Really? From what I've seen the last 15-20 years they blow-off feuds on tv 5 times, in 5 different ways before going for a final "blowoff" on PPV that just leads to more blow-offs on tv the next week until they forget it ever happened and do it with the next feud.
@@peterjohnjoseph Well, mid card feuds mostly. And those blow offs on TV end so awfully (via DQ, countout and whatever), that you barely even care for a proper ending on PPV any more.
And they gave away over 80 wrestlers in less than 12 months... more including other other staff! So in that sense WWE has given away plenty... especially to AEW... much to their mid to lower cards demise!
Oh man, the hindsight on these skits is something else. And the funny thing is, when I first saw these I figured this was the first time Vince McMahon and Ted Turner had issues with each other in regards to wrestling. Then I heard about Black Saturday in 1984. That said, there were some pretty low blows going on here
I think Vince was obsessed with Turner while Ted was busy running his multi-media empire. IMO, Vince resented Turner so much because Vince wanted to be what Turner was: a media mogul with his hands in many pots. That's why Vince has always spent his wrestling money trying to expand to new ventures (and failing)
Randy had a legitimate argument. As he hadn't betrayed the WWF/WWE. They stuck him on the commentary and thought he was too old. Macho wasn't booked well with Hogan trying to steal his shine and the WWE shelving him when he was still very much over and could wrestle. I mean he was no Duke the dumpster or Moe. And he didn't have the explosive charisma of a Steve Blackman or a Prince Albert but he was still good....
Savage had also gotten Vince’s personal word that they wouldn’t try to bury him after he left, so he saw the sketches as a personal betrayal and they were the main reason he refused to do business with WWE for years after he left WCW.
Exactly. Macho knew he still had worth as a in-ring worker while Vince never really appreciated him. Good on Randy for 'jumping ship' to somewhere where he could still be a star.
Basically Vince liked to mock WCW for not building new stars and instead relying on the same older talent constantly. He’s doing the same thing these days.
@@michaelsinger4638 For sure ,it's so saturated right now. Just older stars randomly coming back,because the Main event title scene is repetitive. It's Brock,Reigns,Drew,Lashley along with Goldberg for 3 months of every year.
And trying to screw with the Turner/Warner merger sounds an awful lot like WWE's recent attempts to smear AEW in the press in the hopes sponsors will abandon them. Also taking the moral high ground on steroids sounds like their recent letter about AEW's bloody woman's match.
"...Colourless, formulaic, Raw..." Funny how that can be said about Raw, Smackdown, and (ironically) NXT. The more things change the more they stay the same.
Indeeds, despite that fact that all promotions do get into the same old formula and such, they have other factors to keep one invested. WWE today has nothing to keep anyone really invested, in my opinion that is.
You guys do a good job of making an entertaining program without hardly ever using actual video clips. Makes it easy to put on when I’m hanging laundry or playing games - not with eyes glued to my phone.
Vince is savage, always been ruthless in business. Look at what he did to the territories back in the day. Can't lie, some of the skits did make me laugh but I've been a WWF lifer at that point til 2006(I'm 38yrs old now). Hoping for better things to come
These sketches were so baffling to me as a kid. Even back then I thought all the sniping back and forth between Raw and Nitro just made both companies look bad.
Man, I love this series. Huge respect to everyone involved, it is a fantastic production, it's thoroughly entertaining and the 20 minutes just fly by. It is the best series on your channel (which has several great ones, by the way), keep up the outstanding work!
The Monday night wrestling war has some damned fascinating parallels with the video game console war between Nintendo and Sega around that time. These skits are the grappling equivalent of "Nintendon't" vs. "Genesisn't".
I really love these war stories videos, besides the content of the videos which are always very well researched and informative, the editing is phenomenal. Keep up the good work lads!
This whole debacle went from parody to straight-up character assassination. It started off kind of "ouch, but that was kinda funny" to "oh man, THAT'S gonna get them in trouble".
If Vince kept going, WWF probably would have ended up getting sued and possibly punished by the FTC. Trying to screw with a multi-billion dollar corporate merger is not something to be taken lightly.
The difference between the first skit making fun of Hogan and Savage’s ages and the last skit outright going out of its way to depict Ted Turner as an unfeeling monster out to take over all cable and destroy the underdog WWF is stark.
