This was the Survivor Series I was at. My dad passed away 1 week prior. To say that was the longest week of my life would be an understatement. In what turned out to be art imitating life, I was sitting next to Gorilla position and Big Show walked back there after the show and raised the title to me. As if to say, "Here's for the people who lost there dads." Though I was still pissed I didn't get the HHH, Rock, and Austin triple threat match. A big reason a lot of us went
@@dppatters here's to yours! I'll give you some advice for the future that might help when the time comes. You never have to get over any loss that occurs in your life. You just have to learn to live with that new normal. Stay strong!
It's crazy when something seems related to something that just happened. Once, I was at college and was listening to S.O.S. for Kofi Kingston and at "It's a shame (what a shame) you lose your life" I looked outside and saw A HEARSE!😲😱
Good to see I’m not a lone with the scramble channel PPV watching 👊🏾. My parents couldn’t afford getting a lot of the PPV’s so I spent a good deal of time just imagining what was going on. That’s why I cherish really good commentary especially from JR cause he could paint such a vivid picture you really felt like you were watching it even when it was scrambled.
@@actionjackson4982 hell yea including the naughty channel lol. Best thing to ever happen was when we got the “Black Box” hookup. Great times being able to finally watch wrestling PPV’s and of course watching the porn channel too. Learned a lot in those years lol.
@@riotd.r.8363 Yup lol no lie one time the PPV stayed on for a good hour or a little after. I didn’t even want to breath out of fear that the scramble would come back lol. Someone must of finally caught the screw up though cause like I said about an hour or a little after it switched right back to the scramble 🤦🏾♂️. I was like you already let it go this long why not just let it run smh. Still though it was cool to see a PPV if only for a little bit 🤷🏾♂️.
@@dtcarpediem Ah back in the day when porn wasn't easily accessible as it is today and we/I had to sneak in our parents room when they were in a shower or out to watch porn. What a rush as a kid.
Kane really does have a bad history with tag partners betraying him. Honestly it's a shame we never had him and sting team up, they had so much in common.
Yeah but unlike sting, Kane has betrayed his own partners in the past too like big show, hurricane, rob van dam, and Daniel Bryan. So obviously it would be Kane who betrays sting later 🤣
It's amazing how relatively easy it was to get free cable back in the day. Since it was analog the "black box" just had to adjust the level of the signal and all of a sudden, free everything. Or some people could actually mess with the wires on the pole, which required actual know how lol.
Or what some used to do they would open the bottom portion of the black box and remove a chip that allowed you to get the channels you weren’t subscribed to Only problem was if the cable company found out (which they usually did cause they know which tier you subscribed to) they would charge you for the broken box and/or a permanent ban or both I think
From a booking standpoint, the attitude era was arguably some of the best of all time but also some of the worst of all time, with titles being heavily devalued. I remember it being very common place for the title to switch on a near monthly basis. It used to mean something when you won a title, but there were so many title changes, they saw diminishing returns very quickly.
Agree. I was just reading the WWE title reign history, and if I remember correctly, there were, like, 7 title reigns in the first 15 years the title existed. Then in 99 or 00, there were 10 reigns in that year alone.
Maybe it’s just me, but as a kid watching wrestling in 2006-2007 I thought the 10-11 title changes in 1999 with the tag and world title were great ideas as opposed to the Ruthless Aggression era where you would rarely see a title change on PPV, let alone TV. I thought it made for great tv and provided a catalyst for several stars to rise all at once, especially since Austin was leaving. Not to mention having short reigns seemed more easier to believe since each main event competitor was a challenge.
99 sucked after Foley dropped the title... despite the ratings the year was a complete mess booking-wise. Losing Russo was great for the company.. I think the WWF started to get better after the Radicals came in and Angle/Jericho developed more
I've always thought that Kane was so sympathetic a character that's the reason X-Pac got booed so mercilessly for the rest of his career, it was just too devastating a heel turn.
Nah, he got booed later, cuz he's boring. He was only cool, when he was face, in DX. But Xpac isn't a nice guy towards women, so it's like art imitating life.
The Big Show funeral segment will never not be hilarious. It's amazing how far they're willing to push the envelope. Most of the time it ended poorly, but a few times it just works wonderfully. EDIT: Also, why was Big Bossman always in the most insane angles? Cooking AL Snow's dog/kennel from hell match, being hung by the undertaker, dragging Big Show's dad's coffin through a graveyard. He seemed like a go-to for weird shit
I have to think that those segments wouldn't have been anywhere nearly as good if not for Boss-Man just being the most over the top asshole heel possible.
I was 9 years old at the time and a HUGE Stone Cold fan- like I was him for Halloween kind of fan. I remember seeing the accident on "LIVE TV" and remember feeling legitimately devastated and concerned for his life. Every week after felt weird and looking back I find it hilarious that I actually believed the storyline to this extent.
For real. Way better than the kickoff shows. Made Sunday Night Heat unmissable, as opposed to Main Event and Superstars before it was mercifully killed off
Say what you will about Rikishi being the one who DID IT FOR THE ROCK, but at least it was an answer. Unlike The White Hummer in WCW where there was no answer at all.
