In that same alternate universe though, the Shockmaster gimmick would have been worth enough $ for Disney/Lucasfilm to sue him into oblivion for violating their IP.
Shockmaster's entrance was the funniest moment in wrestling history, it never gets old. So many subtle things were hilarious, falling down, the helmet coming off, Booker T and Davey Boy making fun of them, Ole Anderson laughing and Fred pointing at the wrong time. Sid did a great job staying in character and trying to sell Shockmaster as if nothing happened. I keep imagining the Benny Hill music playing as he falls through the wall.
For me the funniest (and most disturbing) moments in wrestling don't have anything to do with that moment lol. AWA ran an episode and forgot to put on the audience track. All the talk between the wrestlers in the ring was clear and precise. Illustrious Johnny Stewart was wrestling someone who I can't remember at the moment. He told his opponent "now, break the hold and make it look good". The whole show was like that. Other moment that stand out were the debut of the Cougar Wrestling table called PMS, the Birth of a hand from Mae Young and the Katie Vick thing. Oh, we won't even go into Crazy Victoria wrestling in a shower cap, bathrobe and bunny slippers lol. Wrestling has had it's share of bizarre moments throughout the years lol.
Did the zombie thing ever get explained? In my head I am thinking it would be Vince mocking ECW, then Sandman gets pissed off and stops the bs. But did it even have a set up at all? Or any context? Then I have no idea what they thought...
The Shockmaster influenced one of my favourite RPG characters. Shocklord, a Wrestler in the post apocalypse. Whose actual only attack is botching his entrance.
Ezekiel Elliot #BuckeyesNation #LostMyShoe It would, but the character is actually insanely strong and when you get him he does about 1500 damage per hit, which is a lot. And he hits every single enemy. The only downside is that he only has an accuracy of 70%.
Fred Ottman said in an interview that his debut as the Shockmaster did have two flaws. First, the mask didn't allow much vision. However he said that could have been no problem except for the second thing. They gimmicked the wall to break easier, but not only didn't gimmick the 2×4 support, they didn't even tell him it was there. He said they told him to make one good push and he'd be through. He pushed, and promptly tripped on the support.
To be fair, I've read that WCW had to drop the Seven gimmick because they faced a lot of backlash and allegations over pedophilia because of the vignettes with the kid. I think spending all that money and effort on the swerve might've just been a Russo thing. Promo that Dustin cuts is still one of my favourites tho ugh
The Liam Machine I heard WCW had to drop the gimmick because it was too close to the Golddust gimmick and WWF threatened a lawsuit over copyright infringement.
golongusa I heard it was it was more of a dig at WWE and them having Dustin be Goldust....it was there way of telling the fans that WWE fucked up by making a great wrestler like Dustin play a character like Goldust
In one of his interviews with Austin, Taker said that he actually was terrified that he was going to be the one that they planned to come out of the egg, so he was desperately thinking of ideas about what the hell he was supposed to do with that.
@@otaking3582 It's a PG-13 movie of a R rated franchise known for its gore and insane fatalities. It failed at a very basic level. It's a mediocre at best movie that completely misses the point of the franchise. People only give it any praise because of nostalgia, and this is one of the cases where the nostalgia argument holds any water.
That ECW Zombie clip gets me everytime, that compared with the one-two punch of your pronunciation of The Gobbledy Gooker almost made me lose my lunch from laughing so hard. Man I love this channel.
I remember watching those Glacier vignettes and thinking this guy was gonna be AWESOME. Instead, we got Sub Zero's much lamer cousin. 'When your opponent is a creepy pantsless maverick, you're off to a bad start.' Indeed.
Seven would have worked people were pumped about it at the time but they didn't even give it a one week chance before killing it off. I talked to Dustin about it in Puerto Rico back in 2006 and he had said he helped come up with the elaborate design for it and he was also disappointing they dumped it and ended up doing nothing with him the rest of his time there.
The worst thing about the Shockmaster debut was that it wasn't even Fred Ottman's fault. No one had told him that there was a 2x4 one foot off of the ground below the breakable wall. That's what he tripped over when he went through the wall. The bad timing during the promo and the bad voice over by Ole Anderson would not have damaged the character that much.
I mean he had a storm trooper helmet that was painted in glitter. Even without all that hilariousness he probably wouldn't of got over...... Unless he popped out of a box. Cornette said anyone that bust out of a box is instantly over.
