So you're telling me an "injured" Hulk Hogan, that could barely walk, got putting in multiple figure fours, but still only lost by count out and retained his title...yep, seems like a Hulk Hogan match.
Worth mentioning that the thing where a masked person hit Hogan's leg with a bar and it injured him is very much a play on the Nancy Kerrigan/Tanya Harding figure skating incident. That would have happened earlier that same year and was huge news at the time. Everyone watching then would have known about it.
@HugeFawkinPeckuh yes but WCW would go to that well a few too many times. And no not everything is always copied. Or at least given enough nuance to make it seem somewhat original.
@@NoneofYabiz-rx3zi Not everyone watching this video WAS watching back then. The point of these videos is to be a historical document. It was worth mentioning the Kerrigan-Harding connection.
I read in Ed Lesley's book (yes, I'm the guy that bought it) that all these gimicks were authored by the Hulkster himself. He just throws that ideas about Man With No Name, Zodiac, Booty Man and WCW authors did not knщw what to do with all this stuff (and did not want either). But they cannot igonre it because, you know... it is from Hogan, brother
As soon as Hogan came into WCW it became all about him and this was just the first part. Hogan vs his buddies & Kevin Sullivan. ''Me and Brutus were blood brothers, brother and he aint no jack dude'' I feel like this could have been a good blunder episode too
This is when I first started watching WCW. This was the first feud I watched in WCW. It was so silly, and over the top, but I remember loving it when I was 13.
I hated Hogan coming into WCW because it regulated Sting, WCW's #1 babyface by 1989, to being Hogan's 'friend' and backup. He was only in the main event scene during this time if it was in association with Hogan, and that was rare.
@@worthatrey1992 then how is it wrong goof. Anyway sting was at his best when he didn’t talk or wrestle while hogan was the biggest babyface in the 80s and heel in the 90s kicking off both boom periods in wrestling
Initially, I actually thought the Beefcake angle was good. I genuinely didn't see it coming and this was Hulk's one mate who you thought would never cross him. But then of course reality set in, as I realised that we were getting Brutus in the main event.
I was stunned when it was revealed to be Beefcake, and my brother (we were very young when we saw the ppv) started crying. Wrestling just had that type of magic back then.
Hogan betrayed by his best buddy was such an overused trope. I can think of Hogan/Orndorff, Hogan/Andre, Hogan/Macho man, Hogan/Beefcake. Any others? Tugboat & Hogan were besties for a brief stint and the Tugster turned heel, joining Earthquake as Typhoon. But I do not think there was a Hogan/Typhoon feud.
Hot take: The Butcher persona for Ed Leslie was a good look for him. The biggest problem with Hogan’s WCW run pre-nWo was that no matter the odds, Hogan refused to lose. Hogan literally came out with a “horrible” knee injury and wrestled Ric Flair and Hogan STILL refused to drop the title.
I missed the episode when they named Edd Leslie as The Butcher, so when Hogan did the promo about them being childhood friends I thought he was talking about Abdula the Butcher
I want to see that match way, way more. Me and Abdullah dude, back in the Sudan, before I was in California, brother... playing around with forks and electrical outlets, dude!
Three faces of fear it's also the english translation of the italian movie "I tre volti della paura". An anthology horror film directed by Italian director Mario Bava, who outside Italia is known by the title "Black Sabbath".
I love Reliving the War, but I always really love when you focus on a wrestler(s), factions, events... Either way, it's always great stuff. Thanks for keeping the videos coming. Long time viewer (own original logo T shirt, which is also great quality...like the channel/videos, haha)
Feels like I'm living under a rock, cus I just looked that thing up, and I've never heard anything about it before, huh. Weird. Is it true, or just a "Hogan level" lie?
30 years later it's still hard to imagine this happened, Ed Leslie in the Starrcade 94 Main Event. And as you said at least if they sold it more serious as Beefcake betraying his lifelong friend you could say well at least they tried but to just continue the rinse & repeat cartoony Bollocks that Hogan had been doing for a decade. Another disgraceful thing involving this was in a 2008 Ric Flair shoot interview Naitch said as he was in the original meetings of bringing Hulk in and all his demands. One was he pushed to have WCW part ways with Arn Anderson & in Hogan's words "could be replaced by Ed Leslie." Fortunetly even though they did bring in Brutai they didn't end up cutting Arn.
