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The running joke at WM38 when Sami Zayn faced Johnny Knoxville. Sami got hit by a gigantic hand and everyone one was saying it was the debut of Mark Henry's son , Hand Henry
The Cody one was essentially a heel turn. He turned on his baby face partner hardcore holly to join up with Ted DiBiase Jr. So the record book would show he won the tag titles from himself lol. The 2 of them would join Randy Orton to form legacy shortly afterwards
I remember that happening, at the time it was the most interesting that Cody had been. He was a pretty boring babyface unfortunately in the early part of his first WWE run. He debuted in a good mini feud with Randy but became just your average boring kid of a more popular wrestler. Saying it like that makes him sound a lot like The Rock.
17:56 for Bruno, he was champ for so long because there wasn’t really any tv shows back then. So yeah Bruno was champ for 9+ but that was for the same exact matches over and over and over in different cities. It’s a lot easier to draw out stories when your champ fights in a different city and is only seen by those local crowds. It wasn’t until Young Vince took over that the company blew up and became a national phenomenon in the 80s Golden Era.
The reason why Bruno Sammartino lost the (at the time) WWWF title was supposedly because he was tired of the hustle of going to the events every week so he told ( at the time) head of the company Vince McMahon snr to take the title of him. Also he lost it to Ivan Kollof which left the fans stunned
@@infinite-sadness NXT wasn't WWE in that era... NXT was Triple-H in that era.... in that era Vince went out of his way to make most of the NXT people look like goofs as quick as possible.
I'd go a little farther back than 2016, but yeah, I remember wrestling channels having competitions where the losers had to report on Raw for the following year. Dark times.
This is my favorite kind of wrestling content. New fans finding out just how freaking weird this whole hobby is. I remember when Jon from NRB learned about Katie Vick live in a trivia stream. Hilarity.
WWE was different in the 1960s. It was treated very much like a sport which is why people didn't get mad at Bruno holding the title for nearly 8 years.
Funny thing about Sammartino's 2803 day reign is he also had a second reign as champion for 1237 days from December 10 1973 until April 3 1977.Making him by far the longest cummalitve champ ever at least in WWE. Wrestlers used to hold the belts for significantly longer than they do now. As long as Romans reign was that was only the fourth longest reign Hulk Hogan, Bob Backlund and Bruno Sammartino's reigns where all longer
I'm pretty sure there is footage of when bruno lost but i don't think there is sound. According to people in the building, when Bruno lost, the building just went silent
Fact about the kennel from hell: When the dogs were doing their thing the commentators said "at this pace we'll end up with even more dogs" you know? Because that's how biology works. Also, the awful effing storyline of Bossman cooking the chihuahua was the story that built up to the kennel from hell. So whenever someone tries to tell you how serious and superior wrestling was back in the day you can call out their bull... or may I say dogshit. Al Snow also had a gimmick of having a wax replica of his own head,then had a feud against Perry Saturn who was in love with a mop. Al is regarded by a lot of wrestlers as an amazing trainer and Saturn was one of the greatest cruiserweights in WCW but we're talking about Vince McMahon and Vince Russo here.
If they are two separate titles, you count them separately. Like, if you won the IC title and the US title in the same night and then lost them both a week later, that's technically two SEPARATE weeks; one for each title. Now, the WWE is being a little coy on rather the WWE and Universal titles are separate belts or one unified belt, so I'd say it can be considered as separate for the purposes of the question.
It's great that you got both the kennel from hell match question and the Al Snow/Bossman one in the same video seeing as it's the same feud. WWE was ridiculous in the Attitude Era, with Bossman in particular having some memorable weird moments/feuds.
Here's some fun trivia. Ron Simmons is recognized as the first black World Champion, but Norman Smiley won the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship before him. CMLL (Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre) is the oldest wrestling promotion in the world, being founded in 1933. So why does Ron Simmons get the recognition? Because CMLL is a lucha libre company, comprising of multiple weight divisions but favor lightweight wrestling. While most promotions would have their World Heavyweight Championship being the top title in the company, the same cannot be said for CMLL. Norman Smiley is currently a trainer in NXT and has been training WWE developmental wrestlers since 2007.
Well that's actually a coincidence here because Al Snow vs Big Boss Man feud because of Pepper the Chihuahua ended up at the Kennel from Hell Match who was said early in the video.
Cool to see some old school facts in here and not just from the modern WWE. Yay for y'all learning some history. Also, this is a really cool concept. Good job.