I remember at the time people being disapointed, at least on the playground, about Austin not coming back during the main event. The way that commentary kind of played it off as a bit of a joke, and we'd seen Austin be beaten down so many times and then come back really made it seem like we were going to get an Austin run-in at the end.
That Mick Foley promo was actually a rare exampe of long term story telling in that era. In a lot of ways the break up of Rock and Sock was the beginning of The Rock's transformation from an arrogant bully tweener, to a full fledged face and The People's Champ.
Jericho has absolutely buried Chyna for this match because he said she was stiff, couldn't do much and had an attitude about everything, and honestly that comment about Jericho wrestling himself for part of the match is pretty accurate.
I was young when I saw the scene of Big Bossman crashing Big Shows father's funeral. One of my favorite moments of the who ran over Stone Cold Steve Austin saga, was on the 21st of Sep episode of Smackdown where Mick Foley questioned the entire roster.
Stone Cold got run over by a car Who are the most likely suspects? Vince McMahon (I HATE AUSTIN, DAMNIT!) The Rock (The Rock thinks Stone Cold is a roody poo candy ass!) Triple H (He's a big time threat-uhhh!) The Undertaker (The Devil never forgets who messes with him and Stone Cold just pissed off the Devil) Mankind (I'm so crazy I dunno what I'm doing!) Big Show (Hey, that's my schtick, I do random turns every week!)
Oh my god, the opening with Toonces just unlocked a Core Memory I have not thought of in more than a decade! I laughed so damn hard, and had to go look for the old sketches with Toonces.
I always had a vague recollection of seeing one of these sketches as a little kid. I think there's one where a cop gets thrown on an ant pile and the ants eat his face down to the skull. Freaked me out and always stayed with me lol
Too bad Stone Cold was hurt but it was right to write him off while he heals up. Also doing a "who done it" storyline which lasted a year was one of the greatest things the WWE did!
Advertising him for a match at Survivior series weeks leading up to the show tho and at the beginning of the ppv blatantly knowing in advance he couldn't be cleared to wrestle was petty of wwe. They really ripped off many fans who paid for a ticket or the ppv that night to see Austin and believe me people paid to see Austin more than anyone
The payoff to the who done it storyline went over like a fart in church. Rikishi? Please. Then they let Triple H beat Austin in the climax of the feud. Horrible.
@@FreeThinkAlways They know that. That's why they didn't announce it, until the day of the show. They didn't want no one showing up in the arena. It's just business, nothing personal.
The Kane/X-Pac feud was where the hatred fans had for X-Pac started. X-Pac basically kept getting these cheap wins over Kane and never really got his comeuppance (their final match at WrestleMania 2000 was more about if Pete Rose was going to show up, plus Rikishi really had zero reason to team with Kane)
Toonces the driving cat, and I remember watching scrambled PPVs. I think my first legit WWF/E PPV was in college when a guy I was friends with, his mother worked for the cable company so we drove 2 hours to his house to watch it, there were like 6 of us. We had actually started watching Raw in the common area and the dorm actually did a Raw thing where they ordered pizza for us. The people watching in the common room was far more than just us 6. It was 1999 when wrestling was super popular.
I have the first edition of Foley's autobiography, which was always one of my prized possessions. Then I met the man last year and he autographed it. Now it is the number one prized possession I own.
When I first started watching WWF in 2000 and I learned about Stone Cold getting run over by a car at this show, I was shocked. I didn't know wrestling was scripted and thought it was real, so to see a man getting run over on TV was something for me.
On the mid-match Angle promo, SUPPOSEDLY the legend goes that during the match, Vince noted the negative response and told the ref through his headpiece to tell Angle to cut a promo demanding respect from the crowd. Ref told Angle the order, and rest is history.
i remember being in the car with my mom and brothers and the radio played a commercial about "sexual chocolate" being at a club and we were all like "aoh shit sexual chocolate coming to town!?!" and she was like "its a stripper not a wrestler" haha
@@skyblaze2156 every single wrestler wants to make sure that he remains on top even if it means screwing the other guys out of their opportunities to rise up to the next level. When Randy Savage was the WWE or WCW Champion, Hulk Hogan seems to be present, acting as if he’s there to be Savage’s friend yet he resents the idea of the Macho Man being granted the chance to hold on to the top prize. The Kliq used their influence to cancel the pushes of other wrestlers, Bret and Shawn are fighting to see who is the ace of the company and neither one of them want to be the runner up. Speaking of Rock, Stone Cold and Triple H, it was said that Rock was supposed to lose the IC title to Bret Hart which Bret vetoed because he knew that such a move is a double middle finger to him and Rock since Bret and Shawn’s hatred for one another is raging with an IC title win for Bret serving as a move to have Bret kicked away from the main event picture and Rock would be made to look like a chump since he is deemed to be a threat to Triple H whom HBK is planning to elevate as the next big thing. As for Stone Cold, he didn’t dig the idea of losing to Triple H at Summer Slam 99 and thus, a convoluted scenario of a brand new challenger is cooked up with Mick Foley becoming the third guy and he pins Stone Cold to win the WWE title and have Triple H beat him the next day, making Stone Cold lose the title without getting pinned by Triple H yet I prefer HHH to beat Stone Cold to kickstart his reign regardless of whether a third guy is needed or not. As for Triple H, we all know what he’s capable of, especially in 2002-2005.
