As ridiculous as the whole “pepper steak” segment was, Al Snow standing up and the chair being inexplicably stuck to his butt is a truly priceless moment.
Ok listen bro. Why would I go somewhere bro thats has poles and they ain't even fighting bro. I mean c'mon bro, they should all fight bro to see who is the toughest of the strippers bro. All shoot fights bro. Vince Russo probably
Take a moment at 6:17 to appreciate that in kayfabe, Bossman put a little artistic flair on not only writing "Doggie Bag" so well but put a little red shadow on the lettering to give it more depth. That makes me smile that he had stealth artistic skills apart from culinary skills.
Even sadder because the week before. They planted the seeds for Hogan vs Billy Kidman. It looked so promising then they just burried it dead with that stupid stuff.
Al Snow’s reaction was priceless!..He just immediately accepted it and dropped to his knees and was so devastated! No denial, no questioning, just straight up acceptance that the deed had undoubtedly been done to his dog.
@@raymaaf7516 Al Snow was very underestimated I had conversation with them at the Westchester County Center White Plains New York after ECW event. I talked to him for like an hour and a half understood the business like no one I spoke to before if he was given the chance easily been a Main eventer but unfortunately for him he was in the WWf around this time they changed WWEand the writers had more control over the wrestlers characters... if she was given full creative control over his character you would have seen some very interesting storylines
@@dustincongello5802 Yeah, I believe you. And that’s true that wrestlers should have more control over their characters. Many times these writers end up destroying excellent wrestlers’ careers.
@@makaveli4205 1. You’re wrong on so many levels my G … 2. They do have their own show it’s called WOW (Women Of Wrestling) and it’s making its return next year with AJ Lee as Executive Producer and Commentator
Hot take: if most of the "on a pole" matches were "retrieve a weapon and be allowed to use it", with the occasional wacky idea, it would have been an alright gimic match. The issue was that they made it wacky to soon, and never really established the match type as one worth watching
David Penzer was the 1st to grab the WCW title during that San Francisco 49er, Gold Rush, 4 corner pole boxes match. He should have been crowned WCW Champion. He was robbed. "First person to grab the title." It fell out on Booker T, hit the floor, Penzer grabbed it. David Penzer's name belongs up there with the pantheon of great WCW Champs like David Arquette and Vince Russo 😆.
My turning off point when I was younger was when all the belts were vacated and two new stables of the New Blood and whatever the other one was were created. It was really hard to tune into any of it at that point and I'd always watch Nitro/Thunder up until around 1999.
I wonder if Impact Wrestling will try a "Cardboard Cutout of Rocky Balboa on a pole" match someday. The Cutout's comeback would be a sure way to boost ratings 😂
Another awesome upload from the greatest wrestling channel on the planet! The early “flag on a pole matches” with The Hart Foundation were decent and did fit the storyline. However from there they got increasingly more bizarre and silly. I wonder what Russos fetish with pole matches was all about?? I mean they’re hardly the most interesting or captivating of match types 🤷♂️
Seeing Daffney. . . I miss her, I thought she was so cool. She was the archetype of the "Anti-Diva," I loved her style and personality in the ring. I would kill for a Daffney retrospective in her memory
I remember that one ECW ppv where Bubbha Dudley got on the mic. He was listing off all the guys the Dudleys beat. "...The Eliminators", and nowadays Perry Saturn is wearing a dress.", the audience went ape chit.
There's a certain strange beauty about that famous picture of the Hindenburg blowing up and going down in flames...I think that's the same reason I love 2000 WCW.
This really made me realize that ladder matches are basically a higher risk version of a pole match: both involve climbing up to retrieve something hanging high above the ring, the main difference is that in a ladder match the thing you climb up on isn't secured to a fixed spot, and it's much easier for someone else to get up there and fight you directly or just knock it out from under you. That's probably part of why most pole matches just fall flat in execution, they don't have that same feeling of danger like a ladder match does.
