You're still buying into it 18 months later. Whinging about a business making money is stupid. At the end of the day when you watch a show does it really matter where it is? Does it really matter to the viewer how much they are paid to do it? No, it's the quality that matters. @@Heavymetalthunda3
WCW actually still existed up until 2017. The Universal Wrestling Corporation was a subsidiary of AOL Time Warner and was used to handle legal obligations and liabilities that the WWF didn't acquire. In 2017, the UWC was merged into Turner Broadcasting System which marks the true end of WCW.
Another honorable mention (along with the others in the comments) - Tony Khan is intending on going into politics. It got triggered when some fan went on the site to submit your intention of running for public office, and they entered a joke entry with TK’s name on it. It was so crazy that TK himself had to go public and debunk it.
Simon is such a genuinely good person that if it makes he feel better and happy I would believe him if tells me shaving him going bald is a choice. I’m not joking or trying to be mean either.
IIRC, the morons also promised a “return” of ECW! Of course no answers on how and what they were able to wrest from WWE in terms of trademarks and the like. Just some scammers swinging a little too hard for the fences.
The thumbnail is a bad hoax; what TF does the WWF's Shawn Michaels hugging a well-known ECW crowd regular in the late 90's have to do with "WCW returning in 2020"?
I used to post on TheSmartMark forums back in the day, and a bunch of posters, who absolutely, positively did not include me, because I’m way too sexy and intelligent to fall for some dumb stuff like that, thought that they had stumbled upon Trish Stratus’ AIM handle and started passing it around. It even got to the point where somebody interviewed “Trish” for the TSM site, around which point either the real Trish or someone official debunked it and said it was a fake. Which I knew all along of course. 😅
Fact check: WWE didn't actually own WCW. They own the names of many of the PPV's, the TV show names, the logos, and the video library. The company name "World Championship Wrestling" stayed owned by AOL-Time Warner until the copyright expired in the early 2010's. Apparently, WCW is now public domain and legal to copyright again.
After SummerSlam '91 is when the rumour took hold; he didn't appear on TV with his dropped muscle mass until WM VIII, his first post-firing WWF return; I never understood that, as like Kerry Von Erich, he was still in phenomenal *natural* (compared to his 80's-'91 look) shape by then...
To be fair, I think that Bret Hart is the old school type that never breaks kayfabe, so if Montreal screw job was a work, he'll keep pretending until he dies, even with what happened to Owen or that he got a career ending concussion.
Someone did to Paul Wight in real life what The Boss Man and some paid-off cop buddy did to him in kayfabe concerning his father during the Attitude Era...
TNA Vs Bellator MMA But One Show Had better ratings and one show was a year from being out the Door so but King Mo and Rampage Jackson making cameos was not that bad but not great either better than Pac Man Jones by mile
I wish Simon would stop making infuriating “ooooo” noises in his narration. Once you notice this habit, it’s a major distraction from otherwise passable voicework.
Another one is the whole WWE charter plane being held on the runway in Saudi Arabia Past due payment that was 100% a work Because if that was even remotely true, it would’ve been all over mainstream media During the broadcast, they announce it NXT was going to be a part of survivor series and conveniently the charter plane that had Smackdown were stranded in Saudi Arabia People will buy anything if it’s put on the Internet
Re: the Montreal deal - one, it’s not a hoax, it’s a theory. It’s not like anyone’s ever claimed to have the smoking gun on this to prove that it was all a work. Plus, while I can buy the official story as being legit, for an old school guy like Bret Hart, who by his own admission has a history of trying to work the boys, and whom if WCW did their job, actually stood to benefit from the whole thing, it’s not implausible for him to kayfabe this whole thing as a way to try to build up some buzz. Even with the Owen stuff, he began meeting with Vince again as soon as 2002 and I can even remember stories of them having a private meeting around the time of the funeral. Add in the fact that someone (be it HBK, Corny, HHH, Russo, etc) seems to add a new layer to the story every 10 years or so, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it ended up being staged.
Still makes 0 sense. For it to be a work, Vince would need to believe that sending Bret to WCW with a pre-made perfect storyline gift wrapped & ready to go would somehow benefit the WWF. Then you have the 'Bret Screwed Bret' promo. If everything was a work, and Vince was doing it as a heel building to what would become 'Mr McMahon', it therefore makes Bret (who is on his way to WCW at that moment) the good guy. How does this benefit Vince & the WWF? Formulate a theory from the evidence, not from a conclusion.
