And just when I thought zero stars was the lowest of the low, Van Hammer broke Brian so badly that he had to introduce negative stars into his rating system. Wow.
Van Hammer is the anti-Kenny Omega. Kenny is so good that he's caused Meltzer to break his rating system multiple times, in the right way. Van Hammer is so bad he caused Brian to break his rating system in the wrong way. Maybe we need to nominate those Omega/Okada classics to help Brian wash that taste out?
I remember Brian saying "I'll never do 0 stars" or "I'll never go negative stars" Bash at the Beach 2000 & Halloween Havoc 1991 really pushing boundaries.
Check out that computer Alexandra York is carrying. Yes, it's a 386 with a 20 meg hard drive! How could Taylor lose with all that computing power behind him?
5:07- do you know why Scott didn't give him his half of the talisman? Because Scott only had one half of a talisman. But if you add that with his teammates 1/8 of a talisman and then multiply that by the 55% chance that the match would be bad then you got x+7=y percent chance that the talisman would be blue. And a blue talisman has a 4 and 3/2 chance of turning out to not work at all.
@@Osterergerbanta Kurt Angle's chances of winning drastic go down if you add Scott being a Genetic Freak, Samoa Joe's fat ass and Scott's freaks and peaks into equation. And if you multiply the Steiner Recliner and 1/2 of the Steiner Flatliner by 2/3 chances of winning added to Joe's 9,001 calories he ate today and Kurt knowing he can't beat Big Poppa Pump divided by Scott's ability to satisfy any freak at the square root of 69 means Scott doesn't have to give his half of the talisman. Holla if ya hear that!
5:26 They lined the ring with blasting powder to create a controlled fire when sparks shot out of the electric chair at the end of the Chamber of Horrors match. Every wrestler who hit the mat got covered in it. Not only is covering the ring in powder a general danger for anyone trying to wrestle, but it also means Abdullah's back was covered in flammable material while he was getting pelted with sparks. Between that and Van Hammer's performance, it's a miracle no one got hurt.
The best thing about the secret identity of the Halloween Phantom is, during the replay Schiavone flat-out calls the neckbreaker the Rude Awakening. Long before the big reveal later in the show. "That move looks a lot like, if I can say this Jim, the Rude Awakening." 😂
Brian “we all know who it is it’s so obvious!” Me who has never seen this PPV “umm yeah?!” Brian “the mask hides nothing we all know who it is!” Me “yep so... obvious” Brian “It’s Rick Rude!” Me “yeah... I knew that”
Say what you want about Cornett nowadays, but he always said it wasn't Russo who killed WCW. That 'honor' goes to Jim herd and after getting to see some of herd's extravagant booking I'm inclined to agree that he truly did set the company back years.
@@elijahechicagobearsboyd5734 ..... And still nobody talks about the insanity of Bischoff's contracts. That's a HUGE blackmark that made WCW Bleed all thje money
@NightRanger71379 You don't even need the Network, the home video version is uploaded on UA-cam. It's pretty bad, but not quite as bad as Chamber of Horrors.
@@enigmaskull3495 the zero star rating made its debut during the Stacy Keibler vs Daphne Wedding Gown Match at that PPV lol. It was well deserved too but now that Brian feels good with giving out negative stars he needs to revisit that match & give it the negative five star rating it truly deserves lol
Arlo Pear I think Brian reserves negative star rankings for purely unentertaining dangerous matches With guys who don’t look like they were trained The Wedding gown match was trash, but they knew they were doing trash. They didn’t botch 3 out of 5 of their moves and almost kill each other.
Shuckey duckey The Funky Homosapien Also, I didn’t beg for likes anywhere. I got likes, maybe because I sent him a box of cereal for one of his reviews, maybe because I was early on the video. Maybe because you’re a miserable piece of shit, the world will never know.
Van Hammer being in the Misfits in Action reminds me of a funny anecdote of him having his “rank” in MIA changed from “Private Stash” to “Major Stash” because he didn’t like being a private.
From what I can find, the Chamber of Horrors match was supposed to be Gigante, Sting, and the Steiners vs. Diamond Stud, Windham, One Man Gang, and Oz (lol.) Why Windham was on the heel side, I don't know. What that means is that there were four changes to the card, three of them coming from ONE MATCH.
From what I remember, Barry was booked on the heel team because the match was setup before his face turn. I remember Barry doing a promo trying to explain why he was on the heel team on an episode of Saturday night.
My Nightmare Chamber of Horrors match: - Van Hammer - Sin Cara (2011-2015) - Victory Road Jeff Hardy - Heroes of Wrestling Jake Roberts - The Renegade - Zeus/Z-Gangsta - Nathan Jones - Giant Gonzalez/The Great Khali
Not covered: the promotion for this show being almost exclusively focused on Elvira, Mistress of the Dark , who never actually appeared. I guess Windham was still a heel when they announced the Chamber match, hence the confusion on who was replacing who.