@@josephmckee3342 In hindsight, I agree on that point. He probably wouldn't have got over with the crowd, but at least the fall wasn't his fault. Ottman himself looks back on it and laughs. He could have been a Dungeon of Doom member with that gimmick. It would have been better than becoming a construction worker.
I remember I didn't see the Survivor Series, but I was dying to know what was in the egg. Then my cousin told me it was some stupid turkey, and I thought he was bullshitting me.
Z-Man, I swear this channel has easily become one of my new favorites. I've only just rekindled my love of professional wrestling a few months ago, and it's content like yours that really helped get me back into it all. I'm glad I could help get you one tiny step closer to 100K subs, you deserve every one of them Mr. Zane, keep up the good work!
And the Gladiators won the NWA tag titles, then beat the Road Warriors at Starrcade in a unification match (Warriors international belts were on the line). Then they turned face and spent all of 1988 feuding with the Horsemen and Midnight Express before the Warriors took the belts in an extended squash match.
Seven's entrance was absolutely awesome and terrifying. It probably wouldn't have worked in the end, but it certainly had the potential to be a pretty cool Undertaker equivalent for WCW.
beaver cleaveage! that could have replaced phantasio who only appeared on one episode of challenge with zero build. they built beaver for weeks with vignettes and he came out to dead air. undoubtedly, a stupid russo creation.
Fandango had one of the worst. They billed him like he was the second coming of Stone Cold with all those weird video packages (which honestly, due to my not watching NXT at the time, made me think that "Fandango" was a WWE dancing show that would supposedly rival DWTS) and when he debuted, he did about as much as a guy who the average viewer would expect from the guy dancing around the ring dressed in an extremely flamboyant costume. Gotta hand it to Johnny Curtis for rolling with it and trying his best to make it work, though.
Lol, Fandango had near Shinsuke Nakamura levels of support, with people constantly singing his theme EVEN WHEN HE WASN'T IN THE MATCH. One amazing episode is when the crowd just went ballistic chanting random stuff and one of the main things they kept chanting was Fandango's theme.
11:29 - 11:41 Not only that, but at least the Shockmaster's botched debut was an accident. The Gobbledy Gooker's debut was wretched by its very design.
This thought just occurred to me about Phantasio: In 1995 the curtain call hadn’t happened yet and WWF was still trying to maintain a sense kayfabe. If the Undertaker pointed anything out to Vince, it might have been that this guy’s gimmick is veering a little too close to exposing the business than they would like. Vince agrees and sends Del Rios back to developmental. Del Rios is never told the reason other than there was a conversation between Vince and the Undertaker. I’m just thinking that this seems more likely than the Undertaker thinking the gimmicks were too similar.
I recently watched the whole Yeti fiasco on the WWE Network (only $9.99!) and the oddest part to me was it was barely even acknowledged or explained. Okay, sure, the mummy man is a yeti, that's odd enough, but it was barely a flash in the pan and was never heard of, or mentioned, ever again.
I like how you mentioned what if taker was in the egg since he has recently mentioned that when he talked to Vince before he signed he became worried he would become "egg man"
I never will forget Bastian Booger actually losing his debut match against Virgil. I thought this was highly unusual at the time, as usually a debuting wrestler was a shoe in to go over. But I have forgotten far more debut matches where the debuting person actually went over and this one sticks out as memorable for the fact that the person making their debut on a grand stage lost.
The Goddledygooker's debut was also detrimental to Roddy Piper's "bad@$$ anti-hero" persona that some fans seem to think he did better than Stone Cold. On commentary, during the 'Gooker's debut doing...whatever he was doing...Piper was exclaiming, "Oh, the kids are lovin' this!" with forced, fake laughter that would make even Michael Cole cringe. "He was being sarcastic!" No. No, he was doing what the script told him.
Honestly, the concept of a "Wrestling Magician" like Phantasio was kind of cool and might have worked if they had gone with more of a "Criss Angel" type of magician. Instead...we got magically removed underwear and streamers. Lame.