Better yet, a pole on a ladder match where you have to climb the ladder and then the pole to retrieve something on the end of the pole. After many failed attempts to climb, someone just knocks the ladder on it's side and grabs the item that way, only to get disqualified in a no DQ match.
It’s crazy that dr death was supposed to be JR friend and he stood there and let them mock him smh what a friend crazy part JR still speaks highly of him
@@denisashby5589 yeah he probably couldn’t but he also could’ve declined to be apart of it which he didn’t no one forced him to be out there with fake JR but money talks I guess
- WCW Management: Russo! WWF has ladder matches. Can we book ladder matches? - Russo: No, bro. We have ladder matches at home, bro. * Books nonstop pole matches
6:50 BBD's first match back from WCW he won the Hardcore title and then just handed it to Al Snow afterwards. They had some kind of connection that I don't recall ever being explicitly spelled out.
@@Mr92094 Just found it while listening to a mix: it's Adrenalin V.1 by Purity, and apparently it was part of WCW Mayhem's soundtrack. There's three versions of the song, but I think the first version is used in the outro, albeit edited.
I remember at least one more pole match in the WWF after Vince Russo left. January 2000 on Raw Mankind and Rock had a pink slip on a pole match where whoever got the pink slip kept their job while the loser got fired
As ridiculous as the whole “pepper steak” segment was, Al Snow standing up and the chair being inexplicably stuck to his butt is a truly priceless moment.
Lol I noticed that too
It really was
It was stuck on his belt 🤣🤣
I don’t get it
I never noticed that lol
If WCW had survived, there would've been a PPV called 'Pole Position', where every match is a pole match
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That sounds like a perfect name if Russo opened strip club
I reckon if he was still booking wwe instead of the money in the bank ladder match he of had it as the money in bank pole match
And nitro girls dancing around more poles. =D
You like poles
The Scott Hall photo NEVER gets old, and to me the single most hilarious moment in wrestling history.
WCW for Life!!
Did not expect that. And wasn’t Scott hall out the company already?
The look on Booker’s face is still priceless.
Wcw 4 ever!!!!
Lmao it is quite funny I will agree. Plus Judy Bagwell on a pole was quite comical
"New Blood Rising" sounds like the aftermath of the Viagra on a Pole match 😂😂😂
Very well said sir
this comment got me rolling 🤣
that is funny lol
Funny enough, I hear Vince Russo doesn't like strip clubs. He doesn't like that there's nothing for the strippers to fight for on the poles.
Jim Cornette needs to see your comment 😂😂
@@ricstormwolf indeed
Hahaha!
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They both grind men's bones to make their bread.
Ok listen bro. Why would I go somewhere bro thats has poles and they ain't even fighting bro. I mean c'mon bro, they should all fight bro to see who is the toughest of the strippers bro. All shoot fights bro.
Vince Russo probably
Judy Bagwell booked as eye candy was the best laugh I’ve had all week. Thanks, mate.
Take a moment at 6:17 to appreciate that in kayfabe, Bossman put a little artistic flair on not only writing "Doggie Bag" so well but put a little red shadow on the lettering to give it more depth. That makes me smile that he had stealth artistic skills apart from culinary skills.
In reality, he probably had Jerry Lawler do it for him since Jerry does art as a hobby.
20:29 this will never not be funny. The way Booker reacts and turns the picture around was too perfect.
That spot with Tank Abbot losing the grip on Big Al while climbing the ropes is terrifying and could have been a true disaster.
Dude, Russo booking WCW was a disaster. Some genius 👍
I stopped breathing when I saw it. Duuuude.
What was even more horrifying was what happened AFTER the match.
Russo had nothing to do with that spot.
@@veka114 That's why it was so horrifying
"A little bottle of Blue Bombers." Now I'm picturing a bottle filled with MegaMan 1-ups. 😂
ROFL LMFAO XD
Even sadder because the week before. They planted the seeds for Hogan vs Billy Kidman. It looked so promising then they just burried it dead with that stupid stuff.
“You ain’t seen nothing if you haven’t seen Jim Dugan vs Hercules Hernandez in Sam Houston Coliseum 1984 in a Coal Miners Glove match.” Jim Cornette 😉
Looking it up for end of video. Ty!
