There’s technicalities in US law such as native reservations/gov/people legally being separate entities from the US, and having two faces for two different real Americas is surprisingly forward thinking until you remember Tatanka was played by a white guy. There’s no way Vince knew anything about that, though.
Funny now in hindsight re-watching this story arc from the beginning and seeing it transform mid-way through from 'The Ballad of Ed Leslie' to 'The Rise of Lex Luger'.
@@polymathing I literally come back every 6 months to 2 years or so and watch this again. Alot of times only the T v Taskmaster match! Im watching it for the like 10th time right now all these many years later. I am still laughing so hard im crying. I do every time. Between T pitching the wrestling bullocks equivalent of a perfect game, the guts of both the cameraman and T's shirt cuffs to keep hanging in there, and the boys perfect comedic timing in their analysis of this 5 star classic, I laugh till it hurts every time. Especially V1 nearly losing it while building up the "arm raising" after T's victory. Chef's kiss boys all around. If I could only watch one wrestling match for the rest of my life, this one (w/Nogger commentary of course) would be it. :)
Lads. your channel has entered into this group of go-to channels for playing in the background while I get hours of art done. Ive had no personal history with wrestling and now I'm catching up fast XD love your stuff!
I used to watch wrestling during the greatest period (as we all know its the New Generation) but really havent watched it religiously since the late 90s but I find the stuff behind the scenes and the personalities associated with wrestling way more interesting - OSDub included.
Jr was on creative and they were trying to come up with a shorter name for him....and jr suggested tri...cornette and prichard talk bout it on their podcast
I can't even image what it felt like to be a southern wrestling fan at the time, watching Hulk and his boys invade their show and destroy their wrestlers.
DumbPunk so there were 2 wwf invasions. 1994 old school wave and 1996 new generation wave. 1996 = razor, diesel, 123 kid, bret hart, double j, ahmed johnson,
It was brutal because just before Hogan came there was some great in ring product what's funny though is the biggest act in WwE was a very southern style wrestler Austin is a perfect mix of Arn and Dusty
Honestly WCW had done some pretty dumb shit before, with Jim Herd's disastrous tenure, the godawful Cactus Jack lost in Cleveland bits, as well as crap like the Shockmaster. Shame because it did really contrast with the great ring product as mentioned.
Vader is a sad thing, despite his really good in ring ethic, Mick Foley has stated the dude was just a teddy bear out side the ring. WWF really treated him like he WAS a fat piece of shit, so him just taking it so hard isn't surprising. Leon White/Vader was great. R.I.P., Guy deserved better.
Most heels were nice guys while most baby faces were assholes, funny how that works. Ox Baker was a scary dude that started riots with his heel antics, but everyone said he was a sweetheart and before he passed he was raising money for local animal shelters and other charities.
Yeah he’s an amazing heel and the WWF missed a huge opportunity to make a monster heel when they got him. He was definitely good enough to win the world title. But Shawn and the clique got in the way of that happening
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Per The King of Kings DVD, Triple H was contacted by WWF the day after his Starrcade match with Alex Wright. JJ Dillon, who was working for WWF at that time, called him to tell him that Vince saw the match, was very impressed, and wanted to offer him a featured spot on the roster where he'd be introduced with vignettes. It seemed to be the most meaningless match when the PPV aired, but it ended up being by far the most historically important match of it, as it was the spark for Vince's interest in HHH.
Imagine if Vince thought the match was bad. No DX at least as it was, possibly no Montreal screwjob (finish was suggested by Tri), which might mean no Mr. McMahon, no reign of terror or burials that hurt the company.
I love John Tenta's work. One of my favorite heels of all time. And apparently, he was a great guy in real life. But man, I do not like looking at his moose knuckle in that singlet.
Hey guys, here's the fullscreen version of ep #56, Starrcade 94! I'm uploading the more recent episodes to UA-cam (you can watch 'em now at OSWreview.com/episodes !) . New Story Arc will be announced around the end of the month! And remember...a winner is you :D
That's referred to as your "white noise" entertainment when going to sleep. Some people put on their favorite movie because its familiarity provides them with comfort and relaxation. OSW has become my white noise podcast to listen to at night as well.
You like it? Go to? You decide? A good or bad thing? I've never seen so many uninteresting comment cliches shoehorned into such a small space. You are a maestro of mirthlessness begging for attention.
@@gregp103 were you drunk when you wrote this? if they were begging for attention were you humoring them, or trying to get a slice for yourself? like a child, stealing another child's toy because no one looks at them for their own merits. if that picture is you you've got a nice moustache at least, talk more about that instead of other people.