At least it had good fighting in it. Street Fighter seemed to shy away from fighting except for the final fight between Bison vs. Guile and Ken and Ryu vs Sagat and Vega (which sucked)
Shaw Dawg Well considering that the former fight involved an actor who was dieing of cancer and the latter had to be severely edited in order to get the film a PG-13 rating, it's not like it was entirely their fault. Everything else wrong with the Street Fighter movie IS their fault, however.
i feel like i said this already, probably on THIS video.... but GREAT "CLUE" drop, with the ONE THING... one of my all time favorite movies, soooo underrated
+eJs It's a bit more complicated Mark had done house shows as Cane the Undertaker and was booked as Brother Love's surprise wrestler in a match against the Harts and others. A member of the Hart Family had just died and the 'taker might have been seen as insensitive. they thought of switching him with Guerrero or have Mark wrestle dressed identically to Brother Love. But Bret and Owen said keep it as planned so Undertaker made his TV debut.
I haven’t watched wrestling since 2000.. heh. But I love these videos! I watched for many years as a kid though. So it’s nostalgic. But I think the host is hilarious and fun
Mick Foley said on an episode of Legends of Wrestling that a debuting wrestler called The Eggman was going to be in the egg. That wrestler wasn't fond of the idea and was given a gimmick of The Undertaker...glad he made them give him something else.
Kind of makes me wonder if Undertaker tombstoning a guy in a turkey costume on Jimmy Fallon was a pot shot at the Gooker. I saw that segment on YT and I'm still laughing at how Taker kept in character while doing something so ridiculous and funny.
No, he's right. The movie is mediocre at the absolute best. They made a PG 13 movie out of a series known for its gore, violence and fatalities. It's like making a Resident Evil movie without zombies.
The Super Machine and Giant Machine from the WWF. The mask didn't fool anyone we knew Giant Machine was Andre. Steve Lombardi as the Brooklyn Brawler and Leapin Lanny Poffo with the poems on frisbees becomes the genius. Brutal
Fun fact: Seven was actually planned to be Dustin's gimmick but he ended up wrestling as himself due to concerns that Seven could be mistaken as a child abductor.
I hate to nitpick, but the picture of KISS you used alongside Bischoff is of the current lineup with Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer in Ace Frehley and Peter Criss' makeup respectively. In 1999, the original lineup was in place. You can always tell the difference by looking at the picture of Ace I have as my avatar and notice the really round chin whereas Tommy has a really squared chin. Not a big deal but as a KISS fan, I have to point it out.
+Wrestling With Wregret Like I said, I hate to nitpick but hey we're wrestling fans, we nitpick when Jericho does a Boston Crab and they call it the Walls of Jericho lol Love the videos BTW
In an alternate universe, the Shockmaster probably broke the Undertaker's WrestleMania undefeated streak
SpudCommJuan you mean the gobbledy gookers undeafeated streak
TiberiusKayn flat on his ars flat on his f'n ars oh Davey boy Smith we will miss you
Shockmaster, Gobbledygooker and Fantasio in a triple threat match for the world title at WM2000 (16).
In a alternate dimention, the Gobbledy Gooker broke the streak.
In that same alternate universe though, the Shockmaster gimmick would have been worth enough $ for Disney/Lucasfilm to sue him into oblivion for violating their IP.
Shockmaster's entrance was the funniest moment in wrestling history, it never gets old. So many subtle things were hilarious, falling down, the helmet coming off, Booker T and Davey Boy making fun of them, Ole Anderson laughing and Fred pointing at the wrong time. Sid did a great job staying in character and trying to sell Shockmaster as if nothing happened. I keep imagining the Benny Hill music playing as he falls through the wall.
+stan smith And according to the Death of WCW book Ric Flair and Davey Boy ran backstage to avoid breaking character and bursting out laughing.
The best part is hearing Sid off camera say "i told you"
For me the funniest (and most disturbing) moments in wrestling don't have anything to do with that moment lol. AWA ran an episode and forgot to put on the audience track. All the talk between the wrestlers in the ring was clear and precise. Illustrious Johnny Stewart was wrestling someone who I can't remember at the moment. He told his opponent "now, break the hold and make it look good". The whole show was like that. Other moment that stand out were the debut of the Cougar Wrestling table called PMS, the Birth of a hand from Mae Young and the Katie Vick thing. Oh, we won't even go into Crazy Victoria wrestling in a shower cap, bathrobe and bunny slippers lol. Wrestling has had it's share of bizarre moments throughout the years lol.
Flair saying “oh God!” off camera.
Flair being replaced by a cardboard cut out, colonel rob’s ooooooh lord
ECW Zombie for Hall of Fame.
Sitrush GRRRRRRRRRRRRUAGH!!!!!!!!!!