These videos are so good, Sam. These are on par with "Dark side of the ring" but in a different (different in a good way) way without so many takes from wrestlers, writers, people involved. These are so good, kudos.
I never understood why Vince went after Ted Turner, when Eric Bishoff was the talking all that shit. Turner was just the money, Eric was the one in charge.
Vince was obsessed with Turner because he secretly wanted to be Turner. Vince always dreamed of being a multimedia mogul, but was always stuck with wrestling (a business he inherited) Just look at all of Vince's failed ventures outside of wrestling. I think Vince's envy turned into resentment of Ted Turner.
6:12 Yes!!! For nearly 30yrs I thought billionaire Ted’s voice sounded familiar but could never put my finger on it and now you said Jimmy Stewart that lightbulb in my head has gone off as it’s James Stewart’s voice it reminded me of. Thanks Cultaholic for ending my near 30yr internal question!
Not really. McMahon started it in the early 1980s. McMahon ran almost every other promotion out of business and made himself millions...a combination of vision with an intense desire to destroy anyone and everyone who got in his way. Hypocrisy was an effective tool in his toolbox. Bischoff teamed with Turner to rub Mahon's nose in it. What really killed WCW was TBS/TNT being bought out by AOL. The guy put in charge of programming hated wrestling and wanted it gone. He was an AOL guy. That was one loser company.
Not gonna lie, I loved these skits back in 1996. All my life I've loved satire and parody. Although they'd be upstaged later that November by Blue Meanie, Stevie Richards, and Nova starting a new parody with the debut of the Blue World Order, this shit was hilarious for its time.
I have long maintained that Vince McMahon is one of the most petty individuals who ever lived. And one of my main sources of evidence is always the "Billionaire Ted" saga.
Vince in the 90's: 42 year old Hulk Hogan is so old he's pushing a walker and going to drop dead of a heart attack any minute. Vince now: 55 year old Bill Goldberg is going to challenge 36 year old Roman Reigns for the Universal title at the next pay-per... sorry... premium event and he might even become champion if that's where I land after tearing up the booking plans 20 times the day of the show.
For those who weren't alive at the time of the wars. This was real. With the nwo and so many of the stars we knew and loved coming to an already well established wcw, at the time. There were a lot of people that just turned the channel to wcw for quite a while
This has got to be the most immature move along the list of the VKM brigade's deeds since Vinny Mac took over the promotion from his late father, Vince McMahon Sr.
“Dark knight feeling, die & be hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain” -word to Jay Z. Those words perfectly describe wwe today using old talent instead in a better position of the newer fresh younger talent since 2012. Also point blank tryna to kill aew in autumn of 2019 24 years later after wcw tried to do the same to wwf
Please don't compare that to now that wasn't no damn warrant that wasn't nothing. If you really want a war with WWE then aew is going to have to go to Monday nights and Tony Khan is going to have to tell his father to either let him go to Monday nights or give him the funds to run awe on his own
@@attiepollard7847 well why did wwe move their best product off the network to television literally months after having the son in law call it a “piss ant company that Vince would buy & put out of business”. Aew moved to Wednesday to not compete nxt was originally Tuesday
@@JaeBurney15 you are the people should know the answer to that. Because there's a whole lot of things why he moved it back to Tuesdays. Because Vince McMahon is a vein out of touch old man who is greedy as hell who doesn't like to look bad and he overreacts on a lot of times. Vince could have actually kept NXT at his current time slot in its current form but no someone got scared at headquarters and he overreacted instead of reviewing and say let's just fight this out because aw is not going to last that long and we're still going to beat them in the ratings. Vince McMahon has an ego problem that he does not like to look bad in front of the general public. Vince McMahon does not like the 21st century of pro wrestling he does not like the fans who are in love with independent wrestlers. If the fans love it he doesn't he will always put his priorities above the fans. That's why he moved NXT back to Tuesdays and that's why he pushed triple h out of NXT creative.
And 25 years later, WWE tries to get sponsors to abandon AEW. Really shows how much of an underhanded PoS Vince really is. No matter how legitimate he tries to become, he'll always be a sleazy carny.
