10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 1991
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1991: the year the Super Nintendo and Super Mario World made their way to the western world, Street Fighter 2 hit arcades, and Sonic the Hedgehog was introduced.
Great times
Honestly, my biggest memory from 1991 was hoping Warrior's reign as champion could've gone better than it did.
Sensational Sherri was/is criminally underrated as manager.
The term GOAT is thrown about too often, but when it comes to Sherri, it’s totally true. I loved her
and wrestler
She needs more praise for everything she did. Gladly getting in the middle, gladly taking a bump and whatever else for our entertainment. She was one of the greatest to ever go out there.
@@lordjamie1 First complaining the term is thrown around too often and immediately proving that fact to be true. Hilarious.
Not to me,best female manager/valet ever
I was 11, and it was an amazing year of wrestling.
I was 25, but it was fun. And even I was traumatized by the Undertaker.
Yeah, I was just a kid when Undertaker debuted. That angle where he blindsided Ultimate Warrior and locked him in a casket, scarred my brain. I actually refused to watch any Ultimate Warrior vs. Undertaker matches, because I feared that the next time Warrior was stuffed in a casket, that he would actually die.
As a kid I never was able to keep up with wrestling on a week-to-week basis but I did once run across WrestleMania VII on VHS being sold used by a video store. I bought and loved it and watched it several times back in the day. I thought it was a great event.
You certainly could've fooled me that Hulkamania was losing steam in the early 90s because, just judging from that event, it seemed alive and well to me.
Whenever WhaToxiCulture mentions the Attitude Era, you just know a burial is coming!
Need to keep the Attitude Era's name out ya mouth!
Just be a grown up and admit that some things in that era were at least questionable
1991 was my 1st year getting into WWF
Same here!
Me too!
Glad you were able to shoehorn in some Dave Meltzer brown nosing.
And also standing firm on their belief that WWE counterprogramming All In is the only reason why they are doing Berlin.
Are we to believe that Sid Justice and Hogan were outdrawing Flair and Hogan before Mania 8? I HIGHLY doubt that.
I wanted Sid vs Hulk, Flair was overrated and looked gay in his robes
Yeah it's definitely a doubt but the story goes that Flair and Hogan didn't draw enough at least to Vince's eyes
The only reason it didn’t happen was because of the steroid scandal which forced Hogan to announce his retirement
@@grant1739 I hate to sound ageist, but I always thought that Ric Flair looked 20 years older than he actually was. Flair was in the WWF just in time to avoid getting bumped down the card, due to Vince McMahon's "Youth Movement", which was implemented right after Hulk Hogan left after Wrestlemania 9 in 1993. Sadly, Ric Flair's old, flabby-looking body, was largely the result of the airplane accident he survived years earlier, which took 3 inches off his height, due to the damage to his spine. Couple that, with heavy drinking, day-after-day, for decades, and you can see why his body deteriorated so quickly for his age.
I literally just watched the 91 Rumble PPV and it felt so much like the attitude era lol
If they didn't want Hogan/Flair for Mania 8, they should have done Savage/Snake. Maybe in a cage. Have them go full hardcore blood feud with it. Jake had decided to leave anyway so that would be an excellent way to go out.
Take Undertaker out of title match at Survivor Series 91. Hulk v Flair. Flair wins. Hulk evens score at THIS TUESDAY TEXAS 91 (TTT). At least we get hulk-flair twice on ppv! Fans still argue we didn't get it at wm 8 in the 3rd rubber match.
Snake/Taker was good. Savage/Flair was great. Two of the best three matches on the card (with Hart/Piper being the third)
But notice that they FLIPPED Undertaker and Sid on the fans............. so WrestleMania 8 would be very different than that you would think it was going to be- if you were thinking about it as 1991 was coming to an end.
Hogan vs Warrior II should've happened at Mania VII at the Coliseum
I don't know. Warrior gtg pinned TWICE in title matches at wm 5 and 7 would be bad! Where do u insert slaughter then at WM 7? Vs Tugboat or Taker or hacksaw?
@muhglenschlop2770 how is it bad if Warrior gets pinned twice? I'd let Hogan him at WM 7 and we probably get a 3rd match at WM8 to settle the rivalry. Imagine seeing a sold-out Mania at the Coliseum that can fit over 77500 seats and maybe 2500 additional floor level. I would put Slaughter in a match with Hacksaw since he's always patriotic. LOD or Rockers vs Hart's should've happened also.
1991 offered a glimpse of the future for sure. hitman had a breakout year as a single.