Both the WWE and Universal Titles were considered active while Roman held it which is why from Mania 38 to XL his WWE Title reign was counted as separate alongside the Universal Title. Also Rockstar full time career is 1996 to 2003 because he was part time in 2004. Rock also had periods in 2001 and 2002 where he was off filming movies between runs in WWE. He was also gone from WWE for the rest of 2003 after April.
Those wwf/e shotgun Saturday night use to be live in night clubs on Saturday nights for a couple months before it got turned into a taped show. The attitude era was a wild ride
The Sammartino reign was under Vince Sr before any TV deals or PPVs. For 99.99% of fans it was a show that came to town 2 or 3 times a year, usually they would re-run the same match and story in multiple towns. So for the fans an 8 year reign means he had like 20 matches they could go to. Short reigns weren't really a thing, it was important that people who saw the show once or twice a year could keep up. Nowadays a reign like that would be over 1000 appearances, a hundred PLE matches, you would see more in 6 months than people back then would see in a decade and everyone would get sick of it.
Bruno's first 7.5+ year (2,803 days) reign - the second reign in the belts history - ended to Ivan Koloff, who dropped it three weeks later to Pedro Morales, with Koloff just there to get it from one babyface to another so Bruno could have time off A wee nerdy tangent: Bruno would have a second reign lasting another 3+ years (1,237 days) before dropping it to Superstar Billy Graham, who would become the first heel to have a lengthy title reign (296 days) Heel top champions weren't common in WWWF/WWF until after Hulkamania, as other than Graham's the next longest reign was Iron Sheik's 4 weeks. The babyface champions by the end of Hogan's first reign (Bruno 4040 combined days, Pedro Morales 1027 days, Bob Backlund 2135 days, and Hogan 1474 days) accounted for 95.8% of its history until that point (or as legit as WWE's history books as there were a few slight differences to the reality of reigns and an unrecognised title switch in there) By comparison, other than Billy Graham, the other 4 heel holders held the belt for a combined 79 days (Buddy Rogers, first champion, 21 days, Ivan Koloff 21 days, Stan Stasiak 9 days, and Iron Shiek 28 days)
28:30 idk how to feel about that question. The wrestlemania 12 main event was Bret hart vs Shawn Michaels. Bret hart is his legal name and Shawn Michaels name is Michael Shawn. His middle is Shawn and since a young age everybody has called him Shawn instead of Michael. So to me that counts as Mania where both main eventers wrestle under their legal name. But I don’t mind Kurt and Brock being the answer.
26:31 Charlie got it wrong. Roman does have more combined days as wwe champion, not counting the universal title. Also WWE doesn’t combine 2 titles’ reigns together officially, though they do tend to rewrite their history when needed.
For added context about Vince McMahon vs Stephanie McMahon: Previously, Vince had pitched the, let's call it idea, of an angle where he would be the father to her daughter's child. She declined and had to face him in that street fight. His depravity knows no bounds.
Cody Rhodes won a title from himself, he went into a match as tag team champs against someone who had a mystery partner, during the match Cody turned heel (became bad guy) on his partner revealing himself to be his opponent's mystery partner and then won the tag titles with that person
Asuka lost to Bianca Belair at WM39, then beat her in a rematch for the title at the next PLE. That extra month meant nothing for Belair. They really should've given Asuka the Wrestlemania win then.
I have to disagree with the reasoning behind the Roman and Rock days question. Rock went part time in the summer of 2002. Rock was part-time as early as 2003. His first WWE contract ended in 2004, but it was amended in 2002.
Roman have 6 championship reigns overall he won his first in 2015 survivor series and it counts different as roman won universal title in 2020 but then he won the wwe championship from brock lesner at mania 38 so yeah it will count +1 as both are different world titles then it got combined when he have it then he merged to got the golden one which cody have now
I would say the WM 28 & 29 would be the main event that used there real names if The Rock came out as Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson because of his return from Hollywood
so from the first question, years later actually a segment on RAW they had someone dress up a hand and said he grew up and you can hear michael cole burst laughing
Most wrestlers use stage names because WWE basically buys the wrestler’s name on the contract, so if you don’t want them owning your real name like they do John Cena’s, you gotta make something up. John Cena has to give WWE a kickback whenever he uses his real name on a project. Dwayne Johnson actually acquired the name “The Rock” as part of his current contract with WWE, so it’s his to use anywhere now, even if he leaves the company again.
I should add, wrestlers who come into the company after making their name elsewhere do have a lot more leverage when it comes to keeping the rights to their name, of course.