As a kid I actually loved these segments. Back when I was switching between both of them. Nothing like watching nitro and being spoiled as how raw was going to end
I had watched a shoot interview done with Randy Savage in 2000 here on YT and he said he would have been ticked off if they hadn't lampooned him in the Billionaire Ted sketches. It's really a shame that Randy never came back to the WWF for one last hurrah and to be legitimately inducted into the HOF while still alive. I never saw Hogan inducting Macho as making any sense as Macho reportedly hated Hogan.
Just came across this series. Interesting content. Thanks for the video! I didn’t get cable until late 98. Therefore was out of the loop my wrestling was mostly VHS of WWF until this point. I watched Nitro on Friday nights when I did have access. I always viewed WWF as the number 1 company and WCW as a separate company, not necessarily in direct competition, where wrestlers go to retire. It wasn’t until after the war ended, in 2001. Did I start to discover about The Monday Night War.
Next week on RAW; Trillionare Tony's Bingohall Bunker. Miz in brownface listening to Meltzer and throwing money around while a bunch of little people do flips on trampolines.
My favorite one was where Huckster got hit in the eye with the high-heeled shoe. Nobody ever shows that one, but damn it was the funniest one. They were making fun of the WCW PPV the night before.
I could listen to Sam read the phone book if he had a way to make it tie into the Monday Night Wars. This is forever my favorite series on this channel.
Ironic, the guy atracking someone for using stock holder money to pay tor wrestling was later "allegedly" using compnay money as hush money. 12-14 million of "unrecorded expenses" 🤔
Oh the irony of VKM, Vindictive Killer of Morale, making fun of Hogan and Savage being old when they were in their forties and him giving sudden unearned title shots to a 50 plus year old Goldberg who was stiff when he was in his 30s. Savage was still performing at a high level even when he first debuted at TNA. Almost every top tier performer in WWE is in his 40s except Roman and Damian Priest who are in their late 30s and Seth in his mid 30s.
I kinda wonder if the “cliffhanger” from the final Billionaire Ted skit wasn’t really meant to have a “resolution” and the continuation promised was meant to be a reference to the actual FTC hearings, hence the message about writing to the FTC at the end.
Vince could never admit that a 3rd string announcer from the AWA that he didn't even hire was somehow besting him every week and forcing him to make (necessary) changes to his overall product. So, he chose to focus his energies on an otherwise very hands-off Ted Turner and make him out to be the culprit and real mastermind behind WCW's boom period. It was low brow, stupid, shameless, and totally misguided. Even to this day, the narrative in WWE is that Vince beat Turner.
Mid to late 90’s was a good time to be a wrestling fan and to be in my mid teens too! God I loved those times and was so lucky to be born in 1981 as it was an amazing time to grow up as the only advantage today has over the 80’s and 90’s is the current technology as the rest of the world is worse than those times. It’s like when my parents would say it was a great time to be a teenager in the 60’s as it most likely was with how the world was changing and teenagers finally had something for them with the birth and development of rock and pop music as before then there was nothing aimed at teenagers and children only adults as children/teenagers were meant to be seen and not heard
Surprisingly Hogan re signed with wwe Not surprised that savage didn’t wanted to return An ironic that months later diesel and Ramon were working for WCW
Part of me wonders if those skits are largely to blame for the perception that WCW's main event scene was full of old stars. Now, we can go back and forth over a lot of WCW, including the main event scene, but that the company is the only one getting decried because it's stars were "too old" has never sat well with me.
This is one of my favorite cultaholic series. Sam is a serious voiceover
"WWE's minimalistic approach not to give away too much"
Some things never change.
Really? From what I've seen the last 15-20 years they blow-off feuds on tv 5 times, in 5 different ways before going for a final "blowoff" on PPV that just leads to more blow-offs on tv the next week until they forget it ever happened and do it with the next feud.
@@peterjohnjoseph Well, mid card feuds mostly. And those blow offs on TV end so awfully (via DQ, countout and whatever), that you barely even care for a proper ending on PPV any more.
And they gave away over 80 wrestlers in less than 12 months... more including other other staff! So in that sense WWE has given away plenty... especially to AEW... much to their mid to lower cards demise!
Yep every time they don't have serious competition, Vince always goes back to his bland and boring PG rated vision.