@ This’ll be a long response, but it doesn’t just benefit Bret though. Even taking Mr. McMahon out of the equation, it in theory puts a massive amount of heat on Shawn, whose backstage rep was already starting to seep into the public consciousness. So yes, it frames Bret as a wronged hero, but it also sets Shawn up as an even bigger heel for someone (whether Austin or whomever) to take down in the long run. I won’t even say that Mr. McMahon wasn’t in the cards. In the Bret Screwed Bret promo, Vince pretty smugly says he let Bret hit him because he didn’t want him to end up with a broken jaw. That wasn’t a babyface promo, and say what you will re: Vince, I don’t think he’s that slow in terms of knowing how that’ll come off. I wouldn’t even discount the notion of them doing it as a publicity stunt, as Bret did interviews in newspapers in the aftermath to sell his side of the story. And for me personally, the first thing that raised an eyebrow to me was how Wrestling With Shadows, which wasn’t associated with WWE, was able to secure the rights to the DX music and intro video for the doc when they didn’t start using it as their theme until the night after Survivor Series (again, not exactly a smoking gun, but, especially knowing how Vince reacted to Beyond the Mat a year later, why is WWE production cooperating with what essentially amounts to a WWE takedown piece?). And this isn’t to say that any conspiracy was all wrapped up in a neat bow and planned out to the tee. Vince had a 20 year contract that he needed to get out of and even the most conservative accounts state that he booked himself into a corner by leaving the belt on Bret. Yeah, the schmoz that was supposedly proposed would get them out of it, but that’s literally all it would do. Whereas the screwjob, while risky, benefits both guys and stands to put eyes on the company. This isn’t some goofy “Russo sabotaged WCW” thing: going the route of the screwjob is a plausibly sound booking decision. Again, I can buy it as a legit double cross (based off of WWE’s revisionist history alone) but I really don’t understand how people can be so dismissive of the other side. I stress - if this goes off right, all parties involved stand to benefit.
The Montreal Screw job one isn't a hoax in the context of this list it's a conspiracy. You didn't give any proof of a hoax and the exposure that it was a hoax. I mean you can shoe horn it in there because people consider it a hoax. It was a good list though!
Was the Angelfire list the thing that said stuff like "Stephanie McMahon used a strap-on on Stone Cold and Triple H? I remember something like that floating around on wrestling forums about 10 years ago.
Honorable Mention: Saudi Arabia buys WWE in 2023, That day was wild
I mean at this point they might as well have lol they make bajillions just from the two shows a year.
Morals? Nah we need that mbs blood money lol
You're still buying into it 18 months later. Whinging about a business making money is stupid. At the end of the day when you watch a show does it really matter where it is? Does it really matter to the viewer how much they are paid to do it? No, it's the quality that matters. @@Heavymetalthunda3
I think people wanted a reason to hate on WWE so they jumped on it, even after it was proven false people still used it to hate on WWE and Vince
Oh shit I forgot that happened 😂
Not a hoax, money talks
Honorable Mention: The Ultimate Warrior died and was replaced by Kerry Von Erich. That one went around in my school's playground back in the day.
Mine too. A work colleague even asked me if that was true *decades* later. *I* couldn't believe *he'd* believed that for the whole time...
Death Valley Driver Board was life. What great memories.
That invoice is hilarious. Especially paying the Total Divas so Brie would let Bryan go to the show. Cmon, that's a good joke.
And that pachyderm Conrad Thompson. I can't stand that tub of lard
Honorable Mention: All those 'Leaked Royal Rumble Scripts' that are just Microsoft word documents listing the entrant order that pop up every January.
WCW actually still existed up until 2017. The Universal Wrestling Corporation was a subsidiary of AOL Time Warner and was used to handle legal obligations and liabilities that the WWF didn't acquire.
In 2017, the UWC was merged into Turner Broadcasting System which marks the true end of WCW.
Thanks for the laugh!
I've seen somewhere on UA-cam that WWE didn't buy the copyright to the company name of WCW, which expired on 2016.
Wait Simon what happened in Montreal in 1997??
Another honorable mention (along with the others in the comments) - Tony Khan is intending on going into politics. It got triggered when some fan went on the site to submit your intention of running for public office, and they entered a joke entry with TK’s name on it. It was so crazy that TK himself had to go public and debunk it.
Shane tried to get his father to buy UFC while it was in its infancy. I believe that one.
That's the rumor, and even though he used to tell the story himself, Dana now denies it.
Simon is such a genuinely good person that if it makes he feel better and happy I would believe him if tells me shaving him going bald is a choice. I’m not joking or trying to be mean either.
This video had me dying especially the wcw tweets people actually believed wcw was coming back 😂😂😂
IIRC, the morons also promised a “return” of ECW!
Of course no answers on how and what they were able to wrest from WWE in terms of trademarks and the like. Just some scammers swinging a little too hard for the fences.