It may or may not actually make a difference in the answer to the question posed but i would argue that counting 2004 and most of 2003 as part of The Rock's "full time" WWE career is pushing it Also to be SUPER NITPICKY the Vince/Steph match was technically an I Quit match, not a street fight. Not that it changes how messed up the whole thing was lol
Funny that mine was last lol. (Also I just have to point out, you misread my name. Don't worry about it, everyone does, I just had to put it out there lol)
not only did Bruno not retire after the reign he won it back a few years later and held it for another 3 years and some change his second reign is nearly as long as Roman's as well
Pretty sure Bruno only lost the title because he broke his neck, or maybe that was the second time. If the former, he could have very well have held it for a decade
Some context for the Ron Simmons thing.... He was technically the 5th WCW World Heavyweight Champion, after it was merged with the NWA championship, which at that point only had about 25 different champions over 40 years, half of which were essentially swaps between the same 5 or 6 people over those decades. People frame it as if the history of the championship as this example of how bigoted wrestling used to be, but the reality is there were a very limited number of people who ever made it up to that point. Same applies to the WWF... it wasn't until the Attitude Era and after when title changes became somewhat meaningless and all the various title splits and mergers over the past 20 years diluted its value and changed how fans perceive being champion.
It's still an example of the racism inherent, unless you're arguing that a Black man could only be champion once the standards fell? Like, there were plenty of Black wrestlers who were capable of performing to the level of being NWA champion, but the committee was a bunch of old white dudes in the mid-20th century US, especially the South, so obviously they're not gonna want that.
@@gaz-l621 Just injecting the word "inherent" doesn't actually make it inherent. Also, correlation doesn't equal causation. My point is that fans think that since they "know" how wrestling works then that means a promotion can just throw the title on anybody when ever they want, and so by not doing it, it must mean there is racism involved by default..... when in reality up until recently there were a very limited number of wrestlers, period, who got to that level at all, period. Saying there were many black wrestlers capable doesn't mean anything if you actually took the time to think about my comment rather than just knee-jerk react to it. I dont care about your caricature of American history, or your assumption of what people _really_ think...
Random blurbs on sexual chocolate: it came from a feud between the nation and dx where henry just became real weird with chyna. This gimmick may or may not have been a way to firce mark to quit because they thought he wasnt living up to their standards. And a hand was apparently an old toy the inplication being it was there for a long time. Mr wrestling 1 and 2 arent related just same gimmick
1. Sorry but the Mark Henry stuff is funny in hindsight. It happened in 2000. The hand thing was a kind of inside joke, Vince thought it was funny to "give Mark Henry a hand". There was a raw milestone episode, which I think was the 25 years of RAW, in which Mae Young introduces Henry to a dude dressed in a hand costume and calls him dad. I thought it was absurd at the time, but it was somewhat funny. 2. Cody being the mystery partner was in fact betraying Hardcore Holly. He went on to form a tag team with Dibiase Jr called "The Legacy" and aligned themselves with Randy Orton. 3. Brock Lesnar won it once, then left WWE to do different ventures (NFL, UFC) and then came back and won it again. 4. I had no idea about Mr Wrestling II. Nice to learn something new here. 5. El Santo is possibly the biggest legend in Mexican wrestling. 6. Roman Reigns is referred to by WWE as the longest reigning champion "of the modern era", but Sammartino, Hogan and Bob Backlund had longer reigns. 7. Nothing to add about Haku, other than he has stories about being a tough mfr that you should check out. The kind of guy who is really nice but you don't want to mess with. 8. That whole thing was true, it was so stupid. Vince vincing. 9. Nothing to add, except I dont think WWE counts the reign lengths that way. 10. Ron Simmons was the first black WCW world champion, however him being the first overall depends on what we consider a "major promotion". I learned this because of Keith Lee (the wrestler) because he was made by Vince to use the moniker "Bearcat", in 1963 "Bearcat" Wright was the first black world champion of any organization when he won the WWA world championship and while it was not as big as WCW was or WWE is, by 1963 standards it could be considered a relevant promotion. 11. Nothing to add but nice trivia fact. 12. Interesting fact: Asuka's undefeated streak carried over to the main roster and Goldberg was a piece of shit about it. 13 This is the worst match I remember. The whole story is about Big Bossman bullying Al Snow to the point he once tricked Al and fed him his own chihuahua (no dogs were harmed in the making of that angle). The match itself was horrible. There were two trained guard dogs with their handlers at ringside and you had to win by escaping the cage. They were supposed to be rabid dogs but they were mostly just there and they marked their territory. The setting was like a normal steel cage surrounded by hell in a cell. 14. I dont remember the train station match wtf? 15. Nothing to add. Vince wanted to be seen as despicable. 16. Unless there is no other option, WWE would not put the world championship on an injured person. There may be exceptions to the rule I cant think of but certainly not during the Super Cena days. 17. I wrote the context of this on point 13 before I knew this one was coming. The whole chihuahua thing is the reason there was a Kennel from hell match. 18. Pretty sure Asuka lost her streak at Wrestlemania.