Oh man, the hindsight on these skits is something else. And the funny thing is, when I first saw these I figured this was the first time Vince McMahon and Ted Turner had issues with each other in regards to wrestling. Then I heard about Black Saturday in 1984. That said, there were some pretty low blows going on here
I think Vince was obsessed with Turner while Ted was busy running his multi-media empire. IMO, Vince resented Turner so much because Vince wanted to be what Turner was: a media mogul with his hands in many pots. That's why Vince has always spent his wrestling money trying to expand to new ventures (and failing)
Randy had a legitimate argument. As he hadn't betrayed the WWF/WWE. They stuck him on the commentary and thought he was too old. Macho wasn't booked well with Hogan trying to steal his shine and the WWE shelving him when he was still very much over and could wrestle. I mean he was no Duke the dumpster or Moe. And he didn't have the explosive charisma of a Steve Blackman or a Prince Albert but he was still good....
Savage had also gotten Vince’s personal word that they wouldn’t try to bury him after he left, so he saw the sketches as a personal betrayal and they were the main reason he refused to do business with WWE for years after he left WCW.
The irony being that Savage was around the same age then as guys like Brock and Lashley are now.
And the latter two are main event guys in WWE today.
Ah it’s pronounced Mo. You need more OSW in your life.
Long Live The Macho Man
Exactly. Macho knew he still had worth as a in-ring worker while Vince never really appreciated him. Good on Randy for 'jumping ship' to somewhere where he could still be a star.
This is very ironic in hindsight considering WWE is now using 50+ year old part-timers to fill out their main event.
War Stories is the Songs Of Praise on a Sunday night for this generation.
Preach!
Aled Jones to host these videos
This was so petty on Vince’s part.
And ironically he’s doing much the same thing these days that he accused Ted Turner of doing back the .
I don't know much about the second part of what you stated, but I concur about the Pettiness.
Basically Vince liked to mock WCW for not building new stars and instead relying on the same older talent constantly.
He’s doing the same thing these days.
@@michaelsinger4638 For sure ,it's so saturated right now. Just older stars randomly coming back,because the Main event title scene is repetitive. It's Brock,Reigns,Drew,Lashley along with Goldberg for 3 months of every year.
And trying to screw with the Turner/Warner merger sounds an awful lot like WWE's recent attempts to smear AEW in the press in the hopes sponsors will abandon them. Also taking the moral high ground on steroids sounds like their recent letter about AEW's bloody woman's match.
Still funny
Brock Lesnar is 44 years old. Hulk Hogan was 43 when the Billionaire Ted skits aired.
What's Goldberg, 53, 55?
Soon to 56 lol
"...Colourless, formulaic, Raw..." Funny how that can be said about Raw, Smackdown, and (ironically) NXT. The more things change the more they stay the same.
To be fair, all pro wrestling shows all become formula even the Original ECW towards the end.
At least there were other factors that kept you hooked up to a particular product. NXT was once that until its recent iteration.
Indeeds, despite that fact that all promotions do get into the same old formula and such, they have other factors to keep one invested. WWE today has nothing to keep anyone really invested, in my opinion that is.
@@WSK9002 lel you never once watched _Hardcore TV_
@@KruelAidMan he maybe talking about the TNN show.
You guys do a good job of making an entertaining program without hardly ever using actual video clips.
Makes it easy to put on when I’m hanging laundry or playing games - not with eyes glued to my phone.
That’s my fave thing about the lads
I listen to them at work without having to take my eyes off what I’m doing
Vince is savage, always been ruthless in business. Look at what he did to the territories back in the day. Can't lie, some of the skits did make me laugh but I've been a WWF lifer at that point til 2006(I'm 38yrs old now). Hoping for better things to come
I knew Vince was petty , but watching this video I've seen toddlers that are more grown up than VKM
These sketches were so baffling to me as a kid. Even back then I thought all the sniping back and forth between Raw and Nitro just made both companies look bad.
It did. :(
Man, I love this series. Huge respect to everyone involved, it is a fantastic production, it's thoroughly entertaining and the 20 minutes just fly by. It is the best series on your channel (which has several great ones, by the way), keep up the outstanding work!
The Monday night wrestling war has some damned fascinating parallels with the video game console war between Nintendo and Sega around that time. These skits are the grappling equivalent of "Nintendon't" vs. "Genesisn't".
I really love these war stories videos, besides the content of the videos which are always very well researched and informative, the editing is phenomenal. Keep up the good work lads!