How early was the announcement, because he pretty much was a face shortly around the end of July 1991 when Luger turned heel after winning the vacant World title from him at _The Great American Bash?_ 🤔
Welcome to Jim Herd's WCW. Get on your knees and kiss the boots of Eric Bischoff, because Herd came dangerously close to killing WCW in this era by just simply being the worst promoter maybe ever. I have never seen anyone say a good word about him, and almost all his decisions were the most blunderheaded imaginable. Just a fucking moron on a monumental scale
WWF(E) was the only company that didn't have that rule. The AWA used to have a rule banning guys from jumping off the top rope, so everyone did their stuff from the middle one.
I’m surprised Teddy Long didn’t tell Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin, “Hold on Free Birds, your match against Johnny B. Bad is now...a tag team match playa!”
The "Refer-Eye Cam" was some groundbreaking, revolutionizing stuff. Helped begin and popularize a generation of all kinds of POV videos. Which? Ill leave that to your imagination.
In order to avoid breaking ratings, when it comes to bad matches I like using a special "Jenna/Sharmell" rating scale. I like to think it's unbreakable: 1) boring 2) bad 3) so bad it's good 4) so bad it's horrible 5) why did anybody think this was a good idea? (or Jenna vs Sharmell bad)
i want to say to that it was probably dust from the rigging, to get the chair to descend. They likely assembled the ring first, converted the arena seating, then put the chair in place, assembled the cage around it and then hoisted the chair up. Then probably just never cleaned the ring. (this is the same company that famously couldn't find mop buckets in a major fucking arena a few years later afterall). All that walking in the rafters to set the rigging probably knocked down a decades worth of dust, flaking paint, and oxydized iron down onto the mat.
I was born in '79 I can't help it......... I ❤️ early '90's WCW Barry Windham was great!!!!!!! Hey......... Abdullah was good!!!! He's not for everyone. His Japan stuff is awesome!
Rassslin' Rantin' I like all of Bryan's Wrestling With Wregrets, I never said anything negative about anyone. For the record I said I ❤️ early '90's WCW ( I lived it) I like Abdullah tons, I've sent like all his Japan stuff & it's awesome, & I ❤️ Barry Windham. I have ZERO problem with anything, just for the record.😀
WCW had the gall to include the Chamber of Horrors match on their Best of Halloween Havoc VHS tape from 1998, and because every match was edited to fit an hour-long tape, they cut out the post-match angle where Abdullah the Butcher comes back to life and attacks everyone. Abdullah "dies" on the tape, and then straight away to the next segment! Great work
@@freakfoxvevo7915 I believe it had Hogan/Piper at the very end. The tape came out in 1998 before that year's PPV, so no Hogan/Warrior, but the awful War Games match they were in that year WAS on the Best of Fall Brawl VHS (mercifully edited down, but none of the Warrior's involvement was cut)
I just looked up the original lineup for the PPV, The heel team for Chamber of Horrors was originally Oz, Diamond Studd, One Man Gang, and Barry Windham. So a LOT must have changed from when they first announced the match.
Originally, the match was supposed to feature El Gigante, Sting, and the Steiner Brothers against Oz, the Diamond Studd, the One Man Gang, and Barry Windham. Cactus replaced Oz, Big Van Vader replaced Windham, and Abdullah replaced Gang. During the pre-show, Barry Windham was attacked by Arn Anderson and Larry Zbyszko and suffered a broken hand when they slammed his hand in a car door. One Man Gang was scheduled to take part in this match, but left WCW before the show.
I just thought that around a month after this show I would be watching the undertaker beat hulk hogan for the WWF championship at survivor series 1991. No wonder I didn’t watch WCW around that time.
I remember reading about the chamber of horrors Highlights in a wcw magazine when I was a kid ... to this day.. this is my favorite wcw PPV.... I rented this one a lot on vhs
Some matches was cool.... I was fascinated by the Ron Simmons vs Luger match, , jimmy garvin vs Johnny b badd,, terry talor vs Richard Morton.... 9 year old me was like .. this PPV was fun ... the rest of the card was meh
Who had the best bad entrance? The Dynamic Dudes walking out carrying skateboards and never riding them or Van Hammer carrying a guitar and never playing it?
Around the time Van Hammer was shitting the bed Lonnie Smith was forgetting how to run the bases and costing the Braves game 7 of the World Series...I can forgive Lonnie...fuck Van Hammer though
I love how there was a sword in the ring and nobody bothered to even use it 😂🤣😂you’d think whoever is wielding the sword basically has control over the match lmao
I'm glad you mentioned the set, a completely underrated set. Especially because it came in the early 90's where entrance sets weren't treated as a huge deal.