Yeah Asuka had been undefeated since joining WWE (barring a loss in a battle royal on NXT TV) when she won the Rumble and challenged Charlotte at Mania. For some reason Vince decided that ending the streak in what should have been her biggest career defining moment yet, purely as a means to present Charlotte as a dominant champion, was a good idea, when all it really did was make people hate Charlotte and completely derail Asuka.
The even weirder bit about the kennel from hell match is that it was a match in a personal rivalry where the heel (Big Boss Man) fed the babyface (Al Snow) his own dog (which was called Pepper). Thankfully no dogs were actually harmed in this storyline ... some were possibly made though.
I think you could gift one or two tally tiers because some people can't afford it, mix it in with the base tier. Showing matches that should be seen or to be able to enjoy it 'with someone' got me to sub anyway. Just my opinion- diruroru . You guys got future in this space
I never heard of the Kennel from Hell match, but its real I just found it. Also watched The Undertaker vs. Triple H Train Station match, probably their first singles match ever, also very interesting. They should do something like that again. Especially in todays era, where everybody can put that stuff on social media. This "giving birth to a hand"-story.... I have no words for that...
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The Mark Henry one was so crazy nobody would be able to make it up but WWE writers
The running joke at WM38 when Sami Zayn faced Johnny Knoxville. Sami got hit by a gigantic hand and everyone one was saying it was the debut of Mark Henry's son , Hand Henry
6:23 - its pronounced Dee-Bee-Ahh-See, for future reference.
You were also actually correct calling him Mr. Wrestling 2 btw lol
Oh my god i came to the comments as soon as I heard him pronounce it. SO PRECIOUS 🥹
Isn't it "Dee Bee Ah Zee"?
The Cody one was essentially a heel turn. He turned on his baby face partner hardcore holly to join up with Ted DiBiase Jr. So the record book would show he won the tag titles from himself lol. The 2 of them would join Randy Orton to form legacy shortly afterwards
I remember that happening, at the time it was the most interesting that Cody had been. He was a pretty boring babyface unfortunately in the early part of his first WWE run. He debuted in a good mini feud with Randy but became just your average boring kid of a more popular wrestler. Saying it like that makes him sound a lot like The Rock.
The only time this has happened i think
You actually got Mr Wrestling II correct the first time!
17:56 for Bruno, he was champ for so long because there wasn’t really any tv shows back then. So yeah Bruno was champ for 9+ but that was for the same exact matches over and over and over in different cities. It’s a lot easier to draw out stories when your champ fights in a different city and is only seen by those local crowds.
It wasn’t until Young Vince took over that the company blew up and became a national phenomenon in the 80s Golden Era.
The reason why Bruno Sammartino lost the (at the time) WWWF title was supposedly because he was tired of the hustle of going to the events every week so he told ( at the time) head of the company Vince McMahon snr to take the title of him. Also he lost it to Ivan Kollof which left the fans stunned
2016 - 2019 was the dark ages of WWE for sure 😅😂💀
it really was unwatchable for a while.
Kinda proved Punk's whole beef with Vince right honestly... lol
2016 smackdown was good and nxt was good for that whole era
@@infinite-sadness NXT wasn't WWE in that era... NXT was Triple-H in that era.... in that era Vince went out of his way to make most of the NXT people look like goofs as quick as possible.
I'd go a little farther back than 2016, but yeah, I remember wrestling channels having competitions where the losers had to report on Raw for the following year. Dark times.
2016 was good. Much of 2017 as well. At least one of the shows were really good during that run. Early Smackdown Live was great.
Man... I will NEVER forget the night on SmackDown when Mae Young announced she was pregnant. The look on Scotty Too Hotty's face... beyond priceless.
This is my favorite kind of wrestling content. New fans finding out just how freaking weird this whole hobby is. I remember when Jon from NRB learned about Katie Vick live in a trivia stream. Hilarity.
WWE was different in the 1960s. It was treated very much like a sport which is why people didn't get mad at Bruno holding the title for nearly 8 years.
The biggest reasons why they held the title for that long back then is because there wasn’t any monthly PPV’s or weekly shows like we have now.
