WCW Spring Stampede 1999 - The "Reliving The War" PPV Review
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2024
- WCW Spring Stampede 1999 took place in Tacoma, WA on April 11th. This is the first WCW pay per view to use the new company branding and many consider Spring Stampede 99 to be the last decent pay per view event the company ever produced.
The show features a star-studded main event where 4 competitors square off for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship; Sting, Diamond Dallas Page and Hollywood Hulk Hogan step inside the ropes with Champion Ric Flair while Macho Man Randy Savage officiates the match. The main event marks a turning point for World Championship Wrestling as not only do we get a new champion, but a superstar also gets injured which leads to some long recovery time.
Elsewhere on the card Kevin Nash and Goldberg have their Starrcade rematch, Kidman gets a shot at Rey Mysterio's cruiserweight title, Dean Malenko and Chris Benoit look to settle their rivalry with Raven and Saturn, and Konnan tries to shut Disco Inferno up once and for all in a singles grudge match.
This WCW PPV Review is part of the Wrestling Bios Reliving The War series.
00:00 - Intro
01:13 - Juventud Guerrera vs Blitzkrieg
02:56 - Bam Bam Bigelow vs Hardcore Hak
05:00 - Mikey Whipwreck vs Scotty Riggs
06:26 - Disco Inferno vs Konnan
09:10 - Kidman vs Rey Mysterio
12:06 - Raven & Saturn vs The Horsemen
14:43 - Scott Steiner vs Booker T
17:48 - Kevin Nash vs Goldberg
19:57 - Flair vs Sting vs Hogan vs DDP
26:31 - Final Thoughts / Credits
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Considering Randy Savage gave DDP his first big push, its fitting he got to give him the gold
Man, I applaud the work you put into making Reliving the War. You're the GOAT of this genre. WWE should pay you!!!
You're not lying!
He really is man! His work ethic is next level!
I love wrestling bios but WWE haven't taken down his content so that's a win.
I hands down agree completely
Preach
This has to be the least chaotic PPV from this era of WCW (1999 - 2000).
The super Juvi Driver looked close to being career ending
Dude you ain’t kidding……that didn’t look good
I had to keep rewinding that spot. The strength both of those guys had to prevent it from becoming infamous is unreal.
Juvi, at this time, was known for being stiff with it, too.
"Bam Bam hits Sandman with a trash can" I rewound it five times to chuckle at this.
Other way round but I also enjoyed how that flowed lol
"Sandman smacks Bam Bam with a trash can"
DDP was awesome, great look & great promo cutter. (Intended).
And that’s a good thing!😁
It's a shame he didn't get a better run in the WWE.
BANG
@@hopsonkim4952I only hear that one way. Feel the (cutaway) *BANG*
@@CallumRSU30 What a corny and stupid gimmick that was.
Thanks Vince!
We often forget how good Mikey Whipwreck is for someone who was mostly self trained and trained on the job.
@@michaelsinger4638 That's pretty cool
Which is why he was an awesome "jobber", just like Steve Lombardi and Barry Horowitz.
I hate when people say we instead of I...
@@Former_Employee
Sure, Luke is the only one who forgets 😂
I always had got a,kick out of Heenan calling him Mikey Shipwreck. 🤣
8:28. Jesus Disco, Konnan’s chin can’t take anymore devastating chinlocks. 4 is just punishing the chin
10:20 Kidman's SSP always makes me laugh! You get conditioned to sharp, athletic executions and this one is like 'meh i flipped whatever' 😂 Great review bruddah 💚
No way, it's the three Irish lads who talk bollocks over old wrestling! Fancy seeing you here!
I always love when he does the SSP off the side of the ring!
I can't believe Kidman didn't ruin his knees doing this. Look at how he normally lands it in slo-mo.
It might not look the prettiest but he was accurate
That's why I liked Kidman's SSP, it looked kinda sloppy and he did botch it a few times, but it was raw.
Man, Kidman and Mysterio can always put on some great matches! Kidman was so underrated!
So many matches I tuned out of during my short time watching wrestling. I always loved Mysterio and Kidman.
There were some people who were underrated. I don't remember anyone underrating Kidman.
Reliving the War might be the greatest wrestling series ever. Objectively.