He mentioned how horrible & chintzy it looked. Wow. Just wow. You heard him mention 'the set' & you appear to recognize those two words but I guess that's it? Jeez...
@@caeert2962 Well wth, bro? Ya gotta know someone is just gonna call ya out & be an annoying asshole about it- this is a UA-cam comment section, after all! 😝 I'm just fuckin with ya. Have a good one, man.
Jack saw Abby in the chair. Unfortunately for Abby, he ate the last chicken nugget on their way to the arena and that's just not something Cactus could forgive.
Hard agree with the Van Hammer rating, every wrestler ever has had bad matches but having a dangerous match is far worse he fucked up nearly all his moves, was incredibly unsafe and it was very negligent by WCW to allow this match to happen, I hope at the very least he got reamed out backstage. I think negative stars should only be reserved for matches like this when the workers are in danger, because bad matches are just that, bad but not detrimental to a career.
On the preshow, they said Cactus was replacing Barry because Larry crunched his hand in a car door before the show. So even more fucked up lol, we can presume Barry was on the heel team??
December 1991, I was 9 years, my family went to eat at a buffet restaurant and we ran into this dude that my dad worked with at the time, called Rodeo. I cant remember the reason, but in his car he had a VHS tape that had Halloween Havoc, Survivor Series and Tuesday in Texas on it. Since he knew I was a wrestling fan, he gave me the tape. (And I think also one that had SummerSlam and something else on it. Maybe Mania 8.) So I watched this show a billion times in my lifetime, roughly. So thank you for this, and Im only 30 seconds into your video. Hitting subscribe now.
Blimey WCW was bad in 1991. I’ve seen your review of the great American bash and superbrawl. Those shows were bad. This is bad. I’m noticing a trend........... Edit: I’m glad you’re finally giving negative star ratings. Unfortunately some matches justify that. I think that if the negative rating was around on the review of WM9 the undertaker v giant Gonzales match would have got one!!
WCW after Crockett sold really started to get bad the had their moments but man did they hot shot a lot stuff and treated their talent like crap most of the time
Michael Rivera definitely. Flair was the most high profile departure from WCW but as you said there was quite a few. Jim herd taking over had to be one of the worst decisions they ever made.
3 sittings across 3 days... That sounds like me trying to get through Thor the Dark World, except I was never able to finish it... just kept falling asleep.
This is one of the best reviews ever. And the fooking Van Hammer match! I am very surprised Doug Sommers didn't get hurt in that. Excellent review, had me laughing and relating to your feelings on it Brian lol.
I MISSED THIS VIDEO SO MUCH! This is one of my favourites PPV reviews I'm still shocked after all these years about Van Hammer's match, considering they kept him in Raven's Flock and Misfits in Action
Several matches in the Classic PPV Review segment have received zero or negative star ratings, but only three have received the infamous -5 ⭐️ rating (Jenna Morasca vs. Sharmell at TNA Victory Road 2009, the 'Miss WrestleMania' 25-Diva Battle Royal at WrestleMania 25 and Tyson Tomko vs. Stevie Richards at Vengeance 2004).
After seeing the Legends of The Hidden Temple reference, I can't decide which of the following I want to see more: 1. Scott Steiner as a contestant on Legends of The Hidden Temple. 2. Scott Steiner hosting Legends of the Hidden Temple. 3. Scott Steiner replacing Olmec on Legends of the Hidden Temple.
18:07 “it’s like watching two water heaters trying to dance” give me a million years and I still wouldn’t be able to think of something that funny
It's right up there with JR's "bowling shoe ugly" to me
Yeah that was hilarious
Personally, I prefer "The Flying Fat Fuck"
Bro,that line had me laughing hard.
And just when I thought zero stars was the lowest of the low, Van Hammer broke Brian so badly that he had to introduce negative stars into his rating system. Wow.
Hammers opponent looks like Jake the Snake on a bad day.
Van Hammer is the anti-Kenny Omega. Kenny is so good that he's caused Meltzer to break his rating system multiple times, in the right way. Van Hammer is so bad he caused Brian to break his rating system in the wrong way.
Maybe we need to nominate those Omega/Okada classics to help Brian wash that taste out?
Congrats to Brian for the restraint of not going minus stars until now.
Meltzer has 0 credibility
Van Hammer will do that to you.
I remember Brian saying "I'll never do 0 stars" or "I'll never go negative stars"
Bash at the Beach 2000 & Halloween Havoc 1991 really pushing boundaries.
I'd like to think of it as those shows broke him.
Things can't change? They need to stay the same forever?
what will it take for him to go... MINUS FIVE-STARS!!!!!!!!
@@thevoid99 Probably Victory Road 2009
Crash McCloud That was neither said nor implied
After seeing Brian rant on Van Hammer, I can understand why Eric Bischoff gets legit furious whenever Van Hammer is mentioned on his podcast
A terrible wrestler and worse human is Van Hammer after injuring a kid in a hit-and-run.