That kennel from hell match was what came from Big Boss Man fed Pepper to Al Snow.
Kurt Angle famously won that olympic gold medal with a broken neck. Couldn't get through a kurt angle promo without him mentioning it
One more thing. That dog feeding feud is what led to the kennel from hell match
I should have pieced that together
Supposedly it's also based on a rib that Mr. Fuji pulled on someone...
Also IMO not the worst thing Bossman did in 99
@@philgoad5587even your mom says youre a bastard and other such highlights
@@philgoad5587 unless that moment was in part 1. We found a true or fake moment for part 3
Funny thing about Sammartino's 2803 day reign is he also had a second reign as champion for 1237 days from December 10 1973 until April 3 1977.Making him by far the longest cummalitve champ ever at least in WWE. Wrestlers used to hold the belts for significantly longer than they do now. As long as Romans reign was that was only the fourth longest reign Hulk Hogan, Bob Backlund and Bruno Sammartino's reigns where all longer
20:10 yeah… I definitely blocked more than half of this out of my memory but you’ve reopened old wounds
I completely forgot about the Liv Morgan part of that Lana storyline 😂
I'm pretty sure there is footage of when bruno lost but i don't think there is sound. According to people in the building, when Bruno lost, the building just went silent
Bruno thought he went deaf
I think that’s the same title reign where they didn’t announce the winner as they thought it could start a riot.
Yup ... all of that was true. Unfortunately the win in many ways ruined the push for Ivan Koloff. Ivan never recovered from beating Sammartino.
For the added bit of this is how bobby gets the wwe title, he eventually gets sick of lana and replaces her with MVP bringing us to the hurt business
Fact about the kennel from hell: When the dogs were doing their thing the commentators said "at this pace we'll end up with even more dogs" you know? Because that's how biology works.
Also, the awful effing storyline of Bossman cooking the chihuahua was the story that built up to the kennel from hell.
So whenever someone tries to tell you how serious and superior wrestling was back in the day you can call out their bull... or may I say dogshit.
Al Snow also had a gimmick of having a wax replica of his own head,then had a feud against Perry Saturn who was in love with a mop. Al is regarded by a lot of wrestlers as an amazing trainer and Saturn was one of the greatest cruiserweights in WCW but we're talking about Vince McMahon and Vince Russo here.
I loved this video. I hope you do more of these true or false videos :D
@@DominicGarfieldOcat we enjoyed it!
If they are two separate titles, you count them separately. Like, if you won the IC title and the US title in the same night and then lost them both a week later, that's technically two SEPARATE weeks; one for each title.
Now, the WWE is being a little coy on rather the WWE and Universal titles are separate belts or one unified belt, so I'd say it can be considered as separate for the purposes of the question.
It's great that you got both the kennel from hell match question and the Al Snow/Bossman one in the same video seeing as it's the same feud. WWE was ridiculous in the Attitude Era, with Bossman in particular having some memorable weird moments/feuds.
Mr Wrestling 2 is exactly how you say his name. There was a team of Mr Wrestling #1 and Mr Wrestling #2
If I recall correctly, Linda threatened to murder Vince if he gave her any bruising during that match, too.
Dude this was the best video u have done,,had so much fun playing along,,great work 👍
Here's some fun trivia. Ron Simmons is recognized as the first black World Champion, but Norman Smiley won the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship before him. CMLL (Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre) is the oldest wrestling promotion in the world, being founded in 1933. So why does Ron Simmons get the recognition? Because CMLL is a lucha libre company, comprising of multiple weight divisions but favor lightweight wrestling. While most promotions would have their World Heavyweight Championship being the top title in the company, the same cannot be said for CMLL. Norman Smiley is currently a trainer in NXT and has been training WWE developmental wrestlers since 2007.
Bruno is not only the longest reigning wwe champion with his first reign, brunos second reign is the third longest reign in history.
Well that's actually a coincidence here because Al Snow vs Big Boss Man feud because of Pepper the Chihuahua ended up at the Kennel from Hell Match who was said early in the video.
Bruno asked for it to be taken off him
Because he’d wrestled with it for so long and wanted a break. Which is pretty understandable.
Yup
Mr. Wrestling II is read as "Mister Wrestling Two".
You were right the first time! Mr. Wrestling two. Not Mr. Wrestling the second.
Ted "De Bias" JR. 🤣
I'd say rock was a part timer from 01-04, he would leave for months at a time and come back.
Cool to see some old school facts in here and not just from the modern WWE. Yay for y'all learning some history.