I remember when that happened, a friend and I just started making fun of it by pretending we were running it
@@adamd5849 😂😂😂
I even fantasy booked WCW working with AEW 😂😂
Does anyone remember when Brad Maddox was trapped in a cave in 2014? Twitter was going nuts for several hours on that one.
The thumbnail is a bad hoax; what TF does the WWF's Shawn Michaels hugging a well-known ECW crowd regular in the late 90's have to do with "WCW returning in 2020"?
I used to post on TheSmartMark forums back in the day, and a bunch of posters, who absolutely, positively did not include me, because I’m way too sexy and intelligent to fall for some dumb stuff like that, thought that they had stumbled upon Trish Stratus’ AIM handle and started passing it around. It even got to the point where somebody interviewed “Trish” for the TSM site, around which point either the real Trish or someone official debunked it and said it was a fake.
Which I knew all along of course. 😅
Simon is so mad in this video lol
I remember one time someone stole Charlotte Flairs photos from the internet. And started sending me messages on Instagram. I just had to chuckle.
Fact check: WWE didn't actually own WCW. They own the names of many of the PPV's, the TV show names, the logos, and the video library. The company name "World Championship Wrestling" stayed owned by AOL-Time Warner until the copyright expired in the early 2010's. Apparently, WCW is now public domain and legal to copyright again.
I just made a similar comment and I believe it was 2016 that the copyright expired.
"What hoaxes were blown out of proportion?" is a loaded question. ALL OF THEM! THEY'RE HOAXES! :D
Yeah, if you honestly fell for the WCW comeback thing. I feel bad for you. I’ll admit I was intrigued on how far that person was willing to go with it
Also: Kerry Von Eric was the new Ultimate Warrior because the original Ultimate Warrior died after WM 6.
After SummerSlam '91 is when the rumour took hold; he didn't appear on TV with his dropped muscle mass until WM VIII, his first post-firing WWF return; I never understood that, as like Kerry Von Erich, he was still in phenomenal *natural* (compared to his 80's-'91 look) shape by then...
It’s hard to not believe these things when ALL of professional wrestling is a work. There are very few shoot moments.
The Brett hart conspiracy a bunch of ridiculous nonsense 🤦🏻♂🤦🏻♂🤦🏻♂
The first time I ever went on the Internet was in an Internet cafe to read about Owen Harts death
Another reason why I think Tony Schivone is an idiot becasue he firmly believes Montreal was a work
To be fair, I think that Bret Hart is the old school type that never breaks kayfabe, so if Montreal screw job was a work, he'll keep pretending until he dies, even with what happened to Owen or that he got a career ending concussion.
Russo was correct about that V!agra on a pole match, things were really looking up after that.
I don't see why in kayfabe the Hardcore Championship can't be the old WWF Championship smashed by Mr Perfect
I know it would be pretty neat but he smashed the IC belt and the hardcore belt was a wwe champion belt
Someone did to Paul Wight in real life what The Boss Man and some paid-off cop buddy did to him in kayfabe concerning his father during the Attitude Era...
Ultimate warrior died and wwe replaced him with a look alike
TNA Vs Bellator MMA But One Show Had better ratings and one show was a year from being out the Door so but King Mo and Rampage Jackson making cameos was not that bad but not great either better than Pac Man Jones by mile
I wish Simon would stop making infuriating “ooooo” noises in his narration. Once you notice this habit, it’s a major distraction from otherwise passable voicework.
I tell you that Viagra On A Pole match was a 'hard' match to watch
Another one is the whole WWE charter plane being held on the runway in Saudi Arabia Past due payment that was 100% a work
Because if that was even remotely true, it would’ve been all over mainstream media
During the broadcast, they announce it NXT was going to be a part of survivor series and conveniently the charter plane that had Smackdown were stranded in Saudi Arabia
People will buy anything if it’s put on the Internet
Vinnie Mac blind…. it was 2015 mostly Vince healing after cataract surgery seriously people think
Re: the Montreal deal - one, it’s not a hoax, it’s a theory. It’s not like anyone’s ever claimed to have the smoking gun on this to prove that it was all a work.
Plus, while I can buy the official story as being legit, for an old school guy like Bret Hart, who by his own admission has a history of trying to work the boys, and whom if WCW did their job, actually stood to benefit from the whole thing, it’s not implausible for him to kayfabe this whole thing as a way to try to build up some buzz. Even with the Owen stuff, he began meeting with Vince again as soon as 2002 and I can even remember stories of them having a private meeting around the time of the funeral. Add in the fact that someone (be it HBK, Corny, HHH, Russo, etc) seems to add a new layer to the story every 10 years or so, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if it ended up being staged.
Still makes 0 sense.
For it to be a work, Vince would need to believe that sending Bret to WCW with a pre-made perfect storyline gift wrapped & ready to go would somehow benefit the WWF.