Oh, Hell, why not? If they inducted Pete Rose, everyone's fair game.
Hell I thought he was already in. Didn't he get inducted with Drew Carey and Jeremy Piven. Lol😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💩
Did the zombie thing ever get explained? In my head I am thinking it would be Vince mocking ECW, then Sandman gets pissed off and stops the bs. But did it even have a set up at all? Or any context? Then I have no idea what they thought...
Along with THE YETAAAYYYY!
The Shockmaster influenced one of my favourite RPG characters.
Shocklord, a Wrestler in the post apocalypse. Whose actual only attack is botching his entrance.
+The Drunken Coward I now have a minor villain for my Pathfinder campaign...thank you.
Ezekiel Elliot #BuckeyesNation #LostMyShoe
It would, but the character is actually insanely strong and when you get him he does about 1500 damage per hit, which is a lot.
And he hits every single enemy.
The only downside is that he only has an accuracy of 70%.
LMFAO
Roll to fall flat on ass
Alignment: Chaotic neutral.
Fred Ottman said in an interview that his debut as the Shockmaster did have two flaws. First, the mask didn't allow much vision. However he said that could have been no problem except for the second thing. They gimmicked the wall to break easier, but not only didn't gimmick the 2×4 support, they didn't even tell him it was there. He said they told him to make one good push and he'd be through. He pushed, and promptly tripped on the support.
Damn, they did him dirty.. poor guy..
Everyone saw exactly what happened. Thanks for confirming that our eyes aren’t lying to us all
Poor guy! The pain...the humiliation...
To be fair, I've read that WCW had to drop the Seven gimmick because they faced a lot of backlash and allegations over pedophilia because of the vignettes with the kid. I think spending all that money and effort on the swerve might've just been a Russo thing. Promo that Dustin cuts is still one of my favourites tho ugh
The Liam Machine I heard WCW had to drop the gimmick because it was too close to the Golddust gimmick and WWF threatened a lawsuit over copyright infringement.
It was taken directly from a movie - Dark City. The owners of that film are the ones who threatened to sue.
Frank Franklin He was right back to being Golddust though and got more bizarre. I preferred the Natural Dustin Rhodes.
I remember this and as a teen who liked the "dark and edgy" gimmicks, was actually excited for this character. Low and behold...
golongusa I heard it was it was more of a dig at WWE and them having Dustin be Goldust....it was there way of telling the fans that WWE fucked up by making a great wrestler like Dustin play a character like Goldust
"Rest in peace...now who wants to see a magic trick?" 😂😂😂😂
LOL
Poor Zombie ended up killing himself. He was a nice guy but he had a young kid so it's very sad.
Who was the guy?
@@velvetpilot2008 Tim Arson.
@@wolfhurricane897 his name was Tim Arson and he was booked as a zombie? Lmao could’ve ran circles with that name
@@johnremp3470 I would've booked Tim Arson with a pyromaniac gimmick.
@@wolfhurricane897 ANYTHING. Anything other than what that man got. No one deserved that lmao
In one of his interviews with Austin, Taker said that he actually was terrified that he was going to be the one that they planned to come out of the egg, so he was desperately thinking of ideas about what the hell he was supposed to do with that.
9:03 "He fell on his arse he fell on his f*cking arse"-Davey Boy Smith still hilarious 😂😂😂😂
You had me until you said the first Mortal Kombat movie was awful. THIS IS INCORRECT.
Maybe he's confusing it with the god awful sequel
@@robertsmith4157 Hey! Now you listen here... Wait, nvm, never argue about movies on the Internet. I respect your opinion 😐.
@@robertsmith4157 Said no one ever
well it´s a mixed opinion thing some love it some hate it i pretty much liked it especially Christopher lambert as Raiden
@@otaking3582 It's a PG-13 movie of a R rated franchise known for its gore and insane fatalities. It failed at a very basic level. It's a mediocre at best movie that completely misses the point of the franchise. People only give it any praise because of nostalgia, and this is one of the cases where the nostalgia argument holds any water.
That ECW Zombie clip gets me everytime, that compared with the one-two punch of your pronunciation of The Gobbledy Gooker almost made me lose my lunch from laughing so hard. Man I love this channel.
Here would be the Undertaker coming out of the egg
"Welcome... to sHell..."
+Davis Pittard This one made me laugh more than it should have!
Gimme a shell yeah!