A true classic.
Way better than seeing Bagwell's mother on a pole match
@@rondoughhowell6442 I thought it was a "on a forklift" match?
I love the expression of Booker T when he found Scott Hall's photo
17:48 I’ve actually said this as a joke before, but I had no idea Russo actually booked a pole on a pole match.
It's just a prank, bro
Lol
Scott Putski on a pole?
Russo on a Pole Match.
"Davey Boy Smith was there to help Al Snow, because...he's called 'the British Bulldog'.
...idk" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I mean that sounds like russo logic to me
I love how when the boss man told Al snow he was eating his dog and he was all upset and dropped to his knees the chair stuck to his ass for a minute
I always wonder why that happened and if Snow could feel it
@@davidmiles4678 the back of the chair hooked on the waist of his pants for a quick second.
Al Snow’s reaction was priceless!..He just immediately accepted it and dropped to his knees and was so devastated! No denial, no questioning, just straight up acceptance that the deed had undoubtedly been done to his dog.
@@raymaaf7516 Al Snow was very underestimated I had conversation with them at the Westchester County Center White Plains New York after ECW event. I talked to him for like an hour and a half understood the business like no one I spoke to before if he was given the chance easily been a Main eventer but unfortunately for him he was in the WWf around this time they changed WWEand the writers had more control over the wrestlers characters... if she was given full creative control over his character you would have seen some very interesting storylines
@@dustincongello5802 Yeah, I believe you. And that’s true that wrestlers should have more control over their characters. Many times these writers end up destroying excellent wrestlers’ careers.
"that's it I've had enough"... we need you to cover Katie Vick. The reactions while narrating what is going on is hilarious.
Woo hoo wrestling BIOS. 🤘🤘 best part of the day.
A big reason modern wrestling sucks. Girls took over way to much. Why can't they get their own show? Probably would get very low ratings
A big reason modern wrestling sucks. Girls took over way to much. Why can't they get their own show? Probably would get very low ratings
@@makaveli4205 1. You’re wrong on so many levels my G …
2. They do have their own show it’s called WOW (Women Of Wrestling) and it’s making its return next year with AJ Lee as Executive Producer and Commentator
Every time you asked “Who is Big Al” I lost it. Also, I just realized how many weird gimmicks Kanyon had in WCW.
I remember watching even at 16-17 anytime wcw said there was gonna be a "pole match" you knew it was gonna be a train wreck
Hot take: if most of the "on a pole" matches were "retrieve a weapon and be allowed to use it", with the occasional wacky idea, it would have been an alright gimic match. The issue was that they made it wacky to soon, and never really established the match type as one worth watching
I was at Monday Night Raw in Halifax, NS the night they had the flag match in 1997. I was 11 years old and on top of the world at that show!
That's sick - fellow Haligonian, I hear stories from people who went to that show and am so envious
David Penzer was the 1st to grab the WCW title during that San Francisco 49er, Gold Rush, 4 corner pole boxes match. He should have been crowned WCW Champion. He was robbed. "First person to grab the title." It fell out on Booker T, hit the floor, Penzer grabbed it. David Penzer's name belongs up there with the pantheon of great WCW Champs like David Arquette and Vince Russo 😆.
Vince Russo...
Absolute legend and more entertaining than most on screen too.
My turning off point when I was younger was when all the belts were vacated and two new stables of the New Blood and whatever the other one was were created. It was really hard to tune into any of it at that point and I'd always watch Nitro/Thunder up until around 1999.
Pole matches WITH a swerve? Now that's Russo.
This was the wrestling bio I've been waiting for. Thank you.
I wonder if Impact Wrestling will try a "Cardboard Cutout of Rocky Balboa on a pole" match someday. The Cutout's comeback would be a sure way to boost ratings 😂
Half the people reading this are thinking “That’s still on the air?” 🤣
I guarantee you that if someone told Russo they liked those Pole Matches, he would say "Bro, those were totally my idea and they would have worked"
Perfect show for a rainy day. 👍👍
Another awesome upload from the greatest wrestling channel on the planet!