Idk, I went to get my hair cut, and was given a male barber in a mesh shirt with ripped up jeans and nylons under, so I walked out, Brutus is definitely terrifying as an actual barber
brutus beefcake headlined STARRCADE. a modern equivalent would be roman reigns politicking to get his family to main event wrestlemania, roman reigns vs....MANU!!!!! or a contemporary version in the mid 90s wwf, shawn michaels main events summerslam against his fellow kliq member....ALDO MONTOYA!
The whole masked man saga was what got me hooked as a kid. Me and my brother would lose sleep debating who it could have been. Wrestling was so good back then, despite being corny as hell.
18:58 Poor Vader with that exposed rip in the butt-crack of his sweatpants when he power-bombed Hogan and was clotheslined by Hogan and Macho Man. I think that was worse for his image than Hogan no-selling the Vader Bomb.
My God, we remember the Dungeon of Doom from the early days of the war. I’m interested to see what you can do, but part of me is dying inside at the thought of it.
Unpopular opinion but I thought it made sense. Hulk and Brutus always friends, came from WWF and never had a match outside of the 80s… didn’t mind the Butcher name it made sense. He could have been more scary. Hogan also knows best.
You forgot to mention Hogan and Beefcake had a previous feud with each other in the WWF in 1985 after Beefcake and Greg Valentine beat up Hogan's buddy Hillbilly Jim (the Dave Sullivan of 1985). This made Beefcake the 4th enemy turned friend of Hogan to go back to being an enemy and then lose a big World title match after Paul Orndorff, Andre The Giant and Randy Savage. Pro Wrestling Illustrated referred to this as "The Pattern" and predicted the Beefcake heel turn as far back as 1989. Of course all of this was undermined later on when it was revealed that Butcher/Zodiak was a mole in the Dungeon and had secretly been still friends with Hogan all along, so he didn't actually turn on Hogan as such.
John Tenta deserves hall of fame
The hall of fame doesn’t deserve John Tenta, tho
@@EnjoySackLunchhe’s one of the few talents wwe didn’t do dirty
@@JasonPeck-pf6rn wcw could've done so much more with him and Ray Traylor
100%
Yes
So you're telling me an "injured" Hulk Hogan, that could barely walk, got putting in multiple figure fours, but still only lost by count out and retained his title...yep, seems like a Hulk Hogan match.
Creative control, brother. Lol
This is why you're watching and not wrestling.
There was nothing scarier than Ed Leslie main eventing starrcade
Not even if they had him win, even by screwy means?
He should have won
@@pleaseshutup7053for the lolz maybe
Leslie lost the starrcade 94 match by design
Bootyman lol
Worth mentioning that the thing where a masked person hit Hogan's leg with a bar and it injured him is very much a play on the Nancy Kerrigan/Tanya Harding figure skating incident. That would have happened earlier that same year and was huge news at the time. Everyone watching then would have known about it.
@@Morbos1000 oh yeah. Good catch and just demonstrated WCW's lack of originality at times.
@@ziahamm1603everything in wrasslin is copying something 🤦🏼♀️
@HugeFawkinPeckuh yes but WCW would go to that well a few too many times.
And no not everything is always copied. Or at least given enough nuance to make it seem somewhat original.
Everyone watching back that has known that, broski. What's next? Are you gonna explain that water is wet and fire is hot?!?
@@NoneofYabiz-rx3zi Not everyone watching this video WAS watching back then.
The point of these videos is to be a historical document. It was worth mentioning the Kerrigan-Harding connection.
I read in Ed Lesley's book (yes, I'm the guy that bought it) that all these gimicks were authored by the Hulkster himself. He just throws that ideas about Man With No Name, Zodiac, Booty Man and WCW authors did not knщw what to do with all this stuff (and did not want either). But they cannot igonre it because, you know... it is from Hogan, brother
This is something I could actually believe. I didn't know Mr. Leslie had a book, I'm going to look that up right now!
@@WrestlingBioshe sold loads of signed ones through facebook wrestling groups and never sent them out. Never thought I could think less of old Beefy
Oh man, so you were the one copy!
Keep him on contract he is my coke holder
Towards the end of his WCW career, he was simply known by his real name. Would have been hilarious if Hogan FINALLY said, "Just be yourself, brother!"
Almost forgot these guys where the precursor to the Dungeon of Doom. 😂
Man hands down this is the best channel for wrestling talk. Thanks brother
Mr. T vs. Kevin Sullivan is perhaps the unintentionally funniest match in wrestling history.
Have you seen OSW's review of Starrcade 1994?
All these years later and I still don't understand why T was dressed as a referee to 'wrestle' a match.
