The arena is tiny. They only have like one truck out at a time and don’t have many barriers set up because the trucks can hardly do anything
For a third part, you could add the mass exodus of trucks entering the new millennium like bigfoot and trucks that signed to milestone motorsports
Even with the problems of monster Jam. I still love watching Monster Jam and I will never stop watching even though I will get pissed seeing Grave Digger win everything.
4:13 god rest his soul. I hope that crossing got updated
You should make a video about the closest finishes in monster jam
Can you make a video about not being able to have “zoomies”
The removal of zoomies is not a big deal, I don’t need monster trucks to be louder, they’re loud enough already
Here’s another MJ controversy: UNNECESSARY CENSORSHIP! Examples of this atrocity are Making Scott Hartsock change Gunslinger to Slinger when competing in MJ, the removal of the mini guns on Soldier Fortune and SF Black Ops, and more. Another one is the REMOVAL OF ZOOMIES! As the story goes, Kenneth Feld’s daughter and granddaughter were attending a Monster Jam event when the granddaughter complained about it being too loud. One thing lead to another and no more zoomies . If you decide to make a part 3 you really should include these.
She went to a monster truck show and complained that it was too.......loud? Jesus fucking christ.
none of the things you listed are controversial at all so calm down lol
also zoomie headers were still around for a fair bit given Dennis was running them on GD20 and Adam still had them on GD The Legend and as for the whole censorship thing with guns of course that was gonna happen it just makes sense to censor any reference to weaponry in a family event
Okay calm down, first things first zoomies, like what’s the deal with them, they don’t do anything but make the truck louder I get people like that trucks make loud sounds but I don’t need them to be louder, they are already loud enough as it is, and the censorship makes sense because one monster jam is meant to be for all families and everyone and 2 there was a time frame last year between April and May of 2022 where there was a stupid amount of mass shootings, that was a really tragic time and no one wants to support the usage of guns anymore after these tragedies especially the Uvalde Texas shooting, so I think it’s good that censorship had to be implemented because of things that happen that no one wants that happens
MonsterTalk, Can You Post A News Episodes!? There Was A Fire In A Monster Truck Work Shop!!!
Something funny is that my dad worked at a radio station and was friends with Ryan Lacosse and that's how we got cheap tickets
what about St Louis 2006 racing between Guy Wood in BOB and TOM and Randy Brown in Grave Digger
It would be awesome to see Feld Entertainment buy out Sam Boyd Stadium just for Monster Jam shows and of course the Monster Jam World Finals.
I was working for MJ in 2015 and I can confirn that the gen 1 BKTs were junk. The drivers loved them because they were wide and soft, but they were super easy to cut and were too wide a d caused issues loading and unloading the tires out of the hauler and storage issues in the trailers, the later iterations of the tire addressed these issues.
You tell me that the powers that be behind the scenes in monster jam on most nights don't have a narrative of who they want to win?! It boils down to ratings & money not true competition because that doesn't always mean big money. WWF of motorsports.
The answer for the question at 5:50 wasn’t A, B, C, or D, but it was E, non of the drivers won cause it was rigged
You can not convince me that Scott hart sock didn’t win the race (Orlando 2003)
So my question is
Monster Jam racing always seemed to me like a show and not a legitimate competition.
So does winning and finishing last even matter ? Since it seems like a traveling circus, aren’t the truck all
Paid the same
They should’ve been rotating the world finals since the start of it to begin with..
whats the event in 11:02?
Wf17 or whatever when Adam won instead of Damon in monster energy
Not sure if this will be an unpopular opinion/controversy, but having backflip specific areas of the track has made freestyle less special.
backflips arent special period anymore. its a cookie cutter gimmick now. everybody does them now
@@harveylong5878Nah, if someone did it off a ramp not designed for it then its cool. But most of the tracks are bricks now anyway.
Because now people know how to approach a backflip ramp
So for Sam Boyd stadium couldn’t Feld just buy the stadium
Waste of money.
@@bigyodatheman not really cuz they can still use for other events like maybe the All Star challenge if they bring it back
@@belujour2787 How many millions for what, two shows a year? With a better stadium across town? And the money to maintain it? WASTE OF MONEY
@@belujour2787they can’t because the Vegas football team (I don’t know their name) don’t want anything to do with Sam Boyd Stadium and left it to rot, so nothing will happen in Sam Boyd stadium not even monster jam ever again
@@bigyodathemansadly about Allegiant stadium, the owners don’t want dirt in their track
Raiders moved in 2020 to Vegas they did not use sam boyd cause its a college stadium which will not hold enough people fora nfl game due to there policy
In fairness, BKT doesn’t pay a lot of money to be ignored and unmentioned on TV. Sponsors deserve recognition and acknowledgement in exchange for their big money payments. So Ryan Lacosse (who is a very nice guy and genuine monster truck fan, I may add), was doing his job well by plugging BKT in his catchphrase, overdone or not.
Makes it that much worse for the indies. Feld is profiting on them being forced to buy the more expensive tire.
I get why people hate that kinda thing but one I don’t think it was product placement you can disagree with me if you want but also his catchphrase is funny sometimes
I hope there will be a world finals in new york
landed on all four BKT tires
Tom Meents should have easily won world finals 5! He filled the clock and went at least another 30 seconds after the clock with a broken truck and smoked up the whole stadium! How does he not win that?!
pt. 3?
0:54 Metallica -Lux Æterna
So exited
iv said it a thousand times to the owners of Monster Jam you have very deep pockets why not buy Sam Boyd Stadium and use it as a dedicated Monster Jam compound when there isn't a show there Turn it into Monsters Jam University cut-off access in the off-season or give tours around it the same way the patriots would in there arena when its in use world finals it felt like such a tradition coming back there every year its like when NASCAR fans come to Daytona or indy car fans come to the brickyard that was like our Daytona my first experience of seeing an encore was grave diggers 30th and I always go back and watch the trucks charging down charging down thunder ally into the classic style j hook racing epic freestyles with overkill evolution and son uva digger
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I definitely dislike the bkt sponsorship. Does anyone else find it annoying that they constantly refer to the trucks as "Monster Jam Trucks" instead of just monster trucks? I swear they have to fit the words "monster jam into every sentence, it feels incredibly shoehorned in ngl. Also I disliked colt stephens becoming an announcer. idk about anyone else but i absolutely hate listening to him yell constantly
Bro I genuinely hate Ryan LaCosse even as a little kid….glad he left Monster jam and glad the new commentators are doing much better
Why?