@@crooker23 You are the hero of the non creative? The defender of the dim? Slaying moustaches with your humorlessness. Pointing out attention seekers is not the same as being an attention seeker. I'm minding my own business checking out the comment section. You are combing comments upon comments looking to drain mirth. Is that your real slatted chair?
@@gregp103 the alliteration is cute! I unironically like your moustache as well, if that is your real moustache. however you realize your comment is literally exactly as vacuous as the one you responded to, but mean? like you just used a bunch of words to say "bad comment"? and I was doing the same thing you were, just scrolling, when I saw you shitting on some inoffensive comment! you stopped minding your own business when you commented, obviously, why should I mind mine? you wanted attention, here it is
I love Sherri. But who underrated her? I’ve never heard anyone say anything other than she was a superstar, by the standards of women in wrestling at the time …
@@nickm8874 WWE never talk about her actual run as a competitor and champion, just as a manager. The history normally goes: Moolah and Mae, Wendi Richter and Cyndi Lauper, Sherri managed some legends, OMG it's Trish and Lita, Bellas are here, Four Horsewomen.
I hope we get a new story arc where we get to go back to WCW in the early 90s. Robocop, Chamber of Horrors, Big Josh and the bears, Ding Dongs, The whole Jim Herd era including Fucking Oz!!! There’s so much bullocks to be explored.
At 1:08:15 I was sipping a beer, and the second I heard "Mudslide" I spat everywhere. Which is only after I nearly did the same thing at the beginning of the video with Black Reign's "YUM YUM YUM YUMYUM"
You guys help me survive my part time job but more importantly help make pro wrestling extremely accessible to fans who don’t have the funds/time to watch all of 90’s WWF/WCW
Nick Bockwinkel did have Dementia/Alzheimer’s , but it wasn’t acknowledged until 2013 by Ric Flair & later not until the year of his death in 2015 from Nick & his wife officially. I thought this might explain Bockwinkel’s struggles at the end of the show , but this all took place 20 years before that ... so idk? Nick usually never had any problem on the mic though , until this time in his career. On this show and others too.
Alas, WCW was basically the Hulk Hogan show from 1994 on. He basically called all the shots and picked who he was working with. He only liked to work with people he thought he could trust. Sullivan has talked about the amount of work it took to get Hogan to trust him. He basically had to feed the entire Dungeon to him on multiple occasions to earn Hogan's trust.
Yeah this might be their best. Incredibly bad /hilarious PPV the lads had cemented their style brilliantly and were absolutely on point with their wrestling lore and humour
I have been wasting all of these years of my life watching jabroni's like Wrestling with Wregret... Wrestlelamia... Cultaholic... because I didn't know you guys were here doing this amazing work. Thank you for giving me 76 episodes to binge watch. How can I buy merch or patreon or whatever? I went to the site and it wasn't clear.
43:55 I would think that restaurant bought that ad time for tourist dollar but still quite random, it shows wcw still thinking in smaller scale territory mind set.
One comment, most of the wrestlers that you said Hogan brought by were true, but the Nasty Boys actually went back in July 1993, while before Hogan, and were tag team champs before he got there also, so Bischoff had plans for them before he had even signed Hogan
Vince McMahon wish vince would have got word of wcw's nwo invasion angle in january 1996. Use wcw guys already in wwf in 1996 and call them super invaders: vader the leader, goldust, ring master, marc mero, hhh, sid vicious.
I laughed pretty hard when Hogan had "Butcher" in the corner and hit him in the chest and then stood there for 5 seconds just watching with disgust while "Butcher" wobbled, probably thinking "what the hell am I going to do with this guy"
Having watched all 100+ episodes multiple times I think this might be my favourite. TRI, super pubic fat, brother brother brother....I won this and, of course, Mr T getting stuck in his T shirt. Great work lads
just dropping for the record, the US title being the #1 contender to the world title was a long standing JCP/WCW thing until like maaaaaybe late 97/98 ish. I think its a holdover from when the World champ used to travel around to different territories
Tampa Bay Lightning were a hot new expansion team at the time and it was fashionable to wear the jerseys of those teams. The San Jose Sharks got the same treatment.
@@allenmynatt9571 Yes I am American and also haven't actually been to France or Germany sadly. I always wanted too though but growing up poor made me more grateful of what I did have. It's still a goal though but I might wanna wait for a couple more years because of the way the world is now.
I love how Ed Leslie was such a stereo typical 80s villain. He went from one extreme to the other. Hulk Hogan almost ruined the NWO when he tried the same thing. Going from a Babyface to a cackling, overly comically villain.
I was actually AT the Monday Night Raw taping the week HBK tri-ed to give Hunter the worst nickname ever hahaha. It was two days before Thanksgiving '97 at the Roanoke Civic Center in Roanoke, VA. I still have pix of DX on the entrance ramp from this promo! Holy shit hahaha.