I remember Adam Blampied did a "How WWF Should've Booked" on who should've been the one to run over Austin. He chose Kurt Angle and that actually would've made sense given what he accomplished in that year Austin was away.
This is it…a show I have been waiting for you to review. I don’t have nostalgia for this event…but man I am hyped! Finally, you can finally talk about the Beginning of the Austin Whodunnit Has Begun!
This is the first PPV I ever watched. Note for time travelers: In those old scrambled PPV days you could put a magnet on your cable box and everything is unscrambled. Of course I didn't know that, but it was common in the old days for there to be one guy in town who did know that and for a nominal fee he would climb your pole and do something and when he came down you had "free cable" which included HBO, Showtime and the PPV channels. He was probably just reattaching the cable and sticking a magnet on there.
Magnets? No. How would that even work? You needed a device, a black box, attached to your cable service's coaxial cable. It had circuitry in it that would override the scrambling and produce a clear picture and sound. All circuitry. Magnets have nothing to do with it.
Still to this day to me it was a injustice that a triple treat between Austin,Rock,& HHH never happened. If Austin never needed surgery in my opinion that should of been the main event of Wrestlemania 2000 aka 16
That intro was clever and hilarious! Lol. This was the very first wrestling ppv that I ever watched live on cable, back when I was 7! Very cool review, as always! 👍👍
Ahh the good ol days of scrabbled ppvs …my family couldn’t afford ppvs growing up so that was the entire attitude era for me until they came out on vhs ….good times lol
Car crash wrestling at its finest. Big Bossman was always a highlight during this time. His feuds with Big Show and Al Snow weren't what you might call great wrestling, but captivating and extremely memorable sports entertainment for sure. Poor Pepper the dog. "Watch out for the dewclaws" lol
For the Jericho/Chyna thing, Jericho was told to treat Chyna same as he would with a male wrestler. Then when he accidentally potatoed her, HHH acted like Jericho did something absolutely horrible hitting a woman and spread heat on Jericho. It was at the point where Jericho had to go over his planned matches with X-Pac to get approval. I don't think it is a secret that HHH did not like Jericho and actively tried to stifle his momentum (which he kinda succeeded at)
Too bad we didn't have fancy team names for this year's edition, because here's what I cooked up: The Ladies Men (Venis, Mizark, Blackman, & Gangrel) The Bulldogs (Bulldog & the Mean Street Posse) The Pimp Nation (Godfather, D'Lo, & the Headbangers) The Dudleytes (the Dudleyz & the Acolytes) The High Flyers (Edge, Christian, & the Hardyz) The Super Heavyweights (the Hollys & Too Cool) The Enforcers Behaving Badly (Bossman, Albert, Mideon, & Viscera) The Big Nastys (Big Show, Blue Meanie, & Kaientai)
This is sorta how I got into wrestling. I was in Kindergarten when this happened and the following day, some kid brought in a Stone Cold action figure for show and tell, but gave us some clues as to what it could be. The clues were: He's a wrestler He's bald He was hit with a car last night. My 5 year old brain was blown away such a thing could happen on wrestling. I wasn't watching but I knew through the N64 games who Stone Cold, The Rock and Undertaker were. I happen to watch it almost a year later with my brother one night and it peaked my interest. I asked my older brother, "What happened to Stone Cold and the car?" He said, "He's been gone ever since but he's coming back really soon." I remember watching their first night on TNN and being in complete awe. Stone Cold was back and there was a real cast of characters worth getting to know. Kane, The Hardys, Chris Jericho, Chyna, and even Jim Ross and The King were icons to me, they always felt like a comedy duo like Abbot and Costello but they were reacting to wrestling which just made it even funnier seeing them so dressed up. I know a lot of people crap on this angle but I always liked The Big Show so I was happy to know he actually got the chance to win the belt in Austins place, it just made me question where the hell he was when Austin came back.
Yeah the Kane/X pac/ Tori story broke my heart too. I was just a dumb teenager myself, still fooling myself into believing it was all real despite all the obvious red flags. What really got me was when (spoiler alarm!) When Tori stabbed Kane in the back and hooked up with X pac. I remember thinking to myself “It’s alright big guy, shrug it off. You’ll be alright. Just look how much you’ve progressed in these last months. You found love, you learned how to trust, you TALKED, you might have even regained your soul. Just take your time. I know it’s hard, but you’ll get there.” Then when he returned on Raw with Paul Bearer I was totally torn. On one hand I’m thinking “NOOOOO! Kane no! You were so close! You were almost a person!” And on the other hand I’m all “YEAAAAH!!!! SLAUGHTER EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!!!!!” Good times.
Did getting hanged by the Undertaker, Edge, and Christain, unlock something in Big Boss Man or something? Because...whew boy. Was he a deranged bastard.
This show may be terrible and only known for two things, but J.R. doing his best Randy Watson impersonation with regard to Mark Henry was worthwhile. 😂
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the fact Jerry Lawler made a mention of Earl Hebner also being the referee in the 98 survivor series and perhaps suggesting something
@@clarencesimmons8580 This Wednesday is the Survivor Series 2004 review…so maybe instead of a Starrcade Review Series…fingers crossed one of those reviews is Armageddon’99
Kurt had his first match, and won, with his finisher. That has to be a rare occurrence. How often do we get stories, or see footage from guys that are using some random move for the first few months?