Also, this is a really cool concept. Good job.
We've been enjoying learning all about wrestling since we got into it last year. This has been one of my favorite ways to learn random facts!
Ah here we go! Been waiting for this.
How many of these did you know? 🤣
Both the WWE and Universal Titles were considered active while Roman held it which is why from Mania 38 to XL his WWE Title reign was counted as separate alongside the Universal Title. Also Rockstar full time career is 1996 to 2003 because he was part time in 2004. Rock also had periods in 2001 and 2002 where he was off filming movies between runs in WWE. He was also gone from WWE for the rest of 2003 after April.
Who else is from Santizap video
Those wwf/e shotgun Saturday night use to be live in night clubs on Saturday nights for a couple months before it got turned into a taped show. The attitude era was a wild ride
The Sammartino reign was under Vince Sr before any TV deals or PPVs. For 99.99% of fans it was a show that came to town 2 or 3 times a year, usually they would re-run the same match and story in multiple towns.
So for the fans an 8 year reign means he had like 20 matches they could go to. Short reigns weren't really a thing, it was important that people who saw the show once or twice a year could keep up.
Nowadays a reign like that would be over 1000 appearances, a hundred PLE matches, you would see more in 6 months than people back then would see in a decade and everyone would get sick of it.
Bruno's first 7.5+ year (2,803 days) reign - the second reign in the belts history - ended to Ivan Koloff, who dropped it three weeks later to Pedro Morales, with Koloff just there to get it from one babyface to another so Bruno could have time off
A wee nerdy tangent:
Bruno would have a second reign lasting another 3+ years (1,237 days) before dropping it to Superstar Billy Graham, who would become the first heel to have a lengthy title reign (296 days)
Heel top champions weren't common in WWWF/WWF until after Hulkamania, as other than Graham's the next longest reign was Iron Sheik's 4 weeks.
The babyface champions by the end of Hogan's first reign (Bruno 4040 combined days, Pedro Morales 1027 days, Bob Backlund 2135 days, and Hogan 1474 days) accounted for 95.8% of its history until that point (or as legit as WWE's history books as there were a few slight differences to the reality of reigns and an unrecognised title switch in there)
By comparison, other than Billy Graham, the other 4 heel holders held the belt for a combined 79 days (Buddy Rogers, first champion, 21 days, Ivan Koloff 21 days, Stan Stasiak 9 days, and Iron Shiek 28 days)
Fun video. I loke the concept.
Shotgun Sat Night was shown recently on the wwe vault channel, may still be on there!
I may be misremembering, but I feel like at least two of those dogs in the Kennel From Hell Match made sweet, sweet love as well.
There we go, it was... mentioned.
28:30 idk how to feel about that question. The wrestlemania 12 main event was Bret hart vs Shawn Michaels. Bret hart is his legal name and Shawn Michaels name is Michael Shawn. His middle is Shawn and since a young age everybody has called him Shawn instead of Michael. So to me that counts as Mania where both main eventers wrestle under their legal name. But I don’t mind Kurt and Brock being the answer.
Shawn michaels did not wrestle as Michael Shawn Hickenbottom ( which is his legal name)
26:31 Charlie got it wrong. Roman does have more combined days as wwe champion, not counting the universal title. Also WWE doesn’t combine 2 titles’ reigns together officially, though they do tend to rewrite their history when needed.
For added context about Vince McMahon vs Stephanie McMahon:
Previously, Vince had pitched the, let's call it idea, of an angle where he would be the father to her daughter's child.
She declined and had to face him in that street fight.
His depravity knows no bounds.
The fact that THAT was the Haku story you got is a shame because that man is insane
Its funny how the kennel match was the outcome of the feud involving big boss man and al snow where pepper got eaten
Cody Rhodes won a title from himself, he went into a match as tag team champs against someone who had a mystery partner, during the match Cody turned heel (became bad guy) on his partner revealing himself to be his opponent's mystery partner and then won the tag titles with that person
Asuka lost to Bianca Belair at WM39, then beat her in a rematch for the title at the next PLE. That extra month meant nothing for Belair. They really should've given Asuka the Wrestlemania win then.
@@y0_jimb0 we're breaking records aka extending reigns past their best by date
@@y0_jimb0 we have to break records pal
For the record, it was Mr. Wrestling 2. And it was a basic wrestling mask.
Mae Young wasn’t 90 when that happened
I have to disagree with the reasoning behind the Roman and Rock days question. Rock went part time in the summer of 2002. Rock was part-time as early as 2003. His first WWE contract ended in 2004, but it was amended in 2002.