Loving the late Christmas present of two Reliving the War episodes within 2 days
Same here
DDP getting the belt was well deserved, but the fact they waited so long and for DDP to turn heel to do the honors is just so WCW.
There was a good reason they waited so long. Eric Bischoff and DDP were and still are close friends in real life, so Eric was worried that if DDP was given the world title earlier that people would have thought he only got it because he was friends with the boss. However, by this time in 1999, everyone could see that DDP had earned it himself and truly deserved the belt. Perhaps they were overly cautious but it turned out well.
What do you mean by turning heel?
DDP was always the good guy.
@@namikstudios
That's probably somewhat true,
but more so there wasn't room in the championship schedule.
They had actually considered having DDP win at Halloween Havoc, but Goldberg had some TV appearances scheduled which they felt wouldn't make sense without him being champion.
With DDP adding The Tombstone to his move set, got to wonder if that's why Taker singled him out to bury during The Invasion storyline in a few years. 😉😂🤣
No, but it's funny to say/hear it 😂
Scotty Steiner going in to the crowd is a preview of his Ring Ka King days.
The fact that DDP started as a manager and then took bumps at 35 years old is always insane to me.
I am 39 and I wouldn't dare take a bump
Meanwhile Ric Flair trying to die in the ring
Puss...... I'm 38 and people tell me they think I'm no older than 25 all the time. I know not everyone ages the same. But I feel like I'm as fit or more than at 28... but that's just me ..
Same. I'd love to take a bump but I have enough history with bumping accidentally on stairs that I'm Shawn Michaels post-Rumble '98 without having much fun getting myself there.@@user-nd5ud7bh3j
My 35 year old ass takes bumps getting out of bed everyday...
This was the last WCW pay per view I watched during the Monday Night War. Overall I enjoyed it. I was happy to see DDP finally win the big one. The OG people’s champ is WCW champ
WCW Spring Stampede, the last great WCW PPV and one of the best PPVs of the year. I'd have it second only to ECW Anarchy Rulz.
This was the last GOOD PPV WCW had 😅...this was so good I was so surprised! what a great ending + macho man! this was awesome! only if they could've kept this type of quality up things could be much different today 😊
When Randy Orton came into WWE Randy got the RKO from DDP and the Diamond Cutter. Hearing Orton video about how he was looking for finisher move etc when he came in makes me believe he got it from DDP . Both are great finishers and can be pulled off so many ways. Randy took the RKO to whole new level.
A real shame Bret was not on this PPV but a solid offering from WCW overall especially considering the condition of Nitro at the time
WCW failed big time with Bret. They took him from WWF but had no idea what to do with him.
He had been injured for a while, remember?
@@troywright359 Bret had been injured for a bit but he was recovered by this point and had recently had great Nitro matches with Benoit and Booker T. It's a real shame he never got paired-up with Chris Jericho while they overlapped in WCW.
@@briancallaway1690 Bret is one of only nine WCW Triple Crown Champions and did it faster than the other seven who still deserve it (Benoit did it faster but disqualified himself, to say the least...). WCW didn't fail with Bret at all, especially considering how much time off Bret had during his short run there. He was on a break at this time and soon takes even more time off after Owen died, which is totally fair and understandable of course.
This was the pay-per-view where I fell in love with Scott Steiner he was awesome on this night PS this show was better than WrestleMania 15 👊
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year🍻
Same here
Macho's hair tied back and sun glasses give him both protection from high wind speeds and less drag when delivering the elbow drop.
I was at that PPV as a 14 year old. Thanks for doing it justice, even as a wwf fan boy at the time it was a solid event.
Amazing moment for DDP to finally become world heavyweight champion.
Can't wait to see how wcw muck it all up🙄
Lmaoo that’s why I’m here for. I just wanna see how wcw did it, killed their show
They killed it right there at this PPV with that botched ending.
I'm not saying it's that horrible.
But the match should have ended in 1 of 3 ways.
1) DDP pins someone with absolutely no interfere from Macho Man.
2) Macho Man takes out Flair, but DDP Diamond Cuts & pins Sting cleanly.
3) Macho Man takes out Sting, but Page beats Flair clean.
The Heenan and Shovantay exchanges during the Bam Bam vs. Sandman match were phenomenal:
TS: "Don't try this at home!"
BH: "No, try it at someone else's!"