I've come back to watch that Mr.T/Kevin Sullivan masterpiece so many times I've lost count and every time I laugh harder. By the time Sullivan has to pop back into the ring to stop the countout while T is flailing like a fish I'm in tears everytime, it's fucking incredible. Then the whole Bad Santa fiasco after, it doesn't get much better than that.
Dude you dont know how glad I am to hear that I am not the only one! Im back here for the 10th time at least all these years later and im still wiping tears away & laughing at this so hard it hurts. At 5 in the morning. What a masterpiece....LOL
bits that are killing me laughing any time you guys hum out a bad entrance theme anytime you guys do impressions. like quakes yelly promo. triple hs french promo and that dusty Rhodes one about commentary that near made me shit myself and repeat about four times. keep up good work lads
wwf 1996 IF THEY stole a leaked nwo storyline: original 3 = vader, cactus jack, vicious. Later joined by austin, mero, goldust, pillman, ron simmons, windham, scorpio, mr hughes vs wwf. Jim Ross joins team wcw as their heel announcer. Marlena as manager and "miss wcw".
Oh yeah, I literally woke me wife up next to me laughing as I watched that Mr. T match. Just...beautiful. By far the best thing to come out of this show.
Ive watched that match on here probably 15 times over the last 4 years or so and I still laugh that hard every time! I was literally in tears again just a few minutes ago. That match and the boy's breakdown of it is maybe the greatest moment of my life. And I have 3 kids and a wife of 18 years! :)
@@coasterdaydreams7150 I know man I keep coming back and everytime I'm uncontrollably crying from laughter. This is the pinnacle of both Wrestling, Entertainment and Sports Entertainment.
I remember a wrestling documentary made in the 90s that said something like "While WCW is relying on stars of the 80s like Hulk Hogan, WWF is creating new stars like The Patriot." laughed out loud when I saw it, although at the time The Patriot was my boy. Solid position in my stable
It's insane how WCW had so much potential, so many things they could have done back then... if they only had someone who could've said "no". Imagine if Ted Turner were actually hands on with running the company and Hogan had to do what he said, ala Vince. Imagine the actually cool storylines we could have gotten.
Every time the lads get going with their a capella renditions of wrestling themes, it makes me think of a phrase that Last Podcast on the Left coined, "Fun Noises With the Boys." It cracks me up every time. Never stop, lads.
Since they'll never come back to read this i love hacksaw Jim Duggan
Caught out within a week 😂
@@stehmer3 crap they found me. I'll be shamed
That’s fine I love em to.
He was good in the UWF/Mid South.
Wait a minute…Tatanka isn’t a foreigner. He’s indigenous. That makes him about the least foreign you can be.
Speaking as an American: when jingoism is involved, Americans get real dumb.
@@TitaniaBird Speaking as an American, I know.
There’s technicalities in US law such as native reservations/gov/people legally being separate entities from the US, and having two faces for two different real Americas is surprisingly forward thinking until you remember Tatanka was played by a white guy.
There’s no way Vince knew anything about that, though.
@Cameron Montgomery Tatanka is played by a native American. Chris Chavis is part of the Lumbee tribe.
@@Gravydog316 They are aboriginal to the North American continent. As such, they are the least foreign you could be.
Do or do not. There is no Tri.
*...Tri.*
Can someone point me towards the origin of “Triiiiiii”.
Is it JR? I feel like I remember him saying that
That's fucking brilliant.
I liked when he TRI ED OUT HIS TRI-CYCLE....😂😂😂😂😂
@@SegaDream131 TRI'S GOTTA TRICYCLE
"Wanna be famous in 20 years? Be shit right now." Best line of the episode.
And it fucking works for this show.
@@PowerArmorV113 MO!
Funny now in hindsight re-watching this story arc from the beginning and seeing it transform mid-way through from 'The Ballad of Ed Leslie' to 'The Rise of Lex Luger'.
Don't be thick. It's always been about Lex....everything has always been about Lex.
justin
“What?!” It’s all Lex!”
“Always has been”
Just like the Lex arc turned into the Bret arc, which turned into the Backlund arc
Mr T's hands stuck in his shirt, is one of the funniest things in wrestling.