Triple H vs Rock 1 on 1 should have headlined at least 1 Wrestlemania
Haa! 7:30
Yep, I had Survivor Series 91 recorded on VHS. Was Super mad as a little kid watching Hogan lose to Undertaker, then I remember hearing on the radio about how Hogan won it back at some show on the following Tuesday and then I saw them talking about it on whatever Saturday morning program they had at the time.
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HBK vs. Rock is a dream match we should have had at WrestleMania. Could have worked at Mania 20 but Rock was on his way out of the business at that time.
So sad 😢
Rock never wanted to work with HBK due to personal issues he had with him.
HBK disrespected Rock's grandmother, who ran a promotion that HBK worked for early in his career.
Then of course the Kliq, or what was left of it after Hall, Nash, and Waltman left for WCW, tried to sabotage The Rock's career but as you see, it didn't work.
Sherri dropping to her knees before The Warrior at the '91 Rumble and the way the male fans reacted as she did definitely foreshadowed the Attitude Era...
Yeah. Another thing that foreshadowed the Attitude Era were the photos of Ric Flair and Miss Elizabeth together as a couple. Ric kept saying he got it on with Miss Elizabeth many times, and that she was "damaged goods" by the time she got together with Randy. The WWF was edgy long before the Attitude Era.
Right? What did kids at the time think "damaged goods" meant? 🤣🤣😬😬@@megamouthspike1930
I was 5 and all i remember is watching Brett hart and hulk hogan as my 2 favorite wrestlers and also watching the hulk hogan cartoon show
Thank For The Top 10 Video 🙊🤯😃😍👍🥰💐🌟🥇🏆
That's when watching WWF Superstars on Saturday was required viewing
The most hyped match of Wrestlemania IX was Hogan and Beefcake vs Money Inc.
The year I was born 💪🏾💯
Thanks WhatCulture Wrestling
I remember loving Warrior losing to Slaughter simply because Savage got involved. We were finally getting the Savage Warrior feud I had always wanted.
Oh yeah he nocked Warrior out like a light. He didn't hold back any. I loved it . I bet Randy did too
No need to lie to kick it poser
@@Donkehy-puncharello are you calling me a liar? I'm sorry who are you?
@@christopherbaker9676 I bet Randy was all over that, nobody really liked the warrior even then
@@Johnny82Utah And how exactly would you know that 'nobody liked warrior then?' you say yourself you were a minor. Looks like you've been caught lying again. For the record, Jim was actually a good guy
Have a good day wrestling fans 👍
Have a good day wrestling fans 👍🏿
You too
@@zanethind 😎👍
I was born in 96 so I don’t remember anything but I think it’s fun to go back and watch stuff like this
Yeah same here since I was born in '03
Good for you both. Understanding the past helps give context to things in the present and why some of us old heads feel the way we do
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Grrrr we don't take kindly to ur kind here!
I was born in '92. My earliest memory was Nation of Domination
This may sound crazy, but some things have absolutely nothing to do with AEW. 1991 WWF is one of these things.
Another fun fact, AEW never existed in 1991
Meltzer with that mullet! Omg!!!
Ahhhhh, so this is why Dave doesn’t give any 5 star matches to WWE wrestlers nowadays 😂😂😂
I was 21 in 1991 so don't remember much from then seen as I'm a old git now.
I was at the Dayton Ohio Hogan vs Flair event. Barely remember it though there were 500 squash matches that night before the main event
LOL. My brother went to a WWF event in 1990. He said it was BOOOOOOOOOOORING. There were DOZENS of Jobber-matches and only 4 good ones. ( Being in the cheap seats did not help either.) Years later I did a search for info on the event and was SHOCKED to see that Dustin Rhodes had his FIRST WWF match that night. ( My brother does not remember Rhodes's name being mentioned.)
Barbarian was my dude back then. Used to fly off the couch amd flying clothesline the little brothers all the time
Yeah, Barbarian was definitely entertaining. He was a real-life bad a** outside of the ring too. I cannot understand why anyone would want to pick a fight with Barbarian. He was as tough as nails, and he looked menacing as well. Unfortunately, there were always drunks at bars who wanted to test the so-called "fake wrestlers", and often these barflies got badly injured, and sometimes permanently maimed.
@@megamouthspike1930 There's some morons out there you'd be surprised 🤣 picking on him or Haku is not on my to-do list and never will be 🤣
Biggest missed matches at WM
-Undertaker vs Andre the Giant (WM7)
-Hulk Hogan vs Ric Flair (WM8)
-Hulk Hogan vs Bret Hart (WM10)
-Stone Cold vs Triple H (WM18)
-Stone Cold vs Hulk Hogan (WM19 or WM20)
-Undertaker vs Goldberg (WM20)
-Undertaker vs Sting (WM31)
At the time of WM7 Taker wasn't over enough to work a programme with Andre but even if he was Andre was well passed being able to work even a half decent match. If you actually watched WM7 you would see Andre was in terrible condition and walked with the assistance of stick.