Surprised you didn't make mention at all of Rey cracking his head really hard on the ring steps. Was brutual.
for real!
afterwards rey holds his head and kicked the steps furious two or three times while laying on the floor
Great wcw pay per view
I didn't watch Nitro much back in the day, and I knew that DDP was eventually going to get the belt, but I had no idea Macho Man helped him. It must have been pretty shocking for people in 1999, given their old rivalry.
It was crazy for me.
I wasn't expecting either to happen.
I'll admit that even though I was a big DDP fan, I was not expecting him to win.
I could see how WCW was obsessed with old stars like Hogan.I expected Sting to win.
I had this PPV on video got it for Christmas in 1999 along with the Goldberg /Sting Superstar Series video
The best line from the show is when Tony Schivone says don’t do that in your back yard
Bobby Henan then says do it in your living room it’s more fun , in fact do it in Tony’s living room he won’t notice
DDP peaked in 98. I remember my friend (who was a big WCW fan) telling me that DDP won the belt the next day at school and I just shrugged my shoulders and was like "eh" lol.
He should have beat Goldberg at HH 98
@@reeseangle9621
Totally 👐
TBH, I didn't expect them to have DDP win, so I had to watch the replay of the PPV on Wednesday or whenever they did that.
Only thing that brings down DDP's title win was him being a heel.
The fact WCW didn't keep him as a face for the title win still baffles me
This series is the best thing I have ever seen. Don't stop. I lived and died for late 90's Monday night wars.
Could you imagine the pop if DDP beat Goldberg for the title last year? That would have taken the arena down!
While deserved, I think you're right in that this was the wrong time for DDP to win the title. I think it would have worked better when he turns Face again later.
They should never have tried to make him heel. It was lame. He's the people's champion.
It looks like Konnan and Mysterio are preparing for the No Limit Soldiers. Dark and confusing days are coming.
great video as always. I just saw The Iron Claw today and even knowing the story it was a great but incredibly hard watch. The guy they got to play Ric Flair was pretty entertaining though. Would be really interested in what you think about the film since you do a lot about the history of the business.
It’s literally ALL downhill for WCW after this. It’s the last, objectively quality PPV they put out before shuttering the doors in 2001.
This was probably my favourite and only wcw ppv I ever watched all the way threw apart from at starcade 99 great ppv wcw when done right
Yay!! Every day that a Wrestling Bios video is posted is a phenomenal day!!
This was the first WCW PPV I remember watching and a lot of it has stuck with me since then. This was a fun rewatch, even if some of it has flown over me since it's been so long.
That is just a _banger_ of a remix of Booker T's theme!
Booker T should have been the top of every card! Dude is amazing! The match with Sting, DDP, Hogan, and Flair was awesome to watch on PPV back in the day! One of the few bright spots back in WCW around that time!
The Cruiserweights in WCW were the unsung work-horse warriors! I'm 99% sure this PPV was when fresh-faced 11 year-old me made the switch to watching WWF Raw from there on out.
This was another PPV I begged my parents to buy. The only thing i remember was DDP winning the strap and Konnan saying he was gonna toss Disco's salad....okay lol
And here we are, the last great WCW PPV. Enjoy while you can because the further PPVS are going to be hell. Still though, it's nice to see DDP win the world title here. Well deserved.
I remember reading the review for this show in Powerslam magazine and buying it as soon as it was released on VHS. I've watched this show so many times, its a newsworthy show and one of the last truly great WCW shows. Thanks for reviewing this and letting me relive this show again
I did the same thing! Great PPV
One of the best WCW PPV's that I've ever seen. Crowd was super hot that night.
A decent PPV for WCW in 1999. DDP did made me tear up when he won Big Gold.
1999 will always be a special year for me. This was the first year I became a fan of pro wrestling. I watched wwe for the first time the day after Wrestlemania XV. I would then tune into WCW Thunder occasionally due to raw being on Mondays. Long story short, this was the very first WCW ppv that I got to watch and seeing DDP become heavyweight champ that night made me become a fan of WCW afterwards as well as WWE. Watching this brings back so many memories and I believe that even though WCW was a sinking ship at this point Spring Stampede 1999 was an underrated Gem in the Monday Night Wars. Thank you for the memories of this night and keep up the good work. You sir are truly a treasure to us pro wrestling fans!