@@Insomniaaron3 months later, I know, but EXCUSE ME?!?!?
@@alexmendez4606 Yep. I know right? Van Hammer useless as both a wrestler and as a person.
I don't know to much about Hammer outside of the ring and why he has more go away heat than X-Pac at this point
I love how Brian went from “no zero stars” to zero stars and now from “no negative stars” to negative stars and all thanks to WCW!
That was back when the channel was called Wrestling Without Wregret.
Check out that computer Alexandra York is carrying. Yes, it's a 386 with a 20 meg hard drive! How could Taylor lose with all that computing power behind him?
John Volken That’s the joke..
Because he forgot how to be the rooster.
Linus “Tech Tips” Sebastian should have water cooled Alexandra York’s computer :P
I was too busy checking out Alexandra York.
@@bendowdy2438 Terri Runnels one of the absolute most sexiest divas ever
5:07- do you know why Scott didn't give him his half of the talisman? Because Scott only had one half of a talisman. But if you add that with his teammates 1/8 of a talisman and then multiply that by the 55% chance that the match would be bad then you got x+7=y percent chance that the talisman would be blue. And a blue talisman has a 4 and 3/2 chance of turning out to not work at all.
Where dpes Kurt Angle fits here?
@@Osterergerbanta Kurt Angle's chances of winning drastic go down if you add Scott being a Genetic Freak, Samoa Joe's fat ass and Scott's freaks and peaks into equation. And if you multiply the Steiner Recliner and 1/2 of the Steiner Flatliner by 2/3 chances of winning added to Joe's 9,001 calories he ate today and Kurt knowing he can't beat Big Poppa Pump divided by Scott's ability to satisfy any freak at the square root of 69 means Scott doesn't have to give his half of the talisman. Holla if ya hear that!
The numbers don’t lie.
(Scott) Steiner match = a 5 (golden) Star(s) (Uncle) Dave Meltzer match (rating)
That math checks out
Glad to see "If you're some Karate" is well on it's way to being the next she's a stunt granny
It's Karratayyyyyy
She’s some Karate Stunt Granny.
I bursted out laughing at that
Bro, why does it say 2 days ago
21:35
Sting's belt went flying at 4:20. It didnt want anything to do with this match either 😄
😂
When the props want nothing to do with a match u no u gone fkd up
@@saxonjedi5878
😂
Ayyyy 420
When WWE is bad, it's BAD.
When WCW was bad, it was a waterfall of diarrhea.
Who booked this shit?
When WWE is bad, it's boring as fuck. Bad WCW was still a blast to watch.
@@justinorel6592 totally agree it's like watching a train crash and you can't look away
It's kinda like eating sugar free haribo gummy bears
@@drew_on_drums yuck
5:26
They lined the ring with blasting powder to create a controlled fire when sparks shot out of the electric chair at the end of the Chamber of Horrors match. Every wrestler who hit the mat got covered in it. Not only is covering the ring in powder a general danger for anyone trying to wrestle, but it also means Abdullah's back was covered in flammable material while he was getting pelted with sparks. Between that and Van Hammer's performance, it's a miracle no one got hurt.
Or hepatitis from Abdullah
The best thing about the secret identity of the Halloween Phantom is, during the replay Schiavone flat-out calls the neckbreaker the Rude Awakening. Long before the big reveal later in the show. "That move looks a lot like, if I can say this Jim, the Rude Awakening." 😂
Chamber of Horrors: The definition of so bad it's good
Lana/Lashley Wedding has entered the chat
Dungeon of Doom has entered the chat
Feels more like it’s just so bad it’s bad.
@@twill5626 Yes. It's like when milk goes bad in the right way, you'll get cheese, but here it's become a mould ridden liquid mess.
I think Mae Young should give this match a hand.
Rick Rude had a phenomenal physique.
JR's "yeah whatever" when they're talking about the Refer-eye cam is absolutely hilarious
Brian “we all know who it is it’s so obvious!”
Me who has never seen this PPV “umm yeah?!”
Brian “the mask hides nothing we all know who it is!”
Me “yep so... obvious”
Brian “It’s Rick Rude!”
Me “yeah... I knew that”
Lol same like damn. But then when I saw it, yeah it was obvious just by the build lol.
I don't believe you said those things out loud to your screen.
Brian Zane going in on Van Hammer......PRICELESS!!!!
Just 5 years earlier Doug was teaming with Buddy Rose in a memorable feud with The Rockers.
And this was about six years before Vince Russo ever entered a booking committee meeting
Say what you want about Cornett nowadays, but he always said it wasn't Russo who killed WCW. That 'honor' goes to Jim herd and after getting to see some of herd's extravagant booking I'm inclined to agree that he truly did set the company back years.