If they would’ve done Flair vs Hogan on the east coast it would sold better.
That 6:00 marks my beginnings as a fan lol
They blurred The Mountie giving the finger during his "arrest" in the mid-2000's Anthology DVD, but left it uncensored in the original video. Weird standard shift, as that re-release was during the RA Era...
Yeah, people forget how edgy the WWF was in the early 1990s. Ultimate Warrior was locked in a casket and deprived of oxygen. Then he was bitten by multiple poisonous snakes. There was also the angle where Ric Flair said he screwed Miss Elizabeth until he was done with her, and he called her "damaged goods" for Randy Savage. To me, the Mountie flipping the middle finger was par for the course in the early 1990s. The Attitude Era just took things to the next level, until it went too far, and Vince capitulated to his critics and toned down his product.
Then the implication that he was about to be raped in jail in that pay-off segment; "it looks like the Mountie made a friend!"-Roddy Piper...@@megamouthspike1930
Meltzer was wrong about the rockers,both them said in shoot interviews that Marty wanted to leave and put out feelers and Shawn knew nothing about it and didn’t want to go
Dave Meltzer is wrong about a lot of things. His dirt sheets are loaded with inaccuracies. I love the TH-cam video where Vince Russo and Al Snow clown on Dave Meltzer for his made-up term "rope work". It's hilarious. You should watch it. 😆
@@megamouthspike1930 I’ll keep an eye out for it
How did I miss all this?
Perfect v hogan deffo
Was meant to happen in 1990, but Hogan vetoed Perfect winning the Rumble which would have set it up, while Perfect had to put over Hogan's buddy Beefcake twice on PPV (the second never happened due to Brutus' RL parasailing injuries) and get squashed (along with Demolition) by The Warrior at Survivor Series. It's almost like he was being punished by Hogan for *Vince* and Patterson wanting him to win the Rumble at one point; it's not like it would have affected the build to Hogan/Warrior at Mania VI. Just make Hogan's February/March feud with Perfect and The Genius more interesting...
when undertaker beat hogan at the 91 survivor series, a lot of folks CHEERED.
1:33 Here are a couple of matches that should have taken place at Wrestlemania:
1) Hulk Hogan vs. Ric Flair (Wrestlemania 8) for the title.
2) The Undertaker vs. Sting (Wrestlemania 31).
3) Bret Hart vs. Randy Savage (Wrestlemania 9) for the title.
The year I started watching WWF. I was 5!
The road to wrestlemania 7 maybe was a testing ground for the future attitude era.
Those UK tours helped out WWE in the mid 1990s when ticket sales and popularity was lower than their territory years.
Yeah Jesse was saying DOSE MUCHO on commentary 😂
Did London get a full ppv tape of this Tuesday in Texas cause US it was on supertape 92
This was the first year that I started watching wrestling I think it was like the SummerSlam 91
An interviewer asked Bret Hart why Hogan vs. Flair never happened during Flair's run in the WWF from 1991-1992. Bret Hart said it was probably because neither Flair nor Hogan wanted to job to the other. This video exposes the real reason, which is that Hogan and Flair had a dark match in Oct. 1991 in Dayton, Ohio, where they discovered their less than great in-ring chemistry. For that reason, Vince McMahon decided to have Ric Flair feud with Randy Savage, in an angle that I was very uncomfortable with, because it involved photos of Miss Elizabeth and Ric Flair "in flagrante delicto".
Ngl it was the Sheik Tugboat for me 😂😂
1991 i was 3 going on 4 by june 91. Great time to be a kid
Dont know if it would have worked but would love to have seen hulk hogan vs stone cold
anyone else feel they should let Simon do all these videos?? I've tuned out
Can't stand Simon Miller! 🤮
From 91.
Mr. Perfect was a Spectacle.
Bret Hart was the best prrformer.
Warrior Macho one of the greatest story ever.
The Shwn turn is gold.
1991...taker wins his first world title.
Dave never truly worked for the wwe, he got a consult fee for what he gave them but he wasn’t an employee but any stretch of the word
1991...when I started watching wrestling. Tuesday in Texas was my first. Gutted when The Undertaker lost
Even Jim Cornette says Dave Meltzer use to be good at his job
To nitpick. Madonna never played Wembley Arena until 2004. She sold out multiple nights at Wembley Stadium on each tour in 1987, 1990 and 1993. Also, she never toured The Immaculate Collection. So comparing stadium sales to arena, not really relevant.
The year I graduated from High School.
