The Story of Adam Bomb in the WWF
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Wrestling Bios Presents - The Story of Adam Bomb in the WWF
Adam Bomb is one of the more recognizable gimmicks and stars of the WWF's "New Generation" era. While many point to this character and make mention of everything wrong with mid 90s WWE, others actually have fond memories of Bryan Clark playing the Adam Bomb character. While Adam Bomb didn't reach main event status, or even win a championship title within the WWF, he was a very capable professional wrestler that seemed to be missing the "it" factor.
This mini documentary from Wrestling Bios takes a look at the Adam Bomb character in the WWF, from his dominating first months within the company to his slip into lower midcard of the World Wrestling Federation. Topics covered include:
00:40 - The Three Mile Island Accident and the Adam Bomb character
03:20 - The Nightstalker in WCW
04:48 - The Adam Bomb WWF Debut
06:10 - How Bryan Clark almost became The Ringmaster
08:50 - Adam Bomb at The Survivor Series 1993
10:35 - Adam gets squashed in his WrestleMania debut
15:08 - Why Adam Bomb left the WWF
- Much More!
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I did like Adam Bomb as a character design he looked cool to me but im probably the only one who thinks this lol
Venemofthe888 I thought he was cool and creepy as a heel
Venemofthe888 me too
Your comments solidifies us as brothers.
You're not! I think that 2.
He looked really cool to me
This guy was my absolute favorite as a kid. He had it all, and would have looked fantastic with the IC belt around his waist!
Yes spot on he was nr 1 for me
I’m convinced Wrestling Bios gives himself a 5 minute break before moving onto the next video.
That long? I dunno...
You're being generous, I think he's working on 8 at the same time...
Jah Will B Dunn Wrestling Bios is his gimmick name. I wouldn’t call the Undertaker, Mark if I were to meet him.
I think he never takes a break 💪🏾
Dude works hard.. really does his homework!
Brian Clarke was underrated never given the credit he deserved. Again another great bio brilliant 👍😎👍
Deserved to go much farther than he did. He was great as Wrath and later in Kronik even if the gimmicks he was working weren't the most original
Very underrated.
agreed, he's actually my second cousin (by marriage) and i've met him a couple times. Used to be cool, kinda just trafficking drugs these days though lol.
Should've been a star for Vince. He did thing that Nash and Sid couldnt physically do
Like what
@@conor-_C not having weak legs ?
That Kronic Tag team was Iconic!!! Put a magnifying Glass on that Run!!
Kronik was a great team.
Yeah he kind of dismissed that run
Whats up with that?
I was a huge Kronic fan. Always tuned in when they came out in WCW.
And was in "markout" mode when they made their WWE debut.
I distinctly remember bitching about how they weren't on WWE TV after that iconic debut.
@@DETSRC313 - Yeah, they wrestled Undertaker and Kane. Although they didn't win, they were the first (and probably only) team that didn't turn tail and run away from the Brothers of Destruction.
One of the best big men in all of wrestling. He had the size of Crush, Sid, Diesel, or Taker, but he could do a slingshot flying clothesline over the top rope from the ring apron. Very agile for such a big guy. Always felt like McMahon dropped the ball on him. Really believe this guy had the potential of being a huge star. Another thing is when Clarke & Adams became KroniK, i felt both WCW & WWE made a big mistake not making the tag team into LOD or Demolition level stars. Felt the same with Powers of Pain - Warlord & Barbarian. Such a great opportunity completely overlooked. - Btw, imagine the electricity in the crowd and the intensity of KroniK coming out to a song like "Warriors of the World" by Manowar. Go take a listen!
That's all great. I'm still mad Supply and Demand didn't get a run with the belts
WWF!!!
Something about huge monsters don't work well as tag teams. Even the Skyscrapers, if you remember them, didn't really accomplish much in the short time they were together, despite having two future stars.
I knew him. Stalker (Bryan Clark) always said he was a crappy wrestler, so...
I was a fan of Adam bomb back in the day. And I was disappointed that he never got a title run despite of his dominant appearance. Its sad how his WWE career just faded away.