I can't wait for the april 26th nitro review. Its my all time favorite episode.
Commented earlier at the start of video now after watching, totally agree! Having been in attendance as a teenager, this show really was WCW at its best. No promos or cut aways, all the story telling was done in the ring!!!
Thanks for the late Christmas present.
WCW had the best looking and sounding rings
I've been doing a WCW Watch myself (Currently up to Feb 2000 after starting 95) and after this PPV is where the quality of the product goes south very very fast.
It is awesome seeing DDP get his moment though, its such a shame that we couldn't get to enjoy babyface DDP as a champ for a month instead we have the company turn him heel asap.
Best wrestling content on youtube. The confidence you have in yourself to laugh and make jokes at crazy wcw stuff has improved a lot over time! Great job man!
Man Booker holding Steiner up in that suspended suplex was IMPRESSIVE 😮
It’s exciting to realize we just hit the top of the loop on the WCW roller coaster, and that it’s all going to be a crazy, cringeworthy, non-stop disaster from here on out 😂
just when i was looking for something to watch while i eat, this gets posted, its gonna be a good day
8 Chin Locks this PPV.
The most Chin Locks in any PPV in over a year out of both companies.
Being part of the Wolfpack allowed Disco Inferno to let his inner savage out. Good God 4 chin locks in one match. Step aside Wood from the hood. A new greatest icon in wrestling is coming along
Probably the best WCW PPV of 99
"Sandman smacks Bam-Bam with a Trash Can." 🤣🤣
Hope you had a great Christmas dude :)
F YESSS!!! Merry Christmas and Happy holidays indeed!! Thank you so much for this!! You either take time to work through the holidays or set it up a head of time to entertain us. Best wrestling show EVER.. PERIOD!! I genuinely love and appreciate your content and YOU!! Thank you dude... Thank you!! 👍
That intro using Booker T theme is 🔥🔥🔥
That remix of Booker Ts theme at the beginning is LIT !
This Rey Kidman match was a fuggin good one for real
My first WCW PPV i ever saw. Bought a pre-owned VHS from Blockbuster Video.
5:31 THAT WAS AWSOME
Every time I see a new video uploaded I say you want a war? you gonna get one!
Scotty Riggs doing Rick Rude seems weird since 9 days later Rick Rude died.
Really sort of a shame they turned DDP heel before the win. Him getting the win as people's champ would have blown the roof off the place. Also shame Hogan got injured guess that is what caused the Flair heel turn and Goldberg never getting his final revenge. Although they could have gone quicker about it.
These videos are like comfort food. Love the vibe.
"BAMBAM hits Sandman with a trash can" i spat my Spicy and Coke at that one 😂
I'd like to see you do a limited series on the Thursday Night War , maybe the best 8 episodes
Are there 8 good episodes of Thunder?
@@AttackoftheJoe lol!
The last match actually made all the sense in the world tbh savage had beef with page early in their time at wcw but since he's fell out with all his old "friends" flair Hogan Sting ect😂that elbow drop, kicking sting hand off the rope was all absolutely great
WCW we’re the kings of “Jobber PPV matches”
I swear, this channel has become my favorite one to watch. I am always looking forward to the new episodes.
You said something very important to me at the beginning of the video and that’s form your own opinion on this show. And that’s something I feel I want to do on these last few years of WCW. I’m unfamiliar with the going ons of WCW in these final years because we mostly started watching WWF only at my house by this time. I know the general consensus on this time period of WCW is it slowly goes downhill but I feel like I want to experience that for myself for better or worse and form my own opinion on this era of WCW. That way I have my own personal opinion.
WCW was...um...
lightning in a bottle
that was dropped and lost
Disco inferno just put on match of the year with those chinlocks
Best late Christmas present a wrestling bios reliving the war ppv video life is great
Considered by many to be WCW's last great overall PPV. Also the first WCW ppv not named WCW/NWO since 1996 if u get what I mean
Wcw never had a PLE stop that
It's been gone for so long don't try to rewrite it
this wasn't a premium live event... just call it a PPV
There’s no such things as a “WCW PLE”. They are PPVs.
It’s amazing how well WWE has brainwashed some of you. lol.