Can’t believe one of JR’s greatest lines of commentary of all time didn’t come up. During Snow and Mankind vs the Outlaws JR says in pure deadpan “Al Snow gave Mankind head last Thursday night on Smackdown.”
Rikish was protecting the Bloodline before it was popular.
Rakish is the head waiter at my local Indian restaurant. Glad to see he was once a pro wrestler
Rakish keeps calling me asking me to buy Amazon gift cards
Rikishi*
Yep, Rikishi keeps it Ucey.
Rikishi was 23 years ahead of the curve. Does that make him the ultimate long game player?
"Rikishi was a gentle giant who loved to have fun.....oh, and he once tried to f*#king kill a guy"
@@megavolnutt4629 the top 8 worst heel turns ua-cam.com/video/uqyboYE_i5w/v-deo.html
That storyline killed his career dead.
@@Rschr101 At least he enjoyed it.
@@megavolnutt4629 8 Worst Heel turns
At least he did it... for da rock!
You make it sound like an episode of Friends - “The one where Austin got hit by a car”😂
Can't wait for the one with Vince's funeral.
Unrelated but Tank Abbott was in an episode of Friends
"The one where Shane McMahon takes a huge bump" was my favourite
Chandler: Could Austin be any more unconscious?
@@jrcarter9175 Could he be anymore out cold? Like stone cold?
This was the Survivor Series I was at. My dad passed away 1 week prior. To say that was the longest week of my life would be an understatement. In what turned out to be art imitating life, I was sitting next to Gorilla position and Big Show walked back there after the show and raised the title to me. As if to say, "Here's for the people who lost there dads." Though I was still pissed I didn't get the HHH, Rock, and Austin triple threat match. A big reason a lot of us went
Sorry about your loss dude… My old man is going through it right now so I feel you. Good that you still honor him. Here’s to him 🍻 🙏🏻
@@dppatters here's to yours! I'll give you some advice for the future that might help when the time comes. You never have to get over any loss that occurs in your life. You just have to learn to live with that new normal. Stay strong!
Here’s to you man I just lost mine
It's crazy when something seems related to something that just happened. Once, I was at college and was listening to S.O.S. for Kofi Kingston and at "It's a shame (what a shame) you lose your life" I looked outside and saw A HEARSE!😲😱
My Condolences Man Lost My Father 2 Years Ago
Stone Cold: Imma need neck surgery
Vince: Cool let me run you over with a car fam
Oh lawd🤣
Fun fact, it was called the Olympic slam until the Olympics committee sued WWE for the use of the term Olympic and they changed it to angle slam.
Yup. But nobody told TNA that.
Should have called it the Gold Medal Slam. That would have been great.
How can you have the rights to the word Olympic lmao
Good to see I’m not a lone with the scramble channel PPV watching 👊🏾. My parents couldn’t afford getting a lot of the PPV’s so I spent a good deal of time just imagining what was going on. That’s why I cherish really good commentary especially from JR cause he could paint such a vivid picture you really felt like you were watching it even when it was scrambled.
The 90s were all about scrambled
PPVs lol
If you look hard enough, you may even see a move happen
@@actionjackson4982 hell yea including the naughty channel lol. Best thing to ever happen was when we got the “Black Box” hookup. Great times being able to finally watch wrestling PPV’s and of course watching the porn channel too. Learned a lot in those years lol.
@@riotd.r.8363 Yup lol no lie one time the PPV stayed on for a good hour or a little after. I didn’t even want to breath out of fear that the scramble would come back lol. Someone must of finally caught the screw up though cause like I said about an hour or a little after it switched right back to the scramble 🤦🏾♂️. I was like you already let it go this long why not just let it run smh. Still though it was cool to see a PPV if only for a little bit 🤷🏾♂️.
@@dtcarpediem Ah back in the day when porn wasn't easily accessible as it is today and we/I had to sneak in our parents room when they were in a shower or out to watch porn. What a rush as a kid.
They reused the "[insert name here] gets run over" storyline in Smackdown vs Raw 2006, running over Teddy Long!
Kane really does have a bad history with tag partners betraying him.
Honestly it's a shame we never had him and sting team up, they had so much in common.
@@arostwocents that's what makes it so unpredictable
Yeah but unlike sting, Kane has betrayed his own partners in the past too like big show, hurricane, rob van dam, and Daniel Bryan. So obviously it would be Kane who betrays sting later 🤣
Jr saying
"Sexual Chocolat ", that's hilarious 😂
LOL🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mr Randy Watson!
It's amazing how relatively easy it was to get free cable back in the day. Since it was analog the "black box" just had to adjust the level of the signal and all of a sudden, free everything. Or some people could actually mess with the wires on the pole, which required actual know how lol.
Ahhh the old black box.
Or what some used to do they would open the bottom portion of the black box and remove a chip that allowed you to get the channels you weren’t subscribed to
Only problem was if the cable company found out (which they usually did cause they know which tier you subscribed to) they would charge you for the broken box and/or a permanent ban or both I think
I remember internet was always free in my house during the 90s. Just had to keep getting those free AOL discs in the mail
It was dangerous, but we went up the outside pole. Cable company didn't catch on for like two to four weeks at a time.