@@elijahechicagobearsboyd5734 ..... And still nobody talks about the insanity of Bischoff's contracts. That's a HUGE blackmark that made WCW Bleed all thje money
Russo didn't kill WCW. He just pulled the plug, threw the body out the window, pissed on it and set it on fire.
The Chamber of Horrors match should get that added half-star for a Legends of the Hidden Temple reference.
WCW 91 just broke Brian Zane, so what just another romantic wrestling comedy going to do to him again. God have mercy on Brian Zane.
WCW 1991 was so cartoony, I thought I was watching something from 1995.
I want to see him do Havoc 93, just for the Vader/Jack match.
@NightRanger71379 is starrcade from that year that bad?
@NightRanger71379 You don't even need the Network, the home video version is uploaded on UA-cam.
It's pretty bad, but not quite as bad as Chamber of Horrors.
Well folks, we have officially broken the negative star barrier! We've come a long way from a half star being the worst rating possible!
You mean the zero star rating was the worst
@@jaycerrito3142 Originally a half star was the worst, until Bash at the Beach 2000
Christian Kallio And two matches got the zero star rating in Bash at the Beach 2000
@@enigmaskull3495 the zero star rating made its debut during the Stacy Keibler vs Daphne Wedding Gown Match at that PPV lol. It was well deserved too but now that Brian feels good with giving out negative stars he needs to revisit that match & give it the negative five star rating it truly deserves lol
Arlo Pear I think Brian reserves negative star rankings for purely unentertaining dangerous matches
With guys who don’t look like they were trained
The Wedding gown match was trash, but they knew they were doing trash.
They didn’t botch 3 out of 5 of their moves and almost kill each other.
21:10 - 21:15
"Undertaker just threw Mankind off of the Cell from Hell or..."
"Hell in a Cell or whatever we call it."
Hard to believe that almost 30 years after this PPV, Dustin is still wrestling and looking as good as ever. The ageless wonder he is.
Im glad AEW lets him be Dustin
Yeah, and not only that - had one of the best matches of his entire career.
@@Bertaut The best match of his career. I don't think anything comes close.
Barry Windham still occasionally wrestles
Looking as good as ever? Word?
I’m early enough to get a heart from Brian...... Also I sent you cereal, so you kind of owe me this.
Thanks Zane man!
Shuckey duckey The Funky Homosapien bro it’s a joke. Do you seriously go about life this way?
Shuckey duckey The Funky Homosapien Also, I didn’t beg for likes anywhere. I got likes, maybe because I sent him a box of cereal for one of his reviews, maybe because I was early on the video. Maybe because you’re a miserable piece of shit, the world will never know.
@@shuckeyduckeythefunkyhomos6166 lmao go fuck yourself
@@robcolone8546 what kind of cereal was it buddy ?
Van Hammer being in the Misfits in Action reminds me of a funny anecdote of him having his “rank” in MIA changed from “Private Stash” to “Major Stash” because he didn’t like being a private.
FYI, Van Hammer is currently in jail for drunkenly hitting a kid while driving.
To be fair... who in Palm Beach, Florida doesn't have at least one DUI charge?
Holy shit I'm actually not surprise
Van Hammered
@@MCLogikILL Rimshot
No way what
Popped when I saw you on NWA Circle Squared
Oh shoot!
Once I finish getting caught up on wrestling I’m definitely watch nwa
From what I can find, the Chamber of Horrors match was supposed to be Gigante, Sting, and the Steiners vs. Diamond Stud, Windham, One Man Gang, and Oz (lol.) Why Windham was on the heel side, I don't know.
What that means is that there were four changes to the card, three of them coming from ONE MATCH.
From what I remember, Barry was booked on the heel team because the match was setup before his face turn. I remember Barry doing a promo trying to explain why he was on the heel team on an episode of Saturday night.
My Nightmare Chamber of Horrors match:
- Van Hammer
- Sin Cara (2011-2015)
- Victory Road Jeff Hardy
- Heroes of Wrestling Jake Roberts
- The Renegade
- Zeus/Z-Gangsta
- Nathan Jones
- Giant Gonzalez/The Great Khali
Not covered: the promotion for this show being almost exclusively focused on Elvira, Mistress of the Dark , who never actually appeared.
I guess Windham was still a heel when they announced the Chamber match, hence the confusion on who was replacing who.
How early was the announcement, because he pretty much was a face shortly around the end of July 1991 when Luger turned heel after winning the vacant World title from him at _The Great American Bash?_ 🤔
Elvira was supposed to be there but didn't appear that makes this show even worst
Loved the Legends of The Hidden Temple reference
The opening to the PPV is absolutely great to be fair, the whole graveyard theme and everything was great, not as good as 1989 but still great
That's what I miss about WWE the PPV themes thank God AEW is doing it
Michael Rivera not really Revolution was the same stage as the last ppv
First PPV my parents ordered for me. I watched it a million times and sadly it was my template for what pro wrestling was for many years.