The early “flag on a pole matches” with The Hart Foundation were decent and did fit the storyline. However from there they got increasingly more bizarre and silly. I wonder what Russos fetish with pole matches was all about?? I mean they’re hardly the most interesting or captivating of match types 🤷♂️
Seeing Daffney. . . I miss her, I thought she was so cool. She was the archetype of the "Anti-Diva," I loved her style and personality in the ring.
I would kill for a Daffney retrospective in her memory
I always thought she was hot
@@Dr-Alexander-The-Great Super
Listen bro. This was a great video bro. Excellent bro.
I doubt "being cut by a bottle of Viagra" is one of the injuries most wrestlers worry about.
But, here we are.
The football helmet on a pole matchup between Butch Reed and Jim Neidhart in Mid South was my all time favorite
RIP Dafney.
Saturn was so underrated. The Eliminators are one of the greatest tag teams ever.
I remember that one ECW ppv where Bubbha Dudley got on the mic. He was listing off all the guys the Dudleys beat. "...The Eliminators", and nowadays Perry Saturn is wearing a dress.", the audience went ape chit.
Saturn had an awesome moveset and he could do it all - Mat-Wrestling but also High-Flying maneuvers. Such a shame he never got used right.
20:33 Booker T's Expression says it all!!😂😂😂
It's a good day when wrestling bios uploads
I wish you'll do videos on Vince Russo's Career and name it "Vince Russo: A Comprehensive History" and have it in many parts.
19:37 Say what you will about Arquette, but I've never seen anyone sell a Diamond Cutter better.
Undertaker's wife took it good
There's a certain strange beauty about that famous picture of the Hindenburg blowing up and going down in flames...I think that's the same reason I love 2000 WCW.
This really made me realize that ladder matches are basically a higher risk version of a pole match: both involve climbing up to retrieve something hanging high above the ring, the main difference is that in a ladder match the thing you climb up on isn't secured to a fixed spot, and it's much easier for someone else to get up there and fight you directly or just knock it out from under you. That's probably part of why most pole matches just fall flat in execution, they don't have that same feeling of danger like a ladder match does.
Amazing episode
Instant like. Brilliant idea for a video, bro.
An unbiased video about russo without the stupid bashing!!!!! What a concept!!!!!!
Another awesome video!
I watched the FRIENDS episode with Tank Abbott in the other day.
20:45 David Penzer, Uncrowned WCW Champion!
The only time I am happy about Sunday night's is when I get my weekly WrestlingBios notifications!
The video I never knew I needed
Had a lot of fun xD xD
The Bossman Nailz match is an all time Classic by the way
Had a good laugh over it . Didn’t realize there were so many of these kinda matches . Guess I didn’t watch much wcw at the time
Crown Jewel presents “Suicide Vest on a Pole Match” Mansoor Open Challenge
When you see “… on a pole match” I immediately think of Judy Bagwell on a pole.
“I could Fuckin kill you!” Tank after retrieving a knife from the jacket on the pole XD
The video I never knew I needed to see.
The best pole match ever is Nidia vs Torrie in a paddle on a pole match
Bulldog was there not to 'help' Snow but because he was also feuding with Boss Man in the Hardcore division.
BRO, THEY GONNA LOVE IT!
I wish there had been a ladder on a pole match just to reach the greatest heights possible
Better yet, a pole on a ladder match where you have to climb the ladder and then the pole to retrieve something on the end of the pole. After many failed attempts to climb, someone just knocks the ladder on it's side and grabs the item that way, only to get disqualified in a no DQ match.
@@floyd2386 this is genius in so many levels!🤣😂🤣😂 This needs to happen XD
Bro these viagra jokes got the best of me when they shouldn’t have 😂
It must have been hard not to gag.
It's so impressive that he is just 1 guy but he is the best wrestling channel on TH-cam love your videos
Isn't it? Brilliant content.