@@ericdouglas7039 Yep! I remember those days!
It's weird but I just realized Kurt Angle was the evolution of Bob Backlunds character. Beautiful stuff.
@@stfi7566 Make Darren Young Great Again
Bossman being a comically sadistic heel was entertaining stuff because of how over the top it was.
From a booking standpoint, the attitude era was arguably some of the best of all time but also some of the worst of all time, with titles being heavily devalued. I remember it being very common place for the title to switch on a near monthly basis. It used to mean something when you won a title, but there were so many title changes, they saw diminishing returns very quickly.
Agree. I was just reading the WWE title reign history, and if I remember correctly, there were, like, 7 title reigns in the first 15 years the title existed.
Then in 99 or 00, there were 10 reigns in that year alone.
There were 16 WWF title changes in ‘99 alone
Times were different and there were more stars in the business than ever before. Hard to compare to the previous eras.
Maybe it’s just me, but as a kid watching wrestling in 2006-2007 I thought the 10-11 title changes in 1999 with the tag and world title were great ideas as opposed to the Ruthless Aggression era where you would rarely see a title change on PPV, let alone TV. I thought it made for great tv and provided a catalyst for several stars to rise all at once, especially since Austin was leaving. Not to mention having short reigns seemed more easier to believe since each main event competitor was a challenge.
99 sucked after Foley dropped the title... despite the ratings the year was a complete mess booking-wise. Losing Russo was great for the company.. I think the WWF started to get better after the Radicals came in and Angle/Jericho developed more
Big Bossman's Attitude Era run was shockingly memorable lol
For good and for bad
Wat
I've always thought that Kane was so sympathetic a character that's the reason X-Pac got booed so mercilessly for the rest of his career, it was just too devastating a heel turn.
Nah, he got booed later, cuz he's boring. He was only cool, when he was face, in DX. But Xpac isn't a nice guy towards women, so it's like art imitating life.
I’d argue that the most devastating and nasty heel turn was Sid Vicious at Sin 2001. That was brutal
Never forget he did it…for the rock he did it…for Samoa he did it…for Jimmy and Jey
That's so Ucey
He did it for...the Tribal Chief.
The _"Toonces, the Cat That Could Run Over Stone Cold Steve Austin"_ is absolutely the mashup we didn't know about, but severely needed in our lives.
“For storyline purposes…Big Show has a dad again.”
His first daddy was Andre and he’s also a giant!
@@michaelbandada8330 or when Stephanie mentions him being older than her in his broke storyline in 2013
😂😂
The Big Show funeral segment will never not be hilarious. It's amazing how far they're willing to push the envelope. Most of the time it ended poorly, but a few times it just works wonderfully.
EDIT: Also, why was Big Bossman always in the most insane angles? Cooking AL Snow's dog/kennel from hell match, being hung by the undertaker, dragging Big Show's dad's coffin through a graveyard. He seemed like a go-to for weird shit
I have to think that those segments wouldn't have been anywhere nearly as good if not for Boss-Man just being the most over the top asshole heel possible.
Loved The Bluesmobile
The fact you say it's not hilarious, makes it more hilarious
@@XBeatmymeatX1990 Uh, he said the opposite of that, actually
I was 9 years old at the time and a HUGE Stone Cold fan- like I was him for Halloween kind of fan. I remember seeing the accident on "LIVE TV" and remember feeling legitimately devastated and concerned for his life. Every week after felt weird and looking back I find it hilarious that I actually believed the storyline to this extent.
Brian's Bossman impersonation while reading the poem 😂😂
Brian Zane does great impressions
That intro was Botchamania ending-worthy!
I miss Sunday Night Heat having pre-PPV storylines
Same
For real. Way better than the kickoff shows. Made Sunday Night Heat unmissable, as opposed to Main Event and Superstars before it was mercifully killed off
Big Bossman crashing the funeral was hilarious 😂
Say what you will about Rikishi being the one who DID IT FOR THE ROCK, but at least it was an answer. Unlike The White Hummer in WCW where there was no answer at all.
Or who raised the briefcase.
The idea of a male wrestler giving a female wrestler a low blow and being confused when it doesn't work is criminally underused.
Austin vs Rock vs HHH was the triple threat match we never got.
I remember at the time people being disapointed, at least on the playground, about Austin not coming back during the main event. The way that commentary kind of played it off as a bit of a joke, and we'd seen Austin be beaten down so many times and then come back really made it seem like we were going to get an Austin run-in at the end.
I thought the same thing. Looking back now that woulda been a total "jump the shark" moment lol
That Mick Foley promo was actually a rare exampe of long term story telling in that era. In a lot of ways the break up of Rock and Sock was the beginning of The Rock's transformation from an arrogant bully tweener, to a full fledged face and The People's Champ.
Jericho has absolutely buried Chyna for this match because he said she was stiff, couldn't do much and had an attitude about everything, and honestly that comment about Jericho wrestling himself for part of the match is pretty accurate.
*Bossman attaches tow chains to casket*
“Daddy always wanted to be a drag queen!”