Roman have 6 championship reigns overall he won his first in 2015 survivor series and it counts different as roman won universal title in 2020 but then he won the wwe championship from brock lesner at mania 38 so yeah it will count +1 as both are different world titles then it got combined when he have it then he merged to got the golden one which cody have now
I would say the WM 28 & 29 would be the main event that used there real names if The Rock came out as Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson because of his return from Hollywood
I don't think I would consider rock full time in late 03 and 04
Dibiase pronounced Dee Bee Ausie I didn't know how to say it until I heard it out loud myself. Fun fact it actually is just Mr Wrestling two
Appreciate it lol
so from the first question, years later actually a segment on RAW they had someone dress up a hand and said he grew up and you can hear michael cole burst laughing
Most wrestlers use stage names because WWE basically buys the wrestler’s name on the contract, so if you don’t want them owning your real name like they do John Cena’s, you gotta make something up. John Cena has to give WWE a kickback whenever he uses his real name on a project.
Dwayne Johnson actually acquired the name “The Rock” as part of his current contract with WWE, so it’s his to use anywhere now, even if he leaves the company again.
I should add, wrestlers who come into the company after making their name elsewhere do have a lot more leverage when it comes to keeping the rights to their name, of course.
It may or may not actually make a difference in the answer to the question posed but i would argue that counting 2004 and most of 2003 as part of The Rock's "full time" WWE career is pushing it
Also to be SUPER NITPICKY the Vince/Steph match was technically an I Quit match, not a street fight. Not that it changes how messed up the whole thing was lol
Funny that mine was last lol. (Also I just have to point out, you misread my name. Don't worry about it, everyone does, I just had to put it out there lol)
Last to submit. Last to get read. Lol just went in order.
Asuka was undefeated over 500 days in nxt
not only did Bruno not retire after the reign he won it back a few years later and held it for another 3 years and some change his second reign is nearly as long as Roman's as well
I'd be boring at these because I'd just say it's real to everything that sounds remotely crazy.
Cody turned heel against Hardcore Holly teaming with TDJ before they joined Orton to become Legacy
"DEE BEE AWW SEE"
Dibiase :)
Edit* Crap i was too late
Pretty sure Bruno only lost the title because he broke his neck, or maybe that was the second time. If the former, he could have very well have held it for a decade
Oh man this was fun lol
Some context for the Ron Simmons thing.... He was technically the 5th WCW World Heavyweight Champion, after it was merged with the NWA championship, which at that point only had about 25 different champions over 40 years, half of which were essentially swaps between the same 5 or 6 people over those decades.
People frame it as if the history of the championship as this example of how bigoted wrestling used to be, but the reality is there were a very limited number of people who ever made it up to that point. Same applies to the WWF... it wasn't until the Attitude Era and after when title changes became somewhat meaningless and all the various title splits and mergers over the past 20 years diluted its value and changed how fans perceive being champion.
It's still an example of the racism inherent, unless you're arguing that a Black man could only be champion once the standards fell? Like, there were plenty of Black wrestlers who were capable of performing to the level of being NWA champion, but the committee was a bunch of old white dudes in the mid-20th century US, especially the South, so obviously they're not gonna want that.
@@gaz-l621 Just injecting the word "inherent" doesn't actually make it inherent.
Also, correlation doesn't equal causation.
My point is that fans think that since they "know" how wrestling works then that means a promotion can just throw the title on anybody when ever they want, and so by not doing it, it must mean there is racism involved by default..... when in reality up until recently there were a very limited number of wrestlers, period, who got to that level at all, period.
Saying there were many black wrestlers capable doesn't mean anything if you actually took the time to think about my comment rather than just knee-jerk react to it.
I dont care about your caricature of American history, or your assumption of what people _really_ think...
To be fair Mr Wrestling II's name is actually pronounced as Mr Wrestling 2.
me @ 20:55: sadly, that is actually true
Random blurbs on sexual chocolate: it came from a feud between the nation and dx where henry just became real weird with chyna. This gimmick may or may not have been a way to firce mark to quit because they thought he wasnt living up to their standards. And a hand was apparently an old toy the inplication being it was there for a long time. Mr wrestling 1 and 2 arent related just same gimmick
Mae Young was actually in her 70s (not that it makes it any better) she was 90 when she passed
So cool❤
Actually the Vince and Stephanie match is not true. It was not a Street fight but it was an I Quit match.