This whole debacle went from parody to straight-up character assassination. It started off kind of "ouch, but that was kinda funny" to "oh man, THAT'S gonna get them in trouble".
If Vince kept going, WWF probably would have ended up getting sued and possibly punished by the FTC. Trying to screw with a multi-billion dollar corporate merger is not something to be taken lightly.
The difference between the first skit making fun of Hogan and Savage’s ages and the last skit outright going out of its way to depict Ted Turner as an unfeeling monster out to take over all cable and destroy the underdog WWF is stark.
These videos are so good, Sam. These are on par with "Dark side of the ring" but in a different (different in a good way) way without so many takes from wrestlers, writers, people involved.
These are so good, kudos.
I never understood why Vince went after Ted Turner, when Eric Bishoff was the talking all that shit. Turner was just the money, Eric was the one in charge.
Vince was obsessed with Turner because he secretly wanted to be Turner. Vince always dreamed of being a multimedia mogul, but was always stuck with wrestling (a business he inherited) Just look at all of Vince's failed ventures outside of wrestling. I think Vince's envy turned into resentment of Ted Turner.
6:12 Yes!!! For nearly 30yrs I thought billionaire Ted’s voice sounded familiar but could never put my finger on it and now you said Jimmy Stewart that lightbulb in my head has gone off as it’s James Stewart’s voice it reminded me of. Thanks Cultaholic for ending my near 30yr internal question!
Imagine if they did this now, they'd call him Tony CON
A piece on the original turner acquisition of JCP and how jim herd fucked it up should be done
I love that The Fed mocked Hogan’s age here and a few years later he was their champion again
About 7 years later when Hogan was even more worn out and broken.
Compare the 90’s to the 2020’s, and you realize how comparatively tame the landscape of professional wrestling has become. For better and worse.
I get that Bishoff started this, but man, is Vince mean spirited.
Not really. McMahon started it in the early 1980s.
McMahon ran almost every other promotion out of business and made himself millions...a combination of vision with an intense desire to destroy anyone and everyone who got in his way. Hypocrisy was an effective tool in his toolbox.
Bischoff teamed with Turner to rub Mahon's nose in it.
What really killed WCW was TBS/TNT being bought out by AOL. The guy put in charge of programming hated wrestling and wanted it gone. He was an AOL guy. That was one loser company.
Hindsight being what it is, this is one of the most Foolish things WWE ever did, this was basically WWE doing advertising for WCW.
I love these. Thank you cultaholic.
Love this series! Brings back so many memories!
Not gonna lie, I loved these skits back in 1996. All my life I've loved satire and parody. Although they'd be upstaged later that November by Blue Meanie, Stevie Richards, and Nova starting a new parody with the debut of the Blue World Order, this shit was hilarious for its time.
I have long maintained that Vince McMahon is one of the most petty individuals who ever lived. And one of my main sources of evidence is always the "Billionaire Ted" saga.
9:31 this was like the leaking DMs of it's time
Vince in the 90's: 42 year old Hulk Hogan is so old he's pushing a walker and going to drop dead of a heart attack any minute.
Vince now: 55 year old Bill Goldberg is going to challenge 36 year old Roman Reigns for the Universal title at the next pay-per... sorry... premium event and he might even become champion if that's where I land after tearing up the booking plans 20 times the day of the show.
For those who weren't alive at the time of the wars. This was real. With the nwo and so many of the stars we knew and loved coming to an already well established wcw, at the time. There were a lot of people that just turned the channel to wcw for quite a while
I've always wanted to know more about these. Thanks lads!
Savage had every right to be annoyed. Vince effectively pushed him away.
This has got to be the most immature move along the list of the VKM brigade's deeds since Vinny Mac took over the promotion from his late father, Vince McMahon Sr.
Fantastic series. My favourite on the channel. Well done as always.
love how ironic it is that nowadays that wwe have the older stars
"Audience of one."