+Davis Pittard "Nest in peace"...
Sounds like something Undertaker would say in a crossover with the Ninja Turtles.
Imagine what Kane then would have been? a red rooster from hell?
I remember watching those Glacier vignettes and thinking this guy was gonna be AWESOME.
Instead, we got Sub Zero's much lamer cousin.
'When your opponent is a creepy pantsless maverick, you're off to a bad start.' Indeed.
Seven would have worked people were pumped about it at the time but they didn't even give it a one week chance before killing it off. I talked to Dustin about it in Puerto Rico back in 2006 and he had said he helped come up with the elaborate design for it and he was also disappointing they dumped it and ended up doing nothing with him the rest of his time there.
totally agree I was psyched to see it
Seven was a great idea Dustin would definitely have made it work.... they only got a little too far with the vignettes :-(
@@cathycatsville67 Huh? You guys. It was a worked shoot.
Better than your shitty gimmicks Devon.Bloodeater.So so very bad
THE SHOCKMASTER IS THE BEST DEBUT IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF SPORTS PERIOD.
👏👏👏👏😄
I see the point you raise but have you considered the gobbledy gooker
This blunder is so famous even non-wrestling fans know about it
I love how you added the "sports" detail
Ha ha
‘Come and get me Stid!’ - The Shockmaster
Best thing about that promo is when The Shockmaster starts gesticulating as if Sid's voice is his, instead of Arn's.
@@ICantSplel haha he does I'm "shocked" he didn't put the helmet on backwards to lol
I never would have thought thought that someone wearing a face-concealing helment could have bad lip synic before now.
T-Shirt That Please
The worst thing about the Shockmaster debut was that it wasn't even Fred Ottman's fault. No one had told him that there was a 2x4 one foot off of the ground below the breakable wall. That's what he tripped over when he went through the wall. The bad timing during the promo and the bad voice over by Ole Anderson would not have damaged the character that much.
I mean he had a storm trooper helmet that was painted in glitter. Even without all that hilariousness he probably wouldn't of got over...... Unless he popped out of a box. Cornette said anyone that bust out of a box is instantly over.
@@josephmckee3342 In hindsight, I agree on that point. He probably wouldn't have got over with the crowd, but at least the fall wasn't his fault. Ottman himself looks back on it and laughs. He could have been a Dungeon of Doom member with that gimmick. It would have been better than becoming a construction worker.
I remember I didn't see the Survivor Series, but I was dying to know what was in the egg. Then my cousin told me it was some stupid turkey, and I thought he was bullshitting me.
Super Giant Ninja looks like scorpion from Mortal Kombat
+John SuperDude He looks like he ATE Scorpion.
And glacier looked like sub zero
Ricardo Reyes glacier was based off of sub-zero
"Creepy pantsless maverick" was my nickname in high school. Thanks for the shoutout!
Z-Man, I swear this channel has easily become one of my new favorites. I've only just rekindled my love of professional wrestling a few months ago, and it's content like yours that really helped get me back into it all. I'm glad I could help get you one tiny step closer to 100K subs, you deserve every one of them Mr. Zane, keep up the good work!
In an alternate universe in a different timeline The Gobbledy Gooker is the Greatest Wrestler ever.
But did he trip?
+Bubba Gooker and Mankind's Hell in a Cell match in 98 is an all time classic.
And the Gladiators won the NWA tag titles, then beat the Road Warriors at Starrcade in a unification match (Warriors international belts were on the line). Then they turned face and spent all of 1988 feuding with the Horsemen and Midnight Express before the Warriors took the belts in an extended squash match.
+MGB Your age is showing :)
In that universe, you can watch him on the WCW network
"It's THE YETAH!!!!!"-Tony Schiavone 😂😂😂😂😂
0:44 Fuck you sold that well
IKR!!
+⁇ Xenith ⁇ My thoughts exactly.
+⁇ Xenith ⁇ He looked like he fucking died.
he fell flat on his f***n arse!!
yep he must of died also wwe isnt fake
Seven's entrance was absolutely awesome and terrifying. It probably wouldn't have worked in the end, but it certainly had the potential to be a pretty cool Undertaker equivalent for WCW.
Great stuff! I know a lot of these guys would apply to this but I think a list of "8 worst wrestler repackaging" could still be solid.
+LuckyDT I did an episode on just that way back when, but it was blocked by UA-cam after a while. It will return in the very near-future!