It's even worse with Bam Bam Bigelow. A man of this size with this amazing skill set and the legit fighter appearance should have been covered all over with titles and should have stayed on top of the game for many years.
Bryan Clarke was a victim of the "Kliq".
There are videos on youtube, where he lost against 1-2-3 Kid, Razor Ramon, Shawn Michaels etc.
His look was really impressive and his gimmick was great. Sad, sad!
He got the tools
he could have been fantastic. imagine if aew had existed, he could have requested release and then turned up on dynamite not glowing in the dark and been a badass.
MantaHeld-89 he sucked
@@superlex611 Adam Bomb was considered injury prone. Hence, many times his push would keep on stalling.
@@alanguages how he got injury prone ?
I always liked Bryan Clarke but I was introduced to him for the first time as Wrath. To me, an 11 year old kid (at the time) Wrath looked like a big muscular beast, strong & silent and he had a great (very underrated) finisher at the time, The Meltdown. He did go on a streak in WCW but it was totally overshadowed by Goldberg.
Nash beat him clean in a face v face match for absolutely no reason and killed his push.
You wonder if his career trajectory would’ve been different if he left for the ECW in the mid 90’s. Paul Heyman would’ve known how to book the guy and play to his strengths.
Adam Wendt true.
He would have been mike awesome before mike awesome. Speed/agility/size/power.
Ive been looking forward to this for a long time...IMHO Clark is SUPER underrated, and later underutilized and lost in the NWO saturated WCW.
Nash WCW win over him derailed his push!
Adam Bomb was one of my favorite wrestlers when I was a kid.
I heard Adam bomb was a serect character for the wrestlemania arcade game
It is true that he was intended to be in the game. Here he is with the Midway development team.
pbs.twimg.com/media/DSJnsZlVoAA9Ovs?format=jpg&name=small
The game came out in '95, which lends credence to the idea that Adam Bomb was being planned for an IC title push.
Been waiting on this one!! I always love early 90's ridiculous WWF characters. Great job on 100k my man!
I loved Atom Bomb when I was a child. I remember dressing up as him for Halloween in the early 90’s. Wish I could of seen him wrestle a lot more.
Adam Bomb was good i remember as a kid watching him hoping he'd fight Warrior.
Same here. Total dream match for my 8 year old self.
Actually Adam Bomb left a high impression on me.
For me he was one of the most memorable wrestlers from the early 90s WWF.
Same for me
Sorry you lost cable ruff
Loved Adam Bomb and all of Clarke's gimmicks. Real shame he never got the recognition he deserved.
Thanks for this. Adam Bomb was one of my favorite wrestlers as a kid.
He was burried by the kliq backstage to Vince 🤓
Adam Bomb has always been my favorite wrestler. Everything about the dude was awesome, his gimmick, his outfits (loved that he had several with different color patterns), his huge size, his move set, his agility...the list goes on. He totally deserved a title run PLUS a few high profile rivalry storylines. To me, Adam Bomb is the greatest WWE star of all time
For me too!!!
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I always thought Brian Adams was pretty underrated an underused compared to some others with less talent that got more involved pushes.
I can't believe you did Adam Bomb. I loved this character as a child.
Preferred his Wrath gimmick but very agile wrestler and I would say underrated
After all these years he was Adam bomb because a bomb went off , i thought he was Adam bomb because his finisher was the A-bomb , i just got wowed , thanks to wrestling bios !!!!
To go from Johnny Polo to Raven is a huge shift in character.
What about surfer dude Scotty Flamingo?
I have request. My favorite cruiserweight of all time. THE ULTIMO DRAGON!
I remember the Adam Bomb character. Brian Clarke definitely had potential, & it was completely wasted, in both WWF & WCW. Had no idea that he had been in WCW first, though.
Lack of respect
looked like he was getting a push after he left Mortis, but ended up in a tag team with Crush
You are definitely one of the top tier wrestling channels on UA-cam, along with Cultaholic and Wrestling with Wregret you’re among my favorite ones.