I was young when I saw the scene of Big Bossman crashing Big Shows father's funeral. One of my favorite moments of the who ran over Stone Cold Steve Austin saga, was on the 21st of Sep episode of Smackdown where Mick Foley questioned the entire roster.
Stone Cold got run over by a car
Who are the most likely suspects?
Vince McMahon (I HATE AUSTIN, DAMNIT!)
The Rock (The Rock thinks Stone Cold is a roody poo candy ass!)
Triple H (He's a big time threat-uhhh!)
The Undertaker (The Devil never forgets who messes with him and Stone Cold just pissed off the Devil)
Mankind (I'm so crazy I dunno what I'm doing!)
Big Show (Hey, that's my schtick, I do random turns every week!)
De-lo Brown is the unsung hero of the era.
Except for paralysis
Oh my god, the opening with Toonces just unlocked a Core Memory I have not thought of in more than a decade! I laughed so damn hard, and had to go look for the old sketches with Toonces.
I always had a vague recollection of seeing one of these sketches as a little kid. I think there's one where a cop gets thrown on an ant pile and the ants eat his face down to the skull. Freaked me out and always stayed with me lol
Too bad Stone Cold was hurt but it was right to write him off while he heals up. Also doing a "who done it" storyline which lasted a year was one of the greatest things the WWE did!
Advertising him for a match at Survivior series weeks leading up to the show tho and at the beginning of the ppv blatantly knowing in advance he couldn't be cleared to wrestle was petty of wwe. They really ripped off many fans who paid for a ticket or the ppv that night to see Austin and believe me people paid to see Austin more than anyone
They blew the pay off. Triple HGH all along. Please
The payoff to the who done it storyline went over like a fart in church. Rikishi? Please. Then they let Triple H beat Austin in the climax of the feud. Horrible.
Rikishi
@@FreeThinkAlways They know that. That's why they didn't announce it, until the day of the show. They didn't want no one showing up in the arena. It's just business, nothing personal.
In fairness. “Sudden death” for Moolah would have been perfectly fair.
Moolah and Mae were lovers… I believe
The Kane/X-Pac feud was where the hatred fans had for X-Pac started. X-Pac basically kept getting these cheap wins over Kane and never really got his comeuppance (their final match at WrestleMania 2000 was more about if Pete Rose was going to show up, plus Rikishi really had zero reason to team with Kane)
Toonces the driving cat, and I remember watching scrambled PPVs. I think my first legit WWF/E PPV was in college when a guy I was friends with, his mother worked for the cable company so we drove 2 hours to his house to watch it, there were like 6 of us. We had actually started watching Raw in the common area and the dorm actually did a Raw thing where they ordered pizza for us. The people watching in the common room was far more than just us 6. It was 1999 when wrestling was super popular.
i don't see why they couldn't have done the stone cold/rock/triple h match another time
Right after Austin's return in Sept. 2000 was the time to do it in my opinion.
This PPV Was great I haven't watched Survivor Series 1999 yet and Brian's impersonation of Gangrel was spot on 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Man, Brian's impersonation game is on point.
I have the first edition of Foley's autobiography, which was always one of my prized possessions. Then I met the man last year and he autographed it. Now it is the number one prized possession I own.
When I first started watching WWF in 2000 and I learned about Stone Cold getting run over by a car at this show, I was shocked. I didn't know wrestling was scripted and thought it was real, so to see a man getting run over on TV was something for me.
*IT’S STILL REAL TO ME GODDAMMIT!!!*
@@andrewburgemeister6684 never gets old
When i was a kid i thought the rey vs eddie ladder match for the custody of dominik was real hahah
I was a kid and thought that Vince McMahon actually died in that limo explosion and thought I saw a man fr murdered on live TV lmao
@@chippydippy1530 Donald Trump thought it was real as well and actually called them thinking Vince had died lol.
The Arnold episode was the first and last time my step-dad watched wrestling with me. Just because he was an Arnold fan, he was not impressed.
That backhand to Triple H though was awesome!! 😂
He should watch the Raw in 2014 that Arnold showed up on 😂
Nice reference from the past: rikishi was a gentle giant who loved to have fun oh and once he tried to fucking kill a guy
That intro, I can’t with you man hahah
Never understood why in Traditional Survivor Series matches, everyone started with 25% health
A basic clothesline or superplex will win it fo ya
The Toonces intro was fire.
One of my favorite ones for sure Zane as a young fifth grade kid I was out for blood after Stone Cold got hit by that car
Hell yeah! WWE music volume 4!
Survivor Series 1998 is still my all time favorite.
Rikishi did it for The Rock.
1:41 Triple H REALLY swung high to make sure he missed Arnold Schwarzenegger 😂 Triple H should’ve known he couldn’t hurt the Terminator
On the mid-match Angle promo, SUPPOSEDLY the legend goes that during the match, Vince noted the negative response and told the ref through his headpiece to tell Angle to cut a promo demanding respect from the crowd. Ref told Angle the order, and rest is history.
The championship match would have been so epic. The three top guys in H, Stone Cold and the Rock. Can only imagine what if
I blame Owen for what he didn't get to see. Damn u owen...