+Wrestling With Wregret do u still wrestle just wondering
+Adam lynch I still work the occasional indy show as a manager, but I stopped wrestling regularly back in 2007.
+Wrestling With Wregret Cool man I'll be happy to check that out when it's re-released...I'm predicting a Lord Tensai appearance!
LuckyDT It's already up!
beaver cleaveage! that could have replaced phantasio who only appeared on one episode of challenge with zero build. they built beaver for weeks with vignettes and he came out to dead air. undoubtedly, a stupid russo creation.
Instead they gave Chaz the woman beater gimmick with "Mrs. Cleavage" aka his girlfriend.
11:02 that's gotta be kane!
***** nah
that's gotta be Festus
Yeah That's Totally Glenn Jacobs
+AwesomeGamer No Jacob Goodknight..amiright?
+Kasim Roe Nae, Fake Diesel....
9:36 - Yes! I knew I wasn't the only one to hear Stid! I think they edited it with 'Sid' in later clips also.
remember the build up for kizarny?
Lil Bristo yezes!
yeah me neither
Wizzelcome tizzu thizzuh kizarnival
Yup
Had high hopes for it to be honest.
5:21 - 5:27 Listens out the window
"Here comes the YETAAAAAAAAA!" OMG I heard it.
Fandango had one of the worst. They billed him like he was the second coming of Stone Cold with all those weird video packages (which honestly, due to my not watching NXT at the time, made me think that "Fandango" was a WWE dancing show that would supposedly rival DWTS) and when he debuted, he did about as much as a guy who the average viewer would expect from the guy dancing around the ring dressed in an extremely flamboyant costume. Gotta hand it to Johnny Curtis for rolling with it and trying his best to make it work, though.
Wrong! He debuted and beat Jericho at Wrestlemania he was also very over at the time
Fandango had an great debut. Everything after that though sucked for the guy.
I'm having a hard time finding these video packages. Do you know if there are any out there that you may know of?
manband20 pppp
Lol, Fandango had near Shinsuke Nakamura levels of support, with people constantly singing his theme EVEN WHEN HE WASN'T IN THE MATCH.
One amazing episode is when the crowd just went ballistic chanting random stuff and one of the main things they kept chanting was Fandango's theme.
Awesome and entertaining video synopses Keep em coming buddy.
11:29 - 11:41
Not only that, but at least the Shockmaster's botched debut was an accident. The Gobbledy Gooker's debut was wretched by its very design.
This thought just occurred to me about Phantasio: In 1995 the curtain call hadn’t happened yet and WWF was still trying to maintain a sense kayfabe. If the Undertaker pointed anything out to Vince, it might have been that this guy’s gimmick is veering a little too close to exposing the business than they would like. Vince agrees and sends Del Rios back to developmental. Del Rios is never told the reason other than there was a conversation between Vince and the Undertaker. I’m just thinking that this seems more likely than the Undertaker thinking the gimmicks were too similar.
I recently watched the whole Yeti fiasco on the WWE Network (only $9.99!) and the oddest part to me was it was barely even acknowledged or explained. Okay, sure, the mummy man is a yeti, that's odd enough, but it was barely a flash in the pan and was never heard of, or mentioned, ever again.
holy fuck. i had NO IDEA Kane was Fake Diesel this entire time until you implied something hahahahaha. that was one of my favorite spoofs of all time
I think Beefcake was very jealous of the Yeti in that bear hug.
That Gobbletygooker egg would've been ideal for a Red Rooster return.
Clue the Movie reference? Well done sir. Well done.
+Nostradouglas5 One of the best!
+Wrestling With Wregret hey do a kane best career moments
+Wrestling With Wregret So... top 8 jobbers going to be made eventually?
+Wrestling With Wregret top 8 worst pushs
***** I now and u watch the www vid
I had to turn on notifications for this channel, I can't miss these videos haha
I like how you mentioned what if taker was in the egg since he has recently mentioned that when he talked to Vince before he signed he became worried he would become "egg man"
" you had to laugh because you knew the gimmick was gonna die" DETROIT ROCK CITY!
I never will forget Bastian Booger actually losing his debut match against Virgil. I thought this was highly unusual at the time, as usually a debuting wrestler was a shoe in to go over. But I have forgotten far more debut matches where the debuting person actually went over and this one sticks out as memorable for the fact that the person making their debut on a grand stage lost.