He had some in ring skill for a big man for sure. Loved his finisher the "meltdown"!
Adam Bomb was one of my favorite wrestlers of early 90s WWF.
His shoot interview with Hannibal recently was excellent, for those who haven't seen it!
Also - I had no idea his Hasbro figure was so rare!
I forgot that Adam Bomb was around long enough to be on some In Your Houses.
Possible idea for a future video: the life and career of Brian “Crush” Adams.
I always enjoyed Adam bomb/Brian... Definitely underrated.
Great look and great worker.
I always wanted his career to be bigger and better.... Thanks for the video
Sad ending for the man.
He is actually from harrisburg florida, ive just been speaking to bryan. You should of contacted him, he would of been happy to help. He is a really cool dude
He was such a mark for himself he had an Adam Bomb tattoo on his arm. When Vince walked up to him and made him quit doing his finish because it was Diesel’s, Scott Hall walked up to him and said, “Hey now you should put and “ED” on the end.” Adam Bombed😂
Smacks of The Kliq politics of course.
Thats a lie, I called Hall out on other things..He is a Pu** and afraid to thrown down. FACT
For that era he was misused and could have been a big player in WWF underrated
I enjoyed this, but I'd liked to seen more on his Wrath run. He had such potential. His look increasingly got better in WCW with Wrath. He also appeared on a WCW video game with some full motion video. 😋
This is such an excellent channel. Thanks for all the work you put in!
Your channel is so 🔥. You really show characters that SOOO many people forgot or never knew of that I actually really liked as a kid!
He should had been IC 🏆 at least once
He looked so damn cool! With the bloody tongue and the contacts. He just needed a push he never got.
He was my favorite for a while and I totally forgot about it until now. I liked his character
bring more of these early 90s characters, love that they get a whole video to themselves.
One of my favs wrestlers in the early 90's. Very underrated and after seeing this I subbed.
I know I'm in the vast minority, but I would love a video on Juventud Guerrera and Psicosis in their ECW and WCW days
I never heard of this guy this channel teaches me history man I thought I knew a lot
I remember him in Kronic in WCW.
He was one of my favorites as a 10 year old kid and I always practiced his finisher with my pillow lol
I stand corrected, it was actually Duke Droese's finisher, nonetheless, Adam Bomb was the man!
@Pushups are great Glad to see there's still people out there who don't just trash compact the gimmick era. My first PPV was Summerslam '93, so I pretty much grew up with it, and thinking back, I probably wouldn't have nearly enjoyed it as much if it was just two dudes with their real names wrestling in tights.
The good ole days
One of my favourite guys when I started watching wrestling in 1994.
Just got drug charges too, he said Shawn Michaels also killed his WWF push too
Lance Boyle that seems to be the easy cop out for every wrestler that didn’t make it to the top of the card during that era, problem is at ‘The Clique’ wasn’t a thing until at earliest very late 1994 and Shawn Michaels had zero backstage power until at earliest then by which time Adam Bomb was done as a serious player in the company.
@@My19812011 he got buried
@@My19812011 I doubt very much Shawn had "zero backstage power" until late 94. I just don't think it was as obvious and out in the open until around then when the business was at it's lowest. In Dec. 91 Marty threatened to have the Rockers jump to WCW over a pay dispute then Shawn went behind his back and told Vince he'd remain and be loyal, then the barbershop split happened and Shawn became one of the hottest "new generation" and Marty kept getting buried or fired. Marty had drugs & booze issues too but Shawn was definitely using politics back then.
I'm not saying I'd blame Adam Bomb's entire mediocre run on Shawn though, he obviously needed help on the mic from his managers.
HBK is a complete jerk.
@@My19812011 Something not mentioned in the video is that Shawn Michaels and Adam Bomb wrestled each other on the Action Zone in March of 1995. It was almost a 10-minute match and Michaels was only one week away from main eventing Wrestlemania with Diesel (at the time the match was aired, anyway). I don't agree that Adam Bomb was quite done as a serious player at this point if he's going almost 10 minutes with the beginning of main event Shawn Michaels, so the timeline actually works for HBK/clique to be the one to kill his push. It sounds like they were preparing him for an IC run, as was promised to him a bit later. Doesn't mean it's necessarily true, but it's at least possible.