Austin and rock were top guys. Despite what the company says. HGH was never on their level. Ever.
i remember being in the car with my mom and brothers and the radio played a commercial about "sexual chocolate" being at a club and we were all like "aoh shit sexual chocolate coming to town!?!" and she was like "its a stripper not a wrestler" haha
My favorite thing about too cool was when J R would say grandmaster sexAY….fn hilarious 😂
I never understood why WWE never did the Stone Cold vs The Rock vs HHH ever again? Wonder what went wrong?
Never found a answer, well for me at least
I bet it’s a matter of pride and ego with none of them planning to take a backseat to the other
@@michaelbandada8330 yep as much as we enjoy those wrestlers..the egos in this business is ridiculous
@@skyblaze2156 every single wrestler wants to make sure that he remains on top even if it means screwing the other guys out of their opportunities to rise up to the next level. When Randy Savage was the WWE or WCW Champion, Hulk Hogan seems to be present, acting as if he’s there to be Savage’s friend yet he resents the idea of the Macho Man being granted the chance to hold on to the top prize. The Kliq used their influence to cancel the pushes of other wrestlers, Bret and Shawn are fighting to see who is the ace of the company and neither one of them want to be the runner up.
Speaking of Rock, Stone Cold and Triple H, it was said that Rock was supposed to lose the IC title to Bret Hart which Bret vetoed because he knew that such a move is a double middle finger to him and Rock since Bret and Shawn’s hatred for one another is raging with an IC title win for Bret serving as a move to have Bret kicked away from the main event picture and Rock would be made to look like a chump since he is deemed to be a threat to Triple H whom HBK is planning to elevate as the next big thing. As for Stone Cold, he didn’t dig the idea of losing to Triple H at Summer Slam 99 and thus, a convoluted scenario of a brand new challenger is cooked up with Mick Foley becoming the third guy and he pins Stone Cold to win the WWE title and have Triple H beat him the next day, making Stone Cold lose the title without getting pinned by Triple H yet I prefer HHH to beat Stone Cold to kickstart his reign regardless of whether a third guy is needed or not.
As for Triple H, we all know what he’s capable of, especially in 2002-2005.
After Stephanie took over the creative team in 2000, Triple H refused to lose to just about everybody who was a threat to him.
I remember Adam Blampied did a "How WWF Should've Booked" on who should've been the one to run over Austin. He chose Kurt Angle and that actually would've made sense given what he accomplished in that year Austin was away.
This is it…a show I have been waiting for you to review.
I don’t have nostalgia for this event…but man I am hyped!
Finally, you can finally talk about the Beginning of the Austin Whodunnit Has Begun!
Austin would be out for most of the year 2000, he would help Rock win the WWE Title at Backlash 2000, and then he would return at Uniforgiven 2000
Stone Cold got run over by Rikishi
*To the tune of Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer
This is the first PPV I ever watched.
Note for time travelers: In those old scrambled PPV days you could put a magnet on your cable box and everything is unscrambled. Of course I didn't know that, but it was common in the old days for there to be one guy in town who did know that and for a nominal fee he would climb your pole and do something and when he came down you had "free cable" which included HBO, Showtime and the PPV channels. He was probably just reattaching the cable and sticking a magnet on there.
Magnets? No. How would that even work? You needed a device, a black box, attached to your cable service's coaxial cable. It had circuitry in it that would override the scrambling and produce a clear picture and sound. All circuitry. Magnets have nothing to do with it.
@@adamlane6453 "Magnets? No. How would that even work?" Not the first time I've heard this line of questioning
@@smkfet I didn't say, "How do magnets work?" But nice try.
Still to this day to me it was a injustice that a triple treat between Austin,Rock,& HHH never happened. If Austin never needed surgery in my opinion that should of been the main event of Wrestlemania 2000 aka 16
That intro was clever and hilarious! Lol.
This was the very first wrestling ppv that I ever watched live on cable, back when I was 7! Very cool review, as always! 👍👍
It was a shame when Austin had to leave for a little while but at least the Rock got to be in the number one babyface spot for a little while.
I used to watch pay per views scrambled as a kid 🤣
Ahh the good ol days of scrabbled ppvs …my family couldn’t afford ppvs growing up so that was the entire attitude era for me until they came out on vhs ….good times lol
I need to hear more of your Gangrel voice lol.
Your impressions are gold Brian, your Bossman was bang on.
I remember watching this at my friend's house. We all pitched in on the Pay-per-view cost. This was a fun show.
HOLY CRAP! You hooked me with the Toonces remix. 😆😺
Big Boss Man reading that sympathy poem cracks me up every single time I hear it
Car crash wrestling at its finest. Big Bossman was always a highlight during this time. His feuds with Big Show and Al Snow weren't what you might call great wrestling, but captivating and extremely memorable sports entertainment for sure. Poor Pepper the dog. "Watch out for the dewclaws" lol
Al Snow's gimmick didn't send a bad message about violence against women. Perhaps a bad message about people with mental illness.
Wow, a lot has changed for the women’s division from Survivor Series 1999 all the way up to Survivor Series 2022 which just passed.
That funeral segment was hilarious. Peak attitude era.
That was the best intro I've ever seen in any youtube video ever.