Actually wcw didn't start branding there ppvs wcw/nwo until 1998
Sandman hits Bambam with a trashcan...pure poetry y man, pure poetry
2:15 that there's the Spaceman Quebrada, to my knowledge only Taka Michinoku had been using it with any regularity in the late 90''s (and mostly in Japan) so it was darn impressive to see Blitz pull it off.
The return of the original Disco Inferno intro music! Love it!
I get that the WWF's crash TV and swearing, boobies and violence drew in the viewers, and I also get that storylines etc. hook viewers, but I didn't mind competitive programs like Mysterio vs Kidman just for the conceit of it. At times, WCW still felt like a sporting event, and I think that's why I still preferred it and stuck it out through the end.
WCW forgot what brought it to the dance when it began copying the WWF's crash tv and ESPECIALLY when they brought Russo in. The presentation needed to remain sports-based in comparison to the WWF. Southern wrasslin.
WCW mainly forgot to evolve.
They focused on Hogan for too long.
WCW was desperate at the end.
Surprised Nash didn't blow a quad doing that leap frog. Lol
Widely regarded as the last good WCW ppv ever
19:37 Geez Goldberg almost lost his grip there in the Jackhammer that was close 😐
I’m so hype for this! Happy holidays WB!
This is the last of 3 WCW PPVs I paid for during the golden era of the Monday Night Wars. I was diehard WCW (Still am) but I had to work this night so I paid this chick I was friendly with in HS to record this for me. I watched later that night. Happy to see DDP get the win finally. The other 2 PPVs I bought were Halloween Havoc 98 and Starrcade 98. I picked arguably the 3 most infamous shows outside of Bash 96 and Starrcade 97 .
Funny thing is, I didn't expect DDP to win and didn't pay to watch this that Sunday. So I had to get the reairring on Wednesday.
However, I did watch Spring Stampede 2000 thinking DDP would beat Jarrett. Go figure. 😂
Thank you for the Michael Cole call-out with his "vintage" commentary. That and the shaky cam with rapid zoom ins is what's stopping from watcing Raw and Smackdown.
I remember watching this live and both loving and hating that DDP got the title, even then you knew it was too late.
Why would there be any hate?
He deserved it.
It should have been sooner,
and without that Macho Man BS;
but at the end of the day
it's still better than most wrestlers get.
@@CurlyFromTheSwirly because they pulled the trigger way too late and everyone knew it, I loved watching DDP grow as a performer from his Diamond Doll and Max Muscle days and this was such a loss because we didnt get the proper top babyface championship run he should have gotten. I love that he's a world champ but hate it came too damn late.
@TC-iw5lg ,
Agreed, but it was more of too late for WCW than for DDP. WCW probably would have been smarter to have DDP win in the summer of 98 and Goldberg start his championship later.
As people have stated, Goldberg vs Hogan at Starcade would have been a big money making event; but let's get back to DDP. In 1998, DDP was the star of WCW, but the company didn't realize it.
Even having DDP win at Halloween Havoc would have been better than what they did. WCW actually considered having DDP win, but because Goldberg had some TV appearances coming up they felt he needed to keep the belt or it wouldn't look as good.
I have no problem with DDP waiting till 99 for the belt as far as for his time. As I said, that was about WCW becoming a mess.
1999 should have never had that finger poke BS and nWo reunification garbage.
The main problem with that was WCW was then focusing on old stars, mainly Hogan and secondly Flair. When what they needed to do was build new stars. (Which WWF was doing.)
But even with that mess up, they should have had Hogan loss to Flair sooner, then Flair to DDP without Macho interfering. He should have kept it longer than a month, and therr was no need for Sting to win the belt for 90 minutes.
After that, someone again new like Raven could take the belt from DDP by cheating. Having the flock or some of them come help would be great. Then Saturn beats Raven, and DDP helps to settle the score. Sting would beat Saturn and eventually we cycle back to Goldberg getting the bell back from Sting.
But WCW had no plan or vision other than Hogan.
You got a subscriber. Six years late but here I be. Great stuff
Nice remix/mashup of Booker T's WWE and TNA theme songs😂
The last WCW PPV I watched.
That super juvi driver looked a lil botchy too👀👀
I totally forgot you were putting this out today! Awesome!
Happy Holidays, Brothers! This will definitely work for me and my 20 inch pythons!
I really enjoyed this PPV first time watching, I've been trying to watch the PPVs before the review. Good times!