Hell yes! I've hoped for and suggested an Adam Bomb/Bryan Clark bio before so I'm gonna pretend I helped make this possible! 😝
Thank you so much for this!
Most underrated wrestler of the 90's
He was from 3 mile island. Priceless
Should of been IC Champ in ‘95 but ... this is why Bam Bam was Gone by late ‘95 “Kliq Rlues!” . Another Great Bio Bro.
Would love a video on The Warlord or Barbarian
Adam Bomb was a childhood favorite!
Gonna watch this later. Just gonna thumbs this up for now because I know it will be good. Thanks for all your hard work. Best YT wrestling channel ever! Also, Wrath had a great pump handle slam. Looked vicious!
I actually really loved this character
IMO he was the only one who made the pumphandle slam look genuinely devastating. With everyone else it always looked kinda weak.
I remember hoping for a storyline between Adam Bomb (powered by infinite nuclear power) and The Undertaker (powered by the infinite power of death). Set up like that, a clash between the two would have been pretty good!
It took a good minute to find this. Vince called him Mayhem in and a 6-man tag. It just kept bringing up the game. Thankfully he was tagged as Adam Bomb in a video
Wrath and Mortis was so underrated as a tag team in WCW
Jarrod Ammons Mortis was my good buddy’s cousin. Lol
Great vid as always. but just imagine vbrain taking the ringmaster and we would have gotten " Stone Cold Adam Bomb" ..... man THAT is a name and a half.
My first live wrestling show was the August 93 show in London Ontario where Undertaker pinned Adam Bomb
One of my fav Wrestling Characters
Bryan Clark is the real deal. I followed his whole career and am a HUGE fan! He was wronged in so many ways and really underused. He had the talent and potential to be way bigger than Undertaker and Hulk Hogan. No man his size had the agility or moves he did! He had an amazing look, charisma and ring presence. He was the total package and deserved so much better than he got. He should have a lot more titles put on him....
Politics 🙄 I had the amazing chance to meet him and he was so sweet and kind. He took the time to have a conversation with me and didn’t just brush me off. He was gracious and a real Southern gentleman. You would never know he was famous. He has done a lot of good for communities as well, with Toys for Tots, Special Olympics and Sheltie rescue in honor of his dog that just passed away. He really deserves to be in every Hall of Fame there is! Definitely should be 1st ballot!
Adam Bomb wrestled Shawn Michaels on the Action Zone in March of 1995, which was aired about one week before Shawn Michaels main evented Wrestlemania 11 against Diesel. It was nearly a ten minute match, and pretty decent. I think that should have been included, because it shows they hadn't given up on Adam Bomb yet and the IC title run he was promised may have been sincere at the time he was told of the plans. This HBK match would have been about 2-3 months before he was told of the plans to make him IC champ. Sometimes plans change -- doesn't necessarily mean he was lied to. Maybe he didn't live up to expectations.
I liked him as Wrath and part.pf Kronik. Should have kept this video going to cover his time in WCW. He was booked much better by WCW.
There was a long period of time where WCW had a bunch of guys on their contracted roster that they weren’t using but were still paying. WCW was run like they had unlimited resources. That’s probably what happened here.
He was one of my fav wrestler, Adam Bomb, Wrath, Bryan Clark. I loved all of his gimmicks. He should have been a top heel if not Wwe Champion or wcw chanpion
Met him outside of a show during this time, he was a really cool guy. My brother happened to meet him the next day at a restaurant he worked at but asked him if he was Diesel lol.
Great video. I really dig the videos on somewhat “obscure” wrestlers and gimmicks
He had a wonderful gimmic and awesome phisique, WWF could do much more with this wrestler
Thanks for that. I started watching WWF in 1994 and Adam Bomb was one of the first wrestlers I saw. I liked his agility. Just like Crush. Maybe they should've paired them together back then. The tag team division was so weak in 1995 and an agile power house team could've really worked out great.