Poor guy
The Luger grunts. You've been watching OSW Review haven't you Brian?🤔😉
Getting DQ'd for throwing someone over the top rope is a really weird rule.
Welcome to Jim Herd's WCW. Get on your knees and kiss the boots of Eric Bischoff, because Herd came dangerously close to killing WCW in this era by just simply being the worst promoter maybe ever. I have never seen anyone say a good word about him, and almost all his decisions were the most blunderheaded imaginable. Just a fucking moron on a monumental scale
WWF(E) was the only company that didn't have that rule. The AWA used to have a rule banning guys from jumping off the top rope, so everyone did their stuff from the middle one.
Did they just not have any kind of Battle Royals around this time or what?
A great setup for many BS finishes.
@@jcace13 they did, but they were on special occasions.
I’m surprised Teddy Long didn’t tell Michael Hayes and Jimmy Garvin, “Hold on Free Birds, your match against Johnny B. Bad is now...a tag team match playa!”
Boo
And then your gunna go one on one, with da undatakah.
Holland Holla Holla
Godamit teddy long😅😅
@@sjfletch123 😂😂😂😂
@@Ulikecookies no boo you for being lame
Y’all going one on one wit da Undatakah!
"It's not October, but I feel like making my channel spooky once in a while" that comment alone gets a like from me.
Thank God you explained it. We were all wondering.
@@kujo62 who even are you?
@@ScottySchweggs just some random asshole :)
Leave it to Van Hammer to finally break the WwW rating scale. He musta mistook it for a kid on a bike, he smashed it so hard...
😬 got em
HE GOTTA BAHCYCLE!
WCW review! This will be good😁
Epic crossover!!
P.N News is still living large off those WCW cheques..never had to work a day in his life after his career
The referee wearing that "refer-eye" helmet makes it look like he has "special needs."
Well, it's Nick Patrick, so draw your own conclusions.
Referee outfit does turn your body to glass. (barring that one NXT ref) So safety equipment would help them.
The "Refer-Eye Cam" was some groundbreaking, revolutionizing stuff. Helped begin and popularize a generation of all kinds of POV videos. Which? Ill leave that to your imagination.
In order to avoid breaking ratings, when it comes to bad matches I like using a special "Jenna/Sharmell" rating scale. I like to think it's unbreakable:
1) boring
2) bad
3) so bad it's good
4) so bad it's horrible
5) why did anybody think this was a good idea? (or Jenna vs Sharmell bad)
JR is right, there's no reason you'd bring in Steve Avery to pitch B9.
The “dirt” on them in the cage is from the uncleaned, unpainted iron. It just smears on your hands, etc. WCW in 91... classy all the way.
i want to say to that it was probably dust from the rigging, to get the chair to descend. They likely assembled the ring first, converted the arena seating, then put the chair in place, assembled the cage around it and then hoisted the chair up. Then probably just never cleaned the ring. (this is the same company that famously couldn't find mop buckets in a major fucking arena a few years later afterall). All that walking in the rafters to set the rigging probably knocked down a decades worth of dust, flaking paint, and oxydized iron down onto the mat.
Has this been edited? I remember hearing the PN News rap and seeing Abby kicking that stage hand in the head.
2021: Refer-eye cam with a fish-eye lens that lone referee Nick Patrick wears in nWo Saudi Soul’d Out Super Showdown :P
I was born in '79 I can't help it......... I ❤️ early '90's WCW
Barry Windham was great!!!!!!!
Hey......... Abdullah was good!!!! He's not for everyone. His Japan stuff is awesome!
Rassslin' Rantin' I like all of Bryan's Wrestling With Wregrets, I never said anything negative about anyone. For the record I said I ❤️ early '90's WCW ( I lived it) I like Abdullah tons, I've sent like all his Japan stuff & it's awesome, & I ❤️ Barry Windham. I have ZERO problem with anything, just for the record.😀
4:18 Even the belt is trying to get away from this mess.
WCW had the gall to include the Chamber of Horrors match on their Best of Halloween Havoc VHS tape from 1998, and because every match was edited to fit an hour-long tape, they cut out the post-match angle where Abdullah the Butcher comes back to life and attacks everyone. Abdullah "dies" on the tape, and then straight away to the next segment! Great work
Does that tape also include the other 2 infamous HH matches (Hogan vs Roddy Piper in the cage and the Hogan v. Warrior rematch)?
@@freakfoxvevo7915 I believe it had Hogan/Piper at the very end. The tape came out in 1998 before that year's PPV, so no Hogan/Warrior, but the awful War Games match they were in that year WAS on the Best of Fall Brawl VHS (mercifully edited down, but none of the Warrior's involvement was cut)
I'm gonna have nightmares about that slingshot suplex.