Needed a pick me up before I have my operation on Friday. This is chicken soup for the soul. Cheers, Wrestling Bios.
good luck with your surgery, hope everything goes smoothly and you're able to make a full recovery
Good luck on Friday! Hope to read you on the weekend video of Bios!
Good luck 👍
Wishing you the best of luck with your surgery. I am keeping you in my thoughts and prayers.
wishing you a speedy recovery
As soon as Hogan came into WCW it became all about him and this was just the first part. Hogan vs his buddies & Kevin Sullivan. ''Me and Brutus were blood brothers, brother and he aint no jack dude''
I feel like this could have been a good blunder episode too
As it should have hogan was the man
@pleaseshutup7053 the man who almost killed the company before the nwo and actually did kill the company a few years after the nwo
@pleaseshutup7053 well as a nWo soundbite he was the biggest icon in wrestling but doesn't mean people weren't getting sick of him
@pleaseshutup7053 Hogan is a selfish racist #^&&& who f over wcw with his ego and politics! He deserves nothing
Imaging having a 2nd chance at Hulk vs. Earthquake and this is what you come up with
Agreed. On the plus side for Tenta, he worked really well with Sting IMO.
Sting vs Avalanche would have easily been a main event on any ppv if Hogan wasn't there to take the main spot.
I think a genuine look into the career of Haku is something only you'd be able to do justice to. Seriously.
It be interesting to see how he was booked prior to his WWF days and afterwards
"I fear NO MAN!
I feel.. ...NO PAIN!
You livin' with the demon, brother. The demon... ...is FEAR!"
R.I.P. Vader
That chair shot Brotha Bruti eats at 17:11 really makes you appreciate modern wrestling's banning of chair shots to the dome!
Hogan always gave really weak looking chair shots which, fair play to him, shows he didn't want to hurt anyone properly with them.
This is when I first started watching WCW. This was the first feud I watched in WCW. It was so silly, and over the top, but I remember loving it when I was 13.
"Kevin thought it wasn't Hulk's ego that was out of control it was actually Hogan's insecurities." Ego is often born out of insecurity.
R.I.P. Kevin Sullivan a great wrestling mind and a legend down in Florida, Actually I’ll just say the south. He’s a legend in the south.
6:48 Ric Flairs been having retirement matches since before I was alive, wild
Did no one notice that Vader split his pants? 18:57…
Nice. 😂 at least he didn’t have a skid mark 💩💩😂😂
Everyone noticed
First a no sell and then his fat ass ripped his sweats. Not a good day for Leon.
🎶When I ripped🎶
🎶My pants🎶
🎶I thought I had the world by my side🎶
Yup
They should have changed their names to J, O and B.
11:36 Sullivan lookin like the inside of a McDonalds burger wrapper
I liked Earthquake
The Man with No Name…I s*** you not!
😂😂😂😂😂
I hated Hogan coming into WCW because it regulated Sting, WCW's #1 babyface by 1989, to being Hogan's 'friend' and backup. He was only in the main event scene during this time if it was in association with Hogan, and that was rare.
Hogan was better
@pleaseshutup7053 wrong but you're entitled to an opinion
@@worthatrey1992 then how is it wrong goof. Anyway sting was at his best when he didn’t talk or wrestle while hogan was the biggest babyface in the 80s and heel in the 90s kicking off both boom periods in wrestling
@pleaseshutup7053 because it's factually incorrect, despite how you feel.
@@worthatrey1992 I’m open to hearing facts. What facts you got?
This has got to be the most unintentionally funny video you've ever made.
LMAO kevin Sullivan dressing up as Santa is a hilarious visual 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Initially, I actually thought the Beefcake angle was good. I genuinely didn't see it coming and this was Hulk's one mate who you thought would never cross him.
But then of course reality set in, as I realised that we were getting Brutus in the main event.
I was stunned when it was revealed to be Beefcake, and my brother (we were very young when we saw the ppv) started crying. Wrestling just had that type of magic back then.
"This is the lowest point of WCW." Oh. Oh, you sweet summer child...
seriously, Kevin Sullivan's booking and Hogan being Hogan is why WCW went out of business
🙄
It's really not, this happened way before WCW went out of business and didn't contribute to it in any way.
Always funny when Ryan cracks up.
A Prime Vader with Ric Flair managing him still couldn't be world champ.... what the heeeellllllllll
Hogan betrayed by his best buddy was such an overused trope. I can think of Hogan/Orndorff, Hogan/Andre, Hogan/Macho man, Hogan/Beefcake. Any others? Tugboat & Hogan were besties for a brief stint and the Tugster turned heel, joining Earthquake as Typhoon. But I do not think there was a Hogan/Typhoon feud.