“Dark knight feeling, die & be hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain” -word to Jay Z. Those words perfectly describe wwe today using old talent instead in a better position of the newer fresh younger talent since 2012. Also point blank tryna to kill aew in autumn of 2019 24 years later after wcw tried to do the same to wwf
Please don't compare that to now that wasn't no damn warrant that wasn't nothing. If you really want a war with WWE then aew is going to have to go to Monday nights and Tony Khan is going to have to tell his father to either let him go to Monday nights or give him the funds to run awe on his own
@@attiepollard7847 well why did wwe move their best product off the network to television literally months after having the son in law call it a “piss ant company that Vince would buy & put out of business”. Aew moved to Wednesday to not compete nxt was originally Tuesday
@@JaeBurney15 you are the people should know the answer to that. Because there's a whole lot of things why he moved it back to Tuesdays. Because Vince McMahon is a vein out of touch old man who is greedy as hell who doesn't like to look bad and he overreacts on a lot of times. Vince could have actually kept NXT at his current time slot in its current form but no someone got scared at headquarters and he overreacted instead of reviewing and say let's just fight this out because aw is not going to last that long and we're still going to beat them in the ratings. Vince McMahon has an ego problem that he does not like to look bad in front of the general public. Vince McMahon does not like the 21st century of pro wrestling he does not like the fans who are in love with independent wrestlers. If the fans love it he doesn't he will always put his priorities above the fans. That's why he moved NXT back to Tuesdays and that's why he pushed triple h out of NXT creative.
And 25 years later, WWE tries to get sponsors to abandon AEW. Really shows how much of an underhanded PoS Vince really is. No matter how legitimate he tries to become, he'll always be a sleazy carny.
As a kid I actually loved these segments. Back when I was switching between both of them. Nothing like watching nitro and being spoiled as how raw was going to end
"Colourless, formulaic RAW". Damn. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Good thing that the WWE of today doesn't just keep relying on ageing stars and giving them title shots huh?
The best thing about this is Goldberg JUST came back and is going to face Roman at Elimination Chamber. The irony.
@@ghastlyanarchy1720 And that's even funnier when Goldberg was a guy WCW built in the first place. No one remembers him for anything he did in WWE.
I had watched a shoot interview done with Randy Savage in 2000 here on YT and he said he would have been ticked off if they hadn't lampooned him in the Billionaire Ted sketches. It's really a shame that Randy never came back to the WWF for one last hurrah and to be legitimately inducted into the HOF while still alive. I never saw Hogan inducting Macho as making any sense as Macho reportedly hated Hogan.
Coming soon: Khan's Kounsel Korner.
Let's WWE creative. Book it, you cowards. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
These pieces are wonderful. Honestly I learn and that I appreciate.
Just came across this series. Interesting content. Thanks for the video!
I didn’t get cable until late 98. Therefore was out of the loop my wrestling was mostly VHS of WWF until this point. I watched Nitro on Friday nights when I did have access. I always viewed WWF as the number 1 company and WCW as a separate company, not necessarily in direct competition, where wrestlers go to retire. It wasn’t until after the war ended, in 2001. Did I start to discover about The Monday Night War.
Love this series. Great journalism and story telling
That first skit actually sounds hilarious. If only he had stopped there
Nice series
That new generation line is one of the greatest line I ever heard lol. WWF New Generation on top of the hill rather than over it lol.
I gotta say, the "war" sure provided us with a lot of great entertainment, I loved this stuff. 🤣😂😂🤣😂
Next week on RAW;
Trillionare Tony's Bingohall Bunker. Miz in brownface listening to Meltzer and throwing money around while a bunch of little people do flips on trampolines.
Trillionaire Tony: I did all my chores. I did all my homework. I ate all my vegetables (for the 105th day in a row). But why won't you buy me WWE?!
😂
Vince (1984): You want wrestling?
Ted: I got wrasslin' at home.
Still Vince : I took that personally
What I look forward too!!! Never stop these Sam!!
My favorite one was where Huckster got hit in the eye with the high-heeled shoe. Nobody ever shows that one, but damn it was the funniest one. They were making fun of the WCW PPV the night before.
To the Narrator's point, I was at a Monday Night RAW in Seattle in July of 1996, by the end of Hour Four, that crowd was Dead.
That funny when Bischof use tell the results of Raw
The huskter still gets me till this day when I see a guy with that amazing mullet and stash lol
I could listen to Sam read the phone book if he had a way to make it tie into the Monday Night Wars. This is forever my favorite series on this channel.
It’s interesting to think, if this skits don’t happen does Randy Savage come back to WWE in the 2000s.
I think Randy was just worn out with wrestling by that point. His only wrestling work post-WCW was a 1-month stint in TNA.