Steven Michaels everything about that match was fucking hilarious
That's the hardest I've laughed at anything wrestling in my life. Dear lord that sequence on the outside was absolute magic
@@polymathing I literally come back every 6 months to 2 years or so and watch this again. Alot of times only the T v Taskmaster match! Im watching it for the like 10th time right now all these many years later. I am still laughing so hard im crying. I do every time. Between T pitching the wrestling bullocks equivalent of a perfect game, the guts of both the cameraman and T's shirt cuffs to keep hanging in there, and the boys perfect comedic timing in their analysis of this 5 star classic, I laugh till it hurts every time. Especially V1 nearly losing it while building up the "arm raising" after T's victory. Chef's kiss boys all around. If I could only watch one wrestling match for the rest of my life, this one (w/Nogger commentary of course) would be it. :)
The camera man laughing his head off too while being pinned down lmfao
Hogan couldn't rip that shirt brothers ....
"Brother brother brother, I won this" will never get old.
The phrase "His suprapubic fat was muffin-topping out of his onesie" will always make me laugh hysterically.
22:12
Same, this review has some absolute blinders. So funny
The Bojack Brutus intro was pure genius
Lakers fan Bojack Horseman
RIP Gene Mean. The best interviewer there is/was/ever will be.
Time to play Big Van Vader.
The best there is, the best there was, the best there ever will be? What a bunch of bullshit.
He had a crooked mustache
Indeed he was great!!!
Absolutely. One of a kind. Absolutely top notch in every way! Rest well, "Mean" Gene Okerlund.
@@StanStacks YOUR BEARD IS OUT OF LINE!
"everyone makes bad decisions from time to time"
~Kevin Sullivan on giving Ed Leslie a world title match at Starrcade.
@@Neithan02 sadly yes, especially now knowing what ended up happening
@@Neithan02 yeah I know
I bet that wasn't Sullivan's decision at all
@@exe2517
100% Eric bischoff’s
@@xadamx94Kevin was the one who said, “Sure get with that way passed cool Benoit! What’s the worst that could possibly happen?”
Lads. your channel has entered into this group of go-to channels for playing in the background while I get hours of art done. Ive had no personal history with wrestling and now I'm catching up fast XD love your stuff!
+mikeymegamega cheers Mikey! A winner is you 😊
Haha! I myself am writing a Humanities paper as I re-live the best worst years of wrestling!
This and Redlettermedia,
R.I.P Vader..
I used to watch wrestling during the greatest period (as we all know its the New Generation) but really havent watched it religiously since the late 90s but I find the stuff behind the scenes and the personalities associated with wrestling way more interesting - OSDub included.
You guys tried to throw JR under the bus with "Tri" but it was HBK! And JR burying it immediately was hilarious.
Yes to everything you said.
Tri...
Correct. He sarcastically mocked him calling him such a stupid name.
I love the disgusted way JR says it. Tri...
Jr was on creative and they were trying to come up with a shorter name for him....and jr suggested tri...cornette and prichard talk bout it on their podcast
Y'know, in Trips' defense, he's bi- a lot of things, but -lingual isn't one of them.
sure ill watch it a seventh time
Aldesso Kovac trust me 😂
I know man. I've watched all OSW videos at least three times each. They're great.
Or fourteenth for me 👍
I've watched just the Triple H part 10 times
Regarding Mr. T's fading popularity by 1994, one might say 🎶He was acceptable in the A-Team🎶
The plant dancing to Alex Wright's music is the same plant from Macho Man's retirement who was crying when Macho and Liz got back together.
REALLY!?
They’re not paid enough, it would seem.
HE JUMPED SHIP TO OH SHIT!
Damn wcw pulled ALL the talent they could from Vince, not just the wrestlers/commentators/announcers…but the fucking plants too!
I can't even image what it felt like to be a southern wrestling fan at the time, watching Hulk and his boys invade their show and destroy their wrestlers.
DumbPunk so there were 2 wwf invasions. 1994 old school wave and 1996 new generation wave. 1996 = razor, diesel, 123 kid, bret hart, double j, ahmed johnson,
@@OikPoinFive How dare you not list Virgil amongst the invaders!
@@OikPoinFive 1999 if you count russo
It was brutal because just before Hogan came there was some great in ring product what's funny though is the biggest act in WwE was a very southern style wrestler Austin is a perfect mix of Arn and Dusty
Honestly WCW had done some pretty dumb shit before, with Jim Herd's disastrous tenure, the godawful Cactus Jack lost in Cleveland bits, as well as crap like the Shockmaster. Shame because it did really contrast with the great ring product as mentioned.
Vader is a sad thing, despite his really good in ring ethic, Mick Foley has stated the dude was just a teddy bear out side the ring. WWF really treated him like he WAS a fat piece of shit, so him just taking it so hard isn't surprising.
Leon White/Vader was great. R.I.P., Guy deserved better.
So many of the old vicious heels were nice, quiet guys in reality. John Tenta also, Big John Studd.