I went to summer slam 91 in person
Young enough to believe hogan v slaughter was SO important lol
"Hulk Hogan vs Ric Flair for the WWF Tag Team Championship." 🤣😂
Hogan vs Flair should have main evented Wrestlemania 8.
They were doing the Sheri Martel underwear thing long before '91
Can you blame them? 😍
11. There was no WWE in 1991
It is sad that the WWF lost the company's name to a bunch of "animal lovers" in 1995.
Hogan vs flair should have had a match at mania Rock vs hbk hbk vs Latino heat taker vs sting
Way too many 15 second commercials for me, brotha!!!
All we had was the WWF, WCW (which just left the NWA), Global and various indie feds in 1991 too bad ECW didnt come around then.
Every thing here!!
Episode is called what you dont know about 91.. whatculture refuses to shut up about wembley and wrestlemania 8 in 92.
Yeah but WWF 1992 and AEW 2023 were at different Wembley stadiums. The Wembley stadium of the 20th century we all loved with those twin towers was demolished years ago!
Ah I was young a 23
No one was upset taker beat hulk back then lol. I was more upset when taker lost a few days later.
Attitude era ruled!!
Okay? What does that have to do with 1991
1991...Bret Hart wins the IC title.
Sigh!!!!!!!!!! I wish Mr. PERFECT was still around.
@@---zc4qtDon’t get into drugs kids.
Imagine getting hired strictly because you're from Australia or Mexico. That's legit what happened to the iconics and many others. They hire someone from each country to capitalize on that market. Once Aussie talent Rhea Ripley was firm and over they no longer needed The Iconics LMAO
Back in 91 Wembley wasn't where it is now lol
What? It definitely was where it is now, hasn't moved since it was built in 1923
Shawn Michaels vs The Rock
Sting vs Undertaker
91 I was A hard back man 12 and HBK 💇 made me cryb
A match that should have gone down? Jericho vs Owens in proper form
Taker vs Sting. The greatest missed opportunity
Jake Roberts, The Undertaker and Sgt Slaughter were all portraying very edgy characters and angles in 1991 which were very much against the norm for the company
Also there was no Premier League in England in 1991, didn’t happen til a year later and was still the First Division which was won by Leeds.
Undertaker vs Sting
The "Undertaker" got destroyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyed by Lex at the 1990 Great American Bash.
I was born in 1991
Why was WWE "rightly" savaged for Slaughter vs. Hogan? Movies and TV play off current events and wars all the time. Pro wrestling has done it since forever. What's the big deal?
What did St. Louis have to do with European events
Yup.. 91, I was 6 and it was real haha
Here early 😂🎉
1991, I didn't exist for another year!
I was a mere 13
Make WWE WFF and great again.
Pause at 1:16. Wow, that was 3 years before Hogan and Flair had a "Career Ending Match" in WCW.
Pause at 3:07. I heard that WrestleMania 7.............. ALMOST did not happen. Some were afraid that the Iraqis might bomb the place- because there would be THOUSANDS of Americans in one please for several hours.
Pause at 6:55. The Undertaker was AWESOME in 1991. It is sad to see what they did to Marty Jannetty's career.
Pause at 7:48. One would have to be reallllllllllllly dumb to not know who "Mr. Madness" was on that card.
Pause at 8:47. Here is an odd fact- wasn't the Gulf War basically OVER by the time of WrestleMania 7. By SummerSlam 1991, you could tell people were tired of the "Iraq War" in the WWF.
Pause at 10:36. A few weeks ago I watched an interview, on TH-cam, where Sgt. Slaughter was telling about the time that WWF T.V. was telling/informing fans that "Sgt. Slaughter is BURNING the American!!!!!!!!!" and in the locker-room said in surprise "No, I'm not.". ( The WWF wisely chose to NOT show Slaughter burning the flag.)
The source of the "bomb threat" was apparently the WWF, to let them book a smaller arena due to poor sales. Neither LAPD nor FBI got any credible threat info.
There was no WWE in 1991
Alot of fans & people talk about how bad & horrible WrestleMania 9 was but I really think WrestleMania 8 is one of the worst. Especially they god awful match between Hulk Hogan & Sid Justice & the horrible finish. & if I had to pick a dream WrestleMania main event match then it would be either Razor Ramon (Scott Hall) & the Nature Boy Ric Flair for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship or Mr. Perfect (Curt Hennig) & Bret the Hitman Hart for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship those are ones I would have liked to have seen happen.
I wasn’t born yet
Wow
IMO, I Always Thought Having G.I JOE Legend Sgt. Slaughter Turn Heel On The USA & Siding With IRAQ Is 1 Of The Most Dumbest Main Event Angles WWF Has Ever Pushed.
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