Gladiators falling to the full force of Mulkey Mania
This video was especially well done. Keep up the good work.
The Goddledygooker's debut was also detrimental to Roddy Piper's "bad@$$ anti-hero" persona that some fans seem to think he did better than Stone Cold. On commentary, during the 'Gooker's debut doing...whatever he was doing...Piper was exclaiming, "Oh, the kids are lovin' this!" with forced, fake laughter that would make even Michael Cole cringe.
"He was being sarcastic!" No. No, he was doing what the script told him.
Where would you put Kizarny?
How much fun was it to sell a chokeslam, Brian?
I remember your first bump, ever, in a backyard ring in Springfield. Come a long way Mr Zane!
11:02 The ECW Zombie actually passed away a year ago at the age of 38. I just looked it up.
Awe, he wasn't that old
Love this channel, Brian. Great to see new content. More planned?
Detroit Rock City!!! 😂. Good use of lyrics!
+Nicolas Conforti (SoloParaTrollear) Glad you caught that!
+Wrestling With Wregret you sell better than cena
Nicolas Conforti literally a year after this video and I just heard him say that line, and it just clicked
8:55 - 9:06 had me dying and then the "Stid" part I damn near passed out I was laughing so hard.
hey zane!! how does choke-slam feel? :-p
OUCH!!!
:-D
+MsAdeel66
Auspicious
Fake
Anthony Tran i know its fake. but trained or not it has to hurt atleast a little bit..
CONGRATS ON 100K I'm a big fan
I now want a magician undertaker who comes out of an egg for an entrance.
GamerGuy: I want a magician undertaker shockmaster who bursts out of the egg and falls flat on his f***** arse.
Had to come back here after watching "Reliving the War" for the past month, just to remind myself what a let down Glacier was.
I'm glad that wasn't the undertaker under that Turkey costume
+Rey Gonzalez according to Cornette, it was supposed to be Terry Funk to come out of that egg.. WTF...
I literally had a nightmare of a seven-esque character last night. Thank you for always delivering.
Who knows? Magic Egg Undertaker could've gotten over just as well.
one of the best channels on YT really enjoy the vids n i hardly watch wrestling anymore👌i have a question what soccer/football team do u support?
Honestly, the concept of a "Wrestling Magician" like Phantasio was kind of cool and might have worked if they had gone with more of a "Criss Angel" type of magician. Instead...we got magically removed underwear and streamers. Lame.
Absolutely love your work, Brian.
I'm going to take issue with that statement about the first Mortal Kombat movie being awful.
+AzureSymbiote Same here.
It wasn't Annihilation awful
+AzureSymbiote I'd say it wasn't a good movie. But at the same time, I had a lot of fun watching it.
At least it had good fighting in it. Street Fighter seemed to shy away from fighting except for the final fight between Bison vs. Guile and Ken and Ryu vs Sagat and Vega (which sucked)
Shaw Dawg Well considering that the former fight involved an actor who was dieing of cancer and the latter had to be severely edited in order to get the film a PG-13 rating, it's not like it was entirely their fault.
Everything else wrong with the Street Fighter movie IS their fault, however.
i feel like i said this already, probably on THIS video.... but GREAT "CLUE" drop, with the ONE THING... one of my all time favorite movies, soooo underrated
Batista.
*HE WAS A DEACON FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!*
If we're counting that, we gotta count CM punk. Who showed up dressed as a 1940s gangster accompanying Cena to the ring.
I died laughing when Shock said "STID" at 9:36
Brock Lesnar vs Gobbledy Gooker, book It Vince!
"the yeti dry humping some poor bastard" made me laugh hard in tears...xD
taker was offered to be the gooker, so we would have seen Brock lesnar kill the gooker' streak
(joke copied by whatculture wrestling)
And i just made myself sad...
+Ermac1990 You can't just type "L" in a reply to prove a point. It means literally nothing.
+GamingUltima L
+eJs It's a bit more complicated Mark had done house shows as Cane the Undertaker and was booked as Brother Love's surprise wrestler in a match against the Harts and others. A member of the Hart Family had just died and the 'taker might have been seen as insensitive. they thought of switching him with Guerrero or have Mark wrestle dressed identically to Brother Love. But Bret and Owen said keep it as planned so Undertaker made his TV debut.
Gennaromon Gobbledy Gooker for WWE hall of fame!