Most heels were nice guys while most baby faces were assholes, funny how that works. Ox Baker was a scary dude that started riots with his heel antics, but everyone said he was a sweetheart and before he passed he was raising money for local animal shelters and other charities.
Big boss man was very nice too
@@rustykuntz94 Stan Hansen as well. He was every promoter's dream: big, looked like a million bucks, great work ethic, and trustworthy.
Yeah he’s an amazing heel and the WWF missed a huge opportunity to make a monster heel when they got him. He was definitely good enough to win the world title. But Shawn and the clique got in the way of that happening
53:21 That might be the best sell I've ever seen in my life. She sold "Pitty City" harder than Daryl Hannah losing her eye in Kill Bill
TELL EM TRI!
Triiiiiii...
I DONT LIKE WHAT TRI SAID
Justin Yatsko i
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I Tri-ed so hard, and got so far. But in the end, it doesn't even matter
@Travis Tucker ......Tri.....
Mama Tri-ed, Mama Tri-ed, Mama Tri-ed
Yeah, Tri...
"I would go for stink-face because you're...less close...to...--"
"-- Jerry Saggs?"
LOL
lol AND haha.
Looks like WCW era John Tenta was suffering an Avalanche of the upper thighs.
Per The King of Kings DVD, Triple H was contacted by WWF the day after his Starrcade match with Alex Wright. JJ Dillon, who was working for WWF at that time, called him to tell him that Vince saw the match, was very impressed, and wanted to offer him a featured spot on the roster where he'd be introduced with vignettes. It seemed to be the most meaningless match when the PPV aired, but it ended up being by far the most historically important match of it, as it was the spark for Vince's interest in HHH.
Terrific. So this is the match that ruined wrestling?
Metal Wolf it's crazy how life works. That's his son in law now.
Imagine if Vince thought the match was bad. No DX at least as it was, possibly no Montreal screwjob (finish was suggested by Tri), which might mean no Mr. McMahon, no reign of terror or burials that hurt the company.
I want you terra ryzing the guy who is 0-2 vs alex wright to be the booker of nxt
SuperDevolution no owen accident
The legend says T's hands are still bound in that ref top.
myth*
Earthquake should have been known as *AFTERSHOCK*
Uh huh
That's a great wrestler name.
Nice
Fissure IMO
Spam Livie earthquake, typhoon, texas tornado, the hurricane
Tatanka is not a foreigner gimmick. It's the opposite of a foreigner. He's a NATIVE American.
He's not white, so he might as well be a foreigner to most wrestling fans, especially at that time.
Tyler Young Tatanka vs Canada's model martel. Tatanka vs Finland's borga, Tatanka vs Japan's Yokozuna!
Well they're from Asia so...
Tatanka did have that promo where he said he would win the match for ‘all the native Americans around the world’
@@christopherwall2121 That is not how that works
I love John Tenta's work. One of my favorite heels of all time. And apparently, he was a great guy in real life.
But man, I do not like looking at his moose knuckle in that singlet.
😁
Temblor would've been a much better name for him in WCW.
@@Hotlog69Or Mudslide…
"When is a substitution ever good?"
AJ Styles: "Hold my beer."
AJ's the exception that proves the rule
@@christopherwall2121 and Kofi. One of the best title reigns of the decade.
Savio Vega: hold my cerveza
I love Sister Sherri. what a major talent she was, I miss her
Sherri was great. She could do it all.
@@heisensaul5538 100 percent
Hey guys, here's the fullscreen version of ep #56, Starrcade 94! I'm uploading the more recent episodes to UA-cam (you can watch 'em now at OSWreview.com/episodes !) . New Story Arc will be announced around the end of the month! And remember...a winner is you :D
OSW Review HD fuck yeah!
Happy days are here again
OSW Review HD Nice one!
Brahcade 94!!!
........I'll get my coat.
I hope the new story arc is the Lex Express.
I'm gonna admit it, Alex Wright is one of my boys and how can he not be? xD
Alex Wright is a boy's boy.
I still do that dance in colder weather in my jacket at the grocery store at night
Hell yeah I use to mark out when Alex, Disco, and Tokyo Magnum would team up and dance in the ring
YOULL HAVE A HELL OF A WICKTORY I PWOMISE!
Alex Wright was an incredible wrestler. Maybe not in '94, but he would be.
I like how this podcast is my go to when I go to bed, you decide if that's a good or bad thing
That's referred to as your "white noise" entertainment when going to sleep. Some people put on their favorite movie because its familiarity provides them with comfort and relaxation. OSW has become my white noise podcast to listen to at night as well.
You like it? Go to? You decide? A good or bad thing?
I've never seen so many uninteresting comment cliches shoehorned into such a small space.
You are a maestro of mirthlessness begging for attention.