Yeah, Tuggers turned on the bushwhackers or something with Earthquake
Hillbilly Jim never turned on him😂
@@Barry_Matthewsleaving money on the table there! 😂
Real recognizes real@@Barry_Matthews
Hot take: The Butcher persona for Ed Leslie was a good look for him.
The biggest problem with Hogan’s WCW run pre-nWo was that no matter the odds, Hogan refused to lose.
Hogan literally came out with a “horrible” knee injury and wrestled Ric Flair and Hogan STILL refused to drop the title.
I missed the episode when they named Edd Leslie as The Butcher, so when Hogan did the promo about them being childhood friends I thought he was talking about Abdula the Butcher
I want to see that match way, way more. Me and Abdullah dude, back in the Sudan, before I was in California, brother... playing around with forks and electrical outlets, dude!
I absolutely love your content. I been watch this channel more than any other one. Keep up the awesome work!
Three faces of fear it's also the english translation of the italian movie "I tre volti della paura". An anthology horror film directed by Italian director Mario Bava, who outside Italia is known by the title "Black Sabbath".
I heard the Black Sabbath movie was the inspiration for the heavy metal band White Zombie
yes, also for the chapter-based narrative style of Pulp Fiction
@@lizardman7364
I love Reliving the War, but I always really love when you focus on a wrestler(s), factions, events... Either way, it's always great stuff. Thanks for keeping the videos coming. Long time viewer (own original logo T shirt, which is also great quality...like the channel/videos, haha)
1994, the best WCW could do is ape the Nancy Kerrigan-Tonya Harding incident...
After Brutus Beefcake’s horrific parasailing accident, his pro wrestling career never fully recovered.
Feels like I'm living under a rock, cus I just looked that thing up, and I've never heard anything about it before, huh. Weird. Is it true, or just a "Hogan level" lie?
What a thanksgiving special! Good vid
Great video! I can't wait for the The Dungeon of Doom video!!
Oh hell yeah a series on the dungeon of doom!!! I'm 100% here for that. Can't wait till you get started on those.
Thank you for all the hard work you put I to the channel!! 🙏
I do enjoy you breaking down the individual stables.
I hope you keep that up.
Happy Thanksgiving to our WrestlingBios Sensei!
30 years later it's still hard to imagine this happened, Ed Leslie in the Starrcade 94 Main Event. And as you said at least if they sold it more serious as Beefcake betraying his lifelong friend you could say well at least they tried but to just continue the rinse & repeat cartoony Bollocks that Hogan had been doing for a decade. Another disgraceful thing involving this was in a 2008 Ric Flair shoot interview Naitch said as he was in the original meetings of bringing Hulk in and all his demands. One was he pushed to have WCW part ways with Arn Anderson & in Hogan's words "could be replaced by Ed Leslie." Fortunetly even though they did bring in Brutai they didn't end up cutting Arn.
Yet another banger of a video! Thank you so much for your efforts! You’re the best! 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼
My favorite OSW story arc
Can of Coke sir, mine too.
Wow. Hope whoever reads this has a great week.
Same to you 👍
You too
You too, what a nice thing to write.
You too. I will once I've had my operation on Friday.
Same to u
When I think fear Brutus Beefcake isnt exactly the first thing that comes to mind. OH, im sorry.."The Butcher" 🤣
The booty man
Idk, I went to get my hair cut, and was given a male barber in a mesh shirt with ripped up jeans and nylons under, so I walked out, Brutus is definitely terrifying as an actual barber
@@z216ghost yeah i guess the idea of having your hair cut with hedge trimmers could be a bit unnerving
Ed Leslie deserves his own video 😂 Talk about a blunder
Barberism
9:55 absolutely amazing 🤣🤣🤣 So much Love lol
Ugh how many 'retirement' matches did Flair have?
The world will never know.😵💫
Flair must have had as many retirements as he did heavyweight championships
@ , does Flair get a gold watch every time he retires? Maybe that’s the problem. Stop the watches and you stop the retirement matches.
How many more does he have left!!!
As many Stepmoms Charlotte Flair has apparently
brutus beefcake headlined STARRCADE.
a modern equivalent would be roman reigns politicking to get his family to main event wrestlemania, roman reigns vs....MANU!!!!!
or a contemporary version in the mid 90s wwf, shawn michaels main events summerslam against his fellow kliq member....ALDO MONTOYA!
lol damn, POOR MANU!!