In fairness with WCW and ECW out of business not like he had many others options I dont think ROH could have afford him maybe NJPW but that's about it
Ironic, the guy atracking someone for using stock holder money to pay tor wrestling was later "allegedly" using compnay money as hush money. 12-14 million of "unrecorded expenses" 🤔
Huckster:brother at my age my feet don't leave the ground"
Wrestling fan: found footage of hogan in japan doing a enziguri 😂
Oh the irony of VKM, Vindictive Killer of Morale, making fun of Hogan and Savage being old when they were in their forties and him giving sudden unearned title shots to a 50 plus year old Goldberg who was stiff when he was in his 30s. Savage was still performing at a high level even when he first debuted at TNA. Almost every top tier performer in WWE is in his 40s except Roman and Damian Priest who are in their late 30s and Seth in his mid 30s.
While I don't disagree with you as a whole. You might want to take back what you said about Mach in TNA
I was super young but I liked the billionaire Ted skits
Thinkin' ... Thinkin' ... Thinkin'.... Macho 4-Life
I kinda wonder if the “cliffhanger” from the final Billionaire Ted skit wasn’t really meant to have a “resolution” and the continuation promised was meant to be a reference to the actual FTC hearings, hence the message about writing to the FTC at the end.
Sam, you F*ckin rock my dude! Great content, great narration
Can we get War Stories on the British Indy Scene
Vince could never admit that a 3rd string announcer from the AWA that he didn't even hire was somehow besting him every week and forcing him to make (necessary) changes to his overall product. So, he chose to focus his energies on an otherwise very hands-off Ted Turner and make him out to be the culprit and real mastermind behind WCW's boom period. It was low brow, stupid, shameless, and totally misguided. Even to this day, the narrative in WWE is that Vince beat Turner.
I was 10 and shocked with this. Loved it, LOL.
i hope you guys do a TNA Hogan bischoff story on War stories
The first stupid idea of Vince Russo and you could see Vince Russo in this
Sex, lies and headlocks is a great read 👍
Oh yeah 1996 was a memorable, hilarious, crazy year indeed
the billionaire ted skits started off as comedic parody and quickly evolved into petty and personal shots that had nothing to do with wrestling.
Damn the irony in 2022
The huckster looks like chandler from friends 😂😂😂....
Matthew perry... you s o b...😂😂😂
How did you find a way to get a Jimmy Stewart reference in there?
Mid to late 90’s was a good time to be a wrestling fan and to be in my mid teens too! God I loved those times and was so lucky to be born in 1981 as it was an amazing time to grow up as the only advantage today has over the 80’s and 90’s is the current technology as the rest of the world is worse than those times. It’s like when my parents would say it was a great time to be a teenager in the 60’s as it most likely was with how the world was changing and teenagers finally had something for them with the birth and development of rock and pop music as before then there was nothing aimed at teenagers and children only adults as children/teenagers were meant to be seen and not heard
Bischoff was right about that superkick.
I don't ever remember Ted Turner even commenting on WWE. He had other shit going on tbh.
Amazing work Sam
anybody know the name of the actor who played ted turner in those skits?
Can't find these on the WWE network?!?
dont forget in one skit, it was implied hogan was sleeping with miss elizabeth. WHAT THE HELL DID THAT HAVE TO DO WITH WRESTLING?!?!
Oh I hope they continued it back in the attitude era.
Surprisingly Hogan re signed with wwe
Not surprised that savage didn’t wanted to return
An ironic that months later diesel and Ramon were working for WCW
This shows how much of a cry baby Vince was.
I've always wondered who portrayed the characters in the segment (besides Russo)?
Just shows how much of a hypocrite Vince is.
Part of me wonders if those skits are largely to blame for the perception that WCW's main event scene was full of old stars. Now, we can go back and forth over a lot of WCW, including the main event scene, but that the company is the only one getting decried because it's stars were "too old" has never sat well with me.
I mean frankly these skits were effectively predictive of wcw's fall being old geezers refusing to let anything but them get over
Which also effectively predicted WWE 25 years later.
good video
Nacho Man is so bad it's funny
well Vince doesn't sound like a petty psycho in this at all..........
This seems like what modern SNL would make and I Meen that in the worse way
Good God Vince has literally always been petty af.
I like this video