@@gregp103 were you drunk when you wrote this? if they were begging for attention were you humoring them, or trying to get a slice for yourself? like a child, stealing another child's toy because no one looks at them for their own merits. if that picture is you you've got a nice moustache at least, talk more about that instead of other people.
@@crooker23 You are the hero of the non creative? The defender of the dim? Slaying moustaches with your humorlessness. Pointing out attention seekers is not the same as being an attention seeker. I'm minding my own business checking out the comment section. You are combing comments upon comments looking to drain mirth. Is that your real slatted chair?
@@gregp103 the alliteration is cute! I unironically like your moustache as well, if that is your real moustache. however you realize your comment is literally exactly as vacuous as the one you responded to, but mean? like you just used a bunch of words to say "bad comment"? and I was doing the same thing you were, just scrolling, when I saw you shitting on some inoffensive comment! you stopped minding your own business when you commented, obviously, why should I mind mine? you wanted attention, here it is
I'm loving this era of Sherri. My goodness. Most underrated female performer of her generation.
I love Sherri. But who underrated her? I’ve never heard anyone say anything other than she was a superstar, by the standards of women in wrestling at the time …
@@nickm8874 WWE never talk about her actual run as a competitor and champion, just as a manager. The history normally goes: Moolah and Mae, Wendi Richter and Cyndi Lauper, Sherri managed some legends, OMG it's Trish and Lita, Bellas are here, Four Horsewomen.
I hope we get a new story arc where we get to go back to WCW in the early 90s. Robocop, Chamber of Horrors, Big Josh and the bears, Ding Dongs, The whole Jim Herd era including Fucking Oz!!! There’s so much bullocks to be explored.
Yes please! Or even the Dangerous Alliance storyline
11:30
I demand an extended version of that Black Reign A cappella theme.
Haha you definitely got your wish.
Still waiting on the album tho
The Mario bonus round music for the what bar segment is PERFECT
At 1:08:15 I was sipping a beer, and the second I heard "Mudslide" I spat everywhere. Which is only after I nearly did the same thing at the beginning of the video with Black Reign's "YUM YUM YUM YUMYUM"
You guys help me survive my part time job but more importantly help make pro wrestling extremely accessible to fans who don’t have the funds/time to watch all of 90’s WWF/WCW
V kind of ya mate and I'm glad you're digging what we're putting out man. Keep kicking ass 💚
Nick Bockwinkel did have Dementia/Alzheimer’s , but it wasn’t acknowledged until 2013 by Ric Flair & later not until the year of his death in 2015 from Nick & his wife officially.
I thought this might explain Bockwinkel’s struggles at the end of the show , but this all took place 20 years before that ... so idk?
Nick usually never had any problem on the mic though , until this time in his career. On this show and others too.
Welcome back, lads! Happy days are here again!
Not only did this episode introduce me to Kevin Sullivan vs Mr T, it also was how I learned about "Tell em Tri!" What a milestone episode of OSW
Saggs is most definitely the skate shop guy from skate or die on NES,!
Gold
John Rodriguez hey yeah!
I always thought that dude looked like Rodney Dangerfield
Skate.....or die
Skate or die...
die die die die die
That games intro still gets stuck in my head over 3 decades later! :)
It’s crazy guys, he looks like a normal guy now!
The WCW Saga is definitely my favorite of all the OSW reviews. A scrumptious little ditty indeed!
That Sullivan vs T match is pure GOLD.
23:37 ... I'm french and.... that is a PERFECT French Accent!!
Sting during his promo looks like supermen ice cream.
Who thought Ed Leslie was main event material? He's not the worst, but he's not a main event wrestler...especially at the WCW version of WrestleMania.
Alas, WCW was basically the Hulk Hogan show from 1994 on. He basically called all the shots and picked who he was working with. He only liked to work with people he thought he could trust. Sullivan has talked about the amount of work it took to get Hogan to trust him. He basically had to feed the entire Dungeon to him on multiple occasions to earn Hogan's trust.
You've zeroed in in the obvious. You're a real thesis spotter. Ever think of getting work as a nuclear blast spotter?
That is what Hogan wanted. If he wanted the head booker spot, he could have bankrupted WCW in a year
@@manfredvonrichthofen4167 Yup
5Years later and the “Bockwinkle” segment still cracks me up 😂😂😂😂
Pound for Pound the funniest episode in my opinion😂😂😂
Yeah this might be their best. Incredibly bad /hilarious PPV the lads had cemented their style brilliantly and were absolutely on point with their wrestling lore and humour
I have been wasting all of these years of my life watching jabroni's like Wrestling with Wregret... Wrestlelamia... Cultaholic... because I didn't know you guys were here doing this amazing work. Thank you for giving me 76 episodes to binge watch. How can I buy merch or patreon or whatever? I went to the site and it wasn't clear.