Vince Russo probably said "Bro, believe me. The fans are gonna love the Viagara on a pole match, bro..."
Judy Bagwell and eye candy should never be said in the same sentence.
Vince Russo Was The Teddy Long of Pole Matches
Imagine going to a dentist and he says, "Only 7 of my 700 clients have died in the chair! 1%! Does that mean I'm a murderer? F off!"
Russo’s writing for The Rock and Mankind in 98 is some of the best ever
That Scott Hall picture was actually a decent pop.
Boss Man vs Nails is one of the very first ppv's I ever saw as a child.
Lol haven’t you punished yourself enough with crappy wrestling work after doing that hhh & Steiner feud recap 😂😂😂
Hunter vs Steiner looks like Flair/Steamboat compared to a Russ-bro pole match.
@@zlinedavid 😂😂😂 that’s true luckily we didn’t get that third match like that awesome flair steamboat series
Bro! Bro! Bro! This video is awesome…..we need a pole match!
It’s crazy that dr death was supposed to be JR friend and he stood there and let them mock him smh what a friend crazy part JR still speaks highly of him
ed ferara was one of the bookers, you can tell by his face, Doc wants to cave his head in but can't
@@denisashby5589 yeah he probably couldn’t but he also could’ve declined to be apart of it which he didn’t no one forced him to be out there with fake JR but money talks I guess
19:20 "there she is, on a forklift" 🤣
- WCW Management: Russo! WWF has ladder matches. Can we book ladder matches?
- Russo: No, bro. We have ladder matches at home, bro.
* Books nonstop pole matches
What a surprise Bret is involved in a match and it’s great
The only match that never happened: "The Vince Russo pole" being held by Vince Russo on a pole match.
I'm so shocked that I never saw Vince Russo on an episode of To Catch A Predator.
I was at that raw in Canada
That should be your next video. What happened to David Flair? Did David become Charlotte?
6:50 BBD's first match back from WCW he won the Hardcore title and then just handed it to Al Snow afterwards. They had some kind of connection that I don't recall ever being explicitly spelled out.
Viagra on a Pole: bet that was a hard match with some pretty stiff shots...
You know what I found a page (with a lot of wwf, wcw , and wwe ppv) and watching this matches were one of the funniest things ever lol
Can we just focus on Torrie Wilson in a cage. Hot damn!
The big boss man turned into a psychopath in his second run.
Can we all agree that the jump the shark moment for Pole matches was the Judy Bagwell on a Pole match?
6:47 that's a hilarious reference lmao
Absolutely dying Judy Bagwell on a pole hahahahaha
I crack up when I hear about the Viagra on a pole match 😆
That was a hard match to pull off.
lol i missed that episode!
All it needed was for the poll to droop during the match .
"Judy Bagwell was there for.... eye candy". 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Big Boss Man: King of the Pole matches.
7:40 Perry Saturn is forklift certified
"Who are you to doubt El Dandy? This guy's a serious professional."
This is one of the funniest WB videos ever. I couldn't stop laughing.
Dude I thought the same thing. Don't get me wrong, I love the humor on this channel. But this video was Killin me! So many zingers!
22:37 is that another one WB's remixes or a song from a wrestling game?? Sounds great!
I’m trying to ID it too. It sounds familiar as hell
@@Mr92094 Just found it while listening to a mix: it's Adrenalin V.1 by Purity, and apparently it was part of WCW Mayhem's soundtrack. There's three versions of the song, but I think the first version is used in the outro, albeit edited.
I remember at least one more pole match in the WWF after Vince Russo left. January 2000 on Raw Mankind and Rock had a pink slip on a pole match where whoever got the pink slip kept their job while the loser got fired
Dude. May we all live to see the reliving the war for the next five years.
Loved your video, no wonder cornette hates him
"Fire Russo!" when something stupid happens, is classic
Have to say glad I was there for the flag match in Halifax
We need a Vince-Russo-On-A-Pole-Match. Seriously.
The one match nobody would even try to win or even come to the ring for lol they'd just leave him up there