Yikes.
I just looked up the original lineup for the PPV, The heel team for Chamber of Horrors was originally Oz, Diamond Studd, One Man Gang, and Barry Windham. So a LOT must have changed from when they first announced the match.
Originally, the match was supposed to feature El Gigante, Sting, and the Steiner Brothers against Oz, the Diamond Studd, the One Man Gang, and Barry Windham. Cactus replaced Oz, Big Van Vader replaced Windham, and Abdullah replaced Gang. During the pre-show, Barry Windham was attacked by Arn Anderson and Larry Zbyszko and suffered a broken hand when they slammed his hand in a car door. One Man Gang was scheduled to take part in this match, but left WCW before the show.
I just thought that around a month after this show I would be watching the undertaker beat hulk hogan for the WWF championship at survivor series 1991. No wonder I didn’t watch WCW around that time.
The Chamber of Horrors cage looks cool. The match itself is just stupid.
it had potential. making Abby take the chair, boo!
It’s good in concept but terrible in execution like the Kennel from Hell
@@enigmaskull3495I was thinking the same thing
That’s where they got the idea for the elimination chamber
@Captain Brandon Horror Lover the dungeon of doom match
I remember reading about the chamber of horrors Highlights in a wcw magazine when I was a kid ... to this day.. this is my favorite wcw PPV.... I rented this one a lot on vhs
Don't let nostalgia fool you, this pay-per-view is a disaster
Some matches was cool.... I was fascinated by the Ron Simmons vs Luger match, , jimmy garvin vs Johnny b badd,, terry talor vs Richard Morton.... 9 year old me was like .. this PPV was fun ... the rest of the card was meh
The most fearsome tag team in professional wrestling history, “The Masked Jobbers”
What would have been really surprising in the chamber of horrors match is Abdullah not getting busted open!!
Who had the best bad entrance?
The Dynamic Dudes walking out carrying skateboards and never riding them or Van Hammer carrying a guitar and never playing it?
Shiavone: TellYouWhatIt'sTheBottomOfTheNinthInningAndSteveAvery'sPitchingSoLugerBetterBringOutTheBigBatsQuickly
JR: ... ... ... HOW BOUT JOHN SMOLTZ!?
Around the time Van Hammer was shitting the bed Lonnie Smith was forgetting how to run the bases and costing the Braves game 7 of the World Series...I can forgive Lonnie...fuck Van Hammer though
A negative star match...
My God, it's been so long...Never thought I'd see the day...
So what's Sharmel vs Jenna Morasca getting?
Shelly Martinez vs Rebel aka *MY VAG!* might get a negative star match.
Of course beautiful Bobby Eaton has the best match.
We're setting precedent for that fabled minus 5 stars!
i really like the the intro it’s pretty fresh B dawg
Pac? Biggie? Nahh, I'm a Christine Valver kinda chick.
24:36 What about Arn Anderson vs Bobby Eaton from Superbrawl 1991? I thought he rated that match pretty highly.
I love how there was a sword in the ring and nobody bothered to even use it 😂🤣😂you’d think whoever is wielding the sword basically has control over the match lmao
I remember ordering this one and then not doing another WCW PPV for 3 years.
I'm glad you mentioned the set, a completely underrated set. Especially because it came in the early 90's where entrance sets weren't treated as a huge deal.
He mentioned how horrible & chintzy it looked. Wow. Just wow. You heard him mention 'the set' & you appear to recognize those two words but I guess that's it? Jeez...
@@allamericananti-christ666 Pretty much.
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Well wth, bro? Ya gotta know someone is just gonna call ya out & be an annoying asshole about it- this is a UA-cam comment section, after all! 😝
I'm just fuckin with ya. Have a good one, man.
I marked out when you showed the Luger grunts XD
“Classic Luger grunts”....don’t think I’ve heard you reference them before. Admit it....you watch OSW review too Brian.
I'd love a collab review between them
Maybe we can get Brian to do an Ad Break Questionarium segment
Ya fookin animal ya !
How you get the Nickname "Z-Man?"
I would always go with "Brian In-Zane" (great Video as always)
He said once prior that it was just given to him and it stuck, I would like to know more about it but perhaps there wasn't more to it.
@@TeemoQuinton I respect that have to "get" a Name, it had something "urban" to me, like a Tradition
Flying Fat F*ck (otherwise known as Triple F) will now live Rent-Free in my head everytime a Big Guy does a Top Rope Splash.
Hey Brian I have finally been able to support you on patreon
Im happy to say I've been around for the introduction of 0 stars and now for negative stars 😂😂 great video Zane love the channel
Watching Austin in WCW is a reminder that Austin was a really good technical worker before his neck injury.
People think Ringmaster was just a gimmick. Lol.