Wow…what happened to the Seven entry? It cuts really abruptly.
I guess copyright
You know what would've been awesome? The Blue Blazer being in that egg.
I haven’t watched wrestling since 2000.. heh. But I love these videos! I watched for many years as a kid though. So it’s nostalgic. But I think the host is hilarious and fun
HERETIC! The first Mortal Kombat was a fantastic film that still holds up today
If you watch closely during the shockmaster debut you can see Flair morph into a cardboard cutout of himself in the background.
Damn, Seven looked like a awesome wrestler, shame it ended like that...
Mick Foley said on an episode of Legends of Wrestling that a debuting wrestler called The Eggman was going to be in the egg. That wrestler wasn't fond of the idea and was given a gimmick of The Undertaker...glad he made them give him something else.
more like a mummeh than a yeteh
Very interesting video, I learned a lot from this :)
CLUE IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE THANK YOU SO MUCH
Hey man you sold the hell out of that chokeslam definitely awesome.
The YETAYYY vs Brock Lesnar. Book it Vince!
Subscribed to your channel your videos are gold.
I am surprised that "Beaver Cleavage" is not on this list.
Sitharos that was never going to work no matter the debut
Brian, very good show. My husband and I got a lot of laughs.
Hey Brian, will all of your blocked videos get unblocked?
+Eddie W. Yes, eventually!
+Wrestling With Wregret hey man great video as always. will there be a Best Debut video by any chance?
+Wrestling With Wregret
#PrayforWwW
+Wrestling With Wregret should of included Luke gallows aka festus aka fake Kane he was terrible
+Cameron Fitzpatrick To be fair, at least Festus had some amount over overness to him. And Fake Kane wasn't as bad as these guys...
Kind of makes me wonder if Undertaker tombstoning a guy in a turkey costume on Jimmy Fallon was a pot shot at the Gooker. I saw that segment on YT and I'm still laughing at how Taker kept in character while doing something so ridiculous and funny.
What about Animals debut on WCW as Sid is laying there in agony with a broken leg?
I like Seven. Rhodes did his thing on that promo, LOL. He was pissed that night, even if that was a work, you felt that one.
MK movie awful? THAT'S IT BRIAN. YOU CROSSED THE LINE. YOU. ME. RING. NOW
No, he's right. The movie is mediocre at the absolute best. They made a PG 13 movie out of a series known for its gore, violence and fatalities. It's like making a Resident Evil movie without zombies.
The Super Machine and Giant Machine from the WWF.
The mask didn't fool anyone we knew Giant Machine was Andre.
Steve Lombardi as the Brooklyn Brawler and Leapin Lanny Poffo with the poems on frisbees becomes the genius. Brutal
Was the way you said "The Yeti" mocking how Jack the Jobber says it at WhatCulture ?
+Silver Spade More like Tony Schiavone in WCW.
Saw the match and you are correct, sir. Keep out the good work, Brian
Ah Tony Schiavone. WCW's Michael Cole.
I love whatculture
@@greenkoopa You mean [NAME REDACTED].
Is that a Gangrel action figure behind you?
He just wrestled in my hometown last week. He can hardly walk, but he can still do a good match.
Gangrel is the best!
rest in peace, now who wants to see a magic trick?
Fun fact: Seven was actually planned to be Dustin's gimmick but he ended up wrestling as himself due to concerns that Seven could be mistaken as a child abductor.
I lost it at you being scared of Seven.
Was there a specific moment when you decided that active wrestling wasn't for you or you just felt like you weren't goo enough? Thanks.
I hate to nitpick, but the picture of KISS you used alongside Bischoff is of the current lineup with Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer in Ace Frehley and Peter Criss' makeup respectively. In 1999, the original lineup was in place. You can always tell the difference by looking at the picture of Ace I have as my avatar and notice the really round chin whereas Tommy has a really squared chin. Not a big deal but as a KISS fan, I have to point it out.
+RowdyRodimus Good catch, duly noted! Thanks for the comment!
+Wrestling With Wregret Like I said, I hate to nitpick but hey we're wrestling fans, we nitpick when Jericho does a Boston Crab and they call it the Walls of Jericho lol Love the videos BTW
+Nap'n'Retrogaming bwahahaha nipslip...awesome!!
+RowdyRodimus yes because that was the point of the video
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lol love the CLUE "one thing" snippet....suuuch an underrated movie..