That's v kind! Don't worry about that mate, i'm just happy you're a fan! Merry Xmas
Buy any merch yet? Send OOC a carton of smokes? Jay some SlimFast? V1 a video gaame?
@@OSW love to see you guys do a link up vid with wrestle with wregret
43:55 I would think that restaurant bought that ad time for tourist dollar but still quite random, it shows wcw still thinking in smaller scale territory mind set.
One comment, most of the wrestlers that you said Hogan brought by were true, but the Nasty Boys actually went back in July 1993, while before Hogan, and were tag team champs before he got there also, so Bischoff had plans for them before he had even signed Hogan
WCW paid Knobbs extra money to convince Hogan to sign with them.
I can't see Vader without thinking of Boy Meets World. Weird.
Vince McMahon wish vince would have got word of wcw's nwo invasion angle in january 1996. Use wcw guys already in wwf in 1996 and call them super invaders: vader the leader, goldust, ring master, marc mero, hhh, sid vicious.
He didn't leave WCW, he was fired.
Lol wasnt he like Frankys dad in an episode of Boy Meets World???
@@garyblackburn3080 In a couple of episodes, yeah. Fought Jake the Snake in one of them.
@@tommypoe3178 really? I loved that show lol dont remember jake bein in an ep thanks. Ill look it up
Sullivan vs Mr. T, thank you so much for bringing this match into my life.
Thunder in paradise went STRAIGHT TO DVD?!!?
V1 marking out to Arn's heel tactics just gave me a few gooseys. I felt that🦾
I laughed pretty hard when Hogan had "Butcher" in the corner and hit him in the chest and then stood there for 5 seconds just watching with disgust while "Butcher" wobbled, probably thinking "what the hell am I going to do with this guy"
Having watched all 100+ episodes multiple times I think this might be my favourite.
TRI, super pubic fat, brother brother brother....I won this and, of course, Mr T getting stuck in his T shirt.
Great work lads
Can of coke to ya mate! Glad you're digging em!
I know Shawn and Razor won Match of the year, bet they didn't show that.
10:00 In all fairness to Tippin, Nashville didn't get a NHL team until 1998.
designermetal1 seattle? 2019?
just dropping for the record, the US title being the #1 contender to the world title was a long standing JCP/WCW thing until like maaaaaybe late 97/98 ish. I think its a holdover from when the World champ used to travel around to different territories
The perfect theme for Alex Wright would have been Accept's Balls To The Wall.
What is the function of that apostrophe?
when Heymans olympic hero returns i want a TRI-ANGLE
tacsmoker... brock vs tripleH vs angle
He's got the Red White and Blue and he doesn't even know what to doooooo
Tampa Bay Lightning were a hot new expansion team at the time and it was fashionable to wear the jerseys of those teams. The San Jose Sharks got the same treatment.
Who keeps watching these over and over in the background
I love this. So glad i found this channel
Goddamn this podcast still puts a smile on my face, even on the shittiest of shit days.
I am both German and French so either way I win when it comes to the Alex Wright vs triple H match.
You are most likely American
And WW2 reenactments of '40 or '45.
@@allenmynatt9571 Yes I am American and also haven't actually been to France or Germany sadly. I always wanted too though but growing up poor made me more grateful of what I did have. It's still a goal though but I might wanna wait for a couple more years because of the way the world is now.
@@gregp103 Ya but those are a bit less racist and a hell of alot less fun...
Coming back to do this story arc for the umpteenth time while I wait for the Christmas OSW!!
Edge - "Let me tell you something Zodiac!"
Beefers - "Yeah!......No......Yeah!!"
I love how Ed Leslie was such a stereo typical 80s villain. He went from one extreme to the other. Hulk Hogan almost ruined the NWO when he tried the same thing. Going from a Babyface to a cackling, overly comically villain.
You love that? How many Valentine's Days has that gotten you through?
I came here to see Vader and his amazing new move.
Jp Stachowiak i. Movie
Traditionally in the NWA, the U.S Heavyweight champion was usually the number one contender to the World heavyweight title
I was actually AT the Monday Night Raw taping the week HBK tri-ed to give Hunter the worst nickname ever hahaha. It was two days before Thanksgiving '97 at the Roanoke Civic Center in Roanoke, VA. I still have pix of DX on the entrance ramp from this promo! Holy shit hahaha.
Delete your "actually". It serves no purpose. The sentence is better without it.
@@gregp103 Capitalize "delete" and put a period after "actually". Your sentence will be better.
@@HistoriisMysteria Thank you.