Jack saw Abby in the chair. Unfortunately for Abby, he ate the last chicken nugget on their way to the arena and that's just not something Cactus could forgive.
Negative 3 stars for the Van Hammer match lmao. I can't stop laughing 😂😂😂. Zane's the best
Congrats Van Hammer
Hard agree with the Van Hammer rating, every wrestler ever has had bad matches but having a dangerous match is far worse he fucked up nearly all his moves, was incredibly unsafe and it was very negligent by WCW to allow this match to happen, I hope at the very least he got reamed out backstage. I think negative stars should only be reserved for matches like this when the workers are in danger, because bad matches are just that, bad but not detrimental to a career.
Damn Zane, how old are you. We all know the masked goon was you
M DeAngelo Zane is a time traveller, confirmed.
On the preshow, they said Cactus was replacing Barry because Larry crunched his hand in a car door before the show. So even more fucked up lol, we can presume Barry was on the heel team??
10:49 many years later, Christine Valver ghostwrites lyrics for Ron Killings, including his new single “Set It Off” :P 🔥 🔥 🔥
I'm Bluh and im better than ever never gets the credit it deserves as one of the funniest lines of this or any generation and im tired of it.
December 1991, I was 9 years, my family went to eat at a buffet restaurant and we ran into this dude that my dad worked with at the time, called Rodeo. I cant remember the reason, but in his car he had a VHS tape that had Halloween Havoc, Survivor Series and Tuesday in Texas on it. Since he knew I was a wrestling fan, he gave me the tape. (And I think also one that had SummerSlam and something else on it. Maybe Mania 8.) So I watched this show a billion times in my lifetime, roughly. So thank you for this, and Im only 30 seconds into your video. Hitting subscribe now.
Shout out to Rodeo
"flying fat f**k" is that the official name of the finisher for PN News?
Blimey WCW was bad in 1991. I’ve seen your review of the great American bash and superbrawl. Those shows were bad. This is bad. I’m noticing a trend........... Edit: I’m glad you’re finally giving negative star ratings. Unfortunately some matches justify that. I think that if the negative rating was around on the review of WM9 the undertaker v giant Gonzales match would have got one!!
WCW after Crockett sold really started to get bad the had their moments but man did they hot shot a lot stuff and treated their talent like crap most of the time
Michael Rivera it certainly looked like it. Look at the way they treated Ric Flair. Basically drove him to join the WWF.
@@mrkipling2201 not only Flair,Cactus Jack,Brian Pillman many other guys
Michael Rivera definitely. Flair was the most high profile departure from WCW but as you said there was quite a few. Jim herd taking over had to be one of the worst decisions they ever made.
3 sittings across 3 days... That sounds like me trying to get through Thor the Dark World, except I was never able to finish it... just kept falling asleep.
Is the TNA electrifying cage related to the chamber of horrors?
Maybe Russo got inspiration
Man....Sting really went through everything in WCW loo
This is one of the best reviews ever. And the fooking Van Hammer match! I am very surprised Doug Sommers didn't get hurt in that. Excellent review, had me laughing and relating to your feelings on it Brian lol.
“The flying fat fuck for the win” got a legit pop from me.
Perfect timing Brian I was just binge watching your classic PPV Reviews!
"Flying Fat Fuck to win" made me cry laugh 😂💚
i'm pretty sure that was big hoss mcgraw that came out of the casket.
Sure was
Finally, this video is available to watch again. Thanks Brian!
Van Hammer is so good that he legitimately makes it look like he’s going to kill the other guy with a botch.
can't wait for Brian to say MINUS 5 STARS ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
TNA victory road 2009! TNA victory road 2009!
I MISSED THIS VIDEO SO MUCH! This is one of my favourites PPV reviews
I'm still shocked after all these years about Van Hammer's match, considering they kept him in Raven's Flock and Misfits in Action
I looked for this one for so long just to see Brian rant about Van Hammer again. wasn't there another match he rated -5 ⭐?
Several matches in the Classic PPV Review segment have received zero or negative star ratings, but only three have received the infamous -5 ⭐️ rating (Jenna Morasca vs. Sharmell at TNA Victory Road 2009, the 'Miss WrestleMania' 25-Diva Battle Royal at WrestleMania 25 and Tyson Tomko vs. Stevie Richards at Vengeance 2004).
After seeing the Legends of The Hidden Temple reference, I can't decide which of the following I want to see more:
1. Scott Steiner as a contestant on Legends of The Hidden Temple.
2. Scott Steiner hosting Legends of the Hidden Temple.
3. Scott Steiner replacing Olmec on Legends of the Hidden Temple.
"The numbers Don't lie and the spell disaster for you with the Temple Guards"
Definitely a contestant.
Is it me or was this video region locked recently and only just now brought back?
You're correct!
“How bout John Smoltz?”