For the Jericho/Chyna thing, Jericho was told to treat Chyna same as he would with a male wrestler. Then when he accidentally potatoed her, HHH acted like Jericho did something absolutely horrible hitting a woman and spread heat on Jericho. It was at the point where Jericho had to go over his planned matches with X-Pac to get approval. I don't think it is a secret that HHH did not like Jericho and actively tried to stifle his momentum (which he kinda succeeded at)
I watched this aged like 7, and genuinely thought he got hit by a car. Looked really realistic 😅
Amazing how this PPV is only remembered for two things: Stone Cold getting hit by a car and Kurt Angle’s debut match
The best match was Jericho vs Chyna. Angles match sucked, don't know why they gave him a PPV debut match, vs Stasiac.
Still have my original copy of WWF The Music Vol.4!
17:48 "He plants her a gross smooch - A grooch!"
I popped for that one.
Too bad we didn't have fancy team names for this year's edition, because here's what I cooked up:
The Ladies Men (Venis, Mizark, Blackman, & Gangrel)
The Bulldogs (Bulldog & the Mean Street Posse)
The Pimp Nation (Godfather, D'Lo, & the Headbangers)
The Dudleytes (the Dudleyz & the Acolytes)
The High Flyers (Edge, Christian, & the Hardyz)
The Super Heavyweights (the Hollys & Too Cool)
The Enforcers Behaving Badly (Bossman, Albert, Mideon, & Viscera)
The Big Nastys (Big Show, Blue Meanie, & Kaientai)
0:02 Day turns into night just in the swipe of a second!!! :)
This is sorta how I got into wrestling. I was in Kindergarten when this happened and the following day, some kid brought in a Stone Cold action figure for show and tell, but gave us some clues as to what it could be.
The clues were:
He's a wrestler
He's bald
He was hit with a car last night.
My 5 year old brain was blown away such a thing could happen on wrestling. I wasn't watching but I knew through the N64 games who Stone Cold, The Rock and Undertaker were. I happen to watch it almost a year later with my brother one night and it peaked my interest. I asked my older brother, "What happened to Stone Cold and the car?" He said, "He's been gone ever since but he's coming back really soon." I remember watching their first night on TNN and being in complete awe. Stone Cold was back and there was a real cast of characters worth getting to know. Kane, The Hardys, Chris Jericho, Chyna, and even Jim Ross and The King were icons to me, they always felt like a comedy duo like Abbot and Costello but they were reacting to wrestling which just made it even funnier seeing them so dressed up. I know a lot of people crap on this angle but I always liked The Big Show so I was happy to know he actually got the chance to win the belt in Austins place, it just made me question where the hell he was when Austin came back.
Yeah the Kane/X pac/ Tori story broke my heart too. I was just a dumb teenager myself, still fooling myself into believing it was all real despite all the obvious red flags. What really got me was when (spoiler alarm!)
When Tori stabbed Kane in the back and hooked up with X pac. I remember thinking to myself “It’s alright big guy, shrug it off. You’ll be alright. Just look how much you’ve progressed in these last months. You found love, you learned how to trust, you TALKED, you might have even regained your soul. Just take your time. I know it’s hard, but you’ll get there.” Then when he returned on Raw with Paul Bearer I was totally torn. On one hand I’m thinking “NOOOOO! Kane no! You were so close! You were almost a person!” And on the other hand I’m all “YEAAAAH!!!! SLAUGHTER EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!!!!!” Good times.
Did getting hanged by the Undertaker, Edge, and Christain, unlock something in Big Boss Man or something? Because...whew boy. Was he a deranged bastard.
Z-Man...it's not Steve Blackman, it's Steve 'Muh'Fuggin' Blackman. Lol. Loving the review.
This show may be terrible and only known for two things, but J.R. doing his best Randy Watson impersonation with regard to Mark Henry was worthwhile. 😂
Commentary: This Survivor Series will be way better than the one in 1997
Survivor Series 1998: Am I a joke to you?
"Jericho has promised that he will get a sex change if he loses this match" lmao. I loved this era.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention the fact Jerry Lawler made a mention of Earl Hebner also being the referee in the 98 survivor series and perhaps suggesting something
10:30 that feud also killed XPac’s popularity in the WWF, never recovered from that storyline
Until next pay per view at Armageddon in a steel cage between Kane and X-Pac, Brian?????
@@clarencesimmons8580 This Wednesday is the Survivor Series 2004 review…so maybe instead of a Starrcade Review Series…fingers crossed one of those reviews is Armageddon’99
Eh, Xpac was always creepy. He was just showing his true colors. He got worse, after this. Still his best work.
@@marcohavokkhaosFine but the crowd loved them some XPac, up until this angle. That’s where the ‘XPac Heat’ term came from
I wanted Xpac losing to squash matches after that. Stuff got worse with his angles, fuck.
"I did it... for the Rock"
Kurt had his first match, and won, with his finisher. That has to be a rare occurrence. How often do we get stories, or see footage from guys that are using some random move for the first few months?
Toonces: the Cat Who Could Drive a Car
Chef kiss to that SNL skit in the beginning
Can’t believe one of JR’s greatest lines of commentary of all time didn’t come up. During Snow and Mankind vs the Outlaws JR says in pure deadpan “Al Snow gave Mankind head last Thursday night on Smackdown.”
The 90s and early 2000s were a magical time for wrestling and entertainment in general.
17:35 Also I like to call that the c*nt punt City