They are struggling
I loved his entrance and the focus on eye colour really matched with his ring name when I used to watch wwf
I always liked the character and how he looked. Shame it came at the end of the era when he should have excelled.
Would like to see an episode chronicling the WWFs Sunday Night Heat
I'd love to see you do a video on the birth of the Mr McMahon character in 1997, how he quickly jumps from commentator to on screen owner within weeks
He has always been a favorite, back from being NightStalker in Smoky Mountain Wrestling to WCW/WWF
Two things about this:
-I remember he did have a mini feud in 94 with Bam Bam Bigelow on Superstars (something to remember is that up until Nitro's debut, Superstars was just as if not more important than Raw)
-He had a fun merchandise gimmick in his face days with mini footballs shaped like warheads that he'd punt into the crowd post match
Not even a wrestling fan and I watch all these videos. I kinda liked it back in 1990-1995 or so. Haven't watched it since, but these vids are awesome.
I saw him live 1994 in Innsbruck. He wrestled in jeans back then. Damn time flys.
According to Jim Cornette, WWE Creative department had a huge part in all those gimmick mistakes in the early to mid 90's. Sounded like a bunch of graphic designers Vince thought were the latest cutting edge thing to modernize wrestling. Any experienced wrestler like Ax and Smash from Demoliton if they were given mgmt status to oversee creative would have said Adam Bomb needed dark colours and a non-flamboyant manager.
Me and my friends used to watch WCW nitro and I liked Wrath's premiere match, he came out and just stomped some guy in the corner about 10 times till the Ref called the match because Wrath wouldn't stop kicking him, It was one of the funniest asskicking entrance's ever, great memories
Brian Clark was an underrated talent in the Cartoon Network era. What was missing with him was a good "gimmick". I don't remember his promos as Adam Bomb, which is probably why he had mouth pieces representing him. If you try to picture him in a faction back then, such as with the Heenan family, Jimmy Hart's stable, or with Fuji's crew- you can't. He wouldn't have fit in well. He was intimidating to look at & had some solid moves though. Maybe he was missing charisma as well. Billy Jack Haynes was pretty stoic, but he got over with fans in the prior era. His best work was with Kronik. They were over with fans but for some reason they were under pushed by Vince & co.
Love the intro bro lol takes me back to the early data of the WWF 👌🏻 👍🏻
I saw his first match on tv. I thought he was awesome. Especially his finishing move.
He could have feud against the Undertaker on ppv. At that time (93-94-95) taker was feuding with Big guys like him : Gonzales, kama, bundy, yoko
i was still a die hard wcw fan during the kronik days,The warth era too
I think the thing that was missing, at least in his WWF run, was mic work. In-ring is only so much, a guy who can use the stick is often that big difference maker & not saying he wasn't good on the mic, but we never really saw him cut a promo, it was always Polo/Raven or Harvey doing most of the work.
Another talented big man buried because he had a manager, imo.
It was a lack of respect
ADAM BOMB was a great Character with so much more Potential ;-)
I liked him. ;-)
Gotta do Kona Krush and Wrath and Brian Adams in WCW as Kronik
I really liked the adam bomb stuff, but the best fitting gimmick was kronik - also for brian adams. These 2 were insane and should have brought in way earlier.
He deserved a world title run when he had his solo push as Wrath in WCW.
Great video as usual.
I think this is the best wrestling channel on UA-cam.
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Definitely one of my favorite as well, if not my number one. Dude just gets straight to the facts without being pretentious or any so-called "comedy". That's hard to find in the current UA-cam wrestling climate and it's damn well appreciated.
Neocon Ingsoctrination no 😊 it’s not ours to sell.
Always was confused when he was a heel why he was never given any kind of long term feud with anyone as he could have been a great at being the monster. Saying that the same thing really happened with his singles push in wcw as wrath he got to a certain point of being dominant then they didn't know where to go with him. Although, that was probably more backstage egos that stopped that push.