This is classic Wrestling Bios right here, like before RTW.
Love to see it 🐢
Still too comical, he used to be serious but Glacier broke him
Starrcade was basically WCW wrestlemania for those of you who want to know, and Brutus Beefcake was main eventing it. Give me a break man.
cannot wait for the dungeon of doom videos
"The real low point of WCW"
> Vince Russo has entered the chat
Can’t wait for the Dungeon of Doom video
Hearing the “Dark5” intro theme behind part of this video threw me for a loop
Wow. Ric Flair retiring in 1994 at the top of his game. What a class act.
That Hogan clothesline on Vader was so effective that Vader split his trousers!
For some reason, seeing that Hogan/Savage vs Butcher/Sullivan graphic reminded me of that Rock/Cena vs Miz/Truth match
The whole masked man saga was what got me hooked as a kid. Me and my brother would lose sleep debating who it could have been. Wrestling was so good back then, despite being corny as hell.
I can't wait for your dungeon of doom video 😅.
18:58 Poor Vader with that exposed rip in the butt-crack of his sweatpants when he power-bombed Hogan and was clotheslined by Hogan and Macho Man. I think that was worse for his image than Hogan no-selling the Vader Bomb.
7:58 Stings outfit 🔥
11:40 Sting's hair is so bleached blonde it's white and I love it ❤
Sting looked like he was just in a Jean Claude Van Damme or Steven Seagal movie
The red and yellow Hulk run ended with the fans at WM8...rehashing the same Hulk schtick in WCW was embarrassing to watch imo
Sometimes we laugh because things are awesome. That was me during this video.
You should totally do a series on the ruthless aggression era raw vs smackdown
After a long ass day, I needed something great to watch.
"e tu Brutus Beefcake"
The song playing in the background is 🔥
it has layers, but "It's Not Hot"
Looking forward to seeing the dungeon of Doom series
Kevin Sullivan and John tenta should be hall of famers
My God, we remember the Dungeon of Doom from the early days of the war. I’m interested to see what you can do, but part of me is dying inside at the thought of it.
WCW 👍
Gone but never forgotten
Only Hogan holds that creative control brother.
Love Hulk Hogan content, so it will be great to see the fusion of the three stooges and the Job Squad
I was hoping for a Ming and Barbarian video to be honest.
Take what you’re given
WCW had the Three Faces of Fear. Whereas the WWF had One Face of Fear and his name is Steve Mufugging Blackman.
Dave Sullivan was like the OG Eugene .
Campy af, but I loved the Dungeon of doom . Made wrestling fun
I love this pre Nitro WCW stuff
Unpopular opinion but I thought it made sense. Hulk and Brutus always friends, came from WWF and never had a match outside of the 80s… didn’t mind the Butcher name it made sense. He could have been more scary. Hogan also knows best.
Cool video. Thanks
All of this was planned so as to introduce the Yetttttttaaaaay
I run into the bsrber all the time atleast a few times a year
17:10 peak Hogan chair shot.
It had to work for me first brother - Hulkster
THANKS FOR WATCHING WILL SEE YOU ON THANKSGIVING DAY FOR RELIVING THE WAR TIL THEN HAVE A GOOD NIGHT AND TAKE CARE.
You forgot to mention Hogan and Beefcake had a previous feud with each other in the WWF in 1985 after Beefcake and Greg Valentine beat up Hogan's buddy Hillbilly Jim (the Dave Sullivan of 1985).
This made Beefcake the 4th enemy turned friend of Hogan to go back to being an enemy and then lose a big World title match after Paul Orndorff, Andre The Giant and Randy Savage. Pro Wrestling Illustrated referred to this as "The Pattern" and predicted the Beefcake heel turn as far back as 1989.
Of course all of this was undermined later on when it was revealed that Butcher/Zodiak was a mole in the Dungeon and had secretly been still friends with Hogan all along, so he didn't actually turn on Hogan as such.
Any way to get a thunder in paradise videogame review?
😂 that dropkick in the 6 man clash match didn't come close to connecting
This...
works for me, brother.
They were the three greatest faces in the history of our sport.
Didn't Sullivan's brother call himself "Evad"?
You know, cuz that's how dyslexia works.
You'd think that it'd be "Sullivan" that he'd have trouble with.
To be fair, Brutus tells all this in shoot interview. That he would be Hogan's babysitter
How many times did flair retire on tv lol