Mr. Wrestling 2 is in fact pronounced Mr. Wrestling 2, not the second
1. Sorry but the Mark Henry stuff is funny in hindsight. It happened in 2000. The hand thing was a kind of inside joke, Vince thought it was funny to "give Mark Henry a hand". There was a raw milestone episode, which I think was the 25 years of RAW, in which Mae Young introduces Henry to a dude dressed in a hand costume and calls him dad.
I thought it was absurd at the time, but it was somewhat funny.
2. Cody being the mystery partner was in fact betraying Hardcore Holly. He went on to form a tag team with Dibiase Jr called "The Legacy" and aligned themselves with Randy Orton.
3. Brock Lesnar won it once, then left WWE to do different ventures (NFL, UFC) and then came back and won it again.
4. I had no idea about Mr Wrestling II. Nice to learn something new here.
5. El Santo is possibly the biggest legend in Mexican wrestling.
6. Roman Reigns is referred to by WWE as the longest reigning champion "of the modern era", but Sammartino, Hogan and Bob Backlund had longer reigns.
7. Nothing to add about Haku, other than he has stories about being a tough mfr that you should check out. The kind of guy who is really nice but you don't want to mess with.
8. That whole thing was true, it was so stupid. Vince vincing.
9. Nothing to add, except I dont think WWE counts the reign lengths that way.
10. Ron Simmons was the first black WCW world champion, however him being the first overall depends on what we consider a "major promotion". I learned this because of Keith Lee (the wrestler) because he was made by Vince to use the moniker "Bearcat", in 1963 "Bearcat" Wright was the first black world champion of any organization when he won the WWA world championship and while it was not as big as WCW was or WWE is, by 1963 standards it could be considered a relevant promotion.
11. Nothing to add but nice trivia fact.
12. Interesting fact: Asuka's undefeated streak carried over to the main roster and Goldberg was a piece of shit about it.
13 This is the worst match I remember. The whole story is about Big Bossman bullying Al Snow to the point he once tricked Al and fed him his own chihuahua (no dogs were harmed in the making of that angle). The match itself was horrible. There were two trained guard dogs with their handlers at ringside and you had to win by escaping the cage. They were supposed to be rabid dogs but they were mostly just there and they marked their territory. The setting was like a normal steel cage surrounded by hell in a cell.
14. I dont remember the train station match wtf?
15. Nothing to add. Vince wanted to be seen as despicable.
16. Unless there is no other option, WWE would not put the world championship on an injured person. There may be exceptions to the rule I cant think of but certainly not during the Super Cena days.
17. I wrote the context of this on point 13 before I knew this one was coming. The whole chihuahua thing is the reason there was a Kennel from hell match.
18. Pretty sure Asuka lost her streak at Wrestlemania.
Yeah Asuka had been undefeated since joining WWE (barring a loss in a battle royal on NXT TV) when she won the Rumble and challenged Charlotte at Mania. For some reason Vince decided that ending the streak in what should have been her biggest career defining moment yet, purely as a means to present Charlotte as a dominant champion, was a good idea, when all it really did was make people hate Charlotte and completely derail Asuka.
The train station match was on shotgun which was a weekend show where they tried to be ecw kinda. You have probably seen the escalator tombstone
Does Cena vs Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson not count as two people using their real names.
No because he only wrestled as the Rock not as Dwayne Johnson
Pronouncing DiBiase like that is crazy.
I mean is it that insane when it's the first time you've ever seen it? 😆
@ So you’re new to wrestling then?
@dom19945 yep! The whole basis of the channel is that me and my fiance got into wrestling last year.
@ That makes complete sense then. This is a good time to get into it. Rhea got me back into it last year.
I'm here because of Santizap
@@Dibab same tbh
bro can i ask question
a bunch of these are just Vince doing stupid shit cause he had no clue what he was doing
The even weirder bit about the kennel from hell match is that it was a match in a personal rivalry where the heel (Big Boss Man) fed the babyface (Al Snow) his own dog (which was called Pepper). Thankfully no dogs were actually harmed in this storyline ... some were possibly made though.
I think you could gift one or two tally tiers because some people can't afford it, mix it in with the base tier. Showing matches that should be seen or to be able to enjoy it 'with someone' got me to sub anyway. Just my opinion- diruroru . You guys got future in this space
Can she phone a friend?
I never heard of the Kennel from Hell match, but its real I just found it. Also watched The Undertaker vs. Triple H Train Station match, probably their first singles match ever, also very interesting. They should do something like that again. Especially in todays era, where everybody can put that stuff on social media. This "giving birth to a hand"-story.... I have no words for that...
6:40 You botched his last name. His dad is very famous in the 80s the million dollar man.