Then you have the 'Bret Screwed Bret' promo. If everything was a work, and Vince was doing it as a heel building to what would become 'Mr McMahon', it therefore makes Bret (who is on his way to WCW at that moment) the good guy. How does this benefit Vince & the WWF?
Formulate a theory from the evidence, not from a conclusion.
@ This’ll be a long response, but it doesn’t just benefit Bret though. Even taking Mr. McMahon out of the equation, it in theory puts a massive amount of heat on Shawn, whose backstage rep was already starting to seep into the public consciousness. So yes, it frames Bret as a wronged hero, but it also sets Shawn up as an even bigger heel for someone (whether Austin or whomever) to take down in the long run.
I won’t even say that Mr. McMahon wasn’t in the cards. In the Bret Screwed Bret promo, Vince pretty smugly says he let Bret hit him because he didn’t want him to end up with a broken jaw. That wasn’t a babyface promo, and say what you will re: Vince, I don’t think he’s that slow in terms of knowing how that’ll come off.
I wouldn’t even discount the notion of them doing it as a publicity stunt, as Bret did interviews in newspapers in the aftermath to sell his side of the story. And for me personally, the first thing that raised an eyebrow to me was how Wrestling With Shadows, which wasn’t associated with WWE, was able to secure the rights to the DX music and intro video for the doc when they didn’t start using it as their theme until the night after Survivor Series (again, not exactly a smoking gun, but, especially knowing how Vince reacted to Beyond the Mat a year later, why is WWE production cooperating with what essentially amounts to a WWE takedown piece?).
And this isn’t to say that any conspiracy was all wrapped up in a neat bow and planned out to the tee. Vince had a 20 year contract that he needed to get out of and even the most conservative accounts state that he booked himself into a corner by leaving the belt on Bret. Yeah, the schmoz that was supposedly proposed would get them out of it, but that’s literally all it would do. Whereas the screwjob, while risky, benefits both guys and stands to put eyes on the company. This isn’t some goofy “Russo sabotaged WCW” thing: going the route of the screwjob is a plausibly sound booking decision.
Again, I can buy it as a legit double cross (based off of WWE’s revisionist history alone) but I really don’t understand how people can be so dismissive of the other side. I stress - if this goes off right, all parties involved stand to benefit.
FAITH NO MORE GUY!
The Montreal Screw job one isn't a hoax in the context of this list it's a conspiracy. You didn't give any proof of a hoax and the exposure that it was a hoax.
I mean you can shoe horn it in there because people consider it a hoax. It was a good list though!
What Culture Wrestling is wcw
Rip big show 🪦
Raheem Sterling and whatculture is a crossover I didn't know I needed 😂😂
Who? Sand Harambe is he?
I truly believe the Russo "rumor" is real!!!
Montreal was 100% a work. Don’t be a mark yo
Corrado esposito e Emma Raducanu Debut Friday SmackDown Novembre 22 2024 ❤
During the pandemic, Florida - not being one to listen to all the masks and social gathering hooey - said wrestling was "an essential service."
It was the winged eagle that Henning destroyed 🤦♂️
So was the Hardcore title; most of the close ups of it here are all lazily used photos of replicas with the "WWE" logo on it...
Moral of the story? Critical thinking does not exist or belong in the IWC 😂
Not blind but vince is senile
Was the Angelfire list the thing that said stuff like "Stephanie McMahon used a strap-on on Stone Cold and Triple H? I remember something like that floating around on wrestling forums about 10 years ago.
I still think Russo was a mole
Bro fell off. 59 views in one minute 😢
That wwe is a wrestling company.
Just doubled checked and yes Jean Slater is still the head booker of wwe
Funny, but nope. We weren't' FOOLED by the "WCW invasion." Just nope. And most of us weren't fooled by anything you mentioned.
Yeah title is a bit too clickbaity. Maybe “Wrestling Hoaxes That Spread Crazier Than Others”
RIP sid eudy u are missed
How many are from Dave Meltzer
Yes
hot take, i like the hardcore title
You do realize that, from a mile high perspective, you cannot actually say with 100% certainty that Montreal wasn't a work. You just can't.
But alternatively, if you don't have positive evidence that it WAS a work, then you can't say it wasn't. You just can't.
Nah, Bret Screwed Bret 🎉
You'd let vince take a dump on your head too no
The biggest hoax in wrestling, CM Punk being talented.
Only cowards will down vote this
No, it's roman having leukemia
@BashisWrestling Way to ruin my childhood. Leukemia was my favorite wrestler during the pandemic because it took Roman out of commission.
False
The funniest hoax thar people believed is that AEW was changing the business
That company is a joke. It's not even the Wish version of WWE it's the Temu version of TNA or ROH