@@gregp103 Fun fact…
The guy who created Hitler’s speeches was literally a grammar nazi.
I've come back to watch that Mr.T/Kevin Sullivan masterpiece so many times I've lost count and every time I laugh harder. By the time Sullivan has to pop back into the ring to stop the countout while T is flailing like a fish I'm in tears everytime, it's fucking incredible. Then the whole Bad Santa fiasco after, it doesn't get much better than that.
Dude you dont know how glad I am to hear that I am not the only one! Im back here for the 10th time at least all these years later and im still wiping tears away & laughing at this so hard it hurts. At 5 in the morning. What a masterpiece....LOL
I laugh especially hard when the cameraman is stuck and has no option but to film right up Sullivan's hole. 🤣
Mr. T's hands being stuck in his shirt and Santa's pants half off had me fucking dying.
It’s my new favourite bad match, as OSW say it’s a milestone match
@@diabeticman2194 im back again and it still holds as my #1 🤣🤣🤣
Neidhart's rant from one of those games (I think Thunder) was freaking hilarious 😂
"They were throwing around...putting the WORLD TITLE on Ed Leslie, so he could drop it to Macho."
"Who threw that around? Ed Leslie??"
OOC is a king.
bits that are killing me laughing
any time you guys hum out a bad entrance theme
anytime you guys do impressions. like quakes yelly promo. triple hs french promo and that dusty Rhodes one about commentary that near made me shit myself and repeat about four times.
keep up good work lads
Cheers mate! A winner is you 🤘
The Black Reign "Yum Yum Yum" had me pissing myself. If anyone could have pulled off singing that it could have been Goldie.
I always thought Earthquake should have been called Aftershock when he went to WCW thoughts?
Roach yea!
wwf 1996 IF THEY stole a leaked nwo storyline: original 3 = vader, cactus jack, vicious. Later joined by austin, mero, goldust, pillman, ron simmons, windham, scorpio, mr hughes vs wwf. Jim Ross joins team wcw as their heel announcer. Marlena as manager and "miss wcw".
I was thinking "Magnitude"
Third time I've seen it.
Tremor would be tight
BACK ON THE UA-camOUS!!!!
TRI!!!!!!!
Kevin Sullivan vs Mr T might be my new favourite bad match, unbelievable scenes!
Kevin Nash had the best rant "Hey man don't pick me"
Oh yeah, I literally woke me wife up next to me laughing as I watched that Mr. T match. Just...beautiful. By far the best thing to come out of this show.
Ive watched that match on here probably 15 times over the last 4 years or so and I still laugh that hard every time! I was literally in tears again just a few minutes ago. That match and the boy's breakdown of it is maybe the greatest moment of my life. And I have 3 kids and a wife of 18 years! :)
@@coasterdaydreams7150 know exactly what u mean. The pure joy.
@@coasterdaydreams7150 I know man I keep coming back and everytime I'm uncontrollably crying from laughter. This is the pinnacle of both Wrestling, Entertainment and Sports Entertainment.
who remmember sting vs great muta in tokyo. there were 2 rings that time. excite fight
When Hogan was doing the X-Pac karate chops in the corner, I wish he would have been like "Waahhhhhh brother!!!!" lol
"Pubic wrinkles muffin topping" That may be a top 5 line in all OSW lolol lmfaooooooo
Mudslide........Cup of Coffee in the Boy Stable.
I remember a wrestling documentary made in the 90s that said something like "While WCW is relying on stars of the 80s like Hulk Hogan, WWF is creating new stars like The Patriot." laughed out loud when I saw it, although at the time The Patriot was my boy. Solid position in my stable
By far the funniest OSW episode I've ever seen. Cheers boys.
WWF and WCW dropped the ball on Vader, his Japan runs were awesome!
TRI
Dustin blocked me on Twitter for arguing with someone who said that Goldust started the attitude era. I feel better about it now.
It's insane how WCW had so much potential, so many things they could have done back then... if they only had someone who could've said "no". Imagine if Ted Turner were actually hands on with running the company and Hogan had to do what he said, ala Vince.
Imagine the actually cool storylines we could have gotten.
Turner was no Vince.
That Vader "call out" at the end = CopperCab on steroids! 🤣
1:07:00 - Bird's eye view? From below? Isn't that from a frog's perspective?
please tell me hogan didnt do the 1-2-3 kid/syxx/x-pac karate pose
When boy meets world tells the girl "move one step to your right" that would have moved her closer to the vader-sault.
"BUT WHO'S SIDE IS HE ON??"
Every time the lads get going with their a capella renditions of wrestling themes, it makes me think of a phrase that Last Podcast on the Left coined, "Fun Noises With the Boys."
It cracks me up every time. Never stop, lads.